| Anglish | sp. | English |
| Back | vb | To give one's support to some effort or person. 2. to bet on; wager. 3. to contribute money; bankroll |
| Back and fill | phr | To be irresolute, vacillate. 2. to charm a potential victim, often with a lengthy, convoluted patter, before you subject them to a confidence trick. |
| Backbeat | n | An underlying theme or quality. 2. one's heartbeat. 3. a secondary beat, in jazz music, that underlies the main theme. |
| Backbone | n | Courage. |
| Backbreaker | n | A very difficult, exhausting, demanding job or physical task. |
| Back-burner | n | The location of an idea, project, suggestion, etc., when it is kept on ready reserve for the time being, as "Put on the Back-burner." |
| Back-door | adj | Dishonest, dubious: " a sleazy little back-door business." |
| Back-dooring | n | Adultery, infidelity, betrayal. |
| Back-door man | n | An adulterer, betrayer, cheat, a bird-dog. |
| Back-down | vb | To retreat or recoil from one's position, problem; surrender, retract. 2. concede a loss in an argument. |
| Backed | adv | Dead: lying on one's back. 2. dead: on the back of those who carry one's coffin. |
| Backed-up | adj | Constipated. |
| Back-ended | adj | Eccentric, perverse, strange. 2. not according to the ordinary way. |
| Back-end-to | adj | In confusion, in disorder, in chaos. |
| Backfire | vb | To react in an expected and untoward manner. |
| Back forty | n | An out-of-the-way barren piece of land, often 40 acres in size. |
| Back-hander | n | Slap in the face with the back of the hand. |
| Back-house | n | A privy, a toilet, a dunny. |
| Back in the days | phr | n former times; long ago, in times yore. |
| Back off | phr | To stop annoying, bothering or harassing someone. 2 to soften or moderate; relent. 3. to slow down or go easier. 4. to recoil; concede a loss in an qrgument. |
| Back out | vb | To cancel or renege on an arrangement. |
| Backroom | adj | Having to do with political, organisational or personal expediency: 'As in a backroom deal." |
| Back seat | adv | An inferior position. |
| Back seat driver | n | A passenger in a motor vehicle who gives unwanted advice to the driver, hence anyone who offers advice in a field he/she is not qualified. |
| Back someone up | phr | To concur with someone; support someone's opinion or view; 2. to be ready to replace or stand in for someone |
| Back talk | n. | Retort in anger, heated argument, impudent or disrespectful reply. |
| Backup | n | A substitute or stand-in or something or someone ready to step in or replace. |
| Backwoodsy | adj. | Uncultivated, unrefined, rustic |
| Backyard (In One's Own Backyard) | phr | Used figuratively to denote familiar territory, a field or domain in which one feels comfortable. |
| Barebones | n. | A skinny persons. |
| Bare-bones | adj | Unadorned, spare; austere |
| Bark | n. | A cough |
| Barking irons | n. | Pistols, guns |
| Barn-burner | n | Anything sensational or exciting; |
| Barnstorm | vb | To travel about as a politician, preacher or entertainer making short, but dramatic appearances in as many cities as possible. |
| Beak | n. | Judge, magistrate. 2. the nose |
| Bean | n. | The head |
| Beat | n | Rythm |
| Beat | vb | To avoid prosecution, fine for a crime. 2. area allocated to a policeman to patrol. 3. Having a tired, exhausted, disheveled look. |
| Beat | adj | Tired out, exhausted. |
| Beat it | phr | A command: telling someone to leave immediately. |
| Beat one's brains out | phr | To labor strenously with the mind, often with the sense of having failed. 2. to threaten with bodily harm. |
| Beat-up | adj | Damaged and battered by age and use: " a beat-up jalopy." |
| Beat up on | phr | To attack and damage; criticize harshly, denounce an opponent |
| Beat | n. | A reporter's regular run of news sources and places, known as "The Beat" |
| Beat it | phr | To depart, decamp, flee, escape |
| Beats me | intj | An exclamation or acknowledgement of not knowning or understanding something. |
| Beaver | n | The female genitals. |
| Beaver-shooter | n | A man obsessed with peering at female genitals |
| Bed-to-breakfast folks | phr | City dwellers |
| Bedewed | pp | To be sweating, applies usually to a woman. |
| Bee-line | n. | A direct course; the shortest route |
| Bee-sting lips | n | Lips swollen and puffed owing to the over-use of botox. |
| Bee-sting looks | n | Face swollen by the too much and too frequent injecting of botox. |
| Be good | phr | An interjection wishing salutations on parting |
| Behind | n | The ass, rump, buttocks |
| Be-in | n | A gathering of people, usually young, where they do nothing in particular |
| Bell-ringer | n | A door-to-door salesman. 2. a person seeking political election |
| Bells and smells | phr | A style of religious worship emphasising high ritual, including use of vestments, bells and incense, especially that of High Church Anglicanism or Anglo-Catholicism. Also 'Smells and Bells' |
| Bells and whistles | phr | Frills, adornments and other unessential things. |
| Bell up | vb | To telephone; ring someone. |
| Belly-ache | phr | To complain; also bellyacher |
| Bellyful | n | The limit that one can put up with; too much; surfeit |
| Belly laugh | phr | A very loud and boisterous laugh, often appreciative |
| Belly-timber | n | Food. |
| Belly up | phr | As in the phrase: " To go belly up," to die or pass away. |
| Belt | vb | To strike, hit, beat. 2 to defeat in battle, to defeat in a sporting event |
| Belt out | vb | To sing a song vigorously |
| Bend someone's mind | phr | To have a very strong and often upsetting mental sway over someone |
| Bend over backwards | phr | To strive earnestly; make a great effort |
| Bend one's elbow | phr | To drink often and heavily |
| Bender | n. | A drunken spree |
| Bent | adj | Of a criminal nature, illegal, unlawful. 2. aberrant; dishonest |
| Be there | phr | To measure up to expectations |
| Be thereabouts | phr | To do something moderately well |
| Berth | n | A position in a sporting team |
| Bestsellerdom | n. | The most popular books |
| Better half | n | A wife |
| Bewifed | vb | Married |
| Bin chicken | n | The Australian White ibis, a wading bird. |
| Bird-dog | n. | One who steals another person's girl-friend. 2. Young man who bereft of a partner of his own, tries to steal a woman from someone else. 3. unscrupulous stock broker's agent who scouts for gullible prospects. |
| Bite the dust | phr | To be killed, to die. 2. To go bankrupt, fail |
| Bitter-ender | n. | A person who will not compromise or yield. |
| Black-cloud | n | A doctor who attracts difficult or prolonged cases or an unusually high numbers of code blue calls. |
| Black gold | n. | Crude oil, oil, petroleum |
| Black-out | n. | Temporary loss of memory; failure of electricity supply |
| Blackwash | n. | To magnify defects and give prominence to them |
| Blade | n | A surgeon: dashing, bold, arrogaqnt and often wrong. |
| Bleed | vb. | To get money out of someone, esp. in the form of a forced contribution |
| Blood on the moon | phr | A foreboding: menacing or suspicious situation or event. |
| Blood-suckers | n | Lab technicians who take blood samples. |
| Blossom nose | n. | A heavy drinker |
| Blowhard | n. | A braggart |
| Blow off steam | phr | To express one's anger forcibly |
| Blown mind | n | A gunshot wound to the head. |
| Blue-blower | n | A patient with severe and chronic lung disease, |
| Blue-eyed soul | n | A music genre where Caucasian singers sing soul music. |
| Blue-pipe | n | A vein. |
| Bone bender | n. | A wrestler |
| Bone box | n | The mouth |
| Bone eater | n. | A dog |
| Bonehead | n. | A stupid person, a dullard. 2. orthopaedic doctor. |
| Bone idle | adj | Wilfully and incurably idle, lazy |
| Bone-stiff | adj | Dead, deceased. |
| Boneyard | n | A cemetery, graveyard. 2. an emaciated person or animal, esp. a horse |
| Book-hangover | n | The feeling experienced when you finish a book and you suddenly return to the real world, but the real world feels incomplete or surreal because you are still living in the 'land' of the book. |
| Born days | n. | A lifetime. an intensive form of days, as "In all my born days I have never seen such a sight." |
| Bow out | vb. | To withdraw, resign from a contest or life |
| Brain pan | n. | The head |
| Brain stealer | n. | A plagiarist |
| Brains | n. | The brains, the manager, the head, the leaders, innovators |
| Breadery | n. | A bakery |
| Breakbone | n | A wishbone of a chicken, a furcula. |
| Break even | phr | To end without winning or losing; to make no profit, to suffer no loss |
| Breakfast-to-bed folks | phr | Lazy people |
| Break the ice | phr | To take the first step, to be introduced, to begin |
| Breakup | n. | Analysis, known as "The Breakup" |
| Breather | n. | A short break from physical or emotional strife or turmoil |
| Bright in one's books | phr | Showing mental alertness. 2. good at learning. |
| Brimstone | n | A prostitute, (hot stuff). |
| Brimstome buster | n | A fire-brand, ranting religious preacher. |
| Brine hose | n | The penis |
| Bringdown | n | Anything depressing, either a person or circumstances. |
| Bring down | vb | To depress. |
| Broad | n. | Any girl, a mistress, a prostitute |
| Broke | n. | Without money |
| Brother-in-law | n | An intimation that one has been indecorously familiar with another sister. |
| Brown chalk | n | Amber. |
| Brown stoners | n. | Aristocrats |
| Buck | vb. | To oppose, stand up against |
| Buck-up | phr | To brace oneself against illness, to take courage, to become embolden |
| Buck passer | n. | A person who avoids work aand responsibility by passing it on to someone else |
| Build-up | n. | The thread of a story, play, movie which links the various parts. 2. a repuutation gained through deliberate use of publicity; artificial publicity |
| Burn | vb. | To defraud, hurt financially, hurt emotionally, betray. |
| Burned | pp | To be damaged or hurt by another actions |
| Butter-fingers | n | One who is clumsy and awkward, often dropping things |
| By one's lonesome | phr | Alone, independently, also on one's lonesome |
| Anglish | sp | English |
| Ear-bender | n | A chatterer, a bore. |
| Ear-biter | n | A Cadger who constantly seeks to borrow money. |
| Earful | adj | A forceful expression of opinion; esp. one of complaint or rebuke. |
| Earhole | vb | To listen, overhear. |
| Early-beam | n | Dawn, early morning, as in the first rays or beams of the sun. |
| Early-bird | n | One who habitually gets up early. |
| Early-black | n | Dusk, nightful. |
| Early-doors | n | Something that happens prematurely. |
| Early Halloween | n | Tasteless, vulgar décor. |
| Ear-man | n | An individual expressing a natural ability to excel at an endeavor; a virtuoso. |
| Earn | vb | To make a dishonest profit from a crime. |
| Ears | n | Citizens band radio, its antenna or the vehicle carrying it; thus, "having one's ears on": to be tuned in to CB transceiver. |
| Earth | phr | "Earth to" - to call someone attention to, to tease (come back to reality from a daydream or reverie). |
| Earthworm | n | The penis. |
| Eastman | n | A kept man living off the earnings of a woman, a pimp, see "Yeasting." Black English pronunciation of yeast as east, thus the image of yeast expanding and making a "big man" or yeast. |
| Eat | vb | To hit or stike face first; or be hit by (a bullet etc.) |
| Eat | phr | "Eat an apple through a knot hole" - to have buck teeth. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat crow" - to suffer insult and humiliation without responding in kind. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat dirt" - to retract a previous statement, usu. incurring humiliation and embarrassment in doing so. 2. to fall or be thrown on one's face. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat dust" - to be killed: 'bite the dust' |
| Eat | phr | "Eat fist-meat" - to be punched or hit by a fist. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat him alive." to defeat or destroy. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat iron" - to be stabbed. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat it" - to suffer humiliation, esp. in failin to attain a desired goal. 2. to do poorly in examinations; to score low marks in tests. 3. to die. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat (or bite) someone's head off" - to verbally abuse. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat lead" - to be shot. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat one's heart out" - to be eaten up by jealousy. |
| Eat | phr | "What's eating you." - to annoy, bother. |
| Eating-irons | n | Cutlery; knives and forks, eating tools, utensils. |
| Eating midden | n | A glutton. |
| Eating match | n | A feast. |
| Eatings | n | Food, victuals. |
| Eating-tools | n | Utensils, cutlery, eating-irons. |
| Eat up | vb | To scold or rebuke. 2. defeat or destroyed. 3. to believe unquestionably. 4. to enjoy immensely, to acclaim. 5. to get the better of. |
| Eat up | adj | Exhausted,fatigued, eaten up. |
| Eaves-dropper | n | A burglar who lurks outside a house waiting for a chance to break in while the owners are absent. |
| Eawishberrend | n | The middle finger. (<OE æwishberend) |
| Ebber | n | Procrastinator; one who ebbs things out. |
| Ebb-water | n | A lack of money: be at ebb-water (fig. low tide) |
| Edge | n | Tension, usually creative. 2. concentration. 3. a state of mild intoxication; thus, "to have an edge on"- to be mildly drunk. |
| Edge | phr | "To Have an Edge On"- a state of mild intoxication -to be mildly drunk. |
| Edge | n | A knife. |
| Eel | n | Anyone who has the "slippery" ways of the fish; e.g. a skilful escaper from prison or captivity; a scammer, fraud, confidence trickster. 2. an untrustworthy person. |
| Eel | n | The penis. |
| Eel's hips | n | Something extraordinary or very special, as eels lack hips or ankles. |
| Eel out | vb | To avoid a problem or difficulty, esp. in a self-serving way. |
| Effsingshear | n | A pair of shears or scissors (<OE efesungsceare),pl: Effsingshearen (<OE efesungscearan) |
| Eighty-eight | n | A piano in Black English: number of keys or 8:8 time. |
| Elbow | n | A pickpocket or Dip's helper: he or she elbows the victim to distract their attention from the pickpocket's work. |
| Elbow | n | Rejection, dismissal- elbow pushed into somebody's ribs. |
| Elbow | vb | To reject, dismiss, banish. |
| Elbow-shaker | n | A dice-player; knight of the elbow. |
| Elderberry | n | An aging or elderly homosexual:(elder: old). |
| E-light | n | An elitist African-American, with insufficient regard for their less well-to-do fellow African-American and their causes. |
| Empty | n | A empty beer bottle. |
| Empty | adj | Poor, penniless, needy. |
| End | n | That part of a football, or various other sporting ground, behind the respective goals, traditionally reserved for avid supporters and cheer-squad members of both home and away teams. |
| End | n | The arse, buttocks, posterior; the penis. |
| End | phr | "Get one's End In" - have sexual intercourse. |
| End | n | "The End" - the absolute limit that one will tolerate; "the last straw." 2. perfection, absolute excellence, the best possible. |
| End | phr | "End of the Line" -the very end, the ultimate. |
| End | phr | "End of the Month" - impoverished: wages are often paid monthly, at the end of the month. |
| End'less-ish | adj | continuing almost always or all the time. |
| Ends | n | Living expenses, |
| End up | vb | To result in, to come to a conclusion. |
| Endways | adv | Backwards, back to front. |
| English-bearer | n | A drunken man with a red face. One who holds heraldic arms; the red is that of the English flag. |
| English pluck | n | Money, esp. used for gambling. |
| English pluck | phr | "To have English Pluck." - "have you the courage to gamble?" |
| English sunbathing | n | Sitting fully-clothed in the sun. (the strange custom of English immigrants in Australia and New Zealand. |
| Enough | phr | "Enough to Give You A Fit on a Mat" - extremely funny indeed. |
| Enough | phr | "Enough to Make a Cat Laugh" - utterly hilarious, devastingly funny. |
| Enough | phr | "Enough to Swear By" - very small, but still a perceptible amount. |
| Even break | n | Fair chance. |
| Evening | n | An evening newspaper. |
| Evening star | n | A prostitute, street-walker, ho, moonlighter, nightbird. 2. nighthawk, nightingale, nightshade, nightwalker, owl. |
| Evening shake | n | A equal chance. |
| Evergreen | n | Money, folding. |
| Evergreens | n | |
| Everlasting | adj | Intensifier: very, exceeding, excessive. |
| Everlastingly | adv | Beyond measure, immeasurably, excessively. |
| Everlasting shoes | n | The feet. |
| Everlasting wound | n | |
| Everloving | n | One's wife. 2. one's mind. |
| Ever so | phr | Much; thanks ever so. |
| Everyday chill | n | The thing one does every day to relax. |
| Eyeful | a | Unexpected glimpse |
| Every last one | phr | Every one without exception, all. |
| Every living ass | phr | Every single person. |
| Every mother's son | phr | Each and every one. |
| Every so often | phr | Occasionally. |
| Every kitchen sink | phr | Used of an undertaking that requires whatever is available, not matter what is relevant or not. |
| Everything in the book | phr | Whatever is known, whatever is known. |
| Everything is everything | phr | Everything is fine. |
| Every time | excl | A general affirmative. |
| Evil | n | One's wife. |
| Eye | n | A detective, private detective. 2. a warder. 3. a look-out. |
| Eye | n | A television, television set. |
| Eye-eye | ecxl | Look at that. 2. what's all this. 3. take a look around. |
| Eyeful | n | An attractive woman. |
| Eyeglass weather | n | Foggy weather, in which cannot see clearly. |
| Eye-opener | n | The first drink of the day. 2. a surprise, a shock, not necessarily unpleasant. 3. an attractive woman. 4. the day's first dose of a drug. 5. crack cocaine. 6. amphetamine. |
| Eyes | n | Mirrors held through the bars of one's cell and used to see what's going on outside. |
| Eyewash | n | Rubbish, nonsense, humbug, anything done for appearance rather than effect. |
| Eyewater | n | Also: "Devil's Eyewash" - illicitly distilled whisky. |
| Anglish | sp. | English |
| Abear | vb | To tolerate, to abide, to bear, carry. |
| Above board | adj | Open, honest: "above the table" said of card-players who keep their hands above the table to avoid the risk of being accused of cheating. |
| Above one's bent | phr | beyond one's ability or bent (bent) or lit. beyond one grasp. |
| Above oneself | adj | Over-confident, pushy, usu of one normally more self-effacing. |
| Abroad | adj | In error, confused, wide of the mark. 2. of convicts, lags, transported to a penal colony. |
| Abroaded | adj | Living in exile in a place other than the Britain. 2. transported to a penal colony. 3. imprisoned in a penal colony. |
| Acknowledge the malt | phr | Admit the error. 2. confess the crime. |
| Acorn-calf | n | Of animals and people: a runt, a weakling. (a belief that a cow that ate too many acorns produced weak off-spring. |
| Acorns | n | The testicles |
| Acre foot | adj | Large-footed. |
| Addle | vb | To earn by one's own labour. |
| Addled | adj | Drunk, intoxicated. |
| Afloat | adj | Drunk, intoxicated, shickered. |
| Afternoon(s). | n | The buttocks, esp. when large, shapely and female. |
| Afters | n | Pudding, dessert, sweets, any food or part of a meal that comes after the main course. |
| Afterthought | n | Youngest child of a family, conceived long after its sibling. |
| Against the pluck | phr | Reluctantly, against the grain. |
| Aginner | n | One who deliberately takes an opposition stance, usu. out of envy or spite. 2. contrarian. |
| A-go-go | n | A disco or other place for dancing. |
| A-go-go | adj | As modifier in " A-go-go" dance fans. 2. a rapid and head-spinning tempo, craziness; faddish, modern, in the newest style, latest, trendy. 3. 'his a-go-go thoughts about love and sexual freedom." |
| Aginner | n | One who deliberately takes an opposition stance, usu out of envy or spite. 2. a contrarian. |
| Ahead of the game | phr | In a winning or advantageous position. |
| Ain't down with | phr | Not comfortable with or do not like a particular situation. |
| Ain't nothing to it | phr | There's no problem, everything is simple; used in response to the question 'how are you doing.' |
| Aled | adj | Drunk, intoxicated, aled-up. |
| Ale-knight | n | A drunkard. |
| Ale-spinner | n | A brewer; a manufacturer of beer and wine. 2. publican. |
| Alf | n | An unsophisticated nationalistic male, (made obsolete by the term "ocker") Nb: from Alfred. |
| A-licker | n | A sycophant, an arse-licker. |
| Alive | adj | Aware, in the know about a criminal activity or job. |
| Alive and well and living in... | phr | Use to denote that, despite the rumours to the contrary, someone or something is flourishing; esp. used of faded celebrities or once popular inventions, fads, etc. |
| All-and-all | n | One best clothes or outfits. |
| All-and-all | phr | Everything else and everything connected and all.. 2. in total. 3. one's wife. |
| All-anymore | adj | Used up, finished, gone, spent. |
| All-at-sea | phr | Confused, disorientated. 2. drunk. |
| All by one's lonesome | phr | Alone, by oneself. |
| All-ears | phr | Very eager to hear, keenly attentive, |
| All ends up | phr | Easily, utterly, without difficulty. |
| All-fired | adj | Very much so, extremely, particularly excessively as an intensifier, as in "all-fired up." 2. all-firedly. |
| All for it | phr | Very keen, up for it. |
| All get out | phr | Very much, to a great extent. 2. the extreme or absolute case of what is indicated. 3. overwhelmingly. |
| All Gone to Hell | phr | Financially ruined. |
| All good | phr | Everything is fine. |
| All-hallows | n | The tolling place, presumably the place where horse or other types of thief struck their targets, chiefly clergyman. |
| All hands | n | All concerned; the entire group or team. "All hands to the plow." |
| All hell broke loose | phr | Things became very dangerous, wild, tumulutous. |
| All in | adj | Exhausted, tired,drunk. 2. of an object: dilapidated, run down. 3. everything. |
| All in but one's shoestrings | phr | Utterly exhausted. |
| All in the eye | phr | Nonsense, humbug. |
| All kinds of | phr | A great deal. 2. a sundry of things. |
| All know | adj | Like a bookworm. 2. bookish. 3. a know-all. |
| All'knowningish | adj | Having an awesome wisdom, and a vast amount, almost all, of intelligence. |
| All mouth | adj | Talkative and unreliable. |
| All my eye | phr | Utter, absolute nonsense. 2. all eye and my elbow. 3. all my whiskers. |
| All-nighter | n | A prostitute's client who pays for a whole night's sex. 2. aanything that lasts all night, whether work, study, transport, entertainment. |
| All-night man | n | A body-snatcher. 2. resurrectionist. |
| All of a glow | phr | Feeling pleasantly warm: 'horses sweat, men perspire, ladies glow.' |
| All of a sweat | phr | Of footpaths in a town: muddy, wet, slushy. |
| All one's born days | phr | At any time at all. |
| All on top | phr | That a lie is not so. |
| All-out | adj | Holding nothing about; sparing nothing; an all-out effort. 2. exhausted. 3. vigorous, zealous. |
| All-out war | n | Warfare involving total mobilization of weapons and troops. |
| All over | phr | Very affectionate; eagerly amorous; making physical advances, often when not desired. 2. Aggressively smothering or battering, assaulting. 3. dead, finished. |
| All-over | n | Feeling of unease, illness that extends through one's body. 2. a thorough inspection, a lengthy visual assessment: " the once-over." 4. a generalised intensive for either best or worst, as in all-over wonderful or all over-dreadful. |
| All over | adj | Absorbed in, obsessed by, 'as all over oneself: extremely self-satisfied. |
| All-over-each-other-ness | n | A gropy, feelly, public display of affection, a thing that many of us don't like to see. |
| All-overish | adj | Feeling a little unwell, usually as a forerunner to an acute attack of some illness. |
| All-overishness | adj | The feeling of being slightly unwell, usually as a forerunner to a full-blown attack of some illness. 2. a sensation of feeling unwell. |
| All over oneself | phr | Extremely self-satisfied. |
| All-overs | n | A nervy, jittery or uncertain feeling. 2. feelings of irritation 3. a sick or unwell feeling. 3. feeling of ill-health. |
| All over the board | phr | Eccentric, unstable. |
| All over the lot | phr | Very confused and inconsistent; confused. |
| All over the shop | phr | In a great mess, confused or in chaos. 2. all over the lot. |
| All right | interj | An exclamation of strong approval, especially of something well done or successful. |
| All-right | adj | Good, commendable, of the proper sort. |
| All-right | adv | Safely, securely. |
| All right for some | phr | An attack of envy or jealousy directed at others whose fortunes seem better than one's own. |
| All right up to now | phr | So far, so good. 2. up to the present time, things are going well. |
| All right already | phr | A comment protesting that one has heard or had enough or a bit too much. |
| All set | adj | Ready to go; prepared or ready to undertake a project or some action. |
| All seven | adv | Eveything or almost everything required. |
| All-shot | adj | Worn-out, wearied, exhausted, stuffed. |
| All that | n | Very important influential person. 2. to overestimate one's important, as " one thinks one is all that." 3. an object excellent and wonderful. 4. a person in possession of all good qualities. |
| All-that | adv | More so, in additional, additionally. |
| All that and then some | phr | Someone or something considered absolutely excellent. |
| All the go | phr | Modern, chic, fashionable. |
| All there | adj | Sane, right in the mind; intelligent, together; opposite: "not all there." 2. honest, reliable. 3. as desired, satisfactory. 4. smart, aware. 5. |
| All the Twos | n | The number twenty-two (22); thus all the threes, (33), all the fours, (44), up to 99. |
| All the way | phr | Without reservation; to the end. 2. a general term of agreement, of encouragement and support. |
| All the way down | phr | Absolutely right, completely suited. |
| All the way there | phr | Reliable, honest. |
| All-time | adj | The greatest, the tops, the very best, all the best, the most memorable on record. |
| All-timer | n | The best or greatest example of, an "all-time" record. |
| All to bits | phr | Shattered, broken. |
| All thumbs | phr | Very awkward, inept, clumsy. |
| All together | phr | To arrange one's life and affairs properly; integrate and focus oneself. 2. have it all together. |
| All-up | adj | Ruined, finished, defeated. 2. dead, as 'it all up (over) with John Brown." |
| All up with | phr | Of a plan or project, destroyed, ruined, pointless, doomed, without hope. 2. of a person, doomed, bankrupt, hopeless. |
| All washed up | phr | useless, exhausted, failed. (a theatrical term, finished for night, with paint removed.) |
| All wet | adj | Completely, totally mistaken. |
| Already | adv | Without further ado; such being the case. 2. right now; at once. 3. very specifically, precisely. (used for a humorous, somewhat exasperated effect.) |
| Also-ran | n | Contestant or competitor who makes a poor showing. 2. a person, competitive product, etc. that does not succeeed. 3. a person of mediocre talent; a useless person, a failure. |
| Altogether | n | "The Altogether." nude, bare, naked, starkers. |
| Among the missing | phr | Absent; also to absent oneself. |
| Anchor | n | A young person, typically a younger sibling or babysitter, who inhibits one's pleasure or freedom of movement. 2. an unattractive person (the usage by teenagers is probably a play on the name 'Anchor' a popular brand of butter in the UK). |
| Anchorman | n | A principle member of a team of news broadcaster who serves as a narrator and whose function is to introduce 'outside'reporters and presenting synopses of their reports. |
| Anchors | n | Brakes on a motor vehicle. |
| And a half | phr | An intensifier, as " a dog and a half. |
| And don't you forget it | phr | An exclamation used to denote a critical or admonitory statement. |
| And how | interj & excl | An interjection of emphatic agreement or confirmation. 2. excl or interj. to a superlative degree; to a great extent; to a large amount; on a large scale. "the high-roller is gambling away his wealth, and how"And how emphasizes and intensifies any statement that precedes. |
| And I don't mean maybe | phr | Used to affirm one's faith or sentiment. |
| And that no lie | phr | A phrase used to identify a previous statement, esp when the speaker he or she is being implausible. |
| And that that's | phr | A statement of finality; when modified as well, 'that's that' then implies an air of regret. |
| And things | phr | Etcetera. |
| Angel | n | A prostitute, sex-worker, skank, harlot, harridan (Orig. applied only those prostitutes who plied their trade near "Angel" drinking house in Islington, London). 2. a young woman, esp. a pretty one. 3. a young homosexual companion. |
| Angel | n | The prospective victim of a scam, swindle, confidence trick. 2. one who financially backs a scheme esp. one who puts his money into a theatrical show or stage production. (my father angeled one of Fitzpatrick's plays.) 3. a person who contributes to a politician's campaign fund. 4. a homosexual. |
| Angel dust | n | Narcotics, as a mixture of cocaine, heroin, and morphine, which can be smoked or injected. 2. tobacco, marijuana, mixed with phencyclidine. 3. finely cut up marijuana. 4. synthetic heroin. 5. angel mist. |
| Angel kisses | n | Freckles (freckling being the sign of angelic affection). |
| Angel lust | n | (slang) death erection. |
| Angel maker | n | An abortionist. 2. any weapon that causes death. |
| Ankle | n | To walk |
| Ankle-biter | n | A small child - crawling around at ankle height. |
| Ankle-spring warehouse | n | The stocks. |
| Another good man gone | phr | A phrase used by male friends on the announcement of a man's engagement to be married. |
| Anyhow | adv | Indifferently, carelessly. 2. disorganised, messy. |
| Any old | phr | Derogatory, having only ordinary or mediocre quality. 2. of no special distinction. 3. anything, whatever, a broad term of vagueness. |
| Any old how | phr | In any case, whatever, no matter what. 2. in any case; in any way or manner whatever or however. 3. in any way not very good, not perfect, all over the place, without method or plan. 4. in random fashion; unmethodical. |
| Any old thing | phr | In any manner what. |
| Anything for a laugh | phr | A slightly regretful. ironic phrase usually to justify something one does through necessity or desperation rather than choice. |
| Anything goes | phr | Anything is acceptable, permissible. |
| Anywhen | adv | At any time |
| Anywho | pn | Anyone |
| Anywhy | adv | For any reason |
| Ape | n | An extremely strong and pugnacious hoodlum; a strong arm man, goon, muscleman. 2. the best or greatest, the ultimate. |
| Ape | adj | Stupid and destructive; irrational, crazy. |
| Ape | phr | "Go Ape" - revert to ape-like behavior. 2. to become overly-excited. |
| Ape-hangers | n | Motorcyclists. 2. high swooping motorcycle handlebars. |
| Ape-head | n | A fool, idiot, stult. |
| Ape-out | vb | To lose control, to act in a wild manner. |
| Apple | n | A man, fellow. 2. a ball, esp. a baseball. 3. a street or district where excitement can be found. 4. any large town or city, as The Big Apple" or "The Apple" - New York. 5. a Native American who has taken on the values, behavior of the white community. (red on the outside but white on the inside.) |
| Apple | n | Anyone who doesn't take drugs (an apple-for-the-teacher mentality) |
| Apple-blossom-two-step | n | Diarrhea, often contacted on an overseas holiday. |
| Apple-cart | n | The human body. |
| Apple head | n | Idiot, fool, stult. |
| Apple-knocker | n | A unsophisticated rustic or rural person. |
| Apple-monger | n | A pimp, panderer. |
| Apples | phr | "She'll be apples" - satisfactory, ok, it will be fine. |
| Apple shine | phr | To curry favor, to toady, to act as a sycophant. |
| Apples to ashes | phr | An absolute certainty or sure thing. |
| Apple up | vb | To toady, curry favor. |
| Are you ready | phr | Implying surpise, amazement, or shock, both approving and disapproving. |
| Ark floater | n | A veteran actor. |
| Arky | adj | Old fashion, daggy, out-of-date. 2. achaic. |
| Arm | n | Influence, power, muscle. 2. armed robbery. |
| Armed for bear | phr | Ready and willing for a battle, conflict or simply a fight or an argument. 2. to be very heavily armed (the killing of a bear needs powerful weapons) |
| Armpit | n | A very undesirable place; geographical nadir, as "my home town is the armpit of the world." 2. the most slummy, rundown and often crime-ridden area of a city or town. |
| Armstrong | n | Anything operated or worked by hand rather than machinery. |
| Armstrong heater | n | Arms when embracing a loved-one. |
| Arnchy | n | One who 'tickets' on himself - 'aren't you the one.' 2. one who puts on airs. |
| Armwaver | n | A politician. 2. an excitable or emphatic person. |
| Arse | n | An unpleasant person, whose actions cause him to be disliked. |
| Arse | n | A woman viewed as a sexual object. 2. cheek, effrontery, brashness. |
| Arse | vb | To behave in a mnanner rude and unacceptable, 'be an arsehole'. |
| Arse | phr | "Give someone the arse." - to dismiss from one's job or employment. |
| Arse-backwards | adj | To do things out of order or back to front. |
| Arse-busting | adj | Tiring, exhausting, debilitating. |
| Arse-end | n | The end, the rear end. 2. the least desirable piece. 3. the least appealing place, as in the "arse end of the world; the arse end of nowhere."- armpit, or an arse-hole of a place. |
| Arse-hammer | n | A motor-cycle, owing to the pounding one receives on one's buttocks when riding a motorcycle. |
| Arse-hole | n | The anus. 2. an unpleasant person. |
| Arse-hound | n | Womaniser, philander, playboy, cassanova. |
| Arse-kiss | n | To fawn; to court favor in a self-abasing way. |
| Arse-licker | n | A sycophant, toady, crawler. |
| Arseness | n | Wilful stupidity. |
| Arse up | vb | To make a mess of something, fail to do something satisfactorily. |
| Arse-ways | adj | Askew-whiff, back-to-front. |
| Arse-wipe | n | Tiolet paper. |
| Arse-wiper | n | A sycophant, a toady, a suck |
| Arse-wise | adj | Absurd, illogical, ridiculous, ludicrous. |
| Arsy | adj | Lucky, fortunate, flukey. |
| As all get-out | phr | Very much get out, to a very great extent. |
| As and when | phr | In the end, eventually. 2. if at all possible. 3. as it happens and when it happens. |
| As anything | phr | Very much so. |
| As a starter | phr | To begin with. |
| As for it | phr | To behave in a way that invites or provoke or/and deserves trouble. |
| Ashcan | n | A depth-charge. |
| Ashcan | n | An unpleasant person. 2. the buttocks. |
| Ashcan | vb | To discard, throw away. 2. a depth-charge. |
| Ash-cat | n | A dirty, unkempt child, as if covered by ash. 2. a sickly child with an ashen look or complexion. 3. a thin, wasted, ragged Black person. |
| Ashy | adj | Palefaced, white, ashen-faced. |
| As if | excl | A disbelief, I don't believe you; you're kidding. |
| As I live by bread | phr | A general phrase of emphasis, underlining the probity of one's statements and actions (bread as the staff of life) |
| As is | Under the present circumstances or situation; in the present form; conditions as they are, no change "You can't do any better as is." | |
| Ask for it | phr | To behave in such a way, that negative or adverse or troublesome outcome will follow. |
| Asleep at the wheel | phr | Not concentrating on, or paying attention to, whatever one is doing. |
| Ass backwards | adv | In reverse order. 2. in a confused manner; sometimes used as 'bass ackwards'. |
| As you were | phr | Settle down, control yourself, calm down. 2. slow down. 3. take another look; think about it again. |
| Ate the bolts | phr | One who loves work. |
| At first go | phr | At the get-go; start or beginning. |
| At full bottle | phr | Doing something at maximum speed and sometimes noisily. |
| At good ready | phr | At you direction or when ready. 2. totally, absolutely, indeed, certainly. |
| At it | adv | Taking part in sexual intercourse. 2. involved in criminal or illegal matters. |
| At a loose end | phr | Aimlessly unoccupied; wanting in direction; uncertain where you're at. 2. out of work, unemployed. |
| Atop of the house | phr | In a state of excitement. |
| At sixes and sevens | phr | In or at a state of turmoil, disorder and chaos. |
| At sparrow's crow | phr | Dawn, aurora, sunrise, dayrim. |
| At the death | phr | At the finale, end, culminate, conclusion. |
| At the drop of a hat | phr | Straight away, immediately, eventually. |
| At tops | phr | In the best condition; at best |
| Awake to | vb | Be awake to: quick to see through a scam or deceptiion. |
| Awash | adj | Drunk, intoxicated. |
| Away | adj | Prison (underworld.); at the put-away, in jail. 2. escaped from prison. 3. dead, deceased. |
| Away | adv | Immediately, without delay, forthwith, without hestitation, right away. |
| Away to the hills | phr | Mentally unbalanced, crazy, loopy. |
| Awry-eyed | adj | Intoxicated |
| Axe | vb | To dismiss someone from a job, team, relationship. 2. fire, as in in give someone the axe. 3. to eliminate, cut. 4. any musical instrument, esp. the saxophone, perhaps because of an axe's shape or it's sound when someone is using it to chop. |
| Axeholder | n | The hand. |
| Axeman | n | A musician esp. a guitarist. |
| Anglish | sp | English |
| Fair-headed | adj | A favourite son or man |
| Fair-shake | n | To give it a fair s. or equal treatment, same chance as others |
| Fall down | vb | To fail in an undertaking |
| Fall for | vb | To like, to be impressed by |
| Fanger | n | Oral surgeon. |
| Fast life | n | A life of dissipation and excitement |
| Fast-one | n | A frame up, a clever swindle |
| Fed up | phr | Had too much of it; disgusted, profoundly annoyed |
| Fed-upness | n | A state of oversatiation and disgust; fedupness. |
| Feed | n | A meal |
| Felt out | phr | Sounded out; pumped for information |
| Ferghthlove | n | Heartfelt love (<OE ferhþlufu). (Can't find this word in any slang dictiobnary as far back as 1936. More appropriate to include this entry in the Anglish wordbook |
| Fiend | n | Devotee, an enthusiastic supporter, such as an art fiend. 2. a clever student. 3. a general term of praise for any person or thing. |
| Fiender | n | A drug addict. |
| Fiendish | adj | Excellent, wonderful, admirable. |
| Fiend on | vb | To show off, outdo a rival. |
| Filmdom | n | The movie world |
| Finger | n | A police informer |
| Fingersmith | n | Gynecologist. |
| Finger-wave | n | Rectal examination. |
| Fired | pp | Dismissed, sacked, discharge from duty |
| Firewater | n | Intoxicating liquor |
| Fireworks | n | A shoot-out, gun play. 2. Bombast, an oratory display |
| Firing line | n | The line from which soldiers fire their weapons at a target; especially the front line of troops in a battle. 2. a row of shooters. 3.(idiomatic) the vanguard of an activity. |
| First run | n | Premiere of a movie |
| Fisty | adj | Angry; peevish; touchy. |
| Flesh creep | n | The shudders, shivers |
| Flesh show | n | A striptease show; a revue featuring nude or semi-nude dancers |
| Fly-by-night outfit | phr | An impermanent and unreliable business concern |
| Fly of the handle | phr | To lose one's temper; to become angry |
| Fold | vb | To cease, to close, to show or do no more, to quit |
| Followership | n | Ability and willingness to follow a leader |
| For a song | phr | Cheap; at a low price |
| Forget it | phr | Pay no further attention; drop the matter; let it go; stop talking; be quiet |
| Fox | phr | Sexy, voluptuous, sensual, erotic, luscious woman. |
| Foxy | adj | Sexy, voluptuous, sensual, erotic, luscious. |
| Freadrighten | n | Lord and master (<OE frēadrihten)pl: freadrightnas (<OE fréadrihtnas)????(Can't find this word in any slang dictiobnary as far back as 1936. More appropriate to include this entry in the Anglish wordbook |
| Freedom seekers | n | Divorce seekers |
| Free-wheeling | adj | Of a person, moving about freely, independently, or irresponsibly. 2. of words, remarks, actions, etc. unrestrained; irresponsible, loose. |
| Freeze out | phr vb | To exclude a person; to force a person to withdraw, a forced exclusion or withdrawal |
| Fresh | adj | Impudent, insolent |
| From way back | phr | Since long ago, from a much earlier time; also superior or outstanding, as" He is a teacher from way back." |
| Fuckwit | n | An unintelligent person (see " Dimwit", "Dipshit", "Fucknugget", and "Shithead") |
| Fuck off! | phr | Go away! |
| Full house | n | All seats or spaces taken, entirely full, completely full. |
| Full | adj | Intoxicated. |
| Full as | phr | (Australian) in various phrases meaning very drunk, all starting withfull as - as full as a boot. |
| Full-bottomed | adj | Having large buttocks. |
| Full feather | n | One's best clothes. |
| Full-fledged | adj | Of a virgin, ripe for defloration. |
| Full-growner | n | an adult. |
| Full guts | n | Fat-bellied or fat stomached person. |
| Full house | n | A very busy time. |
| Fully | n | An automatic weapon; short for fully automatic weapon. |
| Full in the belly | phr | Pregnant. |
| Full moon | n | The bared buttocks, exhibited in public. |
| Full mouth | n | A very talkative. |
| Full-mouthed | adj | Bad-mannered, unrestrained. |
| Fullness | adv | "To the Fullness" - absolutely, completely, totally. |
| Full of hops | phr | Behaving as if one is drugged or drunk; acting without sense. |
| Furrow | n | The vagina; see 'furrow' |
| Anglish | sp. | English |
| Calf love | n | Transitory youthful affection |
| Call it a day | phr | To stop working, cease |
| Can | n. | A prison, jail, peniteniary. |
| Canned cow | n | Condensed milk |
| Can the highbrow stuff | phr | To quit using big words; to cease talking about academic subjects |
| Can't take it | phr | Easily irritated or angered. 2. Unable to stand criticism. |
| Carve | n | A knife. |
| Carver & Glider | n | A matchmaker. |
| Carve up | phr | Any situation in which one feels oneself unfairly deprived of a desire, aim, or object. |
| Cat | n | A malicious or catty woman who, often subtly, attacks and denigrates other women. 2. to move stealthily. 3. a homosexual male. 4. a jazz musician. 5. a man who dresses flashily and ostentatiously pursues worldly pleasures: "a cool cat." |
| Cat & dog life | phr | Unhappy life or existence |
| Catfish | n | A catfish is someone who pretends to be someone they're not using Facebook or other social media to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances. 2. a scammer who creates a fake identity or profile online in order to seduce someone and gain financial benefit from them. The catfish has dorsal and pectoral quills that are able to inflict nasty wounds. |
| Catfish | vb | To scam someone online by creating a fake or false profile in order to seduce them and gain financially from them. |
| Catty | adj. | Disagreeable |
| Chalk | n | "The Chalk" --- the absolute truth (use of chalk bt teacher). 2. the fashion. |
| Chalk | vb | To cut or slash someone face. |
| Chalk | adj | Spurious, unknown, incompetent: in earlier times, a new jockey had his name written on the board in chalk, not in paint like his more seasoned counterparts. |
| Chalk against | phr | To bear a grudge against. |
| Chalk-eater | n | A favourite in a horse race, because of the amount of chalk used by bookies to mark the odds on their boards (Damon Runyan creation). |
| Chalk-n-talk | n | A teacher |
| Chalkhead | n | One good at calculating figures. |
| Chalkies | n | "The Chalkies"—the teeth. |
| Chalk off | vb | To tell off, scold. 2. to leave. 3. to closely look at. |
| Chalk out | vb | To murder, kill (drawing of a line with chalk, around a corpse; a sidewalk outline) 2. To clearly describe, to give direction. |
| Chap | n | A man, fellow, a guy, chappie, chappy. |
| Cheap shot | n | A wounding snearing remark made in vulgar or poor taste. |
| Cheek | n | Insolence, audacity, impudence, impertiness. |
| Cheek | vb | To address in a rude, impudent: "have the cheek to say so." 2. to be impertinent. |
| Cheekiness | n | Audacity, effrontery, impudence, rudeness, impertiness |
| Cheeks | n | The buttocks, posterior, derrière. |
| Cheeky | adj | With audacity, impudently, rudely, insolently. 2. impudent or impertinence, esp. in the cotext of a young person failing to respect their elders. |
| Cheese | n | Lies, nonsense, exaggerations. |
| Cheesed off | phr | To be miserable, annoyed, angry, fed up, irritated. |
| Chesty | adj | Arrogant, conceited. 2. prone to suffer from chest infections. 3. a woman with large breasts. |
| Chew | vb | To talk, converse. 2. to attack verbally. 3. to embarrass by criticism; chew up. 3. to harangue. |
| Chewings | n | Food, victuals, comestibles. 2. a scolding; a telling-off. |
| Chew it over | phr | To ponder, consider, ruminate, cogitate. |
| Chew one's bit | phr | To be anxious or upset. 2. to argue or talk loudly. |
| Chew one's ear | phr | To talk excessively, without allowing others to have their say. 2. to talk to someone in a tedious manner. |
| Chew out | vb | Harangue, tell off, scold. |
| Chew the fat | phr | To converse, esp earnestly, often grumbling and complaining manner |
| Chew up (& spit out) | phr | To scold, reprimand, harshly speak to or address. |
| Chew-water | n | Weak tasteless soup. |
| Chicken | n | A young woman. 2. a timid person or creature; a coward. 3. a male prostitute. |
| Chicken-brained | adj | A fool, simpleton, half-wit |
| Chicken feed | n. | Small change; derisively insignificant; small amounts of money or anything else. |
| Chicken-hearted | adj | Cowardly, timid, chicken-livered. |
| Chicken-livered | adj | Cowardly, weak, insipid, chicken-hearted. |
| Chicken-run | n | The flight from South Africa of (white) people, fearing for their future in a non-apartheid world. |
| Chill | n | "The Chill"—the cold shoulder, rejection. 2. murder, death, assassination, homicide. |
| Chill | vb | To murder, kill, assassinate. |
| Chilled-off | adj | Murdered, killed, assassinated, "childed". |
| Chiller | n | A film, play, etc. intended to avoke shudders of fear; a horror show. |
| Chilling | adj | Frightful, horrible, harrowing, horrifying, ghastly. |
| Chill out | vb | To calm down, to control one's emotions, to relax, to act "cool". 2. to pass the time of day casually. 3. to calm someone down. |
| Chilly | adj | Emotionless, detached. 2. cold-blooded. 3. acceptable. |
| Chin-chin | n | Chatter, conversation, cheek, impudence. |
| Chinless-wonder | n | A male scion of the British upper-class. Probably wealthy, certainly well-connected, but devoid of intelligence or character. |
| Chinwag | n | Gossip, conversation |
| Chinwork | n | A chat, conversation, talk. |
| Choke | n | Prison bread, hard to chew, swallow and digest |
| Choke | vb | To stop talking. 2. to do badly in work that one should have done easily. 2. to loose one's nerve under pressure( to choke up). 4. to become tense and thus ineffective under pressure. |
| Choked | adj | Upset, annoyed, depressed. |
| Choked up | phr | To become uncomfortably, dressed with stiff collar and tie. 2. overcome with emotions and unable to speak. |
| Christ-bitten | adj | Fanatically religious. |
| Cinder burner | n. | A runner |
| Cinder sifter | n. | A tramp or person who walks along or follows railway tracks |
| Clam | n | A silent person |
| Claw-back | n | A sycophant, a yes-man, a back-scratcher. Metaphorically one who claws or scratches another's back. "Claw" to flatter, wheedle, cajole. |
| Claw off | phr | To thrash, to beat vigorously. |
| Clay-brained | adj | Stupid, foolish, dull-witted. |
| Clay-eater | n | A poor White, esp. a native from a southern USA; a clover-eater, grit-sucker. It is said that the people there ate clay to supplement a meagre diet. |
| Clean | adj | Beyond any possible suspicion, guiltless. 2. first-class,excellent. 3. entirely, completely, as in "clean broke." |
| Cleaned-out | adj | Bereft of money, busted, either through gambling or financial hardship. 2. to take all an opponent's money. |
| Clean gone | adj | Utterly, completely, totally broke. |
| Clean house | phr | To sort things out once and for all. 2. to punish, beat. |
| Clean out | phr | To thrash, to defeat, win financially. 2. in gambling to take all your opponent's money. 3. to eat eat everything put in front of you: "to clean the board." 4. to finish completely; to empty. |
| Clean shot | n | A piece of good luck; a favourable situation. |
| Clean up | phr | To make financial gain or profit, as in "He cleaned up on that deal." |
| Cleave | n | A women who pretends to be a virgin, while not being one. |
| Cleaver | n | A butcher. |
| Cleaver | n | A promiscuous women |
| Cleft | n | A women who poses as a prostitute while not being one. |
| Cliff-dweller | n | One who lives in a skyscraper, apartment block. |
| Cliff-hanger | n | Any suspenseful, threatening situation, although usually from which one is delivered, ( from the silent movie days, where the heroine usually hung precariously from a cliff, awaiting rescue. 2. a sporting event which is only decided in the fianl few moments of the game. |
| Climb | n | A cat burglar, a thief who sneaks into houses while the occupants are there and steals their valuables. |
| Climb all over | phr | To attack verbally, to reprimand. 2. to maul sexually, usu. spoken by a woman of a man. |
| Climb-down | n | A humiliating surrender in an argument; esp. after one has held tenaciously to one position for some time. |
| Clod | n | A stupid person, an oaf, a rustic, boor, clodhopper. 2. an awkward footed person: "a clodhopper." |
| Clodhopper | n | The foot. 2. An awkward person, a farmer. Also a Clodknocker |
| Clot | n | A fool, simpleton, often used affectionedly. |
| Cloth-ears | n | A general term for wild abuse, esp. referring to someone who at first seems not to have heard one word or comment. 2. a fool, a simpleton. |
| Clothes-horse | n | A fashion model. 2. an overdressed woman. 3. |
| Cloud Nine | phr | "On Cloud Nine"—a state of bliss, sometimes drug induced. |
| Cloud Seven | phr | A state of bliss, presumably less blissful than "Cloud Nine." |
| Cloudy | adj | Under a cloud, suspected. 2. in trouble, in disrepute. |
| Clove-hunter | n | A theatre patron who drinks or others (from a flask) during a play and then chews cloves in an attempt to hide smell of liquor on his breath. |
| Cloven | adj | Divided lengthwise, split, cleaved. |
| Cloven | n | A woman, usually a sex worker, who pretends that she is a virgin, but in reality she is not. |
| Clover | n | " To live in clover"—to live luxuriously, like a cow in a field of clover. |
| Cluck | n | A tedious situation. |
| Cluckhead | n | A fool, simpleton. |
| Clutter | n | A clotted mass. 2. a confused collection. 3. a crowded confusion. |
| Coal | n | Money: coal as the source of heat, of everyday life, is money. 2. a dark-skinned person. |
| Coal-burner | n | A White man or white woman who enjoys sexual relations with a Black man or woman. |
| Cobwebbed | adj | Dazed, stunned, bewildered |
| Cobweb throat | phr | Dryness, a thirst for alcohol. |
| Cock-ale | n | A variety of beer that is supposed to have aphrodisiac qualities. |
| Cock-a-loft | adj | Affected, pompous person. |
| Cockbite | n | A repellent, unpopular person, whose mean enough to bite anyone, anywhere. |
| Cock book | n | Pornagrapia, erotic and salacious literature. |
| Cock brain | n | A foolish young man. 2. a young man's traditional obsession to sex. |
| Cockchafer | n | A prison treadmill. 2. a woman who encourages a good deal odf sexual intimacy, but not intercourse. |
| Cock eye | adj | Squinty of eyes. 2. messy, ludicrous, absurd. |
| Cockeyed | adj | Crazy, eccentric, irrational, odd. 2. very drunk. |
| Cock fighter | n | A womaniser, philanderer. |
| Cock hound | n | A man devoted to sex above all things. |
| Cockish | adj | Wanton, sexually forward of a woman. |
| Cock one eye | phr | To glance sdeways. |
| Cock opener | n | The penis |
| Cockpit | n | The vagina |
| Cockqueen | n | An effeminate man, who is seen as dealing to keenly with domestic duties that are properly those of his wife. 2. a cotquean. |
| Cock rot | n | Venereal disease. |
| Cocksmith | n | A womaniser, philanderer, cockfighter. |
| Cock-smitten | adj | Prurient, very keen on sex |
| Cock sparrow | n | A short, small man with a very confident manner and swagger. |
| Cockstand | n | an erection. |
| Cock strut | n | A walk that reveals arrogance an conceit |
| Cock teaser | n | A woman who allows a fair amount of intimacy, but not sexual intercourse. |
| Cocky | adj | Conceited, arrogant |
| Cod | n | The scrotum, testicles. |
| Cold | adj | Dead, deceased, departed. |
| Cold bite | n | " A Cold Bite"—one who will lend money; a soft touch. |
| Cold blooded | adj | Harshly critical, extremely judgemental, used of actions that are done or people that act without heart. |
| Cold feet | phr | Reluctance, fear as in " To have cold feet." |
| Cold footer | n | A fearful, nervy person, cold-footed: timidly, cowering, cowardly. |
| Cold iron | n | A knife, dagger, bayonet. |
| Cold meat | n | A corpse, cadaver, dead body. |
| Cold meat box | n | Coffin. |
| Cold meat wagon | n | A hearse, funeral car, cold meat cart. |
| Cold shake | n | Rejection, dismissal, betrayal. |
| Cold shot | n | Unnecessary and aggressive behaviour. 2. cruel, emotionless behaviour. |
| Cold shoulder | n | Rejection, dismissal, betrayal, marble heart. |
| Comb the cobwebs | phr | To renew activity, brush off the cobwebs. |
| Come again | phr | Please repeat ourself; say that again |
| Come all over | phr | To thrash, defeat completely. 2. to experience certain condition, as in "come all over sick." 3. to suddenly feel physically unwell. |
| Come and get it | phr | A general cry indicating that a meal is forthcoming. |
| Come at | phr | To undertake, to get up and try. 2. to take on; to try on. 3. to have a go. |
| Comeback | n | Retort, esp a cutting or sarcastic one; a verbal rejoinder. 2. repercussions, blow-back, down-side. |
| Come back to the field | phr | To face the realism of the situation. 2. to abandon one's dreams and fantasies. 3. to come down to earth. |
| Come clean | phr | Confess, admit error or guilt. 2. to make an admission. 3. to pay one's debts. 4. to get something off your chest that's beemn bothering you. |
| Come down | n | To fall from grace. 2. a humiliating decline in one's material circumstances. 3. a bad situation, esp. an embarrassing one. 3. the after effects or aftermath of drug use. |
| Come down hard | phr | To attack someone either verbally or physically. |
| Come down on | vb | To belittle, insult, to talk to severely, criticise harshly. 2. to assault. 3. to withdraw from a drug dependency and it's after effects. |
| Come from | n | Birthplace, origin |
| Come good | vb | Of things, to turn out well. 2. of people, to prove themselves, esp after an unpromising start. 3. to come up trumps. |
| Come home | vb | To reach an end of an experience. |
| Come in for it | phr | To face trouble. 2. to expect future difficulties. |
| Come off the grass | phr | To stop telling lies. 2. stop exaggerating. |
| Come-on | n | A share, inducement. 2. seductive talk, "The Come-on." 3. sexual invitation, either through a look or words. 4. a dare. 5. a general exclamation of disbelief. |
| Come-on-stream | phr | Start, beginning, involvement, participation. |
| Come on strong to | phr | To make one's presence and opinions felt --- used both positively and negatively (to come on too strong). |
| Come on to | phr | To appear somewhat aggressively; to solicit. 2. to make sexual advances towards. |
| Come out | vb | To declare oneself openly homosexual. |
| Come out | vb | To abandon the respectable nine-to-five world for a more sophiscated and exciting lifestyle. |
| Come out of the woodwork | phr | To emerge or appear, always of someone or something unpleasant. (the normal woodwork dweller being something unpleasant, such as bug or cockrooach. 2. to appear almost from now-where unexpectedly. |
| Come over | vb | To experience a sudden disorientating feeling or experience; as in " come over queer." |
| Come over to | phr | To win over, to persuade, get the better of. |
| Comer | n | An ambitious, go-head person, the coming man, the up'n comer, the next-big-thing. |
| Come right out with | phr | To speak openly, candidly, taactlessly. |
| Come the heavy | phr | To pose as a member of a superior class to that which one actually belongs. 2. to take strong, asserted steps, physically or verbally, in a conflict or argument, |
| Come to | phr | to regain consciousness, to wake up, to become alert |
| Come through | phr | To succeed, win, accomplish. 2. to pay one's debt. 3. to act as desired, do what on must do. 4. to take over in an emergency; to carry out requirements. |
| Come to a sticky end | phr | To meet great misfortune or a bad lot in life, esp. a violent death or a prison term, usu said of a person condemned. |
| Come to bed eyes | n | Eyes that convey infinite, if not always delivered, sexual promise. |
| Come to grief | phr | To fall into difficulties. |
| Come-to-soon | n | Illegitimate child: born before his parents had time to marry. |
| Come to stay | phr | To become permanent or established. |
| Come-to-that | phr | Now that you have remember it. |
| Come undone | vb | To find oneself in difficulties. |
| Come up | vb | To turn out (well), etc.; to happen (often). |
| Come up lovely | phr | To turn out well or successful, esp. when it was thought that a successful outcome was unlikely. |
| Come up smiling | phr | To face a difficult circumstance without showing fear or complaining. |
| Come up weak | phr | To disppoint, to fail to reach expectations (whether one's own or others). |
| Come up with | vb | To provide, produce, procure, furnish. |
| Cook | n | A person who prepares, manufactures or "cooks" at preparing illicit or illegal drugs. |
| Cook | vb | To tamper with, to falsify, as in "cook the books." 2. to suffer from th heat. 3. to die in the electric chair. 4. to do something successfully, " to cook with gas or I'm cooking." |
| Cooked | adj | Exhausted, finished, destroyed, in serious trouble. |
| Cooker | n | That which settles a situation; a clincher, a finisher. |
| Cooking | adv | Working or acting with absolute commitment. |
| Cook one's goose | phr | To defeat, undo, or ruin a person |
| Cook up | phr | To devise a plan or arrange. 2. to tamper with; falsify. 3. to enjoy oneself; to hsve s good time. |
| Cool | n | Temper, poise, composure, attitude to life and the ability to deal with. |
| Cool | adj | Insolent, arrogant, impudent, cockly, self-possessed, sophisticated, fashionable, chic, with it. |
| Cool | vb | To kill, murder, asassinate, "cool off". 2. to calm down; to calm someone or some situation down. 3. to deal with a problem. 4. to postpone, to put off. 5. to knock out. 6. to lounge around; hang out. |
| Cool cat | n | A smooth operator, a confident person. 2. a sophisticated, competent, unruffled, able person. |
| Cool deal | exc | Approval, admiration. |
| Cool hand | n | A cool, calm, controlled and competent individual. |
| Cool-head | n | A calm, unflappable person. |
| Cooling | adj | Relaxing, calm, quiet. |
| Cool it | vb | To calm down, often used as an imperative -- "cool it." 2. to stop, cease from action. 3. to die. |
| Cool off | vb | To kill, murder. 2. too subdue by physical force. |
| Cool one's heel | phr | To wait or to be kept waiting. |
| Cool out | vb | To subdue physically. 2. to kill, murder. 3. to calm down, often as an imperative, to pacify another. 3.to take a rest from work often by lying in the shade. 4. to make something manageable. |
| Cool runnings | n | Everything is fine; all is going smoothly, everything is copasetic. |
| Coolth | n | Coolness, in contrast to warmth |
| Copperhead | n | An unpleasant person, a mean piece of works. |
| Copper-hearted | adj. | Untrustworthy, deceitful. 2. a prison informer. |
| Corn | n | Money, currency. |
| Corndog | n | Someone who is socially inept or acts bizarrely. 2. Fig, one enjoys or suffers being socially inept. |
| Cornhusker | n | A farmer, peasant, one who strips husk from the ear of corn. |
| Corn-off-the-cob | n | Banality, simplicity, hackishness. |
| Corny | adj | Very and annoyingly out-dated, old fashioned or sentimental. 2. hackneyed, trite, inferior. 3. unsophisticated, rustic, simple. 4. naive, gullible, simple, gormless, such characteristics attributed to country folk living in corn-growing locations. |
| Cow | n | A woman, esp. an unattractive one. 2. a prostitute. 3. a woman in the company of a tramp. |
| Cow-handed | adj | Awkward, clumsy, unco-ordinated. |
| Crab | n | A cross person, a complainer. 2. an ill-soured person; hence, thus an unpopular person ( a crab-apple or crab arse.) |
| Crab | vb | To spoil, upset, annoy, ruin, sour. 2. to find fault; criticise heavily. 3. to steal or "pinch." 4. to back down, run away, as in "crab off." 5. "to crab some's hopes." |
| Crabby | adj | Nagging, cantankerous, ill-soured. |
| Crabwalk | n | The perineum: the region of the body between the anus and the scrotum. |
| Crack | n | "The crack."—the vagina. 2. a prostitute. 3. very dry wood. 4. a narrow passage. |
| Crack | adj | Perfect; anything or anyone that approaches perfection. 2. a foppish or dandy. 3. of the social an sporting elite: excellent or "A" listing, classy. |
| Crack a smile | phr | To laugh slightly. 2. laugh or smile with restraint |
| Crack-down | n | A harsh measure against someone or something by authority. |
| Cracked | adj | Crazy, stupid, foolish, unwise. |
| Cracked Ice | n | Diamonds. |
| Cracker | n | Smallest feasible amount of money. 2. poor, needy, penniless. 3. " He hasn't got cracker." 4. valuelss, worthless. 5. A beautiful looking woman; a crackling: " she a cracker" |
| Cracker-box | n | An eccentric, oddball, queer-loon, madman, crazy person. 2. a crack-pot, cracky-cat. |
| Cracker-hand | n | a competent, skilled, deft individual. |
| Crack hardy | adj | To put up with discomfort. 2. to grin and bear it. |
| Crack-hunter | n | Penis. |
| Cracking | adj | Vigorous, excellent, first-class. |
| Crackish | adj | Wanton, promiscuous, used a generic. |
| Crack it | vb | To lose one's temper. 2. to succeed; acieve something successfully. 3. to pursue sexually or seek to seduce a womwn; crack on. |
| Crackle | n | Money, in the form of banknotes. |
| Crack on | vb | Of a man, to strike up a friendship with a woman in the hope of moving into a deeper relationship. |
| Crack one's ribs | phr | Laugh uproariously, crack up. |
| Crackpot | n | One who is madman, a crazy, a lunatic, eccentric, odd-ball, quirkster, a mentally unstable. |
| Crack someone up | phr | To make someone laugh. |
| Crack up | n | A Crack-up: anything consider hilariously funny. 2. an emotional or nervous breakdown. |
| Crack up | vb | To suffer a mental or emotional breakdown. |
| Crackwise | n | One who pretend a greater sophisication and knowledge that he or she actually possesses; a poseur. |
| Crackwise | vb | To make a clever comment that impresses nobody. 2. to appear as a mere sophist; a poseur. |
| Craft | n | Any sort of transport, including a bicycle. |
| Cram | n | A crush of people, a throng, a crowd, a press, a mob, a teeming. |
| Crammer | n | The stomach, craw, maw, gut. |
| Cramming | n | An intensive learning aimed purely at passing necessary examinations. |
| Crane | vb | To hestitate, baulk. 2. to crane one's neck: took around; to rubber-neck. |
| Crank | n | An eccentric, oddball, a loon. 2. a bad-tempered or wayward person, one hard to please, grouch. 3. monomaniac, an obsessive, weirdo. 4. a craze, fad, monomania, obsession, eccentric notion, capriciac. |
| Crank | n | The crank: the penis. |
| Crank up | vb | To get started up a mechanical device, such as an engine or a car engine. 2. To prepare oneself. 3. to intensify, to do something more energetically or deliberately. 4. to turn up the volume of a radio. 5. an all-purpose word of moement --- crank up oneself; to co-operate or crank together. 6. to become "high" and over energetic on drugs. |
| Cranked | adj | Mentally unbalanced, hyped-up, cocky, zooped by amphetamines. |
| Cranker | n | A doctor, a physician, leech, swabones; quack. |
| Cranking | adj | Enjoyable, exciting, exulting, eccentric. |
| Cranking it out | phr | To be a hack writer; a pot-boiler, to penny dreadful, a sausage maker. 2. to write more for duty, keep, than enjoyment or pleasure. |
| Crank the shank | vb | To masturbate |
| Crank out | vb | To produce large volumes of work, energy, sound, vitality. |
| Crankpot | n | A mean, grouuchy, irritable, ill-tempered individual. 2. the skull, head. |
| Cranky | adj | Eccentric, odd, queer, strange, capricious. 2. irritable, tetchy, ill-tempered. |
| Crank(y)-hatch | n | A lunatic asylum, a psychiatric institution. |
| Craw | n | The stomach, maw, gut. |
| Craw | adj | Audacity, cheek, nerve |
| Crawsick | n | Suffering from a hangover. |
| Creep | n | An unpleasant person, often with the possible implication of pecularity or criminality. 2. a sneak thief. |
| Creep | vb | To rob stealthily, work as a sneak thief. 2. to meet clandestinely, usually that between two adulterous or cheating lovers. 3. to flirt, make sexual advances. 4. to go about one's business surreptitiously and quietly. 5. to sneak up on someone, to stalk some one malice to drive slowly in a car. |
| Creep away and die | phr | A cruel and painful dismissal and rejection. |
| Creeper | n | A toady, sycophant, one who curries favour. 2. a hack writer, pot-boiler, a penny-dreadful writer. 3. a sneak thief. 4. an adulterous or cheating lover. |
| Creepers | n. | Soft heeled shoes or sneakers, often worn by burglars. 2. the feet. |
| Creep-house | n | A brothel or low dive, esp. a rented boarding-house of ill-repute. |
| Creeping law | n | Robbery of homes in the suburbs by petty criminals. |
| Creep on | vb | To cheat, esp. sexually. 2. to sneak up from behind with the attention of attacjking someone. |
| Creeps | n | "The Creeps."—the feeling of foreboding or dread. 2. worry, perturbation, ill-at-easeness. |
| Creepshow | n | A horror show or horror movie. |
| Crib | n | A dwelling house, a house or living quarters, apartment. 2. a cheap brothel; a crib-house, a low saloon. 3. a prison cell; a narrw room. |
| Crib | n | A translation of a classic or other work in a foreign language, for the illegitimate use by students. 2. a cribsheet. |
| Crib | vb | To steal, take surreptitiously. 2. to with-hold, keep back, pinch or thieve a part of some money given or put asise for necesaries. 3. to cheat, take a copy of ( a passage, a piece of translation); to plagiarise. |
| Crib | vb | To live one's daily uneventful life. 2. to live at home or stay in a place. 3. to sleep, kip, forty winks, nap. |
| Cribber | n | One who cheats at exams or tests |
| Crib-biter | n | A complainer, grumbler, |
| Crib-house | n | A brothel, esp. an unsalubrious one. |
| Cribsheet | n | Translation of a classic or other work in a foreign laanguage, for the illegitimate use by students. |
| Crinkle | n | Paper money, crinkler. |
| Crinkle-top | n | A person with unstraight or curly hair. 2. a frizzle top. |
| Cripple cock | n | Brewer's drop. |
| Crock | n | The head. 2. silly talk, foolish belief, nonsense, weak excuse. |
| Crock | n | Injury or blow. 2. one who seems prone to injury and physical breakdown. 3. Useless, unpleasant event. |
| Crock | vb | To break down physically; become injured, hurt, damaged, disabled. 2. a broken down old horse. |
| Crockful | adj | Anything unpleasant, disgusting, repellent. |
| Crockwright | n | A doctor, quack, sawbones, kranker, leech, sometimes a psychologist, psychiatrist, psycotherapist, shrink. |
| Cropsick | adj | Sick and weary after a drinking bout; a hangover. |
| Cropper | n | A heavy fall. |
| Crotch | n | A woman seen purely as an extension of her sexuality. |
| Crow | n | A clergyman, a pastor, priest, minister. |
| Crow | n | An unattractive old woman, esp. an "old crow." 2. a prostitute who does not charge penniless soldiers for her services. |
| Crowburgh | n | Nickname for Adelaide, capital city of South Australia, based on nickname of Croweater: a name for South Australian and burg: town. |
| Croweater | n | A lazy knockabout who scrouges and scavenges and lives a subsistent existence. 2. a resident of South Australian. |
| Crowd | n | A group of people, a set, esp. pejoratively speaking: a "bad set." or a "rum lot." |
| Crowding | adv | Getting close to a stated age: "crowding fifty." |
| Crowd the mourner | phr | To intensify someone embarrassment; to add to someone's problems. 2. to act hastily, to act precipitiously. |
| Crow's feet | n | Wrinkles around the eyes. 2. illegible writing. |
| Crow's nest | n | A look-out. 2. a small room or penthouse at the top of a building. |
| Crumb | n | A filthy, dirty, disgusting, worthless, objectionable or insignificant person. 2. a cruel, vicious person. 3. one's savings. |
| Crumb-hunting | n | Housework, house-cleaning. domestic duties. |
| Crumb in | vb | To interfere, to butt in, esp to interfere in (and, possibly ruin) another confidence trickster's scam or scheme. |
| Crumbs | n | Small sums of money. 2. loose change. |
| Crummy | adj | Second-rate, inferior, stras. |
| Crutch | n | See crotch. |
| Cunning man | n | A confidence trickster, who uses spurious knowledge from astrology. |
| Cunning as a shit-house rat | phr | Very cunning, deceptive person. 2. Shifty as a shit-house rat. |
| Cupboard | n | The stomach. |
| Cupboardish | adj | Mean with money, tight-fisted; quality of one who locks his money away in a cupboard. |
| Cupboard love | n | Insincere love; however earnestly proclaimed: such love is dissplayed rather than felt. |
| Cupboardy | adj | Claustrophobic, stuffyy, enclosed, cloistered. |
| Cup-to-low | adj | One who remains silent until he has had, and needs a sufficient amount of strong drink to speak up. |
| Curse | n | "The Curse."—the menstrual period. |
| Anglish | sp | English |
| Daily | n | A newspaper: "A Daily." 2. a daily rag. |
| Daily-help | n | A charwoman; home-help; a daily-body. |
| Daisy | n | Anything particularly appealing. 2. very attractive woman; a foxy lady. 3. a bi-sexual male. |
| Daisy beaters | n | Feet, sometimes shoes. |
| Daisy roots | n | The feet; boots |
| Dark | adj | Aggressive, very serious of mood or mien. 2. unpleasant, unfriendly. |
| Dark horse | n | A competitor or candidate whose strength is not known or little known, especially when such a one wins a contest or an election; also a compromise candidate who is relatively unknown. 2. a racehorse about whose form little is known. |
| Dark house | n | An insane asylum. |
| Dark it | vb | The imperative: "dark it." meaning be quiet, keep quiet, shush, say nothing. |
| Darkman | n | A nightwatchman. |
| Darks | n | "The darks"—the night, night-time, evening, nocturnal hours. |
| Daylight | vb | "To let in some daylight."—to enlighten, elucidate, explain, bring clarity of a subject. |
| Daylight | n | The bare necessities of life, sustenance and substistence. |
| Daylight | phr | To separate things, esp. to separate oneself from someone or something disadvantageous. |
| Day one | n | The beginning, start, commencement. 2. long ago: lit. -- the first day ever; creation. |
| Day's dawning | n | Morning. |
| Dead | adj | Of a house: dilapidated, boarded-up uninhabited, empty, deserted. 2. of things, ideas, people: unfashionable, out-of-date, yesterday's mode. 3. very tired, beat, not startable. 4. ruined, destroyed. 5. dull, uninteresting, boring. 6. a sure thing, as in a certainty. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead as a doornail."—well and truly dead; completely dead. |
| Dead-alive | adj | Expressionless, zombie-like, miserable, unexciting, dull, gloomy, sad. |
| Deadbeat | n | Of persons: a failure; a down-and-outer, a vagrant, tramp, hobo. 2. malingerer, idler, bludger, sponger, a loafer, a moocher; a beggar who habitually gets money from others; one who doesn't pay his way. 3. of things: defective in operation, broken-down-ness, dilapidation. 4. in a worn-out state or exhaustion. |
| Deadbeat | vb | To cheat, waste, idle. |
| Dead cold sneak | n | An escape from prison by stealth |
| Dead duck | n | A totally, hopeless failure; a sitting target; a goner. 2. a hopeless person or a person in a hopeless situation, ruined and who has no chance (of success) |
| Dead easy | adj | Very easy. 2. said of a woman available for sexual intercourse. |
| Dead-end street | n | In a hopeless situation, with no possible way out of it. |
| Dead eye | vb | To stare in a chilling and fearsome manner. |
| Dead-fall | n | A rough and tough bar or dive; a low dive |
| Dead from the neck up | phr | One who is stupid, gormless, stultish, lacking mental alertness,dull, brain dead. |
| Dead-give-away | n | A complete betrayal. 2. a swindle, deception. 3. something that should be obvious in its deception, and is obvious to those not a victim to its deception, but not to the one being deceived. 4. an unmistakable and definitive clue. |
| Deadhead | n | A useless, worthless, lazy individual. 2. one who does not contribute; a non-participant. 3. one who receives goods and services without paying; a freeloader. 4. one who does not pay for theatre tickets. 5. one who rides on public transport without buying a ticket. |
| Dead Heart | n | The sparsely populated, desert region of central Australia. |
| Dead horse | n | Tomato sauce; ketchup (rhyming slang). 2. canned meat, such as corned beef |
| Dead house | n | A particularly unsalubrious, unappealing bar or hotel. |
| Deadie | n | Corpse, cadaver, deceasant, dead body. |
| Dead knowledge | n | Cunning, deceit, trickery, artifice. |
| Deadlihood | n | Lack of sustenance and support; absence of the means of maintaining life |
| Deadlock | n | A hospital treating those suffering from sexually-transmitted disease. |
| Dead loss | n | An absolutely useless person. 2. a deal or undertaking, pursuit interest that is futile and a waste of time. 3. an unprofitable, unproductive enterprise. |
| Deadly | adj | Boring, extremely tedious, dull. 2. dangerous, ruthless, harmful both physically and emotionally. |
| Deadly-lively | adj | Given to false or mock joviality. |
| Deadly nightshade | n | A low class hooker. |
| Deadman | n | A scarecrow. |
| Dead meat | n | A corpse, dead body, cadaver. 2. one facing certain death. 3. a stupid and dull person. 4. a sex worker, harlot. |
| Dead man's shoes | n | An unpleasant or dire situation which one would rather not faced, but must do so. |
| Dead's man shoes | phr | To wait for deadman's shoes: to await for the death of someone in the expectation of receiving his or her possessions. |
| Dead on | adj | Dealing immediately, often harshly or severely, with a situation or person. 2. absolutely right or correct, spot on. |
| Dead on one's feet | phr | Completely exhausted, extremely tired, worn out. |
| Dead pan | n | An without expression face; a non-smiling comic or funny-man. |
| Dead set | adj | Truly, right, correct. 2. great, first class, outstanding, excellent. |
| Dead set against | phr | Totally hostile towards. 2. in total opposition |
| Dead set on | adj | Infatuated with, in love in, obsessed with. |
| Dead spit | n | Of the same likeness, a double, spitting image of. |
| Dead time | n | A spell of killing time. 2. any time spent in prison when one is forbidden to mix with other inmates. 3. any time served in prison that does not actually go or count towards shortening one's sentence. |
| Dead wood | n | A coffin. 2. a useless, effetish, banal, backward person or thing. 2. no hope, possibility of progression or growth: only fit for cutting off or culling. |
| Deal | n | A portion, part, share or amount. 2. a financial or commercial transaction. 3. idea, scheme, an arrangement, current situation, esp. one involving sneaky or illegal going-ons. 3. treatment one has received, whether good or fair deal or a bad deal. 4. turn of events, development, state of play. 5. one's concerns or business. |
| Deal | vb | To peddle or sell drugs. 2. to bargain, make a bargain, conduct matters. |
| Dealer | n | Drug dealer, peddler, pusher. |
| Deal in dirt | vb | To spread gossip or scandal. 2. to initiate rumours. |
| Deal off the arm | phr | To serve at or wait on tables—to be a waiter. 2. to cheat by sleight of hand. |
| Deal someone in | phr | To take someone into a deal or give them a share in an undertaking, often one of a criminal nature. |
| Deal with | vb | To beat up; rough up; assault. |
| Dear stalker | n | Wealthy idler who likes to follow/and or ogle attractive young women. 2. one who stalks dears. |
| Death | n | Extremely fashionable - indeed, somewhat over the top- in dress: "dressed to death." |
| Death and Doughnut | phr | The night shift at any major hospital. |
| Death-adder | n | A sole prospector, living in a remote area and characterised by surliness, taciturnity and a general anti-social outlook. |
| Death-hunter | n | One who seeks and sells stories of interesting, sensational deaths to the press; an ambulance chaser. 2. an undertaker, mortician. 3. one who scavenges saleable items from battlefields. 4. a seller who prints speeches of the dying. |
| Death star | n | The ward in every major hospital where patients go to die: 'the eternal ward.' |
| Death wish | n | Physcoanalysis: an subconscious urge to die. 2. informally: a dangerous or stupid act that may bring about one death; e.g. driving dangerously. |
| Deep-freeze | n | An incaceratium, place of imprisonment, jail, a correction facility. 2. octracism. |
| Deep-sea fisherman | n | A confidence trickster, scammer working ocean-liners. |
| Deep shit | n | A serious situation, difficult problem: "in deep shit." |
| Deep six | n | The Deep Six: the grave, tomb, narrow house. |
| Death snow | n | Contaminated cocaine. |
| Deep throat | n | |
| Dell | n | A young woman on the tramp, esp a young prostitute. |
| Delve | vb | To work hard (lit to dig). |
| Dempster | vb | To die by hanging: to be dempstered. NB: dempster, the official whose duty it was to read aloud the sentence of death in open court. |
| Devil's books | n | Playing cards |
| Devil's snow | n | Dust, esp. in the form of a dust storm |
| Dew-beaters | n | Those who get early while the dew is still heavy on the grass. 2. the feet. |
| Dew-bit | n | A small amount of food take before breakfast; a dew-bite. |
| Dew-drops | n | Mucus. |
| Dew-drier | n | The sun. |
| Dew-dusters | n | The feet; dew-treaders. |
| Dig deep | phr | Exhortation to give or donate to a worthy cause |
| Diggings | n | A place of habitat; vicnity, home (also "digs") |
| Dim | n | "The Dim"- the evening, night, dusk. |
| Dim | adj | Unintelligent, undistinguished, unsatisfactory, disappointing, dull. |
| Dim and Bright | phr | The dim and bright—the night and day. |
| Dimwit | n | Fool, stult, unintelligent person. (see "Dipshit", "Shithead") |
| Din-dust | n | Clamour, resound, commotion, hub-bub, hullabaloo, vociferation. |
| Dip | n | A pickpocket. |
| Dip | phr | "Have a dip" - try to achieve something, have a go, make an attempt, endeavour. |
| Dip's one's lid | phr | To doff one's hat, esp. in fig use, i.e. to acknowledge respect, pay respect to a lady. |
| Dippy | adj | Dippy, crazy, eccentric, mildly insane. 2. obsessive in dealing with a person one is in love with. |
| Dipshit | n | An unintelligent person. (see "Dimwit", "Fucknugget", "Fuckwit", and "Shithead") |
| Dirt | n | Gossip, as in "Have you got any dirt on her." 2. Also the expression: "To dish the dirt." 3. gossip, scandal, rumour, tales. 4. obscenity, pornography, smut. 5. a scumbag, a despicable person, |
| Dirt cheap | adj | Extremely cheap, low in cost, bargainsome. |
| Dirty | adj | Resentful, bitter, grudging. |
| Dirty dog | n | An unpleasant person, with overtones of womanising. 2. a man who habitually mistreats women. 2. a man who cannot be trusted. |
| Dirty mind | phr | A head full of sexual, malicious and other reprenensible thoughts and fantasties. |
| Dirty old man | n | An older man whose sexual tastes (whether or not fulfilled) is towards younger lovers. 2. a lecherous man, esp. an elderly one. |
| Dirty weekend | n | A weekend spent either with one's lover (in the absence of one's spouse) or with one's spouse, but without one's children. |
| Dish | n | A very attractive or "dishy" woman. 2. an attractive person of either sex. |
| Dish bitch | n | (Pejorative) an employee of a restaurant who washes dishware, typically a minimum wage position where workers are not well-treated. 2. (pejorative) in journalism, reporters who appear via satellite connections, and correspondingly have to be close to their satellite dishes. |
| Dish-down | n | A disappointment. |
| Dish it out | phr | To hand out or subject another to blows, words or abuse. |
| Dishlicker | n | A dog. |
| Dish-queen | n | A homosexual. |
| Dishwater | n | Weak and inexpressive language; hackneyed phrases. |
| Dishy | adj | Attractive, sexy, pretty, a dish. |
| Ditch | n | "The Ditch"—The Atlantic Ocean. 2. a canal, such as The Suez or Panama. 3. The North Sea. |
| Ditch | n | An act of rejection, as in: " She ditched him for his best friend." 2. to break off a relationship with a partner, spouse or lover. |
| Ditch | n | The inside of the elbow, used by addicts or diabetics for the injection of drugs or medication. |
| Ditch | vb | Of people and objects: to throw away or dispense with. 2. to abandon. 3. to land one's aircraft in the sea or on a body of water. 3. to abandon someone when they are in trouble or in need of help, as in ditched. |
| Ditchweed | n | Wild marijuana; any inferior marijuana. |
| Ditch witch | n | An excavator, earth-digging machinery, tunnel-digger. |
| Ditz | n | A scatterbrain, usu. referring to a woman, idiot, fool. |
| Ditzy | adj | Eccentric, nervous, edgy. |
| Dive | n | A place of ill-repute, often "low dive."—such a place often is found in basement. 2. an illicit drinking place. 3. down-market place of entertainment. |
| Dizzy | adj | Completely head-over-heels or in love with a woman. 2. eccentric, crazy, loopy, mad. |
| Dizzy-o | adj | Somewhat intoxicate, drunkish. |
| Do | n | A do: a party, celebration, dinner- often formal. 2. "A big do": a lavish party. |
| Do | vb | Murder, kill, do in, assassinate. 2. of a man, to copulate with a woman. 3. defraud, cheat, swindle, do over |
| Do | vb | Visit, as in "do" Las Vegas. 2. attend, go to, as in see or attend a show. |
| Do | vb | To work, clean, repair, keep in working order. 2. spend time in prison, as in do life for murder. |
| Do | phr | "Do a line with" - to talk amorously and seductively in hope of gaining later favours, esp. sexual ones. |
| Do | phr | "Do all under one" - to do everything at one time. 2. to do things effectively and quickly. |
| Do | phr | "Do alright for oneself" - To succeed, gain favours, esp. of a man, in gaining sexual favours. 2. seduce, allure, win over. |
| Do | phr | "Do I have to spell it out"- to explain very patiently, carefully and simply with a sense of the derogation: for anyone with sufficient nouse to have understood already. 2. to explain, define, to spell out. |
| Do a shift | vb | To run off, leave quickly. 2. change one's mind. |
| Do a walk | phr | To abandon a project where one efforts have failed. 2. to abandon a farm when one's efforts have failed to make it pay. 3. to leave without paying. 4. to leave without paying for accommodation, meals or other services. |
| Do-do | n | Usu. dog's excrement, but also that of other animals. |
| Do down | vb | To cause trouble for or take advantage of someone, esp. financially by talking behind their backs in a derogatory or negative way about them personally or a matter they are involved in. 2. to talk down—see entry under "talk down." |
| Doe | n | A woman. 2. prostitute, hooker, ho, skank, harridan. 3. a sucker, a fool, a potential victim. |
| Doer | n | A person, often considered a little strange by others, who never gives up despite any circumstance, sometimes referred to as a "hard doer." |
| Doeskin | n | Money in notes. |
| Do for | vb | To take care of, to do house work and other domestic duties for. |
| Dog | n | Policeman, law officer, warder of a prison. 2. unattractive woman or man. 3. an offensive and abusive man. 4. a stool pigeon, lag, snitch, esp. one who lags on fellow prisoners. 5. treacherer, a mean piece of works. 6. ostentatiousness (put on the dog), showiness, style, affected or pretentious. |
| Dog | n | To nag, pursue, harass, pester, mistreat, criticise. 2. to shirk obligations and responsibilities. |
| Dog along | vb | To manage, subsist, eke out, survive. |
| Dog away one's time | phr | Waste time, idle about, loaf, drift. |
| Dog-box | n | Any small cramped dwelling, room or living quarters. |
| Dog's breakfast | n | A mess, scattered and strewn all over the place. |
| Dog's breath | n | Haliotosis, bad breath. 2. one who has bad breath. 3. an offensive person. |
| Dog days | n | An unpropitious period, a period in which malignant influences prevail, an evil time. 2. the rising of the Dog Star. |
| Dog-end | n | A cigarette butt, the last small part of a smoke. |
| Dog-eye | n | A sidewards glance, usu. aggressive and unfriendly. a sideways glance at somebody. |
| Dog fight | n | A battle between military aircraft. 2. a fist fight, a brawl. 3. an event or occasion considered rough and nasty, such as an illegal dog fight. |
| Dog food | n | Any type or form of meat in a can. 2. a bribe paid to a corrupt policeman. |
| Dogger | n | One who hunts wild dogs (and wild horses). 2. a dog-stiffener. |
| Dogging | n | The act of one who hounds and pursues others for various reasons. |
| Doggish | adj | Obsessed with sex. |
| Doggy | adj | Fasionable, chic, ostentatious. |
| Doghouse | n | Any place a displeased wife banishes her husband to. 2. a country prison. 3. a solitary-confinement cell. |
| Dog it | vb | To shirk, waste time, hang back, loaf, gib it, run away. 2. to dawdle, go slow, shuffle. 3. malinger, act lazily. 4. to act weakly, to be a loser, to lack spirit. |
| Dog-knotted | adj | |
| Dog-leech | n | A veterinary doctor or surgeon; a vet. |
| Do-gooder | n | A theoretically well-intentioned but often interfering and controlling person, concerned with others problems, but lacking any real knowledge or know-how to fix them. |
| Do gospel | n | To go to church. |
| Dog out | vb | To intimidate. 2. abuse, attack. 3. to keep a look out. 4. to betray, to neglect, to treat with disrespect. |
| Dogsbody | n | A person who is at the beck and call of another or others, is left to attend to all the everyday, often humdrum tasks and is treated with total disrespect and disdain. 2. Any member of an organisation who takes on all the menial and tedious tasks, working often for any person senior as a menial lowly pawn. |
| Dogs in the street | phr | Eveyone in the world; everyone. |
| Dog's life | n | An unhappy life, a hard and arduous life. 2. an unhappy marriage, from a male's perspective. |
| Dog's show | n | A dog's chance; a dog's life: no chance or hope at all. |
| Dog-stiffener | n | Professional dog hunter. |
| Dog town | n | An out-of-the-way or small township. 2. a sleepy hollow; a dog's hollow. |
| Dog-towner | n | A citizen of a small town or hamlet. 2. An out-of-town, away from a theatre in a metropolis, often used to try out a new show before they bring it in a major city. |
| Dog's work | n | Dull, menial tasks or work. |
| Do I have to spell it out | phr | To explain very patiently, carefully and simply with a sense of the derogation: for anyone with sufficient nouse to have understood already. 2. to explain, define, to spell out. |
| Do in | vb | To kill, murder, snuff out. 2. ruin, destroy, humiliate. |
| Doings | n | Things that better the trappings or embellishments of something. 2. anything which the exact name cannot be recalled. 3. an act, action, dealing, business transaction. |
| Do it standing on one's head | phr | Do something quickly and very easily. |
| Do it up | vb | To succeed, bring something to a successful conclusion. |
| Do-less | adj | Lazy, lethargic, can't be bothered, shiftless. |
| Do-little | n | A loafer, bludger, lazy-bones, idler. |
| Done deal | n | Anything brought to a successful or satisfactory conclusion. |
| Done for | adj | Beaten up, bashed, assaulted. 2. defeated, abandoned to hopelessness; without a chance. 3. dying, mortally wounded, moribund, done in. 4. finished, exhausted, used up, tired out, done in. |
| Done over | vb | Beaten up, assaulted, bashed. 2. killed, murdered, assassinated. 3. of a woman, used for sexual purposes. 4. put at a disadvantage, force in a disagreement into a position of loss or undesired outcome. |
| Doner | n | A goner: one who is ruined or on the verge of collapse. |
| Done thing | n | What is currently accepted by a specific group of people. |
| Done to death | phr | Overfashionable, clichéd, hackneyed. |
| Done to the world | phr | Defeated, vanquished, beaten, done for. |
| Done up | vb | Dressed up, overdress, flashily dressed. 2. "done up like a sore toe." |
| Don't ask me | phr | Statement of lack of knowledge or interest in a matter. |
| Don't be like that | phr | Don't be so difficult, petulant or unreasonable. |
| Don't-care-ishness | n | Indifference, uninterestness. |
| Don't do anything I wouldn't do | phr | Exhortation to someone leaving, esp. on holiday or in search of anything similar |
| Don't give me that | phr | |
| Don't hold your breath | phr | |
| Don't I know | phr | Implying one slightly regretful awareness of a bad situation or an unpalatable truth. |
| Don't speak all at once | phr | Used when one has called unsuccessfully for volunteers. |
| Don't strain yourself | phr | |
| Doomie | n | A rebellious teenager with a criminal tendency, perhaps a record for petty crimes, likely to become a problem too society as an adult. |
| Do one's bit | phr | Make a contribution to a common good or goal. |
| Do one's dirty work | phr | Carry out unpleasant work or tasks on behalf of another. 2. be someone's dogsbody. |
| Do oneself in | vb | To kill oneself, commit suicide. |
| Do oneself well | phr | To do what is good or beneficial for one's own comfort and well-being. |
| Do one's own thing | phr | To behave as dictated by one's own personal beliefs, wishes, concerns. 2. to enjoy oneself to the full. |
| Do one's stuff | phr | To play or perform well; to show off a talent or a skill. 2. to do what is expected of one |
| Door knock | vb | Conduct a door-to-door appeal to raise money for charity. 2. to sell a particular product or service door to door. |
| Do over | vb | To cheat, swindle, defraud. 2. assault, beat up, rain blows upon. |
| Door-stop child | n | An illegitimate child or child born out of wedlock traditionally abandoned on a doorstep, often of a church. |
| Do-right folk | n | Law-abiding, honest, decent people. |
| Do-right man | n | A conformist, esp. one who strictly obeys the laws and rules of society and its institutions. |
| Do someone blind | vb | To cheat, swindle, defaud someone. |
| Dot | vb | To punch someone, esp. in the eye. |
| Do the deed | vb | Have sexual intercourse, copulate. |
| Do the drag | phr | To loiter on the main street |
| Do time | phr | To serve a prison sentence. 2. spend time in jail. |
| Dough | n | Money. |
| Dough brain | n | Fool, half-wit, stult. |
| Doughnut | n | The action of spinning the wheels of a car |
| Doughnut of Death | phr | A 'CT' scanner. |
| Down | vb | To have a down on, or dislike for somebody. 2. to tend to be unkind towards someome. 3. to be tough or hard on someone. 4. to denigrate, put down, blacken. |
| Down | n | Depression, despondency, dismality. 2. a bout of depression or a dismal time. 3. the dolefuls. |
| Down | adj | Depressed, low in spirit, dismal, downer-struck, doleful. |
| Down and dirty | phr | Ethically unrestrained, without rue, ruthless. |
| Down and out | phr | Homeless, abodeless, destitute, vagrant-way, vagabond-like, wandering. |
| Downblow | n | A disaster, catastrophe, setback. |
| Downer | n | Tranquiliser, strong sedative. 2. a depressive bout, bout of the blues, the blues, the dolefuls, the black dog. 3. a depressing, worrying situation. |
| Down-head | n | Regular user of anti-depressant drugs. |
| Down-home | adj | A strong yearning and nostalgia for one's home and home town. |
| Down-homer | n | A friend from one's home town, usu. in the context of owe's new life in a big city. |
| Down in the mouth | phr | Discouraged, disgruntle, down in the dumps. |
| Down low | adj | Covert, secret, clandestine. |
| Down mouth | vb | To attack verbally, slander, lambaste. |
| Down on | vb | To be down on: annoyed with, disappointed in, hold a negative opininion of. |
| Down on one's knuckles | phr | Down on the knucklebone: in poverty, hard up, needy. |
| Downshire | n | The female pubic region. |
| Down the road | phr | In the future. 2. going forward. |
| Down the sink | phr | Wasted, lost, abandoned. |
| Down yonder | phr | Down south, as "Way down yonder in New Orleans. 2.faraway |
| Do you mind | phr | Implying one's displeasure, dissatisfaction in other person's manner, action and speech, the implication is whether or not they mind, you certainly do. |
| Drag | n | A situation tedious and drawn out. 2. a job or task no-one wants to do. 3. the street. 4. of a person: a nuisance. 5. a disappointment, a pity, an annoyance. |
| Drag | n | "Jn drag"—clothes, apparel. 2. a cigarette, a smoke. the action of puffing on a cigarette. |
| Drag ass | n | Of a thing: tedious, drawn out. 2. of a person: lazy, bedraggled, annoying, irritating. |
| Dragged up | adj | Under-educated, ignorant, poorly reared or brought up. |
| Dragging wagon | n | Powerful and very fast car. |
| Dragnet | n | A drawn out and wholesale pursuit by police. |
| Drag one's feet | phr | To shirk, make less than a good effort, perhaps deliberately and underhandedly. 2. do less than energetically. |
| Drag one's tail | phr | To mope around. to look unhappy and miserable. 2. to work sluggish, loaf. 3. |
| Drag queen | n | A male homosexual who enjoys dressing like a woman. 2. a male homosexual who effects pronounced homosexual behaviour. |
| Drag weed | n | Marijuana |
| Drain | n | The throat, the gullet, the oesophagus. |
| Drain pipes | n | Pasta, spaghetti. |
| Drawback | n | A disadvantage. |
| Draw first blood | phr | To score or succeed in a game, contest or life generally |
| Draw iron | vb | To pull out a pistol or gun. |
| Draw out | vb | To elicit information. |
| Draw the line | phr | To set a limit, often moral, beyond which one or will not or should not go (draw a line in the sand.) |
| Draw water | vb | To weep. |
| Dread | adj | Of a situation -positively and negatively, serious, grave, important. |
| Dreadful | n | A sensationally penned "true crime" or scandalous story, a penny dreadful, penny awful, pot-boiler. |
| Dreadnought | n | A fearsome and powerfully weaponed ship. 2. a powerful and mighty person or thing. |
| Drecky | adj | Second-rate, trashy, dirty, strassy. |
| Dress down | phr | Castigate, correct, |
| Drift | vb | To leave, go away slowly and aimlessly. 2. to neglect matters by letting them drift from your mind. |
| Drink | n | "The Drink."—ocean, sea. |
| Drink like a fish | phr | To drink heavily and frequently. |
| Drive up the wall | phr | To infuriate, annoy others intensely. |
| Driving stealth | phr | Not displaying on your any bumper stickers, indicating your political, sporting or social affiliations |
| Drizzle | n | Nonsense, empty, idle chatter. |
| Drone | n | A tedious, annoying, extremely irritating person. 2. displaying a slow, drawling, tonelss voice or speech pattern. |
| Droned | adj | Drunk and stoned. |
| Drop | vb | To abandon a friendship, to snob. 2. to lose money, usu. gambling. 3. to shot and kill. 4. to knock down by a blow. 5. to become aware of; drop onto, to gain knowledge of, as in the penny drops. |
| Drop a line | vb | to send a letter. |
| Drop away | vb | To give, lose or part with something. 2. to lose interest or passion for. |
| Drop down on oneself | phr | To feel depressed, esp. if the prospect of a solution to your problem is unlikely. 2. to sink beneath one's problems. 3. to struggle to solve one's problems or difficulties. |
| Drop-in | n | An unexpected or casual visit. 2. a visitor. 3. a place or function one may visit without prior engagement. |
| Drop it | excl | Change the subject. |
| Drop knowledge | vb | To demonstrate one wealth of knowledge, wisdom and learning. |
| Drop off the twig | phr | to die, pass away, drop off, drop one's leaf, slip off the planet. |
| Drop one's leaf | phr | to die, pass away, drop off the twig, drop off. (autumnal imagery of the falling leaves of autumn). |
| Drop onto | vb | To become aware. 2. to accuse by becoming aware. |
| Drop out | n | A dull boring person. 2. one who fails to finish or graduate from college or university. |
| Dropper | n | A paid-killer, assassin, hitman |
| Dropper-inner | n | A person who drops in, especially one who has a habit of doing so. |
| Drop someone into it | phr | To put somebody into difficulties. 2. snitch, inform, lag. |
| Drop the apple | phr | An earth-shaking event, as the apple in the Garden of Eden. |
| Drop top | n | Convertible, soft-topped motor car. |
| Drop words | vb | To utter veiled insults or sarcastic commemts. |
| Drought | n | A long period without sexual intercourse or even a date. |
| Drover's dog | n | A useless or insignificant person. |
| Drown one's sorrow | phr | To drink intoxicating liquor in large quantity to ease one's emotional pain and sufferings |
| Drown the miller | phr | To water down the alcoholic strength of beer. |
| Dry | n | A dry: one who is opposed to the sale of intoxicating liquor. 2. rechabite; wowser. |
| Druthers | phr | (I'd rather): an alternative choice, preference, esp. in the phrase: "to gain one's druthers"—to gain one's preference. |
| Dry | n | "The Dry"—season of little rain or drought in Northern Australia. |
| Dry | n | "A Dry"—a prohibitionist: one wants the sale and consumption of alcohol banned. |
| Dry behind the ears | phr | Mature, grown up, experienced, sophisticated; as opposed to "Wet behind the ears |
| Dry goods | n | Clothing, items of drapery, haberdashery etc. |
| Dry high | n | Cannabis, something dry and smoked; as opposed to liquor wet and imbibed. |
| Dry out | vb | To recover from alcoholism and drug dependency. |
| Dry run | n | A test, rehearsal, |
| Dry up | vb | To stop talking. 2. to refuse to give information to the police, to refuse to snitch, or lag. |
| Dub | n | A piece o graffiti |
| Duck out | vb | To leave quietly, back out withdraw. 2. make off, abscond. 3. to default on, to avoid. |
| Duck shoving | n | To use unfair practices in business, politics and life, like a duck-shover. |
| Ducky | adj | Sweet, delightful, charming. 2. excellent, outstanding |
| Dumb-bell | n | A stult, stupid person, fool, dumb-head, dumbwit, dummy, dumb-ox. |
| Dumb it down | phr | To make a matter less subtle and more obvious |
| Dumbness | adj | Stupidity. |
| Dummy | n | A mute; a person who is slow and mentally inert, a pretended faint |
| Dummy spit | n | A tantrum, an act of pique. |
| Dung-heapish | adj | Rather low in the food chain, pecking order; often living or scrounging the city's tips in order to survive. |
| Dust | vb | To kill, murder, destroy, defeat, dust off. 2. take out, hit, ice, rub out. 3. to rush off, leave fast, abandon. 4. to deceive, to tease, hoax. |
| Dustbin | n | The grave, tomb, narrow-house. |
| Dust devil | n | Whirlwind, twister; loosely a 'tornado. |
| Dusted | adj | Ruined, utterly exhausted, worn out, completely defeated. |
| Dusting | n | A beating, thrashing, |
| Dust it | vb | To leave quickly, abscond, run off, rush off. |
| Dustman | n | A dustman: a corpse, cadaver, dead body, deceasant. |
| Dustman | n | Sleep personified, thus soothing sleep. 2. the sandman: the sweet dream giver; note the phrase -- "the dustman's coming." 3. an energetic, fanatical preacher who thumps the pulpit so hard that he raises dust. |
| Dustman's bell | n | The bell that signals bedtime for children. |
| Dustiness | n | The physical degeneration of the body as one grows older. |
| Dust off | vb | Make yourself aware of your current circumstance or situation, as in "sit yourself down, dust yourself off, start all over again." 2. to reject, snub. 3. kill, murder, take out. |
| Dust the eyes | phr | "Throw dust in someone's eyes. 2. to befuddle, bamboozle, confuse, disorientate. |
| Dust the floor with | phr | To thrash, beat up, hit hard. 2. defeat, humiliate, insult, belittle. 3. "throw dust in someone's eyes. |
| Dust the sidewalk with | phr | To beat thoroughly, to defeat comprehensively. |
| Dust up | n | A fight, brawl, donnybrook, ruckus. |
| Dusty | n | A very old person. 2. a geriatric. 3. physical degeneration of the body; dustiness |
| Dusty | phr | "Go a bit dusty on me." - cry poor, complain of one's meagre or insufficient means. |
| Dusty | adj | Tough and rugged, dangerous. 2. tetchy, irritable, irascible, out of sorts. 3. unclear, unable to see or predict future events. |
| Dusty bread | n | A conventional, conservative woman. |
| Anglish | sp | English |
| Ice maiden | n. | A very cold and composed woman. |
| I mean and how | phr | That is absolutely true |
| In a walk | phr | Easily; by a wide margin |
| Inching along | phr | Progressing slowly but steadily |
| In-on | adj | Involved with; privy to; part of |
| In sour | phr | In disfavor; disliked |
| Insider | n | A person who has secret information; a member of the 'Inner sanctum' of an organisation |
| In the black | phr | In profit, in good financial shape |
| In the dark | phr | Ignorant, uninformed, as in "Let's keep him in the dark |
| In the know | phr | Having inside information; knowing secrets |
| In the red | phr | In debt, in financial diifficulty |
| In the running | phr | Among the chief contenders; having a good chance to win |
| In the spotlight | phr | Leading, prominent, outstanding. "In the limelght" is a variant |
| In the swim | phr | In the contest, in the race |
| Iron house | n | A jail, prison |
| It's a go | phr | A bargain, an agreement, a deal. 2. it's a success. |
| It's all go | phr | Everything is full on, energetically undertaken. |
| Ittishness | n | Sexual attractiveness |
| Itty | adj | Sexually attractive |
| Anglish | sp | English |
| Hack | n | An attempt, try, endeavor. OE: to chop, cut or cut into or through crudely. |
| Hack | vb | To annoy, irritate. |
| Hack | vb | To tinker with a computer system for pleasure and proof of one's expertise. 2. to gain unauthorised access to a computer system usually for illegal purposes. |
| Hacker | n | An enthusiast for using computers as an end in itself. 2. one who uses their computer skills to try to gain unauthorized access to computer systems |
| Hacking | n | The use of computers for pleasure. 2. the unauthorized access of computer systems. |
| Hack it | vb | To manage, to tolerate, to bear or cut through a difficulty, solve or work out a problem. |
| Hack it out | phr | To work out a problem, devise a plan. |
| Hackle | n | Courage, pluck, bravery;show a hackle: be willing to stand and fight. |
| Hackles | n | Whiskers. |
| Hair-monger | n | A womanizer. |
| Half-baked | adj | Hastily prepared, inadequate, incomplete, inchoate |
| Hand it to s.o. | phr | Acknowledge someone's ability or superiority; admit defeat |
| Handle | n | A name; one's name. |
| Hand-me-downs | n. | Second hand clothes |
| Hand over fist | phr | Rapidly, readily |
| Hand-picked | adj | First-class, choice, select |
| Handy wagon | n | A police car, esp. a patrol car |
| Hangout | n | A crooks' rendezvous or hideout |
| Hangover | n | The after-effectsof alcohol |
| Hang-up | n | An emotional concern or problem |
| Hard-nosed | adj | Stubborn |
| Hardware | n | Weapons, firearms |
| Has-been | n | One once successful, but now waning in skills and ability |
| Hatched-up | phr | Invented, concoct or devise, but often not factual |
| Have a go | phr | To try, endeavor, attempt. |
| Have a go at | phr | To attack verbally and physically. |
| Have a go | phr | To take a turn, have a spell at. |
| Have a go at someone | phr | To confront, criticise, insult. |
| Have the drop on | phr | To have an advantage oover another person |
| Have the edge | phr | To be superior or to be rated superior |
| Have the goods | phr | To be well qualified or competent; to have the ability. |
| Have the goods on | phr | To be in possession of incriminating evidence |
| Hayburner | n | A horse |
| Hayhooks | n | Fists |
| Haymaker | n | A knockout punch |
| Hayshaker | n | A farmer |
| Haywire | v | To go haywire: to be botched, inefficient |
| Head into | phr | Begin, commence, start, undertake |
| Headlights | n | The eyes. 2.The breasts |
| Headliner | n | A prominent person, a celebrity, a leading event |
| Hear-tell | n | Gossip, hearsay, chatter. |
| Heart-knifer | n | A person who refuses to accept proffered affection |
| Heady | adj | Intoxicated |
| Heat | n | Trouble; near to trouble. |
| Heaven-born | n | "The Heaven-born" - the rulers and leaders of the Indian civil service during British rule. |
| Heaven reacher | n | Preacher; evangelist, reverend, priest. |
| Heaven's dust | n | Cocaine |
| Heavyweight | n | An important person, an able person |
| He-blooded | adj | Strong; robust; virile |
| Heel | n | A person who informs against another or betrays him; a lag; a grass; also a petty thief |
| Hefty | adj | Weighty, strong, powerful, heavy or muscular person. |
| Hell-bent | adj | Determined, insistent, set, as in "He is hellbent on finishing first." 2. Direct and rapidly, as in "He is hell-bent for Melbourne." |
| Hell sticks | n | Matches |
| Hell wind | n | A tornado |
| He-man | n | A well-built man with plenty of sex appeal; virile and strong |
| Hen-headed | adj | Brainless, stupid, half-wittish |
| Herder | n | A prison guard |
| Het up | phr | Angry, annoyed |
| He-whore | n | A male sex-worker. |
| He would | Excl | That is just like him; that is the kind of person he is. Expresses disgust |
| Hide out | n | A place of hiding |
| Hide out on one | phr | To keep a secret from someone |
| Hiding | n | A defeat; a great defeat |
| High | adj | Under the influence of drugs |
| Highbrow | n | An aristocrat; a learned person; a person who thinks he is superior to his fellows or gives the impression he thinks so. |
| Higher up | phr | An official; an officer; any superior in an organisation. |
| High-flying | adj | Pretentious; arrogant |
| High horse | n | Conceit, arrogance, formality |
| High-line | adj | High priced merchandise |
| High-stepper | n | A proud person; a person who lives extravagantly; a dissapator |
| High-strikes | n | Hysterics |
| Hit his stride | phr | To play well; to improve as the game progresses |
| Hit it off | phr | To agree; to get along well together. |
| Hit the books | phr | To study |
| Hit the hay | phr | To go to bed; go to sleep |
| Hit the grit | phr | To go on foot |
| Hit the high spots | phr | To travel rapidly; to skim over rapidly. |
| Hit the hot spots | phr | To play in the large cities |
| Hoary-eyed | aj | Intoxicated, drunk |
| Hold everything | phr | To refrain; to wait a minute |
| Hold out | phr | To with hold loot or information; money withheld in the division of loot; a gambler device for cheating |
| Hold your horses | phr | Do not be impatient; do not act hastily; restrain yourself |
| Hole | n | A cell |
| Hole in the road | phr | A village, townlet, stopover |
| Holy cow | excl | A sacrosanct condition |
| Holy deadlock | n | An unhappy marriage |
| Home brew | n | Liquor distilled at home |
| Home stretch | n | The last part of the task; the final period of time. |
| Honey | n | A honey is a sweet and loveable girl; also an very attractive one. |
| Honeyman | n | A man kept by a woman |
| Hood | n | A criminal |
| Hoodrat | n | A sexually promiscuous girl. |
| Hooker | n | A prostitute, street-walker, sex worker, strumpet |
| Hook up with | phr | Become friendly with; become romantically attached to |
| Hopperclod | n | A clumsy, awkward person; a clodhopper |
| Horn in | phr | To crowd in where one is not wanted; to interfere in the affairs of others. |
| Horsefeathers | n | Nonsense; buncombe, idiotic talk. |
| Hot | adj | As in she's "hot" meaning attractive and very sexy |
| Hotfoot it | phr | To walk or travel rapidly; to hasten; leave in a hurry |
| Hot goods | n | Stolen goods |
| Hot slough | n | A residence where people are at home |
| Hot tongue | n | A passionate female |
| Hot water | n | Trouble, difficulty, |
| Hot wife | n | A married female swinger who has sexual intercourse with men other than her husband, with the husband's approval. |
| Hot wire | n | Good news; late information |
| Hot wire | v | To start a car by crossing the wires |
| Hurdle | n | A difficulty, an obstacle |
| Anglish | sp. | English |
| Lady bird | n | A kept mistress |
| Lady fingers | n | Fists |
| Lady's-man | n | A man who pursues and otherwise devotes himself to women, a lady's man, to an unusual degree. |
| Lamb | n | A gullible victim. |
| Lame brain | phr | A dull or stupid person |
| Lame duck | phr | A politician in office ho has been defeated for re-election. 2. on the Stock Exchange a person who is unable to fulfill his own engagements. 3. In business a person whose credit is no good. 4. A vulnerable person in general |
| Land | vb | To get, secure or obtain a contract, job, position; to succeed in general. |
| Landslide | n | An overwhelming victory or defeat, esp. in apolitical election |
| Landlookers | n | Pioneer settlers |
| Last brightening | phr | Yesterday morning |
| Lather | n | Angry mood; indignation |
| Lay off | phr | Cease to; to keep quiet; to dismiss or let go |
| Lay out | phr | To knock unconscious |
| Lead-in man | n | Initiator, one who commences or starts up something. |
| Lead spitter | n | A revolver, a gun |
| Leaf | n | Autumn |
| Learn the ropes | phr | To become informed concerning the proper procedures |
| Leatherhead | n | A stupid person |
| Leatherneck | n | An uncouth person |
| Leave it up to | phr | Turn it over to; make another person responsible, as in "I leave that up to you." |
| Led by the nose | phr | Influenced to one's own disadvantage; controlled by another; subject or subordinate to another. |
| Left-handed thinker | phr | A person who has peculiar ideas; one who is mentally unbalanced. NB: the bias against left-handers during the 1930s when this term was coined. |
| Left-handed wife | phr | A concubine |
| Left-minded | adj | Peculiar; odd; queer |
| Left-winger | n | A person who has liberal or radical views |
| Let him down | phr | To take the conceit out of a person. |
| Let on | phr | To divulge; reveal, disclose, leak |
| Let one's hair down | phr | To party and celebrate boisterously. |
| Let slide | phr | To cease caring. |
| Lick finger | n | A cook, chef. |
| Licking | n | A defeat |
| Lie low | phr | To be intentionally inconspicuous; to avoid exposing oneself to attack. |
| Lift | vb | To plagiarize |
| Lightweight | n | A person of mediocre ability. |
| Likes of/"The likes of" | phr | Such (a person) as, often used in a pejorative context, e.g.," Why should he suffer for the likes of you." |
| Limber up | phr | To indulge in a little exercise preliminary to a game or contest |
| Line the inside | phr | To eat |
| Lip | n | Talk, especially or unpleasant talk; to talk in such a manner. 2. a lawyer |
| Lispers | n | The teeth |
| Little shot | n | An unimportant person. |
| Live stock | n | Prostitutes |
| Live wire | phr | An active and aggressive person. |
| Loaded for bear | phr | Well supplied with facts; well qualified; indignant |
| Lock horns | phr | To engage in a contest; to debate; to disagree |
| Long shot | phr | A horse, athlete or participant who chances of winning are remote |
| Long timer | n | A prisoner who has a long time to serve |
| Looksee | n | A view, glimpse |
| Lose by a whisker | phr | To be defeated by a narrow margin |
| Losing-streak | n | Menstruation. |
| Love-glove | n | A condom. |
| Love nest | n | The home of a newly married couple; a place (usu. an apartment) used for amorous and often illicit rendezvous, often by a man and his mistress |
| Lowbrow | n | An unintelligent person; an uneducated person; a vulgar person; a person from a lower socioeconomic position |
| Lowdown | n | True facts; the truth; correct information. 2. the emotional excitement simulated by blues songs. |
| Anglish | sp. | English |
| Keep a stiff upper lip | phr | To keep up one's courage and self-confidence |
| Keep in step | phr | Remain in touch or au fait with the circiumstances or situation |
| Keep one's eyes peeled | phr | To watch closely; to be observant, alert, aware. (peel= skinned, as 'keep one's eyes skinned'. |
| Keep one's shirt on | phr | To avoid excitement; to retain self-control |
| King pin | n | The most important person in an organisation; the most prominent person in the group; a boss, chief, head |
| Kisser | n | The mouth |
| Kitchen-goddess | n | A celebrity female chef, who usually achieves very high television and media rating. |
| Knee-high to a grasshopper | phr | Very small; insignificant |
| Knife | vb | To use unfair methods to betray, trick or disadvantage a person, as in " He knife his friend in the back (fig) |
| Knock | vb | To find fault; to object, to complain. One who does this is a knocker |
| Knock | phr | "On the Knock" - to be friendly with |
| Knock | phr | "To Have the Knock" - to havre the right of entry. |
| Knock-down | n | An introduction. |
| Knocked down | phr | Sold, esp.at auction |
| Knock off | vb | To have sex with. 2. to kill. |
| Knockout | n | A great success; a very beautiful looking girl or woman |
| Knock over | phr | To raid; to arrest |
| Knockout-drops | n | A very strong sedative, often illicit drugs; strong intoxicating liquor |
| Know- it-all | n. | A person who pretends to virtual omniscience. |
| Knowledge box | n | A school or similar educational facility. 2. the head |
| Know one's stuff | phr | To be well qualified or knowledgeable in one's work or profession |
| Anglish | sp. | English |
| Make a beeline | phr | To go by the most direct way; to proceed by the most direct method. |
| Make a go | phr. | To succeed, make a go of it -to have or achieve a positive outcome. |
| Make a hit | phr | To be well received; to gain favour |
| Make good | phr | To succeed in a particular undertaking or in general. |
| Make no bones about | phr | To be frank and candid |
| Manywheres | adv | Many places |
| Maw | n | The mouth |
| Mealy-mouthed | adj | Insincere in speech; hypocritical; speaking honeyed words that are not truly meant |
| Me and you both | phr | I agree with you both |
| Meet up with | phr | To meet a person by chance |
| Melt | n | Loot that may be melted own, such as jewelry; precious metal in bulk |
| Merrymake | vb | To make merry |
| Middlebrow | n | An average person, neither highbrow or lowbrow. |
| Milestone-monger | n | A professional tramp, swagman. |
| Milk-shake duck | n | A person or thing initially inspires delight on social media but is soon revealed to have a distasteful or repugnant past. |
| Mill | n | A free-for-all fight; to gather about; to ramble. 2. "To be put through the mill" meaning the third degree. 3. Jail. |
| Mint leaves | n | Paper money. |
| Miswave | n | To return a wave to someone you think is waving to you, but is actually waving to the person behind you, usually resulting in embarrassment and introversion. |
| Moonhead | n | Silly person, lunatic. |
| Morning wood | n | Morning wood is one of several similar slang or colloquial terms referring to the phenomenon of nocturnal penile tumescence (erection) during and immediately following sleep. |
| Moss | n | Anything considered old fashioned. |
| Mossback | n | An old-fashione person, a conservative. |
| Moth-eaten | adj | Antiquated; old fashioned |
| Mother's milk | n | Propofol (Diprivan) slows the activity of one's brain and nervous system. It is milky in appearance and is used to help one's relax before and during general anesthesia for surgery or other medical procedures. Also known as "Sweet's Milk" |
| Mouldy | adj | Old fashioned; worthless |
| Mourner bench | n | A railing at a revival meeting where seekers after salvation kneel; |
| Mouthwork without headwork | phr | The repitition of trite and hackneyed expressions |
| Mouthy | adj | alkative, boastful |
| Anglish | sp | English |
| Gallow-grass | n | Hemp for the hangman's rope. |
| Gallowness | n | Mischief, perversity. |
| Gallows | adv | Extremely, used as intensifier or emphasis. |
| Gallows-apple | n | Candidate for the gallows |
| Gallows-bird | n | A thief or pickpocket or one who associates with them. 2. the corpse of one who has been hanged. |
| Gallows-good | adj | Anything considered so bad or useless as to be fit only for the gallows. |
| Gallows-looking | adj | Fit for the gallows, having a run-down, hang-dog, shifty look. 2. a calling, piece of business, interest |
| Gallstone | n | An irritating person. |
| Game | n | A group of prostitutes, esp. in a brothel. 2. the world of prostitution, "on the game." |
| Game | n | An amusing incident, piece of fun, a lark (what's your game). 2. benefits or gains what, while illegally obtained, are seen as worth the poor reputation such actions might engender, thus "have the game without the name." 4. a state, an affair. 5. any attempt to manipulate humanity for one own's ends, usually financial ones. |
| Game | n | A fool, a simpleton, esp. a victim (fair game). |
| Game | n | ("The Game"): an occupation, differing as from the group concerned, as lovers: sexual intercourse; for sportsman: cock-fighting; for criminals: robbery; sailors: slave-trading; and for prostitutes: commercial sex. |
| Game | n | "The Game" - the sophiscates, street-wise person's lifestyle. 2. prostitution and or pimping. 3. deception, trickery. |
| Game | vb | To manipulate humanity for one own's ends, usually financial ones. |
| Game | adj | Criminal or associated with the underworld, thus "a game woman" = promiscuous, shanky. 2. cunning, villainous. |
| Game as a meat ant | phr | Very brave. 2. enthusiastic, keen. |
| Gamecock | n | Womaniser, philanderer. |
| Game on | excl | Exclamation of excitement or anticipation, usually about a possible sexual conquest or when a night out or a drinking session is arranged. 2. an exclamation of triumph as having sorted sorted out initial arrangemaents. |
| Game room | n | In sado-masochistic sex, a torture chamber. |
| Gander | n | A husband, a man or husband who is a way from home, a grass widow. 2. a dandy, fop. |
| Gander | n | A gander: a glance, a look at, a close look or look intently, scrutiny. 2. a criminal look-out(his neck stretched out like a goose or gander.) |
| Gander | vb | To take a look, survey. |
| Gander-gut | n | One who is tall, thin and awkward. 2. scrawny. 3. gander-gutted. |
| Gander-month | n | The period immediately following childbirth: during this time it was considered for the amn temporarily to abandon his domestic fidelity; thus "gander-mooner" - a man enjoying this privilege. |
| Gander-neck | vb | To look, to look at, look intently at. |
| Gander-shanks | adj | Referring to a thin awkward person |
| Gang | n | A large amount of anything. 2. any social group (without criminal tones). |
| Gang | vb | To attack or kill as part of a gang. 2. to gang up on someone. |
| Gangbuster | n | An great, exciting, conspicuous and successful person, thing or event. |
| Gangbusters | adj | Rousing, inspiring, conspicuous. 2. a great and conspicuous success. |
| Gangbusters | vb | To be very successful, as " to go gangbusters" or "come on like gangbusters" |
| Gangbusters | phr | "Like or Come on like Gangbusters" - very energetically and successfully. |
| Gangbusting | n | State or condition of being energetic and successful. |
| Gangster | n | A troublemaker, nuisance, stirrer. 2. a troublemaker, rebel, non-conformist. |
| Gangster | vb | To kidnap, abduct, take forcibly. |
| Gangster-doors | n | A four-door saloon, the car preferred by prominent ghetto criminals. |
| Gangster-lean | n | The supposedly sophisticated style of driving a car, with one elbow out of the window and one's body leaning in the same direction; thus, fig., an attitude to life and lifestyle. |
| Gangster-ride | n | A large, old-fashioned, usually black motorcar, favoured by gangster as there mode of transport. |
| Gangster-stick | n | A marijuana cigarette. |
| Gang up | phr | To gather for a purpose, esp. an evil purpose, as a physical attack and beating of someone |
| Garbroth | n | Any poor or worthless person, as in the expression" mean as garbroth." (from garfish and broth.) |
| Garlic-burner | n | Motorcyclists. 2. a motorcycle made in Italy. |
| Garmouth | n | To boast, brag, make empty threats. (garfish, a fish considerd not worth eating, other than in direct extremity) |
| Gate | n | The money collected from selling tickets to a sporting event or other entertainment event. 2. a swing, jazz musician; a gatemouth. 3. a music devotee or a cat (any man). 3. jazz talk or jive. |
| Gate | sfx | An exposed affair or scandal, venality as sort indicated, as "Watergate". |
| Gate-mouth | n | A person, a jazz, jive or swing musician. 2. a performing engagement a gossip, a chronic and active gossip, loudmouth. |
| Gather-up | n | A Gather-up: a useless person, usually a rag-an-bone man. |
| Gawdsaker | n | One, who in a state of panic, exclaims '... for God's sake let's do something now.' |
| Geesefeathers | n | Snow. |
| Get | vb | From Old Norse geta "to obtain, reach; to beget; to guess right". Old English, as well as Dutch and Frisian, had the root only in compounds (e.g. begietan "to beget," see beget; forgietan "to forget,". Vestiges of Old English cognate *gietan remain obliquely in past participle gotten and original past tense gat. 2. off-spring, progeny. |
| Get | n | A swindle, a trick, a means of defrauding a victim. |
| Get | n | The profit, the take, the proceeds of a robbery. |
| Get | v | To understand, comprehend; seize mentally, as in 'I get it.' 2. to reach the point or stage where, 'I get (to) where I see it (or understand it.) 3. to take note of; pay attention. 5. to wreak or have vengenance on; to kill, esp. in revenge; retaliate destructively against. 6. to get the punishment one deserves. 7. to become rich; get one share of wordly goods and things. |
| Get a belly | phr | To become pregnant. |
| Get above oneself | phr | To act in an arrogant manner, to be self-satisfied. |
| Get a dusty answer | phr | To receive an unpleasant, immoderate answer or response. |
| Get a fair spin | phr | To receive an even-handed and reasonable go or opportunity |
| Get a free ride | phr | To enjoy something without paying; get something gratis. |
| Get a glow on | phr | To become drunk or intoxicated. (the reddish complexion often forming on the cheeks of a drinker) |
| Get a handle on | phr | To understand, know how to; to gain control of a situation. 2. to work out or find a way of coping; discover how to proceed. |
| Get a hard-on | phr | To have an erection. |
| Get a life | phr | Dismissive exclamation used in any context where the speaker wishes to show disdain for the previous speaker and their ideas, beliefs, suggestions, opinions. |
| Get a line on | phr | To get or acquire information concerning; to make a preliminary survey; to secure or acquire secret information. 2. to understand, to hand on or impart information to. |
| Get a little on the side | phr | To be sexually unfaithful, cheat; betray a trust; to commit adultery . |
| Get a load of | phr | To drink heavily; to be extremely intoxicated. 2. to be full or over-dosed on drugs. |
| Get-along | n | A limp. |
| Get along (on) | phr | To live with any great joy nor grief; pass through life more or less adequately; cope. 2. to be compatible, associate easily. 3. to grow older. |
| Get (go) along (with you) | phr | Don't be silly - a response sometimes dismissive, often jocular. 2. in the case of flattery- don't be silly. |
| Get among it | phr | To become rich, obtain wealth; make plenty of money |
| Get a name for | phr | To get a reputation - usu. bad, for something. |
| Get an earful | phr | To listen to, usu. in the context of a dressing-down, rebuke or scolding. |
| Get an eyeful | phr | To have a good look at, to stare at. |
| Get a rise out of (from) someone | phr | To make someone angry. 2. to get a response, esp. an angry one. |
| Getaway | n | The very start. 2. a sudden dash esp. from a starting point in a game or sport. 3. a vehicle, esp. a car used to flee from a robbery or crime. 4. an escape, get out, excuse. 5. the act of fleeing from a scene of a crime. |
| Get away with it (something) | phr | To succeed in, or carry of successfully, any undertaking, esp. one that is underhanded; as in "Get away with murder." 2. to get the better of, to beat. 3. to go uncaught and unpunished after doing something illegal or inappropriate. 4. to steal or runaway with something. |
| Get away with murder | phr | To do something bad or illegal and not be punished. 2. to go unpunished or unharmed after some illegal, impudent or risky act. 3. |
| Get away with you | phr | Don't try and pull the wool over my eyes; fool me, take me for a fool. |
| Get back at | phr | To turn the tables on someone, to get revenge |
| Get behind | phr | To make a commitment to an idea, a job, an idea. 2. to understand, to enjoy, appreciate, to put one's weight behind. 3. to enjoy something. 4. to get a pleasurable narcotic intoxication. |
| Get by | phr | To earn a bare living; to pass, to manage, scrape by, to be accepted or acceptable; to have one's efforts approved. 2. to survive without working or much effort; to do just enough closely or barely well; neither succeed or fail. 3. to pass inspection; stand up to scrutiny, to avoid, evade; to get away with. |
| Get down | phr | To concentrate on; attend to the task. 2. to commit oneself to; make an effort. 3. to do something especially well. 4. to fight. 5. to have sexual intercourse. 6. to dance, to have a good time; enjoy oneself, have fun; to let oneself be natural and unrestrained. |
| Get down heavy | phr | To enjoy oneself, to participate wholeheartedly in the spirit of things. |
| Get down on | phr | To develop a dislike, grudge against, to be hostile to. |
| Get down to it | phr | To commit oneself earnestly and seriously to a task. 2. to start talking about the gravamen or crux of a matter or topic. |
| Get even with | phr | To take revenge; pay back; get one's own back. |
| Get ghost | vb | To go about things quietly and inconspicuously. |
| Get-go | n | From the get-go: the start, beginning. |
| Get going | vb | To drive someone into a temper; to make one lose control through teasing. 2. to excite someone sexually. |
| Get going | vb | To leave depart. 2. to commence a job or task. |
| Get good to someone | phr | To be carried away by one's enthusiasms whilst performing a task. |
| Get hard-nosed | phr | To get angry, to get stubborn, to be obstinate |
| Get high | vb | To be "high" on drugs. |
| Get high behind | vb | To hurry up; to help get to their workplace on time. 3. to become impatient, to get angry or mad. |
| Get hold of the right end of the stick | phr | To get it right, to understand the situation correctly; grasp an understanding or essential meaning. |
| Get hold of the wrong end of the stick | phr | To have the facts wrong or incorrect; interpret a situation incorrectly. |
| Get home | vb | Make an impression on, in a sporting event. 2. make emotional impression on. |
| Get home with the milk | phr | To stay out all night; get home only at daybreak. |
| Get hot on | phr | To put in an enthusiastic effort. 2. be enthusiastic about. |
| Get in | vb | Strike a blow (lit and fig.) 2. a telling remark. 3. to put on one's clothes |
| Get in a gar hole | phr | To have a bit of bad luck. Garfish swims above and around the holes of other better fish and often takes the bait meant for other fish. |
| Get in deep | phr | To become deeply in love with. 2. to become heavily involved in criminal activities. |
| Get in line | phr | To conform, fall in behind or with. |
| Get in one's eye | phr | To beat up. 2. to crowd, to encroach or get to near to one's personal space. 3. to shout at someone from nearby. 4. to hit or punch one in the face or eye. |
| Get in one's hair | phr | Annoy or irritate. |
| Get into | vb | To attack physically. 2. to criticize severely. 3. to put on clothes, dress oneself. |
| Get it | vb | To be shot, wounded or killed. 2. understand. |
| Get it in the neck | phr | To be punished, to fail, to lose |
| Get it in every way | phr | To do well, irrespective of the circumstances. 2. to fully understand or comprehend something. |
| Get it in for | phr | To bear a grudge, as 'have/had it in for.' |
| Get it in the neck | phr | To be severely punished or injured. |
| Get it off one's chest | phr | To confess, unburden oneself. |
| Get it on | phr | To enjoy something greatly; having a good time. |
| Get it on the whisper | phr | To buy on hire purchase. (the shame of living on the never-never, and the desire to keep it quiet.) |
| Get it (all) together | vb | To start a sexual relationship. 2. to make a decision, to take action. 3. to compose oneself, and take a firm stand. 3. to arrange one's life and affairs properly integrated and focused. |
| Get left | vb | To be abandoned, left behind esp. when in a difficult situation. |
| Get lost | vb | To leave, depart (usually an exasperated command). |
| Get next to | vb | To become lovers. 2. to feel friendly towards, get near to. 3. to embarrass, to annoy, to anger. |
| Get off | vb | To avoid the consequences. |
| Get off one's arse | phr | To stop being idle, lazy and inert. |
| Get off one's back | phr | To leave one alone, stop niggling and nagging. |
| Get off one's high horse | phr | To stop being high and haughty, superior to others. 2. |
| Get nowhere (fast) | vb | To falter and fail, despite one's best efforts and endeavours. 2. get no satisfaction from something or someone. 3. to make no progress (very quickly). |
| Get off on the wrong foot | phr | To make a poor initial impression; to make a poor start |
| Get off one's hands | phr | To rid yourself of a burden or responsibility, esp in regards to another, such as unmarried daughter, an adult child who refuses to leave home, or a worker who is not pulling his weight. |
| Get off the ground | phr | To make a successful start. 2. to succeed with a project, esp. initially. |
| Get off the hook | phr | To help, aid someone to evade responsibility or punishment. |
| Get on | phr | Succeed, prosper, fare well. 2. to relate to another person either well or not so well, 'get on well with' 3. to grow older or be of advanced years. 4. to depart, leave, as 'get on one's way.' 5. tto put a bet on a horse, etc. |
| Get on one's goat | phr | To annoy, irritate, upset. |
| Get on one's high horse | phr | To become dignified and formal; assume a haughty and arrogant mien. |
| Get one down | vb | To make gloomy, or cause another to be depressed. |
| Get one going | vb | To cause another to be agitated, excited or angry. |
| Get one in | vb | To fool, trick, deceive. |
| Get (have) one on a string | phr | To control and deceive another over a long period of time. |
| Get one's bitter | phr | To get one just deserts. |
| Get one's eyes together | phr | Too have a nap, doze off, kip. |
| Get one's feet wet | phr | To initiate oneself or be initiated into something. 2. to have a first and testing experience of something. |
| Get one's finger out | phr | To stop idling about, procrastinating, and beginning to something. |
| Get one hackles up | phr | To become angry, infuriated, furious, lose one's temper. |
| Get one's head down | phr | To have some sleep.. 2. tp plead guilty in court. |
| Get one's head straight | phr | To think clearly. 2. 'get one's head together.' |
| Get one's head together | phr | To sort oneself out, regain calmness and composure. 2. 'get one's head straight.' |
| Get one's hooks into | phr | To grasp, grab. obtain, esp. when the thing or object most desired is held by a rival. |
| Get one's mind right | phr | To think clearly. |
| Get one's nose to | phr | To have another person utterly dependent on oneself, typically in a one-sided love relationship. |
| Get one's soul in soak | phr | To become intoxicated. |
| Get one's tail down | phr | To act and look in a despondent or dejected manner. 2. to lose heart, become somewhat depressed. |
| Get one's tail-feathers up | phr | To be annoyed, irritated, furious, maddened. |
| Get on one's wick | phr | To irritate, annoy, hamper. |
| Get one wrong | vb | To misunderstand an other meaning or intention. |
| Get on someone's goat | phr | To annoy, irritate, harass. |
| Get on the home stretch | phr | To be near achieving one's aims, as a journey, a work task. |
| Get on to | phr | To become aware of what is going on; to realise, to understand. |
| Get out from under | phr | To extricate from troubles, as financial problems; delicate personal problems. |
| Get out of bed on the wrong side | phr | To be in an irritable, irascible, ill-tempered mood. |
| Get out of here | excl | General exclamation of total disbelief and dismissal. 2. you're joking, rubbish, your mad. |
| Get out of it | ecxl | Exclamation of dismissal. 2. Go away! don't be stupid; don't be silly. 3. don't make laugh (mocking) |
| Get over | phr | To take advantage, get around. 2. to intimidate, frighten. 3. to get to understand. |
| Get over | phr | To make oneself understood; to gain favour; to succeed. 3. to become well again physically, emotionally or mentally. 3. to make a favourable impression. 4. to recover or bounce back from a problem, etc. 3. be restored to the norm. |
| Get shafted | vb | To be treated harshly, severely and unfairly. |
| Get sloughed up | vb | To move from the general prison population into protective confinement. |
| Get smart | vb | Command to become wisely aware of one's situation, options, possibilities. |
| Get someone's back | phr | To look after somebody, lit. to see that they are not attacked from behind. 2. to protect the interests of another, |
| Get someone's back up | phr | To annoy, anger, infuriated someone by words or deeds. 2. to become angry or make someone angry; esp. in a way to cause someone to resist. |
| Get someone down | vb | To depress, disillusion, give the blues. |
| Get something on someone | phr | To find out something incriminating or negative about some and use it to one's own advantage. |
| Get something over with | phr | To finish, end, conclude something. 2. come to a stopping point or mark. |
| Get somewhere | vb | To succeed, to realize one's desire. |
| Get stoned | vb | To be intoxicated by alcohol or drugs. 2. to be high. |
| Get stuck into | vb | To start a fight. 2. to start, with enthusiasm, any sort of activity. 3. to attack verbally. |
| Get the bird | phr | To be jeered, mocked, hissed, esp. during a theatrical show. |
| Get the book | phr | To become religious, often during imprisonment. |
| Get the breaks | phr | To have a stroke of good luck or success; to profit by a fortunate occurrence. |
| Get the drift | phr | Understand what one is implying, hinting at, etc. |
| Get the drop on | phr | To obtain or get someone in an inferior position, or have threatening advantage over someone. |
| Get the elbow | phr | To be dismissed, rejected, dispensed with. |
| Get the eye | phr | To be look at in an insinuating, seductive way. |
| Get the go-head | phr | Take the lead in a competition, election contest etc. |
| Get the goods on | phr | To find out negative facts about; to find or collect desired information about. 2. to find some facts or knowledge about someone and use it to one's advantage. |
| Get the hang off something | phr | To understand, have the know-how and master a particular skill. |
| Get the hell out of | phr | To leave, depart quickly to avoid harm. |
| Get the hot end of | phr | To be victimized, to be given a hard time. |
| Get-there | n | Ambition, energy. |
| Get there on two feet | phr | To do something very well, to succeed in a notable way. |
| Get the sads | phr | To be depressed. |
| Get the shaft | phr | See shaft. 2. to be ill-treated, abuse; esp. by cruel deception. |
| Get the shove | phr | To be dismissed from employment. 2. to be rejected by a spouse, partner or lover. |
| Get the show on the road | n | To start, begin, to get going. |
| Get the wind up | phr | To frighten, make fearful, nervous or anxious. |
| Get the wrong bull by the horns | phr | To make a mistake; act or do something in error. |
| Get this | Imp | Listen to this; hear me. |
| Get through (to) | phr | To make oneself understood; esp. by someone who is dilatory or slow on the uptake. |
| Get to | vb | To start doing something, commence 2. to attack bodily. 3. to corrupt, taint, influence negatively or bribe. 4. to effect or influence emotionally, to angst, worry, mae nervous |
| Get-together | n | A meeting or gathering, often social. |
| Get together | vb | To act in concert, to help one another. 2. to have a sexual relationship. |
| Get to someone | phr | To disturb or anger. 2. to affect, make an impression on. |
| Get tough with | phr | Often, of criminals, or police, to act inan aggressive, harsh manner towards someone or something. |
| Get-up | n | One's dress or attire, esp. best or most fashionable. |
| Get-up | n | Ambition, energy; spirit; aggressiveness |
| Get up | vb | Inspire, energise, galvanise, esp. for a sporting event, examination etc. |
| Get-up | n | The date of one's release from prison set by the authorities. |
| Get-up | n | A ruse, scam, fraud, subterfuge. |
| Get up and dust off | phr | To depart or run off quickly. |
| Get up and get | phr | To leave in a hurry. 2. to move quickly. 3. to act or do something with energy. |
| Get-up-and-go | phr | Energy, ambition, drive, initiative.. |
| Get up and go | vb | To move fast, get moving. |
| Get up early in the morning | phr | To be clever, be aware, mentally alert, undumb and unslow. |
| Get up off | vb | To go through or feel the effects of a drug(s). 2. to resist a way of doing things. 3. to give up or away something one values or thinks is important. |
| Get up off the shoulder | phr | To fight with one's fist. |
| Get up on | vb | To get excited by, to become interested in. |
| Get up someone's nose | phr | To annoy, irritate; provoke hostility. |
| Get up steam | phr | To act energetically, to become interested in. |
| Get up there | vb | To grow older |
| Get up to | phr | To do something or an action, usu. mischievous or possibility illegal. |
| Get up with | vb | To have a romantic meeting or encounter. 2. to meeting with. |
| Get weaving | vb | To get on with things that need to be done. 2. to do something in a hurry. |
| Get wet | vb | To murder, kill, get wounded. 2. to spill another blood; to have blood on (wet) your hands. |
| Get wise | phr | Be aware, to learn about, get a warning to be careful. 2. become aware, esp. in matters of survival and advancement. 3. to look after one's own interest. |
| Get wise with yourself | phr | Often an exhortation to be alert, look after one's interests, put yourself first. 3. to become impudent or defiant. |
| Get with | vb | To come to know, realize, understand. 2. to join in or with; to follow and accept the party line. 3. get beside, get behind, become amongst the ranks of. 2. to have a romantic relationship with. |
| Get with it | excl | Stop being or acting foolishly. 2. pay attention to what's happening, going on or needs to be done. |
| Ghastly | adj | Of persons, things, objects, events, circumstances, horrible, shocking, unpleasant, distasteful. |
| Ghost | n | A photograph. 2. a person who does the work on behalf of the person who is publicly credited for it (a ghost-writer). 3. a white person. 4. a fictitious name created for a fraudulent person. 5. a creditor (they give bad debtors an unpleasant fright when they appear.) |
| Ghost | n | An absentee, someone who has opted out of normal social life. |
| Ghost | vb | To follow, shadow, to follow surreptitiously. |
| Ghost | vb | To write a book or article for someone else who takes the credit. 2. to share a hotel or other kinds of lodgings with someone unbeknown to the owner. |
| Ghost | vb | To move a prisoner from one prison to another during the night, without other prisoner knowing of the departure. |
| Ghostbuster | n | A person who exposes spiritualistic mediums |
| Ghosting | n | The moving of a prisoer from one prison to another during the night, without the other prisoners knowing that the departutre has taken place. |
| Ghost walks | phr | "The Ghost Walks" - implies that the pay or salaries is at hand or about to be giving out. |
| Ghosts | n | White particles that look like, but are not, crack cocaine. |
| Ghost town | n | An abandoned town, often one that has flourished for a time |
| Ghost turds | n | Fluff that collects under beds and furniture. 2. house moss. |
| Gilded moonshine | n | Worthless IOUs or other credit documents that have no genuine financial backing. |
| Gilt | n | Money, currency, coins. |
| Gilt-edged | adj | First-rate. 2. dependable |
| Ginger | n | A red-haired or ginger-hackled person. |
| Ginger | vb | The act of robbing a prostitute client. 2. a brothel where robbing clients of their money or valuables is commonplace. |
| Gingerer | n | A prostitute who robs clients of their money or valuables. |
| Git-down time | n | The start of a prostitutes "get-down time" or working time. |
| Gitlet | n | A getlet; an illegitimate child, a bastard. |
| Give | vb | To allow someone a certain or limited period of time, "I give you ten minutes." |
| Give | vb | To convey, in a skeptical or dismissive manner, information or knowledge, 'have you got anything to give me.' 2. used as an angry or very annoyed answer, to show displeasure at a previous statement or comment, 'I'll give you, love.' |
| Give a dusty answer | phr | To give an unpleasant, intolerant answer. |
| Give a fair spin | phr | Treat with fairness; give another a fair go. |
| Give and take | n | To act in a fair and even handed manner. 2. to be tolerant. 3. to listen to and respect another opinions and beliefs. |
| Give a tumble | phr | To try out, to experiment. 2. to have intercourse. 3. to recognize, acknowledge. |
| Give-away | n | Betrayal of a secret. 2. something that is obvious; a no-brainer. 3. anything that reveals something concealed; a clue. |
| Give-away | n | A free sample, or prize. |
| Give away | vb | To betray another (s); forsake, abandon, give up. |
| Give cold pig | phr | A prank played on a tardy riser, with the bed clothes being pulled back and cold water tipped over the sleeper. |
| Give good | vb | To rebuke, chide, scold severely. 2. to tell off. |
| Give green rats | phr | To criticize, slander someone in their absence, to backbite. (green: with envy, jealousy.) |
| Give hell | vb | To scold, berate severely. 2. give someone a hard time. 3. fig.punish, hurt. |
| Give it a go | phr | To make an attempt; give it a try. |
| Give it away | phr | To stop, give up abandon. |
| Give it the boot | phr | To accelerate, put your foot down on the accelerator. 2. to get rid of, to dispense with; oust. |
| Give it to someone | phr | To beat, punish, rebuke . |
| Give me five | vb | To slap hands (five fingers) with another in celebration of victory, success or a greeting of friendship. |
| Give me strength | excl | Uttered on hearing something stupid. |
| Give one the lowdown | phr | To communicate to one inside information; to tell the true facts; to relate gossip or scandal |
| Give or take | phr | Implying an estimation, usu. of time or number, as ' give or take five minutes. |
| Give out | vb | To talk emotionally, to talk with feeling. 2. to collapse, cease to function. |
| Give some flesh | phr | The slapping of hands or palms, usu. with ritual meaning between Black folk. |
| Give someone a break | phr | To give someone an opportunity; chance. 2. let off, pardon, excuse, as exclamation 'give him a break.' |
| Give someone a go | phr | To give someone an opportunity, try-out, a chance. |
| Give someone a miss | phr | To avoid seeing someone or doing something. 2. not opt for. 3. give someone the go-by. |
| Give someone a ring | phr | To call some on the telephone. |
| Give someone grief | phr | To make life difficult for; hassle, harass. |
| Give someone heat | phr | To criticise. |
| Give someone hell | phr | To rebuke, scold, punish someone severely. |
| Give someone lip | phr | To speak to someone in a rude, offensive, impertinent manner. |
| Give someone that | phr | To acknowledge the other point, as 'I give you that.' |
| Give someone the blacks | phr | To ignore, esp. when snubbing a former friend. |
| Give someone the boot | phr | "Give someone the boot or the foot" - to throw out, reject, oust. 2. dismiss, sack, kick out. |
| Give someone the business | phr | To kill. 2. beat, assault, treat roughly. 3. to tease, taunt, deride. 4. put at a disadvantage by own's own actions. 5. to deceive, bamboozle in business. |
| Give someone the deep six | phr | To kill, murder, to do in. |
| Give someone the dust off | phr | To ignore, snub, reject. |
| Give someone the eye | phr | To look at with insinuating and seductive manner. |
| Give someone the finger | phr | To raise the middle finger as an act or to imply derision and disdain. 2. to show contempt and defiance by holding up the middle finger towards someone. |
| Give someone the freedom of the world | phr | To dismiss from the job; 'to be liberated', as put by Tony Abbott, the Australian Prime Minister, upon hearing that more than 3000 workers were about to lose their job in the car-making industry. 2. give the shove to. 3. give someone the boot. |
| Give someone the glad eye | phr | Show an amorous or sexual interest in someone. 2. give the come-on or eye to. 3. to look or glance at invitingly; gaze enticingly at. |
| Give someone the glad hand | phr | To welcome enthusiastically to the point of insincere excess, as often the wont of politicians. 2.to greet or welcome effusively |
| Give someone the go-by | phr | To avoid, disregard deliberately. 2. to allow, to turn a blind eye. 3. to dismiss, to get rid; give the shove to. |
| Give someone the length of one's tongue | phr | To verbally attack, lambaste. |
| Give someone the needle | phr | To nag at, criticize regularly, and smartingly. |
| Give someone the shaft | phr | To swindle, maltreat, or otherwise treat wrongly. |
| Give someone the shake | phr | To rid oneself of; get away from. |
| Give someone the time of day | phr | Usu. negative: 'not give someone the time of day.' - not do the slightest favour for; not greet or speak to; have contempt for. |
| Give (someone) the works (to) | phr | To put in one's all effort in communicating something, esp. a sermon or speech. 2. to give someone a thorough beating; to mistreat or thrash severely; to kill or murder someone. |
| Give someone what for | phr | To reprimand severely, to inflict severe pain on. 2. to beat or punish severely, 3. chastise, lambaste, chide. 4. drub, either physically or verbally. |
| Give the bird to | phr | Express one's disapproval by hissing, jeering. |
| Give the come-on to | phr | To entice, to lure, to stare amorously at. 2. give the (glad) eye to. |
| Give the elbow to | phr | To dismiss, reject, sack. 2. give the shove to. |
| Give the fish-eye to | phr | To stare menacingly at. 2. to look or stare at in a cold contemptuous, or menacingly way. 3. to threaten by hostile look. |
| Give the green light to | phr | Give approval or go-ahead to someone. |
| Give the once over | phr | To examine, closely, scrutinize, esp. with a view to evaluation or identification. |
| Give the shove to | phr | To sack or dismiss from a job. |
| Give the shirt off one's back | phr | To be very generous and kind. |
| Give the show away | phr | To reveal a secret, your own or another's. 2. to betray a confidence, as a plan or commitment. |
| Give the thumbs up | phr | To approve, to answer positively. |
| Give-up | n | A surrender, submission. |
| Give up | vb | To betray, reveal another's whereabouts, to inform. |
| Give up on | vb | To lose faith in, trust or belief in. |
| Give up the ship | phr | To perish, die. 2. to abandon. |
| Give with the eyes | phr | To look at, glance. |
| Glad | adj | Tipsy, drunkish. |
| Glad eye | n | A glance of sexual interest. |
| Glad eye | phr | "Give Someone the Glad Eye" - show an amorous or sexual interest in someone. |
| Glad hand | n | Welcome, effusively and warmly; cordially. |
| Glad hand | phr | "To Give Someone the Glad Hand" - to give someone a warm, welcoming handshake (often insincerely, or by politician and other "charmers" for their own gain.) |
| Glad hander | n | An enthusiastic, friendly but totally insincere person. |
| Glad-handing | n | The act of warmly welcoming (often without sincerity) as, 'after glad-handing the parishioners of Methurst, the reverend headed for the strip-club.' |
| Glad rags | n | One best and often showiest clothes. 2. party clothes. 3. formal evening wear. |
| Glad weeds | n | Formal dress attire. |
| Glass | n | In prison slang: diamonds, often of the highest quality. |
| Glass | adj | In boxing parlance any part of the body that is weak or vulnerable, as "a glass jaw." |
| Glass | vb | To slash another's face or body with a piece of broken glass. |
| Glassed | adj | Cut in the face or other part of the body by a slash with a broken bottle. |
| Glassen | adj | Made of glass (<ME glasen) |
| Glass eyes | n | One who wears glasses or spectacles. 2. a drug taker. |
| Glass house | n | A place where crack cocaine can be sold or smoked. |
| Glassy eye | adj | A cold, disdainful stare, like that of a dead fish. |
| Glided moonshine | n | Worthless IOUs or other credit documents that have no genuine financial backing. |
| Glisten | n | A collective term for diamonds. |
| Glister | n | A drinkling glass, a tumbler. |
| Glom | vb | To acquire, obtain, have. |
| Gnat's eyebrow | phr | Something very small or in very fine detail, hair splitting, as in "Down to a Gnat's Eyebrow." |
| Gnawer | n | A rodent. 2. 'The Gnawer" - cancer. |
| Go | n | "The Go" - the height of fashion or the "thing" to be doing; trend. 2. a dandy, a fashionable man. |
| Go | n | Energy, spirit, spunk. 2. get-up and go |
| Go | n | An event, circumstance. 2. matter, affair. 3. an attempt, try. |
| Go | n | An argument, row, fight, a real barney. 2. to attack verbally or physically. |
| Go | vb | To die, pass away, perish, expire. 2. to relieve oneself. 3. happen, transpire. |
| Go | vb | Supporting, backing, standing for, as "Go Obama" |
| Go | adj | To function properly, be copasetic, going as planned, "all thing are go."2. appropriate, fitting, suitable. |
| Go abroad | vb | To be transported as a convict. |
| Goad | n | A decoy at a horse fair. 2. one who falsely and lavishly praises a product or service to entice buyers. 3. one who makes fake bids at auctions |
| Go-ahead | n | Progress, ambition, energy. 2. a command or permission to do something, as in "Give Someone the Go Ahead" 3. the lead in a contest, event, competition. |
| Go-ahead | adj | Progressive, ambitious to do something, as "good-ahead plans for the company" |
| Go-ahead | phr | "Give Someone the Go-ahead" - permit or command someone to do something. 2. permission, or the word. |
| Go-ahead | phr | "Go ahead like a Whale" - to tackle something with total energy and wholeheartedly. |
| Go all out | phr | -To do something unreservedly. 2. to do one most or best. |
| Go all out on | phr | To trust fully and completely. |
| Go all the way | phr | To do one's uttermost; make an extra effort. |
| Go-alone | adj | To do something independently. |
| Go alone | vb | To be vary, careful, cautious. 2. to be experienced. |
| Go-along | n | A fool, simpleton, a mentally unalerter, who will go along or agree to anything. 2. a go-alonger. |
| Go along for the ride | phr | To do something or be part of something in passive, half-hearted manner. |
| Go along with | phr | To agree with someone view, proposal, suggestion opinion, beliefs. 2. to acquiesce. |
| Go ape | vb | To behave stupidly, without reason, angrily or with violent. |
| Goat | n | A womanizer, lecher. 2. a catholic priest. 3. an offensive old man. 4. a car with an especially powerful engine; an old car. 5. a very junior officer in an army unit. |
| Goat Hill | n | Area of town where a certain class live, usu. the poorer folk but, sometimes, after gentrification the better-off folk. 2. Goat town: Goat wood. |
| Goat house | n | A brothel. |
| Goat roper | n | A peasant, rural person, an unsophiscated person. |
| Goat's nest | n | An untidy, unkempt place. |
| Go at something bald-headed | phr | - Put all one's effort into something, to commit oneself wholly - and disregard the possible |
| Goaty | adj | Sexually frustrated. 2. irritated. |
| Go-away | n | Tram, train, bus. 2. the outfit in which the bride departs from her reception to begin her honeymoon. |
| Go back from | phr | To retreat, withdraw from, back down. |
| Go back on | phr | To reverse one's position on; to break a promise. |
| Go bark at the moon | phr | Go away, get lost; to complain uselessly, make a pointless bother. |
| Go belly up | phr | To go bankrupt. 2. to die, collapse, cease to operate. 3. image of a dead fish, floating belly up. |
| Go bent | vb | For a witness to retract previous statement helpful to the prosecution. 2. to turn to criminal activity and ways. 3. of a prisoner, whose girlfriend takes up with another. |
| Go-between | n | An intermediary. |
| Go beyond | vb | To be sentenced to transportation (to go beyond the world one knows) |
| Go broke | vb | To go bankrupt or insolvent, become moneyless, go bust. |
| Go by | n | An evasion; a slight; a slight, as to give one the go by. |
| Go-by-the-ground | n | A very short person. |
| Go cold at | vb | To scold, blame, reprimand. |
| Go cold on | vb | To lose initial enthusiasm for a proposal, activity. |
| God | n | An exceptionally attractive male. |
| God-bird | n | The much loved and petted baby. 2. the youngest bird in a nestful. |
| God-box | n | A church. 2. an organ. |
| Goddening | n | The spread of faith and religion to individuals, groups or nations. |
| Goddess | n | An ambitious, successful woman. |
| Godfather | n | The chief, highest authority, as 'the godfather of the silver screen' . 2. one who pays the bill after a meal or a drinking session. |
| Godfather-in-law | n | A member of a jury. |
| God-hopper | n | An evangelist or very religious person. |
| Go dog on | vb | To let down. 2. betray. 3. to inform against. |
| Go-down | n | A basement room, flat or apartment. 2. a shop or cinema located in a basement. 3. a human dweller or visitor to an a go-down. |
| Go down | vb | To be sent to prison. 2. to be committed to a mental institution. 3. to happen, take place, often a dramatic encounter, such as a fight or brawl. 4. to become inoperative, (stop functioning) as a computer. |
| Go down in food | vb | To eat ravenously. |
| Go down like flies | phr | To collapse in the face of weapons, disease or adversity. |
| Go down on | vb | To harm someone, cause trouble for someone. |
| Gods for Clods | n | Comparative religion for dummies. |
| God's Heater | n | The sun. |
| God's time | n | Time as measured before the introduction of daylight savings. |
| God whisperer | n | A member of the clergy, priest, pastor, reverend. |
| Goer | n | A success, a victory. 2. anything that is dependable and can be counted on to work or succeed. 3. a promiscuous, sexually available woman. 4. an enthusiastic if not always competent amateur. |
| Goers | n | Feet. |
| Goes | phr | "What I Say Goes" - accepted, comes into being, is brought into effect; to have authority or effectivenss; to accept without question. |
| Goey | adj | Enthusiastic. |
| Go fishing | vb | To undertake a search for facts; to drill down, dive deep. |
| Go-for | n | An employee who is expected to serve and cater to others; low ranking subordinate; a gopher, as in "a general go-for" |
| Go for | n | To favour, advocate or take to; to attack, assault or go after. |
| Go for | vb | To be really attracted to, 'I could go for her.' |
| Go for broke | phr | To make a maximum effort, put or stake everything you have on a hope or try. 2. to commit oneself unreservedly, esp. in a gambling or betting situation |
| Go for it | phr | (exclamation) - an exhortation to make an effort. 2. to overcome one's fears. 3. to get on energetically. 4. a general exhortation to others to have fun. |
| Go for one's life | phr | To engage in activity with vigour and enthusiasm. |
| Go for soul | phr | To be deeply moved. |
| Go gandering | phr | To look for something or someone |
| Go-getter | n | A vigorous and effective person. |
| Go-go | n | Disco music and dance style. |
| Go-go | adj | fashionable, modish, modern and trendy. 2. having and displaying vitality and drive. esp. in business and commence, urgent and energetic. 3. 'go-go' living in genetrified inner suburbia.' |
| Go Greek | vb | To engage in sodomy. |
| Go halves | vb | To share equally, divide into equal shares. 2. to get or be given an equal share. 3. go halfies. |
| Go hammer and tongs | phr | To approach an activity with maximum effort and energy; modern use refers to sexual intercourse (image of smith using a hammer to strike a piece of metal.) |
| Go hard at | phr | To proceed at a furious rate, to act in an unwise and wild manner |
| Go haywire | phr | To lose one's senses. 2. to lose control, go mad, crazy, become confused and disoriented. 3. to become inoperative, break down suddenly and unexpectedly. |
| Go hog-wild | vb | To act audaciously and unrestrainedly. |
| Go in blind | phr | To guess; to act somewhat recklessly |
| Going | n | "The Going" - situation, as 'when the going gets tough, the tough get going.' |
| Going over | n | A scolding, a telling off. 2. an inspection. 3. a thrashing, beating, trouncing, a going-over. |
| Go it alone | phr | To act by oneself without support or assistance. |
| Gold | n | Money. 2. narcotics, of a high quality. |
| Gold dig | vb | Usu. of an older woman, to obtain money and other gifts in exchange for sexual favours. |
| Gold digger | n | A female, who uses her charms and favours, to lure and defraud, or extorts money from men.(the cat is known as gold digging) 2. One who forms relationships or marries another for purely monetary reasons. 3. a young woman orig. typically from the chorus line, who swaps sexual favours for the monetary and material gifts of a usually older lover. |
| Gold-dropper | n | A rogue who specializes in dropping something supposedly valuable where it will be found by a potential victim, who is either lured into a game or persuaded to buy the "valuable." 2. a scam by a catfish who meets potential victim on-line and persuades them to send them money to him or her facilitate the release of a valuable article held in a foreign country. |
| Gold dust | n | Cocaine. 2. heroin. 3. high quality drugs. |
| Gold-end man | n | An iterant sellers of jewelry. 2. a buyer of gold and silver. |
| Golden handcuffs | n | An arrangement, option with financial perks which keeps an employee to stay with a firm or company. |
| Golden handshake | n | A bonus given as compensation for dismissal or compensation. |
| Golden leaf | n | High quality marijuana. |
| Golden oldie | n | Anything vintage but still valuable. 2. a musical recording still considered good enough, to be played years after it's first release. 3. a senior citizen, geriatric. |
| Goldfish | n | A beating of a prisoner (the prisoner is the isolated goldfish, the beaters surrounding the bowl) to extract confession, also a rubber hose used in such a beating. 2. a married woman esp. one ripe for seduction. |
| Gold star | n | Cocaine. 2. marijuana. |
| Go like a bird | phr | Of a vehicle, go fast and smooth mechanically. |
| Go-long | n | Consequences, inevitable developments, circumstances. 2. "lost in a go-long" - to be a victim of circumstances. 3. a police patrol van in which prisoners are transported to the police station or court; paddy wagon, black maria: (you must go-along.) |
| Gone | adj | Considered a lost cause, a hopeless case. 2. a person or animal, dead or doomed. |
| Gone | adj | Crazy, bizarre, insane. 2. intoxicated by alcohol or drugs. 3. as a general intensifier both positive and negative, extraordinary or thoroughly. 4. weird and wonderful. lost in drink, drunk or music. |
| Gone | phr | "Gone to the Dogs" - in decline, rundown, degenerative. 2. on skid row, decline, dirty, become a hobo or street-dweller. |
| Gone | phr | "Gone with the Wind" - vanished, esp. of persons and money. |
| Good | adj | Solvent, able to pay for or lend. |
| Good | phr | "Good a Maid as Her Mother" - a recently deflowered or "cropped" woman. |
| Good | phr | "Good as all Get-out" - excellent, wonderful, first-rate. |
| Good | phr | "Good Night All" - a phrase used to change the subject of conversation. |
| Good | phr | "Good on the Fang" - a hearty eater; somewhat of a glutton. |
| Good | phr | "Good on the Tooth" - a hearty eater, good on the fang. |
| Good | phr | "Good on You" - a general expression of approbation. |
| Good deal | n | A pleasant and favourable situation, life, employment. |
| Goodie | n | A religious hypocrite. 2. a person of virtue and decency. 3. a good, decent, trustworthy person, esp, in a movie or story. |
| Goodie | n | A special treat, something nice to eat. 2. something nice, a pleasant feature, something very desirable. |
| Goodie-goodie | n | One who tries to live his or her life by a strict moral code. 2. one too good or overly moral. 2. a prim and outwardly virtuous person. |
| Good looker | n | An attractive woman. |
| Goodman | n | "The Goodman" - the Devil, Satan, Old Sooty, |
| Goodman | n | A favourite companion, a roisterer. 2. a goaler. |
| Good nose | n | Something that smells very pleasant. |
| Good old | adj | A general term of approval and affection, as "good old dad" 2. a term often heard in Australia and Ireland, possibly from the Irish: "rinne se mhaith orm" - he did go on me. |
| Goods | n | Got the goods: has the ability. |
| Goods | n | "The Goods" - the real thing, the ideal thing or person, come up to hope and expectations, as in "deliver the goods." 2. someone or something of excellent and outstanding quality. 3. information, evidence, usu. of a negative nature, neede to arrest and convict a malefactor, ("get the goods on"; negative facts about someone. 4. stolen goods, contraband - 'catch with the goods' |
| Good shot | n | A good try even though one may have failed. |
| Good show | excl | A general exclamation of approval or pleasure. |
| Good thing | n | One who can be easily duped; a sucker. 2. an advantageous position, esp in business dealings. |
| Good time | n | Time off for good behavior. |
| Good time | n | An especially acceptable, likeable person. |
| Good woolled | adj | Used of a plucky, spirited person (said of a sheep that has a good fleece) |
| Goody two-shoes | n | A self-righteous person. 2. an innocent and virtuous young woman. 3. |
| Goody two-shoes | adj | A self-righteous, do-gooder image and attitude to life. |
| Go-off | n | Starting time; cf: "get go" |
| Go off | vb | To dispose of at a sale. 2. to die. 3. of a woman about to be married. 4. to be sent to prison. |
| Go off | vb | To lose emotional control, as "to go off at or go off one's brain". 2. to do something foolish or simply. 4. to act intensely. 5. to move from one topic to another. |
| Go off | vb | To lose freshness, to become rotten, of food and milk. |
| Go off at | phr | To lose one's temper; to attack verbally, and, at length. |
| Go off one's head (brain) | phr | To loose one's temper completely; go off one's brain; go off at. |
| Go off song | phr | Of a usually pleasant or friendly person, to become suddenly hostile. |
| Go off the deep end | phr | To go into a violent, uncontrolled rage. 2. to have an emotional and mental breakdown. |
| Go on | vb | To talk continuously and repetitively and often tediously, go on and on, nag. |
| Go on | vb | To use as grounds for or a basis for one opinions. |
| Go on | excl | Exclamation to imply incredulity. |
| Go on the town | phr | To go out merrymaking; to have a good time. 2. |
| Go one better | phr | To outdo. |
| Go one-to-one | vb | To have an in your face confrontation with another person. |
| Goose | vb | To scold, reprimand, hiss. 2. make a goose of. |
| Goose-drown(d)er | n | Very heavy rain; a downpour, cloudburst. |
| Goose-head | n | An idiot, fool, simpleton. |
| Go out | vb | To lose consciousness, faint, go out to it. |
| Go out like a light | phr | To faint, lose consciousness, swoon. |
| Go out on a limb | phr | To put oneself in a vulnerable position. 2. to take a risk. |
| Go out the back door | phr | To back down under pressure or threat (prison slang). |
| Go out to it | phr | To faint, lose consciousness, swoon. 2. go out like a light. |
| Go over | vb | Be accepted, as the decision will never go over with the man in the street.' |
| Go over | vb | Of a man, to become homosexual - to go over to the other side. |
| Go overboard | vb | To lose control and behave excessively or perilously, to overdo. 2. to utterly commit oneself to something or someone. (go overboard for). 3. to be smitten by love or helpless love. |
| Go over the highside | phr | To lose control of one's composure. 2. to skite, show off |
| Go over the hill | phr | To get married. 2. to go insane or crazy. 3. to escape from prison or go over the wall. |
| Go over the top | phr | To do something dangerous, although often brave and remarkable. |
| Go over the wall | phr | To escape from goal. 2. to leave a religious order. 3. to defect to another country. 4. to go crazy, insane, mad. |
| Go pear-shaped | adj | Of plans, schemes and dreams to falter, fail, die, collapse. |
| Go pound sand | phr | Dismissive direction telling another to be accursed, confounded, humiliated. |
| Gore | n | Spicy gossip, juicy scandal. |
| Go shank's mare | phr | To walk, go on foot, be a pedestrian. |
| Go soak your Head | phr | An aggressive, abusive jibe. (in other words, drown yourself). |
| Go south | phr | To disappear, fail to appear, vanish. 2. |
| Gospel bird | n | A chicken (iterant preachers were usually rewarded by parisher with a meal of chicken). |
| Gospel-grinder | n | A preacher, clergyman. 2. an evangelistic missionary, tract-distributor, colporteur. |
| Gospel-mill | n | A church; a gospel-shop, |
| Gospel-pipe | n | The penis, the grinding tool. |
| Gospel shark | n | An evangelist, a preacher |
| Gospel shop | n. | A church |
| Gospel shooter | n | A preacher, reverend. |
| Go steady | vb | To have a constant only boyfriend or girlfriend. |
| Go the full yard | phr | Do one's utmost; make an out-and-out effort. 2. follow something through to its limit. 3. go the whole nine yards. |
| Go the whole hog | phr | To do a thing thoroughly, to stay with a task until it is completed. 2. do one's utmost, not slacken off, pursue to the end. |
| Go through the mill | phr | To have trying experience. 2. to have practical experience of something. |
| Go to bed with someone | phr | To have sexual intercourse with someone. |
| Go toe to toe | phr | To fight with vigour and energy. |
| Go to grass With one's teeth upwards | phr | To be buried. 2. die |
| Go to heaven in a string | phr | To be hanged; thusfeel like going to heaven on a string to be deliriously happy as not to mind even the possibility of imminent death. (orig. applied to Jesuits in C16th, whose faith could bring them judicisl death) |
| Go to heaven in a wheelbarrow | phr | To go to hell (picture the devil taking away a scold in a barrow.) |
| Go-to-hell | adj | Outrageous, extreme. 2. to deteriorate, be ruined. 3. may you be accursed, confounded, humiliated. |
| Go to one's digs | phr | To go home or to one's home. |
| Go to pot | phr | To worsen, fare much less well, deteriorate. |
| Go to seed | phr | To become overweight; become worthless or obsolete. |
| Go to the dogs | phr | To fail in one's efforts as a whole. 2. become of little worth, from the notion that something is unfit for human consumption would be given to dogs, such as horse killed for sale as dog food. |
| Go to the wall | phr | To be ruined and destitute, collapse, go under. 2. to do the utmost for others in various situations. (consider the plight of someone standing against wall about to be shot. |
| Go to the wire | phr | To be close in competition to the very end. |
| Go to town | phr | To make a big fuss over or about; concentrate on. 2. to enjoy greatly, succeed impressively. 3. enjoy greatly, loosen or throw off restraint, let go . |
| Got to give | phr | "Something got to give" - a resolution is necessary and is need now. 2. the situation is perilous and distressing. |
| Go under | vb | To fail, become bankrupt, to be overcome, to die |
| Go underground | vb | To take up hiding or concealment. 2. go into hiding, take up a life of concealment. 3. as a musician, to make a mistake in playing. 4. of an actor, to forget or badly misspeak one's lines during a play or performance. |
| Go under the knife | phr | To submit to a surgical operation. |
| Go-up | n | An upstairs apartment, unit or flat. 2. opposite of Go-down. |
| Go up | vb | To die early, be hanged, be done in or for. 2. to be sent to jail. financially, to be ruined, destroyed, bankruptcted. |
| Go up against | phr | To confront, face, challenge; take on. |
| Go up in smoke | phr | To be ruined, destroyed. |
| Go upstairs | phr | To die, pass away. 2. to be hanged, executed. |
| Go up the ladder to bed | phr | To be executed, hanged. |
| Go up the wall | phr | Climb the wall, drive up the wall - to become frantic, esp. from frustration and anxiety. |
| Go wenching | vb | To have sexual intercourse. 2. to associate with common women. |
| Go west | vb | To die, to collapse, end. (the setting sun in the west). |
| Go with | vb | To accept and act upon a plan or suggestion. 2. to have an affair or relationship with someone to have sexual intercourse. |
| Go with a swing | phr | Of a party, show, or entertainment, to pass off highly, successfully and enjoyable. |
| Go with the flow | phr | To consign oneself to the order and pace of things; be passive. |
| Grass | n | Green vegetables, esp asparagus, lettuce or other salad food. 2. narcotics, marijuana. |
| Grass | n | Hair, pubic hair. 2. straight hair typical of caucasians. |
| Grass | n | An informer; a grasser, snitch. |
| Grass | vb | To inform on, betray, tell on or tell tales. 2. to kill, slay, put under the grass. 3. to knock down, defeat, overcome. |
| Grass-eater | n | A policeman who accepts graft money or small bribes, but does demand them. |
| Grass-fighter | n | A bare knuckle fighter. 2. a public brawler. |
| Grass-head | n | A heavy smoker of marijuana. |
| Grass-hopper | n | A waiter. 2. a thief. 3. a policeman. 4. an informer. 5. a marijuana smoker or user. 6. a tourist, who swarm in like grasshoppers. |
| Grass widow | n | A woman who is alone because of divorce, separation, rejection( discarded mistress.) 2. In India during the British occupation a mistress who is enjoyed on a temporary straw mattress or actually in or on the grass, rather than a soft, comfortable matrimonial bed; widow is used ironically denoting that her "husband" is no longer with her. 3. a woman whose husband is temporary absent. 4. opposite to a grave-yard widow whose husband is actually dead. |
| Grave-rat | n | A medical student: the stealing of bodies from graves for dissection. |
| Graves | n | Long, dirty finger-nails: they are filled with dirt. |
| Gravestones | n | The teeth, grinders. |
| Graveyard | n | The mouth. 2. prominent front teeth. 3. false teeth, (all resemblance to tombstones). |
| Graveyard shift | n | A working hift that begins at midnight or 2am. |
| Graveyard watch | n | The period from midnight to 4am or 8am in the morning |
| Graveyard widow | n | An actual wodow whose husband is dead. See "Grass widow" |
| Gray | n | A white person, esp. a racist. |
| Grayback | n | A professed Christian. 2. a confederate soldier (because of his uniform) in the U.S. civil war. |
| Graybeard | n | A very senior pilot or anybody in a very senior position that takes years of experience to attain to. |
| Gray locks | n | Worry, anxiety. 2. a worrier. |
| Great | adj | Wonderful, excellent. |
| Great | adj | Close, very friendly: thus "great with" ; close to, esp. of lovers. |
| Great | excl | An excl of approval. |
| Great I Am | n | Used of a self-important person. Guy Ballard, a US confidence trickster, set up a cult with the title "The Great I Am" which fleece the gullible of hundreds of thousands of dollars of "love gifts" during the 1930s. |
| Great on | phr | Expert in knowing a great deal about. |
| Great shakes | n | Very good, great, outstanding, usu in the negative phr "No Great Shakes" |
| Great shot | n | An important person, a big shot. |
| Great unwashed | n | University students, protesters, beatniks, the common people. |
| Great White Father | n | An ironic description of any White authority-figure, esp. the US. president. 2. a White man esp. in Africa, who controls and protects the black people |
| Greedhead | n | An avaricious person. |
| Greedy | adj | Bisexual- "wants it all." |
| Greedy-guts | n | A glutton, a selfish person. |
| Greek | n | A cunning, sly individual. esp. one who is gambler or swindler. 2. a derog. term for an Irish immigrant to the US. or UK. (use of "Greek" as a generic term for a foreigner; and, of course, a suspect figure.) |
| Greek | n | |
| Greek | n | Unintelligible language, esp. cant and slang, esp. in phrase" - "its all greek to me." 2. swahilli. |
| Greek | adj | Irish. |
| Greek | adj | Homosexual. |
| Greek | vb | To engage in pederasty. |
| Greek back | n | A supposedly faked illness..... |
| Greek lightning | n | Debilerate arson in order to gain insurance on an otherwise unprofitable business. |
| Greek love | n | Pederasty. |
| Greek's | n | "The Greeks" - in Australia, a generic term for any small café almost always run by Greeks. |
| Greek shop | n | A local corner shop, often owned by Greek immigrant family. |
| Greek side | n | The buttocks. |
| Greek way | n | Pederasty. |
| Green | adj | Unsophiscated, naïve person. |
| Green | n | Money, dollar bills, esp. ready cash. |
| Green | phr | "Green as Duckweed" - very naïve, innocent, foolish. |
| Green | phr | "Green as Grass" - ignorant, inexperienced, gullible, immature |
| Green | vb | To hoax, defraud, swindle, render gullible. |
| Green and Yellow fellow | n | A male homosexual: the Aesthetic Movement whose preferred colours were green and yellow. |
| Green apple | n | A naïve person. |
| Green-apple quickstep | n | Diarrhoea |
| Greenback | n | Frog. |
| Greenback | n | Money, esp. a dollar bill. |
| Greenback | vb | To pay, esp. a bribe. |
| Green belly | n | A novice, an unsophishicated person, esp. a new arrival in the city from the country. 2. a greenhorn. |
| Green cart | n | A green cart, actual or metaphorically, in which people are taken to a mental hospital or institution. |
| Green cloth | n | A billiard/ snooker table (its green baize top) |
| Green door | n | The door of the execution chamber in New York state prisons. |
| Green dragons | n | Barbiturates, amphetamines, a type of LSD marked with a green dragon on blotter distribuant. |
| Greener | n | A novice, an innocent one who has newly arrived. 2. an inexperienced workman who is often used as a strike breaker. |
| Green goddess | n | The Green Goddess" - marijuana (because of its colour and the pleasure it gives) |
| Green gold | n | Cocaine: high quality cocaine sparkles. 2. an alloy of gold and silver. |
| Green goods | n | Counterfeit banknotes. 2. paper currency. |
| Green goose | n | A young, innocent girl, soon to be made intoa prostitute. 2. a young goose, a simpleton. |
| Green handshake | n | A bribe, a tip, bonus (green with envy) |
| Greenhorn | n | A novice, an unsophiscated person, esp. a new immigrant or a new arrival in a city from the country. 2. a newcomer, inexperienced person, neophyte. 3. a green apple, a green belly, a greenie. |
| Green hornet | n | Amphetamine. |
| Green house | n | A place known for selling drugs, esp. marijuana. |
| Greenie | n | An environmentalist, a conservationist, member of the Green party, "The Greenies." |
| Greenies | n | Vegetables; greens. |
| Greening | n | An obsession, as in "to have a greening for." - to have ann obsession for. |
| Greenland | n | Ireland. 2. "from Greenland, used of an unsophiscated, ignorant, gullible person. 3. fig. world of innocence; thus a Greenlander. |
| Green light | vb | To Give the Green Light to"- to give permission, to allow. (traffic light). 2. permission, esp. a superior approval to proceed. |
| Green meadow | n | The vagina. |
| Green thumb | n | One with a special talent for gardening. 2. one who can or has the knack to make money, or be successful in business. (play on more usual gardner's green thumb or green fingers, like a flourishing plants.) |
| Grey | adj | A dull, boring, earnest, esp. in university use. |
| Grey ghost | n | A parking officer or policeman. |
| Greyhound | n | A white lover or sexual partner. |
| Grey mare | n | A wife, esp if she is the dominant partner in the marriage. |
| Grind | n | Hard, continuous, wearing work, such as academic work. 2. any very difficult and trying task, esp. one that lasts a long time and is slowly and painfully done. 3. highly diligent student; a student who studies constantly 4. a private tutor; a demanding instructor. 5. an obnoxious or annoying person, jerk, pain in the neck. |
| Grind | n | A swindle. 2. a satirist. 3. a joke, usually personal and ridiculing. |
| Grind | vb | To have sexual intercourse. 2. to rotate the hips in a sensous manner while dancing. |
| Grind | vb | Ridicule, satirize. |
| Grind | vb | To work hard, esp. at something unrewarding, but necessary or even essential. 2. to tire, exhaust. 3. to cause someone to work hard. 4. to devote an unreasonable amount of time and effort to one's studies.; to study diligently. |
| Grinder | n | A striptease artist or dancer; a burlesque artist. |
| Grinder | n | A highly diligent student. 2. a private tutor. 3. an old car, esp. a broken down, ramshackled one. 3. a parade ground, a drill field. |
| Grinders | n | Teeth, gravestones. |
| Grind-house | n | A cinema, picture-theatre; 'a flea house" showing second-rate or B' grade films. 2. a brothel. |
| Grinding-house | n | A house of correction; prison, jail. (with reference to the monotonous work done as part of one's punishment) |
| Grinding-house | n | A brothel |
| Grinding tool | n | The penis |
| Grinds | n | Prison or campus food: same old thing day after day. |
| Grind show | n | An entertainment show that runs continuously. 2. a striptease show. |
| Grind something out | phr | To produce or make something, esp. with uninspired precision or long and painful effort. |
| Grindstone | n | Work, esp. hard work. NB. "grindstoned" make to work hard. |
| Grinning bear | n | The vulva. |
| Grinny bin | n | A psychiatric institution, an insane asylum, a hospital for the mentally insane etc. (the inmates fixed grins or "smiles" often fail to reflect their inner turmoil. |
| Grip | n | A steady job, regular employment. 2. a stagehand or carpenter. 3. a travelling bag: a gripsack. |
| Grip | n | Mental alert, grasp and awareness. 2. nous, intelligence, smarts. 3. |
| Grip | vb | To curry favour with others. 2. to curry favour or advantage with more powerful fellow prisoners or inmates. |
| Gripe | vb | To complain, make a great fuss. |
| Gripe | phr | "To Gripe One's Soul" - to anger or greatly disgust, |
| Griper | n | A miser, usurer, bank-manager. 2. an annoyer, complainer |
| Gripe-fist | n | A money-lender, a miser. |
| Gripes | n | A stomach ache or pains. |
| Gripple(s) | n | The anus. OE: gripple: a ditch, trench, burrow, sewer. |
| Gripsack | n | A hold-all, a handbag, a travelling-bag.. |
| Grisly | adj | Awful, disgusting, generally distasteful. |
| Gristle | n | The penis. 2.any part of the with gristle or cartilage. |
| Gristle-bone | n | The penis |
| Gristle-gripper | n | The vagina |
| Grit | n | Solidity or strength of character, spirit, pluck, stamina |
| Grit | n | Land, property, real estate. |
| Grit | n | A white person, esp. a southerner, sometimes a redneck. 2. a working class white student. |
| Grit | n | Crack cocaine. |
| Grit | phr | "Be the Grit" - to be the right sort or genuine article. |
| Gritch | vb | To nag, complain. (gripe & bitch) |
| Gritchy | adj | Irritable, grouchy, |
| Grits | n | Food, in general. 2. money. 3. one's business or livelihood. |
| Grit-sucker | n | A poor White. 2. a term for a poor, nutrition-less diet, including some individual who actually eat dirt and grit. 3. clay-eaters, clover-eaters. |
| Gritty | adj | Determined, plucky, firm. 2. needy, indigent, poor, poverty-stricken. |
| Gritty-whiskers | n | Stubble or whiskers on an unshaven face. |
| Groan-box | n | A musical instrument, esp. an accordion, radio, or juke box. |
| Grof | adv | Flat on one's face (<ME) |
| Grope | vb | To fondle, feel or handle the breasts, buttocks or genitals of someone. 2. to kiss passionately. 3. to touch, feel, caress, fondle etc.with seeming or actual sexual intent. |
| Grope | n | A welcome or unwelcome fondling or handling of the buttocks, breasts or genitals. |
| Groper | n | A blindman, also a blind beggar. 2. a midwife. 3. a West Australian, known a sand-groper: one who gropes his way across desert regions of the state. |
| Gropers | n | The hands. |
| Groping | n | Sexual stimulation, often unwanted. |
| Ground | n | One's home - W.I English. |
| Ground apple | n | A rock, a stone. 2. ground-nut; ground-seed. |
| Grounded | phr | "Be Grounded" - to be suspended from work. 2. to be stopped from enjoying some normal right or pleasure, the sufferer is usually confined to their home. |
| Grounder | n | A knock-down punch or blow. 2. a cigarette or cigarette butt that is picked up from the ground to be smoked. |
| Ground-hog | n | Any worker whose job keeps them on the ground. 2. a meteorologist, weatherman, weather-forecaster. |
| Groundhog Day | n | An annual festival held in USA, (among the Pennsylvania Dutch), Canada (but with similar festivals in Germany and other parts of Europe) in which the arrival time of the spring is predicted by whether or not a certain groundhog can cast its shadow or not. 2. in popular culture the phrase has come to represent a phenomen over and over until one spiritually transcends it. 2. a situation in which events are or appear to be continually repeated. According to an old English song: "If Candlemas be fair and bright, Come, Winter, have another flight; If Candlemas brings clouds and rain, Go Winter, and come not again." |
| Ground-pounder | n | An infantry soldier. |
| Grounds | n | Residue, dregs, |
| Ground-sweat | n | A grave; thustake a ground sweat- to be buried. |
| Grouty | adj | Grumpy, irritable, ill-tempered. |
| Grow horns | vb | To become angry. |
| Grow up | excl | Use contemptuously to an adult or child, who is behaving immaturely. |
| Grub | n | Food: goods which can be exchanged at the kitchen door for grub. |
| Grub | n | A hard worker, one who works to the exclusion of other interests. 2. one who study hard. |
| Grub | vb | To study hard, as a student. 2. eat with us, as 'come over and grub with us.' |
| Grubstake | n | Food for provided for miners and prospectors who would go out to dig for (grub): useful ore. 2. money needed for a new enterprise, new start. |
| Grubstruck | adj | Exhausted by hunger |
| Grundly | adv | Thoroughly, heartily (<ME grundlych) |
| Grunt | n | An ill-tempered, constantly complaining person. |
| Grunt | n | A combat soldier, a marine soldier, infantry soldier or non-flying Airforce officer. 2. a locomotive engineer. 3. any person doing menial work; any low-ranking person. 3. a stupid or unpleasant person. |
| Grunt | n | An unattractive woman; a pig. 2. pork or ham; pigmeat. 3. a bill for food or drink; the tab. 4. a diligent student. 5. wrestling as a sport and entertainment. 6. a wrestler, esp. an inferior one: 'a grunt and groaner' |
| Grunt and groaner | vb | A wrestling. |
| Grunt horn | n | A tuba. |
| Grunter | n | A policeman. 2. an old person out of sympathy with current youth enthusiasm. 3. a wrestler. |
| Grunt show | n | TV wrestling. |
| Grunt work | n | Menial work, drudgery. 2. hard and tedious toil. |
| Gum | n | Impertinence, abusive talk, chatter. 2. trick or deception or hoodwink. 3. to cheat, humbug, delude. |
| Gum-beat | vb | Frivolous, tedious chatter, complaining. |
| Gum-beater | n | A chatterer, complainer. |
| Gum-beating | n | Conversation; chat, talk. 2. incessant, frivolous chatter; vain and exaggerated talk.. |
| Gum-brain | n | A fool, idiot, simpleton. |
| Gum-digger | n | A dentist, fang-farrier. |
| Gum-digging | n | Dentistry, gum-work. |
| Gummer | n | An old, toothless pit-bull or fighting dog. |
| Gummer | n | An old person or geriatric, as old people tend to lose their teeth. |
| Gut | n | Stomach, abdomen, paunch, belly. |
| Gut | adj | The use of instincts and feeling rather than that of the brain in performing tasks, taking action, making assessment and decision. 2. fundamental importance - "to know in one's gut" 3. basic, essential, most immediate, as in 'gut issues'. 4. deep and not essential rational, visceral, intuitive. |
| Gut | vb | To empty a house of its furnishings. 2. to remove any unessentials; strip down. |
| Gut | phr | "My Gut Feeling" - 'my instinct tell me that..' |
| Gut | phr | "To Gut a House" - to empty a house of its furnishings. |
| Gut | phr | "To Know in One's Gut(s)" - 'my instinct tells me that...' |
| Gutbucket | n | A very basic, unsophisticated form of jazz. 2. a strongly rhythmic emotionally, evocative uninhibited style of jazz. 3. a low place or dive. 3. a jazz musician who plays in low dives. 4. a bucket used to carry food and drink, thus inferior liquor and food. 6. a pompous fat person. 7. the belly, paunch. |
| Gut-buster | n | A very steep hill. 2. a very funny joke causing side-splitting laughter. 3. a diet aimed to reduce the size of one stomach. |
| Gutful | n | A sufficiency, quite as much of anything as one wants or cares to take. |
| Gut it out | phr | To be strong and resistant, be sturdily, stoic, persist. 2. tough it out. |
| Gutless | adj | Lacking in courage or power. 2. gut-less : cowardly, as in a gutless wonder. |
| Gut-less wonder | n | Coward, poltroon. |
| Gut-monger | n | A sodomite. |
| Gut-less wonder | n | Coward, poltroon. |
| Gutrot | n | A cheap wine or spirits. 2. unpalatable food. |
| Guts | n | Courage; impudence, insolence |
| Guts | n | The stomach. 2. the insides of a person, machine, an issue; viscera, innards. 3. the most essential part or material; the essence. nerve, stomach, intestinal fortitude. |
| Guts of Grunts | phr | Unpleasant person (Australia) |
| Gutsiness | n | Toughness, hardness, spiritness. 2. hungry, greedy. |
| Guts out | vb | To endure courageously. 2. hungry, greedy |
| Gutsy | adj | Tough, spirited, brave. 2. energetic and tough. |
| Gut through | vb | To endure courageously. |
| Gutted | adj | Deeply disappointed, sick and tired, fed up, utterly depressed. |
| Gutty | n | A very fat person. |
| Gutty | adj | Tough, spirited, brave. 2. forceful and assertive, gutsy. 3. of a hot rod: capable of high speed; having a powerful engine. |
| Anglish | sp. | English |
| Nail | n | A cigarette; marijuana cigarette. 2. a hypodermic syringe. |
| Nail | vb | To get hold of; to secure, to apprehend and arrest. 2. catch one out. 3. to punch, hit hard or squarely. 4. to shoot, kill someone. 5. to defeat or corner an opponent. 6. to identify, recognize. 7. to seduce, have sexual intercourse with. 8. to do something well, to master something. |
| Nail bender | n | A carpenter, 2. a blacksmith. |
| Nail biter | n | An anxious-provoking situation, esp. a close contest. |
| Nailed-up | adj | Drunk, intoxicated, sozzled. |
| Nailer | n | A policeman. |
| Nailhead | n | A fool, simpleton, dullard. |
| Nail-headed | adj | Folish, stupid, dull. |
| Nailing | n | Catching, arresting, apprehending. |
| Nail Someone's Hide to the Door" | phr | To punish severely. 2. to beat up comprehensively. |
| Narrow-assed | adj | Skinny, slim. |
| Narrow back | n | An Irish person, esp. a second-generation immigrant. 2. a protestant. 3. an Irish immigrant who returns fronm the US to lie in Ireland. |
| Narrow in the shoulder | phr | Lacking a sense of humor (the hunched shoulders of a miserable person.) |
| Narrow lane | n | The throat. |
| Naughties | n | Sexual relations, intercourse. |
| Naughty | phr | "Have a Naughty" - have sexual intercourse. |
| Naughty bits | n | Genitalia (male and female). |
| Neck and neck | phr | Even, parallel, equal |
| Needle man | phr | A conman who injects into gullible persons the idea or scheme of a sure way to get rich quick. 2. a doctor. |
| Needle time | n | The term "needle time" refers to (the number hours of broadcasting music) comes from the use (at the time) of gramophone records as the main source of recorded music, which were played on gramophone record players using a gramophone needle. |
| Needmore | n | A poor, needy, under-privileged person. |
| Newshawk | n | A newspaper reporter |
| New wrinkle | phr | A new idea, plan or scheme |
| Nobody's home | phr | As in the phrase, "The lights are on, but nobody 's at home." meaning stupid, dull, dumb |
| No flies on him | phr | He is alert, able, clever, active |
| No go | phr | Lack of agreement |
| Nose | n | A police spy |
| Nose dive | phr | A failure, a rapid decline in business or prices |
| Nose to the grindstone | phr | Steadily at work, having no leisure |
| No great shakes | phr | Not very successful; mediocre |
| No likee | phr | Not well received or liked |
| No man's land | phr | Neutral territory between the front and the trenches; neutral territory in general |
| No nothing stop | phr | A remote, isolated, sparsely peopled railway stopping place |
| Not so hot | phr | Only fair, mediocre, medium. 2. undesirable |
| Nothing doing | phr | No; nothing more will happen or go on; used foe emphasis |
| Nothing to sneeze at | phr | Not to be ignored or belittle |
| Nothing to write home about | phr | Mediocre, trivial |
| Not on your life | phr | No, used for emphasis |
| Not with it | phr | Mentally unalert, unobservant, not on the ball, dim-witted |
| No two ways about it | phr | certain, settle, clear |
| Nuts over | phr | Infatuated with or wild some person or thing, usu a man who is "nuts over" a woman |
| Anglish | sp | English |
| Pan | n | The face |
| Pan | vb | To berate |
| Panhandler | n | A beggar |
| Pan out | phr | To turn out, end, to result in |
| Phishing | n | Any attempt to trick victims into sharing sensitive information such as passwords, usernames, and credit card details for malicious reasons. The attackers often disguise themselves as a trustworthy entity and make contact with their target via email, social media, phone calls. |
| Pickings | n | The odds and ends of profit; the results of begging |
| Picky | adj | Careful in choosing; fastidious |
| Pigheaded | adj | A stubborn person |
| Pig whisper | n | A grunt. |
| Pike | n | A highway, road, sidewalk; a railway |
| Pinebox at the Bedside - lid off" | phr | - imminent death. |
| Play a lone hand | phr | To work, live or travel alone; to avoid any dependence on others; to achieve or bring about something singlehandedly |
| Played out | phr | Fatigued, exhausted, used up, gone; ended up |
| Plough | n | The penis; see 'furrow' |
| Pretty soft | phr | Easy, providing good returns for small effort |
| Pretty-up | vb | To beautify or make-up oneself |
| Pull a fast one | phr | To cheat, swindle, |
| Pull for | phr | Favour, assist |
| Pull the wool | phr | To deceive, cheat |
| Pull up | phr | Recovery after depression |
| Pully-bone | phr | A wishbone |
| Put the arm on | phr | To arrest or restrain. |
| Put it on ice | phr | To suspend action on something; to not proceed immediately |
| Put it over | phr | Deceive, hoodwink, betray, befool |
| Put on the dog | phr | To make a display; to show off |
| Put the finger on | phr | To point out someone to the police |
| Put the wind up | phr | To fighten, to cause one to fear |
| Put up or shut up | phr | Prove it or keep quite |
| Anglish | sp. | English |
| Rags | n | Clothes |
| Rain blows | phr | To hit several times in quick succession |
| Rainbow's end | n | Hospital mortuary, especially one that it cares for infants and young children. |
| Rain cats and dogs | phr | To rain very hard |
| Rake over the coals | phr | To reprimand; to reprove |
| Rake off | phr | An illegitimate profit; a share in money obtain by questionable methods |
| Rammer | n | An arm |
| Rat | n | An informer; a betrayer |
| Raw | adj | Unfair, usually in the expression "a raw deal" |
| Readying | adj | Making ready; preparing |
| Recklesome | adj | Reckless |
| Red-blooded | adj | Vigorous, energetic, courageous |
| Red eye | phr | Ketchup; tomato sauce |
| Redneck | n | A rustic, an uncouth person. |
| Red-necked | adj | Ill-tempered, angry |
| Red-pipe | n | Artery. |
| Rib | vb | To tease,annoy, send up. |
| Ride Old Smokey | phr | To be executed in and by the electric chair. |
| Right | adj | Sympathetic; friendly, fair |
| Right as rain | phr | Absolutely correct |
| Right-hand man | phr | A trusted assistant; assistant foreman |
| Ringman | n | A boxer, fighter; prizefighter |
| Ring off | phr | Stop talking; keep still |
| Ring the glim | phr | To turn on the light |
| Riser | n | That which stirs one to action; a galvaniser |
| Road show | phr | A traveling show |
| Roar | vb | To complain |
| Rope in | phr | To defraud a person; to inveigle, decoy, or swindle |
| Rotten | adj | Inferior or worthless, as "That was a rotten show." |
| Rotten apple | phr | A bad, untrustworthy inividual |
| Rotten deal | phr | Unfair treatment |
| Rotter | n | A niggardly person |
| Rot Welsh | n | Slang, street yelp, weed-words, street talk. |
| Rough going | phr | A hard and trying situation |
| Roughhouse | n | A noisy carousal; violent quarreling or fighting; to carry on in such a manner |
| Roughneckness | n | Coarseness; vulgarity; brutality |
| Rough string | phr | A partly trained team of workers, sportsmen or any group |
| Rough up | phr | To treat one harshly |
| Run at the mouth | phr | To talk excessively |
| Run away with the show | phr | To attract much attention to oneself; to be a standout |
| Run it into the ground | phr | To overdo; to carry it too far |
| Running towards the light | phr | Dying, in the death throes, moribund. |
| Run ragged | phr | Exhausted; fatigued |
| Run up against | phr | To meet with a person or problem, especially by chance. |
| Rust | n | Money. |
| Anglish | sp. | English |
| Off one's feed | phr | Sick, ill. indisposed |
| Old man's friend | phr | Pneumonia, an illness that often carries off peacefully the elderly. |
| Old salt | n | A sailor |
| Oldster | n | An elderly person |
| Old smokey | phr | The electric chair; old smokey |
| Old-timer | n | An experienced person. 2. One who has inhabitated one place or area during many decades |
| Old top | phr | A close friend, a pal. |
| On a bender | phr | On a drinking spree; in dipsomania mode. |
| Once in a blue moon | phr | Very seldom, rarely, not often. |
| Once-over | n | A casual view; a glance; a superficial examination; a hasty preparation; as in the expression "I gave him the once-over." |
| One-horse | adj | Small, trifling, petty; as in the expression, " We arrived in a one-horse town." |
| One-night stand | phr | A casual and brief sexual encounter. 2. A performing engagement for one night only |
| On one's own | phr | Independent; free; dependent on oneself; self-reliant |
| Onsnithe | vb | cut up (<OE onsnīðan) |
| On tap | phr | Scheduled; available |
| On-the-go | n | Very active; lively; in motion; as in the expression, "He is always on-the-go." |
| On-the-in | n | In favour; in good standing |
| On the make | phr | Succeeding; |
| On the mark | phr | Accurate, correct, true |
| On the shelf | phr | Unmarried, dateless; not presently in active use or consideration |
| On the way out | phr | Finished, washed up, fading, has been |
| On top of the heap | phr | Highly successful; very prominent.On top of the world is a variant. |
| Openers | n | A cathartic pill |
| Open up | phr | To become confidential; to reveal private matters |
| Out | n | An out, meaning an alibi, reason, excuse |
| Out at the elbows | phr | Financially poor; needy |
| Outdoor | vb | To throw one over; to discontinue relations with one |
| Out for blood | phr | Eager to take revenge for a previous wrong (or defeat); determined to win |
| Outstander | n | An oustaanding person, book, artwork, etc. |
| Overboard | adj | Overdone; superfluous |
| Overshare | vb | To offer inappropriate disclosure concerning one's personal life to others. |
| Oversharer | n | One who offers inaapropriate disclosure concerning one's personal's life to others. |
| Over the top | phr | Excessive in behaviour |
| Owl | n | A night-time streetwalker; a nocturnal skank |
| Anglish | sp | English |
| Salt | n | Often as an "Old salt." meaning sailor |
| Salt away | v | to store, put away, hide |
| Salty | adj | Angry |
| Salve | n | Flattery |
| Sand | n | Grit, courage, staying power. 2. sugar |
| Sap sucker | phr | An extortionist |
| Sawbones | n | A doctor |
| Sawdust brains | phr | A fool, empty-head |
| Sawdust land | phr | Circus life |
| Schoolie | n | A student celebrating the end of secondary-school days, usually in a riotous manner, frequently involving drinking too excess. |
| Scream | n | Anything high entertaining, as in the saying "That a scream." |
| Screamer | n | Newspaper headline in large type; cf."Screamer" |
| Screw | n | A prison guard; |
| Screw loose | phr | Mentally unbalanced |
| Sea-dust | n | Salt |
| See a man about a dog | phr | An excuse |
| See daylight | phr | To visualise a way out of a difficult situation |
| Seedy | adj | Uncouth, rough, uncultivated, shabby, low-dive,"Skin-shows everywhere were found in that seedy red-light strip." |
| See-you | n | A see-you: an impatient customer; customer impatient to be served or waited upon. |
| Selfy shot | n | A photograph of oneself on a cell-phone. |
| Sell one on | phr | To convince one mind and persuade one to action |
| Sellout | n | All seats sold to a particular event, sporting or cultural etc. |
| Sell out | phr | To sacrifice one's principle for money or position; betray |
| Sell short | phr | To talk pessimistically of the prospect outcome of event or situation |
| Sent up | phr | Sentenced to a term in prison |
| Set down | phr | To land a plane |
| Settle the score | phr | To avenge past results or setbacks; take revenge |
| Set up | n | A situation planned to put a third party in a position of weakness, possibly to be murdered, duped or financially ripped-off. 2. Any situation or experience. 3. an easy course. 4. |
| Sew up | phr | To get control of; to have power over; to make certain; to make victory sure; to arrange; to contract. |
| Shackle-bone | n | The wrist. |
| Shackledom | n | Marriage. 2. imprisonment. |
| Shackle-foot | n | An awkward person; a convict; prisoner |
| Shadow | n | To follow and observe; to spy; a person who trails and watches another |
| Shade | v | To win or overcome another by the narrowest of margins |
| Shady | adj | Of doubtful morality, questionable ethics; corrupt |
| Shake | n | A moment, as in"In a shake." |
| Shakedown | n | To extort; blackmail, bribe |
| Shake on it | phr | To reach an agreement. |
| Shanks | adj | A tall ungainly person |
| Shark | n | A crafty person who lives by sharp and cunning practices and is suspected of swindling. |
| Sharp | n | A crook; a criminal |
| Sharp | adj | In the best possible form and condition, physically and mentally |
| Sharpen up | phr | To prepare oneself; to be ready |
| Shave | n | A narrow escape |
| Shell out | phr | To pay; contribute |
| Shell shock | phr | Nervousness, fear, fright, overwhelm by a confronting situation |
| Sheltered honey | phr | A pampered honey; a shrinking violet |
| She (he) would | phr | This is just like him (her); that is the kind of person she (he) is. |
| Shagged | adj | Absolutely exhausted; tired out |
| Shiftie | n | An undependable girl; a cheater, a heartbreaker; false-heart lover |
| Shine up to | phr | To show special attention to a person |
| Shinny | vb | To climb a rope or a pole |
| Shithead | n | An unintelligent person (see "Dimwit", "Dipshit", "Fucknugget", and "Fuckwit") |
| Shirtdom | n | Males collectively; men in general |
| Shoot off at the mouth | phr | To talk excessively; to talk insincerely; to boast or brag; to do much talking |
| Shoot the moon | phr | To attempt the near or almost impossible. |
| Shoot the works | phr | To make every effort no matter the cost |
| Shop talk | n | Language and words peculiar to a particular group or sub-culture. 2. an in-tongue, in-talk |
| Shortend | n | The losing end, the bad end of the deal |
| Short-timer | n | A prison who has a short time to serve |
| Shoves | n | Crooks and criminals |
| Shower stick | n | Umbrella |
| Show one's hand | phr | To reveal one's situation and attitude |
| Show one the door | phr | To reject an offer; to terminate an meeting; to dismiss |
| Show-rooming | n | The practice of visiting showrooms to ascertain prices of goods and products, before buying them on-line. |
| Show up | phr | To appear; to be on hand |
| Shroud | n | A suit of clothes |
| Shuteye | n | Sleep |
| Shutters | n | The eyes |
| Shut your beak | phr | Be quiet; stop talking, keep still |
| Shyturd | adj | Constipated. |
| Shy-turdness | n | Constipation. |
| Sick as a dog | phr | Very sick |
| Side kick | phr | A partner; a close friend |
| Sidestep | vb | To shirk work or responsibility |
| Sidewalk snail | phr | A policeman; a policeman on foot patrol |
| Sightsee | vb | To travel for the purpose of viewing and observing |
| Silver-sucker | n | A clarinet |
| Sit-in | phr | A form of protest, often by University students, where they occupy the building or offices of the organisation, they are protesting against. |
| Sitting pretty | phr | Comfortably and advantageously situated. |
| Sit-upons | n | The Buttock, rump, derriere, bottom, arse. |
| Skin a wicked eye | phr | To give someone a wicked eye; leer. |
| Skin game | phr | The pornography industry |
| Skin-house | n | Any establishment providing pornographic entertainment |
| Skinnish | adj | Inclined to be thin or skinny |
| Sleepy hollow | n | Erstwhile, a part of a cemetery where paupers were burial by the State. 2. still hill. |
| Slick | adj | Good; first-class; effective. 2. attractive, likeable, desirable |
| Slick as a whistle | phr | In a skilfull manner; without difficulty; |
| Slicked up | phr | Clean; neat, trim |
| Slicker | n | A person who cheats another |
| Slip-stick | n | A trombone |
| Sloppy | adj | Careless; slovenly; over-sentimental |
| Slough | n | Prison; jail; incarceration. 2. the closing of a show |
| Slough | n | A patient inappropriately or unfairly unloaded from one hospital to another. |
| Sloughed | adj | Arrested |
| Slowfoot | n | A plodding person |
| Small time things | phr | Trifles, bagatelles; inferior performances, inferior products |
| Smarts | n | Intelligence, wits, brains. |
| Smarty | n | An upstart; a conceited person; one who tries to be clever or witty |
| Smells and Bells | phr | A style of religious worship emphasizing high ritual, including use of vestments, bells and incense, especially that of High Church Anglicanism or Anglo-Catholicism. Also 'Bells and Smells' |
| Smelly-bridge | n | Area between the anus and the back of the scrotum; the perineum. |
| Smoke eater | n | A heavy smoker, one who smokes daily |
| Smoke-stick | n | A cigarette |
| Smoking irons | n | A revolver. |
| Smoothie | n | An elegant person or attractive person; sometimes one who is unctious and deceitful. |
| Snakehead | n | Headman in the people smuggling rackets |
| Snowbird | n | A cocaine addict. 2. a grey nomad, a silver nomad; a coffin dodger. |
| Snowed under | phr | Overwhelmed, swamped, deluged by the task at hand |
| Soap | n | Flattery, insincere talk, softsoap, soft stuff, blarney |
| Soapbox | n | An informal platform at a street corner or park."A soapboxer" : an agitator, a speaker who tries to arouse people against the established order |
| Soapbox | vb | To speak from such a platform; to speak radically; to agitate or inflame |
| Softhead | n | A foolish person |
| Soft heel | n | A detective |
| Softship | n | Ease and comfort in general |
| Soft soap | n | Flattery, insincere talk, blarney; bribe. |
| Sore | adj | Angry; annoyed |
| Sorehead | n | A complaining person |
| Sour | adj | Worthless;(an investment); unwise |
| Sour on | phr | As in the expression,"Go sour on." with the meaning to change from liking to disliking a person or a thing. To be sour is to dislike, detest or hate. |
| Sour top | phr | A disagreeable person |
| Spar | vb | To wrangle or debate |
| Sparrow | n | An undersized person |
| Sparkler | n | A diamond ring; diamonds; precious gems in general |
| Spear-phishing | n | A targeted attempt to steal sensitive information such as account credentials or financial information from a specific victim, often for malicious reasons. This is achieved by acquiring personal details on the victim such as their friends, hometown, employer, locations they frequent, and what they have recently bought online. The attackers then disguise themselves as a trustworthy friend or entity to acquire sensitive information, typically through email or other online messaging. This is the most successful form of acquiring confidential information on the internet. Spear-phishing can easily be confused with phishing because they are both online attacks on users that aim to acquire confidential information. Phishing is a broader term for any attempt to trick victims into sharing sensitive information such as passwords, usernames, and credit card details for malicious reasons. The attackers often disguise themselves as a trustworthy entity and make contact with their target via email, social media, phone calls (often called “vishing” for voice-phishing), and even text messages (often called “smishing” for SMS-phishing).
Unlike spear-phishing attacks, phishing attacks are not personalized to their victims, and are usually sent to masses of people at the same time. T |
| Speech-weed | n | Slang, cant, jargon. |
| Spell | n | To relieve by turn; to take a turn at work; a rest; a short period; a short distance; an abnormal physical or mental condition. |
| Spill | v | To talk, tell, reveal secrets ."To spill the beans." is to divulge a secret and spoil the plan or undertaking. |
| Spindle | n | The penis |
| Spindleshanks | n | A tall, slender person |
| Spineless | adj | Lacking in courage and will power |
| Spinning time | phr | Bedtime |
| Spitfire | n | A sharp-tongued woman |
| Spit it out | phr | To say, to tell, to reveal |
| Spoonfed | adj | Pampered, babied, cosseted |
| Spread | n | A banquet, feast, dinner (on a large spread) |
| Spread oneself | phr | To make a special effort to please by attending to the needs of all |
| Spring chicken | phr | An immature, inexperienced person; usually in the expression,"She's no spring chicken." |
| Stand-offish | adj | Haughty, unfriendly; keep at a distance |
| Standout | n | An outstanding performer; aa person or performer who gets the most attention |
| Stand-up | phr | Fail to keep an appointment, date |
| Starchy | adj | Overly formal; haughty, stiffness in manner |
| Stayput | v | To remain unchanged in position or in nature |
| Stay with it | phr | Persevere, "He stayed with it until he made good." |
| Steady | n | A long-term, committed girlfriend or boy-f(r)iend |
| Steal the headlines | phr | To make sensational news; to be extremely newsworthy; |
| Stems | n | Legs |
| Stenchbane | n | Deodorant. 2. air freshener. |
| Step-fatherland | n | An adopted country; step-motherland. |
| Step on it | phr | To increase speed, hurry up; to enliven, stimulate, to become more active or alert |
| Stick-in-the-mud | phr | A ultra-conservative person; one hesitate to take a chance; a person slow to respond. |
| Sticks | n | "The Sticks" The regions away from the big cities; although sometimes applied to the outer suburbs of a metropolis. 2. small towns |
| Stick-to-it-ness | n | Perseverance,"Stick-at-it-ness" is a variant; as is the phrase, "stick with it" |
| Stick it to the Man | phr | A phrase encouraging resistance to authority and essentially fight back or resist either passively, openly or via sabotage. |
| Stick-up | n | An armed robbery; a hold-up. |
| Sticky beak | phr | An inquisitive person |
| Sticky end | n | An unhappy end, often sad or tragic |
| Stiff | n | A dead body; a corpse, a cadaver. 2. an uncompanionable person |
| Stiff-necked | adj | Stubborn, obstinate, overly steadfast; fastidious |
| Still-hill | n | Cemetery, graveyard, necropolis |
| Sting | n | A reasonably large sum of money obtained by some form of deception or trickery. 2. Any form of robbery, such as a complex fraud, planned well in advance. 3. A police undercover operation set up to catch alleged criminals |
| Stink apple | n | The onion. |
| Stone fox | n | A very attractive woman. |
| Stone licker | n | The lamprey. |
| Stone on the chest | phr | Tuberculosis |
| Stones | n | Diamonds and gems. 2. testicles. |
| Stooly | n | One who informs on others; a police informer; astoolo. |
| Stranded | adj | Without financial resources; penniless; bankruptct |
| Strapped | adj | Extremely short of cash, financially troubled; almost penniless |
| Streamer | n | A newspaper headline that runs across more than half of the page; cf."Screamer" |
| Street-sleeper | n | One lives on the streets; a homeless person. 2. a rough-sleeper. |
| Street-sleeper-dom | n | The realm or sub-culture of the homeless or street people. 2. rough-sleeperdom. |
| Street yelp | n | Slang, street talk, undignified catchphrases. 2. rot-Welsh, weedwords. |
| Strides | n | Trousers |
| Strike up with | phr | To meet a person by chance |
| Stringer | n | A female pop-singer whose act is somewhere between a stripper and a singer. |
| String along | phr | To cheat; deceive, hoodwink |
| String loose | phr | Mentally unbalanced |
| Strings | n | Conditions |
| String up | phr | To hang; to execute by hanging |
| Stripper-whisperer | n | A smooth talking male who possesses the uncanny ability to disarm the generally emotionally-guarded stripper, finding out her real name, phone number, thus enabling him to set up a date with her outside club hours. |
| Strong arm | phr | To overcome by physical force; forceful action; to assault; to rob by violence; a thug; a hold-up man; a prison guard |
| Strong for | phr | Decidedly in favour of |
| Strut one's thing | phr | To display one's skill; to dance with style and skill |
| Stuck on | phr | Enamoured by; in love with. |
| Stuck with | phr | Encumbered with; forced to carry or continue; unable to get rid of, as"Now she stuck with that slow and dim-witted, mentally unalert husband." |
| Stung | adj | Cheated; swindled; fooled |
| Sucker | n | A victim or a robbery; a witness in a criminal; a gullible person |
| Sucker trap | n | A devise or scheme for swindling people |
| Suck up | phr | To curry favour, crawl, make a sycophant of one's self, toady |
| Sunday best | hr | Good clothes, manners, conduct or food |
| Sundayish | adj | Boring; uninteresting |
| Sunk | adj | Unfortunate; unlucky as in " I'm sunk!" |
| Sunshine | n | Gold |
| Swallow | vb | To believe or accept eagerly; especially something improbable or exaggerated; variant"To swallow hook, line and sinker." |
| Swear off | phr | To resolve to abstain from some action, especially from the derinking of intoxicating liquor |
| Sweet line | n | Persuasive talk |
| Sweet-milk | n | Propofol (Diprivan) slows the activity of one's brain and nervous system. It is milky in appearance and is used to help one's relax before and during general anesthesia for surgery or other medical procedures. Also known as "Mother's Milk" |
| Sweet sixteen | phr | A young, attractive girl. |
| Swell | n | A showy person;"swellish" stylish, fashionable |
| Swell | adj | Good, successful, excellent, wonderful, delightful |
| Swell getaway | n | A good start or beginning |
| Swelldom | n | The society world |
| Swingland | n | The realm or world of swinging. |
| Swordnithler | n | Foe armed with a sword (<OE sweordġenīðla)pl:swordnithren (<OE sweordġenīðlan) |
| Anglish | sp. | English |
| Quean | n | A promiscuous woman; hussy, a whore, skank, skanky-ho |
| Queen | n | A woman, especially a wealthy and gracious one; 2. a male homosexual, esp. one who ostentatiously takes the feminine role. 3. An effiminate man. 4. A highly attractive girl, as in a beauty queen. |
| Queening | n | Flirting; making love, |
| Quencher | n | A beer or another liquor drink |
| Quickie | n | Anything done or taken very hastily; something rushed, as a quickie divorce. 2. The sex act done very quickly. 3. a cheaply made motion picture. |
| Anglish | sp | English |
| Tail | n | A woman as a sex object. |
| Take | n | A cheat, swindler, scammer; deceive. 2. The box-office receipts:"The Take or The Takings." ' |
| Take a licking | phr | To lose; to get poor results; to end in defeat |
| Take a shot | phr | To take a chance; make an effort |
| Take in | phr | To cheat, deceive, scam; defraud |
| Take it on the chin | phr | To absorb the punishment/disappointment and move on |
| Take the bit between one's teeth | phr | To assert one's independence; to act assertively |
| Talk up oneself | phr | To boast; to talk arrogantly. |
| Talking iron | phr | A pistol, a revolver, gun |
| Talkshop | n | A place where a lot of talk takes place, but usually without much action. |
| Tall stepping | phr | Excellent performing; good playing; outstanding |
| Teapot | n | A locomotive, train, especially a steam train. |
| Tell the World | phr | To say loudly, emphatically and somewhat boastfully. |
| Ten sack | n | A small bag of illegal or illicit drugs, usually marijuana. |
| Thank-you work | phr | Gratuitous work. |
| That kind | phr | A person or thing that is regarded as inferior or disagreeable is said to be that kind |
| Thick as thieves | phr | Very friendly |
| Thimble-knight | n | A tailor |
| Think box | n | Bran. |
| Thinker | n | "The thinker: the brain. |
| Thistle-digger | n | Countrified person; a rustic; bumpkin, hick |
| Thoroughgood | n | A thoroughly good person |
| Thrash | vb | To defeat; beat in a sporting event |
| Three-toed sloth | n | A patient with diminished capacities, usually from long-term abuse of alcohol and/or addictive drugs. |
| Throat-latch | n | Larynx |
| Throughshine | vb | Shine through (<OE þurhscīnan) |
| Throwaway | n | Advertising circular; a letter box bill |
| Throw the book at | phr | To give a law violator the maximum sentence |
| Thrown together | phr | A makeshift outfit or combination; unattractive |
| Thumber | n | A hitchhiker |
| Thistle-chins | n | Local residents (a circus word). |
| Thusness | n | A manner, method, or extent |
| Tie the knot | phr | To perform a marriage; get or become married |
| Timber-wolf | n | A lumberjack, timberjack or logger |
| Time-needy | n | Those people who struggle to find a work/ life balance |
| Tin ear | phr | To eaves drop; to spy |
| Tin fish | n | A torpedo (navy slang). |
| Tinhornland | n | The world of petty gamblers, betters and punters. |
| Tinshin off | vb | To abscond with money |
| Tish | n | Excrement; a metathesis of 'shit' |
| Toesmithing | n | Dancing |
| Toe the line | phr | To obey orders; to meet all requirements with meticulous care. |
| Toolie | n | A older man (25-35yrs) who preys upon drunken and disoriented schoolies . |
| Top | vb | To hang; to be executed by hanging. |
| Top dog | n | The chief man in the organisation |
| Topmost rung | phr | First place |
| Top off | ph | To assassinate; to execute |
| Topped | adj | Assassinated; executed ' |
| Top shape | phr | Excellent condition; first class |
| Top the standing | phr | To take the first place among(st) competitors |
| Tough | adj | Rough, vicious, aggressive, difficult; unfortunate; too bad (see "Tough shit") |
| Tough | n | A "Tough" a violent, aggressive thug and stand-over man |
| Tough going | phr | A hard an difficult situation. |
| Tough shit | phr | Too bad (see "Tough") |
| Tough stick | n | A patient whose veins are too hard to find when drawing blood. |
| Trimmings | n | Money swindle from gullible people |
| Tucks | n | Rheumatism |
| Tumbleset | n | A somersault |
| Turf it | phr | To go on foot; walk |
| Twelvhynde and Twihynde | phr | The rich and the poor |
| Twinklers | n | The eyes |
| Two-mug | n | Traitor, duplicitous person, double-crosser |
| Two-mugged | adj | Duplicitous |
| Two-fisted | adj | Vigorous, forceful, energetic |
| Two-time | vb | To deceive; to play one falsely; to cheat; to betray; to double-cross; to be a false-hearted lover |
| Anglish | sp. | English |
| Uffish | a. | Uppish and selfish |
| Under a cloud | phr | In trouble, in difficulty |
| Under-belongings | n | The vagina |
| Underdog | n. | A person who occupies an inferior position; a person who is oppressed |
| Underdone | adj | One with a pale complexion. 2. not fully finished or completed; inchoate |
| Under one's own steam | phr | To do something alone and unaided |
| Under the hammer | phr | In trouble; at a disadvantage |
| Under the lap | phr | Confidentially, clandestine |
| Under the weather | phr | Ill, indisposed, sick, far from well |
| Unthimble | vb | To rob, steal from. |
| Unthimbled | adj | Robbed. |
| Unwashed | n | "The Unwashed or The Great Unwashed", referring to beatniks, uni students and those protesting against or disagreeing with the establishment. |
| Up against it | adv phr. | In hard straits; in a difficult position. To be up against poverty, unemployment, sickness, or a problem is to be compelled to meet it and undergo the exoerience involved. |
| Up anchor | phr | Leave, get out |
| Up and at | phr | To undertake, to attack |
| Up and coming | phr | Able and alert; showing promise of achievement |
| Up and up | phr | Success; succeeding; doing well. Usually in the phrase "on the up and up", meaning progressing, improving, or succeeding |
| Up-hill business | phr | A difficult task. |
| Upped | adj | Increased, as in 'Taxes are being upped.' |
| Upset the apple cart | phr | To spoil a plan; to ruin an undertaking |
| Up to | phr | Engaged in; planning, especially something evil, as "What is he up to now?" Incumbent on, as "It is up to you to prove yourself capable." |
| Usward | adv | Towards us. |
| Anglish | sp. | English |
| Vathead | n | An alcoholic |
| Veertide | n | Springtime (<ME veertyme) |
| Vixen | n | Gorgeous, intelligent woman, who loves partying. 2. a very attractive woman. 3. a mean woman. 3 a flirtatious woman |
| Vixen hunting | phr | A practice by some men who search pubs and clubs for women to seduce |
| Vixen law | phr | A example proffered in argument or discussion, too far removed from possibility to be true. |
| Anglish | sp | English |
| Y'all | n | Salutation |
| Yardrat | n | The possum. |
| Yarning | vb | To tell tales |
| Yieldy | adj | Fertile, as in "yieldy" field |
| Yellow-livered | adj | Cowardly |
| Yellowstone water | phr | Hooch; moonshine |
| Yellow-streak | n | Cowardice, unindependenceness |
| Yepping | n | Subservience; servility; truckling |
| Yes-man | n | An acquiescent follower; a person who lacks independence of thought |
| You aint seen nothing yet | phr | The worst is yet to come; the best is yet to come |
| You and me both | phr | That is right; I agree with you. |
| You know | phr | An indefinite substitute name for any contrivance or device. |
| Young hopeful | phr | A recruit with potential |
| Young timer | phr | A youthful person; an inexperienced person |
| You're on | phr | It is agreed; it isa bargain |
| You tell'em | phr | I agree with what you just said; |
| Youthen | vb | To renew youthful looks |
| Youward | adv | Towards you |
| Anglish | sp. | English |
| Wade in | phr | To begin, initiate, start a fight |
| Wagster | n | A wit; a joker; a fellow |
| Walk into | phr | To attack a person; to begin a task |
| Walkover | n | To decisive defeat |
| Walk-up | n | An apartment that is not provided with a lift or elevator: one you walk up to. |
| Warm up | phr | To be enthuiastic about a subject or friendly to a person; variant " To warm to." |
| Warm words | phr | A profanity |
| Warts and witches | phr | A distasteful atmosphere |
| Wash | n | A gully orr a gulch |
| Washboardy | adj | Rutted; ribbed; rough |
| Washed up | phr | Exhausted; worn out; finished or ended, lost or broken as in a relationship "They were all washed up." |
| Washery | n | A place where washing is done. |
| Washout | n | A failed outcome |
| Watch | n | A working shift |
| Watch your step | phr | Be alert; do not let yourself be fooled |
| Wavelength | n | "To be on the same wavelength." is to agree with and support the opinion of an other. |
| Way-back | n | An old-fashioned person |
| Weary-wart | n | A disagreeable person |
| Weasel | n | A scandal-monger. 2. an informer |
| Weasel words | phr | A statement that changes the fundamental meaning of a previous statement |
| Weathercandel | n | Sun (<OE wedercandel) |
| Weed | n | Tobacco; marijuana. 2 To solicit alms |
| Weed out | phr | To remove; cull; separate |
| Weedwords | n | Slang, rot-Welsh, street-yelp. |
| Week-end minded | phr | To think chiefly of getting away from work; as in "The Easy-beats" song: " Friday on my mind' |
| Weigh in | phr | To involve oneself in an argument or issue. |
| Weight | n | Influence; sway; importance |
| Well heeled | adj | Well supplied with money and property; well-to-do |
| Well shod | phr | In comfort circumstances; wealthy |
| Whale on | phr | To strike an opponent heavily and repeatedly in a fight. 2. to beat heavily on anything |
| Whale tail | n | Whale tail is the Y-shaped waistband of a thong or G-string when visible above the waistline of low-rise jeans, shorts, or a skirt that resembles a whale's tail. Intentionally or unintentionally, a whale tail is exposed above the trousers mostly when sitting or bending, or even while standing |
| What it takes | phr | The means; money |
| What's eating you | phr | What is worrying you; or causing you anxiety or stress |
| What have you | phr | An indefinite substitute for any name, often at an end of a series, as " A Mercedes, an Audi, A Ferrari, or what have you." Often equivalent to et cetera. |
| What's the go | phr | (What Goes) - state of affairs, what's happening. |
| Wheel | n | As in "big Wheel" an important person; leader |
| Wheel-horse | n | A person, especially a politician, who shows no independence, but unquestionably follows the lead of someone else |
| Wheels in the Head | phr | Mentally unbalanced; insane |
| Whichcraft | n | Writing |
| Which-what | n | An indefinite substitute name for any contrivance or device |
| Whisper-low | n | A speak-easy. |
| Whistle-stop | n | Any small town |
| White | adj | Honest, fair, reliable |
| White-choker | n | Priest, reverend, minister of religion, clergyman; speliend, godsmith, soul-whisperer, make-god, man of the cloth; ghostly-father. 2. a goat, a crow. |
| White stuff | phr | Cocaine |
| Whitewash | vb | To cover up any defects or shortcomings; statements that attempt to do this. |
| Whittle | vb | To reduce expenses. |
| Whore Out | phr | To prostitute, take advantage of, exploit, show off; to hire out or provide to others like a whore; to pimp, swap one's sex partner. |
| Whore's eyes | n | The eyes of a cheating whore wife. One who cares not for wedding vows or morals |
| Why-for | n | The reason; as "I'll tell you the why-for." |
| Wide-on | n | A sexually aroused vagina. 2. state of female sexual arousal. |
| Widow maker | phr | A dangerous hanging limb of a tree |
| Wild about | phr | Devoted to; wild about |
| Wild and woolly | phr | Uncouth; reckless |
| Wildcat | adj | To take part in highly speculative enterprise; unsound; fraudulent, or very questionable; an enterprise of this kind. |
| Win by a whisker | phr | To win by a small margin |
| Windows | n | The eyes |
| Wind up | phr | To finish; the finish, to have as an end result 2. To wind someone up: to fool |
| Windy | adj | Talkative, boastful; noisy; |
| Winning ways | phr | A habit of winning; a record of many victories |
| Winter and Spring yoke | phr | A marriage in which one of the partners is much older than other (obsolete) |
| Wiper | n | An assassin; hitman; hired killer |
| Wire-haired | adj | Cocksure; self-confident |
| Wirepulling | n | Exerting secret influence, especially in political matters. A person who does this is a wirepuller; variant forms " pull the strings; string puller. |
| Wisdom's-weed | n | Marijuana; hemp, cannabis. |
| Wisecrack | n | A sarcastic remark; a statement that is intended to be clever. To make such remarks. One who makes such remarks. |
| Wise up | phr | To become shrewdly aware; get smart. Often as an exhortation: Wise up, don't you know that your best mate is f***ing your wife!" |
| Wishy-washy | adj | Lacking in strength and courage |
| Witch | n | An unattractive girl |
| Wolf | n | A degenerate, an assassin |
| Wolf | vb | To deceive; to betray. 2. To eat down like glutton; to scoff |
| Wolfland | n | An old nickname for Ireland. |
| Wolf tree | phr | An old tree that shuts off light needed by younger trees growing under it |
| Wonder water | n | Steroids. |
| Won going away | phr | Won with ease |
| Wood bee | phr | A party to gather and prepare fuel for some needy person |
| Wood foamer | n | A surfer (wooden (board) & foam (surf) |
| Wood head | phr | A stupid person |
| Wood shifter | n | A chess player. |
| Woody | adj | Foolish; insane |
| Wooden swearing | n. | Knocking furniture about as an expression of anger |
| Wordmonger | n. | A journalist; a hack writer |
| Wordsmith | n | A worker with words; a writer |
| Wordster | n | A dealer in words; a hack writer. |
| Word-wheeling | n | Loquacious-ness, garrulous speech, over-talkative-ness. |
| Work | vb | To gain favour of a person, especially by questionable methods. |
| Working the come-in | phr | Entertaining the audience before the main performance begins |
| Work oneself into a lather | n | To get excited or angry |
| Workwise | adj | Eager for work |
| Wrinkle | n | An idea; a plan; a device. |
| Wrinkly | n | An elderly man or woman |
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| ae | n (pluralae) | life; life, ferrow [OE ǽ]
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| abaft | adj | behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of; [OED]
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| aban | v | to publish, make known, bring out; proclaim, broadcast [OE. abannan]
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| abreast | adv | 1.Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted; 2.Side by side, facing forward; [First attested in the mid 15th century. From Middle English a (“on”) + brest (“breast”), in sense “breasts (chests) in line, side-by-side and exactly equally advanced”;[1] roughly “breast-by-breast”. Other senses of “equally advanced” developed metaphorically. Phrase keep abreast “keep informed, up to the same level as oneself” is from the 1650s.]
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| acraft | vb | to think out devise plan contrive as a craftsman; [OE acræftan]
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| addled | adj | tampered with or rendered unproductive; tampered, corrupted [uncommon with extension in meaning, from MEadel, foul, from OEadela, mud]
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| addleness | n | putrefaction; rotten-ness [adel, foul, from OEadela, mud &ness]
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| addleware | n | neologism: the array, variety and number of goods found on the shelves of supermarkets that confuse and sometimes muddle older customers.; [addle: muddle, confuse & ware: goods, products.]
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| adree | vb | endure, last, hold out.; suffer, bear, do [OE. dreogan: to do, endure, suffer]
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| adwell | vb | seduce; [OE adwellan]
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| afterfollower | n | successor, the one to come after; []
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| afanding | n | experience; [a- + fand 'try, test out' +-ing]
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| afold | adj | simple, single, one alone, singular, peculiar, matchless; onefold [OE. anfeald]
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| afore | prep, adv | (Archaic/dialectal) before; before, previously, whilom [OED, Still use in some English Dialects and Lowland Scots, OE onforan, ME aforen, aforne (A + fore)]
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| aforesaid | adj | mentioned earlier or previously; aforementioned, foregoing, forenamed, said [OED, Still in use. First documented in the 14th century. See the Origins of Afore + Said]
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| afgod | n | idol or false god; graven image [obsolete since AD1100, from OE af, of, aef, away +god 'superhuman deity']
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| akin | adj | alike or related by blood; similar, related, close, near, corresponding, comparable, of similar character. [MW, ENEof kin; arose in the mid 16th century.]
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| aleasand | n | deliverer, redeemer, liberator; [OE aliesend]
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| alehouse | n | a building in which ale can be bought and drunk; pub, tavern [uncommon, from OEeala-hus]
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| ale-spinner | n | a brewer; brewer [slang, from OEeala (ale) & spinnan"]
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| allhood | n | total; ['all' (all, universal, whole) + 'hood' (state of being)]
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| almsly | adj | charitable; [OE ælmeslic]
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| ananas | n | pineapple; [OE ananas]
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| andet | vb | admit, confess; [OE andhetan]
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| andward | adj | present; here; [from OE andweard]
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| andwork | n | physical substance; material, matter [from OEandweorc]
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| andy | adj | resentfully envious; jealous [OE andig]
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| anether | vb | humiliate; [ME anetheren]
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| anew | vb | renew; [OE edniwian]
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| anget | n | intellect; [OE andgiet]
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| antake (antaking) | vb | to subtract, to take from, to take apart; [Calque from NHG: ent+nehmen]
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| anvil | n | the lock (usually of iron) on which the smith hammers and shapes his metal; also fig; smithy's block [from OEanfilti an, & perhfiltan to weld]
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| aqueath | vb | declare, express; [OE acweðan]
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| aquell | vb | kill, destroy; [OE acwellan]
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| aquern | n | squirrel; [from OEacweorna]
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| argh | adj | cowardly, fearful; inert,lazy,; reluctant; frightened, timid, hesitant, craven [OE, still in northern dialect]
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| arveth | n | labour; [OE earfoðe]
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| ashun | vb | despise, reject; []
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| ask | n | a newt or eft, occ. also the lizard; asker, eft [OE aesxe: newt]
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| asking | n | a sentence or phrase that needs an answer; question, inquiry [neologism, formed on the basis of OEgeáscung, an inquiry, using modernask + -ING]
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| asp | n | a poplar (populus tremula), with greyish bark and spreading branches, the leaves of which are specialy tremulous. also attrib. the wood of this tree.; poplar [OE:æspae,æspe]
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| atel | adj | terrible; [OE atol]
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| athrick | vb | press, oppress; [OE aðryccan]
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| atspring | vb | to spring out; to gush forth, to rush forth, to spring up/forth/out, to spurt out [OE:ætspringan]
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| atstreng | n | to withhold wrongfully; suppress, repress [OE:ætstrengan]
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| atterloathe | n | antidote; [ME atterlothe]
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| atween | prep, adv | archaic word for between; between [OED, ME atwen, uncommon (still used in Lowland Scots)]
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| avond | n | evening; dusk, sunset, nightfall [PG*ēbanþs, OLFāvont, M.Duâvont, Du.]
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| ay | adv | always, ever; [OED]
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| callow | n | a low lying damp meadow, often bare.; marsh, [archaïc, from OE calu]
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| carecrows | n | women (or men) who are so devoted to, and fuss over their partners so much that they frighten them away.; [(new word)from care + crow, with scarecrow in mind.]
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| careworn | adj | showing signs of long-term stresses; [forbinding: care + worn]
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| caterwaul | vb | to make a high unpleasant noise like a cat; [OED]
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| chare | n | occasion; [OE ċierr]
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| chary | adj | sorrowful 2. dear, cherished. 3. careful, cautious, frugal, shy; sorrowful, cherished, cautious, shy [from OE ċearig]
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| cheavesborn | n | born out of wedlock; bastard/ illegitimate [OE. ċifesboren (MHG. die Kebse / concubine)]
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| chepstow | n | market; [OE ċeapstow]
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| chisness | n | fastidiousness; []
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| chyrtel | n | wedding gown; [OE ċyrtel,man's tunic orwoman's gown]
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| cluethink | v | to look for clues to find out an answer.; infer [compoundclue +think]
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| clamstone | n | a small shiny ball of nacre found within certains clams, used for jewelry and decoration; pearl [neologism, fromclam +stone]
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| clayware | n | articles made out of clay; []
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| clove | n | narrow valley with steep sides; [Dutch; akin to 'cleave']
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| comelithe | adj | hospitable; [OE cumliðe]
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| coreness | n | election; [OE corennes]
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| costen | vb | to try, tempt or prove; provoke, attract, allure, test [from OEcostnian by analogy with "fasten" fromfastnian]
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| cove | adj | active, strenuous, vigorous; [OE caf]
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| crabword | n | a word, verse or sentence that reads the same backwards or forwards.; palindrome [neologism, fromcrab +word. Crab a being which is happy going backwards or forward. Taken from Greek,karkinos.]
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| cradle to the grave | phr | lifespan, from birth to death.; 'womb to doom; lifespan [O.E.]
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| craftwork | n | an industrial site where electricity is wrought.; [neologism, fromcraft +work. Taken from German,kraftwerksee SV "kraftverk".]
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| cride | n | herb, spice; [see Du. kruid, NHG Kraut]
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| crusty-minded | adj | Old, gruff, surly of attitude.; [(new word) crusty & mind(ed).]
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| cudgel | n | a a short thick stick used as a weapon; club [OE cygel; not known except in Old English]
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| custy | adj | charitable, generous; [OE cystig]
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| cutter | n | person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally; tailor [extension of existing word, by analogy of Fr. 'tailour' lit. "cutter"]
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| cwicksilver | n | a chemical element, which is a silvery liquid at room temperature; mercury; [unknown]
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| backtalk | vb | talking behind someone's back; to gossip [compoundback +talk]
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| backbearing | n | a piece of text leading back to another article or paper.; [direct calque of Latin]
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| bakehouse | n | a shop where breads are baked and sold; bakery [extension of existing word, from compound ofbake 'to cook food in an oven' & house]
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| bane | n | a person or thing that ruins or spoils; that which causes death or destroys life; a deadly poison.; curse, nemesis, undoing [neologism, from OEbana slayer; that which destroys life; causes death, destruction, ruin or woe, as in a waterybane.]
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| banestead | n | a palace where people are not meant to live owing to the extremes and harshness of the climate, as a polar region.; hell on earth [neologism, from OEbana slayer. bane: cursed, woe.stead place in various applications.]
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| banewave | n | a very large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic explosion.; tsunami, killer wave [neologism, from OEbana slayer. Bane: that which destroys life; causes death, destruction, ruin or woe.Wave an advancing ridge or swell of liquid, as of the sea; a moving billow of water.]
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| baneworm | n | a huge, winged serpent with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire; dragon, Grendel [neologism, from OEbana slayer. Bane: that which destroys life; causes death, destruction, ruin or woe.wyrm a worm, snake, or serpent]
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| bareback | adj | without a saddle on the back of a horse that is being ridden; [CED]
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| bawse | adj | purple, scarlet, crimson; clam [OEbasu]
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| beadle | n | warrant, officer; [OE bydel]
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| bearing | n, adj | Meaning 1: fertile, fecund Meaning 2: behavior Meaning 3: tolerance Meaning 4: awareness or sense of direction; Varies by meaning [OE berend]
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| beclip | vb | encompass; [OED]
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| becloud | v | to obfuscate, or make muddled, to confuse an issue; confuse, beguile, deceive [existing rare English word, a compound of be- andcloud]
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| becraft | vb | to create or to craft; create, construct, bework [be+craft]
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| becrafter | n | one who becrafts; creator, editor [be+crafter]
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| becrafting | n or vb | creating or editing , can also mean a creation (as a nameword or noun); constructing, planner, coming up with, beworking/ creation, [be+crafting, (viz. becrafting an ettle at something)]
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| becrafted | vb (past tense) | past tense of becraft; created, beworked [be+crafted]
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| bede | vb | pray; [OE bedian]
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| bee | phr | like a working-bee in blossom dust; []
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| befit | vb | to be appropriate for; literally " to be fit for"; [be- + fit]
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| beforemath | n | the events and situations that lead to a particualr end; antecedence, here-to-fore, foregoings [neologism & antonymn of aftermath. From the Old English words:before &math a mowing]
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| beghast | vb | to inspire, inspire; enthuse; fill with shock, awe, wonder, or amazement; begeist [existing word; be- + ghast]
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| beglide | vb | accompany; [calque: Fr. begeliede, Du.begeleiden, NHG begleiten]
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| beginner-folk | n | aborigine.; [OE 'beginner & folk']
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| behet | vb | promise; [OE behatan]
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| bellowharp | n | accordeon; [forbinding]
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| benim | vb | deprive; [OE beniman]
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| berather | vb | to choose over or like better than something else; prefer [compound: be- + rather]
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| beshed | n/vb | n: distinction vb: dicriminate; [OE bescead(an)]
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| besnit | vb | pollute, dishonour; [OE besnitan]
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| besorrow | vb | to have compassion for; [OE besorgian]
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| beswape | vb | persuade; [OE beswapan]
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| beswike | vb | deceive; [OE beswican]
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| betimes | adv | Def 1: within a short time(historical usage) Def 2: early Def 3: on some occasions; early, sometimes, quickly [OED (Obsolete), MEbitimes,be+times; note that this word was still in use in the 18th century.]
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| betoken | vb | 1. symbolise 2.designate; to gossip [2. OE betacnian]
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| bewarp | vb | pervert; [beweorpan]
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| beway | vb | to move; [calque: from German "bewegen"]
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| bewise | vb | to show the truth or the being of (something) by evidence or reasoning.; to prove [calque: from German/other Germanic languages "beweisen"]
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| bilewhit | adj | innocent, sincere; [OE bilewit]
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| birl | vb | pour, serve drink to; [<ME birlen <OE byrelian]
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| bitter earth | n | in chemistry, an alkaline earth, now recognised as oxide of magnesium (MgO); magnesium [putting together of the OE words:bitter &earth]
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| bleeding edge | phr | something too new and untested to be considered reliable or to have an assurance of safety. fig. such place where such things exist, 'as the 'bleeding edge' of drone technology.' cf. 'cutting edge.'; cutting edge [OE]
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| bleeter | vb | to talk aimlessly; [Doric]
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| blissend | n | a quiet and easy death; means of procuring this; euthanasia [a blending of the OE words:bliss: happy end&send: easy death]
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| blome | n | metal; [OE blóma]
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| blood-month | n | the eleventh month of the year, so called because the heathen Anglo-Saxons sacrificed cattle to their gods; November [Anglo-Saxon, from Blōt-Mōnath]
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| bloomcole | n | cauliflower; [forbinding]
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| like a working-bee in blossom dust. | phr | a description of a miller at work.; []
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| bookcraft | n | creative writing of recognized artistic value, the humanistic study of written work; literature [OE boccræft]
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| bookly | adj | literary; [OE boclic]
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| booksmell | n | some students asked why they didn't use e-books, said they missed the smell of the paper book.; [OE book & smell]
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| book-whisperer | n | one who encourages the love of books and reading in children.; [OE boc & hwisprian & er]
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| boroughman | n | town citizen; [OE burhman]
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| boundness | n | obligation; [OE bundennes]
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| brambling | n | a winter visitor to Britain that breeds in northern parts of Eurasia; [OED]
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| brath | n | impetuousity, violence, ire; wrathful [dialectal, C15th-16th Northern dialects, from OEbraþþe < ME:braþ & ON:brað]
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| bread: it is good thing to eat brown bread first. | pvb | hardships are more easily endured in one's youth rather than in old age.; []
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| breme | adj | famous; [OE]
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| brock | n | a small mammal of the kindMeles meles, with black and white stripes on its head; badger [dialectual, from OEbrocc < Celtic]
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| brook | vb | to use, enjoy; [OED]
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| brownfield | n | an abandoned, contaminated industrial site; atterground [neologism; a putting together of OE words:brown &field]
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| burhsittend | n | a citizen; [burh - city + sittend - dweller]
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| byledish | adj | dialectical, uncommon; seldseen [?]
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| by-gone | adj | that has gone-by; things that are passed; deceased; arrears; the past(rare); former, past, happened [a putting together of OE words: by & gone]
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| byspel | n | example, proverb; [existing word from OEbispel]
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| ea | n | a flow of water over land, larger than a stream; river [dialectical, from OEea]
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| eady | adj | happy; [OE eadig]
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| earm | adj | poor, destitute, miserable; [OE]
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| earthfrod | n | geology; [calque of Icelandic jarðfræði; OE frōd = wise)]
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| earthkin | n | human race; [OE eorðcyn]
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| earthtilth | n | horticulture, agriculture; [OE earðtilð]
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| Easter-month | n | the fourth month of the year (named for the holiday); April [Anglo-Saxon, from Ēaster-mōnath]
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| ed- | pre | to do anew; re-; [OE ed-]
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| edstathling | n | reestablishment; [OE edstaðelung]
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| eftmind | vb | remember; [cf. OE eftmyndig]
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| egging | n | instigation, incitement; [ME eggyng]
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| eld | n | age (of folk asf); [CED]
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| elf arrows | n | arrowheads of flint used in hunting and war by the aborigines of the British Isles and of Europe generally, as they still are among native people elsewhere. Elf-Arrows derived their name from the folklore belief that they were used by the Elves to kill cattle and sometimes human beings in their mischief-joy.; none [elf: 'dwarf' - supernatural being; arrow- missile fired from a bow.]
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| elg | vb | defend; [OE ealgian]
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| ellen | n | zeal, strength, courage; [ME]
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| end-of-life-care | n | the physical and emotional care of terminally-ill patients, including the question of euthanasia.; [O.E.]
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| ethel | n | country, land; []
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| ettin | n | giant; [OE eoten]
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| ere | prep & conj | Def 1:Long ago, Def 2:sooner or quicker before an event happens, Def 3:before; [OED, OEǣr]
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| eretide | n | the time gone by; past [neologism, from ere 'before' + tide 'time']
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| erst | adv | formerly; long ago [OED (Archaic), PGairistaz, OEǣrest, MEerste]
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| erstwhile | adj | former; old, past, one-time, previous, quondam, whilom [OED,erst+while]
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| ettle | n | to intend; to take aim, attempt, purpose, try [Dialectical, ONætla, MEetlien, atlien]
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| ethel | n | native land; [OE éþel]
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| evennight | n | equinox; [calque; see also Norw. jevndøgn 'evenday']
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| evensorrow | n | compassion, sympathy; [OE efensargian]
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| evergreen | adj | 1. a plant, bush, or tree which has leaves for the whole year 2. always seeming fresh or remaining popular; [CED]
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| everlasting | adj | infinite; [CED]
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| daresty | adj | venturesome, presumptuous; [OE dyrsig]
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| "darkest time is near the dawn (the)" | pvb | there is hope, even in the worst of circumstances.; never give up hope. [OE]
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| darkword | n | inkhorn word.; hardword. [OE 'dark' & 'word']
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| daven | adj | fit, suitable; [OE dafen]
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| daybook | n | an account of day-to-day events, a record of experiences, ideas, or reflections kept regularly for private use; diary, journal [day +book]
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| dayleat | n | viaduct; [dale + leat]
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| deadhouse | n | a building or room in which bodies are kept between death and burial; morgue, mortuary [obsolete, fromdead +house]
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| deal | n | part; [dǣl]
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| dealock | n | an element of something, the simplest part of a whole, a morpheme in a word; [deal (<OE dǣl) + -ock (<OE -uc, a diminutive marker)]
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| dearworth | adj | precious; [OE deorwierðe]
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| deedly | adj | active; [OE dædlic]
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| deer | n | an animal in general; [O.E.]
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| delvern | n | quarry; [delve + -ern]
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| dern | adj | secret, a language spoken by only a few people.; [mainly dialectal; <OE dyrne]
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| dew drier | n | the sun; day-candle [OE]
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| "Dig One's Grave With One's Teeth" | pvb | by poor diet (and unhealthy lifestyle) one hasten one's journey to the grave.; [OE]
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| ditch | n | a long narrow excavation in the earth; any small natural waterway; gully; fosse [OE dic "trench, dike]
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| dotung | n | The action of explaining the meaning of something; interpretation [from German “deutung”]
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| dovetail | vb | to cause something to fit exactly together We've tried to dovetail our plans with theirs.; [CED]
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| downmust | vb | to cause to do something as if by force; force, compel [compound: 'down' + 'must']
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| dree | v | endure; suffer, tolerate, undergo [from OEdreogan]
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| dretch | vb | to afflict, torment, agitate.; vex, gall, upset [rare; unknown in other germanic languages.
In ME esp, to trouble in sleep. < from OEdrecc(e)an.]
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| drovebeam | n | vine; [from Frisian 'druvebeam' - "drove' = grape (see Dutch 'druif', NHG 'Traube', Swedish 'druva')]
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| dry-bite | n | a bite from a snake where venom is not inject into the victim.; [O.E. words 'dry' & 'bite"]
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| dry-month | n | the sixth month of the year, the dry month; June [Anglo-Saxon, from Sēre-Mōnath]
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| like a working-bee in blossom dust | phr | a description of a miller at work.; []
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| dust-sucker | n | a vacuum cleaner.; [dust & suck]
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| dustbin of life | n | where those rejected (figuratively) end up; [OE]
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| dwale | n | that which produces insensibility to pain, as ether; chloroform, ether [archaic revival from OE]
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| dwild | n | error; [OE]
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| dwine | vb | to waste or pine away, decline in vigour; wither, wane, languish [archaic revival, from OEdwinandwan]
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| dwolma | n | chaos; [OE]
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| ðereright | n | instantly, immediately; [OE ðærrihte]
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| ðeresomeness | n | the fact or condition of being present (theresome); presence [‘there’ + ‘-some’ + ‘-ness’]
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| ðerestand | n | the manner in which a person or thing is placed or arranged; position [compound: ‘there’ + ‘stand’]
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| fading | n | arrangement, order, disposition; [OE fadung]
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| faining | adj | fond, contented; [OE fægen]
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| fairway | n | 1. golf: the area of short grass between the tee (= place where you first hit the ball) and the green (= place where the ball should enter a hole) 2. nautical: a navigable channel in a harbour, offshore etc; the usual course taken by vessels in such places; [OED]
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| fall on | vb | to use force against in order to harm; to strike out at (Our foes fell us on at dusk); attack [calque from German anfallen]
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| fall-on-ly | adj | easily influenced or affected with, e.g. The weak are fall-on-ly to sickness; susceptible [calque from German 'anfallig']
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| fand | vb | try, test, experience; [OE fandian]
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| fandle | vb | visit; beseek* (*as in Dan./Norw. 'besøk', NGH 'besuchen') [from Old Frisian]
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| Faraday's Candle | n | electricity; ghost-fire; edison-ware, glaremight. [Michael Faraday, electricity pioneer.]
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| fasthavle | adj | retentive, tenacious; []
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| father dust | n | pollen; [<poetic O.E. 'father (source or originator)& dust (pollen): a fine powdery dust']
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| fay | vb | to fit, to join, to unite, to lie close; [Merriam-Webster]
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| fayness | n | variety, diversity; [<OE fægnys]
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| feardom | n | the state of living in fear or being subject to laws and policies based on fear.; [<OE: fear & dom.]
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| feir | n | companion; [OE]
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| ferd | n | An army, company, or journey; military expedition, host, band, group [Dialectical/Obsolete, OEfyrd, MEferde]
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| ferding | n | 50 acres of land; [Obsolete]
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| ferly | adj | wildly unexpected, amazingly odd, wonderfully strange; [<OE 'færlic' and ME 'ferly']
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| ferren | adv | from remote place/time; [OE feorran]
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| ferrow | n | life, soul, spirit; life, soul [OE feorh]
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| ferrowfain | n | happy to be alive, fain to live; [OE feorhfægen]
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| ferþ | n | mind, spirit; [OE ferhþ]
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| Filibrook | n | February; [OE calendar (brook filling)]
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| findle | n | invention; [OE fyndele]
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| find oneself off with | vb | to accept, to come to terms with (He coulde never find himself off with the tragedy); accept [calque from German sich abfinden mit]
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| findstand | n | position in space; where something can be found; location [compound: 'find' + 'stand']
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| finsterness | noun | darkness; hesterness, [from German finsternis]
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| fleam | n | river, stream, watercourse, bourne, beck; stream, runnel, yea [OE: fleama]
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| fleet | n | river, watercourse, often fast flowing, flood. 2. a ship, ships collectively; stream, runnel, yea, bourne. [OE: fleot: to float.]
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| flinder | n | butterfly; [Dutch: vlinder]
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| fogbow | n | a white arc or circle, similar to a rainbow, which can appear in the sky in foggy conditions as sunlight passes through small airborne water droplets; []
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| fold | n | earth, terra firma; [OE folde]
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| folkdom | n | a land that is wielded by its folk ("republic" in English); as gainstanding to a kingdom, which is wielded by a king/queen, or has a king/queen as its head; republic, gemaenewealth [neologism, somewhat based on ð
OEléodscearu, fromfolk "people" + -DOM (suffix denoting realm or state of being)]
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| folksmight | n | a system of government in which the people make the decisions; democracy [calque ondemocracy < Gkdemokratia, literallydemos 'people, folk' +kratos 'might, strength']
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| folm | n | hand; [OE folm]
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| forbind | vb | to bind up; [OE forbindan]
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| forblad | adj | covered in blood, murderous rage; [c.f. 'forswat;' 'for'+'blead']
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| forblow | vb | blow or toss about; puff up, inflate; inflate [ME [forblowen][1], OE forblāwan]
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| forbow | vb | decline; [OE forbugan]
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| forbus | n | example; model, template, archetypte [from OEforebysen]
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| forlook | vb | to look ahead to towards the future.; foreshadow, predict, anticipate [MW (Archaic),fore+look]
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| forsooth | adv | in truth (can be used to express disbelief in an ironic sense); indeed, in fact, in sooth [OED (Archaic), OEfoſrōþ, MEforſoþe/forſothe(Spelling varies)]
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| forthink[2] | vb | to regret (to change the mind of oneself); renounce, repent [MW & CED (Archaic), OEþyncan & forþencan (mistrust, despise), MEforthynken/forthinken]
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| fordwilm | vb | confound; [OE]
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| fordwine | vb | vanish, disappear; dwindle [OE fordwinan]
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| foreathily | adv | very easily, facilely; easily, smoothly, deftly [OE: fore, an augmentative or strengthing of the meaning & eaðe: eathly, easily.]
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| forefighter | n | a soldier, warrior, champion.; fighter, fighting-man, harman, knight. [OE. fore: at the front & feohtan: fighting.]
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| forekind | n | ancestors, predecessors, progenitors; forefathers, forebears, fore-elders, erekin. [OE: fore: ancient, before & cynn: kind.]
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| foreshadow | vb | to presage, or suggest something in advance; [OED]
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| foreshorten | vb | to abreviate; [neolism: fore + shorten]
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| forestall | vb | to prolong, draw out; [neolism: fore + stall]
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| foretide | n | antiquity, past ages, olden times, prehistoric times); [calque from Ge Vorzeit, Nl voortijd]
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| fore-wit | n | foresight.; prudence [OE. forewitan]
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| forhele | vb | to hide; conceal; [ME forhelen, OE forhelan]
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| forlet | vb | to abandon; give up; leave; leave behind; [ME forleten, OE forlǣtan (see Fr. ferlitte, Du. verlaten, NHG verlassen)]
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| formeal | vb | negotiate; [OE formælan]
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| forsay | vb | to say something on one's behalf; defend; [neolism: for + say]
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| forstand | vb | to represent; literally to stand for; [neolism: for + stand]
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| forswat | adj | covered in sweat, become overheated; [ME: 'for' + 'sweat']
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| forthput | vb | to put forth, bring forth, show,; to present [forth + put]
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| forþring | vb | drive out, rescue from, defend against, elbow, displace; [OE forþringan]
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| the four sights | n | The four sights are four things described in the legendary account of Gautama Buddha's life which led to his realization of the impermanence and ultimate state of dissatisfaction of conditioned existence. According to this legend, before these encounters Siddhārtha Gautama had been confined to his palace by his father, who feared that he would become an ascetic if he came into contact with sufferings of life according to a prediction. However, on his first venture out of the palace with his charioteer Channa, he observed four sights: an old man, a sick man, a corpse and a beggar ascetic. These obs
ervations affected him deeply and made him realize the sufferings of all beings, and compelled him to begin his spiritual journey as a wandering ascetic, which eventually led to his enlightenment.; [OE. four & sight]
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| freave | n | vowel; [OE freave: blend of free breathe (Barnes suggestion for 'vowel')]
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| freech | n | danger; [OE fréĉen]
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| fremd | adj | belonging to a different country or culture; foreign [OE fremd]
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| frim | adj | 1. fresh 2. <OE freme 'vigorous, flourishing'; []
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| friendship. 'A hedge between, keeps a friendship green.' | pvb | privacy is important in friendship; [John Heywood's collection of proverbs 1546]
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| frimdy | adj | curious; [OE frymdig]
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| friþ/frith | n | peace, freedom from molestation, protection, safety; security, harmfast [obsolete and poetic OEfriþ/friðu akin to OSfrithu and ONfriðr]
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| friþstool | n | a stone seat, placed near the altar of a church, which afforded protection to those seeking sanctuary; [OED]
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| frod | adj | wise, knowing; [OE]
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| frodship | n | city council; [from Dutch vroedschap]
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| frosh | n | frog, toad; [rare/dialectical from OEfrosc]
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| froðer | vb | change, wend; [contraction of for - other (cf. Du. veranderen)]
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| frover | vb | console; [OE frefran]
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| froward[3] | adj | difficult to deal with; contrary; [OE fromweard]
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| furb | vb | clean, cleanse; [as inrefurbish; from proto-germanic "furbijanan"]
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| furg | n | mountain woodland; [OE fyrgen]
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| fyrn | adj | former, ancient; [OE; see also Ic. forn, Swe. forntida]
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| gadling | n | man of humble condition, a fellow; [<ME <OE gædeling 'kinsman, fellow, companion in arms, comrade' from gāda 'comrade, companion']
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| gain- | pre | in opposition to; against; [obsolete, from GAIN-]
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| gain- | pre | cyclical; repetitive; re-; [obsolete, from GAIN-]
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| gainbuy | vb | to recover ownership of something by paying a sum; redeem [obsolete, from GAIN- +buy]
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| gainstand | vb | to speak or stand against something in order to stop it from happening; oppose, resist [obsolete, from GAIN- +stand]
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| gaintake | vb | to take back again; repossess, reacquire [revival, from GAIN- +take]
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| gair | n | a isolated strip of tender grass; sward, greensward [rare OE. "gair"]
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| galder | n | a charm or incantation; a chant [obsolete, from OE.galdor,gealdor to sing]
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| gare | n | spear; spear [<OE gar; ME gare]
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| gaðerbinding | n | concatination; [gather + binding]
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| gemanshiplar | n | an ideology where the means of production are under common ownership; communism [neologism, from OE gemǣnscipecommon ownership and lārdoctrine]
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| givle | adj | generous; [OE gifol]
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| glide | n | a stream, also part of a stream, a shallow; ea, yea, fleet, bourne. [OE: gliden: to past along smoothly]
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| glidewort | n | An old name for species of Sideritis: ironwort; later for Galeopsis tetrachi. This herb most likely used as a remedy for gout: Glide element may be OT for limb.; ironwort [OE: "glide" - move smoothly (element may be OT for limb.)]
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| godbode | n | a spiritual and holy entity that acts as a messenger between God and earth; angel [neologism, fromgod "deity" +bode "message, messenger"]
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| Gotham | n | nickname of New York; The Big Apple [Gotham is an Anglo Saxon word meaning “Goat Town” and was first used by Washington Irving in in his satirical 1807 periodical Salmagundi. Irving was comparing the savvy New Yorkers to inhabitants of the tiny English village of Gotham who gained notoriety way back in the thirteenth century by pretending to be insane just to get out of paying taxes to King John]
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| grayling | n | a brush-footed butterfly found in coastal areas of northeast Scotland such as the Fowlsheugh Nature Reserve and also near the coast around England, such as Fire Beacon Hill; they are often linked with bare ground and rocky hills; []
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| greenwash | n | to implement token environmentally friendly iniatives as a way of hiding or deflecting criticism about environmentally destructive practices; none known [neologism, from OE. wordsgreen & wash and based onwhitewash]
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| grið | n | protection, safe conduct; in OE law security, peace or protection guaranteed under limitations; quarter (in battle); peace , protection, asylum [archaic, from OE.gri truce, peace, pardon]
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| icebear | n | polar bear; [from German "Eisbär", Icelandic, "ísbjörn", Swedish "isbjörn"]
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| ilk | n, adj, | same person or persons, kind, class; each, every, each; same family, kind, class, sort [from OEilca]
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| ilkhood | n, | people of one ilk or same kind collectively, including one kin and kith.; same family, kin, kind, same kind, class, sort, kith, [from OEilca & hood.]
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| inblend | vb | to confuse; [neologism: in + blend]
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| indrawn | adj | 1. interested 2. quiet, introverted; []
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| ingo | vb | to enter; literally " to go in"; [neologism: in + go]
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| ingoing | n | entrance; inway [calque: from German "eingang"]
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| inhold | vb | to hold within; contain; [calque: from German "einhalten"]
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| inlath | vb | invite; [OE inlaðian]
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| inly | adv | Inwardly; Within, inwith, inside, internally [OED & MW (Literary), OEinnlīce]
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| inwardly | adv | within the mind; seeing within oneself [OED, OEinweardlīce]
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| inmind | vt | to memorize; [compound: in+mind]
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| innerheld | adj | belonging to the real nature of a thing; not offhanging (dependent) on any outly (external) boutstandings (circumstances); intrinsic [compound: inner+held]
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| inroads | n | the beginnings of progress; penetration of a problem; first steps; ['Three weeks into it, I am finally beginning to make inroads on this project.']
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| inting | n | matter, case, business, cause; [from OEintinga]
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| inwit | n | the inner knowledge and feeling of right and wrong; conscience, reason [obsolete, fromin- +wit 'understanding, knowledge']
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| Inwith | prep. | (Middle English) Within; enclosed, surrounded by "Gan Januarye inwith his thoght devise" [Obsolete,in+with ME Alternate Spelling Inwiþ]
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| inway | n | entrance; literally "the way in"; [neologism: in + way]
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| issomeness | n | the act of existing, state or fact of being; existence [compoud: is(to be)+some+ness]
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| ithand | n | diligent, industrious; [dialectal, Northern England, Scotland. Ultimately from Old Norse "iðinn"]
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| hairline | adj | 1. thin 2. made or done with extreme care and accuracy 3. meeting the highest standard of accuracy an ultrasensitive telescope that requires hairline placement of the lenses; [CED]
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| hand is shallow but the throat is deep ("the"). | pvb | one is too lazy to work, but is a great eater.; [john heywood's collection of proverbs 1546.]
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| handsill | n | banister; [hand + sill]
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| hap | adj | convenient; [OE hæp]
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| Harvestmonþ | n | the ninth month of the year (so called because harvest begins at this time); September [Anglo-Saxon, from Hærfest-Mōnath]
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| haske | n | wicker fish-basket; [Middle English]
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| haugh | n | a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of river, forming part of the floor of the river valley; riverflat [rare geographical term, sometimes found in combination in place-names: greenhalgh; OE healh, halh: nook, corner]
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| haven | n | place of safety; [OE hæfen]
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| headborough | n | the seat of government of a nation or state, or other political entity; a chief city; capital [OE héafodburh]
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| headishaft | n | element; [Calque of Icelandic "höfuðskepna"; literally meaning "head creation"]
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| hedge, huy | vb | consider; [OE hycgan]
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| headtown | n | the seat of government of a nation or state, or other political entity; capital [neologism, fromhead "foremost, main" +town "city, village"]
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| Headstead | n | the seat of government of a nation or state, or other political entity; capital, headtown [from NHG hauptstadt, haupt "head" + stadt "stead, town, city"]
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| healand | n | saviour; [OE hælend]
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| Health After Sickness is Sweet Evermore" | pvb | health is not valued till sickness comes.; [OE]
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| "Health is Better than Wealth" | pvb | health and strength is better than gold.; [OE]
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| "Heart Has It's Summer and It's Summer ("A") | pvb | the heart knows happiness and disappointment.; [OE]
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| "Heart Has It's Own Ache ("Every") | pvb | the heart knows it's own bitterness and disappointment.; [OE]
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| hearthfast | adj | having a stable, settled home; [OE heorþfæst]
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| heaþwort | n | the genusErica, of the familyEricaceae, or plants belonging to the genusErica.; Erica [fromheath "open shrubland with sandy soil" +wort "plant, herb"]
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| heave | vb | lift up; [OE hebban]
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| heed | vb | pay attention, take notice; [CED]
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| heen | vb | humiliate; [OE híenen]
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| heldly | adj | safe, secure; [OE]
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| heleþ | n | hero; [OE hæleð]
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| herder-wanderer | n | Mongolian nomad; sandfarer : nomad of the desert (dry-land): a bedouin; fourth worlder. [compound of herder & wanderer.]
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| hende | adj | 1: Gracious, Courteous 2: Handy; polite, civil, chivalrous, well mannered, mannerly, decorous [Obsolete, OEġehende, ME]
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| hern | n | angle, corner; [OE hyrne]
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| hiddle | n | secret; [OE hydels]
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| hidesack/hydesack | n | leather bag; {{{synonyms}}} [Anglo-Saxon, from hȳdesacc]
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| high-bliss | n | exultation; [OE high & bliss]
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| high-burg | n | a capital city.; headtown, mickleborough, motherborough. [OE high & burg/borough]
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| high-hearted | adj | proud.; [OE high &heart]
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| high-sea | n | ocean; [OE high & burg/sea]
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| highþaning | n | important function; [OE héahþegnung]
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| high-threat | adj | panic; [OE high & threat]
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| highwithouse | n | college, university; lorestead, seat-of-learning ['high' + 'wit' (knowledge) + 'house']
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| hild | n | war, combat; [OE hild]
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| hiler | vb | to weigh, ponder; [OE heolorian]
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| hirler | n | trumpet; [see Sw. hörlur]
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| hitherto | adv | until now or until a particular time; [CED]
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| hitherward | adv | toward this place; [OED]
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| hokerspeaksome | adj | sarcastic; [from Old English hocor "derision" and Old English sprecan "to speak"]
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| holdand | n | guardian, keeper, protector; [OE healdend]
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| holisain | n | legend,; myth [from OE halig "holy" and OE Segn "story"]
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| hopelost | adj | without hope; despaired [compound:'hope'+'lost']
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| horn-thumb | n | a sliver of sharpened horn attached to the thumb, employed by thieves, during the C18th who cut the strings fastening the purse to the owner's /victim's belly.; [compound:'horn'+'thumb']
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| horsemanship | n | the skill of riding and controlling a horse; equestrianism, equitation [uncommon, fromhorseman + -SHIP]
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| hote | Vb | to be called, to be named; [OE hatan]
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| hothouse word | n | neologism, protologism, sniglet,; new word [OE hot, house & word]
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| huecouþ | vb | to make known; [OE gehiwcuðlician]
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| hueledge | vb | to form, shape, fashion; [OE gehiwlæcan]
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| Hundredyear | n | hundred years; century [from NHG jahrhundert "year" and "hundred"]
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| hure | adj, adv | certainly, especially; [OE huru]
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| Killarney Fern | n | endangered fern with translucent leaves, namely found in Ireland; []
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| kindly | adj | natural; [OE cyndlic]
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| kine-helm | n | royal crown; [OED; see also list of OE words in the OED]
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| king | n | a male monarch; guardian of the kin.; [OE. cynn.]
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| kingship | n | the state of rule by a king; monarchy [fromking + -SHIP]
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| kithe | vb | to make known, to expose; reveal [revival, dialectical]
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| kithlore | n | the study of society and individual human intereaction; sociology [kith "friends, relations" & lore "study, wealth of knowledge"]
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| know-how | n | knowledge of how to do something in particular; skill, expertise [putting togther of OE wordsknow &how]
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| Kinwords | n | Words that are kindly to the English tongue or words that come from a tongue that is akin to English.; native words [kin+words]
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| konn | v | know; know [OE cenn, ME konn]
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| konningwrit | n | A text wherein is written knowledge; encyclopedia [neologism ME konning(knowledge, OE cenning) + writ(a varient of write[which goes back to old english])]
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| Lady Lund | n | Mother Nature; [c.f. Scandinavian 'grove', Ic. 'manner']
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| lair | n | the action or fact of lying; the resting place of a corpse; a tomb, grave; a plot in a graveyard, now only in Sc; that whereupon one lies to sleep; bed couch; a place for animals to lie down in, esp. for beasts of chase or prey; nature or kind of soil; den, bed, resting place, haunt [OE]
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| lamestream | n | play on mainstream, (with a derogatory sense.); [OE: lame & stream.]
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| landfall | n | ship's first landing after a voyage; []
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| landfolk | n | People of a country; citizens, nationals, subjects, residents [MW (Archaic), see the origins of land+ folk
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/landfolk]
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| last | n | shoemaker or cobbler's block. a wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.; shoe last, cobbler's block [from OE laestre, track, footprint, trace]
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| lastand | n | 100 million; [<OE hlæst + -and (hundred); c.f. proposed High Icelandish word 'lestund'
http://extremeicelandic.blogspot.com/2011/12/neologisms-12122008.html]
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| laughtersmith | n | a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts; comedian, comic [neologism, from laughter & smith]
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| laughterspeak | n | disgraceful/shameful speech; leighterquid [<OE 'leahtorcwide,' with 'cwide,' meaning speech or speak]
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| lawmoot | n | parliament; [forbinding]
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| lax | n | a food fish of the kindSalmo salar, which swims upstream to spawn, and known for its pink flesh; salmon [revival, from OElæx]
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| 'A fall of the leaf is a whisper to the living.' | pvb | remember we all are mortal; let us not forget that all men will die.; [OE]
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| leather spinster | n | a heterosexual or asexual woman who is happily ummarried and has no desire to seek a mate; ? [neologism from OE lether, leather:toughness & spinster: female spinner of thread; from 1600 generically used for woman still unmarried and beyond usual age for it.]
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| leer | n | the cheek, the face; hence look, countenance; faceside, blee, aspect [archaism OE:hleor]
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| leese | vb | to let free from some form of bondage or release from one's misdeeds or sins; redeem, release, lose [archaic revival, MEleese > OElíesan]
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| leethertune | n | symphony; [OE leoþ = song lay poem]
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| leeway | n | 1. the drift of a ship or airplane in a leeward direction 2. a varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom; [lee 'side away from the wind' + way]
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| lent | n | season between winter and summer; spring [OE lencten]
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| lest | conj | so as to prevent any possibility that; for fear that; []
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| letch | n | a stream flowing through boggy land; a muddy ditch or hole; miasma, bog, [archaism OE:leccan]
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| lew | n | traitor, betrayer; [OE:læwa]
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| lifelore | n | the study of all life forms and their relations to each other; biology [neologism, life "that which subsists" + -LORE "wealth of learning, study"]
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| lifenut | n | nucleus (biology); ['life' + 'nut', influenced by 'truenut' (eukaryote), which is a calque from Ancient Greek: ἐΰς (eǘs, 'true') + κάρυον (káruon, 'nut')]
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| liferoom | n | cell (biology); ['life' + 'room', the chambers in which life exists]
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| liferoomswell | n | tumor; ['liferoom' (cell) + 'swell' (increase in size), influenced by the etymology of tumor (Latin 'tumor' swelling)]
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| liferoomswellsickness | n | cancer; ['liferoomswell' (tumor) + 'sickness' (disease, illness)]
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| likething | n | example; ['like' + 'thing']
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| lightcaring | n | photosensitive; [compoundlight (photo) +caring (reacts to)]
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| limberhall | n | gymnasium; []
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| Lithe | n | The season of "Summer"; synonym for "Summer" [OE: Līþa: "Summer"]
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| live-ware | n | as opposed to hardware; personnel , as distinct from inanimate or abstract things they work with; specifically computer personnel.; computer personnel, information technology staff, IT. workers. [Live: having life; being alive & Ware: OE articles of merchandise or manufacturer; Ware: people; folk.]
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| Loamshire | n | name given to an imaginary rural district, county much used in novels and plays; [OED]
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| lock-step | n/adj | n = a mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible , in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him. 2. fig. the slavish copying of one person's actions with another; as political party members act or vote in lockstep with their leadership adj = synchronized; [OED]
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| loftlay | n | climate; [calque Icelandic loftslag]
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| loosening | n | solution; [calque from Swe. lösning, Ic. lausn]
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| lore | n | the gathering and synthesis of all knowledge in a specific field or in general; study, science [extension of existing word, OElār]
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| lorehouse | n | a place dedicated to the study and learning of a skill or art; school, academy [OE larhus]
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| lossening | n | auscultation; [OE hlosnian 'listen, be on the lookout for']
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| lothood | n | amount; ['lot' (much, many) + 'hood', influenced by Dutch 'hoeveelheid' (how + much + hood)]
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| manifold | adj/vb | 1. many and of several different types multiply; [Cambridge English Dictionary]
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| Man look | n | the inability of a man to find an item of food etc in a cupboard. See 'Mother look'; [(O.E. man & look)]
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| mare | n | an adult, female horse; [CED]
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| marrow | n | 1. soft tissue containing a lot of fat in the centre of a bone 2. squash vegetable; [CED]
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| mattock | n | iron agricultural tool, similar to a pickaxe; [CED]
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| mayfall | adv | random. randomly, at random.; hit or miss. [OE may & fall]
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| meanship | n | community; [OE gemænscipe]
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| meadow-month | n | the seventh month of the year (so called because the meadows were in bloom and the cattle were in pasture); July [Anglo-Saxon, from Mæd-Mōnath]
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| mealshaver | n | centepede; [OE mælsceafa]
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| meanwealth | n | a form of government by all the citizens, a republic; republic, folkdom [OEgemæne "common, general, shared by all" + wealth. Calque ofrēs publica, substitute for "commonwealth", since "common" is a Latinate word]
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| meatsmith | n | a specialist butcher.; [O.E. : meat & smith.]
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| meedful | n | deserving; []
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| mellow | adj | smooth, soft or developed; not too sharp, bright, new or rough; [CED]
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| mere | n | a large body of inland water; lake [dialectual, from OEmere]
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| mething | n | adjudication; [OE mæðung]
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| mettle | n | ability and determination when competing or doing something difficult; [CED]
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| mickleborough | n | metropolis; motherborough. [mickle = much, great ~ still used in Scots dialect]
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| mightworks | n | factory-like industrial installation that produces electricity for consumption; power plant [neologism, frommight 'strength, power' +works 'place of production, workshop']
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| milksop | n | a weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; [OED]
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| mindful eating | n | a simple-to-learn life skill which can lead people to enjoy a satisfying, healthy and enjoyable relationship with food. It is a skill that can help people break free from 'food rules' and begin to enjoy healthy, flexible and relaxed eating practices. Mindful eating is not a diet.; [compoundmindful +eating]
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| mindsee | vb | create by imagination in the mind; imagine [compoundmind +see]
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| mindtaking | n | epileptic seizure; [compoundmind +taking (equivalent of seizure)]
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| mind-hunter | n | criminal profiler; criminalist [compoundmind +hunter]
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| mindware | n | the mental knowledge and procedures that a person uses to solve problems and make decisions. Mindware is underpinned by three broad principles: 1. learning to live in a community. 2. learning to understand others. 3. learning about learning.; [compoundmind +ware]
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| mire | vb | risk; [OE mære 'limit, border']
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| mirk | n | dark; [OE mirce 'murky, black, dark']
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| mistletoe | n | an evergreen plant with small white fruits and pale yellow flowers which grows on trees, often used as a Christmas decoration; [CED]
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| When the moon is full, the wits wane | pvb | lunacy, madness, silliness at full moon.; [OE]
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| Moonsnavel | n | Mexico; [as Nahuatl "metz- (moon) + xic- (navel) + -co (land) > mexihco"]
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| Moonstroke | n | Madness or other mental illnesses historically believed to be caused by the moon; Lunacy; Moonmadness; See "Moonstruck" [Moon + stroke]
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| Moonstruck | adj | 1. Crazy or insane when affected by the phases of the Moon. 2. (by extension) Showing irrational behaviour, especially of a romantic or sentimental nature.; Moonstricken; Moonmad; Lunatic (adj.); Crazed; Mad; Insane [Moon + struck]
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| morrow | n | the time following the event; the near future. [MW (Literary, Archaic), OEmorgen, MEmorwe]
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| Mother look | n | the ability of a woman/mother to find an item (usually food) in a cupboard, after a male person has fail to do so. See "Man look; [unknown]
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| munding | n | security; [OE mund 'hand palm (of the hand as a measure) trust security protection guardianship']
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| nameknown | adj | being widely or commonly known; famous [neologism, from ‘name’ + ‘known’]
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| nay | vb | deny, refuse; [OED]
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| nease | vb | to search out , find out by enquiry; [OE neosan]
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| neb | n | face/nose; beak [OE. neb(b) - 'neb' is still used in the North West of England as slang for 'nose']
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| neay | vb | humiliate; [OE hnǽgan]
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| neetle | adj | fine, useful; [OE nyttol (neet <OE neotan 'to use' + -le)]
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| neighborship | n | community; [‘neighbor’ + ‘ship’]
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| nere | vb | rescue, save; [OE nerian]
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| ness | n | cape or headland; [CED]
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| nestling | n | a young bird which has not yet learned to fly and still lives in the nest built by its parents; [CED]
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| netherspeak | vb | to judge dissaprovingly, find fault with; criticize; snape [‘nether’ + ‘speak’]
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| newsreel | n | a short film that consists of news reports, usually one that was made in the past for showing in a cinema; [CED]
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| niye | vb | bend down; [OE hnígan]
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| nim | vb | take; [OE nim, niman]
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| nithe | n | envy, hatred; [OE níþ]
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| norn | vb | lament, grieve; [OE gnornian]
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| nornhood | n | depression; [neologism, from OE gnorn "sad", "sorrowful", "depressed" and with the suffix "hood"]
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| note | n | use, utility, affair, task; [OE notian]
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| nutlog | n | second *time*; [nut + log ~ see also shortlog 'minute', log 'hour']
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| nutshell | vb/n | 1. to summarize 2.in a nutshell: using as few words as possible; [CED]
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| oad | n | funeral pyre; [from Old English]
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| oathneat | n | federation, confederate; [calque from GermanEidgenosse,Eid = oath,Genosse = O.E. geneat 'companion']
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| offdale | n | hidden valley, remote valley; [<Ic. af-dalr]
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| offhanging | adj | to be dependent on someone or something; dependent [neologism, in part calque]
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| offmind | vb | to draw (the mind, attention)away in another direction; distract [compound: 'off' + 'mind']
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| offwill | vb | to have in mind as a goal or aim; intend [compound: 'off' + 'will' ( to want)
part calque]
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| Old Ways Were Once New Ways (The). | pvb | nothing stays the same; [compound: OE]
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| onbefeal | vb | to recommend; advise, suggest. [Low Dutch calque "aanbevelen".]
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| onefoldsome | adj | truely having the seeming suchnesses or character; geunuine, sincere [one-fold-some]
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| onelep | n | privacy; [OE anliepum]
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| onesomehood | n | the state of being onesome(solitary) or alone; solitude [one+some+hood]
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| onfall | n | the act of attacking; attack [Calque from German Anfall]
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| onfang | vb | to receive; to welcome; to accept; (of a woman) to conceive; [obsolete]
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| onlet | n | cause; frume []
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| onlook | n | respect; [OE anlec]
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| onwlat | n | appearance; look, expression, format, manner, bearing [Directly from OEonwlát, same meaning]
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| openharmly | adj | that can be wounded or hurt;open to criticism or attack; vulnerable [compound: open+harm+ly]
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| openseely | adj | easy to see or understand; obvious, evident [compound: open+see+ly (calque from German)]
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| open sunshine | n | total outdoor sunshine. 2. transparency, public awareness.; openness [from Old English]
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| ordeeming | n | diagnosis; [OE ór 'origin' + deeming]
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| ordfrim | adj | original; [OE ordfrym]
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| ordfrume | n | original cause; [OE ordfruma ~ ord 'origin' + fruma 'root cause']
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| orlander | n | aborigine; []
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| orlay | n | fate, destiny; [OE orlæg]
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| orrest | n | combat, battle; [Old English orrest, akin to Old Norse orrosta]
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| otherhood | n | women who do not follow the expected norm of marrying and having children; [O.E. other & hood, with the word 'motherhood' in mind.]
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| outarm | vb | exert force on (someone or something); to push [out (having a meaning of extracting) + arm (having a meaning or force and strength)]
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| outfoldly | adj | superficial; surface, exterior, external, outer, outside, slight [out+foldly]
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| outgo | vb | to exit; literally " to go out"; [calque: from out + go]
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| outgoing | n | exit; outway [calque: from German "ausgang"]
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| outlay | n, vb | def 1: template, def 2(economics): total cost of something def 3: literally to lay something out; varies by definition [ENEout+lay]
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| outspring | n | that from which something comes into being, develop, or derives; source [compound: 'out' + 'spring']
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| outtake | vb | to take or pull something out; remove [extension of noun]
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| outway | n | exit; literally "the way out"; outgoing [neologism: out + way]
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| overgive | v | to surrender; [Calque of Dutch 'overgeven' (give up, surrender, equivalent of 'over' + 'give')]
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| overlove | v | praise; ['over' (superior) + 'love' (related to Dutch 'loven' to praise)]
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| overloving | n | praise; ['overlove' + 'ing']
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| overmorrow | n | day after tomorrow; day after tomorrow [an old word from a 1535 Bible]
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| overrush | vt | to surprise; [calque of NHG ‘Überraschen’]
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| overrushing | n | surprise; [calque of NHG ‘Überraschung’]
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| oversetting | n | translation; [calque of NHG ‘Übersetzung’]
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| overwin | v | to defeat, conquer; [Calque from Dutch 'overwinnen' (to defeat, conquer)]
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| overwinning | n | defeat; [overwin + ing]
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| overwon | adj | defeated, conquered; [Past tense of 'overwin']
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| Ox "Make an Ox out of a Fly" | phr | treat a minor problem as if it were a major disaster.; make a mountain out of a mole hill [proverb, metaphor.]
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| Quacksalver | n | a fraudulent doctor, one who falsely claims or boasts to possess medical or other skills, especially one who dispenses potions, ointments, etc.; Quack [from Dutch "kwaksalver"]
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| pathfinder | n | somebody who fares into unknown land or areas; explorer, scout [extension of existing word]
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| penny blood | n | a story of horror, violence and murder; penny dreadful, penny awful [OE penny & blood.]
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| Penwightsteart | n | Land's End at Cornwall; [OEpenwihtsteort]
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| pith | n | soft inner part of a plant, feather; bone marrow. Fig: spirit, essence; strength, force, vigour,(men of pith);force energy of words or speech; importance, gravity, weight; marrow, essence, importance [OE piða pith of a tree or vegetable]
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| puthery | adj | humid; muggy, sultry [OED & MW (Dialectical, Northern England),ENE 17th century]
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| rainshade | n | a tool for keeping the rain from the body, made of a circle of cloth stretched over a frame; umbrella [neologism, fromrain +shade, based onsunshade]
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| ramson | n | a broad leaf species of garlic, allium ursinum, garlic; garlic, buckram, a leek [OE: hramsan.]
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| ream | n | the milkfat that rises to the top; cream [OE: rēam, ME: reme]
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| redeship | n | political entity that controls, maintains, and represents a nation or state; goverment [neologism, fromrede (archaic, "to advise, guide, govern") + -SHIP]
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| reðe | n & vb | reason; [OE ræd]
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| reem | vb | exult; [OE hréman]
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| rees | vb | attack, onslaught, blitz; burst in, smite, dint, up and at. [OE raésan]
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| reh, ray | adj | rough, stormy, fierce, disturbed (in the mind); bearish, tempestrous, fearsome, mad [OE:hreh]
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| rerd | n | language, speech, voice; steven, woth, pipe [OE reord]
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| retch | vb | expound; [OE reĉĉan]
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| rether | n | heart, breast; [OE hreðer]
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| rike | n | a state, a country; ric, rich [OE rice]
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| riðmeet | n | confluence; [OE riþ 'stream or rivulet' + meet]
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| rindle | n | a small watercourse or stream; a gutter; runnel, rithe, stream [OE rynele; renian:to rain.ste]
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| rist | n | source, origin, rising.; well, spring, fromth, lift [OE: rimacsan. nb: Uprist: resurrection]
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| rood | n | cross; [ME]
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| rootfast | adj | firmly established; [OE rotfæst]
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| roun | n | mystery, secret; [OE rún]
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| rous | n | earth; [OE hrúse]
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| rover | n | turtle, tortoise; [shortening of roofer or roofpod
~ akin to 'stegosaurus', meaning 'roofed lizard'] |
| rowdy-month | n | the third month of the year (so called because of the high winds); March [Anglo-Saxon, from Hlyd-Mōnath]
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| rusted-on | adj | (neologism) diehard, loyal, from the heartland; true, steadfast. [OE rust & on; as, 'Even rusted-on supporters are criticizing Labor's performance in Government.]
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| a good tale is none the worse for being told twice. | pvb | a good story keeps it strength and interest.; [OE]
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| teamful | adj | prolific; [OE]
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| telcraft | n | branch of mathematics that deals with the theory of numerical calculations; arithmetic [OE tælcræft]
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| thede | n | Alternate form of theode; theode, people, community, tribe, nation, theid (Alba/Scotland) [Dialectical/Obsolete, see etymology of theode]
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| thedekindred | n | ethnicity; [from OE thede meaning "nation", "tribe" and kindred meaning species]
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| theode | n | people; community, nation, tribe, thede (alternate form), theid (Scotland) [Obsolete, OEþēod, ME]
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| thewes | n | (Middle English) Qualities; High moral standards, virtues, righteousness, morality, integrity, dignity, rectitude"Mo goode thewes than hir vices badde" [(Dialectical/Obsolete) ME, OEþēaw. Can also be spelt as þewes (many variational spellings).
MED (University of Michigan):https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED45231]
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| thought-drop | n | idea; mind's eye; belief, thought [OE 'thought' & 'drop']
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| thoughtware | n | A technology invented by Hungarian inventor Gabor Sandor Acs which allows humans to communicate with a computer and between themselves without a keyboard, mouse or other mechanical device. Whatever thought appears in the mind instantly appears on the computer screen. Thoughtware is considered to be the Next Evolution in Human Communications Technology:; [OE 'thought' & 'ware']
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| tideliness | n | opportunity; [OE tidlicnes]
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| tiding | n | message, well wish; errandspeech [Used in modern English but with limited use.]
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| tilþ | n | work or effort directed to useful or profitable means; work in cultivating the soil; ploughing, harrowing; the cultivation of knowledge, religion, mind; crop, harvest; land being tilled; a ploughed field; labour, cultivation, agriculture, husbandry [archaism, from OEtilþe; ‘till’ (vb) +-th]
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| do not throw away time, for it is as swift as an arrow, fast as a stream. | pvb | life passes quickly, as is gone before you realize.; []
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| time flies like an arrow, days and months like a shuttle | pvb | as an arrow flies swiftly and surely, days, nights months alternate like a weaver's shuttle to and fro; []
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| timeling | n | an indefinitely brief period of time; moment [compound: ‘time’ + ‘-ling’ (diminutive)]
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| timeworn | adj | worn out with old age, old & feeble; decrepit [putting together of OE words ‘time’ & ‘worn’]
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| tofay (tofaying) | vb | to add, addition,; [Compound: to+fay]
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| todealedness (todealtness) | n | being separate, divided, apart; division, separation, sundering, rivenness [OE.todaelednyss]
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| tor | n | hill or abrupt conical form, lofty hill, eminence, mound, grave, heap, heap of rocks; top of a hill, rocky peak; mount, peak, tumulus [OE. probably cognate with Gael.torr]
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| a good tree is a good shelter | pvb | good things have many uses; [OE]
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| truth-teller | n | one who is honest; a trustworthy person; [OE]
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| a good tongue (tung) is a good weapon | pvb | the power of the well spoken word cannot be underestimated.; [OE.]
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| a honey tongue, a heart of gall. | pvb | listen to one's words, but judge them by their actions.; [OE.]
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| turd | n | a lump or piece of excrement, excrement or ordure; faeces, dung [from OEturd, now not in polite use]
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| turdmonger | n | a vile individual; barbarian, philistine. "That turdmonger, who disdains my precious precepts, greeted me with his vile, dirty dung.; barbarian, philistine, low-life. [from OEturd, now not in polite use: a lump or piece of excrement, or ordure & monger: dealer, trader; pedaller.]
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| twi-wifing | n | bigamy; polygamy [Twi: two; wife: a married woman; ing: possessing the quality of.]
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| þarf | vb/adj | 1.intrans. vb: to be under necessity or obligation (to do something) - impers. adj: needful 2. unleavened, not leavened, containing no leaven; as in unleavened bread. Unleavened bread is often simply flour mixed with water. Bread or cake without yeast or baking powder; as in tharf-cake; compelled, forced [1. rare, from OE þurfan - 2. OE and dialect]
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| þarm | n | an intestine; chiefly in pl. 2 an intestine as cleansed and prepared for some purposes. Also in sing., as a substance or material; catgut for fiddlestrings, etc.; intestine(s) [rare, from OE.þarm, þearm. OTeut.þarmoz: to go through. See modern English ‘thrum’]
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| þedeship | n | nationality; []
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| þedewielding | n | political entity that controls, maintains, and represents a nation or state; government [neologism using archaisms, from ‘thede’ (nation, people) (archaic) + ‘wield’ (guide, manage') (archaic meanings) + ‘-ing’]
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| þew | n | 1. accepted or habitual practice 2. the tissue of the body which contracts to exert a force and movement, physical strength; [OE þeaw 'habit, custom']
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| þild | n | patience; [OE geþyld, cf. NHG Geduld]
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| þing | vb | 1. to invite, address 2. to thrive; [1. OE þingan - 2. OE geþingan]
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| þinkly | adj | thinking deeply or seriously, tending to think; []
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| þong | n | growth; [OE geþang]
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| Þree-milk | n | the fifth month of the year (because, in the long, spring days, the cows could be milked three times between sunrise and evening); May [OE Þrimilce]
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| trek | n | voyage, travel; [From Dutch 'trek' (voyage)]
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| trektide | n | vacation; [trek (voyage) + tide (time)]
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| þringrising | vb/adj | artesian; [thring 'pressure' + rising]
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| throsm/þrosm | n | visible vapours from burning matter; smoke [literary revival, from OEþrosm 'smoke, fume' "As I Lay" ..in thresh of limbs, in choke of throsm:
nothing is behind me when I go in,]
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| truenut | n | eukaryote; [Calque from Ancient Greek: ἐΰς (eǘs, 'true') + κάρυον (káruon, 'nut')]
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| truenutlike | n | eukaryotic; ['truenut' eukaryote + 'like']
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| þrumstone/thrumstone | n | a fibrous mineral made into an incombustible fabric, used formerly as a fireproof insulating material.; earthstone, flaxstone, asbestos [rare, from MEthrum &stone < OEþrum 'thread' &stan 'stone']
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| þrutch | vb | to press, squeeze, crowd, throng; fig:to oppress; thrust, push; jostle; press, crowd, push, [archaic, from OEþryccan: to press]
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| þung | n | any poisonous plant.; banewort, bugbane, baneberry [archaic, from OEðung]
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| þursand[1] | n | 1 billion; [archaic ‘thurse’ (giant) + ‘-and’ (hundred); c.f. proposed High Icelandish ‘þursund’]
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| þurse | n | giant; ettin [from Old English þyrs]
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| þware | vb | to agree, consent to; [OE þwærian]
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| þwear | vb | to stir, twirl; churn [OEþweran]
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| þwine | vb | to decrease, lessen; [OEþwínan]
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| twishank | ' | a human being; a twenty (sl); a man [OE twi (two) & shank (leg)]
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| þwite | vb | to cut, whittle; snithe [archaic, from OEþwítan]
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| sailstone | n | magnet; [Icelandic 'segull' ~ 19th century back-formation from 'segulsteinn', adapted from Middle Low German 'segelstēn', from segel 'sail' + stēn 'stone']
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| sake | vb | to disagree, argue; argue, disagree [OEsacan, meaning to contend, disagree, or dispute]
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| saltern | n | an area used for saltmaking, especially in the East Anglian fenlands; salt works [OED; salt + aern 'dwelling']
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| samefeel | vb | to share in another's feeling or emotions (used withwith: "I samefeel with you"; empathize [compound ofsame +feel]
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| sandfarer | n | nomad of the desert (dry-land): a bedouin.; herder-wanderer - Mongolian nomad. [compound of sand & farer]
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| sarecraft | n | technology; [from OE searocræft]
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| seaberg | n | rocky sea outcrop; [OE sæbeorg]
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| sea-dust | n | salt.; sodium chloride [OE sea: a division of an ocean or water partially enclosed by land & dust: fine dry, small powdery particles.]
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| searim | n | coast; []
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| skiðe | n | physical harm or damage to a person; injury [OEsciethan]
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| seldseen | adj | rare; seldom, hardly ever seen, uncommon, unfamiliar [CED(Obsolete) OEseldsīne MEseldsene]
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| selfdo-ly | adj | done or happening without any influence from the outside, as if by reflex or
habit; automatic [compound ofself +do +ly]
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| selfstanding | adj | able to work and live alone without outside help; independent [OED]
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| settledom | n | a culture or a civilised societal structure, either as a whole or an individual society; civilisation [neologism, fromsettle +-dom]
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| settlegang | n | a heavenly body's course of sinking below the horizon; sunset [OEsetlgang]
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| shakeneedy | adj | having a very great desire, need; offering so little chance for improvement as to cause despair; desperate [compound ofshake +need +y]
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| shakeshaft | n | a argumentative and confrontational person.; take on; come up against [derived from the Old English schakken, meaning to brandish, and speer, meaning spear.]
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| shareware | n | a type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience; [OE words 'sheep & fold'.]
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| shedtear | n | one prone to weeping and lamentation. 2. one who cries or sheds tears to take control of a troubling situation.; [O.E words 'shed' & 'tear']
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| shedwise | adj | sagacious intelligent discerning discriminating rational reasonable wise; [OE sceadwis]
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| sheepfold | n | enclosure for keeping sheep; [OED]
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| shipshape | adj | neat, orderly; [ship + shape; of nautical origin, based on the obligation of a sailor to keep his/her quarters arranged neatly and securely against the inevitable turbulence at sea. It also implies a neat and efficient packing to fit into the limited space typically allotted to service members aboard ship.]
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| shiðe | vb | to tear down or bring to an end by wrecking, ruining, killing, etc.; destroy [OEsciethan]
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| short eats | n | a snack; [OE "short" & "eats" from Sri Lankan English.]
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| shredling | n | a minute portion, part, portion, nano-bit.; shreddings, mote, small bite [OE "scread"]
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| shutting-in | n | the evening.; the dusk, nightfall. [OE "shut"]
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| sickhouse | n | building or structure used to care for the sick or injured; hospital, infirmary [neologism, in part inspired by OElǽcehús "leech-house" (leech=doctor), fromsick +house]
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| sidely | adj | sober sedate modest discreet; [OE sidlic]
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| silebeam | n | architrave; [sile 'column, pillar, support' (<OE sýl) + beam]
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| sithen[1] | adv | Obsolete word for "since then"; after that, afterwards, subsequently [CED (Obsolete) OEsiþþan, MEſiþen/siþen
† This word can be located at the beginning of the manuscript for Sir Gawain and The Green Knight in Middle English. This is byspled as "Siþen þe ſege ⁊ þe aſſaut watz ſeſed at Troye".]
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| silver 'a shoe of silver makes iron soft.' | pvb | a bribe will soften the heart of the most obdurate; [OE]
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| sinwash | vb | cleanse from sin; absolve [compound ofsin +wash]
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| smigh | vb | consider think about mediate examine scrutinize; [OE smeagan]
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| snakehead | n | a smuggler, particularly one from China, who specializes in getting people into another country without going through normal immigration channels; people smuggler [OEsnaca &heafod; term may come from the "creative smuggling" routes that snake from country to country before entering the target nation.]
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| snake-whisperer | n | one who adopts a sympathetic view of the needs and desires of the snake.; horse-whisper; dog-whisperer, [Old English : snake & whisperer; by analogy with 'horse-whisper' A 33-year-old Malaysian firefighter who had earned the name the “snake whisperer” died Friday, a few days after he was bitten by his pet cobra.]
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| soom | n | agreement; [Old English "som", meaning agreement, somewhat linked to "seem"]
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| soot | n | a black carbonaceous substance or deposit consisting of fire particles formed by the combustion of coal, wood, oil or other fuels; coom, smut [OEsot]
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| soot-dew | n | a black fulginous grime coating plants and buildings.; coom, smut [OEsot and "dew"]
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| sooth | n | true; fact, legitimacy, reality [OED (Archaic) Proto-Germanicᛉᚨᚾᚦᚨᛇ (sanþaz), OEſoþlic/sōþlīċ & ſoþlice/sōþlīċe (sōþ + -līċ) , MEſooþ or sooþ. Cognates with Old Saxonsōð, Old Norsesannr (ᛌᛆᚿᛧ/ᛋᛅᚾᛦ) and saðr (ᛌᛆᚦᛧ/ᛋᛅᚦᛦ, Gothic𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌾𐌹𐍃]
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| soothly | adv | in truth; in sooth,verily, truly, legitimately [same as sooth]
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| so-so-ish | adj | indifferent, passable, of indifferent quality or performance; mediocrity [OE: "So-so": fair & "ish" - inclined.]
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| still-hill | n | cemetery, necropolis; lichfield, graveyard [OE: still: not moving, silent & hill: small mountain.]
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| soul scot | n | a due paid on behalf of a deceased person to the church of the parish to which he belonged; mortuary; death duty; deadhouse [OEsawol, "soul" &scet, "a payment"]
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| soul thief | n | lucifer, old sooty, and all the false prophets who seek to rob others of their soul and spirit; Satan, shuck [OEsawol, "soul" &thief, "a robber"]
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| soul whisperer | n | one who cares for the soul and the eternal life of others.; clergy (collectively); proselytiser. [OEsawol, "soul" &whisperer, "a carer"]
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| spelk | n | a surgical splint; a splinter or chip, a small strip of wood; a thatching rod; support, slip of wood, cleft off [archaism, from OEspelc]
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| spinse | vb | to live as a spinster (temporarily), of married woman or one soon to be married; [backformation of 'spinster']
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| sprout-month | n | the second month of the year (so called because the cabbages begin to sprout); February [OE, fromSprote-Kalemonath]
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| stalworth | adj | steady, strong, serviceable; [OED; <OE stælwirþe]
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| stepmeal | adv | by degrees, gradually; [OE stæpmælum]
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| stiff stander | n | cow; [OE: from an old Nursery rhyme.]
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| stire | vb | to break up the quiet or stillness of; to upset mentally or emotionally, make uneasy, anxious; disturb [fromstir (vowel change from schwa to /aI/; akin to Germanstören)]
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| stonewall | adj | certain, stone cold; [OED]
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| stoorthlore | n | mathematics; [a direct calque of Icelandic "stærðfræði".]
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| stowaway | n | a person who hides on a ship, aircraft or other vehicle; [CED]
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| streave | n | consonant; [OE: blend of 'stop' & 'breathe' (Barnes suggestion for consonant)]
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| street-whisperer | n | a good samaritan, social worker who cares for the disadvantaged, the sick, the drug-addicted, the homeless etc.; good samaritan [OE: stræt & whisperer: one who acts & speak caringly]
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| stringer | n | a newspaper correspondent; news photographer who is retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place; [OE:]
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| sucklewight | n | mammal; [suck(le) OE 'sūcan' + wight OE 'wiht'
akin to Dutch 'Zoogdier' and German 'Säugetier'] |
| swanling | n | the young of a swan; cygnet [OED]
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| swamb | n | fungus; [from OEswamm]
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| sward | n | the skin of the body; the rind of the pork; the surface of soil covered by grass or herbage; skin, rind, stretch of grass, gair [uncommon, from OEswearþ,swarð]
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| swarm smart | n | collective intelligent; . [OE. swearm: large cluster of insects. & smeotan: clever.]
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| swey | adj | silent; [OE swige]
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| swincraft | n | music; [OE swin 'sound, melody' + -craft]
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| sye | n | victory; overthrow, win [update of OEsige]
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| umbethink | vb | recall; (reflexive) consider; [‘umbe-’ + ‘think’]
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| uhtcare | n | Pre-dawn anxiety; sitting in bed before dawn worrying; {{{synonyms}}} [OE: Uht (before dawn) + Cearu/Caru (anxiety)]
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| umbethinking | n | reminder; [‘umbethink’ + ‘-ing’]
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| umstalling(s) | n | circumstance(s); [um(b) 'around' + stalling(s)*
*OE steall 'standing place, position'] |
| umwendingly | adj | interchangeable; [umb 'around' + wend 'change' + -ingly]
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| umwriting | n | transliteration; [see Ic. umrita.. also NHG Umschreibung]
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| unaforeseen | adj | unprecedented; []
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| unbeginningness | n | the state or condition of having no beginning; non-existence [un:negation, non; beginning: commencement; & ness: state or condition.]
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| undeath | n | the prolonging of life because we have the power to do so, without regards to quality of existence (in an undeath or unlife state).; dead-living [OE. 'un' & 'death'.]
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| underbreak | vb | to break in upon while someone is speaking, working, etc.; interrupt [calque from German 'unterbrechen']
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| undoingness | n | the state or condition of inaction.; inertia, idleness. [un:negation, non; doing:acting upon; ness: state or condition.]
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| underhold | vb | to carry or bear the weight of; to give courage, faith, or confidence; support ['under' + 'hold' - calque from French "soutenir"]
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| undersplit | vb | to perceive or show the difference in; to mark off as different; distinguish; differentiate [compound: 'under' + 'split' - part calque]
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| underþought | n | something which is thought or implicit, but not spoken or made explicit; subtext [neologism]
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| undrask | adv | to astonish; amaze, awe [ON (same word):to be astonished]
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| unlievedly | adv | incredibly; [OE]
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| unlike | adj | different; not the same, distinct, seperate [already present in english]
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| unset | vb | destabilise; [OE]
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| unsleeping-eye | n | secret police organizations, as the Gestapo etc.; [OE un/sleep/ing & eye]
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| unsmittler | n | disinfectant; [un- + smittle (smite + -le adj. suffix) + -er]
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| us-ness | n | the fact of being or feeling united in mind, feeling or purpose the fact of forming a unity.; unity, oneness, togetherness. [us:objective of we; & suffix- ness: expressing state or condition.]
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| vand | n, adj, | Bad; evil, terrible, deceitful, [ONvándr]
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StaffA of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested/Obsolete | |||
| a Capella | n | singing | mouthglee, mouthly | |
| aardvark | n | ant bear, ant-bear, antbear | earthpig, earthswine, earthfarrow | |
| abandon | vb |
shed, forgo, forsake (Barnes) |
forletUK dialectal ~ cf. OE forlǣtan, Fr. ferlitte, Du. verlaten, Nw. forlate, NHG verlassen) of-give, up-give, forleave, forlese, unget | |
| abandon | n | wantonness, recklessness | overgive | |
| abandonment | n | forsaking | shedding | |
| abase | vb | cheapen, warp; shame, sink, belittle | unar, anether | |
| abash | vb | faze, ashame | - | |
| abate | vb | drain away, drop off, dwindle, ease, ebb fall (away), lessen, let up, lower, shrink, wane | - | |
| abattoir | n | slaughterhouse | - | |
| abbess | n | - | overmother | |
| abbreviation | n | short (for) | offshortening, forshortening, shortening | |
| abdicate | vb | step down, step aside from | - | |
| abdomen | n | midriff, belly | kite, quith (<OE cwiþ) riff (<OE hrif)
bouk (Eng.,calque of all Ger. speeches) | |
| abduct | vb | kidnap, steal, lead away, offlead, nab | - | |
| aberrant | n | black-sheep | - | |
| aberration | n | - | unfollowing | |
| abet | vb | goad, spur, hearten | fuse (<ME fusen) | |
| abhor | vb | hate, loathe, mislike | - | |
| ability | n | skill, might, craft, knack in-born: mother-wit | formay (cf. Du. vermogen) | |
| abject | adj | low | heanly (<OE heanlic), downcast (Barnes) | |
| abjure | vb | forswear, take back, unsay, withdraw | swear off (cf. NHG abschwören), aftercwethe | |
| ablactate | vb | wean | - | |
| ablation | n | offtaking, offferrying | - | |
| ablative | adj | - | atbraidingly, shiftfall (<Ic. skiftafall) | |
| ablaut | n | - | offlloud | |
| able | adj | fit, skilled |
dow, stand (cf. Dn, Nw, NHG) | |
| -able | sfx | -worthy |
-endly/-ingly, -cannish, -canny -worth (<OE -wierþe) -ber (cf. OE -bære, Fr. -ber, NHG -bar) -some | |
| able to | phr | can, may,
to be canny enough, to be cunning enough up to | dow to, skilled to | |
| ablution | n | washing, cleansing | furbing | |
| abnegate | vb | forgo, forswear | - | |
| abnormal | adj | amiss, unwonted, odd | unmean, unshapely (Barnes) | |
| abolish | vb | black out, stamp out, sweep away, wipe out |
fordo, forend, adiley (<OE ādīlegian) offship (cf. NHG abschaffen) | |
| abominable | adj | aweful, dreadful, evil, loathsome, sickening | shandful (<OE scandful, cf. NGH/Du. schandvoll), slithely, besmearful, wargedly (<OE) | |
| aboriginal | adj | inborn | orfolkish, orfolkly firstfolkish (seeor- ) | |
| aborigine | n | - | orfolk (OE or 'origin') firstfolk (see or- ) | |
| abort | vb | lay off, call off, end | - | |
| abortion | n | misbirth | forbirthing, awaywarpness (<OE) | |
| abound | vb | brim, teem, overflow | - | |
| abrasion | n | graze, scrape | - | |
| abridge | vb | cut back, forshorten, cut, | littlen (<OE) | |
| abrupt | adj | quick, fast, steep | shorn (<OE scoren) | |
| abscess | n | swelling | - | |
| abscond | vb | break out, run off, steal away | - | |
| absence | n |
time off, lack, needfulness, want; dearth | offwardness (<OE) | |
| absent | adj | missing, wanting, out | offward (<OE) | |
| absenteeism | n | - | offwardness | |
| absent-mindedness | n | daydreaming, flighty, thoughtless, unheeding, unmindful, woolgathering | - | |
| absinthe | n | wormwood | - | |
| absolute | adj |
outright, utter, full, rank | - | |
| absolutely | adv | fully, wholly, dead | - | |
| absolve | vb | forgive | offloosen (Barnes) | |
| absorb | vb | drink, soak up, suck up, take up; grip; burn, drain, draw down, play out | bedrink (<OE bedrincan) up-soak, forsoak (Barnes) | |
| abstain (from) | vb | forbear (Barnes), forego withhold, hold back swear off | - | |
| abstinence | n | - | forbearing, forhaveness (<OE forhæfnes) | |
| abstract | vb | withdraw, take from, pull out | - | |
| abstract | adj | - | fallenly | |
| abstract | n | withdrawal, outline | outpulling, outdraught, offdrawal (abstraction) | |
| abundance | n | wealth, lot | fullsomeness (<OE) | |
| abundant | adj | teeming, swarming overflowing, fulsome rife, fat, thick, awash | - | |
| abuse | vb | scathe, mishandle | hean (<OE hienan), smittle, misbrook | |
| abysmal | adj | 1. hellish, hopeless, dreadful 2. fathomless, bottomless | netherly, unfathomly | |
| abyss | n | 1. hell 2. depth, ground, deep, pit, netherworld | newel (<OE neowol)
offground (cf. NGH. Abgrund, Du. Afgrond) | |
| acacia | n | thorn tree, whistling thorn, wattle | thornbloom, hookthorn | |
| academia | n | - | learnedom, loredom, frod (<OE) | |
| academic oracademik | n/adj | highbrow, book-learned | moot, booksome, lorewise, mighty-brained n: loreman | |
| accede | vb | - | agree: thware (<OE) | |
| accelerate | vb | speed up, spur, quicken (Barnes) | yare, swiften | |
| acceleration | n | speeding up | yareness | |
| accent | n | twang, drawl | tungfall (cf. Du. tongval ), word-strain (Barnes) | |
| accept | vb | swallow, trust; bear, shoulder; intake (Barnes) |
thave, thware (<OE þwarian 'to bring into agreement, make harmonious') ontake, onfang (<OE onfon) | |
| acceptable | adj | all right, fair, good | thwaringly, thewsome | |
| access | n | doorway, gateway, key | infare, ingoing | |
| accessible | adj | at hand | yea-fare, thuringly | |
| accessory | n | - | bykeeper, deedmate (Barnes) | |
| accident | n | mishap; hap, luck, befall | unfall (cf. NHG unfall) , hapliness (Barnes) | |
| accidental | adj | unwitting | fallenly, happensome (Barnes) | |
| accompany | vb | go with, follow |
beglide (cf. Du. begeleiden, NHG begleiten), samodsithe (<OE samodsīðian) | |
| accomplish | vb phr | fulfill, sow up, bring about, reach | - | |
| accord | n | deal, meeting of minds | thaving, thwaring | |
| accordion | n | - | bellowharp | |
| according to | adj | as of, by, true to
quoth | nigh (cf. NHG nach), after, following(calque) | |
| account | n | ledger, reckoning | reckoning (cf. Du. rekening, Fr. rekken) | |
| account of | vb | witness(give) | forof(on) | |
| accountant | n | - | teller (cf. Du. tal, NHG Zahle 'number') | |
| accumulate | vb | heap, upheap, build up, gather up | - | |
| accumulation | vb | unheaping | - | |
| accurate | adj | right on, spot-on | swotel (<OE sweotol)
narrowcore (calque of Du. nauwkeurig, narrow - core 'choice') | |
| accusation | noun | bewraying (cf. Eng.bewrayment) | - | |
| accusative (case) | adj | - | wrayingly (<OE wregendlic)
end-case (Barnes) tholfall (cf. Ic. þolfall) whonefall (<OE hwone, the accusative of "hwæt", refer to German "wen" and "Wenfall") | |
| accuse | vb | wray, guilt |
atwite fromtyghtle (<OE frumtyhtle, falsely: | |
| accustom | vb | wean, wean on, wean to | onwone (Barnes) | |
| accustomed | adj | wont, used to | - | |
| acephalous | adj | headless (Barnes) | - | |
| acetone | n | - | sourghost | |
| acid | n/adj | - | sour | |
| acne | n | - | redmeal (OE mal 'spot') | |
| aconite | n | wolfsbane | - | |
| acoustics | n | - | dinlore | |
| acquaint | vb | befriend, get to know | ken (<OE cunnan (“to become acquainted with, to know”)) | |
| acquaintance | n | friend, neighbor | kenning | |
| acquiesce | vb | bow | thave (<OE) | |
| acquire | vb | earn, foster, get, win | beget (<OE) | |
| acquisition | n |
windfall(unexpected) | begetting | |
| acrobat | n | - | stringtumb | |
| acropolis | n | - | highburg | |
| across | adv | over | thwarse, thweer, athwart (Barnes) | |
| act | n | deed, work, play | - | |
| act | vb | do, work | - | |
| action | n | deed (Barnes), doing, work, do (as, 'all talk and no do'), liveliness | ysheon (<OE ġescēon, cf. NHG Geschehen)
dodrive | |
| activate | vb | switch on | - | |
| active | adj | switched on, snell,deedy; mettlesome, springy; hopping, tied-up | ongoing, doingsome (Barnes), doughty, sprack (Barnes) | |
| activist | n | backer, upholder, fighter, nut, diehard | - | |
| actor(ess) | n | player, showman | showplayer(in) | |
| actual | adj | sooth, true | nowly | |
| actually | adv | indeed, truly, soothly, forsooth, truthfully,
all in all, truth to tell, word for word | workly, echtly (seeecht), wittedly (<OE) | |
| acupuncture | n | pinpricking | nailhealing | |
| acute | adj | sharp, high (Barnes), keen, honed; shrill(accent) | swotel | |
| A.D. | adv | in the year of our lord | Y.L. | |
| ad infinitum | adv | forevermore | at eke, ekely, for eke, unto everness | |
| adamant | adj | unyielding, unswayed | - | |
| adaptable | adj | - | onwending (cf. Du. aanwendbaar) | |
| adapter | n | - | eck-on, fayfitter | |
| add | vb | eke | reckon up, put on, onput (Barnes), at-eke (OE) | |
| add up | vb | cast up, tally up | - | |
| addict | n | - | soughtier (cf. NHG Süchtiger) | |
| addicted | adj | - | soughty (cf. NHG süchtig) | |
| addiction | n | craving, yearning | sought (<ME soght cf. NHG Sucht) | |
| addition | n | - | togive | |
| additional | adj | - | bycoming (Du. bijkomend), coming by | |
| additionally | adv |
again, also, besides, either, further, furthermore, likewise, moreover, then, too, withal, yet, over and above | eke (also) | |
| address | vb | call, name, clip, bespeak | at-speak, bequethe, hote | |
| address | n | - | sitline (<OE: asittan 'to live together'), callword | |
| adept | adj | skillful, skilled, good, deft | - | |
| adequate | adj | right, even, fair, fit, befitting, becoming | makeshift/ make-do | |
| adhere | vb | cling, stick, cleave to, follow, stand by | at-cleave (<OE) oncleave (Barnes) | |
| adherence to good morals | n | - | thewfastness | |
| adherent | n | follower | - | |
| adiposis | n | overweight | - | |
| adjacent | adj | near, next, neighboring | - | |
| adjective | n | - | mark-word (Barnes) | |
| adjunct | n | helpmate, sidekick | - | |
| adjust | vb | set, fit | forstell (cf. NHG/Du. verstellen)
(seestell) | |
| administer | vb | wield, deal, lot, | bewit | |
| administration | n | dealing | ||
| admiral | n | - | fleethelm, fleetleader | |
| admire | vb | look up to | bewonder, Belook | |
| admission | n | doorway | thwaring | |
| admit | vb |
let in, acknowledge, welcome, greet, take in confess: own up | andet (<OE andhetan)
give to (cf. NHG zugeben, Du. toegeven) confess:beknow (Eng.) sense to join a club, society, admit to hospital, etc:Instep, Onsend, Tosend, Intake | |
| admonish | vb | chide, forewarn, upbraid, warn | tell off, man (<OE manian) | |
| adolescence | n | youthhood | teenhood | |
| adolescent | n | youth, youngling, youngster, teen | - | |
| adopt | vb | take on, follow; take in, mother, rear, foster, bring up, take care of | intake | |
| adoption | n | fostering | intaking | |
| adorable | adj | comely, lovely, looksome | - | |
| adorn | vb | bedeck (Barnes), yare, trim |
breen (<OE berenian) with precious stones: | |
| adrenaline | n | - | thringweald | |
| adulation | n | - | hallowing | |
| adult | n | grown-up | fullwaxener(see Eng.waxen),waxen | |
| adulthood | n | - | waxenhood | |
| adultery | n | - | wedlock breach, Farlegarness (<OS Farlegarnessi) | |
| adumbrate | vb | outline | - | |
| advance | vb | make inroads, forward, further, go (on)
trans.put forth | forthgo, wade on | |
| advance | n | inroads, headway; breakthrough in advance: beforehand | forthgoing | |
| advanced | adj | manifold, knotted, snarled | forthstridden | |
| advancing | adj | striding | - | |
| advantage | n | foredeal, high ground, upper-hand | boot, behoof, upside | |
| advantageous | adj | helpful, worthwhile | behovely, frimful/frimly (<OE frimlic) | |
| advection | n | Tobearing, Atbearing, Onbearing | ||
| advent | n | coming, onset | - | |
| adventure | n | happening, time; flutter, throw, undertaking, fare | rose (<OE rās)
wayspell (cf. Sw.vågspel) | |
| adventurous | adj | daring, free-swinging, gutsy, bold | rosey | |
| adverb | n | - | byword (cf. NHG. Beiwort, Du. bijwoord, Dn. biord) | |
| adversarial | n | - | thwartsome (Barnes), witherlike | |
| adversary | n | foe, witherling | withersake (<OE wiþersaca, cf. NGH. Widersacher) | |
| adversity | n | ill, knock, mishap; hardship, hurdle, pitfall | thwartsomeness, hardhap, witherness | |
| adversive | n | - | thwartsome, withersome | |
| advertize | vb | play up | showmede | |
| advertisement | n | showing | ||
| advice | n | tip, help | rede (<OE raed, cf. Du. raad, NGH. Rat) | |
| advisable | adj | Redesome (cf. NHG ratsam) | ||
| advise | vb | - | berede, mind | |
| advocacy | n | backing | forespeech (<OEforespræċ, cf. NHG. Fürsprache, Du. voorspraak) | |
| advocate | n/vb | plead for, uphold, back up; spokesman, stand up for | forspeak (<OE foresprecan, NHG fürsprechen) | |
| aerial | adj | - | loften (<OE lyften) | |
| aerodynamic | adj | streamlined | wind deft, windfit, loftlithe | |
| aerodynamics | n | - | loftcraft (calque Gk.) | |
| aeronaut | n | - | roomfarer (room = space; cf. NHG Raum...) | |
| aerospace | n | - | loftroom | |
| aesir | n | - | oasses (<OE os, -ir is an ON plural) | |
| aesthetic | adj | comely, fair | wlitty (<OE wlitig) | |
| affair | n | fling; blowout; handiwork; happening; business | inting (<OE intinga) | |
| affect | vb | inflow, sway; wend, shift, switch, Iwake (< OE
gewaecan), Ifreme (<OE ge-freme) Awork (<OE a-wyrcan) | frother (Du. veranderen) | |
| affection | n | fondness; illness; leaning; hallmark | child: bairnlove (<OE bearnlufe) | |
| affectionate | adj | loving, warm-hearted | lovesome (Barnes) | |
| affiance | vb | betroth | - | |
| affinity | n | leaning, kinship, Sibred | - | |
| affirm | vb | - |
foraye (Barnes), | |
| affirmative | adv | aye, yea, so, yes, yeah, yep | yea-some, yea-ly, ayesome | |
| affix | n | - | wordfastening | |
| afflict | vb | ail, smite, dretch |
swench (<OE swinc), | |
| affluence | n | wealth, riches, fat | weal | |
| affluent | adj | wealthy, well-off, well-to-do rich, fat | - | |
| afraid | adj | aghast, fearful, frightened | afeared | |
| Africa | n | - | Highsun | |
| age | n | time | eld, tide(era) | |
| age | vb | olden: mellow, ripen, elden | eld | |
| aged | adj | elderly, old(en), yore | forolden, full-blown, full-fledged, grown. | |
| agenda | n | to-do-list | worklist (cf. Fr. wurklist) | |
| agglomerate | vb | huddle | clodden (Barnes) | |
| agglomeration | n | crowding, heaping, clodding, | swelltown | |
| agglutinate | vb | wordlink | upcleam (Barnes) | |
| aggressive | adj | go-getting | fightsome (Barnes) | |
| aggressor | n | raider | scather | |
| agile | adj | nimble, limber, lithe light-footed, yare | - | |
| agitate(d) | vb | stir, toss, keyed-up | - | |
| agitation | n | worry | mindfret, seething, churning | |
| aglet | n | - | needling, shoestring tip | |
| agoraphobia | n | - | steadfear | |
| agree | vb | settle on, fit, hold with (Barnes) |
thwear (<OE þwǽrian) forewyrd (<OE forewyrdan) | |
| agreeable | adj | - | likeworthy | |
| agreement | n | deal, meeting of minds | mirth, thwaring, thaving, soom (<OE som) | |
| agrarian/agricultural | adj | field (Barnes) | - | |
| agriculture | n | farming, tilling, harvest | fieldlore, earth-tilth (Barnes), croplore landwardship (cf. NHG Landwirtschaft) | |
| aichmophobia | n | needlefright | - | |
| aid | n | helpmate, sidekick; backing, helping hand, leg up | filst (<OE fylst)
atstall (<OE ætstæl) fultum (<OE fultum/fulteam) | |
| aid | vb | help, bestead | filst (<OE fylstan), andfilst (<OE andfylstan) | |
| aimsome | adj | single-minded (Barnes) | - | |
| AIDS | n | - | Earned Bodyweir Scantness Sickness | |
| aim | n | goal, mark | tile (<OE tilian "to aim", cf. NHG Ziel)
ettle | |
| aim at | vb | - | eye for, nought in, tile (<OE tilian, NHG zielen) | |
| air | n/vb |
wind, breath; vb: broadcast; freshen | loft (<OE loft(through Old Norse), cf. NHG Luft, Du. lucht), lift (<OE lyft) life's breath | |
| air force | n | - | loft-weir, loftmight (cf. Du. luchtmacht) | |
| airplane/ aeroplane | n | kite (slang) | flycraft (OE, floegan; loftcraft, stycraft from OE: upstigen to move up rise ascend) | |
| airport | n | - | lofthub, lofthaven(calque) | |
| aisle | n | path, lane | gangway | |
| alarm clock | n | - | waker (cf. NHG: Wecker, Du wekker)
wire-waker, wirerooster | |
| alas | interj | alack, ay, woe | welaway, lackaday, alack | |
| albedo | n | - | whiteness (<ME<OEhwitness), whiteshine | |
| albino | n | - | whiteling | |
| album | n | - | whitebook | |
| albumen | n | egg white | egg lime | |
| alchemy | n | - | orecraft | |
| alcohol | n | booze, firewater | wineghost | |
| alcoholic | adj | boozen | - | |
| alcoholic | n | sot, drunkard, boozen | malt-worm | |
| alert | adj | awake, watchful; heedful, wary; numble, sharp-witted; ready, willing | gleg rathe (<OE rathe) | |
| algorithm | n | - | reckonwrit | |
| alien | n/adj | way-out, fremd, outlandish, outsider | Fremd (Eng./NHG. fremd), Elster, Elend, Otherling | |
| alienate | vb | - | Befremd(NHG. Befremden) see fremd | |
| alienation | n | unfriendliness | Befremding | |
| align | vb | set up, fit, shape (into a line) | - | |
| allegory | n | likeness | forlikening (Barnes) | |
| allergy | n | - | overfeeling | |
| alleviate | vb | allay, lighten | - | |
| alley | n | walk, lane, pathway | - | |
| alliance | n | bond, tie | - | |
| allied | adj | bound, wed | fayed | |
| alligator | n | - | broadmouthnix | |
| alliteration | n | - | staverime, mate-penning (Barnes) | |
| allocate | vb | earmark, let | fordeal | |
| allotment | n | - | fordealing | |
| allow | vb | let (Barnes), leave, give the green light for | thwore (<OE þwárian)
thave (<OE þafian) aleave (<OE ālīefan, cf. NHG erlauben) | |
| allowable | adj | - | thwaresome, thavesome | |
| alloy | n | mix, blend, meld | mastling | |
| All Saints Day | n | Allhallowmas, Hallowmas | - | |
| allude | vb | hint (at), touch (on) | anent | |
| allure | vb | draw to | spane (<OE spanan), adwell | |
| Ally | n | Ithoft, Ifolk, Ihild, Ifight, Ilie, Ilay | ||
| almanac | n | yearbook | - | |
| alphabet | n |
ABCs
| staffrow (<OE stæfrǣw, Ic. stafrófið, Fa. stavraðið), runeline, runecraft, runebook, | |
| altar | n | - | giftboard, worship board glowstead, gleedstead (<OE glédstede) waybed (<OE wigbed) harrow (<OE hearg, cf. OHG harug) | |
| alter | vb | wend | frother (cf. Fr. feroar, Du. veranderen, NHG. verändern) | |
| altercation | n | flite, brangle, brawl, row, dust-up | - | |
| alternate | v | waver, switch, become, shift | - | |
| alternative | adj | other | - | |
| altitude | n | height | highmete, aloftness | |
| altruism | n | selflessness | - | |
| altruistic | adj | selfless, unselfish | - | |
| amass | vb | gather, heap, huddle | mill | |
| amateur | n | greenhorn, beginner, starter | - | |
| amazon | n | - | bandfighters (calque of Old Persian*hamazan)
wyewoman (calque of Irish banghaiscíoch and Scottish Gaelic ban-laoch) | |
| ambassador | n | - | rikesboder, landspellsman | |
| amber | n | - | brimstone, glarestone, burnstone, elksand (<OE eolhsand) | |
| ambidextrous | adj | both-handed, two-handed, either-handed | umberight, umbecrafty, umbehandy | |
| ambience | n | mood, feeling | roomfeel | |
| ambiguous | adj | - | twiwordy (<OE twiwyrdig), twisided (Barnes); twi-meaning. twimeaning, unsifer, | |
| ambiguity | n | - | twiwordiness | |
| ambivalence | n | - | waver | |
| ambivert | n | - | twigoer | |
| ambiverted | adj | - | twigoing | |
| ambulance | n | - | sickwain crankwain (<NHG Krankenwagen) | |
| ambulant | adj | roving, wandering, wayfaring | - | |
| ambush | n/ vb | net, web; waylay (Barnes), forlay | inbush | |
| ameliorate | vb | better | eather | |
| amen | interj |
- |
soothly (<OE soþlice) so be it(used in the early English Reformation), true dat(colloquial),yelayay | |
| America | n | New World | Markland (<OEmearcland "borderland," cognate to ONmarkland, the name given by Leif Eriksson to a Labrador shoreline; the element m a r k incidentally shares the same three consonant sounds as A m e r i c a) Westlands, Redlands | |
| amicable | adj | friendly, hail-fellow-well-met | blithe | |
| amigo | n | friend | - | |
| ammonia | n | - | hartshorn | |
| amnesia | n | blackout | eftmind loss | |
| amoeba | n | - | shapeshifter, slimebrick, slimedeer (cf. Ic. slímdýr) | |
| amorphous | adj | shapeless | - | |
| amount | n | score, lot, whit, deal (Barnes) | - | |
| ampersand | n | - | andtoken | |
| amphibian | n | - | lurrow (cf. NHGLurche), shoredeer, frogdeer (cf. Ic. froskdýr) | |
| amphibious | adj | - | two-breathed (Barnes) | |
| amphitheater | n | - | playstow, umbewitstow | |
| ample | adj | broad, large, roomy | ||
| amplifier | n | - | forstronger | |
| amplify | vb | - | outbroaden (Barnes) | |
| amplitude | n | breadth, reach, width | - | |
| amputate | v | cut (off) | rend, snithe, forcarve (Barnes), belimb | |
| amusement | n | fun, game, fun and games | ||
| amusing | adj | - | listing | |
| anachronism | n | mistiming (Barnes) | - | |
| anaconda | n | - | whipsnake | |
| anaesthetic | adj | unsightly | dwale | |
| anagram | n | - | stavewrixel | |
| anal | adj | bottom, ?bum — | arsely, arsen | |
| analgesic | n | numbing | andwark | |
| analogy | n | - | alikeword | |
| analyze | vb | look at | forloosen (Barnes); think through, unthread, unriddle. Onlight, Onseek, Forloosen, Uploosen, Upsunder Nease (<OE to search, to find out by inquiry) Onnease, Anease | |
| anarchism | n/adj | - | lawlessholth, lawlesshood | |
| anarchy | n | lawlessness |
redelacking, ethellessness | |
| anastomosis | n | shunt | - | |
| anathema | n | - | forputting (calque Gk. anathema) | |
| anatomy | n | - | bodylore | |
| ancestor | n | forebear (Barnes) forefather (Barnes) elder, forerunner fore-elder (Barnes) | foremother
foreolder (cf. Du. voorouder) | |
| ancestry | n | strain, seed, bloodties, house | strind | |
| ancient | adj | hoary, olden, old-time
foreold (Barnes) | fern (<OE fyrn)
orold (calque of NHG uralt), | |
| ancient times | n | yoretide | - | |
| andiron | n | firedog | firegoat | |
| androgyny | n | - |
werewifehood (Calque of the Greek + "hood") | |
| android | n | - | manhue/werehue (cf. Greek andros'man' andoeidēs 'hue(<OE hiw)) | |
| anemometer | n | - | windmeter (Barnes) | |
| anemone | n | - | windrose | |
| anesthesia | n | - | unfeeler (calque)
number (one who numbs) | |
| angel | n | - | rotherer, errandghost (<OE ærendgást) | |
| anger? | n | ire, wrath, scorn | greme (<OE grama); 'anger' O.N. loanword circa 1220AD | |
| angle | n | nook, bight, winkle | nookspan, nookwidth, hook, hurn (<OE hyrne), whem (<OE hwemm) | |
| angry | adj | wrathful, uptight, waspish | - | |
| anguish | n | woe, sorrow, heartbreak, heartache, throe | angsomeness, bosom-hell | |
| angular | adj | - | nook-shot, sharp-nooked, straight-edged, hyrned (<OE hyrnen), edgy | |
| animal | n | being | deer, wight (<OE wiht), wilder, soulend, livle, nite (<OE nēat), neat (from OE, like neatsfoot oil), neatenkind (<OE) | |
| animate | vb | liven literary: quicken (Barnes) | besoul (cf. NHG beseelen, Du. bezielen) | |
| anime | n | - | dawnlandish livedrawing | |
| animosity | n | hate(red) | - | |
| annals | n | - | year-bookings | |
| annelid | n | ringworm | - | |
| annex | vb | - | onend (on+end) (cf. NHG Anschluss) | |
| annihilate | vb | wipe out, | fornaughten (Barnes)
benothing (Eng.) | |
| annihilation | n | wrecking | fornaughting, spild (OE) | |
| anniversary | n | yearday, yeartide (Barnes), Frealstide (<OEa festival of the church, an anniversary), Year-imind (<OE) | mind day (<OE gemynddaeg) | |
| Anno Domini | adv | in the year of our lord | - | |
| annotate | vb | mark | bemark | |
| annotation | n | marking | bemarking (NGH Bemerkung) | |
| announce | vb | ban, bode, bid, kithe | forcouth (<OE cýðan, cf. NHG verkünden) meld (<OE meldian, cf. NHG./Du. melden) forthspell, spell out | |
| announcement | n | - | oncouthing (cf. NHG Ankündigung) | |
| annoy | vb | irk (Barnes), nettle | - | |
| annoying | adj | irksome (Barnes) | - | |
| annual | adj | yearly | - | |
| annual | n | yearbook | - | |
| annul | vb | fordo, call off | - | |
| annuli astronomici | n | Gemma's Rings | - | |
| anoint | v | smear | anele, throughsmear (<OE þūrhsmyrian) | |
| anonymous | adj | nameless, unnamed | - | |
| anorexia | n | - | fastlust | |
| antagonist | n |
fiend, foe | witherling, gainstander | |
| antarctic | n | southend | - | |
| Antarctica | n | South End | South Hern | |
| antecedence | n | beforemath, foregoing | - | |
| antediluvian | adj | - | foreflood | |
| Ante Meridiëm | phr | Before Midday (calque) | - | |
| anterior | adj | foreward; foregoing, former | - | |
| anterior | n | fore, foreside | - | |
| anthem | n | - | folksong (cf. NHG./Du. volkslied) | |
| anthology | n | reader | fayness | |
| anthropology | n | - | theedlore, manlore, werelore | |
| anti- | n | wither-, with-,gain- | off- | |
| antibiotic | n | gainrodlifeanwork | ||
| antisemite | adj | Jew-hater | - | |
| anticipate | vb | foretell, foresee | - | |
| anticlockwise | adj/adv | widdershins | withclockwise, withershins | |
| antics | n | - | odd behaveness, childishness | |
| anticonstitutionally | adv | - | witherlawwritly withlawwritly | |
| antidisestablishmentarianism | n | - | gainunstathelingmanness | |
| antidote | n | - | atterloathe (<ME atterllothe) | |
| antigen | n | - | offweirstuff | |
| antihero | n | - | gainheleth, withheleth, witherheleth | |
| antilope | n | - | buck (cf. Afr. bok)
bloomgoat | |
| antimatter | n | - | gainstuff, witherstuff, unbeing, unstuff | |
| antipathy | n | mislike | - | |
| antipope | n | gainfather (cf. NHG gegenpapst) | ||
| antiquated | adj | careworn, timestruck | - | |
| antique | n/adj | eldern | - | |
| antiquity | n | olden days; oldness, eldnerliness |
afern (OE fyrn 'former, ancient') | |
| antiseptic | adj | - | withersmite | |
| anti-statism | n | - |
witherlawwardness | |
| anti-statist | adj | - | witherlawmootish | |
| anti-statist | n | - | leedward witherling | |
| antitoxin | n | - | gainatter | |
| antler | n | - | blowhorn (<OEblōwan) | |
| antonym | n | - | witherword gainword (cf. NHG gegenwort) | |
| anulus | n | ring | - | |
| anus | n | asshole(vulgar) | arse-thirl (OE: earsþerl); back-tharm;
endring | |
| anxiety | n | worry, fear | angness, angens, angs | |
| aorta | n | - | loftleat | |
| apart | adj | cleaved, sundered, shedded | - | |
| apart from | adv | aside, asunder | - | |
| apartment | n | flat, room, by-room | woning (cf. NHG Wohnung) | |
| apathetic | adj | samewise | - | |
| aperture | n | opening, breech, hole | - | |
| apex | n | tip, yop, top | - | |
| aphid | n | greenfly, blackfly | wortlice | |
| aphrodisiac | n | - | lustdrive | |
| apogee | n | - | hightip | |
| apologise | vb | To |
forshild Unshild (cf. Du. verontschuldigen, NHG. entschuldigen) seeshild | |
| apology | n | sorry (rare) |
rueword, sorroword, belading (<OE) defense:besaying | |
| apostle | n | - | errander, sendling (cf. NHG 'Sendling'), fro-sent (Sir John Cheke) | |
| apothecary | n | - | leefwinkle (leef 'medicine', see Ic. lyf) | |
| apparel | n | clothes, wear, threads, weed | glad rags, donnings, step-outs | |
| apparent | adj | seeming | eyeshinely (NHG. augenscheinlich, Du. ogenschijnlijk) | |
| apparently | adv/phr | seemingly, at first sight, in name only, on the outside, openly, to the eye, as it shows | staringly, eyeshinely (NHG. augenscheinlich, Du. ogenschijnlijk) | |
| appeal | vb | call (upon) | ask, beckon, clepe | |
| appealing | adj | fair, winsome, sightly | - | |
| appear | vb | show up | tew up (cf. OE ætīwan, ætywan), forshine (cf. Du. verschijnen, NHG. erscheinen) | |
| appearance | n |
blee, look, cast, hue | leer, eyeshine (NHG. Augenschein) | |
| appease | vb | soothe, allay | frithen | |
| appellation | n | name | - | |
| appendage | n | limb | - | |
| appendicitis | n | - | blindgut addle | |
| appendix | n | - | organ: blindgut blindtharm (cf. Fr. blineterm, NHG Blinddarm) book: tack-on | |
| appetite | n | craving, hunger | - | |
| appetizer | n | starter | foremeal | |
| application | n | bearing, putting-on | - | |
| apply | vb | beseech, lay on, spread | bewharve (cf. NHG bewerben)wharve | |
| appoint | vb | afix, set up, earmark, deem, settle, name | wend out | |
| appreciate | v | to be thankful | ||
| apprehension | n | foreboding, misgiving | - | |
| apprentice | n | beginner, learner | learnend | |
| approach | vb | near, nigh, draw near to, come forth, creep up on | nighletch (<OE neahlæcan) | |
| approach | n | means, way | ||
| approaching | adj | nearing, forthcoming, upcoming, oncoming | nighleching | |
| appropriate | adj | befitting, seemly, meet | roadly (cf. OE geradlic) | |
| approximate | adj | rough, near, loose | - | |
| approximately | adv | about, roughly, nearly, nigh | umbe | |
| appurtenance | n | - | sidemarking, nethermark | |
| April | n | - | Eastermonth | |
| apron | n | - | barmcloth | |
| apt | adj | fit | deve (<OE defe), yroadly (<OE ġerādliċ) | |
| aquaculture | n | fish-farming | - | |
| aqualung | n | - | waterlung | |
| aquamarine | adj | seagreen | - | |
| aquaphobia | n | - | waterfear | |
| aquaphobic | adj | afraid of (the) water | - | |
| aquaplaning | n | - | watergliding | |
| aquarium | n | - | fishglass, waterglass | |
| aquatic | adj | waterly | - | |
| aqueduct | n | - | waterleat | |
| aqueous | adj | water like, water bearing | - | |
| arable | adj | - | ploughsome | |
| arachnid | n | - | eight-legger | |
| arboreal | adj | - | treewise | |
| arbitrary | adj | whimsy | fallenly (cf. Du. toeval) willkeirly (<OE willa + cyre 'choice' + 'līc) | |
| arboretum | n | - | treestead | |
| arc | n | bow | - | |
| arcade | n | - | playhall (cf. Du. speelhal, NHG Spielhalle) | |
| arch | n | Biel (<OE Bígel) | bow | |
| archaeology | n | - | delvelore, fernfrod (cf. Ic. fornleifafræði) | |
| archaeopterix | n | - | stoneset orfowl (cf. NHG Urvogel) stonelayed oldenwing | |
| archaic | adj. | timeworn | forold (Eng.) akin to (NHG. veraltet) | |
| archangel | n | - | high-ghost | |
| archer | n | bowman | bowyer, shooter (<OE scytta, cf. NHG. Schütze, Du. schutter) | |
| archery | n | - | bowcraft | |
| archipelago | n | - | itune (<OE ieg 'island' + tun); island-cluster. | |
| architect | n | highcrafter (<OE) | ||
| architecture | n | shell, framework | buildlore, buildcraft, timberlore, timbercraft, orshafting | |
| architrave | n | - | silebeam | |
| archive | n | - | leafwritsam (b.f. Ic. 'skjalasafn' document collection/museum), logsam, deedsam, writsam | |
| arctic | adj | - | bear-(Ursa Minor), far-northern | |
| Arctic | n | Land of the Midnight Sun | northend, Northland | |
| ardour | n | keenness, lust | hotheartedness (<OE hatheortnes) | |
| area | n | land, landspan, swathe, Ard (<OE) Snad/Sned (<OE) Yard | field of knowledge: breadth | |
| argent | n | silver | - | |
| Argentina | n | - | Silverland | |
| arguable | adj | moot | sakebere | |
| argue | vb | flite, wrestle, squabble, wrangle, bicker, tilt | chide | |
| argument | n | flite | rake (<OE racu) | |
| aridity | n | drought, dryness | rainlack, dryth | |
| aristocrat | n | blue-blood | rikeborn, richard, wealthman | |
| aristocratic | adj | full-blooded, highborn, highbred | rikeborn, richborn, athelborn | |
| arithmetic | n | - | tellcraft (<OE getælcræft) | |
| arm | vb | - | beweapon | |
| arm | n | - | handweapon | |
| armadillo | n | - | shieldling, girdledeer (cf. NHG Gürteltier, Du. gordeldier) | |
| armillary sphere | n | - | ringkuggle | |
| arming | n | - | weaponing
outrysting (cf. NHG Ausrüstung) | |
| armistice | n | truce | weaponstandstill (calque from german Waffenstillstand) | |
| armo(u)r | n | shield, byrnie, Iweapon, Iweaponings (<OE), Gouthreaf, Gouthsear, Gouthsare (<OE) | shieldwear, shieldcloth, helmcladding, heraweed (< OE herewǣde), firedskeerp (<OE fierdsceorp) rysting (<OE hyrstan, cf. NHG Rüstung) Hereclad, | |
| (to) Armour | vb | Isen (<OE íseniannote, ísen wended to modern English Iron but retain OE spelling for this to give a distinction to modern: to iron) | ||
| armory | n | shieldhouse |
shieldwearhouse, rysthouse | |
| army | n | fyrd (attested as historical)=ferd, landfyrd | hera, landferd, dright, weremight, ganghere (foot men), thrim (<OE þrymm; cf. MnE trim), herë (<OE here), herg | |
| aroma | n | smell | duft | |
| around | prep/adj /adv | about | umbe (dialectalEng.) | |
| arouse | vb | stir, awake, arear | - | |
| arrange | vb |
fix, set, settle; draw up, lay out, Endbeird (<OE), Fade (<OE) | stight | |
| arrangement | n | layout | - | |
| array | vb | lay out, set out | - | |
| arrest | vb | nab, avast, Forfo/Forfang (<OE For-fón) | - | |
| arrive at | vb | reach, come upon, get to | oncome (<OE ancuman) | |
| arrogant | adj | proud, highhanded overbearing, overweening | wlonk (<OE wlank) | |
| arsenal | n | - | weaponhoard | |
| arsonist | n | fire-raiser | firestarter | |
| art | n | craft | list (calque) | |
| artery | n | - | loftblood adder | |
| artesian | adj | - | thringrising | |
| argon | n | - | idlestuff | |
| arthritis | n | - | lithbollow (cf. Ic. Liðbólga) | |
| artichoke | n | - | eatthistle (cf. Ic. ætiþistill) | |
| article | n |
thing write-up | writ grammar: lithword (cf. Du. lidwoord) | |
| artificer | n | maker, craftsman, smith, wright | worldcrafter (<OE woruldcræfta)<vr />pl: worldcraftren (<OE woruldcræftan) | |
| artificial | adj | manmade, craftly | - | |
| artillery | n | gunware | - | |
| artisan | n | craftsman, wright, handyman | - | |
| art(s), artistry | n | craft, deftness, handiwork | - | |
| Asatru(ar) (maður) | n | - | Esetroth(er), Ostroth(er) | |
| asbestos | n | - | thrumstone, stone-flax, earthflax, (sl) devil dust, devil's dust. | |
| ascend | vb | climb, sty | - | |
| Ascension Day | n | - | Gang-Day (<OE gangdæg) | |
| ascent | n | upgoing, rise | upgang (Brit.) | |
| asexual | n | - | swiveless | |
| Asia | n | the East | easterngreatland | |
| Asian(race) | n | yellow (vulgar slang) | Eastern, Far-Eastern | |
| asparagus | n | sparrowgrass | - | |
| asphalt | n | - | streettar | |
| assail | vb | scathe lay intocol.; raid, storm | - | |
| assassin | n | hitman, murderer | - | |
| assault | v | onset, onrush, beset | onfall (Eng, NHG. Anfall) | |
| assault | n | onset, onrush, besetting |
andfeng (<OE) Obs. onfall (Eng., NHG. Anfall) | |
| assemble | vb | cleave, gather, huddle, band frame, build, set up, forgather | samen (<OE samnian,cf. ON samna, NHG sammeln, Du. zamelen), evencome (<OE efencuman) | |
| assembly | n | ingathering, meeting; church, get-together, huddle |
moot samening (<OE samnung),
leedstefen (<OE léodstefn), | |
| asset | n | holding | - | |
| assiduous | adj | hopping, tied-up, working | workfast | |
| assign | vb | allot, deed, trust | - | |
| assimilate | vb | - | inblend, uptake/upnim (cf. NHG. aufnehmen) | |
| assist | vb | help, bestead, prop up, Fultum (<OE) | filst (<OE fylstan) | |
| assistance | n | help, backing, helping hand, lift | filst (<OE fylst)
midhelp (<OE midhelp), | |
| assistant | n | helper |
filstend (<OE fylstend) | |
| association | n | hookup, linkup, tie-up; brotherhood, guild, club, fellowship | underbind forband (cf. NHG Verband) dowiþ (< OE dōn + wiþ) | |
| assume | vb | deem; foreguess, bear, shoulder, undertake,
Inim [OE ge-nyman: to take up, to take on, assume] |
hie/huy behowe (<OE behawian), | |
| aster | n | - | starbloom | |
| asterisk | n | star | starling; starkin | |
| asteroid | n | - | roomrock, rock wanderer | |
| asthma | n | - | angbreast (<OE angbreost) | |
| astonish | vb | astound, dumbfound, amaze, bewilder, bewonder, startle, baffle | offwonder | |
| astonished | n | astounded, dumbfounded, amazed, bewildered, bewondered, startled | offwondered (<OE ofwundrod) | |
| astonishing | adj | amazing, astounding, blindsiding, eye-opening startling; stunning, wonderful | bewondering | |
| astral | adj | - | rotherly (<OE rodor), starly, star- | |
| astrarium | n | - | tungletimer | |
| Astrarium of Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio | n | - | liefbound tungletimer | |
| astrolabe | n | - | starreckoner | |
| astrology | n | starcraft | tungle sway, tungleshed (<OE tungolgescead) | |
| astronaut | n | - | heavensfarer, skyfarer, skytaker | |
| astronomy | n | starlooking | starlore, heavenlore | |
| astute | adj | shrewd, cunning, sharp, quick-witted | yepe (<OE geap) | |
| asylum | n | grith, haven; madhouse | - | |
| asymptote | n | - | ameetend | |
| atavism | n | throwback | - | |
| atelier | n | workshop | - | |
| atheïsm | n | godlessness | - | |
| atheïst | adj | godless | liefless, unliefsome, ungodsome | |
| -ative | suffix | - | -ingly | |
| atlas | n | - | land book | |
| atmosphere | n | - |
welkin, lofthelm (<OE lyfthelm) Welkintrindle, Lofttrindle, Ethem (<OE meaning, breath, air atmosphere) | |
| atom | n | grot (ME, <OE grōt, "particle") | formote, uncleft | |
| atrocious | adj | frightful; rotten. | - | |
| atrophy | n | withering, dying, waning | - | |
| attack | n | onslaught, onset, onrush, strike, blow, hit | hildrush, onshot
ongripe | |
| attack | vb | raid, rush, strike | - | |
| attack helicopter | n | - | strikenchopper | |
| attain | vb | reach | - | |
| attempt | n | bid, crash, fling, go, shot, whack, whirl | cunning, fanding, minting | |
| attempt | vb | seek | cun (<OE cunnian), fand, mint | |
| attend | vb | hearken, mind; care, oversee, watch | - | |
| attendant | n | steward | thew, theen, atstandand (<OE ætstandend) | |
| attention | n | heed, mind, aught | bemarking | |
| attest | vb | witness; swear; bear out | Beshine (NHG.bescheinigen)
Besteady (NHG.bestätigen) | |
| attic | n | loft | thackroom | |
| attire | n | cladding | - | |
| attitude | n | standing, outlook, mood, ways, behaving | installing (cf. Du. instelling) | |
| attorney | n | lawman | - | |
| attract | vb | draw, draw in |
span (<OE spannan), | |
| attractive | adj | comely, fair, good-looking, handsome, winsome, sightly | wlitty (<OE wlitig) | |
| attribute | n | ownship | - | |
| aubergine | n | - | eywort, wind-healing wort (calque from Sanskrit) | |
| auction | n | - | biddingsale | |
| audacious | adj | daring, bold, ballsy, fearless, unafeared, cheeky, dare-all, dareful, unfearing, reckless stoor | thriste | |
| audacity | n | gall, guts, mettle hardihood, hardiness boldness, balls | - | |
| audible | adj | - | hearly, hearsome | |
| audience | n | hearing, listeners | greetinghouse (<OE) | |
| audio | n | loud | listenet (listen+-et, cf. Eng. thicket) | |
| augment | vb | eke | bemore | |
| August | n | - | Weedmonth | |
| augury | n | - | ontoken | |
| aunt | n | - | father's sister: fathe (<OE Faðe or Faðu) mother's sister: modrey, mothrey (<OE Modrige or Modrie) | |
| aurora | n |
dawning, daylight | - | |
| aurora australis | n | southern lights | - | |
| aurora borealis | n | northern lights | - | |
| aurum | n | gold | yellow dust | |
| auscultation | n | harkening | lossening (<OE hlosnian: to listen wait be on the lookout for) | |
| austere | adj | - | yarewit | |
| austerity | n | hardliness | tighthold | |
| Australia | n | - | Andland (cf. H Ic. proposal 'Andland,' foundhere ) | |
| Austria | n | - | Easternrick (<OHG Osterrici, cf. NHG 'Österreich) | |
| author | n | writer | bookwright | |
| authentic | adj | true | - | |
| authority | n | headship, shark; deathgrip | elderdom (<OE ealdordóm)
lorewdom, | |
| auto- | pref | self- | - | |
| autodidact | adj | selftaught | selflearned | |
| automaker | n | wainwright | - | |
| automatic | adj |
knee-jerk gunning: self-loading, | machinery: selfworking, selfdriving; selfdriven | |
| automobile | n | - | selfshifter (calque) | |
| autonomy | n | - | selflaw,selfstanding | |
| autonym | n | selfname | - | |
| autopsy | n | - | open bodyunderseeching, deathreading | |
| autumn | n | fall | till, harvest | |
| auxiliary | adj | backup, fallback-, helping | eke | |
| avail | vb | - | dow (< archaicNEdow <MEduʒen< OEdugan; cf. Sc.dow ) frim, miling | |
| available | adj | free, in stock, at hand, forthcoming | arworthsome (calque), athandsome, atputsome | |
| avalanche | n | snowslide | bergfall, fellfall | |
| avant garde | n | forhead | - | |
| avarice | n | greed | yetsing (<OE gitsung) | |
| avatar | n | - | fleshbilth | |
| avenge | vb | wreak | - | |
| avenue | n | - | drive | |
| average | adj | mean, middling | - | |
| avert | vb | forestall, head off, stave off | mithe, forecome, offwend, umbewend(redirect) | |
| aviary | n | birdhouse, birdstow. | - | |
| aviator | n | birdman, flyer | loftman, rotherer | |
| avid | adj | raring | - | |
| avocado | n | butter pear; soft apple | - | |
| avoid | vb | miss, shun, ware
stay away, keep away |
mithe(obs.), forecome, umgang, umgo (seeum-) | |
| avow | vb | swear, trow, own | yea-say | |
| award | vb | bestow, acknowledge | - | |
| axis | n | axle, shaft | - | |
| azimuth | n | - | south hern (cf. Ic. Attarhorn) | |
| azure | adj | haw (ME <OE hæwen) | swail, blee | |
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| -y | suffix | state of being, characterized by a certain trait; -dom, -y [Middle English, from Old English -ig.]
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| yare | adj | ready, prepared; brisk, quick; (of a ship): responsive to the helm, guidable; prompt, manageable [rare, from OE gearuready]
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| yarn | n | 1.(uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving. 2.(nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope. 3.(countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.; [OED]
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| yarrow | n | Any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea, used in traditional herbal medicine.; milfol, thousand-leaf [From Middle English yarowe, yarwe, from Old English ġearwe, from Proto-Germanic *garwō (“yarrow, yarrow-like herbs”)]
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| yean | vb | (of a sheep or goat) to bear or bring forth young; [rare, from OEeanian 'to bring forth young']
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| yeargoing | noun | year (liturgical, academic), year's worth of issues (for a magazine); {{{synonyms}}} [c.f. NHG 'jahrgang']
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| yellowred | adj | reddish yellow, yellowish red/orange; [From Middle English yelwered]
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| yelm | n | bundle of straw laid straight for thatching; a handful; handful, modicum [archaic and rare, from OEgilm handful, sheaf]
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| yeme | vb | notice; [OE gieman]
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| yepe | adj | astute; [OE geap]
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| ymbspeech | n | the exchange of ideas between two or more people; conversation, discussion, dialogue, consultation, discourse, negotiation, brainstorming [OEymbspræc; compound of YMB- 'around' +spræc 'speech']
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| yolkdip | n | a sauce consisting of egg yolk beaten up with oil and vinegar, and seasoned with salt, etc used as a dressing for salad, cold meat or fish; mayonnaisse [neologism, from OE geolu: yellow & dyppan:dip]
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| yomer | adj | sorrowful, sad, mournful; [OE ȝeómor]
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| yore | n | of a long time ago;This was once a Roman road in days of yore.; [OEȝeāra, genitive plural of ȝeār (year)]
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| a growing youth has a wolf in his belly | pvb | the young have voracious appetites.; [OE]
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| youthquake | n | a noticeable shift in the norms of a society due to the influence of a powerful youth culture
2. a political and cultural movement in the 1960's among young people; [OE youth & quake]
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StaffB of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested/Obsolete | |||
| babble | n | clatter, drivel | - | |
| baby | n | bairn, newborn, suckling, chit | - | |
| bacchanal | n | - | beership (<OE ġebeorscipe) | |
| bacil | n | - | rodling, rodmoss | |
| bachelor | n | stag | - | |
| bacon | n | spick | back meat, back ham | |
| bacteria | n | - | rodlife, splitmoss, stafflings | |
| badger | n | brock | - | |
| badminton | n | - | featherball (cf. NHG Federball) | |
| baggage | n | belongings | bundlepack | |
| baguette | n | French loaf | stickbread | |
| bail out | vb | pack out, peel off, pull out, run along | - | |
| bailiff | n | sheriff, steward | shire reeve | |
| balaclava | n | - | head-sock, woolhat | |
| balance | n/vb |
steady; match, make up for, even up; weigh; settle, work out, reckon, tally composure: strength of mind or will |
tue (<OE Tiw ~ god of justice) evenweight, likeweight device: meter (OE metan) | |
| bald | adj | bare, peeled, stripped; naked; bright-line, straightforward | - | |
| baleen | n | whalebone | - | |
| ballad | n | jingle, folk song | strollsong | |
| ballet | n | - | fairtumb, toe-tumb | |
| ballistics | n | - | shootlore, guncraft | |
| balloon | n/vb | bladder; snowball, spread, swell, wax | loftball (cf. NHG Luftballon) | |
| baloney | n | twaddle | - | |
| baluster | n | - | holdershaft | |
| bamboo | n | - | treereed (cf. H. Ic. baðmreyr) | |
| banal | adj | everyday, hackneyed | - | |
| banality | n | everydayness | - | |
| banalize | vb | hackney | - | |
| banana | n | - | moonpod, moonapple, moonbairn | |
| bandage | n/vb | bind, swaddle, swathe, wreathe | - | |
| bandit | n | crook, outlaw, robber | gunman | |
| banish | vb | cast out, kick out, run off, throw out, turf out, ban (<OE bannan) | fleme (<OE aflieman) | |
| banister | n | - | handsill | |
| bank | n | institution: benchhouse | ||
| banknote | n | greenback | - | |
| bankrupt | adj | broke, spent, in the red, on your upperes | - | |
| banner | n | jack, streamer | fan | |
| banquet | n | feed, spread | guestmeal | |
| baobab | n | - | apebreadwood (cf. NHG Affenbrotbaum) | |
| baptise/baptize | n/vb | christen; seat |
clepe(arch.), fulwight (<OE fulwiht), depe (in OED)/dip (<OE dypan, dépan, dyppan), fulwighten (<OEġefulwihtnian) | |
| baptism | n | christening; seating | fulwightening (<OE ġefulwihtnian) | |
| Baptism of the Lord | n | Lord's Christening | Lord's Fullwightening | |
| bar | n |
rod; benchmark, yardstick counter:taproom, watering whole | - | |
| bar | vb | ban, forbid, freeze out, shut out; shut off, wall off | - | |
| barb | n | prick | beardling | |
| barbarian | n/adj | heathen; rough, wild; ruthless | fremd n: woss (cf. OE herewosa, Du. woest) | |
| barbarous | adj | heartless | reethy (<OE reðig "savage") | |
| barbeque | n | - | stickwork | |
| bargain | vb | cheapen, haggle | - | |
| barge | n | scow, lighter, flatboat, narrow boat | longboat | |
| barometer | n | weatherglass | thringmeter (meter = mete + er; one who metes) | |
| baron(ess) | n | - | freelord(lady), athel(-ing/-in), thane | |
| barracks | n | - | wyehut | |
| barracuda | n | - | toothfish | |
| barrage | n | wall | rithblock | |
| barrel | n | coop, tub, drum, tun, keg, firkin, vat; boatload, fistful, good deal | - | |
| barrelmaker | n | cooper | - | |
| barren | adj | bare, bony, dead, empty, waste | child: bairnless | |
| barricade | n | bar, block, bulwark | - | |
| barrier | n | - | block | |
| barter | n/vb | - | wrixletrade | |
| basalt | n | - | touchstone (calque of Old Greek) | |
| base | n | bedrock, bottom, footing, footing, ground, groundwork, keystone, root, underpinning, warp and woof; bridgehead, foothold; heart, seat; foot, rock bottom
military: holdout stathol (<OE) |
hernstone/hirnstone (OE hyrn 'corner') headquarters: headfourths physics: lyestuff | |
| base | vb | ground, hang, rest, build | bestaddel | |
| base | adj | low, mean | - | |
| baseball | n | - | hardball(in analogy to softball) | |
| baseless | adj | groundless | ordless | |
| basement | n | - | underground | |
| basic | adj | bare-bones | - | |
| basically | adv | mostly, all in all, mainly, at heart, in itself, on the whole | - | |
| basil | n | - | mistle (<OE mistel) | |
| basis | n | bedrock, bottom, footing, footing, ground, groundwork, keystone, root, underpinning | hernstone | |
| basket | n |
cawl, windle (<OE) | ||
| basketball | n | - | cawlball, windleball | |
| bass | n | wicker fish-basket:
haske (ME) | lows; lowsinger | |
| basin | n | bowl, sink; bed, trough
of a river: watershed | - | |
| bastard | n/adj | n: bye-blow, lovechild, whoreson, mong adj:misbegotten, unfathered, underbred |
dogling (cf. OE docincel), mongling (replacing French suffix -rel with English suffix -ling) calligraphic script, adj: twimade | |
| batik | n/vb | - | dotting, waxdying, waxdye | |
| batrachian | n/adj | - | tailless (calque of Gk. anura) | |
| battalion | n | throng, crowd | sheltrum (cf. OE scildtruma) | |
| batter | vb | beat, strike, cudgel | - | |
| battery | n | - | beater, streamblock, thorblock sparkhouse, glarload (Calque <Icelandic, amber+load, from Greek (electric=amber) | |
| battery bear | n | moon bear | - | |
| battle | n |
hurly-burly, clash | gouth (OE gūð), stride (cf. OE stridan, Du. strijd), bede (cf. OE beadu) | |
| battlefield | n | - | wyefield, gouthfield, bedefield, clashfield | |
| battleship | n | - | dreadnaught, fightship | |
| Bavarian | adj | - | Bairish | |
| bay | n | inlay, bight; cove(sheltered) | - | |
| bayonet | n | goad | buss-stinger (cf. Ic. byssustingur) | |
| beach volley | n | - | beach block (cf. Ic. blak) | |
| beak | n | bill, neb | - | |
| beat | n | smite |
slecg(<OE slecgettan) slee (<OE slēan) | |
| beau | n | swain, ladfriend, fop | - | |
| beautiful | adj | sheen, comely, faire, good-looking, handsome, sightly; nifty, sterling, | wlitty (<OE wlitig)
Sheen(end of late ME) moy (Scots) (W.Fris. moai) | |
| beauty | n | sheen, comeliness, fairness, handsomeness, looks, loveliness, prettiness, sightliness; eyeful, knockout; bee's knees, standout | wlittiness
sheenhood (cf. NHG schönheit) fayer (<OE fæger) fairhood Schonhood(cf. NHG schönheit) | |
| because | conj |
as, as long as, being as (how), being that, for, inasmuch as, now, seeing, whereas, by way, since, therefore (sentence framework is flipped), in that, given that because ofowing to, by dint of, by sake of For-that, For-the, For-why, For-than (all attested in OE) | forwhybecause, forofbecause of (obsolete)
afteras (cf. Sw. “eftersom”) on grounds of/that (cf. Norw. på grunn av) beway (shortening ofby way) | |
| bedaub | vb | besmear | - | |
| beef | n | cowflesh | rotherflesh (compare Du. rundvlees NHG Rindfleisch) | |
| behavior | n | bearing, ways | uptreading | |
| beige | n | dun (in OE, but possibly Celtic rather than Germanic), dusty (dust-hued), sandy (sand-hued) | yellowgray, yellowbrown | |
| Belarus | n | - | Whiterus(land), (cf. NGH Weißrussland), White Rusynland, White Ruthenland | |
| belfry | n | - | bergfrith | |
| Belgium | n | - | Belgland | |
| belladonna | n | - | deadly nightshade, dwale | |
| bellicose | adj | brawly, hawkish | wyelusting, fightsome | |
| belligerent | adj | hotheaded | wye dreeing | |
| benefactor | n | - | well-doer (<OE wel-doend) | |
| benefit | n | wellfare; windfall, godsend | foredeal (cf. Sc. fordel, Fr. foardiel), freme (in OED, <OE fremu)
public:folkrede (<OE folcrǽd) | |
| benefit | vb |
help |
theen, freme (<OE fremian) | |
| benevolent | n | kind-hearted, good | - | |
| benign | adj | harmless | - | |
| berate | vb | upbraid | threap | |
| beret | n | - | flathat | |
| berg | n | barrow, berry | - | |
| beryllium | n | - | sweetstuff | |
| besiege | vb | beleaguer; harrow, beset, rack | umsit (<OE ymbsittan) | |
| bestiality | vb | - | deerlust, wightlust | |
| betray | vb | backstab, sellout, two-time; give away; lead on, rat on | bewray (wray), forrede (<OE forrǽdan, cf. Dan. forræderi, Swed. förräderi, Du. verraden, NGH Verraten) (seerede) | |
| betrayer | n | deep throat, fink, nark, rat, whistleblower; backstabber, two-timer | forreder (<OE forrǽda) | |
| beverage | n | drink, quencher | - | |
| bi- | pref | two- | twi- | |
| biannual | adj | - | halfyearly | |
| bias | n/adv | leaning, one-sidedness; athwartadv | roodwaysadv | |
| Bible | n | Holy Book | Cristbookwhen refering to Christianity | |
| bibulous | adj | spongy, thirsty; drunken | soaksome | |
| bicameral | adj | two-roomed | two-halled, twistalled, twostalled, twifack, twifackly | |
| bicycle | n | two-wheeler | farewheel (cf. NHG. Fahrrad) | |
| bidet | n | saddlebath | - | |
| bidirectional | adj | two-way | twiway | |
| biënnial(ly) | adj/adv | - | halfyearly | |
| biker | n | - | wheeler | |
| bikini | n | - | two-bit (cf. Eng. two-piece) | |
| bilateral | adj | two-sided | - | |
| bile bear | n | moon bear | - | |
| bill | n | reckoning, lawing | - | |
| billabong | n | oxbow | - | |
| billion | nm | - | thrisand, thursand | |
| binary | adj | Tweil/Twile (Twi+le) | ||
| binoculars | n | field glasses |
farlooker, farsights (calque of N.Pers. دوربین -dur"far" +bin"sight") twiëyen (calque) | |
| biochemistry | n | lifeblendlore | - | |
| biochemical | adj | lifeblendish | - | |
| biography | n | - | lifetale, lifesdraught, lifewrit | |
| biology | n | - | lifelore | |
| biome | n | - | lifehood (bio -> life + oma -> mass of something) | |
| bipedal | adj | two-legged | - | |
| birthplace | n | - | birthstead, kenningstow (<OE cenningstōw) | |
| biscuit | n | cookie | twobake, cakeling | |
| bisect | vb | cleave, halve, carve in two | halfcut, rend, twicut | |
| bisexual | n | - | twiluster | |
| bison | n | wisent | - | |
| bittern | n | - | havelbleat/havenbleat (<OEhæfelblæte, 'hæfenblæte) | |
| bitumen | n | blacktop | - | |
| bivalve | n | clam | - | |
| bizarre | adj | weird, offbeat, far-out, outlandish | - | |
| blackpowder | n | - | blackdust | |
| Blairite | n | - | Blairer | |
| blame | vb/n | wite, guilt, chide | threap(ing) | |
| blasphemy | n | swearing | hosp (<ME) godsmear, holyshending | |
| blatant | adj | glaring | - | |
| blemish | vb | mar | andmark (cf. Ic. and-marki) | |
| blemish | n | mar, flaw, fleck | - | |
| blemishless | adj | clean, fair, flawless, fleckless | furb | |
| blizzard | n | - | snowstorm (calque) | |
| blond (Germanic) | adj | fair, flaxen, golden-brown, light, snowy | - | |
| blouse | n | keel | - | |
| bludgeon | vb | club, cudgel | - | |
| blue | n/adj | - | hew(en) (<OE hæwen)
light:bleahew(en) (<OE blæhæwen) beautifully:wellhequen (<OE welhecwen) n: blee (<OE blēo) | |
| blue titmouse | n | - | hikemouse (<OE hīkemāse) | |
| bodyguard | n | - | holdand (<OE healdend) | |
| boffin | n | - | witshipper | |
| bog | n | mire | - | |
| bogus | adj | wrong, fake | - | |
| boil | vb | seethe, foam, sizzle: simmer | - | |
| boilersuit | n | overalls | - | |
| bomb | n | blow sky-high | blaster | |
| bombard | v | - | beshoot (cf. NHG beschießen, Du. beschieten) | |
| bonanza | n | windfall, stroke of luck | wealth or | |
| bondage | n | yolk, thraldom | haft (<OE hæft, cf. NHG Haft) | |
| bonnet | n | hood, brimless hat | - | |
| boomerang | n | - | andglider | |
| boondocks | n | nowhere, sticks | backwater, sleepy hollow | |
| bordello | n | whorehouse, brothel | - | |
| border | n | brim, hem, ring, rand, rim, edge, outskirts,mark | mire (<OE mære) | |
| boron | n | - | weldstuff | |
| boss | n | foreman, head, leader | - | |
| botany | n | - | wortlore, grasslore | |
| bottle | n | flask | - | |
| bouillon | n | brew, dishwater | - | |
| boulevard | n | broadway, bullwark | - | |
| boulevardier | n | - | townfrealser | |
| boundary | n | end, line; brim, frame, hem, ring | mire (<OE mære) | |
| boundary tree | n | - | meartree (<OE gemærtrēo) | |
| bountiful | adj | bighearted, openhanded | estful, givle | |
| bouquet | n | - | bloomset | |
| bourbon | n | - | Kentucky lifewater | |
| bourgeois | n | hidebound, highborn | highbred, highburger | |
| boutique | n | - |
wear shop, clothing shop, clothes shop | |
| bovine | adj | cowlike | neatly (<OE nēat + ly), rotherlike | |
| bowel | n | gut | - | |
| bra | n | breastshirt, breastholder, boobsling | - | |
| bracelet | n | wristband, armband, bee | trind, wristling | |
| braggart | n | boaster, show-off, blower | - | |
| braille | n | - | The Blind's rune | |
| branch | n |
bough, limb; feeder | - | |
| brassiere | n | - | armward | |
| brave | adj | bold, doughty, fearless, gutsy, manful, stalworth | thriste (<OE þrīste, cf. NHG dreist)
ellen | |
| bravo! | interj | well done! | - | |
| brawl | n | flite, free-for-all | - | |
| bray | n | heehaw | - | |
| Brazil | n | - | Rudland; Emberland | |
| Brazilian pine | n | - | glimtree fir | |
| Brazilwood | n | - | rudwood | |
| breach of peace | n | - | grithbruck (<ME griðbruche)pl:grithbrucken, frithbreach | |
| breakable | n | brittle | brickle | |
| break into pieces | vb | - | knyss (<OE cnyssan) | |
| brevë | adj | short | - | |
| brewery | n | brewhouse | brewern | |
| bribe | vb | buy off | - | |
| brick | n | - | bakestone (cf. Du. baksteen, NHG Backstein) | |
| brief | adj | short, small, little | ||
| brief | n | writ | ||
| brief | vb | say, speak, tell, bid, write | ||
| briefs | n | - | legless undershorts | |
| brilliance | n | brightness | lixing (<OE līxung) | |
| brilliant | adj | shining | - | |
| brisk | adj | swift, frisky | ferk | |
| broccoli | n | - | sproutcole | |
| brochure | n | flyer, handout | leafel | |
| bromine | n | - | stenchstuff, stinkstuff | |
| bronze | n/adj | redore | ||
| browser | n | web crawler | - | |
| bruise | n | lill | - | |
| brunch | n | - | morgenmete, brekkie | |
| brunette | adj | black, dark, swart, swarthy | - | |
| brush | n/vb | - | brust (<ME brust, cf. Du. borstel, NHG Bürste, | |
| brutal | adj | tough; heartless | - | |
| bryophyte | n | moss | - | |
| buccaneer | n | freebooter | seareaver | |
| bucket | n | pail, boatload (amount) | stoop, amber (<OE amber), cowl (<OE cýfl) | |
| buckle | n | clasp | - | |
| buckle | vb | fasten, clasp | - | |
| budget | n | nest egg; pool, stock | - | |
| buffalo | n | wild ox, wisent | - | |
| buffer | n | ward, shelter | lanestow | |
| buffet | n | - | foodboard | |
| buffoon | n | clown (likely North Germanic) | - | |
| bullet | n | slug, bolt, lead, ball | streal (<OE strǣl), thother/thudder (<OE Þōðer, "ball") | |
| bulletin | n | - | newtidings | |
| bullion | n | ingots | - | |
| bulldozer | n | - | mickle shovel | |
| bully | n | - | browbeater, strongarmer | |
| bully | vb | manhandle, mess over(slang); browbeat, strong-arm | - | |
| bun | n | puff | - | |
| bunch | n | lot | - | |
| bungalow | n | - | flackdwelling (flack = level) | |
| bungler | n | - | addlebrain, addlehead | |
| buoy | n | - | beacon, floatmark; lifeward | |
| bureau | n | board, setup, shop | revehouse, ambight | |
| bureaucracy | n | - | boardom, reevedom(state) beadledom(church) | |
| burgeon | vb | bud, bloom, blossom | - | |
| burglar | n | stealer, thief, housebreaker | housebreacher | |
| burglary | n | housebreaking, theft, housebreach | - | |
| burgle | vb | steal, plunder, thieve | housebreach | |
| burlesque | adj | - | funnish (Italianburla"trick,fun" +-esque< PIE*-iskos > PG*-iskaz> OE-isc> NE-ish) | |
| bus | n | - | folkwain | |
| bust | n | chest, breast | - | |
| butcher | n | - | fleshmonger | |
| butler | n | steward | flasker, mugbearer | |
| butter | Milksmear, Cowsmear, Daysmear/Dysmear (all attested in OE Day/Dy akin to Dairy in Mod.E) | |||
| button | n | switcher | nop/nap (<OE cnæp) | |
| buzzard | n | - | mousehawk (<OE mushafoc) | |
| bypass | n | skirt, shunt; overlook; shortcut, sidestep | - | |
| by-past | adj | bygone | - | |
| byte | n | - | eightcleft | |
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| wade | vb | move, proceed, advance; [OE wadan]
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| wall-writer | n | graffitist; [OE wall & writer]
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| wall-writing | n | graffiti; [OE wall & writing]
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| wanhope | n | the overwhelming feeling of loss beyond repair or redemption; hopelessness, despair [rare, from WAN- +hope]
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| wanderword | n | a word that has spread to many different languages; wanderwort; world-wide word [calque of GermanWanderwort; neologism, fromwander &word]
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| wandling | n | a changing or mutation; changing, mutation [OE wandlung]
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| war adder | n | arrow; [Late OE (war) and O.E. adder]
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| wardthink | vb | to have a relation to or bearing with; to matter to so as to cause unease, worry; concern [compound: 'ward' (toward) + 'think']
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| waterberg | n | reservoir; [water + berg (<OE beorgan 'save, preserve')]
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| water-wife | n | an additional wife (in a polygamous society, and a drought-ravaged one) married for the sole purpose of being able to walk to a well and return with water.; [water + wife )]
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| waterleat | n | aqueduct; [OE wætergelæt]
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| " All Wax and No Wick" | phr | all talk and no worth; a man of words, and not of deeds is like a field of weeds..; no show, no go. [OE]
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| waygether | vb | to set or put apart into sections, groups, sets, units; cause to part; separate, disunite [compound: 'way' (away) + 'gether' (together)]
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| waygo | vb | to go away; depart; leave; [neologism: way + go]
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| wayleat | n | junction; [way + leat 'course']
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| waymind | vb | to disregard deliberately, pay no attention to, refuse to consider; ignore [compound: 'way' (away) + 'mind']
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| waysend | vb | to send away; deport; force to leave; [neologism: way + send]
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| weal | n | prosperity; [OE wela]
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| weaselflood | n | the growing accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment of women by prominent men.; [OE weasel & flood.]
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| "A Man is Weal or Woe, as He Thinks Himself So" | phr | well-being and happiness is self made; [OE]
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| wearning | n | nihilism; [OE wiernan 'refuse, reject']
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| weasand | n | the oesophagus; trachea; gullet,windpipe, the throat generally [rare, OE weasend; OHG weisant]
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| wedyield | n | money or property given to a husband by his bride on their wedding day; dowry [wed (marry) + yield (stock, supply)]
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| Weedmonth | n | the eighth month of the year, when the word "weed" meant all kinds of greenery; August [Anglo-Saxon, from Wēod-Mōnath]
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| ween | vb | hope, expect, immagine; [OE wenan]
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| welder | n | a person who's job is to join two pieces of metal together permanently by melting the parts that touch; [CED]
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| well-wended | adj | well orientated; [wend 'to direct (one's way or course) - pursue one's way - proceed upon some course or way'
~ We wended our weary way westward.] |
| welsting | n | {{{meaning}}}; {{{synonyms}}} [Anglo-Saxon, <OE wealsteng]
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| wen | n | a lump or protuberance on the body; excresence on a tree, spot, stain; fig: moral stain, defilement; cyst, tumour, blemish [OE (wen)]
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| we-ness | n | the sweet-symbiosis phase at the beginning of a love relationship, filled with love and passion and marked by the two partners merging into one identity.; sweet symbiosis [OE (we & ness)]
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| werthe | vb | become; [OE weorðan]
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| whelp | n | young of the dog; the young of various wild animals, as the lion, bear, tiger, wolf. Also applied to the off-spring of noxious creatures; low fellow; suckling, pup,cub [OE hwelp]
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| whence | adv | from what place or from which; what source [OED (Formal/Archaic) , OEhwanon, MEWhenne & later Whannes/Whennes]
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| whilen | adj | transitory; [OE hwílen]
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| Whilom | adv, adj | adv: formerly, adj:former; erstwhile, in the past, previously [OED, OE:hwīlum]
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| Good wife and Health are a Man's Best Wealth ('A"). | pvb | love, friendship and health are one's greatest benefits in life.; [OE]
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| wifthing | n | an affair or matter relating to a wife or woman. 2. wedding nuptials. 3. sexual intercourse; [OE wife & thing.]
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| wight | n | animal; []
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| windfellow | n | ghost, spirit, phantom; ghost, shade, walking-dead [OE: wind & fellow]
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| wineberry | n | juicy fruit of the genus Vitis; grape [OE winberige]
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| wine-month | n | the tenth month of the year, when wine-drinking is common; October [Anglo-Saxon, from Wīn-Mōnath]
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| winkeler | n | haberdashery; [Dutch word; OE wincel = corner, nook]
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| wis | adj, adv | absolute in certainty; sure, certainly [archaic and rare, from OEgewis "that which is known"]
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| " A man who has learned but little, grows old like an ox; His flesh waxes, but his wisdom, not. | phr | pursue matters of mind, rather than simply the basic needs of life.; [OE]
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| wit | v | to know; [obsolete, from OEwitan to know, be aware of]
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| witship | n | science; [from Dutch wetenschap and German wissenschaft]
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| withache | n | pity or compassoin felt for another's troubles, suffering, etc; sympathy [calque from german 'mitleid']
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| witherling | n | opponent; [wither + -ling]
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| witherlawwritly | adv | anticonstitutionally; [forbinding]
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| withwin | vb | to bring to belief, consent, action etc,by overcoming the doubts or hesitations of; convince [with+win (part calque)]
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| wlit | noun | looks, appearance; aspect, visage [OE. wlite]
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| wlitty | adj | beautiful/ fair looking; beauteous [OE. wlitig]
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| woath | n | voice; [OE wóþ]
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| wolfmonth | n | the first month of the year (so called when the bitter cold of winter brought the wolves into the villages to forage for food); January [Anglo-Saxon, from Wulf-Mōnath]
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| wome | n | noise; [OE wóma]
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| word-beginning | n | prefix; [O.E.word +beginning]
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| wordbirth | n | etymology; [O.E.word +birth]
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| wordbook | n | a book containing all, or a subsection of, the words in a language, with their meanings; dictionary, lexicon [revival,word +book]
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| word-drunk | adj | prone to use obscure words or inkhorn terms; [neologism: word + drunk]
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| word-ending | adj | suffix; [neologism: word + ending.]
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| wordhoard | n | lexicon; vocabulary; wordstock [neologism: word + hoard]
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| word-middle | n | infix; [neologism: word +middle]
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| "A Man of Words, and Not of Deeds is like a Field of Weeds" | pvb | deeds speak louder than words; [OE]
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| wordstock | n | vocabulary; lexicon; wordhoard [neologism: word + stock]
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| wordwander | n | a word that goes on a voyage (into a new language); wanderword; world-wide word ['word' + wander']
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| work bed | n | the workplace of a sex worker; [O.E. work + bed]
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| worldkenning | n | encyclopedia; [world + kenning]
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| worldswink | n | earthly toil; misery; [OE woruldġeswinc]
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| wortcraft | n | the growing of plants and flowers, the craft and lore about growing plants; horticulture [compound ofwort 'plant, herb' + -craft]
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| wortsmith | n | a rearer, grower, and seller of plants and flowers.; nursery-man [compound ofwort 'plant, herb' + smith]
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| wough | n | a wall of a house a partition; in mining, the side of a vein; divider, panel, side [OE archaïsm]
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| woot[1] | vb | (1st & 3rd person) Know, knows; perceive, see, sense, recognize [ME Same word]
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| woost[2] | vb | (2nd person) know; be aware, woot, know of [ME]
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| wrongdeck | v | to analyze or judge disapprovingly; criticize [wrong+deck]
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| wryneck | n | a small woodpecker that can turn its head round almost 180°; [OE wrīġianto turn, twist]
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| wulder | n | glory; [OE wuldor]
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| wyrm | n | a small creeping animal with more or less slender, elongated bodies, and without limbs or with very short ones; worm, snake, serpent [revival,wyrm]
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StaffC of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | |
| Attested | Unattested | ||
| cabaret | n | club, nightspot, roadhouse, nightclub | - |
| cabbage | n | kole | - |
| cabinet | n | hutch, sideboard, locker | mugboard, hoarding office: ambight, redeship |
| cable | n | wire, rope, lead | ropewire |
| caboose | n | - | ward wagon, aftwagon |
| cacao | n | - | brownbean |
| cache | n | hoard | putstow, bike |
| cacophony | n | rattle, roar, din | |
| cactus | n | - | fatthistle |
| cadaver | n | shell, framework, slang: stiff, body,dead body | boneshaft |
| cadaverous | adj | deathly, wan, bloodless, ashen, hollow-eyed | - |
| cadet | n | forefighter | |
| cadmium | n | Wodan | |
| cæcum | n | blinde gut | blindtharm, blindgut |
| Cæsar | n | overlord, high-king, kaiser | - |
| cæsium | n | - | silverwhite, lightbrick mote |
| café | n | tearoom (<note: Non-English), roadhouse; taproom, watering hole | - |
| cafeteria | n | lunchroom, lunch house, luncheonhouse, food hall, eating hall | - |
| cajole | vb | soft-soap, sweet-talk, wheedle | |
| calamari | n | cuttlefish | |
| calcaneüs | n | heelbone | |
| calcium | n | - | limemote (W.Fris.koalsoere kalk) |
| calcium carbonate | n | - | coalsour lime |
| calculate | vb | reckon, work out | - |
| calculation | n | tale, reckoning | - |
| calculator | n | - | handreckoner, rimereckoner, scorer |
| calculus | n | reckoning | flowreckoning, riming, telgrinding (<OE rim, tal 'number') |
| calendar | n | daybook | timetale |
| calisthenics | n | drills | |
| calligraphy | n | longhand | pretty writing, litwriting |
| calligraphy pen | n | - | longhandwritingise/-iron (longhand +OE wrītungīsen, "style pen"), wlitwritingise/-iron (compound of "wlitwriting" + OE wrītingīsen) |
| callous | adj | hardened, cold-hearted, flint-hearted, heartless, soulless, stony, stony-hearted, steely, thick-skinned, unfeeling | - |
| calm | adj | lown, flack, still | roolie (Eng., Du. rolig, Ic. roleg, NHG ruhig) (see alsoroo') |
| calm | vb | lull, settle, soothe, still | beroolie (cf. NHG. beruhigen) |
| caluminate | vb | grime, sully, betell | forwray (<OE forwregan) |
| calque | n | loanword, borrowing | loan oversetting (<NHG Lehnübersetzung) |
| calyx | n | - | bloomleaf |
| camel | n | - | olvend (<OE olfend), twohump, drylander |
| camera | n | - | bildfanger, bildtaker, bilthcraft(er) / bildcraft(er) / beeldcraft(er) |
| camouflage | n | dapple, (dappling, dappleshell, dapplehide, dappleclad, dappleteld) dazzle-painting | derning (<OE diernan, cf. NHG Tarnung) |
| camomile | n | - | maylix |
| camp | n | leaguer (from Dutch), lair, haltstead | - |
| campaign | n | bandwagon, drive | military: axfare (<OE æxfaru) fieldtought (<Du.), bandwain |
| campaign | vb | take the stump, barnstorm | - |
| campus | n | - | lorefield, lorerealm, bittel (<OE gebytlu) |
| canal | n | leat, waterway | - |
| cancer | n | growth zodiac:Crab | disease: Mireless Thrimfold ~ MTF (Unlimited Tissue Multiplication), crabgrowth |
| candelabrum | n | - | glimtree |
| candidate | n | hopeful, runner | - |
| candied | adj | sweetened | - |
| candy | n | sweets | sweetiness |
| canine | adj | doggy, houndlike, doglike, doggish | - |
| canine | n | hound, dog | - |
| cannon | n | - | dunspar (contr. of dun and spear) Fallbuss (cf. Ic. Fallbyssa) |
| cannibal | n | maneater | selfeater (<OE selfæta) |
| canoe | n | dugout | - |
| cantaloupe | n | - | netrindberry, netshellberry, netbarkberry (calque of Finnish verkkomeloni) |
| canvas | n | - | hempcloth |
| canyon | n | gulch | - |
| capacity | n | room, berth, strength, gift, readiness | heldth |
| cape | n | sleeveless coat geography: foreland, headland, ness | mantle (cf. Du. mantel) |
| capital | n/adj | wealth, means, wherewithal; sterling; foremost |
letter (ABC): |
| capital city | n | - | headburg, reevetown, kinesettle (<OE cynesetl), headstead |
| capitalist | n | silk stocking | - |
| capitalization | n | - | blockwrit, block writing |
| capitate bone | n | - | headbone. head wristbone |
| capricious | adj | fickle | nickfull (<Sw, cf. Du. nikkig) |
| capsize | vb | keel, upset, overwend | wemmel |
| captain | n | headman, leader | shipper (<M Du. scipper and Eng. skipper), Shiplord |
| caption | n | - |
underwrit (cf. Du. underschrift, |
| captivate | vb | wile | witch |
| captive | n/adj | penned, locked up | n: haftling (<OE haftling)
adj: hafted |
| captivity | n | - | haftedness (<OE gehæftednes) |
| capture | vb | nail, take, kidnap, steal, swipe, nab | latch |
| car | n | slang: wheels, ride, hot rod, roadster |
wain, wagon, Farecart |
| caravan | n | tradewagon | kinwain, housewain (cf. Sw. husvagn), kinwagon, housewagon |
| carbon | n | chark, soot | coalmote, lifemote |
| carbon dioxide | n | - | wortloft |
| carburator | n | - | forelofter |
| carcass | n | bones, stiff, lich | - |
| card | n | sheet, board | - |
| cardboard | n | headboard | boardsheet |
| cardiac arrest | n | heartstop | - |
| cardinal | n | bird: redbird |
Church official: Whule (cf. Sw. Hwul) |
| career | n | calling, game(inf.), walk of life | - |
| caress | vb | fondle, stroke | - |
| cargo | n | draft, freight, haul, loading, weight | fraught (for + aught, cf. Eng freight) |
| cargo ship | n | freighter | fraughter |
| caribou | n | reindeer | - |
| carnal | adj | fleshly | - |
| carnation | n | - | nailling, nailken (cf. NHG Nelke)
nailbloom |
| carnivore | n | meateater, flesheater | - |
| carouse | vb | birl | - |
| carousel | n | - | merry-wend
merry-go-about (cf. Eng. merry-go-round) |
| carpal bone | n | - | wristbone |
| carpenter | n | woodworker | woodsmith, woodcraftsman
treewright (<OE trēowwyrhta) |
| carpentry | n | wödkraft, woodcraft, becraftliness, craftliness, | treewrighting |
| carpet | n | - | stepcloth, floorcloth, groundcloth |
| carriage | n | bearing | wain, wagon |
| carrot | n | more (<OE moru, cf. NHG Möhre) | - |
| carry | vb | bear, weigh, ferry, take | - |
| cartilage | n | grissel | crackbone (cf. Du. kraakbeen) |
| cartilaginous fish | n | - | grisselfish
crackbonefish (cf. Du. kraakbeenvis) |
| cartouche | n | - | deckwrit |
| cartridge | n | bag, load, holder | - |
| case | n | hull, husk, pod, sheath, shell; box
in case: lest, by fear of, if... should, befall | grammar: fall
in case: fall case: fall |
| cashew | n | - | kidneyapple |
| cashewnut | n | - | kidneynut |
| casing | n | shell, brass | - |
| casino | n | - | bethall, bethouse, gaming house |
| cast away | vb | - | anbewarp (<OE anbeweorpan) |
| castle | n | burg, stronghold
innermost keep |
stronghouse, fastenwork (<OE "fæsten" + "weorc", chestel (<Latinate OE "ċeastel") |
| casual | adj | breezy, blithe, light-hearted | - |
| catch | vb | snare, snarl, snag, latch, fang, nab | - |
| catechism | n | - | frodleering (cf. Ic. Trúfræðslurit) |
| catechize | vb | grill, sweatslang | frain |
| categorize | vb | - | fade (<OE fadian) |
| caterpillar | n | - | cawlworm (<OE cawelwyrm)
leafworm(<OE leafwyrm) mealshave (<OE mælsceafa) |
| cathedral | n | headchurch, | - |
| catheter | n | - | leat |
| cathode | n | - | downway |
| catholic | adj | - | broadchurch |
| catkin | n | - | bloomtail |
| cattle | n | cows, livestock, kine, nowt, fee, neat | rother |
| Caucasian(race) | n | white | Caucasish, Caucaser |
| cauldron | n | kettle | - |
| cauliflower | n | - | bloomcole |
| cause | n | bring-about, let-on, wherefrom | frum (<OE fruma), onlet, orsake (calque from many Germanic languages) |
| cause | vb | beget, breed, drive, make, work, yield | fuse (<ME fusen), fororsake (calque of many Germanic languages) |
| casue, without | adv | - | hoolings (<OE holunga) |
| caustic | adj | burning | - |
| cautery | n | - | tharm tool |
| caution | n | wariness, forewit, care, reck, heeding | - |
| cautious | adj | Chary (< arch.Mod.E) | |
| cavalier | n | horseman | kingfollower (Charles II) |
| cavalry | n | horsemen, riders | rideware (cf. NHG Reiterei) |
| cave | n | - | hidles (pl. hidleses), cleave (<OE cleofa), delve |
| cave(wo)man | n | - | hidles(wo)man, cleave(wo)man |
| cavil | vb | carp | - |
| cavity | n | dint, hollow, pit | - |
| cease | vb | stop, lay off, halt, give up, leave off, blin | - |
| ceasefire | n | truce | weaponsstandstill (cf. Du. wapenstilstand, NHG. Waffenstillstand) |
| cecograph | n | - | blindwriter |
| cede | vb | yield, hand over, give up,
overgive (Eng., NHG. übergeben, Du. overgeven, Dan. overgive) | orgive, oryeve |
| cedilla | n | - | zedling, zeeling |
| ceiling | n | firstroof, highroof, loftroof | - |
| celebrate | vb | - | frealse (<OE freolsian) |
| celebration | n | - | frealsing |
| celery | n | - | fenroot |
| celestial | adj | heavenly | skily (sky + -ly) |
| celestial bow | n | rainbow, heaven's bow | - |
| celestial sphere | n | - | rother (<OE rodor) |
| cell | n | hole, room | frum (cf. Ic. fruma), lifebrock |
| cell division | n | - | frumcleaving |
| cellar | n | - | clove (<OE cleofa) |
| cellulose | n | - | treestand, frumsweet (calque) |
| cemetery | n | graveyard, boneyard, burying-ground. Obsolete: lich-rest (in OED) | church-litten, still-hill (slang) |
| censorship | n | - | cleaning |
| censure | vb | upbraid | - |
| census | n | tale | marking (cf. OE tomearcodnes), folkscoring |
| cent | n | penny, hundredth | - |
| centaur | n | - | horsemennish (cf. Du. paardmens)
manhorse, halfhorse |
| centimeter | n | - | hundredthmete |
| centipede | n | - | thousandfoot (cf. Du. duizendpoot; NHG Tausendfüße) |
| centre/center | n/vb | n: kernel, heart; middle, midst
vb: fix; spotlight | place for event/function: mid (cf. NHG Mitte) |
| central | adj | location: middle, mean, midway, midmost, middle-of-the-road
importance: main, key, leading, ruling | midwise, midly |
| centurion | n | - | hundfrea (<OE hundfrēa) |
| century | n | yearhundred (<NHG. Jahrhundert) | year-fivescore/ yearfivescore (literally means a year and five twenties), hundredyear, fivescore (five twenties) |
| cereal | n | - | morningcorn (cf. Ic. morgunkorn) |
| certain | adj | wis | sicker (Eng., calque Ger. speeches)
specific: bestevened (cf. NHG bestimmt) (seesteven) |
| certainly | adv | wisly | sickerly, soothly, iwis |
| certainty | n | - | wishood (cf. NHG Gewissheit), soothness |
| certificate | n | beshining (cf. NHG bescheinigung)
witnessword sickering | |
| certify | v | - | beshine (calque of Ger. speeches)
confirm: besteady (calque of Ger. speeches) |
| cerulean | adj | - | swail blue |
| cerumen | n | earwax | - |
| chain | n | shackle, fetter | - |
| chair | n | seat, stool | settle |
| chalice | n | bowl | way(e) (<OE wæge) |
| chalk | n | limestone | limestonestick |
| challenge | n/vb | knot; dare; becall
Beclip (<OE be-clipian - to challenge) | - |
| chamber | n | room, bay (enclosed space) | - |
| chameleon/chamaeleon | n | - | fayingask (<OE fágian 'to change in color, vary, be variegated')
wristlehueask |
| chance | n | luck, opening | by chance: faringly (<OE færinga) |
| change | vb/n | shift, switch, makeover dough (cash), warp | frother (for- + other; cf. Fr. feroaring, Du. veranderen, NHG. verändern)
wend, char, wristle (<OE wrixlian) |
| channel | n | fairway, race, ford | sound (<OE sund 'long narrow inlet) |
| chaos | n | mess | dwolm (<OW dwolma) |
| Charlemagne | n | Carl/Charles the Great | - |
| character | n | clay, selfhood, self, shtick | in a story: hoad (<OE hād) feature: folklihood (cf. Du. persoonlijkheid) moral strength:wilstrength (will + strength) (cf. Du. viljestyrke) symbol: token (cf. NHG Zeichen, Dn. tegn) |
| chard | n | Fow-leaf, fow-stalk, Fow-stem (Fow < OE meaning coloured) | |
| charge | n/vb | fill, load, outlay; lading | Uplast, Onlast
military: angriff, Forthlout (<OE to fall forth), Onrush, Hildrass/rush/rash [OE] Wite, Onwite, Astal/Astale [OE –Astlaen - to lay at one's charge, to blame] (legal charges) |
| charged | adj | owing, laden (electric) | - |
| charitable | adj | kind, freehanded, freehearted, unselfish, unsparing, unstinting | kisty (<OE cystig) |
| charity | n | help, gift, hand-out, goodness, goodwill, fellow feeling; alms, dole; ruth; brotherhood | kistiness |
| charlatan | n | swindler | - |
| charm | n | spell, dangle | libsen (<OE lybesn) |
| charming | adj | friendly, lovely, winsome, comely | - |
| charter | n | - | rightsledging; booking (from OE book -- "assignment of land by charter") |
| chase | vb | hotfoot, put to flight, Wathe/Wothe (<OE Wáth) Adrive (<OE) | - |
| chastise | vb | chew out, chide, flay, hammer, jaw, keelhaul, ream out, tongue-lash, upbraid | threap |
| cheat | n/vb |
shark, bilk, do in, | - |
| check | vb | - | oversoothe (cf. NHG überprüfen) |
| checkers(game) | n | draughts | - |
| cheer | n | glee, merriness, mirthfulness | - |
| cheer | vb | gladden, root, hearten, perk up, blithen | bemirth |
| chef d'oeuvre | n | masterwork | reevework
mastersteck (cf. Du. meesterstuk) |
| chemistry | n | - | blendlore |
| cherish | vb | hold dear, cleave to, care for, love, look after, shelter; harbor | |
| cherry | n | - | chirsh (<OE ciris; cf. Du. kers; NHG Kirsche) |
| chestplate (armour, see tunic) | n | chesthelm, breasthelm | - |
| chief | n | ringleader | - |
| chieftain | n | - | heretough (<OE heretoha)
headling (cf. NHG Häuptling) |
| chikungunya | n | - | upbend driff |
| chili | n | - | hotcride |
| chimpanzee | n | - | mockman (calque of a Bantu language ci-mpenzi) |
| China | n | - | Midric (cf. H. Ic. Miðríki) |
| Chinese Characters | n | - | midricrunes/-rouns ( calque), midricwrit (calque) |
| chivalrous | n | big, greathearted, high-minded, lofty, lordly | hovely |
| chivalry | n | knightliness | lordlihood, kindhood, riderliness (for sake of "knight" meaning servant, NHG "Ritter") |
| chlorine | n | - | yellowgreenmote |
| chlorophyll | n | leafgreen | - |
| chocolate | adj/n | - | muckeats/muckfood (cf. H. Ic. mógæti) |
| chocolate milk | n | - | muckeatsmilk, muckmilk |
| choice | n | choosing, picking, wale | kire (cf. MEkire) |
| cholesterol | n | - | gallvat |
| chrestomathy | n | - | nuttlecouthness (calque of Gk. compound, nuttle <OE nyttol 'useful' for 'chresto-' + couthness <OE cuþnes 'knowledge' for '-mathy') |
| Christian | n | - | Cristish, Cristly
n: Crister |
| Christianity | n | - | Cristendom |
| Christmas | n | Yule | - |
| chromosome | n | - | lifepith, huebody (calque of original Greek) |
| chromatid | n | - | lifepithhalf |
| chronicle | n | ledger, tale, saga | saw |
| chronology | n | timeline | timeflow |
| chrysanthemum | n | - | goldbloom |
| church (early Greek borrowing into PG) | n | - | holihouse |
| cider | n | apple wine | - |
| cigar | n | smoke | smokelog, smokewrap, windle (calque of Icelandic vindill) |
| cigarette | n | smoke, fag, butt, stompie | windling |
| cinema | n | - | bilths, filmhouse |
| cinquefoil | n | - | fiffinger |
| cipher | n | - | homewrit (cf. Dutch geheimschrift) |
| circa | prep | about, | umb/umbe (Eng., <OE ymbe cf,. NHG um) |
| circle | n | ring, loop, wreath, trindle, trundle | trind |
| circuit | n | ringway | - |
| circulate | vb | flow; broadcast | umflow |
| circulation | n | flow | umfaring, forfaring
umflow, Imb-running, Imb-runth, Imb-runnle, Imbfaring, Embering, Emberledge |
| circulatory system | n | bloodstream | - |
| circum-/ circul- | pfx | - | um-/umb- |
| circumcise | vb | cut, unhood, unforeskin | rend, umcut, umsnithe (<OE ymbsniðan), besnithe (cf. NHG beschneiden) |
| circumference | n | rim, outring | rimlength, rimreach, rimspan,
umgang (Eng.) |
| circumflex | n | - | stavehat |
| circumnavigate | vb | - | umship (cf. NHG umschiffen) |
| circumspect | adj | careful, watchful | - |
| circumstance | n | doom, hap, luck | umstand (<OE ymbstandenness, cf. NHG. umstand)
umstalling |
| circumvent | vb | shortcut, sidestep; girdle, ring | umwork |
| circus | n | big top | - |
| cirrocumulus | n | - | curlcloud |
| citizen | n | townsman, burgher | boroughman, burrow/oughlede (<OE burglēod), ethelman |
| citizenship | n | - | boroughership (Eng., cf. NHG bürgerschaft, Du. burgerschap), ethelmanship |
| citroen | n | sourapple | - |
| city | n | stead, borough, burgh, town | - |
| civet cat | n | - | slipcat |
| civil | adj | folk | - |
| civil law | n | - | folklaw |
| civilian | n | - | meanfolk, hovelman |
| civility | n | - | hoveliness |
| clade | n | - | bough (branch) |
| cladogram | n | - | boughbilth, boughwrit |
| clairvoyance | n | - | throughsight |
| claim | n | call, dibs, right; share, stake | forehold |
| clamor | n | din | greeding |
| clan | n | body, crowd, network, ring, set, blood, folks, house, kindred, line, set | - |
| clarify | vb | shed light on | swuttle (<ME swutel, <OE sweotol), sweetle |
| classic | adj | token | mean; highflack (flack <Du. vlak 'level') |
| classical | adj | - | tokenly
music: everswin |
| classification | n | tagging, branding | fading (<OE fadung) |
| classify | vb | tag, brand | fade (<OE fadian) |
| claustrophobia | n | - | narrowfear, tightnessfear |
| clavicle | n | - | keybone (cf. NHG Schlüsselbein) |
| clear | adj/vb | adj: sharp; lily-white
n: sharpen | sheer, swuttle (<OE sweotol, M. Eng. swutel)
rithe/ruthe (<OE geryddan; cf. NHG roden; Ic. ryðja) |
| clearing | n | - | rithing/ruthing (<OE geryddan) |
| clergy | n | church, cloth | - |
| clergyman | n | churchman, father, shepherd, man of the cloth | - |
| cliché | n/adj | hackneyed, moth-eaten;n: groaner | - |
| climate | n | - | loftlay (cf. Ic. loftslag)
Ethemihong/Ethemihung, Lifthelmihung/Lofthelmihung/Lofthelmahung Welkinihang,Welkintrend, Welkinwist, Welkinlean, Welkinset, Welkinsettle Leanset,Leansettle, Leanship,Leanward, Leanwist Atlean Leantrend, Leanlay [politics, etc.] |
| cloaca | n | cloäke | aldrain (all + drain) alclosethew (all + closethew (sphincter)) |
| clock | n | timer | daymale, stounder, logger, daymeal |
| clockwise | adj | sunwise | - |
| clone | n/vb | twin | - |
| close | vb | shut, narrow | - |
| close | adj | near, narrow, nearby | - |
| co- | pref | fellow, by-, i- | - |
| coagulate | vb | clot | arun (cf. NHG gerinnen) |
| coalition | n | - | block (see Italian "blocco") |
| coast | n | shore, seashore, seaboard, strand; sail, drift | searim, warth |
| coat of arms | n | - | kinshield, wappen |
| cocaine | n | slangs: blow, snow, white, white lady, slim, snuff, girl | - |
| coccyx | n | tailbone | - |
| cockroach | n | - | shave (cf. NHG Schrabe) |
| cocoa (bean) | n | - | mucknut, muckbean, muckseed
bitternut, bitterbean, bitterseed |
| cocoa (drink) | n | - | muckbrew
bitterbrew |
| coconut | n | - | skulnut(skull + nut; coco comes fromSpan./Port. for skull) |
| coeval | n/adj | - | evenold |
| coffee | n | brew | - |
| coffer | n | - | hoardvat (<OE hordfæt) |
| coffin | n | - | through (<ME þruh, <OE) (rhymes with wow)
deadchest (cf. Du. doodkist) |
| cognate | n | - | kinword |
| cognizant | adj | aware | rathe |
| cohabit | vb | live together | bylive |
| coin | n | - | mint (<OE mynet, cf. NHG Münze) |
| coincide | vb | Inbefall, Atbefall/Atfall | |
| coincidence | n | happen-so (in OED, US regional colloq.) | likehappening, tofall (calqu of all Ger. speeches) |
| coitus | n | - | swiving, heamedlock (<OE hæmedlac), bysleep (<NHG Beischlaf) |
| cojones | n | balls, guts | - |
| colic | n | - | bellyharm |
| collapse | n/vb | downfall, infall, swooning | vb: cleave in |
| colleague | vb | workmate, fellow worker | - |
| collect | vb | gather | sam (<OE samnian) |
| collection | n | gathering, thingstock | samming (cf. NHG Sammlung) |
| colonize | vb | settle, take over, spread through(out) | - |
| colony | n | - | settling |
| colo(u)r | n | hue, cast, blee, light wavelength,fard | farb (<OE færbu, cf. NHG Farbe), huecast |
| colo(u)r | vb | hue, dye, shade, blee | farb |
| column | n | upright | sile |
| combat | n | fight, hild | gouth |
| combination | n | binding, tying, knotting, fastening, gathering | forbinding (cf. NHG Verbindung) |
| combine | vb | bind, tie, knot, fasten, gather | gatherbind, withbind,
forbind (cf. NHG verbinden) |
| combustible | n/adj | adj:fiery n: tinder | adj: fireworthy (may also mean non-combustible)
n: tinderkin (<OE tyndercyn) |
| comedian | n | funnyman | funspeller, lustspeller, laughtersmith |
| comedy | n | - | funplay, lustplay (cf. NHG Lustspiel) |
| comet | n | shooting star | strealer
Faxed-star: resemblance to hair flowing in the breeze; tailstar |
| comfort | n | liss, frover | weem (<OE weman), soothfulness |
| comfortable | adj | soft, lithe, snug | queem (<Scots, cf. NHG bequem)
frover -ly/-some |
| comestible | adj | eating | eatworthy |
| comic | n | strip, stripbook | - |
| comic | adj | funny | - |
| command | n | behest, bidding
military: headship | |
| command | vb | bid, lead, behest; spearhead | sway, yebe |
| commander | n | head | campelder (<OE campealdor)
bebeedend (<OE bebēodend) herreaswer (<OE heraræswa) hildwiser (<OE hildewīsa) hertow (<OE heratoga) |
| commandment | n | behest; (Torah) teachings | bodeword, mustsaying |
| commence | vb | begin, start | - |
| commensurate | adj | fitting | - |
| comment | n | - | bemark |
| commentary | n | input, feedback | upmarking (cf. Du opmerking) |
| commenting | n | - | bemarking |
| commerce | n | business, trade; dealings | chapstow |
| commercial | n | businesswise | tradewise |
| commit | vb | do, betake, plight | theen (<OE ġeþēon) |
| common | adj | household: cut-and-fry, workaday; broad-brush, overall; shared; middling; lowbrow; everyday, wonted
peasants: churlish | mean (<OE gemæne, NHG. Gemein 2nd ety.)
wonesome (<OE wune 'custom') |
| commonly | adv | meanly | - |
| commonwealth | n | - | meanwealth |
| commotion | n | - | stirness (<OE styrenes) |
| communicate | adj | spread; brainstorm; bespeak | Betwixtsend |
| communicative | adj | chatty | speakle (<OE sprecol) |
| communion | n | fellowship | |
| communism | n | - | fellowdom, folkwield |
| communist | adj | red | fellowdomish fellowdommer
folkwieldly folkwielder |
| community | n | fellowship | meanship (calque NHG Gemeinschaft), borough-weren |
| compact | adj | hard, stiff, unyielding; crowded, packed, thick, tight; thumbnail(expression) | withfasted, withfied |
| companion | n | fellow, mate, mone | samedsithe (<OE samodġesīð),
eveninglutter (<OE æfenhlytta) feer (<OE ġefēre) |
| company | n | business, outfit; brotherhood, fellowship | |
| comparative | n | - | overlikening (e.g. bodylore 'anatomy') |
| compare | vb | liken, stack up | aliken (OE anlician), withmete |
| comparable | adj | alike | akind, samekind |
| compassion | n | feeling; kindness, ruth; goodwill | milts (<OE) |
| compassionate | adj | kind, feeling, ruthful | - |
| compatible | adj | kindred | samehaft (cf. Ic. samhæft) |
| compatriot | n | kinsman | landsman (<OE landesmann)
fellow-land(wo)man |
| compel | vb | fordrive | thring, bede (<OE ġebædan) |
| compensation | n | meed | forgooding (cf. Du. vergoeding), frover (<OE frōfor) |
| competent | adj | fit, good; fair, right | - |
| compete | v | - | wedbewharve (grounded on NHG. wettbewerb stehen) |
| competition | n | - | wedbewharve (<NHG wettbewerb)
more new: wedbestriding (the wedding of bestriding) seebestride |
| compile | vb | put together | - |
| complain | vb | whine, bitch, caterwaul, moan, gripe, whinge | - |
| complete | adj | full, whole; done, over, through, up; in depth, thorough; all-ou-, downright, flat-out, sheer, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, utter; out-and-out; skillful, full-standing, thoroughgoing | - |
| complete | vb | fulfill, end, overcome | full-do, full-end |
| completely | adv | outright, fully, utterly, thoroughly, through and through, inside-out, to the hilt, altogether, deeply. soundly, | throughgroundy (cf. Du. doorgrondig ) |
| complex | adj | manifold, knotted, snarled | - |
| complexion | n | hue, look, blee, ilk, kind, suchness, way, outlook | skin-look, skin-hue |
| compliant | adj | toward, abiding | followsome |
| complicate |
vb/adj | - | maze, intangle, manifold |
| complicated | adj | knotty, tangled | manifold (<OE) |
| compliment | n/vb | - | n: sweaseness (<OE geswæsnys)
vb: swease (<OE swæs) n/vb: love (<OE lof, cf. NHG Lob) (rhymes with stove) |
| complimentary | adj | - | sweasely (<OE swæs + -lic)
loving (rhymes with roving) |
| compline | n | - | nightsong (<OE nihtsang, akin to "Evensong") |
| component | n | - | underdeal (cf. Du. onderdeel)
makebit, inbit, gatherbit, wholebit |
| compose | vb | to make
Glinge, Iglinge (<OE - to adorn, set in order, compose) Adight (<OE) Asing (<OE) Awrite (<OE) Samen (<OE) Fay, Ifay (<OE) | - |
| composer | n | - | swinsmith, leethwriter |
| composition | n | layout
Isetness (<OE) | swincraft |
| compound | n | cocktail, meld, mix | word: forbinding (cf. NHG Verbindung) |
| comprehensive | adj | all-in, thorough, whole; all-out adv: fully, inside-out, throough and through | begriping (calque)
invatting (OE fæt 'vessel'; calque) |
| comprise | vb | make up | inhold, invat (cf. Du. omvatten) |
| compromise | vb/n | tradeoff, deal
vb:meet halfway | - |
| compunction | n | qualm, misgiving | - |
| computation | n | reckoning | - |
| compute(r) | n/vb | - | reckoner
Uprimer, Upthinker, Upreckoner Sunderreckoner, Sunderrimer Alderrime, Alderrimer, Alderreckoner, Alderthinker Endbeirdling, Endberder, Endberdend, Enberdend [calque,based on French and Spanish 'Ordenador'] |
| comrade | n | fellow | gade (<OE gada)
sithe (<OE ġesīð) faithful: trewpoft (<OE trēowġepofta) |
| concatenat | - | therbinding | |
| conceal | vb | hide, shroud | mithe |
| concealment | n | hiding; hideaway, lair, nest | dern, hidlock |
| conceivable | adj | thoughtworthy | - |
| conceive | vb | dream; make out, twig | knit, forseed
ken (<OE cennan) |
| concentrate | vb | meet, cluster, gather; fasten; lump; build up, strengthen | Bemiddlen, ibemiddlen |
| concentrated | adj | crammed, clustered, gathered, lumped together, built up | - |
| concentration camp | n | - | shandstead |
| concentric | adj | - | middlesharing |
| concern | n | care, worry, reck | - |
| concerning | prep | as for, as far as, on, toward | - |
| concept | n | mind's eye | begripe (<ME begripen <OE begrīpan
cf. Du begrip, NHG Begriff ) |
| conception | n | mind's eye, thought | bilth; of child: beseeding |
|
conclude | vb | end, wind up, wrap up; break up, leave off, let up, wind up, wink out; name, settle upon; gather, make out | - |
|
conclusion | n | ending, finding(s) | endsay |
| concrete | n | beton | gainstandly (NHG. gegenständlich) |
| concurrently | prep | meanwhile, all-the-while, all along | - |
| concussion | n | shell shock | - |
| condemn | vb | - | fordeem, forordeal (cf. Du. veroordelen) |
| condemned, the | n | - | beforeordealt (from forordeal, via Du. veroordeel) |
| condemner, the | n | - | forordealer (from forordeal, via Du. veroordeel) |
| condescend | vb | belittle, stoop, talk down, lower | - |
| condition | n | onlay, fettle
Iting (<OE), Readen, Burdness (<OE), Cost (<OE), Areadness (<OEaraednis) | foreworth (cf. Du. voorwaarde) |
| condom | n | warding, rubber, scumbag | - |
| condominium | n | housetown | political entity: wholelordship/whole-lordship (cf. NHG Gesamtherrschaft) |
| conduct | vb | lead, drive
Beload (<OE) Iload (<OE) | - |
| cone | n | - | keggle (cf. Du. kegel, NHG Kegel, Dan. kegle) |
| confectionary | n | sweets, sweet-shop | - |
| confederacy | n | - | shireship, rickship, loosebind |
| confederate | adj\n | henchman | agade (<OE gegada) |
| confederation | n | - | shireship, rickship, loosebind |
| confer | vb | bestow, lend, give over | |
| conference | n | meeting | instelling (W. Fris. ynstelling, Du. instelling, Eng. in + Eng.stell + -ing) |
| confess | vb | acknowledge, own up | shrive
beken (Eng., cf. NHG/Du. bekennen) andet (<ME andetten), det |
| confession | n | acknowledging, shrift | andetness (<OE andetnes) |
| confidence | n | belief, hope | - |
| configuration | n | setting, set up
of elements layout | installing (cf. Du instelling ) |
| confine | vb | lock in, keep, trap, fetter, bind, latch, grasp, abed (by illness), bedrid | |
| confirm | vb | strengthen, starken, acknowledge | besteady (cf. NHG bestätigen) |
| confirmation | n | strengthening, starkening | besteadying (cf. NHG bestätigung) |
| confiscate | vb | filch | beslay (cf. Du. beslag) |
| conflagration | n | fire | - |
| conflict | vb/n | fight | - |
| confluence | n | - | eameet |
| conform | vb | dovetail; blend groove; key | evenlike (<OE efenlician) |
| conformism | n | - | evenlyinghood |
| conformity | n | - | evenlying |
| confound | vb | befuddle, bewilder, addle | - |
| confront | vb | take on, come at, be up against | - |
| confuse | vb | befuddel, mistake, ravel, bewilder, muddel, mangel, addel | ablend, forwrixle (cf. NHG verwechseln) |
| confusing | adj | manifold, bewildering, muddlesome, misleading | |
| confusion | n | muddling, bewildering, mishmash | ablending |
| confute | vb | Overstale (<OE Ofer-staélan -to confute, to convict, to convince) | |
| congregate | v | forgather | |
| congress | n | gathering, moot, lawmaker body | gathercoming |
| conics | n | - | kegglelore |
| conjugate | vb | bend | forbow (cf. Du. verbuigen, NHG. verbeugen) |
| conjunction | n | linking word | linkword, bindword, yokeword |
| connect | vb | link, fit, tie-in, bind | - |
| conquer | vb | do down, overcome, upend, worst Overwin (<OE/ME/Arch.E) | aover (calque of many germanic languages) |
| conquest | n | overwin | - |
| consanguinity | n | kinship | - |
| conscience | n | - | thewing, inwit |
| conscious | adj | aware, mindful, heedful, waken | - |
| consciousness | n | awareness, mindfulness, heedfulness, wake | inwit |
| conscript | vb | draft, call-up | - |
| consecrate | vb | bless, hallow, bename | - |
| consecutive(ly) | adj(adv) | straight, running, unbroken; one after the other, right after | |
| consent | n/vb | leave | thaving, thwaring
vb: thwarelalk (<OE þwærlælcan) |
| conservation | n | - | orholding (cf. NHG Erhaltung)
bewaring (cf. Du. bewaren) |
| conserve | n | - | orhold
beware |
| consequence | n | aftermath, backwash, outcome, upshot; wightiness | offleading (cf. Ic. af-leiðing) |
| consequently | adv | hence, thereby, thereupon, thus, wherefore, sithence (obsolete) | forfollowingly |
| consider | vb |
heed, bethink, think about, | hie, hedge (<OE hycgan 'bear in mind, confide, trust'; compare lie < OE licgan, buy < OE bycgan)
awene (<OE awenan) behawe (<OE behawian 'to see clearly, take care') rase (<OE ræswan 'to think suppose suspect consider conjecture') smigh (<OE smēagan 'consider think about mediate examine scrutinize') yondthink (<OE geondþencan 'to reflect upon') hiler (<OE aheolorian 'weigh, balance' Latin equivalent: librare, trutinare) beshow (cf. Du. beschouwen) umbthink (<OE ymbþencan) |
| consideration | n | thought | - |
| consist of | vb | be made up of | bestand of (cf. NHG bestehen aus) |
| consistency | n | - | weenness
withspeakfreedom (NHG. widerspruchsfreiheit) |
| consistent | adj | - | weenly (<OE wénlic)
withspeakless (NHG. widerspruchslos) |
| console | vb | frover, soothe, allay sorrow, share grief, give strength and hope | befreefern |
| consolation | n | - | froverness, freefernes (<OE fréfernes), frover (<OE frōfor) |
| consonant | n | - | withlide, midlide (<NHG Mitlaut), midclinker (Du. medeklinker), samedswaying, sameswaying (<Ælfric's OE samodswegend) |
| conspicuous | adj | - | forthsighly (<OE forþgesýne)
kenspeckle |
| conspiracy | n | plot | - |
| conspiracy theorist | n | - | plotbeholder |
| conspiracy theory | n | - | plotbeholding |
| conspire | vb | plot | - |
| constant | adj | ongoing, abiding, steadfast, steady, Singal/Single (<OE Sin-gal -perpetual, Everlasting) | onwherft, simble (<OE simbel)
resistant: bestandy/bestanding (NHG. beständig) |
| constitution | n | clay, self; build, frame, shape; law | forfastening (cf. NHG Verfassung), writlaw |
| constraint | n | - | thwing (<OE geþwing) |
| constrict | vb | tighten | intighten, betighten |
| consulation | n | - | bereding (cf. NHG Beratung) |
| consult | vb | see with | - |
| consume | vb | eat (up), drain, spend, intake | forbrook (calque) |
| consumerism | n | - | intakerhood |
| consummate | adj | crack, good, great, skilled; blooming, straight-out; utmost | - |
| consumption | n | intaking | - |
| contact | vb | get, reach | fay, rine, Forthreach |
| contain | vb | hold, inhold, have in itself | - |
| contaminate | vb | befoul | smittle |
| contemplate | vb | - | yondthink (<OE geondþencan) |
| contemplation | n | thought | yondthinking (<OE geondþencan + -ing) |
| contemporary | adj | today's | tidely, fellow-timed, like-timed |
| contempt | n | loathing, hatred | - |
| contemptuous | adj | - | shanding |
| contend | n | set to | - |
| contend (argue) | vb | flite, hold | - |
| content | n/vb | vb: gladden | inning (<OE innung), inhold (calque from NHG 'Inhalt')
of one's character: inwit of one's moodstathel |
| content | adj | happy, gladdened, gruntled | fained, list |
| contention | n | wrangling | - |
| contest | n | match | witherwin (<OE wiðerwinn) |
| context | n | light, framework, ins and outs, layout, basis:underlay | umrealm, underlyings
Framewrit |
| contiguous | adj | abutting | - |
| continent | n | mainland | worlddeal (<OE worulddǣl), greatland, landstretch, fastland |
| continuation | n | Astandendness, Astandingness (<OE) | |
| continue | vb | go on, abide, keep on, keep at, wendg, | ongo
forthgo (NHG fortgehen) forthset (cf. Du. voortzetten) , throughgo (cf. Du. doorgaan), singal (<OE ġesingalian) |
| continuous | adj | unbroken, ongoing | forthgoing/ forthset
simble (<OE) |
| contort | vb | writhe | - |
| contract | n | bond, deal, settlement | handfast, writdeal |
| contradict | vb | gainsay, withsay, withspeak | witherspeak (cf. NHG widersprechen), andwitness (cf. Ic. and-vitni), witherqued, anspeak (<OE ġēansprecan) |
| contradiction | n | gainsaying | withspeech (NHG. Widerspruch) witherquedding (<OE wiðercwedung), anspeech |
| contrary | adv | against | witherward (<OE wiðerweard), witherto, withershins |
| contrast | vb/n | shedspan
vb differ: undershed (calque of many Ger. Speeches) | |
| controversy | n | - | gainwending (lone translation from Latin) |
| contribute | vb | pitch in | bypull, bydraw/drag (cf. Du bijdragen ) |
| contribution | n | input, giving | - |
| contrition | n | sorrow, guilt, ruth | - |
| control | n | hands; oversight, running, stewardship; arm, grip, hold, sway, steering | bridling |
| control | vb | bridle, hold, steer, keep, tame; steward | sway |
| conundrum | n | riddle | - |
| conurbation | n | - | towncluster(ing) |
| convect | vb | Ibear, Imbbear, Iferry, Awaybear (all < OE) | |
| convergence | n | meeting | - |
| conversation | n | talk, mailing | underholding (cf. NHG Unterhaltung) |
| converse | vb | speak, talk | - |
| conversely |
adv/ | on the other hand, otherwise | - |
| convert | vb | wend, make over | turn over: bewharve (<OE behwierfan, behweorfan),
turn around: bewend (<OE bewendan), forwandle |
| convey | vb | give, spread; bear, ferry; deed, make over | inway |
| convict | n | lag
Overstale (<OE Ofer-staélan -to confute, to convict, to convince) | haftling (<OE hæftling, cf. NHG Häftling)
overstell |
| convince | vb | wheedle, talk round, talk into | overtalk (<OE oferreccan, cf. NHG. überreden) |
| convoy | n | - | wain row |
| cooperate | vb | work together | evenwork (<OE efenweorcan)
getherwork (<Fr gearwurkje) Midwork |
| cop | vb | nab | - |
| cop | n | hound, pig(slang, slightly vulgar) | frith wike (peace officer) |
| cope | vb | deal | - |
| copious | adj | beteeming | - |
| copper | n | - | ar (<OE ar) |
| copper | adj | - | arn (cf. Eng. gold -> golden) |
| copse | n | thicket, shaw | - |
| copy | n | - | twin |
| copy | vb | imitate: ape | twin, eftyield, andwrite
imitate: evenledge (<OE efenlæcan) |
| copy & paste | vb | - | twin & tack |
| coral | n/adj | - | limeshaft; yellowpink |
| cord | n | line, rope, string, wire | tew, rib-cloth |
| cord | vb | fasten | - |
| cordial | adj | friendly, hearty, warm | - |
| cords | n | - | manstows |
| corduroy | n | ribbed cloth | rib-cloth, manstow (manchester) |
| core | n | kernel, heart, yolk, innermost being | - |
| coriander | n | Cloveleaf, Clovelobedleaf, Broadlobedleaf/Bradlobleaf (based on description of leaf) | |
| cormorant | n | sea raven | shrab (<OE scræb)
coal-goose |
| cornea | n | - | hornweb
hornflesh |
| corner | n | nook, winkle, hirn, edge | - |
| coronation | n | - | kinehelming (<OE cynehelmung), wreathing |
| corpor(e)al | adj | bodily | bodisome |
| corporation | n | - | businessbody |
| corpse | n |
body, dead body | lich, nee (<OE nēo), likam |
| corpus | n | body | likam |
| Corpus Christi | pn | - | Wistforwandering Day |
| correct | adv/adj | right, aright, befitting | - |
| correct | vb | right, righten, (acad) mark | berighten (cf. NHG. berichtigen) |
| correction | n | righting | punishment: threal (<OE þrēal)
berightening (NHG. berichtigung) |
| correction fluid | n | white out | - |
| corridor | n | hallway | - |
| corroborate | vb | bear out | - |
| corrode | vb | gnaw | forrot (<OE forrotian) begnaw (<OE begnagan) |
| corrugated | adj | - | wrizzled |
| corrupt | adj/adv | crooked, bent, rot | forrot |
| corslet | n | byrnie | |
| corvée-work | n | - | workreden (<OE weorcræden) |
| cosmetics | n | fard | |
| cosmolabe | n | - | tungleheight meter |
| cosmopolitan | n | - | worldsman |
| cosmopolitan | adj | worldly | - |
| cost | n | outlay, worth | - |
| costly | adj | dear | - |
| Costa Rica | pn | - | Rich Shore |
| costume | n | outfit, get-up, fake dress | derning |
| Côte d'Ivoire | n | - | Windward Shore
Tusk Shore, Elpbone Shore |
| cottage | n | hut, cote | sheel |
| cottager | n | - | cotsettle |
| cotton | n | - | seedwool, treewool (calque) |
| council | n | gathering, huddle; board, brotherhood, fellowship, thingstead (<OEþingstede), thingstow (<OEþingstōw) | redemoot, redebody |
| counsel | n/vb | lead, shepherd | rede
law-ern (legal-eagle) |
| counsel(l)or | n | alder(wo)man | rede(wo)man
redegiver |
| count | vb | tell, reckon | arime |
| count | n | earl | - |
| countenance | n | cast | - |
| counter- | prefix | - | |
| counterbalance | n | offset | - |
| counter-clockwise | adj | withershins | withersunwise |
| counterculture | n | - | witherkithship |
| counterfeit goods | n | - | openware |
| counterpart | n | match | witherdeal
evenbilth (cf. NHG Ebenbild) equivalent: gainsteck/ gainshtick (cf. NHG gegenstück) |
| countersign | n | - | gaintoken/ gaintokening (cf. NHG. gegenziechnung) |
| countersign | v | - | gaintoken (cf. NHG gegenziechnen) |
| counterstroke | n | - | witherclap |
| country | n | land, weald, upland(rural, as in countryside), kith, fatherland, homeland, motherland, rike, | native: ethel (<OE æþel), folkland, erd (<ME) |
| county | n | shire, ethel, earldom, wapentake, erd, fold | reveship |
| county council | n | thing (<ONþing), folkmoot (<OEfolcgemōt), folkesmoot (<MEfolkesmōt/folkesmot) | shiremoot |
| coup | vb | strike | - |
| coup de grâce | n | topper | lithing, miltstroke |
| coupling, train/carriage | n | thill | - |
| coupon | n | - | deemslip |
| courage | n | mettle, boldness, fearlessness, heart, heartiness, daring, mood | beld/bield (<OE bieldu) |
| courageous | adj | bold, daring, doughty, fearless,full-hearted, unfrightened, stouthearted | moody (cf. NHG mutig) |
| course | n | line, pathway
Lode, Begang/bigong, ierning/running (<OE ierning, whence - running) Shride/Shrithe (<OE) Yong (<OE Geong) Rin/Rine, Rune [< OE Ryne, course, rush] | - |
| course(academic) | n | learnset, Loregang, Lorestream | |
| court |
n/vb | hove (<OE hof)
vb: splunt (<Scots) | |
| courteous | adj | fairspoken | hovely |
| courtyard | n | - | hallyard, boroughyard (<OE burggeard) |
| cousin | n | kins(wo)man | nearkin, farsib |
| covenant | n | oath, deal, bond, binding | - |
| cover | n | holster, sheath | heling, helm
thacking taching decking |
| cover | vb | thatch/thack, overlay, hide, deck, overspread | hele (Eng. dialectal), helm |
| coverage | n | Yondfetching, Overthetching, Overthatching,
Overhealing, Yondhealing | |
| covered area | n | deck, roofed deck | heling (ME hillet), helm (<OE helmian) |
| covering | n | skin, feathers, hackles | heling, overwrigels (<OE oferwrigels) |
| cover with | vb | lay on | - |
| covert | adj | hidden, shrouded, stealthy, under wraps, | heled |
| cover-up | n | whitewash, hush-work | shroudening |
| covet | vb | crave, want, hunger after, thirst after, cast greedy eyes upon | - |
| covetous | adj | greedy, graspy, grabby, hoggish, wanting | - |
| coward | n | wimp, woos, fearer, nithing | arg, flytail
feyling (cf. NHG Feigling) |
| cowardly | adj | gutless, thewless, woosy, fearful | fey/fay (<OE fæge, cf. NHG feige) |
| co-worker | n | by-worker, fellow worker, workmate | - |
| cranium | n | skull | head-bowl (OE heafod - bolla) |
| crater | n | - | bowl (calque), barrowbowl |
| cravat | n | necktie, neckcloth | - |
| crayon | n | - | waxlimestone |
| cream | n | salve, ream, milk's head | - |
| crease | n/vb | wrinkle, rumple, rimple, runkle | - |
| create | vb | beget, build, craft, make, set up, shape, hatch | ashapen |
| creation | n | brainchild, wrinke; world, rise | shaping, ashapenning, fromship |
| creative | adj | - | shaperly / makerly (calque from german schöpferisch), thoughtrich |
| creature | n | wight
Allwight, Edshaft, Ishaft, Ishape, Forthshaft (all <OE) | making
(horrible creature, monster) awe-grimer, Aies-grimer (based on OE eges-grime - a horrible mask; a creature with horrible form) |
| credence | n | belief | - |
| credibility | n | - | liefworthiness, beliefworthiness, beliefworthihood (cf. NHG glaubtwürdigkeit) |
| credible | adj | - | liefworthy, beliefworthy (cf. NHG glaubtwürdig) Oathworthy, Intrusty, Inliefsome |
| credit | n | hail, acknowledgement | Inlief, Intrust, Forthtrust
Oathworth Borrow-worth |
| creed | n | belief | - |
| cremate | vb | bale | - |
| creme de la creme | n | bee's knees, dog's bollocks, best of the best, fat of the land, best | - |
| crepuscular | adj | twilighty | - |
| crepuscule | n | twilight, darkfall, dusk, nightfall, gloaming, evenfall, eventide, sundown | downset |
| crescent | n | moonsickle | - |
| crest | n | ridge, noon, top; high-water mark | ris, comb |
| cretaceous | adj | - | chalken, chalkish, chalky
limestonish, limestony |
| cretin | n | blighter; nit | - |
| crevasse | n | cleft | - |
| crevice | n | cleft, gap, hole | - |
| crime | n | lawbreaking; shame, sin; wrongdoing, misdeed | shild (<OE scyld), gilt (<OE ġylt) |
| criminal | n | crook, outlaw, lawbreaker | sinner: gilter (<OE ġyltend) |
| crimson | n | - | deepred |
| crisis | n | - | needtime |
| criterion | n | yardstick; hallmark, need | deemrimmer |
| critic | n | scather | - |
| critical | adj | weighty, key, scathing | - |
| criticise | vb | slag, knock, brand, upbraid | - |
| criticism | n | scathing | - |
| crocodile | n | - | nix (cf. OHG nihhus)
pebbleworm (calque) |
| croissant | n | - | moonbread |
| cross | n | - | rood
Cross, the: syebeam (<OE sigebēam) |
| cross | vb | - | thwarse, stride over |
| crown | n | kine-helm | |
| crown | vb | - | kinehelm, wreathe |
| crucifix | n | - | rood, roodfastening, onrooding |
| crucify | vb | - | roodfasten, onrood |
| crude | adj | rough, raw | - |
| cruel | adj | harsh, mean, ruthless, cold, unfeeling | reethe (<OE réðe), slithen (<OE slīþene) |
| cruelty | n | meanness, harshness, ruthlessness | moanbale (<OE mānbealu), slithenness |
| cruise | vb | - | thwarse (lit. to cross) |
| cruiser | n | - | thwarser
thwarseship |
| crusade | n | krosscampagne | roodfirding |
| crust | n | - | rind (<OE rind) |
| cry | n | roop, yell, shout, whine, wail, moan | lide, liding (<OE ge-hlȳd; cf. NHG Lied) |
| cry | vb | weep, shout, wail, yell, howl, sob, roup, cleep, wail | chy (<OE cigan) |
| cryogenic | adj | - | coldly |
| cryotherapy | n | - | coldbehandling |
| crypt | n | - | thesterlock, thestercove, lich-keep |
| cryptocurrency | n | - | keepminthood |
| crystal | n | - | hurst (<OE hyrst) |
| crystal | adj | - | hursten (cf. Eng. golden) |
| crystalline | adj | - | hursty |
| cub | n | - | whelp |
| cube | n | - | worfle (cf. NHG Würfel) |
| cuckoo | n | - | yeke,gawk |
| cucumber | n | - | greenpod, earthapple (<OE eorþæppel) |
| cuisine | n | cooking | foodcraft |
| cull | vb | choose, pick, pick out, pitch on, pitch upon, sift, winnow, gather, pluck, pickup | - |
| cull | n | pickings, siftings | - |
| cul de sac | n | dead end | - |
| culminate | vb | - | nib |
| cultivate | vb | till, harvest, work | - |
| culture | n | couth, folklore, way of life | menning (cf. Ic. menning), kithship |
| culvert | n | - | leat, ditch |
| cuneiform bones | n | - | wedgebones |
| cure | vb | heal | - |
| curiosity | n | witfire | newsgreed, newsgreediness (cf. Du. nieuwsgierigheid) |
| curious | adj | - | newsyearny, newsgreedy (cf. Du. nieuwsgierig) |
| curious | vb | funny | frimdy (<OE frymdig) |
| curlew | n | whaup | |
| currency | n | - | minthood
unit: mintwhit, minonehood (cf. Du. munteenheid |
| current | adj | nowaday, today's, now's, nowadays', running, nowen tidegang/tidegeng (<OE) Evenrunning, Eventime | |
| current | n | run, drift, leaning, tide, wind, now Brimstream (<OE) Eystream [OE → iegstream], Streamfare, Waystream [OE] Strealm (updated form? <OE - strlme) (Electricity, water, etc.) Instream, Inrun, Flowbore, Runbore | |
| currently | adv | as of yet, now, nowenly | |
| curriculum | n | - | learnplot |
| curriculum vitae | n | - | smithsyore |
| cursive | adj | handwritten | flow-staved |
| cursor | n | runner | - |
| curtail | vb | cut back, foreshorten, clip | - |
| curtain | n | - | hanger, hangcloth |
| curve | n | bow, bend, wind | - |
| custody | n | hold, hands | warding |
| custom | adj | bespoken | thew, folkway |
| custom | n | wone, wont, business, trade | side, toln (<OE) |
| customary | adj | - | wonely |
| cutaneous | adj | skin, hide | hidish, hidely |
| cutaneous disease | n | tetter, scurf, scurvy | - |
| cute | adj | pretty, sweet, lief | goldy (cf. NHG goldig)
sooth |
| cutlass | n | backsword | |
| cutlery | n | silverware | - |
| cycad | n | - | firtapfolm (cf. Sw. kottepalmer) |
| cyclist | n | - | wheeler |
| cyclone | n | - | whirlwind |
|
cygnet | n | swanling | - |
| cylinder | n | - | rollshape |
| cynical | adj | sneering | - |
| cynosure | n | - | hoardvat (<OE hordfæt) |
| czar | n | - | Russlander king/highking |
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StaffD of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| dairy | n | milkhouse | deyhouse | |
| damage | n | scathe, harm, wound, marring, loss, wound; fee | - | |
| damage | vb | scathe, harm, wound, mar, break, bruise, forspill | fordo, shend | |
| damaged | adj | scathed, broken, marred, dented, bruised, harmed, unsound | - | |
| damaging | adj | bad, baleful, baneful, harmful | scathful (<Scots) | |
| damn | adj | all-out, flat-out, out-and-out | - | |
| damn | v | (phrases) send __ to hell, to hell with __ | bedoom (cf. Danish bedømme) | |
| damnation | n | hell, hellfire | ordeal (cf. NHG Urteil) | |
| damsel | n | maid, maiden, lass, wench | - | |
| dance | vb | step; flicker, flutter | frike (<ME friken, frikien <OE frīcian)
tumb, wirl, glithe (glee(music)+ shrithe(move)) | |
| dandelion | n | - | horsebloom (cf. Du. paardenbloem)
leetooth (cf. NHG Löwenzahn) | |
| danger | n | plight, threat | freech (<OE fréĉen), fear (meant "danger" in OE), derf (attested in the sense "trouble, tribulation") or "darf" (unattested, as far as I know) < OE deorf | |
| dangerous | adj | plightful, threatening | freehful (<OE fréĉenful) | |
| dart | n | - | darth (<OE daraþ) | |
| data | n | rawput, worth(s) |
ongift(s), meteworth(s) givele, metele, metebit givens (calque, Latin data < datum, plural pp. of 'to give' ) | |
| database | n | - | fading (<OE fadung) | |
| date | n | - | dealmark (<OE tælmearc) | |
| date-fruit | n | - | palmapple (<OE palmæppel) | |
| dative (case) | n | - | forgivingly, giver namefall, (to) whomfall (refer to German "Wemfall") | |
| daub | vb | befoul, sully; besmear | smite | |
| day of tribulation | n | - | arvethday, arveth-day (<OE earfoðdæg; c.f. ME arveþ-sīþ) | |
| de- | pref | un- | and- (<OE and-, cf. Fr. and-) | |
| deactivate | vb | switch off | - | |
| debate | vb | moot | - | |
| debatable | adj | moot, mootish, mootsome, mootworthy | - | |
| debt | n | Shild (<Eng./NHG. Schuld/Du.Schuld)(calqueof many Germanic tongues) | ||
| debut | n | beginning, birth, dawn, kickoff, morning, onset, start, threshold | fanding (<OE fandian 'to try, experience') | |
| decade | n | - | yearten (cf. Du. jaartien, NHG Jahrzehnt) | |
| decapitate | vb | behead | - | |
| decay | vb | foul, rot; sink, worsen; waste away | abreet (<OE abreotan) | |
| deceased | adj | breathless, fallen, gone, dead, lifeless | fordeaden (cf. NHG verstorben); death-smitten, late, forheawen (<OE forheawen) | |
| deceit | n | misleading, outwitting | lease (<OE léas "falsehood, untruth") | |
| deceive | vb | swike, mislead, forlead, fop, outwit, snooker | beswike | |
| December | n | - |
Ereyule (<OE Ærraġēola)pl: Ereyulen (<OE Ærraġēolan), Yulemonth (<OE Ġēolmōnaþ)pl: Yulemonthas (<OE Ġēolmōnþas), Midwintermonth (<OE Midwintermōnaþ) pl: Midwintermonthas (<OE Midwintermōnþas) | |
| decent | adj | good, upstanding, befitting | daven, douth, thewly | |
| decentralization | n | - | outkerneling | |
| deception | n | cheating, crookery, foxiness | - | |
| decide | vb | choose, name, settle (up)on, fix, set, nail, doom (archaic/obsolete), deem (obsolete) | betake, beshut (cf. Du. besluiten) | |
| deciduous | adj | - | leaf-shedding, leafsome, fallsome | |
| decision | n | call | beshut, throughshut | |
| decisive | adj | all-out, out-and-out, outright, straight-out; hell-bent | - | |
| declaration | n | boding | forthspell (<OE forþspell) atueness (<OE ætywnys), matheling, quething | |
| declare | vb | bode, swear, set forth, quethe | mathel (<OE maþelian), spell out | |
| declination | n | dwining, dwindling | forbowing | |
| decline | vb | dwindle, wane, fordwine, slump, lessen, weaken, flag, sink | nether off
forbow (<OE forbugan) | |
| decline (not accept) | vb | forbear | offlean (cf. NHG ablehnen) | |
| decoction | n | - | mixling | |
| decorate | vb | bedeck, trim, gild, behang | - | |
| decrease | vb | shrink, lower, wane, lessen; dwindle; dwine, fordwine ( > OE dwínan) (archaic) | - | |
| decree | n/vb | behest | astight (<OE ástihtan), law-bode | |
| decrepit | vb | timeworn | - | |
| dedicate | vb | earmark, set by, give up to | beteach (<OE betǽcan) | |
| de facto | adj/adv | true, in truth, truly | in deed | |
| defame | vb | file, shend, besmirch, befile | unbreme | |
| default | n | flaw | - | |
| defeat | n | loss, licking, drubbing | netherlay, netherthrow | |
| defeat | vb | beat, overcome, overrun, overwhelm, overthrow | netherlay, netherthrow, besye (cf. NHG besiegen) | |
| defecate | vb | drite, shit, shite (obscene) | - | |
| defect | n | blight, blotch, flaw, pockmark | asprungness (<OE) | |
| defend | vb | bulwark, ward, keep, shield; uphold, helmstand | fasten | |
| defenestrate | vb | - | outwindow | |
| defense | n | shield, ward | weir | |
| deficiency | n | dearth, drought, lack, want (borrowed from Scandinavian) | - | |
| deficient | adj | wanting, missing, lacking | - | |
| deficit | n | shortfall, dearth, drought, lack, want | - | |
| defile | vb | befile, besmite, befoul, sully |
andhallow, wleat (<OE ġewlætan) | |
| define | vb | mark off, lay out | - | |
| definitely | adv | markedly, throughout, fully, thoroughly | wisly (Eng.wis)
sickerly (Eng.sicker) | |
| definition | n | - | wordmark (<OE wordgemearc) | |
| deflect | vb | - | offdrive | |
| deform | vb | misshape, unshape | - | |
| deformed | adj | misshapen, shapeless | thrawn (Scots) | |
| deformity | n | blight, blotch, flaw, pockmark | misshapenness | |
| defragment | vb | cleave, misbreak | - | |
| defraud | vb | swindle, get | - | |
| defrost | vb | thaw | - | |
| defy | vb | Flout (Dutch: fluiten) | - | |
| degenerate | adj | - | misthriveen
backbuilded | |
| degeneration | n | - | misthriving | |
| degrade | vb | bemean, nether, beneathen, below | - | |
| degree | n | cut, inch, peg, step | flak ('level' cf. Fr. flak, Du. vlak) | |
| deify | vb | begod | - | |
| deity | n | god | oos(e), ooce (<OE ós; c.f. goose < OE gós) | |
| Deism | n | - | Godtroth | |
| de jure | adj/adv | lawfully, by law | - | |
| delay | n | lag, holdup, frist | - | |
| delay | vb | stall, forestall, tarry, frist | - | |
| delete | vb/n | - | unmark, forwipe (calque) | |
| deliberate | adj | weighed, thought out; set, willed | hillered | |
| deliberate | vb/n | think about, think over | hiler (<OE heolorian) | |
| delicacy | n | - | - | |
| delicious | adj | dainty, lush, toothsome, mouthwatering, lickerish | - | |
| delight | n | gladness, lust | fain, list, queemness, itheness (<OE īeðnes) | |
| delightful | adj | sweet, darling, pleasing, heavenly, winsome | faining, listing, queemful | |
| delimit | vb | - | mire (<OE mære) | |
| delirious | adj | bewildered, mind-wandering, dwale | - | |
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deliver | vb | bear | alease (<OE aliesan} | |
| deliverer | n | - | aleasand (<OE aliesend) | |
| delivery | n | childbirth, birth | - | |
| delude | vb | mislead | - | |
| deluge | n | flood, rainstorm, cloudburst, overflowing, drenching | The Deluge: The Flood | |
| delusion | n | misbelief | - | |
| demeanour | n | jib | - | |
| dementia | n | madness, mindloss | - | |
| demilitarized | adj | unweaponed | - | |
| demise | n | downfall | hengang (< OE hingang 'a going hence, departure, death') | |
| Demiurge | n | Craftsman, "god of this world" | - | |
| democracy | n | - | folkship (<OE folkscipe) | |
| demodulation | n | - | backrighting | |
| demograph | n | - | folk outline | |
| demolish | vb | tear down, forspill, wreak, break | forswerve (<OE forsweorfan) | |
| demolition | n | wipeout | - | |
| demon | n | fiend, hellfiend, mare | nicor, ork (<OE orc) | |
| demonstrate | vb | show | - | |
| dendrite | n | - | sinewtwig | |
| dendrochronology | n | - | tree-ring-timetelling (cf. Ic. trjáhringjatímatal) | |
| dengue | n | - | breakbone driff (cf. Eng. breakbone fever) | |
| denial | n | naysay, forsaking, forswearing | forswearhood | |
| denigrate | vb | slighten, belittle, downcast | beswart, blackwash | |
| denomination | n | - | benaming, offshedding (Du.afscheiding) | |
| denote | n | betoken, mean | - | |
| denouement | n | unravelling | - | |
| dense | adj | thick, heavy | - | |
| density | n |
crowd: huddle tightness | - | |
| dentist | n | - | toothleech (cf. Dn. tandlæge); teethhealer; gum-digger | |
| denude | vb | strip, unclothe, bare, lay bare | - | |
| deny | vb | gainsay, withsay, naysay; withhold,Forswear , forsake | - | |
| deodorant | n | - | reekkiller | |
| deoxyribonucleic acid | n | - | lifetwine | |
| depart | vb | bookslang,cut off, dig out, peel off, run along, step along, walk out, leave | - | |
| departing/departure | n/adj | farewell, leav(ing), walking out |
afaring, witing death: hingang (<OE) | |
| department | n | - | ambight, offdealing, bedealing | |
| depend | vb | hang, hinge on, rest on, trust in, lean on | onhang, onhinge, offhang/hang off of (NHG. abhängen) | |
| dependence | n | - | onhanginess, offhanginess (NHG. abhängigkeit) | |
| dependent | adj | - | hingey, offhangy (NHG. abhängig) | |
| depict | vb | show | - | |
| depreciate | vb | cheapen, lessen, write off | underworthen | |
| depression | n | moodsink, blues, downer, downheartedness, glumness, woefulness | yomerness (OE geom), unmood (<OE unmōd) | |
| deprivation | n | lack, want; bereaving | - | |
| deprive (of) | vb | bereave, strip | benim; beshear | |
| deputy | n | - | outfader (cf. NHG Abgeordneter) | |
| deracinate | vb | uproot | - | |
| deranged | adj | crazed, mad, moonstruck, unhinged | wood | |
| deregulation | n | - | unreding | |
| derive | vb | come from, bring from, spring from, stem from, draw off from | ord from | |
| derived | adj | forthbrought, brung forth from | - | |
| dermatology | n | - | hidelore | |
| dermis | n | hide, rind, hackle | - | |
| desacralize | vb | - | unhallow | |
| descend | vb | fall, slope, bear | nethergo | |
| descendant | n | offspring | afterbear (by analogy to forebear), aftercomer, afterling, ofcomeling (NHG) | |
| descent | n | downcoming, downgoing | nethergang | |
| describe | vb | draw, outline, set out, betell, bewrite | meal out | |
| description | n | bewriting, tale, inwording, drawing | bemealing | |
| desecrate | vb | unhallow, befoul | - | |
| desert | vb | leave, forsake | military:hereflight | |
| desert | n | dustbowl, dryland | westen (<OE wésten, cf. NHG Wüste, Du. woestijn), weste land, drought | |
| deserter | n | - | heraflighter (<OE hereflýma) | |
| deserving | adj | meedful, worthy | - | |
| design | vb/n | lay out, draft, outline, set out, craft | - | |
| designate | vb | betoken, mark, earmark, show, call, name | - | |
| desinfectant | n | - | withersmite | |
| desire | vb/n | crave, wish, lust, yearn, long, hanker (for, after), list | wilne (<OE) | |
| desirous | adj | wishful, longing | weening (<OE wenan) | |
| desist | v | leave off | ||
| desolate | adj | barren | unbeheld | |
| desolation | n | - | aweestness (<OE áwéstnes) | |
| despair | n | hopelessness | wanhope, forthought | |
| despair | vb | (phrases) give way, lose heart, lose hope, give up, give up hope |
forlorn, hope-yearn forthink (< OE) ortrow/ortrew (OE < ortreowe) orween (OE < orwen) | |
| desperate | adj | hopeless, forlorn | hope-yearn(ing/ful)
ortrowly/ortrowly (OE - see 'despair') unweenly (OE < unwen) | |
| despondency | n | - | atsprungness (<OE ætsprungnes) | |
| despise | vb | hate, behate, loathe | forthink | |
| despite | prep | although, notwithstanding | - | |
| dessert | n | afters, pudding, sweet | - | |
| destine | vb | tee, set up to happen, foredoom, weird | - | |
| destiny | n | lot, doom, foredoom, the stars, weird | eld-orlay (<OE ealdorlæg), orlay (<OE orlæg) | |
| destroy | vb | fordo, toshend, do in, pull down, shatter, tear down, unmake, break down | shend | |
| destruction | n | breakdown, downfall, undoing, unmaking | downbusting, fornaughting (cf. NHG vernichtung) | |
| detail | n | - | meal (<OE mál), speckmark | |
| detain | v | hold | ||
| detective | n | sleuth, bloodhound | - | |
| deteriorate | vb | worsen, grow worse | - | |
| determine | vb | name, settle; root out | besteven (cf. NHG bestimmen) seesteven | |
| detest | vb | hate, loathe | - | |
| detrimental | n | harmful, scatheful | - | |
| Deus vult | interj | God wills it | - | |
| Devail/Devil | n | fiend, our foe/Foe | - | |
| devalue | vb | cheapen, lessen | downworthen | |
| develop | vb | grow, build, unfold, unwrap, foster | forblow | |
| developed, poorly | adj | wan-thriven | - | |
| development(al) | n/adj | growth; upshot; ripening, fostering | forblowing | |
| device | n | tool, hardware | - | |
| devious | adj | shrewd, wily | - | |
| devise | vb | think up, think of; leave in a will | - | |
| devolve | vb | - | netherwind | |
| devote | vb | earmark, set by | wigh (cf. Du. wijden) | |
| devour | vb | fret, gulp (up), raven, wolf | forswallow (<OE forswelgan) | |
| devout | adj | down-the-line, fast, good, steady, true-blue | - | |
| dexterity | n | deftness, nimbleness | handwitness | |
| dexterous | adj | deft, nimble | handwit, handskillful, handcrafty | |
| di- | pfx | - | twi- | |
| diabetes | n | sweethurstsickness | - | |
| diabetic | adj | sweethurstsickened | - | |
| diabolic | n | fiendish | - | |
| diacritic | n | mark | - | |
| diæresis/diëresis | n | break | breakmark | |
| diagonal | adj | leaning, sloping, slanted | - | |
| dialect | n | - |
byleid (<Scots), folktung landspeech (cf. NHG. Landessprache) , tongfall (tonguefall) (<Dutch) | |
| diameter | n | bore | straightspan, wreathwidth, ringwidth | |
| diameter, inner | n | inner: bore;outer: girth | - | |
| diamond | n | - | hardore, toughhurst (calque) | |
| diaphanous | adj | sheer | - | |
| diphragm | n | - | midrith (<OE midhriðre) | |
| diarrhoea | n | skitter, the runs | - | |
| diary | n | daybook | - | |
| diaspora | n | yondseeding | outscattering, the wanderings, yondscattering (calque from Greek dia + speirein), scatterdom | |
| dichotomy | n | - | twidealing (cf. Du. tweedeling; NHG Zweiteilung) | |
| dictator | n | - | tharlreve | |
| dictionary | n | wordbook | - | |
| die (Theedish) | n | - | wirple | |
| diet | n | - | foodline | |
| differ | v | - | undershed (calque of Ger. speech.NHG Unterschieden, Du. onderscheiden) | |
| difference | n | otherness, unlikeness | dealing, shedding, sunderness,
undershed (cf. NHG Unterschied/ Du. onderscheiden) diversity: fayness (<OE fægnys) | |
| different | adj | unlike, unsame, sundry, sunder, sundered | missen (<OE), shedded
undershedly (NHG. unterschiedlich) | |
| different | adv | other, otherwise | sunderly, sheddedly | |
| differentiation (mathematics) | n | - | beshedding | |
| differently | adv | otherwise, sunderly | - | |
| difficult | adj | pick-and-shovel, uphill, hard | sweer (Eng., OE swær, cf. NHG. Schwer, Du zwaar) grinding | |
| difficulty | n | hardship, struggle, toil | - | |
| diffident | adj | withdrawn | - | |
| digit | n | finger, toe | - | |
| digital | adj | scorely | bitly | |
| dignity | n | worth, selfworth | wirthe (<OE wirþu, cf. NHG Würde) | |
| digraph | n | - | twiwrit (calque) | |
| digress | n | - | umsweep (<OE ymbswæpe) | |
| dilapidated | adj | threadbare, timeworn | - | |
| dilate | vb | - | abreethe (<OE abreoþan) | |
| diligent | adj | tied-up, working | (k)nerd/(k)nard (<OE cneord), heedfast | |
| dimension | n | - | mealwidth (<Ic. mælivídd) | |
| diminish | vb | lessen, lower, wane, dwindle, dwine | fordwine | |
| diminutive | adj | tiny, impish, small, little | - | |
| dimorphism | n | - | twoshapenness | |
| diningroom | n | - | buttern (<OE beotern 'table-room') | |
| dinner | n |
evening meal, mese (obsolete) fr. OE: (table, that which is set on a table, dish, food, meal) | eveneats (cf. D. avondeten, NHG Avondessen), rearding (OE reord 'to feast'), evenmeal | |
| dinosaur | n | - | dreadask (calque from Greek), dreadwight, bulkwight, forebird | |
| diocese | n | - | bedereve shire | |
| diphthong | n | - | twithedin (calque) | |
| diploma | n | - | douth writ | |
| direct | adj | rode, straight, straightforward, unbending, head-on, forthright, open, outspoken | - | |
| direct | vb | lead, steer, beward, beright, right | wees (<OE wisian) | |
| direction | n | heading, wending, warding | - | |
| directory | n | - | threadlist | |
| dis- | pref | mis-, un- | and- (<OE; cf. NHG ent-...) | |
| disable | vb | cripple, lame; hamstring | - | |
| disabled | adj | lame, halt | - | |
| disadvantage | n | afterdeal, drawback, downside | - | |
| disadvantaged | adj | hindered | - | |
| disappear | vb | flee, melt, sink | fordwine | |
| disappoint | vb | let down | - | |
| disarm | vb | - | andweapon | |
| disarrange | vb | rumple, tousle | - | |
| disaster | n | shipwreck, fizzle, washout | ill-hap, grimming, harrow-hap | |
| disastrous | adj | baneful, deadly, dreadful, black, hapless, harmful, doomfull, wrackful | - | |
| discard | vb | get rid of, deep-six, | awayen
forthrow (Eng., cf. NHG verwerfen) | |
| discharge | n/vb | unload | - | |
| disciple | n | - | loreknight (<OE larcniht) | |
| discipline | n/vb | ?school, field; rear up, upbraid | thewfastness | |
| disclaim | vb | foreswear, forego | mishold, unhold | |
| disclaimer | n | forsaker, yielder | - | |
| disclose | vb | bare, show, tell | - | |
| disconcerting | adj | offputting, upsetting | - | |
| discontinue | vb | cut, end | - | |
| discount | n | - | falloff (cf. Ic. af-fall) | |
| discourse | n | chat, speak | rearding, wordling (<OE wordlung) | |
| discourse | vb | talk, speak, mouth out | wordle | |
| discover | vb/phr | find out, get on, hear, learn, wise up; dig out, dredge up, hit on, nose out, root out; bare, unbosom, unfold |
onfind, unthatch/unthack, unmesh Befind (cf. NHG befinded, Du. bevinded, Swed/S. Fris.) , undeck | |
| discovery | n | finding, unearthing | befinding, onfinding, undecking | |
| discredit | vb | smirch | - | |
| discriminate | n | treat unfairly | beshed (<OE bescéadan) | |
| discuss | vb | talk about, talk over, talk through | wordwrestle | |
| disease |
n | addle, cothe, sickness, illness, wanhaleness | - | |
| disease, skin | n | tetter | skinaddle | |
| disfigure | vb | mar, misshape | - | |
| disgrace(ful) | n/vb | shame, shend | shandful (<OE scandful) | |
| disgusting | adj | loathely, wlatsome, foul, pukening, gruesome, ghastly, rank, icky, | Witherly (NHG. Widerlich)
Witherward (NHG. Widerwärtig) | |
| dishevelled | adj | cluttered, tousled, untidy | - | |
| dishonourable | adj | - | arless, heanful, heanlike (OEheanlic) | |
| disinclined | adj | loath | - | |
| disinfect | vb | - | unsmittle | |
| disinfectant | adj | - | unsmittling | |
| disinfectant | n | - | unsmittler | |
| disk | n | - | flat, trind | |
| dislike | vb | mislike | - | |
| dislocate | vb | - | unstead | |
| dismember | vb | - | alithe, unlimb | |
| dismiss | vb | snub, slight, sack, fire | - | |
| disobedience | n | - | overhearness (<OE oferhirness) | |
| disobedient | adj | unhold, unhearsome, hardheaded, stubborn, wayward | - | |
| disordered | adj | unsided, throughanother | - | |
| disperse | vb | scatter, spread, strew | todrive, tofare | |
| displace | vb | uproot | unord | |
| display | n/vb | fair, show; lay out, show off, strut | - | |
| displease | vb | - | misqueme (<OE miscwéman) | |
| disposable | adj | throwaway | - | |
| disposal | n | deep-six, junking, throwing away | - | |
| disprove | vb | belie | - | |
| dispute | n | bickering, brawl, tiff | unreckoning(calque) | |
| dispute | vb | bicker, brawl, tiff, wrangle | flit (OE) | |
| disqualify | vb | unfit | - | |
| disregard | vb | overlook, forheed | overgum (<OE ofergumian) | |
| dissect | vb | sithe, cut up | - | |
| dissemble | vb | bluff, sham, put on; let on, make out | aswike | |
| dissolution | n | breakup, split, sundering | - | |
| dissonance | n | infighting | - | |
| distance | n | lead, length, spread, stretch, way; breadth, field; unlikeness, otherness, farness | - | |
| distant | adj | away, deep, far, far away far-flung, far-off; cold-eyed, dry, offish, standoff; other, unalike, unlike | farlen, offward (OE) | |
| distill | vb | drop, trickle, strengthen, | forsteaming | |
| distinct | adj | marked, sundered | undershed(calque of many Ger. speeches). | |
| distinguish | vb | make-out | undershed(calque of Ger. speech.NHG Unterschieden, Du. onderscheiden) | |
| distort | vb | twist, throw, warp | - | |
| distract | vb | throw off, draw off, pull away, bewilder, mislead | heed off, mind off | |
| distraught | adj | worked up | - | |
| distress | vb/n | bother, upset, worry n: woe, harm's way |
- | |
| distress signal | n | - | woecall | |
| distribute | vb | deal out, hand out, mete out, spread, spread out | breat/bret/brut/brit (<OE bryttian) | |
| distribution | n | dealing, setup, spread | brittening (<OE bryttian) | |
| district | n | neighbourhood | shire, riding, leet, -wick, wike, stretch | |
| distrust | vb | forthink, mistrust | - | |
| disturb | vb | stir, muddle, unsettle | dreve (<OE dréfan) , sturian (<OE styrian), bestir | |
| disturbance | n | stir; teasing, harrying, bothering, unsettling | dreving , bestirance | |
| disturbing | adj | creepy, startling, frightening, unsettling, upsetting, stirring, scary | - bestiring | |
| diurnal | adj | daily | - | |
| diverse | adj | manifold, sundry, manikind | - | |
| divert | n | - | off-lead | |
| divide | n | split, gap | - | |
| divide | vb | cleave, shed, split, sunder, share, of-mete, deal | to-tweam (<OE to-twaémen) | |
| divination | n | foretelling | wile (<OE wigle) | |
| divine | adj | godly, holy | wily | |
| divinity | n | holiness | - | |
| division | n | cleaving, splitting, tweeming, shedding, sundering | - | |
| divorce | n | - | wedbreach | |
| DNA | ||||
| docile | adj | meek; law-abiding | - | |
| doctor, medical | n | healer | learer (<ME lerare <OE lārēow) leech, healand | |
| document | n | - | leafwrit | |
| documentary | n | broadcast | leafwritfilm, logfilm, truthfilm | |
| dogma | n | - | ground lief | |
| dolphin | n | mereswine | tumbler (cf. NHG Tümmler) | |
| domain | n | - | lorddom | |
| dome | n | - | cupple (calque of Italian cupola) (cup + -le diminutive) | |
| domestic | adj | homeland(politics); household; tamed; born | - | |
| domesticate | vb | tame | houserede | |
| domicile | n | grith | ||
| dominate | vb | lord over, bestride | rike (<OE), hire(calque) | |
| donate | vb | bestow, give, overgive, yield | - | |
| donation | n | gift, yeld | - | |
| doppelgänger | n | look-alike, evil look-alike, ill-boding look-alike | Walking-dead, death-ghost; twinish-unknowns. | |
| dormant | adj | sleeping, drowsing | - | |
| dormitory | n | bedroom | sleepstow, sleepearn (<OE slæpærn) | |
| dorsal | adj | back | - | |
| dosage | n | muchness | - | |
| double | vb/n/adj | twin, twofold, twosome, two times | vb:
twifold (<OE twifealdian) | |
| doubt | n/vb | qualm, niggle, wonder;
twimindedness, lack belief (in), misbelieve, mistrust | ink (<OE inca; ME inke)
twimind | |
| doubtful | n | twiminded | - | |
| douse | vb | drench | - | |
| dozen | adj | twelve | - | |
| dozen | n | tens | - | |
| draconian | adj | - | harsh, rough | |
| dragon | n | lindworm, wyrm | - | |
| dragonfly | n | - | leanfly | |
| drainage basin | n | watershed | - | |
| dramatic | adj | hammy; showy, splashy | - | |
| dramatist | n | playwright | - | |
| dress | n | bodyskirt, fullskirt, long skirt, smock | - | |
| dress | vb | clothe, don | - | |
| dromadary | n | - | drylander | |
| drug | n | lib | rushmiddle, rushmean (cf. NHG Rauschmittel), rushgift (cf. NHG Rauschgift) | |
| drupe | n | - | stoneberry | |
| dual | adj | twin, twofold | - | |
| dub | vb | name, call | - | |
| dubious | adj | dodgy, shady, shaky; loath; far-fetched, unlikely; hinky, mistrustful, unsettled | frainworth(y)
bethinkly (cf. NHG bedenklich)seebethink | |
| duchy | n | earldom | Heretogdom | |
| due | adj | owing, thanks | - | |
| duel | n | ballgame | wyefare | |
| duet | n | - | twising | |
| dugong | n | - | seacow | |
| duke | n | earl | alderman (<OE ealdorman), hertow (<OE heretoga) | |
| dunce | n | mouthbreather | - | |
| dune | n | - | sandhill | |
| duplication | n | twofoldness | twiness | |
| during | prep | throughout | bewhile | |
| Dutch(man) | adj | - | Lowland(er), Netherland(er)ish | |
| duvet | n | bedspread, eiderdown | - | |
| dynamic | n | snell, flush, lusty, red-blooded | speedfast, beweighful | |
| dynasty | n | - | erverike | |
| dysentery | n | - | reddrif (<OE drif: fever) | |
| dysfunctional | adj | unworking, badworking | - | |
| dyslexic | n | word-blindness | - | |
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Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| gabbling | adj | babbling | tungy, gossipy | |
| galactose | n | - | brainsweet | |
| galaxy | n | spiral: starswirl; Milky Way | starset | |
| galleon | n | - | fleetship, oarsteed | |
| gallery | n | hallway, hall, room(s) | crafthall | |
| galley | n |
- | cookroom; oarship | |
| gallium | n | - | frankstuff | |
| garage | n | - | roadhut, wainhold, wainshed | |
| garden ( this word is ultimately from a Germanic source, through French and Latin) | n | grove, (green)yard | wortyard (<OE wyrtgeard) worttown | |
| gardener (from Germanic source via French and Latin) | n | green thumb, handyman | grover, wortward | |
| gargoyle | n | - | waterspewer (cf. NHG Wasserspeier; Du. waterspuwer) | |
| garland | n | wreath, helm | bee | |
| garments | n | clothes, cladding, wearing, clothing | - | |
| garrulous | adj | long-winded, jabber-jawed, talksome, wordy | - | |
| gas | n | wind | loft | |
| gastrolith | n | - | mawstone | |
| gay | adj | blithe, blithesome, blissful, blissome, merry, happy | Samekindloving, samekindlover | |
| gazebo | n | summerhouse | openhouse, walless house | |
| gecko | n | - | leather athex (<OE hléoðor 'sound voice song-hearing') | |
| gem | n | stone | hurst (<OE hyrst), athelstone (calque) | |
| gender | n | - | asleye (< "a-" + ME "sleye" cf. NHG Geschlecht, Du geslacht)
hade (from Old Englishhād, from Proto-Germanic*haiduz (“appearance, kind”) | |
| gene | n | - | kinth, shedling | |
| genealogy | n | birth, blood line, breeding, stock |
folktale (<OE folctalu) kinreckonness (<OE cynnreccennes) kinlore, elderlore, forelderlore | |
| general | n | - | hereteme (<OE heretēma)pl: heretemen (<OE heretēman), fyrdlord, lattew (<OE latteow)
hereleader (cf. NHG Heerführer) | |
| general | adj | broad, overall | ally (<OE eallic), armen (<OE eormen), mean (<OE mæn), kindly, kinly | |
| generality | n | breadth | meanliness (<OE gemǽnelicnes) | |
| generally | adv | broadly, mainly, mostly, on the whole; widely | meanly | |
| generate | vb | make, give rise to; beget, breed | ||
| generation | n | time, days, lifetime, span; wave, crop, batch; breeding, begetting | strind, breedstock, kith-end(Scots), kneeris (<OE cnēoris) pl: kneerisse (<cnēorissa) | |
| generic | adj | wide, sweeping, broad-brush, overall | - | |
| generous | adj | kind, openhanded | givle (<OE gifol) | |
| generously | adv | kindly, handsomely, freely | gively | |
| genesis | n | beginning, start | - | |
| genetics | n | - | kinthlore, kindlore | |
| genial | adj | mellow, nice, sweet; hail-fellow-well-met, hearty, matey, neighbourly, warm-hearted; mild, soft | lithe | |
| genie | n | - | wishghost | |
| genitive case | n | - | owningly (<OE agniendlic), whosefall (refer to German "Wesfall/Wessenfall") | |
| genius | n | brain; head, knack; leaning; clay, self | wittle | |
| genocide | n | - | kinslaughter, folkslaughter, bulkslaughter
folkmurth | |
| genome | n | bequest, growthplot | - | |
| gentle | adj | bland, light, mellow, mild, soft, soothing | smolt | |
| gentleman | n | lord; fellow | athelman, hire (cf. Du. heer, Sw. herre...) | |
| genuflect | vb | kneel, kneebow, kneebend | - | |
| genuine | adj | sound, true, sterling; heartfelt, earnest; straightforward, upfront | eahaft/eaght (<NHG echt) | |
| geography | n | landscape |
earthlore (cf. NHG Erdkunde) landfrod (cf. Ic. landafræði) | |
| geology | n | - | earthfrod (cf. Ic. jarðfræði) | |
| geometry | n | - | shapelore, nooklore, landmete | |
| geostationary | adj | - | sporfixed | |
| geothermal | adj | - | earthwarmed | |
| geranium | n | cranesbill | - | |
| gerbil | n | - | leaprat | |
| geriatric | n | long-lived, over-the-hill | forolden | |
| germ | n | bug(colloqial) | buggle (bug+le) | |
| German | adj | - | Theech/Thech, Dutch, High Theech/High Dutch (see GermanHochdeutsch) | |
| Germanic | adj | - | Theedish/Thedish (cf. OE Þeodisc), Germanish | |
| germanium | n | - | theedstuff | |
| Germany | n | - | Theechland, Dutchland, Theedland, Teutonland | |
| germinate | vb | bud, sprout, shoot, blossom, burst forth, grow up, put forth, take root, spring up | - | |
| gestational | adj | bearingly, bearingsome | - | |
| gesture | n/vb | beckon, flag, wave | shrithing; hoveliness | |
| gesundheit | n | bless you | - | |
| giant | n | - | ettin, ent (<OE) | |
| gigantic | n | - | entish (<OE entisc) | |
| gimlet | n | auger | - | |
| gingiva | n | gum, teeth('s) flesh | - | |
| gingko | n | - | maidenhairwood (cf. NHG Mädchenhaarbaum)
maidenhair (tree) | |
| giraffe | n | - | reachneck, olfhorse/olvendhorse (calque Af. kameelperd) | |
| give (only overset if getting rid of ON words too) | n | - | yive | |
| glacial | adj | icy, biting, cold, freezing, raw, chill, frosty | - | |
| glacier | n | - | icklehead (<OE gicel) | |
| global | adj | worldwide, broad-brush, overall | - | |
| globalisation | n | - | oneworldness, worldspanning, ?beworlding | |
| globe | n | world, earth | worldball (cf. Du. wereldbol)
earthkuggle (cf. NHG Erdkugel) | |
| glorious | adj | bright, shining; wonderful, heavenly |
arsome, merthly, wuldersome, wuldrig, thrymfast (<OE þrymfæst) hoary, hoarly (cf. NHG herrlich)(see Eng.hoar) | |
| glory | n | - |
oar (<OE ár), merth (<OE mærþ) wulder (<OE wuldor) reeth (<OE hrēþ) in war: ashtire (<OE æsctīr) hoariness, hoarlihood (cf. NHG herrlichkeit) | |
| glucose | n | - | mustsweet | |
| glue | vb | stick, fix, seal, fasten |
clithe (cf. OE cliða) | |
| glue | n | lime | - | |
| gluttony | n | greed | fill | |
| glycerine | n | - | sweetlime | |
| glycogeen | n | - | sinewsweet | |
| goblin | n | kobold | puckle | |
| goddess | n | - | goddin/gidden (<OE gyden) | |
| godparent | n | godfather, godmother | godsib, godelder | |
| goitre | n | - | swellthroat | |
| go on an expedition | phr | - | fierd (<OE fierdian) | |
| gorilla | n | - | brawnape | |
| gossamer | adj | thin, flimsy | - | |
| govern | vb | lead, hold sway over | rede, sway(arch), steer, rike | |
| governor | n | head, leader | helmsman, highthane, folk leader | |
| government | n | oversight, stewardship, leadership |
lawmoot, redeship ledeward (<OE léodweard) | |
| GPS | n | - |
WSF (Worldwide Steadfinding Framework); steadfinder (i.e. the device) | |
| grace | n | meed; kindness; handsomeness |
are("ay-r" ety. 2), est, held (<OE), lity (OE wlitig) giveness (<OE gifnes), hoveliness | |
| grace | vb | - | beare (calque of NHG beehren) | |
| gracious | adj | sweet, well-bread, mannerly, | heldsome, open-handed, hende | |
| gradual | adj | steady, even, unhurried | - | |
| gradually | adv | step by step, little by little, bit by bit, steply, stepwise | stepmeal (<OE stæpmælum) | |
| grain | n | corn | ||
| grallatores | n | waders | - | |
| grammar | n | - | speechcraft, staffcraft (<OEstæfcræft), wordlaw | |
| gramophone | n | - | trindplayer (cf. Du. platenspeler, NHG Plattenspieler) | |
| grand | adj | great, lofty, lordly | swith good | |
| grandfather | n | - | eldfather (<OEealdfæder) | |
| grandiloquent | adj | - | speakle | |
| grandiose | adj |
proud; high-handed, lah-di-dah | - | |
| grandmother | n | - | greatmother, foremother, eldmother (<OEealdmodor) | |
| granite | n | - | moorstone | |
| grant | vb | give, bestow | - | |
| grape | n | - | droove (cf. Du. 'druif', NHG 'Traube') wineberry | |
| graphic | n | - | bilthish (calque from Yiddish "bilderish") | |
| graphics tablet | n | drawing pad, writing pad | ||
| graphite | n | lead | writstone | |
| grateful | adj | thankful | queme, thankle | |
| gratitude | n | thank, thankfulness | - | |
| gratuitous | adj | free; needless, groundless, uncalled-for | - | |
| gravity | n | earnestness, heftiness |
weightiness physics: weightpull, sweercraft (calque of NHG Schwerkraft, Du. zwaartekracht) | |
| great suffering | n | - | harmquale (<OE hearmcwalu)pl: harmquale (<OE hearmcwala) | |
| grenade | n | - | springapple | |
| gridiron | n | - | bakering | |
| grief | n | ruth, heartache, sorrow | - | |
| grieve | vb | rue, weep, mourn, sorrow | - | |
| grocer | n | greenmonger | - | |
| groin | n | lisk | - | |
| group | n | thede, fay, bunch, crowd, team, gang, cluster, crop, flock, set, shoal | samming (<OE samnung, cf. Eng.sam (ety. 2)) | |
| gruel | n | - | watermush | |
| grume | n | clot | - | |
| guano | n | dung | batshit | |
| guarantee | vb/n | ice; n: bond, deal | weir (OE 'fence, enclosure') munding (OE mund 'hand palm, trust') | |
| guard(ultimately from Germanic language, but thorugh Old French) | v | watch for, shield, shelter | bewatch (Eng., cf. NHG bewachen) | |
| guardian | n | keeper, warden, warder, ward | holdand, swinward | |
| guava | n | - | pearberry | |
| guide(ultimately from Germanic language, but thorugh Old French) | vb/n | show the way, lead(er), steer | wise(r) (Eng.dialectal) (cf. NHG Weisen, O.Frank. witan) | |
| guillotine | vb/n | - | bladefaller, Guillotin's deathrig (the Guillotine was named after the man who invented it), swiftkiller, beheading tool, Wilhelm's deathrig (Guillotin is a form of Wilhelm) | |
| guitar | n | - | harpfiddle | |
| guerrilla | n | - | blast uprising, bushwhacking, bushfighting | |
| guinea pig | n | - | seapig (cf. Norw. "marsvin"), gnawpig (cf. Ic. "nuggrís") | |
| gulf | n | bight, cove | - | |
| gullet | n | throat, craw, maw | - | |
| gully | n | draw (shallow) | - | |
| gulp (From English imitative or Flemish or Dutch (prob imitative) source) | vb | - | overswallow | |
| gunpowder | n | - | gundust | |
| gyroscope | n | - | shiftop, ringwatcher | |
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Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| haberdasher | n | hatter, hatmaker | winkeler (<Du.) | |
| habit | n | trend, wont, wone, thew | wonehood (cf. NHG Gewohnheit) | |
| háček | n | - | hookling | |
| hadron | n | - | strongmote | |
| hafnium | n | - | havenstuff | |
| hagiography | n | - | holilore, holglore (<OE halga) | |
| hallelujah | interj | - | herrigod (calque of Hebrew) | |
| hallucination | n | - | smoke and glass, sightmad. | |
| halophile | n | salt-loving | ||
| hamate bone | n | - | hookbone | |
| hamlet | n | hem, thorpe/thorp/dorp, wick, town, whistle-stop | hemling, ham | |
| harass | vb | harry, bother, stalk, taw, harrow | - | |
| harmony | n | bond, overlay, like-mindedness, togetherness |
est (OE) | |
| harness | vb | inspan | - | |
| harpy eagle | n | - | king's hawk (Port. calque of gavião-real) | |
| hashish | n | - | hemptar | |
| haste | n | speed | - | |
| haunt | vb | hound, stalk, ghost | - | |
| have in common | vb | - | evendeal (<OE efenġedæl) | |
| having a good voice | adj | - | wellstemned (<OE welġestemned) | |
| headphone(s) | n | headset, earspeaker(s) | headspeaker, headswan, earset, earswan | |
| hectare | n | - | hundreder | |
| heir | n | - | erve (<OE ierfa, cf. NHG Erb)
f: ervin | |
| helicopter | n | eggbeater, whirlybird | bladewing(airship), whirlwing, spinning-vanes thyrl (<Ic.), liftspinner (<NHGHubschrauber) | |
| heliotrope | n | - | silewharve (<OE sigelhweorfe) | |
| helium | n | - | sunstuff | |
| helix | n | writhe, twist | double: twofold writhe | |
| helmet | n | helm | grime, beadgrime | |
| hemi- | pref | half-, sam-, sand-, some- | - | |
| hemicircle | n | - | halfring, samring | |
| hemisphere | n | - | worldhalf | |
| hen coop | n | henhouse | - | |
| hepatitis | n | liver-sickness | - | |
| heptagon | n | - | sevenside | |
| herb | n | grass, shrub, wort | wortgrass, wortstalk, wortsmack, wortsmatch
croud (<PG krūdą, cf. NHG Kraut) | |
| herbal (book) | n | - | wortbook | |
| herbicide | n | weedkiller | - | |
| herbivore | n | - | grass-eater, wort-eater | |
| heresy | n | - | dwild (<OE dwild), trewleaseness (<OE tréowléasnes) | |
| heritage | n | bequest, birthright | yerve (<OE ierfe; cf. NHG Erbe) | |
| hermaphrodite | n | - | beddle, newhalf, scrat, scrit, manwoman | |
| hermit | n | loner | lonesettler (cf. NHG Einsielder) | |
|
hero(ïne) | n | white hat |
heleth(in) (<OE hæleð, cf. NHG Held) noble: bearn (<OE beorn) | |
| heroïc deed | n | - | ellenwork (<OE ellenweorc) | |
| heroïsm | n | doughtiness | helethdom (cf. NHG Heldentum) | |
| herpes | n | tetter | - | |
| hesitate | vb | dither | swither | |
| heterogeneous | adj | mixed | - | |
| heterosexual | n | straight | witherdrawn, andlover, andluster | |
| heterosexuality | n | - | andlove, andlust, andkind (cf. Far. samkynd) | |
| hexagon | n | - | sixside | |
| hiatus | n | gap, break | - | |
| hibernal | adj | wintry | ||
| hibernate | vb | winter, overwinter | - | |
| hibiscus | n | rosemellow | - | |
| hick | n | redneck, hillbilly | - | |
| hicksville | n | backtown | - | |
| hideous | adj | awful, dreadful, evil, foul, fulsome, loathsomeunfair sickening, ugly | unfair, uncomely litless (<OE wliteleas) | |
| hippopotamus | n | - | eahorse (cf. NHG Flusspferd) | |
| histology | n | - | lifebricklore, (life)thrumlore (Ar. علم الأنسجة) | |
| historian | n | - | sheedteller (<OE gescēode + teller) | |
| historic | adj | - | sheedly (cf. NHG Geschichtlich) | |
| history | n | yore, yesteryear, timeline |
stear (<OE stǣr) eretide; life tale sheede (<OE gescēode, cf. NHG Geschichte) happenness (cf. Du. geschiedenis), <span >happenlore (cf .Du. geschiedkunde) ancient: firnmind (<OE fyrnġemynd) forline (<W.Fris. ferline) | |
| hodiernal | adj | - | tidely | |
| holocaust | n | death, slaughter, bloodbath | - | |
| hologram | n | - | woven build | |
| homage | n | - | manred < OE manræden (man- + -ræden, suffix used to refer to 'condition', 'state') | |
| homicide | n | murder, manslaughter | - | |
| homily | n | chestnut | lorespell (<OE lárspell), teaching-spell, folklore (<OE folclar, after the Grk 'homilos,' 'crowd') | |
| homogenous | adj | samewise, kindred | stemling, stemsharing | |
| homosexual | n | bender | samelover, sameluster, samekindlover | |
| homosexuality | n | - | samelove, samelust, samekind (cf. Far. samkynd), samekindlove | |
| honest | adj | truthful, upright, forthright, full, open, becoming, frank | lutter (<OE hlutor) | |
| honesty | n | truthfulness, forthrightness; moonwort | lutterness | |
| hono(u)r | n | uprightness,mensk |
ore (<OE ár) deemworthing (<OE dómweorðung) ornament: gling (<OE gleng) indryght (<OE indryhtu) greatness, distinction, celebrity: mearness (<OE mǽrnes) tire (<OE tír) worthfulness, worthing, worthliness, worthmind, worthness, worthship (<OE) mind's-worth seat of: thrimseld (<OE þrymseld), thrimsettle (<OE þrymsetl) special: sunderworthing (<OE sundorweorðung) | |
| hono(u)r | vb | worthy,mensk | mather (<OE mǽðrian)
mear (<OE mǽran) mearse (<OE mǽrsian) o(u)ver (<OE uferian) stepe (<OE stépan) breme (<OE gebréman) meed (<OE gemedemian) ore (<OE geárian) oreworth (<OE geárweorðian) worth (<OE weorðian) | |
| honourable | adj | upright, upstanding,mensk | oreworthy | |
| hooligan | n | rough neck | - | |
| hope of a ressurection | n | - | aristhyght (<OE æristhyht) | |
| horde | n | throng | - | |
| horizon | n | skyline | skyedge; skyfoot, skysill | |
| horizontal | adj | - | flatways, flatwise, warp | |
| hormone | adj | - | spur | |
| horology | n | - | timekeeping seercraft | |
| horrible | adj | awful, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, bloodcurdling, hair-raising, scary |
lathsome, gruring, hettely (<OE heteliċ) grireful | |
| horrify | vb | scare, frighten, | affright | |
| horror | n | awe, dread, fear, fright | grire (<OE gryre, cf. NHG Grauen) | |
| horticulture | n | - | wortcraft | |
| hospice | n | inn | - | |
| hospital | n | sickhouse, leechhouse | healhouse, sickbergh | |
| hospitable | adj | guestfriendly | comelithe (<OE cumliðe), guestly | |
| hospitality | n | guestfriendship,guestfriendliness | - | |
| hostage | n | - | gisel (<OE ġīsel, cf. NHG Geisel) | |
| hostile | adj | foesome, unfriendly, fiendish, fiendlike, | fiendly (<OE fēondliċ, cf. NHG feindlich)
(butfiendish and fiendlike arealready attested) | |
| hostility | n | foehood, unfriendliness, fiendishness | feaghth (<OE fæhþ) pl: feaghtha (<OE fæhþa), fiendliness | |
| hot chocolate | n | bitterbrew | - | |
| hotel | n | guesthouse, inn |
toachirhouse (<OE tōċirhūs) | |
| hour | n | stound, tide | longlog | |
| hourglass | n | sandglass | timeglass | |
| huge | adj | great, big, wide | - | |
| hullabaloo | n | uproar, ado, merry hell, to-do | - | |
| human | n | man, earthling | wordling, soul | |
| human | adj | earthborn | mennishly (<OE mennisclic) | |
| humanitarian | adj | do-good | manworthy | |
| humanity | n | folk, world; kindheartedness, ruth, warmheartedness, mankind | mankin
mennishliness (<OE mennisclicnes) | |
| humanize | n | - |
manthware (<OE ġemanþwærian) | |
| humble | adj | down-to-earth, meek, lowly | - | |
| humerus | n | arm-bone | - | |
| humid | adj | dank, damp, sweltry, sticky, wet | - | |
| humidity | n | wetness, dampness | loftwetness, loftdampness (cf. NHG Luftfeuchtigkeit) | |
| humiliate | vb | cheapen, foul, lower, shame, sink, take down | forhien(<OE forhīenan), anether (<ME anetheren<OE aniþerian), neigh (<OE hnaégan), nither (<OE niðrian) | |
| humiliating | adj | toe-curling, cringe-making | - | |
| humility | n | down-to-earthness, lowiness, meekness | lowlayth, lamblikeness, sackclothness | |
| humourous | adj | funny, witty, side-splitting | - | |
| hurricane | n | gale, whirlwind | - | |
| hurt | vb | harm, scathe, wound | - | |
| husband | n | were (<OE "wer", companion of "wife" lost via ON "husbondi") | ||
| hushed | adj | still, lown (dialect), on the down low | - | |
| hyacinth | n | - | darkbluehurst | |
| hybrid | n/adj | - | thwarsebreed | |
| hydraulics | n | waterworks | - | |
| hydrogen | n | waterstuff (Poul Anderson) | lightmote | |
| hydrotherapy | n | - | waterhealing | |
| hymn | n | hymn, Churchsong | hymn (<OE ymen) Churchsong (<OE Ciricsang) | |
| hyoid bone | n | - | tungbone (NHG Zungenbein) | |
| hyper | adj | overspringed, springy | - | |
| hyperopia | n | far(-)sightedness, long(-)sightedness | ||
| hyphen | n | dash | - | |
| hypnosis | n | bedazzling, spellbinding | - | |
| hypnotise | vb | bedazzle, grip, spellbind | - | |
| hypnotic | adj | bedazzling, gripping, spellbinding
sleepsoothing, sleepy | - | |
| hypocritical | adj | Pecksniffian, double-dealing,
a sham | double-leerer, unecht (cf. NHG. unecht)(see Eng.echt) | |
| hypocrisy | n | double-dealing | unluterness | |
| hypothermia | n | cooling, freezing, frostbite | undercooling (calque from German Unterkühlung) | |
StaffE of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| eager | adj | keen, hungry, yearnsome | - | |
| earphone(s) | n | headset, earspeaker(s) | earset, earswan | |
| ease | n | lightheartedness | eath(Scots) | |
| ease | vb | allay (alay), unburden, unlade, smoothen, sooth, quell | - | |
| easy | adj | smooth, downhill, hands-down, light, not hard, eath, eathy, struggleless*, unburdensome, unwearisome | onefold | |
| eau de toilette | n | - | duft, cride water | |
| ebony | adj/n | blackwood | - | |
| ebullition | n | outburst, flare-up, blowup, frothing | - | |
| eccentric | adj | far-out, crazy, kooky, offbeat, off-the-wall, outlandish, queer, way-out, weird, wild | sparky | |
| eccentric | n | - | sunderling (cf. Du. zonderling, NHG Sonderling) | |
| Ecclesiastes | n | - | The Preacher (Calque of the Heb. קֹהֶלֶת, qōheleṯ) ??preach < FR prêcher !! | |
| ecclesiastical | adj | churchly, church | - | |
| echo(1) | n | - | witherclank, backwave, witherwave, woodmare, windmare (<OE wudu-mær, windu-mær)
verb:wave back | |
| echo
(2) | n | wannabe, shadow | - | |
| eclipse | vb/n | outshine | overshadowing, forshadowing | |
| economics | n | trade, dealing, husbandry | wealthlore, houselore/householdlore (partial calque of Greek), housekeeping | |
| economy | n | wealthdom; cutback | householding (cf. Du. huishouding);
of a nation: landwealth | |
| ecosystem | n | - | lifeweb, lifeworld | |
| ecstatic | adj | athrill, upbeat, beside oneself, blissful | overthrilled | |
| ectoplasm | n | - | outerslime | |
| ecumenopolis | n | - | worldborough | |
| edda | n | hoard, book, lore | weth (<OE woþ), lorebook | |
| edelweiss | n | silver star | athelwhite | |
| edible | adj | eating, fit to eat | eatsome, eatskilled, eatworthy | |
| edifice | n | building, house | outwork (<OE geweorc) | |
| edify | vb | - | intimber (<OE intimbrian) | |
| edifying | adj | teaching, uplifting, mindworthy | - | |
| edit | vb | - | bework (cf. Du. bewerken), by-draft, write, work through | |
| edition | n | output | outlaying,
issue:begiving publication:foropening (cf. NHG veröffenlichung)forlaying (cf. NHG verlegen) | |
| educate | vb | teach, lere (<OE læran, cf. Du. leren, NHG lehren; in OED but obsolete, alt. spelling lear, Scottish leir/leyr); learn (dialectal, stigmatized) |
tee (<OE ateon; cf. NHG erziehen) belearn | |
| educated | adj | learned, well-read | - | |
| education | n | learning, teaching, book-learning | lorecraft, lore
bilding (cf. NHG Bildung) | |
| educator | n | teacher | teer (cf. NHG Erzieher), lorer | |
| educe | vb | outbring, outdraw, draw out, bring out | bespell | |
| -ee | sfx | -end, -ling, -ed | - | |
| effect | n | aftermath, backwash, outcome, upshot; mark, sway | - | |
| effective | adj | handy, good | overtful | |
| effectuate | v | carry out | ||
| effeminate | adj | womanlike, womanly, unmanly | she-like | |
| effervescent | adv | bubbling, bubbly, lively, frothing | - | |
| efficacious | adj | handy, working | - | |
| efficacy | n | handiness | - | |
| effort | n | sweat, while, work | onstronging (calque of many germanic languages)
elbow fat | |
| effrontery | n | shamelessness, brazenness | - | |
| e.g. | abbr. | - | f.b., 'for busen' or 'for byspel' (cf. NHG z.B., zum Beispiel) | |
| egalitarianism | n | - | evenhood, flackhood | |
| egg (only overset if getting rid of ON words too) | n | ey (pl. eyren) | - | |
| ego | n | bighead, pride
psychology: self, I (greek calque)) | - | |
| egocentric | adj | selfish | - | |
| egoïsm | n | selfishness | self-mindedness | |
| egotistic | adj | bigheaded, overweening, proud, stuck-ip | self-minded | |
| egregious | adj | gross, striking | - | |
| egressive | adj | outflowing | - | |
| Egypt | n | - | Two Narrows, Egipt (<OE) Ancient: Blackland, Bankland Niland ("Nile Land") | |
| ejaculate | vb | jizz (slang), cum/come (slang, vulgar) | indrive (<OE indrífan); outseed | |
| eject | vb | cast out, kick out, throw out, turf out | - | |
| elaborate | adj | thorough, thought through | swotel, overwrought | |
| elastic | adj | rubbery, springy, stretchy, stretching, whippy | stretchingly | |
| elate | vb | uplift, stir up | - | |
| elect | vb | choose, wale | - | |
| election | n | choosing | corenness, chosenness (cf. OE corennes) | |
| electric | adj | - | sparkwork(an electrician is often called a 'sparky')
glarum (<OE glærum ... dat. pl. for amber) thundery stream-, streamfed | |
| electrician | n | - | sparksmith | |
| electricity | n | - | streamwork, streaming; sparkflow, lightflow, wattflow, thunderflow, thundermight, thundersprack, ghostfire (Ic.), faraday's candle. | |
| electrocution | n | - | sparkdeath, joltdeath | |
| electromagnetism | n | - | streamloading; sparklodestonedom | |
| electromagnetic | adj | - | streamladen, streamloaded, sparklodestonely | |
| electro-mechanical | adj | - | sparkworkcraftly | |
| electron | n | - | lightbit, sparkling, sparkmote
amberling, glarumod (glarum+od ... see talk) | |
| electronic | adj | - | lightfed; sparklingly, sparkmotely, sparkworkish | |
| elegant(ce) | n/adj | trim(ness), handsome | smicker (<OE smicer) | |
| element | n | - | stuff, firststuff, shaftroot, dealock (<deal, a part, +-ock, diminutive ending, <OE-uc) | |
| elephant | n | tusker | elp, armnoser, limbnoser | |
| elevate | vb | lift, lift up, uppen, hoist, heave up, raise | aloofen | |
| elevation | n | height, loftiness, heaving | - | |
| elevator | n | lift, lifter | - | |
| elite | n | best | (social elite:) swelldom | |
| elite | adj | picky | - | |
| ellipse | n | - | ringshadow, wheelshadow | |
| ellipsis | n | - | outlettingtoken (cf. NHG Auslassungszeichen; may also mean apostrophe)
belettelsetoken (cf. Du. beletselteken) throughdots (cf. Du. doorlooppuntjes) thridots (cf. Eng triple dots) | |
| elocution | n | - | talecraft (OE talu) | |
| elongate | vb | lengthen, stretch | - | |
| eloquent | adj | silver-tongued, well-spoken | cwethel (<OE cwedol)
wordskilled (cf. NHG wortgewandt) | |
| eloquence | n | - | wordskillness, wellspokenness | |
| email (but mail is from a Germanic source) | n/vb | - | wirewrit | |
| emanate | vb | cast, give out, send out | outstreal (cf. NHG ausstrahlen) | |
| emasculate | vb | unman | - | |
| embarrass | vb | faze | - | |
| embassy | n | tidings, news | ||
| embassy (house) | n | - | tidingshouse, newshouse | |
| embody | vb | inbody, inflesh | - | |
| embrace | vb | fathom, hug | beclip, bearm, umgripe, umclip (<OE ymbclyppan) | |
| embroidery | n | needlework, needlecraft | - | |
| embryo | n | - | wightbloom, womb-berry | |
| emerald | adj/n | - | greenhurst | |
| emerge | vb | come up, crop up, spring up | kythe, forthkythe | |
| emergency | n | need | needstand, needfall (cf. NHG Notstand, Notfall) | |
| emigrant | n | - | outgoer, outwanderer | |
| eminence | n | hill, knoll, link, mound, barrow, hurst, down, wold | - | |
| emissary | n | - | offsent (cf. NHG Abgesandte) | |
| emit | vb | forthsend, give out, send out, shine, give off, outsend | - | |
| emotion | n | warmth, white heat, feeling | soulgrip, heartgrip | |
| emotional | adj | heartfelt, overwrought, worked up | - | |
| empathy | n | fellow-feel, samefeel | - | |
| emperor | n | king of kings | highking (cf. Manx ard-ree), Kiser, overlord, highcaser (<OE) | |
| emphasize | vb | underscore, highlight | - | |
| empire | n | - | richdom (<OE ricedom, cf. OHG rihhituom), anweald (<OE), rich, caserdom, rike (<ME); overdom | |
| empiricism | n | - | fandlieving | |
| employ | vb | hire | - | |
| employee | n | underling, hireling, worker, staff | - | |
| employer | n | hirer | workgiver (cf. Du. werkgever, Af. werkgewer) | |
| employment | n | - | hirehood, swinkhood | |
| empress | n | - | highqueen (cf. Manx ard-venrein) | |
| emulate | vb | ape, underfollow | - | |
| emulsion | n | forblending | - | |
| en- | pref |
in-, on-, be- | um- | |
| enable | vb | let | indow | |
| enact | vb | - | umdo | |
| en masse | adv | in bulk | - | |
| en route | phrase | on the way | - | |
| enchant | vb | spellbind; wile, bewitch, hex | - | |
| enchantment | n | bliss; spell, witchcraft, hex | - | |
| enchantress | n | witch | - | |
| encircle | vb | begird, beclip, beset, gird | umwreathe, umring (cf. NHG umringen); set aring, bering | |
| enclose | vb | bound, wrap, pound, pen, hedge, hem in, wall in | umfold | |
| enclosure | n | haw, pen, paddock, field, yard | - | |
| encompass | vb | hold, deal with, take in; ring, girdle | inwreath, umhold, bethring (<OE beþringan) | |
| encounter | vb | meet, live through, undergo | - | |
| encourage | vb | hearten on, mood on, foster, upprop, help, egg on, goad, spur, will on | bield (<OE bieldan), elne < OE elnian) | |
| encouragement | n | - | elning (<OE elnung) | |
| encroachment | n | inroads | - | |
| encryption | n | - | forkeying | |
| encumber | vb | block, burden, hinder | - | |
| encumbrance | n | burden, hindering | - | |
| encyclopedia | n | - | worldkenning, wisdombook (<OE wīsdōmbōc) | |
| encyclopedic | n | all-in, in-depth, thorough | - | |
| endeavour | vb | undertake, seek | inbework | |
| endeavour | n | - | ettel | |
| endoplasmic reticulum | n | - | lifebrick net, lifebrick web | |
| endorse | vb | back up | ||
| endow | vb | gift; underwrite, give | - | |
| endowment | n | knack | - | |
| endure | vb | hold out, thole, dree, abear, withstand, undergo, bear, keep on, put up with, hold through, stand through, bear through | dree (<OE drēogan), thole, raven (<OE ræfnian) | |
| endurance | n | strength, doggedness; lastingness | dreeing, tholing, throughholding, throughbearing, throughstanding | |
| enemy | n | foe, fiend, the other side |
fiendsheathe (<OE fēondsceaða) scathe (<OE scaða) boastful: yelpsheathe (<OE ġielpsceaða) | |
| energy | n |
work, flow, beans, drive feel energetic: feel one's oats | coveness (<OE cāfnes)
dodrive, inwork (calque), spring, go, might, workfire; | |
| enervate | vb | unman, weaken, unsettle, faze | - | |
| enforce | vb | helmstand | - | |
| engaged | adj | working, busy, tied up; betrothed, pledged | ||
| engine | n | means, gearwork, burner | gearwork, iron horse | |
| engineer | n | wright | - | |
| enigma | n | riddle, brainteaser | - | |
| enjoy | n | (intrans.) gladden oneself, have lust;
(trans.)belove | - | |
| enjoyment | n | fun, gladness, happiness, use | brooking (<OE brucan), neeting (<OE neotan, cf. NHG genießen) | |
| enlarge | vb | swell, greaten | forgreaten (cf. NHG vergrößern) | |
| enmity | n | hatred, bitterness, ill will | feaghth/feaght/faught (<OE fæhþ) pl: feaghthe (<OE fæhþa) fiendship (cf. NHG Feindschaft) | |
| ennui | n | boredom, tiredness, listlessness | wanfeeling | |
| enrich | vb | make wealthy, richen ("rich" was semantically influenced by French, but from a native Germanic root) | wealy (<OE weligian "to enrich", derived from welig "rich, wealthy") | |
| enrichment | n | - | wealying (see above) | |
| ensnare | vb | grin (obsolete or dialectal, < OE noun grin akin to grīn "snare") | swarl | |
| ensue | vb | follow, come after | - | |
| ensure | vb | see to it | sicker(Eng.,calque of Ger. speeches)
sickerstell (calque of all Ger. speeches)(seestell) | |
|
enter | vb | go into, come into, step into, begin, in fare data entry: key in, input | feed (cf. Fin. syöttää)
betread (calque of Ger. speeches) | |
| entrance | n | ingang | - | |
| enterprise | n | business, undertaking; readiness, get-up-and-go | underniming | |
| entheogen | n | holyspring | ||
| enthusiasm | n | white heat; keenness, warmth, thrill | bedrivenness, listfulness, lustfulness, fele(lust/list) | |
| entice | vb | draw to, spur, goad, wheedle, sweet talk | forlead (<OE forlǽdan, cf. NHG verleiten) | |
| entire | adj | whole, full; sound, unharmed, without a scratch | - | |
| entirely | adv | fully, thoroughly, outright, wholly, altogether | - | |
| entirety | n | whole, fullness | all-hood, alhood | |
| entrail | n | innard | - | |
| entrance | n | key, doorway, in faring | - | |
| entrance | vb | bewitch, spellbind | - | |
| entreat | vb | - | ||
| entreaty | n | - | ||
| entrepreneur | n | business(wo)man, undertaker | - | |
| entry | n | threshold, way in, gateway, infaring | - | |
| enumerate | vb | - | tell out (cf. NLG uttellen, NHG auszählen), sum up (cf. Du. opsommen) | |
| enunciate | vb | - | outdeal (cf. Sw. uttala) | |
| envelop | vb | shroud, wrap, hide, swaddle | bewrap, inshroud, inwomb, overfathom (<OE oferfaðman) | |
| envelope | n | - | kite <US prison slang, wrapper | |
| envious | adj | - | evestful, andyjealous(<OE andig) | |
| environment | n | setting | umworld (cf. NHG umwelt), umsetting umwerve (<OE 'ymbhwyrft') lifeworld (cf. Du. levenswereld) | |
| envision | vb | foretell, foresee | mindsee | |
| envoy | n | - | gesend (cf. Du gezand, NHG Gesandter)
offgesend (cf. Du afgezand, NHG Abgesandter) | |
| envy | vb | - | evest (<OE æfest) ondyjealous, nithehatred | |
| envy | n | - | nithe (Eng., NHG neid, Du. nijd, Swed, nid),onde | |
| enzyme | n | - | yeaster, yeastuff | |
| ephemeral | adj | fleeting, short-lived | dwimmerly, dwimmerlike | |
| ephemeris | n | - | tunglebook, starbook | |
| epic | n/adj | adj:lofty, high-flown | held (<OE hæleþ) | |
| epicentrum | n | - | heart, middleord | |
| epiglottis | n | - | Over-tongue (calque from greek) | |
| epilepsy | n | falling sickness | - | |
| epilogue | n | afterword | end-speech, endwrit, afterthought, aftertale, last words, end tale | |
| epiphany | n | - | sweetling (<OE sweotolung), atewing;
heavensight, heaventhought; to have an (...): to be heavenstruck | |
| Epiphany | n | - | Sweetlingday (<OE sweotolungdæg), Atewmas (after Christmas, Candlemas, etc.) | |
| episode | n | follow (cf. NHG. Folge) | ||
| epistemology | n | - | Knowledgelore | |
| epistle | n | - | errandwrit (<OE ærendġewrit)pl: errandwriotu (<OE ærendġewriotu) | |
| epithet | n | byname, handle | - | |
| equal | adj | even, alike, same, evenworthy, sameworthy | - | |
| equal | n | match | - | |
| equality | n | fairness; sameness, alikeness, evenness, likeness | - | |
| equanimity | n | steadiness | evenmood | |
| equate | vb | match, even up; offset, liken | - | |
| equation | n | match, likeness | likening (calque), besaming, bematching | |
| equator | n | - | evener (cf. Fr.. evener, Du. evenaar) girdle, midring | |
| equatorium | n | - | stargirdler, starlengthreckoner | |
| equidistant | adj | midway, evenfar | - | |
| Equestria | n | - | Perdland | |
| Equestrian | adj/n | - horsemanship, horse-riding, on-horseback. | Perdlandish, Perden
horsen n: perdlanderpl: perdlandren? | |
| equine | n/adj | steed, horse, stot | adj: horsely | |
| equinox | n | - | evennight (<OE efenniht) | |
| equip | vb | graith, (be)gear, fit (out), gear up, outfit, rig up, beweapon | ryst/rist (<OE hyrstan, cf. NHG rüsten, Du rusten) | |
| equipment | n | gear, graith | outrysting (cf. NHG Ausrüstung, Du
uitrusting) | |
| equitable | adj | evenhanded | - | |
| equivalent | adj | - | samewise, evenworth | |
| equivalent | n | fellow, like, match, withstander |
GainsteckNHG (Gegenstück ) Gainshtickfrom English [gain- + steck] Gain- means "against/again towards"Steckmeans "piece, part". So it means "One who is against my part" | |
| era | n | timespan, time, world, eld | - | |
| eradicate | vb | wipe out | forspill, naughten, uplock (<OE úpálúcan), uproot, wipe out | |
| erase | vb | rub out, root out, wipe out | - | |
| eraser | n | rubber | - | |
| erect | n/vb | upright rear, set up, lift up | aheave (<OE ahebban) | |
| erection | n | 1. building 2. hardon, boner | 1. uprighting | |
| ergo | conj/adv | therefore, thus forthy (att'd < OE for + thy, the instrumental form of the article) | - | |
| erinacine | n | hedgehog | - | |
| eritrocyte | n | - | red bloodmote | |
| ermine | n | stoat, short-tailed weasel | northern weasel | |
| erotic | adj | lovely, lewd, kinky, teasing | - | |
| err | vb | wander | dwole (<OE dwolian, cf Du dwalen) | |
| error | n | dwale, wrong, slip, slip-up, mistake | dwole (<OE dwola), dwoleship (<OE dwolscip) | |
| erupt | vb | flare up, blow up, break out, burst out | - | |
| eruption | n | outburst, outbreak | - | |
| escalator | n | - | ridestairs; smart-stairs | |
| escape | vb/n |
vb: break out, flee, run off; shun, weasel out of n: breakout, flight, getaway, slip; dodging, ducking, shunning |
withfare (<OE wiþfaran) by rowing: outrow (<OE oþrowan) by swimming: outswim (<OE oþswimman) atlimp (<OE ætlimpan) outleap <span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:95%;">(<OE oþléapan) atfare (<OE ætfaran) | |
| escape pod | n | - | fleepod | |
| especially | adv | namely, moreso, above all |
hure (<OE huru) sundrily (cf. OE syndriglice), besunders (cf. NHG besonders, Du. in het bijzonder) | |
| espionage | n | - | sleuthcraft | |
| essay | n | - | spellwrit, lorewriting, lorewise writing | |
| essence | n | nub, heart, kernel, pith, being, whatness, broth, selfhood | wist (<OE),selfship | |
| essential | adj | key, foremost | - | |
| essentially | adv/phr | mostly, all but, all-in-all, as good as, as much as, mainly, at heart, in itself, on the whole, utterly, well-nigh, wholly, soundly, | - | |
| establish | vb | build, begin, settle, install, set up | stathel (<OE staðolian)
beground (cf. NHG begründen) | |
| established | adj | longstanding, well-grounded | statheled
begrounded (cf. NHG begründet) | |
| establishment | n | body, steadiness | statheling, steadihood | |
| establishment (the) | n | - | 'the establishment" : 'the topside' | |
| estate | n | grounds, landholding | ethel | |
| esteem | vb | - | aughten (<OE eahtian, cf. Du./NHG achten) | |
| esteem | n | aught | - | |
| estimate | vb/n | guess; reckoning | shatting (<OE sceatt, cf. Du. schatting, NHG Schätzung, Sw. skattning) | |
| estuary | n | mouth, firth, inlay | - | |
| esurient | adj | hungry, greedy | - | |
| et al.(ia) | phr | and others | - | |
| et cetera | phr | and so on, and so forth, and the like, and others, and what-not | - | |
| eternal | adj | ay, everlasting | - | |
| eternity | n | everness | - | |
| ether | n | - | swail (<OE swegl) | |
| ethic | n/adj | straight, upright | n: lief-walk | |
| ethmoid bone | n | - | sievebone | |
| ethnic group | n | folkstock | - | |
| ethnic minority | n | - | outlandish fellowship | |
| Ethnologie | n | - | Folkken (cf. NHG Völkerkunde)
Folklore | |
| etymology | n | wordlore | brickwordlore | |
| eu- | n | - | bet- ("good" <PG *bataz, cf. "better," "best)
well- (cf. NHG wohl-) | |
| eukaryote | n | - | wholekerneling (cf. Ic. "heilkjörnungar") | |
| euphemism | n | - | mellowword
welltalk (eu- "good" + pheme "talk") | |
| euphonic | wellclang (cf. NHG wohlklang) | |||
| euphoria | n | good-feeling | well-at-burden | |
| Europe | n | - | Eveland, Quildland (quild"evening" <OE cwild(tid) +land, cf. H Ic. Kvöldland and NHG Abendland "Occident") | |
| euthanasia | n | - | death-choosing, wilful death, smoothdeath | |
| evacuate | vb | empty | - | |
| evade | vb | dodge, sidestep | - | |
| evaluate | vb | - | bedeem, bereckon, beworthen, think over, weigh up, look carefully at, sift through | |
| evaluation | n | reckoning | bedeeming (cf. Dn.bedømme), bereckoning, beworthening worthreckoning, worthening | |
| evangelism | n | holy errand | - | |
| evaporate | n | - | yeäthem (<OE ġeæðmian,to raise vapor) | |
| evangelist | n | sendling | - | |
| event | n | happening, hap, befall; show | - | |
| eventually | adv | in time, in the end, at last | outendly ( cf. Du. uiteindelijk),endly | |
| evidence | n | word, witness, truth of | bewise ( cf. NHG. Beweis, Du. bewijs ) | |
| evidently | adv | - | eyeshinely (cf. NHG augenscheinlich, Du. ogenschijnlijk), selfstandingly | |
| evince | vb | bespeak, give away | becouthe | |
| evocative | adj | mindful | eftminding | |
| evoke | vb | awake, call up, bring to mind, stir up | eftmind | |
| evolution | n | unfolding | forblowing | |
| evolutionary | adj | unfolding | forblowing | |
| evolve | vb | grow, unfold, bloom | forblow | |
| ex– | pref | fore-, out- | ere- | |
| exact | adj | - | narrowkiry (cf. Du. nauwkeurig)
ynauw (<OE ge- + hnēaw, cf. NHG genau) | |
| exactly | adv | rightly | narrowkirily | |
| exaggerate | vb | overplay, overdo, | overdrive (calque of many Germanic languages) | |
| exaggeration | n | - | overblowing, whid, overdriving | |
| exalt | vb |
uplift, heighten |
upraid (<OE úpábregdan) aheave (<OE ahebban) hee <span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:95%;">(<OE héan) | |
| examine | vb | go over, con | underseek/underseech (<OE/ also in regards tobeseech)
undersecan, cf. NHG untersuchen and Du. onderzoeken) | |
| example | n | - | busen (<OE bysen)pronounced 'bisen',
byspel (<OE bispell, cf. NHG Beispiel), [even though byspel is not attested, it has been seen in some writing off and on.] bispel(with "i" instead of "y" as it feels like it would naturally happen) model:forebeeld (NHG. vorbild.) [beeld(<Scot/Du.)] showing; showdeal, showoff | |
| example (for) | n | thus, | for byspel, for bisen; for showing | |
| exaptation | n | kludging | - | |
| exasperate | vb | imbitter | tire (<OE tirgan) | |
| excavate | n | delve, unearth, hollow out, dig up | - | |
| excavation | n | delving, unearthing, digging up | - | |
| exceed | vb | outreach, outrun, overrun, overstep; outdo, outshine, overtop | - | |
| excel | vb | outdo, outshine, overtop |
in brightness: overlight (<OE oferlīhtan) in stature: overlyve [pronounced overlaɪv] (<OE oferhlīfian) | |
| excellent | adj | outstanding, gilt-edged, swell, topping, wonderful | highcraft (<OE heáhcræft) | |
| except | prep | but, other than | - | |
| exception | n | standout, outstander, outtake | - | |
| exceptional | adj | outstanding | - | |
| excerpt | n | - | outpull (cf. NHG Auszug), offcut, snippet | |
| excessive | adj | overmuch, steep, sharp, rank, overdone, too much | overdeedy (cf. Du. overdadig ) | |
| excessively | adv | overly, too much, too | - | |
| exchange | vb | swap, wrixle |
bewrixle (<OE bewrixlan) | |
| excise | vb | snithe, cut out | - | |
| excite | vb | upedge, thrill, key up | upwake (cf. Du. opwekken )upwind (cf. Du. opwinden ) | |
| exciting | adj | thrilling, gripping, spellbinding | - | |
| exclamation mark | n | outrooptoken (cf. NHG ausrufezeichen)
loudtoken | ||
| exclude | vb | outshut | - | |
| excommunication | vb | - | amonsuming (<OE ámánsumung) | |
| excoriate | vb | chide, flay | threap | |
| excrement | n | shit | shittle (<OE scytel) | |
| excursion | n | outing | - | |
| excuse | vb | forgive |
offsake (<Ic. af-saka) Unshild (<NHG. entschuldigen) seeshild | |
| ex-directory | adj | unlisted | - | |
| execute | vb | kill, quell, slay, put to death |
carry out: affen (<OE æfnan) past' subjunctive: affnen | |
| executioner | n | halseman | hangman, deathman, headsman, headman | |
| exemplar | n | template:
forelay (cf. NHG vorlage)forebeeld (cf. NHG vorbild, Du. voorbeeld)(beeld <Scots, Du.) | ||
| exempt | vb | - | outnim (cf. NHG ausnehmen, Du. uitnemen), outtake | |
| exercise | vb/n | work out | vb:ove (<PG ōbijaną cf. Du. oeveren, NHG üben),n:oving | |
| exert | vb | put forth, bestir | - | |
| exhale | vb | breathe out | athem (<OE æðmian) | |
| exhaust | vb | overwork, wear out, forspend, tire | - | |
| exhausted | adj | tired, weary, worn out, drained, overtired, work-wearied, fordone, windless | - | |
| exhaustive | adj | all-out | - | |
| exhaustive | adj | thoroughgoing | groundly (cf. Du. grondig, NHG gründlich ) | |
| exhibit | vb | show | - | |
| exhume | vb | dig up, unearth | - | |
| exile | vb | send away, outlaw, blackball, blacklist | - | |
| exile | n | outcast, outlaw, castaway | wraxlithe (<OE wræcslíþ) | |
| exist | vb | be, live | bestand (<OE gestandan; cf. NHG 'bestehen', Du 'bestaan'),
forelie (cf. NHG vorliegen) | |
| existence | n | thingness | therehood, wist (<OE wist), being, therebeing, therestanding, worldliness | |
| existent | adj | living | wesand (<OE)
forelying (cf. NHG vorliegend) | |
| exit | n | way out, outway, | outgang (Eng./ cf. Du. uitgang NHG ausgang ) | |
| exit | vb | leave, move out of, go out | abandon:forlet (cf. Du. verlaten NHG verlassen ) | |
| exotic | vb | outlandish | elthedish, farlandish | |
| expand | vb |
broaden, greaten, spread (out), unfold, widen | theen/then (<OE þennan, cf. NHG dehnen, Du. dennen, ON þenja, L tendere)
braid out (cf. Du. uitbreiden) | |
| expanse | n | spread, reach, broadening | outstretching (cf. Du uitgestreking, NHG. ausgestreckung) | |
| expect | vb | hope for, watch for, foresee | ween, awatch, forwatch (cf. Fr ferwachtsje, Du verwatch) | |
| expectation | n | - | waiting-for (William Tyndale), weening | |
| expectorate | vb | spit | - | |
| expedient | n | makeshift, stopgap | - | |
| expedite | vb | hurry, quicken | - | |
| expedition | n | outing | outfooting | |
| expeditious | adj | fast, quick, swift, speedy | - | |
| expel | vb | drive out, throw out | fordrive (<OE fordrifann) | |
| expenditure(s) | n | outgoing(s), dole out(s) | - | |
| expenses | n | overheads, dole outs | - | |
| expensive | adj | dear, dearbought, unthrifty | - | |
| experience | vb | undergo, go through, uplive | afand, afare (cf. NHG erfahren) | |
| experience | n | bad: ordeal | afanding, afaring (cf. NHG Erfahrung) | |
| experienced | adj | wise, learned, well-read | afanded, hired, afared | |
| experiment | vb | fand, bid | fanding (cf. OE afundennes) | |
| experiment | n | fanding, bidding | ||
| experimental | adj | fanding, bidding | ||
| expert | n | dab | fieldknowers(calque) | |
| expertise | n | know-how, skill | - | |
| expiate | vb | atone | - | |
| expiration date | n | sell-by | - | |
| explain | vb | spell out, unriddle, unfold | sweetle (<OE sweotolian) | |
| explanation | n | atelling | sweetling (<OE sweotolung) | |
| explicit | n | outfold | - | |
| explode | vb | burst, toburst, blow up | ||
| exploit | vb | overwork | outnote (cf. NHG ausnutzen)
outbooty (calque of many germanic lang.) | |
| exploitation | n | - | bedraining
outnoting outbootying (calque of many germanic lang.) | |
| explore | vb | delve, look into | rose/roase (<OE rasian), outfare | |
| explorer | n | pathfinder, foregoer, forerunner, groundbreaker | - | |
| explosive | n | - | fireshot, tinderstuff, blasttinder, springstuff, firespringer, burster | |
| exponent(iate) | n/vb | - | mightsfold | |
| export | vb | outsend | - | |
| expose | vb | nail, show up; bare: lay out | - | |
| exposé | n | - | shendful outlaying | |
| exposition | n | - | outstelling (cf. NHG ausstellung) | |
| expound | vb | flesh out | - | |
| express | vb | utter, say, word, outspeak, | one's feelings:thrutch out/outthrutch (cf. NHG ausdrücken) | |
| expression | n | - | uttering; swettling; sainess, sayness (<OE gesegnes, cf Du.gezegde) | |
| expressive | adj | outspoken | ||
| expulsion | n | outcast, driving out, throwing out, banning | - | |
| extant | adj | lasting, still-living, still being, still going, keeping on | - | |
| extend | vb | lengthen, outstretch |
outbraid/braid out (cf. Du. uitbreiden) awiden (cf. NHG erweitern) | |
| extend for | vb | span | - | |
| extension | n | furthering | - | |
| extensive | adj | broad, deep, far-reaching, fulsome, far-flung, sweeping, wide, widespread | - | |
| extensively | adv | fulsomely, wholesale | - | |
| extent | n | length, breadth, reach | outmete (cf. NHG Ausmaß) | |
| exterior | n/adj | adj: outer; n: shell, outside | - | |
| exterminate | vb | wipe out, kill all | - | |
| external | adj | outward, outer | - | |
| extinct | adj | dead, gone, lost | outdead/outstarve (cf. NHG aussterben; Du. uitgestorven; Eng. to die out) | |
| extinction | n | death, doom, knell, wiping out, dying out | outdying/outstarving | |
| extinguish | vb | douse, dout, put out, quench | acwench (<OE ácwencan), adrech (cf. OE ádrysnan) | |
| extra | adj | spare, more, more other(s), more else, othermore | - | |
| extra time | n | overtime | - | |
| extract | vb | take out, draw out, pull out, pluck, unearth, harvest, worm out | - | |
| extraordinary | adj | amazing, outstanding, dazzling, astounding, awesome |
- | |
| extrapolate | v | draw out | - | |
| extraterrestrial | adj | - | farlander | |
| extravagance | n | wanthrift | - | |
| extreme | adj | utmost | outermost (IE cognate) | |
| extrinsic | adj | outborn, outly | - | |
| extrovert | adj | backslapper, glad-hander | outgoer (cf. Eng. outgoing) | |
| extroverted | adj | outgoing | - | |
| exuberant | adj | outgoing, sparkling | - | |
| exultation | n | glee | highting (<OE hyhting) | |
| exuviate | vb | shed, cast off, slough | - | |
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Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested/Obsolete | |||
| fable | n | tale, wonder-tale | byquide (<OE bigcwide) | |
| fabric | n | cloth,argmt: shell, framework | thrum (<OE) | |
| fabricate | vb | bring into being, build, make, put together, run up, set up, shape; think up, write; lie, make up | - | |
| fabulous | adj | groovy, amazing, sterling, top-shelf, wonderful | - | |
| facade | n | foreside, forehead; outer-skin, put-on, show | - | |
| face | n | shell, cast, side, foreside | anatomy:
leer (<OE hléor) | |
| facet | n | side, bearing | - | |
| facetious | adj | biting, tung-in-cheek, sharp-witted, salty, smart, witty | - | |
| facilitate | vb | easen | - | |
| fact | n | truth | deedsake (cf. NHG Tatsache) | |
| fact, in | phr | indeed, in truth | soothly | |
| factor | n | building block | - | |
| factory | n | - | buildworks worksmithy (cf. Ic. verksmiðja) | |
| faculty | n | - | lorehalldeal | |
| fad | n | hit, brainstorm | - | |
| fade | vb | dwindle, wane | sear | |
| fæces | n | shit, shite, stool, dirt, dung | - | |
| faggot | n | - | stickbind, stickfasten, stickbundle | |
| faience | n | - | tin-glazed earthenware | |
| fail | vb | fizzle, flop, flunk | trock (<OE trucian), swether | |
| failure | n | oversight, blunder, washout | trockness (<OE trucian), swethering | |
| faint | vb | swoon, flake out, black out | - | |
| fair | n | hoppings | - | |
| fairy | n | elf | - | |
| fairytale | n | - | elvinrime | |
| fait accompli | n | done deed, done deal, fulfilled, carried out, (thing) over and done | - | |
| faith | n | belief, troth, trow | lief (<OE lēafa) | |
| faithful | adj | down-the-line, fast, good, steadfast, steady, true-blue | trowful
liefful (<OE ġelēafful) | |
| faithfulness | n | - | lieffulness (<OE ġelēaffulnes) pl: lieffulnessa (<OE ġelēaffulnessa)
trowfulness | |
| faith, to have | vb | trust, lief | trow | |
| falcon | n | - | falk (cf. Dan./Now./Swed. Falk, Du. valk, NHG. Falke) | |
| fallacy | n | - | untrue/wrong/unsound rake | |
| fallible | adj | unsound, wanting | - | |
| false | adj | lease, off, unsound, untrue, wrong; sham; crooked; flicke; misdealing, misleading | - | |
| falsely accuse | vb | - | forwray (<OE forwregan) | |
| fame | n | name, wellstanding, stardom, limelight, greatness |
breme (<OE) reem (<OE hrēmiġ; cf. NHG Ruhm, Du. roem) reth (<OE hreþ) | |
| familiar | adj | friendly, inward, near, thick, tight; abreast; household | hewcouth (<OE hiwcuþ)
forwildering (as unlike bewildering) | |
| family | n | kin, kindred, kinfolk, ilk, sib | ilk, inherd, kneeris (<OE cnēoris) pl: kneerissa (<cnēorissa) | |
| family household | n | - | hewreaden (<OE hiwræden) | |
| famine | n | dearth, hunger | - | |
| famished | adj | hungry, starving, hunger-bitten | - | |
| famous | adj | well-known, couth | bereemed (cf. NHG berühmt, beroemt)
beknown (cf. NHG bekannt) breme (<OE brēme) | |
| fan | n | lover, nut | device: blower, waffer, waffend
enthusiast: fultumer (<OE: fultum, support) bewonderer (cf. Du. bewonderaar) | |
| fanatic | n | hardnose | - | |
| fanaticism | n | - | ellentroth | |
| fancy | n | liking, longing, bent, flighty thought, daresay, brainwave | - | |
| fancy | adj | showy | - | |
| fantastic | adj | wonderful | - | |
| fantasy | n | daydream, dreamland, dreamworld, dreamscape, (genre) wonder-tales | mindwonder; wonder flight | |
| farce | n | take-off, dry-wit | - | |
| farrago | n | mash, mashing, all-kinds-of | sundrying | |
| fasces | n | bundle | - | |
| fascia | n | strip. band | - | |
| fascism | n | - | bundlerikedom | |
| fascist | adj/n | - | bundlerike
n:bundleriker | |
| fascinate | vb | bewitch, spellbind, draw, fire, inthrall, eyebite (cited by Richard Chenevix Trench) | - | |
| fascinated | adj | inthralled, bewitched, spellbound | - | |
| fashion | vb | fit, put, shape; frame | hue (<OE hiwian), fangle | |
| fashion | n | trend, way | fangle | |
| fashionable | adj | coolslang, trendy; crowd-pleasing | - | |
| fastidious | adj | choosy, picky | - | |
| fatal | adj | deadly | - | |
| fatal wound | n | - | wealben (<OE wælbenn)pl: wealbenna (<OE wælbenna) | |
| fatamorgana | n | - | loftglass | |
| fate | n | doom,lot
weirdmeaning was skewed by Shakespear's Weird Sisters, revived after dying as a word meaning "destiny" | wyrd (<OE), orlay (<OE orlæg) | |
| fatigue | n | frazzle, tiredness, weariness | - | |
| fatuous | adj | brainless, half-witted, thickheaded | - | |
| fault | n | shortcoming, want, weakness; mistake, oversight, trip; pockmark, misstep, |
dwild (<OE),Shild (Eng.) (<ME schuld, OE scyld, cf. NHG./Du. Schuld) | |
| fauna | n | wildlife | deerworld, wightlife | |
| faux-pas | n | mistake, misstep, slipup | fake-step (Calque of the French) | |
| favor | n | kindness, blessing; one-sideness, shine | hild, milts (<OE) | |
| favourable | adj | bright, golden, heartening, hopeful | belikening, fair-boding | |
| favourite | adj | beloved, darling, fair-haired, fond, loved, sweet, white-headed; choses, handpicked; crowd-pleasing | fondmost; belikened | |
| feasible | adj | likely, doingly, seemingly, timely, welltimed, wieldly, worthwhile | howingly (<OE hogian: plan) | |
| feast | n | feed, spread; wealth | simble (<OE symbel) | |
| Feast day (religious) | n | - | simbleday (<OE symbeldæg) | |
| Feast of the Cross | n | Holy Rood Day | - | |
| Feast of the Transfiguration | n | - | Forhallowing Day | |
| feat | n | deed, stroke | ||
| feature | n | shape, look, make, mark | - | |
| February | n | - | Mudmonth (< OE), Filibrook, Solmonth, Horningmonth | |
| feckless | adj | bootless, hamstrung | - | |
| federal | adj | - | kernelish, rikebandish | |
| federation | n | - | gathertang (<OE gadertang), rikeband | |
| feeble | adj | weak | - | |
| fee simple | n | freehold | - | |
| feign | vb | sham, put on | - | |
| feint | n | blind, hoodwinking, put-on, red herring | - | |
| felicitate | vb | hug | - | |
| feline | adj | pusslike, catlike | carlcatlike, queencatlike | |
| felony | n | - | headsin, deathshild (<OE dēaþscyld) | |
| female | n | quean, lady, wifekind, she-kind (pre: she-) | frow (<OE frōwe, cf. NHG Frau) | |
| feminazi (slang) | n | - | she-fiend | |
| feminine | adj | - | wifely (<OE wíflic, NHG weiblich)
shesome | |
| feminism | n | - | wifehoodness, queanhoodness, shehoodness | |
| feminist | n | - |
wifehooder, shehooder, queanhooder | |
| femto (-byte) | pref | fifteen- | - | |
| femur | n | thigh bone | - | |
| fence | n | waugh, hedge, sundering | - | |
| fend (off) | vb | ward off, hold off, keep off | - | |
| fender | n | shield, windshield, hob; midriff | - | |
| fennec | n | - | dryland fox | |
| feodalism | n | - | flack fellowship | |
| feral | adj | wild, untamed, running mad, tameless | - | |
| feric | adj | ironlike | - | |
| feriferous | adj | - | iron-yielding, ironbear, ironbere | |
| ferment | n/v | n:barm, yeast
v:yeast | - | |
| ferocious | adj | fiendish, mad, grim, warlike, wild, frothing | - | |
| ferret | n | - | neasle | |
| ferret | vb | hound, harry, seek out | nease (<OE neosian) | |
| Ferris wheel | n | big wheel | - | |
| fertile | n | fallow, yielding, loamy | wastombear | |
| fervent | adj | glowing, warm-blooded | - | |
| fester | vb | burn, rot, weep, blain | - | |
| festival | n | holiday | guild (<OE gield), frealsing | |
| festive | adj | festlike, cheery, grooving, upbeat, hearty, merry, gleeful | frealsing | |
| festoon | n | - | wreathe | |
| festoon | vb | deck, trim, doll up | clad up | |
| fetid | adj | smelly, stenchy, rank | - | |
| fetish | n | - | kink, overlust | |
| feudal | adj | toll-run, feeholding, lendship | - | |
| feud | n | foe-fighting, bad blood, ill-feeling | - | |
| fever | n | ail, sickness | driff, rithing (<OE), raised body heat, to be burning up | |
| fiancé | n | betrothed, husband-to-be | forloved (<NHG verlobter) | |
| fiancée | n | betrothed, wife-to-be | forloved (<NHG verlobter) | |
| fiasco | n | out-and out breakdown, full-blight, misdeal | - | |
| fibre/fiber | n | bristle, thread; backbone, grit, guts, pluck | thrum | |
| fibula | n | calf bone, bow pin | - | |
| fiction | n | - | umtruth, playtruth | |
| fictional | adj | made up | ||
| fidelity | n | faithfullness, troth | heldrede (<OE hyldræden) | |
| figment | n | daydream | dwimmer | |
| figure | n | - | gestelld (cf. NHG Gestalt), anseen (<OE ansien), beaconing (<OE bycnung) | |
| figure out | vb | riddle, work out | - | |
| filings | n | - | swarf | |
| filter | n/vb | sieve, sift, winnow, trawl | - | |
| final | adj | last, rearmost, hindmost; flat, frozen, hard, set, settled, endmost | - | |
| finale | n | ending, showdown | - | |
| finally | adv | at last, endily, endly,
in the end, | - | |
| finance | n | thrift | geltlore, geltwist (cf. NHG geldwesen, Du. geldwezen) | |
| fine (payment) | n | bote | - | |
| fine | n/adj |
dusty, finespun, hairline; neat, straight, spot-on; four-star; keen, sharp; tasteful; adv: all right, good, middlingly |
sifer, swotel n: lawslight | |
| finish | vb | end, fullcome | beend (be-end) (cf. NHG beenden) | |
| finish | n | ending | - | |
| finished | adj | ready, done | ||
| fireplace | n | hearth | - | |
| firm | adj | fast, bound, unyielding, stalwart | - | |
| firmament | n | blue, heaven(s), high, welkin |
swail, rother (<OE), heaven-wheel (<OE), beaten-stretch (more literal to Biblical 'raqia') | |
| fiscal | adj | - | gelth | |
| fissure | n | crack, split, cleft | chine (<OE chin) | |
| fix | vb/n | fasten(ing), right, work overhaul | - | |
| fixed | adj | given, fast, fastened | - | |
| flaccid | adj | limp | - | |
| flagellate | n | lash, leather, rawhide | - | |
| flagellum | n | whip | - | |
| flame | n | blaze, fire, fire-shoot, lowe | - | |
| flamingo | n | - | stiltswan, fireswan | |
| flange | n | rim | - | |
| flask | n | - | flax (<OE flaxe/flasce) | |
| flatulence | n | wind | - | |
| flavour | n | tang, smack, smatch | - | |
| flax | n | - | linwort | |
| Flensburg | n | - | Flensburgh | |
| flexible | adj | lithe, bendy, limber, bendfull, bendsome, bowsome | - | |
| flexibility | n | limberness | bendfullness (<OE bendfulnes) | |
| flight-hooligan | n | flight-dretch | ||
| flinch | vb | draw back, wince, hang back, reel, shy, blench | - | |
| flirt | vb | eye-tease, eye play | - | |
| floccinaucinihilipilificate | vb | deem worthless | - | |
| flora | n | green | bloomlife, wortlife | |
| Florence | n | - | Fairburgh (cf. Ic. Fagurborg) | |
| floss | n/vb | thread | tooththread | |
| flour | n | meal | - | |
| flourish | vb | bloom, blossom | forblow (OE blowan, NHG blühen) | |
| flower | n | bloom, blossom | bloostem (<OE blōstm) | |
| fluctuate | n | swing | - | |
| fluent | adj | flowing, smoothspoken | - | |
| fluorescent | adj | leaming | flowglowing | |
| fluorine | n | - | flowstuff | |
| flux | n | flowing | outierning (<OE ūtiernung)pl: outiernyga (<OE ūtiernunga) | |
| flying buttess | n | - | loftbow (cf. Du. luchtboog) | |
| focus | n | eye; lodestar | fuster (< OE fustra) | |
| focus | v | fix; spotlight | ||
| folly | n | dullness, unwisdom, witlessness, boneheadedness | wanwit, dullship, stuntness, fleard, oodness, unwareship, sotship, | |
| fondant | n | frosting, icing | - | |
| fondue | n | - | smeltcheese | |
| font | n | - | casting | |
| fool | n/adj | dotty, half-baked; sucker; halfwit, bonehead, meathead | narr (cf. other Germ. langs.) | |
| fool's gold | n | mullock | - | |
| foolhardy | adj | brash, bold, headlong, heedless, hot-headed, daring, daresome, reckless | - | |
| footprint | n | footmark | footspoor, trod, last, footlast | |
| force | n'/vb" | strength, dint, might, thring; thrust, shove, pull |
thrack (<OE þracu) military: manfulltume (<OE manfultum) heavenly: heavenmaiën (<OE heofonmæġen) "vb:" twing (<NHG zwingen) | |
| forceps | n | tongs | - | |
| forcible | adj | strong-arm | - | |
| foreign | adj | new, | Welsh (<OE wealh + -ish), farborn, outlandish
Fremd (English but seldom), ellendish (<MEelendish, ellendish, <OE elelendisc) | |
| foreign country | n | farland, faraway land, outland | althede, elland (<OE eleland, elland) | |
| foreigner | n | outlander, outsider | farlander, fremd-folk
Fremdling (NHG. Fremdling) Fremder | |
| forest | n | wald, weald, wood(land), woods, holt, frith, timberland | - | |
| forester | n | woodward, woodsman | frither (cf. NHG Förster) | |
| forestry | n | - | woodward-craft, firthery | |
| forficula | n | earwig | forky tail, clipshear | |
| forge | vb/n |
get along; carve out, grind out, thrash out, work up; beat, draw, pound n: smithy, hammermill | - | |
| form | n | shape | hue (<OE hiwian) | |
| form | vb | shape, make, begin, build | maithwlite (<OE mǣġþwlitian)
bilth (<OE biliþ, cf. NHG bilden, Du beelden) | |
| formal | adj | starchy, stiff-necked, stilted; lofty, high-flown | - | |
| formation | n | setting up, shaping, building, making | forestalling | |
| formatted | n | shaped | - | |
| formidable | adj | stalwart | - | |
| formula | n | 1. draft | 2. leechwrit, spellwrit | |
| fornication | n | - | dernledging (<OE diernlicgan) | |
| fort(ress) | n | keep, stronghold, fastness | hillwark | |
| fortification | n | stronghold | umthrimming (<OE ymbtrymming)
befastening (calque) | |
| fortitude | n | backbone, grit, grittiness, pluck | ellen, strength | |
| fortune | n | hap, luck | - | |
| forum | n | moot, soapbox | mootstow (<OE mótstów) | |
| fossil | n/adj | forbone | stonelaves (stone remains)adj: stonelave | |
| fotanelle | n | mould | - | |
| found | vb | ground, build, begin, settle | - | |
| founder | n | forenunner; father of; begetter. | groundlayer (cf. Dutch, grondlegger, cf. Norw. grunnlegger) statheller/statheler (<OE staþolian + NE -er) | |
| foundation | n | groundwork, staddle | groundlaying (<NHG, Danish)stathel (<OE staþol) | |
| fountain | n | cradle, root, seedbed, wellspring, bourn, burn head: headspring | springwell, springbourn (cf. NHG Springbrunnen) | |
| foyer | n | waiting room | - | |
| fraction | n | share, lot, deal, breaking | - | |
| fracture | n/vb | break | - | |
| fragile | adj | brittle, weak | brokenly (<OE brocenlic) | |
| fragment | n | thrum, scrap, shatters, sherd | breakdeal | |
| fragmentation | n | - | forcleaving | |
| framboise | n | raspberry | - | |
| francophone | adj | French-speaking | ||
| franchise | n | line | - | |
| France | n | Frankland | ||
| fraternal | adj | brotherly | - | |
| fraternity | n | brotherhood | - | |
| fraud | n | swindle | overcraft (<OE ofercræft), lot | |
| fray | vb | frazzle | - | |
| frenzy | n | madness | hestmadness | |
| French | adj/n | Francish( of the tung and adjective ), Franklander( of the people ) | ||
| frequency | n | oftenness | - | |
| frequent | vb/adj | hang at;adj: everyday, household | simble (<OE) | |
| frequently | adv | often, over and over | - | |
| fresco | n | - | chalkmealing | |
| fresh | adj | frim, new | - | |
| freshwater | adj | - | sweetwater | |
| fresh water | n | - | sweetwater | |
| fricative | adj | rubclank | - | |
| friction | n | rubbing | - | |
| fringe | n | edge, outskirt | - | |
| front | n | fore, afore, foreside | - | |
| frontal bone | n | - | foreskull, forebone | |
| frontier | n | region: backlands, backwater, backwoods, bush, hinterland, outback | mire (<OE mære) | |
| fructose | n | - | berrysweet | |
| fruit | n | -apple, -berry, seed, spawn; output, work, yield, | blead,ovest (cf. Du. ooft, NHG Obst)
wastum (<OE wæstm) | |
| fruitful | adj | lush | wastomly (<OE wæstmlic) | |
| fruitfulness | n | - | wastombereness | |
| frustrate | vb | thwart | - | |
| fucacae | n | seaweed | float-wort, seawrack | |
| fuel | n | - | firefod (<OE fyrfoda) | |
| fugitive | n | runaway, lamster | flightling, wrack (< OE wræcca) | |
| fulcrum | n | shaft, heart, swivel | - | |
| fulfilment | n | fulfilling | - | |
| fuliginous | adj | sooty, grimy, blackish, darkish, dusty, emberlike, cinderly, ashlike, coomy | - | |
| fulminate | n | huff | - | |
| fumigate | vb | - | bereak (<berēocan) | |
| fun | vb | play | ||
| function | n | work | brooking (<OE brucing) workgoal | |
| functional | adj | working | - | |
| fund | n | nest egg; wherewithal; stock | groundfest | |
| fundament | n | groundwork | - | |
| fundamental | adj | underlying, innermost, key, | groundlaying (<NHG, Danish),needmickle (<OE nidmicel) | |
| funeral | n | burial | begraving, beearthing (cf. NHG beerdigung) | |
| fungus | n | - | swamb (<OE swamm) | |
| funk | n | dank | - | |
| furnace | n | oven | - | |
| furniture | n | fittings, roomware, houseware | - | |
| fuse | n | meld, cleave | forsmelt | |
| futile | adj/n | worthless | fremeless | |
| future | n | by-and-by, hereafter, offing, forthcomingness | forthshaft (<OE forðgesceaft),
towardness (<OE tōweardnes) pl': towardnessa (<OE tōweardnessa), fromtide (cf. IC framtíð) | |
| future | adj | forthcoming, upcoming, incoming, unborn |
forthtimenear and far | |
StaffI of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested (In modern usage) | Unattested/Obsolete | |||
| ibex | n | - | stonebuck (<NHG Steinbock) firyenbuck (<OEfirgenbucca) | |
| -ic/ -ical | sfx | -ish, -some, -ly | - | |
| ice age | n | - | ice eld | |
| ice skates | n | - | sleighshoes/sledshoes/shritheshoes/slideshoes (cf. NHG Schlittschuh) | |
| iceberg | n | - | icebarrow, iceberry | |
| icthyology | n | - | fishlore | |
| idea | n | mind's eye; dream, mark; understanding, belief, thought, clue | thought-drop.
ettling; plan: howe (<OE hogian) | |
| identical | adj | alike, selfsame, akin, same; even | - | |
| identify | vb | finger, betoken | - | |
| identity | n | sameness; selfhood | whoness, whohood | |
| ideology | n | belief | thoughtset, thoughtthede | |
| idiosyncrasy | n | quirk | - | |
| idolize | vb | worship, look up to, bow down before | - | |
| idiom | n | - | folkword, folkwording | |
| idiot | n |
blockhead, clot, dumbbell, | dwease (<OE dwæs) | |
| idol | n | god | wigh (<OE. wīġ) offgod (cf. NHG Abgott, OE. afgod) | |
| idolatry | n | worshipping | wighworthing (<OE wīġweorþung) | |
| idolize | vb | worship, look up to, bow down before | - | |
| i.e. | abbrev. | t.i. ~ that is | - | |
| -ify | afx | be-, -en | -ledge (<OE -læcan) | |
| igloo | n | - | icehouse | |
| ignis fatuus | n | will-o-the-wisp | wander light (cf. Du dwaallicht) | |
| ignite | vb | fire, tend, set alight | latch fire | |
| ignorance | n | benightedness, shunning, heedlessness, thoughtlessness, carelessness | shunhood, nitenness (<OE nytennes) | |
| ignorant | adj | benighted, unaware, unlearned, unread, untaught | - | |
| ignore | vb | unheed, forget, overlook, slight, slur over, | - | |
| iguana | n | - | combask (cf. Du. "kamhagedis") | |
| ilium | n | - | flankbone | |
| ill-conceived | adj | - | ill-howed | |
| illegal | adj | unlawful, lawless, outlawed | unlet | |
| illegalise | vb | outlaw | - | |
| illegitimate | adj | misbegotten, unfathered, born out of wedlock, ill-gotten, unrightful | - | |
| illuminate | vb/n | brighten, shed light on; bathe, beacon, inlighten; unriddle; foreground, highlight | belighten, onlight, forlighten | |
| illusion | n | daydream; misbelief, old wives' tale | dwild, dwimmer, brainshade (cf. Du. hersenschim) | |
| illustrious | n | - | thrymfast/thrimfast (<OE þrymfæst) | |
| image | n | look alike, ringer, twin: likeness; mind's eye | bilth (<OE biliþe, cf. NHG. Bild, Du.
beeld), seen | |
| imagination | n | mind's eye, fathoming | moodseave (<OE módsefa), fathomhood
inbilthing (cf. NHG Einbildung) | |
| imaginative | adj | thoughtful | weenful, infinding | |
| imagine | vb | fathom, see | reckon(dialect), ween (<OE wénan) | |
| imitate | vb |
ape; copy: follow on the footsteps of, take a leaf out of (someone's) book | hure (<OE hȳrian)
pinchbeck, enliken | |
| imitation | n | - | likeness, fakery | |
| immanent | adj | inbuilt, handwired, inbred | - | |
| immature | adj | callow, youthful, green, flaw, unripe, childish | - | |
| immediately | adv | forthwith, headlong, straight away (straightaway), henceforth, at once, now, right now | swithsoon, ayenow, rath(er)
eyeblinkly (cf. NHG augenblicklich)(see Eng.eyeblink) | |
| immense | adj | - | earm (<OE eormen)
unametely (<OE unámetenlic) | |
| immigrant | n | comer, incomer, newcomer, settler | inwanderer (Eng., cf. NHG. Einwanderer, Nw. invandrare) | |
| immigration | n | inwandering (cf. NHG Einwanderung) | ||
| imminent | adj | one the way, near-at-hand, nearing, forthcoming, oncoming, upcoming; threatening | unfrothering (cf. Du. onveranderlijk, NHG. unveränderlich) | |
| immoral | adj | dark, evil, rotten, sinful, wicked, wrong, unripe, unfledged, babyish |
thewless, gyltsome | |
| immortal | adj | deathless; everlasting, undying | - | |
| immune (to) | adj | unfazed (by) | - | |
| immutable | adj | fixed, hard-and-fast | unwending | |
| impact | n | crash, strike, wallop: mark, sway. hit | thrack | |
| impair | vb | break, cripple, harm | - | |
| impale | vb | jab | - | |
| impartial | adj | evenhanded, fairminded | unswayed | |
| impasse | n | deadlock, halt, standstill | - | |
| impassive | adj | cold-blooded; deadpan, empty, numb | - | |
| impede | vb | hinder, hold back, hold up, thwart, shackle, stop | - | |
| impenetrable | adj | - | evertight, unthursome | |
| imperative | adj | needed | case: bebidendly (<OE bebeodendlic, cf. Du. gebiedend, NHG. gebieterisch) | |
| imperialism | n | - | anwield, overlordship, rikedom | |
| impertinent | adj | bold; ill bred | ill-thewed | |
| implicate | adj | 2. inweave, twist, writhe | 1. inmeld | |
| implicit | adj | 1. unspoken, wordless, unsaid | 2. couth | |
| implement | v. | set | ||
| implode | vb | - | cleave in | |
| implore | vb | beseech, bid, beg | - | |
| imply | vb | hint, infold | ettle, bysay | |
| impolite | adj | rough, lewd, ill-bred, uncouth, ill-mannered, uncalled-for | ill-thewed | |
| import | vb | - | inferry (calque from Latin in + carry) | |
| importance | n | heft, weightiness, pith, greatness | - | |
| important | adj | big, far-reaching, foremost, outstanding, weighty, earthshattering, great | pithy | |
| importune | adj | - | mowly (<OE ġemāhlīc) | |
| importunity | n | - | mowliness (<OE ġemāhlīcnes) | |
| impose | vb | lay, put, set | onset (<OE onsettan) | |
| impossible | adj | hopeless, beyond bearing | unmaily (refer to German unmöglich=impossible; "mögen" is the German etymological correspondence to "may")
unmightly | |
| impress | vb | gladden, stun | intrutch (<OE onþryocau, NHG eindruck, cf. Dan. indtryk, Swed. intryck)
undrask (<ON undrask) | |
| impression | n | reckoning | intrutching | |
| imprint | n | mark, stamp | inthrick | |
| imprison | vb | lock up | haft (<OE hæftan) | |
| impromptu | adj | offhand | - | |
| improper | adj | uncomely, unfit, untoward, unright, wrong, unbecoming | unright, unhende | |
| improve(ment) | vb/n | shape up, grow better, help; breakthrough, bettering | forbetter (cf.NHG verbessern) | |
| improvised | adj | makeshift, offhand | twoth-rigged | |
| impudence | n | cheek | - | |
| impudent | adj | shameless, cheeky | - | |
| impulse | n | boost, goad, yeast; bone, leaning, want | - | |
| impurity | n | lewdness, unfreshness, | unswotelness | |
| in spite of | prep. | notwithstanding | - | |
| inadvertent | adj | unwitting | - | |
| inalienable | adj | - | samefast | |
| inane | adj | mindless | - | |
| inanimate | adj | heedingless, still | unbesouled (cf. Du. onbezield) | |
| inappropriate | adj | unbecoming, unfit, untoward | unbeseeming | |
| inaudible | adj | - | unhearsome, swanless, unheard | |
| incalculable | adj | untold | unreckonly | |
| incantation | n | - | galdercwide (<OE galdorcwide) | |
| incarnate | vb | inflesh | - | |
| in case | conj | lest, for fear that, the less | - | |
| incapable | adj | - | undowly (cf. NHG untauglich) | |
| inception | n | birth, dawn, outset, kickoff | - | |
| incest | n | - | siblair, siblay, inbreeding, bloodshame (calque) | |
| incident | n | hap, happening, befall | - | |
| incise(sion) | vb/n | cut, slit | snithe(ing) (<OE sniþan, cf. NHG. schneiden) | |
| incisive | adj | cutting | snithing | |
| incite | vb | spur, goad, egg | fuse (<ME fusen) | |
| inclination | n |
leaning, tilt, bowing desire: wish, need, craving, yearning | - | |
| incline | vb | sway, lower, bow, stoop, tip, lean | - | |
| inclined | adj | given, likely, willing, ready | swayed towards | |
| include | vb | inhold | ||
| incompassionate | adj | ruthless, heartless, cold, hard-hearted, cold-hearted | - | |
| incomplete | n | underdone, less than whole, unwhole, underwhole, unfullworked | - | |
| inconsiderate | adj | thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking, careless, ruthless, reckless | - | |
| incorporate | vb | knit, meld, mingle, mix | - | |
| incorrect | adj | wrong, wide of the mark; unfit, untoward; off, unsound, untrue | - | |
| increase | vb | swell up; rise, snowball, oker, build up | (w)ooker (<OE wōcor) formoren (cf. NHG vermehren) | |
| increasingly | adv | more and more, risingly | - | |
| incredible | adj | - | unlieveful | |
| incursion | n | raid, inroad | - | |
| incus | n | anvil | earanvil, anvilbone | |
| indebted | adj | owing, beholden | ||
| indecent | adj | shameless, unseemly, shameful, unsightful | - | |
| indecisive | adj | wavering, in two minds, swithering, halting, half-hearted, half-minded | unmeting | |
| indelicate | adj | heavy handed, stern, gruff | - | |
| independent | adj | free, selfstanding | unonhanging (cf. NHG unabhänig, Du. onafhankelijk) | |
| independence | n | freedom,
individuality:selfhood | selfstandingness, unonhangness | |
| inferior nasal concha | n | - | lower nosely spinner | |
| India | n | Indland
Ealand (India is ultimately named after the Indus river; Indus comes from Sanskritsíndhumeaning river) | ||
| indicate | vb | bespeak; flag up, betoken, show | ward to | |
| indication | n | hint, clue, mark, inkling | betokening, waywarding | |
| indifference | n | onesideness | ||
| indifferent | adj/adv | adj:careless, onesided
adv:fairly | ||
| indigent | adj | needy, down at heel | - | |
| indignity | n | brickbat, slap, slight, slur | - | |
| indiscriminated | adj | swoopstake, wholesale, hit-or-miss | allwardly, manywardly | |
| indisposed | adj | 2. unsound, unwell, laid up | 1. unleaning | |
| individual | adj | indirectly: asidely
selfstanding | onelepy (<OEánlípe, ánlípig) | |
| individual | n | - | onelepy, onelepling (<OEánlípe "individual" + -ling, cf. the general form of Ic./Far.einstaklingur), one, yea-one | |
| individualism | n | selfdom | - | |
| indocrinate | vb | brainwash | mindwash | |
| indolent | adj | idle, shiftless, slothful, lazy | lat (<OElæt) | |
| induce | vb | beget, breed, draw on, set off, give rise to, make, bring out, bring, lead to, enkindle, whip up | beweigh (cf. NHG bewegen/ Du. bewegen) | |
| indulgence | n | kindness |
milts, foregiveness (<OE); religion: offlet (cf. NHG Ablass) | |
| industry | n | - | bulkbuildship, worksomeness | |
| industrial action | n | strike | - | |
| industrious | adj | yielding, working | - | |
| inebriated | adj | drunk, smashed, blasted, baked, half-cut, hopped up | - | |
| ineffable | adj | nameless, unspeakable | - | |
| ineffective | adj | hamstrung, bad, | unworksome, unhardworking, | |
| inept | adj | clueless, unhandy, clumsy, bad | - | |
| inert | adj | still, lifeless, idle, undoing, bloodless | unshrithing (shrithe) | |
| inertia | n | - | idlehood (cf. Du. traagheid; NHG Trägheit) | |
| inevitable | adj | - | unformithely (cf. NHG unvermeidlich) | |
| inexperienced | adj | unfledged, callow, raw, green | - | |
| infamous | adj | shameful, ill-named, unworthy | - | |
| infamy | n | shamefulness, lowstanding, ill-name, bad name | are (<OE ár 'honour') | |
| infancy | n | bairnhood, childhood | - | |
| infant | n | newborn, cradle-child, suckling | - | |
| infanticide | n | - | bairnslaughter | |
| infantile | adj | childish | bairnsome | |
| infantilize | vb | - | bechild | |
| infatuate | vb | makes one lust | - | |
| infatuation | n | lust | - | |
| infect | vb | - | smittel | |
| infection | n | - |
insmiting of the ear: earcothe (<OE ēarcoðu) | |
| infectious | adj | catching, spreading | smittelsome | |
| infer | vb | deem, gather, make out, see | ettel | |
| inferior | n/adj | lower, nether; mean; shoddy, worse | - | |
| infernal | adj | fiendish, hellish, wicked, underhanded, evil, ill, hateful, all-fired | - | |
| inferno | n | hell, hellfire, fire | - | |
| infertile | adj | barren, unbearing | geld, unteeming, untudderfast | |
| infidelity | n | backstabbing, sellout, two-timing | wedbreach | |
| infinite | adj | boundless, endless, everlasting, never-ending, timeless, unbounded, unmetely, unrim, untold, without end | unendly (Eng., cf. NHG unendlich), allish | |
| infinitive | n | - | unendingly (<OE ungeendigendlic) | |
| infinity | n | everlasting, foreverness, unendingness | unendlihood (cf. NHG unendlichkeit) | |
| infirmed | adj | sickly, unhealthy, wanhale | - | |
| inflammation | n | burning, redness, soreness, swelling, itch | betindering (cf. Dn. 'betændelse') | |
| inflate | vb | blow up, fill | forblow, andblow (cf. Ic. and-blásinn) | |
| influence | vb/n | n: inflood
vb: inflow, sway, shape | - | |
| inflict | vb | lay on, wreak, meat or deal out, deal | - | |
| influx | n | inflow | - | |
| infographic | n | - | knowbilthish (knowledge + Yiddish 'bilderish') | |
| informal | adj | loose | - | |
| informant | n | deep throat, fink, nark, snitcher, telltale, whistleblower | teller | |
| information | n | knowledge, tidings | knowhood | |
| infringement | n | lawbreaking | - | |
| infuriate | adj | foaming, shirty, teed-off, wroth, madden | - | |
| infuse | vb | inset, input, inlay | inbirl | |
| ingenious | adj | clever | orthankly (<OE orþanclic), overmindle | |
| ingenuity | n | cleverness | orthink, overmind | |
| ingest | vb | tuck, down, swallow | - | |
| inhabit | vb | dwell, abide, wone in, inwone, live in | alive, erde, bewone, ern | |
| inhabitance | n | abode, dwelling | erding (erding in sorrow), erdingstow, inwoning, erning | |
| inhabitant | n | dweller, abider |
indweller(Scots) erd-folk, bewoner, inwoner, ern-folk (<OE ærn 'house, habitation') | |
| inhale | vb | breathe in, draw in, suck | - | |
| inherent | adj | built-in, inborn, inbred, indwelling | - | |
| inherit | vb | get, take, come into | erve (<OE ierfian) | |
| inheritance | n | birthright | erve (<OE ierfe), ervewardness (<OE ierfeweardnes), earf, earfdeal, ervedeal, birthright, birthdom, birth-hood | |
| inimical | adj | foesome, harmful, unfriendly | fiendly (cf. Germanic "feindlich") | |
| initial | adj | first, beginning, early | forme (obsolete; < OE forma) | |
| initiate | vb | start, begin, bring on, bring up, goad, spur | - | |
| injection | n | hypodermic: shot,other: jab | inshot, needleprick | |
| injure | vb | harm, wound, break | dere (<OE derian, archaic ME dere),forwound | |
| ink | n | dyestuff
black (It's attested, the color was "swarth", and it is still used in Scandenavia for "ink") | bookblack (<OE bócblæc) | |
| innate | adj | built-in, hardwired, inbred | - | |
| innocence | n | greenness, guiltlessness, youth | bilewitness | |
| innocent | adj | sinless, harmless, white | unshildy, bilewit (<OE bile-wit) | |
| innocuous | adj | white, harmless | - | |
| innovation | n | brainchild | newmaking | |
| innovative | adj | clever, groundbreaking | infinding | |
| innovator | n | groundbreaker, trendsetter | newmaker | |
| inquire | vb | into: dig into, delve into, delve into, ask | frayn (<OE fregen) | |
| insane | adj | bats, mad, unsound, crazed, brainsick, thoughtless, brainless, crank, having a screw loose, out of one's mind, waning away, | Braincranky, Brainsickened, Braincranked | |
| insanity | n | thoughtlessness, brainlessness, crankiness, unsoundness, madness, | ||
| inscribe | vb | inwrite, write | - | |
| insect | n | bug | midge (<OEmygg,mycg) widge, wig (<OEwicga, cf.earwig) carvedeer (<OE ceorfdēor, NHG kerbtier, LG karvdeer) | |
| insecure | adj | unsafe: naked, bare, careless, uncareful; unshielded, badly shielded, unwarded, badly warded;unconfident/suspicious: careful, wary, watchful, mindful | Unsicker(NHG. Unsicher) | |
| insecurity | n | bad protection: nakedness, carelessness, bad shielding, bad warding;
suspicion: care, carefulness, wariness, watchfulness, mindfulness | Unsickerhood(NHG. Unsicherheit)
Unwishood(NHG. Ungewissheit) (seewis) | |
| insensitive | adj | unfeeling, unfeelsome, heartless, hard | - | |
| inseparable | adj | bound (up), hand-in-hand, forever one, thick | unshedsome | |
| insert | vb | input, inset, put, put in | - | |
| insincere | adj | hollow, hollow-hearted, unsoothfast, unsoothful, untruthfast, untruthsome, untruthful, untrue | unluter (OE hlutor) | |
| insist | vb | stand one's ground | bestand (cf. NHG bestehen) | |
| insomnia | n | sleeplessness | - | |
| inspect(ion) | vb/n | inlook(ing) | speering | |
| inspiration | n | brainchild, brainwave | inblowing beghastness, inbreath, insouling | |
| inspire | vb | beghast | inblow (<OE inblowan) | |
| instance | n | hap, byfall, befall, happening | eyeblink | |
| instantly | adv | at once, forthwith, swith, now, right now | Eyeblickly(NHG.Augenblicklich)
orEyeblinkly | |
| instigate | vb | fire up, goad, kindle, rouse, stir up, spur | fuse (<ME fusen) | |
| institute | vb | set up | stight, onstall | |
| institution | n | body | - | |
|
instruct | vb | teach; wise up, tell what to do | beleer | |
|
instruction(s) | n | behest, word |
wiseheedings, forewritings outlay (cf. Du uitleg) | |
| instrument | n | tool, means | harp (<OE) | |
| insulin | n | - | oelib (<ME. oe, ME.lybb) (seeislet.) | |
| insult | v | slight | beskimp (cf. beschimpfen) (seeschimpfen) | |
| insult | n | slight, slur, lambast, roast | heash
beskimping (cf. NHG beschimpfung) | |
| insurance | n | - | healing (<OE helan 'to cover')
munding/mounding (<OE mundian 'to protect, shelter, guard') berrying (<OE beorgan ' to save, preserve') | |
| insurgent | n/adj | red, upriser | - | |
| insurrection | n | uprising, outbreak | - | |
| intact | adj | unharmed, whole | unrined (cf. Eng. untouched) | |
| integer | n | whole tel; being | - | |
| intellectual | n | egghead, highbrow, longhair | - | |
| intellectual | adj | highbrowed, long-haired | capacity: anget | |
| intelligence | n | brains; keenness, wit, braininess, brightness, cleverness |
anget (<OE andgiet) forwittleness (<OE forwitolnes) moodcraft (<OE módcræft) orthank (<OE orþanc) rede (<OE rǽd)(reason) snitter (<OE snyttru) | |
| intelligent | adj | brainy, bright, clever, nimble, keen, sharp-witted, gaumish | andgetful (<OE andgitful)
moodcrafty (<OE módcræftig) wisefast (<OE wísfæst) | |
| intelligible | adj | that can be understood, that can be fathomed | fathomsome | |
| intend | vb | look, mean, want, will; be of (a) (good) mind (to) | mint, ettle
offsight (cf. NHG beabsichtigen) | |
| intense | adj | fearful; warm-blooded, frought | - | |
| intention/ intent | n | - |
ettling, offsight (cf. NHG absicht) ontighting (<OE ontyhtung) | |
| inter | vb | lay, put away | - | |
| inter- | pfx | in-, between- | middle- (<OE "middel") tween- | |
| interact | vb/n | n: dealings | withwork | |
| intercede | vb | come/go between/betwixt | inbreak | |
| intercept | vb | pick off, stop, thwart, latch on to, run in to, shut off |
fang off (cf. NHG abfangen), forride (<OE forrīdan) | |
| interdict | vb | forbid | - | |
| interfere | vb | nose, pry, thwart | inbreach | |
| intergovernmental | adj | - | tweenredeshiply | |
| interjection | n | inset | tweenlaying (cf. Ælfric's OE betwuxlegednes) | |
| interest | vb | grip |
indraw, inwrap, intryst (phonosemantic calque) | |
| interest | n | share, stake; weal, well-being; business, outfit, reck, lean | fascination: wastomschat (<OE wæstmsceatt), intryst (phonosemantic calque), indrawnness, indraw | |
| interesting | n | gripping | heeding, indrawing, mindwheting
intrysting (phonet. calque) | |
| interim/interval | n | midtime, (long) far-between, midwhile | - | |
| interior | n | inside, inner, inliness | - | |
| intermediary | n | go-between | - | |
| intermission | n | break, stop-over/stopover | tweentide, tweenforletness (OE) | |
| intermittent(ly) | adj/adv | fitful(ly), broken(ly), stop-and-go, shifting(ly), sometimes, hit-or-miss, on and off | inbetweenish(ly) | |
| intern | n | inworker, helper | - | |
| internal | adj | inland, inner, inner-bodily, inside | twixfack (OE) | |
| international | n/adj | lands amongst |
altheedish | |
| Internet | n | the World Wide Web, Web, the Wired | tweennet, twixtnet, alseer | |
| interpol | n | worldwatcher | - | |
| interpret | vb | 1. unriddle 2. play | 1. sweetle | |
| interrogate | vb | ask (about) | befrain (cf. NHG befragen) seefrain, meanask | |
| interrupt | vb | break in, cut in | break off (cf. Fr. ôfbrekke, Sw. avbryta, Dn. afbryde) | |
| interruption | n | breather, break | - | |
| intersection | n | - | thwarsing (cf. Eng. crossing) | |
| intervention | n | - | inbreak | |
| interview | n | talk, hearing, meeting, call | frainspeak (cf. Du. vraagesprek),see frain | |
| intestine | n | tharm, gut, innards | - | |
| intimacy | n | warmth, warm friendship, near friendship | - | |
| intimidate | vb | besmallen, scare, frighten, overawe | - | |
| intoxicate | vb | - | bedrunken (cf. NHG betrunken) | |
| intoxicating | adj | heady, breathtaking, heart-stopping, stirring | - | |
| intoxication | n | drunkenness; cloud nine | bedrunkenhood (cf. NHG Betrunkenheit) | |
| introduce | vb | bring up, set forth, put forward; lead in; make known | propose:foreset
forestell (calque of Ger. speeches) | |
| introduction | n | lead-in | - | |
| introvert | n | - | ingoer | |
| introverted | adj | - | ingoing, inwardsome | |
| inundate | vb | flood, whelm, overwhelm | beyeat (<OE begieten) | |
| invade | vb | - | infall, overrun, inthring, thrust upon | |
| invader | n | - | overrunner | |
| invaluable | adj | (most) dear | yealief, yeadear, uncheap, forworthy | |
| invariably | adv | always | - | |
| invasion | n | raid | infall, herefare, inslaught, streaming, inthrong, inthronging | |
| invent | vb | make up, make, come up with |
infind afind (calque of NHG erfinden) | |
| invention | n | - |
findle (<OE findel), fyndelle (<OE fyndele) | |
| inventor | n | - |
infinder, afindand (<OE onfindend) | |
| inventory | n | goodslist | - | |
| invertebrate | vb | unbackboned | - | |
| invest | vb | plough into | - | |
| investigate | vb | sift, delve into |
speer (cf. OE spyrian "make a track, go, pursue; ask about, investigate"), nease, unwhelm, Underseek(Du. onderzoeken and NHG. Untersuchen)or underseech(regardingbeseech) | |
| investigator | n | - | speeriand (cf. OE spyrigend "investigator, inquirer"), underseeker | |
| investigation | n | - | speering, neasing, underseeking | |
| investor | n | shareholder, stakeholder | - | |
| inveterate | adj | abiding, deep-rooted, deep-seated, hardened, lifelong, long-lived, settled | - | |
| invincible | adj | - | unbeatsome (cf. Eng. unbeatable) | |
| inviolable | adj | hallowed, holy | - | |
| invisible | adj | - | unseesome | |
| invitation | n | - | lathing (<OE laðung, cf. NHG Einladung) | |
| invite | n/vb | welcome, bring in, call for, call upon (cf. Arabic دعا) | n: inlath
vb: inlath (<OE inlaðian, cf. NHG einladen) | |
| involve | vb | take in, whelm | inhold | |
| ion | n | - | streammote | |
| ionosphere | n | - | streamlayer | |
| iota | n | beans, whit | - | |
| ipe/ipê | n | - | (Rudwoodish) bow-wood (calque of Portuguese pau d'arco"
greenheart (cf. Du. groenhart) | |
| ipseity | n | ass, selfhood | - | |
| irascible | adj | prickly, feisty, edgy, churlish, bearish, outburstish, highly-strung, wrathy, wrongheaded, crankisome | uncweming | |
| ire | n | wrath | - | |
| iridescence | n | shimmering; glistening; gleaming | - | |
| iris | n | eyebow | - | |
| irony | n | - wry | witherweening (logical combining of wither "anti" and weening "expectation"),wrying | |
| irregular | adj | broken, uneven | wending, frothering | |
| irrelevant | n/adj | without bearing, bearingless, unakinly | unbearing | |
| irresponsible | adj | reckless, heedless, careless, thoughtless, unmindful, unthinking, unanswerly | - | |
| irrigate | vb | water | beflow, bewater furrow: waterleat | |
| irritate (vex) | vb | irk, gall | - | |
| irritating | adj | irksome, swinksome | - | |
| ischium | n | - | seatbone | |
| -ise | sfx | ledge (<OE -læcan), -ly, make — | - | |
| isle | n | island, holm,oe | iland, aitland, ait,eyot (small island, key), ealand,-ey (used as a place name suffix) | |
| islet | n | ait, eyot, iling | holm | |
| -ism | sfx | - | general abstractum: -dom
general belief system or school of thought: -belief (cf. NHG -glaube) political doctrine/policy: -belead (cf. Du. beleid) belief system associated with a person, place, etc.: -ishness, -ish belief belief system as a religious or political establishment/realm: -dom belief as faith: -troth | |
| isobar | n | - | evenweight (iso-even + bar-weight) | |
| isocracy | n | - | evenship | |
| isolate | vb | cut off, sunder | cleave off | |
| isolation | n | loneliness, alonehood, asideness | forlethood (cf. NHG Verlassenheit), only-edoffness, offonly-edness | |
| isotone | n | - | evenghtell (evenstell = firstbit; evenghtell = naughtbit) | |
| isotope | n | - | evenstell (iso-even + tope-stell) | |
| issue | n | - | inting (<OE intinga) | |
| italic (font) | n | - |
Slantwrite | |
| item | n | thing | - | |
| itinerary | n | - | forebook (<OE fōrbōc/forbōc)pl: forebeek (<OE fōrbēc/forbēc) | |
| ivory | n | tusk | elpbone (cf. NHG Elfenbein,) | |
| Ivory Coast | n | - | Windward Shore | |
| -ize | sfx | be-, -en | -ledge (<OE -læcan) | |
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| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| Jack o'Lantern | n | - | Jack o'Lightvat
marrowhead (cf. Dan. græskarhoved) Halloween-marrow (cf. NHG Halloween-Kürbis) | |
| jaguar | n | - | truenicker (calque of Tupi-Guarani yaguareté) | |
| jail | n | lockup | fanghouse (cf. Fa. fangahús); carcern, dimhouse, fastern, wittern 2. slang terms: slough, blackhouse, iron-house | |
| jam | n | konfiture | -sweetspread, as strawberry, raspberry, quince, chokeberry sweetspread etc. | |
| janitor | n | caretaker | - | |
| January | n | - | Afteryule (OE), Frostmonth (cf. OHG Härtemonat), Foremonth (<W.Fr. Foarmoanne) Afteryulemonth | |
| Japan | n | Land of the rising sun | Dawnland | |
| jar | n | urn (from Latin "urna") | glass (cf. NHG Glas), pot | |
| jargon | n | shoptalk, speak | craftspeech (<OE cræftspræc) | |
| jaundiced | adj | sallow | - | |
| jealous | adj | green-eyed | andy (<OE andig), ellenhetten (<ellenhette + -en) nithy (<OE niþ), nitheful (<OE níþful), swartsick(<SW svartsjuk) | |
| jealous person | n | - |
andi(wo)man, ellenhettenwere, ellenhetten(wo)man female: ellenhettenfraw (<ellenhetten + fraw, <NHG "Frau", woman), andifraw benither, nither (cf. NHG Beneider, Neider) | |
| jealousy | n | - | andiness, ellenhette (<OE ellenhete)
nithe (<OE niþ) | |
| Jehovah | n | Almighty, Everlasting, Father, Godhead, Lord | Allfather, Life's Weaver, Dryghten (or Drithen), Worldshaper | |
| jellyfish | n | namby-pamby, wimp | stingfish, brimfish | |
| jester | n | funniman, gleeman | - | |
| Jesus | n | Lamb of God, Healer, | Ihesu (<ME), Hæland (<OE, German) Ihesu, Jesu (<ME) | |
| jewel | n | rockslang | hurst (<OE) | |
| jingoism | n | - | wyetheedishness | |
| jinx | n | mishap | wanlucker | |
| job | n | errand, chore, berth, business, work second:bywork | char | |
| join | vb | link, fit, fay, tie | - | |
| join | vb | meet, go in, come in | ||
| joint | n | limb, lith | - | |
| joke | n | prat, one-liner, trick, funny | wit (<OE witt, cf. NHG Witz) | |
| jolly | adj | blithe, gleeful, mirthful, merry | - | |
| journal | n | logbook, daybook | - | |
| journalism | n | news | logkeeping, logcraft, loggership, newscraft | |
| journalist | n | newsman | bewriter, logger, logkeeper, logwriter | |
| journey | n | ramble, wayfaring, fare | reys, ferd (<ME, NHG fahrt) widesith | |
| jovial | adj | blithe, gleeful, merry, mirthful | eady | |
| joy | n | gladness, warm fuzzles, mirth, lust, blitheness, glee | winne, faining, listing, | |
| joyful | adj | blissful, pleased, tickled, mirthful, merry, gleeful, blithe | eady, faining, listing, reemful (OE hremig) | |
| Judaism | n | - | Jewdom, | |
| judge | vb | settle; call, make, reckon; gather, make out: deem, hold | hiler (<OE heolorian) | |
| judge | n | deemer (<OE dēma), deemster | lawlord, hilerand | |
| judgment | n | doom, finding, holding; call; belief, eye, mind; fix, deemship | ordeal (<OE ordāl) | |
| judicious | adj | wise | - | |
| juggernaut | n | drive, push | - | |
| juice | n | sap, wos | - | |
| juice up | vb | fire, liven up | - | |
| jukebox | n | - | songbox, swinbox, gleambox, gleebox | |
| July | n | - | Meadowmonth(<OE mead), Meadmonth (<OE), Afterlithe, Haymonth | |
| jump | vb | leap, spring | - | |
| June | n | - | Midsummermonth < OE, Erelith (<OE Ærra Līþa), Solmonth, Fallowmonth | |
| jungle | n | - | orweald (cf. Du. oerwoud, NHG Urwald) | |
| junior | adj | younger, youth, young, underling | - | |
| jurisdiction | n | law, lawhood | leedred (<OE leodræden) | |
| just | adj | fair; straight, upright | - | |
| just | adv | barely, hardly, slightly; but, only; fully, rightly, sharply; nearly, lately
only now, anowly, benowlyI just saw that | nar (cf. NHG nur) | |
| just about | adj | - | sowhat (so + what) (cf. Du. zowat) | |
| justice | n | fair shake, fairness, rightfulness, rightness | righthood | |
| justification | n | grounds | begrounding (cf. NHG begründung) | |
| justified | adj | well-grounded | begrounded (cf. NHG begründet) | |
| justify | vb | uphold, righten | soothfasten (<OE sóþfæst)
beground (cf. NHG begründen) | |
| juvenile | adj | young; green, unfledged, unripened | - | |
| juvenile | n | youngster, youth, stripling | frumbeardling | |
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| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| kamikaze | adj | daredevil, devil-may-care, hell-for-leather | - | |
| kangaroo | n | - | leapdeer | |
| kapok tree | n | - | silk-treewool tree | |
| karaoke | n | - | song barrow | |
| karma | n | - | doings (calque) | |
| kayak | n | - | mansboat (calque of Inuktitut) | |
| kennel | n | doghouse | - | |
| ketchup | n | - | blooddip, heartdip | |
| kiln | n | - | brimoven (cf. NHG. Brennofen) | |
| kindergarten
(still Germanic, but from High German) | n | - | kindergrove
childeryard | |
| kiosk | n | booth, stall | - | |
| kleptomania | n | mad theft | thiefmadness (calque) | |
| kleptomaniac | n | mad thief | thiefmadman (calque) | |
| knowledgeable | adj | knowledgeful | - | |
| Korea | n | - | Mornfrithland | |
| kowtow | vb | bootlick, fawn | kneelbow | |
| krypton | n | - | hiddenmote | |
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| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| labia majora | n | - | greater ladylips (<calque of Latin + "lady") | |
| labia minora | n | - | lesser ladylips (<calque of Latin + "lady") | |
| labo(u)r | vb | grind, sweat, swink, slog, strive, work, struggle |
wirch/worch/werch <OE wyrċan (attested as historical/dialectal verbs) | |
| labo(u)r | n | work, elbow grease, struggle med: childbirth, birthing | arveth (<OE earfoðe) | |
| labo(u)rer | n | worker, swinker | blue hem(blue collar) | |
| laboratory | n | workshop, workhall | workstead | |
| laborious | adj | backbreaking, burdensome, toilsome | - | |
| labyrinth | n | maze | - | |
| lacerate | vb | cut | rend, snithe | |
| lachrymose | adj | sad, teary, tearful, weeping, weepy | - | |
| lackadaisical | adj | lackadaisy, listless, lazy | - | |
| lacklustre | adj | dim, dull, leaden, lifeless, dead, brightless | - | |
| lacrimal bone | n | - | tearbone | |
| lactose | n | - | milksweet | |
| lacuna | n | dearth, hole | gapfall | |
| lager (beer) | n | - | light beer (cf. Sw. ljust öl), "a light" (inf.) | |
| lagoon | n | - | sealock | |
| lambaste | vb | berate, flog, scathe, upbraid | flay | |
| lament | vb | mourn, weep, yammer | norn, quithe, beweep (<OE) | |
| lamentable | adj | bemoaning, doleful | - | |
| lamp | n | beacon, light | chell (cf. OE ciella, OHG kella)
lightvat (<OE leohtfæt) leamer, crusie | |
| lampion | n | - | lightvat | |
| LAN (local area network) | n | - | ord network | |
| language | n | tongue, speech, leid (from Scots), talk |
reard (rerd, reird) (<OE reord), landspeech (<OE landsprǣċ), leed, thodspræc (Plural: thodspræcken)</span> literary: booklead (<OE bōclæden) pl: bookleaden, tung | |
| languid | adj | limp; down-and-out, sapped, wimpish | slack | |
| languish | vb | pine, dwindle, droop, ebb, lessen, wane, wither, weaken, wear away, swine | dwine, addle (<OE ádlian) | |
| languor | n | listlessness; lowness, wimpiness | - | |
| lanolin | n | - | wool wax | |
| lapidary | n | - | ingraver | |
| lapis lazuli | n | - | skystone (calque) | |
| lapse | n | fluff, slip, screwup, backslide | dwild (<OE 'error') | |
| large | adj | big, broad, mickle, great | - | |
| largely | adj | mostly, mainly | - | |
| larynx | n | - | throathead (cf. NHG Kehlkopf) | |
| lascivious | adj | foul, lewd; lustful; horny | gole (<ME<OE gāl; listed in OED as obsolete), gat-toothed (<ME gat-toþed) | |
| laser | n | - | losyr (light outbroadening by spurred yoreputting of rodding) | |
| lasso | n | - | throwsling; throwknot | |
| latitude | n | - | bowheight | |
| laud | vb | - | herry (<ME herian) | |
| launch | vb | take off | - | |
| launder | vb | wash, cleanse | furb | |
| laundrette | n | washhouse | furby's | |
| laundry | n | wash, washing | furbing | |
| lava | n | molten rock | rown/rean (cf. ON;Ic. hraun)
barrowquick (cf. Ic. bergkvika) | |
| lawyer | n | lawman | - | |
| lax | adj | careless, slack; loose, slackened | - | |
| laxative | n | - | (stool-)loosener | |
| lay(poem/song) | n | - | yedding | |
| layman | n | newbie, dabbler, beginner | byfellow | |
| LCD | n | - | frost outplay, ??flowing frosted outplay | |
| league | n | - | measure:Gaulish milegroup/association: bind (cf. NHG Bund) | |
| lease | vb | let | - | |
| leash | n | lead, tether | - | |
| lecherous | adj | hot, itchy, lewd, wanton | - | |
| lecture | v | read, teach | foreread (calque of all Ger. speeches) | |
| lecture | n | reading
teach:leer | talk:foredraw (calque of all Ger. speeches)
lecture(school):forereading (calque of all Ger. speeches) | |
| lecturer | n | reader | lorespeaker, leerer | |
| lederhosen | n | - | leatherhosen | |
| leg | n | shank | - | |
| legacy | n | bequest | - | |
| legal | adj | lawful, aboveboard | - | |
| legalize | vb | phrase: make lawful | belaw, berighten, tholingly | |
| legend | n | key; folktale, saga | - must-read tale, wonder-tale. | |
| legendary | adj | - | talewoven | |
| legible | adj | - | readsome | |
| legislator | n | lawmaker, lawgiver | - | |
| legislature | n | lawmaking body | - | |
| legitimate | adj | rightful, (of birth) fullborn, lawful | - | |
| legume | n | ovest | - | |
| leishmaniasis | n | - | blackdriff (cf. Eng. black fever) | |
| leisure | n | free-time, time off, holiday, rest, spare time, freedom | faining, list, eathdom (cf. Scots "Aisedom") | |
| leisure | adj | free, busiless, off | - | |
| leisure, have | vb | rest, loaf, while away the time | fain, list | |
| lemon | n | - | sourapple | |
| lenitive | adj | soothing | milding | |
| lepidoptera | n | moths, flinders (butterflies) | - | |
| lepton | n | - | lightmote | |
| lesbian | n | dyke(slang) | - | |
| lesson | n | teaching, learning | read, underright (cf. NHG Unterricht) | |
| -let | suf | -ling | - | |
| lethal | adj | deadly, fey (obsolete) | - | |
| lethargic | adj | sluggish, listless, tired, sleepy | sleeple | |
| lethargy | n | listlessness, sluggishness, sleepiness | sleepleness | |
| letter | n | character: rune/roun,bookstave | kite (<US prison, slang); speech-tokens
errandwrit, errandbook (<OE ǽrendbóc) | |
| leukemia | n | - | blood MTF(see cancer) | |
| level | n | - | flake (Fr, see Du. vlak)
tool: gauge, tier, emnet (<O.E) | |
| level | adj | flat, even, straight | - | |
| lever | n | switch | liftstaff | |
| leverage | n | heft, pull, sway | - | |
| leveret | n | young hare | hareling | |
| lexicon | n | wordhoard (<OE wordhord), wordlist | - | |
| LGBT | adj | queer | ||
| liability | n | downside, drawback | law: linkworthiness | |
| liable | adj | guilty |
law: linkworthy | |
| liberal | adj | broad-minded, freehearted, openhanded, unstinting, unselfish | custy (<OE cystig), givel (<OE gifol) | |
| liberalism | n | - | freewardness | |
| libertarian(ism) | n/adj | - | freesome (troth/seeker) | |
| liberate | vb | free | befree (Eng., <OE befreogan, cf. NHG befreien), loose, let go
lease (<OE aliesan 'to let loose, free, deliver, liberate') red(d) (<OE hreddan 'take away, save, liberate' | |
| liberation | n | freeing, freedom | befreeing | |
| liberty | n | freedom, free will | freels (<OE freols) | |
| library | n | bookhouse, bookhoard | bookhall, bookstrain, booksamning | |
| license | n | leave | - | |
| licentious | adj | hot, lewd, itchy | - | |
| lichen | n | lungwort | raw (<OE ragu) | |
| lieutenant | n | helpmate, sidekick | steadholder | |
| ligature | n | belt, binding, strap, string | - | |
| lilac | n | - | elderbloom (cf. NHG Fliederblüte) | |
| lily pad | n | - | seabloom (cf. NHG seerose), waterbloom | |
| limbo | n | - | neitherworld | |
| limerence | n | crush | - | |
| limit | n | bound, threshold, cap, stint; landmark | mire (<OE mære) | |
| limit | vb | bound, tint, narrow | - | |
| limitation | n | cramp | - | |
| limpid | adj | see-through; cool, smooth, together, unruffled, unshaken, unworried | ||
| lineage | n | blood-ties, house, strain, seed | strind | |
| linear | adj | straight(wise) | - | |
| linen | n | - | flaxcloth | |
| lingerie | n | knickerwear, smallclothes | - | |
| lingua franca | n | shared tongue | - | |
| linguistic | adj | tonguely, speechly, wordly | ||
| Linguistic Purism | n | - | quide swoteling
sheerspeechcraft/lore | |
| linguistics | n | - | speechlore, quidelore (<OE cwide) | |
| linguist | n | - | speechlorer, quidelorer (<OE cwide) | |
| linoleum | n | - | corksail | |
| linseed | n | flaxseed | - | |
| lion | n | - | lewcat, manecat | |
| lipid | n | fat, speck | lind | |
| liquid | n | wet (OED) | bree, wettock, flowstuff, weet/wete (archaic/dialectal variants of "wet") | |
| liquid | adj | flowsome, flowy, wet | weet/wete (variant form of "wet" < OE wǽt/wét < PG *wēt-) | |
| liquor | n | mead, shench, shenk, firewater, booze | gut-rot, knock-out drops, srandy, burning wine, lith | |
| liquorice/licorice | n | sweetroot | - | |
| litany | n | - | beesong (cf. Ic. bænasöngur) | |
| literal | adj | - | verbatim:
wordly (NHG. wörtlich)of letters:bookstavely(NHG Buchstäblich) | |
| literally | adv | word for word | verbatim:wordly(NHG. wörtlich)
of letters:bookstavely(NHG Buchstäblich) | |
| literary | adj | written, bookish | - | |
| literate | adj | learned, well-read | - | |
| literature | n | bookcraft | booklore, bookware, the written word, writings, written works, writcraft | |
| lithium | n | - | stonestuff | |
| lithograph | n | - | stonewrit | |
| lithography | n | - | stonewritting | |
| littoral | adj | - | searim, shorely | |
| liturgy | n | - | ledework (calque of Gk. leit-urgia), | |
| lizard | n | ask, askard (Brit. dialect) | eft | |
| llama | n | - | sheepolvend (calque of Du. schaapkameel + olvend (<OE olfend) for camel) | |
| lobe | n | - | lap (cf. NHG Lappen) | |
| lobotomy | n | - | lapdeal (calque) | |
| lobster | n | - | - | |
| local | adj | near, nearby, neighbouring | steadly, stowly | |
| locality | n | shire, neighbourhood | bystead | |
| locate | vb | find; come upon | - | |
| location | n | spot, whereabouts, | lying (cf. NHG Lage, Du. ligging)
Ord (Eng. but seldom, NHG. Ort, Du. od, Sw. udd) | |
| locomotive | n | - | draughtwain | |
| lodge | n | inn, bergh, guesthouse, bed & breakfast; watchman's hut, shed, gatehouse, townhouse |
cote | |
| lodge | vb | dwell | stow, ern (<OE ærn) | |
| lodger | n | boarder, roomer | board & roomer | |
| logarithm | n | - | splittle | |
| logic | n | witcraft | rethemete, redecraft, flitcraft | |
| logistics | n | yieldship, yieldcraft | ||
| logo | n | brandmark | - | |
| -logy, -log, -logue | suff | -lore, -craft | -frod (cf. Ic. jarðfræði 'earthfrod' ~ geology; OE frod 'wise') | |
| longitude | n | length | bowlength | |
| loquacious | adj | feather-tongued, gabby | speakle | |
| lounge | n | living room, sitting room | - | |
| lounge | vb | idle, lie, moon | - | |
| loyal | adj | stalwart, down-the-line, true-hearted, good, fast, steady, true-blue, steadfast | true (<OE trēowe, cf. Du trouw, NHG. treue), trothsome, trothful, trothly | |
| loyalist | n | stalwart | truand (cf. Du getrouw, NHG Getreue) | |
| loyalty | n | troth, trueness | trow (<OE trēowe, cf. NHG. Treue, Du trouw)
hield (<OE) | |
| lubricate | vb | slick, wax, wet | - | |
| lubricated | adj | slippery | - | |
| lubricious | adj | hot, lewd, itchy, wanton | - | |
| lucid | adj | shining, glowing | - | |
| Lügenpresse | n | liënpress | - | |
| luminous | adj | light-bearing, bright, lightened | - | |
| lunacy | n | madness, witlessness | moonstroke, moonmadness | |
| lunar | adj | moonly, moonish | - | |
| lunate bone | n | - | moonbone, sicklebone | |
| lunatic | adj | bats, batty, unhinged, moonstruck (archaic) | moonmad | |
| lupine | adj | wolven | - | |
| luscious | adj | lush, sweet, good, lovely, smacky, smackful | - | |
| luster | n | gloss, gleam | - | |
| lutein | n | - | yellowen (luteus -> yellow + -in -> -en) | |
| luteinizing hormone (LH) | n | - | beyellowenning spur (BS) | |
| lutetium | n | - | parisstuff, lightburghstuff, lightstuff | |
| luxe | adj | silken | - | |
| luxuriant | adj | green, leafy | - | |
| lycanthropy | n | - | warewolf-sickness | |
| lynx | n | - | lox (<OE 'lox', <PIE 'leuk', light) | |
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Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| nadir | n | depths, bottom, trough | - | |
| naive | adj | craftless; self-taught | liefsome (<OE geleafsum) | |
| nano-technology | n | smart dust | kernel wield | |
| narcolepsy | n | sleepsickness | - | |
| narcotic | n/adj |
dope benumbing, deadening | - | |
| narrate | vb | yarn, tell | kithe (<OE cýðan), foretell | |
| narration | n | telling | ||
| narrative | n | tale, yarn | kithing, backtale, foretelling (cf. Du. vertellen) | |
| nasal | adj | nosely | - | |
| nasal bone | n | - | nosely bone | |
| natatorium | n | swimming pool, pool | sundhall ("sund" from OE, meaning "ability to swim, act of swimming"), | |
| nation | n | folk, stock | theed/thede (<OE þeod), leedship (<OE léodscipe,from lede), theid, landleed, kinrike (<OE), folk, folkstead (<OE), folkship (<OE) folcscipe) | |
| nationalism | n | flag-waving | haletheeding, ethelhood, theedholdness (<OE theodenhold) | |
| native | n | towner, townie | erd-folk, arlander (OE or 'origin'), lander (<OE), landman (<OE), landfolk (<OE,[natives]), inlander | |
| native | adj | homely, built in, inborn, inbred, ownborn | homelike, home-ish, erd-folkish, arland, true-born, true-grown, inland | |
| natural | adj |
clay, self grouping: feather, ilk, kind |
kindly (<OE cyndelic) quithenly (<OE cwiðenlic) lundish (cf. ME lund; ON lund) selfgoing | |
| natural logarithm | n | - | infold (fore); inroot (for ln) (synthesised from meaning) | |
| natural selection | n | drain of life | - | |
| naturally | n | smoothly, flowingly | ||
| nature | n | clay, self; wilderness; greenworld; the wild; lik, kind; being, soul; world | lund, lind (<ME lund from Old Norse lundr); umworld (cf. NHG Umwelt) | |
| naturism | n | - | barelife | |
| naturists | n | barefolk | - | |
| nausea | n | sickness, loathing | the shifts(calque), snoffy | |
| nauseous | n | sickening, loathsome | latsome (<OE) | |
| navigate | vb | guide, sail, steer, helm | lode | |
| navy | adj/n | fleet, shipfyrd | fleethood | |
| Neanderthal | n | - | Newmandale (calque of Gk nea + Gk andra + NHG thal) | |
| nebula | n | - | starcloud, heavenly cloud | |
| necessary | adj | needful, needed |
daven (<OE dafen), needsakely (cf. Du. noodzakelijk ) | |
| necessitate | vb | need, behoove (att'd in impersonal sense) | - | |
| necessity | n | need | thearf (<OE) | |
| necklace | n | -neckband | meen | |
| necro- | pref | dead-, death- | lich- | |
| necrology | n | - | gravelore, deadlore, lichlore | |
| necromancy | n | witchcraft | lichcalling, deathcalling, lichcraft | |
| necrophage | n | - | licheater, deadeater | |
| necrophagy | n | - | licheating, deadeating | |
| necrophilia | n | - | lichlust, deadlust | |
| nectar | n | - | honeyor, heaven's broth | |
| negate | vb | gainsay | unsay, withersay, undo, forno (cf. NHGverneinen) | |
| negative | adj | naysaying, untoward | mathematics: undernaught
unsay, naysome, undeed | |
| neglect | n | seediness | - | |
| neglect | vb | forget, overlook, slight, slur over | mar, foryeme (<OE forgyman), overgum (<OE ofergumian) | |
| negligent | vb | heedless, reckless | - | |
| negotiate | vb | moot, chaffer, haggle | formeal (<OE formǽlan)
forhandle(calque) | |
| negro | n/adj | black, swart, swarthy | blackman, blackskin | |
| neocortex | n | - | brain bark | |
| Neolithic | n | - | New Stone Eld | |
| neon | n | - | newstuff | |
| neophyte | n | greenhorn, incomer, settler, newcomer | callower | |
| nepenthe | n | - | unmourner | |
| nephew | n | neve | sibson | |
| nerve | n | mettle, boldness, doughtiness, guts, fastness, fearlessness, firmness, pith, pluck, steadiness, steel, heart, will,sinew | concrete n: ader (<OE ædre) | |
| nervous(ness) | adj / n | edgy, keyed-up, high strung |
-sinewsome, sinewly n: edginess, sinewlith, sinewsomeness | |
| neurose | n | - | sinewsweet | |
| neurotransmitter | n | - | sinew sender | |
| neutral | adj | unsided, sideless, middlish, in-between | naughtly | |
| neutrality | n | unsidedness, fair-mindedness, evenhandedness | naughtliness
middleness | |
| neutrino | n | neitherling | ||
| neutron | n | - | neitherbit, evenmote | |
| newspaper | n | tiding(s) | ||
| nice | adj | kind | - | |
| niche | n | nook | - | |
| niece | n | nift | neven (<OE nefene, cf. vixen) | |
| Niflheim | n | Mistworld | Nevilworld | |
| nihilism | n | - | wearning (<OE wiernan 'deny, reject') | |
| Níðhöggr | n | - | Nithehewer | |
| nitrogen | n | - | loftmote | |
| Nizhny Novgorod | n | Nether Newton | ||
| Nil satis nisi optimum | pvb | Nothing but the best is good enough | ||
| nobility | n | atheldom (cf. Du. adeldom) | ||
| noble | n/adj | highbred;best kind: gilt-edged | athel (<ME aethel, <OE æþele) | |
| nocturnal | adj | nightly, night-time, night-life | - | |
| nocturnal
(instrument) | n | - | nightstound (<MEstound) | |
| nocturne | n | - | night-swey | |
| noise | n | din, clattering | low (<OE hlowan 'low, bellow, roar') | |
| noisy | adj | loud | dinsome | |
| nolens volens | adv | willy-nilly | - | |
| nominative(case) | n | - | beckoningly, whofall (cf. NHG Werfall), namefall (cf. Ic. nefnifall) | |
| nominate | vb | call; name | clepe | |
| non- | pref | un-, -less, not | - | |
| non obstante | n | -notwithstanding | rightening | |
| non-existent | adj | beingless | - | |
| nonsense | n | rubbish, twaddle, humbug, gammon | unwit | |
| noon (through Latin) | n | midday | - | |
| noose | n | - | hangknot | |
| norm | n | rightline | - | |
| normal | adj | right | mean | |
| nostalgia | n | - | yesterlove, yoresickness | |
| notable | adj | bright, outstanding, star | breme (<OE breme) | |
| notch | n/vb | slit, groove, kerf (n.), carve (vb.) | - | |
| notary public | n | - | logbookande (cf. Ic. lögbókandi) | |
| note | n | - | log (Norse lág) | |
| note, of (famous) | adj | - | namecouth (<OE namcuþ) | |
| notice | vb | heed(take heed) |
heed:beaughten(NHG. beachten) from be- + aught + -en (seeaught) remark:Bemark (NHG. Bemerken) yeme | |
| noticeable | adj | striking | yemebere, heedsome | |
| noting | vb | heeding | yeming | |
| noun | n | nameword | - | |
| nourish | vb | feed, fodder | - | |
| novel | n | talebook | - | |
| novelty | n | newness, newth | - | |
| November | n | - | Fogmonth, Bloodmonth | |
| novice | n | newling, beginner, fledgeling, newcomer, freshman, greenhorn | callower | |
| nubile | adj | wedworthy | -wedsome | |
| nuclear bomb | n | - | kernelblaster | |
| nuclear reactor | n | - | kerneloven (cf. Ic. kjarnaofn) | |
| nuclear weapon | n | - | kernelweapon | |
| nucleon | n | - | pithmote | |
| nucleus | n | kernel | - | |
| nugget | n | - | lumpling
nugling (nug (of unknown origin) + ling) | |
| nuisance | n | hindering, besetter, harrier, hounder, gadfly | - | |
| nullify | vb | naughten, override | - | |
| number | n | rime, scoring | tale (<OE talu, cf. NHG zahl, Du. tal, Dan. tal) rimetale (<OE rimtæl) | |
| number | vb | mark | rim, tell (up) | |
| numerator | n | - | teller (calque) | |
| numerological | adj | - | rimlore-, rimlorish | |
| numerous | adj | many | - | |
| nurse | vb | care; breastfeed, suckle | - | |
| nurse | n | carer, caregiver | berg-maid, ward sister
child-foster (<OE cildfóstre) sicksister (Nw. sykesøster) | |
| nursery | n | - | kindergrove,
childeryard (NHG kindergarten) | |
| nurture | vb | breed, rear, foster, bring up | - | |
| nutritious | adj | feeding, healthful, wholesome | - | |
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Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| macabre | adj | gruesome, grisly | - | |
| macerate | vb | soak, steep | - | |
| machine | n |
vehicle: horseless, wheelsslang | gearware, searshaft, workware, workrig | |
| machine gun | n | - | shacklegun | |
| magazine | n | daily (some contexts), weekly (other contexts), slick (some contexts) | timewrit (cf. Du. tijdschrift, NHG Zeitschrift) | |
| magic | n/adj | bad: spellcraft, witchcraft |
dwimmer, galder (<OE galdor) galder(craft) chanting magic gale to do galder seethe(craft), seith(craft), or seeth(craft) magic concerning changing fate, seen in the Weird Sisters where it is depicted as actually boiling (seething) in a cauldron spae seer magic | |
| magician | n | wizard, witch, warlock | hag, dwimmerman | |
| magistrate | n | deemer, deemster(Female) | reeve | |
| magnesium | n | - | bitterstuff | |
| magnesium oxide | n | - | bitter earth | |
| magnate | n | - | mickman | |
| magnet | n | loadstone/lodestone (< lode (ME guide) + stone) | sailstone (cf. Ic. segull) | |
| magnify | n | blow up, make bigger |
bemickel (<be + OE miclīan) in wonderment: wonderleak (<OEġewundorlæcan) glorify: dome (<OE dōmian) | |
| magnitude | n | weight, greatness, micklehood. | ||
| magnolia | n | - | beaverbloom | |
| maggot | n | worm, grub | maddock, mathe (<OE maþa; cf. Scots mathe) | |
| mail (armor) | n | - | mesh, burne (<ME) | |
| maim | vb | cripple | - | |
| maintain | vb | keep up, uphold, hold | - | |
| maintenance | n | upkeep | - | |
| maître d'hôtel | n | - | houserede | |
| majestic | adj | high-flown, lofty, stour | hovely, thrymfast (<OE þrymfæst), storslagenhet | |
| majesty | n | highness, lordship, loftiness, stourness |
oreworthness (<OE arweorþnes), douthness, thrim (<OE þrymm), kineship (<OE cynescipe) | |
| major | n | overling | thane | |
| major | adj | higher, overling | - | |
| majority | n | most, better half, body, great body | morehood | |
| maladjusted | adj | misfit | - | |
| malady | n | sickness, illness, unwellness | addle, cothe | |
| malapert | adj | brazen | unbeshamed (cf. Du. onbeschaamd) | |
| malaria | n | - | nitheloft (calque of Italian mala aria) | |
| male | adj |
manly, manlike;pref: he- | he-kind, hesome | |
| male | n | man, buck, chap, fellow, lad state: manhood | -werman (O.E wermann) | |
| malefactor | n | sinner, wrongdoer: crook, lawbreaker | - | |
| malevolence | n | hatefulness, meanness | - | |
| malevolent | adj | bad, mean, evil | - vond (<ONVándr) | |
| malfeasance | n | misdoing, wrongdoing | - | |
| malfunction | n | flaw, glitch | - | |
| malfunction | vb | misbehave | miswork | |
| malice | n | cattiness, hatefulness, meanness | nithecraft | |
| malicious | adj | wicked | nithe | |
| malign | adj | evil, harmful, baleful | nithe | |
| malleus | n | hammer | earhammer, hammerbone | |
| malnourish | vb | misfeed, underfeed | - | |
| maltose | n | - | maltsweet | |
| maltreat | vb |
manhandle, rough up | illbrook | |
| malware | n | - | badware, evilware | |
| mammal | n | - | milkwight, suckledeer (NHG. Säugetier) | |
| mammary | n | breast, tit | - | |
| mammoth | n | - | furelp (cf. Ic. loðfíll Far. loðfílur)
earthhorn (calque of Proto-Mansi *mē̮ŋ-ońt) | |
| manage | vb | handle, run, deal with, fare, keep, keep up | - | |
| manager | n | foreman | besteerer (cf. Dn. bestyrer) | |
| manatee | n | sea cow | - | |
| mandate | n | bid | handdare | |
| mandible | n | - | jowlbone | |
| mandrake | n | - | skinroot | |
| mandrill | n | - | hueleer ape, rainbow ape, huemug ape | |
| manga | n | - | dawnlandish talestrips | |
| manger | n | trough | - | |
| mango | n | - | gawk's/yeke's bliss (cf. Eng. cuckoo's joy) | |
| mangrove | n | - | shrubmarsh;tree: loftroot | |
| mania | n | madness | - | |
| maniac | adj | mad, crazy | - | |
| manifest(ed) | adj | bald, ringing, straightforward, marked | sweetel (<OE sweotol)
obvious:opensightly (cf. NHG offensichtlich) | |
| manifest | vb | bespeak, give away
indicate:betoken | sweetel | |
| manifestation | n | - | sweetling, betokening | |
| manifesto | n | - | sweetling | |
| manner | n | way | erd (<ME <OE eard, cf. NHG Art)
lund | |
| mannerism(s) | n | quirks, wont (See MW or OED, not the same as won't) | thewes (<ME þeau, þeu (has multiple spellings) <OE þēaw, cf. Nhb. ðēow) | |
| manna | n | - | whitecorn (<OE hwītcorn) | |
| mansion | n | hall | hireyard (cf. Sw. herrgård)hire = mister | |
| mansuetude | adj | tameness, mildness | - | |
| manta ray | n | - | mantlereagh | |
| mantis | n | - | beadbug | |
| mantle | n | wrap; hood, shroud | - | |
| manual | n | handbook | - | |
| manual | adj | handly | - | |
| manually | adv | by hand | - | |
| manufacture | vb | frame, beframe, make up, think up, make | - | |
| manure | n | dung | - | |
| manuscript | n | handwrit | - | |
| Maoism | n | - |
Mao Zedong Thought/Mao Tsetung Thought/Mao Cetung Thought (Calque of the Ch. 毛澤東思想,Máo Zédōng Sī'ǎng/Mao2 Tze2tung1 Sih1ang3/Máŭ Cétǖng Sīh-ǎng/ㄇㄠˊㄗㄜˊㄉㄩㄥㄙㄤˇ), Maodom | |
| map | n | - | mete (<OE metan: to measure "to scale") landsheet (cf. Ic. landakort) | |
| marble | n | - | shinestone (Greek) | |
| march | n/vb | headway, onrish; stride
rim land: mark | - | |
| March | n | - |
Miremonth, Rethmonth (<OE Hreðmonað), Lyde | |
| Mardi Gras | n | Shrove Tuesday | - | |
| marijuana | n | hemp street talk:grass, weed | - | |
| marine | adj | sea-, mer(e)- | - | |
| marine | n | - | shipyæger | |
| marine park | n | - | water-frith | |
| marionette | n | - | stringdoll, marydoll | |
| maritime | adj | sealike | - | |
| marjoram | n | - | kingswort (<OE cyningeswyrt) | |
| market | n | - | chepstow (town on the Welsh border) | |
| marquess | n | - | athelman | |
| marriage | n | wedding, handfast, wedlock | gathership (<OE gaderscipe) | |
| marry | vb | wed, tie | awn | |
| marsupial | n | - | pursedeer (cf. Dn. pungdyr) | |
| martyr | n | - | bloot (<OE (ge)blot, 'sacrifice'), rood-bearer, cyther (<OE cyðere), witness (Gr. martyreo means 'I witness, I tell about'; Ar. also uses same root forwitnessandmartyr) | |
| martial art(s) | n | - | wyecraft(s) | |
| marvel | n/vb | wonder, wilder | - | |
| marvelous | adj | wonderful, wulderly, selcouth | - | |
| mask | n/vb | hide | grime (<OE grīma), mesh, greem (<OE, to show it is like grime, but not the same meaning as modern English) | |
| masochism | n | achelove, achelust | - | |
| masochist | n | seeksorrow, achelover, acheluster | - | |
| mason | n | stonecutter | stonewright, wallwright | |
| masonry | n | stonecraft, stonework | wallwork | |
| masque | n | - | meshplay | |
| masquerade | n | - | meshtumb | |
| mass | n | bulk, inweight, lot, deal, | - | |
| mass media | n | - | bulk means | |
| massacre | n | slaughter | - | |
| masticate | vb | chew | - | |
| master | n | head, lord | reeve | |
| mastodon | n | - | breasttooth (calque of Greek) | |
| masturbate | vb | frig (OE: frygian (“to rub, caress”)), wank | - | |
| match | n |
game, tie, head-to-head; mate, fellow; twin, lookalike; light(stick) | - | |
| material | adj | weighty | bodilike | |
| maternal | adj | motherly | - | |
| mathematics | n | - | rimecraft (<OE rīmcræft), tellcraft, reckonlore | |
| matrimony | n | wedlock | - | |
| matrix | n | womb; listing; spreadsheet | feedingbottom (Du. voedingsbodem); yetshape (calque of Du. gietvorm) | |
| matter | n | - | andwork (<OE andweorc), inting (<OE intinga) | |
| mature | adj | grown, ripe | - | |
| maxilla | n | jawbone | - | |
| maximum | n/adj | uttermost, utmost, most | - | |
| May | n | - | Threemilkmonth, (<OE Þrimeolce, Þrimilcemonað), Merrymonth | |
| mayhem | n | crippling, | - | |
| mayonnaise | n | yolkdip | - | |
| mayor | n | - | boroughreeve, townreeve, burgelder(<OE) | |
| mea culpa | my bad | by my misdeed, through my wrongdoing. | ||
| measure |
n/vb | beat,mete | meal (<OE mǣl) | |
| mechanics | n | - | workcraft (<OE weorccræft) | |
| media | n | - | means | |
| mediate | vb | - | formiddle (cf. NHG vermitteln) | |
| mediate | adj | halfway, midmost | - | |
| mediator | n | - | formiddler, makefrith, middleman | |
| medicine | n | healing (substance) | leechwort, leechdom (field of.), leechcraft (field of.), leechlore (field of.) , healcraft | |
| medieval | adj | - | middle eld | |
| mediocre | adj | middling, halfway | - | |
| meditate | vb | - |
hedge, huy (<OE hycgan) sin/sun (<OE sinnan) 'sun' by analogy to 'run' - <OE rinnan to avoid, negative connotation with "sin") smigh (<OE smeagan) smy (<OE smean) threed (<OE þreodian) forsink (calque of NHG versenken,senken "to lower" being a causative form ofsinken "to sink" akin to OE sencan) | |
| Mediterranean Sea | n | - | Wendlesea(<Vandal seafarers) | |
| medium | adj | - | evenspan, midbulky | |
| medley | n | mashup, mix | ||
| mega- | p
fx | - | mickle (<OE micel) | |
| megalodon | n | - | mickletooth (calque of Greek)
great-haye, great-highcarl, great dog fish | |
| megalopolis | n | - | mickleborough | |
| megaphone | n | bullhorn, loudhailer | - | |
| meiosis | n | - | frumecleaving | |
| melancholy | adj | dreary, heartbreaking, heartrending, mournful, saddening, teary; cast down, down in the-mouth, forlorn, gloomy, woebegone, sorrowful | - | |
| melee | n | tussle | - | |
| melody | n | - | gleestaff (<OE gliwstæf) lin (OE hlynian; cf. Ic. hljómr), earworm | |
| melon | n | - | rindberry, shellberry, barkberry | |
| member | n | limb, fellow, belonger, link | belongand | |
| membrane | n | film | skinkin (cf. NHG Häutchen) | |
| memory | n | mimor, mind's eye, mind's ear, min | eftminding, bemindings, inmind, mindskill, mindlikeness, yemind (<OE ġemynd) | |
| menagerie | n | - | housekeep (calque)
deerkeep, wightkeep wildhouse, deerhouse, wighthouse | |
| meningitis | n | - | brimshell addle | |
| menstrual | adj | monthly | - | |
| menstruate | vb | monthbleed | moonbleed | |
| mental | adj | mindly, inward, mindlike, mind- | - | |
| mentality | n | mindset, outlook | - | |
| mention | vb | name, speak of, say something of, bring up, hint at | - | |
| menu | n | - | walelist, mealsheet | |
| mercenary | n | - | hireling | |
| merchant | n | chapman, trader | - | |
| merchandise | n | wares, goods, stocks | - | |
| merchandising | n | - | (direct to public): delling | |
| merciful | adj | forgiving, mildhearted | - | |
| merciless | adj | ruthless | ||
| mercury | n | quicksilver | - | |
| mercy | n | kindness, ruth | milts (<OE) | |
| merge | vb | blend, meld | - | |
| meridian | n | high noon, high-water line | - | |
| merit | n | meed, worth | theen, winst (cf. Du. winst) | |
| merry-go-round | n | - | merry-werve | |
| Mesolithic | n | - | Middle Stoneseldth | |
| Mesopotamia | n | - | Bearithland(shortening of bear 'fertile' + rith 'stream')Twixtrith (meso =between) | |
| meson | n | - | midmote | |
| message | n | earful, tiding, wire, word | errandwrit, boding, errandbook (<OE ǽrendbóc)
beright (cf. Du. berecht) | |
| meta- | pref | over- | after- | |
| metal | n | - | bloom (<OE blóma), orestuff | |
| metamorphosis | n | - | forwandling (cf. NHG Verwandlung), overshift | |
| metaphor | n | kenning | - | |
| metaphoric(al) | adj | - | kenningly, kenning | |
| meteor | n | falling star, shooting star | strealer | |
| meter(poetry) | n | - | tal (<OE getæl 'rhythm, harmony') | |
| methane | n | - | firedamp | |
| method | n | way, means | thewline, shedding (cf. OE gescéad) | |
| metropolis | n | - | mickleborough | |
| Mexico | n | - | Moonsnavel | |
| mezozoicum | n | - | midlife eldth | |
| micro- | pref | small- | - | |
| microscope | n | - | speckseer | |
| Midgard | n | - | Midgarth, Midyard | |
| migrate | vb | - | outwander (cf. NHG auswandern) | |
| militarist(ic) | n/adj | hawk(ish) | - | |
| military | n/adj | landmight(ly) | ferd (<OE fyrd), campdom
expedition:axfaring (<OE æxfaru) | |
| militia | n | - | folkward | |
| millennia | n | yearthousands | thousandyears | |
| millennium | n | yearthousand | thousandyear | |
| millimeter | n | - | twisandbeat (Anglish "twisand" (million) + "beat" (measure)), twisandmeter(<E mete 'to measure', meter 'that which measures') | |
| million | n | - |
micklered (<OE mycel 'much, great' cognate to Gk.megas, "mega-" being the SI prefix for "million" + '-red, as in 'hundred') twisand (<Anglish twi- 'two' + -sand, as in 'thousand') | |
| mince | vb | - | hack | |
| mine (weapon) | n | - | delf:explosive: stillblaster | |
| mine (place from which ore is extracted) | n | - | groove (cf. Ger. Grube; Du. Groeve) | |
| mine | vb | delve | groove | |
| mineral | n | ore | - | |
| mini- | pref | small-, lesser | - | |
| minimize | vb | lessen, downplay, belittle | - | |
| minister | n | - | rede, ambighter | |
| Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (Stasi) | n | - | Ambight for Ricksickerhood (calque) | |
| ministry | n | - | ambight | |
| minstrel | n | gleeman, folksinger | - | |
| minor | adj | - | youngling | |
| minority | n | - | lesserness, lesserhood (cf. NHG Minderheit) | |
| minus | conj | min, less than, take away | ||
| minotaur | n | - | mazebull, bullman | |
| minute | n | - | mete, shortlog (cf. Latin minuta 'short note') | |
| miracle | n | flash, wonder | craftwork (<Ic.), wonderwork, tacen | |
| mirror | n | looking-glass | shewer (<OE scūwa + -er, cf. goth. skuggwa "mirror") | |
| misandrist | n | man-hater | - | |
| misappropriate | vb | steal | - | |
| misappropriative guest | n | - | stealguest (<OE stælġiest) | |
| misappropriation | n | stealing, theft | - | |
| miscellany(eous) | n/adj | clatter, jumble, kitchen-sink, mishmash, mixed | sundry | |
| misdemeanour | n | wrongdoing | - | |
| miser | n | tightwad, skinflint, niggard | - | |
| miserable | adj | black, bleak, cheerless, dark, forlorn, glum, godforsaken, grey, sullen; downcast, hangdog, woeful; wreatched; ratty, run-down, threadbear | yomer (<OE geomor) | |
| misery | n | angst, weakness, woe, sorrow, gloom, hardship | jermth (<OE iermðu)
wanshaft (<OE wansceaft) unlithe (<OE unlæþu) unseel (<OE unsælþ) wearing (<OE weargung) | |
| misfortune | n | mishap, harm | illfare, wanluck | |
| mismanage | vb | mishandle | - | |
| misogynist | n | - | woman-hater | |
| misotheïsm | n | - | mistroth, god-hating, hatred of god(s) | |
| misplace | vb | mislay | misstead, mis-stead | |
| missile | n | - | shot (<OE gescot, cf. NHG Geschoss)
warp | |
| mission | n | errand, undertaking, goal, task, ordeal | - | |
| missionary | n | sendling, errander | winfridsman, winfridster, winfridingman cf. Saint Boniface | |
| mitigate | vb | soften | - | |
| mitochondrium | n | - | mightcorn | |
| mitosis | n | - | brickdealing | |
| mitten | n | - | fistling (cf. NHG Fäustling)
fistglove (cf. NHG Fausthandschuh) want (cf. Du. want) | |
| mobile (phone) | n | handset, handcaller | handblower, handy (cf. NHG Handy) | |
| mock | vb/adj | man-made, sham; send up | - | |
| mockery | n | hoker (ME, <OE hōcor) | - | |
| mode | n | way, trend | ||
| model | n | - | pattern: forelay (cf. NHG Vorlage) dummy, forebeing | |
| modern | adj | newfangled | nowtide (cf. Sw. nutida), nowalike | |
| modernise | vb | - | benew | |
| modest | adj | down-to-earth, meek | cush (<OE cúsc) | |
| modesty | n | beshedness/ beshedhood (cf. NHG bescheidenheit, Du. bescheidenheid) | ||
| modify | vb | wend | awend | |
| modification | n | wending | awentness, awendedness
awending | |
| modulation | n | -stringbending | sparkwave
(music): wavebending | |
| moist | adj | damp, wet, watery | - | |
| molar | n | - | wongtooth (<OE wangtoð) grindtooth (<OE grindetoð) | |
| molasses | n | - | sweetsap | |
| mold | vb | build, make, shape | - | |
| moment | n | eyeblinck, flash, heartbeat, twinkling |
nutlog, eyeblinck, flash, heartbeat, twinkling, thraw (<ME þraw(e), <OE þrāg) pl: thrawü | |
| monarch | n | king | onewleld (<OE anwealda), self-reder | |
| monarchism | n | kingdom | self-reding | |
| monarchy | n | kingship | sunderwield (<OE sundoranweald), self-rede kineship | |
| monastery | n | bedestow | ||
| monasticism | n | - | brotherlife | |
| money | n |
gelt,geld (native), fee, brass, mint, silver, sterling, penny, tradeworth, slang: kale, dough, buck | shat (<ME schat) | |
| moneybag | n | sead (OE seod) | ||
| monitor | vb | watch, oversee | - | |
| monk | n | - | brother (<OE), lonelord | |
| monkey | n | - | tailape | |
| monkey-puzzle tree | n | - | tailape-puzzle tree | |
| monologue | n | - | lonespeech | |
| monopoly | n | onesell(calque) | - | |
| monster | n | fiend; dreadnaught | nicker (<OE nicor); unhire (cf. NHG Ungeheuer, Dan./Norw. uhyre) | |
| Montenegro | n | - | Blackhill, Blackberg | |
| monument | n | keepsake, token; gravestone, headstone | thinktoken (cf. W.Fr. tinkteken) | |
| monumental | adj | overwhelming | awe-inblowing | |
| moor | n | heath | - | |
| moose | n | (greater) elk | - | |
| moral | adj | - | sidely, sideful (OE sideful), thewfast (<OE geþéawfæst), thewful | |
| morality | n | uprightness | sideliness, thewfastness, douthness | |
| morbid | adj | cheerless, forlorn | - | |
| mordant | adj | biting | - | |
| morgue | n | deadhouse | - | |
| moribund | adj | dying, deathbound | - | |
| mortal | n/adj | deadly (adj); wight (n) | deathling | |
| mortality | n | death, end, ending, endless sleep, forthfaring, bane, Grim Reaper | diesomeness | |
| mortgage | n | wadset, homeloan | - | |
| mother nature | n | - | Lady Lund, motherkin | |
| mortuary | n | - | deadhouse, undertaker's, bodyroom, bodyhouse | |
| mosaic | n | - | shardbild | |
| mosquito | n | gnat, midge, midgy | bloodfly | |
| moth (native) | n | - | nightflinder (cf. NHG Nachtfalter) | |
| motion | n | - | shrithing,beweighing (cf. NHG Bewegung, Du. beweging), quickening, sway | |
| motionless | adj | stock-still | - | |
| motive | n | - |
rethe, frume ulterior: hinderthought (cf. NHG Hintergedanke) | |
| motor | n | - | wheels, drivework | |
| motorcycle | n | - | halfwain, halfwagon | |
| motorway | n | highway | - | |
| motto | n | saying | pithword | |
| mound | n | drift; heap; highland, rise, upland | - | |
| mount | n | hill | barrow, berry | |
| mounted | adj | on horseback | beriden (<ME beriden <OE berídan) | |
| mountain | n | barrow, berry | berg, highberg(not to mistake it for "burg"), fell
peak (OEpīc, Du.piek, Dan.pik) | |
| moustache | n | kemp | overbeard, snor (cf. Du. "snor", NHG "Schnurrbart"), gran (<OE "granu"), lipbeard | |
| move | vb |
shift; drive; stir; sway; set off; wade; rock (cf. NHG rücken) |
wander:shrithe (<OE scriþan 'to go, take one's way) beweigh (Dubewegen, be- +wegen) away: upshove (<OE oþscūfan) quicken | |
| movement | n | shift, stir; drive | shrithing
pol:beweighing (cf. NHG bewegung, Du. beweging) quickening | |
| movie | n | film, flick | quickie | |
| Mr, Sir | n | Lord |
Hire (<OE hearra, cf. NHG Herr) | |
| Mrs, Miss | n | Lady |
Frow (<OE frówe, cf. NHG Frau) | |
| mucus | n | slime, snot | - | |
| muffle | vb | shroud | - | |
| multiculturalism | n | - | felemenning (cf. Ic. fjölmenning) | |
| multiple | adj | many, manifold | - | |
| multiply | vb | manifold | - | |
| multi- | pref | cluster-, mani- | fele- (<OE fela-), fay (<OE fag fah brightly multicoloured) | |
| multi-language word | n | wanderword | - | |
| multi-purpose | adj | all-in-one | - | |
| multitude | n | crowd, throng, flock, folk, cluster, wave, mow, manifoldness | - | |
| mummy | n | - | linwrapped body | |
| municipality | n | - | meanth (cf. NHG Gemeinde) | |
| muscle | n | brawn, thew, sinew | mousock (Latinmusculus: 'little mouse'); musling ('little mouse') | |
| muscular | n | brawny, thewy, sinewy, thewsome | - | |
| muse | vb | mimmer/mammer | - | |
| museum | n | - | crafthall, yorehall; crafthouse; lorestead | |
| mushroom | n | toadstool | mosswort, mosswamb | |
| music | n | glee |
swin, swincraft (<OEgeswin "song" + craft) gleamlist(cf. Ic hljómlist), song, tonelist (from Icelandic), songcraft, gleecraft, swinsongcraft, | |
| musical | adj/n | - | songly, gleamwise (cf. Ichljómvís)theatre: songplay
movie: songfilm | |
| musician | n | gleeman, player, songwright |
swinsmith, dreamer (<OE dreamere) | |
| musicology | n | - | swinlore, gleelore | |
| mustard | n | - | sennep (<OE senep, but <late Latin <Greek, compare modern Italian, senape, so both roots are not Germanic) | |
| muster | n/vb | gather(ing) | fay | |
| mussel | n | - | ran (<OE hran) | |
| mutate | vb | shapeshift | shrithe, yondshape, wandle | |
| mute | adj | dumb, hushed, speechless | - | |
| mutilate | n/vb | - | overcripple | |
| mutton | n | sheepflesh | - | |
| mutual | adj | evenway | bothways | |
| mycelium | n | - | net (cf. Ic neti), swambnet | |
| myopia | n | near(-)sightedness, short(-)sightedness | - | |
| mystery | n | wonder, brain twister, beyond man's ken, hidden thing | rune (<PG) ghost-wonder (cf. OE gástgeryne) hiddle, mist hearing riddle | |
| myth | n | misth (shortening of mist + th); dreamtale, wondertale | ||
| mythology | n | folklore, dreamlore, wonderlore |
mistlore godlore | |
StaffO of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| obedient | adj | hearsome, law-abiding | bowel (<OE beogol), buxom, eathmood (<OE eaþmod) | |
| obedience | n | hearsomeness | buxomness, youngerdom, hearness, thegning | |
| obelisk | n | needle, shaft | stonerock (<OE stanrocc) | |
| obese | adj | full, podgy, overweight | fatsoughty (cf. NHG fettsüchtig) | |
| obey | vb | heed, fulfill, follow, bow, give in, give way, meet | - | |
| obfuscate | vb | becloud, muddy | - | |
| object | n | ware, thing, mark, body, goal, end | ||
| objection | n | gripe | gaintale | |
| objectionable | adj | - | frainworthy | |
| objective | n/adj | goal, target; fair-minded, open-minded | unsided | |
| objectivity | n | open-mindedness, evenhandedness | unsidedness | |
| obligate | vb | bind, make | - | |
| obligation | n | binding, making | needyness/neediness (<OE néadignes) | |
| obliged | adj | bound | writhen (<OE gewriþen) | |
| oblique | adj | slanting, sideways | - | |
| obliquely | adv | aslant | athwart | |
| oblivion | n | forgetfullness, unawareness | forgottenhood | |
| oblivious | adj | clueless, careles, heedless, unwitted | - | |
| obscene | adj | foul, lewd, shameless | - | |
| obscure | vb | darken, bedim, befog, overmist, overshadow | thester | |
| obscure | adj | thester, dim, unlit, swart, overmisted, shady | unswotel | |
| obsequious | adj | cringing, beggarly, bootlicking, brownnosing, fawning, groveling, sniveling, spineless | - | |
| observant | adj | awake, open-eyed | yeming | |
| observe | vb | follow, goose-step; eye, behold, catch, mark, look at, witness; mind, watch, keep an eye on |
yeme (<OE gieman), umwlat (<OE ymbwlātian) Beaughten (<NHG. beachten, beobachten) seeaught | |
| observer | n | witness, onlooker, beholder | - | |
| obsess | vb | grip | - | |
| obsidian | n | - | ravenflint (cf. Ic. hrafntinna)
rownglass (cf. Du. lavaglas) | |
| obsolete | adj | outworn, rust, timeworn | out of brook forold (cf. Dn. forældet/NHG. veraltet) | |
| obstacle | n | block, hurdle | - | |
| obstinate | adj | headstrong, willful, steadfast | - | |
| obstetrics | n | - | birthhelp (cf. NHG geburtshilfe) | |
| obstruct | vb | block, fetter, hamstring, shackle, hold up | forslow, forset (<OE forsettan) | |
| obstruction | n | hindering, hinderness, hitch | - | |
| obtain | vb | get, reap, win, net, come by, draw, land | fang, beget | |
| obvious | adj | straightforward | bare-nebbed, swotel | |
| obviously | adv | - | markedly
opensightly (cf. NHG offensichtlich) | |
| Óðinn/Odin | n | Weden, Woden | ||
| occasion | n | time; opening | sele (<OE sæl),meal | |
| occasional | adj | here and far between | - | |
| occasionally | adv | here and there, now and then | - | |
| occidental | n/adj | western | - | |
| occipital bone | n | - | skullend, backskull | |
| occupied | adj | busy, tied-up | beseted (cf. Du bezet, NHG besetzt) | |
| occupy | vb | - | beset (cf. Du bezetten, NHG besetzten) | |
| occur | vb | befall, happen, come about | sheen (<OE sceon)
betide | |
| occurrence | n | befall, happening | sheening (<OE ġescēon, cf. NHG Geschehen), belimp (<OE belimp) | |
| ocean | n | mere | highsea, fivelway (<OE fifelwæġ), whaleway (<OE hwælweġ, "sea")
highsea, worldwater, the blue moor, the floatway, sailroad, the bree, the brine, the foam | |
| octagon | n | - | eightside | |
| October | n | - | Winterfulth, Winterfulthmonth, Winterfullmoonmonth (<OE) | |
| octopus | n | - | armfish, eightfoot (calque from Greek), inkfish (calque from German) | |
| ode | n | song | ||
| odds | n |
likelihood; at odds: out of step | - | |
| odour | n | smell, stench | duft | |
| oenophilia | n | - | winelust | |
| oesophagus | n | - | kiteway | |
| offend | vb | smite, upset, gall, wound, anger | grill, shend
beloath (cf. NHG beleidigen) | |
| offensive | adj | loath,loathsome | - | |
| offer | vb/n | n: bid
vb: bequeath, agive | - | |
| offering | n | gift, handout | - | |
| office | n | - | ambight (calque), needright, note (<OE notu), shire, week (<OE wice) | |
| officer | n | beadle, sheriff | ambighter, ambight (<OE ambeht), shireman | |
| official | n/adj. | steward, sheriff, reeve; acknowledged | - | |
| -oid | sfx | - | -hue (<OW -hīwe) | |
| oil | n/vb | slick, wax, fat | lime, fattybree | |
| ointment | n | salve | - | |
| okay | adj | all right | - | |
| old fashioned | adj | stick-in-the-mud, old time, old world, old line | - | |
| Old Testament | n | - | Old Bond, Lawsetness (OE ǽgesetnes) | |
| oleaginous | adj | fatty | limy | |
| olfactory | adj | smell | - | |
| -ology | sfx | -lore | - | |
| omen | n | boding, foreshadowing, token, warning, straw in the wind, writing on the wall | foretoken | |
| ominous | adj | doomy, ill-boding, threatening | - | |
| omit | vb | leave out, drop | outlet (cf. NHG auslassen; pron. out-LET)
waylet (cf. Du. weglaten) | |
| omnipotent | adj | almighty | - | |
| omniscient | adj | all-knowing | - | |
| onomatopoeia | n | - | hearword,
clang-aping (calque of NHG. Schallnachahmung) wordmaking (calque of the greek onoma "word, name" + poiein "compose, make,"), loudwork (calque of NHG. Lautmalerei), loudedighting | |
| onion | n | - | ramson, chipe (<OE cípe) ramps (<OE hramsa) | |
| opera | n | - | singplay | |
| operate | vb | work, run |
medical: scythe, snithe bedrive (cf. NHG betreiben) | |
| operation | n | - | medical: scything, snithing
military/police: undertaking | |
| opinion | n | thought, think-so, | wen (<OE), atlum (<ON ætlum), meaning (cf. NHG Meinung), onsight (cf. NHG Ansicht) | |
| opossum | n | - | whitedeer (cf. Powhatan aposoum) | |
| opponent | n | witherling | withstander, witherman | |
| opportune | adj | timely, well-timed | haply (<OE gehæplice) | |
| opportunity | n | opening | - | |
| oppose | vb | be against, buck, withstand; fight | hild, sake (<OE sacan) | |
| opposite | n | - | gainmatch, witherdeal, gaindeal (cf. NHG gegenteil), withersake, witherthing | |
| opposite | adj | withering | overright (Dorset), athwart (with object), fornent (Northern) | |
| opposition | n | withstander | gainstanders, witherers | |
| oppressed | adj | downtrodden | - | |
| oppress | vb | tread down | aheavy (<OE āhefigan), athrutch (<OE āthryccan), offthrutch (<OE ofþryccan), fortheen (<OE forþēon), smite (<OE ġesmætean), thrysm (<OE ġeþrysmian), hollow (<OE hōlian), oversim (<OE ofersȳman), sweer (<OE swæran,weigh down) | |
| oppression | n | - |
nithe, thrutchness (<OE þrycnes) | |
| obrium | n | shame | - | |
| optimum | adj | best | - | |
| optimism | n | yaysaying, hopethinking | - | |
| optimist | n | yaysayer, hopethinker | brightsider | |
| optional | adj | can be waled, | corely | |
| oracle | n | - | godspeaker (<OE godspræce) | |
| oral | adj | uttered; unwritten, spoken | mouthly | |
| orange | adj | - | fall,yellowred (<OE geoluhread) | |
| orange | n | - | midricapple (cf. Du. sinaasappel; appelsien; NHG Apfelsine) | |
| orangutan | n | - | rutherwere
redape | |
| oratory | n | outswettling, beadhouse | ||
| orbit | vb/n | turn | spor, pathbow. | |
| orca | n | killer whale | ||
| orchestra | n | - | swaygathering, gleeband | |
| orchid | n | - | ballockwort (<ME beallocwirt) | |
| ordain | vb | doom; call | tee (<OE teon) | |
| order | n |
setup command: behest group: board, brotherhood, fellowship char: breed, feather, ilk, kind fettle, kilter |
fading (<OE fadian) command: befeal (<ME befelen, OE befēolan, cf. NHG Befehl) | |
| order | vb | bespeak, bid, behest
arrange:tidy, set up |
bebid (<OE bebod), behight (<OE behatan) command:befeal (<OE befēolan, cf. Du bevelen, NHG. befehlen), for delivery:bestell (cf. NHG/Du. bestellen) arrange: fade | |
| orderly | adj | smooth, well-run, shipshape, trim, spotless, tidy | - | |
| ordination | n | - | hoding (<OE hádung) | |
| organ | n | book; means, tool
biology: innard | workern (calque) | |
| organization | n | board, brotherhood, fellowship, body | shiplaying (cf Ic. skipuleggja) | |
| organize | vb | tidy (up), neaten; make up | stight, shiplay | |
| oriental | adj | eastern | - | |
| orifice | n | hole, mouth, opening | - | |
| origin | n | root, wellspring, beginning, birth, stem, |
ord
point:orspring cause: frume (<OE fruma) | |
| original | adj | first, new, fresh | ordly, orspringly (<NHG. ursprünglich) (see or- ), firstmost | |
| original | n | firstling | - | |
| originally | adv | at first | orspringly (<NHG. ursprünglich) | |
| originate | vb | stem, arise, come from | andstand (cf. NHG entstehen)
upspring (Eng.) | |
| ornament | n | - |
freatwing (<OE frætwung), gleng/gling (<OE gleng) moon-shaped: live (<OE hlīfa) | |
| ornament | vb | bedeck, deck, trim | - | |
| ornamentation | n | setoff, trim | - | |
| ornithology | n | - | birdlore | |
| orthodox | adj | mainstream; by-the-book | liefful (<OE léafful), bookly | |
| osprey | n | seahawk | - | |
| ossicle | n | - | earbone | |
| osteology | n | - | bonelore | |
| osteoporosis | n | - | bone brittling, bonebrittleness | |
| ostrich | n | - | strutter (<OE stryta) | |
| outcry | n | uproar | - | |
| outdated | n | outworn, rusty | tided out | |
| outmanoeuvre | vb | outsmart, outshine, outwit | - | |
| outperform | vb | outdo, outshine | - | |
| oval | n | - | eggshape | |
| overbalance | vb | slip, tumble, lose your footing; upset, keel over | ||
| overcharge | vb | overload, overweigh | - | |
| overemphasize | vb | overplay, overshow, overstrain | - | |
| ovum | n | - | eggling | |
| oxidize | v | rust, sour | ||
| oxygen | n | breath of life | chemistry:
sourstuffbreathloft | |
| oxymoron | n | - | sharpdull (calque) | |
| oyster | n | clam | - | |
StaffP of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | |
| Attested | Unattested | ||
| pabulum | n | fodder, food of thought | - |
| pace | vb/n | speed; step, walk, stride, tread | - |
| pacifier | n | soother | - |
| pacifist | n | dove | frithweaver |
| package | n | wrapping | - |
| paddle | n | oar | - |
| pædophile | n | - | childluster |
| pædophilia | n | - | childlust |
| pagan | n | heathen | - |
| page | n | side, sheet, leaf |
trammet (<OE tramet), leafside |
| pacify | vb | allay | smolten, befrith |
| pain | n | smart(ing), soreness, acheness, sorrow, care, teen(e) (obsolete), warch/wark (obsolete; k-form may be due to influence from Norse), woe | |
| painful | adj | acheful, nasty, sore, harsh, harrowing, smarting | - |
| paint | vb/n | mete (obsolete, but in the OED) |
meal (<OEmǽlan) n: farb (<OE færbu) |
| painting | n | meting (obsolete) | mealwork (cf. Ic.málverk) |
| pair | n | twain, twin, set | - |
| palace | n | hall | kingshouse, kingshome
kinghove (<OE cynehof), king's dwelling |
| palate | n | roof of the mouth |
goom (<OE góma) |
| palatine bone | n | - | goombone, roofbone |
| pale | adj | bleach, dull, fallow, light, washed-out; ashen, doughy, mealy, wan | - |
| pale | n | wall, weir | - |
| paleo- | pfx | ur-,or- | - |
| paleography | n | - | ur-/orwritelore |
| paleolithic | adj | - | ur-/orstonely, orstonish |
| paleontology | n | - | ur/orwightlore |
| palindrome | n | - | crabword, drowword |
| palisade | n | - | stakehedge, stakewall, stakework boardwall (<OE bredweall) |
| palliate | vb | whitewash; ease, soothe | - |
| pallid | adj | ashen, doughy, mealy, wan, ghastly, grey, bleak, white, sickly, ill | - |
| palmtree | n | - | folmtree, handtree |
| palpitate | vb | throb | - |
| pamphlet | n | flyer, folder, leafling | leafel |
| panaceä | n | heal-all (not common, but in OED) | allheal (calque) |
| pancreas | n | - | sweet kernel |
| pancreas(when used as a food) | n | gut bread | - |
| panda bear | n | - | (greater) catbear,
eastern bear, eyeshadowbear |
| Pangaea | n | - | Alland (all + land; calque) |
| pangolin | n | - | shaledeer (calque) |
| panic | n | fright | - |
| panorama | n | - | allsight; roundsight (cf. NHG Rundblick)
umsight(seeum-) |
| Panthalassa | n | - | Allsea (all + sea; calque), Worldsea |
| pant(aloon)s | n | breeches, britches, shorts, leggings, hosen, strides, slacks, legwear | - |
| pants, under- | n | undies, underwear, drawers | netherlings, underkegs |
| papaya | n | - | blasterapple (calque of Cuban Spanish "fruta bomba") |
| paper | n |
leaf, sheet, looseleaf | blade,
|
| para- | suffix | over- | |
| parable | n | likeness, byword | - |
| parachute | n | - |
fallward (calque of Frenchparachute,para (defense against) +chute (a fall) fallshirm (cf. NHG. Fallschirm, Du. valscherm) |
| paraclete | n | - | forverghost (<OE forforgast) |
| paradise | n | heaven, the afterlife | narxenwong (newtiding of OE neorxnawang; c.f. dark < OE deorc) |
| paradisiacal | adj | heavenly | heavenlike, narxenwongly |
| parallel | adj | akin, matching | getherwended, withstraight |
| parallelogram | n | - | akinside |
| paralysed(ysis) | adj/n | lame(ness), lamed | - |
| paramour | n | lover | leman |
| paranoia | n | mistrust | mad mistrust |
| paranoid | n | - | mad misgiver, overmistruster |
| paranormal | adj | otherwordly | overmean |
| paraphrase | n/vb | - | n. edwording
vb. edword |
| parasite | n | bloodsucker, free rider | sidefeeder (calque of Gk. parasitos,para (beside) +sitos (food) |
| parasitism | n | bloodsucking, freeriding | sidefeeding |
| parasol | n | sunshade | - |
| parchment | n | bookfell | - |
| parent | n | elder; father or mother, childrearer | may (<OE mǣġ) |
| parenting | n | elderhood, childrearing, raising children/a child | - |
| parenthesis | n | - | breeches |
| parents | n | elders, folks | mays (<OE mǣġas) |
| pariah | n | outcast, castoff, black sheep | - |
| parietal bone | n | - | skullwall |
| parish | n | - | bedeshire |
| park | n | - | parrock, eddish (not exact: yard, field)
deerton/deertown (<OE déortún) |
| parliament | n | - | folkthing (cf. Dan. Folketinget)
ledeward, lawmoot, landmoot (there were shire moots, so this is the whole land) |
| parrot | n | - | redemouth (<OE rēodmūða)
chatterbird |
| parsimonious | adj | mean, stinting, tightfisted | flint-skinning |
| parsley | n | - | crispleaf |
| part | n | deal, share, bit | - |
| part | vb | split, break, sunder | - |
| partake | vb | have | bytake, dealnim; thie (<OE þicgan; c.f. lie < licgan, buy < bycgan) |
| partial | n | - | bent (on), slanted (toward) |
| participate | vb | - | dealnim (<OE dælniman) |
| participation | n | - |
dealnimhood in the Eucharist: mansomeness |
| participant | n | - | dealnimmer |
| participle | n | - | dealnimmand (<OE dælnimand) |
| particle | n | mote, bit, crumb, mite, nip, shed; fleck, flyspeck, snip | wordlinggrammar |
| particularly | adv | namely, above all, all the more, at length, ever so, in the main, more than ever | hure (<OE huru), sunderly |
| partition | n | wall, wough | - |
| partner | vb/n | mate |
in crime: wisithe (<OE wīġesīþ) |
| parturition | n | childbirth, birthing | - |
| party | n | gathering, fungathering, merrymaking, bash | - |
| parvenu | n | upstart | - |
| pascal | adj | - | tholing |
| pass | vb | overtake, overstep
hand over, give | - |
| passage | n | path, way, pathway, footway, footpath | extract: plucking |
| passage of time | n | flow of time | timeflow |
| passenger | n | faregoer | faregest (cf. NHG Fahrgast)
byfarer |
| passion | n | love | lithenship (<NHG Leidenschaft) |
| passive | adj | idle | throwendly (<OE þrowiendlic) |
| passport | n | - | wayleave, fareford, trekford |
| past | n/adj | bygone, forgone, former, last | forthwist (<OE forðgewitan), forganghood (<NHG vergangenheit), forgonehood / forgoneness, foretide (cf. IC fortíð) |
| pasta | n | noodle | - |
| pasture | n | grassland, lea, meadow | leasow |
| patella | n | kneecap | - |
| paternal | adj | fatherly | - |
| Paternoster | n | Our Father | Lord's Bead |
| pathetic | adj | rueful, ruthful, sad | - |
| pathos | n | sadness | - |
| patience | n | forbearing(ness) | thild (<OE geþyld, cf. NHG Geduld) moodthwearness (<OE módþwǽrnes) |
| patient | adj | forbearing | thildy (<OE þyld, cf. NHG geduldig) |
| patria | n | homeland, fatherland, motherland | - |
| patriarch | n | elder, eldfather | highfather (<OE hēahfæder) |
| patriarchy | n | - | fatherwield |
| patrician | n | - | highholder (<OE héahealdor) |
| patricide | n | - | fatherslaughter, fathermurder |
| patrimony | n | fathersland | - |
| patriotic | n | home-loving | landtrothen, fatherlandish (calque) |
| patriotism | n | home-love, flag-waving (pejorative) | landtrothenness, fatherlandloving, motherlandtrothness |
| patron | n | backer, bestower | - |
| patronage | n | business, trade | - |
| pattern | n | cut, doing, doings,folkway, goings-on, layout, outline,setting, shape, set-up, warp & woof, way, ways, weave, web, yardstick | model:
Forelay (<NHG. Vorlage) |
| pause | n | break, let-up | - |
| paucity | n | lack, fewness | - |
| pavement | n | sidewalk, footpath, walkway | - |
| pay | vb | yield, buy (it)
set back(rearranging word order) | betale (cf. NHG bezahlen, Du. betalen) |
| payment | n | fee | betaling (cf. Du. betaling, NHG Bezahlung), scot |
| PDA | n | handheld | handheld reckoner |
| peace | n | frith, bliss | sib (<OE sibbe) |
| peaceful | adj | dovish | frithsome (cf. NHG. firedsam, Du vreedzaam) |
| peach | n | - | perseapple (ancient Greek calque) |
| peal | vb | ring, toll | - |
| peanut(OE from Latin) | n | earthnut, groundnut | - |
| pearl | n | - | seahurst, merhurst (<OE meregrot 'sea particle', <OE hyrst 'gem'), sandhurst |
| peasant | n | churl, boor, yeoman, husbandman, landman | - |
| peasant farmer | n | bour (<OE būr) pl: bours (<OE būras), cf. neighbour | |
| peculation | n | thefting | - |
| peculiar | adj | freak, unwonted | markingly (cf. Nw. merkelig) |
| pedagogue | n | teacher | - |
| pedal | n | footkey | - |
| pedal | adj | foot(ed) | - |
| pedantic | n/adj |
inkhorn(y), know-it-all, n: dryasdust | - |
| pedestal | n | - | footstone (<OE fótstán) |
| pedestrian | n | walker | footman, footfarer, footgoer |
| peel | n | husk, rind, shell, skin | - |
| peel | vb | rend, skin, shell, tear, pull off, slough off | - |
| peep | vb/n |
cast, eye slang: gander | - |
| pegasus | n | - | winged horse |
| pejorative | adj | slighting | - |
| pelican | n | - |
wanfoot dive-dapper or dive-dopper see OED entries |
| pellucid | adj | unclouded | - |
| pelt | n | fell, hide | - |
| pen | n | marker | writler, writingfeather, writingiron (<OE wrítung-ísen), writsax (<OE writ-seax), reed, quill (uncertain origin) |
| penance | n | bote | - |
| penchant | n | leaning, fondness | - |
| pencil | n | - | leadstick, graystick, writingstick |
| penetrate | vb | thrill, bore | - |
| peninsula | n | arm, foreland, headland, ness, spit | - |
| pentagon | n | - | fiveside, fivenook, fivedge |
| Pentecost | n | Whitsunday | - |
| penultimate | adj | last-but-one, next-to-last, forelast | - |
| penis | n |
pizzle, | brine hose(slang), bockler (Old Norse "bqllr") |
| penitence | n | rueness (<OE hreonisse), ruefulness, ruth | - |
| penurious | adj | stingy | - |
| people | n |
folk; throng(group of people) | lede (<OE lēod, cf. NHG Leute, cf. Du. lieden) |
| perceive | vb | see, grasp, behold, smell, smack, fang, wit, witness; make out |
yeme, onget bemark (cf. NHG./Du. bemerken) |
| percent | n | - | hundredth(s) |
| percentage | n | - | hundredmeal |
| perception | n | insight, grip, hold | yeming, onget undergetting, understanding, truetake, soothtake |
| percolate | vb | leach | - |
| perdition | vb | forelornness | - |
| peregrine falcon | n | duck hawk |
duckhawk, wanderfalk |
| perfect | adj | flawless; all-out, blank, blooming, clean, sheer, flat-out |
bild-board, swotel fulmade (cf. Du. volmaakt) |
| perfect | vb | hone, fullcome | - |
| perfidious | adj | unfaithful, untrustworthy | - |
| perforate | vb | riddle, thrill, stick, thirl/thurl (< OE thyrel, now obsolete or dialectal) | |
| perform | vb | do forth, do, behave, work, play |
uptread (theatrical; cf. Du. optreden) theen (<OE ġeþēon) |
| perfume | n | - |
duft, cride athelstench (<OE æðelstenċ) |
| perfunctory | adj | halfhearted, careless | - |
| period | n | while, timespan, time frame, spell | - |
| perish | vb | forfare, forworth, swelt (dialectal) | - |
| perjure | vb/ n | forswear, lie under oath, oathbreach, oathbreaking |
- |
| perhaps | adv | maybe, mayhap | byhaps, weenings (<OE wenunga) |
| perimeter | n | brim, hem, rim, skirt | mireline |
| perineum | n | bonch | - |
| permanent | adj | everlasting,eche (archaic), timeless, lasting |
highfast (<OE hēahfæst), |
| permafrost | n | - | everfrost |
| permission | n | letting, leave, green light, furlough | letship, thave (<OE þafian), tholing tithefinancial, lethood, letship |
| permit | vb/n |
green-light, leave, | thave (<OE þafian), thole tithe (<OE tiðian) |
| pernicious | adj | baleful, baneful | - |
| pernio | n | chilblain | - |
| perpendicular | adj | straight, upright | - |
| perpetually | adj | everlastingly, aye, unendingly | - |
| perpetuity, in | adv | forevermore | - |
| perplex | vb | bewilder | bewonder |
| persecute | vb | ail, hound | - |
| persecution | n | witch hunt, hounding | - |
| perseverance | n | sticktoitivenesss | - |
| persistence | adj | steadfastness | - |
| persistent | adj | steadfast, dogged, bound | - |
| person | n |
being, body, fellow, man, | lede/leed(e) (<OE lēod, cf. NHG Leute, cf. Du. lieden) mennish (cf. Du. mens; grammar: |
| personal | adj | selfly, monnly, self, own; inner, innermost, inmost; belittling; near; of oneself | mennishly |
| personality | n | egg, mood, selfhood, self | - |
| personnel | n | staff, men, ware | - |
| perspective | n | outlook, ken
edge of sight(point of view) | view, opinion: onsight (cf. NHG ansicht), outsight (Eng., cf. Du uitzicht, wist (native English kin to |
| perspicacious | adj | insightful, keen, shrewd | mindswotel |
| perspicacity | n | insightfulness, keenness, shrewdness | - |
| persuade | vb | bring, talk into, win over | beswipe (<OE beswapan) |
| pursue | vb | follow
a new path:tread, beat, | forfollow (cf. NHG verfolgen, Du. vervolgen) a new path:beshrithe (seeshrithe) |
| pertinacious | adj | headstrong, strong-willed | - |
| peruse | vb | look through, read through | - |
| pervade | vb | wade (archaic), go through, spread through, fill with | forwade(calque), yond-sprout? (<OE geondsprútan), throughthrust (<NHG durchdringen) |
| perverse | adj | overthwart | forchared, bewarped, thirtover, lewd, wayward, thrawn, forcouth, untoward |
| pervert | n | - | lewdster (Shakespeare),
rakehell |
| pervert | vb | - | bewarp, offset, froward |
| petition | vb/n | bene, beseech, beg, ask | - |
| pet-name | n | nickname | ekename |
| petrify | vb | - | stun (<OE stunian) |
| petroleum | n | black gold
(fuel:) leaded, unleaded | rock-lime (calque), stonesap |
| petticoat | n | - | smallpode (<"small" + OE "pād"), cloak,coat, and calque of MEpety coote, frompety (<Fr. Petit) + coat (<Frcote) |
| petulant | adj | sour, moody, waspish | - |
| pessimism | n | naysaying, gloomthinking | - |
| pessimistic | adj | downbeat, hopeless | - |
| phantasm | n | dream; shade, shadow, wraith | - |
| phantom | n | ghost | - |
| phalanx | n | - | speerlining |
| Pharisee | n | - | Sunderholies (<OE 'sundor-halgan') |
| pharaoh | n | king (of Egypt) | Sunking |
| pheasant | n | - | wildhen (<OE wildhænn)
woorhen (<OE wōrhana) |
| phenomenal | adj | outstanding, astounding | - |
| phenomenon | n | happening | - |
| -philia | sfx | -lust | - |
| philistine | adj | uncouth | - |
| philological | adj | ||
| speechwritlorish | |||
| philology | n | ||
| speechwritlore | |||
| philosophy | n | wisdom, world outlook | witlore, lorelief, wittinglove (calque) |
| phimosis | n | - | throttling |
| phlebotomy | n | bloodletting | - |
| phloem tube | n | - | wortrowel |
| -phobia | sfx | ||
| phobia | n | fear, misfear, fright, dread | - |
| phobic | adj | fearful | - |
| phoenix | n | - | firefowl |
| phone | n/vb |
n: blower, dog and bone, vb: ring, tinkle |
speechlore (linguistics): |
| phonetic | adj | - | dinly |
| phonological | adj | - | loudlorish, loudlore- |
| phonology | n | - |
reardwork, reardlore, clanglore |
| phosphorescent | adj | - | lightshedding |
| phosphorus | n | - | lightstuff |
| photograph | n | shot; lightshot | lightbilth (<IC. ljósmynd), lightwrit, lightdrawing |
| photography | n | lightshooting | lightbilthwrit, lightwritcraft, lightdrawingcraft |
| photon | n | - | lightmote, lightbit, lightgang (calque) |
| phrasal | adj | (grammar) bound, having many words but being one | wordstringly, quide (obs.) |
| phrase | n | - | wordstring,quide (obs.) |
| phylum | n | stem, stock, kind | - |
| physics | n | - | worldken |
| physical | adj | bodily, bodylike, wordly, earthly | lichly, lundsome |
| physician | n | leech | - |
| piano(forte) | n | - | beatharp/beat-harp (<IC slagharpa); keyharp |
| pickaxe | n | pike | - |
| picture | n | likeness, drawing |
bilth (<OE biliþ, lightdrawing |
| picturesque | adj | fair | wlitty (<OE wlitig)
elfsheen (<OE ælfsciene) |
| pie | n | - | rindcake |
| piece | n |
bit, snead, piece of art/music work |
of silver: silverling pl: steck (<OE stycce, cf. NHG Stück) |
| piecemeal | adv |
little by little, | steckwise (cf. NHG stückweise) |
| pier | n | landing, wharf, breakwater | - |
| pierce | vb | bore, hole; gore, spear | - |
| pigeon | n | dove | towndove, mean dove |
| pile | n | heap, hill, mound, mow(hay),swath(corn) | - |
| pillage | vb | sack | reave |
| pillar | n | mast, pole, stake | - |
| pilot | n | lodeman, skyship boss, foreflyer, loftman | skyward |
| pilot whale | n | - | grindwhale (calque) |
| pimple | n | wheal | - |
| piñata | n | - | wonderbag (cf. NHG "wunderhüte")
sweetpot |
| piña colada | n | - | mashed firapple (Spanish calque) |
| pinch | vb |
nip, squeeze, | - |
| pine | n | fir, firtree, evergreen (more general) | furrowwood (<OE furhwudu) |
| pineapple | n | - | firapple (cf. Ic. ganaldin) |
| pinecone | n | - | firtap (cf. NHG Kiefernzapfen) |
| pioneer | n |
groundbreaker, | foretrecker (cf. Du. Voortrekker) |
| pioneering | adj | groundbreaking, waymaking |
foremoving, |
| pious | adj | godly | arefast (<OE arfaest) |
| pip | n |
seed; bee's knees, day's eye | kern |
| pipe | n |
leat, |
rear (<PG *rauza-; |
| pirate | n | - |
seareaver, |
| pirate captain | n | - |
highseareaver, |
| pisiform bone | n | - | peabone, peashapebone |
| piston | n | - | sucker (cf. Du. zuiger) |
|
pity | n |
shame; | eärming (<OE earmung) |
| pivotal | adj | key | - |
| pizza | n | - | flatcake, clampcake |
| place | vb | lay, put, stow, put down | - |
| place | n | spot, berth | ord, stead, stow, lough (<OE lóh) |
| place, special | n | - | sunderstow (<OE sundorstow) |
| placenta | n | afterbirth |
mothercake (cf. NHG Mutterkuchen, |
| plagiarism | n | thought-theft | - |
| plague | n | outbreak | folkbane, blightdom, mancwalm/manqualm (<OE "mancwalm") |
| plan | vb | forethink, plot (origin unknown), draft, hatch | howe (<OE hogian) |
| plan | n | layout, outline, draft, framework | howe |
| plank | n | board, sill | - |
| plankton | n | - | drifter moss |
| planning | n | frame, layout, shape, look, mean | howing |
| planet | n | wanderstar, world, (heavenly) body |
tungel (<OE tungol), |
| plantation | n | - | wortfield, seed farm, sowing field |
| plasma | n | - | state of matter:stirloft (<IC rafgas)
blood:bloodslime |
| plaster | n/vb |
stickum; besmear | limecoat |
| plastic | n | - | newclay, hardclay |
| plateau | n | dish; headland | flatberg |
| plate of metal | n | - | clout (<OE clút), fat/fet (<OE fæt) |
| platform | n | deck, staddle; soapbox | flatstand, flatstead; flatpad |
| platinum | n | white gold | - |
| platitude | n | hackneyed saying | flatness (calque) |
| platypus | n | watermole, duckbill, duckmole | billwight (cf. NHG schnabeltier)
flatfoot (calque of Greek platypus) birdnose |
| pleasant | adj |
blessed, darling, dreamy, |
lief/ liefsome (Eng, NHG. lieb, faining, listing, |
| please | interj | kindly, gladly, fain, |
bid (cf. NHG bitte), |
| please | vb | gladden, list | queme |
| pleased | adj | blissful, thankful | eady, quemed |
| pleasing | adj | grateful, welcome | quemely (<OE cwémlic) |
| pleasure | n | lust, gladness |
quemeness(satisfaction), |
| plebiscite | n | - | folkfrain, folkcast, folksay
folkspoll, folksstevening |
| plectrum | n | pick | harpnail (<OE hearpenægel) |
| pledge | n | plight | - |
| pledge | vb | swear, sicker | - |
| plentiful | adj | rife, teeming, manyful | - |
| plenty | adv | enough/enow, many | weal |
| plethora | n | overflow | overmuchness |
| -plex | suf | -fold | - |
| plumage | n | feathers, featherware, hackles | - |
| plumber | n | - | leatfitter, bogfitter, johnman (slang), leadworker |
| plumbing | n | - | leadwork |
| plumbline | n | - | wall-thread (<OE weallþrǽd) |
| plunder | vb | - | stroud (<OE strūdian) |
| plunge | vb | dip, dunk, dive | - |
| plural | adj | - |
manifold(ly) (<OE manigfealdlic), manysome |
| plutocracy | n | - | gelddom, goldwield |
| pluvial | adj | rain | indicator: watergall |
| pneumatic | adj | of a woman: shapely | thringlofty |
| poem | n | lay, yed (in OED, <OE giedd) | leeth (<OE leoð), leethsong (<OE leoðsang), adight (NHG gedicht) |
| poet | n | scop, writer, dighter |
shop (<OE scop) |
| poetry | n | dighting | leethcraft (<OE leoðcræft), wordcraft, shopcraft |
| point | n | tip, tine, nib;
score; stake, log | Ord (Eng./NHG. but seldom) |
| point | v | token at
point out sth: betoken, | |
| pointless | adj | - | sakeless |
| poison | n | bane, gall, atter (obsolete or dialectal) | |
| pole (land/ physics) | n | axle | |
| polar (land/physics) | adj | - | axled |
| polar bear | n | - |
ice bear (NHGEisbär, |
| polar zone | n | land of the midnight Sun | everfrost belt |
| pole | n | - |
shot <OE sceāt |
| polecat | n | - | thummart |
| polemic | n/adj | rant | - |
| police | n | law, watchmen | warden |
| political | adj |
mootish | - |
| politician | n | lawmaker | - |
| politics | n | - | mootsmanship, kingspeak |
| pollute | vb | foul, befoul, make dirty | smear, besnit, besmut |
| poltergeist | n | - | dinghost, rumbleghost |
| polycephaly | n | - | manyheadedness |
| polygamist | n | - | maniwed |
| polyglot | n | - | tonguesmith, manytongue |
| polygon | n | - | manihern |
| polyhedron | n | - | manineb |
| polytheïsm | n | - | sundertroth |
| pomegranate | n | - | seedapple (calque) |
| pompous | adj | showy, overbearing; high-flown, boastful | - |
| ponder | vb | wonder, eye, think, weigh, wrestle with | hiler, smigh |
| pontoon | n | card game: twenty one | sundstall |
| pony | n | - | horseling |
| poor | adj | in need, on the breadline, wretched, ill-stared, needy | |
| pop (music) | n | folk | - |
| pope | n | Holy Father |
Romish headrunner Highfather (<OE héahfæder) |
| popular | adj | folkly, folkish | - |
| popularity | n | - | allthede-love (<IC alþýðu-lof) |
| populate | vb | - | befolk (cf. NHG bevölkern, Du. bevolken) |
| population | n | - |
population: befolking
indwellers, folk, erdeners, dwellerscore, ledescore, |
| population density | n | - | huddlemete |
| populous | adj | - | folkful, folkrich (calque of German) |
| populus assembly | n | - |
folkforsaming |
| porcelain | n | - | midricware (chinaware) |
| porcine | adj | piggish, swinish, boarish, hoggish | |
| porcine | n | pig, boar, hog, swine, sow, yelt | - |
| porcupine | n | - | quillpig |
| pore | n | hole, hidehole, skinhole | thirl, sweathole |
| pork | n | pig, swine | farrow (<OE fearh) |
| pornography | n | - | whoreshowing |
| porous | adj | holey, seepsome | siftful, thirl (<OE thyrel) |
| porpoise | n | mereswine | - |
| porridge | n | mush | - |
| port | n | harbour, haven | ford, hythe |
| portable | adj | - | ferryworth |
| portmanteau | n | - | word: mingleword (cf. Du. mengwoord) |
| portal | n | doorway, door, gate, gateway |
rother (<OE rodor) |
| portend | vb |
bode, by-sen, forerun, | - |
| portent | n | - | foretoken, boding |
| portentous | adj |
doomy, foreboding, | - |
| portion | n | deal, lot, share, dole | - |
| portrait | n | likeness (of) | bilth, mealing |
| position | n | berth | steadholding |
| positive (aspect) | n | upside | - |
| positive | adj | - | mathematics: overnaught |
| possess | vb |
own, owe; devilsicken, | - |
| possessed | adj |
devilsick, owned, ought, | - |
| possession | n | ownership, belonging, ought | ownedness (<OE anwædnesse) |
| possibility | n | likelihood, likeliness |
mailihood, acendliness (<OE ácendlicnes), acumendliness (<OE ácumendlicnes) |
| possible | adj | likely | maily (<FR mooglik) maybesome, doughtbefall, dowedbefall, hapsome, mightsome, within reach, acumendly (<OE ácumendlic) |
| possibly | adv | maybe, likely | maily |
| post- | pref | after- | - |
| posterior | n | rump, back(side) | - |
| posteriority | n | afterness | - |
| posterity | n | offspring |
- |
| post-existence | n |
afterlife, afterbeing, | - |
| posthuman | n | - | afterwere, gearwere, beyond mankind |
| posthumanism | n | - | afterweredom, gearweredom |
| postpone | vb | forestall, put off, call off | forshove (for-"away" +shove, cf. NHG verschieben),forslow |
| post script (p.s.) | n | afterthought | afterword, afterwrit (a.w.) |
| potassium | n | - | potash (pot-ash) |
| potato | n | spud, tater, tatty |
earthapple (cf. NHGErdapfel, |
| potential | adj | likely, maybe | maily |
| potential | n | strength, fitness, wherewithal | |
| potion | n | - | tiverdrink (cf. Du. toverdrank), lib |
| pouch | n | - | pung (<OEpung, cf. Sw., Dn.pung) |
| poultry | n |
fowl, barnyard birds, | - |
| pour | vb | teem, skink, shink, sie,yote |
yeat; birledrink |
| poverty | n | need, want; dearth, drought, | armth, armhood |
| powder | n/vb |
dust; beat, | |
| power | n |
grip, sway, strength, |
thrith (<OE thryth) wield/wold/wald (<OE weald) special: sundercraft (<OE sundorcræft) |
| power | vb | drive, feed | - |
| power line | n | - | spark rope |
| powerful | adj | heavy, mighty, strong |
thrythswythe (<OE þrȳþswȳð) |
| practical | adj | working; earthy, down-to-earth | - |
| practically | adv |
about, all-but, fair, fairly, | - |
| practice | vb/n | - |
n: oving |
| pragmatic | adj | hardheaded, down-to-earth | - |
| praise | n | - |
heriness (<OE herenes), |
| praise | vb | - | herry (<ME heryan) |
| pram | n | buggy | push-wainling (Barnes) |
| prayer | n | bead | ben, boon beadred (<OE bedræden), forben |
| prayerful | adj | - | beadful |
| pre- | pref | fore- | - |
| preach | vb | - | athelbid |
| preacher | n | - | athelbode (<OE éðelboda) |
| preamble | n | foreword, inleading, forespell | - |
| precaution | n | forecare | - |
| precede | vb | herald, forerun | - |
| precinct | n | space: pen pedestrian zone: walkway | - |
| precipitation | n | rainfall, snowfall, downsheet, breefall | downsheet |
| precious | adj | dear, dearworth, dearworthly | - |
|
preciousness | n | dearworthiness | - |
| precise | adj | - | - |
| precisely | adv | well | - |
| preclude | vb | forestall, foreclose | - |
| precocious | adj | ahead | rathe-ripe, rathish |
| precognition | n | foreknowledge, foreboding | - |
| precursor | n | forerunner, forebear | - |
| predator | n | hunter (in some contexts) |
reavedeer (cf NHG.Raubtier, |
| predecessor | n | forerunner; forebear, forefather | foreling(by analogy to afterling) |
| predestination | n | wyrd/weird, doom |
weird, coring, |
| predetermine | vb | foredoom | - |
| predicament | n | swamp, catch 22, sticky wicket | hardfettle |
| predict | vb |
foretell, foresay, foresee, | - |
| prediction | n |
foretelling, foresight, foretelling, | - |
| predominant | adj | overweighing | - |
| preëminent | adj | foremost | elderdomly (<OE ealdordomlice) |
| preëxistence | n | aforeness, beforeness, forebeing | - |
| prefabricated | adj | ready-made, ready-built, forewrought | fore-timbered(houses) |
| preface | n | foreword |
throughlook(ing) |
| prefect | n | - | fyrdenhighshireman |
| prefer | vb | forechoose, (would) rather | beliken |
| preferable | adj | - |
liever, as lief |
| preference | n | - | beliking, forechoosing |
| prefigure | vb | foreshadow, foreshow | - |
| prefix | n | - | forefastening |
| pregnant | adj | with child, heavy (with child) | bearing |
| prehistoric | adj | - | yesteryorely |
| prehistory | n | - | yesteryore
study:forewritlore |
| prejudice(al) | n/adj | foredeem(ing) | - |
| prejudge | vb | foredeem | - |
| prelude | n | foreword, warm-up | forspell |
| premature | adj | untimely, unripe | foreripe |
| prematurely | adv | beforehand, oversoon | - |
| premeditated | adj | forethought | - |
| premier | adj | foremost, first | - |
| premise | n |
given, if; toft (building site') | forehedging |
| premonition | n | forefeeling, foreboding | - |
| preoccupy | vb |
- | forebusy |
| preparation | n | - |
reening, readying, foregearing, |
| prepare | vb |
taw, fit, fix, groom, lay, ready; | reen (<OE renian), |
| prepared | adj | ready, tawed, neat, foreworked, forereadied | - |
| preposition | n | - |
foreput, foresetness |
| prepuce | n | foreskin | - |
| prequel | n | - | forefollow, forebook |
| prerequisite | n | - | foreneed |
| prescience | n |
foreknowledge; | forewisdom |
| prescient | adj |
farseeing, farsighted, | - |
| prescribe | vb | lay down | forewrite |
| presence | n | sight; look, outside |
bybe (cf. Du. bijzijn), |
| present | adj |
in; ongoing, nowaday, |
onbe-ish, nowa |
| present | n |
here and now, today; gift, handsel |
nowtide, nowtime, nonce, |
| present | vb |
show; give, bestow, furnish, |
foredraw/foredrag submit:forelay (cf. NHG vorlegen) |
| Presentation of the Lord | n | Candlemas | - |
| presentiment | n | forefeeling | - |
| preserve | vb | forlast, hain, keep, uphold, aspare | |
| preside | vb | steward, overlook | foresit over |
| president | n'" | - |
foresitter(calque), |
| press | vb | thring, thrutch | - |
| press down | vb | - | bethryck (<OE beþryccan) |
| pressure | n | - | thringmight, thryck |
| presume | vb | foreguess, daresay | athrist (<OE áthristian) |
| presumably | adv | likely, seemingly | |
| presumptuous | adj | uppity, overweening, daring | - |
| presuppose | vb | - | forettle, forise (<OErǣswian) |
| pretender | n | would-be | - |
| pretense | n |
put-on, show; high horse | - |
| pretentious | adj | showy, hoity-toity, over the top, kitsch | - |
| prevail | vb | hold up, keep up, last | throughswithe (<OE þurhswiðan) |
| prevent | vb |
hinder, forcome, forbid, | let (<OE lettan), forstand |
| preview | vb/n | forelook, forepeek, foreshow, foreshowing | - |
| previous | adj | former, last, latter, foregoing, earlier, yester | - |
| previously | adv |
afore, already, before, | - |
| prey | n | (the) hunted (in some contexts) | feng (<OE) |
| price | n | outlay, worth | |
| pride | n | - | unmoodness (<OE unmōdnes) |
| prima donna | n | leading lady | - |
| primacy | n | - | foremostness, elderdom (<OE) |
| primary | adj | foremost, first, erst, main | - |
| primer | n | - | futhorc writ, firstbook |
| primeval | adj | hoary, olden | - |
| prince | n | atheling, highness |
high earl, kingling, |
| princess | n | highness |
queenling, high earlin, fo(u)rstin |
| principality | n | - | frimdom (<OE fruma), high earldom |
| principle | n | - | howing, eldertruth |
| principle | adj | main, foremost, first, head | - |
| vb | - |
thrick (<OE þryccan), forlau, outlay | |
| printing press | n | - | thrycker, thringing thryckcalque |
| prior | adj | before(hand), earlier | - |
| priority | n | right-of-way | forerank, foreweight, oreness, beforeness |
| prism | n | block | andleamer |
| prison | n | clink, lockup | dung [pluralding] (<OE dung) |
| prisoner | n | inmate | haftling (<OE hæftling, cf. NHG Häftling) |
| pristine | n | earliest, firstness, spotless, yoreness, orhood | - |
| private | adj | hushed |
dern, onelepy (<OE anlipig), |
| privilege | n | right, freedom |
sunderfreedom (<OE), |
| privileged | adj | gifted | - |
| privy | n | outhouse | dern |
| pro | n | craftsman | |
| probable | adj | likely | - |
| probably | adv |
likely, in all likelihood, |
trueshinely |
| probity | n | uprightness | - |
| problem | n | worry, kinch, bugbear, reck, hang-up, hitch, snag, rub | - |
| procedure | n | - | forsetting (cf. Da. fortsætte, Sw. fortsätta) forfareld |
| proceed | vb | go forward/forth/on/ahead |
yede, forfare (cf. NHG verfahren), |
| proceeding | n | - |
foregoing, |
| process | vb | - |
forework, forthfaring, |
| process | n | - |
foregang (cf. NHG Vorgang), |
| processor | n | computer: mainframe | telcruncher, reckoner |
| proclivity | n | forelike, forelove | towardbend |
| procrastinate | vb | forresten | |
| procreäte | vb | beget, breed | - |
| procurator | n | - | highshireman (<OE hēahscīremann) |
| procure | vb | - | beshape (cf. NHG beschaffen) |
| product | n | ware | - |
| productive | n | waresome, thrifty, yoelding | - |
| prodigy | n | - | wonderchild |
| prodigal | adj | spareless | unbridled, feespilling |
| produce | vb/n |
vb: beget, breed, bring about, n: handiwork, output, thing, | forthbring |
| production | n | yield, output, handiwork | forthbringing |
| productive | adj | - | forthbear (<OE forþbære) |
| proem | n | foreword | - |
| professional | adj | skilled | - |
| professional | n | worker, craftsman | - |
| professor | n | lorespeaker, loregiver | - |
| profit | n | gain, boot, yield, winnings, earnings | - |
| profitable | adj | worthwhile | - |
| proficiency | n | skill | - |
| profound | adj | underlying, deep | - |
| profoundly | adv | underlyingly, deeply, groundly | - |
| profusely | adv phr | flow thickly, running overly, teemingly | - |
| profusion | n | beteeming | - |
| progenitor | n |
begetter, elder(s), father(s), | - |
| program | n | - | foredraught, broadcast, sending (see source code) language: draft writ |
| progress | n | inroads, headway |
forthship (<OE forþscype) forthstride |
| progressive | adj | forward, late; broad-minded; cutting-edge | forblowing |
| prohibit | vb | forbid, forfend | - |
| project | n | work | howe, goalwork |
| projector | n | beamer | - |
| prokaryote | n | - | forenut, forekern (calque) |
| prolific | adj | fat, lush, rich | birthy, broodful, birthful |
| prologue | n | foretale | - |
| promise | n | behight, oath, troth, foreword, | - |
| promise | vb | behight, swear; forebode | forspeak (NHG. Versprechen) |
| promontary | n | headland, foreland, ness, hoe | - |
| promote | vb | uprear, (up)further, boost | - |
| prone | adj | given, open; helpless |
alout (<OE áloten) onfally (<NHG.anfällig) (seeonfall) |
| pronghorn antelope | n | - | tinedeer, outrunning tinehorner |
| pronoun | n | - | byname (<OE binama), forename (<OE forenama) |
| pronounce | vb | - |
speak out/outspeak |
| pronunciation | n | - |
wordway loudcarve (<IC. hljóðkerfi) outspeech how to say [it] proper/correct:' rightsteven |
| proof | n | witness |
shedding |
| propel | vb | thrust, drive, drive forth | - |
| proper | adj | fitting, meet, seemly, right, true,echt | bedavenly (<OE gedafenlic) |
| property | n | ownings, holdings; hallmark, belongings |
ownhood,owndom (<NHG. eigentum) private: sunderfee (<OE sundorfeoh), |
| prophesy | vb | foretell, foresee, soothsay | - |
| prophesy | n | foresight, boding, foretelling, soothsaying | - |
| prophet | n | seer, soothsayer, foresayer (Sir John Cheke) | - |
| proposal | n | forthput | - |
| propose | vb | put forth, forthsay | - |
| propriëtor | n | householder, owner, landlord/lady | - |
| propulsion | n | thrust | - |
| proscribe | vb | forbid | - |
| prosecute | v | - |
forfollow |
| prosecution | n | - | forfollowing (cf. Du. vervolging, NHG verfolgung) |
| proselyte | n | freshman (Sir John Cheke) | - |
| prosopagnosia | n | - | neb blindness |
| prosper | vb | thee | - |
| prosperity | n | theedom | forblowing (<OEblowan) |
| prosperous | n | lush | theely |
| prostitute | vb | whore | - |
| prostitute | n | hooker, whore, streetwalker, hustler | - |
| prostrate | adj | aground | - |
| prostrate oneself (to) | vb | lay aground before | hien (<OE hīenan, lit. "to lie prostrate") |
| protagonist | n | - | headfellow (cf. Dan. hovedperson) |
| protarchæopteryx | n | - | foreorfowl, first orbird |
| protect | vb | ward, shield, forstand | - |
| protection | n | shield, ward | lewing (<OEhleowung) mundwist (<OEmundwist) |
| protective | adj | - | mundly (<OE mundian), wardly |
| protector | n | warden | holdand (<OE healdend) |
| protégé | n | ward | - |
| protein | n | - | eggwhite (cf. NHG Eiweiß, Du. eiwit) |
| protest | n/vb |
uproar, outcry |
forstride |
| Protestant | adj | - | gainstish, fortrothen |
| Protestant | n | - |
gainsayer, fortrothen |
| proto- | pref | or-,ur- | - |
| Proto-Germanic | n | - | ortheedish |
| proton | n | - | firstbit |
| protoplasm | n | - | orslime |
|
protrude | vb | stick out, jut | - |
| protuberance | n | outgrowth, | - |
| proud | adj | showy, overbearing, lofty, stout |
rank (<OE ranc) |
| prove | vb | show, truthen | soothe (OE 'soþian,' ME 'sothen')
bewise |
| proverb | n | byword, saying, saw, folksay(ing) | - |
| provide | vb | afford, feed, give, hand over | beheft |
| province | n | - | landshare; outland, folkshire (<OE folcscearu) |
| provocation | n | - | greming (<OE gremung) |
| prow | n | foreship | - |
| prudence | n | forewit, sparefulness, wariness, wisdom | flackheadedness (flack 'level' <Fr, Du.) |
| prune | n | plum | - |
| pruning | n |
shredding/shreading | |
| Prunus Spinosa | n | blackthorn, sloe | sloethorn (<OE slāhþorn) |
| Prussia | n | Pruceland, Leatherland | |
| pry | vb | 1. key-hole 2. uproot | - |
| prying | n/adj | key-holeing | - |
| pseudo- | n | fake, -like | lease- |
| psychedelic | adj | - | soulkithing, mindopening, mindrooming, soulopening (cf. Sw. "själsöppnande") |
| psychiatrist | n | shrink | mindhealer, soulkithler, mindlore(wo)man |
| psychiatry | n | - | soulkith (cf. Du. seelkunde), mindkith |
| psychic | n | - | soulsman, mindsman |
| psychic | adj | - | soulish, mindish |
| psychologist | n | shrink | mindlorer, mindloreman |
| psychology | n | - | mindlore |
| psychopath | adj | - | mindsick, mind-ill |
| psychotropic/psychoactive | adj | - | mindwending |
| pubic bone | n | - | shamebone |
| pub(lic house) | n | inn, alehouse, boozer | - |
| public | n | - | openlihood (cf. NHG Öffentlichkeit) |
| public | adj | open, mean | - |
| public servant | adj | - | theen, onbidsman |
| public toilet | n | - | outhouse |
| publication | n | - | foropening (cf. NHG veröffernlichung) abaning |
| publish | vb | forthset, bring out; forthsend | lay down:forlay (cf. NHG verlegen), outlay, foropen aban (<OE abannan), |
| publisher | n | - | forlayer, forlay house (cf. NHG verlag) abaner |
| pulsate | vb | beat, throb | - |
| pulse | n | 1. beat, throb 2. bean | - |
| pumice | n | - | foamstone |
| pumpkin | n | marrow | tillberry, harvestball |
| punch | vb | clout | handstrike, fiststrike, dunch |
| punctuation | n | - | tokenmark, tokensetting (cf. NHG Zeichensetzung, Dan. tegnsætning) |
| punish | vb | strafe | witten (<OE wítnian) |
| punishment | n | strafe | wittening (<OE wítnung) |
| pup | n | whelp | - |
| pupil | n | of the eye: strale | - |
| puppet | n | cat's paw | handdoll (cf. NHG Handpuppe) |
| purchase | vb | buy, take | - |
| pure | adj | clean, sheer, white | swotel (<OE sweotol) |
| Purgatory | n | - | Sweepfire (cf. NHGFegefeuer), Otherworld |
| purge | vb | cleanse | furb |
| purify | vb | cleanse | beswotel |
| purple | n | - |
bawse (<OE basu), |
| purple dye | n | - | welktallow (<OE weoloctælg) |
| purple martin | n | - | bawseswallow, bleeswallow |
| purpose | n | sake, goal | - |
| pursue | vb | follow, shadow, tail | - |
| pursuit | n | following, shadowing, tailing | woath (<OE wāþ) |
| purveyor | n | monger | - |
| pus | n | atter | - |
| push | vb | shove, thrust, thrutch | outarm |
| pustule | n | pock, w(h)eal, whelk | |
| putrefaction | n | rot(ting) | addleness |
| puzzle | n/vb | brainteaser, riddle | - |
| pygmy | n | dwarf; Tom Thumb | - |
| pyramid | n | - | fourflat (cf. Du. viervlak) |
| pyromania | n | - | firemadness |
| pyromaniac | n | - | firesetter |
| pyrophobia | n | - |
fireawe, firefear, baleyse (<OE bælegsa) |
StaffQ of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| quadrilateral | n | - | fourhook (cf. Du. vierhoek) | |
| quadrupedal | adj | four-footed | - | |
| quadruple | vb/adj | fourfold | - | |
| quadruplet | n | - | fourfoldling | |
| qualification | n | if | orskill | |
| qualify | vb | fit, ready | - | |
| quality | n/adj |
n: standing; hallmark, kind adj:worthy, blue-chip, four-star, gilt-edged, groovy, keen, lovely, sterling, tip-top, topping, wonderful slang: cool, out-of-sight |
suchness (<OE swilcness), ownship (cf. Du. eigenschap, NHG Eigenschaft, Sw. egenskap) special: sunderkind (<OE sundorgecynd) | |
| quantity | n | boatload, bunch, bundle, deal, handful, heap, hundred, lashings, loads, sheaf, shipload, stack, wealth |
yelm mickleness, muchness (<OE micelnes) | |
| quarry | n | stonepit, stone-bed | delvern | |
| quarter | n | fourth, farthing | - | |
| quartz | n | - | hardstone (calque) | |
| quasi- | pref |
almost, nearly, nigh- | - | |
| quay | n | wharf | - | |
| quest | n | fare, hunt | - | |
| question | n | asking, bidding | ask-thing; frain (<ME<OE fræġn, cf. NHG. fragen, Du. vragen), befraining | |
| question | vb | ask, bid | frain, befrain (<OE befrinan) | |
| questionable | adj | dodgy, iffy, shady, shaky | frainful, frainworthy cwalmy, cwalmworthy, askworthy, bidworthy | |
| queue | n | row, line | - | |
| qui pro quo | phr | misunderstanding | - | |
| quid pro quo | phr | back-and-forth, trade-off | - | |
| quiet | adj | hushed, still; low-key; hidden, sheltered, | roolie swey (<OE swige) | |
| quieten | vb | lull, settle, soothe, still; hush | beroo (cf. NHG beruhigen), swey | |
| quietness | n | stillness,roo | - | |
| quince (fruit) | n | - | codapple (<OE coddæppel) | |
| quintessential | adj | - | swotelsome (OE sweotol) | |
| quit | vb | step down; give up, knock off; forsake, allay, end | - | |
| quite | adv | altogether, wholly; kind of, more or less, much, fully, even, evenly, fairly | - | |
| quote | vb | - | twinspeak | |
| quotidian | adj | daily | - | |
StaffR of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | |
| Attested | Unattested/Obsolete | ||
| rabbit | n | hare | rob (<Flem. or M.Du. robbe "rabbit") |
| raccoon | n | washbear | - |
| race | n | kind, stock | strain (<OE strynd) sley (<NHG Geschlächt) |
| radar | n | - | forereader, far reader, wavereader, wavemeter (with the element "-meter" based on the verb OE - metan) |
| radiant | adj | shiny, bright, beaming, glowing, gleaming | throughbright (<OE þurhbeorht) |
| radiate | vb | shine, gleam, shed, send out, beam | - |
| radio | n/adj | wireless(gadget) | funkbox (<OE funcia "spark" + box, cf. NHG Funkgerät)
livebox |
| radioactive | n | lightrotting | |
| radiotelegraphy | n | broadcasting | - |
| radio wave | n | ringwave | funkwave (cf. NHG Funkwelle) |
| radius | n | - | spoke, halfspan |
| rage | n | wrath | greme (<OE gremian) |
| railroad | n | - | ironroad, ironpath, sporroad (<OE spor) |
| rancid | adj | rotting, reeking, smelly, stale, foul, dank, rank, taff | - |
| random | adj/n | hit-or-miss, slay, may-fall, pot shot. |
fallenly, tofally (cf. NHG zufällig) willcury (calque of Du. willekeurig, with the element "-cury" based on OE -cyrge in wælcyrge "Valkyrie") seeThe word "random". |
| random page | n | - | willcury trammet; may-fall leaf. |
| range | n | reach, stretch | - |
| ranger | n | keeper, warden, overseer | upseer (cf. NHG aufseher) |
| rank | n |
row, standing, | hoad (<OE hád) |
| rankle | vb | gall, irk | - |
| rape | vb/n | - | needheemed (<OE níedhæmed) |
| rapid | adj | fast, quick, speedy, swift | snell |
| rappel | vb | abseil | - |
| rare | adj | seldom, seldseen, unlikely, fewsome, | seldsome,seldly |
| rarely | adv | seldom | - |
| rarified | adj | fewsome, thin | - |
| rarify | vb | make seldom | beseldom, selden, befew, bedearth, thin |
| rarity | n | seldiness, seldomhood, dearth, fewness | - |
| raspberry | n | -hindberry | hindberry (cf. Dn. hindbær) |
| rate | n | speed | runledge, setledge |
| rational | adj | well-grounded, wise |
shedwise (<OE scéadwís), angetful |
| rationalism | n | - | anget, shedwiseness |
| ravage | vb | - | forspill |
| ravine | n | chine, gap, ditch, gulch, ghyll | crundle (<OE), cloughdale (cf. Du. kloofdal) |
| ray (of light) | n | beam | streal/streel (<OE strǽl, cf. NHG Strahl; the vowel would be expected to be variable in ME as inspeech, seed, deed) |
| ray (animal) | n | - | reagh (<OE reohhe cf. NHG Rochen, Du. Rog) |
| razor | n | shaver | - |
| re- | pref | with-,gain- | and- (obs.) , ed- (obs.) , eft- (obs.) |
| realise/ realize | vb | find out, get on, wise up, dawn upon | bemark (Du./NHG.bemerken)
beaughten (NHG.beachten) |
| real | adj | true, heartfelt; weighty, out-and-out,echt | sooth |
| real estate | n | - | fastgood (cf. Du. vastgoed) |
| reality | n | being, truth, | wareness/warehood(calque), soothness
workliness/worklihood (cf. Du werkelijkheid/ NHG. Wirklichkeit) |
| really | adv | truly | soothly, sooth
echtly |
| realm (royal) | n | kingdom | - |
| realm | n | world, land, | - |
| reason | n/vb |
grounds, wherefore, why, sake vb: reckon, make out, work out faculty: mind, brains, understanding | frum (<OE fruma) inthing (<OE intinga/inþing) |
| reasonable | adj | well-grounded | shedwise (<OE scéadwís)
shedly (<OE gescéadlic) |
| rebel | n | withstander | withercor (<OE wiðercorra)pl:withercorren (<OE wiðercorran);upstander, upstandling (cf. Du. opstandeling) |
| rebel | vb | rise up | withsee (<OE wiþsēon), withfight (<OE wiþfeohtan)
upstand (cf. Du. opstand; pron. up-STAND) |
| rebellion | n | outbreak, uprising | upstand (cf. Du. opstand; pron. UP-stand) |
| rebellious | adj | - | upstandy (cf. Du. opstandig) |
| rebuke | vb | threap, chide, tick off; berate, call down | strife, threw/threaw (<OE þrēawan), forquethe (<OE forcweþan) |
| recall | vb | withcall, withdraw, bethink | withmind, call to mind, think back to |
| recapitulation | n | going over again | withspelling (<OE eftspellung), withhaul (cf. NHG wiederholen) |
| receive | vb | get, win, earn, take | beget
thedge (<OE thicgan),
fang (<OE fōn) |
| receipt | n | sales slip, sales stub | |
| recently | adv | lately, newly | tidely, shortago |
| reception | n | welcoming | |
| recite | vb | yarn, reel off | reich |
| recline | vb | lie back, lie down, stretch heel | - |
| recognise | vb | acknow, acknowledge | yeme, onget (<OE ongietan) |
| recommend | vb | - | ettle, befeal (<NHG. empfehlen) |
| recompense | n | - | gainyield |
| reconsideration | n | afterthought, | edsmighing |
| reconcile | vb | key | braid up |
| reconciliation | n | - | andweaving |
| record | v | log, write down, list sound or video: tape | fortoken (cf. NHG verzeichnen, Swed. förteckna) |
| record | n | log | lorekeep |
| recover | vb | heal, win back, take back | intrans: edworp (<OE edwyrpan)
trans: agive (<OE agifan) edtake ( using ed+take ) |
| recovery | n | comeback, pick-up, upwend, upswing, healing | edworping (<OE edwyrping), greenshoot |
| recreätion | n | 1. fun and games | 2. andweaving |
| recriminate | vb | - | threap, blackblame |
| recruit | vb | fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, newcomer | inspan |
| rectangle | n | - | righthook (cf. Du. rechthoek) |
| rectum | n | - | endtharm (calque, seetharm) |
| recurrence | n | comeback, flashback | withhauling (cf. NHG wiederholung) |
| recurrent | adj | on-and-off | andbearing (<OE býrian 'to happen, pertain to, belong to')
withhauled (cf. NHG sich wiederholend) |
| redeem | vb | - | alease (<OE aliesan) |
| redemption | n | - | eftleesing (<OE eftlésung) |
| red ochre (Fe2O3) | n | - | ruddle |
| redo | vb | - | withdo |
| reduce | n | lessen, lower | - |
| redundance | n | - | eftflowing (<OE eftflowung) |
| refer (to) | vb | hint | forwise (to) (cf. Du. verwijzen; NHG verweisen)
mind, ettle |
| referee | n | shedsrighter (like Dutch scheidsrechter) | |
| reference | n | hint, underlying meaning | betug (cf. NHG bezug) |
| referendum | n | - | folkspoll, folksstevening (Du. volksstemming), folksanswer (NHG. 'Volksentscheid') |
| refined | adj | trim, couth | - |
| reflect | vb | show | gain/withleam, gain/withshine |
| reflection | n | glance, backshine | gain/withleaming,gain/withshining |
| reflect on | vb | think over, bethink, think about look back on | overthink (<OE oferþencan) |
| reform | vb/n | mend, shape up, straighten | ameeding, edhuing, forbetter |
| reformer | n | - | ameeder, edhuer (cf. OE geedhiwod"reformed, given new shape"), forbetterer (cf. NHG Verbesserer) |
| refractory | adj | froward, wayward, willful | witherhedging (<OE) |
| refrain | n | - | offbreak |
| refrain | vb | forbear | - |
| refrigerator | n | - | coolshap (calque) |
| refuge | n | haven, bolt-hole, harbour, shelter | lee (<OE hlēo) |
| refugee | n | runaway |
flightling (cf. Dan. flygtning, Du. vluchteling, NHG Flüchtling), haven seeker, lea(wo)man |
| refulgent | adj | shining | - |
| refurbish | vb | overhaul | furb, ednew |
| refuse | n | chaff, deadwood, dross, spilth, rubbish, waste | - |
| refuse | vb | spurn, forbear | asake, withquethe, forbid, score (<OE scorian) |
| refute | vb | belie |
allay (<OE álecgan), forkithe (<OE forcýðan), onsake (<OE onsacan), withshove (<OE wiþscúfan), witherlay (cf. NHG widerlegen) |
| regard | vb | cast, eye, peep | - |
| regarding | prep | about, as for, as to | - |
| regency | n | - | byredom (byrede + -dom) |
| regenerate | adj | freshen, make anew | withquicken, withbeget (re- "with-" + genero "I beget"), edquicken (OE edcwicken) |
| regent | n | - | byrede (by-"para-" + rede"ruler") |
| regicide | n | kingslayer | kyne-murder, king-slay |
| regime | n | yoke, rike | - |
| regiment | n | - | fight(ing)thede |
| region | n | field; land, neck | landship |
| regret | vb | rue | - |
| regular | adj | everyday; steady | reghelish (reghel borrowed from Latin to OE) |
| regulate | vb | oversee, wield, steer, lead | - |
| regulation | n | wielding, overseeing, law | insetness (<OE insetnes) |
| regulator | n | overseer | - |
| reign | n | kingship, queenship | rede, athelingship |
| reign | vb | (cf. regulate) | rix (<OE rīxian, rīcsian), overbebeed (<OE oferbebēodan) |
| rein | vb/n | - | tygel (<OE) |
| reïnforce | vb | strengthen, trim, gird, bolster, harden up, uphold, make firm, underset | - |
| reject | vb/n | n: casting off, outcast
vb: nix; cast off, dump, fling off/away, slough off, throw away, toss, unload; spurn | n: forwarp (<OE forweorpan), withchoose (<OE wiþceosan)
vb:forwerp offlean (cf. NHG ablehnen) offwise (calque of many germ. languages) |
| rejoice | vb | - | driem (<OE drīeman) |
| rejoice with | vb | - | driem with, evenbliss (<OE evenblisan) |
| rejuvenate | vb | freshen, youthen | edyoung
re- (“again”) + Latin iuvenis (“young”) + -ate So,Gainyouthenor, Withyouthen Foryouthen(NHG, verjüngen) |
| relapse | vb | backslide | - |
| relate | phr vb | bond, click; link | kithe (<OE cythan) |
| related | adj | akin (to), kindred, sibbed to, tosameness | forwent (cf. NHG verwandt) |
| relative(s) | n | kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinsmen, kinship, sib, sibling, bysib, own flesh & blood |
blood-bondling, bloodsib close: hyldenmay (<OE hyldenmǣġ) murder of: maymurder (<OEmǣġmorðor), kinslaughter |
| relations | n | dealings, bond, link up, hook up, tie up, fellowship | - |
| relationship | n | kinship, bearing; hookup, linkup, tie-up |
maythhood (<OE mǣġðhād |
| relax | vb | chill (out), loosen up, mellow out, unwind; ease, loosen, slack | unspan (<OE onspannan, cf. NHG entspannen) |
| relaxation | n | fun and games; ease |
stillness (<OE stillnes/stilnes) |
| relaxed | adj | smooth, loose, mellow | unspant |
| release | n | outlung, loosing | - |
| release | vb | free, let go, loosen | alease |
| reliable | adj | trustworthy | - |
| relieve | n | lighten, soothe, unburden, allay, still (the fears), salve, alight | - |
| religion | n | worship, troth | lief |
| religious | adj | worshipful | liefbound |
| relinquish | vb |
cough up, give up, hand over, yield; step down | upgive, agive (<OE agiefan, cf. NHG ergeben) |
| reluctant | adj | chary, unwilling, loath | pullbackish |
| remain | vb | - |
belive (<OE belifan, cf. NHG bleiben, Du. blijven) bide, linger |
| remainder | n | - | lave, dross, orts |
| remains | n | ashes, rubble, wreck; bones, stiff; leavings, leftovers, odds and ends | laves |
| remedy | n | heeling, salve, boot (etymology 3) | - |
| remember | vb |
hark back, mind, think of, call to mind, bethink, mark, withcall behold memorize: bear in mind | edcall, amone (<OEġemunan), mind back,
umbethink (<dialectal North & Scots English) inmind, stockmind |
| remind | vb | call to mind | mane (<OE manian) |
| reminder | n | - | eftminding, umbethinking(dialectal North & Scots English) |
| reminisce | vb | - | eftmind |
| remnant | n | leftover | - |
| remote | adj | slight, slim, small; cold-eyed, stadoffish; hidden; deep, far-flung | - |
| remove | vb | foredo (with immaterial object), unstay, take out, draw out | unshrithe |
| renaissance | n | - | andblowing, agenbirth (agen (Again)+birth) |
| renal | adj | kidney | - |
| rename | vb | - | edname, agenclepe, edclepe, ed-deem |
| render | vb | cough up, give up, hand over, yield | - |
| renew | vb | - | ednew (<OE edniwian) |
| renewal | n | - | ednewing |
| renewed | adj | - | ednewed |
| renounce | vb | give up, forsake, step aside, step down; forswear, take back, unsay, withdraw, withsake | asake ~ past: asook |
| renovate | vb | fixOld French | ednew (<OE edniwian) |
| reorganize | vb | - | edstight |
| repair | vb | mend | - |
| repartee | n | backchat | - |
| repeat | vb | say again | edsay, edledge (<OE edlǽcan)
withhaul (NHG. Wiederholen) |
| repeater | n | - | electronics: withhauler |
| repel | vb | beat off, withdrive; buck, withstand | - |
| repent | vb | bemoan, rue | forthink (cited by William Tyndale), after-think(Lancashire dialect) |
| repercussions | vb | - | kickback |
| repetition | n | - | edsaying |
| replace | vb | - | aset (a- + set, cf. NHG ersetzten)
substitue:outtrade (cf. NHG austauschen) edstowe, right (<OE rihtan) |
| replenish | vb | fill up, fill, make full again | edfill |
| reply | vb/n | answer |
andword (<OE andwyrd; cf. NHG Antwort, Du. antwoord) Andsware (<OE andsware) |
| report | v | - | bewrite |
| report | n | - | bewriting |
| repose | n | rest | - |
| repository | n | hoard | - |
| reprehensible | adj | - | forwarply (cf. NHG verwerflich) |
| represent | vb | stand for, betoken | aspell, fortread (cf. NHG vertreten) |
| representative | n | spokes(wo)man |
atstandand (<OE ætstandend) aspellend, fortreader (cf. NHG Vertreter) |
| repress | vb | crack down on, crush, slap down, snuff out; hold back, sink, swallow | bethryck (<be + OE þryccan, "press down") |
| reprimand | vb | upbraid, tell off | - |
| reprove | vb | chide, tick off: mislike, tut over | wite, threap (<OE þréapan) |
| reproach | vb | bawl out, berate, call down, flay, rag, upbraid: chide, tick off | threigh (<OE þrēagan) |
| reptile | n | creeping thing (found in Bibles; translation of Hebrew) | creepdeer (cf Nw.krypdyr) crawldeer (cf Sw.kräldjur) |
| republic | n | - | ledeward, mootrick |
| reputation | n | mark, name | namecouth (<OE namcuþ) |
| request | n | call, ask (rare) | - |
| request | vb | ask, put in: beseech, call for, seek | - |
| require | vb | need, tharf | onseek (<OE onsécan) |
| requirement | n | need, must | - |
| rescribe | vb | write back | edwrite |
| rescue | vb | free, bring off |
nere (<OEánerian, NHGnähren) redd (<OEhreddan “to save, deliver, recover, rescue”, cf. NHG./Du./Dan./Now. retten) |
| research | n | delving, groundwork | speering, speering
forshing (cf. NHG Forschung) forshening (cf. Dan. forskning) <PG faurskon legwork(informal) underseek (cf. Du onderzoek and NHG. untersuchen) |
| research | vb | dig into, look into, delve into | speer (<OE spyrian), underseek |
| resemblance | n | alikeness, look, blee, bly | suchness |
| resemble | v | seem like, look like, belike | alike (cf. Du. gelijken, NHG gleichen) |
| resentment | n | down; huff, miff | hattleness |
| reservation | n | booking | forebeholding (cf. NHG Vorbehaltung) |
| reserve | n | keep, hoard; backup, fill-in | berg |
| reserve | vb | book; keep, hoard; backup, fill-in | berg (<OE beorgan) |
| reserve | adj | spare | berg, forehold (cf. NHG vorbehalten) |
| reserved | adj | character: withdrawn booked | - |
| reservoir | n | - | waterberg |
| reside | vb | live, dwell | abide, wone, erde, wick |
| residence | n | home, dwelling | abode, erding, erdingstow permit: dwell-leave (cf. Ic. dvalarleyfi), abode-leave |
| residue | n | ashes, rubble, wreck; leavings, leftovers, odds and ends | stufflave |
| resign | vb | step down, forlet, bow out | - |
| resilient | adj | springy, limber | wending |
| resist | vb | withset, withstand, hinder, stand up to | withlay |
| resistance | n | withsetting | withlaying, backlash |
| resistant | adj | steady, steadfast, abiding, withstanding | bestandy/bestanding (NHG. beständig) |
| resolute | adj | set |
one-minded, stith (<OE stiþ) |
| resonate | vb | - | withswing (cf. NHG mitschwingen) |
| resort | n | - | vacation: holidayord (cf. Du. vakantieoord, NHG Ferienort)
recourse/refuge: outway (cf. Du. uitweg, NHG Ausweg) |
| resort | vb | - | brook, betake |
| resource | vb | - | orshaft |
| respawn | vb | - | backbirth |
| respect | n | heed, aught | onlook (<OE anlec), edsight |
| respect | vb | - | aughten (<NHG. achten) (seeaught) |
| respectable | adj | - | aughtworthy |
| respectful | adj | - | aughtful (cf. NHG achtvoll) |
| respond | vb | answer | - |
| response | n | answer, feedback | - Andsware/Andswere (<OE) |
| responsibility | n | plight, plighting | Foranswering(NHG. Verantwortung) |
| responsible | adj | trustworthy, upstanding, bedrock, sound, plighted | Foranswerly(NHG. Verantwortlich)
guilt: shildy (OE) |
| responsive | adj | quick, awake, sharp, open-minded, quick-minded, willing, answering | - |
| rest (else) | n | - | laf (<OE) |
| restart | vb | - | edstar, start anew (from scratch) |
| restaurant | n | cheap:beanery
foodhouse |
mealhall, reardhall (OE reordan 'to feast') |
| restore(ation) | n | freshen(ing) |
ednew(ing) (<OE edniwung) edstow(ing), edstall(ing) |
| restored to life | pt phr | - | edcwickened (<OE edcwic) |
| restrain | vb | bridle, fetter | belean (<OE) |
| restraint | n | bridle, fetter | beleaning |
| restrict | v | betighten | |
| restriction | n | betightening | |
| result | n | outcome, outfollow, upshot, aftermath | offleading (<Ic. af-leiðing), edspring (calque), eftspring (calque),fint (<OE finta, meaning 'consequence, result' also 'tail'), wastom (<OE wæstm) |
| resurrect | vb | gainrise (Cheke) | edsty/edstie (<OE stīgan) |
| resurrection | n | gainrising (Cheke) | - |
| retail | vb | deal in, sell, put up | fordrive (cf. NHG vertreiben) |
| retain | vb | keep, withhold; hire | athave |
| retaliate | vb | hit back, strike back, take an eye for an eye | yield back, wend upon, foryield (<OE forgieldan) (c.f. NHG. vergelten) |
| retaliation | n | - | foryielding (c.f. NHG. Vergeltung) |
| retard | n | dimwit, dolt | dwease (<OE dwæs) |
| retard | vb | break, slacken | - |
| retardation | n | slowing, latening | - |
| retardation | n | - | backwardness, beslowedness |
| retina | n | nethide (calque of German Netzhaut) | |
| retire | vb | withdraw, yield, pull out | |
| retirement | n | - | forleaving, withdrawing |
| retort | n | yieldback, wisecrack, backlash | - |
| retract | vb | take back, withdraw | - |
| retreat | vb | withdraw | - |
| retrieve | vb | - | withfind |
| retrograde | adj | backward | - |
| return | n | comeback; earnings, incoming |
andcome, gainfare (<OE geanfær) |
| return | vb | come back | edwhirve (<OE edhwirfan), edwend, andgive |
| reveal | vb | bare, unsheath, unfold, unlock | yondshow, unhele, swettle |
| revel | vb | bathe, wallow, frolic | - |
| revelry | n | merry-making | - |
| revenant | n | - | andcomer |
| revenge | vb | yieldback, get back, get even with | - |
| reverberation | n | - | withercling |
| revenge | n | wrack, wreak | - |
| revenge porn | n | wrackful whoreshowing | |
| revere | vb | worship | - |
| reverend | adj | hallowed | - |
| reverie | n | daydreaming, woolgathering | sweven |
| reverse/reversal | n | knock, setback; flip-flop | - |
| revert | vb | - | andwharve |
| revive | vb | freshen, breathe life back into |
edquicken (<OE edcwician) |
| revolution | n | - | ywhorft (<OE gehwyrft), overhaul, overthrow, overthrowing, uprisin
turning: whorft (<OE hwyrft), umbewrithing |
| revolve | vb | spin | umbwerve |
| reward | n | - |
meed(obs); afterlean (<OE æfterléan) |
| reward | vb | - |
meed; afterlean (OE léanian) |
| rhetoric | n | wind | mathelcraft (OE maðelung), speechcraft |
| rhinoceros | n | - | nosehorn (calque of Gk.rhinokeros (rhinos "nose" +keras "horn"; cf. Du. neushoorn, NHG Nashorn)
hornpig, hornhog, hornswine |
| rhombus | n | - | rout (cf. Du. ruit; Ger. raute) |
| rhyme | n | rime | - |
| rhythm | n | riff | - |
| ridiculous | adj | chucklesome, sidesplitting, silly | laugtherly (<OE hleahterlic) |
| rifle | n | - | scratchgun, shattergun, shouldershooter (<OE sculdorscēota), furrowgun (<OE furhscēota) |
| righteous(ness) | adj | - | rightwise(ness) (<OE rihtwís(nes)) |
| rigid | adj | stiff, hard | - |
| rigorous | adj | thorough | - |
| rinse | vb | - | spule/aspule (<OE āspylian, cf. Du. spoelen, NHG spülen) |
| riot/revolt/rebellion | n | - | crowdburst |
| risk | n | gamble, long shot | - |
| risky | n | gamblesome | unsound |
| river | n |
ea, aa, stream, flow, flood |
estuary: fleet (<OE fleot, ?Ebbsfleet) flood (<OE flōd) |
| rite | n | - | right, geright (<OE gerihte)
onsayedness (<OE onsægednes) |
| ritual | n/adj | ae (<OEæ)right (<OE gerihte) | |
| river course | n | flow | ?fleetway |
| rivulet | n |
brook, stream, runnel, rith, sike rindlesmall water course or gutter |
small stream: riþ (word still found in N Frisian ride, rie 'bed of running water') burn, bourn (<OE burna 'brook, stream, spring or well water') |
| rob(though it first came from french the word is germanic, from frankish "robon" ) | v | sneakyfilch
violent bereave, steal | - |
| robbery | n | sneakyfilching
violent reaving | - |
| robin | n | redbreast | ruddock |
| robust | adj | fit, hale, hearty, sound, whole; flush, lusty, ful-blooded: big, full, plush, rich; strong | - |
| robot | n | - | wileman (cf. Ic. vélmenni), sparkman |
| rocket | n | - | rock, rocker (OHG. rocko "distaff," ON. rokkr) |
| rodent | n | gnawer | gnawdeer (cf. Du. knaagdier) |
| rogue | n/adj | - | shirk |
| role | n | playwork, deedwork | - |
|
roll rolling-paper/cigarette-paper/Rizla | vb |
vb:trundle skins (attested), smoking-skins | vb:
onspin |
| roller skates | n | - | rollshoes (cf. NHG Rollschuh)
roller shoes |
| rollercoaster | n | big dipper, switchback | eightway (cf. Du. achtbaan; NHG Achterbahn) |
| roman | adj | - | romish |
| romance | n | love-tale, wonder-tale | - |
| romanticism | n | - | lovecraft
storm-and-throng (cf. H Du.Sturm und Drang) |
| rooster | n | cock (but "rooster" is also from a native root) | - |
| rose (flower) | n | - | loveblossom, lovebloom |
| rotate | vb | spin | werve |
| rotisserie | n | - | spincooker, wervecooker |
| rotund | adj | wheelshaped | - |
| round | adj | wheelshaped | trind (shaped from OE trinda and NE trindle) |
| route | n | pathway, way | - |
| router | n | networking: gateway (sometimes) | - |
| royal | adj | kingly, cweenly | - |
| royalty | n | kingship | - |
| ruby | adj/n | - | redhurst |
| rude | adj | unbehaved, uncouth | - |
| ruin | vb/n | wreck, mar, downfall | - |
| rule | vb | lead, look over, oversee, rix (att'd <OE rīxian, rīcsian), overwatch, wald | rede, hold sway |
| rule | n | law | - |
| ruler | n | drighten, leader, overseer, overwatcher | reder |
| ruling | adj | leading, lordly | - |
| rumour | n | hearsay | - |
| rural | adj | outburg, fieldly | lundly |
| Russia | n | - | Russland |
| rustic | n | backwoodsman, boor, bumpkin, bushwhacker, clodhopper, churl, crofter, greenhorn, hayseed, hind, hillbilly, husbandman, plowman, redneck, share-cropper, swain, woodsman | - |
StaffS of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | |||||
| Attested | Unattested | ||||||
| sabotage | vb | cripple, undermine? (mine is from Old French) | - | ||||
| saboteur | n | - | crippler | ||||
| sacred | adj | holy, hallowed | - | ||||
| Sacrament | n | holy oath, holy undertaking, hallowing | forhallowing, holy-work (<OE haligweorc) | ||||
| sacrifice | vb/n | give, give up, | bloot (<OE blotan) | ||||
| sacrilege | n | unholiness | holishending (cf. Du heiligshennis) (to shend, to defile) | ||||
| sacrilegious | adj | unholy, sinful | - | ||||
| sacrosanct | adj | holy, hallowed | - | ||||
| sacrum | n | - | holybone, roodbone | ||||
| sadism | n | fiendishness, heartlessness | meanlove, meanlust | ||||
| sadistic | adj | heartless, coldhearted | overtuly | ||||
| safe | n | strongbox | - | ||||
| safe | adj | sound, fast; white; trusty, good, sheltered, shielded | - | ||||
| safety | n | shelter, wholeness, soundness, frith (archaic) | munding, berg, frith | ||||
| safe space | n | haven, hugbox | frithyard (<OE friþġeard) | ||||
| sagacious | adj |
insightful, wise, witty, foresightful |
rede hedging (<OE rǽdhycgende) | ||||
| Saint (St.) | n | Holy | - | ||||
| saint | n | - | holyman, hallow | ||||
| sainthood | n | hallowdom | - | ||||
| saliva | n | spit | - | ||||
| salamander | n | - | landwater athex, land-newt, land-eft | ||||
| salary | n | earnings, income, salt | toll | ||||
| sally | vb/n | outfall | |||||
| salmon | n | - | lax (<OE leax, cf. NHG Lachs, Yid. לאַקס (laks), ON, Ic. Sw. lax, Dn. Nw. laks) | ||||
| saltire | n | Andrew's Rood (cross) | - | ||||
| salutary | n | friendly, good, helpful, kindly; good, healthy, wholesome | - | ||||
| salutation | n | greeting, welcome, hail | - | ||||
| salvation | n | lifeline |
redding (<OE hreddung) halwendness (<OE hālwendnes) | ||||
| salvo | n | unload, outburst | - | ||||
| sample | vb | to have a smack of, fore smack | - | ||||
| samurai | n | -Easternwye | dawnlandish knight | ||||
| sanctify | vb | hallow, behallow | - | ||||
| sanctuary | n | haven, grith, holyroom, hallow, holystead, frithhouse, frithstow | - | ||||
| Santa Claus | n | Father Christmas | - | ||||
| sapient | n | aware | - | ||||
| sapphire | adj/n | - | bluehurst | ||||
| sarcophagus | n | - | stonethrough
sunkingthrough(Egypt) | ||||
| sasquatch | n | Bigfoot | - | ||||
| Satanism | n | -Heathenish | Satandom; Satan-worship | ||||
| satchel | n | knapsack, rucksack | - | ||||
| satellite | n | moon |
artificial: ironmoon, swail searsender, umworld loftvat ("around-world-air-vessel" att'd on theOld English Wikipedia asymbeworuldlyftfæt) / * NB: 'ump-' as in 'umpteen' = around an amount | ||||
| satiate | vb | fulfill, quench, slake | - | ||||
| satire(ist) | n | heaning, heancraft(er), heanwriting(er) | - | ||||
| satisfaction | n | gladness |
cwemeness (<OE cwemness), eadiness itheness (<OE īeðnes) | ||||
| satisfy | vb | gladden, slake, fulfill, sate, quench |
queme, afill, befrith, sede (<OE ġesēdan) | ||||
| saturate | vb | sop, soak, steep | indrench (<OEindrencan) | ||||
| Saturday | n | - | Lyeday (< OE læg, leag "lye" (cognates: M.Du. loghe, Du. loog, OHG louga). The substance was formerly used in place of soap, hence OHG luhhen "to wash," ON laug "bath". ON laugardagr, Dan. lørdag, Swed. lördag "Saturday," literally "bath day".) | ||||
| sauce | n | dip | - | ||||
| sauerkraut | n | - | sourcole, sourkale | ||||
| sauna | n | steam room | hot-house, hotroom, sweatbath | ||||
| sausage | n | pudding, banger | swineflesh, meary (<OE mearh) | ||||
| savage | adj/n | wild; wilder | wildard | ||||
| savanna; savannah | n | - | wendringly grassland
barelands (cf. Eng.barrens) | ||||
| save | vb | keep, spare | nere (<OE nerian, akin to NHG nähren) redd (<OE hreddan 'to free from recover rescue save take away') berg/barrow (<OE beorgan 'to save, preserve', Goth bairgan,OHG bergan, ON bjarga) hain, stow, hoard, heal | ||||
| saviour | n | -sparer | healand (cf. NHG Heiland, from OHG Heliand 'the healing one') halend, healer, healant (<OE hælend, in light of MnE 'coolant') ner(i)gend (<OE, 'the Savior', cf. nerian) | ||||
| savory | adj | -smeckfull | hearthaft (cf. NHG herzhaft) defty (cf. NHG deftig) | ||||
| Saxon | n | Saxish | |||||
| Saxony | n | Saxland (<OE Seaxland) Sexland Saxes Saxen | |||||
| scald | vb | forseethe | - | ||||
| scale | vb | climb | - | ||||
| scale | n | layout, frame, framework, mete, setup | animal skin: shale (<M. Eng. schale) | ||||
| scalpel | n | - | leechsax | ||||
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scapegoat | n | - | fenman (from Old Dutch thews of offering a man-bloot by either throwing the chosen into a fen, lynching them or throwing them into streams to undo the anger of the gods.)
singoat (cf. Du. zondebok; NHG Sündenbock) | ||||
| scaphoid bone | n | - | boatbone | ||||
| scapula | n | shoulderbone, wingbone | - | ||||
| scar | n | blight, blotch, flaw, pockmark, wale, weal, wheal, wen, welt | |||||
| scarabaeus stercoreous | n | - | turd-weevil | ||||
| scarce | adj | light, sparing; lacking, low, shy, wanting | - | ||||
| scarcely | adv | barely, hardly, narrowly, slightly | - | ||||
| scarcity | n | lack, shortness, seldomness, fewness, dearth | - | ||||
| scarf | n | - | neckcloth (cf. Sw. halsduk; Dn. halstørklæde | ||||
| scarlet | adj | bawsebrown | wormred (<OE wyrmread) | ||||
| scatophilia | n | - | dritelust | ||||
| scatter | vb | broadcast, cast, deal out, go-off, go through, let go, oversow, overspread, put to flight, spread, strew | - | ||||
| scene | n | background, setting; blowup, fireworks; footing | - | ||||
| schizoid | adj | - | splitlike (calque of Gk. schizein "split, break, shatter" and -oeides "like")
cleavemindy; mindcleavish | ||||
| schizophrenia | n | - | splitmindness, shattermindness (calques of Gk. schizein "split, break, shatter" and phrēn "mind, understaing") kithshatter, kithcleave (cf. Ic. geðclofi) wit-cleftness | ||||
| scholar | n | learner | fieldknower, learnand | ||||
| scholarship | n | knowledge, learning | bookhood, loreship | ||||
| school | n | - | learnhall | ||||
| science | n | lore, wisdom | witship (cf. Du. wetenschap, NHG wissenschaft ) | ||||
| scientist | n | - |
witshipper (cf. Du. wetenschapper, NHG wissenschaftler) loreman | ||||
| scientific | adj | -craftly | worldkenly, witshiply, lorely | ||||
| scientific language | n | - |
craftspeech (<OE cræftspræc) | ||||
| scintillate | vb | sparkle, flash, shine, leam | - | ||||
| scissors | n | - | shears(Scots cf. NHG. Scheren) | ||||
| -scope | sfx | - | -seer | ||||
| scorpion | n | - | stingtail, night-sting | ||||
| scout | n | pathfinder | foretrekker (< Afr.voortrekker, 'pioneer') | ||||
| scowling | adj | - | black-browed | ||||
| screen | n | - | shirm (<PGskirmiz, compare Du. scherm NHG. Schirm) | ||||
| scribe | n | writer, logger | - | ||||
| scrotum | n | ballsack*, sack* (*but "sack" is fromLatin saccus) | cod (<OE codd)
ballbag (Scotsbawbag, OE.beall and ON.baggi) | ||||
| scrutinize | vb | - | scrut (<OE scrutinan)
gaumgive (<Ic. gaumgæfa) | ||||
| scrutiny | n | shroutening (<OE sċrūtnung) | |||||
| sea monster | n | merfiend | fivel (<OE) | ||||
| search | vb | seek, rake, comb, delve, hunt, cape | nease (<OEneosan, to search out, find out by enquiry) speer (<OEspyrian) | ||||
| search word | n | - | seekword | ||||
| season | n | time, tide | sele (<ME), yeartime,yeartide (by analogy from GermanJahrzeit) | ||||
| seat of joy | n | - | gleestool (<OE glīwstōl) | ||||
| sebum | n | tallow | - | ||||
| secede | vb | leave, withdraw, cleave, sunder, split off | offsplit | ||||
| secession | n | withdrawal, breakaway, parting, breakup, cleaving, sundering, splitting off | offsplitting | ||||
| secessionist | n | - | offsplitter | ||||
| second | n | moment:tick, eyeblink |
nutlog (hour: log, minute: shortlog) | ||||
| second | adj | twoth | next, other, after (obsolete), twithe (twi- + th as in four-th) | ||||
| secret | adj/n |
adj:dern, hidden, withdrawn, unseen, inward, stealthy, untold, unbeheld, underground, underhanded, hushhush, inly n: dern |
n: hiddle (<OE hydels), dyle (<ME diȝel, <OE dīegol)
hushthought, hushword | ||||
| secret society | n | - | himebind (cf. NHG "geheimbund") stealthfay (cf. Ic. "seynifélagið"), hidden guild | ||||
| secretary | n | - | inwriter | ||||
| secrete | vb | seep, leak, ooze | - | ||||
| sect | n | block, body | afterfollowing (<OE æfterfylgung) | ||||
| section | n | bit, block | |||||
| secular | adj | worldly, of this world, earthly | - | ||||
| secular | n | worldhood | - | ||||
| secularise/-ize | vb | - | formean, forworlden (cf NHG verweltlichen) | ||||
| secure | adj |
belayed, fast, steadfast | - | ||||
| secure | vb | shield, ward; ice; more, set, fasten | mound (<OE mundian 'to protect, shelter, guard) | ||||
| security | n | - | sickerness
sickerhood (NHG.Sicherheit) | ||||
| sediment | n | dregs, silt, draff, dross | - | ||||
| seduce | vb | fortee, lead on | spane (<OE spanan), adwell | ||||
| segment | n | lith | - | ||||
| segregation | n | - | beshedding, asunderhood | ||||
| seize | vb | hold, hend, clutch, take, gripe |
fang (<OE fangen), reach (<OE geræcan) | ||||
| seizure | n | fit | - | ||||
| select | vb | choose, pick, wale | - | ||||
| selenium | n | - | moonstuff | ||||
| self-effacement | n | - | self-naughting | ||||
| self-esteem | n | self-worth | - | ||||
| self-restraint | n | - | forhaveness (<OE forhæfnes) | ||||
| semester | n | sixmonth, half-year | - | ||||
| seminar | n | workshop | - | ||||
| sempiternity | n | - | endlessness, unendinghood, alwayness, everlastingness | ||||
| semi- | pref | half-, sam-/sand-/some- (<OE sam-) | - | ||||
| semicircle | n | - | halfring, samring | ||||
| semisphere | n | - | halfball, samball | ||||
| senate | n | - | eldermoot [elder: <L. senex + moot (council)] | ||||
| senator | n | - | folkwit (<OE folcwita), elder | ||||
| senile | adj | doddery, doddering, elderly, old, doted | - | ||||
| senior citizens | n | elderly, old folks, eldfolk, eldman, the old | - | ||||
| sensate | adj | feeling | - | ||||
| sensation | n | 1. feeling | 2. upthrill | ||||
| sensational | adj | amazing | wuldersome | ||||
| sense | n | 1.feeling 2. meaning | seave (<OE sefa) | ||||
| sense | vb | feel | - | ||||
| sensible | vb | - | feelbere (calque), begetful | ||||
| sensitive | adj | feeling, keen, sharp | - | ||||
| sentence | n | wordset; byword,saw(ety. 2) | cwide (<ME, OE cwide) | ||||
| sentence | vb | doom | - | ||||
| sententious | adj | pithy | - | ||||
| sentience | n | awareness | awaredom (obsolete OED word) | ||||
| sentient life | n | wight, being | - | ||||
| sentiment | n | feeling, thought | - | ||||
| separate | vb | sunder, split, break, cleave, fork | shed (<ME sheden: cf. NHG/Du. scheiden) | ||||
| separate | adj | sundry, freestanding, sundered cleave, cloven | shedded | ||||
| separation | n | splitting, split | shedding, asunderhood | ||||
| September | n | - | Holymonth (which was noted in OE), Sheddingmonth, Harvestmonth (<OE) | ||||
| Septuagesima | n | - | Berueingtide (<OE berwosungtid) | ||||
| sequel | n | - | afterfollowing, forthsetting (<NHG Fortsetzung) | ||||
| sequence | n | aftermath, backwash, child, outcome, outgrowth, upshot; string; setup | gatherbinding | ||||
| sequential | adj | back-to-back, straight, through | fayed, gatherbinding | ||||
| sequoia | n | - | ettinfirwood (cf. Du. reuzenpijnboom) | ||||
| series | n | line, stream | - | ||||
| serious | adj | earnest, unfunny, heavy, weighty | - | ||||
| seriously | adv | earnestly, thoroughly, wholeheartedly, with heart & soul, willingly, agoodly, weightily | - | ||||
| serpent | n | snake, worm (<OE wyrm), adder | slang (cf. NHG Schlange, Du. slang, Da. slange) | ||||
| servant | n | besteader
housekeeper, maid (fm.), dey (fm.), bondsman, loaf-eater, knight, shalk, boy, thane (<OE þegn) |
thew (obs.) theener, theen (<OE þēonest cf. NHG Diener) ambight (<OE ambiht) | ||||
| serve | vb | help, dish, hye, bestead |
theen (<OE þeġnian cf. NHG/Du. dienen) thew, ambight (<OE geambihtan; onþéowian) | ||||
| serf | n | thrall | - | ||||
| service | n | besteading |
theen (<OE þēnest, cf. NHG Dienst) betheening (cf. NHG Bedienung) folgth (OE folgþ, ME, EME) | ||||
| servile | adj | - | thewly (<OE þéowlic) | ||||
| session | n | sitting, stint | - | ||||
| settlement | n | hem, thorpe/thorp/dorp, wick, town, whistle-stop | settlening, hemling, ham | ||||
| several | adj | sundry | - | ||||
| severe | adj | stern, hard, harsh, tough, thorough | - | ||||
| severely | adv | hardly, roughly, sternly, stiffly; | - | ||||
| sewer | n | drain, sieve | - | ||||
| sex | n | kind | folkhalf, hade | ||||
| sex act | n | lovemaking | swiving, heamedlock (<OE hæmedlac) fleshly knowledge, bysleep (cf. NHG Beischlaf, DU bijslaap) | ||||
| sexual reproduction | n | breeding | swiveful matchyielding, swiveful matchbearing | ||||
| sexy | adj |
hot, steamy, come-hither | - | ||||
| shantytown | n | tinstow, hutstead, slum | - | ||||
| shark | n | haye | highcarl (cf. O.N. hákarl), dreadfish, sea dog | ||||
| shingles | n | tetter | - | ||||
| shoelace | n | shoestring | - | ||||
| show mercy | vb | spare | orefast/arfast (<OE ārfæstan) | ||||
| shrapnel | n | - | blastfall, blastrain, blastbits | ||||
| shrine | n | - | waybed (<OE wigbed) | ||||
| siege | vb | beleaguer, (um)beset | - | ||||
| Sierra Leone | n | - | Lein (pr. lee-in) Ridgelands | ||||
| sign | n | token, shingle, mark | - | ||||
| sign | vb | onmark, underwrite | undertoken (calque of Ger. speechcf. NHG unterzeichnen, Du. ondertekenen) | ||||
| signal | n | bale-fire, beacon | - | ||||
| significant | adj | noteworthy, weighty | markworthy | ||||
| silence | vb | hush, make still, soothe | bestill, beroo (cf. NHG beruhigen) | ||||
| silence | n | stillness | forsowing (<OE forsuwung), roo (Eng., ME ro <OE rō, cf. NHG Ruhe )
bestillness | ||||
| silicon | n | - | flintstuff | ||||
| similar | adj | alike, akin | akind, samekind | ||||
| simple | adj | onefold | - | ||||
| single | adj | a, one | - | ||||
| sir | n | - | hoar ;hare(ety. 3)(<OE hearra, cf. NHG Herr) | ||||
| sire | n | lord | hare | ||||
| Sirius | n | Dog Star, Brightest Star | - | ||||
| site | n | stead | point, location:
ord (Eng.) | ||||
| situate | vb | lay down, ground | - | ||||
| situation | n | lay? (cf.lay of the land) | - | ||||
| size | n | greatness | grete (<ME <OE grīetu, cf. NHG Größe) | ||||
| skateboard | n/vb | - | rollboard
roller board wheelboard (cf. Ic. hjólabretti) | ||||
| skeleton | n | - | boneset, boneframework | ||||
| slander | n/vb | n: smear
vb: belittle, defile, smear, sully, tarnish | holen (<MEholen < OE hōlian | ||||
| slave | n | thrall | theen (OE) | ||||
| smuggler | n | - | owler | ||||
| snow globe/snowglobe | n | - | snowkuggle (cf. NHG Schneekugel) | ||||
| social media | n | - | fellowly means | ||||
| socialism | n | - | fellowship, fellowdom | ||||
| socialist | adj | - | fellowshiply, fellowdomish | ||||
| social/societal | adj | - | - | ||||
| society | n | - |
small: fellowship, sithership (<OE gesíðscipe, cf. NHG Gesellschaft) | ||||
| sodium | n | - | saltstuff | ||||
| solar | adj | sun-like, sunly | - | ||||
| sole (foot) | n | - | ile (<OE ile, cf. Ic. il), footfolm | ||||
| solstice | n | sunstead | sunwend (cf. Du. zonnewende, NHG Sonnenwende)
sunstandstill (cf. Du. zonnestilstand) | ||||
| solve | vb | answer | loose, loosen,lease (calque of Ger. speech) | ||||
| soporific | adj | - | sleep-giving | ||||
| sorcery | n | witchcraft, dwimmer | dreecraft, drycraft | ||||
| sorrel | n | - | sourleaf | ||||
| sound | n | reard, cling, ring, loudness | din, sough, yar/yer,loude,lidden (<OE hlýd, OE hlýden, cf. NHG. Laut, Du. geluid, Dan. lyd, Swed. ljud, Icel. hljóð) | ||||
| sound | v | ring, clink, cling
sound like: to be heard like... | to sound like:onhear/ hear on (NHG. anhören) | ||||
| soup (from a Germanic root, through F and L) (Proto-Germanic *sup) | n | broth, gruel | - | ||||
| source | n | birthplace, root, begetter, dawn, onset, start | - | ||||
| sovereign | adj | - | selfstanding (cf. Sw. självständig) | ||||
| space | n | - | room
astrology: roomth | ||||
| spacious | adj | roomy | roomy | ||||
| spatial | adj | - | roomthy | ||||
| special | adj | - | besunder (cf. NHG besondere)
sunderly (<OE sundorlic, cf. NHG sonderlich) | ||||
| speciality | n | - | besunderhood (cf. NHG Besonderheit)
ownhood/ship (cf. NHG Eigenheit/schaft) | ||||
| species | n | - | lifekin, lifekind | ||||
| specific | adj | - | bestevened (cf. NHG bestimmt)(seesteven) | ||||
| specifically | adv | just | |||||
| sphenoid bone | n | - | wedgebone | ||||
| sphere | n | - | ball, kuggle* (cf. NHG Kugel) *Kugel is of either semitic orgermanic origin | ||||
| sphincter | n | - | closethew/closemoussock (cf. Du. sluitspier, NHG Schließmuskel) | ||||
| sphinx | n | - | wilibilth (calque of Anc. Egyptian šzp-ꜥnḫ) | ||||
| spice | n | - | croud (cf. Du. kruid) | ||||
| spine | n | backbone | backridge | ||||
| sponge | n | - | swamb (<OE swamm) | ||||
| sport | n | lake (ety. 2) | - | ||||
| spy | n/vb | sleuth: very late borrowing into Old English (near to 1200AD) from The Orrmulum. | speer (<OE spyrian)
loosesheerwere (<OE lēassċēawere) | ||||
| squadron | n | - | sheltron, shieldtrum (<OE scieldtruma); swathe (cf. NHG Geschwader); stafle (cf. NHG Staffel) | ||||
| square | n | - | fourside (cf. Du. vierkant)
in a city: tey (<OE tēge) | ||||
| squirrel | n | aquern O.E. ācweorna, O.N. loan in O.E. scug; skug. | shadow-tail | ||||
| stabilize/-ise | v | steady, still | besteady, bestill | ||||
| stable | adj | steady, still | - | ||||
| stadium | n | - | spurd (<OE spyrd) | ||||
| standard | adj | stock, mean | - | ||||
| stapes | n | stirrup | earstirrup, stirrupbone | ||||
| state | vb | utter | - | ||||
| state | n | condition:shape, lay? (cf.lay of the land) polity: moot | - | ||||
| statue | n | - | standbilth (cf. Ger. Standbild; Du. Standbeeld) | ||||
| status | n | rank | - | ||||
| statute | n | - | setness | ||||
| stay | vb | belive | - | ||||
| stellar | adj | starly | - | ||||
| sternum | n | breastbone | - | ||||
| stingray | n | - | - | ||||
| stomach | n | maw | - | ||||
| store | vb | keep, hoard | - | ||||
| story | n | tale, yarn | ortelling (cf. NHG Erzählung) | ||||
| strange | adj | outlandish, weird, unwonted, unknown, wild, odd, freakish, eerie | fremd | ||||
| strategy | n | plot | wyecraft | ||||
| stray | vb | - | dwale (<ME dwalen) | ||||
| street | n | road, roadway | wainway, wagonway (to be brooked inborough to tell between the walking path (walkway) and the faring path) | ||||
| stress | n | burden, weight, load | thrutch (cf. NHG Druck)
belasting (cf. NHG belastung, Du. belasting) | ||||
| strict | adj | hash, hard, stern, forbidding | - | ||||
| strive/strife | vb/n | fight | - | ||||
| structure | n | makeup | upmake | ||||
| study | vb/n | swot, either usage (up on), thought | - | ||||
| student | n | learner | learningchild (<OE leorningcild) | ||||
| style | n | kind | - | ||||
| sub- | pref | under-
(subsequent)after- | - | ||||
| subject | v | thread | underthrow (cf. Du. onderwerpen, NHG. unterwerfen) | ||||
| subject | n | - | underthrow (cf. D. onderwerp) | ||||
| submarine | n/adj | adj: undersea | n: U-boat (short for undersea-boat), diveboat (cf. Du. duikboot) | ||||
| substance | n | stuff (but a G (Frankish) root modified through Old French) | anwork (<OE andweorc) | ||||
| substitute | n | stand-in, fill-in | - | ||||
| substitute | vb | swap, fill in, stand in, go as | outtrade (cf. NHG. austauschen) replace:aset (cf. NHG ersetzen) | ||||
| subtitle | n | - | undername, understerling | ||||
| subtle | adj | low-key | - | ||||
| suburb | n | - | underborough (<OE underburg), foreord (cf. NHG Vorort) | ||||
| succeed | vb | go after | spow (<OE spówan) | ||||
| success | n | - | spowing, afollowing (cf. NHG Erfolg) | ||||
| successful | adj | - | spowful, afollowfull (cf. NHG erfolgreich) | ||||
| succumb | vb | - | alie <alying;alay;alain (cf. NHG erliegen)
undernick (<OE underhnigan) | ||||
| sudden | adj | swift, rushing, rash | - | ||||
| suddenly | adv | swiftly, rushingly, rashly, forthwith, straightaway | - | ||||
| suffer | vb | - | thole (<OE þolian, þrowian) (transitive) undergo | ||||
| suffering | n | harm, ache, sorrow, woe, smarts | - | ||||
| suffix | n | - | word tail, endfastening | ||||
| sugar | n | - | sweethurst (hurst is old english for crystal)
molecule: sweetmote | ||||
| sugar cane | n | - | sweetreed (cf. Du. suikerriet) | ||||
| suggest | vb | imply: hint, infold offer: bid | imply: ettle, bysay | ||||
| sulfur | n | brimstone | - | ||||
| sum (up) | vb | cast up, tally up | - | ||||
| sunflower | n | - | sunbloom, sunblossom (<NHG. Sonnenblume) | ||||
| super | adj/pfx | adj:over, overly
pfx:over- | - | ||||
| supercalifragilisticexpialidocious | adj | - | overfairnessbrokenliatoneliteachworthy | ||||
| supercontinent | n | - | overworlddeal | ||||
| superhero | n | - | overheleth | ||||
| superhuman | adj | - | overman | ||||
| superior | adj | overly | - | ||||
| supermarket | n | - | overchepstow | ||||
| supernatural | adj | otherwordly | - | ||||
| supernova | n | - | overnew | ||||
| superposition | n | - | overstelling | ||||
| supervillain | n | - | overnithing, overnither | ||||
| supervise | vb | oversee | - | ||||
| supervisor | n | overseer | - | ||||
| supplement | n | - | togive | ||||
| supply | n | yield, stock, spring | - | ||||
| supply | vb | yield, feed, fill, afford | - | ||||
| support | vb | back up, forward, foster, upbring,
uphold, underprop, upstart, underset |
bestaddle, understut (cf. NHG unterstützen) (spoken as "stoot"), stut | ||||
| support | n | back up | fultum | ||||
| suppose | vb | ween, believe, guess, think, reckon, | forethink | ||||
| sure | adj | wis | - | ||||
| surface | n | overlay, layer | - | ||||
| surgeon | n | sawbones | - | ||||
| surname | n | last name | - | ||||
| surprise | vb | stun, astound, overcome | overrrush (NHG überrraschen) | ||||
| surrender | vb | yield, hand over, give up | overgive | ||||
| surround | vb | - | umgive (cf. Du. omgeven; NHG umgeben) | ||||
| survive | vb | outlive (current in some senses) | overlive (cf. NHG. überleben Du. overleven Dan. overleve Norw. overleve Swed. överleva) | ||||
| susceptibility | n | openness, givenness, helplessness | - | ||||
| susceptible | adj | given, open; helpless | alout (<OE áloten) v. forthlout (<OE forþlútan); onfally (<NHG.anfällig)(seeonfall) | ||||
| suspect | vb | mistrust, underlook | forthink (cf. Du./NHG. verdenken) | ||||
| suspend | vb | - | hang freely: uphang (cf. Du. ophangen, NHG aufhängen) | ||||
| suspicion | n | mistrustfulness, underlook | forthought (cf. Du. verdachting, NHG. verdacht) | ||||
| suspicious | adj | mistrustful, wary | forthoughtful/ forthoughty (cf. Du. | ||||
| sustain | vb | underhold, uphold, stay | - | ||||
| suitable | adj | fit | - | ||||
| swastika | n | fylfot, gleerune (as a religious symbol) | hookrood (cf. NHG Hakenkreuz) | ||||
| syllable | n | - | staveset | ||||
| synesthesia | n | - | linked feeling (calque) | ||||
| synonym | n | likeword, selfsame | otherword | system | n | layout, makeup | stellel (cf. Du. stelsel)
outlay, upmake |
StaffT of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery beatish | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| tabernacle | n | - | tilding (<OE geteldung) shifthouse, worshiphut, worshipbooth | |
| table | n | board; listing, spreadsheet | - | |
| taboo | n/adj | ban, out | shunning, mithing | |
| tacit | adj | unspoken, wordless, not understood | - | |
| taciturn | adj | tight-lipped | - | |
| tactics | n | how, way | clashcraft; warlore. | |
| tailor | n | needle-worker, outfitter | thimbleman, wearshafter, seamer | |
| tailor | vb | fit, put, shape | - | |
| talkative | adj | talksome, chatty, gabby, outspoken, long-winded | eloquent:quethel (<OE cwedol) | |
| talus bone | n | anklebone | - | |
| tan | v | brown, bark | yare (<MEyaren 'to tan') | |
| tanner | n | barker | yarer (<MEyaren 'to tan' + -er) | |
| Tangut | n/adj | - |
Westsummerwrit (calque of Cn 西夏文,xīxiàwén/hsi1hsia4wen2/ŝīŝià-ŭén/ㄒㄒㄧㄚ`ㄨㄣˊ), n/adj: Westsummerrish | |
| tank | n | pond, pool, vat |
berg (<OE beorgan 'to preserve') | |
| tantalum | n | - | whetstuff | |
| tantrum | n | fit | - | |
| tardigrade | n | waterbear | - | |
| target | n | goal, mark | - | |
| task | n | char; errand, undertaking, job (unknown origin) | upgive (up + gave <OE geafu "gift", cf. NHG Aufgabe, Du. opgave, Nw. oppgave) | |
| taste (sense) | n | smack; fondness | tung, cride; belikening | |
| taste | vb | smack, smatch | tung | |
| tasteless | adj |
smackless, no smack | waugh | |
| tautology | n | overbeating | word-sameness (Barnes) | |
| tattoo | n | - | hidemark | |
| tavern | n | alehouse | gesthouse (cf. NHG Gasthaus)
winehouse (<OE wínhús, cf. NHG Weinhaus) beer hut (cf. NHG Bierhütte) | |
| tax | n | geld | gavel (<OE gafol) | |
| taxation | n | theft | gelding, geldnold, gavling (<OE gafol 'tribute, tax, debt') | |
| taxidermy | n | stuffing | stightskinning (calque) | |
| taxman | n | toller | bidreaper (<OE Bidrepe), gaveler, geldman | |
| taxonomy | n | - | stightlore | |
| tea | n | - | leafwos (ME wos 'juice'), leafbrew | |
| technical | adj | craftly (Barnes) | - | |
| technical language | n | - | craftspeech (<OE cræftspræc) | |
| technically | adj | lorewise | - | |
| technology | n | - | toolcraft, craftlore | |
| tedious | adj | dreary, leaden, humming | longsome (Barnes) | |
| 'teepee'tepee
tipi | n | - | keggletilt | |
| tele- | pfx | - | far- | |
| telegram | n | - | wire-spell (Barnes) | |
| telegraph | n | - | spell-wire (Barnes) | |
| telemarketing | n | - | farchepstowing | |
| telepathy | n | mindreading | thoughtcasting | |
| telephone | n | farspeaker | dogbone, wirecaller, farsteaven (calque tele+phone) | |
| teleport | v | - | farferry | |
| teleporter | n | - | farferrier | |
| telescope | n | sweeper, look-see | farseer | |
| television | n | - | bairdscraft, sightcasting, farseeing(cf. NHGFernsehen) set: farseer(cf. NHGFernseher), streambox, baird box, shirm (cf. NHG Schirm), farwatcher | |
| televisual | adj | - | sightcast | |
| temper | vb/n | vb: mood n: anneal | - | |
| temperament | n | - | lund (cf. Ic.) | |
| temperate | adj | mild | forholding (Barnes) | |
| temperate zone | n | - | midstrip | |
| temperature | n | heat, cold, warmth | mete, weatherstep, heatstep (Cf. Ar. درجة الحرارة) | |
| tempest | n | storm | - | |
| tempestuous | adj | blood-and-guts, hammer-and-tongs, stormy | thory | |
| template | n | - | forelay (cf. NHG vorlage) | |
| temple | n | - | bedehouse, worship stow, herry
body part: tending (Dan. tinding) | |
| temporal | adj | timewise, timely, tidesome | - | |
| temporal | adj | earthborn, earthbound, freshly, worldly | - | |
| temporal bone | n | - | tendingbone | |
| temporary | adj | flash, short-lived | - | |
| tempt | vb | whet | costen, forlead, cun, forseek (cf. NHG versuchen), fash | |
| temptation | n | - | costening (<OE costnung), fanding | |
| tenacious | adj | dogged; clingy | - | |
| tend | vb | tilt towards, lean, slant, look after | - | |
| tendon | n | sinew | - | |
| tenebrous | adj | dark, gloomy, thester | - | |
| tense | n | - | grammar:time-shape, timing (Barnes) | |
| tense | adj | edgy, uptight; hairy, nail-biting | - | |
| tensor | n | stretcher, waybearer (telcraft) | - | |
| tent | n | tilt, roof | fieldhouse | |
| tentacle | n | feeler, feelhorn | rineling (calque) | |
| tepid | adj | halfhearted; lukewarm | - | |
| term | n | name, word, frist (a term in which a debt is to be repaid) | tide; begrip (calque) | |
| terminal | adj | rearmost, endmost
sickness:deadly | endbound | |
| terminal | n | - | endstop | |
| terminate | vb | end (Barnes) | - | |
| terminology | n | wording (Barnes) | - | |
| terminus | n | end | - | |
| termite | n | white ant | - | |
| terracotta | n | - | bakedearth (Italian calque)
burnt clay (cf. Ic. brenndur leir) | |
| terrestrial | adj | ground-dwelling | earthly; groundly | |
| terrible | adj | dreadful, fearsome, frightening, ghastly; frightful; awful, rotten | - | |
| terrific | adj | awesome, top-shelf; awfil, nightmare | - | |
| terrify | vb | fright, affright | eyse (<OE egesian), afear, bray (<OE bregan) | |
| terrifying | adj | eldritch | ||
| territory | n | land, turf | ledemark (<OE leódmearc 'people's territory') division: landdeal; hundred, hund, ward, lathe, riding, tithing | |
| terror | n | hang-up; dread, fright | deadly: qualmthrea (<OE cwealmþrēa) pl: qualmthreën (<OE cwealmþrēan) | |
| terrorism | n | - | awewhelming | |
| test | n/vb | - | fand(ing) (<OE fandung) | |
| testament (will) | n | will | ervebeek (<OE ierfebéc), ervewrit (<OE ierfegewrit) | |
| testator | n | willwriter | ervewritend (<OE ierfewrítend) | |
| testicle | n | bollock, ball | - | |
| testimony | n | witness | - | |
| text | n | - | queath (Fr. OE cwide), trat, | |
| textbook | n | handbook | - | |
| textile | n | - | thrum | |
| texture | n | mouthfeel | - | |
| thatched | adj | - | thatchen (Barnes) | |
| theatre | n | - | drama:woving, (w)ooving (<OE wáfung) place:showhall, playhouse, wovingstow/(w)oovingstow (<OE wáfungstów), wovingstead/(w)oovingstead (<OE wáfingstede) | |
| theme | n | - | underthrow (cf. Du. onderwerp) | |
| theology | n | godlore | - | |
| theory | n | thought, thoughtlay | beholding | |
| therapy | n | - | behandling (cf. Dan. behandling) | |
| thermo- | pfx | - | heat- | |
| thermodynamic | adj | - | warmthworkly, heatworkly | |
| thermodynamics | n | - | warmthworks, heatwork | |
| thermology | n | - | warmthlore, heatlore | |
| thermometer | n | - | warmthmeter (meter = mete + er; one who metes) | |
| thermonuclear | adj | - | warmthkernly, heatkernly | |
| thermostat | n | - | warmthteller, heatteller | |
| thesaurus | n | wordnet | - | |
| they/them/their
(technically not native English, but North Germanic) | pron | they/them/their (no oversetting needed) | he/hem/her (<OEhīe/him/hira), they/them/their (<ON) | |
| throne | n | seat | giftstool, giftseat (OE ġifstōl), kinestool (<OE cynestol), kinesettle (<OE cynesetl), kingleeder (<king + OE hlēda, meaning "seat"), highseat (<IS hásæti), kingseat | |
| thug | n | outlaw, beater | - | |
| tibia | n | shank-bone, shinbone | - | |
| tiger | n | - | stripecat | |
| till | prep | - | ooth (<OE ōþ) | |
| time (this is Theedish <OE tima <Proto-Germ) | n | tide (Cf. G Zeit), thrawe (ME, <OE þrāg) pl: thrawen (unattested) | throw (<OE þrāg) | |
| time of tribulation | n | - | arveth-throw, arvethrow (<OE earfoþþrāg; c.f. ME arveþ-sīþ) | |
| timid | adj | shy, meek, thewless | - | |
| tint | n | blee, hue | - | |
| title | n | name, right, sterling | - | |
| tmesis | n | - | umgrave, incarve | |
| TNT | n | - | boomkeg, blastkeg, boomstick, TCWMB
(threechoke woodmead-benzene, calque of trinitrotouline/trinitro methylbenzene), TCWWB (threechoke woodwine-benzene) | |
| toast | vb | thanksgiving | - | |
| toast | n | bread | ||
| tobacco | n | - | smokeleaf, smokingleaf, hirst loaf | |
| toboggan | n | slide, slider | - | |
| toilet | n | bathroom, washroom, restroom | - | |
| toilet (bowl) | n | stool | gangsettle (<OE gangsetl), washsettle | |
| tolerate | vb | thole, bear, put up with | thware (<OE þwarian) | |
| tomato | n |
loveapple |
heartapple (< OE heortæppel), goldapple (cf. NHG Goldapfel, French pomme d'or), bloodapple | |
| tomb | n | grave | thesterlock (<OE þéostorloca), lichrest (<OE lícrest) | |
| topaz | n | - | basestone (<OE baswa stán) | |
| topic | n | - | underthrow (cf. Du. onderwerp "subject, topic") | |
| topography | n | landscape | - | |
| torch | n | flashlight, handlight,wisp | fackle (<OE fæcele, cf. NHG Fackel) brand, glimmer | |
| torch | vb | fire, light | brand | |
| torment | vb/n | bedeviln: hang-up |
qualmness (<OE cwealmnes) vb: aquilm (<OE ácwylmian, to be tormented) | |
| tornado | n | whirlwind, whirlstorm, twister | - | |
| torpedo | n | tin fish (navy slang) | fornaughtsend (cf. Ic. tundurskeyti)
seashot (sea-missile) | |
| torso | n | upperbody, bouk | - | |
| tortoise | n | - | rover (contr. of 'roofer' or 'roofpod', akin to stegosaurus 'roofed lizard')
shieldback (cf. Ic. skjaldbaka) fennich | |
| torture | vb | - | forpine, threst, bedevil, befiend | |
| total | n | - | - | |
| total | adj | utter, full, all-out, full-on, overall | ||
| totalitarian(ism) | adj/n | - | fullreding, fullriking, overiking | |
| totally | adv | altogether, fully, wholly, outright, utterly, full-on | ||
| totem | n | hallmark | eldermark, kinmark | |
| toucan | n | egg-sucker | peppereater (cf. Swed. pepparätare) | |
| touch | vb | handle, feel, finger, rine | berear (cf. NHG berühren calque of all Ger. speeches)(seerear ety. 2) | |
| tourist | n | sightseer | fandler | |
| towel | n | cloth, handcloth, washcloth | handduck (cf. Fr. Handoek, Du. Handdoek, NHG Handtuch), bedesheet (<OE beodsceat) | |
| tower | n | keep, steeple | - | |
| tower | vb | - | outwax | |
| toxic(ity) | adj/n | - | atter(some/ness) | |
| toxoplasmosis | n | - | bowmolden sickness | |
| tracheä | n | - | lungleat, windtharm, throatboll, windadder, weasand | |
| track | n | path, way | - | |
| tractor | n | tug, tower | tugwain | |
| tradition | n | trend, folklore, folkways, oldenway, thew(s) | besetness (cf. OE gesetnes) | |
| traditional | adj | old-line | old-stream, old-thread, thewkeeping, thewabiding, yorewise | |
| traffic | n | - | wayburden | |
| tragedy | n | ill, knock, mishap | wopleeth (<OE wopleoþ), ill-hap, woehap | |
| tragic | adj | heartbreaking, unlucky, woeful | - | |
| trailblazing | adj | groundbreaking | - | |
| train | n | tow, tug | -wain (old word for a wagon) | |
| trainer | n | - | outbilder (calque NHG. Ausbilder) | |
| trait | n | tie | - | |
| traitor | n | backstabber | lew (<OE læwa 'betrayer, traitor'), forreder (cf. NHG Verräter, Du. verrader, OE forrǽda.seerede), trustreaver | |
| trans- | pref | over-(only some words) | through- (NHG. durch-)(only some words) | |
| transcend | vb | - | oversty, overgo, overfare, outmire | |
| transcribe | vb | downwrite | overwrite (Du. overschrijeven) , cross-spell | |
| transfer | vb | send, bring over, hand to/over, shift (Barnes) | wend over, overbring | |
| transfigure | vb/n | shapeshift(ing) | forwandle (cf. NHG verwandeln) yondshape | |
| Transfiguration(religion) | n | - | forhallowing | |
| transform(ation) | vb | shapeshift(ing) | forshape/ing (<OE forscieppan)
forwandle, shapeshift, yondshape, forwend | |
| transgress | vb | - | overbreach (<OE oferbrecan) | |
| transhuman | n | - | yondwere, halfwere, halfman | |
| transhumanism | n | - | yondweredom, halfweredom | |
| transit | n/vb | thoroughfare, faring | - | |
| transition | n | shift, overgang | wending, switch-over, overswitch, frothering | |
| transitional | adj | - | wendingly, wendsome | |
| transitive | adj | overfaresome (Barnes) | - | |
| transitive (grammar) | adj | - | outreaching (Barnes), overgangly (cf. Du overgankelijk) | |
| transitory | adj | fleeting | whilewendly (<OE hwilwendlic) | |
| translate | vb | put into (Barnes),overset | - | |
| translation | n | oversetting | ||
| transliminal | adj | - | mirethwarsing | |
| transliteratetion | n | - | umwriting (cf. Ic. umrita, NHG umschreiben) | |
| translucent | adj | thurghbright, throughleaming throughshinely (cf. Du. doorschijnend) | ||
| transmit | vb | spread; ship; hand over | oversend (<NHG übersenden/ Du./ Eng) | |
| transmission | n | broadcast, | oversending | |
| transparency | n | - | throughsightihood(ness) | |
| transparent | adj | see-through; bright-line, glassy through-seen (Barnes) | throughbright (<OE þurhbeorht) throughshine (<OE þurhscýne), throughsighty (cf. NHG durchsichtig) | |
| transpire | vb | 1. sweat 2. happen, come to happen, leak out, come out | - | |
| transport | vb | ferry (from North Germanic) | - | |
| transsexual | n | she-man, he-lady, ladyboy, folkhalf shifter, folkhalf switcher | kinswitcher | |
| transsubstantiate | vb | - | yondwhat, yondandwork | |
| transubstantiation | n | - | wistforwandering (Norw. vesensforvandling; Dan. Væsensforvandling; NHG. Wesensverwandlung) | |
| transvestite | n | - | thwart-dresser, otherdresser | |
| trapezium/trapezoid | n | - | boardshape
trapezium (bone): (greater boardbone) | |
| trapezoid bone | n | - | lesser boardbone | |
| trauma | n | wound, aftershock | - | |
| travel | vb | fare (Barnes), wayfare, yondfare, lithe | - | |
| traveller | n | wayfarer (Barnes) | - | |
| traverse | vb | tread, yondfare | yondshrithe (<OE geondscríðan) | |
| treachery | n | - | swick (<OE swic) | |
| treason | n | forrede (cf. OE forrǽdan, Du. verraden, NHG verraten) | ||
| treasure | n | hoard, wealth hoard, dearworthness (<OE déorwyrðnes) |
shat (<ME schat), yarse/yass (<OE gærsum; c.f. bass < OE bærs, arse/ass < OE ærs) princely: drightmathem (<OE dryhtmaðm) ancient: earstreen (<OE ærġestrēon), eldstreen (<OE ealdġestrēon) | |
| treasury | n | - | gavelgild (<OE gafolgyld), feehoard (<OE feohhord) hoardern (<OE hordern) feehove (<OE feohhof) cluff (<OE clyfa) | |
| treat | vb | - | behandle (cf. Du. behandeling) | |
| treatise | n | - | offhandling (cf. NHG Abhandlung) | |
| treatment | n | - | behandling, tiling (<OE tilung) | |
| treaty | n | truce
bargain (Barnes) | (peace): frithwrit, frithware (<OE friðuwær)
fordrawing (cf. NHG Vertrag), foreward (<OE foreweard) | |
| tremble | vb | bever, shiver, quiver, shudder, shake, quake, | bive | |
| tremor | n | quake, quiver, shake, shudder | - | |
| trench | n | - | gravet <OEgrafet), delf, waterfurrow | |
| trespass | vb | overstep | offbreete (calque of Ic. af-brot; cf. OE breotan) | |
| trespasser | n | guilt-doer | ||
| triangle | n | - | threenook ?/θrɛnʊk/
threeside (cf. Du. trekant) | |
| tribal leader | n | - | kinelder, kinleader | |
| tribe | n | kindred, stem |
mathe, kneeris (<OE cnēoris) | |
| tribulation | n | woe |
costing (<OE costung) arwothe (<OE earwoðe) forniddenness (<OE forgnidennes) | |
| tribute | n | - | gavel (<OE gafol) | |
| tributary | n | brook | rith, side-stream (Barnes) | |
| triceratops | n | - | thrihornleer (calque of Greek) | |
| trichology | n | hairlore | - | |
| tricycle | n | - | threewheeler | |
| trick | n | wile, swack | sare (<OE searu) | |
| trigonometry | n | threenooklore, threenooking | ||
| trilobite | n | - | thrilap | |
| trilogy | n | - | thriluke (cf. Du. drieluik) | |
| Trinidad and Tobago | n | - | Threefold and Smokeleaf | |
| trinity | n | - | threeness (Barnes), threefoldness | |
| tripartite | adj | threefold | threedealed (<OE þridǽled) | |
| triple | n | threesome | - | |
| triple | vb/adj | threefold (Barnes) | - | |
| triplet | n | threeling | thryn | |
| triquetal bone | n | - | threenookbone | |
| tristful | adj | downcast, gloomy, unblithe, unglad, wretched | - | |
| triumph | n | win, sig | - | |
| triumvirate | n | - | thriwered (exact calque: trium-thri +-vir-were +-ate -ed) | |
| trivial | adj | paltry | ayeap, ageap (<OE ægype) | |
| troops (army) | n | - | sithreaden (<OE ġesiðræden) | |
| tropical (climate) | adj | - | wendringly (cf. Du. keerkring, NHG Wendekreis) | |
| tropical zone | n | - | wendring strip, innerstrip, innerslice | |
| trouble | vb/n |
ail, illness, woe; harm's way in trouble: on the ropes, mishap, mess | swench (<OE swencan) | |
| troublesome | adj | - | athrotsome (<OE aþrotsum) | |
| truck | n | lorry | freightwain (cf. W.Fris. frachtwein) | |
| truncheon | n | cudgel, nightstick, club | - | |
| trunk | n | - | body, bole, salk, stock, stem, shaft, | |
| trunk | n | - | slurf (cf. Du. slurf, W.Fris. sloarf) limbnose, armnose | |
| try | vb | bid, shoot, crack, stab | forseek (NHG. Versuchen, Du. verzoeken) orforseech (regarding beseech)
mint (<OE myntan) | |
| tsunami | n | - | andwave, greatwave, micklewave | |
| tube | n | pipe | ||
| tuition | n | teaching | leering | |
| tulip | n | - | houvebloom | |
| tumor | n | amper (OE: ampre ) | ||
| tundra | n | northgrass, coldgrass | - | |
| tunic | n | chesthelm, breasthelm | - | |
| tunnel | n | - | burrow, crawlway, underway | |
| turban | n | - | houve | |
| turbid | adj | cloudy, droff, overcast, murky, muddy | - | |
| turn | vb | wend, writhe | - | |
| turn | n | (my turn):next in the row | - | |
| turn against | vb | gainsay, withstand | gainstand, gainwork (cf. NHG entgegenwirken) | |
| turn into | vb | become, char | forwandle | |
| turn off | vb | switch off | ||
| turn on | vb | switch on | ||
| turn out | vb | crop up | ||
| turning point | n | watershed | - | |
| turquoise | vb/n | teal | greenblue | |
| turret | n | small keep | wyehouse (<OE wíghús) | |
| turtle | n | shell-paddock (rare) | rover (contr. of 'roofer' or 'roofpod', akin tostegosaurus, meaning 'roofed lizard'), shieldpad (cf. W.Fr. skyldpod & Du schildpad) | |
| tutelage | n | - | reding | |
| tutor | n | teacher, leerer | - | |
| tutu | n | - | bumbum (French calque) | |
| tweezers | n | nippers | - | |
| type | n | kind (Barnes), ilk | - | |
| type | vb | key, truckle | - | |
| typhus | n | - | lent-addle (Barnes) | |
| typify | vb | kinden, mark, inbody | - | |
| typical | adj | everyday | token | |
| typographer | n | - | outlayer, runecrafter | |
| Tyrannosaurus rex | n | - | king tharlathex (calque of Greek+Latin)
great king athex (athex <OEāðehe: saurus) | |
| tyranny | n | - | tharlreding | |
| tyrant | n | - | tharlreder (<OE þearl 'severe, strict')
hardrede (cf. king Harold 3 of Norway) leedhater (<OE lēodhata/leōdhata) pl: leedhatren (<OE lēodhatan/leōdhatan) | |
| tyre | n | - | wheelring, loftband, liftband, band | |
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| Attested | Unattested | |||
| ubiquitous | adj | everywhere, all-over; everyday, household; wall-to-wall | - | |
| ubiquity | n | everywhereness | - | |
| Ukraine | n | Borderland, Innerland, Inethel | ||
| Unidentified Flying Object | n | - | Unmarked Flying Onget, Unknown Flying Ware | |
| ulcer | adj | - | sore(calque) | |
| ulna | n | - | ell, elbone | |
| ulterior | adj | later | motive: backthought(calque) | |
| ultimate | adj | last | - | |
| ultimately | adv | someday, sometime; after all, sooner or later; deep down | endily, lastingly | |
| umbrella | n | rainshade | rainshield | |
| unabated | adj | - | unlessened (Barnes) | |
| unanimous | adj | kindred, like-minded | all-thwaring, oneholly (cf. NHG einhellig, Sw. enhällig) | |
| unanimously | adv | - | thwaringly (OE þwarian 'to agree') | |
| unanticipated | adj | unforeseen | - | |
| unassailable | adj | hallowed, holly | unthwartsome | |
| unbalanced | adj |
barmy, bats, haywire, unhinged; unsteady | unmeted | |
| uncelebrated | adj | nameless, unsung | unfrealsed (OE freolsian) | |
| uncertain | adj | flickery, unsettled, trustless | wendful | |
| uncertainty | n | mistrustfulness | uncouthness | |
| uncle | n | eme | paternal: fathere
maternal: eme | |
| unconscious | adj | cold; clueless | unheeding | |
| unctuous | adj | smarmy | - | |
| undercurrent | n | undertow, tideway | - | |
| underdeveloped | adj | underbuilt, undergrown | underblown (OE blowan) | |
| undermine | vb | hinder | - | |
| undistinguished | adj | unknown | bremeless | |
| undress | vb | strip, unclothe | - | |
| undulating | adj | wavering | - | |
| uneasy | adj | restless, ill at ease | - | |
| unedifying | adj | unwholesome, unhealthy | - | |
| uneducated | adj | unread, unlearnt, untaught; lowbrow | - | |
| unemployed | adj | jobless, idle, unhired, workless | unbehired(full-time) | |
| unexpected | adj | unforeseen | unweened (OE wenan), unbewaited | |
| unfamiliar | adj | unheard of, unknown, unkindred, beyond your ken | seldcouth (<OE seldcúþ) | |
| unfavourable | adj | unfriendly, untoward | - | |
| unfortunate | adj | hapless, hardluck, ill-starred (Barnes), snakebit; heartbreaking, woeful | uneady | |
| unhabited | adj | undwelled | unerned, unwoned | |
| unharness | vb | outspan | - | |
| unicorn | n | - | onehorn (Du. eenhorn) | |
| uniform | n | - | clothing: evenwear | |
| uniformity | n | evenness | - | |
| unintelligent | adj | bonehead, witless | - | |
| uninteresting | adj | leaden, reckless, unrecking | - | |
| union | n | - |
fay, gathertang, thede, meanship (<OE ġemænscipe, cf. NHG Gemeinschaft) | |
| unionism | n | - | thedehood | |
| unionist | n/adj | - | adj: thedishn: theder | |
| unique | adj | one-off, one-of-a-kind, one and only | - | |
| unit | n | - | fach (pl. fax), onhood (cf. Du. eenheid), whit | |
| unite | vb | knit, link up, bind, fay, one |
onlay, anledge(<OE anlæcan),forone, agether bewed | |
| united | adj | knitted, oned | oneleight, fayed, foroned | |
| United States of America | n | - |
Foroned Rix of Markland, Banded Folkdoms of Americksland, Bonded Hoods of America, Bonded Landhoods of America, Foranned Rix of Vinland Redland ethelsinformal | |
| unity | n | oneness (Barnes), onehead, onehood, togetherness, wholeness |
onefoldness (<OE ānfealdnes) of voices: evenleether (<OE efenhlēoðor) pl: evenleethru | |
| universal | adj | broad-brush, overall; all-in; wall-to-wall | almean (cf. NHG allgemein, Du. algemeen), alworldly, allsome (<Barnes), allhomely | |
| universality | n | allness | - | |
| universe | n | world | allworld (cf. NHG Weltall), wholeäll (cf. Du. heelal) | |
| university | n | lorestead (<Barnes), seat of learning (<Barnes) | learnhall | |
| unjustified | adj | unshown | unsweetled | |
| unleash | vb | loosen, unlock | - | |
| unleashed | adv | unbound | - | |
| unlimited | adj | unbounded (<Barnes), unstinted | mireless (OE mære 'limit, border') | |
| unmaintained | adj | unkempt | - | |
| unmanageable | adj | headstrong, untoward | - | |
| unnecessary | adj | needless, uncalled for, unneeded | - | |
| unnerve | vb | unsettle, faze | - | |
| unoccupied | adj | empty, leer, free of | ||
| update | vb | - | bywork (cf. Du. bijwerken), ednew, uptime, upday | |
| unpleasant | adj | bad, bitter, rotten, unlovely, wicked | uncweming | |
| unpopular | adj | - | unfolkly | |
| unproductive | adj | bony, geason, unbearing, unyielding | unteeming | |
| unprofitable | adj | barren | fremeless | |
| unprogressive | adj | hidebound | unforwaying | |
| unreservedly | adj | wholeheartedly | - | |
| unresponsive | adj | - | sloom (cf. Du.) | |
| unrestrained | adj | loose | - | |
| unrevealed | adj | untold, hidden, in dern | - | |
| unsuccessful | adj | - | unspeedful, unspowing | |
| unsuitable | adj | unbefitting | unbeseeming | |
| unsympathetic | adj | slash-and-burn, unfeeling; untoward | - | |
| unusual | adj | funny, out-of-the-way, weird | frimdy, seldcouth, unbrooklike, unbrookly | |
| unveil | vb | bare, let on about, spill, tell, unbosom | unhele, unmesh | |
| urban | adj | townish | townwise, boroughwise | |
| urbanite | n | townsman | boroughwere | |
| urbanization | n | - | betowning, beboroughing | |
| urbanize | vb | - | betown, beborough | |
| urge | n/vb |
beseech, beg, goad | thraving (<OE thrafian) | |
| urination | n | weeingslang | migothening, migothletting, thwayletting, harnening, landening, midgening | |
| urine | n | weeslang, sig | migoth (<OE migoða), land (<OE hland), midge (<OE micga), wetness (<OE wæta), harn (cf. NHG "Harn"), thway (cf. Ic. "þvag") | |
| urinate | v | weeslang,wet | migothen (on basis of German Harn and Harnen), migothlet, landen, midgen, harnen, thwaylet (cf. Ic. "þvaglát") | |
| ursa major | n | The Plough, The Great Bear | - | |
| use | n | - | brook, note, noteing, frim (<ME), brookness | |
| use | vb | brook, handle, deal with, milk | note (Eng. ety.2 , <ME <OE notu, cf. NHG nutzen)
benote (<ME binoten, cf. NHG benutzen ) | |
| used to | adj | 1. formerly 2. wonted to, weaned to | - | |
| (get) used to | vb | get wonted to | gewone (cf. NHG gewöhnen) | |
| useful | adj | handy, noteful, helpful | frimful (<OE fremful), brookful | |
| useless | adj | idle, unhandy, unhelpful, noteless | fremeless, brookless | |
| usual | adj | household; cut-and-dried | grove kind, brooklike, brookly, gewonely | |
| usurer | n | loan shark | wastomshatster | |
| usury | n | - | wooker (<OE wócor, cf. NHG Wucher, Du woeker)
wastomshat (<OE wæstmsceatt) | |
| utensil | n | tool | - | |
| uterus | n | womb | motherbear (cf. Du. baarmoeder) | |
| utopia | n | neverland, never-never land, dreamworld | heaven-on-earth | |
| uxorious | adj | - | wifefondly, wife-yearning | |
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| Attested | Unattested | ||
| vacancy | n | black hole, emptiness; bareness, | - |
| vacant | adj | bare; fallow, off; deadpan, numb; forgotten, forsaken | toom (<OE tóm) |
| vacate | vb | empty | - |
| vacation | n | break, holiday, leave | - |
| vaccine | n | booster, jab | - |
| vacuity | n | black hole, emptiness; bareness | - |
| vacuum | n | tow | 1. toom (<OE tōm 'empty');
2. dustsucker |
| vaettir | n | wight | - |
| vagrancy | n | - | eardless wandering, |
| vagrant | n | drifter, floater, wanderer | eardless wanderer |
| vague | adj | fuzzy; dim; shadowy; hazy | unsuttle (<ME sutel <OE sweotolclear) |
| vagina | n |
cunt(vulgar), |
sheath (translation of the Latin, maytril |
| vain | adj |
1. cocky, high-and-mighty, snotty; | - |
| vain, in | phr | for nothing, worthlessly, in wanhope | - |
| valediction | n | goodbye, farewell, leave-taking | - |
| valerian | n | all-heal | - |
| valet | n | theen, steward | - |
| valiant | adj | bold, doughty, fearless, stalworth | - |
| valid | adj | sound, well-grounded | - |
| valkyrie | n | - | walcury |
| valley | n | dale deep, of a stream: dene wide, grassy: slade narrow, steep:clove | comb, deneland, earthdene, |
| valour | n | ellen | - |
| value | n | worth | merit: meed, |
| value | vb | worthen | - |
| vampire | n | bloodsucker, shark, wolf | dreigh (<OE dréag) bloodfiend, bloodnicker |
| vanguard | n | - | andward (calque) |
| vanir | n | - | wanes (calque of the ON) |
| vanish | vb | fade, wither, melt, sink | fordwine, quink, |
| vanity | n | pride, idleness | idle, renk |
| vanquish | vb | - | besye (cf. NHG besiegen) |
| vapour | n | - |
athom (<OE ǽðm), |
| variant | n | offshoot | sundering |
| variation | n | - | frothering offwrixling (cf. Fr. ôfwikseling) |
| variegated | adj | rainbow; dotted | manyhued |
| variety | n | kind | - |
| various | adj | many, manifold, sundry, rainbow | mistly (<OE mistlic)
forshed (cf. NHG verschieden) |
| vas deferens | n | - | seedladder (calque) |
| vassal | n | feeman, knave | neat, younger, maythegn |
| vast | adj | wide, great, endless | - |
| vault of heaven | n | - |
rother (<OE rodor), |
| Vé | n | - | Weoh (<MEweoh 'sacred, holy'), Way |
| veal | n | calf | calf-flesh |
| vector | n | wayload | - |
| veer | vb | swerve, trundle | - |
| veil | n | wimple | rift, helster |
| vegan | n | - | greentheater, wortaloneater |
| vegetable | n | green, greens | foodwort, greenth (Du. groente) |
| vegetarian | n | - | greens-eater, fleshlesseater |
| vehicle | n | wain, craft | farewain, farecraft |
| vein | n | - | edder (<OE ǣdre, cf. NHG Ader)
leat, bloodburrow |
| velcro | n | - | graspcloth, fangcloth |
| velociraptor | n | - | quickreacker, dashsnatcher, quickfanger |
| velvet | n/adj | - | furrel (fur + dim. -el) |
| vendor | n | seller, dealer | - |
| venesection | n | bloodletting | - |
| venison | n | - | hartflesh, roeflesh (cf. NHG Rehfleisch) |
| venom | n/vb | - | atter |
| vent | n | hole | - |
| venturesome | adj | daring, free-swinging | thriste (<OE) |
| venue | n | - | showstow (cf. NHG Schauplatz) |
| veracious | adj | true | luter (<OE hlutor) |
| verb | n | - | deedword, workword (cf. Du. werkwoord), tideword(cf. Fris.) |
| verbal | adj | wordy; spoken, unwritten, word-of-mouth | - |
| verbatim | adj | word-for-word, word for word | as was said, wordly (NHG. wörtlich) |
| verbose | adj | long-winded | - |
| verbosity | n | wordiness | - |
| verdant | n | green, lush | - |
| verge | n | brink, edge, threshold | - |
| verify | vb | find out, look at/into | - |
| verily | adv | truly, soothly, indeed, forsooth, iwis | - |
| verity | n |
truth. (see | - |
| vernacular | n | unbookish, everyday speech | mean speech
Umgangspeech (seeumgang) |
| vernal | adj | spring | - |
| verse | n | - | yedding (<OE geddung)
stave, staff leethcraft (OE) |
| version | n | reading, betokening
offshoot |
fading (<OE fadung), leaf, |
| versus | prep | against | - |
| vertebra | n | - | warvel (<OE hweorf, cf.Du. wervel,NHG wirfel) |
| vertical | adj | standing, upright | weft |
| vertically | adv | heightwise, upward(s), up and down | - |
| vertigo | n | - | highweariness |
| veruca | n | wart | - |
| vervain | n | - | ash-throat (<OEæscðrote) |
| very | adj/adv |
1.sore, sorely; way,highly; 2. much, truly, soothly, forsooth, 3. same, selfsame; 4. sheer; utter; 5. true, truly, full; 6. true; 7. rightful, lawful very much: | swithe (<OE swíðe)
very fair: forfair (<OE forfæger) very good: eregood (<OE ǽrgód), very guilty: throughshildy very many: fele (<OE fela), very much: forswithe (<OE forswíðe), very old: orold (<OE oreald) very wealthy: throughspeedy (<OE þurhspédig) |
| vesica | n | bladder | - |
| vespertilines | n | bat | rere-mouse, rye-mouse, flitter-mouse |
| vessel | n | vat, ship | - |
| vest | n | British: undershirt American:waistcoat | - |
| vestibule | n | - |
cavortown (<OE cafortūn), entrance to: infarreld (<OE infæreld), def. 2: foredyrre (<OE), def. 3: foredere (<OE foredere), |
| vex | vb | nettle |
teen (<OE teonian), grill (<OE grillan), |
| vexation | n | feaze |
dreevedness (<OE drefednes), |
| via | conj | by | - |
| vibrate | vb | shiver, shudder, quiver, shake | - |
| vicar | n | - | speller, spelland (<OE speliend) |
| vicarious | adj | - | wician, wice |
| vicepresident | n | - | underforesitter |
| viceroy | n | - | underking (<OE undercyning) |
| vicinity | n | nearness; neighbourhood | nighth |
| vicious | adj | - | baderdy (cf. NHG bösartig)
nithe |
| vicissitude | n | ups and downs, seesaw |
ebbs and flows, ebb and neap, |
| victim | n | - | tiber (<OE tíber)
armshed |
| victor | n | winner | sye/sig(wo)man |
| victory | n | win |
sye/sig |
| video | n |
film, short film, short, | ewing (<OE īwung; meaning showing/revealing) |
| video CD | n | - | white book |
| video game | n | game |
ewing game reckoner game, |
| view | n | outlook, eyeshot, sight, insight | - |
| view | vb | look, watch, see, gaze, gawk | - |
| viewer | n | onlooker, witness, watcher | - |
| vigil | n | wakefulness, wake, watch | - |
| vigilance | n | heedness, wareness, watchfulness | rathing |
| vigilant | adj | eye-bright, wakeful, aware, wary, watchful, wide awake, wakerife, ware, sharp | - |
| vigilante | n |
watchman, warder, ward, | folkreve (<OE folcgérefa)
vigilance comittee memberselfbeadle, selfsheriff |
| vigour | n | liveliness, drive | - |
| vigorous | adj | hearty, rathe, lusty, driving, lively, hale, yauld | rathsome (OE hræþ) |
| vile | adj | evil, wicked, loathsome | - |
| Vili | n | - | Will |
| village | n | hem, thorpe/thorp/dorp, wick, town, whistle-stop | hemling, ham |
| villain | n | black hat | nithing (<OE niðing) |
| vine | n | - | droovebeam (cf. Fr. druvebeam) |
| viola | n | - | midfiddle |
| violate | vb | breach | overnim, sorthe |
| violence | n | foul play
bloodshed; recklessness | threat, hest, hattleness, nid, strack, strength, swithness, unreck |
| violent | adj | stormy; dreadful; mad; reckless; wrathful |
hest (<OE haeste), hattle, |
| violet | adj | - | tever (<OE teafor), bawse (<OE basu) |
| violin | n | fiddle | - |
| violoncello | n | - | knee fiddle |
| virgin | n | maiden | unswiven |
| virginity | n | maidenhood | unswivenhood, famenhood |
| virtually | adv | almost, nearly, seemingly, all but | - |
| virtue | n | worth, uprightness; doughtiness, heart |
douth (<OE duguþ) |
| virtuous | adj | right-minded | douthsome (cf. Du. deugdzaam) |
| virus | n | - | smitter (cf. Sw. smitta), weevil |
| visage | n | blee, likeness | neb (<OE nebb) |
| viscosity | n | stickiness, clinginess | - |
| viscous | adj | sticky, clingy, ropy | - |
| viscum | n | mistletoe, balder's bane | - |
| visible | adj | - | seenly (<ME seheliche); seesome |
| vision | n | sight; dream, sweven | - |
| visionary | adj | farsighted, foresighted | - |
| visit | vb | call upon, drop in, see | fandle (<OFR)
beseek (<OE bísæce, see home (ex.I saw my father home yesterday.) |
| visit | n | - | fandle
beseeking (<OE bísæce, |
| visitor | n | caller, guest | fandler
beseeker |
| vital | adj |
flush, lusty, red-blooded; mettlesome, | - |
| vitality | n | liveliness, beans | dodrive |
| vitamin | n | - | lifematter (cf. Ic. fjörefni) |
| vocabulary | n | word-hoard | - |
| vocal | adj | loud, outspoken | - |
| vociferous | adj | outspoken, loudmouthed | - |
| vodka | n | - | Russlandish lifewater, firewater |
| voice | n | steven, (<OE stefn) ("With dreary heart and sorrowful steven ..") one of the few words to rhyme with 'heaven' steaven (so the way it is written does indeed rhyme with heaven) |
stimm (<OE, cf. NHG Stimme) reard, Sc. reird, raird (<OE reord) leathor (<OE hlēoðor) sweyleathor (<OE swēġhlēoðor) swey (<OE swēġ), of thunder: thunderradestefen of water: headwooth (<OE hēafodwōþ) |
| voiced | adj | soft, weak, flat | - |
| voiceless | adj | hard, strong, sharp | Stimmless
stevenless (calque) |
| void | n/adj |
n: black hole, emptiness adj: bereft |
room (<OR rūm) toom (<OE tōm) |
| volcano | n | - | firebarrow, firefell |
| völkisch | adj | folkish (att'd; <OE folcisc) | - |
| volleyball | n | - | flightball (calque) |
| volume | n | book: wad acoustics:din, loudness |
physics: bulk, |
| voluntary | adj | willing, freewilling | - |
| volunteer | n | - | freewill worker, freewiller |
| vomer | n | - | ploughshare bone |
| vomit | vb |
spew, puke, throw up, | - |
| vomit | n | spew, puke, sick, throw-up, hurl | - |
| vote | n/vb | poll, show of hands, choosing vb: choose | steven |
| vow | n/vb | oath, behest, pledge, troth, word | behest, behight |
| vowel | n | - | clipple (<OE clipol), clipend |
| voyage | n/vb | sail | farfareld |
| vulgar | adj | low, filthy, ill-bred, churlish | churly (<OE ceorllic) |
| vulnerable | adj | helpless, powerless, strengthless, mightless | |
| vulpine | adj | foxlike | - |
| vulture | n | - | geir (calque), ulter |
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| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
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| wager | n/vb | lay, bet, stake, pledge, flutter, put on, long shot | - | |
| wallpaper | n | - | wallleaf, wallbilth (wall is a child of PGwallaz 'wall,' 'barrier'), waughleaf, waughbilth. | |
| walrus | n | - | horsewhale (calque), tuskseal | |
| wapiti | n | (lesser) elk | - | |
| war ( this word is <late Old English <Old North French < Frankish *werra <PG) | n | fight | wye (<OE wig), gouth (<OE gúð)
crig (<PG krīgaz, cf. NHG Krieg) orlay (W.Fris oarloch) | |
| War Minister | n | - | wyeambighter
crigambighter (Cf. G Kriegminister) | |
| warrior | n |
fighter |
wyeman (<OE wigman), wyer seg, harrier (cf. ON einherjar), fyrdman, gouthledge (<OE gúðgelæca), hildthrim (<OE hildeþremma), wyebern (<OE beornwig) youth: dreng (<OE) crigger, crigsman (cf. Dan/Norw. Kriger, NHG Krieger) | |
| waste | vb | blow, fiddle away, lose; smash, wreck | reave, fornim | |
| waste | n | chaff, dross, dust; barren, heath, no man's land, westen; dirt, dung, slops | money: feespilling (<OE feohspilling) | |
| waste | adj | bony, dead, stark | - | |
| wasteland | n | barren, dryland, heath, no-man's-land, westen | - | |
| watch cap | n | beanie | knit hat, woolly hat | |
| waterfall | n | - | foss (<ON fors, foss) | |
| watermelon | n | - | waterrindberry, watershellberry, waterbarkberry | |
| waive | vb | yield, forsake, forgo; overlook | - | |
| website | n | webside | webbook (from web + book, referencing the fact that they are composed of pages) | |
| webcam | n | - | webfanger (from "web" +bildfanger (prior Anglish translation)) | |
| whiskey | n | jack | lifewater | |
| woodpecker | n | - | hickle (<OE hicel, hicol) | |
| wreckage | n | loss, ashes, wrack, wreck | - | |
StaffX of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| x-ray | n | Roentgen wave | x-beam | |
| xanthous | adj | - | yellowbrown, yolk hued | |
| xenon | n | - | ellendmote, othermote | |
| xenophilia | n | - | ellendlove, otherlove | |
| xenophobia | n | - | ellendfear, otherfear | |
| xerophilia | n | - | droughtlove | |
| xerophobia | n | - | droughtfear | |
| xerox | n | - | drywrit, lighttwin (calque of photocopy) | |
| xiphoid | adj | - | sword shapen | |
| xyloid | adj | woodlike | ||
| xylology | n | - | woodlore | |
| xylophone | n | - | highboards, lockgrindle (OE "bolt-wood" | |
| xyster | n | - | bone scraper | |
StaffZ of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| zabaglione | n | - | winefoam | |
| zany | adj | brainless, half-witted, unwise, weak minded, witless | - | |
| zeal | n | keenness, warmth | afor (<OE), aforness
ellen (<OE) | |
| zealot | n | diehard | - | |
| zealotry | n | - | blind afor
highlust | |
| zealous | adj | keen, earnest | afory
lustful | |
| zeitgeist | n | - | timeghost, timesoul | |
| zenith | n | high noon, high tide, highwater mark, tip-top | - | |
| zephyr | n | - | westwind | |
| zeppelin | n | - | loftship (cf. NHG Luftschiff) | |
| zero | n | naught(US), nought, goose egg, nothing; lightweight; bedrock, bottom, depth | - | |
| zeroth | adj | - | noughth | |
| zest | n | nip, zing; skin, peel | - | |
| Zika (disease) | n | - | orweald driff | |
| zig-zag | vb/n/adj | stepside, reel | sidewind | |
| zodiac | n | - | girdle, tokenwheel | |
| zombie | n | undead | drow (<OE "dreag") | |
| zone | n | belt, land, neck; field | swath (cf. Ic. svæði) | |
| zoo | n | - | deerfold, deergrove, deerkeep; wightfold, wightgrove, wightkeep | |
| zoology | n | - | deerlore, wightlore | |
| zucchini | n | - | summer marrow | |
| zygomatic bone | n | cheekbone | - | |
| zymolysis | n | - | yeasting | |
StaffY of theEnglish Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations:
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Offshortenings.
| Chancery English | Class | Anglish/English | ||
| Attested | Unattested | |||
| yahoo | n | - | dimwit, lout, loggerhead | |
| Yahweh | n | God, Lord | - | |
| yak | n | - | shaggy-ox | |
| yam | n | - | sweet potato:sweet earthapple (cf. NHG sußkartoffel)
wild earthapple | |
| yeti | n | - | Snowdwell(er), runewight | |
| Yggdrasil | n | - | Eytreesile [Ey+tree+sile] (<ON Yggdrasil) | |
| yogurt | n | - | milkbrew (<OE meolcbrīw) | |
| York | n | - | Everwick | |
| Yorkshire | n | - | Everwickshire | |
| yo-yo | n | - | reelstringer | |
StaffA of theOld English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Forshortenings.
| abare | 'OE ābarian ' | 'vb' | 'disclose, bring to light' |
| abid | 'OE ābiddan ' | 'vb' | 'require, demand' |
| abive | 'OE ābifian ' | 'vb' | 'tremble, quiver' |
| abow | 'OE ābygan ' | 'vb' | 'deflect' |
| abraid | 'OE ābredgan ' | 'vb' | 'move quickly' |
| abreet | 'OE ābréotan ' | 'vb' | 'destroy, exterminate' |
| aken | 'OE ācennan ' | 'vb' | 'produce, bring forth' |
| acomingly | 'OE ācumendlic ' | 'adj' | 'possible' |
| acomingliness | 'OE ācumendlicnes ' | 'n' | 'possibility' |
| acraft | 'OE ācraeftan ' | 'vb' | 'devise, think up' |
| acun | 'OE ācunnian ' | 'vb' | 'experience' |
| acweeth | 'OE ācweðan ' | 'vb' | 'declare, say forth' |
| acwench | 'OE ācwincan ' | 'vb' | 'be extinguished or eclipsed' |
| adwell | 'OE ādwellan ' | 'vb' | 'seduce' |
| ambight | OE 'ambiht' (c.f. OHG 'ambaht,' NHG 'amt,' Du 'ambacht', Du 'ambt', Goth 'andbaht,' ON 'embætti,' Sw. 'ämbete,' Dan. 'embede,' Ice. 'ambatt'; all from Celtic *ambaktos) | 'n' | office, service, position |
| and- | 'OE and- ' | 'prefix' | 'opposition, negation, akin to German ent- and Dutch -ont' |
| anday | 'OE andaga' | 'n' | appointed day (religious), day chosen for case to be heard |
| andett | 'OE andettan' | 'vb' | 'confess,' 'acknowledge,' 'praise,' 'glorify' |
| andget | 'OE andgiet ' | 'n' | 'undrestanding, intellect' |
| andgetful | 'OE andgietful ' | 'adj' | 'intelligent, sensible' |
| andgetly | 'OE andgietlic ' | 'n' | 'intellible' |
| andkitheness | 'OE andcýðnes ' | 'n' | 'evidence' |
| andleth | 'OE andwlita' | 'n' | 'face' |
| andliven | 'OE andleofen ' | 'n' | 'nourishment' |
| andqueeth | 'OE andcweðan ' | 'vb' | 'contradict' |
| andquiss | 'OE andcwiss ' | 'n' | 'answer' |
| andsake | 'OE andsacian' | 'vb' | 'deny' |
| andward | 'OE andweard' | 'adj' | 'present' |
| andwardness | 'OE andweardnes' | 'n' | 'presence' |
| andwiseness | 'OE andwīsnes' | 'n' | 'experience' |
| andwist | 'OE andwist ' | 'n' | 'support' |
| andwork | 'OE andweorc ' | 'n' | 'matter, substance, matterial' |
| andy | 'OE andig' | 'adj' | 'jealous' |
| arm | OE 'earm' (c.f. NHG 'erbarmen') | 'vb' | have mercy, show pity |
| aspare | 'OE āsparian' | 'vb' | 'preservec |
| aspeed | 'OE āspédan' | 'vb' | 'survive, escape' |
| aspell | 'OE āspelian' | 'vb' | 'represent' |
| aspill | 'OE āspillan' | 'vb' | 'destroy' |
| aswarken | 'OE āswārcnian' | 'vb' | 'confound' |
| aswind | 'OE āswindan' | 'vb' | 'dissolve, fade away' |
| athel | 'OE aeðele' (cf Dutch 'edel') | 'adj' | 'noble' |
| athwee | OE 'áþwéan' (pt 'athwoy,' pf 'athwane') | 'vb' | 'baptize, anoint' |
| athween | 'OE āþwéanan' | 'vb' | 'cleanse, baptize' |
| athwite | 'OE āþwītan' | 'vb' | 'disappoint' |
| atspurn | OE 'ætspurnan' | 'vb' | rebel, strike against |
| atter | OE 'átor' | 'n' | poison |
| attle | 'OE atol' | 'adj' | 'terrible' |
| Attle | OE 'Ætla' | 'n, proper' | Attila (the Hun); boy's given name |
| attlehew | 'OE atolhīwian' | 'vb' | 'disfigure, make hideous' |
| awarel | 'OE āwaerlan' | 'vb' | 'avoid' |
StaffB of theOld English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Forshortenings.
| bairn | 'OE bearn' | 'n' | 'child' |
| balebenn | 'OE bealubenn' | 'n' | 'mortal wound' |
| balecraft | 'OE bealucraeft' | 'n' | 'magic art' |
| balequealm | 'OE bealucwealm' | 'n' | 'violent death' |
| baledeed | 'OE bealudaéd' | 'n' | 'evil deed, sin' |
| balesear | 'OE bealusearu' | 'n' | 'wicked art/machination' |
| balesorrow | 'OE bealusorg' | 'n' | 'dire sorrow' |
| balespell | 'OE bealuspell' | 'n' | 'baleful message' |
| bawse | ‘OE basu’ | ‘adj’ | ‘purple, scarlet, crimson’ |
| bebear | 'OE beberan' | 'vb' | 'carry to, supply with' |
| bebrook | 'OE bebrúcan' | 'vb' | 'practice, consume(food)' |
| bebuy | 'OE bebycgan' | 'vb' | 'sell' |
| bequilm | 'OE becwylman' | 'vb' | 'torment' |
| bedip | 'OE bedipan' | 'vb' | baptize, baptize by immersion |
| bedwalen | ‘OE gedwolen' | 'adj' | perverted, twisted |
| bedwalesome | ‘OE gedwolsum' | 'adj' | misleading, erroneous, wrong |
| befold | 'OE befealdan' | 'vb' | 'fold, envelop, involve' |
| befree | 'OE befréogan' | 'vb' | 'free, liberate' |
| befrine | 'OE befrínan' | 'vb' | 'question, ask' |
| belive | 'OE belífan' | 'vb' | 'remain, be left' |
| belock | 'OE belúcan' | 'vb' | ', lock, shut, impede, preserve, protect, shut out, exclude' |
| belook | 'OE belócian' | 'vb' | 'behold' |
| bemeld | 'OE bemeldian' | 'vb' | 'disclose, reveal, announce' |
| bemithe | 'OE bemíðan' | 'vb' | 'conceal, hide' |
| beneam | 'OE benaéman' | 'vb' | 'take away, deprive of' |
| benim | 'OE beniman' | 'vb' | 'take, assume, obtain, deprive' |
| benote | 'OE benotian' | 'vb' | 'use, consume' |
| berg | 'OE beorgan' | 'vb' | 'protect,' 'save,' 'deliver' |
| berg | 'OE beorg' | 'n' | 'mountain' |
| beshear | 'OE bescierian' | 'vb' | 'deprive, seperate from' |
| beshed | 'OE bescéadan' | 'vb' | 'seperate, discriminate' |
| beshed | 'OE bescéad' | 'n' | 'distinction' |
| beshit | 'OE bescítan' | 'vb' | 'befoul, corrupt' |
| beshow | 'OE bescéawian' | 'vb' | 'look around, survey, contemplate' |
| besnead | 'OE besnaédan' | 'vb' | 'cut, mutilate' |
| bestorm or bestirm | 'OE bestyrman' | 'vb' | 'agitate' |
| beswem | 'OE beswemm' | 'vb' | 'to make to bathe' |
| beswing | 'OE beswingan' | 'vb' | 'beat to a pulp, strike excessively, plague' |
| bewad | 'OE bewadan' | 'vb' | 'to emerge' |
| beward | 'OE beweardian' | 'vb' | 'guard, protect' |
| bewit | 'OE bewitan' | 'vb' | 'watch over,guide, lead, administer' |
| bework | 'OE bewyrcan' | 'vb' | 'construct, work |
| bewrite | 'OE bewrítan' | 'vb' | 'record' |
| betharf | 'OE beþearfan' | 'vb' | 'need' |
| betharfly | 'OE beþearflic' | 'adj' | 'profitable' |
| bey | 'OE bīegan' | 'vb' | 'bend, persuade' |
| beyote | OE 'bigeotan' | 'vb' | flood, pour over, pour over big-time, infuse |
| birther | 'OE byþre' | 'n' | 'child-bearer, mother' |
| birtherquelm | 'OE beorþorcwelm' | 'n' | 'abortion' |
| bisen | 'OE bisen' | 'n' | 'example' |
| bive | 'OE bifian' | 'vb' | 'tremble, quake' |
| blethe | 'OE bléað' | 'adj' | 'shy, timid' |
| brim | OE 'brim' | 'n' | 'surf, flood, wave, sea, ocean, water; sea-edge, shore' |
| brimstream | OE 'brimstréam' | 'n' | 'sea current' |
| brimlode | OE 'brimlad' | 'n' | seaway |
| brithel | 'OE briðel' | 'adj' | 'fragile, weak' |
| britten | 'OE brytnian' | 'vb' | 'distribute' |
| broc | 'OE brocian' | 'vb' | 'afflict' |
| brord | 'OE bryrdan' | 'vb' | 'incite, urge on' |
| brough | 'OE brōga' | 'n' | 'fear, horror, terror, dread' |
| bylive | 'OE bīleofa' | 'n' | 'sustenance, nourrishment' |
| byname | OE 'binama' | 'n' | 'pronoun' bi (by) + nama (name) |
| byspell | 'OE bīspell' | 'n' | 'example' |
| byword | 'OE biword' | 'n' | 'adverb' bi (by) + word |
StaffC of theOld English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Forshortenings.
| char | 'OE cīerran' | 'vb' | 'convert, turn back' |
| chirm | 'OE cirman' | 'vb' | 'call, cry out' |
| clack | 'OE clac' | 'n' | 'injury' |
| cleanyearn | 'OE clængeorn' | 'adj' | 'yearning for purity' |
| clepe | 'OE clipian' | 'vb' | 'invoke, summon' |
| cove | 'OE cāf' | 'adj' | 'quick, active' |
| coveness | 'OE cāfnes' | 'n' | 'energy, alacrity' |
| coveship | 'OE cāfscipe' | 'n' | 'energy, alacrity' |
| costing | 'OE costung' | 'n' | 'temptation' |
| couthen | 'OE cyðan' | 'vb' | 'make known, impart, show' (c.f. MnE 'couth') |
StaffD of theOld English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Forshortenings.
| dealnimming | 'OE daélniming' (cf Du 'deelneming' | 'n' | 'participation' |
| deathdole | 'OE déaðdāl' | 'n' | 'the seperation of body and soul upon death' |
| deedboot | 'OE daédbōt' | 'n' | 'penitence' |
| derf | 'OE deorf' | 'n' | 'trouble' |
| dern | 'OE dyrn' | 'adj' | 'hidden,secret' |
| dernlyership or dernliership | 'OE dyrnlegerscipe' | 'n' | 'adultery' |
| derst | 'OE dyrst' | 'n' | 'tribulation' |
| derve | 'OE deorfan' | 'vb' | 'exert oneself, labour' |
| dibb | 'OE dybbian' | 'vb' | 'pay attention' |
| dighel | 'OE dīegol' | 'adj/n' | 'secret' |
| dighelful | 'OE dīegolful' | 'adj' | 'mysterious' |
| dighelness | 'OE dīegolnes' | 'n' | 'mystery' |
| dight | 'OE dihtan' | 'vb' | 'arrange' |
| doughty | 'OE dyhtig' | 'adj' | 'strong, courageous' |
| drake | 'OE draca' (cf Du 'draak') | 'n' | 'dragon' |
| dreg | 'OE dreag' | 'n' | 'A risen ghost, an undead warrior' |
| dregar/dregs | 'Fusion of OE dreag and Old Norse draugar' | 'pn' | 'Risen ghosts, undead warriors' |
| dree | 'OE dréogan' | 'vb' | 'suffer, endure' |
| dretch | 'OE dreccan' | 'vb' | 'torment, oppress' |
| dreve | 'OE dréfan' | 'vb' | 'disturb, trouble' |
| dright | 'OE dryht' | 'adj' | 'nation, people, multitude' |
| drighten | OE 'drihten' | 'n' | 'lord,' 'governer,' 'leader' |
| drightness | OE 'drihtnes' | 'n' | lordliness, power, majesty |
| drovey | 'OE drōfig' | 'adj' | 'troublesome' |
| dwel | OE 'dwelian' (cf Du 'dwalen') | 'vb' | deceive, mislead |
| dwale | 'OE dwola' | 'n' | 'heresy, error' |
| dwalecraft | OE 'dwolcræft' | 'n' | idolatry, dark art |
| dwalegod | OE 'dwolgod' | 'n' | idol, false god |
| dwalenly | OE 'dwolenlic' | adv | foolishly |
| dwalespeak | OE 'dwolspræc' | 'n' | heretical teaching |
| dwaley | 'OE dwolic' | 'n' | 'heretical' |
StaffE of theOld English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Forshortenings.
| ea | OE 'éa' | 'n' | river |
| eak | OE 'éacan' | 'vb' | increase |
| ed- | 'OE ed-' | 'prefix (forefastening/fore-wordbit)' | 'again, back, (samehood [equivalent] of re-)' |
| eady | OE 'éadig' | 'adj' | wealthy, prosperous, blessed, happy |
| edlean | 'OE edléan' | 'n' | 'reward' |
| edledge | 'OE edlaecan' | 'vb' | 'repeat' |
| ednew | 'OE ednīwian' | 'vb' | 'renew' |
| edshaft | 'OE edscaft' | 'n' | 'regeneration, new creature' |
| edsight | 'OE edsihþ' | 'vb' | 'respect' |
| edstathel | 'OE edstaðolian' | 'vb' | 'restore' |
| edstall | 'OE edstalian' | 'vb' | 'restore' |
| edwend | 'OE edwendan' | 'vb' | 'return' |
| edwist | 'OE edwist' | 'n' | 'sustenance, food, being, substance' |
| eft, eft- | 'OE eft(-)' | 'adv', 'pref' | 'again, back, (samehood [equivalent] of re-)' |
| eftarise | 'OE eftárísan(-)' | 'vb' | 'ressurect, rise again' |
| eftchar | 'OE eftcyrran' | 'vb' | 'return' |
| eftcome | 'OE eftcuman' | 'vb' | 'return' |
| eftimind | 'OE eftgemindgian' | 'vb' | 'remember' |
| eftlooking | 'OE eftlócung' | 'n' | 'respect, regard' |
| eftsit | 'OE eftsittan' | 'vb' | 'reside' |
| eftsithe | 'OE eftsíð' | 'n' | 'journey back' |
| eftwharve | 'OE efthweorfan' | 'vb' | 'return' |
| efty | 'OE eftgian' | 'vb' | 'repeat' |
| eight | 'OE éhtan' | 'vb' | 'attack, persecute' |
| eight | 'OE eaht' | 'n' | 'assembly, council, estimation, esteem' |
| eight | 'OE eahtan' | 'vb' | 'estimate, appreciate, esteem' |
| elk | 'OE elcian' | 'vb' | 'put off, delay' |
| eldeth | 'OE ealdo' | 'n' | 'vessel' |
| eldkind | 'OE ealdgecynd' | 'n' | 'original nature' |
| eldsith | 'OE ealdgesíþ' | 'n' | 'old comrade' |
| eldwork | 'OE ealdgeweorc' | 'n' | 'old-standing work, the world' |
| eldfather | 'OE ealdefaeder' | 'n' | 'grandfather' |
| eldmother | 'OE ealdemódor' | 'n' | 'assembly, council, estimation, esteem' |
| eldspeech | 'OE ealdspraéc' | 'n' | 'proverb, by-word' |
| eldweary | 'OE ealdwwerig' | 'adj' | 'accursed from old times' |
| eldwitter | 'OE ealdwita' | 'n' | 'sage, wise-man' |
| elg, ellow | 'OE ealgian' | 'vb' | 'protect, defend' |
| elsh | OE 'ealh' (OE 'wealh' became 'Welsh') (c.f. Goth 'alh,' OHG 'alah') | 'n' | temple |
| endbirth | OE 'endebyrd' | 'n' | 'order,' 'arrangement' |
| endbirthe | OE 'endebyrdan' | 'vb' | to set in order, to arrange |
| endbirthend | OE 'endebyrdend' | 'n' | one who orders or arranges |
| endbirthness | OE 'endebyrdnesse' | 'n' | rank, order, class, succession, system, narrative, grand narrative |
| ern | OE 'ern' | 'n' | grain, harvest |
| ernth | OE 'ernð' | 'n' | crop (of grain) |
| ersh | OE 'ersc' | 'n' | park, preserve |
| evenleether | 'OE efenhléoðor' | 'n' | 'harmony, union of sounds' |
| evenold | 'OE efeneald' | 'n/adj' | 'contemporary' |
| evensorrow | 'OE efensārgian' | 'vb' | 'commiserate, feel compassion for' |
| evensorry | 'OE efensārig' | 'vb' | 'compassionate' |
| eventhraw | 'OE efenþrōwain' | 'vb' | 'sympathise' |
| eveth | OE 'eavoþ' | 'adj' | power, might |
StaffG of theOld English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Forshortenings.
| galder | 'OE galdor' | 'n' | 'incantation' |
| galdercraft | 'OE galdorcraeft' | 'n' | 'magic' |
| gave | 'OE geafu' | 'n' | 'gift' |
| gavel | 'OE gafol' | 'n' | 'tribute, tax' |
| geal | 'OE gaélan' | 'vb' | 'hinder, impede' |
| geals | 'OE gaélsa' | 'n' | 'luxury' |
| gersum | 'OE gaersum' | 'n' | 'jewelery, riches' |
| geason | 'OE gaéson' | 'n' | 'destitue, deprived, barren' |
| geng | 'OE geng' | 'n' | 'companion' |
| glare | 'OE glaer' | 'n' | 'amber, resin' |
| glasslutter ot glasshlutter | 'OE glaeshlútor' | 'adj' | 'transparent, clear' |
| gleehleetherendly or gleeleetherendly | 'OE glíwhléoðriendlic' | 'adj' | 'musical' |
| gleegamen | 'OE glíwgamen' | 'n' | 'revelry' |
| gleestaff | 'OE glíwstaef' | 'n' | 'melody, joy' |
| glender | 'OE glendran' | 'vb' | 'devour' |
| glenge | 'OE gleng' | 'n' | 'ornament' |
| glew | OE 'gleaw' | 'adj' | keen, wise, prudent |
| glewship | OE 'gleawscipe' | 'n' | keenness, wisdom, prudence |
| gneeth | 'OE gnéaþ' | 'adj' | 'frugal' |
| gnide | 'OE gnídan' | 'vb' | 'rub' |
| gnorn | 'OE gnorn' | 'adj' | 'sad, depressed' |
| gnornhof | 'OE gnornhof' | 'n' | 'prison, cell' |
| gnornword | 'OE gnornword' | 'n' | 'lamentation' |
| gome | 'OE guma' | 'n' | 'man, hero' |
| gope | 'OE góp' | 'n' | 'slave, servant' |
| gouth | 'OE gúþ' | 'n' | 'battle, war' |
| gouthboard | 'OE gúþbord' | 'n' | 'war-shield' |
| gouthcare | 'OE gúþcearu' | 'n' | 'war-trouble' |
| gouthfremmend | 'OE gúþfremmend' | 'n' | 'warrior' |
| gouthimoot | 'OE gúþgemót' | 'n' | 'battle, combat' |
| gouthplay | 'OE gúþplega' | 'n' | 'battle, attack' |
| gouthshroud | 'OE gúþscrúd' | 'n' | 'armour' |
| gouthspell or gouthspel | 'OE gúþspell' | 'n' | 'tidings of war' |
| grame | 'OE gram' | 'adj' | 'angry, fierce' |
| gramehidgey | 'OE gramhýdig' | 'adj' | 'hostlie, malignant' |
| gramemooded | 'OE grammód' | 'adj' | 'cruel' |
| grir | 'OE gryre' | 'n' | 'horror, terror' |
| grirwhile | 'OE gryrehwíile' | 'n' | 'terrrible time' |
| grorn | 'OE grornian' | 'vb' | 'complain, mourn' |
| grost | 'OE grost' | 'n' | 'cartilage' |
| grot | 'OE grot' | 'n' | 'particle' |
| groundstathel | 'OE grúndstaðelian' | 'vb' | 'establish firmly' |
| groundwall | 'OE grúndweall' | 'n' | 'foundation' |
| groundway | 'OE grúndwaeg' | 'n' | 'earth' |
| guiltend | 'OE gyltend' | 'n' | 'debtor, sinner' |
StaffF of theOld English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Forshortenings.
| fand | OE 'fandian' | 'vb' | 'attempt, try, test' |
| fang | OE 'fangian' | 'vb' | 'join, fasten' |
| farn | OE 'farnian' | 'vb' | 'prosper' |
| farse | OE 'fersian' | 'vb' | 'remove, expel, go beyond' |
| farth | OE 'faroþ' | 'n' | 'shore, sream' |
| fasthavel | OE 'faesthafol' | 'adj' | 'retentive, tenacious' |
| fasthidy | OE 'faesthýdig' | 'adj' | 'constant, steadfast' |
| fastrede | OE 'faestraéd' | 'adj' | 'firm, constant, steadfast' |
| fatherslay | OE 'faedeslaga' | 'n' | 'parricide' |
| fath or fathe | OE 'faðu' | 'n' | 'father's sister, aunt on father's side' |
| fax | OE 'faex' | 'n' | 'hair' |
| fay | OE 'fégan' | 'vb' | 'join, connect, unite, ' |
| fearspell | OE 'faérspell' | 'n' | 'dreaful tidings' |
| fearwonder | OE 'faérwundor' | 'n' | 'terrible wonder' |
| fec | OE 'faec' | 'n' | 'space of time, interval' |
| fee | OE 'feon' (c.f. OHG 'fehon') | 'v' | 'rejoice,' 'exult' |
| fee | OE 'fea' (c.f. Goth. 'faheþs') | 'n' | 'joy,' 'exultation' |
| feeghth | OE 'faéhþ' | 'n' | 'hostility, enmity' |
| fele | OE 'fela' | 'adj' | 'many, much' |
| felemighty | OE 'felameahtig' | 'adj' | 'most mighty' |
| felesinny | OE 'felasinnig' | 'adj' | 'very guilty' |
| felespeakle | OE 'felaspecol' | 'adj' | 'talkative' |
| feleworded | OE 'felawyrd' | 'adj' | 'talkative' |
| ferc | OE 'fercian' | 'vb' | support, help |
| fere | OE 'færa,' ME 'y-fere' | 'n' | companion, coworker, comrade |
| fereship | OE 'férscipe,' | 'n' | companionship |
| fergh/ferrow | OE 'feorh' | 'n' | 'spirit, principle of life' |
| ferghbale | OE 'feorhbealu' | 'n' | 'deadly evil' |
| ferrowbearend | OE 'feorhberend' | 'n' | 'living being' |
| ferrowcwale | OE 'feorhcwalu' | 'n' | 'slaughter, death' |
| ferrowbergh | OE 'feorhibeorh' | 'n' | 'refuge' |
| ferrowdeal | OE 'feorhidál' | 'n' | 'death' |
| ferrowdollow | OE 'feorhdolg' | 'n' | 'deadly wound' |
| ferrowhoard | OE 'feorhhord' | 'n' | 'breast' |
| ferrowhouse | OE 'feorhhús' | 'n' | 'body' |
| ferrowhkin | OE 'feorhcynn' | 'n' | 'race of mortals' |
| ferrowhlay | OE 'feorhlegu' | 'n' | 'death' |
| ferrowly | OE 'feorhlic' | 'adj' | 'vital' |
| ferrownere | OE 'feorhneru' | 'n' | 'nourishment or life, refuge, salvation' |
| ferrowrede | OE 'feorhraéd' | 'n' | 'salvation' |
| ferrowtharf | OE 'feorhþearf' | 'n' | 'urgent need' |
| ferth | 'OE ferht' | 'adj' | 'honest' |
| ferth or ferghth | 'OE ferhþ' | 'n' | 'mind, intellect, soul spirit, life' |
| ferthcarey or ferghthcarey | 'OE ferhþcearig' | 'n' | 'of anxious mind' |
| ferthwit or ferghthwit | 'OE ferhþgewit' | 'n' | 'understanding' |
| ferthlove or ferghthlove | 'OE ferhþlufu' | 'n' | 'heartfelt love' |
| firbuck | 'OE firgenbucca' | 'n' | 'ibex' |
| flard | OE 'fleard' | 'n' | nonsense, stupidity |
| fleshbirth | 'OE flaéscgebyrd' | 'n' | 'incarnation' |
| fleshhomed | OE 'flaéshhamod' | 'adj' | incarnate |
| flit | 'OE flit' | 'n' | 'dispute, quarrel' |
| flitcraft | 'OE flitcraeft' | 'n' | 'logic' |
| flitcraftly | 'OE flitcraeftlic' | 'adj' | 'logical' |
| flite | 'OE flītan' | 'vb' | 'dispute, quarrel' |
| flitfulness | 'OE flitfulnes' | 'n' | 'litigousness' |
| flogh | OE 'fláh' | 'n' | wickedness, treachery |
| folkship | OE 'folcscipe' | 'n' | nation, people |
| forecome | 'OE forecumman' | 'vb' | 'prevent' |
| forecwethe | 'OE forecweðan' | 'vb' | 'predict' |
| forething | 'OE foreþingian' | 'vb' | 'plead for, intercede, defend' |
| fordo | 'OE fordōn' | 'vb' | 'destroy' |
| forfang | 'OE forfang' | 'n' | 'capture, seizure' |
| forfare | 'OE forféran' | 'n' | 'perish' |
| forlead | 'OE forlaédan' | 'vb' | 'seduce' |
| forlie | 'OE forlicgan' | 'vb' | 'commit adultery' |
| forlier | 'OE forliger' | 'n' | 'adultery' |
| formeng | 'OE formengan' | 'vb' | 'associate' |
| forshape | 'OE forscieppan' | 'vb' | 'transform' |
| forsit | 'OE forsittan' | 'vb' | 'neglect' |
| forstride | 'OE forstregdan' | 'vb' | 'destroy' |
| forsweve | 'OE forswefian' | 'vb' | 'prosper' |
| forswithe | 'OE forswiðe' | 'vb' | 'crush, overcome' |
| forthdo | 'OE forðdón' | 'vb' | 'to put forth' |
| frayn | 'OE fricgan, friccea' | 'vb' | 'to research, investigate' |
| freals | 'OE freols' (kin to MnE 'frolic') | 'n' | 'feast-day, festival, freedom' |
| frealsday | 'OE fréolsdæg' | 'n' | Feast-Day, day of festival |
| Frealsyear | 'OE fréolsgér' | 'n' | Year of Jubilee |
| freak | 'OE frícian' | 'vb' | 'to dance' |
| frimful | 'OE fremful' | 'adj' | 'useful, profitable' |
| fulway | OE 'fulligan/fulwigan' | 'vb' | baptize, christen, consecrate, make holy |
| fyre | OE 'firen | 'n' | crime |
StaffH of theOld English Wordbook.
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| haftdom | 'OE haeftdom' | 'n' | 'captivity, slavery' |
| haften | 'OE haeftnian' | 'vb' | 'take prisonor/captive, detain' |
| haftling | 'OE haeftling' | 'n' | 'prisoner, captive' |
| halftrindle | 'OE healftryndel' | 'n' | 'hemisphere' |
| halse | 'OE hālsian' | 'vb' | 'exorcise, implore, beseech' |
| halsing | 'OE hālsung' | 'n' | 'exorcism' |
| handgang | 'OE handgang' | 'n' | 'surrender, submission' |
| handmoot | 'OE handimót' | 'n' | 'battle' |
| handsel | 'OE handgesella' | 'n' | 'companion' |
| handwrit | 'OE handgewrit' | 'n' | 'autograph' |
| handwhile | 'OE handhwíl' | 'n' | 'instant' |
| hardmooded | 'OE heardmód' | 'adj' | 'brave, obstinate' |
| harmquithle | 'OE hearmcwidolian' | 'vb' | 'speak evil, slander' |
| harpsong | 'OE hearpsang' | 'n' | 'psalme' |
| hean | 'OE híenan' | 'vb' | 'abase, humble' |
| heanhood | 'OE héanhád' | 'vb' | 'difficulty' |
| heanmooded | 'OE héanmód' | 'n' | 'downcast, depressed' |
| heanspeedy | 'OE héanspédig' | 'adj' | 'poor' |
| heanth | 'OE híenþ' | 'n' | 'humiliation' |
| hedgestealdness | 'OE hagostealdnes' | 'n' | 'virginity' |
| herely | 'OE herelic' | 'adj' | 'martial' |
| hidge | 'OE hycgan' | 'vb' | 'consider' |
| holdfast | 'OE healdfaest' | 'adj' | 'safe' |
| holdend | 'OE healdend' | 'n' | 'protector guardian' |
| holdly | 'OE holdli' | 'adj' | 'faithful' |
| holdship | 'OE holdldscipe' | 'n' | 'loyalty, allegiance' |
| holdsome | 'OE healdsum' | 'adj' | 'careful, chaste' |
| hoss | 'OE hós' | 'n' | 'company, group" |
| hotheartness | 'OE hatheortnes' | 'n' | rage, mania, fury |
| hothem | 'OE hoðma' | 'n' | 'darkness, the grave' |
| hund | OE 'hund' | 'n' | decade, ten years |
StaffI of theOld English Wordbook.
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| ing | OE 'engu' (c.f. NHG 'Enge', Du 'eng', Du 'engte', ON 'öngr') | 'n' | narrowness |
| ingang | 'OE ingang' (Du 'ingang') | 'n' | 'entrance, beginning' |
| inhidge | 'OE ingehydg' | 'n' | 'consciousness, conscience' |
| inly | 'OE inlic' (Du 'innerlijk') | 'n' | 'interior, internal' |
| inset | 'OE insettan' | 'vb' | 'institute' |
| inseten | 'OE inseten' | 'n' | 'institution' |
| inthing | 'OE inþinga' | 'n' | 'cause, sake, reason' |
| inthough | 'OE ingeþōht' | 'n' | 'conscience' |
| inwit | 'OE ingewitnes' | 'n' | 'consciousness' |
StaffK of theOld English Wordbook.
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| kire | 'OE cyre' | 'n' | 'choice, free will, election' |
| kneat | 'OE cnéatian' | 'vb' | 'argue, dispute' |
| knide | 'OE cnídan' | 'vb' | 'beat' |
| kneesib | 'OE cnéosibb' | 'n' | 'generation' |
| kneew | 'OE cnaéwe' | 'adj' | 'conscious' |
| knick | 'OE cnyccan' | 'vb' | 'tie' |
| knode | 'OE cnódan' | 'vb' | 'attribute to' |
| knoss | 'OE cnos' | 'n' | 'collision' |
| knoss | 'OE cnossian' | 'vb' | 'strike, hit upon' |
StaffN of theOld English Wordbook.
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| nadder | OE 'nædre' | 'n' | serpent |
| namecouth | OE 'namcúþ' | 'adj' | well-known |
| naft | OE 'næft' | 'n' | poverty |
| nafty | OE 'næftig' | 'adj' | poor |
| narrowneed | OE 'nearonéd' | 'n' | urgent need |
| narrowsorrow | OE 'nearosorg' | 'n' | crushing distress/sorrow |
| neac | 'OE hnaécan' | 'vb' | 'destroy, kill' |
| nease | OE 'neosan' | 'vb' | visit |
| nebb | 'OE nebbian' | 'vb' | 'retort, rebuke' |
| needbebode | OE 'nýdbebod' | 'vb' | command |
| needbetharf | OE 'níedbeþearf' | 'adj' | necessary |
| needbusy | OE 'nydbysig' | 'adj' | distressed |
| needfarer | OE 'nýdfarer' | 'n' | fugitive, exile |
| needhood | 'OE naéedhād' | 'n' | 'compulsion' |
| needheamed | OE 'níedhaémed' | 'n' | rape |
| neediwold | OE 'nýdgewald' | 'n' | tyranny |
| needling | OE 'níedling' | 'n' | slave |
| needneam | OE 'níednaém' | 'n' | seizure |
| needtharfly | OE 'níedþearflic' | 'adj' | necessary |
| needtharfness | OE 'níedþearfnes' | 'n' | necessity |
| needtheew | OE 'níedþéow' | 'n' | slave |
| needtheewy | OE 'nýdþéowigan' | 'vb' | reduce to slavery |
| neep | OE 'néopan' | 'vb' | engulf, overwhelm |
| neeth | OE 'néþan' | 'vb' | venture, risk, dare |
| ner | OE 'nerian' | 'vb' | save, rescue |
| nerstead | OE 'nerstede' | 'n' | refuge, sanctuary |
| nerend | OE 'nergend' | 'n' | saviour, preserver |
| nes | OE 'nesan' | 'vb' | escape from, survive, be saved |
| nesh | 'OE hnesce' | 'adj' | 'soft, effeminate' |
| neten | OE 'níeten' | 'n' | small animal, beast |
| nevil | 'OE nifol' | 'adj' | 'dark (foggy, misty)' |
| nige | 'OE hnīgan' | 'vb' | 'bend, bow down' |
| nim | 'OE nima' | 'vb' | 'take' |
| nithe | 'OE nīð' | 'vn' | 'spite, enmity' |
| nither | OE 'niðerian' | 'vb' | depress, abase, bring low |
| nitten | OE 'nyten' | 'adj' | ignorant |
| nittenness | OE 'nytennes' | 'n' | ignorance |
| noss | 'OE hnossan' | 'vb' | 'strike' |
| noughtly | OE 'náhtlic' | 'adj' | worthless, of no avail |
| noughtship | OE 'náhtscipe' | 'n' | worthlessness |
StaffM of theOld English Wordbook.
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| main | OE 'mægen' | 'n' | bodily strength, might, main, force, power |
| mainwise | OE 'mægenwísa' | 'n' | (military) general |
| maith | OE 'maégþ' | 'n' | family group, tribe, race, people |
| mamer | OE 'mamrian' | 'vb' | think out, design |
| mathel | 'OE maðelian' | 'vb' | 'harangue, give a speech' |
| mathel | 'OE maðel' | 'n' | 'speech, talk' |
| may | OE 'maga' | 'n' | 'descendant' |
| medem | OE 'medeme' | 'adj' | average, sufficient, respectably |
| medemly | OE 'medenlic' | 'adj' | mediocre, simple |
| medemness | OE 'medemnes' | 'n' | dignity, worth |
| meethe | OE 'méðe' | 'adj' | tired, worn out, dejected |
| meld | OE 'meldian' | 'vb' | announce, declare, proclaim |
| merc | 'OE murcan' | 'vb' | 'complain' |
| merse | OE 'mærsian' | 'vb' |
to make or become famous, proclaim, declare, announce; celebrate; glorify, honor, exalt, praise; spread (fame); enlarge, magnify |
| mickle | OE 'micel' | 'adj' | great, much many |
| mickle | OE 'miclian' | 'vb' | increase, become great, magnify |
| mig | OE 'micga' | 'n' | urine |
| milts | 'OE milts' | 'n' | 'compassion, mercy' |
| min | 'OE myne' | 'n' | 'memory' |
| minse | OE 'minsian' | 'vb' | diminish |
| misbirth | OE 'misbyrd' | 'n' | abortion |
| mish | 'OE myscan' | 'vb' | 'injure, afflict' |
| mischar | OE 'miscyrran' | 'vb' | pervert |
| misdo | OE 'misdón' | 'vb' | transgress, do amiss, err |
| misfare | OE 'misfaran' | 'vb' | go wrong, transgress |
| mishold | OE 'mishealdan' | 'vb' | neglect, not keep |
| mistide | OE 'mistíd' | 'n' | evil time |
| miswend | OE 'miswendan' | 'vb' | pervert |
| misworth | 'OE miswurðian' | 'vb' | 'dishonour' |
| misyeem or misyime | OE 'misgýman' | 'vb' | neglect |
| mithe | 'OE miðan' | 'vb' | 'avoid' |
| mon | OE 'mán' | 'n' | crime, evil deed |
| mondrink | OE 'mándrinc' | 'n' | poison |
| monful | OE 'mánful' | 'adj' | infamous, wicked, evil |
| moodbusying | 'OE mōdbysgung' | 'n' | 'anxiety' |
| moodchary | 'OE mōdcearig' | 'adj' | 'sorrowful of heart' |
| moodcraft | 'OE mōdcraeft' | 'n' | 'intelligence' |
| moodcrafty | 'OE mōdcraeftig' | 'adj' | 'intelligent' |
| moun | 'OE munan' | 'vb' | 'remember' |
StaffL of theOld English Wordbook.
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| lacker | 'OE hlaccerian' | 'vb' | 'deride, mock |
| lake | 'OE lācan' | 'vb' | 'fly, move' |
| laste | 'OE hlæst' | 'n' | 'burden, load |
| laste | 'OE hlæstan' | 'vb' | 'burden, load |
| lathe | 'OE laðian' | 'vb' | 'invite' |
| lax | 'OE leax' | 'n' | 'salmon |
| leak | OE 'lac' | 'n' | 'offering, sacrifice, gift, present' |
| leaksong | OE 'lacsang' | 'n' | 'offertory, offertoire, offertory hymn' |
| lease | 'OE léase' | 'adv' | 'falsely |
| leaser | 'OE léasere' | 'n' | 'hypocrite |
| leer | 'OE léoran' | 'vb' | 'vanish, die, depart |
| lee | 'OE hléo' | 'n' | 'refuge, protection, shelter |
| leeth | 'OE léoþ' | 'n' | 'poem |
| leethcraft | 'OE léoþcraeft' | 'n' | 'poetry |
| leether | 'OE hléoðor' | 'n' | 'sound, voice, song |
| leether | 'OE hléoðorian' | 'vb' | 'sound, speak, proclaim |
| leetherquid | 'OE hléoðorcwide' | 'n' | 'speaking, discourse, proclamation |
| leighter | OE 'leahtor' | 'n' | 'vice, sin, offence, crime, fault; reproach; disease, injury' |
| leighter | OE 'leahtrian' | 'v' | 'to accuse, revile, reprove, blame; corrupt' |
| leighterquid | OE 'leahtorcwide' | 'n' | shameful or disgraceful speech |
| leighterful | OE 'leahtorful' | 'adj' | vicious, seductive |
| lem | 'OE hlem' | 'n' | 'sound |
| lew | 'OE hléow' | 'adj' | 'sheltered, warm |
| lewth | 'OE léowþ' | 'n' | 'warmth, shelter |
| lide | 'OE hlídan' | 'vb' | 'come forth, spring up |
| linse | 'OE hlynsian' | 'vb' | 'resound' |
| lite | OE 'wlite' | 'n' | looks, appearance |
| lither | 'OE lydre' | 'adj' | 'bad, wicked, corrupt |
| lode | OE 'lad' | 'n' | road, way, path |
StaffO of theOld English Wordbook.
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| oad | OE 'ad' (c.f. Goth aida, OHG eit) | 'n' | pile (especially for fire or funeral) |
| oare(spelling is to distinguish from other like-sounding words) | OE 'ar' | 'n' | boder, messenger, angel, herald |
| onblow | 'OE onblāwian' | 'vb' | 'inspire' |
| onbow | 'OE onbúgan' | 'vb' | 'submit, yield to' |
| onbright | 'OE onbyrhtan' | 'vb' | 'illuminate' |
| onburn | 'OE onbaernan' | 'vb' | 'kindle, excute, inspire' |
| onclive | 'OE onclifian' | 'vb' | 'persist' |
| ondeal | 'OE ondaélan' | 'vb' | 'infuse' |
| onearth/oneard | 'OE oneardian' | 'vb' | 'inhabit' |
| ondfang | 'OE on(d)fōn' | 'vb' | 'receive, accept' |
| onfind | 'OE onfindan' | 'vb' | 'discover' |
| onkithe | 'OE oncyðan' | 'vb' | 'make known' |
| onkithey | 'OE oncydig' | 'adj' | 'conscious' |
| onstell | 'OE onstellan' | 'vb' | 'institute, create, originate, establish, give the example of' |
| onwryness | OE 'onwrignes' | 'n' | 'revelation, exposure' |
| oth- | OE 'oþ' | 'prefix' | 'usually gives meaning of outfare (departure) or toshedness (seperation)' |
| othbear | 'OE oþberan' | 'vb' | bear away, carry off |
| othburst | 'OE oþberstan' | 'vb' | break away, escape |
| otheak | 'OE oþécan' | 'vb' | add to |
| othfast | 'OE oþfaestan' | 'vb' | inflict upon |
| othfare | 'OE oþfare' | 'vb' | flee from |
| othfall | 'OE oþfeallan' | 'vb' | decline |
| othquell or othcwel | 'OE oþcwelan' | 'vb' | die |
| othshake | 'OE oþscacan' | 'vb' | escape |
| othshoot | 'OE oþscéotan' | 'vb' | escape |
| othstand | 'OE oþstandan' | 'vb' | cease |
| othstill | 'OE oþstillan' | 'vb' | stop |
| othswear | 'OE oþswerian' | 'vb' | abjure, deny an oath |
| oththring | 'OE oþþringan' | 'vb' | deprive of |
| othwend | 'OE oþwendan' | 'vb' | divert |
| othwite | 'OE oþwítan' | 'vb' | blame, charge with |
| othwork | 'OE oþwyrcan' | 'vb' | harm |
| outdwale | OE 'adwolian' | 'vb' | degenerate |
| outfare | 'OE utfaru' | 'n' | 'going out' |
| outgang | 'OE utgang' | 'n' | 'exit' |
| outh- | 'OE úð-' | 'prefix' | intensifying prefix |
| outhwite(r) | 'OE úðwita' | 'n' | 'philosopher' |
| outhwit(ty)ing | 'OE úðwitegung' | 'n' | 'philosophy' |
| overbebid | 'OE oferbebédan' | 'vb' | 'rule' |
| overbecome | 'OE oferbecuman' | 'vb' | 'supervene' |
| overbreak | 'OE oferbrecan' | 'vb' | 'transgress, violate' |
| overfall | 'OE oferfeallan' | 'vb' | 'attack' |
| overfare | 'OE oferfaran' | 'vb' | 'traverse' |
| overfathom | 'OE oferfaethman' | 'vb' | 'envelop' |
| overfight | 'OE oferfeohtan' | 'vb' | 'conquer' |
| overfollow | 'OE oferfygan' | 'vb' | 'pursue' |
| overhew | 'OE oferhíwian | 'vb' | 'transfigure' |
| overitimber | 'OE ofergetimbran' | 'vb' | 'erect' |
| overiwrit | 'OE ofergewrit' | 'n' | 'superscription |
| overlive | 'OE oferlibban' | 'vb' | 'survive' |
| overmood | 'OE ofermód' | 'n' | 'pride, insolence' |
| oversend | 'OE ofersendan' | 'vb' | 'transmit' |
| oversit | 'OE ofersittan' | 'vb' | 'occupy, possess' |
| overslay | 'OE ofersléan' | 'vb' | 'subdue, overcome' |
| oversty/overstige | 'OE oferstígan' | 'vb' | 'surmount, exceed, overcome' |
| overswithe | 'OE oferswíðan' | 'vb' | 'oversome, conquer, vanquish' |
| overtale/overtell | 'OE ofertalian' | 'vb' | 'convince' |
StaffP of theOld English Wordbook.
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pleoh n danger hurt peril risk
StaffQ of theOld English Wordbook.
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| qual | 'OE cwalu' | 'n' | 'killing, murder' |
| queem | 'OE cwéman' | 'vb' | 'gratify, please, satisfy' |
| quen | 'OE cwene' | 'n' | 'woman' |
| quetch | 'OE cweccan' | 'vb' | 'shake, vibrate' |
| queeth | 'OE cweðan' | 'vb' | 'say, speak' |
| qued | 'OE cwed' | 'n' | 'declaration' |
| quedle | 'OE cwedol' | 'adj' | 'talkative' |
| quedredeness | 'OE cwedraédnes' | 'n' | 'covenant, agreement' |
| quild | 'OE cwild' | 'n' | destruction, death, pestlience' |
| quildflood | 'OE cwildflód' | 'n' | 'deluge' |
| quilm | 'OE cwylmian' | 'vb' | 'suffer, torment' |
| quithe | 'OE cwíthan' | 'vb' | 'bewail' |
| quone | 'OE cwánian' | 'vb' | 'moun, lament' |
StaffR of theOld English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Forshortenings.
| reen | 'OE rénian' | 'vb' | 'prepare' |
| reethe | 'OE réðe' | 'n' | 'voice' |
| renc | 'OE renc' | 'n' | 'pride' |
| rerd | 'OE reord' | 'n' | 'voice' |
| rith | 'OE riþ' | 'n' | 'favour, indulgence.' |
| rother | 'OE rodor' | 'n' | 'heavens, firmament' |
| rotherly | 'OE rodorlic' | 'n' | 'celestial' |
| rootfast | 'OE rōtfaest' | 'adj' | 'firmly established, firmly rooted' |
| ros | 'OE rāsian' | 'vb' | 'explore' |
| ryre | OE 'hryre' | 'n' | fall, destruction, ruin, decay |
StaffTþ of theOld English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Forshortenings.
| tee | OE 'teon' | 'vb' | make, arrange, contrive, ordain |
| terve | OE 'tyrfan' | 'vb' | 'afflict' |
| tever | OE 'teafor' | 'adj' | red, purple |
| þave | OE 'þafian' | 'vb' | 'allow, approve, suffer, tolerate' |
| þavesome | OE 'þafsum' | 'adj' | 'consenting, allowing' |
| þarf | OE 'þearf' | 'n' | 'need necessity' |
| þarve | OE 'þearfian' | 'vb' | 'need' |
| þarl | OE 'þearl' | 'adj' | 'severe, vigourous' |
| þaving | OE 'þafung' | 'n' | 'permission' |
| þede | OE 'þéod' | 'n' | 'people' |
| þeedend | OE 'þéodend' | 'n' | 'translator' |
| þeeder | OE 'þéode' | 'n' | 'language' |
| þedely | OE 'þéodlic' | 'adj' | 'social, intimate' |
| þedeship | OE 'þéodscipe' | 'n' | 'community, tribe, nation' |
| þedesteven | OE 'þéodstefn' | 'n' | 'tribe, nation' |
| þeght | OE 'þeahtian' | 'vb' | 'ponder, consider' |
| þeght | OE 'þeaht' | 'n' | 'counsel, advice' |
| þester | OE 'þéostre' | 'adj' | dark, gloomy |
| þester | OE 'þéostru' | 'n' | darkness, gloom |
| þew | OE 'þéaw' | 'n' | 'custom, moral, virtue' |
| þewed | OE 'þéawod' | 'adj' | 'well-mannered, moral' |
| þewfast | OE 'þéawfaest' | 'adj' | 'moral, virtuous' |
| þewly | OE 'þéawlic' | 'adj' | 'customary' |
| þickfold | OE 'þicfeald' | 'adj' | 'dense' |
| þickle | OE 'þiccol' | 'adj' | corpulent |
| þide | OE 'þýde' | 'adj' | 'good, virtuous' |
| þieffee | OE 'þíefefeoh' | 'n' | stolen goods |
| þige | OE 'þicgan' | 'vb' | 'receive' |
| þight | OE 'þíht' | 'adj' | tight, strong, firm |
| þil | OE 'þyle' | 'n' | 'orator' |
| þilcraft | OE 'þylcraeft' | 'n' | 'rhetoric' |
| þill or þull | OE 'þyllan' | 'vb' | 'calm, assuage' |
| þill or þull | OE 'þyll' | 'n' | 'air, breeze' |
| þinkle | OE 'þancol' | 'adj' | 'prudent, wise' |
| þild | OE 'þyld' | 'n' | 'patience' |
| þild | OE 'þyldian' | 'vb' | 'bear, endure with patience' |
| þildy | OE 'þyldig' | 'adj' | 'patient' |
| þinklemooded | OE 'þancolmód' | 'adj' | 'prudent, wise, attentive' |
| þinkð | OE 'þyncðu' | 'n' | honor, rank |
| þir or þur | OE 'þyrran' | 'vb' | 'dry' |
| þire | OE 'þír' | 'n' | 'female servant' |
| þirl | OE 'þyrlian' | 'vb' | 'pierce, perforate' |
| þister | OE 'þéostrian' or 'ðystrian' | 'n' | darken, make gloomy, obscure, dim the lights |
| þiðerleedish | OE 'þiderléodisc' | 'adj' | native ("of that people/nation") |
| þole | OE 'þolian' | 'vb' | 'endure' |
| þolebirðed | OE 'þolbyrde' | 'adj' | 'patient, enduring' |
| þolemooded | OE 'þolmód' | 'adj' | 'patient, forbearing, enduring' |
| þoling | OE 'þolung' | 'n' | 'passion' |
| þoðer | OE 'þóðor' or 'þóðer' | 'n' | ball, sphere |
| þraf | OE 'þrafu' | 'n' | 'urge, urgency, compulsion' |
| þrave | OE 'þrafian' | 'vb' | 'urge, compel' |
| þree or þeeg | OE 'þréagan' | 'vb' | 'rebuke, chastise' |
| þreel | OE 'þréal' | 'n' | 'discipline, punishment' |
| þreep | OE 'þréapian' | 'vb' | 'reprove, correct' |
| þriðe | OE 'þrýð' | 'n' | 'might, power, strength, majesty, splendor' |
| þriðeful | OE 'þrýðful' | 'adj' | 'strong, powerful, majestic' |
| þriðely | OE 'þrýðlic' | 'adj' | 'strong, powerful, majestic' |
| þriðeword | OE 'þrýðword' | 'adj' | 'lofty speech, noble/eloquent discourse' |
| þriðy | OE 'þrýðig' | 'adj' | 'strong, powerful, majestic' |
| þroght | OE 'þroht' | 'n' | 'exertion, labour, endurance' |
| þroghty | OE 'þrohtic' | 'adj' | 'enduring, persistent' |
| þrosm | OE 'þrosm' | 'n' | 'vapour' |
| þroughfare | OE 'þurhfaran' | 'vb' | penetrate, pierce, go through |
| þroughwoneness | OE 'þurhwunenes' | 'n' | perseverence |
| þrum or þrim | OE 'þrum' | 'n' | 'glory' |
| þrumfast or þrimfast | OE 'þrymfaest' | 'adj' | 'glorious' |
| þrutch | OE 'þryccan' | 'vb' | 'press, repress' |
| þurse | OE 'þyrs' | 'n' | 'giant, demon' |
| þware | OE 'þwǽre' | 'adj' | united, harmonious |
| þwee | OE 'þwéan' | 'vb' | 'wash, cleanse' |
| þweel | OE 'þwéal' | 'n' | 'soap,laver' |
| þwine | OE 'þwínan' | 'vb' | 'decrease, lessen' |
| þwite | OE 'þwítan' | 'vb' | 'cut, whittle' |
| tite | OE 'tytan' | 'vb' | 'sparkle, shine' |
| toamarc or toamark | OE 'tōámearcian' | 'vb' | 'assign' |
| toateak | OE 'tōaétýcan' | 'vb' | 'increase' |
| tobeget | OE 'tōbegietan' | 'vb' | 'acquire, purchase' |
| tochare | OE 'tōcyrran' | 'vb' | 'part' |
| todeal | OE 'tōdaélan' | 'vb' | 'divide' |
| todrese | OE 'tōdréosan' | 'vb' | 'perish, decay' |
| toeethe | OE 'tōéðian' | 'vb' | 'inspire' |
| tofare | OE 'tōfaran' | 'vb' | 'disperse' |
| toforlet | OE 'tōforlaétan' | 'vb' | 'dismiss' |
| toished | OE 'tōgescéadan' | 'vb' | 'interpret, expound' |
| toitheed | OE 'tōgeðéodan' | 'vb' | 'adhere, adjoin' |
| tolay | OE 'tōlicgan' | 'vb' | 'separate, part' |
| toleese | OE 'tōlýsan' | 'vb' | 'dissolve, loosen' |
| tolet | OE 'tōlaétan' | 'vb' | 'relax, release' |
| tomark
'or 'tomarc | OE 'tōmarcian' | 'vb' | 'distinguish' |
| tonim | OE 'tōniman' | 'vb' | 'take part, seperate' |
| tosend | OE 'tōsendan' | 'vb' | 'disperse' |
| toset | OE 'tōsettan' | 'vb' | 'dispose' |
| toseeð or tosooð | OE 'tōséðan' | 'vb' | 'prove, test' |
| toshed | OE 'tōscéadan' | 'vb' | 'separate' |
| toshend | OE 'tōscendan' | 'vb' | 'destroy' |
| tospeak | OE 'tōspraéc' | 'n' | 'conversation' |
| tostand | OE 'tōstandan' | 'vb' | 'differ, stand apart' |
| tostick | OE 'tōstician' | 'vb' | 'pierce' |
| totell | OE 'tōtellan' | 'vb' | 'distinguish' |
| toþeen | OE 'tōþénian' | 'vb' | 'minister to, attend upon' |
| toþwine | OE 'tōþwínan' | 'vb' | 'disappear' |
| towardness | OE 'tōwearndnes' | 'n' | 'future' |
| towder | OE 'túdor' | 'n' | 'offspring' |
| towderfast | OE 'túdorfaest' | 'adj' | 'fertile' |
| towderspeed | OE 'túdorspéd' | 'n' | 'fertility' |
| towend | OE 'towendan' | 'vb' | 'overthrow, subvert, destroy, fordo' |
| towird | OE 'tōwyrd' | 'n' | 'opportunity' |
| towite | OE 'tōwítan' | 'vb' | 'depart, pass away' |
| towrite | OE 'tōwrītan' | 'vb' | 'describe' |
| towriðe | OE 'tōwríðan' | 'vb' | 'distort, twist apart' |
| treg | OE 'tregian' | 'vb' | 'trouble, harass' |
| trendle | OE 'trendel' | 'n' | 'sphere' |
| trendleness | OE 'trendelnes' | 'vb' | 'circuit,surrounding space' |
| trogh | OE 'trág' | 'adj' | 'evil, bad' |
| trimð | OE 'trymð' | 'n' | 'stength, support' |
| trow, trew | OE 'tréow' | 'n' | 'trust' |
| truefast | OE 'tréowfaest' | 'adj' | 'faithful, loyal' |
| trum | OE 'trum' | 'adj' | 'firm, secure' |
| trume | OE 'truma' | 'n' | 'array, legion, order, regular, troop' |
| tungle | OE 'tungol' | 'n' | 'star' |
| tunglecraft | OE 'tungolcraeft' | 'n' | 'astronomy' |
| tunglespeech | OE 'tungolspraéc' | 'n' | 'astrology' |
| twee | OE 'twéo' | 'n' | 'doubt ambiguity' |
| tween | OE 'twéonian' | 'vb' | 'doubt, hesitate, be uncertain' |
| tweenle | OE 'twéonel' | 'adj' | 'doubtful' |
| twifold | OE 'twifeald' | 'adj' | 'ambiguous' |
StaffS of theOld English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Forshortenings.
| scathe | 'OE sceaðe' | 'n' | injury |
| scathend | 'OE sceððend' | 'n' | adversary |
| scathey | 'OE sceaðig' | 'adj' | injurious |
| sear | 'OE searo' | 'n' | 'art' |
| searcraft | 'OE searocraeft' | 'n' | 'art' |
| searly | 'OE searolic' | 'adj' | 'artistic' |
| seen | 'OE séonian' | 'vb' | 'languish' |
| serth | 'OE seorðan' | 'vb' | 'lie with' |
| selfdom | 'OE selfdóm' | 'n' | 'independence' |
| selfkill | 'OE selfcwalu' | 'n' | suicide |
| selfly | 'OE selflic' | 'adj' | spontaneous |
| shedly | 'OE scéadlic' | 'adj' | reasonable, accurate |
| shench | 'OE scencan' | 'vb' | pour out, give drink |
| shend | 'OE scendan' | 'vb' | disgrace, put to shame, confound |
| shendle | 'OE scendle' | 'n' | reproach |
| shendth | 'OE scendþ' | 'n' | confusion |
| shild | 'OE scyld' | 'n' | guilt, offence, crime |
| shild | 'OE scyldan' | 'vb' | accuse |
| shittle | 'OE scitol' | 'adj' | purgative |
| scud | 'OE scúdan' | 'vb' | hurry, run, race |
| shrem | 'OE scremman' | 'vb' | cause to stumble |
| shrench | 'OE screncan' | 'vb' | cause to stumble, ensnare, deceive |
| shride | 'OE scrýdan' | 'vb' | clothe, dress |
| sib | OE 'sibb' | 'n' | peace |
| sib | 'OE sibbian' | 'vb' | reconcile, bring together |
| siblay | 'OE sibleger' | 'n' | 'incest' |
| sibred | 'OE sibréden' | 'n' | affinity, relationship |
| sibsome | 'OE sibsum' | 'adj' | 'peace-loving, friendly' |
| sifer | 'OE syfer' | 'adj' | 'pure, clean' |
| siferness | 'OE syfernes' | 'n' | 'purity' |
| sigor | 'OE sigor' | 'n' | 'victory' |
| sint | 'OE synto' | 'n' | 'health, soundness, prosperity' |
| slithe | 'OE slīðan' | 'vb' | 'injure, wound' |
| slither | 'OE slīðer' | 'adj' | 'evil, cruel' |
| smigh | 'OE sméag' | 'vb' | imagine, think upon |
| smilt | 'OE smyltan' | 'vb' | appease, assuage |
| smolt | 'OE smylt' | 'adj' | 'mild, peacable, calm' |
| smow | 'OE smúgan' | 'vb' | 'creep' |
| snell | 'OE snell' | 'adj' | 'active,rapid' |
| snew | 'OE snéowan' | 'vb' | 'hasten, go' |
| snithe | 'OE snīþan' | 'vb' | 'cut' |
| snitter | 'OE snytre' | 'adj' | prudent |
| snittercraft | 'OE snytorcræft' | 'n' | prudence |
| snitterness | 'OE snyternes' | 'n' | prudence |
| snotor | 'OE snotor' | 'adj' | 'clever, prudent, intelligent' |
| snotorship | 'OE snotorship' | 'n' | 'reason, reasonableness' |
| snite | 'OE snīte' | 'vb' | 'to clear or pick one's nose' |
| sooth | 'OE sōþ' | 'n' | 'truth' |
| soothfast | 'OE sōþfaest' | 'adj' | 'true, sincere' |
| spellboder | 'OE spellboda' | 'n' | messenger, ambassador |
| spild | 'OE spildan' | 'vb' | ruin, waste, destroy |
| staff | 'OE stafian' | 'vb' | 'dictate' |
| stathe | 'OE staeððan' | 'vb' | 'support' |
| stell | 'OE stellan' | 'vb' | 'put, place' |
| stithe | 'OE stīð' | 'adj' | 'firm, resolute, rigid' |
| stitheferthed | 'OE stīðferhþ' | 'adj' | 'determined' |
| stithehidgy | 'OE stīðhydig' | 'adj' | 'determined' |
| suchness | 'OE swilcnes' | 'n' | 'quality' |
| swanker | 'OE swancor' | 'adj' | 'slender, trim, supple' |
| sweas | 'OE saés' | 'adj' | 'intimate, special, dear' |
| sweel | 'OE swaélan' | 'vb' | 'burn' |
| sweer | 'OE swaér' | 'adj' | 'sad, heavy, grievious' |
| swelt | 'OE sweltan' | 'vb' | 'perish, die' |
| swench | 'OE swencan' | 'vb' | 'distress, afflict' |
| swerk | 'OE sweorcan' | 'vb' | 'grow dark' |
| swethel | 'OE sweoðol' | 'adj' | 'heat, flame' |
| swether | 'OE sweðorian' | 'vb' | 'retire, subside, dwindle' |
| swettle | 'OE sweotolian' | 'vb' | 'reveal, make manifest' |
| sweve | 'OE swefan' | 'vb' | 'sleep, slumber' |
| swevel | 'OE swefel' | 'n' | 'sulphur' |
| sweven | 'OE swefn' | 'n' | 'sleep, slumber' |
| swey | 'OE swég' | 'n' | 'sound' |
| sweyleether | 'OE swéghleoðor' | 'n' | 'melody' |
| swie | 'OE swīgian' | 'vb' | 'be or become silent' |
| swife | 'OE swīfan' | 'vb' | 'revolve' |
| swike | 'OE swician' | 'vb' | 'deceive,' 'cease,' |
| swikedome | 'OE swicdōm' | 'n' | 'deception' |
| swikeful | 'OE swicful' | 'adj' | 'deceptive' |
| swilt | 'OE swylt' | 'n' | 'death' |
| swiltwhile | 'OE swylthwíl' | 'n' | 'hour of death' |
| swime | 'OE swīma' | 'n' | 'vertigo' |
| swind | 'OE swindan' | 'vb' | 'vanish, disappear' |
| swing (swang, swung) | 'OE swingan' | 'vb' | 'beat, strike, afflict' |
| swink | 'OE swincan' | 'vb' | 'labour' |
| swinkful | 'OE swincful' | 'n' | 'toilsome' |
| swithe | 'OE swīþan' | 'vb' | 'labour' |
| swome | 'OE swámian' | 'vb' | 'become dark' |
| swotel | 'OE sweotol' | 'adj' | 'clear, distinct' |
StaffU of theOld English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Forshortenings.
| umb- | 'OE ymb-' | 'prep' | 'around, about' |
| umbbear | 'OE ymbberan' | 'vb' | 'surround' |
| umbchar | 'OE ymbcyrran' | 'vb' | 'turn around, go round' |
| umbfang | 'OE ymbfōn' | 'vb' | 'surround, encompass' |
| umbfathem | 'OE ymbfaeðmian' | 'vb' | 'embrace' |
| umbgang | 'OE ymbgang' (Du 'omgaan') | 'n' | 'going around, circumference' |
| umbhave | 'OE ymbhabban' | 'vb' | 'surround, include' |
| umbhidy | 'OE ymbhýdig' | 'adj' | 'anxious, suspicious' |
| umbhold | 'OE ymbhealdan' | 'vb' | 'encompass' |
| umbhow | 'OE ymbhoga' | 'n' | 'care, anxiety' |
| umblay | 'OE ymblicgan' (Du 'omleggen') | 'vb' | 'surround, enclose' |
| umbring | 'OE ymbhringan' (Du 'omringen') | 'vb' | 'surround' |
| umbset | 'OE ymbsettan' (Du 'omzetten') | 'vb' | 'set around, surround, encompass' |
| umbsnithe | 'OE ymbsnīðan' | 'vb' | 'curcumcise' |
| umbspeak | 'OE ymbspraéce' | 'n' | 'conversation' |
| umbwharve | 'OE ymbhweorfan' | 'vb' | 'turn around, revolve' |
| umbwax | 'OE ymbweaxan' | 'vb' | 'grow around' |
| umbwend | 'OE ymbwendan' | 'vb' | 'turn around' |
| umbwharve | 'OE ymbhweorfan' | 'vb' | 'revolve, turn around' |
| underfang | 'OE underfon' | 'vb' | 'accept, take in, entertain' |
StaffW of theOld English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Forshortenings.
| way | OE 'wig/weoh' | 'adj' | 'holy,' 'consecrated' |
| waybed | OE 'wigbed' | 'n' | altar |
| wayfare | 'OE wegfōr | 'n' | 'journey, travel' |
| wallstone | 'OE 'weallstan' | 'n' | mortar, cement |
| weaponed | 'OE waépned' | 'adj/n' | 'male' |
| weaponedkin | 'OE waépnedcynn' | 'n' | 'male sex' |
| weaponedwifester | 'OE waépnedwīfestre' | 'n' | 'hermaphrodite' |
| whalve | 'OE hwealf' | 'adj' | 'concave' |
| wharvle | 'OE hwurful' | 'adj' | 'fickle, mutable' |
| wharve | 'OE hweorfan' | 'vb' | 'turn' |
| wharvely | 'OE hwearflic' | 'adj' | 'changing, transitory' |
| wharft | 'OE hwearft' | 'n' | 'revolution' |
| wharftle | 'OE hwearftlian' | 'vb' | 'revolve' |
| what | 'OE hwate' | 'n' | 'omen' |
| wheed | 'OE hwaéde' | 'adj' | 'slight, insignificant' |
| wheester | 'OE hwaéstrian' | 'vb' | 'murmur, mutter' |
| whemm | 'OE hwemm' | 'n' | 'angle' |
| whemm | 'OE hwemman' | 'vb' | 'incline, bend' |
| whilestitch | 'OE hwílsticce' | 'n' | 'interval' |
| whilewendly | 'OE hwílwendlic' | 'adj' | 'transitory, temporary' |
| whirftway | 'OE hwyrftweg' | 'n' | 'escape' |
| whope | 'OE hwópan' | 'vb' | 'threaten' |
| whose | 'OE hwósan' | 'vb' | 'cough' |
| whother | 'OE hwoðerian' | 'vb' | 'foam, surge' |
| willsome | 'OE wilsum' | 'adj' | 'desirable' |
| wirm | 'OE wyrm' | 'n' | 'dragon, serpent' |
| withcwethe or withquethe | 'OE wiþcweðan' | 'vb' | 'speak against, contradict' |
| witherling | 'OE wiþerling' | 'n' | 'opponent' |
| withermerse | OE 'wiþmærsian' | 'vb' | proclaim, broadcast, make popular throughout, spread abroad, celebrate |
| witherstead | 'OE wiþerstede' | 'n' | 'substitution' |
| withfare | 'OE withfaran' | 'vb' | 'escape' |
| withhave | 'OE wiþhabban' | 'vb' | 'oppose, resist' |
| withhaft | 'OE wiþhaeftan' | 'vb' | 'restrain' |
| withhidge | 'OE wiþhycgan' | 'adj' | 'reject' |
| withlay | 'OE wiþlicgan' | 'vb' | 'oppose, resist' |
| withledge | 'OE wiþlaécan' | 'vb' | 'deprive' |
| withlead | 'OE wiþlaédan' | 'vb' | 'abduct' |
| withmete | 'OE wiþmetan' | 'vb' | 'compare' |
| withsake | 'OE wiþsake' | 'vb' | 'renounce' |
| withsay | 'OE wiþsecgan' | 'vb' | 'renounce' |
| withspeak | 'OE wiþsprecan' | 'vb' | 'contradict' |
StaffY of theOld English Wordbook.
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see:Forshortenings.
| yain | 'OE gegnian' | 'vb' | 'meet' |
| yare | 'OE gearo' | 'adj' | 'ready, prepared' |
| yarewit | 'OE gearowita' | 'adj' | 'intellect, understanding' |
| yarewittle | 'OE gearowitol' | 'adj' | 'wise' |
| yareworded | 'OE gearowyrde' | 'adj' | 'fluent of speech' |
| yark | 'OE gearcian' | 'vb' | 'prepare' |
| yate | 'OE géatan' | 'vb' | 'consent, say 'yeah |
| yeat | 'OE géotan' | 'vb' | 'pour' |
| yed | 'OE giedd' | 'n' | 'poem, song' |
| yed | 'OE gieddian' | 'vb' | 'recite, sing' |
| yeeck | 'OE géocian' | 'vb' | 'preserve, rescue, save' |
| yeec | 'OE géoc' | 'n' | 'help, support, rescue' |
| yeem | 'OE gíeman' | 'vb' | 'care for, heal, take notice of' |
| yeemless | 'OE gíemléas' | 'adj' | 'careless, negligent' |
| yeet | 'OE gétan' | 'vb' | 'destroy, kill' |
| yetend | 'OE géotend' | 'n' | 'artery' |
| yex | 'OE geocsian' | 'vb' | 'hiccub' |
| yeaven | 'OE geofon' | 'n' | 'ocean, sea' |
| yew | 'OE giwian' | 'vb' | 'ask' |
| yish | 'OE giscan' | 'vb' | 'sob' |
| yishe | 'OE gíscan' | 'vb' | 'close, bar, bolt' |
| yondblow | 'OE geondbláwan' | 'vb' | 'inspire, illuminate' |
| yondeard or yondearð | 'OE geondeardian' | 'vb' | 'inhabit' |
| yondfare | 'OE geondfaran' | 'vb' | 'traverse, pervade' |
| yondwharve | 'OE geondhweorfan' | 'vb' | 'pass over, pass through' |
| yondlight | 'OE geondlíhtan' | 'vb' | 'illuminate' |
| yondmingle | 'OE geondmengan' | 'vb' | 'confuse' |
| yondshriðe | 'OE geondscríðan' | 'vb' | 'traverse' |
| yondsee | 'OE geondséon' | 'vb' | 'examine' |
| yondsmay | 'OE geondsméagan' | 'vb' | 'investigate' |
| yondsprout | 'OE geondsprútan' | 'vb' | 'pervade' |
| yondþink | 'OE geondþencan' | 'vb' | 'reflect upon, consider' |
| yomer | 'OE géomor' | 'adj' | 'sad, mournful' |
| yoreshaft | 'OE géoscaft' | 'n' | 'destiny' |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Aa | n | River, stream, waterway; also "ea" or "ae" - found in place names, as "Anglesea." |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Aback | adv | Backwards, 2. in the rear. |
| Aback | phr | "Be Aback Of" - at the back of, behind. |
| Aback | phr | "Be Taken Aback" - to be caught in the front suddenly, by a shift of wind and driven astern. 3. fig. to be disconcerted by a sudden event or situation. 3. to surprise or discomfit by a sudden and unlooked-for-check. |
| Aback | phr | "Come Aback" - to retreat, withdraw. |
| Aback | phr | "Drive Aback" - to repulse. |
| Aback | phr | "Hold Aback" - restrain, hinder. |
| Aback | phr | "Put Aback" - repel, reject. |
| Aback | phr | "Stand Aback from" - to stay or reamin aloof. 2. to allow. 3. to eschew. |
| Abackward | adv | Backward. |
| Abaft | adv | Of direction: backward, in the rear. |
| Abane | vb | Put under church ban, abanne, anathemtize, summarily proclaim. |
| Abare | vb | To uncover, reveal. |
| Abb | n | The woof or weft in web. 2. threads in a woven fabric. |
| Abbot | n | The head priest or religious minister of an abbey. |
| Abbotric | n | Abbacy, abbotship |
| Abbotship | n | The office or rule of an abbot. 2. abbotical term of office. |
| A-be | vb | To be. |
| A-be | phr | "To Let A-be" - to let or leave alone. |
| Abeam | adv | On a line at right angles to a ship's or an aircraft length. 2. opposite the middle of (a ship or aircraft). |
| Abeam | adj | At right angles to the length and directly opposite the centre of a vessel or aircraft. |
| Abeam | prp | Alongside or at angles to. |
| Abear | n | Bearing, gesture, action, behaviour. |
| Abear | vb | To tolerate, endure. 2. to bear, carry. 3. to endure, suffer, now always " cannot abear." 4. to manage or comport oneself. 5. a word of honourable antiquity, widely found throughout the dialects; in London speech considered a vulgarism. |
| Abearing | n | The action of managing or behaving oneself, as in 'good abearing.' 2. abearance or good behavior. |
| Abeat | vb | To beat, strike, hit. |
| Abecede | n | Alphabet. |
| Abeche | vb | To feed. |
| Abed | vb | To confine to bed (by illness). |
| Abed | adv | Laid up; to bring-a-bed: to deliver of a child. 2. in bed, to bed; on the bed. |
| Abed | phr | "To bring a-bed" - to give birth. |
| Abede | vb | Announce. |
| A-before | adv | Of former times. |
| Abeilan | vb | Vex, offend. |
| Abelde | vb | To become bold or bolder. |
| Abere | adj | Clear & evident by proof, manifest, notorious |
| Abere-murder | n | Plain or downright murder; not manslaughter, unpremeditated killing or chance-medley |
| Abide | vb | Wait, stay, remain; continue to be; remain true to, faithful; stand firm; put up with. 2. to wait, stay remain. 3. to wait defiantly, to face. 4. to wait submissively. 5. to wait the issue of, to wait for. 6. |
| Abide | phr | "Abide By" - to remain faithful with, true to, to stand firm, comply with. 2. to follow the rules of. 3. to obey someone's orders. |
| Abide | phr | Abide With" - to remain with someone; to stay with someone (archaism). |
| Abider | n | One who abides: waits, continues, remain faithful, stands firm, faces up to, submits. 2. one who lives or abides in a certain place for a long time. |
| Abiding | n | The action or state of one who abides. 2. an abode, an abiding place. 3. lasting, complying. |
| Abiding | adj | Lasting, remaining, steadfast; faithful. |
| Abiding | phr | "To be law-abiding" - to adhere to the law and lawful command. |
| Abiding-house | n | Place of abode or dwelling. |
| Abidingly | adv | In an abiding manner and way. 2. assiduously, patiently. 3. endurinfly, permanently. |
| Abidingness | n | Permanence, lastingness. |
| Abier | vb | Up or upon a bier or coffin; into the coffin. |
| Abite | vb | To bite, nip, taste. |
| Abited | adj | Mildewed. |
| Ablend | vb | To blind. |
| Ablow | vb | To blow or breathe into. 2. to puff up something, to cause to swell. |
| Ablow | adv | Blooming, blowing. |
| Aboard | adv | On board; within a vessel or train. |
| Aboard | phr | "All Aboard" - a signal of departure. |
| Aboard | phr | "Fall Aboard" - to collide. |
| Aboard | phr | "Get Aboard" - to get foul of. |
| Aboard | phr | "Hard Aboard" - lying alongside. |
| Abode | n | Delay, stay, dwelling-place. nb: OE. 'bode' - waiting, expectation. |
| Abode | n | (Abide)The action of waiting, delaying. |
| Abode | vb | To presage, prognosticate, forebode, to be ominous. |
| Abode | phr | "Be Without Abode" - having no fixed above. |
| Aboding | adj | Foreboding, portenting, omnious. |
| About | adv | Of position: around the outside; on or towards every side; all round. 2. on any side; near. 3. nearly, all but. 4. of movement and motion: round, in revolution. 5. in circumference. 6. in a roundabout way, therefore astir, on the move, prevailing. |
| About | prp | Of position: Of position: around the outside; on or towards every side; all round. 2. somewhere, near, in or near. 3. at hand. 4. in connexion with, attached to as an attribute or circumstance. 5. concerned, touching on. 6. of time near, close to. 7. of quantity: near, close to. 8. of motion : to and fro; round. |
| About | phr | "About Ship" - to change a ship's course by going on the opposite tack. |
| About | phr | "About the Ear" - near to or close to one's ears. 2. in close contact. |
| About | phr | "About Time" - close to the right time. 2. far past the desired time. |
| About | phr | "About Turn" - face in the opposite direction. 2. to cahange one's opinion, ideas. |
| About | phr | "About to" - just going to. |
| About | phr | "And About Time Too" - this is something that ought to have happened some time ago; is long overdue (in the opinion of the speaker); not before time. |
| About | phr | "Be About" - to be astir. |
| About | phr | "Be About to" - be on the point of doing something. |
| About | phr | "Be Right About" - be correct or accurate. |
| About | phr | "Bring About" - to cause to revolve, bring to pass, effect, to eventuate. 2. to cause to take place; accomplish. |
| About | phr | "Come About" - to revolve (as time); come about or come to pass. |
| About | phr | "Go About" - to endeavor. 2. to undertake, arrange, prepare. |
| About | phr | "How About" - what do you think? |
| About | phr | "Out and About" - active, around and about. |
| About | phr | "The Wrong Way About" - by the wrong end or (other) side or way about. |
| About | phr | "Turn About" - alternately. |
| About | phr | "Up and About" - out of bed, after an illness. |
| About | phr | "What About" - what do you think of? 2. would you like to? 3. why, concerning. |
| Aboutness | n | The relevance of a text to its reader. |
| Aboutwards | adv | Being near to |
| Above | n | Heaven (The Above). |
| Above | adv | Overhead, vertically up, on high, on top. 2. in heaven (in OE.); beyond the level of reach. 3. on the outside; covering all. 4. higher in many senses. 5. in addition. |
| Above | phr | "Above All (Else)" - most important, more than anything else. 2. above all else. |
| Above | phr | "Above and Beyond" - in addition, more than necessary. |
| Above | phr | "Above Asking" - to proud to ask. |
| Above | phr | "Above Board" - honest, in the open. 2. open or openly; honorably. |
| Above | phr | "Above One's Bend" - out of one's power or control. |
| Above | phr | "Above One's Head" - beyond one's ability to understand. |
| Above | phr | "Above One's Hook" - beyond your comprehension' beyond one's mark. |
| Above | phr | "Above Oneself" - self-satisfied, conceited; arrogant. |
| Above | phr | "Above the Ears" - In the mind; the psychological strength to think clearly and decisively whilst under stress or anxiety. |
| Above | phr | "Above the Fold" - of newspapers: situated in the other half of the front page of a broadsheet newspaper, thus the more prominent, as the lower half is not usually visible when the newspaper is displayed for sale. 2. by extension, situated near the top of a web page, not requiring scrolling. 3. anything similarly occupying exclusive position of relevant prominence. |
| Above | phr | "Above the Law" - outside the jurisdiction of the court. 2. exempt from the law that applies to everyone else. |
| Above | phr | "Above the Salt(s)" - of high standing or honour. |
| Above | phr | "Keep One's Head above Water" - to stay out of difficulty. 2. fig. to keep up with one's work. 3. just be able to manage; spec. when in financial difficulties. |
| Above | phr | "Not Above" - not too honest or proud to be. |
| Above | phr | "Over and Above" - additional to. |
| Above | phr | "Rise Above Oneself" - think one is better than one is. |
| Aboveboard | adj | Legitimate, honest and open. |
| Aboveboard | adv | Legitimate, honest, and open. |
| Above-given | adv | Supplied or put above, written above, said or mentioned above me. |
| Above-ground | n | The portion of society that not underground. 2. not hidden, furtive or secretive. 3. of music etc., outside the mainstream. |
| Above-ground | adj | Above the surface of the ground; (fig.)above the surface. 2. not dead and buried; alive. 3. existing, produced, written or published by the establishment. |
| Above-named | adj | Mentioned or named, aforesaid. |
| Abovesaid | adj | Mentioned higher up on a document or page, previously mentioned, aforesaid. |
| Above-written | adj | Written above or before. |
| Abow | vb | To bend, incline; fig, to do homage, submit. |
| Abraid | n | See braid (part OE and ON.) |
| Abraid | vb | To wrench out or away from. 2. pull out, snatch,, withdraw (a sword). 3. to start usually out of step. 4. a swoon or fit, to awake. 5. to spring or dart. 6. arouse or startle. 7. to break forth abruptly into speech, to cry out. 8. ejaculate. 9. to frequent, resort to. |
| Abreak | vb | To break into pieces. 2. to break forth, burst out. |
| Abreast | adv | With breasts, or fronts, in line; side by side; on a parallel with. 2. abreast being up to particular standard or level. |
| Abreast | adv | Abreast alongside each other, facing in the same direction |
| Abreast | prp | Keep informed;keep up-to-date. |
| Abreast | phr | "Keep Abreast Of" - keep informed, up-to-date. |
| Abreathe | vb | To give time to recover breathe. |
| Abristle | adj | Bristling. |
| Abroad | n | Any region outside one's homeland. 2. |
| Abroad | adv | Broadly, widely, at large. 2. over a broad wide surface. 3. widely asunder, with fragments or portions widely scattered. 4. widely apart, with the parts or lims widespread. 5. at large, freely moving about; fig. current in the outside world. 6. out of one's home or abode; outdoors; out in the open air. 7. out of the home country, in or into a foreign country. 8. wide of the mark of truth; astray. 9. out, over, thrust out. |
| Abroad | prp | Throughout. |
| Abroad | phr | "To Go Abroad" - to travel overseas to a foreign country or a colonial possession. |
| Abrood | vb | Of a bird: on its brood or nest (eggs), to be hatching eggs. |
| Abrook | vb | To bear, abear, tolerate, brook, endure. |
| Abuilding | adj | Being built. |
| Aburden | vb | To burden, oppress. |
| Aburst | vb | In a burst of rage, in a bursting condition. |
| Abwool | n | Wool from the abb or warp. |
| Aby | vb | To pay for, to suffer for, to atone for, to make amends, to expiate. 2. to endure, suffer. 3. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| A | n | The Letter "A" |
| A | phr | "Not know "A" from a Windmill" - be very obtuse or ignorant. (possibly because of the similarity of a capital "A" and that of a distant windmill. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Ac | conj | But |
| Acale | adj | Cold. |
| Accord | vb | Late Old English, from Old French acorder ‘reconcile, be of one mind’, from Latin ad- ‘to’ + cor, cord- ‘heart’; influenced by concord. from OF. 2. to bring to heart. 2. to reconcile, cause to agree. 3. to reconcile oneself. 4. to settle quarrels. 5. to come to agreement, to agree upon. 6. to consent; assent. 7. to find harmony with; to be harmonious towards. 8. to be proper or suitable. 9. to grant, reward. |
| Accord | phr | "Accord With" - be in agreement with. |
| Accord | phr | "Of One's Own Accord" voluntarily; of one's free will. |
| Accord | phr | "With One Accord" - unanimously. |
| Ache | n | A pain, hurting. |
| Ache | adj | That aches, continuously painful. |
| Ache | phr | "Ache to be at Home Again" - desire or yearn to be back in familiar surroundings. |
| Ache | phr | "One's Heart Aches (bleeds) for (Someone)" - one feels great sympathy for somebody (often used sarcastically.) |
| Acheful | adj | Full of aches; aching. |
| Achefully | adv | In an very achy way. |
| Acheless | adj | Without ache or throb. |
| Achelike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of an ache. |
| Acher | n | One who, or that which, aches. |
| Achily | adv | In an achy manner. |
| Achiness | n | The property of being achy. |
| Aching | n | The feeling of an ache. 2. a dull pain. |
| Aching | adv | In an abidingly, painful manner, painfully. |
| Achingly | adv | In a painful or aching manner. |
| Achoke | vb | To suffocate. |
| Achoose | vb | To choose. |
| Achy | adj | Full of aches, suffering from continual or recurring pain. |
| Acknow | vb | To recognize, to acknowledge, confess of or on, reveal, disclose, realize. |
| Acock | adv | To act defiantly. |
| Acold | vb | To be cold. 2. to make cold or cool. |
| Acome | vb | Reach, attain, arrive. |
| Acool | vb | To wax cold or cool. 2. to make cold. |
| Acop | adv | On the top, on high. |
| Acorn | n | The fruit of the acorn, being an oval nut growing in a wood cup or. 2. a testicle (slang). |
| Acorn-bearing | adj | Producing acorns. |
| Acorned | adj | Furnished with furnished. |
| Acorn | phr | "Ride a Horse Foaled by an Acorn" - to be hanged on the gallows. |
| Acre | n | Originally 'unenclosed land; then, tilled, enclosed land, a piece of land of a definite size, a land measure. 2. a piece of tilled or arable land. 3. afield. 4. a churchyard, cemetery, as in 'God's Acre.' 5. a measure of land, originally as a ox could plow in a day, later 40 poles long by 4 poles broad (4840 sq yards.) |
| Acre breadth | n | 4 poles or 22 yards |
| Acred | adj | Comprising or owning or possessing many acres of land. |
| Acredale | n | Land in common field |
| A'crow | adv | In a crowing manner. |
| Acre-fight | n | OE. combat (a ghost word). |
| Acre-foot | n | The amount of water required to cover one level acre to a depth of one foot; 43,560 cubic feet: used by irrigation engineers. |
| Acre length | n | 40 poles or a furlong, (ie. 'furrows length') |
| Acreman | n. | Farmer, husbandman, cultivator, plowman, till(er)man |
| Acre's breadth | n | 4 poles or 22 yards. |
| Actande | adj | Eighth. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Ad | n | Fire, blazing pile, funeral pyre |
| Adamant | n | Applied in antiquity to white sapphire, magnet (perhaps via confusion with Latin adamare "to love passionately"), steel, emery stone, and especially diamond (see diamond ). The word was in Old English as aðamans "a very hard stone." |
| Adark | n | Darkness, obscurity. |
| Adaw | vb | To waken or awake. 2. to wake up, rouse from dream, sleep or swoon. |
| Adawe | vb | Put to death, put out of existence, put out of life, kill, execute |
| Adawe | phr | "To Bring Adawe" - to kill. |
| Adawe | phr | "To Do Adawe" - to kill. |
| Adawn | adv | Dawning. |
| Aday | adv | By day, daily. |
| Adays | adv | A-days. 2. by days. |
| Adays | phr | "Now a days" - at present. |
| Adblast | vb | To blow upon, to inflate, inspire. |
| Adder | n | A serpent; the old serpent, the devil, viper, adder. 2. a small often venomous snake, esp. the common viper, Vipera berus, the only poisonous snake in Britain. 3. a dragon; a supposed serpent with wings |
| Adder's bolt | n | Dragon-fly; Adder's fly |
| Adder-bred | adj | Engendered of the serpent (The Devil); adder-bred. |
| Adder-deaf | adj | Deaf as an adder or stone deaf; adder-death. |
| Adder-hate | adj | Virulent, deadly hate; adder-hate. |
| Adder-like | adj | Resembling or like an adder. |
| Adder-tongue | n | Any of several plants, esp. a fern of the genus Ophioglossum. |
| Adderwort | n | Adderweed, snakeweed, persicaria or polgunium bistorta. 2. bistort; adderwort. |
| Addle | n | Stinking liquid, mire, filth, mire, putridness. 2. urine. 3. disease, as in 'fall-addle' 4. the dry lees of wine. |
| Addle | vb | To make addle, confuse. 2. to make abortive. 3. to grow addle(lit. & fig.) |
| Addle | adj | Stinking, fetid, miry, putrid, stagnant. |
| Addle-bearing | adj | Infectious, as in a disease. |
| Addle-brain | n | One whose brain or intellect is muddled, stupid fool. 2. addle-head. |
| Addled | adj | Confused, fig. empty, idle, muddled, unsound. |
| Addle-egg | n | Rotten or putrid; producing no chicken. |
| Addle-headed | adj | Stupid, foolish, stulty. 2. fatuity. |
| Addle-headness | n | The state or condition of being stupid, foolish, addlebrained etc |
| Addleness | n | Putrefaction. 2. the quality of addled as an egg. |
| Addle-water | n | Stagnant water. |
| Addling | n | Decomposition of an egg. 2. muddling of the wits. |
| Adeem | vb | To judge; award; adeem lore: "the court"; deemship or hood: "The Institution of the Court" |
| Adeaden | vb | Kill, mortify, |
| Adeaf | n | Deafness. |
| Adeave | vb | Deafen, strike deaf. |
| A-deep | adv | Deeply. |
| Adew | vb | To bedew. |
| Adight | vb | To put in order, prepare, equip. |
| Adighting | n | Preparation, preparing |
| Adoom | vb | To adjudge. |
| Adown | n | Fig. life's latter days. |
| Adown | adv | To a lower place. 2. downwards, in a lower place, esp on earth. |
| Adown | prp | Downards upon or along |
| Adownright | adv | Downright. |
| Adownward | n | Life's latter days |
| Adraw | vb | To withdraw oneself. |
| Adread | adj | Frightened, adrad. |
| Adree | vb | Carry-on, pass life, pass, endure, bear, last, suffer (life, time etc.) |
| Adrench | vb | To give to drink. 2. to submerge, drown, to perish in water. 3. to drown oneself. 4. to go down, as a ship. |
| Adrigh | adv | At length, extent, distance. 2. at or to a distance, away from. |
| Adrip | adv | Dripping, in a dripping state. |
| Adrive | vb | To drive away, chase, pursue, follow up. |
| Adroff | vb | To drive forth, off or away |
| Adrop | n | In alchemy: lead; the philosopher's stone. |
| Adrough | vb | Dry-up, dry, become dry, wither. |
| Adry | adv | In a dry condition, thirsty. |
| Adumb | vb | To stay silent. |
| Adusk | adv | At dusk, in dusk, during dusk. 2. in gloom, gloomy, dark. |
| Adust | adv | In dusty condition. 2. affected by dust. |
| Adusted | adj | Having a dusty or dry condition. |
| Adustness | n | The state of having dust. 2. scorching heat. |
| Adwale | n | Decline, decay, decline. |
| Adwesch | vb | Extinguish, put out, quench |
| Adwite | vb | Accuse, reproach. |
| Adwole | adv | In error, erroneously, mistakenly. |
| Adze | n | A tool, like an axe with a blade set at right angles at the handle and carving inwards towards it; used for chipping and slicing away the surface of wood. |
| Adze | vb | To prepare with an adze; adzing. |
| Adzebill | n | Either of two bird species of the extinct family aptornithidae, once endemic to New Zealand. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Ae | n | River, waterway, stream, running water. |
| Ae | prf | Out off, onward, away; hence, from idea of doing away. |
| A(e)gilde | adj | (ægilde)- without payment. |
| A(e)mood | adj | (æmod)- out of one's mind. |
| A(e)rist | adj | (ærist) - arising. |
| A(e)te(o)w | vb | (ætew) - to show |
| A(e)rwene | n | (ærwene) - hopelessness, desperation (wen:hope) |
| A(e)rwit | n | (æwit )witless, unwise |
| Aeubreche | n | (æubreche) - adultery. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Afar | adv | From far; far, at or a distance, as John saw the place afar. 2. at, to, or from a great distance; far away |
| Afar | phr | "From Afar" - at a great distance. |
| Afare | vb | To depart |
| Afear | vb | To frighten. |
| Afear | adv | In fear. |
| Afeard | adj | Afraid. |
| Afeed | vb | To feed, nourish. |
| Afell | vb | Strike down, fell, lay low |
| Afield | adv | On or to the field, abroad. |
| Afield | phr | "Far Afield" - in the field. |
| A'fellowship | vb | Fellow (late OE.) - to be in fellowship, to accompany. |
| A'ferrom | adv | From afar, afar, afar off. |
| Afford | vb | To further accomplish; afford. 2. to manage (do). 3. with 'can' - to have the means to be able. 4. without 'can' - to give of what one has; afford. 5. of things; to be capable of yielding; yield naturally or affording. |
| Afford | phr | "Can't afford to" - not in a favorable position to; daren't. |
| Affright | vb | Frighten, terrify |
| Affriended | ppl | Made friends. |
| Affright | n | The action of causing terror. 2. the state of terror. |
| Affright | vb | To frighten terrify. |
| Affrighted | adj | Struck with fear, alarmed. |
| Affrighted | adv | In an affeared manner, with fright or alarm |
| Affrightedly | adv | In a fearful manner. |
| Affrightful | adj | Full of terror; alarmed, frull of fear, timid. 2. alarming, exciting, shocking, deadful, revolting. |
| Affrightfully | adv | In terrifying or alarming way or manner. |
| Affrighting | adj | Frightful, terrifying. |
| Afgod | vb | Idol, false god, |
| Afgodness | n | Idolatry |
| Afield | adv | On or in the field, esp. of labour or battle (war). 3. to or into the field. 4. away from home. ('to go further afield') |
| Afield | phr | "To Go Further Afield" - to travel afar, overseas, abroad. |
| A'fingered | adj | Afflicted with hunger, famished, very hungry. |
| Afire | vb | To be on fire; or in a state of burning. |
| Afire | adv | On or in fire; burning. 2. fig. burning with passion, emotion etc. |
| A'flee | vb | To run away, escape, run away. |
| Afleme | vb | to drive away, expel, eject. |
| Aflicker | adv | In a flickering state. |
| A'flight | vb | To put to flight. |
| Afoam | adv | In a state of foam. |
| Afloat | adv | Also adj. 2. in a floating condition, afloat as opposed to aground. 2. at sea opp. to on shore. 3. OE - buoyed up in the air. 4. in a state of overflow or submersion. 5. fig. unembarrassed; having one head above water. 6. adrift; afloat. 7. in full swing. 8. in commerce and currency free ad subject to market fluctuation; afloat. |
| Afloat | phr | "To Stay Afloat" - to remain solvent. |
| A'flow | adj | Floating, flowing, drifting. 2. (fig.) - in progress. |
| Afond | vb | To try, make a trail of, put to the test, find out by experiment. 2. to attempt, to try. |
| Afong | vb | (Afang)- to take by force or authority. 2. to sieze, apprehend; afong. 3. to take what is offered, to accept. 4. to recieve (a person); to welcome. 5. to recieve, get, come into possession; afong. 6. to be in possession. 7. to get offspring; to conceive; afong. |
| Afoot | adv | On foot, on or by one's own feet. 2. astir, moving, on the move; in active existence or operation. |
| Afoot | prp | Of place: befor. 2. in OE. (rank) - in precedence. |
| Afoot | conj | Sooner than. |
| Afoot | phr | "There's Something Afoot" - planned (secretly) |
| Afore | adv | Before, prior to, previously. |
| Afore | pfx | Before, previously. |
| Aforegiven | adv | Given before, prior to or previously. |
| Aforegoing | adv | Gone before or prior to. |
| Aforehand | adj | Beforehand in condition; forehanded. |
| Aforehand | adv | Beforehand, in advance, in anticipation. |
| Aforenamed | adj | Named earlier in a document; aforementioned. |
| Aforeness | n | Preexistence; the state of being before. |
| Aforesaid | adj | Of a previously stated list, the entry of the list items, usu. the first in two or three-mentioned list items. 3. above-mentioned; aforementioned, aforesaid; mentioned. |
| Aforespoken | adv | Spoken after the initail event or happening. |
| Aforethought | n | Premeditated, planned ahead of time; thinking beforehand. 2. fore, fore-thought, thought. |
| Aforetime | adv | Of old time or in a time past; in days of old, in a former time, though before, formerly, auld lang syne. |
| Aforetold | adv | Told or spoken afterwards; foretold. |
| Aforeward | adv | First in rank, in front. |
| Afornens | prp | Against opposite. 2. fig. before, in the presence of. 3. with regard to, in respect of, as concerns, |
| Afornens | adv | Over against, opposite. |
| Aforn-ons | adv | In front. |
| Afresh | adv | Anew, freshly, with a fresh commencement. |
| Afrith | vb | To make peace. |
| Afrought | adj | Affrighted, timid, frightened (in mind). |
| Aft | prp | Behind, in rear, hind, stern of position. 2. in or near the hind part or stern of a ship or aircraft. 3. earlier (of time) |
| Aft | phr | "Fore and Aft" - from stern to stern, lengthwise. |
| Aft | phr | "Aft Meal" - an extra meal; a meal taken after and in addition to the ordinary meals. |
| After | conj | Signifies that the action of the clause it starts take place before the action of the other clause. |
| After | adv | The second of two; next; later. 2. of place: nearer the rear, more aft. 3. of time: earlier. 4. behind; later in time; following. |
| After | prp | Subsequently to; following in time; later than. 2. behind. 3. in pursuit of, seeking. 4.iIn allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing. 5.next in importance or rank. 6. as a result of. 7 in spite of. 8. according to an author or text. 9. denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to. 10. (obsolete) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting |
| After | adj | Later, second of two, next, following, subsequent. 2. at or towards the stern of a ship. |
| After | phr | "After All" - in spite of everything. 2. anyway or in any case. 3. in the end, however. |
| After | phr | "After Dark' - after night has fallen ; at dark. |
| After | phr | "After One's Own Beat" - having the same opinions, feelings, behaviour as oneself. |
| After | phr | "After One's Own Heart" - sharing one's taste or views. |
| After | phr | "After You" - a formula used in offering precedence. |
| After | phr | "Be After Somebody" - pursue, want to catch. |
| After | phr | "Be After Something" - desire, want to obtain. |
| Afterbeat | n | A secondary, weaker half of a musical beat; a forebeat. |
| Afterbirth | n | The secundine of the placenta which is expelled from the womb after birth. 2. birth after the death of the father. 3. late-born or afterbirth children. |
| Afterbite | n | Something that linger after it is bitten, especialy a flavour, an aftertaste. 2. that which returns with a memory, usually one which is bitter or painful. |
| Afterbody | n | The after part of a vehicle. 2. a companion body that trails a satellite or space craft. 3. section or piece of launch rocket or spacecraft. |
| Afterborn | adj | Born after the father's death. |
| Afterbrain | n | The posterior lobe of cerebellum. |
| Afterburn | n | The burning of further calories after the end of a stint of vigorous exercise; afterburn. 2. in sociology, afterburn is the practice of criticizing a person after they have left, or stopped contribution to the conversation. |
| Afterburner | n | A device in a turbojet engine which injects fuel in to the exhaust system to increase the thrust. |
| Afterburning | n | The process of injecting of fuel into an engine to increase the thrust. |
| Afterburthen | vb | To burden with. |
| Aftercare | n | The care of a patient during recovery after an operation or after hospitalization. |
| Aftercome | n | A subsequent result, consequence; something that comes after. |
| Aftercomer | n | Successor |
| Aftercoming | adj | A following state, sequel, consequence or result. 2. an aftercome. |
| After-cooler | n | A radiator designed to reduce the temperature of the fuel mixture in the supercharging system of a jet aircraft. |
| Aftercooling | n | The cooling of gas subsequent to compression. 2. the cooling of a nuclear reactor after it has been shut down. |
| Afterdeal | n | Afterdele: disadvantage. |
| After-eye | n | To keep in view or sight. |
| Affright | n | Sufden fear; alarm,fear, fright; cause of fright. |
| Affright | vb | To strike with sudden fear. 2. frighten. |
| Aftergame | n | A subsequent scheme or expediency undertaken to afford a chance of retrieval or improvement. |
| Afterglow | n | The glow in the sky after sunset; afterhlow. 2. the light emitted by an incandescent object while cooling. 3. the mildly euphoric feeling experienced after a pleasurable experience, afterglow, such as sex or a drug-high. 4. light emitted by phosphor after excitation. 5. an after-party. |
| After-grass | n | Grass that grows in a field after a crop (usu. of grass) has been harvested. |
| After-grave | n | The state of life after death. 2. the hereafter; existence after death. |
| Aftergrowth | n | Any secondary growth of a crop after harvesting. 2. (metaphorically) - a secondary development of any kind. |
| Afterhand | adv | Afterwards. |
| Afterheat | n | The heat generated in a nuclear reactor after it has been shut down, produced by residual radioactivity in the fuel elements. |
| Afterhind | adv | Behind. |
| Afterings | adv | The milk drawn from a cow. 2. dregs; the last of any substance that is a poorer quality than the earlier substance or later? |
| After-life | n | A future life. 2. the later period of one's life. |
| After-light | n | An afterglow. 2. (also fig)the light of what is known; hindsight. 3. afterwards. |
| Afterling | n | One who comes older or later. 2. an aftercomer who is later. |
| Afterling | adj | Coming after, later, subsequent or later, late in order of time or succession. |
| Afterlithe | n | OE. - Aeftera: second & litha: serene, name for the two months June and July; old name for July. |
| After-liver | n | A survivor. |
| Afterlong | adv | Lengthwise, along. |
| Aftermath | n | Second or later mowing. 2. crop of grass which springs up after the mowing in early summer. |
| Aftermind | n | A new or changed way of thinking, often as a result of regret and repentance. 2. a renewed way of thinking. |
| Aftermost | adj | Hindmost; last in time; most aft. 2. nearest the stern of a vessel. |
| Afterness | n | Posterity, the quality of being after. |
| Afternoon | n | The time from midday to evening. |
| Afternoon drive time | n | The evening rush hour when people drive home from work and listen to radio broadcasts. 2. afternoon-drive. |
| Afters | n | Dessert. 2. festivities held after a wedding meal. |
| After-school | adj | Taking place after normal scool hours. |
| Aftersee | vb | To witness or see after the fact or event. 2. to see in hindsight or retrospectively. |
| Afterseen | adj | Seen or witnessed after the fact or event. 2. seen in hindsight or in retrospection. |
| After-send | adj | Sent afterwards, subsequently. |
| Aftershave | n | A lotion, gel or liquid used after shaving. |
| Aftershow | n | Occurring after a stage show or film premiere. |
| Afterspring | n | Posterity. 2. a spring time weather change out of season. |
| After-sun | n | Describing the cooling feeling applied to the skin after exposure to the sun. |
| After-swarm | n | A second swarm of bees. |
| Aftertale | n | A postscript; something added when the tale or story is, or ought be, ended. 2. ill-talk, slander, defamation; aftertale. |
| Afterthought | n | A subsequent though. 2. reflection after an act; hence, a later explanation. |
| After-time | n | The future; at a later time. |
| Afterward | adv | Behind. 2. subsequently. 3. next in order. |
| Afterwards | adv | At a later time. |
| Afterwardsness | n | The concept that an earlier event in one's life can acquire a maening. |
| Afterwinter | n | Renewal of winter. |
| Afterwise | adj | Wise after the event. |
| Afterwit | n | Wisdom which comes after the event or too late. 2. later knowledge; the knowledge of riper years or later times. 3. second thoughts; reconsideration.. 4. one who lacks foresight. 5. recognition of former folly; practical repentance; coming to one's senses. |
| Afterwitted | adj | Wise when it's too late. 2. wanting in forethought. |
| Afterword | n | A postscript to a letter; or an appendix to a book. 2. an epilogue |
| Afterworld | n. | Future, afterlife, other existence. |
| Afterwort | n | The second run in the brewing of beer. |
| After-written | adj | Written or recorded in writing afterwards |
| Aftmost | adj | Furthest aft, most sternwards, as far as possible. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Again | adv | Formerly used in many combs., all now obs. in meaning it corresponds to Latin 're' in the senses in opposition, reciprocal or reflected action, and repetition. 2. back to a former position in return. 3. anew, once more, once repeated, anything besides, on the other hand. |
| Again | phr | "Again and Again" - repeatedly, over and over, over and over again. |
| Again | phr | "Again withstand" - to resist. |
| Again | phr | "Again witness" - to witness against. |
| Again | phr | "Come Again."- pardon, what did you say. |
| Again | phr | "Now and Again" - occasionally |
| Again-ask | vb | To require, ask back. |
| Again-begetting | n | Regeneration. |
| Again-behest | n | Promise further or gain. 2. vow again. 3. command further. |
| Again-behold | vb | To look opposite. |
| Again-bihote | vb | To be responsible for surety. |
| Again-bite | n | Remorse, chiding, recrimination. |
| Again-bow | vb | To bend back. |
| Again-bring | vb | To bring back. |
| Againbuy | vb | To redeem. buy back. |
| Againbuy | n | Redeemer |
| Againbuying | n | Redemption. |
| Again-chare | vb | To turn back, repeal. |
| Again-clepe | vb | To recall. |
| Again-come | vb | To encounter. |
| Again-coming | n | A return, a coming back. |
| Again-drawing | n | Reaction. |
| Again-falling | n | Relapse. |
| Again-fare | vb | To return. |
| Again-fight | vb | To fight against. |
| Again-gift | n | Repayment. |
| Again-go | vb | Oppose, go against. |
| Again-hold | vb | Withhold, hold back. |
| Again-know | vb | To know again, remember, recognize. |
| Again-meeting | n | Re-encounter; meeting of adversary; a chance meeting. |
| Again-ness | n | To renew, ednew. |
| Againrise | vb | To rebel, rise up against. |
| Againrising | n | Resurrection. |
| Againsaw | n | Contradiction, gainsaying. |
| Againsay | n | Objection. |
| Againsay | vb | Speak against. 2. to say nay. |
| Againsayer | n | Nay-sayer. 2. opponent |
| Again-saying | n | Contradiction, opposition, contention. |
| Again-seek | vb | To ask for, require. |
| Again-shine | vb | To reflect. |
| Again-smite | vb | To react, reverberate. |
| Again-smiting | n | Reaction, reverberation. |
| Against | prp | In physical contact with, in close but separated relationship. 2. in a contrary direction to. 3. close to. 4. in front of; before a background. 6. in physical opposition to, or in collision with. 7. (heading, social) a contrasting or competitive relationship. 8. in contrast and/or comparison with. 9. in competition with, versus. 10. in opposition to. 11. in exchange for. 12. as counterbalance to. 13 as a charge on. 14. as protection from. 15. (obsolete) exposed to. 16. in anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.) |
| Against | conj | By the time that (something happened); before. (obsolete.) |
| Against | adv | In opposition to something. 2. (gambling) having a specified likelihood of not winning or happening. |
| Against | phr | "Against One's Will" - contrary to someone's desires or wishes. |
| Against | phr | "Against the Law" - illegal, forbidden by the law. |
| Against | phr | "Against the Run of Play" - contrary to the flow of the game. 2. (fig.) against the mood or circumstance of the situation. |
| Against | phr | "Against the Tide" - to take up a minority position. 2. move, act in a direction, way that is opposite to that of most other people. |
| Against | phr | "Against the Time" - in anticipation of, and as a provision of, and as a provision for, some event that is expected to occur in the future. |
| Against | phr | "Swim Against the Time" - to take up a minority position. |
| Againstand | vb | To stand against, to withstand, oppose. |
| Againstness | n | The state or quality of being against or in opposition to something, esp. an an established or opinion. |
| Against time | adj | Measured relative to the deadline rather than the competitor. |
| Against time | adv | With urgency, being aware that the time available to do something may be insufficient . 2. with urgency. |
| Again-tell | vb | To repent. |
| Again-wend | vb | To turn back. |
| Againward | adv | Back again. 2. once more. 3. vice-versa, on the other hand |
| Again-withstand | vb | To resist. |
| Again-witness | vb | To witness against. |
| Again-writing | n | A script again or copy. |
| Agast | vb | To aghast, frighten, to take fright. |
| Agathered | adj | Gathered, assembled. |
| Agenbite | n | Same as 'ayenbite' - remorse. |
| Aget | vb | To seize, get hold of. |
| Ageten | vb | To pour out. 2. to shed. see: 'ayeten' |
| Aghast | vb | Earlier spelling 'agast' - to frighten or terrify. 2. to be frighten or terrifies. |
| Aghast | adj | Affrighted. 2. seize with the physical signs of terror or amazement. 3. ghastly. |
| Aghasted | adj | Frightened, terrified. |
| Aghasting | adj | That terrifies or alarms. |
| Aghastness | n | State or quality of being aghast. 2. horror. |
| Agild(e) | vb. | Without compensation, without execution of the weregild. |
| Agin | prep & conj | Against |
| Agginning | n | Beginning. |
| Agin | vb | Earlier form ' begin' - to begin. |
| A'give | vb | To give back, give up, surrender. |
| Agleam | adj | Glowing with subdued light. |
| Agleam | adv | Gleaming. |
| Aglow | adj | Glowing radiant. |
| Aglow | adv | In a glow of warmth, color, or excitement. |
| Ago | vb | To go forth. 2. to go away. 3. of time: to pass. |
| Ago | adj | Pass by, past. 2. gone, gone by. 3. dead, passed away. |
| Ago | prp | In the past, such as 'I saw him ten years ago." |
| Ago | adv | As in "long ago." |
| Ago | phr | "Dead and gone long ago" - of time long pass. |
| Ago | phr | "Long ago" - of time long past. 2. obsolete form 'yore ago.' |
| Agood | adv | In earnest, heartily, as "I made her wept agood." |
| Agraith | vb | Prepare, make ready. 2. dress, deck, accouter. 3. make one self ready |
| Agraithing | vb & n | Attiring, dressing, decorating |
| Agrise | vb | To quake, abhor; horrify, to be horrified. (gris: horror, grisliness. 2. to shudder with terror, be full of horror. 3. to tremble, quake, be afraid or moved. 4. to shudder at in terror or abhorrence. 5. to be horrified, terrified, or afraid. |
| Agrised | adj | Horrified, terrified, very frightened or afraid. |
| Aground | adv | On or to the earth. 2. on or to the strand or shallow bottom of any water. |
| Aground | phr | "To Run Aground" - of a ship stranded in shallow waters. |
| Aguilt | vb. | Sin, do wrong, declare guilty. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| A'hand | adv | At hand, near. |
| A'hang | adv | To hang up. |
| Ahead | adv | At the head, in advance (of a moving company). 2. in the direct line of one's motion. 3. pointing forward, forward. 4. forward or onward rapidly, headlong; fig. in an unrestrained way. |
| Ahead | phr | "Ahead of" -in front of, in advance of, preceding. |
| Ahead | phr | "Ahead of One's Time" (idiom) - in advance of concurrent commonly accepted ideas. 2. showing characteristics of changes yet to be. 3. present in one's work before later advances in the field. 4. further advanced in knowledge, outlook etc than one contemporaries. |
| Ahead | phr | "Ahead of the Field" - be better than one's competitors. |
| Ahead | phr | "Ahead of the Game" - having completed a task before it is due, ready, prepared, or anticipated. |
| Ahead | phr | "Ahead of Time" - prior to the expected, in advance, beforehand, time, early. 2. in advance of an arranged, or particular, time. 3. having ideas too original to be immediately accepted; also, new, original, taking in advanced technological advances. |
| Ahead | phr | "Full Bore Ahead" - proceed forward quickly. |
| Ahead | phr | "Full Steam Ahead" - get going as fast as possible |
| Ahead | phr | "Get Ahead of" - make one's way socially, financially. |
| Aheap | adv | All of a heap, to heap up. |
| A'heat | adv | In or into heat. |
| A'heave | vb | To heave, lift up. |
| A-height | adj | Aloft. |
| A'hese | vb | To hear. |
| A-high | adv | On high, aloud. |
| A-high-lone | adv | Perhaps an emphasizing of alone. |
| Ahind | adv | Behind. |
| A-hold | adv | Bringing of a ship close to the wind, so as to keep or hold to it. |
| A-hold | phr | "A-hold of" - something to catch, take, lay hold of. |
| Ahorse | adv | On the back of a horse, on horseback |
| A-horseback | adv | On horseback. |
| A'hull | vb | To shell beans or peas. 2. so as to lie under bare poles , helm lashed alee, and the bow nearly into the wind; said of a ship in heavy weather. |
| A'hunger | vb | To be hungry. 2. to make hungry. |
| Ahungered | adj | Hungry. |
| A-hunt | adv | On the hunt. |
| Ahwene | vb | To vex. (awene) |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Ail | n | Bothers, troubles, ills, affliction, indisposes. 2. ailment, illness, sickness. |
| Ail | vb | To cause to suffer, trouble, afflict. 2. to interfere with, obstruct, prevent. |
| Ail | adj | Loathsome, troublesome. |
| Ailing | n | The awn of the barley. |
| Ailing | adj | Painful, troublesome, unwell. |
| Ailing | phr | "Be Ailing" - be ill. |
| Ait | n. | Islet, isle, eyot in a river or stream. 2. an island in a river, esp. in the River Thames. |
| Aitland | n. | Island |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Aken (ne) | vb | Reconnoitre, recognise |
| Aken | vb | Give birth |
| Akennedness | n | Birth, generation |
| Akenning | n | Bearing, generation, birth. |
| Akin | adj | Of the same kind; similar in quality or character. 2. related by blood, blood-related, consanguineous as family members. 3. allied by nature. 4. partaking of the same property. 5. of the same land. |
| Akin | phr | "Near a Kin" - near in nature or character. |
| Aknee | adv | On the knees. |
| Aknow | vb | Earlier form of acknow: to acknowledge, recognise, confess. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| A'lacche | vb | To get hold of, take in one arms |
| A'land | vb | To come ashore. |
| A'landwards | adv | In or towards rural or inland area, rather than the shoreline. |
| A'lange | vb | To make or become dreary, tedious, tardy. |
| A'lange | adj | A variant of elenge, cognate of lang, long: tedious, protracted, dreary, lonely, worrisome. 2. strange, foreign. |
| A'langely | adv | Drearily. |
| A'langeness | n | Tedium, weariness, loneliness. |
| A'last | adv | In last place, at last. |
| A'late | adv | Of late, lately. |
| Alb | n | OE 'albe' from Late latin alba: tunic. 2. a tunic of white cloth, reaching to the feet, and enveloping (the person) worn by priests in religious ceremonies. |
| Albe | conj | Although it be that, although. |
| Albeit | conj | Although, even though; notwithstanding that. |
| Albetimes | adv | "All be Times" (phr) - all betimes, albedone, forthwith, immediately. |
| Ald | n | Variant of eld: age, duration of life or existence. 2. an age, epoch or secular period of the world. 3. old age, an advance state or period of life. |
| Ald | vb | To grow old, become old. |
| Ald | adj | Old, eld, yeald. |
| Alday | adv | "All of the Day" (phr)- everyday, always, continously. 2. the whole day, all the day. |
| Alden | vb | To grow old. |
| Alder | n | Chief, prince, lord. 2. senior. 3. parent, ancestor, elder. 4. the head of a family or clan, patriarch, chief, principal, ruler. |
| Alder | n | The tree "Alnus glutinosa." |
| Alderdom | n | Lordship; chief authority. |
| Alder elde | adj | Extreme old age. |
| Alder-father | n | Ancestor, progenitor. |
| Alderman | n | A noble or man of hig rank; a governor of a district. 2. the chief officer or warden of a guild. 3. a municipal officer (US) next in rank to the mayor. 5. a municipal officer (UK & Wales) representing a ward. 6. a co-opted member of a borough or council. |
| Aldermanlike | adj | Acting like or resembling an aldrman. |
| Aldermaness | n | The state or quality of being an alderman. |
| Aldermanship | n | The office of an alderman. 2. chiefship, lordship. |
| Ale | n | Beverage made from the infusion of malt by fermentation. |
| Aleconner | n | An inspector or examiner of ale. |
| Aleft | adv | On or to the left. |
| Alehoof | n | The herb ground ivy Nepeta glechoma. |
| Ale-house | n | Tavern, hotel, establishment where ale is retailed. |
| Aleing | n | The drinking of ale, aling. |
| Ale-knight | n | Frequenters of drinking establishments. |
| Alene | vb | To lend, give, garant |
| Alength | adv | Lengthwise, lengthways. |
| Alese | vb | To release, deliver. |
| Alesedness | n | Deliverance, redemption. |
| Alesing | n | Release, delivery. |
| A'less | vb | To diminish, make less, lessen. |
| Alet | vb | To let go, to give. |
| Alewort | n | The fermenting infusion of malt. |
| Alfet | n | The cauldron used in the ordeal of scalding water. |
| Alfred | n | A masculine personal name meaning 'elf counsel' (good counsel). |
| Alife | adv | One's own life, dearly. as 'I love cricket alife.' |
| Alift | vb | To lift, to lift up, raise. |
| Alight | vb | To descend out of, dismount from, get down, chance upon, spring from. 2. to mount. 3. to land. 4. to go or come down from. 5. to descend and settle, rather falling. 6. to land on a spot by floating, flying. 7. to fall (on or upon) as a blow. 8. to chance or hap upon. |
| Alight | vb | To lighten, relieve. 2. to make light, or less heavy, to lighten, alleviate, alleviate (a burden; to relieve a carrier. |
| Alight | vb | Light up, to light a fire, set light to. 2. to illuminate, illumine. |
| Alight | adj | Alighted, arrived. |
| Alight | adj | Lighted, kindled, in a flame; on fire. |
| Alight | adj | Dismounted, arrived. |
| Alight | adj | Lighted up, illumined. |
| Alight | phr | "Alight From" - get off, out or down from, a motor car, bus, train, horse etc. |
| Alight | phr | "Alight On" - come down or descend from the air and come to rest upon, as a fly, bird, bee. 2. find, encounter or hap upon by chance a solution, answer to a problem, truth. |
| Alighten | vb | To alight, dismount. 2. to lighten, relieve the load or burden. 3. to illumine, enlighten, light up. |
| Alighting | n | The act of dismounting, getting-down, spring. 2.descending, descent, landing, dismounting. |
| Alike | adj | Similar, like one another, resembling wholly or in part. |
| Alike | adv | in the same or like manner, equally, similarly. |
| Alike-minded | adj | Like-minded. |
| Alikeness | n | The state or quality of being alike. 2. the result or product of being alike. |
| Alikewise | adv | In a similar or identical way or manner. |
| Aline | vb | To form in line, fall in line. 2. adjust or form to a line. 3. adhere oneself with a group or a way of thinking. 4. to align. |
| Aliry | n | OE. - loss of the use of limbs. 2. paralysis, lameness. |
| Alise | vb | Report, name by report, allege by report, rumour |
| Alish | adj | Ale-ish: resembling or characteristic of ale; as an ale and ale-like beverage. |
| Alithe | vb | Go away, pass by & on |
| Alithe | vb | Dismember, tear limb from limb |
| Alive | vb | To live. |
| Alive | adj | Having life; existent; active; vigorous, sensitive to; thronged with. |
| Alive | adv | In life, living. 2. fig. not extinguished, unabated, unforgotten. 3. in a sentient condition; sensitive, awake, fully conscious. 4. vivacious, brisk, quick action. 5. in a state of commotion, stirring or swarming. |
| Alive | phr | "Alive With" - crowded; infested with. |
| Alive | phr | "Eat Someone Alive" - soundly defeat a person. |
| Alive | phr | "Look Alive" - to make haste. |
| Alive | phr | "Alive and Well" - still alive and active (despite contrary assumptions). |
| Alive | phr | "Alive to Something" - completely aware of the bad effect of something; the implication of something. |
| Alive-like | adj | Living-like, lively, vivacious. |
| Aliveness | n | The state or condition of being alive or living. 2. exuberance, intensity. |
| All | n | Everything that we have, that concerns or pertains to us. 2. whole being, entirety, totality. 3. whole system of things, the universe. |
| All | adj | The whole amount, extent or compass of; the whole. 2. of all that is possible. 3. the entire number of, the whole, without exception. 4. every. 5. any whatever. 6. every individual. 7. all men. |
| All | adv | Wholly, completely, altogether, quite. 2. even, just. 3. all through, wholly, without admixture. |
| All | phr | "Above All" - primarily; of the first importance. |
| All | phr | "After All" - nevertheless. 2. on the other hand; in the long run. 3. in spite of everything. |
| All | phr | "All Along" - entirely, all the time; consistent or continuing over a long time. |
| All | phr | "All Along the Line?Road" - in every way, at every point, in every aspect of a matter. |
| All | phr | "All and Some" - distributed to each part of the whole; in the singular: the sum total. |
| All | phr | "All and Sundry" - everyone; everything. |
| All | phr | "All Anyhow" - carelessly, untidily any old how. |
| All | phr | "All at Once" - suddenly and unexpectedly; allof a sudden. 2. everybody or everything together. 2. at the same time, quickly. |
| All | phr | "All Bark and No Bite" - full of boastful or big talk talk but lacking action, power or substance. 2. pretentious. 3. someone who says cutting things, but in reality has a soft personality underneath. |
| All | phr | "All Being Well" - with everything happening as expected. 2. if nothing goes wrong. |
| All | phr | "All But" - everything short of; hence almost; on the verge; just falling short of universality. |
| All | phr | "All Cats are Grey at Night" - 'all cats are grey in the dark' - in the dark physical appearance is unimportant. (supposedly said by Benjamin Franklin in response to his romances with a string of older women.) |
| All | phr | "All Day and Every Day" - continuously; without ceasing; during the whole of one day, and for a number of days after. |
| All | phr | "All Else the Same" - all else or things being equal. 2.fig. a level playing field. |
| All | phr | "All Ends Up" - completely. |
| All | phr | "All('s) Fair in Love and War." - unpleasant and unacceptable behaviour is acceptable in love and conflict. ('War' derives from the late Old English (c.1050) words wyrre and werre; the Old French werre; the Frankish werra; and the Proto-Germanic werso. The denotation of war derives from the Old Saxon werran, |
| All | phr | "All Fingers and Thumbs" - clumsy awkward, lacking dexterity. 2. all thumbs: clumsy. |
| All | phr | "All for Something" - be enthusiastic about or in favour of something. |
| All | phr | "All for the Best" - ultimately for the good. |
| All | phr | "All Good (or bad)come to an End" - nothing lasts forever, change is forever taking place. |
| All | phr | "All Grist to the Mill" - this is unexciting additional material. |
| All | phr | "All Hell Broke Loose" - great confusion erupted. |
| All | phr | "All His Christmases Came at Once" - he was overjoyed. |
| All | phr | "All in" - exhausted, wearied; or inclusive of extras. |
| All | phr | "All In a Day's Work" - within one's duties or obligations. |
| All | phr | "All In a Good Time" - eventually |
| All | phr | "All in All" - all things taken into consideration or in all respects. 2. all things taken as a whole; in all respects. 3. the main object of one's love and devotion, to the exclusion of everything and everybody. |
| All | phr | "All in One" - together, unified, united. 2. in one piece, not segmented or divided. |
| All | phr | "All in the Wind" - puzzled, confused, non-plused. 2.n line with the wind, so as not to draw, |
| All | phr | "All is Fair In Love and War" - everything wrong , unethical etc can be excused, because the normal rules of society do not apply in situations of personal conflict or of emotional involvement. |
| All | phr | "All is not Lost" - there is still some chance of recovery, success. |
| All | phr | "All is not Well with" - the general position or situation is unsatisfactory. |
| All | phr | "All Kinds Of" - many different varieties of people, things; all sorts of. 2. all manner of. |
| All | phr | "All My Eye" - rubbish, humbug, as 'all my eye and Edith Edrich' |
| All | phr | "All of" - at least, fully. as the sails of a ship. |
| All | phr | "All of a Sudden" - suddenly and unexpectedly. |
| All | phr | "All One" - quite the same thing; a matter of indifference. 2. immaterial, makes no difference. |
| All | phr | "All One Needs" - what one does not want or need is the thing or person specified. |
| All | phr | "All or Nothing" - everything or nothing, with no halfhearted effort; total commitment. |
| All | phr | "All Out" - with maximum effort; at top speed. 2. thoroughly tired out. 3. with every nerve strained with eagerness. 4. without regard to risk. 5. go all out; completely, quite so. 6. the manner in which one's uses every available means. 7. with no sparing of effort; vigorously, zealously. |
| All | phr | All Over" - all the time, from the beginning. 2. finished; completed; gone; spread over. 3. easily superior to. |
| All | phr | "All Over Again" - one more time, once more, one further time. |
| All | phr | "All Over With" - completely finished. |
| All | phr | "All Right" - acceptable, acknowledged, tolerable, adequate, . 2. without a doubt. 3. physically or mentally well; content, happy. 4. without fault; or drawbacks; in working order. |
| All | phr | "All Right on the Night" - satisfactory, well done when required. |
| All | phr | "All Roads Lead to Rome" - all alternatives have the same outcome. |
| All | phr | "All Shipshape" - properly organized and tidy. |
| All | phr | "All So To" - quite, utterly, wholly. |
| All | phr | "All Standing" - without time to lower the sails. |
| All | phr | "All Talk and No Do" - lots of ideas. discussion, proposals for doing something, but ends up jmere conversation. |
| All | phr | "All the Best" - farewell: may you fare well and to wish you good luck. |
| All | phr | "All the Better" - so much the better. |
| All | phr | "All the Days of One's Life" - for as long as one will live, or has lived. |
| All | phr | "All the Dogs are Barking" - the news etc is being spread widely about. |
| All | phr | "All the Less" - nonetheless, less so. |
| All | phr | "All the More" - all the more, nonetheless, nevertheless. 2. even more, notably due to additional information. |
| All | phr | "All there" - is he/she sane, smart, mentally alert, usually in "Not All There" - not clever or sane. |
| All | phr | "All the Same" - yet; nevertheless; in spite of this. 2. with or make no difference. |
| All | phr | "All the Same To" - a matter of indifference, of little importance or interest. |
| All | phr | "All the Time" - continuously and regularly; without ceasing. 2. continuously during one period of time. 3. throughout a period of time. 4. |
| All | phr | "All the Way" - the whole distance; completely. |
| All | phr | "All the While" - at the same time as, usually over an extended period. |
| All | phr | "All Things to All Men" - |
| All | phr | "All This and Heaven too" - a blessed happy life and afterlife. |
| All | phr | "All Time High" - a time in one life where everything is going perfectly. |
| All | phr | "All told" - in total; all together |
| All | phr | "All too" - altogether. |
| All | phr | "All to the Good" - a kind that will bring only good, improvement, and advantage. |
| All | phr | "All Up With" - ended (of life or future prospects). 2. over for, finished for; finished; done with; having no hope. |
| All | phr | "All Well and Good" - satisfactory, (implying that some other matter is not satisfactory) |
| All | phr | "All's Well that Ends Well" - even though something may have problems or unexpected steps, it is OK as long as the end product is fine. |
| All | phr | "All Wholly" - utterly. |
| All | phr | "All Wool and a Yard Wide" - describes something and someone of high quality. |
| All | phr | "All Work and No Play Makes Jill/ Jack a Dull Fellow" - one must have work/life balance. |
| All | phr | "And All" - and all the rest; etc, hence as well. |
| All | phr | "And All That" - and all the rest of. |
| All | phr | "At All" - in every or any way; in the smallest way, extent, usually 'not at all' |
| All | phr | "Be All and End All" - whole of something. |
| All | phr | "Be All Ears" - to be very attentive. |
| All | phr | "Be All Eyes" - to carefully observe. |
| All | phr | "Be All Washed Out" - to feel feeble. |
| All | phr | "Be On All Fours" - be on hands and knees. |
| All | phr | "Drink All Out" - to drink till drunkenness; to binge drink. |
| All | phr | "For All I Care" - as if I care (with indifference or ignorance) |
| All | phr | "For All that " - notwithstanding; to the degree that. 2. nevertheless, despite the circumstances. |
| All | phr | "Get Away from it All" - escape from everyday responsibilities. |
| All | phr | "Get the Worst of all Worlds" - to get a series of disadvantages without achieving any corresponding advantages. |
| All | phr | "In All" - all together; as for; in total number; esp. in whole. |
| All | phr | "It Will all Come Out in the Wash" - the facts will emerge as work proceeds. |
| All | phr | "Let It All Hang Out" - to unburden oneself. |
| All | phr | "Not all It's Cracked Up to be" - not as good as claims made for something. |
| All | phr | "Not At All" - not (emphatically.) 2. not as believed, or expected, or suggested. |
| All | phr | "Of all" - most of all ecliptic) |
| All | phr | "Once and for All" - once only; once no more; finally. |
| All | phr | "One All Fours" - on hands and knees. |
| All | phr | "One and All" - everyone. |
| All | phr | "Pull Out All Stops" - to make maximum efforts. |
| All | phr | "Walk All Over Someone" - to act in a way which completely disregards another person's sensibility. |
| All | phr | "Warts and All" - with the unfavorable features as well as the favorable ones. |
| All | phr | "When All Comes to All" - when everything is summed up |
| All | phr | "When All is Said and Done" - when everything is taken into consideration. |
| All | phr | "With All" - withal. |
| All-aloneness | n | Total solitude, 'his all-aloneness drives him to hopelessness; lost in London's all-aloneness.' |
| Allay | vb | Lay down, set aside; overthrow (a principle)put down or repress; subside or cease; become mild or abate. |
| All-bone | n | Stellaria holostea: the Great Stichwort. |
| All-comers | n | Anyone who comes to a given event. |
| All-day | adj | Lasting all day; throughout the day. |
| All-elbows | adj | Of a computing program that takes resources it needs without consideration to other tasks. |
| Allerliefest | adj | "Dearest of all. |
| All-eyed | adj | Argus-eyed, ever vigilant, alert and attentively, observant. 2. having many markings that look like eyes. 3. gazing devotedly. |
| All-father | n | Originally the title for Odin, transferred to Jupiter, then applied to the Christian God. |
| All-fatherly | adj | of, or like the (universal father or supreme being.) |
| All-fired | adj | Infernal, holocaustic; hell-fired. 2. all-fired up: eager, ready and willing to undertake a task or role. 3. excessive; inordinately. |
| All-firedly | adv | Excessively fired |
| All-flesh | n | All animal and human creation. |
| All-forgetful | adj | Wholly forgetful. |
| All-fours | n | The extremities. |
| All-fours | phr | "To Run on All Fours" - to run like a quadruped. |
| All-good | n | The plant Chenopodium Bonus-henricus. |
| All-Hallows | n | All saints collectively. 2. the feast of all-hallows (day). 3. all-hallowmas. |
| All-hail | n | Salutations. |
| All-hail | vb | To be welcome or greet someone effusively (I wish you all health). |
| All-heal | n | A panacea; the great wild valerian, a popular remedy for all types of diseases. |
| All-heart | n | The elm tree. |
| All-hold | n | That which holds all. |
| All-holiday | n | Idiomatic, slang: the business or the acting of person spoken of or allude to is finished or over, and that it has no future, as ' their marriage is all-holiday." |
| All-hollow | adv | Idiomatic: as a foregone conclusion. |
| All-hollows | adj | Of, or pertaining, to the time of All-Hallows. |
| All-holy | adj | Very holy. |
| All-hood | n | Entirety, entire estate or thing. |
| All-in | adj | In wrestling and fighting with no holds bar. 2. inclusive of all. |
| All-in-one | adj | Combining two or more items in a singular unit. |
| All-knower | n | God, as in 'to stand before the All-knower.' 2. a supreme being. 3. the All-soul; the All-Maker. |
| All-knowing | adj | Knowing everything, omniscient (often attributed to God or a deity). 2. can be used to describe as a very wise person. |
| All-knowingness | n | Omniscience, as in "God's all-knowingness." |
| All-loving | adj | Of unbounded love. |
| All-Maker | n | The All-Maker: God, supreme being. 2. The All-knower; The All-Soul. |
| All-meaningness | n | Profound or full and complete clarification and significance. |
| All-might | n | Omnipotence; all-power. |
| All-mighty | n | God. |
| Allness | n | Universality. 2. totality, completeness, as 'the allness of God.' |
| All night | adv | Through the entire night. |
| All night | adj | Lasting or available throughout the whole night. |
| All-nighter | n | Something the lasts through out the whole night, such as an all-nighter: an 'all-night bus service.' |
| All-nightman | n | A body-snatcher, a grave-robber, a burke-and-hare. |
| All-one | n | A matter of indifference. 2. a matter having no importance or consequence. |
| All-out | adj | Using every available means. 2. covering all aspects without exception. 3. complete and entire. |
| All outer | n | An extremist or radical. |
| All over | adv | Over the whole extent, absolutely. 2. over the entire extent. 3. everywhere. 4. every way, thoroughly. |
| All over | prp | Everywhere, covering completely. |
| Alloverish | adj | Vaguely uncomfortable. 2. having a general feeling of illness or uneasiness. |
| Alloverishness | n | State or quality of being all over. 2. an uncomfortable physical or emotion feeling. |
| All-overs | n | "The All-overs." - feeling of nervousness or ill-at-ease. |
| All-right | adj | Fine, acceptable; satisfactory. 2. honest, loyal, dependable. 3. correct, as an addition. 4. certainly, without a doubt, yes. |
| All-sayers | n | An idle chatterer, incessant talkers, as in 'all-sayers, and no-doers.' |
| All-seater | n | Of stadiums providing only seats and no-standing places. |
| All-seeing | n | God |
| All-seeing | adj | Having knowledge of all things said or done. |
| All-seeing-ness | n | The state or quality of being all-seeing- (having knowledge of all things said or done.) 2. omnividuity. |
| All-side | adj | On every side. |
| All-sidedness | n | Versatility. |
| All Souls' Day | n | An annual feast day of Christianity on the second day of November (day immediately following All saint's Day, celebrating the faithfully departed. 2. Chinese alternative for Tomb Sweeping Day. |
| All-star | adj | A team, group etc. of which all members or participants are celebrities. 2. in sport: a team of super-star player. |
| All-talk | adj | A person of words only. |
| All-that | n | That and everything similar, all of that kind and so on. |
| All-that | adj | Of especially good quality, particularly excellent. |
| All that | adv | Very. |
| All-thing | adv | Everything. |
| All-time | adj | Unsurpassed esp. to the present time. 2. perennially; popular; likely to endure for sometime. |
| All-told | adj | When all are counted. |
| All too | adv | Very extremely, excessively. |
| All-utterly | adv | Wholly, absolutely, completely, fully, totally. |
| All-up-weight | adj | The total weight of an aircraft with passengers, cargo etc when airborne. |
| All-weather | adj | Relating to, or suitable for all types of weather, as an all weather track. |
| All-what | conj | All the while, while. 2. till, until. |
| All-wheel drive | n | Four wheel drive. |
| All-where | adv | Everywhere. |
| All-whither | adv | In every direction. |
| All-whole | adj | Entirely, entire, all wholly. |
| All-wholly | adv | Utterly, quite so, all so, too. 2. entirely. |
| All-wielding | adj | All-ruling, controlling,. 2. all powerful or mighty. |
| All-wise | adj | Supremely wise. |
| All-wiseness | n | Full insight and wisdom in various situations. |
| All-witty | adj | Omniscient. 2. all-knowing; knowing all things. 2. the external wisdom of God. |
| All-woolly | adj | Absolutely genuine. |
| Almightend | n | God, the supreme being. |
| Almightful | adj | Almighty; omnipotent; having complete power. |
| Almighty | n | "The Almighty" - God. |
| Almightiful | n | Powerful, all-powerful, potent. |
| Almightihood | n | Omnipotence |
| Almightihoodily | n | In an all-mighty or supreme manner. |
| Almightily | adv | In a all-powerful manner or way; all-powerfully. |
| Almightiness | n | The state or quality of being, all-powerful, omnipotent |
| Almightship | n | Almightiness. 2. the role of The Almighty. |
| Almost | adv | Mostly all; for the most part. 2. very nearly, all but. |
| Alms | n | Something given to the poor in charity, such as money, food, clothing. |
| Alms-deed | n | Persons society by charity or welfare payment. 2. the giving of alms as an act of good work. 3. charity. |
| Alms-folk | n | Those supported by financially by the charity of others; bedesman. |
| Alms-full | adj | Abounding or plentiful of or in alms. 2. beneficial to the poor or needy. 3. charitable, giving, kind. |
| Alms-giver | n | An organisation or individual given financial and personal help to the poor. |
| Alms-giving | n | The act of giving financial help to the poor and needy. |
| Alms-house | n | Organisation belonging to church where alms and hospitality are given. |
| Alms-less | adj | Without, not having or lacking alms. |
| Almsman | n | Those supported financially by the charity of others; a bedesman. |
| Aloath(e) | vb | Become loathsome, to cause disgust. 2. to be loathsome. |
| Aloathing | n | Loathing, disliking, destestation. |
| Aloe | n | A plant of the genus Lillacae aloine. 2. a naseous purgative, made from aloe. 3. fig. bitter experiences. 4. |
| Aloe | phr | "The Bitter Aloe of the Law" - a bitter legal experience. |
| Aloft | adv | Up, as a star; above; in heaven; high above the earth, on high; on top; into the air; on or to a higher part of the ship. NB: a higher part of a building is from Old Norse. |
| Alone | adj | Also adv. 2. By one's self, all alone. 2. fig. one of a kind, unique; alone in action or feeling. 3. solely, exclusively, only, merely. 4. taken to be by oneself. 5. of number: with no one else; by themselves. |
| Alone | phr | "Go it Alone" - act on one's own. 2. act independently of others. |
| Alone | phr | "Leave (Or Let) Alone" - to leave one to their own efforts and endeavour. 2. to not interfere in matters concerning others; mind one's own business. 3. to stay aloof. |
| Alone | phr | "Leave well Alone" - do nothing else for fear of spoiling something. |
| Alone | adj | Exclusive, sole, only. |
| Alonely | adv | Only, solely, solitary, solitarily, exclusively. |
| Aloneness | n | The state or quality of being alone. 2. uniqueness, exclusiveness, all-aloneness. |
| Along | adj | Pertaining, owing to; on account of. |
| Along | adv | Extending lengthwise; all full length, endwise. 2. in a line, lengthwise. 3. onward; in the line of motion. 4. in company with someone. 5. |
| Along | prp | Throughout the whole length of. 2. from end to end. 3. parallel to the length. |
| Along | phr | "All Along" - all the time; during the whole time. 2. the whole way along from the beginning. |
| Along | phr | "Along of" - because. |
| Along | phr | "Along the lines of" - in the style or mode of. 2. in the way of. |
| Along | phr | "Along With" - on the way, or in company with. 2. together with, in conjunction with. 3. together with; in addition to. |
| Along | phr | "Get Along" - be off! |
| Along | phr | "Get Along with" - to get on, get along; be friendly with others. |
| Along | phr | "Go Along With" - agree, but perhaps deceitfully. |
| Along | phr | "Right Along" - continuously. |
| Alongshore | adv | Along or by the shore. |
| Alongside | adv | Along the side, by the side, side by side with. |
| Alongside | prp | Together with or at the same time. 2. parallel. |
| Alongst | prp | Through the length of, as opposed to across. 2. by the side of, athwart. 3. together. 4. as far as (a place or location indicated). |
| Aloud | adv | In a loud voice, with a great noise, loudly. |
| Alout | vb | To stoop, fall over, esp. in worship. |
| Alow | adj | Low, Low down; below, antonym of aloft. 2. in or into the lower part of a ship or vesssel. |
| Alow | vb | To lower. |
| Alp | n | Variation of OE. 'Ylp' - elephant |
| Alreadiness | n | State of complete readiness or preparation, fully prepared. 2. anticipative eagerness or alacrity. |
| Already | adv | Fully prepared. 2. beforehand; previously to some specific time. 3. by the time, thus early. |
| Alright | adj | Satisfactory, okay, in acceptable order, but not necessarily completely right. |
| Alrighty | int | Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent. |
| Also | adv | Wholly or quite so; in this or that very manner. 2. in like manner; likewise; further, too. 3. as though; as so. 4. in like manner |
| Also | conj | In addition, likewise, besides. |
| Also | phr | "Also Known As" - known by another name. |
| Alsoon | adv | As soon, as soon as possible, at once immediately. |
| Also-ran | n | A contestant who loses, a failure;(often used in horse racing and politics). |
| Altar | n | A Latin loan word. Table for sacrificial offering. |
| Altar | phr | "lead to the Altar" - marrying. |
| Altared | adj | Furnished with or having an altar. |
| Altarless | adj | A church without an altar. |
| Altar-stone | n | The slab forming the top of an altar. |
| Altar-thane | n | Mass-priest. |
| Altheodi | n | Foreigner |
| Altheodish | adj | Foreign |
| Although | conj | Admitting that; notwithstanding that. |
| Altogether | n | A whole; a unity. |
| Altogether | adj | A more emphatic form of all. 2. the whole together; the total. |
| Altogether | adv | Everything included or being included; totally, completely. 2. wholly, quite, in all respects. 3. uninterruptedly. |
| Altogether | phr | "For altogether" - for all time (to come), for good, finally, as a permanent arrangement. |
| Altogetherness | n | Unity of being, wholeness |
| Alway | adv | All the way. 2. throughout all time; always. |
| Always | adv | At all times, ever, forever, perpetually as opposed to 'sometimes.' 2. through all time, as opposed to 'for a time.'. 3. continually. 4. constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals. 5. invariably, uniformly. 6. in any event still, nevertheless, however. 7. now, in any circumstances, anyway. |
| Alwaysness | n | Ever-lastingness, eternal existence, sempiternity. 2. the state or quality or condition of lasting indefinitely or always, continuity, indefiniteness. |
| Alwise | adj | In every way, in any way. |
| Alwork | n | Domestic or other work of all kinds. |
| All y'all | prn | Chiefly southern US dialectic: a pluarl form of you. |
| Old English | sp | English. |
| Amain | adv | In, or with full force, vehemently, violently . 2. in full force of numbers. 3. of motion: at full speed, without delay. 4. without delay, in all haste, at once. 5. exceedingly, greatly. |
| Amanse | vb | (OE: 'a' - out, away & mansum: familiar, intimate : to excommunicate, anathematize. |
| Amansed | adj | Excommunicated, anathematize. |
| Amansing | n | Excommunication, anathema. |
| A'mar | vb | To hinder, spoil, impair. 2. hurt, injure, mar. 3. spoil, destroy. 4. squander. |
| Ambaht | n | Hand-maiden, bondservant, servant |
| Amaze | vb | To perplex, surprize, agonish. 2. to terrify, to fill with panic. 3. to overwhelm with wonder, to astound or greatly astonish. 4.to amaze oneself. 5. to stupefy, knock unconscious. 6. to bewilder, to stupefy, bring into a maze. |
| Amazed | adj | Astonished, confounded with fear, surprise or wonder. 2. greatly surprided. |
| Amazedness | n | State or quality of being amazed. |
| Amazeful | adj | Full of amazement, astonished. |
| Amazing | adj | Causing wonder and amazement. 2. possessing uniquely wonderful quality. |
| Amazingly | adv | In an amazing manner, in a way that causes amazement. 2. difficult to believe; strange but true. 3. to a wonder-inspiring extent. |
| Amazingness | n | The state or quality of being amazing. |
| Amber | n | Pail, bucket, pitcher, urn, cask. 2. any vessel with one handle. 3. a dry measure of four bushels (perhaps from latin: 'amphora.') |
| Ameed | vb | Reform |
| Ameek | vb | Make meek, appease, soothe. |
| Amen | n | The concluding word: 'amen.' 2. an expression of assent or belief. 3. transfig. a conclusion. 4. title of Christ: The Faithful One. |
| Amen | intj | Late OE. - soothly. an interjection after a prayer or religious uttering. 2. after a wish or prayer: may it be so. 3. after a confession, statement of faith, and so forth: it is so in truth. 4. in biblical terms: truly, verily. |
| Amen | vb | To say or chant "amen' to. 2. to formally or consent solemnly. 2. say the final word to. |
| Amid | adv | In the middle, or midst of. |
| Amid | prp | Near the middle of, surrounded by. 2. related to the circumstances of an action. |
| Amid-heaps | adv | In the midst of a heap, or crowd (folk-heap.) |
| Amidmong | adv | In the midst of. |
| Amidmost | adv | In the very middle. 2. in the centre of. |
| Amidship(s) | n | In the middle or towards the centre of a ship. |
| Amidst | adv | In the midst or 'centre of', among, in the throng of. |
| Amidst | prp | In, into or towards the middle of. 2. amongst, in the course of. |
| Amidward | adv | Towards or near the middle. 2. in the middle of. |
| Aminded | pp | Minded. |
| Amiss | n | A wrong, fault, an evil act, a bad deed. 2. miss, failure, shortcoming. |
| Amiss | adj | Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice. |
| Amiss | adv | Wrongly, faultily, mistakenly, erroneously, defectively, astray. |
| Amiss | n | (Obs.)- fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed. |
| Amiss | phr | "It Would Be Not Amiss" - be not wrong or inappropriate. |
| Amiss | phr | "To Come Amiss" - to happen or take place out of order. 3. untoward or contrary to one's wish or expectation. |
| Amissing | adj | Missing. |
| Among | prp | In the crowd; hence associated with. 2. surrounded by. 3. in company or associated with, besides. 3. during the course of. |
| Among | adv | During this period, in this time, meanwhile. 2. between whiles, all the while, at intervals, from time to time, now and then, . 3. at the same time. 4. of place: together, among something else. 5. ever among, every here and there |
| Among | phr | "To Be Among-hands" - work done conjointly with other things we can do it among hands or all under one. |
| Amongst | prp | Generally implying dispersion, intermixing, or shifting position. |
| A'mornings | adv | In the morning, every morning. |
| Amper | n | A tumor, blemish. |
| Amygdal | n | Latin borrowing: an almond. 2. the tonsils. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| An | art | The indefinite article: an each, or any; one, one kind of, one single. |
| A'name | vb | To mention, name. |
| A'narrow | vb | To cramp, crush, dishearten. |
| Anblow | vb | To blow onto or into. 2. to breathe upon, inspire (lit.& fig.) |
| Anchor | n | A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement. 2. an iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. 3. the combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.) 4. any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place. 5. marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink. 6. on television: an anchorman or anchorwoman. 7. athletics: the final runner in a relay race. 8. in economics : superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area. 10. (fig.) hat which gives stability or security. 11. in architecture: metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together. 12. architecture: a carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. |
| Anchor | vb | To stop a boat or a ship from moving by releasing the anchor into the water. 2. to present a TV show or radio program., especially the nightly news. 3. to fix something somewhat firmly. |
| Anchor | phr | "At Anchor" - anchored as a ship. |
| Anchor | phr | "Be Anchored in Something" - to be firmly based on a certain or particular set of opinions or belief. |
| Anchor | phr | "Come to Anchor" - to anchor, tae up a position of anchor. |
| Anchor | phr | "Drop Anchor" - to put down the anchor in order to hold fast the ship. |
| Anchor | phr | "Ride at Anchor" - to be anchored; as a ship. |
| Anchor | phr | "Swallowing the Anchor" - a sailor is said to do so when he retires from the sea. |
| Anchor | phr | "The Anchor Comes Home" - when an anchor does not hold and is dragged from its hold. Figuratively the enterprise has failed, notwithstanding the precautions taken. |
| Anchor | phr | "Weigh Anchor" - to take up a ship's anchor, in readiness or so as to be getting or sailing away. |
| Anchor-hold | n | The strength or grip with which an anchor holds. 2. the chief ground of trust; security; fixedness. |
| Anchor-less | adj | Not having or without an anchor. 2. (fig 7 lit.) without a firm hold; having nothing to repose upon, drifting. |
| Anchor-light | n | A white light visible all around the horizon, shown from the forepart of an anchored vessel. Vessel over 150 feet in length must carry two, one being aft. |
| Anchorman | n | An athlete in a relay race, who competes last for his team. 2. a television or radio broadcaster who co-ordinates the coverage of an event or program. |
| Anchor-smith | n | A smith who makes anchor. |
| Anchor-watch | n | A watch kept when a vessel is anchored as a precaution against dragging, etc. |
| Ancome | n | A boil formed unexpectedly, a whitlow; an oncome. |
| And | pfx | Against, in return, opposite, towards, fronting; in combination "and-git" - apprehension. |
| And | conj | Along with, in addition to; plus. |
| And | phr | "And/or" - either or both of two stated possibilities. |
| And | phr | "And a Half" - more than usual size, importance, worth. |
| And | phr | "And All" - also; too; included; in addition. |
| And | phr | "And All That" - and other similar things (to avoid the tedium and diffidence of going through a long list). |
| And | phr | "And How" - yes, indeed, I agree strongly. |
| And | phr | "And I Don't Know What" - any number of different things of a type already mentioned, can't be remembered, or one cannot be bothered to recall, etc. |
| And | phr | "And No Mistake" - there can be no doubt about it. |
| And | phr | "And So Forth" - and of other things of the same kind alreday mentioned. |
| And | phr | "And Then Some" - to a greater degree. |
| And-and-all | dtm | In law every each all (used for emphasis and exactness.) |
| Ande | sfx | OE- ende, end, as in friend, friend; later ant, as fiend; wealdend, slinkend. |
| Ande | n | Emotion or tendency of mind against emnity, rancor, hatred, animus. |
| Anders-meat | n | Dinner (aunders, undern-meal) |
| Andesith | adv | Formerly; (endesith). |
| And-git | n | Apprehension. |
| Ands | adj | Opposed to , hostile. |
| Andseck(h) | n | Denial, abjurgation (O.E. "seac": strife, contention) |
| Andset(e) | n | Enemy, foe. |
| Andset(e) | adj | Hostile, set against, hateful, odious, foeish, enemy-like. |
| Andswere | n | Answer. Also andwurde, andwyrd, answaru. |
| Andward | adj | Present. |
| Andwurde | n | Answer. |
| Ane | n | An older form of 'one.' |
| Anear | vb | To come or be near (to), be near or close. 2. to draw close, approach, |
| Aneath | prp | Beneath. |
| Anele | vb | To anoint religiously. 2. to give the last rites to. 3. |
| Aneled | adj | Having the last rites, anointed or unctoined. |
| Aneler | n | One who aneals, such as priest. |
| Aneling | n | The action of anointing, usu. as a religious rite and specifically the last anointing and extreme unction of the dying. |
| An'end | adv | At last, in the end, in time. 2. to the end, right through, straight on, constantly, continously, consecutively. 3. almost uninterruptedly, most an end. 4. on end, in an upright position. 5. directly ahead. |
| Anent | prp | In line with, side by side, in time or company with, besides. 2. on a level in position, rank or value, equal to, on the par with. 3. in the company of, with, among, beside, by. 4. with (fig.) according to the way or manner of. 5. in front of. 6. before the face of, in the sight of, or presence of. 7. in the mental eyes or sight of, reckoning of, opinion, before facing, against, towards. 8. of position: fronting, opposite over against, close to. 9. of motion: against, towards. 10. towards (expressing the bearing action.) 11. in respect of, regards, regarding, concurring, about, as to (limiting or confining to the benefit of the statement; in this sense strengthened with 'as.') |
| An'erthe | adv | In or into the earth. 2. of position: on or in the earth. |
| Anether | vb | To bring down, reduced, lower, humilate. |
| Anew | adv | To renew. |
| Anewst | adv | Of place: near, hard by. 2. of manner, degree: very new, well-high, closely. |
| Angel | n | Common teutonic; OE 'engle' & Latin : 'angelus.' - messenger. 2. an ministering spirit or divine messenger. 3. one of an order of and spiritual beings superior to man in power and intelligence, who are attendants and messengers of the Deity. 4. one of the fallen spirits, who rebelled against God. 5. a guardian or attendant spirit (lit. & rhetorical.) 6. fig. a person who resembles an angel in attributes or actions. 7. any messenger of God; a prophet or preacher. 8. a pastor or minister of a church; a messenger (poet.) 9. . |
| Angel | phr | "Angel of Death" - the forewarning or heralding of approaching death. |
| Angel | phr | "Angel of Light" - one who is kind, good-natured, cheerful to others. |
| Angel | phr | "A Flying Angel' - a ride given to a youngster seated astride someone's shoulders, holding hands with arms held high at full stretch. |
| Angel | phr | "Be a Fallen Angel' - a previously trusted person who has transgressed. |
| Angel | phr | "Be An Angel" - be helpful. |
| Angel | phr | "Be No Angel" - to have faults and imperfections. |
| Angel | phr | "Like An Angel" - with purity and/or innocence. |
| Angel | phr | "On the Side of the Angels" - in favour or what is correct morally, and righteousness |
| Angel dust | n | A hallucinogenic drug, phencyclidine hydrochoride. |
| Angel-hood | n | A condition of an angel. 2. a brotherhood of angels. |
| Anither | vb | Humiliate, Bring down, reduce, humble, lower. Also anither |
| Anewst | adv | Near, nigh At hand, in the neighourhood |
| Anewstfolk | n | Neighour(s) |
| Ange | n | Anguish, Affliction, pain, strait |
| Anget | vb | To remember, comprehend, catch sense of, understand, recognize, acknowledge, confess. |
| Angetness | n | Understanding, reception, intelligence, acknowledgement. |
| Angild | n | Lawful lower payment in atonement, and as compensation, for injury |
| Angin | n | Beginning. |
| Angit | n | Perception, understanding, intelligence |
| Angit | vb | Remember, comprehend, catch sense of, understand, percieve. 2. recognize, acknowledge, confess. |
| Angle | n | Fishing-hook. |
| Angle | n | A fishing hook. |
| Angle | n | One of the lower german tribes that settle in Britain. |
| Angler | n | One who fishes; a fisherman. 2. fig. one who 'fishes' for information, gossip, and so on. |
| Angle-Saxon | n | (Angul-Saxon)A member of the germanic peoples who settled in England during the early fifth century. 2. a person of English ethnic descent. 3. a light skinned person presumably of British, North European descent. 3. the ancestor language of modern English, also called OE. spoken in Britain from about 450AD to 1150 AD. |
| Angle-Saxon | adj | (Angul-Saxon). Related to the anglo-saxon (angle-saxon) people or language. 2. related to nations which primarily speaks english and influenced by english customs, esp. UK, US, Canada. 3. favourable to a liberal free market economy. |
| Angle-Saxondom | n | (Angul-Saxondom). The Anglo-saxon domain or community. 2. the collective body of Anglo-saxons. 3. the anglo-saxon race viewed as a whole; a rhetorical phrase for Great Britain, the US and Australia. |
| Anglish | n | A register of English that gives preference to words of Germanic origin over words of Latin or Greek origin |
| Anglish | adj | Of or pertaining to the Anglish language register. |
| An'hang | vb | To hang. |
| An'heat | vb | Heat up or inflame |
| An'heave | vb | To lift up, heave up. |
| Anhigh | vb | Make high, exalt, raise, promote. 2. to lift onto the gallows. 3. to raise itself, mount up, increase. |
| An'hungered | adj | Overcome with hunger, hungry. 2. eagerly, desirous, longing. |
| An'hungry | adj | hungry, in a hungry state. |
| Alikened | ppl | Made like.XXXXXXXX |
| Alikeness | n | The quality of being like to. 2. resemblance, similitude, similarity. 3. anything made in the likeness of some object or thing; a likeness, image, spec. an image og god, an idol, afgod.XXXXXXXXX |
| Anigh | adv | Near, near by, close to. |
| A-night | adv | By night, at night. |
| A-nightertimes | adv | At night times. |
| A-night-times | adv | In the night time, by night. |
| Anim | vb | Take, take away |
| An-inne | prp | Within. |
| Ankle | n | Old Norse; Old Enlgish - ancleow. a joint between the foot and the leg. |
| Ankle | vb | To use the ankles to good effect in cycling. to walk. 3. to walk on foot. |
| Ankle-biter | n | Slang for a young child. |
| Ankle bone | n | A bone forming the ankle. |
| Ankled | adj | Furnished with ankles, in combinations as 'fair-ankled.' |
| Anleth | n | Countenance, face, visage. |
| An' mod | adj | An'mood. 2. of a like mind, unanimous |
| Anneal | vb | To set on fire, kindle (lit. & fig.) 2. to subject to the action of fire. 3. to fire, bake, fuse, glaze. 4. to burn in colors upon glass, earthenware, or metal. 5. to enamel by encaustic process. 6. to toughen after exposure to continuous and slowly diminished heat, as glass, steel etc. |
| Annealed | adj | To be subjected to great heat and then cool or cooled slowly. |
| Annealer | n | He who, or that which anneals. |
| Annealing | n | The action or process of annealing. |
| Annes | n | Aninesse. 2. oneness, unity. 2. loneliness, solitude. 3. oneness of kind, sameness. 4. oneness of mind, concord, agreement. |
| Anon | adv | (Into one, inone)- in one course, straight on, even. 2. strictly, straightaway, at once direction. 3. misuse: soon, in a little while. 4. now or here again. 5. presently, presently coming. 6. beg your pardon. |
| Anon | phr | "Anon After" - directly after (also 'after anon.') |
| Anon | phr | "Anon so( as)" - as soon as ever. |
| Anon | phr | "Anon to: even to. |
| Anon | phr | "Ever and Anon" - every now and then. |
| A'north | adv | On the north, northwards. |
| Another | dtm | One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one. 2. similar in likeness or in effect. 3. not the same, different. 4. any or some, any different person. 5. indefinitely, anyone else. |
| Another | phr | "One Another.' - used of a reciprocal relationship among a group of two or more or thing. 2. each other. |
| Another | phr | "One With Another" - all together; taken on a average. |
| Another | phr | "Such Another" - another of the same sort. |
| Anotherness | n | Difference, non-identity. |
| Anotherwhile | adv | At another time. |
| Anred | adj | Having a simple aim or object. 2. constant, steadfast. |
| Anredly | adv | With singleness of heart, steadfastly. |
| Anredelessness | n | State or quality of lacking or without ananimity, unsingled-mindedness. |
| Anredeness | n | Singleness of aim, unaniminity, constantness, staedfastness. |
| An sin(e) | n | Sight, face, aspect. 2. a sight, thing seen. 3. a looking for, longing, desire, want, wont. |
| Anstand | vb | Withstand, resist, withstand. |
| Answer | n | A response or reply. 2. something said or done in relation to a statement or question. 4. a solution to a problem. 5. in law, in response to a complaint, responding to every point raised in the complaint and raising counter points. |
| Answer | vb | To make a response or reply to. 2. to speak in defence against; to reply on defence to. 3. to reply to a call by someone at door or on a phone, or other pieces of equipment. 4. to suit a need or purpose satisfactorily. 5. to be accountable or response - to make amends. 6. to file a legal document in response to a complaint. 7. to correspond to, to be in harmony with, to be in agreement. 8. to be opposite, or to act in opposition. 9. to be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to. 10. to respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute. 11. to be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand. 12.(obs) to render account to or for. 13. (obs) to atone; to be punished for. 14. to be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. |
| Answer | phr | "Answer Back" - reply cheekily. 2. speak or interrupt in a rude manner when being scolded. 3. defend oneself speak up for oneself. |
| Answer | phr | "Answer for Something" - be responsible or blamed for something. 2. speak, or be responsible for, on behalf of another; to guarantee. |
| Answer | phr | "Answer Like a Norman" - that is evasively. |
| Answer | phr | "Answer the Call" - responsible as a matter of conscience, patriotic feeling, religious belief when demanded to. |
| Answer | phr | "Answer the Helm" - to respond to a movement of the helm by changing direction, only possible if the ship has steerageway. |
| Answer | phr | "Answer to" - obey, be controlled by; respond to. 2. repond and probably be punished for. |
| Answer | phr | "Answer to the Name" - to answer or acknowledge when addressed by a name. 2. to have the name of. |
| Answer | phr | "Know All the Answers" - to be well-informed, adept, with a whiff of conceit. |
| Answer | phr | "Not to Take No for an Answer" - emphasize that one wants a positive reply to a request. |
| Answerer | n | One who replies to a charge, argument. 2. one who replies to a question or appeal. 3. one responsible. |
| Answering | n | The act of giving an answer. |
| Answerless | adj | Having or producing no answer. |
| Answerlessly | adv | In a manner of not having or producing an answer. |
| Ant | n | Any of the various insect family 'Formicidae' typically living in large colonies, almost entirely of flightless females. 2.an emmet, emse. 3. a web spider: a software that gathers specific information in an automated and orderly way from the internet. |
| Ant | phr | "White Ant" - surreptitiously seek to destroy a person. |
| Ant-bear | n | The aadvark. |
| Antdom | n | The state or essence of being an ant. 2. anthood. |
| Ant-eater | n | A group of Edentates having long thread-like viscuous tongues, and of various species found in South America and Australia. |
| Anthem | n | From Latin; in OE: a composition, in prose or verse, sung antiphonally. 2. an antiphon. |
| Ant-hill | n | A mound raised over an ant's nest. |
| Ant-hilly | adj | Full or abounding in ant hills. |
| Ant-hood | n | Ant nature; ants collectively. |
| Anvil | n | The block, usually made of iron, on which the smith hammers and shapes his metal. 2. (transfig.) anything like the smith's anvil in shape or use. 3. on of the bones of the ear, the incus. |
| Anvil | vb | To work or fashion on an anvil 2. to work at an anvil. |
| Anvil | phr | "On the Anvil" - be in the state of preparation; the project is at hand. 2. not yet mature; under deliberation, discussion. |
| Anviling | n | Hammering. 2. chiefly fig. hammering, hitting, striking, pestering. |
| Anvil-top | n | A large, dense, anvil-shaped mass of cloud usually formed at the top of a cumulonimbus cloud preceding heavy showers or thunderstorms. |
| Anweald | n | Power, wield, anwald. |
| Any | adv | To even the slightest extent, at all. |
| Any | dtm | At least one; of at least one kind. One at all. 2. no matter what kind. |
| Any | prn | Any; any thing(s) or person(s). |
| Any | phr | "Any and Every" - all different kinds of (things and people) taken together and without discrimination. |
| Any | phr | "Any Day" - at any time; when possible; every time. |
| Any | phr | "Any Day of the Week" - whenever one wantsand without any difficulty. |
| Any | phr | "Any More" - to any further extent, any longer (don't like you anymore). |
| Any | phr | "Any More Than" - with more reason or likelihood than. |
| Any | phr | "Any Old How" - carelessly; untidily; all anyhow. |
| Any | phr | "Any Old Thing" - anything at all. |
| Any | phr | "Any Old Way' - carelessly, casually, cursorily, haphazardly, heedlessly, hit or miss, offhandedly, regardlessly, thoughtlessly, unheedingly, unmindfully, unthinkingly, unwarily. |
| Any | phr | "Any Old Where" - anywhere. |
| Any | phr | "Any Other Business" - the last item on the agenda for a meeting, when any matter not already dealt with may be raised. |
| Any | phr | "Any Time" - any day, etc. |
| Any | phr | "Any Time Now" - soon. |
| Any | phr | "Not Having Any" - unwilling to participate. |
| Any-and-all-bid | n | A takeover bid where the acquirer offers to buy any all shares outstandingly. |
| Anybody | n | Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person. 2. a person of consideration or standing. |
| Anybody | phr | "Anybody's Guess." - uncertain in outcome, cannot be guessed. 2. a mystery, something unpredictable. |
| Anyhow | adv | In any way or manner whatever. |
| Anyhow | cnj | In any case. |
| Any-kind | n | Also : 'any-kyn.' 2. of any kind. 3. any kind of. 4. any kind of manner. |
| Any longer | adv | In a negative or interrogative constructions: free from a given time onwards. 2. anymore. |
| Anymore | adv | To any further extent. |
| Anyone | prn | Anybody. |
| Anything | n | Note: Any thing, written as two words, is now commonly used in contradistinction to any person or anybody. Formerly it was also separated when used in the wider sense. "Necessity drove them to undertake any thing and venture any thing."Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. 2. expressing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like. |
| Anything | adv | In any way, any extent or any degree. |
| Anything | prn | Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught. |
| Anything | phr | "Anything But" - not in the least, not at all or in any respect, far from. 2. to no degree, no, not at all. |
| Anything | phr | "Anything Goes" - there are no rules or restrictions. 2. unlimited unrestricted, without restriction. 3. free, wild, fast and loose; unregulated, no holds barred. 4. promiscuous, debauched. |
| Anything | phr | "Anything Like" - anything like, in any respect; at all; |
| Anything | phr | "Anything Up To" - In a scale of measurement of time, quantity, weight etc) from any (low) point to another (higher point set down) but without trying to be precise but nevertheless finding out the top limit. |
| Anytime | adv | At any time. |
| Anytime | inj | "You're Welcome" - in response to "thank you." |
| Anytown | n | A place name of a non-specific, non-notable town in the USA. |
| Anyway | adv | In any way or manner; anyhow; in any measure. 2. (speech act) used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement. 2. anywise. 3.in any location or any unknown location. |
| Anyway | cnj | In any case |
| Anyways | adv | In anyway. 2. anyway, anyhow, in any case. |
| Anywhat | prn | Any location or unknown location. |
| Anywhen | adv | At any time, at any point in time, ever. |
| Anywhence | adv | Anyhere, from anywhere. |
| Anywhere | adv | To (in the direction of) any location or any unknown location. |
| Anywhere | prn | Any location or unknown location. |
| Anywhere else | adv | In any other place. |
| Anywhereness | n | The state or quality of being anywhere. |
| Anywhither | adv | To or toward any place. 2. in any direction; whereever, whithersoever. |
| Anywise | adv | In any manner. |
| Anywho | adv | Anyhow. |
| Anywise | adv | In any manner, way or case, in any degree. 2. at all, anyhow, anyway. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Ape | n | A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail. 2. any such primate other than a human.3. an uncivilized person. 4. an esp. strong, ugly and pugnacious gangster; a stand-over man, enforcer, or muscle man. |
| Ape | vb | To imitate, esp. stupidly or absurdly. |
| Ape | adj | Foolish, silly, stupid. 2. sl. the best or greatest; the ultimate. |
| Ape | phr | "Go Ape" - to revert to apelike behavior, that is become inordinately excited. 2. be violently emotional. |
| Ape | phr | "Go Ape Over" - to be very enthusiastic about. |
| Ape | phr | "Lead Apes in Hell" - the fancied consequences of dying an old maid. |
| Ape | phr | "Make Anyone His Ape" - to fool or dupe someone. |
| Ape | phr | "Play the Ape" - to imitate (badly) |
| Ape | phr | "Put An Ape in His Hood" - to fool or dupe someone. |
| Aped | ppl | Imitated. |
| Apedom | n | The state or condition of an ape. 2. apes collectively. |
| Ape-headed | adj | Having a head shaped like that of an ape; ape-minded. 2. having little intellectual power. |
| Ape-hood | n | The state or condition of being an ape. |
| Ape-ing | n | Aping: imitation, simulation, mimicry, aping. |
| Ape-ish | adj | Apish: of the nature or appearance of an ape. 2. prone to imitate in a servile manner. 3. brainless, foolish, idiotic. |
| Ape-ishly | adv | Apishly: in an apish manner; in silly or ridiculous imitation. |
| Apekind | n | Apes taken collectively. |
| Ape-leader | n | An old maid's punishment after death for neglecting to increase and multiply, was said to be ' the leading of apes in Hell.' 2. an old maid (slang) |
| Ape-like | adj | In a manner befitting an ape, fantastically foolish, affected, silly. 2. in imitating unreasonably, imitative. |
| Apely | adv | Having an apish manner, mien or bearing. 2. of, relating to, or characteristic of apes. 3. (fig.) - doing things in a crude, uncouth manner. |
| Apeman | n | An early species of man resembling an ape. |
| Ape-minded | adj | Having little intellectual power; having the intelligence of an ape. |
| Apeness | n | The quality or state of being an ape. 2. simian. |
| Aper | n | One who copies or imitates the words and behaviour of another. |
| Ape-ware | n | Imitated, counterfeited or pirated goods and wares. |
| A'plant | vb | To fix, plant in the heart, etc. |
| A'play | vb | In play. |
| Aplight | adv | In truth, truly, certainly, surely. 2. in promise, pledge, in faith, truly, certainty (often an expletive or with assertiveness.) |
| Aplight | vb | In plight or pledge; pledge one's word. |
| Apluck | vb | To pull off, tear off forcibly, pluck. |
| Apluck | adv | In spirit, pluckily, heartily. |
| Apostle | n | Any of the twelve men Jesus sent out to witness and preach his gospel. 2. those who go forth as missionaries to preach the Christian message. 3. a messenger. |
| Apostlehood | n | The office or position of an apostle. |
| Apostleship | n | The office or position of an apostle. |
| Apple | n | As late as the M.E. priod 'apple' was a generic name for all fruit other than 'berris' including nuts. note 'fingeraeppla' - dates; literally finger apple; 'earth-apples' - potato. 2. a common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates. 3. any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as custard apple, thorn apple etc. 4. the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit. 5. a tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree. 6. the wood of the apple tree. 7. in baseball, slang, (obsolete)- the ball in baseball. 8. (informal) when smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth. 9. a street or precinct where entertainment and excitement may be found. 10. any large town or city. |
| Apple | vb | To form or turn into apples. 2. to bear apples. 3. to gather apples. |
| Apple | phr | "An Apple Never Falls Far from the Tree" - a child grows up to be similar to its parents, both in behavior and physical characteristics. |
| Apple | phr | "He is a Rotten Apple" - an isolated dishonest person in an otherwise honest group. |
| Apple | phr | "The Apple of One's Eye" - someone who is specially dear or cherished. 2. an favorite person who is loved best. 3. to be a person of whom another is proud. originally, the expression meant literally the pupil of the eye, hence the idea of dearness to one's well being. |
| Apple | phr | "Swallow the Apple" - to be tense and ineffective. 2. to choke, choke up. |
| Apple | phr | "Upset the Apple-cart" - to engage in conduct disturbing a peaceful state of affairs and therefore cause discomfort. 2. to spoil or ruin someone plans. |
| Apple-blight | adj | A type of aphid harmful to apple trees. |
| Apple-blossom | n | The flower of an apple tree that will eventually become an apple. |
| Apple-canker | n | A disease affecting apples; apple blight. |
| Apple cart | n | A barrow for which apples are sold in the street. |
| Apple-cheeked | adj | Having round, rosy red cheeks. |
| Apple green | n | A bright green color with a light tint of yellow, like that of a green apple. |
| Apple green | adj | Of an apple green colour: bright green with a light yellow tint. |
| Applehood | n | The quality of being an apple. |
| Appleless | adj | Without or not having apples. |
| Apple-mint | n | Either of two aromatic herbs, 'Mentha suavaleons' and 'Mentha villosa' used for flavouring tea and other drinks and foods. |
| Apple of love | n | Pomo d'oro: the tomato. 2. the love apple: 'lycopersicum esculentum.' |
| Apple of the eye | n | The pupil. 2. a symbol of what is most cherished. |
| Apple pear | n | A fruit of a north-east Asian species of a pear with a crisp, juicy texture and apple-like shape. 2. pyrus pyrifolia, the tree that bears the apple-pear. |
| Applerind | n | Appletree bark. |
| Apple-shaped | adj | Having the shape of an apple. |
| Apple-sized | adj | Having the approximate size of an apple. |
| Apple tree | n | Any tree that bears apples, principally 'Malus domestica' - but also certain wild species. |
| Applewife | n | A female seller of apples. |
| Apple-wine | n | Alcoholic drinks made from apples; cider. |
| Applewort | n | Any plant of the sub-order 'Pomaceae' |
| Apple-yard | n | An applegarth. |
| Appley | adj | Resembling apples, apple-like. 2. of or pertaining to apples. |
| Appleyness | n | The state or quality of being an apple. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Aquake | vb | To tremble, quake. |
| Aqueath | vb | Speak out, respond, echo. |
| Aquell | vb | Kill, slay, put an end to, destroy |
| Aquench | vb | To quench, put out (a fire, light, life.) 2. to satisfy. 3. to go out, become extinguished. 4. to put an end to. |
| Aquerne | n | Squirrel, may be related to the oak tree (querco) |
| Aquetch | vb | To move quickly, shake, vibrate |
| Aquick | vb | Revive, vivify, resurrect, give life to. 2. to quicken, excite, come to life again. |
| Aquiver | adv | In a quiver, trembling. |
| Old English | sp | English. |
| Ar | pfx | Reduced in OE: to 'a' |
| Arace | vb | Pull up, snatch, tear up, uproot |
| Archangel | n | 'Arch' translated into OE by 'high' 2. an angel of the highest rank. |
| Archbishop | n | The chief bishop. 2. the highest dignitary in an episcopal church, superintending the bishops of his province. |
| Archbishop | vb | To act as an archbishop. 2. to make or create an archbishop. |
| Archbishopric | n | The see, jurisdiction, rank or office of archbishop. |
| Archdeacon | n | The chief deacon. |
| Archfoe | n | The great or arch enemy, the Devil, Satan. |
| Are | n | Honor, reverence. 2. clemency, grace. |
| Are | vb | To show grace or clemency. 2. to respect, spare. |
| Are | vb | Present plural indicative of be, from Old English earun (Mercian), aron (Northumbrian). Also from Old Norse cognates. In 17c., began to replace be, ben as first person plural present indicative in standard English. The only non-dialectal survival of be in this sense is the powers that be. But in southwest England, we be (in Devonshire us be) remains non-standard idiom as a contradictory positive ("You people aren't speaking correct English." "Oh, yes we be!"). (Online Etymology Dictionary) |
| Are | phr | "Are We Downhearted? - No!" - a dated catchphrase from WW2 concerning the refusal to allow oneself be depressed by the dire situation. |
| Are | phr | "Are You Deaf" - a rhetorical question asked to confront a non-deaf person who has been rudely neglecting to hear something. |
| Are | phr | "Are Your Ears Burning" - said of somebody who is not present but is the topic of conversation |
| Areach | vb | To reach, (get at) with a weapon0 2. fig. to obtain. 3. to hand, deliver. 4. to reach, extend. |
| Aread | n | (Arede, areed) - counsel, advice. |
| Areadily | adv | Readily, easily, suitably. |
| Areadiness | n | Readiness, preparedness. |
| Aready | adj | Ready, prepared, in readiness |
| Aready | vb | to make ready. |
| Arear | vb | To raise, erect, build, rear up (an edifice.) 2. to set up, establish (an institution) 3. to lift up, to raise (in local position). 4. to raise (an animal) on ts hind legs. 5. fig. in various senses: to raise in rank, honourable position or estimation, etc.; to exalt, raise a shout. 6. to startle or flush an animal from its lair. 7. to rouse into activity,arouse, excite, stir up. 8. to raise (a person) agaist it. 9. a raise levy (troops. 10. to rise up, get up. 11. to arise, happen, occur. 12. to raise up as a horse. does. |
| Arearer | n | One who rears, lifts up or elevates. |
| Areche | vb | To explain, expand, declare in the open. 2. utter, speak. |
| Arede | vb | Determine by counsel, decree. 2. declare by supernatural counsel, divine augur, soothsay, vaticanize, prophesy. 3. in a general sense; utter, declare, make known, tell, ajudge, decide, interpret, counsel |
| Aredde | vb | Set free, liberate, rid of, deliver |
| Arepe | vb | To take hold of, seize |
| Arese | vb | To shake violently |
| Arethede | n | People of former times, of the erewhile, of antiquity,The Eretheod, The Erethede |
| Areward | adv | Formerly, before, ereward |
| Arfname | n | Inheritor, heir |
| Argh | n | Wretch, betrayer, enemy. |
| Argh | adj | Cowardly, pusillaminous, timid, fearful. 2. inert, sluggish, slow, lazy, loath, reluctant. 3. vile, base, good-for-nothing. |
| Argh(e) | vb | To make disheartened, timid, fearful, hestitant because of fear. |
| Argh-hood | n | Cowardice, timidness. |
| Arghly | adv | Cowardly, timidly, basely (in OE.) |
| Arghness | n | The state or quality of being cowardly or timid; cowardice, pusillanimous. |
| Arghship | n | Arghness |
| Aridge | adv | In a ridge, in a ridge-like position |
| Aright | vb | Make right, to put right, to arrange or treat properly. |
| Aright | adv | In a right way or manner; rightly, properly, correctly. 2. straight, straight ahead, in a straight-line, straight- awayly. 3. on the right hand or side. |
| Aright | adj | Straight, direct, right. |
| Aright-half | n | On the right side, rightly. |
| Arightly | adv | Aright, arightly. |
| Arime | vb. | Count, enumerate, reckon, tell. |
| Arine | vb | Touch |
| A'ring | adv | In a circumference |
| Arise | vb | To come up from a lower to a higher position. 2. to arise from a kneeling posture. 3. to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up. 4. to spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself. |
| Arise | phr | "Arise From" - have its origins in; be due to; be caused by. |
| Ariseness | n | A rising; resurrection. |
| Arising | adj | Coming above the horizon (of the sun). 2. coming back from the dead; resurrecting. 3. getting up from a chair, seat etc. 4. getting up from sleep or rest. 5. getting up from inaction. 6. arising in agitation, rebellion, insurrection. 7. springing up, ascending, 8. originating, being born, coming into existence. |
| Arisings | n | Waste products or by-products of an industrial process. |
| Arist | n | Sunrise. 2. the act of arising, from a seat, bed, a chair. 3. resurrection -rise from the dead. |
| Ark | n | A chest, coffer; floating vessel built by Noah. 2. a large box with a flat lid. 3. the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge. 4. something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge. 5. a spacious type of boat with a flat bottom. 6. in Judaism, a consecrated container. |
| Ark | vb | To shut up in an ark. |
| Ark | phr | "Out of the Ark"- very old; very old-fashioned. |
| Ark | phr | "To Lay Hands on the Ark" - to treat irreverently what is sacred. |
| Ark-floater | n | An aged actor, (a term somewhat dated) |
| Arkful(l) | adj | An assemblage as numerous and diverse as that which Noah's Ark could hold or contain. 2. an enough to fill an ark; a very large number. |
| Arkwright | n | A cabinet or chest maker. |
| Arling | n | A bird, the wheatear, |
| Arm | n | The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand. 2. in anatomy, - the extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow. 3. limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal, as the arms of an octopus. 4. A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of a crane. 5. a bay or inlet off a main body of water. 6. branch of an organization. 7. (fig.) power; might; strength; support, as the arm of the law |
| Arm | vb | OE: to furnish or supply with arms, bracts or branches, etc. 2. to take by the arm. 2. to take in one's arms. |
| Arm | vb | To be pitied, pitiful, wretched; armthe. |
| Arm | adj | Poor, needy, indigent. |
| Arm | n | Arm of the Sea. - a narrow inlet. |
| Arm | phr | "Arm in Arm" - said of two persons when one interlinks his arm with that of another; hence fig. in close communion. |
| Arm | phr | "A Shot in the Arm" - something to revive a person's enthusiasm. |
| Arm | phr | "As Long As One's Arm(s)" - very long. |
| Arm | phr | "At Arms (End) Length" - as far away from one as the arms can reach. |
| Arm | phr | "Give One's Right Arm"- pay any price, make a sacrifice for. |
| Arm | phr | "Have a Long Arm" - to have far-reaching power. |
| Arm | phr | "In Arms" - of a bay: too young to walk. |
| Arm | phr | "Keep at Arm's Length" - keep remotely formal, distant. |
| Arm | phr | "Lose One's Right Arm" - lose some highly valued assistance. |
| Arm | phr | "My Right Arm" - good friend, mainstay and supporter. |
| Arm | phr | "On One's Arm" - supported by one arm. |
| Arm | phr | "The Long Arm of the Law" - inescapable police detention or justice. |
| Arm | phr | "Under the Arm" - inferior (slang). |
| Arm | phr | "With One Arm Tied behind One's Back" do something very easily. |
| Arm | phr | "Within an Arm's Length/Reach" - to be reached at arm's length. |
| Arm | phr | "With Open Arms" - enthusiastically and without hesitation. |
| Arm | phr | "Work at Arm's Length" - awkwardly or disadvantageous. |
| Arm-bone | n | The humerus: the bone of the upper arm, extending from the shoulder joint to the elbow joint; the homogenetic bone in other vertebrates. |
| Armedness | n | The state or quality of having a particular type of, or number of arms. |
| Armful | adj | As much as both arms, or one arm, can hold. |
| Arm-great | adj | As large round as an arm. |
| Arm-hole | n | An armpit. 2. hole in a garment through which an arm is put. |
| Arming | n | A poor and miserable creature. |
| Armless | adj | Without arms or branches. |
| Armlessly | adv | In an armless way. |
| Armlessness | n | The state or condition of being without arms; lacking arms. |
| Armlike | adj | Miserable, pitiable. |
| Armlike | adv | Armlich, poorly, miserably, wretchedly |
| Armlock | n | Any of several moves against opponents in wrestling and martial arts. |
| Arm-long | adj | As long as a person's arms. |
| Arm-pit | n | The hollow under the arm where it is joined to the trunk; the armhole. 2. the analogous cavity of other animals |
| Arm-pit | n | "Up to One Armpits" - to be very deeply involved in something. |
| Arm-strong | adj | Strong of arm. |
| Armthe | n | Misery pity, wretchedness.????? |
| Armth | n | Poverty, want, wretchedness, misery, calamity. |
| Arm twisting | n | Pressuring by persuasion or threat. 2. the use of personal pressure to persuade. 3. use of political pressure to gain support. |
| Arn | n | The alder tree. |
| A'rood | adv | On a cross, as in crucifixation. |
| A'room | vb | To extend, prolong. |
| A'root | adv | On roots, rooted firmly. |
| Arow | adv | In a row, rank or line. 2. in succession. |
| Arrow | n | A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point, and a tail with stabilizing fins thaat is shot from a bow. 2. a sign or symbol used to show a direction (e.g. ->) 3. a directed edge. 4.a dart. 5. a streal. |
| Arrow | vb | To shoot an arrow. 2. to send forth like an arrow (speedily). 3. to move swiftly and directly. 4. to let fly swiftly and directly. |
| Arrow | phr | "Arrow of Time" - (Time's Arrow) - a term to distinguish a direction of time in a four-dimensional realistic view of the world. 2. the subjective feeling from past to the future. 3. entropy. |
| Arrow | phr | "Another Arrow in One's Quiver" ??????? |
| Arrowed | adj | Having or fitted wth arms. |
| Arrow-finger | n | The forefinger; the index finger, demonstrator. |
| Arrow-grass | n | Name of the endogenous 'Triglochin,' referring to the 3-barbed appearance of the burst capsule. |
| Arrow-head | n | The point of an arrow. 2. any plant of the genus 'sagitteria' |
| Arrow-headed | adj | Shaped like the head of an arrow. 2. cuneform, cuneatic. |
| Arrow-key | n | Computer key marked with an arrow and used to move the cursor. |
| Arrow-leaf | n | In plant names: having arrow-like leaves, such as arrow-leaf groundsel, arrow-leaf tear-thumbs. |
| Arrow-less | adj | Without or not having an arrow; lacking arrows. |
| Arrow-like | adj | Resembling or shaped like an arrow. |
| Arrow-maker | n | A maker of arrows. |
| Arrow-root | n | So named because used to absorb poison from wounds made by poisoned arrow. 2. a plant; orig. 'Maranta arundinacea,' a herb with fleshly tuberous rhizomes, found in the Caribbean; also other species of maranta. 2. a pure nutritious starch prepared from the tubers of Maranta (and from other plants). 3. food prepared from the starch of this plant. |
| Arrow-shot | n | The average distance an arrow stays in flight. |
| Arrowsmith | n | A maker of iron arrowhead. |
| Arrowstone | n | Belemnite. |
| Arrowy | adj | Consisting of arrows. 2. formed or moving like, or in every respect, resembling an arrow. 3. swift, darty, piercing. |
| Arse | n | The fundament, buttocks or rump of animal. 2. transfig. the bottom, tail end, fag. |
| Arse | phr | "Arse End of No Where" - a very remote, often unplesant, place. |
| Arse | phr | "Arse upwards" - in good luck. |
| Arse-foot | n | The dabchick or penguin. |
| Arse-gut | n | The rectum. |
| Arsehead | n | An idiotic or undesirable person. |
| Arsehole | n | The anus (vulgar). 2. an inconsiderate, mean-spirited person. |
| Arseholedom | n | A very undesirable town, city, country etc. |
| Arseload | n | A very large amount (vulgar.) |
| Arseward | adj | Backward, contrary, perverse. |
| Arseward | adv | Backwards, in a contrary direction. 2. fig. contrariwise. perversely |
| Arsewardly | adv | Perversely, contrawisely, |
| Arsewards | adv | In a backward direction,. 2. perversely |
| Arsey | adj | Arsy, unpleasant, esp. in a sarcastic, grumpy, haughty manner. |
| Arval | n | A funeral feast; wake.????? |
| Arveth | n | Difficulty, trouble, hardship. |
| Arvethlike | adj | Arvethlich, with difficulty, trouble, hardship. |
| Arvethness | n | State of difficulty, trouble, or perplexity. |
| Arworthly | adj | Honourably, reverently |
| Old English | sp | English |
| As | adv | To such an extent or degree. |
| As | conj | In the same way that; according to what. 2. at the same instant that; when. 3. at the same time that; while. 3. varying through time in the same proportion that. 4. considering that, because, since. 5. introducing a basis of comparison, after as, so, or a comparison of equality. 6. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive); ‘as though’, ‘as if’. 7. introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state with the verb elided; as if, as though. 8. (dialectal)functioning as a relative conjunction; that. 9. expressing concession; though. 10. (obsolete, rare) than. |
| As | phr | "As and When" - used to indicate both the manner and time of doing something ( |
| As | phr | "As a Whole" - considered as a reference to all its parts; at large. |
| As | phr | "As Best One Can" - not perfectly but as well as possible in the circumstances |
| As | phr | "As Black as Coal" - very black, black or dirty. |
| As | phr | "As Broad as Long" - having a length equal to the breadth; hence, the same one way as the other. 2. coming to the same result by different ways or procedure. |
| As | phr | "As Far As" - in respect to, in the score of,as relates. 2. to the best of one's knowledge. 3. |
| As | phr | "As Far As One Can See" - in one's judgement; to the extent one can judge. |
| As | phr | "As Far Forth As" - to the greatest extent and distance away from |
| As | adv | "As Follows" - what is listed as next. |
| As | phr | "As For" - with regard to |
| As | phr | "As For One" - as far as one is concerned. |
| As | phr | "As For Something" - with reference to somebody, something. 2. on the subject of. |
| As | phr | 'As From" - on and after a specified date. |
| As | phr | "As God is my Witness" - I swear, I vow solemnly; truthfully, honestly; before God. |
| As | phr | "As Good As One's Word" - true to avow or promise. 2. completely reliable, trustworthy. |
| As | phr | "As Good as the Next One" - just as good as another thing of the same kind. |
| As | phr | "As Good as the Next Man" - equally as good, virtuous, able to do something, as most people are (often with the implication that one is just that bit better than most). |
| As | phr | "As If" - of the same kind. 2. in the same way or manner. 3. what it would be if. |
| As | phr | "As If This is Not Enough" - in addition to something, or doing something, which in itself would appear to be sufficient in the circumstances. |
| As | phr | "As If Do Something" - in way that indicates an intention to do something, esp when the action mentioned is just not carried out. |
| As | phr | "As Is - actual, as thing are. 2. that be, that is, as though. 4 fresh, new. |
| As | phr | "As It Is" - in the actual and often different to expectation and/or hope. 2. in the present or existing circumstances. |
| As | phr | "As It Were" - in a way; to a certain extent. |
| As | phr | "As Long As" - during the whole time that. 2. provide that; only if. |
| As | phr | "As Long As One's Arm" - very long. |
| As | phr | "As Mad as a Hatter" - abnormal in behavior - from eccentricity to madness. |
| As | phr | "As Much" - the extent or quantity just specified. |
| As | phr | "As Needed" - according to need. 2. as required or done. |
| As | phr | "As of Now" - starting now (from this moment) and from now on. |
| As | phr | "As of Old" - in the old familiar way, and used to be, still is the case. |
| As | phr | "As of Right" - by legal entitlement. |
| As | phr | "As Often as Not" - about as many times as not. |
| As | phr | "As One Makes One Bed, One Must Lie On It' - one must suffer the consequences of one's actions or choices. |
| As | phr | "As One Man" - acting unanimously; in unison, precisely alike. |
| As | phr | "As One Man to Another" - in a way that acknowledges or assumes quality with; similarity between, oneself and another. |
| As | phr | "As One Might Say" - a comment attached, often somewhat apologetically, to a statement to conceal one identity. |
| As | phr | "As Soon As" - immediately at or after an other event. |
| As | phr | "As Soon as Look at" - very readily |
| As | phr | "As Such" - considered alone; not including anything. 2. in that particular manner, form or function. |
| As | phr | "As the Crow Flies" - by the shortest and most direct way. |
| As | phr | "As Things Run" - according to the usual order, condition, quality. |
| As | phr | "As Things Stand" - in view of, or taking into consideration, a certain set of circumstances, or some particular situation. |
| As | phr | "As Though" - as if. 2. in the same way or manner. |
| As | phr | "As We Have Seen" - as has already been shown, demonstrated or proved. |
| As | phr | "As Well" - in addition; to an equal extent. |
| As | phr | "As Well As" - also, too, beside; in conjunction with somebody/something specified. |
| As | phr | "As Well as the Next Man" - in a way that is equally as good as the way other people do it (implying that it may even be better). |
| As | phr | "As Well as Somebody Might" - as may, or might, be expected of somebody in the circumstances. |
| As | phr | "As Yet" - until now. 2. up to the present. 3. still now. |
| As | phr | "As You Were" - (usually after the cancelling/rescinding of a command/instruction): return to your positions. |
| Asad | adj | Sated, weary, hence tired |
| Asake | vb | Deny, refuse, renounce, forsake |
| A'sea | adv | To or towards the sea; at sea. |
| Asear | vb | Dry up, wither |
| Aseek | vb | To search after, seek. |
| Aseethe | adv | Seething. |
| Asench | vb | To cause to sink, submerge, cease |
| Asend | vb | To send forth. |
| Aset | vb | To set up, to set out, place, to array, to appoint. |
| Ash | n | Powdery residue of combustion; the solid remains of a fire. 2. (chemistry) The remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process. 3. fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash. 4. human (or animal) remains after cremation (ashes.) 5. 9figuratively) what remains after a catastrophe. |
| Ash | vb | Chemistry, to reduce to a residue of ash; ashing. 2. to hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette. 2. (obsolete,) to cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes. |
| Ash | phr | "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust" - a phrase used at an English burial to denote finality of one's mortal existence. |
| Ash | phr | "Dust and Ashes" - in the Old Testament times, a person sprinkled earth,dust and ashes over their head as a sign of mourning. Dust and ashes were expressive of one's deep humiliation, insignificance and worthlessness. |
| Ash | phr | "Lay In Ashes" - to be devastate or destroyed by fire. |
| A'shake | vb | To sake off, dispel, to be gone, depart. |
| Ashame | vb | To feel ashamed, shame. 2. to put to shame, to make ashamed. |
| Ashamed | adj | Feeling shame or guilt. |
| Ashamedly | adv | With shame. 2. bashfully. |
| Ashamedness | n | State of being ashamed. |
| Ashaming | ppl | Putting to shame, making ashamed. |
| Ash-bin | n | A bucket for ash and rubbish; a ashcan. |
| Ash-brown | adj | Of brown or brownish ash in colour. |
| Ashcan | n | A bucket for ash and rubbish; ashcan. |
| Ashen | adj | Of, like or resembling ashes. 2. made of ash wood. 3. pertaining to ashes. 4. pale in color, grey. |
| Ashend | vb | Confound, disagree, curse, reproach |
| Ash-fire | n | A low fire of ash and cinders used in chemical operations. |
| Ash-grey | n | Ash grey in colour. |
| A'shine | adj | Shining. |
| A'shine | adv | Luminously. |
| Ash-like | adj | Like or resembling ash in appearance or colour |
| Ash-looking | adj | Resembling or looking like ash. |
| Ashore | adv | Towards or on the shore or land. |
| Ash-pit | n | A pit for ashes. |
| Ash tree | n | Any of the widely distributed genus (Fraxinus) of trees of the olive family, as the American white ash amd the European ash. |
| A'shun | vb | To shun, avoid, escape. |
| Ashunch | vb | Terrify, frighten |
| Ash-Wednesday | n | The Christian day of penitence, which takes place forty days before Easter. |
| Ashweed | n | Goutweed, Aegopodium podagraria. |
| Ash-white | adj | Of a whitish-grey colour. |
| Ashy | adj | Consisting of ashes. 2. covered or sprinkling of ashes. 3. ash-coloured, deadly pale. |
| Aside | n | A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage. 2. a message that departs from the main subject; digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis. |
| Aside | adv | Aside or to one side. 2. out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts.) 3. not taken into account or excluded from consideration. 4. in a different direction. 5. placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose. 6. in reserve; not for immediate use. |
| Aside | phr | "Aside From" - apart from. |
| Aside | phr | "At the Side Of" - besides, (fig): standing staunch with your fellows. |
| Aside | phr | "Set Aside" - put to one side. 2. keep for special purpose or future use. |
| Aside | phr | "Take Aside" - engage a person in private conversation. |
| Aside-half | adv | Aside-hand, on or toone side. |
| Aside-hand | adv | On the side. |
| Asidely | adv | Indirectly. |
| Asiden | adv | Sidewise, obliquely, aslant, sidewards. |
| Asideness | n | State of being aside, apartness, isolation |
| A'sink | vb | To sink down, become submerged. |
| A'sit | vb | To sit, settle, remain sitting. |
| Ask | n | A newt, eft, or an asker. |
| Ask | vb | To request (information, or an answer to a question). 2. to interrogate or inquire of (a person). 3. to request or petition; usually with for. 4. to require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity. 5. to invite. 6. to publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons. 7. to take (a person's situation) as an example. |
| Ask(s) | n | An act or instance of asking. 2. something asked or asked for; an asking; the thing asked, inquiry, a request. |
| Ask | phr | "Above Asking" - too proud to ask. |
| Ask | phr | "Ask After" - seek news of one health; inquire after one's happiness. |
| Ask | phr | "Ask for Somebody' - enquiure about somebody's health, happiness |
| Ask | phr | "Ask For" - to request. |
| Ask | phr | "Ask For It" - to deserve one's fate, invite unpleasantness or misfortune |
| Ask | phr | "Ask Me Another" - used in a quiz, contest etc the contestants has answered all the questions correctly and is asking for one, or a series of harder questions. |
| Ask | phr | 'Ask Of" - request somebody to behave, hope he/she will behave in a certain way; expect of. |
| Ask | phr | "Ask Out" - invite somebody to go out with you. |
| Ask | phr | "Ask Over" - to invite to one's house. |
| Ask | phr | "For the Asking" - freely available. |
| Ask | phr | "If You Ask Me" - in my view or opinion. |
| Ask | phr | "I Ask You" - an exclamation of disgust, surprize, etc. |
| Asked | ppl | Mentioned as a request |
| Asker | n | A questioner, inquisitor. 2. one who asks favors gifts, supplicants, asker for alms, a professional beggar. 3. a prosecutor, plaintiff. 4. exactor, oppressor. |
| Asker | n | A lizard, newt, ask. |
| Asking | n | The action of asking. 2. interrogation, inquiry. 3. the action of requesting a favour, a gift, begging. 4. a petition, prayer, supplication. 5. a price asked, a demand. 6. an appeal, a calling for justice or to the law. 7. oppression, exaction. 8. the publication of the banns of marriage. |
| Asking | adj | That asks, inquiring, begging, supplicant. |
| Asking | phr | "For the Asking" - freely available. |
| Askingly | adv | In a asking manner; inquiringly, with entreaty. |
| Aslake | vb. | To become slack, slacken, feeble, dimming, growing less, abating. 2. to become less hot, to grow cool. 3. to mitigate, alleviate, assuage, to lessen, abate, diminish. 4. to appease a person. |
| A'slay | vb | To strike, to strike off. 2. to slay, kill. |
| Asleep | adj | In a state of sleep. 2. lacking sensation. 3. dormant. 4. dead. 5. of the body's extremities: benumbed and usually tingling. |
| Asleep | adv | In a sleepy state. 2. in the sleep of death, dead. |
| Aslide | vb | To slide, slip away. |
| Aslope | adj | Sloping, tilted, oblique. |
| Aslope | adv | With a slope or descent; in a sloping position. |
| A'smear | adv | Smeared. |
| Asnese | vb | To impale, gore, stab |
| A-soak | adv | Soaking. |
| A-soft | vb | To make soft, to soften, mitigate. |
| Asp | n | A water snake. 2. a venomous viper native to South-west Europe. 2. the Eygptian cobra. 3. a type of European fish. |
| A'spare | vb | To spare, to afford. |
| A'spare | adv | Sparingly; at liberty. |
| Aspen | n | Belonging to the asp tree. 2. fig. tremulous, quavering, quaking, timidity (in reference to a woman's tongue). |
| A'spend | vb | To spend, expend. |
| Aspen-like | adj | Weak, timorous, feeble. |
| A'spill | vb | To spill, waste, render useless. 2. to destroy, slay, kill. |
| A'spread | vb | To spread out, spread abroad. |
| A'spring | vb | To spring up, leap, spring forth, spread abroad. 2. to spring into existence, originate, arise. |
| Ass | n | Any of the several horse-like aniamls, esp Equus Africanus often domesticated and used as a beast of burden. 2. stupid person, fool, idiot. |
| Ass | phr | "Make an Ass of Oneself" - to make oneself look foolish. |
| Ass | phr | "Well, Well! Honey is not for the Ass's Mouth" - persuasion will not persuade fools. |
| Ass-headiness | n | Stupidity, asinine behavior, foolishness.. |
| Assish | adj | Asinine, stupid. |
| Assishly | adv | In an asinine or stupid manner. |
| Assishness | n | Asininity, stupidity, foolishness, stultiness. |
| Ass-like | adj | Asinine; ass-headish, stupid. |
| Asself | vb | To take to oneself; to appropriate. |
| Assy | adj | Asinine, stupid, stulted. |
| A'stand | vb | To stand up. 2. to come to a stand, stop, arrive. 3. to remain standing, to continue, abide, resist. 4. to withstand. |
| A-stare | adv | Staring. 2. prominent. |
| A'start | vb | To start up, to start off. 2. to start into existence, happen, befall, fall out. 3. get way, avoid, shun, escape. 4. remove, withdraw, desist. |
| A'start | adv | With a start, suddenly. |
| A'steal | vb | To steal or slip away. |
| A-steep | adv | Steeping or soaking way. |
| Asteer | adv | Earlier form of stir. 2. in stirring up, moving about, in motion; stirring out of bed. 3. in excitement. |
| A'stell | vb | To set up, set afoot, establish. |
| Asterve | vb | To die, esp. of hunger. 2. to starve out, destroy, kill. |
| Astint | vb | To bring to a standstill. |
| Astir | vb | To stir up, move, disturb. 2. to excite physically and emotionally |
| Astir | adv | Stirring up, esp. out of bed and moving about in motion; fig. in excitement. see "a'steer.' |
| Astirbroad | adv | Stirring abroad, moving from place to place. |
| As-told-to | adj | Usually in reference to a book or some written article: of a biographical account, etc. written by a professional author using material gathered from personal conversation with the subject. |
| A-straddle | adv | In a straddling position with legs stretch out widely across something or someone. |
| A-straddle | phr | "A-straddling Of" - a bestriding manner. |
| A-strand | adv | On or along the strand or shore. |
| A'stream | adv | In a stream; that streams, streaming, flowing. |
| A'strength | vb | To strengthen, establish, confirm. |
| A'stride | adv | With one leg on each side, as a person on a horse. 2. with the legs stretched far apart. |
| A'sty | vb | To go up, ascend. 2. to rise with its summit. 3. to go or come down, descend. 4. to rise in arms. nb:stygend, |
| A'stying | n | Ascension. |
| Asunder | adv | To break into separate pieces or parts. |
| Asunder | vb | To split in parts. |
| Asundering | n | The act of putting asunder. 2. separation. |
| Asunderness | n | The state of being asunder. 2. separation, separateness. |
| A'swarm | adv | Swarmingly, in a thronging, crowdedly. |
| A'sweat | adv | Sweating, moist. |
| A'sweeten | vb | To make sweet or sweeter, dulcify. 2. to make less bitter. |
| Aswelt | vb | To perish, die, become extinct. |
| Asweve | vb | Put to sleep, put to death, kill, execute. 2. to stun. |
| A'sweven | n | Sleep. 2. a dream, a vision seen in sleep. |
| A'sweye | vb | To betray, desert. abandon. 2. to desist, cease, stop. |
| Aswike | vb | To cease, desist, fail, give up |
| A'swind | vb | To languish away, vanish, perish. |
| A'swind | adj | Languishing, worn out, enervated. |
| A'swing | adv | Swinging, swaying. |
| A'swink | vb | Labour or toil for |
| A'swithe | vb | To do as quickly as possible |
| A'swithe | adv | As quickly as possible. |
| A'swolkeness | n. | Sloth, laziness. |
| A'swoon | adv | In a swoon or faint. |
| A'swoon | phr | "To Fall Aswoon." - to faint away. |
| A'swough | vb | To overgrow, choke. |
| A'swough | adv | Falling in a faint or swoon. |
| A'sye | vb. | Sink down, set |
| Old English | sp | English |
| At | prp | In or very near a particular place. 2. at that precise position; 'at Jack’s house.' 3. (indicating time) simultaneous, during, as at six o’clock; 'at closing time; at night. 4. in the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner), as 'he shouted at her.' 5. occupied in (activity), as in 'men at work.' 6. indicates a position on a scale or in a series, as in 'Elroy finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders.' 7. because of, as 'to laugh at a joke.' 8. holding a given speed or rate, as 'it is growing at the rate of 3% a year.' or 'at 50 kpm' 9. In a state of as, 'she is at sixes and sevens with him, they are at loggerheads.' |
| At | n | The @ symbol. |
| At | phr | "At All" - in the slightest degree or to any extent, at least bit. 3. in the least. 3. in any way. |
| At | phr | "At all Times" - always; on all occasions. |
| At | phr | "At a Run" - moving at the speed of running, etc. 2. fast, brisk, slow, gentle. |
| At | phr | "At a Time" - in sequence, separately. |
| At | phr | "At a Time Like this" - at such a time, esp. an important time, or a time unsuitable for something to take place or be done. |
| At | phr | "At Best" - taking the most favorable view. 2. choosing the most hopeful possibility. |
| At | phr | "At Bottom" - fundamentally, essentially, whether this is apparent or not; at heart. |
| At | phr | "At First" - at, or in, the beginning with; at the time of something starting, or starting something. |
| At | phr | "At First Light" - at dawn. |
| At | phr | "At First Sight" - when first seen; when first considered; at first blush. |
| At | phr | "At Full Speed" - at the maximum rate of movement, or progress, appropriate to somebody, something. |
| At | phr | "At Hand" - close by. 2. about to hand. |
| At | phr | "At Heart" - in one's real nature. |
| At | phr | "At Heel" - following close behind. |
| At | phr | "At Home"- At the home teams field or ground. 2. at, to or towards the place you live. 3. a reception held in your own home. |
| At | phr | "At It" - engaged in an activity; doing something; working hard. |
| At | phr | "At Large" - (adv phr) in a general fashion, in a broad way. 2. (adj phr)- having escape or avoid incarceration. |
| At | phr | "At Last" - in the end result of a succession or process. 2. finally, ultimately, in the end, at long last. 3. at the end of a period of time; after a long time of waiting, wishing or striving for somebody, something. 4. at the last or during the final period. 5. at long last. |
| At | phr | "At Least" - at the least estimate, consideration, chance, etc. 3. having no less than; hence at any rate. 3. at all events, even. |
| At | phr | "At Length" - (adv phr)- in a verbose, lengthy or prolix manner. 2. lengthily. |
| At | phr | "At Long Last" - after a particularly long time of waiting, wishing or striving for somebody, something. 2. at last. |
| At | phr | "At Once" - (adv phr) - without delay or hesitation. 2. with no time intervening, now, right away. at a shot, immediately. |
| At | phr | "At One" - (adv phr) - after one fashion, alike. 2. in agreement, or concord. |
| At | phr | "At One and the Same Time" - simultaneously, at the same time. |
| At | phr | "At One Blow" - by means of one action or effort. 2. at one fell swoop. |
| At | phr | "At One's Behest" - in obedience to somebody's command, or in compliance to somebody's request (often with the implication of unwillingness) |
| At | phr | "At One's Bidding" - in obedience to somebody's command, or in compliance (often unwillingly) with somebody's request. |
| At | phr | "At One's Elbow" - very near one; with arm's reach. |
| At | phr | "At One Sitting" - during the course of one meeting. 2. in one period of activity. |
| At | phr | 'At One Time or Another" - on an occasion or on different occasions in the past. 2. the precise time of date of which is not recalled, not given or not known. |
| At | phr | "At Sight" - as soon as something/somebody is seen; on sight. 2. at the sight of. |
| At | phr | "At Somebody's Hands" - through the action or agency of(usually with unjust or cruel implication). |
| At | phr | "At That" - moreover, too; also a surprising, noteworthy addition. 2. whereupon, immediately; subsequent to that. 3. thus far and no further, or as well. 4. possibly, now one comes to think about that. 5. according to that; in that way of thinking, reckoning, behaving ; in that case etc. |
| At | phr | "At the Best of Times" - even when conditions are most favorable. 2. at any time and especially now. |
| At | phr | "At the Foot of One's Bed" - in or near the bed at the end farthest away from the occupant's head. |
| At | phr | "At the Most" - in an amount not greater than. 2. to a degree or extent not more than, something specified, but likely to being less than. |
| At | phr | "At the Outside" - at the highest estimate, or reckoning, of a possible number ofr amount of time, money, material; at the most. |
| At | phr | "At the Same Time" - in spite of something already known, mentioned; nevertheless. 2. however, all or just the same. 2. not at a different time; simultaneously; at once. |
| At | phr | "At the Sight of" - when, or because, somebody/something is seen. 2. at sight. |
| At | phr | "At the Time" - then; when something specified was, will be happening. |
| At | phr | "At the Time of Speaking" - now; then. |
| At | phr | "At Top Speed" - very fast; as fast as possible. |
| At | phr | "At Will" - as one wishes; by willing something. 2.by exercising the power of mind over matter. |
| At | phr | "At Worst" - taking the least favorable view. 2. choosing the least hopeful possibility. |
| At | phr | "Where It's At" - (slang) the fashionable scene or activity. |
| A'tame | vb | To tame, subdue |
| At'bear | vb | To hear to, to bring. |
| At'blench | vb | To deceive. 2. to escape. |
| At'blow | vb | To blow at. |
| At'braid | vb | Snatch or draw away |
| At'break | vb | To break away; escape from. |
| At'burst | vb | To burst away, escape. |
| At'come | vb | To come away; escape. |
| At'creep | vb | To creep away. |
| At'dare | vb | To escape from hiding. |
| A'tee | vb | Drag or draw away |
| Atel | adj | Terrible, hideous, foul. |
| Atelich | adj | Atel-like, frightful, horrible, terrible, hideous, horrible, ugly. |
| A'tell | vb | To count, reckon, enumerate |
| Atend | vb | Set fire to, set on fire, kindle. 2. take fire. |
| A'tene | vb | Vex, irritate, annoy. |
| At erst | adv | At first, at the beginning. |
| A'tew | vb | To show, to show oneself, appear. |
| At'fall | vb | To fall away, to fall down, drop. |
| At'fang | vb | To sieze upon, at'fong. |
| Atfare | vb | Go away, set forth, escape, flee, atflee. |
| At'flee | vb | To flee. |
| At'fong | vb. | To seize upon, atfang. |
| At'fore | adv. | In front of, before. 2. in the pressure of, in the sight of, before. 3. before in time or order. |
| At'go | vb | To go to, approach. 2. to go away, pass away |
| A'that | prp | Until, till. |
| A'that | adv | Until, till. |
| Athel | n | One who is noble, a lord, chief. |
| Athel | adj | Of persons: good of family, noble of birth and character, eminent. 2. of things, of actions, character; noble, excellent, fine, pleasant, grand, splendid |
| Athele | vb | To honour, dignify. |
| Atheling | n | Member of nobility or noble family, prince, lord, barren, royal heir-apparent. 2. in OE poetry: men. 3. in later writing restricted to royal blood. |
| Athelmood | n | Noble-minded |
| A'thester | vb | Grow dim, darken, become obscure. |
| At'hind | adv | Behind. |
| A'think | vb | Became 'ofthink' - to repent. |
| A'think | phr | "It A'thinks Me" - it repents me. |
| Athinking | n | Repentance. |
| Athirst | adj | Suffering from or overtaken by thirst, thirsting. 2. fig. eager, earnest, desiring (athirst for knowledge). |
| A-this-half | adv | On this side |
| At'hold | vb | Withstand, keep back. 2. to restrain, detain a person. 3. to keep a thing in one's possession. 4. to keep in existence, maintain, preserve. 5. to keep in consideration, concern, give heed to. 6.to lay fast to, lay hold of; arrest, put under arrest. |
| At-home | adv | In one's home, in one's own home. 2. prepared to recieve visitors; to be acessible to callers. 3. in one's immediate neighbour. 4. near at hand. 5. home in one's own country. 6. at ease, as if in one's own home, hence also fig. 7. thoroughly, familiar or conversant with, well-practiced in. |
| At-homeish | adj | Somewhat inclined to be at-home or within the home. 2. belonging to or suited for being or staying at home; domesticated. |
| At-homeishly | adv | In an 'at-home' manner. |
| At-homeishiness | n | In the state or condition of being 'at-home.' |
| A'thrill | adv | In a thrill; thrillingly. |
| A'throat | vb | To throttle, strangle. |
| A'throng | adv | With a throng, throngingly, crowded. |
| A'thrysm | vb | To suffocate, stifle, choke, kill. Nb: 'throsm.' |
| A'tilt | adv | In a tilted, leaning or slanted fashion. |
| A'tire | vb | To cease, be weary, fail. |
| At'lead | vb | To lead or take away. |
| At'let | vb | To let away, let go from consideration; hence to neglect, disregard, pardon. |
| At'lie | vb | To lie idle or fallow. |
| At'low | adv | To be in a low position. |
| At'lutien | vb | To hide away, escape notice, lurk. |
| At'old | adj | Too old, very old. |
| Atone | vb | Make amends, expiate (for a wrong). 2. make repayment for; make amends to/ or. |
| Atonemaker | n | One who sets at one persons of variance; a mediator, an at-one-maker, a reconciler. |
| Atonemaking | n | At-one-making; reconciliation. |
| At-oneness | n | The state of being at one (with), harmony, a harmonious relationship. |
| Atoner | n | At-one-(e)r, one who reconciles; reconciles an expiation. |
| Atoning | n | At-one-ing; reconciling, making reparation for offences, expiating. |
| Atoningly | adv | At-one-ingly; in an reconciling manner by way of expiation of an offence. |
| Atop | adv | On or at the top. |
| Atop | prp | On the top of. |
| A'tride | vb | To ride away escape. |
| A'trine | vb | To touch, concern. |
| A'troke | vb | To fail; faint. |
| A'trout | vb | To rush away, escape. |
| At'sake | vb | To flee away. |
| At'shake | vb | To shake off. |
| At'shoot | vb | To shoot away. |
| At'sit | vb | To remain sitting, stay, abide. |
| At'spring | vb | To spring forth into existence, originate. |
| At'stand | vb | To stand still, remain. 2. to come to a standstill; to stop. 3. to make a hostile stand. 4. to resist, withstand. 5. to stand to, stand close to, to press or throng. |
| Atter | n | Venom, poison, esp that of a reptile. 2. gall; also fig: foul matter, pus from a sore, ulcer, abscess. |
| Atter | vb | To envenom, poison. 2. to embitter; fig. mix with gall |
| Attercop | n | Spider. 2. fig applied to a venomous, malignant person. 3. misapplied to a 'spider's web.' |
| Attering | adj | Poisoning, galling, venomous. |
| Atterlike | adj | Venomous, poisonous, galling, bitter. |
| Atterling | n | A malignant person, a shrew. |
| Atterlo(a)the | n | An antidote to poison; an alexipharmic, (applied spec. to several plants. |
| Attern | adj | Venomous, poisonous, malignant. |
| Atterness | n | Malignancy, bitterness, gallness, venom. |
| Attery | adj. | Mixed with gall, bitter, fig. purulent. 2. venomous, poisonous, malicious, spiteful. 3. full of morbid or bloody matter. |
| A'tumble | adv | In a tumbling way or manner; tossing. |
| A'twain | adv | In, or into, two parts; in two. 2. away from each other, asunder. |
| Atween | adv | In between, between while. |
| A'twend | vb | To go away, escape. |
| A'twin | vb | To separate, part. |
| A'twind | vb | To escape, depart, cease. |
| Atwite | vb | To cast imputation on, reproach, upbraid, taunt, blame. 2. to reproach a thing with a person. |
| Atwitng | n | Reproaching, reproach, taunt. |
| Atwo | adv | In or into two parts; atwain. 2. away from each other, apart, asunder. |
| Atwrench | vb | To escape by one's wiles. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Auger | n | Carpenter's boring tool. |
| Aught | n | Possession, property; that which one possesses as his own. 2. livestock, cattle. 3. anything owned. 4. anything whatever, anything. |
| Aught | adv | To any extent, in any degree, in any respect, anything at all, somewhatever. |
| Aught | adj | Anything worth worth, something worth, worth, doughty. |
| Aught | prp | Anything whatever |
| Aught-greedy | adj | Greedy for possessions and wealth. |
| Aughtless | adj | Without, or having no possessions. |
| Aughtly | adv | Worthy, estimable. |
| Aughtly | adv | Estimably, worthily, nobely. |
| Aughtways | adv | In a way, any way. |
| Auld | adj | Old. |
| Auld Smokey | n | A sobriquet for Edinburgh. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Ax | n | Alternate spelling of 'Axe.' |
| Ax | vb | (OE. axien and asken. see 'ask. - to ask; to inquire or inquire of. Note: this word is from Saxon, and is as old as the English language. Formerly it was in good use, but now is regarded as a vulgarism. It is still dialectic in England, and is sometimes heard among the uneducated in the United States. "And Pilate axide him, "Or if he axea fish." --Wyclif. The king axed after your Grace's welfare." -Pegge. [1913 Webster] |
| Axe | n | A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle. Note: The word is used adjectively or in combination; as, axhead or ax head; ax helve; ax handle; ax shaft; |
| Axe | n | The axle of a wheel. 2. axis of revolution (not found after OE. period. |
| Axe | vb | To shape or trim with an axe. 2. to remove (dismiss) from position, as workers from a organization or the workforce |
| Axe | phr | "Axe Has Fallen" - it is now too late. |
| Axe | phr | "Be Axed" - to get the sack, lose one's job. |
| Axe | phr | "Hang Up One's Axe" - to retire from business. the allusion is to the battlefield,, hung up when fighting was over. |
| Axe | phr | "Have an Axe to Grind" - to follow a personal or private aim (often leading to a bias point of view.) 2. to have a private outcome or end to serve (US politics: in reference to a story told by Benjamin Franklin.) |
| Axe | phr | "An Old Battle-axe" - a hostile woman. |
| Axe | phr | "Put the Axe On the Helve" - to solve a doubt or problem. 2. hit n the nail on the head. |
| Axe | phr | "Send the Axe After the Helve" - to spend more money in the hope of recovering bad debts. 2. waste good money after bad. |
| Axe | phr | "Sharpen One's Axe" - to get ready for a difficult task. |
| Axe | phr | "To be Axe" - to dismiss; lose one's job, sack, cancel. |
| Axe-adze | n | The cutting edge or blade of an axe. |
| Axe-blade | n | The blade of an axe. |
| Axe-breaker | n | An Australian native tree with very hard wood. |
| Axed | adj | Shaped or formed by an axe. 2. furnished with an axe. |
| Axe-hammer | n | A stonecutter's tool with cutting edges at either end of the head, or one cutting edge and one hammer face. |
| Axe-handle | n | The handle or helve of an axe. |
| Axe head | n | The metal, cutting, portion of an axe. |
| Axe helve | n | An axe-handle. note 'helve' - the handle of an axe, chisel, hammer. |
| Axeless | adj | Without or not having an axe. |
| Axe-like | adj | Resembling an axe. 2. having the shape or form of an axe. |
| Axeman | n | A woodsman; axman. 2. a warrior armed with a battle-axe. |
| Axemanship | n | The ability of an axeman, skill in handling an axe. |
| Axe-murder | n | Murder or homicide by means of an axe. |
| Axemurder | vb | To murder someone with an axe. |
| Axe-murderer | n | One who murder using an axe. |
| Axe shaft | n | A rod, handle, long straight part of an axe. |
| Axe-stone | n | A greenish variety of jade or nephrite, used in South America for hatchets. |
| Axewort | n | Securidaca |
| Axle | n | The shoulder. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Awake | vb | To be aroused from sleep. 2. to awake, waken. 3. to remove fronm a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity, or inaction. 4. to put into action. 5. to give new life to. 6. to astir up, as 'to awake the dormant faculties.' |
| Awake | phr | "Awake From" - wake up (from); return to reality (from) |
| Awake | phr | "Awake To" - realize, understand became aware of. |
| Awake | phr | "Fully Awake To" - to be be on guard; to be fully informed. |
| Awakened | adj | Aroused from sleep. |
| Awakedness | n | An awaking from sleep. 2. the state of being awake. |
| Awakenedness | n | The condition of being awakened. |
| Awakener | n | He who or that which awakens. |
| Awaker | n | A raiser or awakener. |
| Awakening | n | A rising from sleep. 2. an arousing from sloth, inaction or indifference. 3. an arousing from sleep or its semblance. |
| Awakening | adj | Rising as if from sleep or inertia. 2. fitted to arouse, arousing, awaking. |
| Awakeningly | adv | In an awakening manner, so as to waken |
| Awaking | n | The act of awakening or ceasing sleep. |
| A'wald | vb | To have control of. 2. to wield. |
| A'walk | vb | To walk. |
| A-wane | adv | In want, on the wane, wantingly. |
| Aware | adj | Vigilant or on guard against danger or difficulty; wary, watchful, sensitive, alert, attentive, observant. 2. conscious or having knowledge of something, apprised, informed, cognizant, conscious, mindful. |
| Aware | vb | To be on one's guard. 2. to be alert. |
| Awaredom | n | The state of being on guard. |
| Awareness | n | The quality or state of being aware. |
| Awaried | adj | Accursed. |
| Awaring | n | Perception. 2. sensation. |
| Awarn | vb | To warn; put on guard. 2. to notify, inform |
| Awarp | vb | To throw or caste away. 2. t throw or cast down. 3. to warp or twist out of shape. |
| Awash | adj | Washed by the waves of the tide, said of a rock or strip of shore etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it. |
| Awash | phr | "Be Awash With" - to have plenty of something. |
| A'watch | adv | On the watch. |
| Awave | adv | On the wave. 2. moving in waves. 3. waving. |
| Away | adv | From a place, hence. 2. aside; off; in another direction. 3.from a state or condition of being; out of existence. 4. without restraint. 5. being so engaged for the entire time. 6. at a distance in time or space. |
| Away | intrj | Away, leave, |
| Away | adj | Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation. 2. at a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively. 3. not on one's home territory. |
| Away | phr | "Away With' - hear, abide, as 'I cannot away with.' 2. let us be rid of; take away. |
| Away | phr | "Do Away With" - dispose of, abolish or kill. |
| Away | phr | "Fall Away" - decline |
| Away | phr | "Fire Away" - begin, just ask me anything you like. |
| Away | phr | "Say Away" - speak, tell me what you. 2. to repudiate or contradict. |
| Away | phr | "Out and Away" - completely. |
| Away | phr | "When the Cat's Away the Mice Will Play" - in the absence of supervision discipline will be lax. |
| Away | phr | "Work Away At" - to labour diligently. |
| Awayward | adv | Turned away or in another direction. 2. turned away, averted, wayward. 3. of motion: away. |
| Awayward-going | adj | Going away, turning away. |
| Awaywardness | n | The state or quality of being turned in another direction, averted or moving away. |
| Awaywards | adj | Averted, wayward. |
| Awe | n | Etymology: OE. ege influence by Old Norse during Middle English period. 2. a feeling of fear and reverence in. 3. a feeling of amazement. |
| Awe | adj | Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible. 2. (rare) inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive. 3. struck or filled with awe.(obsolete) 4. terror-stricken. 5. worshipful; reverential; law-abiding. 5. exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. 6. very bad. |
| Awe | vb | To inspire with dread, terrify, daunt. 2. to control by the influence of fear; to fear greatly. 3. to influence or control by profound respect or reverential fear; to fear greatly. 4. to inspire with reverential wonder combined with latent fear, enthrall, overwhelm. 5. to reverence profoundly. |
| Awe | phr | "Hold or Keep in Awe" - to restrain or keep in fear. |
| Awe | phr | "Stand in Awe of" - to dread, 2. to have a deep reverence for. |
| Awearied | adj | Wearied, weary. |
| Aweary | adj | Tired, weary. |
| A-weather | adv | Towards the weather or windward side. 2. in a direction from which the wind blows. |
| A-weather | phr | "Helm a-weather" - a position at the helm when the tiller is moved to the windward side f the ship. |
| A'wecche | vb | To wake from sleep (or a swoon). 2. to awaken into life or activity. |
| Awed | adj | Awe-struck. 2. dreaded. |
| Awede | vb | To become mad, furious, or frantic; cf 'weed.'. 2. to loose one senses. |
| Awedness | n | The state of being awed, in dread. 2. awe. |
| A'week | adv | In every week, weekly. |
| A'weigh | vb | To lift up, support, bear, bear away. 2. to weigh, weigh out. |
| A'weld | vb | To rule with power or control, subdue. 2. to wield, manage. 3. to have power, be able. |
| Awe-less | adj | Without dread or fear. 2. fearless, undaunted, not appalled. 3. without awe, irreverent, wild. 4. that inspires no awe. |
| Awelessness | n | The quality of being awless. 2. irreverence. |
| Awelgian | vb | To enrich. |
| Awem | vb | To corrupt, defile, spoil; disgrace. 2. to impair, injure, mar. |
| A'wend | vb | To turn away; turn. 2. to turn or go away, depart. 3. to turn or change into |
| A'wene | vb | To think, suppose, deem. |
| Awesome | adj | Inspiring or causing awe, admiration, wonder. 2. appalling, awful, as an" awesome sight.' 3. expressive of awe or terror. 4. (slang) - great, outstanding, successful. |
| Awesomely | adv | In an awesome manner. 2. with awe or profound reverence. |
| A'west | vb | To lay waste to, devastate, despoil. |
| A'west | adv | In the west; westwards. |
| Awe-strike | vb | To strike with awe. 2. to strike with dread, terror, panic etc. |
| Awe-struck | adj | Struck with, or overwhelmed by awe. 2. panic-stricken, terror stricken, awe-stricken. |
| Awful | adj | Oppressing with fear or horror, appalling, terrible. 2. inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive. 3. struck or filled with awe. 4. terror-stricken. 5. worshipful, reverential, law-abiding. 6. exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. 7. very bad. |
| Awful | adv | (colloquial) - very, extremely, as 'an awfully big town.' |
| Awful | phr | "An Awful Lot" - very much; very often, to a great extent. |
| Awful | phr | "An Awful Lot of Something" - great number or amount of. |
| Awfully | adv | In a awe inspiring manner. 2. fearlessly. 3. reverently. 4. badly. 5. very. |
| Awfulness | n | Quality of extreme unpleasantness. 2. dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness. 3. quality of striking with awe, or with reverence, solemnity, dreadfulness. 4. the state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity, profound reverence. |
| A'wheel | adv | On wheels or a wheeled apparatus, such as a bicycle. |
| A'when | vb | To vex, trouble. |
| A'wherf | vb | To turn around or away. |
| A'while | adv | A while, of a while, a space of time, for a short time. |
| A'wild | vb | To become wild or unruly. |
| A'will | vb | To will, order. |
| A'will | adv | At one's will. 2. to one's pleasure or satisfaction. |
| A'win | vb | To labour (only in OE.) 2. to overcome, conquer, (in war). 3. to gain, obtain. |
| Awing | ppl | Dreading, fearing, solemn. |
| Awing | adj | Causing dread, reverential fear, solemn. |
| A'wing | n | The action of inspiring in war. |
| A'wing | adv | Fluttering(ly); on a wing. |
| A'wink | n | Winking. |
| A'wit | vb | To percieve, know. 2. to watch over a troop. |
| Awl | n | A small pointed tool used for piercing holes, especially in leather. |
| Awlated | adj | Disgusted. |
| Awlench | vb | To make splendid, adorn. |
| Awlwort | n | A coniferous plant found half submerged in shallow water and having awl-shaped leaves, Subularia aquatica |
| Awly | adv | Awfully, dreadfully, terribly. |
| Awn | n | Husk, a stiff bristle, especially one growing from the sheath around the seed of cereals and other grasses. |
| Awn | vb | To put before a persons eyes. 2. to show, manifest. |
| Awned | adj | Stiffed-bristled, husky, sheathed. |
| A'wonder | vb | To astonish, amaze. 2. to be astonished or aware, 3. amazed, astonished, astounded. |
| A'work | adv | At work; in activity. |
| A'worry | vb | To strangle, worry. |
| A'worth | vb | To look upon with indifference; disregard. |
| A'worthy | vb | To give honur to. 2. to dignify, adore. |
| A'wrath | vb | To amke angry, enrage. |
| A'wreak | vb | To punish, take vengeance upon (an offence, misdeed.) 2. to sentence to punish. 3. condemn a person to. 4. condemn, blame, find fault with. 5. to avenge, revenge oneself. 6. to revenge one's aggrieved feelings. 7. to avenge another person. 8. to avenge or revenged. |
| A'wreak | n | Revenge. |
| A'wreight | ppl | Pulled or wrenched away. |
| A'write | vb | To write. |
| A'wrong | adv | Wrongly, in a wrong way. |
| Awry | adj | Turned or twisted toward one side. 2. crooked, distorted, out of place. 3. wrong or distorted, perverse, amiss. |
| Awry | adv | Obliquely, crookedly, askew. 2. perversely, improperly. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| A'yield | vb | To yield, produce |
| Ay'where | adv | Everywhere. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| B | n | The letter "B" |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Black | n | That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black. 2. a black pigment or dye. 3. a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races. 4. a black garment or dress; as, she wears black; pl. (Obs.) 5. mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. 5. the part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. 6. a stain; a spot; a smooch. |
| Black | vb | To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully. 2. to make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush. |
| Black | adj | Bleak pallid; destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.
2. in a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. 3. (fig.): dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. "This day's black fate." "Black day." 5. expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks. |
| Black | adv | Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce. |
| Black | phr | "A Black Day(For Somebody)" - a day, or some less specific point of time, when something sad or disastrous happens. |
| Black | phr | "A Black dog on his Back - to suffer depression and melancholy. |
| Black | phr | "A Black Look" - a look of strong dislike, disapproval, resentment etc. |
| Black | phr | "Beat One Black and Blue" - to beat or thrash someone severely, causing deep bruising. |
| Black | phr | "Be In a Black Mood" - a fit of depression, bad temper, etc, usually temporary though perhaps recurring. |
| Black | phr | "Be In the Black" - be in credit at the bank. |
| Black | phr | "Be In Somebody's Black Books" - be out of favor or looked upon with disfavor. |
| Black | phr | "Be In the Black' - to show a profit, to have a credit balance. |
| Black | phr | "Black as Coal" - completely back; jet black. |
| Black | phr | "Blacken Somebody's Eyes" - threaten to hit somebody in the eye and so make it black and bruised; punish or assault somebody. |
| Black | phr | "Blacken Somebody's Name" - make somebody character (through idle chatter) seem worse than it really is. |
| Black | phr | "Black Out" - to faint, loose consciousness. 2. make invisible from the air at night by covering windows, lights etc. 3. not allow news, information to be released. 4. to bring a television transmission to a halt by a strike, or at the order of an official. |
| Black | phr | "Black Ox" - symbolic of old-age |
| Black | phr | "Give (Someone) a Black Look" - a lok of bad-temper and/or anger. |
| Black | phr | "Have A Black Day" - experience a day of disaster or misfortune. |
| Black | phr | "Have a Black Mark Against One's Name" - to have a tarnished reputation. |
| Black | phr | "In Black and White" - writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white (clear and unambiguous.) 2. not colored; having no other color but black. |
| Black | phr | "See Things in Black and White" - to see things simply and uncomplicated. 2. look at life in a very basic way. |
| Black | phr | "Say Black and Anyone's Eye/eyebrow' - to find fault with. |
| Black | phr | "Swear Black is White" - tell a gros lie. |
| Black | phr | "Things Look Black" - there is little hope of success, prosperity or a favorable outcome. |
| Black-and-blue | adj | A term used to desribe a bruise or bruising. |
| Black-and-white | adj | Of art, photography, using shades of color. 2. a TV or monitor, displaying images of shades of color. 3. fig. classifying people, objects or concepts as two opposites, as 'right and wrong.' 3. dichotomous, inflexible, that is, as alternate forms of black and white. |
| Black bear | n | The common American bear. |
| Black-beetle | n | A cockroach found indoors. |
| Black Belt | n | The southern part of the Atlantic coastal plain of the US, so called for its black soil on which cotton thrives in. 2. that part of a State, or the Southern States, where the black American population outnumbers people of other races. 2. a black belt worn by an expert in judo, karate etc. |
| Blackberry | n | A fruit bearing shrub of the species Rubus fructicosus and some hybrids. 2. the soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets. 3. in some places, known as a blackcurrant. |
| Blackbird | n | Common true thrush Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia and introduced elsewhere. 2. in the C19th century, a term used by slavers and pirates, for peoples of the Pacific Islands |
| Black birders | n | Slavers who enslaved peoples of the Pacific Islands during the C19th. |
| Black-birding | n | The act and crime against humanity of slavers who enslaved peoples of the Pacific Islanders during the C19th. |
| Blackboard | n | A blackened surface, for marking upon with chalk. |
| Black-boding | adj | Ominous. |
| Blackbook | n | A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc. 2. book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII, to hasten their dissolution. 3. book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edward III. 4. a book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies. 5. any book dealing with necromancy. |
| Blackbox | n | Informal name in aviation for the brightly colored (orange) cockpit recorders in an aircraft designed to aid in determining the cause of an accident. 2. (by extension) any similar recording device, to the aircraft blackbox, used in trains, motor vehicles, and ships. |
| Blackbox-warning | n | A written warning regarding the serious adverse effects of a prescription drug, required by the American Food and Drugs Administration with packaging and usually contained within a black rectangular border. |
| Black bread | n | Rye bread. |
| Black-browed | adj | Having a dark brow or front. 2. dour, sullen, scowling, frowning. |
| Black-death | n | A pandemic outbreak, often attributed to bubonic plague; the Black death. |
| Black-dog | n | Melancholy, depression of spirits, ill-humoured. |
| Black-dog | phr | "A Black-dog on His Back - to suffer depression and melancholy. |
| Black earth | n | Chernozem. |
| Blacked | adj | Obliterated with black. 2. with lights extinguished or obscured to conceal from enemy bomber. |
| Blacken | vb | To make black. 2. to sully, denigrate or defame another. 3. to become dark. |
| Blackened | adj | Made black or dark, denigrated, slandered, defamed. 2. sullen, morose. |
| Blackener | n | One who or that which blackens. 2. a denigration. |
| Black English | n | A form of English spoken by many black people, esp. as an urban dialect of the US. |
| Black-eyed | adj | Having or suffering a blackened eye. |
| Black-fishing | n | Fishing carried out illegally during dark. |
| Black Friday | n | Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred. |
| Black frost | n | Frost without rime or dew. |
| Black hat | n | A villian's or bad guys in a story, especially in the Westerns. 2. a malicious hacker who commits illegal acts. See: "White-hat, Gray hat, Red hat." |
| Black haw | n | The sloe. 2. the sweet viburnum, the sheepberry. |
| Black head | n | A dark plug of sebum in a hair follicle. |
| Black heart | n | Internal rotting condition of wood. |
| Black hearted | adj | Displaying a malevolent spirit. |
| Black-heartedness | n | State or quality of being treacherous, traitorous, evil, malignant. |
| Black-hole | n | The punishment cell or lock-up in a military barrack; the guard room. 2. a place or confinement for punishment. 3. a deep-dark pool with a waterfall. 4. a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter and radiation can escape. |
| Black-hole | vb | To confine to a black-hole. |
| Black-house | n | A prison, jail, gaol. 2. a business where working hours are long and wages are small. |
| Black ice | n | A mixture of thin ice, and sometimes with dirt and vehicle oils that form on a road making driving road slippery and dangerous for motorists. |
| Blacking | n | The action of making black. 2. a preparation used to make shoes black. |
| Blackish | adj | Somewhat black; inclining to black. |
| Blackishly | adv | In a manner, way or attitude that is somewhat blackish, melancholy, depressive. |
| Blackishness | n | The property of being blackish. |
| Black knight | n | A villian, an evil character. |
| Black lead | n | Graphite |
| Blackless | adj | Without the presence of dark-skinned people. 2. lacking the colour black. |
| Blacklight | n | A lamp used for decoration that gives off ultraviolet light. |
| Blacklist | n | In law, a list or collection of people or entities to be shunned or banned. |
| Blacklist | vb | To place on a banned list. 2. to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned. |
| Black-listed | adj | That or those placed on a blacklist |
| Blacklister | n | One who blacklists. |
| Blacklisting | n | The act or practice of blacklisting. |
| Black lung | n | The chronic disease of the lungs, Pneumoconiosis, caused by long-term inhalation of coal dust. |
| Blackly | adv | In a black, gloomy, frowning manner. 2. darkly, gloomily, dismally. |
| Blackmail | n | An extortion of payment in return for not disclosing discreditable information, secret. 2. any payment extorted in this way. 3. the use of threats or moral pressure. |
| Blackmail | vb | To extort or try to extort money etc from a person by blackmail. |
| Blackman | n | An obsolete name for a person with black skin. |
| Blackmark | n | Something that negatively effects someone's good-standing or reputation. 2. a mark of discredit. |
| Black monk | n | A Benedictine monk; of the Order of St Benedict. |
| Blackmouth | n | A black-mouthed person or animal; fig. a foul-mouthed person, a slanderer. |
| Black-mouthed | adj | Having a black-mouth; fig. caluminous, slanderous. |
| Blackneb | n | A popular name for various black-billed, as the Crane and common crow. |
| Blackness | adj | Quality or state of being black. 2. the quality of being Black, spec. self consciousness of US Blacks, as a matter of pride. |
| Black-on-black | adj | Idiomatic of something that is invisible or intentionally obfuscated, such as a warning in fine print. |
| Black-out | n | To censor or cover up by writing over in black ink. 2. (fig.) to censor or cover up. 3. to lose consciousness; to suffer a blackout; faint, swoon . 4. to mark in black or dark color. |
| Black Ox | n | The ox as a symbol of old-age |
| Black rain | n | Rain contaminated by fungi spores, soot or other particulate matter. 3. a radioactive rain that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki following the atomic bombings in 1945. |
| Black Rod | n | The Usher of the Black Rod in Britain and other Commonwealth countries. |
| Black root | n | Colic root. |
| Black rot | n | A disease of grapevines, attacking the first leaves, covered by fungus Laestadia. |
| Black Sea | n | An inland Sea between south-Eastern Europe, Causasus and Asia Minor. |
| Black sheep | n | One, among a herd of white sheep, that is black. 2. a nonconformist; an unusual rebellious or unconventional person. 3. a dislike person; one who is not liked or disfavored; a misfit. 4. an evil-disposed or disreputable member of an otherwise decent family. |
| Blackshirt | n | A member of a fascist party, organization having a black shirt as partof its uniform, esp. an Italian fascist. |
| Blacksmith | n | A person who forges iron, including a wainwright, cartwright and others. 2. a person who shoes horses (a farrier.) |
| Blacksmithing | n | The business of a blacksmith. |
| Blacksmithy | adj | Pertaining to the blacksmith or smithy. |
| Black snake | n | A snake of various species, black in color and found in regions throughout the world. |
| Blacksome | adj | Of a black character, dusty, darkish. |
| Black-souled | adj | Having a depressive and melancholy spirit. 2. evil, nefarious, somewhat wicked. |
| Black speak | n | The dialect of English spoken by people of Sub-Saharan African ancestry living in the US. |
| Black spot | n | Any of the various diseases in plants or animals, producing black spots. 2. a place or area of trouble, anxiety or danger, as a section of road known for it's high frequency of accidents. |
| Black swan | n | An Australian swan, Cyngus atratus. |
| Black thorn | n | Prunus spinosa. |
| Black Thursday | n | Any Thursday on which a public disaster occurred, as the Crash of the New York Stock-Exchange on Thursday (24/10/1929.) |
| Black tie | n | Evening dress, less formal than a white tie event, consisting of a black dinner jacket or Tuxedo jacket and matching trousers, etc. |
| Black top | n | A type of road-surfacing material. 2. a road itself surfaced with this top. 3. a 'bitumen' road. |
| Black Tuesday | n | Any Tuesday on which a public disaster has occurred. |
| Blackware | n | Any pottery of a black or nearly black color. |
| Blackwash | n | A public campaign of advertising such as the one funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices (opponent's claim) to justify excision of carbon taxes. 3. a term used by Indians in India for the sea. (whale road) |
| Blackwash | vb | Opposite of 'to whitewash' - to blacken the character of, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, as, ' he black washes the whole human race.' 2. to launch a public campaign of advertising such as the one funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices (opponent's claim) to justify excision of carbon taxes. 3. a term used by Indians in India for the sea. (whale road) |
| Blackwashing | n | The application of a coating of black-wash. 2. the revisionist portrayal of something as evil. |
| Blackwater | n | A stream stained brown by the peat of the mosses from which it flows. |
| Black widow | n | Any of several species of venomous spiders, particularly Latrodectus speciosa. 2. a woman who kills on or more of her lovers. 3. a woman who has a number of husband who are killed in accidents. 4. a female martyr whose husband has been killed or die as a martyr. |
| Blackwood | n | Any of several species of trees yielding a dark wood. |
| Blacky | adj | Somewhat black, blackish. |
| Bladder | vb | To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate, to puff up like a bladder; swell out. 2. to put up in bladders; as, bladder lard. |
| Bladder | n | A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air. 2. any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid. 3. a distended, membranaceous pericarp. 4. anything inflated, empty, or unsound. "To swim with bladders of philosophy." |
| Bladderful | adj | As much as a bladder can hold. |
| Bladderless | adj | Not having or without a bladder. |
| Bladderwort | n | A genus of water plants, Utriculous. |
| Bladder wrack | n | The common black rock weed of the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and Fucus vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. |
| Bladdery | adj | Of the nature of a bladder. |
| Blade | n | OE: leaf. - the sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade. 2. the flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc. 3. the narrow leaf of a grass or cereal. 4. botany) the thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). 5. the lamina. 6. flat bone, especially the shoulder blade. 7. a cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck). 8. the flat part of the tongue. 9. (poetic) a sword or knife. 10.(archaeology) a piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone. 11. (ultimate frisbee) a throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude. 12. (sailing) the rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel. 13. bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle. 14. dated) A dashing young man. |
| Blade | vb | To take off the blade. 2. to put forth blades or leaves. |
| Blade | phr | "To Blade it Out" - to fight a matter with swords. |
| Blade-bone | n | The scapula |
| Bladed | adj | Formed as a blade, lanceolated. 2. having a blade, sword. |
| Bladeless | adj | Without a blade. |
| Blader | n | One who makes a blade; a bladesmith. 2. a user of a blade; a swordsman |
| Blading | n | The shooting out into a blade; sprouthing. 2. fighting with blades or swords. 3. the blade of a turbine. |
| Blady | adj | Characterised by a blade or blades. |
| Blae | adj | Of a dark colour between blue and black; dark. 2. blackish-blue; of the colour of blaeberry; livid;. 3. also of a lighter shade, bluish-grey, lead-colored. 4. the color of the sea. 5. of weather: bleak, sunless. 6. tawny, somewhat dingy-coloured. 7. grey as opposed to white. |
| Blædfast | adj | Prosperous, glorious (blaed: prosperous) |
| Blaeness | n | Livid color or blue hue of a wound. |
| Blain | n | Inflammation swelling or sore on the body, blister, blotch, pustule. |
| Blain | vb | To effect with blister. |
| Blake | adj | Also "Blayke" becoming pale, ghostly, 2. pale, pallid, wan, implying deficiency or loss of colour, esp of the waning hue of death. 3. ash-coloured, withered yellow. 4. abashed, spiritless, awkwardness, shamefaced, timid, bashful, diffident, slow, sheepish, insipid |
| Blake | vb | To become pale, to make pale. |
| Bland | vb | Superseded by blend, to mix, intermingle, blend. |
| Blast | n | A violent gust of wind. 2. forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. hence: the continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast. 3. the exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast. 4. an explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc. 5. an explosive charge for blasting. 6. a loud, sudden sound. 7. a sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight. 8. (fig, informal) a good time; an enjoyable moment.) 9. a promotional message sent to email, etc. |
| Blast | vb | To confound by a loud blast or din. 2. to make a loud noise. 3. to shatter, as if by an explosion. 4. to open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion). 5. to curse; to damn, as 'Blast it!'. 6. (sci-fi) to shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles). 7. to criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish. 8. to blight or wither. 9. to be blighted or withered.
10. (obs.) to blow, as on a trumpet. |
| Blast | phr | "At Full Blast" - at maximum speed or force. |
| Blast | phr | "Blast It!" - a mild imprecation. |
| Blast | phr | "Blast Off" - (of a rocket etc) taking off from a launching pad. |
| Blastedly | adv | In a blasted way; damnable, confounded. |
| Blast freezing | n | The freezing of a foodstuff etc by means of a rapid current of chilled air. |
| Blast hole | n | A hole containing an explosive device or charge for blasting. |
| Blast-off | n | The launching of a rocket. 2. the initial thrust of a blast-off. |
| Blawort | n | (Blaywort) - from "bla' & 'blae' and 'wort' : herb, plant. The name in Scotland of the' harebell' (campanula rotundifolia) and the (corn bluebottle) - (centaura cyanos) |
| Blaze | n | A torch, firebrand, lamp. 2. a bright glowing flame or fire; a bright flame or fire.. 3. the flames of hell: 'The Blazes." 4. a flash of lightning. 5. clear of or as of full light, as noon. 6. a blazing star or cynosure; a brilliant light, brightness; brilliancy of glow or bright hue. 7. glory, splendor, brilliant display. 8. a bright, hot gleam or glow: the blaze of day. 9. a vivid coruscation: a blaze of jewels. 10. a sudden, intense outburst, as of passion or fury. |
| Blaze | vb | To burn brightly (sometimes fol. by away, up, or forth): The bonfire blazed away for hours. 2. to shine like flame (sometimes followed. by forth). 3. to burst out suddenly or intensely, as a fire or flame does; flare (sometimes followed. by up). 4. to shoot steadily or continuously (usu. followed. by away).
5. to be brilliantly conspicuous |
| Blaze | phr | "Blaze Away" - to fire continually with guns or artillery. 2. fig. to work away with fire, passion and vigour. 3. to burn brightly. |
| Blaze | phr | "Blaze Forth" - to shine like a flame, burn brightly. |
| Blaze | phr | "Blaze Out" - to cause to flare away. 2. to exhaust in a blaze of excitement or passion (said of a person and their feelings.) |
| Blaze | phr | "Blaze Up" - to burst out suddenly or intensely, as a flire or flame does; flare. |
| Blaze | phr | "Go Like Blazes" - go very quickly. |
| Blaze | phr | "Go to Blazes" - go to hell! |
| Blaze | phr | "Go to Blazes" - go to hell; be damned! |
| Blaze | phr | "Like Blazes" - with great energy. |
| Blaze | phr | "What the Blazes!" - what the hell! |
| Blazed | adj | Set in flames; hence, fig. inflamed. 2. published, made famous. |
| Blazingly | adv | In the manner of a blaze; burn or flare like a blaze. |
| Bleach | n | Bleaching liquid or power. 2. the bleaching process; also a bleached condition. 3. a disease of the skin. 4. whiteness, paleness. |
| Bleach | vb | To whiten linen, etc. by washing and exposure to sunlight, or by chemical processes. 2. to free from stain, purify, to deprive of colour, esp. by exposure. 3. to become white; whiten; to free from from stain, to become pale, pallid or colourless. |
| Bleached | adj | Whitened by exposure to light and air; made pale, bleached. |
| Bleacher | n | One who bleaches. 2. a vessel used for bleaching. |
| Bleaching | n | The art or process of whitening or cleaning by washing and exposure or by chemical agents. |
| Bleaching | adj | That bleaches or whitens; fig. cleansing, purifying. 2. becoming white by exposure. |
| Bleachy | adj | Somewhat bleached or whitened. 2. pale |
| Blead | n | Breath, blowing, inspiration |
| Bleak | adj | OE: blaec, blac: bleak, pallid, wan, livid, pallid, bright, shining. ON. - bliekr. 2. without colour, pallid. 3. desolate and exposed, swept by cold winds. 4. unhappy, cheerless, miserable, emotionally desolate. |
| Bleakly | adv | In a bleak manner. |
| Bleakness | n | The characteristic of being bleak. |
| Bleaky | adj | Bleak. |
| Bleat | n | The cry of a sheep, goat, calf. 2. a similar sound of the human voice. 3. a feeble complaint. |
| Bleat | vb | To cry as a sheep, goat or calf. 2. to give forth or utter a bleat. 3. used contemptuously of the human voice. 4. to give mouth to, babble, prattle. |
| Bleating | n | The crying of a sheep, goat, calf. 2. contemptuously of the human voice and utterances. |
| Bleaty | adj | Having the sound like the bleat of a beast, esp. or the human voice. 3. that bleats. |
| Blede | n | Flower, blossom, bloom, fruit. |
| Blee | n | Colour, hue. 2. colour of the face, complexion, visage, appearance, form |
| Bleed | vb | Of an animal):to lose blood through an injured blood vessel. 2. to let or draw blood from. 2. to take large amounts of money from. 3. to steadily lose (something vital). 4. of an ink or dye - to spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.5. to remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids. 6. To bleed on; to make bloody. 7 .to show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood. 8. to lose sap, gum, or juice. 9. To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision. |
| Bleed | vb | An instance of bleeding. 2. a cut or wound that bleeds profusely. |
| Bleed | vb | Of corn: to 'bleed well' - to give a large yield. |
| Bleed | phr | "The Heart Bleeds Inwardly" - to express grief, anguish, great sadness, sorrow or pity. |
| Bleed | phr | "Bleed Dry" - of a slaughtered animal, to wait until all its blood has drained out. 2. to cause someone hardship by cutting off all their supplies; taking all their money. |
| Bleed | phr | "Bleed Out" - To die due to excess blood-loss; to bleed to death; exsanguination, hypovolemia. |
| Bleed | phr | "Bleed (Somebody) White" - take away (almost) everything it possesses, often by drastic or unfair means. |
| Bleed | phr | "Bleed to Death" - to die from massive blood-loss, usually for severe arterial loss; to die from loss of blood. |
| Bleed | phr | "One's Heart Bleeds for Somebody/Something" - one feels truly sad for a person's fate. |
| Bleed | phr | "Slowly Bleed to Death" - to be heading in gradual steps towards total ruin. |
| Bleeder | n | One who bleeds profusely from hemophilia. 2. to extract money. 3. a very stupid person, unpleasant person. 3. also used in inoffensively, as in 'silly little person' 4. a pipe, valve or the like used for bleeding. |
| Bleeding | n | Flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel. 2. bloodletting. |
| Bleeding | adj | Extreme, outright. |
| Bleeding | adv | (sl) Extremely. |
| Bleeding | phr | "The Bleeding Edge" - something very current or modern, where there maybe actually a hazard or risk in using it. 2. cf. cutting edge, leading edge. |
| Bleeding edge | n | Something too new and untested to be considered reliable or to have an assurance of safety. (concern, fostered by Edison, with Nikola Tesla's alternating electrical current proposal. 2. fig. such place where such things exist, 'as the 'bleeding edge' of drone technology.' cf. 'cutting edge.' |
| Bleeding-edge Software | n | Unstable, risky to use; experimental software. |
| Bleeding heart | n | Popular name of several plants; eg. the Wallflower (Cheiranthus cheira.) 2. any of the several species of pigeons native to the Phillipines, (Callicolumba). 3. a person considered to be sympathetic to the plight of the under-privileged, exploited, helpless, or to the casualty of circumstances. |
| Bleedy | adj | Relating to bleeding or spillage |
| Blench | vb | (Blenk) - cheat, deceive, foil. 2. of a ship: to turn over, heel over. 3. to elude, run away from, flee from lack of courage. 4. of eyes: turn away, to lose firmness, 5. of a glare: to flinch, turn away or aside, shirk |
| Blencher | n | A person who is employed to turn or frighten others away; also a scarecrow. 2. one who blenches, loses courage or flinches. 3. in hunting, one placed to turn the deer from going in particular direction. |
| Blenching | n | The action of the verb 'to blench.' 2. turning to one side, swerving, shying. 3. the turning away of the eyes. 4. blinking, winking. 5. flinching, quailing, loss of courage. |
| Blenchingly | adv | In a blenching way or manner. |
| Blend | n | Fusion of Old English blendan; (mix) & Old Norse "blanda' (mingle). Old English had a verb 'blendan' but it meant 'make blind' and 'dazzle' . Modern English 'blend' appears to come from 'blend- , the present stem of Old Norse 'blanda' a relative of Old English blandan 'mix'). The ultimate source of this is not clear , but it does not sto be restricted to Germanic )Lithuian has the adjective blandus 'thick' in relation to a liquid), so it may be related to 'blind' whose Indo-European ancestor 'blendhos' meant among other things 'confused.' |
| Blend | vb | To mix, mingle. |
| Blend | vb | To make permanently blind. 2. to blind the understanding. 3. a judgement of moral sense. 4. to put out of sight or conceal. |
| Bless | vb | To make something blessed; to confer blessing upon. 2. to make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (oneself). 3. to praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences. 4. to esteem or account happy; to felicitate. 5. (obsolete) to wave; to brandish. 6. (archaic) to secure, defend, or preserve from. |
| Bless | phr | "Bless Into" - to change into; cast out in the name of the cross. |
| Bless | phr | "Bless Me!" - an expression of wonder. |
| Bless | phr | "Bless My Soul" - an interjection expressing astonishment or surprize (about something that has happened). |
| Bless | phr | "Bless Oneself" - to make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (oneself. |
| Bless | phr | "Bless Somebody's Heart" - expression of admiration, affection, close attachment, etc. |
| Bless | phr | "Give One's Blessing to" - approve of. |
| Bless | phr | "God Bless You" - an interjection made when somebody sneezes. 2. may god reward you for your kindness. |
| Bless | phr | "May God Bless You" - a short prayer for the recipient. 2. idiom: said to someone who has just sneezed, as a polite prayer. |
| Bless | phr | "Not Have a Penny to Bless You" - be impovershed. |
| Blessed | adj | Having a divine aid or protection of a blessing. 2. veneration and sanctity of those who died as martyrs. 3. held in veneration; revered, worshiped. 4. worthy of worship; worship-worthy, holy, hallowed. 5. as an intensifier. 6. hallowed, holy, sacred. |
| Blessedful | adj | Full of blessedness, either imparting it or enjoying it. |
| Blessedfully | adv | Full of blessing, veneration, sanctity. 2. extremely holy, hallowed sacred. |
| Blessedfulness | n | The state or quality of being blessedful. |
| Blessedhood | n | Blessedness, beatitude. |
| Blessedly | adv | In a blessed manner. |
| Blessedness | n | In the state of being blessed, esp. in divine favour, felicity, beatitude. 2. the state or condition of being blessed. 3. holiness, hallowedness, sanctification. 3. happiness; heavenly joy, bliss, felicity. |
| Blessed-thistle | n | Carduus benedictus; peony? |
| Blesser | n | One who blesses. |
| Blessing | n | Hallowing, consecrating. 2. the making the sign of the cross; to cross oneself. 3. authoritative dedication of divine favour and countenance. 4. the beatitudes pronounced by Christ. |
| Blessing | phr | "Ask for a Blessing" - say a grace. |
| Bletch | n | Shoemaker's blacking. |
| Bletchy | adj | Smutted with bletch; inky, sooty, attery, dirty. |
| Blete | adj | Miserable |
| Blethe | adj | Weak, timid, spiritless, timid. gentle. 2. without force. |
| Blethely | adv | Kindly, generously, graciously, benevolently, gladly, fainly. |
| Bleving | n | (Beleavin)-remaining, perserving, beleaving. |
| Blewart | n | Blaewort or Veronica chamaedrys. |
| Blick | n | Gold |
| Blike | vb | Shine, glitter, glimmer |
| Blin | n | Cessation, end, delay, failure. |
| Blin | vb | To cease, desist, leave off, stop, come to stop, put to a stop, to cease from. 2. delay, tarry, stay. 3. to cease speaking, to keep silent. |
| Blind | adj | Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors. 2. unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors. 3. failing to see, acknowledge, perceive. 4. Of a place, having little or no visibility. 5. closed at one end; having a dead end; as, a blind hole, a blind alley. 6. having no openings for light or passage. 7. smallest or slightest in phrases such as a blind bit of notice. 8. without any prior knowledge. 9. without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc. 10. unintelligible or illegible. 11. abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit. 12. the blind as a group. |
| Blind | vb | To make blind; to render insensible to light or colour. 2. to hard or difficult to find or hide. 3. to deprive of light. 4. to eclipse. 5. to become blind or dim. |
| Blind | phr | 'Be Blind Drunk" - so intoxicated as to appear to have difficulty seeing. |
| Blind | phr | "Be Blind-hearted" - to be hardhearted, unfeeling; unable to see or understand the plight of others |
| Blind | phr | "Be Blind to" - unaware of, fail to see or consider (something that is clear, evident, or significant etc) |
| Blind | phr | "Blind to the World" - extremely drunk; blind drunk. |
| Blind | phr | "Follow Someone Blindly" - to follow a person unquestioningly. |
| Blind | phr | "Go It Blind" - act recklessly or without proper consideration. 2. undertake anything thing without reasonable inquiry. |
| Blind | phr | "None So Blind as He Who Cannot See" - nobody is less persuadable than somebody who refuses to listen to argument. |
| Blind | phr | "Not a Blind Bit of" - (slang) not the slightest bit of; not a single one. |
| Blind | phr | "In the Land of the Blind, the One-eyed Man is King" - in a situation where somebody has a little ability/knowledge has an advantage. |
| Blind | phr | "Swear Blind" - be adamant, even if one is swearing. |
| Blind | phr | "The Blind Leading the Blind" - a situation in which an unqualified person is attempting to guide, train, or advise others. |
| Blind | phr | "Turn a Blind Eye To Something" - to pretend something doesn't exist or is happening. |
| Blind-booking | n | The booking of films by cinema proprietors without regards to their merits. |
| Blind coal | n | Coal which burns without a flame or smoke; anthracite. |
| Blind drunk | adj | Extremely drunk. |
| Blinded | adj | Unsighted, not be able to see, to lose one sight. 2. without understanding, indifferent. |
| Blinder | n | Something that blinds. 2. a bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handed or mounted. 2. an exceptional performer. |
| Blinders | n | Blinkers for a Horse. |
| Blind fish | n | A fish of subterranaen streams without functional eyes; especially a cave-dwelling fish, as (Amblyopsis spelaeus). |
| Blind-flying | n | Relying on instruments for direction whilst flying an aircraft. |
| Blindfold | n | A covering, usually a bandage for the eyes, blocking light to the eyes. 2. something that obscures vision (lit and metaphorically). |
| Blindfold | vb | To cover the eyes with a blindfold, so as to make someone unable to see (blind fell). 2. to obscure understanding or comprehension. |
| Blindfolded | adj | With eyes coverd with a blindfold. 2. obscured, difficult to understand.. |
| Blindfolding | adj | The action of blindfolding. 2. hoodwinking. |
| Blindfoldly | adj | In a manner obscuring vision, or understanding; hoodwinking. |
| Blindfoldness | n | The state or condition of being blindfolded. |
| Blindful | adj | Totally blind; 2. completely failing to comphrehend. |
| Blindgut | n | The cecum. |
| Blindhead | n | A cover for an alembic or retort. 2. with retort with such a cover. |
| Blindhood | n | Blindness. |
| Blinding | n | he action of making blind. |
| Blinding | adj | Very bight (as to cause blindness. 2. making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or understanding, as blinding snow, blinding ignorance. 3. (sl) brilliant, marvelous. |
| Blindish | adj | Somewhat blind; dimly sighted. |
| Blind-landing | n | Grounding an aircraft by depending on radio signals for the glide path. |
| Blindless | adj | Of a window without blinds; having no blinds. 2. eternally vigilant. |
| Blindlessly | adv | Obeying and follow another without consideration and with unquestioning faith and devotion. |
| Blindling | adv | Blindwise, blindly, heedlessly. |
| Blindly | adj | In a blind manner, without sight, sightlessly. 2. without consideration or question. 2. blindlily. |
| Blindman | n | A worker or business which makes, supplies and fits blinds and other window coverings. |
| Blindman | phr | 'Blindman's Holiday - (in pre electric light days,) a humorous phrase for the time candles were lighted, when it was too dark to work, and one was obligated to rest or 'take a holiday.' |
| Blind-mindness | n | A cognitive disorder where an individual is unable to attribute mental states to the self and other. As a result of this disorder the individual may be unaware of others' mental states, or incapable in attributing beliefs and desires to others. 2. mind-blindness. |
| Blindness | n | The condition of being blind; or unable to see. 2. (fig.) - want of intellectual or moral discernment, mental darkness, ignorance, heedlessness. 3. concealment. 4. ablepsy, cecity, sightlessness. |
| Blind-nettle | n | A species of lamium, henbit. |
| Blindpool | n | In finance, a collective investment ( as a company or syndicate) where the investors with little or no idea of what is being done with their money. (sometimes used a pejorative for a company provding poor information to investors) |
| Blind-side | n | A drivers field of blindness around a motor vehicle. 2. the side on which one's peripheral vision is obstructed. 3. the side away from which one is directing one's attention. 4. the unguarded side; a weak point in motoring; sport and other activities. |
| Blind-side | vb | To take someone by surprise. 2. to attack where a person is vulnerable: their blind-side. |
| Blind-siding | n | The action of taking someone by surprise; attacking them on their vulnerable side or where their peripheral vision is obstructed. |
| Blind-wharve(n) | vb | To turn. |
| Bliss | n | Perfect happiness, joy. |
| Bliss | phr | "Bliss Out" - to reach a state of ecstasy. 2. to be overcome with happiness. 3. to cause someone to be overcome with happiness. |
| Bliss | phr | "Blissing Out" - to be overcome with or experience great joy, happiness, euphoria. 2. to cause someone to feel intense happiness and relaxation. |
| Blissful | adj | Full of bliss, joyful, joyously happy. 2. carefree, heedless, cheerful. 3. a state of ecstasy; ecstasy. |
| Blissfully | adv | In a blissful manner. 2. happily, joyously. |
| Blissfulness | n | State or quality of being blissful, joyfulness, happiness, eadness. |
| Blisshood | n | The state of bliss, blissful condition, joy, beatitude. |
| Blissless | adj | Without bliss, hapless, miserable. |
| Blithe | n | OE: joy, cheer, pleasance, grace, well disposition, friendness, kindness, agreement, willingness, quietness, peace, gentleness. |
| Blithe | vb | To rejoice, be merry, to make rejoiceful or merry, to gladden, delight. |
| Blithe | adj | Cheery, cheerful, joyous, pleasant, gracious, friendly, peaceful. 2. indifferent, careless, lack of concern. |
| Blithedom | n | Condition or state of being blithe. 2. heaven, paradise. |
| Blitheful | adj | Kindly, friendly. 2, joyous, joyful. |
| Blithefulness | n | State or quality of being blissful, joyfulness, happiness. |
| Blithe-hearted | adj | Of joyful, happy, cheery, benign disposition. |
| Blitheless | adj | Without bliss, hapless, miserable. |
| Blithe-looking | adj | Happy, relaxed, joyful, benign of appearance. |
| Blithely | adv | With kindness, benignly. 2. in a blithe manner; joyfully, joyously, meerily, gadly. 3. heedlessly, carelessly, taking no consequences, free, lacking or showing due concern, blithe ignorance of te true situation. (frequently used to intensify negative consequences.) |
| Blithe meat | n | (Blithefood)- an entertainment provided upon the birth of a child. 2. food (meat) and drink consumed or partaken at such a gathering. |
| Blithe mood | adj | Of cheerful disposition |
| Blithen | vb | To make blithe |
| Blitheness | n | The state of being blithe; joyousness, cheeriness, merryness, happiness. |
| Blitheship | n | State of being blithe. |
| Blithesome | adj | Cheery, joyful, merry, happy. 2. carefree, light-hearted, heedless |
| Blithesomely | adv | In a blitheful state or manner; cheeriness. |
| Blithesomeness | n | The state or quality of being blithsome. |
| Blood | n | The fluid that flows in the principal vascular system of human beings and other vertebrates, in humans theplasma consists of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. 2. the vital or essential principle or essence of life; life itself. 3. a person or group regarded as a source of energy, vitality, or vigor. 4. one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing cheerfulness. 5. bloodshed; gore; slaughter; to avenge the blood of his father. 6. the juice or sap of plants:the blood of the grape.
7.temperament; state of mind: a person of hot blood. |
| Blood | vb | To blood (hunting dogs and greyhounds) 2. to stain or cover with blood. |
| Blood | phr | "A Blood Bath" - a scene, an occasion, of much slaughter and bloodshed. |
| Blood | phr | "A Bloody Shovel" - the calling of something by its proper (or perhaps coarse) name by analogy with 'call a spade a spade". |
| Blood | phr | "A Young Blood" - a youthful member, who brings brings youthful and fresh vigor to those around him. |
| Blood | phr | "Be in Somebody's Blood" - be something about which a person is very knowledgeable about. |
| Blood | phr | "Blood and Guts" (fig.) anger, tension, strife, acrimonious feeling. |
| Blood | phr | "Blood and Iron" - military force as distinguished from diplomacy, esp. in the term 'man of blood and iron,' (referring to Bismarck who advocated this as his policy.) |
| Blood | phr | "Blood and Thunder" - bloodshed and violence, used attributively, as blood and thunder tale - describing the murderous exploits of bandits. |
| Blood | phr | "Blood in the Water" - lit. blood in the water; by extension the associated emergence of predators(and, possible feeding frenzy) observed in its prescence. 2. in a comprehensive situation, the exhibition of apparent weakness or vulnerability by one party, especially when this leads to a feeling of vulnerability of greater pressure to perform on the part of the weaker party, and the enhanced expectation of victory by the other. |
| Blood | phr | "Blood is Thicker than Water" - family loyalty, kinship and commitment are greater and stronger than other ties. |
| Blood | phr | 'Blood Will Tell Out" - inherited tendencies will eventually make their presence known. |
| Blood | phr | "Do in Cold Blood" - to be cruel without feeling any emotion about it. |
| Blood | phr | "Flesh and Blood" - the distinctive characteristic of the animal body; hence 'humanity' as opposed to deity or disembodied spirit. |
| Blood | phr | "For the Blood of Him" - for the life of him, though his life was involved. |
| Blood | phr | "Get a Bloody Nose" - to suffer an undignified rebuff. |
| Blood | phr | "Go After Somebody's Blood" - be keen to make a person a victim of an angry confrontation. |
| Blood | phr | "Have a Thirst for Blood" - to be eager for revenge. |
| Blood | phr | "Have Blood On One's Hands" - to be the person responsible for the predicament of others. |
| Blood | phr | "In Blood" - in full vigour, full of life. |
| Blood | phr | "In Cold Blood" - not in the heat of passion, deliberately. |
| Blood | phr | "In Hot Blood" - in anger and bad temper. |
| Blood | phr | "It Makes My Blood Creep" - to cause a person to feel fear, horror, dread, or strong forbode. 2. to make one's blood run cloud. |
| Blood | phr | "It Makes My Blood Run Cold" - to cause a person to feel fear, horror, dread, or a strong forboding. |
| Blood | phr | "Let Blood" - to allow some harm as the price of achieving some greater benefit . |
| Blood | phr | "Of One's Own Flesh and Blood" - one's near kindred, children, brothers and sisters. |
| Blood | phr | "Of Good Blood" - pedigree. |
| Blood | phr | "Of Half Blood" - person of mixed race ancestry. 2. humanity. |
| Blood | phr | "Of the Blood" - royal or noble blood. |
| Blood | phr | "Of Whole Blood" - born of the same race or relationship of both mother and father. 2. full-blood. |
| Blood | phr | "One Blood Runs Cold" - be filled with horror a supernatural, event, and/or fear (because of an extraordinary, perhaps supernatural event, a terrible crime, an accident that has happened. |
| Blood | phr | "One's Blood is Up" - one's blood boils, one's anger is high. |
| Blood | phr | "One's Own Flesh and Blood" - one's offspring. |
| Blood | phr | "Out for Blood" - determined to defeat someone; succeed. |
| Blood | phr | "Out of Blood" - not vigorous, lifeless. |
| Blood | phr | "Runs In One Blood" - something is inherited from a parent. 2. in one's blood. |
| Blood | phr | "See Blood" - to be very angry; see red. |
| Blood | phr | "Shed Blood" - injure or kill. |
| Blood | phr | "Smell Blood" - to divine imminent victory. |
| Blood | phr | "Stir the Blood" - inspire oneself or others. |
| Blood | phr | "Sweat Blood" - suffer intense emotion pian. 2. work extremely hard. |
| Blood | phr | "There's Is Blood in the Streets" - much damage has been done to a cause. |
| Blood | phr | "There's Blood in the Water" - something likely to cause a person to go crazy. |
| Blood | phr | "Through Blood, Sweat and Tears" - with hard work and much effort. |
| Blood | phr | "To Breed Blood" - to stir up strife, cause ill-feeling. |
| Blood | phr | "To Get One's Blood Up" - to cause or cause to be angry and upset. |
| Blood | phr | "You Can't/Draw Get Blood Out of Stone" - you can't do the impossible. |
| Bloody-back | n | The Lobster. 2. a British soldier: a redback; a lobster-back. |
| Bloodbath | n | Indiscriminate widespread killing and slaughter, a massacre. 2.butchering, genocide, massacre. 3. a confrontational, aggressive or very violent incident. 4. in sport, a very extensive defeat. 5. a large financial loss or massive layoff caused by negative economic condition. |
| Blood-being | n | Human or animal life; a human or animal. |
| Bloodbird | n | An Australian honey-sucking bird, Myzomelo sanguineola. |
| Blood-bond | n | Consanguinity. |
| Blood-borne | n | Carried by the blood. |
| Blood-bought | adj | Bought with the sacrifice of life. |
| Blood-brother | n | A sibling brother, a brother by birth. 2. one bound to another person in commitment and ceremonial mingling of blood. |
| Blood-brotherhood | n | State or condition of being blood-brothers. |
| Blood-clot | n | A mass of red blood cells coagulated, a white blood cells and platelets of fibrin; a thrombo. |
| Blooded | adj | Stained with blood. 2. having hot or cold blood. 3. introduced or iniated into a contest etc for the first time. 4. of good stock; pedigreed. |
| Bloodedness | n | The quality of having blood of as particular kind; as warm-blooded, full-bloodness. |
| Blooder | n | One who or that which draws or lets blood. |
| Blood-flow | n | The continuous circulation of blood in the cardiovascular system. |
| Blood-freezing | adj | That makes one's blood run cold or curdle. |
| Blood-friend | n | A utmost loyal friend and confidante. |
| Bloodguilt | n | The guilt of unrighteous blood. |
| Blood-guiltless | n | Guiltless, free from blame, innocent of shedding blood or murder. |
| Blood-guiltness | n | Guilty of shedding blood or killing someone. |
| Blood heat | n | A normal body temperature of healthy human beings about 37C or 98.4F. |
| Blood horse | n | A thoroughbred horse. |
| Blood-hot | adj | As warm as blood. |
| Bloodhound | n | A dog known for tracking down criminals and those lost in the bush by following a scent or drops of blood. 2. a hunter of men; a bounty hunter. |
| Bloodhound | vb | To pursue ruthlessly. |
| Bloodied | adj | Made bloody, covered or smeared with blood. |
| Bloodierly | adv | More bloodily, bloodful, full of blood, bloody. |
| Bloodily | adv | In a bloody manner, with bloodshed, bloody. |
| Bloodiness | n | A bloody state or condition. 2. a sanguinary condition. 3. tending to bloodshed. 3. the action of giving hounds the taste and appetite for blood. |
| Blood-iron | n | A lancet |
| Blood-iron | n | The iron component of haemogllobin. |
| Bloodish | adj | Of the nature or appearance of blood. |
| Bloodkin | n | Near relative; family member; kin, |
| Blood-kinship | n | The state or condition of being a near relative or family member. |
| Blood-knowing | adj | Knowing one's own blood group, essential in a medical emergency requiring transfusion as not all blood types are compatible. |
| Bloodleaf | n | Plant of the genus Iresine. |
| Bloodlesing | n | The letting of blood. |
| Bloodless | adj | Without blood, hence lifeless (also fig.) 2. pale from the diminished supply of blood throughout the body. 3. pallid. |
| Bloodlessly | adv | In a bloodless manner. |
| Blood-lessness | n | The characteristic of having blood; bloodiness. |
| Blood-letter | n | One or who hat lets or sheds blood. |
| Bloodletting | n | The action or process of letting blood; phlebotomy. |
| Bloodlike | adj | Resembling blood. 2. like one of good blood. |
| Bloodline | n | An abstract link between a person and his/her ancestors. |
| Bloodloss | n | The loss of blood; bloodloss; bleeding. |
| Bloodlust | n | A desire for extreme violence and often crossed in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture.. 2. the desire for bloodshed. |
| Bloodlusty | adj | Exhibiting blood lust; violently aggressive, bloodthirsty behaviour |
| Bloodmonger | n | A cruel, bloodthirsty tyrant who deals in voilence and brutality, such as Dracula. |
| Blood moon | n | The phenomenon whereby the moon in total eclipse appears reddish in colour as it is illuminated by sunlight filtered and refracted by the earth's atmosphere. See also: Wolf Moon, Cold Moon, Ice Moon, Hunger Moon. |
| Blood rain | n | A red rain (red-rain) which falls in areas in various regions of the world, and traced to red-dust from desert areas. |
| Blood red | adj | Red like the colour of blood: crimson. |
| Bloodroot | n | The popular name of several plants 'tormentil', such as Crimson Cranebil, Red Puccoon. |
| Bloodshed | n | The shedding of blood, taking life, manslaughter, murder, death. 2. the shedding or spilling of blood. 3. slaughter, destruction on a large scale. |
| Blood-shedder | n | One who sheds blood on a large scale. 2. a murder, killer. |
| Blood-shedding | n | The act of shedding blood on a massive scale. |
| Bloodshot | n | An effusion of blood in the eye. |
| Blood-sister | n | A sister by birth. 2. a bond between females committing to loyal and friendship by a ceremonial mingling of blood. |
| Blood-soaked | adj | Soaked or saturated in blood. 2. marked, stained or spotted by blood. |
| Blood-soul | n | Blood as the currency of the soul; life's blood. 2. an living being. 3. body's soul; life's breath, spiritual being. |
| Blood-spiller | n | One who spills blood. |
| Blood-sprent | n | Sprinkled with blood. |
| Bloodstock | n | A thorough-bred animal in general, especially a horse. 2. the breeding line of a thorough-bred horse or other animal. |
| Bloodstone | n | The name applied to precious stones spotted or streaked with blood-red colour. |
| Bloodstream | n | The flow of blood through the circulatory system of an animal, human etc. |
| Bloodsucker | n | One who feeds upn the blood of another, esp. by sucking through a puncture wound. 2. a cruel extortioner. 3. haemovore. |
| Bloodsucking | adj | Of an animal that sucks or draws off blood from another animal. 2. a vampire. 3. fig. one who attempts to take as much as possible (money, property, possessions) from others. |
| Bloodsweating | adj | Where a patient sweats blood or blood pigments, usually as a result of extreme physical and mental agony. |
| Bloodthirstiness | n | Characteristic of being bloodthirsty. |
| Bloodthirsting | adj | Avid and eager for bloodshed. |
| Bloodthirsty | adj | Ready to use violence, characterized by massive bloodshed. |
| Bloodwealth | n | Money or goods given as compensation for a murder. |
| Bloodwite | n | A penalty for bloodshed. 2. in OE law, a fine paid to the alderman or king, in addition to a were-gild. 3. a penalty for murder. |
| Bloodwork | n | Medical test involving taking blood from the patient. |
| Bloodwort | n | A name applied to various plants having red roots or leaves, popualrly supposed to staunch blood; among those 'Bloody Dock' (Rumex Sanguineus); Dwarf elder or Danewort(Sambucus Ebulus), Sanguisorba officinalis. |
| Bloodwreaker | n | To cause, inflict severe injury upon, reulting in the shedding of blood. |
| Bloody | adj | Of the nature of, composed of, resembling or pertaining to blood. 2. covered, stained, smeared with blood; bleeding. 3. of animals, having blood in the veins. 4. accompanied or involving bloodshed,sanguinary. 5. of thought, words, etc. - concerning, portending, decreeing bloodshed. 6. blood-thirsty, blood-guilty. 7. blood-red. 8. in slang and vulgar language: an epithet expressing devastation. 9. the great australian adjective. |
| Bloody-minded | adj | Eager for blood. 2. obstinate, pig-headed, stubborn. |
| Bloody-mindedly | adv | In a bloody-minded manner. |
| Bloody-mindedness | n | State or quality of being bloody-minded. |
| Bloody murder | n | A gruesome, gory murder. |
| Bloody rain | n | Rain with a red color; red rain.. |
| Bloody Sunday | n | Sundays when bloody and violent events have occurred in places throughout the world. |
| Bloody sweat | n | A sickness causing extreme sweating, sometimes bloody. |
| Bloom | n | ON: flower, blossom - not OE: for the OE synonym, see 'blossom' |
| Bloom | n | OE. 'bloma' fig. of great beauty, fair, attractiveness. |
| Bloom | n | OE; bloma - a rough mass of twisted metal; identical in form with bloom but probably a different word. |
| Bloom | vb | To hammer a lump of iron into a 'bloom' 2. to shingle. |
| Bloom-tongs | n | Tongs used in puddling. |
| Blossom | n | Originally the generic word for flower: a flower, (single flower) especially indicative of fruit as seen on a fruit tree etc.; taken collectively as the mass of such flowers; a flower that grows on any plant. 2. The state or season of producing such flowers. 3. fig. a blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise. 4. the colour of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs. |
| Blossom | vb | To put forth blossom, flower, bloom. 2. fig. to progress, show promise, start to succeed. 3. each a developed or mature state. |
| Blossom | phr | "Blossom forth" - to appear in a new role. |
| Blossom | phr | "Blossom Out Into" - to flourish, bloom, prosper; finally develop into. |
| Blossomless | adj | Not having or without blossom. |
| Blossomy | adj | Of the nature of, composed of, resembling or pertaining to blossom. |
| Bloom | n | A rough mass of twisted metal. |
| Blow | n | A puff of air. |
| Blow | n | A strong hit, to strike with hand or weapon" is not OE. from mid-15c perhaps from Middle Dutch blouwen "to beat," a common Germanic word of unknown origin; no connection with Old Saxon can be made. NB: This is not an Anglish word. |
| Blow | n | Flower. |
| Blow | vb | To produce a current of air. 2. to propel by an air current. 3. to be propelled by an air currrent. 4. to create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass. 5. to force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means. 6. to clear of contents by forcing air through. 7. to cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument. 8. to make a sound as the result of being blown. 9. to exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding. 10. to explode. 11. to cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed. 11. to cause sudden destruction of. 12. to suddenly fail destructively. 13. to be very undesirable (see also suck). 14. (sl) to recklessly squander. 15. to leave. 16. to spread by report; to publish; to disclose. (obs) to inflate, as with pride; to puff up. 17. to breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff. 18. to put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue. 18. (obs) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm. |
| Blow | vb | To bloom, florish, flower. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow a Kiss" - to kiss one's hand ten blow on the hand in a direction towards the recipients. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Away" - kill, destroy, defeat.? |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Dry" - to dry with a hair-dryer. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Hot and Cold" - be alternatively enthusiastic/ friendly and the the reverse. 2. to vacillate. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow In" - (slang): to visit casually. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Into" - arrive, come into, especially in a noisy way. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Itself Out" - exhaust itself; dwindle to nothing. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Off Steam" - release pent-up energy, feelings and emotions. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow On" - expose; inform, reveal. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow One's Brains Out" - kill oneself by shooting in the head.????? |
| Blow | phr | "Blow One's Horn" - to praise oneself; brag. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow One's Mind" - give or receive, an extreme sensation of pleasure , excitement or shock, especially from taking hallucinatory drugs etc. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow One's Socks Off" - astound, amaze. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow One's Top/Stack" - to lose one's temper; show anger (as a volcano). |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Out" - to incur large expensive and charges. 2. of petroleum vapors escaping from a well and coming to the surface suddenly. 3. be put out, extinguished. 4. to burst as a tyre on a motor vehicle. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Over" - subside, fade away; pass away. 2. cease to excite feeling, no longer be thought important; die down. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Smoke" to say something or speak in way that conceals or hides the truth. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Someone's Mind" - cause hallucinations or mental discomfort or amazement |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Someone Up" - to kill or maim by use of explosives |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Something" - to unintentionally destroy or lose an opportunity. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Something/ Someone Out Of The Water" - to destroy, diminish or dismiss something or someone. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Something Wide Open" - to reveal a secret. 2. as a whistleblower: to report a person improper behavior to the authorities or publicize it. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow the Cobwebs Away" - to revive an old issue; to see an issue more clearly. 2. make the mind and spirit active and lively again. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow the Lid Off Something" - to expose something no matter how embarrassing this might be. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow the Whistle On" - to reveal someone's guilty secret. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow to" - shatter to small pieces by explosion. 2. kill by explosion. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Up" - to lose one's temper with; reprimand severely. 2. to inflate or exaggerate the facts of a matter. 3. of a photograph etc enlarge. 4. arise, work towards a crescendo or crisis. 5. explode or smash to pieces. 6. inflate, pump up. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Upon" - (slang): inform on; expose, reveal, blow on.. |
| Blow | phr | "Have One's Head Blown Off" - to be severely abused.????? |
| Blow | phr | "See Which Way the Wind Blows" - postpone a decision until one has more information. 2. to establish the factors relevant to a situation. |
| Blow | phr | "Blow Something Wide Open" - reveal a secret, scandal. |
| Blow-back | n | The escape from the rear of a gun of gases formed by discharge of the projectile. 2. an unintended consequence. |
| Blow-by | n | The exhaust fumes of a car, truck, etc. 2. a device on a motor vehicle, etc to reduce the amount of escaping fumes |
| Blow-dryer | n | An instance of drying hair with a hair dryer. |
| Blower | n | A person who blows. 2. any device which blows. 3. (sl) - a telephone. 4.a ducted fan, usually part of a heating, ventilation, and/or an air-conditioning system. 5. a braggart or loud-hailer. 6. the whale: so called by seamen, from its habit of spouting up a column. |
| Blow-fly | n | An insect, such as a blue-bottle, which lays or blows its eggs in meat. |
| Blowhard | n | A person who talks too much or too loudly, esp. in a boastful or self-important way. 2. braggart, big-mouth, loudmouth, windbag. |
| Blowhole | n | An opening or one of a pair of openings for breathing, located on the top of the head of whales, dolphins and other similar creatures: muscles open the blowhole when the whale comes to the surface and it is closed by the pressure of water upon diving. 2. a hole in ice to which aquatic mammals, such as dolphins, come to breathe. 3. a vent to allow air or other gas to escape.. |
| Blowpipe | n | In chemistry, a narrow tube through which a jet of air is directed onto a flame, used in the analysis of minerals etc and in jewllry manufacture. 2. a weapon through which darts may be shot by blowing; a blowgun. 3. a narrow, long pipe, rotated in the hands, upon which glassware is blown. |
| Blowth | n | (archaic) - bloom or blossom, blossom collectively; the state of blossoming; compare growth, dryth, slowth, coolth. |
| Blow-up | n | An explosion (physical or emotional). 2. an enlargement of a photo. |
| Blow-up | vb | To explode or be destroyed by explosion. 2. to cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion. 3. to inflate or fill with air. 4. to enlarge or zoom in. 5. to fail disastrously. 6. (slang,) to become popular very quickly. 7. (slang) to suddenly get very angry. 8. slang, to relatively quickly become much more fat or rotund. 9. to inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up. 10. to excite. 11. to scold violently. |
| Blow-up | adj | Inflatable; able to be blown up. |
| Blowy | adj | Windy or breezy. |
| Blue | n | Common terms can be very slippery things and blue is a prime example. Its ultimate source 'bhlewos', seems to have originally meant 'yellow'. Old English had 'blaw' (German:Blau) but it did not survive, and the modern word was borrowed from French. Woad, a blue dye-stuff obtained from the plant 'Isatis tinctoria' is sometimes used for the colour "blue." See: "Blae" A few terms included in this list; but not true Anglish. |
| Blue | phr | "A Blue Film" - an obscene or pornographic film. |
| Blue | phr | "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" - to be faced with two equally unpalatable alternatives which cannot both be avoided. |
| Blue | phr | "Bolt from the Blue" - something totally surprising. |
| Blue | phr | "Come Out of the Blue" - be totally unexpected. |
| Blue | phr | "Feel Blue" - be sad. |
| Blue | phr | "Have The Blues" - be melancholy, depressed, sad. |
| Blue | phr | "Man In Blue" - a policeman. |
| Blue | phr | "Once In a Blue moon" - very rarely. |
| Blue bird | n | A small American passerine bird. |
| Blue blood | n | A person of noble or aristocratic family. |
| Bluestone | n | A durable basalt rock or blue stone used in the construction of buildings. |
| Blush | n | An act or instance of blushing. 2. a type of facial make-up, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks. 3. a reddy-creamy colour. |
| Blush | vb | To redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment. 2. to become red. 3. to suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. 3. to express or make known by blushing. 4. to have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers |
| Blush | phr | "At First Blush" - at first impression or consideration; seeemingly, apparently, ostenibly. |
| Blush | phr | "Blush is off the Rose" - person, object, thing has lost its novelty, freshness, appeal, acceptability. 2. business or te economy is not prospering and ia in a downturn. |
| Blush | phr | "Put to the Blush" - to shame, put to shame, cause to blush or embarrass. |
| Blush | phr | "Spare Someone's Blush" - to save or spare someone from embarrasment. |
| Blusher | n | One who blushes. 2. facial make-up that gives the cheeks a rosier hue. |
| Blushful | adj | Suffused of blush; embarassed. |
| Blushfully | adv | In a blushful manner. |
| Blushfulness | n | The quality of being blushful. |
| Blushing | n | A blush. 2. the act of one who blushes. |
| Blushing bride | n | A bride who is a virgin or lacks sexual experience and is nervous about her wedding night. |
| Blushingly | adv | In a blushing manner or that which becomes a blush. |
| Blushless | adj | Not prone to blushing; shameless. |
| Blushy | adj | Full of blushes or blushlike hues. 2. of a person embarrassed; feeling as one must blush. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Bac | n | Chaplet |
| Bache | n | The vale of a stream or rivulet; a beck |
| Back | prf | Situated, located and towards the rear. 2. backwards or in reverse. 3. in return, again. |
| Back | n | The surface of a river, the waves |
| Back | phr | "Answer Back" - reply with cheek. |
| Back | phr | "At One's Back" - following closely. |
| Back | phr | "At the Back of" - ultimately responsible. |
| Back | phr | "At the Back of One's Mind" - remaining, but not prominent, in one's thoughts. |
| Back | phr | "Back and Fill" - a nautical term denoting a mode o tacking when the tide is with the vessel and the wind against it. 2. metaphorically, to be irresolute. |
| Back | phr | "Back and Fore" - back and forth; to and fro. |
| Back | phr | "Back and Forth" - an exchange of words, view. 2. reciprocity, give and take. 3. to and fro; from one place to another and back again. |
| Back | phr | "Back at You" - used to return a greeting or insult, 'you're an idiot.' |
| Back | phr | "Back Away"- to retreat or move in an opposite direction, whilst keeping your attention to things or situations. |
| Back | phr | "Back Down" - withdraw (charges), retreat. 2. relinquish give up any claim to something. |
| Back | phr | "Back In" - to reverse a vehicle into a space, to back into. |
| Back | phr | "Back Into" - drive a vehicle backwards into something (another vehicle, barrier etc), especially through carelessness or inexperience. |
| Back | phr | "Back of Beyond" - a very remote, or inaccessible, place or location. |
| Back | phr | "Back of the Day" - in the past. 2. at one time, esp. a time which is fondly remembered. |
| Back | phr | "Back Off" - back away a vehicle from a position too close to something else. 2. back down or retreat from a stance in some matter or situation. |
| Back | phr | "Back Onto" - to reverse a vehicle onto something. 2. to overlook something from the rear. 3. have at its back; face at the back. |
| Back | phr | "Back Out of" - withdraw from an undertaking, promise, contract, agreement. |
| Back | phr | "Back the Field" - in horse racing, to be against a horse or particular horse, that some or all the other horses, collectively called "the field." |
| Back | phr | "Back the Right Horse" - support at the beginning (with a bet) a horse, person, team, etc that eventually wins. |
| Back | phr | "Back the Wrong Horse" - support at the beginning (with a bet) a horse, person, team, etc that eventuallyloses. |
| Back | phr | "Back to the Drawing Board" - back to the beginning, or start, following a failed or unsuccessful attempt. |
| Back | phr | "Back to the Land" - a catchphrase applied to projects for turning some of the dwellers in crowded cities into rural settlers. |
| Back | phr | "Back Up" - to support, sustain, as to back up one's family, friend or team-mates. |
| Back | phr | "Back Water" - to retard the progress or reverse the motion of a vessel by reversing the action of the oars or of the propelling machinery. |
| Back | phr | "Bane is the Back of the Brother-less Man" - everyone is vulnerable unless he has a friend. |
| Back | phr | "Be Home on the Sheep's Back" - to be doing well because of your involvement in sheep-farming. |
| Back | phr | "Be On The Back Foot" - to be in a defensive posture. 2. (lit & fig)-to be off-balance. |
| Back | phr | "Behind One's Back" - secretly; treacherously. |
| Back | phr | "Break the Back of" - complete the larger part of. |
| Back | phr | "By the Back Stairs" - in an unofficial way, indirectly. |
| Back | phr | "Fed Up to the Back Teeth" - very tired of angry about something. 2. extremely bored. |
| Back | phr | "Get Back on One's Feet" - to recover from an illness or some other setback. |
| Back | phr | "Get Off Somebody's Back" - stop harassing somebody. |
| Back | phr | "Get One's Back Up" - provoke somebody into anger, obstinacy, annoy. |
| Back | phr | "Get One's Own Back (On Somebody)" - to extract one's revenge. |
| Back | phr | "Give the Shirt Off One's Back" - of a person who is very generous. |
| Back | phr | "Glad to See the Back of" - be pleased when somebody leaves or finish. |
| Back | phr | "Go Back On" - change one's mind, contradict. |
| Back | phr | "Go Back On One's Word" - to withdraw from what has promised. |
| Back | phr | "Go Behind Someone's Back" - act in a way that deliberately conceals an activity from someone. |
| Back | phr | "Hang Back" - be reluctant to go forward. |
| Back | phr | "Have a Broad Back" - be willing, able to blame for the errors of others. |
| Back | phr | "Have Eyes in the Back of One's Head" - to know more of what's going on than is generally realized. |
| Back | phr | "Have No Backbone" - lacking courage. |
| Back | phr | "Have One's Back to the Wall" - a very difficult situation with no beneficial options available for acting upon. 3. in difficulties with no retreat |
| Back | phr | "In Back of" - behind, to the rear of |
| Back | phr | "In Through the Back Door" - in an unofficial way; indirectly. 2. secretly without formal permission. |
| Back | phr | "Laid On One's Back" - laid up with ill-health; helpless. |
| Back | phr | "Lean Over Backwards" - take great trouble to be accommodating or helpful. |
| Back | phr | "Like the Back of One's Hand" - intimately; extremely well and in detail. |
| Back | phr | "Like Water off a Duck's Back" - without any effect. |
| Back | phr | "Make a Rod For ne's Back" - cause trouble for oneself by one's own actions. |
| Back | phr | "On One's Back" - harassed by others. 2. bedridden or disabled. |
| Back | phr | "On the Backburner" - receiving little attention. |
| Back | phr | "On the Back of Something" - by virtue of something. |
| Back | phr | "Put One's Back Into" - make a strenuous physical effort. |
| Back | phr | "Put Someone on the Back Foot" - to cause a person to adopt a lower profile. |
| Back | phr | "Put Something Back on its Feet" - to repair something. |
| Back | phr | "Ride on the Sheep's Back" - to benefit from the production of wool. |
| Back | phr | "See the Back of" - to get rid of; be finished with. |
| Back | phr | "Take a Back Seat" - take a position of lesser importance, responsibility in the dealing or management of affairs. |
| Back | phr | "Talk Through the Back of one's Neck" - talk nonsense. |
| Back | phr | "Thrown on One's Back" - completely beaten. A figure taken from wrestling. |
| Back | phr | "To the Backbone" - absolutely, unquestioningly. |
| Back | phr | "To the Back Of" - behind, at the back of. |
| Back | phr | "Turn One's Back On" - to decline to further assist or deal with a person. |
| Back | phr | "With One's Hand Tied Behind One's Back" - very easily. |
| Backache | n | Continuous pain in the back. |
| Back-along | adv | Back in the direction of time. |
| Back-answer | n | An answering back, reply, retort, repartee. |
| Back answer | vb | To reply, answer back, retort. |
| Back-beat | n | Any of the even musical beats, as opposed to odd downbeats. |
| Back bench | n | In the House of Legislative according to the Westminster system. 2. any bench behind either of the front benchs and occupied by rank-and-file politicians. |
| Backbencher | n | An MP. without a ranking in cabinets, and therefore sits on one of the bank benches or rows of the legislation. |
| Back-berend | adj | Bearing on the back. 2. In OE. law used to describe a thief caught in the act of carrying off of stolen property. (sometimes modernized to back-bearing.) |
| Back-bite | vb | To wound by clandestine detraction. 2. to censure meanly or spitefully a person who is not present.3. to slander or speak evil of someone absent. 4. to censure or revile the absent. |
| Back-biter | n | A secret calumninator or detractor. |
| Back-biting | n | Secret slander, detraction, calumniator. |
| Back-bitingly | adv | In a secret, mean or detracting way or manner. |
| Backblow | n | A blow struck from the back or from behind. |
| Backboard | n | A board which supports the back when one is sitting. 2. a board serving as a back part of anything, spec. a wagon. |
| Backbone | n | The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals. 2. spine, sinal column, vertrbral column. 3. any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure, as railways. 4. courage, fortitude, or strength |
| Backboned | adj | Vertebrated, spined. |
| Backboneless | adj | Destitute of strength, character; weak |
| Backboneless-ness | n | The state or condition of having no backbone. 2. weakness, timidity, cowardness. |
| Back-breaker | n | A strenuous, taxing exhausting backbreaking task. |
| Back-breaking | adj | Arduous, as 'back-breaking work.' |
| Back-breakingly | adv | In a backbreaking manner |
| Back-burning | n | The act of lighting a controlled fire in the path of a bush fire or a forest fire, in order to starve it of combustible fuel. |
| Back-cloth | n | Stage backdrop, painted black to depict secenery. |
| Back-cloth star | n | An actor who stands upstage, making the other actors to face him, and with their backs to the audience, in order to gain more attention too himself. |
| Backcomb | vb | To hold the hair away from the head and comb it towards the back. |
| Backcome | n | Return, arrive back, comeback. |
| Back-coming | n | Return |
| Back-door | n | An entrance at the rear of a building. 2. a secret or underhanded means of access. |
| Back-door | vb | To undermine someone in a cunning and sneaking way. |
| Back-door | adj | Secret, clandestine, unworthy. 2. acting from behind and in concealment. 3. backstabbing, as in a backdoor intrigue. |
| Backdown | n | Complete surrender of claims. 2. a retreat from a position taken up or from a stand or stated position. 3. a retraction from a previous held position. 4. a withdrawal, climb-down, a giving-up. |
| Back down | vb | To retreat from a position previously held. 2. to withdraw, climb down from, give up. 3. to surrender rights, claims, position. |
| Backdraft | n | Back-draft, a reverse drawing or movement of air, gas liquid. 2. an explosion that occurs when air reaches a fire that has used up all available oxygen, often occurring when a door is opened to a room the fire. |
| Back-drop | n | Scenery hung at the back of a stage. 2. in USA, theatrical argot. 3. the background, or that which is going on behind the scene in a situation, incident, confrontation.. |
| Backed | adj | Provided with a back; having a back, background, or backing, used particularly in compositions, e.g. broad-backed. 2. supported at the back, seconded, endorsed, abetted, betted on, marked. 3. broken into the saddle. 4. printed on the back. 5. moved or laid back. |
| Backen | vb | To put, keep, throw or lay back. 2. retard 9in progress.) 3. to draw back. |
| Back-end | n | Of things with two ends. 2. in the latter part or end of a season or a season of the year, such as a late autumn (of the back-end of fall.) |
| Backening | n | The action or drawing or moving back. |
| Backening | adj | Keeping back, retarding growth of (vegetables, crops) |
| Backer | n | One who, or that which, backs. 2. a supporter; esp., one who bets on horses or some other event. 3. one who supports by money or credit. 4. one who finances the production and staging of a play or film. |
| Backer | adj | Farther, hinder, posterior. |
| Backermore | adv | Farther back, more to the rear. |
| Backermost | ppl | Hindermost. |
| Backfall | ppl | A 'grace' in old English music. 2. a fall or the throw on the back inwrestling. |
| Backfallen | n | One who falls back; a renegade, |
| Backfill | n | The material that has been used to refill an excavation. 2. reserve-support personnel. 3. that which backfills, a replacement. 4. material in a story set earlier in the past, providing history or context for the current action. |
| Backfill | vb | To refill a hole with the material dug out of it. 2. to refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and then to pressure the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated. 3. to provide reserve support. 4. to replenish, to restock due to attrition or loss. |
| Back-filling | n | The action of refilling a hole with the material dug out of it. 2. action of refilling an excavation to its former state. 3. the providing of reserve support. 4. replenishment, restoration. |
| Backfire | n | A fire purposely lit ahead of an advancing bush-fire, field or prairie in order to deprive it of fuel and so to extinguish it. 2. a premature ignition or explosion in an internal-combustion engine of a car, etc. |
| Backfire | n | A controlled fire set in the way of a large, out-of-controlled wildfire, or bush fire in order to limit the spread of the large fire by removing its fuel. 2. an explosion of a combustion engine. |
| Back-firing | n | The premature ignition or explosion of an internal combustion engine. |
| Back flow | n | The flow of fluid through a pipe in a direction opposite to that which is normal or intended. |
| Back flow | vb | To flow in the opposite direction. |
| Back foot | vb | To be on the back foot. 2. to be in a defensive posture; off balance (lit.& fig.) |
| Backfriend | n | A pretended or false friend. 2. a friend who does not step forward to help and assist. 3. an enemy or foe who feigns friendship. 4. a secret or not openly avowed enemy. |
| Back-ganging | n | Backgain, a going-back, a returning, back-going. 2. a retrograde step, esp. in health, circumstances, or conditions, a relapse. |
| Back-ganging | adj | Behind or late in payment; in arrears. 2. not thriving or prosperous. |
| Backgate | n | A gate at the rear of a property. |
| Back-going | n | Returning, going back, backggain. see 'back-ganging.' |
| Background | n | One's social heritage; what one did in the past/previously. 2. a part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context. 3. information relevant to the current situation about past events; history. 4. less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground). 5. the image or color, over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows). 6. activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user. |
| Background | vb | To form a background to or in relation to. 2. to put in the background, to make hard to see or inonspicious. 3. to tell someone or 'fill in' the background of the circumstances relating to a particular situation, esp. its cause, history, likely outcome. |
| Background | phr | "Keep in the Background" - be deliberately inconspicuous. |
| Backgrounded | adj | Moved to the backgrounded. 2. in computing: made interactive. 3. that which is provided as information, reasons, explanation etc. for course of action, present situation or likely outcome. |
| Back-grounder | n | A handout of information in the form of publicity material backgrounding the reasons etc., for a decision or course of action. 2. a media conference or interview which outlines and explains the background of an organisation and it policies. |
| Back-half | n | Backside, rear, back part. |
| Backhand | n | The reverse side of the human hand. 2. a shot made in tennis. 3. handwrting that leans to the left. |
| Backhand | vb | To hit or strike with back of the hand. 2. to execute a backhand shot or throw. 3. to slap with the back of the hand. |
| Back-handed | adj | With the back of the hand. 2. directed backwards, or oon the hand or arm crossing the body. 3. keeping back ones's hand, backwards, remissing. 4. indirect. |
| Backhander | n | A blow or stroke with the back of the hand, a backhand. 2. a tip or a bribe made surreptitously, a secret payment. |
| Back-handedly | adv | In an indirect or back-handed manner. |
| Backhanded-ness | n | The quality of being back-handed. 2. the use of tactics |
| Backhoe | n | A piece of excavating and earth-moving equipment with a bucket on the end of an articulating arm. 2. in Australia and Canada, a multi-purpose tractor. |
| Backhouse | n | A building which situates or is found at the back of the main building. 2. a privy or outdoor toilet. |
| Backhoe | vb | To excavate using a backhoe. |
| Backing | n | The act or action of giving support to someone or something. 2. the mounting of horses; the breaking-in of a colt. 2. a motion or movement backwards; espof the wind in a direction contrawise to the sun's. |
| Backing | phr | "Backing and Filling" - of a ship, drifting back and forth without making progress. |
| Backing | phr | "Backing Out" - the action of rversing a vehicle from a confined space. 2. to withdraw from something one has agreed to do. 3. to dare someone not to withdraw from achallenge. 4. in computing, to undo a change. |
| Backing-off | n | Imparting a clearance back from the edge of tools and cutter , such as reamers and milling cutters. |
| Backland | n | The back tract or part of a piece of land. 2. a building constructed behind the main building. |
| Backless | adj | Without or not having a back, often applied to a woman's dress or gown cut low at the back. |
| Backlight | n | A spotlight that illumines a photographic subject frm behind. 2. a rear window of a motor car. |
| Backlight | vb | To illuminate something from behind; backlit. |
| Back-load | n | The amount that can be carried on the back. |
| Backload | vb | To load towards the back, or towards the end of a period. 2. to load cargo, shipment, etc., after the loading has been completed. |
| Back-looking | n | A looking back (lit & fig.) 2. looking into or to the past. 3. backwar looking. |
| Backman | n | Follower, retainer, attendant. |
| Back marker | n | A competitor in a race, etc. who concedes a start or an initial advantage to his opponents. |
| Backness | n | In phonetics: quality of being a back vowel. 2. any vowel sound produced in the back of the mouth. |
| Back-of-beyond | n | An Australian phrase describing the vast inland spaces, The Outback. |
| Back out | n | An act of withdrawing from a position. 2. inclination to back out or withdraw. |
| Back over | n | An accident in which a driver reverses a motor vehicle over an unseen person. |
| Back read | vb | To interpret what one has read previously in light of later experience and knowledge. |
| Back-reckoning | n | A reckoning for past transactions or deeds. |
| Back-rest | n | The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back. |
| Back road | n | A minor or secondary road, often through a rural area and sometimes used as an alternate to a main road. |
| Backroom | n | A room near the rear of a premise, esp. one only accessible to a priveleged few and that can be used as an inconspicious meetin place. |
| Backroom | adj | Of, relating to, or happening or dealing in a backroom.2. characterized by secrecy or anonymity. |
| Back seat | n | Any of the seats in the rear of a vehicle, theatre, hall, auditorium etc. |
| Backseat driver | n | A person sitting in the backseat of a motor vehicle giving unasked for and usually unwanted advice or instructions to the driver. 2. a self-opiniated or opinion-ridden individual who gives unasked-for advice on the best way to handle or solve a problem. |
| Backshadowing | n | A literary device in which the writer shows how an event that has already occurred affects the future. 2. life must be lived looking forward, but can only be understood looking back. |
| Back-settler | n | One who lives in the back settlements of a colony or new country. 2. a settler living in the backwoods. |
| Backshop | n | A small and usually private shop behind the main one. 2. a secret place of business or intrigue. |
| Back-sight | n | |
| Backside | n | Hinder or back part. 2. behind or rear. 2. the back premises, backyard. 3. out-building, attached to a dwelling. 4. posterior or rump. 5. the under surface of a leaf. 6. the reverse side of a document, page, book, etc. 7. the wrong side, the opposite or reverse side. |
| Back-sitter | n | One who sits back or takes no stand on situations or matters. 2. a fence-sitter (fig.) |
| Back-sitting | n | Sitting back, fence-sitting, non-committal. |
| Back-slide | vb | To regress, to slip backwards or revert to a previous worse state. 2. to shirk responsibilty, renege on one's obligation or commitment. |
| Back-slider | n | An apostate, renegade, recividist. 2. one who falls away from an adopted course, esp in a religious sense. |
| Backsliding | n | An occasion on which one backslides, in a moral sense. 2. recividism. |
| Back-sliding | adj | The act of sliding back, reneging, shirking one's responsibilities and duties. 3. recividal. |
| Back-spin | n | Reverse rotation of a round object that is moving forward, causing it to rebound. |
| Backstairs | n | A staircase at the back of a building, normally used by servants and tradesmen. 2. an indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse. |
| Backstairs | adj | Clandestine, secret, furtive. 2. scandalous. |
| Backstand | n | Support. |
| Back-step | n | A retrograde movement |
| Back-stop | n | A device that prevents railroad cars from rolling off a railroad track. |
| Back-stop | vb | To serve as a backstop for. 2. to bolster support. |
| Back straight | n | The straight part of a running track or similar, as opposed to the finishing line or home straight. |
| Back street | n | Associated with neighourhood situated on back streets, often in old neighborhood with poorer residents. |
| Back-stretch | n | That part of a race course farthest from the spectators; opposite of home stretch. |
| Backstroke | n | A swimming stroke done lying on one's back. |
| Backswept | adj | Swept or pushed back. |
| Back-talk | n | Back chat. 2. a retort or reply which is regarded as superfluous or impertinence. |
| Back-to-back | adj | Of houses withh a party wall at the back or rear. 2. consecutive. |
| Back-to-back | adv | With backs adjacent and opposite to each other. |
| Back tooth | n | A molar. |
| Back-to-the-lander | n | A city dweller turn into a rural settler. |
| Back-town | n | One-horse town, hicksville, boondocks |
| Back-up | n | A reserve or substitute reinforcements. 2. a copy of a computer file, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is damaged or destroyed. 3 a stand-in or spare. 4. in computing - that which is intended as a back-up. 5. an accumulation of material that halts the flow or movement of something, such as water or liquid. |
| Back up | adj | Who, or that which, stands in, stands for, stands by orin reserve. |
| Backward | vb | To put or keep in a backward position. 2. to delay or retard. |
| Backward | adv | To go backward, recede, retreat. 2. to relapse, backslide. |
| Backward | adj | Rear-guard, rearward. |
| Backward | phr | "Backward in Coming Forward" - hestitate, shy, reserved, timid in dealing with difficult people and situations. |
| Backward-bending | adj | Able to bend backwards. |
| Backwarding | n | The action of going backwards. |
| Backward-looking | adj | Nostalgically romantic. |
| Backwardly | n | In a backwards direction. 2. again, over again. 3. perversely. 4. reluctantly, sluggishly, |
| Backwardness | n | Retardation, regression. 2. something of being behind in progress or preparation. 3. the backward state of the seasons or crops. 4. reluctance, disinclination, slowness of conception, sluggishness, bashfulness, slow mental alertness. |
| Backwards | adv | Going or moving backwards or to the rear. |
| Backwards | phr | "Bend Over Backwards" - to go a to a great trouble to accommodate another person's wishes. |
| Backwards | phr | "Know Backwards" - be entirely familiar with. |
| Backwards | phr | "Not Backwards in Coming Forward" - attention seeking; not shy or withdrawn. |
| Backwards | phr | "Take a Step Backwards" - move further away from one's goals. |
| Backwash | n | The motion of a receding wave. 2. a backward current (also, transfig & fig.) |
| Backwash | vb | To effect with backwash (about e.g. with that from the oars of a boat in front. 2. a consequence (slang). |
| Backwater | n | The water held back by a dam or other obstruction. 2. a remote place, remaining somewhat unaffected unaffected by new events, progressions, ideas. |
| Backwater | vb | To row or paddle a backward stroke. 2. to vacillate on a long-held position. |
| Back-waterish | n | Like a backwater; retrograde. |
| Backway | n | A by-path. 2. away at the back or leading to the back, of any place; hence, an indirect way, an about way. |
| Backwoodish | adj | Somewhat like something or someone from the backwards. |
| Backwoodish-ness | n | State or quality typical of something or someone from the backwoods. |
| Backwoods | n | Wild, uncleared forest land. 2. a remote or sparsely inhabited region. |
| Backwoodsy | adj | Of the nature of the backwoods. |
| Backword | n | Withdraw from a promise or from an accepted invitation. 2. a contradiction, a rude answer. |
| Backwort | n | Old name for comfrey; symphylum officinale. |
| Backyard | n | A yard at the back or rear of a house or bulding. 2. a person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's home or place of work, and where the person is likely to go. 3. an area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest. |
| Backyard | phr | "Not in My Backyard" - a person who supports an idea or project but does not want it taking place or being constructed near his place or residence. |
| Badling | n | A hermaphrodite. 2.womanish or effeminate man. 3. thug |
| Baft | adv | Of place: behind, to the rear of, aft. 2. in later use only nautical : astern, aft, abaft. 3. of time: later, afterwards. |
| Bairn | n | Child: son or daughter (expressing relatioship, rather than age.) |
| Bairn | phr | "A Shy Bairn Gets Nowt" - if you are too shy, and don't ask, you won't get what yo want. |
| Bairn-bed | n | Womb |
| Bairn-dole | n | Child's portion; a smaller amount. |
| Bairnhood | n | Childhood, infancy, cradlehood. |
| Bairnish | adj | Childish, peurile. |
| Bairnishness | n | The state or quality of being childlike. |
| Bairn-less | adj | Without child or off-spring; childless. |
| Bairn-like | adj | Childlike. |
| Bairnly | adv | In a childlike manner; child-like, in childhood, puerilely. |
| Bairn-team | n | Brood of children, off-spring, family, posterity. |
| Bake | n | The act or process, result of baking. 2. a biscuit. |
| Bake | vb | To cook (something) in an oven. 2. to dry by heat. 3. to prepare food by baking it. 4. to be baked to heating or drying. 5. to be hot. 6. to smoke marijuana. 7. to harden by cold. |
| Bake-apple | n | The dried fruit of the cloudberry. |
| Baked-beans | n | A food consisting of beans taken or stewed in a usually tomato-sauce. |
| Bakerdom | n | Condition or state of being a baker. |
| Baked goods | n | Bread, cakes, biscuits or similar food stuffs that are baked. |
| Bakehouse | n | Bread making house or shop. |
| Bakemeal | n | A pie or pastie. |
| Baker | n | One who bakes and sells bread and cakes. |
| Bakerly | adj | Baker-like, after the manner of a baker. |
| Baker's Knee | n | Knocked knee. |
| Bakery | adj | Resembling or like a baker. |
| Bakeship | n | Skill as a baker. |
| Bake-shop | n | Bakery, bakehouse, baker's shop. |
| Bakestone | n | A flat stone or slate on what cakes are baked in a oven, 2. a plate of iron used for the same purpose. |
| Bakeware | n | Cooking equipment intended for use inside an an oven. 2. tins, trays, and other items for baking. |
| Baking | n | An action or way in which something is baked. 2. |
| Baking | adj | Intended in use in baking. 2. fig. of a person, the weather, of an object, very hot. |
| Bakingly | adv | So as to bake, baking hot (lit & fig.) |
| Bald | adj | Without hair on the head. 2. without natural covering or growth,as a mountain. 3. unadorned; without embellishments. 4. without disguise. 5. having white feathers or fur on the head, as the bald eagle. |
| Bald | phr | "Go For Someone Baldheaded" - that is, without constraint or compunction, probably dating from the days when men wore wigs, and any any energetic action or fray required that the wig should thrown away. |
| Baldhead | n | One whose head is bald. |
| Bald-headed | adj | Having a bald head. |
| Bald-headed | adv | US. colloquially. roughly, precipitately: 'to go at something bald-headed.' |
| Balding | adj | To grow bold. |
| Baldness | n | The state or condition of being bald. |
| Baldy | adj | Having a bald head. |
| Bale | n | Evil, esp. considered in its active operation, as destroying, injury, hurting, paining, formerly fatal. 2. dire or malign in quality or influence; harm, injury; woe, destruction, mischief. 3. in earlier use: after death, infliction of death. 4. evil speaking, abuse. 5. evil in its passive aspect, physical suffering, torment, pain, woe. 6. mental suffering, misery, sorrow, grief. |
| Bale | n | A great consuming fire, a conflagration, blazing pile, a bonfire. 2. a funeral pile of pyre. 3. a signal or beacon fire. |
| Bale | phr | "Bale and Boot" - Pain and remedy. |
| Bale | phr | "Brew Bale" - to make mischief, prepare woe or misery, opposed alliteratively to bliss, blithe. |
| Bale | phr | "When the Bale is Highest Boot Is Nighest" - based of an Old Icelandic provrb meaning when things have come to the worst, they must need mend. |
| Balecraft | n | Magic, black magic, sorcery. |
| Bale-death | adj | Sin. |
| Bale-fire | n | Holocaust; any great fire. 2. a great fire in the air. 3. a blazing pile, a heap kindled to consume everything. 4. a fire kindled as as signal, a beacon fire. |
| Baleful | adj | Full of malign. 2. deadly or noxious influence. 3. noxious, pernicious, destructive. 4. full of pain or suffering, painful. 5. unhappy, switched, wretched, miserable, distressed, sorrowful, mournful. |
| Balefully | adv | Injuriously, hurtfully, in a baleful manner, sadly, miserably. |
| Balefulness | n | Baleful condition or quality. 2. hurtfulness, distress, sadness. |
| Baleless | adj | Harmless, innocent |
| Bale-rope | n | The gallow's rope, the deadly rope, the gallows. |
| Bale-sithe | n | Expedition, adventure. 2. fortune, lot. 3. death, destruction. 3. evil-doing, mischief, evil-fortune, calamity. |
| Bale-spell | n | Fatal news. |
| Bale-stour | n | Tumult, battle. 2. fatal struggle, death throes. |
| Bale-think | n | Malicious thought or thinking. |
| Balk | n | A baulk, ridge, esp. between furrows; a ridge left after ploughing. 2. a ridge in the way, a dividing ridge, obstacle, hindrance, check or defeat, a (sand)bar, stumbling block. 3. a disappointment, baulk (balk) 4. a dividing ridge of land; an isthmus, a heap or mound; a grave mound. 5. a baulk (balk), a strip of ground left unploughed as a boundary between two ploughed partitions. 6. a piece of land left unplowed either carelessly or accidentally. |
| Balk | n | A beam of timber or wood. 2 a tie-beam of a house. 3. a cross-beam or bar in a chimney or kiln. 4. a partition (late OE.) 5. a gang-way of a ship. |
| Balk | vb | To plough up or make ridges in ploughing. 2. pass over; to pass by a place , avoid in passing, shun 3. to pass over, overlook, refrain from noticing (what comes in one's way). 4. shirk, ignore, avoid responsiblity or duty, let slip, fail to use or sieze, keep, reach. 5. to refuse anything offered (e.g. food or drink) 6. stop at an obstacle, hestitate, jib, refuse to go on. 7. to miss or omit intentionally. 8. to lie out of the way. 9 to miss by error or inadvertence. 10. check, hinder, thwart, obstruct, foil, render unsuccessful. 11. to meet arguments with objects; quibble; bandy about words. 12. to disappoint expectations. |
| Balk | phr | "Make Balk" - to blunder, go wrong, slip up. 2. an omission or exception. |
| Balk | phr | "Make a Balk of Good Ground" - to waste or throw away a good chance. 2. to let an opportunity slip by. |
| Balk | phr | "Balk At" - hestitate or refuse to face or accept; jib at. |
| Balked | adj | Ridged, ribbed, heaped up, piled in heaps. 2. checked, foiled, disappointed. |
| Balkiness | n | The quality of being balky. |
| Balking | n | The action of balking. |
| Balkish | adj | Characterized by ridges, uneven, rough. |
| Balky | adj | (Usu. of a horse) - reluctant to proceed, jibbish. 2. contrary. perverse |
| Balkmonger | n | The maker or dealer of or in timber beams, spec. cross-beams stretching from wall to wall. |
| Balk-yard | n | Timber yard |
| Ballockwort | n | Orchis. |
| Ban | n | Formal or authoritative prohibition (on smoking etc). 2. tacit prohibition by public opinion. 3. a sentence of outlawry. 4. a curse or execration. |
| Ban | vb | To prohibit; forbid. |
| Bane | n | A slayer, murderer, one who causes death and destruction of another. 2. that which causes death and destruction. 3. that which is destructive to life and well-being |
| Bane | phr | "Bane is the Back of the Brotherless Man" - everyone is vulnerable unless he has a friend. |
| Bane | phr | "Bane of One's Life" - somebody someone that causes continually causes worry or trouble to another or others. |
| Baneberry | n | The poisonous berry of any species of Actaea |
| Baneful | adj | Life destroying, pernicious esp. poisonous. Cognates: banefulness, banefully |
| Banefully | adv | In a hurtful or pernicious manner. |
| Banefulness | n | The quality of being baneful or injurious. |
| Bane-ivy | n | A tenacious creeping plant with invasive weed-like qualities. |
| Baneless | adj | Innocent, harmless |
| Banesman | n | Murderer, killer, assassin |
| Banewort | n | Ranuculus fiammula, belladona, deadly nightshade. 2. ranunculus |
| Bannock | n | A round flat loaf, usually unleavened. |
| Banns | n | A notice read out on three successive sundays in a parish church, announcing an intended marriage and giving the opportunity for objections. |
| Banns | phr | "Forbid the Banns" - an objection to an intended marriage, esp. in church following the reading of the banns. |
| Bare | adj | Completely unclothed; without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked;naked from the waist up" au naturel, naked, nude. 2. with head uncovered; bareheaded. 3. lacking in amplitude or quantity; scanty, spare. 3. not having a protective covering; unsheathed. 4: lacking its natural or customary covering. 5. just barely adequate or within a lower limit; marginal. 6. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; mere, simple. 7. lacking a surface finish such as paint, unfinished. 8. providing no shelter or sustenance; barren, bleak, desolate, stark. 9. having everything extraneous removed including contents, stripped, destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished;as, a room bare of furniture. 10. lacking embellishment or ornamentation; plain, bare, spare, plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; threadbare, much worn,meager, unembellished, unornamented. 11. without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed. 12. mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else. |
| Bare | vb | To lay bare; publicize, 2. publicize, air, bare. 3. lay bare; denude, strip. 4. to strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast. |
| Bare | n | Surface; body; substance, as in 'You have touched the very bare of naked truth. 2. In architecture that part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather. |
| Bare | phr | "Bare Bones Of" - of a story; nothing but the essentail details of |
| Bare | phr | "Bare of (Something)" - without, not having something that is normally, or at other times, present, as a tree, flower; protection. |
| Bare | phr | "Bare One's Heart" - to make oneself vulnerable. |
| Bare | phr | "Bare One's Soul" - to reveal one's innermost feelings and thoughts , esp. concerning one's doubts, regrets, flaws. 2. to tell one's personal secrets to others. 3. |
| Bare | phr | "Bare One's Teeth" - as an animal: to show one's teeth as a sign of an aggression. 3. to show one's aggression. |
| Bare | phr | "Bare Outline of" - bare bones of; of a story, matter etc nothing but the essential details. |
| Bare | phr | "The Cupboard is Bare" - the wished-for resources are just not there. |
| Bare | phr | "With One's Bare Hands" - without using tools or weapons. |
| Bare-arse | n | The bird: the Little Grebe |
| Bare arse | adj | With buttocks exposed. 2. by extension: stark naked. |
| Bareback | adv | Riding without a saddle. 2. unsaddled |
| Bare back | vb | To ride without a saddle or unsaddled. |
| Bare backed | adj | Riding without a saddle. |
| Bare-bitten | adj | Bitten to a state of bareness. |
| Bare-bone | n | A skinny lean person. |
| Bare boned | adj | Of person: slim, not fleshy, very lean, emaciated. |
| Bare bones | n | A very lean person esp. one who bones show through the skin. 2. to the essential elements of something, described without going into details. |
| Bare-bottomed | adj | Having an uncovered bottom. 2. stark naked. 3. blatant, unashamed. 4. of objects: having an uncovered base or seat. |
| Bare-breasted | adj | Of a woman: having the breast and nipples exposed (usually implying a less salacious atmosphere than the word 'topless.' |
| Bare-chested | adj | Shirtless, without upper body clothing. |
| Bared | adj | Made bare, exposed to view. 2. stripped, denuded, cleared of covering |
| Bare-fallowed | adj | Left to fallow for one year. 2. (fig.) rested to recover from over-use. |
| Bare-fallowing | n | The action of resting land from production. |
| Bare-footed | adj | Not wearing or with nothing on the feet. 2. without shoes or socks. 3. of a vehicle on an icy road without snow chains. 4. shoeless, unshod, unshoed, not having anything on the feet. |
| Barefootedness | n | The condition or state of being without foot-coverings. |
| Bare-footing | n | Water-skiing without skis (on bare feet). |
| Barehanded | adj | With the hands bare. 2. having no coverings on the hands, without wearing no gloves. 3. without tools or weapons. |
| Barehandedly | adv | In one's bare hands. 2. without tools or weapons. |
| Bare-headed | adj | Having no covering on the head. |
| Bare-headedly | adv | In a bare-headed state. |
| Bare-headedness | n | The state or position of being without a head covering. |
| Barehide | n | A skin or hide with the hair removed. |
| Bare-knuckled | adj | Fighting without boxing gloves; barefisted. 2. severe, implacable. |
| Barely | adv | By a small margin. 2. a degree almost not all. 3. merely. hardly, scarely, just. 4. nakedly, without covering, nude. |
| Bareman | n | A bankrupt or 'broken man.' |
| Barenecked | adj | Having the neck bared. |
| Bareness | n | Nakedness, nudity, the state of being bare. |
| Bare-shouldered | adj | Of a woman's garment- not showing the shoulders. 2. off-the-shoulder. |
| Bargh | n | Low detached ridge, hill, steep hill, road up a hill. 2. a mine. From OE. beorgh, beorh: mount |
| Bark | vb | To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs. 2. to make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. 3. to speak sharply. 4. to latrate (obsolete) |
| Bark | n | The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog. 2. similar sound made by some other animals. 3. (figuratively) an abrupt loud vocal utterance. |
| Bark | phr | "Bark Against the Moon" - to clamor or agitate, mostly with little or no effect. |
| Bark | phr | "Barking Dogs Seldom Bite" - people who big threats never usually carry them out. |
| Bark | phr | "Bark Up the Wrong Tree" - to do, believe or pursue something wrong, or inappropriate branch. 2. to take a wrong approach. 3. to follow a false lead. 4. to blame or rebuke the wrong person. (an allusion for a situation in which a hunting dog mistakingly identifies the tree up which it has chased and positions itself at the foot of another tree, barking upward at the branch.) |
| Bark | phr | "Bark Worse than His Bite"" - not as bad, aggressive, ill-tempered than he gives the appearance of being. |
| Bark | phr | "Don't Keep a Dog and Bark Too" - don't employ somebody to do a job and do it yourself. |
| Barker | n | Some or something that barks. 2. a person who job it is entice customers by calling out to passers-by; eg. as a at carnival or outside a store. 3. a shelf-talker: a printed card affixed to a shelf in a store or super-market to draw attention to a specific item. 4. a speiler. 5. a pistol, gun. |
| Barking | adj | Who or that which barks. 2. short for 'barking mad.' 3. the action of barking. |
| Barking | adv | With barking sounds. |
| Barking | phr | "Barking Dogs Seldom Bite" - people who big threats never usually carry them out. |
| Barking deer | n | Muntjac. |
| Barking iron | n | A pistol, gun. |
| Barkingly | adv | In a barking manner. |
| Barking spider | n | An australian spider 'Selenacosmia crassipes' - which makes a hissing sound when disturbed. 2. an audible case or instance of flatulence. |
| Barkless | adj | Of a dog: that never no bark or rarely does so. |
| Barky | adj | Prone to barking. 2. to sound like a dog. 4. sounding like a barky cough. |
| Barley | n | Cereal of the species 'Hordeum vulgare' - or its grains often used as food to make beer and other malt drinks. |
| Barley corn | n | A grain of barley. 2. the length of such grain with unit of length approximately one-third of an inch (8cm.) still used as a basis for shoes sizes. |
| Barley-hood | n | A state of drunkenness or ill-humor or temper, brought on by an excess drinking of alcoholic beverages. |
| Barley-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of barley. |
| Barley-meal | n | Coarse flour. |
| Barley water | n | A soft drink made by boiling pearl barley in water, and adding flavouring and sugar. 2. a decoction of barley used as a nutritive and demulcent. |
| Barm | n | A bosom, lap. 2. edge, rim, breast, brow. |
| Barm | n | Yeast, froth on top of fermenting malt liquid. 2. the froth or the head on beer. 3. (transfig.)- that which ferments, a fermenting agent. |
| Barm | vb | To leaven, ferment, to use in froth or fermentation. |
| Barm-brain | n | A flighty empty-headed person. |
| Barming | n | The act or process of fermenting. |
| Barm-stick | n | A feeble-minded person. 2. a barm-brain. |
| Barmy | adj | Covered with froth. 2. (fig.) excitedly active or flighty. |
| Barn | n | Agricultural building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keepimg animals such as cattle. 2. in nuclear physics: a unit of surface area equal 10X24 sqm. |
| Barn | vb | To lay in a barn. |
| Barnboard | n | An antique board recovered from old barns, used in construction and the making of furniture. |
| Barnburner | n | An extremely exciting or successful event or person. 2. one who |
| Barndoor | n | The large door of a barn. 2. in humour, something large enough that a miss ought to be impossible. 3. euphenism, humour, the groin area of pants. |
| Barnfind | n | Idiomatic: a value item recovered from an undeserving storage, usually in the countryside, where it lay or more or less forgotten, esp. vintage automobiles. |
| Barnful | n | An amount that can fit into a barn. |
| Barnless | adj | Without or not having a barn. |
| Barnlike | adj | Resembling or like a barn. |
| Barn owl | n | Owl of a genus 'tyto' often having a white face and commonly found in barns and other farm buildings. |
| Barnstickle | n | The stickleback. |
| Barnstorm | vb | To travel around the countryside making political speeches. 2. to be present at fairs and carnivals in exhibitions of stunt flying, or sporting events. 3. to travel from town to town performing in front of small crowds. |
| Barnstormer | adj | One who barmstorms; one whose profession is barnstorming. |
| Barmstorming | n | Highly theatrical (used often of a performer) |
| Barn swallow | n | Hirundo rustica - the most widespread species of the world. |
| Barnyard | n | The yard surrounding a barn. |
| Barnyard | adj | Of or pertaining to a barnyard. |
| Barrow | n | A mountain, berg. 2. in the UK - a hill or lower eminences. 3. a mound of earth or stones raised over a grave; a grave. 4. a heap of rubbish, attle or other such rubbish. |
| Barrow | n | A castrated boar. 2. a barrow-hog. |
| Barrow | n | A frame on which a load can be carried, in early use including a funeral bier, hand-barrow, stretcher (now largely restricted to a wheel barrow). 2. a wicker case in which salt is put to be drain. |
| Barrow | n | A long sleeveless, flannel garment worn by an infant. 2. (fig.) a covering or protective item. |
| Barrow | vb | To transport by barrow. |
| Barrowful | adj | The quantity that fits a barrow. |
| Barrowlike | adj | Resembling or charcteristic of a barrow (a hand-propelled vehicle.) 2. resembling a mound of earth or stone. |
| Barrow-maker | n | One who makes barrows (wheelbarrows) for a living. |
| Barrow-monger | n | A seller of apples and other fruits from a barrow on the footpath of a town or city; a barrowmonger. |
| Barrow-wight | n | In the graves where treasures are kept or hoarded the barrow-wights dwell, ghosts that were sentinels over the gold and other valuables. |
| Barrow-wightish | adj | Ghostly' funereal. |
| Barse | n | OE: baers - the bass, the bast, the perch. |
| Barton | n | Farmstead, bere-earn, barley enclosure, enclosure, pen for poultry. |
| Bass | n | A fish of the perch family; see 'barse.' |
| Bast | n | OE: baest - the inner bark of a tree from which rope was made. 2. a fibre from the vascular tissue (phloem) of land plants and used for matting and cord. |
| Bat | n | A club made from other materials such as aluminium and used in sports such as cricket and baseball to strike the ball. |
| Bat | vb | To hit a ball with a bat. 2. to take turns of hitting a ball with a bat in sports such as cricket and baseball. 3. to swipe or strike as though with a bat. |
| Batch | n | An amount of a load that is prepared or baked at one time. 2. quantity of a substance needed or produced at one time. 3. a number of things or people that are dealt with or handled together. |
| Bath | n | A tub or pool which is used for bathing; a bathtub. 2. a building or area where bathing takes place. 3. the act of bathing. 4. a substance or preparation in which something is immersed. |
| Bath | vb | To wash a person or animal in a bath. |
| Bath | phr | "Give Somebody a Bath" - to decisively beat someone/ somebody in a sporting contest. |
| Bath book | n | A waterproof book for children to use in a bath. |
| Bathe | n | The act of swimming or bathing, esp. in the sea, a lake, river or swinmming pool. |
| Bathe | vb | To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water to take a bath. 2. to immerse oneself in water or other liquid. 3. to cover or surround with water. 4. to apply water to; to suffuse or cover in liquid. |
| Bather | n | One who bathes or swims. |
| Bathful | adj | As much as a batch will hold. |
| Bath-house | n | A building with baths for communal use. 2. a building where swimmers change clothes |
| Bathing | n | The act of cleaning oneself or another by immersion in water. |
| Bathing | adj | Designed for use whilst bathing. |
| Bathless | adj | Without a bath. 2. not regularly bathing or taking a bath. |
| Bathlike | adj | Resembling a bath or some aspect of it. |
| Bathroom | n | A room containing a bath where one can bathe. 2. a room having a toilet |
| Bathroom break | n | A time set in various situations where one can attend to ablutions. |
| Bathroomless | adj | A building not having a bathroom. |
| Bathroomlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a bathroom. |
| Bathroom singer | n | (A derogatory term.) - one with little or no talent who should sing only in the bathroom. |
| Baths | n | An enclosed public swimming pool originally a place having individual cubicles where people without baths in their residence could have a bath. |
| Bath salts | n | A perfumed mixture of crystal salts used to soften golden water. |
| Bath-stone | n | A building stone quarried from the oolite founded near Bath. |
| Batsman | n | A cricket player recieving the strike (or the ball from the bowler.) |
| Batsmanship | n | The skill of batting. |
| Baulk | n | Alternative spelling of 'balk' |
| Baxter | n | A female baker. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Be | vb | Be, exist, come to be, happen, am, will etc |
| Be | prf | Causative rendering nouns, adjectives etc,. into verbs. A native English prefix formerly used in the formation of verbs: become, besiege, bedaub, befriend. 2. (from nouns) to surround completely; cover on all sides: befog 3. (from nouns) to affect completely or excessively: bedazzle. 4. from nouns) to consider as or cause to be: befool, befriend. 5. (from nouns) to provide or cover with: bejewel. 6. (from verbs) at, for, against, on, or over: bewail, berate |
| Be | prf | (Rare or no longer productive) by, near, next to, around, close to, as in bestand, beset, besit. 2.(rare or no longer productive) around; about, begather, asin belay, belook, bestir, belive, besmell, bewrap. 3. (rare or no longer productive) about, regarding, concerning, over, as bewrite, betalk, betell, bemoan, bemourn, bewail, beknow, besing, bespeak. 4.(rare or no longer productive) on, upon, at, to, in contact with something, as beclothe, becall, besee, behold, befall, bedo, beshine, besmile, betone. 5.(rare or no longer productive) off, away, over, across, as in becut, bedeal, betake, bego, behead, belimb, beland, benim, bereave, besleeve, be-trunk. 6. (rare or no longer productive) as an intensifier; i.e.thoroughly, utterly excessively; completely, as in bebreak, begladden, belabour, behate. 7.(rare or no longer productive) all around; about; abundantly; all over, as in belave, be-lick, bescatter, be-kiss. 8.(rare or no longer productive) forming verbs from nouns or adjectives, usually with the sense of "to make, become, or cause to be" as in becalm, be-dark, be-free, befriend, bedim, be-ken, be-night, benothing, be-wet, besmooth, bestrange. 8. (archaic or informal) used to intensify adjectives meaning "adorned with something" often those with the suffix -ed, as be-feathered, beclawed, be-webbed, beloved. |
| Be | phr | "Be Above" - be too important, or morally superior, to undertake, to undertake something small or mean. |
| Be | phr | "Be Above One's Head" be too difficult or obscure to understand. |
| Be | phr | "Be a Good Chap" - would you be kind and helpful by agreeing to do something that I would like you to do. |
| Be | phr | "Be After" - pursue, try to catch. 2. seek, try to obtain. 3. covet, wish to steal or take away. |
| Be | phr | "Be Against" - be contrary to; be in defiance of. |
| Be | phr | "Be Ahead of" - having progress beyond something else. 2. having reached a stage where others cannot easily followed. |
| Be | phr | "Be All and End All" - the main purpose of something. 2. all that matters in something. 3. the sum total of something. |
| Be | phr | "Be All For" - be strongly in favor or supporting. |
| Be | phr | "Be All In" - be exhausted; be tired out. |
| Be | phr | "Be All Over" - be spread or passed from one person to another. 2. greet effusively (with the implication that the effusiveness is welcomed) 3. dominate completely at sport. |
| Be | phr | "Be All Over and Done With" - be cmpletely ended, or forgotten. 2. not likely to recur or be remembered. |
| Be | phr | "Be Along (to)" - come from one place to another, often a short distance |
| Be | phr | "Be a Man' - behave in a firm, courageous way. 2. have, or show, manly qualities. |
| Be | phr | "Be Sight For Sore Eyes" - be something//somebody one is very glad to see. 2. a feast for the eyes. |
| Be | phr | "Be At" - try to persuade, in a carping, unpleasant way. 2. attack; handle something not one's property; tamper with. 3. |
| Be | phr | "Be At a Dead End" - having reached a point where no further progress is possible. |
| Be | phr | "Be At an End" - have ended; have been used up or exhausted. |
| Be | phr | "Be At a Standstill" - (of something moving, or in progress) have stopped. |
| Be | phr | "Be At Grips With" - be tackling; be engaged in a struggle with. |
| Be | phr | "Be At It" - behave mischievously, be a nuisance. |
| Be | phr | "Be At One (with)" - have the same views or feelings as; agree (with). |
| Be | phr | "Be Away" - be in a drawer, as paper, pen, book etc. |
| Be | phr | "Be Back (in)" - return; have returned. 2. have been replaced. |
| Be | phr | "Be Before" - be in front of somebody else. 2. appear, be presented for a decision, the judgement of a court. |
| Be | phr | "Be Before Somebody's Time" - happen live, earlier than somebody was in a certain place. |
| Be | phr | "Be Behind" - be inferior to; be losing to. 2. be the explanation; be the cause for. |
| Be | "phr | "Be Below" - be lower than; be inferior to. 2. be junior to; or lower than somebody in rank. 3. be below deck. |
| Be | phr | "Be Beneath" - seem too important, vulgar etc to be considered. |
| Be | phr | "Be Beside Oneself" - overwhelmed by strong feelings. |
| Be | phr | "Be Between You and Me" - a secret shared by the speakers, and not with others. |
| Be | phr | "Be Beyond" - be more than one can calculate, expect, believe etc. |
| Be | phr | "Be Beyond Caring" - have reach a point where one no longer cares about something. |
| Be | phr | "Be By Way of Being Something" - be considered to be, or have pretensions of being, the thing stated. 2. be sort of, a kind of, something. |
| Be | phr | "Be Dead Against" - be firmly opposed to doing something. |
| Be | phr | 'Be Dead Right/Wrong" - be absolutely correct or incorrect |
| Be | phr | "Be Dog Tired" - be exhausted, very tired. |
| Be | phr | "Be Down" - lack, deficient by some amount. 2. have fallen, been reduced. |
| Be | phr | "Be Down to" - have nothing left except. 2. be ill with. |
| Be | phr | "Be Downhill All the Way" - be easy and/or quick progress towards an objective (especially aafter difficulties are passed). 2. be an inevitable process of decline or deterioration. |
| Be | phr | "Be For It" - be going to (be punished or reprimanded). |
| Be | phr | "Be for the Birds" - be worthless; be fit only for people who are easily deceived or misled. |
| Be | phr | "Be Glad to See the Back Of" - be glad to get rid of somebody. |
| Be | phr | "Be Good Enough to Do" - be obliging, so kind, and do what I suggest, what I would like you to do, as a favor or service for me. |
| Be | phr | "Be Good For Something" - be beneficial,to somebody, something. 2. be effective in relieving or curing an illness or other unpleasant condition. |
| Be | phr | "Be Good With One's Hands" - be skillful at practical work. 2. be able to make/mend articles neatly and/or artistically. |
| Be | phr | "Be Hard At It" be very busy, be hard working. |
| Be | phr | "Be Hard Up" - be needy, poor, down on one's luck. |
| Be | phr | "Be Here To Stay" - become permanent, successful, established, successful. |
| Be | phr | "Be In" - be fashionable; be the fashion. 2. be gathered; be harvested. 3. be in (the shops). 4. be elected; be in office. 5. remain alight. 6. having reached the highest on the shore. |
| Be | phr | "Be In and Out Of" - be a frequent visitor to a (shop) or inmate of (prison). |
| Be | phr | "Be In For" - be going to compete in or enter for. 2. be an applicant for a job. |
| Be | phr | "Be In Hand" - having being started or undertaken. |
| Be | phr | "Be In Leaf" - a bud, leaf on a tree or bush. |
| Be | phr | "Be In Line (with)" - follow, conform with, the rules or discipline of an organization. |
| Be | phr | "Be In On" - be party to, informed about. 2. have a share in; participate in. |
| Be | phr | "Be In On the Ground Floor" - having joint an undertaking at the outset. |
| Be | phr | "Be In Play" - be involved, be at work; have started to influence something. |
| Be | phr | "Be Inside" - slang: be in prison. |
| Be | phr | "Be in Sight" - be in view, be visible, have appeared. |
| Be | phr | "Be In the Open" - be obvious; evident; have been made public. |
| Be | phr | "Be In the Wrong" - having acted wrongly; be made to be feel one has acted wrongly. |
| Be | phr | "Be In With" - be on familiar terms with. |
| Be | phr | "Be Like That" - be in a particular mood, take up a certain attitude, often an awkward or uncooperative one. 2. be; get that way. |
| Be | phr | "Be Made That Way" - have it in one's nature or constitution to be or do something. |
| Be | phr | "Be My Guest" - feel free to do as you please. |
| Be | phr | "Be Neither Here or There" - be of no importance or relevance. |
| Be | phr | "Be New To The Game" - be inexperienced in a trade, activity, sport etc. |
| Be | phr | "Be No Better Than One Ought To Be" - be less than averagely honest, good, trustworthy. |
| Be | phr | "Be Nobody's Business" - (facetiously): be something especially excessive or outrageous, best not required about, does not matter to one. |
| Be | phr | "Be No Great Shakes" - be only averagely or less than averagely good, efficient, suitable, adequate, suitable etc. |
| Be | phr | "Be No Room at the Inn" - there is a lack or refusal of adequate shelter, accommodation, or acceptance. |
| Be | phr | "Be No Skin Of One's Nose" - be a matter, actiomn etc that does not affect one adversely. 2. does not cause one any upset or loss. 3. something does not matter to one. |
| Be | phr | "Be Not as Other Men Are" - be better than many or most people are. |
| Be | phr | "Be Nothing To It" - be easy, simple to do. |
| Be | phr | "Be Off " - go away; be off with you. 2. have become detached or separated. 3. be cancelled, postponed, not going to take place. 4. be disconnected. 5. be mad, extremely angry. 6. start; commence. |
| Be | phr | "Be Off On" - begin to speak tiresomely and at length off. |
| Be | phr | "Be Off One's Food" - be without an appetite. |
| Be | phr | "Be Off One's Hands" - have taken away from one the expense and responsibility of looking after someone or something. |
| Be | phr | "Be On" - be going to take place. 2. be staked or have a bet on. 3. be shown or performed as a film or play. 4. be alight or burning as a jet on a gas stove. |
| Be | phr | "Be On At" - nag persistently. |
| Be | phr | "Be On About (something)" - to discover somebody's secret |
| Be | phr | "Be Oneself" - behave in a way that is natural, or normal, for oneself (not in any way effecting a manner to impress others) |
| Be | phr | "Be Oneself Again" - return to one's normal state (after an illness, shock , emotional upset etc. |
| Be | phr | "Be On Ice" - be shelved, be deferred. |
| Be | phr | "Be On It's Way Out" - becoming obsolescent or unfashionable. |
| Be | phr | "Be Only As Old As One Feels" - even if one is not old one can 'feel old' (tired and weak) and even if one is old one can feel 'young' |
| Be | phr | "Be On One's Feet" - have stood up; be standing as an audience or a speaker. |
| Be | phr | "Be On Sale" - be available for purchase. |
| Be | phr | "Be On to' - be alert, aware, to figure out or realize the truth. 2. been in touch with, in order to inform, persuade, negotiate with. |
| Be | phr | "Be On to a Good Thing" - find a pleasant or remunerative occupation or style or life. |
| Be | phr | "Be Out" - having ceased work; on strike. 2. be released from prison. 3. be flowering; in bloom. 4. be visible, as the moon or sun. 5. be on sale; published. 6. be disclosed or revealed. 7. be unconscious; fast asleep. 8. be no longer alight; extinguished as a light , candle etc. 9. be finished, ended. 10. be inaccurate, wrong. 11. not permissible. 12. be no longer the fashion. 13. be announced, be declared. 14. of the water level be at a low or ebbing. |
| Be | phr | "Be Out For" - wanting to obtain something; be out for what they can get. |
| Be | phr | "Be Out In" - be present in large numbers. |
| Be | phr | "Be Out Of" - be away from, as out of town etc. 2. not in one's usual place, as a bird its cage. 3. be too far away from hearing or seeing something; out of reach. 4. be out of work, unemployed. 5. exhausted, completely used up. 6. be out of keeping; not in keeping with; inappropriate, unsuited. 7. disappeared or rubbed out as a stain or a mark. |
| Be | phr | "Be Out Of Hand" - be uncontrolled, become uncontrollable. |
| Be | phr | "Be Out of Line" not behave in a normal or acceptable way. |
| Be | phr | "Be Out Of One's Mind" - be mad, extremely foolish. |
| Be | phr | "Be Out to Do Something" - aim, to propose changes, improvements etc. |
| Be | phr | "Be Out Of One's Depth" - be in company where the discussion, knowledge of others etc is strange and difficult to understand. |
| Be | phr | "Be Out of the Blue" - have appeared, being uttered, sudden, unexpectedly. |
| Be | phr | "Be Outside of" - not be something which one is able to and, deal with or understand. |
| Be | phr | "Be Out with It" - say what you want to say. |
| Be | phr | "Be Over" - be ended; finished. 2. remain; be left 3. spend a long time doing something. 4. come to visit someone (usually from a distance). |
| Be | phr | "Be Right Back" - to return within a short time. |
| Be | phr | "Be Quick Off the Mark" - be quick to grasp something, seize an opportunity. |
| Be | phr | "Be Sitting Pretty" - be a comfortable, enviable situation. |
| Be | phr | "Be So Good/Kbe obliging and do what I suggest.ind" |
| Be | phr | "Be Ten a Penny" - be cheap; be numerous and easy to obtain. 2. be not very valuable, important or interesting. |
| Be | phr | "Be That As It May" - yet, even so. 2. that may or may not be true, but is, in any case, irrelevant. |
| Be | phr | "Be That Way" - take that attitude, esp. become angry, sulky, touchy, standoffish, uncooperative etc; be like that. |
| Be | phr | "Be The Bee's Knees" - something outstandingly good. |
| Be | phr | "Be The Death of Somebody" - (facetiously) cause somebody a great deal of harm, anxiety or worry. 2. be exceptionally funy or ridiculous. |
| Be | phr | "Be the Done Thing" - be conventional or approved behavior, etiquette, procedure. |
| Be | phr | "Be the Drink Talking" - be confidence, boast, threat, promise etc made by somebody who is drunk, and therefore not necessary to be believed or relied upon. |
| Be | phr | "Be The End of" - be very bad, annoying, exasperating . 2. be no longer tolerable. 3. be the worst one can think of. 4. be the absolute limit. |
| Be | phr | "Be There For" - ready and willing to support another. 2. to be available to provide help, comfort or assistance, esp. in time of difficulty. 3. to stand by others in a crisis. 4. to be loyal; stick by another. |
| Be | phr | "Be Thick with Something" - be densely made up of; be full of something. |
| Be | phr | "Be the Thin Edge of the Wedge" - |
| Be | phr | "Be Thin/Thick On the Ground" - be few/ numerous; be dense, sparse. |
| Be | phr | "Be Three Sheets to the Wind" - be very drunk. |
| Be | phr | "Be Through" - reach the end of a relationship. |
| Be | phr | "Be Through To" - put in contact by various form of electronic medium. |
| Be | phr | "Be Through the Mill" - have received, as training as hard practical experience. |
| Be | phr | "Be Through With" - be tired of. |
| Be | phr | "Be Too Good to be True" - be so good that one suspects that there are faults, deficiencies, drawbacks etc. |
| Be | phr | "Be Too Good to Last" - be very good but not permanent. |
| Be | phr | "Be Too Good to Miss" - to too attractive or profitable to reject. |
| Be | phr | "Be Too Little Too Late" - be not enough and too long delayed. |
| Be | phr | "Be Too Much Like Hard Work" - be too energetic or troublesome an activity, sport, pastime etc for somebody to want to do. |
| Be | phr | "Be too True" - be unfortunately true; be regrettably as described. |
| Be | phr | "Be To Much of a Good Thing" - experience an unsuitable or unwelcome excess ofa commodity, activity, or form of behavior. |
| Be | phr | "Be to the Fore" - be prominent, noticeable. |
| Be | phr | "Be to the Good" - be advantageous. |
| Be | phr | "Be Up" - having risen or increased in price. 2. having traveled to, be in, an important town or city. 3. having finished, expired or come to an end. 4. remaining out of bed, often till all hours of the night. 5. arise, raised, considered. 6. be considered by a court. |
| Be | phr | "Be Up Against" - be opposed by, confronted by. |
| Be | phr | "Be Up Against It" - be faced with special difficulties and hardship. |
| Be | phr | "Be Up and About" - be feeling better and be out of a bed. |
| Be | phr | "Be Up for" - be a candidate, applicant for a job. |
| Be | phr | "Be Up For Sale" - be availble or offer for purchase. 2. be on the market. |
| Be | phr | "Be Up in Arms" - declare opposition or approval; protest. |
| Be | phr | "Be Up in the Clouds" - be out of touch with reality. |
| Be | phr | "Be Upon One" - having arrived (with a suggestion that the arrival may be sudden and unwelcome). |
| Be | phr | "Be Up (to)" - have reached. |
| Be | phr | "Be Up To" - be doing, be engaged in (with the suggestion that the activity is mischievous or nefarious) 2. be somebody's responsibility; rest with. 3. be deep in; be overwhelmed by. 4. be of an acceptable standard. |
| Be | phr | "Be Well Away" - enjoy oneself noisily, often because of overuse of alcohol. |
| Be | phr | "Be Well In Hand" - have been controlled; be under controlled. |
| Be | phr | "Be Well Into" - be well advanced (in time); be old; be of advanced years. |
| Be | phr | "Be Well Off" - be rich; well off; well supplied with. |
| Be | phr | "Be Well Out of It" - lucky to avoid being involved in something. |
| Be | phr | "Be Well Up In" - be very knowledge about. 2. be well versed in. |
| Be | phr | "Be With" - follow, understand what someone is saying. 2. be employed by. |
| Be | phr | "Be Within" - support, back up. 2. be near enough to see, hear, reach. 3. be something which one is able to discuss or handle knowledgeably. |
| Be | phr | "Be Within One's Rights" - have legal or moral support for something one wishes to do. |
| Be | phr | "Get High On" - become exhilarated, intoxicated, stimulated etc under the influence of alcohol and/or illicit drugs. |
| Be | phr | "Let It Be" - leave it (something) alone. |
| Be | phr | "Not Be Born Yesterday" - be somebody who is not likely to be easily fooled. |
| Be | phr | "Not Be On" - not be possible or allowed. 2. not take place. |
| Be | phr | "Not Be Up To" - not be capable of doing. 2. not be equal to the task. |
| Be | phr | "One's Blood be Up" - be fully aroused; angry. |
| Be | phr | "One's Hand Be Up" - be up (one's hand) to attract attention. |
| Be | phr | "Something Be Up" - something be about to happen; be impending, in the air. |
| Be | phr | "The Game Be Up" - of a pursuit, search be successfully after a long and difficult time. |
| Be | phr | "The Sun Be Up" - have risen. |
| Be | phr | "Up As Far as" - reached, be stretched, extended to. |
| Beacon | n | A sign, portent. 2. ensign, standard. 3. a signal, signal-fire: a fire lighted on a high point of land serving as signal of danger (often found in a chain at a convenient distance apart so news can be spread quickly over distance. 4. a conspicuous hill commanding a good view of the surrounding countryside, on which the beacons were lighted. 5. a division of a wapentake, probably a district throughout which a beacon could be seen. 6. a lighthouse or similar conspicuious object placed along a coast to warn ships of danger. 7. a radio-transmitter to allow pilots to fix their position, or allow airport staff to locate, identify, or guide aircrafts. |
| Beacon | phr | "To Beacon Up' - to raise or kindle as a beacon. 2. to light up as a beacon (as a fire does). 3. to give light, guidance, direction. 4. to furnish with beacons. 5. to mark or link a position with a beacon. 6. to shine like a beacon. |
| Beaconed | adj | Furnished with a beacon. |
| Beaconless | adj | Without a beacon. |
| Bead | n | Small perforated body of glass, amber, wood, metal, etc., 2. prayer. |
| Bead | vb | To furnish or adorn with beads. 2. to string (like a row of beds) |
| Bead | phr | "Bid a Bead" - to offer prayers. |
| Bead | phr | "Draw a Bead On" - aim a gun at. |
| Bead | phr | "Say (or Tell) One's Beads" - to say one's prayers. 2. recite the rosary. |
| Beaded | adj | To work or ornate with beades; edged with bead-like protuberances. 2. furnished with beads. 3. formed or like beads. 4. |
| Beader | n | One who sews beads onto a fabric. |
| Bead-faring | n | A pilgrimage, going on a pilgrimage. |
| Beadfolk | n | People, often pensioners, who pray for benefactors. |
| Beadful | adj | Full of beads, such as on clothing. 2. prayerful, prone to prayer and long periods of prayer. |
| Beadhouse | n | An almshouse for the needy, who pray daily for their benefactor. |
| Beadily | adv | Of a look in an avaricious or penetrating manner |
| Beading | n | The formation of beads and jewelry made of beads; beadwork, trimming. 2. a thin strips of material used as trims on and along walls. 3. a preparation used to make beds from liquids. |
| Beadiness | n | The quality of being beady. |
| Beadle | n | A ceremonial officer of a church, college etc. 2. a church officer attending a minister. 3. a minor parish officer dealing with petty offenders. |
| Beadle | vb | Announce, proclaim. |
| Beadledom | n | Embodiment of the characteristics of beadles and church bureaucracy, as a class marked by stupid officiousness, and red-tape. |
| Beadlehood | n | The state or dignity of a beadle. |
| Beadleship | n | The office of a beadle. |
| Bead-ligtning | n | An unoften form of cloud-to-ground lightning which appears to break up into a string of short, brights parts and lasts longer than the usual discharge. |
| Beadlike | adj | Resembling or like a bead or some aspect of one. |
| Beadsman | n | A man of prayer. 2. one who prays for the soul or spiritual welfare of another. 3. one paid to pray for the welfare of another. |
| Beadwork | n | Decorative work involving beads. |
| Beady | adj | Resembling a bead: small, round and gleaming. 2. of look - bright and penetrating. 3. covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads. 4. characterized by beads. 5. covered with beads of sweat. |
| Beady | phr | "Have One's Beady Eyes on Something" - await the chance to get something that is not rightfully yours. |
| Beag | n | A ring (historical) In OE. a bracelet, necklace, shackle (for the neck;) a crown, a garland, circle, coil. |
| Be-all | n | That which is or constitutes the whole. 2. the whole being. |
| Be-all | phr | "The Be-all and End-all" - something considered to be of the utmost importance. 2. something essential or vital. 3. the whole or total of something. 4. the whole being or essence. |
| Beam | n | A tree (In OE only.) 2. a beam of wood; one of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid - supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.. 3. the straight part or shank of an anchor. 4. the central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it. 5. any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use 6. the rood or cross. 5. a shaft of a chariot; pole of a carriage. 7. the maximum width of a vessel 8. the crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. 9. the principal stem of the antler of a deer. 10. ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body a beam of light; a beam of hope a ray; a gleam. 11. a smile; a cheerful face. |
| Beam | vb | To throw out or radiate beams of light, emit beams of light, rays; shine, radiate. 2 fig. To smile broadly or especially cheerfully. 3. to furnish or supply with beams; give the appearance of beams to. 4. to transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism, as in 'beam me up, Scotty; there's no intelligent life down here.' 5. to stretch on a beam, as a hide. 6. to put on a beam, as a chain or web. 7. To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation. |
| Beam | phr | "A Beam in One's Eye" - a fault that is greater in oneself than in the person one finding fault with. |
| Beam | phr | "Be Off Beam" - be mistaken. |
| Beam | phr | "Broad in the Beam" - having broad or wide hips. |
| Beam | phr | "A Bote of Beams' - a remedy, improvement, amelioration. |
| Beam | phr | "Beam Up" - to teleport (something or someone)using a fictional device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship. 2. he teleported, or to teleport oneself in that manner. 3. to appear suddenly as if by teleport. 4. to be high on drugs, especially crack cocaine. |
| Beam | phr | "Broad in the Beam" - having wide hips. |
| Beam | phr | "Off the Beam" - lacking precision, off course; be mistaken. |
| Beam | phr | "On Beam Ends" - in a desperate situation. 2. of a ship, almost capsizing. |
| Beam | phr | "On the Beam" - to be on course as indicated by a radio beam. 2. fig. to be on the right track. |
| Beam | phr | "On the Weather Beam" - the side of the ship on which the wind is blowing. |
| Beam-blind | adj | To be uncritical of oneself and one's own opinions. |
| Beamed | adj | Furnished with beams or timbers. 2. furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. |
| Beam ends | n | A position when a ship lies on her side with her crossbeams upright. 2. a person's last resources. |
| Beamer | n | One who smiles or 'beams' broadly. |
| Beamful | adj | Luminous, full of light. |
| Beamily | adv | Beamily or in a manner radiantly. 2. radiantly, in a manner of beams or (bright) light. |
| Beaminess | n | The quality of being beamy; brightness, radiance. 2. generous proportions. |
| Beaming | n | The act of someone or something that beams. |
| Beamish | adj | Somewhat light, luminous or radiant. 2. shining brightly, radiant. |
| Beamless | adj | Not having a beam. 2. not emitting a light. |
| Beam-light | n | Lights, candles placed in a tree. |
| Beam sea | n | Waves are rolling against the ship's side. |
| Beamsome | adj | Shedding bright, radiant. |
| Beam-tree | n | Pyrus acaria |
| Beamwidth | n | The width (or the angle)of a beam of radiation. |
| Beam-wireless | n | A shortwave wireless transmission in a controlled direction. |
| Beamy | adj | Emitting beams of light, radiant (also fig.) 2. radiated, umbellated. 2. possessing full grown horns, antlered. |
| Bean | n | Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seed pods. 2. the large edible seed of such a plant. 3. the edible seed pod of such a plant. 4. the bean-like seed of certain other plants, especially coffee; coffee in the general. 5. an object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items. 5. (slang) the head. 6. money. 7. (software) short for JavaBean. |
| Bean | vb | To throw a projectile (ball, stone, etc) with the aim to hit deliberately a person or animal in the head. |
| Bean | phr | "Every Bean Has Its Black" - |
| Bean | phr | "Full of Beans" - energetic, lively. high-spirited |
| Bean | phr | "Give One Beans" - to upbraid, punish severely., |
| Bean | phr | "Haven't a Bean" - penniless. |
| Bean | phr | "I'll Give Him Beans" - I'll give him a thrashing. |
| Bean | phr | "Know How Many Beans Make Five" - be worldly wise, shrewd. |
| Bean | phr | "Not Worth/Have a Bean" - worthless; having no money; penniless. |
| Bean | phr | "Old Bean" - old friend. |
| Bean | phr | "Spill the Beans" - be indiscreet, confess. |
| Bean | phr | "Without a Bean" - penniless. |
| Beanbrain | n | A stupid person, an idiot. |
| Beanshooter | n | A toy gun |
| Beanstalk | n | The bean of a bean plant, proverbially fast-growing person. |
| Beany | adj | In a good condition. 2. of horses: spirited. 3. a woolen cap or hat. |
| Bear | n | A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family ursidae, particularly of subfamily ursinae. 2.(fig) a rough, unmannerly, uncouth person. 3. in finance an investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices. 4. US slang, a state policeman (short for smokey bear). 5. (slang) a large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual. 6. in engineering: a portable punching machine. 7. a block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck of a ship. |
| Bear | phr | "If It Were a Bear, It Would Bite You" - an old expression applied to a person lokking for something right in front of him/her, just under his/her nose. |
| Bear | phr | "Like a Bear with a Sore Head" - to be bad tempered. |
| Bear | phr | "Take the Bear By the Tooth" - needlessly to run into danger. |
| Bear | phr | "The Great Bear" - certain constellations. |
| Bear | phr | "The Northern Bear" - Russia. |
| Bear | phr | "The Little Bear" - certain constellations. |
| Bear | vb | (2)To support or sustain; to hold up. 2. to carry something. 3. to be equipped with (something. 4. to wear or display. 5. to declare as testimony. 6. to put up with something, endure, tolerate. 7. to give birth to someone or something. 8. to produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops. 9. to suffer, as in carrying a burden. 10. to endure with patience; to be patient. 11. to press; with on, upon, or against. 12. to relate or refer; with on or upon. (how does this bear on the question?) 13. to have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. 14. to conduct; to bring (a person). 15. to possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise. 16. to possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour. 17. (obsolete) to gain or win. 18. to sustain, or be answerable for blame, expense, responsibility, etc. 19. to carry on, or maintain; to have. 20. to admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. 21. to manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself). 22. to afford; to be (something) to; to supply with. |
| Bear | phr | (2)"Bear a Hand" - imperative: make haste, give assistance, help quickly! |
| Bear | phr | "Bear Away" - to win a prize. 2. to sail away. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear Down" - to press or weigh down. 2. overcome; conquer. 3 to strive harder; intensify one efforts. 4. (of a ship ) to approach from windward. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear Down On" - to sail with wind (towards.) 2. to proceed with force against. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear Down Upon" - approach swiftly and purposely or in a threatening way. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear False Witness" - to give untrue testimony; to lie. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear Hard On" - to oppress. 2. cause hardship or suffering to. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear Heavily or Hard" - to bear a grudge. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear in Hand" - keep in expectation. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear in Mind" - to carry or keep in remembrance; keep in mind. 2. remember (with caution.) 3. remain aware, conscious of. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear in With" - to approach or become nearer to a ship |
| Bear | phr | "Bear It" - to carry the day. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear Off From" - to stand off further from a ship. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear On" - to be relevant or relate to. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear Oneself)" - to behave in a proper manner or with dignity. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear Out" - to confirm, support, to back up. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear the Burden and the Heat of the Day" - have the longest and most difficult part of the task to perform (in contrast to those who have a easier task). |
| Bear | phr | "Bear Up" - to tolerate difficulty, pain with fortitude. 2. manage, cope, remain strong in the face of hardship. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear Upon" - to influence, have effect on. 2. to be relevant to. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear With" - be patient, sympathetic with someone. 2. tolerate, put up with. |
| Bear | phr | "Bear Witness" - to deliver a testimony, especially as a witness. 2. to prove, demonstrate; testify. 2. bear a witness to something; prove. |
| Bear | phr | "Bring to Bear" - to cause to act against on upon. 2. put pressure on. |
| Bear | phr | "Grin and Bear It" - (cheerfully) endure difficulty, hardship. |
| Bear | phr | "Have a Bearing On" - be relevant to; concerning, anent, about. |
| Bear | phr | "Lose One's Bearings" - lose one's sense of direction. |
| Bearberry | n | A procumbent shrub, Arctostaphylus Uvaursi" bearing astringent berries. |
| Bearbine | n | English species of Convolus, nb: woodbine, ivy, honeysuckle. |
| Bearcat | n | A binturong, 'archtictis binturong' an animal related to civets. |
| Beard | n | Facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw. 2. the cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds. 3. the appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. 4. the gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster. 5. in insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies. 6. (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn. 7. the beard of grain. 8. a barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. 9. that part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle |
| Beard | vb | To grow hair on the chin and jaw (obsolete.) 2. to boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded. (Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.) 3. to take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt. 4. to deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills. |
| Beard | phr | "I Told Him to His Beard" - I told him to his face, regardless of the consequences, fearlessly amnd openly. |
| Beard | phr | "Laugh in One's Beard" - to laugh surreptitiously; laugh up one's sleeve. |
| Beard | phr | "Lie In One's Beard" - accuse someone of doing so is to stress the severity of the accusation. |
| Beard | phr | "Make One's Beard" - to have wholly at your mercy, as a barber when shaving the chin of a customer. |
| Beard | phr | "Run in One's Beard" - to offer opposition to a person. 2. to do something obnoxious to a person before his face. |
| Beard | phr | "With the Beard On the Shoulder" - inthe attitude of listening to overhear something. 2. with circumspection, looking in all directions for surprizes and ambuscades. |
| Bearded | adj | Having a beard or being hirsute. |
| Beardedness | n | A bearded condition. |
| Bearding | n | The action of cutting or shaving off a beard. 2. a beard-like growth. |
| Beardless | adj | Having no beard. 2. fig. immature, young; without beard or awn. |
| Beardlessness | n | A beardless condition; an absence of beard. |
| Beardom | n | Bearish of quality or personality. |
| Beardy | adj | Bearded, hirsute. |
| Bearer | n | One who, or that which bears, sustains, or that which carries. 2. someone one helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession; a pallbearer. 3. one who possesses a cheque, bond or other note promising payment. 4. a tree or plant bearing fruit. |
| Bear-fell | n | A bearskin. |
| Bearhide | n | A bearskin; the skin of a bear. |
| Bearing | n | Of a beam, column etc. carrying a weight or load. |
| Bearing | n | Acting as a "bearer" in "Stock Exchange" dealings or transactions. |
| Bearing | sfx | That bears or carries as 'childbearing' or 'load-bearing' |
| Bearings | n | Relevance, relationship or connection, as 'having no bearing (s) on the matter.' 2. one's posture, demenour, manner, direction or relative position. 3. the portion of support on which anything rests. |
| Bearings | phr | "Bring One to His/Her Bearings" - bring somebody back to his/her wits, putting him/her on the right track/ course. |
| Bearings | phr | "Find One's Bearings" - locate, orientate oneself |
| Bearings | phr | "Lose One's Bearings" - get lost, become disorientated. |
| Bearings | phr | "Take the Bearings" - to acertain the relative position of an object. |
| Bearish | n | Aggressive, surly, tough, unmannerly |
| Bearishness | n | Tough, rough, unmannerliness, surliness. |
| Bearpit | n | A sunken enclosure in which bears are kept in a Zoo. 2. a scene or place of rowdy behavior. |
| Bear's Ear | n | The auricula. |
| Bear's garlic | n | Allium ursinum or ramsoms |
| Bearskin | n | The skin of a bear used as a garment. 2. a bearhide. |
| Bear spread | n | One of a variety of strategies involving two or more options (or options combined with a position with underlying stock) that can potentially profit from a fall in the price of the underlying stock. |
| Bear-wolf | n | One strong and hard, a term of opprobrium. |
| Bearwort | n | The herb "Meum Athamanticum." |
| Beat | n | An idle, worthless or shiftless fellow; a deadbeat. |
| Beat | vb | To strike or beat on or upon repeatedly. 2. to thrash, beat all or anthing. 3. to pulsate, throb. 4. to insist with iteration. 3. of hares and rabbits at rutting time. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat a Dead Horse" - to persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat a Thing into One's Mind" - to inculcate, hammer in a notion or opinion. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat a Path To Someone's Door" - repeatedly visit someone. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Back" - to repel, resist, repulse, drive back or out by force. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat By a Long Shot" - to defeat very convincingly. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Down" - to force or drive down by beating or hammering. 2. to suppress, lord over, overpower, bully, exhaust. 3. to persuade someone to change their mind. 4. - make someone reduce the price he first asked. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Down (On)" - shine with intense heat (on). |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Hollow" - completely defeat. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat In" - to knock or force in by beating. 2. to inculcate. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat It" - run away. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Down (or out) - to drive downward by beating. 2. bring the pricec down by haggling. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Each Other Over the Head" - be always fighting. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Hollow" - completely or decisively, defeat. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat It" - to go away; clear out, esp. swiftly. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat It Up" - to whoop it up. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Off" - drive off by blows. 2. attack, repulse, repel |
| Beat | phr | "Beat One's Brains" - to struggle to think or remember something; to rack one's brains. 2. puzzle, think very hard, esp. in order to solve a problem. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat One's Brain's Out" - to think very hard (to try) and solve a problem. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat One's Breast" - to express sorrow. 2. hit one's breast as a sign of grief, sorrow, remorse, despair etc. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat One's Head against a Stone Wall" - to waste time and effort on a futile project. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat One's Way" - one travel or make one way, spec. by illicit means. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat One with His Own Staff" - to confute one with his own words |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Out" - to trace out a path by treading it first. 2. to work to get to the bottom off a matter. 3. to hammer out (lit & fig). 4. remove by striking with a hammer. 5. beat out on a drum. |
| Beat | phr | "Be Out/in of Beat" - making a regular or irregular succession of stroke. |
| Beat | phr | "Be Out of Beat" - to be out of rythmn or synchronization. |
| Beat | phr | "Be Out Of One's Beat" - not in one's sphere or department. 2. not in a course habitually traversed. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Over Old Ground" - to discuss topics or matter already dealt with. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Somebody Brains Out" - beat somebody severely about the head. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Somebody to It" - to do something first (before anyone else can) |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Somebody at His Own Game" - to out wit a person at their own speciality. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat the Living Daylights Out of Somebody" - beat severely; knock senseless. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat the Dust" - to walk, go by hoof, go on shank's pony. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat the Hoof" - to go by walking; to go by shank's pony; to beat the dust. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat the Street" - to walk up and down, sometimes said of the homeless and sex-worker. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat the Wind" - to fight with no purpose or against no opponent or opposition. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Time" - to mark musical time by beating a drum, clapping with the hands; fig. to keep time with. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat to It" - get somewhere, reach an objective, before somebody else. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat to One's Knees" - force somebody to submit; humble. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Up" - to batter, thrash physically, punch up or rain blows upon with one's fists. |
| Beat | phr | "Beat Up Against the Wind" - of a ship in heavy seas. |
| Beat | phr | "Can You Beat It" - an expression of surprise or amusement. |
| Beat | phr | "Get the Beat On" - get an advantage over. |
| Beat | phr | "It Beats Me" - an indirect question meaning ' I don't know or I have no idea. |
| Beat | phr | "Not in My Beat" - not in my line; not in the range of my talents or inclination. |
| Beat | phr | "Not Miss a Beat" - carry on without the slightest disruption. |
| Beat | phr | "Off His Beat" - Not on duty; not in his appointed area. 2. not in his specialty. |
| Beat | phr | "Out His Beat" - in his wrong walk. 2. walk of his proper sphere. |
| Beat | phr | "Take Some Beating" - difficult to do better. |
| Beatdown | n | The act of breaking down or reducing by beating or heavy blows. 2. fig. to overthrow an institution or opinion by persistence. 3. to force down by haggling. 4. to come down with violence, like rain, the sun's rays etc. |
| Beaten | adj | Well-worn, weathered, as in weather beaten, wave-beaten. 2. trite. 3. defeated in sport, war or activity or matter of life. |
| Beaten-down | adj | Dejected, subdued, depressed, overwhelmed. |
| Beatenest | adj | Most excellent, splendid. 2. most unusual. |
| Beater | n | A person who beats. 2. a man employed in rousting and driving game. 3. an instrument for beating in various senses. |
| Beath | vb | To bathe (with warm liquids); to foment. |
| Beating | n | Physical punishment or attack. 2. a defeat. |
| Beating | n | "Take Some Beating" - difficult to do better. |
| Beatless | adj | Destitute of beats. 2. not beating. |
| Beat-out | adj | Exhausted, tired out, worn out. |
| Beat-up | n | A artificially or disingenuously manufactured outcry, usually in the media. |
| Beat-up | adj | Worn out, dilapidated, shabby, showing signs of overuse or disrepair. |
| Beaty | adj | Of music - full of 'beat;' swinging, catchy. |
| Beaver | n | An aquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide flat tail and webbed feet. 2. the fur of the beaver. 3. a slan term for the pubic hair of the vulva of a woman |
| Beaver | vb | To work hard and industrious like a beaver. |
| Beaver | phr | "Beaver Away" - to work hard, long or industriously. |
| Beaver-hued | adj | Shade of brown resembling that of the fur of a beaver. |
| Beavering | n | Hunting or trapping beavers. |
| Beaverish | adj | Like a beaver in natural habit; merely instinctive. 2. hardworking, industrious. |
| Beaverlike | adj | Having physical or tempermental characteristics like those of a beaver: hardworking industrious. |
| Be'bark | vb | To bark around or at. |
| Be'bathe | vb | To bathe completely; suffuse. |
| Bebelted | adj | Wearing a belt. |
| Be'black-smithed | adj | To be made a blacksmith. 2. to be made, wrought or forged by a blacksmith. |
| Be'bleed | vb | To stain or cover with blood. 2. make bloody. |
| Be'bless | vb | To bless amply or profusely. |
| Beblind | vb | To blind, cause to be blind; make completely blind. |
| Be'blood | vb | To smear or stain with blood. |
| Be'bloody | vb | To make bloody. |
| Be'breech | vb | To breech soundly or excessively. |
| Be'bury | vb | To emtomb, bury, intern. |
| Becall | n | To accuse, miscall, summons. 2. to call upon, challenge. 3. to call names. |
| Becareful | phr | "Be Careful What You You Wish For" - the desired outcome may be not as desirable once it has been attained. |
| Becarve | vb | To cut off, cut up, open, open up. 2. to carve up, carve, to cut up, cut in pieces. |
| Be'chirm | vb | To make a noise as a bird, to cheep, sing. |
| Beck | n | A word from ON. for a brook or stream used in certain parts of Britian which were occupied by the Danes and Norwegian; hence often spec. in literature to connote a brook or stream with a stoney bed, or rugged course, as those of the northern counties. 2. the valley bottom through which a stream flows. Nb: see OE. (bece) and 'bache.' |
| Beck | n | A mute signal or significant gesture, especially one indicating assent or notifying a command; e.g. a nodding, movement or motion of the hand or fore-finger. 2. the slightest indication of salutation or respect; an inclination of the head; obeisance, courtesy. |
| Beck | phr | "At Someone's Beck and Call" - constantly dominated by somebody. |
| Beck | n | An agricultural implement with two hooks for dressing turnips, hops etc. |
| Becking | n | The action of 'beck' - a significant gesture; nodding, bowing, curtsying, obeidence, respectful salutation. |
| Beckon | n | A sign made without a word; see 'beck.' |
| Beckon | vb | To wave and/or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer. |
| Beckoner | n | One who , or that, which beckons. |
| Beckoning | n | The act or action of making a mute signal with the head, hand, finger to summon a person's approach. 2. to make a significant gesture of head, or hand, indicating summon or bid approach. |
| Be'clad | vb | To be clothed about or around, clad. |
| Be'clam | vb | To beclog with something sticky or clammy. |
| Be'clap | vb | To grasp, ensnare, insnare, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly. |
| Be'clepe | vb | To complain, indict, accuse; summons, appeal (to a highr court). 2. to call upon, address, accost, call name. 3. to appeal against, object, disapprove. |
| Be'clip | vb | To embrace, fold the arms, |
| Be'clipping | n | An embrace (obsolete) |
| Be'close | vb | To enclose, shut up |
| Be'clothe | vb | To cover with clothes. |
| Be'cloud | vb | To cover or beset with cloud. 2. to become overcast. 3. to make overcat or gloomy |
| Be'clouding | n | Overclouding. 2. fig. obscuring, covering up of an issue or matter. |
| Be'clout | vb | To cover with a clout or clothing. 2. fig. to dress up. |
| Become | vb | To arrive, come (to a place). 2. to come about; happen; come into being; arise. 3. begin to be; turn into. 3. to be proper for; to befit. 4. of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone). |
| Become | phr | "Become Of" - to happen to, befall as 'what became of the car you had.' 2. to be the fate of; befall. |
| Becomely | adj | Fitting, acceptable, properly |
| Becomeness | n | The state or quality of becoming, becomingness. |
| Becoming | n | That or actions which befit or graces. 2. a coming to be; a passing into a state. 3. a graceful fitness. |
| Becoming | n | 'The becoming" that which is fitting or proper, decorum. |
| Becoming | adj | Befitting, suitable, graceful. 2. decorous, proper, fitting |
| Becomingly | adv | In a becoming manner, befittingly, in a graceful fitness. |
| Becomingness | n | The state or quality of being becoming; fitness, suitably, graceful, proper, beauty, attractiveness. |
| Be'crave | vb | To crave for. |
| Be'cripple | vb | To make lame. |
| Be'cuffed | adj | Wearing a shirt with cuffs. 2. wearing handcuffs. |
| Bed | n | A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on. 2. prepared spot to spend the night in. 3. one's place of sleep or rest. 4. sleep; rest; getting to sleep. 5. the time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime. 6. time spent in a bed. 7. fig.Marriage. 8. fig., sexual activity. 9. a place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid. 10. the bottom of a lake or other body of water, as sea bed; stream bed. 11. area where a large number of oysters, mussels, or other sessile shellfish is found. 12. a garden plot. 13. foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid. 14. the superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad. 13. the platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled. 14. a shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet. 15. iin printing: the flat part of the press, on which the form is laid. 16. a piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks. 17. a layer or surface. as a deposit of ore, coal, etc. 18. of geology, the smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below. 19. of masonry, the horizontal surface of a building stone. 20. the upper and lower beds as in masonry, the lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile. in masonry, as a course of stone or brick in a wall. |
| Bed | vb | To put to bed; to place in a bed. 2.to go to bed for resting or sleeping. 3. To put oneself to sleep. 4. To furnish with a bed or bedding. 5. slang) To have sexual intercourse with, to fornicate. 6. in the sense(s) relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid, as in to lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed. 7. to set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement. 8. to set out (plants) in a garden bed. To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed. 9.to lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position. 10. to settle, as machinery 11. to be delivered of child. |
| Bed | phr | "Be Brought To Bed" - to be confined to child-birth. |
| Bed | phr | "Bed and Board" - board(food/ meals) and lodging (shelter and a bed to sleep in). |
| Bed | phr | "Bed and Breakfast" - a guesthouse or private home, etc. where guests are provided with overnight accommodation and served breakfast, but usually no other meals. |
| Bed | phr | "Bed Down" - to lie down to sleep for the night, usually of livestock or machinery. 2. to put an animal to rest for the night. 3. provide straw as bedding. |
| Bed | phr | "Bed In" - to settle , make someone feel comfortable or at home. 2. in military action, lodge firmly in the ground in preparation for firing. |
| Bed | phr | "Bed of Roses" - situation of ease and pleasure. 2. easy, luxurious situation or life. 2. a delightful resting place, a comfortable or easy position. 3. antonym 'be no bed of roses'. |
| Bed | phr | "Bed of Thorns/Nails" - a situation of tribulation and anxiety. 2. annoying, embarrassing, painful situation. |
| Bed | phr | "Bed of Wedlock" -the marriage bed; marriage. |
| Bed | phr | "Bed Out" - (horticulture) transfer partly-grown plants from a greenhouse etc to bed in a garden. |
| Bed | phr | "Bed Something Down" - find a taker for something. |
| Bed | phr | "Bed Up" - to lie up in beds or strata against. |
| Bed | phr | "Bed With" - have casual sexual intercourse with. |
| Bed | phr | "Brought to Bed" - delivered of a child. |
| Bed | phr | "Get into Bed with" - enter a business contract with. |
| Bed | phr | "Get Out of Bed on the Wrong Side" - be disagreeable or grumpy. |
| Bed | phr | "Go or Get Into Bed With" - enter into a business agreement or contract with. |
| Bed | phr | "Go to Bed" - retire for the night. 2.have sexual intercourse. 3. of a newspaper; go to press. |
| Bed | phr | "Go to Bed With" - having sexual intercourse with. |
| Bed | phr | "Have One's Bed" - to give birth. |
| Bed | phr | "Keep One's Bed" - stay in bed because of illness |
| Bed | phr | "Leave One's Bed" - to recover from sickness. |
| Bed | phr | "Lie on One's Bed" - to accept the consequences of one's actions. |
| Bed | phr | "Make One's Bed" - tidy and arrange a bed for use. |
| Bed | phr | "Make One's Bed and (must)Lie on It" - to face the consequences of one's action |
| Bed | phr | "Put to Bed" - cause to go to bed. 2. make a newspaper ready for press. |
| Bed | phr | "Take to One's Bed" - stay in bed because of illness. |
| Be'dare | vb | To defy, stand against. |
| Be'dark | vb | To make or involve in darkness; dedarken. |
| Bedarken | vb | To involve in darkness. 2. figuratively, to become involve nefarious matter. 3. to denigrate. |
| Bedarkened | adj | Denigrated. 2. make dark. 3. nefarious. |
| Bedclothes | n | Sheets and blankets which a bed is covered with. 2. clothes worn in bed during sleep time. |
| Be'daughtered | adj | A rare or humorous word meaning 'that has or have a daughter or daughters, especially when unwanted.' |
| Be'dawn | vb | To overtake with dawn or daylight. 2. to dawn or dawe upon; fig. to realise or become aware of. |
| Be'dawning | n | The coming of dawn or daylight. |
| Bedbere | n | Pillar case. |
| Bedbroker | n | A pimp, hoon, pamperer. |
| Bedclothes | n | Coverings for a bed, such as sheets, blankets. |
| Bedde | n | A bedfellow |
| Bedded | adj | Put to bed. 2. provided with a bed. 3. taken to bed as a woman, bride, wife. 3. planted in a bed, as flowers or plants. |
| Bedded-in | adj | Of a plant, firmly established where it can grow and develop. 2. by extension, of a system that has been used for some time , and minor glitches have been removed and same improvements been added. |
| Bedder | n | One who beds. 2. a bedmaker, a maid, housemaid. |
| Bedding | n | The articles which compose a bed, esp. the mattress, etc and the bedclothes. 2. anything used to sleep on or in. 3. a litter for animals, as a horse or cow. 4. foundation. 5. arangemant of rocks esp. in beds or layers. 6. a putting to bed, esp. of a bride. 7. planting flowers in a bed. |
| Bedding | n | |
| Bedding | phr | "Feather bedding" - increasing unnecessary jobs solely to increase employment and make unemployment statistics politically favorable. 2. assisting an inefficient industry by government grants or excessive tariff protection. |
| Bede | n | A command, a bidding. 2. a prayer. |
| Be'dead | n | To deaden |
| Be'deaf | vb | To make death, to deafen completely. |
| Bedeafen | vb | To deafen. |
| Be'deal | vb | To deprive, bereave, to free of. |
| Bed-eel | n | A variety of small eel, that is found in clusters on the bottom of a river |
| Bedehouse | n | Beadhouse, an almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactor |
| Be'delve | vb | To dig around or about; bury, cover up. |
| Bedesman | n | A petitioner, (beadsman) someone who seeks some type of favour from another, usually from a superior. 2. a man employed in prayer; especially who rays for another. 3. a poor man, supported in a bedehouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. 4. a public almsman, are who received alms from the king and was expected in return to pay for the royal welfare and that of the state; a licenced beggar. |
| Be'devil | vb | To treat diabolically. 2. to possess with, or as with, a devil. 3. to torment, worry. 4. to play the devil with; to transform mischievously or bewilderingly. |
| Be'devil | phr | "Be Be-devilled" - to be possessed by the devil. |
| Be'dew | vb | To cover with dew (thoroughly). 2. to wet, make moist. |
| Be'dewed | adj | Covered, moisten or wet with dew. |
| Bedewing | n | A wetting with dew. |
| Be'dewy | adj | Dewy |
| Bedfast | adj | Confined to bed; bedridden. |
| Bedfellow | n | One who shares a bed with another. |
| Bedfellow | n | One who shares a bed, or sleeps with another, also fig. |
| Bedfellowship | n | The condition of being bedfellows. |
| Bedfere | n | Obsolete word for a bedfellow. |
| Bedframe | n | The frame or structure of a bed. |
| Bedful | adj | As many or as much as would fill a bed. |
| Bed geld | n | A fine paid to the lord on the marriage of his vassal |
| Bedground | n | The area of ground where a flock of livestock sleep. |
| Bedhead | n | The upper end of a bed. |
| Bedhop | vb | To be promiscous. 2. to have multiple sexual partners. |
| Bedhopper | n | One who is promiscuous or has multiple sexual partners. |
| Bedhopping | n | The act or practice of bed-hopping or having multiple sexual partner. |
| Be'dight | vb | To equip, furnish, apparel, array, bedeck. |
| Bedighting | n | Outfitting, furnishing, hence: property, attribute. |
| Be'dim | vb | To make dim. 2. to cover with dimness, becloud; especially eye, mind, memory. |
| Be'dimmed | adj | Obscured in brightness. |
| De'dimming | adj | That dims or obscures. |
| Be'dip | vb | To immerse, heat by dipping. |
| Be'dirt | vb | To make filthy. 2. to vilify. |
| Bedirten | vb | Fouled with dirt or excrement; befouled. |
| Bedirter | n | One who vilifies. 2. a vilifier. |
| Bedirty | adj | To dirty, soil, make dirty. |
| Bedless | adj | Without a bed; unprovided with a bed. |
| Bedlessness | n | The state of being without a bed. 2. homelessness. |
| Be'light | vb | To light up, illuminate, become lit up, shine, dawn |
| Bedlike | adj | Resembling a bed. |
| Bed-linen | n | Sheets and pillow cases; bedware; bedwear. |
| Bedmaker | n | A maker of beds. 2. one who arranges and "makes" beds. |
| Be'do | vb. | To put to, shut. 2. befoul, foul, defile with ordure. 3. to adorn, ornament, garnish. |
| Bed of Dust | n | "The Dustbed" - the grave, tomb. |
| Bed of Roses | n | Easy, luxurious situation or life. 2. a delightful resting place, a comfortable or easy position. |
| Bed of Thorns | n | Annoying, embarrasing, painful situation. |
| Bed of Wedlock | n | The marriage bed; marriage. |
| Be'dog | vb | To follow about like a dog. |
| Be'dogged | adj | Become like a dog. |
| Bedone | adj | Outwitted. |
| Bed out | vb | To transfer a young plant from an inside location, such as garden house, to an outside flower bed. |
| Bedoven | adj | Drenched, drowned, immersed. |
| Bedraw | vb | To draw or cast aside or away. 2. to draw away, seduce, decieve. |
| Be'dread | vb | To be in full dread. 2. to cause to fear greatly. |
| Be'drench | vb | To soak thoroughly; to saturate. |
| Bedrest | n | Confinement of an invalid to bed. |
| Bedrid | adj | Confined to bed through illness or infirmity. 2. worn out, decrepit, impotent. |
| Bedridden | adj | Confined to bed because of infirmity or illness. 2. bedfast, bedbound. |
| Bed-riddenness | n | State or quality of being bedridden. 2. confined to bed because of infirmity or illness. |
| Be'drift | vb | To drift all around, all about the surface. |
| Be'drive | vb | To drive about. 2. to commit, perpetrate. 3. to have to do with. |
| Bedrock | n | The solid rock beneath loose material as sand, etc.; fundamentals. |
| Bedrock | phr | "Come Down to One's Bedrock" - Us slang: to the end of one resources; money. |
| Bedroom | n | A room in a house where a bed is kept for sl;eeping; sleeping quarters. 2. |
| Bedroomed | adj | having the indicated number of bedrooms |
| Bedroom eyes | n | Eyes that have a sexually suggestive expression. |
| Bedroomlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a bedroom |
| Bedroomy | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a bedroom, thus intimate or sleepy. |
| Be'drop | vb | To drop upon, cover, wet or sprinkle with drops. 2. to strew, intersperse. |
| Bedsheet | n | A sheet, a piece of cloth cut and furnished as a bedliner. |
| Bedside | n | To the side of one's bed. |
| Bedsit | n | Also known as a bedsitter, a form of rented accomodation of a single room for use as both sitting room and bedroom; sometimes there may be a shared small kitchen area, washing and toilet facilities. |
| Bed-sitting room | n | One-roomed unit of accommodation usu. consisting of combined bedroom and sitting room with cooking facilities. |
| Bedsore | n | more often in the plural, a lesion caused by unrelieved pressure to any part of the body, esp. portions over boney or cartilaginous areas, such as frequently develops on a person confined to a bed by infirmity. |
| Bedspread | n | The topmost covering of a bed, often functioning as a balnket or coverlet. |
| Bedspring | n | one of the springs supporting a mattress. |
| Bedstead | n | The framework that supports the bed. |
| Bedstone | n | A large, heavy, flat stone used to support a column or similar member, or as the lower stone of an oil mill. |
| Bedstraw | n | Any of a herb genus Galium of the madder family, comprising some three hundred species. |
| Bedswerve | vb | To be unfaithful in marriage; to cheat, to commit infidelity. |
| Bedswerver | n | One who is unfaithful in marriage; an adulterer; a chaeter. |
| Bedtime | n | The time or hour at which one typically goes to bed in order to sleep. |
| Bedtop | n | The top section of a four poster bed. |
| Be'dull | vb | To make or become throughly or excessively dull. |
| Be'dulling | n | The state or quality of being thoroughly or excessively dull. |
| Bedung | vb | To cover with dung or manure. 2. to daub or defile with dung. |
| Be'dusk | vb | To overtake with dusk, twilight or night. |
| Be'dust | vb | To cover with dust. |
| Be'dusted | adj | Covered or coated with dust, as 'be'dusted sidewalks.' |
| Bedwards | adv | In or towards a bed. 2. towards bedtime, just before going to bed. |
| Bedwarf | vb | To make a dwarf, to stunt or hinder the growth of a someone or something, to dwarf. |
| Bedwarm | vb | To warm a bed by means of a hotwater bottle or similar device. |
| Bedwarmer | n | One who warms a bed prior to or during the time another is occpying it. 2. sl. a casual sexual partner (slang) |
| Bedwear | n | Clothing to be worn in bed, nightwear, sleepwear. |
| Be'dwellan | vb | Mislead, lead into error |
| Bedwet | vb | To wet the bed, to experience bedwetting or enuresis, to wet the bed while asleep. |
| Bedwetter | n | One who wets the bed or suffers enuresis or wets the bed whilst asleep. |
| Bedwetting | n | The state or quality of wetting the bed or suffering enuresis or wetting the bed whilst asleep. |
| Bedwork | n | An irrigation system based on a series of beds and ridges. |
| Bedworthy | adj | Sexually attractive. |
| Bedworthiness | n | The quality of being sexually attractive. |
| Bee | n | Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species. 2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions, as a spelling bee. 2. an insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apid[ae] (the honeybees), or family Andrenid[ae] (the solitary bee.) 3. a neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee. |
| Bee | phr | "Be a Busy Bee" - work with great diligent. |
| Bee | phr | "Bees and Honey"- Cockney slang for money. |
| Bee | phr | "Have Bees in the Head" - to be angry, choleric, cranky a little; have a head full bees; be crazy. |
| Bee | phr | "The Bee's Knees" - something outstandingly good. |
| Beeater | n | A brightly colored bird of the king-fisher family with a long bill and pointed wings. |
| Beebread | n | Honey or pollen used for food by bees. |
| Beech | n | A tree of the genus 'fagus' having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval-pointed leaves and many branches. 2. the wood of the beech tree. |
| Beechen | adv | Pertaining to or derived from the beech. 2. made of the wood of the beech tree. |
| Beechmast | n | The nuts of the beech. |
| Beechnut | n | The edible nut of the beech. |
| Beech-owl | n | The Tawny-owl. |
| Beechwood | n | The wood of the beech tree. 2. a wood or forest largely populated with beech trees. |
| Beechy | adj | Of or relating to beech trees. |
| Bee-drove | n | A great crowd, multitude, throng or teeming of people or other creatures. |
| Be'dwell | vb | To dwell near or about. |
| Beedom | n | The realm of the Bee. |
| Beehive | n | An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young. 2. a man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey. 3.(figuratively) any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy. 4. a type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air. |
| Beehive | n | Fig. a place swarmimg with busy people, a hive of industry. |
| Beehive houses | n | Small stone structures of ancient date found in Ireland, with a circular room, resembling a beehive. |
| Beeishness | n | the quality of being like bees. 2. busyness (extreme) |
| Beek | vb | To suffuse with genial warmth. 2. to expose oneself to the pleasurable warmth of the sun. 3. to season or beek wood by exposure to heat. 4. to bask or beek oneself (in the sun) |
| Bee-keeper | n | A person who maintains hives and keeps bees, especially for the production of honey. |
| Beekeeping | n | The practice or profession of keeping and caring for caring for bees. |
| Beeking | n | The exposure to genial warmth or heat. |
| Be'elbow | vb | To elbow vigourously. |
| Bee-less | adj | Without or not having bees. |
| Bee-like | adj | Apian, resembling a bee or bees. |
| Beeline | n | A direct or quick way, path or trip. |
| Been | n | Plural of bee (obs) |
| Been | ppl | Past particle of the verb "to be." |
| Been | phr | "Been and Gone and Done It" - really, or finally, have finally done something that is unexpected, shocking, likely to cause trouble etc. |
| Been | phr | "Been There Done That" - an assertion that the speaker has personal experience or knowledge of a particular place or situation. |
| Been-to | n | A term usd in Africa and Asia for a person who has been to England, usually to undertake further education. |
| Beer | n | Be-er: one who exists, sometime specifically 'self-existent' as the great "I Am." 2. "The Be-er" - The Cause, The Divine-in-All; All Godhead Essence. |
| Beer | n | An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor. 2. a fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. 3. a solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid. 4. a glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages. 5. a variety of the above beverages. |
| Beer | vb | To give a beer to someone (nonce) |
| Beer | phr | "Think No Small Beer of" - have an exaggerated opinion of own importance |
| Beerbellied | adj | Having a beer-beely; a stomach or fatty belly due to the over consumption of beer and fatty foods. |
| Beerbelly | n | An excess of fat stored in the abdomen, attibuted to consumption of beer. |
| Beerbottle | n | A bottle designed to carry beer. |
| Beercraft | n | The art or skill of brewing beer; beermaking; beerlore. |
| Beer-drinker | n | One who drinks beer on a frequent or regular basis. |
| Beer-gut | n | A beer belly; an excess of fat stored in the abdomen, attibuted to consumption of beer. |
| Beerhall | n | A large german public-house that speciales in various types of beers |
| Beerhead | n | A drunk, one frequently intoxicate due to over consumption of beer. |
| Beerhood | n | The beer-drinking class or set. |
| Beerhouse | n | A tavern that sells beer. |
| Beerily | adj | In a beery manner, while smelling of, or under the influence of beer. |
| Beeriness | n | A beery quality or condition. |
| Beerish | adj | Having the nature or property of beer. |
| Beerishly | adv | In a beery or beerish fashion. |
| Beerless | adj | Without or unprovided with beer. |
| Beer-lore | n | Beerlore, knowledge, study, history, or science of beer-making; beercraft, brewology. |
| Beermaker | n | One who makes beers; a brewer. |
| Beermonger | n | Brewers and sellers of beer and lagers. |
| Beershop | n | A shop selling beer |
| Beer-up | n | A drinking bout or party. |
| Beerware | n | A computing term, (often humorous.) software that can be used under a relaxed licence with the user encouraged to pay for the software by a donating to its author enough money to buy a beer. |
| Beery | adj | Characterised by beer or influenced by, or under the influence of, beer. 2. pertaining to the taste or smell of beer. 4. discolored with beer slops. |
| Bees and Honey | n | Cockney slang for money. |
| Bee's knees | n | Something or someone excellent or otstanding. |
| Beest | n | The first milk of a cow (or any animal) 2. a disease caused by drinking beesting milk. |
| Bee-sting | n | A hyperdermic puncture from an anthophila resulting in envenomation and often involving the penetration and lodging of a sting. 2. a bee-bite. |
| Beestings | n | Beest: the first milk of a mammal. 2. a disease caused by the imbibing beestings. |
| Bee-swarm | n | A swarm of bees. |
| Beeswax | n | A wax secreted by bees from which they make honeycomb or the processed form of this ware used in the manufacture of various goods. 2. colloquial in phrases "mind your beeswax" and "none of your beeswax." |
| Beet | n | Plant of the N.O. Chenopodiacae |
| Beet | vb | To make good, amend, make amends for, better, correct faults, . 2. mend, heal wound. 2. to bring into a better state, reform, put right. 3. to make good misdeeds or evil ways. 4. relieve hunger thirst or any form of want; to supply the wants of. 5. to relieve, help, assist (a person in need or trouble) |
| Beet | phr | "Beet a Fire" - to kindle, add fuel, keep up, feed a fire. 2. to |
| Beet | phr | "Beet One's Own Bale" - to put right one's own shortcomings or misdeeds. |
| Beeting | vb | To repent, relieve hunger, thirst, any sign of want, assist, help |
| Beeting | n | The action of making good, pairing, mending. 2. the action of kindling a fire. |
| Beetle | n | A class name for insects of the coleopterus order. |
| Beetle | n | Instrument, made usually of wood, heavy in weight or 'head' and with a handle or stock , used driving wedges or pegs. |
| Beetle | vb | To beat with a beetle, in order to thresh, crush, flatten. |
| Beetle | vb | To fly off, as a beetle. 2. to go one's own way. 3. to emboss fabrics. |
| Beetle | phr | "Beetle off" - hurry, scurry, scurry away. |
| Beetle-brow | vb | To lift up the eyebrow. 2. to scowl. 3. to project, overhang. 4. to hang threateningly.>>>>>>> |
| Beetle-browed | adj | Having prominent brows. 2. having shaggy or bushy eyebrows. 3. scowly, surly, reproachful. 4. of a ridge of a mountain, as projecting or tree-covered.????????? |
| Beetledness | adj | The state or quality of being beetled. |
| Beetlehead | n | The stupid fellow; a blockhead. 2. a black-bellied plover (squartarola belvedere) |
| Beetheaded | adj | Stupid, dull, lacking mental alertness. |
| Beetleskin | n | (Slang.) a condom. |
| Beetling | n | The embossing of fabrics. 2. the action of beating with a beetle. |
| Beet-need | n | The need to relieve or be relieved of any wants. |
| Beetroot | n | A normally deep red coloured cultivar of the beetroot vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating. |
| Beetrooty | adj | Of the nature or appearance of beetroot. |
| Bee-wine | n | Nectar. |
| Beewort | n | Acorus calamus. 2. sweet flag. |
| Beey | adj | Reembling or containing bees. |
| Befall | n | A circumstance, case, incident, accident. 2. fair befall or foul befall. |
| Befalling | n | Happening, occurence, chance, event. |
| Befalling | adj | Appertainig, appropriate, fitting. |
| Be'fang | vb | To lay hold of, sieze, grasp, catch, clutch. 2. to take hold on; begin or commence upon. 3. to encompass, enclose, contain, comprehend. |
| Befangled | adj | Smartly dressed or decorated, bedizened. |
| Be'feather | vb | To bedeck or cover in feathers |
| Be'feathered | adj | Covered or augmented with feathers. |
| Be'fight | vb | To deprive of by fighting. 2. to fight against; to do battle with. |
| Be'fighting | n | Battling, fighting against. |
| Be'file | vb | In modern usage: befoul. 2. to make foul or dirty; to defile. |
| Be'find | vb | To find, discover. 2. invent, contrive. 3. to be found behind. |
| Be'finger | vb | To finger all over. |
| Befit | vb | To be suited to, or fit for. 2. agree with, be in harmony with. 3. to become of moral fitness. 4. to be incumbent upon, as a duty or task. 5. to be right for. 6. to fit out. |
| Befitting | adj | Fitting, suitable, becoming, due. |
| Befittingly | adv | In a befitting manner, suitably, becomingly. |
| Befittingness | n | The quality of being fitting, appropriateness. |
| Be'flay | vb | To flay, strip, peel. |
| Be'flea | vb | To infest with fleas. |
| Be'fleet | vb | To flow about or flow swifty over. |
| Be'flood | vb | To flood around, over or all about. 2. inundate. |
| Be'flow | vb | To flow by about or around. 2. to flow all over, to overflow. |
| Be'fly | vb | To fly about. 2. to fly (flee)from; shun, escape. |
| Be'foam | vb | To cover with foam. |
| Be'fold | vb | To fold up, wrap up, envelope. |
| Be'fong | vb | To lay hold on. 2. sieze, grap, catch. 2. to take hold on, beging or commence upon. 3. to encompass, enclose, comprehend. |
| Before | adv | Earlier in time; previously; earlier, before. 2. at or in the front; ahead, in front, |
| Before | prp | (OE. beforen, biforen, before, in front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, as to stand before the fire. 2. preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when; in order that. 3. an advance of; farther onward, in place or time. 4. prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or worth; rather than. 5. in presence or sight of; face to face with; facing. 6. under the cognizance or jurisdiction of. 7. open for; free of access to; in the power of. 8. on the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; - opposed to in the rear. 9. on the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear. 10. in advance. "I come before to tell you." --Shak. 11. in time past; previously; already. 12. earlier; sooner than; until then. |
| Before | phr | "Be Beforehand With" - to anticipate. |
| Before | phr | "Before and After" - that describing a changing or changed situation and showing the difference made by the changes. 2. the and now. |
| Before | phr | "Before God" - a solemn oath meaning 'As God see me'. 2. I swear, vow, solemnly; as God is my witness. |
| Before | phr | "Before Long" - soon. |
| Before | phr | "Before One Knows Where One Is" - very quickly, or suddenly; very soon. |
| Before | phr | "Before One Says Jack Robinson" - very quickly; or suddenly; soon. |
| Before | phr | "Before the Lights" - theatrical parlance: on the stage. |
| Before | phr | "Before the Mast" - be an ordinary seaman. |
| Before | phr | "Before the Wind" - of a ship sailing directly into the wind. |
| Before | phr | "Before Time" - before the due or expected time. |
| Before | phr | "Of Before" - aforetime, former. |
| Before-dark | adj | Before night begins to fall. 2. from morning until evening, in the daytime before sunset. |
| Before-come | adv | To present early than required or requested. |
| Before-gird | vb | To surround, beset, besiege. |
| Before-goer | n | One who has gone before, a predecessor. 2. an ancestor. |
| Before-going | adj | Aforegoing, antecedents, prior, earlier, former, previous. |
| Before-graithe | vb | To prepare, make ready beforehand. |
| Before-had | adv | Held, had or obtain prior or previously. |
| Beforehand | n | In a state of preoccupation(often followed by with.) |
| Beforehand | adv | At an earlier or preceding time. 2. in advance, in anticipation. |
| Beforehand | adj | In comfortable circumstances as regards to property; forehanded. |
| Beforehand | phr | "Be Beforehand With" - anticipate; forestall. |
| Before-know | adv | Already known |
| Before-long | adj | Soon, almost immediately. |
| Before-math | adj | What precedes or produces a particular outcome. 2. events that have yet to occur; or are in the process of occurring. (antonym) |
| Before-named | adj | Named or mentioned previously. |
| Beforeness | n | Anteriority, pre-existence, priority. |
| Before-ripe | adj | Premature. |
| Before-runner | n | A prelude, precursor, |
| Before-said | adj | Treated or mentioned beforehand or alreaday. 2. aforesaid. |
| Before-say | vb | To predict, foretell. |
| Before-sayer | n | Prophet, seer |
| Before-see | vb | To predict, foretell, |
| Before-show | vb | Show or reveal beforehand. |
| Before-speaker | n | Prophet |
| Before-take | vb | To anticipate, |
| Before-tell | vb | Predict, reveal prior to |
| Be'foretime | adv | Formerly, previously, in former time, in a time preceding. 2. aforetime. |
| Before-told | adj | Informed or made known prior to the present |
| Before-warn | vb | Cuation or warn beforehand. |
| Before-weave | vb | To fringe, hem in or around. |
| Before-witting | n | Foreknowledge. |
| Before-written | adj | Written prior to the present time. |
| Befoul | vb | To make foul or dirty. 2. cover with filth, defile, (often moral filth or turpitude). 3. to entangle or run against so aqs to impede motion. |
| Befoul | phr | "To (Be)foul One's Own Nest" - harm, discredit oneself (through actions, behaviour near to home) |
| Befouler | n | One who befouls, makes dirty, spoils, soils, entangles. |
| Befriend | vb | To be a friend of, to make friends with; to befriend a stranger. 2. to act as a friend, to help, assist, to favour. |
| Befriender | n | One who befriends, makes friends, is friendky with, assists. faqvours. |
| Befriending | n | The action or act of being a friend to. |
| Beft | vb | To strike, give a blow to, slap, bash; buffet |
| Be'gallow | vb | To terrify, horrify. |
| Be'gem | vb | To adorn or stud with gems and jewel |
| Beget | n | The action of acquiring, acquisition, gaining, advantage, gain, profit, spoils of war (booty, loot.) 2. the thing acquired, acquisition, acquiremqnt, gain, proceeds. 3. procreation, generation, begetting. 5. progeny, offspring. |
| Beget | vb | To cause to be, produce, produce a child, sire. 2. to father (rarely of a mother.) 3. to happen, befall. |
| Begetel | n | Profitable advantage, profitability. |
| Begetter | n | One who begets, a procreator. 2. fig & transfig. - the agent that originates, produces or occasions. 3. God, the Creator, the begetter of the souls of other gods. |
| Begetting | n | The action or process of generating, also the result of the action of, progeny. |
| Begetting | adj | Producing creative as in 'life-begetting,' 'a self-begetting wonder'. |
| Beghast | vb | To fill with shock, awe, wonder, or amazement, enthuse, inspire. |
| Be'ghost | vb | To make a ghost of. 2. to endow with a spirit or soul. |
| Be'gift | vb | To entrust, endow; to give. Gift etymology of. |
| Be'gild | vb | To cover with gold or to gild. |
| Begin | vb | To take the first step or steps in carrying out an action. 2. to get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence. 3. to have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense. 4. to set in motion, cause to start; lead off, start, commence. 5. to begin to speak or say. 6. tobe the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series. 7.to have a beginning, of a temporal event. 8. to have a beginning characterized in some specified way. 9. to begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object; begin, start. 10. to achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative. 11. begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language. 12. to have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. 13. to do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start. 14. To enter on; to commence. 15. to trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place or beginning of. 16. to commence; originate; set about; start. |
| Begin | n | O.E. ('gin' - trap, circa 1250) to entrap, snare. |
| Begin | phr | "Begin With" - firstly; initially, at the beginning, to start with. 2. in the first place, first and foremost; to start with. |
| Beginner | n | Someone who has set something in motion. 2. someone who has just recently staarted at something. |
| Beginning | n | The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. 2. that which is begun; a rudiment or element. 3. that which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source. 4. the initial portion of some extended thing. 5. act of doing that which begins anything): commencing, start, starting. 6. that which is begun; rudiment or element): element, embryo, rudiment 7. that which begins or originates something): origin, source, start, commencement. 8. that initial portion of some extended thing): head, start |
| Beginning | phr | "Beginning of the End" - the first clear sign of a final result. |
| Beginning | phr | "Beginning With" - in the first place; as the first thing. |
| Beginning | phr | "Good Beginning Makes a Good Ending." - a good start is more likely to result in a successful outcome. |
| Beginning | phr | "In the beginning." - from the start of commencement. 2. from the get-go. |
| Beginningless | adj | Without a beginning or creation; uncreated. |
| Beginning-lessness | n | The state or condition of being without a beginning. |
| Begird | vb | To put a belt round the body. 2. to fasten a sword around one's waist by means of a belt. 2. to encircle, encompass, enclose with. 3. to beset in hostile battle, besiege. |
| Be'girding | n | The act of girding about, all around or encircling. |
| Be'girdle | vb | To encompass or bind, as with a belt |
| Be'girt | vb | To surround, encompass, enclose. |
| Be'glum | vb | To make sullen, dejected, gloomy |
| Be'gnaw | vb | To gnaw at, to erode, nibble, corrode. |
| Be'go | vb | To go about, ecompass, surround with hostile intent, to beset, besiege, overrun. 2. to clothe, dress. 3. to effect, with good or bad influence, or as acircumstance or situation. 4. bewend. |
| Be'god | vb | Deify, to make a god of. |
| Be'godding | n | The action of making a god of, or deifying (lit. & fig.) |
| Be'gold | vb | To cover with gold, make golden; begild, gild. |
| Be'gone | vb | To be all over or finished. 2. be past, cease to be, cease to exist, die, die out, dwindle, go away, disperse, pass from sight. |
| Be'gore | vb | To smear with blood, filth, ordure, dung. |
| Begotten | adj | Procreated, as in 'the first and only-begotten son or daughter.' |
| Be'grave | vb | OE: to dig. 2.to bury a corpse, to hearse or place in a coffin. |
| Be'grede | vb | To cry about, weep for, lament. 2. to cry out against. 3. upbraid, reproach, accuse. |
| Be'grip(e) | vb | Apprehend, seize, catch hold of, hold fast. 2. to take in, contain, hold in, comprehend. 3. to take to task, reprimand. |
| Beguilt | vb | To make guilty, cause to sin. 2. to impute with guilt or fault. 3. blame or accuse. |
| Beguilty | adj | Render guilty, burden with a sense of guilt. |
| Be'gun | adj | That have or has begun. |
| Be'had | vb | Beholden, indebted. |
| Behalf | n | Advantage; favor; stead; benefit; interest; profit; support; defense; vindication |
| Behalf | phr | "For the Behalf of" - to the interest of. |
| Behalf | phr | "On The Behalf" - to do in the interest of. 2. to do in place of or in the stead of. |
| Be'hallow | vb | To make thoroughly holy. |
| Be'hang | vb | To hang a thing, such as drapery or curtains. |
| Be'hap | vb | To befall, happen, behappen. |
| Behat | vb | To place a hat upon someone's head. |
| Be'hate | vb | Hate with great intent, to detest, loathe. |
| Behave | vb | To conduct oneself in a specified or particular way, esp. in relation to others; to exhibit behaviour. 2. to act, react, function or perform in a particular way. 3. to conduct oneself properly. |
| Behave | phr | "Behave Oneself" - to act in a proper manner. |
| Behave | phr | "Behave Towards" - treat in specific way. |
| Behaved | adj | Conducted, mannered as 'well-behaved, ill-behaved.' |
| Behaving | n | Conduct, behaviour |
| Be'head | vb | To remove the head. 2. cut someone's head off. 3. decapitate. |
| Beheaded | adj | To have one's head cut off or decapitate. |
| Beheading | n | The action of cutting off the head. 2. execution by decapitation. |
| Beheading | adj | That severs the head by decapitation. |
| Be'heart | vb | To enamour, ravish. |
| Be'heaven | vb | To endow with celestial bliss. 2. to beatify |
| Behele | vb | To conceal, cover, envelope (lit. & fig.) |
| Be'hell | vb | To torture as with the pain of hell. 2. give'hell' to. |
| Be'helm | vb | To cover, cover over (hill). 2. to cover with a helmet. |
| Be'help | vb | To help with, give assistance to. 2. to help, aid. assist |
| Be'hem | vb | To enclose on all sides. 2. to hem around |
| Behest | n | A vow, promise, as 'the land of behest' - the land of promise. 2. a command, promise, injunction. 3. a command, bidding, sometimes an authoritative requset. |
| Behest | vb | To promise vow. |
| Behesting | n | Bidding, command |
| Behete | n | A command, vow, promise. |
| Beheter | n | A promiser or one who promises. |
| Beheting | n | a promise, vow. |
| Be'hew | vb | Cut, cut down, carve. |
| Be'hide | vb | To hide away, to conceal. |
| Be'hie | vb | Make hast, to hie oneself. |
| Behight | n | Promise (behote) |
| Behight | vb | To vow, promise. 2. to encourage expectation, hold out hope of life, recovery. 3. to grant, deliver. 4. to command, bid, order. 5. to call name. 6. to speak, invoke. |
| Behighted | adj | Promised |
| Behighter | n | Promiser. |
| Behind | n | The rear, back-end. 2. butt, bottom, buttocks. |
| Behind | adv | At the back part; in the rear. 2. toward the back part or rear; backward. 3.to look behind. 4. Overdue, in arrears. 5.slow; of a watch or clock. 6. existing afterwards. 6. backward in time or order of succession; past. 7. behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage. 8. (archaic) not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining. 9. at the back part; in the rear |
| Behind | prp | Behind, at the back of. 2. to the back of. 3. after, time- or motion-wise. 4. responsible for. 5. in support of. 6. left a distance by, in progress or improvement; inferior to. 7. in back of; to the rear of. |
| Behind | phr | "Be Behind (it's) Time" - anachronistic, overly conservative, erroneous in date. |
| Behind | phr | "Be (Act or Do) Behind Someone's Back" - to do without someone knowledge. 2. to be secretly, with stealth, surreptiously. |
| Behind | phr | "Be Behind the Bit" -of a horse not taking the bit between it's teeth. 2. generally not taking or warming to a task. |
| Behind | phr | "Be Behind the Wheel" - in control of a motor vehicle; at the wheel. |
| Behind | phr | "Behind Someone's/One's Back" - do in a way which deliberately conceals an activity from a person. |
| Behind | phr | "Behind the Times" - antiquated;; old-fashioned; out-of-date. |
| Behind | phr | "Behind Time" - late. |
| Behind | phr | "Come From Behind" - win after lagging. |
| Behind | phr | "Fall Behind" - to be in arrears with. |
| Behind | phr | "Put (Something)Behind One" - refuse to consider. |
| Behindhand | adv | In arrears, in a state of insolvency, in debt. 2. entitled to money which is in arrear, (as a creditor) 3. behind time, late, too late, after the event, out of date, behind the times. 4. in a state of behindwardness; less advance than others. 5. ill-provided or prepared. 6. in an incomplete state, unfinished, inchoate. 7. backwards, tardy, hanging back. 8. the state of being backwards. |
| Behindwards | adv | In a direction that is behind. |
| Behither | adv | On this side of. 2. on the nearer side. 3. short of barring; save. |
| Behold | vb | To see or look at. |
| Beholden | vb | To be obligated to provide, display or do something for another. 2. bound by moral obligation, or obliged to do, to be indebt to. |
| Beholder | n | One who beholds, a watcher, looker-on, spectator, observer. 2. someone who observes or beholds. |
| Beholding | adj | Morally, obligated or indebted to. 2. |
| Beholdingness | n | The condition of being beholding. 2. beholding to anyone or others. 3. obligation, indebtness, dependence. |
| Be'honey | vb | To smear or sweeten with honey. 2. fig. 'with behoied words.' |
| Behoof | vb | Advantage or benefit (archaic) |
| Behoot | n | Benefit, advantage, use. 2. obligation, duty. 3. a gift for benefit of the recipient. 4. benefactor. 5. gratuity, tip. |
| Behoove | vb | To suit or befit. 2. to be necessary. 3. to be in one's best interest; benefit. |
| Behoting | n | Promising, promise. |
| Behove | vb | Be incumbent on. |
| Behoveful | adj | Advantageous, expedient, needful, necessary, due. |
| Behovefully | adv | Usefully, profitably, dutifully, necessarily |
| Behovefulness | n | The quality of being behoveful; usefulness, use. |
| Behoven | adj | Under obligation; beholding. |
| Behovesome | adj | Useful, of service |
| Behoving | adj | Needful, useful, incumbent, appropriate |
| Behovingly | adv | As it behoves one, usefully, appropriately |
| Be'hung | adj | Draped. |
| Be'husband | vb | To economise to the full. |
| Beild | n | Beeld, bield, a place, shelter, refuge. |
| Being | n | A living creature. 2. the state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state. 3. in philosophy, that which has actuality (materially or in concept). 4. in philosophy: one's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality. 5. (obsolete) an abode; a cottage; a bein. |
| Being | phr | "Being for (it)self : literal rendering of german 'fursichseyn' meaning conscious being; being as actuality. |
| Being | phr | "Being-for-Others" - a new dimension of being in which my self exists outside as an object for others. |
| Being | phr | "Being-in-(it)self: being that lacks conscious awareness. 2. being as mere potentiality' |
| Being | phr | "Being-itself' - being as 'infiniitive' and uncharacterizable. |
| Being | phr | "Being-with" - human existence, regarded as membership of the community of persons. "a certain... complacency...'seems to pervade the world of mutual being with...' |
| Being | phr | "For the Time Being" - temporarily. |
| Being | conj | Given that, since. |
| Beingdom | n | The realm or domain of living creatures or beings. |
| Beinghood | n | The state of being or existing; existence. |
| Beingful | adj | Full of being or existing, lively. |
| Beingless | adj | Non-existent, that has or is of no being |
| Beingly | adj | Of or pertaining to one's being or existence. 2. existing, extant. 3. true, real, actual. |
| Beingness | n | Entity, actuality, the quality of existence |
| Be'ken(d) | vb | To make known, to declare, to show. 2. to deliver. 3. to command or commit. 4. to take care. |
| Bekend | adj | Known. |
| Bekenning | n | Knowledge; acquaintance. |
| Be'kiss | vb | To kiss repeatedly, smooch, cover with kisses. |
| Be'knight | vb | To make a knight, confer a knighthood upon. |
| Be'knit | vb | To knit, to girdle or encircle. |
| Be'knotted | adj | Tied or covered with knots. |
| Be'knottedness | n | The state or quality of being beknotted, knotted again and again or covered or entangled in knots.. |
| Be'knowledge | vb | To acknowledge |
| Be'known | adj | Known, acquainted, familiar. |
| Be'knowning | n | Confession, acknowledgement. |
| Be'ladle | vb | To pour out with a ladle. |
| Be'land | vb | To bereave or deprive one of his land or territory, 2, to confiscate. |
| Be'last | vb | To load. |
| Belasted | adj | Burdened, charged, bound. |
| Belate | vb | To retard, hold back, dealy. 2. to cause something to be late. |
| Belated | adj | Tardy, later, overdue. |
| Belatedly | adv | In a belated manner. |
| Belatedness | n | The quality or state of being belated. 2. slowness, bckwardness |
| Be'lawgive | vb | To give, make or proclaim into a law |
| Belay | vb | To lay (a thing) about with other objects(ie. by putting them around it. 2. to surround, environ, enclose, invest etc. 3. to set about with ((ornamentation); to lay with a margin. 4. to beset with armed men, to besiege beleaguer. 5. to beset a line (a way or passage) with armed men so as to intercept the enemy, or with anything for use of those who pass. 6. to waylay, lie in wait (for a person.) 7. to invest (words) with a sense of meaning. 8. to expound or explain in some way. 9. to illustrate by evidence or action. 10. to encircle, clasp or coil around. 11. to make fast, tie, sieze. |
| Belay | n | A turn or fastening of a rope by belaying. |
| Belay | phr | "Belay my Last" - to ignore what I just said; previous order or request is retracted. |
| Be'layer | n | One who secures a rope to a person, rock or other projection. 2. |
| Belaying | n | A lying in wait. 2. to coil ropes around things. |
| Belch | n | The sound one makes when belching. |
| Belch | vb | To expel gas loudly from the stomach through the mouth. 2. to issue with spasmodic force or noise. 3. expel gas from the stomach through the mouth |
| Belcher | n | One who belches. |
| Belching | n | The act of belching. |
| Belchingly | adv | In a belching manner. |
| Belchy | adj | Somewhat and inclined to belching. |
| Belead | vb | To lead away; lead astray. 2. to conduct, lead, use. |
| Beleave | vb | To leave behind, abandon. 2. to be left, to remain. |
| Beleaving | adj | Remaining steadfast, enduring, persevering. 2. that which is left, remaining. |
| Belewe | vb | Betray, |
| Be'lick | vb | To lick or lick about. |
| Belie | vb | To lie around, ecncompass. 2. to lie with an army army round, to beleaguer. 2. to lie with carnally. 3. to lie near, to pertain to, to belong to. 4. to be pertinent or proper. |
| Belied | adj | Caluminated, falsified, false. |
| Belief | n | Mental acceptance of a claim as likely true. 2. faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered. 3. the quality or state of believing. 4. religious faith; one's religious or moral convictions. |
| Belief | phr | "Beyond Belief" - incredible. |
| Belief | phr | "The Belief" - the Apostle's creed. |
| Belief | phr | "To the Best of One's Belief" - in my genuine opinion. |
| Belief-ful | adj | Full of faith, believing |
| Belief-fulness | n | The quality of being full of belief or faith. |
| Beliefless | adj | Without faith or believing, atheistic, godless. |
| Belief-fullessness | n | State or quality of being without faith or belief; atheism. |
| Belier | n | One who belies. |
| Believe | vb | To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing) 2. to accept that someone is telling the truth. 3. to have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth. |
| Believe | phr | "Believe In" - to ascribe existence to. 2. to believe that something is right or desirable. 3. to have confidence in; trust in. 4. feel sure of the existence. |
| Believe | phr | "Believe It or Not" - you may not believe the following, but it is true. |
| Believe | phr | "Believe of" - believe that somebody is capable of a certain kind of action. |
| Believe | phr | "Believe One's Ears/Eyes" - accept as truth what one sees or hears. |
| Believe | phr | "Believe You Me" - an emphatic form of believe me - meaning you had better believe me (the speaker.) |
| Believe | phr | "Make Believe" - to pretend, fancy. |
| Believe | phr | "Not Believe a Word of It" - not believe; evenly partly what one has said. |
| Believe | phr | "Would You Believe" - believe it or not? |
| Believer | n | A person who believes, especially in regard to religion. |
| Believing | adj | Belief; to believe something is right. |
| Believingly | adv | In a believing manner |
| Belight | vb | To make light, illuminate. |
| Belike | vb | To make like, simulate, to be like to, to resemble. 2. to be pleasing to, to please, like, to be pleased with. 2. to be beloved, liked or loved. |
| Belike | adv | To appearance; like, likely, in all likelihood,likely to do something, probably, not unlikely, perhaps, possibly, |
| Beliked | adj | Beloved, liked. |
| Belikely | adv | Likely. |
| Be'lim(b) | vb | To cut off a limb or the limbs; to dismember. 2. to mutilate, disfigure. |
| Be'lime | vb | To besmear with lime or bird-lime. |
| Belimp | vb | (OE: limpan: to happen) to happen, to occur, befall. 2. to pertaining, belong to, to befit. |
| Belirt | vb | Deceive, cheat, fool, befool. |
| Belittle | vb | To knowingly say that something is smaller or less than it actually is. 2. to disparage, denigrate, vilipend, derogate. |
| Belittler | n | One who knowingly says that something is smaller or less than it actually is. 2. a person who disparages, denigrates, vilipends, derogates others. |
| Belittlingly | adv | In a belittling way. |
| Belive | vb | Remain, live on, survive, abide, continue. |
| Belive | adv | Sometimes 'blive.' - with speed, with haste, quickly, eagerly, gladly. 2. as quickly or as soon as possible, forthwith, before long. 3. immediately, directly. |
| Belived | phr | "In Evil Belived" - evil living, of ill-like. |
| Belively | adv | Quickly, at once. |
| Bell | n | A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck. 2. the sounding of a bell as a signal; in the UK, (informal) a telephone call. 3. a signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending. 4. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument. 5. (nautical) any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch) 6. the flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot. 7. (computing) a device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.). 8. anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower. 9.(architecture) the part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital. 10. in combinations such as: 'bridebell' - a bell rung to announce a wedding. 'door-bell:' 'night-bell' 'lich-bell'(funeral) 'death-bell' - a bell to announce a death. |
| Bell | n | The cry of an animal. 2. the bellow of a stag at rutting time. |
| Bell | vb | To attach a bell to, as in 'Who will bell the cat?' 2. to furnish or provide with a bell. 3. to shape so that it flares out like a bell. 4. slang, to make telephone call. 5. to develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom. 6. to bellow, bellow forth, utter, roar, make a loud voice as the bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag at rutting. |
| Bell | n | Combinations such as: 'bridebell' - a bell rung to announce a wedding. 'door-bell:' 'night-bell' 'lich-bell'(funeral) 'death-bell' - a bell to announce a death |
| Bell | phr | "Be A Warning Bell to" - be a warning to. |
| Bell | phr | "Bells and Whistles" - imaginative variations. |
| Bell | phr | "Bear (Away) the Bell" - to take the first place or lead; to be or have foremost position. |
| Bell | phr | "Bell the Book" - a frequent asservation in the Middle Ages referring to the term of excommunication. |
| Bell | phr | "Bell the Cat" - to undertake a dangerous action to the service of a group. (possible etymology is from an old fable in which mice went to put an old bell around a cat's neck, but cannot agree who should do it.) |
| Bell | phr | "Curse by, Bell, Book and Candle" - an erstwhile ceremony of excommunication in the Roman Catholic Church, when after sentence was read from a book read from a book, a bell was tolled as for the dead, and the candle was extingished.. |
| Bell | phr | "Ring a Bell" - to be reminded (of something,) 2. revive a different memory. |
| Bell | phr | "Ring the Hallowed Bell" - consecrated bells were believed to be able o disperse storms and pestilence, drive away devils, and extinguish fires. |
| Bell | phr | "Right on the Bell" - to the last possible moment. |
| Bell | phr | "That Rings the Bell" - that strikes a chord, that sounds familiar, the reminds one of something. |
| Bell | phr | "Tolling the Bell for Church" - the church-going bell was during days before the Reformation rung as a ave bell inviting parishioners to a preparatory prayer to the Virgin. |
| Bell | phr | "Warming the Bell" - a nautical phrase, doing something before the proper time. |
| Bell | phr | "Who is to Bell the Cat" - who will risk his own life to save his neighbours. |
| Bellbird | n | Any of various species of birds with abell-like call. |
| Bell-bottom | adj | A style of trousers or pants (bell-bottoms) in which the end of each pantleg flares out from the knee down, like the mouth of a bell. |
| Bell-dream | n | The sound or music of a bell. |
| Bell-end | n | (slang) - the glans penis. 2. a stupid or contemptible person. |
| Bell-house | n | The belfry of a church. |
| Bell-like | adj | Similar or like a bell in shape and sound. |
| Belling | n | The roaring of an animal; the bell. 2. the cry of the deer in rutting. 3. crying, the roaring or bellowing of humans. |
| Bellmaker | n | Someone who makes bells; a bell-founder. |
| Bell-making | n | |
| Bellman | n | A town crier who attracts attention by ringing a hand bell. |
| Bellow | n | A loud hollow roar, as of a bull, cannon etc. 2. a loud outcry; any deep cry. |
| Bellow | vb | To roar like a bull. 2. to shout loudly 3. to make a loud outcry. 4 to roar as a cannon. 5. to bawl, clamor, vociferate. |
| Bellows | n | A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air. 2. any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint. 3. bellows: the lungs. 4. flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back. |
| Bellrope | n | The handle; wire or cord by which a bell is rung. |
| Bell-shaped | adj | Having a shape of cross-section, like a cross-section of a bell. |
| Bellwether | n | A chief or leader (mostly contemptuous.) |
| Bellwether | phr | "Bellwether Of the Flock" - a jocose and rather deprecatory applied to the leader of a party. the allusions is to the wether or sheep which leads the flock with a bell around or fastened to its neck. |
| Bellwethering | n | The fact of leading or being lead like a sheep. |
| Bell-wetherish-ness | n | A tendency to follow the one who takes the lead. |
| Bellwort | n | N.O. Campanulaceae |
| Belly | n | The abdomen. 2. the stomach, especially a fat one. 3. the womb. 4. the lower fuselage of an airplane. 5. the part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part. 6. the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, or ship. 7. (architecture) the hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back 8. formerly, all the splanchnic or visceral cavities were called bellies: the lower belly being the abdomen; the middle belly, the thorax; and the upper belly, the head. 8. the part of anything resembling a belly, a protrubence. |
| Belly | vb | To position one's belly. 2. to swell and become protuberant; to bulge. 3. to cause to swell out; to fill. |
| Belly | phr | "Go Belly Up" - to fail, esp. financially. |
| Belly | phr | "Have/Had a Bellyful" - to have more than enough anoyance or disppointment. |
| Belly | phr | "Have Eyes Bigger than One's Belly" - to eat more than one needs to eat. |
| Belly | phr | "Have Fire in One's Belly" - have great enthusiasm. |
| Belly | phr | "The Belly Has No Ears" - a hungry person will not listen to advice or argument. |
| Belly-ache | n | A pain in the belly, stomach, abdomen. |
| Belly-friend | n | A parasite (slang) |
| Bellyful | n | As much as the belly will contain |
| Belly-god | n | A glutton, epicure. |
| Belly-landing | n | A landing of an aircraft without the landing gear being deployed. |
| Belly-laugh | n | A deep, hearty laugh. 2. a boisterous laugh, guffaw. |
| Belly-timber | n | Food, provender. |
| Be'lock | vb | To lock, or fasten with a lock. |
| Belong | vb | To have its proper place. 2. to be accepted in a group. 3. to be part of a group. 4. to be the property of. 5. to be the guardian, spouse or partner of. 6. to be an element of. |
| Belonger | n | One or that which belongs. 2. one who has membership status. 3. one who has close ties to a specific overseas territory, normally by ancestry, and therefore is granted certain rights. |
| Belongingness | n | The state of having the properties appropriate to belonging. 2.the state or condition of belonging. |
| Belongings | n | Possessions or personal items, usually tangible ones. |
| Belongership | n | The status of one who is, a belonger. 2. one who has membership status. |
| Be'look | vb | To look. 2. to look at, consider. 3. to look about one, cast one's eyes about. |
| Be'louke | vb | To close or shut a door. 2. to shut a person in or out. 3. to enclose, encompass. 4. to ondicate in an expression. |
| Be'lout | vb | To decieve. 2. to call someone a lout. 3. to address or speak to someone in contemptous language. |
| Be'love | vb | To please, to be pleasing to. 2. to be pleased with, approve of, like. 3. to love. |
| Beloved | n | One who is beloved, a loved one. |
| Beloved | adj | Loved, |
| Be'lovedly | adv | So as to be beloved. |
| Belovedness | n | The state or condition of being beloved. |
| Beloving | n | Liking, pleasure. |
| Belovingly | adv | In a beloving or loving manner. |
| Below | prp | An Old English??????? borrowing (Low) from Old Norse.: see beneath; benither. |
| Belt | n | A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing. 2. band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt. 3. a band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power. 4. anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe, as a belt of trees. 5. (astronomy) a collection of rocky-constituted bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star. 6. (astronomy) one of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds. 7. a powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object. 8. quick drink of liquor.
9. geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic, as (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt). 10. (weaponry) device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapons. 11. synonyms: (band worn around waist): girdle, waistband, sash. 12. (band used as safety restraint): restraint, safety belt, seat belt. 13. (powerful blow): blow, punch, sock, wallop |
| Belt | vb | To encirle. 2. to fasten a belt. 3. to scream or sing in a loud manner. 4. to drink quickly, often in gulps. 5. to hit someone or something. 6. to move very fast. |
| Belt | phr | "Belt Along" - to travel quickly, on foot or by vehicle. |
| Belt | phr | "Belt Out" - to sing loudly, forciblely or belt out a tune |
| Belt | phr | "Belt Somebody Over the Head" - override somebody's views or arguments. |
| Belt | phr | "Belt Up" - to stop talking. |
| Belt | phr | "Get Something Under One's Belt" - to achieve something. |
| Belt | phr | "Hit Below?????? the Belt" - to act unfairly. |
| Belt | phr | "Hold the Belt" - a winning boxer who is awarded a belt after a title fight. |
| Belt | phr | "Pull One's Belt in" - to spend less, make economies. |
| Belt | phr | "The Great Belt" - |
| Belt | phr | "Under One's Belt" - to have as an experience or achievement. |
| Belted | adj | Wearing a belt; distinguished by a belt. 2. having a mark like a belt. |
| Belted | phr | "A Belted Earl" - a person who claims noble birth. |
| Belter | n | Anything that is particularly good of its class. 2. a very good-looking person. 2. one who sings forcibly. 3. a song suitable for forcible, loud singing. |
| Belting | n | A beating with a belt. 2. a thorough defeat, a thrashing. 2. a system of belt work, as in a conveyor-belt or other mechanical device. 3. the material from which belts for machinery are made. |
| Belting | adj | Very good, exceptional. |
| Beltless | adj | Not wearing or possessing a belt. 2. that which does not require q belt. 3. not wearing a seat belt in a bus or motor vehicle. |
| Belt-like | adj | Like a band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body. 2. a band like that used in a machine to help transfer motion or power. |
| Beltway | n | The expressway, belt-line or roadway which surrounding Washington, DC. 2. the expressway or belt-line that surrounds another city. 3. US federal government and lobby organisation, located in Washington. DC. |
| Beltway | phr | "Inside the Beltway' - (US) of or relating to things that take place in Washington DC., usually in relation to US national politics. 2. out of touch to sentiments of persons living outside Washington DC (parochial.) 3. Of or relating to politics in the national capital cities of the world. |
| Belying | n | Given to lying, denial. 2. telling lies of any one, calumniation. |
| Be'man | vb | To furnish or fill with men; to man; to staff. |
| Be'mar | vb | To injure or mar seriously |
| Beme | n | Loud noise, din; 2. trumpet |
| Beme | vb | To blow a trumpet . 2. to make a loud noise or din. |
| Bemean | vb | To mean, signify, impart. 2. to signify or connote to a person. |
| Bemeet | vb | To meet with. |
| Bemer | n | A trumpeter. |
| Bemete | vb | To measure |
| Be'mind | vb | To endow with mind. |
| Be'minded | adj | Possessing or endowed with a mind. |
| Beming | n | Trumpeting. |
| Be'mingle | vb | To mingle, mix. |
| Be'mist | vb | To cover or envelop with mist. |
| Be'moan | vb | To moan, complain. |
| Bemoaning | n | The act of one who bemoans something. |
| Bemoaningly | adv | In a bemoaning manner. |
| Be'mother | vb | To pour tea for others. |
| Bemourn | vb | To mourn over, lament. 2. |
| Bemouth | vb | Praise(verbally) or mouth the praises of a person. 2. to declaim, 3. to grandiloquize |
| Ben | vb | Look at |
| Ben | adv | Within towards the inner part; esp. in or into the inner part of the house relatively. 2. in or into the inner part absolutely; into the parlour; etc. from the kitchen, in the parlour or chamber. |
| Ben | phr | "But and Ben" - in the outer and inner apartment; in both (or all) parts of the house. |
| Be'name | vb | To declare or utter solemnly on an oath. 2. to promise on an oath. 3. to name, mention by name. 4. to name, call, describe. |
| Bench | n | A long seat, for example, in the park. 2. (law, figuratively) the place where the judges sit. 3. (sports) the place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing. 4. (sports, figuratively) the number of players on a team able to participate, expressed in terms of length. 5. a place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench. 6. (weightlifting) a horizontal padded surface, usually with a weight rack, used for support during exercise. 7. (surveying) a bracket used to mount land surveying equipment onto a stone or a wall ( a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a 'bench.') 8. after removing the bench, we can use the mark left on the wall as a reference point. 9. a flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar. 10. (geology)a thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by steeper slopes above and below. 11. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) a kitchen surface on which to prepare food, a counter. 12. a collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public, traditionally on benches or raised platforms. 13. (weightlifting) The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed. |
| Bench | vb | To remove a player from play. 2. (fig.) to remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily. 3. (slang) To push the victim back on the person behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over. 4. to furnish with benches. 5. to place on a bench or seat of honour. 6. to lift by bench pressing 7. to bank up; to bank back. 8. to seat on a bench. 9. to seat oneself on a bench. |
| Bench | phr | "On the Bench" - appointed a judge or magistrate. |
| Bencher | n | One who frequents the bench at a drinking place. 2. judge, magistrate. |
| Bench hook | n | A clamp, usually of wood, for holding work upon a carpenter's bench. |
| Benching | n | A row of benches |
| Benchmark | n | A standard by which something is evaluated or mentioned. 2. a surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map and used as a reference point. |
| Benchmark | vb | To measure the performance of an item to another similar item in an impartial scientific manner. |
| Bench-warmer | n | Colloquially in sport: a player who rarely never gets to play in the games or matches, and is most often a substitute. |
| Bench-whistler | n | One who sits idly whistling on a bench (term of reproach) |
| Bend | vb | To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means. 2. to become curved. 3. to cause to change direction; to change direction. 4. to be inclined; to direct itself, usually with "down"); to stoop. 5. to bow in prayer, or in token of submission. 6. to force to submit; to submit. 7. to apply to a task or purpose; to apply oneself to a task or purpose. 8. to adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary. 9. to tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast. 10. to smoothly change the pitch of a note. 11. to swing the body when rowing. |
| Bend | n | Curve. 2. knot. 3. 'the bends' : a decompression sickness. 4. heraldic term. 5. a turn; purpose; an inclination; ends. 6. the best quality of sole leather. 7. hard, indurated clay. 8. thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides. 8. frames or ribs that form the ship's body. |
| Bend | phr | "Bend Down" - to bow or genuflect. 2. to submit to another. |
| Bend | phr | "Bend One's Elbow" - to drink spiritous liquor frequently and excessively. |
| Bend | phr | "Bend Over Backwards" - to take great trouble to be accomodating and helpful |
| Bend | phr | "Bend Someone's Ear" - to talk boringly to someone. |
| Bend | phr | "Bend the Truth" - to lie, tell fibs. |
| Bend | phr | "Go Down On Bended Knee" - to act in a very submissive way. |
| Bended | adj | Bent; archaic and obsolete, except for 'on bend knees.' |
| Bender | n | A drinking bout, dipsomania, binge. |
| Bendiness | n | The state or condition of being bendy. |
| Bending | n | A motion or action that bends. 2. having the ability to be bent easily, flexible, pliable, supple. 3. of person, having the ability to bend, flexible, lissom, lithe. 4. containing many bends and twists. 5. an articulation of a vehicle, such as a bus or tram. 6. a divide or division into diagonal bands of colour. |
| Bendingly | adv | In a manner involving bending. |
| Bendless | adj | Without bends, straight. |
| Bendly | adv | Somewhat bendish or not sraight. |
| Bends | n | A condition of bubbles in the blood which sometimes occurs during diving, esp. during ascent. 2. the thickest and strongest planks in a wooden ship and side wales. |
| Bendsome | adj | Flexible |
| Bendways | adv | Bendwise. |
| Bendwise | adv | Diagonally |
| Bendy | adj | Somewhat bendish or not straight. 2. of heraldry: a field divided diagonally into several bends varying and color |
| Bendy | phr | "Old Bendy" - the Devil, (one who is willing to bend to anyone's inclination); Old Sooty. |
| Bene | n | Prayer, petition, boon, |
| Beneap | adj | Lying beneath the reach of higher water. |
| Beneath | adv | Beneath, underneath or below. |
| Beneath | prp | Below. 2. in a position that is lower in rank, dignity. 3. covered up or concealed by something. |
| Beneath-forthly | adv | Out from beneath. |
| Beneath-ness | n | The quality of being beneath. |
| Be'night | vb | To be overtaken by the darkness of night (before reaching a place of shelter.) 2. to be involve in the darkness of night. 3. to hide oneself in the darkness of night. 4. to darken, to cloud, fig. of the effects of sorrow, disappointment; upon one's face, prospects or life. 5. to be involve in intellectual or moral darkness. as 'in the night' of error and superstition. 6. fig. to dazzle, blind, deprive of vision. |
| Be'nighted | adj | Overtaken by the darkness of night, effected by the night. 2. involved in intellectual or moral darkness. 3. obscured, involved in obscurity. |
| Be'nightedness | n | State or condition of being be'nighted. |
| Be'nighter | n | One who benights. |
| Be'nighting | n | The fact of being benighted or overtaken by night away from shelter. 2. that benights or is involved in darkness and obscurity, moral, and intellectual. |
| Be'nim | vb | Take away generally, remove, deprive of. 2. bereave. 3. spoil, ravish. |
| Benimming | n | Removal, a taking-away |
| Benote | vb | To make use of, to use. |
| Be'nothing | vb | To reduce to nothing, |
| Be'now | vb | By this time; by now. |
| Bensy | vb | Bless, consecrate, make hallow, purify |
| Bent | n | An inclination or talent. 2. predisposition to act or react in a particular way. 3. the state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity. 4. declivity or slope, as of a hill. 4. particular direction or tendency; flexion; course. 5. (carpentry) a transverse frame of a framed structure. 6. tension; force of acting; energy; impetus. 7. synonyms:(an inclination or talent): disposition, predilection, proclivity, propensity. |
| Bent | phr | "Be Bent On" - to be determined upon. |
| Bent | phr | "Bent Upon" - determined. |
| Bent | phr | "Hell Bent On" - very determined; be determined to; have one's mind set on. |
| Benumb | vb | OE. To make any part of the body insensible, torpid, or powerness. 2. to stupefy, stun, as by blow or shock. 4. in modern usage: the effects of cold, anathetic to make numb. 2. to render (the mental power, will or feelings) inert or deaden. 5. tp paralyse. |
| Benumbed | adj | Rendered torpid or numb. 2. deprived of strength or the power of motion by a chilling influence. |
| Benumbedness | n | The state of being benumbed, numbness, torpor, benumbment. |
| Benumbing | n | A rendering torpid or inactive. 2. benumbment. |
| Benumbing | adj | That render torpid, paralysing. |
| Benward | adv | Towards the interior, inwards, innerly |
| Beod | n. | Table, or board, as in "board and lodgings." |
| Beot | n. | Vow, threat, boast, promise, behote. |
| Beote | vb | To threaten, boast. |
| Beoten | vb | Threaten |
| Beowulf | n | In Old English. an epic poem of 3182 alliterative, long lines. It is possibly the oldest surviving poem in OE. and is commonly cited as one of the most important works in OE. literature. |
| Bequeath | n | Byword, proverb. |
| Bequeath | n | A will, bequest, testament |
| Bequeath | vb | To say, utter, declare. 2. of language: to express, signify. 3. to speak about in sorrow, to bewail. 4. to 'say' a thing away; to give away or part with in formal declaration. 5. to assign, ordain, appoint, allot, give as an attribute. 6,. to will to a recipient after one's death, the action of leaving by will, fig. to hand down by posterity, legacy, bequest. 7. to transmit, leave. 8. to deliver, bestow, give, yield, furnish. 9. to commit oneself, devote oneself. |
| Bequeathed | adj | Testated, left with a bequeath or will; fig. handed down. 2. transmitted by posterity. |
| Bequeather | n | A testator |
| Bequeathing | n | The action of leaving by a will. 2. a legacy, bequest. |
| Bequest | n | To deprive, take away by violence; rob, strip. 2. to take away by destroying, impairing or spoiling. 3. to deprive of power; prevent. 4. to take away someone or something important or close; deprive. 5. to deprive of life, cut off. |
| Bequest | vb | To give as a bequest, to bequeath. |
| Bequesting | n | The act of bequest or bequeathing. |
| Be'quoted | adj | Quoted to excess or ridiculously. |
| Berain | vb | To besprinkle with rain. 2. to rain upon. 3. to sprinkle or pour (a liquid) in drops. |
| Beray | vb | To befoul, stain; didfigure. 2. asperse, to cover with abuse. |
| Berayer | n | One who defiles, stain, befouls. |
| Bere | n | A course form of barley used in malting. |
| Bere | n | Clamour, shouting, roaring, voices of men or animals. |
| Bere | vb | To cry; roar. |
| Bereave | vb | To deprive, take away by violence; rob, strip. 2. to take away by destroying, impairing or spoiling. 3. to deprive of power; prevent. 4. to take away someone or something important or close; deprive. 5. to deprive of life, cut off. |
| Bereaved | n | "The Bereaved" - one or those bereaved by the death of a near relative. |
| Bereaved | adj | Deprived, taken way by violence or death. |
| Bereaven | adj | Deprived by death of a near relative. |
| Bereaver | n | Someone who bereaves, takes away, deprives by violence, robs, strips, destroys. |
| Bereaving | n | The action of bereave. |
| Bereaving | adj | That bereaves. |
| Berede | vb | To advise, counsel, inform, plan |
| Bereft | vb | To deprive, robbed, take possession from. 2. to rend or tear badly. |
| Bereft | adj | Forcibly deprived, robbed, having lost the possession or use of ; void of. 2. taken away, removed; quite gone. 3. deprived of a near relation. |
| Berend | vb | To render or tear severely; tear badly, rip all over. |
| Berewick | n | Village, demesne farm, dwelling, habitation |
| Berg | n | OE : beorg; mountain, barrow |
| Bergfall | n | Avalanche; the ruinous fall of a mountain peak. |
| Bergh | n | Protection, shelter. |
| Bergh | vb | To give shelter to, shut in for protection or preservation. 2. to give shelter, protect, preserve, to deliver, save. |
| Berghless | adj | Unprotected, without shelter. |
| Bergtop | n | A mountain top |
| Be'ride | vb | To ride beside. |
| Berman | n | Bearer, carrier, porter. 2. soldier, warrior, fighter. |
| Bermother | n. | Womb; uterus. |
| Berne | n | Warrior; later poetic 'man' |
| Bernet | n | Burning, combustion, hence the crime of arson. |
| Berre | n | Grove, shady place (survives in placenames as bere, beere, bear.) |
| Berrhless | n | Salvation |
| Berried | adj | Having or bearing berries. 2. formed as or consisting of a berry or berries; baccate. |
| Berried | adj | Beaten, threshed, trodden. 2. beaten or trodden as a path |
| Berrier | n | A thresher, a barnman. |
| Berry | n | Any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves. 2. a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry). 3.any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc. 4. small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry. 5. The coffee bean. 6. One of the ova or eggs of a fish, as 'in berry,' containing ova or spawn. |
| Berry | n | A mound, hill or barrow. |
| Berry | vb | To gather or pick berries. 2. to go berrying, to come into berry. |
| Berry | n | A mound, hillock, or barrow. |
| Berry | vb | Thresh (corn,) trod, to beat, to beat a path. |
| Berrying | n | Thrashing, the gathering of berries. |
| Berryless | adj | Without berries, without producing berries, not furnished with berries. |
| Be'run | vb | To run or flow around. 2. to run about or around; to encompass. |
| Berwe | n | A grove, a shady place. |
| Be'say | vb | To defend, apologise, speak for or about. |
| Be'schrew | vb | Make evil, wicked, pervert, deprave, corrupt |
| Be'see | vb | To look about; to look in any direction, to see. 2. also fig. to see or look to, to give heed to, hence to tend to. 3. to look about oneself, give heed to oneself, take heed to oneself, consider. 4. to look at, look to, behold. 5. to attend to, behold, to see. 6. to regard, attend to, give heed to. 7. to see to, provide for, to attend to, to deal with, treat; (use well or ill.) |
| Beseech | vb | To beg, implore. 2. a request. |
| Beseecher | n | One who beseeches a supplicant, petitioner. 2. a petitioner to the king or his court. |
| Beseeching | n | Beseeching, earnest entreating, petitioning, intercession, supplication. 2. an earnest request, entreaty, prayer. 3. plea, petition. |
| Beseeching | adj | That beseeches, enttreating, appealing, supplicating. |
| Beseechingly | adv | In a beseeching manner, imploringly. |
| Beseechingness | n | The quality of being beseeching. |
| Be'seeing | n | Circumspection, consideration |
| Be'seek | n | To seek or search about. |
| Beseen | adj | Seen, as in well-beseen or having a good look, good looking, attractive. 2. appearing in respect of dress, furnished, well appointed, apparelled. 3. best-beseen, well-attired, well-dressed. |
| Besench | vb | To sink around, dive about, plunge in forcefully. |
| Be'send | vb | To send a message to. |
| Beset | vb | To settle into a place, as the sun. 2. to besiege. |
| Besetter | n | One or who that beset |
| Besetting | adj | Besieged, assail by, bestowing, as in 'besetting sin.' 2. the action of surrounding in a hostile situation. |
| Besetting | phr | "One Besetting Sin" - a typical fault, failing, lack of control, especially a temptation one gives into too easily. |
| Be'sew | vb | To sew about or around; to sew up. |
| Be'shade | vb | To envelop in shade. 2. to overshadow. |
| Beshaded | adj | That which enelopes in shade or overshadow. |
| Be'shadow | vb | To cast a shadow upon. 2. to shade, overshadow. 3. make glooy; to sadden. |
| Be'shake | vb | To shake roughly or violently. |
| Be'shame | vb | To shame, put to shame, make shameful. |
| Be'sharp | vb | To make haste, hurry. |
| Beshear | vb | To shear, shave or cut clean off. |
| Be'shed | vb | To perfuse, drench, wet, moisten. 2. to shed blood. |
| Be'shew | vb | To bestraught |
| Be'shine | vb | To shine on or upon. |
| Be'shining | n | llumination, lighting up, effulgence |
| Be'shirted | adj | Furnished or wearing a shirt; shirted. |
| Be'shout | vb | To shout out. |
| Beshrew | vb | To make a mild imprecation. 2. to wish some slight evil to befall one; to curse. 3. execrate; to wish ill to. |
| Be'shroud | vb | To cover with or as with a shroud. 2. (fig.) - to hide in darkness, as with a cloak. |
| Be'sibbing | n | Affinity, resembling, or having a likeness to. |
| Beside | adv | Otherwise, else. |
| Beside | prp | Next to; at the side of. |
| Beside | phr | "Beside Oneself" - to be worried extremely, out of one's wits. |
| Beside | phr | "Beside One's Wits" - out of one's wit or senses. |
| Beside | phr | "Beside the Mark" - away from the subject. |
| Beside | phr | "Go Beside" - to pass by, miss. |
| Beside | phr | "Look By" - to overlook, miss. |
| Beside-forth | adv | Moreover. |
| Besides | prp | Not relevant to. 3. besides, in addition to. |
| Besides | adv | Also, in addition. 2. moreover, furthermore. 3. otherwise; else. 4. on one side. |
| Beside-sitter | n | One who sits beside (lit. & fig.) 2. an assessor. |
| Besidewards | adv | Out side, hard by, in the vicnity. |
| Besight | n | Consideration, determination, ordinance. |
| Be'silver | vb | To silver over. 2. to cover or line with silver. 3. |
| Be'silvered | adj | Covered or lined with silver. |
| Be'sin | vb | To stigmatize with sin. 2. to stamp with sin. |
| Be'sing | vb | To sing of or sing about. 2. celebrate in song or poetry. 3. sing the praise of, praise, laud. |
| Be'singe | vb | To singe very lightly or not at all. |
| Besit | vb | To encamp about, besiege. 2. to sit properly upon, to sit as a dress or fit as a glove. 3. to lie heavily upon, to weight upon. |
| Be'sleeve | vb | To take the sleeve from (a bishop); divest. |
| Be'slime | vb | To make dirty with something slimy; befoul. 2. to insult, to say negative things about; denigrate. 3. to cover or daub with slime; slime. |
| Besmear | vb | To anoint, smear over or about. 2. to cover and soil with any greasy or sticky substance. 2. to sully, defile, pollute. |
| Besmeared | adj | Covered with a thing, greasy or sticky. 2. befouled, besmirched, sullied. |
| Be'smearer | n | One who besmears. |
| Be'smell | vb | To smell out; sniff about, around or all over. 3. to investigate. |
| Be'smile | vb | To smile at. 2. give a smile or show a smile to |
| Be'smit | vb | Stain, contaminate, to effect with disease. |
| Be'smock | vb | To wear or cause to wear a smock. |
| Be'smoke | vb | To fill or act on, with smoke, to fumigate. |
| Be'smooth | vb | To make smooth. |
| Besmut | vb | To blacken with smoke, make sooty, smudge. |
| Besnow | vb | To cover with or whiten with snow. |
| Besom | n | A bundle of twigs or rods used for birching. 2. an implement for sweeping, usually a bunch of broom, etc. tied around a handle. (in lit.English 'broom' is generic name, 'besom' specific) 3. any agent that sweeps away or cleans. |
| Besom | vb | To sweep with violence.. 2. to sweep away, etc. |
| Besomer | n | One who uses a besom. |
| Besomlike | adj | Like or characteristic that sweeps or sweeps clean |
| Besoot | v | To blacken with soot. |
| Besot | vb | To effect with foolish, blinding affection. 2. to be or become infatuation with someone. |
| Besotted | adj | Intellectually or morally stupified or blinded. 2. intoxicated or bemuddled by a narcotic. |
| Besottedingly | adv | In a besotted manner; besottedly. |
| Besottedly | adv | In a besotted manner, besottedingly. |
| Besottedness | n | State or condition of being besotted. |
| Besotten | vb | To besot or make foolish or infatuated. |
| Besought | ppl | Past particle and adjective of 'beseech.' |
| Be'soul | vb | To endow with a soul; ensouled. |
| Be'sour | vb | To make very or exceedingly sour. |
| Besouth | prp | On or to the south of. |
| Be'sow | vb | To sow or seed widely. |
| Bespeak | n | A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron. |
| Bespeak | vb | To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss. 2. to speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance. 3.to ask for stipulate, solicit, or request, as in a favour. 4. (archaic) to forbode; foretell. 5. (archaic, poetic) to speak to; address. 6. to betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest. 7. to speak up or out. |
| Bespeaker | n | One who bespeaks. |
| Bespeaking | n | The act of bespeak. |
| Be'speckle | vb | To speckle or spot. |
| Bespeed | vb | To help to get on or prosper. |
| Be'spell | vb | To cast a spell; bewitch (lit & fig.) |
| Bespelled | adj | Spellbound, bewitched, entranced. |
| Be'spend | vb | To spend excessively. |
| Be'spin | vb | To spin round, so as to cover. |
| Bespit | vb | To spit upon. 2. soil with spittle. 3. (fig.)- to disrespect. |
| Bespoke | adj | Individually or custom-made, as a feat of engineering titanium bones. 2. realting to someone who makes custom-made products, esp. clothing items. |
| Bespoken | adj | Bethrothed or engaged to be married. |
| Bespread | vb | To cover a surface all over. 2. of things: to spread over, to cover by spreading all over. 3. to cover anything over or upon a surface. |
| Besprent | vb | To sprinkle over, asperse with moisture. 2. to sprinkle a substance about |
| Bespring | vb | To besprinkle about. |
| Best | adj | Superlative form of good: most good. 2. most; largest, bestness |
| Best | adv | Superlative of the adjective goodbest. 2. superlative form of well: most well. |
| Best | n | The supreme effort one can make, or has made. 2. the person (or persons) who is (are) most excellent; something that is best. |
| Best | vb | To surpass in skill or achievement. 2. to beat in a contest. |
| Best | phr | "All For The Best" - a seeming misfortune that turns out to be for the best and frequently leads to a favourable outcome. |
| Best | phr | "All the Best" - an expression used to wish a person good fortune. |
| Best | phr | "As Best One Can Do" - effectively as possible under the circumstances. |
| Best | phr | "At Best" - the best that can be expected in the circumstances. 2. looking at the matter in the most favorable light. |
| Best | phr | "At One's Best" - be in great form. 2. in peak condition in all respects. |
| Best | phr | "At the Best of Times" - even when circumstances are better. |
| Best | phr | "Best Of Both Worlds" - a combination of two seemingly contradictory benefits. |
| Best | phr | "Best of the Breed" - anything thought to be the best of its kind or type. |
| Best | phr | "Best Somebody" - to get the better of somebody. 2. outwit, and gain advantage over someone. |
| Best | phr | "Come off Best" - have the advantage over. |
| Best | phr | "Do One's Best" - do all one can; try hard. |
| Best | phr | "For the Best" - with honest motives and best intentions. 2. leading to a favorable outcome, if unpromising now. |
| Best | phr | "Get the Best of" - defeat, outwit. |
| Best | phr | "Had Best" - would find it wisest to do. |
| Best | phr | "Have the Best of the Both Worlds" - have the advantages from two different situations. |
| Best | phr | "Have the Best of It" - win an argument or contest. |
| Best | phr | "Make the Best of" - obtain the best result possible in difficult circumstances, compromise. |
| Best | phr | "May the Best Woman/Man Wins" - I hope that the best person succeeds. |
| Best | phr | "One's Best Friend" - one whom one can rely on above all others for help and support. 2. a special object that gives onesecurity and independence. |
| Best | phr | "Put One's Best Foot Forward" - make an extra or social effort, walk quickly. |
| Best | phr | "Six of the Best" - six strokes of the cane. |
| Best | phr | "The Best Man Wins" - accept philosophically that somebody has defeated one in some competition, has succeeded better than oneself. |
| Best | phr | "The Best of It" - the most amusing, or surprising part of an incident or situation. 2. the most advantageous aspect of something. |
| Best | phr | "The Best Things in Life in Free" - acytivities wghich cost nothing , or very little, give more plaeasure, have nore true value, than anything which one might pay a great deal for. |
| Best | phr | "To the Best" - belonging to the best or top group, first class. 2. relating to the most luxurious. 2. to the most extent. |
| Best | phr | "To the Best of One's Belief" - as well as one is able, knows. |
| Best | phr | "Up with the Best" - as good as anyone else. |
| Best | phr | "Want the Best of the Both Worlds" - an unreasonable desire to get some advantage without incurring a corresponding disadvantage. |
| Best | phr | "With the Best of Them" - as well as anyone. |
| Bestain | vb | To mark with stains, discolour, spot. |
| Be'stand | vb. | To stand by or near, esp to stand by or over in solitude (by the grave), mourn. 2. to stand around in hostility. |
| Bestar | vb | To spangle or adorn with stars. |
| Be'stare | vb | To stare at. |
| Bestarred | adj | To decorate withh a star of an order. |
| Best buy | n | The purchase giving the best value inproportion to its price; a bargain. |
| Be'stead | vb | To help, assist, relieve, be of service, be in the service of, avail; go in stead of. 2. to settle, be placed or put or set in place. |
| Bestead | ppl | Placed; situated by; circumstanced (with ill etc.. 2. beset by. 3. hard pressed. 2. to help, assist. 3. to profit, benefit, avail. |
| Besteading | n | Help, assistance, aid, avail. |
| Besteal | vb | To steal away stealthily. |
| Be'stench | vb | To afflict with malodour or stink. |
| Bestep | vb | To step on or over, tread upon. 2. to step, take steps, walk, go. |
| Bester | n | One who gets the best of others by fraud; fraudster |
| Bestick | vb | To cover all over. 2. to transfix. |
| Bestill | vb | To amke quite still, hush. |
| Bestill | phr | "Be Still My Beating Heart" - calm down, the situation is too exciting or overly distressing. (Often used with sarcasm to imply the situation is not nearly eciting or distressingly as has been suggested.) |
| Bestir | vb | To busy oneself. 2. to rouse into activity. |
| Best-kept | adj | A significant fact or characteristic that is well known. 2. not told to anyone. |
| Best-known | adj | Most well-known. |
| Best-loved | adj | Most or best loved. |
| Bestman | n | The primary attendant to the groom in a wedding ceremony. |
| Best-minded | adj | Scrupulous, always acting in the best interest of something or someone. 2. most intelligent or able. |
| Bestness | n | The quality or state of being the best. |
| Be'stock | vb | To stock or provide with thorougness or excessively. |
| Bestorm | vb | To storm or assail on all sides. |
| Bestow | vb | To lay up in store; deposit for safe keeping; stow; bestow, place. 2. to lodge, or find quarters for; provide with accommodation. 3. to dispose of. 4. to give; confer; impart gratuitously; present something to someone as a bestow, gift or honour. 5. to give in marriage. 6. to apply; bestow, make use of; use; employ. To behave or deport. |
| Bestowed | adj | That which is bestowed; to give, confer upon gratitiously. 2. present as a gift |
| Bestower | n | One who bestows. |
| Bestowing | n | The act of bestowing something on someone |
| Best-read | adj | Best or most well informed and knowledge through reading extensively. |
| Be'streak | vb | To overspread, or steak over. |
| Be'stream | vb | To stream over |
| Bestrew | vb | To strew or scatter about, throw or drop here or there. 2. to strew anything upon, strew over or about. 2. cover or partially cover things; strewn. 3. cover with straw or strewing. |
| Bestride | vb | To be astride something. 2. to stand over or sit on with legs on either side, rsp. to sit on a horse. 3. fig. to dominate |
| Bestrip | vb | To strip clean, to deprive of, to take away entirely. |
| Bestseller | n | A book or other product that sold in large numbers. |
| Best-sellerdom | n | The quality of having the status of a best seller. |
| Bestselling | adj | In marketing, highly popular with consumers purchasing goods within a specific class. |
| Be'stud | vb | Adorned or ornamented with studs. |
| Be'stung | adj | Having been stung, as 'our bodies was so bestung that we no longer felt the biting of bugs.' |
| Best-worthy | adj | Most worthy, or best in worthiness. |
| Be'sung | vb | To sing of, sing about, glorify in song or in ode. |
| Beswaddle | vb | To envelop in swaddling cloth. 2. to beat, thrash, swaddle. |
| Beswape | vb | To envelop, tangle. |
| Be'swart | vb | To blacken, denigrate |
| Besweat | ppl | Covered with perspiration. |
| Be'sweeten | vb | To sublimely sweeten. |
| Beswike | vb | To betray, deceive, cheat |
| Be'swiker | n | To cheat, betrayer, deceiever |
| Be'swikking | n | Cheating, deceiving, betraying |
| Beswim | vb | To swim around and about. |
| Be'swinge | vb | To beat soundly. |
| Be'swink | vb | To labour, toil, work for. 2. to chastize. |
| Beswinkful | adj | Toilsome. |
| Be'tail | vb | To furnish with a tail. 2. to dock or remove the tail. |
| Betake | vb | To hand over, deliver, give up, grant, place at a person's disposal. 2. entrust, commit, hand over to the care of. 3. to give in marraige. 4. to bid adieu, farewell, say goodbye. 5. to allot, assign |
| Betake | phr | "To Betake Oneself To One's Heels' - to reteat in flight, run away. |
| Beteach | vb | To show, point out. 2. hand over, deliver, give up, forfeit. 3. to hand over in trust, to entrust, commit, give in. 4 to commit one by the expression of trust (to) God, devil etc as a formula of leave taking. |
| Be'tear | vb | To suffuse with tears. |
| Be'tee | vb | To draw over as a covering, to cover, veil. 2. to employ, spend, bestow 9time, pain etc.) 3. to bring about, manage, |
| Be'teem | vb | To pour over or all about. 2 to give birth to, to reproduce. |
| Be'teem | vb | To think it or proper, vouchsafe, grant, consent. 2. to vouchsafe, accord, grant, concede. 3. to allow, permit. 4. to bring a person or thing fitting to a possessor. 5. to allow, permit, (to dosomething.) 6. |
| Beteeming | adj | Copious, profusive, outpouring. |
| Betell | vb | To pay, count out money. |
| Be'thank | vb | To bestow thanks upon, to thank. |
| Be'thatch | vb | OE: Bithecche: cover, cover over, protect. 2. conceal, cover, bedeck. 3. to cover with thatch, to thatch. |
| Be'think | vb | To think about, recollect, to think about something or somebody. 2. to remind oneself, remember. 3. to consider, to reflect upon, mediate, ponder, to determine, resolve. |
| Be'thinking | n | Recollection, remenbering, consideration, reflection, pondering. |
| Be'through | prp | Throughout. |
| Be'thought | adv | Of manner: intended, contrived, purposed (of a thing); as in ill-bethoughed evil, |
| Bethought | adj | (ppl)of a thing: intended, purposed, contrived. 2. of a person: minded or disposed ill or well bethought |
| Be'thrall | vb | To enslave |
| Be'threatened | adj | Threatened by mortal danger, as in 'my sin-bethreatened soul.' |
| Be'throng | vb | To throng about, surround, besiege. |
| Be'throw | vb | To throw or twist about; torture. |
| Be'thumb | vb | To take hold of or work with the thumbs. |
| Be'thwack | vb | To pelt, trash, cudgel soundly. |
| Betide | n | Befalling, event, fortune, chance. |
| Be'tide | vb | To befall, happen to, to become of, to betime. 2. to fall to as a possession. 3. to become or befit, bode (anyone.) |
| Betide | adj | Circumstanced, beset, begone, to bode, betoken. |
| Betider | n | That which befalls or betides, an accident. |
| Betides | adv | At an early time or period. |
| Be'tiding(s) | n | Event, fortune, accident, befalling, happening, occurence. |
| Be'tie | vb | To tie round, bind fast. |
| Be'timber | vb | To build. |
| Betimbered | adj | Furnished or built with timber. |
| Betime | adv | In good time, early, reasonably. 2. early in the day, of an early hour. |
| Betimely | adv | Early, reasonably, in good time. |
| Betimes | adv | At an early times, period or season, early in the as the year or life. 2. early in the morning, at an early hour. 3. in due time or in good time, while there is yet time or before it is too late. 4. in a short time; soon, speedily, forthwith. |
| Be'tine | vb | To set fire to, to kindle, ire up. |
| Be'token | vb | To signify, mean, denote, express in words, symbolize |
| Be'tokening | n | Signification, meaning, emblem, omen, portent |
| Be'tongue | vb | To assail with the tongue, scold, rail, flout, rally. |
| Be'torn | adj | To be torn in pieces, tattered. |
| Be'tow | vb | To tow about, draw, pull. 2. to lead about, conduct. 3. to educate, influence, sterr, direct. 4.to bestow, apply |
| Betrap | vb | To catch in a snare, circumvent, enclose. |
| Betread | vb | To tread upon, to walk over or upon. |
| Be'troth | vb | To engage a woman in a contract of marriage. |
| Bethrothed | adj | Engaged to be married; affianced. 2. given or contracted in a marriage. |
| Better | adj | Comparitive form of more good, more well. 2. larger, greater. |
| Better | adv | Comparative form of well: more well. 2. more, in reference to value, distance, time, etc. |
| Better | vb | To improve; to become better. 2. to surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel. 3. to give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of. 4.(slang) had better. |
| Better | n | An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior. |
| Better | phr | "Be Better Off" - to mend, get better, improve. |
| Better | phr | "Be Better Than One's Word" - to do more than one has promised |
| Better | phr | "Better Late Than Never" - more satisfactory that something happens, even if late, than that it never happens at all. |
| Better | phr | "Better off" - having more wealth, advantage. |
| Better | phr | "Better Off Dead" - being dead is preferable to being alive (because one's life is miserable, painful, useless, or destructive. |
| Better | phr | "Better (Worse) Still" - there is something better one can do than what has been done previously suggested. 2. it would be much worse if one decided to do something other than what has been suggested. |
| Better | phr | "Better that Way" - more suitable, desirable than any other. |
| Better | phr | Better the Day, Better the Deed" - it is sometimes right to do something, to work on Sunday even though it is/was a day of rest. |
| Better | phr | "Better the Devil You Know, than the Devil You Don't Know" - it is better, easier to tolerate, cope with somebody/ something evil, unpleasant or undesirable, than to risk having to cope with somebody/something unknown, who may prove worse. |
| Better | phr | "For Better or For Worse" - in terms accepting results; whatever the results. |
| Better | phr | "For the Better" - in the direction of improvement. |
| Better | phr | "Get Better" -recover, mend (in health). |
| Better | phr | "Get The Better Of" - to be in an improved situation or more advantageous position |
| Better | hr | "Go One Better" - outbid or outdo by one. 2. supersede. |
| Better | phr | "Had Better" - be well advised to. |
| Better | phr | "Have Seen Better Days" - worn, showing its age. |
| Better | phr | "It's Better to be Late than Never" - it's better to do something, than never do it at all. 2. better safe than sorry. |
| Better | phr | "It's Better than Nothing" - barely, useful, almost useless, but better than nothing at all. |
| Better | phr | "It's Better to Have Loved and Lost than Never Loved at all" - one having experience of love, even if it is ended, is better than having no experience of love. 2. love is worthwhile despite the pain involved in separation. |
| Better | phr | "It's Better to Light a Lone Candle than to Curse the Darkness" - in the face of bad things or hopelessnes, it is more worthwhile to do some good, however small, in response than to complain about the situation. |
| Better | phr | "Know Better" - be more sensible; be less foolish. |
| Better | phr | "No Better than" - the same as. |
| Best | phr | "No Better He or She Should Be" - a phrase of disparagement implying a immorality or amoral character. |
| Better | phr | "Think Better Of Somebody" - of a person: to form a better opinion of. |
| Better | phr | "Think Better than Something" - reconsider and think wisely.. |
| Better-becoming | adj | Improved, becoming better, looking better. |
| Better feelings | n | One's conscience. |
| Better-half | n | Used of a husband or wife. |
| Betterhood | n | The state or condition of being better; superiority. |
| Betterish | adj | Somewhat better or superior. |
| Better-knowing | adj | Somewhat better or superior in knowledge or intelligence. |
| Betterness | n | The quality of excelling or being better, superiority. 2. having more god quality or excelling. 3. beyond the usual standard. 4. improvement, betterish, amendment. |
| Better off | adj | In a better(often financially) position. |
| Betters | n | One's superiors. |
| Better-to-do | n | In social condition or wordly comfort, more prosperous. |
| Better-witted | adj | Smarter, more intelligent or mentally alert. |
| Betumbled | adj | Disordered, dishevelled. |
| Be'tweche | vb | To exorcise, deliver, rid |
| Between | prp | In the position or interval that separates (two things), or intermediate in quantity or degree. 2. done together or reciprocally, as ' between friends' 3. shared in confidence. 4.in transit from (one to the other, or connecting places. 5.combined (by effort or ownership). 6. one of (representing a choice). |
| Between | phr | "Between One's Teeth" - with one's teeth tightly closed, clenched (as a sign of anger, pain or strong emotion) |
| Between | phr | "Between Ourselves" - in confidence. |
| Between | phr | "Between the Hammer and the Anvil" - idiomatic: with the choice between two unpleasant or distasteful options. 2. to be be in a predicament or quandary. 3. to be between a rock and a hard place. |
| Between | phr | "Between the Devil and The Dead (deep) Sea" - having a choice between two alternatives, both undesirable. |
| Between | phr | "Between These Four Walls" - confidentially (and privately) |
| Between | phr | "Between Times/Whiles" - in an interval between other cations. |
| Between | phr | "Between Two Fires" - between two dangers as soldiers caught between fire from opposite sides. |
| Between | phr | "Between Two Stools" - failing to meet either of two (conflicting) requirements. |
| Between | phr | "Between Two Stools, You Fall to the Ground" - as when accidentally, or as a victim of a practical joke, you miss both stools and fall to the ground. To miss both chnces through hesitance or indecision. |
| Between | phr | "Between Whiles" - at irregular intervals. |
| Between | phr | "Between Wind And Water" - along the line where anthing is submerged in water, etc. on the loadline of a ship |
| Between | phr | "Between You and Me (and the Bedpost)" - in confidence with an obligation to keep something secret and confidental. |
| Between | phr | "Betwixt and Between" - in an immediate position. |
| Between | phr | "Few and Far Between" - rare, scarce. |
| Between | phr | "In Between" - at a point or in an area bounded by two or more other points in space, time, sequence etc. |
| Between | phr | "Read Between the Lines" - detect unstated but implied meaning. |
| Between | phr | "To Go Between" - to act as a medium or mediator |
| Betweenhood | n | The state or condition of being between or in-between. 2. an intermeddiate condition or a between-ness. 2. anything that is between or in between; in an intermediary position |
| Between-light | n | Twilight, dawn, sunset, dusk. |
| Betweenness | n | Intermediate stage or state |
| Between-time | n | Intervening time, interval. |
| Between-whiles | n | Intervals |
| Be'twine | vb | To twine together; entwine. |
| Betwixt | adv | (Also adv) between. 2. of more than two. 3. among |
| Betwixt | phr | "Betwixt and Between" - in an intermediate position; neither one thing nor the other. |
| Be'twynde | vb | "Be at Wind" - to escape. |
| Bever | vb | To tremble, shake, quivering. |
| Bevering | adj | Trembling, shaking, quivering. |
| Bevering | n | Shakiness, trembling, quivering. |
| Be'wain | vb | To profit, take advantage, (wain: gain) |
| Be'wake | vb | To keep watch over, keep guard. 2. to watch over or maintain vigil on the dead. |
| Bewallow | vb | To wallow about. |
| Beware | vb | This word is a compound from be and the Old English 'ware, now wary, which is an adjective. "Be ye war of false prophetis." --Wyclif, Matt. vii. 15. It is used commonly in the imperative and infinitive modes, and with such auxiliaries (shall, should, must, etc.) as go with the infinitive. 2. to be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided. 3. to have a special regard; to heed. [Obs.] 3.to avoid; to take care of; to have a care for. |
| Be'wash | vb | To wash all over. 2. to drench with water. |
| Be'wave | vb | To shield, hide. 2. to lay wait for, overpower by means of some simple stratagem. |
| Be'weaponed | adj | Armed with weapons. |
| Be'weary | vb | To become weary or tired. |
| Be'wed | vb | To wed, marry, to unite closely or intimately. |
| Beweep | vb | To weep for (the dead,) weep over. |
| Beweeper | n | One who beweeps. |
| Be'weigh | vb | To determine the weight of. 2. to consider, weigh up, evaluate |
| Be'welcome | vb | To welcome warmly or profusely. |
| Be'well | vb | To well up. |
| Be'wend | vb | To turn round or away. 2. to turn oneself round. |
| Bewest | adv | On or to the west of. |
| Be'wet | vb | To wet profusely. |
| Bewethered | adj | Castrated, 2. archaic spelling of weather - beweathered: to be affected or formed by the action of the weather. |
| Be'whape | vb | To bewilder, amaze, confound utterly |
| Be'whisker | vb | To adorn with whiskers or facial hair. |
| Be'whiskered | adj | Adorned or having whiskers or facial hair, hirsute. |
| Be'whisper | vb | to whisper. |
| Be'whistle | vb | To whistle to. |
| Be'whiten | vb | To whiten thoroughly or over all the surface. |
| Be'whore | vb | To call whore. 2. to make a whore of. |
| Be'wield | vb | To hold in hand, handle, weild. 2. to use one's limb. |
| Bewilder | vb | OE. - from 'be' - thoroughly& 'wilder' meaning lead astray, lure into the wilds, probably back formation of 'wilderness.' 2. to confuse, puzzle or be fuddle someone, esp. with many different things. |
| Bewildered | adj | Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss or uncertain. |
| Bewildering | adj | Confusing, perplexing or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available. 2. to disorientate someone. |
| Bewilderingly | adv | In a bewildering manner or to an extent bewildering. |
| Bewilderness | n | The state or condition of being bewildered. |
| Be'will | vb | To will to; bequeath by a will or testament. 2. a form of bewild: to stray be lost, go astray. |
| Bewimple | vb | To cover with a wimple; veil. |
| Be'win | vb | To gain , win, get possession of. |
| Be'wind | vb | To wind or twist a thing round. 2. to involve, envelop; to wind or twine oneself round. |
| Be'wing | vb | to furnished with, or to provide with wings. |
| Be'winged | adj | Having wings (poetic.) |
| Be'winter | vb | To make like winter, as 'tears taht bewinter all my years.' |
| Be'wish | vb | To wish for earnestly. |
| Bewist | n | Food, provisions, victuals; living |
| Bewist | n | State or condition of life, being, existing (Wist: being, sense of being.) 3. state or condition of abiding, dwelling, place, abode, habitation. 3. food, provision, victuals. |
| Bewist | n | Dwelling, place, abode, habitation; soujourn. |
| Be'wit | vb | OE. to look over, watch over, take charge, administer. 2. to bequeath, to endue or import wit |
| Bewitch | vb | To attract; cause to be enamored; capture, enamour, trance, catch, becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm, fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant. 2. attract strongly, as if with a magnet; magnetize, mesmerize, bewitch, spellbind. 3. cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something; hex, glamour, witch,enchant, jinx. 4. to gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery. 5. to charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant. |
| Bewitched | adj | Under a spell, entranced. |
| Bewitchedness | n | State or quality of being bewitched. |
| Bewitcher | n | One who bewtches; an enchanter. |
| Bewitchful | adj | Having power to bewitch. |
| Bewitching | n | Fascination, charm, enchantment. |
| Bewitchingly | adv | In a bewitching manner or way. |
| Bewitchness | n | State or quality of being bewitching. |
| Bewith | n | A stop-gap, substitute, fill-in. |
| Bewith | vb | To tolerate, to bear with. |
| Bewonder | vb | To fill with wonder or admiration. 2. to wonder at, to regard wonderfully, admire. |
| Be'word | vb | To happen, come to pass. |
| Bework | vb | To work round about; surround. 2. to work with thread, embroid. |
| Be'word | vb | To happen, come to pass |
| Bework | vb | To work round about; bewrought. 2. to embroider. |
| Beworry | vb | To worry about. 2. to fill with worry. 3. to cause to be worried. 4. beset with cares, trouble, vex, harrass. |
| Be'wound | vb | To cover with wounds all over. 2. to afflict severely with wounds. |
| Bewrap | vb | To wrap up or around. 2. conceal, clothe, enwrap. |
| Be'wray | vb | To accuse, malign, speak evil of, discredit,expose,reveal, disclose prejudishly. |
| Bewrayer | n | One who bewrays; divulger. |
| Be'wraying | n | The state or condition of bewray. |
| Bewrayingly | adv | In a bewraying manner. |
| Bewrayness | n | The state or situation of being betrayed; having one's secrets revealed or exposed. 2. Betrayal, perfidy, discreditness, malignedment, |
| Be'wreak | vb | To avenge, awreak |
| Be'write | vb | To write about, depict, describe, portaray. |
| Bewriting(s) | n | A description, portrayal. |
| Be'written | adj | Wriiten about, depicted, described. |
| Be'wrought | vb | Embroided, work, ornamented. |
| Bewry | vb | To cover up or over overlay, work. |
| Bey | vb | To bend, cause to bend, bow. |
| Be'yelp | vb | To talk loudly (of.) 2. to boast, glory in. |
| Beyond | n | The Unknown; The Hereafter. |
| Beyond | prp | Further away than. 2. on the far side of. 3. later than; after. 4. greater than; so as to exceed or surpass. 5. in addition to. 6. past, or out of reach of, as 'beyond help.' |
| Beyond | adv | Farther along or away. 2. in addition, more. |
| Beyond | phr | "Back of Beyond" - a remote inaccessible spot. 2. The Beyonds. |
| Beyond | phr | "Beyond Belief" - unbelievable |
| Beyond | phr | "Beyond Help" - in a hopeless position, situation or state. |
| Beyond | phr | "Beyond One's Ken" - beyond in in excess of one's knowldege, understanding, comprehension. |
| Beyond | phr | "Between One's Wildest Hopes" - in a way that is very much greater than one expected, than one could possibly have expected. |
| Beyond | phr | "Beyond the Reach of" - unattainable; beyond one's reach. |
| Beyond | phr | "Beyond the Sea" - out of the country or abroad. |
| Beyond | phr | "Go Beyond" - to circumvent. |
| Beyond | phr | "Look Beyond" - to misconstrue, |
| Beyond | phr | "Back of Beyond" - a remote inaccessible spot. |
| Beyond | n | "The Beyonds" -region or place outside or far away from a populated area. 2. the Back of Beyond. |
| Beyond | phr | "The Great Beyond" - the afterlife, heaven, paradise. |
| Beyond-man | n | Early synonym for a superman. |
| Beyondness | n. | Condition or quality of beyond. |
| Beyond-sea | adj | Ultamarine, outlandish, foreign. 2. abroad, overseas, beeyond the sea. |
| Beyonds | n | "The Beyonds" -region or place outside or far away from a populated area. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Bi'bede | vb | To bid, command, order. |
| Bibode | n | Bi'bod, commandment |
| Bi'burgh | vb | To protect oneself from, to ward off. |
| Bi'charre | vb | To turn from duty or right, pervert, subvert. 2. entice, wile. 3. to turn, turn around. |
| Bid | n | An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work. 2. |
| Bid | vb | To issue a command; summons, to tell. 2. To invite; (to a wedding, feast etc) as 'she was bidden to the wedding.' 3. to utter a greeting or salutation, as 'We bade him farewell.' 4. to make an offer to pay or accept a certain price. 5. to offer as a price. 6. to make an attempt. 7. in a card games) 8. to announce (one's goal), before starting play. 9. to challenge, defy. 10. to proclaim, declare, threaten war. 11. to make known, indicate, decree. 12. to ask pressingly, press, 13. to proclaim a (a bede, prayer), pray, offer prayer. 14. bid welcome, farewell, wish well. 15. to command, enjoin, order, tell with authority. |
| Bid | phr | "Bid Fair" - seem likely to happen, to do something good or bad. 3. looking promising. |
| Bid | phr | "Bid Goodbye/Farewell" - say goodbye. |
| Bid | phr | "Bid In" - at an auction, to attempt raise the price (of an object)by competing with false or ghost bids. |
| Bid | phr | "Bid Welcome" - say hello. |
| Bid | phr | "Make a Bid for Freedom" - try to escape. |
| Bid | phr | "Make a Straw Bid" - a worthless bid |
| Bid-ale | n | An ale or entertainment for the benefit of some person to which a general bidding or invitation was given. |
| Bidden | adj | Invited, commanded, ordered. |
| Bidder | n | One who bids at an auction. |
| Bidding | n | That which one is bidden to do; a command. 2. the act of placing a bid. 3. a solicitation or invitation. 4. bids collectively. |
| Bide | n | Endurance, forbearance, toleration. 2. expectation, stay, a wait. |
| Bide | n | Byde-dwelling place, habitat, place of habitation. 2. a delay, stay. |
| Bide | vb | To remain or reside in a place, residence, dwelling or with a person as opposed to going away. 2. to remain when others go; to wait or wait for, soujourn. 3. to wait in resistance, to face, encounter, withstand. 4. to wait submissively, to submit to. 5. to tolerate, endure, put up with. 6. of things, to remain behind or be left behind. |
| Bide | phr | "Be Bidden by" - to be maintained. 2. undoubtedly or we may be sure. |
| Bide | phr | "Bide By" - to stand firm by, adhere to, stick to, maintain. |
| Bide | phr | "Bide One's Time" - to wait for one's opportunity. |
| Bide | phr | "Bide Out" - to endure to the end. |
| Bide | phr | "Bide Upon" - to dwell or insist upon (a point.) |
| Bide | phr | "Let a Thing Bide" - to leave (a thing) where it is. 2. to leave alone for the present. 3. to let it stand over. |
| Bi'deme | vb | To condemn |
| Bider | n | One one always remains. |
| Biding | n | Place, abode. 2. an a waiting, expectation, tarrying, remaining. 3. a stay, residence, dwelling, habitation. |
| Biding | adj | Lasting, continuing, enduring. |
| Bidstand | n | Highwayman, bidstander, bailupman |
| Bi'dwellan | vb | To mislead into error |
| Bield | n | Boldness, courage, 2. confidence, assurance, feeling, shelter, security, comfort. 3. a lodging, dwelling, den. 4. resort, relief. 5. a mean of help or succor. 6. resource against hunger, sustenance. |
| Bield | vb | To make bold, encourage, confirm. 2. to grow bold or strong, to be bold, have confidence. 3. to find, refuge, protection or shelter. 4. to lodge, dwell, inhabit. 5. to cover, cover over. 6. to sustain, feed, nourish. |
| Bield | adj | Sheltered, comfortable, cosy. |
| Bield | phr | "To Have Bield and Bliss." - to be bold and confidence |
| Bield and Bote | n | "To have Bield and Bote" - succor, defence, relief. |
| Bielding | n | Affording shelter. |
| Bieldness | n | State of refuge, protection, shelter. |
| Bieldy | adj | Sheltered from the weather; affording shelter. |
| Bier | n | A framework for carrying a barrow, litter, stretcher. 2. a movable stand for a coffin before burial and that on which it is carried to the grave.3. a tomb, bier. |
| Bier | phr | "To Bring to, on or Upon a Bier" - to bring to the grave or death. 2. to meet one's death or die. |
| Bier-cloth | n | A pall. |
| Bier-right | n | An ordeal in which the person accused of murder, was requested to approach the corpse, to claer himself on oath. |
| Bi'fele | vb | To commit, entrust, assign, grant. |
| Bigg | vb | To dwell, inhabit, place or locate oneself in, have an abode. 2. to cultivate. |
| Bigger | vb | To build, erect, construct, form, fashion, pile up. |
| Bi'gale | vb | to charm by incantation, enchant |
| Bi'gang | vb | To worship |
| Biggermost | adj | Vain, conceited, boastful, impudent |
| Bigeten | vb | To pour over or about; suffuse, be'yete. |
| Bight | n | OE. (byht: bend) a bending or bend; esp. angle, hollow or fork in the human or animal body. 2. a corner. 3. a loop of a rope (the part between the ends.) 3. a bend or curve in a a geographical feature, e.g. an indentation in a coast line, a corner or recess in a bay; a bay, sometimes a shallow one('The Great Australian Bight") 4. a bend in a river. 5. the space between two headlands. |
| Bi'hede | vb | To notice, percieve. 2. pay attention to, take care care of. 3. guard against, procure, prepare. 4. offer, give. |
| Bi'heve | n | Advantage, behoof. |
| Bi'heve | adj | Profitable, useful, needful. |
| Bi'hofth | n | Need, behoof, use, service. |
| Bi'howe | vb. | To be anxious, be careful for. 2. to view, see. |
| Bike | n. | Nest or hive of hornets, bees, wasps, shep., 2. swarm, throng, crowd(contemptuously). 3. well-filled store 4. building, habitation |
| Bi'kenned | adj. | Begotten |
| Bi'laub | vb | To mock, deride, laugh at. |
| Bi'lenge | adj | Belonging to, related to. |
| Bill | n | In OE. (bil, a sword, weapon.) in poetry a kind of broad sword, a falcion. 2. a halberd. 3. a mattock, pick-axe or similar digging instrument. |
| Bill | n | A horny beak or bill of certain birds, esp. when slender and flattened. 2. the beak, bill, muzzle, or snout of birds and other animals. 3. the human mouth or nose. 4. a beak-like projection, bill, spike. 5. sometimes applied to a narrow promontory; a mull. 6. a point of an anchor. |
| Billwise | adj | Bill-wise: wise or clever of the mouth, as opposed to 'mad-wise.' |
| Bilynge | n | Prow (bill, beak) of a ship |
| Bi'melden | vb | To betray, inform against |
| Bin | n | OE. - binne: crib, hutch, bin. 2. a receptacle (originally of wicker or basket work.) 2. a receptacle (bin) in a stable for the provender of beasts; a manger or crib. 3. a stall; hutch. 4. receptacle for corn, meal, bread, fruit or other articles of food. 5. a receptacle for coal or various other things (such as wool) needing storage. 6. a partitioned stand for storing bottles in a wine cellar. |
| Bin | adv | With, inside. |
| Bind | n | An item (usually a rope, tape, bind, or stay) used to hold two or more strings together. 2. that which binds or ties; a bind. 2. troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary. 3. any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine. 4. (music) a ligature or tie for grouping notes. 5. (chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position that is difficult for the opponent to break. |
| Bind | vb | To make fast with a tie; to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc. 2. to fasten , tie, tie to, 3. to be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction. 4. to exert a binding or restraining influence. 5. to tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc. 6. to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner. 7. to confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind. 8. to couple. 9. (fig.) to oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie. 10. to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other.
11. (in law) to put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant. 12. (in law) to place under legal obligation to serve. 13. to protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment. 14. (archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something. 15. (archaic) To cover, as with a bandage. 16. (archaic) to prevent or restrain from customary or natural action. 17. to put together in a cover, as of books. |
| Bind | phr | "Bind Hand and Foot" - tie somebody's hands and feet together. 2. (fig) take away or restrict somebody's freedom of action. |
| Bind | phr | "Bind Over" - to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc. 2. to order to do. 2. to abstain from a particular act |
| Bind | phr | "Bind To" - to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife. |
| Bind | phr | "Bind Up in - to cause to be wholly engrossed with; to absorb in. |
| Bind | phr | "In a Bind" - in difficulty or trouble. |
| Binder | n | Someone who binds,a binder particularly someone who binds books; a bookbinder. 2. a cover or holder, binder for unbound papers, pages etc. 3. something that is used to bind things together, often referring to the mechanism that accomplishes this for a book. 4. (programming) a software mechanism that performs binding. 5. dossier, binder. 6. (agriculture) a machine used in harvesting that ties cut stalks of grain into a bundle. 7. (chemistry) a chemical that causes two other substances to form into one. 8. (law) a down payment on a piece of real property that secures the payor the right to purchase the property from the payee upon an agreement of terms. 9. material or clothing used in binding or flattening the breasts. |
| Binder-twine | n | Twine used for binding. |
| Binding | n | An item (usually a rope, tape, binding or stay)used to hold two or more strings together. 2. a spine of a book where the pages are held together, the binding. 3. a finishing on a seam or hem or a garment. 4. the association of a named item with an element of a program. 5. the action or result of making two or more molecule stick together. |
| Bindingly | adv | Of binding or obligatory quality. |
| Bindingness | n | The state or quality of being held together. |
| Bindle | n | A binding or tying. 2. a cord or rope that binds or ties anything; a bindle. |
| Binwards | adv | Of time: in the course of doing. |
| Binwards | prp | Within, inside of, in, into. |
| Bindweed | n | A plant with twining stems; convolvulus. |
| Bindwood | n | North of England name for Ivy; sometimes also for 'the honeysuckle.' |
| Bi'peche | vb | To cheat, decieve, delude |
| Bi'peching | n | Deception, fraud |
| Birch | n | Wood of the birch tree birch (plural birches) 2. any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere. 3. a hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture. 4. a stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment. 5. birch-bark canoe. |
| Birch | vb | To punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch, wood. 2. to punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch. |
| Birchen | adj | Pertaining to or composed of birch. |
| Bircher | n | One who administers the birch-rod; a flogger, flagellator |
| Birching | n | Whipping with the birch. |
| Birch-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of birch. |
| Birch-rod | n | A bundle of birch used for flogging. |
| Bird | n | A member of the class of animals "Aves" in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, and laying eggs. 2. (obs) a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.(slang) a man, fellow. 3. (in UK, US, slang, used by men) a girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive. 4. (slang) an airplane. 5. (man): chap, bloke, guy. 6. (woman): broad, chick, dame, girl, lass. 7. to pursue bird-catching or fowling. a prison sentence. |
| Bird | vb | To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment. 2. to catch or shoot birds. 3. (fig.) to seek for game or plunder; to thieve. |
| Bird | phr | "A Bird in the Bosom" - a secret pledge that one makes for another. |
| Bird | phr | "A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush." - it better to have a certain, but small advantage than a mere potential of a greater one. (earlier version thought to be: 'A sparrow in the hand is better than a thousand flying.' |
| Bird | phr | "A Bird of One's Brain" - (idiom) one own ideas or conceptions. |
| Bird | phr | "A Bird Told Me" - I will not say who told me. |
| Bird | phr | "An Old Bird" - an experienced and knowing person. |
| Bird | phr | "Birds and the Bees" - (idiomatic, euphemistic) - said of, esp. describing the sexual activity of animals rather than that of people. 2. fundamental knowledge about human) sexual relations. |
| Birds | phr | "Birds of a Feather Flock Together" - people of a similar background, characteristic or taste tend to congregate or associate with one another; like attracts, like likes, like likes likes. |
| Bird | phr | "For the Birds" - trivial, of little worth. |
| Bird | phr | "Give the Bird To" - to raise the middle and/or index finger in a rude gesture. 2. give somebody the bird. |
| Bird | phr | "Have a Bird Brain" - to be stupid. |
| Bird | phr | "In Bird Walking Weather" - in weather so bad that even the birds are walking. |
| Bird | phr | "Like a Bird" - problem-free. |
| Bird | phr | "The Bird Has Flown" - somebody who is being sought, or pursued, has gone away, has escaped. |
| Bird | phr | "The Early Bird Gets the Worm" - a person who acts ahead of others get an advantage over others. |
| Bird-bath | n | A basin in a garden etc with water for birds to bathe in. |
| Bird-blithe | n | "Blithe as a bird on a cherry bough' : happy and cheerful. |
| Bird-bolt | n | An arrow used to shoot birds. |
| Bird-brain | n | Someone who is not very smart or clever. |
| Bird-brained | adj | Stupid, silly, dull and slow. |
| Bird-call | n | A bird's natural call. 2. an instrument imitating this |
| Bird-dog | n | A dog used in shooting to retrieve the dead birds, usually an english pointer. 2. a radar detecting police speed humps. 3. a tout. |
| Bird-dog | vb | To watch closely, to seek out. |
| Bird-dom | n | Birds collectively, 'the feathered creation.' |
| Birde | n | Birth, off-spring, family, nation. |
| Bird-eyed | adj | Quick-sighted like a bird. 2. catching a glance as one goes. |
| Birder | n | Breeder of bird. 2. a wild cat who lives on birds. |
| Birdfeed | n | Food intended for birds, often a mixture of various seeds. |
| Birdfeeder | n | A device placed outdoors to supply food for birds. |
| Birdhood | n | The state or quality of a bird; bird-dom. |
| Birdhouse | n | An aviary; a small house in a tree in which birds may nest. |
| Birding | n | Fowling; catching of birds. 2. activity of a bird-watching, bird watching. 3. taking aim at a bird. 2. |
| Birdishness | n | The quality of being birdish. |
| Birdishly | adv | In a birdish manner. |
| Birdless | adj | Void of birds; deserted by or unfrequented by birds. |
| Birdlessness | n | The absence of birds. |
| Birdlike | adj | Similar to a bird. 2. similar to that of a bird; as, a birdlike-song. 2. avian. |
| Birdlikeness | n | Quality of being birdlike. |
| Birdlime | n | A sticky substance smeared on branches to catch birds. 2. rhyming slang: time, that is time in prison or jail. |
| Birdling | n | A little or young bird. 2. of a gun dog, ecited due to having encountered a bird or its scent. |
| Bird-lore | n | The facts and beliefs concerning birds and their life and habits. 2. ornithology. |
| Bird-lover | n | A bird watcher; birdfancier. |
| Birdly | adj | Pertaining to, or characteristic of birds; avian. |
| Birdman | n | One who is concerned with birds; ornithologist. 2. (slang) - airman, aviator. |
| Birdnest | n | A structure or shelter made by a bird and used to hold its eggs during incubation and to house its young until fledging. |
| Bird-nesting | n | The act of building and occupying a nest. 2. as a term of psychology meaning: the tendency to arrange one's immediate surroundings, such as a work station. 3. to create a place in which someone feels secure, comfortable, and in control. 4. the act or occupying of searching for bird nests. |
| Bird-net | n | A net used for catching birds. |
| Bird of Wonder | n | The phoenix. |
| Bird seed | n | A blend of seed for feeding birds, esp. one s which are caged. |
| Bird's-eye | adj | Having spots resembling the eyes of a bird. 2. as viewed from an altitude; panoramic. |
| Birdsong | n | The Musical cry of a bird or birds. |
| Bird-strike | n | High-speed contact or collision between an aircraft and a bird. |
| Birdwatcher | n | One who observes or identifies wild birds in their natural environment. |
| Birdwatching | n | Observing or identifying wild birds in their natural environment. |
| Bird-witted | adj | Lacking the faculty of attention. |
| Bird-wittedness | n | The state or quality of lacking the faculty of attention. |
| Birdy | n | A bird, birdling; pertaining to birds; avian. 2. a golf, completing a hole one stroke below the par. 3. a shuttlecock. |
| Bi-rede | vb | To make ready. |
| Bi'reme | vb | To cry or call out |
| Bi'reusing | vb | OE. behreowsian - to be sorry for.) 2. to be sorry, repent for sin. 2. to be sorry for; to have pity on (a person.) |
| Bi'rewe | vb | To repent, rue. |
| Bi' rewness | n | Commiseration, compassion, ruth, pity. |
| Bi'ripe | vb | To pluck the fruit of. |
| Bi'rise | vb | To become, to befit. |
| Birle | vb | To draw or pour out (to drink to or for) 2. to supply or ply with drink. 3. to carouse. |
| Birler | n | One who pours drinks; a barman. |
| Birling | n | The action of drawing or pouring out liquor. |
| Birse | n | Bristle. 2. short hair of the head or body. |
| Birse | phr | Temper, rage, anger - in allusion to animals that bristle up when irritated. |
| Birth | n | From a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse *byrðr (replacing cognate Old English gebyrd "birth, descent, race; offspring; nature; fate"), - the process of childbearing; the beginning of life. 2. an instance of childbirth. 3. a beginning or start; a point of origin. 4. the circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing. |
| Birth | vb | To bear or give birth to a child. 2. (fig.) - to produce, to give rise to, bear. |
| Birth | adj | That which is born. 2. a familial relationship established by childbirth. |
| Birth | phr | "Give Birth To" - to create or invent something. |
| Birth | phr | "New Birth" - regeneration. |
| Birth-bearing | n | Parturition. |
| Birth-child | n | Child by birth; native. |
| Birthday | n | The anniversary of the day on which someone is born. 2. the anniversary of the day on which something is created. 3. the date on which someone is born or something is created, more commonly called birth date or date of birth. |
| Birthdom | n | Inheritance, birth-hood, birthright. |
| Birthful | adj | Prolific, productive |
| Birth-hood | n | Birthdom. |
| Birthing | n | Action or process of giving birth. 2. the moment of birth. 3. the fact of being born. |
| Birthland | n | The land, country or nation that one is born in. 2. birthplace |
| Birthless | adj | Abortive. 2. without the advantages of 'birth.' |
| Birth mark | n | An unusual brown or red mark on one's body at or from birth. |
| Birth mother | n | A woman who has given birth to a child, as opposed to an adoptive mother. |
| Birthnight | n | The night one is born. |
| Birthright | n | Inheritance, right of primogeniture, birthright, first-birth. |
| Birthroot | n | Gemstone associated with one's birth and birthday. |
| Birth-stead | n | Place or country of birth. |
| Birthstone | n | A gemstone popularly associated with the month of one's birth. |
| Birth-string | n | Umbilical cord. |
| Birth-throes | n | The experience of a child during birth. |
| Birth-time | n | One's date or moment of birth. |
| Birth-tree | n | In folklore, a tree planted at the birth of a child in the belief that its welfare has some mysterious connection with the welfare of the child all his life. |
| Birthweight | n | The weight of a baby at birth. |
| Birthwort | n | Indian Balm - "Trillium erectium" |
| Birthy | adj | Prolific, as 'last year's harvest was birthy.' |
| Bi'say | vb | To cause to fall or tumble. |
| Bishop | n | (Christianity) an overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) 2. an official, a bishop, in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory. 3. (religion, obsolete) a similar official or chief priest in another religion. 4. (obsolete) any watchman, inspector, or over-looker. 5. (obsolete) the holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc. 6. the chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day. 8. (chess) the bishop, the chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English. 9. any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaver bird closely related to the widow birds. 10. (dialectal) a ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the genus Coccinellidae. 11. (alcoholic beverages) a sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port. 12. (US, archaic) a bustle. 13. (UK, dialectal, archaic) a children's smock or pinafore. |
| Bishop | vb | (Christianity) to act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church; (by extension, jocularly, obsolete) to confirm (in its other senses). 2. to administer the rite of confirmation (to a person). 3. to appoint to the office of a bishop. 4. to supply or provided with a bishop. 5. to act as a bishop.(Christianity) to make a bishop. 6. (Christianity, rare) to provide with bishops. 7. (UK, dialectal) to permit food (esp. milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quote below, of horses); (by extension, of horses) to make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth. 8. to murder by drowning. |
| Bishopdom | n | The episcopal order; bishop collectively. 2. bishop-hood. |
| Bishop-hood | n | The office, condition, dignity or rank of a bishop. |
| Bishoping | n | The act or rite of confirmation. 2. performing the duties of a bishop. |
| Bishopless | adj | Without or lacking a bishop. |
| Bishop-like | adj | Pertaining to a bishop, espiscopalian. |
| Bishop-like | adv | After the manner of a bishop. |
| Bishoply | adj | Episcopal. |
| Bishopric | n | A diocese or region of the church which a bishop governs. |
| Bishop-stool | n | The throne, seat or see of a bishop. |
| Bishopweed | n | Ammi majus, a plant with whitelaced-lick flowers. |
| Bishopwick | n | The area over which a bishop has jurisdiction. |
| Bismer | n | Shame, disgrace, reproach, insult, mockery, scorn, derision. 2. reproach, taunt, insult. 3. a point worthy of scorn. 4. a lewd person, a panderer or bawd. |
| Bismer | vb | To meet with scorn, mock, deride, insult. |
| Bisson | n | Blind, sightless, destitute of sight. 2. purblind, blinding. |
| Bisson | vb | To make blind. |
| Bissondom | n | Blindness, near-sightedness. |
| Bissonhood, | n | State of blindness. |
| Bissonness | n | Purblind, blind, near-sightedness |
| Bi'sulien | vb | To pollute, soil, make filthy. |
| Bit | n | A small sum or amount of something 2. a little, somewhat rather. 3. a very measure or degree. |
| Bit | n | Portion of food bitten. 2. a mouthful; a morsel; a dainty bit. |
| Bit | phr | "A Bit Much" - unwelcome, excessive, unreasonable etc (in the opinion of the speaker); a bit thick. |
| Bit | phr | "A Bit of All Right" - (slang) attractive of a man or woman. |
| Bit | phr | "A Bit of Rough" - (usu male) sexual partner whose toughness or lack of sophistication is a source of attraction. |
| Bit | phr | "A Bit Thick" - unfair, unreasonable; more than one can , or wishes to tolerate etc; a bit much. |
| Bit | phr | "A Blithe Bit" - a pleasing spot |
| Bit | phr | "At Bits and Starts" - irregularly or intermittent. 2. in fits and starts. |
| Bit | phr | "Be One's Bit" - to be inimical or destructive to one. |
| Bit | phr | "Bit on the Side" - extramarital affair partner. |
| Bit | phr | "Bit between the Teeth" - eager bout out of control. |
| Bit | phr | "Bit by Bit" - each piece (of a whole) at a time; one bit, or piece , after another. 2. a little at a time; slowly; or gradually; little by little. |
| Bit | phr | "Do by Bits" - to do a little at a time, bit by bit, gradually or piecemeal. |
| Bit | phr | "Do One's Bit" - to play one's part. 2. to fulfill one's responsibility or obligation. 2. to make one's contribution to a cause or like. |
| Bit | phr | "Every Bit As" - equally as, just as. |
| Bit | phr | "Every Bit of It - in its entirety, a quite a bit. |
| Bit | phr | "Fall to Bits" - reduced to small pieces or fragments. |
| Bit | phr | "Go to Bits" - to fail under pressure or emotion stress. |
| Bit | phr | "I Don't Believe a Bit of It" - I don't believe the least or any of it. |
| Bit | phr | "Not a Bit (of it)" - not at all. |
| Bit | phr | "Off the Bit" - a horse ridden on a loose rein. |
| Bit | phr | "Take a Bit of Doing" - something that requires time and persistence. |
| Bit | phr | "Take the Bit Between his Teeth" - (so it can't hurt the mouth); hence, unmanageable, beyond restraint. |
| Bit | phr | "Thrilled to the Bit" - very pleased. |
| Bit | phr | "Up to the Bit" - up to full speed allowed by the degree of restraint. |
| Bitch | n | Female dog, but sometimes a female fox, wolf and some other beasts. 2. a woman. 3. of a man, but applied less opprobriously. |
| Bitch | vb | To be in the company of lewd women. 2. to call one a bitch. 3. to behave as a bitch, or bitchily towards (a person). 4. to be spiteful, malicious or unfair, as a bitch. 4. to deceive. 5. to hang back. 6. to spoil, bungle, botch, grumble, complain, bitch. |
| Bitch | phr | "Bitch Up" - slang: undo somebody's good work (usually through spiteful gossip). |
| Bitching | n | Complaining, griping, contrariness. |
| Bitching | adj | Complaining, griping, contrary. |
| Bitchily | adv | in the manner of a bitch. 2. sensually; also maliciously. |
| Bitchy | adj | Bitching to or resembling a bitch. 2. sensual, sexually provocative. 3. sensuality, maliciousness. |
| Bite | n | The act of biting. 2. a wound left behind after being bitten. 3. the swelling of one's skin caused by an insects mouthpiece or sting. 4. a piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful. 5. (slang) an act of plagiarism. 6. a small meal or snack. 7. (slang) aggression. 8. cheat, trick, fraud. 9. fraudster, scammer, or cheat. |
| Bite | vb | To cut into with the teeth; to cut off a piece by clamping the teeth, bite. 2. to hold something by clamping one's teeth. 3. to attack using the teeth, to bite 4. to behave aggressively; to reject advances. 5. to take hold; to establish firm contact with. 6. to have significant effect, often negative. 7. to bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught. 8. ( metaphor) to accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the one who accepts. 9. of an insect, to sting, bite. 10. to cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent, biting. 11. to cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt, 'bite' or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense. 12. to cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing. 13. to take or keep a firm hold. 14. to take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to. 15. (sl) to lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck. 16. to plagiarize, to imitate. |
| Bite | phr | "A Bite to Eat" - some food, often only in small quantity and eaten hurriedly. |
| Bite | phr | "Be Bitten (By Something)" - become very enthusiastic over something. |
| Bite | phr | "Bite of More than One Can Chew" - to try to do so much. 2. to undertake or take on more than one is capable of doing. |
| Bite | phr | "Bite One's Ear" - as a sign of fondness of fondness; caress. |
| Bite | phr | "Bite One's Fingernails" - to be anxious. |
| Bite | phr | "Bite One's Tongue/Lip" - to repress or hold back what one really wants to say. 2. bite one's lip. |
| Bite | phr | "Bite Somebody's Head Off" - show ill-temper towards somebody. |
| Bite | phr | "Bite Somebody's Nose Off" - to speak to a person aggressively. |
| Bite | phr | "Bite the Bridle" - to champ at the bit, like an impatient horse. |
| Bite | phr | "Bite the Dust" - to fall in death, die. 2. fall to the ground. |
| Bite | phr | "Bite the Hand that Feeds You" - to return kindness with hostility and or ingratitude. |
| Bite | phr | "Bite the/One's Lip" - to press the lips between the teeth in order to restrain the expression of anger or mirth. |
| Bite | phr | "Bite the Teeth" - to grind or gnash the teeth. |
| Bite | phr | "Have the Hair of the Dog that Bites You" - to drink more in an attempt to overcome the effects of liquor already consumed. |
| Bite | phr | "His Bark is Worst Than His Bite" - the harsh words belie the reality of mild action. |
| Bite | phr | "I Wish I Could Have Bitten My Tongue Of" - I wish I had not made such a hurtful remark. |
| Bite | phr | "Once Bitten Twice Shy" - be extra cautious after having an unpleasant experience. |
| Bite | phr | "Put the Bite On" - to borrow money from someone. 2. to threaten blackmail. |
| Bite | phr | "What's Biting You?" - what is upsetting you? |
| Bite-free | adj | Free from and not liable to bites. |
| Bitel | adj | Biting, cutting, mordant. |
| Biteless | adj | That does not bite, biteless. 2. without or not having a bite. |
| Biter | n | One who bites. 2. (fig.) - a deceiver, swindler, scammer. |
| Biter | phr | "The Biter Bit" - somebody who seeks to cheat, or take advantage of, another finds, that his intended victim has got the better of him. |
| Bi'theck | vb | To thatch, cover, bedeck. |
| Biting | n | The wound made by a bite. 2. the part bitten. 3. the act or action of biting. |
| Biting | adj | That bites. 2. that causes pain or smart. 3. |
| Biting | phr | "What Biting You" - to worry, perturb, excite. |
| Bitingly | adv | In a biting manner, sorely, smarting, caustically, acridly, keenly, penetratingly. |
| Bitingness | n | Having a biting, mordancy, mordant quality. |
| Bi'threat | adj | Menaced, threatened. |
| Bi'thring | vb | To throng about, to crowd, press hard against. |
| Bi'thunch | vb | (bi'thynch)- to seem right or good. |
| Bitling | n | A small bit, a particle. |
| Bi'trum | vb | To surround, beset, besiege, to fortify all around. 2. to trim, fit, firm |
| Bi'trum | n | Trim, strength, fitness, firmness |
| Bitten | vb | Cut into, pierced, wounded with the teeth; fig. infected. 2. |
| Bitter | adj | Having or being a taste that is sharp, acrid, and unpleasant, bitter. 2. causing a sharply unpleasant, painful, or stinging sensation; harsh: enveloped in bitter cold; a bitter wind. 3. difficult or distasteful to accept, admit, or bear: the bitter truth; bitter sorrow. 4. proceeding from or exhibiting strong animosity: a bitter struggle; bitter foes. 5. resulting from or expressive of severe grief, anguish, or disappointment: cried bitter tears. 6. marked by resentment, bitterness or cynicism. |
| Bitter | phr | "Bitter as Gall" - very bitter. |
| Bitter | phr | "Bitter to the End" - with relentless hostility; also applied to affliction, as 'she bore it to the bitter end', meaning to the last stroke of adverse fortune. |
| Bitter | ad | In an intense or harsh way; bitterly: a bitter cold night. |
| Bitter-earth | n | Magnesium. |
| Bitter-ender | n | One who holds out to the bitter end. |
| Bitterful | adj | Full of bitterness. |
| Bitterhood | n | Bitterness. |
| Bitterish | adj | Somewhat, or a little bit bitter. |
| Bitterly | adv | In a manner bitter or resentful. 2. with bitterness |
| Bitterness | n | The state or quality of being bitter. |
| Bitter-sweet | adj | Sweet with an admixture or aftertaste of bitterness; also fig. 2. a thing which is bittersweet (lit. and fig.) 3. expressing contrasting emotions of pain and pleasure. 4. of a bittersweet color (orange). |
| Bitter-sweetness | n | The state or condition of being bittersweet. |
| Bitterwort | n | Bitterweed; a species of gentian, esp. Gentian amarella. |
| Bi'tun | vb | To shut in. |
| Bittiness | n | The state of being bitty, made of small parts, scrap. |
| Bitty | adj | Made up of little bits (used disparagingly); scrappy. 2. consisting of two unrelated parts or scraps. |
| Bitwise | adv | Bit by bit, little by little. 2. in a bit of time. 3. piecemeal. |
| Bive | vb | To hake, tremble. |
| Be'were | vb | To defend, shield, protect. |
| Bi'wihele | vb | To soothsay, bewitch, overcome by witchcraft |
| Bi'wit | vb | To look after, keep guard against, protect, keep in safety |
| Bi'wite | vb | To beguile, ensorce 2. to go away, leave. 2. to go, go away. |
| Bi'witie | vb | To watch over, obscure, guard, keep. |
| Bi'wrench | vb | To defeat, deprive, cheat. |
| Bi'wrixle | vb | To change. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Boar | n | A wild boar (sus scrofa) the wild ancestor of the domestic pig. 2. a male pig. |
| Boar hound | n | A ground mastiff used in hunting boar. |
| Board | n | (In OE.) a shield. 2. a hem, edge, coast, as in seaboard. 3. a border or side of anything. 4. a ship's side. 5. piece of timber sawn thin, as in floorboard, weatherboard. 6. stage of a theatre. 7. tablet on which games are played. 8. a table used for meals; food served at the table, as in board and lodgings 9. a table at which a council is held; person who meet at a council table. 10. any piece of furniture resembling a table, as in sideboard. |
| Board | phr | "Above Board" - open, without deceit, honestly, legitimate, reputably. |
| Board | phr | "Board Out" - have meals outside the place one's sleep. 2. give somebody food and lodging in a separate place from school, college etc where they work. |
| Board | phr | "Board Up" - cover with boards (because a house is no longer occupied; is about to be pulled down). |
| Board | phr | "Go By the Board" - be forgotten, ignored. |
| Board | phr | "Go Overboard" - act foolishly and in a excessive way. |
| Board | phr | "On board" - aboard. |
| Board | phr | "On the Drawing Board" - be planned in detail. |
| Board } | phr | "Pipe On Board" - welcome a person. |
| Board | phr | "Stiff as a Board" - rigid, very stiff (of one joints). |
| Board | phr | "Sweep The Board" - win everything. |
| Board | phr | "Take on Board" - acept an idea, proposal. |
| Board | phr | "Tread the Boards" - to appear as an actor. |
| Boarding | n | A wooden fence, floor, etc.; entering a ship by force. 2. obtaining board and lodging for a fixed cost. |
| Boarding-house | n | A house in which boarders are accommodated. |
| Boarding-out | n | A system by which government authority send children under their charge to be cared for in private arrangement for payment. |
| Boarding school | n | A school in which the pupils are in residence. |
| Boards | n | A stage in a theatre. |
| Board-walk | n | In US, a footway consisting of planks. |
| Boarish | adj | Swinish, brutal, cruel. |
| Boat | n | A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail. 2. Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc. 2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class. 3. a vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy 4. Note: boat is much used either as an adjective or in combination; as, boat builder or boat builder; boat building or boat building; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boat-keeper; boat load; boat race; boat rowing; boat song; boat-like; boat-shaped. |
| Boat | vb | To carry by boat or ship. 2. to take a boat, embark. 3. to go in a boat, to row, navigate. 3. to ride or go by boat. 4. to transport in a boat; as, to boat goods. 5. . to place in a boat; as, to boat oars. |
| Boat | phr | "Be in Someone Boat" - to meddle in the affairs of others. |
| Boat | phr | "Be In the Same Boat" - in the same situation or predicament. 2. to share a common set of difficulties. |
| Boat | phr | "Get off the Boat" - to disassociate oneself from some project. |
| Boat | phr | "Have an Oar in Another Boat" - to meddle in another affairs. |
| Boat | phr | "Miss the Boat" - to fail to take advantage of, or exploit, an opportunity. |
| Boat | phr | "To Rock the Boat" - to disturb the comfortable status quo. |
| Boat-bone | n | A bone of the carpus and tarsus, 'os naviculare' |
| Boat-bridge | n | A pontoon. |
| Boatful | adj | As much cargo or as many passengers as a boat can hold. |
| Boat-hook | n | A long pole with a hook and a spike at one end, for moving boats. |
| Boat-house | n | A building at the edge of a river or lake in which boats are kept. |
| Boating | n | Boats in a collective sense. 2. the action of going by boat. |
| Boat-keeper | n | Boat hirer. |
| Boatload | n | Enough to fill a boat. 2. colloquial: a large number of people. |
| Boatman | n | A man who manages a boat. |
| Boatmanship | n | The art of managing a boat or boats. |
| Boat song | n | A song sung by rowers to keep in time. |
| Boatswain | n | The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors. 3. the petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen. 4. a kind of gull, the jaeger. |
| Boaty | adj | Fond of or given to boats. |
| Bockland | n | See "Bookland" |
| Boc-leden | n | Latin, hence any literary language. |
| Boc-spel | n | (Book and story) - a history or narrative. |
| Bocstaff | n | A letter of the alphabet. |
| Bode | n | A message, announcement, herald, proclamation. 2. command, order, tiding. 3. premonition, omen, augaury, presentment, foreboding, prayer, petition. 4. on who makes an announcement, a herald, messenger. |
| Bode | vb | To announce, proclaim, preach. 2. to proclaim authoritatively, decree, order, bid, command (a person.) 3. to announce beforehand, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, presage, portend. 4. 'well' or 'ill'-bode: give good or bad augur. 5. to signify. typify, present. |
| Bode | vb | To bid for, make an offer for. |
| Bode | phr | " Bode well" - show good signs for the future. |
| Bodeful | adj | Full of presage, boding, ominous. |
| Bodeword | n | Commandment, behest, message, announcement, premonition, presage. |
| Bodied | adj | Having a specific form of body. 2. having form, corporeal or incarnate. |
| Bodiend | n | A preacher; ecclessiast. See: friend, fiend, healend, waldend, shapend, mightend, almightend, milciend, slinkend, speliend, stygand. |
| Boddiless | adj | Lacking a body. 2. incorporeal, insubstantial. |
| Bodily | adj | Of, or relating to, concerning the body. 2. having a material form, physical, corporeal. 3. real, actual,put into execution. |
| Bodily | adv | In or by a body, physically. |
| Bodily | adv | In a manner of unspiritually, worldly. |
| Bodily fear | n | A fear of bodily harm for another person. |
| Bodily-hood | n | Bodlihood: of a corporeal nature or state. |
| Bodilyness | n | Boldliness: corporeality, the quality of being bodily. |
| Bodilywise | adj | Corporeally, in the body. |
| Bodiness | n | The state or quality of having having bodily form. 2. corporeality, material condition. |
| Boding | n | Annunciation, proclamation, preaching, presentment, prognostication. |
| Boding | adj | That bodes, portending, presaging, ominous. |
| Bodingly | adv | In a boding, portending, presaging, ominous manner. |
| Bodiship | n | Corporeality, material, substance or condition. |
| Body | n | Was renderedbodiġ (IPA /ˈbodij/) in Old English, and was of neuter gender.
The physical frame. 2. the physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. 3. the fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul. 4. corpse. 5. (archaic or informal except in compounds) - a person. 6. the torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). 7. the largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. 8. (archaic) the section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms. 9. the content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. 10. a bodysuit. 11. (computer programming) the code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters. 12. a coherent group. 13. group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. 14. an organization, company or other authoritative group. 15. unified collection of details, knowledge or information. 16. material entity. 17. any physical or materail object. 18. substance; physical presence. 19. comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). 20. an agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable, as the English Channel as a body of water. 21. a nonpareil face on an agate body Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, the Old English word also meant "bigness or height of body, stature; statura." Oxford Dictionary this word's origin is: "Old English bodig, of unknown origin." Online Etymology Dictionary this word's origin is: "Old Englishbodig 'trunk of a man or beast, physical structure of a human or animal; material frame, material existence of a human; main or principal part of anything,' related to Old High Germanbotah, but otherwise of unknown origin. Not elsewhere in Germanic, and the word has died out in German (replaced byLeib, originally 'life,' andKörper, from Latin), 'but in Englishbody remains as a great and important word' [OED]" This word has recently been borrowed into other Germanic languages, however.] |
| Body | vb | To furnish with a body, to embody. 2. to give a body, consistence, or strength to (lit. & fig.) 3. to draw up or form troops; to form in a body. |
| Body | phr | "A Body Blow?" - something that effects one or one's plans badly, severely etc., a stroke of bad luck, bad news, adverse criticism. |
| Body | phr | "Body and Soul" - completely, with all one's energy, devotion etc. |
| Body | phr | "Body Forth" - to represent in one's bodily form form. 2. to give mental shape to. |
| Body | phr | "Body Out" - to give body or a body to. 2. to fill out a skeleton. 3. to give mental shape to. 4. to put an idea in outward shape or tangible form. 5. to exhibit in outward reality. 6. to represent, symbolize. 7. to indicate to betaken. |
| Body | phr | "Have No Body" - lack substance. |
| Body | phr | "In a Body" - all together. |
| Body | phr | "Keep Body and Soul Together" - to keep alive. |
| Body | phr | "Over My Dead Body" - only if my most vigorous opposition fails. |
| Body | phr | "Own Somebody Body and Soul" - control somebody completely. |
| Body | phr | "The Seven Bodies" - the seven metals supposed by alchemists to corespond with the seven planets. The Sun (or Apollo) - Gold; The Moon (or Diana) - Silver; Mercury - Quicksilver; Venus - Copper; Jupiter - Tin; Mars - Iron; Saturn - Lead. |
| Body-building | n | The practice of strengthening the body, esp. by shaping and enlarging the muscles, by exercise. |
| Bodyhood | n | Quality of having a body or being in a body. |
| Body-like | adj | Like a body, real, solid. 2. in a body form; bodily. like, resembling a body, real, solid. |
| Body linen | n | Shirts, underwear, etc made of linen or cotton. |
| Body-mind | n | "We know ourselves as 'body-mind' if by that be meant to co-existent, independent existence." 2. the defenders of this view speak not of a body-mind, seeking to identify by the hyphen the compound word in monastic identity of the inseparable state of the bodily-mental corporeality. |
| Body shop | n | A workshop where repairs to the bodywork of vehicles are carried out. |
| Bodysome | adj | Corporeal. |
| Body-soul | n | Body and soul regarded as a unified whole. |
| Body-stead | n | The nave of a church. |
| Body-warmer | n | Sleeveless quilted or padded jacket worn as an outdoor garment. |
| Body-wave | n | A soft light permanent wave designed to give the hair fullness. |
| Body-weight | n | The weight of a person's body. |
| Body-whorl | n | The last formed whorl of a univalve shell. ('Whorl': to turn) |
| Body-work | n | The outer shell of a vehicle. |
| Bold | n | Dwelling, habitation, house, habitation (appears as "botl") |
| Bold | vb | To be or show oneself to be bold. 2. to become bold, grow strong or big. |
| Boil | n | OE. byle: a sore. a local inflammation of the skin around a hair follicle consisting of a hard swelling of dead tissue with the accumulation of pus. |
| Bold | adj | Of persons: stout-hearted, courageous, daring, fearless, opposite to timid, or fearful. 2. of words & actions: showing or requiring courage, daring, brave. 3. strong, mighty, big. 4. of grain: well-filled, plump, strong, fierce. 5. showing, daring, vigour, licence of conception or expression, vigorous, striking. 6. standing out, 'striking to the eye' 7. of typing or blue: boldface. 8. nautical language: applied to a coast or coastline rising steeply from the deep water; any broad, steep or projecting rock-face. 9. of a ship: broad in the bow. |
| Bold | phr | "Be so Bold as" - presume, venture to. |
| Bold | phr | "Bold as Brass" - impudent, aggressive; defiant; in a shameless, insolent, manner. |
| Bold | phr | "Make or be Bold with" - to embolden, encourage. 2. to be so bold as venture, so far as, take the liberty (to do a thing) 3. to take liberties with, make free with. 4. in a negative sense: audacious, presumptuous, too forward, immodest. |
| Bold | phr | "Make so Bold As" - presume, take the liberty. |
| Bolden | vb | To make bold, embolden, encourage. 2. to take courage (to do something); be bold. |
| Bolden | adj | Swollen. 2. to make bold. |
| Boldening | n | The state or condition of being bold; emboldening. |
| Bold-hearted | adj | Brave, courageous, fearless, daring, stout-hearted. |
| Boldhood | n | Bolden, audacity. |
| Boldly | adv | In a bold manner, courageously, daringly, fearlessly. 2. in a bad or negative sense: with effrontery, impudently, shamelessly, presumptuously. 3. confidently, with assurance, without doubt, without hesitation. 4. with bold expression or handling; strongly, vigorously, with the shakes, boldly. |
| Boldly | adj | Bold-looking. |
| Boldness | n | Courage, daring, fearlessness. 2. confidence, assurance, security. 3. boldship. |
| Boldness | phr | "Take Boldness To" - to venture, to take the liberty (to do a thing) 2. to be impudent, presumptious |
| Boldness | phr | "Upon the Boldness of" - in reliance on, on the security of, |
| Boldship | n | Boldness. |
| Boldwordy | adj | Bold, outspoken in speech. |
| Bolg(h)en | adj | To swell, be proud or angry. 2. swollen with rage, anger; wrathful. 3. physically swollen. |
| Boll | n | Old Englis bolla "bowl, cup, pot," merged with Middle Dutch bolle "round object," borrowed 13c., both from Proto-Germanic *bul-, from PIE *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole ). Influenced in meaning by Latin bulla "bubble, ball," ultimately from the same PIE root. Extended c.1500 to "round seed pod of flax or cotton." Boll weevil is 1895, American English. 2. a bowl, vesicle, bud. |
| Boll | vb | To swell, increase. |
| Bolled | adj | Swollen, enflated, ptotuberant. 2. swollen with pride; puffed up. 3. embossed, embellished. |
| Bolling | n | Swelling, inflating, enlarging. 2. excessive drinking, boozing, as in a 'boll-fellow.' |
| Bollock(s) | n | Testicles, goolies. |
| Bolly | adj | Covered in bubbles. |
| Bolster | n | A large cushion or pillow. 2. a pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress. 3. (vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons which give the front wheels enough clearance to turn. 4. short, horizontal, structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam. 5. sometimes also called a pillow or cross-head. 6. the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched. 8. the part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle. 9. the metallic end of a pocket knife handle. 10. (architecture) the rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital. 11. (military, historical) a block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation. |
| Bolster | vb | To brace, reinforce, secure or support. |
| Bolstered | adj | Propped up, supported, padded, stuffed. |
| Bolstering | n | Action of maintaining or upholding almost always in a regular way or service;in modern use the factitious propping up of what can not stand of itself. |
| Bolster-shaped | adj | In the form or shape of a bolster. |
| Bolt | n | An arrow; hence the phrases 'bolt-upright' - straight up like an arrow; and 'bolt on end,' perpendicular. The word 'thunderbolt' thus means the arrow or weapon, that falls to the earth, after being discharged from the thunder-god. 2. a projectile, crossbow bolt. 3. the act of bolting; the act of breaking away, the act of breaking away from a political party. 4. a sudden spring or start. 5. (door latch; joiner) |
| Bolt | phr | "At First Bolt" - at the frst go. |
| Bolt | phr | "Bolt Down (Food)" - swallow one's food quickly (through hunger and greed, or because one is in a hurry). |
| Bolt | phr | "Bolt From the Blue" - a sudden and unexpected event, especially one of of an unpleasant or catastrophic nature. |
| Bolt | phr | "Bolt Out" - (lit. and Fig.)to exclude, shut in, shut up, as (bolting a door) |
| Bolt | phr | "Make a Shaft or Bolt of It" - to accept the issue whatever it may be, to run with the risk; to venture. |
| Bolt | phr | "Shoot One's Bolt" - to lose one's temper. |
| Bolt | phr | "Sit Bolt Upright" - to sit up suddenly and rigidly straight. 2. to stand on end. |
| Bolt | phr | "To Bolt" (sl.) - to run away, go straight away or out of sight quickly (like a arrow). |
| Bolted | adj | Fastened together with bolts?. 2. connected or assembled using a bolt. 3. secured as a door by a bolt. 4. started, dislodged. 5. struck suddenly like a bolt of lightning. 6. escaped, fled, left town, ran away with haste. 7. swallowed of food and drink quickly, gulped down. 8. blurted out, utter forcefully. |
| Bolthole | n | a place where a person can escape and hide. 2. a hole or burrow by which a rabbit or other wild animal can escape. 3. a means of escape from a hiding place. 4. place of escape or refuge; a haven. |
| Bolting | n | The action of bolting. 2. a hasty utterance, sudden blurting out. 3. a sudden starting off, a hurrying-away, a flight or running away (from a political party.) |
| Boltless | adj | Without or not having bolts. |
| Bolt-on | n | A thing that can be bolted on. |
| Bolt-on | adj | Able to be fastened or attached. |
| Bolt-upright | adj | To carry oneself with a straight or upright posture. |
| Bolt-uprightness | n | The state or quality of having an upright posture. |
| Bond | n | Late O.E. from Old Norse. phonetic variation of bond - see 'band' OE. 'bonda' 'bunda' - husbandman, householder, husband, master of the house. 2. peasant, churl, , vassal, serf, one in bondage, to a superior, state of serfdom, slavery, not free, in bondage. |
| Bond | vb | To hold or bind together. |
| Bonded | adj | Held in payment of bonds for payment of duties. 2. secured by bond, as a debt. 3. mortgaged. |
| Bonded wharehouse | n | A wharehouse for bonded goods. |
| Bondhold | n | Tenure in bond service. 2. a tenure of a bond land. |
| Bondholder | n | A tenant in bond service or bond-land. |
| Bondhood | n | Condition of a bond or vassal. 2. bondage, vassalage. |
| Bonding | n | The action of the verb: to hold or bind together. 2. the storage of goods in a bond-house. |
| Bond-land | n | Land held by bondage tenure. |
| Bond-less | adj | Free from bonds, unfettered, unrestrained. |
| Bondling | n | A slave, a slave child. |
| Bond-maid | n | A slave girl. |
| Bond-man | n | Villien, serf, slave. |
| Bond-man-blind | n | The game of "Blindman's bluff.' |
| Bond-manship | n | State or condition of a bond-man or bondsman. 2. serfdom, slavery. |
| Bondship | n | Condition or state of bondsman. 2. serfdom, bondage, suretyship. |
| Bondsman | n | One who becomes Surety by bond. 2. a man in bondage, a villein, a serf, a slave. |
| Bondswoman | n | Bondwoman or female slave. |
| Bone | n | A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. 2. any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone. 3. a bone of a fish; a fish bone. 4. one of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone. 5. anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. 6. (figuratively) the framework of anything. 7. on off-white colour, like the colour of bone; bone colour. 8. (US, informal) a dollar. 9. (sl) an erect penis; a boner, 10. (sl) dominoes or dice. |
| Bone | adj | Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone. |
| Bone | vb | To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. 2. to fertilize with bone. 3. to put whalebone into, as to 'bone stays' (in civil engineering) 4. to make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line. 5. (vulgar, slang, of a man) to have sexual intercourse with. (usually with "up") 6. to throw out spicules of bone. 7. to deprive of bone; to take out the bones; fillet. 8, to study, work hard and diligently, as 'bone up'. |
| Bone | phr | "Bone Dry" -completely dry. |
| Bone | phr | "Bone Idle" - idle, lazy, as an incurable fault. |
| Bone | phr | "Bone in One's Mouth" - said of a ship speeding along throwing up spray or foam under the bows. |
| Bone | phr | "Bone Up (on)" - make a close study of, for some special purpose, as a foreign language for a trip of overseas). 2. learn or revise a subject. |
| Bone | phr | "Bred in the Bone" - idiomatic: of a habit, personal characteristic - to ingrain, deeply instill or establish firmly within something natural; as, 'bred-in-the-bone goodness.' |
| Bone | phr | "Feel Something In One's Bones" - suspect something without having any real evidence for it. |
| Bone | phr | "Gnaw One's Fingers to the Bone" - to fret. |
| Bone | phr | "Have a Bone in One's Throat" - I cannot talk; I cannot answer your question. |
| Bone | phr | "In One's Bones - to have a sense or intuition of. |
| Bone | phr | "Make No Bones of It" - to make no objects or have any scruples about. 2. be brutally frank. |
| Bone | phr | "Make Old Bones" - live to a great ahge. |
| Bone | phr | "Near to the Bone" - miserly, niggardly. |
| Bone | phr | "Put Flesh and Bone on Something" - to supply details of a proposal previously only revealed in outline. |
| Bone | phr | "The Bare Bones" - (of a story) nothing but the essential elements. |
| Bone | phr | "Throw Somebody a Bone" - to fob a person off with a symbolic but unimportant gesture. |
| Bone | phr | "Work Ones Fingers to the Bone" - to work (usually someone other) extremely hard and long. |
| Boned | adj | Deprived of bones; filleted. 2. having high bone structure. 3. furnished with or having bones. |
| Bone dry | adj | Completely and thoroughly dry. |
| Bone earth | n | Ash left when are reduced in a furnace. |
| Bonefire | vb | To illuminate with bonfires; to make bonfires. |
| Bonefire | n | Bonfire: a fire in which bones are cremated. 2. a fire to burn unwanted or 'disreputable' items or people; such as proscribed works or heretics; a balefire. 3. a large, controlled outdoor fire, as a signal or to celebrate something. 4. Guy Fawkes night. |
| Bone-frame | n | Skeleton. |
| Bonehead | n | Fool, idiot, simpleton. |
| Bone-headness | n | Idiotcy, stupidity, foolishness. |
| Bone-house | n | A charnel-house; a mortuary, flesh-house; a coffin; the human body. |
| Bone-know | n | Osteology. |
| Boneless | adj | Without bones; destitute of bones, mainly backbone; invertebrate. 2. lack energy and stamina; weak and insipid. |
| Bonelessness | n | Condition of having no bones. |
| Bone-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of bone. |
| Bone-marrow | n | A soft fatty substance in the cavities of bone, in which bone cells are produced. 2. the essential part; typifying strength and vitality. |
| Bone-meal | n | Crushed or ground bone used esp. as fertilizer. |
| Bone-rotting | adj | The decaying of bones by becoming brittle. |
| Bones | n | Human remains; corpse. |
| Bone-salt | n | The main chemical compound in bones. |
| Bone-setter | n | A person who sets broken bones or dislocated bones, esp. without being a qualified surgeon. |
| Bone-shaker | n | Any old crock of a vehicle. |
| Bonewort | n | Name given to various plants, on account of their supposed bone-healing properties, including the daisy, golden-rod, centuary (erythiceae); yellow-mountain pansy (consolida minor). |
| Bone-yard | n | Cemetery, graveyard. |
| Bonefire | vb | To illuminate with bonfires; to make bonfires. |
| Bonefire | n | Bonfire: a fire in which bones are cremated. 2. a fire to burn unwanted or 'disreputable' items or people; such as proscribed works or heretics; a balefire. 3. a large, controlled outdoor fire, as a signal or to celebrate something. 4. Guy Fawkes night. |
| Bonfire Night | n | The night of 5th of November on which fireworks are let off and an effigy of Guy fawkes is burnt. |
| Book | n | A hard-cover book. 2. a long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets. 3. a major division of a long work, as Genesis is the first book of the Bible. 4. record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet). 5. convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use. 6. the script of a musical. 7. records of the accounts of a business. 8. long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book. 9. (law) a colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement. 10.(sports) a document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game. 11. (sports, by extension) a list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game. |
| Book | vb | To reserve (something) for future use. 2. to write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. 3. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. 4. (sports) to issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued. 5. (intransitive, slang) to travel very fast. 6. to record bets as bookmaker. 7. (law student slang) to receive the highest grade in a class. 8. to grant or assign (land) by charter. |
| Book | phr | "Be In Somebody's Black Books" - be out of favor with a person. |
| Book | phr | "Be In Somebody's Good Books" - be well regarded by another person. |
| Book | phr | "Bell, Book and Candle" - the phrase for the ceremonial name for excomunication in the Roman Catholic Church. |
| Book | phr | "Book a Seat" - purchase a ticket for a theatre, railway journey. In coaching days and in early days or railways, tickets sold at Booking offices were written out and entered up in the books by clerks. |
| Book | phr | "Booked Up" - have no seats or rooms left (for a travelers, film or theatre-goers etc). 2. have no free time left, through pressure of engagements etc. |
| Book | phr | "Book In" - enter or register the name of a guest at arrival at a hotel, motel. |
| Book | phr | "Book of Books" - the Bible. |
| Book | phr | "Book of God" - the Bible |
| Book | phr | "Book of Life" - in the Bible language, a register of names of those who have inherited eternal life. |
| Book | phr | "Book of the Dead" - collection of Egyptian texts, both religious and magical, concerned with guidance for the safe conduct of souls through Amenti (the Egyptian Hades). |
| Book | phr | "Book of Words" - libretto. |
| Book | phr | "Book Up" - reserve accommodation in a hotel, on an aircraft or train. |
| Book | phr | "Bring to Book" - call to account. 2. find evidence to arrest. 3. try or punish someone. |
| Book | phr | "Go by the Book" - to do something exactly as by rules state; to do something by the book. |
| Book | phr | In One's Book" - in one's own opinion. |
| Book | phr | "In One's Good Books" - liked. |
| Book | phr | "Kiss the Book" - to kiss the Bible or New Testament, after taking an oath, the kiss of confirmation or promise to act in accordance with the words of the oath, and the public acknowledge of its sanctity |
| Book | phr | "Know One's Book" - to know one's own interest; know which side one's bread is buttered. |
| Book | phr | "On the Books" - on the list of candidates for membership to a club, for employment etc. |
| Book | phr | "One for the Book" - something worth noting or recording. |
| Book | phr | "Out of My Books" - not in favor, no longer on my list of friends. |
| Book | phr | "Out of One's Book" - out of one's reckoning, mistaken. 2. in the books (recorded, in existence). |
| Book | phr | "Play by the Book" - to apply the rules strictly. |
| Book | phr | "Read like a (Open)Book" - to be able to discern someone's thoughts from his or her body language or other behaviour. 2. to know like a book. |
| Book | phr | "Speak by the Book" - speak with meticulous exactness. 2. to speak literatim, according to what is in the book. |
| Book | phr | "Speak Like a Book" - to speak with great precision and accuracy; to be full of information. Often used by a pedant. |
| Book | phr | "Take a Leaf Out of Somebody's Book" - to model oneself on another person. 2. copy someone's example. |
| Book | phr | "Take One's Name Off the Books" - to withdraw from a club, organization or register; etc. In the passive voice it means to be excluded |
| Book | phr | "Talk Like a Book" - to have an eloquent flow of language. 2. to speak pedantically. |
| Book | phr | "Talk One's Book" - to present arguments which, while plausible, are really designed to foster one's vested interest. |
| Book | phr | "Throw the Book At" - to charge with or convict of as many crimes as possible. 2. to apply the harshest punishment to |
| Book | phr | "To Be Booked" - not to be available; to have a previous commitment in one's engagement book or diary. |
| Book | phr | "Turn Up for the Books" - to be a surprizing developments. |
| Book | phr | "Upon the Books" - to have one's name included on an official list. |
| Book | phr | "Without (One's) Book" - without authority. 2. from memorty, by rote. |
| Book-answerer | n | Critic. |
| Book-binder | n | A person whose profession is binding pages together to form a book; bibliopegist. |
| Book-binding | n | The art or craft of binding books. |
| Book-borrower | n | One who borrows books from a library or other sources. |
| Book-burning | n | The destruction of books and writings regarded as harmful or subversive. |
| Bookcraft | n | Book-learning, literary skill, literature. |
| Book-dealer | n | One who deals in books. |
| Booked | adj | nstructed by books, entered in books, registered, conveyed by character, listed, scheduled. |
| Book-end | n | One of the ends of an ornamental book props. |
| Booker | n | A writer of books, a scribe, one who enters in a book, a book-keeper. |
| Book-fell | n | A skin prepared for writing on a sheet of vellum or parchment, a vellum manuscript. |
| Book-flood | n | The deluge of books coming on the market around Christmas time. |
| Bookful | adj | As much as fills a book. 2. the entire contents of a book. 3. full of knowledge of books gathered from books.) 4. full or stored with books. |
| Book-hand | n | Writing in which each letter is formed separately and not joined to the others. |
| Book-hoard | n | A repository for books or documents (an exclusively OE word.) 2. a library; a biblioteque. |
| Book-holder | n | An appliance for keeping a book in a reading position. |
| Bookhood | n | Knowledge of books, scholarship. 2. the estate of dignity of the book. |
| Book-hunt | vb | To follow the pursuits of a book-hunter or searcher of old and rare books. |
| Book-hunter | n | One who searches for old and rare books. |
| Booking | n | The act or procees of writing something down in a book or books, esp. in accounting. 2. a reservation for a service, such as an accommodation in a hotel. 3. the engagement of a performer for a particular performer. 4. the issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, results in a yellow card or (another booking) a red card , that results in the player being sent off the playing field. 5. the process of photocopying, finger printing and recording identity data of a suspect following arrest. |
| Booking-hall | n | A booking office. |
| Bookish | adj | Of, or belonging to a book or books, literary. 2. addicted to the reading of books, studious. 3. disparagingly acquainted with books. |
| Bookishly | adv | In a bookish way, fondness for books or study, learning (somewhat contemptously) |
| Book-keep | vb | To do book-keeping. 2. the skill or practice of keeping books or systematic records of financial transactions, eg. income and expenses. |
| Book-keeper | n | A person responsible for keeping financial records and business records and documents, |
| Book-keeping | n | The act of being responsible for keeping financial record and documents. |
| Book-knowing | n | "An ounce of mother-wit, improved by observation, is worth a store of book-knowledge. |
| Bookland | n | Also spelt Bocland. In Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from fief, fee, service or such. The land was held chiefly by the nobility or denominated church holders. 2. land of inheritance grant from Folkland in Anglo-Saxon England by the king of the Witan by written charter or book. It was first given to the Church, but also to lay-folk. the origin of the freehold system. The place-name Buckland is probably derived from this. |
| Book-learned | adj | Learned in books, or knowldge acquired from them (usually in a disparaginging way) |
| Book-learnedness | n | State or quality of knowledge learned or acquired from books. |
| Book-learning | n | Mere theory. |
| Book-less | adj | Ignorant of books, unscholarly, destitute of books. |
| Book-like | adj | Like or resembling a book. |
| Bookling | n | A little book. |
| Booklore | n | Book-learning, knowledge given, or acquired from books. |
| Bok-louse | n | A minute insect often damaging books. |
| Book-lover | n | One who loves books, loves to read books; bibliophile. |
| Bookmaker | n | One who makes books. |
| Bookman | n | One who sells or deals in books. |
| Book mark | n | A strip of leather, card etc used to mark one's place in a book. |
| Book-minded | adj | Bookish, literary, scholastic; pedantic. |
| Book-mindness | n | The state or quality of being bookish, pedantic, etc. |
| Bookmonger | n | A bookseller or dealer in books. |
| Bookness | n | Bookishness. |
| Book oath | n | An oath made on the Bible. |
| Book of God | n | Bible |
| Book of the Dead | n | The ancient Egyptian funerary text. |
| Book of the Living | n | The book Amun-Ra of the ancient Eygptian made of pure gold and containing ancient spells and incantation that could take away living mortals. |
| Book of Words | n | Libretto. |
| Book-read | adj | Well read; skilled in or with book-learning. |
| Book-reading | n | A reading from a book by the author, usually at it's public launch. 2. a reading from a book on radio, usually to assist the sight-impaired. |
| Book-rest | n | An adjustable support for an open book on a table. |
| Book-rights | n | The intellectual property and copyright relating to the publication and use of the book. |
| Bookroom | n | A room in which books are kept; a library. |
| Bookseller | n | A person engaged in the selling of books. 2. a business that sells books. |
| Bookselling | n | The occupation of buying and selling books. |
| Bookshelf | n | A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference |
| Bookshop | n | A shop that sells books; a bookstore. |
| Book-shy | adj | A reluctance or unwilling to read books. |
| Bookspeech | n | The speech of books, stiff, formal and sometimes prtentious. |
| Book spell | n | Boc speed. |
| Book stall | n | A stand for selling books, newspapers etc. esp. out of doors or at a train station. |
| Bookstand | n | A case or stand for books. |
| Booksy | adj | Characterized or derived from books. 2. given to books, bookish. |
| Book-token | n | A voucher which can be exchanged for books with a specific value. |
| Bookwards | adv | In the direction of books,; in print. |
| Bookwise | adj | In the manner or form of a book. |
| Bookword | n | An inkhorn term or pretentious, rare word. |
| Book-work | n | Accounts, book-keeping works. 2. the art and science of formatting books. 3. work done with the aid of textboks. |
| Book-worm | n | An avid reader of books. 2. of various insects that infect books. |
| Book-worship | n | The ardent love of books and reading. |
| Bookwright | n | A maker or author of books. |
| Boor | n | OE: gebur. dweller, farmer. |
| Boor | vb | To dwell. |
| Boot | n | (1)(Not Old English)An outer covering for the foot, esp. of leather, reaching above the ankle, often to the knee. This word does not derive from Old English: it is Middle English from Old Norse or French. NB. Himming is the Old English word for boot |
| Boot | n | (2)(Bote), good, advantage, profit, avail, use. 2. well-being, bote. 3. that thing which is thrown in and given in addition. 4. to make up deficiency of value, a minimum compensation, odds. 5. the repair of decaying structures eg. bridges (bridgebote); also the levied contribution for keeping these in repair. 6. the right of the tenant to take timber, etc. for repairs, fixing and other necessary purpose from the landlords estate; common of estover; firebote, housebote, hedgebote. 7. a medicinal cure or remedy. 8. help or deliverance from evil or peril; assistance, relief, remedy, rescue. 9. the making amands for mischief or wrong doing; amends made. 10. compensation made, according to OE. usage for injury or wrongdoing, reparation, amends, satisfaction, manbote, inbote, thiefbote. 11. the expiation of sin, an offering by way of atonement, repentance, sin-offering, penance. |
| Boot | phr | "Boot of Bale" - a means or agent of help, also a personal agent, a helper. |
| Boot | phr | "It Is No Boot' - it avails me not. 2. it is of no use. |
| Boot | phr | "Make No Boot of " - to make profit, gain by, to gain. |
| Boot | phr | "None Other Boot" - no other resource, no (other) alternative. |
| Boot | phr | "To Boot (Bote)" - to the good; to the advantage, into the bargain, in addition, besides, moreover. 2. phrases, 'in appreciatory phrases, "King Alfred to Boot!" |
| Bor | n | Apparently O.E. gebur, neighbour. An east Anglican form of address to a lad, boy, or young man. |
| Bore | vb | To make a hole through something. 3. to make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool. 4. to bore for water or oil. 5. to form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus. 6. to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole. 7. to make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through. 8. to be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns. 9. to push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. |
| Bore | n | A hole drilled or milled through something. 2. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired. 3. a tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring. 4. a capped well drilled to tap artesian water. 5. the place where the well exists |
| Bore | phr | "Full Bore Ahead" - proceed. |
| Borer | n | An insect which bores into wood. |
| Born | adj | Existing as a result of birth. 2. being such or likely to become such by natural ability or quality (a born leader). 3. having a specified destiny or prospect (born to be a king). 4. certain status by birth and upbringing. |
| Born | sfx | Born in or native to a place, as 'English-born'. 2. with respect to the birth order, as 'firstborn child.' |
| Born | phr | "Born and Bred" - born, reared and educated in a specified place, in a specified manner. |
| Born | phr | "Born in the Purple" - born of royal or very aristocratic parents; a privileged member of society. |
| Born | phr | "Born with a Silver Spoon in One's Mouth" - born of wealthy parents; born the heir to a fortune, or comfortable living. |
| Born | phr | "In All My Born Days" - in all my experience. |
| Born | phr | "Not Born Yesterday" - not naive, stupid, shrewd. |
| Born-again | adj | Regenerated, revitalized, |
| Borne | adj | Carried, sustained, endured. |
| Borough | n | Old English burgh "stronghold, fortress, borough'; influenced by bergh "hill," and berwen "to defend, take refuge." 2. fortress, castle, or citadel; simply a large building. 3. court, a manor house. 4. a fortified town, a town possessing municipal organization. 5. any place larger than a village. 6. an incorporated town, or village. 2, a town having a chief warden or burgess-master or borough-master larger than a village. 7. a town which sends a representative to parliament. |
| Borough-bote | n | Burgh-bote: a tax for repairing of a fortress. |
| Borough-breaking | n | Burgh-breaking : burglary. |
| Borough English | n | A custom abolished in 1925 by which real estate passed to the youngest instead of the eldest. Also known as, Cradle-land; Cradle-holding. |
| Borough-folk | n | the people of the town. |
| Borough-holder | n | In some Yorkshire boroughs: a person who holds property by burgage tenure. |
| Boroughhood | n | The state of being a borough. |
| Borough-kenning | n | Barbican. |
| Borough-kind | n | Of the nature of a borough. |
| Borough-man | n | Townsfolk, citizen, burgess. |
| Borough-monger | n | One who trades in parliamentary seats for boroughs. |
| Borough-mote | n | Burgh-mote: Judicial assembly of a borough. |
| Borough-reeve | n | A governor of a town or city, especially during the Norman Conquest, representing the king's authority for fiscal and other purposes in borough. 2. a chief municipal officer in certain unincorporated english towns. |
| Boroughship | n | A township, the fact of constituting a borough or township. 2. the condition of being for //// the good behaviour of neighbours. |
| Borough-town | n | A town which is a borough. |
| Borough-were | n | The people or community of a town; the townsmen. |
| Borrow | vb | To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it. 2. to adopt (an idea) as one's own. 3. to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. 4. to adopt a word from another language. 5. in arithmetic subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result. 5. to lend. 6. to temporarily obtain (something) for (someone). 7. to feign or counterfeit. 8. to give back (exchanging the transfer of ownership), lend (exchanging the owners), return (exchanging the transfer of ownership) |
| Borrow | n | O.E. (borg) - a pledge or security; the modern sense depended originally on the actual pledging of something for a security for a loan. |
| Borrowed | adj | That which has been borrowed. |
| Borrowed | phr | "Living On Borrowed Time" - an unexpected extension of time, especially of a person. 2. to live longer than expected. |
| Borrowed days | n | The last three days of March are said to be "borrowed from April". 2. borrowing days. |
| Borrower | n | One who borrows. |
| Borrowgang | n | Suretyship, the responsibility incurred by a surety. |
| Borrowing | n | An instance of borrowing something. |
| Borrowing | phr | "Ask in Borrowing" - to ask for a loan. |
| Borrowing-days | n | The last three days of March (old reckoning) in Scottish folklore to have been borrowed (borrowed days)from April and supposed to be especially stormy. |
| Borrow-pit | n | In construction and civil engineering, an area which material, usually soil, gravel, sand, has been dug up for use at another (usually nearby) location. |
| Bosom | n | (Originally meaning: arm?) women's breast. 2. the cavity of the stomach; one of the chambers of the heart, 3. the womb. part of the dress which covers the breast; the front of a shirt. 4. a curved recess, a cavity, a hollow interior, a sinus. 5. a hull or hold of a ship. 6. applied to the surface of the sea, a lake, a river or on the ground (with various association in the literal sense. 7. a concave bend in a coastline, or the part of the sea embraced by it; a bay. 8. the breast considered as the seat of one's thoughts, feelings, emotions and desires. 9. repository of secret thoughts and counsels; hence used for inward thoughts. |
| Bosom | vb | To form a bosom, belly. 2. to put into a bosom, to embosom, to take to the bosom, embrace. 3. fig. to receive into intimate companionship. 4. to have familiar interaction. 5. to hide a secret in the bosom. 6. to take to heart. 7. to keep in mind. |
| Bosom | phr | "Take to One's Bosom" - make an intimate friend of. |
| Bosom | phr | "The Friend of One's Bosom" - one's best friend; one's bosom friend. |
| Bosom-child | n | Cherished child or offspring. |
| Bosom-devil | n | Torment of profound guilt and guiltiness. |
| Bosomed | adj | Having a bosom, shaped like a bosom. 3. enclsed, hidden, with bated breath. |
| Bosomer | n | One who or that which bosoms (in various senses) |
| Bosom-felt | adj | Deeply heart-felt emotion. 2. private, confidential, intimate. |
| Bosom-friend | n | Close, personal and intimate friend. |
| Bosom-friendship | n | Close and deep friendship. |
| Bosomful | adj | Bosomy, full-bossomed. |
| Bosom-hell | n | Deep emotional anguish. |
| Bosoming | adj | Embracing, taken into aone's bosom. |
| Bosom-throes | n | Struggle and agony of emotional torment. |
| Bosomy | adj | Full of secluded recesses, embracing. 2. of a woman having prominent breasts. |
| Bote | n | Compensation, such as for injury to person or honor. |
| Boten | vb | To be better, to amend, recover health, be healed. 2. to make better in health, to heal, cure, boot, bote. |
| Botener | n | A healer, a curer, restorer. |
| Botening | n | Healing, restoring, curing. |
| Both | adj | ?Pronoun, conjunction: there are a number of theories, all similar, and deriving the word from the tendency to say "both the." One is that it is from the extended base of Old English begen. Another traces it to the rare late Old English by ba þa "both these," from ba (begen) + þa, a plural of se "that." A third theory traces it to Old Norse baðir "both, and "both the." 2. each of two. |
| Both | phr | "Play Both Ends Against the Middle" - risky action of trying to play one's opponents off against each other. |
| Bottle | n | A dwelling, habitation, building; from Middle English bottle, botle, buttle, from Old English botl, bold , abode, house, dwelling-place, mansion, hall, castle, temple. Related to Old English byldan (“to build, construct”). |
| Bottom | n | The foundation, base, basis, footing. 3. the ground under a plant; the soil in which it grows. that which underlies or supports a thing. 4. a deep place, depth in the sea or land, abyss. 5. a ground or bed under the water, or a lake, sea, river. 6. dregs, sediment of liquor. 7. the lowest surface or part of a thing, the base. 8. the posterior. 9. the lap. 10. the seat of a chair. 9. the cocoon of the silk worm. |
| Bottom | vb | To put a bottom to. 2. to find a bottom or foundation. 3. to serve as a bottom for; fig, to establish firmly. 4. to rest as on foundation, to be based, to be grounded,(lit. and fig.) 5. to wind as a skein. 6. to reach the bottom of. 7. to drain to thr bottom; empty. 8. to reach the bottom. 9. to get to the bottom of; understanding thoroughly, reach the bottom of.. |
| Bottom | phr | "At Bottom" - radically, fundamentally. |
| Bottom | phr | "Be At The Bottom of" - to underlie, to be real cause or source of. 2. to instigate it or prompt it. |
| Bottom | phr | "Be At the Bottom of the Ladder" - be the most junior position in some hierarchy. |
| Bottom | phr | "Be Rock Bottom" - reach the lowest possible point. |
| Bottom | phr | "Bottom Falls Out Of" - collapses; gives way. |
| Bottom | phr | "(Forgive) From the Bottom of One's Heart" - to forgive sincerely and completely. |
| Bottom | phr | "Get to The Bottom Of" - to reach the bottom of, to drill down, understand thoroughly. |
| Bottom | phr | "Have No Bottom" - ti be unfathomable; to be unstable. |
| Bottom | phr | "Hit Rock Bottom" - the lowest point possible. |
| Bottom | phr | "Knock the Bottom Out Of" - to be at the bottom; at the bottom, in reality as distinguished from a superficial. |
| Bottom | phr | "One Bottom Drawer" - a girl or young woman's collection of clothes, linen etc towards her marriage (although she may collect these items long before she has any actual plans of marriage). |
| Bottom-bed | n | The lowest stratum of a formation of rocks. 2. the stratum. |
| Bottomed | adj | Having a bottom; furnished with a bottom of some special material or form, as in composition. 2. covered at the bottom or foundation. 3. founded, based, grounded (mostly fig.) |
| Bottomedness | n | The quality of resting upon the a sure foundation. 2. stability. |
| Bottomer | n | One who puts a bottom to. 2. one who works or lives at the lowest stratum of society. |
| Bottom-fish | n | Fish such as a catfish, carp, or flounder, that live on or near the bottom of a body of water. 2. bottom-livers. |
| Bottom-fishing | n | Trawling. |
| Bottom-ground | n | The basis, reason, as 'the bottom-ground of his wickedness.' |
| Bottom-heavy | adj | More weight at the top than the bottom. |
| Bottoming | n | The act of putting a bottom to anything. 2. the act of setting a sound foundation. |
| Bottom-lands | n | Low-lying stretch of level lands near a river. |
| Bottomless | adj | That has no bottom. 2. without a foundation, baseless, inexhaustible, unfathomable. |
| Bottomlessly | adv | Unfathomably, |
| Bottomlessness | n | State or quality of being bottomless. |
| Bottomless pit | n | Hell is so called in the "Book of Revelation". 2. a scheme that promises prosperity, but in the end costs the investor a large sum of his money. |
| Bottom-livers | n | Marine life living at extreme depths. 2. bottom-livers in the food chain" - poorest members of society. |
| Bottom-most | adj | That is at the very bottom; lowest. |
| Bottomness | n | (In physics) A quantum number of quarks & hadrons, determined by the number(s) of bottom quarks & antiquarks present. Symbol B. |
| Bottom-up(wards) | adv | An inverted position. |
| Bottomwards | adj | To or towards the bottom. 2. in the direction of the bottom; downwards. |
| Bottomy | adj | Lying on a bottom, low-lying. |
| Bough | n | A firm branch of a tree. |
| Bough | n | A shoulder of an animal. 2. a limb, leg. 3. one of the larger limbs or off shots of a tree. 4. a main branch, but also applied to smaller branches. 4. in transfiguratively and fig. a main branch of a vein or artery. 5. a branch of a family or anything metaphorically referred to a tree, the gallows. |
| Bough | phr | "The Father to the Bough, the Son to the Plough." - supposed to mean that, according to a Kent Custom, attainder for felony does not deprive a man's children of the succession to his property. |
| Boughed | adj | Having branches; stripped of boughs. |
| Bough-house | n | A temporary structure msde of boughs. |
| Boughless | adj | Without or destitute of branches. |
| Boughly | adj | Bent, curved, having several bends. |
| Bough-runes | n | Name for the runic characteristic modifier so as to resemble 'the branching tree.' (also, the ice-runes one read in the same way as the 'bough-runes on the Maeshouse (Maeshowe) stones, a neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. |
| Bought | n | (OE: byht) a bend or curve. 2. a hollow, angle or bend in an animal body. 3. a bending in a coastline, mountain chain. 4. a bend in a rope, loop, string or chain. |
| Bought-book | n | A book for keeping an account of goods bought. |
| Boughten | vb | In US, in application to purchased as opposed to home-made articles. |
| Bought-in | adj | Home produced. (bought-in goods) |
| Bought-out | adj | Purchased from an outside sources (not raised or produced on one's own premises) |
| Boughtwise | n | A coil, fold or knot formed by the body of a serpent. 2. tail of a horse. |
| Boughy | adj | Abounding in boughs. |
| Bouk | n | A belly, paunch, abdomen. 2. a trunk of the body, hence the body of a man or animal. 3. volume, largeness of volume, bulk, the greater portion of anything. |
| Bouked | adj | Having a protuberance, bulksome, corpulent, portly, occupy large space, bulky. 3. great, plentiful, influential. 3.magnitude in three-dimension. |
| Boult | n | A hypotheical law case propounded and arranged and arranged for practice by students of The Inns of The Court (a Moot) - |
| Bound | adj | English has no fewer than four separate words 'bound'. the only one going back to Old Engish is the adjective meaning 'obliged or destined'. |
| Bounden | adj | Obligatory, necessary as aduty. 2. undeer obligation, obliged. |
| Bourn | n | Burn, bourne, a small stream, a brook, creek, river, ea, sike, a winter bourn or torrents of rain of the chalk downs. |
| Bout | adv | (Prp and conjunction) - originally, be-utan: without, split up into. It sense continued as prep. and adv. Butan: but (still continues) - bout becomes obsolete, but acquires some uses in northern dialect, such as, outside, without; of position: with, beyond, except. |
| Bout-gate | adv | A going about, circuvention, equivocation, quibble. |
| Bove | adv | Shortening of 'above' - from OE. bufan, be-utan, from above. |
| Bow | n | A thing bent or fashioned so as to form part of the circumference of a circle or other curve; a bend, bent line. 2. a curved stroke forming part of a letter in calligraphy. 3. an arch (masonry) as in a gateway, or bridge. 5. a weapon for shooting an arrow. 6. a yoke for an oxen. 8. a single passage of the bow across the string. 9. an arc or circle. 10. an instrument for drawing curves. 11. the iris of the eye |
| Bow | n | OE: bu^ - a dwelling, cottage, building. 2. the stock of cattle on a farm, a herd, livestock. 3. a term used in old deeds to denote cattle. |
| Bow | n | "The Bow" - the hand (bowman) that holds the bow in archery |
| Bow | n | An inclination of the body or head in salutation. |
| Bow | vb | To play music on (a stringed instrument) using a bow. 2. the musician bowed his violin expertly. 3. to become bent or curved. 4. to make something bend or curve. 5. to exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to inclin. 5. to premiere. |
| Bow | vb | To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference. 2. to defer (to something). |
| Bow | phr | "Bend or Bring (another) to One's Bow" - to bring someone to one's will, inclination or control. |
| Bow | phr | "Bow Down to (Someone) Better" - to succumb to pressure. 2. accept that someone knows bett er. |
| Bow | phr | "Bowed Down With" - troubled, worried by. |
| Bow | phr | "Bow Out" - to leave, retire, retreat, resign, withdrawn, go away. |
| Bow | phr | "Bow Out (of)" - bow low to a customer or a visitor as one leaves his presence. |
| Bow | phr | "By the Stringer Rather Than the Bow" - by the most direct way. |
| Bow | phr | 'Come to Bow" - to be compliant or submissive. |
| Bow | phr | "Draw a Long Bow" - to make exaggerated statements. |
| Bow | phr | "Have More/Two Strings to One's Bow" - to have many resources, skills or alternatives. 2. to have an additional qualification appropriate to the task. |
| Bow | phr | "Have Too Much of the Bow Hand" - to fail in a design. 2. to lack dexterity. |
| Bow | phr | "Of the Bow and Arrow" - attributively belonging to or characteristic of the period when the 'bow and arrow' was the chief weapon of war. |
| Bow | phr | "Shoot with Another Bow"- to practise an art, occupation other than your own. |
| Bow | Phr | "Take A Bow" - to receive recognition. |
| Bow | phr | "The Bent of One's Bow" - one's intentions, inclinations, disposition. |
| Bow | phr | "To Unstring the Bow Will Not Heal the Wound" -lamenatation for the loss of a wife is poor satisfaction. |
| Bow | phr | "Wide on the Bow Hand" - wide of the mark, inaccurate. |
| Bow-backed | adj | Having a permanently bent or crooked back. 2. having the back arched as an angry cat. 3. |
| Bow-bearer | n | A bearer of a bow; an archer. |
| Bow-bells | n | (The bells of the Bow Church)- 'St Mary-le-Bon" - within the sounds of the bow bells, synonymous with the city bounds. Cf cockney |
| Bow-bent | adj | Bowed. |
| Bowed | adj | Bent, curved, crooked. 2. bent down under the load or the weight of years. |
| Bowed | adj | Furnised with or provided with a bow. |
| Bowedness | n | In a bowed or bent condition. |
| Bower | n | OE: dwelling, abode, habitation, lady apartment. 2. in early use : a cottage; in later poetical word for 'abode' 3. a vague, poetic word for an idealised, not realised in any actual dwelling. 4. a fancy, rustic cottage or country residence. 5. a covered stall or booth at a fair. 6. an inner apartment, esp. distinguished from the hall or large public room, in ancient mansion. 7. esp. applied to a lady private apartment; a boduor (poetic). 8. a place closed in or overarched with branches of trees, shrubs or other plants; a shady recess, arbour. |
| Bower | n | Of a tenant who rents a herd of cows along with their pasture and fodder from a proprietor or farmer and makes what profit he can get out of their produce, after paying the rents; or who gives his labour as a share ; and divides profits with the proprietor of the stocks. 2. a farmer, peasant. |
| Bower | n | One who plays with a bow on a violin or stringed instruments. |
| Bower | n | One who bows, stoops. 2. one who bends anything; that which causes to bend; a muscle. |
| Bower | vb | To embower, to enclose. 2. to take shelter, make one's dwelling. |
| Bower-bird | n | A name given to several australian birds of the starling family, which builds bowers or runs. |
| Bowered | adj | Shaded, enbowered, finished with bowers. |
| Bowering | n | Embowering, shady, covering. |
| Bowerless | adj | Without a bower or bowers. |
| Bowermaid | n | Chambermaid; a lady-in-waiting. |
| Bower-thane | n | A chambermaid; lady-in-waiting. |
| Bow-houghed | adj | having the crooked hips. |
| Bow-house | n | A cattle stall. |
| Bowing | n | Bowing, bending, bend, curving, twisting, flexing, flexion, flexive inclination. 2. curved or bent part. 3. the bowing inflexion of the voice. 4. the action of the body or head in salutation. 5. the place of the violin on a bow. |
| Bowing | adj | That bends or inclines, inclined, bent. 2. that may be bent, flexible, pliant. 3. yielding, submissive, obedient. |
| Bowingly | adv | In a curving or bending manner or direction. |
| Bowingness | n | A bending quality. |
| Bowl | n | Round vessel to hold liquids, a cup. 2. a drinking vessel. 3. a tub or rounded vessel. 4. the more or less bowl-shaped part of a vessel. 5. the basis of a fountain. |
| Bowl | n | "The Bowl" - drinking, conviviality. |
| Bowl | phr | "Be in a Fish Bowl" - be very open to view. |
| Bowl | vb | To curve, crook, hence bowled, bowled. |
| Bowl-barrow | n | A pre-historic mound of the shape of an upturned bowl. |
| Bowl-dish | n | A dish or food served in a bowl. |
| Bowler | n | One who engages in the sport of bowling. 2. (cricket) the player currently bowling. 3. (cricket) A player selected mainly for his bowling ability. 2. a deep-drinker, drunkard. |
| Bowlful | adj | As much as a bowl could hold. |
| Bow-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a bow. |
| Bowl-less | adj | Not having or without a bowl. |
| Bowl-shaped | adj | Having a natural basis. 2. the blade of an oar. |
| Bowl-weft | n | Applied to materials drawn out by weavers in Lanarkshire to exchange with travelling hawkers for bowls and other earthenware dishes. |
| Bowly | adj | Bent, round. |
| Bow-maker | n | A maker of bows and arrows. |
| Bowman | n | One who shoots arrow. 2. one who roars by oar. 3. "the bowman' - plural collective. |
| Bowman's-root | n | Name given to certain plants, as 'gillenia trifolata"; euphorbia corollata, incardia alternifolia.' |
| Bow-shape | n | Having the shape of a bow. |
| Bow shot | n | THe distance to which a bow can send an arrow. |
| Bowsprit | n | Sprout-pole. |
| Bowstring | n | The string of an archer's bow. |
| Bowstring | vb | To strangle with a bow string. |
| Bow-tie | n | A necktie in the form of a bow. |
| Bow-window | n | A curved bay window. |
| Bow-wise | adj | In the form or figure of a bow. |
| Bowyer | n | One who makes or trades in bows. 2. a bower. |
| Bowyer God | phr | Cupid. |
| Box | n | Late Old English, probably from late Latin buxis, from Latin pyxis ‘boxwood box’, from Greek puxos (see box): a receptacle, container, holder. 2. a coffin. 3. box under the driver's seat on a coach. 4. a box and its contents; hence, a variable measure of quality. 4. light shield worn by cricketers to protect their genitals. 5. a cavity made in the trunk of a tree to collect its sap. 6. the box tree. |
| Box | n | Television or "The Box" |
| Box | phr | "Be in the Same Box" - (colloq) to be in the same box; to be in similar (unhappy) predicament. |
| Box | phr | "Box In" - prevent somebody from going faster, manuoeuvring etc by surrounding them on all sides. |
| Box | phr | "Be in a Box Seat" - be in a very powerful position to control activity. |
| Box | phr | "Be On One's Soap Box" - speak freely on issues about which one keenly feels. |
| Box | phr | "Box Up" - confine in a small space. |
| Box | phr | "I Got Into the Wrong Box - I am out of my element or in a wrong place or false position. |
| Box | phr | "One Out of the Box" - an excellent person or thing. |
| Box | phr | "Put One Back In Their Box" - make it clear to a person that his views are not welcome. |
| Boxmaker | n | One who makes boxes for a living. |
| Boxed | adj | Enclosed or included in a box; confined in a box. 2. confined, limited, boxed up, uncomfortable. |
| Boxen | n | A small evergreen tree |
| Boxer | n | Squarely built, fawn or brindle breed of dog of the bulldog type. |
| Boxful | adj | As much as a box can contain. |
| Box girder | n | A hollow girder square in cross-section. |
| Boxing | n | The structure or working of boxes. 2. the putting in or providing with, a box. 3. a wooden casin, conduit constructed after a manner of a box. 4. the lining of a well. |
| Boxing-day | n | The day after Christmas Day, December, 26th, when Christmas boxes were given to servants. |
| Box stall | n | A large, boxed-in stall for horses or cattle, in which they do not have to be tied. |
| Box wood | n | The wood of a box tree, esp. used by engravers for the fineness of its grain and for is hardness. |
| Boxy | adj | Resembling a box in shape, comparable to a box. 2. of clothes: having a squared look of the feet of a horse or mule. 3. high and narrow. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Brack | n | OE gebraec, cracking noise, parallel form of break. 2. noise, outcry, clamour. 3. a breaking, breach, rupture. 4. a rupture, a quarrel. 5. a broken piece, fragment, atom. 6. break, breaking, violation. 7. a strip of uncultivated ground. 7. a sudden breaking out of water. 8. a sudden heavy fall of rain. 9. a flood where the ice breaks. 10. a quantity of snow, earth or debris shooting from a hill. |
| Brackle | n | OE: brecan -to break. 2. to carry away rubble, or brackle from an old decayed house. |
| Brad | n | Spike, blade of grass |
| Brae | n | An eyelid. |
| Brae | n | A slope, a steep slope. a hill-side. |
| Brae-head | n | Head of the slope. 2. a fire blazing from the brae-head. |
| Brae-man | n | A man who lives among the hills; spec. one who lives on the slopes. |
| Braeside | n | The slopey or inclining side of a hill. |
| Braid | n | Partly OE. and ON. a sudden movement. 2. a brisk movement, jerk, twist, wrench, strain. 3. a sudden assault, or onset of attack. 4. with aim to strie or launch an attack or blow. 5. fig. an outburst of passion, envy, anger, whim. 6. deception, trick, subterfuge. 7. an adroit turn, trick of subtilty. 8. anything, plaited or interwoven or intertwined or twisted, as a plaiting of the hair. 9. the string or band with which the hair is confined or entwined. |
| Braid | vb | To move with a sudden jerky movement (with the hand or foot). 2. to jerk, snatch, wrench, fling. 3. to deliver with a brisk action. 4. to startle out of a sleep or swoon, to awake; to startle out of one's wits. 5. to start or burst into motion. 6. to rush, spring, jump. 7. to break forth abruptly into speech; to break into a cry. 8. to change in colour or appearance; to assume an appearance. 9. brandish a spear; to draw a knife. 10. to deal a blow. 11. to plait or interweave the hair. |
| Braid | phr | "To Braid After" - to take after, resemble, be like. 2. to bind or confine the hair. |
| Braided | adj | Trimmed with braid. |
| Braider | n | One who, or that which, braids (in the sense of the verb) |
| Braiding | n | Action of embroiding. 2. a braided trimming used as a decoration on clothes or curtains. |
| Braidlike | adj | Resembling a braid. |
| Braids | n | A hairstyle in which the hair is interweaved into thin locks. |
| Brain | n | Mass of nervous substance contained in the skull. 2. fig. rippled as water by the wind. 2. applied to a stream that divides, esp. at low water into several channels. |
| Brain | pfx | -brain, as in feather-brain, hare-brain. |
| Brain | phr | "Bear a Brain" - to be cautious, thought, having brains or intelligence. |
| Brain | phr | "Beat One's Brains Out" - to think very hard to solve a problem. |
| Brain | phr | "Be Hare-brained" - to be stupid or very impractical. |
| Brain | phr | "Be of the Same Brain" - to be of the same train of thought. 2. something similarly thought or conceived. |
| Brain | phr | "Of the Same Brain" - similarly conceived. 2. the same strain of thought. |
| Brain | phr | "Have a Brainstorm" - have an uncontrolled emotional outburst. |
| Brain | phr | "Have a Brainwave" - have an sudden inspiration. |
| Brain | phr | "Have a Dry Brain" - a dull or barren void of thinking power. |
| Brain | phr | "Have a Hot Brain" - an inventive fancier (he is a 'hot-brain.' |
| Brain | phr | "Have on the Brain" - to talk continuously of one thing to the exclusion of all other topics. |
| Brain | phr | "Have Something on the Brain" - to be obsessed, preoccupied with something. |
| Brain | phr | "Make Someone Brain Reel" - to be very difficult to grasp mentally, or be incredible. |
| Brain | phr | "One's Brain Needs Washing" - this person is very silly. |
| Brain | phr | "Turn One's Brain" - make one go mad or crazy. |
| Brain-ache | n | A condition under which the suffers brain physically aches, shuts down normal function and refuses to pursue or attempt to achieve anything. 2. a mental state caused by extreme and complex mental exercise. |
| Brain-being | n | "A mere witwork, or brain-being" - without any real existence, a inventive fancy. |
| Brain-bending | n | Mentally challenging; difficult to understand; cf. 'mind-bending' |
| Brainborn | adj | As in the phrase 'Brain-born dreams of evil' - born of the imagination. |
| Brainbox | n | The skull. 2. a clever person. |
| Brain-break | n | A conception that overtaxes or over tasks the brain. |
| Brainchild | n | A creation, original idea or innovation. |
| Brain cloud | n | To temporary inability to think properly, or to remember something. |
| Brain-dead | adj | Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity. 2. having no useful thought, stupid, ditzy. |
| Brain-death | n | An irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity. |
| Brain-drain | n | The immigration of educated or talented persons from less economically advanced nations, esp. from large, poorer cities to richer countries. |
| Brained | adj | Having a particular kind of brain, as described by the word with which this term is combined, (also used fig.) |
| Brainedness | n | State or quality of having a particular type of brain, as 'left-brainedness. |
| Brainer | n | Something that requires consider thought. |
| Brain food | n | Any food consumed for the purpose of energizing the brain or thought to increase the power of intellectual thought. |
| Brainily | adv | In a brainy or intelligent fashion; with clear use of the brain or wits. |
| Braininess | n | Smartness, intelligence, cleverness, know-how. |
| Braining | n | The action of striking another on the head. |
| Brainish | adj | Somewhat headstrong and passionate. |
| Brainless | adj | Devoid, destitute of wit or intelligence. 2. without a brain (lit). 3. that has had the brain removed, pithed. 4. insane, wanting in intelligence, thought or self-control. |
| Brainlessly | adv | In a brainless manner; stupidly, foolishly, stultfully. |
| Brainlessness | n | The state or condition of being with a brain, wit or inteeligence. |
| Brain-like | adj | Resembling a brain or some aspect of one. |
| Brain-lit | adj | Enlightened by thought, illuminated mentally. |
| Brain-pan | n | That which contains the brain; the skull. |
| Brains | n | Intelligent, smarts, cleverness, know-how. 2. 'The brains" - the cleverest persons. |
| Brain sand | n | The plant corpora arenaceae |
| Brain-sick | adj | Diseased in the brain or mind, addle-headed, mad, woody, foolishly frantic. 2. of things preceeding from a diseased brain. |
| Brain-sickly | adj | Disordered in understanding, giddy, thoughtless |
| Brain-sickness | n | The condition of being brain-sick with mental confusion and acting in a disorderly manner. |
| Brain-spun | adj | As in the phrase 'brain-spun system of metaphysics. |
| Brain-stem | n | The central trunk of the brain, upon which the cerebrum and cerebellum are set, and which continues downwards to form the spinal cord. |
| Brain-stone | n | Coral, resembling the form and convolutions of the brain; coral-brain. |
| Brainstorm | n | A sudden thought particularly onr that solves a long-standing problem. 2. an unexpected error. |
| Brainstorm | n | To investigate something or solve a problem by brainstorming. 2. to particiapte in a brainstorm. |
| Brainstorm | vb | To mastermind, to have a thought shower (a politically correct version of a brain storm) |
| Brainstorm | phr | "To Have a Brainstorm" - to mastermind, to have a thought shower (a politically correct version of a brain storm). 2. to have an uncontrolled emotional outburst. |
| Brainstormer | n | One who brainstorms |
| Brainstorming | n | A method of problem solving in which members of a group contribute ideas spontaneously. |
| Brain-strong | adj | As in the phrase 'bairns are headstrong.' |
| Brainwash | n | An effect upon one's memory, thoughts, ideas, opinions, or beliefs. |
| Brainwash | vb | To effect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. |
| Brainwashed | adj | Having one's memory, ideas, opinions, beliefs modified and changed by mind-affecting processes. |
| Brainwasher | n | One who brainwashes by mind-affecting processes. |
| Brain-washing | adj | A kind of indoctriantion that forces people to abandon their beliefs in favour of another set of beliefs by conditioning them through various forms of mental or physical pressure ot torture. |
| Brainwave | n | Any of many rhythmic fluctuation of electrical potential between parts of the brain. 2. a sudden idea, understanding or inspiration. |
| Brain-wood | adj | Insane, frenzied in the mind; mad. |
| Brain-work | n | Work done by and with the brain, mental work, intellectual labour, such as mathematics. |
| Brainworker | n | Leader, educator. |
| Brainworm | n | Disputant. |
| Brainwright | n | The brain-wright's skill and wisdom infinite. |
| Brainy | adj | Very intellectually, capable, clever, smart. |
| Brair | n | The first shots of grain. |
| Brair | vb | The first shots to appear above the ground. |
| Braird | adj | Of or pertaining to the first shoots of a plant. 2. fig. initial, first. |
| Brairding | n | The action of shoots appearing for the first time. |
| Brake | n | A thicket. |
| Bramble | n | A blackberry bush. 2. berry or fruit of the bramble, blackberry. |
| Brambleberry | n | The blackberry plant or fruit. |
| Brambled | adj | Overgrown with brambles |
| Brambling | n | Fringilla montifrigilla of northern Eurasian; the finch. |
| Brambly | adj | Full of brambles. 2. of the nature of brambles. |
| Brand | n | A piece of wood that is or has been burning on the hearth; also poetic: a torch, match or linstock. . 2. a fire on the hearth; the torches of cupid or furness. 3. mark made by burning with a hot iron. 4. applied to a person: a firebrand. 5. a sign or mark in a general sense (in reference to branding criminals. 6. conveying the idea of disgrace, a mark of infamy or stigma. 7. a trade mark. 8. a mark of ownership or possession, such as a steer or other animal bearing a particular mark or brand. 9. a sword, weapon, blade (poetical.) |
| Brand | vb | To burn with a hot iron. 2. to mark indelibly. 3. to set a mental task odf ownership upon; also, to impress an event, circumstance, task) indelibly in one's memory. 4. to stigmatize, stamp with infamy. |
| Brand | phr | "God's Brand' - the lightning. |
| Branded | adj | Marked with a hot iron. 2. bearing a trade mark. 3. marked with infamy; stigmatized. |
| Brander | n | One who brands. |
| Branding | n | That scorches or marks by branding. |
| Brandiron | n | A branding iron. |
| Brand-leader | n | The leading or best-selling product of its type. |
| Brandless | adj | That has or is without a brand. 2. having no wood for fuel. |
| Brandling | n | A red earthworm, Eisensia foetida, with rings of a brighter color, which is often found in manure and used as bait. |
| Brandmark | n | A logo of a brand. |
| Brand name | n | A trade name. |
| Brand new | adj | Utterly new, as new as possible, newly made. |
| Brand-newness | n | State or quality of being brand new. |
| Brandrede | n | A brander, branding iron. |
| Brand-theft | n | The pirating of top-brand goods. 2. cheap copy-cat produced goods. 3. knock-offs. |
| Brandwidth | n | The level of brand recognition or market share enjoyed by a product, service, or company. |
| Brant | adj | High, steep, sheer, precipitous. |
| Brant | adv | Straight, straight up, erectly, steeply. |
| Brantness | n | Steepness, erectness, straightness. |
| Brass | n | An alloy of copper with tin or zinc; a sepuchral table of this metal. 2. money. 3. effrontery. |
| Brass | phr | "Brassed off" - in low spirits; depressed. |
| Brass | phr | "Not Care a Brass Farthing" - to be totally indifferent. |
| Brass | phr | "Have a Brass Neck (to do something)" - to be bold and/or shameless to do something. |
| Brass | phr | "Top Brass" - senior management or top officers; a 'brass hat'. |
| Brass farthing | n | An item of small value or worth, as 'not worth a brass farthing.' |
| Brass hat | n | An army staff-officer (from the gold braid on his hat). |
| Brassiness | n | The quality of being brassy; insolence, impudence, adamancy. |
| Brass knuckles | n | A weapon consisting of a metal reinforcement for the clenched fist with finger holes molded in it. |
| Brass neck | n | A person with gall, shamelessness, cheek. (idiomatic in UK and Ireland.) |
| Brass neck | vb | To behave boldly or shamelessly. |
| Brass-necked | adj | Nervy, cheeky, shameless. |
| Brass ring | n | Idiomatic in US, fig. a prize or gall (often used in respect to employment goals, e.g. promotion, better job, 'he is going for a brss ring.' |
| Brass-smith | n | An artifice in brass, a brassworker. |
| Brassware | n | Articles made for brass, treated as a group. |
| Brasswind | n | In music, the brass section or instruments of an orchestra: the tuba, trombone and trumpet. |
| Brassy | adj | Hard as brace, pitiless, unfeeling. 2. unblushing, impudently, confident, unabashed. 2. of brass, as opposed to gold: debased yet pretentious. 3. harsh and feeling-less in tone; like a brass instrument, strident artificial tone. |
| Brastle | vb | To crackle, clatter; to rush with a clattering noise, or with excited haste. |
| Brat | n | OE bratt: an apron, bib, rag or clout. 2. the scum on boiled milk, porridge. |
| Brath | n | Impetuosity, violence, wrath, ire. |
| Brath | adj | Impetuous, violent, wrathy, ireful. |
| Brath | adv | Impetuously, violently, wrathfully. |
| Brathful | adj | Violent, wrathful, |
| Brathly | adv | In a angry, violent, impetuous manner. |
| Braxy | n | OE:: rheum, sickness - a carbuncular fever and disease affecting sheep. |
| Braze | n | The process of brazing. |
| Braze | vb | To make of brass. 2. to cover or ornament with brass. 3. to make hard like brass. 4. to hasten to impudence. 5. to colour like brass. 6. to render shameless or brazen. |
| Brazed | adj | Made of brass. 2. covered with brass. 3. hard as brass. |
| Brazeless | adj | Made of or covered with with brass; also fig. - brazened. |
| Brazen | vb | To face with impudently. 2. to act with effrontery. |
| Brazen | adj | Made of brass. 2. referring to the strength rather than actual material of brass; hence, strong as brass. 4. transfigurative and fig. - resembling brass in colour, sound. |
| Brazen | n | "Brazen It Out" - behave, although one has done wrong, as if one has nothing to be ashamed of. |
| Brazier | n | One who works in brass. |
| Brazenly | adv | In a brazen, impudent manner. |
| Brazenness | n | Brazen quality or appearance. 2. effrontery, impudence. |
| Brazing | n | The process of producing or making things from brass. |
| Breach | n | OE. bryce, breach, fracture, the breaking of the waves along the coast or over a vessel. |
| Breach | n | OE form: 'bryce' (related to break)???? - a gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee. 2. the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence. 3. a break; a rupture; a fissure. 4. breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out. 5. breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf. 6. clear breach is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. 7. clean breach is when everything on deck is swept away. 8. breaking out upon; an assault. 9. (archaic) A bruise; a wound. 9.(archaic) A hernia; a rupture. 10. (law) a breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise. 11. (figuratively) a difference in opinions, social class etc. 12. the act of breaking, in a figurative sense |
| Breach | vb | To break through; to make a break in. 2. to violate or break. 3. of horses, cattle breaking fences to get out of enclosures. 4. of the sea, to break into a ship or into a coastal defence. 5. of a whale, to leap clear out of the water. |
| Breach | phr | "Breach of Day" - dawn. |
| Breach | phr | "Heal the Breach" - end a serious disagreement. |
| Breach | phr | "Stand in the Breach" - to occupy a dangerous position in a difficult situation. |
| Breach | phr | "Step Into the Breach" - deputize or stand in, substitute for someone. |
| Breached | adj | Cleaved or pierced with a breach, rent, torn. |
| Breacher | n | One who makes or commits a breach. |
| Breachful | adj | Full of breach(s). |
| Breaching | n | The action of making a breach in, or breaking through. |
| Breachy | adj | Apt to break through or break out of pastures, compounds etc. 2. unruly. |
| Bread | n | Only in OE. a piece, a morsel of food; the proper Germanic word for bread is loaf. It use for a food substance is, however, seen in bee-bread. 2. article of food made with flour. |
| Bread | vb | To dress with bread crumbs. 2. to provide with daily bread. |
| Bread | phr | "Be Somebody's Bread and Butter" - be a person livelihood or be a person's everyday experience. |
| Bread | phr | "Bread and Butter" - slices of bread spread with butter (especially as part of an ordinary English meal eg breakfast or tea. 2. one's ordinary means of livelihood, esp. at a very basic level and without any extras. 3. simple and wholesome, without any extraordinary features or frills. |
| Bread | phr | "Bread and Water" - the minimum diet, ration on which life can be sustained, esp. considered as a form of punishment for a child or a prisoner. |
| Bread | phr | "Bread and Wine" - The Eucharist. |
| Bread | phr | "Bread is the Staff of Life" - bread (food) is the staff (support) of life. |
| Bread | phr | "Break Bread" - to break it for one's own mouthful. 2. to partake bread or food. 3. the Eucharist. |
| Bread | phr | "Cast One's Bread Upon the Water" - not to expect gratitude or recognition for one's good works. 2. speculate with little hope of reward or success. |
| Bread | phr | "Eat the Bread of Idleness" - bread (food) not gain by work. |
| Bread | phr | "Give Us Our Daily Bread" - our living. |
| Bread | phr | "He Took Bread and Salt" - he took his oath. In Eastern lands bread and salt were once eaten when an oath was taken. |
| Bread | phr | "In Good Bread" - in a good living situation. |
| Bread | phr | "Know Which Side One's Bread is Buttered" - to be aware of the importance considerations. |
| Bread | phr | "On the Bread Line" - extremely poor. |
| Bread | phr | "Take God's Bread" - to partake of the sacramental bread. |
| Bread | phr | "Take the Bread Out of Someone's Mouth" - to take away the livelihood of another; to prevent someone from earning a living. 2. to take from a person what he is on the point of enjoying. |
| Bread bin | n | A container for keeping bread. |
| Breadboard | n | A cutting board, esp. for bread. 2. a pull-out cutting board underneath a counter in a kitchen. |
| Breadbox | n | A container for bread. |
| Breadcraft | n | The art of making bread. |
| Bread-crumb | n | A crumb of bread, esp. crumbs for covering fish, meat, or vegetables. 2. the soft part of bread, as opp. to the crust. |
| Bread-crumb | vb | To cover with bread-crumbs. |
| Bread-dust | n | Powdered bread or biscuit. |
| Breaden | adj | Made or consisting of bread. |
| Bread-god | n | Contemptuous term for the consecrated host. |
| Breadhead | n | One who is attracted to money, a greedy capitalist. |
| Breadiness | n | The quality or fact of being bread. |
| Breadish | n | Somewhat similar to or resembling bread. |
| Breadishness | n | Of the quality and nature of bread |
| Breadless | n | Without or lacking bread. 2. without bread or food. |
| Breadlessness | n | Lacking or having no bread. |
| Bread-line | n | Subsistence level, on the breadline. 2. a queque of people waiting to receive free food. |
| Breadness | n | The quality of bread. |
| Bread root | n | The prairie turnip of North America. |
| Breadstick | n | A long slender roll of crisp bread. |
| Breadth | n | Measure or distance from side to side, width, extent across (also fig. . 2. a piece of clothe of full breadth; a width. 3. extent, length. 4. fig. largeness (of mind, sentiment, or view) 5. liberality, catholicity, also a wide display of a quality. 6. a broad effect. |
| Breadth | phr | "Be Within a Hair's Breadth" - to be extremely near or close. |
| Breadthen | vb | To increase in breadth or size. 2. to broaden, widen. |
| Breadthless | adj | Without breath. |
| Breadthway | adv | In direction of the breadth. |
| Breadwinner | n | The primary incomer earner or wage earner in a household. |
| Breadthwise | adj | Directed across the breadth of an objec or place. |
| Breadwort | n | The knot-grass, polygonum. |
| Breadwright | n | A baker. |
| Bready | adj | Resembling, like or somewhat like bread. |
| Break | vb | Sever into parts. |
| Break | phr | "A Break in the Weather" - a change (for the better) in the weather. |
| Break | phr | "All Hell Broke Lose" - great confusion erupted. |
| Break | phr | "At Break-neck Speed" - very fast speed. 2. with the fastest speed one can manage; often dangerously fast. |
| Break | phr | "Be a Broken Reed" - be a weak and unreliable person. |
| Break | phr | "Be a Dog's Breakfast" - be a very messy situation. |
| Break | phr | "Break a Butterfly on the Wheel" - an over-response in solving a problem when a simple solution is at hand. |
| Break | phr | "Break a Drought" - to resume supplies after an interval. |
| Break | phr | "Break Down Someone Door" - be enthusiastic about someone's goods or services. |
| Break | phr | "Break Even" - have, show, neither profit nor a loss in some business transaction or sale. |
| Break | phr | "Break a Fall" - to prevent an injury (in a fall). |
| Break | phr | "Break a Law" - to violate or be in breach of a law. |
| Break | phr | "Break Asunder" - to break a thing that or fastens. 2. to loosen. 3. to dissolve. |
| Break | phr | "Break Away (from)" - to remove by breaking. 2. to break away with abruptness and force (also fig.). 3. leave or escape suddenly. 4. cut one's ties. 5. end one's political dependence (on). |
| Break | phr | "Break back" - suddenly reverse the direction in which one is moving, |
| Break | phr | "Break Day" - to fail to keep an appointment. |
| Break | phr | "Break Down" - to demolish, break up; destroy, conquer. 2. to decompose; change the chemical composition of. 3. to crush, in strength, health, courage etc. 4. to fall broken, to prove of no avail. 5. to fail, cease to function, operate through a mechanical or electrical failure. 6. to render or to become unstable due to anxiety or distress; to collapse physically, mentally or emotionally; give way to completely to one's feelings; lose control of one's of one's emotion. 7. to knock or smash to the ground. 8. analyze in detail; drill down. |
| Break | phr | "Break Even" - to either gain nor lose money; make neither a profit or loss. 2. idiomatic: to stay the same. 3. to neither advance nor regress. |
| Break | phr | "Break Forth" - to make a rush forward. 2. of flame, way, disease etc; to burst out suddenly. 3. to break loose. 4. to burst into or break out in utterance. |
| Break | phr | "Break Free" - to liberate or free oneself. |
| Break | phr | "Break In" - to enter forcibly or abruptly. 2. to infringe upon; to interrupt unexpectedly. 3. to burst upon; encroach upon. 3. make accustom to new discipline; render docile; make soft and pliable. |
| Break | phr | "Break In On" - interrupt; disturb. |
| Break | phr | "Break in the Weather" - change for the better in the weather. |
| Break | phr | "Break Into" - to enter illegally by forced entry, esp. in order to commit a crime. 2. to open or begin to use. 3. to successfully enter a career or profession. 4. to begin suddenly, as 'laugh'. 5. begin vocalizing. 6. change to a faster or slower pace. 7. change to higher value banknote to coins. |
| Break | phr | "Break Into Laughter" - to laugh or start to laugh. |
| Break | phr | "Break it Down" - to slowly and persistently cause something to crumble or fall apart. |
| Break | phr | "Break It Up" - disperse, stop. |
| Break | phr | "Break Loose" -escape, become free. |
| Break | phr | "Break New Ground" - to begin excavating and leveling earth for a new building, or, in earlier times for cultivation of crops. 2. by extension, to take on a new venture, esp. something never attempted before or has no precedent. 2. be a pioneer in one branch of knowledge; discover and/or work at something new and different either in itself, or in relation to what one has done before. |
| Break | phr | "Break No Bones" - not injure oneself or somebody else in spite of a possibly serious fall, accident etc (the implication is not necessarily that actual bones could have been broken |
| Break | phr | "Break of Day" - dawn. |
| Break | phr | "Break Off" - to put an abrupt end to; stop suddenly. 2. to leave off abruptly. 3. to sever connection with; become separated, separate from a large object (by breaking). 4. to detach oneself abruptly from; end abruptly; discontinue. 5. to sever connection with. 6. to draw off sharply. 7. to begin. 8. to stop talking, or interrupt one's remark. 9. pause one's work; take a break. |
| Break | phr | "Break One's Duck" - of a batsman at cricket: to score the first run of his innings. |
| Break | phr | "Break One's Fall" - to provide alleviation to stop someone crashing into the ground at full speed. |
| Break | phr | "Break One's Fast" - to eat breakfast. 2. to eat food again after a lengthy period of abstinence (because one has deliberately not eaten or been prevented from eating). |
| Break | phr | "Break One's Heart" - cause to feel considerable grief, mental anguish, disappointment, etc in the matter of love and personal relations and business affairs. |
| Break | phr | "Break One's Mind" - to deliver or reveal what is in one's mind. |
| Break | phr | "Break One's Neck" - to be in a great hurry and particularly keen to do something. 2. try one's utmost, act recklessly to do something; take a great deal of trouble to get or get something. |
| Break | phr | "Break One's Word" - fail to keep a promise. |
| Break | phr | Break On the Wheel"- to execute a criminal, political outcast or heretic by fastening to a wheel in order to break his limbs and at the same time severely beaten him. See; 'To break a Butterfly On the Wheel". |
| Break | phr | "Break Open" - to open and enter by breaking. |
| Break | phr | "Break Out" - to force out by breaking. 2. of persons and things: to burst from restraint or concealment. 3. to break out (with a skin eruption). 4. suddenly or violently flare up. 5. suddenly become covered in |
| Break | phr | "Break Out In" - suddenly begin to have strong feelings. |
| Break | phr | "Break Out in a Cold Sweat" - to be suddenly afraid, apprehensive. |
| Break | phr | "Break Out of" - free oneself (from) (usually by forcibly removing barriers). |
| Break | phr | "Break Out On" - appear suddenly upon. |
| Break | phr | "Break Over" - break upon and sweep over, a floating or submerged object. 2. sweep over somebody in waves (cheering, applause, abuse). |
| Break | phr | "Break Ship" - to desert or fail to rejoin a ship after shore-leave. |
| Break | phr | "Break Sleep" - to awake from sleep. |
| Break | phr | "Break Someone's Heart" (break the heart of)- crush or overwhelm in sorrow. 2. to cause someone's great distress. |
| Break | phr | "Break Something Down" - separate something into components. |
| Break | phr | "Break Step" - get out of step. |
| Break | phr | "Break Stride" - to cease walking or running in the same gait, esp. as a result of interrupting someone's forward movement. |
| Break | phr | "Break the Back of" - to reach or achieve a signifant part of a project or undertaking. |
| Break | phr | "Break the Deadlock" - to find a way through a problem or situation that has reach an impasse. |
| Break | phr | "Break the Head" - interrupt the line of reasoning and/ or thoughts. |
| Break | phr | "Break the Ice" - to begin to know people to avoid social awkwardness. 2. to introduce conversation to get around problems of social difficulty. 3. to take the initiative and strike up an acquaintance after initial shyness. |
| Break | phr | "Break the News" - to inform someone, or convey information of something first, usually when it is difficult to tell someone something unpleasant or hurtful. |
| Break | phr | "Break the Seal" -(sl) - a seal that provides a tight, secure and perfect closure. |
| Break | phr | "Break the Spell" - destroy an infatuation, spoil the effect, fascination, or illusory experience etc by a return to reality. |
| Break | phr | "Break the Thread" - interrupt a line of reason/thought. |
| Break | phr | "Break Through" - to penetrate by breaking; pierce, appear from behind. 2. to force an opening in an obstruction. 3. make discoveries of an important kind. 4. overcome, subdue, |
| Break | phr | "Break Up" - to disperse (at the end of a term), scatter (often by force); go in separate ways. 2. to disintegrate, shatter, crack up; destroy, (transfig and fig.); burst open forcibly. 2. to open up ground. 3. of frost; epidemic: to give way. 4. to fail physically and crumble emotionally. 5. to dissolve, come or bring to an end (not necessarily from outside interference. |
| Break | phr | "Break Up Into" - shatter and scatter into pieces. 2. divide by analysis; or administrative decision. |
| Break | phr | "Break Wind" - to suffer flatulence. 2. to release gas from the stomach or bowels. |
| Break | phr | "Break With" - to separate from, part company from; sever connections with. 2. end a friendship, marraige or association with; sever links with. |
| Break | phr | "Have for Breakfast" - defeat easily; crush, destroy. |
| Break | phr | "Make a Break With" - leave. |
| Break | phr | "Make or Break" - face a crucial test where success or failure is of great important. 2. be a crucial factor leading to a person's success or fail. |
| Breakaway | n | The action of breaking away; severance. 2. panic, as the stampede of animals or people. 3. the animal that leads the herd. 4. seceding, that break-ways or has broken away. |
| Breakbeat | n | A form of syncopated rhythm prominent in much African music. |
| Breakback | n | A sudden bckward movement. 2. that break the back, crushes. |
| Break bones | n | The ossifrage or osprey. |
| Breakdown | n | The act of falling and breaking down; a collapse (lit. & fig.) |
| Breaker | n | One who or that which breaks. 2. a heavy ocean wave breaking on the shore. |
| Breaker's Yard | n | A wreck yard or wreckers usually containing damaged, wrecked or broken-down motor vehicles. 2. fig. a scene or place of disorder and chaos. |
| Break-even | n | In business, the level of revenue sufficient in cost. |
| Breakfast | n | First meal of the day. |
| Breakfast | vb} | T break one's fast. 2. to take or partake of the first meal of the day. 3. to provide with breakfast. 4. to entertain. |
| Breakfast | phr | "To Have Breakfast in Bed" - to eat breakfast in bed. 2. breakfast served to one in bed upon waking. 3. to enjoy one's breakfast in bed. |
| Breakfaster | n | One who is breakfasting or eating breakfast. |
| Break food | n | Any of the various kinds of cereals eaten at breakfast. |
| Breakfastless | adj | Without breakfast; not serving breakfast. |
| Breakfast-like | adj | A meal similar too or resembling breakfast. |
| Breakfast time | n | The time when breakfast is (usually) eate,. 2. an allocated breakfast time. |
| Break-forward | n | "The Break-forward" - an alleged old name for the hare. |
| Break-in | n | The act of entering a breakfast with the intention to steal. |
| Break-hedge | n | Trespasser. |
| Breaking-in | n | To initiate. |
| Breaking-news | n | News that has either just happened or is currently happening. Breaking news articles may contain contain incomplete information, factual errors , or poor editing because of rush of publication |
| Breaking-strain | n | The weight or point at which something will break, also fig. |
| Breaking wheel | n | A form of execution, among europeans during former times, in which the victim, often a criminal or soldier, is fastened to a wheel and slowly crushed to death. |
| Breakle | n | Fragments, mote, things broken into small pieces. |
| Breakless | adj | Without a break or interuption. |
| Breakline | n | The last line of a paragraph (usually not of full length) |
| Breakly | adj | Capable of, or tending to break, fragile, brittle. |
| Breakly | adv | In a breaking or fragile manner. |
| Breakneck | n | A fall that breaks the neck. |
| Breakneck | adj | Dangerously fast, hell-for-leather. 2. a dangerous place or steep place from which one could fall. |
| Break of Dawn | n | Daybreak, dayrim, dayrawe. |
| Break-off | n | The act of breaking of; esp. the discontinuance of relations. |
| Breakout | n | A forcible escape. |
| Breakroom | n | A room set aside for tea or coffee breaks, snacks, lunches, etc also called a lunch-room. |
| Breakstone | n | Herbalist's name for Saxifrages and some other plants. |
| Breakthrough | n | An advance through and past enemy lines. 2. any major progress; such as great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacles. 3. in sport, the penetration of an opposition's defence. |
| Breakthrough | adj | Characterized by major progress or overcoming some difficult obstacle or situation. |
| Breaktime | n | A break for a worker or workers that breaks up a period of work. 2. a break for school-children between lessons. |
| Break-tooth | n | Words or expressions difficult to say; jawbreaker. |
| Breakup | n | The act of breaking up; disintegration or division. 2. the termination of a friendship, or a romantic relationship; a falling-out. 3. a loss of emotional control; a breakdown. 4. in Alaska - Spring, springtime. |
| Breakwater | n | A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside (nautical). 2. a low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers. 3. on beaches: a wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast. |
| Breaky | adj | Indicative of breaking, easily broken, fragile, as an 'achy, breaky heart. |
| Breast | n | A breast, either of the two organs on the front of a woman's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in men. 2. the chest, or front of the human thorax. 3. a section of clothing covering the breast area. 4. the figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one's heart or innermost thoughts. 5. the ventral portion of an animal's thorax. 6. a choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork. 7. the front or forward part of anything. 8. a chimney breast; a plough breast. 9. the face of a coal working. 10. the front of a furnace. 11. the power of singing; a musical voice. |
| Breast | vb | To apply or oppose the mast to waves or wind. 2. a sleep ascent. 3. to stem, face, face it out, to breast it out, meet in full opposition; oppose, to meet full on. 4. to push against with the breast |
| Breast | phr | "Breast Aside" - to push aside. 2. to press forward with the breasts. |
| Breast | phr | "Beat One's Breast" - to greatly regret an error. |
| Breast | phr | "Breast Up the Hedge" - to cut away branches on the side, so that the main upright stems are laid bare. |
| Breast | phr | "Give the Breast to" - to press the breast to; fig. to nourish. 2. to apply the breast to. |
| Breast-beating | n | An exaggerated or ostentatious show or demonstration of woe. |
| Breastbone | n | The central narrow bone in the front of the chest, connecting the collarbone and the top ribs. 2. the sternum. |
| Breasted | adj | having a breast. 2. having a specific kind of breast or covering. |
| Breastfeed | vb | To feed a baby milk by the breast. 2. to suckle, to nurse, to suck milk from a parent. |
| Breastfeeder | n | One who breastfeeds or suckles a baby. |
| Breastfeeding | n | The activity of feeding a baby or young child milk from the breast of a lactating woman. |
| Breast-high | adj | As high as the breast; submerged to the breast. |
| Breasting | n | The applying or opposing the mast to waves or wind. 2. a sleep ascent. 3. the facing, facing it out, the breasting it out, a meeting in full opposition; opposing, a meeting full on. 4. a pushing against with the breast. |
| Breastless | adj | Without breast or mammary glands. |
| Breastlike | adj | Resembling a breast or breasts. |
| Breastmilk | n | Milk produced by human mammary glands, mother's milk. |
| Breaststroke | n | A swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies face down, with arms being swept forward, outwards and back under the water and legs kicking like a frog. |
| Breaststroker | n | One who swims the breast stroke. |
| Breastwise | adj | Side by side; abreast. |
| Breastwork | n | A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet. 2. a railing on the quarter deck and forecastle of a ship. 3. a parapet. 4. a breast or mammary augmentation. |
| Breasty | adj | Having large breasts, buxom, busty. |
| Breath | n | Odor, smell, scent, exhalation, vapour, respiration. 2. air from the lungs. |
| Breath | phr | "A Breath of Wind" - (any indication and sign of) a light amount of wind, a little breeze. |
| Breath | phr | "All in a Breath" - without taking a breath. |
| Breath | phr | "Be Short of Breath" - to be without breath or breathless. |
| Breath | phr | "Breath of Life" - signs of breathing in a person's body as an indication that they are still alive, surviving etc. |
| Breath | phr | "Draw One's Last Breath" - to die, expire, pass away, give up the ghost. |
| Breath | phr | "Hold One's Breath"- to check suddenly or suspend the act of respiration. 2. to wait (in anticipation) or expectation for something to happen. |
| Breath | phr | "In One and the Same Breath" - an act of respiration or breathing; fig. to do simultaneously. |
| Breath | phr | "In the Same Breath" - simultaneously. |
| Breath | phr | "Not Hold One's Breath" - give up all expectation. |
| Breath | phr | "Out of Breath" - breathless; panting from exertion; breathing with difficulty, temporary short of breath. |
| Breath | phr | "Short of Breath" - almost breathless or out of breath. |
| Breath | phr | 'Take Breath" - pause for a breath. |
| Breath | phr | "Take One's Breath Away" - greatly surprise, astounding or astonishment. |
| Breath | phr | "Under One's Breath" - in a whisper. |
| Breath | phr | "Waste(*) One's Breath" - to act in unproductive speech or conversation. * OE: weste - a desert, wilderness; ONF. & Fr variation of OF: wast(e). |
| Breathe | phr | "Breathe Again" - to recover anxiety, excitement |
| Breathe | phr | "Breathe Down Someone's Neck" - cause annoyance to another person by remaining nearby or by supervising to them too closely. 2. in a sporting contestant be narrowly behind one's competitors. |
| Breathe | phr | "Breathe Easy" - to relax or feel secure about as something after a crisis. |
| Breathe | phr | "Breathe Fire and Brimstone" - to be manifestly wrathful. |
| Breathe | phr | "Breathe Freely" - to be at ease, relieved. 2. to breath in one's element. |
| Breathe | phr | "Breathe In" - to inhale. |
| Breathe | phr | "Breathe Life Into" - provide the inspirational force. |
| Breathe | phr | "Breathe One's last (Breath)" - to die, expire, give up the ghost. |
| Breathe | phr | "Breathe Out" - to exhale. |
| Breathe | phr | "Breathe Through (Into)" - to animate, inform |
| Breathe | phr | "Breathe Upon" - to infect, contaminate. 2. to tarnish (as if with breath). 3. to taint, corrupt. |
| Breathe | phr | "Not Breathe a Word" - not tell; remain silent. |
| Breathe | phr | "Take a Breather" - take a rest from vigorous activity. |
| Breathed | adj | As in 'long-breathed' - long winded |
| Breather | phr | Something that or someone who breathes. 2. a short break; a rest or respite. 3. in physics - a spatially localized, time periodic excitation in a one-dimensional lattice. 4. (coll) that which puts one out of breath, such as strenuous exercise. |
| Breathful | adj | Full of breath, or air. 2. having breath or life. 3. redolent, odourous, perfumed. |
| Breathily | adv | In a breathy manner. |
| Breathiness | n | The state or quality of being breathy. 2. the result or product of breathing. |
| Breathing | n | The act of breathing or respiration; a single instance breathing. 2. time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time; breathing. 3. any gentle influence or operation; inspiration. 4. the breathing of the Holy Spirit. 5. breathing, aspiration; secret prayer. |
| Breathing | phr | "Be Breathing Sweat" - to sweat profusely. |
| Breathing spell | n | An opportunity to rest or give thought to a situation. 2. a short respite. |
| Breathingly | adv | In a breathing manner. |
| Breathless | n | Without breath; without respiration, dead. 2. unaspirated. 3. breathing with difficulty. 4. panting as a result of swift running or strenuous exercise. |
| Breathlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of breath |
| Breathliness | n | Breathless condition, want of health. |
| Breathly | adv | Of or pertaining or characteristic of breath or breathing. |
| Breathness | n | The state or quality of being with breath, exhalation, respiration. |
| Breath-of-Heaven | n | A small southern African shrub (adenandra fragrans.) |
| Breath-seller | n | One who sells perfumes or scents. 2. one who speaks or uses his/her voice for payment, as a "radio announcer", "professional orator", or "spruiker"; "town crier", actor (?). |
| Breath-taking | adj | Surprising, trilling, dumbfounded. |
| Breathwork | n | The use of breathing as therapy, particularly changing the breathing rhythms. |
| Breathy | adj | Of or pertaining to the nature of breath. 2. of a voice in singing, an admixture of the sound of breathing. 3. accompanied by audible breathing. |
| Breck | n | Form of break: a breach, blemish, failing. |
| Bred | adj | Developed in the womb. 2. hatched from the egg, brought forth. 3. reared, brought up, properly trained. 4. founded in combinations, as ill-bred, well bred, town-bred. |
| Bred | adj | Form of 'brede' - outspread, extended. |
| Bred | phr | "Bred and Born" - by birth and upbringing. 2. born and bred. |
| Bred | phr | "Bred in the Bone" - hereditary. |
| Brede | n | Breadth, width, a piece of stuff of the full breath. |
| Brede | n | Roast meat, sweetmeat. |
| Brede | n | A plait, interweaving, braiding. 2. a twist or plait of hair. |
| Brede | vb | To roast, toast, broil. |
| Brede | vb | Form of braird: to be plaited, entwined, wreathe or interwoven. |
| Brede | vb | To make broad, to broaden, dilate. 2. to spread, to spread out, spread about, extend. 3. to cover, spread over. |
| Breding | n | Broadening, spreading. |
| Bred-in-the Bone | adj | habitual, personal of habit, ingrained, firmly established, within nature. |
| Bree | n | Eye-lid, lid of the eye. 2. eyebrow, the superciliary ridge. 3. the eyelash. |
| Bree | n | A thick pottage made of meal. 2. broth, juice, liquer in which something has been steeped or boiled. 2. water; the sea(fig.) |
| Bree | vb | To terrify, fright, scare. |
| Breech | n | A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks. 2. the buttocks. 3. a breech birth. |
| Breech | vb | To dress in breeches. 2. to cover or clothe with breeches. 3. to fit or furnish or fasten with breeches. 4. to whip, spank or beat the buttocks. |
| Breech | adv | With the hips coming out before the head. |
| Breech birth | n | A birth where the hinder part of the child appears first. |
| Breech cloth | n | An apron-like garment held on by a belt around the waist to cover the loins; a loin-cloth. |
| Breeches | n | Garment covering the loins and thighs, |
| Breeches | n | "Wear the Breeches" - to assume the authority of the husband (by his wife); to be the master. |
| Breech-girdle | n | A girdle or belt worn around the loins. 2. a belt to keep up the breeches. |
| Breeching | n | The action of clothing the haunches. 2. a flogging. |
| Breechless | n | Without breeches. 2. bare or naked about the buttocks. |
| Breech-loader | n | A firearm in which the charge is introduced at the back. |
| Breech-loading | adj | Of a gun; such that ammunition is loaded at the rear of the bore. |
| Breech-maker | n | A maker of breeches, esp. riding trousers. |
| Breed | n | All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies. 2. race or lineage. 3. group of people with shared characteristics. 4. hatch, produce, young. 5. stock, strain, offspring. |
| Breed | vb | To produce brood or young. 2. to be pregnant, to be with child. 3. to produce offspring sexually; to bear young. 4. of animals, to mate. 5. to arrange the mating of specific animals. 6. to propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities to take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up. 7. to yield or result. 8. to be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth. 8. to educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up. 9. to produce or obtain by any natural process. 10, to have birth; to be produced or multiplied. 11. take care of in infancy and through childhood): raise, bring up, rear. |
| Breed | phr | "Bred in the Bone" - inveterate or habitual, long-standing, deep-seated, dyed-in the-wool. |
| Breed | phr | "Breed In" - to breed always with near relatives. 2. breed in and in. |
| Breed | phr | "Breed Out and Out" - to exhaust the breed. 2. to eliminate a characteristic by controlled breeding. |
| Breed-bale | n | One who breeds bale or excites strife and discord. 2. a mischief maker, trouble-maker, malcontent; a breed-woe. |
| Breeder | n | A person who breeds plants or animals professionally. 2. (gay slang, derogatory) 3. a heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding. 4. (slang, derogatory) a person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children. |
| Breediness | n | The state or condition of being capable of having children. |
| Breeding | n | The process through which propagation, growth or development occurs. 2. the act of insemination by natural or artificial means. 3.the act of copulation in animals. 4. the good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity. 5. nurture; education; formation of manners. 6. descent; pedigree; extraction. |
| Breeding | adj | Of, relating to or used for breeding. |
| Breeding ground | n | A place over region where animals go to breed. 2. fig. a place or institution seen as creating large number of a stated thing, type or person, etc. |
| Breedling | n | A native, breedling, inborn, home-born. 2. one born and bred in a place, a native. |
| Breedy | adj | Breeding prolific and readily. |
| Breeze | n | The gadfly (Estrus tabanus). 2. a sea-breeze: a parasite affecting some fruit. |
| Breme | adj | Celebrated, brilliant. 2. clear, loud, distinct. |
| Bremely | adj | Fast, furious. |
| Bremely | adv | Fiercely, angrily, hence in the general senses, as hotly, vehemently, strenuously, strongly. 2. louding, distinctly, shrilly, clearly, evidently. |
| Bremeness | n | Fierceness, fury, anger, strongness. |
| Brength | n | Blend of 'breadth and length' ; size, length and breadth. |
| Brent | adj | A high smooth; lofty; steep. brant. |
| Brerd | n | OE. brim, magen. - the topmost surface or edge, brim, brink. |
| Brerdful | adj | Brimful |
| Brethe | vb | To go to ruin, degenerate, dissipate, self-ruined. |
| Brethel | n | A worthless fellow, a good-for-nothing wretch |
| Bretheling | n | The condition or status of going to (self) ruin and dissipation, |
| Bretheman | n | Trumpeter, a wind instruent blower. |
| Brethren | n | The body of members, esp. of a fraternal, religious or military order; brotherhood, fraternity, siblings. |
| Brethren | adj | Pertaining to or relating to brothers. |
| Brethrendom | n | Brotherhood, fraternity, |
| Brethrenhood | n | Brotherhood. |
| Bretwalda | n | The ruler of the Britons; a ruler. |
| Brew | n | Make ale, or beer |
| Brew | phr | "As You Brew, So Will You Bake" - as you make your bed, so will you lie on it. 2. as you will go; you must take the outcome of your deeds. |
| Brew | phr | "Be Brewing" - be imminent, gather asa storm; trouble. |
| Brew | phr | "Brew Up" - prepare a drink of tea (often in an open and makeshift way). |
| Brew-bale | vb | To stir up quarreling, dissension, trouble, mischief. |
| Brewer | n | Someone who brews or whose occupation is to prepare malt liquor. |
| Brewership | n | The office and / or employment of a brewer. |
| Brewer's Yeast | n | Any live yeast yeast used in brewing of yeast obtained as a by-product of brewing, dried and used as nutritional yeast. |
| Brewhouse | n | A brewey; brew house. |
| Brewing | n | The produce of alcoholic beverages, such as beer, by fermentation. 2. the process of being brewed. 3. the business or occupation of a brewer. 4. the quantity of brew made in a single batch. 5. the forming of a storm or the gathering of clouds. |
| Brewing | phr | "Be Brewing" - be imminent, gather as a storm; trouble. 2. something's brewing. |
| Brewing-up | n | Concoction. |
| Brewster | n | A brewer, esp. a female brewer. |
| Brew-up | n | The making and drinking of tea. |
| Briar | n | Prickly bush (brier), species of the wild rose. |
| Briar | vb | To catch and annoy like briars. |
| Briar | phr | "To Be in the Briars" - to be in vexation, difficulties, trouble (in modern use with conscious reference to the literal sense. |
| Briar | phr | "To Get Out of the Briars" -to be no longer in vexation, difficulties, trouble (in modern use with conscious reference to the literal sense. |
| Briar | phr | "To Leave the Briars"- to be no longer in vexation, difficulties, trouble (in modern use with conscious reference to the literal sense. |
| Briar patch | n | A dense thicket of thorny plants. 2. a grand made impassable by the impenetrable of prickly vegetation. 3. an intellectaul or philosophical issue abounding in seemingly unresolvable problems. 4. a theoretical quandary or impasse. |
| Briary | adj | Full of or consisting of briers, brambly, thorny. 2. of or pertaining to briers. 3. of the nature of briers: vexing. |
| Briche | adj | Useful, serviceable. |
| Bridal | adj | The bridal(e) feast or wedding. 2. of or pertaining to a bride, worn by a bride. |
| Bridal bed | n | Nuptial couch, marriage bed. |
| Bridal day | n | The day of the wedding. |
| Bridal dinner | n | The wedding feast. |
| Bridal dress | n | The wedding dress or bridal gown. |
| Bridal house | n | The house where the wedding is held. |
| Bridal knot | n | A wedding favour.??????????? |
| Bridal morn | n | The morning of the wedding. |
| Bridal ring | n | The wedding ring. |
| Bridal wealth | n | The plant saxifrage francoa. |
| Bride | n | Woman about to be married or recently married. |
| Bride | vb | To act the bride. |
| Bride | phr | "Bride of the Sea" - Venice; so called from ancient ceremony of the wedding of the sea by the Doge, who threw the ring into the Adriatic saying, We wed thee, O sea, in token of perpetual domination." this took place annually on Ascension Day. |
| Bride ale | n | An ale-drinking at a wedding. |
| Bride-bed | n | See 'bridal bed.' |
| Bridegroom | n | The man about to be, or just been, married. |
| Bridegroom | vb | To act as a bridegroom at a wedding. |
| Bridegroom's men | n | In the Roman marriage by confarreatio,the bride was lead to the Pontifex Maximus by bachelors, but was conducted home by married men. |
| Bridegroomship | n | The position of bridegroom. |
| Bridehood | n | State or position of a bride. |
| Brideless | adj | Without brides; unmarried |
| Bridelike | adj | Like or resembling a bride. |
| Bridelock | n | Marriage; wedlock. |
| Bridelope | n | The oldest known teutonic name for wedding; lit 'the bridal run' in conducting the bride to her new home. |
| Bridely | adv | In a bride-like or wedding-like or nuptial manner. |
| Brideman | n | Also called a brideleader, because he led the bride to the bridegroom. |
| Bridesmaid | n | A young unmarried woman or girl attending the bride at a wedding. |
| Bridemaidship | n | The position and uties of a bridesmaid. |
| Brideship | n | The status of standing of a bride; the rank or personality of a bride. |
| Bridesman | n | The best man. |
| Brides-wain | n | The wain or vehicle of the bride providing (surmounted) by the spinning-wheel adorned with blue ribbons ) used to be sent to the new home. 2. a carriage with household goods, traveling from the brides father's to the bridegroom hous |
| Bride-weed | n | A bride's dress or veil. |
| Bridewort | n | Meadow sweet, spirea ulmoria. |
| Bridge | n | Elevated structure (often arched over water) forming a passage way between two points. |
| Bridge | vb | To make a bridge over a river. 2. to span or cross with a bridge, ravine. 3. to overlay, spread over. 4. to form a way by means of a bridge. 4. fig. to promote or develop a way of reconcilaittion between two parties. |
| Bridge | phr | "A Bridge too Far" - idiomatic: a step or action that is too ambitious. 2. an act of overreaching. |
| Bridge | phr | "Bridge of Gold" - according to a German tradition, Charlemagne spirit crosses the Rhine on a golden bridge at Bingen, in the season of plenty, to bless the vineyards and cornfields. |
| Bridge | phr | "Bridge of Sighs" - a covered passage in Venice, between the Doge Palace where prisoners passed to a place of execution. 2. a place where, those who passes is 'a dead man walking'. |
| Bridge | phr | "Build Bridges Between" - work at improving relationships. |
| Bridge | phr | "Burn One's Bridges Behind You" - make an irrevocable decision. 2. lit. to cut off the way back to where you come from making it impossible to retreat. 3. to leave all your friends and acquaintances behind. 4. to cause permanent damage to your relationship. |
| Bridge | phr | "Find a Gold or a Silver Bridge" - an easy and attractive way of escape. |
| Bridge | phr | "Lot of Water Has Flown Under the Bridge Since Then" - a past event (of no important or matters longer). |
| Bridge | phr | "Make a Bridge of Gold for Him" - to enable a man to retreat from a false position without loss of dignity. |
| Bridge-board | n | A board or plank used asa bridge. |
| Bridgebote | n | An ancient tax or contribution to the repair of bridge. |
| Bridge-builder | n | One who builds bridges across waterway or ravines. |
| Bridge-building | n | One who builds bridges. 2. (fig.) the promotion and development of friendly relations between countries, warring parties, one-time friends etc. |
| Bridged | adj | Furnished with bridge(s). 2. spanned or traversed by bridge(s). |
| Bridgehead | n | A fortication covering the end of a bridge, nearest the enemy. 2. any miltary position established in the face of an enemy; eg. by a landing force (tete de pont) |
| Bridge-house | n | A house connected with a bridge for the control and protection; spec. the house or building with its revenue officers. |
| Bridge-keeper | n | The keeper or custodian of a bridge. |
| Bridgeless | adj | Having no bridge; unspanned by a bridge. |
| Bridgelike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a bridge. |
| Bridgeness | n | (mathematics) - a measure of connectivity in certain networks. |
| Bridger | n | One who bridges or connects to previously separate things. 2. a nexus. |
| Bridge-spider | n | A stone or flag spanning a gutter or sunken area. |
| Bridgestone | n | A stone used in the construction of a bridge, such as a 'dry-stone' |
| Bridge-warden | n | The keeper or warden of a bridge. 2. the custodian or wardship of a bridge. |
| Bridgeway | n | The way formed by a bridge; also the waterway beneath. |
| Bridgework | n | A partial dental that is anchored by existing teeth. |
| Bridgey | adj | Full of, or abounding in bridges. |
| Bridging | n | The action of a bridge. 2. bridges viewed as a work. 3. a bridging piece. 4. the system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight. |
| Bridging | adj | Constructing or appointed to construct a bridge or bridges. 2. that which acts as a bridge. |
| Bridle | n | Headgear of a horse's harness. |
| Bridle | vb | To put a bridle on. 2. to check, restrain, or control with, or as if with, a bridle; as in bridle your tongue. 3. to show hostility or resentment. |
| Bridle | phr | "Bridle One's Tongue" - restrain oneself from speaking too frankly, to rudely etc; watch one's mind/tongue. |
| Bridle | phr | "Bridle Up" - to show anger and indignation, bristle at. (the metaphor is from a horse suddenly and sharply pulled up. |
| Bridle-bit | n | The bit or mouth-piece of a bridle; hence 'a bridle-bitter' - a maker of bridles. |
| Bridle bridge | n | A bridge fit for the pasage of a horse, but not for other vehicles; a bridleway. |
| Bridled | adj | Furnished or equipped with a bridle, in various senses. 2. curbed, restrained, controlled. 2. having bridled-shaped marks. |
| Bridle-hand | n | The left hand: the hand that holds the bridle. |
| Bridle-iron | n | A strong flat bar of iron, bent so as to support, as a stirrup. 2. one end of a floor timber, etc. where no sufficient can be had. |
| Bridleless | adj | Without or not having a bridle (said of a steed or rider). 2. unchecked, unrestrained. |
| Bridle-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a bridle. |
| Bridlepath | n | A path fit for the passage of a horse, but not for other vehicles; |
| Bridler | n | One who bridles, restrains, governs, or controls with a bridal. 2. a bridlemaker. |
| Bridleway | n | A bridle path; bridle road. |
| Bridle-wisdom | n | Skill and ability to use the bridle, as 'in the heat of the play one relies on the bridle.' |
| Bridle-wise | adj | Of a horse giuded by the touch of a bridle. |
| Bridling | n | The applying of the bridle in curbing, restraining controling the horse. 2. fig. curbing, restraiing, controlling. |
| Brier | n | Prickly bush (briar), species of the wild rose. |
| Brier | vb | To catch and annoy like briers. |
| Brier | phr | "Be in the Briars" - to be in vexation, difficulties, trouble (in modern use with conscious reference to the literal sense. |
| Brier | phr | "Get Out of the Briers" -to be no longer in vexation, difficulties, trouble (in modern use with conscious reference to the literal sense. |
| Brier | phr | "Leave the Briers"- to be no longer in vexation, difficulties, trouble (in modern use with conscious reference to the literal sense. |
| Briery | adj | Full of or consisting of briers, brambly, thorny. 2. of or pertaining to briers. 3. of the nature of briers: vexing. |
| Bright | n | An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head. 2.(obs) splendour; brightness. 3. (neologism) a person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural or mystical elements. 4. (US pl.) the high-beam intensity of motor vehicle headlamps. |
| Bright | vb | To be bright; to shine, to make bright, illuminate. 2. of sound: to be clear, to ring. |
| Bright | adj | Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark. 2. having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent. 3. livid, colourful, brilliant. 4. happy, in good spirits . 5. sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; cheerful. 6. illustrious; glorious. 7. clear; transparent. 8. manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plan. |
| Bright | phr | "A Bright Young Thing" - a member of the younger generation in fashionable society (esp. 1920s & 1930s) noted for exuberant and outrageous behaviour. 2. young, educated woman of the 1990s who rises to a leadership position. |
| Bright | phr | "Bright and Early" - very early in the morning. |
| Bright | phr | "Brighten Up" - be bright; become brighter or happier. |
| Bright | phr | "Bright Words for Dark Days" - encouraging and empowering words that make happy and positive, and helps to lift one's gloom and depression. |
| Bright | phr | "Look On the Bright Side (of Life)" - be optimistic or positive. |
| Bright-and-Morning-Star" | n | Jesus Christ |
| Bright-beaming | adj | The action of using a light, usually from a search light, that projects a bright-beam of light in any direction. |
| Bright-bloomed | adj | Colorful, |
| Bright-burning | adj | Of intense heat and bright flame, something used to attract attention in an emergency. |
| Brighten | vb | To make bright or shining, to become bright, to shine |
| Brighten | phr | "Brighten Up" - to br brighter. 2. to make brighter. |
| Bright-eyed | adj | Eager and alert, smart, mentally alert. |
| Bright-eyed | phr | "To be Bright-eyed and Bushy-tailed" - to be eager, alert, mentally alert, dashing, high-spirited, enthusiastic, and lively, pert, spirited, peppy. |
| Brighten | adj | Made bright; grow bright. |
| Brightening | n | The action of making or becoming bright. 2. illumination. |
| Brightening | adj | Becoming bright or making bright. |
| Brighter | n | One who or that which brightens. |
| Bright-field | n | The most common form of optical microscopy, in which light is transmitted through the sample which appears on a bright background. |
| Bright head | n | A person of good mind, understanding, smartness, know-how, intelligence, memory, wisdom. |
| Brighthood | n | The state or quality of being bright, brightness. |
| Brightish | adj | Somewhat bright, illuminated or shiny. |
| Bright-lights | n | The city as a place of entertainment; an entertainment district. 2. urban gaiety. |
| Bright line | n | A clear distinction in the context of a legal or moral judgement. |
| Brightly | adv | In a bright manner, brilliantlt, clearly. |
| Brightness | n | The quality of being bright. 2. brilliancy, clearness, vivacity, quickness of intellect. 3. perception elicited by the luminance of an object. 4. intellingence, cleverness, smartness. |
| Brights | n | The high-beam intensity of motor vehicle headlamps. |
| Brightshine | n | Lustre. |
| Bright side | n | A consoling aspect of a difficult situation. 2. a silver lining. |
| Brightsmith | n | A maker in 'white" or bright iron, tin. |
| Brightsome | adj | Exhibiting brightness, bright-looking. 2. bright in appearance, shining. |
| Bright-someness | n | "The bright-someness of the gospel was dimmed." : clarity, illumination, etc. |
| Bright-spark | n | A person who is intelligent, clear or quick-witted. 2. sarcastically, a person who lacks intelligence, or who has displayed ignorance , foolishness, or poor judgement. |
| Bright-speaker | n | A sound that has a greater emphasize on the treble, higher frequencies. |
| Brightwork | n | Polished mental fixtures. |
| Brim | n | In OE an poetical word for the Sea, and also "flood" waters. 2. surf and waves. 3. phosphor. |
| Brimming | n | The phosphorence of the waves, sea. 2. burning; firelike. |
| Brimstone | n | (Lit: "burnstone') sulphur. 2. the sulphur of hell; hell (itself); damnation. 4. used attributively as intensifiers of exclamations. 4. a species of butterfly. |
| Brimstone | phr | "Fire and Brimstone" - the traditional punishment of hell; hellfire. |
| Brimstoneness | n | The state or condition of being brimstone. |
| Brimstoner | n | A preacher who warns others about the damnation in Hell for the wicked and sinful; a hot-gospeller. |
| Brimstone-wort | n | Rosa canina, the dog rose. |
| Brimstonish | adj | Somewhat phosphorous or sulphur in colour. 2. fiery. |
| Brine | n | Salt water, the water of the sea, the sea. |
| Brine | vb | To steep, soak, pickle, suffuse with salt water. |
| Brineless | adj | Without or free of brine or salt or salt water. |
| Briner | n | A salt boiler, a salter. |
| Brine-spring | n | A spring of salt water. |
| Bring | n | A causing to come to place of reference or to a state. |
| Bring | vb | Come conveying esp. by carrying or leading. 2. come with. 3. cause to come or be present. 4. cause or result in. 5. be sold for; produce as income. 6. bring legal action. 7. cause to come or reach a particular state. adduce evidence or an argument etc. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring About" - to make something happen, esp. to cause changes in a situation. 2. change direction of movement. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring About Somebody's Ears" - all about someone. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Along" - encourage, develop, bring on. 2. help to grow or flower more quickly. 3. conduct from one place to another, often a short distance. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring and Buy Sale" - a sale, usually to collect money for a charity, where a person brings things to be sold and buys things brought by other people. 2. a trash and treasure sale or market. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Away" - to come away from some event with some important insight, particular impression, or information. 2. to move something away from from something, (a request to move something away from something and towards the requester.) |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Back" - to bring back or cause to come back to the point of departure; reintroduce. 2. take something or somebody with oneself somewhere. 3 cause to return, restore borrowed property. return to consciousness, awake, wake, rouse, arouse. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Back to Life" - to revive, resussitate, restore to good health. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Before" - present for discussion, decision or judgement. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Down" - cause something to end. 2. cause the defeat of. 3. cause to fall from the sky by destroying, killing or wounding. 4. reduce or make lower. 5. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Down the House" - to bring such demonstrative applause as threatens or suggests the bringing down of the building. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Down to Earth" - make somebody return to reality. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Forth" - introduce; yield. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Forward" - to call up for consideration. 2. make something happen earlier than originally planned. 3. transfer or advance to an earlier date. 4. give somebody a part to play in some scheme; give somebody a position of advantage; call somebody up for consideration. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Home to" - make something clear to somebody; or make he/she realize. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Home to One" - make one realize. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring In" - introduce, pass; call up. 2. give somebody a part to play in some scheme; give somebody a position of advantage; call somebody up; include. 3. arrest; bring to the police station for questioning. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring In On"- give somebody a share in; let somebody participate in; inform somebody of something. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring into Being" - create, establish, set up. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Into Line" - cause to conform with the rules of an organization or movement. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Into Play" - cause to start functioning. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Into Sight" - cause to appear. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Into the Open" - reveal, make evident, make public. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Into the World" - to give birth to; be a parent of. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring It" - to give one's all in a particular task and effort, to perform with admiration and force. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring It On" - an affirmative response, uttered aggressively to a challenge by issuing one back. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring It Weak" - to fail to complete a task successively; to make a halfhearted effort. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Off" - succeed in doing something. 2. rescue, carry to safety. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring On" - to lead forward, to cause to advance, advance the growth of. 2. encourage, help to develop; produce, bring upon. 3. help to grow or flower. 4. speak, utter. 5. reveal, make clear or explicit. 6. elicit, call forth; adversity, need, danger. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring One's Arse to the Anchor" - put in a strenuous effort. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Oneself To" - persuade oneself. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Out" - demonstrate, reveal, or publish. 2. cause to strike or withdraw labor. 3. to lose shyness or reserve. 4. introduce to society. 5. introduce to the market; publish. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Out In" - cause somebody to be (partially) covered with. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Out of One's Shell" - help somebody overcome their shyness, or show a bolder side to their character. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Over" - to carry or bring something to somewhere or someone, as bringing drinks to a party. 2. to cause someone to change allegiance or support, view or opinion. 3. cause somebody to come from overseas. 4. accompany somebody traveling or settling overseas. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Over (to)" - cause somebody to change their allegiance. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Shame Upon" - to disgrace, embarrass, someone, usually a close relative or friend. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Somebody Down To Earth" - make somebody aware of the practicalities (rather than dreams/ fanciful ideas) |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Somebody Up Short" - make somebody short what they is doing. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Someone to Book" - to impose a penalty upon someone for their wrongdoings. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Someone or Something to Its/Their Knees" - to humble, devastate or humilate. 2. force someone into submission. |
| Something | phr | "Bring Something To a Head" - precipitate a crisis in order to get action. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Something To Light" - ensure that something is noticed, or to reveal something. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Tears to One's Eyes" - cause someone's eyes to water, as happens when someone is suffering from hay fever, etc. 2. cause one to be tearfully sad, or emotionally tearful.. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring the House Down" - gain an audience approval wholeheartedly. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Through" - be responsible for somebody's recovery or survival. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Tidings" - bring news, information, often of a pleasing nature. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring to" - helpp to recover consciousness. 2. make a ship or stop. 3. make something equal, reach, a certain sum. 3. bring a certain attitude, approach to. 4. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring to a Dead End" - make further progress imposible. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring to a Head" - cause to reach a point where a decision, change, etc is necessary. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring to Bear" - to employ, put to use; apply oneself to. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring to Book" - find evidence to arrest, try, punish somebody. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Together" - reconcile two parties which are in conflict. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring to Heel" - make someone compliantly obedient. 2. subdue, bring under control. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring To Himself" - mke somebody conscious, aware of what is happening. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring to Life" - mke something live; give it vitality. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring to Light" - reveal something which has been hidden. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring to Mind" - cause to recall, remember. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring to One's Feet" - make somebody stand up: to applause, show respect. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring to Rest" - control something so that it stops, reaches a final position. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring to the Fore" - make prominent; give an active part to. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring to the Ground" - make something fall to the ground or collapse. |
| Bring | phr | "bring to the Hammer" - to offer or sell by public auction. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Under" - subdue, bring under control. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Under the Hand Of" - bring under the protection of. 2. bring under submission. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Up" - raise (a matter, topic); rear, educate a child; teach. 2. call to attention. 3. cause to appear for trial. 4. convey or summons troops to the front line. 5. vomit, reach, regurgitate. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Up Against" - make somebody face or confront somebody or something. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Upon (Oneself)" - to cause, either knowingly or unwittingly, to fall or happen to. or one suffers. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Up the Hard Way" - give somebody a severe, strict upbringing. 2. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Up to" - bring up to an acceptable level or standard. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Up To As Far As" - lead, conduct, cause to rise. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Within" - cause to come near enough to be heard, seen or reched. |
| Bring | phr | "Bring Word" - convey information, news. |
| Bring-and-buy sale | adj | Descriptive of a charity bazaar, stall etc; to which people bring objects for sale and buy those brouht by others. |
| Bringdown | n | To carry, convey, lead or cause to go along to somewhere else. 2. to convey as an attribute or contribution. 3. to injure, capture, kill. 4. to lessen, reduce. 5. cause someone to be in low spirits. |
| Bringer | n | One who brings something or someone (in various senses of the verb 'to bring'). |
| Bringer up | n | One who rears or educates. |
| Brininess | n | The state of condition of being briny or salty. |
| Brinish | adj | Somewhat or rather salty. |
| Brinishness | n | The state or quality of being salty. |
| Brinness | n | The quality of brine. |
| Brinnish | adj | Of the nature of brine. 2. somewhat brinnish or the salty part of the sea. 3. of tears: salty. 4. bitter, naseous (fig.) |
| Brinnishness | n | The quality or state of being briny. |
| Briny | n | OE. bryne - the phosphorescence (of the sea) 2. the sea. |
| Briny | phr | "I'm on the Briny" - I'm at sea or on the sea. |
| Briny | adj | Of or pertaining to the brine; or to the sea, 2. saturated with salt. 3. applied to tears |
| Briny | adj | Brinny, salty. |
| Bristle | n | A stiff or coarse hair. 2. the hairs or straws that make up a brush, broom or similar item. |
| Bristle | vb | Of hairs, quills: to be become or stand stiff or bristle. |
| Bristle | phr | "Bristle At" - show anger or indignation. |
| Bristle | phr | "Bristle With" - display a frightening or impressive array of; be fraught with. 2. show or display in an extreme form. |
| Bristle-like | adj | Resembling a bristle or some aspect of it. |
| Bristleness | n | Without bristles; not having bristles. |
| Bristle-tail | n | The silverfish; a firebrat. |
| Bristleworts | n | Lindley's name for the Desvauxiaceae - small tufted herbs with bristly leaves. |
| Bristliness | n | Bristling quality |
| Bristling | n | The action of rising on end of the hair. |
| Bristling | adj | That rises or stands on end. 2. of persons: bristly, rough, shaggy. |
| Bristlingly | adv | In a bristling manner. |
| Bristly | adj | Set in bristles or short stiff hairs, setose. 2. thickly set with sharp or defiant points. |
| Britchel | adj | Liable to break, brittle. |
| Britches | n | Breeches: a garment for the legs and trunk. 2. part of the body covered by britches. 3. trousers. |
| British | n | Nationals or natives of the United Kingdom. |
| British | adj | Pertaining, or relating to things British. |
| British | phr | "The British are Coming" - although he didn't yell 'The British are coming,' Paul revere did manage to warn the revolutionaries at Lexington that the British troops were heading their way. |
| British-born | adj | One born in, native of, or living in a territory established by the british during colonial times. |
| British English | n | English as used in Great Britain, as distinct from that used elsewhere. |
| Britisher | n | A native or inhabitant of Britian. |
| Britishly | adv | In the ancient british tongue. 2. after the manner of the british; in british fashion. |
| British man | n | A person born in Great Britian; a citizen of the United Kingdom; a brit. |
| Britishness | n | The conditions of ancient Britons. 2. the quality or character of the British. |
| Briton | n | Briton - the ordinary name of the OE Chronicle |
| Britten | vb | OE: brytnian. to distribute, disperse. 2. to divide, break, brittle. 3. to cut or hew into pieces. 4. to kill, slay, butcher; to cut up a deer. |
| Brittle | adj | Things easily broken or fragile, liable to break; frangible. 2. hard but liable to break easily. 3. having a tendency to break under little stress. 5. emotional fragility. |
| Brittle | phr | "In a Brittle Way" -- capable of, or tending to break (lit & fig). 2. of emotions: easily upset by personal difficulty and problems. |
| Brittlely | adv | In a brittle or fragile way. |
| Brittle-minded | adj | Weak, insecure, unstable of mind, as 'narrow and brittle-minded bachelor state.' |
| Brittleness | n | The state or condition of being brittle, fragile, easy broken. 2. a tendency of a material (or metals) to fracture and fail upon the application of a small amount of force, impact or shock. 3. fragility in dealing with emotional problems. |
| Brittle-strength | adj | Weak without strength, fragile, friable, easily broken. |
| Brittlewort | n | 'The diatoms or brittleworts form a wonderful microcosm.' |
| Broad | adj | Wide in extent or scope. 2. extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. 3. having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained. 4. comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. 5. plain; evident. 6. free; unrestrained; unconfined. 7. gross; coarse; indelicate. 8. (of an accent) strongly regional. |
| Broad | n | A prostitute, a woman of loose morals. 2. (US) a woman or girl. 3. shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk. |
| Broad | vb | To broaden, spread across, expand. |
| Broad | phr | "A Broad Hint" - an obvious hint. |
| Broad | phr | "As Broad as It's Long" - it comes with the same thing either way, it makes no difference. |
| Broad | phr | "Be Broad Awake" - to be wide awake. |
| Broad | phr | "Broad in the Beam" - have with hips. |
| Broad | phr | "Have Broad Shoulders" - be able to cope well with responsibility. |
| Broad | phr | "In Broad Daylight" - in the open or full light of day; clearly visible. |
| Broad | phr | "In the Broad and the Long" - in one way or the other. |
| Broad acre | n | In Australia, of or pertaining to, or suitable for larger farming. |
| Broad arrow | n | A symbol with which government stores are marked as precaution against theft. 2. a pattern once on a convict's uniform; a convict. |
| Broadawake | adj | Wide awake, alert. |
| Broad axe | n | A long axe, with a broad blade, once used as a weapon, or for hewing timber. |
| Broadband | n | A wide range of radio frequency. |
| Broad bean | n | A edible bean that has broad seeds. |
| Broad blown | adj | In full bloom with blossom. |
| Broad brow | n | A person of broad tastes and interests; not a high brow or a low brow. |
| Broadcast | n | A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing. 2. scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); - opposed to planting in hills, or rows. 3. an act of broadcasting; specifically, a program in which sounds or images are transmitted in all directions from a radio or television station. |
| Broadcast | adv | So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press. |
| Broadcast | vb | To cast or disperse in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; to diffuse widely. 2. to disseminate (information, a speech, an advert, etc.) from a radio or television station. 3. to spread information, news, gossip widely by any means. 4. to transmit (sounds, images, or other signals) in all directions from a radio or television station |
| Broaden | vb | To make broad or broader. 2. to be broad or broader. |
| Broadened | ppl | Made or becoming broad, dilated. |
| Broadening | n | An expansion in breadth, dilation. 2. becoming broad , expanding, dilating. |
| Broadening | adj | Becoming larger in distance from side to side; wider. 2. expand to encompass more people or things. |
| Broad-hint | n | Obvious clue. |
| Broad-in-the-beam | n | Fat or fatty in the hips or bottom. |
| Broadish | adj | Somewhat broad or expanding in breadth. |
| Broadleaf | n | A type of tree, having bright and flat, often deciduous leaves, as opposed to needle-like ones. |
| Broad-leaved | adj | (Of a tree) having relatively broad flat leaves rather than needles; non coniferous. |
| Broadloom | n | A wide loom. 2. a carpet woven on a wide loom. |
| Broadly | adv | In a wide manner, liberally, in a loose sense. |
| Broad-minded | adj | Being liberal or tolerant in thought and opinion. |
| Broad-mindedness | n | The condition of being liberal or tolerant in thought and opinion. |
| Broad mouth | adj | A person who is plainly spoken, often insolently. |
| Broadmouthed | adj | Plainly spoken, often insolently |
| Broad-mouthness | phr | The quality of being plainly spoken, often insolently. |
| Broadness | n | state or quality or being broad or having breadth. 2. plainness of speech, coarseness in speech and manner. 3. indelicacy |
| Broadseal | n | The public seal of a nation (of Great Britain). |
| Broadseal | vb | To stamp with a broad seal. 2. to make sure; to guarantee a warrant. |
| Broadsheet | n | A larger size newspaper than tabloid. |
| Broad-shouldered | adj | Having wide shoulders that don't slope. 2. able to bear huge burdens (lit. & fig.). |
| Broadside | n | A short verbal attack |
| Broadside | vb | Collide with the side of a vehicle, etc. |
| Broadside | phr | "Broadside On" - sideways on. |
| Broadsided | adj | Having a broadside. |
| Broadsiding | n | The firing of a broadside (lit. and fig.) |
| Broadspread | n | Wide-spread, spreading widely. |
| Broadspreading | adj | Spreading out or extending widely, like an |
| Broadsword | n | A cutting sword with a short, flat blade as used by the highlanders. |
| Broad-tool | n | A mason tool about 3cm wide for dressing stone. |
| Broadwalk | n | A wide street, pavement, trotuary. |
| Broadway | n | The theatre and entertainment of the US in New York. 2. used allusively with reference to the theatres for which Broadway in New York is famous. 3. a large open or main road. |
| Broadwise | adj | With the broad or flat side extended, flat, broadly |
| Broadwise | adv | In a broad manner, widely extended. 2. with a broad or general view, generally. 3. outspokenly, openly, manifestly, markedly, decidedly. 4. with artistic breadth. |
| Brock | n | Badger, a name in later times associated with the epithet -stinking. 2. a stinking or dirty fellow. 3. one given to dirty or underhanded tricks. 4. a horse, an inferior one a jade. |
| Brockish | adj | Like a badger or brock, beastly, dirty. |
| Brockle | n | Broken pieces, fragments, rubbish. |
| Brockle | adj | Easily broken, fragile, brittle. |
| Brod | n | A shoot or sprout. 2. a prickle or thorn. 3. a goad, prick, pointed instrument. 4. an incentive, stimulus, motive. |
| Brod | vb | To shoot, sprout. 2. to goad, prod, urge with a spike. |
| Broder | n | One who brods: goads, motivates, stimulates. |
| Broke | n | That which breaks, affliction, trouble, misery (only in OE) 2. fragment, piece of food. 3. a rupture or wound. 4. a breach of law. 5. pennilessness. 5. of animals: broken in harness. |
| Broke | adj | Lacking money; bankrupt. 2.(informal) broken. 3. (in nautical terms) demoted, deprived of a commission. |
| Brokeback | n | A hunchback; derelict, one down on his/her luck. |
| Brokelet | n | A fragment. |
| Brokeling | n | A fragment. |
| Broken | adj | Fragmented, in pieces, smashed. 2. out-of-order, not working, busted. |
| Broken | phr | "Be Broken In" - to be tamed as a horse. 2. fig. to be initiated; to be made to conform. |
| Broken | phr | "Be Broken Up" - to be broken into pieces |
| Broken-arrow | n | An accidental nuclear incident or event involving weapons, warheads or components but which does not create the risk of mass death and destruction. |
| Broken-backed | adj | Having an injury of the spine. 2. a book with its spine damaged or broken. 3. a worn out horse, a hack. 4. a ship so weakened that it sags at each end. |
| Broken-bird | n | A bird unable to fly because of a broken wing. 2. an aircraft grounded, downed or unflyable. 3. a troubled or emotionally fragile person, esp. one who is suffering the after effects of personal trauma. |
| Broken-Britian | n | A term used to describe the perceived widespread state of social decay in the United Kingdom. |
| Broken-down | adj | Decomposed, reduced to atoms. out-of-order, busted. 2. ramshackled, rundown, dilapidated. 3. not properly maintained, neglected. 4. derelict, hard-up, that which has been broken down and,as a result, no longer in working order. |
| Broken English | n | Imperfect English speech. |
| Broken-headed | adj | Emotionally or mentally unstable. |
| Broken-heart | n | A heart or the emotions of persons crushed by grief, loss, and betrayal. |
| Broken-hearted | adj | Having a broken heart; heart-broken; having the spirits crushed by grief or despair. 2. depressed, despondent, a feeling of hopelessness, esp. after a failed relationship. |
| Broken-heartedly | adv | In a despondent, depressed, despairing manner |
| Broken-heartedness | n | The state or quality of being despondent, in despair or depressed. |
| Broken home | n | Family in which the parents no longer live together. |
| Broken-horse | n | A jade, hack, worn out old nag. |
| Brokenly | adv | In a broken hearted manner. |
| Broken-minded | adj | Mentally ill, unstable emotionally, schizophrenic. |
| Brokenness | n | The characteristic of being broken. |
| Broken reed | n | A supporter who has failed, as 'he let me down at the last moment, he was a broken reed'. |
| Broken Saxon | n | The period between 1100AD and 1200AD when Anglo-Saxon English was evolving into Middle English, |
| Broken-shanked | adj | A broken leg or legs. |
| Broken-winded | adj | Breathless, exhausted (of a horse) |
| Broker | n | Originally a man who broached wine and then sold it. 2. businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission; an agent, factor, broker. 3. in law, an agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. 4. one who takes possession, as broker, of the subject matter or negotiation. 5. one who generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. 6. dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange dealer in secondhand goods. 8. a pimp or procurer. |
| Broker-dealer | n | A person combining the former functions of a broker and jobber on the Stock Exchange. |
| Brokerly | adv | In a mean and servile manner. |
| Broking | n | The craft or profession of a broker in mediation in a sale or transaction. |
| Brood | n | The young of certain animals. 2. the young of any egg-laying animal. 3. the children in one family. |
| Brood | vb | To keep an egg warm. 2. to protect. 3. to dwell upon moodily and at length. |
| Brood | phr | "Brood Over" - think sombrely and at length about a problem, difficulty, illness etc. |
| Brooded | adj | Incubated, hatched, 2. also fig. having a brood. |
| Brooder | n | One who broods over things. 2. a hen that broods or hatches eggs. 3. |
| Broodful | adj | Prolific. |
| Broodily | adv | In a brooding manner. |
| Broodiness | n | The condition or quality of being broody. |
| Brooding | n | The incubation of eggs by the hen sitting on them. 2. the period of incubation by the hen. 3. deep, profound or serious thought. |
| Brooding | adj | That cherishes a (brood) hatches or incubates. 2. fig. that hoves closely around or overhangs (as a bird over her chicks; a mother over her children) 3. that dwells moodily upon a subject or thought |
| Broodling | n | A young bird. |
| Broodmare | n | A stud mare; a female horse used for breeding. |
| Broody | adj | Prolific, apt to breed, inclined to breed. 2. of fowls: incline to sit and incubate. 3. of persons: comtemplative (sullenly). 4. meditative, feeling depreddes or moody. 5. of a woman : feeling maternal. |
| Brook | n | A small stream, rivulet, originally a torrent or strongly flowing stream. 2. a stream or torrent of blood. 3. the stream or flood of the Sea. |
| Brook | vb | To enjoy the use of, make use of, profit by, possess, hold. 2. to digest, make use of food, retain, or bear in the stomach 3. to digest mentally. 4. to put up with, tolerate, as 'after brooking such an insult, he remained with his wife". 5. to find it agreeable to do something. |
| Brook | phr | "Brook a Name Well" - to bear it appropriately, do credit to it, actt consistently with. |
| Brooker | n | One who enjoys possession of; a proprietor. |
| Brooking | n | The capacity to take food, digestion. 2. endurance, bearing. |
| Brooking | n | The maintenance or preservation of a brook. |
| Brooklet | n | A rivulet, small stream. |
| Brooklime | n | Speedwell (Veronica Becca.) |
| Brookside | n | The side of a brook. |
| Brooky | adj | Characterized by or abounding in brooks. |
| Broom | n | Any of the several yellow-flowered shrubs of the plant family Fabaceae with long thin branches and small or few leaves. |
| Broom | n | Someone who is eager and newly-imported. |
| Broom | vb | To sweep with a broom. |
| Broom | phr | "A New Broom Sweeps Clean" - a changed regime usually bring change. |
| Broomcroft | n | A croft or small farm with broom growing. |
| Broomless | adj | Without a (sweeping) broom. |
| Broomlike | adj | Resembling or like a broom. |
| Broom-man | n | A street-sweeper. |
| Broomrape | n | A large genus of parisitic herbs (Orobanche), which attach themselves to the roots of broom and other plants. |
| Broomstaff | n | A staff or handle of a broom. 2. a broomstick. |
| Broomstick | n | The staff or handle of a broom. |
| Broomwort | n | Name applied by Gerard to species of Thaspli by others to some plant not identified. 2. broomrape. |
| Broomy | adj | Covered or abounding with broom. 2. pertaining to a broom or besom |
| Broon | adj | Conserved from OE: brun, the colour brown |
| Brotel | adj | Liable to break, fragile, brittle. 2. frail, perishable, easily destroyed, mortal. 3. unstable, inconstant, fickle. |
| Brotelhood | n | Fraility, fickleness, insecurity, uncetainty. |
| Broth | n | A decoction; esp, that in which meat is boiled. 2. a thin soup made from meat and vegetables (fig. and transfig.) |
| Brothel | n | A worthless, abandoned fellow. 2. a wretch, a scapegrace, good-for-nothing. 3. an abandoned woman, a prostitute, skank, skanky-ho. 3. a bordello, house of ill-fame, house of the rising sun, whorehouse. |
| Brothel-creepers | n | A type of soft shoe with crepe soles. |
| Brothel-goer | n | One who goes to a brothel. |
| Brothel-house | n | A bordello, whorehouse. |
| Brothel-keeper | n | One who operates a brother |
| Brothel-like | adj | Resembling or like a brothel. |
| Brotheller | n | A whoremonger, a frequenter of brothels and whorehouses. |
| Brothelling | n | The frequenting of whore and whorehouses; whoring. |
| Brothel-monger | n | A whoremonger, pimp, hoon, procurer, panderer. |
| Brothelly | adj | Whorish, meretricious. |
| Brothelsome | adj | Pertaining to brothels, whorehouses, whorish, meretricious |
| Brother | n | The state of being brothers or a brother. 2. an association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity. 3.the whole body of persons engaged in the same business,-especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood. 4. persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. 5. brethren, siblinghood, fraternity, association, fellowship, sodality. |
| Brother | vb | To make a brother of; to admit to a brotherhood; to address a brother. 2. to be a brother. |
| Brother | phr | "A Man and a Brother" - motto of the Anti-slavery Society -'Am I not a Brother". |
| Brother | phr | "A Soul Brother" - a person with similar ideas. |
| Brother | phr | "Brotherhood of Man" - the whole of society. |
| Brother | phr | "Ones Brother's Keeper" - acknowledge responsibility for somebody conduct or welfare. |
| Brotherhood | n | Not in Old English -probably 'brotherred(e); the relation of a brother, or of brothers mutually (also in a spiritual sense.). 2. brotherliness, friendly alliance. 3. the rank of a brother in a 'corporation' 4. an association of brothers; a fraternity or guild; also the brethren collectively; also fig. of things. 5. community of feeling uniting man and man. |
| Brotherhood | phr | "Brotherhood of Man" - the whole of society. |
| Brother-in-law | n | The brother of one's husband or wife. 2. the husband of one's sister. 3. sometimes the husband of one's wife (or husband' sister) |
| Brother-less | adj | Not having or without brothers. |
| Brother-less | phr | "Bane is the Back of the Brotherless Man" - everyone is vulnerable unless he has a friend. |
| Brotherlessness | n | The state of not having or without brothers. |
| Brotherlike | n | Fraternal, brotherly, like a brother. 2. after the manner of a brother. |
| Brotherliness | n | The quality of being a brother. |
| Brotherly | adj | Brotherly affection or sympathy. 2. of or pertaining to a brother; also characteristic of a brother, kind, affectionate. |
| Brotherly-fellowship | n | A fraternity or gild of brothers; a brotherhood. |
| Brotherly-kindness | n | Of things acting in a harmonious conjunction |
| Brotherly-love | n | Agape. 2. a kindly and lenient attitude towards others. |
| Brotherman | n | In Afro-american talk: a man |
| Brothers | n | The plural of brother. 2. male siblings. 3. males of Afro-american descent. 3. a supporter of equal rights. 5. a person, particularly a male, connected by a common cause or situation. |
| Brothership | n | Brotherly fellowship. 2. a fraternity of guild-brotherhood. |
| Brotherwort | n | Wild Thyme, (thymus serphyllum) |
| Brothiness | n | The quality of being brothy. |
| Brothy | adj | Resembling or like broth. |
| Brow | n | Only in O.E. the eye-lash, eye-lid. 2. the arch of hair over the eyes. 3,. the prominence of the frehead over the eyes. 4. the forehead. 5. fig. esp. as the seat of the facial expression of joy, sorrow, resolution, etc. 6. the projection edge of a cliff or hill standing over a steep. 7. a gallery in a coal-mine running across the face of the coal. |
| Brow | vb | "Be On the Brow of" - to fsce off, browbeat |
| Brow | phr | "By the Sweat of One's Brother" - through one's own hard work. |
| Brow | phr | "Have No Brow" - not to like the look of. 2. not to be impress by. |
| Brow | phr | "Knit One's Brow" - to indicate one's displeasure. |
| Browbeat | vb | To bear down with stern, arrogance or insolent words or looks. 2. to bully. |
| Browbeaten | adj | Beaten down by arrogance, insolence and sren looks. |
| Browbeater | n | One who browbeats. |
| Browbeating | n | The action of the verb" to browbeat' - scowling, frowning. 2. bullying, insolence, arrogance. |
| Brow-bending | n | Frowning. |
| Browbone | n | The orbital ridge of the eye. |
| Browden | adj | Twisted, plaited, intertwined, interwoven, woven. 2. embroidered, emblazoned with colour. 3. dyed, stained. |
| Browding | n | Embroidery. |
| Browdster | n | Embroider (female) |
| Browed | adj | Having a brow, in such combinations, as 'dark-brow, low-brow, high-brow. |
| Browless | adj | Without shame, unabashed. 2. frontless. 3. without eyebrows. |
| Brow-lid | n | Eyelid. |
| Brown | n | Brown in colour, pigment of brown. 2. a colour like that of chocolate or coffee. 3. brown or in an unbleached state, 4. a person of a brown complexion. 5. duskiness, gloom. |
| Brown | vb | To become brown, to make brown, to give a brown lustre. 2. to cook something until it becomes brown. 3. to tan. 4. to make brown or dusty. 5. to give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface. |
| Brown | adj | Having a brown color. 2. (obsolete) gloom. |
| Brown | phr | "Be Browned Off" - be fed up. |
| Brown | phr | "Be Done Brown" - be done, taken in, deceived, taken down; roasted (a cooking term). |
| Brown | phr | "Brown Off" - annoy, disenchant, fed up, bored. |
| Brown | phr | "Brown as a Berry" - very brown (skin), esp. from the sun or constant exposure to the weather. |
| Brown | phr | "Do Up Brown" - to do thoroughly, suggested by roasting; to cheat. |
| Brown-ale | n | A type of beer characterized by its brown color and rich malty hoppy flavor. |
| Brownbear | n | A species of bear native to northern America, Europe, Asia and having brown fur. (Ursus Arctos) |
| Brownbread | n | Bread with a color as distinct from white bread, wholemeal or other specific types of bread. 2. wholemeal bread. |
| Brown cloud | n | A form of pollution (atmospheric) that is a mixture of aerosols, that absorb and scatter light as a result of the burning of fossils fuels. |
| Brown coal | n | Lignite. |
| Browned | adj | Make brown. |
| Browned off | adj | Faded or burnt off, (said of pasture and countryside). 2. fed up, disgusted. |
| Browned-offness | n | The condition of being browned -off. |
| Brown eye | n | The anus (slang). |
| Brown-eyed soul | n | A genre of soul music characteristically performed by Latino performers in Southern California in the 1960s. |
| Brown fat | n | A dark-colored adipose with a rich supply of blood vessels. |
| Brownfield | n | A site to be redeveloped for housing or commercial enterprises, that has been previously used as for industry and may be contaminated and requires an extensive clean-up. |
| Brown goods | n | Electrical merchandise, such as radios, televisions, computers etc. conventionally housed in brown casing, asa distinct from white good |
| Browning | n | The action or process of becoming brown. |
| Browning | adj | Becoming brown, making brown |
| Brownish | adj | Somewhat brown |
| Brownishly | adv | In a brownish way. |
| Brownishness | n | The state of being browny or somewhat brown. |
| Brownness | n | The quality or state of being brown. |
| Brown nose | vb | To flatter others in an obsequious manner. |
| Brown noser | n | A sycophant, flatterer, obsequious toady, fawner. 2. one who flatters others in an obsequious manner. |
| Brownout | n | A partial black-out of cities during wartime. |
| Brownrot | n | A fungal disease of stone fruit. |
| Brown Shirts | n | A member of the Nazi party. 2. any member of a fascist party. |
| Brown snake | n | A poisonous australia snake. |
| Brown stone | n | A kind of reddish-brown sandstone used for building. 2. a building with a facade of brownstone. |
| Brownswine | n | The name of the porpoise. |
| Brown thumb | n | One who lacks skills in the growing of plants. 2. an unsuccessful gardener; opposite of a 'green thumb'. |
| Brownware | n | A kind of pottery |
| Brownwort | n | The Water-betony (Scrophularia aquatica) |
| Browny | adj | Inclining to brown. |
| Bruckle | adj | Liable to break. 2. frail, uncertain, precarious, shaky. |
| Bruckleness | n | Frailty. |
| Bruise | n | An injury to the body by a blunt or heavy instrument, causing discolration but not laceration to the skin; a contusion; also of a plant, fruit etc.. |
| Bruise | vb | O.E.: brysan: to crush, later coalescing with O.F. 'brisier,' 'bruser,' - to break, smash shatter. 2. to crush by any weight, but now: to injure by a blow which discolors the skin, but does not lacerate it and breaks no bones, to contuse. 3. transfig. to break in pieces, smash. 4. fig. of the senses: to bruise, hurt. 5. to beat small, crush, grind down. |
| Bruised | adj | Of blood: extravasated. |
| Bruiser | n | One who bruises or crushes. 2. a prize-fighter. 3. in hunting: one who rides recklessly. 4. a concave tool used in grinding lenses or specula. |
| Bruising | adj | Causing physical, mental or emotional injury; "a bruising experience' 2. brutally forceful and compelling. |
| Bruising | n | A broken piece or fragment. 2. a beating, a brutal physical attack. |
| Bruising-match | n | A fiercely contested boxing, wrestling, football match, etc. |
| Bruisewort | n | The name of one or more plants, the common daisy. |
| Brune | n | Burning, bruthren, a vessel to brew in. |
| Bruting | n | OE: bryting, cutting in pieces, destruction. |
| Brydthing | n | A wedding, marriage, nuptials. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| By | prp | Used to indicate the agent after a passive verb. 2. used to indicate the person responsible for a creative work. 3. via; through; as, to enter by the back door. 4. followed by a gerund to indicate a means used. 5. beside; next to; near. 6. passing the position of; past. 7. not later than; before. 8. used to indicate extent, after a comparative. 9. (esp in oaths) invoking the name of. 10. (mathematics) multiplied by. 11. (in habitual sentences) during the passing of; esp, by day, by night. 12. (surveying) placed between measurements of the various dimensions of something. |
| By | adv | Near: the house is close by. 2. away; aside; as some money. 3. passing a point near something; past: he drove by; over and done with. |
| By | adj | Subsidiary. |
| By | phr | "By All Means" - most assuredly, without fail, certainly. |
| By | phr | "By a Long Shot" - by a great deal. |
| By | phr | "By and By" - close together (of place). 2. at once, presently, soon, pretty soon, before long. |
| By | phr | "By Any Means" - in any way necessary; in any way; possibility; at all. |
| By | phr | "By a Whisker" - by the slightest amount or degree. |
| By | phr | "By Dint" - though, as a result of (doing) something; experience. |
| By | phr | "By Far" - by a considerable margin; by much; by a great difference. |
| By | phr | "By Far The Best" - by the greatest degree. |
| By | phr | "By Fits and Starts" - intermittently; impulsively; irregularly. |
| By | phr | "By God" - an ellipsis of the full oath: 'I swear by God'. |
| By | phr | "By God's Will" - with God's doing. |
| By | phr | "By Hands" - with the hands; as opposed by a tool or implement |
| By | phr | "By Inches" - by a shot distance. |
| By | phr | "By Itself" - alone, without company; on one's own. |
| By | phr | "By Light of Something" or in with the help; the light shed by. |
| By | phr | "By Mistake" - unintentionally; as the result of misjudgement, carelessness, mishap, etc. |
| By | phr | "By No Means" - definitely not; not at all; certainly not; not in any degree. |
| By | phr | "By One's Lights" - according to one's understanding. |
| By | phr | "By One's Own Hands" - as a result of one's own actions. |
| By | phr | "By Oneself" - with only one's self near; alone, solitary. |
| By | phr | "By Good Rights" - rightly, properly, correctly. |
| By | phr | "By Rights" - with reason or justice. 2. by according to waht should be happening, and by implication is not, as would be expected by somebody who knew all the facts. |
| By | phr | "By the Back Door" - not in a direct, honest or official way. |
| By | phr | "By the Book" - following the rules exactly. |
| By | phr | "By the By" - an indefinite time in the future. |
| By | phr | "By the Bye" - introducing a different topic. |
| By | phr | "By the Day" - per day or every day. |
| By | phr | "By the Ears" - in close contact. |
| By | phr | "By the End of Day" - by the time the workday is over; by the time the sun goes down. |
| By | phr | "By the Fireside" - beside, or near, the fire used for heating a room. |
| By | phr | "By the Lee" - the sit of a vessel, going free, when she has fallen off so much as to bring the wind round her stern and to take her sails aback on the other side. |
| By | phr | "By then" - by that time, by the time that. |
| By | phr | "By the Look of Things" - judging by the appearance of, or information had. |
| By | phr | "By the Rood" - (by the cross, a phrase formerly used in swearing. |
| By | phr | "By the Run" - let go by the run; to go altogether, instead of slacking of. |
| By | phr | "By the Same Token" - in a like manner, similarly. |
| By | phr | "By the Side Of" - close at hand; nearby. |
| By | phr | "By the Skin of One's Teeth" - by an amount equal to the thickness of the (imaginary) skin of one's teeth. |
| By | phr | "By the Sly" - in a sly or secret manner. |
| By | phr | "By the Time" - what has already happened as the time that something else has happened. 2. when something is completed or somebody has finished doing something. |
| By | phr | "By the Way" - by the bye; used to introduce an incidental, different or secondary fact, remark or subject. 2. incidentally. |
| By | phr | "By the Way Of" - for the purpose of, as being in the character of. |
| By | phr | "By Turns" - alernately; turn and turn about. |
| By | phr | "By Walking Out" - walking out suddenly, often unexpectedly and usually in anger. |
| By | phr | "By Way Of (something)" - the passing through something )a place). 2. an illustration; as example. |
| By | phr | "By Wholesale" - sale of goods by the pieces or large quantity, as distinct from retail. 2. in the mass; in large quantities, without distinction or discrimination. |
| By | phr | "By Word of Mouth" - orally. 2. by spoken rather than written meaning. |
| By | phr | "By Your Leave" -with your permission. 2. an apology for a rude or unwelcome behavior or comment. |
| By | phr | "Come By" - to get possession of; to obtain. |
| By | phr | "Days Gone By" - in the past; an earlier period of time. |
| By | phr | "Stand By" - to aid, support. |
| By-and-by | n | An indefinite time in the future. |
| By-bid | vb | To bid on behalf of someone else. |
| By-bidder | n | One who bids at an auction on behalf of the auctioneer or owner, for the purpose of running up the price of an article. |
| By-blow | n | The illegitimate child of unmarried parents. 2. a love-child; whoreson. |
| By-dint | n | By means of, by virtue of, on account. |
| By-dweller | n | One who dwells near; a neighbor. |
| By-end | n | A self-motive. 2. a fragment, a snatch. |
| By foot | adv | On foot; by means of foot; walking. |
| By-goer | n | A passerby. |
| By-going | n | The activity of passing by; a passing-by. |
| Bygone | adj | Dating from an earlier time. |
| Bygones | n | An earlier time or period. |
| Bygones | phr | "Let Bygones be Bygones" (and fair play for him to come) |
| Byland | n | A peninsula. |
| Byleid | n | A dialect. |
| Byline | n | An auxiliary activity. 2. a line giving the name of a writer or story of an article. |
| By-lined | adj | Accompanied by a byline. |
| Byname | n | A familiar name or nickname. |
| Byname | vb | To give a nickname to. |
| Bynempt | vb | Bename. |
| Bynempt | adj | Benamed. |
| By owner | adv | One who sells his own house rather than employ a realtor. |
| By-path | n | A side road little traveled. 2. a private path or way. 3. by indirect means. |
| Byre | n | A cowshed. |
| Byrlaw | n | A sort or popular jurisprudence formerly in Scotland, in villages and among husbandmen, concerning neighborhoods to be kept among themselves. |
| Byrlawman | n | (Still in parts of Scotland) an arbiter, oddsman, umpire. |
| Bysen | n | (Merge of OE and ON.) an example, pattern, paradigm, model, illustration. 2. parable, precept, command. |
| By-sitter | n | One who sits near or nearby. |
| By-speech | n | An incidental or casual speech not relating directly t the point being discussed. |
| Byspel | n | Parable |
| Byss | n | Fineness & value |
| Bystand | vb | To stand near. 2. to spectate or view. 3. to take no part in some activity. |
| Bystander | n | A non-participant spectator. 2. one who stands near. 3. one who takes no part in an activity or dealing. |
| By stream | adj | A tributary, a rivulet, rhyll, leak. |
| Bystreet | n | A side street; private or obscure way; a byway. |
| By-swelt | vb | Burn, scorch, |
| By-swenke | vb | Work hard, exert, do with industry |
| Bysybbe | n. | Bysib, relative, kin, kinfolk |
| By-tale | n | Irrelevant tale or story |
| By-talk | n | An incidental conversation; small talk, chit-chat. |
| Byte | n | (Form or variant of 'bit'.) a sequence of eight bits (enough to represent one character of alpha-numerical data) processed as a single unit of information). |
| Byte-wise | adj | Of one or more bytes at a time. |
| By-time | n | Spare time; a leisure interval. |
| By-town | n | A small town near to a large city. |
| By-water | n | Waterway to the side of the main stream |
| By-wash | n | An outlet from a dam or reservoir. 2. a cutting to divert the flow of water. |
| Byway | n | A track other in a rural areas, which is too small, and usually without a surface road. |
| Byways | n | Plural of byway. 2. fig. often about usual occurrences and facts, (of history, etc.). |
| Bywoner | n | A dweller, resident, occupier. |
| Byword | n | Proverb |
| Byword | phr | "Become a Byword" - bcome proverbial; become a standard to go by. |
| By-your-leave | n | A request for permission. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Buck | n | Male of the goat, the deer, reindeer, antelope, the chamois, the rabbit. 2. an act or instance of bucking: a horse that unseated its rider on the first buck. 3. buckskin. |
| Buck | n | OE: belly, body, trunk. 2. the body or carcass of an animal. the body of a cart or wagon. |
| Buck | vb | To leap upward arching the back: The horse bucked in fright. 2. to charge with the head lowered; butt. 3. to make sudden jerky movements; jolt. 4. to resist stubbornly and obstinately; balk. 5. (informal) to strive with determination: bucking for a promotion. 6. to throw or toss by bucking: buck off a rider. 7. to oppose directly and stubbornly; go against, as bucking the trend. 8. to buck against with the head. |
| Buck | adj | Of the lowest rank in a specified military category: a buck private; a buck sergeant. |
| Buck | vb | To summon one's courage or spirits; heart. |
| Buck | phr | "Blow the Buck's Horn" - to have his labour for his pains. |
| Buck | phr | "The Buck Stops Here" - statement that no excuses will be made, that the speaker is going to take direct responsibility for matters, rather than pass the responsibility to higher authorities. |
| Buckhound | n | A smaller variety of staghound. |
| Bucking | n | Copulation. |
| Buckish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a he-goat or buck. 2. lascivious. 3. resembling a buck, foppish, dandy. |
| Buckishly | adj | In a dandy or foppish manner. 2. dandyish, foppish. |
| Buckiness | n | The state or quality of being buckish. |
| Buck rat | n | Male rat. |
| Buck-shot | n | A distance at which a buck may be shot. 2. a shot larger than a swan-shot, used in shooting deer and large game. |
| Buck stall | n | A net for catching deer. |
| Buck-tooth | n | A large projecting tooth. |
| Build | n | A building, structure, edifice. 2. a style of construction. 3. physique. |
| Build | vb | To erect a building(s) or a dwelling. 2. to erect, construct, whence to construct by fitting together of separate parts. 3. of birds, to construct nests. 4. to construct, raise, frame, by gradual means. 5. to found (hope, etc) on the basis. 6. to found one's confidence, establish an argument, etc.on. 7. to rely confidently on. 7. to enclose by building; build in. |
| Build | phr | "Be Built In" - to immure, enclose by building. |
| Build | phr | "Build a Better Mouse-trap" - to develop or invent something superior to a device that is already used. |
| Build | phr | "Build Down" - to run down, wind down. |
| Build | phr | "Build In/Into" - to immure, to enclose by building. 2. make a permanent fixture in a house. 3. make a firm and necessary part of something. |
| Build | phr | "Build On" - to add on as an extension. 2. use as a basis or foundation for further progress. |
| Build | phr | "Build One's Hopes On" - choose somebody or something as the best means of achieving an objective. |
| Build | phr | "Build Out" - build as an extension to an existing structure. |
| Build | phr | "Build Over" - cover with buildings. |
| Build | phr | "Build Up" - to increase. 2. to establish or embrace the reputation or prominence of a person, nation etc. 3. to accumulate, gather together, collect. 4. to obstruct a doorway by building up. 5. develop and cover with buildings. 6. praise speak in glowing terms of. 7. develop the strength or physique. 8. come, put together, form a whole. |
| Build | phr | "Build Up From" - develop, extend gradualy and steadily (from a lower level). |
| Builder | n | A qualified workman instructed by an architect and ean mployer of the manual labourers. |
| Buildering | n | The act of climbing on the outside of a buildings or structures. |
| Builder-upper | n | One who builds up someone or something. 2. fig. one who encourages or supports another (often in times of difficulty) |
| Building | n | The act of constructing something, as the building of boats. 2. the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones, as home construction. 3. a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place, as a three-story building. 4. the occupants of a building complaining about the noise of a nearby strip-club. |
| Building ground | n | The floor of the se, or any body of water. 2. an area of land designated for any particular purpose. 3. a piece of level ground. |
| Buildingless | adj | Being without a building or construction. |
| Building-lot | n | A plot of land set aside for the construction of a building. |
| Building stone | n | A stone used in the construction of buildings. |
| Building-wide | adj | Extending throughout a building. |
| Buildout | n | The construction and implementation of a system. 2. the growth, development, or expansion of something. |
| Build-to | n | A boundary or alignment, usually parallel to the property line, along which a building or structure must be placed, it usu. establishes the maximum distance away from the property line that a building or structure may be placed. |
| Build-up | n | An accumulation of favourable publicity, designed to popularize a person, product. 2. preparatory work, preparation. 3. a gradual accumulation, increase, as 'a build-up of weapons.' 4. a gradual development and exposition of a theme, argument, work of art, artistic construction. |
| Built | n | Style of construction, build. |
| Built | adj | Constructed, erected, fabricated. |
| Built | phr | "Built Over" - to build something so that it extends or covers over something else, such as drainage pipes. |
| Builth | n | The act of building or its cost. |
| Built-in | adj | Constructed to form an integral part of a large unit, esp. of the fitting or appurtenance of a house; not detachable.. 2. inherent, integral, innate; forming an essential or permanent part or quality. |
| Built-up | adj | Constructed of parts, esp. of parts that are separately prepared and afterwards joined or welded together. 2. used in combinations, as 'well-built, strongly-built, wooden-built. |
| Bull | n | The male of a bovine mammal, esp. of the genus Bos, with sexual organs intact and capable of reproduction. 2. the male of certain other animals, as the elephant and moose. 3. a large, solidly built person. 4. a person who believes that stock prices will increase (opposed to bear). 5. astrology: Taurus. 6. a bulldog. 7. slang. a police officer. |
| Bull | adj | A male. 2. pertaining to or resembling a bull, as in size or strength. 3. marked by rising prices, esp. of stocks: a bull market(opposed to a bear market). |
| Bull | vb | To accomplish by forcing or shoving: to bull one's way through a crowd. |
| Bull | phr | "Like a Bull at a Gate" - very forcefully, but with thought. |
| Bull | phr | "Take the Bull by the Horns" - to meet a difficulty front on and with courage. 2. take the bull by the horns, to attack a difficult or risky problem fearlessly. |
| Bull ant | n | Myrmecia, a large Australian ant, that can deliver a very painful bite. |
| Bull-bitch | n | A female bulldog. |
| Bulldog | n | A medium-sized, short-haired, powerful dog, originally bred in England for use in bull-baiting. |
| Bulldog | adj | Resembling a bulldog; courageous; tenacious. |
| Bulldust | n | Very fine, soft, red powdery dust that settles into potholes on outback roads often causing danger to unsuspecting motorists. 2. nonsense, blab. |
| Bull fight | n | A sport popular esp. in Spain in which a bull is attacked by horsemen brandishing lances and men on foot having short spears and darts and finally killed by men with swords. |
| Bull-fighter | n | A man who fights bulls in a bull-ring. |
| Bull-fighting | n | The sport of bull-fighting. |
| Bull finch | n | One of a genus of birds, (pyrrhula)and allied to the Grosbeaks, having handsome plumage and a strong beak. |
| Bull frog | n | A largish frog founded in America, whose voice resembling that of a roar of a bull. |
| Bull-head | n | A tadpole. 2. a small fish with a large head. 3. a mass of curled or frizzled hair worn over the forehead. 4.a blockhead, or simpleton. |
| Bull-headed | adj | Broad or wide-headed. 2. blindly impetuous, block-headed, simple. |
| Bull-headedness | n | The state or quality of being bull-headed. |
| Bull-horn | n | An electrical, hand-held voice amplifier resembling a megaphone. |
| Bullish | adj | Of or pertaining to, resembling or having the nature of a bull. 2. on the stock exchange: aiming at a rise in the price of stocks or merchandise. |
| Bullishly | adv | In a bullish manner or way. |
| Bullishness | n | The quality of being bullish. |
| Bull-like | adj | Like or resembling a bull. |
| Bull-necked | adj | Having a short, thickish, powerful neck. |
| Bullock | n | OE. bulluc, originally a young bull,or bull calf, now always a castrated bull, an ox. 2. a bovine beast generally. |
| Bullock | vb | To work hard and long. 2. to contest strongly in sporting games, esp. various types of football. |
| Bullocking | n | To drive away by a bullying or strong action. 2. to intimidate, overawe. 3. to bluster with violence or threats. |
| Bullock's lungwort | n | The Great Mullien, Verbascum thapsus. |
| Bullocky | n | A person (usu a man) who drives a cart pulled by a team of bullocks. |
| Bull ring | n | The ring or arena which the bull enters for the bull-fight. |
| Bull's-eye | n | The centre of a target; the two central rings. 2. a peppermint flavored confectionery with stripes on it. 4. a shot which hits the centre of a target. |
| Bull-strong | adj | Strong enough to hold a bull; said of fences. |
| Bullwort | n | A plant also known as bishop's weed; lady's lace. |
| Bun | n | OE. bune,the stalky part of flax or hemp |
| Burd | n | Poetic word for a young girl or woman. 2. a maiden or young lady. |
| Burden | n | That what is borne by the soil, produce, crop. 3. onus; responsibility. 4. the undersong or accompaniment. 5. refrain or chorus of a song, a set of words recurring at the end of each verse. 6. a heavy load, a responsibility, onus, 7. a heavy cause of worry, that which is grievous, wearisome. 8. the capacity of a vessel. 9. a fixed quantity of certain commodities. 10. the total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or the such present in an organism. |
| Burden | vb | To encumber with a burden. 2. to impose, a burden or load. |
| Burden | phr | "Burden of One's Song" - repeated of main part or message. |
| Burden | n | "The White man's Burden" - the alleged duty of white colonizers to care for non-white indigenous inhabitants in their colony. |
| Burden | phr | "At One's Burden" - at one's birth. |
| Burden | phr | "To Burden Out" - to outweigh. |
| Burden-bearing | adj | The act of sharing the burden of others in a religious sense. 2. the readiness to lay down one's life for another. |
| Burdened | adj | Loaded heavily, cause something worry, hardship or distress. |
| Burdener | n | One who burdens, an oppressor. |
| Burdenless | adj | Being without a burden. |
| Burdensome | adj | Of the nature of a burden, cumbersome, oppressive, troublesome, wearisome. |
| Burdensomely | adv | In a burdensome manner. 2. the quality of being burdensome. |
| Burdensome-ness | n | Capable of carrying a large load or burden. |
| Burg | n | Ocasionally used by historians to mean 'fortress' or walled town. 2. a city or town. |
| Burgh | n | Borough. |
| Burgh | sfx | A place name suffix meaning a fortified place or fort. |
| Burghbote | n | A tax for the repair of the burgh or borough. |
| Burgh-breche | n | House-breaking, burglary |
| Burghen | vb | To protect, make secure, keep from harm, save. |
| Burgher | n | One who lives in a city or town. |
| Burgherdom | n | State of living in a burgh; burghers collectively. 2. burgherhood or a body of burghers or citizens collectively. |
| Burg-folk | n | The people of the town, the folk-were(n). |
| Burgh-land | n | Land where a town or city is situated or located. 2. land held by burgh tenure. |
| Burgh-moor | n | Burgh situated on a moor. |
| Burgh-moot | n | The judicial assembly of a burgh. |
| Burghly | adv | Belonging to or characteristic of a burgher. |
| Burgher-master | n | The man have the presiding authority of the town. |
| Burghership | n | The rights and privelrges of a burgher. |
| Burial | n | The depositing of a thing under earth, water or enclosing in some other substance. |
| Burial clothes | n | The clothes attiring the corpse. 2. weeds |
| Burial field | n | Graveyard, cemetery, necropolis. |
| Burial ground | n | A cemetery, necropolis, graveyard, lichfield. |
| Burial-hill | n | A mound erected over a grave, tumulus, barrow. |
| Burial-stone | n | A stone on a grave, tombstone. |
| Burial-yard | n | Burial ground, graveyard, cemetery, lichfield, necropolis. |
| Burian | n | OE. byrian, a tomb, selpuchre; burying place. 2. a mound, tumulus, a kind of fortification, camp, hill-fort. |
| Buried | adj | Entombed, interned. |
| Buried-alive | adj | Entombed whilst still breathing. |
| Buriels | n | A burying place, lichfield, a sepulchre, tomb, internment; funeral. |
| Burier | n | One who buries corpses. 2. a grave-digger; dead-burier. |
| Buriness | n | The state or conditioned of being buried. |
| Burn | n | A spring a fountain, stream, or river. 2. in later use : a small stream or brook, a bourne. 2. water from a fountain or well used in brewing. |
| Burn | n | The act or effect of burning,esp.a burnt place on the body. 2. amark made by burning,a brand. |
| Burn | vb | To undergo or cause to undergo combustion. 2. to destroy or be destroyed by fire. 3. to damage, injure, or mark by heat. 4. to die or put to death by fire; burn at the stake. 4. to die or put to death by fire; burn at the stake. 5. to be or feel hot. 6. to smart or cause to smart. 7. to feel strong emotion, esp anger or passion. 8. to use for the purposes of light, heat, or power. 10. to form by or as if by fire. 11. to char or become charred. 12. to brand or cauterize. 13. to cut (metal) with an oxygen-rich flame to produce by or subject to heat as part of a process. 14. to copy information onto a Cd-rom. 15. (astronomy) to convert (a lighter element) to a heavier one by nuclear fusion in a star. 15. (slang) to cheat, esp financially. 16. (slang) to electrocute or be electrocuted. 17. in Australia, slang: to drive (a vehicle) fast |
| Burn | phr | "Burn Alive" - to set a person or animal alive whilst still alive. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn Away" - to be gradually dissipated or censored by file. 2. to burn to ashes. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn Daylight" - to burn candles in the daytime, so as to waste or consume the daylight. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn Down" - to cause something to burn to nothing; to burn completely, so nothing remains. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn Forth" - to burst out in flames. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn for" - wish ardently that one could have. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn In" - to render indelible by exposure to fire. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn In Hell" - a statement of anger directed at someone in contempt; esp. after that individual had done nothing very wrong. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn It Blue" - to do something, or act, outrageous. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn Itself Out" - to burn until it becomes extinguished, |
| Burn | phr | "Burn Low" - to burn until it became feeble from lack of fuel |
| Burn | phr | "Burn Off" - to dissipate, or strip, as the result of heat; burning-off. 2. to cause to dissipate by applying heat. 3. to dispose of unusable explosive natural gas from an oil well by burning it as it emerges from the well. 3. fig. to fill low value, non-rating television or radio time with programs not suitable for its original purposes; burning-off. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn One's Bridges" - to work very hard and stay up late at night to finish the task. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn One's Candle At Both Ends" to make any going back impossible. 2. to cut off one's own retreat (burning a bridge one has crossed). 3. to commit oneself to a course of action. 4. to destroy one's path, connection, reputation, opportunities, etc. particularly intentionally. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn One's Fingers" - to harm oneself through the consequences of one's own actions. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn One's Own Boats/Bridges (behind one)" - to cut oneself off from all chances of reversal. 2. take an irrevocable step and therefore commit oneself to a course of action; leave oneself by no means of escape. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn Out" - to burn the interior and contents of a building. 2. to burn out or fuse by means of electric current. 3. use up its fuel, and stop operating. 4. Stop burning because there is no more fuel left. 5. reduce to a shell by burning. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn Out of House and Home" - to drive a person or animal out of a place or dwelling by heat or fire |
| Burn | phr | "Burn The Thames" - to perform something prodigious, as 'set the Thames on fire.' |
| Burn | phr | "Burn to" - reduce something bby burning to ash. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn to Death" - kill by burning. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn Up" - to take strong hold of the combustible material, get fairly alight. 2. come to life, flare up (as fuel is added). 3. consume, get rid of, by burning. 4. catch fire and burn up as it eneters the earth's atmosphere. |
| Burn | phr | "Burn with" - be filled with, or consumed by passion, desire, ambition. |
| Burnt | phr | "The Burnt Child Dreads the Fire" - once bitten, twice shy. 2. one never repeat an action that they find unpleasant or harmful. |
| Burnbrae | n | A stream or watercourse whose headwaters flows from a the side of a hillside. 2. riverside. |
| Burned | adj | Disappointed, humiliated, put down. |
| Burned | phr | "Burned Out" - worn out or exhausted, esp. as a result of long-term stress. 2. depleted of strength or energy. 3. spoiled, or ruined, demolished. |
| Burner | n | One who burns or consumes with fire. |
| Burn-fire | n | A bonfire. |
| Burn-head | n | A headwater. |
| Burning | n | Heart-burning: the intensify of passion . 2. the state of being inflamed with rage, grief, desire. 2. heat attendant upon disease or a serpent's bite; the disease (itself), esp, 'erysipelas' or St Anthony's fire and venereal disease. |
| Burning | adj | So hot as to seem to burn. 2. feeling very hot. |
| Burning | phr | "Burning off" - the act or process of burning off. |
| Burning-iron | n | A branding iron. |
| Burning-line | n | The equator. |
| Burningly | adv | In a burning manner, with burning effect. 2. with ardour, hotly, ardently, eagerly. |
| Burning-off | n | The act or process of burning off. |
| Burning-shame | n | Disgrace. |
| Burn-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a burn. |
| Burn-off | n | The act or process of burning off. |
| Burn-out | n | The driving of a car or motorcycle at high speed and then apply the brakes. 2. a severe parching of the soil in an are subjected to long and extreme solar heat. 3. the point at which one of the parts of a rocket or guided missile drops off the main assembly after having completed its work. |
| Burnsides | n | A mustache, with whiskers on the cheeks, but with no beard on the chin. |
| Burnt | adj | Carbonize, sun-burnt. 2. being darker than usual, much browner. |
| Burnt | phr | "The Burnt Child Dreads the Fire" - once bitten, twice shy. |
| Burntish | adj | Somewhat burnt. 2. having the symptoms of being burnt. |
| Burnt-line | n | The equator, the burning-line. |
| Burntness | n | A burnt quality or condition. |
| Burn-up | n | To drive a car or motorcycle at high speed and then apply the brakes. 2. race at high speed on a public road. |
| Burn-weed | n | The Thorn-apple. |
| Burrow | n | A hill, a barrow, a heap or mound, earlier a hillock, now,esp. a heap of mine refuse orof burnt sods. |
| Burrow | n | A hole or excavation made in the ground for a dwelling place by rabbits or foxes, etc. 2. a small hole-like dwelling place or place of retreat. 3. a hole. |
| Burrow | vb | To make a burrow, esp. as a hiding-place or dwelling-place. 2. to lodge in a burrow, hide oneself or hide away in a burrow. 3. to bore under the surface 4. to excavate. |
| Burrower | n | One who burrows or makes burrows. |
| Burst | n | OE. burstan, danger, injury, horror, loss. 2. an instance of breaking or splitting as a result of internal pressure or puncturing; an explosion. |
| Burst | vb | Break open, or apart suddenly as a result of an impact or internal pressure. 2. a sudden, brief outbreak. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst at the Seams" - be uncomfortably overfilled. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst Away" - to rush away impetuously. 2. break away quickly or with speed. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst Forth" - of news, events, sights, truth: to become known or revealed suddenly and dramatically. 2. to issue forth suddenly and copiously by breaking an enclosure or like. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst From" - burst out of. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst In" - to forcefully break, enter or burst in. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst Into (laughter, tears, speech, flames, blossom, flower, song) - to issue forth. 2. begin to make a lot of something. 2. break into, or interrupt suddenly. 4. begin an activity, suddenly, violently, to cry, laugh, sing. 3. to enter some place suddenly and forcefully. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst Into Flames" - begin suddenly, strongly to burn. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst into Sights" - of a brilliant spectacle suddenly appear. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst Into Tears" - break into tears, suddenly start crying. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst Inwardly" - in an imploding way. 2. of a building falling inwardly or collapsing owing to denoting of an explosion inside the building. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst One Sides with Laughter" - to laugh excessively. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst One's Brain" - to take or occasion excessive thought. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst On the Wing" - to start off in flight. 2. fly, soar. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst Open" - come open suddenly or violently; esp. from internal or pressure from the inside. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst Out" - give sudden utterance to, laughter or speech.. 2. to break out forcefully. 3. leave suddenly or violently. 4. free oneself by violent action or efforts. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst Out Laughing" - sudden break out into laughter. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst Out Of" - grow too big or fat for. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst The Heart" - said of grief or violent emotion. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst Through" - to force a passage or opening through a physical barrier of enemy troops (or, less so, a crowd). |
| Burst | phr | "Burst Up" - to shatter, destroy. |
| Burst | phr | "Burst Upon" - to be revealed with overwhelming suddenness. 2. occur suddenly; to dawn on or upon wisdom, truth, realization etc. |
| Bursted | phr | "Burst With" - show an abundance of something, as youth, eagerness, style. |
| Bursted | adj | Shattered, broken, rent by force, exploded, torned open. 2. ruptured. |
| Burstened | adj | Filled to bursting. |
| Burster | n | Who,or that which bursts. 2. an exhausting piece of exercising, something that takes the wind out of somebody. |
| Bursting | n | The breaking , erupting, exploding, breaking open |
| Bursting | adj | Breaking, erupting, exploding, opening. |
| Burstness | n | State or quality of being burst, specific. rupture, hernia. |
| Burst-of-flame | n | A sudden and violent issuing forth of light and sound. |
| Burst-up | n | The failure or collapse of an organisation or scheme. |
| Burstwort | n | Hernia glabra, a herb formerly thought helpful for curing hernia. |
| Burthen | n | Burden (archaic). |
| Bury | n | An enclosed or fortified place, which still survives in many place names. |
| Bury | vb | Action of entombing |
| Bury | sfx | A place name suffix meaning a fort or fortified place, Bradbury. |
| Bury | phr | "Bury One's Head in the Sand" - to deliberately ignore the reality of a situation; to pretend a problem does not exist. |
| Bury | phr | "Bury (Oneself) Away" - move to, or be situated in, a remote place. |
| Bury | phr | "Bury (Oneself) In" - become deeply involved in. |
| Bury | phr | "Bury the Lead" - to start a story with the secondary importance (to the reader) whilst postponing the more essential part. |
| Bury | phr | "Bury Under" - keep cheerful or content; bouy up. |
| Burying | n | A burial, internment, the act of internment, funeral. 2. a burial place, grave, tomb. |
| Burying | adj | Putting or placing or hiding something underground. |
| Burying-ground | n | Churchyard, graveyard, cemetery, necropolis, lichfield. |
| Busied | adj | Occupied, engaging, employed. immersed in. |
| Busily | adv | Actively, eagerly, intently, briskly, lively, strenuously. |
| Business | n | A trade or profession. 2. an industrial, commercial, or professional operation; purchase and sale of goods and services. 3. a commercial or industrial establishment, such as a firm or factory. 4. commercial activity; dealings (esp in the phrase do business). 5. the volume or quantity of commercial activity. 6. commercial policy or procedure. 7. proper or rightful concern or responsibility. 8. special task; assignment; a matter or matters to be attended to. 9. serious work or activity, as get down to business. 10. a complicated affair; rigmarole. (informal) a vaguely defined collection or area. 11. a collective term for a group of ferrets. 12. (euphemistic) defecation (esp in the phrase do one's business). 13. (slang) prostitution |
| Business | phr | "Be Business Like" - be efficient, organized. |
| Business | phr | "Be in Business" - be able to proceed. |
| Business | phr | "Be Nobody's Business But One's Own" - of no concern to somebody. |
| Business | phr | "Business is Business" - justify oneself in refusing to be diverted from some business arrangement or opportunity on such grounds as friendship, family ties, sentiment, pity, etc. |
| Business | phr | "Do One's Own Business" - take care of one's own affairs. |
| Business | phr | "Get Down to Business" - get to the essentials in a discussion. |
| Business | phr | "Get Out of Business" - fail in business. |
| Business | phr | "Have No Business" - have no authority; right to. |
| Business | phr | "Like Nobody's Business" - beyond the normal range (of a person's capacity). 2. no ordinary way. 2. an extraordinary affair: nobody's business. |
| Business | phr | "Make it One's Business" - deliberately undertake to. |
| Business | phr | "Mind One's Own Business" - refrain from meddling in other peoples' affairs. |
| Business | phr | "The Business End Of" - the front part or end of a tool, weapon. 2. the essential or basic part of a process or operation. 3. of clothing, furniture, etc., designed or appeaaring to be practical rather than decorative. |
| Business | phr | "The Business Hand of" - the matter or topic , being dealt with or discussed at the time of speaking. |
| Business day | n | A working day. |
| Business edge | n | An advantage in business. |
| Business end | n | The front part or end of a tool, weapon. 2. the essential or basic part of a process or operation. 3. of clothing, furniture, etc., designed or appeaaring to be practical rather than decorative. |
| Business-less | adj | Without business. |
| Business-like | adj | Of persons and things: suitable for business. 2. befitting business; applicable to business. 3. practical, methodical, systematic, efficient. |
| Business-likely | adj | In an efficient, practical and systematic mannner. |
| Business man | n | A man who is good at dealing with business and financial matters. |
| Business-to-business | n | Situation where one business makes a commercial transaction with another. |
| Business-wear | n | Clothing made to be worn in a business environment. |
| Business-wise | adv | In terms of business. |
| Business woman | n | A women who is good at dealing with business and financial matters. |
| Business-worthiness | n | The property of being business-worthy. |
| Business-worthy | adj | Following ethical principles and responsible conduct in business. |
| Businessy | adj | Business-like; or related to business. |
| Bust | n | An occasion for excessive eating or drinking. n bust a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person n bust the chest of a woman n bust a complete failure. |
| Bust | adj | Lacking funds "`skint'; busted. |
| Bust | vb | Break open or apart suddenly and forcefully. 2. to go to pieces. 3. to ruin completely.. 3. to bust separate or cause to separate abruptly. 4. to search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on. |
| Bust | phr | "Bust a Gut" - to work or labour very hard. 2. to try one's utmost effort. 3. to laugh strongly and loudly. |
| Bust | phr | "Bust Out" - to escape from person; break out. 2. free from captivity. 3. to reveal, to show, display. 4. to take out; bring out. |
| Bust | phr | "Bust Up" - destroy, break up business partnership, marriage. |
| Bust | phr | "Go Bust" - fail in business. |
| Busted | adj | Lacking money, funds, skint. |
| Bust-up | n | The breakdown or breakup of a marriage or a close relationship. 2. a disturbance, a quarrel, disturbance, fight. |
| Busty | adj | Having large breasts; bosomy, buxom, full of bosom. |
| Busy | adj | Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on. 2. engaged in another activity or by someone else.
3. having a lot going on; complicated or intricate, complicated. 4. officious; meddling. |
| Busy | vb | To make somebody busy, to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied. 2. to rush somebody. |
| Busy | n | (plural busies)( Liverpudlian slang, derogatory) a police officer. |
| Busy | phr | "Busy as a Bee" - to work with diligence. |
| Busy | phr | "Busy Oneself" - keep occuopied, focus on a task, hobby etc. |
| Busy | phr | "Get Busy" - become active, begin to act. |
| Busy beaver | n | A person with great drive and enthusiasm. |
| Busy bee | n | A person who works with great diligence. |
| Busybodied | adj | Nature of a busbody, meddlesome, officious. |
| Busybody | n | One who busyies themselves with the affairs of others, 2. a meddlesome or officious person |
| Busbody | vb | To engage oneself in the affairs of others. 2. to meddle in other people's business. |
| Busybodyful | adj | Elaborate |
| Busbodyhood | n | A state or quality of being a busybody. 2. curiosity, inquisitiveness, |
| Busybodying | n | The action of a busbody. |
| Busybodying | adj | Meddlesome, interfering, nosey. |
| Busybodyish | adj | Somewhat meddlesome and officious. |
| Busyness | n | The state of being busbody. |
| Busy work | n | Work designed to simply to keep oneself occupied. 2.repetitive,and routine. |
| But | prp | Without, apart from, except. |
| But | adv | Merely, only. 2. (Australia, conjunctive) Though, however. |
| But | conj | But. 2. except (for), excluding(receded by a negation). 3. on the contrary, but rather (introducing a word or clause that contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence without the not). 4. however, although, nevertheless (implies that the following clause is contrary to prior belief or contrasts with or contradicts the preceding clause or sentence). 5. except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "except such that". 6. (archaic) without its also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant). 7. (obsolete) except with; unless with; without. 8. (obsolete) only; solely; merely. [quotations ▼] |
| But | n | An instance or example of using the word "but". |
| But | phr | "Anything But" - emphasizing the opposite. |
| But | phr | "But for" - if it not was. |
| But | phr | "But Good" very well, efficiently, thoroughly etc. |
| But | phr | "But Me, No Buts" - do not offer any objections or modifications to what I have said ordered. |
| But | phr | "No Ifs or Buts" - do it! with no excuses, reasons for not doing, reservations about. |
| Butter | n | Soft, spreadable foodstuff made from milk. |
| Butter | vb | To spread butter on. |
| Butter | phr | "Butter (Someone) Up" - praise someone excessively with the hope of gaining some benefit. |
| Butter | phr | "Butter Would Not Melt In One's Mouth" - used to describe someone who looks prim and proper, with a cool demeanor. 2. used when someone looks as if they never do anything wrong, although you feel they might. |
| Butter | phr | "Make Butter and Cheese Of" - to confound. |
| Butter | phr | "Spread the Butter too Thick" - overflatter somebody. |
| Butter bean | n | Any of several beans, including the lima bean. |
| Buttercup | n | A herb of the genus 'ranunculus'. 2. a daffodil. |
| Butter dish | n | A dish in which butter is served. |
| Buttered | adj | Spread with butter. |
| Butterer | n | One who spreads butter. |
| Butter fingered | adj | Prone to dropping things; clumsy. |
| Butter fingers | n | A clumsy person who always is dropping things. |
| Butterfish | n | A fish of the family Stromateidae. |
| ButterflY | n | A diurnal insect typically having a slender body with a knobby antennae and broad colorful wings; the "Milk-whey thief or "Whey-thief". 2. talk or behaviour which is amorous, but without serious intentions. 3. a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down |
| Butterfly | vb | To cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking as "butterflied shrimp". 2. to flutter like a butterfly. |
| Butterfly | phr | "Break a Butterfly Upon the Wheel" - to break a nut with a sledgehammer. |
| Butterfly knife | n | A folding pocket knife with two handles counter-rotating around the tang, such that, when closed, the blade is concealed within grooves in the handles. |
| Butterfly knot | n | A type of knot used to provide an anchor on a long line, (much used by mountaineers). |
| Butterfly weed | n | Name of a variety of American plants, esp. Asclepias tuberosa. |
| Butteriness | n | A buttery quality or state. |
| Butterish | adj | Of the nature of butter. |
| Butter knife | n | A knife designed for spreading butter. |
| Butterless | n | Without or lacking butter |
| Buttermilk | n | The liquid left over after processing butte from full cream milk by the churning process. 2. a fermented dairy product from cow's milk, with a characteristically sour taste. |
| Buttermonger | n | A dealer in butter. |
| Butterness | n | The state or qualty of being buttery. |
| Butterweed | n | Packera glabella. |
| Butterwort | n | A plant with yellow-green fleshy leaves Pinguicola vulgaris, common in boggy or marshy ground. |
| Buttery | adj | Of the nature of butter, containing butter. 2. resembling butter in consistency. 3. smeared with butter. 4.given to fulsome flattery. |
| But that | conj | Unless. |
| But then | adv | Then again, on the other hand, of an opposite viewpoint. |
| Buttocks | n | Late C13th probably related to OE buttuc. end, short piece of land. |
| Buttocked | adj | Having some type of type of buttock. |
| Buttockless | adj | Without buttocks. |
| Buttocklike | adj | Resembling a buttock. |
| Buxom | n | OE earlier sense: humble, obedient. 2. healthy, pump, vigorous. 3. in the modern sense: having large bosom, bosomy. |
| Buxom | vb | To yield, submit, obey, comply. |
| Buxom | adj | Obedient,pliant, compliant, tractable. 2. submissive, humble, meek. 3. gracious, indulgent, favorable, obliging, courteous, affable, kindly. 4. easily moved, 5. physically flexible, pliant, yielding to pressure, unresisting. 6. blithe, jolly, well-flavoured. 7. blithe, gladsome, bright, lively, gay. 8. full of health, vigor and good-temper. 9. plump, comfortable looking (in a person); busty of women. |
| Buxomly | adv | Obediently, humbly, meekly, courteously, willing. |
| Buxomness | n | Obedience, submissiveness, lowliness, humility, graciousness, kindly, compliance, blitheness, gaiety. 2. comely, plumpness. |
| Buy | n | A purchase. |
| Buy | vb | To acquire by paying or promising to pay a sum of money or the equivalent; purchase 2. to be capable of purchasing. 3. to acquire by any exchange or sacrifice. 4. (intransitive) to act as a buyer. 5. to bribe or corrupt. 6. (slang) to accept as true, practical, etc. 7. (intransitive) foll by into to purchase shares of (a company). 8. (transitive) (theology) (esp of Christ) to ransom or redeem a soul (of a believer). |
| Buy | phr | "A Good Buy" - a bargain. |
| Buy | phr | "Be Bought and Sold" - to be open to bribes and bribery. |
| Buy | phr | "Be On the Buy" - looking to buy, especially at a reduced or bargain price |
| Buy | phr | "Buy and Sell" - to traffic, barter (bad sense) |
| Buy | phr | "Buy Back (Something)" - a repurchase by a company or some, or all, of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed. 2. a redeeming of anything once owned or possessed |
| Buy | phr | "Buy In" - buy stock (esp. as a precaution at a time when it is short in supply). |
| Buy | phr | "Buy Off" - persuade somebody, by paying him/her money not to cat against one's interests. 2. pay someone to desist in some dealing or endeavour which one has an interest in. |
| Buy | phr | "Buy Off On" - to consent to. |
| Buy | phr | "Buy (Oneself) Into" - fig. to agree with, to accept an idea, as worthwhile. 2. support, agreement, approval, blessing (in a non-religious sense). |
| Buy | phr | "Buy Out" - to take ownership by paying for a share in a company or a business. 2. to be released from military service by paying of a monetary sum. |
| Buy | phr | "Buy Over" - to gain by bribery. |
| Buy | phr | "Buy Over a Person's Head" - to buy for a higher price; to outbid. |
| Buy | phr | "Buy (Someone) Out" - to buy part of a business or premises so that you can own all of it. |
| Buy | phr | "Buy Straw Hats in Winter" - to buy when both price and demand is low, and sell when price and demand is high. |
| Buy | phr | "Buy Time" - delay an event temporarily so as to have a longer time to improve one's own position. |
| Buy | phr | "Buy To Let" the buying of a property with the sole purpose of letting it for rent. |
| Buy | phr | "Buy Up" - to buy freely or extensively, as a much as possible in a rival firm shares, etc. |
| Buyback | n | The repurchase by a company or some, or all, of its shares from an investor, who acquired them by putting venture capital into the company when it was formed. 2. a redeeming or buyback of anything once owned or possessed |
| Buydown | n | A mortgage financing technique where the buyers tries to get a lower rate of interest at least for the first few years of the mortgage. |
| Buyer | n | A person who buys something; a purchaser, customers. 2. a person employed to buy goods, merchandise, material for a business. |
| Buy-in | n | A purchase of shares by the broker after the sellers have failed to deliver similar shares, with the original seller being charged any difference in cost. 2. a purchase of shares in a company by managers who are not employed by it. |
| Buyoff | n | An act or instance of buying off a payment or bribe. |
| Buyout | n | The purchase of controlling shares in the company. |
| Buy-to-let | adj | Buying of a property with the sole purpose of letting it out for rent. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Cedar | n | A latin borrowing: an evergreen conifer, the Pinus cedra. |
| Cell | n | In Late OE from OF. - a store-closet, a monastery or nunnery dependent on some larger house. |
| Cell | vb | To shut up or dwell in a cell. |
| Cester | n | Chester, (Lt meaning: fort.) |
| Cesterwort | n | Hapax legomenon. see 'chesterwort.' |
| Old English | sp | English |
| C | n | The Letter "C" |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Calends | n | First day of any month in the Roman calendar. In OE. a month; also, a season. 3. fig, a prelude 4. calendar, a record. (Latin loan word ) |
| Calf | n | Young of any bovine family. (b) a dolt; occasionally. meek, harmless person. 2. a dolt, mutton-head; callow youth. 3. a small island lying near a larger one; as in theCalf of Man |
| Calf | phr | "Eat the Calf in a Cow's Belly" - to be over ready to anticipate. 2. count one's chickens before they hatch. |
| Calf | phr | "The Golden Calf" - riches, as unduly prized; mammon. |
| Calf-ground | n | Place of birth or early part of life |
| Calfish | adj | Raw, untrained. |
| Calf-like | adj | Resembling a calf or some aspect of one. |
| Calf-love | n | Youthful fancy, immature love as opposed to lasting attachment; puppy love. |
| Call | n | To call out or cry out in a loud voice; shout, shout out. 2. to command or request to come; summon, to order. 3. to ask or invite to come or attend. 4. to communicate or try to communicate with someone by telephone or email. 5. to wake from sleep, as by a call; waken, waken up. 6. to read over (a roll, list or schedule) in a loud voice. 7. to convoke, convene or call a meeting. |
| Call | vb | To speak loudly, as to attract attention; shout; cry. 2. to make a short visit; stop at a place on some errand or business. 3. to telephone or try to telephone a person. |
| Call | phr | "Call About" - visit somebody in his home, office etc in order to investigate something. |
| Call | phr | "Call a Halt" - put an end to. |
| Call | phr | "Call a Man Out" - to challenge; to appeal to a man's honor to come forth and fight a duel. |
| Call | phr | "Call a Spade a Spade" - to speak the truth, to say things they really are. |
| Call | phr | "Call Away" - summons from one place of work, as a doctor etc to attend on somebody. |
| Call | phr | "Call Back" - to request for a second interview or audition, following a successful initial review. 2. to request someone telephone; to return a telephone call to someone at a more convenient time. 3. to recall. 4. to return to a shop or residence one has previously visited. |
| Call | phr | "Call By" - make a stop at (in the course of another, long journey) often to collect something or somebody. 2. call in at. |
| Call | phr | 'Call Down" - order artillery, aircraft to attacked the enemy targets. 2. invoke; rebuke severely. |
| Call | phr | "Call Down on Somebody's Head" - summon, invoke. |
| Call | phr | "Call For" - to shout out in order to summon a person. 2. to shout out in a loud voice. 3. to request, demand; require, need. 4. to necessitate, demand. 5. to stop at a place and ask for someone. 6. stop at somebody's house to take them somewhere. 7. to collect, require as necessary, or demand. |
| Call | phr | "Call Forth" - to induce, cause to appear, bring out. |
| Call | phr | "Call Forward" - invite or order someone to approach the speaker, to take some steps out of a group, row. |
| Call | phr | "Call God to Witness" - to declare solemnly that what one states is true. |
| Call | phr | "Call In" - to communicate to a base etc. by telephone. 2. to summon someone, esp. for help or advice. 3. to withdraw from sale or circulation. 4. request, order, the turn something unsuitable or no longer needed. |
| Call | phr | 'Call In At" - stop at one place on the way to another. |
| Call | phr | "Call It a Day/Go" - to retire, cease the activity of the day. |
| Call | phr | "Call It a Night" - to go to bed to sleep, to cease what one has been doing for the night. |
| Call | phr | "Call It as One Sees It" - to speak frankly and openly about a given topic. |
| Call | phr | "Call It Even" - to declare debts resolved. |
| Call | phr | "Call It What You Will" - accept a name or description already given, or choose another of your own. |
| Call | phr | "Call Names" - insult. |
| Call | phr | "Call Off " - to recall, cancel or call to a halt; abandon, drop. 2. stop or give the order to stop; cancel, postpone. 3. order dogs, pursuers, to stop searching, attacking or worrying somebody. |
| Call | phr | "Call Off the Dogs" - to ease up on after inflicting great punishment. 2. during a one-sided sports contest, take from the game a number of top-performing players after dominating opponents. |
| Call | phr | "Call of the God" - an invitation, exhortation, or warning by the dispensations of Providence. |
| Call | phr | "Call of the House" - an imperative summons sent to every Member of Parliament to attend. |
| Call | phr | "Call of the Wild" - to compulsion to go and live, work in, explore, regions that are undeveloped, sparsely inhabited unspoiled country. |
| Call | phr | "Call On" - to visit a person, to pay a call on someone. 3. to require or ask something of persons, to select for a task. 4. to correct, to point out an error or untruth. |
| Call | phr | "Call One's Own" - have exclusive possession of something. |
| Call | phr | "Call of the Shareholders" - a demand to pay the balance of money due for shares in a company, or a part. |
| Call | phr | "Call Out" - to specify, esp. in detail. 2. to order into service; to summon into service. 3. to yell out, to vocalize, audibly announced; call out in a loud voice. 4. to challenge, to denounce. 5. try to attract someone attention; cry out. 6. call or shout in a loud voice at an inappropriate time. 6. authorize workers to go on strike. |
| Call | phr | "Call Over" - to read aloud a list of names. |
| Call | phr | "Call Over the Coals" - bring to task for one's shortcomings; scold, chide, berate. |
| Call | phr | "Call Somebody Names" - to insult somebody childishly. 2. to engage in name calling. 3. calling to insult someone childishly. |
| Call | phr | "Call the Shots" - to make decisions; to be in charge; to give orders. |
| Call | phr | "Call to Arms" - to summonn for battle. |
| Call | phr | "Call to Mind" - remember. |
| Call | phr | 'Call Up" - communicate by telephone. 2. summons for military service. 3. summons to one's aid. 4. recall to one's memory; bring back |
| Call | phr | "Call Upon" - invite, request someone to speak. 2. appeal or require to somebody to act in some way. |
| Call | phr | "Call Upon to Do Something" - invite somebody to do something. 2. urge, appeal to somebody to do something in a particular way. |
| Call | phr | "Call Up the Devil" - in witchcraft, call upon the Devil to appear and ask for his assistance in some nefarious way. |
| Call | phr | "Have the Call" - have the advantage; also, to be the leader in popular favor. |
| Call | phr | "No Call To" - no need to, reason to. |
| Call | phr | "Not called for" - not necessary (although acceptable) |
| Call | phr | "Uncalled for" - unwanted and unnecessary. |
| Call | phr | "Within Call" - within hearing; close at hand; ready accesible. |
| Call back | n | The returning of something to a previous state. 2. a return telephone call or radio call, esp. one made automatically to authenticate a log-on to a computer network. 3. a product recall because of a defect or safety concern. |
| Call bird | n | A decoy bird. |
| Call box | n | A telephone box (both words Latin borrowings into O.E.). |
| Caller | n | A person who makes a visit; a visitor. 2. one who makes a telephone call. 3. a person who calls at bingo. |
| Call-in | n | To a radio-station program in which members of the public phone in and talk live with the presenter and others phone-ins. 2. such a program described in (1). 3. such a call or caller as described in(1). |
| Calling | n | A strong urge to be religious. 2. a job, career, profession or occupation. 3. an inwardly felt call or summons. |
| Calling-name | n | A name associated with a telephone number or similar identifier. 2. a name an animal has been to respond to. 3. a nickname. 4. a name by which a person is normally identified in conversation. |
| Call-in show | n | A TV or radio program,esp. a type of talk-show in which the host and sometimes one or more guests converse with members of the listening or viewing audience who telephone the show or program while it is being broadcast or screened. 2. a chat-show. |
| Call-out | n | Outward bound telephone call. 2. (slang) an invitation to fight. 3. an act of one child calling out of another. 4. an excerpt from an article (such as in a newspaper, magazine) that is duplicated in a large font alongside the article so as to grab the attention of the reader and indicate the topic. 5. a summons to someone designated as being on call. |
| Call-over | n | A roll-call. 2. read aloud a list of betting prices. |
| Callow | n | One who is bald. 2. the stratum of vegetable soil lying above the subsoil. |
| Callow | adj | Bald, without hair, down of youth. 2. of birds: without feathers, unfledged. inexperienced, unfledged 3. of land: bare, low-lying. |
| Callow | phr | " In One's Callow Youth" - in one naive, youth or immaturity. |
| Callowly | adv | In a callow manner. |
| Callow-mouse | n | The bat. |
| Callowness | n | Immaturity; condition of being callow or immature. |
| Calve | n | The action of a glacier losing ice; the ice lost. |
| Calve | vb | To give birth to a calf, said of a kine, deer. 2. to breed from a cow. 3. to assist in giving birth to a calf. 4. to shed a large piece. 5. to cut into slices and pickle. 6. to crimp. 7. to bear or be susceptible of, being calved. |
| Calver | n | A cow that produces youing. 2. to cut into slices and pickle. 3. to crimp. 4. to bear or be susceptible of, being calved. |
| Calving | n | The bringing forth of a calf or young. 2. of a glacier, iceberg moving forth or breaking of of the ice-sheet. |
| Calvish | adj | Resembling a calf; calf-like. 2. doltish, stupid. |
| Camel | n | Late OE borrowed from the Semitic languages: see olfend. |
| Cammock | n | Probably borrowed from Celtic languages: the plantOnonsis spinosa, also calledRest-harrow oryarrow. |
| Camp | n | Combat, martial contest, fight, fighting in single combat, 2. battle, war. 3. camp-ball: an ancient form of football played by large numbers. cf:kemp |
| Camping | vb. | To fight, contend in battle, strive, 2. to excell, surpass. 3. to take part in athletics. 4. to strive with others in doing something. 5. to wrangle, scold. |
| Cample | n | Wordy conflict, wrangle, scold, answer in anger |
| Can | n | Vessel for holding liquids, with a handle over the top. 2. vessel of tin iron in which fruit, fish, etc are sealed up air tight. 3. a chimney pot. 4. toilet (sl). 5. the buttocks.(sl). 6. prison (sl). 7. a measure of capacity. |
| Can | vb | To put into cans or tins. |
| Can | phr | "Can of Worms" - a troublesome matter. |
| Can | phr | "In the Can" - in prison. |
| Can | n | Knowledge, skill, power, ability. |
| Can | vb | The original meaning of the present was 'I have learned'; whence, 'I have known'. 2. to know; to know how to do anything. 3. to have knowledge; to have have practical knowledge; to be canny 4. to be skill, have ability, skill, knowledge. 5. to be acquainted with. |
| Can | phr | "Can a Duck Swim" - yes; said in an answer to a question which the speaker thinks is foolish or unnecessary because, from their point of view , it allows only the answer 'yes'. |
| Can | phr | "Can Always (do)" - can be able do something when one wishes. 2. have the chance or possibility of doing something, usually as an alternative to something else or as a last resort. |
| Can | phr | "Can Be Had fot the Asking" - can have something; can have something be made available for free or on request; or if wished for, or very easily. |
| Can | phr | "Can Breathe Freely" - feel one's usual self again. 2. relax when a period of crisis tension, or special effort has ended. |
| Can | phr | "Can Call One's Soul One's Own" - be free from, have to suffer, continual interference with one's privacy or independence. |
| Can | phr | "Can Do By Heart" - to know by heart. |
| Can | phr | "Can Do It" - to quit doing something, to put an end to something. 3. to silence. |
| Can | phr | "Can Do No Wrong" - be in such privileged position. 2. be in so much favored by somebody that anything one does is thought to do be right. |
| Can | phr | "Can Do Oneself Good" - to know what is good for oneself. |
| Can | phr | "Can Do With" - to need, want, to benefit from. |
| Can | phr | "Can Do Without" - to not want something, because, perhaps, it would make the matter or situation worse or would be simply annoying. |
| Can | phr | "Can Do Worse Than" - be quite correct or sensible in acting in a particular way. 2. can't/ couldn't do better than. |
| Can | phr | "Can I Buy You a Drink" - indicates the speaker wishes to buy (usually a girl) a drink at a bar. (considered the best way to attract a member of the opposite sex) |
| Can | phr | "Can I Come In" - indicates that the speaker is asking for permission to enter a house or room. |
| Can | phr | "Can Keep it" - remark used by somebody who is unimpressed or disgusted. |
| Can | phr | "Can of Worms" - a complex, troublesome situation. |
| Can | phr | "Can't Do Better Than" - be entirely correct, sensible, well-advised in acting in a particular way. |
| Can | phr | "Can't Do for the Life of Me" - be wholly, totally unable or unwilling to do something. |
| Can | phr | "Can't Do for the Love Of" - be completely without the abilty or means to do something. |
| Can | phr | "Can't Do Often Enough" - do something eagerly, lavishly or insatiably. |
| Can | phr | "Can't Go Wrong" - be sure to make a success of something. 2. not make any mistakes, become confused etc., in doing something. |
| Can | phr | "Can't Hear Oneself Think" - one is subjected to, irritated or distracted by, to much surrounding noise, esp. talk loud music or general din. |
| Can | phr | "Can't Help Oneself" - unable to control, or avoid, behaving in an undesirable way or unsuitable manner. |
| Can | phr | "Can't Help Doing Something" - find it natural to do something. 2. find it unavoidable to do something. |
| Can | phr | "Can't Help It" - be unable, avoid something. 2. be unable to control or change events. 2. one is not to blame or held responsible for something. |
| Can | phr | "Can't Hold a Candle to" - can not be favorably compared with. |
| Can | phr | "Can't Stand the Sight of" - not like; or be seriously upset (physically or emotionally) by, the actual sight of somebody. 2. can't bear the sight of. 3. find unbearable or intolerable, dislike vey much; hate, loathe, the sight of. |
| Can | phr | "Can't We Say" - be unsure about, or not know, either the answer to a question or about something specified or understood. |
| Can | phr | "Can We Say" - used sarcastically to draw attention to a motive or an agenda. |
| Can | phr | "Can Well Believe It" - think something is likely to be true. 2. be prepared to believe something even without actual proof. |
| Can | phr | "Can You Beat It" - exclamation of consternation, or shocked of amusement, about something that has occurred, or that somebody has done. |
| Can | phr | "Can You Help Me" - a request for help. |
| Can | phr | "No Can Do" - one can do it. 2. it will be possible for one to arrange. |
| Can | phr | "One Can Keep it" - remark used by somebody who is unimpressed or disgusted. |
| Candle | n | Stick of hard wax with a wick. You light the wick to give a steady flame that provides light. 2. a source of light. 3. that which illumnates the mind. |
| Candle | phr | "Burn the Candle at Both Ends" - to work excessively long hours. |
| Candle | n | Day's Candle, world-candle, god's candle, road-candle = (firmament's candle) : all poetical terms for the sun. |
| Candle | n | "Faraday's Candle" - electricity |
| Candle | n | "A Candle in the Wind" - a fragile or vulnerable thing or person, likely to be put in jeopardy. |
| Candle | phr | "Can't Hold a Candle to" - cannot favorably compared with. |
| Candle | phr | "Hold a Candle to the Devil" - to serve or assist an evil person. 2. to be active in evil causes. |
| Candle | phr | "Not Worth the Candle" - not worth the mere cost of supplying necessary light. |
| Candle | phr | "Sell by Candle" - a form of sale by auction. A pin is thrust through a candle an inch from the top, and bidding goes on until the candle is burnt down to the pin; when the pin drops into the candlestick the last bidder is declared the winner. |
| Candle | phr | "Smell of The Candle" - to work by night. 2. of a close and prolonged stage. |
| Candleberry | n | Myrica ceritera, something extended to include galewort. |
| Candle-end | n | A thing of short duration or little value; a trifle, fragrant. |
| Candlefly | n | A moth. |
| Candle-holder | n | A device for holding one or more candles. 2. an abettor: the reference is to the practice of holding a candle to assist a reader or worker where light is needed. |
| Candle-hour | n | Night-time. |
| Candle-less | adj | Without a candle or candles. |
| Candle-light | n | The light given or emitted by a candle or candles. 2. the light of life, emotional and spiritual enlightment. 3. the time at which candles are lighted, dusk, nightfall. |
| Candle-lighter | n | One who lights a candle or candles. 2. an acolyte. |
| Candle-like | adj | Resembling a candle. |
| Candlemaker | n | Someone who makes candles, a chandler. |
| Candlemaking | n | The making or manufacturing of candles. |
| Candlemas | n | Te festival in the Christian year the commemorates the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of infant Jesus in the temple. |
| Candlenut | n | The fruit of a euphorbiaceous tree or shrub (Aleurites moluccana), native of some of the Pacific islands. It is used by the natives as a candle. The oil from the nut has many uses. |
| Candler | n | A candle-maker, chandler. |
| Candle-shine | n | The light thrown from a lit candle. |
| Candlestick | n | A holder or spike with a socket for a candle. |
| Candle-wax | n | Any material such as tallow, used to make the body of aa candle. |
| Candlewick | n | The wick of a candle. |
| Candlewright | n | A candle maker. |
| Can-do | adj | Confident and willing to get a job done, as a 'can-do man' |
| Canhouse | n | A brothel, whorehouse, bordello. |
| Canker | n | A word used in OE. from Latin : cancer, gangrene, ulcer. 2. anything that frets, corrodes, corrupts or consumes slowly and secretly |
| Canker | vb | To infect or consume with canker (or cancer). 2. to corrode, rust, tarnish, grow rusty. 3. to infect, corrupt, consume slowly and secretly like cancer. |
| Canker-bitten | adj | Eating or corroded away. |
| Canker-eaten | adj | Eaten away by cancer |
| Cankered | adj | Eaten or consumed by cancer. 2. ulcerated, gangrous. 3. rusted, corroded, tarnished. 3. infected, polluted, venomed. 4. infected with evil, depraved corrupted; fig. malignant, envious. 5. ill-hatred, spiteful, ccrabbed, ill-tempered. |
| Cankeredly | adj. | Spiteful, peevish, malignant, cankerly. |
| Cankerfret | n. | Eat with cancer; rust |
| Canker-looked | adj | Looking or resembling cancer: eaten away. |
| Cankersore | n | An ulcer in the mouth, called an apthous ulcer, cause a break in the mucuous mambrane. |
| Cankerwort | n | The dandelion. |
| Can-like | adj | Resembling a can or container. |
| Canned | adj | Preserved in cans. 2. drunk. 3. previously prepared, not fresh or new, standardized, mass produced, or lacking originality or customization. |
| Canned heat | n | Fuel made from denatured and jellied alcohol and contained in a cannister with a removable top designed to be burned from that canister. |
| Canned laughter | n | Previously recorded laughter that is edited into the soundtrack of a TV program. |
| Canner | n | Someone who or that which cans. 2. someone who lives off container deposits refunds from recycling. |
| Cannily | adv | Sagacious, skilfully, deftily. 2. cautiously, slyly. |
| Canniness | n | Sagacity, skilfulness, prudence, cautionness, gentleness, quietness. |
| Canning | n | Ability, being able. |
| Cannot | n | Something that cannot be done |
| Cannot | vb | To be unable to, can't, forbidden or not permitted to do, is forbidden to, is not permitted to. 2. it is logically impossible |
| Cannot | phr | "Cannot but" - have to, can't help but, cannot help, to be unable to do otherwise than; does not have the ability to.. |
| Cannot | phr | "I Cannot Stand" - (idiomatic) - hate, dislike; loathe; can stand the sight of. |
| Canny | adj | Northern version of cunning. 2. sagacious, prudent, cautious, skillfully cunning. 3. cautiously, slyly. softy, comfortably |
| Can-opener | n | An implement for opening cans and tins. |
| Cap | n | A head covering, hood, headdress; a top layer. (Latin loan word) |
| Cap | phr | "Cap and Bells" - the insignia of a professional fool or jester. |
| Cap | phr | "Cap and Feather Days" - childhood. |
| Cap | phr | "Capful of Wind" - a light breeze; a sudden puff of win. |
| Cap | phr | "Cap It All" - to surpass what has gone before. 2. to make it even worse. |
| Cap | phr | "Feather In One's Cap" - a meritorious personal achievement. |
| Cap | phr | "Go Cap In Hand" - holding one's cap instead of wearing it, as a sign of respect from somebody in a lower classes when speaking to a, or addressing a social superior or employer. 2. to beg, ask humbly. |
| Cap | phr | "Put On One's Thinking Cap" - think, hard and seriously about something. |
| Cap | phr | "That Cap It All" - exclamation of disbelief, incredulity. |
| Cap | phr | "Your Cap Is All On the Side" - be perplexed: the practice of scratching one's had when perplexed or bothered. |
| Capful | adj | The amount that will fit into a cap. 2. a light puff of wind. |
| Capless | adj | Without a cap, hat or head-covering. |
| Caplike | adj | Resembling or like a cap. |
| Capping | n | The act of taking off or doffing one's hat as a mark of respect. |
| Capsheath | n | The top sheath of a shock or stook, also fig. |
| Care | n | Grief, sorrow (obs) 2.close attention; concern; responsibility. 3. worry. 4. maintenance, upkeep. 5. the treatment of those in need (especially as a career or profession.) 6. the state of being cared for by others. 7. the object of watchful attention or anxiety. |
| Care | vb | To have the care of. 2. to be in need of care. 3. to sorrow with or because of grief. 4. to mourn or lament. 5. to be troubled, uneasy or anxious. 6. to feel great compassion, concern oneself with. |
| Care | phr | "For All I Care" - I don't care at all |
| Care | phr | "Be Cared for" - attended to or looked after. |
| Care | phr | "Care For" - to attend to the needs of, especially in the manner of a nurse or aids. 2. to like or appreciate. 3. to consider to be appealing, tasteful or suitable; also negatively as, "I don't' care for bread.' |
| Care | phr | "Care Of" - used in postal direction to a person not permanently living at, or working at, the address given. 2. referring to distribution of mail by a named intermediary, marked 'John Smith, care of...' |
| Care | phr | "For All One's Care" - as if I care (expressing indifference or ignorance). |
| Care | phr | 'Have a Care! - be careful. |
| Care | phr | "I Couldn't Care Less" - an expression of complete indifference. |
| Care | phr | "Not Care Tuppence" - not care at all. |
| Care | phr | "See If I Care" - I don't care at all. |
| Care | phr | "Take Care" - look after; keep safe. |
| Care | phr | "Take Care Of" - look after, or be careful with. |
| Care | phr | "You Can Go To the Devil for All I Care" - i don't give a damn about what happens to you. |
| Care-away | n | Recklessness. 2. roisterer, a reckless fellow. 3. something that drives away. |
| Care-away | excl | An exclamation of merriment. 2. 'away with care' and 'care begone' |
| Care-bed | n | A bed of suffering or grief. |
| Carefree | adj | Free from care or anxiety. 2. without cares; free of concern or worry. 3. easy, casual, carefree. 4. without difficulty, trouble, worry, lighthearted |
| Carefreeness | n | State or quality of being free, joyous, lighthearted. 2. the property of being lighthearted, joyous, carefree, cheerful. 3. without care, carefree, |
| Care-freedom | n | The state or quality of being free, carefree, joyous. |
| Carefreely | adv | In a carefree, lighthearted manner |
| Careful | adj | Full of care or grief, sorrowful, sad. 2. full of care and anxieties, worry, troubled. 3. having care for, attentive to potential danger, error or harm, cautious. 4. conscientous and painstaking meticulous. |
| Carefulness | n | The state or quality of being careful. |
| Caregiver | n | A person who regularly cares for a child or an elderly or disabled person. |
| Careless | adj | Free from care, unworried or without anxiety. 2. not concerned or worried about. 3. not giving sufficient atttention or thought to, esp. concerning the avoidance of harm and mistake. |
| Carelessly | adv | Given rhe appearance of being careless. 2. relaxed; done without care or attention, inattentively. |
| Carelessness | n | Lack of care, or in a manner of inattention, and/or negligently. |
| Carelesswise | adv | In a carelees manner or way. |
| Carer | n | Someone who looks after another, either as a job or through personal or familial responsibility. |
| Caresome | adj | Troublesome, burdensome |
| Care Sunday | n | The Sunday immediately preceding Good Friday, but now used generally for the fifth in Lent. |
| Caretake | vb | To look after a property as a caretaker. |
| Caretaker | n | One whoo is responsible for the care or a place, thing. 2. someone who takesx care of a person as a guardian, parent, carer. |
| Caretaker | n | On a short-term basis, temporary. |
| Caretaking | n | The act of taking care or taking charge of something. |
| Careware | n | In computing: charity-ware, freeware. |
| Care-weed | n | Mourning dress, attire or clothes. 2. clothing of care. |
| Careworn | adj | Showing the signs of long-term stresses. |
| Carf | n | A cut; the cut part of the end of a piece of wood. |
| Caring | n | The act of taking care of. |
| Caring | adj | Kind, sensitive, empathetic. |
| Caringly | adv | In a caring manner. |
| Caringness | n | The quality of being caring. |
| Cark | n | OE. ceariig. ??????care or solicitude; distress. |
| Cark | vb | To burden or make anxious. 2. to be anxious. |
| Carking | n | Worrying, distressing. |
| Carl | pfx | Prefix denoting maleness, as in carl-cat, carl-crab. n 2. a man of the common folk or people, countryman, particularly a husband-man 3. villian, base fellow 4. niggard, churl. |
| Carl | vb | (obsolete) To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly. |
| Carlish | adj | Snarly, grumpy, coarse. 2. manly, male. |
| Carlishness | n | The state or quality of maleness. 2. churlishness, niggardish, |
| Carles-wain | n | (OE.Carles waegn the wain of Carl(Charlemagne) orig. the wain of Arturus, verbally associated with Arturus. Arthur and Charlemagne are associated in legend.) The asterism comprising the seven bright stars in Ursa Major, known also asThe Plough. |
| Carr | n | A rock; now esp. used of insulated rocks of the Northumbrian & Scottish coasts. |
| Cart | n | A heavy two-wheeled vehicle for carrying loads, as a dust-cart. 2. a light two-wheeled pleasure vehicle with springs. 3. loosely, any two or four-wheeled vehicle, a chariot. |
| Cart | vb | To convey or carry in or as a cart. 2. to drive or use a cart. |
| Cart | vb | To convey or carry in or as a cart. 2. to drive or use a cart |
| Cart | phr | "Be in the Cart" - be in trouble. |
| Cart | phr | "Cart Off" - to transport someone, esp one who is incapable of movement. |
| Cart | phr | "In the Cart"- in trouble or difficulty. |
| Cart | phr | "Put the Cart Before the Horse" - do something in the wrong order. |
| Cart | phr | "Upset the Applecart" - spoil someone plans. |
| Cart-bote | n | An allowance of wood by the lord to a tenant for making or repairing carts. |
| Carter | n | One or a person who carries or transported a load of goods for payment. 2. a person who transport a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden. |
| Cartful | adj | As a much as a cart will hold. |
| Carthorse | n | A large, strong horse used for pulling heavy loads. |
| Cart-house | n | A shed in which carts are kept. |
| Cartless | adj | Without a cart. |
| Cartload | n | An amount that a cart can carry. 2. any large amount. |
| Cartway | n | A way along which a cart can drive. |
| Cart-wheel | n | A wheel of a cart. 2. gynmastic manoever whereby the gynmast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolution. |
| Cartwright | n | A carpenter who makes carts. |
| Cartwrighting | n | Doing the duties of a cartwright. 2. a wainwright. |
| Carve | vb | Hew, cut, carve or sculpture (out of stone, ivory or wood). 2. to shape by cutting. 3. cut up or subdivide. 4. to cheat, swindle. |
| Carve | phr | "Carve Out" - to cut a smaller or subordinate estate out of a larger one. 2. to hollow by carving. 3. to create (a report, chance, role, career, victory by hard work, or as if by cutting. |
| Carve | phr | "Carve Up" - to cut in pieces. 2. the act or instance of dishonesty prearranging the result of a competition. 3. (slang) the distribution of something, as money or a booty. |
| Carved | adj | Cut, sculptured, engraved in stone or various other materaial. |
| Carved | phr | "Carved in Stone" - idiomatic expression meaning unchangable set in stone. |
| Carved | phr | "Carved Out" - to cut, hew, chisel out from stone , wood or other materials. |
| Carver | n | One who carves wood, ivory, stone or certain other materials. 2. a carving with a carving knife. 3. a butcher. |
| Carver | phr | "Be One's Own Carver" - to be or choose for oneself at one's own discretion. |
| Carve-up | n | A sharing out, especially of spoils. |
| Carving | n | A carved only. 2. the craft of producing a carved object. |
| Carving | adj | That carves or cuts, cutting, sharp. |
| Carving-knife | n | A large knife made for cutting cooked meat, |
| Carver-ship | n | The office of a carver (to the monarch) |
| Cast | phr | "Cast About (For)" - try to find, usually in a hurry or an emergency, seek. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast Anchor" - to moor (ships). |
| Cast | phr | "Cast Apple" - end a voyage. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast an Eye Over" - examine quickly, but somewhat superficially, |
| Cast | phr | "Cast a Sheep Eye's at One" - to look at askance, in a sheepish way, at a person who you are lovingly inclined way |
| Cast | phr | "Cast a Shadow Over" - have a dampening, dispiriting effect on. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast Ashore" - of waves thrown on the shore. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast Aside" - remove, throw off; reject, discard as if of no relevance. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast a Spell Over" - exert an controlling influence (by no means obvious) |
| Cast | phr | "Cast Away" - be by accident or intentionally washed ashore, after a shipwreck (often) in some remote island. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast Beyond the Moon" - to form or cast wild conjectures. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast Bread Upon the Waters" - not expecting gratitude or rewards foe something done |
| Cast | phr | "Cast Down" - be depressed, unhappy; miserable. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast in One's Lot" - agree to share the fate of somebody else. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast In One's Teeth" - to throw reproof at one; reproach. The allusion is to knocking one's out by stones. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast Light Upon" - reveal information about something. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast Lots" - settle an issue by means of a lottery. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast Off" - release the ropes or cables used to hold a boat or ship in position alongside a quay. 2. remove, temporarily or permanently ; take off and throw aside carelessly. 3. abandon, reject. 4. cast Off (stitches): remove stitches from a knitting needle. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast On (stitches): put the first line of stitches on a knitting needle. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast One's Bread Upon a Water" - |
| Cast | phr | "Cast Oneself On" - to trust oneself on. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast Out" - drive away, repel; expel. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast the Net" - make a wide search. |
| Cast | phr | "Cast Up" - deposited on the shore by the sea. |
| Cat | n | A carnivorous quadruped; a domesticated carnivorous mammal. |
| Cat | phr | A Cat Has Nine Lives" - a cat is careful and hardy, and more tenacious of life than many other animals. |
| Cat | phr | "Before the Cat Can Lick its Ears" - never: no cat can lick its ears. |
| Cat | phr | "Bell the Cat" - risk a confrontation with an opponent for the common good. From a medieval fable in which the mice want to put a bell around the neck of a cat, but can't agree who should do it. 2. to undertake a dangerous action in the service of a group or community. |
| Cat | phr | "Cat May Look at a King" - there are certain things that an inferior may do in the presence of a superior. 2. a purported inferior has certain abilities, even in the presence of a purported superior. |
| Cat | phr | "Enough to Make a Cat Speak/Laugh" - said of something extraordinary (frequent of a good drink). 2. said of something (usually strong liquid) that loosens the tongue. |
| Cat | phr | "Feel Like Something the Cat Brought In" - to feel exhausted or bedraggled. |
| Cat | phr | "Has a Cat Got Your Tongue?" - idiomatic: why are you not saying anything? |
| Cat | phr | "Lead a Cat and Dog Life" - life of a frequent or constant quarreling. |
| Cat | phr | "Like a Cat On a Hot Tin" - to be nervous and unable to keep still. 2. of someone who is in a state of extreme nervous worry. |
| Cat | phr | "Like Something the Cat Brought In" - disheveled, untidy. |
| Cat | phr | "Live a Cat and Dog" - an unhappy married life. |
| Cat | phr | "Live Under a Cat's Foot" - be henpecked: a mouse under a cats paw lives but by sufferance and at the cat;s pleasure. |
| Cat | phr | "Make a Cat Laugh" -said of something extraordinarily funny. |
| Cat | phr | "Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat" - confined, cramped for room. |
| Cat | phr | "Play a Cat and Mouse Game" - a state of suspense and uncertainty. 2. treating one cruelly and kindly in turns. |
| Cat | phr | "Rain Cats and Dogs" - pour with heavy rain. |
| Cat | phr | "Sick As a Cat" - sick as a cat: a cat is prone to vomiting. |
| Cat | phr | "There's More Than One way to Skin a Cat" - this can be achieved in variety of acceptable ways. |
| Cat | phr | "What Can You Have of a Cat But Her Skin" - said of something that is but useless for one thing: catching mice is the only thing a cat is useful for. |
| Cat | phr | "When the Cat's Away the Mice will Play" - people will take any advantage of lack of supervision. |
| Cat | adj | Suspectful, involving alternating roles of attack and defence. |
| Cat-and-Dog life | n | An unhappy marriage, full of quarrels. |
| Cat-and-Mouse play | n | A relationship in which two partners closely monitor and challenge one another in a suspicious or self-protective manner, often because each party is tempting to gain an advantage over the other. |
| Cat-bird seat | n | The most advantageous and most powerful position. |
| Catcall | n | A shout or whistling expressing dislike, esp. from a crowd or audience: a jeer, a boo. 2. a shout or whistle, or comment of some nature, usually made towards women |
| Cat call | vb | To make a cat call: a shout or whistling expressing dislike, esp. from a crowd or audience: a jeer, a boo. 2. a shout or whistle, or comment of some nature, usually made towards women |
| Cat-caller | n | One who makes a cat call: a shout or whistling expressing dislike, esp. from a crowd or audience: a jeer, a boo. 2. a shout or whistle, or comment of some nature, usually made towards women |
| Catdom | n | The world or realm of cats. 2. cats collectively. |
| Cat-eyed | adj | Sharp or keen-eyed. 2. sly or stealthy eyed. |
| Cat fight | n | A fight between cats. 2. an acrimonius fighting or bickering, esp between females. |
| Catfish | n | Any fish of the order Silurisform, perhaps so named for it cat-like whiskers. 2. a person with a false profile on social networks in orer to others for fraudulent purposes. |
| Cat-footed | adj | Stealthily in movement; skilfully balanced of foot |
| Cat-footedness | n | The quality of stealth in movement; skillful of balance. |
| Cat-hole | n | Den of the wild cat. OE. only. 2. A hole large enough to let a cat through. Fig, any small or cramped lodging. |
| Cat-kind | n | All cats considered as a group. |
| Cat lady | n | A women, often elderly, who devotes her time to a domestic cat or cats. |
| Cat-less | adj | Without a cat or cats. |
| Catlick | n | A perfunctory wash. |
| Catlike | adj | Resembling a cat or cats. 2. slowly, quiet, deliberate and stealthy. |
| Catling | n | A little cat, kitten. 2. catgut, a catgut string. 3. in surgery, a double-edged sharp-pointed dismembering knife. |
| Catloaf | n | (sl) - the loaflike form of a domestic cat sitting with paws and tail tucked underneath the body. |
| Catlore | n | Folklore relating to cats. |
| Catmeat | n | Meat for a cat. 2. cat food consisting of meat. 3. someone who is badly beaten. |
| Cat meat | n | Cat eaten as meat. 2. meat prepared to be given as food to cats. |
| Catnap | n | A quick deliberate nap, a short amount of time spent sleeping. 2. a brief light sleep. |
| Catnapper | n | One who has a quick deliberate nap, a short amount of time spent sleeping or a brief light sleep. |
| Cat-of-nine-tails | n | A whip having often knotted whip cords, formerly used for flogging as a naval punishment. 2. a leather nine tail whip, used in british penal colonies, and in certain armies. |
| Cat's-eye | n | A precious stone. |
| Catsitter | n | One who acts as a minder for a cat in the owner's absence. |
| Cat's-silver | n | Mica |
| Cat stretch | n | A stretch position naturally and comfortably assumed by a limber feline or imitated by a human (notably as a gymnastic exercise) on all fours with the back normally arched and pointing upwards. |
| Cat's whisker | n | something considered to be outstanding; the bee's knees, flea's eyebrows. |
| Cattily | adv | In a catty manner. |
| Cattiness | n | the quality of being catty, cattishness, spitefulness |
| Catting | n | Caterwauling, seeking out or going after the oppodite sex (contemptously |
| Cattish | adj | Feline or catlike, resembling or being of the nature or manner of a cat. 2. spiteful or malicious in charcter. 3. sly, spiteful or marked by malice. |
| Cattishly | adv | In a cattish manner or spirit. 2. in a spiteful, malicious or sly manner. |
| Cattishness | n | The property of being cattish. 2. somewhat spiteful, malicious or sly. |
| Cat-tree | n | A structure of platforms and scratching posts designed for a cat to play on. |
| Catty | adj | Of or pertaining to cats. 2. concerned with breeding or exhibiting cats. 3. with subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy or upset particularly among women. 4. resembling or characteristic of a cat. 5. spiteful, nasty, malicious, snide, |
| Catwalk | n | In a nautical sense: an elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft of the bridge. 2. a narrow elevated stage on which model s parade. 3. any business of making clothes for fashion shows. |
| Catwalker | n | A fashion model on the catwalker. |
| Cat-wise | adv | In the way or manner of a cat. |
| Catwitted | adj | One or or part to someone who is spiteful, obstinate and small-minded. |
| Catwort | n | Nepetia cataria, catmint, cat's play. |
| Caul | n | Cabbage, cole |
| Cawel | n | OE: cawel, cawl, cole. |
| Cawel-hert | n | Cawel (cabbage) & Hert (heart with the obsolete meaning of stomach)- applied to the hare. |
| Cawel-worm | n | Caterpillar, kaleworm. |
| Cawelwort | n | Colewort, cabbage. |
| Cawl | n | Cabbage, colewort, cole, cauliflower. |
| Cawl | n | Basket, creel |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Chaff | n. | The husk of corns or other grains separated by threshing or winnowing. 2. cut hay and straw used for feeding cattle. 3. banter, ridicule, badinage |
| Chaffer | n | Trade, traffic, dealing, buying and selling. 2. that which is bought and sold. 3. goods for barter or exchange for sale. 4. wares, goods, merchandise, stuff. 5. 'good chaffer' - a good commodity. 6. cheapfare, chapfare: a good bargain. |
| Chaf(f)er | n. | A name given to certain beetles, as 'cockchafer, rosechafer' |
| Chaffer | vb. | To trade, deal in merchandise, buy and sell, to bargain, haggle, deal about price or terms. 2. to treat about, haggle or bandy over prices (or words.) 3. to mingle, interchange, exchange. 4. to talk much and idly. |
| Chaffer | phr | "To Chaffer Away" - to grant or deal away. |
| Chaffer | phr | "To Chaffer Down" - to deal down |
| Chaffer | phr | "To Chaffer Forth" - to offer or entreat. |
| Chaffer | phr | "To Chaffer Over Words" - to exchange or bandy with or over words. |
| Chaffered | adj | Trafficked, bartered, haggled, dealt with. |
| Chafferer | n | A trader, dealer in merchandise, buyer and seller, bargainer, haggler. |
| Chaffering | n | The action of the verb: trading, buying and selling, dealing, bargaining, haggling. |
| Chaffwort | n | Chafewort, Chafeweed: a name given to the plant Cinaphalium sylvaticum and other allied species as 'Filago germantica' 2. cudwort or chafewort. |
| Chaffy | adj | Full of or covered with chaff. 2. consisting of chaff, paleaceous. 3. resembling chaff. 4. fig. (of things and persons) empty and worthless as chaff. |
| Chalk | n. | An opaque soft white earthy limestone. 2. A chalk-like concretion used in the form of a crayons for drawing. |
| Chalk | phr | 'Can't Tell Chalk from Cheese" - be incapable of distinguishing |
| Chalk | phr | "Chalk and Talk" - teaching; teaching profession. |
| Chalk | phr | "Chalk It Up" - the success was unexpected. |
| Chalk | phr | "Chalk Out" -to plan, draw or mark out with chalk. |
| Chalk | phr | "Chalk Up" - to raise the price of. 2. to attribute, credit, blame. 3. to achieve something. |
| Chalk | phr | "Chalk Up To" - to attribute or account for something. |
| Chalk | phr | "I Beat Him to the Chalk" - thoroughly. |
| Chalk | phr | "I Can walk the Chalk as Well as You" - I am no more drunk than you. |
| Chalk | phr | "I'll Chalk Your Path for You" - lay it down or plan it, as a carpenter or shipwright plans out his work with a piece of chalk. |
| Chalk | phr | "Like Chalk and Cheese" - completely different. |
| Chalk | phr | "Walk Your Chalk" - lodgings once wanted for the royal retinue were once taken arbitrary by chalking or marking the house. 2. landlords once gave tenants notice to quit by chalking the door. |
| Chalk | phr | "Win By a Long Chalk" - by a wide margin. |
| Chalkboard | n | A slate board (blackboard) to write on with chalk, and a predecessor of the whiteboard. |
| Chalk dust | n | A fine white powder remaining after chalk is erased from a chalk board. |
| Chalked | adj | Marked, rubbed, mixed with chalk. |
| Chalkiness | n | Having a chalky quality. |
| Chalking | n | The fertilizing land with chalk. 2. the marking, drawing, writing with chalk. 3. running up an account at an alehouse or pub. 4. tracing out or designing with chalk. |
| Chalkish | adj | Somewhat chalkish or fragile. |
| Chalk-like | ad | Having the characteristics of chalk. |
| Chalk-line | n | A line drawn by chalk, a straight line (also transfig. and fig.) |
| Chalk-line | phr | "Walk a Chalk-line" - to behave with propriety; to keep from deviating from a course of action. 2. a test to prove one is sober. |
| Chalk-pit | n | A quarry in which chalk is dug. |
| Chalk-stone | n | Limestone, lime, a piece of chalk. |
| Chalk-talk | n | An informal lecture on an academic subject. 2. a music hall act in which the performer makes chalk caricaturesvw whilst recites a monologue. |
| Chalk-white | adj | White as chalk. |
| Chalky | adj. | Resembling chalk; fragility (esp. of bones.) 2. resembling chalk in colour and consistency; chalk-white. |
| Chap | n | Chapman, buyer, purchaser, seller, customer, fellow, lad. (contemptously; often familiarly and undignified - also applied to a young man.) |
| Chap | vb | To barter, trade, deal, buy and sell |
| Chapbook | n | Chapman's book: applied to book-collections and other specimens of popular literature, small phamplets of popular tales, ballads which were formerly sold by iterant dealers (chapman). |
| Chapfare | n | Cheap fare: a good bargain. |
| Chapman | n. | Merchant,trader. |
| Chapmanship | n | The performance of a chapman. |
| Chap-woman | n | Female trader. |
| Chare | n. | Char, deed, work, business; domestic work, turning or moving back, return, retreat. 2. after-chare the returning or coming around again of a time. 3. a turn or movement generally. 4. a turn, piece or stroke of work; housework, cleaning (of a house). 5. a piece of work or business. 6. an occasional turn of work, an odd job, esp. house-work. 7. in plural, the household work of a domestic work; chare work. 8. 'again-chare' - repentance. 5. 'on-chare' - on the turn, in the act of shutting, ajar. |
| Chare | n. | Narrow lane orwynd; a turn-down. |
| Chare | vb | To turn up, esp. to turn aside or away (also with by). 2. to lead aside, to drive away. 3. to turn, esp. to turn away or aside, depart, to turn back, return. 4. to turn for one bodily state, belief to another. 5. to do accomplish (a turn of work). 6. to do homework, domestic chores, odd jobs, work by day, as a journey man. 7. to do the cleaning work of a house; a charlady. |
| Charing | n | To do odd jobs etc. |
| Charity | n. | A borrowing from ONF: alms-giving in OE. 2. benvolence to the Poor 3, Christian love, esp .of one's fellow man. 4. love, natural affection, spontaneous goodness; fairness, equity. |
| Chark | n | Appears to be shortening of 'charcoal' - wood charred, coal, coke. |
| Chark | vb. | OE. cearcian, to chirk, to creak, to grate, to jar. 2. to make a grating noise with the teeth. 3. to creak as a wheel on an axle; a door on its hinges. 4. to complain constantly; be querulous. |
| Charkful | adj | Full of grating, creaking grating noise. 2. prone to quarrel. |
| Charkless | adj | Without or lacking a creaky, grating noise, smooth. 2, without quarrel, or complaint. |
| Charksome | adj | Somewhat creaky, grating, chirky. 2. rather querulous. |
| Charles's Wain | n. | See Carles-wain. |
| Charlock | n. | Sinapsis arvensis or Field Mustard; also used for other field weeds. |
| Charr | vb. | Murmur, complain |
| Charwoman | n | Charlady, a woman hired by the day to do odd jobs of household work. |
| Charwork | n | Ordinary, routine work. |
| Chary | adj. | Sorrowful. 2. dear, cherished. 3. careful, cautious, circumspect, wary, 4. shy, fastidious, shy, particular. 5. careful not to waste or part with, frugal, sparing. 6. requiring care or careful handling. 7. charily, carefully. |
| Chaw | vb. | To chew. 2. mumble 3. ruminate upon, brood over. |
| Chaw-bacon | n | A bumpkin. |
| Chawer | n | One who chews; a chewer. 2. one who ruminates or broods over something. |
| Chawn | n. | Identical in meaning with chine, but form history is by no means clear. 2. gap, cleft, chink, rift, weft, fissure, chine. |
| Chawn | vb. | To gape open, cleave, or rip asunder, to cause to gap open, chine |
| Cheap | n. | The sense "cattle" is found only in OE. 2. barter, buying and selling, merchandizing, gain, profit, bargain. 2. a bargain about changing one commodity for another, or giving money, or the like for any commodity, bargaining, trade buying and selling. 3. a market, marketplace (hence in place-names, as Cheapside Eastcheap etc.) 4. that which is given in exchange for a commodity, price, value. 5. exchanged commodity(s), merchandise, goods, chattels, esp cattle. 6. bargain, purchase (from the buyers point of view). 7. 'cheap' as in 'dearcheap' - a dear market, high prices; dearth, scarcity. 8. 'good cheap' - something good in the market for the producer. 9. transfig. - that costs little (trouble, etc.) easily obtained, plentiful, abundant. 10. on good terms, with little effort, cheaply, easily. See: chaffer, chapping, cheaping. |
| Cheap | vb. | Barter, bargain |
| Cheap | adj | That may be bought at small cost, low price, inexpensive. 2. transfig. applied to the price itself. 3. the place where the commodity is sold, a market. |
| Cheap | phr | "Cheap as Dirt" - very cheap, surprising cheap; very vulgar; dirt-cheap. |
| Cheap | phr | "Dear cheap' - a dear market, high prices; dearth, scarcity. |
| Cheap | phr | "Feel cheap" - feel ashamed or contemptible. |
| Cheap | phr | "Good cheap' - something good in the market for the producer. |
| Cheap | phr | "On the Cheap" - cheaply; at minimum price. |
| Cheapen | vb | To bargain for, ask the price of, bid for, offer a price for. 2. to bargain, chaffer. 3. haggle, bargain about. 4. to make cheap, lower the price. 5. to lower the estimation. 6. caused to be thought little of, bring into contempt, villify. 7. to be cheap fig. and transfig.) |
| Cheapening | n | The state or action of making cheaper. |
| Cheaper | n | One who makes things cheaper. 2. one who bids a price, inquires of a price, a bidder, a purchaser. |
| Cheapfare | n | A fare at a lower rate than the ordinary fare. 2. applied to money at a low rate of interest. 3. bearing a low price in proportion to its intrinsic value; of good value; well worth the price. 4. costing little labor, trouble, effort etc, easily obtained. 5. worthless, paltry, of little value. 6. in poor health, out of sorts, hence cheapness. 7. lightly esteemed, esp. brought into contempt through being made too familiar. |
| Cheapgild | n. | A market-place, cheaping. 2. the price of what is stolen. |
| Cheaphouse | n | A house of merchandise. |
| Cheapie | n | Slang for cheaply produced films, books, etc. 2. a thing of little value, poor or inferior quality. 3. a thing produced on a low budget. |
| Cheapening | n | Bargaining, buying and selling, marketing, mercantile dealing. 2. a market place. |
| Cheapish | adj | Somewhat cheap or of low cost. |
| Cheaply | adv | At or of a low price. 2. at a cheap rate. 3. at small cost (lit. and fig.) 4. in low esteem, lightly, slightingly. |
| Cheapness | n | Quality of being cheap, low price or cost (also fig.) |
| Cheap shot | n | A deliberate, unsportsmanlike act of aggression against an opponent. 2. a remark that unfairly disparages an obvious vulnerable target. |
| Cheapstead | n | A market place. |
| Cheapstow | n | A market-place. |
| Cheapth | n | Cheapness. |
| Cheek | n. | The jaw, jawbone, later called 'cheekbone'. 2. side of the face below the eye in man and beast. 3. the chops or fauces, the swallow. 4. the fleshy lateral wall of the mouth insolence in speaking to any one, cool confidence, effrontery, as in the phrase 'to give cheek'. 5. closest intimacy, as in the phr. cheek by jowl. 6. side post of a door, gate, window. 7. the buttocks. 7. fig. of the sea; the heavens, night personified. |
| Cheek | phr | "Be Cheek to Cheek" - applied to dancing, where the partner have or are cheek to cheek |
| Cheek | vb | "Cheek It Out" - to bold it out. |
| Cheek | phr | "Give Cheek to" - be saucy, insolent. 2. show lack of respect to somebody senior, superior. |
| Cheek | phr | "Have the Cheek" - to have audacity, boldness, effrontery. |
| Cheek | phr | "Have the Cheek of the Devil" - insolent, audacity. |
| Cheek | phr | "Having Tongue in Cheek" - insincerely, not necessary serious. 2. full of irony. |
| Cheek | phr | "Turn the Other Cheek" - accept attack meekly. |
| Cheek | phr | "With One's Own Cheek" - to oneself, for one's own private use (vulgar) |
| Cheekbone | n. | The bone below the eye (of the lower jaw). |
| Cheeked | adj | Having some specific type of cheek. |
| Cheekiness | n | Cheeky quality, cool, presumptiousness, effrontery, impudence. |
| Cheekish | adj | Cheeky, saucy, impudent, cool effrontery. |
| Cheek-tooth | n. | A molar tooth or grinder. |
| Cheeky | adj | Impertinent, impudent, impertinently bold, brazen; but often endearing or amusing. 2. eaten or drunk as indulgence. |
| Cheese | n. | The curd of milk separated from the whey and pressed into a solid mass |
| Cheese | phr | "Believe Me the Moon is Made of Green Cheese" - the most absurd thing imaginable. |
| Cheese | phr | "Bread and Cheese" - food generally, but of a frugal nature. |
| Cheese | phr | "Cheese It" - stop it, leave off. |
| Cheese | phr | "Cheese Off" - to annoy, displease, be fed up. 2. make one heartily tired of something. 2. make despondent, brown off, fed up. |
| Cheese | phr | "Hard Cheese" - bad luck; usually meant in sympathy. |
| Cheese | phr | "It Is an Old Rat Who Won't Eat Cheese" - it must be a very old man that is inaccessible to flattery or who can abandon his favorite indulgence. 2. only a very cunning rat knows that cheese is a mere bait. |
| Cheese | phr | "Stiff Cheese" - circumstances which may be unwelcome but which will not altered and in respect of which there is no great sympathy felt. |
| Cheese | phr | "The Cheese" - the right thing. |
| Cheese board | n | A board from which cheese is served. 2. a selection of cheeses. |
| Cheese cloth | n | A loosely woven cotton, originally used to wrap cheese, but used for various other purposes, such as culinary tasks and crop protection. |
| Cheese maker | n | A maker or producer of cheese. |
| Cheesemonger | n. | One who deals in cheese. 2. a monger of cheese. |
| Cheesemongering | n | The action of making, buying and selling cheese. |
| Cheeselip | n. | Common woodlouse |
| Cheese-mite | n | A mite feeding on cheeses. |
| Cheese-wood | n | A tree growing in Australia having hard yellowish wood. |
| Cheesiness | n | The quality, condition, or state of being cheesy. |
| Cheesy | adj | Of or belonging to cheese. 2. consisting of cheese, or the nature of cheese, abounding in cheese. 3. resembling cheese in appearance or consistence. 4. (sl) - fine or showy. 5. second rate, cheap and nasty. |
| Chelle | n | OE. cylle, cyll, a leather bag, flagon, vessel. |
| Cheole, Chel | n. | Throat |
| Cherry | n. | A well known stone fruit; the pulpy drupe of certain species of prunus (NO. Rosacae) |
| Chesil | n. | OE. cisil, ceasel, cysel: a collective noun for small pebbles, such as those of the sea, beach. 2. gravel, shingle, a small stone or pebble. Now dialect or found in place names. |
| Chest | n. | A box, coffer; now mostly a large box of strong construction. 2.coffin. Still dial. 3. case in which certain commodities, as tea, sugar are stored. 4. that part of the body enclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax. |
| Chest | n | OE ceast, appears a later refashioning of the OE ceas by the addition of the ordinary 't' of nouns of action.: strife, contention, matter of dispute. |
| Chest | vb | To put in a coffin. 2. to enclose in a chest or box; to stow away. 3. of a horse: to come against or strike with a chest. |
| Chest | phr | "Chest of Drawers" - a piece of furniture fitted with drawers. |
| Chest | phr | "Get It (Something) Of One's Chest" - to relieve oneself of anxiety, hurt or disappointment etc. by talking to someone. |
| Chest | phr | "Lock Something Up in an Old Oak Chest" - put something in a secure place and out of mind. |
| Chest | phr | "Put Hairs on One's Chest" - make manly, virile. |
| Chest-deep | adj | So deep as to reach the chest. |
| Chested | adj | Enclosed in a coffin or chest. 2. having a chest, chiefly in combination, as bare-chested, deep-chested. |
| Chestedness | n | The state or quality of having a particular type of chest, such as flat-chested, narrow-chested. |
| Chester | n. | A latin word adopted by the Angles and Saxons for a walled town or city; orig. one that had been a Roman station in Britain. |
| Chesterwort | n | See 'Cesterwort.' |
| Chestful | adj | Quantity of articles that can fit in a box or chest |
| Chesting | n | In Scotland, the putting of a corpse into a coffin with entertainment given on this melancholy occasion. |
| Chestless | adj | Without a prominent chest, most of flat -chested women and girls. |
| Chestlike | adj | Resembling a trunk, suitcase, or chest-like, rectangular piece of luggage. |
| Chest wall | n | The outer surface of the thorax or chest. |
| Chesty | adj | Conceited and self-assertive. 2. having one's chest thrust outed as a sign of self-importance. 2. inclined to be weak or prone to chest complaints. 3. of a woman having prominent breasts. |
| Cheves-born | adj | Cebis, born of a concubine; a bastard. |
| Chevesse | n | A concubine, mistress, leman. |
| Chew | vb. | To crush bruise or grind by the action of the molar; bite, chomp. 2. masticate food. 3. to examine or plan deliberately; meditate or ruminate upon |
| Chew | phr | "Bite Off More than One Can Chew" - be overly ambitious and thus unrealistic as to one's capabilities. |
| Chew | phr | "Chew Off" - to reprimand, scold, rebuke. |
| Chew | phr | "Chew On" - to consider, ponder, chew over. 2. consider slowly and carefully. |
| Chew | phr | "Chew Out" - to lecture, scold, reprimand, rebuke. |
| Chew | phr | "Chew Over" - to think long, deeply about, ponder, mull over. 2. consider slowly and carefully. |
| Chew | phr | "Chew Somebody Ear" - to force one conversation on an unwilling listener. |
| Chew | phr | "Chew the Cud" - to think deeply, consider profoundly before answering. 2. to think deeply, ponder, ruminate. |
| Chew | phr | "Chew the Fat" - to discuss a matter, esp. complaint; to reiterate an old grievance, to grumble, to argue, to talk or chat, to spin a yarn. 2. talk long about, often but not necessary in a grumbling manner. |
| Chew | phr | "Have Something to Chew On" - to have firm facts on which to base a decision. |
| Chewed | adj | Bruised and reduced between the teeth; masticated. |
| Chewer | n | One that chews, spec. one that chews tobacco. |
| Chewiness | n | The state of being chewy: having pliable or springy texture when chewed. |
| Chewing | n | Ruminating, masticating. |
| Chewish | adj | Somewhat chewy. |
| Chewth | n | The act of chewing. |
| Chewy | adj | Suitable for chewing (also transfiguratively.) |
| Chibe | n | OE. cipe - an onion, shallot, scallion, chipe. |
| Chick | n | A chicken, esp. a young one; something the young of any bird. 2. applied to human off-spring esp. in alliteration with child, as 'neither chick or child.' |
| Chickdom | n | The world or sphere of young women, 'chicks'. |
| Chicken | n. | The young of the domesticated fowl. 2. a child, one young or inexperienced. |
| Chicken | phr | "She No Longer a Chicken" - that is no longer young. |
| Chicken | phr | "Chicken Out" - to fail to act when required to do so; to back down from motives of cowardice. 2. lose one's courage in the face of an enemy, or in a dangerous situation. |
| Chicken | phr | "One's Chickens Have Come Home to Roost" - his sins. misdeeds have caught him out. 2. he got what he called for. |
| Chicken | phr | "She's No Spring Chicken" - she's not young. |
| Chicken | phr | "Where the Chicken Got It" - be severely castigated; be thoroughly castigated. |
| Chicken | phr | "Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg" - a suitable reply to an unanswerable question. |
| Chicken-and-egg | adj | Designating an unresolved question as to which of two things caused the other (a chicken-and-egg answer). |
| Chicken-brained | adj | Silly, stupid, stultish, empty-headed. |
| Chicken-feed | n | Food for poultry; also, fig. a thing of little importance. |
| Chicken-heart | n | One with a heart as faint as that of a chicken; be chicken-livered. 2. a cowardly person. |
| Chicken-hearted | adj. | Of a heart so timorous as a chicken; of a cowardly person. 2. being timid, faint-hearted, cringing or weak when a show of strength and fortitude is called for. |
| Chickenhood | n | The state of being of a chicken. |
| Chicken house | n | Cage in which chickens are kept, a chicken coop. |
| Chicken-meat | n | Food (meat) for consumption by chicken and fowls. 2. meat made from chicken. |
| Chicken pox | n | An infectious disease, esp. of children with a rash of small blisters. |
| Chicken thief | n | A pilferer. |
| Chicken-weed | n | Any of numerous small plants of the pink family, especially Stellaria media. 2. a garden weed with a with slender stems and tiny white flowers. |
| Chicken-wire | n | A light wire netting with a hexagonal mesh. |
| Chickenwort | n | Chicken weed, 'Stellaria media.' |
| Chidden | adj | Reproved, rebuked, scolded. |
| Chide | n | Chiding, quarrelling, wrangling. 2. angry rebuke, a reproof. 2. the chide of streams and the hum of bees.' |
| Chide | vb. | To contend with loud and angry altercation, wrangle, brawl. 2. scold, rebuke, find fault with. 3. drive, compel or repel by chiding, ' Thy Word bids Winds and Waves be still. And chides them into rest. 4. said of loud and vociferous hounds and brawling streams. |
| Chider | n | A quarrelsome person, a brawler, one who scolds. 2. one who scolds or rebukes with vehemence. |
| Chiding | n | The action of quarreling with angry words, contention, vehement expression of displeasure. 2. scolding, rebuking, reproof. 3. brawling or loud barking spec. of fox-hounds. 4. fig. & transfiguratively. of noise of wind and water. 5. the chiding that gives loud and vehement utterance of displeasure. |
| Chidingly | adv | In a chiding manner. |
| Chidingness | n | The state or condition of chiding. |
| Chike | n. | Childishness, childness |
| Chilblain | n. | An inflammatory swelling produced by exposure to cold, affecting the hands and feet, accompanied by burning or with heat, itching and sometimes ulceration. |
| Child | n | A daughter or son; an offspring. 2. fig. an offspring; one born in, or considered a product of the culture of, a place. 3. fig. a member of a tribe, a people or a race of beings; one born into or considered a product of a people. 3. fig. a thing or abstraction derived from or caused by something. 4. a person who is below the age of adult hood; a minor, a person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability. 5. computing. data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object. 6. a female infant; a girl. |
| Child | vb | To bear a child, to be delivered of, or to bring forth a child. |
| Child | phr | "Child of God" - one who has been baptized. |
| Child | phr | "Child's Play" - something that is quite easy to do. 2. |
| Child | phr | "Latch-key child" - a young school age child who has a key to the family home, to enable him to let himself in when he returns home to an empty house after school . |
| Child | phr | 'That's Child's Play" - said of something that is very easy to do. |
| Child | phr | "The Child is the Father of the Man" - the influences and experiences of childhood determines one's character as an adult. |
| Child-bearing | adj | The bringing forth or bearing of a child, parturition, gestation. |
| Child-bed | n | Confinement. 2. the bed in which a child is born. 3. the womb: the child's bed or bairn's bed. |
| Childbirth | n | The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as a culmination of pregnancy. |
| Child bride | n | In some cultures, a very young bride, pressured into marriage with a much older man. |
| Childcare | n | Act, practice or occupation of supervising and taking care of young children. |
| Child carer | n | One who works in childcare. |
| Childcaring | n | The act of caring for a child or children, esp. one's own. |
| Childed | adj | Provided with a child or children. |
| Childerhood | n | The state of being children of a certain parent; childhood. 2. |
| Childerless | adj | Childless; without children. |
| Childermas | n | The festival of the (slaughter) of the Holy Innocents by Herod. 2. childer tide or time. |
| Child free | adj | Of a person or couple: having no children, esp. as a matter of choce. |
| Child-great | adj | With child; pregnant. |
| Childheady | adj | Childish. |
| Childhood | n | The state of being a child. 2. time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty. 3. the early stages of development of something. |
| Childing | adj. | Pregnant, bearing child, child-bearing, child-delivery, parturition. 2. that bears a child or children. 3. breeding, in labour. 3. fertile(fig.); fruitful, applied to some plants which produce younger or similar florets around an older blossom. |
| Childish | adj | Behaving immaturely. |
| Childishly | adv | In a childish or peurile manner. |
| Childishness | n | Quality or conduct natural to a child. 2. quality or conduct not befitting mature age, puerility, silliness. 3. an act of childishness |
| Childlessly | adv | In a childless way; without children. |
| Childlessness | n | The state or quality of being childless. |
| Childlike | adj | Having the good quality of a child sucha s innocents, frankness etc. |
| Childless | adj | Having no children, without off-spring. |
| Childlessness | n | Childless condition or quality. |
| Childlike | adj | Filial, belonging to, or becoming a child. 2. like a child, childish. |
| Childlikeness | n | A childly nature |
| Childling | n | A little child. |
| Childlore | n | The folklore or folk culture of children and young people. |
| Child love | n | Euphemistic: pedophilia, lover of children. |
| Child lover | n | Euphemistic: a pedophile. |
| Childly | adj | Of, belonging to, or natural to a child, filial. |
| Child-minded | adj | Being minded as a child. |
| Childminder | n | One who looks after children while their parents are absence. 2. a babysitter. |
| Childmindishly | adv | In a child-mindish manner or way. |
| Childminding | adj | The action or occupation of looking after children while their parents are absence. 2. baby-sitting. |
| Childmindishly | adv | In a child-mindish manner or way. |
| Child-rearer | n | One who rears, nurtures children or animals. |
| Child-rearing | n | The act of rearing, nurturing children or animals. |
| Children | n | The plural form of 'child'. |
| Children | phr | "Children in the Wood" - "Babes in the Wood" is a traditional children's tale, as well as a popular pantomime subject. It has also been the name of some other unrelated works. The expression has passed into common language, referring to inexperienced innocents entering unawares into any potentially dangerous or hostile situation. A number of child murder cases have been referred to in the media as the Babes in the Wood murders. |
| Children | phr | "Children Should Be Seen but Not Heard" - children should behave well and be quiet, esp. in the presence of adults. |
| Children | ph | "Take Food Out Of the Mouth Of Children" - cruelly to deprive the needy. |
| Childship | n | The relationship of a child to a parent, filiation, adoption. |
| Children's home | n | A public institution for the care and protection of children whose parents have died or can no longer look after them. 2. an orphanage. |
| Childwife | n | A woman in childbed, or who has lately given birth to a child. 2. a midwife. 3. a wife who is a child, or very young. |
| Childwite | n. | Fine paid to the lord for getting his bonds woman with child. |
| Chill | n. | Cold, a feeling of coldness, attended with shivering, illness caused by cold. |
| Chill | vb. | To make cold; to affect with harm or injury with cold. 2. to cause to shiver. 3. fig what tends to repress warmth of feeling; repress deaden in feeling; dampen or dispirit. |
| Chill | adj | Cold, creating depressing, ungenial. |
| Chill | phr | "Cast a Chill Over" - |
| Chill | phr | "Chill One's Blood" - to terrify, cause dread and fear. |
| Chill | phr | "Chill Down" - to relax or take time out; to calm down; unwind. 2. to hang out spend time together; or with another person or group. 2. wind down, unwind, let off some steam, chill out. |
| Chill | phr | "Chill to the Bone" - very cold. |
| Chill | phr | "Send a Chill Up Someone Neck/Spine" - strike deep feelings fear and horror into someone. |
| Chill | phr | "Take the Chill Off" - to raise something to temperature heat. |
| Chill | phr | "Throw a Chill Over" - to dampen the warmth or ardor of someone. |
| Chilled | adj | Cooled, almost frozen, very cool. |
| Chiller | n | Something that chills, esp. a machine that produces cold air, either for air conditioning, to prepare chilled food, etc. 2. a frightening, dramatic work, such as a book, or film. |
| Chilliness | n | A chilly state or condition. |
| Chilling | n | The state or condition of being or becoming cold. 2. a state of mild fear. |
| Chilling | adj | Becoming cold, causing cold. 2. causing mild fear. |
| Chilling | adj | Become cold; causing cold. 2. causing mild or moderate fear. 2. fig. very strong physical or psychological unpleasant effect. |
| Chillingly | adv | In a chilling manner. |
| Chillsome | adj | Somewhat chilly |
| Chilly | adj | Cold enough to cause shivering or suddenly feeling cold. |
| Chillybin | n | (Insulated cooler): a car fridge, an esky (Australia), cool box, cooler (US), icebox, chilly-bin. |
| Chilver | n. | Ewe lamb, young wether, chilver lamb. |
| Chime | n | A borrowing from Latin during Old English period. An instrumental music producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell or actually a bell, a cymbal. 2. an individual ringing component of a set of bells or chimes. 3. a door bell or door-chime. 4. a small bell or ringing or tone-making device, as a component or other device, a set of chimes or bells. 5. a series of chiming sounds. 6. a small hammer or other device used to strike a bell or chime. |
| Chime | n. | The rim at the end of a cask formed by ends of the staves; a chimble. 2. the part of the waterway left the thickest and above the deck plank. |
| Chime | vb | To make a sound of a chime. 2. to cause to strike or sound in harmony, to play a tune, as upon chime. 3. to make a wide correspondence of sound; to jingle. |
| Chime | vb | To groove the ends of cask staves. |
| Chime | phr | "Chime in" - interrupt a conversation; contribute to a conversation. |
| Chime | phr | "Chime in With" - fit, suit a mood, feeling. 2. contribute with an offer of money. |
| Chimed | adj | Rung in harmonious succession, rimed. |
| Chiming | n | An instance of chiming; a sound that chimes. |
| Chiming | adj | A bell-like sound; a ringing tone. |
| Chin | n. | The part of the face below the upper lip formed by the prominent extremities of the lower jaw. 2. to press chin to chin. 3. to bring up to the chin. 4. to chat, chatter. 5. to talk to, address, esp. boldly or impudent. |
| Chin | phr | "Keep One's Chin Up" - be brave in adversity. 2. to refuse to be downcast. |
| Chin | phr | "Lead With the Chin" - make an attack without defending oneself. |
| Chin | phr | "Take It On the Chin" - courageously accept adversity or punishment. |
| Chine | n. | A fissure, crack in the surface (of the earth), cleft, crack, chink, leak. 2. cut, incision. 3. deep hollow ravine cut in soft rock by water, and descending steeply to the sea, asShanklin's Chine on the Isle of Wight. 4. crevice, chasm, gap. |
| Chine | vb | To burst asunder, split open, open in fissures, crack, chine. 2. to split off, split, burst, separate by fissure, |
| Chink | vb. | To gasp convulsively for breath in laughing and coughing. 2. to lose one's breath spasmodically in coughing and laughing. 3. to open in cracks and clefts; to fissure. |
| Chink | phr | "Chink of Light" - a small hope of a solution or breakthrough. |
| Chinked | adj | Cracked, fissures, splitted. |
| Chinking | n | Splitting, fissuring, cracking, chining. |
| Chinless | adj | Without a chin. |
| Chinless wonder | n | An ineffectual esp. upper-class person. |
| Chinning | n | (slang)talk. |
| Chinny | adj | Talkative, having a conspicious chin. |
| Chinwag | n | An informal conversation, usually about everyday matters, chat, gossip. |
| Chinwag | vb | To chat informally, gossip. |
| Chip | n. | Perhaps? from O.E. cippian: to cut. a small thin piece of wood or other material, prepared for hewing, cutting, breaking. 2. counter used in a game of chance. 3. anything worthless without flavor, without nutritional value or dried up. 4. slight fracture caused by chipping. |
| Chip | vb. | To pare away. 2. hew or cut with an axe; to break off a small fragment etc., 3. crack or break the shell of. 4. In Australia, to harrow |
| Chip | phr | "Have a Chip? on his Shoulder" - be quarrelsome: (origin: possibly as a man might carry a chip on his shoulder and challenge others to dislodge it. |
| Chip | phr | "The Chips are Down" - the situations is grim or desperate. |
| Chipboard | n | A rigid sheet or panel made from compressed wood chip. |
| Chirk | vb. | Variant of Chark. 1, To make a strident noise, grate, chirp, squeak, croak 2. to make a noise with the teeth.. 3. to creak as a door. 4. to chirp as a bird, squeak as a mouse. 5. to cheer or brighten up, to be in a lively spirit or be cheerful. |
| Chirk | adj | Lively, in good spirit, cheerful. 2. strident, grating, grinding. |
| Chirm | n | Noise, din, chirt, vociferation. 2. chatter, vocal noise (in later time, esp. of birds) 3. a mingled din of many, as chirping birds in flock, dinning school children in play. |
| Chirm | vb. | To vociferate, call-out, cry out, roar. 2. warble as a bird. |
| Chirming | n | The action or state of being noisy, vociferous, chirting, or dinning. |
| Chise | adj. | Fastidious, neat, tidy, dainty as to eating. 2. particularly nice and choosy, |
| Chithe | n. | A chit, a shoot, sprout, bud, tender blade or sprout of grass or any plant, tiny shoot, chive, glume, awn, a mote, chit. |
| Chiule | n. | An Old English or Norse warship |
| Choke | n | A coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current, choke, choke coil, choking coil. 2. a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine |
| Choke | vb | To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stiffle, suffocate, strangle, block (someone's ) throat and keep them from breathing by constricting (someone's) airwaves and keep them from breathing; to struggle for breath, have a lack of oxygen .2. to obstruct by filling up, congesting or clogging of any passage; to block up; to breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion;. 3. to impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke, 4. to hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. 5. to affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. 6. fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation. 7. check or slow down the action or effect of. 8. become stultified, suppressed, or stifled. 9. suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of. 10. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; , pass away, expire, give-up the ghost, drop dead, croak. 11. "choke a carburetor"; throttle. 12. cause to retch or choke, gag. to be too tight; rub or press; choke, gag. 13. to make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun. |
| Choke | phr | "Choke Back" - supress, restraint tears, sobs, anger, fury. |
| Choke | phr | "Choke Down" - swallow with difficulty. |
| Choke | phr | "Choke Off" - to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar. |
| Choke | phr | "Choke the Life out of" - kill by strangling. 2. fig. force to stop a business trading or operating. |
| Choke | phr | "Choke Up" - block a drain, grid, pipe with mud, leaves etc. 2. hold back tears with great diificulty. |
| Chokeberry | n | The name comes from the astringency of the fruits,(genus Aronia) which create a sensation making one's mouth pucker:(especially with reference to a person's face) tightly gather or contract into wrinkles or small folds. |
| Choke-lewe | n. | Choking, suffocation, strangling; alternate spelling:Cheke-lewe |
| Choose | vb. | To take by preference all that is available; to select, to gather at pleasure. to pick out by sight. |
| Choose | phr | "Cannot Choose But" - has no alternative choice. |
| Choose | phr | "God's Chosen Ones" - according to the Old Testament text the Jewish people. |
| Choose | phr | "Nothing to Choose Between Them" - |
| Choose | phr | "The Chosen Few" - a relatively small number of persons selected for, or finding themselves in, a position of favor or privilege. |
| Choosey | adj | Fastidious, hard to please. |
| Chough | n. | ???Chatter, prattler, prater (birds of the crow family, esp. the jackdaw) |
| Chrism | n | A borrowing from latin, oil of the sacraments in Eastern and Western churches. See 'chrisom' |
| Christ | n | The anointed one or messiah predicted in the Hebrew Bible. 2. Jesus of Nazareth; in O.E. known as Healand: 'The Healer'. |
| Christ-child | n | The baby Jesus; Jesus as a baby. |
| Christ dust | n | Flour |
| Christen | vb | Give a Christian name to at baptism as a sign of admission to a Christian Church. 2. give a name to(a thing) esp. formally or with a ceremony. 3. use for the first time. |
| Christendom | n | Christians worldwide regarded as a collective body. |
| Christhood | n | The condition of being Christ. |
| Christlike | adj | Resembling Christ. |
| Christmas | n | The annual festival of the celebration of the birth of Christ, observed on the 25th December. |
| Christmas | phr | "All His Christmas Came at Once" - he was overjoyed. |
| Christmas day | n | The day of the celebration of the birth of Christ, observed on the 25th December. |
| Christmas rose | n | |
| Christmas tree | n | |
| Christ's-hair | n | Scolopendrum vulgar |
| Christ's thorn | n | Name given to several thorny shrubs. |
| Christ's wort | n | A plant that flowers around Christmas time. |
| Christdom | n | Christendom; the rule of Christ. |
| Christen | n | Of persons: Christian; of things: Christian. |
| Christen | vb | To convert to or make Christian. 2. to baptise. 3. to give or bestow a personal name. |
| Christened | adj | Converted to Christianity; baptised. |
| Christenness | n | The state or condition of being a Christian. |
| Christening | n | Conversion to Christianity. 2. becoming a christian. |
| Christenly | adv | In the Christian way or manner. |
| Christhood | n | The state or condition of being Christ, the messiah. |
| Christless | adj | Without Christ or his spirit. |
| Christ-like | adj | Like Christ |
| Christlikeness | n | Having a likeness to Christ |
| Christmas | n | An annual church festival kept on December 25 or by some Eastern churches on January 7 in memory of the birth of Christ, celebrated generally by a particular church service, special gifts, and greetings, and observed in most Christian communities as a legal holiday. 2. a widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian and secular customs. 3. Christmas Day, the day it is celebrated, 25 December, an English quarter day. 4. Christmastide, the Twelve Days of Christmas, the season (traditionally from the 24th of December to the 6th of January) around the holiday. 5. In US retailing period from the Friday following Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve, busy with shopping and preparations for Christmas. 6. in marketing, retailing - Christmas season, the end of the year period, busy with shopping and preparations for Christmas. 7. Yule; Noel. |
| Christmas eve | n | The day or evening before Christmas day. |
| Christmassy | adj | Pertaining to Christmas. |
| Christmastide | n | The Christmas season; Christmas time. 2. Christmastide, the Twelve Days of Christmas, the season (traditionally from the 24th of December to the 6th of January) around the holiday. |
| Christmas tree | n | An evergreen (usually spruce) or artificial tree set up with decorations at christmas. |
| Church | n | One of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship. 2. a place for public (especially Christian) worship; church. 3. a service conducted in a house of worship. 4. the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church. 5. Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place (from 9th c.). 6. Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity. 7. a local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general. [from 9th c.] 8. a particular denomination of Christianity. 9. Christian worship held at a church; service. 10. a (non-Christian) religion; a religious group. |
| Church | vb | To conduct a religious service for (a woman) after childbirth. 2. to educate someone religiously in the ways of the church. |
| Church | phr | "Church a Woman" - to read the appointed service when a woman comes to to give thanks after childbirth. |
| Church | phr | "Go Into the Church" - to take holy orders; go into the ministry. |
| Church | phr | "Needy as a Church Mouse" - very poor. |
| Church-ale | n | Also called Easter-ale, and Whitsun-ale from sometimes from sometimes being held at Easter or whitsuntide:: a church festivity akin to the Wakes, when specially brewed ale was sold to the populace and money was collected in addition. |
| Church-bell | n | The bell (often more than one) belonging to a church, usually housed in the steeple or tower of the church and by custom rung before church services or on other occasions such as funerals and weddings. |
| Church-book | n | One belonging to, or used in connection with the church. |
| Churchdom | n | The existence or standing of the church. 2. ecclesiastical status. 3. the system and workings of the church. |
| Church-folk | n | Church-goers; members of the church. |
| Church-gang | n | Going to church; attendance at church. 2. churching of a woman after child birth. |
| Church-goer | n | One who regularly goes to church. |
| Church-going | n | The regularly going to church. |
| Church-grith | n | Church peace: abstention from violence within the precinct of a church; right of sanctuary. |
| Church-hallowing | n | Consecration of a church. |
| Church-hawe | n | A churchyard. |
| Church-hay | n | A churchyard. |
| Church-house | n | A manse or house attached to or near a church for the use of clergy. |
| Churchiness | n | Churchlike qualities. |
| Churchish | adj | Somewhat inclined to attend church regularly, but not over-religious. |
| Church-key | n | Keys to the Churchdoor; fig. alluding to "the power of the keys." |
| Churchless | adj | Without a church. 2. not attending or belonging to a church. 3. not sanctioned or blessed by the church, unhallowed, unholy. |
| Churchliness | adj | The quality of being churchly. 2. loyalty to the church. |
| Church-litten | n | A burying enclosure; a churchyard, cemetery. |
| Churchly | adj | Of, pertaining or relating to a church, its government, forms, or ceremonies; ecclesiastical. 2. devoted to, or inclined to attach great importance to the order and ritual of a particular section of the Christian church. 3. in accordance with ecclesiastical standards or ceremonies, appropriate or befitting a church. 4. characteristic of a church, church-like. |
| Churchman | n | A clergyman; ecclesiastic. 2. a devoted supporter or member, especially of an established church. |
| Churchmanly | adv | In the manner or fashion of a churchman. |
| Church owl | n | The Barn owl. |
| Churchmanship | n | Position, quality or action of a churchman. |
| Church-mouse | n | Someone as poor as a church mouse. |
| Church-quake | n | Convulsion or upheaval in the church. |
| Church-scot | n | Church tribute: in OE. times a custom of corn collected on St Martin's Day; extended to other contributions in kind and money made for the support of the clergy, or demanded as a n ecclesiastical due. |
| Churchship | n | The status of the church; the being of a church. 2. an ecclesiastical organization or body. |
| Church-soken | n | Territory of a church; inhabitants of a church district. |
| Church-tale | n | A periodic festive gathering held in connection with a church. |
| Churchward | adj | The custodian of the church (building) 2. a man in orders who has charge of a church. |
| Churchwarden | n | One of the lay officers (usually two) |
| Churchway | adv | Manner or usage of a church. |
| Churchwork | n | Work for or on behalf of a church. |
| Churchwort | n | The pennyroyal. |
| Churchy | adj | Church-going, churchly; somewhat religious inclined. |
| Churchyard | n | The yard or enclosed piece of land on which the church stands, formerly used as a burial ground for the local parishioners. 2. a burial ground or cemetery. 3. the precincts of the church. |
| Churl | n | A male human being, a man; esp. 'man' as a correlative to wife, husband. 2. in OE times: a man simply in and out of work, a lowly freeman. 3. in more general application: a noble, gentleman, a tenant.. 4. a tenant in pure villeinage, serf, bondsman. 5. serf, bondsman, villein, the position to which the anglo-saxon churl were reduced after the Norman Conquest. 6. countryman, peasant, rustic, boor. 7. disparagely: a rude fellow, low-bred person. 8. one who is sordid, hard or stingy in money matters, a niggard, miser. |
| Churl | vb | To take a husband. 2. to play the churl or be niggard towards someone. 3. to begrudge, grumble like a churl. |
| Churldom | n | In various senses of the word: the state of being a churl or bondsman. 2. churlhood. 3. those intentionally boorish or rude in behaviour collectively, surly-hood, harshhood. |
| Churled | adj | Made a churl or churlish. |
| Churlhood | n | State or quality of a churl: rusticity, boorishness, rudeness, home simplicity. 2. estate or order of churls; churldom |
| Churlish | adj | Of, or relating to a churl. 2. pertaining to a churl. 3. of the rank or position of a churl(s). 2. intentionally boorish or rude in behaviour; harsh, brutal, surly, ungracious. 3. of beasts, natural forces etc. - vilent, rough. 4. sordid, niggardly, stingy, grudging. 5. of soil, unkindly stiff, hard or difficult to work. 6. of metal: difficult to work, intractable. 7. transfig. - of difficulty, obstacles: hard, problematic etc. 8. of voice: strident, harsh, coarse. |
| Churlishly | adv | In a churlish manner, rudely, coarsely, rough, with niggardness. |
| Churlishness | n | A churlish state or quality, rudeness, sulleness, harshness, niggardness. |
| Churly | adj | Churlish, rough, surly, rude, violent. |
| Churn | n | A butter making machine. 2. a vessel or machine for making butter, in which is shaken, beaten or broken, so as to separate the oily globules from the serous parts. 3. used also vessels or instruments resembling a churn, as a pump, milk can. |
| Churn | vb | To produce a large quantity (of something) rapidly and easily. 2. antonym: unchurn. 2. to agitate cream or milk in a churn, so as to make butter, agitate, stir and intermix; to produce froth. |
| Churn | phr | "Churn Out" - to produce mechanically, hurriedly, or routinely. |
| Churn | phr | "Churn Up" - to turn over the ground, plough up. 2. fig. cause one to be anxious, upset; disturb or move violently. 3. to become or cause someone to be anxious. |
| Churned | adj | Produced in large quantity, regularly, rapidly and easily. 2. |
| Churner | n | A churn; a vessel in which cream is churned to make butter. |
| Churning | n | The act by which something is churned. 2. the quantity of butter produced at a churning. |
| Churning | adj | The act by which something is churned or agitated rapidly. 2. fig. the act of producing excessive and sometimes undesirable or unpredictable activity or motion. |
| Churningly | adv | In a churning manner. |
| Churnishly | adv | In a churnish manner. |
| Churn-milk | n | Buttermilk. |
| Churn-owl | n | The Nightjar. |
| Churn-staff | n | A rod with a perforated disk at one's end, used in hand-churning. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Cinder | n | Ashes of a dead body after cremation, decomposition. 2. volcanic scoria. |
| Cindery | n | Of the nature consistency of a cinder. 2. abounding in cinders, where the fire has burnt out. 3. begrimed in cinders. |
| Circle | n | In Old English "circle" - trendel and hring. Late Old English used circul, from Latin, but only in an astronomical sense with the " a group of persons surrounding a center of interest" |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Clad | n | Cladding, clothing, insulation, covering,furnishing, |
| Clad | vb. | Cover with or as with clothing; array, bearing a cladding, arrayed, bedeck. 2. adorned or furnished with clad. |
| Clad | vb | To clothe, to dress, to cover as with cloth. 2. to apply a cladding to. 3. to cover with clad. |
| Cladded | adj | Covered, clothed, insulated, furnished, coated. |
| Cladding | n | Clothe, coating, covering, applied to the surface of |
| Clake | vb. | Hurt, injury, scathe |
| Clakeless | adj | Without scathe, unhurt, unscathed, |
| Clam | n | Anything that holds tight, bond, chain. 2. in plural: bondage. 3. an instrument for clasping rigidly or holding fast, a clamp, vice, pair of pinchers, etc; also lining for the jaws of a vice. 3. clutches, jaws. 4. forceps used for bringing up specimens from the ocean bottom. |
| Clam | n | A name applied to various bivalve shell-forms. |
| Clam | n | The mouth (sl.) 2. mud (sl) - mud, sticky clay. 3. a soft mass. 4. a term of contempt: one who is 'as close as a clam' |
| Clam | vb | To smear, to spread unctous matter on; to daub with. 2. to bedaub (a thing) so that it sticks. 3. to clog or choke up. 4. to be moist and sticky, to stick, adhere. |
| Clam | phr | "Clam Up" - to become or remain silent, quiet, non-committed. |
| Clammer | n | Something that or someone who clams or causes cohesion. |
| Clammily | adv | In a clammy or clamming manner |
| Claminess | n | State or quality of being clammy. |
| Clammish | adj | Somewhat clammy. |
| Clammishness | n | The state or quality of being clammish |
| Clammy | adj | Soft, moist, viscous, adhesive. 2. sluggish, |
| Clap | n | The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces; applause, together. 2. the explosive sound of thunder; a thunderclap. 3. any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or rsembling such a sound. 4. a slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner. 5. a single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow. 6. (falconry) the nether part of the beak of a hawk. 7. (Yorkshire) a dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground) |
| Clap | vb | To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound.
2. to applaud. 3. to slap with the hand in a jovial manner 4. to bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound. 5. to come together suddenly with noise. 6. to create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together). 7. to set or put, usually in haste, as the cops clapped him in prison. 8. to see or look at, as' she was the prettiest thing I'd ever clapped eyes on. 9. (slang, to shoot (somebody) with a gun. |
| Clap | phr | "Clap Eyes On" - catch sight of. |
| Clap | phr | "Clap Hands" - to pledge faith by joining hands. 2. to express contempt or derision. |
| Clap | phr | "Clap Hold of" - to sieze roughly or quickly. |
| Clap | phr | "Clap On the Back" - slap on the back. |
| Clap | phr | "Clap Up" - to imprison harshly or without due formality. 2. to make or combine hastily. |
| Clapper | n | That which claps or makes a noise, as a clack of a mill, the tongue of a bell. 2. the human tongue. 3. one who claps; a claquer. |
| Clappperclaw | vb | To claw with the open hand and nails. 2. to dub. 3. to revile. |
| Clary | n. | (In OE. slarie, slareye) Resolved by apothecaries into clear-eye) The plantSalvia sclarea, considered good for the eye. |
| Clatter | n. | A non-ringing noise made by the collision of; tattle, noisy talk, gossip. |
| Clatter | vb. | To utter in a chattering way, prattle , tattle, |
| Clauster | n. | Cloister, cell, monastery |
| Claut, Cleach, Cletch | vb. | grasping hard, clutch. 2. scratch, claw, rake, scrape out |
| Claver, Clifer | n. | Talon, claw |
| Claw | n. | Talon, c.f.crombe,Clee 2. |
| Claw | vb. | Scratch, tear with the claw, sieze, grip, grasp, clutch. 2. scratch gently to relieve itching, 3. flatter, cajole, fawn upon. |
| Claw | phr | "Claw Me and I'll Claw You" - or, I'll sratch your back, if you scratch mine, to flatter, fawn, cajole, look after one another. |
| Claw | phr | "In One's Claw" - implying the motion of siezing; and/or having someone or something in one's power or under one's control. 2. in one's position or power. |
| Claw | phr | "Claw Away" - to rate soundly, scold; to get rid of. |
| Claw | phr | "Claw Back" - to retrieve, get back, such as an allowance. 2. to regain one's position by tenacity. |
| Claw | phr | "Claw the Back of" - to stroke down, flatter, faun upon. |
| Claw | phr | "Claw Off" - to get rid of an itch. 2. to be free. 3. to get rid of or dispose of |
| Claw | phr | "Get One's Claws Into" - display jealously (through sarcasm/ insult or entrap (into marriage). |
| Claw-back | n | A sycophant, flatter, a toady. 2. the act of clawing back, especially in recovering money in this way. |
| Clawed | adj | Having or furnished with claws. |
| Clawer | n | One who claws (lit. and fig.) |
| Claw-footed | adj | Having clawed feet. |
| Claw-hammer | n | A hammer, with one end of the head divided claw-like, used for extracting nails. 2. a dress coat; a coat with swallow-tails. |
| Claw hand | n | Wasting of the muscles of the hand and fingers. |
| Clawless | adj | Without a claw(s) |
| Claw-sickness | n | Foot-rot. |
| Clawy | adj | Scratchy, scraping, flattery. |
| Clay | n | A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of prefired ceramics. 2. (tennis) a tennis court surface. 3. (biblical) the material of the human body. 4. (geology) a particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. |
| Clay | vb | To add clay to, to spread clay onto. 2. to purify using clay. 3. to treat with clay, to cover, smear of plaster with clay. 2. to dress(sandy soil) with clay, mix with clay. |
| Clay | phr | "Have Feet of Clay" - a fundamental weakness in something, a supposition of great merit. |
| Clay-cold | adj. | Cold, extremely cold as of dead body. |
| Clayed | adj | Treated with clayed, spec. of land, dressed in clay. |
| Clayen | adj | Of clay as a material. |
| Clayey | adj | Characterized by the presence of clay. 2. full of abounding in clay. 3. composed of, or of the nature of clay; argilleous. 4. of mortal clay - applied to the body (usually as the habitation of the soul). 5. coated, clay, claylike. |
| Clayeyness | n | The nature or quality of being clayey. |
| Claying | n | The act of the verb: to treat with clay, to cover, smear of plaster with clay. 2. to dress (sandy soil) with clay, mix with clay. |
| Clayish | adj | More or less clayey. |
| Claylike | adj | Resembling clay in some way or other. |
| Clayly | adj. | Earthly as opposed to spiritually |
| Clay-pipe | n | A cheap tobacco-pipe of baked clay. |
| Claystone | n | A felspathic rock which emits an odor of damp clay when breathed upon. |
| Clead | n. | Clothing, apparel, attire, cleading. 2. covering or casing. |
| Cleadful | adj | Handsomely attired. |
| Cleam | vb. | To smear, rub or bedaub, plaster sticky matter to, adhere; cloam. 2. to agglutinate, cause to stick, to stick together. 3. clay with glutinous material. |
| Clean | adj | Free of dirt or impurities or protuberances. 2. not dirty. 3. in an unmarked condition. 3. (aerodynamics) allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear. 4. empty. 5. (of metal) having relatively few impurities, as clean steel. 6. of behaviour: free of immorality or criminality. 7. pure, especially morally or religiously. 8. not having used drugs or alcohol. 9. (of criminal, legal records) without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record. 10. not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs. 11. (informal) devoid of profanity. 12. smooth, exact, and performed well. 13. (informal) cool or neat. 14. being free of sexually transmitted diseases. 15. which doesn’t damage the environment, as clean energy.
16. free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects, clean land; clean timber. 16. free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire. |
| Clean | n | OE: claene: clean, pure, chaste, innocent, uncumbered, hallowed, open, acute, sagacious. 1. removal of dirt, as this place needs a clean. 2. weight- lifting: the first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders. |
| Clean | vb | To remove dirt from a place or object. 2. to tidy up, make a place neat. 3. to make things clean in general. |
| Clean | phr | "Clean as a Pin" - very claen indeed, with no trace of dirt or dust. |
| Clean | phr | "Clean As a Whistle" - very clean. |
| Clean | phr | "Clean Down" - to sweep down; swill down. 2. rub, scrub until totally. 3. clean thoroughly from top to bottom. 4. clean by carrying or brushing away dirt. 5. |
| Clean | phr | "Clean From" - to clean from a surface. |
| Clean | phr | "Clean Out" - to clean, esp. tidy by removing the contents. 2. to take all of somebody's money or stock. |
| Clean | phr | "Clean Through" - right through without obstruction. |
| Clean | phr | "Clean Up" - to tidy up or make neat or empty something completely. 2. to tidy oneself. 3. to win grandly or a great mount; to make a large profit. 4. to win by a large margin, esp. in gambling. 5. to make an area or a thing smart in appearance. 6. suppress, get rid of crime, vice, drugs etc. 6. defeat the last remnants of military resistance. |
| Clean | phr | "Clean Forget" - forget completely, esp. something one should have done or kept in mind that has present relevance. |
| Clean | phr | "Come Clean" - to confess, admit the truth. |
| Clean | phr | "Do Spring Cleaning" - carry out a thorough review occurring a long time after the previous one. |
| Clean | phr | "Have a Clean Tongue" - not abusive, not profane,not addicted to swearing. |
| Clean | phr | "Keep One's Nose Clean" - to stay out of trouble. |
| Clean | phr | "Make a Clean Break" - make a quick and final separation. |
| Clean | phr | "Live a Clean Life" - be blameless, be of high moral fiber. |
| Clean | phr | "Make a Clean Breast of" - to make a full disclosure, confess. |
| Clean | phr | "Make a Clean Sweep" - dispose of everything. 2. a complete and overwhelming victory, esp. in which all and all possible electoral contests are won. 3. the winning, by a person or team of all the possible prizes, games, rounds or contests, etc. in a competition, season, series. 4. a thorough change of policies, personnel or things, removing or replacing all of that was there previously. |
| Clean | phr | "My Hands Are Clean" one is blameless, innocent. 2. be quite clear of some stated evil. |
| Cleaned | adj | Made free from dirt, filth, foreign matter. |
| Cleaner | n | One who, or that which cleans. |
| Cleaner | phr | "Taken to the Cleaners" - defraud or rob (a person) of all his or her money. |
| Clean-fingered | adj | Nimble, scrupulous, honest. |
| Clean-handed | adj | Free of wrong-doing, having clean hands. |
| Cleaning | n | The act of making free of dirt, filth, or foriegn matter. |
| Clean-limbed | adj | Shapely of limb. |
| Cleanliness | n | Quality or state ogf being clean. |
| Cleanliness | phr | "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness" - to be clean in good religious practice. |
| Clean-living | adj | Of upright character. |
| Cleanly | adj | In a clean manner; completely clean |
| Cleanness | n | The state or condition of being clean. |
| Cleanse | vb | To make clean, purify, to free from dirt, infection, guilt, pollution, charge. 2. to clear or get rid. 3. to purge. |
| Cleansed | adj | Made clean; pumped out. |
| Cleanser | n | One who make clean, free from dirt, a purifier. |
| Cleanship | n | Chastity, cleanness. |
| Clean-shaven | adj | without beard, whiskers or mustache. |
| Clean sheet | n | An unblemished record of behaviour without dishonor or discredit. 2. an opportunity to do something for the first or start afresh as if for the first time. |
| Cleansing | n | That cleanses. |
| Clean skin | n | An unbranded animal. 2. a person without a criminal record. 3. wine with a generic label. |
| Clean-timbered | adj | Well-built, clean-limbed. |
| Clean-up | n | An act of cleaning up. |
| Cleat | n | Wedge; a piece of wood or iron with two projecting ends, round with ropes are belayed or fastened. |
| Cleat | vb | To fasten or furnish with cleat. |
| Cleave | n | Cleft; a split, fissure. |
| Cleave | vb. | That which can be clefted, or divided; 2. easy to split, apt to split or asunder, fissure, divide. |
| Cleave | vb | To stick, fast, adhere, cling. 2. to remain steadfast, stand fast, abide, continue. |
| Cleave | phr | "Cleave Down" - to cut down, piece, perforate. |
| Cleave | phr | "Cleave In" - to cut up forceably |
| Cleave | phr | "Cleave On" - to adhere or stick to. |
| Cleave | phr | "Cleave One's Way Through" - to intersect, penetrate, fissure in position. |
| Cleave | phr | "Cleave Upon" - to stick or adhere to. |
| Cleaver | n | One who cleaves or splits. 2. instrument for cleaving; a butcher chopper for cutting a carcass. |
| Cleavers | n | Galium aparine. . |
| Cleavesome | adj | Fissile, inclination to split or cleave |
| Cleave-someness | n | Apt to clef, fissure, or divide. |
| Cleaving | n | Splitting, a cleft, fissure, parting of a limb. 2. something that splits. |
| Cleaving | n | The action of sticking or adhering (also fig.) |
| Cleaving | adj | Adhesive, clinging, clamming. 2. adhering, cleavy, clinging. 3. fig. abiding, lasting, sticking. |
| Cleavingly | adv | In a sticking, clinging, adhering way. 2. in a splitting, with a fissure, cleftly. |
| Clee | n. | Cloat, talon, claw; cf,crombe. 2. foot or limb armed with a claw. 3. one of the parts of a cloven hoof. |
| Cleft | n | Gen. a space made by cleaving. 2. cleaving, splitting or separation of parts, a split, fissure, crack or crevice. 3. a parting of the hair. 4. the parting of the thighs, cleaving or forking. 5. a slit, split to receive a graft. 6. a crack of the skin, a chap. 7. the aperture in a cleft palate. 8. one of the pieces formed by cleaving, esp. split wood for fuel. 9. one of the division formed by cleaving of the foot of animals. 10. one of the division of an orange ; a pig. |
| Cleft | adj | Split asunder, in pieces. 2. bifurcated, divided, two-fold. |
| Cleft | vb | To divide, split, cleave. |
| Cleft | phr | "Be in a Cleft Stick" - facing a dilemma; an awkward situation. |
| Clefted | adj | Having clefts, division, splits, fissure, clefts. |
| Cleft lip | n | A congenital split in the upper lip. |
| Cleftly | adv | Having clefts, splits, crevices etc. |
| Clem | vb. | OE: beclemman. to pinch with hunger or fasting, waste with hunger, starve, pine of hunger, to suffer the pangs of hunger. 2. to fetter, cramp. |
| Clem | n. | Pangs of hunger. |
| Clemmed | adj | Pang struck, starved, wasted of hunger. |
| Clemming | n | Starving, hungry for food. |
| Clench | n | Tight grip; a firm closing. 2. decisive proof. |
| Clench | vb | To squeeze; to grip or hold tightly. 2. to move two parts of something against each other. 3. to rivet a nail that has been driven through anything, by hammering a point down. 4. to close together tightly, as the teeth. 5. to confirm a bargain. |
| Clench | phr | "Clench One's Hands" - hold one's hand closely together. |
| Clench | phr | "Clench One's Teeth" - hold the teeth and jaws rigid closed. |
| Clenched | adj | Gripped or held tightly; squeezed. 2. moved against each other. |
| Clencher | n | An unanswerable argument. |
| Clenching | n | The action of sqeezing, gripping or holding tightly. |
| Clepe | n | A call, cry, shout. |
| Clepe | vb | OE: clippan - to cry, call, call on, appeal to (a person) for or after a thing. 2. to proclaim. 3. to call a person, summon, to invoke, call to witness. 4. to call upon or to speak. 5. to call by name. 6. to mention by name, shout. |
| Cleper | n | One who calls, a caller. |
| Cleping | n | The action to call, cry out. 2. that what is called, have designed. |
| Cleve | n | Room, chamber, closet, sleeping place. 2. a cliff, coast or shore of the sea. 3. a steep, sloping ground. 4. the steep side of the hill. |
| Clew | n | OE cleowen, cliven: sphere, ball, skein, yarn, mass; (obs) a roughly spherical mass or body. 2. (archaic) a ball of thread or yarn. 3. yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue. 4. (nautical) the lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. On a triangular sail, the clew is the trailing corner relative to the wind direction. |
| Clew | vb | To coil up in a ball; to roll up into a ball. 2. to put out as by clew or clue. 3. to raise the lower corner of a sail. |
| Clib | adj. | Eager, sharp, keen. |
| Clibby | adj | Sticky. |
| Cliff | n | A vertical or very steep rock face. |
| Cliff-climber | n | One who climbs cliffs as a rescuer of trapped or injured persons. 2. one who climbs cliffs as a hobby. |
| Cliff-climbing | n | The action of climbing cliffs. |
| Cliff dweller | n | One who lives on or in a cliff. 2. troglodyte |
| Cliffed | adj | Having cliffs. |
| Cliff edge | n | The very edge of a cliff; the rimrock. |
| Cliff-hanger | n | Happening or story with an unpredictable ending. |
| Cliffing | n | The formation of cliffs, scarping. |
| Cliffless | adj | Without cliffs |
| Cliff-like | adj | Resembling, or of the nature of a cliff. |
| Cliffsman | n | One skilled in cliff climbing. |
| Cliff wall | n | A wall situated at the edge of a cliff |
| Cliffy | adj | Having cliffs, preciptuous, craggy. |
| Climb | n | |
| Climb | vb | |
| Climb | phr | "Climb Down" - descend with the help of one's hands. 2. withdraw or retract from a position taken up in negotiation, argument. |
| Climb | phr | "Climb Into" - put on clothes. |
| Climb | phr | "Climbing the Ladder" - to abandon as untenable an attitude or opinion that one has hitherto vigorously supported. |
| Climb | phr | "Climb the Wall" - be distraught, harassed; go up the wall or almost beyond endurance or reasonable behavior. |
| Climber | n | A mountaineer. 2. a climbing plant. 3. a person with strong social etc aspirations |
| Climbing frame | n | A structure of joined bars etc. for children to play on. |
| Climbing irons | n | A set of spike attachable to the boots for climbing trees or ice slopes. |
| Clinch | vb | To clasp; to interlock. [1560s] To make certain; to finalize.
To fasten securely or permanently. To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed. [17th century] To embrace passionately. To hold firmly; to clench. To set closely together; to close tightly. to clinch the teeth or the fist |
| Clinch | n | A variation of clench. Any of several fastenings. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp. (obsolete) A pun.(nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ring bolts. A passionate embrace. |
| Clinch | phr | "Clinch a Deal" - make a business deal, other other, agreement final and binding. |
| Clincher | n | A nail used for clinching. 2. tool used for clinching. 3. something which clinches or makes something final or firm. |
| Clinching | n | A riveting together. 2. the clinching of an argument, opinion; or settles something(an argument, etc.)definitely and conclusively. 2. a sharp repartee that twists or turns about the meaning of the word. |
| Clinching | adj | That settles something(an argument, etc.)definitely and conclusively |
| Clinchingly | adv | In a clinching manner, in a manner which serves to clinch something. |
| Cling | n | , Old English clingan: to adhere, fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit. 2. adherence; attachment; devotion |
| Cling | vb | To hold very tightly, as to not fall off. 2. to adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours; used especially of fabrics and films. 2. (transitive) to cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing. 3. to cause to dry up or wither. 4. figuratively, with preposition to) to be fond of, to feel strongly about |
| Cling | phr | "Cling on Like Grim Death" - hold onto something with grim determination. |
| Cling | phr | "Cling On To" - to hold on very tightly, to grip hard. 2. fig. to hold tightly. |
| Cling | phr | "Cling To" - keep a firm, desperate hold on, hold on; not release one's grip on. 2. not relinquish; be unwilling to abandon |
| Cling | phr | "Cling Together" - remain in one body or in contact |
| Clinger | n | One who clings. 2. an emotionally clinging person. |
| Clingfilm | n | Cling film, a plastic film of polyethylene that is so thin that it clings to any object about which it is wrapped, used to cover and preserve foodstuff. 2. a thin plastic wrap used as a wrap for food. |
| Clingfilmed | adj | Wrapped in clingfilm or clingwrap. |
| Clingfish | n | A marine fish of the order Gobiescodae which has a clinging disc on its underside that it uses to cling to rocks and seaweed. |
| Clinginess | n | The quality of being clingy or adhesive. |
| Clinging | n | The clinging or holding on tenaciously or possessively. |
| Clingingly | adv | In a clinging manner: tenacious and possessively |
| Clingingness | n | The state or condition of being clingy. |
| Clingstone | n | A peach variety. |
| Clingwrap | n | Clingfilm: a plastic film of polyethylene that is so thin that it clings to any object about which it is wrapped, used to cover and preserve foodstuff. |
| Clingy | adj | Having a tendency to cling. 2. clinging, sticky, adhering, tenacious. 3. overly possessive of someone, used of a boy-friend or girl-friend. |
| Clip | n | An embrace. 2. clip or clasp instrument that does so. 3. a piece of jewelry fastened by a clip. |
| Clip | vb | To clasp. 2. to surround closely, encircle, encompass, hug. 3. to grip tightly, clutch, hold in a tight grasp. 4. to fasten with clips. 5. to embrace, hug. |
| Clip | vb | OE: cleppen - to ring a bell |
| Clip | phr | 'Clip One's Ear" - slap somebody on the side of the face (literally or figuratively. |
| Clipboard | n | A flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be fasten or held. 2. computing, a buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it for one place within an application to another or between application. |
| Clip-on | n | That or something which is fastened on. |
| Clipping | n | Embracing, clasping; hugging |
| Clippingly | adv | In a clipping manner, excellent. |
| Clipsome | adj | Fit to be clasped or embraced. |
| Clipshears | n | An earwig. |
| Clitch | vb | OE: clyccan: to crook or bend. 2. to incurve the finger; close the hand, clench the fist. 2. to crook, bend a joint, crouch. 3. to sieze and pull in as with a claw. 4. to take up water with a shallow vessel. 5. to hold tightly in a clutch or grasp. 6. to make fast, faster, click things together. 7. to stick or adhere to. 8. to be glutinous or thick. |
| Clitching | n | Crooking, bending (of a joint) |
| Clithers | n | OE: Clithan; clithwyrt; Rubea Minor, clivers, clevers |
| Clithwort | n | Clithwyrt or Rubea minor. |
| Clive | vb | OE: clifan, to stick, cling, cleave. 2. to climb. |
| Clivy | adj | Cliffy. |
| Cloam | n. | OE: clam: mud. earthenware, pottery, clay. |
| Cloam | vb | To daub or smear with clay. |
| Cloamen | adj | Earthen, made of earthenware. |
| Cloamer | n | Potter, maker of earthenware |
| Clod | n. | Mass of rock or earth, a hill; consolidated mass of earth & sky; a cloud. 2. a clot of blood. 3. a mass formed by the coagulation of a liquid, blood, etc. 4. a coherent mass or lump of any solid matter; eg. clod of earth, lump of clay, clay adhering together, loam. 5. as a substance, the soil or dust of the ground in its lumpy character (often depreciatory) 6. a ball of earth that adheres about the root of a tree or plant. 7. a sod, peat, a bit of turf, spot of ground. 8. fig. of the human body - mass of clay - also to a huamn being - child of clay. 9. earth, of the earth. 10. a blockhead, dolt, stult, clod skull. 11. a small loaf of unleavened bread. 12. the curved part of the back of an ox, nearest to the shoulder. |
| Clod | vb | To free land from clods by harrowing, rolling etc. 2. to cover with clods. 3. to form or turn into clds. 4. to pelt with clods. |
| Clodded | adj | Coagulated, stuck together in clods or clotted lumps. |
| Clodder | n | A dlodded or curdled mass; a clot. |
| Clodder | vb | To run together in to clods, clots or clouds. 2. to coagulate, become with clots or lumps. |
| Cloddered | adj | Lumped, massed, clotty. 2. stupid, doltish, clumsy. |
| Cloddiness | n | A cloddy quality or condition. 2. foolishness, stupidity. 3. awkwardness of movement. |
| Cloddish | adj | Foolish, stupid, parochial. 2. pertaining to lumpy soil. 3. clumsy. |
| Cloddishness | n | The state or condition of being stupid, foolish. |
| Cloddy | adj | Characterized by the presence of clots, clotted, coagulated, lumpy. 2. abounding in clods. 3. of the nature of a clod, clod-like, earthy 9in a depreciative sense.) |
| Clod-hopper | n | A ploughman or agricultural labourer. 2. a country lout, a clumsy awkward boor, a clown. 2. a plowman's heavy shoes. 3. the wheaten or clod-bird. |
| Clod-hopping | adj | Literally following the plough. 2. boorish, awkward, clumsy (sl) dancing, esp. poorly. |
| Clodhoppish | adj | Awkward, boorish, clumsy. |
| Clodlike | adj | Thick, lumpy, short. |
| Clodly | adv | In a cloddish or clod-like manner, dully, heavily. |
| Clod-tongued | adj | Unimpassioned and dull. 2. stolid and solid in character and speech. |
| Clodwards | adj | Towards the clods, earthy. |
| Cloffing | adv | OE: clufu, clove. 2. ranunculus sceleratus: clofwyrt, hellebore. |
| Cloom | n | Dialect for 'cloam' - adhesive mud or clay. |
| Clot | n | A hill or a mound. 2. a solidified mass of blood or any liquid. 2. a very silly person. |
| Clot | n | [OE. clot, clodde, clod; a concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulate. 2. a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid; clot, coagulate |
| Clot | vb | To change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state; coagulate.
2. to cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state. 3. turn into curds; as "curdled milk" syn: curdle, clabber. 4. coalesce or unite in a mass; clog, to concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod. 5. to form into a slimy mass. |
| Clot-bird | n | Species of bird frequently fallow land. 2. the wheat-ear, clodhopper or fallow-smitter (saxicola oenanthe) |
| Clot-cold | adj | Dead, a dead person is said to be clot-cold. |
| Cloth | n | A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose. 2. form of attire that represents a particular profession. 3. (in idioms) priesthood, clergy. |
| Cloth | phr | "Cloth of Another Hue" - the case is totally different. |
| Cloth | phr | "Cloth of Gold" - a tissue of gold threads interwoven with silk or wool. |
| Cloth | phr | "Bring to Cloth" - accomplished, finalized, finished. |
| Cloth | n | "Man of the Cloth" - clergyman; a member of the clergy. |
| Cloth | phr | "Shake the Cloth in the Wind" - to be intoxicated. |
| Cloth | phr | "Wear Sackcloth and ashes" - if you wear sackcloth and ashes, you show by your behaviour that you are very sorry for something you did wrong. |
| Cloth-eared | adj | Somewhat deaf or insensitive to sound. |
| Clothe | vb | To adorn or cover with clothing, to dress, to supply clothes or clothing. |
| Clothed | adj | Adorned or bedecked with clothes or apparel, attired. |
| Clotheless | adj | Without clothes, destitute of clothing. |
| Clothen | vb | Made of cloth. |
| Clothes | n | Items of clothing, apparel. 2. the covering of a bed, bedclothes. |
| Clothes | phr | "Steal Someone's Clothes" - to plagairise some ideas. |
| Clothe-sack | n | A bag for clothes; a portmanteau. |
| Clothes-horse | n | A frame for airing washed clothes. 2. colloquially: an effectedly fashionable person. |
| Clothes-line | n | A rope or wire etc. on which washed clothes are hung to dry. |
| Clothes-monger | n | A trader or dealer in clothes, especially second-hand ones. |
| Clothing | n | A baby wearing many items of winter clothing: headband, cap, fur-lined coat, shawl and sweater. Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion. 2. an act or instance of putting clothes on. 3. (obs) the art of process of making cloth. 4. covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. |
| Clothing | phr | "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" - somebody who appears to be harmless be is very dangerous. |
| Clothing-maker | n | The maker of clothes. |
| Cloth-maker | n | A maker of woolen cloth. |
| Cloth-stone | n | Thrumstone, threadstone, devil dust; asbestos. |
| Cloth-work | n | Work done in cloth. 2. a maker or manufacturer of woolen-cloth. |
| Clothy | adj | Resembling or like cloth. |
| Clotted | adj | Gathered in clods or clumps. 2. coagulated. thickened. 3. dense, accumulated. |
| Cloud | n | (obsolete) a rock; boulder; a hill. 2. a visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. 3. any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass. 4. anything which makes things foggy or gloomy. 5. group or swarm, esp. suspended above the ground or flying. 6. an elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud. 7. (computing, with the) the internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing. 8. (figuratively) a negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud. 9. a dark spot on the forehead of a horse between the eyes. 10. (slang) crystal methamphetamine. 10. a large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women. |
| Cloud | vb | To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight. 2. the glass clouds when you breathe on it. 2. to overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds. 3. to make obscure. 4. to make gloomy or sullen. 5. to blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character). 6. to mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours. |
| Cloud | n | An innumerable body of insects, birds, etc. flying together; hence fig. and transfig. a multitude 9of persons or things), a crowd, esp. as a 'cloud of witnesses. |
| Cloud | phr | "Cloud in the Sky" - a threat or indication of trouble to come. 2. a cloud on the horizon. |
| Cloud | phr | "Cloud One's Brain" - interfere with, obscure , one's understanding and judgement. |
| Cloud | n | "In the Clouds" - unreal, imaginary, mystical, absent minded; dreamy. |
| Cloud | phr | "On Cloud Nine" - extremely happy. |
| Cloud | phr | "Under a Cloud" - to be under suspicion; to be in temporary disgrace. 2. to be uncertain whether one may be able to carry out one's work performance on the sporting field. |
| Cloud | phr | "With One's Head in the Cloud" - daydreaming, unrealistic. |
| Cloudberry | n | A small plant related to the bramble found on mountains or moor heights; the mountain bramble (Rubus chaemorus). |
| Cloud-burst | n | A sudden burst of rain. |
| Clouden | adj | of cloud. |
| Cloud-field | n | An expanse of cloud. |
| Cloudful | adj | Full of clouds, cloudy, clouded. |
| Cloud-headed | adj | Having clouded or confused ideas. |
| Cloud-heat | n | Heat produced by clouds; see 'cloud-heating'. |
| Cloud-heating | n | When the sun warms the earth, warm air rises into the atmosphere, and as it rises, it expands and cools. Water condenses out of the cool air to form a cloud. |
| Cloud-hopping | n | Movement of an aircraft from cloud to cloud, especially for concealment. |
| Cloudily | adv | In a cloudy manner, dimly, obscurely with darkened prospects. 2. in a cloud or swarm. |
| Cloudiness | n | State or quality of being cloudy (in various senses.) |
| Clouding | n | A cloudy marking; a cloudy streak or part in a clear substance. |
| Clouding | adj | That clouds, that is becoming clouding or dim. |
| Cloud-kissing | adj | So high as to reach the clouds; sky-scraping. |
| Cloud-land | n | The region of clouds; landscape of clouds. 2. a region of fancy myth or unreality. |
| Cloudless | adj | Without a cloud, unclouded, clear. |
| Cloudlessly | adv | In a cloudless state or appearance. |
| Cloudlessness | n | State of being cloudless. |
| Cloud-lighting | n | Clouded light, dim light (also fig.) |
| Cloudly | adj | Cloud-like, nature of clouds. |
| Cloud-monger | n | A diviner who predicts weather conditions, especially the likelihood of rain, by studying the clouds. |
| Cloud-street | n | The most prominent clouds are thousands of bright cumuli arrayed in roughly parallel bands called 'cloud streets' which usually indicate direction of the wind. |
| Cloud-seeding | n | The action of firing munition containing silver iodine at passing clouds to make them more likely to produce rain. |
| Cloudwards | adv | Towards the clouds. |
| Cloud-world | n | A world of fancy and mystical speculation. 2. the cloud-world of the transcendental. |
| Cloudy | adj | Rocky, hilly. 2. of cloud, of the nature of clouds; of or pertaining to clouds. 3. characterized by the presence of clouds; abounding in or full of clouds. 4. not transparent or clear. 5. having cloud-like markings. 6. clouded, dim, obscure, faint. 7. clouded by ignorance, etc. of ideas, perceptions: dim, obscure, indistinct, not clear. 8. darkened by misfortune, grief, anger, foreboding, etc., full of gloom, sullen, frowning. 9. under a cloud,of disgrace or disrepute, shady (coll.) |
| Cloudy-eyed | adj | Dim, obscure of foggy of sight. |
| Cloudy-headed | adj | a feeling of being low in concentration and a loss of focus |
| Cloudy-topped | adj | Covered or hidden by clouds at the top or summit. |
| Clough, | n. | Ravine or valley with steep sides, acleugh |
| Clout | n | Influence or effectiveness, especially political. 2. informally, a blow with the hand. 3.informally, a home run in baseball. 4. in archery, the center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head. 5. a swaddling cloth. 6. archaic, a cloth; a piece or shred of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. 7. a small piece of cloth or shred produced by tearing or rending 8. contemptously applied to inferior quality clothing. 9. a handkerchief, a sail of a ship 10. archaic, an iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer. 11. ( obsolete) a piece; a fragment. |
| Clout | vb | To hit, especially with the fist. 2. to cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout. 3. to wipe or a cloth or clout. 4. to stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole. 5. to guard with an iron plate, as an axletree. 6. to join or patch clumsily, awkwardly or coarsely. |
| Clouted | adj | Mended with patches, patched, patched up. 2. depreciatory, clumsy in putting together. 3. of milk, clotted. |
| Clouter | n | One who clouts or mends with patches (lit. & fig.) 2. a cobbler, a mender, patcher. |
| Clouting | adj | The action of mending, patching, fixing up. 2. striking with the hand. 3. bungling, botching, patching. |
| Cloutish | adj | Somewhat clouty in various senses of the word. |
| Cloutlike | adj | Like or characteristic of a botcher, clumsy, akward, clownish. |
| Clouty | adj | Full of clouts, clots, clouted. |
| Clove | n | One of the small bulbs like garlic. 2. a natural division or segment of fruit. 3. one of the divisions of a cloven-hoof. 4. the dried flower, bud of caryophylus aromatica, much used as a pungent, aromatic spice. 4. the tree caryophylus, orig. a native to the mollucas. |
| Clove | vb | To sow or lay down in clove. |
| Cloved | adj | Sown with cloves, covered in cloves. |
| Cloven | adj | Divided or split lengthways. 2. split into (thin) pieces, cleft asunder. 3. split to a certain depth, so as to give double extremity. |
| Cloven | phr | "Show the Cloven Foot" - to give an indication of one's evil traits in one's character. |
| Cloven footed | adj | Cloven hoofed, cloven footed, the divided foot of a ruminating quadruped. 3. a foot divided into distinct toes. 3. often ascribed to pan in pagan mythology, and hence to the Satan or the devil, and often used allusively as an indication to Satan, or satanic agency. |
| Clovenness | n | The quality or state of being cleaved. |
| Clover | n | The name of the species of trefoil or trifolium repens, trifolium pretense, both cultivated largely for fodder. |
| Clover | phr | "Live in Clover' - to live luxuriously. |
| Clover-leaf | n | A junction of roads intersecting at different levels with connecting sections forming the pattern of a four leaf clover, as a few tram line intersections. |
| Clover-summer | n | An exceptional time |
| Clove-tongue | n | Stinging, acerbic, pungent of speech. |
| Clovewort | n | Ranunculus acris, a bulbous buttercup. |
| Clow | n | OE clus, cluse, an enclosure, narrow passage, 2. a dam for water, sluice gate. |
| Clum | vb. | Mutter, murmur |
| Clumper | n. | Compact shapeless mass, a heap, a lump. 2. a cluster, a tuft, a patch |
| Clumpish | adj | Heavy and clumsy. |
| Clumpy | adj | A clump-like, clumpish. |
| Cluster | n | A collection of things of the same kind, growing closely together, a bunch. 2. a rounded mass, a clot, a number of persons, animals or things close together. 3. a swarm, group, crowd. |
| Cluster | vb | To gather or grow in clusters, to cover with clusters, to congregate in a cluster. to grow or be situated in a cluster or group. |
| Clusterfist | n | A clumsy or closed fisted fellow, a lout, niggard. |
| Clustery | adj | Bunchy, gathering in mass, crowdy. |
| Clutch | vb | To seize, as though with claws. 2. to grip or grasp tightly. |
| Clutch | n | O.E. clyccan 'crook, clench'. A vintage clutch with a fold-over closure, made of red snakeskin. 2. the claw of a predatory animal or bird. 3. grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil. 4. device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used between engine and gearbox in a car. 4. the pedal in a car that disengages power transmission. 5. any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle. 6. small handbag or purse with no straps or handle. 7. an important or critical situation |
| Clutch | phr | "Clutch at Straws" - be in such a desperate situation as to resort to even the most unlikely means of salvation. |
| Clutch | phr | In Someone's Clutch" - a person's power or control, especially when regarded as inescapable.. |
| Clutch | phr | "In the Clutch" - at a critical moment. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Crab | n. | Any decapod crustaceous animal of the tribeBrachyura; esp the edible species found on or near the seacoast. |
| Crabbed | adj | Fractitious, dogged, refractory, cantankerous, morose, contrary, disagreeable, churlish, acerbic. 2. crooked, awkward ingait. |
| Crabbedly | adv | Crossly, ill-temperedly, sourly, morosely. |
| Crabbedness | n | The quality of being crabbed, in a fractious state. 2. crookedness, refractoriness, ill-disposedness, harshness of mood, crossness, irritability. |
| Crab-harrow | n. | A harrow with bent teeth for tearing up the ground. |
| Crab-harrow | vb | To break up soil or ground with a crab-harrow |
| Crabbish | adj | Somewhat crabbed, irritated, ill-disposed, fractitous. |
| Crabby | adj | Ill-tempered, morose, cantankerous, contrary, dogged. |
| Crabdom | n | The life and habitat of crabs. |
| Crablike | adj | Walking and moving characteric of a crab; sidle-like. |
| Crabmeat | n | Flesh or meat of the crab. |
| Crab sidle | vb | To sidle or shuffle somewhat like a crab. 2. with a sideways and backward movement; crabwise. |
| Crab-spider | n | A spider (Latrigadae) so named because they can run backwards like a crab. |
| Crabwise | adj | In a sidle-up-to mannner. |
| Crabword | n | Palindrome. |
| Crack | n | A sharp noise. |
| Crack | vb. | From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian (“to resound, crack”). 2. to form cracks. 2. to break apart under pressure. 3. to become debilitated by psychological pressure. 4. to break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture. 5. to make a cracking sound. 6. to change rapidly in register; of a pubescent boy's voice) - to alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering. 6. to make a sharply humorous comment. 7. to make a crack or cracks in. 8. to break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress. 9. to strike forcefully. 10. to open slightly. 11. to cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (figurative) 12. to solve a difficult problem (fig, from cracking a nut.) 13. to overcome a security system or a component. 14. to cause to make a sharp sound. 15. to crack a whip. 16. to tell (a joke) 17. to break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse. 18. to circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits. 19. to open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food. 20. be ruined or impaired; to fail. |
| Crack | phr | "Crack a Book" - to open a book and read it. |
| Crack | phr | "Crack a Smile" - (informal) to smile. |
| Crack | phr | "Crack Down On (something or someone)" - |
| Crack | phr | "Crack Hardy" (or hearty) - to put a good face on; to assure or maintain a bold bearing. |
| Crack | phr | "Crack of Dawn" - a time very early in the morning; daybreak. |
| Crack | phr | "Crack of Doom" - a peal of thunder announcing the day of judgement. |
| Crack | phr | "Crack Through" - to penetrate, to overcome, get by, manage |
| Crack | phr | "Crack Up" - disintegrate under emotional strain. 2. to physical break up. |
| Crack | phr | "Crack Wise" - to wisecrack. |
| Crack | phr | "Hard Nut to Crack" - a difficult problem. 2. a person not easily understood or influenced. |
| Crackberry | n | The huckleberry, 'Gaylussacia bacca' |
| Crackbrain | n | One addicted to crack cocaine. 2. a weak-minded person. |
| Crack-brained | adj | Stupid, foolish, idiotic. |
| Crackdown | n | An instance of cracking down. 2. legal or disciplinary severity, repression. |
| Cracked | adj | Broken by a sharp blow. 2. having a thin break or fracture on the surface of an object or body. 3. of the brain: unsound of mind; crazy. |
| Crackhead | n | A Cocaine user. |
| Cracked-headed | adj | Crazy, mad, |
| Crackedness | n | The state or quality of being cracked: having a thin break or fracture on the surface. |
| Cracker | n | A bragger or boaster. |
| Crackhouse | n | A house or other building where crack cocaine, is made, sold or consumed. |
| Crackiness | n | Some prone to cracking, brittleness, fracture, fragility. |
| Crackingly | adv | In a cracking manner. 2. (sl) excellently, first-rate, |
| Crackle | n | Fizzing, popping sound. 2. (sl) banknotes, money, paper cash. |
| Crackle | vb | To make a fizzing, popping sound. |
| Crackless | adj | Without a crack, flawless, whole, fractureless, unbroken. |
| Crackling | adj | That which cracks. 2. pork rind roast. 3. attractive women collectively. |
| Crackly | adv | Prone to crackle, crisp and brittle. |
| Crack of Dawn | n | A time very early in the morning; daybreak. |
| Cracksman | n | A housebreaker. 2. safebreaker. 3. a sharp-shooter. |
| Crack-up | n | An emotional breakdown. 2. disentregration under emotional strain; a collapse, a crash. |
| Crackwhore | n | One addicted to crack cocaine, who finances the habit through working as a prostitute. |
| Crackwise | adj | To make a smart answer or smart comment in an attempt to impress and seem intelligent and sophisticated. |
| Cracky | adj | Having cracks or fractures. 2. prone to cracking or fracture. 2. abounding in conversation, verbose. |
| Cradle | n. | A little bed or cot for an infant. 2. infancy, or the first stage of existence. 3. the place in which anything is nurtured in its earlier stage. |
| Cradle | vb | To lay or place in a cradle. 2. to nurture, shelter in one's arms. |
| Cradle | phr | "From Cradle to the Grave" - from infancy to death. |
| Cradle-board | n | A traditional protective baby-carriers used by many indigenous cultures in North America. |
| Cradle-books | n | Incunabula. |
| Cradled | adj | Laid or reposing in a cradle. 2. provided with a cradle. |
| Cradlehood | n | Infancy, babyhood. 2. the condition of a child in a cradle.. |
| Cradle-land | n | A land or region in which people have dwell for centuries (or from earliest times) |
| Cradle-like | adj | Resembling a cradle. |
| Cradle-scythe | n | A scythe fitted with device for laying the grain evenly in a swath as it is cut. |
| Cradle-song | n | A lullaby. |
| Cradle-to-the-grave | n | Life-span, from birth to death; one's entire life; from tomb to womb. |
| Cradle-to-grave | adj | Life span; lifetime. |
| Cradle-walk | n | A walk or avenue with an archway of trees. |
| Cradle-witted | adj | Having the wit or intelligence of a baby or infant. 2. puerile. |
| Cradling | n | The act by which one cradles a child or a person who is extremely ill or injured. |
| Craft | n. | Power, strength, force. 2. intellectual power, skill, art, ability in planning and construction. 3. ingenuity, dexterity. |
| Craft | n. | Guild, union, syndicate |
| Craft | sfx | -craft; in combinations such as handicraft, watercraft, witchcraft. |
| Craft | vb | To construct skillfully. 2. to use crafty devices; to use crafty ways, to act craftily. 3. to exercise one's craft, make a job of it. 5. to make or build skilfully. |
| Craft-brother | n | A fellow worker in the same trade. |
| Crafted | adj | Craftily or cunningly devised. 2. manufactured, made, produce. |
| Craftedness | n. | Possessing a handicraft |
| Crafter | n | Someone who participates in a particular handicraft, either as a hobby or in a small business. |
| Craftful | adj. | Skillful, dexterous, able. |
| Craftfulness | n | Quality of being craftful. 2. skilfulness, cleverness, appitude in a handicraft. 2. artfulness in decieving or overreaching. |
| Craftihood | n | Craftiness, cunning, |
| Craftily | adv | In a crafty manner; slying, surreptitiously. |
| Craftiness | n | Skill and cunning in deception and stealth. 2. slyness. |
| Crafting | n | Crafting or artful dealing, using crafty or cunning devices. |
| Craftless | adj | Without, unskilled in a craft. 2. without cunning. |
| Craftlike | adj | Skilfully, cleverly. 2. in a bad sense: cunningly, artfully, willing |
| Craftly | adj | Artificail, skilfull, ingenious, crafty cunningly. |
| Craftsman | n. | A person who practices a handicraft; artificier, an artisan. |
| Craftsmanlike | adj | Resembling or character of a craftsman, artisanal. |
| Craftsmanship | n | One skilled in various forms of handicraft |
| Craftwork | n | Handicraft. 2. an item produced by handicraft. |
| Craftworker | n | Maker of craft work; handcrafter. |
| Crafty | adj. | Strong, weighty, skillful, dexterous, cunning, ingenuous. |
| Cram | vb. | To press, squeeze. 2. to fill a space, etc in more than it properly holds by compression. 2. to thrust, force, stuff, crowd. 3. to fed with an excess of food. |
| Cramdown | n | A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed. |
| Cramfull | adj | Filled up, crowd-in or crammed-in beyond capacity, (in various senses), such as a sporting or entertainment stadium. |
| Crammed | adj | Pushed in, crowded or filled up to or beyond the capacity of the thing which contains it. |
| Crammer | n | A book used for accelerated study in preparing for exam. 2. a student who is studying hard for an exam. 3. a teacher who assists a student cramming for an exam. 4. a school whose speciality is helping students pass certain exams. |
| Cramming | n | Intensive learning aimed at passing a neccessary exam. |
| Crammy | adj | Characterized by crammimg or crowding; affording insufficient space. |
| Crane | n. | A large grallatorial bird of the familyGruidae, characterised by very long legs, neck and bill. |
| Crane | vb. | To stretch (the neck) like a crane; to lean or bend forwatd with the neck stretched out. |
| Cranelike | n | Resembling a crane (bird) or some aspect of. 2. resembling a crane (mechanic lifting device) or some aspect of. |
| Crank | n | Old English *cranc, implied in crancstæf "a weaver's instrument," crencestre "female weaver, spinster," from Proto-Germanic base *krank-, and related to crincan "to bend, yield" (see crinkle, cringe ). English retains the literal sense of the ancient root, while German and Dutch krank "sick," formerly "weak, small," is a figurative use. |
| Crankily | adv | Crotchety, cantankerous, perverse. |
| Crankiness | n | Irascibility,asperity, ill-will, rancor, harshness, rudeness, churlishness. |
| Crankness | n | The state or quality of being strange, weird, odd or eccentric. |
| Cranky | adj | Given to fretful fussiness. 2. readily angered when opposed. |
| Crate | n | OE craet: cart, wagon, chariot. |
| Crave | vb. | OE: cratian: to demand, to ask with authority, or by right. 2. to long for, yearn, to need greatly. |
| Cravenness | n | The state of yearning, longing for. |
| Craving | n | Strong desire, yearning, great need for. |
| Cravingly | adv | With a manner yearning or great need for |
| Cravingness | n | The state or condition of longing for, yearning. |
| Craw | n. | The crop of birds or insects. 2. stomach (of man or animals) derisively. |
| Creed | n | A Latin borrowing: a system of religious belief; a faith. 2. a formal statement of christian beliefs. 3. a set of beliefs or aims which guides someone's actions. |
| Creed | vb | To believe. |
| Creedful | adj | Full of belief. |
| Creedless | adj | Lacking a creed; not having a creed. |
| Creedlessness | n | State of not having a creed. |
| Creedsman | n | An adherent of a creed, or of the same creed. |
| Creep | vb. | To move with the body close to the ground, as a reptile, insect, quadruped moving stealthily. 2. to come on slowly by degree. 3. to move timorously, cautiously, or slowly. 4. to grow extending along the ground, as a creeper. |
| Creep | n. | A sensation as of creeping thing on ones body. Also phr: 'It gives me the creeps.' |
| Creep | phr | "Creep Into" - enter stealthily; sneak in. 2. move with the body close to the ground. 3. to move slowly and cautiously. 4. to move or proceed very slowly. |
| Creep | phr | "Creep Someone Out" - give someone an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease. |
| Creep | phr | "Creep Up On" - to approach someone quietly, so that the person is surprised unexpectedly. |
| Creeper | n | Any plant that grows along the ground, on another plant, up a wall, along a fence. |
| Creephole | n | A hole to which an animal may go to avoid danger. |
| Creepily | adv | In a creepy manner; grimly, awfully, in a somewhat blood-chilling manner. |
| Creepiness | n | Sensation or feeling of uneasiness or fear. |
| Creeping | adj | That creeps as a reptile. 2. of the flesh: chilly, shuddering feeling caused by horror or repugnance. |
| Creepingly | adv | In a creeping manner. |
| Creeping thistle | n | Cirsium arvense, a plant native to Europe and Northern Asia, and as an introduced plant elsewhere. |
| Creep | n | A term used by a woman to describe an undesirable man. 2. |
| Creepy | adj | Characterized by creeping. |
| Cress | n. | Name of various cruciferous plants, having mostly edible leaves of a pungent flavour. 2. as a type something of little worth. |
| Cresswort | n | A book name for any plant of the Order: Criciferae. |
| Crib | n. | In OE. cryb, cribb: couch, bed, manger; a barrel, receptacle for fodder, manger. 2. the stall or cabin for an ox, manger. 3. a cabin, a hovel or narrow room. 4. bed for a child with barrel sides. 5. a dwelling, house, shop, pub. 6. a wickerwork basket. 7. something cribbed or plagiarized. 8. a petty theft. |
| Crib | vb | To feed in a crib. 2. to shut up in a crib or small compartment. 3. to confine in a small space or narrow limit; to hamper. 4. to lock up in a prison. 5. to live in a crib. 6. to furnish with a crb. 7. to pilfer, purloin, steal, appropraite furtively. 7. to plagiarize; to take (a passage, piece of translation)without acknowledgement and use as one's own. 8. complaint, grumble. |
| Cribbed | adj | Confined within narrow spaces or limits. |
| Cribber | n | An occupant of a crib (a young child.) 2. one who appropriates clandestinely. |
| Cribbing | n | Petty theft, pilfering. 2. something that is pilfered. 3. provender, provisions. |
| Crib death | n | The sudden and unexpected death of an infant. |
| Criblike | n | Resembling or characteristic of acrib in some aspect |
| Crimble | vb | OE: crimman - to press, compress, to crimb. 2. to shrink, cringe; go shrinking from observation. |
| Crimp | n | |
| Crimping-iron | n | |
| Cringe | vb. | OE: crencan, crencgan: cause to fall, turn; to draw in or contract any part of the body. 2. behave obsequiously to show base or servile deference. 3. recede from ones purpose. 4. to compress, draw together. |
| Cringeling | n | A cringing creature. |
| Cringer | n | One who is obsequious or servile. |
| Cringing | n | The action of behaving obsequiously or servility. 2. muscular contraction, slinking. |
| Cringingly | adv | In obsequious and servile manner. |
| Cringingness | n | Having a cringing quality. 2. timidity, servility. |
| Cringe-maker | n | Someone who, or that, which makes your feel uncomfortable, or uneasy |
| Cringe-making | n | The act of making something or someone feeling uncomfortable or uneasy. |
| Cringeworthy | adj | Embarrassing, pitiful, uncomfortably, undesireworthy, shameful. |
| Cringe-worthiness | n | The state or quality of being cringe-worthy. |
| Cringy | adj | Having the attribute of cringing. |
| Crinkle | vb. | OE: crinclian, frequentative form or stem of OE crincan ('to yield"); to form many short twists or turns; crumple. 2. to emit sharp thin sounds. |
| Crinkled | adj | That has been crinkled. |
| Crinkleroot | n | The pepperwort. |
| Crinkliness | n | A crinkly condition. |
| Crinkling | n | The action of the verb "crinkle" - twisting to and fro; crimpling. 3. a thin, sharp sound. |
| Crinkly | adj | Full of crinkles. |
| Crinky | adj | Having crinkles, of the nature of crinkles. |
| Cripple | n. | OE: crypel: one who is disabled, either from birth or by accident or injury; a lame person. |
| Cripple | n | A dense thicket in swampy or low-lying ground. 2. a lumberman's term fo a rocky shallow in a stream |
| Cripple | vb. | To deprive (wholly or fully) of the use of one's limbs; disable, hobble. 2. impair the action of a person in his resources, efforts, etc, in trade, schemes, strength. |
| Crippled | adj | Deprive of the use of one's limbs; disabled. |
| Crippledom | n | State, conditin or realm of being crippled or severely impaired. 2. collective term for the disabled. |
| Cripple-hole | n. | A hole left in the fence, hedge or walls for sheep to creep through. |
| Crippleness | n | The state or quality of being crippled or disabled. |
| Crippler | n | One who crippled. |
| Crippling | adj | Disabling, incapacitating, paralyzing, constraining, hindering, impairing, maiming, burdensome. |
| Crippingly | adv | So as to cripple or disable. |
| Cripplish | adj | Somewhat crippled or disabled. |
| Crippleware | n | An software program that cannot be fully utilized until the user register or, in the case of shareware , purchased the program. |
| Cripply | adj | Somewhat crippled or disabled. |
| Crisp | adj | Of the hair:curly, frizzy. 2. having a surface or fretted into minute waves, ripple folds or wrinkles. 3. applied to fabrics of a crepe-like texture. 4. smooth, shining, clear. 5. brittle. 6. crisp snow. 7. short, sharp, brisk, decided in manner. 8. clean, neat, clearly defined. |
| Crisp | phr | "Burn Something to a Crisp" - burn completely. |
| Crispbread | n | A Nordic style dry biscuit. |
| Crisped | adj | Of hair: closely and stiffly curled. 2. having surface curled into minute waves, or folds. 3. crisple, brittle. |
| Crispen | vb | Made crisp, curly, wavy. |
| Crisper | n | One who or that which crisps or curls: spec. an instruments for frizzy or crisping hair. 3. a container in a fridge. |
| Crisping | adj | Firm, but easily broken or crumbled. 2. brittle, fragile, frangible. 3. bracing, invigorating. |
| Crisping | adj | Crisping, curling, frizzing. |
| Crispish | adj | Somewhat |
| Crispness | n | The state of being crispy. |
| Crispy | adj | Curly, crisping, undulated. |
| Crock | n. | OE: croc, crocca, an earthen pot, jar, a metal pot. 2. a broken piece of earthenware. 3. a sick weak or emaciated beast; an old ewe past bearing; a broken down horse. |
| Crock | phr | "Crock of Gold" - a large but distant or imaginary reward. |
| Crocked | adj | Old, broken-down, decrepit person or thing. |
| Crocker | n | A potter; maker of earthenware pots. |
| Crock of Gold | n | (Pot of Gold) - a large but distant or imaginary reward. |
| Crock pot | n | A slow cooker, used for simmering food at a very low temperature. |
| Croft | n. | A piece of enclosed ground, used for tillage or pasture. 2. a small piece of arable land attached to a house. 3. a small agricultural holding worked by a peasant, esp. in the Highlands of Scotland. |
| Croftdom | n | The life of those living on, and working small agricultural holdings. |
| Crofter | n | One who rents and farms a croft. |
| Crofting | n | The state of being successively cropped; that which is cropped in this way. 3. practice or system of croft-tenancy. 4. the holding as a crofter. |
| Croftland | n | Land of superior quality, which according to the old mode of farming was still-crofted. |
| Croh | n | OE: a small vessel, pitcher, water-pot, crockpot. |
| Cromb | n. | A hook, crook. In early use , also a talon, claw. 2. also crome: a stick with a hook at the end of it, to pull the boughs of a tree. 3. the drawing of weeds out of a ditches. |
| Cromb | vb | To seize or draw with a crook, hook, cromb. |
| Crook | n | OE:. 2. hook, herd,???? |
| Crop | n. | A pouch like enlargement in the oesophagus or gullet of many birds, from which food is prepared for digestion; the craw. 2. head of a herb, flower, tree, etc. 3. the annual produce of plants grown or gathered for food; the produce of some particular plant in one season or locality. O.E. cropp "bird's craw," also "head or top of a plant, sprout or herb." Meaning of "harvest product" is c.1300, probably through verb meaning "cut off the top of a plant" (early 13c.). The general meaning of "to cut off" is early 15c. See stonecrop. |
| Crop | phr | "Crop Out" - to appear above the surface, as a seam of coal. 2. to come to light; to be manifest, to appear. |
| Crop | phr | "Crop Up" - to sprout, spring up, appear, suddenly. |
| Crop | phr | "Crop and Neck" - completely; altogether. |
| Crop-duster | n | An aircraft built or converted for use in agricultural spraying of pesticides and fertilizers. |
| Crop dusting | n | The act of agricultural spraying of spraying and fertilizers. |
| Cropfull | adj | Crop or stomach filled, filled to repletion. |
| Cropland | n | Arable, fertile land. |
| Cropless | adj | Without, lacking or having no crops. |
| Croplike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of crops grown for food. |
| Cropper | n | A person who nurtures and harvests a crop. 2. a machine for cropping. 3. a tenant-farmer with a small agricultural holding. |
| Croppy | adj | Of hair cut short. |
| Cropsick | adj | A bird having a sickness or disease of the crop or craw. |
| Croptop | n | A short hair style. |
| Cross | n. | Late OE. a borrowing from Latin - a kind of gibbet, a stake with a transverse bar, on which anciently criminals were put to death. 2. The holyRood (late OE.) 3. in place names, such as Crosby. |
| Cross | phr | "Cross My Heart" - said to show that what you just said or promised is completely true or sincere. |
| Cross | phr | "Cross Ones Fingers" - wish or hope for luck by crossing the fingers of one hand. |
| Cross | phr | "Cross Out" - put a line through, cancel, call out. |
| Cross | phr | "Cross Over" - a point or place of crossing from one side to another. 2. the process of achieving success in a different field or style, esp. in pop music. 3. go over, span, transverse, connect,bridge. |
| Cross | phr | "Cross Someone Path" - to meet, or come across; hap upon. |
| Cross | phr | "Cross the Floor" - vote against one's own political party in parliament. |
| Cross | phr | "Cross the Line" (crossing the line) - to cross the Equator, as a vessel at sea. 2. to go beyond a boundary, line, limit. 3. to do something unacceptable. |
| Cross | phr | "Cross Someone's Path" - to meet or thwart s person. |
| Cross | phr | "Cross Swords" - fight a duel. |
| Cross | phr | "Everyone Must Bear His Own Cross" - everyone must carry his own burden or troubles. |
| Cross-beam | n | A transverse beam. |
| Cross bedding | n | (In geology) layering within one or more beds in a series of rock strata that does not run parallel to the plane of stratification. |
| Cross-bench | n | Usually plural; a seat in Parliament occupied by a neutral or independent member |
| Cross-bencher | n | One who occupies the cross-bench in a parliament. |
| Cross-birth | n | A birth in which the foetus is positioned with the head and the feet lying in the direction of the birth canal. |
| Cross-biting | n | Cheating. |
| Cross body | n | In wrestling a move in which the wrestler jumps onto his opponent and land horizontally across the opponents torso, forcing them to the mat. |
| Cross-bones | n | Skull and cross-bones - representation of a skull with thigh bones crossed below it as an emblem of piracy or death. |
| Crossbow | n | A medieval bow. |
| Crossbreed | n | A breed of animals or plants produced by crossing. 2. an individual animal or plant of a crossbreed. |
| Cross-dressing | n | The practice of wearing the clothes of the opposite sex. |
| Cross-eyed | adj | Having one or both eyes turned permanent towards the nose. |
| Cross-fingers | n | The crossing of fingers as a sign of hope for future good luck. |
| Crossfire | n | firing in two crossing directions at the same time. |
| Crossfish | n | A kind of starfish. |
| Cross foster | vb | To remove an offspring from its biological mother to be reared by another, esp. so as to equalize the number in a litter. |
| Cross-fostering | n | The technique used in animal husbandry in removing an offspring from its biological mother to be reared by another, esp. so as to equalize the number in a litter. |
| Crosshair(s) | n | Fine wire at the top of the focus of an optical instrument for use in measurement etc. |
| Cross-hatch | vb | To shade with intersecting sets of parallel lines. |
| Cross hatching | n | Shade with intersecting sets of parallel lines. |
| Crosshead | n | A bar between the piston rod and the connecting rod in a steam engine. |
| Crossheading | n | A heading to a paragraph printed across a column in the body of an article in a newspaper etc. |
| Crossing | n | A voyage across a body of water (usually across an Ocean). 2. crossing the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids. 3. crossing a path (often marked) where something (as a street) can be crossed to get from one side to the other. 4. crossing a junction where one street or road crosses another. 5. crossing a point where two lines (paths etc.) intersect. 6. crossing a shallow area in a stream that can be forded. |
| Crossmatch | vb | To test the compatibility of (a donor's and recipient's blood or tissue). |
| Crossmatching | n | The testing of the compatibilty of (a donor's and recipient blood or tissue). |
| Crossness | n | Angriness |
| Crossover | n | A point or place of crossing from one side to another. 2. the process of achieving success in a different field or style, esp. in pop music. |
| Cross-play | n | An activity in which a person dresses up as a character of a different gender. |
| Cross-reading | n | The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas. |
| Cross-sea | n | A sea state in two wave systems traveling at oblique angles. |
| Cross-sell | n | The process of selling or suggesting relating or complimentary to a prospect or customer. |
| Cross-shaped | adj | Of the form of a cross. |
| Cross talk | n | Conversation that is incidental to the topic discussed. |
| Cross talk | vb | To hold an incidental conversation. |
| Crosstown | adj | Extending across a city or town. |
| Crosstree | n | Horizontal timbers at the top of a lower mast, supporting the top mast. |
| Crosswalk | n | A pedestrian crossing. |
| Crossway | n | A road that crosses a main road or joins two roads. |
| Crosssways | adv | Crosswise. |
| Crosswind | n | A wind blowing across one's direction of travel. |
| Crosswise | adv | In the form of a cross; intersecting. |
| Crossword | n | A puzzle of a grid with squares and blanks into which words crossing vertically and horizontally have to be filled from clues. |
| Cross words | n | Angry words; words spoken in anger. |
| Crosswort | n | A name applied to several plants, including Crucianella stylosa, Crucianella laevipes, and Lysimachia quadrifolia. |
| Crouch | n | OE cruc: cross. (crouch; to bend down is from Old Norse. |
| Crow | n. | A black carrion-eating bird of the genusCorvus 2. southern constellation "Corvus" - The Raven, as 'towards the horizon are distinguished the Balance, the Crow and the Cup.' |
| Crow | vb. | To utter the loud cry of a crow. of persons, to utter an inarticulate sound of joy or exultation, as an infant. 2. to exult loudly, boast, swagger. 3. to utter a loud cry of a rooster. |
| Crow | phr | "As the Crow Flies" - in a direct line, without any detour. |
| Crow | phr | "Crow Over (one)" - to triumph over a vanquished or abased person. |
| Crow | phr | "Eat Crow" - to force to do something extremely disrespectful and humiliating. |
| Crow | phr | "Have a Crow to Pluck With" - to have an explanation or account to demand from. |
| Crowbells | n | A name for the daffodil. |
| Crowberry | n. | The fruit ofEmpctum nigrum a heath-like shrub, bearing a black berry; the cranberry. |
| Crowbill | n. | Forceps for extracting bullets from wounds |
| Crowd | n | A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. 2. several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other. 3. the so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar; the crowd. 4. a group of people united or at least characterized by a common interest |
| Crowd | vb | OE: crudan - to push, push forward, press 2. crowd to gather together in large numbers 2. to cause to herd, drive, or crowd together. 3. to approach a certain age or speed. 4. to fill or occupy to the point of overflowing |
| Crowd | phr | "Crowd Out" - exclude by crowding. |
| Crowd | phr | "Crowd Up" - to come together to form a crowd. 2. of or concerning a crowd. |
| Crowd-drawing | adj | Drawing a large number of people to come and watch an event. |
| Crowded | adj | Full of people, pressed in, thronged, gathered. |
| Crowdedly | adv | In a crowded or pushing throng or manner. |
| Crowdedness | n | The state or quality of being crowded. |
| Crowder | n | One who crowds or pushes. |
| Crowding | n | The state of crowding or pressing together closely; thronging. |
| Crowdlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a crowd. |
| Crowd-mind | n | "Crowds and the crowd-mind have gone forever" |
| Crowd-puller | n | A person, object, event etc., that attracts a large audience. |
| Crowd-pulling | adj | The act or process of attracting a large audience. |
| Crowdy | adj | Of of concerning a crowd. 2. somewhat crowded or thronged. |
| Croweater | n | A nickname for an inhabitant of the Australian state of South Australia. |
| Crowfoot | n | The ranunculus or buttercup. |
| Crowing | n | The action or sound of a crow. |
| Crow-iron | n. | Crowbar |
| Crowish | adj | Pertaining to a crow; crowlike. |
| Crowke | n | Pitcher, jug. |
| Crow-keeper | n. | One who guard cornfields from crows and rooks; a scarecrow. |
| Crow-leek | n. | The wild hyacinth (Scilla nutans) |
| Crowlike | adj | Resembling, characteristic of a crow. |
| Crow needle | n | Umbelliferous, 'Sandix Pecten' |
| Crow's foot | n | a wrinkle at the outer corner of a person's eyes. |
| Crow's nest | n | A fortress placed on a height or hill. |
| Crowsoap | n | The soapwort, 'Saponica oficinialis' |
| Crowstone | n | The top stone on the cable of a house. |
| Crow-tread | vb | To tread (a fowl) as crows or rooks were supposed to do. 2. to subject to ignominious treatment. |
| Crow trodden | adj | Marked with crow's feet or wrinkles about the eye. |
| Crud | n | Dialect form of curd. |
| Crudwort | n | Name of the Yellow Bedstraw or cheese-benet, 'gallium verum.' |
| Crumb | n. | A small particle (of anything); a small particle of bread; a small piece of earth, including ploughed earth; a grain, as of dust. 2. a scrap of s.t. immaterial. 3. the soft part of the bread as opposed to the crust. |
| Crumb | vb | To break down into crumbs or small fragments. 2. to reduce to crumbs. 3. to crumble, fall into crumbs. 4. to put crumbs on or over. 5. to thicken or cover with crumbs. |
| Crumb | phr | To Gather (or pick up) One's Crumbs: to pick up or recover strength gradually. 2. to improve one's health gradually; get better. |
| Crumb cloth | n | A cloth laid under a dining table tocatch falling fragments and to keep the floor and carpet clean. |
| Crumbily | adv | In a crumbing manner. |
| Crumbiness | n | The state or condition of falling apart; disintegration |
| Crumbing | n | Material that has fallen away; crumble away or disintegrated. |
| Crumble | n | Small crumbs; tiny crumbs of anything friable; particle of dust. 2. crumbly substance, crumbly consistency, fine debris. 3. food such as bread or a mixture of flour that is in the form of crumbs. |
| Crumble | vb | To fall aprt; disintegrate. 2. to render into crumbs. |
| Crumbled | adj | Reduced to minute fragments, pulverized, disintegrated. |
| Crumbleness | n | The quality of being crumbly. |
| Crumbless | adj | Without crumbs, like crumbless bread. |
| Crumbling | adj | Decaying, breaking up, disintegrating, collapsing, wearing out, waning. |
| Crumbly | adj | Easy broken int pieces or fragments. |
| Crumbs | n | Expressing dismay or surprise |
| Crumby | adj | Resembling, covered or coated in crumbs; also spelt 'crummy'. |
| Crumminess | n | State of being crummy. |
| Crummy | adj | Dirty, filthy, squalid, inferior, worthless. |
| Crump | vb. | To curl up, bend into a curve. |
| Crutch | n. | A staff for a lame or a person with an infirmity to lean on for walking. 2. (transfig & fig.) a support or prop to lean on. 3. the area of the body where the legs fork from a trunk. |
| Crutch | vb | To support (on a crutch), prop-up. 2. to shear or dag, the wool from the crutch or hindquarters of sheep. |
| Crutched | adj | Supported of a sustain by a crutch (lit & fig.) |
| Crutchlike | adj | Resembling, like or chracteristic of a crutch. |
| Crystal | n | A borrowing late OE: cristal, a borrowing from Latin: clear, ice, mineral, the mineral has been so-called since OE times and regarded by the ancients as fossilized ice |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Coal | n | The glowing portion of a match. 2. hot, live, quick coal(s). 3. piece of burnt wood, capable of re-igniting. |
| Coal | phr | "Blow Hot Coals" - to rage fiercely, stir up trouble, ill-feeling or strife. |
| Coal | phr | "Call Over the Coals" - haul over the coals: reprimand. |
| Coal | phr | "Heap Coals of Fire on the Head" - to produce remorse by requiting evil with good. |
| Coal | phr | "Rake Over the Coals" - criticize, reprimand; haul or call over the coals. |
| Coal-bearing | adj | Producing or abounding in coal. |
| Coal bed | n | A coal seam. 2. a receptacle or place for coal, as in a forge. |
| Coal black | adj | Of a black colour, like that of coal. |
| Coal dust | n | Powdered coal. |
| Coaler | n | A vehicle used for the carrying or supplying coal |
| Coalfield | n | Any region containing deposits of coal which may be mined. |
| Coal-fired | adj | Heated or driven by coal. |
| Coalfish | n | A dark-colored food fish of the cod family; the saithe. |
| Coalish | adj | Somewhat like coal, like a glowing, fiery. |
| Coal-laden | adj | Full of, or rich in coal. |
| Coal-less | adj | Without coal or not having coal. |
| Coal-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of coal. |
| Coaly | adj | Abounding in coal; covered by coal, carbonaceous; coally. |
| Coalman | n | A coal-miner, as distinguished fro other types of miners. |
| Coalmonger | n | A trader and dealer of coal. |
| Coal-sack | n | A sack or bag used for carrying coal. 2. a dark nebula in the Milky Way, esp. one near the Southern Cross. |
| Coalworks | n | A place where coal is dug, inclding the machinery for raising the coal mined. |
| Coane | n. | Chawn, gap, deft, chink |
| Coath | vb. | To swoon, faint. |
| Coathe | n | Pains of childbirth, cothe. |
| Coathed | adj. | Diseased |
| Coathy | adj | Diseased, sick, ill. |
| Cobweb | n | From the Middle English coppeweb, from coppe (“spider”), from attercoppe, from Old English āttercoppe, from ātor (“poison”) + copp (“head”) + web (“web”). 2. a spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads. 2. one of its filaments; gossamer. 3. (fig.) something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish. 4. an intricate plot to catch the unwary. 5. (internet, rare, slang) 6. a web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited. 7. the European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata. |
| Cobweb | n | Fig. fanciful, finespun reasoning. 2. a thing of flimsy, unsubstanstive nature. |
| Cobweb | vb | To cover with cobwebs or hanging with cobwebs. |
| Cobweb | phr | "Blow the Cobwebs Away" - refresh oneself (in the open air). |
| Cobweb | phr | "Have a Cobweb in the Throat" - to be thirsty with a desire to drink. |
| Cobwebbed | adj | Covered with cobwebs. 2. covered with thick interwoven cover. 2. pubesence 3. arachnoid. |
| Cobwebby | adj | Full of cobwebs; covered with cobwebs. 2. resembling cobwebs; of the nature of cobwebs. 3. thick, confused, of thought or reasoning. |
| Cobwebless | adj | Lacking or without cobwebs. |
| Cobweblike | adj | Characteristic, resembling or like cobwebs. |
| Cobweb morning | n | A misty morning. |
| Cobweb-spider | n | Any species of the world-spanning family 'theridiidae', that build tangle space webs, and have a comb of serrated bristles on the tarsus of the fourth leg. |
| Cobweb morning | n | Misty weather. |
| Cock | n | Game bird of the male gender, the cockbird, esp. of the pheasant. 2. a male bird, especially a domestic fowl; rooster. 3. a male chicken or other gallinaceous bird. 4. a male pigeon. 5. vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. 6. a chief man; a leader or master. 7. the crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow. |
| Cock | phr | "Cock an Ear" - erect one's ear. 2. start to listen attentively. 3. have one's interest aroused by something heard. |
| Cock | phr | "Cock of the Walk" - a person in a group who exercises most authority in it, whom the others obey, defer to, and are careful to keep on good terms with. |
| Cock | phr | "Cock Up Your Head" - lift or turn up your head. |
| Cock | phr | "Cock Your Eye" - to shut one eye and look withe the other n a smewhat cheeky fashion; to glance at questioningly. |
| Cock | phr | "Every Cock Crows on its Own Dunghill" - it is very easily to brag of your deeds on your own patch when safe from the danger and not likely to be put to proof. |
| Cock | phr | "Live Like fighting Cocks" - to live in luxury. 2. fighting cocks were highly fed to increase heir mettle and powers of endurance. |
| Cock | phr | "That Beats Cock-fighting" - that is most extraordinary and improabable. |
| Cock | n | Hill, usually in place names as 'Cockham.' |
| Cockcrow | n | The time of day at which the first crow of the rooster is heard; dawn, daybreak, first light; sunrise, dayrew; sun-up. |
| Cocked | adj | Tilted, slanted, oblique, askewed. |
| Cocker | n | OE: coccor, originally, a receptacle; a case for arrows, a quiver. 2. casing for the legs. 3. gaiters or legging. 4. coarse stockings. 5. cf 'quiver' |
| Cock-eyed | adj | Having both eyes facing inwards. 2. crooked or askewed. 3. absurd, silly, or stupid, usu. in reference to ideas rather than people. 4. drunk. |
| Cockfight | n | Contest, in a cockpit, between game roosters fitted with cockspurs. |
| Cockfight | vb | To participate in (as a rooster) or organize and run as a gambler or bookie) a cockfighting event. |
| Cockily | adv | In a cocky manner: arrogantly, extremely confidently, boastfully. |
| Cockiness | n | The quality of being cocky; overly confident, arrogant and boastful. 2. strutting like a rooster. |
| Cockle | n | Darnel, sleepies: plants whose seeds have or produce a narcotic effect. 2. injurious plant growing amongst corn (tares). 3. corn-cockles. |
| Cock-of-the-walk | n | A proud or conceited person. |
| Cockscomb | n | The fleshy red crest of a rooster; coxcomb. 2. a conceited fop or dandy. |
| Cocksparrow | n | A male sparrow. 2. a quarrelsome, confident, somewhat arrogant person. |
| Cock up | phr | "To Cock up One's Ears." - to prick up, raise up, or listen attentively. |
| Cod | n | A bag, scrip. 2. a civet bag or musk bag. 3. a husk or outer covering of any fruit or seed. 4. pod, husk or seed vessel of a plant, esp. of peas, beans and their ongeners. 5. the belly, stomach. 6. scrotum; cocoon. 7. the center of a spider's web. |
| Cod | vb | To produce cods or pods. |
| Codded | adj | Having or bearing pods |
| Codder | n. | Leather-worker, saddler |
| Codweed | n | Centaurea nigra. |
| Cofe | adv | OE cove, cafe, cof. - quickly, sharply, eagerly, promptly, soon. |
| Cold | n | (Of a thing) Having a low temperature. 2. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold. 3. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort. 4. unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling. 5. dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial. 6.completely unprepared; without introduction. 7. unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness. 8. (usually with "have" or "know" ): perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart. 9. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for. 10. (obs.) not pungent or acrid. 11.(obsolete) unexciting; dull; uninteresting. 12. affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour. 13. (obs.) Not sensitive; not acute. 14. distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. 15. (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour. synonyms: (of a thing, having a low temperature): chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool. 16. (of the weather): nippy, parky, taters
(of a person or animal). 17. (unfriendly): aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming. 18.(unprepared): unprepared, unready. 19. (medicine) a common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever; (illness): common cold, coryza, head cold. |
| Cold | adv | With no warmth. |
| Cold | adj. | Feeling no warmth |
| Cold | phr | "A Cold Day In Hell" - something that will not happen or is never likely to happen, (Before hell freezes over) |
| Cold | phr | "Be a Cold Fish" - to be an unemotional person. |
| Cold | phr | "Be in a Cold Sweat" - to be afraid. |
| Cold | phr | "Be Stone Cold" - very cold. |
| Cold | phr | "Blow Hot and Cold" - alternate. |
| Cold | phr | "Cold All Over" - fright. |
| Cold | phr | "Cold as Ice" - very cold; unemotional and unfeeling of response. |
| Cold | phr | "Cold as the Light of Day" - common, sensical, logical analysis. |
| Cold | phr | "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" - having cold hands is an indication of warm-heartedness, used as a quick response if one finds that the hands of another are cold. |
| Cold | phr | "Come In From Out of the Cold" - to gain widespread acceptance in a group or society, esp. where there was not any before. 2. return to safety and shelter. 3. come in out of the rain. |
| Cold | phr | "Get Cold Feet" - to lose one's nerve; to have doubts about taking on an activity. |
| Cold | phr | "Give Someone the Cold Shoulder" - to treat with neglect and disdain. |
| Cold | phr | "Have A Handshake Like a Cold Fish" - to have a handshake lacking vigour, or emotion. |
| Cold | phr | "In Cold Blood" - to do deliberately and without excitement or sudden passion. 2. in a cold unemotional way. |
| Cold | phr | "In the Cold light of Day" - in an unemotional atmosphere at a later stage. |
| Cold | phr | "Leave Out in the Cold" - to be intentionally neglected, to be left care for oneself. |
| Cold | phr | "Leave Someone's Cold" - be unaffected (emotionally). |
| Cold | phr | "Send a Cold Shiver Down Someone's Spine" - to horrify a person. |
| Cold | phr | "Throw Cold Water On"- of a suggestion, ideas, emotion, achievement, etc. - to belittle or dismiss, cast doubt upon, debunk. 2. be unenthusiastic about something. |
| Cold-blood | n | Blood(physically) cold or not warmer than the external air or water; esp. said of fish & reptiles. |
| Cold-blooded | adj. | Having blood(physically) cold or not warmer than the external air or water; esp. said of fish & reptiles. 2. without excitement, feelings or sensibility; deliberately cruel; ruthless, merciless, heartless, dispassionately. 3. without compunction or human feeling. |
| Cold-bloodedness | n | An abscence of concern for others feelings or sufferings; cold-hearted, cold-heartedness, emotionless. |
| Cold bloodly | adj | In a manner without concern for the feeling and welfare of others; unemotionally. |
| Cold-bloodness | n | State of being cold-blooded, having an unregulated temperature; ectothermic. 3. state of lacking emotion or compunction. |
| Cold boot | vb | To reboot a computer by turning it and on. |
| Cold call | n | A sales call either by phone or in person made without referral or request by the recipient. |
| Cold calling | n | The calling of someone without preparation or referral. 2. a sales call unsolicited. |
| Cold chill | n | An ague fit. |
| Cold chips | n | Potato chips, ccrisp. |
| Cold fish | n | An emotionless person. 2. a heartless individual person, one lacking emotion. 3. (sl) a sexual partner who, during copulation, lacks vigour and emotional reciprocity. |
| Cold fish handshake | n | A handshake lacking vigour and emotional reciprocity. |
| Cold-handed | adj | Unemotional, lacking or without feeling. |
| Cold-handedness | n | State of being cold-handed. |
| Coldheaded | adj. | Wanting in sensibility or natural affection; unkind. |
| Cold-hearted | adj. | To be aloof and unfeeling. 2. cruel, mean or unmoved. |
| Cold-heartedly | adv | In a cold-hearted manner. |
| Cold-heartedness | n | State of being cold-hearted or without sympathy, feeling of compassion, callous, or heartless. |
| Coldish | adj | Somewhat cold, rather cold. |
| Coldishly | adv | In a somewhat cold-hearted or unfeeling, unemotional manner. |
| Coldlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a cold (viral illness) |
| Coldliness | n | The realtive lack of heat. 2. the sensation resulting from exposure to low temperature. 3. having limited enthusiasm, coolness. |
| Coldly | adj | In a cold manner or state. 2. calmly, cooly, dispassionately. 3. without ardour, enthusiasm. 4. without heat, impatience. |
| Cold meat | n | (slang) a corpse. |
| Cold meat box | n | (slang) a coffin. |
| Cold meat cart | n | (slang) a hearse. |
| Coldness | n | The state or condition of being cold. 2. the lack of heat. 3. the sensation resulting from exposure to low temperatures. 4. limited or little enthusiasm or affection, coolness. |
| Cold one | n | Slang term for a beer. |
| Cold read | n | Performance of a script without preparation. 2. the act of cold reading. 2. cold-reading. |
| Cold read | vb | To perform a script without preparation. |
| Coldrife | adj | Full of cold. |
| Cold room | n | A room that is used to chill or freeze food stuffs. |
| Cold sell | n | To make a sale to a client who is not the primary target of a sales pitch. 2. a sale made by phone to a person ('cold call') made without referral or request by the recipient. |
| Cold selling | n | The act of making a sale to a client who is not the primary target of a sales pitch. |
| Cold-short | adj | Brittle when cold, said of metals, such as iron. |
| Cold shot | adj | Brittle when cold, as metal. |
| Cold shoulder | phr. | To Give Someone the Cold Shoulder" -ostentatiously ignore someone; as in, to give someone the cold shoulder |
| Cold sleep | n | A deep sleep during which the body is stored at a very cold temperature to preserve it, cryonic sleep. 2. suspended animation, hibernation. |
| Cold sore | n | A small sore or blister on the lip, resulting from infection by the herpes virus. |
| Cold start | n | An attempt to start a vehicle engine when it is cold. 2. a military doctrine designed to make a rapid and limited penetration into enemy territory. It is not a plan for comprehensive invasion or occupation. 3. a colder than usually start to a season, as 'a cold start to winter.' 4. in computing, the reloading of a program or operating system. |
| Cold Steel | n | An edged sword. |
| Cold sweat | n | A physical condition of concurrent perspiration and chill; it maybe associated with fever or anxiety and stress. |
| Cold War | n | The unfriendly relations between the communist nations and the capitalist nations. |
| Coldware | n | Appliances and equipment used in the refrigeration of food and beverages etc. |
| Cold water | adj | Designating a room, apartment, flat, that is not provided with hot water or sometimes a bathroom, as a 'cold water flat.' |
| Cold wave | n | A short period of very cold weather; a cold snap. |
| Cole | n | Generic name for Brassica. 2. pottage. |
| Colewort | n | Originally, a general name for any plant of the cabbage kind, genus Brassica. |
| Collow | vb. | To make black or dirty with soot or coal dust. 2. to blacken, smut, begrime |
| Collow | n. | Soot, smut, grime of coal, coal dust. |
| Collowed | adj | Covered with smut, soot and general grime. |
| Collowing | n | The condition of becoming covered in soot and/ or grime. |
| Colly | vb | To blacken in character, blacken, denigrate. 2. to make black with blows; beat, thrash. |
| Colt | n | A young horse. 2. a cunning fellow, cheat. 3. a third swarm of bees in summer. 4. youthful tastes or desires; inclination to wantoness. |
| Colt | vb | To frisk and run wild as a colt (usu. implying wantonness. 2. to befool, cheat, take. 3. to swarm a third time as bees in summer. |
| Colthood | n | The state or quality of being a colt. 2. the colt stage ogf life. |
| Coltish | adj | Of, pertaining to, or resembling a colt or colts. 2. transfig. wild, friskly, untrained, untamed. 3. lustful, salacious, wanton. |
| Coltishly | adv | In a manner wildly unrestrained, wantonly, untamed. |
| Coltishness | n | The state or quality of being untamed, wild frisky, wanton. |
| Coltsfoot | n | Tussilage forfora. |
| Comb | n | A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. 2. machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. 3. fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest, cocckscomb; (skin on head of birds): caruncle, snood, wattle. 4. structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb. 5.an old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter. 6. the top part of a gun’s stock. 7. the toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings. 8. (music) the main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached. 9. a former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre. 10. toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser. 11. the notched scale of a wire micrometer. 12. the collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. 13. one of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions. 14. the curling crest of a wave; a comber. 15. toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis. 16. (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave. |
| Comb | vb | Especially of hair or fur): to groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb. 2. to separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
3. to search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb. 4. to roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves. 5. to comb out, disentangle. |
| Comb | phr | "Comb Out" - remove knots, tangles in hair and fibers. |
| Combe | n | A long, narrow hill or ridge having steep sides. 2. crest or ridge of roof. 3. crest of a house. |
| Combed | adj | Of hair, wool and other fibres: combed or groomed. 2. searched, or gone through thoroughly. 3.disentangled. |
| Comber | n | A person who, or a machine that which combs wool or other fibres. 2. a long running wave breaking on the shore. |
| Combing | n | The act of combing. 2. combing etc. fragments of hair rmoved with a comb. |
| Comb-footed-spider | n | A spider of the Therididae family, which has combed-like structure on their hindmost feet. |
| Combless | adj | Without or lcking a comb, as some birds. |
| Comblike | adj | Resembling or like a comb in some aspects. |
| Comb-maker | n | The maker of arious types of combs. |
| Come | n | Arrival, coming, advent. 2. applied to the flow or flood or come of water. |
| Come | vb | To move from further away to nearer to. 2. to move towards the speaker. 3. to move towards the listener. 4. to move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence. 5. to move towards the agent or subject of the main clause. 6. to move towards an unstated agent. 7. to arrive. 8. to appear, to manifest itself. 9. to take a position to something else in a sequence. 10. to approach a state of being or accomplishment. 11. (fig., with to) to take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something. 12. to become, to turn out to be. 13. to be supplied, or made available; to exist. 14. (slang) to carry through; to succeed in. 15. happen. 16. to have a social background. 17. to be or have been a resident or native, as 'where did you come from?' 18. to have been brought up by or employed by. |
| Come | prp | Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time. |
| Come | intj | An exclamation to express annoyance. 2. an exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request. |
| Come | phr | "As Tough As They Come" - typically or supremely as tough as they come. |
| Come | phr | "Come Aboard" - board, come on board (esp. a ship or plane). 2. |
| Come | phr | "Come About" - happen, occur, take place. 2. change direction of movement. 3. |
| Come | phr | "Come Above (another)" - to be thought of in a better light. |
| Come | phr | "Come After" - follow in sequence, succeed, replace. 2. to pursue, follow in pursuit, track, seek. |
| Come | phr | "Come Again" - be reborn, come a second time, repeat what you said; pardon. |
| Come | phr | "Come Alive" - become interested or interesting ; show animation, purpose. |
| Come | phr | "Come Along" - present oneself, come along. 2. to move onward, hurry up (to or with a speaker), often used as an exhortation. |
| Come | phr | "Come Along to" - come from one place to another, often a short distance. |
| Come | phr | "Come A Long Way" - make considerable progress or improvement. |
| Come | phr | "Come Along With" an instruction, request to move somewhere quickly. |
| Come | phr | "Come Amiss" - be unwelcome, unsuitable. |
| Come | phr | "Come and Go" - to leave and return; arrive and depart; move in and move out; to wander without an aim. 2. comings and goings. |
| Come | phr | "Come As One" - pay a visit , attend a function or performance without dressing formally, without taking any special pains about one's appearance. |
| Come | phr | "Come At" - reach, ascertain facts, truth, causes. 2. to make a threatening move towards someone or something; attack. |
| Come | phr | "Come Away" - an invitation to someone to enter a room. 2. break off, dislodge. |
| Come | phr | "Come Back" - return to fame or prominence. 2. soon shortly, in a reasonable time. 3. become fashionable again. 4. return (in memory). 5. be restored. |
| Come | phr | "Come Back Empty-handed - to achieve long, fail. |
| Come | phr | "Come Back To" - to return, remember. |
| Come | phr | "Come Back To Earth" - to face reality. 2. come down to earth. |
| Come | phr | "Come Before" - to precede. 2. to stand before, as alleged offender before a court. 3. be presented for consideration, decision, judgement. 4. have greater importance than something else. |
| Come | phr | "Come Beneath" - to be in a less successful position. 2. to be considered inferior to another or others. |
| Come | phr | "Come Beside" - to approach and become beside or parallel with another. |
| Come | phr | "Come Between" - lit. to be in-between two persons. 2. fig. to interfere in the affairs of, etc as to break up a romance of lovers. 3. to have a position between one thing and another. 4. to cause a relationship to be less close. 5. prevent somebody from doing or enjoying something. |
| Come | phr | "Come By" - pass, especially of something or somebody towards the speaker. 2. obtain usually as a result of effort, as job, wealthy, a rare coin. 3. receive by accident; happen to get. |
| Come | phr | "Come Clean (with some about something)" - to be honest about something; confess everything. 3. tell the truth often about something you wish to keep secret. |
| Come | phr | "Come, Come" - used to urge somebody to be sensible, to talk to, behave reasonably, with a stronger suggestion of reproach or rebuke, than; come now. |
| Come | phr | "Come Down" - collapse, fall in on, drop, fall. 2. fall to the ground as an aircraft. 3. be reduced in price, weight, costs, expenditure. 4. reach a decision, decide to exert one's influence. 5. come to a place to live. |
| Come | phr | "Come Down (from)" - leave a University, college etc. |
| Come | phr | "Come Down in the World" - suffer a change for the worse in one's economic circumstance, economic conditions; become needy, somewhat poor. |
| Come | phr | "Come Down On" - reprimand, rebuke, criticize, or punish severely; come down hard on. 2. voice one's opposition, oppose; have your opinion on something. 4. demand financial redress. |
| Come | phr | "Come Down the Pike" - appear, become prominent: to happen, occur, appear. |
| Come | phr | "Come Down On The Side Of" - make a choice or decision in favour of. |
| Come | phr | "Come Down To" - mean in essence; boil down to, reduce to a simpler form. 2. have one's standard of living, self-confidence etc reduced to a level normally beneath one . 3. pass on to, as myths, legends, stories, traditions. |
| Come | phr | "Come Down to Earth" - return to reality. 2. comeback to earth. |
| Come | phr | "Come Down To Us" - to be handed down or bequeathed (from previous generations.) |
| Come | phr | "Come Down Upon" - to reproach, to punish severely, to make a peremptory. |
| Come | phr | "Come Down With Us" - to travel together to a specific location. |
| Come | phr | "Come Fast and Thick" - see 'come thick and fast.' |
| Come | phr | "Come For (something or someone)" - to arrive to get something. 2. to arrive to convey someone another location. 3. to come to kill someone. |
| Come | phr | "Come Forth" - to advance out of a place of shyness. 2. come out, emerge; be produced often as an encouraging or challenging. 3. emerge, as of an idea, opinion, proposal suggestion. |
| Come | phr | "Come Forward" - to approach, come from the background to the front. 2. to present or make oneself known before the public, tribunal, or the like. 3. to make advances; progress. 4. to undertake as a volunteer. 5. raise for discussion at a meeting. |
| Come | phr | "Come From" - to come from or originate from somewhere. 2. be a native of; be a product or result of. 3. be descended from. |
| Come | phr | "Come From Behind" - to improve one's position relatie to the position of another person or thing. 2. to advance from a losing position. 3. advance from the rear on a losing position. |
| Come | phr | "Come From Far and Wide" - come from everywhere. 2. to arrie from many positions and directions. |
| Come | phr | "Come From Nowhere" - to come as a surprise with no warning. |
| Come | phr | "Come From the Shadows" - to come from obscurity. |
| Come | phr | "Come Good" - prove eventually to be helpful, talented or successful. |
| Come | phr | "Come Hell and High Water" - to do something no matter what happens. |
| Come | phr | "Come Hither" - flirtatious, seductive. |
| Come | phr | "Come Home To" - to be affected by a previous(bad) action. 2 be painfully clear. |
| Come | phr | "Come In" - enter hither, esp. into a house or enclosure. 2. to enter the arena or field. 2. be fashionable. 3. become seasonable or available, as fruit. 4. gain power. 5. finish in an event or contest. 6. receive an income. 7. move towards the land. 8. receive a story, radio communication, commentary, details, news, information, news, news broadcast, etc. 9. |
| Come | phr | "Come in For" - to be inclined among those who receive a share of anything. 2. to receive incidentally. 3. to attract or e the object of. |
| Come | phr | "Come In For It" - to incur punishment or rebuke. |
| Come | phr | "Come In From the Cold" - to gain widespread acceptance in a group or society, esp. where there was not any before. 2. return to safety and shelter. 3. come in out of the rain. |
| Come | phr | "Come in Handy" - to be, prove or find useful or opportune. |
| Come | phr | "Come In On" - join, have a share or part in. |
| Come | phr | "Come In On the Ground Floor" - join a venture at the start. |
| Come | phr | "Come Into" - to enter some enclosed place or area. 2. to get something by good fortune; to receive money or property from someone who has died; inherit; inheritance. 3. to attain some state or condition. 4. to accede to power or office. |
| Come | phr | Come Into Being" - to come into existence. 2. to be created, start, begin or established. |
| Come | phr | "Come Into Blossom" - open, show in bloom. |
| Come | phr | "Come Into Its (or Ones) Own" - show at ones best; achieve rightful recognition. 2. get rightful possession of something. |
| Come | phr | "Come Into Leaf" - of a bud, leaf, on a bush: appear, show itself. |
| Come | phr | "Come Into Line* with" - conform with the rules etc of a movement, party etc. |
| Come | phr | "Come Into One's Head" - to come to one, to realize, to come into one's knowledge. |
| Come | phr | "Come Into One's Own" - reach fulfillment of one's own personality, capabilities. |
| Come | phr | "Come Into Play" - become involved, start to have an influence. |
| Come | phr | "Come Into Sight" -appear, become visible. |
| Come | phr | "Come Into Something" - to receive money, or property from someone who has died. |
| Come | phr | "Come Into the Open" - be frank, speak freely, become obvious, made public. |
| Come | phr | "Come Into the World" - to be born. |
| Come | phr | "Come In With" - to overtake, to meet, fall in with. 2. join someone in a n undertaking, partnership, firm. |
| Come | phr | "Come Near To" - to approach in person, order, qualities, etc. 2. to come nigh. |
| Come | phr | "Come Now" - used as mild expression or reproach, urging somebody to be sensible, to talk or behave reasonably. |
| Come | phr | "Come of" - be descended from. 2. be the result. |
| Come | phr | "Come Off" - fall from, be detached from, be removable. 2. happen, fare well or badly. 3. finish, complete; to succeed, achieve. |
| Come | phr | "Come Off It" - you expect me to believe that. 2. not say things which one's knows can't be true. 3. stop trying to mislead others. |
| Come | phr | "Come of Good Stock" - to be descended from a good family. |
| Come | phr | "Come On" - be quick, make an effort, try harder. 2. make progress; grow. 3. leave a place in order to arrive at a destination later than somebody else. 4. be cheerful; pull yourself together. 5. starting up, as a cold coming on. 6. start to rain, snow, thunder. 7. walk on to a stage. 8. take place a certain time. 9. be considered by a court or tribunal. |
| Come | phr | "Come On" - to advance thither forward often implying hostile intent. |
| Come | phr | "Come On Down" - come over and visit me. 2. a more persuasive invitation than 'Come In' |
| Come | phr | "Come One, Come All' - anybody that cares to do so can come, take part, etc; it makes no difference how many people come; if one everyone comes. |
| Come | phr | "Come One's Way" - found, met with, without deliberate attention or effort. |
| Come | phr | "Come Online" - to log on to a computer. |
| Come | phr | "Come On Over" - to pay a casual visit to. |
| Come | phr | "Come On Strong" - emphasis, exaggerate, one's speech or behavior for effect, speak very, unduly, forcefully about something. |
| Come | phr | "Come On to" - begin, start. |
| Come | phr | "Come On Top of" - follow (often as a complicated or aggravating factor). |
| Come | phr | "Come Out" - from a place: emerge, issue. 2. to publish, utter, give vent to; be spoken. 3. stop work, strike. 4. be released from prison. 5. formally enter society. 6. flower, blossom, bloom. 7. appear, become visible. 8. appear in shops, stores. 9. be revealed or shown up clearly. 10. be clear or explicit. 11. emerge, elicited. 12. produce a satisfactory answer. |
| Come | phr | "Come Out At " cost, be calculated at, work out at. |
| Come | phr | "Come Out In" - become (partially) covered with an skin eruption. |
| Come | phr | "Come Out In the Wash" -eventually have a satisfactory outcome |
| Come | phr | "Come Out Of" - to issue or emerge from; leave a place. 2. to be bought or exported from. 4. disappear from a surface with cleaning. |
| Come | phr | "Come Out of One's Ears" - to be plentiful. |
| Come | phr | "Come Out of One's Shell" - to be more confident and less shy. |
| Come | phr | "Come Out of the Woodwork" - to appear after being hidden or not active for a long while, esp. in order to do something unpleasant. |
| Come | phr | "Come Out On Strike" - to take industrial action by leaving one workplace as a protest or demand. |
| Come | phr | "Come Out On the Right Side" - not lose money; experience apositive result. |
| Come | phr | "Come Out On the Wrong Side" - lose money; experience a negative result. |
| Come | phr | "Come Out On Top" - succeed eventually; win, overcome difficulties, prove superior to others. |
| Come | phr | "Come Out Swinging" - to strongly defend about something you believe in. |
| Come | phr | "Come Out To" - leave home for an excursion, drive, walk (with a friend). |
| Come | phr | "Come Out Well" - be revealed as behaving in a good way. 2. achieve a positive result. |
| Come | phr | "Come Out With" - to say, utter, blurt out. |
| Come | phr | "Come Over" - to effect, or become, or make an impression, persuade etc. by assuming a false manner or behavior. 2 visit, usually after a long journey. 3. reach a destination. 4. overtake, seize, effect. 5. suddenly feel sick, faint, weak; dizzy, angry, bad-tempered. |
| Come | phr | "Come Over to" - change side; allegiance. |
| Come | phr | "Come Rain, Come Shine" - whatever the weather is like; what ever happens; in any case, event wet or fine. |
| Come | phr | "Come Right" - have a succesful, happy outcome. |
| Come | phr | "Come Short" - not to be sufficient. |
| Come | phr | "Come Thick and Fast" - to appear repeatedly. 2. come etc in large numbers or great quantity. |
| Come | phr | "Come Through" - to emerge successfully. 2. to survive (an illness, setback etc.) |
| Come | phr | "Come Through On" - make communications with somebody, (by means of); (by); or receive by a message, communication, news. |
| Come | phr | "Come Through the Side Door" - to be born as an illegitmate child. |
| Come | phr | "Come To" - to regain consciousness; awake from sleep and regain awareness. 2. of a boat; heave to. 3. be equal to, reach, a total amount to, of a bill purchase, goods. |
| Come | phr | "Come to a Dead End" - reach a point beyond which no progress can be made. |
| Come | phr | "Come to a Full Stop" - to completely cease activity. |
| Come | phr | "Come To an End" - conclude, terminate, finish. 2. all things good or bad come to an end. 3. come to an untimely end. |
| Come | phr | "Come To a Head" - (fig.) - of a problem: to reach a critical or crucial stage. 2. to reach a stage in a difficult situation when someone takes a strong action to deal with it. |
| Come | phr | "Come to a Standstill" - (of the movement or progress of something): stop or be unable to progress further. |
| Come | phr | "Come To Bear" - something, usually, important that soon or later will impact upon some aspect of ones life. 2. to bring to bear. |
| Come | phr | "Come Together" - to meet, to attend something together, to catch up. 3. to come together in opinion, to agree. |
| Come | phr | "Come to Grips With"- engage in, struggle with a problem, question, disease, life. |
| Come | phr | "Come to Ground" - fall down, as a pole, tent, chimney. |
| Come | phr | "Come to Hand" - obtain, get, have. |
| Come | phr | "Come to Harm" - be hurt, harmed; fall under the bad influence. |
| Come | phr | "Come to It" - reach a state (usually unpleasant) as a result of change in a age, strength, ability, wealth, etc. |
| Come | phr | "Come To Life" - lit. to act as if alive after a time of seeming not to be alive. |
| Come | phr | "Come To Light" - to be discovered, revealed. |
| Come | phr | "Come To Mind" - to remember. |
| Come | phr | "Come To Nothing" - fail, after much endeavor. 2. have no useful or interesting result; be a complete failure. 3. never come to anything. 4. never come to much. |
| Come | phr | "Come To Nought" -fail, after much endeaour. |
| Come | phr | "Come To Oneself" - to begin behaving and thinking like one normally does. 2. come to one's normal state. 3. return to normal consciousness. |
| Come | phr | "Come to One's Feet" - stand up quickly, as an audience, crowd at a match. |
| Come | phr | "Come to Rest" - stop, reach a final position. |
| Come | phr | "Come To Somebody's Help" - give aid, etc to somebody else. |
| Come | phr | "Come To Somebody's Ears" - come to somebody's attention. |
| Come | phr | "Come To Something" - be surprized, strange. |
| Come | phr | "Come to That" - in fact, if this is the case. |
| Come | phr | "Come To the Fore" - fig. to be well-known or prominent, to be important or growing in importance. |
| Come | phr | "Come to the Same Thing(as)" - equal, be equivalent to, one another. |
| Come | phr | "Come To Think of It" - to remember and consider a matter on reflection. 2. now that the person, event etc just mentioned or just about to be mentioned has been thought of or recalled. |
| Come | phr | "Come To This" - to result in a negative situation. 2. reach a certain state or result. |
| Come | phr | "Come To With" - approach, tackle (with) enthusiasm, ardor. |
| Come | phr | "Come to Words" - to argue, dispute. |
| Come | phr | "Come True" - actually happens as foretold, dreamed, hoped for. |
| Come | phr | "Come Under" - classified with, or subordinate to. |
| Come | phr | "Come Undone" to disintegrate; fall to pieces, meet with disaster, come to grief, fall apart (lit. and fig.) |
| Come | phr | "Come Unhinged" - to become deranged or mentally unbalanced. 2,. to be thrown into turmoil and confusion. |
| Come | phr | "Come Unstuck" - fail, or encounter an unexpected problem. 2. met with a mishap, misfortune, reverse. |
| Come | phr | "Come Unto" - to attempt to seduce sexually. |
| Come | phr | "Come Up" - to ascend, rise up, be elevated above the surface. 2. occur, arise, happen; happen by chance. 3. appear above the soil. 3. travel to a place, town etc. 4. arise, be mentioned. 5. come to be considered (by a court); appear in court. 6. vomit, retch, spew. 7. |
| Come | phr | "Come Up Against" - to oppose; be faced with, contest with, knock or bump into. |
| Come | phr | "Come Up As Far As" - reach, extend to the road, chin etc. |
| Come | phr | "Come Up For" - to be eligible for something; to be in line or in sequence for something. 2. be considered as an applicant, candidate. |
| Come | phr | "Come Up for Sale" - come onto the market, become available for purchase. |
| Come | phr | "Come Upon" - find, discover, encounter, come on (by chance). |
| Come | phr | "Come Upon One" - (of something not welcomed): arrive, strike, effect; come on. |
| Come | phr | "Come Up Smelling Roses" - happen in the best, most desired way possible. |
| Come | phr | "Come Up Smiling" - emerge bravely and cheerfully from an unpleasant experience. |
| Come | phr | "Come Up the Hard Way" - reach one's position through hard work. |
| Come | phr | "Come Up To" - equal. 2. encounter. 3. come up to an acceptable level or standard. |
| Come | phr | "Come Up to One's Chin" - as tall as the height of another person's chin. |
| Come | phr | "Come Up With" - to be equal or level with. 2. to bring forth, produce, find 3. discover or produce. 3. to suggest. |
| Come | phr | "Come What May" - no matter what. 2. in spite, disregarding, whatever (else) may happen (while doing something or a result of doing something). |
| Come | phr | "Come Within" -come near enough to be seen, heard, reach. |
| Come | phr | "Have It Coming to One" - deserve what is about to happen. |
| Come | phr | "How Come/" - how did that occur? |
| Come | phr | "If It Comes To That" - in that event. 2. if it is, were, a question of that. |
| Come | phr | "If It Comes To This" - summarized; 'if it comes to this.' |
| Come | phr | "Let Them All Come" - an expression of confidence in the face of a challenge by others. |
| Come | phr | "Not Come to Much" - not do anything of any importance, or consequence. |
| Come | phr | "Not Have Enough Brain to Come In Out of the Rain" - be very stupid or foolish. |
| Come | phr | "Not Know Whether One Is coming Or Going" - be confused. |
| Come | phr | "This is Where We Come In" - our knowledge or knowing dates from this point. 2. we are back where we started. |
| Come | phr | "Until the Cows Come Home" - for a very long time. |
| Come | phr | "When it Comes Down to" - when it is a question of. |
| Come | phr | "When One's Ship Comes In" - when one has plenty of money to spend; largesse, good luck or fortune. |
| Come-again | n | A direction to come again. 2. a deferring of attention. |
| Come-all-Ye | n | A street-ballad, or folksong, whose opening words were 'come all ye maidens; young men, etc.. |
| Come-and-Go | n | A passing backwards and forwards. |
| Comeback | n | An act or retaliation, a reply, a verbal retort. 2. a recovery, return to a former state or position. 3. to stage a comeback, reinstatement to a former position. |
| Come-backer | n | A retaliator. 2. one who retorts or replies. 3. one who makes a comeback to a profession, sport or other cativity. |
| Come-between | n | An intervention, one who or that which intervenes. |
| Comedown | n | A descent, a downfall, a notable reverse. 2. now, esp. a fall ir drop in social or official position or status. |
| Come-hither | n | An invitation to approach, an enticement, as a come-hither look. |
| Come-in | n | An entrance, ingress. 2. an arrival, immigration. |
| Comelily | adv | In a comely manner, prettily, decently, becoming, suiyably. |
| Comeliness | n | The quality of being comely. 2. suitableness, becomingness, seemliness, decency, propriety. |
| Comeling | n | One who has come to a place, as distinguished from its permanent residents. 2. an immigrant, stranger, foreigner, sojourner. |
| Comelingness | n | State of quality of sojourning, immigrating etc. |
| Comely | adj | Fair, pretty, beautiful, nice. 2. of things: expressing decent, sober or quiet beauty. 3. pleasing - in modern use a more homelier style of beauty which pleases, but does not excite admiration. 4. applied to those of noble station, 'as God and Jesus.' 5. pleasing in a moral sense to notions of propriety or esthetic taste, decent, proper, decorous. 6. befitting the purpose, appropriate. |
| Comely | adv | Handsomely, nicely, suitably, in a seemly or becoming manner. |
| Comely-looking | adj | Having comely looks. |
| Comely maidens | n | Young, attractie, nubile women. |
| Comely-wise | adv | In a comely way. |
| Come-off | n | A coming off the field of action. 2. a conclusion, finish-up, an issue. 3. a conclusion of an argument, discourse. 4. a getting-off a task or duty, an evasion, excuse for non-performance. 5. something that has been tried and has 'come-off.' or succeeded. |
| Come-on | n | A swindle, swindling. 2. an inducement, enticement, lure; an invitation to approach. 2.something intended to attract, as in an advertisement.
3. statement or sometimes action reflecting sexual or relational interest. |
| Come-outer | n | One who 'comes out' or separates h/self on principle from an established society or organisation; originally applied to certain religious dissenters or radiacl reformers. |
| Comeover | n | Arrival, approach. |
| Come-'o'-will | n | "Come-of-will" - any person or thing that comes of his own accord without being invited. 2. a plant that springs up spontaneously. 3. a bastard child. 4. a pidgin or trade language. |
| Comer | n | A visitor, an arrival. 2. in combination, first-comer, newcomer, all-comers; up-and-comer. 3. anybody or somebody that comes or chooses to come. 4. a grower or springer-up, said of a plant. 5. a person or animal that shows promise of development or achieving success. |
| Comet | n | Late Old English comēta, from Late Latin, from Latin comētēs, from Greek komētēs, long-haired (star), comet, from komē, hair. A celestial body, observed only in that part of its orbit that is relatively close to the sun, having a head consisting of a solid nucleus surrounded by a nebulous coma up to 2.4 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) in diameter and an elongated curved vapor tail arising from the coma when sufficiently close to the sun. Comets are thought to consist chiefly of ammonia, methane, carbon dioxide, and water. 2. a tail-star. |
| Comet-tail | n | The fiery afterburn of a comet. |
| Comet-year | n | A year in which a notable comet appears, as in Halley's Comet. |
| Coming | n | A sprouting, esp. of barley in malting. 2. that or something that comes; approaching in space in time or space. 3. inclination to make a meeting; an advance, readiness, eagerness, complaisant. 4. a rising in prominence, likelihood to attainment or to distinction. |
| Coming | phr | "Not Know Whether One Is Coming Or Going" - to be confused. |
| Coming | phr | "Have It Coming" - to get what one deserves; to deserve what one gets. |
| Coming | phr | "Not Know Whether One Is Coming Or Going" -be in a state of great confusion, uncertainty. |
| Coming on | adv | Almost, nearly, nigh on. |
| Coming-together | n | A union. 2. a collision. |
| Cook | n. | One whose occupation is the preparation of food for the table. |
| Cook | vb. | To prepare food ; to make it fit for eating by application of heat, as by boiling, roasting, broiling. |
| Cook | phr | "Cook the Books" - an obsolete metaphor for cooking, where ingredients are changed, altered and improved by the process. Thus financial statements can be also be modified to the benefit of the "cook'. 2. to manipulate accounts information, especially illegally. 3. to falsify an account of an event. |
| Cook | phr | "Cook One's Goose" - spoil or ruin one's own or the chance of another of success either in general or in a particular way. |
| Cook | phr | "Cook Up" - concoct, invent, often in haste. |
| Cook | phr | "There are Many Ways to Cook an Egg" - there are many ways to achieve an objective. |
| Cook | phr | "What's Cooking" - what in hand, what's doing. |
| Cookbook | n | A book of recipes with cooking directions. |
| Cookdom | n | The office or position of a cook. 2. the domain of cooks. |
| Cook-chill | n | Of food which has been cooked and refrigerated by the manufacturer ready for reheating by the consumer. |
| Cooked | adj | Of articles of food prepared by heat for eating. 2. combinations, such as half-cooked, ill-cooked, well-cooked. |
| Cooker | n | A stove or other apparatus, designed for cooking. 2. a vessel in which food is cooked. 2. a fruit, etc, that cooks well. 3. one who cooks up or doctors something; manipulation of financial accounts ('to cook the books') 4. (sl) a finisher. |
| Cook-house | n | A building or room in which the cooking is done. 2. an outdoor cooking kitchen. |
| Cooking | n | The act of preparing something (as food)by the application of heat; |
| Cooking-apple | n | An apple siutable for cooking, such as the "Granny Smith: apple." |
| Cooking pot | n | A pot which food is cooked in. |
| 'Cooking-shop | n | an eating house. |
| Cookish | adj | Like a cook. 2. somewhat cooked. |
| Cookless | adj | Without a cook. |
| Cook-off | vb | In military terms: to pull the pin from the grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing it. 3. to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates. 4. to accidentally (or sometimes cause) a grenade to detonate as the result of excess heat. |
| Cookout | n | An outdoor gallery at which food is cooked; barbeque. |
| Cookroom | n | A kitchen. |
| Cookship | n | The function or position of a cook. |
| Cookshop | n | A shop where food is cooked and sold; restaraunt, eating-house. |
| Cook top | n | An assembly of burners for cooking, designed to fit onto the surface, such as the top of a table. |
| Cookware | n | Utensils for cooking , esp. dishes, pans. |
| Cook wench | n | A girl working at a cookshop, restaraunt, eating-house. (beer wench.) |
| Cook up | vb | To prepare a meal. 2. to manufacture, fabricate, to devise an elaborate. 3. to prepare a heroin dose by heating.43. to make a large amount of illegal drugs. |
| Cookware | n | Various objects, such as pots, pans, baking dishes, etc. used for cooking. |
| Cool | n | That which is cool, the cool part, place, time, thus a 'cool breeze,' a light refreshing wind. |
| Cool | vb. | To lose heat, to get colder. 2. to make cooler, less warm. 3.(fig.), to become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. 4. to make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate |
| Cool | adj | Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold. 2. allowing or suggesting heat relief. 3. a cool grey colour. 4. of a person, not showing emotion, calm and in self-control. 5. unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
6. calmly audacious. 7. (informal) of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others. 8. (informal) in fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang. 9. (informal) of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem. 10.(informal) a dismissal of a comment perceived as boring or pointless. 11. (informal) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting. 12 applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. |
| Cool | phr | "Cool Down" - to be cooler, reduced in temperature. 2. to cause to cool down. |
| Cool | phr | "Cool It" - to calm or quiten down. |
| Cool | phr | "Cool off" - become, or make less warm, excited, ardent or interested. |
| Cool | phr | "Cool One's Heels" - to wait, esp. impatiently and restlessly |
| Cool | phr | "Keep a Cool Head' - remain calm. |
| Cool | phr | "Play It Cool" -take a low key and rational approach. |
| Cool box | n | Car-fridge, eskie, ice-chest; chillbin. |
| Cooled | adj | Made cool; lowered in temperature. 2. refrigerated at a lower or reduced state of coolness. |
| Cooler | n | Anything that cools, such as a coolroom, eskie, cool-box, ice-chest, etc. 2. an insulated container with ice and freezer packs to keep ffood and drink cold when camping or other outdoor excursion. 3. a mixed drink, of alcoholic and non-alocoholic contents, served chilled. 4. (sl) a bouncer, ground-controller, doorman, security staff. 5. (sl) prison. |
| Cool-headed | adj | Free from excitement, not easily excited in the mind. 2. having an even temper and being calm and in control. |
| Coolheadedly | adv | In a coolheaded manner |
| Coolheadness | n | The state or characteristic of being coolheaded: having an even temper and being calm and in control. |
| Coolhunter | n | One who observes emerging trends and styles, usually involing street fashion, and sells the data to companies. |
| Coolhunting | n | The observation of emerging trends and styles, usually involing street fashion, as a form of market research. |
| Cooling | n | A decrease in tempature. 2. refrigeration, that which cools. |
| Coolingly | adv | In a cooling manner or way. |
| Cooling tower | n | A large device, in the form of a tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation carried by circulating currents of air. |
| Coolish | adj | Somewhat cool, quite or rather cool. |
| Coolness | n | The state of being cool, as in chilly. 2. the result or product of being cool, as in chilly. 3. the state or result of being cool, as in good or pleasurable. 4. in a state of composure, or control. |
| Coolroom | n | In a laboratory, (chemical) a large cupboard or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long term, stable storage. 2. in a restaurant, (chemical) a large, chilled container or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long term, stable storage of perishable foods. |
| Coolth | n | Coolness. 2. a cold (malady) |
| Coolwort | n | Saxifragacae. |
| Cooly | adj | Of a cool, refreshing quality. |
| Coom | n. | Soot formed on a fireplace (culm), blacksmith furnace, refuse |
| Coom | vb | To begrime with smut, as in soot. |
| Coomy | adj. | Covered or blackened by soot, dust, grime. 2. Soily, smirchy |
| Coomb | n. | Small valley, hollow, deep hollow or valley in Old English times. 2. a valley, a steep short valley running up from the sea coast. |
| Coomb | n | A vessel, cup or perhaps a small measure. 2. brewing tub, vat. 3. a dry measure of capacity, equal to four bushels. |
| Cop | n. | Summit, top, peak, brow, esp of a hill, 2. top of anything, esp. of a hill, 3. the head, crown. 4. bird's crest; crest on the head of a bird. 5. heap, mound, tumulus. 6. ridge. 7. an enclosing mound or bank; a hedge bank. 8. a centre ridge of a butt of ploughed land. 8. spider. |
| Cop | vb | To pile up in a tumulus, heap or mound, to bank up. 2. to plough in ridges. |
| Cop-bone | n. | Kneebone |
| Copen | vb. | Desire eagerly, long for, yearn deeply |
| Copener | n. | Paramour |
| Copped | adj | Haing the head cut off, polled. 2. rising to the top of the head. 3. heaped in tumulus. 4. crested, having a tuft on the head. 5. saucy, peeish, crabbed, heady. |
| Copper | n | from Old English, from Late Latin cuprum, from Latin Cyprium (aes) a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29. 2. a coin, usually of small denomination, made of copper or a copper alloy. 3. chiefly British a large cooking pot made of copper or often of iron. 4. any of various small butterflies of the subfamily Lycaeninae, having predominantly copper-colored wings. |
| Copper | vb | To cover with copper. 2. to sheathe the bottom and sides with copper, as of a ship. |
| Copper | adj | Reddish-brown in colour. 2. made of copper |
| Copper-belt | n | A copper-mining area |
| Copper-bit | n | A soldering-tool pointed with copper. |
| Copper-bottomed | adj | Haing the bottom covered with copper. 2. fig. thoroughly sound, genuine, authentic, trustworthy. |
| Coppered | adj | Of the colour of copper. 2. covered with copper, coated or copper plated. |
| Copperen | adj | Made of copper. |
| Copper-fastened | adj | Fasten with copper bolts. |
| Copper-head | n | A snake with copper coloured head. 2. a nickname given, during the American Civil War, to a northern sympathizer by Secessionists of the south. |
| Copperish | adj | Somewhat coppery in colour. |
| Copperless | adj | Without or lacking in copper. |
| Coppersmith | n | An artificer in copper, one who manufactures copper utensils. |
| Coppersmithing | n | The art of the coppersmith. |
| Coppersmithy | adj | Pertaining to the art of the coppersmith and coppersmithing. |
| Copperware | n | Utensils made of copper. |
| Coppery | adj | Characterized by the presence, quality or application of copper |
| Copse | n. | OE. ? a shackle for any part of the body.Foot-copse: leg iron;Hand-copse: manacle;Wear-copse: neck-copse; 2.Hapse for fastening a gate or door; fastener. |
| Corn | n | The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
2. in US, Canada, Australia, maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays. 3. grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop. 4. small, hard particle. |
| Corn | vb | US, Canada: to granulate; to form a substance into grains. 2. to corn gunpowder. 3. in US, Canada, Australia: to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef. 4. in US, Canada): to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed. 5. to render intoxicated, as 'ale strong enough to corn one.' 6. short for corn snow, a type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and re-freezing, often in mountain spring conditions. as corny, something appealing to country folk in US, Canada something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion. |
| Cornbread | n | Bread made from cornmeal |
| Corn-cockle | n | Lynchis githago. In previous times cockle (tares) was used generally for an intrusive weed that grew in corn fields. |
| Corn-dealer | n | Cornmonger. |
| Corned | adj | Formed into grains or particles, granulated. 2. bearing seeds or grains; having seeds developed. 3. intoxicated. |
| Cornfield | n | A field planted with corn. |
| Cornhouse | n | Granary. |
| Corning | n | The action or process of granulation. 2. pickling with salt, salting. 3. the growing or cultivation of grain. |
| Cornish | adj | Of the corn kind. |
| Corn-loft | n | A granary. |
| Cornmonger | n. | Corndealer, (monger of corn) often contemptous implication of greed and extortion |
| Cornstalk | n | A tough, fibrous of corn (maize), often ground for silage after harvest. 2. in colonial Australia, a young person born in New South Wales of immigrant parents. |
| Corn thistle | n | A perennial herb, Cirsulum arvense |
| Corn-tree | n | OE: corntreow. cornel tree. |
| Corny | adj | As such a type as appeals to country-folk or unsophisticated, tiresomely or ridiculously old-fashioned or sentimental, hackneyed, trite, inferior. 2. producing corny, abounding in corn or grain. 3. intoxicated, tipsy. |
| Cosp | n | OE: cosp - hasp, a shackle |
| Cost | n. | Way, manner, available course, means, contrivance. 2. quality, condition, wont or habit, disposition, kind, charactristic. |
| Cost | n. | The herb called Alecost or Costmary. |
| Costen | vb. | To try, tempt. |
| Costening | n. | Temptation, costnung, testing, trial, tribulation. |
| Cot | n. | Small house, little cottage, a small shelterpoetical connoting smallness, humbleness, (rather than meanness or rudeness expressed by hut.) That is: cot-folk, cot-town. 2. a finger stall |
| Cote | n. | OE: parallel form of cyte: cell. - a small detached house occupied by the poor, and labourers. Note:Cottage: a slight building for the shelter of animals (pigcote, hen-cote, fowl-cote, sheepcote) 2. small building for storage, shed, stall. |
| Cote | vb. | To enclose and shelter animals in a pen, enclosure. |
| Coteful | adj | As much as a cote can hold. |
| Cot-folk | n | Cottar folk |
| Cothe | n | Coathe: the pangs of childbirth. |
| Cothouse | n | Cottage, a small cottage, working man's cottage. 2. a slight shelter, shed, shelter. |
| Cotland | n. | A piece of land (about 5 acres) held by a cotman, cotlander, cotter along with his cot. |
| Cotlif | n. | Life or living, dwelling in a cot, see:mynster-lif: a monastery. 2. a house, cottage, possibly a village. 3. secular life as opposed to religious life.. |
| Cotly | adv | Quickly, keenly, boldly, fiercely |
| Cotman | n | Cottager, cotter; a tenant of a cot(e). |
| Cotquean | n | The housewife of a cot or labourer's hut. 2. opprobriously, a woman to whom the manners of such a housewife are attributed. 3. a scolding, coarse, vulgar, woman, low beldam, beldam, a fish-wife, tinker's wife. 4. a man who acts the housewife; often a man who has been cuckolded by his wife. |
| Cotquean | vb | To play the cotquean, said of a man. |
| Cotqueaned | adj | One, in modern use, a man who acts the housewife. |
| Cotqueanish | adj | Rather or somewhat cotqueaned. |
| Cotquean-like | adj | Characterized or resembling a cotquean. |
| Cotset | n. | Cottage settler, (In Doomesday Book) 2. in OE: a villein who occupied a cot or cottage with an attached plot of land, held by service of labour. |
| Cotted | adj | Dotted or lined with cottages. |
| Cotter | n. | A peasant or tenant who occupies a cottage (cot-house) belonging to a farm (usu. 5 acres) as a sort of out-servant. |
| Cottish | adj | Cotqueanish. |
| Couch-grass | n. | a species of grass,Triticum repens, with long, creeping root-stalks |
| Cough | vb | From Middle English coughen, coghen,apparently from Old English *cohhian (but not recorded) (compare Old English cohhetan (“to shout”)), from Proto-Germanic *kuh-. 1. to push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion; to expectorate, spit, spit up. |
| Cough | n | A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary. 2. a condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough; tussification. |
| Cough | phr | "Cough Up" - give up reluctantly. 2. spit up, expectorate, tussive. |
| Coughy | adj | Pertaining to coughing, tussive, expectorative, spitty. |
| Could | vb | From Middle English coude, from Old English cūþe, past indicative and past subjunctive form of cunnan (“to be able”). The addition of the silent 'l' was likely a misappropriation attempting to normalize with modal verbs will/would and shall/should. However, while the letter l was historically pronounced in the latter two, can never did have an l sound in it. Verb: 1. simple past tense of can. 2. conditional of can. 3. used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact). 4. used to politely ask for permission to do something. 5. used to politely ask for someone else to do something. 6. used to show the possibility that something might happen. 7. used to suggest something. |
| Could | phr | "Could Do With" - I would like to have |
| Could | phr | "Could Do Without" - I don't wish to have. |
| Could | phr | "Could Go Something" - could enjoy something; would like to have something, esp food or drink. |
| Could | phr | "Could Swear (that)" - perfectly sure (that). |
| Couldn't | vb | Negative form of 'could.' |
| Couldn't | phr | "Couldn't Care Less" - used to express an uncaring opinion. |
| Coulter | n. | The iron blade fixed at the front of a share plough; also attributively. |
| Coulterneb | n. | The local name for thePuffin, so called because of the shape of its bill. |
| Court | n. | In OE. an assembly held by the sovereign at his residence. From OF. |
| Courtleet | n. | Court record. 2. a court district or jurisdiction or district which jurisdiction extends. See: court. |
| Couth | adj. | A back -formation of 'uncouth' - as of a quality of things: known, (wide couth: well known, familiar, famous, acquainted, renown. 2. of persons and their actions: kind, affable, agreeable, pleasant, well-mannered. 3. comfortable, smug, cosy. antonym: uncouth. |
| Couth | adv | Clearly, manifestingly, familiarly. |
| Couthily | adv | In a clear, manifestily manner |
| Couthiness | n | Friendliness, familiarity, affability. 2. renownness, agreement, pleasance. 3. acquaintance. 4. smugness, cosiness, complacency. |
| Couthlike | adj | Characteristic of friendship, kindness, etc. |
| Couthly | adv | Familarly, friendly, kindly, as a friend. 2. in the knowledge of being familiar. |
| Couth-ut-laughe | n | Couth-out-law: a term applied to a person knowingly harbouring or concealing an outlaw, or perhaps, more properly the offence of doing so. |
| Couthy | adj | Action as befits a person well known to everyone. 2. full of friendly familarity warm and friendly, kindly, pleasantly, genial. 3. of things: agreeable, pleasant, nice. |
| Cove | n. | In a rock hollow or recess in a rock. 2. recess in a precipitious mountain side. 3. Sheltered place or recess in forest, hills, woods. 4. cell in a pigeon coup. 5. a nook. |
| Cow | n. | The female of the domestic or of any bovine animal. The female of some other large animals, eg, elephant, whale. |
| Cow | phr | "Till the Cows Come Home" - not for a very long time, if not at all. |
| Cow | phr | "The Cow With An Iron Tail" - a pump. |
| Cowbane | n | Any of the several related poisonous plants of the genus, Cicuta; esp. the water hemlock. |
| Cowberry | n | Vaccinum vitis; foxberry. |
| Cowed | adj | Depressed or disappointed through fear; overrawed. |
| Cow-fish | n | One of the various cetaceans, as a grampus, dolphins. 2. a trunk-fish. 3. a sirenian. |
| Cowflesh | n | Beef. |
| Cowhand | n | An worker who manages the general day to day handling of cows. |
| Cow-hearted | adj. | Faint-hearted, timorous, meek and mild; cowardly. |
| Cowherd | n | Cows in a herd or group. |
| Cow-herder | n | One who herds or drives cows to specific locations; a drover. |
| Cowhide | n | The skin of or outer dermic layer of a cow. |
| Cowhiding | n | The process and preparation of turning cowhides into leather. |
| Cowhouse | n | A building where cows are keeped for shelter and safety. 2. a milking shed. |
| Cowing | n | Overawing, intimidation. |
| Cowish | adj | Like a cow, characteristic of a cow. 2. somewhat or rather fearful, afraid, meekish. |
| Cowkeeper | n | A diary man and/or beef farmer. |
| Cowl | n. | A garment with a hood, esp worn by monks; occasionally the hood alone. Sometimes: a monk. |
| Cowled | adj | Furnished with or wearing a cowl. |
| Cowlish | adj | Characteristic of a monk, monkish. 2. adorned or attired in a cowl. |
| Cow-leech | n. | Cow doctor |
| Cowlness | n | The state of wearing a cowl. 2. monkhood. |
| Cowmilk | n | Milk produced by a cow or cows in herd. |
| Cowpath | n | A track used by cows usually leading to a milking-shed; a cowper. |
| Cowshard | n. | Cowdung, sheard, sharn |
| Cowshed | n | A shed or house where cows are kept. |
| Cowslip | n. | Cow-dung. 2. the common name ofPrimula veris, a well known wild plant in pastures and grassy banks. also some plants of the genus 'carduus lanceolatus' |
| Cow's-lungwort | n | Mullein, fellwort, flannel leaf. |
| Cow-shard | n | Cow dung, cow turd, cowslip. 2. cow dung; cow-sharn. |
| Cow soapwort | n | Cowherb |
| Cow tree | n | One of several trees yielding a milky juice which can be used as a food, mostly in South America. |
| Cowy | adj | Bovine; pertaining to a cow, characteristic of cows. |
| Cowyard | n | A yard or enclosure where cows are held. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Cud | n. | The food or substance which a ruminating animal brings back into the mouth from the first stomach. 2. pabulum, that which is digested; information- mushy political prose. (lit & fig) |
| Cud | phr | To Chew the (one's)Cud: to recall & reflect on things past; ruminate. 2. any substance (such as tobacco, chewing gum) used by somone t keep in their mouth and chew. |
| Cudchew | vb | To reuninate or chew as cud. |
| Cudchewer | n | A ruminate. |
| Cud-chewing | n | Ruminating. |
| Cudgel | n. | A short thick stick used as a weapon; a club. (fig & transfig.) [Perhttps://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/cudgel , its origin is "Old English cycgel, of unknown origin."] |
| Cudgel | vb | To beat with a cudgel, thrash. |
| Cudgel | phr | "Cudgel One's Brain" - think hard about a problem. |
| Cudgel | phr | Take Up the Cudgel for Someone: to defend someone. |
| Cudgelled | adj | Beaten with a cudgel, attacked and thrashed. |
| Cudgeller | n | One who used a cudgel to beat another (lit & fig.) |
| Cudgelling | n | The wielding of a cudgel, including with cudgels. |
| Cudwort | n. | The plant or wort usu. naphalium given to cattle that had lost their cud; cudweed. |
| Cuff | n. | A mitten or glove. 2. ornamental part of the bottom of the sleeve. |
| Cuff | vb. | To strike with the hand or deal blows. 2. to handcuff. |
| Culver | n. | A dove; now the local name of wood pigeon in parts of England. 2. a vessel shaped like a dove. 3. appellation of tender care. |
| Culverwort | n | The plant or wort 'Columbine.' |
| Cummin | n. | An umbelliferous plant, (Cummin cyminum)resembling fennel; cultivated for its fruit or seed, which is aromatic and carminative. AlsoBlack cummin,& Wild cummin |
| Cun | vb | OE: cunne : OS: to learn. Cun(ne) came was found nearly to 1600, in probability a blending of the verbs can and cunian with this verb In OE: to learn, to know, inquire into, explore, investigate, test, try, material of. 2. to try to do something. 3. to get to know, study, learn. |
| Cunning | n | Not in Old English: From Middle English cunning, kunnyng, partially from Old English *cunning (verbal noun), from cunnan (“to know how to, be able to”); partially from Old English cunnung (“knowledge, trial, probation, experience, contact, carnal knowledge”), from cunnian (“to search into, try, test, seek for, explore, investigate, experience, have experience of, to make trial of, know”. (obsolete) Knowledge; learning; special knowledge (sometimes implying occult or magical knowledge. 2. practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity. 3. practical skill employed in a secret or crafty manner; craft; artifice; skillful deceit. 4. the disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful. 4. the natural wit or instincts of an animal, as the cunning of the fox or hare; foxship. |
| Cunning | phr | "Cunning as a Fox" - sly and scheming, especially in plotting for one's own advantage or in escaping the consequences of wrongdoing. |
| Cup | n. | Small open vessel for liquids; drinking vessel. Chalice in which the wine is administered at the Communion. |
| Cup | vb. | To supply with cups. 2. to receive or catch liquid in a cup. 3. to form a cup. 4. to bleed by means of a cupping-glass. |
| Cup | phr | "Between the Cup and the Lip" - while the thing is in the hand, it is on the very point off being achieved. |
| Cup | phr | "Cup and Can" - constantly associates the cup being filled from the can. |
| Cup | phr | "One's Cup is Full" - one's joy, happiness, satisfaction is complete. |
| Cupbearer | n | One who ceremonially fills and hands the cup in a drink is served. |
| Cupboard | n. | A board ot table to place cups and plates on; a sideboard. 2. a closet or cabinet with shelves for keeping cups, dishes, provisions. 2. food, provisions. |
| Cupboard | vb. | To keep in a cupboard. 2. to place or shut up in a cupboard. |
| Cupboard | phr | "Cupboard is Bare" - the wished-for resources are just not available. |
| Cupboardful | adj | As much as a cupboard will hold. |
| Cupboardless | adj | Without a cupboard or cupboards. |
| Cup-eyed | adj | Eyes shaped like a cup: big and round. |
| Cup-friendship | n | A very short, fragile friendship -between two cup-shotten or intoxicates people. 2. a one night stand between two people intoxicated (not with love). |
| Cupful | adj | The amount necessary to make a cup full. |
| Cup-god | n | God's vessel of wrath: a vessel pouring out God's judgement on the nations. The nations drinking from the 'cup of wrath' often depicting the nations as lost in drunkenness. |
| Cupless | adj | Without a cup or cupless. |
| Cuplike | adj | Resembling a cup; concave. |
| Cup love | n. | Love displayed for the sake of what one can get by it. |
| Cupmaker | n | One who makes cups and crockery for a living. |
| Cupped | adj | Shaped, formed or hollowed like a cup; cup-shaped. 2. lying as if in a cup. |
| Cuppiness | n | State or condition of being cuppy. |
| Cupping | n | The operation of drawing blood by scarifying the skin and applying a cup, the air in which is rarified by heat or otherwise. 2. the application of a cupping glass without scarification or counter irritant. 3. the formation of a concavity; a concavity thus formed. 4. a drinking bout, drinking. |
| Cupping-glass | n | A glass cup with an open mouth, to be applied to the skin in the operation of cupping. |
| Cup-shaped | adj | Shaped or concaved like a cup. |
| Cup-shotten | adj | intoxicated, cup-shot. |
| Cuppy | adj | Concaved like a cup. |
| Curd | n | The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese. 2. the part of any liquid. 3. the edible flower head of certain brassicacecous plants. [Perhttps://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/curd , however, this word's origin is "Late Middle English: of unknown origin."] |
| Curd | vb | To form curds; to curdle. 2. to cause to coagulate or thicken. 3. to cause to congeal; curdle. [See "curd", above.] |
| Curd-cheese | adj | Cottage cheese: see 'curds and whey.' |
| Curded | adj | Formed into curds or curd-like mass, coagulated or congealed. |
| Curding | n | The process of forming curds. 2. congealing, coagulating, curdle; curdling. |
| Curdle | n | The act of curdling. |
| Curdle | vb | To form milk into curds. |
| Curdle | phr | "Curdle the Blood" - to make the blood run cold with fear or horror. |
| Curdled | adj | Form int curds, coagulated or congealed. |
| Curdless | adj | State or quality of not having or being without curds. |
| Curdly | adv | Apt to curdle, or of a curdled nature or appearance. |
| Curds and Whey | n | Cottage cheese - a curd cheese product with a mild flavour it is not pressed so some whey remains. |
| Curdy | adj | Full of curds or pertaining to curds. 2. full of curd-like coagulation. 3. resembling curdling milk; curd-like in consistency. |
| Curse | n./vb. | To utter against (a person or thing) words which consign them to evil. 2. to damn. blaspheme, speak impiously against. [This word first appeared in Old English, with roughly the same meaning, but does not appear to be of Germanic origin, and its origin is actually unknown. Perhttps://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/curse , its origin is "Old English, of unknown origin." Specifically for the noun, perhttp://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=curse , its origin is: "late Old Englishcurs 'a prayer that evil or harm befall one,' of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old Frenchcuruz 'anger,' or Latincursus 'course.' Connection withcross is unlikely.No similar word exists in Germanic, Romance, or Celtic" (inside double-quotes replaced with single-quotes; emphasis added). German usesFluch (n.)and verfluchen (vb.) for "curse", and all non-English West Germanic languages use cognates of this; while the North Germanic languages seem to use cognates of the rarely used English wordforban "to banish"/"banishment".] |
| Curse | phr | "Curse It" - interjection of surprize, contempt, outrage. |
| Curse | phr | "Cursed With" - unfortunate in having, bad luck, illness. |
| Cursed | adj. | Maligned, damned. 2. savage, vicious, |
| Cursedly | adv | In a cursed manner; miserably. |
| Cursedness | n | The state of being cursed. |
| Curseful | adj | Horrendous, horrific. |
| Cursehood | n | Curseness, wickedness |
| Curseword | n | A word that is a vulgarism. |
| Cursingly | adv | With cursing (bad language) |
| Cushat | n. | Wood pigeon, or ring-dove. |
| Cuss | vb | To use cursing, to use bad language; to speak profanely. |
| Cussed | adj | Ill-tempered, nasty, obstinate |
| Cussedness | n | State or quality or being cantankerous, nastiness, obstinacy, perversity. |
| Cusser | n | One who uses bad language or vulgarities. |
| Cussing | n | The act of one who uses bad language or vulgarities. |
| Cussword | n | Curse word or phrase. |
| Cust | n. | Same as OE., cyst choice, excellence etc,) choice (OE only); action or capacity of choosing. |
| Custi | adj | Liberal, munificient. |
| Custiness | n | Liberality. |
| Cuthbert | n | The Apostle of Nortthumbria. |
| Cuttle | n | The cuttle-fish. |
| Cuttle-bone | n | The backbone or boney structure of the cuttlefish. 2. the cuttlefish, any of the various squidlike cephalopod marine mollusks of the genus Sepia that has ten arms, an internal shell and squirts inky fluid when in danger. |
| Cuttle-fish | n | Fish of the family 'Sepidae' |
| Cuttle-fish bone | n | The calcareous internal shell of a cuttlefish, as a dietary supplement for caged birds. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Cymbal | n | Latin borrowing into OE: a musical instrument consisting of a concave brass or bronze plate or with a stick etc to make a ringing sound, or struck with another a musical instrument. |
| Cyne | n | OE: royal, kingly |
| Cynebold | adj | Royally bold, very brave. |
| Cyneboot | n | Cynebote, kingbote: compensation paid to the people for the murder of the king; king's wergeld. |
| Cyneborn | adj | OE: royally born. |
| Cynebote | n | Cyneboot, a compensation for the murder of a king. |
| Cynedom | n | Kingdom. |
| Cynegild | n | A king's compensation. |
| Cynehelm | n | Throne, realm. |
| Cyningeswick | n | A stately abode, dwelling, etc. |
| Cyningeswyrt | n | Majoram; queenwort. |
| Cynekin | n | Royal pedigree or family. |
| Cyneright | n | Royal prerogative. |
| Cynestreet | n | A Public highway. |
| Cyneweed | n | Royal robes. |
| Cynewise | n | Royal state; kingdom, commonwealth. |
| Cyneword | n | A fitting word. |
| Old English | English |
| Dalk n. | Pin brooch, clasp, buckle. 2 hollow, depression, hole |
| Dare-all adj. | Fearless, dreadnought. Cognate:dareful |
| Daresome adj. | Foolhardy, venturesome |
| Darkhood n. | State or condition of darkness. Cognate:Darkship |
| Dark Inn n. | "The Dark Inn" - the grave, tomb, grass-bed, mould-earth, the pit, the delf, the deep-six, lair, narrow house, long-home, dustbin (sl), burial-place. |
| Darkling n. | One whose personality is dark; chil of the darkness |
| Daswen adj. | Of eyes or sight: dim |
| Daughterhood n. | State or condition of daughterness. Cognate:Daughtership |
| Daw vb. | Dawn with day, wake from sleep, adawe |
| Daybed n. | Sofa, couch |
| Daybook n. | Diary |
| Dayish adj. | Diurnal |
| Dayless adj. | Devoid of day or night |
| Daymare n. | Opposite of nightmare |
| Dayrawe n. | First streak of day or dawn. Sometimes:dayrewe |
| Dayrim n. | Rim of light of the coming of day. |
| Daysman n. | Umpire, arbitrator |
| Dayspring n. | Dawn |
| Dead-alive adj. | Spiritless, lacking animation |
| Deadborn adj. | Stillborn |
| Deaddoing n. | Killing, murdering. |
| Deadhead n. | One admitted to an event without paying to bolster the numbers; a simpleton |
| Deadhearted adj. | Callous, dead-in-feeling, insensible.Deadheartiness. |
| Deadness adj. | |
| Dealerdom n. | Dealers collectively. |
| Dealth n. | Portion dealt |
| Dear adj. | Brave, bold, strenuous, hard |
| Dearworth n. | Of high estimation. |
| Deathless adj. | Immortal. |
| Deathliness n. | |
| Deathling n. | Mortal |
| Deathman n. | Executioner |
| Deathstruck pp. | Killed |
| Death-throe n. | Dying stage |
| Deathward adj. | Dying, heading towards death |
| Deathwothy adj. | Ripe to be killed, not worthy of living |
| Deave vb. | Deafen |
| Deche vb. | Daub, Smear, |
| Deed n. | |
| Deem n. | Judge, dempster, deemer, office of a judge,demstership, |
| Deep adj. | |
| Deep dive vb | To analyse a matter thoroughly and profoundly. |
| Deepfetch vb. | Bring or fetch from the deep |
| Deepmost adj. | Deepmost |
| Deep-read adj. | Well read, |
| Deep-set adj. | Sitting back |
| Deepseen adj. | Seen from afar |
| Deerkind n. | Beast-kind as distinct from human-kind |
| Deft adj. | 1. Gentle, meek, humble 2, skilful, dextrous, clever. 3. neat, tidy, trim, spruce, handsome, pretty. 4. quick. Also:Deftness, deftly |
| Delf n, | Hole, cavity, pit. 2. grave. 3. a sod, cut turf. |
| Delve vb. | To dig, plough, turn over the soil |
| Dent n. | |
| Depe vb. | To immerse as a religious rite; immerse, submerge, plunge |
| Depth adj. | Depthen, depthing, alsodepthless : shallow |
| Dere vb. | Hurt, harm, injure |
| Dereful adj. | Full of grief, sorrow, dering |
| Derf n.& adj. | Trouble, tribulation, hurt, 2. bold , daring, courageous. 3. strong, sturdy, stout 4. vigourous, forceful. violent. 5. painful, grievous, terrible, dreadful, cruel. 6. troublesome, hard, difficult. Also:Derful, Derfly, Derfness, Dership |
| Dern adj | Secretive, dark, concealed, evil, deceitful, sly, underhand, unrevealed. Of place, secretive, exotic, little known, dark, dreary, deep, profound, hidden. AlsoDernly, derned, dernhood(n). |
| Derve vb. | Labour (only in OE.) 2. trouble, grieve, hurt, afflict |
| Devil's Horsemen n | The Mongol warriors of the C12th. |
| Dew n. | The moisture deposited in minute drops pon any cool surface |
| Dewfall n. | Evening |
| Dighel adj | Secret, obscure, hence dighelness: secrecy |
| Dight vb. | To dictate, compose in language, present, 2. manage, direct, govern, rule, appoint, prepare. 3. construct 4. array. 5. maltreat, abuse. 6. to have to do with sexually. 7. Place, put, dispose of. 9. to put put in a specific condition or state: put to death, execute, winnow. |
| Dighter n. | Composer, author, ruler, preparer, winnower. Alsodighting: repairing, proposing, winnowing, asf |
| Dightly adv. | In a well equipped manner. |
| Dike n. | Ditch, trench |
| Dilghe vb. | To destroy, erase, blot out, also fig. |
| Dim adj. | Of light-somewhat dark. |
| Din n. | Sound |
| Dinsome adj. | Full of din, noisy |
| Dint n. | Stroke or blow, the dealing of blows, hence force of attack or impact, (lit or fig): violence, force; now onlyby dint of. 2. stroke of thunder. 3.mark or impression made by blow. Note:dintless |
| Do-all n. | Factotum |
| Dog n | Old English docga, a late, rare word used of a powerful breed of canine. It forced out Old English hund (the general Germanic and Indo-European word canine) by 16c. and subsequently was picked up in many continental languages (French dogue (16c.), Danish dogge), but the origin remains one of the great mysteries of English etymology. |
| Doke n. | A small hollow, dimple, depression, dalk, dawk |
| Dole n. | State of being divided, part of a division of a whole portion, dealing |
| Dolk n. | Wound, scar, gash, dint |
| Dolt n. | Dullard, Stupid fellow, blockhead |
| Doom. n. | Statute, law, enactment.Doomsbook: a book or code of Old Teutonic law; spec. that attributed to King Alfred. |
| Doomsday n | Judgement day. |
| Doom-giving n | Judgement. |
| Doom-house n | Courthouse . Doom-tree: hanging-tree, |
| Doom-monger .n | One who preaches disaster and misfortune. |
| Doomsday weapon .n | A hypothesized weapon that has the capacity to destroy the Earth. 2. a bomb that is capable of causing widespread destruction. |
| Doomstead n | A place of judgement. |
| Doom-tree n | A hanging-tree, execution place. |
| Dop vb. | Immerse, baptise, dip, sink suddenly into water 2. Curtsy; drop head suddenly and quickly. (Seedope.) |
| Dorr n. | Insects that fly in a loud hummimg noise; that is bees, flies, hornet drone 2. person who is lazy, idle, stupid, blundering. |
| Dought n. | Might, power, sturdiness, stoutness. Doughty adj. Able, capable, worthy, 2. valiant, brave, formidable, stout. |
| Doughty-handed adj | |
| Doughty-hood n | . |
| Douse vb. | To punch, strike, beat, inflict, knock, put-off, throw down, shut up, cease, doff |
| Douth n. | Virtue, good-deed, excellent, nobility, power, richness. 2, manhood, men collectively. 3. company, army, retinue. |
| Douthlike adj | Virtuous, worthy |
| Douthwight n. | Kin, man |
| Dove n. | Gentle, innocent, loving woman or child; appellation of tender affection. |
| Doveling n | Term of affection for a little child. |
| Dovely adj. | Gentle, innocent, affectionate |
| Dow vdj. | To avail, be strong, good, fitting, proper, worthy, valiant, virtuous, manly. 2.to be Valuable or valid, of worth for good. 3. to be of useful or profit for another. 4.to be strengthful, able, |
| Do-well n. | A personification of success. |
| Down n. | Hill, upland, treeless chalky upland, sandhill, open expanse. |
| Downbear vb. | Press down, cause to sink; oppress |
| Downcast n. | The act of casting down(lit & fig); the throwing down of a current of air into a coalmine. |
| Downcast adj. | Ruined, destroyed, dejected |
| Downcoming n. | Descent |
| Downheld adj. | Oppressed, kept back, held down |
| Downlook n. | Having a downcast or downward look, a guilty look, sheepish, demure |
| Downset n. | The setting of the Sun, dusk |
| Downside n. | Disadvantage |
| Downwarp n. | Local sinking of the earth's surface |
| Draft n. | The sediment of brewing; refuse, dross, dregs, lees, wash, swill |
| Draftsack adj. | Stuffed with worthless refuse; vilely gluttonous, worthless. |
| Draggle vb. | To wet or befoul by allowing to drag through mire or wet grass, to make wet, dirty or limp; to trail on the ground. 2. to come, do or follow slowly or stragglingly |
| Drast n. | Dregs, lees, faeces, refuse, residue, swill. |
| Draught n. | Drawbridge. 2. Draught beast, esp. a horse. 3. measure of eels (20lbs), a measure of liquid medicine. $. act of drawing forth. 5. passage of a document 6. cesspool, sewer. |
| Drave n. | Fishing expedition; a haul of fish. |
| Dray n. | Wheelless sled or cart. |
| Dread n. | |
| Dream n. | The sense - "sequence of sensations passing through a sleeping person's mind"- (also as a verb), probably related to Old Norse draumr, Old Saxon drom "merriment, noise." But Old English dream meant only "joy, mirth, noisy merriment," also "music." And much study has failed to prove that Old English dream is the root of the modern word for "sleeping vision," despite being identical in spelling. Words for "sleeping vision" in Old English were mæting and swefn. Old English "swefn" originally meant "sleep." Dream: "ideal or aspiration" is from earlier sense of "something of dream-like beauty or charm" 2. mirth, noise, pleasure, gladness, rejoicing. Music: the sound of a musical instrument, melody. |
| Drear n. | Soundness, gloom, dismalness. Also:drearhood, dreariness |
| Dreary adj. | Gory, bloody, cruel, dire, horrid, grievous. Of persons - sad, melancholy, doleful, 3.dismal, gloomy. 4. repulsively dull or uninteresting. |
| Drearisome adj. | Dreary of character; lonely and destitute |
| Dreck n. | Rubbish, trash, worthless debris |
| Dreng n. | Young man, fellow, lad, 2. Contempuous, low based fellow. |
| Drift-weed n | Seaweed, seawrack, wrack, floatwort, driftwort, |
| Dright n. | Multitude, army, people, . 2. march of a host, procession, throng.Drightfolk: people's army.Drightman: warrior, soldier |
| Droke n. | Furrow, grove, ditch. 2. small watercourse, stream, fleet, ditch, ea. 3. steep narrow ditch. 4. narrow passageway. |
| Dryhood n. | Drought, Rainlessness |
| Dry-lighting n | A lightning display without rain. |
| Dry-thunder n | A thunder roll without rain. |
| Dustyfoot n. | Wayfarer, traveller |
| Dwale n. | Error, delusion, madness, foolishness. 2. Heretic, transgressor, deciever, * Dwalkenned: heretical |
| Dwalm n. | Stupefaction, giddiness, delusion, a faint or swoon, healthfail, sick. |
| Dwell vb. | Lead into error, mislead, delude |
| Dwemercraft n. | Jugglery, magic, illusionism, sorcery |
| Dwere adj, | Doubt, dread |
| Dwild n. | Error, heresy, dwilth |
| Dwine vb. | To waste away or pine away, languish, fade, wither, wane |
| Dy n. | Dung, sediment |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Daft | adj | Mild, gentle, meek, humble. 2. silly, foolish, stupid, wanting in intelligence. 3. thoughtless, giddy in one's mirth, madly happy. 4. of unsound mind, crazy. |
| Daft | phr | "Daft as a Brush" - very stupid, extremely silly. |
| Daft | phr | "Daft days" - the days of merriment at Christmas. |
| Daftish | adj | Somewhat foolish, silly. 2. somewhat thoughtless, or stupid. 3. meekish, rather humble. |
| Daftlike | adj | Foolish, silly, thoughtless. |
| Daftly | adv | Mildly, meekly, gently, humbly. 2. foolishly, silly, thoughtlessly. |
| Daftness | n | Foolishness, madness, silliness. 2. meekness, mildness, humility. |
| Dafty | adj | Foolish, silly, stupid. |
| Dailiness | n | The quality of being daily , daily occurrence, commonness. |
| Daily | adj | Habitually, constantly, every day, day by day, commonly, evidently. 2. of or belonging each day, occurring every day, issued every, as a newspaper. |
| Daily | phr | "One's Daily Bread" - the food one needs and/or gets each day. 2. one's means of subsistence generally. |
| Daily bread | n | Livelihood; necessary food. |
| Daily breader | n | One who earns his living. |
| Daily grind | n | The difficult, routine, or monotonous tasks of daily life. |
| Dairy | n | The place where milk and cream are kept cool, butter is churned and cheese is made. 2. a shop where milk and its products are sold. 3. a herd of milk cows. 4. a dairy farm. |
| Dairying | n | The business of conducting a dairy. |
| Dairy maid | n | A female worker in a dairy. |
| Dairy man | n | A male worker in a dairy. |
| Daisy | n | The word is 'day's eye' and the flower is so called because its closes its pinky lashes and goes to sleep when the sun sets, but in the morning expands its petals to the light. 2. (slang) an excellent person. |
| Daisy | phr | "Fresh as a Daisy" - very fresh |
| Daisy | phr | "Under the Daisies" - dead, passed away. |
| Daisylike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a daisy. |
| Daisy roots | n | Cockney rhyming slang for boots. |
| Daisy wheel | n | A printing device. |
| Dale | n | A valley, usually a river valley (poetic); deep or low place. 2. pit, hollow, gulf; hole in the ground. |
| Dale | phr | "Uphill and Down Dale" - here, there and everywhere. several variants are: over every hill and dale, up all hills and down all dales.' |
| Dale-land | n | The lower and arable ground of a district. |
| Dale-lander | n | One who lives in or near a dale. |
| Daleside | adj | The side or banks of a dale. |
| Dalesman | n | A person, native or inhabitant who lives near or in a dale. |
| Dalk | n. | Pin brooch, clasp, buckle. 2 hollow, depression, hole |
| Dam | n | OE: demman, dem. a bank or barrier of earth, etc. built across a stream, river to obstruct its flow and raise its level. 2. a body of water held back by a dam. |
| Dam | vb | To provide or furnish with a dam. 2. to obstuct by means of a dam. 3. (fig.) to stop up, block, obstruct, confine. |
| Dane | n | A native or inhabitant of Denmark; in older use including Northmen generally. |
| Danegeld | n | An annual tax, imposed originally to provide funds for the protection of England against danish attack, and continually subsequently as a land tax. |
| Danelaw | n | Danish law imposed anciently over parts of England occupied by the Danes. 2. the district northeast of Watling street, where Dane prevailed. |
| Dane's-blood | n | The plant danewort, dane-weed. |
| Dane's skin | n | A freckled skin. red hair and freckled skin were regarded as a traditional characteristic of Danish blood. |
| Danewort | n | Plants being supposed to spring up in places where Danish blood was splt in battle. 2. Sambucus elder, dwarf elder. |
| Dare | vb | OE:darian; stem of flemish and low german: bedaren: to calm, appease. 2. to gaze fixedly or stupidity. 3. to stare as one terrified, amazed or fascinated. 4. to be in dismay, to tremble with fear. lose heart, dread. 5. to lie motionless (with a sense of fear, to lie appalled, to crouch. 6. to droop with dare; to daunt with fear, terrify, paralyse with fear (dialect). 7. to be hidden, lie hidden, lurk. 8. to hide from, escape, to be unknown to. 9. to daze, paralyse, or render helpless. 10. in the sight of something: to dazzle, and fascinate. |
| Dare | vb | To be bold, have boldness or courage. 2. to dare to go, to venture. 3. to dare to undertake to do. 4. to venture upon. 5. to venture to meet, to challenge, to defy. |
| Dare | n | A dare, an act of daring, defying, a defiance, a challenge. 2. boldness. 3. a contrivance to catch larks. |
| Dare | phr | "Dare Larks" - to fascinate and daze larks, in order to catch them (also fig: ) |
| Dare | phr | "How Dare You" - how can you say that; be so rude. |
| Dare | phr | "I Dare Say" - I suppose, venture to say. |
| Dare | phr | "You Dare" - do not (with great emphasis). |
| Dare | adj | Daring, bold. |
| Dare-all | adj. | Fearless, dreadnought. 2. a covering that braves all kinds of weather |
| Dare devil | n | Lit: one ready to dare the devil: one who is recklessly daring. |
| Dare-devil | adj | Pertaining to the devil; recklessly daring. |
| Dare-devilish | adj | Somewhat reckless, bold or daring. |
| Dareful | adj | Full of daring or defiance. 2. full of boldness and dare, challenging, defying. |
| Daren't | vb | Not to dare or be bold or venturing. |
| Darer | n | One who dares or ventures. 2. one who is bold, challenges and defies |
| Daresay | vb | I think something to be probable (contraction of 'I dare say'.) |
| Daresome | adj | Foolhardy, venturesome, bold, defying, challenging. |
| Daring | n | The action of the verb (dare): adventuring, courage, boldness, hardihood, foolhardiness |
| Daring | n | The action of the verb (dare):to gaze fixedly or stupidity. 2. esp. the catching of larks by dazzling or fascinating them3. to stare as one terrified, amazed or fascinated. 4. to be in dismay, to tremble with fear. lose heart, dread. 5. to lie motionless (with a sense of fear,to lie appalled, to crouch. 6. to droop with dare; to daunt with fear, terrify, paralyse with fear (dialect). 7. to be hidden, lie hidden, lurk. 8. to hide from, escape, to be unknown to. 9. to daze, paralyse, or render helpless. 10. in the sight of something: to dazzle, and fascinate. |
| Daring | adj | Of persons and their attributes: bold, adventorous, hardy, audacious. |
| Daring | adj | Staring, trembling or crouching in fear. |
| Daring-hardy | adj | So bold, fearless and foolhardy to be on the point of rcckless as dare-devil. |
| Daringly | adv | In a daring, bold, fearless manner quality or state. |
| Daringness | n | The state or quality of be daring. |
| Dark | n | An absence of light. 2. dark time, night. 3. a dark colour, spot, blot. 3. condition of being hidden from view, obscure or unknown. |
| Dark | vb | (Superseded by 'to darken') -to make dark, to become dark. 2. of the sun or moon to suffer an eclipse. 3. to cloud, dim, obscure, hid something luminous. 4. to darken in shade or colour. 5. to be or become blind. 6. to obscure, eclipse, dim, cloud, sully. 7. to lie in the dark, hide or be unseen. 8. to listen privily and insidiously. 9. to deprive a person of lustre, renown, to eclipse someone; denigrate another. |
| Dark | adj | Devoid or deficient of light, unilluminated. 2. reflecting or transmitting little light; gloomy,sombre. 3. approaching black in hue; deep in shade, (opposite to light); of the complexion; the opposite of fair. 4. devoid of moral or spiritual light, evil, wicked, foul, insidious; (in a stronger sense) driven by turpitude or wickedness of a sombre nature; foul, iniquitious, atrocious. 5. gloomy, dismal, sad. 6. obscure in meaning. 7. indiscernible. lacking intelligence; dull and slow; not mentally alert. 8. concealed, secret as in 'to keep (or in the )dark. ; of a person: reticient, not open, concealing of thoughts or design. 9. of whom little is known or regarded; obscure in name or fame. 10. not able to see, without sight, blind; partially blind. 11. lacking intelligence; dull and slow; not mentally alert; mentally or spiritually black; uninformed, disliking of knowledge, ignorant. 12. obscure to the 'mind's eye' or to memory; indiscernible. 13. of a theatre: closed. |
| Dark | phr | "A Dark Horse" - someone who is secretive, or unusually reserved, about his feelings, plans, skills or abilities. |
| Dark | phr | "A Leap into the Dark" - a rash move. |
| Dark | phr | "Be in the Dark" - be uninformed. |
| Dark | phr | "Dark and Bloody Ground" - perhaps, an inborn folk term for Kentucky; or an ominous warning given by a Cherokee chief to white settlers. |
| Dark | phr | "Darkest Hour Comes Before the Dawn" - it is often when things seem to be at their worst that they improve. |
| Dark | phr | "Dark Night of the Soul" - a period of spiritual desolation. |
| Dark | phr | "Dark of the Moon" : cloudy and dark weather; clouded moon. |
| Dark | phr | "Don't Darken Somebody's Door" - not enter a building, somebody's home (the implication being that the person has become either a reluctant or an an welcome visitor. 2. no longer want to be allowed membership of a society or association with a business, etc. |
| Dark | phr | "In the Dark" - with little or no light. 2. in a state of ignorance, without knowledge, as concerning some particular fact |
| Dark | phr | "Keep Someone in the Dark" - to confine madmen and lunatics to a darkroom, 2. (fig.) to keep the truth or matter secret or concealed from someone. 3. a state of ignorance, without knowledge, as concerning some particular fact. |
| Dark | phr | "Keep Something Dark" - keep something secret. |
| Dark | phr | "Look On the Dark Side" - be pessimistic. |
| Dark | phr | "Never Darken My Door Again" - do not ever return. |
| Dark | phr | "Shot in the Dark" - an intelligent or lucky guess. |
| Dark | phr | "Whistle In the Dark" - to feign general confidence than one really has. |
| Dark-browed | adj | A dark-browed sophist (a plausible but fallacious reasoner/ a teacher, of philosophy, rhetoric or politics in ancient Greece. |
| Dark days | n | Black days; troubled times, such as wartime, or catastrophic natural disasters. |
| Dark elf | n | In Norse Mythology a member of the race of 'Dokkalfar' creatures who live underground. 2. fantasy, a member of a race or evil elves. a calque of O.N. word. |
| Darken | vb | See vb. to dark ; to grow dark or become dark, as 'darken down.' 2. to grow clouded, gloomy or sad. 3. to make dark deprive of light(also fig.) 4. to deprive of sight, make blind (lit. and fig.). 5. to make dark or obscure in meaning. 6. to cloud, to cast a gloom or shadow over. |
| Darken | phr | "To Darken Someone's Door" (never darken my door again) |
| Darkened | adj | Made dark in shade or colour. |
| Darkener | n | One who darkens. |
| Darkfall | n | The coming on of the dark, dusk, nightfall, sunset. |
| Dark-flowing | adj | (Of hours, time) in dark flowing hours: through the night; esp. in the early hours of the morning. |
| Darkful | adj | Full of darkness. |
| Dark glasses | n | Spectacles with dark-tinted lenses; sunglasses. |
| Dark-hearted | adj | Disposed to doing or wishing evil; malevolent; black-hearted. |
| Dark-heartedly | adv | Malevolently, blackheartedly. |
| Dark-heartedness | n | The state or quality disposed to doing or wishing evil; malevolence, black-heartedness. |
| Darkhood | n. | State or condition of darkness. |
| Darkhorse | n | A racehorse, competitor, etc., who little is known about or who wins an event, etc., unexpectedly. 2. a candidate who wins. unexpectedly |
| Darkhouse | adj | A dark underground room. |
| Dark Inn | n. | "The Dark Inn" - the grave, tomb, grass-bed, mould-earth, the pit, the delf, the deep-six, lair, narrow house, long-home, dustbin (sl), burial-place. |
| Darkish | adj | Somewhat or rather dark through the absence of light. |
| Darkishly | adv | In a darkish way or manner, |
| Darkishness | n | Darkish quality or state. |
| Darkle | vb | To show itself darkly.to grow dark. 3. of the countenance: to become dark in anger; very angry; scorn. 4. to render dark or obscure. |
| Darkle | phr | "To Lie Darkling" - to lie in the dark, to conceal oneself. |
| Darkling | n. | One whose personality is dark; child of the darkness. 2. one whose nature and characteristics are 'dark.' |
| Darkling | adv | Being, proceeding, etc. in the dark. 2. showing itself darkly; darksome, obscure. |
| Darklong | adv | Towards or inclined to the darkness. |
| Darkly | adj | In the dark; somewhat dark . 2. in a gloomy, frowning ominous manner. 2. in an obscure, vague or mysterious manner. 4. with obscure vision, dimly, blinding. |
| Darkman | n | The night. |
| Dark-minded | adj | Pessimistic. |
| Darkness | adj | Absence of light(total or partial). 2. the quality of being dark in shade or colour. 3. blindness. (fig.)want of spitual or intellectual sight. 4. death. 5. gloom or sorrow, distress. 6. obscurity, concealment, secrecy. 7. obscurity of meaning. |
| Darknet | n | A closed, private network used for file-sharing. (dark web, deep web.) |
| Dark-night | n | The dark night of the soul (spiritual entity); time of despair and anguish. |
| Dark ride | n | An indoor amusement ride where riders in guided vehicles ride through specially lit scenes, often with animated sounds, and special effects (similar to the 'ghost train') |
| Dark room | n | A room where photos are developed. 2. a dark room where sexual activity takes place, especailly in certain types of clubs. |
| Dark-shining | adj | The dark-shining dusk of night. |
| Darkship | n | The personality of one who is dark; darkhood, darkness. |
| Dark-skinned | adj | Having a relatively dark skin; swarthy. |
| Dark-sleeper | n | The fish also named 'Goby' found in south Asia, 'Odontus obscura.' |
| Dark-smoke | n | Heavily polluted smoke, as carbon emission from coalburning chimneys. |
| Darksome | adj | Somewhat dark or gloomy. 2. characterized (more or less) by darkness. 3. somewhat dark in shade or colour, sombre. 4. characterized by obscurity of meaning. 5. charactrized by gloom, sadness or cheerlessness. morally of a dark character. |
| Darksomely | adv | In a manner some what dark or gloomly. 2. sombrely. 3. obscurely in meaning. 4. sadly. cheerlessly. 5. evilly. |
| Dark-someness | n | Darkness, obscurity. |
| Dark Star | n | A star like object which emits little or no visible light, but is known to exist from other evidence. |
| Dark wave | n | A genre or movement of music first heard in the 1970s putting together elements of "New Wave' and Gothic rock with dark, thoughtful lyrics and an undertone of sorrow. |
| Dark-waver | n | A performer, fan of 'Dark Wave' music. |
| Dark Web | n | A part of the World Wide Web that is not discoverable by means of standard search engines, including passwords; protected or dynamic pages encrypted networks. |
| Darky | n | "The Darky" - the night. 2. a lantern |
| Darling | n | An object of a person's love. 2. a favorite, pet. (transfig. & fig.) |
| Darling | adj | Dearly-loved, beat-loved, favourite. |
| Darlingly | adv | In a manner of being dearly-loved and favoured. |
| Daswen | adj. | Of eyes or sight: dim. |
| Daughter | n | Female child or offspring. 2. a female descendant; a woman in relation to her native country or place. 3. a term of affectioante address used by a senior. 4. a girl, maiden, young women. 5. fig. anything personified as female) viewed in relation to its source or origin. |
| Daughterdom | n | The realm or world of daughters; daughters collectively. |
| Daughterhood | n. | State or condition of daughters collectively. |
| Daughter-in-law | n | The wife of one's son. |
| Daughter-in-lawness | n | The state or quality of being a daughter-in-law. |
| Daughter-i(s)lands | n | The British Empire with all daughter-islands around her. - colonies; member states of the British Commonwealth. |
| Daughterless | adj | Not having or without daughhters. |
| Daughter-like | adj | Resembling a daughter. |
| Daughterliness | n | State or quality of a daughter. |
| Daughterling | n | A little daughter. |
| Daughterly | adv | Pertaining to, or characteristic of a daughter. 2. filial, sororial. |
| Daughtership | n | Condition or relation of a daughter. |
| Daw | vb. | To dawn with day, wake or arouse from sleep, swoon, adawe. 2. to revive, bring to. |
| Dawing | n | Day, daybreak, twilight, dawning. 2. recovering from a swoon; a-bringing-to |
| Dawn | n | The first light of day; dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow. 2. the earliest period; morning. 3. an opening time period; the break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise. 4. first opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; |
| Dawn | vb | To become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place. 2. to appear or develop. 3. become light; to begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns. 4. to begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. |
| Dawn | phr | "Crack of Dawn" - at the exact moment of surprise. |
| Dawn | phr | "Dawn of Life" - origin of the universe. |
| Dawn | phr | "Dawn of a New Day" - see: "the dawning of a new day' |
| Dawn | phr | "Dawn On" - of an idea: to occur or become aware to someone. |
| Dawn | phr | "Light Dawns" - the point is grasped. |
| Dawn-goddess | n | The Sun-God Of various religions. |
| Dawning | n | The first beginning of something. |
| Dawning | phr | "The Dawning of a New Day" - (idiom): a new beginning, a fresh start, an important turning point. |
| Dawnless | adj | Without a dawn; mornless. |
| Dawnlight | n | The light of Dawn or daybreak. |
| Dawnlike | adj | Resembling dawn or some aspects of it. |
| Dawn-man | n | A generic for the first or of a very primitive form of man/womankind, such as homo erectus. |
| Dawntime | n | The time of dawn. 2. the time when something is just beginning. |
| Dawn-woman | n | The Earth Mother or First Mother; Eve. |
| Day | n | Any period of 24 hours. 2. a period from midnight to the following midnight. 3.(astronomy) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth). 4. the part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc. 5. part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime. 6. a specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time. 6. a period of contention of a day or less. |
| Day | vb | To appoint a day to anyone. 2. to cite or summon for an appointed day. 3. to submit to day by arbitration. 4. to appoint or fix a date or day. 5. to measure by the day. 6. to furnish with a day. 7. to dawn. |
| Day | phr | "A Cold day in Hell" - never (will happen.) |
| Day | phr | "A Field Day" - a very enjoyable or field day. |
| Day | phr | "All Day Long" - continuously, without a break for the whole day. |
| Day | phr | "All In a Day's Work" - within one obligations or duties. |
| Day | phr | " A Nine Day Wonder" - an exciting event, but one which will cease to arouse interest when the novelty has worn off. |
| Day | phr | "Any Day Now/Soon " soon, at any moment. |
| Day | phr | "Any Day Of the Week" - at any time. |
| Day | phr | "As the Day Lengthens, the Cold Strengthens" - early C17th traditional saying that the coldest weather arises during the day when the day begins to lengthen. |
| Day | phr | "At The End of the Day" - in due course or at the conclusion of the project |
| Day | phr | "Be the Day Weary, Be the Day Long, At Last It Rings to Evensong" - nothing good or bad last forever. |
| Day | phr | "Call It a Day" - cease involvement with some activity. |
| Day | n | "Dawn of a New Day" - to be the start of a new day. |
| Day | phr | "Day After Day" - each day as a sequel to the preceding. |
| Day | phr | "Day and Night" - all the time, around the clock. 2. continuously throughout twenty four hours. |
| Day | phr | "Day by Day" - daily, every day in turn. |
| Day | phr | "Day In, Day Out" - continuously (and monotonously) for several days. 2. repeatedly or continuously over a period of time. |
| Day | phr | "Day is Not Far off When" - it will be soon be time when something is said, happens ... |
| Day | phr | "Day of Awe" - day of Yom Kippur and Roshana. |
| Day | phr | "Day of Days" - very special day because something is important or pleasant takes place then. 2. noteworthy days in general or to somebody in particular ; a red letter day. |
| Day | phr | "Day of Reckoning" - time when one will have to account for past actions. |
| Day | phr | "Day of Wine and Roses" - a bygone era of innocence and simplicity, esp during youth. |
| Day | phr | "Day or Night" - at any time |
| Day | phr | "Day-to-Day Life" - a daily routine or continuous pattern in life, work, duties etc. |
| Day | phr | "End One's Days" - to die (over a period of time). |
| Day | phr | "Every Dog Has its Day"- good luck comes to one sooner or later. 2. eventually everyone achieves some success. |
| Day | phr | "Fall On Evil Days" - suffer unfortunate circumstances. |
| Day | phr | "For Days On End" - for many consecutive days. |
| Day | phr | "From Day One" - from the beginning or start. |
| Day | phr | "From Day to Day" - continuously without interruption. 2. as time progresses (daily). |
| Day | phr | "Have a Day Out" - have a day or period of success. |
| Day | phr | "Have a Field Day" - a very successful and enjoyable occasion. |
| Day | phr | "Have An Off Day" - a day when things don't go well. |
| Day | phr | "Have One's Day (in the Sun)" - to have a time when is prosperous and/or successful. |
| Day | phr | "Have Seen Better Days" - be past its best; have outlived its usefulness |
| Day | phr | "He Would Not Give Anyone the Time of Day" - he is unwilling to help anybody. |
| Day | phr | "I Have Had My Day" - my prime of life is over. 2. I'm no longer in the swim and am little account now. |
| Day | phr | "I Have Lost the Day" - I have been defeated; I have achieved or contributed nothing today. |
| Day | phr | "In a Day or So" - in a short period of time. |
| Day | phr | "In All One's Born Days" - ever. |
| Daylight | phr | "In Broad Daylight" - in the full light of day. |
| Day | phr | "In Days of Yore" -in remote historical times. |
| Day | phr | "In Days To Come" - the future. |
| Day | phr | "In the Cold, Hard Light of Day - in an unemotional atmosphere at a later time. |
| Day | phr | "In the Good Old Days" - earlier times remembered with fondness. |
| Day | phr | "In the Olden Days" - in the distant past. |
| Day | phr | 'It's Early Days Yet" - too soon to be sure. |
| Day | phr | "Keep Something for a Rainy Day' -to keep something in reserve for later. |
| Day | phr | "Late in the Day" - only when the project is well advanced. |
| Day | phr | "Make a Day of It" - spend all day doing something enjoyable. |
| Day | phr | "Make Somebody Day" - give somebody a welcome surprise. |
| Day | phr | "Man of His Day" - someone who is famous among his contemporaries. |
| Day | phr | "Meet One's Day of Reckoning" - the final judgement of God. 2. any time or event which responsibility will be assigned. |
| Day | phr | "Name the Day" -announce the date of a forthcoming event. |
| Day | phr | "Not Give the Time of day to" - one unwilling to give help to others. |
| Day | phr | "Not Have all Day" - have only a limited time. |
| Day | phr | "One of These Days" - in the future |
| Day | phr | "One of Those Days" - a time when things do not go to plan. |
| Day | phr | "One's Day is Over" - one has outlived their usefulness or importance. |
| Day | phr | "Open as the Day" - totally honest. |
| Day | phr | "See Daylight" - to get the right answer. |
| Day | phr | "See the Light of Day" - to be made public. |
| Day | phr | "That Will the Day" - that is very unlikely. |
| Day | phr | "The Other Day" - one day recently. |
| Day | phr | "Today a Man, Tomorrow a Mouse" - fortune is so fickle that one day we mat be at the top of the world, and the next day at the bottom. |
| Day | phr | "Tomorrow Will be An Other Day" - there will be further opportunity (said with consolation of disappointment). |
| Day | phr | "To This Day" - to the present time. |
| Day | phr | "Win the Day" - carry the day, be victorious, succeed. |
| Day and Night | n | All the time, around the clock, unceasingly. |
| Daybeam | n | The light or sunbeam of the day. |
| Daybed | n. | Sofa, couch, divan, lounge, a bed to rest on during the day. |
| Dayberry | n | A local name for the gooseberry. |
| Dayblind | adj | Suffering from day-blindness. |
| Day-blindness | n | A visual defect in which rhe eyes see badly, or not at all, during daylight, but well by artificial light. |
| Day-boarder | n | A pupil who has meals at school but is a non-resident. |
| Day-body | n | A person taken up by things of the day; |
| Daybook | n. | Diary. 2. a nautical logbook. |
| Daybreak | n | Dawn, daybreak, dayrawe, dayrim, first streak of day, first appearanace of light in the morning, daylight. |
| Daybreaking | adj | The first moments of day; dawnbreaking. |
| Daycare | n | Daytime supervision, usually children. |
| Dayglow | n | The airglow of the sky during day. |
| Dayfall | n | Dawn, daybreak, dayrawe, dayrim, first streak of day, daylight. |
| Day god | n | Balder, Anglo-saxon God of Light. 2. Hemera, Greek goddess of daylight, day. |
| Dayish | adj. | Diurnal, of or pertaining to day. |
| Day-length | adj | The length of the day applied to special times of the year. |
| Dayless | adj. | Devoid of day or night. 2. without redress, resource or result. 3. devoid of the light of day. 4. not divisible by day. |
| Daylight | n | The light of day. 2. time of day; daylight, 3. time when daylight appears. 4. (fig.) full light of knowledge, observation, openness, publicity. 5. daybreak. 6. (sl) the eyes. |
| Daylight | phr | "Beat the Living Daylights Out (of Somebody)" - beat severely, knock senseless. |
| Daylight | phr | "Frighten the Living Daylights Out (of Somebody)" - terrify somebody. |
| Daylight | phr | "In Broad Daylight" - in the full view of the light of day. |
| Daylight | phr | "Let Daylight Into" - lit. allow or facilitate the entry of daylight into a room, place etc. |
| Daylight | phr | "See Daylight" - to get the right answer. 2. perceive an eventual solution. |
| Daylighted | adj | Provided with daylight. 2. lighted by the day. |
| Daylight-like | adj | Resembling daylight or some aspect it. |
| Daylights | n | Sl) eyes. 2. mental soundness, wits, consciousness. |
| Daylike | adj | Resembling day or some aspect of it. |
| Day lily | n | Any plants of the genus Hemerocallus. |
| Day-lived | adj | Short duration; ephemeral. 2. impulsive, shallow things, objects. and desires. |
| Daylong | adj | Lasting all day; lasting all through the day; diurnal. 2. life-long. |
| Day-loving | n | Excessive fondness for the day; hemerophillic. |
| Dayman | n | One employed for the day, or for duty on a special day. |
| Daymare | n. | Opposite of nightmare. |
| Daymark | n | A mark visibl(e during the day only -such as a tower) designed to help navigators to find their way. |
| Daynighter | n | A sporting match which starts during the day and continues into the evening. |
| Day-off | n | A day of vacation. 2. a day when one does not attend work, school etc. |
| Day-old | adj | Newly-born; diurnal. |
| Day out | n | A day's outing; a day excursion. |
| Dayrawe | n. | First streak of day or dawn; sometimes:dayrewe, dayrim |
| Dayrim | n. | Rim of light of the coming of day, dawn, daystreak, dyrise, peep of day. |
| Dayrise | n | Dawn, daystreak, dayrawe, dayrim, dayrise. |
| Dayroom | n | A room, esp. a communal room in an institution, used during the day. |
| Daysack | n | A small rucksack for use on one-day hike. |
| Dayset | n | Sunset, the setting down of day (sun). |
| Dayshift | n | Regularly scheduled work during daylight hours. |
| Dayshut | n | Dusk, sundown, sunset, close of day. |
| Dayside | n | The side of a planet that faces towards the sun around which it orbits . 2. newspaper staff that work during the day. |
| Day-sight | n | A visual defect in which the eyes see clearly only in the day. |
| Daysman | n. | Umpire, arbitrator. |
| Dayspring | n. | Dawn, daybreak, early dawn, daystreak, dayrawe, dayrim, dayrise. |
| Daystar | n | The morning star; hence the emblem of hope and better prospects. 2. the sun as the orb of the day. |
| Daystone | n | Stione found on the surface. |
| Daystreak | n | Dawn, daylight, dayspring, dayrise. |
| Day-sun | n | The Sun. |
| Daytale | n | Parallel to Chaucer's "night-tale" where the sense "reckoning' appears to pass into that of time, reckoned or counted. |
| Daytaler | n | A day labourer or journeyman. |
| Daytime | n | The time of daylight. |
| Daywater | n | Surface water. |
| Daywear | n | Clothes to be worn during daytime. |
| Daywork | n | Day's work; work done during the daytime. 2. the amount of land that could be worked in a day. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Die | vb | Late OE borrowing before 1150. dîegan, dêgan (late OE, Anglian) "die" - ON deyja "die" (ousted OE sweltan "die" and altered OE steorfan "die, perish" which now only denotes "starve"; ON deyja once had an OE cognate which may have given rise to ME deien but forms from 1000 onward very likely stem only from the ON form, according to Serjeantson) - suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense) 2. disappear or come to an end, as one's anger. 3. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life, as from cancer. 4. stop operating or functioning, as a motor car engine. 5. lose sparkle or bouquet, as wine. 6. be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame. 7. feel indifferent towards. |
| Die | phr | "Die a Thousand Deaths" - (rhetorical) to die many times over (as preferred over some other undesirable action or occurrence). 2. (idiomatic) to suffer repeatedly (often mentally rather than physically); to suffer extreme embarrassment or anxiety. |
| Die | phr | "Die Away" - become weaker or faint to the point of extinction. 2. die down. |
| Die | phr | "Die Back" - (of a plant): decay from the tip to the root. |
| Die | phr | "Die By Inches" - to die a lingering death. |
| Die | phr | "Die Down" - become less loud or strong. 2. die away. |
| Die | phr | "Die Game" - to fight to the last breath. |
| Die | phr | "Die Hard" - die reluctantly, not without a struggle. |
| Die | phr | "Die For" -extremely good or desirable, as chocolate. 2. be dying for. |
| Die | phr | "Die From" - be near death because of. |
| Die | phr | "Die In Bed" - die a |
| Die | phr | "Die In Harness" - die while still going about one's daily business. |
| Die | phr | "Die in the Ditch" - die alone in some forsaken place. |
| Die | phr | "Die Laughing" - be overcame by mirth or laughter till the point of exhaustion. |
| Die | phr | "Die Like a Dog" - have a shameful, undignified death. |
| Die | phr | "Die Like Flies" - die in very large numbers. |
| Die | phr | "Die Off" - die one by one. |
| Die | phr | "Die On One's Feet" |
| Die | phr | "Die the Death" - condemned to death; be killed. |
| Die | phr | 'Die the Way One Lived" - |
| Die | phr | "Do or Die" - be determined to succeed at all cost. |
| Die | phr | "Dying to Do (something)" - be very keen to do something. |
| Die | phr | "Never say Die" - keep up one's courage, not give in. |
| Die | phr | "Whom the Gods Love Die Young" - God takes soonest those he loves best. 2. good people often die young |
| Die-away | adj | Having a languishing or affectedly feeble manner. |
| Die-back | n | Progressive dying back of a shrub or tree-shoot owing to diseasee or unfavorable. |
| Die-hard | n | A conservative or stubborn person. |
| Die-less | adj | Immortal, deathless, not dying; eternal. |
| Dig | vb | Oxford English dictionary: Middle English: perhaps from Old English dīc ‘ditch’ - to break and turn over soil. (Not an Anglish word, but included for information only). |
| Dighel | adj. | Secret, obscure, hence dighelness: secrecy |
| Dight | n | Composition. 2. making, framing, construction; preparation. 3. dealing, direction, order. 2. dress, adornment, clothing. |
| Dight | vb. | To dictate, compose in language, present. 2. manage, direct, dictate, govern, rule, appoint, ordain, order. 3. construct, put together, frame, make. 4. array, dress, clothe, deck, adorn, put on armour. 5. maltreat, abuse, misuse. 6. to have to do with sexually. 7. place, put, dispose of. 9. to put in a specific condition or state: put to death, execute, slay, kill, winnow. 8. to dispose (of), place, put, remove. 9. to cause, bring about, perform, do, deal with, make ready, progress. 10. to equip, fit-out, furnish. 11. to make ready, get ready, to make oneself ready. 12. to prepare a meal, mix medicine or a potion. 13. repair, put in order, make right. 14. polish, wipe, rub, in order to make clean or dry, cleanse so as to fix up. 15. to cultivate, till, or attend to crops. |
| Dight | phr | "Dight to Death" - put to death, execute, slay, kill. |
| Dighter | n. | Composer, author, ruler, preparer, ruler, director. 2. winnower (machine). |
| Dighting | n | Repairing, putting in order. 2. preparing, 3. arraying, dressing, 4. proposing. 5. winnowing. 6. wiping. |
| Dightly | adv. | In a well equipped manner. |
| Dike | n. | (O.E. díc strong masculine noun: a dike, trench, ditch, moat, an earthwork with a trench. 2. a toilet, water-closet, or urinal, etc. 3. a small pond or pool. 4. a hollow dug in the ground; ditch, pit trench; cave, den. 5. ridge, embankment, barrier, obstacle, long mound, a dam thrown up to resist the sea or to prevent low-lying land from being flooded by the sea, rivers, or streams. 6. a jetty, pier, a (raised) causeway along or into the water. 7. wall, a low wall, or fence of turf or stone serving as a division or enclosure. 7. hedge, a fence (barrier) of any kind. |
| Dike | vb | To make a dight; excavate, dig out a dyke. 2. provide with a dyke. 4. surround with a dyke/dike, trench, ditch, etc. to enclose with an earthen or stone wall. to defend land with a dike or embankment against the sea. to entrench. to clean out, scour. |
| Diker | n | One who build or constructs dikes. |
| Dike-reeve | n | An officer appointed to take charge of the drains, sluices and seabank of a fen or marsh district in England. |
| Dilghe | vb. | To destroy, erase, blot out, also fig. |
| Dill | n | Antheum graveolens. 2. cucumber. 3. fool, dolt. |
| Dim | adj. | Of light-somewhat dark. 2. want of clearness, brightness, or distinctness. 3. dullness of vision or perception, state of being dim-sighted. |
| Dimble | n | See 'dimple.' |
| Dim-brooding | adj | "The whole future is there and destiny dim-brooding over it, in the hearts and unshaped thoughts of these men; it lies illegible, inevitable' (Thomas Carlyle. |
| Dim-eyed | adj | "The public is a very dim-eyed beast'. 2. having limited vision. 3. short-sighted, inattentive or lacking alertness. |
| Dim-headed | adj | Dull-witted, foolish, stupid. |
| Dim-lit | adj | "A dim-lit alley' - poorly, faintly lit. |
| Dimly | adv | In a dim manner; in or with dim light, obscurely, somewhat darkly, faintly, indistinctly. |
| Dimmed | adj | Rendered or made dim. |
| Dimmedness | n | State or quality of being dimmed. |
| Dimmer | vb | To appear dim, faintly or indistinctly |
| Dimming | n | The process of being dimmed or wanting brightness or clearness; obscuring. |
| Dimmish | adj | Rather or somewhat dim. |
| Dimness | n | State or quality of being dim. |
| Dimmy | adj | Having dimness; more or less dim. |
| Dim-out | n | A form of modified lighting in a city or throughout a certain area to prevent or eliminate night-glow; used as a military safety measure. |
| Dimple | n | OE. a small depression or indentation. 2. a small natural depressioonon the skin, esp. on the face or the corner of the mouth. |
| Dim-wit | n | A slow, stupid or witless person; one not mentally alert. |
| Dim-witted | adj | Stupid, dull, lacking mental alertness, slow. |
| Dim-wittedly | adv | In a stupid, dull way or manner. |
| Dim-wittedness | n | The quality of being dim-witted; slow and dull. |
| Din | n | Sound, a loud noise, particularly a continued confusion or resonant sound, which stuns or causes distress the ear. 2. the subject of a sounding or ringing in the ears. |
| Din | vb | To sound, ring with sound, resound. 2. of person: to make a loud noise, din, to roar. 3. to assail with din or worrying vociferation. 4. to make to resound, to utter over and over so as to deafen or weary. 5. to give forth deafening or distressing noise; to repeat over and over. |
| Din | phr | "Din in Somebody's Ears" - sound, echo , in somebody's ears. |
| Din | phr | 'Din Into" - repeatedly urge somebody to remember or be guided by; drm into, into. |
| Ding | n | Very minor damage, a small dent or chip. 2. (colloquial) a rejection. 3. very minor damage. |
| Ding | vb | To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang. 2. to hit or strike. 3. to dash; to throw violently. 4. to inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking. 5. to fire or reject. 6. to deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty; to penalize. |
| Dinsome | adj. | Full of din, noisy |
| Dint | n. | Stroke or blow,esp. one given by a weapon, the dealing of blows, hence force of attack or impact, (lit or fig): violence, force; now onlyby dint of. 2. stroke of thunder. 3. the dealing of blows; hence, force of attack, assault or impact (lit. & fg.) 4. violence, force, attack, 5. impression mark or impression made by blow or by pressure in a hard or plastic surface; an indentation. |
| Dint | vb | To strike, beat, knock. 2. to make a dint or impression in something. 3. to mark or impress with a dint; to make dint in; to impress. |
| Dint | phr | "By Dint Of" - by force of, by means of, with implication of vigour or persistence in the application of the means. |
| Dint | phr | "By Dint of Sword" - by attack with a weapon (of war); by force of arms. |
| Dint | phr | "Under/Within the Dint" - exposed to or within the reach or range of assault or attack. |
| Dintless | adj | Without an impression mark. |
| Dip | n | The act of dipping. 2. a plunge or brief immersion in water or an other liquid. 3, the act of dipping up liquid; eg. ink with a pen; the instance taken in such an act. 4. a going down out of sight or below the horizon. 5. an unstressed element in a line of alliteration. 6. a receptacle from which a prize may be obtained by dipping. 7. depth or amount of submergence. 8. a depth of distance between between a particular level. 9. depth of a vessel. 10. downward inclination of a magnetic needle at a particular place. 11. downward slope of the surface of something. 12. a hollow or depression to which the surrounding high ground dips or sinks. 13. a sweet sauce for puddings; a savory mixture into which biscuits are dipped. 14. a pickpocket and the act of dipping. |
| Dip | vb | To put down into or let down temporarily and partially in or into liquid. 2. to immerse, plunge. 3. to immerse in various solutions, to dye, imbue. 4. to dip sheep or bath sheep in a liquid for the purpose of killing infestation and cleanses their skin. 5. to suffuse with moisture; to impregnate by, or as if by, immersion. 6. to dip toast in tea or the like. 7. to pick pockets by 'dipping' your hand in. 8. to lower or raise a flag in naval salute. 9. to lower the beams of a headlights of a vehicles. 10. to immerse, involve, implicate in an affair (esp. of an undesirable kind.) 11. to involve in debt or pecuniary liabilities; to mortgage an estate; to pawn. 12. to plunge down a little into water or other liquid and quickly emerge. 13. to dip deeply into one's means. 14. fig. to withdraw or expend a considerable sum; to trench upon one's means. 15. to sink or drop down through a small space, or below a particular level, as dipping water; to go down, sink, set. 16. to move the body downwards in obeisance, to curtsy, bob. 17. to extend a little way downwards below the surface; to sink. 18, to have a downwards inclination; to incline or slope downwards. 19. to be inclined to the horizon; esp. of a magnetic needle. 20. to dip (seek information)into a study or subject. 21. to enter slightly into a subject without being absorbed or 'buried' in it; said especially of cursory reading or skimming short passages here and there in a book. 22. to skim, or read superficially and slightly. |
| Dip | phr | "A Farthing Dip" - a synonym for something almost valueless. |
| Dip | phr | "At the Dip" - the lowering of a sail of a ship. |
| Dip | phr | "Dip a Toe Into the Water" - to do something carefully because you are not sure it will work or not. |
| Dip | phr | "Dip Into" - to reach into a liquid; to reach into a substance, usually to remove some of the substance. |
| Dip | phr | "Dip of the Needle" - the amngle which a magnetic needle, freely suspended, makes the plane of the horizon. |
| Dip | phr | "Dip Out (on)" - to decide not to take part in something. 2. to fail a test or course in school. |
| Dip | phr | "Dip Headlights" - of the beams of headlights of a vehicle: lowered or dimmed. |
| Dip | phr | "Dip Something Into" - to put something (ladle) into a substance in order to take some of it. |
| Dipped | adj | Immersed (briefly or partially) in a liquids. 2. baptized. 3. extend or curved below the surface or level. 4. involved in debt, mortgaged. |
| Dipper | n | One who dips in various senses of the verb; specifically one who immerses something in a fluid. 2. one who peruses a book, various subjects cursorily. 3. a member of various Baptist groups who practise total immersion of the body in baptism. 4. a dip, pickpocket. 5. a utensil, such as a ladle, used for dipping up water. 6. a receptacle for oil, varnish, etc. fastened to a pallet. |
| Dipper | n | The Plough." or Charles' Wain" |
| Dipperful | adj | As much as fills a dipper. |
| Dipping | n | The action of the verb 'to dip" 2. a liquid preparation in which things are dipped for any purpose. 2. a wash for sheep and other animals. 3. a dubbing for leather. |
| Dipping needle | n | A magnetic needle suspended at its centre of gravity and moving in a vertical plane; so as to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or inclination. |
| Dippy | adj | Inclined to dip or move downwards. 2. erratic of behavior. |
| Dipside | n | The side on which the dip or declivity is. |
| Dipstick | n | A rod for measuring the depth of liquids. 2. fool, simpleton, dolt, dullard. |
| Dirt | n | By metathesis < drit < ON drita, excrement, akin to OE dritan, to excrete. 2. disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people. 3. the state of being covered with unclean things. 3. the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock. 4. obscene terms for feces. |
| Dirt | adj | Dirt (of roads) not leveled or drained. |
| Dirt | phr | "Dirt Cheap" - very cheap. |
| Dirt | phr | "Eat dirt" - tolerate insult and mortification. |
| Dirt | phr | "Throw Dirt at" - abuse scurrilously, to sully the good name of. |
| Dirt | phr | "Throw Enough Dirt and Some will Stick" - persistent criticism and slander will in the end be believed. |
| Dirt bed | n | Layer of mould with fossil plants. |
| Dirt-eating | n | Geophagy. |
| Dirtily | adv | In a dirty manner; meanly. |
| Dirtiness | n | The state or condition of being dirty. |
| Dirtless | aadj | Lacking or without dirt. 2. immaculate; flawless; without spot or blemish. |
| Dirty | adj | Dirty unpleasantly stormy. 2. soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime. 3. spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination. 4. unethical or dishonest. 5. violating accepted standards or rules. 6. expressing or revealing hostility or dislike. 7. obtained illegally or by improper means. 8. (of a manuscript, documents) defaced with changes; a foul (or dirty) copy. 9. vile; despicable "a dirty trick. 10. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear. 11. contaminated with infecting organisms, as a dirty wound. |
| Dirty | vb | Make soiled, filthy, or dirty. |
| Dirty | phr | "Dirty Old Man" - a lascivious or lewd older man. |
| Dirty | phr | "Dirty One's Hand" - be involved with something dishonest. |
| Dirty | phr | "Dirty Water will Quench Fire" - a man's lust can be satisfied by any woman, however unattractive or immoral. |
| Dirty | phr | "Dirty Words" - an oath or obscenity. |
| Dirty | phr | "Do the Dirty On" - betray, deceive, play an underhanded trick upon. |
| Dirty-dog | n | Somebody who has behaved badly, meanly, selfishly. |
| Dirty look | n | A look of disapproval, anger or disgust. |
| Dirty weather | n | Stormy, wet weather. |
| Dirty weekend | n | A weekend spent clandestinely with a lover. |
| Dirty work | n | Necessary work of a dirty, unpleasant or laborious kind. 2. criminal activities or behavoir. |
| Dish | n | A piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food. 2. a particular item of prepared food. 3. the quantity that a dish will hold. 4. an activity that you like or at which you are superior 5. a directional antenna made up of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation. 6. a very attractive or seductive looking woman |
| Dish | vb | To make concave; shape like a dish. 2. to provide (usually but not necessarily food). |
| Dish | phr | "Dish It Out" - inflict punishment, cause pain or distress. 2. hand punishment out. |
| Dish | phr | "Dish Out" - to put food on a plate ready for eating. 2. (lit and fig.) to distribute or deliver something. 3. to treat another harshly. 4. to hollow out, as a gutter. |
| Dish | phr | "Dish Up" - to serve a meal; put on a plate. 2. to prepare or present, esp. in an attractive manner. |
| Dish | phr | "Dish up the Dirt" - spread scandal or gossip. |
| Dish | phr | "Have a Hand in the Dish" - to meddle, interfere. |
| Dish | phr | "Have Food in the Dish" - to gain footing, have a share. |
| Dish | phr | "One's Dish" - exactly suited to one's taste, requirements, abilities, (one's cup of tea). |
| Dish | phr | "Throw Something in One's Dish" - to taunt or reproach someone. |
| Dish bitch | n | Slang term for a woman who washes dishes in a restaurant. 2. a female journalist who reports using 'dish' technology. |
| Dishboard | n | A dresser for dishes. |
| Dish cloth | n | A cloth used in the kitchen for wiping and drying dishes. |
| Dished | adj | Put into a dish. 2. shaped like a dish. 3. slightly concave. |
| Dishful | adj | The contents of a dish; as much as a dish can hold. |
| Dish-head | n | An epithet for monks. |
| Dishily | adv | In a sensational, gossipy, tell-all manner, as 'recounts dishily the .." |
| Dishing | n | Forming a concave or dish-like surface. |
| Dishiness | n | The quality or state of being sexually attractive, good-looking. 2. containing gossip or information about a well-known person's private life characterized by, full of, or given to gossip or disclosure. |
| Dishlike | adj | Resembling a dish; concave. |
| Dish-monger | n | One who deals in, or has much to do, with dishes (of food.) |
| Dishpan | n | A large container for washing dishes, etc. |
| Dishpan hands | n | Hands inflamed or sore through the frequently washing dishes. |
| Dish stand | n | A device for supporting and holding dishes. |
| Dish-trough | n | A sink for washing dishes. |
| Dishware | n | Plates, bowls, cups etc. 2. tableware (as china) used in serving food. |
| Dishwasher | n | A machine that washes dishes. 2. a person who washes dishes for a living. |
| Dishwashing | n | The act or action of washing dishwater. |
| Dishwater | n | The greasy water in which dishes have been washed. |
| Dishwater | phr | "Dull as Dishwater" - extremely dull. |
| Dishwater-blond | n | Of a dark-blond colour bordering on a light brown. |
| Dishwaterish | adj | Somewhat like dishwater. |
| Dishwatery | adj | Resembling dishwater: greasy. |
| Dishy | adj | Attractive (of a woman.) |
| Distaff | n | A stick or spindle into which wool or flax is wound for spinning. 2. of or concerning women. |
| Distaff-business | n | A type of work or occupation normally done by women; hence, symbolic, for the female sex. 2. female authority or dominion; also the female branch of the family, the spindle side of the family, as opposed to the 'spear-side' (male side.) Nb. OE. distaef, supposed to be for 'dis' or dise-staef, the second element the sb. 'staff' ; dis or dise is apparently from LG. 'diesse' - a bunch of flax on a distaff and cionnected with 'dize' ; 'dizen' to put tow on a distaff. |
| Distaff-side | n | The female side branch of a house or family. |
| Dit | n | A small lump, clot, plug, dot. |
| Dit | vb | To stop up, close up, shut (an opening); to fill up a hole or gap. 2. to stop or obstruct the course of a way. |
| Ditch | n | OE decan, dechen, deech: smear, plaster, daub. |
| Ditch | n | A watercourse, channel, trench, man-made or those of natural formation. 2. the sea, English Channel, or the North sea; the Tasman Sea between between Australia and New Zealand, known as 'The Ditch". |
| Ditch | vb | To dig or construct a ditch. 2. to dredge or repair a ditch. 3. lit. & fig. to defeat, frustrate, abandon, discarded, jilt. 4. to throw in a ditch. |
| Ditch | vb | Deech (OE : decan, deche): to smear, daub, plaster, impregnate, esp. with dirt, which hardens and becomes ingrained. |
| Ditch | phr | "Fall or Lead into the Last Ditch" - the last line of defence. |
| Ditch | phr | "Driven to the Last Ditch" - forced back to the last extremities. |
| Ditch | phr | "Ditch In" - to enclose by means of a ditch. |
| Ditch | phr | "Ditch Out" - shut out by means of a ditch. |
| Ditch | phr | "Ditch Up" - surrounded by a ditch for the purpose of defence. |
| Ditch | phr | "Dull as Ditchwater" - Extremely dull. |
| Ditch | phr | "Last Ditch Stand" - final resistance (from a point of no retreat). |
| Ditch-bottom | n | The bottom of a ditch. 2. the lowest and usually most unfavorable part of something, the pits. 2. (loosely) a nadir. |
| Ditched | adj | Furnished or provided with a ditch. 2. abandoned, discarded, dumped. |
| Ditcher | n | One who makes or builds ditches. 2. a machine used to make ditches. |
| Ditching | n | The action of ditching; te making and repairing of ditches. 2. of an aircraft: ditching or putting the aircraft into the sea or a waterways. 3. abandonment, discarding. |
| Ditchlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a ditch. |
| Ditchwater | n | Stale stagnant or foul water which collects in a ditch. |
| Ditchwater | phr | "As Dull as Ditch water" - very dull, plain, uninspiring. |
| Ditchwaterly | adv | As dishwater: greasy. |
| Dishwatery | adj | Of or pertaining to dishwater; somewhat like dishwater. |
| Ditch-world | n | A dirty, vile, worthless world. |
| Ditchy | adj | Like or resembling a ditch. 2. of the nature of a ditch. 3. abounding in ditchwater or deep furrows. |
| Dive | vb | Early OE. dip, submerge; to plunge a person or thing into liquid. 2. to enter deeply, or plunge into a matter, penetrate. 3. to plunge the hand into something. 4. to penetrate or traverse by diving. 5. to pick pockets. |
| Dive | n | The act of diving, a darting plunge into or through water. 2. a precipitous descent. 3. submergence, submersion of a submarine. 4. a sudden dart into a place or across a space, sep. so as to disappear. 5. an illegal drinking den; disreputable place or resort, often in a cellar, basement or somewhat concealed place, into which a frequenter may 'dive' without observation. |
| Dive | phr | "Dive In" - a start of a new endeavor enthusiastically and wholeheartedly. |
| Diver | n | Someone who dives into water. 2. someone who performs work underwater. 3. someone who dives for fishing or a recreational purpose. |
| Divey | adj | Having the character of a dive, a disreputable bar or seedy nightclub. |
| Diving | n | A headlong plunge into water. 2. an athletic competition that involves diving into water. |
| Diving bell | n | A chamber, sustained by an air supply, which allows divers to work under water. |
| Diving bell spider | n | Argyroneta aquatics - one of the few species of spiders known to live almost entirely under water. |
| Diving board | n | A spring board used for diving in water. 2. a diving platform. |
| Diving duck | n | A duck that habitually dives for food. |
| Diving-wear | n | A weighted and hermetically sealed suit supplied with air, worn by underwater divers. 2. items of clothing appropriate for diving; dive-wear. |
| Diving-stone | n | A kind of jasper. |
| Dizen | n | Found only from 1530, but evidently belonging to 'dis'; 'diesse': the bunch of flax on the distaff. 2. to dress or attire a distaff with flax, etc. for spinning. 3. to dress (or in clothes); esp. to attire, array with finery. 4. to deck out, adorn, (later used with contempt). |
| Dizened | adj | Dressed or attired (a distaff with flax). 2. attired, adorned, decked out, arrayed with finery. |
| Dizzied | adj | Giddy, reeling, unsteady, confused, stupid. |
| Dizzily | adv | In a giddy or dizzy manner. |
| Dizziness | n | The state or condition of being dizzy or giddy. |
| Dizzying | adj | Tending to make one (actually or metaphorically)dizzy, confused, as of great speed or height. |
| Dizzingly | adv | In a dizzying manner, amazingly. |
| Dizzy | vb | To act foolishly or with stupidity. 2. to act giddy or dizzy, 3. to cause to reel. 4. to produce a swinging sensation in; or to turn the head of. 5. to render unsteady in brain or mind; to be wild or confused mentally. |
| Dizzy | adj | OE: dysig: foolish, stupid; a foolish man, fool. 2. having a sensation of whirling or vertigo in the head, with proneness to fall giddy. 3. mentally unsteady or in a whirl; lacking moral stability, startling, astonishing, vivid. 4. accompanied with or producing giddiness. 5. fig. whirling with a mad rapidity. 6. dull of hearing. |
| Dizzy | phr | "Reach /Rise to Dizzy Heights" - an extremely high and exalted level of something, as vocation, office, wealth. |
| Dizzy-eyed | adj | Used to mean something hopefully in love. |
| Dizzy-headed | adj | Giddy, reeling, unsteady, confused. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Deacon | n | Borrowed from Greek; the name of an order of ministers or officers of the christian church. 2. a member of the christian church ranking just below bishops and priests and having the functions of assisting the priests and visiting the sick. 3. a protestant layman who assists the minister; a deacon; a bead. |
| Deacon | vb | To read aloud each line of a psalm or hymn before singing it. 2. hypocritical posing - to pack fruit or vegetables with the best produce on the top. 3. to slyly alter the boundaries of land. 5. to adulterate. |
| Deaconhood | n | Office of a deacon; deacon collectively. |
| Deaconship | n | The office or position of a deacon. |
| Dead | n | "The Dead" - those who have died; collective term for those who have died. |
| Dead | vb | To die. 2. to lose or be deprived of vitality, vigour or force (lit. and fig.) 3. to be ignorant or unprepared. 4. to make dead (lit. and fig;) cause to die, put to death, kill, slay. 5. to deprive of sensation or consciousness; stupefy, benumb, become numb, lose heat or glow. 6. to render spiritually dead. 7. to deprive of active or effective physical quality; to deaden, make dead, extinguish. 8. to check and retard (motion or force); to destroy with force or effect. 9. to cause one to fail in reciting (due to difficult questions fired at the speaker (as he 'deaded' several promising students). |
| Dead | adj | Dead, no longer living. 2. fig. not alive; lacking life. 3. of another person: so hated that they are absolutely ignored, she is dead to me. 4. without emotion. 5. stationary; static. 5. without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat. 6. unproductive: dead time; dead fields. 7. broken or inoperable. 8. no longer used or required.
9. sports: not in play, once the ball crosses the boundary line, it's dead. 10. of golf: lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke. 11. full and complete, as in dead stop; dead sleep; dead giveaway. 12. exact: dead center; dead aim; a dead eye. 12. experiencing pins and needles, paresthesia. 13. sure to be in big trouble. 14. constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless) Bringing death; deadly. 15. in engineering: not imparting motion or power. |
| Dead | phr | "Be a Dead Duck" - to be a failure. |
| Dead | phr | "Be a Dead Weight" - be a heavy burden, difficult to move, carry or manipulate because bulky inert. |
| Dead | phr | "Become a Dead Duck" - something that is finished, over with; failed. |
| Dead | phr | "Be Dead and Buried" - (over some issue) - definitely concluded, especially so long ago to be nearly forgotten. 2. bygones, too much water under the bridge, long ago irrelevant. |
| Dead | phr | "Be Dead As a Door nail" - really or emphatically dead; absolutely dead. 2. the large-headed nails with which doors were studded for extra strength and protection. 3. totally dead or without life along time ago. |
| Dead | phr | "Be Dead Beat" - exhausted, tired out. |
| Dead | phr | "Be Dead from the Neck Upwards" - stupid, foolish, dull and slow, and lacking mental alertness. |
| Dead | phr | "Be Dead in the Water" - doomed, unable to achieve or succeed. 2. unable to function or move, inoperable, originally referred to a ship in distress, later applied in a colloquial sense. |
| Dead | phr | "Be Deadly Earnest" - be very serious. |
| Dead | phr | "Be Dead To The World" - fast asleep, unconscious. |
| Dead | phr | "Be Dead Wood" - useless |
| Dead | phr | "Blessed Are the Dead, That the Rain Rains" - a once traditional comment of goodwill at a funeral. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead and Buried" - long forgotten. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead and Gone" - dead, buried and forgotten. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead and Done For" - exhausted, worn out. 2. doomed to death or destruction. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead as a Doornail" - dead without hope of resuscitation (fig) without vitality or importance. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead From the Neck Up" - stupid, or uninterested in any kind of mental, artistic, political etc, activity. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead Men Don't Bite" - killing an enemy put an end to one's personal threat or danger. |
| Dead men | n | "Dead Men Tell No Tales" - once someone is dead, they can no longer speak to others, hence killing someone is the best way to keep him or her permanently silent. 2. men who have been killed do not give away incriminating evidence. |
| Deadman | phr | "Dead Man Walking" - a condemned prisoner walking to the death chamber or other place of execution. 2. someone who is about to die soon. 3. someone who is about to face an unavoidable loss; (though the person may not realize it.) |
| Dead | phr | "Dead on" - exactly right, spot on, accurately. 2. very fond of. 3. dealing very strictly with a person or in handling a situation. 2. very good at dealing with. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead one" - a horse that has no chance of winning. 2. one doomed, or of the verge of death. 3. a useless, socially impoverished person. 4. fool, simpleton, dill. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead on One's Feet" - utterly worn out, exhausted. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead on Time" - at exactly, or appointed time. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead or Alive" - whether dead (possibly killed) or alive. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead to (Someone/Something)" - impervious to and unaffected by something or someone. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead to the World/Wide" (1)- one who declares that herself or himself have broken-off all but minimum contact with fellow members with society. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead to the World" (2)- sound asleep. |
| Dead | phr | "Dead to Rights" - with no excuse; without excuse. 2. certain, sure. 3. (sl) caught in the act. |
| Dead | phr | "Drop Dead!" - go away, I want no dealings with you. |
| Dead | phr | "Enough to Wake the Dead" - very loud. |
| Dead | phr | "Go Dead" - cease working, operating. |
| Dead | phr | "In A Dead Hand" - a term describing land held by a corporation or company and not by one person. |
| Dead | phr | "In the Dead of Night" - the darkest and quietest part of night. |
| Dead | phr | "Leave For Dead" - to be far superior to. |
| Dead | phr | "Let the Dead Bury the Dead" - one's past transgressions should be forgotten. |
| Dead | phr | "Over My Dead Body" - only if my most vigorous approach or opposition fails: never. |
| Dead | phr | "Play Dead" - remain motionless and appear dead. |
| Dead | phr | "Put the Dead Wood On" - procure a grat advantage over. |
| Dead | phr | "Run Into a Dead End" - get now ehere in an investigation. |
| Dead | phr | "Step Into Dead Men's Shoes" - job opportunity provided by somebody's death. |
| Dead | phr | "Shot Stone Dead" - completely dead. |
| Dead | phr | "Throw Out the Dead Wood" - get rid of the out of date, or not relevant or useful, unsatisfactory, especially staff in government administration. |
| Dead | phr | "Work a Dead Horse" - perform work already paid for, or as a pay off for a debt. |
| Dead | phr | "Wouldn't be Seen Dead In, Or With" - to have nothing to do with someone or something. 2. would be to embarrassed or ashamed to do something. |
| Dead-alive | adj. | Spiritless, alive but lacking animation. 2. dead, while yet alive, inactive. 3. dull, miserable, down in the mouth. |
| Dead-asleep | adj | Fast asleep, in a deep sleep. |
| Deadbeat | n | A beat or stroke which stops dead without recoil. 2. a worthless idler, wastrel, who sponges on friends; a loafer; cadger, malingerer. 3. a person down on luck. 4. of things: a deception, failure. |
| Deadbeat | adj | Utterly exhausted. |
| Deadbeat | vb | To exhaust, wear out. 2. to sponge, loaf, cheat. 3. to waste time, idle. |
| Dead-beaten | adj | Exhausted, worn out |
| Dead-beatness | n | Quality or state of being a sponger, loafer, out of luck. |
| Deadbolt | n | The part of the lock which is moved when the key is engaged. 2. a kind of lock in which the bolt is held in place by the cylinder |
| Deadbolt | vb | To fasten and secure by a dead lock. |
| Deadborn | adj. | Stillborn, born dead. |
| Dead-box | n | A vehicle used for carrying dead bodies, especaially from a nmine; a hearse (loosely). |
| Deadbroke | adj | Completely without money or funds. |
| Deadcart | n | A cart on which bodies are carried away during times of pestilence or plague. |
| Dead-clothes | n | Clothes adorning the body of a dead person. |
| Dead-day | n | Day of one's death. |
| Dead-doing | n. | Killing, murdering. |
| Dead-doing | adj | Murderous, doing-to-death, homicidal. |
| Dead drop | n | (In the parlance of spies and espionage: a location used to secretly items between two persons, without requiring them to meet. |
| Dead-drunk | adj | Heavy intoxicated or under the influence of drink. |
| Dead duck | n | One who has failed; a hopeless person, one has no chance; a goner. 2. a complete, irredeemable person. |
| Deaden | vb | To become dead (lit & fig.): lose vitality, force. 2. to kill. 3. to kill trees by ring-barking. 4. to deprive of vitality, force, or sensibility. 5. to deprive of some effective physical quality; as lustre, flavour, etc' to make dull, etc. 6. to destroy or reduce energy of (motion). |
| Dead end | n | A blind alley, cul-de-sac; a dead-end street. 2. a policy of going nowhere. 3. impasse. |
| Dead end | adj | That leads nowhere and having no prospect of advance or promotion. |
| Dead end | vb | To bring to a dead end; to meet impasse. |
| Dead-end | phr | "To Run Into A Dead-end" - to get nowhere or make no progress in an invitation. |
| Dead-ender | n | One whose life is leading nowhere, without hope or promise. |
| Dead-end folk | n | Those who live in slums, ghettos, black-streets or the boondocks. |
| Dead-end street | n | A cul-de-sac, the vagina (sl) |
| Dead-eye | n | A sharp-eyed person. |
| Dead-eye | vb | To stare in a cold chilly manner. |
| Dead-eyed | adj | Sharp of sight, perspicacious. |
| Dead fall | n | A tangled mass of fallen trees. 2. a low-drinking place; rough saloon, hotel, speak-easy. |
| Dead-fallow | n | A rest from cultivation of land during both summer and winter (a year long.) |
| Dead-fire | n | The luminous appearance called St Elmo's Fire, viewed with superstition supposed to presage death. |
| Dead first | adj | First, especially first place in a contest or competition. |
| Dead give-away | n | Idiomatically something that is disclosed unintentionally. 2. a complete betrayal. 3. a swindle, deception. |
| Dead-hand | n | An expert (generally); one who rarely fails. 2. an oppressive or retarding influence. |
| Dead-handed | adj | Oppressively old-fashioned or outdated. |
| Deadhead | n. | One admitted to an event without paying to bolster the numbers. 2. one who receives goods and services for nothing. 3. a simpleton, dullard. 4. a person who contributes nothing to an enterprise; an unenterprising person. 5. a lazy, worthless person. 6. a hippie, esp. one devoted to a next-to-nature lifestyle. |
| Deadhead | vb | To admit as a "deadhead.' 2. to obtain services, privilege without paying. 3. to drive an empty train, truck, vehicle. 4. to travel free of charge or without paying a fare. 5. to remove dead flowers (deadheading) from a plant. 5. the act or practice of being a deadhead. |
| Deadhead | adj | Useless, non-participative. 2. free of charge. |
| Deadheading | n | The practice of admitting persons to an event without paying in order to bolster the numbers attending, in order to create there is a strong following. |
| Dead Heart | n | "The Dead Heart" - the remote, desert inland region of Australia. 2. the main cemetery of a large city or metropolis. |
| Deadhearted | adj. | Callous, dead-in-feeling, insensible. |
| Dead-heartedness | n | The state or quality of being callous, insensitive, hardhearted. |
| Deadheartly | adv | In a callous, insensitive, unfeeling manner. |
| Deadheat | n | A race in which two or more contestants reach (or are level at) the finishing line at the same time. 2. |
| Deadheat | vb | To run a dead heat. |
| Deadheater | n | One who runs a dead heat. |
| Deadhorse | phr | "To Whip or Beat a Dead Horse" - to persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason. 2. to try to get something that can not give anymore. 3. to try to arouse new or fresh interest in something or situation that is either hopeless or already settled. |
| Deadhouse | n | Mortuary. 2. a very run-down, unattractive bar or hotel. 3. a room set aside in a lowdown dive, for very intoxicated patrons. |
| Deadingly | adv | In a without life manner, so as to deaden. |
| Dead-in-shell | n | An embryo in an egg which develops part way but dies before hatching. 2. in an inchoate state, immaturity, elementary stage. |
| Deadish | adj | Somewhat dead in various senses. |
| Dead knock | n | A knock at the door caused by no visible agent, supposed to presage the death of an occupant of the house or someone closely connected with it. |
| Dead knowledge(?) | n | Deceit, cunning, deliberately spun wrong information. |
| Dead last | adj | Hopelessly last in a contest or situation. |
| Dead latch | n | A kind of latch whose bolt maybe locked so that it cannot be opened from the inside by the handle, or from outside by the latch key. |
| Dead lift | n | The exertion of the utmost strength when lifting a weight beyond one's power to move. 2. a hopeless exigence; a position or moment in which one can do more. 3. an effort in which the whole strength is applied to move something. 4. a sheer lift; a supreme effort. |
| Dead light | n | A luminous presence seen over putrescent bodies in graveyards etc.; a corpse-light, corpse-candle. |
| Deadlihood | n | A deadly condition; the state of the dead; deadhood, deadlihead. |
| Dead line | n | (sl) a red light district of a town or city. |
| Deadline | n | A line that does not move or run. 2. a line drawn around a military prison, beyond which a prisoner is liable to be shot. 3. a time by which material has to be ready for inclusion in a particular issue of a publication, such as a newspaper. 4. a time limit. |
| Deadline | n | "Meet a Deadline" - have something done or ready on time. |
| Deadliness | n | The condition of being subject to death. 2. the quality of deadly or fatal. |
| Deadlink | n | An internet hypertext link that points to a web page or a website which is permanently unavailable |
| Deadload | n | The weight of a structure itself, including the weight of fixtures or equipment permanently attached to it. |
| Deadlock | n | A complete standstill, a position in which it is impossible to proceed. 2. a standstill resulting from the opposition of two evenly matched forces; stalemate, impasse. 3. an ordinary lock which opens and shuts only with a key; occasionally, a padlock. 4. a hospital where persons suffering from venereal disease are cared for. 5. in computing, a deadlock occurs when two processes compete for the same resources but in an order that causes a stalemate/deadlock. (See: 'live lock'). |
| Deadlock | vb | To bring to a deadlock or complete standstill. |
| Deadlocked | adj | Brought to a deadlock or standstill by two forces, contestants being equally matched. 2. stalemated, in an impasse, in a stand-still state. |
| Deadlocking | n | The state or condition of being deadlocked. |
| Deadlong | adj | During the time one is dead, eternally; permanent;(opposite to 'lifelong). |
| Dead loss | n | Total loss: useless; useless, unworkable object. 2. an absolutely useless person, idea or enterprise. 3. a totally unproductive, unprofitable charge. |
| Deadly | adv | In a deadly manner, mortally, fatally, excessively. |
| Deadly-lively | adj | Offering false joviality |
| Deadly Never-green | n | The gallows, the leafless trees. |
| Deadly sin | n | Sin that leads to eternal damnation. 2. any of the seven deadly sins: anger, greed, envy, gluttony, lust, pride and sloth. |
| Deadly Nightshade | n | Atropa Belladonna. 2. (slang) the lowliest kind of sex-worker, prostitute. |
| Deadly sin | n | Sin that leads to eternal damnation. 2. any of the seven deadly sins: anger, greed, envy, gluttony, lust, pride and sloth. |
| Deadman | n | Empty beer bottles at a party, etc. 2. a scarecrow. |
| Deadman | phr | "Dead Man Walking" - a condemned prisoner walking to the death chamber or other place of execution. 2. someone who is about to die soon. 3. someone who is about to face an unavoidable loss; (though the person may not realize it.) |
| Deadman | phr | "In Deadman's Shoes" - anything that one would not rather have to experience or endure, but cannot a void it. |
| Deadman's bells | n | The plant Digitalis purpurea, the foxglove. |
| Dead man's fingers | n | The plant, Orchis maculata latifolia. |
| Deadman's hand | n | A hand supposedly held by Wild Bill Hickok when he was shot in the back at deadwood, South Dakota. |
| Deadman's Handle | n | A handle on the controller of an electric train, etc., so designed that it cuts off the current and applies the brakes if the driver released the pressure from illness or some other cause. |
| Deadman's shoes | n | Job opportunity provided by someone's death or retirement. |
| Deadman's thumb | n | Orchis mascula. |
| Deadman's walk | n | The walk of a condemned prisoner to a place of execution. |
| Deadmeat | n | A corpse, carcass. 2. something doomed by obsolesence, ruin, or death. 3. a prostitute. 4. a horse which has no chance of winning. |
| Dead Men's Fingers | n | Rubus caesius; dewberries. |
| Deadneck | n | A very stupid person complete dolt, lacking mentally alertness, dill, fool. |
| Deadness | adj. | The condition of being dead in various senses of the verb. 2. want of some physical quality; absence of lustre or colour, dullness, want of taste, flatness, inspidity. |
| Dead nettle | n | Laminium masculatum, and other various plants. |
| Dead-of-night | adj | In the very dead of night, when few people are around and little happens as the city 'sleeps;' such as in the dead or cold and dark depths of winter. |
| Deadpan | adj | Lacking any facial expression; impassive. 2. speaking without expression, especially when one needs to do so; expressionless. |
| Dead-reckoning | n | To calculate one current position by using a determined position or fix, and advancing that position based upon known or estimated speeds over elapsed time and course. 2. (colloq.) claim what one is saying is absolutely true. |
| Dead run | n | A situation when public transport vehicles run without carrying and accepting passengers; dead-heading. 2. used colloquially: to accept a passage free of charge. |
| Dead Sea | n | A small, below-the-sea-level, saltwater lake bordered by Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan, known from biblical time. |
| Dead Sea Apple | n | The Apple of Sodom - a fruit described by biblical writers anciently as of fair look on the outside, but dissolving into ashes and smoke when plucked. Name given afterwards to the fruit of "Solan sodom." |
| Deadshot | n | A person who shots accurately. |
| Deadsick | adj | Sick as one can be. |
| Dead-slayer | n | One guilty of manslaughter. |
| Deadsmooth | adj | Finest covering of smoothness. |
| Dead soul | n | Someone who is no longer alive; a decedent. |
| Deadstick landing | n | A forced landing of an aircraft when it loses power and forced to land. |
| Dead still | adv | Not changing one' sposition, stance, perhaps even one's facial expressions at all; absolutely still. |
| Deadstock | n | A term used to describe goods that have little sales and become out of fashion, before being removed from sale. Sometimes this stock is returned to the shelf and offered for sale with the same tags and at the same price. |
| Deadstruck | adj | Paralyse with fear or horror. |
| Dead sweat | n | Death sweat. |
| Dead time | n | Time in which someone or something is inactive or unable to act productively. 2. any period of one's prison sentence where one is prohibited from associating with fellow prisoners. 3. any time spent in prison that doesn't reduced one's sentence. |
| Deadtimed | adj | Inactive, non-productive. |
| Dead tongue | n | A language no longer spoken. |
| Deadtops | n | Trees whose top foliage is dead. |
| Dead water | n | Without a current, still, stagnant water. 2. the eddy water just behind the stern of a ship under way. 3. the stillest side of the tide, when the rise and fall of the tide are at minimum; the neap tide. |
| Dead week | n | A week or so before students at Universities sit their end of year exams; it is a stressful week of cramming. |
| Dead weight | n | The unrelieved weight of a heavy, still mass. 2. a heavy burden or stressful, very difficult time. |
| Dead well | n | A well used to carry away surface or refuse water. |
| Death whisper | n | Sound waves of such high frequency as to be inaudible to human ears, and having the power to kill small animals as fish in the water, under certain conditions. |
| Deadwood | n | Wood dead on a tree (lit.) 2. the dead branches, without any further possibility of future growth, of a fruit tree or trees in general 2. a person or thing regarded as useless, unprofitable, a hindrance or impediment to progress. |
| Deadwood | phr | "Put the Deadwood On" - to have superiority or power over. |
| Dead work | n | Work not directly productive, but done in preparation for future work; work in progress, not finished. |
| Deaf | n | "The Deaf" - those suffering hearing impairment, the deaf collectively. |
| Deaf | vb | Insensible to certain kinds of sounds. 2. fig. not given ear to; unwilling to hear or listen; inattentive. 3. dull, stupid, absurd, mentally and aurally unaware and unalert. 4. numb, without sensation. 5. of sounds: so dull as to be hardly indistinctly heard; muffled. 6. lacking essential characteristics or quality; hollow, empty, barren, insipid, unproductive. ++++++ |
| Deaf | vb | To become deaf. 2. to make deaf; deafen. 3. to down a sound (out) with a louder sound. |
| Deaf | phr | "As Deaf as an Adder" - very or totally deaf. |
| Deaf | phr | "Be Deaf and Dumb" - be unable to hear or speak. |
| Dear | phr | "Fall on Deaf Ears" - be deliberately ignored. |
| Deaf | phr | "Give a Deaf Ear To" - to not take heed of what someone is telling you. 2. ignore, take no involvement in the plight of others. |
| Deaf | phr | "None as Deaf as Those Won't Hear" - if you tell someone something that he or she does not wish to know, he or she will not pay attention to. |
| Deaf | phr | "Turn a Deaf Ear to" - delierately ignore. |
| Deaf adder | n | A local name in England for the slow worm. |
| Deaf and Dumb | n | Name once applied (now considered vulgar) to deaf people who cannot speak. |
| Deaf-blind | adj | Combination of hearing and visual loss. 2. sightless and without hearing. |
| Deaf-blindness | n | The state or condition of being without hearing or sight; (also, applied to person with some limited sight and hearing). |
| Deaf-dumbness | n | Aphonia; hearing and speech impairment. |
| Deaf-ear | n | A cotyledon or seed leaf of some plants. 2. the ear lobe of the domestic fowl. |
| Deaf-eared | adj | The auricles of the heart. |
| Deafen | vb | To make deafen; to deprive and take power of hearing. 2. to stun with noise. 3. to render (a sound) inaudible; to drown by a louder sound. 3. to become deaf. |
| Deafened | adj | Without hearing. |
| Deafening | adj | That deafens or stuns with noise |
| Deafeningly | adv | In a deafening manner. |
| Deafhood | n | Deafness. |
| Deafish | adj | Somewhat or rather deaf. |
| Deafly | adv | In a deaf-like manner. 2. without hearing (lit. and fig.)dully, indistinctly, obscurely to the ear. |
| Deafness | n | The state or condition of being deaf. |
| Deaf nettle | n | The stingless nettle. |
| Deaf nut | n | One with no kernel. 2. (fig.)for something hollow, worthless or unsubstantial. |
| Deal | n | Part, portion, amount, share. 2. with an ordinal number, expressing an aliquot part of the whole, as half-deal 3. with an indefinite and distributive numerals as each, every, never, some, as every-deal , some-deal. 3. with other and comparitive words, as more, less, better or part of the remainder, the other deal, (the other part); the rst, remainder. 4. the better deal (fig.) the superior, the better. 5. for the worst deal, the most prt , mostly, on most occasions. 6. a part allowed or portioned to any one ; a portion, share, dole. 7. a portion or share of land. 8. an amount or quantity; a considerable amount, a good deal. |
| Deal | n | A slice sawn from a log of timber, usually no more than 7 inches long and three inches thick. |
| Deal | vb | To deal with, to act in regard to, act upon, administer, handle effectively; to grapple with successfully. |
| Deal | phr | "It's a Deal" - it is agreed. |
| Deal | phr | "Deal In" - to deal cards to a new player in a poker game. 2. to buy and sell (trade in) a named commodity. 3. handle, do business in. |
| Deal | phr | "Deal Out" - to stop dealing cards to a player. 2. administer, deal out. |
| Deal | phr | "Deal With" - to handle verbally in some form of artistic expression. 2. to address or deal aa a subject. 3. trade with; do business with. 4. handle, tackle, confront, so as to settle, remedy, reform something. 5. handle some offence. |
| Deal | phr | "Deal With the Devil" - an agreement in which a person abandon his or her principles in order to obtain wealth or other benefits. |
| Deal | phr | "Get A Fair/Good Deal" - a substantial amount, quality, quite a lot. |
| Deal | phr | "Get A Raw Deal" - to be treated unfairly. |
| Deal | phr | "Get a Sweetheart Deal" - an agreement negotiate in private without full regard to the interest of those affected. |
| Deal | phr | 'It's a Deal" - it is agreed. |
| Deal | phr | "The New Deal" - a series of domestic programs, enacted in the US between 1933-38 focusing on the social, economic and financial of Americamn society. |
| Deal | phr | "Wheel and Deal" - to energetically enter into a commercial traansaction of dubious propriety. |
| Deal-breaker | n | In business a factor or issue that, if it is not settled between the parties, may result in one parties withdrawing from the negotiation. |
| Dealer | n | One who deals (divides, distributes, delivers) things, especially cars; a middleman; a monger. 2. a type of stockbroker or trader. 3. one who deals the cards in a card game. 4. one who deals in illicit drugs. |
| Dealerdom | n. | The sphere of influence of a dealerb or dealers; dealers collectively. |
| Dealership | n | The position, business or priveleges of a dealer; one who that sells items, especially cars. 2. an authorized trading establishment |
| Dealing | n | Division, distribution, of goods and services. 2. sharing a part, division. 3. intercourse, friendly or business connexion. 4. trading, trafficking, buying and selling. 5. acting in some specific way towards others; way of acting, behaviour, conduct. |
| Dealth | n. | A portion dealt, (wealth) |
| Dealmaker | n | One who makes or brokers business or political transactions. |
| Dealmaking | n | The making of commercial, financial or political deals. |
| Dealsman | n | A partner, a sharer. |
| Dealy | adj | An object,esp. a gadget, whose name the speaker can not currently remember. 2. a gizmo, a thing-me-bob. |
| Dear | n | A beloved person; used as terms of endearment; beloved, dear, dearest, honey, love. 2. a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child; a dear. |
| Dear | adv | With affection; dearly, affectionately, dear. 2. at a great cost or high price. |
| Dear | adj | (Not in cognate language) of persons: brave, bold, strenuous, hardy, difficult. 2. glorious, noble, honourable worthy. 3. dearly loved; beloved, darling, dear. 4. with or in a close or intimate relationship; good, near. 5. earnest; "one's dearest wish"; "heartfelt condolences"; earnest, heartfelt. 6: having a high price; costly high-priced ;much too dear costly, dear, high-priced, pricey, pricy. 7. bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive. 8. marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year. 9. highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious; hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention. |
| Dear | vb | To make dear or expensive. 2. to raise the price of. 3. to endear. 4. to address a person as 'as dear' |
| Dear | phr | "Dear only Knows" - nobody knows; there 's no means of knowing. |
| Dear | phr | "Dear to Somebody's Heart" - dera to somebody; much loved or liked by somebody; close to somebody's heart. |
| Dear | phr | "Oh, Dear(ie) Me" - exclamation expressing surprize, regret, sympathy,anxiety, and many other emotions. |
| Dear | phr | "For Dear Life" - as a matter of extreme urgency. |
| Dear | phr | "Ride For Dear Life" - to act as if one's with depends on it (quickly) |
| Dear | phr | "Think Dear" - to seem right or proper. |
| Dearbought | adj | Bought at a high price. 2. achieved or obtained at great sacrifice. |
| Dearheart | n | A term of affection. |
| Dearie | n | A little dear, darling, a familiar term of amatory, or conjugal endearment. |
| Dearly | adj | Illustrious, splendid, brave. |
| Dearly | adv | In a dear manner: loveable, heartfelt, affectionate manner. |
| Dearness | n | The quality of being dear. 2. high esteem. 3, great affection; intimacy, mutual affection; fondness. 4. expression or token of affection. 5. the quality of being dear, costly, expensive of price. 6. expensiveness, costliness. |
| Dear one | n | My dear; my darling. 2. dearest friend, enemy, foe. 3. |
| Dearth | n | An acute insufficiency; dearth, famine, scarcity, shortage. 2. an insufficient quantity or number. dearth, scarcity, paucity. 3. scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine. 4. a scarcity of provisions. 5. an absence, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, paucity, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, sparseness, sparsity, want. |
| Dearworth | n | Precious, valuable, beloved. |
| Dearworthily | adv | Worthily, honourably, preciously, richly, affectionately. |
| Dear-worthiness | n | State or quality of being precious, having worthfulness, being valuable. |
| Dearworthy | adj | Worthy of high estimation; precious, costly. 2. worthy, honourable, noble, glorious. 4. of persons: dearly esteemed, dearly beloved, valuable. |
| Deary | adj | Precious, endeared, loved, esteemed. 2. a little costly or expensive. |
| Dear year | n | A year of dearth, shortage, deprivation. |
| Death | n | The event of dying or departure from life; death, decease, expiry. 2. the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism. 3. the absence of life or state of being dead. 4. the time when something ends; death, dying, demise. 5. the time at which life ends; continuing until dead; death, last. 6. the personification of death. 7. a final state, end, destruction, death. 8. the act of killing.Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation. 9. manner of dying; act or state of passing from life. 10. cause of loss of life. 11. personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe. 12. murder; murderous character. 13. (theol.) loss of spiritual life. 14. anything so dreadful as to be like death. 15. cessation, last breath, last things, latter end, swansong. |
| Death | phr | "Be At Death's Door" - be on the point of death; dangerously ill. |
| Death | phr | "Be At the Gates of Death" - grave; in the dying stage of life. |
| Death | phr | "Be Death on Anything" - be unusually attached to; especially fond of. 2. to dislike intensely enough to kill. |
| Death | phr | "Be In At the Death" - to be present at the very end. |
| Death | phr | "Be On One's Death Bed" - bed or other place where one is dying. |
| Death | phr | "Be Sick Of" - thoroughly fed up. |
| Death | phr | "Be the Death Of" - to be the cause of someone's death; or cause great amusement, trouble, annoyance. |
| Death | phr | "Be the Kiss of Death" - something that brings about ruin. |
| Death | phr | "Bore Someone to Death" - to greatly weary someone by dull and uninteresting conversation or by lack of action. |
| Death | phr | "Death Under Shield" - death in battle, war, military confrontation. |
| Death | phr | "Do To Death" - overdo, overexpose. |
| Death | phr | "Feel Like Death Warmed Up" - feel exhausted, ill. |
| Death | phr | "Have a Death Wish" - the contemplation of action so foolish that it is likely to lead to utter disaster. |
| Death | phr | "Hold On Like Grim Death" - hold something tenaciously. |
| Death | phr | "Like Death Warmed Up" - to feel exhausted, ill. |
| Death | phr | "One's Death Throes" - the last stage before a person or animal dies, whether in unconscious pain, or not. 2. fig. in the last stages in the break-up of an empire, institution, industry. |
| Death | phr | "On the Death-knock" - at the very last moment. |
| Death | phr | "Put to Death" - execute, kill. |
| Death | phr | 'Slowly Bleed to Death" - to be heading in gradual steps towards total ruin. |
| Death | phr | "To The Death" - wage war till the death. 2. until somebody is defeated or killed. |
| Death | phr | "Work Something to Death" - force something to work excessively, or overexpose something. |
| Death | phr | "Work to Death" - to wear oneself with effort, exhaustion. 2. to work some else to death (lit.) |
| Death adder | n | A name for the geus Acanthophis of venomous serpents, esp Acanthophis antarctica of australia. |
| Death angel | n | The harbinger of death. |
| Death bed | n | The bed on which a person dies; the bed of death. 2. the grave. |
| Death beam | n | The tree of death; gallows. |
| Death bell | n | A bell tolled at the death of a person. 2. a sound in the ears like that of a bell supposed by the superstitious to portend a death. |
| Death-bird | n | A bird that feeds on dead bodies, a carrion-feeding birds; a bird supposed to bode death. 2. a raven. |
| Death-blast | n | A violent storm or gale at sea. |
| Death-bone | n | Custom among the Erd-folk of Australia where a bone is pointed at someone with the intention to cause his/ hers death. |
| Deathcare | n | The provisions of products and services for the burial or cremation of the dead. |
| Death-cup | n | The poisonous mushroom 'Amanita phalloides'. |
| Death-day | n | The day on which a person dies. 2. the anniversary of someone death. |
| Death-dealer | n | Death-monger: one who peddles death; a murderer of many. |
| Death-dew | n | "Ashen as the Cheek with Death-dew's icy cold." - death's icy coldness. |
| Death-door knocking | adj | "Many death-door-knocking" soul complain." - those about to die sate of unwellness. |
| Death-evil | n | A contagious disease; a plague, as in 'death-evil took him'. |
| Death-fire | n | A luminous aaearance suupposed to be seen over a dead body; (death or dead light) 2. the fire for the burning of people at the stake. |
| Deathful | adj | Full of death; fraught with death. 2. mortal, fatal, destructive, deadly. 3. subject to death, mortal. 4. having the appearance of death, deathly. |
| Deathfully | adv | in a manner of death and slaughter. |
| Deathfulness | n | An appearance suggestive of death. |
| Deathhouse | n | A mortuary; a part of a prison where executions take place; the death chamber; the gallows. |
| Death-hunter | n | One who furnishes, produces reports of death for newspapers. 2. a vendor of dying speeches or confessions. 3. an undertaker. 4. an ambulance chaser: a lawyer etc. |
| Daeth knell | n | A church-bell ringing to announce the death or passing away of somebody. |
| Deathless | adj. | Immortal; not subject to death. |
| Deathlessly | adv | In an immortal manner or way. |
| Death light | n | Deathfire. |
| Death-like | adj | Deadly, fatl, mortal. |
| Deathliness | n. | The state or quality of being deathly. |
| Deathling | n. | Mortal; one subject to death. |
| Deathlock | n | A wrestling move locking one's opponent, causing great pain and submission. |
| Deathly | adj | Deathlike; gloomy, pale, etc. as death. |
| Deathly | adv | Resembling or to a degree like death. 2. subject to death, mortal, deathly of nature. 3. in a way causing or tending to death. 4. |
| Deathman | n. | Executioner |
| Deathmonger | n | A dealer in death, such as the buying and selling of military armanents. |
| Death pang | n | The pain, suffering and throes of dying. |
| Deathrow | n | The section of a rison which houses prisoner who are about to be executed. |
| Death's door | n | The boundary of life; the border between life and death. |
| Death's head | n | The head of 'Death' figured as a skeleton; a human skull. 2. a figure or representation of the skull; esp. as an emblem of mortality. |
| Death-quell | n | Death by killling; homicide. |
| Death-sick | adj | Mortally ill or terminally ill. |
| Death-sickness | n | The state or condition of being mortally or terminally ill. |
| Death-sleep | n | Eternal sleep. |
| Deathsman | n | An executioner; one who puts another to death. |
| Death song | n | A song immediately before death to commemorate the dead; (a custom among australian erdfolk). |
| Death-sough | n | The last breath of a dying person. |
| Deathstead | n | Location of death (ones); place of execution. 2. a place of great bloodstead, killing, disaster. |
| Deathstick | n | A cigarette {sl) |
| Deathstruck | pp. | Killed. 2. struck down by a mortal wound or disease. |
| Death-throe(s) | n. | Dying stage; the agony of death; the death spasm or struggle. |
| Death-time | n | Time of one's death; |
| Death toll | n | The number of dead as a result of war, natural disaster or other incidents. |
| Death trap | n | Any place or structure which is dangerous or unhealthly without its being suspected. |
| Deathward | adj. | Dying, heading towards death. 2. towards or tending towards one's death. |
| Death watch | n | A watch or vigil besides the dead or dying. |
| Death-wave | n | Phenomena along the coast of Britain, where gaint waves' sudden inundation took thousands of lives; bane-wave, tsunami, ettinwave. |
| Death-weight | n | A small weight place on the eyelids of the dead to keep them closed. |
| Death wish | n | A conscious or unconscious wish for the death of another. 2. a desire, esp. subconscious, for the death of oneself or someone else. |
| Death-worship | n | In some primitive religions, deities associated with death and sometimes the practice of human sacrifice. 2. a term often used in a derogatory manner to accuse certain groups of morally abhorrent practices which put no value on human life, or seem to glorify death. |
| Deathworthy | adj. | Ripe to be killed, not worthy of living; worthy off death. |
| Death-wound | n | A wound causing death; a mortal wound. |
| Deathy | adj | Of the nature or characteristic of death. 2. to a degree resembling death. |
| Deave | vb. | To deafen, to wax deaf, deave. 2. to stun or stupefy with noise. 3. to bewilder, worry, confuse esp. by dinning in one's ears. |
| Deaving | n | State or condition of being deavely. |
| Deaveliness | n | Solitude, loneliness, want of company, solitariness. |
| Deavely | adj | OE. sense maybe 'where nothing is heard'. 2. lonely, solitary and silent. 3. deafly. |
| Deche | vb. | Daub, Smear, |
| Deed | n | The act of bravery; a feat, esp. with deeds of arms. 2. doings, ado, to-do. 3. deed, a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it. 2. something that people do or cause to happen; act, deed, human action, human activity, duty. 3. that which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- whatever is done, good or bad, great or small. 4. illustrious act; achievement; exploit. 5. power of action; agency; efficiency. 6. to be, both will and deed, made free. 7. fact; reality; -- whence we have in deed. 8. in law a sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract ; (the term is generally applied to conveyances of real estate. 9. performance; -- followed by of. |
| Deed | vb | To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his earthly things to his eldest son. |
| Deed | phr | "In Deed" - in fact, in reality, in with, in truth. |
| Deed | phr | "With The Deed" - in the act of. |
| Deed-bote | n | Boot, amends, expiation. 2. amends-deed, penance, repentance. |
| Deed-box | n | A strong-box for keeping deeds and other documents. |
| Deed-doer | n | One who does or performs a deed. |
| Deeded | adj | Characterized by deed. |
| Deedful | adj | Full of deeds, active, effective. |
| Deedfully | adv | Actively, effectively. |
| Deedholder | n | One who holds a deed. |
| Deedily | adv | Actively, busily. |
| Deeding | n | Actual doing; carrying out in deed. 2. activity, action, doing. |
| Deedless | adj | Without action or deed. 2. of persons: performing no deeds; doing nothing, inactive, without activity. 3. incapable, helpless. |
| Deedworthy | adj | Actions worthy of praise or commendation. |
| Deedy | adj | Full of activity, active. 2. earnest, serious. 3. actual, real. |
| Deem | n. | Judgement, opinion, thought, surmise. |
| Deem | vb | From Old English dēman: to judge, determine, reckon, decide, decree, sentence, condemn, assign, deem, consider, think, estimate, compute, examine, prove, doom, condemn, praise, glorify, tell, declare. 2. to keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view; deem, hold, view as. 3. to decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn, doom. 4. to account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard. 5. to be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose. 6. to adjudge; decree. 7. to dispense (justice); administer (law). 8. to think, judge, or hold as an opinion; decide or believe on consideration; suppose. 9. to hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; evaluate according to one's beliefs; account. |
| Deemed | adj | Thought, supposed, judged; deemed. |
| Deemer | n | Judge; dempster, one who deems; a deemer, one who opines. 2. one who censures or unfavorably criticises. |
| Deeming | n | Judging, judgement. 2. the forming or expanding of an opinion or judgement. 3. thinking, opining, censuring, or surmising. |
| Deemster | n | A judge. |
| Deemstership | n | Office of a deemster or judge. |
| Deep | n | The deep part of a sea, ocean, main, lake, river. 2. deep place in the earth. a deep pit, cavity, depression on a surface. 3. the middle and most intense part of a (winter's) night (the depths) when cold, stillness, or darkness is the most intense. 4. deep, mysterious or unfathomable matters or thought. 5. sagacious thought or thought in getting to the bottomof things or matters; "in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter". 6. a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor; trench, deep, oceanic abyss. 7. literary term for an ocean; "wights of the deep". |
| Deep | vb | To make deep, deeper. 2. to make deep, depen, penetrate. 3. to plunge or immerse deeply. |
| Deep | adj | Relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply; "a deep breath"; "in a deep sleep". 2. marked by depth of thinking; "deep thoughts". 3. having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination; "a deep well"; "a deep dive"; "deep water" "deep shelves"; "a deep closet"; "waist-deep". 4. very distant in time or space; "deep in the woods". 5. extreme; "deep happiness". 6. having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range; "in deep steven". 7. strong; intense; "deep purple"; "a rich red" 8. relatively thick from top to bottom; "deep snow". 9. extending relatively far inward. 10. (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness".;"deep night". 11. large in quantity or size. 12. with head or back bent low; "a deep bow". 13. of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written 14. without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark derne". 15. cryptic, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying. 14. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; abstruse, deep, recondite. 16. exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy. |
| Deep | adv | To a great depth; far down; deeply, deep. 2. to an advanced time; "deep into the night"; late. 3. to a great distance. 4. to a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply, as "deep-knowing in books". Note: Deep, in its usual adverbial senses, is often prefixed to an adjective; as, deep-chested, deep-seated, deep uddered kine." 5. reaching deep going. |
| Deep | phr | "Deep as Well" - difficult to assess or understand , because he/she keeps his/her thoughts, plans to himself. |
| Deep | phr | "Deep in Thought" - temporary wholly engaged in thinking, either beacuse one is in a pensive mood, because one is thinking carefully about something or considering a problem or difficulty. |
| Deep | phr | "Deep of Night" - midnight. |
| Deep | phr | "Drink Deep" - to drink copiously. |
| Deep | phr | "Go Off the Deep End" - to give away to emotion or rage. 2.'to let oneself go' |
| Deep | phr | "In Deep Water" - in a difficult or embarrassing situation. |
| Deep | phr | "Play a Deep Game" - to show cunning. |
| Deep | phr | "Still Waters Run Deep" - one can be more emotional, knowledgeable than first appears. |
| Deep | phr | "Throw In At the Deep End" - to make someone do something difficult, esp. a job, without preparing them for it or giving them any help. |
| Deep blue | adj | Dark or darkish blue. |
| Deep-breathing | n | Breathing with long breaths, especially as a form of exercise. |
| Deep-brooding | n | Pensive, thoughtfully sad. |
| Deep-browed | adj | Intellectual. 2. of thinking deeply, pondering. |
| Deep dive | vb | To analyse a mtter thoroughly and profoundly. 2. fig. to drill down |
| Deepdown | adj | Fundamentally; in essence; in reality; really. |
| Deep-drawing | n | (Of ships) requiring great depth to float in. |
| Deep-drawn | adj | Drawn deeply from the depths (fig. esp. of the breast or bosom). |
| Deep-drenched | adj | (Lit and fig.)- soaked with water or other liquids. 2. fig. saturated or immersed in something, as 'deep-drenched in the sea of care'. |
| Deepen | vb | To make or become deep or deeper (in various senses); to increase the depth of. |
| Deepened | adj | Make deep or deeper. |
| Deep-end | n | The art of a swimming pool with relatively deep water. 2. a situation where expertise or experience. |
| Deepener | n | One who, or that which, deepens. 2. a hypnotic suggestion designed to send the listener deeper into a state of trance. |
| Deepening | n | The action of making something deeper, such as a bay or river by dredging. 2. the process of intensifying colour, shadow, etc. 3. a deepening of any surface. |
| Deepeningly | adv | Reaching more deeply or profoundly (in various senses). |
| Deepfelt | adj | Felt deeply emotionally. |
| Deepfetch | vb. | Bring or fetch from the deep |
| Deep-fetched | adj | Fetched from deep (or depths) of or from the bosom, or far below the surface of things; ('farfetched'). |
| Deep freeze | vb | A refrigerator, fridge or freezer of a fridge. 2. a period of extremely cold weather, ssp. one with heavy snowfall. |
| Deep freeze | vb | To subject to deep freezing. |
| Deep-inside | adv | At heart; deep down, really. |
| Deepish | adj | Somewhat deep or profound. |
| Deep kiss | n | An act involving considerable amount of tongue contact and erotic arousal. |
| Deep-laid | adj | Thoughtfully, and meticulously carried out, often with cunningness. |
| Deeply | adv | At depth; in a deep way. 2. to a deep extent. 3. profoundly. |
| Deepmost | adj. | Deepmost, deepest, most profound. |
| Deep mourning | n | Mourning symbolized by great grief. |
| Deep-mouthed | adj | Having a deep or capacious mouth, of persons, geographical features. |
| Deepness | n | The quality of being deep (in various senses) depth, profundity. 2. a deep place, an abyss; a deep part of the sea. |
| Deep North | n | The state of Queensland, Australia, used in a derogative way by other australians. |
| Deep-read | adj. | Well read, deeply or widely read; skilled or knowledgeable by widespread and profound reading. |
| Deep-rooted | adj | Having roots deeply implanted. 2. (fig.) deep-seated of feelings, opinions, prejudices |
| Deep sea | adj | Of or belonging to the deeper or deepest part of the sea or ocean; bathyonic. |
| Deep-seated | adj | Having its seat or origin deep far beneath the surface, as a 'deep-seated hatred'. 2. (of disease)superficial. |
| Deepseen | adj. | Seen from afar. 2. that seen or has been seen deeeply into things; a microscopic looking or drill down |
| Deepship | n | Depth, profound mystery. |
| Deep-sighted | adj | Profound, incisive, as 'wholesome and deep-sighted advice' |
| Deep-six | n | The grave, tomb, with reference to grave being dig to a depth of six feet. |
| Deep-sleep | n | A coma, cataphor. 2. somnolence marked by periods of partial consciousness. 3. in science fiction: artificially induced hibernation in humans for the purpose of undertaking distance travel to other planets. |
| Deepsome | adj | Somewhat deep or profound. |
| Deep South | n | A geographical and cultural term for some of the southern states of the US. |
| Deep thinker | n | A person whose thoughts are profound. |
| Deep throat | n | A person involved within an organization who supplies anonymously information concerning misconduct by other members of the organization, as in the Watergate affair; (after a porno-film (1972) named or title). |
| Deep time | n | The concept of “deep time” dates back to 18th-century geologist James Hutton, who proposed that Earth was a lot older than 6,000 years, as most people thought at the time. |
| Deep time | adj | Ancient, prehistoric. |
| Deep water | n | Water deep enough for deep-draft ships, esp. ocean-going ones. |
| Deer | n | A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae; or one of several other similar species. 2. the meat or flesh of such animals; venison, deermeat, deerflesh. 3. a beast, animal generally, a quadruped, but not a fish or bird; hart, stag, buck, fawn. |
| Deer | phr | "Deer in the Headlights" - in a fear-induced state, scared stiff (lit. and fig.)when a person seems incapable of moving. |
| Deer-berry | n | Gautheria procumbus. |
| Deerdom | n | The world of deers; deers collectively. |
| Deer-eyed | adj | Having soft or languid eye; dewy-eyed; doe-eyed.. |
| Deer flesh | n | Deermeat, venison. |
| Deer fold | n | In OE. an enclosure or cage for wild beasts in the ampitheatre. |
| Deer grass | n | Meadow-beauty. |
| Deer hair | n | A rushy plant. |
| Deerhood | n | State or quality of being a deer. |
| Deerhound | n | A breed of dog used for hunting. |
| Deerkind | n. | Beast-kind as distinct from human-kind |
| Deerlick | n | A small spring or spot of damp ground, impregnated with salt, potash, where deer come to lick. |
| Deerlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of the deer. |
| Deermeat | n | Venison, deer flesh. |
| Deer-skin | n | A leather from deer skin. |
| Deerstalker | n | One who stalks and hunts deer. 2. a low-crowned close fitting hat worn by a deerstalker. |
| Deer-tiger | n | The puma or cougar. |
| Deft | adj. | Gentle, meek, humble 2, skillful, dexterous, clever. 3. neat, tidy, trim, spruce, handsome, pretty. |
| Deftly | adv | In a deft manner. |
| Deftness | n | The quality of being deft. |
| Delf | n, | Hole, cavity, pit, trench dug into the earth; eg. for irrigation or drainage channels in the fen districts of eastern England. 3. an excavation or delve in or into the earth (or stratum of earth) where minerals are dug from; a quarry or mine. 4. a sod, or cut turf. 5. grave, burial place. 6. the act of delving: a thrust of a spade., dark inn |
| Delve | n | A cavity in or under the ground; excavation, pit, den, delf. 2. a hollow or depress in a surface. 3. a wrinkle. 4. the act of delving or plunging of a spade into the ground. 5. the burrowing of an animal. 6. a slope of a hill; a brae. |
| Delve | vb. | To dig, excavate, delf, delve, plough, turn over the soil; to dig, labour or turn over with a spade. 2. to make, or put a hole in the ground by digging, pit. 3. to bury a corpse; to exhume a body. 4. to obtain by digging. 5. to penetrate by digging. 6. to dint or indent. 7. to make a laborious search for a 'buried' treasures; fig. to make a laborious search for information, the truth, facts. 8. to work hard, slave drudgely. 9. to make a sudden dip or deep descent. 10. to dip with violence. 11. to plunge into water. |
| Delved | adj | Dug, excavated, ploughed. 2. exhumed; dug up. 3. searched for diligently (for information, truth, facts). |
| Delver | n | One who delves, as a tiller of the ground. |
| Delving | n | The act of one who delves. |
| Demend | n | A judge, (deem & end): see almightend, friend, fiend, healend, shapend, slinkend, waldend. |
| Den | n | Lair or habitat of a wild boar. 2. a place hollowed out of the ground; cave, cavern, pit, cavity, hollow. 3. a place of retreat or abode, a lair. 4. a secret lurking place of thieves. 5. a small confined room or abode - one unfit for human habitation. 6. a bachelor den: a small secluded room. 7. a deep hollow between hills; a dingle. |
| Den | vb | To ensconce or hide oneself in a den. 2. to live or dwell in a den. 3. to escapen or hide oneself in a den. |
| Den | phr | "A Den of Thieves" - a meeting place of thieves and rogues. |
| Den | vb | "Den Out" - to drive an animal from its lair or den. 2. to unearth. |
| Den | phr | "Den Up" - to retire into a den for the winter, to hibernate. |
| Den-dreadful | n | Dreadful as dens of wild beasts: a place of dread. |
| Dene | n | A narrow wooded valley; a vale. |
| Dene-hole | n | (Dane's hole) a popular belief that the Danes (in Danelaw) used a 'dene-hole' as a place to hide plunder, booty. |
| Den Mother | n | US The female leader of a den of Cub Scouts. 2. a woman who plays a supportive or protective role for a particular group of people. |
| Denned | adj | Ensconced, hidden, concealed (in a den or cave). |
| Denning | n | Ensconcing, hidden or concealing in a den or cave. |
| Den-mother | n | A person who plays the role of a leader or protector of a group, matriarch. |
| Dent | n. | OE (Dynt) 'dent' an alternative spelling of 'Dint" (see: 'Dint') - a stroke a blow; esp. with a weapon or sharp instrument; usu. as a blow dealt in battle. 2. a striking, dealing of blows, rigorous wielding of the sword or other weapons, 3. a range or reach of a stroke; to aim a striking blow at. 4. striking a stroke or clap of thunder; thunder-dent or thunderbolt. |
| Dent | vb | To aim a striking or penetrating blow at. |
| Depe | vb. | To immerse as a religious rite; immerse, submerge, plunge |
| Depth | n | The quality of being deep; lowness. 2. the deep part of a sea, lake or river. 2. deep place in the earth. a deep pit, cavity, depression on a surface. 3. the middle of a winter's night when cold, stillness, or darkness is the most intense. 4. deep, mysterious or unfathomable or thought. 5. the quality of being deep. 7. the measurement of distance. 8. of thoughts: profundity, abstruseness. 9. the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep. 10. the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet. 11. figuratively, the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc. 12. in computing, colors of the total palette of available colors. 13. in art, photography the property of appearing three-dimensional. 14. literary, chiefly in the plural): the deepest part and, usu. of a body of water. 15. literary, chiefly in the plural: very remote part, as 'in the depths of the night'. 16. the most severe part, as 'in the depths of winter'. |
| Depth | phr | "In Depth" - of person and their mental faculties or actions: profundity, with great insight, sagacity or penetration. 2. of feelings, moral quality or state: intensely profundity; in-depth. 3. a quality or condition such as silence, colour, focus, in-depth field: intensify. 4. secret, mysterious, unfathomable; in-depth. |
| Depth | phr | "Out of One's Depth" - in water to deep for one to reach the bottom without sinking; fig. beyond one's understanding or capacities. 2. to find that some issue is complicated or too difficult. |
| Depthen | vb | To make more deep or profound. |
| Depthening | n | The act of making deeper or profound. |
| Depthless | n | Without depth, shallow, not deep or profound; superficial. 2. of depth which cannot be sounded, fathomless, abysmal. |
| Depths | n | The deepest parrt. 2. a very remote part. 3. of an emotion, mystery: the lowest part, nadir. 4. the most severe part, as 'the depths of winter'. |
| Dere | n | Harm, hurt, injury, trauma. |
| Dere | vb. | To hurt, harm, injure. 2. to do harm, to do hurt. 3. to trouble, grieve, vex, annoy, incommode. |
| Dereful | adj. | Full of grief, sorrowful, dering. |
| Dereful | adj. | Trouble, tribulation, hurt, 2. bold , daring, courageous. 3. strong, sturdy, stout 4. vigourous, forceful. violent. 5. painful, grievous, terrible, dreadful, cruel. 6. troublesome, hard, difficult. |
| Dering | adj | Hurtful, harmful, injurious. 2. annoying, troubling, grieving, vexing, imcommoding. |
| Derne | n | A secret, secrecy, concealment, privacy. 2. secret, or refuge place. 3. an obscure language. 4. darkness, obscurity. |
| Derne | adj | Secretive, dark, concealed, evil, deceitful, sly, underhand, unrevealed. 2. of place, secretive, exotic, little known, dark, dreary, dire, deep, profound, hidden. 3. of a person: secret in purpose or action, underhanded, sly, crafty. 4. of a person: treated as a confidant or confidency, entrusted with hidden matters, privy. 5. of a matter or situation: not made known, kept unrevealed or private, not divulged. 6. of a place: secret, not well-known, private. 7. of place: serving well to conceal, as lying out of the way; hence, dark, drear, sombre, wild, solitary. |
| Derne | vb | To hide, conceal, keep secret. 2. to hide, to hide oneself, conceal oneself. |
| Derne | phr | "Hold, Keep a Thing Derne" - keep secret, not well known, private. |
| Derned | adj | Hidden, concealed, secreted. |
| Dernful | adj | Full of secrets and secrecy+++++ |
| Dernhood | n | The state of being secretive, concealed or hidden. |
| Dernish | adj | Somewaht secret or sly; lurking, half-hidden. |
| Dernly | adv | In a secret, concealed or hidden manner. 2. dismally, direly, drearily. |
| Dernship | n | Secrecy. |
| Derny | adj | Tending towards secrecy, secretive, hiding away, concealed |
| Derve | vb. | To labour (only in OE.) 2. to trouble, grieve, hurt, molest, afflict. |
| Devil | n | n 1: (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell; Satan, Old Nick, Devil, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Prince of Darkness. 2. an evil supernatural being devil, fiend. 3. a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil". 4. a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man). 5. a cruel wicked and inhuman person; monster, fiend, devil, demon, ogre. |
| Devil | vb | To cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, rile, irritate, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil. |
| Devil | n | A piece of wood soaked in resin. |
| Devil | n | Spirit, temper, energy, as 'he's got the devil in him'. |
| Devil | phr | "A Devil of a Fellow" - an extreme example of some aspect of something or some type of person. |
| Devil | phr | "As Devil Loves Holy Water" - that is, not at all.(the belief that Holy water drives the Devil away0. |
| Devil | phr | "Be a Devil" - be bold, take a risk or a chance. |
| Devil | phr | "Be a Devil For" - to be very fond of. |
| Devil | phr | "Be the Devil with Something" - to thoroughly mar or spoil. |
| Devil | phr | "Better the Devil You Know" - the bad thing you are aware of is better than the other of which you are unaware. |
| Devil | phr | "Between the Devil and Deep Blae Sea" - in a dilemma, with a choice between two equally unpleasant alternatives. |
| Devil | phr | "Devil a One" - not even one. |
| Devil | phr | "Devil on Two Sticks" - diabolo; an old toy. |
| Devil | phr | "Devil's Own" - very difficult or unusual. |
| Devil | phr | "Devil Take the Hindmost" - I don't care what happens to others. |
| Devil | phr | Devil with the Women" - a philandeer, flirt, womanizer. |
| Devil | phr | "Hold a Candle to the Devil" - play safe by keeping on good terms with both sides in a dispute. |
| Devil | phr | "Make Like the Devil" - to invest with the character of the devil. |
| Devil | phr | "Play Devil With" - make worst, misbehave. 2. to ruin, destruct. |
| Devil | phr | "Pull devil, Pull Baker" - lie, cheat, wrangle away. Have a go at each other. |
| Devil | phr | "Pull the Devil by the Tail" - to be in difficulty or dire straits. 2. to struggle constantly against adversity. |
| Devil | phr | "Talk of the Devil" (and here he is) - especially in reference to a person who unexpectedly appears when is talking of him. |
| Devil | phr | "Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil" - of obvious maening. |
| Devil | phr | "The Devil and All That" -everything right or wrong; the whole concluded lot; all or everything bad. |
| Devil | phr | "The Devil and All To Do (Much Ado)" - a world of trouble and turmoil. |
| Devil | phr | "The Devil Makes Work for Idle Hands" - when people don't have enough to do, they get into trouble. |
| Devil | phr | "The Devil Takes Care of/ Looks After/ His Own" - bad people seem to succeed (in preference to good ones) |
| Devil | phr | "The Devil Sick Would be a Monk" - said of persons who in times of sickness or danger make pious resolutions, but forget them when danger is past and health recovered. |
| Devil | phr | "When the Devil is Blind" - at a date or time infinitely remote; never. |
| Devil | phr | "Why Should the Devil Have all the Good Songs" - a saying from about the 1740s originating with Charles Wesley, when he adapted the music of popular songs to promote the use of his hymns. |
| Devil dog | n | (slang) a US marine. |
| Devildom | n | The dominion, domain, realm, rule, sway or exercise of a diabolic power. 2. the condition of the devils. |
| Deviless | n | A female devil. |
| Devilhood | n | The condition and estate of the devil. |
| Devilish | adj | Somewhat of a devil. |
| Devilishness | n | The state or quality of being devilish. |
| Devilkin | n | An imp or lttle devil. |
| Devilled | adj | Possessed of the devil. |
| Devilless | adj | Without or an abscence of a devil or devils. |
| Devil-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of the devil. |
| Devilling | n | The pupillage or apprenticeship of a prospective advocate or barrister. |
| Devil-lore | n | Devillore; knowledge, study, doctrine, or history regarding devils and/or demons; demonology. |
| Devil-may-care | adj | wildly reckless. |
| Devil's apple | n | Datura stramonium,, the thorn apple. |
| Devil's arrows | n | Three remarkable 'Druid' stones near Boroughbridge, in Yorkshire. |
| Devil's bit | n | 'Devil's bit" - any of the various plants whose roots look bitten off, especially a kind of scabious (succisa pratensis). |
| Devil's book | n | Playing cards. |
| Devil's bones | n | (Slang)The dice. |
| Devil's Bridge | n | A popular name in mountainous areas for bridges built over deep ravines and chasms. |
| Devil's candle | n | Mandrake: from its shining appearance. |
| Devil's candlestick | n | Phallus impudicus, the ground ivy. |
| Devil's daughter | n | A shrew. |
| Devil's door | n | A small door in thnorth wall of some churches, which used to be opened at baptisms and communions to "let the Devil Out". The north used to be known as the 'Devil's side", where Satan and his legion lurked to catch the unwary. |
| Devil's dung | n | Asafoetidae |
| Devil's finger | n | Belemnite or starfish. |
| Devil's guts | n | The creeping buttercups. 2. the dodder plant. |
| Devil's horse | n | Praying mantis. |
| Devil's Horsemen | n | The Mongol warriors of the C12th. |
| Devilship | n | The office or condition of the devil. |
| Devil's milk | n | The sunspurge; from its poisonous milky juice. |
| Devil's mint | n | A succession of things hurtful or offensive as if the devil himself were at work coining them. |
| Devil's neck cloth | n | The hangman rope. |
| Devil's needle | n | dragonfly. |
| Devil's own | adj | Particularly devilish, highly unpleasant or evil. 2. intense. |
| Devil's shoestrings | n | Goats-rue; tephrosia vrginiana from its tough thin roots. |
| Devil's stinkpot | n | Phallus impudicus |
| Devil's stones | n | The field gromwell, probably from its hard fruits. This plant is reputed to have contraceptive qualities. |
| Devil's Tinder | n | Sulphur, brimstone. |
| Devilwood | n | Osmanthus americanus. |
| Dew | n. | The moisture deposited in minute drops on any cool surface. 2. whisky illicitly distilled. 3. marijuana. |
| Dew | vb | To give or produce dew. 2. to distill or exude as dew. 3. to wet with dew, bedew. 3. to be steeped with dew. 4. to cause to descend or drop as dew, to instill. 5. to be moist, to exude moisture. |
| Dew-beam | n | A ray of light reflected from a dewdrop. |
| Dew-beater | n | One who beats or shakes off dew in front of others ion the same path, as an early pioneer, explorer, trailblazer. |
| Dewberry | n | Rubius caesus; "dead-men's fingers". |
| Dewbit | n | A small meal, a little bit of food taken inthe morning, before regular breakfast. |
| Dew-bow | n | An arch resembling a rainbow occurring on a dew-covered surface. |
| Dew-bright | adj | Glistening dewy in the rays of the morning sun. |
| Dewclaw | n | The hallux or great toe of man. |
| Dew-cold | adj | Cold as he dew of morning. |
| Dew-drenched | adj | Drenched or steeped with the morninng dew. |
| Dewdrop | n | A drop of dew. 2. a glass bead resembling a drop of dew. |
| Dew-dropped | adj | Covered or bespotted with dew drops. |
| Dew-dusters | n | The feet. |
| Dewfall | n. | The formation or desposition of dew; the time when this begins in the evening; evening itself. |
| Dew-gemmed | adj | Sparkling and dew-gemmed in the morning ray. |
| Dewily | adv | After the manner and characteristic of dew. |
| Dewiness | n | The quality of being dewy; fig., having fresh vigour. |
| Dewing | n | The despostion of dew. 2. a wetting with dew; a gentle sprinkling; moistening, bedewing. |
| Dewish | adj | Nature of or akin to dew, moist, damp. |
| Dewlap | n | Found in OE but lap not OE. the pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing, or a similar feature on any animal. 2. the sagging flesh on the human throat of an old person. |
| Dewlapped | adj | Being dewlapped or having dewlaps. |
| Dewless | adj | Without, or an absence of, dew. |
| Dewlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of dew. |
| Dew-pond | n | A shallow pond, esp. an artificial one, occurring on downs where the water supply, spring or surface drainage is inadequate. |
| Dew-snail | n | A slug: a slow-moving, shell-less land snail. |
| Dew water | n | Water originating in form of dew. |
| Dewy | adj | Characterized by the presence of dew. 2. of the nature or quality of dew; likened in some qualities to dew, dewlike, moist. 3. pertaining to dew; rosal. 4. abounding in dew; covered or wet with dew. 5. consisting of dew affected by the presence of dew. 6. falling gently and vanishing like dew. 7. innocent and trusting; naive; dewy-eyed. |
| Dewy-bright | adj | Bright rays of the sun on a dewy morning. |
| Dewy-cold | adj | Extreme cold, as 'early morning sun's rays glistening on the dewy cold'. |
| Dewy-dawn | n | 'The dewy-dawn of memory' - of earliest time; long ago, in a time far back. |
| Dewy-eyed | adj | Innocent and trusting of countenance; naive. |
| Dewy-swarded | adj | A sward covered in dew. |
| Dewy-tongued | adj | 'Dewy-drops of his tongue' - melodious tone and sweet words. 2. fair speech. |
| Dey | n | A woman having charge of a dairy; in more general use a female servant. 2. extended to a man having dairy duties. |
| Dey-maid | n | A dairy maid. |
| Dey-house | n | A dairy. |
| Dey-wife | n | A dairy maid. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Do | n | A wild, noisy party, a bash. 2. deed, act, fear. 3. a swindle, scam, rip-off scheme. |
| Do | vb | To put, place. 2. to proceed, go. 3. to apply, employ, layout, extend. 4. to settle, invest. 5. bestow, impart, grant, bring upon (a person, etc.) some affecting quality or condition, notion of performance, to cause to befall or come. 6. to render, administer, pay, extend, to fetch, accomplish, effect. 7. to execute, achieve, carry out, bring to past. 8. to commit, perpetrate (sin, crime). 9. celebrate, function, cause to function. 10. to execute, discahrge, deliver, manage. 11. to put forth, exert, use, endeavor in affecting something. 12. to do one's best. 13. to produce, make, bring into existence by one's action. 14. to do work upon, prepare, repair, clean, keep in order, furnish, attend to. 15. to prepare food. 16. to work out of, review, depict. 17. to act, enact, play the part of. 18. to finish up, exhaust, undo, ruin. 18. beat up, finish off, kill. 19. to oax, swindle, scam, catfish. 20. to accomplish a distance, travel at a certain speed. 21. go as a tourist, 'do france'. 22. to translate, render into another language, or form of composition; as ' this work will shortly be done into Latin'; 'not translated but done out of French '. 23. to be brought about, come to pass. 24. to be put forth into activity; exert authority. 25. to perform deeds, exert oneself oneself to work. 26. to continue, manage, live on. |
| Do | phr | "Anything Doing" - is anything happening? |
| Do | phr | "Could Do With" - need. |
| Do | phr | "Do a Somebody" - behave as a named person would do, as 'do a General MacArthur' |
| Do | phr | "Do As" - serve in place of, as a substitute for. |
| Do | phr | "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" - obey and follow my instructions and advice, not my actions. |
| Do | phr | "Do a Slow Burn" - to experience a gradual increasing feeling of anger and/or frustration. |
| Do | phr | "Do As You Would Be Done" - treat others as you would like or hope to be treated by them |
| Do | phr | "Do Away With" - dispose of, abolish, get rid of. 2. kill; destroy. |
| Do | phr | "Do Better to Do Something" - do better or succeed by sticking closely to plan; or by not doing something done by someone else. 2. gain advantage by doing something specified instead of doing something else already, or about to be, mentioned. |
| Do | phr | "Do Business With" - interact or deal with in various senses of the word. |
| Do | phr | "Do By" - act towards. |
| Do | phr | "Do Down" - cheat, swindle, get the better of, overcome. 2. try to make somebody or something small, mean , unimportant. |
| Do | phr | "Do For" - be satisfactory or sufficient. 2. keep house for, clean and keep a house tidy for. 3. manage to obtain. 4. as in such a way that somebody is harmed, ruined or killed. |
| Do | phr | "Do Good" - act with sincerity, virtue and good intentions towards others; especially in promoting and supporting social reform and benevolence. |
| Do | phr | "Do Good By Stealth" - quietly and assumingly work at improving the fortune, circumstance, life of others, either to avoid praise or as the best method to achieve the best outcome. |
| Do | phr | "Do I Understand" - is it true that? 2. do I gather? 3. in this the case? |
| Do | phr | "Do in the Eye" - to swindle. |
| Do | phr | "Do Into" - translate, as 'this work shall shortly be done into Latin'. |
| Do | phr | "Do It Yourself" - do handyman work around one's house, rather than engaging the services of a tradesman. |
| Do | phr | "Do More Harm than Good" - get an outcome more bad than good (or beneficial). |
| Do | phr | "Do No Good" - not be effective or useful in bringing about any purpose. |
| Do | phr | "Do No Harm" - have no bad effect, or result, and possibly have a good or useful one. |
| Do | phr | "Do No More Than do" - be sufficient or adequate. 2. only meet a particular need or purpose. |
| Do | phr | "Do Nothing For" - detract from the look, appearance of, or quality of. |
| Do | phr | "Don't I Know It" - an added comment to the effect that somebody is very well aware of something mentioned. |
| Do | phr | "Do Off" - to put out of, deprive, rid of. |
| Do | phr | "Do On" - put on, or don, clothes. |
| Do | phr | "Do One's Best" - do all or everything one can. 2. have good intentions, be conscientious, hard-working, anxious to please. |
| Do | phr | "Do One's Bit" - make a useful or worthwhile contribution to an communal effort. |
| Do | phr | "Do Oneself a Bit of No Good" - fail, lose, suffer harm or misfortune by one's own lack of judgement. |
| Do | phr | "Do One's Homework" - prepare oneself diligently to ensure one knows all the facts and possibilities, before facing examinations or engaged in an enterprise. |
| Do | phr | "Do One's Nut" - get into a state of alarm or consternation. 2. lose one's temper. self-control; blow's one's top. |
| Do | phr | "Do One's Own Thing" - allow one's natural abilities, tastes, interests, feelings etc to guide one's way of life, work, past times or behavior (the implication being that self-expression is as desirable end in itself). |
| Do | phr | "Do One's Thing" - perform in a way commonly associated with one; go into one's act routine. |
| Do | phr | "Do One's Worst" - be difficult, unpleasant, harmful as possible. |
| Do | phr | "Do or Die" - resolve, make a determined or desperate, attempt to do something (the outcome of failure not necessary being death). |
| Do | phr | "Do Out " - clean, refurbish a room or house; to decorate, tidy, clean.. 2. make tidily or orderly by removing unwanted clothes, papers, toys etc. |
| Do | phr | Do Out of" - translated, as in 'not translated but done out of French'. 2. trick out of something, cheat, con out of. |
| Do | phr | "Do Over" - beat up, assault, thrash. 2. clean or redecorate the surfaces of a house, wall, cooker etc. |
| Do | phr | "Do's and Don'ts" - instructions; detailed guidance. |
| Do | phr | "Do (Somebody)In" - (slang) kill somebody or oneself. |
| Do | phr | Do Someone's Head In" - make someone feel annoyed, confused or frustrated. |
| Do | phr | "Do Someone/Somebody Proud" -treat somebody well. |
| Do | phr | "Do Something For" - enhance the look off. 2. help or assist. |
| Do | phr | "Do Something (or somebody) Good" - do something beneficial to improve the lot of others. |
| Do | phr | "Do Something to" - excite, stir somebody's feelings; concern, disturb. |
| Do | phr | "Do The Deed" - do something daring and bold, courageous, dangerous; or risky. |
| Do | phr | "Do The Hard Yards" - work hard and make the effort needed for success, but often unobtrusively. |
| Do | phr | "Do The Needful" - do some task or take some action, that is expected or required. |
| Do | phr | "Do The Rest" - complete a job or process, especially one begun by something. |
| Do | phr | "Do The Right Thing" - do what is ethical or just. 2. act wisely, prudently. |
| Do | phr | "Do The Spadework" - perform the (hard) tasks that are a necessary preliminary to the success of a project. |
| Do | phr | "Do the World of Good" - be very beneficial to somebody, especially to their health, good spirits, morale. |
| Do | phr | "Do Time" - serve prison time. |
| Do | phr | "Do To Death" - to do something slowly and frequently. 2. to execute, kill. |
| Do | phr | "Do Unto Others, As You Would Have Them Do To You" - do as you would be done by; treat others as you would like them to treat you. |
| Do | phr | "Do Up" - to tie, wrap, fasten or lace up; bundle up; parcel up. 2. renovate, modernize, refurbish. |
| Do | phr | "Do Well by" - treat somebody kindly or generously. |
| Do | phr | "Do Well, By Doing Good" - to achieve social acceptance and success as a result of behaving in a benevolent or charitable way. |
| Do | phr | "Do Well for" - have a good supply of, and obtain a large amount of something. |
| Do | phr | "Do Well for Oneself" - succeed, prosper, thrive, improve one's social standing. |
| Do | phr | "Do Well Out Of" - get advantage from, profit by. |
| Do | phr | "Do Well to Do Something" - be advised to, find it in one's own interests, to remember to do something. |
| Do | phr | "Do What One Is Told" - obey orders; be obedient to one's parents, superiors, especially at work. |
| Do | phr | "Do With" - need, want. |
| Do | phr | "Do Without" - manage, exist, function without something; get by with what one has. 2. go without. 3. not require and resent having. |
| Do | phr | "Do Without So-and-So" - to deny oneself something; to manage without it. |
| Do | phr | "Do Wonders" - be extraordinary succesful in achieving something. 2. work a miracle; produce some outstanding result. |
| Do | phr | "Do You Know?" - a comment, exclamation, introducing a statement. |
| Do | phr | "Do You Know Who I Am?" - uttered by a self absorbent person who feels they are being wronged by someone in a particular situation. |
| Do | phr | "Do You Mind?" - an expression of objection, often aggressive, to something occurring. 2. a ccording to the context it could be a demand 'get out of my way'. |
| Do | phr | "Do Out" - to decorate, tidy, clean. |
| Do | phr | "Have No Further Connection With" - have relevance, or be associated with. |
| Do | phr | "It Isn't Done" - it is socially unacceptable. |
| Do | phr | "Not Do Anything by Halves" - do anything engaged in completely and thoroughly. 2. extend oneself to one's limit in one activities, emotions. |
| Do | phr | "That Will Do" - that is enough. |
| Do | phr | "To Make Do" - get along or manage with what is at hand. |
| Do | phr | "What Do With" - where did you put , lose, hide something etc. 2. how shall we handle or treat this matter. |
| Do | phr | "What To Do with Oneself" - how should one occupy one's time; give meaning to one's existence. |
| Do | phr | "You Do That!" - you carry on (I don't care). |
| Do-all | n. | Factotum |
| Dock | n | Name of variety of species of the genus Rumex (N.O. Polygonacea) |
| Do-do | n | (sl)The excrement of dogs. |
| Doe | n | Female of the fallow deer, applied to the female of other similar species, as the female of the hare or rabbit, sometimes of the rat. |
| Doe-buck | n | Male deer |
| Doe-eyed | adj | Having large, gentle dark eyes (of a woman). |
| Doe-like | adj | Resembling a doe or some aspect of one, submissively tender. |
| Doe-ling | n | A female domestic goat of less than one year old. |
| Doer | n | One who does, one who performs, some act or deed, e.g. the rat. 2. in combination, a 'hard-doer' an eccentric character; hard-case. |
| Does | phr | "Does Anyone Here Speak English" |
| Doeth | vb | Archaic form of do. |
| Doe-skin | n | Skin of a doe; leather made from the skin of a doe. |
| Doff | vb | To put off or take off from the body (clothing, hat, etc.)other by way of salutation, or token of respect. 2. to raise one's hat to a person. 3. to undress oneself, strip. 4. to throw away, lay aside; hence, in a broader sense - to do away with, get rid of. 5. to turn aside, put off with excuse. |
| Doffer | n | One who doffs. |
| Doffing | n | The action of the verb 'to doff'. 2. the putting or taking off of clothing. |
| Dog | n | Old English docga, a late, rare OE word used of a powerful breed of canine. It forced out Old English hund (the general Germanic and Indo-European word canine) by 16c. and subsequently was picked up in many continental languages (French dogue (16c.), Danish dogge), but the origin remains one of the great mysteries of English etymology. |
| Dog | n | A name given to various atmospheric appearances, a luminous appearance on the horizon, such as 'fog-dog, sea-dog, sun-dog, (parhelion: luminous appearance near the sun), water-dog (a small, dark, floating cloud indicating rain). |
| Dog | vb | Follow closely and persistently; pursue, track, follow. 2. |
| Dog | phr | 'A Black Dog has Walked Over Him" - said of a sullen or morose. |
| Dog | phr | "A Dead Dog" - something utterly worthless. |
| Dog | phr | "A Dirty Dog" -one morally depraved. |
| Dog | phr | "All the Dogs are Barking" - this news is being widely disseminated. |
| Dog | phr | "Any Stick to Beat a Dog" - any excuse will do if it serves one's purpose. |
| Dog | phr | "Be an Old Dog" - inveterate, experienced. |
| Dog | phr | "Be in the Dog House" - to be in the disgrace. |
| Dog | phr | "Call off the Dogs" - to desist from some pursuit or inquiry; end the search. 2. to break up a disagreeable conversation. |
| Dog | phr | "Die Like a Dog" - die miserably or shamefully. |
| Dog | vb | "Dog ear" - to damage or disfigure by turning or folding over the corner of a page. |
| Dog | phr | "Dog Eat Dog" - ruthless competition that takes no account of loyalties or fellow-feeling. |
| Dog | phr | "Dog It" - be idle, shirk, approach lazily. |
| Dog | phr | "Dog It Was That Died" - somebody has become a victim of their own attempt to harm another. |
| Dog | phr | "Dog Of God" - the bear, according to the folk of Lapland. |
| Dog | phr | "Dog of War" - the havoc, horror accompanying war: fire,sword, famine. |
| Dog | phr | "Dog One's Steps" - be something that someone can never escape from, as bad luck, misfortune, unhappiness, sickness. |
| Dog | phr | "Don't Keep a Dog and Bark Yourself" - do not employ someone to do a job and then do it yourself. |
| Dog | phr | "Don't Wake a Sleeping Dog" - let sleeping dogs lie. |
| Dog | phr | "Every dog Has Its Day" - good luck comes sooner or later. |
| Dog | phr | "Go To the Dogs" - deteriorate, be spoiled, upset, ruined. |
| Dog | phr | "Hair of the Dog that Bites You" - to drink more in an attempt to overcome the effects of alcohol already consumed. |
| Dog | phr | "He Who Has the Mind to Beat His Dog Will Easily Find a Stick"-if you wish to abuse a person, you will easily find something to blame. |
| Dog | phr | "In a Dog eat Dog World" - ruthlessly contemptible attitude. |
| Dog | phr | "It Was the Tale of the Dog and His Shadow"- one who can't separate the substance from the shadow. |
| Dog | phr | "Lead a Dog's Life" - life of misery and subservience. |
| Dog | phr | "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" - to do disturb a situation that is finally calm after being troubled. |
| Dog | phr | "Like a Dog's Breakfast" - a great mess. |
| Dog | phr | "Like a Dog in the Hunt" - persistent, relentless. |
| Dog | phr | "Like a Dog With a Bone" - stubborn, persistent, relentlessly. |
| Dog | phr | "Like a Dog with Two Tails' - very ecstatic; very happy. |
| Dog | phr | "Live a Dog's Life" - a way of life in which there is not much pleasure or freedom or one must follow the orders of others. |
| Dog | phr | "Love Me, Love My Dog" - if you love someone, you will love everything about him. |
| Dog | phr | "Not Throw A Word at a Dog" - said of a person who is sulky and sullen. |
| Dog | phr | "Put On the Dog" - act or assume airs; with airs; pretentious. |
| Dog | phr | "Rain Cats and Dog" - rain heavily. |
| Dog | phr | "Sick as a Dog" - very sick. |
| Dog | phr | "There's Life in the Old dog Yet" - I may be elderly, but I'm stive active and alert. |
| Dog | phr | "The Tail Wagging the Dog" - a minor aspect with disaproportionate effect on a major aspect. |
| Dog | phr | "Throw it to the Dogs" - throw it away, it is useless and worthless. |
| Dog | phr | "Throw somebody to the Dogs" - condemn somebody to an unpleasant fate. |
| Dog | phr | "Two Men and a Dog" - very few people. |
| Dog | phr | "Why Keep a Dog and Bark Too"- it is silllytopay for assistance andthen do things personally. |
| Dog | phr | "Work Like A Dog" - work very hard for little reward. |
| Dog and bone | n | Rhyming slang for phone. |
| Dog-ape | n | A baboon or similar. |
| Dogbane | n | Any of the genus Apocynun. |
| Dogberry | n | The fruit of the dogwood. |
| Dog-bite | n | The bite of a dog. |
| Dog-bitten | adj | Bitten bu a dog. |
| Dogbreath | n | A very bad breath; halitosis. |
| Dog-bright | adj | Bright-spotted caused by the refraction of sunlight through ice-crystal, sometimes seen on the parhelic circle. |
| Dog cart | n | A cart hauled by one or more dog. |
| Dog days | n | The time around the helical sing of the Dog-star in late July to mid August in the northern hemisphere. 2. an evil time; a time in which malignant influences prevail. |
| Dogdom | n | The domain of dogs; the dog collectively; doghood. |
| Dog-eared | adj | With the corners worn or battered with use. |
| Dog-eat-dog | adj | Ruthlessly competitive. |
| Dog end | n | A cigarette end or butt. |
| Dog-eyed | adj | An opprobrious epithet meaning shameless; bitch-eyed. 2. of a woman: having large gentle dark eyes. |
| Dog fight | n | Close combat between jet fighters. 2. uproar; a fight like that between dogs. |
| Dog fighting | n | A type of blood sport generally defined as opposing two game dogs against one another in a ring or pit for entertainment. |
| Dog food | n | Food eaten by or appropriate two dogs in general. 2. food for domesticated dogs. 3. computer software (beta) that is tested on the developer's own computers. 4. slang for death and dead. |
| Dogfully | adj | In ways worthy of, or befitting a dog: courage and persistence. |
| Dogged | adj | Like a dog, having the character or having some good (or bad) characteristic of a do. 2. having bad qualities of a dog: currish, ill-conditioned, malicious, crabbed, spiteful, cruel. 3. of things - awkward, crabbed or difficult in dealig with, ill-tempered, surly, sullen, morose, obstinate. 4. having the persistency or tenacity of various breeds of dog. |
| Doggedly | adv | Like a dog in appearance and manner. 2. currishly, surly, with sullen obstinacy. 3. persistent, full-of-effort, stubbornly tenacious, determined.. |
| Doggedness | n | The quality or state of being dogged: tenacious, obstinate, persistent; spiteful, malicious, sullen. |
| Dogger | n | One who hunts dingoes for a bounty, bounty-hunter. |
| Doggily | adv | In a doggy manner; like a dog. |
| Dogginess | n | The quality of being like a dog, doggy; canine. |
| Dogging | n | The direction of cranes on a building. 2. the action or act of being persistently tenacious. |
| Doggish | adj | Of the nature of, pertaining to or resembling a dog, canine. 2. having or indication a dog-like disposition and character, currish, malicious, spiteful, ill-natured, snappish, snarling,. cynical. 3. brutish, bestial, sensual. |
| Doggishly | adv | In a doggish manner. |
| Doggishness | n | The state or quality of being doggish. |
| Doggy | adj | Having the bad qualities of a dog: malicious, spiteful, vile, contemptible, debased, corrupt. 2. of or pertaining to the characteristics of a dog: canine. 3. having the good qualities of a dog: dashing, stylish, smart, loyal and faithful. 4. a dog, especially a small one. 5. a child's term or affectionate name for a dog. |
| Dog-handler | n | A person who is in charge of a dog; esp. a police dog. |
| Dog-handling | n | The training of dogs, for various tasks. |
| Dogheaded | adj | Of mythical creatures having the head of a dog, but the body of an other animal; as an ape-dog. |
| Dog-headedness | n | Of a human having the head resembling that of a dog. |
| Dog-hearted | adj | Unkind, vicious, aggressive. 2. loyahy., faithful, trustworthy |
| Dog-hole | n | A hole fit only for a dog; a slum, hovel, vile or mean dwelling, |
| Doghood | n | Condition or nature of a dog. 2. the race of dogs; dogs as a species. 3. dogs collectively; dogdom. |
| Doghouse | n | A kennel. |
| Doghouse | phr | "In the Doghouse" - in disgrace, out of favour. |
| Dogkind | n | The race of dogs, dogs collectively. See: dogdom, doghood. |
| Dog-leech | n | A veterinary surgeon who heals dogs. 2. pejoratively: an ignorant, medical practitioner. |
| Dogless | adj | Without or devoid of dogs. |
| Doglessly | adv | In a manner or state where there is an absence of dogs. |
| Dog-lessness | n | The state or quality of not having dogs. |
| Doglike | adj | Like, resembling or in the manner of dogs. |
| Dogling | n | A pup. |
| Doglore | n | Folklore relating to dogs. |
| Dog-madness | n | Distemper. |
| Dog ('s) meat | n | Food prepared from horse meat or scraps of offal. 2. offal, carrion. |
| Dog ('s) meat | phr | "To make Dogs Meat Of Someone' - to kill and throw to the dogs (lit & fig.) |
| Do-good | n | One who, or that which, does good or is of use. |
| Do-gooder | n | A well meaning, active, but unrealistic philanthropist or reformer who tries to do good, but often fails to achieve any real success. |
| Do-goody | adj | Well-meaning, but unrealistic and ineffectual. |
| Dog's bane | n | A name given to various plants (Apocynum and Rosaemifolium) said to be harmful and poisonous to dogs |
| Dogsbody | n | A junior person, esp. one to whom a variety of menail tasks are given. 2. a drudge, a general utility person; a lackey. |
| Dog's breakfast | n | A confused mess. |
| Dog's ear | n | Corner of a leaf of a book, etc. turned over like a dog's ear by constant or careless use, or to serve as a book mark. |
| Dogship | n | The personality or nature of a dog. |
| Dog sick | adj | Very unwell, sick as a dog. |
| Dogsit | vb | To take care of a dog (after babysit). |
| Dog sitter | n | One who takes care of dogs for a loving. |
| Dogskin | n | Leather made of or imitating dog's skin; used for gloves. |
| Dog sleep | n | Feigned, pretended sleep; a light, easily interrupted, fitful sleep. |
| Dog's life | n | A miserable; unhappy existence. 2. a life of indolence where the individual may do as he or she pleases, like a pampered dog. |
| Dog slow | adj | Very slow. |
| Dog's meat | n | Horse or other flesh as food for dogs; carrion. |
| Dog Star | n | A bluish-white star in the constellation Canis Major; Alpha (α) Canis Majoris. A vertex of the Winter Triangle and the brightest star in the night sky. It is actually a binary star with a white dwarf. |
| Dog time | n | A long time |
| Dog-tired | adj | Exhausted, tired out after a long chore; dog weary. |
| Dog tooth | n | Canine tooth or eye-tooth. |
| Dog walker | n | One who takes care of dogs for a living, especially waling them. |
| Dog-wash | n | A place where dogs are washed and groomed. |
| Dog watch | n | On board a ship, either of the two hour watches that takes place between 4pm and 8pm. 2. a night shift, or an other or earlier period of duty. |
| Dog weary | adj | Extremely tired and weary; exhausted. |
| Dog-whistle | n | A high-pitched whistle, inaudible to humans, used to train dogs. 2. that which is only understood only by a narrow demographic. 3. an allusion or comment made by a politician with the intent that only a certain demographic note it and recognize its significance. |
| Dog wise | adv | In the manner of a dog. |
| Dogwood | n | The Wild Cornel or Cornus sanguinea. |
| Dog year | n | A period of time (informal) in the life of dogs, defined such that the average life expectancy of a dog in "dog years" is numerically equivalent to the average life expectancy of a human. A 4- and a 5-year-old dog are about as mature as a human of 28 to 30 years and 33 to 35 years, respectively. 2. unit of age relative to the species being considered, defined such that an animal's age in "dog years" is the equivalent age of a dog in calendar years. 3. very long time. |
| Doing | n | That which is done, a deed, action, performance, transaction, preceding, a piece of business. 2. beating up, thrashing, scolding. 3. a severe financial or monetary loss. 4. copulation, sexual intercourse. 6. lace trimmings, ornaments. 7. applied to any concomitant, adjunct or etcetera; or anything about or to be wanted. |
| Doing | adj | That does, acts, performs. 2. actively engaged or occupied, busy, energetic. |
| Doing | phr | "Up and Doing" - enegetic. |
| Doing | phr | "What are you Doing" - used to ask what one who is taking part in the conversation is currently doing. |
| Do-It-Yourself | adj | The action or practice of doing work of any kind by oneself, esp. one's own household repairs and maintenance, as opposed to employing someone else to do it. |
| Do-It-Yourselfer | n | One who carries out his own household maintenance and repairs. |
| Doke | n. | A small hollow, dimple, depression, dalk, dawk |
| Dole | n. | State of being divided, part of a division of a whole portion, dealing. 2. money or goods given as charity. 3. distribution, dealing, apportionment. 4. payment by the state to the unemployed. 5. a boundary or a landmark. |
| Dole | vb | To distribute or share out in a small amount or meager portion. |
| Dole | phr | "Dole Out" - distribute; serve grudgingly in portions |
| Dole | phr | "Dn the Dole" - receive benefits from the state. |
| Dolk | n. | Wound, scar, gash, dint |
| Dolt | n. | Dullard, Stupid fellow, blockhead |
| Dolven | ppl | Past particle of 'delve.' |
| Dom | sfx | From Middle English -dom, from Old English -dōm (“-dom: state, condition, power, dominion, authority, property, right, office, quality”, suffix). Forming nouns denoting the condition or state of the suffixed word, as boredom, freedom, martyrdom, stardom
2. forming nouns denoting the domain or jurisdiction of the suffixed word, as folkdom, kingdom, Saxondom. 3. forming nouns — usually nonce words — denoting the set of all examples of the suffixed word, as catdom, dogdom |
| Dom | n | Abbotdom, alderdom, antdom, apedom, arseholedom, awaredom ** bakerdom, beardom, beedom, beingdom, bestsellerdom, bird-dom, birthdom, bissondom, blithedom ** crabdom, brethenrdom, burgherdom, catdom, chickendom **dealerdom, deerdom, devildom, drunkendom, dry-as-dustdom, dwarfdom, ** earldom, elfdom ** falsedom, feardom, featherdom, feydom, fickledom, folkdom, freedom, ** gangdom, ghostdom, goosedom, gossipdom, greekdom ** hackerdom, halidom, heathendom, husbanddom. ** kingdom, kitchendom, ** ladydom, land-ladydom, lonedom, lord-dom, loserdom ** makedom, mandom, martyrdom, masterdom, mickledom, mongreldom, monkdom, mousedom ** next-door-neighbordom, old-maidendom, outsiderdom, owldom ** pigdom, popedom, priestdom, **quakerdom, queendom, ** readingdom, ** selfdom, shackledom, shirtdom, shrewdom, spiderdom, spinsterdom, stardom, swikedom ***teacherdom, thanedom, theedom, thegndom, theowdom, thiefdom, thirldom, thistledom, thralldom, thrildom, turfdom ** uunshackledom, unwisdom ** wheeldom, whoredom, wickdom, wifedom, wisdom, wit and wisdom, witchdom, withoutdom, wolfdom, womandom, wrakedom. |
| Domesday | n | See:"Doomsday' - The day when God is expected to judge the world. 2. the final judgement, the day of the Final Judgement. 3. any day of a decisive judgement or final dissolution. 4. Armegeddon; the Apocalyse; Raknarok. |
| Domesday | adj | See: "Doomsday" - concerned with or predicting future universal destruction. 2. given to, or marked by forebodings or predictions of impending calamity. 3. capable of causing widespread of total destruction. |
| Done | adj | Completed, finished, ended, agreed, ruined. |
| Done | phr | "A Done Thing" - the acceptable, correct or fashionable action or mode of behaviour. |
| Done | phr | "Be Done For" - doomed, ruined without hope of recovery. 2. dead or about to die; moribund. |
| Done | phr | "Done and Done" - a binding agreement, mutually accented. 2. done thoroughly and satisfactorily. |
| Done | phr | "Done and Dusted" - completed thorough and thoroughly. |
| Done | phr | "Done in" - be exhausted, extremely tired. |
| Done | phr | "Done Out" - exhausted, totally spent; tired out.. |
| Done | phr | "Done to a Turn" - cooked just for the right time and ready to eat (usually roasted meat). |
| Done | phr | "Done to the Wide World" - to be absolutely beaten or done for,, defeated absolutely. |
| Done | phr | "Hard Done By" - be unfairly treated. |
| Done | phr | "Have Done with" - finish, have no further connection with. |
| Done | phr | "That's Done It" - it has happened and there will be trouble. |
| Done | phr | "The Done Thing" - that ewhich is recognisable as socialy acceptable and proper. |
| Done | phr | "Well Done!" - congratulations! |
| Done deal | n | An agreement that has finally been resolved or decided. |
| Doneness | n | Extent to which something is done. |
| Done thing | n | Something done habitually or according to social norms, expectations, etc. |
| Done-up | adj | Worn out; exhausted. |
| Do-nothing | adj | One who does nothing; idler. 2. that does nothing or characterized by doinf nothing. 3. idle, indolent, lazy. |
| Do-nothing-ness | n | The habit or practice of doing nothing. 2. the condition of doing nothing; idleness, indolence. |
| Do-nought | n | A do-nothing; one who does nothing or is good at nothing. 2. an idler, sluggard, layabout. |
| Don't | n | Something that must not be done; as in, 'dos and don'ts'. |
| Don't | cntr | A contraction of 'do not'. |
| Don't | intj | Don't do that; stop. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" - a policy of the US military from the 1990s to 2010, which barred openly gay men and women from serving in the military. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Call, We'll Call You" - a stereo-typical reply from a hiring organization to a potential applicant suggesting that the applicant will not be hired. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Do Anything I Wouldn't Do" - used as an ironic statement or advice in leave taking. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Drop the Soap" - reference to prison rape; and used as a mockery to someone who is about to be confined in prison. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Get Me Started" - of exclamation of despair regarding a topic that just be brought up and about which the speaker feels very strongly and usually negatively about. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Give Me That" - what nonsense! do you expect me to beleive that? 2. what you said is patently untrue. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Go There" - don't even talk about it. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Hold Your Breath" - "Don't wait." Said cynically to suggest that what has just been said to is unlikely to happen soon or at all. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Knock Yourself Out" - don't over exert yourself, in doing something that doesn't require much effort. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Let the Door Hit you on the Way Out" - (with sarcasm) : indicates that one is glad or happy to see someone leaving. 2. good riddance. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Look at Me" - a response indicating one is not willing or able to perform a task or that is not guilty of something for which blame was implied. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Look Now, But" - a request that somebody should take another look at something, without drawing attention to oneself. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Make Me Laugh" - Used to express that one cannot take a suggestion seriously. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Mind If I Do" - used to express acceptance of something offered to the speaker. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Mind Me" - don't bother about me. 2. don't let concern for me interfere with your plans. |
| Don't | phr | "Don't Tell Me!" - surely that can't be possible or has occurred. |
| Do off | vb | Doff or take of clothing. |
| Doom | n. | Statute, law, enactment; generally an ordinance, decree. 2. a judge or decision-maker, esp. one who formally pronounces a sentence. 3. a sentence mostly in an adverse sense, condemnation or sentence of punishment. 4. faculty of judging, judgement , discrimation, discernment. 5. fate, lot, irrevocably destiny (usually adverse fate). 6. final fate, destruction, death. 7. action or process of judging (as in a case of law), judgement,trial. 8. the Last Judgement of the world; day of doom, judgement day. 9. last day of one's life, the fatal day. 10. (scriptural allusion): justice, equity, righteousness. 11. power and authority of a judge; general power and authority. |
| Doom | vb | To pronounce judgement or sentence on. 2. to pronounce, deem, adjudge. 3. to destine or consign to some adverse fate or lot; also sometimes in neutral sense, to any fate, good or ill. 4. to decree, to pronounce or fix as a sentence or fate. |
| Doom | phr | "As To My Doom" - a personal, private opinion ('in my opinnion). |
| Doom | phr | "Day of Doom" - the day of the Last Judgement. |
| Doom | phr | "Doomed to" - bound to meet or suffer disappointment, failure, frusstation. |
| Doomed | adj | Certain to suffer death, failure, or a similar negative outcome. |
| Doomsbook | n | A book or code of Old Teutonic law; spec. that attributed to King Alfred and refeerred to in the lawsof latter West Saxon kings. 2. a book of doom or judgement. |
| Doomsday | n | Judgement day. |
| Doomer | n | One who believes that the depletion of the world's petroleum resources will lead to severe financial failure and social catastrophe. |
| Doomful | adj | Fraught with or involving doom; fateful. |
| Doom-giving | n | Judgement. |
| Doom-house | n | Courthouse; a place of death, doom or little hope . |
| Dooming | n | A time of doom. |
| Doom-laden | adj | Heavily or laden with doom, as a death-sentence or diagnosis of a terminal illness. |
| Doomlike | adj | Suggesting doom. |
| Doom-monger . | n | One who preaches disaster and misfortune. |
| Doom-ring | n | A ring of stones forming the boundary of the Old Norse courts of judgement. |
| Doomsay | n | A person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster. |
| Doomsayer | n | A prophet of doom; esp. one of political or economic disaster. |
| Doomsaying | n | The act of predicting disaster and dire straits. |
| Doomsday | n | A day of judgement ; Judgement day |
| Doomsday | phr | "Until or Till Doomsday" - until the end of the world; also, a day of final dissolution, as of the 'end' of the world. 3. as long as the world lasts; loosely, forever. |
| Doomsday weapon | .n | A hypothesized weapon that has the capacity to destroy the Earth. 2. a bomb that is capable of causing widespread destruction. |
| Doomsman | n | A judge, deemster, demend, doomer. 2. one who reads out the sentence of death upon a convicted criminal. |
| Doomstead | n | A place of judgement. |
| Doomster | n | A person habitually given to prediction of impending disaster and doom. 2. a judge. |
| Doomstool | n | Judgement seat. |
| Doom-tree | n | A hanging-tree, tre on which condemned person was hanged, execution place. |
| Doomwatch | vb | To watch pessimistically about the future and particularly about the exploitation of the world's natural resources. 2. observation intended to avert danger or destruction , esp. of the environment by polltion, global warning or nuclear war. |
| Doomwatcher | n | One who is pessimistic about the future and particularly about the explotation of the world's natural resources. 2. one who observes or monitors evidence from the environment; one who prophesizes disaster, economic, financial, political or otherwise. |
| Doom-word | n | Word of 'condemnation' - judgement of death. |
| Doomy | adj | Of a person: depressed, sad, pessimistic, melancholy. 2. of a thing: depressing, weird, guarded. |
| Door | n | An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way. 2. the frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened. 3. passage; means of approach or access. 4. an entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads. |
| Door | vb | To supply or furnish with a door. |
| Door | phr | "Be at Death's Door" - be on the point of death. |
| Door | phr | "Beat a Path to Someone's Door" - seek a person out in great numbers. |
| Door | phr | "Be Out of the Door" - have one's position terminated. |
| Door | phr | "Drink and Eat Outdoors" - to drink oneself to destitution by excessive eating and drinking. |
| Door | phr | "Fetch at the Door" - to obtain from. |
| Door | phr | "Have a Foot in the Door" - the opportunity to do business. 2. gain access to a difficult-to-enter group, organization. |
| Door | phr | "In Through the Back Door" - unofficially, secretly or surreptitiously without formal permission |
| Door | phr | "Keep the Wolf from the Door" - ensure that one has enough money for basic necessities, such as food and shelter. |
| Door | phr | "Knocking on Heaven's Door" - dying, moribund, marcescent. |
| Door | phr | "Lay/Lie or Be At (Somebody's) Door" - to imput, be imputable, charge to. 2. to lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door, to charge one with a fault; to blame for. |
| Door | phr | "Leap Over the Door" - to escape, run out. |
| Door | phr | "Leave the Door Open" - (fig.) - ensure that an option remains available. 2. provide a possibility for the future. |
| Door | phr | "Make the Door" - to make it fast by shutting and bolting it. |
| Door | phr | "Never Darken My Door Again" - never appear at one's door again, uninvited and unwanted. |
| Door | phr | "Next Door to" - very near to; like next door neighbours. 2. almost the same as. |
| Door | phr | "Not Break Someone's Door Down" - to be quite unenthusiastic about someone'sgoods or services. |
| Door | phr | "On One's Own Doorstep" - in one's own domain. 2. close to where one lives. |
| Door | phr | "One's Door is Always Open" - people can take their problem to one at any time. |
| Door | phr | "Open the Door to" - create opportunities for. 2. cause to happen, occur. |
| Door | phr | "Out of Doors" - outside the house; in the air. 2. or without doors, and, [colloquially], out doors, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost. |
| Door | phr | "Show Someone the Door" - peremptorily to ask a person to leave one's house. 2. get rid of someone whose presence is unwelcome. |
| Door | phr | "Sin Lies at the Door" - the blame of the sin attaches to the wrongdoer, and theyy must take the consequences. |
| Door-bell | n | A button on an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed. |
| Door-cheek | n | Area of the side pots of a door; a door post. |
| Doored | adj | Having doors. |
| Door-keeper | n | One who is responsible for entry and departure to a building, sports arena etc. 2. a janitor (obsolete sense); doorman. |
| Door-knocker | n | A knocker mounted on a door. |
| Door-less | adj | Having no doors or entry. |
| Doorman | n | A man who holds open the door at the entrance to a building, summons or calls taxicabs, and an element of security in apartment buildings. |
| Door nail | n | The nail which studded the door-stead. |
| Door nail | phr | "As Deaf as a Door Nail" - very door extremely deaf. |
| Door sill | n | The sill or thresh old or a door; cf window sill. |
| Door-stead | n | A place for a door or doorway. |
| Doorstep | n | The sill of a door. 2. a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway , and offers support when passing through a door way. |
| Doorstep | phr | "On One's Own Door Step" - in one's own domain. |
| Door-stop | n | A device too keep the door open or to prevent it from closing. |
| Door-to-door | adj | (of selling etc) - done at each house in turn. |
| Doorward | adv | Towards or in direction of the door. |
| Doorway | n | The entrance through which one can enter or leave a room or building. 2. a space that a door can close. |
| Dooryard | n | A yard outside the front or rear door of a house. |
| Dop | vb. | Immerse, baptize, immerse in baptism, dip, sink/descend or dive suddenly into water. 2. to curtsy; drop/duck the body or head suddenly and quickly. (seedope.) |
| Dopper | n | Any of the various diving birds. |
| Dor | n. | OE dor: insects that fly (colopterous) in a loud humming noise; that is bees, bumblebees, flies, hornet drone. 2. a large black dung beetle that makes a droning sound in flight and excavates burrows in which its young develops. |
| Dor(r)head | n | A person who is lazy, idle, blundering or stupid. |
| Dos-and-Don't | n | Rules of behavior. |
| Dot | n | OE dott, dit. the head of a nail. 2. a small lump, clot. 3. a minute, spot, speck or mark of different colour or material from the surface on which it is. 4. a minute, roundish ink mark made by a pen, etc. 5. notes on sheet music. 6. a punctuation point as a full stop. 7. to write down compendiously. 8. to strike someone. |
| Dot | phr | "Dot and Go One" - a term describing a person with a limp in one leg, or has a wooden leg by which he makes dots on the ground. |
| Dot | phr | "Dot the 'i' s" (fig.) - to fill in the particulars; to particularize minutely; to cover something with minute spots. |
| Dot | phr | "On the Dot" - exactly on time. |
| Dot | phr | "The Year Dot" - a date so long ago that it cannot be particularized; a very long time ago. |
| Dotted | adj | Marked, spotted or flecked with dots. 2. spread or scattered like dots. 3. diversified; delineated. |
| Dotter | n | One who makes braille sheets for the blind. |
| Dotting | n | The marking, spotting or flecking with dots. 2. the spreading or scattering lke dots. |
| Dottily | adv | Madly or eccentric of ways, absurdly, crazily. |
| Dottiness | n | Unsteady, stiffness of gait. 2. state of feeble-mindedness; craziness. |
| Dotty | adj | Consisting or characteristic of dots; dot-like. 2. of unsteady, uneven or feeble gait, as for stiffness or lameness. 3. feeble in the mind; brittle-minded. |
| Dough | n | Any soft, past mass. 2. money (sl). |
| Doughhead | n | A silly person, stult, dullard, fool. |
| Doughily | adv | In a doughty way: soft pasty mass; softly-brained; silly. |
| Doughiness | n | The quality or state of being doughy. 2. made or consisting of dough. |
| Doughish | adj | Somewhat doughy. 2. soft-headed, brittle-minded. |
| Doughless | adj | Lacking or not consisting of dough. 2. poor (sl). |
| Doughlike | adj | Of the nature of dough. |
| Doughmaking | n | The process or action of making dough. |
| Doughnut | n | A soft, rounded, fried pastry ring with a circular hole in the middle. |
| Doughnut | phr | "Watch the Doughnut- not the Hole" - look for positive aspects. 2. concentrate on the main issue. |
| Dought | n. | Might, power, sturdiness, stoutness. |
| Doughty | adj | Able, capable, worthy, virtuous. 2. valiant, brave, formidable, stout. |
| Doughty-handed | adj | Adroit and nimble of hand; dextrous. |
| Doughty-hood | n | Doughtiness. |
| Doughy | adj | Of the nature of dough. 2. like dough in look , consistency or character. |
| Douse | vb. | To punch, strike, beat, inflict, knock, put-off, throw down, shut up, cease, doff |
| Douth | n. | Virtue, worth, good-deed, excellence, nobility, power, richness, benefit. 2. good-deed, benefit, manhood, 3. men collectively, company, army, folk-army, force, retinue. |
| Douthlike | adj | Virtuous, worthy |
| Douthwight | n. | Kin, man |
| Douthy-like | adj | Virtuous, worthwhile, worthy. |
| Dove | n | Any bird of the family Columbidae, with short legs, small head and a large breast. |
| Dove | n. | Gentle, innocent, loving woman or child; appellation of tender affection. 2. one seeking peace; a peacemaker, a messenger of peace, deliverance from anxiety, as the dove of Noah. 3. a person who advocates negotiations as a means of ending or preventing military conflict, as opposed to one (a hawk) who is a hardliner or warlike in policy. 4. a gentle, innocent, or loving woman or child; also an innocent, simpleton, one gullible or mentally unalert. 5. an appellation of tender affection. 6. an image of a dove as a symbol of innocence, peace and affection. |
| Dovecote | n | A house, dove-house,enclosure or coop where doves or pigeons are caged. |
| Dove-eyed | adj | Having eyes like a dove: soft, tender, meek, gentle. |
| Dove-like | adj | resembling or characteristic of a dove. |
| Doveling | n | A young dove. 3. term of affection for a little child. |
| Dovely | adj. | Gentle, innocent, affectionate |
| Dove-monger | n | A seller of doves. |
| Doveship | n | The personality or nature of a dove. |
| Dove-soft | adj | Very kind and tender. |
| Dovish | adj | Of or pertaining to a dove; dove-like. |
| Dovetail | n | A joint formed with a mortise with a tenon shaped like like a dove's spread tail or a reversed wedge. |
| Dovetail | vb | To join together by means of a dovetail. 2. to fit readily together; combine neatly or compactly. |
| Dovetail | phr | "Dovetail Into" - conform harmoniously with. |
| Dovetailing | n | The joining together by means of a dovetail. 2. the fitting readily together; combining neatly or compactly. |
| Dovish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a dove. |
| Dovishness | n | State or quality of being dovish. |
| Dow | vb | To avail, be strong, good, fitting, proper, worthy, valiant, virtuous, manly. 2.to be valuable or valid, of worthly or good for anything. 3. to be of a use, useful or profit for anyone. 4. to be good, fitting or proper for anyone. to be strengthful, vigorous, able to do somehing. 5. to do well, thrive, prosper. |
| Do-well | n. | A personification of success. |
| Down | n. | Hill, upland, elevated land, treeless chalky upland, sandhill, open expanse. 2. "The Downs" - the part of the sea within the Goodwin Sands off the east coast of Kent. |
| Down | vb | Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing one's style, etc. 2. down bring down or defeat (an opponent). 3. eat immoderately, gorge, scoff. 4. drink down entirely. 5. cause to come or go down, knock down, strike by blows, flatten. 6. shoot at and force to come down 9an the enemy aircraft.) |
| Down | adj | Filled with melancholy and despondency, gloomy, depressed, downcast, discouraged and downhearted. 2. not functioning (temporarily or permanently) 3. shut or dawn down. 4.lower than previously, as "prices are down." 5. understood perfectly, on pat. 6. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; as a downward course." 7. becoming progressively lower; a downward trend. 8. being or moving lower in position or less in (some) value. |
| Down | adv | Away from a more central or a more northerly place. 2. paid in cash at time of purchase; as "put ten dollars down." 3. in an inactive or inoperative state; as a business or a computer," 3. to a lower intensity. |
| Down | prp | From the higher end to the lower. 2. from one end to the other of. |
| Down | phr | "Be Down to" - be attributable. 2. be the responsibility of. 3. having used up anything except the last little portion or item. |
| Down | phr | "Be Further Down the Line" - to have a low priority. |
| Down | phr | "Be Sent Down" - be sent for trial. |
| Down | phr | "Do Somebody Down" - abuse, slander someone. |
| Down | phr | "Down and Out" - in poor financial, social or physical condition, particularly with respect to the condition one was previously. 2. knocked unconscious (usually in asporting contest, as boxing, rugby, gridiron, Australain football). |
| Down | phr | "Down the Line" - at a further, later, or unspecified point. |
| Down | phr | "Down a Shot" - to drink quickly the contents of a shot glass. |
| Down | phr | "Down At (the)Heel (s)" - worn down. 2. (of a person) - impoverished , shabby, slovenly. |
| Down | phr | "Down At/In the Mouth" - glum, dispirited; miserable, unhappy. |
| Down | phr | "Down in the Mouth" - out of spirits; disheartened. |
| Down | phr | "Down On" - to attack, implying the idea of a threatening power. |
| Down | phr | "Down on the Ground" - completely. |
| Down | phr | "Down the Hatch" - an encouragement to others to drink a toast or a bad tasting or strong drink. |
| Down | phr | "Down the Line" - at a further, later or unspecified point. |
| Down | phr | "Down Tools" - stop work at the end of the day, for any official break, or as part of a strike or other protest. 2. fig. to pause in, or discontinue any activity. |
| Down | phr | "Down to Somebody/ Something" - even including the final item of a comprehensive list of persons or things, as the last detail. |
| Down | phr | "Down to the Start" - the starting position in a race; back to the beginning. |
| Down | phr | "Down To the Wire" - a situation whose outcome is still in doubt or not decided until the very last minutes. |
| Down | phr | "Down With (Somebody)" - an exclamation, or exhortation that expresses hatred of somebody/something or a desire to destroy somebody or something. 2. an exclamation: 'away with!' |
| Down | phr | "Down With His Apple-cart" - knock or throw down him (someone)down. |
| Down | phr | "Feel Down" - feel depressed, gloomy, grumpy. |
| Down | phr | "Go Down the Drain" - be totally wasted. |
| Down | phr | "Go Down the Line" - to visit the seedy side of a town. |
| Down | phr | "Have a Down On" - disapprove of; show animosity towards; hold a grudgge towards. 2. treat someeone unfairly, wish harm upon. |
| Down | phr | "He Is Run Down" - out of condition. In a thorough rest. |
| Down | phr | "Hit Somebody When they're Down" - take advantage when someone is in trouble. |
| Down | phr | "It Comes Down to This" - an issue decided upon what one considers to be most imporant. |
| Down | phr | "Keep One's Head Down" - to work very diligently. |
| Down | phr | "Put One's Foot Down" - to exert one's authority and insist on something. |
| Down | phr | "Run a Man/Woman Down" - to denigrate or discredit someone to a third party. |
| Down | phr | "Talk Down to Somebody" - talk to someone as if they were less intelligent or mentally alert than you. |
| Down-along | adj | "The people of the Down-along country are slow at putting thoughts together." - rural areas, boondocks, back-blocks, hills. |
| Down-and-Dale | n | From an alliterative association with dale - low-lying land and upland. |
| Down-and-out | adj | Penniless, destitute, (of a person). |
| Down-and-outer | n | One who is impoverished. |
| Down-and-outness | n | The state of being impoverished. |
| Down-beaming | adj | Shining down or directed down. |
| Downbear | vb. | Press down, cause to sink; oppress |
| Down-bearing | adj | Weighed down; weighing upon. |
| Downbeat | n | In music: an accented beat, usually the first of the bar. |
| Downbeat | adj | Pessimistic, gloomy, sombre, unemphatic. |
| Downbent | adj | Bent towards. |
| Downbow | n | A downward stroke of a violin from the heel to the top of the bow. |
| Downburst | n | A localized area of strong damaging winds, esp. during a severe thunderstorm |
| Downcast | adj | (of eyes) looking downwards. 2. of a person: dejected. 3. |
| Downcome | n | An act of coming (lit. and fig.), descent, downfall, humiliation. |
| Downcomer | n | A pipe for the downward transport of water and gas. |
| Downcoming | n. | Descent |
| Downcoming | adj | Coming down or descending. |
| Downdraw | n | A downdraft. |
| Downdraw | vb | To draw downwards or down. |
| Downed | adj | Brought down (lit. & Fig.) as an aircraft. |
| Downer | n | A drug which has a depressing or tranquilizing effect. 2. a person who is depressed, gloomy or sad. 3. a downward trend or experience of downturn in one's business or in the economy generally. 4. a trap operating as by a descent of a weight; a dead fall. |
| Downfall | n | A fall from prosperity or power. 2. the cause of a fall from prosperity or power. 3. a fall; a disgrace. 4. a sudden heavy fall of rain. |
| Downfallen | adj | Fallen to the ground; humiliated; ruined. |
| Downfalling | adj | Declining, decaying, regressing. |
| Downfield | n | In sport, into or towards the point of a field towards where a team is heading or going. |
| Downflow | n | Something that flows downwards, a downward flowing current. |
| Downflowing | adv | Flowing or falling downwards, as a waterfall. |
| Downfold | vb | A syncline. |
| Downfolded | adj | Folded down. |
| Downfolding | n | A downwards folding. |
| Down-go | n | A descent. |
| Downgoing | adj | Descending or going downwards. |
| Down-hanging | adj | Hanging downwards. |
| Downhearted | adj | Discouraged, put-off, low-spirited, depressed, gloomy, sad. |
| Downheartedly | adv | In a downhearted manner. |
| Down-heartedness | n | Doldrums, dumps, dolefulness, gloominess, despondency, glumness, melancholy, of dispirited state, unhappiness. |
| Downheld | adj. | Oppressed, kept back, held down |
| Downhill | adj | Slopey or descending, declining, declining, downwards. |
| Downhill | adv | Down the slope of a hill; in a descending direction; or on a decline, downwards. (lit.&fig.) |
| Downhill | phr | "Go Downhill" - decline, as in success. |
| Downhiller | n | A skier who takes part in a downhill events and races. |
| Downhole | n | (In the petroleum ) - used, taking place or performed in a well or borehole. |
| Down-home | adj | Relating to simple, folksy qualities associated with one's family, esp. one from a rural area. |
| Downiness | n | The condition or quality of being down. |
| Downing | n | An incident in which sometimes is downed or brought down, as an aircraft by enemy fire. |
| Downish | adj | Somewhat dejected or depression. 2. somewhat directed downwards. |
| Downland | n | OE. dunland; land forming downs; hilly pasture-land. 2. land lying low or sloping downwards. |
| Down-lead | n | A lead-in. |
| Down-lie | vb | To lie down; go to bed. 2. taking up permanent quarters. 3. the confinement of a woman. |
| Downlight | n | |
| Downlighting | n | Lighting concentrated in a downward direction. |
| Downline | adv | At a further, later, or unspecified point. |
| Down-line | n | A railway line leading from the capital or chief terminus. |
| Down link | n | In the telecommunications the transmission of a signal from a satellite to aa receiving station on earth. 2. the means of this transmission. 3. transmission of data for a network, usu. wireless to the user. |
| Downlink | vb | To transmit a signal fora satellite to an on-earth receiving station. |
| Download | n | A file transfer to a local computer. 2. a file that has been, or will be transferred in this way. |
| Download | vb | To transfer a file to a local computer. |
| Downloaded | adj | (Of a file) transferred to a local computer. |
| Downloader | n | One who transfers or loads a file for the internet. 2. a computer programmer who ais the downloading of files. |
| Downloading | n | The transferring of a file to a local computer. |
| Down-long | adj | Headlong; rushing headlong down, down along. |
| Downlook | n. | Having a downcast or downward look, a guilty look, sheepish, demure |
| Downlooked | adj | Downcast, gloomy, glum. |
| Down-looking | adj | That looks down; demure, downcast in looks; pessimistic, gloomy. 2. guilty looking, sheepish, demure. |
| Down-lying | adj | The time of retiring to rest. 2. travail in childbirth. |
| Downmost | adj | Lowest. |
| Downness | n | The state or quality of being down (in its various senses). 2. down-lowness. |
| Down-pipe | n | A pipe carry rainwater from the roof to a drain at ground level. |
| Down-play | n | Presentation or portrayal of something as less important or consequential |
| Down play | vb | To de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential. |
| Down player | n | One who or that which downplays, presents or portrays something as less important or consequential. |
| Downright | adj | Straight to the point; unequivocal; plain; outspoken. 2. directed downwards. 3. thorough, utter, absolute. |
| Downright | adv | Directly downward. 2. without qualification. 3. in the extreme; utterly. |
| Downrightly | adv | In a downright manner; irectly, thoroughly. |
| Down-rightness | n | The quality of being downright. 2. directness, straight-forwrdness of speech and behaviour. |
| Down run | n | A slope used by recreational and competition skiers at snowfields. |
| Downrush | adv | rush down; rapidly descending. |
| Downset | n. | The setting of, or going down of the Sun, dusk, twilight. |
| Downshake | vb | To shake down. |
| Down-share | n | A breast plow used in paring off turf on downs. |
| Downshift | n | An instance of downshifting. |
| Downshift | vb | To become less active, slow down. 2. to live simpler lives to escape the rat race or obsessive material and to reduce stress. |
| Downshifter | n | One who downshifts in order to live simpler lives to escape the rat race or obsessive material and to reduce stress. |
| Downshifting | n | A social behavior or trend in which individuals live simpler lives to escape the rat race or obsessive material and to reduce stress. |
| Downside | n. | Disadvantage. 2. the underside. |
| Downside up | adv | Upside down. |
| Downside-up | adj | Chaotic, disorderly, disheveled. 2. unhinged, confused, disorganized. 3. inside out, inverted, overturned; upended. 4. untidy, messy, cluttered, jumbled, pell-mell. 5. disarranged, disorderly, disorganized. |
| Down-sitting | n | Action of sitting down. |
| Downsome | adj | Inclined to be down or dispirited. |
| Down South | adv | In the US. south of the Mason-Dixon line. |
| Down-spring | vb | To jump down. |
| Downstairs | n | A lower floor. |
| Downstairs | adv | Down a flight of stairs. 2. to or on a lower floor. |
| Downstairs | adj | Situated on a lower floor. |
| Downstart | n | One who pretends to be of a lower-class origin than he or she is. |
| Down-steepy | adj | Steeply descending, precipitous. |
| Down-step | n | A phenomenon in language where two syllables have the same tone with the second syllable is lower in pitch than the first. |
| Down-stream | adv | In the direction of the current. 2. down the stream |
| Down-street | adj | Down the street; in, or towards the lower part of the town. |
| Downstroke | n | A stroke made downwards. |
| Down-swept | adj | Swept or curving downwards. |
| Down-swing | n | Period of low or declining activity. 2. in activity, in trade, in business. |
| Down-the-Line | adj | At a further time, later or at unspecified point. |
| Down-throng | vb | To press down, crush, oppress. |
| Downthrow | n | A throwing, casting or warping down(wards). 2. being thrown down. |
| Down-timber | n | Timber in a heap brought down by wind or storm or other natural thing. |
| Down time | n | A period of time that a system fails to provide or performs its prime function. |
| Down-to-earth | adj | Practical, realistic. |
| Downtown | n | Of, or pertaining to, or in the lower, or more central part of a town. 2. te central part and business part of a town or city. |
| Downtowner | n | One who lives or frequents the central part of a town. |
| Downtrend | n | The price movement of a financial asset when the overall direction is downwards. |
| Downtrodden | adj | Beaten down, trampled down by treading; trodden under foot. 2. crushed down by tyranny, oppression. |
| Down-troddenness | n | The state or condition of being beaten down, trampled down by treading; trodden under foot; or crushed down by tyranny, or oppressed. |
| Down-tumbling | n | A sudden or clumsy fall. |
| Down-tumbling | adj | Fall suddenly, clumsily or headlong. |
| Down Under | n | Australia and New Zealand. |
| Downward | adj | Descending or tending from a higher to a lower level (lit. & fig). 2. decending from that which is remote. |
| Downward | adv | From a higher or lower position. 2. from that which is more remote , as in place or time. 3. towards the extremities. |
| Downwardly | adv | In a downwardly direction. |
| Downwards | adv | Towards a lower place; towards what is below. 2. to have a lower figure or amount. 3. towards something which is lower in order; smaller, inferior, etc. |
| Downwarp | n. | Local sinking of the earth's surface; a broad surface depression, a syncline. |
| Downwash | n | A downward air turbulence caused by he propeller or jet; bu esp. by helicopter blades. 3. the downward motion of air as a result of eddies behind a wing or chimney, etc. |
| Downweigh | vb | To weigh down; to depress with weight.. 2. to exceed in weigh/ power and influence. 3. to outweigh. |
| Downwind | adv | The direction in which the wind is blowing. |
| Downwind | adj | The direction in which the wind is blowing. |
| Downwinder | n | A person (or community) that lives downwards from a potential hazard, such as a nuclear power station. |
| Downwith | adv | Downwards , or on a downwards course. |
| Downy | adj | Of the nature of a down, charcterized by downs. 2. of rolling, downy land or country; land of a downy kind, often without a tree and with dry stretches. |
| Dowy | adj | Valiant, virtuous, thriving. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Draft | n. | Probably OE but not recorded in O.E. |
| Drag | n | Resistance of the air or some other fluid; obstruction to progress; slow-motion, retardation of progress. 2. in a foundry, the bottom part of a sand casting mold. 3. a device or apparatus for dragging along the bottom of a body of water; often to recover dead bodies. 4. a puff on cigarette or pipe. 5. someone or something that is annoying or frustrating. 6. someone or something that is, dreary, boring, disappointing. 7. horse-drawn wagon or buggy. 8. a street or road, as 'the main drag' 9. scent-path; a strong smelling lure dawn before the hounds as a substitute.. 10. heavy harrow. 11. kind of sledge. 12. in metallurgy: bottom part of a flask or mould. 13. in masonry: steel instrument for dressing of soft stone. 14. nautical: difference between the true speed of a vessel and theoretical speed attainable by the propeller. 15. anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress. 16. skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. 16. motion affected with slowness and difficulty. |
| Drag | vb | Pull along with effort or difficulty. 2. allow one' s feet, clothing, tail to trail along the ground. 3. to go along or pass heavily, seriously tediously. 4. to search the bottom of a river or waterway with a grapnel or drag (often to find the bodies of drowned persons). 5. take a person to a place, esp. against her or his will. 6. draw or suck on a cigarette, cigar or smoking pipe. 7. continue at a tedious length, as 'drag on'. |
| Drag | phr | "Drag by the Head and Ears" - to force a person reveal the true facts. |
| Drag | phr | "Drag In" - introduce (an unnecessary subject) constantly, tiresomely or irrelevantly. 2. make somebody take part in an activity or be the subject of discussion etc against his/her will, or against the will or other interested person. |
| Drag | phr | "Drag Off" - lead somebody against his/her will (t). |
| Drag | phr | "Drag One's Feet/Heels" - be deliberately slow or reluctant to act. 2. proceed unwillingly, or with delaying tactics, in a course that one must take or should take. |
| Drag | phr | "Drag On" - last, endure, persist for a specified period of time. 2. continue at a tedious, boring length, as 'drag on'. 3. go on proceed for an extended period of time. |
| Drag | phr | "Drag Out" - protract; prolong. 2. make something longer than it need be, thus causing tedium. 2. extract information from a person who is reluctant to give it. |
| Drag | phr | "Drag Up" - deliberate recall or mention an unwelcome or unpopular subject. 2. allow a child to grow up without proper discipline or training. |
| Drag | phr | "Look What the Cat Dragged In" - used as an ironic acknowledgement of someone's arrival by implying that they are unwelcome or disagreeable in a some way. (from the habit of domestic cats of leaving mice they have caught on the back doorstep.) |
| Drag-anchor | n | (Of a ship)move from a moored position when the anchor fails to hold. |
| Dragging | n | Marked by a painfully slow effortfulness. |
| Dragginigly | adv | In a dragging manner. |
| Draggle | vb. | To wet or befoul by allowing to drag through mire or wet grass, to make wet, dirty or limp; to trail on the ground. 2. to come, do or follow slowly or straggly. |
| Draggy | adj | Tedious, boring, ennui. 2. unpleasant. |
| Drag-hound | n | A dog trained to follow an artificial scent. |
| Drag-line | n | An excavator with a bucket pulled in by a wire rope. |
| Dragnet | n | A net drawn through a river or across ground to trap fish or game. 2. a systematic hunt for criminals. |
| Drag-rope | n | A rope with a chain hook attached used as a brake on a gun carriage. 2. a guide rope. 3. a rope dragged by a balloon over the ground to check speed and control height of ascent. |
| Drain | n | (No written example of the word between C11th until c16th. 2. applied to a natural water course which drains a tract of country. 3. a wide canal-like navigable channel, in fen country. 4. a drain emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it. 5. a gradual depletion of energy or resources. 6. a pipe through which liquid is carried away. 7. a tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material. |
| Drain | vb | To make weak; drain of energy or strength. 2. to empty of liquid; drain the liquid from a tank, etc. 3. deplete of resources. 4. flow off gradually. |
| Drain | phr | "Drain Away" - flow away down a waste pipe or drain. 2. decrease, disappear gradually. 3. gradually reduce the volume or strength of. |
| Drain | phr | "Drain Off" - draw liquid from something until it is empty. |
| Drain | phr | "Go Down the Drain" - got lost, vanish, disappear, deteriorate, go to waste, |
| Drain | phr | "Laugh Like a Drain" - laugh widely, copiously and loudly. |
| Drained | adj | Of water, carried away by a drain. 2. exhausted or deprived of strength or energy. |
| Drainer | n | A device for draining; anything on which things are put to drain, e.g. a draining board. 2. a person who drains. |
| Draining | n | Having a debilitating. |
| Draining-board | n | A sloping usu. grooved surface beside a sink, on which dishes are washed; a drainboard. |
| Drain-like | adj | resembling a drain or some aspect of. |
| Drainless | adj | That cannot be drained or exhausted; inexhaustible. |
| Drain-pipe | n | A pipe for draining surplus water or liquid sewage from a building. 2. very narrow trousers. |
| Drake | n | Dragon; also, representation of this used as a battle standard; a serpent, a fiery monster. 2. a beaked gallery, or ship of the Vikings. |
| Drake-stone | n | A flat stone thrown so that it skiffs and bounds across the surface of the water. |
| Drast | n. | Dregs, lees, feces, refuse, draff, residue, swill. |
| Draught | n | Probably O.E. but not recorded in O.E. (see; 'draft') |
| Drave | n. | Fishing expedition made by a co-operative; a haul of fish, shoal. |
| Draw | n | An act of drawing. 2. a person or thing that draws custom, attention, etc. 3. the drawing of lots esp. a raffle. 4. a drawn game or sporting match. 5. a suck on a cigarette, etc. 6. the act of drawing a gun from a holster in order to shoot. 7. strain, pull. |
| Draw | vb | to produce a picture. 2. to drag, pull 3. to pull out. 4. to extract a liquid, or cause a liquid to come out. 5.to attract. 6. to deduce or infer. 7. to rely on.. 8. to disembowel; as in 'draw and quarter.' 9. archery: to pull back the arrow
10. to close curtains etc. 11. of drinks: to leave temporarily so as to allow the flavor to increase. 12. to end a game with neither side winning. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw a Bath" - fill a bath with water. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw a Bead" - take aim at. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Abroad" - to spread a thing over a surface, spread out, expand. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw a Bead On" - to have an ambitious plan or lofty goal. 2. aim with a gun; have in sight or a head on; get in cross hair. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw a Breath" - breathe; breathe in; pause to breathe. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw a Deep Breath" - to get ready for exertion or for emotion news. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw a Furrow" - to plow/plough or make a furrow. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Ahead of" - move forward or in front of; progress beyond. 2. get ahead, ahead of. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw a Head On" - aim at. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw a Line in the Sand" - ( a state that one has reached) - a point beyond which one will not go. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Along" - to stretch, extend, fig. to prolong, protract. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Alongside Of" - (of somebody approaching from behind): stop, move or move along, at the side of. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw a Long Bow" - to state a conclusion which while possible is unlikely to be based on facts. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Aside" - pull to one aside. 2. take somebody on side to talk to him quietly, privately or confidentially. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Away" - recoil, retreat; withdraw, move away from. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Back" - to get back or recover money or goods. 2. fig. to take off, discount. 2. to withdraw from, or move away from an undertaking. 3. recoil, retreat. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Blood" - injure somebody sufficiently, seriously enough to make one bleed. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Blood (From a Stone)" - do the impossible. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Breath" - live, begin, continue, to exist. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw By" - to draw aside, pass by, draw to a close. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Down" - to cause to fall or light upon a person; to attract, bring down; lower. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Down (On One's Head)- pass by one's conduct, attract somebody's anger etc. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Fire" - encounter criticism. 2. 'draw somebody's fire' - tactically allow oneself to be attacked. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw First Blood" - get an advantage; make the first decisive blow. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw From" - obtain from, derive from. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw In" - shorten or arrive, stop. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw In One's Horns" - become less assertive or ambitious; draw back. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Into" - arrive at, pull into. 2. lead somebody gradually but firmly to take part in something. |
| Draw | phr | 'Draw It Mild" - moderate one's speech or behavior. 2. not exaggerate a description, overstate a case. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Lots" - to decide by a lottery' select by lottery. |
| Draw | phr | " Draw Near" - to come gradually near or nigh to something or someone. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Off" - decant, siphon or divert the flow of a liquid. 2. withdraw, retreat, as an enemy. 3. doff, pull of (as clothes). |
| Draw | phr | "Draw On" - allure, entice, or take from. 2. take from reserve or resources. 3. don, put on clothes, dress. 4. make somebody continually, steadily forward on course. 5. approach, come near, come on. 6. exploit, use. 7. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw One's Last Breath" - to die, fail, cease to be. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Oneself Up" - straighten oneself (often in a solemn ,formal, or pompous way). |
| Draw | phr | "Draw One's Sword Against" - attack. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Out" - extend, prolong; drawn out. 2. extract information, or withdraw money. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Out Of" - remove, extract (from) , pull out. 2. produce from an inner space. 3. withdraw from a bank account. 4. elicit, persuade someone to tell or offer. 5. leave, depart (from), pull out of. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Somebody Aside" - take somebody from a group for private conversation. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Somebody's Fire" - tactically allow oneself to be attacked. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Teeth" - render something / somebody harmless. 2. take away from somebody/ something the means to cause fear or harm. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw the Cloth" - clean Up After a Meal. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw the Line at That" - to refuse to go any further. 2. not go beyond a certain limit in one's conduct. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw the Nail" - to release onself from a vow. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw the Net Tighter" - to intensify one's efforts. |
| Draw | phr | 'Draw the Short Straw" - be selected or appointed from a group to carry out an unpleasant or dangerous task. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw to An End" - bring or come to an conclusion. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Together" - compile, make a bundle or file. 2. add to, accumulate. 3. brinng together in a common cause; unite, unify. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Towards" - by force of personality, attract people towards oneself. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Up" - compile, compose, prepare, draft. 2. arrive; stop, come to a halt. 3. place close together in lines. 4. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Up Sharply" - stop abruptly; cause to pause and consider or reflect. |
| Draw | phr | "Draw Oneself Up to One's Full Height" - strike a dignified or important attitude. |
| Draw | phr | "Long Drawn Out" - unduly or tiresomely prolonged or protracted. |
| Draw | phr | "Quick On the Draw" - quick to react. 2. to act precipitately. |
| Drawback | n | A pulling back or retiring. 2. amount paid for a charge previously made. 2. a deduction, diminution. 4. a thing that retards progress or advance, or takes from a diminishes success or satisfaction, hindrance, disadvantage, downside. 3. one who draws back or retires. |
| Draw-bed | n | Extendable bed. |
| Drawbench | n | A machine used to do cold work on a metal, such as changing the shape of the metal without applying heat and applying only metal. |
| Drawbolt | n | A coupling pin. |
| Drawbridge | n | A bridge, esp. over water hinged at one end so that so that it may be raised to prevent passage or allow ships to pass. |
| Drawbridge | phr | "Pull Up the Drawbridge" - refuse to co-operate. |
| Drawdown | n | The act of raising money through loans; borrowing. |
| Drawer | n | A person or thing that draws, esp. a person who draws a cheque etc. 2. boxlike storage compartment without a lid, sliding in and out of a frame, table, etc (a chest of drawers). 3. knickers, underpants (jocular). |
| Drawer | n | "Out of the Top Drawer" - of a high social position. |
| Drawerful | adj | As much as a drawer can hold. |
| Drawerless | adj | Of furniture and cabinets not having drawers. |
| Draw gate | n | A sluice gate on a canal to let part of the water escape. |
| Drawing | n | The art of representing by line. 2. delineation without color or with a single color. 3. the art of representing with pencils, pens, crayons, etc., rather than paint. 4. a picture produced in this way. |
| Drawing | phr | "On the Drawing Board" - at the design or planning stage. |
| Drawing | phr | "Out of Drawing" - incorrectly depicted or drawn. |
| Drawing-board | n | A board on which paper is attached for drawing or writing on. |
| Drawing board | phr | "Back to the Drawing-board" - the details need to be reconsidered. |
| Drawing board | phr | "On the Drawing Board" - at the designing and/or planning stage. 2. to be planned in detail. |
| Drawing dead | n | A player is said to be drawing dead when the hand he hopes to cpmplete will nonetheless lose to a player who has already a better one. |
| Drawing-hand | n | A poker hand which requires some specific cards on later rounds in order to become a strong hand. |
| Drawingly | adv | In a slow, deliberate or in a hesitatingly manner, drawingly. |
| Drawing room | n | Of a position, tendency likely to lead to drawing. |
| Drawish | adj | (chiefly chess) - a game, or a particularly position in a game, deemed likely to end in a draw. |
| Draw left | adv | Axis drawn from left to right. |
| Drawloom | n | A machine used to weave many different kinds of items and is capable of weaving complex. |
| Drawn | adj | Looking strained from fear, anxiety, pain. 2. butter melted. 3. of a position in chess: that will result in a draw if both players make the best moves available. |
| Drawn | phr | "Drawn In" - of daylight or hours becoming shorter. 2. of a train arriving at a station. |
| Drawn | phr | "Drawn On"- make use of, employ,rely on, exploit, extract, take from, fall back on, have recourse to. |
| Drawn | phr | "Drawn Up" - devised, formulated, drafted, esp. in a legal form or as formal proposal of drawing up a will. 2. put in a position, arrange in order of formation. 3. to bring or come to a halt, stop. |
| Drawnness | n | The quality of being drawn. |
| Drawnwork | n | Ornamental work on linen etc., by drawing out threads, (also known as 'drawn-thread-work) usually with additional needlework. |
| Draw-sheet | n | A sheet that can be taken under a patient without making the bed. |
| Drawspring | n | Of rail transport: the spring to which a draw-bar is attached. |
| Drawstring | n | A string that can be pulled to tighten the mouth of a bag, the waist of a garment. |
| Drawth | n | The act or process of drawing; a pull; draught. 2. that which is draughted or drawn; a draught. 3. a treatise. |
| Draw-well | n | A deep well from which water is drawn by a bucket suspended to a rope. |
| Dray | n. | Wheel-less sled or cart; a sled or cart without wheels, formerly much used for moving wood, turf. 2. sled used for dragging logs. 3. a low cart without sides for carrying heavy loads. |
| Dray | vb | To convey by dray or dragging. |
| Draying | n | The act of moving goods by dray. |
| Drayman | n | A man who drives a dray; a brewer's dray. |
| Dread | n | Fear, great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.. 2. reverential or respectful fear; awe. 3. a person highly revered. 4. somebody or something dreaded. 5. fury; dreadfulness. |
| Dread | vb | To fear greatly. 2. to anticipate with fear. 3. to be in dread, or great fear. 4. to style (the hair) into dreadlocks. |
| Dread | adj | Terrible; greatly-feared. 2. (archaic)- awe-inspiring, held in fear. |
| Dread-bolt | n | Lightning. |
| Dread-bolted | adj | Lightning, as ' dread-bolted thunder.' |
| Dread-death | adj | 'A reader of old dread-death and dread-devil books.' - horror and blood-chilling literature. |
| Dreaded | adj | Feared, frighten, terrified. |
| Dreader | n | One who fears or lives in fear. |
| Dread-devil | adj | "A reader of old dread-devil and dread-death books.' - horror, and blood-chilling literature. |
| Dreadful | adj | Inspiring awe or dread; terrible. 2. awful. |
| Dreadfullness | n | Awfulness, dread, terror, apprehension. |
| Dreadfully | adv | With dread, apprehension, fear, terror. |
| Dreadingly | adv | With dread |
| Dreadless | adj | Without dread or fear; having no fear, fearless, not frightened. 2. exempted or void from dread or apprehension. 3. of danger: secure, free of terror. 4. without doubt or mistake, doubtless, apprehension-free. |
| Dreadlessly | adv | In a manner free of dread, fear, anxiety or worry. |
| Dread-lessness | n | Fearlessness |
| Dreadlocked | adj | Having hair styled in dreadlocks. |
| Dreadlocks | n | A hair style of Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow into long matted strings. |
| Dreadly | adv | In a manner inspiring dread; dreadfully, awfully, terribly. 2. with dread or awe. 3. |
| Dreadness | n | The quality of being dread. |
| Dreadnought | n | Dreading or fearing nothing or no one. |
| Dreads | n | Short for dreadlocks or by synecdoche a rastafarian |
| Dreadworthy | adj | Worthy of being dreaded. |
| Dready | adj | Feeling dread, fearful, awe-filled, timid, frightened, scared. |
| Dream | n. | The sense - "sequence of sensations passing through a sleeping person's mind"- (also as a verb), probably related to Old Norse draumr, Old Saxon drom "merriment, noise." But Old English dream meant only "joy, mirth, noisy merriment," also "music." And much study has failed to prove that Old English dream is the root of the modern word for "sleeping vision," despite being identical in spelling. Words for "sleeping vision" in Old English were mæting and swefn. Old English "swefn" originally meant "sleep." Dream: "ideal or aspiration" is from earlier sense of "something of dream-like beauty or charm" 2. mirth, noise, pleasure, gladness, rejoicing. Music: the sound of a musical instrument, melody. |
| Drear | n. | Soundness, gloom, dismalness. |
| Drearhood | n | Drearihood: dismality, gloominess. |
| Drearily | adv | In a dreary manner. |
| Dreary | adj. | Gory, bloody, cruel, dire, horrid, grievous. 2. of persons - sad, melancholy, doleful, 3.dismal, gloomy. 4. repulsively dull or uninteresting. |
| Dreariness | n | Sadness, gloom, quality or state of being dreary - of an oppressingly uninteresting character. 2. sadness, sorrowfulness (influenced by desolate sadness.) 3. dismality, desolation, gloom |
| Drearing | n | Sorrowing grief. |
| Drearisome | adj. | Dreary of character; lonely and desolate. |
| Drearsome | adj | Dismal, dull, gloomy, dreary. |
| Dreary | adj | Gory, bloody. 2. cruel, dire, horrid, grievous. 3. of persons: their actions, state, aspect, etc. - full of sadness or melancholy, sad, doleful, dismal, dull or uninteresting. |
| Dreave | n | A drove; shoal of fish, |
| Dreave | vb | To drive, repel, |
| Dreck | n. | Rubbish, trash, worthless debris, rotteness. |
| Dree | n | The action of the verb 'to dree' 2. suffering, endurance, trouble, forbearance, lasting, doughtiness. |
| Dree | vb | To do, perform service, duty, any one's will, grievous, to commit sins. 2. to endure undergo, suffer, bear something grievous, burdensome, or painful. 3. to do perform, suffer penance, shrift. 4. to endure, last, hold out, continue. 5. to spin out, protract. 6. also spelt 'dreigh' |
| Dree | phr | "Dree One's Weird" - to endure one's fate, destiny. 2. suffer or submit to one's destiny. 3. to suffer, |
| Dree | adj | Enduring, long suffering, patient. 2. heavy, mighty, doughty, fierce. 3. long, slow, tedious, wearisome, difficult to surmount or get over; stiff, severe. 4, dreary, cheerless, doleful. |
| Dree | adv | Dreely - heavily, severely, mightily, vehemently. 2. persistently, doggedly, |
| Dreeing | n | The performance of military service. |
| Dreely | adv | Heavingly, mightily, vehemently, stiffly, slowly, persistently. |
| Dreep | n | A wet, dripping condition. 2. an ineffective, spiritless or lugubrious person; a drip. |
| Dreep | vb | To fall in drops, drip. 2,. fig. to droop, to loose courage (fig.); grow faint. |
| Dreepy | adj | Drooping, ineffectual, spiritless, lugubrious. |
| Dref | adj | Troublesome, vexatious, grievious. |
| Dreigh | n | Variant of 'dree.' - a long duration or space or time, length, distance, extent. |
| Drench | n | A drink, draught, draft. 2. a medical soporific or poisonous draught, a potion. 3. a draft or dose of medicine administered to an animal. |
| Drench | vb | Cover with liquid; pour into. 2. permeate or impregnate. 3. force to drink (of an animal.) 4. submerge; steep in moisture, soak. gorge, satiate. |
| Drench | phr | "Drench In" - covered abundantly or soaked with. |
| Drenched | adj | Covered abundantly or soaked in. |
| Drencher | n | One who drenches a beast. |
| Drenching | n | The action or process of drenching an animal. |
| Drenchingly | adj | Covered abundantly or soaked in. |
| Dreng | n. | Young man, fellow, lad, 2. contemptuously, low based fellow. |
| Drenkle | vb | To submerge, drown. 2. to suffer submersion or drowning. |
| Drepe | vb | To strike, kill, overcome. |
| Dreper | n | One who kills, a murderer. |
| Drese | vb | To fall. |
| Dretch | n | Trouble, vexation, affliction, suffering, torment. |
| Dretch | vb | To afflict, torment, vex, to trouble in sleep. 2. to be troubled in speech. |
| Dretching | n | Torment, vexation, trouble. |
| Dreve | vb | (drove)to drive away or apart; to separate. 2. to trouble, disturb, agitate. 3. to move, proceed, tend. |
| Drib | n | A droplet, a petty or in considerable quantity. |
| Dribble | n | c. 1300, perhaps from Middle Danish drippe, from Proto-Germanic *drup- (source also of Dutch druipen, German triefen), from PIE root *dhreu-. Related to droop and drop. Old English had cognate drypan "to let drop," dropian "fall in drops," and dreopan "to drop." 2. saliva falling from the mouth. 3. the moving of a ball by small kicks or taps. |
| Dribble | vb | Cause to fall in drops. 2. run or flow slowly. |
| Dribbler | n | One who dribbles or allow saliva fall from his or her mouth. 2. one who kicks a ball with slight taps. |
| Dribbling | n | The allowing of saliva to fall from one's mouth. 2. the act of moving a ball by small or slight kicks or taps. |
| Dribbly | adv | Prone to dribbling; slobbery. |
| Dried | adj | Free or without moisture; not moist, not wet. |
| Dried | phr | "Dried Out" - free from moisture or excess moisture; not wet. |
| Driedness | n | The quality of being dry. |
| Drier | n | A person or thing that dries. |
| Dright | n. | Multitude, army, people, company, a body of retainers . 2. march of a host, procession, throng. |
| Dright | n | Drighten, drightin. - a lord, ruler, chief, spec. the Lord God or Christ. |
| Drightfare | n | March of a host, procession, throng, multitude. |
| Drightfolk | n | People, nation, army. |
| Drightful | adj | Multitudinous, thronging. |
| Drightlike | adj | Lordly, noble. |
| Drightman: | n | Warrior, soldier |
| Drightness | n | Majesty, godhead. |
| Drink | n | The act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess. 2. the act of swallowing. 3. any liquid suitable for drinking. 4. a single serving of a beverage. 5. any large deep body of water |
| Drink | vb | To be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to. 2. take in liquids. 3. to consume alcohol liquid. 4. to drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic. 5. propose a toast to. |
| Drink | phr | "Be Meat and Drink" - to be very pleasurable. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink and Drive" - to drive a motor vehicle whilst one blood alcoholic level is above the legal limit. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink deep" - take a large draught or draughts. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink Down" - drink until nothing remains in a cup or glass. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink Himself Drunk" - to drink until one is drunk. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink In" - absorb or listen by eager attention such as atmosphere, tranquility, beauty. 2. be fascinated or spell-bound by, pay close attention to. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink Like a Fish" - drink heavily or to excess. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink Off" - drink until nothing remains in a cup or glass. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink Oneself to Death" - kill oneself by excessive drinking. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink One's Fill" - drink as much as one's wants. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink on the House" - complimentary drink from owner, proprietor. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink Someone Under the Table" - drink more alcohol than somebody else whilst remaining more sober than he or she. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink the Cup of Sorrow" - experience great sorrow. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink the Sun Up" - to drink heavily or carouse |
| Drink | phr | "Drink the Waters" - drink medicinal waters, as spa water. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink To" - to toast. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink to the Health of" - to drink with good wishes foe one's health. |
| Drink | phr | "Drink Up" - drink until nothing remains in a cup or glass (often in one swig). |
| Drink | phr | "Drink with the Flies" - to drink alcohol alone (Australia) |
| Drink | phr | "Drive to Drink" - make someone so desperate that he or she seeks forgetfulness, or relief, in drinking. |
| Drink | phr | "In the Drink" - (nautical slang)in the sea, or into the water. |
| Drink | phr | "Long Time Between Drinks" - activity occurring only very spasmodically. |
| Drink | phr | "One Must Drink as One Brews" - one must take the consequences of one's actions. |
| Drinkdom | n | The sphere of action of drinking. |
| Drink-driver | n | A person who drives while under the influence of alcohol. |
| Drink-driving | n | Driving a car under the influence of alcohol, and above the permitted legal blood-alcohol limit. permitted. |
| Drinker | n | A person who drinks alcoholic drinks (esp. to excess). 2. a drunkard. |
| Drink-house | n | A tavern, pub, hotel. |
| Drinking | n | The act of consuming a beverage. 2. the drinking of alcoholic drinks to excess. 2. the act of consuming a beverage. |
| Drinking-glass | n | A container for holding liquids while drinking. |
| Drinking-horn | n | A horn of a bovine used for drinking. |
| Drinking-house | n | A tavern, hotel, pub. |
| Drinking-hole | n | One local drinking place; a bar. |
| Drinkle | vb | To cause to drink; drench,drown, get drunk. 2. to drown. |
| Drinkless | adj | Without drink or liquid to quench one's thirst; dry. |
| Drinking-song | n | One written about drink and drinking. 2. a song sang during drinking and carousing. |
| Drinking-straw | n | A thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth. |
| Drinking-up time | n | The time when customers in a hotel should finish their drinks before closing time. |
| Drinking water | n | Water suitable for drinking; potable water. |
| Drinkless | adj | estitute of drink. 2. without drink; having nothing to drink. |
| Drink-off | n | A quaffing wholly and at a gulp. |
| Drinks | n | Beverages collectively. |
| Drink-seller | n | A seller of drinks. |
| Drink-shop | n | A shop where drinks can be purchased. |
| Drink-sodden | adj | Drunken, sodden with alcohol. |
| Drinkware | n | Drinking vessels collectively. |
| Drinkworthy | adj | Potable. |
| Drinky | adj | Tipsy, drunk. |
| Drip | n | From Old English 'drop" - a falling drop. 2. that which drips or falls in drops, dripping. 2. a stupid, feeble or dull person, a fool, bore, one lacking mental alertness. 3. a grumble, complaint. |
| Drip | vb | To let drop, cause to fall in drops. 2. to moisture, wet with drops. |
| Drip-drop | n | Continuous dripping with alternating sound. |
| Drip-feed | n | a method of feeding, lubrication, etc. where liquid is supplied a drop at a time. |
| Dripless | adj | Without a drip; that does not drip. |
| Dripped | adj | That has been allowed to drip or percolate (of coffee so made). |
| Dripper | n | He who, or that which, drips. 2. a wet, rainy day. |
| Dripping | n | The fall of liquid drops; the liquid so falling. 2. melted fat that drips from roasting meat, whic when cold is used like butter. |
| Dripping | adj | That drops, having liquid falling off in drops of. 2. of weather: wet, continuously raining. |
| Dripping | adj | Characterized by dripping or drip(s), wet, rainy. 2. drivel-like, sloppy, sentimental. |
| Dripstone | n | A molding, or cornice over a door, window, etc. to throw off the the rain. 2. a label.????? |
| Drite | vb | Earlier form of dirt: to void excrement, to stool. |
| Drive | n | A journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile,) "a drive in a new car." 2. the act of driving a herd of animals overland
3. (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash). 4. the hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver. 5. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end "the movement to end slavery". 6. a wide scenic road planted with trees. 7. a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine. 8. (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium. 8 a road leading up to a private house. 9. the trait of being highly motivated. 10. a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire. |
| Drive | vb | To herd (animals) in a particular direction. 2. to cause animals to flee out of. 3. to move something by hitting it with great force. 4. to cause a mechanism to operate. 5. to operate a wheeled motorized vehicle. 6. to motivate. 7. to compel (to do something). 8. to cause to become. 9. to travel by operating a motorized vehicle. 10. to convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive At" - imply, suggest. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive Away" - to force animals or someone to leave a place. 2. repel, discourage. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive a Wedge Between" - to set out to cause two persons, groups to confront each other. 2. cause disharmony between persons. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive Back" - repulse, force back; force to withdraw. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive Back On" - oblige,force somebody (as a last resort) to use something he would rather avoid. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive By" - pass by or near. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive Home" - transport an other by one's own vehicle to their home. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive In" - (in military)force to withdraw towards the main body of one's unit. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive Into" - force to enter by striking with a hammer or any other object. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive Off" - drive away, leave (by car) from a place. 2. repel, force back, cause to withdraw. 3. drive a golf ball off a tee at the start of a game or a hole. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive Out" - force someone to leave a place; expel. 2. drive away, repel. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive Out of One's Mind or (Wit)" - make mad, drive insane, reduce to be very nervous or in an anxious state. 2. to cause someone great worry. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive Someone to the Wall" - to ruin a person. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive Someone Up the Wall" - to make somebody very frustrated or annoyed. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive Something Home" - try very hard to get somebody to accept, understand something (using a forceful or repeated argument). |
| Drive | phr | "Drive Someone to Tears" - to present information designed to make another person express sympathy not warranted by the facts. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive the Pigs to Market" - to snore heavily. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive to Drink" - make someone so desperate that he or she seeks forgetfulness, or relief, in drinking. |
| Drive | phr | "Drive Up" - make something increase. 2. arrive in a vehicle. |
| Drive | phr | "In Driving Rain" - during an excessive windblown rainfall. |
| Drive | phr | "Let drive " - aim a blow or missile at. |
| Drive | phr | "What Are You Driving At" - what are you implying at; trying to say or achieve. |
| Drive bolt | n | A tool for setting bolts home. |
| Driveaway | adj | In vehicle sales (Australia): sale price including all dealer's fees, and all legally, required fees such as resignation and insurance. 2. in Canada, USA a variation of car rental in which the driver contracts to deliver the vehicle to a specific location. |
| Drive-by | adj | A crime carried out from a moving vehicle. 2. done quickly or in a cursorily manner. 3. performed hastily or without adequate care. |
| Drive-by | phr | "Drive-by Shooting (or Murder)" a shooting or murder carried out from a moving car. |
| Drive-by | phr | "Drive-by Download" - in computing, a download triggered by scripts etc. on a website, without prompting the user, usually for malicious purposes. |
| Drive-in | n | Providing service to patrons who remain in their motor cars, as a drive-in restaurant, drive-in funeral home. 2. an outdoor movie theatre where the films are projected onto a large screen and patrons watch from inside their vehicle, listening either by a speaker attached to their vehicle or on a designated radio frequency. |
| Drivel | n | Nonsense talk. 2. saliva allow to flow from a person mouth. |
| Drivel | vb | To talk nonsense. 2. to let saliva flow from the mouth; dribble. |
| Driveler | n | One who talks nonsense. 2. one who allows saliva to flow from the mouth |
| Driveling | n | The act of talking nonsense. 2. the act of allowing saliva to flow from one's mouth. |
| Driveless | adj | Without any psychological drive; inert. 2. without a mechanical drive. 3. |
| Driverless | n | A vehicle moving (usu. out of control) and without a driver. |
| Drive-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a driver, or some aspect of one. |
| Driveline | n | The drive-train minus the engine and transmission. 2. the power train in general. |
| Driveling | n | Foolish talk, nonsense. |
| Driveling | adj | Foolish in speech. |
| Drivelingly | adv | In a driveling manner. 2. idiotically, foolishly. |
| Drivelly | adj | Nonsensical, foolish, idiotic. |
| Driven | adj | Obsessed, passionately, motivated to achieve goals. 2. of snow: driven into snowdrifts by the winds. |
| Drivenness | n | The quality of being driven: drive, ambition. |
| Drive-off | n | drive away, leave (by car) from a place. 2. repel, force back, cause to withdraw. 3. a person who fills his car with petrol at the pump or bowser, then drives off without paying. 4. drive a golf ball off a tee at the start of a game or a hole. |
| Drive-on/Drive-off | n | Of a ship on to and from which a motr vehicle may be driven. |
| Drive-pipe | n | A pipe used to force or for forcing into the earth |
| Driver | n | To person who drives a motor vehicle. 2. a wooden-headed club with a flat face used to drive a golf ball of a tee. 3. a device or part of a circuit providing power for output. 4. a mallet. 5. a part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. 6. an attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier. 7. an implement used for driving. 8. an overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work. 9. one who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward. 10. (Machinery) the driving wheel of a locomotive. 11. the person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle. |
| Driver | phr | "In the Driver's Seat" - having the most importance in a story line or recognition. 2. of primary importance . 3. in control of an entity or situation. |
| Driver-side | n | On the side of a car correspondingly to the driver's seat. |
| Drive-shaft | n | A shaft transmitting torque. |
| Drive-through | n | Of an establishment, providing service to occupants of motor cars while still in their still-running vehicle. 2. an establishment, esp. a restaurant providing a 'drive-thru' service. 3. the window of such an establishment, adapted for such a purpose. |
| Drive-through | adj | Of an establishment, providing service to occupants of motor cars while still in their still-running vehicle. 2. an establishment, esp. a restaurant providing a drive-thru service. |
| Drive-time | n | The time it takes to drive between two points. 2. of the time of the day when a person commutes (to) and (from) work, regarded as a popular time to listen to the radio. |
| Driveway | n | A short private road that leads to a house or garage. |
| Drive wheel | n | A wheel that transmits power to other elements of a mechanism; driving-wheel. |
| Drive-yourself | n | A motor vehicle on hire, and driven by the person who hires it. |
| Driving | n | The act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal. |
| Driving | adj | Transmitting power. 2. active and energetic. 3. having the power of driving or impelling. 4. acting with vigor. |
| Driving | phr | "What Are You Driving At" - what are you implying at; trying to say. |
| Driving iron | n | An 'iron' golf club which can be used as a driver; a driver. |
| Drizzle | n | (Probably O.E. 'droesan' to fall) - a very fine, steady rain; a light rain. 2. in cookery: a trickle. |
| Drizzle | vb | Of rain)to fall in very fine drops. 2. in cookery to sprinkle in fine drops or a thin trickle. |
| Drizzly | adj | Somewhat or rather drizzly. |
| Drof | adj | OE: turbid, disturbed, troubled, physically or mentally. |
| Droke | n. | Furrow, grove, ditch. 2. small watercourse, stream, fleet, ditch, ea. 3. steep narrow ditch. 4. narrow passageway. |
| Drone | n | A non-working male of the honey bee, whose only social function is to mate with the queen bee. 2. a deep humming sound. 4. a monotonous speech or speaker 5. sluggard; idler. 6. a string or stringed instrument used to make a continuous droning sound. 7. remote controlled, pilot-less aircraft or missile. |
| Drone | vb | To make a deep humming sound. 2. to speak or utter monotonously. 3. to idle away. |
| Drone | phr | "Drone on" - talk in an monotonous way. 2. speak tediously and at length. |
| Droned | adj | Sounded in a monotonous tone. |
| Droner | n | One who talks in an monotonous way. |
| Drong | n | A narrow passage or way; a lane. |
| Droning | n | A dull humming sound. |
| Droningly | adv | In a droning sound. |
| Dronish | adj | Of the nature or male bee. 2. living on the labor of others, lazy, sluggard, indolently, inactive. |
| Dronishly | adv | In a rather drony manner. |
| Drony | adj | Of a sound: dronelike. |
| Drop | n | The act of dropping something. 2. a central depository where things can be left or picked up. 3. a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery. 4. a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
5. a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity. 6. a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property) 7. a steep high face of rock. 8. a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid). 9. a shape that is spherical and small |
| Drop | vb | To fall. 2. to drip. 3. to fall straight down. 4. to allow to fall from one's grasp. 5. to lower oneself quickly to the ground. 6. to come to an end. 7. to express or utter casually. 8. to part with or spend money. 9. to cease over. 10. to decrease in value. 11. to send a letter or message. 12. to make fall to the ground. 13. to fail to pronounce. 13. to reduce. 14. to eject, remove, dismiss. 15. of music: to release to the public. 16. of music: to enter public distribution. 17. to cancel something scheduled. 18. of a voice, to go down in pitch. |
| Drop | phr | "At the Drop of a Hat" - at once, without hesitation. 2. with the slightest excuse. |
| Drop | phr | "Bottom Drop Out of" - prices fall to a very low level. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop a Hint" - make a subtle suggestion. 2. refer indirectly to something; make a suggestion indirectly, or tactfully, in order to give the listener an opportunity to do something that the speaker wants him to do. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop a Line" - write a letter; write a brief note. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop Anchor" - anchor a ship. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop Asleep" - fall gently asleep. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop a Stitch" - let a stitch fall off the end of a knitting needle. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop Away" - decrease or depart gradually. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop Back" - fall back, get left behind; at the rear. 2. drop back to lag or linger behind. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop Back Into" - return to a habit. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop Behind" - get farther back from the leader. 2. be left behind; fall behind (deliberately.) 3. allow others to move ahead. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop By" - call on, or casually visit. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop Dead" - die suddenly in the middle of some activity. 2. go away, stop interfering, I want no dealings with you, stop bothering me! 3. (slang): an exclamation of intense scorn. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop Down" - to move down a stream, or along a coast, as a vessel. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop In" - to happen in, as for a call. 2. call on, make a casual visit. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop In On" - call by, pay a casual visit to. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop Into" - call casually at a place. 2. resort to a habit. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop Into One's Lap" - to turn up fortuitously. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop It" - stop that! |
| Drop | phr | "Drop Like Flies" - die in large numbers. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop Names" - over use the names of celebrated or influential persons sin order to impress others with one's acquaintance with, or knowledge of, them. 2. to overuse scientific, technical, specialist words and terms in order to impress a lay audience. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop Off" - fall asleep; doze. 2. diminish, slacken, decrease, fall off. 3. decline gradually. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop On" - reprimand or punish. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop 0ut" - leave, withdraw from. 2. reject conventional, and join the alternate society. 3. leave school permanently. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop Out Of" - withdraw (from), abandon, leave. |
| Drop | phr | "Drop To" - (slang) : become aware of. |
| Drop | phr | "Have/Get the Drop On" - have the advantage over; specifically, to have 9a person0 covered with a gun before he can draw his. |
| Drop | phr | "Have a Drop Too Much" -be slightly drunk.. |
| Drop | phr | "Only a Drop in the Bucket" - insignificant amount; quantity. 2. of inconsiderable value, importance, esp. as compared with something larger in total or in kind. |
| Drop | phr | "Ready to Drop" - exhausted, tired out. |
| Drop | phr | "Take a Drop" - have a liking for drinking alcohol. |
| Drop-back | n | Someone or something that drops back, as a chair or seat. |
| Drop-back | adj | Lagging, dropping or moving backwards. |
| Drop cloth | n | A sheet of impermeable material meant to catch paint and other liquids, materials or hard-to-clean substances. |
| Drop-dead | adj | Stunningly beautiful; brilliant, excellent. |
| Dropdown | n | An instance of a selection object that hides the contents (es. other choices) until activated. |
| Dropdown | adj | In computing: dropping down from above, being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated. |
| Drop Hammer | n | A heavy weight raised mechanically and allowed to drop, as used in drop-forging and pile-driving. |
| Drophead | n | An adjustable fabric roof of a car. |
| Drop-in | n | One who arrives unannounced or without an appointment. 2. (surfing) the act of paddling into and take off on a wave another surfer is already riding |
| Drop-in | vb | (Idiom) - to arrive unannounced or with little or no warning; also, to visit without an appointment. 2. to paddle while surfing into and take off on a wave another surfer is already riding. |
| Drop-in | adj | Made or constructed off-site and then dropped into a place or position. |
| Dropless | adj | Without a drop or drops, as of water. |
| Droplet | n | A tiny drop. |
| Droplight | n | A lamp that is suspended, for example by a cable. |
| Droplike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a drop of liquid. |
| Dropmeal | adv | In drops; drop by drop. |
| Drop-off | n | The act of dropping off or delivering something to someone. 2. a decline, a decrease. 3. a sheer downward slope; a cliff. |
| Dropout | n | A person who has dropped out of school, society, etc. |
| Dropped | adj | Discarded, expelled, discharged, released, dumped, rejected. |
| Dropper | n | A device for administering liquids, esp. medicine in drops. |
| Dropping | n | The act of a person or thing that drops. |
| Dropping-fire | n | The frequent discahrge of small arms at irregular intervals. |
| Droppingly | adv | In a dropping manner; drop-by-drop, one by one. |
| Droppings | n | The dung of animals or birds. |
| Droppy | adj | Given to dropping, drippy, rainy. |
| Dropship | n | A relating practice of sending items for a manufacturer directly to the customer. |
| Dropshot | n | Gunshot made by dropping molten metal from a height into water. |
| Dropside | n | A cot or truck having a side that drops down to open. |
| Dropstone | n | Old popular name for stalactites, and stalagmites, formed by the dropping of water. |
| Dropwise | adv | In the manner of a drop, drop by drop. |
| Dropwort | n | The perennial herb 'Filipenda vulgaris' closely related to the meadow-sweet. |
| Dross | n | The scum, recrement, or extraneous metals in process of smelting. 2. volcanic scoria. 3. impurities, mixed with impurities., dregs, impure or foreign matter. |
| Dross | vb | To dross out; to sift out the dross. 2. to render impure or corrupt. 3. to free from from dross. |
| Dross | phr | "Mankind's Dross" (the dross of mankind) - the flotsam and jetsam of society. |
| Dross | phr | "The Dross of His Flock" - a worthless animal of a flock. 2. fig. & lit. the downtrodden and rejected. |
| Dross heap | n | Heap of worthless, impure matter, ' having stood for a long time on the edge of a dross heap. |
| Drossiness | n | The state or quality of being drossy. |
| Drossless | adj | Lacking or without dross. |
| Drossy | adj | Resembling or characteristic of dross. |
| Drought | n | Long-continued dry weather. 2. scarcity, dearth, drouth. |
| Drought | phr | "Break A Drought" - to resume supplies after an interval. |
| Droughted | adj | Dried, parched, without rain. |
| Droughtiness | n | The state or condition of experiencing long-continued dry weather. |
| Droughting | n | Exposure to drought. |
| Droughtless | adj | Not affected by drought or a serous lack of rain. |
| Drought-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a drought, in some aspect. |
| Drought-stricken | adj | Seriously or greatly affected by drought or lack of sufficient rainfall. |
| Droughty | adj | Dry, without moisture, arid. 2. characterized by drought; deficient in rainfall. 3. thirsty, often addicted to alcohol. |
| Drouth | n | Drought. |
| Drove | n | The act of driving. 2. a number of beasts, oxen, sheep, etc. driven by a body; a flock, herd. 3. a crowd, multitude, teem, shoal, mob of other animals or human beings, esp. when in body; also fig. of things. 3. in some areas of England, a road along which horses or cattle are driven. 4. a channel for draining and irrigation. 5. a drove-dike, drove-road, drove-way. 5. an ancient road or track along which there is a free right-of-way for cattle, which is not kept in repair by authorities. |
| Drove | vb | To trouble, disturb. 2. become troubled or overcast. |
| Drove | vb | To drive herds of cattle; to follow the occupation of a drover. |
| Drove | vb | To dress stone in parallel lines with a drove or broad chisel. |
| Drove-den | n | A wooded hollow or tract into which swine and other beasts might be driven to feed. |
| Drover | n | One who drives animals in droves to market; a cattle-dealer. 2. a dealer, trafficker. |
| Drovering | n | The business or occupation of a drover. |
| Droveship | n | The business or occupation of a drover. |
| Droving | n | The occupation of a drover. 2. troubles, tribulation, disturbance. |
| Drovy | adj | Troubled, turbid, not clear or transparent, opaque, drumly, cloudy. |
| Drow | n | Dialect form of drought; adrow: to dry up. |
| Drow | n | A fit of illness. 2. a fainting fit, a qualm. |
| Drow | vb | To endure, suffer, |
| Drown | vb | Not found until the C13th (when it began to replace the related 'drench' in the sense 'suffocate in water' but an Old English verb 'drunian' could well have existed. 2. to sink (a ship or like); to send to the bottom. 3. to submerge, flood, inundate, deluge, drench. 3. to overwhelm, overpower by rising above like a flood. 4. to immerse or smother; to overpower sound by greater loudness. 5. to extinguish by merger in something greater or higher; to merge. |
| Drown | phr | "Drown One's Sorrows" - to drink, by way of solace, in order to forget (temporarily) one's troubles. |
| Drown | phr | "Drown Out" - to put or drive out by inundation; to stop( works or people) or drive out from their habitation by inundation |
| Drown | phr | "Like a Drowned Rat" - extremely wet and bedraggled. |
| Drown | phr | "Wet As a Drowned Rat" - thoroughly soaked or in a dripping condition. |
| Drowned | adj | Killed by submersion in water. 2. submerged, flooded, deluged, inundated; of a physical feature such as a valley, dale, that is fully or partially under water as a result of permanent change in the relative levels of land and sea, or lake). |
| Drowned | phr | "Like a Drowned Rat" - extremely wet and bedraggled. |
| Drowned | phr | "Wet As a Drowned Rat" - thoroughly soaked or in a dripping condition. |
| Drowner | n | One who drowns; or suffers drowning; that which drowns. |
| Drowning | n | Perishing by suffocating in water, suffering inundation. 2. suffocating or destroying by submerging in water; also fig. overwhelming or overpowering. |
| Drowningly | adv | So as to drown. |
| Drowse | n | Before 900;Old English drūsian to droop, become sluggish (not recorded in ME); akin to Old English drēosan to fall. 2. the action of drowsing; a fit of drowsing. 3. state of being drowsy or sleepy. |
| Drowse | vb | Probably from O.E. 'drusin' be languid or slow. to sink, droop, become slow. 2. to become drowsy, to become heavy or dull in or as with sleep. 2. to be half-asleep. 3. to nod off. 4. to become inactive, dull, sluggish. 5. to render drowsy, dull or inactive, as with sleep. 6. to pass away time, drowsily, or in drowsing. |
| Drowsed | adj | Drooped, dulled, inactive, sleepy, sluggish. |
| Drowsen | n | OE. drosna: dregs, grounds; a kind of oatmeal porridge. |
| Drowsihood | n | Drowsiness. |
| Drowsily | adv | In a drowsy manner; sluggishly, inactively. |
| Drowsiness | n | The state of being drowsy; or heavy-sleepiness. 2. intellectual or moral lethargy, sloth, sleep, lulling, soporific state, dullness, sluggishness, lethargy. |
| Drowsing | n | The state of being half asleep, dozing. |
| Drowsy | adj | Inclined to drowse. 2. disposing to sleep. 3. dull, stupid. |
| Drowsy-headed | adj | A person of a sleepy or sluggish disposition. |
| Drowsy-headed | adj | Sleepy, sluggish, inactive, lethargic. 2. a drowsy-headed person. as ' a man, on his bed, slumbers prone. |
| Drowth | n | Drought, an extreme spell of weather without much rainfall. |
| Drunk | adj | In a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages. 2. habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication from alcohol. 3. (usually followed by with or on) elated or emboldened. 4. drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle. 5. drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid. 6. (intoxicated from alcohol): blitzed, drunken, ebrious, hammered, pissed, tipsy, wasted, smashed. |
| Drunk | n | One who is intoxicated with alcohol. 2. a habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated. 3. a drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness. 4. a drunken state. |
| Drunk | phr | "Drunk as a Fiddler" - a fiddler at wakes, fairs etc was often paid in liquor. |
| Drunk | phr | "Drunk as a Lord" - falling down or roaring drunk. |
| Drunk-driver | n | A person driving a motor vehicle under the influence of, and impaired, by alcohol. |
| Drunk-driving | n | The crime of driving a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol or drugs, including those prescribed by a doctor. |
| Drunken | vb | To be swallowed or sunken in water; to suffer drowning; be drowned. 2. to be swallowed up in water. 3. to saturate or soak with liquid. 4. to be intoxicated or drink to excess. |
| Drunken | adj | Intoxicated, tipsy. |
| Drunkendom | n | Stat.e or condition of being drunk; alcoholics collectively; drunkenship. |
| Drunkenly | adv | In a drunken manner. |
| Drunkenship | n | Drunkenness. |
| Drunkenwort | n | Tobacco; minshu ductor |
| Drunk-head | n | A drunkard affected by alcohol. |
| Drunk-headly | adj | Extremely affected by drinking too much alcohol. |
| Drunkhood | n | State or condition of being intoxicated or inclination to excessive drinking.. |
| Drunkish | adj | Somewhat or rather drunk. |
| Drunk-like | ad | Resembling or characteristic of a drunken state. |
| Drunkness | n | The state of being drunk, or of intoxication. 2. the habit of being drunken; or addicted to excessive drinking. 3. intoxication of the mind or spirit. 4. unsteadiness of the thread of a screw. |
| Drunksome | adj | Addicted to drunkenness, or excessive drinking. |
| Drunk trees | n | Trees which under the discontinuous permafrost or ice have melted, causing the trees to tilt at various angles. |
| Drunky | adj | Drunksome, intoxicated, tipsy. |
| Druthers | n | "I would rather" - a choice, preference. |
| Dry | n | A desert, a water-less place; a long stretch of the dry; a 75 mile dry. 2. prohibitionist, one who believes in an alcohol-free society. 11. a politician (esp. one of the Conservative Party): whose economic stringency, individual responsibility and vehemently opposes high government spending. |
| Dry | adj | A blow that does not draw blood. 2. feeling or showing no emotion, impassive. 3. dry of tender feeling; want in sympathy or cordiality; stiff, hard, cold. 4. wanting spiritual emotion. 5. yielding no fruit, result or satisfaction, barren, sterile, unfruitful, jejune. 6. of person: miserly, stingy. 7. uncommunicative, reserved. matter of fact, lacking adornment, embellishment, meagre. 8. deficient in interest, unattractive, distasteful, insipid (fig. of food that lack succulency). 9. lacking in softness or mellowness. 10. of acoustics: lacking in warmth and resonance. 11. of money-paid in full. 10. prohibitionist, one who believes in an alcohol-free society. 11. a 'dry' or 'dry-up' - an instance where an actor or orator forgets or fails to speak one's word in a play, speech or other performance. |
| Dry | vb | To become thirsty. 2. suddenly to forget or fail to speak one's word in a play or other performance, as 'an actor friend of mine once dried at the beginning'. 3. to render a cow dry or stop the secretion of its milk. |
| Dry | phr | "Dry As a Bone" - very dry. |
| Dry | phr | "Dry as Dust" - very dry; libale to crumble. 2. (fig) very tedious and uninteresting. |
| Dry | phr | "Dry Behind the Ears" - naive, gullible, credulous. |
| Dry | phr | "Dry Down" - of paint: to become dry. |
| Dry | phr | "Dry Off" - to make dry (after being wet from rain or after swimming.) |
| Dry | phr | "Dry Out" - become, make, quite free of water. 2. to evaporate; dry up. 3. stop drinking heavy liquor. |
| Dry | phr | "Dry Up" - cease, halt, stop talking. 2. of something perceived as a continuous flow or source: stop flowing. 3. dwindle, wane, disappear, subside. 4. make dry by wiping with a cloth. 5. be exhausted, come to an end. 6. stop talking, be quiet, shut up (through shyness or anxiety). |
| Dry | phr | "Dry Wipe" - wipe something dry, as a kitchen bench. |
| Dry | phr | "Go Dry" - propose legislation for the abolition of alcohol. |
| Dry | phr | "Have a Dry Run" - rehearsal, practice run, experimental or trial |
| Dry | phr | "I Am Dry with Talking" - I am thirsty after talking for so long. |
| Dry | phr | "Leave High and Dry" - stranded in a very difficult situations. |
| Dryasdust | n | Dull, pedantic, though often learned person. |
| Dryasdust | adj | Dull, pedantic, though often learned. |
| Dryasdustdom | n | The realm, sphere or world of those dryasdust. |
| Dryasdustness | n | The state or quality of being dryasdust. |
| Dryasdustly | adv | In a pedantic, boring, but learned manner |
| Dry-beating | n | A sound beating which does not draw blood. |
| Dry-boned | adj | Thin, withered, emaciated. |
| Dry-bones | n | Contemptuous name for a thin or withered person or one who has little flesh on his bones. |
| Dry clean | vb | To clean fabric clothing by a chemical agent, rather than water. |
| Dry-cleaned | adj | Of fabrics/ clothes cleaned with a chemical solvent. |
| Drycleaner | n | The operator of a dry-cleaning business. |
| Drycleaning | n | The act of cleaning fabrics/clothing with solvents, rather than water. |
| Drycough | n | Coughing without expectoration. |
| Drydock | n | A narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, the drained to allow the load to come to rest on a dry platform. dry docks are used for construction, maintenance and repair of ships, boats and other watercraft. |
| Drydock | vb | To flood a narrow basin or vessel to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow the load to come to rest on a dry platform. 2. to use a dry dock for construction, maintenance and repair of ships, boats and other watercraft. |
| Dry-eyed | adj | Tearless, not weeping, unlachymous |
| Dry-film-thickness | n | The thickness, experienced in mils, of anapplied and / ? coating or mastic. |
| Dry fire | n | The practice of 'firing' a firearms without ammunition. |
| Dry-fist | n | A niggardly or stingy person |
| Dry-fisted | adj | Niggardly, stingy, miserly. |
| Dry fly | n | A type of fishing fly. |
| Dry-foot | n | One who tracks criminals or lost-persons by their scent. |
| Dry foot | vb | To track game (or criminals) by the mere scent of the foot. |
| Dry-footed | adj | Having feet not wetted. 2. lightly pass through difficulty: like one who steps lightly over a stream without wetting his or her feet. |
| Dry goods | n | A name for class of merchandise made up of textile fabrics and related things; such as articles of drapery, mercery and haberdashery (as opposed to groceries). |
| Dry-handed | adj | Having hands that are dry. 2. old and withered with connotations of lacking potency and sexual appeal. 3. empty-handed. 4. lacking special equipment for fighting. 5. snobbish, concerned more with social standing than worth. |
| Dry-hole | n | A hole drilled to find oil and gas but yielding none. |
| Dryhood | n. | Drought, dryland, a dry place, desert, rain-lessness. |
| Dry-house | n | A building in which miners change their clothing. |
| Dry ice | n | Solid carbon dioxide used as a refrigerant. 2. the cold dense white mist produced by solid in air, used for theatrical effects. |
| Drying | n | The action of the verb 'dry'; dessication; abstractuion or drying out of moisture. |
| Drying | adj | That dries or render dry; dessicative, abstracting of moisture from garments or other materials. 3. drying quickly; becoming dry, opposed to oils. |
| Drying day | n | A sunny, windy day on which washing dries quickly. |
| Drying-house | n | A enclosure covered with light, see-through material and used to dry vegetables. |
| Dryingness | n | The quality of drying quickly. |
| Dryish | adj | Somewhat dry. |
| Dry lake | n | A dry lake bed, consisting of of fine grained sediment infused with alkali salts, with no outflow |
| Dryland | n | An arid area. 2. a region with a low rainfall. |
| Dry-law | n | A law prohibiting the sale spiritous liquor. |
| Dry-lighting | n | A lightning display without rain. |
| Dry-lipped | adj | Having dry and chafed lips. |
| Dryly | adv | In the manner of something without moisture. 2. without emotion, sympathy, or cordiality; coldly, frigidly. 3. without quick sarcasm or caustic humour. 4. in a bare or plain style; without embellishment. 5. badly; dully or uninteresting style or manner. |
| Dry milk | n | Dried or powdered milk. |
| Dry mouth | n | A condition where does not make enough saliva. |
| Dry needling | n | A type of Western medical acupuncture. |
| Dryness | n | The condition or quality, absence or deficiency of moisture, aridity, bing dried up or droughty. 2. a dry place; dryland, as 'that dryness earth men shall call; the gathering of the waters all seas to name.' 3. failure, cessation, 4. thirst, want of water. 5. absence of emotion, feeling or fervour. 6. lack of cordiality, coldness of feeling, distance of manner. 7. absence of embellish, plainness, baldness, lack of interest, dullness. 8. condition of being dry - or without alcohol; prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquor during the 1930s. |
| Dry up | n | Of the flow of words: cease talking. 2. cause to forget his or her words. |
| Dry rot | n | A fungous disease of timber, causing it to crumble. 2. fig. a state of gradual, hidden or unsuspected moral or social decay, tending towards disintegration. 3. a disease of potatoes and other vegetables. |
| Dry rot | vb | To affect with dry rot. |
| Dry-rotted | adj | Decayed, rotted (by fungous disease). |
| Dry run | n | A practice run or testing process where the effects of possible failure are intentionally mitigated. 2. a rehearsal. |
| Dry salt | n | To preserve or cure food by salting and removing water. |
| Dry salter | n | A dealer in dyes, gums, and chemical preparations. 2. one who deals in salted meats, pickles, etc. |
| Drysane | vb | To fall down, sink. |
| Drysnyng | n | Falling. |
| Dry-shod | adv | (In dried-feet) having one's shoes dried without wetting the feet. 2. without wetting the shoes or feet |
| Dry spell | n | A longish period when the weather has been dry, for an abnormally long time. 2. a period dry shorter and less severe than a drought. 2. a period of time (usually quite long) of abstinence from alcohol, drugs; sex, etc. |
| Dry-steam | n | Steam containing no evaporated water |
| Dry steering | n | The act of turning the steering wheel or rotating the steering wheel or rotating the vehicle on an axis by some other means, while the vehicle is stationary. |
| Drystone | n | A building method in which structures are built from stones without any mortar to bind them together. |
| Dryte | n | Feces. |
| Dryte | vb | To defecate. |
| Dryth | n | Dryness, dry condition, dry weather, drought. 2. thirst. |
| Dry tongue | n | A medical condition where the tongue tends to stick to or against the roof of the mouth, causing a problem with chewing and/or swallowing. |
| Dry-tongued | adj | Suffering or infliction of the medical condition called 'dry-tongue.' |
| Dry-thunder | n | A thunder roll without rain. |
| Dry tool | n | Climbing (rock climbing) axes and crampons. |
| Dry tooling | n | The action of climbing of rocks using ice axes and crampons. |
| Dry-up | n | The action of drying up. |
| Dry-wall | n | A panel of plaster board (gypsum panel) pressed between two thick sheets of paper used to make interior walls amnd ceilings. |
| Drywalling | n | The construction of interior walls and ceilings using panels of dry walling or plasterboard. |
| Dryware | n | Goods or merchandise packed in barrels for transport by sea. |
| Dry wit | n | Humor, when the intent, but not the presentation is humorous, blunt, sarcastic, laconic or apparently unintentional. |
| Dry-wood | n | Seasoned wood free from sap. |
| Ducky | adj | A term of endearment for an elderly woman. 2. sweet, pretty, splendid, fine. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Dub | n | A blow, 2. a calling, titling, naming, deeming. 2. the action of dubbing |
| Dub | vb | To confer (a) knighthood by tapping gently on the shoulder of the recipent with a sword. 2. to mane, title, call. 3. deem. 4. to dress, adorn, ornament. 5. to strike a blow with various tools, such as a adze. 6. to raise a nap on material. |
| Dubbing | n | The action of conferring (a) a knighthood by tapping gently on the shoulder of the recipent with a sword. 2. calling, naming, titling, deeming. |
| Duck | n | Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling. 2. the flesh of a duck used as food. 2.(cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.) 3. (slang) a playing card with the rank of two. 4. a partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space. 5. a building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related. 6. luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly. 7. a marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games. 8. (US) a cairn used to mark a trail. 9.one of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve. 9. a quick punge; a dip. 10. an instantaneous lowing of the head of body. 11. a rapid, jerky bow or obeisance. |
| Duck | vb | To lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something; to bow. 2. to lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. 3. to go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid. 4. to lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something. 5. to evade doing something. 6. to lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly. |
| Duck | phr | "Break One's Duck" - to end a spell or time without results. |
| Duck | phr | "Duck Shove" - to avoid an issue or shirk a responsibility. |
| Duck | phr | "Ducks on the Pond" - a sign or message passed among shearers in the wool sheds of Australia to make them aware that women are coming into the shed. |
| Duck | phr | "Duck Out" - (idiom)- to depart quickly or exit suddenly, esp. in a manner quiet and unobtrusive, before a meeting or event has ended. 2. to move or act as to achieve an escape, evasion or avoidance. |
| Duck | phr | "In Two shakes of a Duck's Tail" - in an instant. |
| Duck | phr | "Like a Dead Duck" - to have failed. |
| Duck | phr | "Like a Duck in Thunder" - having a forlorn and hopeless appearance. |
| Duck | phr | "Like a Duck to Water" - producing no effect or remonstrance. |
| Duck | phr | "Like a Dying Duck" - sad and weak. |
| Duck | phr | "Like a Lame Duck" - a person who is unable to fend for themselves. 2. a slow moving ship. |
| Duck | phr | "Like a Sitting Duck" - to be readily exploited. |
| Duck | phr | "Like Water off a Duck's Back" - if criticisms, insults, etc are like water off a duck's back to you, they do not affect you at all. |
| Duck | phr | "Lovely Weather for Ducks" - wet weather. |
| Duck | phr | "Two Shakes of a Duck's Tail" - in an instant. |
| Duckboard | n | One of a long series of boards put down as a pathway over muddy ground. |
| Duck-dive | n | In surfing the action of pushing one's board under the water nose first, to gain advantage of a breaking wave. |
| Duckdive | vb | To surf by pushing one's board under the water nose first, in order to gain advantage of an breaking wave. |
| Duck-drowned | adj | Very heavy rain |
| Duck-footed | adj | Having splayed-foot(s). 2. walking with the ends of the feet angled outwards; pigeon toed. |
| Ducking | n | The act of wetting something by submerging it. 2. the hunting of ducks. 3. immersion in water. 4.prompt bowing or bending the head or body. |
| Ducking pond | n | In ancient times, the pond into which disorderly women were placed in ducking-tool and immersed in the waters of pond, etc. |
| Ducking-stool | n | A chair used to punish women who scold by immersing them in water. |
| Duckless | adj | Unpopulated, or not having, ducks in a specific region or area. |
| Duck-like | adj | Similar to, or resembling a duck in look and manner. |
| Duckling | n | A young duck; a duckling. |
| Duck's arse | n | Haircut with the hair on the back of the head shaped like a duck's tail. |
| Duck's foot | n | The Lady's Mantle, a plant. |
| Duck-shove | n | The avoidance of an issue or shirking of responsibility. |
| Duckspeak | n | Thoughtless or speech according to formula (coined by George Orwell and used in his book 'Animal farm" |
| Ducktail | n | A hairstyle in which the hair is swept back into an upturned point at the back. |
| Duckwalk | n | An walk or gait resembling the awkward waddle of a duck. |
| Duckwalk | vb | In popular music employed by guitarists who jump on one leg while moving backwards and forward. |
| Duckweed | n | Any of several aquatic floating plants in the family 'Lemnoid' or araceae. |
| Ducky | adj | Great, fine, very good, sweet, splendid,agreeable, proceding in an agreeable and satisfactory way. |
| Dug | vb | See "dig" perhaps Old English : dicigian; obtained by digging, excavated, thrust into something, etc. |
| Dug-out | n | A shelter on a sporting field where players, coaches, and officials sit during the game. 2. a canoe made by hollowing out (dug-out)and shaping of a large log. 3. a fortification of earth, mostly or entirely below ground; a dug-out. 4. a rough kind of dwelling. |
| Dug-out | adj | Hollowed out by digging; excavated. 2. formed by excavation of the ground (usually into the bank). 3. of persons: of an outdated appearance or ideas spec. usually one recalled for military. |
| Dug-up | adj | Exhumed, unearthed. |
| Dull | vb | To make dull in appearance. 2. become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness. 3. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping; muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down. 4. make numb or insensitive; numb, benumb, blunt, dull. 5. make dull or blunt; dull, blunt, not to sharpen. 6. become less interesting or attractive; pall, dull. 7: make less lively or vigorous. 8. to become dull or stupid. |
| Dull | adj | Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; stultish; blockish. 2. slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward. 3. insensible; unfeeling. 4. not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt. 5. not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire
or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror. 6. heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert. 7. furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day. 8. lifeless; inanimate; dead; stupid; doltish; heavy; sluggish; sleepy; drowsy; gross; cheerless; tedious; irksome; dismal; dreary; clouded; tarnished; obtuse. |
| Dull | phr | "Dull as Ditch/ Dishwater" - boring, uninteresting, dreary. |
| Dull | phr | "Dull Edge Of" - cause or make to feel to be less keenly felt; reduce the intensity of. |
| Dulled | adj | Dulled deprived of color; colors dulled by sunlight, etc. 2. dulled made dull or blunt as a knife. 3. having lost or been caused to lose interest because of over-exposure |
| Dullen | vb | To make dull. |
| Dull-eyed | adj | Having eyes wanting brightness, liveliness, or vivacity. |
| Dull-head | n | An unalert person, slow-witted person, fool, stulty, dolt, blockhead. |
| Dull-headed | adj | Idiotic, doltish, stultish, slow-witted, obtuse in intellect, mentally unalerted. |
| Dull-hearted | adj | Emotionless, joyless, having no purpose or ambition in life. |
| Dull-house | n | A madhouse. |
| Dulling | adj | The process of making something dull. |
| Dullish | adj | Somewhat or rather dull, rather unalert, slowish and dullish. |
| Dull-looking | adj | Resembling or characteristic of something lacking brightness and lustre. 2. inteelligent, stupid, slow at understanding. 3. slow, overcast. |
| Dullminded | adj | Dim-witted, stupid, unintelligent. |
| Dullness | n | The quality of being dull. 2. the quality of being uninteresting. 3. lack of visual brilliance. 4. (fig.)bluntness, without edge or edginess. 5. irksome, very uninteresting character. 6. doomness of mind or spirit; now, esp. as any lack of intent. 7. want of sensibilty for acuteness (of senses); want of sharpness, cleverness, brightness, directness or intensity. 8. of physical quality: bluntness, dimness. |
| Dull-sighted | adj | Having poor vision. |
| Dullsome | adj | Dull, slow and dull, lacking mentally alertness. |
| Dull-witted | adj | Having a dull, blunt wit or mind. 2. slow-minded; stupid. |
| Dull-wittedness | n | The state or quality og having a dull, blunt wit. 2. slow-wittedness. 3. mentally lacking alertness and awreness. 4. slow-witted, slowness, dullness, stupidity. |
| Dully | adj | In a dull manner; without liveliness, without lustre. |
| Dully | n | A dull or stupid person. |
| Dully | adv | Without quickness of understanding; stupidity. 2. without eergy or activity, sluggishly, drowsing, inertly. 3. gloomy, sadly, with ennui, irksomely, without interest or enlivenment. 4. in reference to the body senses or as too the physical qualities, bluntly, indistinctly, obscurely, dimly, not keenly, clearly, or brightly. |
| Dumb | adj | OE: dumb, silent, speechless, mute, unable to speak. In modern usage: stupid, rather than lacking the power of speech. 2. unable to speak; lacking the power of speech. 3,. silent; without words, dumbstruck, mute, speechless, wordless. 4. of a person (pejoratively) extremely stupid, foolish, without intellectual content or value. 5. feeble-minded, idiotic, stultish, doltish, stupid, moronic. 6. lacking brightness or clearness of colour. 7. banal, brainless, silly. |
| Dumb | phr | "Dumb Down" - to make simpler, even somewhat condescendingly to the point of oversimplification. |
| Dumb-born | adj | Born without the power to speak. 2. born lacking intelligence or nous. |
| Dumb-chill | n | Fever. |
| Dumb dog | n | One who remains silent when he/she should protest. |
| Dumb-down | n | The action of making simpler, often condescendingly. |
| Dumb-downed | adj | Made condescendingly simple: simple even for a dummy. |
| Dumb-friend | n | Applied to domestic animals. |
| Dumbhead | n | Blockhead, stult, fool, idiot. |
| Dumb-headed | adj | Silly, stupid, awkward, stultish, indolent. |
| Dumbing-down | n | The making of something simpler or easier to understand, even somewhat condescendingly to the point of oversimplification |
| Dumbish | adj | Somewhat silent or mute. 2. rather stupid or unintelligent. |
| Dumbishly | adv | In a manner somewhat silent or mute. 2. in a rather stupid or unintelligent way. |
| Dumbly | adv | In a dumb, somewhat silent manner; speechlessly mutely or silently. |
| Dumbness | n | Quality or condition of being dumb, silent or mute. 2. dim-witted, not communicating or having an inability to speak. 3. muteness, silence, abstention from speech; speechlessness. 4. show or gesture without words. |
| Dumbnut | n | A stupid person, an idiot, fool. |
| Dumb ox | n | Stupid, uncommunicative person. |
| Dumbshow | n | A performance during which the players do not speak. 2. significant gestures in mime, used when words are inappropriate. |
| Dumbstruck | adj | So shocked as being unable to speak. |
| Dumb-struckness | n | The state or condition of being so shocked as being unable to speak. |
| Dumminess | n | Quality of being a dummy; fool, stult. |
| Dummy | n | A silent or dumb person. 2. a person who does not talk or has nothing to say or takes no active part in affairs. 3. a puppet, doll or figure of a ventrilogist. 4. something constructed to the size and form of a human, to be used in the place of a person. 5. a deliberate non-functioning device with a tool used in place of a function. 6. a plastic or rubber teat used to comfort a baby. 7. a bodily gesture meant to fool an opponent in sport; a feint. 8. a word used to make a sentence or word construction grammatical, such as the pronoun 'it.' 9. a dolt, stult, blockhead, idiot. 10. a punishment cell in a prison. |
| Dummy | phr | "Dummy Up" - to make a mock-up or prototype version of something, with limited functionally. |
| Dummy-bidder | n | A fake bidder used at auction at an auction whose primary purpose is to get potential buyers to bid more or higher for a the property being auctioned. |
| Dummy run | n | A trial or test before the real attempt; a practice run. |
| Dummy spit | n | The act of overreacting childishly to a situation in an angry or frustated manner. |
| Dun | n | A dull or dingy brown colour. |
| Dun | vb | To make dun, dusky or dingy. 2. to darken or dull the colour of. |
| Dun | adj | Of a dull or dingy brown colour, now esp. dull greyish brown, like the hair of the ass and mouse. |
| Dune | n | A mound, ridge or hill of drifted sand on a sea-coast, but used more widely of any mound of drifted sand; also a similar ridge of clay formed by the action of the wind. (dun, down). |
| Dung | n | Fecal matter or excrement of animals; droppings, dung, muck. 2. transfig. & fig. applied to that which is morally filthly or defiling or to matter that is vile, contemptible, coath. |
| Dung | vb | To fertilize with dung; to manure or dress land with dung. 2. to defecate, eject excrement used of animals, and also animals. 3. to excrete or excrementate. |
| Dung-bird | n | The hoopoe. |
| Dung-eating | adj | Stercpphagous, such as the dung-beetle. |
| Dunged | adj | Covered or mixed with dung. |
| Dung heap | n | A mound or heap of animal excrement used as manure on fields and pasture. 2. a dunghill, dung-mixen, heap of dung or refuse. 3. fig. and transfig. a heap or repository of filth or rubbish; often applied in deprecatory manner to the earth, and to the human body. also applied to a type of the lowest or most degraded state. 4. applied opprobriously to a person of evil life, or of base life or station. |
| Dunghill | n | See dung heap. 2. any mold of dung; fig. any mean condition; a vile abode. |
| Dunghilly | adj | Like or character of dunghill, vile, ignoble. |
| Dungish | adj | Off the nature of dung; vile, foul, and filthly as dung. |
| Dung-like | n | Resembling or characteristic of dung, dungy. 2. fpul or filthly as dung, vile, defiling. |
| Dungy | adj | Resembling, abounding or characteristic of dung; dung-like. |
| Dungyard | n | A yard or enclosure where dung is kept. |
| Dunned | adj | Of a dark or dusky colour. |
| Dunnish | adj | Somewhat dunny or dusky; inclining to a dun colour. |
| Dunny | adj | The quality of being dun, duskiness, dunginess. 2. somewhat dun or dusky brown in colour. |
| Dunstone | n | Stone of a dun or dun-brown colour; applied locally to different sedimentary rocks, as magnesian limestone, ironstore, sandstone and sometimes igneous rocks, such a sdolerite. |
| Dunt | n | OE dynt: dint, stroke, firm blow, bruise, thud, noise, a dull sounding blow. 2. a wound produced by such a blow. 3. a beat or palpitation of the heart. |
| Dunt | vb | To strike, give to a blow to, knock with a dull sound. 2. to beat violently. |
| Dunted | adj | Struck, knocked, thuddy. |
| Dusk | n | The darkened stage of twilght before it is quite dark at night, or when darkness begins to give way in the morning. 2. the quality of being dusk, that is dusk, duskness, shade, gloom (as a forst. 3. Candle-light, The Dim, darkfall, downset, eventide, evenfall, The Gloam, twilight, nightfall, sundown, sun-sitting, sunsetting, owldust, the Shutting-in, The Shank of The Evening, dusktime, dusklight. |
| Dusk | adj | Dark from absence of light. 2. dim, to be or made dusky; dusky or dim, gloomy, cloudy, sully, shadowy, dark-coloured, blackish, dusky (usu. in reference to twilight.) 3. to exhibit a dusky appearance. 4. obscure, veiled from sight, dusky of the eyes, or understanding. |
| Dusken | vb | To make dusty or obscure; growing dark. |
| Duskened | adj | obscured, darkened, dustied. |
| Duskily | adv | In a dusky, dim or obscure manner; dimly. |
| Duskiness | n | The quality of being dusky, or obscure or darkened. 2. the time when it is near dusk. |
| Duskish | adj | Somewhat duskish, obscured or darkened. 2. dusky, blackish, partly obscure, somewhat dusky. |
| Duskishily | adv | In a duskish manner; duskily, obscurily. |
| Duskishness | n | Quality of being duskish or slightly dark; slight obscurity or dimness. |
| Dusklight | n | The light of dusk, 'we saw Melbourne all stretched out ... spewing out choking smoke and early dusklight'. |
| Duskly | adj | Somewhat black or dark in colour; dark-coloured, darkish. 2. somewhat dark or deficient of light; not bright or luminous, dim, obscure. 3. melancholy, gloomy, little sad. |
| Duskness | n | Duskiness, the quality of being dusky, dark, partial darkness or blackness, dimness, or obscure. 2. obscureness, gloom. |
| Dusktime | n | The time of dusk, twilght, duskstund, dusk-tide, eventide, evenfall, nightfall, sundown. 2. the time when it is near dusk. |
| Dusky | adj | Dimly lit, as at dusk or evening. 2. partially dark or obscure, not luminous. 3. sunsettish, shadowy, twilighty, darkish, lighted by or as if in twilight. 3. of a person: dark-skinned, swarthy, ashen, greyish skin hue. 4. a shade of colour that is darkish. 5. tending to blackness in colour, partially black, dark coloured, not bright, dusky brown. 6. intellectually clouded. |
| Dusky | vb | To make or render dusky. |
| Duskyish | adj | Somewhat dry. |
| Dust | n | Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; 2. that which is crumbled to minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust. 3. a single particle of earth or other matter. 4. the earth, as the resting place of the dead. 5. the earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body, the earthly frame of man. 6. condition of death, being dead and buried, 'laid in the dust' or 'dust to dust, ashes to ashes'. 7. in phrases denoting condition of humilation, as 'one licking the dust'. 8. (fig.) a worthless thing or that type which is worthless, 'thus while they search for gold and silver, they search for dust and sand'. 9. (fig.) a low or mean condition. 10. gold dust; hence: (slang) coined money; cash.; gold dust, fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in placer mining; often used as money, being transferred by weight. 11. disturbance, uproar, row, shindig, as to raise dust. |
| Dust | vb | To free from dust; to brush, wipe, rub or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor. 2. to sprinkle or strew with dust or powder. 3. to reduce to a fine powder; or small particles like dust, to crumble to dust. 4. to be dusty, rise as dust. 4. to dust the eyes of. 5. to soil with dust. 7. to beat, thrash, strike, hit. 8. to out-ride someone; to pas someone on the road ;(make them taste your dust). 9. to ride or go quickly, hurry, make off. 8. to drink quickly: to wash away the dust from your throat. 10. to bring to ruin, defeat, kill, discard, get rid off; (fig & lit.) reduce to dust. |
| Dust | phr | "As Dry as Dust" - uninteresting, unsatisfactory, inconclusive, poor, as 'a dusty answer.' |
| Dust | phr | "As to Ashes, Dust to Dust" - a phrase from the English burial service, sometimes to denote total finality. |
| Dust | phr | "Bite the Dust" - to fall to the ground wounded, hurt or slain, to die, cease to exist. 2. confusion, disturbance, commotion, (as of a commotion in which dust is raised). |
| Dust | phr | "Down in Your Dust" - dead and buried. |
| Dust | phr | "Down With the Dust" - out with the money; dub up! |
| Dust | phr | "Dust and Ashes" - (allusion to the legend of the Dead Sea Fruit): used to indicate severe disappointment or disillusionment. 2. the decomposed state of somebody long dead. 3. previously pleasant which has become unpleasant. |
| Dust | phr | "Dust Down" - to make ready something for use that hasn't been used for some time. |
| Dust | phr | "Dust Off" - to revive something, such as a proposal or idea. |
| Dust | phr | "Dust Up" - to clean by dusting. 2. to attack or renounce - see: 'dust up' |
| Dust | phr | "Gather Dust" - not to be acted upon without being formally rejected. |
| Dust | phr | "In Dust and Ashes". - humbly expressing or expression of grief or repentance from the method of mourning in the Middle East. 2. generally, that the most widely romantic adventures and hopes all turned into dust and ashes |
| Dust | phr | "In the Dust" (of One's Good Name): humiliated. |
| Dust | phr | "Leave One in the Dust" - to surpass a competitor, opponent or one who is less ambitious, qualified - as in 'He is so meek that they leave him in the dust.' |
| Dust | phr | "Lick the Dust" - to be killed, to die. 2. to be humbled abjectly. |
| Dust | phr | "Like Gold Dust" - extremely rare. |
| Dust | phr | "Make the Dust Fly" - to do with vigor and speed. |
| Dust | phr | "Not See Someone For Dust" - unable to see somebody because he or she has left in hurry. |
| Dust | phr | "Not So Dusty" - quite good. |
| Dust | phr | "Raise Dust" - to make a disturbance. |
| Dust | phr | "Shake the Dust off One's Feet" - move away, emigrate. 2. to depart in anger or disdain. 3. leave decisively or in haste. esp. from an unpleasant situation. |
| Dust | phr | "The Dust Settles" - the upset, consternation, confusion, resentment etc aroused by something slowly lessens , subsides. |
| Dust | phr | "Throw Dust in One's Eyes" - to mislead; to deceive or dupe by making one 'blind' to the actual case or matter of the affair.. |
| Dust | phr | "We Are Nothing but Dust and Shadows - life is ephemeral and we leave little evidence of our existence. |
| Dust | phr | "Well It's Not So Dusty" - it's not so bad; in fact, it's good. |
| Dust | phr | "When the Dust Settles" - when the situation is calm. |
| Dust | vb | To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor. 2. to sprinkle with dust. 3. to reduce to a fine powder; or to levigate. |
| Dustbath | n | A place or area where it is extremely dusty. |
| Dustbin | n | A container or receptacle for dust, rubbish, refuse or garbage. |
| Dustbin-man | n | The men who collects one's dustbin from outside your house. |
| Dustborn | adj | Born of dust; 'as the dustborn body, turns to dust again'. |
| Dustbowl | n | A region or area that abounds in dust and is very dry. 2. a central region in the US during the 1930s. |
| Dustcart | n | A cart or vehicle collecting garbage and refuse. |
| Dust cloth | n | A cloth used for dusting; a duster. |
| Dust cloud | n | Thick mass of dust. |
| Dust devil | n | A small atmospheric vortex appearing in clear, dry conditions, made visible by swirling dust picked up from the ground. |
| Dust-dry | adj | Absolutely free of dust; dust-free. |
| Dusted | adj | Sprinkled with dust or powdered. 2. made clean or free from dust. |
| Duster | n | A cloth, used for dusting, a duster. 2. one who dusts. |
| Dustfall | n | Fine particles of dust deposited by the atmosphere. |
| Dust-free | adj | Absolutely free of dust; dust-dry. |
| Dust heap | n | Piles of dust, often gathering in heaps in corners of a house or buildings. |
| Dustily | adv | In a dusty manner or condition. |
| Dustiness | n | Dusty condition. |
| Dusting | n | The act or process of sprinkling powdered insecticides from a plane (a crop duster). 2. a beating, thrashing, also used by sailors to describe rough and stormy weather. 3. a light snowfall. 4. light covering of something. 5. the act of removing dust from, as a household chore. |
| Dustish | adj | Somewhat dusty. |
| Dust-laden | adj | Air laden with dust. |
| Dustless | adj | Free from dust. |
| Dust-licking | adj | Dust so thick that one struugles to keep it away from their lips and out of their mouth. 2. knocked to the ground in a fight. |
| Dustling | n | A small grain or particle. |
| Dustman | n | A garbage collector. 2. a personification of sleep or sleepness; in allusion to the rubbing of the eyes as if dust were in them; the sandman. 3. a preacher who uses hot-gospeling; is a hot gospeller; a barnstormer in the manner of Billy Sunday. |
| Dustmote | n | A mote of dust, a small speck of dust. |
| Dustmouse | n | A small clump of dust, fluff, hair, particles of hair, etc. that tend to gather indoors in places that are not regularly dusted, such as under heavy furniture. |
| Dust-off | n | The act of removing dust from something. 2. in military terms: a helicopter; whirlybird. |
| Dustpan | n | A flat scoop with a short handle into which dust, dirt and other material are brushed. |
| Dust sheet | n | A large sheet is used to cover furniture to protect it from dust. |
| Dust storm | n | A storm in which a gale-to-hurricane force winds blow dust particles into the earth's atmosphere. 2. a tempest in which large clouds of dust are raised and cover all things. 3. of colour: having the appearance of dust |
| Dust up | n | A scuffle or a quarrel, disturbance, fight. |
| Dustwards | adv | Towards the 'dust': death and the grave. |
| Dusty | adj | Full of, or abounding in dust; strewn with dust. 2. consisting of, or of the nature of, dust; powdery. 3. of colour: having the appearance of dust. 4. in various fig. senses: soiled, or stained with dust, smirched; mean worthless; obscured, as with a cloud of dust. |
| Dusty answer | n | 'The people met with what is among politicians known as 'a dusty answer', that is one inconclusive and as dry as dust'. |
| Dustyfoot | n. | Wayfarer, traveller, pedlar, hawker, chapman. 2. mortal man, the rambling dustyfoot earthly journey: 'death personified'. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Dwale | n. | Error, delusion, madness, foolishness, dwale. 2. heretic, transgressor, deciever. 3. a sleeping potion, esp. one made from belladonna. 4. belladonna itself, deadly nightshade or some other soporific plant. 5. a sable or black colour. |
| Dwale | vb | To make delirious. (dwual) |
| Dwalkenned | adj | Heretical |
| Dwarf | n | A person who is markedly small, and usually misshapen. 2. a person, typically a man who has magical powers who lives in a cave or deep in the woods; a leprechaun, elf. a plant or animal which is atypically small. |
| Dwarf | vb | To make appear small as a comparison. 2. to hinder or hold back the growth of. 3. to diminish in size. |
| Dwarf | adj | Tiny, nanoid, very small. |
| Dwarf | phr | "The Black Dwarf" - a gnome of the most malignant character, once held by farmers and sherperds along the border of England and Scotland as the bane of all misfortune that befell their flocks. |
| Dwarfdom | n | The realm or world od dwarfs. |
| Dwarfing | vb | To hinder from growing to the natural size. 2. to make or keep small; to stunt. |
| Dwarfish | adj | Atypically small, as a small tree or a small star. |
| Dwarfishly | adv | Like a dwarf, below the average size. |
| Dwarfishness | n | The smallness of statute. |
| Dwarfly | adv | In a manner small, diminishing, tiny. |
| Dwarfling | n | A very small person or dwarf. |
| Dwarfy | adj | Smallish, tiny, diminutive, dwafish. |
| Dwalm | n. | Stupefaction, giddiness, delusion, a faint or swoon, dwalm, healthfail, sick. |
| Dwell | n | To delay, linger. 2. to abide, remain, continue. 3. to live in as a permanent resident, or for a time. 4. to live in a place, reside. 5. lead into error, mislead, delude |
| Dwell | phr | "Dwell In" - to abide in, live, inhabit a place, hence, to depend on. |
| Dwell | phr | "Dwell On" - to continue long on or in; dwell upon. 2. to remain absorbed with; to stick to; to make much of a matter. 3. talk about at length. |
| Dweller | n | A person who inhabits a particular place. 2. an inhabitant, habitant, denizen, indweller, tenant. |
| Dwelling | n | Habitat, place in which a person lives, a house; abode. |
| Dwelling-house | n | A house intended to be occupied as a residence; distinct as other building, as a store, shop or other places of business, etc. |
| Dwell-time | n | The time or period one lives in a place, region, suburb etc. 2. a period of time in a given state, situation orplace. 3. a period of time that a system or element of a system remains in a given state. 4. the duty time soldiers have at their domestic home base between engagements overseas. 3. |
| Dwemercraft | n. | Jugglery, magic, illusionism, sorcery, dwemmercraft, dwimmercraft. |
| Dwere | adj, | Doubt, dread, dwere. |
| Dwild | n. | Error, heresy, dwilth, dwild |
| Dwimmer | n | Magic, magic arts, sorcery, a spell, occult art. |
| Dwimmercraft | n | The art of illusion, magic or sorcery. |
| Dwindle | n | The process of dwindling. 2. a dwindled object. |
| Dwindle | vb | OE: dwinan (to waste away.) 2. to decrease, shrink, diminish, reduce in size. 3. to fall away in quality, degenerate, sink. 3. to lessen, ring low. |
| Dwindler | n | One who waste money, time gradually and little by little. |
| Dwindling | n | The state or condition of becoming smaller and smaller. 2. shrinking, wasting away, declining. 3. degenerating. |
| Dwindly | adj | Declining, diminishing, lessening, reducing, wasting. |
| Dwine | vb. | To waste away or pine away, dwine, languish, fade, wither, wane. |
| Dwual | vb | To be delirious, (see:dwale) |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Dy | n | Dung, sediment |
| Dye | n | OE: color, hue, dye. 2. color produced by, or as by, dyeing, tinge, hue. 3. a material used for dyeing, especially color matter in solution. |
| Dye | vb | To tinge with a color or hue. 2. to fix a colour in the substance of. 3. to take a color (well or badly) in the process of dyeing. |
| Dye | phr | "Dyed in the Wool" - lasting, staunch in support. |
| Dye | phr | "Of the Deepest Dye" - extreme, fanatical in one's views, opinions. |
| Dyehouse | n | A building where a dyer carries on his work, especially of dye. |
| Dyeing | n | The process of impregnating with color. 2. the fixing of colors in solution in textiles, etc. |
| Dyeless | adj | Without a dye. |
| Dyelike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a dye. |
| Dyer | n | One who dyes, esp. one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation. |
| Dyeware | n | A substance which yields a dye. |
| Dyewood | n | Brazil wood. 2. any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing. |
| Dyer | n | One who dyes, esp. one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation. |
| Dying | adj | Connected with, or at the time of, death. |
| Dying | phr | "Dying Oath" - an oath made at, or with the solemnity proper to, death. |
| Dying | phr | "Dying Saying" - one's final words, as in the case of William Tyndale: "Lord, open the eyes of the King of England (Henry V111)." |
| Dying | phr | "To One's Dying Days" - the rest of one's life. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| E | n | The Letter "E" |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Ea | n | A river, stream, running water. |
| Each | phr | "A Bit Each Way" - a bet backing a horse etc either for a win or a place. |
| Each | adv | Every one considered as an individual or individually. |
| Each | phr | "Each and Every" - each without exception; used for emphasis. 2. each single individual (person or thing)in a group of people or things, without exception. 3. every last, single one. |
| Each | phr | "Each/Every Man for Himself and the Devil Take the Hindmost" - everybody does what they can to further their own interests. |
| Each | phr | "Each Other" to one another; one to the other. |
| Each | phr | "Each To His Own" - each person individually according to one's wishes and desires. |
| Each | phr | "Made for Each Other" - well matched romantically or maritally for each other. |
| Eachwhere | adv | In each part, on every side, everywhere. |
| Eade, Eadi | adj. | Rich , happy, prosperous, blessed. Also: |
| Eadily | adv | In a blessed, fortunate manner |
| Eadiness | n | Happiness, prosperity, blessedness. |
| Eadish | adj | Somewhat happy |
| Eadmede | n | Humility, genteelness, humbleness. |
| Eadness | n | Happiness. |
| Eafish | n. | A river fish, a fresh water fish. |
| Ealdorman | n | Alderman: a member of a municipal body in town or city. |
| Eam | n | An uncle. |
| Ean | n. | Of ewes. to bring forth lambs. |
| Eanling | n | A young lamb. |
| Eaning-mood | n | Time of lambing |
| Ear | n | Organ of hearing in men and animals. |
| Ear | n | A spike or head of corn. |
| Ear | n | The act of ploughing. (earland; eartime) |
| Ear | vb | To plough, till the soil, turn up or over the ground with a plough. |
| Ear | vb | Of corn: to produce ears, come into corn. |
| Ear | phr | "Bend Somebody's Ear" - talk boringly to someone. |
| Ear | phr | "Be Out On One's Ear" - have one's services abruptly terminated. |
| Ear | phr | "Be Over Head and Ears" - up to the ears, full of animation, as a horse. |
| Ear | phr | "Be Willing To Give One's Ear" - to be ready to make any sacrifice. |
| Ear | phr | "Blow Down Thine Ear" - condescend to listen. |
| Ear | phr | "Bow Down One's Ears" - to listen graciously. |
| Ear | phr | "Chew One's Ear" - to force one's conversation on an unwilling listener. |
| Ear | phr | "Come To One's Ears" - become or be made aware of. |
| Ear | phr | "Drag By One's Ear" - to force a person to reveal the full facts. |
| Ear | phr | "Eat, Drink Until It Comes Out of Your Ears" - eat and drink excessively. |
| Ear | phr | "Fall on Deaf Ears" - be deliberately ignored; fall on stony ground. |
| Ear | phr | "For One's Ears Only" - for one's knowledge or information. |
| Ear | phr | "Get the rong Sow By the Ear" - to reach the wrong conclusion. |
| Ear | phr | "Give Ear To" - to listen, take note of. |
| Ear | phr | "Go, Come, Fall Together By the Ears" - said f animals fighting; hence also of people. |
| Ear | phr | "Go In One Ear and Out the Other" - not listen or pay attention to waht others are saying. 2. give no heed or important to the sayings of others. |
| Ear | phr | "Hang One's Ears" - to be discouraged, cowed. |
| Ear | phr | "Have an Ear for" - an appreciation of music. |
| Ear | phr | "Have By the Ears" - to keep, to obtain a secure hold on. |
| Ear | phr | "Have Itching Ears" - to be eager to hear novelties. 2. be scandal mongering; hear new or current gossip. |
| Ear | phr | "Have One's Ear to the Ground" - the practice of gathering. 2. a state or mindset of being attentive. 3. having the characteristic of carefully gathering information; well-informed. |
| Ear | phr | "Have the Ear of" - have access to a higher source of information. 2. have one's full attention. |
| Ear | phr | "Hear Both Ears" - to be impartial. ("Not To Be Hear Both Ears" - partisan, prejudiced. |
| Ear | phr | "I'm All Ears" - to be eagerly attentive or listening. |
| Ear | phr | "Keep One's Ears Open" - be on the look out for useful information. |
| Ear | phr | "Lend an Ear to" - listen attentively. |
| Ear | phr | "Make/Have One's Ear's Burn" - be disconcerted by what one hears about oneself. 2. be aware that, think that, other people are or have been discussing one, one's 9good or bad0 character, etc. |
| Ear | phr | "Over Head and Ears" - wholly desperately; said of being in love, in debt, trouble etc. |
| Ear | phr | "Pin Back One's Ears" - listen carefully. |
| Ear | phr | "Play By Ear" - play a music instrument without using printed music sheet. |
| Ear | phr | "Play It by Ear" - see how the situation develops and react. |
| Ear | phr | "Pull (or Drag) by One's Ear(s)" - to keep in abject dependence. |
| Ear | phr | "Reach Somebody's Ears" - come to somebody's notice, attention. |
| Ear | phr | "Send Someone Away with a Flea in their Ear" - give a person frank but unwelcome facts. |
| Ear | phr | "Shake One's Ears" - to make the best of a bad bargain. |
| Ear | phr | "Throw Somebody Out on Their Ear" - forcibly eject someone. |
| Ear | phr | "Turn a Deaf ear to" - deliberately ignored. |
| Ear | phr | "Turn Something On its Ear" - reverse something. |
| Ear | phr | "Up to One's Ears In" - overwhelmed with/ submerged win. 2. be deeply involved in something. |
| Ear | phr | "Walls Have Ears" - there may be listener everywhere. |
| Ear | phr | "Wet Behind the Ears" - naive, inexperienced. |
| Ear | phr | "Willing to Give One's Ears" - be prepared to make a considerable sacrifice. |
| Ear | phr | "Within Earshot" - within hearing distance (relatively near). |
| Ear ache | n | A pain in the middle or inner ear. |
| Earbone | n | Any bone in the ear. |
| Ear-deafening | adj | Extremely loud, ear-splitting, ear-piercing. |
| Earded | adj | Having ears; earedness. |
| Ear-deep | adj | Reaching the ears only. |
| Earder | n | A native, citizen, countryman. |
| Ear drop | n | Medicine administered to the ear. |
| Eared | adj | Ploughed |
| Eared | adj | Furnished with or resembling ears. |
| Eared | adj | Of corn: that comes into ear. |
| Earer | n | A ploughman. |
| Earer | n | One who listens intently. |
| Ear-finger | n | The little finger, which, because of its convenient size, can be thrust into the ear when it itches, |
| Earful | adj | A reprimand, castigation, or telling off. 2. intimate gossip. |
| Earhole | n | The aperture or orifice of the ear. |
| Earing | n | The action of ploughing, tilling the soil; a ploughing. |
| Earing-land | n | Ear-land; land suitable for ploughing or tilling. |
| Earing-time | n | Ear-time: the time of ploughing and tilling. |
| Earish | adj | Auricular. |
| Earl | n | OE: brave man, warrior, leader, chief. 2. after 1066 becoming the equivalent of count. |
| Earldom | n | The rank and dignity of an earl. |
| Earleaf | n | The cotyledon |
| Earless | adj | Having no ears, destitute of hearing or of a musical ear. 2. of places: in which nothing could be heard. |
| Earlessness | n | The state or condition of being without an earl. |
| Earlet | n | Anything resembling a small ear. 2. an auricle of the heart. |
| Earliness | n | State or quality of being early. |
| Ear-like | adj | Characteristic or resembling an ear in some aspect. |
| Earliness | n | The condition of being early. |
| Earlishness | n | The distinctive quality of an earl, as noble like an earl. 2. the quality of being somewhat early. |
| Earlock | n | A lock of curly hair worn by the ear, often by Jewish men for religious reasons. 2. the curl of the hair near the ear. |
| Earlship | n | Manliness, bravery, nobility, lordship.(only in OE.) 2. the dignity or office of an earl. |
| Early | adj | At a time in advance of the usual. 2. arriving at a time before expected. 3. near the start or beginning. 4. illness: having began to occur. |
| Early | adv | At a time before expected; sooner than usual. 2. soon; in good time; seasonably. 3. prematurely |
| Early | phr | "At the Earliest" - not before a certain time or date. |
| Early | phr | "Bright and Early" - first thing in the morning. |
| Early | phr | "Early Bird Gets the Worm" - whoever arrives first has the best chance of success. 2. opportunity is often only available to the first competitors. |
| Early | phr | "Early Days Yet" - it rather too soon to come to the conclusions about, or past the judgements on, or a situation that still has to develop. |
| Early | phr | "Early in the Day" - too soon to be sure. |
| Early | phr | "Early On" - early in the process. 2. at an early stage. 3. soon after the start of an event, proceeding, situations. |
| Early | phr | "Early to Bed, Early to Rise, Makes a Man Healthy, Wealthy and Wise" - said to emphasize that someone who gets enough sleep and starts work early in the day will a successful life. |
| Early | phr | "Go to an Early Grave" - die young, untimely, or prematurely. |
| Early | phr | "Have an Early Night" - an occasion on which a person goes to bed early. |
| Early | phr | "The Early Days" - a time too soon to make a decision or come to a conclusion. 2. an initial period of an innovation. 3. initial stages of a project. |
| Early bird | n | One who usually arrives first. |
| Early childhood | n | A stage in human development, generally from toddlerhood and some time afterward. |
| Early days | n | A time too soon to make a decision or come to a conclusion. 2. an initial period of an innovation. 3. initial stages of a project. |
| Early doors | n | Early; near the start or beginning. |
| Early doors | adv | Early; before a time expected. 2. sooner than usual. |
| Early English | n | The English language between !250AD and 1500AD. |
| Earlyhood | n | The state or condition of being idle. 2. the habit of being idle.3. earliness. |
| Early innings | n | Early stages of any project or extended event. |
| Earlyish | adj | somewhat or rather early. |
| Early riser | n | Someone who rises (or gets out of bed) early. |
| Early warning | adj | An advance warning of a problem or of an imminent attack. |
| Earman | n | A cultivator, tiller, farmer. |
| Earmark | n | A mark of identification on the ear of an animal to indicate ownership. 2. a distinguishing mark. 3. in politics, the designation of specific projects in appropriateness of funding for general programs. |
| Earmark | vb | To mark a person by cutting his ear when he was in the pillory. 2. to mark an identification on the ear of an animal to indicate ownership. 3. to mark with a distinguishing mark. 4. in politics, to designate specific projects according to appropriateness for funding. |
| Ear-minded | adj | Having a marked preference forr auditory images in the various mental processes. |
| Earmould | n | The part of a hearing aid that direct sound to where it is meant to go in the ear. |
| Earn | n. | An OE word found mostly in compounds, asBarn (barley earn),sleepern,hordern &saltern. 2. dwelling, place, hut. |
| Earn | vb | To curdle milk. |
| Earn | vb | Purchased by equivalent in labour, esp. in phrase 'well-earned'; 'hardly earned'. |
| Earn | vb | To curdle (milk), esp. for making it into cheese. |
| Earn | vb | (variant of 'yearn') - to desire strongly, to long for. 2. to be affected with poignant grief or compassion. 3. to tremble. 4. of hounds, to utter a prolonged cry |
| Earn | phr | "Earn One's Keep" - to perform physical labor or to provide other services in return for payment, lodging or other benefits. 2. to support oneself financially. |
| Earn | phr | "Earn One's Living" - to work for a wage or salary , in order to obtain the food, services, etc necessary to maintain oneself. |
| Earned income | n | Income derived from wages etc. |
| Earner | n | One who or that which earns. |
| Earnest | n | Ardor in battle. 2. intense passion or desire. 3. seriousness, serious intention, as opposed to jest or play. |
| Earnest | adj | Usually of a person: serious (as opposed to trifling); gravely, impassioned, conviction of action. 2. of feelings: conviction, sincerely zealous. 3. intense, ardent, intensity of feeling in words. |
| Earnest | adv | In a serious, ardent, intense manner or way. |
| Earnest | vb | To use in earnest, to render earnest. |
| Earnest | phr | "Be Deadly Earnest" - be very serious. |
| Earnestful | adj | Important. |
| Earnestfully | adv | Importantly. |
| Earnestly | adv | OE: in truth, in reality; in an earnest manner, being very sincere; putting forth genuine effort. |
| Earnestness | n | State or quality of being earnest. |
| Earnful | adj | (Yearnful); anxious, full of longing, desire, sorrowful. |
| Earning | n | The action of giving labour or an equivalent; of acquiring money by labour. 2. income produced by invested capital. 3. the fact of deserving merit, gain, profit. |
| Earning | n | A longing desire, poignant grief or compassion. 2. the prolonged crying of a hound or deer. 3. the curdling of milk for cheese. |
| Earnings | n | wages, moneys earned, income, gains, returns. |
| Earnout | n | In business, a formula by which company management earns a share of the company share capital by achieving results above the determined level. |
| Ear-reach | n | Ear-shot; within an audible distance. |
| Ear-ring | n | A piece of jewelry worn on the ears. |
| Ear-say | n | Hearsay |
| Earsh | n | A ploughed field; a field of stubble. |
| Ear shell | n | An ear-shaped shell. |
| Ear-shot | n | The distance at which the voice can be heard. |
| Ear-shrift | n | Auricular condemnation. |
| Ear-sore | adj | Something painful or disagreeable to the ear. |
| Earth | n | The water, air and earthen planet of the solar system that we inhabit. |
| Earth | n | The action of ploughing; a ploughing. |
| Earth | vb. | To plough, bury, commit corpse to the grave. 2. to plunge or hide in the earth; cover with earth. 3. to heap the earth over. 4. of a fox to hide in the earth. 5. to drive a fox to his earth, lair. |
| Earth | phr | "Born On the Earth" - earthly or mortal race, as opposed to angelic or divine. 2. of things produced by the earth; as rising from the earth. |
| Earth | phr | "Bring Down To the Earth" - to bring a person to their place of burial. 2. make somebody face up to reality. |
| Earth | phr | "Come Back/Down to Earth" - face or return reality. |
| Earth | phr | "Earth Up" - to cover the stalk of plants with soil in order to encourage root growth or to protect it from the cold. |
| Earth | phr | "Ends of the Earth" - remotest part of the earth. |
| Earth | phr | "Gone to Earth" -go into hiding. |
| Earth | phr | "Have Not An Earthly" - have no chance whatsoever. |
| Earth | phr | "How On Earth" - however. |
| Earth | phr | "Like Heaven on Earth" - idyllic, perfect. |
| Earth | phr | "Like Nothing on Earth" -incomparably, indescribably bad. |
| Earth | phr | "No Earthly Good" - useless. |
| Earth | phr | "On Earth" - existing anywhere (looking like nothing on earth). |
| Earth | phr | "Run to Earth" - find somebody/something that is hidden or hard to find. |
| Earth | phr | "Salt of the Earth" someone who is very god, worthy.. |
| Earth | phr | "What On Earth" - exclamatory question of surprisee. |
| Earth-apple | n | Cucumber. 2. potato. |
| Earth bed | n | The grave, tomb, dark inn. 2. a bed upon the ground. |
| Earth-bedded | adj | Found deep in the earth. |
| Earth-born | adj | Lowly, base, human, earthly, flawed, as opposed to divine and spiritual. 2. born by emerging for the earth- applied to the Titans and their off-spring. 3. born on the earth, of the earthly, mundane or mortal race, as opposed to angelic or divine. 4. as things produce by the earth or arising from the earth. |
| Earth-bred | adj | 'The earth-bred thoughts of his gross soul' - lowly, base, secular, mundane, venial as opposed to the angelic or divine. |
| Earth-chine | n | Cleft, split in the surface of the earth. |
| Earth-creeping | adj | Lowly, base as 'earth-creeping mind that cannot be lifted up'. |
| Earth Day | n | Global day of yearly observance of the need to protect the Earth; first held on April 22, 1970. |
| Earth-delving | n | Burrowing, mining, excavation. |
| Earthdin | n. | Earthquake |
| Earth-dog | n | A terrier. |
| Earth-drake | n | A mythical monster of Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. |
| Earth-eater | n | One or that which eats earth. |
| Earth-eating | n | Made out of earth or baked clay, sais disparagingly of the human body, or of the world; characteristic of the earth; merely material. |
| Earthed | adj | Grounded; connected electrically to the ground. |
| Earthen | adj | Made of earth or mud. 2. made of baked clay, especially pottery. |
| Earthen | vb | To bring to earth or the ground. |
| Earthenware | n | An opaque, semi-porous ceramic item made from clay. |
| Earther | n | Of a person from planet Earth. 2. earthling. |
| Earthfall | n | A landslide; avalanche. |
| Earthfast | adj | Fixed to the ground; earth-rooted. |
| Earth-flax | n | Asbestos, thrumstone, clothstone. |
| Earth-floor | n | An earthen floor in a building, which is simply the ground itself, rather than some other coverings such as wood or vinyl. |
| Earth-hearted | adj | Materialistic, earthly, as opposed to spiritual. |
| Earth-hog | n | The aadvark; earth-wolf. |
| Earth holders | n | Inhabitant of the Earth. |
| Earthhole | n | A cavern in the ground or earth; a cave. |
| Earthhood | n | Having an earthly quality: mundaneity, earthliness, earthiness.. |
| Earthhouse | n | A dwelling that been built to blend in with the surrounding landscape being mostly underground with a grass-covered, contoured roof; or it can be completely underground with a topping of intensive growth. |
| Earthiness | n | Quality of being earthly, earthy matter. |
| Earthily | adv | In an earthly manner. |
| Earthiness | n | The state of being earthy. 2. grossness, coarseness. |
| Earthing | n | State of being buried; burial, interment. 2. anchorage. 4. action of taking refuge or burrow; driving an animal to earth. |
| Earthing | phr | "Earthing Up" - the piling or heaping up of soil around the roots of a plants. |
| Earthish | adj | Earthy. 2. somewhat mundane. |
| Earthland | n | Arable land. |
| Earthless | adj | Unencumbered by earth (by the body). |
| Earth-light | n | The partial illumination of the dark portion of the moon's surface by light reflected from the earth; earth-shine. |
| Earthlike | adj | Of the planet, resembling the Earth. |
| Earthliness | n | The quality of being earthly. |
| Earthling | n. | Farmer. 2. a human being. 3. an inhabitant of earth, esp. as regarded in science fiction by aliens. |
| Earthly | n | (Slang)- a slightest chance of success, or idea about something. |
| Earthly | adj | Relating to the earth or this world, as opposed to heaven; terrestrial. 2. used to emphasize a statement, as in 'no earthly hope'. 3. made of earth, earthy. |
| Earthly | adv | In an earthly manner. |
| Earth-mad | n | An earthworm. |
| Earthman | n | A male inhabitant of the Earth. |
| Earthly-minded | adj | Having the affections fixed on the earth; hardly-minded. 2. mundane, secular. |
| Earthly-mindness | n | Wise in earthly matters. |
| Earth mother | n | The Great Goddess of the Earth and fertility. |
| Earthnut | n | Any of the various roots, tuber or pods that grow underground. 2. peanut, goober. |
| Earthpig | n | The aadvark. |
| Earthquake | n | The shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity around faulty geology or motion; earth-din. 2. such a quake specifically occurring on the the Earth. |
| Earth-quaking | n | The occurrence of earth-quakes. |
| Earthric | n | Earthrike, earth realm, earth as a region; earthdom. |
| Earth-rind | n | Earth crust. |
| Earthrise | n | The time of day when the earth starts to appear or rise or the horizon of another planet. 2. irregular event of the earth appearing above the horizon of the moon. Apollo 8's crew were the first to witness an Earthrise, on December 24, 1968. A photograph of the Earthrise was taken by Lunar Module Pilot William Anders. |
| Earthshaking | n | Earth tremor; earthshock. |
| Earth-shakingly | adv | In an earth-shaking manner. |
| Earth-shine | adj | The light of the Earth. 2. the glow caused by sunlight reflected on the earth, especially on the darker portion of a crescent moon. |
| Earthship | n | A solar-heated house made of natural and recycled materials. |
| Earthside | adj | On the planet Earth. |
| Earthside | adv | When on the planet Earth. |
| Earth-spider | n | Taruntula. |
| Earth-star | n | Earth, considered as a star. |
| Earth-throe | n | Earth tremor |
| Earth-tiller | n | A cultivator of the soil, farmer, a sholto. |
| Earth-tilling | n | Cultivation, farming, agriculture. |
| Earth-tilth | n | Cultivation of the soil, farming. |
| Earthward(s) | adv | Towards the earth. |
| Earthware | n | Earthdwellers, earthlings collectively. |
| Earth-wave | n | A seismic wave in the solid crust of the earth. |
| Earth-wax | n | Ozocerite. |
| Earth-wide | adj | World-wide, universal, global. |
| Earth-wolf | n | Aardvark. |
| Earthwoman | n | A female inhabitant of the earth. |
| Earth-worker | n | Husbandman. |
| Earth-works | n | Any structure made from earth, esp. an embankment or rampart used as a fortification. |
| Earthworm | n | A worm that lives in the ground.2. a worm of the lumbricidae family 3. a contemptible person. 4. death. |
| Earthy | adj | Resembling dirt or soil. 2. down-to-earth, practical, realistic, worldly. 3. like or resembling the earth or of the earth. 4. covered with earth or mud. |
| Earware | n | A personal acoustical equipment, such as headphones. 2. earrings, earwear. |
| Ear wax | n | A waxy substance secreted by the ear; cerumen. |
| Ear-wear | n | Items, ornaments worn on the ears. |
| Earwig | n | OE. 'wig' - insect, bug, beetle, as the earwig.. |
| Earwig | vb | To pester with private importunities or admonition. 2. to influence, bias (a person by secret communication). 3. to insinuate oneself into the confidence of another. |
| Earwig-brain | n | One having a maggot or 'craze' in his brain. |
| Earwise | adj | After the manner of an ear of corn. 2. by the ear of corn; auricularly. |
| Earwitness | n | A person who testifies, or is able to testify, to something on the evidence of his own hearing.. |
| Earwort | n. | Dysophilia auricularis, a plant supposed to cure deafness |
| Eary | adj | Of the nature or appearance of an ear. |
| Easle | n. | Hot ashes, cinders |
| Eassin | n | A cow on heat. |
| Eassin | vb. | To desire strongly |
| East | n | One of the four principal parts of the compass. 2. the direction of the rising sun a t equinox. |
| East | vb | To move towards or veer to the east. 2. to orientate; to find out one's true position. |
| East | adj | Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastwards. 2. of or pertaining to the east; eastern. 3. from the east, oriental. |
| East | adv | Towards the east; eastwards. |
| East | phr | "East is East and West is West and Never the Twain shall Meet" - there are, there may be thought to be, great differences in people or things, (races, cultures, beliefs etc) and which are fundamental and not likely to make relationships between smooth and easy. |
| East | phr | "East, (or) West, Home's Best" - one's home, town, city, city is where one is likely to be happiest. |
| East | phr | "To the East" - in an easterly direction. |
| East-by-northeast | adv | the compass towards the north-east and east. |
| East-End | n | The part or end of London east of the City as far the River Lea. |
| East-Ender | n | One who lives in the East End of London. |
| Easter | n | A Christian feast commemorating the resurrection of Jesus, celebrated between 22 March and 25 April. 2. easter-tide. 3. the Jewish Passover. 4. a pagan festival held in honor of the goddess, Eostre. |
| Easter day | n | Easter Sunday; Easter-tide. |
| Easter egg | n | An artificial, usually chocolate egg given at Easter time, usually to children. |
| Easterliness | n | The state of being easterly. |
| Easterly | n | A persistent wind blowing from the east. |
| Easterly | adj | Facing the east. 2. directed from the east. 3. located towards the east. 4. coming from the east. |
| Easterly | n | In any eastward direction or position. 2. towards the east. 3. from the east. |
| Eastern | adj | Of or in the east. 2. inhabiting the east. 2. lying or directed towards the east. |
| Easterner | n | A native or inhabitant of the east. |
| Easterness | n | Relating to or pertaining to things Easter in state or nature. |
| Easternmost | adv | Most easterly in direction. |
| East side | adv | The east side of a district or the city. |
| Easter Sunday | n | A Christian religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. |
| Eastertide | n | Easter time; the period including Easter. |
| Easter week | n | The week beginning on easter sunday. |
| Easting | n | The distance east of standard median. 2. distance traveled eastwards. |
| East-north-east | n | The direction or compass point midway between east and north-east. |
| East-south-east | n | The direction or compass point midway between east and south-east. |
| Eastward | n | The direction or area lying to the east. |
| Eastward | adj | Situated or directed towards the east. |
| Eastward | adv | Towards the east. |
| Eastwardly | adj | Towards the east. 2. blowing from the east. |
| Eastwardly | adv | In or from an easterly direction. |
| East-West | adj | Of or relating to the countries of the East and the West (east-West friendship). |
| Easy | adj | From Middle English eesy, esy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“not difficult, easy”), from Old English ēaþe, īeþe (“easy, smooth, not difficult” 2. comfortable; at ease. 3. requiring little skill or effort. 4. causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labor. 5. free from constraint, smooth, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth. 6. (pejorative, of a person) readily to sex; consenting. 7. not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant. 8. (finance, dated) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight constraints. |
| Easy | adv | In a relaxed or casual manner. 2. in a manner without strictness or harshness. 3. not difficult, not hard. |
| Easy | n | Something that is easy. |
| Easy | phr | "Breathe Easy" - following some crisis: relax, calm down. |
| Easy | phr | "Easier Said Than Done" - suggesting some course of action is very much easier than actually carry it out. |
| Easy | phr | "Easy Come, Easy Go" - what has been acquired too quickly or easily; or without effort or trouble. |
| Easy | phr | "Easy In One's Mind" - more relaxed and reasonably content about something, somebody or a situation. |
| Easy | phr | "Easy on the Eye" - quite pretty, good-looking; pleasant to look at. 2. causing little strain to one's eyes. |
| Easy | phr | "Go Easy on Somebody" - be lenient with somebody. |
| Easy | phr | "Go Easy With Something" - do not be overgenerous with. |
| Easy | phr | "I'm Easy" - I don't mind, I'm agreeable. |
| Easy | phr | "On Easy Street" financially secure, well off; affluent. |
| Easy | phr | "Take It Easy" - relax, slow down. |
| Easy-going | adj | Relaxed, under-demanding. |
| Easy-meat | n | Somebody who is easy to dupe. |
| Eat | n | An item of food. |
| Eat | vb | That which is eaten; food, eats, a meal; the action of eating. |
| Eat | phr | "Dog Eat Dog" - ruthless competition. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Away" - lit. and fig. to remove destroy by gradual erosion or corrosion; eat into. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Breathe and Sleep" - to devote one's time obsessively to eating. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Crow" - to recognize that one has been shown to be mistaken or outdone, esp. by admitting that one has made a humiliating mistake. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Dirt" -tolerate, humiliation, insult. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Drink, and Be Merry for Tomorrow You Die" - enjoy yourself while you can as life is capricious. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat, Drink Until It Comes Out of Your Ears" - eat and drink excessively. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Earth" - a colonial expansion to possess the land of others; earth-hunger. 2. the desire to possess land, greed of territory. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat In" - to take into one's mouth; ingest. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Into" - consume, use unwillingly, bite away into acid. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Iron" - to be stabbed; to eat sword. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Like a Bird" - eat in small amount |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Like a Horse" - eat large amounts of, or lots of food. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Like a Pig" - eat grredily and nosily. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat My Dust" - to be outrun (eat the dust of your conqueror. 2. to be on the receiving end. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Oneself Sick" - eat too much that one feel bilious. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat One's Fill" - eat till satiated. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat One's Hat If" - express disbelief in a proposition. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat One's Head Off" - to eat greedily or excessively. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat One's Heart Out" - grieve bitterly, grieve, pine. 2. feel sad or jealous. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat One's Words" - to retract in a humiliating manner. 2. deeply regret what one said. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat One's Young" - betray a constituent or charge out of self-serving interests or desperation. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Out" - to exhaust a paddock by overgrazing. 2. to over consume. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Out Of Someone Hands" - an allusion to the manner in which a tame animal can be fed. 2. idiomatic, to behave in a docile submissive manner; often used to describe a man's submissiveness do a woman's romantic attraction. 3. eating out of someone's hand. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Salt with" - be guest of; accepted the hospitality of an other. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Somebody Alive for Breakfast" - be able to dominate, make maximum use of somebody and then discard them. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Someone Out Of House and Home" - to live at the expense of others, so as to cause hardship. 2. eat more than a host can afford or provide. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat the Good of the Land" - to eat will; have a good appetite. |
| Eat | phr | "Eat Up" - consume completely; eat without leaving any, devour speedily. 2. devastate, consume the food supply of a country. 3. to consume a person's resources for one's own benefit. 4. eat the food served; eat heartily. 5. of a nation: to absorb, annex rapaciously the territories of one's neigbours. 6. to absorb wastefully time, money. 7. to have a destructive effect on. |
| Eat | phr | "What's eating You" - you'll hardly said a word to me since arriving. 2. what are you bothered about. |
| Eaten | adj | Consumed; eaten as food; gnawed. 2. corroded, ulcerated. |
| Eater | n | One who eats, consumer, devourer; in combination: breadeater, flesh-eater. |
| Eath(e) | adj | Of an action easy, not difficult, requiring little effort. 2. of a passage that may be crossed with ease, not rough. 3. of an object, means, or method of an action: make light resistance, present few problems or difficulties. 3. of a person: easy to be entreated, ready, gentle, susceptible, comfortable, at ease, free of pain. 4. free from worry, concern, anxiety. 6. not hurried or forced. |
| Eathe | vb | To lighten, alleviate, assuage; make easy. |
| Eath | adv | Easily, without difficulty. |
| Eathbele | adj | Easy to amend; |
| Eathful | adj | Comfortable, at ease. |
| Eatheget | adj | Easy to obtain; eathgot. |
| Eathkent | vb | Easily known. |
| Eathluke | adj | Easy to pull. |
| Eathly | adv | Easy, not difficult, inconsiderable, slight, trifling, of short duration. 2. of person: low in station, mean in character. 3. of a thing: of small value. |
| Eathness | n. | Easiness. |
| Eathy | adj | Easy. |
| Eating | adj | Greedy, voracious; that consumes or eats away. 2. gnawing, corroding, fretting of chemicals; sores. |
| Eating-apple | n | An apple that can be eaten raw; rather softened by cooking or stewing. |
| Eating-house | n | Restaurant, bistro, cafe. |
| Eating-irons | n | Cutlery, esp. knives and folks |
| Eating-room | n | Dining room. |
| Eats | n | Colloq. food. |
| Eatworthy | adj | Worthy of, or worth being eaten. 2. suitable for consumption; edible. |
| Eaubreaker | n | Adulterer |
| Eaubruche | n | Adultery. |
| Eave | n | The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external wall of a building. |
| Eaves | n | Of a wood: edge, margin, border. 2. transfig, - anything that projects or hangs slightly (over), as the eaves of a house, a brows of a hill, edge of a precipice, the brim of a hat; and poetically the eyelids. |
| Eavesdrop | n | (Once simply meant 'eaves') - the dripping of water from the eaves of a house. 2. the space of ground which is liable to catch the rainwater thrown off the eaves of a building. |
| Eavesdrop | vb | To hear a conversatio one is not intended to hear. |
| Eavesdropper | n | One who eaves-drops. |
| Eavesdropping | n | The act of eaves-dropping. |
| Eaves-droppingly | adv | So as to eaves-drop. |
| Eavesing | n. | Trim, edge, border. 2. the action of trimming the edges of a thing. 3. clipping, polling, shearing. 3. a clipping of hair. 4. the eaves of a house or stack; formerly used for a roof; and, hence transfig. for a dwelling. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Ebb | n | The influx of the tide. 2. transfig. and fig. the flowing away, backwards or downwards; decline, decay; changing from a better position to a worse position. 3. appearance or condition of decline or depression. 4. the shallows. 5. the shallow side of a vessel. |
| Ebb | vb | To flow back or recede; to alternately ebb and flow. 2. to fall away or decline. 3. to cause to flow back. 4. to fish with stakes and nets to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb. |
| Ebb | phr | "At Ebb" - to be dry. |
| Ebb | phr | "Be at An Ebb" - at a low or lowest ebb; nadir. |
| Ebb | phr | "Ebb and Flow" - the flowing out and in of the tide. 2. fig. a large flowing in and out. 3. move backwards and forwards regularly and continuously as the tides of the sea do, sometimes decreasing and sometimes increasing in quantity. 4. constantly movement (of somebody or something) changing the quantity throughout a period of time. 5. the decrease and increase in intensity of conversation, noise, abstract ideas. |
| Ebb | phr | "Ebb Away" - flow back and recede slowly, fade. |
| Ebb | phr | "Ebb Down" - flow back and recede. |
| Ebb | phr | "Ebb Off" - flow back and recede. |
| Ebb | phr | "On the Ebb" - in decline. |
| Ebbed | adj | Of water, wells: shallow, ebb-tide, not deep; having a slight supply. |
| Ebbed | adj | That has flowed back. 2. that which has been left dry by the falling tide. |
| Ebberly | adv | Manifestingly, flagrantly. |
| Ebbiness | n | Shallowness |
| Ebbing | n | The action of something that ebbs and flows. 2. a gradual decline (in size or strength, power or number). |
| Ebbing | adj | That ebbs, recedes, or flows back. |
| Ebbish | adj | Very shallow. |
| Ebbishly | adv | Flowing in a very shallow way. |
| Ebbless | adj | Not liable to ebb, or to fall to a low point. 2. having no tendency to ebb or flow back. |
| Ebbness | n | Shallowness; state or condition of flowing back. |
| Ebbtide | n | The tide while water is flowing out. |
| Ebbtime | n | The tide while water is flowing out. |
| Ebby | adj | Having an ebb or receding direction. |
| Eber | adj | OE: aeblere. manifest, open, flagrant, unconcealed as in 'ebere morth' - see 'abere-murder'. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Eccle | n | Aim, intent (variant ofettle) |
| Eche | adj | Everlasting, eternal |
| Eche | vb | Eke, enlarge, increase, grow, add, augment. 2. to add something to, to grow, to increase one's stature. 3. to increase pace, be quickened. |
| Echelich | adj | Echely |
| Echeness | n | Eternity. |
| Eching | n | The action of increasing, enlarging, supplementing; an addition. |
| Eching | adj | That increase, speed that increases, quickened. |
| Eckle | n | Icicle. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Ed | adj | Distinguished in war, brave |
| Ed | pfx | An OE prefix meaning 'again', 'back', 'anew', equivalent to 're' as in eddish, eddy, edgrowth, 'edquicken'.. after, once more. 2. forming words with the sense of 'again', 'against', 'backwards', as 'ednew', 'edwit' (disgrace, reproach, shame). 3. turning as in 'eddy' (The turning 'ed' of water 'ea'. |
| Edbote | n | Restitution, amends, satisfaction. |
| Edcher | n | Blood vessel, vein, eddre |
| Edder | n | Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes in order to bind them together. |
| Edder | vb | To bind the top of a hedge stake; interweaving. |
| Eddish | adj | An after-growth of grass (or other plants) which grow after it has been mowed; also a field of such growth. |
| Eddre | n | Blood vessel, vein, eddre. |
| Eddy | n | OE: 'ed' (turning) & 'ea' (water) |
| Edge | n | The boundary line of a surface. 2. an advantage, upside. 3. the thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument. 4. that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply. 5. any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge. 6. the sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. 7. rim, border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part. |
| Edge | vb | To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. 2.to move slowly and carefully towards a particular direction. 3. to win by a small margin. 4.to trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger; to harrow. 5. to furnish with an edge; to build or construct an edging; to harrow. 6. to furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. 7. (figuratively) to make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. 8. to delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm. |
| Edge | phr | "Be a Two Edged Sword" - to involve both advantages and disadvantages of similar significance. |
| Edge | phr | "Be On a Knife's Edge" - to be in danger. |
| Edge | phr | "Dull the Edge Of" - to deprive something a sharp edge; dull, take the edge off. 2. to diminish the effects of (something unpleasant or severe). |
| Edge | phr | "Edge Away" - gradually move away. |
| Edge | phr | "Edge (Get) In a Word" - to cautiously and politely push into a conversation. |
| Edge | phr | "Edge One's Way Along" - move slowly and with great care across etc. |
| Edge | phr | "Edge Out" - gradualy get rid of somebody. |
| Edge | phr | "Edge Up" - to increase or crept up gradually to a target bit by bit. |
| Edge | phr | "Edge With" - put around the edge of. |
| Edge | phr | "Fall by the Edge of" - be slain in battle. 2. be cut from the sword. |
| Edge | phr | "Fiddle at the Edges" - to do some relatively minor things which do not deal with the substance of the problem. |
| Edge | phr | "Get By the Edges" - to obtain information indirectly or imperfectly. |
| Edge | phr | "Give Somebody the Rough Edge of the Tongue" - scold, reprimand somebody. |
| Edge | phr | "Have a Leading Edge" - to have an advantage. |
| Edge | phr | "Have the Edge On" - have an advantage over. |
| Edge | phr | "Live On Edge" - to have an adventurous or perilous lifestyle. 2. to behave in a manner which creates risks for oneself. 3. to be caught in a distressful economic or social situation which one did not choose and which may threaten one's being. |
| Edge | phr | "Not Get a Word in Edgeways" - be unable to interrupt somebody who is talking continuously. |
| Edge | phr | "On Edge" - be anxious or nervous. |
| Edge | phr | "On the Edge of One's Seat" - be very excited at what is currently happening. |
| Edge | phr | "Plow On Edge" - to plow the soil on edge (into ridges). |
| Edge | phr | "Take the Edge Off" - take less severe, stringent. |
| Edge | phr | "Thin Edge of the Edge" - insignificant start of a worsening situation. |
| Edge | phr | "With One's Teeth on Edge" - to induce a tingling or grating sensation in one's teeth as afrom acid or harsh noises. 2. to jar one's nerves or to feel aversion. |
| Edged | adj | Furnished with edges or cutting edge. 2. sharpened, trenchant. 3. having an edged or lateral border, boundary; only with a defining prefix, indicative of colour, number, as 'red-edged'. 4. having a border of ornamental edging. |
| Edgeful | adj | Having an abundance of edge(s); keen, cutting. |
| Edgeless | adj | That has no edge (lit. & fig.) |
| Edgelong | adj | Edgeling, edgeways, on the edge; with an edge. |
| Edgepath | n | A path comprising edges laid end to end. |
| Edge play | n | Any sexual activity involving the risk of physical harm, such as blood play or asphyxiation. |
| Edger | n | One who edges or puts an edge on something. |
| Edge tool | n | A hand-worked or machine-operated cutting tool. 2. any implement with with a sharp cutting edge. |
| Edgeware | n | In ceramics, pottery vessels with decorated rims. 2. computer software that is very much cutting-edge, significantly innovative, either by taking a new approach to a task or by creating a completely new class of application or a completely new class of software.. |
| Edgeways | adv | Of position: with the edge of the broad surface uppermost, foremost, or turned towards the spectator. 2. edge to edge. 3. of motion: with the edge foremost. 4. on the edge, instead of the broadside. |
| Edgeways | phr | "To Get a Word in Edgeways" - (or, edgewise) to break into or take part in a conversation. |
| Edginess | n | The condition of having the outlines too clearly marked. 2. angularity, hardiness of outlines. 3. the state of being edgy. |
| Edging | n | The setting on edge of the teeth. 2. the putting of an edge or border to anything. 3. trimming of the edge of a lawn. 4. that which forms an edge to anything; a border, surrounding of a flower bed. 5. fringe, etc. on a sewn on the edge of a garment; a hem. 6. the trimming on a seam. 7. the action of moving by insensible degrees; an edging movement. |
| Edging | adj | That moves by imperceptible degrees; hence, edgingly. |
| Edgingly | adv | While edging, with short, timid. |
| Edging shears | n | Shears for trimming the edges of a lawn. |
| Edgrew | n | The aftermath; the aftergrowth of grass. |
| Edgy | adj | Of a knife: having an edge; sharp, cutting. 2. of a painting: having the outlines too hard; sharply defined. 3. full of edge or keenness; eager. 4. nervy, anxious, irritable. 5. in entertainment, on the edge between acceptable and good taste, risque. |
| Edhalde | n | Withstand, keep back, edhold |
| Edith | n | OE: 'Ead' riches & 'gyth', 'guth' war, strife, battle. |
| Edlen | n | Reward |
| Edmede | n | Gentleness, humbleness, humility; edmood. |
| Edmod | adj | Edmede, humble, meek, gentle. |
| Edmodded | adj | Meek, humbled. |
| Edmodlock | n | Humility, gentleness. |
| Edmodly | adv | Humbly, meekly. |
| Edmodness | n | Gentleness, humility, meekness. |
| Edocke | n | OE: eadocke: a broad leaf, water plant, the Clote or yellow waterlily. |
| Edwin | n | OE: 'ead' riches & 'wine' friend. |
| Edwite | n | Edwit, reproach, rebuke, taunt, taunting speech. |
| Edwite | vb | To taunt, blame, reproach. 2. to make one the subject of reproaach. |
| Edwiting | n | The action of rebuking or reproaching; a rebuke, reproach. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Eel | n | Any fresh water or marine fish of the family, anguiline. |
| Eel | vb | To catch eels. 2. to move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel. |
| Eel-bed | n | A pond or preserve for eels. |
| Eeler | n | One who catches eels. |
| Eel-fare | n | Passage of young eels up a river. 2. a brood of young eels. |
| Eelhood | n | The rank and condition of a full-grown eel. |
| Eel-like | adj | Resembling an eel by having a long, serpentine body. |
| Eel pot | n | A form of basket for trapping eels. |
| Eel-pout | n | A small broad-headed fish of cool or cold seas, having an elongated body and the dorsal and anal fins continuous with the tail. |
| Eel-skin | n | Eel & Skin (Skin, from Late OE: from ON)- the skin of an eel. 2. a rag-and-bone man. |
| Eely | adj | Eel-like; resembling the flesh of an eel. 2. moving like an eel; slippery. 3. wriggling, writhing. |
| Eem | vb | To spare time. 2. to find an opportunity. |
| Eerily | adv | In an eerie manner, strangely, ominously, sinsterly. |
| Eeriness | n | The cndition of being erir |
| Eerisome | adj | Causing fear, eerie. |
| Eery | adj | OE: 'earg' (cowardly, fearful, strange, weird, fear inspiring) 2. fearful, timid. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Effrid | adj | Old English ǣðre; welling springing, running, streaming in torrents. |
| Eft | n | A small lizard. |
| Eft | adv | A second time, again |
| Eft | phr | "Eft and Eft" - again and again. 2. indicating sequence of transition in discourse. 3. again, moreover, likewise. 4. afterwards. 5. never, if ever. |
| Efter-chare | vb | Return,Char (fromcyrr OE: aturn) |
| Eftersoons | adv | Soon after, presently, again. |
| Eft-sithe | vb | To return. |
| Eft-sithe | adv | Another time, once more; often. |
| Eftsoons | adv | A second time, again. 2. indicating sequence or transition in discourse. 3. again, moreover, likeliness. 4. afterwards, soon, afterward. 5. forthwith, immediately. |
| Eftwhile | vb | To repay |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Egg* | n | Mid-14c., egge, mostly in northern England dialect, from Old Norse egg. This Norse-derived northern word vied in Middle English with native cognates eye, eai, eir, eyren (pl) from Old English æg, until finally displacing the others after c.1500. |
| Egg | phr | "Chicken and the Egg*" - two factors each of which results in the other. |
| Egg | phr | "Have Eggs on the Spit/Eyren" - be very busy. |
| Egg | phr | "Tread on Egg Shells*/Eye" - proceed with great caution. |
| Egghead | n | Somebody of superior intellectual. |
| Egg-monger | n | A dealer in eggs; an eirmonger. |
| Egg-shell | n | The calcareous outside covering of an egg. |
| Egg-timer | n | A device for timing the cooking of eggs. |
| Egg-white | n | The albumen of an egg as distinguished from the yolk. |
| Egleche | adj | Valiant, brave, fierce warrior. 2. a cruel person. |
| Egleche | adj | Misery, sharp conflict. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Eke | n | In OE: a reinforcemant of troops. 2. an additions, an increase, a piece added or a supplement. 3. a supplement, postscript, appendix to a formal document. |
| Eke | vb. | To add to, increase, lengthen, grow. |
| Eke | phr | "Eke Out" - to make a livelihood or support an existence by various makeshifts. 2. to prolong (a speech or composition )by expedients devised for that purpose. 3. to continue to fill up (a certain amount of space in writing) |
| Eke | phr | "Every Little Eke" - every little bit. |
| Eke | phr | "To Eken" - in addition, besides. |
| Eke-name | n | A nickname |
| Eking | n | The action of adding, making an increaqse, augmentation, increase. |
| Eking | adj | Of something made to last longer by using or consuming it frugally. 2. economized on, skimped on, be (more) economical with, make economies with, scrimped and scraped, saved; thrifty with, frugal with, sparing with, cut back on, budgeted, |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Eight | n | A numerical value equal to eight. |
| Eight | phr | "Have One Over Eight" - be slightly drunk. |
| Eighteen | n | The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and between eighteen. |
| Eighteen-fold | adj | By the factor of eighteen. 2. the start of the eighteen hour of the day. 3. the year 1800. |
| Eighteen-hundred | adj | The number eighteen-hundred. 2. the start of the eighteen hour of the day. 3. the year 1800. |
| Eighteen-hundreds | adj | The period from the year 1800 until 1899. |
| Eighteenish | adj | Of about eighteen years old. |
| Eighteenth | adj | The ordinal for the number eighteen. 2. person of thing in the eighteenth position. 3. one of the eigheteenth points of a whole. 4. a party to celebrate a eighteenth birthday. |
| Eighth | n | The cardinal form of the number eight. |
| Eightish | adj | Around about eight. |
| Eights | n | A set of this many (8) persons or things; as a crew of an eight-oared boat. |
| Eightscore | n | Eighty |
| Eightsome | n. | Eight person group; Octet. |
| Eighty | n | The cardinal number occurring after seventy-nine and before eighty-one. |
| Eiland | n. | Foreign land; also elland. |
| Eirmonger | n | A dealer of eggs. |
| Eisful | adj. | Fearful, terrible. |
| Eisfolk | n. | Frightening or terrifying person; a terrorist; an eisman |
| Eisle | vb | To frighten, terrify. |
| Eisleiche | adv | Eislike, eisly ; fearfully, timidly. |
| Either | adv | A determiner of two. 2. one of the other of two. 3. used before two or more not necessary exclusive possibilities separated by 'or' or sometimes by a comma. |
| Either | conj | Introduces the first of two option. |
| Either | prn | Both, each or two or more. 2. one or other of two persons or things. |
| Either-or | adj | Describing a situation in which there are only two choices. |
| Eitherway | adv | Regardless of what happens out of two possible situations). |
| Old English | sb | English |
| El | sfx | Denoting diminution |
| El | sfx | Word-ending found in hovel, brothel, kernel, often becomes 'le' in modern English. |
| Elbow | n | A joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped; elbow, articulatio cubiti. 2. the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow. 3. a length of pipe with a sharp bend in it. 4. the part of a sleeve that covers the elbow joint. 5. any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river, road; also, an angular or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent. |
| Elbow | vb | To push one's way with the elbows. 2. to shove one's elbow into another person's ribs. 3. to push or hit with the elbow, as when one pushes by another. 4. to push rudely along; to elbow one's way. 5. to jut into an angle; to project or to bend after the manner of an elbow. |
| Elbow | phr | "At One's Elbow" - close by, near, close in attendance. |
| Elbow | phr | "Bend One's Elbow" - to drink excessively, immoderately, hard; to lift the elbow. |
| Elbow | phr | "Be Out at One's Elbows" - to be ragged, in poor condition. 2. out at elbow, with coat worn through at the elbows; shabby; in needy circumstances. |
| Elbow | phr | "Elbow One's Way" - to force one's way by pushing with the elbows; as, to elbow one's way through a crowd. 2. force somebody out of a job in order to occupy the position yourself. |
| Elbow | phr | "From One's Elbow" - away from one's side. |
| Elbow | phr | "Shake the Elbow" - to play dice. |
| Elbow | phr | "Suck at the Elbow" - to be a parasite, sponger. |
| Elbow | phr | "Up to One's Elbows In" - lit. with one's hands plunged in. 2. fig. to be deeply involved in one's work, tasks, activity, to be excessively busy. |
| Elbow-board | n | Aboard at the bottom of a window on the inside. |
| Elbow-bone | n | The Ulna, the main forearm bone. 2. olecranon, at the elbow of the ulna. |
| Elbowed | adj | Having elbows; provided with elbow rests. 2. formed in the shape of an elbow, bent, curved |
| Elbowedness | n | The state or quality of having a particular elbow. |
| Elbower | n | One who elbows. |
| Elbowful | adj | As much as one can hold in the crook of the elbow. |
| Elbowing | n | The act of thrusting with the elbow. 2. a thrust with the elbow. 3. |
| Elbowless | adj | Without elbows. |
| Elbow-like | adj | Resembling an elbow. |
| Elbow room | n | Room or space in which to maneuver. 2. freedom or leeway. |
| Elbow-shaker | n | A gambler; knight of the elbow. 2. to live by one's wits. |
| Elchur | adv. | Elsewhere, otherwise, besides. |
| Eld | n | One's old age, age in years, period of life, epoch. 2. old age, senility, an old person. 3. (poetic) time, an age, epoch, era, a long period of time. 4. in former ages, antiquity, olden times. |
| Eld | vb | To age, become old, grow old; make old age, to elden. 2. to delay linger |
| Elded | adj. | Inveterate |
| Elden | vb | To age, grow older. |
| Elder | n | Widely distributed deciduous shrub which has masses of white clustered flowers and yields berries used for making elderberry or elder wine. |
| Elderberry | n | A shrub or tree of the genus 'Sambuca.' 2. a small, edible, purplish-back fruit of the plant used in cooking and to flavor drinks etc. 3. fruit of the elder: a drupe. |
| Eldercare | n | The care of the Elderly. |
| Elderdom | n | Authority; dominion. 2. re-eminence; superiority. 3. the authority, rule, or office of an elder. 4. the state of being an elder, or of being older; elder-hood; elderhood. 5. the role or influence of an elder or elders |
| Elderhood | n | The state or quality or condition of bein an elder. |
| Elderish | adj | Somewhat or rather old; elderly. |
| Elderliness | n | The quality or state of being elderly. |
| Elderly | adv | Old; having lived for relatively many years. 2. of an object, being old-fashioned or frail due to aging. |
| Eldern | adj | Of or belonging to earlier times. |
| Eldership | n | Seniority, the state or condition of being older. 2. the position or office of being elder. |
| Elderwed | n | A elderly married person; especially one who marries late in life. |
| Elderwort | n | Danewort. |
| Eldfather | n. | Patriarch, paternal ancestor, forebear, grandfather. |
| Elding | n | [OE aeld: fire} - fuel of twigs or furze. |
| Eldmen | n. | Seniors, elders |
| Eldmother | n | Maternal grandmother, forebear, ancestor, matriarch, |
| Eldness | n. | Oldness, old age, antiquity, a former state of things. |
| Eldnying | adj. | Jealous, suspicious, envious; also note variant:Eyndill |
| Eldred | n | Mature counsel (eld & rede). |
| Eldring | n. | Elders, parents, ancestors |
| Eldritch | n | An Old English derived word used to describe that which is otherworldly, often by being weird, ghostly, or uncanny. The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue also associates the word with elven things, but that connection has been shown to be a misuse or appropriation. The word was often used in Scottish poetry and literature from the 1600s.[ In the 1900s, the word became more widely used in English after gaining popularity in books by H. P. Lovecraft and C. S. Lewis. |
| Eldritchly | adv | In a eldritch manner or way. |
| Eldship | n. | Old age |
| Eldtimes | n | Old times, oldness, antiquit, a former time. |
| Ele | n. | Oil |
| Elelandish | adj | Of another land; foreign. |
| Elenge | adj | Very long, tedious. 2. remote, lonely, dreary, miserable. 3. strange, foreign. |
| Elengely | adj | Solitary, cheerless, miserable. |
| Elengely | adv | Drearily, miserably. |
| Ellengeness | n | Ellingness, loneliness, dreariness, misery. |
| Elesaw | n | Juice; sometimes also oil. |
| Elet | n | Fuel, eld. |
| Eleven | n | One more than ten: a cardinal numeral beginning the second decade: as, eleven men. 2. the number which is the sum of ten and one. 3. a symbol representing eleven units, as 11, or XI., or X1. |
| Eleven | phr | "Give Us Back Our Eleven Days" - when England adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1751 in place of the Julian Calendar, eleven days were dropped, 2 September 1752 being followed by 14 September 1752. Many people thought that they were being cheated out of eleven days' pay. Hence the popular cry from the masses, "Give us back Our eleven day!s" |
| Eleventh | n | One of the eleven equal parts of a whole. |
| Eleventh | adj | The ordinal number corresponding to eleven; the next number after ten. |
| Eleventhly | adv | In the eleventh place. 2. eleventh in a row. |
| Elf | n | Originally a dwarfish being of Teutonic mythology, possessed of magical powers which it uses for good or ill of mankind. Later the name was for an imp and then for fairies. The word is O.E. aelf, Icelandic alfr and Teutonic alp (a nightmare). |
| Elf | phr | "Play the Elf" - to act maliciously. |
| Elfdom | n | The world, realm or domain of elves. |
| Elfen | adj | The female elf; a fairy, nymph. 2. belonging to, or relating to eves. 3. derived terms, including: dunelfen; sealfen; waterelfen; wodelfen. |
| Elf-fire | n | The plant 'Will-of-the-Wisp' : Ignis fatuus; also called walking fire; and in the US ghost-light; spook light. |
| Elf-folk | n | Elves collectively. |
| Elf-god | n | Cupid. |
| Elfinhood | n | The state of being an elf. |
| Elf-kingdom | n | The kingdom of the elves and ruled by an elf. |
| Elfin saddle | n | Plants including the Helvetia crispa, Gyra mitra. |
| Elfinwood | n | Krummholz, dense low matted bushes at the tree line. |
| Elfish | adj | Resembling of characteristic of elves in some aspect. |
| Elfishly | adv | In a elfish manner. |
| Elfishness | n | The state or quality of being an elf. |
| Elfkin | n | A little elf. |
| Elfland | n | The land of the Elves |
| Elflike | adj | Resembling an elf. |
| Elflock | n | Tangled hair |
| Elf-marked | adj | Those born with a natural defect, according to an ancient scottish tradition, are marked by elves for mischief. |
| Elfship | n | The office of an elf. |
| Elfwort | n | Elf dock, scabwort, inula helenium. |
| Eling | n. | Unction, as in 'the last eling' (extreme unction) |
| Elk | n | The largest member of the deer family; a moose. |
| Elk hound | n | Any breed of dog in Scandinavia that hunt moose. |
| Elkskin | n | The skin of the elk, or leather made from it. |
| Elkwood | n | The soft, spongy wood of the Magnolia umbrella. |
| Ell | n | An old measure of length, which like a foot , was taken from a part of the body, that is, the forearm was originally 18 inches. The measurement varied from time to time and the English ell of 45 ins seems to have been borrowed by the French during the C16th for measuring cloth. The Scottish ell was about 37 ins; the Flemish ell about 27 ins and the french about 47 ins. |
| Ell | phr | "Give him an Inch and He'll Take an Ell" - give him a little freedom and he will take great liberties or make greater demands. |
| Ellen | n | In OE: zeal, strength, power, vigour, value, courage, fortitude, strife, contention. |
| Ellenless | n. | Powerless |
| Ell-broad | adj | Broad as an ell. |
| Ell-length | adj | Length of 18 ins or 457 mm. |
| Ell-ridge | n | An old land measure. |
| Ellwand | n | "King's Ell-wand" or Orions Belt. 2. a measuring rod, an ell measure. 3. the longer of the bones in the forearm |
| Ell-wide | adj | As wide as an ell. |
| Elm | n | Elm tree of the genus Ulmus. |
| Elmen | adj | Of or pertaining to the elm tree. 2. composed of elm trees |
| Elmy | adj | Consisting of, characterized, or abounding in elms. |
| Elne | n. | Courage, strength,ellen. 2. comfort, grace in theological matters,elning |
| Elne | vb | To strengthen, hearten, comfort. |
| Elning | n | Comfort, grace. |
| Els | sfx. | For example: Buriels (not plural);raedels: riddle;rekels: incense. |
| Else | prn | Other; otherwise, if not. |
| Else | phr | "Or Else" - you will regret something. |
| Elsehow | adv | In some, or any, other way. |
| Elseness | n | The quality of being something else. |
| Elsewards | adv | In the direction of. 2. towards some other place. |
| Elsewhat | prn | Something or anything else. |
| Elsewhen | adv | At another time; at other times. |
| Elsewhence | adv | From some other place or quarter. |
| Elsewhere | adv | At some other point. 2. in some other place. |
| Elsewhither | adv | To some other place; in some other direction; whithersoever. |
| Elsewho | prn | Any one else. |
| Elsewise | adv | In some other manner. 2. in other circumstances; otherwise. |
| Elvat | n | An oil vessel; see ampulla. |
| Elven | n | A female elf. |
| Elver | n | A young eel of fresh or brackish water; (from 'eel' & 'fare') |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Embe | adv | A variant of OE: ymbe with the meaning of about, around. |
| Ember | n | A hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from the fire and is glowing or smoldering. |
| Ember | vb | To burn as an ember. |
| Ember days | n | (OE ymbrynen: revolution; running, course) twelve days of the year (divided into seasonal periods) set aside by the church for fasting and prayers. |
| Embered | adj | Strewn with embers. 2. burnt to embers. |
| Ember-goose | n | So called from its appearing of the coast in the ember days before christmas. 2. an almost extent residue of a past activity or feelings. |
| Emberings | n | Ember days: ember deriving from Anglo-saxon ymben - a circuit or revolution (from ymb, around and ryne: running) clearly relating to the annual cycle of the year. |
| Emberlike | adj | Resembling an ember or some aspect of one. |
| Embertide | n | The time of the embers days. |
| Ember weeks | n | The weeks of ember-time. |
| Embe-uten | adv | Round about. |
| Embsnithe | vb | To circumcise. |
| Embthought | n | Anxiety, thought or care about something. |
| Emmet | n | An ant. |
| Empt | vb | To be at leisure (only in OE). 2. to pour forth, discharge, clear a vessel of it's contents. |
| Empted | adj | That has been emptied of it's contents; emptied. |
| Emptier | n | One who or that which empties |
| Emptily | adv | In an empty manner. |
| Empty | adj | Of a person at leisure; not occupiec or engaged. 2. having an empty stomach. 3. of the body: wanting or not having fullness; emaciated, shrunken. 4. weak of pulse. 5. not pregnant of a cow or farm animal. 6. of a house building: vacant. 7. void of space. 8. a ship or beast of burden: without a load. 9. not carrying anything in hand; empty-handed. 10. of things: wanting solidity and substance; unsatisfying, vain, meaningless. 11. destitute of money |
| Empty | phr | "Empty Out" - to remove all contents of. 2. allow to drain out. 3. allow to fall out. |
| Empty | phr | "Empty Into" - take out all contents of; and put, pour etc into another. |
| Empty-fisted | adj | Bringing or lacking nothing. 2. having achieved or obtained nothing. |
| Empty-handed | adj | Bringing or lacking nothing. 2. having achieved or obtained nothing. 3. bring nothing; esp. no gift. 4. carrying nothing away. |
| Empty-headed | adj | Foolish, lacking common sense. |
| Empty-hearted | adj | Having no compassionate for others. |
| Emptying | n | The act by which something is made empty or emptied . |
| Emptyish | adj | Somewhat empty. |
| Empty nest | n | Home or family where the children have grown up and moved away. |
| Empty nester | n | Either of a couple whose children have grown up and moved away. |
| Empty nesting | n | The state of a family where the children have grown up and moved away. |
| Empty-word | n | Linguistics: a word which has no meaning in itself but serves a grammatical function, e.g. at, but, for. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| En | sfx | Fem suffixGyden: goddess;wylfen: she-wolf. |
| En | sfx | A english plural form now only found in 'oxen'. |
| End | n | Either extremity of something that has length. 2. the outside or extreme edge or physical limit; a boundary, as 'the end of town'. 3. the point in time when an action, event, or phenomenon ceases or is completed; the conclusion. 4. a result; an outcome. 5. something toward which one strives; a goal, an intention. 6. the termination of life or existence; death. 7. the ultimate extent; the very limit. 8. Slang : the very best; the ultimate. 9. a remainder; a remnant. 10. a share of a responsibility or obligation; a particular area of responsibility. |
| End | vb | To bring to a conclusion. 2. to form the last or concluding part of. 3. to destroy. 4. to come to a finish; cease. 5. to arrive at a place, situation, or condition as a result of a course of action; often 'end up'. 6. to die. |
| End | sfx | Replaced by 'er' in ME - see healand, wealdand, |
| End | phr | "All Ends Up" - completely. - |
| End | phr | "An End in Itself -looked as something its own right, although it was originally undertaken for another purpose. 2. plural: end-in-themselves. |
| End | phr | "At an End" - completed, exhausted, over. |
| End | phr | "At, Come, or Reach the End Of One's Rope" - the limit of one's patience, when one is frustrated or annoyed |
| End | phr | "At One's Wit's End" - out of patience, in state of despair. 2. perplexed, unable to proceed. |
| End | phr | "At The End of One's Rope\Tether" - limit of one's patience. |
| End | phr | "At the End of the Day" - finally, when everything has been taken into account. |
| End | phr | "At the End of the Rainbow" - (fig.)the place where all hopes and dreams are fulfilled. |
| End | phr | "At the La- at death.tter end of Life" |
| End | phr | "A World Without End" - forever and ever. |
| End | phr | "Be All and End All" - something considered to be of the utmost importance, something essential or ultimate. |
| End | phr | "Begin at the Wrong End" - to handle a situation or problem in a confused way. 2. not understand a situation correctly. |
| End | phr | "Be On the Losing End of the Stick" - be worse off while the other party to a dealing become corresponding better off. |
| End | phr | "Be the End Of" - cause the death of, demise. |
| End | phr | "Be Without End" - endlessly, for ever. |
| End | phr | "Burn the Candle at Both Ends" - work excessively long hours. |
| End | phr | "Come to a Dead End" - situation from which no progress can be made. |
| End | phr | "Come to An End" - finish, conclude, end. 2. die, pass away. |
| End | phr | "Come to a Sticky End" - die, end in a very unpleasant situation. |
| End | phr | "Draw to an End" - bring, come to a conclusion. |
| End | phr | "End for End" - in reverse position; inverted |
| End | phr | "End In" - have as its end, tip or extremity. 2. come to an end, reach an end, an end in. 3. have as its result (as a war)etc., culmination. |
| End | phr | "End It All" - commit suicide. |
| End | phr | "End of the Earth" - any extreme. |
| End | phr | "End of the Line" - enforce conclusion, where life finishes. limit, 2. a point at which no further progress is possible, where one is forced to stop, beyond which there is no hope. 3. the final place, goal at which one is aiming, where one can find peace, satisfaction, etc. 4. 'the end of the road'. |
| End | phr | "End of the Rainbow" - the place where one's hopes are fulfilled. |
| End | phr | "End of the Road" - the final place; goal; at which one is aiming , where one can find peace satisfaction. 2. the point at which no further progress is possible, where one is forced to stop, beyond which there is no more hope. |
| End | phr | "End of the World" - completely disastrous for somebody; that somebody comfortable way of life will or has come to an end. |
| End | phr | "End On" - with the end facing in the principal direction. |
| End | phr | "End on End" - place on top of one another. |
| End | phr | "End One's Days" - live out the last part of one's life in a particular way or place. |
| End | phr | "End Over End" - in a reverse situation. |
| End | phr | "End to End" - with the (short) side of one touching the (short) side of the next, and the longer sides forming a continuous line. |
| End | phr | "End Up" - finally arrive, finish, become. |
| End | phr | "End Up With" - finish up with, finish by doing or having. |
| End | phr | "For (An) End" - in conclusion, finally, to cut the matter short. |
| End | phr | "For Days on End" - for many consecutive days, for a long time. |
| End | phr | "Get Hold of the Wrong End of the Stick" - misunderstand. |
| End | phr | "Get the Better End Of" - get an advantage. |
| End | phr | "Get Through to in the End" - to achieve a satisfactory or successful result (in the end.) |
| End | phr | Go Off the Deep End" - to act in a reckless or agitated manner; lose emotional control. |
| End | phr | "Have at One's Tongue End" - to know by heart, be able to quote at readiness. |
| End | phr | "Have It's End Upon" - to have influence on. |
| End | phr | "Have the Wrong End of the Stick" - to be completely mistaken about something. |
| End | phr | "In At the Deep End" - in great difficulty. |
| End | phr | "In The End" - ultimately, in end, after all, in the long run; finally. |
| End | phr | "Keep One's End Up" - do one's share, contribute to a group effort. |
| End | phr | "Make End's Meet" - have sufficient financial resources or money to live on. |
| End | phr | "Make One's Hair Stand on End" - cause deep fear, revulsion. |
| End | phr | "Never Hear the End Of" - be constantly reminded of. |
| End | phr | "No End Of" - alot, much. |
| End | phr | "Not Know One End From the Other" - know nothing about something. |
| End | phr | "Not Look Beyond the End of One's Nose" - make only a superficial search. |
| End | phr | "Not See Beyond the End of One's Nose" - be without imagination or vision. 2. make only a superficial search. 3. be narrow-minded. |
| End | phr | "Not The End of the World" - the situation is not as bad as it seems. |
| End | phr | "Off the Deep End" - lose control of one's temper. |
| End | phr | "On End" -continuously, without a break. |
| End | phr | "On One's Beam End" -in a desperate situation. |
| End | phr | "Put An end To" - stop, end, finish; destroy. |
| End | phr | "Run Into a Dead End" - get now where in an investigation |
| End | phr | "The End" - the ultimate limit of. |
| End | phr | "The End Is Not Yet" - there are more, no necessarily good or positive) things going to happen or be endured, before better times arrive. |
| End | phr | "The Tail End of Something" - the very end of something. |
| End | phr | "Thin Edge Of the Wedge" - the beginning (insignificant in itself)of something that eventually leads to a major difficulty. |
| End | phr | "Think No End Of" - regard highly of. |
| End | phr | "Throw (somebody)In at the Dead End" - tackle a new situation with its most difficult aspect. |
| End | phr | "To An End" - consecutively, through period specified. |
| End | phr | "To No End" - without no result or apparent success. |
| End | phr | "To the End that" - in order that. |
| End | phr | "To This/That End" - to achieve a satisfactory or successful result in the end. |
| End-all | n | The ultimate purpose, object, finale or conclusion. |
| End-all and End-all | phr | Something considered to be of the utmost importance; something essential or ultimate. |
| End brain | n | The telencephalon. |
| End-day | n. | Death's day, one's death day, apocalypse, revelation. |
| Ende | n. | The duck |
| Ender | n | Something the brings an end to. |
| Endermost | adj | Nearest to the end. |
| Endfall | n | Full of ends or aims, ambitious, busy. |
| Endfast | adv | Standing upright. |
| Endfeet | n | The somewhat enlarged, often club-shaped endings by which axons make synaptic contacts with other nerve cells or with effector cells (muscle or gland cells). Axon terminals contain neurotransmitters of various kinds, sometimes more than one. |
| Endfire | n | Radiation. |
| Endfully | adv | In a manner characteristic of having a goal, target or specific agenda. 2. ambitiously or busily. |
| Endgame | n | The final stage of an extended process or course of events. |
| Ending | n | A termination, stop, concluding point, cessation, result, conclusion, death. |
| Ending-day | n | Day of one's death. |
| Endland | n | A frontier region. |
| Endlang | adv | Lengthwise, along. |
| End-leaf | n | A blank page at the beginning or end of a book. |
| Endless | adj | Eternal, everlasting. 2. of things: extended in space: boundless, infinite, bottomless. 3. infinity. |
| Endless | adv | Having no end or limit |
| Endlesshood | n | The quality or condition of being endless; eternal existence. |
| Endlessly | adv | Without ending; in an endless manner. 2. everlastingly, perpetually, unceasingly. |
| Endlessness | n | The quality of being endless. 2. something that has no end. 3. infinite or everlasting existence. 4. something indefinitely extended or lengthened; an infinite space, an interminable length. |
| Endless gut | n | The colon. |
| Endlong | adv | Along (as opposed to across) from end to end of. |
| Endly | adj | Conclusive, final, extreme. |
| Endly | adv | At last, finally, extremely, very. |
| End-making | n | Conclusion, settlement. |
| Endmark | n | A punctuation mark occurring at the end of a clause or sentence. 2. a typographical element that signals the end of an article. |
| Endmost | adj | Nearest the end. |
| Endplay | n | A tactical move. |
| End run | n | An attempt to avoid a difficult situation by avoiding it without confronting it directly. |
| Endsay | n | A final or closing word or remark; a conclusion.. |
| Endship | n | Small, outlying township; a small suburb, a hamlet. |
| Endsithe | n | OE. sithe: fate; death fate; andesithe. |
| Endspeech | n | A speech tacked on at the end. |
| End-stopped | adj | Having a pause at the end of each line. |
| End times | n | The end of days, last days, final das, eschaton, armaggeddon. |
| Endware | n | OE. ende-waru: a hamlet. |
| Endways | adv | Endwise. 2. of position: with an end (as distinguished for a side) uppermost, foremost or turned towards the spectator. |
| Endways | phr | "Endways On" - in the direction of the ends; also end-to-end; in a direct line, continuously end front. 2. in the direction of the edge; lengthness. |
| Endwise | adv | Uright or standing on end. 2. with the end towards the front or towards the observer. 3. towards the ends. |
| Ene | adj | Of a sheep with young, or in lamb. (See; eanian, ean) |
| Ene | adv | On one occasion, once as opposed to often. |
| Enes | adv | Once, on one occasion. 2. at any one time, either part, present or future; esp. to mark the completion of an action. 3. at sometime or other; formerly, once upon a time. |
| Enes | phr | "At Enes" - at one and the same time. |
| Englaland | n | England. |
| England | n | The region of the island of Great Britain. |
| Englander | n | A person of England or of English descent. |
| English | n | The discipline that studies the English language and literature. 2. English an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries. 3. English (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist., 4. the people of England |
| English | vb | To translate into English (a book, a passage.) 2. to give the equivalent English for a word, phrases. 3. to render in English orthography. 4. to anglicize. 5. to adopt a word into the English language; to give it a English character or form. 6. to subject to English influence. |
| English | adj | of or relating to or characteristic of England or its culture or people "English history","the English landed aristocracy","English literature" 2.of or relating to the English language. |
| English | phr | "The English Dearly Loved a Lord" - the English truly love their nobility. |
| English breakfast | n | A traditional breakfast of the English consisting of eggs, bacon, tomatoes, fried bread, sausages, etc. |
| Englished | adj | That translated into English, as ' this work here given in englished words...'. |
| Englisher | n | An English person. |
| Englishhood | n | The state of being English. |
| Englishing | n | The action of the verb 'to English'. 2. translation or translating into English (a book, a passage.) 2. the giving of the equivalent English for a word, phrases. 3. the rendering into English orthography. 4. the adoption of a word into the English language; the giving to it an English character or form. 6. subjection to English influence. |
| Englishly | adv | In an english manner. 2. after the manner of English people; like an English person. 4. by means of an English word. |
| Englishman | n | A person of English origin. |
| Englishness | n | The quality or state of being English, or of displaying English characteristics. |
| English-saxon | n | Anglo-Saxon. |
| English-speaking | adj | Said of a person, group, region etc; of an anglophone. |
| English-sweat sickness | n | An infectious disease which caused many epidemics in Tudor England. |
| Enough | dtr | Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate. |
| Enough | adv | Sufficiently. |
| Enough | prn | Enough; sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc. |
| Enough | intj | Enough! stop! Don't do that anymore, etc. |
| Enough | phr | "Enough is Enough" - I can tolerate no more; I have enough; I want no no more of this. |
| Enough | phr | "Enough Said" - what one said, done etc is quite or more than sufficient , so that nothing else nedds to be said etc. |
| Enough | phr | "Enough to Make One Weep" - so distressing or disgusting that one needs to or is made to weep. |
| Enough | phr | "Enough to Wake the Dead" - very loud and noisy. |
| Enough | phr | "Fair Enough" - I agree. |
| Enough | phr | "His Enough" - all that one can do. |
| Enough | phr | "Time Enough" - Have sufficient time enough to do something. |
| Enough-bote | n | Satisfaction in compensation for injury. |
| Enoughly | adj | Sufficiently. |
| Enoughness | n | Sufficient. |
| Enow | n | The plural of enough. |
| Ent | sfx | See 'end' as in fiend, friend, healand. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Er | sfx | Person according to their profession. 2. many of this type of deriative already existed OE., e.g. bencher, outsider, backhander, out-and outer, northener, londoner. |
| Er | sfx | Comparitive degree in adj, and adv. |
| Er | sfx | Suffix for freqentative verbs, slumber, shiver, quaver. |
| Erd | n | In OE. state, condition, disposition,temoper. 2. the land where one dwells, native, a region, country. |
| Erde | vb | Live, dwell, inhabit |
| Erde | n | State, condition, disposition, temper;distinct etymology from Erde (vb). |
| Erde | vb | To be or to be found. 2. to exist in a certain place or in a certain condition. 3. to inhabit. |
| Erd-folk | n | People of the land. |
| Erding | n. | Dwelling, place, abode. |
| Erd-stow | n | Dwelling place. |
| Ere | adv | At an earlier, in an earlier time, of long ago; at an earlier hour. 2. sooner, rather, in preference. 3. formerly, at a former time, on a former occasion. 4. a little while ago. 6. firstly, before something else is done. |
| Ere | conj | Earlier than the time that; sooner or quicker than; until the time that, rather or sooner than. |
| Ere | prp | Before, ahead of, previous to, afore, prior to. |
| Ere | phr | "Ere then" - before then. |
| Ere | phr | "Before this" - before this. |
| Erelong | adv | Before the lapse of much time. 2. before long, soon. |
| Erendrake | n | Errandrake ('erend' & 'wrecan': to tell or count) messenger, ambassador, consul, erendes-man. |
| Erenow | adv | Before this time; prior. |
| Erer | adj | Former. |
| Erer | adv | Formerly, at a former time, before. 2. sooner, rather, in preference. |
| Erewhile | adv | A while before, some time ago, formerly. |
| Ere yesterday | n | The day before yesterday. |
| Erf | n | Inheritance, patrimony. 2. (by extension) stock, cattle, erf. |
| Erfeward | n | Heir,(Erfe: inheritance & ward: keeper), inheritance. |
| Erfe | n | Cattle, erf. |
| Erfe-blood | n | Blood of an animal or cattle |
| Erfe-kin | n | Breed or kind of animal, usu. cattle |
| Erk | n | The ark. |
| Erm | adj | Poor, needy. |
| Erme | vb | To grieve or sorrow. 2. to make miserable. 2. to harass, vex. |
| Erming | n | Grieving, sadness. |
| Ermlike | adj | Pitiable;ermlich. |
| Ermthe | n | Poverty, wretchedness |
| Ern | vb | To run as water; to flow as a river; to flow. |
| Ern | sfx | As in 'southern' is Old Teutonic. |
| Ernde | vb | To intercede, to treat for, obtain by intercession. |
| Ernding | n | Intercession. |
| Erne | n | Eagle. |
| Erne-fern | n | A plant, 'The Brake' (Pteris aquilina). |
| Erne-stone | n | Aetite, a stone used to promote childbirth. It is also known as the 'eagle-stone'. It is said that the stone prevents spontaneous abortion. |
| Ernest | adj | See 'Earnest' |
| Err | vb | OE: 'ierre' - wandering, gone astray, confused. |
| Errand | n | A message, a verbal communication to be repeated to a third party. 3. in religious terms, a prayer to the Virgin Mary. 4. a going with a message or a commission. 5. in an elevated, dignified way, a mission. 6. an embassy, an expeditiion for a specific purpose. 7. colloquially, a short journey by a helper to convey a message, or perform simple business on the behalf of the sender. 8. to make or undertake a short journey. |
| Errand-bearer | n | One who undertake a errand. |
| Errand-making | n | An act that finds an excuse for accosting or intruding upon a person. |
| Errand-man | n | An ambassador, consul. |
| Erst | adj | First, earlier in time, or serial order. 2. previous, former, here-to-fore. 3. earliest, soonest, first in order of time. 4. old. |
| Erst | adv | Firstly, at first, as opposed to afterwards. 2. in the first place, before something else is or was done; in preference to doing something else. 3. sooner, earlier, before a specified time or event. 4. once upon a time; formerly, of old. |
| Erst | phr | Not Erst" - not before or previously. |
| Erst | phr | "Now at Erst" - present. |
| Erst | phr | "Then at Erst" - before; erst then. |
| Erstly | adv | In the first place. |
| Erstwhile | adj | Former. |
| Erye | vb | Plough; a form of ear & earth. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Eteliche | adj. | Grevious,etelike |
| Etenish | adj. | Gigantic,ettenish |
| Eth | n | The name of an Old English letter, = th. |
| Eth | sfx | -Eth |
| Ethe | vb. | To breathe. 2. to ask with an oath, swear, adjure, take oath before Witan |
| Ethel | n | Ancestral land or estate. 2. patrimony; native land. |
| Ethem | n. | Breath, vapour |
| Ethel | n. | Ancestral land or estate, native land; a form ofathel - nobly born |
| Ethelborn | adj | Noblely born. |
| Ette | vb. | To seek to bring out, to purpose; to direct, eg a missile at s.t. 2. arrange, set in order, prepare, 3. To guess, conjecture, divine |
| Ettercop | n | Attercop, spider, ill-tempred person. |
| Ettin | n | A giant |
| Ettin | adj | Gigantic, huge, enormous, very big. |
| Ettinish | adj | Somewhat big, huge or |
| Ettle | n. | Aim, intent, purpose, chance, opportunity |
| Ettle | vb | To purpose, plan, to make it one's object, to endeavour. 2. to destine, ordain, assign. 3. to direct speech, action, to an object (esp. to aim a blow, missile ) at a person or a mark; fig. to take aim. 4. to direct one course towards. 5. to arrange, set in order, to prepare. 6. to prepare oneself. 7. to guess, conjecture, divine. |
| Ettle | phr | "Ettle thereto" - to seek to bring about a result. |
| Ettler | n | An aspirant. |
| Ettling | n. | Intention, purpose, endeavour, estimation, without guessing, ascertainment |
| Ettling | n | "Without Any Ettling" - without any guessing, unquestionably. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Es | n. | Carrion, bait, carrion as bait |
| Es | sfx | Plural form of some nouns. |
| E's | sfx | Suffix forming the possessive singular case of Modern English nouns. |
| Esne | n. | Designation of class of domestic slaves: the underclass, the exploited, the exploited worker. |
| Ess | sfx | Suffix appended to nouns to make some female nouns; as, 'goddess'. |
| Essex | n | A county of England. |
| Essexed | adj | Conservative. |
| Essex Man | n | A stereotype of a working class conservative voter in the south-east of England, cahracterized by brash and right wing views and few cultural or intellectual but an interest in wealth and material goods. |
| Este | n. | Good pleasure, grace, favour, delight, luxury, enjoyment or fine taste of food, dainty food 2. OE: bounty, munificience. 3. Of persons: kind, gracious, pleasant; of persons: pleasant, gracious, savoury. 4. dainty food. |
| Estdeed | n. | Act or deed of kindness |
| Estful | adj. | Dainty, fastidious, luxurious. |
| Estfulness | adj | Daintness, fastidiousness. |
| Estlike | adj | Dainty, kuxurious. |
| Estmete | n | Estmeat; dainty food. |
| Estriche | n | Eastern kingdom,eastrike |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Eve | n | Evening, the day before. |
| Eve | vb | To immediately precede; as 'the night that eves the wedding day". |
| Eve | phr | "To Be On Eve (of something)" - a time immediately preceding. 2. to occur before some event. |
| Eve | phr | "Upon the Eve" - A time immediately preceding some action, eevnt, "To Be On Eve" |
| Even | n | The latter part of the day, evening, eve-tide, evening time. 2. the eve of a holy day or church festival; as 'Fasting-even' or Shrove Tuesday. 3. even the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight) |
| Even | vb | To make or become even. 2. make even or more even. 3. become even or more even. 4. make level or straight. |
| Even | adj | Of a piece of ground, country, etc., flat, plan, level, not hilly or sloping. 2, of a uniform height. 3. in a level position, horizontal; on an even level. 4. of surfaces or lines, uniform, without inequalit, smooth. 5. uniform throughout of colour, texture, quality, consistency. 6. of a path: straight and direct, 7. movement, speech: direct, straight forward, directly in front of. 8. of height: neither, higher or lower. 9. parallel. 10. accurate. |
| Even | adv | As an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected. 2. to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons even in spite of; notwithstanding. 4. to the full extent. |
| Even | phr | "Break Even" - make neither a profit or loss. |
| Even | phr | "Even a Little" - to any extent at all. |
| Even | phr | "Even As" - to do something, happen, at the very same time or moment as, just when somebody something else, something else happens. |
| Even | phr | "Even As We Speak" - right now, right at the moment, contemporaneously. |
| Even | phr | "Even Down" - of a person: upright, straight forward. 2. in a bad sense: downright, out and out. 3. of statements: downright, direct. 4. of things: downright, sheer, absolute. |
| Even | phr | "Even Forth" - straight on, equally. 2. to the extent of, in proportion to. |
| Even | phr | "Even If/ Though" - in spite of the fact or belief that something is the case, didn't happen or might have happen. |
| Even | phr | "Even Now/Then" - not at this or that moment (anymore than previously). 2. not manage, succeed, understand, believe. 3. at this precise moment (while somebody is doing something else). |
| Even | phr | "Even Off" - adjust for. |
| Even | phr | "Even Out" - level flat, without surface irregularities, smooth. 3. on the same level, plane or line, parallel. 4. free fro variation or fluctuations, regular. 4. equal in measure or quantity. 5. divisible by two, as a number. 6. denoted by such a number. 7. uniform in character, character or quality. |
| Even | phr | "Even So" - nevertheless, in spite of something that has happen, may or may not be true. |
| Even | phr | "Even the Score" - get one's back for some past action. |
| Even | phr | "Even Up" - to compensate exactly. 2. to bring into accord, reconcile. 3. to make equal. 4. to treat or represent as equal. 5. to put on the same level. 6. to talk of one person as a match for another in marriage. 7. to liken, compare. 8. to be or become even; to be equal or comparable. 9. to tally, agree with. 10. to act up to, keep pace with. |
| Even | phr | "Get Even" - get revenge; retaliate. 2. even up. |
| Even | phr | "On Even Keel" - smooth (a nautical term); generally plain, straightforward, uncomplicated. |
| Even-bell | n | A bell rung at evening time. |
| Even-down | adj | Of a person: upright, straight forward. 2. in a bad sense: downright, out and out. 3. of statements: downright, direct. 4. of things: downright, sheer, absolute. |
| Even-down | adv | Straight down, coming straight down. |
| Evener | n | One who or that which makes even; esp. one a ? to be an equal division of something. |
| Evenfall | n | Commencement of evening, fall, dusk, twilight; gloaming. |
| Even-handed | adj | Treating all alike; impartial; fair. |
| Evenhood | n | Equality; position of equality; equal dignity or rank. 2. impartiality, fairness, equity, equilibrium, well-balanced state of mind. |
| Evening | n | The coming of the 'even'. 2. the process or fast growing of dusk; the time at which dusk takes take. 3. the time just before sunset. 4. the close of the day. 5. the time from about sunset till bedtime. 6. transfig. & fig. the closing or declining period of a person's life; or of anything compared to the day. 7. an evening spent in a particular way; esp. an evening devoted to the entertainment of friends. |
| Evening | n | The action of making even or smooth. 2. the action of comparing. 3. the condition of being even, equality. |
| Eveningless | adj | Without or not having an evening |
| Evening-light | n | The light of evening. |
| Evening-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of evening. |
| Eveningly | adv | Ever evening. |
| Evening out | n | See 'even out' |
| Evenings | adv | Taken place during the evenings. |
| Evening shift | n | Work done during the evening (4. pm. to midnight) |
| Evening song | n | A religious service, most commonly seen in the Anglican or Episcopal church, that takes place in the early hours of the evening. |
| Evening star | n | The planet Venus as seen in the western sky in the evening. 2. less commonly, the planet Mercury as seen in the western sky in the evening. 3. an evening primrose, Oenothera biennis. |
| Evening tide | n | Evening (poetic.) |
| Evening-wear | n | Clothes suitable for formal occasion in the evening. |
| Evenkind | n. | Of the same kindred |
| Evenleche | vb | Evenlock, to imitate. |
| Even-length | n | The equinox: the time when the days and nights are of equal length. |
| Evenless | adj | Without evenness, unrythmic, awkward. |
| Even-light | n | See 'Evening light' |
| Evenlike | adj. | Same, like, imitiable |
| Evenliness | n | The quality of being even; equality, evenness, stability, adaptation. |
| Evenling | n. | Equal, peer, of the same rank. 2. neighbour. |
| Evenlong | adj | Oblong, in an oblong form; straight along, in a line. |
| Evenly | adv | Equal; of the same character, degree, rank, weight. 2. of the same date. 3. equal to one's need; moderate. 4. of a person: fair, equitable, just, impartial. 5. of the grounds, roads, free from bumps, smooth, level, uniform. |
| Evenly | adv | In an even manner or degree. 2. uniform in surface or line; smooth. 3. without inequalities in level, from texture, consistency, depth of tint. 4. in a straight line, directly. 5. exactly, in an exact coincidence or agreement. 6. at the very moment; immediately. 7. of movement or action: without fluctuations, variation, equably, uniformly. 8. with equanimity or evenness of mind, security, tranquility. 9. without inclination to either side; in a state of equipoise. 10 under even conditions; without manifest advantage on their side. 11. impartiality, fairly, justly, equitably. 12. equally, in an equal degree or proportion. 13. in the same degree throughout. 14. in equal parts or shares; as much as one side as the other. |
| Even mete | n | Supper, evening meal. |
| Even-mete | adj | Of the same measure, size or standing. |
| Even-minded | adj | Having equanimity. |
| Even-mindedly | adv | In an even-minded manner; calmly and dispassionately. |
| Even-mindedness | n | The state of being calm, stable or composed, esp. under stress, equanimity. |
| Evenness | n | The quality of being even. |
| Even-next | adv | Neighbour. |
| Even-old | n | One who is the same age; a peer. |
| Even-old | adj. | Coeval, of the same age. |
| Evensong | n | Song sung at evening time. |
| Even-time | n | Eventide. |
| Evenwhile | n | Even-tide, even time. |
| Ever | adj. | Always, eternally |
| Ever | phr | 'Am I Ever" - emphatically yes. |
| Ever | phr | "Did You Ever" - did you ever hear or see the like of. 2. an expression of puzzled surprize. |
| Ever | phr | "Ever Again" - never any time in the future. |
| Ever | phr | "Ever and Again" - now and then. |
| Ever | phr | "Ever and Often" - constant reiteration, continually. |
| Ever | phr | "Ever As" - as long as. |
| Ever | phr | "Ever Forth" - continually, constantly. |
| Ever | phr | "Ever in One" - unchanging. |
| Ever | phr | "Ever More" - increasingly (anxious, etc.) as time passes; more and more. 2. become, grow, seem. 3. extremely. |
| Ever | phr | "Ever Now and Now" - every now and then. |
| Ever | phr | "Ever Now and Then" -every now and then |
| Ever | phr | "Ever Now and Then Among" - every now and then |
| Ever | phr | "Ever since" - continuously since a specified time or event. |
| Ever | phr | "Ever So" - very, extremely. 2. very great etc. in number, quantity (of people, things) 3. many, much, few, little |
| Ever | phr | "Ever Such" - to say such with emphasis. |
| Ever | phr | "For Ever" - in all future time, for eternity, in perpetuity, incessantly. |
| Ever | phr | "For Ever and a Day" - for a very long time. |
| Ever | phr | "For Ever and Ever" - eternally. |
| Ever | phr | "Seldom if Ever" - never. |
| Ever | phr | "Seldom If Never" - never. |
| Ever-abiding | adj | Ever enduring. |
| Everbearing | adj | Being more or less continuously. 2. ever blooming of a tree, plant, flower, etc. 3. of fruit producing throughout the growing seasons in multiple times during a single growing season. |
| Everbeing | adj | That always is, eternal, everlasting. |
| Everbeingness | n | The state or condition of everbeing, being eternal, everlasting. |
| Ever-blessed | adj | Always blessed or adored. |
| Everblessing | adj | Always enjoying blessing; worthy to always be blessed or adored. |
| Everbrown | n | A plant that is for ever brown in colour. |
| Everburning | adj | Permanently burning, as the sun. 2. ever smoldering, smoking, slowly burning as of some forests. |
| Everfalling | adj | That which falls unceasingly. |
| Everflowing | adj | That which flows unceasingly. |
| Evergoing | adj | That which goes on or continues for ever. |
| Evergreen | n | A plant that keeps green throughout the entire year. |
| Evergreen | adj | Relating to a plant that keeps green throughout the entire year. |
| Ever-greenness | n | State or condition ogf being evergreen. |
| Evergrowing | adj | Which grows without ceasing, with no end in sight. |
| Everlast | n | Something that lasts always or forever, contiue, remain, endure. |
| Ever-lasting | adj | Lasting forever for a very long time; never-ending, endless, deathless, abiding, timeless. |
| Every-lasting | phr | "Every-lasting Love" - love lasting throughout life. |
| Everlastingly | adv | Continually, forever, forevermore, eternally, unceasingly, through all time. |
| Everlastingness | n | The absolute eternity; without beginning or end; or the past eternity, without beginning. |
| Everlasting-love | n | Lasting or enduring through all time, eternally, indefinitely. |
| Everlearning | n | Those who learn unceasingly, refusing to be content with their current level of knowing and always striving to learn more. |
| Everlearning | adj | Unceasingly learning, refusing to be content with current level and always striving to learn more. |
| Everylearning | phr | "Every Learning but Never Knowing" - a morbid obsession with novelty. 2. learning unceasingly, but really finding ' the truth.' |
| Everlive | vb | To live forever; live constantly or continually. |
| Everliving | adj | That lives or will live forever. 2. immortal of name or fame, etc. |
| Ever-livingness | n | The state or condition of being immortal. |
| Ever-loving | adj | That loves unceasingly or unconditionally. |
| Everly | adv | Always continually. |
| Evermore | adv | For all future times; always, at all times, constantly, continually. |
| Everness | n | Perpetuity. |
| Evernew | adj | Ever new; remaining new not ageing. |
| Ever-ready | adj | |
| Ever-shifting | adj | Which shifts frequently; and, presumably, will do so forever. |
| Ever since | adv | Continuously, since a specific time or event. |
| Everwhat | adj | No matter which, for any. |
| Ever-willing | adj | |
| Everwise | adv | Eternally wise or having wisdom. |
| Every | det | All of a countable group, without exception. 2. used with ordinal number to denote those whose position is divisible by the corresponding cardinal number, or a position of equal size to that set. |
| Every | phr | "Every Bit As" - quite, every bit as. |
| Every | phr | "Every Bit, Every Whit" - altogether, entirely, quite. |
| Every | phr | "Every Cloud has a Silver Lining" - there are benefits even in seemimgly adverse situations. |
| Every | phr | "Every Day in Every Way, One is Getting Better and Better" - one can improve, is improving, one's life gradually over time by means of profound self examination |
| Every | phr | "Every Day is a School Day" - you learn something new every day. |
| Every | phr | "Every Dog Has Its Day" - good luck comes sooner or later. 2. everybody will, will at sometime in one's life, get one's turn at being successful. |
| Every | phr | "Every Inch" - totally completely |
| Every | phr | "Every King Needs His Queen" - every man needs a woman when his life is in a mess. |
| Every | phr | "Every Last" -every, without exception, used for emphasis. |
| Every | phr | "Every Last One" - Every person or item (in a group) included, with no person or item omitted; each and every. |
| Every | phr | "Every Little Bit Helps" - even though something that somebody has done for, or given to, one may be small, it it is not too small to be of some use; each gift though it may be small will eventually add up to a large total. |
| Every | phr | "Every Man and his/their Dog" - everybody; a large number of persons; most people. |
| Every | phr | "Every Man for Himself" - each person must look after himself or put him or herself first, |
| Every | phr | "Every Man is the Smith of his Own Well-being" - one must shape one's own future. |
| Every | phr | "Every Man's Right" - freedom to roam. |
| Every | phr | "Every Now and Again/Then" - on a number of occasions, at irregular intervals; every so often; now and again, now and then, from time to time. |
| Every | phr | "Every Once in a While" - every other while; at alternate periods; every now and then. |
| Every | phr | "Every One Else " - all other persons. |
| Every | phr | "Every Other " - alternate; every second in a series. |
| Every | phr | "Every Other Day" - every second (other in OE means second)day. |
| Every | phr | "Every Other Man" - missing the first, taking the second, and so on alternately; half or approximately half without actually numbering the particular group or or class. |
| Every | phr | "Every Other While" - at alternate periods; every now and then. 2. ever once in a while. |
| Every | phr | "Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud" - in seemingly positive situations, there are adverse aspects. |
| Every | phr | "Every So Often" - at irregular interval that may be frequent or not; every now and again; from time to time. |
| Every | phr | "Every Time" - whenever possible; whenever a choice can be made. 2. at each occasion that. 3. used to express a strong preference for something; whenever. |
| Every | phr | "Every Which Way" - every way, in every or all directions. 2. making up of each and all members of a group without exception. 3. being all possible. 4. being each of a specified succession of objects or intervals. 5. being the highest degree or expression of. |
| Every | phr | "Every which where" - more emphatic way of saying 'everywhere.' |
| Every | phr | "Every Whither" - in every direction. |
| Every | phr | "In Every Way" - in every direction, manner or respect. |
| Every bit | adj | Exactly, to its full degree, as 'the team looked every bit a premiership contender.' |
| Everybody | n | Every person; every one |
| Everybody | phr | "Everybody (everyone) and His Brother" - (("Every Man and their Dog"): everybody; a large number of persons; most people. |
| Everybody | phr | "Everybody and His Dog" - ("Every Man and their Dog"): everybody; a large number of persons; most people. |
| Everybody | phr | "Everybody and His Mother" ("Everyman and their Mother" : everybody; a large number of persons; most people. |
| Everyday | adj | Appropriate for ordinary use: rather than for special occasions. 2. commonplace, ordinary. |
| Everyday-man | n | The common man; as, 'the everyday man of this workday world'. |
| Every-dayness | n | The quality or state of happening every day, or frequently. 2. the product or result of happening everyday or frequently. |
| Every-day-world | n | Everyday life; the life of the ordinary man. |
| Every-day deal | n | A good deal (or one advertised as so. |
| Everyhow | adv | In every way. |
| Everylike | adj | Ever in a like fashion, continually. |
| Everyman | n | In literature: the archetypal ordinarily individual, frequently the protagonist in a parable of some sort. |
| Everyone | prn | Everybody; every person. |
| Everyone-else | prn | All other persons. |
| Every other | prn | A reciprocal pronoun. |
| Every smoker | n | A person who ever been a s smoker. 2. at person who has smoked at least one hundred cigarettes, etc. during the course of their lifetime. |
| Everything | prn | All the things under discussion; the essential consideration. 2. many of most things; a great deal. 3. all things; all the thing of a group or class. |
| Everything | phr | "Everything but the Kitchen Sink" - a lot of things. |
| Everything | phr | "Everything is Going One Way" - all that is happening is exactly as one wished; all that one has planned are in one's favor. |
| Everything | phr | "Everything Under the Sun" - everything. |
| Everything | phr | "Have Everything" - possess every attraction, advantage. |
| Everything | phr | "Hold Everything" - stop everything (you are doing). |
| Everything-maker | n | A maker of everything, usually contraptions. 2. the creator, God, supreme being. |
| Every way | adv | In every manner or way; in every direction. 2. in every respect. |
| Every-wayness | n | The quality of extending in every direction. |
| Everyways | adv | In every direction. |
| Everywhen | adv | At all times, always. |
| Everywhence | adv | From every direction. |
| Everywhere | adv | In any or every or part; in all places. 2. all over. |
| Everywhere | phr | "Here, There and Everywhere" - in ever possible place. 2. in all locations, ubiquitous. |
| Everywhere-always | adj | Omnipresent; everywhere-at-once, always-everywhere, every where-every when. |
| Every-whereness | n | Ubiquity. |
| Every-wheres | n | In all places; in every place; everywhere. |
| Every woman | n | In literature: the archetypal ordinarily woman, frequently the protagonist in a parable of some sort. |
| Evese | vb | Clip, cut hair, cut the coat of an animal, prune a tree, etc. 2. to cut short the hair of a person. |
| Evest | n | The evening star. |
| Eve-star | n | Evening star. |
| Eve-tide | n | Eventide |
| Eve time | n | Eve-tide, eventide. |
| Eve-weed | n | Hesperis matronalis: in reference to the fragrance of the blossom at evening. |
| Evil | n | Morally objectionable behavior. 2. the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice. 3. that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune. |
| Evil | adj | Having or exerting a malignant influence. 2. morally bad or wrong "evil purposes","an evil influence","evil deeds" evil having the nature of vice. 3. bad, harmful. |
| Evil | vb | To do evil, to harm, injure. 2. to ill-treat, to affect with disease. 3. to grow bad morally. 4. to fall ill, to be ill, sick. |
| Evil | phr | "Fall On Evil Days" - suffer unfortunate circumstances. |
| Evil | phr | "Give Somebody the Evil Eye" - the ability to cast an evil spell; do some harm, by means of a malevolent look or glance. |
| Evil | phr | "Speak Evil Of" - slander, denigrate. |
| Evil | phr | "The Falling Evil" - epilepsy. |
| Evil | phr | "To Have an Evil-head" - to be insane. |
| Evil | phr | "The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them" - people will remember the bad or wrong things that somebody has done long after they have forgotten the good thing; the bad things that one does in one's lifetime continue to have an effect long after one's death. |
| Evil-boding | n | The prediction or foretelling of a coming evil. |
| Evil-boding | adj | Ominous, ill-boding, unpropitious. |
| Evil-doer | n | One who does malefaction; a malefactor. |
| Evil-doing | n | The action of doing malefaction, |
| Evil-eye | n. | Look at with ill-will |
| Evil-eye | phr | "To Look With an Evil Eye" - a look of ill-will. |
| Evil-eyed | adj | A look thought capable of inflicting injury or bad luck on the person at whom it is directed |
| Evil-fare | n. | Ill-success, misfortune. |
| Evilful | adj | Malicious, harmful. |
| Evilfully | adv | In a harmful or malicious manner. |
| Evil-hearted | adj | Having or holding malice towards other, expressing extreme dislike or hatred. |
| Evil-laughter | n | A sound produced by a person with or uttering an evil laugh. |
| Evil-less | adj | Without evil, free from evil. |
| Evilly | adv | Viciously, wickedly, censureably. 2. with evil purpose or result; injuriously, maliciously, mischievously, noxiously. 3. unfavourably. 4. not well, badly, faulty, insufficiently, defectively, unhappily. 5. with difficulty, reluctantly, impatiently. 6. improperly, inappropriately. |
| Evil man | n | The devil. |
| Evil-minded | adj | Having evil thoughts or intentions. |
| Evil-mindedness | n | State or quality of having evil thoughts. |
| Evil-most | adj | Most evil. 2. most unlucky. |
| Evilness | n | Badness, viciousness, depravity, noxiousness. 2. ill-heaalth, illness. 3. poor or bad quality, inferiority. |
| Evil One | n | The Devil, Satan, Lucifer. |
| Evil-saying | n | Saying or uttering words of malice and ill-will. |
| Evil-speaking | adj | Speaking words of malice, slander and ill-will. |
| Evil-thewed | adj | Evil in manners and ways. |
| Evil-times | n. | An era or epoch of malevolence. |
| Evil-tongued | adj | Evil in word and utterances. |
| Evil twin | n | A duplicate or counterpart that acts in contrary, nefarious or insidious manner. 2. in computing, a rogue wireless access point near a legitimate one for the purpose of eavesdropping or phishing. |
| Evil-willed | adj | Having n evil, malicious wit or mind. |
| Evil-willer | n | One who wishes or wills evil upon another. 2. enemy, ill-wisher. |
| Evil-willing | n | Evil desire, malevolence, spite, hatred towards others. |
| Evil-willing | adj | Having evil desires. 2. malevolent, spiteful readiness towards others. |
| Evil-willingly | adv | Grudgingly, unwillingly. |
| Evil-wisher | n | One who wishes or wills evil upon another. 2. enemy, ill-wisher, evil-willer. |
| Evil-wishing | adj | Wishing bad luck, pain, misfortune on others. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Ewe | n | A female sheep. |
| Ewe | vb | To yean, give birth to a lamb. |
| Ewed | n | Born(as a ewe). |
| Ewe-lamb | n | The one highly valued possession of a person who has little else. 2. a beloved or only child. |
| Ewe-necked | adj | Having a long thin neck. |
| Ewt | n | OE: yeotan, see 'yete'. |
| Ewte | n | Loyalty also spelt:lewte,lewty |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Eye | n | Circa. 1200, from Old Norse auga, Old English ege (Mercian), eage (West Saxon) "eye; region around the eye; apperture, hole," from Proto-Germanic *augon (cognates: Old Saxon aga, Old Frisian age, Swedish öga, Danish øie. Middle English eye, ee, from Old English ēaġe (“eye”),(plural eyes or eyen (obsolete). 2. an organ through which animals see. 3. the visual sense. 4. attention, notice, that pretty girl caught his eye. 5. the ability to notice what others might miss, 'as an eye for talent'. 6. a meaningful stare or look. 7. private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator. 8. a hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed. 9.a fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line. 10. the relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other such storm. 11. mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye. 12. the dark spot on a black-eyed pea. 13. the reproductive bud in a potato. 14. a loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc. — e.g. at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; through a crank; at the end of a rope; or through a millstone. 15. that which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty. 16. tinge; shade of colour. 17. one of the holes in certain kinds of cheese. |
| Eye | n | Egg from Mid-14c., egge, mostly in northern England dialect, from Old Norse egg. This Norse-derived northern word vied in Middle English with native cognates EYE, eai, eir, eyren (pl) from Old English æg, until finally displacing the others after c.1500. |
| Eye | vb | To observe carefully. 2. to view something narrowly, as a document or a phrase in a document. 3. to look at someone or something as if with the intent to do something with that person or thing 4. (obsolete) to appear; to look. |
| Eye | phr | "All Eyes On (Something)" - everyone's attention is focused on something. 2. very attentive. |
| Eye | phr | "All in My Eye" - not true, humbug. |
| Eye | phr | "Apple of One's Eyes" - favorite person; one who is best loved |
| Eye | phr | "Be All Eyes" - to observe very closely. 2. give strict attention to. |
| Eye | phr | "Be An Eye Opener" - be a surprise. |
| Eye | phr | "Be Easy/Eathly on the Eye" - be visually attractive. |
| Eye | phr | "Be Eyewash" - be nonsense. |
| Eye | phr | "Before One's Eyes" - immediately in front of one. 2. in one's direct vision. |
| Eye | phr | "Be In the Eye of the Storm" - ve at the centre of a controversy. |
| Eye | phr | "By the Eye" - in abundance. |
| Eye | phr | "Eye for an Eye, Tooth for a Tooth" - the belief that if someone does something wrong, that person should be punished by having the same thing done to them. |
| Eye | phr | "Eye(s) of a Ship" - the foremost part in the bows of a ship. |
| Eye | phr | "Eye of the Needle" - the small gap in a needle, with just enough space for a thread to pass through |
| Eye | phr | "Eye of the Beholder" - that different people find different sights are pleasing or beautiful. |
| Eye | phr | "Eye of the Day" - Sun |
| Eye | phr | "Eye of Heaven" -Sun. |
| Eye | phr | "Eye of the Morning" - Sun. |
| Eye | phr | "Eye of the Night" - Star |
| Eye | phr | "Eye of the Storm" - a period of time when conditions are calm. However, this doesn't mean the storm is over; often worse weather is to come. |
| Eye | phr | "Eye Up" - to examine closely something coveted. |
| Eye | phr | "Eye and Up and Down" - view somebody with doubt and suspicion. |
| Eye | phr | "For Your Eyes Only" - that only one person is allowed to see. |
| Eye | phr | "Get One Eye In" - become familiar with a situation. |
| Eye | phr | "Give One's Tooth for" - a person would very much like to achieve some objective. |
| Eye | phr | "Give Somebody the Evil Eye" - give somebody a threatening, malicious look. |
| Eye | phr | "Give Somebody the Glad Eye" - flirt with somebody. |
| Eye | phr | "Half an Eye" - having very imperfect sight; a careless glance. |
| Eye | phr | "Hang On By The Eyelids" - to have only a slender hold. |
| Eye | phr | "Have a Drop in One's Eyes" - to be slightly intoxicated. |
| Eye | phr | "Have a Good Eye for" - be a good judge of some one's qualities. |
| Eye | phr | "Have an Eye to" - to pay particular attention, regard to, to watch closely. |
| Eye | phr | "Have Eyes Greater than One's Belly" - greedy. |
| Eye | phr | "Have Eyes for" - be interested in. 2. wish to acquire. |
| Eye | phr | "Have Eyes in the Back of One' Head" - be aware of something one should apparently not know about. |
| Eye | phr | "Have One's Eyes about One" - be alert, watchful. |
| Eye | phr | "Have One's Eyes Opened" - to be made aware of something important. 2. to stare with astonishment. |
| Eye | phr | "Have Stars in One's Eyes" - for emotional rather than rational reason be ecstatic. |
| Eye | phr | 'Hit Right Between the Eyes" - be brutally frank. |
| Eye | phr | "Hit the Bull's Eyes" - make the correct decision. |
| Eye | phr | "In One's Mind Eye" - using a vivid imagination. |
| Eye | phr | "In Someone's Eyes" - in one's imagination. |
| Eye | phr | "In the Blink of an Eye" - instantly, in a second. |
| Eye | phr | "In the Eye of the Wind" - a direction opposed to the wind. |
| Eye | phr | "In the Eyes Of" - in the point of view of the community, church, law. |
| Eye | phr | "In the Twinkling of an Eye" - immediately, quickly. |
| Eye | phr | "Keep an Eye On" - fig. to watch someone or something. 2. keep a close watch on. |
| Eye | phr | "Keep an Eye Open" - to remain alert, or on the look out for, to things happened about you. |
| Eye | phr | "Keep a Weather Eye Open/out for" - to stay alert to weather conditions, esp. changes without it fully occupying your full attention. |
| Eye | phr | "Keep One's Eyes In" - remain in form, practice. |
| Eye | phr | "Lay an eye On" - to have sight of. |
| Eye | phr | "Make Eyes At" - look amorously or flirtatiously at. 2. make appealing glances at; ogle. |
| Eye | phr | "Meet Somebody's Eyes" - look at somebody face to face. |
| Eye | phr | "More Than Meets the Eye" - more than i simmediately obvious. |
| Eye | phr | "Mote In Someone's Eye" - a fault in another person which is trifling in comparison to an unrecognized major fault in oneself. |
| Eye | phr | "My Eyes Draw Straws" - I am, or I feel, sleepy. |
| Eye | phr | "Not to Believe One's Eyes" - doubt the credibility of something unusual. |
| Eye | phr | "One in the Eye for" - a disappointment, rejection or setback. |
| Eye | phr | "Open Someone's Eyes" - alert another person to the truth of something. |
| Eye | phr | "Pipe An Eye at" - to weep. |
| Eye | phr | "Pull the Wool Over Someone's Eyes" - to deceive or deliberately mislead another person. |
| Eye | phr | "Put One's Eyes Together" - to go to sleep. |
| Eye | phr | "Raise One's Eyes" - loop upwards; often surreptitiously. |
| Eye | phr | "Run an Eye Over" - look at superficially, quickly. |
| Eye | phr | "See Eye to Eye" - be in full agreement. |
| Eye | phr | "See (Something) with Only Half an Eye open" - sum up a matter instantly. 2. see something that is obvious. |
| Eye | phr | "See With One's Eyes Shut" - easily, with little effort; as 'do with one's eyes shut'. |
| Eye } | phr | "See With One's Own Eyes" - witness personally. |
| Eye | phr | "Shut One's Eyes to Something" - to deliberately take no notice of something, especially in dereliction of one's duty. |
| Eye | phr | 'Sight for Sore Eyes" - to be something welcome. |
| Eye | phr | "The Eyes Are a Windor to the Soul" - The eyes really are a window to the soul, according to scientists. Patterns in the iris can give an indication of whether we are warm and trusting or neurotic and impulsive, research has found. |
| Eye | phr | "Through the Eyes of" - from somebody else's viewpoint. |
| Eye | phr | "Throw Dust in Somebody's Eyes" - to deceive a person by presenting inaccurate or misleading information. |
| Eye | phr | "Turn a Blind Eye (to Something)" - pretend something obvious does not exist. |
| Eye | phr | "Up to One's Eyes In" - mortgaged, in deep debt. 2. deeply engaged or involved in; very busy. |
| Eye | phr | "Wipe One's Eye" - take the conceit out of. |
| Eye | phr | "With an Eye Towards (Doing Something)" - with an intention that something particular be done. 2. with an eventual aim. |
| Eye | phr | "With One's Eye On" - directing one's attention partly to. |
| Eye | phr | "With One's Eyes Wide Open" - fully conscious of the ramifications or consequences.. |
| Eye-bath | n | A small glass or vessel for applying lotion. |
| Eye beam | n | A glance of an eye. |
| Eye-black | n | Mascara. |
| Eye blink | vb | A blink. 2. a second (in time). |
| Eye-bree | n | Eyelash |
| Eyebright | adj | Clear and alertness of eye. |
| Eye brow | n | Eyebrow: the arch of hair above each eye; eyebrow, brow, supercilium. 2. the brow or hairy arch above the eye |
| Eye-browed | adj | Having eyebrows. |
| Eye-browless | adj | Without eyebrows |
| Eye-browlike | adj | Like or resembling an eyebrow. |
| Eyecare | n | Care and treatment of the eye. |
| Eyed | adj | Having eyes; having eye like spots. 2. having a specific kind or number of eyes |
| Eyeful | n | A long steady look. 2. visually striking person or thing. 3. anything thrown or blown into the eye. |
| Eyedness | n | The quality of having a dominant eye - one eye used more tahn the other. 2. the state or quality of having a particular type of eye or eyes. |
| Eye door | n | Window.; windor; eyethirl. |
| Eye-glass | n | A lens for correcting or assisting defective sight. 2. a pair of spectacles held in the hand or kept in position on the nose by means of a frame. 4. a small glass vessel for applying lotion etc to the eye. |
| Eyehole | n | Eye socket. 2. window; eyethurl; windor. 3. a hole to look through. |
| Eyelash | n | 'Lash' not OE., see 'eyebree'. |
| Eyeless | adj | Having no eyes. 2. having no sight; blind. |
| Eyelessness | n | A lack of eyes or organ of sight. |
| Eyelest | adj | Aweless, fearfulness |
| Eyelid | n | A thin skinned membrane that covers and moves over it. |
| Eyelidded | adj | Having eyelids (often of a specific kind). |
| Eyelift | n | A plastic surgery procedure of the eyes for cosmetic reasons. |
| Eyelike | adj | Like or resembling an eye. |
| Eye-liner | n | A cosmetic applied as a line round the eye. |
| Eyely | adj | Visible or apparent to the eye. 2. evident, obvious. |
| Eyely | adv | Obviously, evidently, apparently. |
| Eye-opener | n | An experience or event that reveals, enlightens, or informs; something that causes learning, revelation, realization, or increased awareness. 2. an alcoholic beverage consumed first thing in the morning. A euphemism used by those offering or consuming alcohol in the morning. |
| Eye-opening | adj | Causing one suddenly to learn or understand what was not previously known; as, an eye-opening look into the fraudulent behaviour of the local reverend. |
| Eyer | n | One who eyes and looks at another. |
| Eye reach | n | The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot. |
| Eye ring | n | A coloured circle around the eye of a bird. 2. a disclouring around the eyes of a person. |
| Eyeshade | n | A type of headgear for shielding the eyes from glaring light, usually consisting of a visor and a headband, more popular among indoor workers in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries than today. 2. a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes. 3. a cosmetic product which may be applied to the upper eyelid and to the area near the eye to change skin coloration. |
| Eye shadow | n | A make-up that is applied to the eyelids, and below the eyes to give a darker complexion there. |
| Eye shield | n | A shield attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards; a blinder. 2. something worn to shield the eyes, esp. a visor. |
| Eyesight | n | Vision or faculty of sight. 2. view or range of vision. |
| Eyeshot | n | Range of the eye, seeing distance, view |
| Eyeslit | n | A slit for looking through a castle wall or helmet. |
| Eyesome | adj | Pleasant to the eye, fetching, beautiful |
| Eyes-only | adj | Espionage of documents, meant to be read, and not discussed by the named recipients; classified. see: ('ears-only') |
| Eye sore | n | Visually offensive or ugly thing, esp. a building. |
| Eye spot | n | An eye-like marking on the tail of a peacock, or on the wings of the butterfly or moth. |
| Eye-spotted | adj | Marked with eyespots like a peacock's tail or the wings og a butterfly or moth. |
| Eyestone | n | Eye-agate, a mineral. |
| Eye string | n | The tendon by which the eye is moved. |
| Eye-sweep | n | A survey or look around and about with the eye. |
| Eyethurl | n | Window; eye-door, eye-hole; eye-tril |
| Eye tooth | n | Canine tooth of the upper of the upper jaw. |
| Eye wall | n | A ring of towering thunderstorm where the most severe weather of a cyclone occurs. |
| Eyewash | n | A soothing, medicated lotion for the eyes. 2. nonsense, flattery, pretentiousness. 3. a means of creating a deceptive impression of something or someone for appearance only. |
| Eyewater | n | Tear(s). 2. eye lotion. |
| Eyeware | n | Manufactured articles of, or , for the eye collectively. |
| Eyewear | n | A vision aid or similar device worn over the eyes, such as eyeglasses, contact lenses or ptrotectived googles. |
| Eye-witness | n | Someone who sees an event or incident and report or testify about it. |
| Eyewitness | vb | To be present at an event or incident, and to see it. |
| Eye worm | n | A penatode, Loa Loa parasitic on humans and other primates in Central and West Africa. |
| Eye-worship | n | Adoration with the eye (only), but not any practical way. |
| Eye-wright | n | One who cures eyes. 2. ophthalmologist, oculist. |
| Eyey | adj | Full of eyes. |
| Eyot | n | A little island, esp. in a river or lake. |
| Eyoty | adj | Like, resembling or pertaining to a small island or isle. |
| Eyren | n | Egg from Mid-14c., egge, mostly in northern England dialect, from Old Norse egg. This Norse-derived northern word vied in Middle English with native cognates eye, eai, eir, eyren (pl) from Old English æg, until finally displacing the others after c.1500. |
| Eythe | n | A harrow |
| Old English | sp | English |
| F | n | The letter "F" |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Fade | vb | OE. fadian. - to dispose, sort, arrange, regulate. 2. orderly, tidy, discreet. *Fade: meaning to cause or lose color is not an Anglish word deriving from Old French |
| Fain | n | Gladness, joy, pleasure. |
| Fain | vb | To be delighted, glad, rejoice. 2. to desire, wish. 3. to pretend kindness. 4. to make glad, congratulate. 5. to rejoice in, enjoy, to take gladly, show preference for |
| Fain | adj. | Glad, rejoiced, well-pleased; hence necessitated, obliged; disposed willing, eager. 2. well-pleased, flattered, as 'fine words to make fair maidens fain.' 3. glad under the circumstances; glad or content to take a certain course in default of opportunity for anything better; the lesser of two evils. 4. necessitated, obliged. 5. disposed, inclined or willing, eager. 6. apt, wont, wish. 7. well disposed, favourably. |
| Fain | phr | "Fain and Fain" - gladly and willingly, done with pleasure. |
| Fain | phr | "Full Fain" - extremely glad and willing in dealing with others. |
| Fain | phr | "Glad and Fain" - happy and willing in dealngs with others. |
| Fain | phr | "I Would Have Fained Otherwise" - i would have been pleased, content anyway. |
| Fainhood | n | Gladness, joy. |
| Faining | adj | Gladsome, affectionate, also longing, wishful. |
| Fainlessly | adv | Without attempted evasion. |
| Fainly | adv | Gladly, eagerly. |
| Fain-ness | n | Quality or state of being fain. 2. eagerness, gladless, joy. |
| Fair | n | Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective) as in between the fair and the foul? 2.(obsolete) a woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women. 3.(obsolete) fairness, beauty. 4. a fair woman; a sweetheart. 5.(obsolete) good fortune; good luck. |
| Fair | adj | Things in general: clean, unspoiled, unstained, beautiful, agreeable, delightful, considerable, free from blemish, elegant. 2. of animals: beautiful, handsome, as the roebuck, the swan, the partridge. 3. of sounds: agreeable, delightful. 4. desirable, reputable. of an estate: considerable, handsome in amount. 5. external manifestations, words, promises: attractive, or pleasing at first sight or hearing; specious, plausible, flattery. 6. of light complexion, free from blemish, disfigurement. 7. of fruit, flesh : sound, free from disease or specks. 8. of water: clean, pure, clear not cloudy. 9. handwriting: legible, cursed. 10. of a surface: free from roughness, or irregularities, smooth. 11. of character, conduct, reputation: free from moral stain, unblemished. |
| Fair | phr | "All's Fair in Love and War" - vigorous competition is acceptable in emotionally-charged situations. |
| Fair | phr | "Be a Fair Weather Friend" - someone who is friendly when one is having good fortune. 2. one unreliable in troubled times. |
| Fair | phr | "Be Fair Game" - a legitimate, or suitable object, object for exploitation, abuse, ridicule, teasing. |
| Fair | phr | "Bid Fair" - look promising. |
| Fair | phr | "Fair and Soft Goes Far in a Day" - courtesy and moderation will help one to effect a good deal of one's purpose. |
| Fair | phr | "Fair's do" - be fair. |
| Fair | phr | "Fair Enough" - that something is reasonable, agreed or acceptable. |
| Fair | phr | "Fair Fall You" - good befall you; good luck to you. |
| Fair | phr | "Fair, Fat, and Forty" - a teasing, derogatory, description of women in early middle-age. |
| Fair | phr | "Fair Go" - used in protest to implore or demand that someone acts in a fairer and more reasonable or equitable way. |
| Fair | phr | "Fair's Fair" - be fair, honest; just, equitable. |
| Fair | phr | "Fair to Middling"- slightly above the average. |
| Fair | phr | "Fair Weather or Foul" - whatever the weather is, or will be, in favorable or adverse circumstances alike, come rain, come shine. |
| Fair | phr | "Full Fed and Fair" - happy and well. |
| Fair | phr | "Get a Fair Deal" - a substantial amount, quality, quite a lot. |
| Fair | phr | "Go a Fair Way Towards"- be nearly enough. |
| Fair | phr | "Have the Fair of" - get the better of. |
| Fair | phr | "Keep fair with" - to be friendly with. |
| Fair | phr | "Make Fair Weather Of" - progress, go forward, succeed. |
| Fair | phr | " Make It Fair with" - to deal complaisantly. |
| Fair | phr | "Play Fair"- be honest, straightforward; obey the rules. |
| Fair | phr | "Speak Fair" - to speak civilly or courteously. |
| Fair | phr | "Stand Fair" - to be beautiful. 2. to earn the high opinion of. |
| Fair | phr | "With One's Own Fair Hands" - (facetious) by oneself/ personally with reference usually being a task, service or favor performed by oneself. |
| Fair-born | adj | Born of pleasant appearance. 2. born innocent and pure. |
| Faird | n | Ferd, fyrd, fare:to go. 2. motion, rush, impetus, hence impetuosity, violent onset. |
| Fair day | n | Success in battle, life, work. |
| Fair Deal | n | A set of proposals by US president Truman outlining action in economic development and social welfare. |
| Fair-Dealer | n | One who supports the proposal and program of Truman |
| Fair-dealing | adj | Honourable, honest. |
| Fair-doing | adj | Trustworthy. |
| Fairdom | n | The state, condition or property of being fair: beautiful, pleasing appearance, pure, clean and fresh; unblemished, innocent, etc. |
| Fair-eyed | adj | Having pleasing and attractive eyes. |
| Fair-fall | n | Good luck to. |
| Fair-faxed | adj | Having fair or blond hair |
| Fair field | n | An equitable chance. |
| Fair go | n | A reasonably one equitable opportunity to attempt something. (informal Aust & NZ). 2. to desist in something thought to be outrageous. |
| Fair-haired | adj | Having fair or light-coloured hair. |
| Fair-haired son | n | Favoured or favorite, blue-eyed boy. |
| Fair-headed | adj | Beautiful, attractive, appealing |
| Fairhood | n | Fairness, beauty. |
| Fair-in-sight | n | The flower 'The Bluebell" |
| Fairish | adj | Moderately good, passable, tolerably well (in health). 2. merry in drink. 3. considerable in amount. 4. in a fair manner, to a fair degree. |
| Fair-like | adj | In good condition, well-looking, healthy |
| Fairly | adv | Of appearance: beautifully, handsomely. 2. in a bad sense: speciously. 3. of writing: elegantly, neatly, courteously, respectfully. 4. candidly, impartially, without undue advantage on either side. 5. becomingly, fitly, properly, suitably, proportionately. 6. proper by lawful means, legitimately, opposed to foully. 7. gently, peacefully, quickly, sublety. 8. clearly, distinctly, plainly. |
| Fairlock | adj | Fairness, beauty. |
| Fair Maid of Kent | n | Crowfoot: Ranunculus acaniflorus. |
| Fair-minded | adj | Unbiased, impartial. |
| Fair-mindedness | adj | The state or quality of being unbiased and impartial. |
| Fairness | n | Condition or quality of being fair. 2. beauty, abstractly something that is fair. 3. of women: lightness of colour of skin, complexion. 3. equity, fair-dealing, honesty, uprightness, impartiality. 4. of gentlemen : courtesy. |
| Fairness | phr | "With Fairness" - by gentle means. |
| Fair play | n | Good behaviour and attitude in life generally. |
| Fair shake | n | (Slang) - a fair chance or treatment. |
| Fairship | n | Fairness, fair-dealing, honesty |
| Fairship-ness | n | Beauty, the personality of a fair-lady. |
| Fairsome | adj | Beautiful, |
| Fair-speaking | adj | Eloquent, fair-spoken, gifted with fair speech, fair-tongued. 2. courteous, pleasant. 3. of words: bland; pleasant |
| Fair-spoken | adj | Courteous. |
| Fair-sunned | adj | Well-sunned. |
| Fair-told | adj | Favorably told, favorably affecting one. |
| Fair-tongued | adj | Pleasant in speech and conversation. |
| Fair-water | n | A structure on a ship etc assisting its passage through water. |
| Fairway | n | The area between the tee and the green. 2. any tract of land free from obstacles. 3. a navigable channel in a harbor, the usual course taken by large vessels. 4. a navigable channel in a river or harbor deep enough to take the draft of a large vessel. 5. part of a golf course between the tee and the green. |
| Fair weather | phr | "To Make Fair Weather" - to flatter, give flattering reputation. |
| Fair-weathered | adj | Suitable for use only during fair weather. |
| Fair-weather friend | n | One who is friendly, helpful, available only when it's advantageous or convenient to be so. 2. one unreliable in troubled time. |
| Fair wind | n | A favorable wind. |
| Fair-world | n | A good time, state of prosperity. |
| Faken | n | Fraud, guile, wickedness, crime. |
| Faken | adj | Deceitful, fraudulent. |
| Faken-deed | n | A wicked deed, a sin. |
| Fakenfulness | n | Deceitfulness, deceit. |
| Fakenless | adj | Without deceit, simple, innocent. |
| Faldage | n | An old privilege by which the lord of the manor could set up folds in any field within the manor, in which his tenants were obliged to put their sheep, the object being to manure the land. |
| Faldfee | n | Some kind of manorial dues, as "fald and fee". |
| Faldstol | n | An armless chair used by bishops and other prelates. 2. a movable, folding-stool or desk at which worshippers kneel |
| Fall | n | Debouching of a river; the place where this occurs: the mouth. 2. something that falls, as a trapdoor; pitfall. 3. the act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity; descent, drop. 4. a reduction in quantity, pitch, etc; dip, drop, lowering reduction. 5.(chiefly North America, obsolete elsewhere, from the falling of leaves during this season); autumn. The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. 6. a loss of greatness or status; downfall (of Rome). 7.(sports) a crucial event or circumstance. 8.(cricket, of a wicket) the action of a batsman being out. 8.(curling) a defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction. 8.(wrestling) an instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat. 9.(informal, US) blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed. 10. the part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. 10. blame; punishment: the rap. |
| Fall | vb. | To move downwards. 2. to move to a lower position under the effect of gravity. 2. to come down, to drop or descend. 3. to come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself. 4 to be brought to the ground. 5. to be moved downwards. 6. 9obsolete) to let fall; to drop. 7. (obsolete) to sink; to depress, as in "to fall the voice" 8. .(UK, US, dialect, archaic) to fell; to cut down, as in "to fall a tree" 9. to happen, to change negatively. 1O. to become, as to fall ill. 11. to occur on a certain day of the week, date, or similar; said of an instance of a recurring event such as a holiday or date. 12. to collapse; to be overthrown or defeated. 13. euphemistic: to die, especially in battle or by disease. 14. to become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc). 15.(followed by a determining word or phrase) to become. 16. to be affected by or befallen with a calamity. 17. to change into the state described by words following. 18. to become prostrated literally or figuratively. 19. to be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance. 20.(obsolete) to diminish; to lessen or lower. 21.(obsolete) to bring forth. to fall lambs. 22. (obsolete) to issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals. 23. to descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin. 24. to become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before. to fall into error; to fall into difficulties 25. to assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face. 26. to happen; to come to pass; to chance or light. 27. to begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry, after meeting, they fell to blows. 28. to be dropped or uttered carelessly, words fell carelessly from his lips. |
| Fall | phr | "Axe Has Fallen" - it is now too late. |
| Fall | phr | "Fair Fall or Foul Fall" - may good or evil befall you. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall About" - be helpless, esp. with laughter. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall About One's Ears" - fall utterly, crash about someone's ears, lose his whole world; ones achievements. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall About Laughing" - laugh about uncontrollably,as a listener, audience etc. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall After" - of a dream, to come true. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Among" - to come upon by chance, or hap. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall At " - at hand; to be near at hand. 2. to be going to happen. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Away (to)" - one who falls away from religion; apostasy. 2. to abandon one's principles; desert, revolt. 3. of surfaces: to incline or slope abruptly, as a field. 4. became few or thin, diminish; decline; sink, drop to a lower. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Back" - retreat, withdraw of troops, army |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Back Upon/On" - have recourse to in difficulty. 2. call upon for support or comfort in hard times. 3, last resort everything else fails. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Behind" - beaten, be overtaken or overwhelmed to one's competitors. 2. lag behind, drop behind, move back behind others. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Behind With" - fall behind with payments, installments etc. 2. fail to pay on time. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Below" - of water, earnings, production, etc. dropped lower than permitted or desired level. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Between Two Stools" - fail to be either of two satisfactory choices or alternatives, as in a scheme, plan, proposal, show. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall by the Wayside" - fail to continue an endeavor or undertaking. 2. fail to go forward in life. 2.act with dishonesty and misdeed. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Down" - of a person, building, collapse: fall to the ground. 2. perform poorly, fail to deliver (a payment). 3. of an argument, proposal : fail, not succeed; be inadequate. 4. fail to make progress in life. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Down on It" - fail to make a success of it; not being able to handle it. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall For" - be captivated or deceived by. 2. become in love with. 3. yield to the allure, charm or merits of. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Forth" - to fall out, (to drop out; to happen, occur, to quarrel, fight. 2. to tumble down, fall down |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Foul of" - have a confrontation, quarrel with, have a disagreement with; fall out with in a way that exposes one's weakness, ignorance, misdeeds. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall From" - fall off of; fall out of (favor,) (power,) etc. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Head Over Heels" - be very much in love. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Hook, Line and Sinker" - allow on to be persuaded by an argument, propaganda,a scam. |
| Fall | phr. | "Fall In" - realize, understand. 2. to come upon by chance; light upon. 3. take one's place in a formation; form into ranks when on parade. 4. collapse inwards; give way, as a roof; trench; walkway, wall. 5. expire, as a lease. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall in a Heap" - of a proposal: to collapse utterly. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall In Alongside Of/Beside" - become part of a group. 2. join a group or party of people that is already walking on marching along. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall In Hand to" - to set oneself a course of action; set upon a person. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall In/Into Line" - take in place in the ranks. 2. conform, accept or collaborate with others or majority (usually meekly or tamely). |
| Fall | phr | "Fall In Love (with)" -develop a strong attraction for, great love for, esp. a romantic or sexual love. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Into" - drop accidentally into something, by tripping over an obstacle. 2. to come upon by chance. 3. be divide into parts, components as an article, subject, etc.. 4. be in a coma, fall into a deep sleep, fall into a trance, become comatose. 5. fall into, acquire, take on bad ways or habits. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Into Line/ Step With" - begin to walk instep with somebody. 2. (fig.) start to accept, agree or follow rules, procedures laid down by others. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Into the Right Hands" - fall into a favorable position or in the hands or care of a reliable person. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Into the Wrong Hands" - fall into the possession of malignant forces. 2. of documents, secrets that become known to the enemy or an opposing side. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall in With" - adopt, comply with s.t. already existing, join. 2. meet by chance. 4. encounter, meet, join (sometimes after a long break). 4. or agree with, accede to, support a proposal of, scheme, suggestion, coincide with. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Off" - of a request, demand, income: lessen, decrease, drop off, diminish, become fewer or lessen. 2. of standards, service; quality: worsen, deteriorate. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall of Man" - the degeneracy of the humankind in consequence of the disobedience of Adam. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall of the Drop" - in theatrical parlance, means the fall of the drop curtain. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall On" - to come upon by chance; catch a sight of, see. 2. occur on, take place on. 3. be borne by, be incurred by. 4.attack fiercely; seize greedily |
| Fall | phr | "Fall On Deaf Ears" - not be heard or taken notice of; deliberately ignore (because others are not there or don't wish to listen. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall on Evil Days" - to sink into poverty or suffer similar misfortune. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall On One's Feet" - make a quick recovery often (with some good luck) after a period of difficulty. 2. be lucky to survive a risk. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall On (to) One's Knees" - kneel down, genuflect for mercy, clemency or favour. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall On Stony Ground" - said of ideas, etc., which meets with no response and fail to take root. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Out" - a quarrel, dispute, disagreement. 2. of the hair coming away from the scalp; teeth coming away from the gums, etc. 3. drop out of a military formation. 5. come to pass, result, happen, take place, occur. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Out Of" - gradually discontinue something. 2. fall from a height. 3. fall from an enclosed space at a high or low level. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Out of Love with" - no longer be strongly attracted (or have love for)to a partner. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Outside" - not be something which one can deal with, understand; stand outside a matter. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Out With" - be or become unfriendly or on bad terms with, usually after an argument or quarrel. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Over" - fall over and hit the ground (after slipping, tripping, fainting). 2. fall from an upright or horizontal position. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Over Backward to do Something" - go or make every effort to great effort to please. 2. take a special care, go to great pains (esp. to please somebody). |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Overboard" - fall from the deck of a ship or vessel into the water. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Over Oneself to do Something" - to be unusually enthusiastic; strive eagerly to bring about, competitive. 2. be awkward, clumsy, stumble through haste. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Over One's Feet" - be very clumsy. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Short" - be or become deficient or inadequate. 2. of |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Short Of" - fail to reach or obtain a specified amount. 2. be less than required, satisfactory or desired. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Sick' - become ill. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Through" - come to nothing; fail to happen, not eventuate or occur. 2. fail, miscarry. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall to" - begin or start an activity of some kind; as, begin to eat; work, etc. 2. start, begin something. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall to Ground" - collapse, crumble, break down, as an argument, theory. 2. crumble, fail because of lack of proof, evidence. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall to One's Lot" - becomes one's duty or responsibility. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Under" - be classified, be placed within a certain category some matter, question. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Under the Spell of Somebody" - be charmed, captivated,entranced by somebody or something. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Upon" - attack fiercely. 2. catch sight of, see, come across. 3. be incurred by. 4. be borne by. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Upon Hard Times" - suffer, hardship, misfortune. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Upon Somebody to do Something"- become one's responsibility to do something |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Upon Someone's Ears" - be heard, become audible |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Upon Somebody's Neck" - fawn, be obsequious. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall What Can" - what will fall, happen, befall |
| Fall | phr | "Fall With" - correspond to, be parallel to, go together, synchronize, fail with. |
| Fall | phr | "Fall Within" - be something which someone can understand, be able to deal with, handle, discuss comfortably. |
| Fall | phr | "In the Fall" - in the autumn, at the fall of the leaf. |
| Fall | phr | "It Falls to Somebody's Lot to do Something" - it becomes someone's undertaking or responsibility to arrange, design, work out, welcome. |
| Fall | phr | "It Falls Out That" - happen, come about, occur, as, 'how did it fall out that John and Mary arrive at the station the same time'. |
| Fall | phr | "Riding for a Fall" - acting or behaving in a way that is likely to get you into trouble. 2. take a course likely to lead to disaster. |
| Fall | phr | "Roof Has Fallen In" - an enterprise has collected. |
| Fall | phr | "Wheels Fell off" - the plan has failed. |
| Fall | phr | "Where the Axe Falls" - who gets terminated. |
| Fall-back | n | A reserve, something that may be used as an emergency. 2. a falling back or a reuction |
| Fall-back | adj | Reserve, emergency. |
| Fallen | adj | Having lost one's reputation or honor. 2. killed in war. |
| Fallenness | n | The state of being fallen; esp. degeneracy, (degeneration) consequent upon "The Fall" |
| Fallen-stars | n | The plant "Tremella nostoc" |
| Fallen woman | n | One who has surrendered her chastity. |
| Faller | n | A person, animal, or thing that falls, esp. an animal or person in a race. 2. the value of shares on the stock market when they fall. 3. a timber-cutter. |
| Falling | n | Decrease, lessening. a coming-down. |
| Falling | adj | Decreasing in amount or degree; decreasing - becoming less or smaller. 2. falling - becoming lower or less in degree or value. 3. falling - coming down freely under the influence of gravity. |
| Falling | phr | "The Falling of the Leaf" - autumn, fall. 2. depression of the soul. |
| Falling | phr | "Falling in Love"- (see: 'fall in Love'.) come to have feelings of love or intense liking for (each other). 2. the state or condition of being enamored or being in love. |
| Falling-out | n | A quarrel. |
| Falling-sickness | n | Epilepsy. |
| Falling star | n | A meteor; a shooting star. |
| Falling-weather | n | Applied to the weather in which rain, snow or hail falls or may be expected to fall. |
| Fall-less | adj | Having no Fall or Autumn. 2. fruit that stays on the vine. 3. aa boxer who cannot be knocked down. |
| Fall-line | n | The brink of a plateau, as indicated by waterfalls. |
| Fallness | n | The state or condition of falling. |
| Fall-off | n | Decrease, deterioration, withdrawal. |
| Fall-out | n | Consequences, blowback; harm, disadvantage. 2. radioactive refuse. |
| Fallow | n | Ground plough and harrowed, but left uncropped for a year or more. 2Fallowness: the condition of being fallow, idleness |
| Fallow | vb | Fade, wither, grow pale, blanch. 2. to plough |
| Fallow | adj | Pale brownish or reddish yellow in colour |
| Fallow-deer | n | Cervus damo or Dama vulgaris. |
| Fallowed | adj | Of land, ploughed but left unseeded. |
| Fallow-finch | n. | The plantwheatear (saxicola oeananthe) |
| Fallowing | n | The action or operation of ploughing and breaking up land; an instance of this. 2. method or system by which land is ploughed. |
| Fallowness | n | The condition of being fallow. 2. idleness, lethargy. |
| Fall-pipe | n | A downpipe. |
| Fall-through | vb | To fail to happen or occur, like unfurling of a sail. 2. to drop or fall freely under the influence of gravity, as leaves falling from a tree. |
| Fallway | n | A well or opening, through the successive walls of a warehouse, factory, deck of a ship, providing access for material, goods or people. 2. a hydraulic canal for a water-powered mill. |
| False | adj | Origin: Old French borrowed into Old English before 1000; 2. uttering or declaring what is untrue: a false witness. 3. not faithful or loyal; treacherous: a false friend. 4. tending to deceive or mislead; deceptive. 5. not genuine; counterfeit. 6. dishonestly; faithlessly; treacherously: 'did he speak false against me? 7. play someone false, to betray someone; be treacherous or faithless. 8.not in accordance with the truth or facts. 9. irregular or invalid: a false start. 10. untruthful or lying: a false tale. 11. not genuine, real, or natural; artificial; fake: false eyelashes. 12. being or intended to be misleading or deceptive. 13. based on mistaken or irrelevant ideas or facts: false pride. 14. ( prenominal ) (esp of plants) superficially resembling the species specified: false hellebore. 15. serving to supplement or replace, often temporarily: a false keel 16. music a. (of a note, interval, etc) out of tune. b. (of the interval of a perfect fourth or fifth) decreased by a semitone. c. (of a cadence) interrupted or imperfect. |
| False | phr | "Play (Someone) False" - to betray someone; be treacherous or faithless. |
| False dawn | n | A transient light which precedes the true dawn by about an hour (a phenomena common in The East, also fig. |
| Falsedom | n | Treachery, truthlessness, falsehood. |
| False-hearted | adj | Disloyal, perfidious. |
| False-heartedness | n | Disloyalty, and perfidious behaviour |
| Falsehood | n | The property of being false. 2. a false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie. 2. mendacity, deceitfulness. 2. the trait of a person who is mendacious and deceitful. 4. a untruthful, a fabrication. |
| Falsely | adv | In a false manner. |
| Falseness | n | The characteristic of being false. |
| False rib | n | A floating rib. |
| Falseship | n | The quality of being false. 2. untruthfulness, dishonesty, decency. |
| False-tongued | adj | To deliberately give a false interpretation of something, misrepresentive, untruthful. |
| False start | n | An invalid or disallowed start in a race. 2. an unsuccessful attempt to start something. |
| False teeth | n | Dentures. |
| Falsework | n | Construction work, such as scaffolding. 2. facilitate the erection of the main works. |
| Fan | n | An instrument for winnowing grain. 2. a basket for separating corn from chaff by throwing it into the air. 3. instrument for blowing a fire. 4. an apparatus, usually with with rotating blades , giving a current of air for ventilation. 5. delta of a river. |
| Fan | vb | To winnow corn or corn. 2. to flap like a bird in flight; flutter. 3. of the wind: blow to move or drive the air about; also, to stir water in this way. 4. to wave to create movement of air. |
| Fan belt | n | A belt that drives fan to cool the radiator in a motor vehicle. |
| Fand | vb | To put to proof by test (a person or thing). 2. to make a trial of one's strength or skill. 3. to taste or try food. 4. to prove, try, try to find out, experiment with. 5. to examine, scam. 6. to test, tempt, prove God. 6. to endeavor to lead into evil (tempt). 7. in a good or neutral sense: to try to induce someone to do something. 8. to have experience of dealing with a person or matter. 9. to have carnal knowledge with. 10. to enquire, seek. look for, enquire into a matter. 11. to search a place for, explore. 12 to ask. 13. to attempt, ask. 14. to busy oneself, to go, precede. 15. to attempt to undertake deed or action. 16. to take care of. |
| Fanding | n | The action of trying. 2. a testing or putting to proof; a trial. 3. a trying to do or find out something. 4. an attempt, experiment. 5. temptation. 6. tempting by providence. |
| Fane | n | Pennant, banner, flag. 2. weathercock |
| Fang | n | A catch, grip, a tight grasp, capture. 2. the act or fact of catching or seizing. that which is caught or taken; plunder, spoils, booty. 3. an instrument for catching or holding, a noose, trap, snare. |
| Fang | n | A tooth, a human tooth, a canine tooth. 2. a canine tooth, tusk, applied general to animals, spec. to teeth of dogs, wolves, etc. 3. the venom tooth of a snake. 4. mandible of an insect. 5. a claw. talon. 6. a tapering pointed part of anything which is embedded in something else. 6. a tang, spike, tang of a tooth. 7. root of a tooth, or one of the prongs that divide it. |
| Fang | vb | To grasp, seize, hold on to, take hold of, lay hold of something or someone. 2. of a thief: "taken in fang" (plunder). |
| Fang | phr | Fang Christendom: to take up christian belief; receive Christian baptism. |
| Fang | phr | Fang Mankind: to become human in nature, to welcome, receive a guest, promise, resolve, undertake; |
| Fang | phr | "Fang One's Way" - to undertake a battle. 2. to take or engage a person or a thing for a purpose; promise, resolve. 3. to take one's way, go proceed. 4. go set about, proceed, begin, start. |
| Fang | phr | Fang to- to take one's way, sponsor in |
| Fang | phr | Fang Up: to pluck up the heart or courage; to take up, get, procure. |
| Fang | phr | Fang With in the embrace; with or under the protection or safety of. |
| Fang | phr | Lose the fang- to miss one's aim; fail in an attempt. |
| Fang | phr | "Strike one's Fangs into" - to bite, savage, menace. |
| Fanging | n | The action of verb: grasping, seizing, catching, lay hold of. 2. the action of earning wages. 3. the action of standing sponsor. |
| Fangless | adj | Toothless, without fangs. 2. of a tooth having no roots. |
| Fangy | adj | Having a number of fangs or teeth. 2. that divided into fangs. 3. resembling fangs. |
| Fanner | n | One who winnows grain with a fan. 2. one who fans himself or others. 3. |
| Fanning | n | The action of winnowing. 2. the sifting of tea. 3. the fanning or moving of of air with a fan. |
| Fanning-out | vb | Spreading out. |
| Far | vb | To put off, remove (only in the expression of a wish). |
| Far | phr | "As Far As One Can See" - in one's judgement. 2. to the extent one can judge. |
| Far | phr | "As Far As One Can Go" - used to denote, or to imply, degree of limitation, incompleteness or inadequacy. |
| Far | phr | "Be Far and Away" - absolutely, without equal. |
| Far | phr | "Far Afield" - far away. |
| Far | phr | "Far and Near" - everywhere' from all, many places or directions. |
| Far | phr | "Far and Wide" - everywhere, to all or many places or directions. |
| Far | phr | "Far Be It From Me" - presumptuous and self-denigrating remark. |
| Far | phr | "Far from Doing Something" - not doing something as expected, but doing something else. |
| Far | phr | "Far from It" - by no means; not at all. |
| Far | phr | "Far from It" - certainly not; just the opposite. |
| Far | phr | "Far from Something" - certainly not; by no means; not at all. |
| Far | phr | "Far Out and Away" - to a very great degree. |
| Far | phr | "How Far?" - to what extent? |
| Far | phr | "Too Far Gone" - in an extremely advanced state. |
| Far-away | adj | Distant, remote, extreme. 2. a long time ago. |
| Far-awayness | n | The state or quality of being remote (ness), distance, longly removed sate. 2. what is faraway: distant parts. 3. the dim distance. 4. film taken at a distance, as distinct from "close-up". |
| Far-back | n | Remote in space; inaccessibility. 2. the most remote districts or back settlements. |
| Far-being | n | The state of being at a distance. |
| Far-between | adj | Occurring at long intervals; infrequent. |
| Far-born | adj | Born along ago. |
| Far-come | adj | hat which has come from a distance. |
| Fard | n | Ferd, fyrd, fare -to go. 2. motion, rush, impetus, hence impetuousity, ardour, violent onset. |
| Far-day | n | The latter part of the day; the high day. |
| Fardel | n | OE. forth part. |
| Far-down | n | An Irish-American belonging to a family which emigrated from the North of Ireland. 2. a poor person, needy, indigent. |
| Far-down | adj | Situated or existing below. |
| Fare | n | A going, journeying, course, passage, voyage. 2. expedition for a journey; the rigging out of a ship; apparel, belongings. 3. a road, track. 4. track or trace of a rabbit or hare. 5. a number of person prepared for a journey. 6. a troop, multitude; a swarm of flies. 7. a passage or excursion for which a price is paid; cost of conveyance (now of persons only), but formerly, also of money for goods transported. 8. passengers collectively, convoy of passengers that engage a vehicle plying for hire. 9. mode of proceeding, bearing, demeanour, appearance, aspect. 10. doings, proceedings, actions, fighting. 11. display, pomp, commotion, uproar, fuss. 12. condition, state or state of things, welfare of things, prosperity, success. 13. food, in regard to it's quality; supply or provision (abundance or scarcity) |
| Fare | n | A farrow, a litter of pigs. |
| Fare | vb | To go, travel. 2. to get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events. 3. to eat, dine. 4. to happen well, or ill. [quotations ▼] We shall see how it will fare with him |
| Fare | vb | To have a litter. |
| Fare | phr | "To Fare On" - to rush on, attack, assault. |
| Fare | phr | "To Let Fare" - to let go |
| Fare | phr | "To Make Fare" - a thing to make use of, employ, possess, live upon (food), make plentiful of food. |
| Far East | n | "The Far East" - the extreme far-eastern regions of The Old World, esp. China and Japan. |
| Far-eastern | adj | Pertaining or belonging to the extreme east; The Orient. |
| Fare forth | vb | To go about, to go forth, depart, start. 2. to go on, advance, with respect to space and time. 3. to go by, pass way. |
| Fare-free | adj | Fee paid on the quitting of a tenancy. |
| Far-end | n | The extremities; the last stages of life, strength, resources. |
| Farer | n | Voyager, tripper, distant traveler, seafarer, wayfarer, far-farer, far-goer. |
| Far-eyed | adj | Far-sighted, far-seeing. |
| Farer | n | Voyager, tripper, distant traveler, seafarer, wayfarer, far-farer. |
| Fare-thee-well | n | Farewell; goodbye. |
| Fare up | vb | To get. |
| Farewell | n | A wish of happiness or welfare at parting, esp. a permanent departure; the parting compliment, a goodbye, adieu. 2. an act of departure, leave-taking, a last look at, or reference to something. |
| Farewell | vb | To bid farewell, say goodbye. |
| Farewell | intj | Goodbye, as in "she said farewell". |
| Farewell | adj | Parting, valedictory, final. |
| Farewell | phr | "Bid Farewell" - the payment on quitting tenancy. 2. an after-taste, tang. 3. applied to a point where one bids farewell or parts from anothure person. |
| Farewell | phr | "Farewell Fieldfare" - said to one of whom the speaker wishes to see no more, in allusion to the fieldfare departure northward at the end of winter. |
| Farewell | phr | "Go Farewell" - to go away; be dismissed. |
| Farewell | phr | "Fare you Well"- goodluck, best wishes, good fortune to you, |
| Fareworthy | adj | Having the right to go as one pleases. 2. free to go. 3. capable to leave (a place). 4. able to depart 9at one's wall). 5. somewhat unrestrained. |
| Farfarer | n | Far-goer, distant voyager or traveler. |
| Far-fetched | adj | Brought from far; foreign. 2. of pedigree: traced from remote origin. 3. devious, circuitous. 4. of an argument, notion, simile, etc. studiously, sort out, strained, not easily or naturally introduced. |
| Far-fetchedness | n | The state of being far-fetched, remote, not easily introduced, etc. |
| Far-forth | adv | To a great distance or extent for. |
| Far-forth day | n | Late in the day, high day. 2. in reference to distance in state, space, time, as some day (time) far into the future; thus far forth, so far forth that. |
| Far-forthly | adv | To a great or definite extent; also entirely excellent. |
| Far-goer | n | One who travels far or long distances. |
| Far-gone | adj | Advanced to a great extent or age. |
| Far-hand | n | The condition or standing of one that seeks employment away from home. |
| Faring | n | Journeying, travelling, an instance of this. 2. condition or state ; esp. a passing condition of the body. 3. entertainment; also, plural (farings)- made dishes. |
| Faring | adj | That has a specified condition or state, as well faring, better faring, best faring. |
| Faringly | adv | Like one in a specified condition; in a well, ill, conditioned manner |
| Farish | adj | Somewhat far; |
| Farish | phr | "Farish On" - late (far into) in time, as, "getting farish in years". |
| Farish | phr | "Getting Farish in Years" - getting advanced in years, elderly. |
| Farland | adj | Coming from a distance; foreign. |
| Farly | adv | To a great extent or distance. |
| Farm | n | May be related to farm : a tract of land leased. 2. food, provision, hence a banquet, feast. |
| Farm | vb | To cleanse, empty, purge. |
| Farmer | n | One who cleanses, empties, purges. |
| Farness | n | State or fact or being far; remoteness. 2. also occasionally of sight: far-reachingness. 3. amount of distance. 4. distant part, distance. |
| Far-off | adj | Long ago, long-time ago as, " far-off years, when he had his share in life's true wealth, bright youth and health". 2. far, distant, remote ( in space, in time, in relationship). 3. of thoughts, looks, (fig)- distant, from a former time (in eyes). |
| Far-off | phr | "In the Far-off" - in the past; in the future. |
| Far-offness | n | The state or fact of being far off; distant. |
| Far out | adj | Remote, distant. 2. of music, fashion, trends, latest, most progressive, kind, avant-garde, excellent, splendid, far-fetched. |
| Far-reaching | adj | That reaches for (extensive lit & fig.) 2. exerting an influence or producing an effect which extends in space or time. |
| Far-reaching-ness | n | The state or quality of being far-reaching in various senses. |
| Farrow | n | A young pig. 2. a litter of pigs. 3. of a sow "with farrow": with young. 4. an instance of farrow or farrowing - producing a litter. |
| Farrow | vb | Of a sow: to bring forth young. 2. to produce a litter. |
| Farrowing | n | The giving of birth to a litter (of pigs). |
| Far-seeing | adj | Far-sighted, far-eyed. |
| Far-side | n | "The Far-side" - the right-handed side. |
| Far-sight | n | The ability to see far (lit & fig.) |
| Far-sighted | adj | Furnished with the capacity for distant vision. 2. (fig.) - forecasting, prudent, shrewd. 3. able to see an object at a distant, more clearly than one at close hand. |
| Far-sightedly | adv | In a far-sighted manner |
| Far-sightedness | n | The state of being far-sighted. |
| Farther | adv | More far. |
| Farther | adj | Of or pertaining to being distant. 2. of or greater distance in degree or of extension in time. |
| Farther-deal | n | An advantage. |
| Fartherer | n | As in a "fartherer of the truth" |
| Farthermore | adv | Furthermore. |
| Farthermost | adj | Most remote or distant; furthermore. |
| Farthing | n | A coin worth one fourth or quarter of a penny. 2. name of various measures of land, as "a quarter of a hide." - a virgate ( aa rendering of the OE. gierdland); a quarter of an acre. |
| Farthing | phr | "Not worth a Brass Farthing" - virtually worthless. |
| Farthing-deal | n | One fourth part of anything; a quarter. 2. a quarter of an acre: a rood. |
| Farthing-land | n | A measure of land mentioned in the Domesday Book, supposed to have consisted of a few acres. |
| Farthing-less | adj | Without a farthing; destitute, poor, very needy, impoverished. |
| Farthing-worth | n | As much as is bought or sold for a farthing; a very small amount. |
| Far-went | adj | That has wended or travelled far. |
| Fas | n | A border, fringe. 2. something worthless. |
| Fash | n | A fringe; anything with a fringe. 2. resembling a fringe. 3. the tops of carrots, turnip, or mangolds. 4. rough edge or ridge left on nails, bullets etc. |
| Fash | adj | Hairy. |
| Fast | n | The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food
2.The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food. |
| Fast | vb | To abstain from food, or eat very little, especially for religious or medical reasons. |
| Fast | adj | Old English fæst - fast, fixed, firm, secure; constant, steadfast; stiff, heavy, dense; obstinate, bound, costive; enclosed, closed, watertight; strong, fortified. The original sense of “secure, firm” is now slightly archaic, but retained in the related fasten (“make secure”). 2.(dated) firmly or securely fixed in place; stable, as "make it (the loose rope) fast! 3. firm against attack; fortified by nature or art. 4. of people: steadfast, with unwavering feeling, as a "fast friend".) 5. moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid; occurring or happening within a short time: quick, rapid, speedy, swift. 6. computing, of a piece of hardware : able to transfer data in a short period of time. 7. deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people). 8 .of dyes or colours) not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent; colour-fast. 9. obsolete tenacious; retentive. 10. colloquial: having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits, as "she's fast – she slept with him on their first date; easy, slutty. 11. ahead of the correct time or schedule (as a clock). 12. of photographic film more sensitive to light than average. |
| Fast | adv | In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved, firmly, tightly, securely. 2. of sleeping : deeply or soundly. 3. immediately following in place or time; close, very near. 4. quickly, with great speed; within a short time. 5. ahead of the correct time or schedule. 5. quickly, rapidly, speedily, swiftly. |
| Fast | vb | To abstain from food, or eat very little, especially for religious or medical reasons. |
| Fast | phr | "Come In Thick and Fast" - to arrive quickly and in great volume. |
| Fast | phr | "Fast or Loose" - ignore one's obligations, which are acknowledge to another. 2. to be slippery, inconsistent, inconstancy. |
| Fast | phr | "Life in the Fast Lane" - existence full of exciting, but worthless activity. |
| Fast | phr | "Pull a Fast One" - take an unfair advantage. 2. engage in a dirty trick. |
| Fast | phr | "To Live Fast" - to expend quickly one's vital energy. 2. to have lived a dissipated life. |
| Fastback | n | A car with a roof that slopes to the back. |
| Fast day | n | A day of fasting. |
| Fasten | n | Fasting, an act of fastening. |
| Fasten | vb | To make fast, firm or stable. 2. to establish, settle, confirm. 3. to become firm. 4. to set firm or solid. 5. to strengthen, harden. 6. to sure, confirm, agree, ratify (an agreement). 7. to fortify. 8. to make fast (in fetters); to render unable to move. 9. to make fast to something else, attach, tie or bond of any kind 10. |
| Fasten | phr | "Fasten the Feet" - to get or obtain some foothold. 2. to become firm. 3. to set firm or solid. 3. to strengthen, harden. |
| Fasten | phr | "Fasten Upon" - use with material objects: stick to, adhere to, attach to. 2. choose, in a keen alert way, for special consideration, seize upon. |
| Fasten | phr | Fasten Together" - to sew, connect, join. |
| Fastener | n | One who fastens. 2. that which serves to fasten anything. 3. a warrant for arrest. |
| Fastens | n | Sometimes spelt fastens: the eve of or day before Lent- the fast of Lent: Shrove Tuesday. |
| Faster | n | One who abstains from food. |
| Fast fingers | n | A crafty thief. 2. adroitly and highly efficent in the practice of pickpocketing and theft. |
| Fastfolk | n | An engaged couple. 2. fiancee and fiancee. |
| Fast-food | n | A type of meal that is often standardized, prepared and served quickly. 2. a type of food that is quickly made, but of little nutritional value; junk food. 3. anything standardized, quickly available and inexpensive, but often of low value. |
| Fast forward | adj | A control on a tape or video player for advancing the tape rapidly. 2. |
| Fast forward | vb | To advance a tape rapidly, sometimes while simultaneously playing it at high speed. |
| Fast-gong | n | Fast-gong tide; fasting: Shrove Tide. |
| Fastingly | adv | In a fasting manner, abstemiously, sparing. |
| Fastish | adj | Somewhat fast. |
| Fastland | n | The mainland, as distinguish from islands. 2. the continent (Europe); a continent. |
| Fast lane | n | On a multi-laned road, the lane intended or reserved for vehicles moving at a faster speed. 2. (fig. by extension) any situation or activity where the pace is rapid. |
| Fast lane | phr | " In the Fast Lane" - in a lifestyle, employment, position or other set of circumstances where the rapid pace is exciting, frantic or risky. |
| Fast life | n | A life full of excitement. |
| Fastly | adv | In a fixed or steady manner. 2. firmly, unwaveringly. 3. without intermission or cessation. 4. closely, security. 5. quickly, rapidly, speedily; hence readily. |
| Fast-mass | n | Shrove-tide. |
| Fastness | n | Quality or state of being firmly fixed, fixedness, stability, firm attachment. 2. fidelity, loyalty, firm adherence. 3. close alliance. 4. quality or state of being compact or close; density, solidity. 5. of style: conciseness, pithiness. 6. capacity for gripping tightly or retaining; tenacity, retentivenss. 7. security from invasion, safety, strength. 8. difficulty of access. 9. rapidity, swiftness. 10 of persons: quality of being fast in manner, talk or living mode. 11. that which fastens or keeps fast. 12. support, help. 13. a stronghold, fortress. |
| Fastrede | adj | Firm with purpose; steadfast. |
| Fast-rooted | adj | Fixed firmly. |
| Fast-rootedness | n | The condition or state of being firmly fixed. |
| Fastship | n | Quality of gripping tightly, parsimony. |
| Fast-talk | n | To use clever talk in order to persuade someone to do something rash. |
| Fast-wind | vb | Wind (magnetic tape) rapidly backwards or forwards. |
| Fast worker | n | One quick to purse women in amatory context |
| Fat | n | A vessel, a container, a vessel of silver or other metal; esp. one holding holy water. 2. a vessel of a large size for liquids, a tub; a brewer vat, a wine cask. 3. cask or barrel containing dry things. 4. a measure of capacity. |
| Fat | vb | To bedaub with fat or grease. 2. to cover thickly. 3. grow or become fat. 4. to make fat, fatten, feed up (animals). 5. to enrich the soil, fertilize with nutritious and stimulating elements. |
| Fat | adj | Carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body. 2 .carrying a larger than normal amount of fat: chubby, chunky, corpulent, obese, overweight, plump, porky (slang), rotund, tubby, well-fed; obese. 3. bountiful. |
| Fat | phr | "A Fat Lot Of Good" - little or no good. |
| Fat | phr | "As Fat As a Young Thrush" - plump, usually in a pleasant, healthy looking way. |
| Fat | phr | "A Bit of Fat" - an unexpected stroke of fat. |
| Fat | phr | "Chew the Fat" - talk at length (but usually inconsequentially) |
| Fat | phr | "Fat as a Pig" - grossly overweight. |
| Fat | phr | "It's Not Over Till the Fat Lady Sings" - one should not presume the outcome of an event which is still in progress. |
| Fat | phr | "Live Off the Fat of the Land" - the greatest part of anything. 2. the finest and most abundant store of resources. 3. the cream of the crop. |
| Fat | phr | "The Fat Is In The Fire" - the action has caused trouble. 2. action with unstoppable consequences has now been initiated. |
| Fat | phr | "Live Off the Fat of the Land" - the greatest part of anything. 2. the finest and most abundant store of resources. 3. the cream of the crop. |
| Fat | phr | "The Fat Years and the Lean Years" - years of abundance, prosperity and years of want or need. |
| Fat | phr | "Trim the Fat" - to reduce something by cutting away the fat or excess. 2. to lose weight by dieting or excess. |
| Fatback | n | Salted pork from the back of a hog carcass. |
| Fatberg | n | A large accumulation of fat and other discarded toiletries which block sewers. |
| Fat-cat | n | Originally a phrase in US used to describe a rich political donors. 2. any affluent person who is perceived to have profited fro the labor of others. 3. a high-ranking public servant. |
| Fat finger | n | A supposed cause of typographical errors. |
| Fat-free | adj | Without fat or fat solids; fatless. |
| Fat-guts | n | A man with a fat belly or stomach, often resulting from the frequent consumption of alcohol. |
| Fat-head | n | A fool, imbecile, dolt |
| Father | n | A male who sires (and often raises) a child. 2. male donator of sperm which resulted in conception or fertilization. 3. a term of respectful address for an elderly man. 4. term of respectful address for a priest. 5. person who plays the role of a father in some way. 6. the founder of a discipline or science. |
| Father | phr | "Father Knows Best" - as an expert I know better than you what is most suitable for you. |
| Father | phr | "Father of Lies" - Satan, Lucifer, the Devil |
| Father | phr | "Father of the Waters"- The Mississippi |
| Father | n | "Ghostly Father" - the title given to a confessor or spiritual director. |
| Father | phr | "God The Father" - the first part of the Trinity. |
| Father | phr | "The father of ..." - the inventor, founder of. |
| Father | n | "The Holy Father" - The Pope; His Holy Fatherhood. |
| Father-God | n | The God of creation. |
| Fatherhood | n | The state or condition of being a father. |
| Fathering | n | The act or serving as a father to a child. 2. the provision of sperm that united with the egg to produce a child. 3. the creation or making of an organization, movement, etc. |
| Father-in-law | n | The father of one's husband or wife. |
| Fatherkin | n | Descent from or by the father's side; spearside. |
| Fatherland | n | The land of one's birth; one's country. |
| Fatherland | phr | "In Fatherland" - at home, living in one's country of birth; land of one's fathers; the mother country. |
| Fatherlandish | adj | Pertaining to or of one's country. |
| Fatherlandless | adj | Unpatriotic. 2. stateless, born at sea, without a nationality. |
| Fatherless | adj | Having no father. 2. without a living father. 3. of a book etc, without a known author, anonymous. |
| Fatherlessness | n | State or condition of being fatherless. |
| Father-like | adj | Resembling one's father. 2. having the bearing and aspect of one's father. 3. such is as proper to a father; such as a father would do. |
| Father-like | adv | In a fatherly manner, fatherly. |
| Fatherliness | n | Quality of being a fatherly. 2. fatherly in characteristics, function or feeling. |
| Fatherly | adv | Paternal, of or pertaining to ancestors, ancestral, venerable. 2. resembling a father; hence venerable in character or demeanour. 3. in a fatherly manner, as a father with a father care and affection. |
| Fathers | n | "The Fathers" : the fathers of the ameriacan constitution, the "founding fathers." |
| Father's Day | n | A day established for a special tribute to fathers. |
| Fathership | n | The paternal state or relation. 2. of a father: paternity, fatherhood. |
| Father-to-be | n | A male partner of a pregnant woman (mother-to-be), especially when for the first time. |
| Fathom | n | The embracing arms = bosom (OE. only). 2. fig. grasp, power. 3. object of the embrace - the wife of thy bosom. 4. stretching of the arms in a straight line to the full extent. 5. breadth of one's comprehension, grasp of intellect or ability. 6. a measure of length. 7. length by outstretched arms, including the hands to the tip of the longest finger; hence a definite measure of six feet. |
| Fathom | vb | To encircle with extended arms. |
| Fathom | phr | "Fathom's deep" - deep in many respect. 2. excessively deep. |
| Fathom | phr | "Fathom's down" - very deep. |
| Fathom | phr | "Fathom Out" - discover or devise an explanation for. |
| Fathom | phr | "Fathom Together" - to embrace a person; to embrace mutually. |
| Fathoming | n | Mental reaching, the extent and capacity of reasoning. 2. the depth of thoughts, penetrative searching, delving. |
| Fathom-less | adj | That cannot be measured with a fathom line; a measureless depth. 2. an abyss (metaphorical). 3. that cannot be penetrated or wholly understood; incomprehensible. |
| Fathomlessly | adv | In a fathomless manner. |
| Fathom-lessness | n | State or condition of being fathomless. |
| Fatless | adj | Without fat or greasy matter. |
| Fatling | n | A calf, lamb or other young animal made fat for slaughter. 2. small and fat |
| Fat lip | n | A swelling or cut on the lip caused by a blow or punch. |
| Fatly | adv | Grossly greasy; plentiful. 2. to a great extent, largely, clumsily. |
| Fatness | n | Quality of being fat, or overweight. 2 plumpness, corpulence. 3. breadth or thickness. 4. of a, or belonging to a tree: oiliness, juiciness. 5. of soil: unctuousness, fertility, luxuriance 5. that which makes fertile; of a fertilizing property or virtue. |
| Fat stock | n | Livestock fattened for slaughter. |
| Fat tail | n | A high probability of an extreme outcome (statistics). |
| Fatten | vb | To make plump. 2. fatten for market or slaughter. 3. to grow fat, become fat, become thicker. 4. to enrish the soil 5. fig. & transfig. to pamper. |
| Fatten | adj | What has been made fat. |
| Fatten | phr | "Fatten On" - grow rich at the expense of somebody else. |
| Fatten | phr | "Fatten Up" - give an animal or person plenty to eat, causing him/her or it to put on weight. |
| Fattening | n | The process of making fat or becoming fat. 2. the action of thickening. |
| Fattily | adv | A morbid disposition of fat. |
| Fattiness | n | The quality or condition of being fat or fatty. |
| Fattish | adj | Somewhat fatty or fat. 2. somewhat greasy or unctuous. |
| Fattishness | n | The quality of being fattish. |
| Fatty | adj | Resembling fat; the nature of fat, unctuous, oligenous, greasy. 2. besmeared with fat, greasy. 3. of animals and their limbs: full. 4. of fat, plump, well-fed. 5. of a leaf: full of sap, juicy. 6. marked by a morbid disposition of fat. 7. tending to producing fat. 8. a fat person (a nickname). |
| Fatty-liver | n | Fatty-liver or steatosis is the buildup of fat in the liver. |
| Fat-ware | n | Cattle made fat for market. |
| Fat-witted | adj | Slow and dully, mental unalert, thick-headed, anyone's fool, stupid, ready to be used or exploit. |
| Fatwood | n | A heartwood of pine trees, impregnated with resin, useful in the manufacture of pitch and pine tar. |
| Faw | adj | OE. fay; in modern English would normally be fough or fow. 2. coloured, stained, streaky, particoloured, variegated. 2. of an object that reflects light. 3. bright, glancing, gleaming, twinkling. |
| Fawn | vb | To fawn upon. 2. to wag the tail. 3. to caress, pat the head of a dog. 4. to effect with a servile fondness. 5. to court favour or notice by abject demeanour. 6. to fawn upon a person, his looks, etc. 7. to cringe to (a person); curry favour, flatter, cajole, wheedle. |
| Fawner | n | One who fawns, cringes, a toading, a sycophant. |
| Fawnguest | n | A fawning parasite, a sycophant, toady. 2. one who swindles another under the guise of friendship. |
| Fawning | n | Said of animals: cringing, servile, flattery or homage. 2. an instance of this. |
| Fawningly | adv | In a fawning manner. 2. caressingly, joyfully. 3. cringing, flattering, servilely. |
| Fawingness | n | A fawning disposition or demeanour. 2. cringing behavoiur, servility. |
| Fawn | n | A young deer. 2. a pale-brown colour tinted with yellow like that of a fawn. 3. fawn colour. 4. a whelp. |
| Fawn | vb | To exhibit affection or attempt to please. 2. to seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with 'on' or 'upon'). 3. of a dog: to wag it's tail, to show devotion. |
| Fawn | adj | Of a fawn colour, pale-brown. |
| Fawn | phr | 'Fawn On' - attempt to win somebody's favor by servile behavior. |
| Fawnish | adj | Of a colour, some what resembling pale-brownish. |
| Fawnsome | adj | Of a animal: disposed to fawning, showing fondness. |
| Fawny | adj | Fond. 2. somewahet fawnish-brown |
| Faw-thistle | n | Labrum veneris: lit. coloured thistle or teasel. |
| Fax | n | The hair of the head. 2. the face (derisively) |
| Faxed | adj | Having hair; hairy. |
| Faxed-star | n | A comet, from it flowing tail's resemblance to hair flowing in the breeze. |
| Fax-wax | n | A strong fibrous band extending from the dorsal vertebrae to the occiput, and supporting the head in many mammals, as the horse. (Also "paxwax"). |
| Fay | vb | OE fegan: to unite; to fit, adapt, or join. 2. to put together, unite closely with, add, compose. 3. fix or fasten in position. 4. to fit, furnish with. 5. to suit, to match with. 6. of a coat: to fit or fay in. 5. to suit, match with. 6. do, suit, go on. favourably, succeed. 7. shipbuilding: to fit (a piece of timber) closely or accurately to another. 8. of timber: to fit close, so as to leave no intervening space. |
| Fay | adj | OE faege: fated; about to die, doomed; fey. |
| Fay | phr | Fay "Upon Long" - to postpone. 2. to fix at a distant point (in time). |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Fear | n | OE. a sudden and terrible event, calamity, danger, peril. 2. an unpleasant emotion caused by exposure to danger. 3. a state of alarm (be in fear). 4. a cause of fear. 5. dread or fearful respect. 6. anxiety for the safety of. 6. danger or the likelihood of something unwelcome. |
| Fear | vb | Feel fear about or towards. 2. feel anxiety or apprehension about. 3. apprehend with fear or regret. 4. shrink from ; be apprehensive about. 5. show reverence towards. |
| Fear | phr | "Fear for" - feel anxious about the health etc of somebody, or the future development of events. |
| Fear | phr | "For Fear Of" - to avoid the risk of; in case of. |
| Fear | phr | "In Fear of" - very apprehensively anxiously. |
| Fear | phr | "Never Fear" - there is no danger of that; don't worry. |
| Fear | phr | "No Fear" - expression of strong denial or refusal: I will not!. |
| Fear | phr | "Put the Fear of God into" - frighten; terrify. |
| Fear | phr | "There's Not Much Fear of" - it is extremely unlikely that something will happen. |
| Feardom | n | State of living in fear or being subject to laws and policies based on fear; often contrasted in alliteration with freedom). |
| Fear-driven | adj | were thoughts, decisions, and actions are predominantly motivated by fear. This may be of death, fear of loneliness or abandonment, fear of power of fear of pain, etc. "Fear-driven Ghosts" |
| Feared | adj | Frightened of; afraid, terrorized. |
| Feared-ness | n | The condition of being frightened or afraid. 2. terror, cause of fright. |
| Fearer | n | One who fears or is to be feared. |
| Fearful | adj | Afraid; experiencing fear; apprehensive. 2. terrible, awful; inspiring fear. 3. coll. extremely unwelcome or unpleasant; as 'fearful consequences'. 4. timid, timorous. 5. (coll.) very bad, appalling. |
| Fearfully | adv | In a frightened or apprehended manner. |
| Fearfulness | n | The state or quality of being afraid; experiencing fear; or apprehension. |
| Fearless | adj | Courageous, brave; without fear. 2. being without fear. |
| Fearlessly | adv | In a fearless, boldly, intrepidly. |
| Fearlessness | n | The quality or state of being without fear. 2. boldiness, intrepidity |
| Fearmonger | n | One who causes alarm, fear, and apprehension. |
| Fearnaught | n | A fearless individual, a fearnought. |
| Fear-nothing | adj | Afraid of nothing or nobody. 2. dreading or frightened by nothing. |
| Fearnought | n | A drink (any strong liquor) to keep up the spirits. See dreadnought. |
| Fear-shaken | adj | Upset and distress by fear, as "Fear-shaken mind". |
| Fear-smitten | adj | Struck or overwhelmed by fear. |
| Fearsome | adj | Fear-inspiring, frightful, dreadful. 2. timid, apprehensive, frightened. |
| Fearsomely | adv | In a fearsome manner, so as to excite fear or timidity. |
| Fear-someness | n | State or condition of being frightened, afraid or overwhemed by fear. |
| Fear-stirred | adj | Uneasy or fearful. |
| Fear-stricken | adj | Overcome or enfeebled by fear. |
| Fease | vb | OE. fringe, frayed edge. 2. to unravel, (a rope). 2. of a rope or thread: to unravel at the end. 3. to wear rough at the end. |
| Feather | n | One of the horny, elongated structures which forms the body covering of birds and provides the flight surface for their wings. 2. something resembling a feather, as in mechanisms, a tongue, wedge, fin. 3. kind, class or species,; birds of a feather. 4. frame of mind, mood, spirits. 5. plumage, dress, attire. 6. a fin or guide on the shaft of an arrow. 7. anything light or trivial. 8. the wake of a periscope on a submarine. 9. an irregular flaw in a gem. 10. the hairy fringe on the backs of the legs and the tail of some dogs. |
| Feather | vb | To fit with a feather, as an arrow. 2. to cover, adorn or fringe with feathers. 3. to join by tongue or groove. 4. to grow or become covered with feathers. 5. to move, spread or expand with feathers. |
| Feather | adj | Made of or covered by feathers. |
| Feather | phr | "A Broken Feather in One's Wing" - a scandal connected with somebody. |
| Feather | phr | "A Man of First Feathers" - one very showy or ostentatiously presented. |
| Feather | phr | "Be Chicken Feed" - be small and unimportant. |
| Feather | phr | "Be Spitting Feathers" - be very angry; thirsty. |
| Feather | phr | "Birds of a Feather Flock Together" - people of like interest gather together or in the same place. |
| Feather | phr | "Feather One's Own Nest" - enrich oneself; look after one's own interests, especially by greed, selfishness, or dishonesty . 2. provide well for one's own future while acting or dealing on behalf of another.. |
| Feather | phr | "In Full Feather" - well-dressed, as a "lady in good feather." |
| Feather | phr | "In Good Feather" - in good condition, health or spirit. |
| Feather | phr | "In High Feather" - of the weather: fine, clement, brilliant. 2. in a cheerful, happy frame of mind. |
| Feather | phr | "Make Feathers Fly" - to make a disturbance or fierce disturbance. 2. to show up somebody. |
| Feather | phr | "Of That Feather" - see: "Birds of a Feather Flock Together" |
| Feather | phr | "Show the White Feather"- to be a coward; show cowardice, shirk one's duty. |
| Feather | phr | "Smooth Someone's Feathers" - calm somebody down. |
| Feather | phr | "Spit Feathers" - be very angry. 2. to be very thirsty. |
| Feather | phr | "Thrash with a Feather" - to give only minor punishment for a very serious offence. |
| Feather | phr | "Two Feathers out of a Goose" - a very small part of anything. |
| Feather | phr | "Wag the Feathers" - to make a display of one's honors and/of achievements. |
| Feather | phr | "You Could Knock Me Down with a Feather" - I was totally taken by surprise. |
| Feather-bed | n | A bed stuffed with feathers. 2. a stonewort of the genus Chara; a bed of stoneworts. |
| Feather-bed | vb | To spoil. |
| Feather-bedder | n | One who feather-beds or makes comfortable matters by favourable, esp. economic or financial treatment. |
| Feather-bedding | n | The action of making comfortable by favourable, esp. economic or financial treatment. 2. in industrial relations, creating unnecessary jobs solely to increase employment. 3. in economics, assisting an inefficient industry by government grants or excessive tariff protection. |
| Feather-bed landing | n | A soft landing (fig. and Lit.) |
| Feather-brained | adj | Foolish, stupid, dull, slow, lacking mental unalertness. 2. silly or absent-minded; lacking commonsense. |
| Featherdom | n | The realm of feathered creatures. |
| Feather-duster | n | A brush made (originally of feathers) to remove dust. |
| Feathered | adj | Of birds provided with or having feathers or plumage |
| Feathered-friend | n | (Used sentimentally or ironically): a bird. |
| Feather-footed | n | Having feet covered with feathers. 2. moving silently and swiftly. |
| Featherham | n | Covering or appendage of feathers, plumage, |
| Feather-head | n | An empty or light head. 2. a silly empty-headed person. 3. a frivolous person. |
| Featheriness | n | Feathery state or condition. 2. lightness, fickleness. |
| Feathering | n | The action of covering with or stuffing with feathers. 2. a bird's plumage. 3. the feather's of an arrow. 3. when the ink smears on the paper, causing the words to be blurred. |
| Featherless | adj | Without feather or devoid of feathers. |
| Featherlessness | n | The state of being without feathers or a feathery covering. |
| Feather-light | adj | Extremely light. |
| Feathermonger | n | One who deals in feathers, transfig; birds. 2. monger of feathers. |
| Featherdom | n | The realm of feathered creatures (birds); the bird words; birds collectively |
| Featherweight | n | A boxer or wrestler weighing from 118 or 126 pounds. 2. the least weight allowed to a horse in a handicap race. 3. a person weighing very little; hence, anyone of litle ability or importance. |
| Featherweight | adj | Of little weight, insignificant, unimportant. |
| Feather-wood | n | A hickory-like, hardwood timber tree of Australia. |
| Feathery | adj | Covered with or resembling feathers; light, soft, or fluffy. |
| Fec | n | Modern English would render it: fack. 2. a definite interval in space or time; a limited distance; fixed period. |
| Feck | n | Power, strength, vigor. 3. amount, quantity, number or value. 3. the chief or principal part. |
| Feck | adj | Hardy, vigorous. |
| Feckless | adj | Feeble, of little use, without responsibility. |
| Fecklessly | adv | In a feeble, weak way or valueless manner. |
| Fecklessness | n | A feeble or weakened state; |
| Feckful | adj | Efficient, vigorous, powerful. |
| Feckly | adv | For the most part, mostly. |
| Fed | phr | "Fed Up to One's Back Teeth" - very bored, tired; disgusted. |
| Fed | phr | "Fed Up With" - annoyed, angered by; have ahd enough; tired off. |
| Feddle | n | One who makes much of a pet, favorite. OE. fedels: to feed the favored bird. |
| Feddle | vb | To cherish, pamper, make much of. |
| Feed | n | Food, fare (for human beings). |
| Feed | vb | To give (someone or something) food to eat, nurture. 2. to eat (usually of animals). 3. to give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food. 4. to give to a machine to be processed. 5. The act of transmitting of live or recorded material to one other station or to an entire network along specially reserved lines. in sports: to pass to the ball regularly to a team-mate. 6. in the theatre, 'the straight-man' who works with, or alongside, a comedian and provides him with the 'feed-lines,' the cues for his jokes. 7. in business, any reviews, comments, business, opinions from the media, retailers or consumers concerning a new product. |
| Feed | adj | Bound to feudal service (only in feedman). 2. paid by fee, hired, bribed, employed for wages. |
| Feed | phr | "Be Chicken Feed" -be small and unimportant. |
| Feed | phr | "Be Fed Up to the Back Teeth With" - be extremely annoyed or disgusted with. 2. bored or tired. |
| Feed | phr | "Bite the Hand that Feeds (one)" - show ingratitude. |
| Feed | phr | "Feed Back Into" - electronics, radio: return part of the output of a circuit as an input of the preceding stage of that circuit. 2. of a speaker's unconscious gestures or expressions; or conscious comments indicate to speaker, teacher etc how well one, s is being received so enabling one to adapt to her/his audience. |
| Feed | phr | "Feed Off" - use as a source or supply of food, materials, energy. 2. take food food from a flat, open utensil, as a plate, platter etc. |
| Feed | phr | "Feed On" - have give to somebody, as food or sustenance. |
| Feed | phr | "Feed the Fire" - to exacerbate a situation. |
| Feed | phr | "Feed Up" - bring a person to his proper weight by giving him nourishing food. |
| Feed | phr | "Give a Man a Fish and You Feed Him for a Day, Teach a Man to Fish and He Will Feed Himself for a Lifetime' - it is more worthwhile to teach someone to do something, than to do something for him. |
| Feed | phr | "Off One's Feed" - of an animal or person not feeding normally. |
| Feed-back | n | Response from a target audience to those seeking to influence it. 2. one person's action to another person's action or speech by analyzing, criticizing, agreeing but always in some way modifying the original statement by response. |
| Feed dog | n | On a sewing machine the toothed mechanism that uses a forward, down, back and up motion against the presser lock so as to advance the fabric through the machine evenly. |
| Feed-box | n | A box containing feed or fodder for animals. |
| Feeder | n | That which feeds. 2. something that is used to feed. 3. a tributary of a stream. 4. a branch line of a railway. 5. a transmission line that feeds the electricity fron a substation or a transmitter. |
| Feed-forward | n | The modification or control of a process using its anticipated results (feedback) or effects |
| Feeding | n | To give (someone or something) food to eat, nurture. |
| Feedman | n | One holding a fee. 2. a soldier serving for pay; mercenary. |
| Feedstock | n | Any bulk raw material constituting the principal input for any industrial input. |
| Feedstream | n | A fluid feedstock. |
| Feedthrough | n | A conductor that connects circuits or components of either side of a printed circuit board. |
| Feedwater | n | Water added to a boiler to replace that lost during operator. |
| Feel | vb | To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch. 2. to experience an emotion or other mental state about. 3. to find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements. 4. to be or become aware of. 5. to experience the consequences of. 6. to think, believe, or have an impression concerning. 7. to receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing. 8. to search by sense of touch. 9. to experience an emotion or other mental state. 10. to seem (through touch or otherwise). 11. to sympathize. 12. slang - to understand. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel at Home" - feel comfortable and relaxed. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel Better for Having Done Something" - feel that one's physical, or mental well-being has been improved by having done something. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel Blae" - be sad. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel For" - have or feel great sympathy for. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel Free" - do not hesitate, do as you please. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel Good" - feel happy, confident or pleased with oneself. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel In One's Bones" - have intuition or premonition. 2. sense, suspect (intuitively or instinctively) that something is the case. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel Like" - to have a desire or inclination for. 2. experience emotionally; fancy, feel in the mood for. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel Like a New Woman/Man" - feel restored to health, completely refreshed or revitalized. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel Like (Doing) Something" - think that one would enjoy, be willing to accept, or take part in doing something. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel Like Nothing on Earth" - look extremely ill, miserable, strange, ridiculous. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel One's Feet" - to be conscious of one's powers. 2. to be at ease |
| Feel | phr | "Feel One's Oats" - to act in a high spirited manner; dispaly self-importance. 2. be in an energetic, lively, perhaps obstreperous mood and act accordingly. 3. to feel one's importance. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel One's Way" - determine (especially in darkness) where one is going by touching walls, objects and progressing cautiously. 2. undertake a task slowly, steadily and cautiously. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel on Top of the World" - feel very light-hearted or in good spirit. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel Out Something/Things (or Somebody)" - to find one's way by groping. 2. to proceed by cautious steps, because ofshyness, not used the company, conversation. 3. feel not to be part of, or excluded from. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel Small" - feel humiliated and or inferior. 2. feel, appear inadequate, humiliated. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel Ten Foot Tall" - to feel proud. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel the Rough Side of Someone Tongue" - to be verbally abused. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel Up To" - feel able to do. 2. be inclined to, well enough to do something. |
| Feel | phr | "Feel Up To" - be inclined to, well enough or capable of doing or to do something. 2. feel able or capable of undertaking, sustaining an effort, work, long, arduous journey. |
| Feel | phr | "Get the Feel of " - become accustomed to. |
| Feel | phr | "Not Feel Oneself" - feel unwell. |
| Feeler | n | One or that which feels. 2. an antenna, tentacle. 3. a tendril of a vine. 4. an indirect approach; a trial venture. |
| Feeler | phr | "Put Out Feelers" - make discreet enquiries. |
| Feel-good | adj | That creates a feeling of well-being in people, as in a feel-good outcome. |
| Feeling | n | The experiencing of effective and emotional states. 2. an intuitive understanding of something. 3. a physical sensation that you experience. 4. the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin. 5. a vague idea in which some confidence is placed. 6. the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people |
| Feeling | phr | "A Gut Feeling" - a feeling based solely on intuition, ad unsupported by facts of evidence. |
| Feeling | phr | "Feelings Running High" - an intensification of emotions. |
| Feeling | phr | "Get a Sinking Feeling" - have a feeling of great apprehension. |
| Feeling | phr | "Get the Feeling that" - come to the conclusion that, or feel that. |
| Feeling | phr | "Have Feelings for Somebody" -affection for somebody. |
| Feeling | phr | "Have a Feeling for Something" - have a aptitude for something. |
| Feeling | phr | "Have That Monday Morning Feeling" - feeling of general apathy on return to work on Monday; Mondayitis. |
| Feeling | phr | "Know the Feeling that" - I think that or have experienced the same thing. |
| Feeling | phr | "No Hard Feelings" - no offence intended, no feeling of bitterness. |
| Feeling | phr | "Play on Somebody's Feelings" - deliberately manipulate somebody's emotions. |
| Feelingful | adj | Marked by strong feeling. |
| Feelingless | adj | Without feeling, devoid of feeling. |
| Feelingly | adv | Consciously. 2. with just perception, understandingly, sensibly, to the purpose. 3. with emotion, in a manner manifesting emotion. 4. by and from actual personal feeling. 5. knowledge or expertise. 6. in such a sensitive manner as to be felt. |
| Feelingness | n | Emotional quality or character. |
| Feeling-talk | n | In assertiveness training, the voicing of 'meaningful' dialogue rather than idle chatter. |
| Feelsome | adj | Attractive to the feeling or sense: tasty. |
| Feely | adj | A (hypothetical) talking film augmented by tactile effects |
| Feeman | n | A vassal, serf, slave, bonded labourer |
| Feemanship | n | State or condition of being a vassal. |
| Feer | vb | To make a furrow. 2. to mark off the breadth of every ridge (of land) for ploughing, by drawing a furrow on each side of the space allotted for it. |
| Feering | n | The action of making a furrow. 2. the marking off of the breadth of every ridge (of land) for plowing, by drawing a furrow on each side of the space allotted for it. |
| Feet | phr | "At Somebody's Feet" - under somebody's influence (because of his/her sway, attractiveness, talent, etc. |
| Feet | phr | "Drag One's Feet" - more slowly. |
| Feet | phr | "Fall On One's Feet" - be very lucky to survive something risky. 2. land on on'es feet. |
| Feet | phr | "Feet First or Foremost" - dead; deceased. |
| Feet | phr | "Find One's Feet" - become accustomed to a new situation. |
| Feet | phr | "Get Back On One's Feet" - return to normal health after an illness. 2. or return to prosperity after being in debt. |
| Feet | phr | "Get Cold Feet" - go back on a commitment because of fear or nervousness. |
| Feet | phr | "Have Feet of Clay" - weakness of character in somebody previously thought to be worthy of respect. |
| Feet | phr | "Have the World at One's Feet" - be well placed for success. |
| Feet | phr | "Have Two Left Feet" - be inept at anything requiring skill footwork. |
| Feet | phr | "Keep One's Feet" - maintain one's balance or upright posture. |
| Feet | phr | "Keep One's Feet On the Ground" - take a practical or realistic view of life. |
| Feet | phr | "Land On One's Feet" - be lucky, fortunate. 2. fall on one's feet. |
| Feet | phr | 'Not Let the Grass Grow Under One's Feet" - waste no time in attending to things. |
| Feet | phr | "On One's Feet" - standing. |
| Feet | phr | "Put One's Feet Up" - take a rest by sitting or lying down. |
| Feet | phr | "Run Off One's Feet" - extremely busy. |
| Feet | phr | "Set Somebody On His/Her Feet" - provide help in getting someone established, in a home, business, etc. |
| Feet | phr | "Shake the Dust From One's Feet" - move away. |
| Feet | phr | "Sit At Somebody's Feet" - remain ('at the feet') with an expert or teacher in order to learn something. |
| Feet | phr | "Stand On One's Own Two Feet" - be independent. |
| Feet | phr | "Sweep Someone Off her Feet" - make a very favorable impression or make somebody fall in love with one. |
| Feet | phr | "Take the Weight Off One's Feet" - take a rest by sitting, lying down. |
| Feet | phr | "Think One's Feet" - be mentally agile, think quickly. |
| Feet | phr | "Throw Oneself at Somebody's Feet" - ask in very humble manner, or beseechingly. |
| Feet | phr | "Under One's Feet" - get in the way of. |
| Feet | phr | "Walk Off One's Feet" - tire by excessive walking. |
| Feet | phr | "With One's Feet Up" - resting, taking it easy, lounging. |
| Feetless | adj | Without feet. |
| Feeze | n | A rush, impetus, a violent impact. |
| Feeze | vb | To drive off or away. 2. to make one run to flight; frighten away. 3. to fighten, put in a state of alarm. 4. to impel. |
| Feeze | phr | "Fetch One's Feeze" - to take a short step before leaping. |
| Feeze | phr | "I'll Feeze You" - to settle business with (a person). 2. to beat, flog. |
| Feeze | phr | "Take (one's)Feeze" - to start at full speed. 2. a state of alarm or perburbation |
| Feldwyrt | n | Felwort or Gentiana lutea and other species of gentian; swertia perennis. |
| Fele | adv | To a great extent or degree. 2. much, a great extent or quality (how, like, so, to). 3. much, many, numerous, more in number. 4. many persons. 5. proper, of the right sort, good. |
| Felekyn | n | Many kind, various sort of. |
| Felesith | n | |
| Felefold | adv | Many times, manifold, felefold. 2. by a great deal, many times, times over |
| Felefold | vb | To increase, multiply. |
| Fell | n | The skin, or hide of an animal; a fleece. 2. said of the human skin, rarely of the skin covering an organ of the body. 3. flesh immediately under the skin. 4. a covering of hair, wool etc. when thick and matted. 5. a shock of hair. |
| Fell | n | A knock-down blow. 2. cutting down of timber; the timber cut down in one season. 3. the sewing down (a fold etc. level with the cloth; a felled seam). |
| Fell | n | Gall, anger, melancholiness. |
| Fell | vb | To knock or strike down. 2. to cause to fall. |
| Fell | adv | Sharply, fiercely. |
| Fell | phr | "One Fell Swoop" - all at the same time. |
| Feller | n | One who or that which fells. 2. (lit & fig.) one who knocks a person down. 3. one who cuts down timber, a woodcutter. 4. an attachment to a sewing machine for felling . 4, one who sews in various tasks. |
| Fellhood | n | Fellness. |
| Felling | n | An act or action of cutting down timber. 2. the quantity cut down; (fig)- those slain on a battlefield. 3. a cleaning or royd. 3. lowering, a bringing down, abatement, deduction. |
| Felling-bird | n | The wry-neck (Yunx torquilla) |
| Fellmonger | n | A trader and dealer in skins and hides of animals; a monger of fells. |
| Felloe | n | Exterior rim, part of the rim of the wheel, supported by the spokes; sometimes, also spelt 'felly' |
| Fellow | n | Late OE Late Old English fēolaga 'a partner or colleague' (literally 'one who lays down money in a joint enterprise'), from Old Norse félagi, from fé 'cattle, property, money' + the Germanic base of lay. 2. a man or boy (informal) 3. (usually fellows) a person in the same position, involved in the same activity, or otherwise associated with another: 4. a thing of the same kind as or otherwise associated with another: the page has been torn away from its fellows. 5. member or fellow of a learned society. 7. incorporated senior member of a British college. 8. a research fellow; an elected graduate receiving a stipend for a period of research. 10. a member of the governing body in some universities. |
| Fellow | vb | To conjoin, associate (a person or thing). 2. in partnership, companionship (with another) 3. put on a level with. 4. to produce a fellow to or equally match. 4. to arrange in pairs, to pair. |
| Fellow | adj | Sharing a particular activity, quality, or condition with someone or something; as, a 'fellow citizen' |
| Fellow | phr | "My Good Fellow" - exclamation implying a tone of remonstrance or censure. |
| Fellowed | adj | Joined together in pairs. |
| Fellower | n | One who accompanies. |
| Fellow-feel | n | To share the feelings of others, sympathy. 2. to sympathise with suffering, to feel in common. |
| Fellow-feeler | n | Sympathiser. |
| Fellow-feeling | n | Participation in the feelings of others, sympathy. 2. sense of community of interest |
| Fellow-feeling | adj | Sympathetic, in sympathy with, and of the desire to help and support others. |
| Fellowing | phr | "Fellowing Himself with Everything He Had In Life" - put on a level with. |
| Fellowless | adj | Without fellow or equal; peerless. |
| Fellow-like | adj | Like a companion or mate. 2. on the same footing; on the same level. 3. companionable, sociable, sympathetic, like one's fellow; sociable. |
| Fellowly | adj | Pertaining to or befitting comrades or friendly associates; social. 2. companionable, social, sympathetic. 3. in a manner like a fellow or equal. 4. on equal terms. 5. sociable, familiar |
| Fellowred | n | State or condition of being fellows or companions. 2. companionship, company, fellowship. |
| Fellowred | phr | "For Fellowred" - for comradeship sake. 2. sexual intercourse; fleshly fellowship. 3. a company of fellows or comrades. |
| Fellowred | phr | "To bear (a person) fellowred - to extend one's company. 2. spiritual intercourse or communion. |
| Fellowship | n | A body of fellows or equals; a company. 2. a body of armed men. 3. crew of a vessel. 4. guild, corporation, workers collectively, trade union. 5. an association of union of any kind, brotherhood, fraternity. 6. position of dignity in a learned society, such as university or college. 7. body of fellows in a college or university. 8. a society constituted as by their fellows. |
| Fellowship | vb | To unite in fellowship. 2. to connect or associate (a person or thing) with or to another. 3. to admit or enter into a fellowship. 4. join in fellowship in (a religious service). |
| Fellowship | phr | "Give the Right Hand of Friendship" - to acknowledge a person as entitled to communion. |
| Fellowship | phr | "Good Fellowship" - the temper and disposition of a good fellow. |
| Fellowshipping | n | The action or act of forming a fellowship (a yeomen). 2. |
| Fellow-sinner | n | Without a fellow, alone solitary. 2. of one of a pair. 3. without a peer or equal matches. |
| Fellwood | n | Timber ready to be felled; fellable wood. |
| Felly | adj | A segment of the rim of a wooden wheel in which the spokes are inserted; sometimes, also the entire rim: also spelt felloe. |
| Felt | n | A skin or hide. 2. a cloth or stuff of matted fibres of wool or wool or fur, full or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. 3. a hat made of felt. |
| Felt | vb | To make into felt. 2. to make of felt. 3. to turn into felt-like masses. |
| Feltmonger | n | A trader or dealer in felt and felt products. |
| Feltness | n | The quality of being felt. |
| Feltwork | n | A network of matting or fibre. |
| Feltwort | n | A name given to the Mullein (Verbascum Thapsus). 2. feldwyrt |
| Felty | adj | Like or resembling felt; felty-looking. |
| Feltymes | adj | Many times. |
| Felwort | n | Gentianella amarella, gentianella lutea. |
| Fen | n | Mud, clay, dirt, filth. 2. a type of wetland fed by ground water and run-off, containing peat before the waterline. 2. 'The Fens" - the low-lying lands around the Wash, esp. in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. |
| Fen | n | Mildew; a mould of parasitical fungus which attacks the hop plant. |
| Fen-berry | n | The cranberry (Vaccinum Oxycoccus) |
| Fen-dweller | n | A person or animal that lives in a fen |
| Fenfield man | n | In ancient times the king's special tenants, who pay him rent. 2. an inhabitant of the fens; a fen man. |
| Fen-fire | n | Will-of-the-wisp. |
| Fen-frog | n | A frog which croaks at night. |
| Feng | n | Fang, tooth. |
| Fenhood | n | The area of a fen. |
| Fenland | n | An area of fens. |
| Fenlike | adj | Fenny, dirty, marshy, miry. |
| Fenlike | adv | Filthily, mirily. |
| Fennel | n | A fragrant plant: Feniculum vulgara of the parsley family; faeniculum dulce or panmoria (or officinale). 2. dog-fennel (anthemis cotula). 3. hog-fennel (Peucedanum officinalis). 4. water-fennel (callitriche verna). 5. the bulb, leaves, or stalks of the plant, eaten as a vegetable. 6. the seeds of the fennel plant used as a spice in cooking. |
| Fennel-water | n | A spirituous liquor brewed from fennel-seed. |
| Fenner | n | A fen person; one who lives in the fens. |
| Fen-like | adj | Dirty, filthly, miry. 2. marshy, swampy. |
| Fennish | adj | Somewhat miry, dirty, muddy, filthy. 2, resembling a swamp, marsh, paludral. 3. belonging or produced from a fen. |
| Fenny | adj | Of a nature of, or characterized by a fen, boggy, swampy. 2. inhabiting, growing or produced in a fen (now only of plants). 3. spoiled with damp, musty. |
| Fenny-seated | adj | Situated in a fen. |
| Fenshake | n | Ague |
| Fenny-stones | n | A kind of Orchis. |
| Fenstruck dewberry | n | A state or condition of being mad, crazy, off one's head. |
| Fenwort | n | Galium verum, yellow bedstraw, sometime nmame for the cranberry. |
| Feoh | n | Money, property, wealth, cattle (livestock was the measure of wealth in the ancient world.) 2. fenwort. |
| Ferd | n | Terror, fear. 2. a military expedition. 3. army, host. 4. a bond, company, troop, great number. |
| Ferd | phr | "In Ferd" - in warlike array. |
| Ferd-fare | n | A military expedition, |
| Ferdful | adj | Inspiring fear, awesome, dreadful. 2. full of fear, timorous, cautious with fear. |
| Ferdfulness | n | State or condition of being fearful scared, timorous. 2. full of full, caution, awe. |
| Ferding | vb | To go on a military expedition. |
| Ferding | n | A military expedition, an army. |
| Ferdlock | n | A state of fear, terror, fearlock. |
| Ferd-wite | n | A fine exposed upon a person(s) for not going forth in a military expedition. |
| Fere | n | A companion, comrade, mate, partner. 2. of animals; a mate, an equal, peer. 3. companionship, a body of companies, company, party. |
| Fere | vb | To take a companion, to unite, to provide with a consort. |
| Fere | vb | To journey, travel, go, fare. 2. proceed, go on, behave, deal with. 3. to take place, happen. |
| Fere | adj | Able to go in health, able, strong, secure, whole. |
| Fere | phr | "All in Fere" - in company, together, in common. 2. all together, together. |
| Fere | phr | "Fere for Fere"- in every way, equal. |
| Fere | phr | "To Wed One's Fere" - to take a partner. |
| Fere | phr | "Whole and Fere" - sound and wholesome. |
| Fering | adj | OE: faeringa - fear, suddenly. |
| Feringly | adv | Suddenly. |
| Ferings | n | Death, sudden death. |
| Ferliful | adj | Fearful. |
| Ferling | n | A fourth of a penny; a farthing. |
| Ferly | n | Wonder, astonishment, marvel. |
| Ferly | vb | To wonder at, astonish, marvel at, amaze. |
| Ferly | adj | Sudden, unexpected. 2, dreadful, frightful, terrible. 3.strange, wonderful, wondrous, marvelous. 4. great, wonderful. |
| Ferly | adv | Suddenly, unexpectedly, dreadfully, frightfully. terrible, wonderfully, extraordinarily. |
| Fern | n | Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta (formerly known by some as Filicophyta) that lacks seeds and reproduces by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations. |
| Fern | adj | OE: fierre - of time: former, of old, ancient. |
| Fern | adj | Great, huge in number or quantity. |
| Fern | vb | To cover with ferns. 2. to feed upon ferns |
| Fern-days | n | Days of old. |
| Fern-days | adv | Of long ago, formerly, a long time ago. |
| Fern-like | adj | Resembling a fern. |
| Fern-owl | n | The nightjar or goatsucker. 2. short-eared owl (Caprimugos europeaus). |
| Fernseed | n | The asexual, dustlike spores of a fern which resemble seeds |
| Fernshaw | n | A brake or thicket of ferns. |
| Fern-sitter | n | Name given to hare. |
| Ferny | adj | Abounding in ferns, overgrown with ferns. 2. pertaining to ferns, quantity of ferns. 3. of a fern-like nature, resembling ferns. |
| Fernyear | n | A past year, last year, yesteryear. |
| Fernyear | adv | In past years; in the course of last year. |
| Ferrede | n | Companionship, society, fellowship. 2. a company. |
| Ferren | adv | From a distance, from afar, distantly, remotely. |
| Ferren | phr | "From Ferren" - from far, from a distance. |
| Ferry | n | Transport by boat or aircraft. 2. a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule. |
| Ferry | vb | To travel by ferry. 2. transport by ferry. 3. to transport from one place to another |
| Ferry | phr | "Ferry Over" - to carry or transport across; pretermit, to pass over |
| Ferrying | n | The action of ferry |
| Ferrying | adj | That ferries. |
| Ferryman | n | One who keeps (looks after) or attends to something. 2. one who operates a ferry. |
| Ferse | vb | To remove, put at a distance; hence, to forsake, withdraw, go away. |
| Fet | n | Vessel, container, vat, fat. |
| Fet | vb | To grab, sieze, fetch. |
| Fet | phr | "Fet Again" - to restore to consciousness. |
| Fet | phr | "Fet In" - to take in; supply; (fig.) stretch. |
| Fetch | n | The distance travelled by wind or waves across open water. 2. the distance a vessel must sail to reach open water. 3. the action of fetching. 4. stratagem or trick. |
| Fetch | vb | To deduce, derive the origin of. 2.to find a distant or higher origin of. 3. to derive a word etymologically. 4. to deal, strike a blow. 5. to make a strike; strike a person. 6. to make or perform a movement. 7. to take a walk, or a leap. 8. of a river: to turn or become winding. 9. to get into the wake of a vessel. 10. to get into the current of a wind. 11. to swing around the arm or a weapon, so as to gain impetus for the stroke. 11. to devise, devise, plan. |
| Fetch | phr | "Fetch a Fetch" - to try a strategy. |
| Fetch | phr | "Fetch Again" - to recoup, take, back, redeem. 2. to revive to consciousness. |
| Fetch | phr | "Fetch Away" - to move or shift from its proper position. 2. to get loose. |
| Fetch | phr | "Fetch Breath" - to breath heavily and deeply to regain one's breath. |
| Fetch | phr | "Fetch Down" - bring down. |
| Fetch | phr | "Fetch Headway"- of a vessel gathering motion ahead or to the side. |
| Fetch | phr | "Fetch In" - to gain as adherent. 2. to close in, surround, gather. 3. to take in, cheat, swindle, scam. |
| Fetch | phr | "Fetch Off" - to bring out of difficulty, to deliver, rescue. 2. to do, or do for. 3. get the better of, to make an end of. 4. to drain away , siphon off, drink off. |
| Fetch | phr | "Fetch Out" - to bring into clearness. 2. to develop, display. |
| Fetch | phr | Fetch Over" - to succeed in delivering a blow. 2. to get the better off |
| Fetch | phr | "Fetch Through" - win through, succeed. |
| Fetch | phr | "Fetch To" - to revive from a swoon, faint, etc. |
| Fetch | phr | "Fetch Up"- to bring to a higher level. 2. to vomit. 3. to recall to the mind, remember. 4. bring to light. 5. to rear, educate, bring up. 6. coming to a standstill, stopping. |
| Fetch | phr | "Fetch Upon" - to gain upon. |
| Fetch-afters | n | Various caterpillars known as "fetch-afters : from their mode of progression. |
| Fetch-candle | n | A nocturnal light, supposed to portend death; cf: ; Faraday's Candle - electricity; 'day-candle' - the sun. |
| Fetcher | n | One who fetches. |
| Fetching | adj | That contrives, plans, schemes, craftily deigns. 2. alluring, pleasing, attractive, beautiful, taking. |
| Fetchingly | adv | In a fetching manner. |
| Fetch-life | n | A "messenger" sent to "fetch" the soul of a dying person. |
| Fetch-light | n | A fetch-candle, a name given to the 'corpse candle' supposed to be the light sent to fetch a dying person. |
| Fether-foot | n | Four-footed, a quadruped. |
| Fethre | n | Fodder. |
| Fethre | vb | To load. |
| Fetles | n | A vessel, container, receptacle, sack. 2.in religious use a vessel. |
| Fetlock | n | A joint of the horses leg between the knee or hock and above the hoof. |
| Fetter | n | A shackle for the feet or ankles. |
| Fetter | phr | "Fetter Someone" - to stop a person acting on his or her own initiative. |
| Fetter-bone | n | The first phalanx or great pastern of a horse's foot, just below the fetlock. |
| Fettered | adj | Bound in fetters or chains. 2. hampered by a disadvantageous position. |
| Fetteredness | n | The condition or state of being in fetters. 2. thralldom, slavery; oppression or subjugated. |
| Fetterer | n | One who makes fetters. 2. one who fastens fetters on a person (lit and fig) |
| Fettering | n | The action of binding with fetters. |
| Fetterless | adj | Without fetters, unfettered; that cannot be fettered (lit& fig.). |
| Fetterlock | n | A 'D'-shaped fetter for tethering a horse by the the leg, now only represented in heraldic charge. |
| Fettle | n | OE: a girdle, a belt. 2. a bandage. 3. a handle on the side of a large basket. |
| Fettle | n | A state of fitness and good health "in fine fettle" 2. the act of fettling. 3.
the state of being prepared, or in good repair or condition. 4. handle in the side of a large basket. |
| Fettle | adj | Ale or porter (fettled-ale) sweetened with sugar and seasoned with a little ginger and nutmeg. 2. neat; tight; handy. |
| Fettle | vb | To gird up. 2. to make ready, put in order. 3. tidy up, scour, 4. to groom a horse; attend to cattle. 5. to order, repair, preparation, dress. 6. to bind; tie up. 7. to arrange; prepare; make preparations, repair, put in order; repair; mend. 8. to beat; thrash. 9. to line(the hearth of a puddling-furnace). 10. to potter; set about in a fussy, pottering way; do trifling business. 11. remove mold marks or sand from (a casting) 12. to cover or line with a mixture of ore, cinders, etc., as the hearth of a puddling furnace. |
| Fettler | n | A person who does repairs or maintenance work on a railway. 2. a person who fettles metal castings or pottery. |
| Fettling | n | A refractory material used to line the hearth of puddling furnaces. |
| Fever | n | A temperature of the body higher than the normal temperature, appearing as a symptom of disease. 2. excessive excitement of the passion in consequence of strong emotion. 3. a condition of great excitement. |
| Feverfew | n | A bushy composite plant, Chrysanthemum parthenium, bearing small white flowers, formerly used as a remedy for fever and headache. Old English feferfuge ) See febrifuge. |
| Feverish | adj | Having or showing the symptoms of a temperature. 2. characterized by or displaying a frenetic energy or excitement. 3.frenzied, hectic, excited, restless, nervous. |
| Feverishly | adv | In a feverish or exciting manner. |
| Feverishness | n | A rise in the body temperature; frequently the symptom of infection. 2. heated or fitful agitation oe excitement as, feverishness of popular feeling. |
| Feverless | adj | Without or not suffering from a fever. |
| Feverwort | n | Horse gentian. 2. the thoroughwort or boneset |
| Fevery | adj | Affected with fever, feverish. |
| Few | n | "The Few": the minority. 2. a specified company small in number. |
| Few | phr | "A Few Home Truths" - outspoken assessment or criticism of somebody, their behavior, shortcomings. |
| Few | phr | "A Good Few" - quite alot; a few more than several. |
| Few | phr | "A Man Of Few Words" - someone who says little. |
| Few | phr | "At the Fewest" - at the lowest number or estimate. |
| Few | phr | "Few and Far Between" - infrequent, occasionally, scarce, scarcely. 2. small in number and widely dispersed; seldom occurring. |
| Few | phr | "Have a Few too Many" - to drink more than one should; be a bit under the weather. |
| Few | phr | "Some Few" - a bit more than a few. |
| Fewfold | adj | By a multiple of a few; by a few times as much or as many. |
| Fewness | n | Scantiness in number or amount. 2. paucity, small number, small number. |
| Fewness | phr | "Fewness and Truth" - in few words and truly. |
| Fewscore | n | A few score; on the order of a small multiple of twenty. |
| Fewsome | adj | Consisting of a few, not many. |
| Fey | adj | OE: faeye - fated to die; doomed to death; almost at the point of death, dying. 2. leading to or presaging death, deadly, lethal. 3. accursed, unfortunate, unholy. 4. disordered in mind like one about to face death. 5. possessing or displaying magical, fairylike, or unearthly qualities (now frequently used ironically in reverse "affected", whimsy.) |
| Feydom | n | The state of being fey; feyness. |
| Feyhood | n | Hostilty. |
| Feyness | n | The state or quality of being fey; about to die, doomed on the verge of sudden or violent. 2. feydom. 3. dying dead. possessing second sight, clairvoyance. 4. affected , overrefined. 5. strange or otherworldly. 6. spellbound. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Fickle | vb | To puzzle, confuse. |
| Fickle | adj | (Of people, things, their attributes, personification, fortune, chance. 2. false, dreadful, treacherous, dangerous. 3. changeable, changeful, inconstant, uncertain, unreliable. |
| Fickledom | n | The realm of fickleness or falsehood. |
| Fickle-minded | adj | Of a person: prone to casual change; inconstant. |
| Fickle-mindedly | adv | Complicated variably, inconstantly, unreliably of manner. 2. in a treacherous manner. |
| Fickleness | n | Quality or state of being fickle, changeable, inconstant, variable. |
| Fickle-tongued | adj | Given to falsehood, lies. |
| Fickle-wise | adv | In a fickle manner or way. |
| Fickly | adv | In a fickle manner. 2. variably, inconstantly, deceitfully. |
| Fiddle | n | Old English fithele, from Latin vītulārī to celebrate; compare Old High German fidula fiddle; see viola 2. any instrument of the viol or violin family, esp the violin (informal) 3. a violin played as a folk instrument. 3. time-wasting or trifling behaviour; nonsense; triviality. 4. nautical a small railing around the top of a table to prevent objects from falling off it in bad weather. |
| Fiddle | n | An illegal or fraudulent transaction or arrangement. 2. a manually delicate or tricky operation 3. at the fiddle , on the fiddle engaged in an illegal or |
| Fiddle | vb | To play (a tune) on the fiddle 2. to make restless or aimless movements with the hands 3. to spend (time) or act in a careless or inconsequential manner; waste (time). 4. Often foll by with ) to tamper or interfere (with) 5. to contrive to do (something) by illicit means or deception: he fiddled his way into a position of trust. 6. to falsify (accounts, etc); swindle |
| Fiddle | phr | "At the Fiddle" - on the fiddle engaged in an illegal or deceptive undertakings. 2. do something dishonest for gain ('be on the fiddle') |
| Fiddle | phr | "Fit as a Fiddle" - in very good health. |
| Fiddle | phr | "Fiddle Away" - fritter away, waste foolishly. 2. take liberties with another. |
| Fiddle | phr | "Fiddle About" - spend time on trifles, mess about. |
| Fiddle | phr | "Fiddle While Rome Burns" - be inactive during an emergency or while something significant is happening. 2. behave frivolously in a situation that calls for concern or corrective action. (as Nero did..) |
| Fiddle | phr | "Hang Up One's Fiddle" - to retire from business; give up an undertaking. |
| Fiddle | phr | "Hang Up One's Fiddle When One Comes Home" - said of a person entertaining abroad, but not at home. |
| Fiddle | phr | "On the Fiddle" - engaged in cheating or swindling. |
| Fiddle | phr | Play the First Fiddle" - take the lead. |
| Fiddle-back | n | A fiddle-shaped back of a chair or front of a chasuble. |
| Fiddle-brained | adj | Foolish, frivolous. |
| Fiddle-come | adj | Nonsensical, silly, trumpery. |
| Fiddle-fish | n | The Monk fish or Angel fish. |
| Fiddle-head | n | A head empty as a fiddle, a fool, dolt, stult. 2. a scroll-like carving at a ship's bow. 3. |
| Fiddler | n | One who plays the fiddle, esp. who does for hire and reward. 2. fiddle-player. 3. a swindler or cheat. 4. a small crab. |
| Fiddler | phr | "Up and Down Like a Fiddler's Elbow" - move repeatedly (often ineffectively) |
| Fiddler crab | n | A small burrowing crab, the male of which flourishes its enlarged claw as if fiddling; found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. |
| Fiddler's bidding | n | A last minute invitation. |
| Fiddler's Green | n | A sailor's Elysium, in which wine, women and song figure prominently. 2. swindler, cheat. 3. trifler. 4. sixpence. 5. meddlesome or interfering person. |
| Fiddlestick | n | A bowfor a fiddle. 2. foolishness, stupidity, |
| Fiddlesticks | phr | "The Devil Rides on Fiddlesticks" - here's a fine commotion. |
| Fiddlesticks | phr | "Not to Come on Fiddlesticks" - to come not at all. |
| Fiddle-wood | n | Citharexylon. |
| Fiddliness | n | In a ineffective or awkward action or state. |
| Fiddling | n | Playing the fiddle. 2. fuss, trifle, petty adjustment and alteration. 3. cheating, swindling. |
| Fiddling | adj | That plays the fiddle. 2. of persons: busy about trifles; addicted to trifles and petty activity. 3. of things: petty, trifling, unimportant, trivial, contemptible, futile. |
| Fiddly | adj | Intricate, petty. 2. contemptible; futile. |
| Field | n | Land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country. 2. wide, open space used to grow crops or to hold farm animals 3. place where a battle is fought. 4. physics: region affected by a particular force. 5. course of study or domain of knowledge or practice
in mathematics. 6. sports: area reserved for playing a game. 7. geology: region containing a particular mineral. 8. heraldry: background of the shield. 9. computing: area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value. 10. in surgery: that area of a patient's body that is actually being operated on. 11. the 'real world' of want, poverty, violence, deprivation, social inequality, greed and similar variable which define everyday life for the majority and onto which a government or bureaucracy attempts to impose its solutions or plans. |
| Field | vb | Intercept or catch. 2. to be the team catching and throwing the ball. 3. place a team. 4. to answer; to address. |
| Field | adj | Describing a study is carried out in a real environment rather than done theoretically; (a field worker) |
| Field | phr | "A Fair Field" - a fair chance for action. |
| Field | phr | "Back the Field" - take advantage of every available opportunity distribute. |
| Field | phr | "Be Ahead of the Field" - be better than one's competitors. |
| Field | phr | "Be In the Field" - compete for a prize. |
| Field | phr | "Faraway Fields Look Greener" - activities of which one has no experience seem much easier than is really the case. |
| Field | phr | "Field of Blood" - Aramaic for the 'field of blood is Aceldama; figuratively used for any place of great slaughter. |
| Field | phr | "Field of Fire" - the part of the terrain before infantry or machine-guns which their weapons can cover, uninterrupted by contours, woods or other obstruction. |
| Field | phr | "Have a Field Day" - derive great pleasure, enjoyment and excitement from doing something. |
| Field | phr | "Hold the Field" - to hold ground, not to be displaced or superseded. |
| Field | phr | "In the Field" - in an area in which operations are in progress. 2. actively or closely involved in the working on something. |
| Field | phr | "Keep in the Field" - to hold one's own against competitors. |
| Field | phr | "Lead the Field" - someone who is superior, better or more successful than everyone else in a particular activity. |
| Field | phr | "Leave Another the Field" -to give up the argument or contest. |
| Field | phr | "Leave the Field Open" - to abstain from interfering. |
| Field | phr | "Play the Field" - take advantage of every available opportunity to distribute one's attention among several people or things. |
| Field | phr | "Take the Field" - enter a competition or contest. 2. to commence military operations. |
| Field | phr | "Win the Field" - to win the battle. |
| Field-bed | n | A portable, folding, camping bed. |
| Field-book | n | A book in which a land-surveyor notes down the measurements taken in the field. 2. a botanist or naturalist book for preserving collected specimens while in the field. |
| Fieldcraft | n | The technology involved in living, traveling or making military or scientific observations in the field, esp. while remaining undetected. |
| Field-day | n | A military parade day. 2. a school day for athletic events, a sports day. 3. a day of class taken away from school for a field trip. 4. a great time or a great deal to do at somebody else expense. |
| Field-devil | n | Satyr: used by Coverdale in his Bible, on the German calque: feldteuful. |
| Field-dew | n | Dew gathering on a field, including sports field. |
| Field-dweller | n | A person or animal who lives in a field. 2. the bird Turdus pularis, also known as 'the fieldfare.' |
| Fielded | adj | Engaged in a field of battle. 2. fighting in the open field, as opposed to protected by a fort. |
| Fielden | adj | Level and open. 2. consisting of fields. 3. pertaining to or characteristic of a field. |
| Fieldfare | n | A thrush with grey plumage with speckled breast. |
| Field-faring | n | The toiling of workers in the field. |
| Field-fight | n | A fight or battle in the open, a pitched. |
| Field-free | adj | An area free of fields. |
| Fieldful | adj | As much as a field could grow. |
| Field-glasses | n | Binoculars for out door use. |
| Field-hand | n | An outdopor farm labourer. |
| Field-ice | n | Flat masses of ice floating in the sea, as distinct from icebergs. |
| Fielding | n | The action of taking the field for fighting. |
| Fieldish | adj | Level and open. 2. inhabiting the field. 3. resembling a field or open spaces. |
| Field-kirk | n | Late OE: a chapel or church in a field. |
| Field-land | n | Level and unenclosed land suitable for cultivation. |
| Fieldless | adj | Without open space; enclosed. |
| Field-meeter | n | One who attends or frequents field meetings. |
| Field-meeting | n | A hostile meeting or encounter in the open air; a duel. 2. a religious meeting held in a field or in the open. |
| Fieldmouse | n | A small mice or vole living in the field; a wood mouse. |
| Field-roomth | n | Open or unobstructed space, vast open spaces. |
| Fieldsman | n | One who lives or works in the fields. |
| Field-stone(s) | n | Stone or stones found in the field, used esp. for building purposes. |
| Field-strength | n | Intensity oof electromagnetic waves. |
| Fieldwards | adv | Towards the field(s) or in the direction of the fields. |
| Fieldware | n | Products of the field; crops, harvest. |
| Field-whore | n | Common prostitute. |
| Field-word | n | Battle cry; watchword, buzzword. |
| Fieldwork | n | Work done or observations made out in the real world rather than in control conditions. 2. a temporary fortification built by troops. |
| Field-worker | n | A person who does fieldwork. |
| Fieldy | adj | level and open, exposed. 2. that grows in or inhabits the field. 3. forming a field or fields. |
| Fiend | n | An enemy, foe. 2. the arch-enemy of mankind: the devil, satan, old sooty. 3. an evil spirit, generally; a demon, devil, a diabolical being. 4. a person of superhuman wickedness (now only in reference to cruelty and malignity). 5. a grisly monster(eg. a dragon). 6. also baleful influence on agencies personified. |
| Fiend | phr | "The Fiend of Hell" - the Devil, Satan, |
| Fiendful | adj | Proceeding from a fiendish agency. |
| Fiendfully | adv | Full of fiendish spirit or |
| Fiendish | adj | Extremely bad, cruel or unpleasant. 2. extremely complicated, diabolical or evilly complex. 3. abstruse, baleful, complicated evil. |
| Fiendishly | adv | Of, relating to, or suggestive of a fiend; diabolical. 3. extremely bad, disagreeable, or difficult. |
| Fiendishness | n | Disposition to wilfully inflict pain and suffering on others. |
| Fiendlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a fiend. |
| Fiendliness | n | The state of being extremely unfriendly, hostile, angrily, diabolical, bad. |
| Fiendly | adv | Hostile, unfriendly, in a friendly manner. 2. resembling or befitting a fiend, fiendlike, devilish, diabolical. 3. like an enemy, angrily. |
| Fiend-rese | n | Fierce, hostile onset. |
| Fiend-scathe | n | A monster. |
| Fiendship | n | The personification of a fiend. |
| Fiend-slaught | n | The slaughter of foes and enemies. |
| Fiend-thews | n | Evil-conduct, behavior. |
| Fierily | adv | With passionate fervor. |
| Fieriness | n | The state or quality of being fiery. |
| Fiery | adj | Ardent; fierce; vehement, irritable. 2. |
| Fiery-footed | adj | Fleet of feet; hot-footed. |
| Fiery-hot | adj | Reckless. |
| Fiery-short | adj | Brief but impassioned. |
| Fifteen | n | The cardinal number occurring after fourteen(14)and before sixteen (16). |
| Fifth | n | The ordinal form of the number five. |
| Fifth | phr | "Be a Fifth Wheel" - to be superfluous. |
| Fifth | phr | "Take the Fifth" - in the US exercise the right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of refusing to answer questions in order to avoid incriminating oneself. |
| Fifth-pathway | n | Means for an individual who has obtained all or most of his/her training outside a country US. etc) to ener post graduate training in the US by fulfilling certain set criteria. |
| Fifthly | adv | In the fifth, fifth in a row. |
| Fifty | n | The cardinal number immediately following forty (49) and preceding fifty-one (51) |
| Fifty | phr | "Go Fifty-fifty" - share and share alike. |
| Fifth-fifty | no | The cardinal number immediately following fifty-four (54) and preceding fifty-six (56). |
| Fifth-wheel | n | An extra wheel of a coach. 2. a superfluous person or thing. |
| Fifty | n | The product of five and ten. |
| Fifty | adj | That amounts to fifty. |
| Fig | n | A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. 2. the fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds. 3. small piece of tobacco. 4. the value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit. |
| Fig | vb | To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. 2. (obsolete) o put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible. |
| Fig | phr | "Would Not Give a Fig For" - regard something as worthless. |
| Fight | n | A combat, esp. unpremeditated, between two or more persons, animals, or parties. 2. a conflict or struggle, a vigorous effort in the face of difficulty.. 3. the power or inclination to fight. 4. a battle. 5. a boxing match. |
| Fight | vb | To contend in physical conflict. 2. to strive for to conduct or engage 3. to engage in combat. 4. to counteract |
| Fight | phr | "Be Fighting Fit" - be in exceptionally good physical condition . 2. fit for energetic action and/or endurance of hardship. 3. in good general health. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight Back" - counter attack. 2. suppress one's feelings. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight (One's Way) Back" - return, by struggling hard (to a position previously held) |
| Fight | phr | "Fight Down" - suppress, control, hold in check. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight Fire with Fire" - to encounter a danger situation by making an equally dangerous move. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight For" - fight on behalf of. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight for One's Own Hand" - to uphold one's own cause; to struggle for one's own interest. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight Off" - repel, drive back, not allow to approach. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight It Out" - continue (not necessary physical) a contest until there's a winner. 2. fight until a conclusion is reached. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight Like Cat and Dog" - quarrel repeatedly and vigorously. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight Shy Of" - avoid, be reluctant to. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight the Good Fight" - act with strong commitment to something. 2. put up a good fight. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight to a Standstill" - take part in a combat until one is totally exhausted. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight Tooth and Nail" - to strive very hard to win. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight to the Death" - fight till one can not fight anymore. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight with the Gloves Off" - to dispute mercilessly without any regard to the courtesies of debate. |
| Fight | phr | "Fight with the Gloves On" - figuratively, to spar or dispute without open animosity, to observe the courtesies and to show some consideration for one's opponent. |
| Fight | phr | "Free Fight" - a confused struggle with no clearly defined; a brawl. |
| Fight | phr | "Have A Fight On One's Hand" - to encounter resistance or opposition to one's proposal. |
| Fight | phr | "He Who fights and Runs Away, May Live to Fight Another Day" - sometimes flight is more advantageos to fight a losing battle. |
| Fight | phr | "Knock the Fight Out of" - reduce somebody's aggressiveness or will to survive. |
| Fight | phr | "Look for A Fight" - actively seek an argument or challenge. |
| Fight | phr | "Make A Fight of It" - offer resistance. |
| Fight | phr | "Put Up a Good Fight" - react well to a challenge. |
| Fight | phr | "Put Up a Fight" - offer resistance. |
| Fight | phr | "Running Fight" - contest that continues for a long time. |
| Fight | phr | "Show Fight" - react aggressively to a challenge. |
| Fight-back | n | An act of retaliation; a rally or recovery. |
| Fight-down | vb. | Overcome in battle, settle dispute, drive off, fight back. |
| Fighter | n | A person or animal that fights. 2. a fast military aircraft designed for attacking other aircrafts. |
| Fighting | n | A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight. |
| Fighting | adj | Engaged in war or other conflict. 2. apt to provide a fight. |
| Fighting | phr | "Hand-to-Hand Fighting" - combat not involving weapons. |
| Fighting-field | n. | Battlefield; fighting-stead. |
| Fighting-fish | n | A freshwater fish; 'Bettens splendeds' a native to Thailand, the males which fit vigorously. |
| Fighting-fit | adj | Fit to fight or take part in a fight; fit for battle |
| Fightingly | adv | Pugnaciously. |
| Fighting-stead | n | Battlefield, fighting-field. |
| Fighting-top | n | The gun-turret near top of a warship's mast. |
| Fighting-wise | n | The arming of a military force or army; battle array or preparation. |
| Fighting-words | n | Defiant statement or challenge; a declaration which will involve one in having to defend, or substantiate,it. |
| Fightless | adj | Without a fight or fighting. |
| Fight-lock | n | Fighting, battle, conflict. |
| Fight-or-Flight | n | Fight or flight All the coordinated physiological responses that the sympathetic nervous system initiates in response to stress or other emergency situations. |
| Fight-out | vb. | To fight it out, settle dispute. |
| Fight-racked | adj. | Overthrown in battle. |
| Fight-shy | adj. | Lose confidence in battle. |
| Fight-wite | n. | Fine for taking part in a fight |
| Fighty | adj. | Warlike, pugnacious, aggressive. |
| Fig-leaf | n | A covering consisting of anything intended to conceal something regarded as shameful. 2. fig leaf a leaf from a fig tree. 3. the leaf tree; hence, in allusion to the first clothing of Adam and Eve, a covering for a thing that ought to be concealed; esp., an inadequate covering; a symbol for affected modesty. |
| Figless | adj | Without figs. |
| Fig-tree | n | A tree of the genus Ficus, esp. Ficus carica. |
| Figwort | n | Any plant of the genus 'Scrophularia' with dull purplish-brown flowers, once believed to be useful against scrofula. |
| Fike | n. | Fig |
| Fike | n. | Flirtation, dalliance. |
| Fike | vb | To vex, trouble. 2. flatter, fawn, act or speak with deceit. 3. to deceive, flatter, fawn or act or speak deceitfully. |
| Fike | adj | Restless, fidgetty, movey. |
| Fikey | adj | Vexatious, troublesome |
| Fiking | n | The moving about in a quick way; being constantly in motion. 2. the vexing, perplexing, and giving of trouble. 2. trifling annoyance caused by restlessness and agitation. |
| Fikiness | n | The state or condition of moving about in a quick way; and being constantly in motion. 2. the quality of vexing, perplexing, and giving of trouble. |
| File | n | A hard steel abrading or smoothing instrument with ridged cutting surfaces. 2. fig. anything used to abrade, smooth or polish. 3. slang: a shrewd or artful person. |
| File | vb | To cut, smooth, or sharpen with a file. to remove with a file, as 'file away'. |
| Filing | n | The act or process of using a file. 2. a particle removed by a file. |
| Fill | n | Occupy fully, take up all of. 2. add contents to, so it is full. 3. enter, making it full. 4. become full of contents. 5. become pervaded with something. 6. satisfy, obey. 7. install someone or be installed in. 8. treat (a tooth) |
| Fill | vb | A sufficient or more than sufficient amount (food, money, etc.) 2. an amount that fills a container. 3. the filling of a container or area. 4. inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction. 5. the ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction. 6. (archaeology) soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill soil. 7. an embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled |
| Fill | phr | "Drink One's Fill" - drink as much as one wants. |
| Fill | phr | "Fill In" - a person or thing included to fill a gap or omission. 2. to insert something into a blank space. 3. to fill up, as of an excavation. 4. colloq. a summary of facts, often providing missing information, given to compete one's understanding of a situation. 5. enter in writing; write in. |
| Fill | phr | "Fill in for" - deputize for. |
| Fill | phr | "Fill in Time" - spend the interval between two stages in one's career contemporary job. |
| Fill | phr | "Fill One's Hand" - to draw a firearm into one's hand, as in a preparation for a gun fight. 2. (in a biblical sense)to be consecrated or initiated as a person. |
| Fill | phr | "Fill Out" - complete something in writing, by supplying the information required. 2. gain weight, to become fuller or rounder. 3. make fuller, more substantial by adding material. |
| Fill | phr | "Fill Someone's Shoes" - to be good successor. 2. adequately take the place, or take over the role, function(s), of somebody. |
| Fill | phr | "Fill Up" - to make something completely full; to be full. 2. to annoy, displease, by taunting, or by excessive nagging. |
| Filler | n | Filler is a substance used for filling cracks or holes, especially in walls, car bodies, or wood. 2. something being used or done because there is a need for something and nothing better is available. 3. something is, for example, a stadium filler or a floor filler, where it is likely to attract crowds to a stadium or onto a dance floor. |
| Fill-in | n | "Fill In" - a person or thing included to fill a gap or omission. 2. colloq. a summary of facts given to compete one's understanding of a situation. |
| Filling | n | The act of making or becoming full. 2. something used to fill a cavity or vacant space: tooth filling. 3. in weaving, the weft or woof, which crosses the warp. |
| Fillingness | n | The state or quality of becoming full. |
| Fills | n | Extra material inserted in a story or in a page of news. 2. extra material inserted in a story or in a page of news. |
| Fill-up | n | Things that fill something up. 2. an act of filling up a tank of motor vehicle with petrol at a at a bowser. |
| Film | n | A membrane, animal or vegetable, as the tongue. 2. a coating or layer. 3. a movie. 4. haze, slight vale. |
| Film-broke | adj | Ruptured |
| Filmdom | n | The film (movie) industry, the person works in that industry. 2. filmland. |
| Filmer | n | One who films; that is, one who copies media to microfilm. |
| Film-free | adj | Free from a filmy covering; not obscured, clear. |
| Film-goer | n | One who attends the cinema on a regular basis. |
| Film-going | n | The act or habit of attending cinemas on a regular basis. |
| Filmily | adv | In a filmy manner. |
| Filminess | n | The State or quality of being filmy or obscure. |
| Filmland | n | The industry of films and film-making. 2. the fictitious world where films are set. |
| Film-less | adj | Without film. |
| Film-like | adj | Resembling a film. |
| Film-maker | n | A producer or director of movies. |
| Film-worthy | adj | Deserving of being filmed. |
| Filmy | adj | Of a membranous structure: like a film : cloudy, obscure; thin. |
| Filst | n | Assistance, support, furtherance, aid, help |
| Filst | vb | To assist, support, aid, help. 2. to give one's aid to |
| Filth | n | An offensive or indecent word or phrase. 2. a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse. 3. the state of being covered with unclean things. 4. any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant |
| Filth | vb | To make foul, defile. |
| Filth-hood | n | Uncleanliness, filthiness, squalor (lit & fig.) |
| Filth-hood | phr | "To Do One's Filthhood" - to void excrement. |
| Filthily | adv | In a filthy manner or way. |
| Filthless | adj | Without filth, undefiled |
| Filthness | n | The state or condition of being filthy. 2. in a physical sense: foulness, uncleanliness. 3. pus, filthy matter. 4. moral corruption or pollution; obscenity, vileness, wickedness. |
| Filthy | adj | Covered with filth; very dirty. 2. obscene or offensive. 3. very unpleasant or disagreeable. |
| Filth-sodden | adj | Filthy and sodden. |
| Fin | n | Any of the firm appendages that are the organs of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals. Most fishes have paired and unpaired fins, the former corresponding to the limbs of higher vertebrates. 2. a part or appendage that resembles a fin 3. a. British a vertical surface to which the rudder is attached, usually placed at the rear of an aeroplane to give stability about the vertical axis. US name: vertical stabilizer; a tail surface fixed to a rocket or missile to give stability 4. nautical a fixed or adjustable blade projecting under water from the hull of a vessel to give it stability or control. 5. a projecting rib to dissipate heat from the surface of an engine cylinder, motor casing, or radiator |
| Finch | n | Any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds |
| Find | n | The act of finding. 2. something that is found, especially an unexpectedly valuable discovery. |
| Find | vb | To come upon, often by accident; meet with. 2. to come upon or discover by searching or making an effort. 3. to discover or ascertain through observation, experience, or study: found a solution; find the product of two numbers; found that it didn't really matter. 4. to perceive to be, after experience or consideration. 5. to recover (something lost). 6. to recover the use of; regain. 7. to succeed in reaching; arrive at. 8. to obtain or acquire by effort. 9. to decide on and make a declaration about. 10. to furnish; supply. 11. to bring (oneself) to an awareness of what one truly wishes to be and do in life.12. to perceive (oneself) to be in a specific place or condition. 13. to come to a legal decision or verdict. |
| Find | phr | "Find Against" - find guilty in court of law; decide against. |
| Find | phr | "Find a Better Hole" - find a better job, home, situation, etc. which is an improvement on the one you hahave now, or one you held before. |
| Find | phr | "Find An Answer" - be able to solve or find a solution to some question, dilemma, or mystery etc. |
| Find | phr | "Find Guilty" - convict. |
| Find | phr | "Finding is Keeping" - if you find something, then it is rightfully your property |
| Find | phr | "Find it in One's Heart" - to be inclined, able or desirous to be kind or understanding of others. |
| Find | phr | "Find One's Bearings" - locate, orientate oneself. 2. get to know where one is, what to do, in a new location, social situation, job, etc. |
| Find | phr | "Find One's Feet" - gain experience, develop one's skills, and knowledge of what is best to do in new surrounding, a new job. |
| Find | phr | "Find Oneself" - be in a particular place. 2. be in a positive or optimistic frame of mind after a prolonged bout of self doubt. |
| Find | phr | "Find One's Tongue" - begin talking (after beings shy). |
| Find | phr | "Find One's Wanting" - judge that one does not meet a required, or expected, standard. |
| Find | phr | "Find One's Way - reach a destination, objective, by search, inquiry, or experiment. 2. (facetious): arrive, be found, somewhere by fortuitous or unexplained means. |
| Find | phr | "Find Out" - make a conscious effort to discover something. 2. to ascertain, learn(something), as through learning, study examination or inquiry. 3. to detect the true nature or character of; expose a mistake a wrongdoing. 4. to detect and apprehend; catch. |
| Find | phr | "Find Out the Hard way" - learn something without help. |
| Find | phr | "Find Something Heavy Going" - have difficulty doing something. |
| Find | phr | "Find Something Wanting" - feel that something has not met the required standard of behaviour, efficiency, suitability. |
| Find | phr | One Sins will find Out" - (facetious): ne's wrongdoings will ultimately be discovered. |
| Find | phr | "Take Us As You Find Us" - accept us as we are if you arrive. |
| Findal | n | OE: fyndele - that which is found; an invention. 2. a treasure trove. |
| Finder | n | One who or that which finds. 2. a small telescope by the side of a large telescope, used to locate a particular object for astronomical observation. |
| Finder | phr | "Finder's Keepers, Losers Weepers" - whoever finds something is entitled to it. |
| Finder-out | n | One who detects and discovers information, persons or things in various situations. |
| Finding | n | Final issue, latter part, closing, end of life, close, death, 2. a conclusion reached by an inquiry; outcome, result. 3. boundary, extremity. |
| Finding | phr | "Finding is Keeping" -see 'find' |
| Findings | n | Outcome, result |
| Findy | adj | OE: fynd: strength, substance: firm, solid, weighty; 2. (of a harvest): plentiful. |
| Findy | n | Final issue, latter part, closing, end of life, close, death, 2. boundary, extremity. 3. outcome, result. |
| Finew | adj | Mouldy, musty. Also finewing, finewed, finewness |
| Finger | n | The extremity of the hand. 2. a piece of food. 3. anything that does work of a finger. 4. finger pier. 5. small amount of beverage in a glass 6. the breadth of a finger. 7. skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument |
| Finger | vb | To identify or point out. 2. to poke. 3. to penetrate and sexually stimulate with one's finger. 4. to use specified finger positions to produce notes on a musical instrument. 5. to provide instructions about the use of fingers in music. |
| Finger | phr | "All Fingers and Thumbs" - clumsy, awkward in doing things with their hands. |
| Finger | phr | "Bite One's Fingernails" to anxiously wait a decision. |
| Finger | phr | "Blessing with the Fingers" - blessing with the three fingers is symbolic of the Christian Trinity |
| Finger | phr | "Burn One's Fingers" - suffer as result of poor judgement. |
| Finger | phr | "Finger and Glove with Another" - to be in close collusion with; be in the closest co-operation. |
| Finger | phr | "Finger Out" - to read carefully or with effort, passing the finger along the line of words. 2. to point out with the finger. |
| Finger | phr | "Fingers Were Made before Forks" - a saying used especially at mealtimes to imply that ceremony is unnecessary. |
| Finger | phr | "Get Upon the Finger's End" - to incur a sharp reprimand. |
| Finger | phr | "Gnaw One's Fingers to the Bone" - to fret. |
| Finger | phr | "Hang On By One's Fingernails" - make a desperate effort to retain something. 2. have a slender hold on something. |
| Finger | phr | "Have a Finger In" - have an interest, be concerned or be involved in something. |
| Finger | phr | "Have at One Finger's End" - ready at hand. |
| Finger | phr | "Have Green Fingers" - be skillful at gardening. |
| Finger | phr | "Have Itchy Fingers" - be very eager, impatient. |
| Finger | phr | "Have Light/Sticky Fingers"- an inclination to pilfer or steal; be dishonest. |
| Finger | phr | "Have More (of something) in One's Little Finger than Somebody Else Has in their Whole Body" - be much better than somebody else. |
| Finger | phr | "Lay A Finger on Somebody" - harm somebody physically. |
| Finger | phr | "My Little Finger Told Me That" - I know it, although you did not expect it. 2. a little bird told me that. |
| Finger | phr | "Not Lay A Finger on Somebody" - refrain from hurting someone. |
| Finger | phr | "One One's Finger's End" - to be thoroughly familiar with a subject or branch of knowledge. |
| Finger | phr | "Put One's Finger on" - identify the essential features of something. 2. point out precisely the meaning. 3. detect with complete accuracy. |
| Finger | phr | "Pull One's Finger Out" - stir from complacency, inactivity and do something with alacrity. |
| Finger | phr | "Put the Finger on" - inform on somebody to the police. |
| Finger | phr | "To One's Finger's End" - completely, entirely, totally. |
| Finger | phr | "Wave a Finger at someone" - to indicate mild pleasure at another person's actions. |
| Finger | phr | "With a Wet Finger on" - easily, directly. the allusion is to spinning, in which th spinner constantly wetted the forefinger with the mouth; and sailors who find the wind by holding up a wet finger for the breeze to cool it, thus finding that side whence it comes. |
| Finger | phr | "Work One's Fingers to the Bone" - work very hard. |
| Fingerboard | n | A flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument against which the strings are pressed to create different tones. |
| Finger-breadth | n | The width of a finger used as a measure. |
| Finger-cold | adj | Cold enough to numb the fingers (end of fingers, extremities) |
| Fingered | adj | Having or provided with fingers. 2. of a leaf or plant: digital, shaped like a finger. |
| Fingerer | n | One who "fingers" other people's property; a pilferer, thief, pickpocket. |
| Finger-end | n | The end or tip of the finger. |
| Finger-fed | adj | Delicately brought up or reared; pampered, cosset. |
| Finger food | n | Food that can be eaten with the finger (for convenience); as opposed to requiring utensils; often appetizers and snacks. |
| Fingerful | adj | As much as can be held by a finger or between two fingers; hence, a small quantity. |
| Finger-hole | n | A hole in the side of a musical instrument such as a flute which, when closed by the finger, modifies the pitch. |
| Fingering | n | Work done with the fingers. 2. action of using the fingers when playing an instrument. 3. petty manipulation. |
| Fingerish | adj | Of or pertaining to the fingers. |
| Fingerless | adj | Without fingers. |
| Finger-lessness | n | An absence of fingers of fingers. |
| Finger-licking | adj | Delicious, tasty, so much so that one licks their fingers to make sure none is lost or wasted. |
| Finger-licking | phr | "Finger-lickin(g)' Good" - extremely tasty. |
| Finger-like | n | Resembling a finger, especially in shape. |
| Fingerling | n | A finger stall. 2. a very small person. |
| Fingerly | adj | Of or pertaining to the fingers. |
| Finger mark | n | A mark left on a surface by a finger. |
| Finger nail | n | The hard, flat translucent covering near the top of a finger, usually for scratching and fine manipulation. |
| Fingernail | phr | "Hang On By One's Fingernails" - make a desperate effort to retain something. 2. have a slender hold on. |
| Finger out | vb | To read carefully or with effort, passing the finger along the line of words. 2. to point out with the finger. |
| Finger play | n | A rhyme for young children consisting of a set of hand movements coordinated with a song or chant. |
| Finger-post | n | Post set up at parting roads, with one or more arms, often terminating in the shape of a finger, to indicate the directions of the several roads or towns, cities, etc. 2. a guide post, sign post. |
| Finger-post | vb | To indicate by means of a finger post. |
| Finger-ring | n | A ring (often ornamental and sometimes precious)designed to be worn on the finger. |
| Finger-shade | n | The action of concealing the mouth with the finger. |
| Finger-shield | n | A silver appliance made to fit the first finger on the left hand. |
| Finger-smith | n | A midwife. 2. a gynecologist. |
| Finger-spelling | n | The practice of representing the letters of the alphabet using just the hands to spell out words. 2. any system for representing the letters of the alphabet using just the hands. 3. a representation of the spelling of a word just using the hands. |
| Finger-stall | n | A protective cover for the fingers to protect them from injury. |
| Finger stick | n | The pricking of a finger to obtain a small sample of blood. |
| Finger-stone | n | A stone sufficiently small to be held by the hand. 2. belemnite. |
| Finger-talk | n | Deaf language: sign language for the deaf. |
| Finger-tight | adj | As tightly screwed as can be made by the strength of one's fingers, without the use of any tools, tat is, without any special equipment. |
| Fingerwise | adv | The manner of fingers from a hand, spreading out in several narrow parts. |
| Finger work | n | The movement or play of the fingers in executing something, esp. in playing a musical instrument. |
| Fingery | adj | Resembling finger in shape. |
| Finless | adj | Without or lacking a fin. |
| Finned | adj | Having or provided with fins. |
| Fin-toed | adj | Web-footed. |
| Finny | adj | Having fins. |
| Fin whale | n | A large porqual, 'Balaenoptera physalus' with a prominent dorsal fin. |
| Fir | n | An evergreen tree of the pine family genus (Abies), cone-bearing and resinous, especially the balsam fir. |
| Fire | vb | Bake in a kiln so as to harden. 2. destroy by fire. 3. cause to go off. 4. go off or discharge. 4. start firing a weapon. 5. call forth emotions, feelings, and responses) 6. drive out or away by or as if by fire. 7. provide with fuel. 8. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position. |
| Fire | n | The act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy. 2. a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning. 3. intense adverse criticism. 4. the event of something burning (often destructive) 5. a severe trial. 6. feelings of great warmth and intensity. 7. the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke. 8. fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking |
| Fire | phr | "A Burnt Child Dreads the Fire" - anyone who has a bad experience will be scared and stay away from things connected to the experience. |
| Fire | phr | "A Soft Fire Makes Sweet Malt" - a request or recommendation of gentleness or deliberation is more likely succeed in getting a positive outcome. |
| Fire | phr | "Be (or Come) Under Fire" - to be in the range of enemy fire. 2. to be in close or imminent danger. |
| Fire | phr | "Between Two Fires" - being or subject to attack and critcism from both two sides or directions. |
| Fire | phr | "Breathe Fire and Brimstone" - symbolic of punishment and destruction , esp. as inflicted by God's wrath and associated with the Old Testament , and concepts of God, Hell, and the Devil. |
| Fire | phr | "Don't Play With Fire" - to do something that can cause great trouble later. |
| Fire | phr | "Draw Somebody's Fire" - tactically allow oneself to be attacked |
| Fire | phr | "Fat is In the Fire" - the action has caused trouble. |
| Fire | phr | "Feed the Fire" - to exacerbate a situation |
| Fight | phr | "Fight Fire with Fire" - to encounter a danger situation by making an equally dangerous move. |
| Fire | phr | "Fire At Will" - the command given to riflemen or to gun crews to fire independently of each other and of their commanding officer, |
| Fire | phr | "Fire Away" - to begin, start questioning. |
| Fire | phr | "Fire Off" - expend, use up, especially by shooting. |
| Fire | phr | "Fire of Heaven" - lightning, lightning flash, thunderbolt, see Heaven's Fire. |
| Fire | phr | "Fire the Opening Shot" - make the first move in a contest, quarrel, fight or confrontation. |
| Fire | phr | "Fire Up" - to start a fire, as in a furnace. 2. to become enraged. |
| Fire | phr | "Go Through Fire and Water" - often one must take risk in going through or tackle the greatest dangers or hardest situations to survive and succeed. 2. a brand from out of the fire (fig) |
| Fire | phr | "Hang Fire" - be delayed; fail to explode. |
| Fire | phr | "Have Fire in One's Belly - to be enthusiastic, ambitious, driving force (towards success), initiative. |
| Fire | phr | "Heap Coal of Fire on One's Head" - to melt down one's animosity by acts of kindness. 2. to repay acts of badness with goodness. |
| Fire | phr | "In the Line of Fire" - at risk because one is between two opposing forces. |
| Fire | phr | "Keep One's Fire Burning" - to stay at home. |
| Fire | phr | "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - fig. to keep things going at one's home or other central locations. 2. the name of a World War 1 song supporting the military in war zones. |
| Fire | phr | "Like a House on Fire" - very quickly; well. |
| Fire | phr | "Line of Fire" - the direction of axis of a firearm. |
| Fire | phr | "Men Stand with their Backs to the Fire" - |
| Fire | phr | "More Fire in the Bedstraw" - more mischief brewing. (from a time when straw was used as a bed). |
| Fire | phr | "On Fire" - burning, ablaze; hence, ardent, zealous. |
| Fire | phr | "Open Fire" - to start firing one's weapons at the enemy or foe. 2. (fig.)- to attack another verbally. |
| Fire | phr | "Play with Fire" - invite danger through foolish, extreme and unnecessary risky conduct. |
| Fire | phr | "Pull Something Out of the Fire" - to salvage something in a seemingly hopeless situation. |
| Fire | phr | "Running Fire" - rapid succession of shots. 2. fig. a running commentary or succession of rapi-firee questions etc. |
| Fire | phr | "Spread Like Wildfire" - spread rapidly |
| Fire | phr | "The Fat is in the Fire" - the matter have come to a crisis; trouble is about to begin. |
| Fire | phr | "There's No Fire Without Smoke" - that is, everything has some advantages. |
| Fire | phr | "There's No Smoke Without Fire" - a rumor, is usually based, however remotely, on fact. |
| Fire | phr | "Under Fire" - exposed to gunshot or artillery; hence, under attack of any kind. 2. be criticized, held responsible. |
| Fire ant | n | A destructive, mound-building red ant with a sting very painful to amn and animal. |
| Fire-arm | n | A weapon such as a gun, pistol etc which discharges by fire exploding gun powder. |
| Fire-back | n | The rear wall of a furnace or fireplace. |
| Fire-bare | n | A beacon or a lighthouse. |
| Fire bird | n | Any of various, small, brilliantly colored birds. |
| Fire-blight | n | A serious bacterial disease of various pomaceous fruit caused by Erwina amylovora and attacking blossoms, leaves , twigs, and fruit. |
| Fire board | n | A chimney board used to close a fire-place in summmer. |
| Firebote | n | The repair or mending of a fire(place). 2. wood used for the repair of a fire-place. 3. fuel granted by the landlord to the tenant. 4. the right of a tenant to take fire-wood from the landlord estate. |
| Firebrand | n | One ( a firebrand of Hell) who is doomed (or deserves) to die in the fires of Hell. 2. kindler of strife; one who or a thing which kindles strife or mischief. 3. an inflamer of passion. 4. a box with materials for producing fire (a tinder-box). 5. a kind of fire-work. 6. a brand mark. 7. the redstart (a bird). |
| Fire-break | n | An obstacle or clearing to contain the spread of a grass or forest fire. |
| Fire-breathing | adj | A fabled animal, such a dragon taht breathes fire or smoke from its nostrils. |
| Fire-clay | n | Clay capable of withstanding high temperatures, often used to make firebricks. |
| Fired | adj | Dismissed, sacked from a job. 2. of ceramics, pottery fired in a kiln, |
| Fire-door | n | A fire resistant door to prevent the spread of fire. |
| Fire-drake | n | A fiery dragon, a mythical creature belonging to Germanic superstition. 3. a fiery meteor. 4. a will-of-the-wisp. 5. a kind of fire-work. |
| Fire-eater | n | Those ready to quarrel with anyone; those lookingfor trouble; eager fighters.(the allusion to a juggler who pretends to eat fire. 2. a violent southern partisan in the US civil War. |
| Fire-eyed | adj | Fiery |
| Fire-eyes | n | Having eyes glowing in fire |
| Fire-fang | n | The state of being fire-fanged or overheated, |
| Fire-fang | vb | To lay hold of with fire. 2. to singe, scorch. 3. to burn heretics (jocosely) |
| Fire-fanged | adj | Caught or overtaken by fire. 2. scorched, burnt. 3. burnt as a heretic (jocose). |
| Fire-fanging | n | The action of fire-fanging. |
| Fire-fiend | n | Fire personified as an evil spirit of destruction. |
| Fire-fight | n | A fight using firearms; a gun battle. |
| Fire-fighter | n | A person whose task is to extinguish fires. |
| Fire-fighting | n | The extinguishing of a fire. 2. the profession of being a fighter of fire. 3. (by extension) solving an urgent problem. |
| Fire-flaught | n | Lightning; a flash of lightning. 2. a storm of thunder and lightning. 3. the northern lights: Aurora borealis. 4. a fiery glance. |
| Fire-flaw | n | Lightning, a flash of lightning, a storm of thunder and lightning, fire-slaught, fulmination; also: fire-flaught. |
| Fire-float | n | A floating fire-brigade ship. |
| Fire-fly | n | Any soft-bodied beetle of the glow-worm family 'Lamppyridae' emitting phosphorescent light, usually in flashes. |
| Fire-foam | n | A thick foam like substance, formed by the chemical union of aluminium sulphate and sodium bicarbonate with other materials, which smother a fire. |
| Fire-hearth | n | A pavement of bricks or stones on which a fine is made. 2. the hearth in front of the fire place. 3. a kind of cooking store, esp for ships. |
| Fire-hot | adj | Of material things: hot as fire, red hot. 2. inflamed with zeal, passion or lust. |
| Firehouse | n | In the US : a fire station. |
| Fire-hunt | n | Use of fire to drive out game from a forest, etc. |
| Fire-iland | n | Volcano. |
| Fire-iron | n | One of a set of metal tools kept beside the fireplace, used to keep the fire burning as required. the set usually consist of fire tongs, as a poker, a spade, and a brush for the ashes. |
| Fireless | adj | Devoid of fire, without a fire. 2. unlit, not flaming. 2. of a tribe having no knowledge of fire or means of procuring fire. |
| Fire-light | n | Lightning. |
| Fire-lighter | n | A piece ofinflammable material to help start a fire in a grate. |
| Fire-like | adj | Resembling a fire; fiery. |
| Firelock | n | An old form of the gun lock, as the flintlock, which ignites by priming by a spark. |
| Firely | adv | Ardent, furious, ardently, with fierce eagerness. |
| Fireman | n | A man who fights fires, usually a public employee or trained volunteer. Gender-neutral form: firefighter. 2. (on steam locomotives) the man who stokes the fire and controls the injectors feeding water to the boiler; (on diesel and electric locomotives) the driver's assistant. 3. a man who tends furnaces; stoker. 4. a mine official responsible for safety precautions. In US: fire boss5. 6. US navy a junior rating who works on marine engineering equipment6. informal any employee who is dispatched to deal with trouble at short notice |
| Fire-manship | n | The skill of fire safer, fire prevention, etc. |
| Firen | Adj | Consisting of or containing fire; flaming in fire. |
| Fire-new | adj | Brand new; fresh from the fire. |
| Fire of Heaven | n | Lightning, lightning flash, thunderbolt, see Heaven's Fire. |
| Fire-pan | n | A pan or brazier for heating food liquors over fire. 2. a kind of fireworks. |
| Fire-pot | n | A crucible, furnace; in ancient warfare, a vessel containing combustible fluid. |
| Firer | n | One who sets anything on fire. 2. incendiary devices, in general. |
| Fire-red | adj | Red hot, fire-hot, red like fire; reddened by fire. |
| Fire-room | n | The stokehold of a ship. |
| Fire-sale | n | A sale of goods reduced because of slight damage in a fire. |
| Fire-ship | n | A vessel loaded with combustibles and explosives and sent among enemy ships in order to destroy them. |
| Fire-side | n | The side of a fire-place. 2. space about a fire, the hearth. 3. (transfig.) - a symbol of home and life or one's household . 4. those who sit around one fire or hearth. 5. informal talks by the leaders broadcast to the nations. |
| Fire-sideship | n | The personality of one who sits by the fireside: homely, staunch, steadfast. |
| Fire stick | n | One of two sticks which early people used to for producing fire by friction. 2. a piece of wood kindled at the fire. |
| Fire-stink | n | The smell noticeable when the charred remains of fire are still smouldering or has just burnt out. |
| Firestone | n | A flint, a stone capable of being used in striking fire. 2. a hearth stone. |
| Firestorm | n | A very intensive and destructive fire, often caused by bombings, in which strong currents of air are drawn int the blaze from surrounding areas. |
| Firestorm | n | "Run into a Firestorm" - be faced with many protests. |
| Fire-swart | adj | Blackened by fire |
| Fire-tongs | n | Tongs used for handling ignited combustibles. |
| Fire-walker | n | One who walks over hot coal. |
| Fireward | n | A fire chief; a fire-warden. 2. a fireman. |
| Fireward | adj | Which faces a fire. 2. which lies in the direction of a fire,etc. |
| Fireward | adv | Towards. |
| Fire-warden | n | A fire chief; a fire-warden. 2. a fireman. |
| Firewatch | n | In time of war or danger, the task of looking out for signs of fire caused by the dropping of incendiary devices etc. The act of watching for the occurrence of fires. This is usually done with the intent of detecting fires early so that they can be extinguished quickly and damage to land and/or property can be prevented or make minimal. Fire watches are often employed in forested areas where the risk of fires is high (dry conditions, hot weather, etc) or in industrial settings where hot work (welding, metal grinding, etc) is occurring. |
| Fire-watcher | n | The name given to those volunteers in Britian who kept watch for fires started by enemy raids during Worls War 11. |
| Fire-watching | n | The act of watching for the occurrence of fires. |
| Fire-water | n | Any strong, cheap liquor. |
| Fireweed | n | A perennial herbaceous plant (Epilobium angustifolium) in the family Ongraceae. |
| Firewire | n | A high speed digital link standard. 2. a system of wires or tubes designed to detect fire and triggers an automatic fire extinguishers. |
| Fire-wit | n | "Fyr-wit" - curiosity (witfire) |
| Fire-wood | n | Wood, fuel used for burning. |
| Firework | n | A device containing combustible chemicals that cause explosions or spectacular effects; fireworks display or an event where fireworks are set off. 2. a boisterous or violent situations or event. 3. an outburst of passion or anger. 4. a dispaly of wit or brilliance. |
| Fire-worker | n | A person who works to help prevent destructive wild fires. |
| Fire worm | n | A glow worm. |
| Fire-worship | n | The worship or adoration of fire. |
| Fire-worshipper | n | One who worships fire. 2. a follower of Zoraster. |
| Firing | n | The action of setting something on fire or alight. 2. action of catching fire or becoming ignited. 3. ignition of fuel in a cylinder. |
| Firing line | n | The front line in battle. 2. the leading part in an activityetc. |
| Firk | n | Sharp or sudden blow or stroke, esp. with a whip. 2. flip, flick, cut or thrust with a sword. 2. a trick, dodge, subterfuge. 3. a freak, prank, caprice. |
| Firk | vb | To bring, carry, conduct. 2. help forward in some way, urge, press, drive away, move briskly |
| Firk | phr | "To Firk Up" - stir up, rouse up. 2. to move briskly, dance, jig. 3. to be lively, frisky. 4. to beat, whip, lash. |
| Firk | phr | "To Firk to Death" - put to death. |
| Firless | adj | Without fir trees. |
| Fire-like | adj | Resembling fire; fiery. |
| Fir-needle | n | The sharp-pointed leaf of a fir tree. |
| Firry | adj | Abounding in firs. |
| First | n | The ordinal number matching the number one in a series. 2. the one coming, occurring, or ranking before or above all others. 3. the beginning; the outset: from the first; at first. 4. music the voice or instrument highest in pitch or carrying the principal part. 5. the transmission gear or corresponding gear ratio used to produce the range of lowest drive speeds in a motor vehicle. 6. the winning position in a contest: finished the season in first. |
| First | adj | Corresponding in order to the number one. 2. coming before all others in order or location: the first house on your left. 3. occurring or acting before all others in time; earliest: the first day of spring.4. ranking above all others, as in importance or quality; foremost: was first in the class. 5. (in music) being highest in pitch or carrying the principal part: first trumpet. 6. of, relating to, or being the transmission gear or corresponding gear ratio used to produce the range of lowest drive speeds in a motor vehicle. 7. of, related to, or being a member of the US president's household: first daughter; first lady. |
| First | adv | Before or above all others in time, order, rank, or importance: arrived first. 2. for the first time. 3. rather; preferably: would die first.
4. in the first place; to begin with; firstly |
| First | phr | "At First Hand" - directly from the source. 2. personally. |
| First | phr | "At First Sight" - as seen initially. |
| First | phr | "Draw First Blood" - to get an advantage. |
| First | phr | "First and Foremost" - before any other consideration. 2. firstly and most importantly. 3. taking precedence as a consideration, procedure, function or role. |
| First | phr | "First and Last" - altogether, completely when everything has been taken into account. 2. in all respects and circumstances. 3. all the time; in all, with what thing and another. |
| First | phr | "First Blood" - first success, win. |
| First | phr | "First in First Out" - an asset-management and valuation method in which the assets produced or acquired first are sold, used or disposed of first. |
| First | phr | "First Light" - dawn; sunrise. |
| First | phr | "First Man Through the Door" - the leading villain in a film. |
| First | phr | "First of All" - the one who takes the initiative will do better than those who act slower. 2. before doing anything else; in the first place, to begin with, in the first incidence. |
| First | phr | "First Off" - before something else; at first, first of all. |
| First | phr | "First Off the Mark" - start ahead of all others. |
| First | phr | "First One Has Heard of This" - the first time one learns about something |
| First | phr | "First or Last" - sooner or last. |
| First | phr | "First or Opening Shot" - make the first move in a contest, quarrel, fight, or confrontation. |
| First | phr | "First Saw The Light Of Day" - when born. 2. of a thing: moment of creation. |
| First | phr | "First Step Towards" - the first stage in a process or progress. |
| First | phr | "First Thing" - as early as possible in the day. |
| First | phr | "First Things First" - the most important before any others. |
| First | phr | "First Thing In the Morning" - early in the morning; soon after one wakes up or rises. |
| First | phr | "First Thing One Knows" - then; next; after that. |
| First | phr | "First Things First" - put things in the correct order of priority. |
| First | phr | "First Thing That Comes Into Ones Head" - a hasty or unconsidered opinion, remark, reply. |
| First | phr | "First Up" - first of all. |
| First | phr | "From First to Last" - completely. |
| First | phr | "From the First" - from the beginning. |
| First | phr | "Get a First" - win first prize, or be awarded a first class degree at a university. |
| First | phr | "Head First" - precipitately. |
| First | phr | "Of the First Water" - of the best quality. |
| First | phr | "Shed First Blood" - the first shedding of blood, as in a boxing match etc. |
| First | phr | "The First Step (Towards)" - the first stage in a process or progress; |
| First-begotten | adj | The eldest child; a born first. |
| First-born | n | The child first born; an heir, also the first product or result. |
| Firstborn | adj | first brought forth; eldest, best or preeminent. |
| Firstcomer | n | One who comes first. 2. a person or entity being the first to arrive, or the first in sequence. |
| First day | n | The calends. 2. sunday. |
| First day | adj | In philately, a letter or card with a new stamp posted on the day that the stamp was first issued. |
| First-fiddle | phr | "Play the First Fiddle" - play the lead or primary role in an orchestra or ensemble. |
| First finger | n | The finger next to the thumb. |
| First-fleet | n | The first expedition of eleven ships under captain Arthur Philip, bringing convicts to Australia. |
| First-floor | n | The floor of a building at the level of the street or surrounding ground; the ground floor. 2. the floor of a building one above the ground floor. |
| First-foot | n | In Scottish and Northern English folklore, the first-foot, also known in Manx Gaelic as quaaltagh or qualtagh, is the first person to enter the home of a household on New Year's Day and a bringer of good fortune for the coming year |
| First-footer | n | The first visitor at a house after midnight on New Year's Eve. |
| First footing | n | The "First Footing" is a tradition celebrated on Hogmanay, a Scottish New Year's celebration. It is supposed to bring luck and prosperity to the household for the new year. It is a ritual involving the first person to step into a household from the outside in a new year. Similar traditions exist in Greece and Georgia. If you are of Scottish heritage or would simply like to expand your own celebration and add new experiences, here's how you can go about it. |
| First half | n | First half of two halves of play |
| First-hand | adj | Obtained from the first source of origin, original |
| First-handness | n | The quality or condition of being first, original, authentic in character. |
| Firsthood | n | The position of one who is first, primary,firstship |
| First house | n | The first of two performances given in one evening at a theatre. |
| First Lady | n | The wife of the President of the US or other head of state. 2. the leading woman in a particular activity or profession. |
| First light | n | The time in the morning when the first light appears. 2. in the military forces 'first light' denotes the earliest time (roughly dawn) at which military operations can begin. (see 'last light'). |
| Firstling | n | The first of its kind to be produced, come into being, appear. 2. first product or result of anything. 2. the first off-spring of an animal. 4. the first turn of spring. |
| First love | n | One's first feeling of romantic love 2. object of one's first romantic affection. 3. one's most fundamental interest or attachment. |
| Firstly | adv | In the beginning, originally. |
| First-most | adj | The first in time, most notable, best, chief, prominent, foremost |
| First Mother | n | "Our First Mother" - Eve, the first female ancestor, African mother. |
| First name | n | Personal orchristian name. |
| Firstness | n | Equality of state. 2. the quality or state of being first. |
| First-night | n | The opening performances of films and plays. |
| First-nighter | n | One who makes a practice of attending opening performances of films and theatre play. |
| First-reading | n | An occasion when a Bill is presented to a legislature to permit its introduction. |
| Firstship | n | Firsthood: the position of being first. |
| First strike | adj | An aggressive attack with a nuclear weapons before their use by the enemy; first-strike. |
| First string | n | A regular member as distinguished from a substitute (as on a team) |
| First string | adj | First-rate. |
| First thing | n | Even the most elementary fact or principle, know the first thing about. |
| First time | n | The first instance of sexual intercourse |
| First water | n | Of highest quality (used of precious stone, ireespective of size) flawless; a paragon. |
| Fish | n | A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water. 2. an oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. 3. the flesh of fish, used as food. 4. the twelfth sign of the zodiac. 5. piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard. |
| Fish | vb | To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net. 2. to catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor. 3. to search by raking or sweeping. 4. to seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. 5. to strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. 6. to try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream. |
| Fish | phr | "All is Fish that Comes to My Net" - of one who turns everything to his/her own use and profit. |
| Fish | phr | "Be in a Goldfish Bowl" - be very open to view. |
| Fish | phr | "Drink Like a Fish" - drink excessively. |
| Fish | phr | "Feed the Fishes" - to drown. 2. to be sea-sick. |
| Fish | phr | "Fish for" - try to obtain by indirect method; angle for. 2. hunt for treasure. |
| Fish | phr | "Fish Out" extract, raise out of. 2. deplete the supply of fish in an specific area. |
| Fish | phr | "Have Other Fish To Fry" - have alternative/ more important matters to attend to. |
| Fish | phr | "He/She Eats No Fish" - in the time of Elizabeth 1 monarchy, a way of saying she/he is an honest woman/man and one to be trusted, because she/he is not a Papist. Roman Catholics were naturally suspect at this time, and Protestants refused to adopt their custom of eating fish, instead of meat, on a Friday |
| Fish | phr | "Land One's Fish" - succeed in deluding someone. |
| Fish | phr | "Like a Cold Fish" - someone who is unemotional/ unsympathetic. |
| Fish | phr | "Like a Fish Out of Water" - someone in a situation that they are unfamiliar with or unsuited for. |
| Fish | phr | "Neither Fowl nor Fish" - neither one thing nor the other: unclassifiable. |
| Fish | phr | "Small Fish" - somebody who is relatively unimportant. |
| Fish | phr | "Smell Something Fishy" - be suspicious. |
| Fish | phr | "The Best Fish are Near the Bottom" - what is most valuable is not to be found near the surface, nor is anything really worth having to be obtained without effort and trouble. |
| Fish | phr | "There Are Many Fish in the Sea" - there are many more people to meet. |
| Fish | phr | "You Must Not Make Fish of One and Flesh of Other" - you must treat both alike. 2. you must not discriminate. |
| Fish-berry | n | Cocculus indicus, the fruit of the plant anamirta cooculus. |
| Fishbone | n | A bone of a fish. |
| Fish day | n | The day fish is eaten instead of meat: Friday. |
| Fisher | n | A fisherman. |
| Fisherfolk | n | A person who fishes for a living. 2. a culture that is th e domain of fishermen. |
| Fisherman | n | A fisher; a person who works in the fishing industry. 2. a person who attempts to catch fish. 3. a boat used for commercial fishing. |
| Fisherman's Ring | n | A seal-ring with which the Pope is invested at his election, bearing the device of St Peter fishing from a boat. It is used for sealing papal briefs, and is officially broken up at the Pope's death by the Chamberlain of the Roman Church. |
| Fish eye | n | An un-friendly or suspicious glance. 2. an undesirable effect in paint; particularly automotive finishes, normally caused by oil or other contaminantson the painted surface. |
| Fish-eye-stone | n | Apophyllite. |
| Fishfinder | n | An electronic device that uses sonar to measure water depth and shows outlines of fish and bottom features on a LCD or CRT screen |
| Fish finger | n | A stick of processed fish covered by bread crumbs that is cooked by grilling or frying. |
| Fishful | adj | Aboounding in fish. |
| Fish god | n | A deity in the form of a fish; as 'Dagon' (of the Philistines). |
| Fish hawk | n | The Osprey. |
| Fish hook | n | A barbed hook for catching fish by a hook. |
| Fishiness | n | An absence of fish. |
| Fishing | n | The act of someone who fishes as a diversion. 2. the occupation of catching fish for a living |
| Fishing-line | n | A long thread of silk etc. with a baited hook, sinker, float used for catching fish. |
| Fishish | adj | Resembling a fish; fishy. |
| Fish-knife | n | A knife for eating or serving fish. |
| Fishless | adj | Without fish, devoid of fish. |
| Fishlessness | n | The state of being without fish. |
| Fishlife | n | The fish, (of an area) collectively. |
| Fishlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of fish, in some aspect. |
| Fish-meal | n | Ground dried fish used as a fertilizer or animal meal. |
| Fishmonger | n | One deals retail or sells fish. |
| Fish-net | n | An open-meshed fabric net. |
| Fish-pot | n | A wicker trap for eels, lobsters etc. |
| Fish-spear | n | A harpoon. |
| Fish-tail | n | Anything resembling a fish's tail in shape or movement. |
| Fishtail | vb | To move the tail of a vehicle from side to side. |
| Fishtail burner | n | A kind of gas burner producing a broadening jet of flame. |
| Fish-way | n | A series of steps enabling fish to ascend a waterfall; a fish-ladder. |
| Fish-well | n | A compartment, as in the hold of a fishing smack , open to the water beneath, used for storing live fish. |
| Fishwife | n | A woman who sells or works in a fishmonger. 2. a vulgar, abusive or nagging woman with a loud, unpleasant voice. 3. a term of abuse directed at women, implying a lack of hygeine. |
| Fishy | adj | Of, from or similar to fish. 2. suspicious; inspiring doubt. |
| Fishy-wishy | adj | Puerile. |
| Fisk | vb | OE: fysan: to move briskly, scamper about, to hurry. |
| Fist | n | A breaking wind; flatulence, a foul smell. 2. a fungus know as puff-ball (lycoperdon bovista) |
| Fist | vb | To break wind, to have flatulence. |
| Fist | phr | "Hand Over Fist" - quickly, or in quantity. |
| Fist | phr | "Make a Good Fist Of" - do something well or successfully. |
| First | phr | "Shake One's Fist" - express anger, threaten by waving one's fists. |
| Fister | n | One who breaks wind, farts. |
| Fist fight | n | A fight with bare fists. |
| Fistfighter | n | A boxer; pugilist. |
| Fistful | n | As much as the fist can hold; a handful. |
| Fist-like | adj | Reembling a fist (a clenched fist). |
| Fistmeal | n | The breadth of the fist. |
| Fist-wise | adj | Like a fish (also adverb). |
| Fisty | adj | Resembling or like a fist. 2. prone to fighting with one's fists. |
| Fit | n | A song, ballad, poem or story. 2. a division or part of a poem, song, canto, ballad or story. 3. a strain of music, stave. |
| Fit | n | A conflict, struggle, strife. 2. a position of hardship. 3. a deeper or intense excitement. 4. a painful, terrible or exciting experience. 5. a mortal crisis; a bodily state (whether painful) that betokens death. 6. paroxysm. 7. a contest. |
| Fit | phr | "A Fit of Laughter" - unrestrained or helpless laughter. 2. be in, dissolve in, or collapse in. |
| Fitful | adj | Intermittently, stopping and starting. |
| Fitfully | adv | In a fitful manner. |
| Fitfulness | n | The quality of being spasmodic and irregular. |
| Five | n | The cardinal number following four and preceding six, or any of the symbols used to represent it. 2. anything made up of five units or members, as a basketball team, or representing five, as a playing card having five spots, or a five dollar note. |
| Five | n | "The Five Wits" - the five senses, usually the five bodily senses; often vaguely, the perceptions or mental faculties generally. |
| Five | phr | "Know How Many Beans Make Five" - to have common sense, |
| Five-boroughs | n | In English history, the Danish confederation of 'The Five Boroughs' : Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham, and Stanford in the 9th and 10th centuries. |
| Five-by-five | n | A radio communication meaning 'loud and clear' |
| Five-fingers | n | A fisherman's name for the starfish. |
| Fivefold | adj | Five times as great or numerous. |
| Five-fold | adv | By five times; to five times the number or amount |
| Five-foldness | n | The property of being five-fold. |
| Five hundred | n | A product of fice and a hundred. |
| Fiveish | adj | Any time around five o'clock. 2. approximately five in number. |
| Five-leaf | n | The plant Cinquefoil - "potenilla replans" |
| Fivesome | adj | Five in all, five together. |
| Five-star | adj | Having five stars in a grading system in which it denoted having five stars. 2. having or denoting the highest rank, distinguished in US Armed Forces by five stars on their uniform. |
| Five-stones | n | The game of jacks. |
| Five wits | n | The five senses, usually the five bodily senses; often vaguely, the perceptions or mental faculties generally: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. 2. common sense, imagnation, fantasy, estimation, and memory; in general, thefaculties of the mind; also an alternative expression for the five senses. |
| Five W's | n | The words who, what, when, where, and why. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Flail | n | O.E. of West Germanic origin, based on on Latin flagellum 'whip' probably influenced in Middle English by O.Fr. Instrument to thresh corn by hand. 2. a military weapon resembling a flail. |
| Flail | vb | To strike with a flail; to thresh corn with a flail |
| Flail-chest | n | A life-threatening medical condition that occurs when a segment of the rib cage breaks under extreme stress and becomes detached from the chest wall. |
| Flailing | n | A swinging vigorous motion of the arms. |
| Flake | n | Wattled hurdle, temporary gate, a stage or frame for drying fish, a snow flake |
| Flane | n | An arrow. |
| Flaught | n | OE: a lock of hair, or wool; flash of lightning, tongue or flame, sudden burst of wind. 2. a spreading out, as wings in flight, outspread wings; 2. flock of birds. |
| Flaught | adv | With outspread wings. 2. with great eagerness |
| Flaught | adj | Spreading out of, as a wing for flight. 2. agitated movement, commotion. |
| Flaughten | n | A flake of snow. |
| Flaughter | vb | To make a fluttering motion. 2. to flutter. |
| Flaw | n | Sudden burst of wind, fall of rain or snow with gusty winds,
a short spell of rough weather. 2. a sudden burst of passion, as in flaw & fury |
| Flax | n | A plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. Also known as linseed, especially when referring to the seeds. 2. the fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown to make linen and related textiles. 3. the flax bush, a plant of the genus Phormium, native to New Zealand, with strap-like leaves up to 3 metres long that grow in clumps. |
| Flax | phr | "Flax Out" - to knock out, beat in a fight. 2. to become fatigued or exhausted. |
| Flaxen | adj | Of, pertaining to, or made of flax. 2. of a light golden colour; blondish. 3. material made from flax. 4. linen; a linen cloth. |
| Flaxlike | adj | Resembling flax. |
| Flaxseed | n | The mucilaginous seed borne by common flax. 2. Radiola Milligrania. 3. linseed used for soothing and softening. |
| Flaxweed | n | Linaria vulgaria, toad-flax. |
| Flaxwench | n | A female spinner. |
| Flaxwort | n | Any plant of the flax family (linaceae) |
| Flaxy | adj | Like flax, fair, flaxen |
| Flay | vb | To strip off the skin by flogging; to skin, to peel. 2. to pillage, rob. 3. to attack by scathing criticism. |
| Flay | phr | "Flay Alive" - punish, penalize, abuse, criticize. |
| Flaybreech | n | Flogger, flayer, flagellator |
| Flayer | n | One who, or that which flogs, whips or (fig.) criticises with acerbity. 2. one who fleeces. |
| Flay-flint | n | A skin flint; a miser. |
| Flaying | n | The removal of the skin (skinning) of a dead animal when preparing it to be used as food for animals of for its skin or fur. 2. a method of torture and execution by skinning or flaying alive. |
| Flea | n | A small, wingless parasite of the order Siphonaptera, known for its bloodsucking and leaping, parasitic on mammals. 2. a thing or person or little significance. |
| Flea | vb | To rid of, or remove fleas from. |
| Flea | phr | "A Flea in One's Ear" - an unwelcome hint or unexpected reply or rebuff; a caution, warning. |
| Flea | phr | "It's Only a Flea Bite" - insignificant amount, quantity, a trifling. |
| Flea | phr | "Send Someone Away With a Flea In Their Ear" - dismiss someone with a rebuff. 2. to give a person frank but unwelcome facts. |
| Fleabane | n | Any of the species that repel insects, especially fleas. 2. the catch-fly, the spikenard, yellow-heads etc. |
| Flea-bite | n | The bite of a flea, or it's mark caused by the bite. 2. something that causes only a minor or trifling wound, irritation. 3. a minor inconvenience. 3. a minute amount. |
| Fleabitten | adj | Flea-ridden, full of places bitten by fleas. 2. blotched, dotted, specked. |
| Fleabitten'ness | n | The condition of being flea-ridden. |
| Flea-borne | adj | Of bacteria and diseases etc. transmitted by flea. |
| Fleam | n | A surgical instrument for letting blood or lancing gums. 2. an instrument for bleeding horses. |
| Fleam | vb | To heat with a fleam. 2. to let blood by fleaming. 3. to wash. |
| Fleaming | n | The act of letting blood for surgical reason. |
| Fleaming | n | A runaway, escapee, fugitive. |
| Flea pit | n | A movie theater cinema. |
| Flea-ridden | adj | Infested with fleas. 2. mangy, filthly. |
| Fleawort | n | Given to various plants Inula Conyza and some species of Cinerria (C. Integrifolia) and Erigon (Erigon Viscosum) |
| Flede | vb | To flow, fleet, stream. |
| Fledge | n | A young bird, animal, person etc. 2. an inexperienced person, tyro, novice. |
| Fledge | vb | Of a young bird to acquire feathers large enough for flight. 2. to become fully plumed. 3. to bring up a young bird until its feathers are fully grown. 4. to provide a helmet with feathers or plumage. 5. to deck or adorn with feathers. 6. to cover with feathers or down. 7. to fit an arrow with feathers. |
| Fledge | adj | Of young birds (rarely of the wing) -fit to fly. 2. having wings fully developed or fledged. 3. formed for flight. 4. all in a flutter, high-spirited. |
| Fledgeless | adj | Unfledged. 2. without feathers or covering; plumeless. |
| Fledgeness | n | The state or quality of being fit to fly. 2. high-spiritness. |
| Fledgeling | n | A young bird, just fledged. 2. a tyro, an inexperienced person, novice. |
| Fledgy | adj | Of wings: furnished or covered with feathers, feathered, downy. 2. of young bees: ready to fly. |
| Fledwite | n | (May be ferdwite) |
| Flee | n | Flight, escape, a fleeing. |
| Flee | vb | To run away, as from danger, harm, or enemies. 2. to move away quickly, take flight. 3. to move swiftly, leave abruptly, to withdraw hastily. 4. to run away from, evade, avoid, or try to avoid, shun. 5. disappear, vanish. |
| Flee | phr | "Flee for It" - to run away from danger; take flight, try to escape, safety my flight. |
| Fleece | n | Sheep collectively. |
| Fleece | vb | To strip of the fleece. 2. to clip off the wool from. 3. to pluck or shear the wool from a sheep (also fig.) 4. to strip or swindle completely one of their money or property. 5. to exact money from. 6. to rob heartlessly; to victimize. 7. to overspread as with a fleece or with a fleece. |
| Fleece | phr | "Fleece Somebody" - to cheat a person out of some asset. |
| Fleeced | adj | Furnished with a fleece. 2. defraud, swindle, scam. 3. take by deception. |
| Fleeceless | adj | Having no fleece or woolly covering. 2. devoid of a fleece. |
| Fleech | vb | To beguille, cajole, wheedle, flatter, fawn, beseech, entreat |
| Fleecher | n | Sycophant, fawner |
| Fleecily | adv | In a fleecy manner. |
| Fleeciness | n | The quality or state of being fleecy. |
| Fleecing | n | The act of stripping of the fleece. 2. the clipping off the wool from. 3. the plucking or shearing the wool from a sheep (also fig.) 4. the stripping or swindling completely of one from their money or property. 5. the exacting of money from. 6. the robbing heartlessly; victimization. 7. the overspreading of a fleece or with a fleece. |
| Fleecy | adj | Covered with a fleece or wool, woolly. 2. consisting of, resembling or derived from fleece. 3. having a fleece-like nap. |
| Fleecy Star | n | Aries. |
| Fleeing | n | The running away, as from danger, harm, or enemies. 2. movement away quickly, the taking of flight. 3. swift abrupt depaarture, a hastily withdraw. 4. evading, avoidance, or the trying to avoid, shunning. 5. disappearance, the vanishing. |
| Fleet | n | OE: fleot : river, stream, often fast flowing. 2. an inlet creek, estuary, sewer; now chiefly in place names: "Fleet Street" |
| Fleet | n | A company of ships; ships collectively or sailing in company. 3. a sea-force, a naval force or armament; number of vessels carrying arms; a number of ships armed and manned for war. 4. a number of persons, birds or other objects moving or employed in company. 5. a number of vehicles or aircrafts forming a definite group or unit. |
| Fleet | n | Any place where water flows. 2. an arm of the sea, a creek, inlet, run of water. 3. a drain, sewer. |
| Fleet | n | "The Fleet" - a navy. |
| Fleet | n | "The Fleet" - a stream flowing into The Thames between Ludgate Hill and Fleet Street now a covered sewer. |
| Fleet | vb | To stay, flow or float on the surface, as opposed to sinking; to be buoyed up. 2. to rest upon the surface of a liquid. 3. to flow or glide away. 4. hyperbolically: "to swim" in blood, tears. 5. to be bathed in happiness. 6. of a vessel: to be or get afloat; to travel by vessels. 7. to drift or be carried by the current or tide on the water's surface. 8. of mists, clouds, spirit, odor: to float in air drift, waft. 9. to swim, said of fish; occasionally of other animals and men. 10. of persons: to be afloat in a vessel; to journey or travel by water. 11. to move unsteadily as a floating object. 12. of material or immaterial things: to shift away, fade or vanish, to fluctuate, change position (imperceptibly or stealthy, waver. 13. of a multitude of persons: to stream, flow out. 14. to overflow, abound, fill abundantly. 15. to glide away like a stream. 16. of the soul: to pass from the body (said of a dying person). 17. of time: while away, pass time, kill time. 18. to move swiftly. 19. to skim milk, cream from the surface. 20. to remove that which floats on the surface. 21. to skim fresh water of the sea, as done by some at the mouths or rivers. |
| Fleet | adj | Having little or no depth; shallow, near the surface. 2. superficially fruitful. |
| Fleet | phr | "Fleet in Being" - a fleet that avoids decisive action, but, because of its strength and location, causes or necessitates counter-concentration, and so reduces the number of opposing units available for operations elsewhere 2. a force or capability that can not be ignored by observers and whose very existence shapes what observers do. |
| Fleet | phr | "Fleet of Foot" - able to move rapidly. |
| Fleet | phr | "Go Through the Fleet" - to be flogged. |
| Fleet | phr | "To Plow Fleet" - having little depth of soil; light superficially fruitful |
| Fleet | adj | Of milk: skimmed. |
| Fleet Ditch | n | The prison that once stood beside Fleet Stream. |
| Fleeten | adj | The colour of skimmed milk. 2. said contemptuously of the face: pasty faced. |
| Fleeter | n | A shifty person. |
| Fleet-footed | adj | Swift in running; swift of foot. |
| Fleeting | n | The action of skimming milk, liquid from the surface. 2. confinement in Fleeting Prison. 3. swimming. 4. the floating of a fish. 5. something that moves constantly shifting, unstable, wandering (of a person and their attributes). 5. ephemerality. |
| Fleeting | adj | Shifting, inconstant, passing quickly away. 2. unstable, fickle, inconstant, vacillating, wandering. 3. existing for a brief period; not permanent or enduring, fading, ephemeral. |
| Fleeting | adv | Swiftly, quickly, briefly, transitory, unenduringly, ephemerally. |
| Fleeting | phr | "Life is Fleeting" - life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep. |
| Fleetingly | adv | Passing swiftly and quickly; ephemeral, vanishing, quickly. transient. |
| Fleeting-milk | n | Skimmed milk. |
| Fleetingness | n | The state or quality of being unstable, fickle, unenduring or ephemeral. |
| Fleetings | n | Milk curds; a mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey. |
| Fleet landing | n | The place along a shoreline or pier used by sailors to go ashore. 2. a place where sailors might board a shuttle boat because land and a vessel. 3. a place where sailors meet after coming ashore. |
| Fleetly | adv | In a fleeting manner. |
| Fleetness | n | Swiftness, transitoriness, ephemerality. |
| Fleetside | n | A pick-up truck having flat sides or outside quarter panels. |
| Fleetwide | n | Throughout a fleet. |
| Fleetwide | adv | Throughout a fleet. |
| Fleg | vb | To frighten, scare. 2. to flee, run away. |
| Fleme | n | Flight, exile. 2. a fugitive, an exile, a runaway. |
| Fleme | vb | To cause to flee, to banish, put to flight, drive away, chase away; hence, to banish exile. |
| Fleme | phr | "To Fleme Away" - to reject. |
| Flemensfirth | n | The act of harboring a banished person. |
| Flemer | n | One who puts others to flight. |
| Fleming | n | Late OE: a native or inhabitant of Flanders in Belgium. |
| Flemish | adj | The Dutch language in Belgium, referring both to the standard Dutch used there, as well as any dialect |
| Flerd | n | Deceit, fraud, mockery. |
| Flesh | n | A compound substance forming a large part of an animal, consisting of the softer solids, as distinguished from the bones and the fluids. the general concept of flesh, we include the muscles, fat, glands &c., which clothe the bones and are covered with the skin; sometimes restricted to the muscles. 2. animal food, in distinction from vegetable. 3. the body of beasts and fowls used as food, distinct from fish. 4. the body, as distinguished from the soul. 5. animal nature; animals of all kinds. 6. men and women in general; mankind. 7. human nature. 8. carnality; corporeal appetites. 9. a carnal state; a state of unrenewed nature. 10. the corruptible body of man, or corrupt nature. 11. the present life; the state of existence in this world. 12. legal righteousness, and ceremonial services. 13. kindred; stock; family. 14. in botany, the soft pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, & etc., which is fit to be eaten. |
| Flesh | vb | To initiate; a sportsman's use of the word, from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take or other flesh. 2. to harden; to accustom; to establish in any practice, as dogs by often feeding on any thing. 3. to initiate in or inure to bloodshed or warfare; men fleshed in cruelty. 4. to plunge a weapon into flesh for the first time. 5. to glut; to satiate. 6. to remove the adhering flesh from a skin or hide. |
| Flesh | phr | "After the Flesh" - body appearance and likeness. |
| Flesh | phr | "A Heart of Flesh" - a heart capable of having feelings for others, as opposed to a "heart of stone:". |
| Flesh | phr | "Arm of Flesh" - human strength or aid. |
| Flesh | phr | "Be in The Flesh" - fat, corpulent. |
| Flesh | phr | "Days of the Flesh" - the days of one's earthly life. |
| Flesh | phr | "Fair of Flesh and Fell" - (the beauty) of the body in form and complexion. |
| Flesh | phr | "Flesh and Blood" - the human body; a human being; the frailties, fears and passions that all mankind has and shares as physical beings. |
| Flesh | phr | "Flesh and Blood Needs Flesh and Blood" - sentient beings need other sentient beings for companionship, touch, love and affection. |
| Flesh | phr | "Flesh Out" - expand, extend, make or become substantial. |
| Flesh | phr | "Go the Way Of All Flesh" - to die, perish. |
| Flesh | phr | "In the Flesh" - in a bodily form; in a corporeal nature or state. 2. in person. |
| Flesh | phr | "Make One's Flesh Creep" - cause a feeling of abhorrence. 2. to frighten a person with something horrific. |
| Flesh | phr | "More Than Flesh and Blood Can Stand" - beyond human endurance. |
| Flesh | phr | "Neither Flesh, Fish Or Good Red Herring" - neither one thing nor the other. |
| Flesh | phr | "Neither Flesh nor Fish" - to be neither one or the other; "to be twi." Also 'neither, flesh, fish, fowl nor good red herring' |
| Flesh | phr | "Of All Flesh" - all beings or folk on Earth; humanity. |
| Flesh | phr | "Of One Flesh" - to be closely united, as in marriage. |
| Flesh | phr | "One's Own Flesh and Blood" - one family, kin or folk; offspring. 2. of a husband or wife to express the closeness of relationships created by marriage. |
| Flesh | phr | "Put Flesh and Bone on Something" - give detail and clarification to a story. 2. to supply details of a proposal previously revealed only in outline. |
| Flesh | phr | "Put On Flesh" - grow fatter. |
| Flesh | phr | "See Someone in the Flesh" - see someone in person. |
| Flesh | phr | "Sins of the Flesh" - the supposed wrongdoings or sins of man, esp. those of a carnal nature; unchastity. |
| Flesh | phr | "The Way of All Flesh" - experience common to all humankind. |
| Flesh | phr | "Thorn in One's Flesh" - persistent source of irritation. 2. to be a person whose persistent presence and righteous views annoy. |
| Flesh and Blood | n | Man's physical form composed of the body or in living form. 2. human nature with its emotions and infirmities. 3. having actual human existence. 4. near kindred. 5. the plant " Potentilla Tormentilla". |
| Flesh and Fell | n | The substance of the body (flesh, bone and skin). 2. cattle intended for slaughter. |
| Flesh-bird | n | A bird that lives on carrion, such as the raven and crow. |
| Flesh-broker | n | A pimp, procurer, monger of flesh. 2. slaver, slave-trader. |
| Flesh-broth | n | Soup containing meat and vegetables. |
| Flesh-eater | n | A carnivore; a cannibal. |
| Fleshed | adj | Clothed or furnished with flesh. 2. innured to bloodshed, hardened. 3. eager from battle. 4. animated by hatred. 5. initiated. |
| Fleshen | adj | Composed of flesh |
| Flesher | n | Dealer in flesh or meat; a butcher. |
| Flesh-fallen | n | Lean, skinny, emaciated. |
| Flesh-father | n | An earthly father, as opposed to the Heavenly Father. |
| Flesh-fly | n | Scarcophaga carnaria. - the blowfly |
| Fleshful | adj | Plump, fleshy, fullness of flesh, well-covered. |
| Flesh-hewer | n | A butcher. |
| Fleshhood | n | Condition or state of being or becoming flesh. 2. incarnation. |
| Flesh-hook | n | A hook for hanging meat in a hop or for lifting it out of a pot. |
| Flesh-house | n | An abattoir, slaughter-house, butcher's shop, shambles. |
| Fleshiness | n | The quality of being fleshy; fullness of flesh. 2. a fleshy growth. |
| Fleshing | n | The action of scraping off the adhering flesh from a skin. 2. that which is scraped off (the adhering flesh) from the skin (fleshings). 3. flesh colored tights worn on the stage (fleshings) |
| Flesher | n | A butcher; also aflesh-hewer |
| Flesh-hood | n | Incarnation, being in the flesh |
| Flesh-house | n | A butcher's shop |
| Fleshing-wise | adj | "Seems that it's never so godly, virtuous and good in the the sight of fleshing-wise men" |
| Flesh-kind | n | Meat. |
| Flesh-kinsman | n | Family and relatives; kinsmen of the same flesh. |
| Fleshless | adj | Destitute of flesh. 2. without material substance; phantom-like. 3. without superfluous flesh, emaciated, lean. 4. without meat; fleshless. |
| Fleshlessness | n | State or conditions of being fleshless. |
| Fleshlihood | n | Fleshliness, carnality, gratification of the flesh. |
| Fleshlike | adj | Resembling flesh in texture or appearance. |
| Flesh-lines | n | In Africa the practice where the skin is pricked and cut, sometimes hundreds of times, to form patterns of scarification, flesh-lines) raised of the skin like braille. |
| Fleshliness | n | In OE: incarnate condition. 2. fleshly quality or state; carnality, carnal passion or appetites. 3. fullness of flesh, fleshiness. |
| Fleshling | n | A fleshly-minded person. |
| Fleshly | adj | Of or pertaining to flesh. 2. of a hound, dog etc., -fond or liking of flesh. 3. sensual, worldly, carnally. |
| Fleshly | adv | Carnally, materially as opposed to spiritually. 2. corporeally. sensually, worldly. |
| Fleshly-minded | adj | Indulgingin sensual pleasures. |
| Flesh-meat | n | Flesh (as opposed to fish and vegetables) - as an article of food consisting of flesh. |
| Fleshmonger | n | A butcher. 2. hoon, pimp, panderer. 3. fornicator. 4. monger of flesh. 4. as one who enslaves others, especially women enslaved for sexual exploitation. |
| Fleshpot | n | A redlight district; a seedy side of a city.. 2. a pot in which flesh is boiled. |
| Fleshquake | n | A shaking, trembling, highly agitated person. |
| Flesh-rind | n | Skin, epidermis. |
| Flesh-seamer | n | Surgeon |
| Flesh-side | n | A side of a hide that adjoined the flesh. |
| Flesh-spades | n | Fingernails. |
| Flesh-string | n | A muscle. |
| Fleshworm | n | A maggot; a worm that feeds on flesh. 2. carnally-minded person |
| Fleshwound | n | A wound that is not very deep; superficial. |
| Fleshy | adj | Well-covered, plumpish, furnished with flesh, consisting of flesh (and bone). 2. corporeal, bodily, resembling flesh in its properties or qqualities. 3. implying softness and tender of flesh, meat etc. 4. a closely-fitting, flesh-covered garment of a skin colour, worn on stage to represent natural skin. 5. of a plant, leaf, pulpy, somewhat firm, not fibrous. |
| Fleshy-mindness | n | Worldly, carnally minded, in the ways of the world. |
| Flet | n | The floor, or the flat) ground under one's feet. 2. inner part of a house. 3. a place, spot, field. |
| Flet | phr | "Flet and Fire" - fire and house room (once found in wills) |
| Fley | vb | To put to flight; frighten away. 2. to frighten, terrify, scare. 3. to be afraid or frightened. |
| Fleyedness | n | State or condition of being frightened, terrified, scared. |
| Fleying | n | The action of something that frightens. 2. a hobgoblin. |
| Fleysome | adj | Frightful, dreadful, scared. |
| Flichter | vb | To flutter, move quivering through the air. 2. tremble, quiver, throb. |
| Flichtered | adj | Throw into a flutter; a volatile, flighty, frightened. |
| Flichtering | n | Fluttering, quivering, trembling. |
| Flick | n | A light quick blow, jerk, or touch: a flick of the wrist; gave my horse a flick with the reins; the sound accompanying this motion. 2. light splash, dash, or daub. |
| Flick | vb | To touch or hit with a light quick blow or fillip: flicked him with his hand. 2. to cause to move with a sudden movement or jerk; as to flick the light switch. 3. to propel or remove with a sudden movement, fillip, or light blow: flick an insect of one's jacket. 4. to move in sudden or jerky manner: a horse's mane flicking in the wind. 5. to look through the parts of something by making quick movements with the fingers. |
| Flick | phr | "Flicker Out" - (of a naked light, flame) gradually go out in small flicker of flames. |
| Flick | phr | "Flick Out" - cause to emerge, come out. |
| Flick | phr | "Flick Through" - scan through, (a book, document, etc)turning the pages with a quick movement of the thumb, thumb through, peruse. |
| Flicker | vb | Of a bird: to flutter, hover. 2. to flap the wings; to move by flapping the wings. |
| Flickered | adj | Illuminate with a flickering light. |
| Flickerless | adj | Without a fluttering, flickering, flapping. |
| Flickermouse | n | A bat, vespertian. |
| Flight | n | The action of fleeing or running away danger. 2. a hasty departure.the act, manner, or power of flying or moving through space. 3. the distance covered or that can be covered at one time by an airplane, bird, projectile, etc. 4. a group of things flying through the air together: a flight of birds, arrows, etc. 5. a military flight formation. 5. the smallest tactical unit in an air force; specif., in the U.S. Air Force, a subdivision of a squadron. 6. an airplane scheduled to fly a certain route at a certain time. 7. a trip by airplane or spacecraft. 8. an outburst or soaring above the ordinary: a flight of fancy. 9. a set of stairs, as between landings or floors. |
| Flight | n | An arrow. 2. the husk of oats, outer covering of a berry. |
| Flight | n | Flaught: a violent storm (of snow). 2. a piece of turf; turf cut into pieces. |
| Flight | vb | To put to flight; to frighten away. 2. to migrate, flit. 3. to fly in flights. 4. to put a feather on an arrow. |
| Flight | adj | Swift, fleet. |
| Flight | phr | "In the First (top) Flight" - in the van, taking a leading; of the best quality. 2. among the leaders. |
| Flight | phr | "Put Somebody to Flight" - to cause to flee, escape. 2. make somebody run away. |
| Flight | phr | "Take Flight" - run away; flee. |
| Flight by Night | n | See "Fly-by-night" |
| Flight arrow | n | A light, slender arrow for shooting at long distances. |
| Flightcraft | n | The ability, skill, or art of flying. 2. an aircraft, especially one in motion or flight. |
| Flighted | adj | Having a certain flight or speed. 2. provided with feathers, feathered. 3. of steps arranged in flights. |
| Flighter | n | A wing. |
| Flighter | vb | (see Flichter, flaughter) - to flutter, move quivering through the air. 2. tremble, quiver, throb. |
| Flight feather | n | A long stiff, asymmetrically shaped, by symmetric paired quilled feathers on the wings or tail of a bird. |
| Flightful | adj | Fleeting, transitory, fugitively, producing flight. |
| Flight-given | adj | Inclined to flight. |
| Flightily | adj | Given to capricious, flightily, or unstable behavior. 2. characterized by irresponsible or silly behavior. 3. easily excited, skittish; frivolous. |
| Flightiness | n | The quality or state of being flighty. 2. capriciousness or whimsical. |
| Flighting | n | An advertising term for a timing patterns in the commercials are scheduled to run during intervals that separated by periods in which no advertising messages appear for an advertising item. |
| Flightless | adj | Unable to fly, usually used in reference to birds such as the penguin, ostrich, emu. |
| Flight-line | n | The area of an airfield, (the flight-line) specifically the parking area and the maintenance hangars, where aircrafts are unloaded, offloaded and serviced. |
| Flight path | n | The planned course of an aircraft or spacecraft. |
| Flight-ripe | adj | Fit or ready for flight. |
| Flightseeing | n | Sightseeing from an aircraft. |
| Flight-shot | n | The distance to which a flight arrow is shot. 2. a shot taken at wild fowl in flight: 'a flight-shot'. |
| Flightworthy | adj | Of an aircraft capable of being flown safely. |
| Flighty | adj | Quick, swift, fleet. 2. given to flights of imagination, humour, caprice. 3. guided by whim or fancy rather than by judgement and purpose. 4. fickle, frivolous, inconstant. 5. of a horse: skittish. 6. of weak and disordered intellect. 7. crazy, light-headed, scatter-brained. |
| Flint | n | A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck. 2. a piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark. 3. small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc. |
| Flint | vb | To provide with flint or flints. 2. to decorate or cover with flint. |
| Flint | phr | "Get or Wring Water from a Flint" -used to express extreme difficulty in doing something. |
| Flint | phr | "To Skin a Flint" - an expression of avarice, greed, greediness. |
| Flint | phr | "True as Flint"- firmess and staunch in allegiance. |
| Flint-folk | n | People, who in prehistoric times used flint implements. |
| Flintful | adj | Flinty. |
| Flint-headed | adj | Having arrow-heads made from flint. |
| Flint-hearted | adj | Hard-hearted, callous, cruel, unfeeling. |
| Flintiness | n | Having the characteristics or quality of flint. |
| Flintiness | n | Composed of, containing, or resembling flint, esp. in its hardness. 2. Sternness, yieldless. |
| Flinting | n | The making of tools from flint. 2. a very hard stone. |
| Flintless | adj | Without flint or flints. |
| Flintlike | adj | Flinty, stony, hard. |
| Flintlock | n | An old-style gun, fired by spark from flint. |
| Flintstone | n | flint. 2. a penurious or stingy person. |
| Flintware | n | Another word for stone-ware. |
| Flintwood | n | The "Eucalyptus Pilularis" of New South Wales. |
| Flintwort | n | Name for aconite (Nudis cautibus) |
| Flinty | adj | Consisting of flint, from flint. 2. full of flinty stone. 3. having the characteristics of flint. 4. hard, impenetrable, rugged. 5. of a person or his heart: obdurate, hard-hearted, unfeeling. 6. of immaterial things - hard, harsh, tough. |
| Flinty-hearted | adj | Hard-hearted, callous, obdurate, unfeeling. 2. having a hard or flint-like core. |
| Flintiness | n | Quality or state of being flinty, hard. |
| Flird | n | OE: fleard. 2. anything that is thin and insufficient, as thin as a piece of cake, worn out clothes etc. 2. anything viewed as gaudy. |
| Flirds | n | Worn out clothes, vain finery. |
| Flitch | n | The side of an animal, now only of a hog. 2. hog meat salted and cured, as a side of bacon. 3. a square piece of blubber from a whale. 4. a slice cut lengthways from a tree's; usually, having the rough or natural surface as one of it's sides. |
| Flitch | vb | To cut a log in flitch: lengthways from a trunk of a tree, with the rough or natural surface as one of it's sides. |
| Flite | n | Flyte, contention, strife, dispute, abuse, abusive speech or language. 2. a contest, a struggle, a scolding match. |
| Flite | vb | To contend, strive, busy oneself. 2. to contend in words, chide, wrangle. 3. to debate or dispute, although without or violent, abusive language. 4. to complain, remonstrate. |
| Fliter | n | A dispute, argument, debate. 2. one who scold, a scold. |
| Fliting | n | The action of the verb: contenting, wrangling, rebuking, reproaching. 2. Scottish poetical invective of the c16th in which poets, usually two, assailed each other with tirades or diatribe of abusive verse. |
| Fliting-free | adj | unrestricted in administering rebuke. |
| Flitwite | n | A fine for brawling. |
| Flo | n | An arrow. |
| Float | n | The act or an instance of floating. 2. a buoyant motion through the air. 3. the tide's flux or flood (lit. & fig.) 3. any of the various styles of floating executed by swimmers 4. a wave or billow. 5. agitation, disquiet of mind. 6. a river's overflow, a flood (lit. and fig.). 7. a side stream, backwater. 8. a floating object. 9. a weed mass floating on the water's surface; plankton. 10. a raft, a flat-bottomed boat. 11. a floating appliance for supporting someone or something in water; a life preserver. 12. a cork used to support a fishing-net. 13. anything that stays, or causes something else to stay, on the surface of a liquid or suspended near the surface. 14. a buoyant device on an aircraft to enable it to land or remain on water. 15. a low, flat, decorated vehicle for carrying exhibits, etc. in a parade. 16. a flat tool for smoothing or spreading cement, plaster, etc.17. a thread that is brought to the surface of a cloth in weaving, esp. to form a pattern. 18. the act of allowing a currency to float on the market. 19. banking the total value of checks or drafts in transit and not yet collected |
| Float | vb | To be supported by a liquid, such as water. 2. to be capable of floating. 3. to drift gently through the air. 4. to move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating. 5. to move in a fluid manner. 6. to drift aimlessly. 6. to automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change. 7. to allow a price to be determined by the markets as opposed to by rule. 8. to propose for consideration. 9. to extend a short-term loan to. |
| Float | phr | "At Float" - at high tide. |
| Float | phr | "Upon the Float" - flowing in a stream; also fig. (in an unsettled condition). |
| Float board | n | One of the paddles of water or a pddle wheel. |
| Float-bridge | n | A pontoon. |
| Floater | n | A dead body found floating in water, river, stream, sea etc. 2. a mine floating adrift on the sea. 3. a government stock certicate, a bond accepted as security. 3. a swinging voter. 4. a vagrant, itinerant, transient, flutterer. 5. a person who frequently changes jobs, a temporary employee. |
| Floatiness | n | The (lit. & fig.)quality or state of being buoyant. 2. light and billowy in appearance. |
| Floating | n | The action of floating on water. 2. material that floats in liquid. |
| Floating | adj | That which floats. 2. not fixed in a position, opinion, etc free to move or drift. |
| Floating anchor | n | A sea anchor. |
| Floating-feeling | n | A combined feeling of light-heading and dizziness. |
| Floating-heart | n | An aquatic herb (genus Nymphoides), with floating heart-shaped leaves. |
| Floating island | n | A mass of floating decayed vegetation floating at a river mouth, and supporting growth of new plants. |
| Floating kidney | n | An abnormal condition, usually congenital, in which the kidneys are movable or unstable in position; also called' wandering kidney. |
| Floating light | n | A lightship moored on sunken rocks as a signal of danger; a life-buoy with lanterns attached. |
| Floatingly | adv | In a floating way or manner. |
| Floating ribs | n | The lower ribs (11th and 12th in man) not connected to the breast bone. |
| Floatsome | adj | Dialect form of flotsam. |
| Floating-stick | n | A device used in team building exercises, consisting of four light rods which can be connected to accomodate four to twenty participants. two lines of participants face each other with their index finger outstretched . the trainer then places the floating stick on top of the teams fingers. the challenge is to lower the rod to the ground without ever losing contact with it. |
| Floatstone | n | A bricklayer's rubbing stone for smoothing the surface of bricks used in curved work. 2. a stone so light as to float on water; a floating stone. 3. a kind of calcareous rock, more than 10% of which is made up of grains larger than two millimetres, and which is matrix-supported. |
| Floatwort | n | Seaweed, seawrack. |
| Floaty | adj | Watery; drawing little water. 2. capable of floating, hence a ship. |
| Flock | n | Church congregation guided by a pastor. 2. a group of birds. 3.(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent. 4. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad. 4. an orderly crowd; troop, flock.. 5. a group of sheep or goats; flock, fold. |
| Flock | vb | To move as a crowd or in a group. 2. come together as in a cluster or flock; cluster, flock, clump. 2. to coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of(as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.
2. to gather in companies or crowds. |
| Flock | phr | "Flock Into" - enter in numbers or a flock. |
| Flock | phr | "Flock Together" - of people with a common interest coming or gathering together |
| Flock | phr | "Birds of a Feather Flock Together" - persons of like interests gather in the same place. |
| Flock | phr | "Like a Flock of Sheep" - in an easily-led group, with no will of its own. |
| Flocking | n | The action of those who flock to a certain place or person. 2. congregating, gathering in crowds or thronging. |
| Flocking | adj | Assembling in flocks or crowds. |
| Flock-meal | n | By companies of troops, of persons, rarely by groups, or heaps of things. |
| Flock-wise | adj | In flocks, or in flock or group. |
| Flood | n | Cover with liquid, usually water 2. a large flow. 3. the act of flooding; filling to overflowing. 4. light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography. 5. the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) 6. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land. 7. an overwhelming number or amount. 8. The Flood (the biblical flood). |
| Flood | vb | To become filled to overflowing, (flooded during the heavy rains.) 2. to fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid. 3. to supply with an excess of. |
| Flood | phr | "Before the Flood" - a very long time ago; antediluvian. |
| Flood | phr | "Flood and Field" - sea and land. |
| Flood | phr | "Flood Into" - arrive in great quantities. |
| Flood | phr | "Flood Out" - of floodwaters forcing people out of their homes. |
| Flood | phr | "Flood With" - pour upon or into. |
| Flooder | n | A person who floods message boards with unwanted or repetitive comments. |
| Flood-fill | n | A means of filling a discrete area with colour, based on coloring every pixel that can be recursively reached from a starting point. |
| Floodgate | n | A gate for regulating the flow of water, as a raceway. 2. any free vent for an outpouring, as of a wrath or tears. |
| Floodgate | phr | "Open the Floodgates" - remove all restrictions. 2. take action which will have massive consequences. |
| Flooding | n | The action of a flood; an inundation. 2. the covering of land by rain or water. 3. an overflowing of water. 4. a fullness (lit and fig.) 5. a haemorhage, esp a uterine one. |
| Flooding | n | A method of psychology of treating a sufferer from a particular phobia by the gradual and controlled exposure of the patient to the cause of the phobia. |
| Floodless | adj | Without flood or flooding. |
| Floodlight | n | Artificial illumination of great brilliancy and broad beam; specifically, a lighting unit equipped with a high-powered projector, enveloping the desired object in a broad flood of light. |
| Flood mark | n | A high-tide or high-water mark. |
| Flood-tide | n | The rising of an in-flowing tide. 2. high tide, high water. |
| Floodwall | n | A primarily vertical artificial wall designed to contain the water of a river or other waterway which may rise to unusual levels during seasonal or extreme weather events. |
| Flood waters | n | The water caused or left by floods. |
| Floodway | n | A piece of flooded road or path. 2. a channel constructed for the purpose of taking the floodwaters of a river. |
| Flood-womb | n | A riverbed. |
| Flood-wood | n | Pieces of wood brought down waterways by flood. |
| Floody | adj | Prone or inclined to flooding. |
| Floor | n | The lower part of a room. 2. the lower inside surface of a hollow space. 3. horizontal structure dividing a building. 4. a supporting surface of a structure. 5. the part of the house assigned to the members of a legislative assembly. 6. the right to speak in a legislative assembly. 7. near-horizontal part of a vessel. 8. the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit. 9. a horizontal, flat ore body. 10. the trading area of a Stock exchange. 11. (mathematics) the largest integer less than or equal to a given number. 12, the ground area of a studio; thus 'on the floor: a program in protection. |
| Floor | vb | To cover with a floor. 2. to strike down. 3. silence with a conclusive answer. 4. (colloquial) to finish or make an end of. |
| Floor | phr | "Fall Through the Floor" - be extremely surprised. |
| Floor | phr | "Floor It' - to put down the accelerator hard and fast, that is flat to the floor of the car. |
| Floor | phr | "Floor Somebody" - knock somebody down or defeat in an argument. |
| Floor | phr | "From the Floor" - of a speech etc. given by a member of the audience, not by those on the platform. |
| Floor | phr | "Get In On the Ground Floor" - to be in at the beginning of something. 2. to invest on very favorable terms. |
| Floor | phr | "Hold the Floor" - speak at, dominate a conversation or meeting. |
| Floor | phr | "On the Floor" - a program in protection |
| Floor | phr | "Sink Through The Floor" - fall steeply and rapidly. |
| Floor | phr | "Take the Floor" -stand up to speak; or begin to dance. |
| Floor | phr | "There's Blood On the Floor" - this has caused great anguish. |
| Floor | phr | "Wipe the Floor With" - defeat convincingly and easily. 2. to inflict a humiliating defeat on someone. |
| Floorboard | n | A long wooden board used for flooring. |
| Floor cloth | n | A cloth used for washing the floor. |
| Floored | adj | Being provided with a floor (an area or a room). |
| Floorer | n | A tradesman who constructs floors |
| Flooring | n | Material for the making of a floor. 2. floors collectively; a floor. |
| Floor-heads | n | The upper side of a piece of floor timber. |
| Flooring | n | A floor. 2. material used to make. 3. in boxing, the act of knocking one's opponent to the floor; a knockdown. |
| Floor-leader | n | A party leader in either house of the US congress, in charge of party organization and many privileges of the floor. |
| Floor-length | n | Especially of clothing: reaching the floor. |
| Floorless | adj | Without a floor. |
| Floor show | n | Entertaintment consisting of dancing, singing, etc. presented on the dance floor of a night club or cabaret. |
| Floor through | n | An apartment that takes up the entire floor of a building. |
| Floor-walker | n | In a retail store, one who oversess the employees on the floor, directs customers, etc. |
| Floorwise | adj | As on a floor. |
| Floor work | n | Any part of a dance or aerobics performed close to the floor. |
| Flote | n | Flotilla or fleet. |
| Flought | vb | To flee, to take refuge. |
| Flow | n | The act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression. 2. the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) 2. dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas. 3. any uninterrupted stream or discharge. 4. the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of non-pregnant women from puberty to menopause. 5. something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously. 6. the amount of fluid that flows in a given time. |
| Flow | vb | Undergone menstruation. 2. cover or swamp with water. 3. fall or flow in a certain way. 4. move or progress freely as if in a stream. 5. move along, of liquids. 6. cause to flow. 7. be abundantly presents |
| Flow | phr | "A Lot of Water Has Flown Under the Bridge Since Then" - much has happened since then. |
| Flow | phr | "Flow Along" - move across in a steady manner |
| Flow | phr | "Flow Away From" - move out from a point. |
| Flow | phr | "Flow From" - follow logically from, result from. |
| Flow | phr | "Flow Over" - (of a noisy or disturbing event) - take place all around somebody without greatly effecting them; wash over. |
| Flow | phr | "Go With the Flow" - be relaxed and not resist the tide of events. |
| Flow | phr | "The Ebb and Flow" - fluctuations. |
| Flowing | n | A moving, running fluent, curving gracefully , as lines, falling in folds, as drapery. |
| Flowingly | adv | In a smooth,fluent, running manner. |
| Flowingness | n | Fluency; tendency to flow; a flowing tendency. |
| Flowly | adv | In a flowing or smooth manner. |
| Flow-on | n | A wage or salary adjustment made as a consequence of one already made in similar or related occupation. 2. a corollary. |
| Flow-sheet | n | A flow-chart. |
| Flowsome | adj | Fuild, inclining to flow, liquidy. |
| Flowstone | n | A rock or rock formation deposited by water flowing in thin sheets. |
| Flowy | adj | Flowing, able to flow. |
| Flutter | vb | To flap or wave quickly. 2. to flap the wings without flying. 3. to cause something to flutter. 4. to drive into disorder; to throw into confusion. |
| Flutter | n | The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion. 2. a state of agitation. 3. an abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart. 4. small bet or risky investment. 5. The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency. |
| Flutter | phr | "Flutter About" - move here and there in a nervous, restless way. |
| Flutter | phr | "Flutter Down" - descend, come down with sharp irregular flapping movement. |
| Flutter | phr | "Flutter One's Eyelashes At (Somebody)" - catch the attention of somebody of the opposite sex. |
| Flutter | phr | "Have a Flutter" - make a modest bet. |
| Flutterer | n | A vagrant, itinerant, vagabond. |
| Fluttering | n | The action of waving or flapping rapidly in a irregular manner. |
| Fluttery | adj | Waving or flapping rapidly in a irregular manner. 2. to fly by a quick light flapping of the wings. |
| Fly | n | A two-winged insects characterized by active flight. 2. an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth.
3. a fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect 4. a flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent. 5. (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air. |
| Fly | vb | To decrease rapidly and disappear; fly away. 2. change quickly from one emotional state to another "fly into a fit" 3. transport by aeroplane. 4. be dispersed or disseminated. 5. travel in an airplane. 6. move quickly or suddenly.
7. travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft. 8. cause to fly or float. travel through the air; be airborne. 9. operate an airplane. 10. pass away rapidly. 11. run away quickly. 12. display in the air or cause to float. |
| Fly | n | adj (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked. |
| Fly | phr | "As the Crow Flies" - fly or travel in a direct line. 2. by the shortest distance. |
| Fly | phr | "Break a Fly on the Wheel" - to punish someone more severely than the crime deserves. |
| Fly | phr | "Drop Like Flies" - in very large numbers. |
| Fly | phr | "Fly At Somebody" - attack somebody (physically or verbally). |
| Fly | phr | "Fly Blind" - to fly through fog etc depending for direction on aircraft's instruments only. |
| Fly | phr | "Fly High" - be ambitious. |
| Fly | phr | "Fly Into" - (of a pilot) cause to land at a airport. 2. (of a passenger) come in to land. |
| Fly | phr | "Fly Into" - suddenly become very angry. |
| Fly | phr | "Fly Off the Handle" - burst out in irrational anger. 2. lose one's temper. |
| Fly | phr | "Fly On the Wall" - an eavesdropper. |
| Fly | phr | "Fly on the Wheel" - one who magnifies his own importance. |
| Fly | phr | 'Fly Open" - to burst open suddenly. |
| Fly | phr | "Fly Out At" - attack with angry words. |
| Fly | phr | "Fly Out the Window" - to be lost. |
| Fly | phr | "Fly the Nest" - (of a young bird) - leaving its nest on becoming able to fly. 2. (informal) a(of a young person) - leave their parents home to set up their home elsewhere. |
| Fly | phr | "Have to Fly" - to need to leave in order to get to one's next destination quickly. |
| Fly | phr | "Let Fly at Somebody" - harangue, scold severely; attack with strong words |
| Fly | phr | "Like Flies" - in large numbers. |
| Fly | phr | "Make Feathers Fly" - cause trouble to those misbehaving. 2. cause strife and upheaval. |
| Fly | phr | "Make the Sparks Fly" - cause or bring about a fierce argument. 2. cause rapid activity to take place. |
| Fly | phr | "On the Fly" - while flying, while in the air, in haste. |
| Fly | phr | "Pigs Might Fly" - that is most unlikely. |
| Fly | phr | "Rise to the Fly" - be a victim of a hoax. |
| Fly | phr | "Send Flying" - knock over. |
| Fly | phr | "The Bird Has Flown" - the person sought is no longer around. |
| Fly | phr | "There is No Flies On Him or Her" - he or she is no fool. |
| Fly | phr | "Times Fly" - time passes more quickly than one realizes. |
| Fly-a-way | n | A person or thing that is flighty, swift or elusive. |
| Fly-a-way | adj | Flighty, extravagant, volatile. 2. disposed to flightiness, fluttering, restless, giddy; capricious. |
| Fly-bane | n | Popular name for various plants Catchfly. 2. the ploughman's spikenard's - (inula conyza). 3. poison for flies and spiders. |
| Fly-bitten | adj | Bitten by flies. 2. fly-speckled. 3. stung by flies. |
| Fly-blown | adj | Tainted with fly-blow. 2. putrid, tainted, impure. 3. drunk (slang) |
| Fly-by | n | The passage of a spacecraft relatively near a heavenly body, for taking photographs of its surface. 2. a, but flies close enough to it space mission that does not land on a planet for special camera and other monitoring equipment to send vital information back to Earth. |
| Fly-by-night | n | One who is financially insecure or untrustworthy. 2. one who cheats financial investors or creditors by fleeing. 3. operating only for a short time and then doing so in an untrustworthy way. |
| Fly-by-night | adj | Financially precarious or irresponsible. |
| Fly-by-wire | n | a semi-automatic and usually computer-regulated system for controlling the flight of an aircraft or spacecraft. |
| Fly-drive | n | A holiday which combines the cost of a flight and a car rental. |
| Fly-drive | adj | Designating a holiday which combines the cost of a flight and a car rental. |
| Fly-drive | vb | To take a holiday which combines the cost of a flight and a car rental. |
| Flyer | n | That which flies; a flier, a flying bird, airplane, or like. 2. an aviator, pilot or airman. 3. fugitive, runaway, escapee. 4. a rapidly moving piece in a machine or machinery. 5. a printed handbill. 6. a single step in a straight flight of stairs. 7. a bus or express train with a fast schedule. 8. a venture as in the stock market. |
| Fly-fisher | n | One who uses artificial flies as bait. |
| Fly-fishing | n | Angling or fishing with an artificial fly as a lure. |
| Fly-in | n | Of workers, who fly to remote area to work, as in mines; living there in temporary accommodation, and working for periods up to three months before returning or ('flying out') to their homes often thousands kilometers away. |
| Flying | n | The action of moving through the air; air navigation. 2. in racing, the passing of the starting post at full speed. 2. any rapid beginning. |
| Flying | phr | "Flying High" - successfully holding a position of power or importance. |
| Flying | phr | "Have Flying Feet" - an ability to run fast. |
| Flying | phr | "Make a Flying Start" - initial advantage or very good beginning. 2. get operational very quickly. |
| Flying | phr | "Send Flying" - knock over. |
| Flying-bishop | n | (Informal) an itinerant bishop of the Church of England appointed to administer within another diocese to those who refuse to accept the ordination of women. |
| Flying-boat | n | A seaplane with boat-like fuselage capable of floating on water. |
| Flying-eavesdropper | n | A spy plane. |
| Flying-field | n | A field with a graded portion for taking off and landing and an unimproved area for flying operations. |
| Flying-fish | n | A tropical and sub-tropical fish which can leap from the water and by aid of long pectoral fins fly through the air even against a strong head-wind. |
| Flying-fox | n | A large fruit-eating bat, esp. a genus 'pteropus' of the warmer part of the Old World, with a fox-like snout. |
| Flying-leap | phr | A running jump. |
| Flying-rat | n | The urban pigeon. |
| Flying shuttle | n | A shuttle moving mechanically and doubling the width of the cloth in half the time. (invented by John Kay in !733). |
| Flying-shot | n | A shot fired at a moving target. 2. (fig.) an attempt at random. |
| Flying-speed | n | The speed of an aircraft during normal operating conditions. |
| Flying-start | n | A quick and auspicious beginning. 2. an initial advantage or good beginning, which in itself takes one some way towards the completion of a task, race, ambition, etc. |
| Flying-wing | n | An aircraft with little or no fuselage and no tail-plane. |
| Flyleaf | n | A blank leaf at the beginning of a book. |
| Flyness | n | A state of being wide-awake, alertness. |
| Fly-net | n | A net used to keep off flies and other insects from humans and animals. 2. any netting or screen on a window to exclude insects. |
| Flyover | n | A bridge or road over another. 2. a public display of military aircrafts as a demonstration of strength, variety of types, and maneuverability. |
| Fly-sheet | n | A tract or circular of two or four pages. 2. a fabric cover pitched outside and over a tent to give extra protection against bad weather. |
| Fly-speck | n | The dot made by the excrement of a fly. 2. any slight speck. |
| Fly-stone | n | Cobalt, used as a poison for flies, worms, etc., when ground and mixed with sugar and water. |
| Fly through | n | In a virtual reality environment, a 'flythrough' is movement of an object or model through a predefined path. 2. an airplane flight made through a specific area, esp. for observation; also, a computer-simulated airplane flight through an area or object. |
| Flyway | n | A flying route taken regularly by migratory birds to and from their breeding grounds. |
| Fly-wheel | n | A wheel with a heavy rim, attached to a revolving shaft, in order either to regulate the motion of the machinery, or to accumulate power. |
| Fly-weight | n | A boxer weighing less than 112lb or 50k. |
| Fly-wort | n | Catasetum, formerly myanthus, used in potions prepared to ward off flies. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Fnast | vb | To breathe, pant, breathe heavily. |
| Fneeze | vb | To sneeze, puff, snort. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Foal | n | A young male (colt) or female (filly) horse; esp. one just after birth or less than a year old. 2. the young of the equine genus of quadruped. |
| Foal | vb | To give birth to a foal by a mare. |
| Foalfoot | n | The plant "Coltsfoot". |
| Foalstone | n | Aphrite and aphrodite |
| Foam | n | Saliva foaming and coming from the mouth of a person fitting. 2. frothy saliva. 3. the aggregation of bubbles formed on the surface of liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc. 3. the sea, ocean. 4. sweat, perspiration, esp. on the body of an animal, such as a horse. |
| Foam | vb | To send forth foam or frothy saliva from the mouth, spec. when fitting. (also fig. to express anger or rage). 2. of a horse covered in sweat after racing. 3. of a glass or other container brimming with liquor. 4. |
| Foam | phr | "Foam at the Mouth" - to show extreme anger (without actually foaming at the mouth). 2. send out foam from th mouth, as in a fit. |
| Foam-bow | n | A rainbow-like formation caused by the affect of sunlight upon foam. |
| Foam-fleck | n | Wave |
| Foaminess | n | The state or quality of being foamy, frothy. |
| Foaming | n | The state of being foamy or frothy. 2. ranging with anger. |
| Foamingly | adv | In a manner emitting foam or frothy substance. 2. in a rage or wrath with spittle flying from one's mouth. |
| Foamless | adj | Not containing foam or free from foam. |
| Foam-like | adj | Resembling foam, foam-like. |
| Foam-stone | n | Aphrite and Aphrodite. |
| Foam-wrought | n | The foam of a waterfall |
| Foamy | adj | Foam-covered, frothy. 2. foamy in aspect and character. |
| Fodder | vb | To feed or agist cattle or other livestock. |
| Fodder | n | Food generally. 2. food fed to cattle, in the field and in stall, (usu.) in dry form, as hay, straw. 2. soldiers conscripted and sent on dangerous missions. |
| Fodderer | n | One who gives fodder to, or feeds cows and other livestock. |
| Foddering | n | The action of providing fodder to cows and other livestock. |
| Fodderless | adj | Without or lacking fodder. |
| Fodding | n | A division |
| Fodneth | n | Sustenance, food, fodder |
| Foe | n | Personal enemy, one who hates and sets out to kill or injure; a fiend. 2. an adversary hostile in feud or deadly combat. 3. one belonging to a hostile fighting-force or nation. 4. an enemy in battle or war. . |
| Foe | vb | To set at enmity. 2. to make or treat as an enemy. |
| Foe | adj | At feud with. 2. inimical. 3. hindering progress. 4. rough. |
| Foe | phr | "The Wise Learn Many Things from their Foes" - is important to know the waysof one's enemies |
| Foe-god. | n | Idol, afgod |
| Foehood | n | Emnity, hatred, state of mutual strife. 2. the state of having an enemy is emnity, foehood or foeship, as 'an utter deadly foehood'. |
| Foeish | adj | Somewhat hostile, hindering, feuding., foe-like. |
| Foeless | adj | Having no enemies |
| Foelessness | n | State of being without a foe or hostile enemy or force. |
| Foe-like | adj | Adversorial, hindering, hostile, inimical, feuding. |
| Foe-hearted | adj. | Treacherous in intent. |
| Foeman | n | An enemy during war. 2. an active or open enemy. |
| Foe-reaping | n | Bringing in or causing hostility |
| Fold | n | An enclosure, pen, cote for domestic animals. 2. the sheep or other animal with the enclosure. 3. of persons: members of a group, esp one cordially embraced or invited in. 4. a home, family. 5. church (folk, body of believers, or congregation. 6. a boundary or limit. |
| Fold | n | The act of folding, bending or creasing. 2. that which folds together, or which enfolds, envelopes, embraces. |
| Fold | vb | To bend any thin material , such as paper, over so that it comes in contact with itself. 2. to be folded, to form folds. 3. to fold over, become crushed. 4. to withdraw from betting or gambling. 5. to stir gently with a folding action. 7. as a company, to cease to trade or operate. 8. to double or lay together, as the arms or the hands. 9. to cover or wrap up; to conceal. |
| Fold | vb | To shut up sheep in a fold. |
| Fold | sf | Appended to cardinal numerals, adjectives, adverbs with the meaning: 'many' 2. times and added to the cardinal numbers, as twofold, fivefold. |
| Fold | phr | "The Fold" - the body of believers (an enclosure of sheep) |
| Fold | phr | "Fold Back" - turn a thing back over itself. |
| Fold | phr | "Fold In" - (cooking) mix with the existing ingredients. |
| Fold | phr | "Fold One's Arms" - place one's arms across one's chest, side by side, or entwined. |
| Fold | phr | "Fold One's Hands" - clap one's hands. |
| Fold | phr | "Fold Over" having a component that folds over another. |
| Fold | phr | "Fold Up" - make a neat, compact (and portable) package of something by folding or turning parts of it back on itself . 2. collapse in mirth or pain. 3. suffer moral or spiritual collapse. 4. finish trading;to cease or go out of business.. 5. slang for a drug dealer who abandons his trade and gives up selling drugs. |
| Foldaway | adj | That may be folded away when not in use. |
| Fold-boat | n | A type of collapsible canoe |
| Foldedness | n | The state or condition of being folded, bent over or creased. |
| Folder | n | An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be store das a single unit in a filing cabinet. |
| Folderless | n | Without or not having a folder |
| Folder-like | adj | In computing, resembling or characteristic of a folder. |
| Folding | n | The action of folding. 2. the keeping of sheep, goats etc in an enclosure on arable land. 3. the deformation of the earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression. 4. slang: notes, folding money, as opposed to coins. |
| Folding | adj | Designed to fold, as a folding bed or chair |
| Folding-bed | n | A bed designed to be folded up and put away. |
| Folding-door | n | A door having two parts or sections on opposite jambs, so that the edges meet when the door is closed or locked. |
| Folding-knife | n | A class of knife in which the blades or multiple blades can be folded inside the handle. 2. a pocket-knife. |
| Foldless | adj | Not having folds or creases. |
| Fold over | n | Food prepared by folding, such as apple turnover. |
| Folk | n | People, race, men. |
| Folk-belief | n | Superstitions, old wife's tales and religious and medical practices. Folk beliefs give insight into how people live their lives and what their think of as important. All cultures have and keep beliefs not necessarily based on scientific fact, but are widely accepted as truth by most members of the group. |
| Folk-devil | n | A person or type of person blamed by the public for various ills, as during moral panic. 2. a scapegoat. |
| Folker | n | A performer of folk music. |
| Folk-fight | n | A war carried on by the forces of one people with those of another; a civil war; internecine battle. |
| Folk-free | adj | Having the rights of a free man. |
| Folk-high-school | n | School of Adult Education. |
| Folkish | adj | In the style of folk music. 2. folky. |
| Folkishly | adv | In a folkish manner: rustic, bucolic. |
| Folkishness | n | The quality of being folkish. |
| Folkland | n | An uncommon Anglo-Saxon term formerly explained as land which was the common property of the 'folk' from which the king could grant land to his followers. The accepted theory, initiated by Vinogradoff in 1893, is that Folkland is land held in folkright . Folkland was subject to food-rent and other duties to the king, from which Bocland was exempt. |
| Folk-law | n | Customary law of the people applied esp. to the laws of the Germanic people. |
| Folk-leasing | n | Public lying, slander. |
| Folklife | n | Folklore. 2. the cultural conditions passed down orally or informally. |
| Folklore | n | The beliefs, legends and customs held by the everyday man and woman. |
| Folkmoot | n | A general gathering of the people or folk of a town, city, shire etc. |
| Folkmooter | n | A parochial politician. |
| Folkmote | n | See "Folkmoot". |
| Folk-name | n | Common name for vegetable, mineral, fauna, flora and many other things, as frumwort (asbestos), apple (fruit.), |
| Folkright | n | Common law, public right by all men should enjoy. |
| Folks | n | The members of one's household, esp. one's parents or immediate family. |
| Folksiness | n | The quality of being folkish. |
| Folk-singer | n | Singer of folk songs. |
| Folksong | n | A song originating among the working people of urban and rural areas, hardened by oral tradition. 2. a song in the style mentioned in previous entry, but written and performed in recent times. |
| Folk-speech | n | The speech of a specific group of people, workers, traders, etc. |
| Folkstead | n | The overflow of persons from church to street. 2. an outdoor place of gathering or assembly for general purpose |
| Folkster | n | A folk musician. 2. a fan of folk music. |
| Folk-tale | n | A story, myth of oral tradition of a people or place. 2. a fairy tale often with a moral message, usually expressing the triumph of good over evil. |
| Folkway(s) | n | Traditional behaviour of a particular people or group; custom. |
| Folkweave | n | Rough, loosely-woven fabric, often in traditional design |
| Folk-wisdom | n | The body of knowledge and experience that originates from the beliefs and opinions of ordinary people. |
| Folky | adj | Having the character of folk music. 2. characteristic of rural or rustic life. 3. affable and familiar. |
| Follow | n | The action of the verb: going after; imitate or copying another. |
| Follow | vb | To go or come after. 2. walk in the footsteps of. 3. copy, imitate another. |
| Follow | phr | "As Follows"- in the manner described hereafter. |
| Follow | phr | "Follow After"- to come or go after in a sequence. |
| Follow | phr | "Follow in Someone's Footsteps" - to follow the same path as someone else. 2. to take a similar action as another or others. 2. to do as another persons does. |
| Follow | phr | "Follow One's Heart" - do instinctively what one wants to do. |
| Follow | phr | "Follow One's Own Bent" - do as one's own tastes, inclinations, talents suggest. 2. do what one is best at, use one's own inborn ability. 3. do one's own thing. |
| Follow | phr | "Follow One's Own Nose" - go straight or directly ahead; act instinctively, intuitively or pragmatically; act without thought or imagination. |
| Follow | phr | "Follow On the Heels of Someone"- in close position of; close behind. 2. of events, facts, etc. closely following, in succession, immediately. 3. to act intuitively. |
| Follow | phr | "Follow Out" - carry out; adhere precisely to instructions. |
| Follow | phr | "Follow the Herd" - to do what most people are doing. |
| Follow | phr | "Follow Somebody's Lead" - accept somebody's decision, guidance example and does as he does; previous entry; follow suit. |
| Follow | phr | "Follow the Herd" - to do what most people are doing. |
| Follow | phr | "Follow Through" - the continuation or completion of a commitment. 2. continue doing until a conclusion is reached. 3. in sport continuing a stroke to its full extent. |
| Follow | phr | "Follow Up" - to take further actions remaining in an event. 2. to continue to visit, esp. to maintain communications. 3. chase up (a matter); get back to someone on a matter; investigate closely. 4. continue, develop, by doing something better or more ambitious. 5. follow something to where it leads. 6. take action using information provided. 7. something thta comes after something else; a sequel. |
| Follow-day | n | The following day. 2. the day after tomorrow. |
| Follower | n | Literally, one who follows, comes after another. 2. something that comes after another thing. 3.one who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer. 4. one who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc. 5.an imitator, who follows another's example 6.A pursuer. 7. a machine part receiving motion from another. 8. a man courting a maidservant. 9. young cattle. 10. a metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly. |
| Following | n | A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage, as a loyal following. 2. something to be mentioned immediately later. 3. vocation; business; profession |
| Following | adj | Coming next, either in sequence or in time. 2. about to be specified. 3.(of a wind) blowing in the direction of travel; the following wind |
| Following | prp | After, subsequent to. |
| Following-stone | n | Hard rock which comes away simultaneously with the coal in a seam. |
| Following-stroke | n | Any stroke or striking that comes after the initial stroke, often made with deliberacy. 2. a stroke which causes the player's ball to follow the object-ball after impact. |
| Follow-through | n | The continuation or completion of a project. |
| Follow- up | n | Something that comes after, or subsequent to, something else/ a sequel. |
| Fond | n | To attempt, endeavor, try, tempt (OE: fandian) |
| Font | n | A receptacle usu. of stone, for the water in baptism. 2. a receptacle for holy water. 3. the reservoir for oil in a lamp. |
| Food | n | Any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. 2. foodstuff. 3. (fig) anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea. (mind food) or intellectual pabulum or food. (adj sometimes applied to "food" include: raw, cooked, baked, fried, healthy, unhealthy, wholesome, fresh, sweet, sour. Other words for 'food' include: belly timber, eats (slang), feed, fodder (for domesticated animals). 4. (anything intended to supply energy or nourishment of an entity or idea): brain food. |
| Food | vb | To supply food to, to feed, support. |
| Food | phr | "Be Food for Fish" - to be drowned. |
| Food | phr | "Food for the Gods" - particularly fine or exceptionally pleasant food; ambrosia. |
| Food | phr | "Food for Thought" - material for examination in one's mind. 2. something worthy of careful consideration. |
| Food | phr | "Food for Worms" - be dead and buried. |
| Food | phr | "Take Food Out Of Children's Mouths" - cruelly to deprive the needy. |
| Food | phr | "Food, Meat and Drink for Somebody" - that gives somebody exceptional satisfaction or pleasure. |
| Food-borne | adj | Transmitted through food. |
| Foodcrop | n | A crop raised for consumption, such as wheat or rice. |
| Fooder | n | Food for animals, feed, fodder, fother. 2. a measure of lead. 3. a cask or large barrel of wine. 4. used in combinations, such as raw fooder, vegie fooder; hence one who enjoys or advocates eating a particular type of food. |
| Food-fight | n | A disorderly outbreak in which food is thrown for amusement or in 'slapstick' comedies. |
| Food-for-thought | n | Information or knowledge that is worthy for contemplation. 2. soul food. |
| Foodful | adj | Abounding with or supplying food for nutriment. |
| Foodful | phr | "The Foodful Earth" - the fruitful earth and it's bounty; the bountiful earth. |
| Foodless | adj | Without food (of a country, etc.); hunger, barren. |
| Foodmonger | n | A person who produces or buys food wholesale and sells it at retail. 2. grocer, food seller. |
| Foodseller | n | Foodmonger. 2. a person who owns food and sells it at retail. |
| Foodshed | n | A region that produces the food for a particular population. 2. a food bowl. |
| Foodway | n | The alimentary canal. 2. the food traditions and customs of a group of people, including a study of their culinary practices, nutritional procedures. 2. what people eat and why they eat it. 3. the social practices related to food as well as nutritional and culinary aspects of foods. |
| Foodwise | adv | In terms of food or pertaining to the was of food, and those who cook and consume it. |
| Foody | adj | Eatable, edible; food fit for consumption. 2. food-bearing, fertile, fruitful. 3. composed of or supplying food. |
| Food-yolk | n | The yolk of an egg, esp. used as food for a developing embryo. |
| Foot | n | A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. 2.specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. 3. travel by walking. 4. the base or bottom of anything, as 'the foot of the stairs'. 5. the part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest, as 'the foot of the bed'. 6. the end of a rectangular table opposite the head, as at 'the foot of the table'. 7. a short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it, as the feet of the stove. 8. a unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 cm. 9. foot soldiers; infantry, they went in to battle with ten thousand foot (soldiers) and one thousand horse.10. the end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting. 10. the part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward. 11. the bottom-most part of a typed or printed page 12. the basic measure of rhythm in a poem. 13. the parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads. 14. the bottom edge of a sail: "the foot of the sail". 15. fundamental principle; basis; plan. |
| Foot | vb | To use the foot to kick. 2. to walk. 3. to pay a bill. 4. to tread to measure on music, to dance, skip, trip. 5. to head onto the green. 6. to set on foot, to establish, to land. 7. to add up or sum up, as numbers in a column. |
| Foot | phr | Be At one's Feet" - be in the immediate vicinity. |
| Foot | phr | "Be on Foot" - to be in motion or process of execution. |
| Foot | phr | "Be Quick on One's Feet" - to clearly take advantage of a situation. |
| Foot | phr | "Be Rushed Off One's Feet" - to be rushed. |
| Foot | phr | "Be Six Feet Under" - to be dead. |
| Foot | phr | "Drag One's Feet" - to perform unduly slowly. |
| Foot | phr | "Fall On One's Feet" - surprisingly succeed despite difficulties. |
| Foot | phr | "Fall Over One's Feet" - to be very clumsy. |
| Foot | phr | "Find One's Feet" - develop one's skill. |
| Foot | phr | "Follow In Somebody's Footsteps" - to follow the same path as someone else. 2. to take a similar action as another or others. 2. to do as another persons does. |
| Foot | phr | "Get Back on One's Feet" - recover from an illness or some other set-back. |
| Foot | phr | "Get Cold Feet" - to become scared. |
| Foot | phr | "Get Off On the Wrong Foot with Someone" - to make an unfavorable initial impression on a person. |
| Foot | phr | "Get One's Feet Wet" - do the necessary but unpleasant or menial parts of a task. |
| Foot | phr | "God's Foot Stool" - the earth. |
| Foot | phr | "Go Hot Foot" - to do something fast. |
| Foot | phr | "Go Out Feet Foremost" - the fate of a corpse or the dead. |
| Foot | phr | "Follow Foot-hot"- follow closely. |
| Foot | phr | "Foot to Foot" - in close combat. |
| Foot | phr | "Gain a Foothold" - gain possession of small part of something. |
| Foot | phr | "Get a Foot in the Door" - gain entrance, acceptance to an organization. |
| Foot | phr | "Get Off On the Right/Wrong Foot" - begin well/badly. |
| Foot | phr | "Get Wet Feet" - to do the unnecessary but unpleasant or menial part of the work. |
| Foot | phr | "Go Hot Foot" - to do something fast. |
| Foot | phr | "Have a Foot in the Door" - gain acceptance or admission to an organization. 2. the opportunity to do business. |
| Foot | phr | "Have Feet of Clay" - to be vulnerable. |
| Foot | phr | "Have Itchy Feet" - have a desire to travel. |
| Foot | phr | "Have One Foot in the Grave" - to be near death; dying. |
| Foot | phr | "Have One's Foot on Another's Neck" - to haves someone's at one's mercy; to tyrannize or domineer over completely. |
| Foot | phr | "Have One's Foot on Something" - to be about to have something or to be able to have something. |
| Foot | phr | "Have Two Left Feet" - to be clumsy. |
| Foot | phr | "I Have Yet got My Foot In" - I am not yet familiar with and at home with the work. |
| Foot | phr | "Keep One's Feet/Footing" - (fig) - to keep or maintain order. |
| Foot | phr | "Know the Length of an Others Foot"- |
| Foot | phr | "Miss/Keep One's Footing" - Stumble/ remain upright. |
| Foot | phr | "My Foot" - certainly not! |
| Foot | phr | "Not Let Grass Grow Under One's Feet" - not to let inertia or delay spoil something. |
| Foot | phr | "Not Put a Foot Wrong" - never make a mistake. 2. to behave impeccably. |
| Foot | phr | "One's Foot in the Grave" - very ill/old. |
| Foot | phr | "On Foot"- to go by foot, by walking. |
| Foot | phr | "On a Friendly Footing" - in a friendly way. |
| Foot | phr | "On Good Footing" - be on friendly terms with; be of good standing. |
| Foot | phr | "Put One's Best Foot Forward" - to make a good appearance. 2. to do one's best; do something with purpose. |
| Foot | phr | "Put One's Foot Down" - to take a strong stand; insist. 2. to act determinedly. 3. to exert one's authority in insisting. |
| Foot | phr | "Put One's Foot In It" - to misspeak; to say something embarrassing. 2. to make a foolish mistake. |
| Foot | phr | "Put One's Foot in One's Mouth" - to say something foolish. |
| Foot | phr | "Put One's Feet Up" - to relax. |
| Foot | phr | "Put Someone on the Back Foot" - to accuse a person to adopt a lower profile. |
| Foot | phr | "Put Something Back On Its Feet" - to repair something. |
| Foot | phr | "Run Someone Off His/her Feet" - to keep a person very busy at physical tasks. |
| Foot | phr | "Set Foot On" - go somewhere for the first time. |
| Foot | phr | "Shoot Oneself in the Foot" - to act foolishly and thus harm one's own cause. |
| Foot | phr | "Show the Cloven Foot" - to betray an evil intention. |
| Foot | phr | "Stand On One's Own Two Feet" - not require the help of others. |
| Foot | phr | "Start of on the Right Foot" - commence an operation with great care to do it properly. |
| Foot | phr | "Start of on the Wrong Foot" - commence an operation with badly. |
| Foot | phr | "Sweep Someone Off Her/his Feet" - to cause a person to lose all discernment. 2. make a very favorable impression or make somebody fall in love with one. |
| Foot | phr | "The Boot is on the Other Foot" - the real facts are opposite or the other way around. |
| Foot | phr | "To Foot it" - to walk the distance instead of riding or going by motor vehicle. |
| Foot | phr | "Tread Under Foot" - conquer, to oppress someone. |
| Foot | phr | "Under Foot" - to be at the mercy or beckoning of another. 2. below a normal or expected standard |
| Footbath | n | The act of washing one's feet. 2. a small shallow bath used for this. |
| Foot-bed | n | An insole in a boot or shoe, used for cushioning or to provide a better fit. |
| Foot-board | n | An upright board across the foot of a bedstead. 2. a board on which to support or rest the feet, often found in a rail carriage. |
| Foot-bridge | n | A bridge over a river, railway, road, etc. for pedestrians. |
| Foot-breadth | n | The breadth of a foot, used as a measure. |
| Foot-bridge | n | A bridge over a road, railway, river etc. for walkers or pedestrian. |
| Footcare | n | The care and health of the feet. |
| Foot-dragging | adj | The deliberate delaying of obligatory action. 2. the dragging of the feet. |
| Foot-drop | n | The inability to flex the muscles of the feet. |
| Footed | adj | Having, provided with or furnished with feet. |
| Footer | n | A line of information printed at the bottom of a page as identification of the document. 2. something that is a stated number of feet in some dimension- such as a 'six-footer'. 3. someone who has a preference for a certain foot, such as a left-footer. |
| Footfall | n | A sound made by a footstep. 2. pedestrian traffic; pedestrians collectively. |
| Foot-hill | n | A hill at the base of a mountain or mountain-range. |
| Foot-hold | n | A solid grip or hold with the heel. 2. a beach-head, bridge-head, a lodgement in a military campaign or battle. |
| Foothot | adv | In great haste, without stop or pause. |
| Foot-iron | n | Fetter, shackle, foot-restraint. |
| Footing | n | Recognized condition; rank; footing |
| Footing | phr | "Miss/ Keep One's Footing" - Stumble/ remain upright. |
| Footing | phr | "On a Friendly Footing" - in a friendly way. |
| Foot key | n | The pedal of an organ. |
| Foot-kiss | n | A reverential kiss on the footwear of the pope or other extremely revered leader. |
| Foot ladder | n | A ladder with flat steps to place the feet upon. |
| Footless | adj | Having no foot or feet. |
| Foot-licker | n | Toady, sycophant, |
| Footlights | n | A light located at the front edge of the stage that illuminates the actors from foot level up. |
| Foot-like | adj | Resembling a foot. |
| Footlock | n | A long rectangular trunk or other container that lays flat on the floor is usually kept at the foot of a bed, commonly used in barracks or dormitories. |
| Footlong | adj | One foot in length, as a submarine roll. |
| Footloose | adj | Tending to travel or do as one pleases; (fig.) having "itchy feet" or wanderlust. |
| Footlooseness | n | The characteristic of being free to wander or roam. 2. be inclined to travel about |
| Footman | n | Foot soldier, infantry-man. 2. an attendant on foot. 3. a pedestrian. |
| Footmanship | n | The action of, or skill in, running or walking. 2. the office of a footman. |
| Foot-mark | n | A mark on, or made by a foot. 2. a footprint. |
| Footpath | n | A path, footway or walkway for pedestrian, sidewalk, trotuary, pavement. |
| Footrest | n | A support on which to rest the feet. |
| Foot-rot | n | An ulcer on the foot of certain animals, esp. sheep; claw-sickness |
| Foot-sore | adj | Having sore or even blistered feet, but with a certain sense of satisfaction, after walking or running too much. |
| Foot-soreness | n | The condition of having sore feet or being footsore. 2. also the feeling of being or having a sense of self-satisfaction after completing a long or/and arduous work. |
| Footstalk | n | Peduncle, petiole. |
| Foot stall | n | The base or pedestal of a column or pillar. 2. the stirrup of a side-saddle |
| Footstep | n | The mark or impression left by a foot; a track. 2.By extension, the indications or waypoints of a course or direction taken. 2. the sound made by walking, running etc. 3. a step, as in a stair. 4. the distance between one foot and the next when walking; a pace. 5. the act of taking a step. 6.(obsolete) an inclined plane under a hand printing press. |
| Footstep | phr | "Follow in Someone's Footsteps" - to do as another person did. |
| Footstone | n | A stone placed at the foot of a grave, usually smaller than a headstone, and frequently resembling a large cobblestone. 2. a foundation stone. |
| Footstool | n | A low stool for supporting the feet while seated. |
| Footstool of God | n | The earth. |
| Foot-strike | n | The action of the foot striking the ground when walking or running. |
| Foot-walk | n | A pedestrian walkway; footway. |
| Foot-washing | n | The washing of one another's feet as an act of humility. 2. a religious ceremony performed by certain sects in remembrance of the washing of the disciples' feet by Jesus. |
| Footway | n | A passenger walkway for pedestrians only. 2. footpath, sidewalk, trotuary, pavement. |
| Foot-wear | n | An item of clothing worn on the feet, boot, slipper, shoe etc. |
| Foot-well | n | The space for feet in front of a seat in a vehicle. |
| Foot-work | n | Any movement of the foot, esp. intricate or complex movements, as a dancer at ballet or a batsmen at cricket. |
| Foot worn | adj | Worn by the feet; footsore; foot-wearied. |
| Foot-writing | n | Writing performed by foot by those who, for various reason, are unable to write by using their hands. |
| Footy | adj | Paltry, mean; insignificant. 2. having foots or dregs. |
| For | prp | Also conj. OE: against. 2. in place of, instead. 3. in exchange for, as the price of, in requital of. 4 . in defence or support of, on the side of; in favour. 5. for the purpose of being or becoming. 6. in order to. 7. indicating destination. 8. introducing the intended recipient. 9. of a result of, to the effect. 10. designating the amount paid. |
| For | prf | Verbal forming prefix meaning: "away", "off". 2. with a sense of prohibition, excluding, shunning out, forbidding or warding off. 3. a passing by, abstaining from, not attending to, neglecting. 4. of destructive, painful, or prejudicial inference. 5. with a sense of asunder in pieces; (fig.)- to distract. 6. of a notion of something done in excess, (or) as to overwhelm or overpower. 7. to exhaust, to tire out oneslf by the notion of the verb. 8. wearied by watching. 9. with an feeling of 'all over' ; through and through. 10. as an intensifier with little or no change in meaning. 11. forming adjectives (factitive) of quality. 12. in a sense of very, extremely as in 'forblack' |
| For | prf | A variation of 'fore' |
| For | phr | "All For the Best" - happy or satisfactory in its results, or at least better than was possible, or originally foreseen. |
| For | phr | "As for" - regarding, about, concerning. |
| For | phr | "A Tooth for a Tooth" - retaliation. |
| For | phr | "Be For It" - to face unavoidable punishment. |
| For | phr | "But for" - if not for. |
| For | phr | "For a Bit" - for a short period; for a while. |
| For | phr | "For All One's Cares" - considering how little one cares. |
| For | phr | "For All One Knows" - considering how little one knows. |
| For | phr | "For All One's/Its Worth" - with the utmost effort. 2. to the full extent of one'e powers, resources, energy, or as hard one can. |
| For | phr | "For All That" - nevertheless. |
| For | phr | "For All the World Like" - very much, like; being the implication that the similarity is surprising. |
| For | phr | "For All (the World) to See" - with the purpose, result, of being freely observed, judged, etc. by others. |
| For | phr | "For All That" - despite something previously mentioned, nevertheless. |
| For | phr | "For All Time" - for a very long time, until the end of time; for ever. |
| For | phr | "For and Against" - supporting and/or opposing of argument or opinion.. |
| For | phr | "For Another Thing" - (sequence) used to introduce an additional item in a possible sequence. |
| For | phr | "For as Much as" (forasmuch as) ;seeing that; because that; seeing. |
| For | phr | "For a Start" - first of all, in first place; to begin with. |
| For | phr | "For a While/Bit" - for a short period of time, for a bit. |
| For | phr | "For Better or For Worse"- whether the result, known or unknown, proves to be good or bad. |
| For | phr | "For Days at a Time" - for several days, etc. in succession. |
| For | phr | "For Dear Life" - vigorously and tenaciously (as one would in preserving their own life). |
| For | phr | "For Ever" - until the end of time, or of a person's life, for all time. 2. very frequently, or habitually (but not necessarily continuously) |
| For | phr | "For Fear Of" - because of a fear of something happening; or that something might happen. |
| For | phr | "For Free" - without payment being required; for nothing. |
| For | phr | "For Good (and all) - permanently; for keeps. |
| For | phr | For Goodness Sake" - exclamation of astonishment or protest; in the name of God, etc. 2. goodness. |
| For | phr | "For Heaven's Sake" - exclamation of mild annoyance. |
| For | ohr | "For It" - due for scolding. |
| For | phr | "For Keeps" - permanently; for good and all. |
| For | phr | "For Life" - for the rest of one or somebody's life; permanently. |
| For | phr | "For Nothing" - without payment being required. 2. without good reason for. |
| For | phr | "For Old Time Sake" - an appeal to the nostalgia of prior experience to convince someone to do something. 2. because of tender, or sentimental memories or days of Auld lang syne. |
| For | phr | "For Once" - on this/that occasion(if not or hardly ever, at any other time)for a change. 2. implication that something should be done more often. |
| For | phr | "For Once In a Way" - on this/that occasion(if not usually); for a change. see: "For Once" |
| For | phr | "For One's Liking" - to suit one's taste or wishes. |
| For | phr | "For One's Good" - the somebody or something will benefit. |
| For | phr | "For One's Own Sake" - because of one's qualities, regardless of social class, importance, usefulness, etc. 2. in order to benefit/ please, protect or defend the interest of oneself. |
| For | phr | "For One Thing" - as just one example or reason. |
| For | phr | "For One Thing or Another" - as one factor or another (factor) in support of an opinion. |
| For | phr | "For or Against" - as shown. |
| For | phr | "For Sale" - available for purchase, be on sale. |
| For | phr | "For Shame" - exclamation of reproach, usually directly to the person who has behaved badly, or said or done something shameful. |
| For | phr | "For Show" - for appearance sake only. |
| For | phr | "For Some Time" - for a log time. |
| For | phr | "For Than" -for this reason; therefore. 2. (dialect) - for the reason that; because. |
| For | phr | "For That" - for, because, for that reason; so that, in order that, for that purpose. |
| For | phr | "For the Asking" - used to indicate that something can be easily had if they want it. |
| For | phr | "For the Best" - with good intentions, tough the result may not be as desired. |
| For | phr | "For the Best" - (All for the Best) - happy or satisfactory in its results, or at least better than was possible, or originally foreseen. |
| For | phr | "For the First Time" - marks the place (first, etc) in a number of occurrences. |
| For | phr | "For the Good One's Health" - (irony) - not for a trivial purpose or reason. |
| For | phr | "For the Hell of It" - (informal) - because of the brief experience or sensation it offers, especially when it is against the law, convention, practice of one's usual habits. |
| For | phr | "For the Last Time" - an expression showing exasperation, meaning the last time something would be said before punitive action will be taken. |
| For | phr | "For the Life of One" - emphasizes one's inability to do something. |
| For | phr | "For the Love Of" - without payment, or reward, because one likes either the work itself or the person one works for. |
| For | phr | "For the Love of It" - an exclamation of frustration. |
| For | phr | "For the Love of God" - exclamation of astonishment , dismay, etc. |
| For | phr | "For the Nonce" - (facetious) on this/that one occasion (from Old English) ('for the once') |
| For | phr | "For the Time Being" - meanwhile. |
| For | phr | "For thy" - for this reason; therefore. |
| For | phr | "For Two Pins" - with very little persuasion or provocation. |
| For | phr | "For Want Of" - because there is little or none. |
| For | phr | "For Want of a Better Name" - because there is no better name, etc. a person can think of. |
| For | phr | "For What it's Worth" - if you think it is worth anything. |
| For | phr | "For What Something is Worth" - however much or little value, or significance may be given to importance. (the implication being that the speaker is not certain and invites others to be the judge) |
| For | phr | "For Years to Come" - from many years etc. dating from the time of speaking; a long time, months, years. |
| For | phr | "To Be For It" - to face unavoidable punishment. |
| For | phr | "To Go For" - to attack. |
| Forbade | vb | Past tense of forbid. |
| Forbath | vb | To bathe abundantly or thoroughly. |
| Forbear | n | Ancestor, forefather. |
| Forbear | vb | To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up. 2. to refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. 3. to refuse; to decline; to give no heed. 3. to control oneself when provoked |
| Forbear | phr | "Forbear from" - not begin to do; stop doing; refrain from, offends or irritates others. |
| Forbearer | n | One who forebears. |
| Forbearing | n | Restraint, delay. 2. refusal, declination, heedless. 3. self-control. |
| Forbearingly | adv | In a forbearing manner. |
| Forbearingness | n | The quality or state of the verb: 'forbear'. |
| Forbid | vb | Command not to do. 2. prohibit, not permit |
| Forbid | phr | "God Forbid" - I hope not. |
| Forbidden | adj | Not allowed or permitted; prohibited. |
| Forbidden'ness | n | The act of not permitting or allowing someone to take place. |
| Forbidder | n | One who prohibits something from being said or done. 2. a censor. |
| Forbidding | adj | The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition. |
| Forbiddingly | adv | In a manner forbidden or unlawful. |
| Forbidding'ness | n | The state of forbidding or prohibiting. |
| Forbise | vb | To give as an example. |
| Forbisen | n | Example, model, pattern. 2. byspel, proverb, maxim. |
| Forblack | adj | Very or jet black |
| Forbode | n | Prohibition, a forbidding. |
| Forbode | vb | To forbid |
| Forbreak | vb | To break into pieces, break up, destroy. |
| Forbuy | vb | To redeem, buy back, buy off. 2. to ransom, redeem (from sin). |
| Forbuyer | n | Redeemer. |
| For-by | prp | Of position: hard by. 2. of motion: close by, past. 3. besides, not to mention. |
| For-by | adv | Of motion: aside, along. 2. besides, in addition. |
| Forcarve | vb | To carve or cut asunder. 2. cut in two, cut to pieces. |
| Forcleave | vb | To cut to pieces, hack, chop up. |
| Ford | n | A shallow place in a stream or waterway, where persons or animals can (wade) across. 2. a tract of shallow water. 3. a stream or current. |
| Ford | vb | To cross a stream or waterway by walking or wading. 2. to cross water at or by means of a ford. |
| Fordeed | vb | To act previously or beforehand. |
| Fordeem | vb | To condemn, sentence, doom; prejudice; decide. |
| Fordless | adj | Without a ford; that cannot be forded. |
| Fordo | vb | To put an end to. 2. to destroy, ruin, lay waste to. 3. to do away with. 4. to undo a person. |
| Fordone | adj | Exhausted, overcome, tired out or worn out by fatigue. |
| Fordread | vb | To be in dread of. 2. to terrify greatly. |
| Fordrive | vb | To drive forth, drive out. |
| Fordrunken | adj | Drunk, consumed by drink. |
| Fordry | vb | To dry up or out. |
| Fordry | adj | Very dry or parched. |
| Fordull | vb | To make dull, stupefy, stultify. |
| Fordwine | vb | To fade away, wither, to vanish. |
| Fore | n | An expeditionary force. 2. a track, trace. 3. the front part of anything. 3. |
| Fore | adj | In concord. 2. situated or appearing in front, or in front of something else; opposed to back or hind. 3. anterior, previous, former. |
| Fore | phr | "At the Fore" - in the front, van-guard. |
| Fore | phr | "Come to the Fore" - come to the front or into sight. |
| Fore | phr | "Fore and Aft" - from stem to stern; lengthwise of a ship. |
| Fore | phr | "Fore and After" - anything set along the length of a ship, as a hatch-beam. 2. a vessel having only fore-and aft sails. |
| Fore | phr | "Fore Give" - to give beforehand. 2. to give ahead of time, or in advance. |
| Fore | phr | "To the Fore" - of a person: on the spot, at call; at hand. 2. alive; still active. 3. forthcoming, available. 4. in sight or view, prominence, conspicuous. |
| Fore-acre | n | The headland of a ploughed field. 2. the land at the ends of a field where the furrows cross. |
| Forearm | n | The part of the arm between the elbow and the wrist. 2. the fore-bones. |
| Forebear | n | An ancestor, a forbear; forefather. |
| Forebear | vb | To tolerant or endurance patiently. |
| Fore-belief | n | A previous belief. 2. divine foreknowledge. 3. a belief or faith in something prior to its manifestation. |
| Forebode | vb | To announce beforehand; forecast. 2. of thing - to betoken, portend. 3. to have a (evil) presentiment. 4. to anticipate, apprehend beforehand. |
| Foreboder | n | An oracle, seer, prophet. 2. one who tells the future. 3. something that implies an imminent of another event. |
| Foreboding | n | The action of forecasting. 2. a prediction, presage. 3. portent, omen. 4. a presentiment of coming danger, misfortune or evil. |
| Forebodingly | adv | In a foreboding manner. |
| Fore-body | n | The forepart of a vehicle. 2. the part of a vessel forward of amidships. 3. physiology - thorax. |
| Fore-bone | n | The forearm. |
| Fore-brain | n | The anterior part of the brain including the cerebrum, thalamus, and hypothalamus. |
| Forecast | n | A prediction. 2. a general inference as to the probable weather during the following twenty-four hours. |
| Forecast | vb | To conjecture beforehand; the probable outcome of an event, plan etc. 2. to predict. |
| Forecaster | n | One who forecasts the weather. |
| Forecasting | n | The act of forecasting. |
| Fore-deal | n | An advantage, benefit, profit. 2. (dialect) - the first part; lead, precedence, preference. 3. progress, advancement. |
| Foredeem | vb | To judge beforehand, to forecast. 2. to deem in advance. |
| Foredoom | n | Destiny. 2. a judgement announced beforehand. 3. to doom in advance; condemn beforehand. |
| Fore-draft | n | Land leading from a dwelling to a road or field. |
| Fore-edge | n | The front or outer edge. |
| Fore-elders | n | Ancestors, progenitors. |
| Fore-end | n | The front part. 2. of time: the beginning, the get-go, as the 'fore-end of time.' |
| Forefather | n | Fore-elders, ancestors, remote ancestor, progenitors. |
| Forefathers' Day | n | In the USA, the anniversary of the day the first settlers from England land at Plymouth, Massachussets. |
| Forefeel | n | A presentiment, prediction, presage; premonition. |
| Forefeel | vb | To feel beforehand, to have a presentiment, premonition. |
| Fore-feeling | n | A presentiment, prediction, presage. |
| Forefinger | n | The finger next to the thumb. 2. the first or index finger. |
| Fore-flow | n | A channel or conduit which permits gases or liquids flow. |
| Fore-flow | vb | To flow before. |
| Fore-foot | n | A front foot of a four-footed beast. 2. the hand. 3. the bow or cut-water of a vessel. |
| Forfrighted | adj | Great in fear, completely in terror. |
| Fore-ganger | n | One that goes before. 2. a short rope grafted on a harpoon (of a whaler) to which the longer line is attached. |
| Fore-gate | n | The chief entrance or front gate. |
| Foregather | vb | To gather, congregate or assemble together; forgather. 2. to encounter; meet by chance. 3. meet with, be in company with; associate with. |
| Fore-gathering | n | A gathering together. 2. an assembly. |
| Foregather | vb | To gather together; forgather. 2. to encounter; meet by chance. 3. meet with, be in company with; associate with. |
| Foregiver | n | One who gives ahead of time, or in advance. |
| Foregleam | n | Shining, glistening, glitter.. |
| Foregleam | vb | To shine, gleam, glisten. 2. to glow, shine, radiate or emanate glow, be briefly or apparently strong in flaring, kindling, flashing. |
| Forego | vb | To go before, precede in place and time. |
| Foregoing | n | Preceding in place or time. |
| Foregoer | n | A forerunner; harbinger. 2 a purveyor. 3. one who or that which goes in front. 4. a leader; hence an example, pattern |
| Foregone | adj | That has gone before or gone by; of times past. |
| Forfatted | vb | Fattened |
| Forfrighted | adj | Great in fear, completely in terror. |
| Fore-gather | vb | To assemble or gather together. 2. to gather, congregate. |
| Fore-gathering | n | A gathering together. 2. an assembly. |
| Foreground | n | The part of the view, esp. in a picture, that is nearest the observer. 3. the most conspicuous position. |
| Foreground | vb | To place in the foreground; make prominent. |
| Fore-gut | n | In vertebrates, the anterior part of the embryonic alimenatary canal. |
| Fore-hale | vb | To overhaul, overtake. |
| Forehand | adj | All of the part of a horse which is before the rider. 2. the chief or most important part. 3. superiority, advantage, start, procedure. |
| Fore-handed | adj | Looking to the future, displaying foresight, precedent. 2. played with a fore-handed stroke , as in tennis. |
| Forehanded'ness | n | The quality of being fore-handed. |
| Forehead | n | The face part between the brow and the natural line of the hair (transfig. & fig.). 2. capacity of blushing, modesty. 3. command of countenance and assurance. 4. the front part, the forefront. 5. the man at the helm, a leader. |
| Forheadedness | n | The state or quality having a forehead, forefront, helm, etc. |
| Foreheadless | n | Having no sense of shame. 2. without or lacking of confidence |
| Forehear | vb | To hear beforehand. |
| Forehent | vb | To sieze beforehand. 2. cut off in flight. |
| Forehew | vb | To cut into pieces. |
| Forehoar | adj | Very old, venerable |
| Fore-hock | n | OE: hockscin (hockshin) |
| Fore hold | vb | To hold or believe beforehand. 2. assume, anticipate, predict, presage, prognosticate. |
| Foreholding | n | Prediction, ominous foreboding. 2. superstitious prognostication. |
| Fore-hook | n | A piece of timber placed across the stem to unite the bows of a ship. |
| Fore-horse | n | The leading horse in a team. |
| Fore ken | n | To perceive, know or realize ahead of time. 2. foreknow; preconceive. |
| Fore-king | n | A preceding king; a predecessor on the throne. |
| Foreknow | vb | To know before. 2. to have previous knowledge of. |
| Foreknower | n | One who is a predictor or has prior knowledge or information about some future event. |
| Foreknowingly | adv | In a manner foreknowing or being prescient of an existence of happening. |
| Foreknown | adj | Beforehand. |
| Fore-lady | n | A female supervisor or manager. |
| Foreland | n | A cape, headland or promontory. 2. a strip of land in front of something, . 3. land or area lying in front. |
| Forelay | vb | To lie in wait or ambush for. 2. to waylay. 3. to surprise by stealth. 3. to place impediments in the path of. 4. to plan in advance or beforehand. |
| Foreleader | n | The principal leader or chief leader. |
| Forlean | vb | To make lean or thinner. |
| Fore-lie | vb | To lie in front (of) |
| Fore-life | vb | A previous life or existence. |
| Fore-limb | n | The anterior limb or similar appendage of an animal. |
| Fore-live | vb | To predate, live or exist before another. |
| Forelock | n | The part of a person's hairstyle which covers the forehead. 2. the part of the horse's mane which lies on it's forehead. |
| Forelook | n | A look forward or into the future. 2. foresight, providence. |
| Forelook | vb | To look forward or see beforehand. 2. to look ahead or forward. 3. to beguile or bewitch. |
| Forelooker | n | One who can or is able to look forward into the future. |
| Foreman | n | A leader of a work crew. 2. a member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf |
| Foremanship | n | The position of a foreman. |
| Foremast | n | The forward lower-mast in ships and sea vessels. |
| Foremean | vb | To intend beforehand. |
| Fore milk | n | The first milk drawn from a cow during milking. 2. the milk secreted initially during breast feeding typically low in fat and rich in protein (as opposed to hindmilk). |
| Fore mind | n | To intend, predetermine. 2. forward or conscious part of the mind: easy accessible to the memory or cognition. |
| Foremost | adj | First in time. 2. first in serial order. 3. most notable or best. |
| Foremost | adv | First in position or importance. 2. first and foremost. |
| Foremost | phr | "First and Foremost" - first in rank, importance, abailty etc. |
| Foremostly | adv | In front. |
| Foremother | n | A female ancestor. |
| Forename | n | First name or praenomen. |
| Forename | vb | To name beforehand. |
| Forenamed | adj | Already named of cited beforehand. |
| Forenight | n | The previous night. 2. the time before dusk or twilight and bedtime. |
| Forenoon | n | The part of the day before noon. |
| Fore-old | adj | Very old; excessively old. |
| Fore-play | n | A mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse. |
| Fore-quoted | adj | Sited beforehand; quoted in a previously mentioned part of a text or story. |
| Fore-reach | vb | To shoot ahead. 2. to reach beyond, pass. 3. anticipate. |
| Fore-read | n | To tell beforehand; foretell. |
| Fore-reading | n | A previous perusal. |
| Fore-reach | vb | To shoot ahead. 2. to reach beyond, pass. 3. anticipate. |
| Fore-read | vb | To read prior to or beforehand. 2. to signify prior to. 3. to predestine; to tell. |
| Forereading | n | A preliminary reading or survey. |
| Fore-rib | n | A cut of beef immediately in front of the sirloin. |
| Fore-rider | n | A scout; one who rides in front. 2. harbinger. |
| Fore-right | adj | Ready, directly forward, going for or because. |
| Fore-right | adv | Directly forth or forward. 2. in a straight line, straight ahead. 3. right, forward, onwards. 4. of persons: headstrong, straightforward, plain spoken. |
| Fore-right | prp | Straight along |
| Fore-run | n | To run in front. 2. to forecast, herald or fore-shadow. |
| Fore-runner | n | A runner at the front or up ahead. 2. a messenger (as John the Baptist) sent in advance, precursor or harbinger; a warning. 3. a forebear, ancestor, predecessor. |
| Foresaid | adj | Aforementioned, mentioned before, predicted; aforesaid. 2. decreed, appointed, ordained. |
| Foresail | n | The principal sail on a foremast (the lowest square sail, or the fore-and-aft bent on the mast, or the triangular before the mast. |
| Foresay | vb | To mention or say prior to. 2. to predict, forecast, foretell. 3. to ordain, decree. |
| Fore-saying | n | Something said beforehand; a fore-mention, a foretelling |
| Fore-see | vb | To anticipate, predict; to infer. 2. to provide (for); to see to. |
| Fore-seeing | n | The act of prescience to which something is seen beforehand or foreseen. 2. a prophetic vision or dream. |
| Foreseeingly | adv | Of a manner prophetic or visionary. |
| Foreseer | n | One who foresees, foretells, anticipates or predicts future events. |
| Foreshadow | n | Omen, prophesy, vision, prediction. |
| Foreshadow | vb | To presage or suggest in advance an event or happening. |
| Fore-shadowing | n | A literary device to tease readers about plot turns that occur later in the story. A writer of a mystery novel might use foreshortening in an early chapter of his book to give readers an inkling of an impending murder. |
| Fore-shadower | n | One who or that which foreshadows. |
| Fore-shadowship | n | The state or condition of prophesy. |
| Fore-shank | n | The upper part of a cow's foreleg. 2. a cut of meat from the upper part of a cow's foreleg. 3. the front and upper part of the human leg. |
| Fore-ship | n | The forepart of a ship. |
| Foreshore | n | The part of the shore between high water and low water, esp. the beach exposed at maxium ebbing spring tides. 2. a tidal zone |
| Fore-shorten | vb | To render an image of an object that appears to be receding as it is perceived visually. |
| Foreshortening | adj | A method of rendering a specific object or fig. in a picture in depth. Foreshortening is used by artists to record the distortion seen by the eye when an object or figure is viewed at a distance or at an unusual angle. |
| Fore-shot | n | The fore-run in the distillation of whisky. |
| Fore-show | vb | To show in advance, foretold, predict. 2. to foreshadow or censure. |
| Fore-show | n | A manifestation earlier, or in advance of, than expected or anticipated. 2. a prior indication |
| Fore-shower | n | One who arrive before designated time. |
| Foreside | n | The front part or forepart of anything; the front face of. 2. land along the shore. |
| Fore-sight | n | The ability to foresee or prepare merely for the future. 2. a bearing taken forwards towards a new object. 3. prescience, foreknowledge, divination, clairvoyance, prophecy. |
| Fore-sighted | adj | Having foresight; forseeing, provident. |
| Foresightedly | adv | In a foresighted manner. |
| Foresightedness | n | The state or quality of having foresighted. |
| Foresightful | adj | Having, exercising, or characterized by foresight. 2. forward-looking, provident. 3. |
| Foresightfully | adj | Possessing, exercising or demonstrating care or foresight; thoughtfully provident. |
| Foresightless | adj | lacking or without foresight.e |
| Foresightless-ness | n | The quality or state of not having foresight. |
| Foresightly | adv | In a foresighted manner. |
| Foresightness | n | The quality of having foresight. 2. a prudent exercise of common sense when planning for the future. |
| Fore-sister | n | A feminist(suffragette)on an earlier generation. |
| Fore-skin | n | Prepuce: the fold of the skin covering the end of the penis. |
| Fore-sleeve | n | The sleeve below the elbow. |
| Fore-slow | vb | To arrive late, tardily or with delay. ('Forslow') |
| Forespeak | vb | To foretell, predict, presage, prophesy. |
| Fore-speak | vb | See 'Forspeak' - bewitch. |
| Fore-speaking | n | A prediction, presagement, foretelling. |
| Fore-speech | n | A preface of any various kind and in many different spoken contexts |
| Fore-spin | vb | Topspin. |
| Forestall | n | OE: intervention, ambush, hindrance. 2. an ambush, plot, intervention, waylaying something situauted or placed in front. |
| Forestall | vb | To prevent, hinder or delay something by precautionary measures. 2. to preclude or bar from happening; render impossible. 3. to buy up the complete or total supply of goods, particularly foodstuffs, in order to monopolise the market and sell them at a highly inflated price. 3. to anticipate, to act forseeingly. 5. to intervene, ambush, hinder. |
| Forestalling | n | The act of a person who forestalls. |
| Forestaller | n | One who hinders, delays, prevents something. |
| Fore-start | n | A headstart. |
| Forestep | n | The first step; a step forward. 2. steps in front, tracks. |
| Forestick | n | The front log laid across the andirons on a wood fire, which holds the others in. |
| Foreswear | vb | To renounce under oath, abjure, swear away one's sinful ways. 2. deny vehemently under oath. 3. to perjure oneself; commit perjury. 4. to swear falsely. |
| Foretalk | n | A talk or discussion beforehand; a foreword; preface. |
| Fore-teach | vb | To teach ahead of time. |
| Foretell | vb | To predict, tell or prophesies the future. |
| Foreteller | n | A seer, prognosticator, prophet, etc. |
| Forethink | vb | To plan something in advance. 2. to think, consider, anticipate, beforehand; to prognosticate. |
| Forethought | n | Foresight, providence, proactivity, vision. |
| Forethought | vb | To cause distress or regret. 2. to cause to regret, repent or vex. 3. to be sorry for. 4. to change one's mind about. 5. to renounce. |
| Fore-thoughtful | adj | Having a full of forethought; provident, proactive, visionary. |
| Fore-time | n | A time or period previous to the present. 2. a time alluded to or implied. 3. a former time or times. |
| Foretime | adv | In former times. |
| Foretoken | n | A prognostic, premonitory sign, presage, presentment, indication or warning. |
| Foretoken | vb | To indicate, betoken or warn beforehand. 2. prognosticate, give warning, or foreshadow; to presage. |
| Fore-tooth | n | A front tooth; in plural (fore-teeth) |
| Foretop | n | The top of the head. 2. the top of the forehead. 3. the lock of hair which grows on the top of the head; the corresponding part of a wig. 3. an erect tuft of hair. 4. a forelock of a horse. |
| Foretop | phr | "By the Foretop" - to boldly sieze an opportunity. |
| Forever | n | A extremely long time. 2. a mythical time in the future that it never comes. |
| Forever | adv | For all time, for eternity; eternally, forever, everlasting, for an infinite amount of time. 2. for a very long time; (duration, colloquial) for an excessively long time. . 3. always, continually, constantly, frequently. |
| Forever | phr | "Forever and a Day" - for a very long time or seeing no end to. 2. to all eternity. |
| Forever | phr | "Forever and Forever - forever, never come to an end. |
| Forevermore | adv | At any or all times in the future. 2. forever, forevermore, eternally, forever, in perpetuity. |
| Foreverness | n | The quality of being forever, having no end |
| Forewalk | n | A gangway. gangplank. |
| Forewander | vb | To wander until weary. 2. cause to wander until weary. |
| Foreward | n | An introduction section the main body of text of a book or other document. 2. preface, introduction. |
| Forewarn | vb | To warn, give caution or admonishment beforehand. 2. to give notice or forewarning. 3. to provide previous notice to. |
| Forewarn | phr | "Forewarned Is Forearmed" - a warning of danger, or unpleasant, to come serves as a preparation to meet it. 2. give one the opportunity to protect oneself as well as one can. |
| Foreweep | vb | To weep before; to usher in a weeping. |
| Foreweigh | vb | To estimate in advance. |
| Forewing | n | Either of the two front wings of a four-winged insect. |
| Forewish | n | An instance of wishing or desiring beforehand. |
| Forewish | vb | To wish or desire beforehand. |
| Fore-wit | n | Timely knowledge. 2. a precaution, a foresight. 3. a person who put his or her self forward as a leader in matters of taste or criticism. |
| Fore-wit | vb | To know prior to; to foreknow. |
| Fore-witter | n | A clever, intelligent person. |
| Forewoman | n | Female equivalent of a foreman: a female worker who supervises and directs other workers. 2. in a law court the female head of the jury. |
| Foreword | n | A word said before another or something else. 2. a preface, introduction. |
| Fore-yard | n | The front yard or a yard before a building. |
| Forfare | vb | To go amiss, decay, perish. |
| Forgather | vb | To assemble or gather together in one place. 2. to gather up; congregate. |
| Forget | vb | To lose memory of; to cease remembering. 2. to do unintentionally. 3. to overlook, not remember, pass over. |
| Forget | phr | "Forget It" - it doesn't matter; never mind. 2. an expression of gratitude. 3. I don't want to go on with this thing (matter). |
| Forget | phr | "Forget Oneself" - to lose one's dignity, temper or self control. 2. to become unmindful of one's own personality traits and behaviour. 3. behave in a disrespectful or ill-mannered way. 4. to become lost in one's own thoughts. |
| Forget | phr | "Forget More Than You Know" - an insult or retort that someone is not as smart or intelligent as they think they are. |
| Forget | phr | "Forget You" - a mild oath: screw you; damn you. |
| Forget | phr | "Forgive and Forget" - dismiss ill-feeling, the desire to blame and punish, etc entirely from one's mind. |
| Forgetful | adv | Unable to remember things well. 2. liable to forget. |
| Forgetfully | adv | In a forgetful manner. |
| Forgetfulness | n | Quality of being forgetful. 2. prone to have things slip out of one's mind. 3. loss of recollection; ceasing to remember. 4. oblivion. 5. failing to keep in mind. 6. forgetfulness of responsibility; careless omission. |
| Forget-Me-Not | n | Asmall herbof the Borage family. |
| Forgetter | n | One who forgets, or fails to remember something. |
| Forgetting | n | The mental act by which one forgets something. 2. oblivion, forgetfulness, oblivionness. |
| Forgettingly | adv | So as to forget. |
| Forgettingness | n | The quality of forgetting. |
| Forgettle | adj | (Dialect) - prone or tending to forget: forgetful; forgetting. |
| Forgive | vb | To pardon, to waive any negative feelings or desire to punish. 2. to accord forgiveness, cease to harbor or hold further resentment towards |
| Forgive | phr | "Anyone Could be Forgiven for Believing That" - it is understandable that people would believe that. |
| Forgive | phr | "Forgive and Forget" - absolve completely for a past wrongdoing. 2. pardon with neither resentment nor a view to retribution. |
| Forgiveness | n | The action of forgiving. 2. the readiness and disposition to forgive. 3. mercy, remission. |
| Forgiver | n | One who forgives. |
| Forgiving | adj | Pardoning, merciful, willingness to overlook, without resentment. |
| Forgiving-ness | n | The quality of forgiving, mercy. 2. forgiveness. |
| Forgo | vb | See "forego" - to precede go before. 2. to abandon, relinquish; renounce. 3. to allow to pass, pass up, with-go. 4. to leave alone. 5. to do without; to refrain from; to abstain from. |
| Forgoer | n | One who has gone before. 2. one who abandons or relinquish something. |
| Forgoing | adj | Occurring before or in front of something else in time, place, sequence, preceding. |
| Forgotten man/woman | n | A phrase derived by W. G. Summer (1840-1910), the American sociologist, to describe the decent hard-working, ordinary citizen. Later, Theodore Roosevelt advocated a New Deal' and appealed to the forgotten woman/man at the bottom of the economic pyramid. |
| Forgotten-ness | n | The quality or state of being forgotten. |
| Forgrow | vb | To grow to excessor out of shape; grow unduly. 2. to be grown over; overgrown; cover with growth (usu. one that is obsessive or unsightingly) |
| Forhang | vb | To hang to death; put to death by hanging. |
| Forhele | vb | To hide, conceal, cover up. |
| Forhew | vb | To hew or cut in front. 2. forhew. |
| Fork | n | A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc. 2. a gallows (obs). 3. a utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting. 4. a tuning fork. 5. an intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two. 6. one of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. 7. a point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions. 8. (fig.) a point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths |
| Fork | vb | To divide into two or more branches. 2. to shoot into blades like corn. 3. to sprout, spike, branch. 4. to dig up the ground or soil with a fork. |
| Fork | phr | "Fork in the Road" - point or moment of decision. |
| Fork | phr | "Fork Out" - give money to someone, esp. when you do not want to. 2. fork over. |
| Fork-beard | n | A fish with bifurcated fins. |
| Forked | phr | "Speak with Forked Tongue" - deliberately say something and mean another or, to be hypocritically or act in duplicitous manner. |
| Forked | adj | Pronged, spiked, barbed. 2. furcated, divided, branched. |
| Forked lightning | n | A lightning flash in the form of a zig-zag or branching line. |
| Forkedness | n | State or quality of being forked. |
| Forkful | adj | As much as a fork can pick up. |
| Fork-head | n | An arrowhead shaped like a fork or cleft. |
| Forking | n | A division or forking in a road. 2. the forking of antlers, horns etc. |
| Forkiness | n | State or quality of being forked or cleft. |
| Forks | n | "The Forks" - the gallows (Latin: furca) |
| Forky | adj | Forked, forky; cleft. |
| Forky tail | n | An earwig, a slater. |
| Forlay | vb | To lay aside. 2. to lie in wait, ambush. |
| Forleave | vb | To depart from someone; leave someone behind. 2. abandon, forsake, desert, give up, relinquish. |
| Forleet | n | To abandon, give up, leave, leave behind. 2. forsake, desert, neglect. 3. to forget. |
| Forlese | vb | To lose, abandon, forsake, let go. 2. destroy, ruin, kill, to cause to perish. 3. to lose entirely or completely. 4. to bereave, deprive of |
| Forlet | vb | To abandon, give up, leave, leave behind. 2. forsake, desert, neglect. 3. to forget. 4. forleet. |
| Forlie | vb | To lie with. 2. overlay (a child) |
| Forlighten | vb | To declare, reduce, diminish, lighten, lighten up. |
| Forlorn | n | One who is dangerously imperiled, doomed, on a hopeless venture with little or no hope of success. |
| Forlorn | adj | pp of forlese. 2. abandoned, left behind, deserted, forsaken. 3. lost, not findable. 4. doomed, about to be destroyed. 5. woeful, wretched, pitiful, lonely. 6. sad, pessimistic. |
| Forlorn hope | n | Any perilous undertaking with little hope of succees. 2. cannon fodder. |
| Forlornly | adv | In a forlorn manner: peesimistic of a success outcome |
| Forlornness | n | The state or characteristic of being sad, miserable. lonely. |
| Former | n | ?????The first of two or the first mentioned of two. |
| Former | adj | OE: firma: first. referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several) 3. former belonging to the distant past. 4. belonging to some prior time, erstwhile. 5. (used especially of persons) |
| Formerly | adv | During or at sometime in the past. 2. previously, before, ago. |
| For-old | adj | Very old; excessively old. |
| Forsake | vb | OE: quarrel, dispute, contend. 2. to abandon, give up, to leave permanently or entirely. 3. renounce, reject, betray, surrender up another, deny or refuse. |
| Forsaken | adj | Desert, left solitary or desolate. 2. morally abandoned. |
| Forsakenly | adv | In a manner of betrayal, denial, rejection, abandonment. |
| Forsaken-ness | n | The state or quality of being forsaken |
| Forsaker | n | One who abandons, leaves permanently an other. 2. a betrayer. 3. one who renounces, a denouncer, denier. |
| Forsay | vb | To renounce, exclude by command. |
| Forshame | vb | You should be ashamed; shame on you. |
| Forshape | vb | To metamorphose. 2. to misshape, disfigure. |
| Forshrink | vb | To shrink up, dry up, wither. |
| Forsing | vb | To exhaust oneself by singing. |
| Forslack | vb | To be or become slack. 2. to not care for, neglect. 3. to ruin or spoil by neglect or want. |
| Forsloth | vb | To lose, neglect, waste by sloth. |
| Forslow | vb | To be dilatory about. 2. put-off, postpone. 3. neglect, omit. 4. delay, hinder, impede, obstruct. |
| Forsooth | n | One who "forsooths" frequently; with an effected air. 2. an act or instance of forsoorth |
| Forsooth | vb | To say "forsooth" - to treat with ceremony. |
| Forsooth | adv | (as an intensifier, often with irony) - indeed, without doubt, of course, certainly, in fact. 2. fig. with irony: truly, verily, to be sure. |
| Forsooth | intj | Indeed, really, in truth. |
| Forsoothing | n | An act or instance of forsooth. |
| Forsoothingly | adv | In a forsoothing manner |
| Forsoothness | n | The state or quality of forsooth. |
| Forspeak | vb | SEE forespeak |
| Forspend | vb | To spend completely. 2. to wear out. |
| Forstand | vb | To stand against. 2. stand in front of as to bar the way. 3.block, oppose, withstand. 4. understand, comprehend. |
| Forsung | vb | To exhaust oneself with singing or chanting. |
| Forswallow | vb | To swallow up; devour completely; engulf. |
| Forswear | vb | To renounce or deny something. 2. to commit perjury. |
| Forsweat | adj | Covered or drench with perspiration. |
| Forswing | vb | To beat, whip. |
| Forswink | vb | To exhaust by labour; overwork. |
| Forswollen | adj | Puffed up with pride. |
| Forsworn | adj | Having lied under oath. 2. perjured. |
| Foreswornness | n | Quality or characteristic of acting with renounce or denial. 2, of a nature perjurious |
| Foresworn-ness | n | Lying under oath. 2. falsely-swear; perjury. |
| Forswunk | vb | Totally worn out. |
| Forth | n | Ford, wath. |
| Forth | adv | Forward in time, place, position or degree. 2. out of view, from a particular place or position. 3. beyond a (certain) boundary, away, abroad; out. 4. thoroughly from beginning to end. |
| Forth | pfx | Forward, forth, away. 2. continuously. 3. towards, onto. |
| Forth | prp | Forward to; up to. 2. (obs): forth from |
| Forth | phr | "And so Forth" - and so on and the like. |
| Forth | phr | "From This Time Forth" - henceforward, henceforth, in the future, from here, hereupon, afterwards, next. |
| Forth | phr | "Have One's Forth - have an outlet. |
| Forth | phr | "Hold Forth" - speak pompously. |
| Forth | phr | "So Forth" / "And so Forth" - indicate that a list or things continues in a similar manner. |
| For than | conj | For this reason; therefore. 2. (dialect) - for the reason that; because. |
| For that | conj | For, because, for that reason; so that, in order that, for that purpose. |
| Forthbear | vb | To bear or carry forth. |
| Forthbearing | n | An act or instance of bearing or carrying forth. |
| Forthcome | vb | To come forward, to approach. |
| Forthcoming | n | Ready or about to appear or be available when need. 2. likely to come forth, being considerate. 3. coming near or approaching. |
| Forth-comingness | n | The state of quality of being forthcoming. |
| Forthdraw | vb | To draw or bring forth. |
| Forthfare | vb | To go forth; go away, depart, journey. 2. to die, pass away. |
| Forthfaring | n | Death. 2. a departure, journey. |
| Forthfather | n | An ancestor. 2. a cultural ancestor,one who originated an idea or tradition. |
| Forthgang | n | A going forth; progress. |
| Forthglide | vb | To glide on; pas by. |
| Forthgo | vb | Of time, season, days: to pass on or away. 2. to issue forth, to come from a source or origin. |
| Forthgoing | n | To leave, go, go forth or on. |
| Forthgoing | adj | Friendly, gregarious, enthusiastic. |
| Forthirst | vb | To be very thirsty, be dying of thirst. |
| Forthlead | vb | To lead forth. |
| Forthlook | vb | To look forth; look out. |
| Forthnim | vb | To take away; destroy. 2. to go away. |
| Forthput | vb | To put forth, propose, bring forth, produce. |
| Forthput | n | That which is put forth; forputting, product. |
| Forthputter | n | One who brags, brodacious. 2. one who proposes or proffers. |
| Forthputting | n | The action of putting forth. |
| Forthputting | n | The act of putting or bringing forth, output, production. 2. forwardness, undue assumption, boldness. |
| Forthink | vb | To displease. 2. have a feeling of regret. 3. to show repentance. |
| Forthread | vb | The read out. |
| Forthright | adv | Straight-forward, not evasive, candid and direct. 2. frank, open, sincere, straight, plain-spoken, out-spoken, downright, no-nonsense. |
| Forthrightly | adj | Direct and without evasion, straightforward. 2. proceeding straight ahead. |
| Forthrightly | adv | Directly and frankly. |
| Forthrightness | n | The quality or characteristic of being frank and open, to the point, straightforwardness |
| For-throw | vb | To throw off, cast off, reject. |
| Forthshow | vb | To show forth, make known. |
| Forthspeak | vb | To speak forth; declare, announce. 2. to reveal, divulge. |
| Forthspeaking | n | The act, or an instance, of speaking, declaring, announcing, revealing, divulging. |
| Forth-tell | vb | To tell forth, be candid, straight. 2. to publish abroad. |
| Forthward(s) | adv | Of a place: onward, forward. 2. of time: continually, prospectively. |
| Forthwax | vb | To grow forth. 2. grow to excess, increase, come on, progress, |
| Forthwith | adv | Immediately, without delay, straight away. |
| For thy | adv | For this, for this reason, on this account |
| Forthyete | vb | To pour forth, pour out. |
| Fortieth | adj | The ordinal form of the number 40. 2. the person or thing in the 40th position. 3. one of 40 equal parts of a whole. |
| Fortieth | phr | "The Fortieth Man" - one man in forty. |
| Fortiethly | adv | In the fortieth part; fortieth in a row. |
| Fortnight | n | A period of fourteen days or nights; two weeks. |
| Fortnightly | adv | Of a period once every fourteen nights or every two weeks. |
| For-thy | conj | For this reason; therefore. |
| Fortread | vb | To trampled under foot. 2. to ruin, destroy, devastate by trampling. |
| Forty | adj | The cardinal number occurring after 39 and before 41. |
| Forty | phr | "Have Forty Winks" - have a short sleep; take a nap; doze. |
| Forwake | vb | To exhaust or tire out with excessive waking or watching. |
| Forwander | vb | To wander somewhat aimlessly far and wide. 2. to become through wandering. |
| Forward | n | (dialectal or obsolete) agreement; covenant. 2. |
| Forward | adj | The front, anterior or at the front. 2. without customary restraint or modesty, bold, fresh, impertinent.3.(finance) expected in the future. 4. read; forecast, predicted, prompt; strongly inclined; in a bad sense, overready or hasty. 5. advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season. |
| Forward | adv | Towards the front or from the front, forwards. 2. in the usual direction of travel, ahead, forth, on, onwards. 3. (into the future): forth, forwards, hereon, on, onward, onwards |
| Forward | phr | "Go Forward" - (of a clock) to be set to a later standard time, especially summertime. 2. to progress. |
| Forward | phr | "Inch Forwards" - make slow but steady progress. |
| Forward | phr | "Look Forward" - to think (of a future time or event) with pleasuraable, eager anticipation. 2. to be excited about something you believe is going to happen. |
| Forward | phr | "Put Forward" - propose, suggest, or nominate. |
| Forward | phr | "Put One's Best Foot Forward" - to make a good appearance. 2. to do one's best; do something with purpose. |
| Forwarding room | n | A business of processing (buying, receiving, selling, forwarding) merchandise. |
| Forward-looking | adj | Having a keen interest in the future. 2. progressive, visionary. |
| Forwardness | n | The quality of being forward or presumptuous, immodest, bold. 2. state of being at the front, progressive, advanced. |
| Forward-thinking | n | A way of thinking that takes into consideration further possibilities and outcomes. |
| Forward-thinking | vb | Thinking that takes into consideration further possibilities and outcomes. |
| Forward-thinking | adj | Progressive; farsighted. |
| Forwarn | vb | To prohibit, forbid. |
| Forwean | vb | To accustom to bad habits. 2. spoil by indulgence. 3. pamper. |
| Forwear | vb | To wear out, wear away, exhaust, spend, waste. |
| Forweary | adj | Exhausted, tired out completely. |
| Forweep | vb | To exhaust oneself by weeping. 2. to weep excessively. 3. of a vine: to 'bleed' excessively. |
| Forwith | adv | Immediately, at once, instantly, without any further delay. |
| Forwither | vb | To wither away; shrivels. |
| For-why | adv | For what reason, why. 2. connectiveness, for which cause, wherefore. |
| For-why | conj | Because. |
| Forworn | adj | Worn old, grown old, decayed; foreworn. |
| Forwound | vb | To wound or injure severely. |
| Foryield | vb | To recompense, repay, requite. |
| Foster | n | Food, nourishment, feed, support. 2.******* |
| Foster | vb | To rear; to nourish. |
| Foster-bairn | n | A foster-child |
| Foster-brother | n | A male child nursed and suckled with another child of different heritage. |
| Foster-child | n | A child reared by one who is not the parent; a foster-bairn. |
| Fosterer | n | A foster-parent. 2. one who works actively to support and promote anything or any cause. |
| Fostering | n | A raising so to be an accepted member of the community. 2. encouragement aiding the development of something. |
| Fosteringly | adv | To act in a supporting, caring manner to another's child. 2. one who acts in a supporting and promotional way. |
| Foster-father | n | A male person who acts and cares as a father to another's child. |
| Foster-land | n | One's adopted name. |
| Fosterling | n | A child who is fostered, a foster-bairn. |
| Foster-mother | n | A female person who acts and cares as a mother to another's child. |
| Foster-sister | n | A female child nursed and suckled with another child of different heritage. |
| Fother | n | A wagonful or load of any sort. 2. a measure of lead or other metals of proksimately 19.5 cwt. 3. food for beasts; fodder. |
| Fother | vb | To feed or provide animals with fodder. |
| Foul | adj | Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter. 2. grossly offensive to the senses. 3. scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive. 3. hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. 4. loathsome; disgusting, 4. ugly; homely; poor. 5. not favorable; unpropitious. 6. not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc. 7. having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement. 8. outside of the base lines |
| Foul | n | An act or action unfair; of extremely offensive. 2. loathsomeness, wretchedness, disgust. 3. ugliness, odiousness. |
| Foul | vb | To make dirty or filthy, pollute. 2. defile, dishonor. 3. to render ugly, disfigure. 2. to entangle, block up, stop, bung up. 4. to act unfairly or outside the rules of the game or contest. |
| Foul | phr | "A Foul Blow" - a low punch in booking. 2. any unfair act or action. |
| Foul | phr | "Foul befall" - bad or/ and unpleasant occurrence. |
| Foul | phr | "Foul One's Own Nest" - dirty, pollute or bring to disgrace to, one home's, family, profession etc. |
| Foul | phr | "Foul Out" - an instance of being fouled out. 2. an instance of fouling out. 2. to be fouled out by hitting a foul ball which is caught. 3. to be disqualified from further play for having committed too many fouls. |
| Foul | phr | "Foul Up" - mess up, male unpleasant. |
| Foul | phr | "Run Foul of" - (law) - to act in a way not allowed by rules of law. |
| Foul-bottom | n | A sea bed of sharp rocks, perilous reefs and other hazards dangerous to ships. |
| Foulbrood | n | A beehive affected by a bacterial disease. |
| Foul-fiend | n | The (arch)-fiend, Satan, the devil, Old Sooty. |
| Foul-ground | n | A sea bed of sharp rocks, perilous reefs and other hazards dangerous to ships. |
| Foul-line | n | In basketball a line from which a player takes a free throw. |
| Foul-mouth | n | A person with a scurrilous abusive tooth, prone to speech full of insulting obscenity |
| Foully | adv | Disagreeable, obscenely, hideously. |
| Foulness | n | The quality of condition of being covered with, or containing, extraneous matter. 2. being grossly offensive to the senses. 3. of acting scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive. 3. of tender to hatefulness; detestabilty; shamefulness; odious-like; wretchedness. 4. loathsomeness; disgust. 5. the attitude of not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflicting, testing, etc. |
| Foul-out | n | An instance of being fouled out. 2. an instance of fouling out. |
| Foul out | vb | To be fouled out by hitting a foul ball which is caught. 2. to be disqualified from further play for having committed too many fouls. |
| Foul-play | n | Unfair or unethical or criminal acts of behavior, especially of a malicious or violent nature; murder, homicide. |
| Foul-shot | n | A shot taken by the player who has been fouled |
| Foul-speech | n | Obscene, scurrilous and abusive language and speech. 2. foul speech, a foul-tongue. |
| Foul-thief | n | The (arch)-fiend, satan, the devil, old sooty. |
| Foul-tongue | n | One who uses inappropriate or unacceptable language. |
| Foul-up | n | A disastrous or calamitous situation or incident. |
| Four | adj | A numerical value equal to four. 2. the number after three and before five. |
| Four | phr | "Make Up a Four" - join three others to do something/ play something. |
| Four | phr | "Make Up a Foursome" - combine to make four people. |
| Four | phr | "On All Fours" - on hands and knees on four feet. |
| Four | phr | "The Four Firsts" - in the People's Republic of China a series of priorities: 1. the human factor over weapons. 2. political work over other work. 3. ideological study over political work. 4. living ideology over book learning. |
| Four | phr | "The Fours Olds" - in the People's Republic of China: 1. ideas. 2. customs. 3. cultures. 4. habits. |
| Four | phr | "To the Four Winds" - in every direction. |
| Four-eyes | n | An old and somewhat derisive term often used by children when teasing a bespectacled peer. |
| Four-fold | adj | Four times as great, quadruple. |
| Fourfold | adv | Four times as great, quadruplely. |
| Four-foldness | n | The property of being four-fold. 2. four-times as great. 3. quadrupleness. |
| Four-footed | adj | Having four feet, quadrupedal. |
| Four-handed | adj | Having four hands; quadramanous. |
| Four-handed | adj | The cardinal number occurring after 399 and before 401. |
| Fourish | adj | Any time close to 4.am or 4.pm. |
| Four-leaf clover | n | A clover, very uncommon, having four leaves instead of the usual four. 2. a bringer of good luck. |
| Fourling(s) | n | Quads, quadruplets, one of four children at the same birth. |
| Fourness | n | The property of being four in number. |
| Fourscore | n | Score (late OE from ON). 2. eighty or four times by twenty. |
| Foursome | n | Task or matter carried out by four persons. 2. four person as a collective; a group of four, quadruplet. 3. a game played by two teams of two. 4. sex between four persons. |
| Four-stroke | n | A four stroke engine or vehicle. |
| Four stroke | adj | (Of an internal-combustion engine)having a cycle of strokes (intake, compression, combustion, exhaust). 2. of a vehicle having a four-stroke engine. |
| Fourteen | n | A numerical value equal to fourteen. 2. the number thirteen and after fifteen. |
| Fourteenth | adj | The ordinal form of the number 14. a person or thing in the 14th position. 3. one of fourteen parts of a whole. |
| Fourteenth | adj | The cardinal number occurring after 13 and before 15. |
| Fourth | n | The ordinal form of the number four. |
| Fourth-deal | n | One of any four equal parts of any whole |
| Fourth-finger | n | The ring finger. |
| Fourthly | adv | In the fourth place; fourth in a row. |
| Fourth World | n | Collectively, people living nomadic, pastoral hunter-gatherers; herder-wanderers, sandfarers, or people living their lives outside the modern, industrial world. |
| Fourway (s) | n | A place where four roads cross or meet; where two ways meet. |
| Four-wheel drive | n | A four-wheeled vehicle with special drive that allows all four wheels to receive torque from the engine simultaneously. |
| Fowl | n | archaic) A bird. 2. a bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
3. birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans. |
| Fowl | vb | To hunt fowl. |
| Fowler | n | One who catches birds for a living. |
| Fowl-house | n | An enclosure where fowls are kept |
| Fowl-lore | n | Fowllore; knowledge, study, science of the fowl; birdlore; ornithology. |
| Foul run | n | An enclosed space for poultry. |
| Fox | n | A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail; a tod; reynard. 2. any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. 3. the fur of a fox. 4. a fox terrier. 6. a cunning person. 7.(slang) an attractive man or woman. |
| Fox | vb | To act in a cunning and underhand way. 2. steal or cheat. 3. to baffle. |
| Fox | phr | "An Old Fox" - somebody who is cunning. |
| Fox | phr | "Be Foxed" - be puzzled. |
| Fox | phr | "Fox in the Henhouse" - a predator loose among the prey. 2. a sheep in wolves clothing. |
| Fox-bane | n | The plant 'Aconitum vulparia' |
| Fox-berry | n | The plant crowberry or lingonberry |
| Fox-earth | n | A fox burrow or lair. |
| Fox-evil | n | Alopecia, loss of hair through disease. |
| Fox-fire | n | A lumniscence produced by some kinds of fungus |
| Fox-fish | n | The fox shark, dragonet. |
| Fox-glove | n | Various plants of the genus "Digitalis". Many suggestions for the derivation of the name "foxglove" have been proffered. According to the 19th-century book, English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants: Dr. Prior, whose authority is great in the origin of popular names, says "It seems probably that the name was in the first place, foxes' glew, or music, in reference to the favourite instrument of an earlier time, a ring of bells hung on an arched support, the tintinnabulum"... we cannot quite agree with Dr. Prior for it seems quite probable that the shape of the flowers suggested the idea of a glove, and that associated with the name of the botanist Fuchs, who first gave it a botanical name, may have been easily corrupted into foxglove. It happens, moreover, the name foxglove is a very ancient one and exists in a list of plants as old as the time of Edward III. The "folks" of our ancestors were the fairies and nothing is more likely than that the pretty coloured bells of the plant would be designated "folksgloves," afterwards, "foxglove." In Wales it is declared to be a favourite lurking-place of the fairies, who are said to occasion a snapping sound when children, holding one end of the digitalis bell, suddenly strike the other on the hand to hear the clap of fairy thunder, with which the indignant fairy makes her escape from her injured retreat. In south of Scotland it is called "bloody fingers" more northward, "deadman's bells" whilst in Wales it is known as "fairy-folks-fingers" or "lambs-tongue-leaves"." Reference "Digitalis" Wikipedia. |
| Fox-hole | n | A burrow in the ground where a fox lives. 2. a small trench or pit dug by into the ground as shelter for soldiers from enemy fire. |
| Foxhound | n | A medium-sized breed of hunting dog. |
| Fox-hunt | n | The act or sport of hunting foxes (for sport) |
| Fox-hunter | n | Foxhuntsman. 2. one who hunts foxes for sport. |
| Fox-hunting | n | The act of hunting foxes with guns and dogs. |
| Foxily | adv | In a foxy manner: cunningly. |
| Foxish | adj | Like or resembling a fox. |
| Fox-like | adj | Characteristics or qualities of being a fox. |
| Foxily | adv | in a foxy manner. |
| Foxiness | n | The characteristics or quality of being a fox: cunningness, red-hairedness, sexiness, attractiveness |
| Foxly | adj | Vulpine, fox-like. |
| Foxship | n | The character or qualities of a fox. 2. foxiness, craftiness, cunning. |
| Fox-sleep | n | Feigned or false sleep. |
| Foxtail | n | The tail of a fox. 2. the dry spikelet or spikelet seeds and flower cluster of some grasses. 3. a plant having a part resembling the tail of a fox or such spikelet., as Alopecurus (foxtail grasses). |
| Fox-wood | n | Decayed or foxed wood. |
| Foxy | adj | Having the quality of a fox. 2. attractive, sexy. 3. red-haired person. |
| Fox-whelp | n | A fox cub. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Frame | n | OE: progress, profit. 2. advantage, benefit. 3. timber construction fitted together. |
| Frame | vb | To profit, be of service. 2. to gain ground, get on with; succeed. 3. to make ready for use; also, to furnish with. 4. to prepare timber for use in building; to form the carpenter work in building. 5. to shape, give shape, direction or expression to. 6. to shape one's course, resort to. 7. to adapt, adjust, fit to. 8. conform, fit in. 9. to construct, make, build (fitting together of parts; adaption to a design). 10. to contrive a plot, fabricate, compose, put in words. 11. to articulate. 12. form in the mind. 13. to bring to pass. 14. to enclose within a frame. 15. (slang) - as a comment on the body or physique of an exceptionally thin prostitute. |
| Frame | phr | "Frame of Mind" - mental attitude. |
| Frame | phr | "Frame Up" - to prearrange an event with sinister intent. 2. to fake the result of a race. 3. to make or concoct a false charge against. 4. to enclose within a frame. 5. to serve as a frame for. |
| Frame-breaker | n | One of those who resisted with violence the introduction of frames for weaving stockings; a Luddite, troglodyte. |
| Frame-dragging | n | In physics) the bending out of shape and time near a rotating body, as predicted by general relativity. |
| Frame-house | n | A house constructed with a wooden framework covered with boards. |
| Framer | n | One who frames. |
| Frameless | adj | Without or lacking a frame. |
| Frame-up | n | To prearrange an event with sinister intent. 2. to fake the result of a race. 3. to make or concoct a false charge against. 4. arrest or conviction based on falsified evidence. 5. to enclose within a frame. 6. to serve as a frame for. |
| Framework | n | A structure composed of parts framed or fitted together. 2. a frame or skeleton. 3. work done or with a frame. |
| Framing | n | The action, method or process of constructing, making or shaping anything. 2. framed work; a frame, a set or system of frames. |
| Frank | n | One of the Germanic nation, or group of nations, that overran Gaul in the C6th, thus giving the country the name France; (the name it is suggested is from their weapon, "franka" -javelin. 3. in parts of the Near East name given to a person of Western nationality. |
| Frank | adj | Belonging to, having characteristics or customs of the Franks. |
| Frankish | adj | Belonging or pertaining to the western (European) nations. 2. language(s) spoken by the Franks. |
| Freak | n | A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man. (UK dialectal, a fellow; a petulant, young man. "sudden change of mind, whim",OE : frecaof uncertain origin, perhaps Old English frician (“to leap, dance”), or from Old English frec (“desirous, greedy, eager, bold, daring”), Old English frēcne (“dangerous, daring, courageous, bold”). 3. a sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice. 4. someone or something that is markedly unusual. 5. a hippie. 6. a drug addict. 7 .(of a person) a nonconformist, especially in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or business practices; an oddball, especially in physiology (i.e., "circus freak"); unique, sometimes in a displeasing way. 6.(bodybuilding or sport) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 120 kilos (260 pounds); a footballer with amazing a ability and skill. 7. an enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something. 8.(informal, sometimes affectionate) A very sexually perverse individual. |
| Freak | vb | To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance. 2. to be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug. 3. to streak; to variegate. 4. to experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use. 5. to react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure |
| Freak | adj | Strange, weird |
| Freak | phr | "Freak Out"- to lose control, panic. 2. move into a heightened or depressed state of mind(often because of drug taking) |
| Freakish | adj | Resembling a freak. 2. strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre. 3. capricious or unpredictable. |
| Freakishly | adv | In a freakish manner. |
| Freakishness | n | The character or quality of being frank. |
| Freak show | n | An intentionally shocking exhibition of people with unusual characteristics, and which may include people who are gigantic, dwarfish, intersexed, physically deformed or with extraordinary diseases, conditions or talents. |
| Freaky | adj | Resembling a freak. 2. odd, bizarre, unusual. 3. scary, frightening. 4. sexually deviant. |
| Freck | vb | To be desirous, eager, ready. 2. to be strong, show strength, be vigorous. |
| Freck | adj | Frack, desirous, eager, quick, ready. 2. lusty, strong, vigorous. |
| Freckly | adv | With desirous, eagerly, quickly, readily. 2. lustily, strongly, vigorously. |
| Free | adj | Unconstrained. 2. not imprisoned or enslaved; as a free man. 2. unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; frank; communicative. 3. generous; liberal. 4. (obsolete) clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent. 5. without obligations. 6.thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed. 7. not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc.
8.(software) with no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification. 9.(software) intended for release, as opposed to a checked version. 10. obtainable without any payment. 11. (by extension, chiefly advertising slang) obtainable without additional payment, as a bonus given when paying for something else. 12. unconstrained. 13. unobstructed, without blockages. 13. unattached or uncombined. 14. not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied. 15. (botany, mycology) Not attached; loose. 16. without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated. 16.(dated) ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited. 17.(dated) invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunity or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of. 18.(UK, law, obsolete) certain or honourable; the opposite of base. free service; free socage. 19. privileged or individual; the opposite of common. |
| Free | adv | Without needing to pay. 2.(obsolete) freely; willingly. 3. (informal, without needing to pay): for free, for nothing. |
| Free | vb | To make free; set at liberty; release. 2. rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses. |
| Free | sfx | Without having to pay. 2. without, as 'dust-free'. 3. lacking, as 'cloud-free'. |
| Free | phr | "Feel Free" - do not hesitate, do as one please. |
| Free | phr | "For Free" - free of charge; gratis. |
| Free | phr | "Free and Easy" - relaxed, informal; morally lax. 2. unhampered by responsibilities. |
| Free | phr | "Free as a Bird" - without ties, duties, obligations. |
| Free | phr | "Free As the Wind" - completely free. |
| Free | phr | "Free Fight" - group fighting, or a struggling or quarreling, of a disorganized or rowdy manner. |
| Free | phr | "Free From (Something)" - without, not having, something (as a desirable condition). 2. make free, independent of. |
| Free | phr | "Free of Something" - exempt or released from something, usually compulsory or normally present. |
| Free | phr | "Free on Board" - used of goods delivered on board ship or into a conveyance at the seller's expense. |
| Free | phr | "Free Up" - do work or a task for someone. 2. to make them available for something. |
| Free | phr | "Free With One's Hands" - prone to hit or fight, others with whom one is in disagreement with or whom one wishes to control or subdue. 2. prone to touch, fondle, others in a way likely to be resented. |
| Free | phr | "Get Free Of" - to be without |
| Free | phr | "Have/ Give Free Hand to - unrestricted authority. 2. to authorize a person to act as he sees fit. |
| Free | phr | "Make Free With" - make use of somebody else's property. |
| Free bench | n | A widow's right to dower from her husband's property. |
| Free-birther | n | A woman who chooses to give birth without medical assistance or the attendance of a midwife. |
| Free-birthing | n | Unassisted childbirth; giving birth without medical assistance and the attendance of a midwife. |
| Free-board | n | The part of a ship's side between the waterline and deck. |
| Free-boot | vb | To pillage, plunder, wage war on needs basis against other nations or groups. |
| Freebooter | n | An adventurer who pillage or plunder on a ad hoc basis: pirate, filibuster, mercenary. |
| Freebooting | n | Piracy, plunder, booty. 2. an unauthorized re-hosting on another media. |
| Freebooting | adj | Engaged in plunder or piracy |
| Freebooty | n | That which is pillaged, plundered. 2. the plunder taken in piracy and during plundering. |
| Freeborn | adj | Born free, rather than in slavery, bondage, vassalage. |
| Free-climbing | adj | Rock climbing without the assistance of devices, such as pegs to put into the rocks, but occasionally using ropes and belays. |
| Free-diving | n | A form of underwater diving that relies on the divers ability to hold their breath until resurfacing, rather than on the use of breathing apparatus. |
| Freedman | n | A slave who has been freed. |
| Freedom | n | The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved. 2. the lack of a specific constraint. or of constraints in general. 3. frankness, openness, unreserved. 4. improper familiarity. 5. violation of rites of decorum. |
| Freedom | phr | "Freedom From" - free from an object or condition, such as fear, hunger, pain, disease, poverty, etc. |
| Freedom | phr | "Freedom of Speech" - the right of citizens to speak, communicate, without fear or harm of persecution. |
| Freedom | phr | "Freedom of the Seas" - exemption from seizure at sea in war, by armed vessels of belligerents, of all private property of neutrals except contraband of war. |
| Freedom-fighter | n | A person involved in armed conflict against an occupation or repressive government. 2. a revolutionary, insurgent, rebel or insurrectionist. |
| Free-hand | n | Unrestricted authority to act. 2. made without the aid of drawing equipment. |
| Freedom-rider | n | Civil-rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern US in the 1960s. |
| Free-edge | n | The part of the nail, such as a fingernail or toenail, that extends past the flesh of the finger or toe. |
| Free-fall | n | Any motion of a body where gravity is the only force acting upon something. |
| Free fight | n | Group figting , or struggling or quarreling, of a disorganized and rowdy kind. |
| Free float | n | In stock trading, a term describing the proportion of shares of a publicly traded company that is traded on the stock market. |
| Free float | vb | In stock trading, the proportion of shares of a publicly traded company that is traded on the stock market. |
| Free-for-all | n | Contest in which everyone has an equal chance. |
| Freehand | adj | Drawn with the hand without any helping device. |
| Freehand | vb | To conduct a procedure involving the using of the hands without any helping device or guide. |
| Free-handed | adj | Anything done with the hand only, free from any mechanical or other help. |
| Free-hearted | adj | Kind, generous, willing to help others, compassionate. |
| Free-heartedly | adv | Any act done in a generous, kind and willing manner. |
| Freehold | n | The tenure of property held in fee simple for life. |
| Freehold | adj | Tenured property held in fee simple for life. |
| Freeholder | n | One who holds a tenure of property in fee simple for life. |
| Free house | n | A public house or hotel that is not owned or managed by a brewery company, and therefore cannot stock a range of beer from several other brewers; (opposite of 'tied-house') |
| Free-liver | n | One who gratifies his appetites without stint. 2. one given to indulgence in living and life style. |
| Free-living | n | Indulging in pleasures, esp. that of eating. 2. living freely and independently, not attached to a substrate. |
| Freeload | vb | To act as a freeloader. |
| Freeloader | n | Someone who makes no contribution to an event of which he is taking advantage. 2. a peron who eats and drinks at expense of others; a sponger. |
| Freeloading | n | The act of making no contribution to an event of which he is taking advantage. 2. the practice of one who eats and drinks at expense of others. |
| Free-love | n | Sexual relations by choice and unrestricted by marriage. 2. freedom to love and live with a man or woman of one's choice without being bound by marriage ties. |
| Free-lover | n | One who has sexual relations by choice and unrestricted by marriage |
| Freely | adj | Free, frank. 2. generous, noble, excellent, beautifully, lovely. |
| Freely | adv | In a friendly manner. 2. without reference or restriction. 3. of one's own free will. 4. frankly, openly, costlessly. |
| Freeman | n | A person who is not a serf or slave. 2. archaic: a person awarded or inherited his freedom, with certain priveleges, from a borough or city. |
| Free-minded | adj | Open-minded; unworried. |
| Freeness | n | State or condition of being free. |
| Freer | n | One who frees or sets free. |
| Free-ride | n | (idiom) - an opportunity or benefit which has no cost; esp. one enjoyed or undertaken at the expense of others. |
| Free-rider | n | Someone who obtains goods and services legally without paying. 2. one who o/w obtains benefit from a public good without paying for it. 2. an individual who refuses to join a union (where there is no closed shop agreement) is able to benefit from whatever wage agreements are negotiated by that union. |
| Free ship | n | A ship belonging to a neutral power, and hence free from liability , to seizure in time of war. |
| Free shot | n | A shot with one point, taken from a free throw line and without opposition. |
| Free software | n | Software that can be copied, redistributed and modified including source code. 2. any software that is free of charge; freeware. |
| Free speech | n | The right to express an opinion in public without being restrained or censured. 2. the right to express anything, anywhere without any consequences whatsoever. |
| Free-spoken | adj | To readily speak freely and plainly. |
| Free-spokenness | n | The quality and abilty to speak freely and openly. |
| Freestanding | adj | Not attached to or supported by another structure. 2. not relying on or linked to anything else; independent. |
| Free-stone | n | A type of stone that is comprised of small particles and easily shaped, such as limestone or sandstone. 2. a stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of flesh. 2. a cling-stone. |
| Free swimmer | n | A fish that swims near the surface. |
| Free swimming | n | Swimming freely, as an aquatic animal; said especially ofcertain organisms that are attached or immovable during other stagesof their development. |
| Free-thinker | n | A person who has formed their opinion using reasons and rational enquiry. 2. someone who has rejected dogma, esp with regard to religion. |
| Free-thinking | n | A philosophy refusing to submit reason to the control of authority in matters of religious belief; a designation claimed esp. by the deistic and other references in Christianity in the early C18th. |
| Free-thought | n | The principles of a freethinker and free-thinking. |
| Free-throw | n | An unimpeded throw award to a basketball player following a foul. |
| Free-time | n | Time that can be spent on one's own activities, rather than work. 2. leisure, leisure-time, spare-time. |
| Free-tongued | adj | Free-spoken. |
| Free-to-play | adj | (Of a video) that may be played with out payment. |
| Freeware | n | In computing complete and functional software, that does not require payment or other compensation. |
| Free water | n | Soil water in excess of that absorbed by the soil; also called gravity water. |
| Freeway | n | A road designed for safe high-speed motoring. |
| Freewheel | vb | Of a cycle to ride a bike without pedaling, as downhill. 2. of a motorist to operate a vehicle which is coasting woithut power, as downhill. 3. by extension- to free from constraints. |
| Free-will | n | A person's natural inclination, unforced choice. 2. the ability to choose one's actions, or determine what reasons one acceptable motivation for actions, without predestination, fate. |
| Free-willer | n | A contemptous term for one who believes in the doctrine of free will. |
| Free world | n | A Cold War era propaganda word for the non-communist countries. |
| Free writing | n | Free writing is a prewriting technique in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling, grammar, or topic. It produces raw, often unusable material, but helps writers overcome blocks of apathy and self-criticism. It is used mainly by prose writers and writing teachers. Some writers use the technique to collect initial thoughts and ideas on a topic, often as a preliminary to formal writing. |
| Freeze | n | A period of intensely cold weather. 2. a halt of a regular operation. 3.(computing) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs. 4. a precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out. 5. specifically, in finance: block on pay. |
| Freeze | vb | Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. 2. to lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. 3. to drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. 4. to be affected by extreme cold. 5. to become motionless. 6.(fig.) to lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize. 7. to cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill. 8. to prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets. 9. to become solid: solidify; become solid due to low temperature. |
| Freeze | phr | "Deep Freeze"- a weather pattern consisting of snow and ice. |
| Freeze | phr | "Freeze Dry" - to remove volatile liquid from a substance by sublimation (normally under vacuum) |
| Freeze | phr | "Freeze Off" - keep at a distance by being too unfriendly or remote; drive away. |
| Freeze | phr | "Freeze On to" - hold on to tightly. |
| Freeze | phr | "Freeze Out" - socially to forcibly remove or exclude. 2. prevent from doing business by boycotting goods etc, exclude from society by unfriendly behavior. 3. forcibly remove or freeze some out physically and/or emotionally. |
| Freeze | phr | "Freeze Over" - to freeze or become covered by ice on the surface. 2. (fig.) to become emotional blank and icy |
| Freeze | phr | "Freeze to Death" - die through exposure to extreme cold. |
| Freeze | phr | "Freeze Up" - to come to a sudden halt. 2. to become cold and formal in demeanor. 2. a section of a fridge used to store and other perishable items. |
| Freeze-dry | vb | Freeze and dry by the sublimation of ice in a high vacuum. |
| Freeze-frame | n | A device whereby the action on film appears to freeze into a still; accomplished by printing one frame a number of times. ' |
| Freezer | n | An appliance, refrigerator, or room (cooler) used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0 Celsius (32 F). |
| Freeze-up | n | A period of extreme cold, with ice and snow. |
| Freezing | n | The change in the state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature. 2. the action of numbing with anesthetics. |
| Freezing | adj | (Lit.) suffering or causing frost. 2. by extension - chiefly hyperbolic, very cold, icy, ice-cold. |
| Freezingly | adv | In a way that is freezing. 2. with intense cold. 3. (fig.) - with intense emotional coldness; dispassionately. |
| Freezingness | n | The state or condition of being freezing. |
| Freezing works | n | A place where animals are slaughtered and the carcasses are frozen for export. |
| Freezy | adj | Chilled almost to freezing. |
| Fremd | n | Foreigner, stranger, enemy. |
| Fremd | adj | Foreign, strange. 2. wild, not tame. 3. unfriendly. 4. not related, not sib or kin. |
| French | n | A Romance language spoken primarily in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec and former French colonies around the world. 2. the French people collectively |
| French | adj | Relating or pertaining to France and the French language. |
| French kiss | n | A kiss where one person inserts their tongue in other mouth. |
| French kiss | vb | To kiss a person while inserting one's tongue in his or her mouth. |
| French-leave | n | A sudden and unannounced departure. 2. leave taken without permission. |
| French-like | adj | Resembling the French in their customs, language. |
| French-window | n | An outside door with glass panes, serving as window or door. |
| Fresh | adj | Sweet, fresh, tasteless. 2. newly produced or obtained. 2. not cooked, dried, frozen, not from storage, or spoiled. 3. (of plant material) still green and not dried. 4. refreshing or cool. 5.(of water) without salt; not saline. 6. rested; not tired or fatigued. 7. in a raw or untried state; inexperienced, uncultured. 8.youthful; florid. 9. rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward. 10. sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious |
| Fresh | n | A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood. 2. a stream or spring of fresh water. 3. the mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea. |
| Fresh | phr | "Fresh as a Daisy" - very fresh |
| Fresh | phr | "Fresh off the Boat" - a derogatory term for a newly arrived person from a foreign place, esp. an immigrant who is still unfamiliar in the customs and language of his or her environment. |
| Fresh | phr | "Make a Fresh Start" - make a second or subsequent, attempt to do in which former materials or arrangements are discarded or adapted. |
| Fresh-blood | n | Newly joined members of some organization. |
| Freshen | vb | To become fresh. 2. to make fresh. 3. of a cow- to begin or resume giving milk, esp. after calving. 4. to make less salty. 5. to separate, as water, from saline ingredients. 5. to refresh, revive. 6. to top up a drink. |
| Freshen | phr | "Freshen Up" - wash, shave to feel freshen after a long journey. |
| Freshener | n | Something that freshens |
| Fresher | n | A fresh breeze. |
| Freshening | adj | The act by which something is freshened. |
| Freshers' week | n | The week before the academic year of a university begins, usually a time of partying by the students |
| Freshing | n | Newly obtained or obtained fresh footprints. |
| Freshling | n | Freshly grown. 2. an inexperienced person; a neophyte. |
| Freshly | adv | Recently, newly. 2. in a rude or imperfect manner. |
| Freshman | n | Tyro, raw recruit, newcomer. 2. a novice, one in the rudiments of knowledge. 3. a person of either sex entering the first year of a institution, esp. a university. |
| Freshman-ship | n | The state or condition of being a freshman. 2. the time or period during which one is a freshman. 3. the personality and characteristics of a freshman. |
| Fresh meat | n | A person or group of person who arouses one's interest on interest, either as a new target for deception, humiliation or ridicule;; or as a potential love interest or one night stand. 2. any newcomer. |
| Freshness | adj | State or quality of being fresh. |
| Fresh-new | adj | Unpracticed. |
| Fresh-run | n | A fish,esp. a salmon, that runs up a river from the sea. |
| Freshwater | n | A body of freshwater, as opposed to seawater. 2. naturally occurring water on the earth's surface in ice sleets, glaciers, icebers, onds, lakes, rivers, streams and underground streams. It is generally characterized by low concentrations of dissolved salts and other totally dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. It is also known as 'sweet water'. |
| Freshwater | adj | Living in freshwater. 2. unskilled of a seaman. |
| Freshwater flea | n | Daphnia. |
| Fresh-watered | adj | Unskilled, raw. |
| Fret | vb | (Obsolete/poetic) To devour, consume; eat. 2. to gnaw, consume, eat away. 3. to be worn away; to chafe; to fray. 4. to chafe or irritate; to worry. 5. to worry or be anxious. 6. to be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions. 7. to make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple. to fret the surface of water 8. to be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle. 9.(music) To press down the string behind a fret. |
| Fret | phr | "To Fret the Heart" - to be gnaw or vexed by constant worry and regret. |
| Fretful | adj | Full of worry, regret, discontent and anxiety. |
| Fretfully | adv | In a fretful manner. |
| Fretfulness | n | The quality or sate of being full of worry or regret, anxiety, discontent. |
| Fretless | adj | Describing a string instrument that does not have frets. |
| Fretman | n | A guitar player, esp. one have plays acoustic guitar. |
| Fretted | adj | Decorated with fretwork. 2. irritate, peeved, annoyed. |
| Fretter | n | One who worries or distresses themselves by constant regret. |
| Fretting | n | The action or condition of being vexed, worried and distressed. |
| Fretty | adj | Heraldry covered with narrow bands interlacing saltirewise. 2. fretful, irritable, peevish. |
| Fretwork | n | Ornamental designed in wood, typically open work done with a fretsaw. |
| Fretworked | adj | Decorated with fretwork. |
| Friday | n | The fifth day of the week. |
| Friday | phr | "Black Friday" - a Friday falling on the 13th day of the month, and therefore doubly ill of omen. 2. any Friday darkened by catastrophe. 3. an anniversary of a number of catastrophes or unfortunate historical events originally occurring on a Friday. |
| Friday | phr | "Good Friday" - the Friday before Easter Sunday, believed by Christians to be the day Jesus Christ was crucified. |
| Friday | phr | "He who Laughs on Friday Will Weep on Sunday" - sorrow follows in the wake of joy. |
| Friday | phr | "Friday the Thirteenth" - a conjunction of day and date thought to be unlucky and likely to be avoided by superstitious persons when arranging or doing something. |
| Friday | phr | "Long Friday" - good Friday was so called by the Saxons, probably because of the long fasts associated with that day. |
| Friday | n | "Man Friday" - general assistant or mate. |
| Friend | n | A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. 2. a boyfriend, girlfriend, lover. 3. an associate who provides assistance; an ally. 4. a person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted, an acquaintance. 5. person who backs or supports something; (person who backs something): admirer, booster, champion, protagonist, supporter. 6.(informal) an object or idea that can be used for good. 7.(colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative). 8.(computing, programming) in object-oriented programming, a function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class. 9. (obsolete) a paramour of either sex, a lover. 10. (person whose company one enjoys): buddy, chum, mate, pal, crony, amigo, bro. |
| Friend | vb | To act as a friend. 2. to befriend, to be friendly, to help. 2. to add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site. 3. to officially designate someone as a friend. |
| Friend | phr | "Friend in Need, Friend in Indeed" - a friend who helps one when one needs help (as a true friend). 2. a dependable friend. |
| Friend | phr | "Friend of Man' - the dog. |
| Friend | phr | "Friend of Mine" - ('instead of ours') - refers only to a personal friend who may not be a member of another (Mafia family), but who none of the ties 'ours' implies. |
| Friend | phr | "Friend of Ours" - in the US Mafia a member of one of the US families. |
| Friend | phr | "Friend or Foe" - allies and/or enemies. |
| Friend | phr | "Friends of the Earth" - an organization found in Great Britain to campaign for the protection of he environment. |
| Friend | phr | "Keep Friends with" - remain friendly with. |
| Friend | phr | "Make Friends With" - to be friendly to others; become closely acquainted with. |
| Friend | phr | "My Learned Friend" - usedby a lawyer in court to refer to another lawyer. |
| Friend | phr | "Our Dumb Friends" - animals; our pets. |
| Friend | phr | "Your Friend and Mine" - somebody we both know and like. |
| Friending | n | The act of adding someone to a list of 'friends' on a social networking service. The notion does not necessarily involve the concept of friendship. |
| Friendish | adj | Like or relating to a friend. |
| Friendless | adj | Destitute of friends. 2. devoid of friendship. |
| Friendleesly | adv | Without a friend; in a friendless manner. |
| Friendlessness | n | The quality of being friendly. 2. affability. 3. geniality. 4. pleasantry. |
| Friendlike | n | Resembling or characteristic of friendship. |
| Friendlily | adv | In a friendly manner. 2. like a friend, warmly, cordially, kindly. |
| Friendliness | n | Without or devoid of friends. |
| Friendly | adj | Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character. 2. inviting, characteristic of friendliness. 3. having an easy relationship with something, as in user-friendly etc. 4. without any hostility. 5. promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious. 6.(military) of or pertaining to friendlies. |
| Friendly | adv | Amicably, affectionately, genially, kindly, cordially. |
| Friendly-fire | n | Weapons fire from (allied or friendly)forces, as opposed to fire coming from foes or enemy forces or fire. 2. firing by ones own side aimed, unwittingly, at one's own troops. |
| Friendly-ice | n | (military) - the polar ice cap or canopy is 'friendly' when it offers good 'skylights' for a submarine to surface occasionally. ('Unfriendly Ice': when the ice seals the icecap completely) |
| Friendly-match | n | An exhibition game (of football, soccer, tennis, basketball, etc.)often for promotion purposes. |
| Friendness | n | A comfortable and pleasant atmosphere of generosity and tenderness. |
| Friendrede | n | Friendship. |
| Friends | n | The Quakers or 'Society of Friends" |
| Friendship | n | The condition of being a friend. 2. a friendly relationship or relationship as friends. 3. goodwill. |
| Friendship bench | n | A special place in a school play-yard where a pupil can go when they want to talk to someone; a buddy bench. |
| Friendshipless | adj | Devoid of friendship. |
| Friendship-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of friendship. |
| Friendworthy | adj | trustworthy, friendly, reliable. 2. worthy, capable of deserving of friendship; suitable as friend. |
| Friendy | adj | Friendly. |
| Fright | n | A state of terror, excited by the sudden appearance of danger or violent fear. 2. anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing alarm or aversion. |
| Fright | vb | To frighten (archaic). |
| Fright | phr | "Take Fright" - be frightened. |
| Frighten | vb | To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright. 2. to affright, to terrify. |
| Frighten | phr | "Frighten Away" - frighten, thus causing to stay away or go away. 2. frighten off. |
| Frighten | phr | "Frighten Hell Out off" - to alarm a person. |
| Frighten | phr | "Frighten Into" - cause someone to do something out of fear, by means of threats or terror. |
| Frighten | phr | "Frighten Out of One's Wits" - panic stricken. |
| Frighten | phr | "Frighten the Horses" - to scare people off by one ill-considered tactics. |
| Frighten | phr | "Frighten to Death" - frighten very severely. |
| Frightener | n | A person or thing that frightens someone. 2. a member of a criminal gang who intimidates its victims. |
| Frightening | adj | Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary. 2. (fig.) very bad, awful, terrible. |
| Frighteningly | adv | In a way that makes you feel afraid or nervous. 2. used as emphasizer. 3. what are you saying. |
| Frightful | adj | Full of fright, affrighted, frightened. 2. full of thet which causes fright, excites alarm, impresses terror. 2. shocking, dreadful, awful, horrible etc. |
| Frightfully | adv | In a frightful manner. 2. as one who emphasizes: very, extremely frightful. |
| Frightfulness | n | The quality of being frightful, as causing fright, exciting alarm, terrifying, shocking. |
| Frightihead | n | Frightihood, fright, fear (obs). |
| Frightless | adj | Free from fright, fearless. |
| Frightsome | adj | Frightening, frightful, fearful, causing fear. |
| Frighty | adj | Afraid. |
| Frim | adj | Vigorous, flourishing, plump. 2. abundant in sap, juicy, abundant. 3. soluble, fusible. |
| Frith | n | Peace, security, protection from harm. 2. a reserve or park for deer or other animals |
| Frith | n | A wood, wood country, tract, region. 2. an area of land covered with sparse vegetation. 3. pasture unused. 4. brushwood, undergrowth. 4. a hedge; a hurdle |
| Frithborgh | n | Frankpledge? |
| Frithsoken | n | A palace of safety, asylum, a sanctuary. |
| Frithstool | n | A sanctuary. 2. a seat, usually stone, formerly found in some churches offering sanctuary. |
| Frog | n | A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops. 2. the part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player. 3.(cockney rhyming slang) road. -from (frog and toad). 4. the depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick. 5. an organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood. 6. the part of a railway switch or turnout where the running-rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof) 7. an oblong cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole. 8. the loop of the scabbard of a bayonet or sword. |
| Frog | vb | To hunt or trap frogs. |
| Frog | phr | "Frog and Toad" - Australian rhyming slang for 'road' |
| Frog | phr | "Frog in One's Throat"- to be hoarse. |
| Frog | phr | "Leap Frog Something" - to overtake something,with the likelihood of in turn being overtaken. |
| Frog-eater | n | One who eats frogs; a vulgar term for someone french. |
| Frogginess | n | The state or quality of being like a frog. |
| Froggish | adj | Some or rather like or resembling a frog. |
| Froggy | n | A jocular name for a frog. 2. a somewhat rude or racially-discriminating name for a Frenchman (they eat frogs) |
| Froggy | adj | Having or full with frogs. |
| Frogland | n | An area where frogs are found in abundant. 2. France (vulgar and slang). |
| Froglike | adj | Resembling a frog in some aspect. |
| Frogman | n | A diver, esp. one in a diving suit (as opposed to scuba gear). |
| Frogwort | n | The plant Ranunculus bulbous. |
| From | adj | OE: bold, firm, resolute. |
| From | prp | With the source or provenance of or at; as 'this cheese comes from France' 2. with the origin, starting point or initial reference of or at. 3. with the separation, exclusion or differentiation of. |
| From | phr | "From a Child" - from the time one was a child. etc; since a childhood. |
| From | phr | "From Afar" - from a distance; from far off; from a long way off. |
| From | phr | "From Amidst" - a static condition denoting among. |
| From | phr | "From Beginning To End" - throughout; from start to finish. |
| From | phr | "From Can See, to Can't See" - from the time when it is barely light, until there is no light remaining from sunup to sundown. |
| From | phr | "From Cradle to the Grave" - in every stage of life; from birth to death. |
| From | phr | "From Day to Day" - daily; as the days pass. |
| From | phr | From Dawn to Dusk" - all day, all the time (esp. with reference to a repeated pattern of work, mode of living, etc.) |
| From | phr | "From Door to Door" - going from (the door of) one house to another, with a specific purpose in mind, such as a charity drive or survey. |
| From | phr | "From Head to Foot" - over the whole length of one's body. 2. every part of one's being, nature, character. |
| From | phr | "From Head to Heels" - from top to toes. |
| From | phr | "From Hell" - exceptionally bad or unpleasant. |
| From | phr | "From Here to Sunday" - everywhere, all over the place. |
| From | phr | "From My Cold, Dead Hand" - a statement that one will not allow something (most often a firearm or other weapon) to be taken away from one's possession until after one's death. A variant, from my cold dead fingers, is most often used in the US by gun rights advocates. |
| From | phr | "From Now On" - from now etc into the future. |
| From | phr | "From Oneself" - beside oneself; out of one's wits. |
| From | phr | "From One Week's End to Another" - continuously over a long period of time. |
| From | phr | "From On High" - from heaven, or above. |
| From | phr | "From Side to Side" - repeatedly, wavering. 2. not in a straight way, not straightly. |
| From | phr | "From that Day to This" - from then to now. |
| From | phr | "From the Bottom Of One's Heart" - with sincerity; with genuinely felt emotion. |
| From | phr | "From the Cradle to the Grave" - in every stage of life. 2. from birth to death. |
| From | phr | "From the Get-go" - from the beginning or start. |
| From | phr | "From the Ground Up" - from the beginning, starting with basics, foundation or fundamentals |
| From | phr | "From the Start" - at a time when something started, or has started, and ever since; from the word go. 2. from the beginning. 3. from the first; from the outset. |
| From | phr | "From the Word 'Go' - as soon as possible, or has been possible (right) from the start. |
| From | phr | "From Time to Time" - occasionally; at irregular intervals, every now and again. |
| From | phr | "From Top to Bottom" - throughout something. |
| From | phr | "From Where One is Standing" - (as seen or judged) from one's physical intellectual or position or situation. |
| From | phr | "From Year to Year" - each year, as the years pass. |
| Fromwards | adj | Turned from or away. |
| Fromwards | adv | In a direction which leads from or is turned from, as a given place or object. |
| Fromwards | prp | Away from. |
| Frory | adj | Frozen, cold, chilly; sad, mournful. 2. covered with a froth resembling frost. |
| Frost | n | A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing. 2. the cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form. 3.(figuratively) coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character. 4.(obsolete) the act of freezing; the congealing of water or other liquid. |
| Frost | vb | To get covered with frost. 2. to coat something (such as a cake) with icing to resembling frost. 3. to anger or annoy. |
| Frost | phr | "Frost Over" - become covered with frost; frosted over. |
| Frost | phr | "Frost Up" - to be come cold and chilly. |
| Frost-bite | n | Freezing or the effect of freezing, of some part of the body. |
| Frost-bitten | adj | Affected by frost-bite. |
| Frost-dew | n | Hoarfrost, rime. 2. frozen dew drops |
| Frosted | adj | Having frost present. 2. appearing to have frost. 3. (slang)- intoxicated. |
| Frostily | adv | In a chilling or cold manner or way. |
| Frostiness | n | The quality of being frosty. |
| Frosting | n | A sugary coating for cakes and other baked goods. 2. a layer of frost. 3. the theft of a car when it is left unattended, esp. when it's engine is left running to defrost the car. |
| Frostinglike | adj | Resembling or characteristic . |
| Frostless | adj | Not having or without frost. |
| Frostlike | adj | Resembling or like frost in some aspect. |
| Frostily | adv | In a frosty, cold, chilling way or manner. |
| Frostiness | n | The state or condition of being frosty. |
| Frost itch | n | A complaint affecting certain people only in winter and in dry climates, and a form of pruritis; also called 'winter itch'. |
| Frost-smoke | n | A thick mist in certain latitudes, rising up the frozen sea's surface. |
| Frostwork | n | The patterns made by frost on various surfaces, such as glass or metal. |
| Frostwort | n | The plant Helianthenum canadense - so named for in the fall, ice in crystal stick out from it roots. |
| Frosty | adj | Cold, chilly, at freezing point. 2. having on it frost or covered by frost. 3. having an aloof, unfeeling or unfriendly manner. 4. of the hair colour: whitish or hoary. 5. of age: old or advancing. 6. glistening white or whitish in hue |
| Frover | vb | OE: consolation, joy, help, benefit. 2. to comfort, give solace. |
| Frozen | adj | Incapable of being changed or moved or undone. 2. not convertible to cash "frozen assets" 3. (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value "frozen foods". 4. turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold. 5. devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain. 6. reception","a frozen look on their faces","icy stare","wintry smile" 7. not thawed. 8. absolutely still. |
| Frozen | phr | "Frozen Over" - covered with ice. |
| Fozen | phr | "From Stiff" - extremely cold or numb with cold. 2. rigid because liquid content has turned to ice. |
| Frozen | phr | "Frozen to the Marrow" - chilled inside as well as outside. |
| Frozen-food | n | Food preserved by freezing from the time it is prepared to the time it is eaten. |
| Frozenly | adv | In a chillingly manner or way. |
| Frozenness | n | State or condition of being frozen. |
| Frozen shoulder | n | A chronic painful stiffness of the shoulder joint. |
| Frozen sleep | n | A form of therapy that consists in putting the patient to sleep and lowering the body temperature to from 90F degrees to 70F degrees. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Ful | sfx | Possessing the qualities of eg. in manful. 2. quantity that fills or would fill (a receptacle). |
| Fulfill | phr | "Fulfill a Long-felt Want" - fulfill a big gap; esp., to invent or create something, much needed. |
| Fulfill | vb | To achieve any set of goals. 2. put in effect; carry out a task; accomplish, carry out, carry through, fulfills, action, execute. 3. fulfill the requirements or expectations of; live up to, satisfy, fulfills. 4. fill or meet a want or need, satisfy, meet, fill. |
| Fulfiller | n | One who fulfills achieves, carry out tasks, meets goals, executes , meets requirements, lives up to, etc. |
| Full | adj | Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; - said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; provided; sufficient in quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal. 3. not wanting in any essential quality; complete; entire; perfect; adequate; as, a person of full age; a full stop; the full moon. 4. sated; surfeited. 5. having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information. 6. having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it. Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak. 7. filled with emotions. 8. impregnated; made pregnant. |
| Full | vb | To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight.
2. to thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill. 3. to become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well |
| Full | phr | "A Full House" - a cinema, theatre, concert hall that is full. 2. in poker a winning hand. |
| Full | phr | "A Full Man" - one rich in mind and knowledge. |
| Full | phr | "At Full Length" - lying stretched out. 2. without abridgement. |
| Full | phr | "At Full Speed" - at maximum speed. |
| Full | phr | "At the Full" - fully, completed, at the position, height or moment of fullness; in the state of fullness. 2. at full: when full or complete. |
| Full | phr | "Be Full of Oneself" - be boastful, conceited. 2. self-confident (often selfishly so). |
| Full | phr | "Be in Full Swing" - be very active. |
| Full | phr | "Come to a Full Stop" - completely cease activity. |
| Full | phr | "Full and by" - (nautical) sailing close hauled, having all the sails full, and lying as near the wind as possible. |
| Full | phr | "Full Bore Ahead" - proceed, go forward at maximum speed. |
| Full | phr | "Full of Beans" - full of health, good spirits and energy. 2. to be very cheerful. |
| Full | phr | "Full of It" - a form of the oath: 'full of shit' characterized by speaking nonsense. |
| Full | phr | "Full of Life" - lively, animated, active, interested. |
| Full | phr | "Full On" - all out. 2. out and out; overwhelmingly. |
| Full | phr | "Full Out" - with maximum effort. 2 |
| Full | phr | "Full Steam/Speed Ahead" - going as fast as possible. 2. with as much sped and vigor as possible. |
| Fill | phr | "Full Stop" - without further qualification; and that is all, and I have no more to add. |
| Full | phr | "Full Up" - filled to capacity; unable to hold anymore (people, things, etc.) 2. unable to eat anymore (due to already eating a lot, etc. |
| Full | phr | "Full Well" - see "Know Full Well" |
| Full | phr | "Fully Stretched" - extended to the limits of one's capacities or talents. |
| Full | phr | "Fully well" - very well. |
| Full | phr | "Get Full Marks for Something" - deserve praise for something. |
| Full | phr | "Have a Full House" - full; no more room or seats available. |
| Full | phr | "Have One's Hand's Full" - be fully occupied. |
| Full | phr | "In Full" - completely. |
| Full | phr | "In Full Flood" - progressing or talking vigorously or enthusiastically. 2. a flood tide. 3. an overflowing of water on the land that is normally dry. 4. a large amount or number, esp. when moving fom one place to another. |
| Full | phr | "In Full Swing" - going splendidly; everything prosperous and in good order. 2. very actively. |
| Full | phr | "I've Had a Belly Full' - I had enough of this. |
| Full | phr | "In the Full" - at full length, in extension, to the full amount. |
| Full | phr | "In the Fullness of Time" - eventually. |
| Full | phr | "Know Full Well" - definitely know. |
| Full | phr | "The Full of the Moon" - the period or state of complete illumination of the moon. |
| Full | phr | "To the Full" - to the utmost extent, completely, fully. |
| Full | phr | "Fully Stretched" - extended to the limits of one's capacity or talents. |
| Full adder | n | In electronics, a specific logical circuit that performs an addition operation of three bits. |
| Full-armed | adj | Having one's arms full of articles, items, things etc. |
| Full band | n | (Mus.) a band in which all the instruments are employed. |
| Full-beam | n | The Black Alder, Alnus nigra, Rhamnus frangula. 2. the brightest set of headlights. |
| Full-bearded | adj | Having a full growth of beard. |
| Full-blithe | adj | Very joyous, extremely glad. |
| Full-blood | n | Of a brother and sister: having the same birth parents. |
| Full-blooded | adj | Of pure or unmixed racial origins. 2. vigorous. |
| Full-bloodiness | n | The state or condition of being full-blooded. |
| Full-blossomed | adj | In full bloom. 2. like a perfect blossom. |
| Full-blown | adj | In full bloom. 2. fully developed, complete; (of flowers): quite opened. |
| Full board | n | Provision of accommodation and all meals at a boarding house or hotel. |
| Full-bodied | adj | Marked by richness or fullness of flavor. 2. robust, rich in quality in tone. |
| Full-bottomed | adj | A kind of wig full and large at the bottom. |
| Full-breakfast | n | A breakfast including cooked ingredients such as sausages. |
| Fullbring | vb | To accomplish. bring about completely, finish, complete, achieve. |
| Full-brother | n | Having the same mother and father. 2. a brother or sister having the same parents as another. |
| Full-chested | adj | |
| Fullcome | vb | To finish, perfect. |
| Fulldo | vb | To accomplish, fulfill, complete. |
| Fulled | vb | To make cloth thicker denser and thicker. |
| Fullend | n | To end fully, accomplish, complete, fulfill. |
| Fuller | n | One whose occupation is to full cloth. |
| Fuller | vb | To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet. |
| Fuller's earth | n | A variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. |
| Fuller's thistle | n | Dipsacus fullunum |
| Full-fledged | adj | See 'fully fledged' |
| Full flood | adj | The tide at its highest. 2. in phrase: 'in full blood' - speaking volubly. |
| Fullfreme | vb | To accomplish, fulfill, perfect. |
| Full-grown | adj | (Of animals) fully developed. 2. adult, fully grown, grown up, big. |
| Full hand | n | (Poker) three of a kind and a pair. |
| Full-hearted | adj | Full of courage and/or confidence. |
| Full-heartedly | adv | In a manner or way full of courage and/or confidence. |
| Full-heartedness | n | The state or quality of being full of courage and/or confidence. |
| Full-hot | adj | Very fiery. |
| Full-house | n | A situation in which the maximum capacity of a place (cinema, stadium) is filled with people. 2. a poker hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair. |
| Fulling | n | To baptize (from O.E. fulwen). 2. to make cloth dense and firmer. |
| Fulling mill | n | A watermill used for fulling cloth. |
| Fullish | adj | Somewhat full; reasonably or quite full. |
| Full-leaved | adj | Having a full covering or canopy of leaves or foliage. |
| Full-length | adj | Accommodating the full height of the human figure. 2. representing the full height of the human figure. 3. complete, uncut. |
| Fullmade | adj | Complete; fully made; perfected. |
| Full-manned | adj | Completely furnished with men, as of a ship. |
| Full moon | n | The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when opposite to the sun. 3. the time when the moon is full |
| Full-mouth | n | A person having a 'mouthful' or words. 2. a chatterer, chatter-mouth. |
| Full-mouthed | adj | Chatter-mouthed, loquacious, voluble. 2. full (of food). |
| Full-name | n | The first name, middle names and surname of a person. |
| Fullness | n | The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness.
2. completeness over a broad scope; comprehensiveness. 3. the property of a sound that has a rich and pleasing timbre mellowness, richness. 4. the condition of being filled to capacity. 5. greatness of volume; voluminousness. |
| Fullness | phr | "Fullness of Heart" - emotion, genuine feelings. |
| Fullness | phr | "Fullness of Time" - the appropriate or destined time. |
| Full-of-the-moon | adj | The time when the moon is fully illuminated. 2. the full phase of the moon; full moon. |
| Full-on | adj | All-out. 2 out-and-out. 3. overwhelmingly. |
| Full-on | adv | Totally, with full commitment. |
| Fullought | n | (OE: full & wiht (holy) :baptism. |
| Full-out | adj | With maximum effort. |
| Full score | n | A score giving the parts for all performers on separate staves. |
| Full-shouldered | adj | Having a fully developed upper-body and shoulders. |
| Full sister | n | A sister born of the same parents. |
| Full stop | n | A punctuation mark indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation. 2. a dot, a point, a period. |
| Full stop | intj | Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking, as 'people need to take more care when speaking, full stop! |
| Full-strength | adj | Of total strength in various senses. 2. without water, undiluted, neat, straight. |
| Full-throated | adj | Using all power of one's voice. 2. spoken loudly with vigor. |
| Full time | n | The ful amount of hours usually worked in doing a day or week, in distinction to part-time work. 2. the end of a game of soccer, rugby or Australian football. |
| Full-time | adj | For the entire or full amount of time spent on an activity; especially a job. 2. opposite of part time. 3. for the standard number of hours. |
| Full time | adv | Spending a full amount of time. |
| Full-timer | n | One who works full time. |
| Full-width | adj | The total width of something, a road, pathway,etc. 2. (computing, typography, of certain characters) occupying two columns on a traditional text display such as Chinese, Korean, or Japanese characters as opposed to half-width occupying only one column such as alphanumeric letters. |
| Fullwite | n | A full or complete fine or penalty; full-wite. |
| Fully | adv | A full manner or degree; completely, entirely, without lack or defect, adequate, satisfactory; sufficiently. 2. of quantity: fully or in full. |
| Fully | phr | "Fully Stretched" - extended to the limits of one's capacity or talents. |
| Fully-fledged | adj | Of a bird: having all its feathers; able to fly. 2. having full quality, credentials or preparation; entirely, real. 3. having reached full development; mature. |
| Fully-loaded | adj | With all features and options. |
| Fulsome | adj | Full, abundant, plentiful, plump. 2. lustful, wanton, wanton, obscene. 3. offensive from excess of praise, overdone of affection. 4. nauseous, offensive, disgusting. 5. causing surfeit, cloying. |
| Fulsomely | adv | In an unctuous manner, smarmily, unctuously. |
| Fulsomeness | n | Excessive but superficial compliments with affected charm. 2, smug; self-serving earnestness. |
| Fulth | n | Fullness, abundance, plenty. 2. sufficiency, repletion, satiety. 3. full growth, perfection. |
| Fultrum | adj | Very strong, firm. |
| Furlong | n | A unit of length (220 yards) or 1/2 mile (202 m approx) used in horse racing. |
| Furlong | phr | "A Furlong Way" - not far, close by, short of distance. |
| Furrow | n | A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow. 2. any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age. |
| Furrow | vb | To draw a straight furrow. 2. to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty. 3. to cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea. 4. to mark with channels or with wrinkles |
| Furrowed | adj | To mark with channels or with wrinkles. |
| Furrow weed | n | A weed which grows on plowed land. |
| Furrowing | n | The act of making furrows. |
| Furrow-less | adj | Lacking, without or devoid of furrows. |
| Furrow-like | adj | Resembling or like a furrow, in various aspect. |
| Furrowy | adj | Somewhat or rather like a furrow. |
| Further | adj | Existing or coming by way of addition; additional, more. 2. more distant in especially degree; farther. |
| Further | adv | To or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense). 2. in addition or furthermore. 3. to or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther' is used more frequently than `further' in this physi |
| Further | vb | Promote the growth of; foster. 2. contribute to the progress or growth of; encourage, promote, boost, advance. |
| Further | phr | "Be Further Down the Line" - have a low priority. |
| Further | phr | "Without further Ado" - without any fuss; or delay, immediately. |
| Furthermore | adv | In addition; besides (used to introduce a fresh consideration in an argument) 2. moreover, further, also additionally besides on top of that, by the same token, into the bargain. |
| Furthermost | adj | (of an edge or extreme) at the greatest distance from a central poit or implicit standpoint. |
| Furthersome | adj | Tending to further or advance; promotive, helpful. |
| Furthest | adj | Situated at the greatest distance from a specified or understood point. 2. farthest, furthermost, farthermost. |
| Furthest | adv | To the greatest degree or extent, or to the most distinct point in time or space. |
| Further | phr | "At the Furthest" - at the greatest distance; at the latest; at most. |
| Furze | n | Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe. gorse, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whin. genus Ulex, Ulex - genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorse. bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems. |
| Furze-pig | n | A hedgehog. |
| Furzy | adj | Resembling or characteristic of furze, in some aspect. |
| Futhorc | n | The Runic alphabet is also known as Futhark, a name composed from the first six letters of the alphabet, namely f, u, th, a, r, and k. In this way, "Futhark" is analogous to the word "alphabet", which is from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. And why were the letters ordered in such a way. Nobody knows the answer, but it might been some form of memory-aid function that was not preserved. The first Runic inscriptions that have survived to the modern day dated from around 200 CE. The alphabet consists of 24 letters, 18 consonants and 6 vowels |
| Old English | sp | English |
| G | n | The letter "G" |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Fyrd | n | A fyrd (Old English pronunciation: [ˈfyrd]) was a type of early Anglo-Saxon army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from selected representatives to join a royal expedition. Service in the fyrd was usually of short duration and participants were expected to provide their own arms and provisions. The composition of the fyrd evolved over the years, particularly as a reaction to raids and invasions by the Vikings. |
| Fyrdcraft | n. | The art of warefare. 2. an expedition by an army. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Gad | n | Idle wandering or adventure |
| Gad | vb | Go about idly or in search of pleasure. |
| Gad | phr | "On the Gad" - idle wandering. |
| Gadling | n | Companion (in-arms). 2. vagabond, an idle wanderer, base or low fellow |
| Gain | prp | OE. geán against, over against, on the opposite side; contrary. |
| Gain | OE: again, once more, anew: regeneration. | |
| Gainbirth | n. | (OE: again, once more, anew: regeneration. |
| Gainbite | n. | Remorse; biteback. |
| Gainbuy | n. | Redeem, buyback |
| Gaingiving | n. | A giving in return, making a return; a giving back. |
| Gainchare | n. | A return, a coming again, way of returning, means of escape |
| Gaincharing | n | The act or action of returning, coming again. |
| Gainrising | n | Resurrection, restoration, return to a previous state. |
| Gain-saw | n. | Contradiction |
| Gainsay | n | Instance or action of gainsaying, say in opposition. |
| Gainsay | vb | To say against, say in opposition to. 2. to contradict, to withsay: to deny, to refute, to controvert, to dispute. |
| Gainsayer | n | One who contradicts or denies what is alleged; an opposer. 2. a person who gainsays others; a disagreeable person. |
| Gainsaying | n | Opposition, esp. in speech. 2. refusal to accept or believe something. 3. contradicting. 4. denial, denying. 5. rebellion, opposition. |
| Gainsayingness | n | The quality or state of gainsaying. |
| Gainset | vb | To set over, oppose, place against. |
| Gainspeak | vb | Speak against, gainsay |
| Gainstand | vb | To stand against, oppose, resist, withstand |
| Gainstander | n | Opposition, opponent. |
| Gainstanding | n | The act or an instance of opposing. |
| Gainy | adj | Profitable, advantageous.?????? |
| Gainyield | n | Recompense, return, reward. |
| Gair | n | Isolated strip of tender grass; seeGore as is Kensington Gore |
| Galder | n | Charm, incantation, song. |
| Gale | n | The plant "Bog Myrtle" |
| Gale | n | Song |
| Gale | vb | Old English galan; agalan: sing, enchant, call, cry, scream; sing charms, practice incantation; also Old Norse),sing, enchant, call. |
| Gall | n | Secretion of the liver, bile. 2. virulence & rancor, asperity, bitterness of spirit, impudent. 3. poison, venom. |
| Gall | n | Sore on a horse. 2. painful swelling, blister wound by chafing. |
| Gall | vb | To harass in warfare, esp. by weaponry. |
| Gall | phr | "Bitter as Gall" - very bitter. |
| Gall | phr | "Break One's Gall" - to break one's spirit. |
| Gall | phr | "Dip One's Nib in Gall": vitriol, virulence, and rancour in writing |
| Gall | phr | "Gall and Wormwood" - reason or source for much bitterness, rancour and asperity of spirit. 2. something felt or remembered (by somebody) as a painful, or humiliating experience. |
| Gall | phr | "Gall At" - to scoff at |
| Gall | phr | "Gall of" - to rub or remove by chaffing. |
| Gall | phr | "Gall of Bitterness" - the bitterest grief; extreme affliction. 2. the bitter centreof bitterness. The ancients taught that grief an joy were subject to the gall of affection was to the heart , and knowledge to the kidneys. |
| Gall | phr | "Have the Gall to" - have the cheek or impudence to. |
| Gall | phr | "Hit On One's Gall" - to touch a person in a tender place or sore point. |
| Gall-apple | n | The oak-apple. |
| Gall-bladder | n | A membranous sac attached to the liver in which bile is stored. |
| Gallingly | adv | In a cheeky or impudent manner. |
| Gallish | adj | Bilious, somewhat bitter, tasting a little like gall. |
| Gall-less | adj | Bitterless, free from gall. |
| Gallow | n | Fright, fear, terror. |
| Gallow | vb | To hang. |
| Gallow | phr | "He That Fears the Gallows, Shall Never Be a Good Thief" - you will never be a successful thief if you can't keep your nerve. |
| Gallow-bird | n | One who deserves hanging. |
| Gallowgrass | n | Hemp |
| Gallows-locks | n | Dank, hanging hair. |
| Gallow-looking | adj | Having a hound-dog look. 2. looking fit for the gallows. |
| Gallowness | n | Mischief, perversity. |
| Gallows | n | Wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging. 2. (colloquial, obsolete) a wretch who deserves to be hanged. 3. (printing, obsolete) the rest for the tympan when raised. 4. (colloquial, obsolete) suspenders; braces |
| Gallowsome | adj | Having the nature of gall. |
| Gallows-ripe | adj | Ready and likely to be hanged. |
| Gallow-tree | n | The gallows. |
| Gall-sickness | n | A term for a several live diseases in humans and animals. |
| Gallsome | adj | Having the nature of gall. |
| Gallstone | n | A small, hard object, in the shape of a pebble, that sometimes forms in the gallbladder or bile duct; composed of cholesterol, bile pigments and calcium salts. |
| Gallwort | n | Toadflax, lesser centaury, galewort, sweetgale; (linaria vulgaris). |
| Gally | adj | Resembling gall in taste; bitter, gall-like. |
| Galp | vb | To boast |
| Galster | n | Magpie or elster |
| Galstre | vb | To make a noise of outcry. |
| Gam | n | OE gemana:fellowship. a herd of whales. 2. an exchange of courtesies between vessels at sea. 3. a social visit between fishermen. |
| Gamble | n | An act of gambling; a transaction or proceeding involving gambling; hence, anything involving similar risk or uncertainty. |
| Gamble | vb | To play or game for money or other stake. 2. to lose or squander by gaming; - usually with away. |
| Gamble | phr | "Gamble Away" - to lose all of something by gambling. |
| Gamble | phr | "Gamble On" - to make a wager on something concerning someone or something. 2. fig. to run a risk by choosing or depending on someone or something. |
| Gambling | n | The act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize.) 2. gaming, play. |
| Gambling | adj | Reoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; dissipated. |
| Gambling-den | n | A place where gamblers go to gamble. |
| Game | n | Amusement, delight, fun, sport, quarry, wild animals, flesh of certain beasts. 2. a collection or pack of wild amimals kept for pleasure, as a 'game of swans. 3. 'the game' - prostitution; amorous sport or play, now esp, sexual intercourse. |
| Game | vb | To play sport, jest, amuse oneself. |
| Game | phr | "A Game That Two Can Play" - unpleasant, or hurtful, behavior or action which can lead to retaliation of the same kind. |
| Game | phr | "At the Top of One's Game" - an informal expression: at the height of one's powers. |
| Game | phr | "Back (or Still) in the Game" - once again active or able to suceed in something. |
| Game | phr | "Beat at Ones Own Game" - compete successfully with somebody in their area of expertise. 2. to outwit a person at his/her own metier. |
| Game | phr | "Be Fair Game" - to be legitimate or a legitimate object of criticism or attack. 2. somebody or something that may be justifiably attacked. |
| Game | phr | "Dirty Game" - activity in which people don't always act in a honest or moral way. |
| Game | phr | "Don't Play Games with Me" - don't insult my intelligence by that line of conduct. |
| Game | phr | "Game and Glee" -amusement, fun and mirth. |
| Game | phr | "Game At" - make fun of. |
| Game | phr | "Game Is Not Worth the Candle" - the profits, results, pleasure gained from doing something are not worth the trouble, or expense, involved |
| Game | phr | "Game of Cat and Mouse" - idiom: an constant action involving pursuit, ner capture and repeated escapes. |
| Game | phr | "Game of Life" - human existence seen as a competitive game. |
| Game | phr | "Game of Snakes and Ladders" - a series of ups and downs. |
| Game | phr | "Game to the End" - continuing to try (even in adversity)until one can continue no more. |
| Game | phr | "Give the Game Away" - inadvertently reveal a secret. 2. to cease involvement with some activity. |
| Game | phr | "Have the Game in One's Hands" - to have such an advantage that success is assured. |
| Game | phr | "I'll Soon Stop His Little Game" - his activities are not tolerated and I will ensure that they will cease. |
| Game | phr | It's Only a Game he/she Plays" - it's an exercise that someone does not take serious. |
| Game | phr | "Know What Someone's Game Is" - know what somebody's (devious) intention is. |
| Game | phr | "Lift Your Game" - do better, make a greater effort. 2. to raise the standard of one's performance. |
| Game | phr | "Losing Game" - an activity which one can't succeed at. |
| Game | phr | "Make a Game of" - to make fun of, jest at, turn into ridicule. |
| Game | phr | "Name of the Game" - crucial, very important factor. |
| Game | phr | "Off One's Game" - playing badly. |
| Game | phr | "Only Game In Town" - the only event worthy of attention. |
| Game | phr | "On (Off) One's Game" - performing at ones best/worse. |
| Game | phr | "On the Game" - to be working and earning money as a sex worker or prostitute. |
| Game | phr | "Play a Deep Game" - secret, devious ploy, show cunning. |
| Game | phr | "Play the Game" - to act so as to secure the advantage or interest. 2. to observe the letter and the spirit of the rules and behave in an honorable way. |
| Game | phr | "Put Somebody Off his/her Game" - distract somebody while playing a game or (activity). |
| Game | phr | "So-and-So is the Name of the Game" - so-and-so is the essential element of the game. |
| Game | phr | "So That's Your (Little) Game" - so that is what your intention is. |
| Game | phr | "Stick to One's Game" - to confine oneself to activities in areas in which one has knowledge and expertise. |
| Game | phr | "The Game's Afoot" the hare has started; the enterprize has begun. |
| Game | phr | "The Game Is (Not) Worth the Candle" - the profits results, results, or pleasures gained from doing something is (not) worth the trouble, or expense, involved |
| Game | phr | "The Game is Up (or over)" - the situation is lost. 2. you have been discovered (committing a crime or deception.) 3. escape is impossible. |
| Game | phr | "The Game of Life" - human existence seen as similar to a competitive game. |
| Game | phr | "The Great Game" - spying. 2. the rivalry between Great Britain and Russia |
| Game | phr | "The Laughing Game" - to be the laughing stock, the one subject to ridicule. |
| Game | phr | "The Only Game in Town" - it's the only game worthy of attention. |
| Game | phr | "The Same Old Game" - the course best suited to one's interest. |
| Game | phr | "Two Can Play At That Game" - one or others can act in a similar way (usu. said as a threat or retaliation for unfair dealing; as a spouse who is having an affair. 2. it is possible to retaliate. |
| Game | phr | "What's His/Her Game?" - what are (you) doing? 2. what is the significance of his/her actions? |
| Game | phr | "What's the Game?" - what going on? |
| Game | phr | "Winning Game" - game in a series that decides the overall results. |
| Game | phr | "You are Making Game of Me" - you are bamboozling me. 2. you areholding me up to ridicule. |
| Gamebird | n | Any kind of bird hunted for food or sport. |
| Gameboard | n | A flat portable surface (usu. rectangular) designed for board gamres. |
| Gamebook | n | A book used for recording game kill in hunting. |
| Gamecraft | n | Skill, knowledge and experience of hunting game-animals. |
| Gamefish | n | A kind of fish caught for sport. |
| Gamefowl | n | A game bird. |
| Gameful | adj | Joyful, playful, sportive, fond of team sports. |
| Gamefully | adv | Playfully, jestingly. |
| Game-gall | n | Satirical retort. (playfully biting). |
| Gaming | n | The act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize.) |
| Gamekeeper | n | A person employed to breed and protect game, typically for a large estate. |
| Gamelaw | n | The law relating to the hunting of game. |
| Gameless | adj | Land, region without game. |
| Gamelessly | adv | In a gamesome manner. |
| Gamelike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of game; now chiefly : designating a strong flavor or smell like that of game. |
| Gamely | adj | Sportive, merry, joyfully, blithely. 2. pluckily, courageously. 3. artfully decieving. 4. theatrical, of the theatre. |
| Gamely | adv | With spirit, pluckily, courageously. |
| Gameness | adj | The quality of being game. 2. endurance in spirit, courageous, plucky. |
| Gamer | n | A person who plays a games or games, typically a participant in computer or role playing games. 2. a person known for consistently making a strong effort, esp. in sport. |
| Gameshow | n | A TV program in which persons compete to win prizes. |
| Gamesman | n | A person who is skilled at manipulating events and circumstances to gain or maintain personal advantage, esp. in business or politics. 2. a person who enjoys playing games of skill. |
| Gamesmanship | n | Skill in winning games; esp. by means that barely legimate. |
| Gamesome | adj | Full of playing or game. 2. frolicsome, merry, playful, sportive. |
| Gainsomeness | n | The act of playing, frolicking, merry-making, being sportive. |
| Gaming | n | The act of playing games for stakes; gambling. |
| Gaming | adj | Gameful, sportive, jocular. |
| Gaming-house | n | Gambling House, casino |
| Galstre | vb | To make noise |
| Gammon | n | Form or variant of gamble. |
| Gander | n | Male goose |
| Gander | phr | "The Goose that Wanders Shall Come Home as Wise as the Gander" |
| Gander | phr | "What's Good for the Goose, is Good for the Gander" - an argument which aplies in one case also applies in another. |
| Gandergorse | n | Orchis mascula |
| Gandermoon | n | The month a wife's lying in. 2. confinement to be prior to childbirth. 2. a husband during gandermoon or gandermonth. |
| Ganderwool | n | Feathers |
| Gane | vb | Yawn, gape, open the mouth widely. |
| Gang | n | Way, passage, carriage, walking, mode of going, stream course, rung, step, set of things, persons,(collectively) articles, coffle, herd. |
| Gang | phr | "Be of a Gang" - to belong to the same group, society, etc. 2. to have the same interests. |
| Gang | phr | "Gang Up On" - to organize or form groups, alliances against. 2. gang up against. |
| Gang | phr | "Gang Up With" - to go into company with. 2. to come into a gang; to gang in. 3. to form a gang or combine with (against others). |
| Gang-days | n | The three days before Easter Thursday. |
| Gangdom | n | The criminal underworld. |
| Ganger | n | (Chiefly in Scotland) one who or that which walks or goes; a goer; a walker. 2. one who oversees a gang of workmen. 3. (coal-mining) One who is employed in conveying the coal through the gangways. 4. (nautical) a length of chain, one end of which is fastened to an anchor when let go, when the other end is fastened to a hawser. |
| Ganging | n | The combining of work people into gangs or companies. 2. a single knobthat is capable of a number of different controls on a piece of equipment. |
| Ganging | adj | That goes or walks goes. 2. that is in operation or working order. |
| Gangland | n | The underworld of organized crime. |
| Gangster | n | A member of a criminal or street gang. 2. a member of a professional criminal organisation; or racketeer. |
| Gangsterdom | n | The criminal class. |
| Gangsterish | adj | Characteristic or resembling a gangster. |
| Gang-there-out | n | A vagabond. |
| Gangway | n | A passageway, especially an opening in a ship's side for loading goods and passengers; etc a gang-plank. |
| Gang-up | vb | Attack or pick-on someone together |
| Gannet | n | Solan goose. NB: Gannet for gen(eral) info: greedy for information, knowledge or knowning |
| Gare | n | Javelin, spear |
| Garfish | n | A fish with a long, sharp nose or snout, a gar "Belone vulgaris" |
| Garfishy | adj | Somewhat smelling or tasting like garfish. |
| Garlic | n | A plant of the allium family; the garlic wort |
| Garlic God | n | An allusion to the Roman god: Juvenal |
| Garlickless | n | Devoid or lacking garlic. |
| Garlicky | adj | Tasting or smelling of garlic. |
| Garlic-monger | n | Seller of garlic; a monger of garlic. |
| Garlic-wall | n | The satirical name applied by people of Gibraltar to the Spanish barrier which closed the frontier to La Linea in 1969 as a consequence of Spain's claim to the Rock. |
| Garnwindle | n | Yarnwindle: a rotary applicaance, on which a skein of yarn is placed in order to be more easily wound in to a ball. |
| Gast | adj | Frightening, alarming, scary. |
| Gastness | adj | Terrifying in appearance |
| Gate | n | Road, way, path, street. |
| Gate | phr | "At the Gate" - near to, close to death. |
| Gate | phr | "Be Given the Gate" - be dismissed. |
| Gate | phr | "Like a Bull at a Gate" - in a clumsy, impetuous way. |
| Gate | vb | To go, to walk. |
| Gatehouse | n | A lodge besides the entrance to an estate, often the residence of a gatekeeper, also a dwelling formerly used as such a residence. |
| Gatekeep | vb | To limit (something manipulatively, rather than directly) how much a party , often a spouse has in some task. 2. to control or limit access to something. |
| Gatekeeper | n | Someone who guards an entrance. 2. gatekeeper someone who controls access to somethin. 3. a useful middle person who can help connect people with social welfare. 4. those who control access to useful and important persons within organizations: as secretaries or receptionists who always claim that their boss is at a conference. |
| Gateless | adj | Without a gate. |
| Gatelike | adj | Resembling a gate or some aspect of one. |
| Gateman | n | A gatekeeper; a gate tender. |
| Gate Night | n | Around New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Canada) a particular night, commonly the night of the 30th to the 31st of October, during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods. 2. Mischief night. |
| Gateshodel | n | Crossways |
| Gatestead | n | A gateway |
| Gateway | n | An entrance capable of being blocked by use of a gate. 2. any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another. 3. a point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines. 4.(digital communications) in wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc. |
| Gateway | phr | "A Gateway to Something" - a method of achieving something. |
| Gatewise | adv | Arranged to resemble a gate. |
| Gatewright | n | A maker of gates. |
| Gather | vb | Collect, assemble, draw together, amass, pull close, fold in, or under by sewing. 2. To gather as a festering sore. |
| Gather | n | "The Gather" ("The pluck"), that is the heart liver, lights(lungs) of an animal |
| Gather | phr | "Gather Dust" - be difficult, or tiresome to keep free from dust. 2. not to be acted upon without being formally rejected. |
| Gather | phr | "Gather Ground" - to gain ground, make progress. |
| Gather | phr | "Gather Head" - to acquire strength. |
| Gather | phr | "Gather In" - to take narrow(er). 2. harvest, collect, garner up a crop. |
| Gather | phr | "Gathering Coal" - a piece of caol placed on the fire, and surrounded with embers, to keep up the fire. |
| Gather | phr | "Gather On" - to gain or draw nearer to, as in 'to gather into the wind' or sail nearer to the wind. |
| Gather | phr | "Gather Steam" - to move or progress at an increasing speed. |
| Gather | phr | "Gather Together" - to collect, assemble ( of people or things.) |
| Gather | phr | "Gather To One's Fathers" - die, pass away. |
| Gather | phr | "Gather Out" - to select, pick |
| Gather | phr | "Gather Over" - to recruit |
| Gather | phr | "Gather Up" - to pick up, summon one's thoughts, strength, accumulate |
| Gather | phr | "Gather Way" - to feel the impulse of the wind on the sails, (so as to obey the helm). 2. of a ship beginning to move. |
| Gatherer | n | Collector (of tolls, taxes), compiler; miser (of wealth) |
| Gathering | n | A meeting or get-together; a party or social function. group of people or things. 2. a gathering of fruit. 3. (bookbinding) a section, a group of bi-folios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half. 4. charitable contribution; a collection. 5. tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess. |
| Gathering | adj | Assembling, collecting, concentrated. |
| Gathering-ground | n | Headwaters of a stream or ea. 2. a region from which the feeding waterrs of a river or a reservoir are collected; a watershed; source. |
| Gathering thread | n | Millinery work |
| Gat-toothed | adj | Goat-toothed, lustful, wanton. |
| Gavel | n | Interest on money lent, chiefly in legal terms, relating to payments or services exacted from tenants. 2. a tribute, tax, impost |
| Gavel | vb | To Set to Gavel- to let out for a payment. |
| Gavelling | n | Usury; terms relating to payment exacted from tenants by the lord. |
| Gavelbread | n | Corn-rent or provision of bread and corn, required as a rent or tribute to be paid in kind by the tenant. |
| Gavelcorn | n | Corn-rent or provision of bread and corn, required as a rent or tribute to be paid in kind by the tenant. |
| Gavelearth | n | Plowing duty or work done by the tenant for his lord. |
| Gavelkind | n | The name of the land tenure existing chiefly in Kent, orig. same as socage, under which the tenants land on death was divided equally among his sons. |
| Gavel-land | n | Land liable to tribute or tax; rented land. |
| Gavelock | n | A spear or dart, a lever. |
| Gavelman | n | Tenant from whom services were due was called a gavelman. |
| Gavelwood | n | Wood or provision of wood, required as a rent or tribute to be paid in kind by the tenant to his lord. |
| Gavelwork | n | Duty or work done (as a tax or tribute) by the tenant for his lord. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Gear | n | In Old English gearwe "clothing, equipment, ornament," : clothing, apparel, dress, ornament. |
| Gear | phr | "Be Ready in One Gear" - to be ready for work |
| Gear | phr | "Be Right in One's Gear" - in one's senses. |
| Gear | n | "Goods and Gear" - wealth and property. |
| Geason | a. | Barren, unproductive, scantily producing, exhausted. 2. rare, scarce, uncommon |
| Gebur | n. | A tenant farmer |
| Geese | phr | "All His Geese are Swans" - somebody, usually already mentioned, has an exaggerated idea of the merits of his own family, friends, belongings, achievements, accomplishments etc. |
| Geld | n. | Tax paid to the crown by landholders, before and after The Norman Conquest. |
| Geld-acre | n | Reckoned for the purpose of geld. |
| Geld-hide | n | The quantity of land reckoned as an acre or for the purposes of geld. |
| Gele | vb. | Retard, delay |
| Gem | n. | Precious stone, jewel, thing of great beauty, good or greatly prized thing. 2. a bud, blossom, bud. |
| Gem | vb | To bud or blossom, to put forth buds. |
| Gemming | n | The budding or blossoming of flowers. |
| Gemmer | n | One who seeks or mines for gems. |
| Gesith | n. | Companion, pal |
| Gesith-socken | n. | Division of a county in Saxon times |
| Get | vb | From Old Norse (about 1200 AD) "geta": to obtain, reach; to beget; to guess right, from Proto-Germanic *getan". Old English, as well as Dutch and Frisian, had the root only in compounds (e.g. begietan "to beget," forgietan "to forget,". Vestiges of Old English cognate *gietan remain obliquely in past participle gotten and original past tense gat. 2. obtain, procure, earn, cause to go or come, bring into position or state, induce. In perfect tense: to be in possession of, have (to do). 3. reach, attain, become. |
| Get | n | Offspring, progeny, issue, as the "get" of a stallion. |
| Get | vb | To obtain, procure, beget, succeed in. |
| Get | phr | "Don't Get Me Wrong" - don't misunderstand, don't take offence at what I say. |
| Get | phr | "Get a Blow In" - succeed in hitting one's opponent in a boxing match. 2. attack or retaliate verbally. |
| Get | phr | "Get About" - move, or travel from place to place, often with the implicating of overcoming difficulty to do so. 2. circulate, spread, get abroad. |
| Get | phr | "Get Above Oneself" - have too high opinion of oneself. 2. have ideas above one's station. |
| Get | phr | "Get Abreast Of " - draw or bring level with. |
| Get | phr | "Get Abroad" - to travel overseas. 2. spread, circulate, get about. |
| Get | phr | "Get a Dusty Answer" - get a noncommittal, unsatisfactory, dismissive or negative answer. |
| Get | phr | "Get a Fair Deal" - receive a just and equitable treatment; exchange good and services for their appropriate value. |
| Get | phr | "Get a Fair Share" - get or receive a justly divided share. |
| Get | phr | "Get a Free Hand" - get permission to make one's own decisions and arrangements in respect to one's work, undertaking etc. |
| Get | phr | "Get After" - to move into action in pursuit of something. 2. to move into action in an attempt to catch or defeat another. 3. to attempt to convince another to move into action. |
| Get | phr | "Get Again" - recover, have returned. |
| Get | phr | "Get a Grip On" - gain or regain full control of. |
| Get | phr | "Get a Handle On" - to find a means of dealing with, understanding. 2. find a way of coping. |
| Get | phr | "Get Ahead" - meet with success (in ones career), make progress, progress beyond, advance. |
| Get | phr | "Get Ahead Of Oneself" - fig.to do or say something sooner than it ought to be done so that the proper explanation or preparations have not be done. |
| Get | phr | "Get a Hold Of" - grasp, understand, comprehend. |
| Get | phr | "Get a Life" - dismissive exclamation used in any context where the speaker wishes to show disdain for the previous speaker and their ideas, beliefs, suggestions, opinions. |
| Get | phr | "Get a Load of Something/This" - listen to, look at, read, become familiar with, fully understand, (express surprise). |
| Get | phr | "Get Along" - move away or through. 2. succeed in doing something, manage, get by. |
| Get | phr | "Get Along Well With" - to be on friendly terms with. 2. have a harmonious relationship. 3. live or work well with. |
| Get | phr | "Get Along Without" - succeed reasonably well, manage to live or work, without somebody or something. |
| Get | phr | "Get Along With You" - go away!; fig. let be, have done, be quiet, don't say, i can hardly believe what you are telling me! |
| Get | phr | "Get a Look At" - act or prematurely or over-confidently. |
| Get | phr | "Get an Earful" - listen to this. |
| Get | phr | "Get an Eyeful" - look at this. |
| Get | phr | "Get a Raw Deal" - get unfair, unjust or harsh treatment. 2. receive a reward that is insufficient. |
| Get | phr | "Get a Rise" - receive a pay or salary increase. |
| Get | phr | "Get a Rise Out Of" - obtain a reaction from somebody; esp. one of annoyance. |
| Get | phr | "Get a Shot in the Arm" - get an injection from an hypodermic needle. 2. get something something that has a stimulating or restorative effect on a project, campaign, economy, etc. |
| Get | phr | "Get At" - to find out, to tamper with (nobble a horse), to bribe. 2. imply, as 'what are you getting at". 2. reach, gain access to (and take, eat, etc). 3. start to work on. 4. learn access, discover truth facts. . 5. suggest, insinuate, in an indirect way, hint (getting at). 6. criticize, nag. 7. try to influence by esp. by improper means a witness, jury, etc. |
| Get | phr | "Get At Somebody" - provoke, needle. |
| Get | phr | "Get At Something " - tamper with something. |
| Get | phr | "Get Away (as) Clean as a Whistle" - get away, leave a place, without leaving a trace, being detected, caught (usually after committing a crime). |
| Get | phr | "Get Away From" - manage to leave a place one is in; escape from. 2. assist somebody to leave a place, esp. for his own good; remove something unwanted (from). 3. win, secure, something or somebody, in a struggle from a bone from a dog; 4. attract somebody back from, as an, estranged husband. |
| Get | phr | "Get Away From It All" - go away in order to gain relief from one's worries ; responsibilities, excessive work, etc. 2. remove oneself from the pressures of everyday life. |
| Get | phr | "Get Away With (it)" - steal and escape with thieves, burglars, bandits, tricksters. 2. get or go away unpunished or suffer negligible punishment, fail to be caught out in a crime, fraud, mistake. 3. get off with a reprimand, mild rebuke, warning. 4. do something unlawful, dangerous, wrong etc .., and escape without penalty. |
| Get | phr | "Get Away with Murder" - be able to do anything, however outrageous, and not be punished for it. 2. go undetected, unpunished yet do something bad. |
| Get | phr | "Get Away With You!" - an exclamation of mild rebuke or disbelief. |
| Get | phr | "Get A Word In Edgewise" - succeed in saying something, where many people are talking or where another will not stop talking. |
| Get | phr | "Get Back" - return, recover possessions, restore. 2. return to one's starting point or its place. 3. go to a reasonable, sensible distance, stand away. |
| Get | phr | "Get Back At" - to retort, or retaliate; to revenge oneself. 2. to get even with. |
| Get | phr | "Get Back on the Horse that Bucked You" - return to something that has previously caused you harm. |
| Get | phr | "Get Back To" - return to or resume work, sport, studies, |
| Get | phr | "Get Back to the Grindstone" - return to one's job, with the implication that the job is uninteresting, difficult, tiring. |
| Get | phr | "Get Back Up" - get help or assistance from other(s). |
| Get | phr | "Get Behind (with)" - not progress at the necessary rate, in business, studies, etc; fall into arrears. |
| Get | phr | "Get Bent Out of Shape" - become, angry, agitated or upset. |
| Get | phr | "Get Better" - to return to good health. |
| Get | phr | "Get Blood Out of a Stone" - extract something (esp. money) which does not have it or does not easily yield it |
| Get | phr | "Get Busy" - start work seriously and energetically on something specified or understood. |
| Get | phr | "Get By (on)" - to succeed, if only just make it or manage to do. 2. pass, proceed, be accepted, pass scrutiny, inspection. 3. be successful in life, or in a situation, survive; get along, get along all right. 4. survive by means of, or recourse to, a pension, grant, smartness. |
| Get | phr | "Get Cold Feet" - feel timidity or fear about (doing) something. |
| Get | phr | "Get Down" - descend, cause to fall. 2. assume a stooping or kneeling position. 3. write, record, input a record, note, something usually implying speed or difficulty. 4. take or swallow medicine, food etc. with difficulty. 5. depress, demoralize (of weather, life in general). 6. dismount from an animal, as a horse or camel. |
| Get | phr | "Get Down in the Mouth" - become depressed, miserable. |
| Get | phr | "Get Down To (It)" - take steps to manage or settle (work, things, problems). 2. tackle a task in downright earnest or reduce something to basics. |
| Get | phr | "Get Down to Business" - start serious discussion about, often after some time has been spent dealing with irrelevant or social things. |
| Get | phr | "Get Down With" - become a good friend with somebody; or a group of people. 2. to join an activity with somebody; or group of persons. 3. to agree with or accept. |
| Get | phr | "Get Even (with)" - to revenge oneself. 2. take revenge on somebody for something done to one's disadvantage. 3. (facetious)retaliate in not very important circumstances. |
| Get | phr | "Get Fresh (with)" - to flirt. |
| Get | phr | "Get From" - to escape, flee. 2. obtain. |
| Get | phr | "Get Going" - start to move, begin to work or function. 2. begin doing something vigorously and with will. 3. get weaving; get cracking. 4. organize make something work. |
| Get | phr | "Get Ground" - make progress, advance. |
| Get | phr | "Get Ground of" - to encroach upon another, esp. territory. 2. to obtain mastery over. |
| Get | phr | "Get High" - be 'high' on drugs. |
| Get | phr | "Get Hold off" - obtain, grasp, reach. |
| Get | phr | "Get Hold of The Wrong End of the Stick" - completely misunderstand the situation or something said. |
| Get | phr | "Get Home" - reach the winning post or target first. 2. arrive at one's house. |
| Get | phr | "Get Home To" - cause to be understood, hit the target, point, criticism etc. |
| Get | phr | "Get In" - to be elected. 2. to gather in (a harvest), to collect, bring in, bring back. 3. to mentally unsettle. 4. obtain the services or advice of someone. 5. gain an advantage by being the first, earliest, or one of the first to do something. |
| Get | phr | "Get in Bed With" - engage in a dubious relationships, financial, commercial, or illegal ones. |
| Get | phr | "Get In On (Something)" - to start to take part in an activity that is already happening because you win win an an advantage from it. |
| Get | phr | "Get In One's Twopence Worth" - make one's contribution to an argument, discussion, conversation. |
| Get | phr | "Get Inside" - to penetrate; to investigate closely. 2. to achieve a deep or intimate understanding of. |
| Get | phr | "Get Inside One's Head" - to damage or weaken the position of another. |
| Get | phr | "Get Into" - cause to enter, enter or arrive at, board a bus, etc. 2. be elected to, admitted to; join an activity or organization. 3. get dressed, put on clothing. 4. force somebody or somebody into. 5. penetrate. 6. become familiar with, develop, learn, acquire; get interested in. 7. enter a state involuntary, such as rage, temper tantrum or an emotional state. 8. get into someone's mind or emotions; become the victim of.. |
| Get | phr | "Get Into a Sweat" - to worry, become greatly concerned. |
| Get | phr | "Get Into Deep Water" - cause somebody or oneself to be in difficulty of some kind. |
| Get | phr | "Get Into Hot Water" - find oneself in serious trouble. 2. do something that results in trouble for oneself or others. |
| Get | phr | "Get Into One's Stride" - reach the stage when one is performing the action at one's best, speaking enthusiastically. |
| Get | phr | "Get Into Somebody's Black Books" - incur somebody strong disapproval. |
| Get | phr | "Get Into Somebody's Head" - understood fully, appreciate the significance of something; imagine. |
| Get | phr | "Get In With" - become familiar with. 2. form a relationship with,often with the implication that one is has an ulterior motive in doing so. |
| Get | phr | "Get It" -understand. |
| Get | phr | "Get It in the Neck" - to be severely punished or injured. 2. receive a severe reprimand, be scolded, punishment, unwelcome or disastrous experience. |
| Get | phr | "Get It Over With" - finish with, have done with, (esp. something troublesome or disagreeable) |
| Get | phr | "Get It Together" - be able to manage, organize, get things together satisfactorily. |
| Get | phr | "Get It Up" - (slang) have an erection. |
| Get | phr | "Get Knotted" - be quiet, go away, get lost, drop dead, vamoose. |
| Get | phr | "Get Knowledge (wit) Of" - to learn of, receive into. |
| Get | phr | "Get Laid" - have, or take part in sexual intercourse. |
| Get | phr | "Get Left to" - discomfited, disappointed. |
| Get | phr | "Get Lost" - go away, leave, don't interfere, shut up! |
| Get | phr | "Get Nowhere" - not to obtain or reach an object; to make no progress; to achieve little or nothing. 2. see no, few, some results for one's efforts. |
| Get | phr | "Get Off" - dismount (from a horse); alight from a bus. etc. 2. to escape from punishment, be acquitted, avoid punishment; get away with. 3. escape or nearly escape (lightly, unscathed) injury in an accident. 4. to commit to memory. 5. stand, walk, sail, drive. 6. cause to leave, start a journey. 7. remove clothing; paint, etc. 8. dispatch post, email, telephone. 9. supervise the sending of. |
| Get | phr | "Get Off Lightly" - to avoid punishment, or to help another person avoid punishment. 2. to avoid less serious punishment, injury or harm than you might have expected. |
| Get | phr | "Get Off On" - to find someone exciting in a sexual way. |
| Get | phr | "Get Off One's Chest" - say something which one has long wanted to say and thus relieve one's feelings; not suppress one's feelings. |
| Get | phr | "Get Off One's Cloud" - to refrain from pestering. |
| Get | phr | "Get Off the Ground" - to start or cause to start happening successfully. |
| Get | phr | "Get Off One's Hands" - to remove someone of the responsibility, bother o |
| Get | phr | "Get Off One's Heart" - tell someone about something that has been worrying you or making you feel guilty about. |
| Get | phr | "Get Off One's High Horse" - suggest that or to someone that stop behaving in a superior manner. |
| Get | phr | "Get Off One's Mind" - make oneself stop thinking about something; esp. usually something that is hurting emotionally. |
| Get | phr | "Get Off On the Right Foot" - make a good start. |
| Get | phr | "Get Off On the Wrong Foot" - make a bad start. |
| Get | phr | "Get Off to a Good Start" - begin promisingly, |
| Get | phr | "Get Off to Sleep" - fall to sleep, send to sleep. |
| Get | phr | "Get Off With" - to get rid off, have done with you. |
| Get | phr | "Get Off With (Somebody)" become friendly with, or attract deliberately, a person a person of the other or same sex. 3. form a sexual relationship with. |
| Get | phr | "Get On" - succeed, prosper; advance, progress, make haste; to manage without. 2. get dressed. 3. of time: becoming late. 4. of people: grow old or advance in years. 5. an exclamation of disbelief, express surprise. |
| Get | phr | "Get (be Getting)On For" - approaching, close to. |
| Get | phr | "Get One's Back Up" - become angry; annoy, antagonized as to cause their strong resistance. |
| Get | phr | "Get One's Claws In" - (informal) - disapproving to find a way of influencing or controlling someone. |
| Get | phr | "Get One's End Away" - to have sexual intercourse. |
| Get | phr | "Get One's Eye/Hand In" - develop the ability to judge distances, esp. in games. 2. develop one's hand skill (get one's hand in). |
| Get | phr | "Get One's Fair Share" - get a justly divided share. |
| Get | phr | "Get One's Fill" - to have enough (or more than enough) of something. 2. to experience a lot of something. |
| Get | phr | "Get One's Hands On" - obtain something, often as a fulfillment of one's desire or as an essential part of a long cherished plan. 2. lay one's hands on. |
| Get | phr | "Get One's Hooks Into" - win somebody's attention of affections; exercise power over somebody. |
| Get | phr | "Get One's Own Back" - to revenge oneself; to get even with someone. 2. get tit for tat, retaliate. |
| Get | phr | "Get One's Own Way" - succeed in doing what one wants, or doing what one prefers , despite opposition or disapproval. |
| Get | phr | "Get One's (red) Rag Out" - become angry. |
| Get | phr | "Get Oneself Up" - dress extravagantly, or formally. |
| Get | phr | "Get One's Teeth Into" - grip firmly with the teeth; eat. 2. tackle with determination and earnest; work with concentration. 3. to become fairly embarked on an enterprise. |
| Get | phr | "Get One's Tuppence Worth" - make one's contribution toa discussionn, argument, conversation. |
| Get | phr | "Get On For" - approach, draw near to, a stated time or age. |
| Get | phr | "Get On One's Feet" - to stand up (and speak) in public. 2. stand up for a special purpose. |
| Get | phr | "Get On Ones High Horse" - take offence because of hurt pride. |
| Get | phr | "Get On Somebody's Back" - harass, bother. |
| Get | phr | "Get On Somebody's Goat" - make somebody feel irritated, impatient or resentful. |
| Get | phr | "Get On Someone's Wick" - annoy or irritate somebody. |
| Get | phr | "Get On the End Of" - contact by telephone, but also by mail, email, skype or other means. |
| Get | phr | "Get On the Wrong Side of Somebody" - form a bad relationship with. |
| Get | phr | "Get Onto" - contact by telephone, but also by mail, email, skype or other means. 2. trace, find, detect. 3. become aware of somebody's presence, whereabouts, or activity. 4. realize, become aware of. |
| Get | phr | "Get Onto" - move from one activity to another ; pass onto. |
| Get | phr | "Get On Up" - get up, arise, react. 2. dance with abandon. |
| Get | phr | "Get On With" - make progress. |
| Get | phr | "Get On With Somebody" - have harmonious and friendly relations with. |
| Get | phr | "Get On with Something" - start to do something. |
| Get | phr | Get On With It" - an expression of exclamatory force, implying that somebody is intent on doing something something, and should be allowed to do it, regardless of the consequences, and speaker's disapproval. |
| Get | phr | "Get On Without" - manage, survive, keep going without. |
| Get | phr | "Get On With You" - I don't believe you (jokingly). |
| Get | phr | "Get Out" - go away! 2. get rid of one's shares. to elicit by enquiry. 3. escape from a difficult position, withdraw with evasion. 4. to publish a book. 5. become known, leak news, information, secrets. 6. receive, draw, be given something, as reward. 7. solve (a puzzle), find the correct answer, work out. |
| Get | phr | "Get Out Of" - go away from, leave a building, room; danger. 2. make someone yield something, (confessions, story, admission) sometimes by dubious means. 3. obtain, gain something, as a profit, sum of money. 4. not do what one should or ought to do; not meet one's obligations, do one's duty.. |
| Get | phr | "Get Out of Bed On the Wrong Side" - be in a bad mood or temper from the time one gets out of bed. 2. to rise in a bad humor. 3. get up late. |
| Get | phr | "Get Out of Hand" - become out of control. |
| Get | phr | "Get Out of Here" - to leave or exit a place. 2. as an interjection; leave and don't come back. |
| Get | phr | "Get Out of It" - do not exaggerate, do not say things that nobody can believe. |
| Get | phr | "Get Out of One's Hand" - become uncontrollable, as a child, horse, an organization. |
| Get | phr | "Get Out of One's Depth" - of a swimmer be in water in which one cannot stand or walk, and is therefore in danger of drowning. 2. fig. be in a situation one cannot manage or cannot understand. |
| Get | phr | "Get Out Of One's Mind" - stop thinking about, forget if only for a short time. 2. get out of one's head. |
| Get | phr | "Get Out of (Someone's) Sight" - to not be visible. 2. remove oneself or somebody from another person's presence. |
| Get | phr | "Get Out of the Way" - remove oneself, somebody, of something from the scene. 2. step aside from the path of somebody, something. 3. complete a job or task. |
| Get | phr | "Get Out Of Something" - avoid blame, duty, punishment. |
| Get | phr | "Get Out of Town" - an interjection expressing of incredulity. |
| Get | phr | "Get Outside of" - eat or drink something heartily. |
| Get | phr | "Get Out While the Goings Good" - leave while it is possible, safe and wise to do so |
| Get | phr | "Get Over" - to overcome a difficulty, such as embarrassment, shyness, confusion. 2. to evade the force of evidence 3. to cease to be surprised or troubled by. 4. to recover from a shock, illness, become healthy again etc. 4. climb over a wall, get over or across a stream; surmount an obstacle. 5. fully believe, accept, appreciate or understand bad behavior. 6. travel or cover a long distance. |
| Get | phr | "Get Over On" - deceive, intimidate, fool someone. |
| Get | phr | "Get Over the Footlights" - to get access. |
| Get | phr | "Get Over To" - make clear, convey, get across, impress upon. |
| Get | phr | "Get Over With" - to do something necessary but unpleasant( get over once and for all or done with). |
| Get | phr | "Get Rich Quick" - acquire wealth without having to work too much or wait long for. |
| Get | phr | "Get Rid of" - to dispose of, remove, abolish or cause to lose. |
| Get | phr | "Get Sick" - become ill or with infirmity. |
| Get | phr | "Gets Me Every Time" - something that makes one laugh always |
| Get | phr | "Get Somebody Nowhere" - not help somebody to become successful, happy or help get what they hope to get. |
| Get | phr | "Get Somebody the Sack" - be the cause of somebody being dismissed from his or her employment. |
| Get | phr | "Get Somebody Where He Lives" - hurt, threaten, criticize, ridicule, esp. in a way that will particularly hurt him/her. |
| Get | phr | "Get Somebody Where One Wants Him" - have somebody in a position where he doesn't want to be, or where his actions can be controlled to one's own advantage. |
| Get | phr | "Get Somebody Wrong" - misunderstand someones motives or actions, or what he says. |
| Get | phr | "Get Someone's Back Up" - make someone become angry; annoy, antagonize as to cause their strong resistance. |
| Get | phr | "Get Someone's Blood Up" - enrage, anger; make somebody feel aggressive. |
| Get | phr | "Get Someone Up" - to rise from bed, or get someone out of bed. |
| Get | phr | "Get Something Going" - start, begin, organize something (undertakiing), operate, and make it work. |
| Get | phr | "Get Something on Someone" - obtain or possess damaging knowledge about someone. |
| Get | phr | "Get Something Over" - communicate information, make something understood. |
| Get | phr | "Get Something Over With" - do or undergo something unpleasant or dificult to do as to be rid of something. |
| Get | phr | "Get Something Right" - carry out a task, answer a question, solve a problem, etc. |
| Get | phr | "Get Something Wrong" - not carry out a task, fail to answer a question, not solve a problem. etc. |
| Get | phr | "Get Stuck In" - become lodged and unable to move further. |
| Get | phr | "Get Stuck Into" - start doing something with enthusiasm. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Axe" - be dismissed, sacked from work; dropped from a sporting team. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Better of" - master, defeat, overcome. 2. get one's way in opposition to; or after argument with. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Best Out Of" - use to best, most, utmost advantage, employ most effectively |
| Get | phr | "Get the Boot" - to be dismissed from job. 2. be expelled or thrown out. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Drop On" - succeed in getting an advantage over someone. 2. manage to aim a gun at another person, before he/she can aimed one at you. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Elbow" - be spurned or rejected by someone, especially a lover or a romantic interest. 2. get the shove. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Goods On" - get or have information about someone which may be used their detriment or disadvantage. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Hang Of" - understand, appreciate, see how to do something. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Hint" - a sign or gesture given to suggest that one quits, goes away, drops or changes the subject , etc. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Most Out Of It" - get the greatest amount of work, effort out of someone or something. |
| Get | phr | "Get There (in the end)" - to obtain one's object; be successful in an undertaking. 2. achieve one's aim, complete a task, esp. by patience and perseverance. |
| Get | phr | "Get There First" - reach, obtain, attain or achieve something before another, or others, who would like to do so. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Sack" - be dismissed or cause somebody to be dismissed from a position or employment. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Show on the Road" - begin (or continue with) an undertaking or enterprise. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Time to Do Something" - have or find the time to complete a task or project, etc. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Upper Hand" - to get the better of. 2. have a mastery over another, be more powerful than an enemy, competitor, etc. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Weight Off One's Feet" - sit or lay down, often after standing up for a long period. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Wind Up" - become frightened, alarmed. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Worst Of" - be defeated; be overcome in a fight, argument. |
| Get | phr | "Get the Wrong End of the Stick" - completely misunderstand the situation or something said. |
| Get | phr | "Get Things Done" - achieving what one has set out to do. |
| Get | phr | "Get Through" - to reach the end of, survive, endure, live through, bring to a conclusion, accomplish. 2. to succeed in accomplishing, enduring, or the like. 3. to pass or succeed in an exam, test, ordeal. 4. manage to pass through a hole, a gap, a tunnel, etc. 5. pass apiece of legislation through parliament. 6. consume/drink various amounts of food and liquor. 7. manage to do a task, a lot of work, |
| Get | phr | "Get Through To" - reach or bring to one's destination after extreme difficulty. 2. manage to make contact by telephone, radio and other electronic means. 3. in sport reach the final stages of a tournament, cup, championship. 4. make somebody understand the meaning of what one is saying; communicate with. |
| Get | phr | "Get Through With" - finish, complete a job, task, etc. 2. endure, survive a difficult physical or verbal attack. |
| Get | phr | "Get Tied Up (in something)" - be really busy and and intensely involved in something. |
| Get | phr | "Getting At" - insinuating, meaning. (See: 'Get at") |
| Get | phr | "Getting On For" - approaching, close to. |
| Get | phr | "Get To" - reach, arrive at a destination. 2. begin to do something; reach the point of doing something. |
| Get | phr | "Get Together" - to collect, assemble, meet, gather together ( a body, party, group of) persons or things. 2. meet socially. 3. discuss something with a view to forming a common approach or stance. |
| Get | phr | "Get to Grips With" - tackle a matter with earnest |
| Get | phr | "Get to Know" - be acquainted or familiar with something or someone. |
| Get | phr | "Get to One's Feet" - stand up, often in order to make a speech. |
| Get | phr | "Get to the Bottom of" - find the cause of, solve the problem; fathom. |
| Get | phr | "Get to the Top of the Tree" - reach the highest position in one's career. |
| Get | phr | "Get to Work On" - start working, operating, studying, etc. |
| Get | phr | "Get Tough with Somebody" - become violent or stubborn (with somebody). 2. take up an aggressive, or sternly disciplinarian, attitude and way of action towards somebody. |
| Get | phr | "Get Under" - to subdue, esp. a fire; overcome. 2. pass beneath, shelter, hide under. |
| Get | phr | "Get Under Somebody's Skin" - be a constant source of irritation or annoyance to someone. 2. "Get Under Somebody's Nose" |
| Get | phr | "Get Underway" - to begin to move, start, begin. |
| Get | phr | "Get Up" - to rise from bed, chair; stand up. 2. cause to get or lift out of bed or to arise. 3. climb, carry up. 4. to mount on horseback; get upon a bicycle. 5. to dress in a special way, to make ready. 6. become angry or violent, lose temper. 7. increase in force, as a rough weather. 8. prepare, study, memorize a subject. |
| Get | phr | "Get Up Against" - stand, sit, huddle together very closely; put very near to. 2. form a very close relationship with; find oneself in dispute or conflict with. |
| Get | phr | "Get Up and Go" - to act with energy and ambition. |
| Get | phr | "Get Up a Thirst" -develop a thirst, do something which produces a thirst, work up a thirst. |
| Get | phr | "Get Up Early" - to be mentally alert, wide awake. |
| Get | phr | "Get Up On One's Hind Legs" - rise in order to speak to a group of people. 2. get up on one's feet. |
| Get | phr | "Get Up Somebody's Nose" - annoy, irritate, irk, infuriate someone. |
| Get | phr | "Get Up Steam" - develop enough pressure of steam to drive something. 2. (of persons) prepare oneself to make an effort. |
| Get | phr | "Get Up the Yard" - (an Irish schoolyard term) go away; I don't believe what you say; I disagree. |
| Get | phr | "Get Uptight About Something" - become tense, over-concerned, guarded or touchy in one's attitudes and reactions to something. |
| Get | phr | "Get Up to" - be occupied in , be busy with (usually with the implication that the activity is undesirable, miscievious, foolish or unexpected). 3. reach, raise to a required standard or level. |
| Get | phr | "Get Up With the Chickens" - arise from bed very early od before sunrise. |
| Get | phr | "Get Weaving" - to set about a task briskly. |
| Get | phr | "Get Well (soon)" - recover one health. |
| Get | phr | "Get Well On" - become intoxicated. |
| Get | phr | "Get What's Coming To One" - suffer the results of one's misdeeds. 2. suffer an inevitable fate. |
| Get | phr | "Get What's Coming to One" - suffer the results of one's misdeeds. 2. suffer an inevitable fate. |
| Get | phr | "Get Wind Of" - hear of, become acquainted of. 2. hear news of, usually in an indirect or roundabout way. |
| Get | phr | "Get Wise" - become aware (should have earlier) of something, or of qualities of behavior in somebody. |
| Get | phr | "Get With" - to form a romantic relationship with someone. 2. to kiss passionately. |
| Get | phr | "Get With Child" - make pregnant (girl, wife, mistress). |
| Get | phr | "Get Within" - a position where one can hit or bet hit, see or be seen. 2. within earshot, range, striking distance, etc. |
| Get | phr | "How Are You Getting On" - how are things faring, prospering, progressing with you. |
| Get | phr | "I Get You" - I understand what you mean, and /or propose. |
| Get | phr | "It Is Getting to Me" - it is affecting me psychologically. |
| Get | phr | "Tell Somebody Where to get Off" - reproach, admonish, reprove somebody. |
| Get | phr | "This Is Where One Gets Off" - the moment when one leaves or parts company. 2. stop doing; or taking part in some group activity. |
| Gete | vb | Get attention, watch, observe. 2. guard, watch, take charge, tend, observe |
| Get-go | n | The start, commencement, very beginning. |
| Gethe | adj | Haste, hurry |
| Getenly | adv | Carefully, diligently |
| Getless | adj | Having got nothing, empty-handed |
| Get-off | n | An evasion, subterfuge. |
| Get-on | n | One who gets on or succeeds; a successful person. |
| Get-out | n | An escape from a difficult position; a clause allowing one to withdraw from an agreement etc. |
| Getter | n | One who gets, obtains, succeeds. |
| Get-there | n | Energy, ambition. |
| Getting | n | Obtaining, possessing, purchasing, accomplishing, earning, arriving at. reaching. |
| Getting-to-know-you | adj | (Of an activity) designed so that participants get to know each other. |
| Get-together | n | A meeting, gathering, an informal conference esp. an informal social gathering. |
| Get-togetherness | n | The state or quality of getting together, gathering, thronging, meeting up. |
| Get-tough | adj | Having a strong and forthright approach. |
| Get-up-and-Get | n | Energy, ambition and success. |
| Get-Up-and-Go | n | Energy, ambition. |
| Get-well | adj | Expressing good wishes for a recovery from sickness. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Ghast | vb | Terrify, scare |
| Ghast | vb | To meditate. |
| Ghastful | adj | Causing fear, terrifying, dreadful, absolutely dismal. 2. frightening, terrifying. |
| Ghastlily | adv | In a ghastly manner. 2. state of being ghastly. 3. a ghastly thing. |
| Ghastliness | n | The state of being ghastly. 2. a ghastly thing |
| Ghastly | adv | Frightful in appearance; deathlike, pale, dismal. 2. terrifying; shockingly; extremely bad. |
| Ghastness | n | Amazement, terror, fright, fear. |
| Ghasty | adj | Terrible, frightful, horrifying. |
| Ghost | n | Spirit or immaterial part of man, as distinct from the body, the seat of feeling, thought & moral action. 2. soul. spirit, principle of life, breath or life. |
| Ghost | phr | "Ghost Away" - remove someone or something secretly or discreetly. |
| Ghost | phr | "Ghost Somebody" - kill someone. |
| Ghost | phr | "Lay the Ghost of Something or Someone" - stop worrying about (after a long time). |
| Ghost | phr | "Midnight Ghost" - a ghost that appers around midnight. |
| Ghost | phr | "The Midnight Ghost" - a ghost that appears at midnight. |
| Ghost | phr | "White as a Ghost" - (of someone) : very white, extremely pale. |
| Ghost | phr | "Yield the Ghost" - give up the ghost; die, pass away. |
| Ghostband | n | (In science)any spurious results clustered together, outside of normal expected ranges (as in a plot of recorded energy values, with an inexplicable blot, marring the clean expected results). 2.(biology)a large band or stripe that appears on a developed gel as a wide halo with no specific, distinguishable signal. 3.(entertainment) impersonators of a well-known band hired to perform while the real band members are elsewhere. |
| Ghost bird | n | Yellow-breasted chat, Icteria virent. |
| Ghostbust | vb | To rid (a house, place), etc of Ghosts. |
| Ghostbuster | n | One who rids a house of ghosts. |
| Ghostbusting | n | The act of ridding a house, place of ghosts. |
| Ghostdom | n | Realm of ghosts |
| Ghostly father | n | Father confessor: priest performing last rites |
| Ghostfish | n | The Wrymouth. |
| Ghostful | adj | Causing fear, terrifying, dreadful, absolutely dismal. 2. frightened, terrified. |
| Ghosthunter | n | A person attempts to track down ghosts. |
| Ghosthunting | n | The act of attempting to track down ghosts. |
| Ghostking | n | A king of ghosts or spirits; a ghostly or spiritual king. 2. a king of one's own spirit or soul; a god, God. |
| Ghostland | n | A land inhabited by ghosts. 2. a land that has been deserted, as a ghost town or full of ghost towns. |
| Ghostless | adj | Without spirit, soul or like. 2. without a ghost or ghosts. |
| Ghostlike | adj | Seemingly invisible, as a ghost. 2. similiar to a ghost. |
| Ghostlily | adv | In a ghostly manner |
| Ghostliness | n | The sate or quality of being ghostly. 2. a ghostly thing. |
| Ghostlore | n | The learning, teaching, knowledge, or study of ghosts or spirits. 2. the science of the supernatural; spiritualism. |
| Ghostly | adj | Ghostly in appearance, deathlike, pale, dismal. 2. horrifying, shockingly. |
| Ghostmonger | n | One who believes in the existence of ghosts and the spirit-world; this includes those writers who explore paranormal phenomena. (a monger of ghosts). |
| Ghostness | n | Amazement, teror, fright, fear. |
| Ghost pepper | n | The Bhut jolokia, also known as ghost pepper, ghost chili, U-morok, red naga, naga jolokia and ghost jolokia, is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in the Northeast Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Manipur. The 'ghost' is an illusion to the belief that one may die or 'give up the ghost' on eating this vegetable. |
| Ghostride | vb | To accelerate, exit, and then moving along or even dancing on top of a moving vehicle. |
| Ghostship | n | A ship found empty of all people, in good condition, seemingly abandoned (as if haunted) on the high seas; as (The Mary Celeste; The Flying Dutchman). |
| Ghost town | n | Former boom town now empty, decaying and almost or completely deserted. |
| Ghost word | n | Word which really does not exist, but is listed, by error, in a dictionary. |
| Ghostwrite | vb | To write (literary works) under the name of another. 2. to author a literary work or speech in the place of another. |
| Ghostwriter | n | A professional writer who is part to write books, articles, stories, or reports that are officially credited to another person. |
| Ghosty | adj | Concerned with or pertaining to ghosts. 2. resembling a ghost. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Giddily | adv | In a giddily manner. |
| Giddiness | n | The state of being giddy. |
| Giddy | adj | OE. possessed by a spirit or demon, mad, insane, equivalent to 'god +y) 2. dizzy, feeling dizzy, or unsteady and as about to fall down. 2. causing dizziness, or a feeling of unsteadiness. 4. lightheartedly silly, or joyfully elated. 5. frivolous impulse,inconsistent, changeable. |
| Gift | n | In OE. recorded only as a 'payment for a wife' in the sense "bride-price, marriage gift (by the groom), dowry" |
| Gild | n | Gold, gilt. |
| Gild | vb | To cover with or as with a thin layer of gold. 2. to give an often deceptively altered or impoverished appearance to. |
| Gild | phr | "Gild Over" -to cover with gilt. 2. to conceal faults, faults, defects. |
| Gild | phr | "Gild the Lily" - try to make perfection more perfect. 2. mask or spoil natural beauty or a good quality by over-decorating it. 3. praising excessively. |
| Gilded | adj | Gold-covered (with a thin layer). 2. wealthy, privileged. |
| Gilded youth | n | Fashionable young men belonging to wealthy families, see French: 'jeunesse dorce'. |
| Gilden | adj | Made of gold. |
| Gilder | n | One who gilds; one whose ocupation is to overlay with gold. 2. money. |
| Gilding | n | The action of covering with gilt or gold. |
| Gilt | n | Thin layer of gold; gild. |
| Gilt-edged | adj | Having a gilded edged. 2. stock or securities (gilts) regarded as extremely reliable investment. |
| Giltwood | n | Wood that has been gilded or painted gold. |
| Ging | n. | Company of armed men, a troop, army, host. 2. retinue of V.I.P.S. 3. company, pack, train. 4. crew, rabble, rout. nation.See: Gang, Geng |
| Ginger | n. | (Ginger, a borrowing from Latin), plant with a hot-tasting spicy root used in cooking, zingiberacea. 2. gingerwort. |
| Ginger | phr | "Get One's Ginger Up" - to irritate, anger someone |
| Ginger | phr | "Ginger Up" - to enliven an activity,group, etc. |
| Ginger ale | n | A carbonated soft drink flavored with ginger. |
| Ginger-bread | n | A sweet food ranging from a soft, moist,loaf cake to something like a ginger biscuit. |
| Ginger-bread man | n | A biscuit made of gingerbread, usually in the shape of a stylized human. |
| Gingered | adj | Spiced with ginger. |
| Gingerish | adj | Having a relatively ginger colour. |
| Ginger-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of ginger. |
| Gingerwort | n | Zingiberaceae |
| Gingery | adj | Somewhat ginger in colour. 2. having the flavour of ginger. |
| Gird | vb | To surround a waist with a girdle. |
| Gird | phr | "Gird On" - fix or fasten on (as armor). |
| Gird | phr | "To Gird Up" - get ready to do something or deal with something. |
| Girder | n | A person who makes girdles. |
| Girderless | adj | Without girdles. |
| Girderlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a girdle. |
| Girding-hook | n | A reaping-hook. |
| Girdle | n | That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference 2. a belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery. 3. the zodiac; also, the equator. 4. the line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. 5. (mining) a thin bed or stratum of stone. |
| Girdle | vb | To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means. 2. to kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark. |
| Girdle | phr | "The Girdle of the World" - the earth's girdle: the equator. |
| Girdled | adj | Secured or support by a girdle or beam. |
| Girdleful | adj | As much as a girdle can hold. |
| Girdler | n | One who makes girdles, a girdlesmith. |
| Girdlesmith | n | A maker of girdles. |
| Girdlestead | n | The waist; the part of the body round which the girdle passes. |
| Girt | n | A horizontal structural member or post and beam architecture, typically attached to a bridge . 2. vertical members such as corner posts. |
| Girt | vb | To gird. 2. to bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle. 3. to measure the girth of. |
| Girth | n | Girth A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse. 3. small horizontal brace or girder. 4. the measure around any object, such as a body at the waist or belly, or a box ; the circumference of anything. |
| Girth | vb | To bind as if with a girth, or band. |
| Girthless | n | Without a girth, or strap or saddle. |
| Girthy | adj | Of a sizeable girth, portly, girthed. |
| Give | n | The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it. |
| Give | vb | Old English giefan, gefan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch geven and German geben. |
| Give | phr | "Don't Give Me That" - do not expect me to believe that. |
| Give | phr | "Give About" - to distribute or circulate something. 2. to spread a rumor. 3. to encompass or surround something about |
| Give | phr | "Give a Broadside To" - deliver a spoken or written attack aupon. |
| Give | phr | "Give a Helping Hand to" - help or assist another in carrying out a task, project, etc. |
| Give | phr | "Give a Light (to)" - to care about; give hope to. |
| Give | phr | "Give Again" - give back or restore in various senses. |
| Give | phr | "Give Against" - to attack or assault someone or something. 2. to impinge against something. |
| Give | phr | "Give a Hand"- to help, aid or assist. |
| Give | phr | "Give All One's Got" - do something with all one's strength, energy, devotion, etc. |
| Give | phr | "Give a Man a Fish and You'll Feed Him for a Day, Show a Man How to Fish and You'll Feed Him For a Lifetime" - it is more worthwhile to teach someone to do something, than to do it for him.. |
| Give | phr | "Give and Take" - arrange matters sensibly, fairly and tactfully with others. 2. fair compromise for mutual benefit; show mutual tolerance. |
| Give | phr | "Give a Rat's Arse" - (usually in the negative: "Couldn't Give a Rat's Arse" - to not care, have or show no interest in. |
| Give | phr | "Give as Good, as One Gets" - be able to meet an attack with an equal effective counter attack. |
| Give | phr | "Give Away" (a dead give-away") - a complete betrayal; also a person or thing that causes such a betrayal. 2. fail to take or use of through foolishness, or neglect; throw away, squander. betray, reveal involuntarily, or voluntarily. 3. a revelation. 4, yield, give up. |
| Give | phr | "Give Away" - give, free of charge, sell at a very low price possessions, clothes, to charity. 2. distribute, present. 3. betray, reveal. |
| Give | phr | "Give Back" - to return, restore to its original owner or location. 2. to contribute money, goods, or esp. services for charitable purposes, as if in return for one's own success. |
| Give | phr | "Give Back As Good as One's Gets" - not to be outdone by an opponent. 2. retaliate in a fight, argument, abusive exchange of words with as much skill,force, or skill, as has been used against one. |
| Give | phr | "Give Back to" - return a possession to one's owner; hand back. 2. allow to enjoy again. |
| Give | phr | "Give Birth (to)" - be delivered of, produce a child, offspring (calf, joey, foal, etc.) 2. create something, originate as a genre, style, fashion, fad, technique, etc. |
| Give | phr | "Give By" - to stand aside. |
| Give | phr | "Give Down" - of a cow let milk flow. |
| Give | phr | "Give Ear (to)" - to listen openly to others. 2. listen while mainly occupied in some other way. 3. listen/ pay attention to. |
| Give | phr | "Give Fire" - to fire a gun at someone. |
| Give | phr | "Give for" - sacrifice, exchange for one's life, wealth, etc. |
| Give | phr | "Give Forth" - emit, produce, yell, etc. |
| Give | phr | "Give Free Play to Something" - give freedom of movement of expression to something. 2. allow something to be. |
| Give | phr | "Give Ground To" - retreat to the advantage of somebody other. 2. fail to hold one's advantage or gain. |
| Give | phr | "Give Heed (to)" - take notice of. |
| Give | phr | "Give Him Enough Rope and He Hang Himself" - allowed sufficient of action often lead to a person's downfall. |
| Give | phr | "Give In" - give something to a person who is authorized t receive it; hand it in. 2. surrender, yield. |
| Give | phr | "Give In Hand" - give in marriage. |
| Give | phr | "Give Into" - allow oneself to be overcome by; give way to. |
| Give | phr | "Give Into the Hands Of" - commit, entrust, consign. |
| Give | phr | "Give It a Miss" - not do something one usually does. |
| Give | phr | "Give It a Rest" - give it up, take a break from or stop doing something. |
| Give | phr | "Give It a Shot" - give it a try. |
| Give | phr | "Give It Away" - abandon, give up, stop. |
| Give | phr | "Give It One's Best (Shot)" -work or perform as well as one can possibly can. |
| Give | phr | "Give It To (Anyone)" - to attack either with blows. 2. to beat or punish severely. 3. to put up a good fight against someone. 4. to have sexual relations with. |
| Give | phr | "Give It Up" - refrain from doing something. 2. divulge or reveal something or somebody. |
| Give | phr | "Give Lead to" - take the initiative in some matter. 2. make one responsible, by instruction or example, for events. |
| Give | phr | "Give Lie to" - show to be untrue, as a rumour, information, a tale. |
| Give | phr | "Give Little" - contribute little or begrudgingly. |
| Give | phr | "Given to" - inclined to |
| Give | phr | "Give Name to" - the name given at birth or baptism. |
| Give | phr | "Give Off" - emit, release, produce vapor, smoke, fumes, odor, scent, aroma. |
| Give | phr | "Give Of Oneself" - to devote oneself unselfishly to a task, esp. to give time and energy. |
| Give | ph | "Give on to" - of a window, to look on to; of a door, to open on to. |
| Give | phr | "Give One's All" - to make the utmost effort. 2. to contribute using all of one abilities and resources. 3. to lose one's life while making the uttermost effort. |
| Give | phr | "Give One's Best" - do all one can. |
| Give | phr | "Give One's Ears For" - make great personal sacrifice for; pay any price for. |
| Give | phr | "Give One's Eye-teeth" - do anything to obtain something. |
| Give | phr | "Give Oneself Away" - accidentally reveal one's guilt. |
| Give | phr | "Give Oneself Up" - surrender. |
| Give | phr | "Give On to" - overlook, allow access to a door window, entrance. |
| Give | phr | "Give Out" - become exhausted (strength, patience,,supplies, street, etc.) 2. distribute, hand out. 3. announce, make known. |
| Give | phr | "Give Over" - stop doing something; be quiet. |
| Give | phr | "Given Over to" - be used for, have as its particular end or purpose. |
| Give | phr | "Give Rise to" - be the cause of, generate, produce, as alarm, concern, etc. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody a Break" - give someone an opportunity in various senses. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody a Cold Shoulder" - be rejected. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody an Earful" - harangue or berate somebody. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody a Good Hiding" - give somebody a good thrashing, beating. 2. defeat overwhelmingly in a game or contest. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody a Hand" - help or assist somebody doing something. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody a Hard Time" - be difficult and firm in dealings with someone. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody an Inch and they will Take a Mile" - show tolerance or generosity to somebody, and he/ she will increase his/her demands or be excessive in claim and behavior. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody a Rough Ride" - subject to a difficult or painful experience. 2. to abuse or ridicule. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody a Thick Ear" - give somebody a blow on the or the side of the head. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody Away" - hand over a bride in marriage. 2. reveal a secret about somebody. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody Elbow Room" - give somebody sufficient space. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody Full Marks (for Something) - give somebody the greatest possible praise and credit for something they have done well or perfectly. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody Full Play" - give complete freedom of action or expression. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody Hell" - scold or punish somebody. 2. make somebody suffer, seriously harass, or persecute. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody One's Blessing" - give someone one's approval, encouragement in a project, enterprise, etc. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody Some Rope" - not force somebody to follow too strict a discipline or control. - |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody the Fright of their Life" - cause somebody to receive a severe fright. 2. caused to be suddenly startled. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody the Glad Eye" - flirt with somebody. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody the Green Light" - let somebody know that it is safe to go ahead with their plans. 2. allow somebody to do what they want in some particular circumstance. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody Something to Think About" - present somebody with a problem, difficult decision to make. 2. startle or upset by threat, speech or behavior. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody the Go-by" - avoid. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody Their Freedom" - consent to a divorce; allow one's husband/wife to leave one for another person or way of life , without putting legal obstacles in the way. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody the Run of the House" - give somebody freedom etc.; permision to use one's house as if it was their own. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody the Short Shrift" - a brief auricular confession before execution. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody the Thumbs Up" - give a gesture, make a statement, expressing a statement, approval for, success, or wishing success in an undertaking. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody the What-for" - punish or scold somebody for what he/she had done |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody the Works" - let somebody have all that's available. 2. abuse verbally with vehemence. |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody Understanding" - make somebody think something is true; lead something to believe (that). |
| Give | phr | "Give Somebody Warning" - let somebody know one's intentions that something is to happen, etc. a reasonable time in advance ; not upset or inconvenience. |
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| Give | phr | "Give Someone a Go" - give somebody a chance or opportunity. |
| Give | phr | "Give Someone (Something) a Miss" - not do something. 2. not go somewhere, as one might be expected to do, or has been in the habit of doing. |
| Give | phr | "Give Someone a Ring" - contact somebody by telephone |
| Give | phr | "Give Someone his/her Head" - allow somebody, esp. in their work or in carrying out their project to make his/ her own decisions and arrangements, and use his/ her own methods. |
| Give | phr | "Give Someone the Business" - to beat someone harshly or in a wrongful manner, by abuse, deception, or manipulations. 3. to harangue, criticize vigorously, berate or ridicule someone. |
| Give | phr | "Give Someone the Boot" - kick somebody, especially somebody who has already been knocked down. 2. dismiss, reject somebody from one's employment. 3. sack someone. |
| Give | phr | "Give Someone the Creeps" - cause someone to feel fear, loathing, aversion, nervous anxiety. 2. make one's flesh creep. |
| Give | phr | "Give Someone the Elbow" - get rid of somebody. |
| Give | phr | "Give Someone the Eye" - flirt with someone. |
| Give | phr | "Give Someone the Old One Two" - give one an ogling look that declares a sexual interest. 2. give the glad eye to. |
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| Give | phr | "Give Stick to" - abuse, denigrate, assault. |
| Give | phr | "Give Teeth to" - make truly effective effective, enforceable, such as a law. |
| Give | phr | "Given that"- provided that, granted that. |
| Give | phr | "Give the Finger to" - to make an obscene gesture by closing the fist and extending the middle finger upwards. 2. to make any sort of gesture extending one of the fingers above the others. |
| Give | phr | "Give the Glad Eye" - give somebody (man or woman) inviting or amorous looks to encourage him or her to approach, make a date, etc. |
| Give | phr | "Give (or Get) The Rough Edge of One's Tongue" - be spoken to very sharply,rudely, critically. |
| Give | phr | "Give the Show/Game Away" - betray somebody's intentions, voluntarily or involuntarily. |
| Give | phr | "Give the World/Ear/Right Arm" - give wholeheartedly and generously. |
| Give | phr | "Give Thought to" - consider, think about seriously or carefully.. |
| Give | phr | "Give Tongue to" - say aloud, express. |
| Give | phr | "Give Up" - surrender, allow to be taken as a possession. 2. sell, relinquish, sell, abandon. 3. yield, reveal, disclose, information, a secret, money. 3. hand over custody, abandon one's claim to. 5. no longer seek to avoid, or protect somebody from capture or arrest. 6. no longer have hope of a person's recovery from illness. 7. no longer expect or hope for, the arrival of a person, package, goods, etc. 8. stop indulging in something, as a practice, food, drink, smoking, etc. 9. renounce, no longer hold religion belief, conviction, principles. 10.abandon, no longer pursue one's efforts, attempt. 11. admit defeat or one's inability to achieve something, or convince another of something. |
| Give | phr | "Give Up all Hope" - abandon hope, loss all hope. |
| Give | phr | "Give Up for Dead" - assume that something is dead, beyond survival, lost; past help redemption or saving |
| Give | phr | "Give Up the Fight" - abandon the fight or struggle, be defeated (often in an uneven fight, battle or struggle). |
| Give | phr | "Give Up the Ghost" - to die, pass away, yield one's spirit. |
| Give | phr | "Give Warm Welcome to" - give somebody, a kind, positive reception or recognition of his/her presence. |
| Give | phr | "Give Way" - to give ground, concede, back down. 2. collapse, break, yield to pressure; become loosened. 2. fig. yield to the pressure of grief, temptation, despair, opposition, argument. |
| Give | phr | "Give Way to" - be replaced by, give place to, succeed by. |
| Give | phr | "Give Way Together!" - an order to the crew of a rowing boat to commence pulling. |
| Give | phr | "Give Weight to" - strengthen, provide stronger evidence for. |
| Give | phr | "I Give Up" - I can't not guess what happens next; a or an exclamation of frustration. |
| Give | phr | "I Will Give You That" - allow the remote, concede the truth of. |
| Give | phr | "Not Give a Brass Farthing" - not care or give a damn. |
| Give | phr | "Not Give Somebody a Thought" - not think of, or about something/someone ; forget, dismiss, from one's mind, or not concern oneself with. |
| Give | phr | "Not Give the Time To" - not acknowledge somebody, or giv attention or respect to. |
| Give | phr | "What Gives" - what is happening?, |
| Give | phr | "Wouldn't Give the Time of Day to" - ignore someone, refuse to pay the slightest attention to. |
| Give-away | n | A complete betrayal; also a person or thing that causes such a betrayal. 2. incontrovertible evidence of guilt. 3. a revelation. |
| Give-away shop | n | A shop where people bring and take goods without paying or getting paid. |
| Give-back | n | A rebate. 2. a reduction in pay or conditions as a result of unfavorable economic conditions. |
| Given | n | The known fact or situation. |
| Given | adj | Inclined, disposed, addicted. 2. granted as a basis of calculation etc. definitively stated, fixed, specified. |
| Giveness | n | The act of given in or yielding. 2. submission, concession, allowance. |
| Given-name | n | Given-name, first-name, birth-name, front-name |
| Givenness | n | The fact of being given or posited. 2. the quality or something of being given. 2. the actuality of being given. |
| Giver | n | One who bestows; a bestower, distributor, doer, granter. |
| Give-up | n | The act of giving up, submission, relinquishment. |
| Give-upper | n | One who gives up, submits, relinquishes. |
| Giving | n | The act of giving, bestowing. 2. the imparting of news or information. 3. the disposin of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return. |
| Giving | adj | Giving freely. |
| Giving-back | n | See "Give Back" |
| Giving-into | n | The collapsing or failing. 2. relenting, yielding, surrendering or admitting defeat. |
| Givingness | n | The property of being giving; generousness, generosity. |
| Giving-up | n | The act of yielding or surrending. |
| Givy | adj | Inclined to yield, or give way, pliable, springy, soft, moist. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Gnar | vb | (OE. gynrran); to snarl, growl, creak. |
| Gnast | n | A spark, candle snuff or wick. |
| Gnasting | n | Sparking. |
| Gnat | n | A small fly-like insect of the genus 'Culex". 2. something insignificant. |
| Gnat-hawk | n | The bird, the nightjar |
| Gnatlike | adj | Resembling a gnat or some aspect of one; tiny, insignificant. |
| Gnat-sin | n | Trivial sin, a peccadillo, fault; fig. a very small, insignificant person. |
| Gnaw | vb | To bite or chew steadily, wear away by biting, corrode. |
| Gnaw | n | Gnawing, biting away. |
| Gnaw | phr | "Gnaw Asunder" - to gnaw, or bitten in two. |
| Gnaw | phr | "Gnaw Away" - to eat, bitten away, corrode or wear away. 2. destroy, as by the teeth of a rodent. |
| Gnaw | phr | "Gnaw Away at" - bite at (continuously , in the manner of a rodent. 4. hurt or trouble without respite. |
| Gnaw | phr | "Gnaw Off" - to chew off, bitten off, eat off. |
| Gnaw | phr | "Gnaw One's Fingers to the Bone" - to fret. |
| Gnaw-bone: | n | Term of derision for one abjectly poor |
| Gnawed | adj | Corroded, eaten away, bitten away. |
| Gnawer | n | A rodent. |
| Gnawing | n | The action of gnawing, eating away, corroding. |
| Gnede | adj | Of person: sparing, niggardly, miserly; 2. of things: scarce, barely, short in supply, small, wanting altogether in number, lacking. |
| Gnede | phr | "To Make the Gates Gnede" - to go straight to one's destination. |
| Gnedely | adv | Spaingly, frugally. |
| Gnedish. | adj | Somewhat misery. |
| Gnedeship | n | Miserliness. |
| Gnedy | adj | Miserly. |
| Gnide | vb | Rub with or between the hands. 2. to bruise, crush or rub out; to rub out; also speltgnidge |
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| Glad | adj | Bright, shining, beautiful. 2. glad with, pleasantly kind, affable. 3. happy or joyfully delighted, happy or pleased. |
| Glad | phr | "Give the Glad Eye" - to give someone the glad eye; that is: the movement of the eyes designed to attract a person of the opposite sex. |
| Glad | phr | "Give the Glad Hand" - to greet cordiality, welcome. |
| Glad | phr | "Glad to Meet You" - greetings on the first occasion of being introduced to, or meeting, somebody. |
| Glad | phr | "Glad to See the Back Of (somebody)" - be pleased when somebody leaves. |
| Glad | phr | "Put on the Glad Rags" - evening dress, or best clothes kept for a special occasion; formal wear. |
| Gladden | vb | To make or become happy. |
| Gladden | phr | "Gladden Somebody's Heart" - to cheer and please somebody. |
| Gladdened | adj | Made happy by, gladdened, gladden. |
| Gladdening | n | The act of making, or the feeling of becoming, happy. |
| Gladdon | n | OE : glaedene; a purple iris, Iris foetidissma, with an unpleasant odor; also called stinking iris. |
| Glad Eye" | n | As to give someone the glad eye; that is: the movement of the eyes designed to attract a person of the opposite sex. |
| Gladful | adj | Full of joy. |
| Gladfullness | n | The quality of being gladful. |
| Gladfully | adv | In a gladful manner. |
| Glad-hand | n | In a cordial welcome, esp. one that is effusive or overly demonstrative. 2. a coupling device used on semi-trailer for attaching air brake lines from the vehicle to the trailer. |
| Glad-hand | vb | To be over friendly with a stranger to gain an advantage. 2. to extend a cordially welcome to someone. |
| Glad-handed | adj | Cordially welcomed. 2. overly-effusive greeted or welcomed with a gain or advantage in mind. |
| Glad-hander | n | One who gives the glad hand. |
| Glad-handing | n | The action of warmly and cordially welcoming others. |
| Glad-hearted | adj | Loving, warm and affectionate. |
| Gladhood | n | The condition or state of being the thing or the being in a role denoted by the word. |
| Gladly | adv | In a happy manner; gladily, happily. |
| Gladness | n | The condition of supreme well-being or good spirit. |
| Glad-sad | adj | Of voice: warbling between happy and less happier quality. 2. vacillating in mood between glad and sad; bi-polarish. |
| Gladship | n | The state of gladness. |
| Gladsome | adj | Causing, feeling, or expressive of joy; joyous, pleasing. 2. having a feeling of joy or pleasure, cheerful. |
| Gladsomely | adv | Gladly. |
| Gladsomeness | n | Gladness. |
| Gladstone | phr | The name derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century "gleoda" meaning a "kite" or "glede" and "stan" a stone. (The stones and rocks of this region were frequented by these birds of prey). The surname from this source is first recorded in the latter half of the 18th Century. |
| Glad-tidings | n | Very good news. |
| Glad wrap | n | A thin plastic film used as a wrapping for food. |
| Glass | n | A small refracting telescope. 2. a container for holding liquids while drinking. 3. glassware collectively "She collected old glass" 4. a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror. 5. an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant. 6. the quantity a glass will hold |
| Glass | vb | Put in a glass container.. 2. enclose with glass. 3. furnish with glass, as a windows. |
| Glass | phr | "Glass in" - enclose with glass, as a verandah. |
| Glass | phr | "Those Who Live in Glass Houses, Shouldn't Throw Stones" - critics should be aware of criticisms. |
| Glass-bead | n | Any small, solid or hollow sphere of glass. |
| Glass blower | n | One who viscid molten glass into any form. |
| Glass-blowing | n | The process of blowing viscid molten glass into any form. |
| Glass cleaner | n | A specific formula of cleaning fluid for glass surfaces. |
| Glass cliff | n | A term that describes the phenomenon of women in leadership roles, such as executives in the corporate world and female political election candidates, being likelier than men to achieve leadership roles during periods of crisis or downturn, when the chance of failure is highest. |
| Glass door | n | A door having glass panes of various sizes, color, etc. |
| Glassed | vb | To stab so. in the face with broken glass, usu. a beer glass |
| Glassed-in | adj | Enclosed by glass or panels of glass, usually for protection. |
| Glasses | n | Spectacles. |
| Glass-eye | n | Artificial eye made of glass. |
| Glassful | adj | As much as contained in a drinking glass. |
| Glass-half-empty | adj | Pessimistic. |
| Glass-half-full | adj | Optimistic. |
| Glass-hard | adj | As hard as some types of glass. |
| Glasshouse | n | A factory where glass is made. 2. a greenhouse or hothouse. 3. (slang): a military prison. |
| Glassily | adj | In a glassy manner. |
| Glassiness | n | State of being glassy. |
| Glassing | n | The act of glassing: stabbing someone with a broken glass. |
| Glassless | adj | Without glass. |
| Glass-like | adj | Resembling glass. |
| Glass-maker | n | One makes glass. |
| Glass-making | n | The process and manufacturing of glass. |
| Glassman | n | One who sells glass or glassware. |
| Glass snake | n | A slender legless lizard of southern United States having a very brittle tail. 2. a similar lizard of Europe. |
| Glass-spinning | n | The art of drawing out threads of hot glass to form spun glass. |
| Glass wall | n | A wall made from glass. |
| Glassware | n | Articles made of glass. |
| Glass window | n | A window with glass panes. |
| Glasswool | n | Fibres of spun glass of a wool-like appearance; used in fire-proofing fabric, as insulator material as a filter, and in draining wounds. |
| Glasswork | n | The manufacture of glass articles, etc. 2. articles made of glass. |
| Glassworker | n | One who works in the manufacture of glass or glassware. |
| Glassworking | n | The process of the manufacture and production of glass. |
| Glassworks | n | A glass factory; a factory where glass is made. |
| Glassworm | n | The arrow worm. |
| Glasswort | n | Any of several low saline seaside herbs (genus Salicornia) whose ashes where formerly used in glass-making. |
| Glasswright | n | Glazier; glazenwright. |
| Glassy | adj | Composed of or like glass; having a hard fixed appearance. 2. fixed, blank, and uncomprehending; as a 'glassy stare' |
| Glassy-eyed | adj | Fixed, blank, and uncomprehending; as a 'glassy stare'. 2. the look (often) of someone affected by strong drink. |
| Glaze | phr | "Glaze Over" - assume a fixed, trance-like, sightless appearance as though mere objects of glass, perhaps revealing lost interest in something. |
| Glaze | phr | "Glaze Up" - to light up., become more open, as if in expectation. |
| Glazed | adj | Of eyes: showing no liveliness |
| Glazen | adj | Made or consisting of glass. 2. resembling glass, glassy. |
| Glazer | n | One who applies glazing, as in pottery , etc. 2. one who gives a glass-like or glossy surface to anything. 3. one who is prone to endless monologue; derived from the common practice of talking at you until your eyes 'glaze' over. |
| Glazing | n | Glasswork. 2. glass set or made to be in frames. 3. the act or process of applying a glaze. |
| Glazy | adj | Having the appearance of a glaze. |
| Gleam | n | Brilliant light, brightness, hot gleam, warm rays of the Sun. 2. a bright warm interval between rain showers, also a hot wind |
| Gleam | phr | "Gleam in Somebody's Eyes" -something which is anticipated, for a time, with pleasure and desire, but has not yet come about. |
| Gleaminess | n | State of gleaming or shining brightly. |
| Gleaming | adj | Gleaming: having a high radiant sheen. |
| Gleamingly | adv | In a gleaming manner or fashion. |
| Gleamless | adj | That does not gleam; gleamless. 2. lacking brightness or gleam. |
| Gleamly | adv | In a shiny, gleaming, flashing or radiant manner. |
| Gleamy | adj | Darting in beams of light; flashing, gleamy. |
| Glede | n | Locally applied to birds of prey, as the buzzard, kite, osprey and peregrine, falcon. |
| Glee | n | Musical entertainment, music, melody. 2. mirth, joy, feeling of delight, exaltation, prosperity. |
| Glee | phr | "Him No Glee" - nothing gives him delight. |
| Glee | phr | Not with Gold and Glee will She Abide with You. SeeGlew andGlewing. not for money or music, or a feeling of delight will she be your wife. |
| Glee-beam | n | The harp or gleebeam (poetically.) |
| Glee-craft | n | Gleecraft, music; the music of a minstrel. |
| Gleed | n | Live coal, gleed or ember, cinders, coal used as fuel, a lighting. 2. simile: spark of glede or glede spark. |
| Gleed | vb | To light up, burn; to gleed. |
| Gleed | phr | "Red Hot as Gleed" - very hot. |
| Glee-dream | n | Delight, joy of minstrel-dom. |
| Gleeful | adj | Characterized by joyful exuberance. |
| Gleefully | adj | In a gleeful, gleefully, joyous manner. |
| Gleefulness | n | The state of being gleeful or joyous; gleefulness. |
| Gleeishly | adv | Somewhat gleeishly; in a gleeful manner. |
| Gleeman | n | A professional entertainer, musician, singer, minstrel. 2. glee-woman. |
| Gleesome | adj | Gleeful, joyous. |
| Gleesomely | adv | In a gleeful, joyous manner |
| Gleesomeness | n | The state or quality of being gleesome. |
| Glew | adj | Wise, prudent, clever, (only in OE) |
| Glew | vb | To make merry, to glee, to make happy, to jest, to entertain, to please to play a musical instrument. 2. call loudly. |
| Glewing | n | The playing of music. |
| Glidder | n | A loose stone on a hillside. |
| 'Glidder | vb | To glaze over, cover with ice |
| Glidderly: | adj | With a smooth unimpeded motion; smooth, slippery. 2. treacherous. |
| Glide | n | A gliding movement or motion. 2. a flight in an unpowered aircraft. |
| Glide | vb | To move along by smooth and continuous movement, quietly without effort or difficulty. 2. to fly , or make a flight without motor or engine power. 3. of birds using very little movement of the wings.to go unperceived, quietly and stealthily. |
| Glide | phr | "Glide Along" - move very smoothly across along, or away from. |
| Glideless | adj | Passing from one position of the organs of speech to another without producing a glide (transition sound), as in the case of 'nd' in and. |
| Glidepath | n | An aircraft line of descent to landing, esp. as indicated by ground control. |
| Glider | n | A light without-engine aircraft made to glide after being towed aloft or launched from a catapult. 2. a device that aids gliding. 3. any of several marsupials that glide through the air by extending large folds of skin on the sides of the body between the forelegs, and the hind legs. 4. a pilot of a glider. |
| Glide time | n | A system in which employees work a set number of hours of flexible starting and finishing time. |
| Glidewort | n | An old name for species of Sideritis: ironwort; later for Galeopsis tetrachi. This herb most likely used as a remedy for gout: "Glide" element in the word may be OT for limb. |
| Glim | n. | The eye, a passing look. 2. a scrap. 3. brightness, shine, gleam, glitter. 4. a light, candlestick, lantern. |
| Glimble | n | Glimmer, glimpse |
| Glimmer | vb | To glitter, flash, to give a fake or intermittent light, to shine faintly. 2. to look or glance with half-closed eyes. |
| Glimmer | n | A feeble or wavering light, a sheen, shimmer. 2. a faint glean of knowledge, hope. 3.Slang: a fire; the eye |
| Glimmer-gowk | n | The owl, seeGowk |
| Glimpse | n | Momentarily view; passing flash or appearance; a gleam. |
| The Glimstick | n | A candlestick. |
| Glise | vb | To shine, sparkle, glitter. 2. a glance over |
| Glisk | n | (OE: glisian: to glance): a gleam of light; a glimpse. |
| Glist | n. | A gleam, a glistening |
| Glisten. | n | A sparkle, a glitter. |
| Glisten | phr | "All that Glistens is not Gold" - things are not always what they seem. |
| Glisten | phr | "Glisten With" - be covered, or filled, or specked drops of particles that reflect light. |
| Gloam | n | Twilight, dusk, evening gloom. |
| Gloam | n | The gloaming, the gloom, twilight, dusk, shade, dusky light, gloaming fall, hour or sky. |
| Gloaming | phr | "The Gloaming Shot: the beginning of twilight, a shot in the twilight- |
| Gloom | n | Probably not an Anglish word, as not considered to be related to Old English glom "twilight," but perhaps to Middle Low German glum "turbid," Dutch gluren "to leer." As a verb, from c. 1300 "to look sullen or displeased," perhaps from Scandinavian (cf. Norwegian dialectal glome "to stare somberly"). The noun is 1590s in Scottish, "sullen look," from the verb. Sense of "darkness, obscurity" is first recorded 1629; that of "melancholy" is 1744 (gloomy in this sense is attested from 1580s).a sullen look, frown, scowl. Indefinite degree of darkness or obscurity. A painful or depressing darkness. a deeply shaded or darkened place. a state of, or fits of melancholy or depression. NB: some OE word-books have "aefen-glom" even-gloom: twilight, dusk. |
| Glove | n | Covering for the hand, usu one with a separate sheath for each finger. |
| Glove | phr | "He Bit His Glove" - to resolve on mortal revenge. |
| Glove | phr | "The Gloves" - the sport of boxing |
| Glove | phr | "The Gloves are Off" - the challenge has been accepted |
| Glove | phr | "With the Gloves Off" - mercilessly; unfairly; with no compunction. |
| Glove | phr | "Work Hand In Glove With" - an inseparable association with. |
| Gloved | adj | Wearing glover. |
| Glover | n | One who makes gloves |
| Glove-fight | n | A boxing match with gloves, as opposed to a bare knuckles match. |
| Gloveful | adj | As much as a glove can hold. |
| Glovelike | adj | Resembling a glove or some aspect of. |
| Gloveless | adj | Without gloves. |
| Glove-maker | n | A maker of gloves. |
| Gloveman | n | A gloveman; a maker of gloves. |
| Glover | n | A maker of gloves. |
| Glovesman | n | A maker of gloves; glover. |
| Glovework | n | Ability in sports such as baseball or cricket where gloves are used. |
| Glovewort | n | Hounds tung, lily of the valley, " Convallaria majallis. |
| Glow | vb | Give out light and heat without flames; shine; be or look, very hot, burn with emotion |
| Glow | n | Shining heat; feeling of bodily heat, warmth of colour, ardor |
| Glow | phr | "Glow With" - show, throw out, reflect or be filled with. |
| Glow | phr | "In a Glow" - hot or flushed; sweating. |
| Glow | phr | "With a Warm Inner Glow" - satisfaction at some achievement. |
| Glow-fly | n | Fire-fly |
| Glowing | adj | The action of the verb 'glow' |
| Glowingly | adv | In the manner of something that is glowing. 2. in a glowing. |
| Glow-lamp | n | A light bulb. |
| Glow-stick | n | A self-contained , short-term light source. |
| Glow worm | n | Small luminous worm |
| Glowy | adj | Glowing. |
| Gloze | vb | To interpret; to make glosses; to discourse, to interpose or explain; to comment. |
| Gloze | phr | "Gloze On" - to veil with specious comments; to palliate, to explain away. |
| Glozer | n | A commentator, one who writes glosses. |
| Glozing | n | Flattery, cajoling, coaxing |
| Glum | n | A sullen look, sullenness, glumness. |
| Glum | adj | Of a person: sullen, frowning, having an air of dejecting, esp. to look glum or displeased. 2. of things: gloomy, dark, dismal (now only fig.) |
| Glum-like | adj | Gloomy, sullen, displeased, frowning etc. |
| Glum | vb | To look sullen, to frown, scowl. |
| Glumly | adv | In a glum manner. |
| Glumminess | n | The state or quality of being gloomy, glummy, dismal etc. |
| Glumming | adj | The action of the verb 'to glum' - frowning, scowling, dejection. |
| Glummish | adj | Somewhat glum, dismal, frownish, dejected. |
| Glummy | adj | Gloomly, dismally, frownish, dejected. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Go | n | Of a horse: the power of going. 2. of person: dash, energy, vigour. 3. of music: brightness, animation, 'swing'. 4. a quantity of a thing supplied at one time. 5. in constant motion. |
| Go | adj | Functioning properly, ready or prepared. |
| Go | vb | Get oneself moved from one place to another; to move along, depart; works, operates. |
| Go | phr | "A Fair-Go" - equitable treatment, fairness. |
| Go | phr | "All the Go" - all the fashion, all the rage, in vogue. |
| Go | phr | "A No-Go" a futile or hopeless attempt. 2. a person who is rarely successful at anything. |
| Go | phr | "Anything Goes" - all is permitted or acceptable. |
| Go | phr | "As Far As It Goes" - an expression against taking a statement to positively. |
| Go | phr | "As She Goes" - on the same course (nautical). |
| Go | phr | "As the Tale Goes" - of a report: to pass from mouth to mouth. 2. the currency of a report. |
| Go | phr | "As Things Go" - as the average is. |
| Go | phr | "At One Go" - with only one attempt. |
| Go | phr | "Be On the Go / All Day" - be active/ very busy with no time to rest. |
| Go | phr | "Enough To Go On With" - something that is sufficient for the time being, with the suggestion that more is to follow. |
| Go | phr | "From the Word Go" - from the beginning, start, commencement. |
| Go | phr | "Give It a Go" - to try, make attempt. |
| Go | phr | "Give One the Go-by" - to pass by and ignore someone; to disregard. |
| Go | phr | "Give the Go-ahead" - to give permission to proceed in an undertaking |
| Go | phr | "Go Aboard" - get on, or board a ship, aircraft. |
| Go | phr | "Go About" - go, walk, travel, from place to place. 2. move in society, among friends. 3. circulate, be current, go round. 4. make a start. approach, tackle a problem, job, task, etc. 5. change direction in boating ; move one's tack. |
| Go | phr | "Go About (with)" - keep company with. 2. court company with a view to marriage. |
| Go | phr | "Go About One's Business" - mind one's own business; occupy oneself with one's own affair. |
| Go | phr | "Go Abroad" - travel to a foreign country; go overseas. 2. leave one' own country to visit or live in another country. |
| Go | phr | "Go After" - to go in pursuit of, go after, seek, go looking for a suspect, wanted person, etc. 2. attack or attempt to get, chase, pursue, try to get a job, girl-friend, award. 3. to visit as a wooer or disciple. |
| Go | phr | "Go Against" - to oppose, attack, pursue. 2. be contrary to a scheme, plan, idea. 3. be out of harmony with beliefs, philosophy. |
| Go | phr | "Go Against the Heart " - to go against what feels right. |
| Go | phr | "Go Aground (on)" - become stuck on sand, mud, sand, or rocks. |
| Go | phr | "Go Ahead" - make one's way to the front; go forward or proceed, continue, carry on, with; make rapid progress. 2. do what one wants to do. 3. do without further delay; go on. 4. continue a journey in advance of others; go before. |
| Go | phr | "Go All Out" - make a great, concentrated effort to obtain what one wants. |
| Go | phr | "Go All the Way" - to travel the entire distance to one's intended destination. 2. to continue to the conclusion of a task or project. 3. to have sexual intercourse. |
| Go | phr | "Go Along" - proceed with any sustained activity, including traveling. |
| Go | phr | "Go Along for the Ride" - to accompany someone in a passive manner; or to take to relatively active or passive role in a project or group activity. |
| Go | phr | "Go Along to Get Along" - to conform in order to have acceptance and security. |
| Go | phr | "Go Along (with)" - accompany somebody to a certain place. |
| Go | phr | "Go a Long Way" - make, have made great progress - esp. improve one social status, standard, or performance - over a period of time; go, get far. |
| Go | phr | "Go Along Way Towards (Doing Something)" - help greatly in bringing something about; go far towards doing something. 3. approach closely to. |
| Go | phr | "Go Along With" - to agree, comply or approve of something done by another. 2. share somebody 's opinion; act in agreement with one's policy, proposal, ideas. 3. to be classed as together with. 4. be part of something; be in agreement with something. |
| Go | phr | "Go Along with You!" - a mild rebuke or jocular expression of disbelief; get along or away with you! |
| Go | phr | "Go and Do Something" - move, act to do or carry out something. |
| Go | phr | "Go Aside" - move away from other people. |
| Go | phr | "Go At" - to make a physical attack upon; to take in hand strongly. 2. argue discuss heatedly. 3. make a great effort to do something, as a job, task, etc. |
| Go | phr | "Go At It" - to something with great energy. |
| Go | phr | "Go Away" - depart, leave a place or somebody's presence; go off. 2. of a bridegroom with her bridegroom leaving the wedding and going on their honeymoon. |
| Go | phr | "Go Away With" - to carry off as one's own; to take,steal, plunder. |
| Go | phr | "Go Back" - retrace one's steps, return or resist to a further state. 2. return to an earlier point in space, time, discussion etc. 3. of clocks & watches: be set to an earlier time in order to go allow for changing hours of daylight (in various parts of the world). |
| Go | phr | "Go Back On" - to withdraw from an agreement, break a promise or agreement. 2. retract, fail to fulfill one's word, promise, undertaking. 3. prove faithless, or disloyal; to betray. 4. have its origin ; date back from/to. |
| Go | phr | "Go Back On One's Word" - fail to keep one's promises. |
| Go | phr | "Go Back to the Drawing Board" - to start again, to scrap an idea or plan and try again from the beginning. |
| Go | phr | "Go Backwards" - to change to reverse, take an unfavorable turn. 2.to decline in prosperity. |
| Go | phr | "Go Before" to precede in time and order; be anterior to. 2. live (and die) before one's own time (esp. pioneers). 3. appear before, in order to explain one's actions or to receive punishment. 4. be presented for discussion and approval. |
| Go | phr | "Go Behind One's Back" - act unfairly, unethically, deceitfully. |
| Go | phr | "Go Between" - to act as a mediator. 2. fit well into a position between; pass between. |
| Go | phr | "Go Beyond" - exceed, surpass one expectations, intentions. |
| Go | phr | "Go Broke" - lose one's money, go bankrupt |
| Go | phr | "Go By" - pass before, in front of, near to as a funeral procession. 2. elapse, pass (of time). 3. be guided by, take one's course, direction (a compass, etc). 4. judge by appearances. 5. pass by or without an opportunity, chance being grasped. |
| Go | phr | "Go By the Board" - to be superseded, rejected or obliterated, to pass by with little consequence. 2. to mount to nothing. |
| Go | phr | "Go By the Book" - act in a rigid, strictly correct or official manner. |
| Go | phr | "Go By the Name of" - be known as, called. |
| Go | phr | "Go By the Wayside" - to be outmoded or obsolete. |
| Go | phr | "Go Cold on the Deal" - lose interest in, or not carry through at all a business deal, or other agreement. |
| Go | phr | "Go Dead On Somebody" - cease to function, cease to respond, or be interested in. 2. be, or seem, incapable of development or completion. |
| Go | phr | "Go Down" - to change to a lower place. 2. to proceed down a road. 3. to lead downwards. |
| Go | phr | "Go Downhill" - decline, worsen. |
| Go | phr | "Go Down"" - disappear below the horizon. 2. sink below the surface of the sea; drown. 3. swallow, take as medicine, food, alcohol, etc. 4. fall, collapse; swoon. 5. be reduced in amount (taxes). 5. reduced in level, as sugar, salt, etc. 6. be reduced in force or degree, as the wind, temperature. 7. be written down or recorded, go down in writing, evidence, speech. |
| Go | phr | "Go Down On" - to perfor sexual intercourse on. |
| Go | phr | "Go Down On One's Knees" - adopt a kneeling position in order to do something. 2. abase oneself before. |
| Go | phr | "Go Down that Road" - to employ a way of doing something. 2. to do something in a particular way. |
| Go | phr | "Go Down the Wrong Way" - of food and dink: to go down the windpipe in one's throat, instead of the esophagus, resulting in coughing or choking. |
| Go | phr | "Go Down To" - be defeated by in a sporting event. 2. approach as a river flowing to the sea. 3. visit. 4. (of a story, book, history) reach, get as a far as, but not necessary to its end or finish. |
| Go | phr | "Go Down Well" - to be thought success. |
| Go | phr | "Go Down With" - be accepted (by), believe, an explanation, suggestion, scheme, plan. 2,. become ill with a disease. |
| Go | phr | 'Go Dry" - of an area prohibiting the sale of alcohol. |
| Go | phr | "Go Far" - rise greatly, or gone go a long way, in social position, profession. 2. become very successful, effective. |
| Go | phr | "Go Far Towards Doing Something" - help greatly to achieve a desired purpose. 2. go a long way towards doing something. |
| Go | phr | "Go Far and Fare Further" - go on in the hope of finding something better, but end up with something worse. |
| Go | phr | "Go Farther and Fare Worse" - to make more pains and trouble and find oneself in a worse position. |
| Go | phr | "Go Fifty-fifty" - share equally. 2. go halves. |
| Go | phr | Go For: make an physical or verbal attack upon. 2. to set out, leave, walk, stroll, exercise, start out for a destination. 3. go somewhere to obtain or get an item, call a doctor, police etc. 5. be true, or include this, that; or what I say. 6. like, be attracted by. 7. be sold for a certain amount, a house, horse, antique at auction, etc. |
| Go | phr | "Go for a Song" - go for very little or virtually nothing. 2. be in vain, have little importance, count for little. |
| Go | phr | "Go for Broke" - to goal-out; to make a strenuous effort. |
| Go | phr | "Go for Nothing" - ge given away (free) |
| Go | phr | "Go for Somebody" - attack somebody. |
| Go | phr | "Go Forth" - to go on, continue. 2. issue (an edict, order, command), go forth as an army; be created, emerge. |
| Go | phr | "Go For the Man" - to attack one physically, or in an argument. |
| Go | phr | "Go Forward" - procceed, progress, advance. |
| Go | phr | "Go From One's Word" - to go back on one's word. |
| Go | phr | "Go Full Drive" - to go full throttle. |
| Go | phr | "Go Get" - to go-get; work hard or ambitiously. |
| Go | phr | "Go Halves" - Go fifty-fifty, share equally. |
| Go | phr | "Go Haywire" - go wrong, become confused, behave or function in an uncontrolled or crazy way. |
| Go | phr | "Go Home" - go to one's abode, residence, house. 2. return to one's country; suggest (with acrimony) to a foreigner to return to their homeland. 2. die, pass away, go to heaven. |
| Go | phr | "Go In" - enter a house, school, building of various kind. 2. disappear behind a cloud, as sun, moon, stars. 3. fit, tightly or hermetically. 4. understood, go into one's head (brain) |
| Go | phr | "Go In and Out" - shine intermittently, as a light, beacon, etc. 2. move from one place to another, using entering and leaving premises or building of some kind. 3. |
| Go | phr | "Go In and Win" - encouragement to somebody who is about to take part in a competitor. |
| Go | phr | "Go In Fear of One's Life" - be afraid that one may be killed; esp. by assassination, murder.. |
| Go | phr | "Go in For" - have as one's chosen career, as medicine, teaching. 2. enter, participate, as a candidate or contestant in a competition, event, sport. 3. have as a hobby, sport, pastime, pursuit. |
| Go | phr | "Go In One Ear and Out the Other" - be unheeded or unlearned, of something said to be inattentive, uninterested or unintelligent person. 3. regularly practice, make a hobby, practice of; various sports, activities, etc. |
| Go | phr | Go Into (something)- insert a part of oneself (esp. one's hand)into a drawer, cupboard. 3. investigate, have a look into. 4. to examine, consider and discuss in detail. 5. to become part of something. 6. hit or make violent contact with a wall, tree, another car or vehicle. 7. be admitted to, (a hospital) usu. for a short period). 8. enter a mental or physical state or condition. 10. begin a pattern of behavior, usu. involuntarily, sometimes trance-like, hysterical etc. 11. take on as a career; commence, set up. 12. adopt, dressing,follow a fad or fashion. 13. capable of being divided, six into twenty-four, four times. |
| Go | phr | "Go In With" - to join. 2. to share expenses with. |
| Go | phr | "Go It!" - an exclamation of encouragement |
| Go | phr | "Go It Alone" - do something, esp. a difficult undertaking, or that takes considerable time, without the co-operation, assistance or backing of others. 2. do something without outside help. 3. play a lone hand. |
| Go | phr | "Go Like Blazes" - to act will full enthusiasm and action. |
| Go | phr | "Go Like the Wind" - move very fast, pass very quickly. |
| Go | phr | "Go Missing" - disappear; failing to perform in a contest or crisis. |
| Go | phr | "Go Near to" - approach close to. 2. |
| Go | phr | "Go No Further" - be stopped or dispelled. 2. be treated confidentially. keep secret, as an illness, confidence, rumor, story, etc. |
| Go | phr | "Go Off - become less good, go bad, unfit, sour or inedible. 2. lose one's appetite or liking for. 3. to lose one's temper; behave in a mad or crazy manner. 4. fall sleep, nap or doze off. 5. be good/ successful or bad/ unsuccessful at a gathering, meeting or in some other situation. 6. leave, depart, exit, go away. 7. making a sudden ringing, explosive, or firing sound. 8. go off, cease functioning, become unavailable as the electricity grid. 9. suddenly enter or go into a sudden mental state |
| Go | phr | "Go " - suddenly enter or go into a sudden etc mental state: hysterics, fits of laughter, a swoon. |
| Go | phr | "Go Off One's Head" - to lose one's temper. 2. go mad, lose all control (temporary) |
| Go | phr | "Go Off Somebody" - become less friendly with. |
| Go | phr | "Go Off the Deep End" - become suddenly angry. |
| Go | phr | "Go Off the Tools" - to quit work. |
| Go | phr | "Go Off With" - leave illicitly(?) in somebody's company, run away with. 2. steal and carry away, run away with. |
| Go | phr | "Go On" - depart for the purpose of a holiday, trip, excursion, getaway, course. 2. continue one's journey. 3. go on ahead of others. 4. mount and travel on an animal, as a horse, elephant, etc. or vehicle, train, ship. 5. continue or carry on an activity or relationship. 6. state of affairs, continue without change as hostility, war, rivalry, etc. 7. pass; go by in time. 8. continue speaking, after a short pause. 9. added something new to what has previously been written, said or discussed. 10. happen, take place. 11. act according to; be guided by hearsay, gossip. 12. be spent on, expended, expenditure. 13. assistance, dole, relief. 14. exclamation in various meanings, depending on the situation and reflected by the intonation of the speaker. 15. be lit or turned on, as lights, lamps etc. |
| Go | phr | "Go On About" - talk endlessly about (usu. in an irrational or carping manner). |
| Go | phr | "Go On all Fours" - to crawl about on all limbs, as a quadruped. |
| Go | phr | "Go On At" - nag, criticize, complain about something or someone. |
| Go | phr | "Go On Before" - precede. lead. |
| Go | phr | "Go One Better (than)" - outdo, or outbid, somebody. 2. be rather better than something similar which was previously offered. |
| Go | phr | "Go One's Own Way" - follow one's own inclinations. 2. have values, interests, pursuits, work, methods, etc . not the same as another's,or a group's , with whom one might be expected to conform. |
| Go | phr | "Go On For" - be approaching a certain age. 2. (of time) - of time; great near, approach. |
| Go | phr | "Go On to" - pass from one subject or item to the next or another in an agenda etc. 2. pass on a to a new habit or fad, as a diet, fashion. 3. change an arrangement at work. |
| Go | phr | "Go On(to) the Street" - to become a prostitute, a sex-worker, and earn one's living as a street prostitute. |
| Go | phr | "Go On With" continue doing what one is doing. |
| Go | phr | "Go On With You" - a remark made to tease or rebuke. |
| Go | phr | "Go Out" - absent oneself from home etc for some purpose. 2. be unconscious. 3. die, pass away, expire. 4. end, depart, leave a period, season, month etc. 5. stop, burning, shining. 6. cease to be fashionable. 7. ebb, go out, diminish. |
| Go | phr | "Go Out and About" - leave one's house, visit friends, go shopping. |
| Go | phr | "Go Out for" - leave a building, go into the open air. |
| Go | phr | "Go Out Of" - disappear, become reduced, (venom, heat, tension, passion) from an issue, debate, argument etc. |
| Go | phr | "Go Out of Business" - fail in business, stop trading or operation. |
| Go | phr | "Go Out of One's Mind" - become mad. |
| Go | phr | "Go Out of Somebody's Mind" - be forgotten, not remembered. |
| Go | phr | "Go Out Of the Way (to do something)" - take particular trouble; be helpful; be pleasant. 2. take extra trouble to do something. |
| Go | phr | "Go Out Of Sight" - disappear from sight. |
| Go | phr | "Go Out On a Limb" - to take a risk. 2. to hazard a guess. |
| Go | phr | "Go Out (to)" - leave a building, go into the open air. 2. go overses, esp. to some distant place. 3. be extended to, be offered to. |
| Go | phr | "Go Over" - check, examine, inspect, look over accounts, etc.. 2. survey, view, in a view to rent or buying, look over a house, etc. 3. clean, inspect, repair, a house, building, etc. 4. ponder, consider, examine, re-examine the facts, story, etc. 5. search, frisk, pat over. 6. rehearse, test one's knowledge of something learned or studied; go through.. |
| Go | phr | "Go Overboard" - fall or be thrown from a ship. |
| Go | phr | "Go Overboard For/ About" - be enthusiastic about, commit oneself totally to something or someone. |
| Go | phr | "Go Over In One's Head" - to think (to communicate in one's mind and thoughts in trying to find an solution to a problem). |
| Go | phr | "Go Over One's Head" - to take an issue to another person's superior rather than beginning to deal with the original person. 2. to escape one's comprehension; to fuil to understand. |
| Go | phr | "Go Over the Ground" - examine fundamental aspects of something. |
| Go | phr | "Go Over the Wall" - leave or escape from confinement, whether physical or spiritual. |
| Go | phr | "Go Over To" - cross a stream, sea, mere etc., so as to reach the other side. 2. transfer one's allegiance to, defect. 3. abandon one thing or practice and adopt another as, a religion, lifestyle, genre, political persuasion. 4. of a radio or TV broadcast, to cross to a reporter on the spot at an other location. |
| Go | phr | "Go Over to the Other Side" - change one allegiance or loyalty. |
| Go | phr | "Go Red" - to blush; to embarrass. |
| Go | phr | "Go Right" - turn out very well. 2. happen or be done accordingly to somebody' s plans or hopes. |
| Go | phr | "Go Scot?-free" - to be exempt from a royal tax or impost. 2. without consequences or penalty. |
| Go | phr | "Go Slow" - reduce work, or activity, considerably (industrial relations) reduce work , or activity , considerably as a form of industrial action in place of stopping work altogether. |
| Go | phr | "Go Snake" - to approach, attack, or accost a personal situation or environment in an extremely unrestrained or violent manner, often with no thoughts to the consequences. |
| Go | phr | "Go So Far as One Can Go" - do everything to solve a problem; bring a favorable result. |
| Go | phr | "Go So Far As to Do Something" - go to a particular - often extreme - limits in talking about something, in dealing with a situation. |
| Go | phr | "Go As Far As to Say" - to put something into words. 2. to risk saying something. |
| Go | phr | "Go Somewhere" - to be successful, achieve. |
| Go | phr | "Go Sour" - become sour, no longer fresh, sweet, wholesome. 2. become unfriendly, unsatisfactory, unproductive. |
| Go | phr | "Go South" - to be unfavorable; to decrease to take a turn for the worse. |
| Go | phr | "Go Steady" - have a stable relationship with somebody, of a kind that sometimes leads to marriage. |
| Go | phr | "Go Steady With" - be careful or controlled in one's actions or speech. 2. be more careful or controlled in the use of something. |
| Go | phr | "Go the Way Of All the Flesh" - live and die as others do. 2. suffer any of the changes , hazards, or temptations, which men are faced with. 2. die, pass away. |
| Go | phr | "Go the Way of the World" - the manner, often unavoidable or displeasing, in which events usually unfold or in which a person usually behave. |
| Go | phr | "Go the Whole Hog" - to eat voraciously, hog, gluttonise. |
| Go | phr | "Go Through" - pass from side of an object to the other, sometimes implying the exercise of force. 2. endure, suffer, live through, experience, to pass through a stage. 3. consume, eat, waste, squander. 4. examine, explore, search. 5. rehearse, review, go over information, scene, text etc. 6. of a book, be republished or make new edition. 7. be completed, concluded (usu. successfully)legislation, deal, divorce, agreement. |
| Go | phr | "Go Through Hell" - to have a miserable experience. |
| Go | phr | "Go Through Somebody's Hands" - be handled by, be the responsibility of somebody. |
| Go | phr | "Go Through the Mill" - serve an apprenticeship; do humble, difficult, and menial tasks before attaining higher or senior status. |
| Go | phr | "Go Through With" - complete, take a conclusion, not leave unfinished |
| Go | phr | "Go to" - visit, attend a school, work, shopping centre, theater, football match. 2. take, put oneself to great pain to do something. 3. be awarded, given a prize, acknowledged. 4. go to great expense, spending. |
| Go | phr | "Go To!" - an exclamation, often of impatience or reproof, or an an exhortation like 'come'. |
| Go | phr | "Go to a Better World" - to die and go to heaven. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Bed" - to lie down to sleep; to put oneself in one's bed |
| Go | phr | "Go to Bed With" - to have sexual intercourse with. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Bits" - go to pieces: lose one's self control; health, integrity. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Earth" - go into hiding. |
| Go | phr | "Go to War" - engage in warfare. |
| Go | phr | "Go the Right Way" - have an unfavorable result, contest, dealings. |
| Go | phr | "Go the Way of Somebody or Something" - end in the same way, suffer the same fate, as somebody/ something specified (the implication almost always being that it is regrettable). |
| Go | phr | "Go the Whole Hog" - go the full limit of a possible course of action. 2. commit or involve, oneself to the fullest extent. |
| Go | phr | "Go the Wrong Way" - have an unfavorable result, contest, dealings. |
| Go | phr | "Go Through Fire and Water" - overcome extreme difficulty or hardship to achieve something. |
| Go | phr | "Go Through With" - to carry out (somehing planned or promised) . 2, to proceed or continue with. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Earth" - go into hiding. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Far" - exceed what is right or true, reasonable or just. 2. carry something too far. |
| Go | phr | "Go Together" - of or two things, states, qualities, etc., be in one person , place, environment etc. 2. match; be right, agreeable when worn, consumed etc., at the same time. 3. keep one another company, often with a view to marriage. 4. complement, match. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Great Lengths" - to make a major effort. 2. to be careful when doing something, esp. to an extreme or excessive degree. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Ground" - take refuge underground, in a burrow, lair. 2. of people; hide oneself away. 3. go to earth. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Hell" - an offensive expression dismissing or rejecting a person or his ideas, wishes. 2. defeat, fail, become bankrupt. |
| Go | phr | "Go to It" - give energy and time to something, make a special effort to do something (often used to urge somebody on). |
| Go | phr | "Go to One's Head" - to cause one grief, sorrow, pity. 2. affect a person balance or judgement, as wine, success, praise, money, fame, notoriety. 3. make one become conceited, over-confident. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Pot" - be spoiled, ruined. 2. deteriorate, or become disorganized, out of control. 3. go to the dogs. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Sea" - go on a voyage, enlist and become a sailor. 2. earn one's living on a ship. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Seed" - (of vegetable): go beyond the edible stage and produce seeds. 2. of people: become unattractive (seedy-looking) through self-neglect, over-indulgence, or unhealthy living. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Show" - serve as a proof, or demonstration of something previously, or shortly to be, mentioned. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Sleep" - an expression used to dismiss as extremely foolish. 2. to dismis s somebody that ones feel not like talking to. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Someone's Head" - to strongly affect a person to the detriment of his or her senses or mental faculties. |
| Go | phr | "Go to the Bathroom" - euphemism: to go to the toilet. |
| Go | phr | "Go to the Bottom" - be immersed in water. 2. to feel downcast, dejected, depressed. 3. to droop. |
| Go | phr | "Go to the Dogs" - decline in power, efficiency,etc., change for the worse. |
| Go | phr | "Go to the Ends of the Earth" - to everything to achieve something. |
| Go | phr | "Go to the Heart" - hit, reach the central point of the matter, question, problem. |
| Go | phr | "Go To the Wall" - go under, become insolvent, bankrupt. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Town" -do something energetically or with full vigour, thoroughness and relish. 2. be extravagant, lavish. |
| Go | phr | "Go to Work" - start operating; tackle a task, job, set to. |
| Go | phr | "Go Under" - to submit, fail, collapse financially, sink (lit. & fig.) 2. sink below the surface of the sea, water etc. 3. fail financially, become bankrupt; go to the wall. 4. be known as ; hide one's identity behind; pass by under another name. |
| Go | phr | "Go Underground" - live and work in hiding under a false identity. etc. as esp. as in a secret, or a proscribed, military or political or movement. |
| Go | phr | "Go Under the Hammer" - be sold at an auction. |
| Go | phr | "Go Under the Name of" - be known as; called. |
| Go | phr | "Go Under To" - be overcome by a more powerful person, party or other influence. |
| Go | phr | "Go Up" - to rise; advance, progress. 2. climb (stairs), pass upwards, on or through rigging, chimney, funnel. 3. rise, increase prices, cost of living. 4. reach, reach a higher level, of a barometer, pressure, temperature. 5. be constructed, as a bridge, building, tower etc. 6. be destroyed (accidentally) by an explosion, blown up deliberately. 7. of a theatre curtain: raised. 8. |
| Go | phr | "Go Up Against" - to challenge someone or something. |
| Go | phr | "Go Up in Smoke" - to catch fire and burn. 2. to be completely ruined. |
| Go | phr | "Go Up in the World" - reach a higher position in society, in one's profession. |
| Go | phr | "Go Up the Wall" - go nearly mad from frustration, overwork, annoyance. |
| Go | phr | "Go Up To" - go to university, or to a capital city from regional area. |
| Go | phr | "Go West" - die, perish, cease to exist,be lost, or got rid of (from the sun sinking in the West). |
| Go | phr | "Go West Young Man" - go and develop new opportunities (while you are young and vigorous) from a C19th Us catchphrase to promote the opening up and developing the Western States. |
| Go | phr | "Go While the Going is Good" - leave, escape etc while there is an opportunity to do so is easy. 2. do something while conditions are still favorable or do nt involve too much danger or inconvenience. |
| Go | phr | "Go Wild" - become very noisy and excited. 2. 2. go ahead. 3. to do as you please. |
| Go | phr | "Go With" - to accompany, join, travel together. 2. be part of ; be included with, in various senses. 3. match, suit, combined well with; go together with. |
| Go | phr | "Go Without" - not to have or possess; to put up with the want of. 2. not have, have not, suffer the absence of, do without (food, clothing, shelter) |
| Go | phr | Go Without Saying - beyond reasonable doubt. 2. that is a matter of course being self-evident or need not be mentioned.. |
| Go | phr | "Go With Someone" - to go as a partner of somebody, accompany, on a formal date. 2. to escort, partner. |
| Go | phr | "Go With the Flow" - to act as a others are acting. 2. to conform to common behavior patterns with an attitude of calm acceptance. |
| Go | phr | "Go With the Swing" - be very successful, enjoyable, as a party, festival, concert. |
| Go | phr | "Go With the Tide" - follow others, take the line of least resistance. 2. in accordance or harmony with. |
| Go | phr | "Go Wrong" - turn out very badly. 2. happen or be done contrary to somebody' s plans or hopes. 3. err in calculation, judgement, or management. |
| Go | phr | "Have a Go at (Something)" - make an attempt. |
| Go | phr | "Here's a Go" - here's a mess or awkward affair. |
| Go | phr | "Here Goes" - said before doing something risky, unpleasant. |
| Go | phr | "Here We Go Again" - the same thing is happening again. |
| Go | phr | "How Goes it With You" - what happening (with you); what progress has been made. |
| Go | phr | "It's a Go" - a deal, bargain etc. |
| Go | phr | "It's No Go" - it cannot be done; it's not workable. |
| Go | phr | "Let Go off" - release one hold of. 2. abandon one's interest or share in. |
| Go | phr | "Make a Go of (Something)" - to make a success of it. 2. do something successfully. |
| Go | phr | "On the Go" - ready, prepared, in motion. |
| Go | phr | "Pride Goes Before a Fall" - (proverb) : used to indicate or warn against, the fact that a boastful or proud statement (actions etc) is often quickly followed by some event which disproves it and appears to be a form of retribution. |
| Go | phr | "That Goes for Nothing" - it doesn't count; it doesn't matter one way or the other. |
| Go | phr | "That's the Way It Goes" - these are the (usually unpleasant) circumstances. |
| Go | phr | "There You Go" - here you are. |
| Go | phr | "Who Goes There" - an imperative challenging who is near. |
| Goad | n | A long-stick with a point set in the end for prodding, an urging oxen and other beasts. 2. something that spurs or excites. 3. a measurement of 4ft 6ins |
| Goad | vb | To prick and drive with or as with a goad. |
| Goadsman | n | A driver of oxen or cattle. |
| Go-ahead | n | The action or spirit of going forward, progress, ambition, energy or initiative. |
| Go-ahead | adj | Forward-looking and energetic in an undertaking; enterprising. 2. proceeding straight ahead without pause, forthright. 3. disposed towards making a progress; energetic. |
| Go-ahead | phr | "Give the Go-ahead To" - to signal, order or permit one to proceed. |
| Go-aheadishness | n | The state of acting with initiative, drive, energy, progressiveness. |
| Go-aheadness | n | Initiative, drive, energy, progress. |
| Go-anywhere | adj | That can go anywhere. |
| Goat | n | A species of horned mammal with four legs and woolly coat. 2. a lecherous man. |
| Goat | phr | "Don't Play the Giddy Goat" - don't be a complete fool. |
| Goat | phr | "Get On Somebody's Goat" - greatly annoy someone. 2. get a strong reaction from somebody by teasing or tormenting. 3. 'The Goat' - Capricorn. |
| Goat | phr | "Play the (giddy)Goat" - behave foolishly. |
| Go-back | n | A returning, a going-back, an advent. |
| Goat's bane | n | Acomitum Tragoctunum |
| Goatbuck: | n | A male-goat. |
| Goat-god | n | Pan. |
| Goatherd | n | A flock or group of goats. |
| Goat-herder | n | One Who herds and take care of goats. |
| Goating | n | A scapegoating. 2. an eventat a fraternal organization, derived from scapegoating. |
| Goatish | adj | Lascivious, lustful. 2. resembling a goat. |
| Goatishly | adv | In a goatish way. |
| Goatishness | n | The state or condition of being goatish. |
| Goatling | n | A young goat, a kid. |
| Goatly | adv | Goat-like, goatish. |
| Goat's milk | n | The milk of a goat. |
| Goat-sea | n | Aegean sea. |
| Goaty | n | A beard, esp. an van-dyke style of beard. |
| Goaty | adj | Pertaining or concerning a goat, lusty, lascivious. 2. goat-like, goatish. |
| Go-before | n | Harbinger, scout, pioneer. |
| Go-between | n | Intermediary, or one who passes messages, proposals between two parties, esp. lovers. 2. a nexus |
| Go-by | n | The passing of a river, time or simply of a body from place to place. 2. action to avoid something. |
| Go-by | phr | "To Give the Go-by To" - to outstrip, leave behind. 2. pass on a deception, disregard, slight. |
| Go-by-the-ground | n | Something that creeps or crawls along the grounds; reptile, slinkend. |
| Go-by-the-ground | adj | Slinky, creeping, crawling, reptile-like. |
| Go-cart | n | A hand-cart. 2. a miniature racing with a skeleton frame or body. |
| God | n | A being with supernatural powers. transfiguratively, of persons, as objects of adoration or as possessed of absolute power. |
| God | phr | "For God Sake"- exclamation of annoyance, surprise. |
| God | phr | "For the Gods" - something delightful or amazing. |
| God | phr | "From the Gods" - the upper stalls at a theatre. |
| God | phr | "God Bless You" - said as a short prayer to a recipient. 2. said to someone who has sneezed as a rhetorical response (bless you). |
| God | phr | "God Forbid" - let us hope that what is mentioned is not so, cannot be, will never happen |
| God | phr | "God Forgive Me" - possibly a pious appeal for forgiveness, but usually added to an account of something said or done or note, or point out , that is wrong, mistaken, mischievous, etc. |
| God | phr | "God's Green Earth" - the planet Earth. |
| God | phr | "God Help Him/Her/Somebody" - sometimes a pious appeal, but usually a comment that somebody's circumstances are unfortunate, that he/ she is, or likely to be , in need of sympathy and help though perhaps not likely to get it. |
| God | phr | "God Help Those who Help Themselves" - one has to make efforts on one's own behalf before can assist in making these efforts successful. |
| God | phr | "God In Heaven" - exclamation of surprize or shock. |
| God | phr | "God Is My Witness" - I swear, I vow, solemnly; truthfully, honestly before God. |
| God | phr | "God Knows" - I don't knows; nobody knows; one can only guess. |
| God | phr | "God Knows That" - certainly; emphatically. |
| God | phr | "God of the Day" - the Sun. |
| God | phr | "God of Love" - Cupid, Eros. |
| God | phr | "God of the/this World" - the Devil, Satan, Lucifer. |
| God | phr | "God Rest His/Her Soul" - pious, or affectionate, parenthesis used when referring to somebody who is dead. |
| God | phr | "God Sides with the Strong" - fortune favors with the strong. |
| God | phr | "God Willing" - if God so wills. 2. unless prevented by an act of God or by some circumstances over which no one has control. |
| God | phr | "Good God" - exclamation of surprise. |
| God | phr | "In God's Name" - an appeal for help. |
| God | phr | "In the Lap of the God" - subject to luck, fate, pur chance |
| God | phr | "Little Tin God" - a petty tyrant. 2. somebody with an inflated opinion of his/her importance. |
| God | phr | "Mills of God Grinds Slowly (but they grind oh-so small)" - the punishment or reward for one's actions will eventually happen, even after a long delay. 2. retribution may be delayed but it is inevitable. |
| God | phr | "Put the Fear of God Into Someone" - frighten somebody. |
| God | phr | "The Gods" - uppermost balcony in a theatre. |
| God | phr | "To Play God" - to make life or death (or decisions that may affect others adversely) decisions. |
| God | phr | "Ye Gods!" - exclamation of surprize. |
| God Almighty | n | Almighty God, God the omnipotent or all-powerful. |
| God-bairn | n | Godchild |
| Godbook | n | The Bible |
| Godbote | n | Church fine for crimes against God; an ecclesiastical fine. |
| Godbox | n | A church, (slang) |
| Godchild | n | A child for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism. |
| Godcund | adj | God-like, divine, spiritual, goddish, godkind, |
| Godcundliness | n | Divinity; godcundhood; divine nature or power. |
| God-dreading | adj | God-fearing. |
| Go-devil | n | An instrument used for cleaning the inside of pipes. |
| Goddery | n | An assembly of gods, A Pantheon, a church or any place of worship, temple |
| Goddess | n | A female divinity. 2. figuratively, a woman surpassingly beloved, good or beautiful. |
| Goddess-hood | n | The nature, characteristic or position belonging to a goddess; divine personality. |
| Goddess-ship | n | The office or position of a goddess. |
| Goddish | adj | Somewhat godly, divine or spiritual. |
| Goddish | adj | Somewhat godly, divine or spiritual. |
| Goddy | adj | Pertaining to, or relating to God or divine matters. |
| Goderheal | adj | Fortunately, profitably, prosperously, with God's blessing; godhale, godheal |
| Go-devil | n | A dray sledge for hauling rocks, logs, etc. 2. a railroad handcart used by railroad work gangs. 3. a jointed flexible device fr cleaning a pipeline for obstructions. |
| Godfather | n | A man who becomes a sponsor for a child at its baptism or confirmation. |
| Godfather | vb | To take the position or become a godfather. |
| Godfather | vb | To act as a godfather. |
| God-fatherhood | n | The fact of being a godfather. |
| God-fatherless | adj | Without or not having a godfather. |
| God-fatherlike | n | Resembling or like a godfather. |
| Godfatherly | adv | Befitting a grandfather. |
| God-fathership | n | The position of a godfather. |
| Godfearing | adj | That fearing god, deeply religious. 2. fearing the wrath of god. 3. meek before God. |
| Godfearingly | adv | In a godfearing way, pious, devout. |
| Godfoe | n | Satan, the devil,lucifer, antigod, antichrist, The Beast. |
| God-folk | n | Church people. |
| God forsaken | adj | Of persons, abandoned by God; depraved, profiligate. 2. of places, desolate, dismal, harsh, cruel. 3. dismal and without any redeeming features. |
| Godforsakenly | adv | In a godforsaken way. |
| God-forsakenness | n | The state or condition of being godforsaken. |
| Godfull | adj | Full of piousness, devoutness |
| God-given | adj | Given or sent by God or appearing so. |
| Godhead | n | The essential nature of God; the Deity. |
| Godhearted | adj | Kind and well-intentioned. |
| Godheartedly | adv | In a god-hearted manner. |
| Godhome | n | Heaven |
| Godhood | n | State or quality of being a god. |
| Godily | adv | In a godly fashion. |
| Godking | n | A statesman who holds all state's power and has religious significance to constituency. 2. in computing, a tyrannical maintainer of a collaborative. |
| Godking | adj | God-like, divine, spiritual, goddish, godkind, |
| Godkingliness | n | Divinity; godcundhood; divine nature or power. |
| Godless | adj | Lacking or not having or believing in a god; heathenly, without piety, atheistic, unbelieving. 2. ungodly, profane, atheistic, wicked. |
| Godlessly | adv | In a godless, profane, atheistic or wicked way or manner. |
| Godlessness | n | State or quality of being godless, profane or |
| Godlike | adj | Of a person resembling or characteristic of a god in some qualities, esp. in nature or disposition, . 2. after the fashion of a god. |
| God-likeness | n | State of having the qualities, action, appearance appropiatate of a god. 2. resembling that of good. |
| Godliness | n | Quality of being godly. 2. devout observance of the laws of god. 3. piety. |
| Godling | n | A minor divinity, a local or inferior god; half-god, demigod. |
| Godly | adj | Of or pertaining to a god. 2. devoted to a god. 3. devout, righteous; gloriously good. |
| God-maker | n | Maker of religious icons, |
| Godmanhood | n | The state of being god and man at once. |
| Godminded | adj | Spiritually minded. |
| Godmonger | n | Sellers and makers of religious articles and souvenirs. 2. monger of religious articles. |
| Godmother | n | A female sponsor at baptism. |
| Godmother | vb | To provide with a godmother. 2. to become a godmother. 3. to act as a godmother to. |
| God-motherhood | n | The office of a godmother. |
| Godness | n | The divine element or value of a god. |
| Go-down | n | A draught, gulp or mouthful of liquor; a guzzling or drinking match. 3. spell of sleep. 4. cutting in a bank of a stream, river, waterway, for access or to enable animals to get to water. 5. a welcoming, greeting or acceptance of one; a kowtow, bowing. |
| God's acre | n | Church-yard, cemetery, a burying ground, church-yard cemetery. |
| God's book | n | The Bible. |
| Godsend | n | An unexpected stroke of good fortune regarded as sent by God. |
| God's eye | n | The plant "Oculus Christi" |
| God's fire | n | The sun. 2. weather-candle |
| God's goods | n | The property or possessions of the church. 2. worldly possession viewed as God's gift to man. 3. things without human ownership. |
| God's kichell | n | A cake given by a godfather to their god child at baptism. |
| Godship | n | Position, rank or character of a god. |
| Godsib | n | Gossip: between siblings. |
| Godsister | n | A female godchild. |
| Godsmith | n | A priest, pastor, reverend, minister of religion. |
| Godson | n | A male godchild. |
| God-speed | n | May God prosper somebody or something. |
| God-speed | phr | "In God's Speed" - a wish for a safe journey or success. |
| God's truth | n | The absolute truth. |
| Godward | adv | In respect, connection or relation of god. 2. (fig.) towards in the direction of God. 3. Godwards. |
| Goer | n | One or that who goes, as a 'film-goer'. 2. one who behaves in a lively, persevering or profligate manner; a successful person, an expert. |
| Goes | phr | "Here Goes" - let me see what happens. |
| Goes | phr | "That's the Way It Goes" - what is happening (with you)? 2. what progress has been made? 3. how goes it? |
| Goes | phr | "That's the Way It Goes" - these are the (usually unpleasant) circumstances. |
| Go-getter | n | An active, ambitious, enterprising, energetic, pushy, forceful person. |
| Go-getting | n | The behaviour of a go-getter: enterprising, pushy, ambitious etc. |
| Go-getting | adj | Enterprising, successful, pushy, ambitious. |
| Go-gettiness | n | The state or condition of being go-getting. |
| Go-go | adj | Fashionable, swinging, fabulous, unrestrained, hustling & bustling, exuberant. 2. of funds on the Stock market: speculative. 3. of dancers, esp. dico: exuberant, wild, often deliberately erotic. |
| Go-in | n | An attack or onslaught upon |
| Going | n. | Departure, a long journey, death, faculty of walking, gait, means of access, a path, passage, gangway.. |
| Going | phr | "A Going Thing" - something that is successful. |
| Going | phr | "Get Going" - start, beginning. |
| Going | phr | Get Going While the Goings Good: go while favourable conditions or situation exists. |
| Going | phr | Going away - departure, leaving. |
| Going | phr | Going down - setting of the sun. |
| Going | phr | "Going for" - priced at; sold for. |
| Going | phr | "Going, Going, Gone" - an auctioner's warning that an article is to be sold unless there is a higher bid before his hammer goes down at the word 'gone.' |
| Going | phr | "Going On Fifteen" - approaching one's fifteenth birthday. |
| Going | phr | "Going On for" - approaching an age, time etc. |
| Going | phr | "Going On with" - to start with; for the time being. |
| Going | phr | "Going Strong" - flourishing, thriving. |
| Going | phr | "Going to" - intended or intending to; about to; likely to. |
| Going | phr | 'Going Well" - of an enterprise: accomplishing. |
| Going | phr | "Have A lot Going For One" - have many advantages. |
| Going | phr | "Heavy Going" -difficult, hard work. |
| Going | phr | "Going-over" - a scolding, talking-to, dressing down; a thrashing, beating. 2. inspection, overhaul, attention to something. |
| Going | phr | "Have a Lot Going for Something/Somebody" - have many advantages. |
| Going | phr | "How Are Things Going" - a general enquiry about what is happening or what progress has been made. |
| Going | phr | "Still Going Strong" - active and successful. 2. still maintaining its/ their popular appeal. |
| Going | phr | "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" - strong people become stronger when faced with adversity or difficulties. |
| Going | phr | "While the Going is Good" - while the opportunity exists. |
| Going-away | n | Departure; especially on one's honeymoon. |
| Going-down | n | "The Going-down" - sunset. |
| Goingly | adv | At a walking pace. |
| Going-over | n | A scolding, talking-to, dressing down; a thrashing, beating, an attack upon. 2. inspection, overhaul, attention to something |
| Goings-on | n | Proceedings, actions, doings, behavior (usu. with implied censure, reprehension), frolics, extravagance and extraordinary behavior. |
| Gold | n. | A yellow precious metal used for coins and jewelry. |
| Gold | phr | "As Good as Gold" - very well behaved. 2. feeling in good health. |
| Gold | phr | "Go For Gold" - to aim for victory in the Olympic. |
| Gold | phr | "Have a Heart of Gold" - have a kind, compassionate attribute of a person with. 2. noble-hearted. 2. have a generous disposition. |
| Gold | phr | "Like Gold Dust" - extremely rare. |
| Gold | phr | "Pot of Gold" - wealth |
| Gold | phr | "Seek the Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow" - to have naive expectations. |
| Gold | phr | "Strike Gold" - to have one's efforts suddenly rewarded by great success. |
| Gold | phr | "Worth One's Weight In Gold" - to be very desirable. |
| Gold-bearing | adj | Producing or abundant in gold. |
| Gold-beater | n | One who makes gold leaf. |
| Gold-beating | n | The act or operation of making gold leaf by hammering. |
| Gold-digger | n. | One who digs for gold. 2. a woman skilled in obtaining money and wealth from men. 3. a woman who uses her personal relations with men to get money and gifts from them. |
| Gold-digging | n | The action or occupation of searching and digging for gold. |
| Gold dust | n | The plant Alyssum saxatile. 2. fine or powdery deposits of gold; gold in fine particles. |
| Golden | adj | Precious, splendid, superb, memorable, glorious. 2. made or consisting of gold. 3. having the color or lustre of gold; bright-yellow, resplendent. 4. resembling gold in worth or scarcity; unusually valuable or excellent; rare. 5. characterized by a great condition of happiness and prosperity. |
| Golden | vb | To cover or tinge with a golden hue. |
| Golden | phr | "A Golden Key Can Open Any Door" - enough money or promise of it, will accomplish anything. |
| Golden | phr | A Good Name is Better than a Golden Girdle" - a good name is better than having wealth. |
| Golden | phr | "The Golden Bowl is Broken" - death: a biblical allusion. |
| Golden | phr | "Worship the Golden Calf" - to abandon ones principles for the sake of gain; bow down to money. |
| Golden apple | n | A cause of discord; something to contend about. |
| Goldenberry | n | A fruit, the physalis. |
| Golden calf | n | A golden image of a calf, made by Aaron and worshipped by the Israelites. 2. money as an end in itself; mammon. |
| "Golden Days" - | phr | Pleasant and/or prosperous time in the past. |
| Golden eye | n | A large sea duck. |
| Golden fleece | n | In Greek legend, a fleece of gold that hung in a sacred grove in colchis, guarded by a dragon, stolen by Jason with the aid of Medea. |
| Golden-glow | n | The summer-flowering, erect herb 'rudbeckia laciniata' with showy terminal heads of yellow-rayed flowers. |
| Golden goose | n | In Greek legend, a goose that laid golden eggs, killed by its owner who thought to obtain all of them at once. |
| Golden handshake | n | A lucrative employee severance agreement and payment. 2. a large payment made to induce an employee who leaves the job prematurely. |
| Golden-haired | adj | Blonde, with golden locks. |
| Golden Hind | n | The famous ship in which Francis Drake made his famous voyage (1577-8o). |
| Golden Horn | phr | The crescent-shape inlet of Bosphorous in Turkey in Europe, forming the harbour of Istanbul. |
| Golden horsehoe | n | A region in Canada, but any region density populated and economically productive. |
| Golden-handshake | n | A generous severance payment, esp. as an inducement to leave one's employment. |
| Golden-hearted | adj | Kind, compassionate, caring. |
| Golden Horn | n | The opening of the Bosphorous separating the city of Istanbul from its suburbs famed for its beauty. |
| Golden lungwort | n | Itira muromum. |
| Goldenly | adv | In a golden manner, excellently, splendidly. 2. in a golden hue or lustre. |
| Golden mothwort | n | Cudweed. |
| Goldenness | n | The condition or quality of bearing gold. |
| Golden shackles | n | Financial arrangements designed to discourage employees changing jobs. (opposite of a "golden handshake'. |
| Golden Thread | n | A legal judgement famous for iterating the duty inherent in the prosecution to prove the prisoner's guilt beyond any reasonable doubt. |
| Golden-tongued | adj | Eloquent, articulate, well-spoken. |
| Golden wattle | n | A plant of the genus Acacia (especially, Acacia pycnantha)related to the mimosaand having yellow flowers, widely distributed in Australia. |
| Golden wedding | n | A marriage of 50 years duration. |
| Golden week | n | The longest holiday period in Japan held in April for employees and schoolchildren. |
| Golden world | n | A golden age, epoch or era. |
| Goldeny | adj | Somewhat golden in colour. |
| Gold faw | adj | Adorned with gold. |
| Goldfield | n | A region or area where gold is searched for and mined. |
| Gold-fielder | n | One who searches for gold on a gold-field. |
| Goldfinder | n | One who searches for and sometimes finds gold; a gold prospector. 2. a person who cleans toilet or latrines. |
| Gold-finger | n. | Third or ring finger |
| Goldfish | n | Small carp of golden color, originally off China, now cultivated in many varieties as an ornamental aquarium fish. |
| Goldfish-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a goldfish. |
| Goldhoard | n | Treasure; a hoard of gold. |
| Gold-house | n | Treasury, Gold-house. |
| Gold-hunter | n | A gold-digger; one who cultivates a personal relationship in order to attain wealth. 2. someone who digs or mines for gold. |
| Goldilocks | n | An European herb Linosyris Vulgaris with yellow flower heads. a girl with golden or blonde hair. |
| Golding | n | The process of covering an item with a thin layer of gold; gilting |
| Goldleaf | n | A very fine leaf made from beaten gold. |
| Goldless | adj | Lacking or devoid of gold. |
| Goldlike | adj | Resembling gold in colour or sheen. |
| Goldly | adv | Resembling gold in colour or sheen. |
| Goldmine | n | A mine where gold is extracted. 2. a source of great wealth. |
| Goldness | n | The state or quality of being golden. |
| Gold-seeker | n | One who searches for gold. |
| Goldsmith | n | A worker in gold. |
| Goldsmithing | n | The work of a goldsmith; |
| Goldsmithy | adj | The 'smithy' of the goldsmith. |
| Gold-stick | n | The gilt rod carried before the sovereign on state occasions the the Gentleman-at-arms; also the bearer of the stick. |
| Gold-thirst | n | An extreme desire for acquiring gold, greedy, avarice. |
| Goldy | adj | Golden. |
| Gole | adj | Merry, wanton, lascivious, luxuriant, copious. |
| Gole-hood | n | The state or condition of being merry, wanton, lascivious, luxuriant, copious. |
| Goleness | n. | Lust, wantonness, lasciviousness, |
| Goleness-ship, | n | Golehood. |
| Golesome | adj | Somewhat merry, wanton, lascivious, luxuriant, copious. |
| Gone | adj | Passed beyond help or hope; ruined, lost. 2. marked by faintness or weakness. 3. ended, past,dead. 4. depressed and hopeless. 5. |
| Gone | adj | "Dead and Gone" - dead for some time. |
| Gone | phr | "Far Gone" - drunk. 2. old, worn out. |
| Gone | phr | "Gone Away" - having left. 2. fig. no longer part of the present situation. 3. no longer existing; having passed. 3. used up. 5. dead. 6. intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings. 7. excellent, wonderful. |
| Gone | phr | "Gone North About" - of sailors, seaman whose cause of death was anything except drowning. 2. dead. |
| Gone | phr | "Gone On (On Somebody" - infatuated with, possessed with, very much or hopelessly, in love with. |
| Gone | phr | "Gone with the Wind" - (idiomatic, euphemistic; poetic): dead, deceased, passed away. 2.said of events or persons that have left no trace by which ti be remembered. |
| Gone | phr | "I've Gone and Done It" - There! I.ve done the very thing I ought not to have done! I've made a pretty mess ofit. |
| Gone-by | adv | Former, past; a gone-by friend |
| Goneness | n | A state of weakness or exhaustion, faintness, lassitude. |
| Goner | n | Someone or something doomed. 2. a hopeless case. |
| Gong | n. | Privy, necessarium, toilet, lavatory, gong-house, gong-pit, contents of a privy: ordure, excrement |
| Go-no-Further | n | A stop, limitation, barrier. |
| Go-no-Go | n | A period of vacillation or indecision. 2. a change of mind about the right course of action. |
| Good | adj | Right, proper, excellent, virtuous; kind, safe, adequate. 2. that which is good, as in the greater good, well-being. |
| Good | vb | To become better, improve, get better. 2. to enrich, endow, (a church) etc. 3. to make good, improve. 4. to improve the state of land by manuring. 5. to do good; to benefit someone or something. |
| Good | phr | "A Bit of No Good" - one liable to cause harm and hurt. |
| Good | phr | "A Good Afternoon To You" - (I wish you a good afternoon): a greeting said when meeting somebody in the afternoon. |
| Good | phr | "A Good Beginning Makes a Good Ending" - a well prepared and focused at the start of something often leads to success. |
| Good | phr | "A Good Deal" - much, often. |
| Good | phr | "A Good/Great Deal (of Something)" - a large, or considerable, quantity, of something as noise, unpleasantness, enthusiasm, dissent. |
| Good | phr | "A Good/Great Deal Healthier" - much healthier, better. |
| Good | phr | "A Good Man is Hard to Find" - dependable, trustworthy help is not easily to get. 2. statement that mate selection for a female suitor is a complex and difficult matter. |
| Good | phr | A Good Name is Better than a Golden Girdle" - a good name is better than having wealth. |
| Good | phr | "A Good Show" - a creditable, praiseworthy etc. mode of control or action, esp. in difficult circumstances. |
| Good | phr | "A Good Thing" - desirable, beneficial, not undesirable, not harmful in any away, nature, result. |
| Good | phr | "All In Good Time" - eventually. |
| Good | phr | "All to the Good" - generally advantageous. |
| Good | phr | "All Well and Good" - acceptable (but with nagging doubts) |
| Good | phr | "A Man of Good" - person of good standing, rank, position. |
| Good | phr | "As Good As" - equivalent to, early nearly. 2. practically; nearly, virtually. |
| Good | phr | "As Good as Play" - amusing, iteresting, lively. |
| Good | phr | "Be in Good Heart" - to be cheerful, especially in adversity. |
| Good | phr | "Be In Somebody's Good Books" - be well regarded by another person. |
| Good | phr | "Be No Good" - to be worthless or little worth. |
| Good | phr | "Be So Good As To" - kindly/please. |
| Good | phr | "Be to the Good" - be profitable; show profit. |
| Good | phr | "But Good" - an intensifier. |
| Good | phr | "Come to a Good Ending" - conclude successfully. |
| Good | phr | "Come to Good" - to yield a good result. |
| Good | phr | "Do Good" - to act rightly, fulfill the moral law. 2. to show kindness, do philanthropic work. 3. to be beneficial to. |
| Good | phr | "Do Somebody (a lot of) Good" - improve somebody's behavior/ manner/ health etc. |
| Good | phr | "Do Somebody a Good Turn" - help somebody; do a favor for. |
| Good | phr | "For Good" - permanently, forever. |
| Good | phr | "For Good and All" - for ever. 2. finally, for the last time. |
| Good | phr | "Get a Good Hiding" - receive a severe physical thrashing. |
| Good | phr | "Get the Goods On" - have evidence of someone's wrongdoing. |
| Good | phr | "Give As Good as One Gets" - to be as effective as the other person in a contest. |
| Good | phr | "Good Afternoon" - a greeting said in the afternoon. |
| Good | phr | "Good and" - very thoroughly. |
| Good | phr | "Good and Evil" - what is right and what is wrong, esp. as forces or principles influencing, exemplified by, human conduct. |
| Good | phr | "Good and Ready" - completely, thoroughly, very ready etc. |
| Good | phr | "Good as Gold" - of an asset: of enduring value. 2. of a person very well behaved. |
| Good | phr | "Good as New" - in as good condition as when it was new. 2. showing little sign of wearor use. |
| Good | phr | "Good Day" - used as a salutation of welcoming or farewelling. |
| Good | phr | "Good Enough" - suitable or appropriate. |
| Good | phr | "Good Enough For" - something or someone adequate for someone or something. |
| Good | phr | "Good Few of Somebody/Something" - a large or considerable, number (of somebody/something) |
| Good | phr | 'Good for a Laugh" - likely to cause amusement. |
| Good | phr | "Good for Him/Her" - exclamatory comment of congratulation or approval ; bully for somebody. |
| Good | phr | "Good for Nothing" - idle and useless (implying that a person is a scoundrel 2. worthless. |
| Good | phr | "Good For You" - congratulations. |
| Good | phr | "Good God" - an oath expressing surprize, shock, anger, frustation, or annoyance. |
| Good | phr | "Good Going" - rapid progress or success. |
| Good | phr | "Good Heavens" - exclamation or dismay or displeasure. |
| Good | phr | "Good Heed, Good Speed" - good advice will bring success |
| Good | phr | "Good Lord" - an oath expressing surprize, shock, anger, frustation, or annoyance. |
| Good | phr | "Good Men and True" - honest, worthy, loyal people, esp. as a body of responsible citizens. |
| Good | phr | "Good Morning" - agreeting said in the morning. |
| Good | phr | "Good Old ..." - a term of endearment, as 'good old dad'. |
| Good | phr | "Good Old Somebody/Something" - a greeting, or reference, to somebody/something for whom/which one feels affection or appreciation. |
| Good | phr | "Good on/for You" - well done congratulations. |
| Good | phr | "Good to Go" - ready and prepared to start a project, event, undertaking. |
| Good | phr | "Good while" - long time. |
| Good | phr | "Have A Good Nose For Business" - be able to identify profitable business situations. |
| Good | phr | "Have a Good Evening" - a greeting said in the evening. |
| Good | phr | "Have a Good Mind to" - to be inclined to. |
| Good | phr | "Have a Good Time" - enjoy oneself. |
| Good | phr | "Have the Goods On" - to have the advantage of, or superiority over another. 2. to have knowledge or information (usually damning) giving a hold over another. |
| Good | phr | "He's the Goods" - he's the man for the job. |
| Good | phr | "In Good Time" - with time to spare. |
| Good | phr | "It's a Good Thing" - is lucky or convenient that something is true, does or did happen. |
| Good | phr | "Know (one's) Good" - to know how to behave. |
| Good | phr | "Make Good" - succeed, achieve a favourable outcome. 2. repair damage or succeed. |
| Good | phr | "Make Good Time" - do something in less time than expected. |
| Good | phr | "Make It Good Upon" - to enforce one's assertion by combat, or by the infliction of blows. |
| Good | phr | "My Good Man" - impolite form of address made by somebody who regards himself/ herself a superior. |
| Good | phr | "No Good (For)" - worthless, useless, not advantageous. |
| Good | phr | "Not Good Enough" - not acceptable. |
| Good | phr | "One's Good Deed For the Day" - an action appropriate to the situation and designed to help another person, or other people, that one tries to carry out each day (a recommendation to Scouts and Guides). |
| Good | phr | "On To a Good Thing" - in a favorable situation. |
| Good | phr | "Put In a Good Word" - recommend. |
| Good | phr | "Put on a Good Show" - see 'a good show' |
| Good | phr | "See Someone In Good Light" - to regard a person favorably. |
| Good | phr | "Somebody's Good Name" - the present, or possible future, good reputation of somebody. |
| Good | phr | "Speak Good Of" - to address kindly, speak well of. |
| Good | phr | "That's a Good One" - I don't Believe You! |
| Good | phr | "The Good Old Days" - periods in history, or in one's personal past, when conditions of life and work, where (in the speaker's opinion) better than they are at present. |
| Good | phr | "The Good Things of Life" - material comforts, luxuries, pleasures. |
| Good | phr | "There's a Good Time Coming" - things can only get better. |
| Good | phr | "Think Good Of " - to praise, think well of. |
| Good | phr | "This Does My Heart Good" - I rejoice at this. |
| Good | phr | "To the Good" - to an advantage, for the best, and/or profit. 2. in excess of assets over liabilities. |
| Good | phr | "To the Good Of" - as a balance on the right side of the ledger; excess of assets over liabilities. |
| Good | phr | "Up to No Good" - committing a crime; making a mischief. |
| Good | phr | "Your Good Self" - a polite way of addressing a person(s)- often used in place of simple 'you' in referring to an important person. |
| Good-book | n | The Bible |
| Good-breeding | n | Good manners, polite to others. 2. a polite educatiion, courteous bearing or correct manners resulting from such eduacation. |
| Goodbye | n | A contraction of 'god be with you' |
| Goodbyer | n | A person saying goodbye. |
| Goodby(e)ing | n | The act of saying goodbye.????? |
| Good day | phr | A phrase used as a salutation at meeting or parting. |
| Good deal | n | Something purchased at a cheaper. |
| Good-deed | n | A deed of benefit, kindness, favourable action. |
| Good-doer | n | One who does good; a benefactor. 2. an animal or plant which thrives.. |
| Good-doing | n | Acts of goodness and kindness. |
| Good drunk | n | One who despite drinking heavily still remains amicable. |
| Good ending | n | A happy and succesful conclusion. |
| Good-enough | adj | That has specified quality in a sufficient amount or degree. |
| Good fellow | n | An agreeable or jovial companion, a reveller. 2. a boon companion, any social person. |
| Good fellow | phr | "To Play the Good Fellow" - be jovial, accommodating, very friendly (often with an implication of deceit). |
| Good-fellowhood | n | Merry society; companionableness. |
| Good-fellowish | adj | Somewhat resembling a good fellow |
| Good-fellowship | n | Spirit or habit of a good fellow, conviviality. 2. a spirit of true friendship or companionship. |
| Good-Fellow-Well-Meet | n | Hail-fellow-well-meet. |
| Good folk | n | The fairies or elves. |
| Good-for-anything | adj | Fit and willing to do anything. |
| Good-foreboding | n | Good omen, propitious in outcome. |
| Good-for-little | adj | That is of little use; insignificant. |
| Good-for-nothing | n | One who is a worthless individual: a good-for-nothing. |
| Good-for-nothing | adj | Of no use, service or value; worthless. |
| Good-for-nothingness | n | Quality or condition of being good for nothing; worthless. |
| Good-for-something | n | One good or able for some useful endeavour. |
| Good Friday | n | The Friday before Easter Sunday, observed as athe anniversary of Christ death. |
| Goodful | adj | Goodly, full of goodness, kindly, compassionate.. |
| Goodfulhood | adj | Goodness, good-hearted. |
| Goodfully | adv | In a kind, compassionate way, goodhearted. |
| Good-going | n | Progress, advancement, a moving forward. |
| Good-hearted | adj | Kind, compassionate, thoughtful of others. |
| Good-heartedly | adv | In a kind manner. |
| Good-heartedness | n | Sympathetic concern for the well-bing of others. |
| Goodiness | n | The sate or quality of being good; goodyness. |
| Gooding | n | The action of doing good to, or for improving. 2. the action of manuring to improve it's yield. 3. the practice of collecting alms on St Thomas |
| Gooding | phr | "To Go a Gooding" - the collection of alms on St Thomas's day. |
| Goodish | adj | Somewhat good with respect to quantity, quality or extend. 2. somewhat good' not bad, rather good. 3. of appreciable extent, considerable. |
| Goodishness | n | The quantity of being good. |
| Goodless | adj | Without good, comfortless, worthless. |
| Good lick | n | Somewhat useful, a good deal. |
| Goodlihead | n | The character or nature of a goodly person. 2. poetic: good-looking, beauty. |
| Goodliheadness | n | State or quality of being good or beautiful. |
| Goodlike | adj | Goodly. 2,. friendly, amicable. |
| Goodliking | n | Approval, goodwill, friendship. |
| Goodliking | adj | Having friendly, amicable or kindly feelings towards others. |
| Goodliness | n | The condition or quality of being goodly. 2. of a good appearance, beauty, fairnes, comeliness. 3. goodness, kindness, grace. 4. excellent value. |
| Goodlisome | adj | Somewhat good, goodly. |
| Good-living | n | A healthy and wholesome lifestyle. |
| Good-looker | n | Something or someone who is handsome, has goodlooks, or is beautiful, or comely. |
| Good-looking | adj | Resembling what is good. 2. handsome, beautiful, comely, fair, attractive. 3. having a good appearance; esp. with reference to beauty of countenance. |
| Good-lookingness | n | The sate or quality of being good-looking. |
| Good-looks | n | Beauty, handsomeness, attractiveness; fair; fetching. |
| Goodly | adj | That is good, decent, trustworthy. 2. of good appearance, fair, goodlooking, comely, handsome, well-favoured or proportioned. 3. notable or considerable in respect of size, quality or number. 4. of quantity, quality: admirable, splendid, excellent. . well-suited, siuted, for some purpose, proper, convenient. 6. gracious, kind, kindly-disposed. |
| Goodman | n | Sometimes used as a vague title of dignity or respect. 2. applied euphemistically of the devil. 3. a male as the head of the family. 4. a chief warden or keeper of a prison. 5. man of substance, not of lower birth or status;: a yeoman. 6. the laird of an estate. |
| Good-meaning | adj | Well-meaning. |
| Good-minded | adj | Noble, pure, wholesome. |
| Good-mother | n | A mother-in-law. |
| Good neighbour | n | In US politics, a neighbouring country; esp. in South America with whom the US has good relations. |
| Good-neighbourhood | n | The disposition and characteristic of a good neighhour: friendly feelings towards and good relations and dealings. 2. good-neighbourship. |
| Good-neighbourliness | n | The state or quality of being a good neighbour. (in an individual sense and a internation sense). |
| Goodness | n | Fairness, propriety, probity. 2. 'the goodness' - that which is good in anything; the strength or virtue of goodness. |
| Goodness | phr | "For Goodness Sake" - in the name of good. |
| Goodness | phr | "Thank Goodness" - exclamatory phrase with original reference to God. |
| Goodness | phr | "My Goodness Me" - exclamation of (mild) astonishment, pleasure or dismay. |
| Good news | phr | Positive, uplifting and inspiring news or information. |
| Goodnight | n | A customary phrase at parting at night or going to sleep. |
| Goodput | n | For computer networks, goodput is the application-level throughput. 2. the rate of which useful data traverses a link. |
| Goods | n | Merchandise' property, especially personal property. 2. fabric, dress goods. 3. qualifications, resources, abilities. 4. freight. |
| Goods | phr | "Have the Goods on Somebody" - know something incriminating about somebody. |
| Good Sherperd | n | A designation of Jesus. |
| Goodship | n | Goodness. 2. an instance of goodness, kindness. |
| Good-sister | n | A sister-in-law, a step-sister. |
| Good speed | n | Good luck; a wish for the safe journey or for succees. |
| Good stones | n | Precious stones. |
| Good-thing | n | A course of action which is desirable or commendable. 2. luxuries in general: spe. rich or dainty food. 3. a witty saying or remark. |
| Good-time | adj | Of a person: recklessly pursuing pleasure; as, a 'good-time ... '. 2. |
| Good-timer | n | Person of the character of recklessly pursuing pleasure. |
| Good-times | n | A peroid of prosperity and happiness. |
| Goodways | adv | Amicably,; as, 'I hope John deals with him in goodways.' |
| Goodwife | n | The mistress of the house. 2. a title of respect for a woman; the correlative of goodman. |
| Goodwill | n | A desire for the well-being of others. 3. benevolence, charity, kindly intent. 4. the prestige and friendly relations with customers built up by a business or member of a profession. |
| Goodwill | phr | "With Goodwill" - with cheerful acquiesence or counsel. |
| Goodwiller | n | One who has goodwill; a well-wisher. 2. one who wills or is disposed to what is good. |
| Goodwilling | adj | Voluntary, cordial, friendly, liberal. |
| Goodwilling | n | A voluntary, cordial, liberal action or deed. |
| Good works | n | Charitable or welfare work. |
| Goody | n | Sweets, lollies, treats, sweetments, usu. in pl.,goodies |
| Goody | adj | Of character: excellent, good. 2. cosy, comfortable. 3. 'good' in a weak or sentimental way; addicted to or characterized by inept manifestation of good or pious sentiment. |
| Goody | phr | "Goody-two-Shoes" - one who is too good for his own good. 2. one who is so good he or she appears insincere. |
| Goody-goody | n | A person who is 'good' in a weak or sentimental way; addicted to or characterized by inept manifestation of good or pious sentiment. 2. mawkishly good, weakly pious. |
| Goodyish | adj | Somewhat good. |
| Goodyness | n | Goodiness |
| Goodyship | n | The state or quality of being a goody. |
| Go-off | n | Commencement, beginning, a start. |
| Go-on | n | Endurance, continuance. |
| Goose | n. | A large web-footed bird. 2. a dullard, fool, half-wit; as in |
| Goose | vb | To prod or poke unexpectedly from behind. 2. to accelerate an engine in irregular spurts. |
| Goose | phr | "All His Geese are Swans" - he overestimates, he paints a too rosy a picture of things. |
| Goose | phr | ???????????One's Goose" - To spoil one's chances; ruin a person. |
| Goose | phr | "Goose is Cooked" - spoil somebody's chance of success. |
| Goose | phr | "Goose Up" - make more intense, lurid, racy, daring, or sensational. |
| Goose | phr | "The Goose is Hang High" - the prospect is good; everything is favorable. |
| Goose | phr | The Old Woman is Plucking Her Goose" - a child's way of saying "it is snowing". |
| Goose | phr | "To Shoe the Goose" - to fritter away one's time on unnecessary work. |
| Goosedom | n | The state of stupidity. 2. geese collectively. |
| Goose-flesh | n | A roughened condition of the skin produced by cold, fear. |
| Goose-foot | n | Any plant of the genus Chenopodium, having leaves shaped like a foot of the goose. |
| Goose herd | n | A tender of geese. |
| Goose-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a goose in some aspect. |
| Goose-neck | n | A mechanical contrivance curved like a goose's neck. 2. a curved shaft for a seat on a bicycles. |
| Goose-necked | adj | Having a goose-necked shape. |
| Goose-step | n | A military parade step, sometimes in lock-step, . 2. in some European armies, a stiff manner of marching on parade. 3. the act of marking time with the feet. |
| Goose-step | vb | To march or move in the manner of a goose step. |
| Goose tongue | n | The plant "Achillea ptarmia", sneezewort |
| Goosey | adj | Like a goose. 2. appearing like a goose-flesh. 3. of persons, extremely nervous. |
| Gore | n | Blood in a clotted state that follows effusion, clotted shed blood, blood, a clot, a gout of blood 2. dung, ordure, filth, putrid matter |
| Gore | n | A triangular piece of cloth inserted to shape a garment. 2. atriangular piece of land. 3. a triangle. 4. wedge-shaped strip of land or the side of an irregular field. 5. an angular point, a promontory. 6. a small tract of land lying between two longer divisions. 7. a front section of a skirt, wider at the bottom than the top, lap of a gown, an apron, aa skirt, a petticoat. 8. one of the many triangular or lune shaped pieces that form the surface of a celestial or terrestrial globe. 9. Covering of an umbrella; a dome of a building. See:Gair. |
| Gore-pit | n | A pit of filth, putridesence, ordure, dund. 2. a bloody battlefield or burial ground. |
| Gore-stained | adj | Blood-stained |
| Gorse | n | Prickly shrub, Ulex europaeus, common furze or whim, Juniper. |
| Gorsebird | n | The linnet |
| Gorsy | adj | Abounding or covered in gorse. 2. of or pertaining to gorse. |
| Gory | adj | Covered or stained with gore. 2. resembling gore. |
| Goshawk | n | A powerfully built, short-winged hawk, formerly used in falconry. |
| Gosipred | n | Relationship of gossip; spiritual affinity. 2. affinity, in general. 3. the habitual action of a group or tatter, small talk. |
| Gosling | n | A young goose; a foolish, young and inexperienced person. |
| Gosling-green | n | A yellow-greenish color. |
| Go-slow | n | Form of industrial protest in which employees work at a deliberately slow pace. |
| Go-slower | n | One who uses industrial protest in which as an employee works at a deliberately slow pace. |
| Gospel | n. | Message or narrative preached by Jesus; a record of his life; any of the first four books by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. 2. Holy Scripturesor heavenly revelation. 3. any doctrine concerning human welfare which is consider importance. 4. anything regarded as absolutely true. |
| Gospel | adj | Relating to or agreeing with the Gospel; evangelical, veritable. |
| Gospelled | vb | To reach the Gospel. |
| Gospel | phr | "To Take For Gospel" - to accept as true. |
| Gospel | phr | "To Talk Gospel" - to talk about religious matters |
| Gospel-gossip | n | An obsessive religous talk(er). |
| Gospeller | n | A preacher, often referred to as a 'hot--gospeller'. 2. an ardent adherent of the Reformation, as distinguished from a Roman Catholic. 3. a cleric who reads the Gospel at a church service. 4. an evangelist; missionary. |
| Gospel-like | adj | Devoted to the principles of the gospel. 2. agreeable to the doctrines of the gospel. |
| Gospelly | adv | In accordance with the principles of the gospelly. 2. truthfully. |
| Gospel-monger | n | A seller of bibles; a preacher of the Gospel or Bible. |
| Gospel-sharp: | n | A gospel-shark, a false preacher, religious charlatan. |
| Gospel-shop | n | A protestant church. |
| Gospel-times | n | The era or time when the gospels were written. |
| Gospel-ways | n | Living according to theteachings and doctrines of the Gospels. |
| Gospel-wright | n | A composer or writer of gospels, scripture; evangelist, messenger, prophet. |
| Gospel-writer | n | One who writes gospels, such as 'Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John'. |
| Gossip | n | Familiar or idle talk. 2. groundless rumour, mischievous tattle. 3. |
| Gossip | vb | To talk idly, usually about affairs of others; to be gossip. |
| Gossipdom | n | The class of gossips as a whole. 2. the realm of gossip and gossiper. |
| Gossiper | n | One who gossips. |
| Gossip-gleaner | n | Seer, prophet. Idle talker, gossiper, rumour monger, a gossip-greedy. |
| Gossip-greedy | adj | Gossipy, idle-talkative or writty, rumourish |
| Gossiphood | n | A body of gossip. |
| Gossiping | n | The act or action of participating in gossip. 2. gossipy talk. 2. prating. 3. in British Dialect a christening (god sib: a baptismal sponsor). |
| Gossiping | adj | Engaging in gossip, rumour, scuttlebutt and scandal. |
| Gossipingly | adv | In a gossiping manner. |
| Gossip-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of gossip. |
| Gossiply | adv | Pertaining to, or characteristic of, gossip. |
| Gossip-monger | n | Quidnunc, one engaged in familiar, or idle talk, groundless rumour, scuttlebutt. 2. monger of gossip and rumour. 3. scandalmonger (in print and electronic media). |
| Gossipness | n | The inclination to gossip, idle talk, scandal and scuttlebutt. |
| Gossipred | n | See "Gosipred" |
| Gossipship | n | The mutual relation of gossips. 2. personality of a gossip or sponsor (earlier sense). |
| Gossip-shop | n | A place or gathering of gossipers. |
| Gossip-side | n | The north side of the altar, at which the gospel is read. |
| Gossip-wise | adv | In the manner of gossip. |
| Gossip-writing | n | The writing and reporting of gossip (and scandal)in the print and electronic media. |
| Gossipy | adj | Characterized by, or full of, gossip. 2. of a person: inclined or devoted to gossip. |
| Go-stop | n | In economics, a inflation, deflation cycle. |
| Got | vb | Past particle of 'get.' used in the sense of must, have, possess. |
| Got | phr | "Got It Going On" - cause to start or commence. |
| Got | phr | "Got There" - to a arrive at a destination or conclusion. |
| Got | phr | "Have Got To" - must. |
| Gote | n | A watercourse, waterway, any channel of water, a stream, an ea, yea, aa, yeo, a sluice, a fleet, a river, a culvert |
| Goth | n | A member of an eastern germanic people. 2. a style of dress or fashion. |
| Goth | phr | "Goth Up" - to dress or dcorate in the style of goth subculture. |
| Gotham | n | A nickname of New York City, so named by Washington Irving in his bookSalmagundi (written in 1807), in reference to the village and villagers in Nottinghamshire, England, whose folk (Wise Men of Gotham) were known for their sense of humour and craftiness. |
| Gothlike | adj | Similar, resembling or like a Goth or things gothic. |
| Gothness | n | State or quality of being a goth or gothic. 2. traits associate to the goth's subculture, such as a philosophical melancholy. |
| Go-through-land | n | A vagabond, beggar, tramp. |
| Gothy | adj | Somewhat gothic. |
| Gotland | n | An island belonging to Sweden situated in the Baltic Sea. |
| Gotlander | n | A native of Gotland, Sweden. |
| Go-to | n | A person or thing that is relied on in a tight situation. 2. a reference. |
| Go-to-meeting | n | Attendance at; as in 'Sunday-go-to-meeting.' |
| Go-to-Meeting | adj | Suitable for use on certain days or times, 'Go-to-meeting clothes'. 2. wear go-to-meeting clothes. |
| Gots | n | (Slang):achievements, skill, know-how; intelligence. |
| Gots | vb | Have, got have. |
| Gotten | adj | Past particle of 'get': Obtained, acquired. |
| Gotten | phr | "Gotten To" - to be deceived, coerced into some decision or action. 2. be bribed to act in some way, or support some cause or undertaking. |
| Go-to-mind | n | Great intellectuals and thinkers who explanations, solutions and predictions are eagerly sought after. |
| Got-up | n | A contriver, artifice. 2. an upstart. |
| Got-up | adj | Contrived; artificially produced, elaborated or adorned for the purpose of effect or deception. |
| Gound | n | OE. gund, foul matter, esp. that secreted in the eye. |
| Goundly | adj | Of the eyes: full of gound or foreign matter, bleared. |
| Go-well | n | A successful, often posperous, journey. |
| Gowk | n | The cuckoo; a half-wit, a fool. |
| Gowk-like | adj | Stupid, foolish, silly. |
| Gowylsought | n | Jaundice, seeGulesought |
| Gozzard | n | A gooseherd. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Graith | n. | (Obs.)a state of preparation, condition, readiness, good order, arrangement, proper order, without delay. 2. equipment in general, apparel, attire, article of dress, clothes, gear. 3. armour, harness. 4 possessions in general, wealth, money. 5. things, stuff, accoutrements, materials, equipment, furniture, etc. 6. "the graith :the truth. |
| Graith | vb | To make ready, prepare, arrange, disentangle”), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaną (“to prepare, put in order”). Cognate with Old English ġerǣdan 'to arrange, dispose, order, provide for, harness". 2. (obs) to make ready; prepare; put in order; make fit for use. 3. (obs) to dress (someone or oneself) or be dressed. |
| Graith | adj | "Do in Graith" - to put into readiness. |
| Graith | phr | "Graith in the Grave" - give burial to. |
| Graith | phr | "In Graith" - in proper order. |
| Graith | phr | "Out of Graith" - out of order. |
| Graithful | adj | Prompt, speedy, ready. |
| Graithing | n | Prearition, furnishing. 2. furniture, attire. |
| Graithness | n | Readiness, prompitude. |
| Grame | n. | Anger, wrath, ire, grief. 2. sorrow, harm, troubles. |
| Gramely | adj | Wrathful, angrily, furiously, grievous. |
| Grass | n | Herbage, plants grown for cattle to eat, to cover lawns; turf; pasture for grazing cattle. 2. an old usage for spring or early summer, the time when grass grows as in, 'she is five years old this grass'. 3. a police informer (slang). |
| Grass | vb | To lay out on the grass; to knock down. 2(slang) to act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities. 3. to cover with grass or with turf. 4. to expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc. 5. to bring to the grass or ground; to land; as 'to grass a fish'. |
| Grass | phr | "As Green as Grass" - naive, immature, inexperienced, easily deceived. |
| Grass | phr | "Give Grass" - to yield, surrender. |
| Grass | phr | "Go to Grass" - be stuck in the ground. |
| Grass | phr | "Grass is Always Greener in an Other Man's Field" - a saying: people are inclined to think that in another country, things are better, happier than in his own country. |
| Grass | phr | "Grass On Somebody" - inform on somebody to the police or authorities. |
| Grass | phr | "Grass Up" - see 'grass on' |
| Grass | phr | "Green as Grass" - naive, inexperienced. |
| Grass | phr | "Keep Off the Grass" - allow the grass to grow & stop smoking "grass": marijuana. |
| Grass | phr | "Let the Grass Grow Under One's Feet" - procrastinate, waste time. |
| Grass | phr | "Not Let Grass Grow Under One's Feet" - not let inertia or delay spoil something. |
| Grass | phr | Pluck the Grass to Know Where the Wind Sits - interpret signs of the times. |
| Grass | phr | "Put Out to Grass" - make somebody retire from work, or some other activity or pursuit. |
| Grass | phr | "Snake in the Grass" - somebody who is deceitful, untrustworthy. |
| Grass | phr | "Under the Grass" - dead, in the grave, tomb. |
| Grass-bed | n | The grave. |
| Grass-blade | n | A narrow leaf of a grass. 2. the thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem. |
| Grass-cloth | n | A wall covering made for fibres of jute, rushes or other grasses. |
| Grass-eater | n | (Slang and ethic slur) a white person , esp. Irish (green) persons. 2. a law enforcement person who accepts bribes. 3. a herbivore, or similar grazing, phoephagous animal, as a yak. 4. a vegan or vegetarian. |
| Grasser | n | A grass or police informer. |
| Grass-feeding | n | Graminovorous. |
| Grassfire | n | A fire burning over grass or grassland. |
| Grassgreen | adj | The color of grass; green as grass. |
| Grassgrown | adj | Overgrown with grass. |
| Grasshopper | n | Jumping, chirping insect. 2. fig, a term of derision or reproach, noisy & flighty. |
| Grasshopper-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a grasshopper. |
| Grassiness | n | The state or character of being grassy. |
| Grassland | n | Land producing grass. 2. pasture or grazing land. 3. land reserved for pasturage or mowing. 4. land in which grass grows abundantly, as the American prairies. |
| Grassless | adj | Lacking or devoid of grass. |
| Grasslike | adj | That has the characteristic of grass. |
| Grassy | adj | Covered with grass. 2. resembling grass. |
| Grass-roots | n | The rural section of a country; the hinterland. 2. used to denote that which is rooted in the earth, i.e. that which has its origins among the peasantry or common folk. |
| Grass-roots | adj | Of or pertaining to the rural section of a country. 2. ordinary but influential members of a group or organization. 3. the basic level, the natural, or popular sources from which a society, art, political system, etc must draw its strength. |
| Grass-silver | n | Money paid for the agistment of animals. |
| Grass-snake | n | Harmless British snake |
| Grass-widow | n | Wife whose husband is away from her; sometimes one takes on lovers in his absence. 2. a woman who is separated from her husband for causes other than death. 3. a woman whose husband is temporarily absent. |
| Grass-widower | n | A husband whose wife is away from him; sometimes who one takes on lovers in her absence. 2. a husband who is separated from his wife for causes other than death. |
| Grass-widowhood | n | The condition where a wife whose husband is away from her; and she sometimes takes on lovers in his absence. 2. the state where a woman who is separated from her husband for causes other than death. 3. cuckoldry. |
| Grassy | adj | Covered or abounding with grass. 2. consisting of grass; resembling grass in colour and smell. 3. pertaining to, consisting of or resembling grass. |
| Grave | n | Hole or excavation dug for a dead body; monument on this; death. 2. place of burial; a tomb. 3. 'The grave" - Hades, death or ruin. 3. the abode of the dead. |
| Grave | vb | To carve with a chisel, engrave, sculpture. 2. to impress deeply , as in the memory. |
| Grave | phr | "Bear a Mark to one's Grave" - all one's life. |
| Grave | phr | "Dig One's Own Grave" - be in difficulty because of one's own misguided actions. |
| Grave | phr | "Dig the Grave Of" - to cause ruin, downfall, the end of a person or thing. |
| Grave | phr | "Enough to Make One Turn in Their Grave" - said when something happens to which the deceased person would have strongly objected. |
| Grave | n | "Find One's Grave" - to meet one's death. |
| Grave | phr | "Grave the Ship" - to burn accretions and filthy substances from the bottom of a ship. |
| Grave | phr | "Have One Foot in the Grave": of persons: old and often sickly; to dig the grave of: to ruin, cause downfall of, the end of person. 2. to be dying. |
| Grave | phr | "Into the Grave of Hell" - into the lowest depth. |
| Grave | phr | "Someone is Walking on My Grave" - feeling of uneasiness that causes one to shiver. |
| Grave | phr | "To the Grave" - till or until death. |
| Grave-born | adj | Born of a grave, as a 'ghost'. |
| Grave-cloth | n | Pall of the coffin. |
| Grave-clothes | n | The clothes or wrapping in which a dead body is interred.. |
| Grave-digger | n | One who digs grave as an occupation. |
| Grave-digging | n | The occupation of digging grave. |
| Grave-field | n | Burial place, cemetery, necropolis, still-hill, grave-ground. |
| Grave-ground | n | Burail place, cemetery, necropolis, still-hill, grave-ground.. |
| Grave-hill | n | Cemetery and or grave on a hill; still-hill. |
| Graveless | adj | Without a grave; not buried or interred. |
| Grave-like | adj | resembling a grave or tomb. 2. sobre, gloomy, morbid. |
| Gravemaker | n | A monumental mason. |
| Graveman | n | Sexton |
| Gravemarker | n | A gravestone or other permanently fixed object to indicate the location of a grave. |
| Grave-mound | n | Burial mound, also grave-barrow, grave-hillock, tumulus, barrow, indicating site of interment |
| Grave-neighbour | n | "The cold company of his grave(-)neighbour". 2. neighbours in death - the state of those buried beside one another, regardless of relationship or kinship. |
| Grave-riven | adj | Full of graves. |
| Graveside | n | Spot very near to a grave. |
| Gravestead | n | Burial place, tomb, grave. |
| Gravestone | n | Headstone, tombstone, foot-stone, monument on grave. 2. a stone coffin. 3. a stone or memorial placed over a grave or at the entrance to a tomb. |
| Graveward | adj | Tendering towards death and the grave and death |
| Grave wax | n | A waxy substance found on corpses; adipocere. 2. a brown, fatty, waxy substance (fatty acid) that forms on dead animal tissue in response to hydrolysis. |
| Graveyard | n | Cemetery, necropolis, memorial parks, burial place. |
| Graveyard-minded | adj | Spooky, eerie, cemeterial. |
| Graveyard-shift | n | Etymology: by association of the eerie, cold and silent properties of both the night and graveyards. 2. work performed between midnight and dawn. 3. a night shift at a factory, radio station, and other places of work, especially from midnight till 8am. |
| Grave-yard watch | n | The middle watch of a ship from midnight till 4.am. |
| Gray | adj | See 'grey' |
| Gray-beard | n | An old man, or one with a gray beard. |
| Gray hat | n | In the computer community a skilled hacker who sometimes acts legally and in goodwill and sometimes not. They are a hybrid between a black hacker and a white hacker. They hack for no personal gain and do not have malicious intentions, but not commit crimes. See: "white-hacker, black hacker, and red hacker" |
| Grayish | adj | Somewhat gray or greyish. |
| Grayly | adj | In a gray, grey way. |
| Grayness | n | The state or quality of being gray. |
| Gray-out | n | A temporary loss or blurring of vision caused by oxygen deficiency ; noted especially by pilots subjected to high acceleration. |
| Graze | n | The act of cropping or feeding upon growing grass, pasture. |
| Graze | vb | To feed on grass, to put to pasture. 2. to put cattle, etc to feed on grass and herbage. 3. to tend to cattle at pasture. |
| Grazing | n | Pasture. |
| Greade | n | Bosom, lap; alsoGrede |
| Great | adj | Old English great "big, tall, thick, stout, massive; coarse," from West Germanic *grautaz "coarse, thick" cognates: Old Saxon grot, Old Frisian grat. large, big, important, preeminent, distinguished. |
| Great | vb | To become great, thick, large, or increase. 2. to become pregnant |
| Great | phr | "Be Great At" - to have great skill in. |
| Great | phr | "Great and Small" - people of all ranks, grades of office, importance. |
| Great | phr | "Great Minds Think Alike" - similar ideas and views are shared by clever people (said in a jocular way). 2. said (humorously) when two people have the same opinion and make the same choice. |
| Great | phr | "I'm the Greatest" - I am better than anyone else. |
| Great | phr | "That's Great" - that is excellent. |
| Great | phr | "The Great and the Good" - often in irony, distinguished and worthy people. |
| Great | phr | "The Great I Am" - a person who thinks he or she is very important. |
| Great | phr | "The Great Unwashed" - the lower classes; the masses; hoi polloi. 2. members of the beatnik and hippy movements. 3. youth collectively. |
| Great ape | n | An ape of the family Hominidae, includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. |
| Great Bear | n | A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a large bear. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major; see Charles Wain; the Plough; the Wain. |
| Great Britain | n | Great Britain is the name for the island that comprises England, Scotland, and Wales, although the term is also used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is a political unit that includes these countries and Northern Ireland. The British Isles is a geographical term that refers to the United Kingdom, Ireland, and surrounding smaller islands such as the Hebrides and the Channel Islands |
| Great Dane | n | A mastiff known for it great size, bred in Germany to hunt bears and large game. |
| Great-day | n | Day of judgement, doomsday. |
| Great Deal | n | A large amount or number, a big deal |
| Greaten | vb | To become pregnant. 2. to render great or greater in size or amount. 3. to increase, augment, enlarge, magnify. 3. to render eminent, prominent, distinguished or important. 4. to increase in rank or power of. 5. to exalt mentally or spiritually, to elevate or ennoble the mind. 6. of material or immaterial things, to increase in size, dimension, or extent, to assume large proportion. |
| Greatening | n | The making greater and advancement of oneself; as, ' as you go on your greatening way.' |
| Greater | adj | Used to refer to a region or place together with the surrounding area, as 'Greater London". |
| Greater | phr | "Greater than" - the symbol used to show inequality between two numbers or expressions; for example 5 > 3; 104> 107. |
| Greater | n | "The Greater" - those of a greater size, importance, eminence. |
| Greater good | n | The benefit of the public of more than oneself; that which is better and more correct. |
| Greaterness | n | The condition or quality of being great. |
| Great-go | n | In British Universities, the final examination for a degree. |
| Great hall | n | The main room of a palace, castle or large manor. |
| Great-heart | adj | High-spirited, proud, having a noble or generous heart, soul. 2. magnaminious |
| Great-hearted | adj | Having high-spirited, proud. 2. having a noble or generous heart or spirit, magnanimous, noble-souled. |
| Great-heartedness | n | High-spirit, nobility or generosity of heart, magnanimity. |
| Greathood | n | Greatness. |
| Great house | n | A large house or mansion with luxurious appointments and great retinues of indoor and outdoor staff, esp. of those at the turn of the C20th. |
| Great Hundred | n | The 'Hundred' of six score (120) used in the Germanic languages before the C15th. The number was simply described as 100and translated into Latin in German-speaking countries as centum. the qualifier 'long' is now added because present day English uses the word 'hundred' to exclusively refer to the number of (5 score/100) instead. |
| Greatish | adj | Somewhat or rather great in various senses.. |
| Great kind | n | Of great or noble birth. |
| Great Lake | n | The Atlantic ocean, "The Ditch'. |
| Great Leap Forward | n | An attempt begun in 1958 by the leadership of the People Republic of China to transform China into a modern socialist state. |
| Greatly | adj | Great; by a considerable amount.. |
| Greatly | adv | In a great way or manner. 2. in or to a great degree. |
| Great-minded | adj | Magnanimous. |
| Great minds | n | The highest minds. |
| Great Mother | n | Cybele |
| Greath-mouthed | adj | Loud, bragging, bodacious, boastful. |
| Greatness | n | The state, condition, or quality of being great; as greatness of mind. 2. obs. pride, haughtiness. |
| Great-road | n | Highway, freeway, autobahn. |
| Great room | n | A room space within a place which combines the specific functions of several of the more traditional room spaces into a singular united space. |
| Great Satan | n | The Devil, Lucifer |
| Great Sea | n | The Mediterranean Sea. |
| Great-thought | n | Maxim, apothegm. |
| Great toe | n | The big toe. |
| Great Wall | n | 'The Great Wall of China" - a monumental wall constructed (249- 209) in China, extending 1,500 miles between China proper and Mongolia. |
| Great war | n | World War One. |
| Great Wen | n | 'The Great Wen' is a disparaging nickname for London. The term was coined in the 1820s by William Cobbett, the radical pamphleteer and champion of rural England. Cobbett saw the rapidly growing city as a pathological swelling on the face of the nation. (A "wen" a sebaceous cyst.) The term is quoted in his 1830 work Rural Rides: "But, what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, 'the metropolis of the empire?'" |
| Great White Father | n | A term of address originally used by the American first folk to refer to the President of the US, now used transfigurative and ironical. |
| Great White North | n | Canada |
| Great White Way | n | The Great White Way: Broadway in NY City, in reference to it's brilliant street illumination. |
| Greatwort | n | Inula helenium |
| Great Year | n | A term that some ancient civilizations use to describe the slow procession of the equinox through twelve houses of the ancient Zodiac, a period that takes 24,000 years. |
| Greave | n. | O.E.Branches, twigs, brushwood, thicket. |
| Greaves | n | Refuse from tallow used in pet food, etc |
| Grede | vb | To cry out, cry, shout out, wail. 2. said of male birds, to crow. 3. of persons, to utter, cry, sing a song; to announce with a loud voice (stevven), proclaim. 4. to beg loudly, implore, accuse another. 5. to accuse of a crime. |
| Greding | n | Crying, wailing, supplication |
| Greed | n | Eager and selfish desire, greediness, avarice. 2. greedily eat, hungrily eat; a greedy guts |
| Greedhead | n | An avaricious person; greedy guts. |
| Greedily | adv | Excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth. 2. having the strong desire to acquire to possess money or things, esp. wishing to possess more than one needs. |
| Greediness | n | The wish of desiring excessive or inordinate wealth. 2. the having the strong desire to acquire to possess money or things, esp. wishing to possess more than one needs. |
| Greeds | n | Coarse grass, straw, manure |
| Greedy | adj | Eager to obtain; avaricious; grasping. 2. having a an excessive appetite for food and drink. 3. gluttonous, insatiable, ravenous, selfish, voracious. |
| Greedy guts | n | A voracious eater, glutton, one who gormandizes. |
| Greedy-minded | adj | Acquisitive, covetous, greedy, miserly, mean. |
| Greek | n | Old English Grēcas ‘the Greeks’, from Latin Graeci, the name given by the Romans to the people who called themselves the Hellenes, from Greek Graikoi, which according to Aristotle was the prehistoric name of the Hellenes. 2. the Indo-European language of the Greeks. 3. Greek language and literature from the middle of the eighth century BC to the end of the third century AD, especially the Attic Greek of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. 4. a native or inhabitant of Greece. 5. a person of Greek ancestry. 6. informal A member of a fraternity or sorority that has its name composed of Greek letters. 7. something that is unintelligible.. |
| Greek | adj | Of or relating to Greece or its people, language, or culture |
| Greek | phr | "All Greek to Me" - some is incomprehensible or difficult to understand. |
| Greekdom | n | The realm or world of Greece and the Greek people. |
| Greek fire | n | A highly flammable substance of unknown composition first used by the Greeks of Constantinople in the 7th century C.E. to set fire to enemy ships, buildings etc. 2. Grecian fire |
| Greek-god | n | A paragon of male physical beauty. |
| Greeking | adj | Greeking is a style of displaying or rendering text or symbols, not always from the Greek alphabet. Greeking obscures portions of a work for the purpose of either emphasizing form over details or displaying placeholders for unavailable content. The name is a reference to the phrase "Greek to me", meaning something that one cannot understand, so that it might as well be in a foreign language. |
| Greekish | adj | Somewhat resembling things and ways Greek. |
| Greekishly | adv | In accordance with Greekdom. |
| Greekless | adj | Having no knowledge of the greek language. |
| Greeklike | adj | resembling the ancient Greek language or culture or some aspect of it. |
| Greekling | n | A small, insignificant or contempible Greek. |
| Greeklish | adj | A portmanteau of the words of greek and english. 2. the Greek language written in the English alphabet. 3. informally used for the non-standard language variety used by bi-lingual speakers of Greek and English. |
| Greekness | adj | The state or quality of being Greek. |
| Green | n | The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters. 2. politics, member of a green party; an environmentalist. 3. golf) a putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole. 4. (bowls) the surface upon which bowls is played. 5. (snooker) one of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points. 6. In Britain, a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement. 7. a grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage. 8. (chiefly in the plural) fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths. 9. any substance or pigment of a green colour. 10. slang, marijuana. 11. money |
| Green | vb | To desire earnestly, to long after, or envy. 2. to make (something) green, to turn (something) green. 2. to become or grow green in colour. 3. to add green spaces to (a town). 4. to become environmentally aware. 5. to make (something) environmentally friendly. |
| Green | adj | Having the spectrum colour between blue and yellow; having green as its color. 3.(fig, of people) sickly, unwell. 2. unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen. 3. (fig, of people) inexperienced. 4. (fig, of people) naïve or unaware of obvious facts. 5. (fig, of people) overcome with envy. 6. (fig,) environmentally friendly. 7. (cricket)describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture. 8. (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, un-smoked; not smoked or spiced. 9. (dated) not fully roasted; half raw. 10. of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy. 11. (wine) high or too high in acidity. 12. full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent, as a 'green manhood'; 'a green wound'. 13. (Filipino English ) describing something with a sexual connotation |
| Green | phr | "As Green as a Gooseberry' - (gooseberry origin uncertain) |
| Green | phr | "As Green as Grass" - naive, inexperienced, immature, easily deceived. |
| Green | phr | "Be Green and Wan" - pale and sickly, esp. bilious. |
| Green | phr | "Be In a Green Tree" - under conditions not involving distress or hardship. |
| Green | phr | "Give the Green Light" - to grant permission to. |
| Green | phr | "Have Green Fingers" - be good at gardening. |
| Green | phr | "Keep the Bones Green" - to maintain good health. |
| Green | phr | "See Green In One's Eyes" - signs of inexperience or gullibility. |
| Green | phr | "To be Green" - to be naive. |
| Green | phr | "The Green, White and Gold" - the republic of Ireland's flag. |
| Green | phr | "Turn Green" - to become envious. |
| Green | phr | "You Would Believe that the Moon is Made of Green Cheese" - you would believe the most absurd thing imaginable |
| Greenacre | n | (law) A placeholder name of a fictitious or hypothetical estate in land commonly used to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of real property. |
| Green alder | n | A tree of the genus Alnus, 'alnus viridos'. |
| Green-back | n | One of the class of legal tender of the United States, so called because it is printed in green. 2. the golden plover. |
| Green bean | n | The immature pod of any kind of bean plant, eaten as a vegetable. 2. the immature pods of numerous varieties of the common bean, 'Phaseolus vulgaris' |
| Green-belt | n | A strip of recreational unoccupied land, encircling a community as a protection against objectionable property uses. |
| Green blindness | n | Deuteranopia. |
| Greenbody | n | An object composed of a ceramic compound, usually clay or powder, before it has been fired. |
| Greenbone | n | The Greenbone: the garfish |
| Green-briar | n | Green brier, any of several American prickly woody vines of the genus 'Smilax' . |
| Green build | vb | To design and construct to be ecologically correct by using resources efficiently, using internal recycling, renewable energy sources, recyclable or biodegradable construction materials, and blending in with the local environment, particularly in out-of-town locations. The aims are to reduce to a minimum the environmental impact, and to take human health factors into consideration. |
| Green building | n | A building designed to be ecologically correct by using resources efficiently, using internal recycling, renewable energy sources, recyclable or biodegradable construction materials, and blending in with the local environment, particularly in out-of-town locations. The aims are to reduce to a minimum the environmental impact, and to take human health factors into consideration. |
| Green burials | n | Ensuring that burial sites remain as natural as much as possible in all respects. |
| Green cloth | n | (Informally)- the green covering of a billiard and gaming table. 2. (informally) - a billiard or gaming table. |
| Green Christmas | n | A mild Christmas without snow or frost. |
| Green crop | n | Crop used as fodder in a green state rather than as hay etc. |
| Green earth | n | A clay containing small amounts of manganese and iron, used as a pigment in dyeing and as abase for some green lakes. |
| Greened | adj | Rendered green; covered with verdure. |
| Greener | n | An inexperienced workman, esp. a foreigner in search of work. |
| Green-eyed | adj | Viewing anything with jealousy, the eye of jealously. 2. influenced by jealously. |
| Green-eyes | n | One who views everything with envy, as an "Old Green Eyes'. |
| Green fallow | n | Land rendered mellow and clear from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnip, potatoes. |
| Green feed | n | Grazing of cattle, sheep etc. on green pastures, such as lucerne. |
| Greenfield | n | Originally used in construction and development in reference that land has never been used (e.g. green or new) and where there is no need to demolish or rebuild any existing structures. |
| Green-finger(s) | n | One unusually successful in making plants grow; a green-thumb. |
| Green fingered | adj | Having considerable ability and talent to growing plants. |
| Green fly | adj | A very small, pale green insect that often harms or destroys plants; an aphid. |
| Green glass | n | Bottle glass; the viscid melted used for making bottles. |
| Green Goddess | n | A British Army fire-engine. |
| Green gold | n | An alloy of gold, silver and copper in varying proportions, ranging from 14 to 18 carats in fineness, the deepest shade being of 18 carats; used in jewelry. |
| Greengoods | n | Counterfeit American currency notes. 2. vegetables and green fruits; green-groceries; greenware, greenworts. |
| Green-head | n | A young, immature or untrained intellect. 2. a raw, green, inexperienced person, simpleton, ignoramus. |
| Greenheaded | adj | Young, immature or untrained. 2. raw, inexperienced, mentally unalert, simple, ignorant, dull-minded. |
| Greenhearted | adj | Having a a green centre, as a green stone such as emerald. 2. having a 'green' or bushy area in a city. |
| Greenhood | n | State of being green or verdant. 2, greenness. |
| Green-horn | n | A new, inexperienced person, tyro, novice. |
| Green-house | adj | A building having glass walls and roof, for the protection and propagation of plants. |
| Green-houselike | adj | Similar or resembling a greenhouse. |
| Green-in-earth | adj | Just buried or interred. |
| Greening | n | The process of becoming green or covered with verdure. 2. the process of rendering or imparting a green colour. |
| Greening | adj | Greening or becoming green. 2. that causes green. |
| Greenish | adj | Somewhat or a little bit green. (in various senses). |
| Greenishly | adj | Somewhat green or verdure. |
| Greenishness | n | The state or appearance of being green. |
| Green-keeping | n | The maintenance and care of bowling greens, golf courses, sporting fields etc. |
| Greenland | n | The largest island in the world, off North east North America, |
| Greenlander | n | A person who is a native or resident of Greenland. |
| Greenlane | n | (Britain) - any of several types of wide unsurfaced paths through the countryside, esp. the ancient ones once used for herding animals. |
| Green lea | n | A green valley or dale. |
| Green-lead ore | n | Pyromorphite |
| Green light | n. | A green signal used in the control of traffic and indicating that traffic may proceed. 2. colloquially approval or authorization of an intended action; permission to proceed on a course of action. |
| Greenlight | vb | To give permission for someone to take a course of action. |
| Greenline | n | To ease access to service to residents in specific areas, particularly by designating such areas as suitable for real-estate lending and property insurance. |
| Greenline | vb | A false misleading picture of environmental friendliness used to conceal |
| Greenlung | n | An area of natural parkland within an urban region supposed to replenish the air with oxygen. |
| Greenly | adj | With a green colour; with green vegetation. 2. so as to look green. 3. of growing vegetation: freshly vigorous, youthfully. 3. in an inexperienced or unskilled way; unskillfully with a simplicity. |
| Greenman | n | A symbol of a human figure illuminated green at a pedestrian crossing to indicate a time to cross. 2. a man dressed up in greenery to represent a wild man of the woods or seasonal fertility. 3. a fresh, raw or inexperienced way. |
| Green Monday | n | A worldwide platform for all parties passionate about plant-based life-styles. |
| Greenness | adj | The state or quality of being green. 2. the condition of being raw, inexperienced, untrained. |
| Green-room | n | The common waiting room for performers in a theater when they are off stage. |
| Green roof | n | A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems. |
| Green sand | n | Either of two green-colored sandstone strata of the Cretaceous. system: |
| Green-shank | n | Tringa nebularia, a European sandpiper |
| Greenshirt | n | A member of Canada's Social Credit Party, which was thought by its opponents to resemble a fascist movement , at least in style, if not presentation. 2. sometimes used to refer to th eIron Guard Death squads in Romania. |
| Greensick | adj | Morbidly sick, bilious. |
| Green-sickness | n | Chlorosis: an enemic disease which mostly affects young women about the age of puberty with a pale green tinge to their complexion. |
| Green-side | n | Grassy land, pasture, grass |
| Green-spot | n | A plot of land, covered by vegetation. |
| Greenstick | adj | A seroius and painful bone fracture. |
| Greenstone | n | Any green stone, but usually comprising greenish coloured rocks containing feldspar or augite, such as diorite and varieties of jade. |
| Greensward | n | Turf green with grass. |
| Greenth | n | Verdure. |
| Green thumb | n | Success or skill in making plants grow easily |
| Green-to-green | adj | Describing the condition in which two sea-going ships traveling in opposite directions pass each other on their starboard sides, making their green navigation lights face each other |
| Greenward | adj | Towards an ecologically friendly situation. |
| Greenware | n | Greenstuffs, vegetation, herbage. 2. in pl. a commercial term for green vegetables; green goods, greenworts. |
| Greenwash | n | A false or misleading picture of environmental friendliness used to conceal or obscure damaging activities. |
| Greenwash | vb | To disseminate such information about false or misleading picture of environmental friendliness used to conceal or obscure damaging activities. |
| Greenwashing | n | Greenwashing is the practice of making an unsubstantiated or misleading claim about the environmental benefits of a product, service, technology or company practice. Greenwashing can make a company appear to be more environmentally friendly than it really is |
| Greenwater | n | The precipitation on land that does not run off or recharge the groundwater but is stored in the soil or temporarily stays on top of the soil or vegetation. Eventually, this part of precipitation evaporates or transpires through plants. Green water can be made productive for crop growth (although not all green water can be taken up by crops, because there will always be evaporation from the soil and because not all periods of the year or areas are suitable for crop growth). |
| Greenwave | n | A series of traffic lights (usually three or more) coordinated to allow continuous traffic flow in one main direction over several intersections |
| Greenwax | n | A seal of green wax attesting a document formerly issued by the exchequer to a sheriff. 2. a document attested by green wax. 3. the fines or amercement collected by virtue of such (a document attested by green wax). |
| Greenway | n | A way covered with verdure; hence, fig. a pleasant path or vista. |
| Greenweed | n | A small Eurasia shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States and sometimes grown as an ornamental. 2. also known as dyer's greenweed, dyer's broom, woadwaxen, whin. |
| Greenwood | n | A forest; a forest in leaf. |
| Greenwort | n | The sneeze wort, achillea pharmica. |
| Greenworts | n | Vegetables, greens. |
| Greeny | n | (sl) - the curtain of a theatre. 2. a greenhorn at university. 3. an environmentalist (a greenie). |
| Greeny | adj | Verdant; fig. vigorously green. |
| Greenyard | n | In Britain an enclosure for holding stray animals. |
| Greet | n | One greets or cries out. 2. a greeter, one who salutes. |
| Greet | vb | To weep, cry, lament, grieve; to shed tears (although rarely said of the eye). 2. to cry out, or call out in supplication or anger. 3. to weep, lament, wail. 4. to beseech a person with tears. |
| Greet | phr | "Greet With" - offer, in for of a welcome, jeering, applause, etc. |
| Greeteth | vb | Past particle of greet. |
| Greeting | n | Lamentation, weeping; the action of lamentation or weeping. |
| Greeting | adj | That greets or salutes. |
| Greetingful | adj | Sorrowful; tearful. |
| Greeting-less | adj | Without greeting or welcome. |
| Greetingly | adv | In a salutatory manner. 2. that weeps or greets. |
| Greets | n | Greetings. |
| Greeve | n | See 'Grieve" |
| Greme | vb | OE: gremian. - to anger, or vex. 2. to become angry or vexed. |
| Greming | n | The action of angering or vexing; causing rage |
| Gremthe | n | Anger, rage, vexation. |
| Grey | n | Grey horse of a light gray or whitish color. 2. clothing that is a grey color. 3. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black. 4. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey |
| Grey | vb | Make grey or render grey in color. 2. turn grey in color. |
| Grey | adj | Black and white colors mixed together with little or no positive hue, hoary, hence old aged. 2. epithet of (a) the Cisterician monks, because of the colour of their habits, the grey friars. 3. of a horse, having a grey coat. 4.of the badger: (the grey). 5. ancient, old, mature. |
| Grey | phr | "In the Grey" - unburnished. |
| Grey | phr | "The Grey Mare is the Better Horse" - the wife rules the husband. |
| Grey-back | n | A confederate soldier in the American Civil War. 2. the grey whale, the hooded crow. |
| Grey-beard | n | A man with a grey beard; hence (often used in contempt) of an elderly or dottery man. 2. a large stoneware jug for spirits. |
| Grey-board | n | Thick grey paper used as a packaging or for artwork. 2. a board made entirely for waste pape and packaging purposes.. |
| Grey-body | n | A body with constant emissivity over all wavelengths and temperatures. Such an ideal body does not exist in practice but the assumption is a good approximation for many objects used in engineering. |
| Grey-eyed | adj | Dull, without hue, applied poetically to the early morning; as, in "The grey-eyed morning smiles on the frowning night". |
| Grey-ghost | n | A parking officer who wears a grey uniform. |
| Grey goods | n | Greige: cotton, linen, silk, rayon or wool fabric before dying, sizing or other processing: named for its grey unfinished appearance. |
| Grey-haired | adj | Characteristic of age, esp. having grey or white hair; grey-headed, grey. |
| Grey-hat | n | A hacker who exploits the security weakness in a computer system or product in order to bring the weaknesses to the attention of the owners. unlike a 'black hat' a grey hat acts without malicious intent. |
| Grey-haired | adj | Showing characteristics of age, esp. having grey or white hair. |
| Grey-headed | adj | To grow grey-headed; to grow old, be of an old age, as a man. 2. to have served for a long period, inveterate, be an 'old hand at'. 3. to be well versed or experienced in. 4. of things - ancient, old-time worn. |
| Greyhound | n | One of a breed of tall, slender dogs with a long narrow head and smooth short coat:used for hunting and racing. 2. a fast ocean vehicle. |
| Grey iron | n | Grey iron, or grey cast iron, is a type of cast iron that has a graphite micro-structure. It is named after the gray color of the fracture it forms, which is due to the presence of graphite. It is the most common cast iron and the most widely used cast material based on weight. |
| Greyish | adj | Somewhat grey/ gray. |
| Greyishly | adv | In a somewhat grey manner. |
| Greyishness | n | The quality of being greyish. |
| Greyline | n | A narrow band of dusk and dawn that separates the areas of daylight from those in darkness throughout the world. |
| Greyly | adj | Of colour, with a grey tinge or hue. |
| Greyness | n | The state or quality of being grey. 2. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black. 2. a colour lacking a hue. 3. a light shade of grey; silver grey. |
| Grey ore | n | Chalcolite |
| Grey-out | n | A temporary loss of consciousness, less severe than a blackout. 2. a temporary loss or blurring of vision caused by oxygen deficiency; especially in aviators or pilots subject to high acceleration. |
| Greystone | n | Volcanic rock composed of feldspar. |
| Greywater | n | The relatively clean waste water from baths, sinks washing machines and other kitchen/ home appliances. |
| Grey whale | n | (Eschrichtius robustus), also known as the grey whale, gray back whale, Pacific gray whale, or California gray whale is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. |
| Greywolf | n | A large wolf of North America; the timber wolf. |
| Greywork | n | The work of a furrier. |
| Greyworker | n | Furrier. |
| Grieve | n. | Governor of a provincial town. 2. an overseer, manager, head-workman on a farm. |
| Grill | n | Harm, hurt, injure. |
| Grill | vb | (OE: grillan - to annoy, vex, offend. 2. make angry, provoke. 3. to terrify, tremble, tremble or shudder in fear, hesitate in fear. 2. to cause to sound, play an instrument, twang. |
| Grill | n | Shivering, shuddering, grilling. |
| Grill | adj | OE: griell - angry, harsh, rough, severe, cruel. |
| Grim | adj | Of persons, fierce, cruel, savage, harsh. 2. determined, daring, bold. 3. stern, merciless, resolute, uncompromising. 4. forbidding or harsh in aspect. Stern, implying no softening in laughter or jest. 5. dealing with ghastly subjects. 6. harsh and repellent of aspect. |
| Grim | phr | "Hold on Like Grim Death" -hold something tenaciously. |
| Grime | n | OE: grima - a mask. 2. a creature that has assumed a horrible form; a spectre ghost. |
| Grimful | adj | Full of grimness; hence: terrible. |
| Grimlike | adj | Characteristic of, or resembling, something dismal, gloomy, stern, forbidding. |
| Grimliness | n | Characteristic or being dismal, gloomy, stern, forbidding. |
| Grim-looking | adj | Grimly, grim-natured, dismal, gloomy, forbidding in aspect. |
| Grimly | adv | Grim-looking; grim in appearance or nature. 2. with a stern or cruel action, intention, or feeling, fiercely, cruely. 3. rigidly uncomprisingly. 4. dreadfully, frightfully, shockingly, terribly. 5. with a grim look or air (of a person). |
| Grimness | n | The condition or quality of being grim; fierceness, sternness, of formidable aspect. |
| Grimsightedness | n | Austere |
| Grin | n | A noose, trap or snare for catching birds or animals made of cord, etc |
| Grin | n | The act of grinning, a broad smile. |
| Grin | vb | To smile broadly. 2. to draw back the lips to show the teeth in rage, pain, anger or foolish laughter. |
| Grin | phr | Grin and Bear it- to suffer adversity cheerily or without complaint. 2. endure something unpleasant cheerfully, or at least without complaint. |
| Grin | phr | "Grin From Ear to Ear" - smile broadly, showing great pleasure or amusement. |
| Grin | phr | "Grin Like a Cheshire Cat" - to grin or smile, esp. in a senseless or inappropriate way. |
| Grind | n | Steady and hard work, close and hard study: doing so. 2. a laborious student. |
| Grind | vb | To reduce to small particles or powder by crushing between two hard surfaces, triturate. 2. to sharpen, polish, shape by friction. . 3. to make grain into meal; to grind coffee. 4. to produce music on a an organ. 5. to copulate. 6. in OE, to make a grinding or grating noise. 7. to gnash with the teeth. 8 to oppress harshly or cruelly. 9. to masticate. the clash (noise) of weapons. |
| Grind | phr | "Daily Grind" - daily work. |
| Grind | phr | "Grind Away (At)" - work with gim determination. |
| Grind | phr | "Grind Into" - press with great force with fist, heel (tobacco, food, etc). 2. reduce, by grinding (meal, corn, etc). |
| Grind | phr | "Grind Down (somebody)" - oppress. |
| Grind | phr | "Grind One's Teeth" - grind the upper and lower teeth against each other as an accompaniment, or reaction, to pain, stress, frustration; gnash the teeth. |
| Grind | phr | "Grind Out" to utter sentence or oath through teeth (in a grating voice). 2. play, heavily, drearily. |
| Grind | phr | "Grind to a Halt" - to cease some activity despite expectations that it would continue. 2. gradually or slowly and inevitability and perhaps noisily to a stop. |
| Grind | phr | "Have An Axe To Grind" - pursue a personal and private (often leading to a bias point of view). |
| Grind | phr | "The Grind" -a walk take for exercise or grind; anything taken laboriously. 2. (slang) a steeplechase. |
| Grind | phr | The Grind of the Sun" - fig, constantly doing so, going down, setting, rising. |
| Grind | phr | "The Mills of God Grinds Slowly" - retribution maybe dealyed but it is inevitable. |
| Grind | phr | "The Sun by West Grinds ' - to set, go down; as the sun. |
| Grinder | n | An instrument for grinding: a molar tooth. 2. (slang), a bit-grinder: a computer. |
| Grind-house | n | See "Grinding-house' |
| Grinding | n | The action of grinding. |
| Grinding | adj | Of sounds, strident. 2. of effort, burdensome, crushing, exacting, oppressive. 3. of persons, organizations, with extortion. 4. of pain, racking, wearing, excruciating. |
| Grinding frame | n | An English name for cotton spinning machine. |
| Grinding-house | n | A mill, a mill-stone. 2. figuratively, of organization, group, place of extortion. |
| Grindingly | adv | In a grinding manner. |
| Grindle | n | A green valley or dale; as a green dale. |
| Grindstone | n | A flat circular stone so hung that it can be rotated upon an axis used for sharpening tools; abrading. 2. millstone. |
| Grindstone | n | "To Put One's Nose to the Grindstone" - to work with particular diligence. |
| Grinner | n | One who smiles broadly, as an indication of pleasure, amusement. |
| Grinnily | adv | In a grinning manner. |
| Grip | n | Intellectual or mental hold for mastering a subject. 2. of a beverage: quality which gives it a hold-able palate. 3. a twinge. 4. fit, spasm, seizure. 5. a handful: as much as can be gripped by the hand. |
| Grip | n | Burrow, trench, small open ditch for carrying water, a drain a furrow. 2. gutter in a cow house. |
| Grip | vb | To take hold of, seize, grab, grasp. 2. to dig a trench or ditch. |
| Grip | phr | "Come to Grips With" - be on the way to solving a problem. 2. deal with. |
| Grip | phr | "Get a Grip On Oneself" - get oneself under control. |
| Grip | phr | "Get to Grips with" - begin to deal with or understand; approach with purpose. |
| Grip | phr | "Have Something in an Iron Grip - to hold something very securely. |
| Grip | phr | "In the Grip of" - in the control or power. |
| Grip | phr | "Lose One's Grip" -lose one's intellectual or mental hold for mastering a something. |
| Gripe | vb | To make a grasp or clutch, to seek to get hold of, to close in tight control, sieze firmly. 2. to lay hold, sieze, catch, grasp, grasp tightly with a hand or claw. 3. to get into one's possession, to take, recieve. 4. to enclose in a tight embrace, encircle tightly. 5. to oppress by miserly or penurious means. 6, to grieve, afflict. 7. to produce pain in the bowel. |
| Gripe | phr | "Gripe at" - informally complain about, usually unreasonably. |
| Gripe-all | n | An avaricious person. |
| Griped | adj | Clenched, held tightly and firmly. 2. pained in the bowels. |
| Gripeful | adj | As much as a clenched fist can hold. |
| Griper | n | One who oppresses others by extortionate and niggardly methods; an extortionist. 2. an instrument of torture that presses down. 3. a canine tooth. 4. one who 'gripes or complain. |
| Gripe water | n | A product claimed to relieve colic and other gastro-intestinal ailments in infants. |
| Griping | n | The action of griping, grasping or clutching tightly. 2. fig. of person or their action of grasping, being usurious, being avaricious, squeezing, oppressing. |
| Griping | adj | That which gripes, causes pain or distess (causing pain or distress, painful, distressing mentally or physical). 2. spasmodic constriction of the bowel. |
| Gripingly | adv | In a griping manner : grasping, clenching, tightening. 2. (lit. & fig.) in a painful and/or distressing manner. |
| Gripingness | n | The state or condition of griping: causing pain or distress; or (2) the act of clenching tightly, grasping firmly etc. |
| Gripless | adj | Lacking a grip or cable. |
| Gripman | n | A worker on a cable car who operates the grip, which by grasping or releasing the moving cable, starts or stops the car. |
| Grippen | vb | To clench the fist. |
| Gripper | n | A person or thing that grasps something. 2. the handle of a bicycle, tool etc. that makes it easier to grip. 3. a ticket collector. 4. a visual compartment of a computer window etc. enabling it to be resized or moved. |
| Gripping | n | The action of taking a firm hold of; seizing. |
| Gripping | adj | That grips, clutches, or grasps tightly. |
| Grippingly | adv | In a gripping, grasping, grabbing, seizing manner. |
| Gripple | n | A hook to seize things with. |
| Gripple | adj | Niggardly, usurious, tenacious; gripping. |
| Gripple-handed | adj | Niggardly, usurious, tenacious, gripping. |
| Gripple-minded | adj | Niggardly, usurious, tenacious, gripping. |
| Grippleness | n | Avarice, greed, niggardliness; a greedy desire for something. 2. in mooring: tenaciously gripping. |
| Grippingly | adv | In a niggardly, usurious, tenacious, gripping manner. |
| Grippy | adj | Having the tendency to be avaricious. 2. tenacious. 3. capable of holding the attention and interest of a spectator. |
| Gris | n | Terror, horror, violence, grise. |
| Grise | adj | Sad, terrified; (may relate to OE grorn, sad, begrornen, to be sad, terrified, or grye: horror). 2. grisly |
| Grise | vb | To shudder with fear or horror, tremble with great afraidness, affright or abhorrence. 2. to shudder at with terror or abhorrence, to dread, abhor, loathe. 3. to terrify, affright. |
| Griseful | adj | Horrible, terrible, fearful, abhorred, dreadful. |
| Grising | n | Terror, horror, dread, loathing, abhorrence. |
| Grisliness | n | The state or condition of being grisly, gruesomeness, terrified, dreading, horribleness, fearfulness. |
| Grisly | adj | Horribly, savage-looking, terribly, grimly, fear-inspiring, horrifying so as to inspire terror. |
| Grisness | n | Terror, horror, dread. |
| Grist | vb. | To gnash one's teeth with anger, peevishness. To bring to grist: grounded to meal or powder. |
| Grist | n. | Corn or malt, etc., brought to the mill and that has be grounded. 2. the action of grinding. 3. fig: st. or so. grounded down by oppression or burden and used for advantage by others. 4. a lot, a number, a quantity of b anything, as a 'grist of flies'. |
| Grist | phr | "A Grist of Files" - a large amount, swarm of flies. |
| Grist | phr | All is Grist that Comes to His Mill - He (God) turns everything to account. |
| Grist | phr | Bring Grist to Someone's/One's Mill- to bring one business or advantage, 2, everything has some value. 2. something that one can seize, make use of, turn to one's own purposes. |
| Grist | phr | "Bring to Grist" - grounded to meal or powder. |
| Gristbite | vb | To gnash one teeth. |
| Gristiness | n | State or quality of being gristy. |
| Gristing | n | The action of grinding, milling corn, wheat, maize etc. |
| Gristle | n | Cartilage, also known asgristle-bone. 2. (fig.) a tender or delicate person. 3. slang: the nose. |
| Gristle | phr | "In the Gristle" - embryonic, unformed, or iniiatory stage of existence; inchoate. |
| Gristle-bone | n | Cartilage. |
| Gristly | adv | Hard to chew, rubbery. |
| Gristmill | n | A mill where grain is processed; a flour mill. |
| Gristy | adj | Grainy, mealy, coarse. |
| Grit | n | Minute particle of stone or sand, as produced by attrition or breakdown. 2. earth, soil, mould. 3. the ground. 4. firmness or solidity of character: great pluck or spirit, stamina. 5. bran, chaff, mill-dust, coarse oatmeal. 6. oats husked, but not ground. 7. a coarsely grounded hominy. |
| Grit | vb | To produce a grating sound, as by crushing of grit, to move with such a grating noise. 2. to cover with grit or sand. 3. to gritty sound. |
| Grit | phr | "Grit One's Teeth" - to grind or press the teeth together. 2. clench one's jaw so that the teeth close hard against each other. 3. to pursue something tenaciously and stubbornly. 4. face up or get ready to suffer. |
| Grit | n | The Crab, perhaps because of it's sideways, tenacious walk. |
| Grit | vb | To make a grating sound, of like the crushing of grit. 2. to cover with sands or grit. |
| Grit | phr | "To Grit One's Teeth" - to utter with the teeth gritted or almost closed. |
| Grith | n | OE: security; specifically in Old English law. 2. sanctuary or or refuge provided by the church. 3. a place or sanctuary, asylum, or refuge. |
| Gritberry | n | The genus Camorostaphylis |
| Grith | n | Protection, defence, safe conduct. 2. in OE law, security, peace or protection guaranteed under limitations (afterwards assumed the meaning of peace). 3. a sanctuary, asylum; quarter in battle. |
| Grith | vb | To make peace, give sanctuary or protection |
| Grith | n | Hand-grith: protection under the king's hand. |
| Grithbreach | n | Breach of grith and penalty for the breaching of.. |
| Grithful | adj | Peaceful. 2. protective, secured. |
| Grith-fulness | n | Peacefulness. |
| Grithless | adj | Without peace, security or sanctuary. |
| Grithly | adv | Peaceably, securely, protectively. |
| Grithly | adj | Peaceful, protective, secure. |
| Grithman | n | A man, esp. a criminal who has taken sanctuary. |
| Grithstone | n | Stones that marked the boundary or bounds of a place of sanctuary. |
| Grithstool | n | Places of sanctuary. |
| Grithtown | n | A town or village where grith or sanctuary is given |
| Gritless | adj | Having no grit, without determination or tenacity. 2. having 'no grit' of character. 3. without a gritty or grating sound. |
| Gritstone | n | A hard coarse grained, siliceous stone, often used as a building material. |
| Grittily | adv | In a determined, gritty, gritful or tenacious manner. 2. plucky, spirited, courageos, resolute. |
| Grittiness | n | The quality, state or condition of being gritty. 2. consisting of, or containing or resembling grit, sand. |
| Grittle | n | Coarse grain. |
| Grittle | vb | To grind corn coarsely. |
| Gritty | adj | Of the nature, resembling grit, sandy; with minute particles rendering it unpleasant. 2. fig. of a literary style with allusion to the unpleasant qualities of 'gritty bread'. 3. having firmness of character or courage; full of determination or pluck. |
| Groan | n | A low deep sound of grief, pain or displeasure. 2. to groan inwardly, within oneself, from the heart. |
| Groan | vb | To make a low deep sound of grief, pain or displeasure; to be in pain or overburdened. |
| Groan | phr | "Groan Out" - utter with a groan. |
| Groan | phr | "Groan Under (or Beneath)" - to be oppressed, overburdened |
| Groan | phr | "Groan With" - produce a long. low sound from the throat, deliberately or involuntary. |
| Groaner | n | One who groans. 2. a thief or killer who attends the funeral of his victims. |
| Groanful | adj | Lugubrious. |
| Groaning | n | The action of groaning. |
| Groaning-board | n | A squeaky floor |
| Groaningly | adv | In a groaning manner. |
| Groaning-time | n | The travails of labor. |
| Groatworthy | adj | Of small nad insignificant value. |
| Groats | n | Hulled or crushed grain, esp. oats, but also wheat, barley and maize. 2. raw oats. 3. small particles. |
| Groats | phr | "Blood Without Groats is Nothing" - family without fortune is worthless. The allusion is perhaps to black pudding which consists chiefly of blood and groats formed into a sausage. |
| Groats broth | n | Thick, not very tasty soup. |
| Groatsworthy | n | A small handful of little monetary value. |
| Groom | n | Man newly married, or about to be married; a bridegroom: the correlative of bride. |
| Groomsman | n | A man who serves as one of a number of attendants to a bridegroom at a wedding, one of whom is the best man. |
| Grope | vb | Feel about, search blindly, as in grope one's way. 2. to feel about with or as with hands, as in the dark, feel one's way. 3. to seek out or find by or as by groping. |
| Grope | phr | "Grope After/For" - try to find, in a blind, fumbling way. |
| Groping | adj | Touching, grasping, seizing, attaining. |
| Groping | n | The act or action of seizing, grasping, touching. |
| Gropingly | adv | In a touching, grasping, groping manner |
| Grot | n | OE: grot- a fragment, particle, atom. |
| Ground | n | The bottom, the lowest part or downward limit of anything, of the sea, surface of the earth, a well, ditch, hell. the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface. 2. (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting. 3. a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
4. a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused. 5. the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground. 6. a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle) 7. a rational motive for a belief or action. 8. the solid part of the earth's surface. 9. material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use.) 10. a relation that provides the foundation for something. 11. the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface |
| Ground | vb | Establish, instruct (in elementary principles). ground use as a basis for; found on: base a claim on some observation. 2. instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject. 3. connect to a ground; ground the electrical connections for safety reasons. 4. fix firmly and stably. 5. cover with a primer; apply a primer to. . hit onto the ground. 7. throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage. 8. place or put on the ground
confine or restrict to the ground: ground a plane. 9. hit or reach the ground 10. bring to the ground. |
| Ground | phr | "Above the Ground" - situated or taking place on or above the surface of the ground. 2. operating or established within the establishment, conventional. |
| Ground | phr | "Along the Ground" - moving along the surafce of the ground, as reptiles. |
| Ground | phr | "Be Grounded" - often in the expression " to be well grounded" : to be well acquainted with a subject. |
| Ground | phr | "Break New Ground" - to progress in a new direction. 2. to do something which there is no precedent. 3. do or find something new. |
| Ground | phr | "Bring to Ground" - to cast down, overthrow, overcome, subdue. |
| Ground | phr | "Come to Ground" - to be overcome, perish. 2. to be buried, to bury. |
| Ground | phr | "Down to the Ground" - appropriate, siutable for someone. 2. thoroughly, in every respect. |
| Ground | phr | "Fall to Ground" - to come to nothing, to be given up, or abandoned so as to be dashed to the ground. |
| Ground | phr | "From the Ground Up" - completely, entirety, from the first, or initial stage. |
| Ground | phr | "Gain Ground" - to advance, make steady progress. |
| Ground | phr | "Get (or be let in)In On the Ground Floor" - to invest on very favorable terms. 2. allow somebody to join an organization on the same terms as its founders. |
| Ground | phr | "Get (Something) Off the Ground" - to make a successful start. 2. iniatate; put into action. |
| Ground | phr | "Give Ground" - to recede, fall back; retreat, yield. 2. to make some concessions or to retreat or to concede some arguments. |
| Ground | phr | "Go To Ground" - withdraw quietly and secretly. 2. to be unavailable to those seeking a person. 3. hide, evade from pursuers. |
| Ground | phr | Ground and Lofty : fundamental & inspiring, (loft/lofty: late OE.) |
| Ground | phr | "Ground On" - give, provide as a basis. |
| Ground | phr | "Ground Out" - see 'grind out'. |
| Ground | phr | "Ground Down" - to reduce to small particles. 2. fig. to exhaust, wear out, tired out. |
| Ground | phr | "Have One's Feet On the Ground" - take a practical, realistic view. |
| Ground | phr | "Have the High Ground" - to have an advantage in moral terms. |
| Ground | phr | "Hold One's Ground" - not retreat or back away. |
| Ground | phr | "Keep (Have)One's Ear to the Ground" - to be well informed on current developments. |
| Ground | phr | "Kiss the Ground" - to suffer loss. |
| Ground | phr | "Lose Ground" - to fall back. |
| Ground | phr | "Make Up Ground" - to make progress, advance. |
| Ground | phr | "On Dry Ground" - on terra firma rather than water (or sea). |
| Ground | phr | "On One's Home/Own Ground" - where one has local advantage of knowledge or personal experience |
| Ground | phr | "On Shaky Ground" - not to have strong arguments. |
| Ground | phr | "On the Ground" - in situ. 2. at the point of production or operation; in practical conditions. |
| Ground | phr | "Plough(Plow) New Ground" - to laboriously engaged in an untried activity. |
| Ground | phr | "Rooted to the Ground" - immobile, fixed to the spot. |
| Ground | phr | "Run to Ground" - to discover the whereabouts of some person. |
| Ground | phr | "Shift One's Ground - change one's opinion, viewpoint. |
| Ground | phr | "Stand One's Ground" - to maintain an argument or purpose. 2. to maintain one's stance in face of opposition. be firm, unyielding. |
| Ground | phr | "Take the Ground from under Someone's feet" - to unexpectedly withdraw support and in the process cause embarrassment. 2. to demolish sometimes case or argument. |
| Ground | phr | "Thick on the Ground" - common; plentiful. |
| Ground | phr | "Thin on the Ground" - uncommon; scarce. |
| Ground | phr | "Well Grounded" - having a deep knowledge of. |
| Ground | phr | 'Work Oneself into the Ground" - work to the point of exhaustion. |
| Ground | n | Grave, burial plot, tomb. |
| Ground-birds | n | Generic name for any columbine, gallineous, grallatorial or struthious birds. 2. a field sparrow or vesper sparrow. |
| Ground-breaker | n | A person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity. |
| Ground-breaking | adj | Inovative, pioneering, original |
| Ground-breakingly | adv | In a innovating, pionering, originating manner. |
| Ground-burst | n | The detonation of an explosive device such as an artillery shell or a nuclear weapon in the air instead of on the ground. |
| Ground-ebb | n | Low water. |
| Grounded | adj | Acquainted, or in the case of being 'well-grounded' - having a deep knowledge of a subject; as, 'well or thoroughly grounded in French'. 2. reduced, grounded down to small particles. |
| Groundedly | adv | In a grounded or well-established manner; fundamentally, deeply, thoroughly. |
| Groundedness | n | The state or condition of being grounded |
| Grounder | n | One who or that which grounds. |
| Ground-feet | adj | Firmly fixed to the ground; flightless. |
| Groundfire | n | A forest fire that burns the humus and usually doesn't appear at the surface. 2. gunfire from the ground directed against aircraft. |
| Ground floor | n | The floor of a building level or almost level with the ground. |
| Ground floor | phr | "To Get In On the Ground Floor" - to enter or accompny or join a business undertaking at its inception and hence receive equal profits with the promoters. |
| Ground frost | n | A ground temperature low enough to cause injury to growing plants usually reckoned at 30 df. 2. frost formed on the surface of the ground or in the top layer of the soil. |
| Ground furse | n | Cammock |
| Ground game | n | Game animals such as rabbits and hares that live on the ground. |
| Ground glass | n | Glass with a smooth ground surface that renders it transparent while retaining its transluceness. 2. glass ground without an abrasive powder. |
| Groundhate | n. | Deep-seated hatred, fundamental apathy. |
| Ground hog | n | Aardvark; the woodchuck, a sandhog. 2. slang term for various workmen whose jobs keep them always on the ground. 3. one who works or walks far from their base camp, eg., footsoldier. |
| Ground-hog Day | n | February 2, Candlemas: according to rural tradition, if the ground hog, emerging after hibernation sees his shadow on this day, he retreats to the hole, thus indicating six weeks more of winter; if he does it is a sign of an early spring. |
| Ground-hopper | n | A small predominately brown insect that has well developed wings. |
| Ground ice | n | Ice formed on the bottom of water. 2. ice on a hard surface such as a road. |
| Grounding | n | The action of founding or establishing. 2. the act of instructing in elementary or fundamental principles; instructions of this kind. 3. grounds, sediments. |
| Grounding | phr | "A Grounding In" - training or instruction that gives someone basic knowledge of a particular subject. |
| Ground ivy | n | A creeping herb - Nepeta hederacea - with roundish kidney-shaped, scalloped leaves and bluish-purple flowers. |
| Groundlay | n | Foundation layer |
| Ground-keeper | n | Someone who takes care of the upkeep of the gardens. |
| Ground-keeping | n | The occupation of taking care of the upkeep of the gardens. |
| Groundless | adj | Bottomless, unfathomable (lit. and fig.) 2. destitute of foundation, authority or support. 3. having no real cause or reason; unfounded. |
| Groundlessly | adv | Without grounds; without adequate reason or concern. |
| Groundlessness | n | The quality of being groundlessness or without foundation of adequate reason. |
| Groundling | n | A plant or creeper. 2. an animal that lives on the ground or of terrestrail habits. 3. of humble rank; one of base breeding or sentiment. 4. of inferior taste, uncritical or unrefined person. |
| Groundly | adj | Well-established or founded, solid, firm. 2. of instruction: thorough. 2. thoroughy instructed or educated. 3. thorough, complete; solid; deep; profound |
| Groundly | adv | In a well-founded, firmly established, deep-seated or fundamental manner; with relation to the ground or root ; thoroughly, profoundly. 2. to the very ground, to the very bottom; thoroughly, completely; solidly; deeply; profoundly |
| Groundnut | n | The peanut. 2. any of several plants having edible tubers, attached to the roots, as the ground pea. |
| Grounds | n | The foundation which something immaterial is built-up: an underlying principle. |
| Groundsel | n | Seneccio vulgaris. 2. a timber serving as a foundation to carry a super-structure, a framework, a foundation. 3. the foundation which something immaterial is built-up: an underlying principle. |
| Groundselling | n | The action of serving as a foundation to carry a super-structure, a framework, a foundation. 2. the foundation which something immaterial is built-up or based upon: an underlying principle. |
| Groundshare | n | The sharing of a stadium, as a cost saving device, between two local sporting clubs. |
| Ground-sheet | n | A sheet of waterproof material that is spread on the ground, or beneath a tent, upon which a person may sit or sleep. |
| Groundsill | n | The lowest horizontal timber in a frame building; a goundsel. |
| Groundskeeper | n | A groundsman. |
| Groundsman | n | A person who maintains sports grounds, parks, or the grounds of a school or other institution. 2. a ground-keeper. |
| Ground speed | n | The speed of an aircraft with relation to the earth. |
| Ground-spider | n | Generally, ground spiders are characterized by having barrel-shaped anterior spinnerets that are one spinneret diameter apart. The main exception to this rule is found in the ant-mimicking genus Micaria. Another characteristic is an indentation in the endites (paired mouthparts anterior and lateral to the labium, or lip). All ground spiders lack a prey-capture web and generally run prey down on the surface. They hunt at night and spend the day in a silken retreat.[1] The thick-walled egg sacs are guarded by the mother until the spider lings hatch |
| Ground-stone | n | Foundation stone |
| Ground-stathel | n | Foundation, base. |
| Groundstatheling. | n | Foundation, base. |
| Ground sward | n | Turf, patch of green |
| Groundsweat | n | "Take (have the) groundsweat" - the grave, or to lie in the ground or grave. |
| Groundswell | n | Deep swell or heavy rolling of the sea, as the result of a distant storm or seismic disturbance. 2. fig. swell of emotion, mental or political agitation. |
| Ground thought | n | Profound or deep thought or thinking |
| Ground wall | n | A retaining wall. |
| Groundwards | adv | Towards the ground. 2. turned or inclined towards the ground. |
| Ground water | n | Free sub-surface water, the top of which is the water table. 2. all water in and saturating the soil. |
| Ground wave | n | A radio wave which travels along the surface of the earth. |
| Ground wire | n | The wire connecting an electrical apparatus with the ground or with a grounded object. |
| Ground wood | n | (Paper industry) wood that has been mechanically ground for pulp or direct use to produce certain kinds of paper or board |
| Groundwork | n | A fundamental part; a basis. |
| Groundwork | phr | "Put in the Groundwork" - to do what is necessary before an event or process can begin; lay the groundwork. |
| Groundworm | n | An earthworm or worm snake. |
| Grout | n | Coarse meal, peeled grain. 2. sediment, dregs, groats, lees, grounds. 3. a cup-shaped receptacle in which ingredients are crushed or ground, used in cooking or pharmacy |
| Grout | vb | To fill, surround or finish with stones. |
| Grouty | adj | Turbid as liquid. 2. cross or surly, sulky. |
| Grove | n | A group of trees, smaller than a forest. 2. a small wood, esp. one cleared of underbrush. 3. nemoral. 4. a collective of objects resembling a grove. |
| Groved | adj | Covered in, or having, groves. |
| Groveless | adj | Not having or devoid of a grow. |
| Grove-like | adj | Resembling or like a grove: small group of trees with minimal or no undergrowth. |
| Grover | n | One who lives in a grove. |
| Grovey | adj | Somewhat like a grove. |
| Grow | vb | Of a plant, to manifest vigorous life, to put forth foliage, flourish, be green. 2. to increase by a natural process of development or of enlargement, as a living organism or any of its parts; specifically, to increase by assimilation of nutriment, as animals or plants. 3. to be enlarged or extended, in general; increase; wax: as, a growing reputation; to grow in grace or in beauty. 4. to be changed from one state to another; become; be carried or extended, as to a condition or a result: as, to row pale; to grow indifferent; to grow rich; the wind growing into a tempest 6. to become attached or conjoined by or as if by a process of growth. 7. to lead: as, the chain grows out on the port bow. 8. to pass beyond or away from in development; leave behind; give up: as, to grow out of one's early beliefs or follies. 9. to take root; spring up; arise: as, a hostile feeling grew up in the community. 10. to cause to grow; cultivate; produce; raise: as, a farmer grows large quantities of wheat. 11. of a crystal, to develop or enlarge by the addition of molecules arranged in accordance with the laws of molecular attraction. |
| Grow | phr | "Grow Cold" - to wane or lose interest or enthusiasm for something or someone. 2. to be disenchanted or to fall out of love with someone. |
| Grow | phr | "Grow From" - germinate and reach fruition. 2. have as its origin; arise from. |
| Grow | phr | "Grow In' - become wiser, more worthy to lead, more important , etc; gain in. |
| Grow | phr | "Grow Into" - become, with the passage of time. 2. to become by degrees, ineradically fixed, vitally or indissolubly united with. |
| Grow | phr | "Grow On" - become gradually more attractive. 2. come with the passage with time. |
| Grow | phr | "Grow Out" - to be obliterated by growth. |
| Grow | phr | "Grow Out Of" - to become to big for (clothes). 2. to lose with the passage of time or with maturity, bad habits. 3. have as an origin, arise from, grow from. 4. abandon, lose with the passage of time or maturity. 5. have as an origin or cause; arise from, |
| Grow | phr | "Grow Over" - cover, spread over. 2. grow over with. |
| Grow | phr | "Grow To" - to be an organic or integral part of. |
| Grow | phr | "Grow Together" - to coalesce, unite or become united. |
| Grow | phr | "Grow Up" - to behave or think as an adult ought to, face the realities of life as it is, not as a child might imagine it to be. 2. go through one's formative years. |
| Grow | phr | "Grow Up into" - become, as one grows older, a villian, saint . |
| Grow | phr | "Grow Upon" - become gradually more favorably impressed by something. |
| Grow | phr | "Not Let the Grass Grow under One's Feet" - not let inertia or delay spoil something. |
| Grower | n | One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower. 2. one who or that which grows or increa3. one who grows, raises, or produces; a cultivator or producer: as, a hop-grower; a cattle-grower |
| Growhouse | n | Growing-house, grower-house : a property, usually in a residential neighourhood, that is primarily used for the production of marijuana and other illegal drugs. |
| Growing | adj | (Of a living thing) undergoing natural development by increasing in size and changing physically. 2. coming into existence and developing. |
| Growingly | adv | Increasing more and more. |
| Grow light | n | An artificial light source, generally an electric light, designed to stimulate plant growth by emitting an electromagnetic spectrum appropriate for photosynthesis. |
| Grown | adj | Mature, fully developed. |
| Growness | n | The state or condition of growing or being overgrown. |
| Growsome | adj | Favourable to growth. |
| Grow-someness | n | State of being able to growth. |
| Grown man/woman | phr | An adult; somebody who has, or should have common sense. 2. somebody who will behave reasonably. |
| Grown-up | n | Having reach the age of an adult. 2. a mature person. 3. a grown man or woman. |
| Grown-up-dom | n | Adulthood. |
| Grown-up-domness: | n | The state of onset of adulthood |
| Growth | n | A growth, increase; what has grown or is growing, expanding or increasing. 2. the gradual beginning or coming forth. 3.vegetation that has, trees. 3. something grown or growing of hair. 4. (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level. 5. a progression from simpler to more complex forms. 6. a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important as the increase in population. 7. (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) |
| Growthful | adj | Full of growth; capable of growth. |
| Growthless | adj | Having no growth; destitute. |
| Growth-making | n | Promoting growth in various fields and endeavours |
| Growthman | n | One advocating or favouring a policy of expansion, growth and the fixing of specific economic goals |
| Growthmanship | n | A policy advocating or favouring a policy of expansion, growth and the fixing of specific economic goals |
| Growth ring | n | The layer of wood added to a tree during one growing period. 2. one of the concentric of new wood added to the trunk of a tree during one season of growth; a tree-ring. |
| Growthsome | adj | Productive, fertile. |
| Growth stock | n | A company stock that tends to increase in capital value rather than yield high income. |
| Growthwise | adv | Tending to growth; in terms of growth. |
| Growthy | adj | Promoting growth. 2. of good growth, capable of growing to a large size. |
| Grunt | n. | Hog's sound; low gruff, guttural sound, similar to a sound made by other animals, including man. 2. US combat soldier, a marine soldier or non-flying Airforce officer. 3. any person doing menial work. 4. a fish that makes a grunting noise when caught, in particular, when caught. |
| Grunt | vb | To make a low gruff sound; to grumble, complain. |
| Grunter | n | A fish that makes a grunting sound. 2. any animal (a pig) or person that grunts, makes a low, short, guttural sound. 3. a low ranking soldier or unskilled worker. |
| Grunting | n | The characteristic low short gruff noise of a pig, or similar sound, as a disgust. 2. abnormal, deep, short, hoarse sounds in exhalationthat often accompany severe chest pain. |
| Grunting | adj | That grunts. |
| Gruntle | n | Pleased, satisfied. A back-formation from 'disgruntled' the original meant to utter a little or low grunt. |
| Gruntle | vb | To put in a good humour. |
| Gruntled | adj | Pleased, satisfied or contented. |
| Gruntlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a grunt. |
| Gruntling | n | A little pig, piglet. |
| Gruntingly | adv | With a grunting sound. |
| Gruntwork | n | An expression used to describe thankless and menial work. Grunt work can also refer to jobs that lack glamour and prestige or are boring and repetitive. This term may be derived from the slang term "grunts," which was used to describe low-ranking American soldiers during the Vietnam war. |
| Grure | n | Fright, terror, fearful agony, something frightful. |
| Grureful | adj | Frightful, terrible, awful. |
| Grurefully | adv | Terribly, frightfully, awfully. |
| Grythe | n | The spider, attercop. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Guild | n | Late Old English: probably from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch gilde, of Germanic origin; related to yield. 2. possible fusion of OE: gild and geglyd: association. & ON. gild: payment; |
| Guild-hall | n | The hall where a guild meets. 2. a town hall. |
| Guilt | n. | Fact or state of having offended; culpability. 2. the state of one who, by violation of law, has made him or herself liable or deserving of punishment. 3. wrongdoing, wickedness. |
| Guilt | v. | To commit an offence or sin |
| Guilter | n | One who motivates another with guilt. |
| Guilt-free | adj | Free of guilt. |
| Guiltily | adv | In a guilty manner, as if guilty. |
| Guiltiness | n | State of guilt. |
| Guiltless | adj | Free from guilt; innocent. 2. ignorant of, with guilt. 3. devoid of guilt. |
| Guilt-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of guilt. |
| Guilt-ridden | adj | Having a strong sense of guilt. |
| Guilt-sick | adj | Sickened by consciousness of guilt. |
| Guilt-struck | adj | Strongly affected by guilt. |
| Guiltware | n | In computing, software that attempts to convince the user to fulfill some obligation (such as a donation to charity) by eliciting of guilt. |
| Guiltwite | phr | Penalty for committing a crime. |
| Guilty | a. | Having committed an offence. 2. guiltless: innocent, guilt-free; guilt-struck |
| Guilty | phr | "Guilty as Sin" - unquestionably guilty. |
| Guilder | n. | A gold coin, see gild words |
| Gulesought | n. | Jaundice |
| Gum | n. | Used in OE for the inside of the mouth and throat. 2 the firm flesh in which the teeth are set. 3. the fleshy tissue that covers the alveolar arches of the jaws and invests the neck of the teeth. |
| Gumboil | n | Gums inflamed, swelling with abscess on the gums. |
| Gum-digger | n | Slang for dentist; |
| Gum-digging | phr | Slang for dentistry. |
| Gum-lift | n | A surgery upon the gums performed for the aesthetic purpose of raising the gum lines. |
| Gum-like | adj | Resembling a gums or some aspect of them. |
| Gum-line | n | A line along the top of gums where they meet the surface of the teeth. |
| Gummed | adj | Having gums. |
| Gumming | vb | To chew with the gums. |
| Gumness | n | The state of having gums. |
| Gummy | adj | Showing the gums. |
| Gummy-shark | n | A species, Mustelus antarctic endemic to southern and south-east australia, the meat of which is sold as flake. |
| Gum-tooth | n. | Molar |
| Gum-work | phr | Slang for dentistry. |
| Gut | n. | Entrails, intestines (in plural). Material made from the guts of animals, as for violin strings. 2. a narrow passage, strait |
| Gut | v. | To remove the gut of fish or to destroy the contents, inner structure of house by fire. |
| Gut | phr | "Have a Gut Feeling" - a belief based purely on intuition and unsupported by facts and evidence. |
| Gut | phr | "Have A Gutful" - to be disgusted. |
| Gut | phr | "Hate Somebody's Guts" - have a strong dislike for somebody. |
| Gut | phr | "Have the Guts to" - have the courage to. |
| Gut | phr | "It Has No Guts" - something is of little value. |
| Gut | phr | "Work One's Guts Out" - work to the point of exhaustion. |
| Gutbread | n. | Pancreas |
| Gut-burster | n | An extremely funny joke. 2. (colloquial) a meal that cause particular gastronomic pain. |
| Gut-bursten | n. | Abdominal hernia |
| Gut-feeling | adj | An instinct or intuition an immediate or basic feeling or reaction, without a logical rationale. |
| Gutful | adj | As much as a gut(abdomen) will hold. |
| Gutless | a. | Without guts:courage or spirit |
| Gutlessly | adv | In a gutless way, with cowardice. |
| Gutlessness | n | The state of being gutless; cowardice. |
| Gut-like | adj | Resembling a gut or some aspect of one. |
| Gutless-wonder | n | A coward. |
| Gutmonger | n. | One whose chief concern is food. 2. monger of the "tooth" or gluttony. |
| Gut-rot | n. | Unpalatable liquor or food. 2. a stomach upset because of unpalatable or contaminated food; rot-gut. |
| Guts | n | Entrails, guttings, innards, insides, viscera, core parts, content, substance. 2. courage, nerve, pluck. |
| Guts | vb | To act with strength, courage, fortitude. |
| Gutshot | n | A hand in poker. |
| Gutsiness | n | The state or condition of being gutsy. |
| Gutsy | a. | Courageous, tough, bold, brave, hardy, audacious, gutty. 2. greedy, voracious. 2. marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; having guts. 3. not showing due respect |
| Gutting | n | The remains after gutting a fish. |
| Guttle | v. | To over eat, gorge, gormandize, be a glutton. |
| Guttling | n. | Gormandization, gluttony |
| Guttlesome | a. | Gluttonous |
| Gutty | adj | Disheartening, crushing. 2. gutsy, brave, audacious. |
| Gutweed | n. | Sonchus arvensis |
| Gutwort | n. | Globularia alypus. |
| Gut-wrenching | adj | Sickening. 2. difficult to tolerate. 3. heart-rendering, nerve-wracking, stomach-churning. |
| Gut-wrenchingly | adv | In a gut-wrenching manner. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| H | n | The letter "H" |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Hab | vb | Get or lose, hit or miss, anyhow have or have not. |
| Hack | vb | Cut with heavy blows irregularly or at random, 2. to cut notches or hicks in. 3. to mangle or mutilate by jagged cuts. 4. chop into pieces. 4. of frost, to chafe or crack the skin. 5. in football, kick the shins of an opponent. 6. to hoe or plough the soil into ridges. 7. to mangle words in utterance, to stammer. 8. to embarrass, annoy, disconcert, confuse. 8. to roughen on a grindstone. 9. to hack into a computer network. |
| Hack | phr | "Hack After" - to aim at, strive. |
| Hack | phr | "Hack At" - to imitate. |
| Hack | phr | "Hack Down" - cut to the ground with rough down blows, chop down, butcher. |
| Hack | phr | "Hack Into" - to hack into a computer network. 2. cut with heavy blows irregularly or at random |
| Hack | phr | "Hack Off" - to remove with rough chopping blows. |
| Hack | phr | "Hack Out" - to stammer. |
| Hacker | n | One who mangles words or sentences. 2. an implement for hacking wood or earth. 3. one who breaks into computer networks. |
| Hackerdom | n | The state or condition of being a computer hacker. |
| Hacking | n | The act of cutting with heavy blows. 2. the kicking of an opponents legs or shins in football. |
| Hackle | n. | Cloak; covering of any kinds: feathers, serpent's skin. |
| Hackle | n. | Cloak; covering of any kinds: feathers, serpent's skin |
| Had | n | OE: hood; a person. 2. sex, gender. (only in O.E.) 3. state, condition, quality, kind. 4. holy order. |
| Had | phr | "Had Best" - would find it prudent. |
| Had | phr | "Had Better" - to have experienced a better situation or fortune. |
| Had | phr | "Had Rather" - (archaic):would rather |
| Had | phr | "Have Had It" - a colloquial expression widely popularized during World War 11 and possibly of Australian origin. It is applied to that which 'finished with' or 'done for'. Thus a soldier critically wounded was said to 'have had it'. |
| Had | phr | "Never Had It So Good" - refers to the overall prosperity and general improvement of living standards. |
| Had | vb | To ordain (into a holy order). (variant spellings: hade, hode) |
| Had-been | n | That had been at a former time. |
| Hadbote | n | Compensation for violence or an affront done to a person in holy orders. |
| Hadiend | n | One in a holy order. |
| Hading | n | Ordination. |
| Had-i-wist | n | (If-I-Had-Known); expressing regret for something done in ignorance of circumstance now known. 2. a vain, regret, or the heedless or loss of opportunity which leads to it |
| Haffet | n | (OE: healfheadfod)= the fore part of the head; the siniciput. 2. the side of the head above and in front of the ear; the temple, the cheek. |
| Haft | vb. | To use shifts and dodges, deceit, haggle, cavil, hold off |
| Haft | vb | To establish in a situation or place or residence. 2. to locate. 3. set or plant firmly. 4. to supply with or set in a handle or haft. |
| Haft | n | Handle of a piercing instrument. 2. handle of an axe, dagger, knife. |
| Haft | n | A fixed or established place of abode. 3. settled or accustomed pasture. |
| Haft | phr | "Loose in the Haft" - unstable (fig. & lit.) |
| Haft | phr | "To Have Other Haft in Hand" - to have other business to do; other fish to fry. |
| Hafted | adj | Having or fitted with a haft. |
| Hafter | n | One who hafts, in various senses. |
| Hafting | n | Subtle dealing, dodging, caviling, trickery, holding off, hesitation, demur. |
| Hag | n. | Enclosure |
| Hag | n | Witch, hagster, female demon, ugly old-woman. 2. a white mist usu. accompanying frost |
| Haggish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a hag. |
| Haggishly | adv | In a haggish manner. |
| Hag-ridden | adj | Distressed or worried. 2. troubled with nightmares or hallucinations. 3. tormented by a woman. |
| Hagship | n. | Personality of a hag |
| Hail | n. | Ice (frozen raindrops) in pellets or masses in a shower or hailstorm. 2. frozen rain or congealed vapor, often falling in pellets, during thunderstorms. 3. a small number of insults. 3. figuratively anything falling thickly or in violence, as a hail of blows; missiles. |
| Hail | n. | Hale, health, safety, welfare. |
| Hail | vb. | To pour down, hurl, send down with force. |
| Hail | n. | Exclamation of greeting or salutation, usu of reverence and respect. |
| Hail | vb | To salute with friendliness, welcome, well-wish, respect or reverence. |
| Hail | adj | Free from injury, infirmity or disease; hale. |
| Hail | phr | "Hail Be Thou" - salutation expressing well-wishing or reverence. |
| Hail | phr | "Hail fellow Well Meet" - one on easy or familiar terms; an intimate acquaintance. |
| Hail | phr | "Hail From" - of a person" to come from or originate from. |
| Hail | phr | "Wes Hal!" - (may you) be in whole (or good) health. |
| Hail-fellow | n. | On a most intimate footing; over-familiar; the state of most intimate friends |
| Hailing | n | The act of greeting, welcoming, well-wishing. |
| Hailing | n | The state of ice falling like rain. |
| Hail-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of hail or hailstones. |
| Hail-shower | n | A shower of hail. |
| Hailstone | n. | A pellet of hail. |
| Hail-storm | n | A storm with hailstones or in which hail falls. |
| Hail-stricken | adj | Struck by hail or a hail-storm. |
| Haily | adj. | Consisting of or characterized by hail |
| Hair | n. | Thread-like filaments growing from the skin. 2. threadlike growths collectively, esp. on the head. 3. aggregate of the hairs growing on skin. 3. A jot or tittle; a iota, slightest thing, or least degree. |
| Hair | vb | To edge with hair. 2. to depiliate, free from hair. 3. to produce or grow hair. |
| Hair | phr | "Against the Hair" - against the grain, inclination or sentiment. |
| Hair | phr | "A Hair in One's Neck" - cause or trouble or annoyance. |
| Hair | phr | "Don't Loose Your Hair Over It" - do over react. 2. do worry worry needlessly. |
| Hair | phr | "Get in Somebody's Hair" - annoy somebody by getting in their way. |
| Hair | phr | "Get One's Hair Off" - to lose one's temper. |
| Hair | phr | "Get Out of My Hair" - get out of my way; stop annoying me. |
| Hair | phr | "Hair by Hair You Will Pull Out the Horse's Tail" - slow and sure wins the race. |
| Hair | phr | "Hair Of the Dog that Bites You" - to consume further alcohol to help or remove the effects of one's drunkenness. |
| Hair | phr | "Harm a Hair on Somebody's Head" - harm somebody even slightly. |
| Hair | phr | "Have Somebody by the Short Hairs" - have somebody at a disadvantage. |
| Hair | phr | "Hide and Hair" - every part, entirely, wholly. |
| Hair | phr | "In One's Hair" - annoying. |
| Hair | phr | "Keep One's Hair On" - to maintain one temper or 'cool' |
| Hair | phr | "Let One's Hair Down" - behave in a free, informal and uninhibited manner. 2. relax and enjoy oneself. |
| Hair | phr | "Make One's Hair Stand on End' - cause deep fear and revulsion. |
| Hair | phr | "Neither Hide, Nor Hair" - no trace of. |
| Hair | phr | "Put Hair On Somebody's Chest" - make somebody manly or virile. |
| Hair | phr | "Put Up Her Hair" - said of a girl when she passes into womanhood. |
| Hair | phr | "Tear One's Hair Out" - to act with passion or grief. 2. be very worried or frustrated. |
| Hair | phr | "To a Hair" - to a nicety. |
| Hair | phr | "To a Hair Line" - with the utmost exactness; to a nicety. |
| Hair | phr | "Wear a Hair shirt" - be penitent. |
| Hairbow | n | A bow worn in one's hair. |
| Hairbreadth | n | The breadth of a diameter of hair. 2. an infinitesimally small piece or distance. 3. very narrow or close. 4. the tiniest amount. 5. extremely small distance or margin. |
| Haircare | n | The care of one's hair. |
| Haircloth | n | (Merge of OE & OF forms)- cloth or fabric made of hair, used for tents, towels, shirts of penitents or ascetics; also, in drying malt, hops, etc. 2. an article made from this fabric. 3. cloth made of the mane or tail of the horse. |
| Hair-craft | n | Profession or occupation of caring for the hair. |
| Hair-do | n | A haircut, hairstyle 9informal). |
| Hair-dryer | n | A piece of electrical equipment used to dry one's hair |
| Haired | adj | Having hair, hairy, hairiness; as 'white-haired'. |
| Hairen | adj | Consisting of hair. |
| Hair goods | n | Products associated with care and styling of hair; hair-ware, hair-care. |
| Hair grip | n | A small, tightly bent metal pin. |
| Hairily | adv | With hair or hairiness. 2. hirsutely. |
| Hairiness | n | State or quality of being hairy or covered with hair; hirsuteness. |
| Hairish | adj | Slightly, partially or somewhat hairy. |
| Hairless | adj | Without, destitute or lacking hair. 2. glabrous, bald. |
| Hairlessness | n | State or quality of hairlessness. 2. glabrousness, baldness. |
| Hairlike | adj | Like or resembling hair. 2. finely drawn out like hair. |
| Hairline | n | A rope or line made of hair. 2. a very thin line, as an up-stroke of a written letter. 3. the growth line of hair growing on one's forehead; the edge of hair at the top of the forehead. |
| Hairline | adj | Very fine or narrow, as a 'hairline break of a bone'. |
| Hairlock | n | A lock or cutting of hair. 2. a lock of hair on the hair. |
| Hairy-looking | adj | Hirsute. |
| Hair-monger | n. | Womanizer. |
| Hair-net | n | A small, often elasticized, fine net worn over long hair to hold it up. |
| Hairpin | n | A U-shaped wire used to hold the hair in place. |
| Hairpin bend | n | A very sharp, u-shaped bend in the road. |
| Hair-pulling | n | The act of pulling someone's hair. 2. an obsessive compulsive disorder where one puls hair from various parts of their body. |
| Hair-raising | adj | Very frightening or exciting. 2. causing fright or shock. |
| Hair ring | n | A ring that hold a lock of hair on the head, |
| Hair seal | n | The eared seal or sealion, not valued for its fur. |
| Hair-shirt | n | A shirt made of horsehair or goat's hair worn by ascetics and penitents for penance and mortification. |
| Hair spring | n | A fine spring in a watch. |
| Hairstone | n. | Sagenite. |
| Hairstroke | n | A fine upward line in handwriting. |
| Hair wash | n | A liquid, such as shampoo used to wash and clean the hair. |
| Hair-washing | n | The cosmetic act of keeping hair clean by washing it with shampoo, conditioner or other detergent products and water. |
| Hair-ware | n | The goods, products and implements used to care for the hair. |
| Hair-weed | n. | Conferva |
| Hairworm | n | Any of various nematode worms which inhabit running water and whose larvae are parasitic in insects, sometimes called horse-hair snake. |
| Hairy | adj | Having much hair, covered with hair; consisting of hair, made of hair, or like hair, hirsute. 2. consisting of hair; hair-like. 3. made of hair. 4. covered with short weak thin pubescence. 5. slang: troublesome; difficult; dangerous, harrowing |
| Hairy-chested | adj | Having a lot of hair growing on one's chest. |
| Hake | n | A fish, (genus Merlucius). |
| Hale | n | Health, well-being, welfare, cure, remedy. 2. ill-hale: bad luck. 2. |
| Hale | n | A corner, nook, secret place. |
| Hale | adj. | Free from injury, safe, sound, hail, 2. free from disease, well, vigorous, robust, whole, wholesome, sound; nb: used mostly of the elderly. 3. (ill-hail) - unlucky, disastrously, unfortunately. 4. of things: immaterial, whole, entire, complete; in no part lacking. 5. the whole of, all of. |
| Hale | vb. | To make well or whole, to heal |
| Hale | phr | "Hale and Hearty" - in very good health. |
| Hale | phr | "Hale and Scratch" - free from injury, unlucky, unscratched. |
| Halely | adv | Wholly, entirely, completely. |
| Haleness | n | The state or quality of being hale; healthness, robustness. |
| Hale-well | n | An antidote, a healing water or potion. 2. a panacea. |
| Half | adj. | One of two equal parts or sides; as, better half: wife; husband. |
| Half | n. | Moiety, a partial, imperfection. |
| Half | phr | "By Half" - by a great deal; by too much. |
| Half | phr | "Do by Halves" - to the extent of halves only; incompletely, imperfectly in part; halfheartedly, with half zeal; slapdash. |
| Half | phr | "Go Halves" - incompletely. |
| Half | phr | "Half a Loaf is Better than None" - be grateful what one has, even if it us not everything that one wants. |
| Half | phr | "Half and Half" - half one thing and half the other. 2. two equal portions; an equal mixture of two ingredients. |
| Half | phr | "Half an Eye" - the slightest degree of perceptiveness. |
| Half | phr | "Half is More than a Whole" - to settle a dispute without litigation. |
| Half | phr | "Half of It" - the rest or more important part of something. |
| Half | phr | "Half Seas Over" - fairly drunk, but not helplessly violently so; half cut. |
| Half | phr | "Half the Time" - very, or too, often. |
| Half | phr | "Have Half a Mind to do (Something)" - to have decided to do something, have an inclination, esp.something unpleasant. |
| Half | phr | "He is Only Half-baked" - he is raw, soft or weak-minded. |
| Half | phr | "How the Other Half Lives" - how people less/more fortunate than oneself lives. |
| Half | phr | "In Half the Time" - in a much shorter time than expected. 2. a considerable, or too long a time. |
| Half | phr | "In Halves" - (divided) in two equal parts. |
| Half | phr | "Meet Somebody Half Way" - agree to a compromise. |
| Half | phr | "Not Half" - very definitely; very much. |
| Half | phr | "The Half of It" - (only) part. |
| Half | phr | "To Go Halves" - to share, divide. |
| Half-alive | adj | In an embryonic state, not fully developed, but alive and functioning. 2. zombie-like; languid; lacking energy or enthusiasm. |
| Half-and-half | adj. | Two equal parts; in equal proportion; half in and half not. 2. something that's half one thing and half another or half this and half that. 3. quite a bit drunk; not fully sober. 4. a finer shade of feeling or colour, chiaroscuro: lighter and darker 5. a person of a mixed race. 6. somewhat intoxicated. |
| Half-and-halfer | n | 'You are not an out-and-out liberal, you are a half-and-halfer: a fence sitter, mugwump, pragmatist. 2. a bi-sexual. 4. a person of mixed race origins. |
| Half-ape | n | Lemur. |
| Half-asleep | adj | Sleepy, unalert. |
| Half-awake | adj | Sleepy, unalert. |
| Half-baked | adj. | Raw, crude, underdone, not thoroughly done, incomplete, 2. silly, half-witted, deficient in intellect; not properly thought out. |
| Half-bath | n | A bath half filled. 2. a bath half the size of a standard. |
| Half-beam | adv | Of motor vehicle headlights not on full-beam. |
| Half-believe | vb | Not convinced or believing that a matter or a fact is completely correct or true. |
| Half-bent | adj | Bent in half. |
| Half-birthday | n | A day approximately six moths after the anniversary of a person's birthday. |
| Half-bit | n | A coin of small value. |
| Half-blind | adj | Having poor or limited sight (about half); with full sight in one eye only. |
| Half-blood | n. | The relation between persons having only one parent in common. 2. a group of persons related in this way. 3. a half-breed. |
| Half-blood(ed) | adj | (Archaic and offensive) born of different races; specifically of 'superior' (sic) blood or race by one person only. 2. being of mixed racial origin |
| Half-boot | n | A boot extending slightly above the ankle. |
| Half-breadth | adj | Hair-breadth. |
| Half-bred | n. | Of mixed breed, mongrel, underbred |
| Half-breed | n | A person of mixed race or race. 2. coming from parents of two races. |
| Half-broken | adj | Not working or operating fully. |
| Half-brother | n | A brother by one parent only. |
| Half-buried | adj | Buried to a shallow depth; partly covered over by soil. |
| Half-cheek | adj | A face in profile; a profile. |
| Half-cracked | adj | Half-witted. |
| Half-day | n | A day when a person works only in the morning or only in the afternoon. |
| Half-dead | adj | In a state which seems death is likely. 2. in a state f extreme exhaustion from sickness or fatigue. |
| Half-deal | n | A half part; half. |
| Half-done | adj | Incomplete, partly-finished or poorly done. |
| Half-eaten | adj | Half-eaten or consumed. |
| Half-ebb | n | The reflux of tide water to a lower of half tide. |
| Halfendeal | n. | Moiety, half, a half, by half |
| Half-flood | n | The state or time of the flowing tide, halfway between low and high water. |
| Half-god | n | Demigod, hero; demimonde. |
| Half-grown | adj | Not fully grown. |
| Half-hardy | adj | Of a plant needing protection from a cold winter. |
| Half-headed | adj | Half intelligent, deficient in intellect; stupid. |
| Half-hear | vb | To hear incompletely or imperfectly. |
| Half-heard | adj | Heard incompletely. |
| Half-hearted | adj | Not having one's heart in the whole matter. 2. showing little interest or enthusiasm. 3. wanting in courage, zeal, earnestness. 3. illiberal, ungenerous, unkind. |
| Half-heartedly | adv | In a lukewarm, without or with little zeal or enthusiasm. 2. unkindly, ungenerous in manner. |
| Half-heartedness | n | The state or quality of being lukewarm, zeal-less or without courage. |
| Half-hidden | adj | Partly concealed or out of sight. |
| Half-horse | n. | Centaur |
| Half-high | adj | Somewhat or a bit or half-high, as a flag at half-height on a flag-pole; see 'half-mast'. |
| Half-inch | vb | Cockney slang for 'pinch' meaning steal, rob. |
| Half-island | n. | Peninsula |
| Half-knowing | adj | Having the truth or the facts in part or incomplete. |
| Half-laughing | adv | Semi-jocose, a bit funny or worth a laugh. |
| Half-learnedly | adv | Not fully versed or learned in a subject or matter. |
| Half-length | adj | Portrait of half the full length, one representing the upper part or half of a person's body. |
| Half-life | n | A life of half the expectancy. 2. an unsatisfactory way of life. 3. a half-sized portrait or painting. 3. time taking for half the atoms in radio active material to decay. |
| Half-light | n | Light of half the full intensity. 2. a dim, grayish, imperfect light, as at evening. |
| Half-light | phr | "By Half Lights" - indistinctly, vaguely, dimly. |
| Half-line | n | A straight extending from a point indefinitely in one direction only. |
| Halfling | n | One who is not fully grown; a stripling. |
| Halflings | adv | Half in extent; to the extent of a half; half in part; partially. |
| Half-lit | adj | Dimly or partly lit. |
| Halfly | adv | In half; in part. |
| Half-man | n | A eunuch. 2. one who is part human; or deficient in humanity. |
| Half-marrow | n | A husband, a wife; a spouse. |
| Half-mast | n | Half the height of a mast; the half of a mast. 2. the position of a flag lowered to half height on a flag pole as a mark of respect to the dead. |
| Half-month | n | A fortnight or two weeks. |
| Half-moon | n | The moon when only half its disk or 'face' appears illuminated; a crescent moon. 2. transfig. of things in the shape of a half or crescent moon. |
| Half-moon | vb | To surround like a half-moon. 2. to move in a half-moon formation. |
| Half-murder | vb | To render by beating or thrash in a half-dead state. |
| Half-naked | adj | Partly dressed or clothed. |
| Halfness | n | The quality or condition of being half or incomplete; or being half of one thing or another. 2. a hesitation between two opinion or causes. 3. halfhearted or lukewarm action; irresolution. |
| Half-opened | adj | Not fully opened. |
| Halfpenny | n | A copper coin with the value of half a penny. 2. a small fragment. 3. contemptible value. |
| Halfpenny | phr | "Halfpenny Under The Hat" - a game of chance. |
| Halfpennyworth | n | As much as a halfpenny will purchase. 2. a very small quantity. |
| Halfpennyworth | phr | "Lose The Ship, for a Halfpennyworth of Tar" - to lose an object by trying to save on detail. |
| Half raw | adj | Of food: not fully cooked. |
| Half-right | adj | Not completely right or accurate. |
| Half-ripe | adj | Not fully ripe or mature. |
| Half-seas-over | n. | Half through with a matter, halfway between one state and another. 2. intoxicated; drunk. |
| Half-shaved | adj | Drunk, sozzled. |
| Half-shell | n | Any half of a roughly spherical -like object. 2. any domed-shaped object. |
| Half-shot | adj | Drunk, intoxicated, shickered. 2. very tired or weary. |
| Half-shower | n | A bathroom shower approximately half the size of a 'standard' one. |
| Half-shut | adj | Not completely or fully opened or closed. |
| Half-sibling | n | A half-brother or sister. |
| Half-sister | n | A sister to whom one shares only one parent in common. |
| Half-sleep | n | A light sleep; doze, napping. |
| Half-started | adj | Slowly and hestitantly commenced. |
| Half-step | n | In music: a semitone. |
| Half-strain | n | The quality of being half of a good strain or stock and half of an inferior one; a half-breed. |
| Half-strained | adj | Of a good and inferior strain; as, 'half-strained shopkeepers begot between gentlemen and city wives'. |
| Half-strength | adj | Not of full or total strength. |
| Half-thick | adj | Of the half the normal thickness. |
| Half-tide | n | The state of the tide half way between flood (high) and ebb (low). |
| Half-tide | adj | Left dry or accessible at half-tide. |
| Half-time | n | A period of half a particular time. 2. half the usual time of full time, which the work is carried out. 3. in music, half the tempo of the performer. 4. in football: the time in which the match is completed. |
| Half-timer | n | One who spends half the full time at anything. |
| Half-true | adj | Not fully true or accurate. 2. that convening only half or part of the truth. |
| Half-truth | n | A proposition which is or conveys only half or part of the truth. 2. an assertion that is true as far as it goes, but that it omits or conceals part of the truth. |
| Half-wave | n | One half only of a cycle of alternating current, into a pulsating direct current. |
| Halfway | adv | At or to half the distance of. |
| Halfway | adj | Mid way or equidistant between two points. 2. partial, inadequate |
| Halfway | phr | "To Meet Halfway" - to forestall; to respond to friendly advances of; to make concession to a person in consideration of equal concessions on his/her part. 2. to come to a compromise on. 3. fig. midway between two stages or conditions. |
| Halfway-house | n. | A house, place, hotel situated halfway in distance between start (home or stages) and destination of journey; and therefore a convenient halting -place. 2. a house set up to provide temporary (often emergency) accommodation for vulnerable folk. 3. a convenient stopping place, midway between two stages or conditions. |
| Half-whisper | n | Talking in a very quiet voice, but still audible even in a very quiet environment; hush-whisper. 2. less than a whisper (lower than) or just a bit louder in order for someone else to hear. |
| Half-wild | adj | Not fully tamed (of an animal). 2. a somewhat wild bush or countryside area or region. |
| Half-wish | n | To want to do something but not quite enough to do it, in fact (usually due to some impediments). |
| Half-wit | n. | Simpleton, imbecile, a feeble-minded person; one who is only half a wit |
| Half-witted | adj | Lacking or deficient in common sense, simple, senseless. 2. not having all the wits, imbecilic, mentally defective, daft. |
| Half-wittedness | n | The state or quality of being half-witted. |
| Half-wittedly | adv | In an senseless, imbecilic or mentally defective manner. |
| Half-words | n | A word, words or speech which insinuates something, instead of fully asserting it; a hint or suggestion; imply. |
| Half-world | n | A hemisphere; as,'this or that half of the world'. 2. half-trendle. |
| Half-year | n | The half of a year; six months. |
| Half-yearly | adj | Occurring or happening every six months. |
| Half-yearly | adv | Each half year; twice yearly or every six months. |
| Halidom | n | Holiness; sanctity. 2. a holy place, chapel, sanctuary. 3. a holy thing; a holy relic regarded as sacred. |
| Halidom | phr | "By My Halidom" - asseveration: 'by my halidom, it should ever be known'. |
| Haliwerfolk | n | Person of the holy man (Saint (Cuthbert). 2. those who held their land by the service of defending the body, relics and territory of St Cuthbert. 3. also the county Durham wherein they dwelt. |
| Halke | n | A corner, recess, hiding-place. |
| Hall | n. | A large place covered by a roof. 2. a large room or building for public meetings, dance, etc. 4. a temple, palace, court, royal resident. 3. a large country house. 4. a temple, palace, court, royal resident.++++++++ |
| Hall | phr | "Hall of Shame" - collection of the worst, most hated, or poor quality entries in a particular subject, medium, field, etc. 2. a mythical place which utter failures or disgraced entities are recognized. |
| Hallful | adj | As many or much as a hall could hold. |
| Hall-house | n | A house or edifice which is a hall. 2. principal living-room in a farm house. 3. the farm-house, as distinguished from the cottages on the farm. |
| Hall-keeper | n | On who had the key to the village hall and was responsible for looking after the premises. 2. (modern) - one who is responsible for the management or maintenance of a hall. |
| Hallmark | n. | The name of the London assay office at Goldsmith hall. 2. official stamp or mark of the Goldsmiths' Company. 3. any mark or token of genuineness or excellence. 4. the official stamp used by statutory authorities for hallmarking or approval |
| Hallmark | vb | To stamp with a hallmark. |
| Hallmark | phr | "Have the Hallmark Of" - be charactristic of, have the outward sign of. |
| Hallmarked | adj | Stamped with a hallmark. |
| Hallmark holiday | n | A holiday, as Grandfathers Day or St Valentine's Day, that is perceived to exist primarily for commercial purpose, rather than to commemorate a traditionally or historically significant person or event. |
| Hallmarking | n | The action and process of hallmarking. |
| Hallmarkish | adj | Expressing sentiment in a way that seems overly sweet & smaltzy. |
| Hallmarky | adj | Hallmarkish. |
| Hall-tree | n | A clthes tree. |
| Hallow | vb | To make holy, hallow or consecrated. 2. to look upon as holy, or with reverence. |
| Hallow | adj. | Holy, to make holy; regarded as holy. |
| Hallow-day | n | All-Saints Day - on the first day of November. 2. a saint's day; a holy day; holiday. |
| Hallowed | adj | Sanctified, blessed, consecrated, dedicated. |
| Hallowedly | adv | In a sanctified, holy manner. |
| Hallowedness | n | The state or quality of being sanctified or holy. |
| Halloween | n | All-Hallows' even: eve of All-Hallows or All-saints day- the last night of October. |
| Halloweener | n | One who celebrates Halloween. |
| Halloweeny | adj | Halloween-like. 2. evocativing something halloweenish, spooky, creepy, scary. |
| Hallower | n | One who consecrates, sanctifies or makes holy. |
| Hallow-fire | n | A bonfire kindled on 'All-Hallows Evening' - originally an ancient Celtic observance. |
| Hallowing | n | Consecrating, sanctifying, dedicating. |
| Hallowing | adj | That hallows, sanctifies, sanctifying. |
| Hallowmass | n | The feast of 'All-Hallows' or 'All Saints'. |
| Hallows | n | Applied to the shrines and relics of saints. 2. the gods of the heathens and their shrines. |
| Hallow-tide | n. | The season of All Saints, the first week of November. |
| Hall-stand | n | A tall piece of furniture with a mirror,several pegs or arms for items of clothing, an umbrella, and a place for storage. |
| Hallway | n | A passage giving entrance to a building or communicating its various apartments. 2. a corridor or passageway. |
| Halmote | n | A court held by the lord of a more within his hall. |
| Halse | n. | The neck, the throat, gullet. 2. (transfig.) a narrow neck of land (promontory, mull, spit) or channel of water. |
| Halse | n. | Weal, well-being, healing. |
| Halse | vb. | To call upon in the name of something divine or holy; to exorcise, adjure, beseech. 2. OE only: to augur, divine, soothsay. 3. to hail, salute, greet. 4. to embrace (sense of neck). 5. to encompass by going round. |
| Halse | phr | "To Hold In Halse" - to flatter, beguile, to delude. |
| Halseman | n | An executive. |
| Halsewort | n. | Throatwort or halsewort, formerly considered a remedy for sore throats. |
| Halsefang | n | OE. law originally some punishment and afterwards a fine of commutation. |
| Halsing | n | Exorcism. 2.supplication, entreaty. 3. greeting, salutation. |
| Halt | n | A complete stop, or cessation of progress in any movement, as of marching troops. 2. a temporary stop or halting. 3. a minor train stop without a building. 4. the act of limping, lameness. |
| Halt | adj. | Lame, crippled, limping. |
| Halt | vb. | To cease haltingly from, to walk unsteady or hesitatingly. 2. to waver, to remain in doubt. 3. to proceed lamely. 4. to make a temporary stop. 5. too be imperfect; proceed lamely as verse or logic. 6. to be in doubt; waver. 7. to walk wit a limp, hobble. |
| Halter | n. | Primarily that by which anything is held; a rope, strap, cord with a strap or a head staff by which cattle or horses are led or fastened. 2. a noose for hanging and execution. |
| Halter | n | One who limps. |
| Halter | vb. | To fasten or entrap with a noose. 2. to put a halter on an animal. 3. to hang a person with a noose. 3. to put a restraint on. |
| Haltering | n | The practice of putting a halter on an animal as a part of domesticating or taming it. 2. the act of executing or hanging a person by halter. |
| Halterman | n | A hangman. |
| Halterneck | n | A woman's top or dress with a strap fastened at the back of the neck. |
| Halting | n | The action of limping or walking lately. |
| Halting | adj | Hesitating, uncertain. |
| Haltingly | adv | In a limping, lame manner or way. 2. hesitantly, waveringly |
| Haltingness | n | The state or condition of being halting, lacking rythmic flow, jerkiness. |
| Halve | vb. | To divide into two equal parts, to reduce to halves. 2. to share equally. 3. to lessen by half; take away by half. |
| Halver | n. | A half share. 2. someone who has a half-share |
| Halving | vb. | The act of the verb 'halve'. 2. to divide into two equal shares of parts; sharing equally. 3. to render a half share or give divided obedience. |
| Ham | n. | The part of the leg at the back of the knee; the back of the hough. 2. the thigh of the animal slaughtered and used for food. |
| Ham | n. | Town, village, manor found in place names, such as Wickham??????. 2. a plot of pasture, sometimes meadow land; an enclosed land or plot. |
| Hamble | vb | OE: hamelian, to mutilate, maim, dock, cu short(esp. balls of a dog's feet) 2. to walk lamely |
| Hamble-shanked | adj | Maimed or lame in the leg. |
| Ham-bone | n | One who plays the part of a black person in films. 2. an amateur actor; a mediocre musician. |
| Hame | n | A natural covering, integument. 2. one of two curved bars fitted to the collar that holds the traces of a draft harness. 3. slough or skin of a serpent. |
| Hamesucken | n. | (Ham: home & socn: seeking) Crime of assaulting a person in his own home; home-invasion. 2. penalty for offenders committing the offence of hamesucken. |
| Hamfare | n. | (Ham:home & fare:going): a passage, expedition, a going-from (or away). |
| Hammer | n. | A tool having a hard solid head, used for beating, breaking, driving nails. 2. "The Hammer" The Fylfot": a prehistoric instrument resembling a hammer. |
| Hammer | vb. | Strike beat or drive with a hammer; drive as a nail. 2. to strike blows as with a hammer. 3. to shape or fasten with a hammer. 4. to form or force as with a hammer. |
| Hammer | phr | "Give Somebody a Hammering" - beat somebody soundly. |
| Hammer | phr | "Go Hammer and Tongs" - do something with full vigor; do forcefully, vigorously, vehemently |
| Hammer | phr | "Go Under the Hammer" - put up for sale at auction. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer and Sickle" - the emblem of the former Soviet Union., symbolic of productive work in the factory and on the land. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer Away" - keep working until a result is reached or worked out. 2. hammer out. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer Down" - secure, fasten, something by striking it (or driving in nails). |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer Home" - try very hard to make someone understand or realize something. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer Into" - hammer something in or into (as a nail into wood). 2. teach or indicate something to someone by constant, intense and tiresome repetition. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer On" - to hammer on something or someone. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer Onto" - fasten into position by beating or striking. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer Out" - settle differences with hard work, discussion and agrement. 2. make flat and smooth by beating. 2. remove an irregularity by beating. |
| Hammer | phr | "Hammer Something Home" - get somebody to realized; understand something through. |
| Hammer | phr | "Knight of the Hammer" - a blacksmith. |
| Hammer | phr | "Sell under the Hammer" - said of goods and property sent for sale by auction. |
| Hammer | phr | "Under the Hammer" - put up for auction and sale. |
| Hammer | phr | "Up To the Hammer" - excellent, up to the highest standard; first-rate. |
| Hammer and Sickle | n | A symbol conceived by the communist party of the Soviet Union during the revolution. |
| Hammer-beam | n | A wooden beam (often carved) projecting from a wall to support the principal rafter or the end of the beam. |
| Hammered | adj | Beaten repeatedly by or with a hammer. 2. lambasted, verbally lashed or harangued. 3. slang: drunk or intoxicated |
| Hammerer | n | A person who uses various types of hammers in his work. 2. one who deliver his argument or opinion with forcefulness. |
| Hammerharden | vb | To harden metals by beating with a hammer. |
| Hammerhead | n | A shark with a wide flattened head. |
| Hammer-headline | n | A larger headline above a smaller main headlines (it uses a few words in a larger font size). |
| Hammering | n | The action or sound or sound of hammering or using a hammer on something. |
| Hammerless | adj | Without or not having a hammer. |
| Hammerlike | adj | Resembling or having characteristic of a hammer. |
| Hammerlock | n | A wrestling hold or grip in which the arm is twisted behind the back and up. |
| Hammerman | n | A person who uses hammers in his work. |
| Hammerness | n | The state or condition of being hammered. |
| Hammersmith | n | A smith who works with a hammer. |
| Hammerstone | n. | A prehistoric stone instrument resembling and used as a hammer. |
| Hammer-throw | n | A sport in athletic track and field in which a hammer (a ball on the end of a chain) is hurled for a distance using two hands within a throwing circle. |
| Hammertoe | n | A deformity of the toe, usually the second, in which the joint nearest the foot is bent downwards. 2. broadly persistent angular flexion of a toe. |
| Hammerwort | n | Paritaria officinalis; wall-pellitory, perdiculis. |
| Hammerwrought | adj | Worked into a shpe with a hammer, as iron brass. |
| Hamshackle | vb | To hobble, as a horse by connecting the head and forelegs, with a short rope or strap, as to impede movement. 2. to impede movement. |
| Hamstring | n | Any of the three tendons contracted by three posterior thigh muscles. |
| Hamstring | vb | To make lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham. 2. to make lame, incapitate, disable; hinder, obstruct. |
| Hand | n | Terminal part of the arm, below the wrist. 2. style of writing. 3. a manual worker. 4. symbol of authority or power. 5. trunk of an elephant or the elephant itself. 6. share or part in doing something. 7. pledge in marriage. 8. a person's skill or ability. 9. turn, innings, performance. |
| Hand | vb | To give something to someone by holding it in your hand and offering it to them. |
| Hand | phr | "A Friend At Hand" - one who will always be there for you. |
| Hand | phr | "A Great Hand" - a person especially fond of or clever at. |
| Hand | phr | "All Hands" - collectively engaged in; a whole crew. |
| Hand | phr | "A Man Of His Hands" - a man of valour, skill, or practical ability. |
| Hand | phr | "Ask for the Hand Of" - ask or give one's hand in marriage. |
| Hand | phr | "At Any Hand" - in any case. |
| Hand | phr | "At Every Hand" - on all hands. |
| Hand | phr | "At First Hand" - at the source. 2. from somebody with personal knowledge. |
| Hand | phr | "At Hand" - near and available. 2. within reach, nearby, convenient. |
| Hand | phr | "At No Hand" - on no account, by no means. |
| Hand | phr | "At One's Own Hand" - at one's own disposal, by one's own action, usually suicide. |
| Hand | phr | "At the Best Hand" - most profitably or cheaply. |
| Hand | phr | "At the Hands Of" - the source of. 2. from the hand of. 3.by operation of. |
| Hand | phr | "Be an Old Hand at" - one who is experienced at something. |
| Hand | phr | "Bear a Hand" - to come and help. |
| Hand | phr | "Bird in the Hand" - possession is better than expectation. |
| Hand | phr | "Bite the Hand that Feeds You" - return kindness with hostility. |
| Hand | phr | "Blood on One's Hands" - be guilty of harming someone. |
| Hand | phr | "Bring On Hand" - to introduce, bring in. |
| Hand | phr | "By Hand" - manually or personally. |
| Hand | phr | "By the Hand Of" - as an agent of. 2. with the hands, not aided by machinery. |
| Hand | phr | "Come To Hand" - to present to, appear; arrive, to come within one's reach, obtain, receive. |
| Hand | phr | "Come to One's Hand" - to do or perform with ease. |
| Hand | phr | "Eat Out Of One's Hand" - into subjection, under control of another. |
| Hand | phr | "Fall Into the Hands Of" - to take in hand. |
| Hand | phr | "First-hand Knowledge" - knowledge received firs-hand and not through an intermediary. |
| Hand | phr | "For One's Own Hand" - for one's own interest, with benefit; on one's own account. |
| Hand | phr | "From Hand to Hand" - from one person to another. |
| Hand | phr | "Get One's Hand in" - familiarize oneself with the task; to begin to take over a task or duty. |
| Hand | phr | "Give a Hand" - to help. |
| Hand | phr | "Give One's Hand to" - accept an offer of marriage. |
| Hand | phr | "Give One's Hand Upon" - take one's oath on it; to pledge one's honor to keep the promise. |
| Hand | phr | "Give Somebody the Glad Hand" - welcome warmly. |
| Hand | phr | "Go Hand in Hand" - to keep in step with. 2. with hands mutually clasped; each holding the others or another's hand. 3. fig. in conjunction with, side by side, concurrently. 4. going side by side. 5. well-matched. |
| Hand | phr | "Go In Hand With" - with something engaged or dealt with. |
| Hand | phr | "Great Hand at Something" - adept, expert at something. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand and Foot" - completely, satisfying all demands. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Back" - return or give back something to its owner. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Down" - give knowledge or skill to someone who is younger when you and will live after you have die; transmit as to one's heirs or successors. 2. give clothes, items, toys etc to a younger child when an older child no longer requires them. 3. bequeath, pass on as an inheritance. 4. say officially (legally) that someone should receive a particular punishment. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand In" - to deliver or submit something to someone. 2. submit, tender, surrender (because completed, worn out or no longer required0 give in. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand in Glove" - in close, often conspiratorial association and co operation9with each other). |
| Hand | phr | "Hand in Hand" - of two people, side by side, with hands linked or joined, esp. as a mark of affection. 2. associated, united with, or holding hands. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand It To (Somebody)" - admire and acknowledge someone's achievement or admire a quality in someone, even if you don't admire everything about that person. 2. give praise or credit to. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Off" -pass to another; give to another. 2. in all football codes pass the ball to a team mate. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand On" - to pass on; transmit. 2. pass something to the generation following one own. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand On Heart" - honestly, sincerely. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Out" - to mete out; distribute, give out, circulate. 2. offer out charity to the unemployed, natural disaster victims, etc. 3. mete out a beating, dish out, punishment, thrashing, etc. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Over" - to give up possession. 2. surrender a captor, enemy, assailant. 3. concede, pass on, surrender.4. tansfer a position of authority or power. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Over Fist" - with rapid alternative movements with the hands, as when climbing a rope. 2. pulling or gatheingsomething towards oneself. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Over Hand" - with each hand brough successively over the other, as, climbing up or down a rope, or rapidly hauling it in. 2. with continuous advances; said of a ship, etc., approaching or giving chase to another. 3. quickly or in quantity. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Over Head" - precipitately, hasty, rashly, recklessly; without deliberation, indiscriminately. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand Over Heart" - sincerely; honestly. 2. declare, state, affirm something. |
| Hand | phr | "Hands Off" - characterized by non-intervention; deliberate non-intervention. 2. leave alone, or remotely. 3. (of a machine or device) without need of manual operation. 3. not take, touch, criticize, or interfere with something or somebody. |
| Hands | phr | "Hands Up " - used as an instruction to raise one 3.'s hands in surrender or to signify assent or participation. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand-to-Hand" - with close approach of hand(s); at close quarters, man-to-man, hand-to-hand fighting. |
| Hand | phr | "Hand to Mouth" - consuming food as soon as it is obtained; with attention to immediate wants only. 2. aiming at the satisfaction of present needs only, without provision or lack of proper provision, for the future; improvidently, thriftlessness. 3. lack of provision for the future. |
| Hand | phr | "Have a Hand in" - to bear a share. |
| Hand | phr | "Have Clean Hands" - be blameless. |
| Hand | phr | "Have Full Hands" - to be very busy. |
| Hand | phr | "Have On Hand" - to have with one; to be charged with; have the care or responsibility of, to have in order to deal with, or dispose of, to be about or engage in. |
| Hand | phr | "Have One's Hands Full " - to have or more one can do. 2. be very busy, fully occupied. |
| Hand | phr | "Have One's Hands Tied" - be restricted by rules regulations. |
| Hand | phr | "Have Something on One's Hands" - be in possession of something. |
| Hand | phr | "Have the Upper Hand" - to win or hold the advantage over. |
| Hand | phr | "He Is My Right Hand" - one's principal assistant, my best and trustworthy companion or helper. |
| Hand | phr | "Hold in Hand" - keep under control. |
| Hand | phr | "In Any Hand" - in any case. |
| Hand | phr | "In Good Hands" - well cared for. |
| Hand | phr | "In Hand" - held, carried, under control; occupied by. 2. delivered in advance; paid in hand. 3. in process of execution or under consideration. 4. under control, in possession, in progress; entirely under control. |
| Hand | phr | "In One's Own Hand" - in one's sole control, ownership, management, responsibility, etc. |
| Hand | phr | "In the Hands Of" - the responsibility of. 2. in the possession of. |
| Hand | phr | "In Hand With" - in company, together, cooperatively. |
| Hand | phr | "In the Hands Of Others" - under the control of, or acting on the direction of others. |
| Hand | phr | "Into One's Hand" - ready for one; without exertion on one's part. |
| Hand | phr | "It is Believed On All Hands" - it is generally or universally believed. |
| Hand | phr | "Keep in Hand" - creating a stock/store of. |
| Hand | phr | "Keep One's Hand In" - to maintain one's skill by practice. |
| Hand | phr | "Kings Have Long Hands" - do not quarrel with kings, as their power and authority reaches to the ends of their dominions. |
| Hand | phr | "Lay Hands On" - find; to apprehend, sieze. |
| Hand | phr | "Laying On Of Hands" - the act or ceremony of the laying the hands on the head of another for the purpose of consecrating to a special office, or of blessing or healing. |
| Hand | phr | "Left Hand Doesn't Know What the Right Hand is Doing" - lack of communication between two parts of the same organization or group. |
| Hand | phr | "Left on One's Hands" - one has to take full responsibility. |
| Hand | phr | "Lend a Hand" - help, give assistance to aid. |
| Hand | phr | "Lift One's Hand Against" - threaten. |
| Hand | phr | "Like a Hand in a Glove" - tightly and smoothly fitting. |
| Hand | phr | "Live by Hand or Mouth" - improvidently, without thought for tomorrow. |
| Hand | phr | "Many Hands Make Light Work" - an old proverb enshrining the wisdom of collective and co-operative labor. |
| Hand | phr | "My Hands are Full" - I am fully occupied; I have as a much work as i can manage. |
| Hand | phr | "My Hands are Tied" - I am not free to act. |
| Hand | phr | "Nigh on Hand" - near, nearby, to draw |
| Hand | phr | "Off One's Hands" - out of one's care or control. 2. no longer one's concern, responsibility. |
| Hand | phr | "Of One's Hand" - in respect; of one's action. |
| Hand | phr | "On All Hands" - on all sides; in all directions; or for all quarters. 2. in every direction, surrounding. |
| Hand | phr | "One's Better Hand" - superiority, upper, precedence. |
| Hand | phr | "On Hand" - present; in place. 2. in one (rightful) possession. 3. in one's charge or keeping or at works or business one has to do. |
| Hand | phr | "On One Hand Or the Other" - indicating two contrasting sides; fluctuating points of view, alternatively. |
| Hand | phr | "On One's Hand" - in one's possession. |
| Hands | phr | "On One's Hands and Knees" - in a begging manner. |
| Hand | phr | "Out Of Hand" - at once, without delay, immediately; without premeditation, suddenly, ofthand, extempore. 2. unruly, lawless, out of control. |
| Hand | phr | "Out of Hand" - out of one's possession, responsibility. |
| Hand | phr | "Play Into Somebody's Hands" - do exactly what somebody else wants one to do. |
| Hand | phr | "Play One's Own Hand" - look after one's own interests. 2. act entirely for one's own advantage. |
| Hand | phr | "Play With Both Hands" - to act with duplicity. |
| Hand | phr | "Put By Hand" - done with, disposed of by hand. |
| Hand | phr | "Put One's Hands Up" - to raise one's hands into the air as a token of surrender. |
| Hand | phr | "Shake hands" - to greet by giving the hand clasped into your own a shake; to bid farewell. |
| Hand | phr | "Show One's Hand" - reveal one's hand or intentions. |
| Hand | phr | "Sit on One's hands" - be idle, unoccupied, or (deliberately take no action. |
| Hand | phr | "Stand One in Hand" - to concern, to be incumbent with; to be the duty or business of. |
| Hand | phr | "Stand One's Hands" - pay for a drink for one or more persons; to treat. |
| Hand | phr | "Strike Hands" - to make a contract, become a surety for another. |
| Hand | phr | "Take In Hand" - be involved in, take part in; undertake. |
| Hand | phr | "Take Something off One's Hand" - to relieve someone of something troublesome. |
| Hand | phr | "Throw One's Hand In" - give, resign. |
| Hand | phr | "Tied Hand and Foot" - totally helpless, restricted. |
| Hand | phr | "To Hand" - prepared. |
| Hand | phr | "To One's Hand" - at hand, close by, readily accessible |
| Hand | phr | "Under the Hand Of" - under the control or direction of. |
| Hand | phr | "Upon My Hand" - on any account, in any case. |
| Hand | phr | "Upon One's Hand" - one's burden or responsibility; thing one must attend to. |
| Hand | phr | "Wash One's Hands Off" - take no further responsibility in; dismiss from consideration; dissociate oneself from. |
| Hand | phr | "Win Hands Down" - to win easily. |
| Hand | phr | "With High Hand" - arrogantly, without regard the feelings of others. |
| Hand | phr | "With a Heavy Hands" - oppressively; without sparing. |
| Hand | phr | "Work Hand in Hand" - co-operate, work closely with. |
| Hand-axe | n | A smallish axe held in the hand. |
| Handbarrow | n | A flat rectangular frame with handles at both ends that is carried by two persons. |
| Handbell | n | A small bell with a handle or strap, esp. one of a set tuned to a range of notes and played by a group. |
| Hand-blow | n | A strike or blow with the hand. |
| Handblown | adj | (Of glassware) shaped by means of a handheld pipe. |
| Handbook | n. | A reference book on a subject. 2. a small book or treatise, manual, book containing concise information for tourist, such as may be held with the hand. |
| Hand-breadth | n. | A unit of lineal measurement, a palm; formerly taken as three inches, now as four (found on the width or breadth of the hand).. |
| Hand-bridge | n | In billiards, a player's front hand formed to position their cue while making a shot. |
| Hand-broad | adj | Of the width of the hand. |
| Hand-built | adj | Which is built by hand; handmade. |
| Handcare | n | The care of hands, such as manicure. |
| Hand-cart | n | A small cart pushed or drawn with the hands. |
| Handcloth | n | A handkerchief; wsashcloth. |
| Handcraft | n | Manual skill, power, or work, handicraft. |
| Handcraft | vb | One who engages in handcrafts. |
| Handcrafted | adj | Done manually. |
| Handcrafter | n | One who handicrafts or in engages in handicrafts. |
| Handcraftsman | n | Handicraftsman. |
| Handcraftsmanship | n | Handicraftsmanship. |
| Handcuff | n | Fetter for the wrist, usu joined in a pair |
| Hand-done | adj | Manually; done with or by the hands. |
| Handed | adj | Having hands, esp. of a specific kind. 2. acting or provided with hands.. 3. used in 'combinations' such as 'empty-handed'; 'open-handed'. |
| Handedness | n | The tendency of an individual for a preference, of 'right' or 'left-handed'. |
| Hander | n | One who hands, delivers or passes. 2. a blow or strike with a hand. |
| Hander-down | n | One or that which hands down. |
| Hand-dryer | n | An electrical device typically in a public toilet for drying a person's hands or blowing hot air on them. |
| Handed | adj | For or involving a specified number of hands. 2. chiefly using or designated for use by the hand specified. |
| Handed | sfx | For or involving a specified number of hands. 2. chiefly using a hand or hands, as in the combination two-handed. 2. having or involving a hand or hands, as in the combination, as right-handed. 3. having, requiring, or with the number of people, as in combination three-handed. 4. manned, staffed, as in combinations. |
| Handedly | adv | In adverbs corresponding to adjective ending in handed, as heavy-handed. |
| Handedness | n | The tendency to use either the right or the left-handed more naturally than the other. |
| Hander-in | n | One who hands in or returns something. |
| Hander-out | n | One who hands outs or distributes. |
| Handfast | n | A firm hold or grip with the hand. 2. a handle by which a thing is held. 3. a joining of hands in a deal. 4. a contact or consecration; spec. a bethrothal or marriage contract. |
| Handfast | vb. | To make a contract of marriage by joining hands in bethrothal; pledge, bind in wedlock, bethroth. 2. to bargain or contract. 3. to make fast, settle, 4. to give or engage with earnest or earnestly. to grasp, sieze the hand, to manacle. |
| Handfast | adj. | Bound, having a firm grip, manacled, tight-fisted, closed-hand (lit & fig.). 2. handfasting, handfastly |
| Handfast | phr | "In Handfast" - in hold, held fast. |
| Handfasted | adj | Bound, grasped, closed-handed. 2. bethrothed, pledged, married. 3. bargained, contracted. |
| Hand-fasting | n | Bethrothal, pledge, wedlocked. |
| Handfastly | adv | By solemn engagement, made by joining the hands firmly. |
| Handfast-maker | n | One who makes handles and handle-grips. |
| Hand-fastness | n | The condition of being fast, fixed, bound; firmly attached. 2. the condition of being bethrothed, pledged, married. |
| Hand-feed | vb | To feed a very young or newly-born animal by hand to ensure it's survival, usually when its mother has died or is unable to feed it. |
| Handful | n. | A quantity that fills the hand; as much as the hand hand can hold, grasps or contains. 2. a small company or number; a small quantity or amount. 3. lineal measure of four inches used in measuring the height of a warrior. 4. as much as one can manage. 5. (sl) - a five year prison sentence. |
| Handful | vb | To deal out with hands full. |
| Handglass | n. | Lens, a small mirror with handle. 2. magnifying glass held by the hand to help the eyesight. 3. a time glasss to measure a ship's log. |
| Handgrip | n. | A grip or grasp, seizing by or in the hand. 2. a close conflict or struggle. |
| Handgrip | phr | "Come To Handgrips" - to engage in close combat. |
| Handgripping | n | The action of grasping or siezing with the hand. |
| Hand grith | n | Peace, protection or security given by the king's hand. |
| Hand-habend | n. | Of a thief; having (the thing stolen) in hand. 2. applied as sb. to the office, and to the franchise of holding plea thereof. |
| Hand-hold | n. | A hold for the hand: that by which one hold on to in climbing, an instrument. 2. the portion of any implement, tool which is grasped by the hand. as a the instrument itself, such as a remote control |
| Hand-held | adj | Grasped by the hand. |
| Hand-holding | n | The provision of careful support or guidance to someone during a learning process or a period of change. 2. the interlocking of all one's fingers while holding the hand of another. |
| Handhole | n | A hand large enough only for the insetion of a hand (as for lifting) or of a hand and arm, as for cleaning out otherwise inaccessible places or giving access to an an enclosed place. |
| Hand-hot | adj | (especially of water)hot, but not to hot to put your hand into. |
| Handicap | n. | Disability, barrier, hindrance, disadvantage, impediment, impairment, 2. condition so imposed, penalty |
| Handicraft | n. | Manual skill; skilled with the hands. 2. manual, art or occupation |
| Handicraftship | n | Exercise of handicraft, workmanship. |
| Handicraftsman | n | A worker skilled in making objects by hand; an artisan. |
| Handicuff | n. | Blows with the hands. 2. fighting hand to hands |
| Handily | adv | In a handy manner or way; expertly, dexterously, manually. 2. conveniently. |
| Handiness | n | The quality of being handy, skilfully, or expert with the hands. 2. the quality of being easy or conveniently handled; easily, or able to be managed, convenience. |
| Hand-in-glove | adj | In close collaboration or intimacy. |
| Handing | n | The action of handling or handing over; passing something to another. |
| Hand-in-hand | adj | Keeping in step with. 2. fig. in conjunction with, side by side, concurrently. 3. going side by side. 4. well-matched. |
| Handiwork | n. | A thing or collection of things made by the of any one. 2. work done by direct personal agency; sometimes the work of, or done by, man's hands, as opp. to nature. 3. a thing or collection of things made by the hands of anyone. 4. work done by the hands, or direct operation or agency. 5. manual employment, work of any kind, performance, practical work, as opposed to headwork or brain work. |
| Hand-knit | adj | Knitted by hand; hand-knitted. |
| Handle | n. | Part of a thing made to hold something by. 2. a small basket with a handle in which fruit is packed. 3. a measure of beer, approximately one pint. 4. fig. that by which something maybe taken hold of. 5. one of two or more ways in which a thing maybe taken or apprehended. 6. that a fact that may be taken advantage of. 7. (sl) name, nickname. |
| Handle | vb. | Touch, feel, with the hands, manage, deal with, deal in. 2. to furnish, fix to, or provide with a handle. |
| Handle | adj | Of or resembling a handle. |
| Handle | phr | "A Handle To One's Name" - title, rank, honour attached to one's name. |
| Handle | phr | "Fly Off the Handle" - to become very angry and unreasonable suddenly. |
| Handle | phr | "Get a Handle On" - to gain control over something, such as a situation. 2. to acquire the means of understanding, or forming an opinion about. |
| Handle | phr | "Give a Handle to" - give grounds for suspicion. |
| Handle | phr | "Go Off the Handle" - to lose one's self-control or temper. |
| Handle | phr | "Have Two Handles" - a fact or circumstance that may be 'laid hold of, or taken or advantage of for some purpose; an occasion, opportunity, excuse, pretext. |
| Handle | phr | "Put a Handle To" - give a name to. |
| Handle | phr | "To the Handle" - thoroughly, completely, up to the hilt. |
| Handleless | n | Without a handle. |
| Handler | n | Something that has a specific feel when handled. 2. a police officer in charge of police dogs. 3. one who or that which, handles, especailly one who trains, breaks in, or manaes certain animals, dogs, horses, circus animals. 4. a person who trains prize-fighters. |
| Handlesome | adj | Capable of being handled. |
| Handless | adj | Without hands; deprived of hands. 2. not doing, or not able to do anything with the hands. 3. incapable or incompetent with the hands; awkward, clumsy. |
| Handlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a handle. |
| Handling | n | Feel or manipulate with the hand. 2. fig. manage a situation or problem. |
| Handlings | adv | Hand-to-hand; at close quarters. |
| Handlist | n. | A list of books in form ready for easy reference |
| Handlock | n | A shackle for the hands, manacles, handcuffs. |
| Handloom | n | A weaver's loom worked by hand. |
| Handly | adv | Used by the hands, manually, mechanically. |
| Handmade | adj | Made by hand or hand tool(formerly distinguished from the work of nature); artifical (now used from that of machine made). |
| Handmaid | n | A female personal attendant or servant; a handmaiden. 2. fig. as in 'God's handmaid': nature. |
| Handmaid | n | An old fashion term for a female servant or attendant. 2. a a subservient partner or element. |
| Handmaiden | n | A handmaid. |
| Hand-maidenly | adv | Befitting a handmaid. |
| Hand-maidenhood | n | The state or quality of being a handmaiden. 2. the role of a handmaiden. |
| Handmake | vb | To make something by hand, not by machine, and considered to be superior in quality. |
| Hand-me-down(s) | n | Used or second-hand items, such as clothes. 2. that which is handed down, as a 'heirloom'. |
| Handnet | n | A small net, often used to catch an individual fish or butterflies, that is equipped with a handle attached to the rim so that the net forms a pouch. |
| Hand-off | n | a pass made by handling the ball to a team mate. 2. fig. to give something to someone elseto do or complete. |
| Hand-out | n | That which is handed out or distributed. 2. food or money given to beggars; a gift of money. 3. matter handed out to or by a newspaper or press; more generally, matter handed over from any source to convey information or guidance. |
| Hand over Head | phr. | Precipitately, recklessly, without deliberation, indiscriminately, rash, reckless. |
| Hand-play | n | Interchange of blows in hand-to-hand encounters; as 'hard-hand play' in boxing, fighting and war. |
| Hand-raised | adj | Of a newborn animal to be brought and cared for by a human being. |
| Hand-reading | n | Used by Coverdale in his Bible translation for ministration or contribution; and from the German: 'handreiching'. 2. palmistry. |
| Handsaw | n | A saw managed by one hand. |
| Handsbreath | n | A short or small distance. |
| Hand-sale | n | A sale confirmed by the mutual shaking of hands. |
| Handsel | n | A gift g.iven at the beginning of the year, or to mark an acquisition, start an enterprise, supposedly to give good luck; ('Handsel Monday' formerly celebrated in Scotland and England) |
| Hand-seller | n | A street-dealer who carries his goods, in a basket, cart. |
| Handsewn | adj | Sewn by hand without the use of a sewing machine. |
| Hands-free | adj | A word describing equipment that can be used without the use of one's hands (or limited use of hands). |
| Hand-shackle | n | A restraint fit over the wrist of a person; a handcuff. |
| Handshake | n | Grasping of hands by two persons when greeting, leave-taking, or making an agreement. |
| Handshake | vb | To grasp of the hand by two persons when greeting, leave-taking, or making an agreement. |
| Hand-shaking | n | Shaking of hands in greeting or leave-taking. |
| Handshape | n | In sign-language the held position of the hand and fingers in producing a particular sign. |
| Hand soap | n | A bar of soap or soap in liquid form used to wash one's hands. |
| Hand-smooth | adj | Smooth to the hand, level or flat as if smoothed by the hand. 2. (fig.) flat, plat, unqualified. |
| Hand-smoothly | adv | Flatly, downright, without check, or qualification. |
| Handsome | adj | Easy to use or handle in any way. 2. handy, ready at hand, suitable. 2. of speech, apt, dextrous, clever, happy. 3. proper, seemly, decent. 4. beautiful, fair, attractive, fetching, comely. 5. generous, magnanimous. |
| Handsome | phr | "Handsome Is, As Handsome Does" - a person's good actions, rather than his or outward aspect, or good looks defines his or her handsomeness in the eyes of others. |
| Handsome | vb | To make handsome; handsome up. 2. to fit, adapt, to make seemly or becomingly. 2. to bring to a proper condition. |
| Handsomely | adv | In a handsome manner; with a fine or pleasing or pleasantness of aspect. 2. conveniently, fitly, appropriately, aptly. 3. skilfully, dexterously, cleverly. 4. carefully, gradually, without haste. 5. in becoming or elegant action; in good shape, neat, elegantly. 6. ironically, in reference to reproof or punishment severely. 7. in accordance with what is becoming in conduct, courteously, graciously, decently. 9. in a stronger sense: generously, magnanimously. 10. (lit.): generously, usually in reference to a gift or payment. |
| Handsomeness | n | The quality of being handsome. 2. convenience, handiness 3. skill, dexterity, ability, cleverness, propriety, becomingness, decency. 4. seemliness or pleasantness of aspect or style. 5. elegance, neatness, comeliness, beauty; modern beauty of a somewhat stately kind. 6. graciousness, courtesy, magnanimity, liberality. |
| Handsom(e)ish | adj | Rather handsome. |
| Hands-on | adj | Involving directly and participation with an activity; practical rather theoretical or second-hand; as, of computers. |
| Hand span | n | The distance between outstretched tips of the little fingers and thumb when used a unit of measurement. |
| Hand-spring | n | A somersault made by the assistance of the hands placed on the ground. |
| Handspun | adj | Spun by hand. |
| Hand-stand | n | A movement or position in which a person is upside down, supported by their hands on the ground. |
| Hand-stroke | n | In bell-ringing the pull on the sally that swings the ball throuoh the full circle. |
| Hands-upper | n | One who puts his or her hands in the air as a token of surrender. |
| Hand-tame | adj | Tame and submissive to the hand; domesticated (of an animal). 2. mild, gentle. |
| Hand-tamed | adj | Reduced to submission. |
| Hand-tameness | n | Submissiveness, gentleness, mansetude. |
| Hand-tight | adj | As tight as can be made by the the strength of one's hand wielding a standard tool, that is, without special treatment or leverage. |
| Hand-to-hand | adj | With close approach of hand; at close quarters, man-to-man, hand-to-hand fighting. |
| Hand-to-mouth | adj | Consuming food as soon as it is obtained; improvidently, thriftlessness. 2. lack of provision for the future |
| Hand tool | n | A tool in the hand. |
| Hand-warmer | n | A small ( mostly disposable) packets held in the hand and produces heat on demand to warm cold hands. |
| Handwash | n | Soap, liquid or other cleansing aid used to wash one's hands. |
| Handwash | vb | To was one's hands usimg soap or another handwash. |
| Handwashing | n | The act of cleaning one's hands without or without water or another liquids. 2. the use of soap for the purposes of removing dirt or micro-organisms. |
| Hand wave | n | A wave made by the hand. 2. a glib statement or explanation that glosses over important detail. |
| Hand wave | vb | To explain something superficially, skipping over the details, perhaps appealing to intuition instead. |
| Handwaving | n | A pejorative label for attempting to be seen as effective – in word, reasoning, or deed – while actually doing nothing effective or substantial. It is most often applied to debate techniques that involve fallacies, misdirection and the glossing over of details |
| Handwavy | n | Inclined to handwaving. |
| Handweaver | n | A maker of hand woven goods. |
| Handweaving | n | The manufacturing of handwoven goods. |
| Handwheel | n | Any wheel operated by hand. |
| Handwhile | n | A moment, an instance, a second, a short span in time. |
| Handwork | n. | Work or things done, or made, with the hands. 2. manual operation or labour, distinct from work done by machinery. |
| Hand-worked | adj | Worked or wrought by hand, not by machinery. |
| Handworker | n | One who wworks with their hands. |
| Handworking | n | The action of working with one's hands. |
| Handwoven | adj | Woven by hand, or with a hand-operated loom. |
| Handwright | n | A worker in his hands; an artisan, a mechanic. |
| Handwringer | n | A person who clasps and squeezes the hand in an excessive expression of anxiety and distress. |
| Handwringing | n | The act of clasping and squeezes the hand in an excessive expression of anxiety and distress. |
| Hand-wrist | n. | The joint of the hand; the wrist; the cuff.. |
| Hand-writ | n | Handwriting, an autograph, a signature. |
| Handwrite | vb | To write with the hand or with one's own hand. |
| Handwriting | n. | Writing with the hand. 2. that which is written by the hand. 3. written document or note. 4. a manuscript. |
| Handwriting | phr | "Handwriting on the Wall" - sign of impending calamity or disaster. |
| Handwritten | adj | A document, (parchment, page) written by hand. |
| Hand-wrought | adj | Worked or done with the hands. |
| Handy | adj. | Done by the hand; manual. 2. wielded by the hand. 3. ready to hand, near to the hand. 4. conveniently accessible, convenient or ready for use. 5. easy to handle or hold with the hand. 6. easy to manipulate, manage or direct by the hand. ready or clever with the hands; dexterous; able to turn the hand to anything. |
| Handy-man | n | An odd-job person, a person useful for all such jobs. |
| Hang | vb. | Fasten to an object above. 2. suspend 3. kill by suspending from gallows. 4. attach or set up. 5. Cling to. |
| Hang | n. | The action of hanging. 2. the mode in which something is hanged or poised. 3. crop of fruit. |
| Hang | phr | "As Well Hanged for a Sheep as a Lamb" - don't stop at half measures. |
| Hang | phr | "Be Hung Up" - be emotionally disturbed or confuse. |
| Hang | phr | "Be Hung up On" - (slang) psychological or emotional obsession or problem about something. |
| Hang | phr | "Get the Hang Of" - to understand, comprehend, become familiar with the drift of. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang About" - to stay, linger or loiter. 2. to spend time or be friends with. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang a Left" - to turn left, make a left turn. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Back" - to resist advance; hesitate. 2. to show unwillingness to advance or come forward. 3. to be backward in coming forward. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Back From" - hesitate from timidity or fear. 2. hold back from doing something. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Behind" - to hang behind and retard progress. 2. linger in a place after others have left. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang By a Thread" - be in a precarious position. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Fire" - to think before acting or taking action. 2. fail to fire, or delay in firing. 3. fig. fial to be carried out and completed as expected, or suffer delay in being carried. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Five" - in surfing to stand towrds the front of one's surfboard and ahng the toes of one or both feet over the edge. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Heavy" - pass slowly (of time). |
| Hang | phr | "Hang In" - to persist in spite of adversity (as a boxer). 2. to hold out, endure, persist. |
| Hang | phr | "Hanging is too Good For" - deserves a much worse fate than even too be hanged. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang It" - a mild expletive. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Off" - to hang back: demur, hestitate. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang On" - to continue to adhere, hold tight, grip something firmly. 2. survive a crisis. 3. to remain clinging, to continue to adhere, usually implying expectation or unwillingness to sever one's connection. 3. wait, pause, hold fast; hold on. 4. require that some condition should first be met; hinge on or upon. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang On By the Eyelids" - to maintain one's position only with the greatest difficulty or by the slightest hold. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang One On" - to strike a blow. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang One's Hat On" - pin one's hope on. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang One's Head" - be ashamed. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang On Every Word" - listen to attentively. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang On Like Grim Death" - to cling tenaciously, literally or metaphorically; not to be shaken off , as death persists having once marked down its victim. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang On Somebody's Lips/Head" - listen attentively. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Onto" - the keep something, not sell or give to someone else. 2. to cling and rely upon another for help. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang On to Something" - to retain. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Out" - to protrude (with downward direction). 2. to associate with; to frequent. 3. live, reside, visit a place frequently. 4. spread damp washing on a line, so that it can dry. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Out To Dry" - to defeat and punishment deliberate and slowly. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Over" - envelop something, as cloud. 2. possess somebody as gloom, depression. 3. seem likely to occur soon, be imminent. 4. suspend something from a surface so that they may cover it. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang the Moon" - 'to place the moon in the sky' fig. attributed to someone with uncritical or excesive awe and reverence or infatuation. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Tight" - to remain in one's current location. 2. to wait patiently |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Together" - to be coherent or consistent; (of a person): to keep body and soul together; to continue to exist. 2. to adhere together loosely or without rigid attachment. 3. to be coherent or consistent or a consistent whole or coherent. 4. to hold together; co-operate, support,to be associated or mutually dependent. 5. be complete, consistent, or share the responsibility. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Tough" - to remain inflexible or firmly resolved. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Upon" - depend upon. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Up (on someone)" - to end a telephone call. |
| Hang | phr | "Hung Up On" - be obsessed with. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Upon" - listen to devoted attention to. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Up One's Boots" - to call it a day, retire. |
| Hang | phr | "Hang Up One's Hat" - make oneself at home in another person's house. |
| Hang | phr | "Have Something Hanging Over One's Head" - be under a threat (of unpleasantness). |
| Hang | phr | "I'll Be Hanged" - an expression of disbelief, surprize, or resoluteness. |
| Hang | phr | "Let It All Hang Out" - to be uninhibited or relaxed. 2. to be candidly truthful. 3. do as you like. |
| Hang | phr | "Not Give a Hang!" - to be regardless of the consequences. |
| Hang | phr | "One Might as Well be Hung for a Sheep as a Lamb" - if punishment is due, one might as well do something really bad and enjoy it while they can. |
| Hang | phr | "Thereby Hangs a Tale" - there is more to this matter, but it is better left unsaid. |
| Hang | phr | "To Hang With It" - a very mild oath. |
| Hang | phr | "Where Do You Hang Out?" - where are you living or lodging?. |
| Hang-back | n | A hestitation, unwillingness (to procede or go forward). 2. one who hestitates or wavers. |
| Hangbird | n | A clothes-drying rack, esp. popular owing to it space-saving capacity. |
| Hang-by | n. | Term for a hanger-on, a dependent. |
| Hang-dog | n. | Despicable, mean or degraded, abject character. 2. a skulking perso, a sneak. |
| Hang-dog | adj | Low, degraded, base, sneaky, as in a 'a hang-dog look'. |
| Hangdog | vb | To hang on a rope after falling off during a climb. |
| Hang-dog look | n | A guilty, shame-faced look. |
| Hanged | adj | Suspended, put to death by hanging. 2. furnished or decorated by hangings. |
| Hanger | n | A wood on the side of a steep hill or bank. 2. a hangman, executioner. 3. something that is suspends or overhangs. 4. a contrivance by which anything is hanged, rope, chain, hook. 5. a shaped frame on which clothes or garments are suspended or draped; a clothes hanger. 6. shoulder-shaped frame with a hook at the top, usually of wire, wood or plastic, for draping and hanging a garment when not in use. |
| Hanger-back | n | One who hangs back, hestitates or waver. |
| Hangerless | adj | Without or lacking ahanger. |
| Hanger-on | n | Opportunist, parasite, dependant or follower (disparagingly). |
| Hang-fire | n | A delay in an explosion of a propelling charge, igniter or similar device. |
| Hang-glide | vb | To fly a hang glider. 2. an uwithout-powered aircraft resembling a large kite from which a rider is suspended in aharness. 2. a rider of such a craft. |
| Hang-glider | n | An uwithout-powered aircraft resembling a large kite from which a rider is suspended in aharness. 2. a rider of such a craft. |
| Hanging | n | A method of execution whereby the person is dropped and suspended from a rope around the neck, resulting in death from severing of the spinal cord, strangulation, or other causes. 2. something, such as a tapestry, that is hung.
3. A descending slope or an inclination. |
| Hanging | adj | Situated, as on a steep slope, so as to appear to hang down: a hanging garden. 2. projecting downward or outward; overhanging: hanging vines; a hanging staircase. 3. suited for holding something that hangs: a hanging rack.
4. in baseball being a pitch that fails to break as intended. 5. deserving death by hanging: a hanging crime. 6. disposed to inflict severe sentences, such as death by hanging: a hanging judge. |
| Hanging | phr | "Hanging is too Good For" - deserves a much worse fate than even too be hanged. |
| Hangman | n | A public executioner. |
| Hangmanship | n | The office or function of a hangman. |
| Hang-nail | n | A small piece of skin partially detached by hanging one end, near to the nail. |
| Hang-off | adv | To show hesitation in coming to close quarters or to an agreement. 2. to han back, demur. |
| Hang-out | n | A habitual meeting place or resort. |
| Hang-over | n. | Something remaining or left over; a thing or person left over or behind; a survival, or remainder. 2. the after effects of over-drinking of alcohol or strong liquor |
| Hang-overish | adj | Hanging-on, hinting of survival, surviving or remaining. 2. somewhat affected by strong liquor. |
| Hang-time | n | The amount of time that athlete remains airborne while jumping. 2. the amount of time a football remains in the air after kicking. |
| Hang-up | n | Drawback, fault, difficulty, fixation. 2.an emotional or psychological |
| Hangwite | n | A penalty and offence mentioned in the Domesday Book. 2. a fine for the illegal hanging of a thief or allowing one to escape. |
| Hanse | n. | Fellowship, guild, company. 2. miltary troop, band. 3. league, as the 'Hanseatic League'. |
| Hap | n. | OE: haeplic - equal. fitting , convenient, orderly. |
| Harbinger | n. | Protection or shelter. 2. passenger or messenger. 3. one precedes a host and secure lodgings and shelter for troops. 4. an advanced company of an army sent to prepare a camping ground; a pioneer. 5. a forerunner; precursor. Originally, aharbinger was simply somebody who providedharbor - that is, shelter, lodgings. The word began life as a derivative of Old French 'herberge' - lodgings, a borrowing from heriberga, the Old Saxon equivalent of Old English 'herebeorg.' Its later meaning 'to somebody sent ahead to obtained lodging for an army' developed in the C14th, and from this came its noe figurative sense 'forerunner.' |
| Harborough | n | Harbour; harburrow. |
| Harbour | n. | Shelter, lodgings, entertainment, sojourn. 2. a place or shelter or sojourn. 3. lodgings, inn, asylum. 4. the 'house' of the sun or a planet in the zodiac. 5. place (harbor) of shelter for ships. |
| Harbour | vb. | To provide a lodging for. 2. to quarter soldiers or billet. 3. to encamp. 4. to give shelter. 5. to shelter in a haven. To trace a stag to its lair. |
| Harbourless | adj | Lacking or without a harbor. |
| Harbour-side | n | The area adjacent to a harbor. |
| Harborside | adj | located or near a harbor. |
| Hard | adj | Firm, steadfast, unyielding. 2. inured, hardened, obdurate. 3. difficult in doing; difficult to deal with, manage, control. 4. difficult to penetrate with understanding; not easy to understand or explain. 5.of character or nature: not easily impressed or moved, obdurate, unfeeling, callous, hardhearted; difficult to bear, endure or put up with. 6. of actions: severe, rigorous, oppressive, cruel, harsh, unfeeling. 7. of news, information: factual, real, objective, reliable, sustainable. 8. bold in battle, persistent and determined in contest or sport. 9. with money: stingy, niggardly, closed-fisted. 10. of weather: violent, rough, severe. 11. of pulse, when blood pressure is high. 12. undigested (in the stomach). 13. coins; money. 14. of hands; un-gloved. |
| Hard | vb | To be or become hard; to make hard or harden. 2. to deprive of feelings o emotions. 3. to render callous; obstinate or obdurate. |
| Hard | phr | "A Hard Day's Night" - staying up late all night possibly on special duty, but especially to drink. |
| Hard | phr | "A Hard Day's Work" - a day spent working hard. |
| Hard | phr | "A Hard Life" - a life made difficult by hard work, poor natural conditions, poverty, ill-health, persecution. |
| Hard | phr | "As Hard as Flint" - unforgiving, unsympathetic in temperament, character |
| Hard | phr | "As Hard as Iron" - very firm, strong, unyielding; as (hard) as (a) stone. |
| Hard | phr | "As Hards as Nails" - tough; with great physical stamina; (fig) selfish, ruthless in one's dealings with others. |
| Hard | phr | "As Hard as Steel" - physically strong and with mental or moral firmness (esp. in circumstances where such qualities are desirable. |
| Hard | phr | "As Hard as Stone" - very firm; as hard as stone/rock . 2. (fig) heratless, unfeeling. |
| Hard | phr | "At Hard Edge" - at close contact in battle. |
| Hard | phr | "Be Hard at It" - putting a lot of effort into what you are doing: busily occupied or working. |
| Hard | phr | "Be Hard On Somebody" - be overcritical or unfair to somebody. 2. having a harmful or damaging affect on somebody. |
| Hard | phr | "Be Hard Put to Do" - having difficulty , trouble in doing something. |
| Hard | phr | "Be Hard Up" - to be short of money, and usually facing other difficulties. |
| Hard | phr | "Be Hard With" - turn out to (a person's) disadvantage. |
| Hard | phr | "Do Something the Hard Way" - to do something by the most difficult method. 2. to achieve through bitter experience |
| Hard | phr | "Do the Hard Yards" - make a great effor, difficult, ardoruos or unglamorous. 2. put in the hard yards. |
| Hard | phr | "Go Hard With Somebody" - be to somebody's disadvantage. 2. fare ill with. 3. to result in danger, hardship. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard and Fast" - rigidly laid down and adhered to. 2. strongly binding, not to be set aside or violated. 3. stringently enforced. 4. invariably , not capable of change; firmly, and immovably.. 5. fixed; inflexible; precisely defined. 6. with energy, vigor, speed all attention. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard as Nails" - of a person) - very tough, completely callous or cruel. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard At It" - working busily or occupied. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard by" - in close proximity, close by, situated very near, close at hand. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard by" - close by, in close proximity; close by, close to; very near to. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Day's Night" - staying up late all night possibly on special duty, but especially to drink. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Day's Work" - a day spent working hard. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Done By" - badly or unfairly treated. 2. receiving bad, or poor treatment. |
| Hard | phr | "Harden One's Heart" - feel little emotion, empathy. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Lines On (On Somebody)" - exclamation (or sympathetic) comment on an event, or state of affairs, which is unfortunate , undeserved or unjust. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Nut to Crack" - a difficult person one who is likely to resist efforts to conciliate, influence or intimidate. 2. a problem difficult to find an answer to. 3. a situation difficult to deal with effectively. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard of Hearing" - having less than perfect, or partially or rather deaf. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard of Thinking" - finding clear thinking difficult |
| Hard | phr | "Hard on" - hard upon, close to; following. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard On Somebody" - be overcritical or unfair to somebody. 2. having a harmful or damaging affect on somebody. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard on the Heels Of" - close behind. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Put (to it)" - in difficulty. 2. find it difficult to do something. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard to Say (Tell)" - difficult to make a firm statement about, esp. because too little is, or can be, known about it. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard to Take" - difficult to accept without bitterness or grief; difficult to believe, or accept, as being true. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Up" - short of money and resources. 2. short of money. |
| Hard | phr | "Hard Up For" - sorely at a loss. |
| Hard | phr | "Have a Hard Tail" - be determined, obstinate, hard to move from a position or opinion. |
| Hard | phr | "Have Hard Feelings" - feel aggrieved or disappointed. |
| Hard | phr | "Have No hard Feelings" - have no feelings of bitterness. |
| Hard | phr | "Play Hard To Get" - to pretend to remain aloof, 2. to act or behave as if unapproachable or uninterested. 3. try to make oneself one attractive , wanted by being difficult to contact. |
| Hard | phr | "Put the Hard Word On" - to ask a woman or man for sexual favours. 2. difficult to deal with, manage, control or resist. |
| Hard | phr | "Take a Hard Line" - be firm, uncomprising. |
| Hard | phr | "Take Something Hard" - be upset by something. |
| Hard | phr | "The Hard Way" - the most difficult, least convenient way of doing something, or achieving an an objective. |
| Hard | phr | "Too Hard For" - to much for; more than one can managed. |
| Hard-and-fast | adj | Absolutely binding; fixed and unalterable. |
| Hard-and-fastness | n | The condition of being hard and fast in rigidly adhering to a position or opinion etc. 2. a strongly binding condition, not to be set aside or violated. 3. situation stringently enforced. 3. state invariabe , not capable of being changed. |
| Hard-back | n | A hard cover; a hard-cover or hard-bound book. |
| Hard-backed | adj | Determined, tough, resolute, unyielding. 2. stiff or firm of thr back of a chair. |
| Hard-bitten | adj | Given to hard biting. 2. tough, unyielding, inflexible, and determined in life generally; tough in a fight or challenge. |
| Hard board | n | Thin stiff board made of compressed sawdust and wood chip. |
| Hard-bound | adj | Of a book: hard-covered. |
| Hard cheese | n | (Slang): bad luck. |
| Hard-coal | n | Anthracite. |
| Hard-doer | n | An amusing or eccentric reveller or character. |
| Hard-done-by | adj | Harshly or unfairly treated. |
| Hard-drinker | n | Somebody who drinks spirits habitually. |
| Hard-drive | n | A disk drive used to read from and write to a hard disk. |
| Hard drop | n | A strong alcoholic drink. |
| Hard-earned | adj | Earned or gained with difficulty. 2. gained through much effort. |
| Harden | vb | To make hard or more hard. 2. to strengthen; to confirm in wickedness or obstinacy. 2. to make less sympathetic; become unfeeling. |
| Harden | n | A close fabric made from the of flax or hemp. |
| Harden | phr | "Harden off" - inure(a plant) to cold by gradual increase by exposure. |
| Harden | phr | "Harden Somebody/One's Heart" - not allowed oneself to be misled by the love, sympathy, pity, etc. one does in fact feel. |
| Hardened | adj | Rendered hard, indurated. 2. rendered unfeeling or callous; hardhearted; settled or determined in a course. |
| Hardener | n | Something thta hardens or sets , such as metals. |
| Hardening | n | Any substance or material that hardens another; specifically any metal added to iron to amke steel. |
| Hard-eyed | adj | Severe of countenance. |
| Hardfast | adj | Hand and fast: strongly binding, not to be set aside or violated. 2. stringently enforced. 3. invariably, not capable of change. 4. dense. |
| Hard-fastness | n | Density. |
| Hard-feelings | n | Feelings of resentment, il-will, bitterness, rancour, anger, hostility. |
| Hard-fisted | adj | Stingy, tightfisted, mean, niggardly, hard-handed penurious. 2. of an avaricious or miserly disposition. 3. having hard, rough, or strong hands. |
| Hard-fistedness | n | The state or quality of being stingy, mean, uncharitable, niggardly, hard-handedness. |
| Hard-freeze | n | Implying a temperature that is sufficiently cold for a long enough period to seriously damaged or kill or seasonal vegetation. |
| Hard-gotten | adj | Obtained with labor or pains. |
| Hard-handed | adj | having hard or rough-textured hands. 2. governing with severity or cruelty, despotic, tyrannical. |
| Hard-hat | n | A hat made from a hard plastic and designed to protect the head from injury. 2. a construction worker. |
| Hardhead | n | A hard-headed person: one not easily moved or influenced. 2. a person dull of intellect. 3. a person not easy affected by the drinking of alcoholic beverages |
| Hardheaded | adj | Not easily turned as a horse; stubborn, obstinate. not easily influenced by sophistry or sentiment, matter of fact, practical. 2. posessing shrewdness, and a practical way of doing. 3. practical, sensible, unemotional. |
| Hardheadly | adv | In a hard-head manner. |
| Hardheadness | n | The state or quality or being hard-head. |
| Hardhearted | adj | Having a hard-heart; without sympathy. 2. incapable of being moved to pity, lacking pity, or tenderness; unfeeling, obdurate, unmerciful. |
| Hardheartedly | adv | In a hard-hearted manner. |
| Hardheartedness | n | The state or quality of being hardhearted. |
| Hardhewer | n | A stone or monumental mason. |
| Hard-hit | adj | Severely struck by misfortune, grief, disaster. 2. badly or adversely affected, especially by monetary loss. 3. deep in love; infatuated. |
| Hard-hitting | adj | Of great impact. 2. aggressively critical. |
| Hard-holding | adj | Tight-fisted, niggardly, penurious. |
| Hardhood | n | Hardness. |
| Hardihood | n | The quality or condition of being hardy. 2. boldness, extreme boldness, hardiness, audacity. 3. robustness (of a body). |
| Hardily | adv | Boldly, courageously, with hardihood. 2. robustly, not tenderly. 3. boldly said feeling, certainly, by all means, assuredly. |
| Hardiness | n | The quality or condition of being hardy. 2. capability of physical or mental endurance, now mostly physical robustness. |
| Hardish | adj | Somewhat hard. |
| Hard-landing | n | A rough or clumsy landing of an aircraft. 2. an uncontrolled landing in which a spacecraft is destroyed. 3. an unexpected and sudden economic or financial crash or downturn. |
| Hard-line | n | An unyielding position, as in negotiation. 2. an uncompromising stance or attitude. |
| Hard-liner | n | One who has an unyielding position, as in negotiation. |
| Hard lines | n | An uncompromising adherence to a firm policy. |
| Hard-looking | adj | Appearing hard; tough looking. |
| Hardly | adv | Scarcely, barely, not quite. 2. with difficulty or great pains. 3. improbably. 4. rigorously, harshly; severely. |
| Hard man | n | A tough, aggressive or ruthless man. |
| Hard-mouthed | adj | Having a hard-mouth, said of a horse not easily controlled, but by a bit. 2. of person, self-willed, obstinate. |
| Hardness | n | The state or quality of being hard. 2. unyielding of spirit; insensitivity; callousness. 3. a property of water that contaains mineral salts. 4. tension; said of the pulse. 5. in art, harsh effect or treatment. 6. that quality of a mineral that resists scratching. 7. the toughnesss of metal or alloy. |
| Hard-nosed | adj | Hard-bitten, unyielding, or firmly business-like. 2. grim, tough, unsympathetic. |
| Hard-on | n | Slang: the erection of the penis. |
| Hard-pan | n | A firm sub-soil of clayey or gravelly detritus. 2. the lowest level of foundation, bottom, bedrock. |
| Hards | n | The refuse or coarse parts of flax, hemp, wool or tow |
| Hard-sell | n | Aggressive salemanship or advertising. 2. aggressive sales technique. 3. opposite: 'soft sell'. |
| Hard-sell | vb | To have an aggressive and over-assertive approach or technique to advertising and selling. |
| Hard-shell | n | Having a hard shell like some mollusc. 2. a person with a robust personality; esp. one not easy offended or rattled by the criticism of others; stubborn, unemotional, unempathetic. 2. fig. rigidly and uncomprimising in religious orthodoxy. |
| Hard-shelled | adj | Hardened, stubborn, rigid, obdurate of character. |
| Hardship | n | The quality of being hard to bear. 2. harshness, rigor, a severely, painful difficulty. 2. a condition which presses unduly hard upon one who has to endure it; hardness of fate or circumstance of suffering. 3. an infliction of severity of suffering; a piece or instance of harsh treatment. 4. extreme want or privation. 5. ill-luck. severe toil or suffering. |
| Hard shoulder | n | he surfaced verge at the edge of a roadway for emergency stops. |
| Hard-spun | adj | Spun with fiine twist. |
| Hard stand | n | A paved hard-surfaced area adjacent to a runway, for the parking of aircraft and ground vehicles. |
| Hard-standing | n | An area covered with a hard surface like bitumen or asphalt and set aside for the parking of motor vehicles. |
| Hard start | n | A rocketry term meaning an over pressured condition during start of a rocket engine of ignition. In worst cases, this takes the form of an explosion. |
| Handstone | n | Any type of precious or semi-precious stone. |
| Hard stop | n | A price level that, if reached, will trigger an order to sell an underlying security. Hard stops are set at a constant price and are inherently good until cancelled. A hard stop is used to protect the downside of holding an investment by always being active, and is only triggered once the price reaches the specified stop level. 2. a mechanical device that limits the travel of a mechanism. |
| Hard times | n | Difficult , worrying situation. |
| Hard-to-get | adj | Aloof, unapproachable. 2. difficult to get, buy, purchase. |
| Hard top | n | Describing an automobile with the body design of a convertible, but with a rigid top. |
| Hard-up | n | Hard put; in difficulties. 2. in need or want, as short of money. 3. having a meagre choice. |
| Hard-up-ish-ness | n | Somewhat hard put; or in some want or difficulty. |
| Hard-up-ness | n | The state or condition of being hard-up, or hardput, in want. |
| Hardware | n | A small ware or goods of metal; ironmongery. 2. weapons, guns, missiles. 3. mechanic, electronic or other devices or materials , as distinguis from people, planning, operational procedures. 4. in computing, the physical components of a system or device as opposed to procedures required for it's operation as opposed to software. 5. jewelry. |
| Hardwareman | n | A person who sells small ware or goods of metal; ironmongery. |
| Hardware shop | n | An ironmongery. 2. a shop where metal hardware is sold. |
| Hardwater | n | Water that contain magnesium, calcium or iron salts and therefore forms a soft lather with difficulty. |
| Hard-wearing | adj | Resistant to extensive wear, durable. |
| Hard-winter | n | A winter with a deep frost or frozen state. |
| Hardwire | vb | To connect an electronic component, by electrical wires. |
| Hardwired | adj | Containing permanently connected circuits. 2. of the brain in reference to it's function. |
| Hard won | adj | A result achieved by only lots of effort. |
| Hardwood | n | The strong, dense wood from flowering deciduos trees, such as aoak or mahogany. |
| Hard words | n | Critical, scolding comments. 2. reproaches, criticisms, accusations made or exchanged. |
| Hardworking | adj | Of a person: tending to work with energy and commitment. |
| Hard-workingness | n | The state of being hard working. |
| Hardy | adj | Strong, durable, rigid or capable of resisting exposure, hardship, etc. 2. inured to hardship, robust. 3. showing hardihood; bold, audacious, strenuous. |
| Hardy | n | A square-shanked chisel or fuller for insertion in a hardy-hole. |
| Hardy-hole | n | A hole in the blacksmith anvil in which a hardy or other tool may be placed. |
| Hare | n | An animal like a large rabbit with a cleft, upper lip, longer ears and stronger hind legs. 2. |
| Hare | vb | To harry, to worry, harass, frighten or scarce. |
| Hare | adj | Run with great speed; fleet-footed. |
| Hare | phr | "Kiss the Hare's Foot" - to be late for anything. |
| Hare | phr | "Run with the Hare, and Hunt with the Hounds" - to try and keep in with both sides. 2. keep in with and reamin friendly and cordially with two or more parties. |
| Hare | phr | "Start a Hare" - to introduce or raise an irrelevent issue in an argument or discussion. |
| Hare-brain | adj | A giddy, heedless or reckless person. |
| Hare-brained | adj | Heedless, reckles, rash, wild, mad, (of persons and their actions.) |
| Hare-brainedly | adv | In a heedless, rash, mad, crazy way. |
| Hare-brainness | n | The state or quality of being giddy or reckless, etc. |
| Hare-foot | n | A fleet-footed or speedy person. |
| Hare-liked | adj | Characteristic or resembling a hare. |
| Hare-lip | n | Having a fissure or split on the upper lip. |
| Hare-lipped | adj | Having an upper lip clefted like a hare. |
| Hare-sighted | adj | Short-sighted. |
| Hark | n | The act of harking or a call to listen attentively. 2. a whisper or privy communication. 3. a shout to the hounds to start the chase. 4. the cry 'hark' as used to urge on or guide hounds in the chase. |
| Hark | vb. | To give ear or listen, hearken. 2. used in hunting, as a call to attention and incitement. |
| Hark | phr | "Hark At" - just you listen (implying that something is untrue). |
| Hark | phr | "Hark Away - to proceed or go away; depart. |
| Hark | phr | "Hark Back" - to recall. 2. of hounds: to turn back to the course when the scent of the quarry has been lost till found again. 2. fig. to retrace one's steps, return to earlier point of discussion, argument. |
| Hark | phr | "Hark Forward" - go forward or urge to go forward with encouraging cries. |
| Hark | phr | "Hark Off" - to draw off. |
| Hark-back | n | Retracing one's steps (lit. & fig.). 2. a backward move. |
| Harken | vb | An old-fashioned word meaning 'listen'. 2. hear,listen, heed. |
| Harkening | vb | Harken back. |
| Harker | n | One who listens; a listener. |
| Harking | n | The act of harking. |
| Harm | n | Physical, mental or moral injury. 2. that which inflicts damage or loss. 3. the injury which inflicts damage, loss or hurt. 3. offense against right or morality; wrong. |
| Harm | vb | To do harm(to) or damage. 2. to injure physically, mentally or morally, etc. 3. to hurt, damage. 4. to be hurtful. 5. to do harm or injury; hurt, abuse. |
| Harm | phr | "Harm Set, Harm Get" - those who lay or put in place traps for others get caught themselves. |
| Harm | phr | "Make Harms" - to make lamentations. |
| Harm | phr | "Out of Harm's Way" - safe, in safety, secure from harm or injury. |
| Harman | n. | Soldier; constable. |
| Harm-doer | n | One who sets to harm, hurt or injure other (mentally and physically.) |
| Harm-doing | n | The action of harming, injuring, hurting; causing sorrow, or grief. |
| Harmed | adj | Injured, hurt. |
| Harmer | n | One who harms or injures. |
| Harmful | adj | Fraught with harm or injury. 2. having power to injure, noxious. 3. injurious, hurtful, pernicious. |
| Harmfully | adv | In a harmful manner, injurious, mischievous. |
| Harmfulness | n | The quality of being harmful, injurious. |
| Harmfulnessly | adv | In a harmful or injurious manner. |
| Harming | n | The action of harming, harmdoing, injuring, hurting; causing sorrow, or grief. |
| Harmless | adj | Free for harm or injury, unhurt, uninjured, unharmed; innoxious. 2. free from guilt, wrongdoing; innocent. |
| Harmless-looking | adj | Benign and non-thrreatening of mien or aspect. |
| Harmlessly | adv | In a harmless, non-threatening manner. 2. without causing or recieving injury. |
| Harmlessness | n | State or quality of being harmless, inoffensive. |
| Harn | n | Late OE: the brain; brains. |
| Harp | n | A large instrument with strings set in a triangular frame and plucked with the fingers. |
| Harp | vb | To play the harp. 2. to speak or write persistently; dwell tediously. |
| Harp | phr | "Harp for Every on the Same String" - to reiterate, to return continually on the same subject or point of argument. |
| Harp | phr | "Harp On (or Upon)" - to repeat a statement or dwell on a subject to a wearisome length. 2. dwell wearisomely or tediously in speech or writing. 3. talk about continuously and tiresomely. |
| Harper | n | One who plays a harp. |
| Harping | n | The act or action of playing a harp. 2. the sound of playing a harp. 3. fig. dwelling on a subject or matter. |
| Harping-glee | n | The music of the harp. |
| Harpish | adj | Somewhat dwelling wearisomely or tediously in speech or writing. |
| Harp seal | n | A Greenland seal, Phoca groenlandica, with a harp-shaped green mark on its back. |
| Harp shackle | n | A shackle shaped so that the opening is smaller than the circumference at the top. |
| Harrow | n | From Old English hearg = "(heathen) temple", which was probably at Hill of Harrow, Middlesex where St. Mary's Church stands today. |
| Harrow | n | Old Norse (herfl) - an agricultural implement, heavy wooden rake, c. 1300, haru, probably from an unrecorded Old English *hearwa, apparently related to Old Norse harfr "harrow," and perhaps connected with harvest (n.). Or possibly from hergian see harry. NB: Not an Anglish word, included here for information and clarification only. |
| Harrow | vb | To harry, rob, spoil, ravage, plunder; seize, capture. |
| Harrow | phr | "Harrow Hell" - said of Christ as the harrower (spoiler) of Hell. |
| Harrowed | adj | Ravaged, spoiled , plundered, harried, etc. |
| Harrower | n | A spoiler, harrier. 3. one who harrows souls, feelings. |
| Harrower | phr | "The Harrower Of Hell" - an appellation of Christ. |
| Harrowing | n | The spoiling of Hell (by Jesus). 2. in a general sense: plundering, pillaging of a country. 3. the harrowing on laceration of feelings. |
| Harrowingly | adv | In an acutely or painful manner. |
| Harrowingness | n | The tragic and sordid harrowingness. |
| Harry | n | The act of harrying, devastation, molestation, vexation. |
| Harry | vb | O.E. overrun, despoil, with an army making raids. - to make predatory raids or incursions; to commit ravage. 2. to over run (a place or territory) with an army. 3. to ravage by war or invasion; plunder, carry off in a marauding raid.. 4. to lay waste, sack, pillage, spoil, ravage, violate. 5. to spoil 'hell' as said of Jesus after his death. 6. to rob bird nests. 7. to strip a house, building of its goods. 8. to worry, goad, torment, harass, maltreat, ill-use, persecute, to worry mentally. |
| Harried | adj | Worried, goaded, harassed, tormented, vexed, |
| Harrying | n | A warlike incursion, devastation, laying waste, plundering, raiding. |
| Harrying | adj | Devastating, plundering, raiding, pillaging, ravaging etc. |
| Hart | n | An adult, male deer. |
| Hartshorn | n | The horn or antlers of the hart. |
| Hart's-tongue | n | Scolopendium vulgare. |
| Hartwort | n | Seseli aethiopicum. |
| Harvest | n | The act or process of gathering a crop. 2. the crop that ripens or is gathered in a season. 3. the amount or measure of the crop gathered in a season. 4. the time or season of such gathering. 5. the result or consequence of an action: stuck with the harvest of a predecessor's decisions. |
| Harvest | vb | To gather (a crop). 2. to take or kill (fish or deer, for example) for food, sport, or population control. 3. to extract from a culture or a living or recently deceased body, especially for transplantation: harvested bone marrow. 4.to gather a crop from (the field. 5. to receive or collect (energy): a turbine that harvests energy from tidal currents. 6. to receive (the benefits or consequences of an action) |
| Harvest | phr | "Make Long Harvest for a Little Corn" - to work hard for little return. |
| Harvester | n | One who harvests. 2. a reaping machine. |
| Harvest-field | n | A field in which the corn is reaped. |
| Harvest-home | n | An Old English festival held at the bringing home of the harvest. 2. the season at the beginning of the festival. 3. a song sung at the festival. |
| Harvesting | n | The reaping and storing of grain, etc. 2. gathering up of resources. 3. that reaps or gathers in and storing of grass. |
| Harvestless | adj | The moon which is full within a fortnight of the autumnal equinox (22nd or 23rd of September); and which rises for several nights nearly at the same hour, at points successively further north of the eastern horizon. |
| Harvest moon | n | The full moon which occurs nearest to the autumn equinox, when the moon rises at almost the same time for several nights. |
| Harvest-swain | n | A reaper in the harvest field. |
| Harvest-time | n | Autumn, the harvest time. |
| Harwort | n | The sharewort, starwort, aster tripolium, used as a laxative. (OE. har:grey, hoary) |
| Hasard | n | A grey-haired man. |
| Hasard | adj | Grey-haired, hoary. |
| Has-been | n | One who has been successful, but is no longer. 2. a person or thing whose career, or efficiency belongs to the past or whose best days are over. |
| Hasbeens | n | Times past; as, 'I meet him, and just for old-times we went to the pub for lunch'. |
| Has-lock | n | O.E. halse (throat and lock) - the wool on the throat of a sheep. |
| Hasp | n | Clump of grass, coarse grass. 2. clasp that fits over a staple and is secured by a bolt or padlock, used as a fastening, |
| Hasp | vb | To fasten or shut with a hasp. |
| Hassock | n | A shock of hair. 2. a cushion for kneeling on in church. |
| Hassocky | n | Abounding in hassocks or clumps. 2. of the nature of clumps; consisting of calcareous hassock. |
| Haste | adj | OE: haeste: violent, vehement, impetuous. |
| Haswed | adj | Marked with grey or brown. |
| Hat | n. | Covering for the head, usu. with a brim, usu. worn to give protection from the weather. 2. any shaped covering for the head, worn for decoration and protection. 3. a person's occupation or capacity, especially one of several position held at one time. |
| Hat | vb | To cover one's head with a hat. 2. to furnish or provide with a hat. |
| Hat | phr | "As Black as Your Hat" quite black; black being the common color for a hat. |
| Hat | phr | 'At the Drop of a Hat" - without delay or hesitation. 2. on a signal, immediately, without delay |
| Hat | phr | "Eat One's Hat" - asservation, indicative of strong emphasis, and stating one's readiness to do this, if an event of which one is certain should not occur. |
| Hat | phr | "Hang One's Hat" - take up lodging in a certain place. |
| Hat | phr | "Hang Up One's Hat" - to retire, give up one usual occupation. |
| Hat | phr | "Hang Up One's Hat in a House" - to make oneself at home; to become one of the family. |
| Hat | phr | "Hat in Hand" - to approach someone for help or assistance with an attitude or respect and humility. |
| Hat | phr | "Hats Off" - an expression of praise for something successively done. |
| Hat | phr | "Keep Something Under One's Hat" - fig. keep something secret. 2. to keep something to oneself; do not divulge it; keep it under cover. |
| Hat | phr | "Make a Hat of It - to make a mess of. |
| Hat | phr | "Never Wear a Brown Hat in Friesland" - when in Rome do as the Romans do. In Friesland the inhabitants used to cover the head with a knitted cap, with a high skull-cap, and over all a huge flaunting bonnet. A woman once passed through the province with a common brown hat and was hustled and jeered by the locals, for her unusual attire |
| Hat | phr | "Take Off One's Hat to" - figuratively to express admiration for another. |
| Hat | phr | "That's Old Hat" - outworn or obsolete. |
| Hat | phr | "Throw One's Hat in the Ring" - to take up a challenge. |
| Hat | phr | "Under One's Hat" - secretive, secret, confidential, sub rosa. |
| Hat | phr | "With Hat in Hand" - with head uncovered as a mark of respect, reverence, courtesy, salutation. 2. with obsequiously servility removing the hat as a mark of respect. |
| Hat | phr | "You Are Talking Through One's Hat" - to make nonsense and unsupported or wild assertions. |
| Hat-band | n. | Golden hat-band: university cap of graduate |
| Hatch | n. | Lower half of a divided door, hatchway, trap-door over it. 2. an opening in the floor, wall, or ceiling. 3. a moveable planking forming a deck. 4.framework covering openings in a deck, floor, etc. 5.flood-gate, sluice. 6. half- door wicket. |
| Hatch | phr | "Down the Hatch" - a toasting or drinking phrase. |
| Hatch | phr | "Keep a Hatch Before the Door" - to keep or remain silence. |
| Hatch | phr | "Under Hatch" - below deck. |
| Hatchless | adj | Without a hatch or opening. |
| Hatchway | n. | Opening in a weir or sluice. 2. opening in the deck of a ship for the loading of cargo into the hold. 3. an opening in a floor , etc, which maybe closed with a hatch. |
| Hate | n. | Dislike strongly, bear malice to, opposite of love. 2. hatred: emotion of extreme dislike.(something). 3. intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility. 4. detestation, intense dislike. 5. a person or thing that is hated (esp in the phrase pet hate). 6. expression or arousing feelings of hatred: hate mail. |
| Hate | vb | To dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest. 2. to be unwilling; dislike. 3. to be unwilling (to be or do something) 4. to feel hatred. |
| Hate | phr | "Hate Somebody's Guts" - feel an intense dislike and loathing for somebody. |
| Hate | phr | "Hate the Sight of Somebody" - dislike, loathe somebody very much. |
| Hate-bearing | adj | Having hate or hatred. |
| Hated | adj | Regarded with hate; greatly disliked. |
| Hateful | adj | Full of hate, cherishing hate, and malignity. 2. inciting hate, odious. |
| Hateful | phr | "Hateful as a Toad" - the toad as an object of repulse, dislike, loathing and enmity. |
| Hatefully | adv | With hatred, malignantly, maliciously. 2. in a way that hates, odiously, abominanately. |
| Hatefulness | n | The quality of being hateful, full of hate, loathing. 3. th equality of deserving hate, odiousness, abominationness. |
| Hateless | adj | Without hate or malice; having no feelins of hate. |
| Hatelessness | n | The sate or quality of not hating. |
| Hatel | n | Anger, hatred, outburst of anger or hate. |
| Hatel | adj. | Full of hate, hostile, malignant, severe, cruel, fierce, bitter. |
| Hate-light | n | That hates or shuns light. |
| Hate-like | adj | Hateful, malignant, odious, anger-filled. |
| Hate-love | n | Love-hate: a conflicting emotion combining love and hate. |
| Hately | adv | Fiercely, bitterly, scornfully, hatefully. |
| Hatemonger | n | A person who kindles hatred enmity or prejudice in others. |
| Hate-mongering | n | The act or practice of stirring up hatred or enmity. |
| Hater | n | One who hates, an enemy. |
| Hatesome | adj | Hateful; loathing, detesting. |
| Hate-song | n | Songs or music that express hate and hatred. |
| Hate-speech | n | Speech that offends, threatens or insults groups, based on race, color, religion, national origins, sexual orientation, disability, or traits. |
| Hate-wite | n. | Fine or punishment for misbehavior towards others. |
| Hateworthy | adj | Worthy or deserving of hate. |
| Hatful | adj | As much as a hat will contain. 2. loosely, a cosiderable quantity. |
| Hathel | n | A noble man, man of worth, an athel. |
| Hating | n | Hating, detestation, loathing, despising. |
| Hat-in-hand | n. | Head uncovered as a mark of respect, reverence, courtesy, salutation, servility. |
| Hatless | adj | Having or not wearing a hat. |
| Hatlessness | n | The state of being without a hat. |
| Hatlike | n | Resembling a hat. |
| Hatmaker | n | A maker or manufacturer of hats. |
| Hatmaking | n | The manufacture of hats. |
| Hatpin | n | A pin worn on the hat. |
| Hatred | n | Intense dislike, hate. 2. a hate or passionate dislike. 3. bitter; animosity, emnity. dislike or aversion. |
| Hatstand | n | A piece of furniture as a rack with pegs to hang one's hat. |
| Hatted | adj | Having a hat; having a hat. |
| Hatter | n | One who deals in, or makes hats; a hatmaker. 2. clothes, garments, clothing collectively. 3. a person who lies alone: formerly being a hatter and suffering mental problems due to mercury poisoning. |
| Hatter | phr | Very mad or strange, perhaps due to the use of mercury nitrate by hatters in making hats. |
| Hatting | n | The lifting of a hat as a show of reverence or courtesy. |
| Hat-tree | n | A piece of furniture as a rack with pegs on which one may put their hat; a hatstand. |
| Hatty | adj | Wearing showy hats; interested in hats. |
| Haugh | n. | Nook, Corner, hearn, hurn, |
| Haughland | n. | A piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, forming part of the floor of the river |
| Haulm | n | Stems or stalks of straw etc.; reeds. |
| Haulm | vb | To lay straw or haulm straight for thatching. |
| Haulmy | adj | Having haulms; havin long or large haulms. |
| Have | n | A possession. 2. one who belongs to the wealthy class. |
| Have | vb | To be in possession of: already had a car. 2. to possess as a characteristic, quality, or function: has a beard; had a great deal of energy. 3. to possess or contain as a constituent part: a car that has air bags. 4. to occupy a particular relation to: had many disciples. 5. to possess knowledge of or facility in: has very little Spanish.
6. to hold in the mind; entertain: had doubts about their loyalty. 7. to use or exhibit in action: have compassion. 8. to come into possession of; acquire: have or own something. 9. to receive; get; as a letter in the mail. 10. to accept; take, as food. 11. to suffer from: have defective vision. 12. to be subject to the experience of: had a difficult time last winter. 13. to cause to do something, as by persuasion or compulsion: had my f-sider to carry out an audit. 13. to cause to be in a specified place or state: had the guests; had everyone fascinated. 14. to permit; allow: I won't have that kind of behavior in my house. 15. to carry on, perform, or execute: have an argument. 16. to place at a disadvantage: the card-sharp had you at every turn. 17.to get the better of, especially by trickery or deception: to be had. 18. to influence by dishonest means; bribe. 19. to procreate (offspring). 20. to partake of: have lunch. 21. To be obliged to; have to do. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Bearing Upon" - be related to affect, influence, bear on or upon. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Bellyful" - have as much as one can tolerate from of something or somebody's actions or behavior. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Black Mark Against" - have on record (officially or unofficially) something one has done wrong. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Brain-wave" - have a good idea or sudden inspiration. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Break" - a short rest period in one's work or other activities. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Care" - take care; be careful. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Chip on One's Shoulder" - |
| Have | phr | "Have a Cow" - get angry, very annoyed |
| Have | phr | "Have a Crack at" - to attempt something, do something. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Dog in this Fight" - have a personal stake in an issue. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Few" - drink enough alcohol to be slightly drunk. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Fit" - lit. suffer a convulsion or seizure. 2. fig. become wildly or excessively alarmed; dismayed, angered. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Flea in One's Ear" - be reprimanded. rejected or humiliated. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Frog in One's Throat" - have a temporary loss or roughening of the voice. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Go" - make an attempt, or try to attack someone physically or verbally. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Good Innings" - enjoy a long innings; a period of popularity, success, etc. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Good Mind to" - often as a threat: feel tempted to. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Good Time" - enjoy oneself generally or on a particular occasion, as at a party, celebration or on vacation. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Hand In" - be partly responsible for; be involved in, something which happens. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Handle On" - to understand or grasp. 2. to be in control of. 3. have pover over. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Hard Time" - have a situation in which others harass, obstruct, hinder or expect or demand too much. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Head for" - be good at something, as numbers, figures, puzzles. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Head of Steam" - show an increase in enthusiasm, energy, level of work, etc. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Head Start" - have an advantage over others, or above what is usual at the start of a race, study course, competition, etc. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Heart" - be more tolerant considerate, merciful, helpful. 2. antonym:('Not have a heart'). |
| Have | phr | "Have a Heart of Gold" - have a noble, kind, helpful, loyal, faithful nature. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Heart Of Stone" - having a callous, pitiless, unfeeling nature. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Heavy Heart" - be filled with feelings of despondency, grief, sorrow, sadness. |
| Have | phr | "Have a High Old Time" - enjoy oneself immensely and exuberantly. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Hold Over Somebody" - have somebody in one's power. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Laugh" - to joke, kid around, enjoy oneself, have fun. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Long Way to Go" - have still much to learn and do before something is completed.. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Look" - to examine, observe. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Look-see" - take a look; have a look. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Lot to be Thankful For" - fortunate or more fortunate than others in many respects. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Lot to Put Up With" - have much to endure in life or some aspect of life, as work or home life. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Mind (head) like a Sieve" - be (habitually) forgetful. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Mind of One's Own"" - be capable of independently forming one;s own opinions and decisions. 2. to be determined to act as one thinks is right and suitable for oneself. |
| Have | phr | "Have All Day (to Do)" - have all day to spend or waste. |
| Have | phr | "Have All the Marks Of" - likely to be somebody or something, because it, he/she shows the signs of being so. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Mind To do Something" - have a strong intention to do something. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Mouth to Feed" - personally responsible for the welfare and support of an other (usually an infant or child). |
| Have | phr | "Have an Axe to Grind" - hold or bear a grudge. 2. a point of view to advocate, esp. motivated by self-interest. |
| Have | phr | "Have and to Hold" - to have or recieve, and to keep or retain, indicating continuance of possession. |
| Have | phr | "Have an Ear/Eye/ Nose for" - be able to detect, appreciate something because one's sensses are alert or well trained. |
| Have | phr | "Have an Ear to the Ground" - remain alert for new information or news about. |
| Have | phr | "Have an Old Head On Young Shoulders" - have as a young person, wisdom, caution, tastes that are associated with more mature or adult persons. - |
| Have | phr | "Have a Right to Do Something" - entitled or fully justified in doing something |
| Have | phr | "Have a Ring Of Truth" - said or presented, or by what is being said seems to be true. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Roof Over One's Head" - have a place of one's own to live in. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Say" - be involved in deciding future events |
| Have | phr | "Have a Shot Left in One's Locker" - fig. have a remaining source of money, influence, information, argument, etc that one can use. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Sinking Feeling" - have a sensation of panic, helpless or fear. |
| Have | phr | "Have Somebody's (Bare) Words For (Something)" - have only what somebody says or promises without without also having (esp. written ) proof or supporting evidence. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Stake In" - have invested money, effort etc in something (and therefore stand to lose or gain). |
| Have | phr | "Have a Sting in the Tail" - have an unsuspected and unpleasant feature or result. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Sweet Tooth" - be fond of, greedy for, sweet food and drinks. |
| Have | phr | "Have At" - try to achieve or do something different and challenging. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Thick Head" - have a dull or stupid mind. 2. have a mind temporarily confused by alcohol or drugs. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Thick Skin" - have a high degree of sensitivity to criticism. (antonymous: 'Have a Thin Skin'). |
| Have | phr | "Have a Think About" - consider, ponder, reflect on. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Way of Doing Something" - be apt, likely, to do something or behave in a particular manner. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Way With" - have a natural flair for. 2. be able with charm or force of personality, to lead or captivate others. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Whale of a Time" - have a very enjoyable time. 2. enable somebody to have an enjoyable time. |
| Have | phr | "Have What It Takes" - have the necessary qualities of character, intelligence, special abilities to do something. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Wicked Tongue" - have the habit of speaking unkindly. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Will of Iron" have the firm determination to achieve what one wants or think s right. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Will of One's Own" - have sufficient independence, at least equal to that of somebody else, and of the opinion and determination to do what one wants. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Word in Someone's Ear" - speak or do something in private. 2,. have a quiet word of advice. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Word With" - speak to somebody, esp. to make inquiries, seek advice, or reprimand. |
| Have | phr | "Have Back" - have something returned which has been borrowed. 2. allow a spouse or lover from whom one is separated to return. |
| Have | phr | "Have Both Feet on the Ground" - have plenty of commonsense. 2. know what one is doing and why. 3. of one not likely to be led into into foolish actions or undertakings. |
| Have | phr | "Have By" - have a child by. |
| Have | phr | "Have Clean Hands" - have committed no crime, or done no wrong or harm. |
| Have | phr | "Have Done It this Time" - have done something serious that cannot be undone. 2. have made a serious, or foolish blunder in speech or conduct. |
| Have | phr | "Have Done With" - be finished with |
| Have | phr | "Have Down" - to have somebody stay at one home. |
| Have | phr | "Have Elbow Room" - have sufficient space beside, or all round, one to move one's elbows sideways, sit comfortably. 2. have freedom, within certain limits, to experiment, negotiate, manouever. |
| Have | phr | "Have Everything But" - have almost all the things that one needs for a task etc (perhaps) except for one, often vital, thing. |
| Have | phr | "Have Eyes For" - as 'only have eyes for' to be exclusively interested in. |
| Have | phr | "Have Eyes in One's Head" - be observant, be able to notice one's surroundings, and what somebody else is doing. |
| Have | phr | "Have Eyes In the Back of One's Head" - seem to have the ability to see in all directions at once, because of what is going on a round them. |
| Have | phr | "Have Feelings On" - be concerned with, or involved with. |
| Have | phr | "Have Feet of Clay" - have some fundamental weakness or fault that injury, challenge or attack will reveal. |
| Have | phr | "Have For" - be interesting (a book), attractive to (a woman). |
| Have | phr | "Have Got To" - must; have to. |
| Have | phr | "Have Green Fingers" - have greater than usual ability to grow plants. |
| Have | phr | "Have Had Enough" - be unable or unwilling to stand anymore of something, pain, disappointment, disloyalty. |
| Have | phr | ""Have Had It" - to have one's fate finally decided. 2. to be defeated, ruined, broken down, had enough. 3. have died, failed, lost or missed an opportunity; dead, killed. |
| Have | phr | "Have Had It Up to Here" - to be fed up or had enough of some unpleasant or unsatisfactory situation. 3. despite one efforts and striving it is time to give up. |
| Have | phr | "Have Had One's Day" - be too old, worn out, not be able to function as one used to. |
| Have | phr | "Have High Hopes" - be ambitious and optimistic in one's hopes. |
| Have | phr | "Have I News for You" - i have something important, scandalous, to tell you. |
| Have | phr | "Have In Hand" - be started or undertaking something, as a job, etc. |
| Have | phr | "Have In Mind" - be considering contemplating, propose, intend, remember. |
| Have | phr | "Have In One's Spell" - exert a magic power or control over. |
| Have | phr | "Have It" - to have a solution or answer to. 2. to be considered successful. |
| Have | phr | "Have It All" - to be highly successful in most things in life. |
| Have | phr | "Have It Away (with) - have sexual intercourse or make love, implying that the love-making is illicit or at least furtive. |
| Have | phr | "Have It Coming" - to deserve what has happened to oneself/another. |
| Have | phr | Have It In For (Somebody)" - to have something unpleasant or trouble in store for. 2. to have a grudge, ill-will or dislike for. |
| Have | phr | "Have It In One" - to have the ability to do something quickly and efficiently. |
| Have | phr | "Have It Made" - be sure of continued success. |
| Have | phr | "Have It Off With" - to be have it off with: to possess sexually. |
| Have | phr | Have It On" - to have an advantage over. 2. to be superior to. 3. to have the pull over. 4. to have it over. |
| Have | phr | "Have It One's Own Way" - get what one wants; ensure one wishes are met. |
| Have | phr | "Have It Out" - to bring a situation, conflict, grievance, problem to a head. 2. to continue a fight or discussion to a final solution. |
| Have | phr | "Have It (So) Good" - to have life and advantages as one who hope for. 2. enjoy prosperity, comfortable conditions of life. |
| Have | phr | "Have It Your Way" - It(something) will be done your way. 2. you will get your way. |
| Have | phr | "Have More Goodness in One's Finger than(Somebody)" - be very good, more virtuous, better kinder person than another, |
| Have | phr | "Have More than One's Fair Share" - have more than usual or expected, amount of something 9with almost the implication that others are entitled or deprived. |
| Have | phr | "Have No Business Doing" - do what is not one's duty or responsibilty. 2. be wring , foolish interfering in doing something. |
| Have | phr | "Have No Call to Do (Something)" - have no need, reason, or excuse to do something. |
| Have | phr | "Have No Fears For" - not alarmed or frighten. |
| Have | phr | "Have No Hard Feelings" - have or retain no bitter feelings of resentment. |
| Have | phr | "Have Nothing Better to Do" - have nothing worthwhile to do. |
| Have | phr | "Have Nothing Between One's Ears" - be stupid, frivolous, or superficial. |
| Have | phr | "Have Nothing On" - to have no advantage or superiority over; as opposed to 'having something over (often incriminating)somebody'. |
| Have | phr | "Have Nothing to Do with" - dissociate oneself from. |
| Have | phr | "Have Nothing to Hide" - be frank or honest in a particular action. |
| Have | phr | "Have Nothing to Speak Of" - have little or nothing to deserve mention or attract merit. |
| Have | phr | "Have No Time for" - dislike, not tolerate, have a low or poor opinion of. |
| Have | phr | "Have No Time to Lose" - need to hurry, act swiftly, in order to do something; prevent an incident, accident, or disaster. 2. make use of an opportunity while it is available. |
| Have | phr | "Have Nothing to Write Home Of" - have nothing that is fine or outstanding. |
| Have | phr | "Have On" - to be prepared to accept an other's proposition. 2. to confront someone. |
| Have | phr | "Have On" - to be wearing, clothed. |
| Have | phr | "Have One Eye On" - give part of one's attention to one thing, while the rest is engaged somewhere else. |
| Have | phr | "Have One Foot in the Grave" - be so old or ill that one is not likely to live much longer. |
| Have | phr | "Have One Over Eight" - be drunk. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Ducks In a Row" - the organizing one's tasks and schedules so that you are ready for the next step. |
| Have | phr | "Have Oneself" - to indulge oneself. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Eye On" - have chosen somebody or someone as a desirable conquest, acquisition,etc. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Hands" - have goods that one does not need and would like to sell. 2. have a responsibility that one finds irksome. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Hands Full" - be very busy or fully occupied. 2. have plenty of work to do. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Hands Tied" - be restricted by rules and regulations. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Name on It" - the addressing of an individual by a single name or mononym. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Own Way" - |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Pound of Flesh" - have the amount of anything due to one legally or by previous agreement, though hardship, suffering and even death (of the other person) may result from obtaining it. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Say" - be allowed to express one's opinion , have one's coomments advice,etc. listened to in full whether these are accepted or not. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Tail Between One's Legs" - have a feeling of dejection, apprehension, humiliation or surrender. |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Way With" - have sexual intercourse with someone (typically implying it is against their better judgement). |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Wicked Way" - have sexual intercourse with someone (typically implying it is against their better judgement). |
| Have | phr | "Have One's Wits about Them" - able to think clearly and express ones thoughts in a diverting and often sharp observation and remarks. |
| Have | phr | "Have On One's Mind" - be thinking about, and worried or concerned by, some problem. |
| Have | phr | "Have On One's Self" -things one is carrying on one's person (in one's pocket or handbag). |
| Have | phr | "Have On the Brain" - be greatly preoccupied or obsessed, with something. |
| Have | phr | "Have Out" - caused to be removed by a surgeon or dentist. |
| Have | phr | "Have Out (With)" - discuss a matter frankly, and often angrily. |
| Have | phr | "Have Pins and Needles" - have a pricking sensation, esp in the limbs, when bood starts to flow freely again after being pressure or being in a cramped position.. |
| Have | phr | "Have Rather" - prefer. |
| Have | phr | Have Seen Better Days" - one's fortune has been much better in the past. |
| Have | phr | "Have Seen It All" - have a long and rich experience of life in general or something specific. |
| Have | phr | Have Seen One's Days" - to be beyond one's prime. 2 to be no longer useful, effective or functional. |
| Have | phr | "Have Someone's Back" - to be willing to support and defend somebody. |
| Have | phr | "Have Someone by the Short Hairs"- to have someone in a difficult situation in which he or she is without alternatives and can be controlled. |
| Have | phr | "Have Somebody's Ear" - have access to somebody especially on a higher social or administrative level than oneself. 2. be able to influence someone, and/or gain their help. |
| Have | phr | "Have Somebody to Thank For" - atribute to someone/ something the responsibility for something which has happen to one. |
| Have | phr | "Have Someone's Hide" - to punish and subdue someone. 2. to tan somebody's hide. |
| Have | phr | "Have Someone On" - trick, play with. |
| Have | phr | "Have Something In One's Blood" - have something as part of one's nature or character. |
| Have | phr | "Have Something On" - be ovcupied. 2. be wearing something. |
| Have | phr | "Have Something On the Go" - have something currently happening or being done. |
| Have | phr | "Have Something to Do With" - be concerned with; involved in. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Best Of" - profit best from something. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Blues" (OE Blae) - be down, dejected, depressed, gloomy. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Brains to Do" - be intelligent enough to do or achieve something. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Ear of" - have one's ideas listened to with interest. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Edge Over" - be in a position of advantage compared with someone else. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Feeling That" - think that something is the case, will happen, etc, though there is no reason to think so. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Floor" - a person who is speaking in a debate or discussion. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Guts" - have sufficient courage determination or defiance of opposition. |
| Have | phr | "Have their Tails Down" - be dispirited, depressed, desolate. |
| Have | phr | "Have their Tails Up" - be elated, confident. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Last Laugh" - in an alternation of fortune be the one the is finally successful over rivals. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Last Word - have the final or closing, and often decisive say, in an discussion or argument |
| Have | phr | "Have the Right to Do (something)" - be entitled to possess, enjoy or do something. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Run of" - have permission or freedom to move around throughout an area or to use something at will. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Time" - know the correct time of day. 2. have sufficient time to do something. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Time of One's Life"" - a period or moment of great or exceptional enjoyment. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Wind Up" - alarm or frighten, or be alarmed or frighten. |
| Have | phr | "Have the Wolf By the Ears" - be in a precarious position. |
| Have | phr | "Have Time On One's Hands" - have little work to do ; not be under pressure of work. |
| Have | phr | "Have to Do With' - affect, corn, about, be relevant. |
| Have | phr | "Have to be Seen to be Believed" - be impossible to be described properly. |
| Have | phr | "Have Up" - to cause to go before a court of law or justice; prosecute. |
| Have | phr | "Have Up for" - to appear in court charged with sn offence. |
| Have | phr | Have Up One's Sleeve" - keep concealed until needed. |
| Have | phr | "Have Well in Hand" - be easily able to control something. |
| Have | phr | "Have what it Takes" - possess what is needed to successfully do. |
| Have | phr | "Have Wind of" - hear a rumor of. |
| Have | phr | "Have Words With" - talk angrily with, esp. to reproach or reprimand. |
| Have | phr | "Let Someone Have It" - to give one a verbal or physical thrashing, attacking or drubbing. |
| Have | phr | "Only Have Eyes For" - as 'have eyes for' to be exclusively interested in. |
| Have | phr | "What Have You" - and so on, anything else. |
| Have-got | n | One has acquired considerable wealth; 'the haves'. |
| Have-less | adj | Without possessions, destitute, indigent, needy; have-nothings. 2. without rsources, shiftless, helpless, careless, slovenly. |
| Have-likeness | n | A likeness or resemblance. |
| Haven | n | Recess, inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, affording good anchorage and a safe station for ships; a harbour. 2. a refuge, an asylum. |
| Haven | vb | To shelter a vessel as in a haven. |
| Havener | n | A harbour-master. |
| Havening-stead | n | Place of security, safety, haven. |
| Havenless | adj | Without a haven; having no haven or place of safety. |
| Have-not | n | Someone who has very little, is quite poor or needy; 'the have and have-nots' - the poor, needy, indigent; a have-nothings. |
| Have-nothing | n | Someone who has nothing, is poor or needy; 'the have-nothings' - the poor, needy, indigent; a have-not. |
| Haven-town | n | A seaport town, harbour town. |
| Haver | n | A possessor, one who posseessor, owner. |
| Haves and Have-nots | n | The wealthy contrasted with the poor. 2. privileged contrasted with the under-privileged people(reference used being to income but also to wealth, intelligence, talent, etc) |
| Having | n | Action or condition expressed by possession. 2. that which one has or possesses; possession, property, wealth, belonging. 3. behaviour, manners, demeanour. |
| Having | adj | Possessing property; owning. 2. that has or possesses, possessing property. 3. desirous of having or possessing; greedy, covetous, grasping. 4. behaving. |
| Havingness | n. | Desiring of having or having, covetousness. |
| Haw | adj. | Blue, azure, bluish, a dull lead blue, greenish-blue. |
| Haw | n. | Fruit of the hawthorn. 2. hedge or encompassing tree fence; hence, a piece of enclosed ground; a messuage, a yard, enclosure, close. 3. an ear or head of grass. 4. a thing of no value, stras, galmatia, farrago |
| Hawbuck | n. | An unmanneredly lout, country bumpkin |
| Hawk | n | Any of various birds of prey, especially of the genera Accipiter and Buteo in the family Accipitridae, by characteristic having a short hooked bill and strong claws used for seizing. 2. any of various similar birds of prey. 3. a person who preys on others; a shark. 4. one who demonstrates an actively aggressive or combative attitude, as in an argument. 6. a person who favors military force or action in order to carry out foreign policy. 7. In politics, one who advocates a hard-line or war-like policy; militarily aggressive. |
| Hawk | vb | To hunt with trained hawks, as in falconry. 2. to pursue prey in flight. 3. to swoop and strike in the manner of a hawk |
| Hawk | phr | "Hawk After" - to hunt, endeavour to catch. |
| Hawk | phr | "Hawks and Doves" - politically, and generally , the Hawks are those who favor war and resolute military action; the Doves those who support peace or comprise or negotiation. |
| Hawk | phr | "Hawk At" - to fly or attack in flight. 2. fig. to let fly at. |
| Hawker | n | One who hunts with hawks, a falconer. |
| Hawk-eye | n | A person or animal who has extremely sharp vision or eyesight. |
| Hawk-eyed | adj | Sharp of vision or sight. 2. having keen or sharp eyesight. |
| Hawking | n | The sport or practice of chasing birds or small animals by means of trained hawks; falconry. |
| Hawkish | adj | Somewhat or the nature or appearance of a hawk. 2. inclined to follow hardline or warlike policies. 3. disposed to rely on military force to resolve a war. |
| Hawkishly | adv | In a somewhat hawkish, aggressive, attacking or combative manner. |
| Hawkishness | n | The inclination to follow a hardline or militaristic policies. |
| Hawk-like | adj | Like or resembling a hawk. |
| Hawknose | adj. | Acqualine; a nose curved like a hawk's beak. |
| Hawkweed | n | Common name for plants of the genus 'Hieracium'. |
| Hawky | ad | Of the nature of a hawk, greedy as a hawk. 2. pertaining to a hawk. 3. characterized by hawking. |
| Hawthorn | n | Coratagus oxyacantha |
| Hay | n. | Grass, clover, alfalfa, etc., cut and dried for use as forage. 2. grass mowed or intended for mowing. 3. a small sum of money. 4. a fence, a hedge. 5. an enclosure, park(sl). marijuana. 6. (sl) 'the hay' - bed. |
| Hay | vb. | To convert (plant material) into hay. 2. to furnish or supply (horses, cows, etc.) with hay. 3. to cut grass, clover, or the like, and store for use as forage. 4. to make hay; to make into hay. 5. to enclose, fence in or palisade by hedge; to hedge. |
| Hay | phr | 'Between Hay and Grass" - to late for one and too soon for others. |
| Hay | phr. | "Hit the Hay" - to go to bed; retire for the night. |
| Hay | phr | "In the Hay" - in the hay, in bed; retired, especially for the night. |
| Hay | phr | "Like Looking for a Needle in a Haystack" - look for something extremely small in a mass of other articles. |
| Hay | phr. | "Make Hay of" - to scatter in disorder; render ineffectual. |
| Hay | phr | "Make Hay While the Sun Shines" to seize an opportunity when it presents itself.. |
| Hay | phr | "Neither Hay Nor Grass" - the awkward stage when a youth is neither boy nor man. |
| Hay | phr | "That Ain't Hay" - that's a lot money. |
| Hay-barn | n | Haysted; hayhouse; a barn or building where hay is stored. |
| Haybote | n. | Hedgebote, the right of the tenant or commoner to take materials, such as wood, branches from the landlord's estate or common. 2. wood or thorny branch for the repair of fences. |
| Hayfield | n | A field in which hay-making is taking place, or which grass is standing to be cut for hay. |
| Hayfoot | n | One of the alternate marching steps im military drill, as in hayfoot, straw foot: for the alleged use of hay and straw to help recruits tell the difference between left and right. |
| Hayfork | n | A long-handled fork for turning or pitching hay by hand. 2. a large power-driven fork for moving hay. |
| Haying | n | The process of cutting, curing and storing hay. |
| Haylike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of hay. |
| Hayloft | n | A storage place for hay over a stable or barn. |
| Haymaker | n | A a forceful and wild swinging blow or punch; a knockout punch. 2. one who makes hays, especially one who spreads it to dry; haytedder. 3. a rustic dance; a barn dance. |
| Haymow | n | A mass of hay; especially, one stored in a loft or bay. 2. a hayloft. |
| Hayrick | n | A large pile of hay stored in the open air, sometimes with a cover. 2. a haystack. |
| Hayride | n | A pleasure ride in a wagon half full of hay or straw. |
| Hayseed | n | Gr seed ; also mingled seed, chaff, etc. that falls from hay , as on a barn floor. 2. a country person, a rustic. |
| Haysted | n | A building for storing hay; a haybarn; hayhouse. |
| Haysugge | n | The hedge sparrow. |
| Haywain | n | A cart used for the carrying or transporting hay. |
| Hayward | n | An officer of the manor, township or parish, having charge of fences and enclosures; esp. for keeping cattle from breaking through from the common into enclosed fields. 2. the herdsman of the cattle feeding on the common. |
| Haywire | n | Wire for binding bales of hay, straw. 2. poorly equipped, roughly constructed, esp by ahaywire outfit, whose practice of using haywire for repairs frequently produced shoddy outcomes. 3. of persons, circumstances- disordered, crazy, in an emotional state, tangle-minded, confused. |
| Haywire | phr | "To Go Haywire" - to be excited, distracted, disordered, to be in an emotional or mentally unbalanced. |
| Hazel | n | A small, Eurpean evergreen tree or shrub which produces edible nuts. 2. any of several Australian shrubs unrelated to the European tree. 3. a reddish or light brown in color. |
| Hazelly | adj | Of a reddish or light brown in colour. |
| Hazel-nut | n | The edible nut or fruit of the hazel; also called 'filbert'. 2. the hazel shrub or tree. |
| Hazelnutty | adj | Resembling or characteristic of the hazel nut. |
| Hazel-tree | n | The Hazel (Corylis) a genus of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. |
| Hazelwood | n | The wood of the hazel tree. |
| Hazelwort | n. | Asarabaca |
| Old English | sp | English |
| He | prn. | The Third person singular used to indicate a male person or animal. 2. sometimes used to represent any person whose sex is not specified. 3. used in combination to indicste a male, as 'she-goat'. |
| He | phr | "He Said, She Said" - conflicting reports from two or more parties on an issue, often typically involving a situation between a man and a woman with no other witnesses |
| He | phr | "He Shoots, She Scores" - said as someone accomplishes something through the actions or misdeeds of others. |
| He | phr | "He who Laughs Last Laughs Loudest" - the one who is the winner. |
| He | n. | MaleHe-man adj, particularly strong, virile, masterful man. |
| Head | n. | Upper part of a man's or animal's body or anatomy, containing mouth, sense organs and brain; upper part of anything; chief part. 2. something which has the shape function of a head. 3. the leader, commander, chief executive. 4. a way or classifier for counting cattle; by caterers undertaking the organization of a party etc; |
| Head | vb | To take off the head, behead. 2. behead, decapitate. 3. to top off the branches of a tree. 4. to put a head on, to furnish or fit with a head, as an arrow head. 5. to enclose something a barrel or cask. 6. to furnish a headline; place a title. 7. to grow to a head. 9. of a stream - to have a head or source; to take rise; to collect water so as to head or format a headwater. 11. to the lead of head of. 12. to advance, face. 13. to have an upward inclination. 14. to point towards the front. 15. to move forward or advance. |
| Head | sfx | From Middle English -hed, -hede, attested from the 12th century, continuing a hypothetical Old English *-hǣde (“-hood”), Originally restricted to adjectives, the suffix began to be attached to nouns as well from at least the 15th century, leading to confusion with the -hood suffix (Old English -hād), and finally to the wide replacement of -head by -hood even in adjectives. Used to create nouns indicating a state, similar to the suffix -hood; such as 'godhead,' 'maidenhead,' 2. used to form (usually derogatory) words for people who regularly use a specified drug or other substance, or who are addicted in some way. 3. used to form words to describe people who are fans of something, especially music. |
| Head | phr | "Above One's Head" - beyond one's ability to understand; over one's head. |
| Head | phr | "A Head For Heights" - not fazed or frightened by heights. 2. a feeling of security when high above the ground. |
| Head | phr | "Beat Each Other Over the Head" - to be always fighting. |
| Head | phr | "Be a Hot Head" - an impetuous person. |
| Head | phr | "Belt Someone Over the Head" - to over ride someone's views or arguments. |
| Head | phr | "Better the Head of an Ass, than the Tail of a Horse" - better the foremost amongst the working class, than the lowest among the aristocracy. |
| Head | phr | "Bite Someone's Head Off" - to reply or answer curt, irritable, scathing or angrily. |
| Head | phr | "Bring To a Head" - to bring an issue, result, conclusion, summing up, culmination, crisis, maturity, pitch, height, strength etc. 2. to gather to a head; draw to a head. |
| Head | phr | "Build Up a Head of Steam" - to gain momentum |
| Head | phr | "Bury One's Head in the Sand" - to refuse to face up to some unpleasant truth (refers to the reputed habit of the ostrich in danger) |
| Head | phr | "By a Short Head" - by a very short margin. |
| Head | phr | "By Head and Shoulders" - by force, violently; with thrust, push. 2. fig. of something violently and irrelevantly introduced into a speech of writing. |
| Head | phr | "By the Head and Ears" - roughly, violently, as one fig. drags a heart. |
| Head | phr | "Can't Make Head Or Tail Of" - either one or the other. 2. anything indefinite or intelligible. |
| Head | phr | "Come Into One's Head" - remember; bring to mind, occur to one. |
| Head | phr | "Come to or Reach a Head" - to come to a crisis or a climax. 2. reach a critical stage; culmination. 3. suppurate. |
| Head | phr | "Do It (Standing)On One's Head" - to do it with ease. |
| Head | phr | "Drag Someone by the Head and Ears" - to force a person to reveal the true facts. |
| Head | phr | "Eat One's Head Off" - gormandize, over eat or eat excessively. |
| Head | phr | "Fall Head or Heels in Love" - to fall very much in love. |
| Head | phr | "From Head to Foot/Toe" - all over the person, fig. completely thoroughly, allover. |
| Head | phr | "Get a Head Up On" - to gain ascendancy, or power to attain vigor, speed. |
| Head | phr | "Get Into One's Head" - come, or cause, to realize or understand. |
| Head | phr | "Get It Into One's Head" - form or definite idea or plan, esp. mistakenly or impetuously. |
| Head | phr | "Get One's Head Blown Off" - to be very soundly abused. |
| Head | phr | "Get One's Head Down" - go to bed (and sleep). 2. concentrate on the task at hand. |
| Head | phr | "Get Something Into One's Head" - grasp an idea, or learn, memorize something. 2. decide (often foolishly) to do something. |
| Head | phr | "Give a Horse His Head" - make no attempt to curb a horse's speed. 2. not to check or hold him, let him go or run freely and unrestrained. |
| Head | phr | "Give Somebody His Head" - allow a person to act freely. |
| Head | phr | "Go by the Head" - plunge or sink head foremost. |
| Head | phr | "Go Off One's Head" - lose control of one's temper and reason. |
| Head | phr | "Go Out Of One's Head" - go mad. |
| Head | phr | "Go Over One's Head" - contact somebody's superior or manager. |
| Head | phr | "Go To One's Head" - something that makes one arrogant and conceited. 2. something that makes one vain or over-proud. 2. to become a little intoxicated drunk and/or dizzy. |
| Head | phr | "Hang One's Head (In Shame)" - be ashamed of oneself. |
| Head | phr | "Have a Cloud Hanging Over One's Head" - there's a doubt over one's future. |
| Head | phr | "Have a Good Head On One's Shoulders" - to be sensible, able, clever, proficient. 2. to have a good head for; to be adept. |
| Head | phr | "Have a Good Head For" - have the ability, flair for. |
| Head | phr | "Have a Good Head For Heights" - be untroubled by heights. |
| Head | phr | "Have a Head Start" - have an advantage over others. |
| Head | phr | "Have an Old Head on Young Shoulders" - experience, knowledge and maturity in a young person. |
| Head | phr | "Have a Roof Over One's Head" - to have shelter; own or rent a dwelling. |
| Head | phr | "Have a Swollen Head" - be conceited. |
| Head | phr | "Have A Threat Hanging Over One's Head' - to fear some intimidated unpleasant action. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Tongue in One's Head" - One able to speak, and thus one who can do their own speaking without the help of any other person. |
| Have | phr | "Have Eyes in the Back of One's Head" - to know more of what's going on than is generally realised. |
| Head | phr | "Have One's Heads In the Clouds" - be daydreaming or unrealistic. |
| Head | phr | "Head and Shoulder (Above Others)" - very much better than. |
| Head | phr | "Head Back" - get ahead of so as to intercept and turn back. |
| Head | phr | "Head First" - with the head foremost; hence, precipitately, headlong, hastily. |
| Head | phr | "Head For" - move towards; be on the course that leads to. |
| Head | phr | "Head for the Hills" - to seek to escape one's commitments. |
| Head | phr | "Heads I Win, Tails you Lose" - which side of the coin will show when tossed. |
| Head | phr | "Head in the Clouds" - dream like or not paying attention. |
| Head | phr | "Head Off" - to intercept or divert the course of. 2. reach an important place before someone else; thus giving him important news, preventing him from escaping. 3. prevent somebody from moving to a topic that is boring, or embarrassing. |
| Head | phr | "Head of Hair" the growth of hair on the head. |
| Head | phr | "Head on" - a meeting or confrontation head to head (in person, face to face). |
| Head | phr | "Head or Tails" - a call made before tossing a coin to guess which side will fall. |
| Head | phr | "Head Over Heels" - originally meant being upside down. 2. to be in love with someone very much. 3. somersaulting or tumbling heels over head. 4. rashly, impetuously in love. |
| Head | phr | "Head to Head" - a conversation, confrontation, or contest between two parties. 2. involving two parties confronting one another. |
| Head | phr | ""Head to Tail" - place, or following each other in a continuous line and all facing in one direction. 2. placed in rows or stacks with the head of one alongside, or on the top of, the tail of the next. |
| Head | phr | "Head Up" - to be the leader or manager of; command. |
| Head | phr | "Heap Coals of Fire on the Head of Another" - cause people remorse by returning good for evil. |
| Head | phr | "He/She Has a Head on his Shoulders" - he/she is clever; has brains. |
| Head | phr | "Hit One's Head Against a Stonewall" - to make fruitless attempts against insuperable difficulties. |
| Head | phr | "Hit the Nail on the Head" - to arrive at the exact conclusion. 2. to guess right. |
| Head | phr | "Hold One's Head High" - -be proud, confident or unashamed. |
| Head | phr | "I Can Make neither Head nor Tail of" - I cannot understand it at all. 2. i can make nothing or it. |
| Head | phr | "In the Head Of" - in the mind and thoughts of. |
| Head | phr | "Keep a Cool Head" - to stay calm and rational in a crisis. |
| Head | phr | "Keep One's Head" - to remain or keep calm; to be cool and collected at a critical. 2. to keep one's wits about one, retain self-control; keep calm; 'opposite to lose one's head'. |
| Head | phr | "Keep One's Head Above the Ground" - to cope, manage, get by, |
| Head | phr | "Keep One's Head Above Water" - lit; and fig. to keep out of debt and insolvency. |
| Head | phr | "Keep One's Head Down" - remain inconspicuous, or keep working busily. 2. to work very diligently. |
| Head | phr | "Knock Two Heads Together" - threat to put an end to a dispute. |
| Head | phr | "Laugh One's Head Off" - to greatly enjoy something. |
| Head | phr | "Let One's Go/Have His/Her Head" - allow somebody to act as he/she wishes. |
| Head | phr | "Lose One's Head" - to lose control of one's temper; become confused. 2. to lose control of one's life, finance etc. 3. to panic. |
| Head | phr | "Make Head Against" - to withstand; make progress. |
| Head | phr | "Make Headway" - to advance, to advance in spite of, press forward, esp. in opposition to some person or thing. 2. to resist successfully, rise up in insurrection, revolt against. |
| Head | phr | "Make Neither Head Nor Tail of" - not understand something. |
| Head | phr | "Make One's Head Spin" - confuse one. |
| Head | phr | "Need Something Like a Hole in the Head" - to be landed with an undesirable problem. |
| Head | phr | "Need to Have One's Head Read" - to be foolish. 2. you should reconsider this matter. |
| Head | phr | "Not Know Whether One Is on One's Hand's Or Heels" - be completely confused. |
| Head | phr | "Not Right in the Head" - crazy, mad, a little insane. |
| Head | phr | "Of One's Own Head" - out of one's own thought, device, will, of one's own accord, spontaneous. |
| Head | phr | "Off One"s Head" - out of one's mind, wits, mad, silly. 2. out of one's head. 3. to be crazy. |
| Head | phr | "Off the Top of One's Head" - without reflection, without memory. 2. based on experience but without a detailed consideration. |
| Head | phr | "One's Head Swells" - one thinks very highly of themselves. |
| Head | phr | "On One's Own Head" - said of evil, vengeance etc., or of blessing, etc.; figured, as 'falling on descending on a person'; also of guilt, responsibility of any kind figured as resting on one. |
| Head | phr | "Out Of One's Head" - from one's own head or imagination or invention. 2. crazy, off one's head; unhinged. |
| Head | phr | "Over One's Head" - too complex for one's understanding, comprehension, or intellectual capacity. 2. beyond one's level of understanding. |
| Head | phr | "Pull One's Head In" - do not interfere in this! |
| Head | phr | "Put One's Head Down" - to take a sleep. |
| Head | phr | "Put One's Heads Together" - to consult and work together. |
| Head | phr | "Put Out Of One's Head" - to cause to forget. |
| Head | phr | "Put Something Into One's Head" - to suggest to one's mind; make one think of it; to remind one of it; suggest the idea of it to. 2. to remind or put in the mind of. |
| Head | phr | "Put Something Out of One's Head" - deliberating forget. |
| Head | phr | "Run One's Head against a Stonewall" - to make fruitless attempts against insuperable difficulties. |
| Head | phr | "Shake One's Head" - to indicate disbelief or wonder or disapproval |
| Head | phr | "Shout One's Head Off" - to shout or scream loudly. |
| Head | phr | "Show One's Head" - to show oneself publicly |
| Head | phr | "Soft In the Head" - foolish, slightly mad. |
| Head | phr | "Standing on One's Head" - do something with ease, or effortlessly. |
| Head | phr | "Take it Into One's Head" - to conceive a notion. |
| Head | phr | "Talk One's Head Off" - to talk until someone is too bored or weary to reply. |
| Head | phr | "Talk One's Head Off" - talk excessively. |
| Head | phr | "That is on Your Head" - you will have to accept responsibility for that. |
| Head | phr | "Turn Somebody Head" - to cause a person to get an exaggerated idea ofhis abilities or status. |
| Head | phr | "Turn Something on Its Head" - to reverse something. |
| Head | phr | "Two Heads are Better than One" - joint effort and co-operation, and sharing of ideas produce better result than individual contribution. 2. two people co-operating have a better chance of solving a problem than one person by himself or herself. |
| Head | phr | "Win By a Head" - to win by the length of a horse's head. |
| Head | phr | "With One's Head in the Clouds" - daydreaming; unrealistic. |
| Headache | n. | Continuous pain in the head. 2. a troublesome or annoying problem. |
| Headache | phr | "Be a Headache" - cause difficulty or problems. |
| Headaching | n | The aching of the head. |
| Headachingly | adv | In an headaching manner. |
| Headacheness | n | state or condition of suffering from or subject to a headache. |
| Headachy | n | Inclined to a headache; somewhat headachy. |
| Headband | n | A band worn around the head to hold the hair back. |
| Headboard | n | A board at the upper end of anything, such as a bedstead, grave. |
| Headbone | n. | The skull |
| Headborough | n | A parish officer identical in function with a constable; originally, the head of tithing or franking-pledge. |
| Head-breaker | n | A complex problem or difficulty that causing some mental anguish, mind-stretcher. |
| Head-breaking | n | Mental anguish; mental stretching. |
| Head-cloth | n | A cloth for covering the head. |
| Headed | adj | Having a head of a specified kind. 2. furnished with a head or tip, as an arrow. 3. that has come to a head or matured. 4. furnished with a headline, written or printed. 4. combining form, as in 'two-heads' |
| Headedness | n | The state or quality of having a head of a specified kind. |
| Head-end | n | A control center in a cable television system where various signals are brought together and monitored before being introduced into the cable network |
| Header | n. | That or who leads. 2. title at top of a page, as opp. to footer. 3. a piece of text, such as as a page, number or title, that appears at the top of every page about in a document or book. 4. a phrase that is placed at the beginning of what you want to say about the subject. 5. a plunge headfirst into water. 6. to strike ball with head. 7. an executioner. |
| Headers and tailers | n | Headers and tailers are common in speaking, but very uncommon in writing. We use headers when the place information at the foot of what we say. This can help to understand easily what we referring to. The headers is followed by a pronoun which refers back to the header. |
| Head-felt | adj | Disturbing to the head (mind0; as 'heart-felt and head-felt difficulty'. |
| Head first | adv | With the head foremost; hence, precipitately, headlong, hastily. |
| Headfold | adj | A ventral fold formed by growth of the embryonic head. |
| Headforemost | adv | With the head first; headfirst; headlong. |
| Headful | adj | As much as the head will hold or contain. |
| Head-games | n | An attempt tp psychologically intimidate someone. 2. psychologically intimidation. |
| Head gate | n | The upstream gate of a canal lock. 2. a watergate or floodgate of any race or sluice. |
| Head-hell | n. | Insanity, madness, depression, mental turmoil, craziness, lunacy. |
| Head-high | adj | Proud; somewhat arrogant. |
| Headhood | n | Headship. |
| Headhouse | n | A structure in which the headframe of a mine is housed. 2. a part of a railroad passenger terminal providing accommodations for persons waiting for trains. 3. a service area or building attached to a greenhouse usually for housing the central temperature-control equipment and providing working and storage room |
| Head-hung | adj | Despondent. |
| Head-hunter | n | A head-hunter who preserves and shrinks human heads. |
| Head-hunting | n | The practice of a head-hunter, who preserves human heads. |
| Headily | adv | In a heady manner, headlong, precipitately. self-will, unruly, self-willed. |
| Headiness | n | The condition of heady or intoxicated. 2. the quality or condition of being self-will, obstinate, headstrong etc. 3. rashness, obstinacy. |
| Heading | n. | A title or inscription at the head of a page or chapter. 2. homespun cloth. 2. beheading, decapitation, the topping or lopping of tree tops. 4. the action of fitting or furnishing with a heading. 5. culmination, coming to a head; forming a head. 6. the highest point, top, zenith. |
| Headish | adj | Heady. |
| Headland | n. | A promontory. 2. a strip of land in a plowed field, left for convenience in turning the plow at the end of the furrows, or near the border, in old times used as a boundary. |
| Headless | adj | Without a head, decapitated. 2. lacking a leader or leadership. |
| Headlessly | adv | In a headless way. |
| Headlessness | n | The state of being headless. |
| Headlight | n. | Front light of a vehicle |
| Head-light(s) | n | A powerful light, as at the front of a locomotive, motor car, ship, or a rail vehicle. |
| Head-like | adj | In the form of a head or skull. |
| Headline(s) | n | The line at the top of newspaper; a caption. |
| Headlines | phr | "Hit the Headlines" - make headlines. |
| Headliner | n | The main attraction at a theatrical performance. 2. the actor or performer whose name appears in large letters. |
| Headling | n. | Fellow, mate, equal. 2. chieftain, prime minister, leader. |
| Headlock | n | A wrestling grip in which the head is held between the opponent's arm and body. |
| Headlong | adj | Precipitous, rushing, rash, impetuous, quick (without thought). 2. steep, precipitous, rash, reckless. |
| Headlong | adv. | Head foremost in a rush; without thought or regard, precipitately, impetuously. 2. with the head foremost, rashy, hastily, precipitately. |
| Headlongingly | adv | In a headlong manners. |
| Headlongness | n | Headlong quality or speed; rashness, precipitation. |
| Headlouse | n | A louse of the variety which infests the hair of the human head. |
| Headly | adv | In a heady manner, impetuously, precipitately, headily. |
| Headman | n. | A chief, leader, executive. 2. a leader or person of authority in a community. |
| Headmark | n | The peculiarity of head, face, and features which distinguishes each individual of a species. 2. a headland marking the limits of a field. |
| Headmark | phr | "To Know By Headmark" - to know or recognize by personal appearance or face. |
| Headmaster | n | The principal teacher in a school. |
| Headmasterly | adj | In the manner of the headmaster: authoritative and scholarly. |
| Headmost | adj | Most advanced; foremost. |
| Headness | n | The state or position of being a head, leader, director or manager. |
| Head-on | adj | Collision met directly head-to-head. 2. front end to front end. |
| Headmost | adj. | Foremost. 2. most forward or advanced in order of progression; esp. said of the foremost ship of a line. 3. foremost of any advanced series, topmost. |
| Head-on | adj | A head-to-head collision of two vehicles. |
| Head on | adv | With the head pointed directly towards running full against or towards something. 2. of a collision involving the direct meeting of the front of two vehicles. |
| Head-pan | n | Skull, brain pan; brain box. |
| Head-race | n | The channel by which water is led to a waterwheel, or to any machinery. |
| Headrest | n | Any device to support the head. |
| Headroom | n | In an enclosed place , e.g. in a motor car, the amount of space between the occupant and the roof. |
| Head-sea | n | Waves meeting a ship especially at its bow. |
| Head-shake | n | A shake of the head. |
| Head-shake | vb | To shake the head in agreement or disapproval. |
| Head-shaking | n | The act of shaking one's head, in agreement or disapproval. |
| Head shell | n | A headpiece designed to be attached to the end of a turntable or record player's 'tone arm' and the cartridges bolted to it. |
| Headship | n. | Office of chief, principal, supremo, governor; leader. 2. the first place or position, supremacy, primacy. |
| Head shot | n | A photograph of someone'shead. 2. a gunshot to the head. |
| Head-shrinker | n | A head-hunter who preserves and shrinks human heads. 2. a psychiatrist, psychologist, etc. |
| Head-shrinking | n | The practice of preserving human heads. |
| Headskin | n. | The scalp |
| Head-silver | n. | A subsidy |
| Headsman | n | A public executioner |
| Headspring | n | The fountain-head or main source of a stream. 2. the chief source of anything. 3. the cornerstone of a building. 4. an upright stone of the head of a grave; gravestone. |
| Head stall | n | The part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head. |
| Head stand | n | The act of holding one body upside-down in a vertical position, with one weight resting on one's head and, usually, on one's hands or arms. |
| Headstart | n | An advantage at the beginning of a race or, in general, any type of contest or competition. |
| Head stock | n | One of the various devices supporting the end or head of a part or member, as the live spindle of the lathe. |
| Headstone | n. | Tombstone: the stone at the head of a grave. 2. the cornerstone or keystone of a structure. |
| Headstops | n | A stopping with the head falling downward or headlong. |
| Headstream | n | The headwaters of a stream, river or waterway. |
| Headstrong | adj. | Of persons: self-willed, determined to have one's own way to pursue one's own course. 2. wilful, obstinate, violently self-willed. 2. of things, actions, etc, characterized by or proceeding from wilfulness of obstiancy. |
| Headstrongly | adv | In a headstrong manner. |
| Head-strongness | n | The quality of being strong-willed, obstinate, stubborn. 2. the quality of 'going to the head' or affecting the senses as intoxicating liquor. |
| Head teacher | n | The teacher in charge of a school. |
| Heads-up | adj | A warning or call to pay attention. 2. an advisory notice; a notice of what is to happen; a holler. |
| Headswoman | n | A midwife. |
| Head-to-head | adj | A conversation, confrontation, or contest between two parties. 2. involving two parties confronting one another. |
| Head-to-head | adv | Confronting another party. |
| Headwall | n | In civil engineering a small retaining wall placed at the outlet of storm water pipe or culvert. |
| Headward | n | The guarding or protection of the Lord's (of the manor) 'head' (life). 2. attendance as a guard upon the lord or king. |
| Headward | adj | Being in the region or in direction of the head. |
| Headward(s) | adv | Towards or in the direction of the head. |
| Headward | phr | "To the Headward" - towaqrds the head; in the direction of the head. 2. of a ship: in advance, ahead. |
| Headwark | n | A pain in the head, headache ('bellywark' -bellyache). |
| Head-washing | n | An old dialect expression for drinking to the health of a newborn. |
| Headwater-mark | n | A mark showing the highest water-level reached. 2. a mark showing the highest watermark allowed above a weir. |
| Headwater(s) | n | A stream from the source of a river. 2. the waters near or at the source of any stream, river or the like. |
| Headway | n. | Of a ship: motion ahead or forward; rate of progress. 2. fig. advance, progress (in general). 3. the room over one's head. 4. the clear height of a doorway, arch, tunnel or the like. 5. the internal of time or distance between two consecutive trains, trams, buses etc., running on the same route and same direction. |
| Headway | phr | "Make Headway" - to progress, go forward; get on. 2. to struggle effectually against something. |
| Headwear | n | Clothing, coverings worn on the head. |
| Headwell | n. | Fountain-head, headspring, watershed. |
| Headwind | n | A wind from ahead, blowing directly opposite to the course of a ship, airplane, etc. |
| Headwise | adv | Towards or in the direction of the head. |
| Headwise | adj | Relating or concerning the head. |
| Headword | n. | Word forming a heading, headline, keyword. 2. a word written or printed at the top or beginning of a chapter, paragraph, etc. 3. a word or expression that introduces or begins, as a chapter. |
| Headwork | n | Mental work, or labor, brain work, work using the mind. |
| Headworker | n | One who works with the mind or intellect. 2. one who works with the head or mind, etc. |
| Headwrong | adj | Mistaken or in error. |
| Heady | adj | Headlong, precipitous, impetuous, violent, headstrong, wilful, hurried in passion. 2. of a person: domineering, overbearing, passionately, desirous of something. 3. of a stream, waterway, current : impetuous, strong, raging. 4. apt to affect the head (senses) - or intoxicate with a stupefying quality. 5. turning the head, giddy. |
| Heady-minded | adj | Rash or impetuous. 2. exhilarating. |
| Heal | n | Health. |
| Heal | vb | To welfare fortunately. to heal spiritually, spiritual well being; soul -heal; salvation. 2. to grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals. 3. to make hale, sound, or whole; to cure of a disease, wound, or other derangement; to restore to soundness or health. 4. to remove or subdue; to cause to pass away; to cure. 5. to restore to original purity or integrity. 6. to reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions. |
| Heal | vb | Cover, hell, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like. |
| Heal | phr | "Evil Heal" - disaster, harm; to turn out disastrously, unfortunately. |
| Heal | phr | "Good Heal" - welfare, fortune. 2. fare well or fortunately. |
| Heal | phr | "Heal Over" - (cause to) or be sealed (with the growth of tissue). 2. of quarrels: cause to end, be mended. |
| Heal | phr | "Heal Up" - get, make, completely better. |
| Heal | phr | "Heal Wounds" - to bring about reconciliation. |
| Heal-all | n | A panacea. |
| Heald | n | An O.E. word appears to be applied to the threads of the warp or woofs themselves. 2. in weaving, a device for holding and guiding the heddles in a loom. |
| Healed | adj | Restored to health; cured, return to well-being; sanified. |
| Healend | n. | One that saves or heals; 'The Saviour'. In OE, regularly used instead of the proper name: Jesus Christ. |
| Healer | n | A healing substance, medicine or medication. 2. one who heals others; a doctor. |
| Healful | adj | Fraught with health; well-being, wholesome, salubrious, saved. |
| Healing | n | The act or process of making or being whole, sound or weel. 2. a cure |
| Healing | adj | Tending to cure or restore to health. 2. soothing, mollifying, as the healing art. 3. the means of making healthy; curing. |
| Healingly | adv | So as to heal or cure. |
| Heal-less | adj | Deprived of health or well-being; incurable. |
| Healness | n | Welfare, salvation. |
| Healsfang | n | In Saxon law, a kind of pillory, by which the head of the culprit was caught between two boards, as feet as caught in a pair of stocking. 2. a fine prescribed in substitution for capital and other punishment. |
| Healsome | adj | Wholesome, salutary, healthful. |
| Heal-someness | n | Wholesomeness, healthfulness, well-beingness. |
| Health | n | A healthy state of wellbeing free from disease. 2. the general condition of body and mind; hale, sound, whole. 2. the state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. 3. . a wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast. "Come, love and health to all." |
| Healthcare | n | The prevention, treatment, and management of illness or the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by medical, nursing and allied health professions. |
| Health-food | n | Any food tha is especially beneficial to health. |
| Healthful | adj | Promoting or conducive to bodily health;health-giving, salubrious, wholesome. |
| Healthfully | adv | In a healthful or wholesome manner |
| Health-fullness | n | The condition or quality being healthful; wholesome, salubrity, |
| Health-giver | n | One who provides care to the elderly and those chronically ill. 2. any thing that promotes good health. |
| Health-giving | adj | Of food, and other properties, like water, etc. promoting good health and physical well-being |
| Healthily | adv | In a healthy manner. |
| Healthiness | n | Healthy quality or condition, salubrously . |
| Healthing | n | The furthering or improving on health. 2. the drinking to the of; (toasts/toasting) |
| Healthless | adj | Without health; out of health. 2. destitute of bodily, mental or spiritual health; unhealthy. |
| Health-lessness | n | Unwholesome, unhealthiness. |
| Healthsome | adj | Full of health, possessing good health, healthy. 2. bestowing health, (bodily, mental, or spiritual); wholesome, salutary. |
| Health-someness | n | Wellspring of all healthsomeness. |
| Health span | n | A person's health span is the length of time that the person is healthy—not just alive. |
| Healthward | adj | Tending in the direction of good health. |
| Health-warning | n | An official edict that a particular substance or activity is dangerous. 2. an indication or admission that an opinion may be biased (colloquial). |
| Healthwise | adv | With regard to health. |
| Healthy | adj | hale, salubrious, wholesome. 2. being in a state of health; enjoying health. 3. free from disease. 4. conducive to or promoting health. 5. financially secure. 6. exercising sound or good judgement. 7. healthy in amount, extent, degree. |
| Healthy-looking | adj | Appearing in good physical condition. 2. smooth, radiant, beaming. |
| Healthy-minded | adj | Wholesome of mind and emotion: optimistic, happy and hopeful. |
| Healthy-mindness | n | The sate or condition of being sound of mind, optimistic, happy and hopeful. |
| Heam | n | The afterbirth of an animal. (Compare Old English: cildhamma - womb) |
| Hean | adj. | Mean, abject, poor, humble, lousy. |
| Hean | vb. | To beat with contumity. 2. to insult, humilate, debase lower. |
| Heanling | n | A base, abject, mean person. |
| Heap | n | An old car or automobile. 2. a collection of things or objects placed or thrown on top of each other. 3. a multitude, a great number of persons or animals. |
| Heap | vb | Arrange in heaps. 2. give to in large amounts, amass, pile or accumulate |
| Heap | phr | "Be at the Bottom of the Heap" - be in the lowest position of a hierarchy. |
| Heap | phr | "Fall in a Heap' - (of a proposal) to collapse utterly. |
| Heap | phr | "Heap Coals of Fire on the Head of Another" - cause people remorse by returning good for evil. |
| Heap | phr | "Heap Together" - put together in one mass. |
| Heap | phr | "Heap Up" - pile up, accumulate, gather in a mass. 2. place heaps on. |
| Heap | phr | "Heap Upon" - place in heaps on. 2. award to, address to, in abundance. |
| Heap | phr | "Heap With" - heap on, or upon. |
| Heap | phr | "In a Heap" - (of a body) - in a mass, state of collapse, shapeless, inert lump. |
| Heap | phr | "In Heaps" - in large quantity, numbers. |
| Heap | phr | "On a Heap" - on a large prostate mass. |
| Heap | phr | "On Heap" - massed together. |
| Heap | phr | "Struck All Of a Heap" - struck with astonishment. |
| Heap-cloud | n | Cumulus. |
| Heaped | adj | Gathered or thrown into a heap. 2. having the contents piled up above the brim instead of being levelled. 3. accumulated, stored. |
| Heaper | n | One who accumulates in heaps or heaps up. |
| Heapful | adj | Full and heaped up. |
| Heapily | adv | In a manner or way of accumulation or heaping. |
| Heapiness | n | The state or condition of being heaped, piled up or accumulated. |
| Heaping | n | The action of making up heap, accumulation. |
| Heaping | adj | A mounting up; piling up. |
| Heaply | adv | In an accumulating or heaping-up manner. |
| Heap-meal | adv | In heaps, in large quantities or numbers. |
| Heaps | n | A lot of, a great mass, a pile of. |
| Heap-sea | n | Heavy seas. |
| Heapy | adj | Full or consisting of heaps. 2. gathered, lying in heaps. |
| Hear | vb | To perceive sounds through the ear. 2. to perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. 3. to exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. 4. to listen favourably to; to grant (a request etc.). 5. to receive information about; to come to learn of. 6. to listen to (a person, case) in a court of law; to try. 7. to sympathize with; to share the feeling or opinion of. |
| Hear-hearer | n | One who leads the hear-hearing. |
| Hear | phr | "Hear a Whisper" - learn of a rumor . |
| Hear | phr | "Hear From" - receive a communication or letter from. |
| Hear | phr | "Hear! Hear!" Exclamation to call attention to the speaker's
words; hence, a general expression of approbation or cheering. |
| Hear | phr | "Hear Of /Have Heard Of" - to have become or been made aware of (fact, information, news, reports)in the case of one's experience. 2. be informed of (negative " Never to have heard of it" & "Not Heard of" : extraordinary, unique. |
| Hear | phr | "Hear Out" - listen sympathetically to. 2. listen to someone until they have finished their remarks. |
| Hear | phr | "Hear the Last Of" - be finished with somebody or something as a subject of discussion or argument. 2. be finished with, have to cope with, or be affected by. |
| Hear | phr | "Hear To" - to listen to; to hear of. |
| Hear | phr | "Hear Ye" - listen, hearken!" |
| Hear | phr | "I Never Heard Such a Thing" - how extraordinary, unusual. |
| Hear | phr | "I Never Heard That One Before" - I do not believe you. |
| Hear | phr | "Its Unheard of" - extraordinary, unique. |
| Hear | phr | "I Will not Hear Of It" - I wont accept it or endorse it. |
| Hear | phr | "Like To Hear Oneself Talking" - to be very fond of talking. |
| Hear | phr | "Lose One's Hearing" - become deaf |
| Hear | phr | "Never Hear the End" - be constantly reminded of something. |
| Hear | phr | "Not Heard of" - refuse or consider to allow any such thing, or such a thing. |
| Hear | phr | "Not To Hear Day or Door" - not hear distinctly; deaf. |
| Hear | phr | "Not To Hear Oneself" - not to be able to think because of the noise; or goings-on. |
| Heard | adj | Perceived by the ear. |
| Hearer | n | One who hears. 2. an auditor, listener. 3. one who hears cases; judge. 4. one who receives oral instructions or attends lectures or sermons. 5. a disciple. 6. one admitted to hear the scriptures read and receive instructions. |
| Hearing | n | The perception by the ear of auditory sense. 2. the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; audition. |
| Hearing | adj | That hears. |
| Hearing | phr | "Be Hearing Things" - hear something that was not said. |
| Hearing | phr | "Come To One's Hearing - - knowledge gained by hearing or becoming informed. |
| Hearing | phr | "Get a Fair Hearing" - receive an impartial assessment. |
| Hearing | phr | "Hard Of Hearing" - partially deaf. |
| Hearing | phr | "In One's Hearing" - in such a position to be heard. |
| Hearing | phr | "Lose One's Hearing" - become deaf. |
| Hearing | phr | "Out of One's Hearing" - not within one's hearing; not to be heard. |
| Hearing | phr | "Within One's Hearing" - at such a distance as to be heard. |
| Hearing | phr | "You Must be Hearing Things" - hear something that was not meant or not said. |
| Hearing-dog | n | A dog that assists persons suffering hearing loss and deafness. |
| Hearingless | n | Destitute of the faculty of hearing; deaf. |
| Hearing loss | n | A medical problem caused by noise, aging, disease, heredity etc. involving both the ear's ability to detect sounds and the brain's ability to interpret those sounds, including the sounds of speech. |
| Hearingly | adv | In a listening and hearing manner. |
| Hearken | vb | Harken; to apply the ears to hear; listen, give ear to. 2. to listen privily to. 2. to eaves-drop; play the eaves-dropper. ++++++ |
| Hearkener | n | One who listens or gives ear to. 2. a listener. 3. an eavesdropper; a scout. |
| Hearkening | n | The giving of ear to; hearing with attention. 2. listening, the givingof attention to. |
| Hearsay | n. | Rumor, information not based on personal knowledge, but heard indirectly. 2. to tell what one has heard; to repeat rumours or information second-hand. |
| Hearsay-knowing | n | Known by hearsay or report. |
| Hearsay-man | n | A book-philospher; dilettante. |
| Hearsay-witness | n | One (a witness)- who has no personal or first-hand knowledge of a matter before a court. |
| Hear-so | n. | One who hears so. 2. a fact, based on personal knowledge through hearing. |
| Hearsome | adj | Ready to hear; obedient , compliant, dutiful, devout. |
| Hearsomeness | n | Obedience; submission to authority. |
| Hearsum | adj | Ready to hear; obedient, compliant, devout. |
| Hearsum | vb | To obedient, to obey, to revere. |
| Heart | n. | Hollow organ which makes the blood circulate. 2. seat of the emotions and affections. 3. mind, soul, courage. 4. the middle or centre of anything |
| Heart | vb | Of plants: to form a dense compact head. |
| Heart | phr | "After One's Own Heart" - suiting one perfectly; conforming to one's ideas; to one's own taste. 2. of the kind one likes. |
| Heart | phr | "At Heart" - at the center or bottom ; essentially substantially; in fact or character. 2. mainly, really. |
| Heart | phr | "At the Heart Of" - to have as an object at the centre of welfare of. |
| Heart | phr | "Be Hardhearted" - be unsympathetic. |
| Heart | phr | "Be In Good Heart" - to be cheerful, in adversity. |
| Heart | phr | "Be of Good Heart" - to be brave in adversity. |
| Heart | phr | "Break One's Heart" - to waste away or die of disappointment. |
| Heart | phr | "Break the Heart Of (Someone)" - to overwhelm or crush with sorrow. 2. cause (one) sorrow. |
| Heart | phr | "By Heart" - in one's inmost thoughts or 'feelings'. 2. in one's actual character or disposition. 3. inwardly, secretly, at the bottom of, in reality. 4. in the memory of; for memory by rote. |
| Heart | phr | "Dear to One's Heart" - near or dear to one's affection. |
| Heart | phr | "Do One's Heart Good" - make one glad, happy or rejoicing at this. |
| Heart | phr | "Eat One's Heart Out" - to suffer or pine away with vexation or longing. 2. to suffer bitterly. |
| Heart | phr | "Find in One's Heart" - be hardhearted enough. 2. to feel inclined or willing. 3. to prevail upon oneself (to do something). |
| Heart | phr | "For One's Heart" - in one's life. 2. to save one's life. |
| Heart | phr | "From One's Heart" - out of the depth of one's soul. 2. with all sincerity of one's deepest feeling. |
| Heart | phr | "From the Bottom of One's Heart" - most or very sincerely. |
| Heart | phr | "Give Someone Heart" - to inspire confidence; embolden, encourage, cheer up, in spirit, animate, cheer up. 2. to supply with physical strength or stimulus. |
| Heart | phr | "Have a Heart!" - be reasonable. 2. have compassion. |
| Heart | phr | "Have a Heart of Oak " - loyal, trustwothy. |
| Heart | phr | "Have a Heart of Glass" - have a heart that breaks easily. |
| Heart | phr | "Have a Heart of Gold" - be very kind and considerate. |
| Heart | phr | "Have a Heart of Stone" - be totally unfeeling. |
| Have | phr | "Have a Heart to Heart Talk" - have a confidential discussion on a highly personal matter. |
| Heart | phr | "Have at Heart" - to have an object in which one is deeply interested, |
| Heart | phr | "Have No Heart" - be insensitive or unsympathetic. |
| Heart | phr | "Have No Heart For" - be unenthusiastic. |
| Heart | phr | "Have One's Heart in One's Boots" - be in a state of despair. 2. to be terrified.??????? |
| Heart | phr | "Have One's Heart at Tongue's End" - to be always ready to speak what on one's mind. |
| Heart | phr | "Have One's Heart in One's Mouth" - be very apprehensive or frightened. |
| Heart | phr | "Have One's Heart In Something" - be enthusiastic about and committed to a cause. |
| Heart | phr | "Have the Heart (to)" - to be courageous enough to do something different. 2. be merciful, show pity. |
| Heart | phr | "Have Two Hearts" - indicating duplicity or insincerity. |
| Heart | phr | "Heart and Soul" - the whole of one's affection and energies; with one's whole being. |
| Heart | phr | "Heart of Hearts" - the centre or depth of one's inmost feelings. |
| Heart | phr | "Heart to Heart" - an intimate conversation, candid, frank, sincere. |
| Heart | phr | "If It Were Not for Hope, the Heart Would Break" - hope wards off complee despair. |
| Heart | phr | "In Good Heart" - cheerful, happy. |
| Heart | phr | "In Heart" - in good spirits. |
| Heart | phr | "In One's Heart of Hearts" - in the innermost, most secure recesses of one's heart. |
| Heart | phr | "Know by Heart" - know from memory, memorize. 2.to remember well facts and details about something. |
| Heart | phr | "Know in One's Heart of Hearts" - to know something while reluctant to admit it, even to oneself. |
| Heart | phr | "Learn by Heart" - learn by rote or by memorizing. |
| Heart | phr | 'Lose (One's) Heart" - fig. to lose courage or confidence, become discouraged; less enthusiastic. 2. to stop believing that you can succeed. |
| Heart | phr | "My Heart Smote Me" - to have a conscience; a moral sense about things. |
| Heart | phr | "Near to One's Heart" - among things that most affect or concern one. |
| Heart | phr | "Not Have the Heart to" - be unwilling to. |
| Heart | phr | 'Not Have One's Heart in It" - be unenthusiastic. |
| Heart | phr | "One's Heart and Soul" - all, or a great deal of, of one's energy, enthusiasm, devotion, sincerity of feeling. |
| Heart | phr | "One's Heart Bleeds for (Somebody)" - one feels great sympathy, pity, sorry for the fate of others. |
| Heart | phr | "One's Heart Goes Out to (Somebody) - one feels great sympathy for somebody (usually meant sincerely). |
| Heart | phr | "One's Heart Is at One's Heels" - extreme fear or dejection. |
| Heart | phr | "One's Heart Misses a Bet" - a sudden surge of fear, hope or other emotion, causes a break or catch, real or imagined, in one's heartbeat or breathing. |
| Heart | phr | "One's Heart Stands Still" - one is very afraid. |
| Heart | phr | "Out Of Heart" - in low spirits, discouraged, disheartened. 2. without sanguine hope. |
| Heart | phr | "Pluck or 'Gather Up' One's Heart" - be courageous, brave. (the heart as the seat of |
| Heart | phr | "Pull at One's Heart Strings" - stimulate feeling of pathos, sympathy. 2. affect one emotionally. |
| Heart | phr | "Put One's (fresh)Heart Into Something" - be energetic, enthusiastic, passionate, zealous. |
| Heart | phr | "Put Into One's Heart" - to restore to good spirits. |
| Heart | phr | 'Set One's Heart at Rest" - be quite easy about the matter. |
| Heart | phr | "Sick at Heart" - thoroughly dejected and dispirited. |
| Heart | phr | "Steal Someone's Heart" - acquire the love and affection of. |
| Heart | phr | "Steel Someone's Heart Against" - suppress one's natural emotions. |
| Heart | phr | "Take Heart (from something)" - be encouraged by something. |
| Heart | phr | "Take Someone to One's Heart" - receive encouragement; moral support. |
| Heart | phr | "Take Something to Heart" - take seriously, or be upset or offended by. |
| Heart | phr | "Take to Heart" - be much affected or distressed by. |
| Heart | phr | "The Heart is the Seat Of the Soul" - mental or intellectual faculties; often, understanding, intellect, mind; less so: memory???? |
| Heart | phr | "This Does My Heart Good" - I rejoice at this. |
| Heart | phr | "Warm the Cockles of One's Heart" - to delight a person. |
| Heart | phr | "Wear One's Heart on One's Sleeve" - to expose one's feelings, wishes, intentions to everyone. |
| Heart | phr | "Win the Heart Of" - gain the love or admiration of. |
| Heart | phr | "Win the Heart and Minds (of)" - a concept of war, conflict, disputation etc in which one one side seeks to prevail not by use of superior force or influence, but by making of soft power, emotional or intellectual appeals to sway supporters of the other side. |
| Heart | phr | "With a Heart and a Heart" - with great pleasure, willingly. |
| Heart | phr | "With a Heavy (Sinking) Heart" - with a feeling of despondency and sadness. |
| Heart | phr | "With a Light Heart" - with a feeling of happiness. |
| Heart | phr | "With All My Heart and Soul" - with great sincerity, intensity, earnestness or devotion; now chiefly in a weakened sense. 2. with the utmost goodwill or pleasure. 3. sincerely; with all goodwill. |
| Heart | phr | "With Half a Heart" - halfheartedly; with divided affection or enthusiasm. |
| Heart | phr | "With Heart and Hand" - with will, enthusiasm and execution; ready and willingly; with alacrity. |
| Heart | phr | "With One's Whole Heart" = with enthusiasm; without reservation, doubt, whole-hearted. |
| Heart | phr | "Young at Heart" - with a young person's outlook, although no loner young. |
| Heartache | n | Pain and anguish of the mind. |
| Heartaching | n | Causing heartache, distressing. |
| Heartachingly | adv | In a distressing, anguished manner. |
| Heart-beat | phr | "In a Heart-beat" - in a second, moment, a brief space in or of time. |
| Heart-beat | n | A beat or pulsation of the heart; fig. an emotion. 2. extremely brief space of time; a second. |
| Heart-blood | n | Life-blood; hence, vital energy, life. |
| Heart-break | n | An overpowering sorrow. 2. overwhelming sorrow or distress of the mind. |
| Heart-breaker | n | One who causes other(s) great emotional distress, sorrow and sadness. |
| Heart-breaking | adj | Causing great emotional distress and sorrow. |
| Heart-breakingly | adv | In an overwhelming distressing and sorrowful manner. |
| Heart-broken | adj | Overwhelmed with anguish, despairing, crushing grief. |
| Heart-brokenly | adv | In an overwhelming distressing and sorrowful manner. |
| Heart-brokenness | n | State or condition of being overwhelmed with anguish, despairing, crushing grief. |
| Heartburn | n | A fire of passion. 2. a burning sensation due to the putrefactive fermentation of the food in the stomach; cardialgy. 2. rankling, jealousy, discontent, or emnity. |
| Heart-burn | vb | To affect with heartburn. 2. to render jealously or grudgingly. 3. to heal or regard to jealous enmity. |
| Heart-burning | n | A heated, embittered state of mind (or feeling), which is experienced but not openly expressed; jealousy or discontent, rankling in the heart, a grudge, |
| Heart-burning | adj | That inflames, distresses, kindles or consumes or gnaws the heart |
| Heartcare | n | The care of the health of the heart. |
| Heart-clot | n | Blood clot. |
| Heartdeep | adj | Very or profoundly deep. |
| Hearted | adj | Having a heart of a specific kind. 2. sagacious, wise, prudent. 2. cordate or heart-shaped. 3. fixed or established in the heart. |
| Heartedly | adv | In a hearted or of a hearted, sagacious, sincere way or manner. |
| Heartedness | n | Earnestness, sincerity, heartness. 2. the state o having a heart. |
| Heartell | adv | To tell what one has heard; to repeat rumours or information second-hand. |
| Hearten | vb | To give encouragement to. 2. to animate, incite, stimulate the nerve, embolden. 3. to restore fertility or strength to. |
| Hearten | phr | "Hearten On" - to encourage, inspirit, incite, stimulate. |
| Hearten | phr | "To Hearten Up" - to animate, cheer up. |
| Heartener | n | One who encourages, heartens others. |
| Heartening | n | Encouragement, stimulus, renewal of a strength or spirits. |
| Heartenly | adv | In an encouragin mannger. |
| Heart-felt | adj | Felt in the heart; appealing to or proceeding from the innermost self; hence, thoroughly sincere, genuine, real. 2. deeply felt. |
| Heart-feltness | n | The state or quality of the heart, innermost self, sincerity. |
| Heart-free | adj | Having the affections disengaged. |
| Heartful | adj | Full of heart; characterized by deep emotion, or sincere affection, hearty. 3. with the whole heart; with entire affection, enthusiastic or devotion, heartily, earnestly. |
| Heartfulness | n | Heartful quality; sincerity of affection, cordiality. |
| Hearth | n | The floor or the furnace on which the material to be heated lies. 2. he house itself as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers. 3. fireplace.. |
| Hearth | phr | "Hearth and Home" - home, esp. family house (an implication being home comforts and surroundings). |
| Heart-hardness | n | Callous, mean-spirited, hard-hearted. |
| Heart-hatred | n | Deep hatred in one's heart. |
| Heart-heaviness | n | Sorrow and heaviness of heart. |
| Hearthless | adj | Without or lacking a hearth. |
| Hearthlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a hearth, in various ways. |
| Heartily | adv | With gusto and free of reservation. 2. in a hearty manner. |
| Hearth-fellows | n | A fireside companion. |
| Hearth-less | adj | Without a hearth. |
| Hearth-penny | n | So called because it was on every dwelling house; also called Rome-scot anciently made to the Pope. |
| Hearthside | adj | Beside or near a hearth. |
| Hearth-stead | n | Place of the hearth, fireside; hence, homestead. |
| Hearthstone | n | The flat stone forming the hearth; fig. a fireplace. 2. a soft stone used for scouring floors. |
| Hearthwards | adv | Towards or in direction of the hearth. |
| Heartily | adv | With gusto and free of reservation. 2. in a hearty manner. |
| Heartiness | n | The quality of genuine sincerity of feeling; earnestness, enthusiasm, zeal, cordiality, friendliness of manner, goodness of appetite, strength, healthiness, vigour. |
| Hearting | n | The imparting of courage, encouragement, animation, cheer. 2. the growing to a heart; as 'the heart of a lettuce'. |
| Heartland | n | The central part of a country. 2. the part of a country that is most important for a particular activity or where a political party has the most support. |
| Heart-leaf | n | A leaf having the shape of a heart. |
| Heartless | adj | Without a heart,specifically without feeling, emotion or concern for others, uncaring. |
| Heartlessly | adv | In a heartless or uncaring manner. |
| Heartlessness | n | The characteristic of being healing or without feeling or emotion. |
| Heart-lifting | adj | Inspiring, encouraging, bringing gladness. |
| Heart-like | adj | Having the form of heart. 2. resembling or characteristic of a heart. |
| Heart-line | n | A line on the plan supposed to reflect a person's emotional state. |
| Heartliness | adj | Cordiality, sincerity, heartness. |
| Heart-quake | n | Palpitation of the heart; fig. sudden and violent emotion, as of terror; delight. |
| Heart-quaking | n | The state or condition of heart palpitation; harrowing, delighting, emotional feelings. |
| Heart-qualm | n | Palpitation, with faintness. |
| Heart-rending | adj | Distressing. |
| Heart root | n | The depth of bottom of the heart. 2. the seat of the deepest emotion or most genuine feeling. |
| Heart-shaped | adj | Shaped like a heart; oval, with one end obtusely pointed, and other notched. |
| Heart-sick | adj | Very despondent, deeply disappointed, heartsore or sorrowful. |
| Heart-sickness | n | State of extreme despondency or despair. |
| Heart-sink | n | A recurring patient who can not be definitively cured, such as one whose condition is unable to be diagnosed or is not treatable or one who presents with nebulous symptoms. (from the idea that the patient's approach makes the doctor's sink in dread.) |
| Heartsome | adj | Pleasant, delightful. |
| Heartsomely | adv | In a heartfilled, pleasant or delightful manner. 2. cheerful or animated. 2. lively, merry, gay. |
| Heart-sore | adj | Grieved of heart; characterized by grief. |
| Heart-stirring | adj | Inspiring, thrilling. |
| Heart-stricken | adj | Overwhelmed with grief or fear. |
| Heart-strike | vb | To make a deep impression upon the feelings of. |
| Heart-strings | n | The strongest feelings or affections. |
| Heart-stopper | n | Something highly exciting. |
| Heart-stopping | adj | Exciting or shocking as though to cause one's heart to skip a beat. |
| Heart-stoppingly | adv | In a heart-stopping way. |
| Heart-strings | n | The tendons once thought to brace the heart. 2. one's deepest emotion or inner feelings. 3. cord-like tendons in the heart. |
| Heart-struck | adj | Deeply impressed upon the feelings of; heart-stricken. |
| Heart-to-heart | n | A frank, candid, intimate (usually, in private) conversation, or talk. |
| Heart-to-heart | adj | Candid, frank, intimate, sincere, earnest. |
| Heartwards | adv | Towards or directed towards the heart. |
| Heartwarming | adj | Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy. |
| Heartwarmingly | adv | In a heart-warming manner. |
| Heart-whole | adj | Having the affections free, not in love. 2. cheerfully buoyant, loyal, whole or sound in heart. 3. undaunted, sincere. |
| Heart-wholeness | n | The state or quality of being heartwhole. |
| Heart-wise | adv | Inclined in the direction of the heart; way, manner of being hearty. 2 of promoting a healthy mode of lifestyle conducive to a healthy heart. |
| Heartwood | n | The hard older wood at the central part of an exogenuous stem; duramen. |
| Heartworm | n | A parasitic worm in the heart and blood stream of dogs, occasionally of cats and other animals. |
| Heartworn | adj | Worn with care and trouble. |
| Heart-wort | n | Radix cordialis. |
| Heart-wound | n | A wound or injury of the heart. 2. fig. emotional pain or suffering. |
| Heart-wrenching | adj | Having a painful emotional impact, causing great distress. |
| Hearty | adj | Pertaining to, or proceeding from the heart; warm, cordial, bold, zealous, sincere, willing, energetic, eager. 2. exhibiting, strength, sound, healthy, firm not weak. 3. promoting strength, nourishing, rich, abundant. 4. a term of familar address and fellowship among sailors. |
| Heascen | vb | OE: hiscan, hyscan - to mock, deride,taunt. |
| Heat | n | Thermal energy. 2. condition or quality of being hot. 3. attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. 4. period of intensity, particularly of emotion. 5. undesirable amount of attention. 6. (slang): the police. 7. (slang): one or more firearms. 8. fastball. 9. condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile. 10. preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race. 11. one cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work furthe. 12.hot spell of weather. |
| Heat | vb | To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction etc., or the communication of heat; as, the iron or the water heats slowly. 2. to grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action; as, green hay heats in a mow, and manure in the dunghill. 3. to make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like. 4. to excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. 5. to excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions. |
| Heat | phr | "Dead Heat" - If a race (horse or between men or women) ends in a dead heat, two or more of the contestants finish in the same position or with exactly the same result. |
| Heat | phr | Heat Up" - warm up, make hot. 2. reheat for serving food which has been cooked and allow to go cold. |
| Heat | phr | "If Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen" - if you can't take the pressure, the you should remove yourself from the situation. |
| Heat | phr | "More Heat Than Light" - situation when a discussion doesn't produce the answers, but results in anger (heat)between the participants. |
| Heat | phr | "Take the Heat off Somebody" - to divert attention away from a person. |
| Heat | phr | "The Heat of the Day" - the hottest part of the day. |
| Heat | phr | "Turn the Heat On/Up" - to subject to a close examination, questions; to grill. 2. to increase the pressure on somebody. |
| Heat-cloud | n | See 'cloud-heat' and 'cloud-heating'. |
| Heat-death | n | The state of a universe, when the universe has reached a state of maximum entropy. This happens when all available energy (such as a hot source) has moved to places of less energy (such as a colder source). 2. hypothermia, illness up to and including death from excessive heat. 3. death by burning, as a form of capital punishment. 4. drought: causing the death of crops. 5. thermal shock: the destruction of equipment by overheating. |
| Heat-drop | n | A few drops of rain at the commencement of the day. |
| Heated | adj | Very agitated, angry or impassioned. 2. made warm or hot by some means. |
| Heatedly | adv | with warmth of temper. |
| Heater | n | A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or buildings. 2. an extended winning streak. 3. a gun. |
| Heatful | adj | Full of heat, warmth, producing heat. |
| Heath | n | In Britain, an area of open uncultivated land, usually on acid, sandy, soil, with heather, coarse grasses, etc. 2. an area dominated by dwarf ericaceous shrubs. 3. plants growing on a heath. |
| Heath-hen | n | The female heath-cock. |
| Heathen | n | Not adhering to an abrahamic religion; pagan. 2. pertaining or adhering to the germanic, neo-pagan |
| Heathen | adj | Unskilled, uncivilized, savage, philistinic. 3. pertaining or adhering to the germanic, neo-pagan heathenism. |
| Heathendom | n | Beliefs and practices of the heathen. 2. condition of being unenlightened and untouched by Christian influences. 3. the domain or realm of the heathen; heathen people collectively; the heathen world; heathenism. |
| Heathenish | adj | Somewhat heathen or pagan. |
| Heathenishly | adv | In a heathenism manner. |
| Heathenish-ness | n | Barbarous, uncivilized, unchristian, offensive of belief, manner and conduct. |
| Heathen-like | adj | Characteristic or resembling a heathen. |
| Heathenly | adv | After the manner of the heathen: barbarous, uncivilized, unchristian-like. |
| Heathen-minded | adj | Of a heathen philosophy. 2. having and affection on things pagan. |
| Heathenness | n | The quality or condition of being a heathen. 2. the belief and practices of the heathen. 2. uncivilized, barbarous. 3. colloq. - abominable, disgusting, offensive. |
| Heathen-ship | n | Heathenism, heathendom, gentilism. |
| Heatheny | adj | Of or pertaining to a heathen. |
| Heathland | n | Landd covered by, or abounding in heath. |
| Heathless | adj | Devoid or not cover by heath. |
| Heathlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of heath. |
| Heathwort | n | Ericaceae |
| Heathy | adj | Pertaining to heath, or resembling heath. 2. covered by or abounding in heath. |
| Heat-laden | adj | Heavily containing heat and warmth. |
| Heatless | adj | Without or devoid of heat or warmth. |
| Heatlessly | adv | In a manner lacking or without. |
| Heatlessness | n | The sate or condition of being without heat or warmth. |
| Heat-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of heat in some way or manner. |
| Heat-lightning | n | A fitful play of lightning unattended by thunder, usually seen near the horizon at the close of a hot day, due to the reflecion from distant clouds or far-off flashes, causing a diffused glow. |
| Heat-seeker | n | A device, missile able to detect infrared radiation to guide it to its target. |
| Heat-seeking | adj | Of a device or missile ableto detect infrared radiation to guide it to its target. |
| Heat shield | n | A device for protection from excessive heat, esp. fitted to a spacecraft. |
| Heat sink | n | A device or substance for absorbing excessive or unwanted heat. |
| Heat stroke | n | The state of exhaustion and collapse caused by prolonged exposure to heat, as in furnace rooms, foundries or from the sun's rays. |
| Heatwave | n | A prolonged period of exceptionally hot weather. |
| Heave | vb | To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forward. 2. to lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). 3. to be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. 4. in mining, geology: to displace (a vein, stratum). 5. to cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions. 6. to rise and fall. 7. to utter with effort. 8. to throw, cast. 9. to pull up with a rope or cable. 9. nautical: to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation. 10. to heave the ship ahead. 11. to retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit. 11. to make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult. |
| Heave | n | An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy. 2. an upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like. 3. horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. 4. the measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. |
| Heave | phr | "Heave Into Sight" - to appear at a distance, as a ship. 2. to emerge in the field of vision. 2. loom on the horizon. |
| Heave | phr | "Heave Up One's Heart" - be violently sick. |
| Heave | phr | "Heave to" - to come to a halt of a ship or vessel. 2. to bring a ship to a standstill (while anchoring or mooring). |
| Heaven | n | The sky, specifically: ( usually plural) The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres. 2. the near sky in which weather, flying animals, etc. appear; (obsolete) the atmosphere; the climate. 3. model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery. 4. (religion) the abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky. 5. especiallyin Christianity, usu. capitalized) the abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence. 6. (religion, by extension,) the abode of the Abrahamic God; similar abodes of the gods in other religions and traditions, such as Mount Olympus. 7. (by extension,) Providence, the will of God or the council of the gods; fate. 8. (religion) the afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust in hell). 9. (Islam,(Christianity) the afterlife of the souls who are not sent to a place of punishment or purification such as hell, purgatory, or limbo; the state or condition of being in the presence of God after death. 10. (religion, by extension, often capitalized) the afterlife of the blessed dead in other religions and traditions, such as the Pure Land or Elysium. 11. (by extension) Any paradise; any blissful place or experience. 12. (by extension) A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy. 13. (informal, with a modifier) similarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects. |
| Heaven | vb | To make heaven in character. 2. to transform into heaven. 3. to blessed with heavenly beauty. 4. to render supremely happy. |
| Heaven | phr | "Be in Seventh Heaven" - be very happy. |
| Heaven | phr | "For Heaven's Sake" - - exclamation of mild annoyance. |
| Heaven | phr | "Good Heavens" - eclamation of surprise. |
| Heaven | phr | Heavens Above" - exclamation of surprize . |
| Heaven | phr | "Heaven and Earth"- the universe. |
| Heaven | phr | "Heaven Forbid" - may it not be so. 2. heaven forfend. |
| Heaven | phr | "Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves" - you must plot your own destiny in life. |
| Heaven | phr | "Heaven Help You!" - you are in trouble. |
| Heaven | phr | "Heaven Only Knows" - I do not know, nobody knows; it's not known.. |
| Heaven | phr | "In Heaven's Name" - exclamation of surprise, annoyance (in a question) |
| Heaven | phr | "Like Heaven on Earth" - a physical location, a place where one works, a set of personal circumstances or relationships, where conditions are ideal and lead to great happiness; idyllic, perfect. |
| Heaven | phr | "Make Heavy Weather of" - to encounter dificulties. |
| Heaven | phr | "Reek to High Heaven" - to be patently unethical. |
| Heaven | phr | "Stink to High Heaven" - have an offensive smell. |
| Heaven | phr | "Thank Heaven"" - expressionh of gratitude, relief. |
| Heaven | phr | "The Heavens Opened" - it teemed with rain. 2. rain falls in torrents. |
| Heaven-begot | adj | Heaven or heavenly born or produced; divine, celestial, angelic. |
| Heaven-blessed | adj | Blessed with al the benefits of life. |
| Heaven-born | adj | Of divine origin. 2. of origin or ability as to seem specially prepared or designed by 'heaven's hand'. |
| Heaven-bow | n | A rainbow. |
| Heaven-bright | adj | Extremely sunny; very bright. |
| Heaven-falling | adj | That falling from heaven. 2. fig. fallen from grace. |
| Heaven-forsaken | adj | Abandoned by heaven or God. 2. doomed. |
| Heavenful | adj | As many or as many as would fill heaven. |
| Heaven-high | adj | As high as heaven; lofty, or reaching the clouds. 2. an immense height. |
| Heavenhood | n | Heavenly quality or character, fitness for heaven; sanctification. 2. heavenlines. |
| Heavenish | adj | Pertaining to, or characteristic of the sidereal heaven. |
| Heaven's King | n | The King of Heaven: God. |
| Heavenless | adj | Having no portion in heaven. |
| Heavenlike | adj | Characteristic or resembling heaven. 2. divine, heavenly. |
| Heavenliness | n | State or quality of being heavenly in origin; nature or characteristic. 2. celestial, highness, divinity. |
| Heavenly | adj | Of or belonging to heaven, as the abode of God, divine, celestial. |
| Heavenly | adv | In a heavenly, celestial, divine manner. |
| Heavenly body | n | A natural object in outer space ; eg. the sun, the stars, a planet, etc.; a celestial one. |
| Heavenly Father | n | God. |
| Heavenly-minded | adj | Having thoughts and affection set on things above, holy, devout. |
| Heavenly-mindedness | n | The state or quality of having thoughts and affection set on things above, holy, devout. |
| Heaven-rike | n | The kingdom of heaven as the place of the blessed. |
| Heaven-sent | adj | Sent for heaven; divine or providential intervention. |
| Heaven's King | n | The King of Heaven: God |
| Heaven's Queen | n | The Virgin Mary. |
| Heaven-threatening | n | The threatening wrath of God upon sinners. |
| Heaven-threatening | adj | Storm-threatening clouds or sky. |
| Heavenwards | adj | Directed towards heaven. |
| Heaven-ware | n | The inhabitants of heaven. |
| Heaven-wide | adj | As wide or broad as heaven or the heavens. |
| Heaven-wide | adv | By the width of the heavens. |
| Heaver | n | A dockyard worker; one who heaves or lifts. |
| Heave-to | adv | To come to a halt of a ship or vessel. 2. to bring a ship to a standstill. |
| Heavily | adv | In a heavy manner. 2. with a great weight. 3. to a considerable extent. 4. in a manner designed for heavy duty. 5. so as to be thick or heavy. 6. in a laboured manner. |
| Heaviness | n | The state or condition of being heavy. |
| Heaving | n | That heaves. |
| Heavisome | adj | Of a heavy mood, doleful, sad, full, gloomy. |
| Heavy | vb | To make heavy, burdensome or oppressive. 2. to grow heavy or weighty. 3. to become heavy through weariness or grief. 4. to be overbearing, oppressive of manner. |
| Heavy | adj | |
| Heavy | adv | In a heavy manner; with weight. 2. fig. ponderously, massively, burdensomely, oppressively. 2. with laborious movement, slowly, sluggishly, laboriously. 3. with displeasure or anger. |
| Heavy | phr | "As Heavy as Lead" - very heavy; oppressive in weight or color. |
| Heavy | phr | "Bear Heavy" - to take with anger, seriously. |
| Heavy | phr | "Do the Heavy" - to swagger, to make a fine show. |
| Heavy | phr | "Heavy On" - usually a lot; a 'heavy on smoking.' |
| Heavy | phr | "Lie Heavy On" - be a burden, worry to. |
| Heavy | phr | "Make Heavy Weather of" - have (unneccesary) difficulty with. |
| Heavy | phr | "Run Into Heavy Weather" - to encounter heavy difficulties. |
| Heavy | phr | 'Time Hangs Heavy" - time passes slowly. |
| Heavy | phr | "With a Heavy Hand" - in an oppressive fashion. |
| Heavy | phr | "With a Heavy Heart" - with a feeling of sadness. |
| Heavy-breathing | n | Breathing that is audible through deep or laboured, especially as a result of exertion. |
| Heavy drinker | n | One who consumes too much alcohol. |
| Heavy drinking | n | The consumption of too much alcohol. |
| Heavy-earth | n | Baryta. |
| Heavy-eyed | adj | Sleepy; heavy-lidded; drowsy, bored to wearisome. |
| Heavy-father | n | A sternly paternal member of one's father. 2. the idea, or practical example of a father as astern disciplinarian, who controls the activities of his family as he thinks good for them. |
| Heavy-footed | adj | Not light-footed or softly treading. |
| Heavy-friend | n | A troublesome or evil friend, a false friend, enemy. |
| Heavy-going | adj | Difficult movement or work, eg. over rough or steep ground, against currents, when carrying weights, etc. 2. fig. laborious or boring work or activity. |
| Heavy-handed | adj | Handy heavy from physical incapacity or weariness. 2. having hands heavy-laden. 3. clumsy, lacking dexterity. |
| Heavy-handedness | n | State or quality of bearing heavy from physical incapacity or weariness. 2. the fact of having hands heavy-laden. 3. clumsy, lacking dexterity, skill of hand. |
| Heavy-head | n | A dull, stupid, doltish person. |
| Heavy-headed | adj | Dull, stupid, stultish, doltish, foolish. 2. drowsy, sleepy, inclined to doze off. 2. having a large head. |
| Heavy-hearted | adj | Having a heavy-heart: grieved and melancholy. 2. proceeding from or caused by a heavy heart. 2. sad, doleful, distressed. |
| Heavy-heartedness | n | The state or condition of being sad, melancholy, distressed. |
| Heavy-heeled | adj | Heavy-stepping, footed, clumsy, cloddish. |
| Heavingly | adv | Heavily, severely. |
| Heavyish | adj | Somewhat heavy. |
| Heavy-lidded | adj | Sleepy, heavy-eyed, dozing off, wearisome. |
| Heavy-laden | adj | Laden or loaded heavily. 2. bearing a heavy burden. 3. weighed down with trouble, weariness etc., oppressed. |
| Heavy-looking | adj | Having a heavy appearance, weighty, stout. |
| Heavy-necking | n | Caressing and fondling taht are more intimate than kissing or cuddling, but short of sexual intercourse. |
| Heavy- sleeper | n | A person who sleeps deeply. |
| Heavy-sleeping | n | The action of sleeping deeply. |
| Heavy-swell | n | A man of impressive or showy appearance; esp., one dressed in the lastest fashion. 2. the heavy swell or swells of the waves and the sea. |
| Heavy-tailed | adj | A big, heavy tail; fat-tailed. |
| Heavy-timber | n | Dense, unbroken forest; thick woods. 2. big trees. 3. heavy logs. |
| Heavy-timbered | adj | Thickly treed or bushy. |
| Heavy water | n | Deuterium oxide, the compound of oxygen and heavy isotope of hydrogen. |
| Heavy-weight | n | A person or animal more than the average weight. 2. a professional boxer over the weight of 90kg. 3. a person of importance (weight); one of much influence. |
| Heck | n | The lower half of a door; also, an inner door. 2. a grating in a river to obstruct the passage of fish, or other solid bodies without obstructing the flow of water. 3. a rack made with parallel spars to hold fodder. 4. a shuttle or sluice in a drain. |
| Heddle | n | One of the small set of cords or wires between which the warp is passed in a loom before going through the reed. |
| Hede | n | Rank, order, condition, quality; see: "hade'. |
| Hedge | n | A fence of bushes; a projecting barrier. 2. |
| Hedge | n | A fishing weir of wattle-work. |
| Hedge | vb | To enclose with a hedge. 2. to fence, as fields, to obstruct; to hem. 3. to make or trim hedges. 4. a securing or limiting the loss incurred in a bet; to hedge a bet. 5. shuffling, dodging. |
| Hedge | phr | "Be On the Hedge" - to sit on thhe fence- be non-committal. |
| Hedge | phr | "Be On the Right Side or Wrong Side of the Hedge" - to be in the wrong or right position. |
| Hedge | phr | "Be the Only Stick Left in One's Hedge" - one's only resource. |
| Hedge | phr | "Hang Out On the Hedge" - to be put on one's side; to be on the shelf. |
| Hedge | phr | "Hedge In" - put a hedge around; fence in. 2. restrict one's frredom of action. |
| Hedge-apple | n | The Osage orange. |
| Hedgeberry | n | Hagberry: a speciesof cherry. |
| Hedge-born | adj | Of low or uncertain parentage. |
| Hedgebote | n | An allowance of wood for repairing hedges or fences, which a tenantor lesee has a right to take off the land let or demised to him. |
| Hedge-creeper | n | One who skulks under hedges for bad purpose. 2. a sneaky rogue. |
| Hedge-creeping | adj | Sneaky, clandestine, base. |
| Hedged | adj | Enclosed with a hedge. |
| Hedgehog | n | A small nocturnal mammal of the family, Erinaceidae having a pig-like snout and a coat of spines, eating small invertebrates, and rolling itself up into a ball for defence. |
| Hedge-hop | vb | To fly at a very low altitude. |
| Hedge-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a hedge in some way. |
| Hedge-less | adj | Not hedged or having hedges. |
| Hedge-long | adv | Extended alongside a hedge. |
| Hedge-pig | n | The hedge-pig. |
| Hedger | n | One who cuts and maintains hedges. |
| Hedgerow | n | A row of bushes forming a hedge, etc., growing in a hedgerow; a line of hedge. |
| Hedge-rowed | adj | Traversed by rows. |
| Hedge-school | n | An open-air school once common in Ireland; hence, a school for the poor. |
| Hedge-side | n | The side of a hedge. |
| Hedge-sparrow | n | A small bird of the sparrow family. |
| Hedge-wise | adv | In the position of a hedge. |
| Hedge woundwort | n | Stachys sylvatica. |
| Hedging | n | The act of planting hedges. 2. the making into hedges. 3. a securing or limiting the loss incurred in a bet; to hedge a bet. 4. shuffling, dodging. |
| Hedgy | adj | Characterized by the abundance of hedges; hedgey. |
| Heed | n | Careful attention or consideration. |
| Heed | vb | To take notice of; pay attention to. 2. |
| Heed | phr | "To Nim Heed" - to give heed or advice to. |
| Heedful | adj | Full of heed, careful, attentive, watchful, mindful. |
| Heedfully | adv | In a heedful manner, attentively, carefully. |
| Heedfulness | n | The quality of being heedful, attentive, carefullness. |
| Heed-giving | n | Offering care, attention, attentiveness. |
| Heediness | n | Heedfulness, attentiveness, caution. |
| Heeding | n | The action of paying attention to. |
| Heedless | adj | Without heed, paying no heed or attention to; giving no heed or attention. 2. careless, regardless, inattentive. |
| Heed-lesshood | n | Heedlessness |
| Heedlessly | adv | In a heedless manner; carelessly; inattention, disregard. |
| Heedy | adj | Heedful, attentive, careful, cautious. |
| Heel | n | The hinder part of the foot, or of a shoe, boot, or stocking. 2. the hinder part of anything. 3. the foot of an animal; a spur. 4. (slang) a hanger-on; an undesirable person. 5. of a ship, the angle between her masts and the vertical to the earth's surface when she leans to one side; a list. |
| Heel | vb | To use the heels in, as in dancing, running. 2. to add a heel to, as in knitting. 3. to touch, or a ball, with the heel. 3. to put a spur on a fighting cock. 5. to follow, of a dog. 6. of a ship, to lean to one side; to incline. 2. to cause a ship to heel or incline. 7. |
| Heel | vb | Set or plant in the ground and cover its roots. |
| Heel | phr | "At the Heel Of" - be at heel; to follow closely. |
| Heel | phr | "Be Well-heeled" - have everything you need. |
| Heel | phr | "Bless the World With One's Heels" - to be hanged; execute by hanging. |
| Heel | phr | "Bring Somebody to Heel" - make somebody obedience. |
| Heel | phr | "Come to Heel" - of a do, in obedience to an order. 2. to follow behind its master; hence, docilely to obey instructions. |
| Heel | phr | 'Cool One's Heels" - be kept waiting. |
| Heel | phr | "Dig In One's Heel" - be resolute or stubborn. |
| Heel | phr | "Down at Heel" - lit. heels worn down on shoe-wear, taken fig., as a symptom of destitution. |
| Heel | phr | "Fall Head Over Heels in Love" - to fall very much in love. |
| Heel | phr | "Hand on the Heels" - be immediately behind. |
| Head | phr | "Head Over Heels" - completely, totally enthusiastic about something. |
| Heel | phr | "Heel and Toe" - with proper walking as opposed to running. |
| Heel | phr | "Heel Over" - lean to one side of a ship. |
| Heel | phr | "Heel Over Head" - head over heel; with heels in the air and head downmost; upside down. |
| Heel | phr | "Hot On the Heels of Somebody or Something" - to closely follow something/somebody. |
| Heel | phr | "Hunt By the Heels" - to track. |
| Heel | phr | "Lay By the Heels" - to put in irons, fetter, confine; fig. overthrow, disgrace. 2. to render helpless. |
| Heel | phr | "Take to One's Heels" - run off; flee, vamoose. |
| Heel | phr | "To Heel" - a position close behind a master; said of dogs." - |
| Heel | phr | "Turn on One's Heel" - turn sharply around. |
| Heel | phr | "Tread On Somebody's Heel" - compete with somebody for his /her job, position, etc. |
| Heel | phr | "Upon One's Heel" - following close behind. |
| Heel | phr | "With the Heels Foremost" - dead; as a corpse is carried. |
| Heel | adj | "Down-at-heel" - destitute, poor, needy, strugglingfig., as a symptom of destitution. |
| Heel-bone | n | The calcaneum. |
| Heeled | adj | Furnished, fitted or having heels. 2. slang: supplied with money. 3. having a gun. |
| Heeler | n | A worker one puts heels on shoes. 2. a runner, esp. a fast runner. 3. a breed of australian dog, as a 'blue-heeler' or a 'red-heeler'. 2. a political hanger-on or sycophant. |
| Heeling | n | (Sailing) When a ship or boat leans over to one side. 2. behavior in herdinng dogs. 3. a dog obedient training task. 4. a dog obedient trial exercise. |
| Heelless | adj | Having no heels on one's shoes or footwear. |
| Heelside | adv | (Board sports)The side ofthe board nearest the heel. |
| He-friend | n | A male friend. |
| He-goat | n | A male goat; a buck |
| Heft | n | The gist of a thing; a major part. |
| Heft | vb | Late variant of 'Heave' 2. to test the weight by lifting. 3. to lift up, heave. 4. to weigh. |
| Heftily | adv | In a hefty manner. |
| Heftiness | n | The property of being hefty. |
| Hefty | adj | Heavy, weighty, important. 2. big, powerful, muscular. 3. vigorous, of a person, stalwart. |
| Heifer | n | A young cow. |
| Heiferhood | n | The state and age of heifer. |
| Height | n | Distance above a base to the top; altitude; highness. 2. an eminence, acme; culmination. 3. the vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse). 4. the highest point or maximum degree, in a career etc. 5. a mountain, especially a very high one. 6. (Sussex) an area of land at the top of a cliff. |
| Heighten | vb | Make or become higher or more intense. |
| Heightening | n | The raising or increasing the quantity or degree of intensity. |
| Heightening | vb | To raise or increase. 2. make higher, raise. 3. to become high or higher. 4. to rise or increase in quantity or degree; intensify. |
| Heightlesss | adj | Without height; short. 2. (poetic, archaic) - boundless, infinite. |
| Height of land | n | A watershed. |
| Heightwise | adv | In terms of height, vertical. 2. in a heightwise manner. |
| Heildom | n | Health. |
| Heild | vb | To cover, shield, take shelter, protect, hide (variant of 'hill'). |
| Heilding | n | Covering. |
| Hele | n | A hiding place. |
| Hele | vb | To hide, conceal, keep secret. 2. to practise concealment; keep secret, keep silent. 3. to cover, cover in, cover roots with earth. 4. to cover with slate or tiles. |
| Heleand | n. | One that saves or heals; 'The Saviour'. In OE, regularly used instead of the proper name: Jesus Christ. |
| Hele | vb | To hide, to cover, to roof. 2. to set a plant in the ground & cover.Heal. |
| Heler | n | One who covers or conceals. 2. a tiler, roofer, hellier. |
| Heleth | n | A warrior, hero, man. |
| Heling | n | (Healing)- the action of covering, covering up; concealing in the house. 2. roofing with slate, tiles or the like. 3. covering, clothing. |
| Hell | n | In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death. 2. the place where devils live and where sinners are tortured after death. 3. (euphemisms for Christian place for damned souls after death): Hades, heck, infernal region, inferno, netherworld, underworld. 4. a place or situation of great suffering in life. 5. an extremely hot place. 6. used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun. 7. (obsolete) a place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type. 8. (impolite, sometimes considered vulgar) used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger; 'Oh, hell! I forgot my phone'. 9. (impolite, sometimes considered vulgar) used to emphasize. |
| Hell | vb | To give a person hell or an extremely bad or difficult. 2. loosely, to scald or reprimand severely. 2. of sinners: to place in 'hell'; to cause to have their hell. |
| Hell | phr | "A Hell Of ..." - an infernal, exceedingly bad situation, great, loud. 2. a devil of ...time, etc. |
| Hell | phr | "All Hell Broke Lose" - great confusion, disruption and riot erupted. |
| Hell | phr | "Be Hellbent on (Something)" - be very determined to achieve something, regard of the advers consequences.. |
| Hell | phr | "Between Hell and Highwater" - facing a great difficulty or obstacles. |
| Hell | phr | "Come Hell or High Water" - what ever happens, at whatever cost. |
| Hell | phr | "For the Hell Of It" - out of the pure devilry; just for the fun of it. |
| Hell | phr | "Frighten the Hell Out Of" - terrify, alarm someone. |
| Hell | phr | "Give Somebody Hell" - make life very unpleasant for; punish somebody. 2.to be reprimanded or dressed down. 3. to be given a bad time. |
| Hell | phr | "Go to Hell' - go away. |
| Hell | phr | "Go Hell for Leather" - to travel at a high speed; to take on matters full bore. 2. with the greatest possible energy and speed. |
| Hell | phr | "Go/Ride Like Hell" - to do things recklessly, desperately, extremely; very much. 2. use as an intensitive; and also ironically to indicate contradiction, not at all contrary. 2. ride at full gallop. |
| Hell | phr | "Hell Bent On Doing Something" - recklessly or blindly determined on doing something |
| Hell | phr | "Hell No!" - exclamation of surprize. |
| Hell | phr | "Hell of a Long Time" - considerable, remarkable, impressive, etc. something or somebody. |
| Hell | phr | "Hell on Earth" - unpleasant situation; torment, particularly when widespread. |
| Hell | phr | "Hell on Wheels" - tough, aggressive, lawless, wild (first used in the US to refer to towns at the end of a railroad line when under construction. 2. someone or something reagrded as resemblinhg hell |
| Hell | phr | "Like Memory Hell": - do with enthusiasm, vigorously, emphatically. |
| Hell | phr | "Not a Hope in Hell" - no possibility or no hope at all.. |
| Hell | phr | "On a Cold Day in Hell" - never. |
| Hell | phr | "Play Hell with" - to upset, confuse, alter for the worse; 'to make a fuss about'. 2. to make a fuss about. |
| Hell | phr | "Raise (Merry)Hell" - create tumult, great noise and fuss. |
| Hell | phr | "Until Hell Freezes Over" - indicating a date in the impossiblely distant future; for ever. |
| Hell | phr | "To Hell with" - I don't give a damn. 2. it doesn't matter, it's not going to be considered or bothered about. |
| Hell | phr | "What the Hell" - what does it matter, who cares. |
| Hell | phr | "When the Hell" -whenever. |
| Hell | phr | "Where the Hell" - wherever. |
| Hell | phr | "Who the hell" - whoever. |
| Hell-begotten | adj | Born, or created in hell: diabolical, +++++ |
| Hell-bender | n | A protracted and reckless debauch; a drunken frolic. |
| Hell-bent | adj | Fiendishly dogged, or recklessly determined upon a certain course of behaviour. |
| Hell-bent | adv | Determinedly, recklessly. |
| Hell-born | adj | Born of, or in hell; of infernal anger. |
| Hell-bred | adj | Bred or engendered in hell. |
| Hell-broth | n | A decoction of infernal character or prepared for infernal or wicked purposes, as methane-laced drnks sold at some bars in parts of Asia. |
| Hell-busters | n | "They are real good, but the last two are hell-busters" : people who will not let the world get away with abuse and denial of respect to all peoples. |
| Hellcat | n | A vixen, witch, virago, hell-hag; a spiteful women. 2. a chartist; trade unionist, worker's friend. |
| Hell-dark | adj | As dark as hell, very dark. |
| Hell-deep | adj | Deep as the deepest part of a ocean or sea; profoundly deep; abysmally deep. |
| Hell-devil | n | Satan; or a diabolical person or thing. |
| Hell-diver | n | The grebe. |
| Hell-door | n | The door or gate of hell; hell-gate; hell's gate, opposed to 'Heaven's Door'. 2. an opening or way to hellish situation. |
| Hell-driver | n | Formerly a coachman; nowadays, one drives at highly dangerous speed. |
| Hellen | adj | Of or belonging to hell, hellish, infernal; hades-like. |
| Hell-fire | n | One of the torments of the damned; the flames of hell. |
| Hellfire | adv | Damned, |
| Hell-fired | adj | In profane use: damned; damned to the the fire of hell; 2. reckless, abandoned, profligate. |
| Hell-gate | n | The door or gate of hell; hell-gate; hell's gate, opposed to 'Heaven's Door'. 2. an opening or way to hellish situation. |
| Hell-god | n | Satan; god of hell. |
| Hell-hatched | adj | Something objectionable created or plotted in a figurative hell. |
| Hell-hated | adj | So objectionable he or she wouldn't be welcome even in hell. |
| Hell-hole | n | An oppressive or unbearable; a ghetto, slum; wretchstead. |
| Hellhood | n | The state or personality of an infernal being; usu used in irony. |
| Hell-hound | n | Cerberus, the dog of hell. 2. an extremely vicious and dangerous dog. 3. a fiend, diabolical person. |
| Hellhouse | n | A dwelling of sorts where diabolical or hellish plans are plotted. |
| Hell-hued | adj | Of the deepest black hue or colour. |
| Hellick | adj | Hell-like, hellish, infernal. |
| Hellier | n | A tiler, roofer, slater |
| Hellish | adj | Belonging or pertaining to Hell or Hades. 2. pertaining to hell or the infernal regions, infernal. 3. infernally, execrably, sometimes coarse, intensive devilish. |
| Hellishing | adj | Terrible, very terrible. |
| Hellishing | adv | Terribly. |
| Hellishly | adv | In a hellish manner; infernally, devilishly. |
| Hellishness | n | The quality or state of being hellish, infernal, damnable nature or disposition. |
| Hell-keepers | n | The guardians of hell. |
| Hell-kettle | n | A deep black gulf or abyss, a name locally applied to holes or pools, popularly supposed to be bottomless. |
| Hell-kindled | adj | Raised, created in hell. |
| Hell-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of hell in some aspects. |
| Hell-moth | n | A prostitute, ho, skanky-ho, street-walker, sex-worker. |
| Hell-mouthed | adj | Of language threatening, devious and diabolical. |
| Hellness | n | A title for a person of diabolical nature; as 'His Hellness" . 2. hell-hound |
| Hell-raisers | n | a person who causes trouble or creates chaos. |
| Hell's Angel | n | A member of a motorcycle enthusiasts notorious for their outrageous behavior. |
| Hell's Kitchen | n | Any neighborhood with a reputation for poverty and crime. 2. a New York city neighborhood, that was historically known for poor living condition. |
| Hell-spun | adj | Spun or wrought in hell; of fiendish or diabolical making; of Hades like in nature. |
| Hell's teeth | n | An exclamation of surprise. |
| Hell-wain | n | A phantom wagon seen in the sky at night. |
| Hellward(s) | adv | Towards hell, downwards; towards the centre of the earth. 2. towards the place of one's final punishment. 3. directed or conducting to hell. |
| Hell-weed | n | A name given to certain plants, noxious as weeds, and difficult to eradicate. |
| Hell week | n | The week during which new members are required to undergo undignified rites of initiation or grueling discipline in order to be accepted into a fraternity, sorority, secret society, military group, etc. |
| Hell-ware | n | The inhabitants of hell. |
| Helly | adj | Of or belonging to hell. 2. of the nature of hell; hellish, infernal, devilish. |
| Helly | adv | Hellishly, devilishly, infernally, diabolically. |
| Helm | n | In OE: the top of anything, a covering; part of the armour which covers the head, a helmet. 2. transfig. a man in armour. 3. the crown, or summit, top of anything; zenith. 4. a head or cap of an alembic. 5. christ's crown of thorns. 6. a roofed shelter of anything. 7. that by which affairs or matters are guided. |
| Helm | n | Stalk of corn, stalks collectively (variant of 'haulm'. |
| Helm | n | The handle or tiller in a large ship. |
| Helm | vb | To furnish or cover with a helm. 2. to guide with or steer with a helm. 3. to lay straw (in order) for thatching. |
| Helm | phr | 'At the Helm" - in charge, in control. |
| Helm | phr | "Down With the Helm" - to bring the rudder to windward. |
| Helm | phr | "Take the Helm" - take charge or control. |
| Helmbote | n | The right of cutting helm in a common field for thatching. |
| Helm-cloud | n | A cloud which forms over the top of a mountain, usually just before or during a storm. |
| Helmed | adj | Wearing a helm or helmet. |
| Helmlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a helm, top or cover. |
| Helm-less | adj | Without a helm or steering rudder. |
| Helmsman | n | The man at the helm who steers ships; a steersman. |
| Helmsman-ship | n | The office and office of a helsmanship. |
| Helm-wind | n | A violent storm rushes down the side of a mountain when a helm-cloud is over the summit. |
| Help | vb | Make something easier , better, quicker or less painful (for someone or something). 2. improve a situation. 3. refrain from doing something. |
| Help | n | Help, support, assistance. 2. person who gives assistance. 3. the act of helping or relieving. |
| Help | phr | "Give a Helping Hand" - offer and give aid and assistance to others. |
| Help | phr | "God Help Him" - exclamation in pity in a helpless condition of the person spoken of. |
| Help | phr | "Heaven Help You" - you are in trouble. |
| Help | phr | "To Help a Lame Dog Over The Stile" - give help to someone in trouble or difficulty |
| Help | phr | "Help Along" - assist the progress of; assist in moving forward in some endeavour or pursuit. |
| Help | phr | "Help off With" - help somebody to remove something, as an article of clothing.. |
| Help | phr | "Help Oneself/Yourself" - especially at a restaurant or an eating place, where one serves oneself or of the meal available there. |
| Help | phr | "Help On With" - help somebody to put on an article of clothing. |
| Help | phr | "Help Out"(to help through) - to afford completing something; to eke out; supplement. 2. to help somebody face a difficulty or problem. |
| Help | phr | "Help Oneself/Yourself" - especially at a restaurant or an eating place, where one serves oneself or of the meal avaialable there. |
| Help | phr | "Help Oneself to" - freely take, steal. |
| Help | phr | "Help To" - assist, aid, support. |
| Help | phr | "Help Wanted" - aid and assistance is welcomed. |
| Help | phr | "Not If I Can Help It" - only with my agreement. |
| Help | phr | "Not lift a Finger to Help" - to refuse to aid or assist. |
| Help | phr | "So Help Me God" - a solemn oath. |
| Helped | adj | That has been helped; added or assisted or helped out. |
| Helped-out | adj | Aided and assisted. |
| Help-fellow | n | A helpmate, a companion who renders assistance. |
| Helpend | n | Helper. |
| Helper | n | One who helps or assists. |
| Helpership | n | Office or position of a helper. |
| Helpful | adj | Full of help; having the quality of giving help; useful, servicable, profitable. |
| Helpfully | adv | In a helpful manner; so as to help him. |
| Helpfulness | n | The quality or state of being helpful. |
| Help-giver | n | One who gives help and assistance to others. |
| Helping | n | The action of giving help, ad, assistance, succour. 2. a means of help an aid. 3. the action of serving food of a meal. 4. a single portion of food served at a meal. |
| Helping-hand | n | Assistance. |
| Helping-hand | phr | "Give a Helping Hand To" - give assistance and aid to someone in trouble ordifficulty. |
| Helpless | adj | Destitute of help. 2. of persons: having no assistance from others, needy, needy. 3. having no resources in oneself; unable to help oneself; weak, or incapable.. 4. affording no help; unavailing, unprofitable. 5. admitting no remedy; that cannot be helped. |
| Helplessly | adv | In a helpless manner; without help or remedy; without being able to help. |
| Helplessness | n | The state or condition of being helpless. 2. want of aid or resource. 3. inability to help oneself. |
| Helpline | n | A telephone line set aside for callers to contact an organization for help with a problem. |
| Helply | adv | Afording help, helpful, serviceable. |
| Helpship | n | The function or position of a helper. |
| Helpsome | adj | Marked by a readiness or a willingness to help; characteristically helpful. |
| Help-work | n | Assistance. |
| Helpworthy | adv | Worthy or deserving help. |
| Helpy | adj | Helpful. |
| Helve | n | A handle of a weapon or tool, as an axe, chisel, hammer. |
| Helve | vb | To furnish with a helve. |
| Helve | phr | "To Throw the Helve After the Hammer" - after loosing or risking so much, to risk all that is left. 2. to go the whole length regardless of loss or damage. |
| Hem | n | The edge, rim, border, margin of anything.2. a finished edge made on a fabric by turning over the raw edge (usually twice) and sewing down the first fold.; done to prevent raveling or as an ornament. |
| Hem | vb | To edge a border, etc. 2. with confine or bound by an environment of any kind; to enclose, shut in limit, restrain, imprison. |
| Hem | phr | "Hem In" - enclose, restrain, shut in, confined, enclosed; imprisoned. 2. be limited in the choices available. 3. confine, restrict the movement of. |
| He-man | n | A particularly strong, virile or masterful man; perhaps, a alpha-man. |
| He-mannish | adj | Strongish, virile, masterful. |
| Heme | n | OE derivative of home: householder, man. |
| Hemline | n | The line or level of the lower of the edge of a shirt, dress or coat. |
| Hemlock | n | An evergreen tree (Tsuga) of North America and Asia. 2. the wood of the the hemlock tree. 3. a poison made from the unripe dried fruit of the hemlock herb. |
| Hemlock | vb | To poison with hemlock. |
| Hemmed | adj | Furnished with a border. |
| Hemming | n | A border, edge, fringe, margin, rim. |
| Hemp | n | A tall, annual herb, originally from Asia but now widely cultivated . 2. the stem fibres of this plant used to make canvas rope, etc. 3. a narcotic drug obtained from hemp. |
| Hempen | adj | Made of hemp; or pertaining to hemp. 2. resembling hemp. 3. a humorous reference to the hangman's noose. |
| Hempenly | adv | Related or connected with hemp. |
| Hemp-smoker | n | Marijuana, cannabis smoker. |
| Hempwort | n | Any plant of the hemp family, Cannabis sativa. |
| Hempy | adj | Made of, like or of hemp. 2. hempen, producing. 3. worthy of the hangman's halter. 4. affected by cannabis. |
| Hen | n | A female domestic fowl. 2. any female bird. 3. the female of the lobster and certain fishes. |
| Hen | adv | Henne; an obsolete form of 'hence' surviving of place, time, or inference (note: obsolete forms 'henne forth'; 'henforward.; 'hen(en)sith (departure), etc. |
| Hen | phr | "A Whistling Maid(en) and a Crowing Hen is Neither Good for God or Men" - a whistling maid (a witch), who whistles or calls up the winds and was supposed to be in league with the Devil. The crowing of a hen was supposed to forbode a death. The usual interpretation is that masculinity in woman is undesirable |
| Hen | phr | "Like a Hen With One Chicken" - overprotective of an only child. 2. indicating extreme solicitude or fussiness about a small matter. |
| Hen | phr | "Like a Mother Hen" - a womwn who constantly fusses over her children. |
| Hen-and-Chicken | n | A name for the Pleiades. |
| Henbane | n | A unpleasant smelling poisonous plant with sticky, hairy, yellow leaves (Hyosycamus niger) from which the narcotic drug hyoscine is drawn. |
| Hence | n | The other or next world; the future. |
| Hence | adv | Away from this place. 2. in the future. 3. from this cause or source; consequently; therefore. |
| Hence | vb | To order hence, or away. 2. |
| Hence | phr | "Go Hence" - depart, leave. |
| Hence | phr | "Hence With" - go away with; take away. |
| Hence-along | adv | Along of, or because of this; for this reason. |
| Hence-bought | adj | Since bought or purchased afterwards. |
| Henceforth | adv | From this time on or forward; from now onwards. |
| Henceforward | adv | From this time forward; henceforth, from now onwards. |
| Hence-from | adv | From this place or time. |
| Hence-going | adj | Going from this place, from now or this time. |
| Hence-meant | adj | Intended, purposed, of planned from this point on. |
| Hence-while | adv | Some time afterwards. |
| Hench | n | (Of a man): strong, fit, and having wee-developed muscles. |
| Henchman | n | A mercenary, adherent, a venal follower; one who holds at the bidding of others. 2. a servile assistant. 3. a faithful follower. 4. a male servant. 5. a standover man. |
| Henchwench | n | A henchwoman |
| Hend | vb | To Lay hold out, sieze, grasp, hold. |
| Hend | adj | Near at hand. 2. ready at hand, covenient, handy. 3. ready or skilful, dextrous, expert, clever. 4. of persons: pleasant at dealing with others; courteous, grateful, gracious, skilful, kind, nice. 4. plasing to the sight, comely, fair, fetching, bright. 5. |
| Hend | adv | Near at hand; courtteously, kindly, gently. |
| Hendly | adv | In a gracious, kind, gentle, maanner. 2. courteously, kindly, gently, graciously. 3. finely, neatly, gracefully, nicely. |
| Hendness | n | Courteous, gentleness. |
| Hendship | n | Courtesy, kindiness, kindness. |
| Hendwale | n | Henbane, (hyoscyamus niger). |
| Hendy | adj | Skilfully, handy, clever. |
| Hene | vb | To stone. |
| Hengest | n | A male horse; the horse generally. 2. a stallion, gelding, |
| Hengist and Horsa | n | The semi-legendary leaders who led the first Saxon warbands to settle in England. |
| Hen-hearted | adj | Timorous or faint-hearted; pusillanimous. 2. cowardly, meek; chicken-hearted. |
| Hen-hood | n | The state or condition of being a hen. |
| Hen-house | n | A small house or shed in which poultry are shut up for the night. 2. fig. a house or establishmeninhabited chiefly by women; slang for a brothel. |
| Hen-hussy | n | A man who meddles in women's affairs. |
| Henless | adj | Without or lacking hens. |
| Henlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic a hen in various ways. |
| Hen-night | n | A social occasion restricted to, or attended by, women. |
| Hennish | adj | Of or pertaining to a hen. |
| Henny | adj | Of or pertaining to a hen; hen-like. 2. having the plumage of a hen. |
| Hen-roost | n | A place where domestic fowls roost or are housed at night; hen-house, hencote. 2. a source of plunder, in allusion to a political speech referring to the robbing of the roosts (by wily foxes). |
| Hen run | n | an enclosure for hens. |
| Hen's Teeth | n | Something very rare. |
| Hent | n | The act of seizing, grasping, clutching; fig. that which is a grasped, clutched, conceived by the mind. 2. design, conception, intention. |
| Hent | vb | To lay hold of, sieze, grasp, catch; to take or hold in one's hand. 2. to lay hold of or take away; lift or move in some way,snatch, carry off. 3. to pluck up heart, or courage. 4. to hit at with a blow, strike, hit. 5. to get by, arrive at, reach, occupy. 6. to sieze, affect, as an influence on conditions. 7. to take, recieve, obtain, gain, meet with. 8. to experience, suffer, catch, take courage, apprehend, perceive. |
| Hent | prp | Till, until. |
| Hent | phr | "To Hent Upon" - to take in hand. |
| Henter | n | One who grasps, clutches, takes hold of, etc. |
| Henting | n | The action of laying hold of, grasping, seizing. |
| Henware | n | Edible seaweed, Alaria esculente.????? |
| Henwife | n | A woam who is in charge of the fowls; something applied with contempt to a man. 2. a bawd. |
| Hen-witted | adj | Foolish, stupid, dull-witted. |
| Heo | prn | He |
| Her | prn | The objective case of the pronoun. |
| Herd | n | A number of animals feeding or traveling together. 2. a large crowd,; especially, the common rabble. |
| Herd | vb | To bring or group together , in or as in a herd. 2. to care for or drive sheep. |
| Herd | n | "The Herd" - the multitude, the common people, the rabble, the vulgar. |
| Herd | phr | "Follow the Herd" - do what most other people are doing. |
| Herd | phr | "Herd and Flock' - a doublet meaning a company of domestic animals. |
| Herd | phr | "Herd Together" - gather together as, or like, a herd of animals. |
| Herd | phr | "Ride Herd on" - keep watch over. |
| Herdbook | n | A record of pedigrees of cattle in important herd |
| Herder | n | One who herds animals; a herdsman; a shepherd; herdman, herds-groom. 2. one who looks after a herd of cattle or sheep. |
| Herdfolk | n | A company of shepherds. |
| Herdless | adj | Without a herd or shepherd. |
| Herd-like | adj | Similar or resembling a herd, multitude, the throng, the common people, the rabble. |
| Herdman | n | One who herds cattle, sheep or other animals; herdsman. 2. a spiritual pastor. |
| Herdness | n | A collective firm or herds or flocks; stock. 2. guarding, keeping, custody. |
| Herd's-grass | n | Timothy grass, valued for its hay-making qualities. |
| Herdship | n | The office or charge of a keeper of cattle. 2. the herd or beasts under the control of a keeper. |
| Herdsman | n | One who herds cattle, sheep or other animals; herdsman. 2. a spiritual pastor. |
| Herdsmanship | n | The performance or occupation of a herdsman. |
| Herdwick | n | The tract of land under the charge of a 'herd' or shepherd employed by the owner or lord of the manor. 2. a pasture ground; sheep farm. |
| Herdwise | adj | Herdlike (in the way of the herd). |
| Here | n | Army |
| Here | adj | Gentle, mild, pleasant. |
| Here | adv | In or at this place. 2. to this place, hither. 3. at this point of time or stage of proceedings ; now. 4. at a place indicated. 5. in the present life. |
| Here | phr | "Be Up to Here" - hhave more than one can to or tolerate. |
| Here | phr | "Here After" - at some future time. 2. from this time forth. 3. in the state of life after death; after the present life. 4. |
| Here | phr | "Here Again" - gainst this, in opposition; in contradistinction or contrast to this; in comparison with this. |
| Here | phr | "Here Among" - here together, amid, amidst, in the midst of. |
| Here | phr | "Here and Now" - at this place; at the present, at present time or life. |
| Here | phr | "Here and There" - in this place and that place. 2. in various places in a scattered sense of places. 3. now and then in time. |
| Here | phr | "Here Below" - in this life (contrasted to heaven 'above') |
| Here | phr | "Here Goes" - an exclamation declaring one's resolution or resignation to perform some difficult or risky act, usually of a bold or rash character. |
| Here | phr | "Here in Before" - formed in a previous part of a document; hereinbefore. |
| Here | phr | "Here's To You" - a common form of toast in drinking to one's health. |
| Here | phr | "Here's Where" - this is the point at which. |
| Here | phr | "Here Lies" - written on gravestone followed by the buried person's name |
| Here | phr | "Here Nor There" - foreign to the subject under discussion. 2. unimportant, irrelevant. |
| Here | phr | "Here On" - in this place. 2. to this place. 3. hereupon. 4. on this subject or basis. |
| Here | phr | "Here Over" - over here. |
| Here | phr | "Here, There and Everywhere" - of one account either one way or the other; of no matter or consequences unimportant. |
| Here | phr | "Here To" - to this time, place or end. |
| Here | phr | "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow" - a philosophical comment on the transitory nature of man, his works, or any form of life. 2. said of somebody always on the move. and with whom one only has a brief or temporary contact |
| Here | phr | "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow" - a catch-phrase indicating a constant change of events (or something) remaining in place for a short time. |
| Here | phr | "Here-to's Hoping" - here's how. 2. here's to your health(a drinking to one's health). |
| Here | phr | Here We Are" - said on arrival at one's destination. |
| Here | phr | "Here We Go (Again)" - we are heading down the same undesirable course, project, etc as before. 2. of something (usually with negative connotation) about to be repeated. |
| Here | phr | "Here You Are" - said on handing something to someone. |
| Here | phr | "Neither Here Nor There" - irrelevant; trivial. |
| Hereabove | adv | In that place above (heaven). |
| Here-a-days | adv | Nowadays. |
| Hereafter | n | A future state of existence. |
| Herafter | adv | At some future time. 2. from this time forth. 3. in the state of life after death; after the present life. |
| Hereafterwards | adv | In the future. |
| Here-and-nowness | n | The present state or condition; the present. |
| Here-anent | adv | Concerning this; re. |
| Hereat | adv | At this place; here. 2. at this, as a reason, because of or as result of this. 3. at this time. |
| Hereaway | adv | Away in this direction; in this quarter of herehood; hereabouts. 2. in this present life; now. 3. to this quarter or neighorhood. (Hither hereaway) - to and fro in every direction. |
| Herebefore | adv | Earlier set down in this document or text; herein before. 2. before this time before now; in time past. |
| Herebelow | adv | In this world, in life, or earth below; here-beneath. |
| Herebeneath | adv | In this world. |
| Here beside | adv | Immediately next to. |
| Here-burne | n | Mall. |
| Hereby | adv | By means or virtue of this. 2. near this. |
| Here-dring | n | A warrior. |
| Here-fang | n | Booty. |
| Here-fare | n | A military invasion; here-going. |
| Herefore | adv | For this, instead or in consideration of this: in a view of this. 2. for this reason, on this account, therefore. |
| Hereforth | adv | In this direction or this way. |
| Herefrom | adv | For this place, hence from this state or consideration. 2. for this thing, fact or circumstance, from this source. |
| Here-geld | n | In scottish law a due analagous to the English 'heriot'. |
| Here-going | n | An invasion by an an army; here-fare. |
| Here-gume | n | A warrior. |
| Here-hence | adv | From this source; from this fact or circumstance, as a result of this. 2. from this point forward; from hence forth. 3. away from here, hence. |
| Here-in | adv | In this, in this place, circumstance. |
| Here-in-after | adv | In a subsequent part of this (document). |
| Here-in-above | adv | Before mentioned in this document, text, etc. |
| Here-in-before | adv | A preceding part of this document. |
| Hereinto | adv | Into this. |
| Heretofore | av | Up to the present, formerly. |
| Hereinunder | adv | In and under this. |
| Hereunto | adv | Up to this point. |
| Hereish | adj | Somewhat near or at a position or place. |
| Here-kemp | n | OE - warrior. |
| Herely | adv | Nobely, gloriously, splendidly. |
| Here-mark | n | An ensign. |
| Hereness | n | The fact or condition of being here. |
| Here-next | adv | Next with this; immediately after this. |
| Hereof | adv | Of this, concerning this, about this, because of this. |
| Here-on | adv | Herein. 2. of position: of this place of motion. 3. on this subject, matter, etc., on this basis. 4. on this occurrence |
| Here out | adv | Out of this place (of motion and position). 2. from this source; hence. |
| Hereover | adv | In addition to this. |
| Here-right | adv | Here on the spot; straightaway, immediately. |
| Here through | adv | Through this, by this means, hereby. |
| Here-till | adv | Herein; hereto. |
| Here-to | adv | To this place, hither. 2. to this matter; subject, etc., with reference to; regarding to this point. 2. annexed to this document. 3. in addition to this. 4. up to this time, hitherto. |
| Here-to-fore | n | The past; time past. |
| Here-to-fore | adj | Former, previous, hitherto. |
| Here-to-fore | adv | Before this time, before now, in time past; formerly, erstwhile. |
| Heretoga | n | The leader of the army. 2. the commander of the militia of a shire, county, heretochy (herzog). |
| Here-under | adv | Subsequently mentioned or set down in this document, book, etc. 2. under or beneath this surface or appearance. 3. under this title, heading etc. 4. under the authority of this statute. |
| Here-unto | adv | Unto or to this place; in this thing, matter, etc; to this document. |
| Here-upon | adv | Upon this thing, point, subject, matter. 2. immediately following upon (in this time or consequence) |
| Here-weeds | n | Armour, martial acoutrement. |
| Herewith | adj | Along with this. |
| Herewith | adv | With this; along with or together with this. |
| Herewith | adj | Accompanying. |
| Herewithal | adv | Here with. 2. an alternative form of wherewithal. |
| Here-within | adv | In this place or point within. 2. at the same time with this; upon this; with these words. 3. by means of this, hereby. |
| Here-without | adv | Without this. |
| Hereword | n | OE. word of praise, renown, glory. |
| Hereworthy | adj | Worthy of praise; praised, to be praised. |
| Hereyeld | n | The render or yielding of the superior of the best living beasts of a deceased vassal to the lord of the manor; at an earlier date commuted for a fixed money payment. |
| Here'yesterday | n | The day before yesterday. |
| Heriot | n | Military equipment. 2. feudal service, originally consisting of weapons, horses, and other military equipment, restored to a lord on the death of his tenant. afterwards the render of the best live beast (hereyeld) or chattel of a deceased tenant due by legal custom to the lord. |
| Hern | n | The heron. |
| Herring | n | A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food. 2. fish in the family Clupeidae. 3. fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes. |
| Herring | vb | To manure with herring. |
| Herring | phr | "Be a Red Herring" - deliberately misleading fact. |
| Herring | phr | "Every Herring Should Hang By His Own Head" - every one should stand by his own merits. |
| Herring | phr | "Neither Fish, Flesh or Good, Red Herring" - unclassiffiable by virtue of being neither one thing nor the other. |
| Herring-bone | n | The bone of the herring. 2. small cirorcumulus clouds, as herring bone clouds. |
| Herring-bone | vb | To work with herring-bone stitch. 2. to make with herring-bone patterns. |
| Herring-boned | adj | Resembling in appearance the bones of a herring. 2. made with herring-bone work. |
| Herring-bone line | n | Hatching used to represent mountains on a map. |
| Herring-bone-work | n | Masonry in which the stone are laid slanting inn opposite directions alternately. 2. a cross-stitch made of rows of diagonal stitches. |
| Herring-cob | n | The head of a herring; fig. a stupid person. |
| Herring-monger | n | A dealer in herrings. |
| Herring-pond | n | The ocean or dividing seas, especially the Atlantic which separates America from the British Isles. |
| Hers | prn | The absolute possessive case. |
| Hers | phr | "Of Hers" - belonging to her. |
| Herse | vb | To glorify, extol, hail,see halse: to hail |
| Herself | prn | Belonging or pertaining to her; the form of the possessive case of 'she' when used in predicative position, without a following noun, or after 'of'. 2. the things or persons belonging to or relating to her. |
| Herself | phr | "Be Herself" - to be in her normal condition of mind and body; to be in full possession of her faculties. |
| Herself | phr | "By Herself" - do by oneself (herself). |
| Hership | n | Harrying, pillage, devastation. 2. a warlike incursion, insurgency, invasion or foray. 3. a harried condition; hence, ruin, distresss, famine caused by robbery with violence. 3. booty, plunder, esp. the driving of, rustling of cattle. |
| Heried | adj | Praised, glorified, exalted. |
| Hersoun | vb | To glorify, do honour to; hery. |
| Herward | adv | Towards her. |
| Hery | vb | To glorify, praise, exalt, honor, worship. |
| Heryer | n | Worshipper. |
| Heryful | adj | Praiseworthy. |
| Herying | n | Praise, glorification, song of praise. |
| He-she | n | An effeminate man. 2. a hermaphrodite. |
| Hest | n | OE: haes; bidding, command, injunction, behest, vow, promise. 2. will, purpose, determination. |
| Hest | vb | To promise, to bid, command, to grant a wish. |
| Het | adj | Hot, heated. |
| Het | phr | "Het Up" - become angry, heated or annoyed |
| Hete | n | Command, promise, hight. |
| Hetefast | adv | Firmly, securely, fast. |
| Heterly | adj | Rough, fierce, violent, cruel, stern. |
| Heterly | adv | Roughly, fiercely, violently, cruelly, sternly. |
| Hetful | adj | Passionate. |
| Heugh | n | A precipitious or hanging descent, a rugged, steep precipice, cliff or scaur; most commonly one overhanging a river of the sea. |
| Heven | vb | To raise up, lift up, exalt, (see: heaven and heave). |
| Hew | vb | To strike, or deal blows with a cutting weapon. 2. to strike forcibly with aa cutting tool. 3. to cut with swinging strokes of a sharp instrument, as an axe or sword. 4. to cut or chop into pieces. 5. to chop, hack, gash. 6. of horse or man: to strike leg against the other?. |
| Hew | phr | "Hew Asunder" - cut into pieces. |
| Hew | phr | "Hew Away" - to sever by a cutting blow. |
| Hew | phr | "Hew Down" - cut down from above. 2. cut down with rough chopsping blows; hack down. |
| Hew | phr | "Hew One's Way" - make a way for oneself by hewing. |
| Hew | phr | "Hew Out" - cut or hollow ou. |
| Hew | phr | "Hew Up" - cut up from the roots. |
| Hewe | n | OE. hiwa(n); members of a household; domestics, a servant. |
| Hewed | adj | Cut or hacked down. |
| Hewen | n | OE: hiwen; a family, a household. |
| Hewer | n | One who cuts wood or stone; specifically, one who shapes and prepares stone for buildings. 2. a hewster. |
| Hewer | phr | "Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water" - folk or classes whose lot is to labor, at necessary, if often menial or unskilled,jobs for others. 2. drudges or laborers of the lowest kind; drudge. |
| Hewing | n | The action or act of cutting or hewing. 2. the act of a swinging stroke with an axe or other sharp instrument. 3. hacking, slaughter., a cut, gash or injury produced by hewing |
| Hewing | adj | That hewed or cut. |
| Hewn | adj | Cut, hacked, shaped from wood or stone. |
| He-wolf | n | The male wolf. |
| Hewt | n | OE. hiewe; hewing, cutting. 2. a copse, grove. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Hi | prn | Reflexive form of he; accusative of them. |
| Hidden | adj | Concealed, secret, hidden, hid, put out of sight, not known. 2. occultive. |
| Hidden | phr | "Hidden Hand" - secret or occult influence, esp of malignant character. |
| Hiddenly | adv | In a hidden manner, so as not be evident to the sight or understanding; secretly. |
| Hiddenmost | adj | Most hidden or secret. |
| Hiddenness | n | Secrecy, concealment. 2. the condition of something being hidden. |
| Hide | n | The skin of an animal; the hide. 2. the skin or hide of an animal, either raw or dressed; gen. applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses. 2 the dressed skin or hide of an animal (esp. a large animal) 3. body covering of a living animal; hide, pelt. 4. the human skin; -- so called 'hide' in contempt. |
| Hide | phr | "Have a Thick Hide" - not be easy offended or put off. 2. be impervious to criticism. |
| Hide | phr | "Have the Hide to Ask" - to be impudent, effrontive. |
| Hide | phr | "See Neither Hide Nor Hair" - To see no trace, nothing whatsoever, indication or evidence, esp. of a person. |
| Hide | phr | "Want Somebody's Hide" - to be keen to penalize somebody. |
| Hide | n | A measure of land (a hide) reckoned as that sufficient to support a free family with dependents. 2. members of a household, a peasant. 3. a abode or dwelling. 4. measure of land, (a hide) common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres.(also hyde.) |
| Hide | n | The act or action of hiding. 2. concealment; a hiding place, cache. |
| Hide | vb | To remove the skin from. 2. to flog, whip, flay, thrash. |
| Hide | vb | To prevent from being seen or discovered; hide, conceal. 2. be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety. 3. to remove from danger; to shelter, hide, hide out. 3. cover as if with a shroud; shroud, enshroud, hide, cover. 4: make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide. 2. to flay, flog, thrash. 5. to conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete. 6. to withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; hide, to refrain from avowing or confessing. |
| Hide | vb | To measure the number of hides in a piece of land. |
| Hiding | phr | "Be On a Hiding To Nothing" - A situation in which victory has little or no value at all, but defeat has a huge loss. 2. to be in a situation in which nay outcome would be unfavorable or in which success would be impossible. |
| Hide | phr | "Hide One's Ears" - to turn away or out of earshot. |
| Hide | phr | "Hide One's Head" - to protect one's head; to shelter one's shelf; take cover or shelter. |
| Hide | phr | "Hide Oneself" - to put oneself in a safe position; to secure protection for oneself. |
| Hide | phr | "Hide Out" - to go into hiding; to hide from the authorities. |
| Hide-all | n | That hides and covers up all. |
| Hide-and-Hue | n | Skin and complexion. 2. alliterative collocation with hue: colour, complexion, countenance. |
| Hide-and-seek | n | A children's games with varying rules, but basically one seekers finds a number of hiders and brings them to a 'den' within a stated time. 2. elusive or teasing tactics with another person, group, etc. |
| Hideaway | n | One who hides hideaway, a fugitive, runaway, stowaway. 2. a palce of concealment or retreat. 3. that hides or is hidden away. 4. a small quiet restaurant where "lovers" meet. |
| Hideaway | phr | "Hide Away (In)" - take cover or shelter (in); conceal (oneself)in; |
| Hidebehind | n | A creature in US folklore that may be glimpsed but never seen clearly. |
| Hide-bind | vb | To confine restrict. 2. to render hidebound. |
| Hidebound | adj | Of cattle: having skin closely adhering tho the back and rib area resulting from poor nutrition and, of a consequence, emaciated. 2. of humans having skin tight and incapable of extension. 3. of trees: having bark so closely fitting and unyioelding that growth is impeded. 5. of persons: restricted in view and scope of mind: narrow, bigoted, obstinately set in their opinions. 5. of spending: stingy, close-fitted, niggardly. |
| Hidegeld | n | A tax paid on every hide of land. 2. a fine paid instead of a flogging. |
| Hidel | n | A hiding-place, a burial place. |
| Hidel | phr | "In Hidel" - in concealment, in secret. |
| Hide-less | adj | Without a hide or skin. |
| Hidel-like | adv | Secretly, clandestinely. |
| Hidels | n | A hiding place. |
| Hide-out | n | A hiding place. 2. one who hides out |
| Hider | n | ne who hides or conceals him or herself. |
| Hiding | n | The condition of being hidden; concealment. 2. the action of hiding (lit. & fig.). 3. something that hides. 4. means of concealment. 5. a hiding place. |
| Hiding | n | A flogging, whipping, flaying. 2. thrashing, beating. |
| Hiding | adj | That hides. |
| Hiding | phr | "Be On a Hiding To Nothing" - A situation in which victory has little or no value at all, but defeat has a huge loss. 2. to be in a situation in which nay outcome would be unfavorable or in which success would be impossible. |
| Hiding-cloth | n | A curtain or veil. |
| Hidings | n | Secrets. |
| Hidlings | adj | Hidden, secret, underhanded, clandestine. |
| Hidlings | adv | In hidden-wise, secretly; in hidlings or secretly in a hidden way. |
| Hidness | n | Hideness, secrecy, hiddenness. |
| Hidy-hole | n | A hiding place. |
| Hie | n | Striving, advancement, progress. 2. quickness, speed, haste, diligence, soonness. |
| Hie | vb | To strive, exert oneself. 2. to hasten, speed (up), go quickly. 3. to hasten, make hasten, go quickly, use diligence and dispatch. 4. to betake or hurry oneself quickly. 5. get on with it quickly. 6. to advance, make progress, prosper, come on quickly, get on quickly. |
| Hie | phr | "Do in Hie" - go quickly, in haste, do quickly. |
| Hieful | adj | Speedy, hasty, prompt, quick. |
| Hield | n | A slope, incline, declivity. |
| Hield | vb | To cause to bend. 2. to bend downwards or to one side. 3. to lean, incline, slope. 4. to bow, kowtow, submit. 5. to sink, drop, decline, fall, to come or go down. 6. to bend one's course; turn in a particular direction. 7. to take one's way; to favour or take another's side. 8. to turn away or aside. 9. to pour out (liquor) by sloping or tilting the vessel that contains it. 10 to shed, pour (lit & fig). |
| Hield | phr | "On Hield" - (sometimes: "On held")- in a bent or sloping position |
| Hielded | adj | Inclined, tilted, steeped. |
| Hielding | n | Slope, inclination, declension. 2. a pouring out. 3. sloping, inclining, tilting (lit & fig.) |
| High | n | OE. hyge. understanding, understanding, mind; an important word in the older teutonic languages, but obsolete by ME. the teutonic root 'hug' belongs also 'hight,' 'hightle,' 'hightly,' etc. 2. thought, intention, purpose, determination. |
| High | n | A lofty level or position or degree. an air mass of higher than normal pressure. 2. a state of sustained elation. 3. a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics. 4. a high place. |
| High | vb | To make high or higher (lit & fig.) 2. to be high or higher (lit &fig.) 3. to rise up, surmount, ascend, mount. 4. extol, exalt, elevate. 4. to raise up, elevate, lift up. |
| High | adj | Greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount; of great strength, force, importance; strong; mighty; powerful; violent; sometimes, triumphant; victorious; majestic. 2. (lit.) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension, as in (`knee-high'); elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high tree. 3. standing above others in quality or position; eminent; regarded as raised up or elevated; distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; superior. 4. elevated in character or quality, either moral or intellectual; preeminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives. 5. possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high; intense heat; high; noon; spicy; seasoned. 6. completely; deep or vivid of color; high: extensive, thorough. 7. exalted in social standing or general estimation, or in rank, reputation, office, and the like; dignified; of noble birth, grand, noble.; illustrious; as, of high family. 8. arrogant; lofty; boastful; proud; ostentatious; - used in a bad sense. 9. used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency. 9. happy and excited and energetic. 10. of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or a little tainted; strong-scented. 11. slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug, as marijuana: mellow. 12.(music.) acute or sharp. 12. very abstract; difficult to comprehend or surmount. 13. costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price. |
| High | adv | At or to a great distance or extent upwards. 2. in or into a position, far up, aloft. |
| High | phr | "An All-time High" - a record achievement. |
| High | phr | "Be On One's High Horse" - stand on one's dignity. 2. take offence easily. |
| High | phr | "Blow Something to High Heaven" - prove something to be wrong. |
| High | phr | "Come Hell or High Water" - act regardless of the consequences. |
| High | phr | "From On High" - from a high or exalted position; specifically from heaven. |
| High | phr | "Get On One's High Horse" - to be excessively arrogant and pompous. |
| Higher | phr | "Have a Higher Head" - to have a superiority to gain the victory or mastery. (with a higher head). |
| High | phr | "Have a High Old Time" - make meery, esp. in the absence of a restraining influence. |
| High | phr | "Have the High Ground" - have an advantage in moral terms. |
| High | phr | "High and Dry" - on shore above the reach of water. 2. stranded; helpless; in a difficult position. |
| High | phr | "High and Mighty" - haughty, self-important and arrogant with the presumption of being superior to others. |
| High | phr | "High as a Kite" - very much under the influence of drugs. |
| High | phr | "High Days and Holidays" - days when festivals, celebrations are held; special occasions generally. |
| High | phr | "Higher You Climb, the Harder you Fall" - the risk of disappointment, disgrace or failure increases in proportion to the heights of one's ambition , position in life or profession. |
| High | phr | "High On the Hog" - well off, living comfortably, or extravagantly. 2. living/ eating high on the hog. 2. live high off the hog. |
| High | phr | "Highways and Byways" - all the roads or routes, large and small; (fig) the main fors or trends of something, as well as less known aspects. |
| High | phr | "High, Wide and Handsome" - easily, with triumph, masterfully. 2. in a carefree manner; in good style. 3. the quality of being high and mighty. |
| High | phr | "Hit the High Spots" - to go to excess or extreme. 2. to touch on important matters. |
| High | phr | "Hold One's Head High" - to stay unruffled and maintain one's dignity despite attempts by others to embarrass. |
| High | phr | "In the Highest" - in heaven; in the loftiest. 2. in modern usage, in the highest degree. |
| High | phr | "It's High Time that" - the time is long overdue when something should happen or be done. |
| High | phr | "Leave High and Dry" - to draw all support from a person or to isolate a person from an involved position. 2. on shore above the reach of water. |
| High | phr | "On High" - in or to heaven or a high place. |
| High | phr | "Play High" - play for high stakes. |
| High | phr | "Ride High" - to be successful but vulnerable. |
| High | phr | "Run High" - be intense, strong of feeling. 2. of the sea current flowing strongly. |
| High | phr | "To Fly High" - to be ambitious. |
| High | n | "The Most High" - God, a supreme being, 'the most highest'. |
| High-and-Mightiness | n | The quality of being high and mighty. |
| High-and-Mighty | n | A social or economic group, wielding wide power, influence or clout. |
| High and Mighty | adj | Overbearing, arrogant, ostentatiously, self-important or self-aggrandizing; self-opinionated. |
| High-backed | adj | An animal or something having a high back. |
| High-beam | adj | A vehicle headlight beam with a long-range focus |
| Highberg | n | High or lofty mountain. |
| High-binder | n | A corrupt politician. 2. a member of any of the various Chinese-American secret societies involved in a range of criminal activities during the mid 1800s. |
| High-blooded | adj | Aristocratic. 2. of high birth, descent or race. 3. of self-named superior race. |
| High-boned | adj | Having high cheek bones. |
| High-born | adj | From a high rank of society. 2. of noble birth or extraction. |
| High-borne | adj | Exalted, lofty, of high bearing. |
| High-bred | adj | Of high breed, stock or descent. 2. high-born. 3. characterized by highly refined manners. 4. characterized by a high bringing up. |
| High-breed | adj | High born, of high breed or stock, or descent. 2. characterized by a highly-refined manner. |
| High-brow | n | A person of superior intellect, attainments or interests, occasionally derisively applied. |
| High-browed | adj | Intellectually superior. 2. having a high forehead. |
| High-browish | adj | Fairly or somewhat high-brow. |
| High-browness | n | The state or condition of being highbrow. |
| High-cliff | n | A lofty or high cliff. |
| High Church | n | Refers to beliefs ad practice of ecclesiology, liturgy, and theology, generally with an emphasis on formality and a resistance to modernization. |
| Highcraft | n | Art, skill of an excellent or outstanding standard. |
| High day | n | (Maybe, the same word or origin of 'hey-day;' the noon, midday, when the sun is full or high in the sky or heavens, as high-day noon. 2. a day of great or high celebration; solemn or festal day. 3. a full day, when the Sun is high in the sky. 4. of or befitting a high day. |
| High-deer | n | Stag. |
| High-end | n | Something considered an expensive or extreme quality item as designer clothes and top-line electronic equipment. |
| Higher | phr | "Higher You Climb, the Harder you Fall" - the risk of disappointment, disgrace or failure increases in proportion to the heights of one's ambition , position in life or profession. |
| Higher | phr | "Have a Higher Head" - to have a superiority to gain the victory or mastery. (with a higher head). |
| Higher being | n | Any of the various theoretical, or unknown, non-human life forms believed to have power over human life. 2. a word often used for the modern Christian God. 3. a general term or title for an indefinite belief a god of some form. |
| Higher-ground | n | A position of advantage or superiority, especially an ethically superior position. |
| Highermost | adj | Highest. |
| Higher-up | n | One occupying a superior position or post. |
| Higher-up | adj | A more elevated or superior position. |
| High-feeding | adj | Rich and luxurious food. |
| High-five | n | A gesture of celebration of victory in which two people hands together at shoulder height or higher. |
| High-flood | n | Deluge. |
| High-flown | adj | Soaring high or lofty. 2. carrying things to a high pitch. 3. elevated, elated, intoxicated. 4. of sentiment, language, style: extravagant, hyperbolic, bombastic. 5. of person: extreme in position or parts, feeling, esp. in support of claims of authority in church or state. |
| High-flyer | n | One who flies high or soars, as a bird, person, air-balloon etc. 2. one who flies (high) in his notions, aims and ambitions. 2. (sl) a pretentious or fashionable strumpet. 3. a 'swell' beggar. 4. a letter writer begging for charity. 5. an extravagant statement. |
| High-flying | n | Flying to a great height; lofty flight. 2. ambitiousness, high goals or aims; pretensions. 3. the principles of high-flyers. |
| High-flying | adj | That flies high as a bird. 2. soaring (in notions, aims, ambitions.) 2. making or upholding high claims, as in matters of church or state. 3. making high or extreme claims for something. 4. transfig. swift. |
| High freols | n | High festival. |
| Highful | adj | High. 2. haughty, proud (lit. & fig.) |
| Highgate | n | High street, highway (frequently, in combination with 'street' - and placenames in the North of England. 2. a name of a hill in London. |
| High go | n | (Colloq) - a bout or spree of merriment, frolic; merrymaking, revelry. |
| High-ground | n | The position of superiority in a debate (high-moral ground). |
| High-grown | adj | Covered by tall vegetation. |
| High-handed | adj | Acting or done in an overbearing, arrogant, or arbitrary action or behavior. 2. an imperious or absolute exercise power. |
| High-handedly | adv | In a high-handed or arrogant manner. |
| High-handness | n | A high-handed overbearing, arrogant action or way of behaving. |
| High-hat | n | One who wears a top hat; hence an aristocratic snob. 2. fig. a person of affected superiority. |
| High-hat | vb | To assume an affected superiority. 2. to snub, treat snobbishly. |
| High-hat | adj | Superior, lofty, better. |
| High-headed | adj | Carry the head high; proud, haughty, lofty, arrogant. 2. courageous, high-spirited. |
| Hight-hearted | adj | Courageous, high-spirited; in earlier use, haughty, arrogant. |
| High-heartedness | n | The state or quality of being high-spirited, haughty, arrogant. |
| High-hede | n | Hight, highness; highthood. |
| High-heeled | adj | Having high heels (of boots, shoes, footwear.) |
| High-heels | n | Shoes for women with high heels. |
| High-holiday | n | The Jewish New Year or The Day of Atonement. |
| High-hopes | n | An aim or goal that is unattainable. |
| High horse | n | An appearance of a sense of smug superiority. |
| High-income | n | Relating to the income group of people earning high incomes. 2. with a high national income. 3. (of an investment)with or offering high dividends. |
| Highing | n | Exaltation, elevation, loftiness; raising. |
| Highish | adj | Somewhat high or lofty. |
| High-key | n | In photography, consisting of light tones. |
| High-keyed | adj | With high musical pitch. 2. sensitive, spirited. |
| Highland | n | High or elevated land; a lofty headland. 2. a mountainous region, territory or highlands of Scotland. |
| Highland | adj | Living or dwelling in a high or mountainous district. 2. of, or pertaining to the mountain regions of Scotland. |
| Highlander | n | One who dwells in or inhabits a mountainous region. 2. a person living in or inhabiting the Highlands of Scotland |
| Highlandish | adj | Of the nature of a highland, like the Scottish Highlands. |
| Highlandman | n | A person liing a mountainous or hilly region. |
| Highlands | n | The mountain regions of western Scotland, and north of the Grampians. |
| Highlands | phr | "Highlands and Islands" - broadly the Scottish Highlands, plus Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles. |
| High law | n | In thieves cant: highway robbery. |
| High lawyer | n | A highwayman, a robber. |
| High-life | n | Full of life and spirit. 2. life of fashionable society or high luxury, ascribed to the upper classes. |
| Highlight | n | A strongly illuminated area in drawing, painting, photography. 2. an especially significant or interesting detail or event; a bright prominent or outstanding feature or characteristic. 3. a strand or spot of hair dyed or tinted a different colour than the rest. 4.to tint or colour parts of the hair in such way that they catch and reflect light. |
| Highlight | vb | To make prominent, emphasize. 2. to be highlight of. 3. to mark (an important part of a text) with a usually fluorescent marker as a means of memory retention. 4. to dye, tint, bleach (part of a hair) a different color than the rest. |
| Highlight | phr | "Highlight Something" - to draw particular attention to a matter. |
| Highlighter | n | A marker pen used to highlight text. 2. that which highlights or emphasizes something. |
| Highlighting | n | The emphasis of text. 2. an area of skin or hair containing highlights. 3. |
| Highlighting | adj | Causing emphasis; drawing attention, revealing. |
| Highlightish | adj | Somewhat or fairly emphasized, drawing attention, revealing, highlighting. |
| Highlightly | adv | In a highlighting, emphasizing, revealing, drawing attention manner. |
| High-lines | n | A high voltage electric transmission lie. 2. a line or cable strung between ships or to ships from shore in order to transfer cargo or persons. |
| High living | n | A luxurious manner of life, as in diet. |
| Highly | adv | In a high place or situation. 2. aloft, on high, so as to be high or lofty. 4. with a high position or rank. 5. supremely, principally, specially. 6. in or to a high degree, amount, extent or condition 7. greatly, intensely, extremely, very much. 8. at a high rate or price. 9. with a elevated voice, loudly; aloud. 10. with high quality of action. 11. in high style, with stateliness or majesty, solemnly, nobly, excellently. 12. with honour, honourably, with high approval, appreciation, praise; now chiefly with think, speak or the like. 13. solemnly, seriously, earnestly. 14. to high degree of artistic quality, elaborately, with perfect workmanship. 15. proudly, haughtily, arrogantly, ambitiously, with indignation and anger. |
| Highly | adj | High, lofty, exalting. 2. noble, splendid. 3. of high degree; intensely profound. |
| Highly-strung | adj | Strung to high tense or pitch. 2. in a high state of anxious sensitivity or nervousness. |
| Highman | n | A man of rank, especially of a high rank ; a superior. 2. a loaded dice that yields high numbers. |
| High-minded | adj | Having or characterized by a haughty, proud or arrogant or elevated spirit. 2. having a morally lofty character. 3. characterized by having high principles, ethics; magnanimous. |
| High-mindedly | adv | In a proud, haughty or arrogant manner. 2. acting in a moral, lofty manner. |
| High-mindedness | n | The caharacteristics of being high-minded, haughty, proud, morally-lofty, highly-principled. |
| Highmost | adj | The most highest of position, place, etc. |
| High-name | n | An exalted name. |
| Highness | n | Quality or condition of being high, tallness, altitude (now made obsolete by 'heght'. 2. quality or condition of loftiness of rank, position, rank, class, dignity, majesty. 3. something that is high, as a high place or region; a height, top, summit. 4. haughtiness, pride, over-bearingness. 5. greatest of degree, amount, force, high degree. 6. title given to Kings. |
| Highness-hood | n | The rank or personality of one who has the title of highness. |
| High noon | n | Midday, noon, when the sun is full or high in the sky or heavens. |
| High (old) time | n | An enjoyable and excitable time. |
| High-reaching | adj | That attains or reach a high position; aspiring. |
| High-rise | n | Multi-storied apartments, towers. 2. a tall building, as a man-storied apartment. |
| High-rise | adj | Describing a relatively (often, very tall) tall building or structure. |
| High-riser | n | One who lives in a man-storied apartment. |
| High-road | n | A main road or highway. 2. a cause of action which is honourable, dignified, or respectable. |
| High-roofed | adj | A house having a high-pitched roof. |
| High Sea | n | Regions of ocean far from shore. 2. the unenclosed waters of the oceanor sea, especially those beyond the territorial jurisdiction of any one country or nation. |
| High Seas Fleet | n | Calque of G. Hochse Flotte. |
| High-set | adj | Set in high or lofty position |
| High-settle | n | Throne. |
| High-sheriff | n | The chief executive of the Crown in a county administering justice. |
| Highship | n | State or position of high dignity. 2. elevation, altitude. |
| High-shoe | n | A rustic, an ordinary man. |
| High-shoon | adj | (pl.) - rustic, boorish. |
| High-shoonman | n | A rustic, agricultural laborer, a high-shoe. |
| High-sided | adj | Having high-sides. |
| High-sighted | adj | Having one's sight directed aloft. 2. supercilious. |
| High-sin | n | Mortal or deadly sin. |
| High-souled | adj | Noble, pure, high-minded. 2. taking the high moral ground. |
| High-speed | adj | Able or fitted to work at a high speed. 2. moving rapidly or very fast; produced or caused by high speed. 3. produced by swift processes or machinery. 4. that operates, moves or takes place of a greater than normal speed. |
| High-stand | n | An interval dating during which the sea level was above the edge of a continental shelf. |
| High-stepper | n | A person of stately walk or bearing. |
| High-stepping | adj | Of and aniaml or person with a high gait. 2. a person with a stately walk or bearing. |
| High-street | n | A highway, a main street in a suburb or city, often named 'High street' or that street of a town which is built upon a great highway and is (or was) the principal one of the town. (In OE times often applied to one of the Roman roads or street, such as (Watling street). |
| High-strung | adj | Strung to a very pitched; strained; highly sensitive. |
| High summer | n | The middle of the summer season, contrasted with early or late summer. |
| Hight | n | A commamd, promise, vow. |
| Hight | n | Exertion, impetuous haste. |
| Hight | n | Hope, glad expectation, gladness, joy. |
| Hight | vb | To command, bid, call, summon, order. 2. ordain. 3. promise, vow, pledge oneself. 4. to bid, call, name, call oneself, be called, have or bear the name. 5. to mean, purpose. 6. to hope, anticipate. 7. to direct, commit, designate, name. |
| Hight | vb | Called or named. |
| Hightail | vb | To run quickly away, to move quickly or with speed; as 'To Hightail It Out of Town". 2. to depart hastily, especially in fright. |
| Hightail | phr | "Hightail It" - to run quickly away, to move quickly or with speed |
| Highth | n | Height. |
| High tide | n | The natural tide at its highest point. 2. the time of day when the sea has risen to its highest level. 3. climax, culminating point or phase; the highest part of something. 4. a high time; high day, festival. |
| High time | n | About time; past the proper time. 2. an occasion or revelry, enjoyment and excitement. |
| High times | n | The appropriate time or just past the appropriate to do something. 2. high old times: an enjoyable and exciting time. |
| Highting | n | Bidding or promising, vowing. |
| High times | adv | The latest possible time. 2. a time that is possibly too late. |
| Hightle | vb | To adorn, ornament. |
| Hightly | adj | Joyous, exultant, delightful, pleasant; in OE., hopeful. |
| Hightly | adv | Pleasantly, becomingly. |
| High-up | adj | In a high or elevated position, high above the ground; also fig., a high place or rank. 2. a person of having rank or status. |
| High-water | n | The state of the tide when the water is highest. 2. the time when the tide is at the full. 3. the state of the tide when the surface of the water is highest. |
| Highwater mark | n | The mark left by the tide at high water, the line or level when flooded; also, by extension, the highest line touched by a flooded river or lake. 2. the level reached by the sea at tide, or by a lake or river at its highest state. 3. a maximum recorded level or value. 4. fig. the highest point of intensity, excellent, prosperity, or the like obtained. 5. a dirty mark showing the limit to which a person has washed. |
| Highway | n | A main road or public road, esp. one connecting major towns or cities. 2. a public road open to all passenger; esp. a main or principal road forming the direct or ordinary route between one town or city and another. 3. transfig. the ordinary or main route, or line of communication followed by land or water. 4. a track well-beaten or regularly traversed by animals or vehicles. 5. another word for an expressway. 6. a course of leading directly to some end or result. 7. the ordinary or direct course (of conduct) thought, speech, etc. |
| Highway | phr | "Highways and Byways" - all the roads and routes , large and small. 2.(fig) the main forms or trends of something, as well as less known aspects. |
| Highway | phr | "The Queen's Highway" - a public road. |
| Highwayless | adj | Without a highway or main road. |
| Highwayman | n | One who frequents the highway for the purpose of robbing passengers or travelers. |
| High-wire | n | An elevated tight rope. |
| High-wire walker | n | An acrobat who walks on a high-wire. 2. an aerialist, tight-rope walker. |
| High-witted | adj | Intelligent, smart, sharp-witted. |
| Highwood | n | A forest of high trees. |
| High-wrought | adj | Agitated or highly excited. 2. wrought or worked in exquisite art or skill. 3. accurately furnished, nobly labored. |
| High-yellow | n | A light-skinned person of a mixed black and white parentage. 2. a snow blood. |
| High-yield | adj | Bountiful, plentiful, abundant of production. |
| High-yielding | adj | Designately something that gives very good product or return. |
| High-yellow | n | A person of mixed race with a light yellow complexion. |
| Hild | vb | To flay, skin, strip the skin. 2. tear strips off the skin. |
| Hilding | n | The action of flaying, skinning etc. |
| Hilding | n | A worthless or vicious beast, esp. a horse, a jade, a hack. 3. a contemptible person; a good-for-nothing man; a jade (a woman.) |
| Hill | n | A small mountain. 2. a heap or mound of earth, sand raised by human or other means. 4. a heap formed around a plant by banking up or hoeing. 5. fig. something not easily overcome. |
| Hill | vb | To cover, cover up, protect. 2. to cover from sight, conceal, hide. |
| Hill | vb | To heap up or of an enormous mass. 2. to dig up the roots of growing plants. 3. to rise in or on a slope. 4. to assemble on rising ground. |
| Hill | phr | "Get the Hill" - to get or take the vantage point. |
| Hill | phr | "Go Downhill" - to deteriorate. |
| Hill | phr | "Head for the Hills" - to seek to escape one's commitments. |
| Hill | phr | "Hill of Beans" - nonsense, trivial. |
| Hill | phr | "Light On the Hill" - distant goal acting as an inspiration. |
| Hill | phr | "Old as the Hills" - very old. |
| Hill | phr | "Over the Hill" - to be old, and past one's prime or best. 2. having passed the prime of professional abilities, physical beauty. |
| Hill | phr | "Up Hill and Down Dale" - here, there, and everywhere. |
| Hill-brow | n | A summit or top of a hill. |
| Hill climb | n | A race for vehicles up a steep hill. |
| Hill climber | n | A vehicle used in races up steep hills. |
| Hill-climbing | n | The racing of vehicles up steep hills. |
| Hill-fastness | n | A secure refuge; esp. a place well-protected by natural features, such as a hill or mountain. |
| Hillcraft | n | The skills required to, and relating to survival in a hilly habitat. |
| Hill-folk | n | Hill-men, hill-man; rustic. 2. one who frequents or inhabits the hills. 3. inhabitants of the hills. |
| Hill-foot | n | Foothills. |
| Hilliness | n | The property of being hilly or having hills. 2. the quality or state of being hilly or having hillness. |
| Hilling | n | A covering, hiding, protection. 2. a covering, eg. clothing, bed-quilt, eider-down; a roof; a book cover. 3. the action of heaping up or forming hills. 4. the earthing-up or uprooting of plants. |
| Hilling | phr | "Hilling and Food" - food and shelter; board and lodgings . |
| Hilling-stone | n | A stone for roofing. |
| Hillish | adj | Of the nature of a hill; like a hill; pertaining to a hill. |
| Hill-like | adj | Resembling a hill or hills. |
| Hillman | n | One who frequents the hills. 2. an inhabitant of hilly country; hill-folk; highlander. 3. hill tribe man. 4. hill-climber. 5. a rustic; a bumpkin. a miner. 6. elves or trolls. |
| Hillness | n | The state or quality of being hilly; hilliness. |
| Hillock | n | A small hill; a hump, bump, protuberance. |
| Hillocky | adj | Abounding in or characterized by hillocks. |
| Hill-shading | n | Lines of shading on a map to represent hills. |
| Hillside | n | The slope, rise of ground or lateral side of a hill. |
| Hillsider | n | One who lives on a hillside. |
| Hillsman | n | A hillman. |
| Hill-top | n | The top or summit of a hill; a pinnacle. 2. the peak or crest of a hill, as a 'hill-top house.' |
| Hill-top writing | n | Books, novels, articles solely written for the sake of embodying and enforcing one's own opinion (not generally accepted by his or her contemporaries) |
| Hill-walking | n | The past time of a hill-walker, walking in the hilly country. |
| Hillwards | adj | That faces towards a hill. |
| Hillwards | adv | Towards the hill. |
| Hill-woman | n | A woman who lives in the hills or belongs to a hill tribe. |
| Hillwort | n | Pennyroyal |
| Hilly | adj | Characterized or abounding in hills. 2. of the nature of hills, elevated, steep. 3. hill-like. 4. hill-dwelling. |
| Hilt | n | The handle of a sword or dagger, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, made for easy use of the blade and give protection to the hand. 2. a sword-stick or foil. 3. a handle or haft of any weapon. 4. the base of the penis. |
| Hilt | vb | To furnish or provide with a hilt. |
| Hilt | phr | "Loose in the Hilts" unreliable, adulterous, cheating, conjugally unfaithful. |
| Hilt | phr | "Up to the Hilt" - completely, thoroughly, to the maximum degree or extent possible. |
| Hilted | adj | Furnished with or having a hilt. |
| Hiltless | adj | Lacking a hilt, not having a hilt. |
| Him | prn | The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject already indicated. 2. any one; the man or person; -- used indefinitely, and usually followed by a relative pronoun. 3. man; a male; any male person; -- in this sense used substantively. |
| Himself | prn | An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself. 2. note: 'himself' was formerly used instead of itself, as under him. 2. one's true or real character; one's natural temper and disposition; the state of being in one's right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as, the man has come to himself. |
| Himself | phr | "Be Himself" - one's true or real character; one's natural temper and disposition. |
| Himself | phr | "By Himself" - alone; unaccompanied; apart; sequestered; as,he sits or studies by himself. |
| Himself | phr | "He Is Not Himself" - he is not in his usual state of bodily or mental health. 2. out of sorts; generally unwell. |
| Himself | phr | "Leave One to Himself" - to withdraw from him; to let him take his own course. |
| Himward | adv | Towards him. |
| Hin | prn | Accusative of he.(superseded by him). 2. |
| Hind | n | The female of the (red) deer. 2. a female deer more than three years old. |
| Hind | phr | "The Milk-white Hind" - the Roman Catholic Church (infallible) as opposed to the 'Panther' (full of spots of errors). |
| Hind | n | Members of the household or family, kin, hewe. 2. a married farm servant for whom a house is provided. 3. a bailiff or steward on a farm. 4. a rustic, boor, yokel. 5.. a person, lad, chap, lad. |
| Hind | adj | Back, behind, posterior. 2. situated behind, in or belonging to the rear |
| Hind | adv | Behind |
| Hind | phr | "Hind and Forth" - hind-end foremost, back-side foremost. |
| Hind | phr | "Stand On One's Hind Legs" - standing, esp. to make a speech. 2. exert one's authority. |
| Hind-afore | adj | The back part of the front. 2. the wrong way around and backwards; hind-first; |
| Hindberry | n | The raspberry, so called as supposed eaten by hinds. |
| Hindbrain | n | The posterior part of the brain, being the cerebellum, pons and medulla. |
| Hind-calf | n | The young of a hind. 2. a fawn. |
| Hinder | n | The buttocks, the hind-end. |
| Hinder | vb | To make difficult to achieve something, frustrate, to put an obstacle in the way of something or someone. 2. to keep or hold back, prevent. 3. delay, retard, obstruct, or impede. 4. to do harm or injure, impair damage. 5. to vilify, disparage, slander, belittle. |
| Hinder | adj | Situated behind or at the back, back, rear, posterior. of time: last, past in this hinder day or yesterday or hinder night : last night. |
| Hinder | phr | "To Hinder Time" - to spend or use up time. 2. to frustrate, delay, retard. |
| Hinder-end | n | The latter end, the opposite of the fore-end or beginning. 2. the end of life. 3. the rear end, posterior, the back of anything. 4. pertaining of a thing (eg. of corn) which remains after selecting and sifting operations, as hinder-end barley.. 5. residue, leavings. |
| Hinderer | n | One who, or that which, hinders, prevents, delays, etc. 2. an obstructor, one who hinders or impede. 3. an injurer, one who harms or damage. |
| Hinder-fallings | n | Excrement. |
| Hinderful | adj | Iniquitous, impious. |
| Hinderfully | adv | Iniquity, treacherously. |
| Hinderhood | n | Posterity. |
| Hindering | n | Detriment, damage, disparagement. 2. obstruction, impediment, hindrance. |
| Hindering | adj | That hinders, impedes and obstructs. 2. so as to obstruct or prevents. |
| Hinderingly | adv | In in delaying, preventing, holding back manner. |
| Hinderland | n | Hinterland. |
| Hindlimb | n | The back limbs of an animal. |
| Hinderling | n | A base, mean, degenerate person. 2. one who is behind or in the rear. |
| Hinderling | adv | (in OE.) - backwards, in a backward direction. |
| Hinderlings | n | Buttocks, arse, posterior. |
| Hinderly | adv | Backwards, behind. |
| Hindgut | n | The embryonic structure from which the colon develops. |
| Hindmilk | n | A high-fat, high-calorie breast milk that your baby gets toward the end of a feeding. It's richer, thicker, and creamier than foremilk, the breast milk that your baby gets when he first starts to breastfeed. The color of hindmilk is creamy white. |
| Hindermore | n | The hind part; the hind-quarters. |
| Hindermore | adj | More towards the rear. |
| Hindermost | adj | Hindmost, most hind; situated in the rear. |
| Hinder-night | n | Last night, yesterday's night. |
| Hindersome | adj | Tending to hinder; injurious, harmful, obstructive. |
| Hinderyeap | adj | Crooked, deceitful, cunning. |
| Hind-first | adj | Back to front; hindside forth. |
| Hindgut | n | The caudal part of the alimentary canal of an embryo, including the colon and the rectum. |
| Hindhead | n | The back of the head, the occiput. |
| Hindheal | n | Euperatorium ambrose, ambrosia. |
| Hinderland | n | Hinterland: a region behind that lying along the sea or watercourse. |
| Hindmost | adj | Farthest behind, or in the rear. 2. last in position, last to come, last in order, succession, or time. 3. most remote. |
| Hindmost | phr | "The Devil Take thr Hindmost" - I do not care what happens to others |
| Hindside | adj | The back part of a thing, as 'hind-side-foremost' |
| Hind-side-foremost | adj | Backwards foremost, backside-first; backside-forth; backsides-forwards; backwards-in; backways; back-end foremost. |
| Hindsight | n | Realization or understanding of the significance and nature of events after the have taken place. 2. a rear sight of a firearm. |
| Hindsight | n | "Hindsight is 20/20" - perfect understanding of events after they have happened. |
| Hindsightly | adv | Retrospectively; in retrospect. |
| Hindsome | adj | Situated between. |
| Hindward | adv | Towards the rear, posterior. 2. backward in development or progress. |
| Hindware | n | A range of sanitary products. |
| Hind-wolf | n | A lynx |
| Hinehood | n | Family, household, company. |
| Hinge | n | |
| Hinge | n | The pluck : the heart, liver or lungs of a beast. |
| Hinge | vb | OE: hang? or ON. To bend (anything) as a hinge. 2. to attach or hang with a hinge. 3. to hang and turn as a door on its post. |
| Hinge | phr | "Hinge Upon" - depend on. |
| Hinged | adj | Furnished with or having hinges. |
| Hingeless | adj | Lacking or without hinges. |
| Hinging | n | The act of fitting hinges to a gate. 2. attaching by or equipping with hinge(s). 3. considering or making something dependent; predicating. |
| Hingle | n | A hinge; esp. that part of the hinge which is attached to the gate or door and turns upon the pintle fixed on the post. |
| Hint | n | Maybe OE?: hent: to sieze. An indirect suggestion; hint, intimation, breath. 2. a slight indication, clue. 3. a slight but appreciable amount; touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon. 4. a just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of; trace, hint, suggestion. 5. an indication of potential opportunity; tip, lead. |
| Hint | vb | To drop a hint; intimate by a hint; hint, suggest. 2. to bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion. 3. to suggest; intimate; insinuate; imply. 4. to make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something. 5. to hint at, to allude to lightly, indirectly, or cautiously. 6. to allude; refer; glance; touch. 7. an remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive. |
| Hint | phr | "Broad Hint"- obvious clue. |
| Hint | phr | "Drop a Hint" - give a casual clue. |
| Hint | phr | "Hint at" - give a hint of, refer indirectly to. |
| Hinted | adj | A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement. 2. a small, barely detectable amount. |
| Hintedly | adv | In a tacit manner avoiding a direct statement |
| Hinter | n | One who or that which hints or gives a hint. |
| Hinterland | n | Inland. 2. the region away from the coast. |
| Hinterlanders | n | One who lives in the hinterland or a region far from the coast. |
| Hintermost | adj | Most remote, closer to the outer edge or back. |
| Hinting | n | The act of giving a hint or suggestion.? |
| Hintingly | adv | In a hinting manner. |
| Hithe | n | A port or haven, a small landing place on a river, often found in place names |
| Hip | n | The fruit of the wild rose, or of roses in general. 2. the fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose; (Rosa canina); called also rose hip. |
| Hip | n | Either side of the body below the waist; at and above the thigh. 2. the projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle;the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates; pelvis, girdle. 3. the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum. 4. the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof. |
| Hip | vb | To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side. 2. to throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling. 3. to make with a hip or hips, as a roof. |
| Hip | adj | Informed about the latest trends. 2. aware of the latest ideas, trends, fashions, and developments in popular music and entertainment culture; not square; -- same as hep. |
| Hip | phr | "Down in the Hip" - said of a horse when the haunch-bone is injured; hence fig. 'out of spirits' |
| Hip | phr | "On or Upon the Hips" -wrestling: at a disadvantage. |
| Hip | phr | "Have On the Hip" - to have mastery over one in a struggle, a term derived from a throw in wrestling. |
| Hip | phr | "Hip and Shoulder" - |
| Hip | phr | "Shoot from the Hip" - react quickly and decisively. 2. to speak frankly and openly. |
| Hip | phr | "Smite Hip and Thigh" - to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. |
| Hip-bath | n | A portable bath for sitting in immersed to the hips; a sitzbath. |
| Hip-bone | n | The ilium or ischium; the upper part of the thigh bone. 2. the innominate haunch bone and/or huckle bone. |
| Hiphalt | adj | Lame in the hips; see 'halt' OE.- crippled, or maimed es. in the leg. |
| Hipless | adj | Without hips. |
| Hiplessness | n | An absence of hips. |
| Hiplike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a hip. |
| Hip-roof | n | A roof having or formed by hips or sloping edges, the ends being inclined a swell as the sides. |
| Hip-shoot | adj | Having the hip joint dislocated. 2. lame, awkward. |
| Hip tree | n | The dog-rose. |
| Hipwort | n | A fleshly, edible plant in the stonecrop family, umbilicus rupestris, kidneywort, navelwort. |
| Hird | n | Household, a family. 2. company of servants or retainers, a retinue, a king's court. 3. a monastic household. |
| Hird-child | n | Child of the house. |
| Hird-folk | n | Household servant. 2. followers. |
| Hird-gome | n | Man of the court. |
| Hird-knave | n | Household boy child |
| Hirdman | n | A man who is hired. 2. a (hired)servant, domestic, retainer. |
| Hird-play | n | Courtly amusement. |
| Hird-swain | n | Household attendant, retainer. |
| Hire | n | Payment for the temporary use of something. 2. (obsolete) Reward, payment. 3. the state of being hired, or having a job; employment. 4. person who has been hired, especially in a cohort. |
| Hire | vb | To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. 3. to employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job. 3. to exchange the services of for remuneration. 4. to accomplish by paying for services. 5. to accept employment. |
| Hire | phr | "Hire and Fire" - to employ, hire and sack or dismiss. |
| Hire | phr | "Hire Out" - allow temporary use of somethingin return for payment. |
| Hire | phr | "On Hire" - for hiring. |
| Hired-hand | n | A person employed on a farm. |
| Hired-man | n | A man hired to do oddjobs, especially about farms. |
| Hireless | adj | Without hire or pay; unhired. |
| Hireling | n | One who serves for hire and wages. 2. one who makes material gains the motive of his action. 3. mercenary. 4. an employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence. 5. someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest for the work itself. |
| Hirer | n | One who hires. 2. one who lets something for hire. |
| Hiring | n | The act of hiring or engaging people for work or employment. |
| Hirn | n | A nook, corner, hiding place, hurn. |
| His | prn | That which belongs to him; the possessive case of 'he' used without a following noun. 2. it's; belonging to it. 4. as a genitive marker in place of 's after a noun. |
| His | phr | "His Back is Up" - hee is annoyed; irritated, somewhat angry. |
| His | phr | "His and Hers" - of matching items for husband and wife/men and women. |
| His Holiness | n | A title used when addressing the Pope |
| Hit | vb | To strike physical. 2. to administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile. 3. to come into contact with forcefully and suddenly. 4. to kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party. 5. to attack, especially amphibiously. 6. to briefly visit. 7. to encounter. 8. to attain, to achieve. To reach or achieve. 9. to meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck. 10. to guess; to light upon or discovered. 11. to affect negatively. 12. in cricket and baseball) to come up to bat. 13. computing, too use; to connect to. 14. (slang) to have sex with. |
| Hit | n | A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. 2. a success, especially in the entertainment industry, as hit recording. 3. an attack on a location, person or people. 4. (internet) the result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine. 5. an approximately correct answer in a test set. 6. (colloquial) a dose of an illegal or addictive drug. 7. a premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes. 8. a peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark. |
| Hit | phr | "Be Hard Hit" - to be deeply or severely affected by something. 2. harmed by misfortune. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit and Miss" - guess, random procedures which hve some success and some failures. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit and Run" an accident when a driver strikes a pedestrian with a car and leaves the scene of the incident. 2. to hit someone or something with a vehicle and leave the scene of the incident. 3. fail to stop (by a driver) after an accident. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit Back (at)" - counter attack vigorously; retaliate; defend oneself. 2. reply with vigor to verbal attack. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit Below the Belt" - use unfair tactics. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit Hard" - affect something or somebody adversely. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit for Six" - defeat in argument. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit Home" - to be especially memorable, meaningful or significant, to be fully understood, believed or appreciation. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit It Off Together" - to develop an amicable arrangement. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit Off" -To describe in quick characteristic strokes. 2. to commence, start a contest or sporting event, such as golf. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit On" - to flirt with, to approach and speak to someone, seeking romance, love, sex; to hit upon. 2. to discover, pinpoint, to think up, realize, invent. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit One's Stride" - when walking or running to reach a full or comfortable pace. 2. to reach a full level of efficiency, confidence, comfort, etc., to get going. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit or Miss" - whether one hits or misses; happy-go-lucky. 2. lacking organization, careless, inconsistent, unpredictable, erratic and sometimes failing. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit Out (at)" - To attack with blows; fig. with critical or biting words. 2. to direct blows forcefully and vigorously. 3. to make a verbal attack on. 4. criticize something or someone strongly. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit Somebody When (He/She) is Down" - take advantage of somebody who is in trouble. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit Someone For Six" - in cricket hit the ball over the boundary line on the full. 2. fig. to damage a person's cause. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit Someone Hard" - to greatly effect a person emotionally or cost a person a lot of money. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit Someone Right Between the Eyes" - to be brutally frank. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit the Books" - to study, esp. with particular intensity. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit the Bottle" - to drink steadily and in excess. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit the Bull's Eye" - to make a correct decision. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit the Ground Running" - to begin an activity immediately and with full confidence. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit the Hay" - to go to bed. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit the Headlines" - to appear prominently in the news, esp. on the front page. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit the Mark" - to achieve one's object or to make a correct decision. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit the Nail on the Head" - to astutely come to the correct conclusion. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit the Pipe" - to smoke opium; 'kick the gong around" |
| Hit | phr | "Hit the Road" - begin a journey. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit the Roof" - to be explosively angry. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit the Sack/Hay" - go to bed; retire for the night. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit the Silk" - to parachute. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit Up" - to contact with request or demand. 2. to have a practice session before a tennis match. 3. to take orally or inject an intoxicating drug. 4. to force up, speed up. |
| Hit | phr | "Hit Upon" - suddenly devise or discover. 2. to discover, pinpoint, to think up, realize, invent. 3. to flirt with, to approach and speak to someone, seeking romance, love, sex; to hit upon. |
| Hit | phr | "It Hits One" - one comes to realize something. |
| Hit | phr | "Make a Hit" - meet with great approval, friendliness. |
| Hit-and-Run | n | The action of a motor-vehicle driver who strikes a pedestrian with a car and leaves the scene of the incident for which he or she is responsible. 2. to hit someone or something with a vehicle and leave the scene of the incident/ accident. 3. to describe a raid, or raider etc., who uses swift action followed by an immediate withdrawal. |
| Hithe | n | A port, haven or harbor; esp. a small landing place on a river. 3. now found in place names, as 'lamb-hithe' now Lambeth. |
| Hither | adv | To the place, to here; over there. 2. in this direction. |
| Hither | adj | On this side, nearer. 2. near to or towards the person speaking; opposed to farther. |
| Hither | vb | To move or come thither. |
| Hither | phr | "Hither and Thither" - to this place and that, in this direction and in that (alternatively. 2. to and fro; in various direction. 4. here and there. 5. in a disorderly manner. |
| Hither | phr | "Hither and Yon" - to this place and beyond. |
| Hithercome | n | An arrival; an advent. 2. the action of coming hither |
| Hitherest | adj | Nearest |
| Hithermost | adj | Most in or situated in this direction, nearest. 2. up to this time; until now, as yet. 3. up to this point (in writing). 4. to this place, thus far. 5. hindermost, nethermost, uttermost. |
| Hitherside | n | This side; the nearer side. |
| Hithertill | adv | Hitherto. |
| Hitherto | adv | Nearest in this direction. |
| Hithertofore | adv | Heretofore. |
| Hithertoward(s) | adv | Hitherwards; hitherto. |
| Hitherunto | adv | Hereto, hitherto. |
| Hitherward(s) | adv | Towards this place; hither; in this direction. 2. on this side (lit& fig.). 3. until now. |
| Hitless | adj | Of a recording artist (singer or musician) who fails to have a successful hit record for a long time. 2. unable to inject oneself with a drug; unable to 'score a hit'. |
| Hit-list | n | List of persons to be assassinated. 2. a list of persons, etc against which some concerted action intended. 3. a list of objectives. |
| Hitmaker | n | A musician who frequently records songs that are successful. |
| Hitmaking | n | The production of popular songs on various formats, as records, disk, etc. |
| Hitman | n | Someone who kills for a living; a hired assassin. 2. a contract killer. 3. a hitwoman. |
| Hit-mark | n | A scar from an injection of a drug. |
| Hitter | n | One who hits, esp. a cricketer who is able to hit the ball far. |
| Hitting | n | A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object. |
| Hit-out | n | A match or session, particularly for practice. 2. |
| Hit out | vb | To react viciously towards someone or something. |
| Hitting | n | The action of striking, impacting, colliding. |
| Hitting | adj | That strikes, hite, collides, impacts. |
| Hitty-missing | adj | Random, haphazard. |
| Hitty-missy | adv | At random; hit or miss; at haphazard. |
| Hive | n | A structure or receptacle for housing a swarm of honey bees; a beehive. 2. the store of sweet things. 3. the bees of one hive; a hive of bees, a swarm of bees. 3. fig. place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd, as in a wretched hive. 4. fig. a place where swarms of people issue, teeming multitude, the nursery of a teeming race. 5. the abode of any gregarious, domestic animal. 6. a breeding place for oysters. |
| Hive | vb | To form or gather or live together as in a hive, as bees; to house snugly. 2. to locate bees into hive. 3. to shelter as in a hive, to afford shelter to, as a hive does a swarming. 4. to separate from a larger group: 'to hive off.' 5. to enter the hive, take to the hire; transfig. - to lodge together. 6. to hoard up or store, as bees with honey in a hive. |
| Hive-addle | n | A disease or sickness that spreads through a hive. 2. an epidemic; a contagion. |
| Hive-bee | n | A common honey-bee; a hive-cote. |
| Hive-dross | n | Bee-glue; propolis |
| Hive-honey | n | Honey from a bee hive. |
| Hiveless | adj | Without or not having a hive, or hives. |
| Hive-like | adj | Resembling a beehive. |
| Hive-nest | n | structure consisting of an aggregation of many bees. |
| Hive-off | vb | To separate or make from a larger group; to swarm off like bees. 2. to segregate, to remove from a parent entity. 3. to become transferred, break away or remove from a large unit from a main body of a commercial or industrial enterprise through the agency of a new organisation. |
| Old English | English | |
| In Old English many words started with an 'rh' combinations. | Examples: | |
| Hróf | n | Roof, ceiling; top, summit; heaven, sky |
| Hróffæst | adj | With a firm roof |
| Hrófléas | adj | Roofless, with no houses |
| Hrófsele | n | Roofed hall |
| Hrófstán | n | Roof stone |
| Hróftígel | n | Roofing tile |
| Hróftimber | n | Material for roofing |
| Hrófwyrhta | n | Roof-maker, builder, roofwright |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Ho | n | The hough, heugh |
| Ho | n | A recent spelling of the OE hoyian - to care, be anxious, long. - see "hoe" |
| Hoar | n | A white or greyish white colour or hue. 2. hoariness, antiquity. 3. hoary from age, rime, mold. |
| Hoar | vb | To become moldy or musty. |
| Hoard | n | A hidden supply or fund. 2. a cache of valuable objects or artifacts; trove. |
| Hoard | vb | To amass, usually for one's own personal collection, often excessively. 2. to keep in store, treasure up, cherish, conceal (eg. in the heart) |
| Hoard-burg | n | OE: hordburg - a treasure city, such as the Vatican. |
| Hoarder | n | A keeper of the treasure. 2. curator. 3. treasure. 4. one who collects or accumulates articles of various kinds to such a quantity that normal life becomes difficult. |
| Hoard-house | n | A treasury, treasure-house, hordern |
| Hoardily | adv | In a hoarding or miserly manner. |
| Hoarding | n | The act or behavior of collecting and amassing various things and articles to such a quantity that normal life becomes difficult. 2. an accumulation stored way for safeguarding or for future use. |
| Hoardingly | adv | In a manner of collecting and amassing various things and articles to such a quantity that normal life becomes difficult. |
| Hoard-ward | n | Guardian of the treasure. |
| Hoared | adj | Made or grown hoary. 2. becoming or growing mouldy, musty, stale. 2. of a white-greyish or greyish white in colour. 2. hoarily bearded, canescent, hairy. 3. venerable, ancient, august. |
| Hoarfrost | n | Dewdrops which have undergone deposition and frozen into ice-crystals to form a white deposit on an exposed surface, when the air is cold and moist. |
| Hoar-frosted | adj | Dewdropped; hoar-frosted. |
| Hoar-frosty | adj | Having a white deposit on a surface, hoar-frosted. |
| Hoar-haired | adj | Of a white-greyish or greyish- white in hair colour. 2. hoarily bearded, canescently hairy. |
| Hoar-headed | adj | Having the head hoary (grey or white) with age. |
| Hoar-hound | n | Horehound. |
| Hoarily | adv | With a hoary appearance of grey or grey-whitish hue. |
| Hoariness | n | The quality or state or being hoary |
| Hoarish | adj | Somewhat hoary or grey-whitish in colour. |
| Hoarness | n | The quality of being hoary. 2. hoariness. 3. a close growth of white or greyish hair. |
| Hoarse | n | A cough or condition of being or becoming hoarse. 2. hoarseness. |
| Hoarse | vb | To make or become hoarse. 2. harsh or rough in sound. |
| Hoarse | adj | Afflicted by a dry, harsh voice. |
| Hoarse | phr | "Hoarse as an Old Crow" - very hoarse. |
| Hoarsely | adv | With a hoarse voice or sound. |
| Hoarsen | vb | To make hoarse. 2. to become hoarse. 3. to sound hoarse. |
| Hoarseness | n | The quality or condition of being or becoming hoarse. |
| Hoar-stone | n | A hoar: a grey (or grey with lichen) ancient stone. 2. an ancient boundary stone; a merestone. 3. a memorial stone, standing stone, ancient and associated with some particular event or tradition. |
| Hoar-withy | n | Pyrus aria: the whitebeam. |
| Hoary | adj | Of head, hair or beard: grey or white in age. 2. having white or grey hair; greyish hair. 3. grey, greyish-white in colour, canescent. 4. ancient, venerable in age; time-honoured. 5. mouldy, musty, corrupt. |
| Hoast | n | OE: hwosta: a cough. |
| Hoast | vb | To cough, cough up or out. |
| Hock | n | OE: hoc - general name for various plants, such as the hollyhock, marshmallow. |
| Hock | n | The joint in or of the hinder leg - the hough, ho, heugh. (short for hockshin) |
| Hockshin | n | The joint in or of the hinder leg - the hock, hough, ho, or heugh. |
| Hoe | n | Projecting ridge of land. 2. promontory. 3. a point of land, formed like a heel and stretching into a plain or perhaps the sea, now only in place-names, Ivanhoe (Ivinghoe); Sutton hoo. |
| Hoe | n | OE: hoyian; howe, - care, anxiety, trouble. |
| Hog | n | Celtic in origin, late OE loan word. a swine, especially castrated swine, barrow-pig, boar. 2. in OE: a young sheep, often one who has not been shorn; coarse or filthy person. 3. any animal belonging to the suidae family of mammals, esp. the pig, the wart-hog and the boar. 4. a greedy person, one who refuses to share. 5. a rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under bottom. |
| Hog | vb | To greedily take more than one's share of something. 2. to take precedence at the expense of others or another. 3. to clip short(ly) the mane of a horse. 3. to scrub the bottom or a boat with a hog. 4. to cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards. 5. a slang word for a shilling. |
| Hog | phr | "Be a Road Hog" - selfish, reckless, thrusting motorist. |
| Hog | phr | "Go the Whole Hog" - do something completely (refers to the close shearing of lambs). |
| Hog | phr | "Hog It" - colloquially, to live in a rough, uncouth fashion. 2. to act selfishly and greedily. |
| Hog | phr | "Live High Off the Hog" - have a luxurious lifestyle. 2. be greedy; have more than one's fair share. |
| Hog | phr | "Make a Hog of Oneself" - show greed, gormandize. |
| Hogback | adj | A back humped like that of certain hogs. 2. a sandy or rocky ridge caused by unequal erosion of the outcropping edge of tilted strata. 3. a steep-sided ridge or hill. |
| Hog-backed | adj | Elevated towards the middle, like the back of a hog. |
| Hogbane | n | Goosefoot. |
| Hog-cote | n | A pig-sty, shed or enclosure for pigs. |
| Hogginess | n | The state or quality of being hoggy or like a hog. |
| Hoggish | adj | Having the characteristics of a pig. 2. having a gluttonous appetite. |
| Hoggishly | adv | In a hoggish or pig-like manner. |
| Hoggy | adj | Hoggish, gluttonous of character. 2. of land: boggy, marshy, squelchy. |
| Hog-heaven | n | A state of contented bliss. |
| Hog-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a hog in some aspect |
| Hog-reeve | n | A civil officer whose duty (in former times) was to impound pigs found running wild. |
| Hog's-head | n | A large cask. 2. a liquid measure of varying capacity. |
| Hog-shearing | n | One who promises great things but never fulfills the promise. 2. all talk and no do. 3. great cry and little wool, as the Devil said as he sheared the hog. |
| Hog-tie | vb | To tie an animal or person's feet together. 2. to render helpless. |
| Hog-town | n | Any poor town or out-of the-way place, that is populated by rustics and their farm animals. |
| Hog-wallow | n | Any poor town or out-of the-way place, that is populated by rustics and their farm animals. |
| Hog-wash | n | Foolish talking or writing; nonsense. |
| Hog-weed | n | Any of the numerous coarse weeds of persistent growth. |
| Hog-wild | adj | Enthusiastic or excited to an irrational extent. 2. go bersek. |
| Hogwort | n | Phalon graveolens. |
| Hoker | n | OE: hocor - mockery, derision, scorning contempt, abuse, revile. |
| Hoker | vb | To scorn, revile. 2. to pour scorn on. |
| Hokerful | adj | Scornfully, scornful. |
| Hockerly | adv | Scornfully, contemptuously. 2. in a way worthy of scorn, contempt, injudiciously. |
| Hoker-word | n | Gibe, mockery. |
| Hold | n | A grasp or grip. 2. something reserved or kept. 3. the property of maintaining the shape of styled hair. 4.(wrestling) a position or grip used to control the opponent; to have a tight hold on someone. 5.(gambling) the percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold. 6. (gambling) the wager amount, the total hold. 7.(tennis) an instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken. 8. a fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin. 9. (video games; a pause facility. |
| Hold | n | In OE times, the title of an officer of a high rank in the Danelaw corresponding to the High Reeve among the English. |
| Hold | n | OE. hyldo; allegiance, fidelity. |
| Hold | n | OE "hold" - a carcass, dead body, corpse, cadaver. |
| Hold | vb | To grasp or grip. 2. to contain or store. 3. to maintain or keep to a position or state. 4. to have and keep possession of something. 5. to reserve, as to hold or book a table in a restaurant at an appointed time. 6. to cause to wait or delay, as hold the lift. 7. to detain in a cell. 8. to be or remain valid; to apply; to hold true; to hold good. 8. to keep oneself in a particular state; to hold firm; to hold opinions. 8. to impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. 9. to bear, carry, or manage; to hold erect; hold one's head high. 9. not to move; to halt; to stop. 10. not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or not subdued. 11. to maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions. 11. to maintain, to consider, to opine. 12. to bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions; hold to a promise. 13. to hold responsible for the actions of those under one's command or control.
14. to maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain. 15. to accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain. 16.(archaic) to restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back. 17. in tennis: to win one's own service game. 18. to organize an event or meeting. 19. (archaic) to derive right or title. |
| Hold | adj | OE (also spelt "holde")- gracious, kind, friendly. 2. loyal, faithful, true of persons. |
| Hold | phr | "Don't Hold Your Breath" - give up all expectations. |
| Hold | phr | "Get Hold of" - obtain something. 2. contact somebody |
| Hold | phr | "Have a Hold Over Somebody" - have somebody in one's power" |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Against" - to think less of someone for something they have done wrong. 2. allow something to affect one 's judgement of somebody. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold At Arm's Length" - keep remotely distant, formal. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold a Winning Hand" - be in an unbeatable position to defeat others. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Back" - to act with reserve, caution, hesitancy or fear. 2. to contain one's full measure of power; to contain; stop, check, prevent from advancing. 3. to delay esp. in school. 4. restrain, keep back, reserve from disclosure. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Cheap" - consider worthless. 2. of low esteem. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Dear" - value highly. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Down" - to keep down (lit. & fig.) to keep under, in subjection, repress, oppress, subjugate. 2. to restrain, to check. 3. to continue to hold and manage well. 5. keep at a low level. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Everything" - wait, take no action. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Fast to Something" - adhere,cling to something ( aprinciple, theory) with determination or stubbornness. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Fire" - not fire a gun immediately, because one doesn't know where one's enemy is. 2. to wait for an an right time or opportunity to fire (with a firearm) at somebody or something. 3. refarian from doing something , esp. of a critical or aggressive nature, until one is certain that is the correct thing to do. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Forth" - to keep up, maintain, continue, go on with; speak at length and ,sometimes, pompously. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Good" - hold true, be or remain valid or applicable. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Hands" - clasp or grasp another's hand . 2. to contribute, help, support, comfort, co-operate, concur. 2. to be on an equality with. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Harmless" - in law, indemnify. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Hard" - in racing parlance, to pull up a horse during a race. 2. stop, go easy; keep a firm hold, seat, or footing, or else there is a danger of being thrown off. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold In" - to keep in, confine, retain, restrain, keep in, keep in check. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold It" - stop, be aware, and alert. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold It Good" - think it advisable; in check, confine. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold It Against" - blame, have a low opinion of someone. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Life Cheap" - consider something , esp. a condition, usually valued, to be of little value or importance. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold No Fears (Of)" - have no fears or terror of. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Oath"- late OE - an oath of fealty. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Off" - to keep off, away, at bay, or at a distance, put off, delay. 2. restrain oneself. 3. prevent from overwhelming. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold On" - to retain in its state or place. 2. stay and stand firm in the face of danger; wait, pause. 3. fasten; keep in position; hold on to. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold One's Breath" - to pause noticeably before exhaling. 2. to wait, as if breathlessly. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold One's Ground" - to stand one's ground. 2. refain, at least, temporarily from taking action. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold One's Hand" - to refrain, forbear. 2. give a person guidance or support. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold One's Head Above Water" - cope with problem but with little margin to spare. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold One's Head's High" - to behave proudly or arrogantly. 2. hold oneself high. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Oneself In" restrain oneself. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold One's Horses" - to be patient, to wait, relax and slow down hold on. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold One's Own" - to maintain one's position or advantage against competition or any opposing force. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold One's Tongue" -remain or keep silent when one wishes to respond to criticism or inaccuracy. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold One's Way" - to continue to go, go on, keep going, proceed, continue, make one's way. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold On Like Grim Death" - hold something tenaciously. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold On One's Way" - to maintain steadly; to go without heeding interruptions. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Out" - to stretch forward; extend the hand, or something held in the hand. 2. to keep out, exclude. 3. retain one's position, survive or extend. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Out (for)" - insist upon as a condition of an agreement. 2 stand fast, resist, stand firm in the hopethat one can get more. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Out On" - refuse to yield or surrender. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Over" - to save, delay; postpone, retain for later. 2. to remain in office, possession etc. beyond a fixed date.. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Over Someone Head" - to harp on, remind continuously, esp. of a misstep, defeat, wrongdoing. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Somebody Feet to the Fire" - to maintain personal, social, political, or legal pressure on someone in order to induce him or her to comply with one's desires; to hold someone accountable for his or her actions. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Somebody Guilty" - to judge or regard as guilty. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Somebody's Hand" - give a detailed on-the-job training and supervision. 2. grasp the hand of another; give support or comfort to somebody during a time |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Somebody in Hand" - to keep control of. 2. keep in expectation. 3. to amuse in order to get advantage. |
| Hold | phr | Hold Somebody to Something" - make somebody keep a promise, or follow a set of rules.of difficulty or trouble. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold that Thought" - hold-that-thought. (idiomatic)- to pause in a conversation for an interruption. Used to acknowledge that one's attention needs to be diverted from what an speaker was saying. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold the Candle to the Devil" - to aid or countenance that which is wrong. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold the Field" - not yet be superseded or supplanted. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold the Floor" - speak at, dominate, monopolize a conversation or a meeting. 2. address an audience at great length or with determination to finish what one has to say. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold the Line" - maintain or keep communications open. 2. hold the enemy at bay. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold the Ring" - be in chrge, control of a fight, contest or dispute. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold the Road" - to keep on stay on the road without skidding. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold the Wrong End of the Stick" - be completely wrong about something. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Tight!" - remain strong, don't waver. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold To" - not abandon or change, stick to. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Together" - to keep together or united, retain in union or connection. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold to the Plow" - to hold, keep the position, guide, control or manage. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold True" - be valid, authentic. 2. be consistent with known facts. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Under" - suppress, hold in submission, keep under. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Up" - to keep raised or erect. 2. keep from falling; support or sustain. 3. to rob at gun point. 4. delay, halt, slow down. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Up One's End" - to hold up one's end of a bargain, dealing; to fulfill one's promise or obligation. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Up One's Head" - to maintain one's dignity, self-respect or cheerfulness. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Water" - be correct, sound, able to withstand investigation or testing. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold With" - maintain allegiance with, to side with, to agree with; feel sympathy for. |
| Hold | phr | "Hold Your Horses!" - just wait a little. |
| Hold | phr | "Not Hold One's Breath" - give up all expectation. |
| Hold | phr | "Not Hold a Candle To" - to compare badly to another person. 2. to be unfit to hold even a subordinate position. |
| Hold | phr | "On Hold" - when telephoning: holding the line. |
| Hold | phr | "Put Something on Hold" - put something aside for the time being with the view to resuming activity later on. |
| Hold | phr | "Take Hold" - of a custom or habit: become established. |
| Hold | phr | "There's No Holding Him (Back)" - it is difficult or impossible to restrain him. |
| Hold | n | "In-hold" - custody, confinement, imprisonment. |
| Hold-all | n | A portable case for holding clothes and miscellaneous items, articles, used by soldiers, travelers etc. 2. of books (fig.) - an omnibus or encyclopedic kind. |
| Hold-back | n} | Hindrance; hold-back. |
| Hold-down | n | Subjection, repression, oppression. |
| Holde | adv | Graciously, kindly, faithfully. 2. holdely. |
| Holder | n | USU 2. a householder. 3. a canine tooth. 4. a prehensile organ in some animals. 5. whipholder. 6. shareholder. 7. freeholder. |
| Holder-forth | n | One who "holds forth" as a preacher, orator (often used with contempt) |
| Holder-on | n | One who holds on to a position or maintains a position or stance. |
| Holder-out | n | One who holds out. |
| Holder-up | n | One who holds up or sustains. 2. a supporter. 3. a maintainer. |
| Holdfast | adj | Tenacious; steadfast, persistent |
| Holdfast | n | A stingy or hard-fisted person. 2. a dog who holds on tenaciously. 3. a person who is tenacious and steadfast.. |
| Holdfastness | n | Tenacity. 2. persistence. 3. steadfastness. |
| Holding | n | Tenure of occupation of land; a farm or other estate held by another. 2. something that one owns or possesses, esp. shares or bonds. 3. a determination of law made by the courts. 4. that which binds or influences. 5. a burden or chorus of a song. 6. consistency. |
| Holding-deal | n | To hold a person (writer, producer, actor) to be or work exclusively for that entity or organization for an agreed period of time. |
| Holding-ground | n | A bottom in which an anchor will hold; anchorage. 2. site for storing floating timber. |
| Holdingly | adv | In a manner that holds, grips or binds. 2. with tenacity |
| Holdless | adj | Having no holds. 2. having a smooth unbroken surface. |
| Hold-off | n | A delay. |
| Hold-out | n | A die-hard, one who fights or holds out to the end; a holdout. 2. refuge, a shelter (from danger). |
| Hold out | vb | To hold something or someone out. 2. to wait or refuse to yield in hopes of getting something better (from a negotiation). 3. to survive, endure. 4. to withhold something. |
| Hold-over | n | Saving, delaying. 2. remaining in office, possession etc. beyond a fixed date. 3. something remaining from a previous time or situation; a relic. 4. to set something aside or save it for later. 5. a place of detention for prisoners awaiting trial. 6. one who continues in office after his/her has expired, or after a change of administration. 7. one who is kept on from engagement to another. |
| Hold-up | n | A delay; restriction, stoppage, obstruction, of some activity. 2. a robbery by armed assailants. 3. an overcharge, extortion. |
| Hole | n | A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. 2. an opening in a solid. 3.(golf) a subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. 4.(golf) the part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes. 5.(archaeology, slang) an excavation pit or trench. 6.(figuratively) a weakness, a flaw. 7. (informal) a container or receptacle. car hole; brain hole (the skull). 8.(physics) in semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle. 9.(computing) a security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit. 10.(slang anatomy) an orifice, in particular the anus.
11.(informal, with “the”) solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment. 12.(slang) an undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel His apartment is a hole! 13.(baseball) the rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman. 14.(chess) a square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn. 14. an identation or opening in a coast, a cove, a small bay. |
| Hole | vb | To treat with violence. 2. to deceive. 3. to oppress or to commit oppression. |
| Hole | phr | "In a Better Hole" - any situation that is better than the present one. |
| Hole | phr | "A Black Hole" - an intermediate range of values producing anomalous results. 2. an obnoxious prison. |
| Hole | phr | "A Dry Hole" - an exercise which after much effort proves fruitless. |
| Hole | phr | "A Fox Hole" - a space which is really too small for a persons needs or comfort. |
| Hole | phr | "Be in the Hole" - to be in difficulty, financial difficulties or debt. |
| Hole | phr | "Hole in the Heart" - a congenital defect in the septum, resulting in an inadequate circulation of oxygenated blood (a cause of blue baby syndrome). |
| Hole | phr | "Hole in the Wall" - a very small shop, in a row of buildings. |
| Hole | phr | "Hole Up" - to retire to a hole for hibernation. 2. to seek temporary shelter, refuge. 3. to lie in wait or ambush. |
| Hole | phr | "Hole Up' - become hold up; to hide or conceal oneself in a small place or nook. |
| Hole | phr | "In a Hole" - in an awkward predicament. 2. in a mess. 3. in debt (in the hole). |
| Hole | phr | "In Holes" - worn so much as to have holes. |
| Hole | phr | "Make a Hole In" - use the largest part of. 2.. consume a considerable portion of. |
| Hole | phr | "Make a Hole in Water" - take on an impossible task, sisyphean. |
| Hole | phr | "Need Like a Hole in the Head" - applied to something not needed at all; something useless. 2. to be given a completely undesired problem. |
| Hole | phr | "Put in the Hole" - to swindle, defraud. 2. to put in solitary confinement. |
| Hole | phr | "Stop up A hole in a Sieve" - do something quite useless. |
| Hole | phr | "Take Down a Hole Lower" - to take down; to humiliate, humble. |
| Hole-creeper | n | A sneaking thief. |
| Holed | adj | Having holes. 2. to be full or filled with holes or perforations. |
| Holed-stone | n | Perforated stone considered to be a monument of prehistoric times. |
| Hole-in-one | n | In golf - a hole that is completed by sinking the golf ball in a single shot or with one hit or attempt. 2. idiomatically - any rare, wonderful or remarkable achievement. |
| Hole-in-the-Heart | n | A congenital defect in the septum, resulting in an inadequate circulation of oxygenated blood (a cause of blue baby syndrome). |
| Hole-in-the Wall | n | (Usually disparagingly) any small, dingy, obscure place in the US. where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally. 2. applied to a business that is very small, mean, dingy or the like; or to a person running such a business. |
| Holeless | adj | Without hole or holes. |
| Hole-like | adj | Resembling or like a hole in some aspect. |
| Holewort | n | Hollow-wort, corydalis bulbosa or corydalis cava. |
| Holey | adj | With or full of holes. |
| Holiday | n | A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed. 2. a day declared free from work by the government. 3. a period of one or more days taken off work by an employee for leisure. 4. a period during which pupils and students do not attend their school or university. 5. a period taken off work or study for travel or leisure. 6. an unintentional gap left on a plated, coated, or painted surface. |
| Holiday | vb | To go on vacation, holiday, take a a break from work or school etc., leave. 2. to have free time to do as one wishes. 3. to go on a pleasure excursion. |
| Holiday | phr | "Take a Holiday" - have a break from work. |
| Holiday-home | n | A second home used for holiday. |
| Holidayer | n | A holidaymaker. |
| Holidayish | adj | Of a character befitting a holiday; festive. |
| Holiday-maker | n | Someone who is on holiday; vacationer. |
| Holiday-making | n | The planning and organization of a holiday or holidays. |
| Holier-than-thou | adj | Colloquial: self-righteous. |
| Holiday-ownership | n | Timeshare – or shared-holiday ownership – means you purchase a specific period of time, usually a week or more, in a resort property. Resorts typically offer a single week ownership and stay option, with the potential to purchase additional weeks at the same resort, or at others owned by the same developer. |
| Holihood | n | Holiness, holihede. |
| Holily | adv | In a holy manner; piously. 2. with sanctity or devoutness. 3. sacredly, scrupulously, inviolably, solemnly. |
| Holimonth | n | A month of recreation or abstinence from work. 2. a month's holiday. 3. in OE - holy month = obsolete name for September. |
| Holiness | n | State or condition of being holy. 2. sanctity. 3. "His Holiness" - a honorific or title used to refer to a high -ranking religious figure or leader. |
| Holing | n | In mining- undercutting in a bed of coal in order to bring down the upper mass. |
| Holinight | n | A night that is kept holy, as the eve of a festival. 2. a night of festivity or pleasure. 3. a holy night. |
| Holk | n | A hollow, cavity. |
| Holk | vb | To hollow out by digging. 2. to excavate. 3. to dig, make excavations. 4. turn things over. |
| Holk | phr | "Holk Up" - to hollow out by digging up. |
| Holking | n | Excavating. 2. burrowing. |
| Holl | n | A hollow place. 2. a cave. 3. a hollow surface or deep depression in the ground; a ditch. 4. the hold of a ship. 5. the middle or depth (of winter, night). |
| Holl | adj | Hollow, concave, having a void, empty. 2. deeply excavated or depressed as a valley. 3. lying in a hollow. |
| Hollness | n | Hollowness. 2. the condition of having cavities. |
| Hollow | n | a small valley between mountains. 2. a low spot surrounded by elevations. 3. a depression; a cave. 4. a sunken area, one of unfilled space in something solid. 4. a cavity, natural or artificial. 5. (fig.) a feeling of emptiness. |
| Hollow | vb | To make a hole in something. 2. to dig out, excavate. |
| Hollow | adj | (Of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside. a hollow tree. 2. (of a sound) distant, far-off, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched. 3. (figuratively) without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless. 4.(figuratively) insincere, devoid of validity; false, specious. 5. depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. |
| Hollow | phr | "All and Hollow" - completely out and out. |
| Hollow | phr | "Beat All Hollow" - to surpass completely. 2. defeated thoroughly or completely. |
| Hollow | phr | "Have a Hollow Ring" - appear insincere untrue. |
| Hollow | phr | "In the Hollow of One's Hand" - entirely subservient to one. |
| Hollow | phr | "Hollow Out" - to make something hollow. 2. to become hollow. 3. to reduce the power or influence of something. |
| Hollow-cheeked | adj | With sunken cheeks. |
| Hollow-eyed | adj | Having eyes deep sunk in their orbits. |
| Hollow-ground | n | A ground supposed to have a concave surface. |
| Hollow-hearted | adj | False, deceptive, insincere. |
| Hollow-heartedness | n | Insincerity. |
| Hollow laugh | n | Unamused or false laughter. |
| Hollowly | adv | In a hollow manner. 2. with a hollow sound. 3. insincerely; untrustwothy, deceptive. 4. completely hollow. |
| Hollowness | n | The quality or condition of being hollow. 2. concavity, internal emptiness, sunken condition. 3. a hollow formation or place. 4. cavity or concavity. 5. emptiness, vanity, falseness, insincerity. |
| Hollow-root | n | Holewort, hollowwort (corydalis tuberous) |
| Hollow-ware | n | A bowl or tube-shaped ware or earthenware, wood or metal; such as tureens. |
| Hollow-whispering | n | Whispering with a hollow sound. |
| Hollowwort | n | Holewort, holwort, hulwort. |
| Hollowy | adj | Empty, unfilled, sunken, depressed. 2. insincere, false, specious, deceptive. |
| Holly | n | Any of the various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used as a decoration esp. at Christmas time. 2. the wood of the genus ilex. 3. any of the several unrelated plant species likened to ilex because of their prickly, evergreen foliage and of their bright-red berries. |
| Hollyoak | n | Any of the various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used as a decoration esp. at Christmas time. |
| Hollywood | n | An area of Los Angeles, known as the centre of the American film industry. 2. the American film industry regardless of it's location. |
| Hollywood-ending | adj | A dramatic ending. |
| Hollywoodish | adj | Somewhat resembling a Hollywood film or the ways and lifestyle of Hollywood. |
| Holm | n | In OE: the ocean, sea (used only poetically). NB: Old Norse: an island in a stream. |
| Holster | n | OE: hiding place, place of concealment. |
| Holt | n | Wood, timber (only in OE). 2. a wood, copse. 3. a plantation. |
| Holwort | n | Hollowwort, holewort, hulwort. |
| Holy | vb | To make a saint, canonize. |
| Holy | adj | Dedicated to a religious purpose or a god, sacred. 2.revered in a religion, sacred. 3. perfect, faultless or flawless. 4.separated or set apart from (something unto something or someone else). 5. set apart or dedicated for a specific purpose, or for use by a single entity or person, sanctified. 6.(slang) Used as an intensifier in various interjections, such as "Holy cow, I can’t believe it! 6. a thing that is extremely holy, as in "holy of holies." |
| Holy | adj | Free from injury; whole, hale, wholesome. |
| Holy | phr | "Holier Than Thou" - affecting, an attitude of superior goodness or virtue, sanctimonious. |
| Holy | phr | "Holy of Holies" - the innermost apartment of the Jewish temple, in which the Ark of the Covenant was kept, and into which only the High priest was allowed to enter, and that but once a year on the Day of Atonement. |
| Holy | phr | "Holy Cow" - an exclamation of surprise. It is a minced oath or euphemism for "Holy Christ!" |
| Holy | phr | "Holy Smoke" - an exclamation of surprise. |
| Holy | phr | "The Sin Against the Holy Ghost" - wilful denouncing as evil that which is manifestly good, thus revealing a state beyond the divine influence. |
| Holy Book | n | The Bible. |
| Holy-bread | n | The consecrated bread used in the Eucharist. |
| Holy-day | n | A day on which a religious festivals and holy-days traditionally observed. |
| Holy door | n | The specially walled-up door of each of the four great basilicas at Rome : St Peter's, St John Lateran., St Paul- Outside-the-Walls, St Mary's Major. |
| Holy-eyed | adj | Having eyes that seem holy and pure. |
| Holy-Father | n | God, the Almighty. 2. the pope of the Roman Catholic church. |
| Holy-fire | n | Erysipelas or St Anthony's fire. |
| Holy Ghost | n | In Christianity, the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to divine essence present in the faithful (particularly inspired prophets ) and considered to proceed from God the Father (eastern orthodoxy) or from Him together with God the Son (Roman Catholicism). 2.God the Holy Ghost. |
| Holy Ghost Pear | n | Avocado (from a mistaken rendering of this as advocated) |
| Holy Ghost's Root | n | The plant angelica, Archangelica officinalis |
| Holy Island | n | Lindisfarne located in the North Sea, some nine miles south-east from Berwick-on-Tweed, it became the see of St Aidan in 635 and a missionary centre. 2. Ireland was called the Holy Island on account of its numerous saints. 3. Geurnsey was so called in the C10th in consequence of the great number of monks residing there. |
| Holy-land | n | The part of Asia, consisting mostly of Palestine, in which most biblical events are set. 2. for Moslems, Mecca is a Holy Land. |
| Holy-maker | n | Sanctifier. |
| Holy-making | n | Sanctification; the act of sanctification. |
| Holy-minded | adj | To direct one's mind and thoughts towards things that are holy. 2. to be of pure mind and thoughts. 3. to be deeply religious. |
| Holy-mindedness | n | The state or quality of being holy-minded |
| Holy Mother of God" | n | The Virgin Mary. |
| Holy-of-Holies | n | The innermost and most sacred shrine of the Jewish tabernacle. |
| Holy-one | n | A appellation of the Divine Being. |
| Holy-rood | n | The cross over the entrance to a chancel of many churches and cathedrals. |
| Holy-Rood | n | The cross on which Jesus as crucified. |
| Holy-stone | n | A soft sandstone used by sailors for scourging the decks of ships. 2. a stone with a natural hole in it, used as an amulet or charm. |
| Holy Thursday | n | In the Roman Catholic church, the Thursday of Holy Week or Maundy Thursday, the day on which the ascension of Jesus is commemorated. |
| Holy-tide | n | A holy time or seasons . 2. a day or season of religious observance. |
| Holy War | n | A war fought over religious issues. |
| Holy-water | n | In certain Christian churches water that has been sanctified by a priest or bishop for the purposes of baptism or for the baptism of persons, places or things. |
| Holy week | n | The week immediately preceding Easter. |
| Holy well | n | A well or spring reputed to possess miraculous healing properties as being a channel of divine influence. |
| Holy Writ | n | Holy writings collectively; spec. the bible or holy scriptures. 2. in earlier times sometimes including the writings in sacred subjects. |
| Home | n | One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace. 2. one's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt. 3. the abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. 4. the locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine. 5. a place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul. |
| Home | vb | To go home. 2. to dwell. 3. to establish or furnish with a home. 4. to train a pigeon to fly home. 5. of a vessel, missile, aircraft: to be guided to its target or destination. |
| Home | adj | Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic, not foreign. |
| Home | adv | To one's home, house or abode, dwelling,own district, or country. 2. to the home or mother country. 3. from a colony or foreign possession. 4. the grave, tomb etc. final resting place. (to go home: die). 5. come home, arrive home, at home after an absence. 6. point or mark aimed at; ultimate position, as far as it will go or reach. 7. to the root of the matter closely, in close contact, directly. 8. full to the shore (from the sea). 9. to oneself; hence to one's normal condition. |
| Home | phr | "At Home" - at one's own home and prepared to receive visitors. |
| Home | phr | "Bring Oneself Home" - to recover oneself (financially); recoup oneself. 2 regain one's financial position. |
| Home | phr | "Bring Something Home to Somebody" - make somebody aware (an unpleasant truth). |
| Home | phr | "Chicken Come Home to Roost" - the consequences of past actions are becoming obvious. |
| Home | phr | "Come Home Short" - to fail to reach one's aim or goal by effort. |
| Home | phr | "Come Home to One" - to reach one's heart. 2. to become thoroughly understood or realized. |
| Home | phr | "Come Home to Roost" - return of unpleasantness as a result of a previous (antisocial) action. |
| Home | phr | "Eat Somebody's Out of House and Home" - to ruin a person by eating all he has. |
| Home | phr | "Feel at Home" - feel comfortable, relaxed. |
| Home | phr | "From a Broken Home" - a family in which the parents no longer live together. |
| Home | phr | "From Home" - away from our home or place of abode; not at home, abroad. |
| Home | phr | "Get Something Home to" - make something clear, obvious |
| Home | phr | "Go Home" - die; pass away; go to heaven. |
| Home | phr | "Hammer Something Home" - try to get someone to understand, accept somethingusing a repeated and forceful argument. |
| Home | phr | "Home and Dry" - safely or successfully at the end (usu. after an arduous journey). |
| Home | phr | "Home and Hosed" - to have won. |
| Home | phr | "Home Away From Home" - ones own country, one's native land. |
| Home | phr | "Home from Home" - a place away from home which provides home-like accommodation or place of abode. |
| Home | phr | "Home In On" - to direct towards, seek, home onto, find a target, as a guided missile. |
| Home | phr | "Home In One" - success in a first attempt to reach find, strike, guess, identify somebody or something. |
| Home | phr | "Home Is Where the Heart Is" - wherever one's family , partner lives is equivalent to home. |
| Home | phr | "Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat" - nostalgic or sentimental, one should simply accept any place where one happens to reside as one's home |
| Home | phr | "Home James and Don't Spare the Horses" - an expression from the days when the well-to-do commanded their coachmen to drive the home as fast as possible. Later used jocularly to imply 'let's get home as quickly as possible'. |
| Home | phr | "Home on the Sheep's Back" - to be doing very well. (referring to the value of wool) |
| Home | phr | "Home Sweet Home" - one's home, especially |
| Home | phr | "Keep the Home Fire's Burning" - to maintain normal domestic activity during the temporary absence of the e breadwinner, |
| Home | phr | "Last or Long Home" - the grave, dark inn, grass bed. |
| Home | phr | "Make Oneself at Home" - be comfortable, relaxed as if one were in one's home. |
| Home | phr | "Near to Home" - affecting one closely. |
| Home | phr | "Not at Home" - the intimation or arrangement that one is not accessible or prepared to receive visitors. |
| Home | phr | "Nothing/Something To Write Home About??" - unimpressive/to boast of, to make a song about. |
| Home | phr | "One's Long Home" - the grave; the dark inn, the grass bed etc. |
| Home | phr | "Strike Home" - have an impact on somebody. |
| Home | phr | "Until the Cows Come Home" - for ever. |
| Home | phr | "Who Goes Home?" - when the house of commons adjourns at night the doorkeeper asks the question of the memmbers. In bygone days, when danger lurked in unlit streets from criminals, the cry was raised t enable them to depart in groups and escort the Speaker to his home. |
| Home | phr | "Write About Home" - to boast of, make a song about. |
| Home-along | adv | Homewards. |
| Home-abiding | adj | Home as the abiding place of the affection, esp. of the domestic affections. |
| Home-bird | n | One who prefers to stay at home; not outgoing, a home-body. |
| Home-body | n | One who prefers to stay at home; not outgoing, a home-bird. |
| Home-born | adj | Produced or born at home. 2. domestic or native origin. 3. native. |
| Home-bred | adj | Bred at home, native, indigenous, domestic, reared at home, home-born. |
| Home-bred | adj | Of homely breeding. 2. lacking breadth of culture and experience. 3. unpolished, unsophisticated. |
| Home-brew | n | Of ale, beer or other similar beverages: made or brewed at home (also fig.) |
| Home-brewed | adj | Brewed at home, not in a licensed brewer. |
| Home-brewer | n | One who distils liquor at home. |
| Home-bring | vb | Of a man to "bring" a wife home; to marry, wed. |
| Home-bringing | n | The bringing of a wife home. 2. earning (money); 3. clarification; understanding. |
| Home-builder | n | One who builds houses and flats. |
| Home-building | n | The act of building houses or flats. |
| Home-built | adj | Built in one's own country. 2. not foreign made or imported. 3. made by oneself, not factory-made. |
| Home-buyer | n | A person who buys a house, flats. |
| Home-buying | n | The buying of a house or flat. |
| Home-care | n | The care and maintenance of one's home. 2. treatment and care of a patient at his or her own home. |
| Home-come | n | Arrival at home. |
| Home-comer | n | One who returns home, often used with specific reference to the Isle of Man. |
| Home-coming | n | Arrival or a returning home after an absence. |
| Home-coming | n | That come homes. 2. effective, impressive. |
| Home-coming King | n | In US colleges and high school, a young man activities chosen by his peers to "reign" over the traditional activities associated with the Homecoming football matches, usually alongside a Homecoming Queen. |
| Home-coming Queen | n | In US colleges and high school, a young woman activities chosen by his peers to "reign" over the traditional activities associated with the Homecoming football matches, usually alongside a Homecoming King. |
| Homecraft | n | The household arts (as cooking); especially, handcrafts (as weaving)that may be practised at home. |
| Home-croft | n | A detached cottage with land and outbuildings for poultry. |
| Home-farer | n | One journey or arrival (home-coming) at home. |
| Home-faring | n | The act of arriving at one home, especially after a long abscence. |
| Home-fed | adj | (Of an animal or its meat) fed or fattened at home. 2. meat farmed local, not imported from abroad. 2. of a person, fed or raised at home; cosseted. |
| Home-feeling | adj | Intimate, hospitable, happy, tranquil, safe, affection in the domestic situation. 2. sense of kindred and hereditary connection. |
| Home-felt | adj | To feel at home; intimately feeling; intimately or in one's heart. |
| Home-fire | n | Used, like hearth - as symbolic of the home. see "keep the home fires burning" |
| Home-fire | phr | Carry on at home; keep the home and things going. |
| Home-fleet | n | Ships (usually military) that are retained at home for defence. |
| Home-folk(s) | n | The people from near one's home. 2. one friends, relatives, kith, kin or neighbors. |
| Home-free | adj | Able to reach a goal without extending any considerable effort; either without or in spite of impediments. |
| Homeful | adj | Homely; cosy. 2. having a place to live. |
| Home-goer | n | One who is returning home, one who prefers to be at home. |
| Home-going | adj | The act of one returning home or of one who prefers to be at home. |
| Home-grown | adj | Grown at home. 2. created or constructed in an informal or amateur manner. 3. done without formal assistance, as from a business, organization or professional source. 4. raised or brought up in one's own country; native. |
| Home-held | adj | Owned, especially for decades by one owner. 2. something, as memories to have and experiences to relate. |
| Home-help | n | A domestic worker, made available by local authorities, etc. to help the elderly or infirmed who are unable to perform their own housekeeping. |
| Home-keeper | n | A person who runs a house or household. |
| Home-keeping | n | Housekeeping. |
| Homeland | n | One's native land. 2. an autonomous or semi-autonomous state occupied by a particular people. 3. in South Africa an area designated for particular ethnic people under the former policy apartheid. |
| Home-leave | n | Holiday time for a person who works overseas, during which they can return home. |
| Homeless | adj | Having no home or permanent place of abode. As adjectives the difference between homeless and houseless is that homeless is lacking a permanent place of residence while houseless is lacking or in need of a house or home. |
| Homelessly | adv | In a homeless manner; without a home. |
| Homelessness | n | The state of being homeless. |
| Homeless-shelter | n | A house or building which provides board and lodgings for the homeless. |
| Home-life | n | Life at home or in domestic circumstances or surroundings. |
| Homelihood | n | Homeliness, familiarity. |
| Home-like | adj | Having the comfortable characteristic of a home. |
| Homeliness | n | Quality or condition of being homely. 2.familiarity. 3. intimacy, kindness, kindliness. 4. simplicity, plainness, or without beauty. |
| Homeling | n | Home-born, inhabitant, a native, indigene, first-folk. |
| Home-longing | adj | Nostalgic, homesick, desirous for familiar surrounding. 2. a longing or yearning for things of the past. 3. a reminiscence for the time of one's childhood or younger years. |
| Home lot | n | An enclosed plot on which the owner's home stands. |
| Home-lover | n | A person who enjoys being at home and who likes to be with their families. |
| Home-loving | n | The enjoyment of being at home, and one who likes to be at home with their families. |
| Homely | adj | Lack in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance; physically unattractive. 2. characteristic or belonging to a home, domestic. 3. an intimate or friendly terms with someone; familiar, 'at home with a person' . 4. domestic, tame. 5. personnel, private. 6. friendly, kind, gracious, cordial. 7. simple, plain, familiar, unelaborate, unadorned. |
| Homely | adv | Familiarly, intimately, kindly. 2. plainly, simply, unpretentiously. 3. without adornment or polish. 4. rudely, roughly. 5. without reserve or circumlocution; straight to the point. |
| Homemade | adj | Made at home; made by oneself; self-made. 2. in a simple style, as if made at home. |
| Homemaker | n | A person who maintains the upkeep of his or her home, especially one not in paid, outside employment. |
| Home-making | n | The management of a household considered as an occupation. 2. the maintenance or upkeep of a home by it's occupant. |
| Homeness | n | The quality or condition associated with the home. |
| Home-owner | n | Someone who owns a horse. 2. someone who owns a house for all practical purposes, but is still paying off the mortgage. |
| Home-ownership | n | The state of being a home-owner. |
| Home-owning | n | Being a home owner. |
| Home row | n | Certain keys of the center row of alphabetical letters on formerly a typewriter and computer keyboard. |
| Home run | n | In baseball, a base hit in which the ball is driven beyond reach of the opposition fielders, thus allowing the batter to touch all bases and score a run. |
| Home school | vb | To educate children at home, orin a domestic place, rather than at a public or private school. |
| Home-schooling | n | The education children at home, orin a domestic place, rather than at a public or private school. |
| Home-seeker | n | One who seeks to buy a house. |
| Home-self | adj | Carried or done on with oneself; private. |
| Home-shopping | n | Shopping carried out from home using catalogues, satellites, television channels. |
| Home-sick | adj | Nostalgic, yearning or longing for home. 2. suffering because of absence from home: ill in mind or body rhrough longing for home; nostalgic. |
| Home-sickness | n | A longing for home; nostalgia. |
| Home side | n | A team that plays at home ( in their own ground or stadium). |
| Home-sitter | n | A person employed to live and take care of a home when the occupants are away. |
| Home-soken | n | The crime of hamesucken consists in 'the felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling'. 2. the offence of attacking a person in his other own dwelling. |
| Home-speaking | adj | Direct,forcible and effective speaking. |
| Homespun | n | A plain cloth made at home or of homespun yarn. 2. a rustic person. |
| Home-spun | adj | Spun or made at home; of domestic manufacture. . 2. made at home-spun cloth. 3. plain, homely, unpolished, unsophisticated, simple rustic. 3. simple, straight-forward, as ' wit, warmth and homespun wisdom'. |
| Home-stake | n | Enough money to go back home. |
| Homestall | n | Homestead, farmyard. |
| Homestand | n | A series of baseball games played at a team's home field. |
| Homestead | n | A house together with surrounding land and buildings, esp. on a farm. 2. a place that is one's home. 3. in South Africa a cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family. 4. the seat or home of a family, place of origin. |
| Homestead | vb | To acquire or settle on land as a homestead. 2. to settle land given by the government and occupied it as a homestead. |
| Homestead | adj | A house or dwelling, esp. a farmhouse and out buildings. 2. aperson or family residence, which comprises the land, house and outbuildings. |
| Homesteader | n | A pioneer who goes and settles on a homestead. |
| Homesteading | n | Granting of land to settlers for the establishment of farms. 2. the act and practice of farming and agriculture. |
| Homesteadless | adj | Without or lacking a homestead or homesteads. |
| Home time | n | The time when students go home at the end of the school game. |
| Homestretch | n | The concluding straight part of a racecourse. 2. the last part of a campaign or undertaking. |
| Hometown | n | An individual place of birth, childhood, or place of main residence. 2. the city, town, village where one was born or grew up. |
| Home truth | n | A true, but unpleasant, comment addressed to the person it concerns. |
| Homeward | adv | Home-going, home-wending, homeward bound; homewards. |
| Homeware(s) | n | Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and curtains. |
| Home-waters | n | Oceans, sea surrounding one's land or nation. |
| Home-woe | n | Nostalgia, homesickness, yearning for things of the part. |
| Homewardly | adv | In a homeward direction. |
| Homewards | adv | Setting off towards home. |
| Homework | n | School work that a student is required to do at home. 2. paid work carried out in one's own home, esp. low paid work. |
| Homework | phr | "Do One's Homework" - thoroughly analyze an issue. - |
| Homeworker | n | One whose paid work is carried out in one's own home, esp. low paid work. |
| Homeworking | n | Working from home, especially when in electronic contact with a central office. |
| Home world | n | The world on which a person originated. 2,. one's home planet or moon. |
| Home worship | n | Religious worship within the home rather than at a church. |
| Homewort | n | The house leek, sempervivum tectorum. |
| Homey | adj | Reminding of home; homelike. 2. cosy, comfortable. |
| Homing | adj | Relating to an animal's ability to return to a place or territory after travelling a distance away from from it. 2. trained like a pigeon to fly home from a great distance and used for long-distance racing. 3. of weapons or other pieces of equipment fitted with an electronic device that enables it to find and hit a target. |
| Homish | adj | Belonging to or suited to a home or house, domestic. 2. resembling or suggestive of a home, house-like, homelike, homely. |
| Homishness | n | Having homish quality |
| Hone | n | OE: stone, rock. 2. a whetstone, used for giving a fine edge to cutting tools, razors. 2. a block of fine compact stone for sharpening edged tools. |
| Hone | vb | To sharpen as a razor with a hone stone. |
| Honed | adj | Sharpen as a razor with a hone stone. |
| Honer | n | One who sharpen as a razor with a hone stone. |
| Honestone | n | Any fine-grained stone from which hones are made, as novaculite. 2. a hone. |
| Honewort | n | A name for corn parsley, petroselinum segetum. |
| Honey | n | A viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees. Often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods. 2. a variety of this substance. 3. (fig.) something sweet or desirable. 4. a term of affection. 5. a woman, especially an attractive one. 6. a spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of honey. |
| Honey | vb | To sweeten with honey. 2. to use endearing terms to another. 3. to talk fondly or with sweetness. 3. to flatter, cajole. |
| Honey | phr | "Sweet as Honey" - be very pleasant (in order to gain an advantage). |
| Honey | phr | "Land of Milk and Honey" - a land where everything is in abundant supply. |
| Honey-apple | n | In OE. a lozenge or pastille containing honey, |
| Honey-bear | n | The kinkajou. 2. the sloth bear. |
| Honey-bee | n | A bee, usually the common honey bee that collects and stores up honey, 2. a fanciful name for a bee. |
| Honey-brown | adj | Yellowish brown. |
| Honeycomb | n | A structure of hexagonal cells made by bees primarily of wax, to hold the larvae and for storing the honey to feed the larvae and to feed themselves during winter. 2. any structure resembling a honeycomb. 3. |
| Honeycomb | vb | To riddle something with holes, especially in such a pattern. |
| Honeycombed | phr | Having a perforated structure; resembling a honeycomb. |
| Honeycombed-like | adj | Resembling a honeycomb. |
| Honey-dew | n | A sweet sticky substance excreted by certain insects and often left by them on leaves and stems. 2. a melon of a variety with smooth pale and green flesh. |
| Honey-dipper | n | A tool used inthe kitchen to transfer honey to a container. |
| Honey do-list | n | (US idiomatic) a collection of requests, usually by a spouse (wife) for a partner (husband) to do a series of tasks, assignments, or jobs dealing with the maintenance of a household. |
| Honey-drop | n | A drop or globule of honey. |
| Honey-dropping | adj | Mellifluous. |
| Honey-eater | n | The Bear. 2. a honeysucker. |
| Honeyed | adj | Sweetened with honey or as sweet as honey. 2. sugary, syrupy. 3. dulcet or mellifluous. |
| Honeyedly | adv | In a honeyed way. |
| Honeyedness | n | Sweetness as of honey. |
| Honeyish | adj | Honeylike. |
| Honeyful | adj | Abounding with or full of honey. |
| Honeyish | adj | Some like in appearance or taste of honey. |
| Honeyless | adj | Destitute, lacking or without honey. |
| Honey-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of honey in various ways. |
| Honey-lipped | adj | Pleasant or eloquent of speech; honeyed-tonged; sweet-talking, honeyed-mouthed, flattering. 2. of a woman: adulterous, cheating, unfaithful. |
| Honey-making | n | The manufacture of honey. |
| Honey-mead | n | Honey wine. |
| Honey-month | n | The first month after marriage. |
| Honey-moon | n | The period of time immediately following a marriage. 2. a trip taken by a newly-married couple during this period. 3. a period of mild, positive, unusually good feeling towards a new government, new relationship, etc. |
| Honeymoon | vb | To have or go on a honeymoon. |
| Honeymoon | phr | "The Honeymoon is Over" - end of a peceful period at the beginning of a new venture. |
| Honeymooner | n | A newly-wed on honeymoon. 2. a climbing plant with yellow flowers. |
| Honey-mouthed | adj | Sweet talking. |
| Honey-pot | n | A pot in which honey is stored. 2. the female pudenda. 3. something very attractive |
| Honey-some | adj | Sweet, full of honey and sweetness. |
| Honey-stone | n | A soft, yellow or reddish aluminum mineral having a resinous appearnace and crystallizing in the octahedral system, also called Mellite |
| Honey-suckle | n | Lonicera, Caprifolium Mill). |
| Honey-sweet | adj | Sweet as honey; often a term of endearment |
| Honey-tear | n | Nectar, sweet wine, honey wine. |
| Honey-time | n | A honeymoon. |
| Honey-tongued | adj | Speaking sweetly, softly or winningly. 2. mellifluous; using mellifluous discourse. |
| Honey-tree | n | A honey locust. 2. a hollow tree in which wild bees have stored honey. |
| Honey-week | n | A honeymoon lasting a week. |
| Honeywords | n | Words of sweetness, romance, kindness. |
| Honeywort | n | Any plant of the genus Cerinthe of flowering plants that attracts bees. |
| Honey-yellow | adj | A soft yellow, as of honey. |
| Hood | sfx | Meaning, person, personality, sex, condition, quality, rank, as in childhood. |
| Hood | n | An aggressive and violent young criminal; hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie. 2. a protective covering that is part of a plant, cap. 3. (slang) a neighborhood. 4.a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera. 5.(falconry)a leather covering for a hawk's head. 6. metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes, exhaust hood. 7. the folding roof of a carriage. 8. a headdress that protects the head and face. 9. protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine. 10. hood, bonnet, cowling, cowl. 10. (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal. |
| Hood | vb | To wear or put on a hood; to cover with a hood. 2. to make a hood. |
| Hood | phr | "The Hood Does Not Make the Monk" - it is a man's deeds, not his look or clothing that maketh the man. |
| Hooded | adj | Wearing or having a hood. 2. shaped like a hood. 3. having a hood-like part. |
| Hoodless | adj | Without a hood. 2. not having or wearing a hood. |
| Hoodlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a hood in some aspect. |
| Hoodwink | vb | Deceive or trick, outwit, mislead, swindle. 2. lit. the placing of a hood over the head of a falcon. |
| Hoodwinking | n | The covering of the eyes with a hood. 2. blindfolding; deceive, trick. |
| Hoodwort | n | Scutellaria (scutellaria laterifolia) or skullcap. |
| Hoof | n | The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthen by a thick keratin covering. 2. a human foot. 3. in geometry, the ungula. 5. a fragment, particle. |
| Hoof | vb | To trample with hooves. 2. to walk. 3. to dance, esp. as a professional. 4. to kick, esp. to kick a football as a footballer who gives it (the ball) a good hoof. |
| Hoof | phr | "Hoof It" - to walk, esp. when transport is not available. |
| Hoof | phr | "On the Hoof" - alive, not butchered, said of cattle. |
| Hoofbeat | n | The sound of a hoof or hooves striking the ground. |
| Hoofed | adj | Having hoofs or hooves. |
| Hoofedness | n | The tendency to use either theright or left hoof more naturally tahn the other. |
| Hoofer | n | Slang: a dancer. |
| Hoofish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a hoof. |
| Hoofless | adj | Without or lacking hoofs. |
| Hooflike | adj | Resembling or similar to a hoof. |
| Hoofstick | n | A tool for keeping the cuticles of a horse's hoof neat and tidy. |
| Hoofy | adj | Pertaining to or belonging to a hoof. |
| Hook | n | A catch for locking a door; hook. 2. a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook: hook, crotchet. 3. anything that serves as an enticement: bait, come-on, hook, lure, sweetener. 4. a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something: hook, claw. 5. a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something. 6. a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer. 7. a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent.
8. a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket;hook shot, hook. |
| Hook | vb | To fasten with a hook. 2. rip off; ask an unreasonable price, surcharge, gazump, fleece, pluck, rob. 3. make a piece of needle work by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle; crochet. 4. hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left. 5. take by theft, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom. 6. make off with belongings of others; pilfer, cabbage, pinch,purloin, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift. 7. hit with a hook or punch. 8. catch with a hook; "hook a fish". 9. to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent on something, especially a narcotic drug. 10. secure with the foot; "hook the ball". 11. entice and trap; hook, snare. 12. approach with an offer of sexual favors by a prostitute. |
| Hook | phr | "Above the Hook"- beyond your comprehension; beyond your mark. (Perhaps an allusion to hat-pegs fixed in rows, the higher ones being beyond the reach of small people. |
| Hook | phr | "Be Hooked On" - be addicted to. |
| Hook | phr | "Get One's Hooks Into" - to get possession of, esp. in a predatory way, to get hold of. 2. to get a firm grip of (often of a woman who pursues a man). |
| Hook | phr | "Get Someone Off the Hook" - to rescue a person from an embarrassing position. |
| Hook | phr | "Hook In" - To connect something, as a water main. 2. to deceive by luring with a false promise or misleading implication (also used with a figurative or idiomatic meaning). |
| Hook | phr | "Hook, Line and Sinker" - completely, without question or reservation. |
| Hook | phr | "Hooked on Something" - to be addicted to something. |
| Hook | phr | "Hook Someone Up" - |
| Hook | phr | "Hook Up" - to fasten or attach by hooks. 2. to put together as part of a machine. 3. linking of radio and Tvstations to transmit the same program. |
| Hook | phr | "Hook Up (To)" - to connect a machine to a source of power. |
| Hook | phr | "Let Off the Hook" - out of trouble, released from some difficulty. 2. free from obligation. 3. extremely or shockingly difficult. |
| Hook | phr | "Off the Hooks" - to get out of a difficult situation. 2. to die. |
| Hook | phr | "On the Hook" - ensnared, in the power of, in one's grasp. 2. attach to some occupation. |
| Hook | phr | "On One's Own Hook" - dependent on one's own efforts; on one's own account, at one's own risk. |
| Hook | phr | "With a Hook at the End" - assent given with mental reservation. It was a custom in some parts for a witness, when he/she swore the oath falsely, to crook his/her finger into a sort of a hook with an idea of annulling the perjury. It was a crooked oath, an oath with a hook at the end! |
| Hooked | adj | Having a sharped curve at the end; resembling a hook. 2. addicted to, unable to resist or cease doing, as on a drug of dependence. |
| Hookedness | n | The condition of being bent like a hook; curving in . |
| Hooker | n | One who, or that which, hooks. 2. a prostitute. 3. a crocheter. |
| Hookless | adj | Wiyhout hooks. |
| Hooklike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a hook, in some way. |
| Hookman | n | Someone who uses a hook in their work. |
| Hook-nose | adj | A beaked or aquiline nose, or a person having such a nose. |
| Hook-shop | n | A brothel, whore-house, bordello. |
| Hook-up | n | A connection or combination, esp. of radio, television, electronics, broadcasting facilities. 2. modern slang: becoming a couple. |
| Hookware | n | Hooks or similar instruments used in reaping. |
| Hookworm | n | Any of the various nematode worms of the genera Ancylostoma, Necator, infesting man and several animals, such as sheep, dogs, cattle, etc. |
| Hooky | adj | Full of hooks, pertaining to hooks, or the like. |
| Hoop | n | A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel. 2. a ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop. 3. a circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, or other elastic material, used for expanding the ladies skirts. 4. (sl) 'hoops' - the game of basketball. 5. a jockey, because of their horizontal striped outfit. 6. a horizontal stripe on any jersey. |
| Hoop | n | A finger-ring. |
| Hoop | vb | To bind or fasten using a hoop. 2. to clasp, encircle, surround. |
| Hoop | phr | "Put through the Hoop" - have to suffer unpleasantness. |
| Hooper | n | One who applies hoops to casks or tubs. 2. the European whistling or wild swan. |
| Hooping | n | Material from which to make hoops; hoops in general. 2. a system of hoops, as on some breechloading guns. |
| Hoopless | adj | Without or lacking hoops. |
| Hooplike | adj | Resembling or shaped like a hook. |
| Hoove | n | OE. a disease of cattle, characterized by a swelling of the stomach, often due to the eating of too much green fodder. |
| Hop | n | A short jump; a jump on one leg. 2. a short journey, esp. in the case of air travel, one that takes place on an aircraft. 3. a bounce, esp. from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball. |
| Hop | vb | To jump a short distance. 2. to jump on one foot. 3. to be in a state of energetic activity. 4. to suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitously. 5. to move frequently. 6. to move frequently from one place to another similar one. 7. to walk lame, limp. |
| Hop | phr | "Be on the Hop" - to be always bustling about. |
| Hop | phr | "Hop it" - go away, especially to avoid something unpleasant or on orders of somebody who wishes to get rid of one.. |
| Hop | phr | "Hop Off" - leave, go away. |
| Hop | phr | "Hop To It" - do it immediately! |
| Hop | phr | "Hop the Twig/Stick" - usually to die; but sometimes to run away from creditors, as a bird eludes a fowler. There are various phrases to express the cessation of life. die : lay down one's knife and fork; fall to sleep; give up the ghost etc. |
| Hop | phr | "On the Hop" - unptepared. 2. bustling about. |
| Hope | n | Belief or expectation something wished for can happen. 2. person or thingthat is the source of hope. 3. actual thing wished for. 4. the virtuous desire for future good. |
| Hope | n | A small, land-locked bay or inlet, salty at flood-tide and fresh-watered at ebb. 2. a small, enclosed valley, esp. a smaller opening branching out from the main dale and running up to the mountain ranges. 3. the upland part of a valley, now found only in place-names. |
| Hope | vb | To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might. 2. to be optimistic, be full of hope, have hopes. 3. to be optimistic, to be full of hope, have hopes. 4. to place confidence, to trust with confident expectation of good, usually followed by 'in'. |
| Hope | phr | "Hope Against Hope' - a hope where there is no reasonable grounds for doing or achieving something . 2. to hope exceedingly. |
| Hope | phr | "Hope for" - hope that something will take place, be granted, change, etc. |
| Hope | phr | "Hope For the Best" - hope that all will end well. |
| Hope | phr | "Hope Unfulfilled Makes the Heart Sick" - the experience of not having one's hopes fulfilled or realized, makes one depressed, as forlorn love. |
| Hope | phr | "Hope You are Proud of Yourself" - I hope you are pleased (although I think you should not be). |
| Hope | phr | "If It Were Not for Hope, the Heart Would Break" - hope wards off complete despair. |
| Hope | phr | "In Hopes" - having hopes. |
| Hope | phr | "Pin One's Hopes On" - (optimistically) rely on |
| Hope | phr | "Raise One's Hopes" - increase somebody's expectations that something positive will happen. |
| Hope | phr | "Some Hopes!" - there is no point in being hopeful - because what you desire is unlikely. |
| Hope | phr | "The Great White Hope" - somebody, something which a group depends on. |
| Hope-against-hope | n | A situation where there is little of success or survival. |
| Hope-chest | n | A glory-box; used by young women to hold linen, clothing, etc., in anticipation of marriage. |
| Hopeful | n | Somebody who is hoping for success or victory; often plural, "hopefuls'. 2. a young person who seems likely to succeed likely to succeed in life |
| Hopeful | adj | Feeling hope; inspiring hope. 2. full of hope; gaming. 3. having qualities that excite hope. |
| Hopefully | adv | In a hopeful manner. 2. it is hoped that, as I 'hope'. |
| Hopefulness | n | The property of being hopeful. |
| Hopeless | adj | Without hope; despairing; without expecting anything positive. 2. giving or affording no ground of hope, promising nothing desirable, desperate. 3. without talent, not skilled. |
| Hopelessly | adv | In a manner showing no hope; despairingly. |
| Hopelessness | n | The lack of hope , despair, wanhope. |
| Hopelost | n | One who has lost hope. |
| Hopelost | adj | That has lost hope. 2. despairing, desperate, lost to hope. |
| Hopely | adv | Of the nature of hope |
| Hoper | n | One who hopes that things will turn out well in the end; an optimist. |
| Hope-sick | adj | Sick at heart with unfulfilled hopes or ungratified longings. |
| Hoping | adj | Filled with or inspiring hope. |
| Hopingly | adv | In a hopeful manner. |
| Hop-o'-my-Hand/Thumb | n | A small person, pygmy, a dwarf. |
| Hoppe | n | The seed vessel of flax. 2. the cornel tree and it's fruit. |
| Hopper | n | One who hops. 2. insects, such as a grasshopper or locust. 3. a barge carrying away mud etc., from a dredging machine and discharging it. 4. a player from a game of hopscotch. |
| Hoppestre | n | OE. a female dancer. |
| Hopping | n | Action of the verb to hop. |
| Hopping | phr | "Hopping Mad" - to be extremely angry. |
| Hordarian | n | From OE: hordere: a treasurer. |
| Hore | n | Dirt, filth, defilement, foulness; polution. 2. clammy humour, phlegm. |
| Horehound | n | See 'Hoarhound' |
| Horeling | n | A fornicator, whoremonger, an adulterer, paramour. |
| Horeness | n | Foulness, filth. |
| Horewort | n | Hore: (hoar & wort) - in reference to its white downy covering; cudweed, filago germanica. |
| Horn | n | A tusk of an elephant. 2. a telephone (slang). 3. a promontory, headland. 2. a musical instrument. |
| Horn | vb | To furnish with horn or horns. 2. to gore with the horns. 3. to cuckold. |
| Horn | phr | "All Horn and Hide" - nothing but skin and bone. |
| Horn | phr | "Be at One's Horn" - out of protection of the law, as an outlaw. 2. to proclaim as an outlaw. |
| Horn | phr | "Blow One's Horn"- to self praise. |
| Horn | phr | "Come Out Of the Little End of a Horn" - to come off badly; to fail conspiciously. |
| Horn | phr | "Draw in One's Horns" - to reduce one's expenditure. 2. mitigate an expressed opinion. 3. restrain pride (an allusion is to the snail). |
| Horn | phr | "Give Horn to" - to cuckold. |
| Horn | phr | "Horn and Corn" - used symbolically for cattle and provisions generally. |
| Horn | phr | "Horn In" - (slang) interrupt; intefrere intrude. |
| Horn | phr | "Horn In On" - By cunning and stealth get oneself into a position or situation which seems profitable; muscle in on. |
| Horn | phr | "Lift Up the Horn" - to exalt oneself; to show fight and resistance. |
| Horn | phr | "Lock Horns With" - argue and fight with somebody. |
| Horn | phr | "Make the Horn at" - give the five-finger salute to. |
| Horn | phr | "Neither Horn Nor Corn" - not a trace or vestige. |
| Horn | phr | "Pull in One's Horns" - to restrain one's ardour; to repose one's pride. 2. to retreat from a previous stated view. |
| Horn | phr | "Put to the Horn" - in old Scots Law" : to proclaim as an outlaw by three blasts of the horn. |
| Horn | phr | "Take the Bull By the Horns: - too come to grips with realities of a difficult problem. |
| Horn | phr | "Wear the Horns" - to be cuckold. |
| Horn-book | n | A single page containing an alphabet covered with sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read. 2. a legal textbook that gives a basic overview of a particular area of a law. |
| Horned | adj | Having horns or antlers. 2. cornuted. |
| Hornedness | n | State or condition of being or having horns. |
| Horn-eyed | adj | Film over the eyes; filmy or dull-eyed. |
| Horner | n | A work in horn, a make of horn spoons, coms, etc. 2. one who makes musical horns. 3. one who cuckolds; a cuckold-maker. |
| Hornet | n | A large wasp, of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting. |
| Hornet | phr | "A Nest of Hornet" - a large amount of trouble or hostility. |
| Hornet | phr | "Bring/Stir up a Hornet Nest Upon One's Head/Ears" - to stir up a host of enemies around oneself. 2. do something to precipitate trouble, opposition. |
| Hornet | phr | "Stir Up a Hornet's Nest" - create trouble. |
| Horn-fish | n | The garfish |
| Hornful | adj | The amount a horn will hold. |
| Horngeld | n | A feudal service having a form of rent fixed according to the number of horned cattle. 2. cornage. |
| Horn-god | n | Pan. |
| Horn-head | n | A cuckold. |
| Hornily | adv | In a horny manner. |
| Horniness | n | A horniness condition |
| Horning | n | Cuckolding, cuckoldry. 2. the fact of being a crescent. |
| Hornish | adj | Somewhat like horn; hard. |
| Hornless | adj | Without a horn. |
| Hornlessness | n | Absence of horns. |
| Horn-like | adj | Resembling a horn. |
| Horn-mad | vb | Of persons: stark mad, mad in rage, furious. 2. lecherous. |
| Horn-ness | n | Made of horn. |
| Horn-nose | n | The rhinocerus. |
| Horn-owl | n | Bubo virginus, also known as the the 'tiger owl'; earlier known as the 'winged tiger'. |
| Horn-rimmed | adj | Having frames of horn or of dark-color plastic, often relatively thick and heavy; said of spectacles or eye glasses. |
| Horn-sickness | n | Humorous for 'jealously' due to be cuckolded. |
| Horn-silver | n | A whitish, greyish mineral chloride of silver. |
| Hornstone | n | A compact siliceous rock, resembling flint, but more brittle; chert. |
| Hornwork | n | Work done in horn; made of horn. 2. cuckoldry - state of being the husband or partner of an unfaithful wife. |
| Hornwort | n | Ceratophyllum demersum: an aquatic plant with dense whorls of finely divided leaves, also called Horned Pondweed. |
| Hornwrack | n | Seaweed cast ashore of the genus 'flustra foliceae' |
| Horny | adj | Of or resembling a horn. 2. informal, feeling of arousing sexual incitement; lustful. 3. having a horn or horn-like projections; horned. 4. hornlike as a result of hardening; callous; hard like horn. |
| Horny | n | 'Auld Hornie" - The Devil, Old Sooty. |
| Horny Goatweed | n | An Asian herb, of the genus, Epimedium used in tradition Chinese medicine for erectile dysfunction. |
| Horny-handed | adj | Having hard or calloused hands. |
| Horse | n | Of, like, or closely associated with the animal, a hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. 2. any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass; steed, nag. 3. cavalry soldiers: (sometimes in capitals) as in "All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again." 4. the chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname. 5.(slang) a large person (often a footballer in rugby, gridiron and Australian Rules. 6. a timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. 7. equipment with legs, as in gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top. 8. a frame with legs, used to support something. a clothes horse; a sawhorse. 9. (nautical) equipment, such as a rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope. 10. a breast-band for a leadsman. 12. an iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon. 11. (mining) a mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance. 12.(slang) the sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly. |
| Horse | vb | To frolic, to act mischievously. 2. to provide with a horse. 3. (obsolete) to get on horseback. 4. to sit astride of; to bestride. 5. (of a male horse) to copulate with (a mare). 6. to take or carry on the back. 7. to place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment. |
| Horse | n | "White Horse" - a figure of white horse, (reputed by later writers) as the ensign of the Saxons when they invaded Britain and the heraldic ensign of Brunswick, Hanover and Kent. 2. the figure of a horse cut in the face of chalk downs in England; and popularly supposed to represent the "White Horse of the Saxons, notably that near Uffington in Berkshire. |
| Horse | n | "Wooden Horse" - the gallows; an instrument of torture. |
| Horse | vb | To provide with a horse or horses; to set on horseback. 2. to mount or go on horseback. 3. to raise or hoist up. 4. to elevate on a man's back; eg. for flogging. 5. of a current: to carry with force. 6. of a stallion: to cover a mare. 7. to bestride. 8. |
| Horse | phr | "A Dark Horse" - a person with unsuspected talents. |
| Horse | phr | "As strong as Horse" - very strong. |
| Horse | phr | "A Willing Horse" - a cheerful worker. |
| Horse | phr | "Back the Wrong Horse" - put one's faith, trust, in somebody who later looses, or something which fails. |
| Horse | phr | "A Willing Horse" - a cheerful worker. 2. always somebody willing to work. |
| Horse | phr | "Eat Like a Horse" - to eat voraciously; eat with gluttony. |
| Horse | phr | "Frighten the Horses" - to scare people off through one s ill-considered tactics. |
| Horse | phr | "Get Up/Be on One's High Horse" - said of a person affecting airs of superiority; behaving pretentiously or arrogantly. |
| Horse | phr | "Hold One's Horses" - to be patient; curb one's impetuosity; wait; take things easy. |
| Horse | phr | "Horse and Foot" - both side of the military (archaic). |
| Horse | phr | "Horse and Horse" - equally matched, neck and neck. |
| Horse | phr | "Horse Away" - to spend on or in a lottery. |
| Horse | phr | "Horse that was Foaled on an Acorn" - scaffold, gibbet; gallows; the wooden horse. |
| Horse | phr | "Horse Up" - to drive(oakum) between the planks of a ship. 2. to harden in the oakum; caulk up. |
| Horse | phr | "I Will Win a Horse or Loose the Saddle" - double or nothing; neck or nothing. |
| Horse | phr | "Old War Horse" - veteran fighter or soldier; an old hand. |
| Horse | phr | "One Man May Steal a Horse, While Another May Not Look Over the Hedge" - some commit offences by immunity; while others get punished for trivialities. |
| Horse | phr | "Out/From of the Horse's Mouth" - original, authentic source of information as, straight from the horse's mouth. 2. to get information from someone qualified to give it. |
| Horse | phr | "Play Horse with" - to treat roughly or unceremoniously. |
| Horse | phr | "Put the Horse Before the Cart" - do things in the wrong way. |
| Horse | phr | "Ride the High Horse" - to be pretentious. |
| Horse | phr | "Rough With White Horses" - white-topped waves on the sea. |
| Horse | phr | "Stalking Horse" - someone who is employed to stimulate action in others. |
| Horse | phr | "Talk Horse" - to talk the parlance of the turf and racing. 2. to talk big or boastfully. |
| Horse | phr | "The Grey Mare is the Better Horse" - the woman is paramount; said of a woman who wears the pants in the family. |
| Horse | phr | "They Cannot Draw Horses Together" - they cannot agree together. |
| Horse | phr | "Wild Horses Wouldn't (make someone do something)" - nothing would make one do something he/she wouldn't want to do. |
| Horse | phr | "Work a Dead Horse" - to do work which was paid for in advance, and so bring no further reward. |
| Horse | phr | "Work Like A Horse" - work extremely hard. |
| Horse | phr | "You Can Lead a Horse to Water but You Can't Make Him Drink" - you can encourage someone to do something, you can't force them. |
| Horse-and-foot | adj | Both side of the military (archaic). |
| Horseback | n | A back of a horse. 2. a natural ridge: a hogback. 3. an object shaped like a horseback. |
| Horseback | phr | "On Horseback" - on a horse's back. |
| Horse-bane | n | A species of enanthe supposed to cause palsy in horses. |
| Horse-bier | n | A horse-drawn hearse. 2. a litter. |
| Horse-boat | n | A boat drawn or powered by horses. |
| Horse-breaker | n | One who tames, trains or 'breaks in' horses. |
| Horsecraft | n | Skill in the care and management of horses. 2. skill and ability in riding, horsemanship and equestrian. |
| Horse-dealer | n | Horse-monger. |
| Horse-drawn | adj | A vehicle, boat drawn or pulled by horses. |
| Horse drench | n | A medicinal dose for a horse, or the instrument in which it is administered. |
| Horse-feathers | n | Nonsense, rubbish. |
| Horse-flesh | n | The flesh of a horse, esp, as a food. 2. (living) horses, as a group, horses collectively. 3. as a colour: reddish-brown. |
| Horse-flesh ore | n | An ore of copper, bornite. |
| Horse-fly | n | A large blood-sucking fly; a bot-fly |
| Horse-fully | adv | As becoming a horse. |
| Horsegall | n | Erythraea centaureus. |
| Horse-godmother | n | A large, unattractive woman. 2. a large coarse, looking woman. |
| Horse-hair | n | A hair from the mane or tail or the horse. 2. a mass of horse-hair. |
| Horse-hide | n | The hide of a horse. 2. leather made from the hide of a horse. |
| Horse herd | n | A herd of horses. |
| Horse-hide | n | The hide of a horse. 2. leather made from the hide of a horse. |
| Horsehood | n | Qualities proper or belonging to a horse. |
| Horse-house | n | Stables, dwelling housing horses. |
| Horse-keeper | n | One who has the care of horses. |
| Horse-laugh | n | A loud, raucous laughter. |
| Horse-leech | n | A farrier, a veterinary surgeon, horse-doctor. 2. an impatient, insatiable, voracious person. 2. a blood sucking worm. |
| Horse-leechcraft | n | Veterinary medicine. |
| Horseless | n | Not having, devoid or lacking horses. |
| Horse-like | adj | Characteristic or resembling a horse; hippic, equine. |
| Horsely | adj | Of the nature of a good horse. 2. of or pertaining to the horse. |
| Horseman | n | A man who rides a horse. 2. a soldier on horseback. 3. a man skilled in horsemanship. 4. a man in charge of workhorses |
| Horsemanship | n | The art of riding horses; equstrian skill. 2. formerly the breeding, rearing and management of horses. 2. the duties of a manege. |
| Horsemeat | n | The flesh of a horse. 2. the flesh of a horse prepared for human consumption in some countries; or for dog-food in others. |
| Horse-monger | n | A trader or dealer in horses and equine products; a horse-dealer. 2. a monger of horses. |
| Horse nail | n | A thin, pointed nail with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horseshoe to a hoof; a horseshoe nail. |
| Horseness | n | The abstract qualities of a horse. |
| Horse-play | n | Rough, boisterous play. 2. mock rollicking or wrestling between young boy. 3. coarse, physical merriment. |
| Horseplayful | adj | Full of, or inclined to horseplay. |
| Horserider | n | One who rides a horse' a jockey. |
| Horse-riding | n | The riding of horses for pleasure (pastime)or profit (work). |
| Horse-shoe | n | A belief that it is lucky to pick up a horse shoe from the idea that it was a protection against witches. 2. U-shaped metallic shoe of a horse. 3. a well developed set of triceps. |
| Horse-shoe | vb | To apply horseshoe to a horse. |
| Horse-shoer | n | One who shoes horses; a farrier. |
| Horse-skin | n | The skin or hide of a horse. |
| Horse-smith | n | A farrier. |
| Horse stinger | phr | A dragon fly. |
| Horse tail | n | The tail of a horse, especially when severed from the body and used as a distinction of rank or as a standard. |
| Horse-tamer | n | A horse-breaker. |
| Horse-wain | n | A vehicle drawn by horses, including passenger and goods, such as 'haywain'; haywagon. |
| Horse-way | n | A road by which a horse may pass; a bridle road. |
| Horse-whale | n | The walrus. |
| Horse whisper | vb | An instance of horse-whispering. |
| Horse-whisperer | n | A horse trainer who adopts a sympathetic view of the needs and desires of the horse, based on equine psychology. |
| Horse-whispering | n | A method of horse training from a sympathetic view of the needs and desires of the horse, based on equine psychology. |
| Horsiness | n | The quality of being horsey. |
| Horsing | n | Pertaining to the nature of a horse. 2. the covering of the mare. |
| Horsy | adj | Of, relating to, or like a horse; horsey. 2. dealing with or interested in horses, horse racing, horse showing. 3. of a person or people involved in breeding racing and riding horses. 4. heavy and awkward. |
| Hortyard | n | OE from Latin: a garden. 2. a garden of fruit trees; an orchard (sometimes a garden generally). |
| Hory | adj | Filthy, foul, dirty, slanderous. |
| Hory | vb | To make hory, foul, dirty, defile, pollute. |
| Hose | n | Coverings, leggings, trousers. 2. a stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights. 3. close-fitting trousers reaching to the knees. 4. a flexible tube conveying water or other fluids. |
| Hose | vb | To water or sprayed with a hose. 2. to deliver using a hose. 3. to provide with a hose (garment). 4. to attack and kill somebody with a firearm. 5. to trick, cheat or deceive. 6. to wipe all files from a computer. 7. to defeat decisively. 8. to attack or assault 9an area) in order to gain control. to reject. |
| Hose | phr | "Hose Down" - wash from top to bottom with water from a hose. 2. fig. |
| Hoseless | adj | Having no hose to wear; wearing no hose. |
| Hot | vb | Of an object, having a high temperature. 2. of the weather, causing the air to be hot, stinking hot, sweltering, sultry. 3. of a person or animal, feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort. 4. feverish, having a high temperature. 5. of food, spicy, tangy, piquant. 6.(informal) very good, remarkable, exciting. 7.stolen, pinched, knocked-off. 8. hot merchandise (slang). 8. electrically charged a hot wire, live. 9. radioactive. 10. (slang) of a person, very physically or sexually attractive, foxy. 11. (slang) sexual; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement. 12 .popular; in demand. 13. very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed. 14. performing strongly; having repeated successes. 15. fresh; just released. 16. uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant. |
| Hot | adv | With great heat, at a high temperature; pungently. 2. ardently, eagerly, violently, severely, angrily. |
| Hot | phr | "As Hot as Hell" - very hot. |
| Hot | phr | "Blow Hot and Cold" - from Aesop's fable in which the satyr declares he can not trust a man who blows hat (to warm his hands) and cold (to cool his food) in the same breath. 2. to behave inconsistently; to vacillate or to waver as between extremes of opinion or emotion. 3. to run hot and cold; to alternate between, such as enthusiasm and disinterest a success and failure. 4. to hold with the hare and run with the fox. |
| Hot | phr | "Feel Not So Hot" - feel, look unwell. |
| Hot | phr | "Get Hot" - become close to a solution. |
| Hot | phr | "Give It Hot and Strong" - deliver a reprimand or criticism severely. |
| Hot | phr | "Have the Hots for" - be sexually attracted. |
| Hot | phr | "Hot and Heavy" - enthusiastic, passionate. |
| Hot | phr | "Hot and Hot" - of individual dishes of food: served at a time as soon as cooked. |
| Hot | phr | "Hot as Hell" - very hot. |
| Hot | phr | "Hot At" - accomplished or able in a particular activity. |
| Hot | phr | "Hot Foot It" - to make haste; to move with great speed or progress. 2. to act in haste or hastily. |
| Hot | phr | "Hot On" - be keen on, or be very knowledgable or well informed about a subject. 2. an enthusiastic admirer of somebody; a devotee of something. |
| Hot | phr | "Hot On the Heels of Something" - to closely follow something. |
| Hot | phr | "Hot to Hold" - a place that has too much activity to harbor a fugitive unnoticed. |
| Hot | phr | "Hot Up" - intensify, increase a matter in business, trade, etc. |
| Hot | phr | "In Hot Water" - to be in touble, ferment or great discomfort. |
| Hot | phr | "In the Hot Seat" - in an uncomfortable or embarrasing situation, usually by being subjected to criticism. 2. in a difficult, responsible position. |
| Hot | phr | "Make It Hot For (Somebody)" - to cause trouble or discomfort for someone; to put someone under pressure. 2. make the situation extremely uncomfortable and difficult for. |
| Hot | phr | "Not Feel Too Hot" - not feel well. |
| Hot | phr | "Not So Hot" - not so good; not very satisfactory. |
| Hot | phr | "Run Hot" - of equipment, to become very hot from particularly high usage. |
| Hot | phr | "Strike While the Iron's Hot" - to take advanrage of a situation that cannot last. |
| Hot-backed | adj | Lustful, horny. |
| Hot-bed | n | A bed of earth heated by manure, and usually covered with glass, for raising plants. 2. a place that favors rapid growth or development of any condition, esp. of something excellent. 3. any place conducive to quick growth, esp. scandal or vice. 4. a bed in a flop-house, used continually night and day. |
| Hot-bed | vb | To grow as in a hotbed. 2. an environment promoting the growth of something, esp. something unwelcome. |
| Hot-blast | n | A blast of heated air forced into a furnace. |
| Hot-blooded | adj | Having hot blood; ardent, or excitable; passionate. 2. extremely volatile. |
| Hot-bloodness | n | The state or quality of being hot-blooded. |
| Hot-brain | n | A hothead, one who has fiery temper. |
| Hot-brained | adj | Having a fiery and unpredictable temper. |
| Hot-breathed | adj | As hot as a dog's breath. |
| Hot-bright | adj | Of the day: sunny and bright. |
| Hot-cold | adj | Wavering between hot and cold temperature. |
| Hot-cupboard | n | A container, normally of stainless steel, and sometimes portable, in which hot food may be kept warm until being served; sometimes fitted with a bain-marie. |
| Hot-dip | vb | A method of galvanizing of iron or steel by passing it through a bath of molten zinc. |
| Hot-dipping | n | The galvanizing of iron or steel by means of the hot dip method. |
| Hot dish | n | A variety of baked casserole that typically contains a starch, a meat or other protein, and a canned and/or frozen vegetable, mixed with canned soup. 2. main course or side dish served hot during a meal. 3. dish for serving hot dish. |
| Hot dog | n | A hot sausage enclosed as a sandwich in a roll of bread. 2. (sl) one who is skilled in some practice. |
| Hote | n | A promise, vow, hight. |
| Hote | vb | Command, be called. |
| Hot-eyed | adj | Hot, fiery, alert eyes, not eyes tired or weary. |
| Hot-foot | vb | To make haste; to move with great speed or progress. 2. to act in haste or hastily. |
| Hot-gospeller | n | A person who proclaims his religious faith in a loud or dynamic manner. |
| Hot-gospelling | n | The activities of a hot-gospeller. |
| Hot-head | n | One who angers easily or goes in search of arguments or fights. 2. one who reacts quickly and without thinking carefully; rash. |
| Hot-headed | adj | Pertaining to, or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadness; of a person easily excited or angered. 2. fiery, hasty, irrational, hot-tempered, impetuous. |
| Hot-headedly | adv | In a hot-headed manner. |
| Hot-headedness | n | The state or characteristic of being hotheaded. 2. the tendency to be easily infuriated or provoked. |
| Hot-hearted | adj | Fiery, excited, highly romantic. |
| Hot-hoof | adv | Move rapidly or swiftly. 2. with haste or rapid progress. |
| Hot-house | n | A heated greenhouse. 2. fig. an environment in which growth of developments are encouraged; a hotbed. 3. a bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel. 4. a heated room for drying greenware (crockery). |
| Hothouse | vb | Of a child - to provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development. |
| Hot | n | Hot Key - in computing, a keyboard shortcut, |
| Hot-line | n | A direct means of communication; specifically, a telephone line for emergency used by heads of state of nuclear powers, or immediate communiations between an official and his chief subordinates. |
| Hot lips | n | The lips of a person known for kissing. |
| Hot list | n | A list of items of special intent. |
| Hot-livered | adj | Hot-tempered, excitable, irascible. |
| Hot-looking | adj | Hot and sweaty looking. |
| Hotly | adv | With great amounts of heat. 2. in a heated manner intensely or vehemently. |
| Hot-making | adj | Embarrassing, passionate. |
| Hot-mouthed | adj | Restive or ungovernable, as a horse whose mouth is irritated by the bit. |
| Hotness | n | The condition of being hot. |
| Hot pot | n | A dish of meat; stewed with potatoes in a covered pot. |
| Hot rod | n | An old car stripped and turned or modified for speed, usually by a youth. |
| Hot-rodding | n | Souping or hotting up a motor vehicle, amplifer. |
| Hot seat | n | A position of responsibility, especially in a crisis. 2. the electric chair. |
| Hot shoe | n | A socket on a camera with an electrical contacts for a flashgun etc. |
| Hot-short | adj | Of metal, somewhat brittle when heated. |
| Hot-shot | n | Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field, as a 'hotshot lawyer'. 2. a type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire fighting. |
| Hot spell | n | A short period of hot weather, sometimes a heat wave. |
| Hot spot | n | Probably Of Old Norse origin, but may be connected to OE 'splott' A very popular or active place. 2. a place where much danger, as (an accident hot spot), civil, political or fighting. 3. a place where the wireless internet connection is available. 4. a place in the upper mantle of the earth at which hot magma from the lower mantle upwells to melt through the crust usually in the interior of a tectonic plate to form a volcanic feature; also: a place in the crust overlying a hot spot. |
| Hot springs | n | A natural spring; the waters which issue forth at 98F. or above. |
| Hotspur | n | A rash, hot-headed, person; a person who pushes on, heedless of advice or warning |
| Hotspur | adj | Impetuous, reckless. |
| Hottish | adj | Somewhat hot. |
| Hot walker | n | One who walks a horse after cool it after exercise. |
| Hot wall | n | A brick wall that has enclosed flues connected to a fire, onto which fruit trees are attached on order to hasten growth and ripening. |
| Hot-war | n | Open warfare, as opposed to a "cold war." |
| Hot wash | n | Discussions and evaluations of an agency's (or multiple agencies) performance following an exercise, training session, or major event. |
| Hot water | n | Water at a high temperature. |
| Hot-water heater | n | A heating system powered by heated water; hydronic. |
| Hot-wave | n | A heat wave. |
| Hot well | n | A well whose water is supplied by a hot spring . 2. a receptacle for the hat water drawn from the condenser by the air pump. |
| Hot-wire | vb | To start an engine by bypassing the ignition system. |
| Hot-wired | adj | Operated by the expansion of heated wire. |
| Hough | n | OE. heel; the joint or hock in the hind leg of a horse, cow, etc., corresponding to the ankle in humans. |
| Hough | vb | To hamstring. |
| Hough-bone | n | Heel-bone. |
| Hough-sinew | n | Hough; the sinew of the hough; applied to in man to popliteal tendons. |
| Hound | n | A dog generally, now applied to a foxhound. 2. a dog kept for hunting. 3. applied opprobiously or contemptuously to a man. |
| Hound | vb | To hunt, track, chase or pursue with hounds (as a dog does). 2. transfig. & fig. to pursue, esp. harassingly.- |
| Hound | phr | "Follow the Hounds" - to participate in a hunt, esp. as a member of the field. |
| Hound | phr | "Hound Out Of" - force somebody to leave (often by conspiracy or damage to his reputation). |
| Hound | phr | "Hunt with the Hare and Run with the Hounds" - keep in with two opposing sides. |
| Hound | phr | "Ride to Hounds" - go fox-hunting on horseback. |
| Hound dog | n | A hunting dog. |
| Hounding | n | The act of going after on in the tracks of others or another . 2. pursuit, esp. persistently and relentlessly. 3. someone who eagerly and persistently pursues a person even though their communications is unrequited. |
| Houndish | adj | Of the nature, characteristic of or pertaining to a hound. 2. doggish, canine-like. |
| Hound of Hell | n | Cerberus; Orion's hare; the Dog star. |
| Hounds-berry | n | European black nightshade, common dogwwod, solarium nigrum. |
| Hounds-tongue | n | Cynoglossum oficinale, hounds tooth, dog's tongue. |
| Hound's tooth | n | A check pattern with notched corners suggestive of a canine tooth. |
| Hoursch | vb | OE. to rattle, make a din. |
| House | n | A dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families. 2. the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; firm, house, business firm. 3. the members of a religious community living together. 4. the audience gathered together in a theater or cinema; "the
house applauded". 5. an official assembly having legislative powers. 6.: aristocratic family line; "the House of Tudor"; family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of David'. 7. play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults; "the children were playing house". 8. (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided; a sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house. 9. the management of a gambling house or casino. 10. a social unit living together; family, household, house, home, menage. 11. a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented; as "the house was full"; theater, theater, house. 12. a building in which something is sheltered or located. 13. the body as the habitation of the soul. 14. the grave, 'the long house'; 'the dark house'; 'the grass house'. 15. a public house, inn, tavern, hotel. |
| House | vb | To keep within a structure or a container; store, enclose. 2. to give residence to or harbor; accommodate harbor, put up, provide housing for. 3. to take shelter or lodgings; to abide within. 4. to dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses. 5. to cover or contain mechanical parts. 6. to drive to a shelter. 7. to deposit and cover as a grave. 8. to stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe. |
| House | phr | "A House is Not a Home" - a home is not merely a building but requires inhabitants. 2. a friendly atmosphere. |
| House | phr | "Be in the Doghouse" - be in disgrace. |
| House | phr | "Bring Down the House (down)" - to cause tremendous applause or laughter. |
| House | phr | "Eat One Out of House and Home" - to eat (or expend one's resources) so much to bring one's financial situation to ruin. |
| House | phr | "House and Home - an alliterative emphasizing of the word "home.' |
| House | phr | "House of God" - a church, place of worship. |
| House | phr | "House of Lords" - the upper house of the British parliament. |
| Huose | phr | "House of Worship" - church, mosque, pagoda, temple etc. |
| House | phr | "House to House" - performed or carried on from house to house. |
| House | phr | "House of Keys" - in the Isle of Man, the elected chamber of Tynwald. |
| House | phr | "House of Lords" - the chamber of UK parliament composed of peers and bishops. |
| House | phr | "In the Best Houses" - among the wealthy people. |
| House | phr | "Keep a Good House": to supply a bountiful table |
| House | phr | "Keep House" - to manage or maintain athe affairs of a house. |
| House | phr | "Keep Open House" - always make casual visitors welcome. |
| House | phr | "Keep to the House" - stay indoors. |
| House | phr | "Like a Side of a House" - very large. |
| House | phr | "Like a House on Fire" - very rapidly. |
| House | phr | "On the House" - given to regular customers at the expense of the hotel, restaurant etc. 2. to be free of cost. |
| House | phr | "Shout the House Down" - shout very loudly. |
| Houses | phr | "Those (Folk) in Glass Houses Shouldn't Throw Stones" - those less than perfect shouldn't criticize others. |
| House | phr | "To Clean House" - to get rid of undesirable conditions or persons in an organizations. |
| Houseboat | n | A covered boat fitted out and used as a dwelling. |
| Houseboater | n | One who lives or who owns on a houseboater |
| House-bote | n | Wood, taken as a right by the tenant from the landlord estate, for the repair of a (his) house. |
| Housebreak | vb | To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox or receptacle. 2. domesticate. |
| Housebreaker | n | A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premise with the intent of committing a crime. |
| Housebreaking | n | The act of breaking into anorther's house with the intention to steal (some) of their possession. |
| House-broken | adj | Trained to live cleanly in a house; said of animals. |
| House-builder | n | One who builds or constructs houses. 2. a carpenter; housewright. |
| House-building | n | The occupation and trade of building houses. |
| House-buyer | n | One who buys a house. |
| House-buying | n | The act of buying or purchasing a house. |
| House call | n | A visit by a medical professional, especially a physician, to examine a patient in his or her horse. 2. a visit by a repair person or other customer service worker to a customer's house. |
| House-care | n | The care and maintenance of one's home. 2. treatment of a patient at his or her home. |
| Housecarl | n | In OE only in cerain combination as 'housecarl' - bodyguard of the king. 2. a member of the bodyguard or household troop of (danish or later english) king or noble. |
| House cat | n | A cat trained to live predominantly in the house. |
| House church | n | A charismatic church independent denominations. |
| Housecraft | n | The art of managing a home or house. 2. skill in domestic duties. |
| House-dog | n | A guard dog, watch dog, domestic dog kept to mind the house.. |
| House-dweller | n | One who lives in a house or is house-dwelling. |
| House-fast | adj | House-bound. |
| House-father | n | The father of a household or family. 2. the leader of a community or collection of persons living together as a family. |
| House fly | n | The common housefly (Musca domestica). |
| House folk | n | The residents or occupants of a house. |
| Houseful | adj | As much or as many as a household will hold. |
| House-god | n | A household god. |
| Household | n | Collectively or a number all the person who live or dwell in a given house. 2. a family or line of ancestry, house or race. |
| Household | adj | Belonging to the same house and family. 2. of anything found in or having its origin in a home. |
| Household | phr | "Head of the Household" - senior member od a family. |
| Householder | n | The owner of a house. 2. homeowner. 3. the head of a family. specifically, in England, one who inhabits a dwelling or tenement of such a nature as to qualify him for the exercise of the franchise. |
| Household gods | n | Larnes and Penates who presided over the dwellings and domestic concerns of the ancient Romans. |
| Household goods | n | The furniture, utensils and supplies necessary for keeping house. |
| Householding | n | The management of a household; house-keeping. 2. the fact of being a householder. 3. ownership or occupation of a house. |
| Householding | adj | Having the role of a householder; managing a household. |
| House-holdingship | n | The position or status of a householder. |
| Household | phr | "Household Name" - somebody who is very well known. |
| Householdness | n | Of domestic nature or quality. |
| Household-income | n | The total income of a household and its members. |
| Household-word | n | A word or saying in familiar use. 2. a name familar to everybody |
| House-hunting | n | The process of seeking a house to live in. |
| House-husband | n | A husband who carries out the house-hold duties traditionally carried out by the housewife. |
| House-keep | vb | To carry out the domestic duties of housekeeping. |
| House-keeper | n | One who looks after the home by herself or himself; either as a partner or hired worker. |
| House-keeping | n | The chores of maintaining a house as a residence, including the cleaning, cooking and caring for the children. 2. the operation of a computer, or an organization etc., which makes work possible but do not directly constitute its performance, eg. maintenance and record-keeping |
| Housel | n | A sacrifice. 2. an mass or eucharist. |
| Housel | vb | To administer the housel or Eucharist. |
| Housel-bread | n | The host |
| House-leek | n | Sempervivum tectorum. |
| Houseless | adj | Not having a house or dwelling. 2. having no shelter or refuge. 3. lacking or in need of a house or home. As adjectives the difference between homeless and houseless is that homeless is lacking a permanent place of residence while houseless is lacking or in need of a house or home. |
| Houselessness | n | Homelessness. |
| House-lewth | n | The shelter of a house. |
| House-lights | n | The lights in the auditorium of a theatre. |
| House-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a house in various aspects. |
| Housemaid | n | A girl employed to do housework. |
| Housemaid's knee | n | A chronic inflammation of the bursa in front of the knee, afflicting housemaids and others who kneel in working. |
| House-man | n | A handy man employed to do heavy work around the house, hotel, etc. 2. a houseboy. |
| House-monger | n | A dealer in houses (opprobius) 2. a real estate agent (especially a shifty one), realtor. |
| House mother | n | The mother of the household or family. 2. the female head of a community living together as a family |
| House mouse | n | Usually, the grey mouse, Mus musculus, very common as a scavenger about human dwellings, and bred as a pet and experimental animal. |
| House of worship | n | A religious building, a mosque, pagoda, church, synagogue, temple or similar place where believers go to practice their faith. |
| House-proud | adj | Fastidious about one's house being completely clean and tidy, and spending a lot of time making it so. |
| House-rat | n | The black rat, also known as ship-rat, roof rat, house rat, is a common long-tailed rodent of the genus Rattus in the sub-family Murinae. |
| Houseroom | phr | Space or accommodation within one's house. |
| Houseroom | mn | "Not Give House Room" - not have in any circumstances. |
| Houseship | n | Household, family. |
| House-sin | n | A private or secret sin. |
| House-sit | n | To live in someone else's home for the purpose of protecting and tending to it in the owner's or tenant's absence. |
| House-sitting | n | Live and look after a house, as a house-sitter, while the owner is away. |
| House snake | n | A harmless snake of the northern US that frequents houses and preys on rats aand mice; also called the milk snake. |
| House sparrow | n | Common grey and brown house sparrow, Passer domesticus, which nests in the eves and roofs of houses. |
| Housestead | n | A place or piece of ground on which a home stands. 2. site of a homestead. 3. homestead. |
| House-to-House | adj | From house to house in succession, as a 'house-to-house' hunt. |
| House-top | n | The top or roof of a house. 2. fig, an exposed or public place. |
| House-top | phr | "Call from the House-tops" - shout and make something known far and wide. |
| Housewards | n | Towards a house; homewards. |
| Houseware(s) | n | Kitchen utensils, equipment and other useful household articles. |
| Houswarm | vb | To celebrate the occupation of a new house with a party. |
| Housewarming | n | The action of celebrating the occupation of a new house or home with a party. |
| Housewife | n | A women and female head of the family often unemployed or employed part-time, who spends most of her time maintaining the upkeep of the home, the children and tending to family and household matters. |
| Housewife | vb | To act the housewife. 2. to manage a house with skill and thrift, like a housewife. |
| House-wifeless | n | Without a housewife or a female head of a family. |
| Housewifely | adj | Of the character of a housewife: skilful, and thrifty in the management of a household affairs. 2. relating to domestic skill and economy. 3. housewife-like. |
| Housewifely | adv | In a manner befittingly a housewife. |
| House-wifeliness | n | In or of a housewifely character. |
| House-wifeship | n | Of the position or status of a housewife. |
| House-wifish | adj | Appertaining to like, or pertaining to the character of a housewife. |
| Housework | n | Work in keeping house, especially in the more menial tasks. |
| Housewright | n | A builder of houses, esp. timber ones. 2. a carpenter. |
| Housing | n | The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone. 2. residences, collectively' accommodation, lodgings. 3. a mechanical component containing a covering. 4. a covering, esp. of cloth or the like. 5. casing, case, cover, covering, lid. |
| Housing | adj | That houses or shelter. |
| Houve | n | Also spelt 'Hoove' - a covering for the head; a turban, a coif, a cap, esp a skull cap worn under a helmet. 2. a child's caul. |
| Hove | n | As 'Hayhove' or 'alehove' - names of promptorium or ground ivy. 2. hall, dwelling, temple, court, as 'Arthur's Hove'. 3. a hill, hillock, now only in the north of England. 4. artificial mound, tumulus, or barrow. |
| How | adv | By what means, in what way. 2.in what condition, esp. of health. 3. to what extent. 4. in whatever way. |
| How | n | The way a thing is done (the how and why of). 2. t or carried out.he means by which something is done |
| How | n | OE.- a hof, hall, or dwelling. |
| How | n | Howe - sorrow, grief, anxiety, trouble. |
| How | n | Howe - a hole, holl(ow). 2. the hold of a ship. 3. a hollow or depression on the surface of the earth. 4. a basin or a valley. 5. the depth or middle of the winter. |
| How | adv | To what degree. 2. in what manner, 3. as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight or other strong feeling. 4. in what state. |
| How | vb | (Howe); to be anxious, think, consider, purpose, intend. |
| How | conj | In which way, in such way. |
| How | phr | "And How!" - emphatically yes. |
| How | phr | "Any Old How" - in a careless manner. |
| How | phr | "How Are You?" - a formal greeting. |
| How | phr | "How Are You Getting Along?" - how are things with you? 2. is everything OK in your life. 3. are things progressing well for you? |
| How | phr | "How Can You Sleep at Night?" - don't you have a conscience. |
| How | phr | "How Come?" - How did (or does it) come to be. 2. why is it so. |
| How | phr | "How Dare You" - a shocked and reproachful reaction to wrongful presumptious or impudent behavior. |
| How | phr | "How Do You Do?" - inquiry after the health or welfare of the person you are speaking to. 2. formal greeting made when one is introduced as somebody - and not requring an answer. 3. used as a name for the inquiry (which is often used as a name greeting or salutation. 4. an embarrassing or awkward moment. 5. a matter or affair. |
| How | phr | "How Do You Like Them Apples" - (colloquial, rhetorical question) directed jestingly or mockingly at someone who has received surprising information, ridiculing the situation. 2. (colloquial, rhetorical question, Ireland, US) Used after an actual or proposed action with which the listener might be displeased. Also used after refuting an argument |
| How | phr | "How Do You Say" - a common phrase used to ask how to express an idea or translate a word, often in a foreign language. |
| How | phr | "How Goes It (with You)" what is happening with you; what proress are you making. |
| How | phr | "How's It Going" - general inquiry about what has been happening to one (one state of health and well-being). 2. how goes it; what is happening with you; what progress are you making? |
| How | phr | "How's That For" - what do you think of that. |
| How | phr | "How's With You?" - an inquiry, greeting. |
| How | phr | "How the Hell" - how, in what way are you gong to do something. |
| How | phr | "How Many?" - what number. |
| How | phr | "How Many Times Do I Have To Tell You" - complaint, that one's opinions. statements, requests or orders have not been heeded or remembered. |
| How | phr | "How Now" -how is it now. |
| How | phr | "How on Earth" - however. 2. how, in what way. |
| How | phr | "How Right You Are!" - you are absolutely correct. |
| How | phr | "How So?" - how can you show that that is so? |
| How | phr | "How Wrong You Are!" - you are completely wrong. |
| Howbeit | adv | However it might be. 2. be that as it may, nevertheless, however. |
| Howbeit | adv | Although, though, how be it that. |
| How-do-you-do | n | An akward situation or occasion: ususually precede by an intensive' fine, great, etc. |
| However | adv | In whatever manner, way, or degree. 2. however yet they me despise and spite. 2. at all events; at least; in any case. |
| However | conj | Nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet; still; at least. |
| Howful | adj | Also "houghful" - careful, anxious. 2. sorrowful |
| Howfully | adv | Carefully, anxiously. 2. sorrowfully. |
| Howish | adj | "I Don't Know Howish" - having a somewhat vague sense of something. 2. having a somewhat vague sense of illness or indisposition. |
| Howsoever | adv | In a manner so-ever. 2. not withstanding that, albeit. 3. to what extent or in that degree soever. 4. in any case; at any rate. 5. nevertheless, yet. |
| How-to | n | A how-to is an informal, often short, description of how to accomplish a specific task. A how-to is usually meant to help non-experts, may leave out details that are only important to experts, and may also be greatly simplified from an overall discussion of the topic. |
| How-to | adj | Pertaining to an often short, description of how to accomplish a specific task. |
| Hox | n | A hamstring, hough-sinew, hough. |
| Hox | vb | To hamstring, hinder, harass. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Hyne | n | A servant, farm or agricultural labourer; a peasant, a hind. |
| Hyne | adv | Hence, from this place; away, departed, (is gone), is no more. 2. from this world,out of this life. |
| Hyne | phr | "Here and Hyne" - both in this world and the next. |
| Hyneforth | adv | Henceforth. |
| Hynewards | adv | Hencewards. |
| Hythe | n | A variant spelling of Hithe; wharf, landing place, harbour. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Hue | n | Skin complexion. 2. form, shape, figure. 3. appearance, aspect, specter. 4. external appearance, color of the face and skin. 5. an apparition, phantasm. 2. color. |
| Hue | vb | To form, fashion, figure. 2. to give an external appearance to (in later use): of colour. 3. (In earlier use) - to fashion; feign, pretend. 4. to tincture. 5. to depict, describe vividly. 6. to become coloured; to take colour. |
| Hue | phr | "Hide and Hue" - skin, complexion. |
| Hued | adj | Figured, formed. |
| Hueless | adj | In OE. shapeless, formless. |
| Huelessness | n | An absence of colour or pigmentation; colourless. |
| Hulk | n | A ship, formerly a light, fast-sailing vessel; later, a large ship of burden or transport, often associated with the corrach. 2. now, (somewhat archaic) - a big unwieldy vessel. 3. a hull of a ship. 4. the body of a dismantled ship, used as storage or formerly as a temporary prison for convicts. 6. transfig. & fig. a big unwieldy person. 7. a bulky unwieldy mass. |
| Hulk | n | A hut, shed, hovel. 2. a hiding place, hiding, concealment. |
| Hulk | vb | To condemn to "the hulks" 2. to lodge (temporarily) a sailor, convicts etc in a hulk. 3. to act, hang about, or go in a clumsy, unwieldy or lazy way. 4. to rise in bulk or massively. |
| Hulking | adj | Bulky, unwieldy, clumsy or ungainly on account on something bulky. |
| Hulkish | adj | Pertaining to the hulks somewhat clumsy etc. 2. like or of the nature of a hulk, bulky, unwieldy. |
| Hulky | adj | Unwieldy, clumsy, loutish, ungainly. |
| Hull | n | Shell, husk or pod of peas or beans. 2. the outer covering of the rind of any seed. 3. collectively the cuticle of grain, bran. 4. the core of an apple. 5. transfig. & fig. something that encloses or encases, as in the case of the chrysalis. 6. the encompassing membrane of the leaf. 7. a hut or hovel. 8. pen or sty of a animal. 9. clothes or garments. 10. the body of a ship. |
| Hull | vb | To remove the hull of, shell or husk. 2. strip of outer covering. 3. to shed teeth. 4. to pick fruit. 5. to lose the hull. |
| Hull | vb | Of a ship: to float or be driven by the force of the wind or current or the hull alone. 2. to strike or piece the hull (or vessel). |
| Hull | phr | "Hull Down" - so far away that the hull is invisible by the curvature or convexity of the earth;ssurface. 2. with the hull invisible, being below the horizon. |
| Hull | phr | "Lying Ahull or at Hull" - in sailing this expression is a controversial method of weathering a storm, by drowning all sails, battening all hatches and locking the tiller to leeward. A sea anchor is not used, alloing the boat to drift freely, completely at the mercy of the storm. |
| Hull-breach | n | The damaging or puncturing of a ship's surface. |
| Hulled | adj | A husk or hull of a particular kind. 2. of a ship having a hull or body of a particular kind. |
| Hulling | n | The outer covering; an outer garment. |
| Hulling | adj | Having or abounding in hulls or husks, |
| Hulster | n | OE. heolstor : a covering, concealment. 2. a hiding place; a retreat. |
| Hun | n | Loanword from late Latin, in OE as 'hune', or 'hunas'. a member of a group of certain Asian pastoral nomads who invaded parts of Europe during C4th and C5th and were defeated around the year 455 by Gepids other Huns and Romans forces. 2. (gen.) a barbarous and destructive people. 3. an offensive name for a German during the WW1 & WW2. |
| Hunch | vb | OE. to limp. |
| Hundred | n | A subdivision of a county or shire, having its own court; also formerly applied to the court. |
| Hundred | vb | To reckon, count, tell. |
| Hundred | phr | "A Hundred and One" - very many. |
| Hundred | phr | "All the Same in a Hundred Years" - a consolation for present adversity. |
| Hundred | phr | "A Hundred to One" - indicating a very slight probability . |
| Hundred | phr | "Not a Hundred Miles Off" - in the very neighborhood or very spot. |
| Hundred | phr | "What You Won in the Hundred, you Lose in the Shire'" |
| Hundred-eyed | adj | Argus-eyed; acuity of eyesight. |
| Hundred-fold | adj | As a hundred times as much. |
| Hundred-handed | adj | Of Greek mythology gods known for keeping watch and warding during war. |
| Hundred-man | n | The constable or officer of a hundred. |
| Hundred-mote | n | The assembly of the hundred; the hundred court. |
| Hundreder | n | A bailiff or chief officer of a hundred; the hundred man. 2. an inhabitant or dweller of a hundred, esp. one liable to serve on a jury. 3. a centurion. |
| Hundredfold | adv | A hundred times as much or as mass. 2. a hundred times in amount |
| Hundredth | adj | In arithmetic, a hundredth is a single part of something that has been divided into a hundred parts. |
| Hundredweight | n | Formerly also known as a centum weight or quintal, in US equal to 100lbs (45.36kg); in Britain's imperial system equal to 112lbs (50.8okg). |
| Hunfolk | n | The huns, the hunnish people. |
| Hung | adj | Suspended by hanging. 2.having hanging additions or appendages. 3.(law) Of a jury, unable to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial. 4. of a legislature, not having or lacking a majority political party, as a 'hung parliament'. 4. (computing, colloquial) of a computer or similar device, receiving power but not functioning as desired; working very slowly or not at all. The condition is often corrected by re- booting the computer. 5.(colloquial, of a male, vulgar) having large genitals (often preceded by an adverb, e.g. well hung). 7. (colloquial, of a man, slightly vulgar) having a penis of a certain size |
| Hung | phr | Hung Over" - suffering from a hangover. |
| Hung | phr | "Hung Up"- obsessed with, preoccupied with. |
| Hunger | n | Physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation; hunger, hungriness. 2. strong desire for something (not food or drink); "a thirst for knowledge"; any strong eager desire. 3. an uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food; hunger-bit. |
| Hunger | vb | To feel the need to eat. 2. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for; crave, hunger, starve, lust. 3. be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!" ;starve, hunger, famish. 4. to feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger. 5. to have an eager desire; to long.to eat. 6. to make hungry, to famish. |
| Hunger | phr | "Hunger for" - long to have something (which one may have lacked) friendship, love, happiness, success. |
| Hunger | phr | "Hunger Knows No Friend but its Feeder" - the most basic human needs in order is oxygen, water, & food. Until those needs are met nothing else ( no other friendship) matters. |
| Hunger-bane | n | Death by starvation. 2. starvation. |
| Hunger-beaten | adj | Overcome by hunger and starvation. |
| Hunger-bitten | adj | Famished, starved. |
| Hunger-den | n | Wretched hell-hole of misery and starvation (lit & fig.) |
| Hunger-driven | adj | Acts or actions motivated by hunger. |
| Hungered | adj | Hungry, starved, famished. |
| Hungerer | n | One who suffers hunger. 2. one who longs or craves. |
| Hungering | n | Craving, longing for, yearning. |
| Hungering | adj | Craved, longed for, yearned. |
| Hungerless | adj | Free from starvation. |
| Hungerly | adv | Hungrily, greedily.; with a hunger. 2. starved or famished. |
| Hunger Moon | phr | The first Full Moon of the year is named after howling wolves, the Wolf Moon. In some cultures, it was known as Old Moon, Ice Moon, Snow Moon, and the Moon after Yule. ... The Wolf Moon on the night between 1 and 2 January 2018 is a Supermoon. See also Blood Moon, Old Moon, Hunger Moon, Cold Moon. |
| Hunger-starve | vb | To starve (die) of hunger? |
| Hunger-strike | n | Fasting undertaken as a means of protest, often by prisoners. |
| Hunger-stricken | adj | Affected by overwhelming hunger and famine. |
| Hunger-wolf | n | The ravenous hungry wolf at the door, as a depiction of hunger. |
| Hunger-world | n | The world of famine and hunger. 2. areas of the world struck by famine and food shortages. |
| Hungild | n | Hundgild: (dog-tax) - a payment under the Forest laws on account of allowing a dog to roam free. |
| Hung-over | n | Suffering endured the following day by those who have over-indulged in alcohol and spiritous drinks the night before. |
| Hungrily | adv | Greedily, in a hungry manner; to hunger or crave. |
| Hungriness | n | Quality or condition of being hungry, greediness. 2. longing. |
| Hungry | adj | Feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food. 2. (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous; "athirst for knowledge"; athirst(p). 3.having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire. 4. showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. 5. the cruel, hungry foam. 5. not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil. |
| Hungry | phr | "Hungry as a Hunter" - very hungry. |
| Hungry | phr | "Hungry Like a Wolf" - ravenously hungry. |
| Hungry Forties | n | The years 1840-49 known for widespread distress among the poor. |
| Hungry ghost | n | In Buddhism, a type of supernatural-being condemned to desire more than it can eat, and depicted usually as pitiable creatures with a huge belly, but empty stomachs. Furthermore, they have pinhole mouths, and their necks are so thin they cannot swallow, so they remain hungry. Beings are reborn as hungry ghosts because of their greed, envy and jealousy. Hungry ghosts are also associated with addiction, obsession and compulsion. |
| Hunnishness | n | The state or quality of being hunnish or hun-like. |
| Hunt | n | An Association of huntsmen who hunt for sport (in a hunt club). 2. an instance of searching for something. 3. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone; search, hunt, hunting. 4. the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts. 5. the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport. |
| Hunt | vb | Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals);run, hunt down, track down. 2. pursue or chase relentlessly; as hunters or detectives. 3. chase away, with as with force. 4. yaw back and forth about a flight path. 5. oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent. 6. seek, search for. 7. search (an area) for prey. 8. to follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds. 9. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after. 10. (Change Ringing) -to shift up and down in order regularly. 11. to hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. 12. to search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer. 13. to search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence. 14. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish. 15. . To use or manage in the chase, as hounds. 16. to use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country. |
| Hunt | phr | "A Still Hunt" - a hunting for game in a quiet manner. 2. any quiet and cautious hunt for something. |
| Hunt | phr | "He Who Hunts Two Hares Leaves One and Loses the Other" - no one can do two things properly at once, for he falls between two stool, or tries to serve two masters. |
| Hunt | phr | "Hunt Down" - to chase down (an animal) until caught or killed. 2. to run to earth. 2. fig. to pursue, find or prosecute until end. 3. hunting down. |
| Hunt | phr | "Hunt Out" - to expel or drive from cover or shelter by hunting or persistent search. 2. to track down. 3. fig. to arrive at or discover by investigation. |
| Hunt | phr | "Hunt Up" - look, search for. |
| Hunt | phr | "On a Witchhunt" - an exercise seeking to find someone who can be blamed. |
| Hunt | phr | "Run with the Hare and Hunt with the Hunters" - to keep in with two opposing side. |
| Hunt | phr | "The Hunt Is Up" ('the hunt's up'.) - an old song played to awaken the huntsmen in the morning. |
| Hunt | phr | "Hunt Up" - search for until found. |
| Hunted | adj | Being the subject of the hunt. 2. fig. nervous and agitated, as if pursued. |
| Huntedly | adv | In a hunted or pursued manner. |
| Hunter | n | One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman. 2. a dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog. 3. a horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting. 4. one who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter. 5. a constellation on the equator to the east of Taurus; contains Betelgeuse and Rigel [syn: Orion, Hunter] |
| Huntercraft | n | The art, skill or craft of being a hunter. |
| Hunter-gatherer | n | A member of a people whose mode of subsistence is based on hunting animals and gathering plants. |
| Hunter-gathering | n | A mode of subsistence based on hunting animals and gathering plants. |
| Hunter-goddess | n | Artemis. the Greek goddess of the hunt; Diana, the roman equivalent. |
| Hunter-like | adj | Having (many) of the characteristics of a hunter. |
| Hunter's-green | phr | a dark, dull-green color formerly used for hunting costumes. |
| Hunter's moon | n | A name of the full moon next after the Harvest Moon. |
| Hunter-steed | n | A horse used for hunting. |
| Hunting | n | The stalking, chasing and killing of animals for food (or sport). 2. the act of pursuing game. 3. looking for or seeking something, esp. work or housing. |
| Hunting | n | Game killed during the hunt. |
| Hunting-dog | n | A dog that tracks prey using its sense of smell rather than by its vision. |
| Hunting-ground | n | An area used for hunting. 2. (fig).a place where people can find what they are looking. |
| Hunting-horn | n | A bugle blown during the hunt. |
| Hunting-knife | n | A long, sharp, single or double edged knifeused by hunters and campers. |
| Hunting-tide | n | The season for hunting. |
| Hunting-watch | n | A watch having the dial side as well as the reverse side protected by a metal cap or lid. |
| Huntsman | n | A hunter. 2. a fox-hunter, esp. one who manges the hounds during the hunt. 2. one of the many spiders of the family 'Sparasidae'. |
| Huntsmanlike | adj | Having a some or many characteristics of a hunter. |
| Huntsmanship | n | The position, office, or business of the hunter. 2. the art of the hunt or hunting. |
| Huntsman spider | n | Members of the family Sparassidae, are known by this name because of their speed and mode of hunting. They also are called giant crab spiders because of their size and appearance. |
| Hunt-smock | n | One who 'hunts' after women; philander, womanizer; bird-dog. |
| Hunt's-up | n | A tune played on a horn to awaken huntsmen in the morning ; hence, anything that awakens. |
| Hurdle | n | A light movable or artificial barrier that competitors, horses or men must leap over in certain races. 2. an obstacle that you are expected to overcome. 3. the act of jumping over an obstacle. 3. a movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes. 4. in England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution. |
| Hurdle | vb | To wattle or to constructed a barrier or frame by intertwining of branches, withes, twigs. 2. to jump a hurdle. |
| Hurdle | phr | "Fall at the First Hurdle" - fall or fail at the first obstacle or challenge. |
| Hurdle | phr | "Overcome a Hurdle" - to get through a difficult time; to overcome difficulty. |
| Hure | adv | At least; least of all, anyhow, at any rate, with regarding, even. 2. certainly, especially. often doubled 'hure and hure' ('hurend hure'). |
| Hurst | n | An eminence, a sandbank in the sea. 2. a grove of trees, copse; wood or thicket of tree. |
| Husband | n | Late OE: Hus & Bond. Note: OE - rightwere. |
| Husband | vb | To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise, to conserve. 2. to till; cultivate; farm; nurture. 3. to provide with a husband. 4. to engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own. |
| Husband | phr | "Good Husband" - one who manages his affairs with skill and thrift; a saving frugal, or provident man; an economist. |
| Husband | phr | "Husband and Wife" - man and wife; a married couple (the implication usually being stability , closeness etc somethimes assocaited with marriage) |
| Husbanddom | n | The position or condition of being a husband. 2. married or marital status; husband-and-wifedom. |
| Husbanded | adj | Cultivated, tilled. 2. carefully managed; economical, used sparingly. |
| Husbandhood | n | The position of a husband. |
| Husbanding | n | Cultivation, culture, village or the soil. 2. economical and thrifty use of resources, etc. 3. the action of storing up. 4. mating or copulating with a husband. |
| Husband-hunter | n | A woman seeking a husband. 2. a matchmaker. |
| Husband-in-law only | n | A husband in law only, such as one who has abandoned his wife. A husband who provides legally required support, but not love or affection. (colloquial) Another husband of one's wife. Typically used in cases of divorce and subsequent remarriage. |
| Husbandless | adj | Being without a husband. 2. unwed, single. 3. bereaved of a husband; widowed. |
| Husbandlike | adj | In the manner of, or after a husband. |
| Husbandly | adj | Belonging or befitting a husband. 2. having a character of a husband; marital. 3. of plants: cultivated, trained, domesticated. 4. thrifty, frugal, sparing, economical. |
| Husbandman | n | A tiller of the soil. 2. a married man. |
| Husband-riped | n | Ripe, ready for a husband and marriage; of marriageable age; nubile. |
| Husbandship | n | The action or office of a husband. |
| Husband-slayer | n | A wife or other person who kills or murders one's husband or the husband of another. |
| Husband-town | n | A farm. |
| Husband-weeds | n | Rustic clothing. |
| Husband-wife | adj | Pertaining to or involving, as the quintessential husband-wife relationship; 'the husband-wife songbirds, as 'The Captain and Tenaille'. |
| Hussy | n | A compound of 'house' & "wife' unrecognizable through purely regular phonetic change. 1. a housekeeper our housewife. 2. a cheeky or disrespectful girl, a woman's improper, inappropriate behavior. 3. a case or bag for needle, thread, etc. |
| Husting | n | (O.N & Late O.E: hus & thing)a platform where candidates in an election give speeches. 2. (historical) an assembly, (parliament) esp. one of the retainers of the ruler. 3. Hustings, Thing, Althing, Moothill. 2. the principal court in the City of London; the place where the election of members of parliament were held; now, any political campaign speeches are made. |
| Husting | phr | "Be Beaten at the Husting" - lose a parliamentary election. |
| Husting-day | n | A day or time when candidates make a presentation to an audience before question from the public. |
| Hux | n | OE: Hux, huse. 2. mockery, scorn, derision. |
| Huxen | n | The hough, hock of a quadruped. 2. hough or hock of a man. |
| Hux-word | n | A word or words of derision, mockery, scorn. ^^^^ |
| Old English | sp | English |
| I | prn | Pronoun of the first person. |
| I | afx | Used to form collective nouns, derivative adjective, adverbs and verbs, esp. easy past particles. |
| I | phr | "I Am All Right, Jack" - I have been lucky, clever, or careful enough to amke sure tat I am safe, comfortable, etc, and I don't care what happens to anyone else. |
| I | phr | "I Am Sorry, But" - usually expresses no real apology or regret but emphasizes that one will stick to an opinion, policy, or whether others can accept it or not. |
| I | phr | "I Am What I Am" - one of the most famous verses in the Torah. Hayah means "existed" in Hebrew; ehyeh is the first person singular imperfect form and is usually translated in English Bibles as "I am" or "I will be" (or "I shall be"), for example, at Exodus 3:14. Ehyeh asher ehyeh literally translates as "I Am Who I Am." |
| I | phr | "I Ask You" - have you ever heard something so foolish? |
| I | phr | "I Can Tell You" - an addition to a statement , expression of opinion, etc which underlines or reinforces. |
| I | phr | "I Can't Tell You" - i can not adequately say, indicate, express. |
| I | phr | "I Dare Say" - i suppose; it seems to me safe tosay, I think likely probable, etc, |
| I | phr | "I Do" - acceptance vow (another in marriage) |
| I | phr | I Don't Care " - an indication that the speaker has no interest or no emotional investment in the topic at hand. |
| I | phr | "I Don't Know (that)" - I am not sure, am doubtful, would be inclined to disagree (that something is the case, would be suitable or possible, etc); not know that. |
| I | phr | "I Don't Know What the World's Coming to" - a complaint, serious or humorous about (changes)in present day conditions, morals, etc. |
| I | phr | "I Don't Mind If I Do" - used when accepting something, usually food or drink. |
| I | phr | "I Don't Think So" - contradiction of an immediately preceding statement by oneself or somebody else, in order to emphasize either that it was ironically intended or that one does not really believe it. |
| I | phr | "I Don't Understand" - indicates that the speaker is not understanding the current subject or situation. |
| I | phr | "I, For One" - I definitely, certainly. |
| I | phr | "I've Never Heard It Called that Before" - used to draw attention to a possible double entendre in the immediately preceding utterance of another speaker. |
| I | phr | "I Have to Love You Or Leave You" - an affectioante way of saying goodbye. |
| I | phr | "I Knew Him When" - of an earlier and under different, often unfavorable, circumstances. |
| I | phr | "I Know What You Are, but What Am I?" - an insult made by the party to whm the phrase is directed is actually true of that party and not at the party using the phrase. |
| I | phr | "I Like That!" - an exclamation of astonished protest, esp something said or done which is felt to be untrue or unfair. |
| I | phr | "I Mean to Say" - an explanation or justification of what one has said. |
| I | phr | "I Might Say" - it is perhaps, appropriate, helpful, informative etc that I should tell you this (ie what is said in the preceding, or following statement |
| I | phr | "I Must Fly" - I must leave immediately or straight away. |
| I | phr | "I Must Go" - I must leave; go away, depart from. |
| I | phr | "I Must Say" - it is sensible or appropriate, for me to agree with something, comment on something, or point something out. |
| I | phr | "I Say" - mild exclamation; or as an introduction to a question, suggestion, reproach (very much an upper-class speech habit) |
| I (see) | phr | "I See Said the Blind Man" - an elaborate and humorous way of saying "I understand", but implying, of course, although one understands, one doesn't fully do so. |
| I (see) | phr | "I See What You Did There" - an expression used to point out that another person's joke has been understood, either to praise its cleverness or to clearly communicate a lack of amusement. |
| I | phr | "I Shouldn't Wonder" - (ironic)- i would not be surprized. |
| I | phr | "I Should Say So" - I absolutely agree, approve. |
| I | phr | "I Should Think So!" - I absolutely agree, approve. |
| I | phr | "I Should Worry" - "(ironic)- why should I care or worry? |
| I | phr | "I Tell You What" - introduces a proposal, suggestion, or piece of advice. |
| I | phr | "I Think Therefore I Am" - a philosophical proof of existence based on the fact that someone capable of any form of thought necessarily exists. |
| I | phr | "I Want to Know" - referring to an important question or point what worries someone. |
| I | phr | "I'll be Blowed" - be damned; displeased. |
| I | phr | "I'll Believe It When I See It" - until I have proper evidence ( by actually seeing it) I remain very skeptical. |
| I | pphr | "I'll Be Seeing You" - a way of taking leave or signing off a letter. |
| I | phr | "I'll Drink to That" - to wholeheartedly agree and support something. |
| I | phr | "I'll Eat My Hat" - the situation is so ridiculous that, something is unlikely to happen. |
| I | phr | "I'll Live" - something which has will happened is unlikely to upset or bother me. |
| I | phr | "I'll Say It Is" - an emphatic form of agreement with an immediate preceding statement. |
| I | phr | "I'll See You In Hell First" - t defy you; I wil never agree to what you are ordering or proposing i should do. |
| I | Phr | "I'll Tell You What" - introduces a proposal, suggestion, or piece of advice. |
| I | phr | "I Wish" - a longing for or desire for something, often something that is difficult to obtain or achieve. |
| I | phr | "I Won't Say No" - a formula for accepting something offered. |
| I | phr | "I Would If You Could, but I Can't" - I would like to do something worthwhile, but I can't. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| I-athel | vb | To make noble or renowned. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| I-be | vb | To be |
| I-beam | n | A beam or joist having a cross-section in the shape of an 'I". |
| I-bedde | n | A bedfellow |
| I-bedde | vb | To command, proclaim, offer |
| I-beot | pp | Threatening |
| I-bere | n | Comportment, bearing, conduct |
| I-bere | vb | To bear, bring forth |
| I-bete | vb | To make good, amend, mend |
| I-bid | vb | To pray |
| I-brethren | n | Brothers collectively or mutually |
| I-bringe | vb | To bring |
| I-bure | vb | To pertain to, behove, prosper |
| I-burned | pp | Marked. Alternatively spelt: byrne |
| I-by | pp | To purchase, to buy something, atone for |
| Old English | sp | English. |
| Ice | n | Water in frozen (solid) form. 2. physics, astronomy, a frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide. 3. astronomy any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form. 4. frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar. 5. any substance having the appearance of ice. 6. (sl) one or more diamonds. 7. slang, drugs, crystal form of methamphetamine. 8. ice hockey the area where a game of ice hockey is played. 8. (sl) protection money. |
| Ice | vb | To cool with ice, as a beverage. 2. to become ice, to cover with ice, to freeze, cool, chill; refrigerate. 3.(slang) to murder. 4. cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc. 5. (ice hockey) to put out a team for a match. 6. (ice hockey) to shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing. |
| Ice | phr | "Break the Ice" - to make a passage for boats, ships etc. by breaking the frozen surface of the sea, lake, river. 2. (fig.) lessen shyness by initiating conversation. 3. take the initiative in starting the discussion; to make a beginning in some enterprise or undertaking; (to break new ground). 4. to prepare a way for others. 5. (modern usage) - to break through cold reserve or stillness. |
| Ice | phr | "Ice Out" - the annual thawing of ice on a body of water |
| Ice | phr | "Ice Over" - being covered with ice; freeze over. |
| Ice | phr | "Ice Up" - to form ice on the leading edges or on other exposed surfaces of airplanes when passing through moist air at low temperatures. 2. be covered with ice and be made, make unworkable or unsable because of this. |
| Ice | phr | "On Ice" - set aside or reserved for future action. 2. slang: in prison. |
| Ice | phr | "Put (Something) on Ice" - postpone. 2. to put something aside for the time. 3. keep out of the way until wanted. 4. to put in custody or prison. 5. of a venture: a sure thing; sure of achieving a victory, success; a certainty. |
| Ice | phr | "Tread on Thin Ice" - take an unnecessary risk. |
| Ice anchor | n | A pronged rod, bent atone end to enter a hole in the ice. |
| Ice-axe | n | An axe used by mountaineers for cutting steps in the ice, usually equipped with an ice butt. |
| Ice-bath | phr | A receptacle containing ice and water and sometimes salt that is used something's temperature, and to keep it cold. |
| Ice-beam | n | A stout piece of timber to fend off ice at the bow of a ship. |
| Ice-belt | n | The belt of ice fringing land in the Arctic and Antarctica regions. |
| Iceberg | n | A detached portion of a glacier floating in the sea. |
| Ice-bird | n | The little auk or sea dove. |
| Ice-blind | adj | Of a painful, temporary loss of vision due to over exposure to the Sun's ultraviolet rays. |
| Ice-blindness | n | The state or condition of being ice-blind |
| Ice-blink | n | A whitish light seen on the horizon due to reflection from a field of ice out of sight.????? |
| Ice-boat | n | A boat especially designed to be pulled over ice. |
| Ice-bolt | n | A sudden deadly chill. 2. a cold-piercing sensation. 3. an avalanche. |
| Ice-bone | n | The share bone, or another name of the pelvis or haunch |
| Ice-borne | adj | Borne by on on ice, as transported as a boulder during the glacial period. |
| Ice-breaker | n | A ship designed to break through ice, so that it, or other ships coming behind can navigate on frozen seas. 2. a slush ship. 3. a game, activity, humorous anecdote, designed to relax a group of people to help them get to know each other. |
| Ice-chest | n | A refrigerator. |
| Ice-claw | n | An appliance for lifting blocks of ice |
| Ice-climbing | n | The activity of ascending inclined ice-frmations. |
| Ice-cold | adj | As cold as ice, extremely or excessvely cold; freezing; icy-cold. |
| Iced | adj | Covered with ice, coated by means of ice. 2. covered with icing, as a cake. |
| Iced-up | phr | The formation of ice on the leading edges, or on other exposed surfaces of airplanes when passing through moist air at low temperatures. |
| Ice-diving | n | A form of undersea diving in which the diver enters the water through a hole cut in the ice. |
| Ice-dwarf | n | An astronomical object, such as Sedna, larger than the solid part of a comet and containing more ice than an asteroid. |
| Ice-fall | n | Cataract of ice, a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall. 2. the fall of ice or a glacier, from an ice-cliff or iceberg. |
| Ice-feathers | n | Feathery formations of ice due to winds in high, exposed regions. |
| Ice-ferns | n | The fern-like encrustations of ice or hoar frost found on window panes during winter. |
| Ice-field | n | A wide, flat expanse of ice; especially of marine ice in the polar regions. |
| Ice-fish | n | A semi-transparent Antarctic fish of the family Chaenichthyidae. |
| Ice-fishing | n | Fishing through holes cut in the ice. |
| Ice-float | n | A large mass of floating ice. |
| Ice-flow | n | An ice stream. |
| Ice-foot | n | Ice formed at the foot or base of cliffs or high land. 2. a belt or ledge of ice extending along the coast in the Arctic region (ice-belt). |
| Ice-fox | n | The arctic fox. |
| Ice-free | adj | Free from obstruction or delay from ice not frozen in winter. |
| Ice-ghost | n | The remains of ships and their crews imprisoned in the ice during decades. |
| Ice-green | adj | A very pale green color. |
| Ice-hill | n | A hill or mound of ice; an elevated glacier; an iceberg. 2. a slope covered with ice for ice-hilling or tobogganing. 3. a floating iceberg. |
| Ice-hilling | n | The past-time of tobogganing. |
| Ice-hook | n | A hook attached to a pole; used in the handling of large block of ice. |
| Ice-house | n | A structure, often underground, and with non-conducting walls, in which ice is stored for the year. |
| Ice-island | n | An insulated mass of floating ice; an island in an ice field; iceberg. |
| Iceland | n | The name of a large island lying on the border of the Arctic between Norway and Greenland. 2. a small country covered with ice; the realm of perpetual ice. |
| Icelander | n | A native or inhabitant of Iceland. |
| Icelandish | adj | The language of Iceland. |
| Iceless | adj | The lack or absence of ice. |
| Icelight | n | The light reflected off the surface of ice. |
| Ice-maiden | n | A cold or unresponsive woman. |
| Ice-making | n | An artificial formation of ice. |
| Icemaker | n | A device found in a freezer that is used to make ice. |
| Ice-man | n | A man who delivers ice or is engaged in the ice trade, or in the harvesting ice for storage or sale. 2. a man skilled in traversing ice, either in alpine or polar regions. 3. a man appointed to look after the ice at a skating rink. |
| Icemanship | n | Ice-craft or skill in dealing with ice in mountaineering. |
| Icemelt | n | The melting of a geographical mass of ice. |
| Ice-milk | n | A dessert that resembles ice-cream, but is made of milk rather than cream. |
| Ice-moon | phr | The first Full Moon of the year is named after howling wolves. In some cultures, it was known as Old Moon, Ice Moon, Snow Moon, and the Moon after Yule. ... The Wolf Moon on the night between 1 and 2 January 2018 is a Supermoon. See also Blood Moon, Old Moon, Hunger Moon, Cold Moon" |
| Ice-needle | n | A thin crystal of ice, so light that it floats suspended in the air. |
| Ice-plough | n | An instrument used for cutting grooves in the ice, for the purpose of removing large blocks which are stored for summer use. |
| Ice-quake | n | The convulsion which accompanies the break-up of an ice-field or ice-floe. |
| Ice-ram | n | A sharp-pointed projection fixed to the bow of a ship to make easier a passage through the ice. |
| Ice-rain | n | A rain that congeals quickly in a deposit of glaze. 2. falling pellets of ice; sleet. |
| Ice-sheet | n | A sheet or layer of ice covering an expanse tract of land; as e.g. during the ice-age. |
| Ice-shelf | n | A floating sheet of ice permanently attached to a land mass. |
| Ice-ship | n | On specially built to resist ice pressure. 2. an ice-breaker. |
| Iceshow | n | Entertainment performed on ice by skaters. |
| Icestorm | n | A storm of freezing rain that leaves a deposit of ice. |
| Ice-stream | n | A stream of ice-floes carried in a particular course; esp. that which sweeps around Cape farewell in Greenland. 2. a glacier valley. |
| Ice-swimmer | n | One who participates in ice swimming. |
| Ice-tongue | n | Any body of ice that projects from a glacier, iceberg or ice sheet. |
| Ice-up | n | Formation of ice in the carburetor or on the wings of an airoplane, etc. |
| Ice-water | n | Water from, or cooled by the addition of ice. |
| Ice-way | n | A linearr channel eroded through bedrock by the passage of glacial ice. |
| Ice-wedge | n | A vertical wedge of subterranean ice. |
| Ice-whale | n | The Greenland whale. |
| Ice-whiteness | n | Have an whiteness like that of ice. |
| Ice-wool | n | Lustrous yarn used in crochet work. |
| Ice-worm | n | Any of several of genus of worms that inhabit glacial ice. |
| I-cheose | vb | To chase |
| I-cherre | vb | To return, turn, chare |
| Icicle | adj | A diminutive; consider: "Shinicle" |
| Icily | adv | In an icy manner; ice-like. |
| Iciness | n | The sate or condition of being icy. |
| Icing | n | A covering of sugar on cakes. 2. formation of ice on parts of a airplane. |
| Ickle | adj | A hypercoristic form of "little", sometimes a childish use. 2. a small piece of ice; an icicle. |
| I-cunde | n | Nature, kind, inheritance, native-land, native. |
| I-cundeliche | adv | Naturally, inherently. |
| i-cusse | vb | To kiss mutually; i-kiss. |
| Icy | adj | Pertaining to ice; frigid; as cold as ice, full of ice. 2. marked by coldness of manner or aspect. 2. chilling. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| I-erderd | vb | To dwell |
| I-ethe | adj | Easy |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Idle | vb | To pass time doing nothing. 2. to move, loiter, or saunter aimlessly: to idle along the avenue. 3. (of a machine, engine, or mechanism) to operate at a low speed, disengaged from the load. 4. to pass (time) doing nothing (often followed by away): to idle away the afternoon. 5. to cause (a person) to be idle. 6. to cause (a machine, engine, or mechanism) to idle. |
| Idle | n | The state or quality of being idle. |
| Idle | phr | "Bone Idle" - very lazy; lazy to the bone. |
| Idle | phr | "Idle From" - not engaged in, free from. |
| Idle | phr | "Idle Hands are the Devil's Workshop" - |
| Idle | phr | "Idle One's Time Away" - pass the time in an idle or wasteful way, whether voluntarily or not. |
| Idle | phr | "Run Idle" - to go with without work. |
| Idle | phr | "The Idles" - idleness as an affection or distemper. |
| Idle-being | adj | Being idle, idleness. |
| Idle-bellied | adj | Sluggish, slothful, gluttonous. |
| Idle-brained | adj | Lacking mental vigor, energy, alertness. |
| Idlefull | adj | Full of, or inclined to idleness. |
| Idle-handed | adj | Lazy, unoccupied. |
| Idleheaded | adj | Of little understanding, or intellect, silly,foolish, crazy. 2. off one's head: distracted, delirious. 3. idle-brained; out of one's wits. |
| Idle-hood | n | Idleness. |
| Idle-looking | adj | Sluggish, slothful, indolent of aspect. |
| Idleman | n | One who has no work or occupation, as opposed to the working-man. 2. one employed to do odd jobs. 3.formerly in Ireland: a gentleman. |
| Idle-minded | adj | Empty-headed, indolent. |
| Idleness | n | The state or condition of being idle; inactivity. 2. state of being indolent; habitual indolence; want of occupation. 3. groundlessness, worthlessness, triviality. 4. ineptitude, futility, folly. 5. light-headedness, delirium. |
| Idleness | phr | "Bread of Idleness" - bread (of life or sustenance) not earned by labor. |
| Idleness | phr | "In Idleness" - in vain. 2. inactivity, want of occupation, indolent, idleship. |
| Idler | n | One who is idle or idles, one eho spent much of his time in idleness. 2. one of those who, being liable to constant day duty on a ship of war, are not subject to keep the night-watch. 3. an idle wheel. |
| Idleship | n | State of idleness, vanity. 2. inactivity, want of work, indolent. |
| Idleth | n | idleness. |
| Idle wheel | n | A gear wheel to convey motion from one wheel to another, all three being upon different axes. 2. an idle pulley. |
| Idle-witted | adj | Lacking mental vigor, energy, alertness. 2. out of one's wits. |
| Idling | n | Not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers. |
| Idlish | adj | Somewhat or rather idle or lazy. |
| Idly | adv | In vain, vainly, uselessly, frivolously, carelessly, ineffectively. 3. in a lazy, idle way, without working, inactively, indolently. |
| I-dow | adj | Profitable, advantageous |
| Old English | sp | English |
| I-gain | vb | To reply, in turns again. 2. turn against; to meet |
| I-gastliche | adv | Ighastly; fearfully, terribly |
| I-gin | vb | To begin |
| I-gripe | vb | To grip, lay hold of, |
| I-grithe | vb | To pacify |
| I-grure | vb | To horrify, terrify |
| Old English | sp | English |
| If | conj | In case that; granting or supposing that; on condition that. 2. even though; in case that. 3. used to introduce an exclamatory phrase: when or whenever. 4. a wish or determination. 5. on the condition or supposition that; whether. |
| If | n | A supposition; uncertain possibility: "the future is full of ifs." 2. a condition, requirement, or stipulation: "there are too many ifs in life." |
| If | phr | "As If" - as though, as would be. |
| If | phr | "But If" - unless, except. |
| If | phr | "Ifs, ands, or buts." - modifications, limitations or addenda. 2. qualifications of any kind, speculations about whether a particular enterprise is good. 2. speculation; trouble. 3. often in a negative phrase: " no ifs, ands or buts" - no speculation or doubts. |
| If | phr | "If All, If All" - even if, even though. |
| If | phr | "If All You Have is a Hammer Everything Looks like a Nail" - |
| If | phr | "If and Buts" - conditions, objections, and exceptions sometimes contrasted with a firm clear policy, a clear statement of opinion, |
| If | phr | "If and Only If" - used to introduce a condition which is neccesary as well as sufficient. |
| If | phr | "If and When" - in reference to a future time, but with a strong element of doubt. |
| If | phr | "If Any" - if there is any? or you have any? |
| If | phr | "If Anything" - perhaps, even, if any any degree. |
| If | phr | "If As and When" - in the event that the thing being discussed comes to pass. |
| If | phr | "If At All" - indeed, something is to happen, or if somebody can do something at all. |
| If | phr | "If Ever" - if at any (other) time; if on any (other) occasion. 2. if any thing ever happened, was ever seen at all, then he/it would be a prime example. |
| If | phr | "If Ever There Was One" - there is no doubt, that is certainly true. |
| If | phr | "If I Had Only Known" - (I would have ..) - expression of surprise or indignation |
| If | phr | "If He's a Day" - a confident claim about somebody's age. |
| If | phr | "If It Isn't" - (the person specified) is present. |
| If | phr | "If It's All the Same (To You)" - if it makes no difference. 2. if nobody minds. 3. if it doesn't bother anyone. |
| If | phr | "It It Comes to the Worst" - if circumstances become too difficult, hard, troublesome or dangerous. |
| If | phr | "If It's Not One thing, It's Another" - everything is going wrong. 2. bad things keep happening to me. 3. problems are continuing to occur. |
| If | phr | "If It Wasn't for (so & so)" - if somebody hadn't step in and acted |
| If | phr | "If I Were You" - advice about what one would do if in the same situation as another person. |
| If | phr | "If Need(s) Be" - if it were/was to be necessary or advisable. |
| If | phr | "If Not Why Not?" - used to negate the sentence, phrase, word that it modifies. |
| If | phr | "If One Believes that, One Will Believe Anything" - if one believes the truth of something extremely unlikely(one has no critical judgement). |
| If | phr | "If One Has Done Something Once, One Has Done It a Hundred Times" - a warning or advice, very many times. |
| If | phr | "If One Knows What's Good for Them" - a threat accompanying advice, or order, to do or to do something. |
| If | phr | "If Only" - if for no other reason or purpose, or in no other aspect or manner, than the one specified. 2. if it were possible that, provided that |
| If | phr | "If Pigs Had Wings They Would Fly" - (said skeptically or cynically in response to someone's hypothetical remark ): there is no chance of that ever happening. |
| If | phr | "If So be That" - if that happens, supposing that, if so were. |
| If | phr | "If That" - because the implied skepticism, the phrase usually indicates that something will bring in (or achieve) or result in an outcome far less than one's own or others expectation. |
| If | phr | "If There Was One Thing He/she Hates" - there is one thing somebody dislikes very much. |
| If | phr | "If Worst Comes to Worst" - if circumstances become to difficult, troublesome or dangerous. 2. if a plan, project fails. |
| If | phr | "If You Ask Me?" - as I understand i, the situation, issue, etc. |
| If | phr | "If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen" - if the stress and anxiety of the task/occupation is too much for you, quit and find task/occupation you can cope with. |
| If | phr | "If You Don't Say" - a general response to what someone has said. |
| If | phr | "If You Don't Mind" - an angry, annoyed, sarcastic rebuke or request.- |
| If | phr | "If You Know What I Mean" - added to a statement, often as a verbal habit, but sometimes when the speaker feels He/She feels he has been rather obscure or imprecise. |
| If | phr | "If You Lie With Dogs, You get Fleas" - if you mix with the wrong people, you'll coy or imitate their nefarious ways. |
| If | phr | "If You Like" - If you want an example; you must agree; that's certain etc. |
| If | phr | "If You Like That Kind of Thing" - an derogatory statemet implying the speaker's indifference to, distaste or disapproval of something which may interest or attract others, e.g. a (type)film genre. |
| If | phr | "If You Must Know" - added to a piece of information given to someone who has been asking for it inquisitively, tiresomely. |
| If | phr | "If You Will" - if you are willing, able or free to do something. 2. if you wish to go that far in describing, or criticizing. |
| If | phr | "No Ifs and Buts" - if something you say to a child to stop them arguing with you when you want them to do something. |
| I-fang | vb | To lay hold of, take, grasp, sieze |
| I-fare | vb | To go proceed, fare |
| I-fast | vb | To make fast, confirm, settle |
| I-feond | n | Fiends; enemies, collectively. 2. I-fiend. |
| Iffing | n | The act or action of questioning, expressing possibly, doubt, prospect. |
| Iffy | adj | Full of contingency; doubtful, possibly, maybe, maybe not. 2. of a question, proposal, prospect, etc.; full of 'ifs'. 3. conditional; hypothetical. |
| I-freond | n | Friend; friends collectively. |
| If-so-ever | adv | If in any circumstances; ever |
| Old English | sp | English |
| I | phr | "I Have to Love You, or Leave You" -(informal) used as an affectionate way of saying goodbye |
| I-hold | n | Shelter, place of shelter, abode, hold. |
| I-hood | n | The state of one's own self or identity; one's conscious personality; I-ness; I-ship |
| Old English | sp | English |
| I-kin | vb | To make known, to know, to mention. |
| I-knit | vb | To tie, fasten, attach, adhere. |
| I (knew) | phr | "I Knew Him When" - |
| I (knew) | phr | "I Know What You Are, but What Am I?" - |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Iland | n | See "Island" |
| Ile | n | A hedgehog; in OE. also the porcupine:The il, ile, i-spile, ispile. |
| I-limp | vb | To happen, befall |
| Ilk | n | Only of that ilk., of that kind, sort, name , common(place); ordinary. |
| Ilk | phr | "Ilk One" - everyone. |
| Ilk | phr | "Ilk Other" - each other; ilk one. |
| Ilk | phr | "Of That Ilk" -of that family, same person or persons, type, kind, sort of, name (derogatory). 2. of the same place, designation, chiefly, in the names of the landed gentry, as "Guthrie of that ilk". |
| Ilk | phr | "On Ilk Half" - on every side, all round. |
| Ilka | adj | Each. |
| Ilk-day | n | Every day, ordinary, usual. |
| Ilk deal | adv | Every while, completely. |
| Ilk week | adv | Every week. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| I-mele | vb | To speak, say, voice out aloud. |
| I-mene | adj | Common (to a number), 2. shared or owned in common, in common, together |
| I-mennesse | n | Communion, fellowship, society, community |
| I-meng | vb | To mingle, mix |
| I-met | n | Measure, moderation |
| I-metlich | adj | Moderation |
| I-milse | vb | To have mercy; pardon |
| Imp | n | A young shoot of a plant or tree; a sapling, a sucker, a scion, a child, an off-spring. 2. a graft. 3. a scion of a noble house. 4. a child of the devil or of hell; hence, a little demon or devil, an evil spirit. 5. a mischievous child, an urchin, often playfully. 6. youth, fellow, lad, boy. 7. a piece added on to lengthen or enlarge something; as an addition to a beehive to add to it's height. |
| Imp | vb | To graft, engraft. 2. to plant young shoots. 3. to extend, lengthen, enlarge, add to. 4. to strengthen, improve, better, mend, repair. 5. eke out, (that which is short or deficient). 6. to become part of a family by marriage. |
| Imp | phr | "Imp the Wings of" - to strengthen or improve the flight of. |
| Imped | vb | To provide with feathers. |
| I-mune | vb | To bear or keep in mind, to remember; i-myne |
| I-munte | vb | To intend, determine, to think; myntan. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| I-queme | vb | To bepleasant, agreeable, accepting. |
| I-quethe | vb | To make a speech, speak, address, make a sound, cry, cry out |
| Old English | sp | English |
| In | prp | Used to indicate inclusion within space, a place, or limits: walking in the park. 2. used to indicate inclusion within something abstract or immaterial: in politics; in the autumn. 3. used to indicate inclusion within or occurrence during a period or limit of time: in ancient times. 4. used to indicate limitation or qualification, as of situation, condition, relation, manner, action, etc.: to speak in a whisper. . |
| In | adv | In or into some place, position, state, relation, etc.: come in. 2. on the inside; within. 3. in one's house or office. 4. in office or power. 5 in possession or occupancy. 6. |
| In | adj | Located or situated within; inner; internal. 2. informal: in favor with advanced or sophisticated people; fashionable; stylish: the in place to dine. 3. comprehensible only to a special or select group: an "in joke." 4. well-liked; included in a favored group. 5. inward; incoming; inbound, as inbound train. 6. plentiful; available. |
| In | n | Usually, "ins". persons in office or political power distinguished from outs; a member of the political party in power: "the vote made him an in." 2. pull or influence; a social advantage or connection: 'he's got an in with the sectors. 3. in tennis, squash, handball, etc. a return or service that lands within the in-bounds limits of a court or section of a court, as opposed to out. |
| In | vb | To enclose. 2. to give or put in. 3. to take in, include, inclose. 4. to take back or reclaim waste land. 5. to gather into the barn, stack-yard etc., to harvest or house. 6. to get in, gather, collect. 7. to take in mentally. 8. to go in, enter. 9. "he tarried till they had inned all their corn." 10. "we inne diversely, but end alike." |
| In | pfx | With the sense inly, as 'bury-in, drive-in, eat-in, hate-in, kiss-in, love-in, sit-in. |
| In | phr | "All In" - exhausted; worn out. |
| In | phr | "All in Good Time" - after a reasonable or appropriate space of time, long or short but not immediately. |
| In | phr | "Be in For" -to be bound to undergo something, especially a disagreeable experience as a long, boring speech. |
| In | phr | "Be On the In" - to have inside information. |
| In | phr | "Come In from the Cold" - return from isolation, exile, rejection, disdain. 2. become accepted or recognized, especially by a powerful group of people. |
| In | phr | "Come in With " - to meet or fall in with (by chance). |
| In | phr | "Day in, Day Out" - continuously, comes in or begins, goes out. |
| In | phr | "Fall In" - realize, understand. |
| In | phr | "Get In(to) Bed with" - enter into a contract or agreement with. |
| In | phr | "Go In For" - in a competition, race, or prize. |
| In | phr | "Have It In for (Somebody)" - be waiting for a chance to harm someone (usually in revenge). |
| In | phr | "How Long Are You In For" - how long is your sentence (in prison). |
| In | phr | "In a Bake" - very angry. |
| In | phr | "In a Bind" - in difficulty or trouble. |
| in | phr | "In a Body" - all together, at the same time, as if many or a number of persons were one. |
| In | phr | "In a Cleft Stick" - in a dilemma. |
| In | phr | "In a Heart Beat" - in a flash, moment second. |
| In | phr | "In a Lather" - agitated, upset. |
| In | phr | "In All" - altgether, all together told. |
| In | phr | "In All Likelihood" - probably, very probably, likely to happen, or be the case) than not. |
| In | phr | "In All My Born Days' - ever, never. |
| In | phr | "In All Weathers" - in all kinds of weathers (reference being to outdoor life, and work in all sorts of climates) |
| In | phr | "In-and-In" - further and further in, continually inwards. |
| In | phr | "In-and-In" - to breed (or marry) in-and-in" - to breed always within limited stock. 2. continuous reciprocal action. |
| In | phr | "In and Of Itself" - considering it alone, intrinsically. |
| In | phr | "In and Out" - alternately in and out. |
| In | phr | "In and Out of" - returning continually to a certain place. |
| In | phr | "In Answer to" - as a verbal answer, or other response. |
| In | phr | "In a Nutshell" - concisely; in a briefly and concisely worded form. |
| In | phr | "In a Pig's Ear" - never, not likely. |
| In | phr | "In a Row" - consecutively, successively, one after the other over a long or short period of time. |
| In | phr | "In as Far as" - to that extent. |
| In | phr | "In a Small Way" - seriously modest; on a small scale. |
| In | phr | "In a Stound" - in a space in time. |
| In | phr | "In at" - present at, contributing to, "in at the end". |
| In | phr | "In a Walk" - easily; without difficulty. |
| In | phr | "In a Way" - in one respect. 2. not exactly or wholly, if one consider some aspect(s) or detail(s) of a situation. |
| In | phr | "In a Whisper" - whispering instead of using one's voice |
| In | phr | "In a Word" - in (brief) conclusion. 2. in as few words as possible. |
| In | phr | "In a Year's Time" - after a year (precisely or approximately) has elapsed. |
| In | phr | "In Back of" - behind, in the rear. |
| In | phr | "In Between" - at a point or in an area bounded by two or more other points in a space, time, sequence etc. |
| In | phr | "In Black and White" - printed. 2. straight-forward and uncomplicated. |
| In | phr | "In Broad Daylight" - deliberately, in full light of day (esp.thought of as providing (un)suitable or (un)likely conditions for something to happen. |
| In | phr | "In Cold Blood" - deliberately and without empathy. 2. deliberately; callously, without excuse. |
| In | phr | "In Days of Old" - in ancient times. 2. in times long past. |
| In | phr | "In Depth" - in great detail, thoroughly, exhaustively. |
| In | phr | "In (Deadly)Earnest" - very seriously. |
| In | phr | "In Drink" - under the influence of alcohol. |
| In | phr | "In Droves" - in large numbers. |
| In | phr | "In Earnest" - seriously, not joking or in a light-hearted manner. |
| In | phr | "In Everything but Name" - having all the qualities and functions of something specified, although not (formally or legally) called so. |
| In | phr | "In For." - engaged or involved in some business, etc. for a spec. time. 2. finally destined or committed to do or suffer something. 3. certain to meet with punishment or something unpleasant. |
| In | phr | "In For an Inch, In for a Mile" - make somebody a concession and he/she will take advantage and seek more. |
| In | phr | "In For It" - about to be in trouble; about to suffer chastisement or unpleasant consequences, especially of one's own actions or omissions; certain to meet with punishment. 2. ready to participate in something. 3. committed for a course of action. |
| In | phr | "In Full" - to a complete amount, with nothing omitted; in verbatim. |
| In | phr | "In Full Strength" - with force and vigor. 2. with all resources and personnel available. 3. in large numbers. |
| In | phr | "In Full Swing" - happening vigorously. |
| In | phr | "In God's Name" - used as an oath, expletive or exclamation for goodness sake. 2. in the name of God. |
| In | phr | "In Good Hands" - well cared for |
| In | phr | "In Good Heart" - cheerful, happy. |
| In | phr | "In Good Stead" - be available when needed. |
| In | phr | "In Good Time" - with time to spare. 2. a little, or well, before all appointed time or date, esp. so that one can be ready for unforeseen circumstances difficulties or use the time to do something else. |
| In | phr | "In Hand" - being done or under control. |
| In | phr | "In House" - work at offices of a company or organization; not at home. |
| In | phr | "In Irons" - in shackles, fetters, manacles or chains. |
| In | phr | "In Itself" - apart from outside relations. 2. considered in isolation. |
| In | phr | "In Keeping With" - appropriate, corresponding to, matching |
| In | phr | "In Kind" - in the same way, or in goods rather than cash. 2. in the same kind of treatment, language etc as one has received or been subjected. |
| In | phr | "In Light of" - considering the information available. |
| In | phr | "In Likewise" - in like manner. |
| In | phr | "In Love With" - romantically attracted to, and important to, a partner or spouse. |
| In | phr | "In Name Only" - entitled to bear a name or dignity, but not functioning or behaving as such. |
| In | phr | "In No Time At All)" - immediately, almost straight away. 2. extremely quickly; very soon. |
| In | phr | "In On" - be a party to, informed about. 2. participating in, being (one of the group) and possession of knowledge, concerning something. 2. 'be on the in' or to have inside information. 3. be a party to, informed about. |
| In | phr | "In One's Cups" - drunk, intoxicated; under the influence of liquor. |
| In | phr | "In One's Eyes" - from the viewpoint of the law, community, church, etc. |
| In | phr | "In One's Good Books" - liked; thought fondly of. |
| In | phr | "In One's Heart Of Hearts" - as one would, or should admit to oneself, if not to others; actually, if secretly. |
| In | phr | "In One's Midst" - "In the Midst Of" - while somebody is engaged in (doing) something (with implication often being that he/she is busy, harried); while some activity, or action, is in progress. |
| In | phr | "In One's Mind" - mentally; in one's thoughts. |
| In | phr | "In One's Mind Eye" - as pictured mentally. |
| In | phr | "In One's Own Right" - because of what one is oneself (by character, nature, achievements, interests, usefulness, etc) |
| In | phr | In One's Own Time" - at whatever rate suits one, or in one's non-working time. |
| In | phr | "In One's Own Way" - if one accept it/he has a special character, in perhaps an unusual way which is characteristic of itself, oneself. |
| In | phr | "In One's Right Mind" - sane, all there |
| In | phr | "In One's Sight" - in one's range of vision; or in one's awareness (with a view to possession). |
| In | phr | "In One Sitting" - during one limited period of time, without stopping. |
| In | phr | "In One's Stead" - in place of another; in lieu of. |
| In | phr | "In One's Turn" - as much as happen, or can happen, in the course of events, in the natural pattern of life or work. |
| In | phr | "In Other Words" - put a different way; differently expressed |
| In | phr | "Ins and Outs" - details, complexities, intricacies, complications and ramifications; all the twists and turns. |
| In | phr | "In Short" - in brief, in as few words as possible; as summing up in a word. |
| In | phr | "In So Far As" - in such measure or degree; to such an extent; to the extent that. 2. in the sense that, in as much as. |
| In | phr | "In So Many Words" - exactly; cf. "Not In So Many Words" |
| In | phr | "In Someone Else's Shoes" - be in someone's place or position. |
| In | phr | "In Someone's Book" - as somebody thinks, as information, experience and tastes lead him/her to believe. 2. in somebody's own opinion. |
| In | phr | "In Someone's Day/Time" - a time when somebody was alive; young, in their, prime, work or a position of authority; one's floruit. |
| In | phr | "In Somebody's Wake" - fairly close behind; following somebody' spath or progress. 3. after somebody something in time, usually though not necessarily as a result. |
| In | phr | "In Someone's Way" - fairly close behind somebody or something;. 2. following somebody's path or progress. 3. after somebody's time, although not necessarily as a result. |
| In | phr | "In Someone's Wheelhouse" - being without one's area of competency, like command of a ship within a ship's captain's abilities. |
| In | phr | In So Much (that/as) - to such of a degree or extent. 2. in as much as. |
| In | phr | "In That" - because; inasmuch; in that being the case that, seeing that, since that; in the fact that, as: "in that you won't have time for supper, have it now." |
| In | phr | "In the Altogether" - naked; in the nude. |
| In | phr | "In the Black" - financially sound. |
| In | phr | "In the Days of Winter" - in the severest part of a winter season (esp. in a cold climate where vegetation growth ceases, and people's outdoors activities are severely restricted. |
| In | phr | "In the Doghouse" - in disgrace; out of favor. |
| In | phr | "In the End" - finally; at the end of a period of time. 2. after all possibilities or choices. |
| In | phr | "In the Eyes of" - from the point of view of the law, church, court, etc. |
| In | phr | "In the Fast Lane" - in the hurly-burly of life. |
| In | phr | "In the Fear of One's Life" - fearing that one may be killed. 2. fearing alarm at that one may be scolded, chide, rebuke. |
| In | phr | "In the Fullness of Time" - (as is likely or bound to happen) when sufficient time has passed. |
| In | phr | "In the Game" - in life and its vicissitudes. |
| In | phr | "In the Flesh" - in somebody's presence; in person. |
| In | phr | "In the Gristle" - not yet hardened into bone or strengthened into sinew. 2. young, weak, informed. |
| In | phr | "In the Here and Now" - in present practice rather than theory. 2. without priority |
| In | phr | "In the Hope that" - because one hopes that a favorable result will follow a better luck next time. |
| In | phr | "In their Hundreds" - in large numbers, abundant, |
| In | phr | "In the Know" - possessing inside, secret, or special information. |
| In | phr | "In the Hot Seat" - in a difficult and responsible position. |
| In | phr | "In the Know" - in the possession of knowledge and/or information. |
| In | phr | "In the Land of the Blind, An One-eyed Man is King" - even a limited, or partial, ability gives one an advantage over those who have none. |
| In | phr | "In the Lead" - in first place in a contest. |
| In | phr | "In the Light of" - when considered calm and thoughtfully. 2. according to the way of seeing, or understanding something which is suggested. |
| In | phr | "In the Long Run" - eventually; ultimately over long period and reaching an eventual solution, or result. |
| In | phr | "In the Main" - mainly, generally, almost always, for the most part. |
| In | phr | "In the Making" - while something is happening. |
| In | phr | "In the Midst Of" - while somebody is engaged in (doing) something (with implication often being that he/she is busy, harried); while some activity, or action, is in progress. |
| In | phr | "In the Mood" - receptive to (something/someone). |
| In | phr | "In the Name of" - naming or using somebody's name as an authority; precedent, example, justification, etc. |
| In | phr | "In the Offing" - (literally of a ship, landmass, etc.) within the area of the sea known as the offing; at a considerable distance from land, but visible from shore, often in reference to an approaching ship. 2. (idiomatic) Soon to come; likely to happen; in the foreseeable future; projected to occur; on the horizon; in the wind. |
| In | phr | "In the Raw" - in the nude, naked. |
| In | phr | "In the Red" - in debt. |
| In | phr | "In the Right" - correct legally or morally. |
| In | phr | "In the Running" - in contention for an award, victory or a place in a team. |
| In | phr | "In the Same Way" - using the same methods. 2. displaying the same features. 3. conforming with same rules or laws. 4. similarly, likewise. |
| In | phr | "In the Shape of" - in the form of; specifically, in particular. |
| In | phr | "In the Short Run" - in the near future. |
| in | phr | "In the Sticks" - in the boondocks, rural areas, countryside. |
| In | phr | "In the Swim" - up-to -date, with the modern trends. |
| In | phr | "In the Teeth of" - against, in conflict with. 2. battling against, in conflict with, as weather, opposition. 3. resisting or overcoming somebody or something. |
| In | phr | "In the Thick Of (something)" - in the most active part of something. |
| In | phr | "In the Throes of" - in the process of something difficult. |
| In | phr | "In the Twinkle of an Eye" - immediately, quickly. 2. instantaneously, or very quickly. |
| In | phr | "In the Wake Of" - following after, behind. |
| In | phr | "In the Way Of (Something)" - in the manner of something or someone. 2. blocking one's progress or path. 3. such as somebody, something; as regards some -body, something, by way of something. |
| In | phr | "In the Wild" - in remote areas. |
| In | phr | "In the Wind" - being planned(secretly). |
| In | phr | "In Time" - eventually; gradually throughout a period of time. 2. at, before, the right or proper time; not to late. |
| In | phr | "In Time of War" - during a period characterized by war. |
| In | phr | "In Too Deep" - in trouble and unlikely to remain so. |
| In | phr | "In Turn" - in succession, one after the other, in orderly sequence. |
| In | phr | "In Twain" - in two; divided. |
| In | phr | "In Twos" - as a couple or duo. |
| In | phr | "In Two Shades" - immediately. |
| in | phr | "In Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail" - quickly and easily. 2. almost at once. |
| In | phr | "In Wall " - secret, behind closed doors. |
| In | phr | "In Ways" - (of persons) in manner, thoughts and deeds. |
| In | phr | "In With" ("Well In With") - friendly to; in association with, in agreement with. 2. in with, on friendly terms with; familiar or associating with, as " in with all the important people." 3. close or near to the land. 4. 'come in with', 'fall in with' - meet by chance. |
| In | phr | "In Word and In Deed" - Not only as one claims, or promises, but also as one does. |
| In | phr | "Keep In With" - close in, near to land we sailed on through the night, hoping to keep well in with the land'. 2. stay friendly with. 3. to act the sycophant. |
| In | phr | "Never in One's Born Days" - never in one's life or existence. |
| In | phr | "Nothing In It" - little or no different between two competitors, or things compared. 2. little truth in the case in point. |
| In | phr | "Not In So Many Words" - not exactly. |
| In | phr | "Not Much In It" - very little difference; no or little truth or fact in the matter or case in point. |
| In | phr | "To Be In It" - to be an actual competitor; partner etc.; to be in the running; to count for something. |
| In | phr | "To Be Well In" - comfortable or in easy circumstances. |
| In | phr | "To Come in With" -to overtake; to fall in with. |
| In-abiding | adj | That abides or exists within or in. |
| In-and-In" | adj | To breed (or marry) in-and-in" - to breed always within limited stock. 2. continuous reciprocal action. |
| In-and-outs | n | Winding or turning in and out. 2. devious or tortuous turns to and fro on a round. 3. a course of action etc. 4. sinuous ramifications. |
| Inarm | vb | To encircle with or as with the arms; embrace. |
| Inasmuch | adv | Since, because. 2. to the extent that. |
| In-backed | adj | Having the back bent backwards. |
| In-be | vb | To be within, as 'thoughts not verbalized'. |
| In-beaming | n | Illumination, irradiation, a beaming or shining in. |
| In-bearing | adj | Intrusive, officious, meddlesome |
| Inbeat | n | To encircle with or as as with the arms; embrace. |
| In-being | n | Inbeing: the fact of being, existence in something else, inherent existence, indwelling, immanence. 2. inward or essential nature; that what a thing is in itself. 3. 'the persons' of the Trinity. |
| In-bend | adj | In a slanting direction. |
| In-bending | adj | Bending, bowing or that bends or curving inwards. 2. inbent. |
| In-between | n | An interval. 2. a person who intervenes; a mediator, intermediary. |
| In-between | adj | Intermediate. |
| In-betweener | n | A person who takes up an intermediate part or role; a person who mediates. |
| In-betweening | n | The act of being in-between, intervening or being a mediator or acting in intermediary role. |
| In-blind | vb | To produce blindness. |
| In-blow | n | To breathe or blow inwards, to inflate, to puff up. 2. to inspire in a bad or negative sense. |
| Inblown | adj | Blown in. |
| Inboard | adj | Within a ship. 2. nearer the hull, as opposed to outboard. 3. the engine located within the hull of a ship. 4. a boat with such an engine |
| Inboard | vb | To discount aproduct in order to increase sales. |
| Inbody | vb | To embody. |
| Inbold | vb | To embue with boldness, stout-heartedness, or audacity. |
| Inbolt | vb | To fasten with a bolt. |
| Inborgh | n | In Anglo-Saxon times a security, bail, pledge 2. Security, bail, surety or guarantee. 3. inborrow |
| Inborn | adj | Native, aboriginal, first-folk; one born in a place or country. 2. innate; of an attribute or condition: inherent or hereditary. 3. born in or with; innate, natural, inherent; congenital. |
| Inborn-ness | n | State, quality or condition of being native, aboriginal, first-folk; one born in a place or country. 2. state, quality or condition of being born in or with; innateness, naturalness, inherency; congenitality. |
| Inborrow | vb | To redeem from pawn |
| In-bow | vb | To bend in a curved way; to concave, bend or bow inwards, inclined. |
| Inbowed | adj | Bented or bowed inwards, concavely, as an inbowed bone. |
| Inbowing | n | Concaveness, curvature, ordinary arched work. |
| Inbreak | n | Forcible and sudden incursion, inroad, irruption or invasion; as the 'in-break' or breaking-in of the Vikings. |
| Inbreaking | n | A breaking in, irruption. |
| Inbreaking | adj | That breaks in. |
| Inbreathe | vb | To inspire or give inspiration; a soul inbreathe by St Francis of Assisi. 2. to breath something in, or draw in, or take in breath. |
| Inbreather | n | A person who inspires and lifts up others. |
| Inbreathing | n | Inspiration |
| Inbred | adj | Bred within; innate. 2. bred in a place, native. 3. bred in-and-in. |
| Inbred | vb | To mate animals animals of the smae blood-stock. 2. to marry within the same tribe. 2. to endogamize. |
| Inbreed | vb | To develop and produce within; endogamy.. 2. to breed by continual mating of closely related stock. |
| Inbreeding | n | Breeding in and in. 2. incestrous. |
| In-bring | vb | To introduce, bring in, adduce, cause to come, bring in by legal authority, innovate. |
| Inbringer | n | One who brings in, an introducer, innovator, entrepreneur |
| Inbringing | n | Introduction, innovation, innovating |
| Inbrothel | vb | To put in or force a woman into a brothel. |
| In-brother | n | A resident brother of a guild or fraternity. |
| Inbuild | vb | To build in. |
| In-built | adj | Built in. |
| In-burgess | n | One resident of a burg. |
| Inburn | vb | To burn in, inwards; to brand. |
| Inburning | n | Burning internally; the fire's in-burning in the coal mine continued. |
| Inburnt | adj | Something burned in a surface. |
| Inburst | n | A bursting-in, irruption, invasion, incursion, sudden and violent attack. |
| Inburst | vb | To burst in suddenly. 2. to come with suddenness and violence. |
| Inbursting | n | The act or action of bursting or breaking in suddenly. 2. the action of coming with suddenness and violence. |
| In-by | adv | In an inward direction; toward the interior or centre.. |
| In-by | adj | Located nearby. |
| In-calf | adj | Of a cow (an incalfer) carrying or with calf. |
| In-call | n | A visit to a client by a sex-worker |
| Inch | n | "linear measure, one-twelfth of a foot," late Old English ynce, Middle English unche (current spelling c. 1300), from Latin uncia "a twelfth part," from unus "one" (see one). An early Anglo-Saxon borrowing from Latin; not found in other Germanic languages. A unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters. 2. a very small amount of anything; narrow margin: to win by an inch. |
| Inch | vb | To move by inches or small degrees: "we inched our way along the road." |
| Inch | phr | "At an Inch" - nearby, close at hand. |
| Inch | phr | "By Inches" - narrowly; by a narrow margin: escaped by inches. |
| Inch | phr | "Inch by Inch" - by small degrees or stages; gradually. |
| Inch | phr | "Every Inch a"- complete, in every respect, as "every inch a gentleman. 2. every bit, every whit, entirely, altogether. |
| Inch | phr | "Give Him an Inch and He'll Take an Ell/mile" - undue advantage will be taken at the slightest concession or kindness. |
| Inch | phr | "I Would Do So If I Had the Inches". - if I were tall enough; had the stature. |
| Inch | phr | "A Man of Inches" - a tall man. |
| Inch | phr | "Not Give an Inch" - not to budge or concede to the slightest degree despite pressure to do so. |
| Inch | phr | "Every Inch a .." - a complete (gentleman, scholar, etc). |
| Inch | phr | "Sold By Inch of Candle" - a sale by auction, where instead of the hammer of the auctioneer concluding the bids, the purchaser was the last bidder before the candle went out. 2. the length of time required for a candle to burn down one inch. Similar are practices are found throughout many cultures. In India, (and, in some parts of England) however, the East Indies company the phrase had a special meaning, it referred to a type of auction where merchants having a cargo of foreign goods, wishing to make a greedy sale. |
| Inch | phr | To Inch Forward" - to make slow but steady progress. |
| Inch | phr | "Within an Inch Of" - very close to, almost, just about. |
| Inch | phr | "Within an Inch of One's Life" - to be dangerously close to death. |
| Inchild | vb | To introduce as a child, to affiliate. |
| Inch-deep | adj | Not very deep at all (relatively). |
| Inched | adj | Containing so many inches in length, or other dimensions. 2. divided or graduated by inches. |
| Incher | n | Something measured by inches, as a bread roll. |
| Inch-high | adj | Not very high at all (relatively). |
| Inchingly | adv | In a gradual manner. |
| Inch-long | adj | Only an inch long; not very long (relatively). |
| Inchmeal | n | By inches, inch-by-inch, by small portions, little-by-little. |
| Inch-thick | adj | Not very thick (relatively) |
| Inch-wide | adj | Not very thick (relatively). |
| Income | n | Entrance, arrival," literally "what enters," perhaps a noun use of the late Old English verb incuman "come in," from in (adv.) + cuman "to come" (see come). Meaning "money made through business or labor" (i.e., "that which 'comes in' as a product of work or business") first recorded c. 1600. |
| Income | n | An morbid affection of any part of the body; a swelling; impostume, tumour. |
| Income | vb | To enter |
| Incomer | n | One who comes in; opp. to an outgoer, also specifically a visitor, immigrant, foreigner, foreign resident, alien. 2. an intruder, invader. 3. a successor. |
| Incoming | n | The action or fact of coming in; entrance or arrival; as " the incoming of spring." |
| Incoming | adj | That comes in or enters; also, spec. as succeeding. 2. coming in as revenue or a profit. 3. (of a period of time) - about to begin. 3. entering a vacated position. 4. coming in from abroad, as an immigrant. |
| Incomingly | adv | In and arriving or entering. |
| Indeed | adv | In actual fact, in reality, in truth. |
| Indeed | int | As an interjection used as an expression or surprize, indignation, etc. |
| Indeed | phr | "Indeed-and-Indeed" - really and truly. |
| Indeed | phr | "Who Is He Indeed" - interjection expressing irony, contempt, incredulity, |
| Indeedy | adv | Informal term for indeed. |
| Indelve | vb | To dig or delve into. 2. to inquire about; investigate profoundly. 3. to engrave. |
| Indepth | adj | Thorough; done in depth. |
| Indevil | vb | To possess with a devil. |
| In-dim | vb | To make or render dim. |
| Indip | vb | To dip in, submerge. |
| Indipping | n | The act of submerging or dipping in. 2. baptism by submerging. |
| In-ditch | vb | To cast into a ditch; bury in a ditch; bury or commit to a ditch |
| Indling | n | Var. of eynding: jealousy |
| Indoor | adj | Situated, carried on, or used within a building or under cover |
| Indoor-ness | n | The essence of being indoors; agoraphobia(?) |
| Indoors | n | Pertaining to the interior of a house, etc., situated or done within doors or under cover, as 'indoor games'. |
| Indoors | adv | Within the interior of a house or building. |
| Indoorsy | adj | Preferring to remain indoors. |
| Indraft | n | The act of drawing in or that which is drawn in; an inward flow or current. |
| Indraught | n | An inflow or current of air or water. 2. an opening from the sea into the land; an inlet. 3. fig. an inflow of ideas, opinions, beliefs etc. 4. same as "indraft" |
| Indraw | vb | To draw in; inhale; take in. |
| Indrawn | adj | Having been drawn in. 2. quiet, introspective; aloof. 3. haggard. |
| Indrawing | n | An inhale of breath. |
| Indrawing | adj | That draws in orinwards. |
| Indread | vb | To feel an inward or secret dread; to dread inwardly |
| Indrench | vb | To drown or drench someone or something. 2. to immerse |
| Indried | adj | Dried inwardly, desiccated. |
| Indwell | vb | To dwell in, occupy, inhabit as a dwelling or building. 2. to dwell, abide, to have as one's abode. |
| Indweller | n | One who lives or dwells in a place, an inhabitant. 2. a resident, a sojourner. |
| Indwelling | vn | The action of dwelling in a place, usu. fig. 2. the abiding of God or The Divine Spirit in the heart or soul. |
| Indwellingness | n | The quality of dwelling. 2, that dwells within, occupies. in-habitation |
| Inearth | vb | To inter, bury, entomb. 2. to render earthy or earthly. |
| Inedge | vb | To edge in, get in edgewards, or surreptitiously |
| I-neighlike | vb | To draw close. |
| I-ness | n | The state of one's own self or identity; one's conscious personality.
i-hood, me-hood, selfhood, individuality. |
| Ineye | vb | To put an eye or bud into (the bark of a tree); to inoculate. |
| Infall | n | An inroad, attack, hostile incursion, invasion or descent or raid on or upon an army, town, or in or into a country. 2. the place where the water enters a reservoir, canal etc, - the opposite tooutfall. 3. the point where a stream falls into a pond , road into another; a junction, confluence. 4. the falling upon or into a planet from an outside source. 5. material that falls or has fallen. |
| Infalling | n | Invasion, incursion, occupation, inroad |
| Infang | vb | To haul, sieze, grasp, take in |
| Infangthief | n | The right of the Lord of a manor to try, to fine and punish a thief caught within its limits. |
| Infare | n | The act of going in or entering an entering. 2. an entrance. 3. a feast or entertainment on entering a new house--a house-warming party; also at the reception of a bride in her house. |
| Infeed | n | Material fed into a machine to be processed. |
| Infelt | adj | Felt within, experienced or inwardly felt |
| Infield | n | The field (the infield land) of a farm which surrounds the homestead or grange, hence arable land as opposed tpo pasture. 2. land regularly manured and cropped. 2. in-field and out-field land: a system of husbandry which confines manuring and tillage to infield land. |
| In-fighting | n | Fighting, esp. in boxing at close quarter; the practice of getting close to an opponent. 2. argument, dispute and turmoil within an organization, such a business, sporting club, political party |
| In-fighter | n | One who takes part in in-fighting. |
| Infill | n | That which fills a hole, space, gap. 2. the placing a building to occupy the space between existing ones. |
| Infill | vb | To fill a hole or gap. |
| In-film | vb | to cover with a film; to cover or coat thinly. |
| In-flesh | adj | To give a fleshly form to. 2. to incarnate. |
| In-flight | Adj | Occurring or provided during an aircraft flight. |
| Inflow | n | The act of flowing in; that which flows in. 2. an influx, a flowing in. |
| Inflowing | adj | The act or process of flowing in. 2. inflow. |
| Infold | n | A convolution, the folding of a part, a fold, a small field 2. a fold or small field near a farm-house, farmstead. |
| Infold | vb | To envelope, to shut in, enclose. 2. to fold the edges. 3.to inconvolute. |
| Infolded | adj | Folded in having the margin turned inwards with a fold. 2. inconvoluted. |
| Infolding | n | A turning in, a burning in with a fold. |
| Infollowing | n | A reproving or censuring |
| In-footed | adj | Having the feet turned inwards, pigeon-toed. |
| Ing | n | A meadow, meadow-land esp. one lying by the side of a river, and low-lying. |
| Ing | sp | Original function to form nouns of action: boding, gathering. In OE. often came to represent a completed action, a process or art. Sometimes it caused nouns to become concrete. In the 14th century a gerundial use developed. 2. one descended from the son of, as 'etheling' son of 'ethelwulf'; centingas (men of Kent'). |
| Ing | ppl | A particle termination "ing" is that of a present particle used as a verb or adjectively |
| Ing | sfx | a suffix forming derivative noun: atheling, flyming (fugitive). |
| Ingall | vb | To fill or impregnate with gall |
| In-game | n | Within, or as part of a game. |
| Ingang | vb | To go in or enter. |
| Ingate | n | Entrance, ingress. 2. aperture in a mold for pouring in metal; the gate. |
| Ingather | vb | To gather in, collect, amassed |
| Ingathered | adj | Collected, drawn-in, drawn together, curled in. |
| Ingatherer | n | A collector |
| Ingathering | n | The action of collecting or gathering. 2,. a congregation of churchmen, politicians, states eg, The Kent Ingathering: The County of Kent. . |
| Ingating | n | The act of going in, an entrance, entry. 2. a way in, an entry. |
| Ingem | vb | To adorn with gems; set in gems. |
| Ingetting | n | The action ofgetting-in, collecting. |
| In-gild | vb | To cover with gold. |
| Ingirt | n | Ingirth; surrounded. 2. encirled. |
| Ingirt | vb | To encircle. |
| In-giver | n | One who hands in, gives or donates. 2. a submitter. |
| Ingiving | n | A handing-in, giving-in, donation, submission. |
| In-go | vb | To go in, enter |
| In-god | vb | To deify, make divine. 2. to take into God or into the godhead. |
| Ingodding | n | The action of, or the becoming of god-like qualities in man:the ingodding of man. |
| Ingoing | n | A going-in, an entrance, a way-in. 2. the sum paid by a tenant or purchaser for fixtures, etc. on taking over a business or other premises. |
| In-going | adj | That goes in or inwards; that enters. 2, penetrating; thorough |
| Ingot | n | (OE. in & goten : to pour.)A mass of cast metal from the crucible, as a bar of gold. 2. a mold in which an ingot may be cast. |
| Ingrow | vb | To grow inwards or penetrates. |
| Ingrowing | pp | Growing inwards or within something |
| Ingrown | pp | That has or is growing within something, native, indigenous, innate. 2 of a nail that has grown into the flesh. |
| Ingrowth | n | The action of growing inwards. 2. that which grows inwards; an inward growth. |
| In-hand | adj | Receiving or requiring immediate attention. 2. ready for use if required; in reserve. |
| In-having | pp | Obtaining or getting in, procuring |
| Inhearing | n | The hearing of things inaudible to the outside ear |
| Inheche | n | The plowing up of fallow for a crop of corn; a piece of land so ploughed. |
| Inheld | adj | held within, repressed, bottled-up |
| Inhell | vb | Put or confined in hell or a hell |
| In-high | vb | To elevate. |
| Inhive | vb | To place in a hive. 2. to hive. |
| Inhold | vb | To hold within, to contain, to enclose. 2. to keep in, hold in, retain. 3. to contain oneself, to refrain, to keep from |
| Inholder | n | A tenant. 2. that which holds or contain. |
| Inholding | n | A piece of privately-owned land inside the boundary of a National Park or similar publicly owned protected area. |
| Inhood | n | To put on or wear a hood. |
| In-house | adj | Something done internally without outside assistance |
| In-house | vb | To house. |
| Inhousehold | vb | To domesticate. |
| In-it's-selfness | n | The quality or state of being independent of any relation to other entities. Consider:In-one's-selfness. |
| Inker | prn | A genitive dual:Of you two - eitherinker- either of you two,inker both of you; of you both. Possessive form: belonging to you two:Inker mother: your mother. OE. Incer of you two |
| Inkneed | adj | Having the legs bent inwards at the knees: knock-kneed |
| Inknit | vb | To knit up, to draw close together |
| Inknot | vb | To tie in a knot |
| Inknow | vb | To acquire knowledge of; in the know. |
| Inlaid | n | The art or process of inlaying. 2. the encrusting of precious stones in jewelry. 3. the inlaying of plants in soil. |
| Inlaid | vb | To insert, encrust, decorate. 2. to plant, cultivate, seed. |
| Inlaid | adj | Encrusted, or inserted of precious stones or jewellery. 2. of bushes, plants planted in soil. |
| Inland | n | Within the land; towards the interior or centre part of the country. 2. more or less remote room the ocean or open water; interior. 3. limited to the land or inland routes. 4. within the seashore boundary; not passing on or over the sea. 5. confined to the state, domestic, not foreign. |
| Inland | adv | In or towards the interior; away from the coast. |
| In-landed | adj | Situated in or towards the interior of an area. |
| Inlander | n | One who lives inland or away from the coast. 2. a native, indigene; a domesticate. |
| Inlandish | adj | Produced in the land itself; home, domestic, native, opposite tooutlandish |
| Inland Sea | n | An arm of a Sea, as the Phillipines Sea. |
| In-law | n | A relative(s) by marriage (or through an affinity). 2. a filial relative; an affine; in-laws. |
| Inlaw | vb | To bring within the protection of and authority of the law. 2. to reverse the outlawry of a person; to rehabilitate from a life of crime and anti-social behavior. |
| In-law(s) | pfx | A relative by marriage. |
| Inlay | n | In dentistry, a filling made of gold, porcelain, etc. inserted into a cavity and held in position by dental cement. 2. a decoration made by inlay . 3. an inlaid article, surface. 4. material that is set into the surface of something for decoration. |
| Inlay | vb | Of a hen: laying eggs regularly. 2. to decorate an article, esp furniture or a surface by inserting pieces of wood, ivory, etc. into prepared slots in the surface. |
| Inlayer | n | A person who inlays or sets pieces of wood, gems, etc. into surface usually of the same level to form a design. 2. to decorate by inlaying design. |
| Inlaying | n | The act or skill of inlaying or setting pieces of wood, gems, etc. into surface usually of the same level to form a design. |
| Inlead | vb | A conduit channel or wire leading into a device. |
| Inleading | adj | Introduction, that leads in. |
| Inless | vb | To make less, diminish. |
| Inlessness | n | The quality or state of less or diminutation. |
| Inlet | n | A way of admission or entrance. 2. a piece or something let in or inserted. 3. the upper opening into a cavity, used originally of the the pelvis:, thorax, larnyx - all cavities of the skeleton. 4. a small bay or creek. |
| Inlet | vb | To let in, insert. 2. to let in or allow in, to admit, let i another. |
| Inlier | n | An isolated exposure of of an underlying bed of rock. 2. something or someone which lies in within; opposite to outlier. |
| Inlight | n | A revelation, an illumination, a revealing. 2. to enlighten. |
| In-line | adj | Idiom: suitable or appropriate, keeping with expectation, ideals, norms, rules. 2. positioned in a straight line. 3. assuming a position in the future |
| In-line | adv | One behind another in a queue. |
| Inlook | n | the action of looking inwards, fig. or lit. 2. introspection. 3. the opposite of outlook. 4. an investigation. 5. an introversion |
| Inlooker | n | Inspector. 2. One who looks into or investigates a thing or matter. 3. an introspective person. 4. an introvert |
| In-looking | n | Introspection. |
| Inloving | n | The act or action of holding in affection. |
| Inloving | adj | Holding in affection. |
| Inly | adv | Inwardly, inward, internal, internally, inwardly looking. Inwardly (as opposed to outwardly) within, internally within the heart, spirit or inner nature. In regards to the inner life or feeling. 2. in the way that goes to the heart and inmost parts: heartily, intimately, closely, fully, thoroughly, extremely. |
| Inlying | n | Confinement, lying in at childbirth, accouchement |
| Inlying | adj | Lying within or inside, situated in the interior. |
| Inlyingness. | n | The state or condition of lying within or inside. |
| Inmeat | n | Those internal parts of the viscera of an animal which are used for food; hence, entrails; offal, innards. |
| In-mid | adj | In the middle or center part |
| In-milk | adj | Of a cow, in a condition to yield. |
| In-mong | prep | Among, amongst |
| Inmost | adj | Situated farthest within, most remote fron the outside, most inward, that which is inmost, inmost |
| Inmostly | adv | Mostly inward. |
| Inmostness | n | The inmost essence of nature. |
| Inn | n | Originally meaning a dwelling-place, habitation, lodging, abode, place of sojourn. 2. a public house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers, wayfarers; a hostel, hostelry. 3. a tavern which does not provide lodgings. |
| Inn | vb | To lodge, house, find lodging for. 2. to lodge oneself, find oneself lodging. |
| Inn | phr | "The Dark Inn" - the grave. |
| Inn | phr | "No Room at the Inn" - no room. |
| Innam | n | 'In nim' - siezure of property as a pledge. 2. a piece of ground, taken in or enclosed. 3. an intake. |
| Innards | n | Alteration of a the word inwards; entrails. |
| In-narrowed | adj | Confined within narrow limits. |
| Inne | adv & prep | Of position: in, within, indoors. |
| Inned | adj | Taken in or gathered as a crop; enclosed. 2. to enclose, as of land. |
| Inner | adj | Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something, as inner door; inner room; inner sanctum; inner surface. 2. close to the centre, located near or closer to center; the inner suburbs. 3. inside or closer to the inside of the body, as the inner ear. 4. of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup, as inner strength; inner life; inner child; inner light. 5. not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure, ; innermost or essential, needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood, as inner meaning. 6. privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more intimate, private, secret, confined to an exclusive group, exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence being near a center especially of influence. 7. interior; internal; innerness, an inner part. |
| Inner | phr | "Inner Warm Glow" - satisfaction at some achievement. |
| Inner child | phr | A person's supposed original or true self, especially when regarded as concealed in adulthood. |
| Inner ear | n | The semicircular canal and cochlea, which form the organ of balance and hearing and are embedded in te temporal base. |
| Inner-light | n | The light of God, of Christ, Christ within; the spirit of God within, and inner light are related phrases commonly used within the Society of friends (Quakers) as metaphors for Christ's light shining in on them. |
| Innerly | adv | Earnestly, interestingly, excitingly. 2. inwardly, internally, more within |
| Inner-man/woman | n | A man's or woman's soul and mind; one's spiritual or intellectual being. 2. humorous: a man's stomach |
| Innermore | adj | Situated more within, inner |
| Innermost | adj | Inmost, the inmost part; farthest within. |
| Innermostly | adv | Situated in the in most part of. |
| Innerness | n | Inwardness, inner or inward quality. |
| Inner-speech | n | The substratum and influence of one's first language on those who speak a second language. |
| Inner workings | n | Operations within ; energy exerted inwardly, as in mind or soul. |
| Inness | adj | The quality of being in or within something. |
| Inneth | n | The interior of the body, the insides, spec.the womb. |
| Inholder | n | An inn-keeper, taverner, hotelier. |
| Inn-house | n | An inn, a tavern. |
| Inning | n | A putting or getting in, what is put or got in, contents. 2. land take or reclaimed from the sea. 3. in-gathering of harvest. 4. the time which a person, party, principle etc. is in possession or in power. 5. a term of opportunity for. 6. an activity of any kind, an activity. 7. lodging, house, dwelling, wone. |
| Innings | n | A division of a game during which each team has an opportunity to score until three outs have been made against it. 2. a similar opportunity to score in certain other games, as horseshoes. 3. an opportunity for activity; a turn: "now the opposition will have its inning." 4. cricket. a unit of play in which each team has a turn at bat, the turn of a team ending after ten players are put out or when the team declares. 5. land reclaimed, especially from the sea; the act of reclaiming |
| Innings | phr | "Have a Good Innings" - live for a comparatively long time. 2. to have a successful life. |
| Innkeeper | n | One who keeps a inn or public house; an inholder, aa tavern. |
| Inkeeping | n | The keeping of an inn. |
| Inkeeping | adj | That keeps an inn. |
| Inn-less | adj | Without inns, hotels, motels, lodging-places etc. |
| In-on | n | Knowledge, information, gossip, rumour. |
| In-path | n | A way that is no way; an impassable way, an impasse. 2. an impasse |
| Input | n | Something that is put in. 2. the act or process of putting in. 3. the power or energy supplied to a machine. 4. the current or voltage applied to an electric or electronic circuit or device. 5. data to be entered into a computer for processing; the process of introducing data into the internal storage of a computer. |
| Input | adj | Of or pertaining to data or equipment used for inputs. |
| Input | vb | Computing: to enter (data) into a computer for processing. 2. to contribute (ideas, information, or suggestions) to a project, discussion, etc. |
| Input-output | n | In computing, the flow of information to and from human users or client systems. |
| Inputting | n | The act or process of putting in, infusing that or the amount which is put in. 2. the process of feeding into with the intention of it shaping or affecting the output of that process. 3. to enter data. |
| In-race | n | A rushing upon, an assault, incursion, attack, in-run, irruption, in-rush |
| In-rede | vb | To interpret, explain the meaning of, clarify, read. |
| In-reding | n | Interpretation, explanation, clarification, reading. |
| In-righteous | vb | Make righteous. |
| In-rise | vb | to rise, esp. in opposition; to uprise |
| In-rise | n | Opposition, rise-up, uprising, |
| Inroad | n | A coming of an attacking body or group into a place. 2. the pushing over the edge of another's property- making inroads. |
| Inroads | n | A damaging or serious encroachment: inroads on our savings. 2. a sudden hostile or predatory incursion; raid; foray. 3. an invasion or hostile attack; raid or incursion. 4. an encroachment or intrusion. 5. inroad "hostile incursion, raid, foray," from in- "in," second element is road in the obsolete sense of "riding;" |
| Inroads | phr | " Make Inroads" - make a start; have an effect on something onr some matter. |
| Inroom | n | A chamber |
| Inrooted | adj | Deeply rooted or established. |
| Inrun | n | An incursion, attack, fall-in, a rushing-upon, an in-running. |
| In-running | n | Incursion, attack. |
| In-running | adj | Running in, into the land or into a river. |
| Inrush | n | An inflow, influx, pouring in. 2. rushing in; a sudden invasion, an irruption.???? |
| In-rushing | adj | Entering with speed or force. |
| Ins-and-outs | n | Minute details, particulars, ramifications. 2. odd corners. |
| Insee | n | A look-upon, an insight, an inseeing, a look-see |
| Insee | vb | To look upon, to see into, to have an insight into, to look-see, to insee. |
| Inseer | n | An investigator, inspector, an examiner, one who looks into something to find explanation. |
| Inseil | n | A seal. |
| Inseil | vb | To seal, to impress or secure in a seal, to seal up. |
| Insend | vb | To send in, to put in, submit |
| Insending | n | Submission. 2. entry |
| Inset | vb | To initiate, institute, render. 2. to appoint: set a person in office. 3. to insert, ingraft, set in jewels in gold or the like. 4. to insert, fix in: as in a extra page in a book, grangerize. |
| Inset | n | An innate or implanted idea. 2. an insetting, insertion |
| Insetted | adj | Implanted, innate, native |
| Insetter | n | An indweller, one who resides in a place. 2, an inhabitant |
| Inshape | n | Internal form, inward shape. 2. structure, skeleton, frame. |
| Inshadow | vb | To darken. |
| Insheathe | vb | To place or enclose an as in a sheath. |
| Inshed | vb | To shed or pour something upon. 2. dowse, sprinkle with with liquid. 3. to infuse. 4. inshedding |
| Inshedding | n | The action of shedding or pouring something upon. 2. dowsing, sprinkling with with liquid. 3. infusing. |
| Inshell | vb | To withdraw within a shell. 2. fig. go into into one's shell; retire, shrink back. |
| Inshelled | adj | Retired, shrink back, retreat, hide. |
| Inshielder | n | A protector |
| Inshine | vb | Illuminate, clarify, explain. |
| Inshine | n | An illumination, clarification, explanation. |
| Inshining | n | The shining in of, illumination. |
| Inshining | adj | That shines or illuminates. |
| Inship | vb | To import by ship or sea vessel. 2. to ship; to embark. |
| Inshipped | adj | Imported by ship. |
| Inshore | n | Close to shore, esp. in sight of a shore. 2. of the wind blowing from the sea to the land. |
| Inshore | adv | Near the shore; towards the shore. |
| Inshore | phr | "Inshore of" - nearer to the shore than something else. 2. between something and the shore. 3. moving towards the direction of the shore. |
| Inshot | n | A piece shooting or projeting inwards. 2. applied to part of the sea running into the land |
| Inshrine | vb | To enshrine. |
| Inside | n | The interior or inner or lesser part. 2. the inside of the building has been extensively restored. 3. the side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference. 4. (colloquial) (pl) the interior organs of the body, especially the guts. 5. within the interior of something, closest to the center or to a specific point of reference. |
| Inside | adv | Within or towards the interior of something, especially a building; as, 'It started raining, so I went inside'. 2. (colloquial) in prison. 3. coming from or arranged by someone inside an organization. 4. nearer to the interior of a running track, horse racing course etc. |
| Inside | phr | "Go Inside Out" - To reverse so that the inside is exposed. 2. to be imprisoned. 3. to enter the enterior of a building. |
| Inside | phr | "Inside of" - within the time or distance of; |
| Inside | phr | "Inside the Beltway" - within the political nerve-centerof Washington. |
| Inside | phr | "Know Something Inside Out" - to know something very thoroughly or extremely well. 2. know everything about something. |
| Inside | phr | "Turn Inside Out" - turn the inner side outwards. 2. (colloquial) cause confusion or a mess in. |
| Insideless | adj | That has no inside. |
| Insidely | adv | Inwardly. |
| Inside-man | n | One involved as a plant, mole, in various roles in scams, deceptions and frauds. |
| Insideness | n | The condition of being inside something or the inside of something. |
| Inside-outness | n | The state of being inside-out. |
| Insider | n | One in possession of special information by virtue of being in some organization; as 'insider information about the forthcoming takeover or shares launch. 2. 'The heist was the brain-child of the security guard (an insider): it was an inside job'. |
| Insiderdom | n | The status of being an insider. |
| Insiderish | adj | Like or resembling an insider. |
| Insiderly | adv | In the manner or way of an insider. |
| Insiderness | n | The quality of being an insider. |
| Insidery | adj | Characteristic of an insider; esp. reflecting the perspective of an insider. |
| Insight | n | The original notion appears to be 'internal sight', with the eyes of the mind or understanding. (OE. equivalent (sometimes) was 'inwit'. 2. sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into. 3. power of acute observation and deduction; mental penetration; discernment; perception. 4. (marketing) Knowledge (usually derived from consumer understanding) that a company applies in order to make a product or brand perform better and be more appealing to customers. 5. intuitive apprehension of the inner nature of a thing or things; intuition. 6. (artificial intelligence) an extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario. |
| Insighted | adj | Having or endowed with insight |
| Insightful | adj | Possessing insight. |
| Insight-giving | adj | That gives insight or understanding. |
| Insleeper | n | A Visitor who stays overnight. |
| In-smite | vb | To strike inwards, attack, assault, curse. |
| In-snare | vb | (Late OE. snare) - to catch with a snare, entangle. |
| In-so-much (that/as) | adv | To such of a degree or extent. 2. in as much as. |
| Insooth | adv | In truth or realty. 2. truthfully, accurately, factually. |
| Insoul | n | To endow with a soul. 2. to receive and put into the soul' ensoul. |
| Insow | vb | To sow in, to set in as a seed, implant |
| Inspan | vb | To yoke or harness animals to a vehicle. |
| Inspanning | n | The yoking or harnessing of animals, esp. an ox to a vehicle. |
| In-speak | n | The language of teenager. 2. |
| Inspeak | vb | To speak, by or as if speaking instill or infuse something into someone. 2. to produce in the soul by speech. |
| Inspeaking | n | The act of speaking into. 2. production of the soul by speech. |
| Instand | vb | To be at hand. 2. to press slowly. 3. to be urgent or pressing; to be importunate. |
| Instanding | n | Standing or projecting inwards. |
| Instar | vb | To set as a star; to make a star of. 2. to set or adorn with or as with stars. |
| Instar | vb | "Our Heart Is High instarred in Brighter Fields." |
| Instead | adv | In place of, or room or as an alternative to; alternatively, or else. 2. on the contrary; rather, instead, usually followed by of. 3. equivalent; equal to; -- usually with of. |
| Instead | phr | "Instead Of" - in place of, as a substitute. |
| Insteadfast | adj | Unsteady, not steadfast, wavering |
| Insteam | vb | To furnish or provide with steam. |
| Insteep | vb | To infuse, to immerse, to steep, to imbrue, to saturate. 2. to steep or soak, drench. |
| Insteepness | n | State or condition of steeping, drenching, saturating. |
| Instep | n | The arch of the foot. 2. the part of a shoe or stocking that covers the arch of the foot. 2. the arched middle portion of the human foot next in front of the ankle joint. 3. the part of a shoe, boot, or stocking covering the
instep. 3. that part of the hind leg of the horse and allied animals, between the hock, or ham, and the pastern joint. |
| Instep | phr | "High on the Instep" - haughty, proud, arrogant. 2. (obscure) - a part of a hill, a tree trunk, anything resembling the human instep in shape. |
| Instep | phr | The act of stepping in; the first step, commencement, beginning, start, get-go. |
| Instone | vb | To petrify. |
| Instop | vb | A guard, or one who stops others entering or going in. |
| Instream | vb | To flow in. |
| Instreaming | vb | An inflow, a flowing in, influx. |
| Instrengthen | vb | To strengthen inwards. |
| Instrew | vb | To scatter in and about. |
| Instreye | vb | Instrie. 2.To strew or scatter in or upon something. |
| Instroke | n | An inward stroke, esp. in a stream or other engine; a stroke in which a piston is moving away from the crankshaft. |
| Insuck | vb | Absorption. 2. the act or process of sucking in. |
| Inswarming | n | Swarm in, entering in swarms or throngs. |
| Inswathe | vb | To enwwrap, as in swaddling clothes; enswathe, swathe. |
| Inswell | vb | To cause to swell, swell; swelling in. |
| Inswept | adj | Of anything which is narrowed at the forward end or side. 2. narrowed or tapering in front, as an automobile frame, airplane, wing. |
| Intake | n | That which is taken in; also a taking in. 2. at point at which a knit or woven article is narrowed. 3. the area in which a water supply is formed. 4. the point at which fluid is taken into a pipe or channel,as distinguished from an outlet. 5. the current flowing in such a pipe. 6. the amount of fluid taken in. 7. the amount of energy taken into a machine or system. |
| Intaking | n | The amount of something (such as food or drink) taht is taken into your body. 2. the act of taking something (such as air) into your body . 3. a place or part which liquid or air enters something (such as an engine). |
| In-talk | n | Internalized talk. 2. talk associated with a particular subject. |
| Inthrall | vb | To enslave. 2. to entice, spellbound, enchant, charm. |
| In-thring | vb | To press or crowd in; to throng. 2. to throng or in-throng. |
| Inthrong | n | To throng or collect together. |
| Inthrough | adj | In and through, through a place from the outside, in towards the centre |
| Inthrouh | adv | In towards the center. 2. towards the fireside. |
| Intill | . | Of motion, direction, change of condition: into; also spelt: 'intil'. 2. of place, position, condition, state. |
| Into | prep | Expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants. 2. expressing penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to the inside, or contents; as, to look into a letter or book; to look into an apartment. 3. indicating insertion; as to infuse more spirit or animation; 3. indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or animation into a composition. 4. denoting inclusion; as, put these ideas into other words. 5. indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly. |
| Into | phr | "Be Into Something" - be enthusiastic; be knowledgeable about. |
| Into | phr | "Go Into Hiding" - conceal oneself from the view of others; hide, run away. |
| Intoed | adj | Having the toes turned in. |
| Inutter | vb | To not utter or not speak of; to consider not fit to utter. |
| Inutterness | n | Of words, expression that should not be spoken. |
| Inwall | n | The inner wallor lining wall, particularly of a blast furnace. |
| Inwall | vb | To fortify with an inner wall. |
| Inward | adj | Toward the center or interior; inward, inwards. 2. to or toward the inside of; "come in". 3. relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts. 2. directed or moving inward or toward a center; inbound, inward. |
| Inward | n | That which is inward or within; especially, in the plural, the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera. 2. The mental faculties; -- usually pl. 3. an intimate or familiar friend or acquaintance. 4. being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward. 5. seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul. "inward beauty." 6. intimate; domestic; private. [Obs.] |
| Inward | adv | [AS. inweard. The ending -s is prop. a genitive ending. 2. toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward. 3. into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward |
| Inward-looking | adj | Introverted, insular, self-absorbed. |
| Inwardly | adv | In an inward manner, on the inside or to oneself. 2. in the parts within; secretly, privately; in the mind or soul. |
| Inwardmost | adv | Most inwardly. |
| Inwardness | n | The characterstic of being most directed towards the inside. 2. internal or true state; essential nature. 3. intimacy, familiarity, 4. heartiness, earnestness. |
| Inwards | n | Interior or inner parts. |
| Inwards | adv | Inward. 2. see 'inward' |
| Inweave | vb | To weave or work in. 2. to weve in or together. 2. introduce into a fabric as component part. |
| Inweather | vb | To weather through time; inured. |
| Inwedged | adj | Wedged in, confined. |
| Inwind | vb | To entwine, to wind in or around. |
| Inwinding | adj | Windings inwards. |
| Inwinter | vb | The keeping of cattle, sheep inside a barn during winter. |
| Inwise | adj | Very wise |
| Inwit | n | Inwid: deceit- not related to "inwit" meaning conscience, sense of right or wrong. |
| Inwit | n | Conscience; a clean-heart as distinguish from outwit, knowledge, ability, information. |
| Inwith | prp | With in. |
| Inwomb | vb | En-womb: to hold in the womb; conceal in the womb. |
| Inwone | vb | To inhabit, live at, occupy, to abide, dwell, reside. |
| Inwoning | vb.n | Inhabiting, dwelling, residing, living at, occupying, abing at |
| Inwork | n | Interior work or work indoors. |
| Inwork | vb | To work something into a tissue by weaving. 2. to make, work, operate or produce. 3. to work within. |
| Inworker | n | One who does most of his work inside or indoors. |
| Inworking | n | The practice of working something into a tissue by weaving. 2. the act of making, working, operating or producing. 3. operation within, energy exerted inwardly, as the mind or soul. |
| Inworkings | n | The internal workings of a machine, organization etc. |
| Inworn | adj | Worn or pressed in; inveterate |
| Inwoven | adj | Woven, entwined. |
| Inwreathe | vb | Enwreathe: to entrap or encircle with or as a wreathe; |
| Inwriting | n | Inscription |
| Inwritten | adj | Inscribed, written in or on. |
| Inwrought | adj | Having a design that has been worked or woven. 2. worked into, wrought in, as a fabric or metal work, so as to form part of it. 3. inherent. |
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| Old English | sp | English |
| I-rad | adj | Prepared, made ready. 2. learned, instructed, expert. |
| I-radliche | adv | Promptly, readily, straightaway. |
| I-raht | vb | To tell, narrate, say. 2. explain, expound, interpret |
| I-rede | adj | Prepared, ready. |
| I-riht | n | Rights, dues, rightful possession. |
| I-rise | vb | To rise, lift up. |
| Irish | n | The Irish people. 2. (US) temper; anger, passion. 3. whiskey, or whisky, elaborated in Ireland. |
| Irish | adj | Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people. 2. pertaining to the Irish language. 3. nonsensical, daft or complex. |
| Irish Wolfhound | n | A large, often grayish hound of a rough-coated breed. 2. |
| Irish woman | n | A woman who is Irish by birth or descent. |
| Iron | n | A ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C. Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron. 2. something hard, strong, rigid, unyielding, or the like: hearts of iron. 3. an instrument, utensil, weapon, etc., made of iron. 4. an appliance with a flat metal bottom, used when heated, as by electricity, to press or smooth clothes, linens, etc. 5. in golf. one of a series of nine iron-headed clubs having progressively sloped-back faces, used for driving or lofting the ball. |
| Iron | adj | Of, containing, or made of iron: an iron skillet. 2. resembling iron in firmness, strength, color, etc.: an iron will. 3. stern; harsh; cruel. 4. rigid, stiff, inflexible; unrelenting. 5. strong; robust; healthy. |
| Iron | vb | To smooth or press with a heated iron, as clothes or linens. 2. to furnish, mount, or arm with iron. 3. to shackle or fetter with irons. 4. in metalworking: to smooth and thin the walls of (an object being deep-drawn). 5. to press clothes, linens, etc., with an iron. 6. to iron or press (an item of clothing or the like). 7. to remove (wrinkles) from by ironing. 8. to resolve or clear up (difficulties, disagreements, etc. 9. to shackle or fetter with irons. 10. to furnish, cover, fit or arm with irons or handcuffs. |
| Iron | phr | "Fresh Off the Irons" - fresh from school, or further studies; a greenhorn, novice, newcomer. |
| Iron | phr | "Have Something in an Iron Grip" - to hold something very securely. |
| Iron | phr | "Have Iron Within His Soul" - be bitter and disenchanted by the vicissitudes of life. 2. hardened, and sometimes embittered, by hardship and suffering. |
| Iron | phr | "Have Other Irons in the Fire" - to have the opportunity to do something else as an an alternative. |
| Iron | phr | "Have Too Many Irons in the Fire" - too many objects or tasks requiring one's attention at once. 2. to attempt to do too many things at the same time. |
| Iron | phr | "In Irons" - handcuffed, chained, as a convict, slave etc. |
| Iron | phr | "Iron On" - to design to be applied with heat and pressure, as by an iron. |
| Iron | phr | "Iron Out" - remove by means of a hot iron. 2. fig. resolve or clear up difficulties, disagreements etc. |
| Iron | phr | "Put Every Iron in the Fire" - to try every means. |
| Iron | phr | "Strike while the Iron's Hot" - to take advantage of something that cannot last. |
| Iron | phr | "Wield a Rod of Iron (Fist/Hand)" - to rule with strict discipline. |
| Iron | phr | "With an Iron Fist" - ruthlessly. |
| Iron-boot? | n | A medieval form of torture whereby the imprisoned limb was crushed by wedges driven in between the knees and the boot. |
| Ironer | n | One who irons; a laundry maid. |
| Iron-fisted | adj | Ruthless, harsh, tyrannical. 2. stingy, tight-fisted, mean. |
| Iron-flint | n | Ferruginous quartz. |
| Iron-gang | n | Convicts working in irons; the chain-gang. |
| Iron-grey | adj | Of the dark grey colour of freshly-broken iron. 2. Of dark hair when turning grey. 3. an iron-grey colour. 4. an iron-grey horse or dog. |
| Iron-hand | n | Firmness or inflexibility. |
| Iron-handed | adj | Despotic, dictatorial, tiranical, inflexible. 3. severe, harsh, rigorous, despotic. |
| Iron-headed | adj | Foolish, irrational, senseless, witless. 2. hardhearted or determined. |
| Iron-hearted | adj | Having no feelings, heartless, cruel, unfeeling, hardhearted. |
| Iron-horse | n | A locomotive engine; a train. |
| Ironing | n | The act of pressing clothes with a flat iron. 2. laundry that has been washed and is ready to br ironed. |
| Ironing-board | n | A smooth board covered with cloth, used in ironing. |
| Ironish | adj | Resembling iron, as in taste. |
| Ironless | adj | Lacking, deficient in iron. |
| Iron-like | n | Resembling or characteristic of iron in some aspect. |
| Iron-lung | n | A pneumatic device for assisted breathing. |
| Ironly | adv | In an 'iron' manner, opprobiously, rigorously. |
| Iron-maiden | n | A medieval torture device consisting of a chamber lined with spikes which encloses upon and impales the victim inside. 2. a woman of uncomprising politics and leadership style. |
| Iron-man | n | An extremely tough and strong athlete, esp. one who co mpetes in extreme athletic conditions, or in large number of games consecutively. 2. a form of surf life-saving activity or competition which combines swimming, board-paddling, ski-paddling and running. 3. an extreme form of triathlon, that comprises swimming, bike-riding, and a marathon run. 4. an athlete, female or man, who competes in such competitions. |
| Iron-minded | adj | Inflexible, severe, rigorous, despotic. |
| Iron-mine | n | A mine from which iron is quarried. |
| Ironmonger | n | A dealer in ironware; a hardware dealer in iron. |
| Ironmonger's shop | n | A shop selling hardware. |
| Iron-mooded | adj | Severe and unchanging of mood. |
| Iron-ness | n | Physical strength and hardness |
| Iron-on | n | A patch, design or the like applied by ironing on. |
| Iron-ore | n | A mineral deposit from which iron can be viably and profitablely extracted |
| Irons | n | Shackles, fetters, chains; manacles. |
| Ironseed | n | The knapweed, Centaurea nigra. |
| Iron-sick | adj | Suffering from sickness or illness due to the presence of too much iron in one's body. |
| Ironside | n | One who is strong, determined and courageous. |
| Iron-sided | adj | Strong, determined, and courageous. |
| Iron-sleep | n | Death. |
| Ironsmith | n | An artificer in iron; a blacksmith. |
| Ironshod | adj | Shod or cased with iron, as in an "ironshod wheel." |
| Ironside | n | A strong person with great power of endurance. 2. a man of great bravery or hardihood. |
| Iron-souled | adj | Strong-willed and steadfast in the face of temptation. |
| Ironstone | n | Any iron-bearing mineral or rock with siliceous impurities. |
| Ironstone-ware | n | A hard kind of white pottery. |
| Iron-tree | n | A small slow-growing deciduous tree of Northern Iran having a low-domed shape. |
| Ironware | n | A hard kind of white pottery. 2. a general name for all kinds of articles made of iron; hardware. 3. articles of iron, as pots, kettles or tools. |
| Iron-willed | adj | Strong, unbending, determined of will. |
| Iron-witted | adj | Dull, stupid; effete. |
| Iron-wood | n | Any of the various trees yielding a hard, heavy wood, as the American hornbeam, "Carpinus caroliana" or "Lyonothammus floribundus" - found on the islands off the coast of southern California. |
| Iron-work | n | Anything made of iron, as part of a building. |
| Iron-worker | n | One who works in the production of, and use of, iron. |
| Iron working | n | Manufacture or production of anything made of iron. |
| Ironworks | n | A place, factory, mill where iron is produced. |
| Ironwort | n | A herb of the mint family - Sideritis- supposed to heal sword cuts and wounds. |
| Irre | n | Erre, ire, wrath, anger. 2. gone astray, confusion, perversion, depravity. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Is | vb | Third person singular present of be, Old English is, from Germanic stem *es- Old English lost the final -t-. See be. Until 1500s, pronounced to rhyme with kiss. |
| Is | phr | "He's Dead But Won't Lie Down" - a person who continues to exist, exert some influence, or demand some attention, but as outlived any real usefulness or role. |
| Is | phr | "Isn't It So?" - is that true? 2. isn't that the way? |
| Is | phr | "It Is What It Is." - indicating resigned acceptance of an unpleasant but inevitable situation or circumstance about which nothing positive really can be said. |
| I-same | adv | Together, in company. |
| I-say-so | n | An assertion, ipse dixit; "Heed I-say-so even of authority."" |
| I-schappe | vb | To create, form, shape |
| I-schield | vb | To shield, to protect |
| I-schirre | vb | To make clear, declare, make known, tell, say, speak |
| I-scole | n | A troop, host, shoal, band |
| I-seche | vb | to seek, seek after |
| I-see | vb | To see, behold. |
| I-seggen | vb | To say, relate, confess, declare |
| Isel | n | Izle, sparks, embers, ashes. 2. floating sparks from a fire or conflagation. 3. extinct sparks, particles of soot, smuts. |
| I-sele | adj | Happy, silly |
| I-seli | adj | Happy, fortunate, prosperous, isele. |
| I-selth | n | Happiness, felicity, fortune |
| I-seme | vb | To bring to agreement, to settle. 2. to reconcile, settle, to suit, beseem |
| I-semeliche | adj | In a seemingly or becoming manner |
| I-setnesse | n | Institution, ordinance, statue, law |
| Ish | sfx | A suffix used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense of “belonging to”; “after the manner of,” “having the characteristics of,” “like” (childish, hillish ); “addicted to,” “inclined or tending to” ( bookish; ); “near or about” ( fiftyish; sevenish ). 2. a suffix used to form adjectives from other adjectives, with the sense of “somewhat,” “rather” (oldish; reddish; sweetish ). origin: Old English -'isc'. |
| I-ship | n | The state of one's own self and identity; one's conscious personality. 2. i-hood. |
| I-sib | pp | Related, akin |
| I-sibsum | adj | Peaceful. |
| I-sight | n | Vision, sight |
| Island | n | Old English īegland, from īeg ‘island’ (from a base meaning ‘watery, watered’) + land. The change in the spelling of the first syllable in the 16th century was due to association with the unrelated word isle. A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water. 2. an entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself. 3. an island of tranquility (a calm place surrounded by a noisy environment) an island of color on a butterfly's wing. 4. superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck. 5. a traffic island; the island in the middle of a roundabout. 6. (land surrounded by water): ait, holm; an entity surrounded by other very different entities): oasis; insular; isle; islet. |
| Island | vb | To surround with water; make into an island. 2. to set, dot (as if) with islands. 3. to make into, or as an island. 4. to place as an island; to make, settle or enclose as an island. 5. to insulate; to isolate. |
| Island | phr | "Island of the Blessed" - In Greek mythology, islands in the western ocean, where the favorites of the gods lived after death. |
| Island | phr | "No Man Is an I(s)land" - human being do not thrive when isolated from others. |
| Island | phr | "Stand in I(s)land" - to be detached or isolated. |
| Island-born | adj | Born on and native to an island. |
| Islanded | adj | Made into or as an island; insulated. 2. furnished or studded with islands. |
| Islander | n | One who lives on a island. |
| Islandful | adj | As much or as many as an island can hold. |
| Island-hood | n | Insularity, the condition of being an island. |
| Island-hop | vb | To move from one island to another, esp. as a tourist, migratory folk, from one small island in an area of small island. |
| Island-hopping | n | The act of moving from one island to another, esp. as a tourist, migratory folk, from one small island in an area of small island. |
| Islandish | adj | Pertaining to or characteristic of an island; insular. |
| Island-less | adj | Devoid or without islands. |
| Island-like | adj | Resembling, characteristic or of the nature of an island. |
| Island-strewn | adj | An ocean or sea strewn with islands. 2. a country of strewn island such as the Indonesian archipelgo; on the island-strewn waters of Scandinavia. |
| Island-wide | adj | Extending through out an island. |
| Islandy | adj | Full of islands; insular. |
| Isness | n | The fact that a thing is. 2. that which a thing is in itself, essence |
| I-sound | adj | Sound, sound in health, well, safe |
| I-spile | n | Isepile. 2. Var. of Ilspile, Isespil |
| I-stand | vb | To stand firm |
| I-still | vb | To restrain, still, calm, stay |
| Is-to-be | adj | Prospective, as 'A life of my is-to-be ...' |
| I-stink | vb | To smell, to perceive by smell |
| I-streon | n | Gain, acquisition, wealth. 2. begetting, procreation. 3. Off-spring, progeny |
| I-stretche | vb | To stretch, spread |
| I-sunde | n | Wholeness, soundness. 2. safety |
| I-sundful | n | Quite sound, well, prosperous, happy |
| I-sunding | n | Salvation, healing. |
| I-sundlen | vb | To heal, save, to sundle |
| I-swike | vb | To fail, to cease, to cease from an act. |
| I_swinke | vb | Swinch. 2. to toil, to labour, to swink |
| Old English | sp | English |
| It | pron | Used to represent an inanimate thing understood, previously mentioned, about to be mentioned, or present in the immediate context):" you can't tell a book by its cover." 2. used to represent a person or animal understood, previously mentioned, or about to be mentioned whose gender is unknown or disregarded. 3. used to represent a group understood or previously mentioned. 4. used to represent a concept or abstract idea understood or previously stated: "it all started with Adam and Eve." 5. used to represent an action or activity understood, previously mentioned, or about to be mentioned. |
| It | n | (In children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players. |
| It | n | Slang:sex appeal. 2. sexual intercourse. |
| It | phr | "Be with It" - to be completely in with trends, fashions, music, esp. of the kind popular with certain sections of youthdom. |
| It | phr | "Get With It" (slang). to become active or interested. |
| It | phr | "Have it" : to love someone: 'she really has it bad for him". 2. to possess the requisite abilities for something; be talented, adept, or proficient. |
| It | phr | "I'm It" - I'm a person of some importance. |
| It | phr | "In for It" - to be in trouble. |
| It | phr | "It Beats Me" - I can't understand or cope with something. |
| It | phr | "It Can't Be Helped" - there is nothing one can do to improve the situation, undo a wrong, or foolish action. |
| It | phr | "It Doesn't Do to Do (Something)" it is not advisable or socially acceptable to do something or take some action. |
| It | phr | "It Doesn't Have to Be" - (usually an unwelcome event or situation) is avoidable. |
| It | phr | "It Has to Be" - It(usually an unwelcome event or situation) is unavoidable, must be accepted, is ordained by fate. |
| It | phr | "It's About Time!" - it's almost too late. |
| It | phr | "It's All Good" - everything is fine; here's nothing to worry about. |
| It | phr | "It's All Greek to Me" - something someone says when they don't understand something that is written or said. |
| It | phr | "It's All In a Day's Work" - it is a task or job that one expects, or is accustomed , to do in the course of one's day's work or duties that is therefore not burdensome or demanding (though may be thought so by others) |
| it | phr | "It's All in the Mind" - mental attitudes, not physical conditions, influence one's state of health, behavior, reactions, etc. |
| It | phr | "It's All One Can Do'- one can do something only with difficulty. 2. it is as much one is capable of doing in the circumstances. |
| It | phr | "It's a Small World" - one is likely to meet, or hear about, someone knows or has been connection with, however distant everywhere you go. |
| It | phr | It's Cold Outside" - an indicating that the weather is cold. |
| It | phr | "It's Later than You Think" - there is less time, or opportunity, left to achieve something, or avert disaster, etc. than one deceives oneself into believing. |
| It | phr | "It's Me" - a vague response to someone who ask for one identity from a distance. |
| It | phr | "It's Not For Someone to do Something" - it is not someone's function and responsibility to do something. |
| It | phr | "It Not Over till the Fat Lady Sings" - one should not presume to know the outcome of an event which is still in progress. |
| It | phr | "It's Not What You Do, It's the Way That You do It" - the effect, impact, of an action depends on the style, manner, in which it is done. |
| It | phr | "It's Not What You Know, but Who You Know" - a statement said by someone not progressing in their career. |
| It | phr | "It's Not You, It's Me" - an phrase offered as an excuse to terminate a romantic relationship. |
| It | phr | "It's Now Gone Midnight" - it is just after, or within a short time or after, midnight or any other named time of day. |
| It | phr | "It's No Wonder (that)" - it's not surprizing that. |
| It | phr | "It's on" - implication that a cnflict will start. |
| It | phr | "It's Only a Little One" - an illogical reason given to excuse or nitigate something (illogical because size is irrelevant to its (unsuitably). |
| It | phr | "It's What It Is" - an indication that the speaker is letting the thing just exist in all its rich uniqueness, without having to characterize or analyse it. |
| It | phr | "It Takes All Kinds to Make a World" - people vary very much nin character and abilities and this is necessary and desirable. |
| It | phr | "It Takes One All Time to Do (Something) - one can just manage, and no more, to do something. |
| It | phr | "It Takes One to Know One" - the person who expresses criticism has similar faults as the person being criticized. |
| It | phr | "It Takes Two (to do something) - some actions and situations are such that one person alone cannot be fully or entirely responsible for. |
| It | phr | "It Will Never Do" - a comment on an occurrence, situation or state of affairs that is unsatisfactory and should be remedied. |
| It | phr | "This Is It" -this is what you have been expecting, or this is the critical point. 2. used colloquially when something previously spoken of or foreboded has come to pass or is about to happen. |
| It | phr | "What In It For Me" - what are the advantages for me. |
| It | phr | "With it" - slang - aware of the latest fads, fashions, etc.; up-to-date. 2. attentive or alert: I'm just not with it. 3.understanding or appreciative of something, as jazz. 4. this is what you have been expecting. |
| I-tachen | vb | To assign, to show. 2, to teach |
| I-tase | adj | Convenient, suitable, handy |
| Itch | vb | To have or feel a peculiar tingling or uneasy irritation of the skin that causes a desire to scratch the part affected. 2. to cause such a feeling. 3. to scratch a part that itches. 4. to have a desire to do or get something: to itch after fame. 5. to cause to have an itch. 6. to scratch (a part that itches). 7. applied to various forms of eczema, such as baker's itch. 8. to annoy; vex; irritate. |
| Itch | n | The sensation of itching. 2. an uneasy or restless desire or longing. 3. a contagious disease caused by the itch mite. |
| Itch | phr | "My Fingers Itch" - to give someone a thrashing. |
| Itchful | adj | Full of itch; very itchy. |
| Itchily | adv | In an itching manner; nervously, restlessly. |
| Itchiness | n | The state or condition of being itchy or having an unpleasant feeling of the skin that makes you want to scratch. |
| Itching | adj | Having an unpleasant feeling of the skin that makes you want to scratch. |
| Itching | phr | "Itching to Go" - to be highly enthusiastic and keen to start. |
| Itchless | adj | Without itch or irritation. 2. not having an itch. |
| Itch-mite | n | A small species of Arachnids, the female of which burrows into the skin to lay eggs causing an infectious skin disease called scabies. |
| Itchy | adj | Having an unpleasant feeling of the skin that makes you want to scratch. |
| Itchy | phr | "Have Itchy Ears" - to wish for news or novelty. |
| Itchy | phr | "Have Itchy Fingers" - to be impatient. |
| Itchy | phr | "Have Itchy Feet" - to have a desire to travel. 2. to beimpatient. |
| I-tell | vb | To count, to number, reckon. |
| I-telle | vb | To number, to reckon. 2. to narrate, recount, tell. |
| I-teon | vb | I-tee. 2. to draw, draw on. 3. to attract. |
| Ithe | n | OE: wave,billow, flood, sea, water, liquid. |
| I-thrave | vb | To permit, allow |
| Ithand | adj | Assiduous, diligent, busy.It-handy, it-handiness. |
| I-thank | n | I-thought, i-think. 2. thinking, thought, thought-mindiness |
| I-thave | vb | To permit, allow. |
| I-thee | vb | To thrive, prosper. |
| I-thenche | vb | To think about, consider, to remember. |
| I-thole | vb | To bear, suffer, endure |
| I-thou | n | A personal relationship between man and God. |
| I-thou-ness. | n | The state or quality of a personal relationship with God. |
| I-thrast | vb | To thrust, press, force. |
| I-tide | vb | To happen, befall, betide |
| It'll | vb | It will, it shall. |
| I-treowe | adj | True, faithful. |
| Its | adj | Possessive case of the pronoun) - belonging or pertaining to it. |
| Itself | prn | Reflexive or intensive pronoun. |
| I-twined | vb | To divide. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| I've | coll | Contraction of I have. |
| I've | phr | "I've Never Heard it Called that Before" - (informal) used to draw attention to a possible double entendre in the immediately preceding utterance of another speaker. |
| I-vee | vb | I-fee. 1. To make an enemy, put at enmity, render hateful or hostile. |
| Ivied | pp | Grown over or covered by ivy. |
| Ivy | n | A climbing evergreen shrub, Hedera Helix. |
| Ivy | vb | To cover with ivy. |
| Ivy-leaf | n | Ivy leaf has been used for hundreds of years as a cough medicine for respiratory tract complaints. |
| Ivy-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of ivy. |
| Ivy-ridden | adj | Full or covered with ivy. |
| Ivy-wort | n | Name given to plants of the order Araleae |
| Old English | sp | English |
| I-wald | n | I-weld. 1. power, might, wield, sway, rule, control. |
| I-walden | vb | To have power, sway, wield, control. |
| I-warness | n | watchfulness, awareness, wariness. |
| I-weed | n | Garments, clothes, weed |
| I-weld | vb | To exercise power over, to control, to rule, to have sway over, to weild, to subdue. |
| I-wemmned | adj | Stained. |
| I-wende | n | Contrivances. |
| I-wende | vb | To turn, change, bring about. 2. to turn oneself, to turn, to go to turn, to wend one's way, to go |
| I-wene | vb | To expect, to hope, to think, to suppose. |
| I-wepen | n | Weapons, arms, military equipment. |
| I-whiles | phr | In the mean time, meanwhile |
| I-will | n | Wish, will, pleasure |
| I-win | n | labour, toil, suffering. 2. battle, war, contest, strife. 3. gain, profit |
| I-win | vb | I-winne. 1. struggle, contest, fight. 2. to gain by struggle, fighting to win. |
| I-wis | adv. | Certain, assured, indeed, truly. |
| I-wisliche | adv | Certainly, truly, assuredly |
| I-wisse | vb | to direct, instruct. |
| I-wissing | n | Direction, instruction. |
| I-wit | n | Knowledge, understanding, senses. |
| I-wite | vb | To understand, know, get to know, learn. 2. to watch, guard, preserve. |
| I-wite | vb | To depart, to go away, decease, die. 2. to have the intention to leave. |
| I-wite | vb | to blame, to make culpable. |
| I-witherly | adv | Of a truth; certainly |
| I-witness | n | Knowledge, witness, testimony. 2. the act of witnessing. |
| I-wive | vb | To marry, to take a wife |
| I-won | n | Hope, expectation. 2. fortune, substance, property. |
| I-worded | adj | Full of words, talkative, garrulous. |
| I-worth | vb | To become, or to turn to something. 2. to be made, or to have become something. 3.. to happen, to come to pass, come into being, to be made. 3. to come, arrive, to get to be at a place. 4. to befall, happen. 5. to become acceptable to, to please, to be agreeable, to be agreed upon. 6. to let or leave alone. |
| I-wrathe | vb | To make angry or wroth. 2. to make oneself angry. |
| I-writ | pp | Something written, a writing, a treatise |
| I-wune | n | I-wone. 1. custom, habit, wont. |
| I-wunliche | adv | Customarily, usually. |
| I-wurch | vb | I-wurche, I-work 1. To work, to make, to do. |
| I-wurht | n | Work, deed, duty |
| I-wurth | vb | to honour, dignify, to hold in honour. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| I-yened | vb | To bring forth |
| I-yet | vb | To eat, consume. |
| I-yeten | pp | Eaten, consumed. |
| I-yett | vb | To grant, concede. |
| I-yeve | vb | To give |
| I-yoke | vb | To unite. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| J | n | The Letter "J" - no word beginning with "J" is of OE. derivation, many are Latin, chiefly through French. "Jute" is a modern rendering of Jutæ, Juti. In OE. Eotas, Iotas. 731AD "Of Þe Iutes com Þe Kentiche men and the men of Þe yle of Wight." |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Jowl | n | Old English ceole (related to German Kehle throat, gullet), partly merged with Old English ceafl ‘jaw’ (related to Dutch kevels cheekbones); jowl. 2. the head or jowl of a fish (hence as a fish); the head, jowl or shoulders of a salmon, sturgeon or ling. 3. idle and malicious talk; jowl. |
| Jowl | vb | To bump, strike, jowl, knock or push; esp. to dash the head against something. 2. to strike; to jowl (the wall of a coal pit) as a signal. 3. to toll, ring, knell or jowl slowly as a bell. |
| Jowl | n | a bump or blow, esp. on the head. 2. a knock or stroke or a single stroke |
| Jowled | pp | Having heavy jowls. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| June | n | The sixth month of the year, in which the summer solstice occurs in the Northern Hemisphere.
c.1100, from L. Iunius (mensis), probably a variant of Iunonius, "sacred to Juno" (see Juno). Replaced O.E. liðe se ærra "earlier mildness." |
| Jute | n | One of the ancient inhabitants of Jutland in Denmark; traditionally they were said to have settled in Kent & Hampshire during the 5c invasion of Britian. Jutish: pertaining to the Jutes. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| K | . | In Old English, K is merely a supplemental symbol occasionally used instead of C for the guttural sound. But after the Conquest, in accordance with Norman usage, C was retained for the guttural only before a o u l r and K was substituted for the same sound before e i y and (later) n. hence now, in native words initial K now appears only before e i y and before n (:-OE.cn-), where it is no longer pronounced in standard English. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Kechel | n. | A little cake. 2. a cake given as alms in the name, or the sake of, God. 2. a kichel |
| Kedlock | n | A popular name of the Field Mustard, Sinapsis arvensis. |
| Keel | n. | A quantity of coal, carried in a keel, measuring 21 tons & 4cwt. 3. word used to render OE. ceol (ship) in the passage of OE. chronicle, relating to the first coming of the Angles to Britain. (possibly related to OE wordchiule. |
| Keel | v | To cool, to cause to loose heat, to refresh by cooling. 2. to cool (a hot or boiling liquid) by stirring , skimming or pouring in something cold, in order to prevent it boiling over. Note the phrase:to keel the pot. 3. to make less violent, eager or ardent, to assuage, mitigate, lessen. 4. to become cool or cold. 5. to grow cold in feeling; esp. to become less violent, fervid or ardent; to cool down, to diminish in intensity. |
| Keel | vb | To plough the sea with a keel. 2. to capsize, turn up the keel, roll over. 3. to be turned or turn over, to be upset, to fall over, or be be felled as if by shock. 4. of a ship, to roll over. |
| Keel | n | The spinal ridge of mountains stretching down the centre of Norway. 2.a central dorsal ridge |
| Keel | phr | "Keel Over" - (of a boat, etc.) to completely or partially capsize. 2. to suddenly lose one's balance and fall. |
| Keel | phr | "Keel the Pot" - prevent from boiling over. |
| Keel | phr | "On an Even Keel" - balanced, calm in approach or manner.. |
| Keeled | adj | Furnished with a keel, as a boat. |
| Keeler | n | A shallow tub for holding materials for caulking ships or for other uses. 2. one who manages or operates a barge. |
| Keeling | n | The principal structural member of a boat or ship running along the center of the hull from bow to stem, to which the ribs are attached. 2. a projecting ridge or fin on the bottom of the hull of a boat or ship. |
| Keel-less | adj | Having no keel as a ship. |
| Keel-man | n | One who operates a barge. |
| Kemp | n | A moustache, whiskers, beard. |
| Keen | a. | Wise, learned, clever,keen-bent. 2. brave, bold, valiant, proud, daring. 3. mighty, powerful, strong. 4. fierce, savage, heinous; (of beasts) cruel, 5. (of persons): harsh; eager, ardent, fervid, intense,keen-bent. 5. of weapons, having a very sharp or keen edge. 6. of prices, competitive. 7. of the senses, sharp in taste, touch, smell causing pungency, pain, acridity, stinginess, frigidity,keen-cold. 8. of the wind, biting, piercing. 9. of service, very good, splendid. of agencies that affect the mind, circumstances, thoughts, feelings, etc., acutely painful, distressful, bitter. 10. of language, sharp, severe, incisive, cutting. 11. of eyes or eye-sight, sharp, penetrating.,keen-eyed. 12. of persons and students, intellectually acute,keen-witted. |
| Keen | vb | To render keen or sharp. |
| Keen | phr | "Keen on" - attracted to, infatuated with; in love with. |
| Keen | phr | "Keen on Doing" - strongly in favor of doing or of something being done. 2. eager to do something, or see something done. |
| Keen-bent | adj | Wise, learned, clever. 2. (of persons): harsh; eager, ardent, fervid, intense. |
| Keen-biting | adj | Pungent, acrid, mordant, incisive, stinging, sharp, severe, keen-bitten. |
| Keen-cold | adj | Very cold, frigid. |
| Keen-eared | adj | Of a person or animal: sharp, acute. |
| Keen-edged | adj | Of an object: sharp, penetrating. 2. sharp of mind, innovative. |
| Keen-eyed | adj | Of persons with eyes or eye-sight: sharp, penetrating. |
| Keenly | adj | Boldly, courageously, fiercely,. 2. eager, sharply, ardently, intensely, fervidly. |
| Keenness | n | Sharpness or cutting ability. 2. astuteness or sagacity. 3. eagerness or enthusiasm. |
| Keen-nosed | adj | Of persons or animals with a sense of smell: sharp, sensitive. |
| Keen-sighted | adj | Of persons with eyes or eye-sight: sharp, penetrating. |
| Keen-sightedness | n | The state or condition of being or having a sharp and penetrating eyesight. |
| Keenship | n | Keenness, boldness, fierceness. |
| Keen-witted | adj | Of persons and students, intellectually acute. |
| Keen-wittedness | n | The state of being intellectually acute. |
| Keep | vb | To seize, lay hold of, snatch, take. 2. to try to catch, to get, to seek after. 3. to take in, receive, contain, hold. 4. to watch, watch for, await, await for (a person) 5. to take in the eyes, ears or mouth. 6. to take note, mark, observe. 7. lie in wait for, watch stealthily, intercept on the way. 8. to meet in resistance or opposition, to encounter. 9. to meet or intercept in a friendly. |
| Keep | phr | "Earn One's Keep" - work in return for food and accomodation. |
| Keep | phr | "For Keeps" - forever; permanently, for good, hence completely, altogether. |
| Keep | phr | "How Are You Keeping?" - how are you? |
| Keep | phr | "In Good Keep" - well kept in good condition. |
| Keep | phr | "In Keeping With"- appropriate, suited to. 2. matching, harmonizing, conforming with. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep a Cool Head" - remain calm and composed in a crisis or flare-up. 2. not become flustered, angry or excited in a crisis or difficult situation. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep a Dog and Bark Oneself" - it is silly to pay for assistance and then do things personally. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep After" - make a persistent effort regarding. 2. persistently urging someone to do something. 3. not abandon. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Ahead of" - not lose one's position in front of another. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep a Lookout" - maintain a vigilance for someone or something. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep an Eye On" - watch carefully. |
| Kep | phr | "Keep an Eye Out" - be watchful for someone or something. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep a Stiff Upper Lip" - without flinching; remain calm and unemotional in adversity.. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep At (it)" - to persist at; to continue to occupy oneself; to persevere; not abandon. 2. force someone to make a prolonged effort. 3. worry, pester. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep at An Arm's Length" - kept well away from. 2. remain remote from. 3. not allow to come near or close to. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep a Tight Hold On" - exercise close, careful, strong control over. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Away From" - to cause to remain absent or afar; to keep or prevent from coming near. 2. not go near to; avoid being near.. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep a Weather Eye Open" - to look out with particular care. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Back" - to restrain, detain, hold back (forcibly); retard the progress of, growth or advancement; withhold; fail to be frank. 3. not pay your debts. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Back From" - stay at a distance from. 2. prevent from getting to close to. 3. not tell to, not let somebody know something. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Body and Soul Together" - keep oneself alive, but with some difficulty. 2. scrape together a living or livelihood. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Down" - to hold down, hold in, restrain, subjected or put under control, to repress. 2. not reveal one's position; lie low; not raise oneself. 3. not increase, prevent from increasing; hold down. 4. remove, kill; not allow to multiply or grow. 5. to keep food in one's stomach, without vomiting. 6. not raise, as one's voice. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep From" - to abstain from, to remain absent or away from. 2. to restrain or constrain from; avoid, prevent someone doing something. 3. not allow somebody to know; not tell. |
| Kep | phr | "Keep Going" - persisting, continuing to function. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep House" - to maintain one's house in good order and tidiness. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep In" - to continue within, hold in check, restrain. 2. remain inside, not emerge from. 3. not utter or give vent to. 4. maintain a state of (luxuury). 5. allow someone a regular supply of something. 6. to confine in school after hour. 7. stay alight, continue to burn, not allowed to be extinguished. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Indoors" - not allow to go outside. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep in Line" - stay in one's allotted position; cause to obey the rules of. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep In Mind" - not forget, constantly remember; bear in mind. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep In Sight" - stay in a position from where one can see. 2. not allow something to remain unobserved or disappear from view. 3. not forget about. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep in Sight Of" - remain where one can be seen, as a rescue party. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep in Step (with)" - move forward together, like soldiers on the march. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep in the Dark" - deliberately not inform; keep secret or in ignorance(sometimes in an negative, ungenerous way). |
| Keep | phr | "Keep In With (Somebody)" - maintain an association or friendship (for one's advantage). 2. remain on good terms with. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep It Between the Ditches" - to live a good, clean life (a popular saying in Alabama, USA). |
| Keep | phr | "Keep It Dark" - preserve a confidence or secret. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep It To Yourself" - do not tell in anyone. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep It Up" - carry on (doing something). 2. not relax one's eff; maintain a high standard of achievement.erts |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Off" - a means of keeping a person off, such as a foe. 2. avoid; not mention or talk about. 3. not begin. 4. stay at a distance from; not walk on. 5. cause to stay at a distance. 6. not eat certain foods or drinks. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Off the Grass" - stay on the path, rather than trample the ground. 2. to stop smoking marijuana. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep On" - continue to do something, even in the face of difficulties. 2. continue to persist in doing something, as on a journey. 3. to continue to wear. 4. to continue to keep employees in a job, rather than sack them. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep On About" (Somebody)" -continuing talking about or referring to (in an irritating manner) |
| Keep | phr | "Keep On At" - worry,, pester, harass (continually) with suggestion, requests, complaints. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep On At/In" - not remove (from); continue to employ (at/in). |
| Keep | phr | "Keep On Doing" - not stop doing; persisting. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One Eye On" - observe and if necessary take appropriate action. 2. watch over. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Bed" - to stay or remain in bed, esp. in time of sickness. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Chin Up" - maintain one's morale. 2. not lose one courage, hope, determination, optimism. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Cool" - retain one's presence of mind;, temper, impartial attitude, composed manner, etc. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Ears Open" - be on the look out for useful information. 2. go about one's business as an alert, receptive, wide-awake person. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Feet" - manage not to fall over. 2. remain one's balance upright. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Oneself to Oneself" - not concern oneself to the business of others. 2. not mix socially; maintain a veil of secrecy around oneself. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's End Up" -maintain one's contribution, share, (in a difficult activity). 2. defend oneself against attack, implied criticism, rivalry. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Eye on (Someone)" - to supervise a person or monitor an person's activities and behavior. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Eye on (Something)" - to monitor a situation. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Eyes Off" - not covet; not look at with desire or longing. 2. be fascinated by. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Eyes Open" - be on the lookout for useful information. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Feet" - maintain one's balance; upright posture. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One Going In" - supply one indefinitely with something. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Hair On" - remain calm in a crisis; do not lose your temper. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Hand In" - become (or remain) in practice in something. 2. to practice, (although not as frequently as before), or use a skill often enough, so that you don't lose the skill. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Hands Off" - not touch; not take. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Head" - remain calm in a crisis or during difficulties. 2. think, act calmly sensibly in an emergency. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Head Above Water" - not sink or drown. 2. just manage to cope with one's duties. 3. remain financially solvent. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Ones Head Down" - to work very diligently. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Hopes Alive" - even if something seems to be more or more unlikely, do not stop believing in it. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Mind Own" - not let one's attention wander from; concentrate on or upon. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Mouth Shut" - not willing to discuss some matter with others. 2. not reveal information, express an opinion , advice or a promise, etc. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Nose Clean" - stay out of trouble. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Nose Out of (Something)" - not to meddle in a matter. 2. not take an unwelcomed part in. 3. keep out of trouble; not break the law. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Nose to the Grindstone" - to work with particular diligence. 2. to work (cause) to work persistently and hard, with the implication that the work is difficult, monotonous, or disliked. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Offing" - stay at a distance but within sight. 2. in the projected future; likely to happen. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Own" - hold one's own; maintain one's position. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Oneself Going" - continue striving or moving, or keep up a pattern of life, work, etc in spite of tiredness, obstacles, difficult circumstances. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Oneself to Oneself" - to avoid or minimize contact with others; retiring; somewhat shy. 2. not concern oneself to the business of others. 3. not mix socially; maintain a veil of secrecy around oneself. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Shirt On" - not lose one's temper or composure. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One Step Ahead" - retain one's position in front of others by a small margin. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Word" - keep a promise 2. do as one promised to do. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep On Its Feet" - preserve, prevent from collapsing. 2. maintain in a healthy financial state. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep On One's Feet" - not be knock out (in boxing); not collapsed. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep On the Right Side" - avoid offending somebody, often in the hope of being rewarded or favoured by him; keep in with. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep On the Right Side of the Law" - act legally, not break the law. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep On Top Of" - maintain a position of superiority. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Open House" - be very hospitable to strangers. 2. be willing to receive guests or visitors, invited or unvited, at any time or at a specified time. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Out" - remain (or cause something to remain) outside. 2. to remain or cause, unexposed to. 3. to avoid or cause to avoid. 4. keep out of the way; exclude. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Out Of" - remain or (cause) to remain outside. 2. not expose oneself or others to. 3. avoid or ensure that others avoid. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Out of Someone's Hair" - to let another person get on with his or her work in his own way. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Out of the Way" - stay away. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Over" - save or retain for future use. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Smiling" - show courage and cheerfulness. 2. refuse to appear discouraged. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Someone In the Dark" - to deliberately keep someone uninformed or in ignorance. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Someone On His/her Toes" - to induce a person to be efficient. 2. make somebody remain alert, observant ready for action. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Someone's Seat Warm" - to hold a position temporarily with a view to another person taking it over permanently in the near future. 2. occupy a chair, house, business, professional or official position until a second person is ready to do so, epecially in order to prevent a third person establishing a claim to it. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Something Back (from Somebody)" - be secretive; fail to tell somebody something. 2. fail to be frank. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Something Dark" - to keep something secret. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Something for Somebody" - be secretive, fail to tell somebody. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Something On Ice" - keep someone uninformed or uncontracted. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Something Under One's Hat" - maintain a confidence. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep the Fields" - have control of the battle fields. 2. hold one's ground. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep the Home Fires Burning" - maintain the normal things at home during the temporary absence one of members, usually on military service overseas.. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep the Lid on (Something)' - keep a matter under control. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep the Saddle" - to remain or stay in the saddle- not fall off. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep the Seas" - control of the seas (militarily). |
| Keep | phr | "Keep the Wolf From the Door" - earn, obtain , enough to feed oneself and one's family. 2. avoid imminent trouble. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Time" - to indicate time correctly, as a clock. 2. to make movements in unison or concord with others. 3. to count or observe rhythmic accents. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep to" - to adhere to, stick to, abide by, promise, agree to, etc to continue to follow, maintain or observe. 2. not allow to wander from (a matter or issue, a roadway). 3. remain not leave. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Together" - to keep things or a group of people together; maintain a co-ordinated action.. 2. no become dispersed, scattered. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep to Oneself" - not tell others about, not let others know. 2. keep oneself to oneself. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Under" - to hold in subjection or under control. 2. to keep down, shut in or confined. 3. to restrain forcibly. 4. remain r hold below the surface. 5. observe and keep scrutiny, and surveillance of. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Under One's Hat" - remain secret about; not tell anyone about. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Under Somebody's Feet" - get in somebody's way; inconvenience somebody by one's presence. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Up (something or someone)" - advance at the same rate as someone or something; maintain appearances, spirits; to support. 2. not fall or sink; prevent from sinking; maintain (with regularity); not allow to decline; continue. 3. remain, maintain, at a high level(of intensity); maintain, by expenditure of money or energy. 4. to be just as productive as someone or something. 5. continue unchaged, unabated. 6. prevent from going to bed at the usual time. 7. continue to practise, not allow to lapse or be neglected. 8. fig. to pay attention to the news about someone or something. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Up One's Sleeve" - keep something secret (for later use). |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Up To" - to prevent from falling below a standard level, pressure etc. 2. keep informed of. |
| Keep | phr | Keep Up to The Mark" - ensure that somebody works or behaves well as he is able to. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Up With" - maintain the rate of progress or position as. 2. work, dance, play etc with the same vigor, speed, skill or expenditure of energy. 3. maintain the same social and material standards as. 4. inform oneself about, learn about, be au fait with. 5. maintain contacts, through visits, correspondence. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Up With the Times" - adapt oneself in order not to become out of date or old-fashioned. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep Watch" - be on guard duty against intruders or enemies. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep With" - to remain or stay with; to associate or keep company with; to keep up with. |
| Keep | phr | "Nim One's Keep" - to take notice, heed, notice. |
| Keep | phr | "Not Worth One's Keep" - not worth the cost of maintenance. |
| Keep | phr | "You Can Keep It" - I don't want it. |
| Keepalive | n | A message sent by one device to another to check that the link between the two is operating, or to prevent this link from being broken. |
| Keeper | n | Someone in charge of other people; as my brother's keeper. 2. one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals; custodian, steward. 3. one who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 4. one who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 5. one who has the care, custody, or superintendence of anything; as, the keeper of a park, hence; one who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver. 6. a ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: the box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. 7. a fruit that keeps well; as, hence: anything perishable that remains in good condition longer than usual. 8. an iron bar that is placed on the poles of a horseshoe magnet, and held in place there by the magnetic force, to preserve the strength of the magnet when not in use. 9. in combinations, such as 'book-keeper; bridge-keeper, cow-keeper, deer-keeper, dog-keeper, door-keeper, game-keeper, gate-keeper, green-keeper, hound-keeper, house-keeper. |
| Keeper | phr | "Let Something Go Through the Keeper" - to deliberately ignore a particular incident. |
| Keeper-less | adj | Not having a keeper or guardian. |
| Keepership | n | The office of providing care; care; support. |
| Keeping | n | Custody, charge or possession. 2. right relation or proportion. 3. harmony, congruity. 4. maintenance or support. |
| Keeping | phr | "In Keeping With" - in harmony with. |
| Keeping | phr | "Out of Keeping With" - out of harmony with. |
| Keeping-room | n | The living room of a person or a family. 2. the common sitting room; a parlor |
| Keeplike | adj | (OE.'cepan' : observe)- resembling a castle-keep (watchtower) or some aspect of one. |
| Keepnet | n | A net used in landing fish. |
| Keep-off | n | A means of keeping a person off, such as a foe, 'as the having of nuclear weapons may be a good keep-off for some nations'. 2. protection, deterrent, safe-guard. |
| Keep-out | n | A restrain, barrier, limitation. |
| Keeps | n | For ever, permanently to do something seriously and without showing any emotion. |
| Keepsake | n | Anything kept or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver, a memento |
| Keepsakey | adj | Of the style of the composition or illustration in a keepsake volume. |
| Keepworthy | adj | Worthy of being kept. |
| Keeve | n | A large basin, container or vat for fermenting or storing liquor, bleaching of dyeing fabrics. |
| Keeve | vb | To put into a keeve or a tub for fermentation, etc. 2. to unload a cart by tilting it up. |
| Kelde | pp | To become cold. |
| Kemb | vb | To disentangle and smooth hair by drawing a comb through it. 2. to dress or trim the hair, head, a person etc. , with a comb. 3. to curry a horse. 4. to make smooth, trim, preen, gentrify, spruce up. 5. to prepare wool, flax for spinning by parting and straightening the fibres with a wool comb. 6. to tear or lacerate with a comb-like instrument. |
| Kemb up | vb | Combing, smoothing, straightening of wool, wool, flax, hair etc. |
| Kembing | n | The action of combing |
| Kemp | n | Moustache. |
| Kemp | n | A big, strong, and brave warrior or athlete; a champion. 2. the seed stalk of the ribwort (Plantago lanceolata) used in a children's game. |
| Kemp | n | The seed stalk of the Ribwort (Plantago lanceolata) used in a children's |
| Kemp | vb | To fight, battle, to wage war bravely, compete as an athlete |
| Kempster | n | A female warrior |
| Kempt | adj | Of hair or wool: combed, esp. in combed-kempt or well kempt. |
| Kempy | adj | Of a champion or kemp. 2. one given to highly rough or uncouth things. |
| Kempy | adj | Of wool: abounding im kembs or coarse hair. |
| Ken | n | Sight, vision of a thing, place etc.; possibility of seeing or capacity of seeing. 2. power or exercise of vision, look, gaze. 3. mental perception or recognition. 4. to know, recognize, to descry. |
| Ken | vb | To generate, engender, beget, conceive, give birth to. 2. to be conceived or born of eggs: to be hatched. |
| Ken | vb | To make known. 2. to direct, teach, instruct (a person). 3, to direct, guide, show the way to a place or to a person. 4. to consign, deliver, bestow, commend. 5. to descry, see, took at, scan. 6. to recognize, identify. 7. to acknowledge, admit, be genuine, to be valid. 8. to get to know, to know a person, a thing. 8. to have knowledge of or about something. 9. "To ken thanks.": to make know or express thanks. |
| Ken | phr | "To Ken Thanks.": to make know or express thanks. |
| Kench | vb | To laugh loudly, with noise, cackle, jeer. |
| Kenned | adj | Known |
| Kenning | n | Old English cenning "procreation; declaration in court,". From early 14c. in senses "sign, token; teaching, instruction;" c. 1400 as "mental cognition." Old Norse cognate verb kenna "to know, to recognize, to feel or perceive; to call, to name (in a formal poetic metaphor)." 2. teaching, instructions. 2. sign, token, appearance. 3. visual cognition, sight or view. 4. range of sights; the distance that bounds the range of ordinary vision, esp. at sea, hence a marine measurement of about 20 miles. 5. mental cognition, knowledge, cognizance, recognition. 6. a recognizable position, just enough to be perceived a little. 7. periphrastic or roundabout expression, instead of a simple name for something,sea-steed for ship; sword-storm for battle. |
| Kenning | n | The ciccatrice or trend of an egg |
| Kenning | phr | "By Kenning" - |
| Kenning | phr | "In Kenning" - |
| Kenning | phr | "Out Of Kenning" - |
| Kenning | phr | "Within Kenning" - |
| Kenning-glass: | n | A spy-glass, small telescope |
| Kent | n | A county in S.E. England. |
| Kentish | n | The natives or inhabitants of Kent. 2. the language or dialect of Kent. 3 Kent Knocker: the sandbank before the mouth of the Thames |
| Kentish fire | n | Rapturous applause. |
| Kept | pp | Maintained or supported by the lover or a woman. 2. financially supported or privately controlled by interested persons, as in a kept person. |
| Kept man | n | A man who is supported financially by a lover (usually a married woman). |
| Kept woman | n | A woman who is supported financially by a lover (usually a married man). |
| Kerf | n | A cut, carving, stroke. 2. the place at which a tree or branch is or has been cut across. 3. the cut end or surface either on a felled or pruned tree. 4. the incision made by cutting, esp. by a saw. 5. a cutting of anything. |
| Kern | n | A grain of wheat, sand etc. |
| Kern | vb | Of corn, to form or make into the hard grains . 2. to furnish with a kern. 3.to seed. 4. to cause to granulate, making salt or sugar into grains |
| Kernel | n | A seed, esp. the seed enclosed within any fruit, a pip; a grapestone. 2. the softer (usu. edible) within the hard shell of a nut or fruit stone. 3. the body of a seed(eg. of wheat) within its husk 4. a morbid formation of rounded form in any part of the body (esp. a enlarged gland in the neck or groin). 5. a gland; a tonsil; a lymphatic gland or ganglion: a morbid fatty mass. 6. A nucleus; core, centre, central core ( of a formation). |
| Kernel | n | To seed or form kernels. 2. of land, to produce grain or corn. 3. enclose a kernel in its shell |
| Kernel | vb | A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn. 2. small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
3. the central, substantial or essential part of anything; the gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument. 4. the essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. |
| Kerneliness | n | Full of kernels. |
| Kernel-less | adj | Without of a kernel |
| Kernelly | adv | Of flesh: consisting of, or full of, glands, granules. |
| Kernel-words | n | Guiding words for self-improvement, future pursuits and happiness. |
| Kernel-wort | n | "Scophularia nodoga' - the figwort, kernelwort. |
| Kerning | n | The process of turning into grains, seeding, granulation. |
| Kettle | n | A metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid. 2. the quantity a kettle will hold; a kettleful. 3. (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits. 4. large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drum-head that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it. |
| Kettle | phr | "Kettle of fish" - (as in a pretty kettle of fish): confused situation; mess, muddle. 2. different state of affairs. |
| Kettle-bottom | n | A name given to a hill with a broad, flat top and sloping sides. |
| Kettle-hole | n | (Geology) - a depression in the ground as the result of a large area of ice getting buried by glacial outwash and subsequent melting of it. |
| Kettle-lake | n | A lake formed in a kettle hole. |
| Kettle-like | adj | Resembling a kettle or some aspect of. |
| Key | n | A place which from the strategic advantage of its position gives the possessor control over the passage into and from a certain district, territory. 2. that which serves to open up, disclose or explain the mysterious or obscure -- a solution or explanation. |
| Key | phr | "As Cold As a Key" - very cold. |
| Key | phr | "Get the Key of the Street" - (in irony) to be shut out and have no home. |
| Key | phr | "Golden or Silver key - money: employed as a bribe in opening of a door to gain a purpose. |
| Key | phr | "Have the Keys to the Door" - reach the age of majority. |
| Key | phr | "Have the Keys to the Street" - to be locked out; be homeless. |
| Key | phr | "Key In" - to enter (information or instructions) in a computer or other device by means of a keyboard or keypad. |
| Key | phr | "Key Into" - to grasp, understand the overall concept of or be acutely aware of the underlying and essential meaning of something; to get it. |
| Key | phr | "Key in With" - in harmony with (music). |
| Key | phr | "Key Shall Be On His Shoulder" - he shall have the authority, dominion over; have the keeping of something. |
| Key | phr | "Keys to the Kingdom" - the rulership of a kingdom. |
| Key | phr | "Key to the Midway" - a fictional item, the subject of a fool's errand.
2. a ferris wheel or carousel, due to their central location. |
| Key | phr | "Key Up" - raise the pitch of. 2. to cause excitement, anticipation, etc. 3. to make or become agitated, excited, anxious. 3. become extremely tense. |
| Key | phr | "King's Key" - 'keys' given to trustworthy constable, which are in fact crowbars, hammers used to free doors and open locks, in execution of the King's warrants. |
| Key | phr | "Put the Key Under the Door" - to shut up the house and go away. |
| Key | phr | "Under Key" under lock and key. |
| Key-beam | n | Ultra-light, aesthetic high performance acoustic ceiling beams. |
| Key-bearer | n | One who holds or carries the keys; one who is entrusted with the authority of the keys. |
| Key-bit | n | The part of a key that engages the tumblers to activate the lock. |
| Keyboard | n | A row of keys as a piano or typewriter; also, the range or arrangement of the keys, as of an organ or piano, etc. |
| Keyboarder | n | One who uses a keyboard. |
| Key-bone | n | The clavicle |
| Key-cold | adj | Devoid of heat; cold as death. 2. deadly col; lifeless. |
| Key-coldness | n | State or condition of being extremely cold; utter coldness. |
| Key-drawing | n | An outline drawing of a larger picture with symbols to give explanation or to identify various people presented. |
| Key-headed | adj | Of equipment, having a head shaped like an key. |
| Key-holder | n | One who holds a key to a building etc for security purposes. 2. in cryptography, a seat of data holding encryption keys. |
| Keyhole | n | A hole for a key, as in a door or lock. |
| Keying | n | The roughing of surface of new plaster to secure adhesion for the next coat. |
| Key-keeper | n | A secure night-drop box for keys. |
| Keyless | adj | Lacking or not requiring a key. |
| Keylike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a key in some aspect. |
| Key-maker | n | A craftsman or woman who makes keys. |
| Key-man | n | An important player or person. 2. a person without whose work or direction something could not go ahead; an indispensable person. |
| Keyness | n | In anthropology: the degree to which something is key or important. 2. in computing, the statistical significance of a keyword. |
| Key-pin | n | The pin on which the pipe of the key turns. |
| Key-ring | n | A ring, normally of metal or plastic, for holding keys together. |
| Key seat | n | A bed or groove to receive akey which prevents one mechanical part turning on another. |
| Keysmith | n | A person who cuts keys. |
| Keystone | n | The key at the summit of an arch, which locks the whole together. 2. a bond stone. 3. the fundamental element, as of a science or doctrine. |
| Keystones | n | The police (sl). |
| Key-stroke | n | A single depression of a key on a keyboard, especially as a measure of work. |
| Key-way | n | The grove or recess in a shaft or vessel hub for the insertion of a key; also called a 'key bed'. 2. the opening in a cylinder lock to receive a key. |
| Key-word | n | In computing, a word or identifier that has a particular meaning to the programming language. 2. a term used as a keyword to retrieve documents in an information system such as a catalogue or search engine. 3. a word that an academic use to reveal the internal structure of an author reasoning. |
| Key-worker | n | A public sector worker who is considered to provide an essential service. The term is often used in the UK in the context of those essential workers who may find it difficult to buy property reasonably near to the area where they work. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Kichel | n | A small cake or kichel |
| Kidney | n | An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine. 2. this organ (of an animal) cooked as food.
3. constitution, temperament, nature, type, character, disposition. (usually used of people). 4. (obsolete, slang) a waiter. |
| Kidney-bean | n | A kidney-shaped bean , esp. a dark red one from a dwarf French bean plant. |
| Kidney-less | adj | Not having kidneys, as a person on dialysis. |
| Kidney-like | adj | Shaped or resembling a kidney in some aspect. |
| Kidney-ore | n | A variety of hematite found in compact, kidney-shaped masses. |
| Kidney-shaped | adj | Shaped like a kidney, with one side concave and the other convex. |
| Kidney-stone | n | Nephrite. 2. a hard mineral formed in the kidney or bladder. |
| Kidneywort | n | Hepatica; navelwort. |
| Kiln | n | A furnace or oven for baking, burning or drying, esp. for calcining or burning lime to ashes (a lime kiln). 2. a furnace for baking bricks, tiles, and other industrial type products, etc. 3. a furnace for drying grains, hops, esp for making malt |
| Kilner | n | A kiln-man; a brick-maker |
| Kilnlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a kiln in some aspect. |
| Kin | n | A crack, chink, or slit, esp. a chasm or fissure in the earth. 2 a chap or crack in the skin. |
| Kin | n | A group of persons descended from the common ancestors and so connected by blood-relationship; a family, stock, clan. 2. ancestral stock or race; family esp. in phrasecome of good kin. 3. one kindred, kinsfolk or relatives collectively. |
| Kin | phr | "Come of Good Kin" - ancestral stock or race; family esp. in phrasecome of good kin. |
| Kin | v | To chap or crack |
| Kin | phr | "Kith and Kin" - see 'Kith and Kin. |
| Kin | phr | "Of Kin" - by birth or descent. |
| Kinbond | n | The bond of family. |
| Kinbote | n | A wergeld or manbote, compensation, expiation paid to kin of a man killed or murdered |
| Kinch | n | See Kink |
| Kind | n | Birth, origin, descent through kind. 2. right of birth or position, derived from birth, inherited right, birthright, kind-right, heritage, natural right. 3. The station, place or property belonging to one by birth. 4. one's native place or position. 5. nature; natural instinct or disposition. [Obs.] 6. race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. "Come of so low a kind.". 7. very kind of beasts, and of birds. 8. sort; type; class; nature; style; character; fashion; manner; variety; description; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc. 9. a kind of, something belonging to the class of; something like to; -- said loosely or a little slightly; a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of books are there?" ; kind, sort, form, variety.. 10. in kind, in the produce or designated commodity itself, as distinguished from its value in money. 11. sort; species; type; class; genus; nature; style; character; breed; set. 12. sexual organs; semen. |
| Kind | vb | To beget. 2. to treat kindly. |
| Kind | adj | Having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior; "kind words showing understanding and sympathy'. 2. agreeable, conducive to comfort; genial. 3. tolerant and forgiving under provocation. 2. characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native land, speech, tongue. 2. having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart. 3. showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious. 4. fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. 5. proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. 5. gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness. 6. kind, forbearing; good; mild; bland; friendly. 7. begotten; sprung from. |
| Kind | sfx | A suffix used to form nouns denoting groups or classes taken collectively; such as 'ape-kind, wolf-kind, woman-kind'. |
| Kind | phr | "A Kind Of" - a sort of. |
| Kind | phr | "All Kinds Of" - all kind of things. |
| Kind | phr | "By (The Way Of, Of, Through) Kind - naturally, by nature, against, out of kind, of or in violation of nature. |
| Kind | phr | "Do (or work) One's Kind" - to act according to one's own nature; to do what is natural to one; spec. to perform the sexual function. |
| Kind | phr | "Grow Out Of Kind" - to lose the character appropriate to one's being and family; to degenerate. |
| Kind | phr | "Of Its Kind" - within the limitations of its own class, (the good of its class). |
| Kind | phr | "In Kind" - in proper or good condition. 2. (translation of Latin 'in specie'; in the very kind of thing in question; usually payment. 3. in goods or natural produce, as opposed to money. 4. of repayment: in something of the same kind as that received (chiefly.). |
| Kind | phr | "Kind of" - used to imply looseness, vagueness, exaggeration, in the form of 'I think he is kind of a teacher'. |
| Kind | phr | "Nothing Of a Kind" - nothing at all like that. 2. not the thing mentioned or expected. |
| Kind | phr | "Of A Kind" - of a sort, not typical or perfect specimens or class. |
| Kind | phr | "Of One's Own Kind" - by it's (own) nature, or itself, naturally. |
| Kind | phr | "Out Of Kind" - unnaturally, not in proper condition. |
| Kind | phr | "Something Of a Kind" - something like the thing in question. |
| Kind | phr | "The Worst Kind" - severely, extremely, very badly. |
| Kind | phr | "Two of a Kind" - two people, two things that are similar. |
| Kind | sfx | A suffix used to form nouns denoting groups or classes taken collectively; such as 'ape-kind, wolf-kind, woman-kind'. |
| Kind-blind | a | Blind by nature, like the mole |
| Kindful | adj | UK dialectal) Of, relating to, or denoting a specified kind or sort; kindly. 2. of natural disposition or affections; kind |
| Kind-hearted | adj | Having a kind and sympathetic nature or disposition. |
| Kind-heartedly | adv | In a kind-hearted manner. |
| Kind-heartedness | n | A sympathy arising from a kind heart. 2. fellow feeling, sympathy - sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) |
| Kindless | n | Devoid of kindness or sympathy |
| Kind-like | adj | Of like, natural, nature or character. |
| Kindily | adv | In a kind manner, with a good nature and sympathy. |
| Kindliness | n | The quality or habit of being kindly; an instance of this. 2. mildness of climate. 3. of climate, favorable to vegetation. |
| Kindly | adj | Having or manifesting kindness; sympathetic. 2. having a favorable or grateful effect; beneficial, pleasant of the waether. 3. proper to its kind, natural, native, akin. 4. pertaining to nature or birth. 5. natural, in that is, exists or take place according to the natural laws; consonant or congruent with nature, natural as opposed to artificial. 6. imparted by nature, innate, inherent in nature of a person or a thing. 7. naturally belonging to or connected with a person or thing, own, proper, suitable. 8. that belongs to one by birth, native, native-born, hereditary. 9. existing between kinfolk. 10. characterized by good nature. |
| Kindly | adv | In a kind manner or spirit; of a good nature. |
| Kindly | phr | "Look Kindly Upon" - regard sympathetically. |
| Kindly | phr | "Not Take Kindly to" - be annoyed by, not like. |
| Kindly | phr | "Take Kindly to," - be kindly or endeared to. |
| Kindly | phr | "To Thank Kindly" - to thank heartly, with appreciation of kindness. |
| Kindly-borne | adj | Persons of the same land; native, denizen. |
| Kindly-hearted | adj | Having or showing a tender, caring, considerate and helpful 'heart' or nature. |
| Kindly-like | adj | Having kind and compassionate nature. 2. native, natural in characteristic. |
| Kindly-meant | adj | Words spoken with kindness, as 'thanks for your kindly-meant words on my retirement'. |
| Kindly-sheltering | adj | Kindly protected and cared for; as 'in a mother's kindly-sheltering bosom'. |
| Kind-minded | a | Having a kind thoughts and disposition. |
| Kindness | n | The state or quality of being kind. 2. a kind act. |
| Kindom | n | One's land, one's family. |
| Kindred | n | A generation; group of related persons, as a clan or tribe. 3. kinfolk , person's relatives. |
| Kindred | adj | Of the same ancestry or family: kindred clans. 2. having a similar or related origin, nature, or character: kindred emotions. |
| Kindred-less | adj | Having no kindred or relatives. |
| Kindredly | adv | In a kindred way, cognate. |
| Kindredness | n | The quality or state of being kin or akin, kingship. |
| Kindred's tree | n | A genealogical or family tree. |
| Kindred-soul | adj | Someone with the same feeling or attitudes as oneself, a kindred spirit. |
| Kindred-word | n | A cognate word. |
| Kindship | n | Kindness. |
| Kind-thoughted | adj | Of kind, generous, mild, friendly. |
| Kind-witted | adj | "No more can a kind-witted man come to Christendom and be saved". |
| Kine | adj | Kingly, royal; also see "king"' words. |
| Kine-bairn | n | Royal child. |
| Kine-bench | n | Throne |
| Kine-born | adj | Of royal birth |
| Kine-burgh | n | Royal city |
| Kine-eard. | n | Kingdom, (king's earth); kine-land. |
| Kine-helm | n | The crown |
| Kine-land | n | Kingdom. |
| Kine-like | adj | Royal, real, real. |
| Kine-mark | n | Mark indicating royal birth. |
| Kine-mote | n | Royal council |
| Kine worth | n | Royal |
| Kinfolk | n | Persons of the same kin, relatives of the same blood; kinsfolk. |
| King | n | A ruler, monarch, head of state |
| King | vb | To act the king, rule, govern (govern as a king). 2. to make king. |
| King | phr | "A Cat May Look or Laugh at a King" - a every day person has to a look at a so-called important person. 2. don't have or give yourself airs. |
| King | phr | "Kings Have Long Hands" - do not argue with kings as their power reaches to the end of their dominions. |
| King | phr | "King Of Birds" - the eagle; the king-bird. |
| King | phr | "King of Bliss" - Jesus Christ. |
| King | phr | "King of Day" - The Sun. |
| King | phr | "King of Hearts" - the emotionally disturbed Charles VII of France. |
| King | phr | "King of Heaven" - God. |
| King | phr | "King Of Kings" - God, Jesus Christ. 2. a king who has other kings under him; an emperor. |
| King | phr | "King of The Hill" - A children's game in which the object is to beat one's rivals to the top of a mound or other high place, and to keep possession of the place. 2. person who is in command or successful. |
| King | phr | "King of Waters" - the river Amazon, in South America, although not as long as the Mississippi-Missouri (the longest river in the world), it discharges a greater volume of water |
| King | phr | "King of the World" - the title of Shah Jehan, the builder of Taj Mahal. |
| King | phr | "The Book of Kings" - certain books of the Old Testament which contain the history of the kings of Israel and Judah. |
| King-apple | n | A kind of winter apple. |
| King-bane | n | A murderer of a king. |
| King-becoming | adj | Behaving in the manner appropriate for a king. |
| Kingbird | n | Any flycatcher of the genus, Tyrannus. |
| Kingbolt | n | A kingpin: a vertical central bolt attaching the body of a vehicle to the fore axle and serving as a pivot in turning. |
| King-born | adj | Of royal birth; of royal blood. |
| Kingcraft | n | The art of ruling as a king. 2. exercise of royalty craft. 3. diplomacy; statesmanship. |
| Kingcup | n | Any of several species of buttercups. |
| King-devil | n | Satan, Lucifer, the devil. 2. a weed common in America, introduced from Europe; a noxious weed. |
| Kingdom | n | A realm having a king and/or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign. 2. a realm, region, or conceptual space where something is dominant, as the kingdom of thought, the kingdom of the dead. 3. (taxonomy) a rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum; a taxon at that rank (e.g. the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom). |
| Kingdom-come | n | Heaven, paradise, the next world; the after-life. 2. an infinitely remote time or place. |
| Kingdom-come | phr | "Send To Kingdom-come" - kill or destroy. |
| Kingdom-come | phr | "Until Kingdom come" - for a very long time; forever. |
| Kingdomed | adj | Furnished with or constituted as a king. 2. consisting of so many kingdoms. |
| Kingdomless | adj | Without a kingdom, as a king disposed of his kingdom. |
| Kingfisher | n | The alycione, the kingfisher, the kookaburra. |
| King-folk | n | Royal folk, |
| King-geld | n | Scutage or money paid instead of military service to a feudal landlord. |
| Kinghit | n | (In Australia, New Zealand, slang, also used figuratively) a blow intended to incapacitate in one hit, often delivered without warning and sometimes causing death; a hay-maker, sucker punch, coward punch. |
| Kinghit | vb | (In Australia, New Zealand, slang, also used figuratively) to attack a victim and knock them unconscious or killing them with a single punch. |
| Kinghood | n | Kingship, the authority, rank; or office of a king. 2. a kingly spirit or character. |
| King Horn | n | In certain medieval English and French romances, as an exiled prince who falls in love and after many hardships ins his bride. |
| King-house | n | A basilica; a palace. |
| King-key | n | The main keystone or support of a building. 2. fig. the chief premise of an argument, etc. |
| King-land | n | Kingdom |
| Kingless | adj | Without a king; having no king. |
| Kinglihood | n | Kingly state, royalty. |
| Kinglike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a king. |
| Kingly | adj | Pertaining or worthy of a king; regal; king-like. 2. of the nature of a king,or kings, royal; of royal rank. 3. of or belonging to a king. 4. held, issued or exercised by a king,. 5. suitable for as king, in a regal or kingly way, royal. 6. of a government: monarchical. 7. king-like; dignified, majestic, noble. |
| King-maker | n | One who sets up kings; by extension, one who appoints person's to very important position. |
| King-making | n | The ceremony of crowning a king, or any similar ceremony endowing a person with high office. |
| King-murder | n | The murder of a king; regicide. |
| Kingpin | n | (Of motorized vehicles) the axis around which steered wheels pivot; a bolt that holds the axis in place—a kingbolt. 2. (ten-pin bowling) The pin at the centre of the triangle of bowling pins (originally the tallest pin in kayles). Sometimes also the headpin at the apex. 3. the most important person in an undertaking or organization. 4. the bolt holding together the truck of a roller skate or skateboard. |
| Kingrick | n | Kingdom |
| King's bench | n | A division of the High Court of Justice. |
| King's bishop | n | In chess, the bishop on the king's side of the board at the start of the game. |
| King's books | n | Taxation lists. 2. a pack of cards. |
| King's English | n | Spoken or written English considered as correct by official (or the King's authority. |
| King's Evil | n | Scrofula, formerly held to the curable by the royal touch. |
| King's friends | n | A political party which supported George III and the power of the crown. |
| King's highway | n | a ublic road, under the monarch;s soveriegnty. |
| Kingship | n | Royal state, or king-hood. 2. government by a king. 3. the person of a king |
| King's men | n | One who supported the British cause at the times of the American Revolution. 2. a member of the King's college, Cambridge. |
| King's silver | n | A soft, very pure silver formerly used for costly dishes and plates. |
| King's yellow | n | A vivid yellow pigment obtained from Orpiment . |
| King-tide | n | High tide. |
| King Willow | n | The game or sport of Cricket. |
| King-worship | n | The worship or adoration of a king. |
| King-yoking | adj | 'He affirmed that the law knows no king-yoking policy'. |
| Kink | vb | To grasp convulsively for breath; lose breath. 2. to loose one's breath spasmodically, as in hooping cough or severe fit of laughter, kinking; also earlier formKinch. |
| Kink | n | A fit of paroxysm, as an act of laughter or coughing. 2. a coughing that for the moment catches or takes away one's breath. |
| Kinless | adj | Having no relatives; without kin or kindred. |
| Kinlessness | adj | The state or quality of being kinless. |
| Kinned | adj | Cracked, chill-blained, chafed |
| Kinsfolk | n | Kinfolk, persons of the same kin; relations by blood. |
| Kinship | n | Relationship, especially by blood. |
| Kinslayer | n | The killer or murder of one's own kin; |
| Kinsman | n | A man of one's own kin. 2. a relative by blood or marriage,(now poetic). |
| Kinsmanhood | n | Kinship. |
| Kinsmanly | adv | Appropriate or characteristic of a kinsman. |
| Kinsmanship | n | Kinship. |
| Kinswoman | n | A female relative. |
| Kip | n | A basket. |
| Kipe | n | A basket, osier basket used for carrying fish. |
| Kirtel | n | A man's tunic or coat; kirtle. |
| Kiss | n | To press or thrust with the lips as a token of affection, greetings or reverence. 2. An affectionate salutation by contact of the lips. 3. to salute, caress with the lips, to touch lightly, as in billiards, said of a ball another when both are in motion. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss and Make Up" - to reconcile one's differences. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss and Ride" - a carpark at a railway station, airport etc for the dropping off and picking up of passenger. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss Away" - remove (tears) by kissing. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss and Tell" - recounts one's sexual exploits. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss Goodbye" - to farewell with a kiss. 2. never expect to see again. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss it Better" - to kiss a young child as a 'cure' for a minor injury. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss of Death" betrayal of Jesus in the Garden Of Gethsemane by Judas. 2. a seeming kind or well intention action, look, association; etc. which brings ruin or disastrous consequences. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss of Life" - mouth-to-mouth method of artificial respiration. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss Off" - to get rid of, kill, murder; to die; death. 2. go away, don't talk foolishness. 3. to reject, spurn, ignore, dismiss esp. a lover. 4. a rejection, dismissal, termination. 5. a farewell, conclusion, of one party compelling another. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss the Book" - take a solemn oath on the bible. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss the Dust" - to be overthrown, humiliated, ruined or slain, |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss the Ground" - to suffer a loss. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss the Ground Someone Walks on" - totally adore or be besotted by. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss the Hand" - of a sovereign or superior, as a ceremonial greeting or leave-taking, or on an appointment to an office to an office of state. 2. formerly, to pay respects or salute or bid farewell. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss the Hare's Foot" - to be late for anything. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss the Maid" - to be executed on a primitive form of the guillotine. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss the Rod" - to accept correction meekly or submissively. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss the Stocks" - to be confined in the stocks. |
| Kiss | phr | "Kiss Up (to)" - to pay false flattery tosomeone in order to get special treatment and attention. |
| Kisser | n | One who kisses. 2. the mouth or face (slang). |
| Kissing | n | The action of kissing |
| Kissing-gate | n | A small gate swinging in a "u" or "v"shaped structure which allows one one person to pass through at a time. |
| Kissing-kin | n | Close relatives; kinfolk. |
| Kissing-kind | adj | On affectionate term or friendly enough to kiss. |
| Kissingless | adj | Without a kiss; unkissed. |
| Kissingly | adv | In an affectionate, friendly, kissing manner. |
| Kissing-time | n | A time to kiss. |
| Kissless | adj | Without a kiss. |
| Kiss-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a kiss. |
| Kiss-off | n | A slang term meaning 'dismissal'. |
| Kiss-to | n | A dear John or dear Jane letter. |
| Kiss-up | n | One who flatters a supervisor, or superior, in order to get special attention. |
| Kissy | adj | Sentimentally affectionate. 2. tending to kiss frequently. |
| Kist | n | A large and strong chest. |
| Kitchen | n | The room or part of the house where food is cooked. 2. utensils in which food is cooked in an oven. 3. food from the kitchen, hence any kind of food eaten with bread etc., as a relish |
| Kitchen | vb | To work, cook or prepare food in the kitchen. 2. to entertain in the kitchen. 3. to serve as a kitchen or relish; to season. 4. to furnish with fare of the kitchen. |
| Kitchen | phr | "Everything but the Kitchen Sink" - utterly, completely, totally everything. |
| Kitchen | phr | "Hell's Kitchen" - an area or place that is regarded as very disreputable or unpleasant; spec. a district of New York City once regarded as the haunt of criminals. |
| Kitchen | phr | "If You Don't Like the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen" - if you don't like the pressure or stress required to do something, then you should stop doing it. |
| Kitchen | phr | "Thieves Kitchen" - a place frequented or inhabited by by thieves or criminals. |
| Kitchen | phr | "The Worm's Kitchen" - the grave, tomb, sepulcher. |
| Kitchendom | n | The realm or domain of chefs in kitchendom. |
| Kitchener | n | One employed in the kitchen; esp in a monastery. 2. a cooking-range with a it's appliances. |
| Kitchenful | adj | As much or as many a kitchen can hold. |
| Kitchenhood | n | An electrical device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapors from the cooking. |
| Kitchen-knave | n | A scullion. |
| Kitchenless | adj | Lacking a kitchen. |
| Kitchen-like | adj | Resembling a kitchen or some aspect of one. |
| Kitchen-maid | n | A girl employed in the kitchen, usu. under the supervision of the cook. |
| Kitchen-midden | n | A refuse heap of a prehistoric date, consisting chiefly of the shells of edible mollusks, bones of animals and crude stone implements. |
| Kitchen-sink | n | The sink in the kitchen. |
| Kitchen-table | n | A table used in a kitchen. |
| Kitchen-table Software | n | In the early days of computing, computer software developed by small business by advanced amateurs. |
| Kitchen-timer | n | A device that can be set for a number of minutes (usually up to an hour) that sounds an alarm bell or buzzer when a specified amount of time has elapsed, commonly use when cooking or baking, |
| Kitchenware | n | The utensils used in the kitchen. |
| Kitcheny | adj | Of, or pertaining to the kitchen. |
| Kite | n | A bird of prey of the family "Falconidae" with long wings, tail usu. forked, and no tooth in the bill. 2. fig. one preys on another; a sharper, also vaguely as a term of detestation. 3. a light frame usu. of wood, covered with paper or some light fabric as to flow in the air at the end of a long string. 4. in commerce a 'Bill of Exchange; to raise credit. 5. an aeroplane or aircraft.(sl). 6. a communication (esp, one that is illicit or contraband or surreptitiously)spec. a letter or verbal message smuggled in, out or within a prison. 7. a check (cheque) drawn on insufficient funds; a stolen or forged cheque book. |
| Kite | vb | To fly with a gliding motion; to fly high like a kite. 2. (sl) to pass a dud cheque. |
| Kite | phr | "As High as a Kite" - an inveterate drug user highly intoxicated and affected by the use of drugs. |
| Kite | phr | "Fly a Kite" - to see' how the wind blows'; that is, in what direction matters are tending or heading. 2. a proposal or suggestion proffered or 'floated' tentatively in order to gauge the response of others. |
| Kite | phr | "Fly One's Own Kite" - tend to one's own affairs. |
| Kite | phr | "Go Fly a Kite" - get lost, vamoose. |
| Kite-board | n | A specialized lightweight wakeboard used for kiteboarding. |
| Kite-boarder | n | A person who participates in kite boarding. |
| Kite-boarding | n | A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider. 2. similar sport using a wheeled board on land. 3. similar sport using a snowboard or ski on snow. |
| Kite-flyer | n | A passer of dud cheques. |
| Kiteless | adj | Lacking a kite. |
| Kite-like | adj | Resembling a kite or some aspect of. |
| Kitemaker | n | One who makes kites (professionally or only for fun and amusement) |
| Kitemaking | n | The art of making kites. |
| Kiteman | n | A person who obtains money from forged cheques. |
| Kith | n | Knowledge, information. 2. one's native land. 3. persons known, and taken collectively; one's friends, fellow-countrymen and neighbors taken collectively. |
| Kith | phr | "Kith and Kin" -- country and kinfolk, nowadays more used for fellow-countrymen, acquaintances and friends, and family. |
| Kithe | vb | Kythe. to make known, manifest, reflect, to show oneself, appear. 2. to come to sight, to become known, to recognize, appear. 3. to manifest practically (a feeling or quality) hence to practice. 4. to do, to own. |
| Kithless | adj | Without family or close relatives. |
| Kiting | n | The fraudulent raising of money or credit. 2. the flying of kites as a past time and for enjoyment. +++ see slang dictionary. |
| Kithing | n | Kything: knowing, a telling, a showing, a manifestation. |
| Kithly | adv | Familiarly. |
| Kittle | vb | Late OE. to tickle. 2. fig. puzzle with a question; strike with feeling or emotion. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| L | n | The letter "L" |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Knap | n | Middle English, from Old English cnæp, akin to cnotta 'knot' 2. a protuberance; a swelling; a knob. 3. the crest of a hill. 4. a small hill |
| Knave | n | A male child, a boy. 2. a boy employed as a servant; hence a menial, one of low condition. 3. unprincipled man; a base and crafty rogue. 4. the lowest court of each suite; the jack. |
| Knave-child | n | A male-child. |
| Knaveship | n | Condition of being a knave, often used as a mock title. 2. a small due in meal, payable to the miller's servant, on each lot of corn at a mill. |
| Knavish | adj | Characteristic, or having the character of a knave. 2. low, vulgar, impertinent, obscene, unprincipled, roguish, rascally. |
| Knavishly | adv | In a knavish manner |
| Knavishness | n | The quality of being knavish. |
| Knead | vb | To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc. 2. (figuratively) to treat or form as if by kneading; to beat. 3. ( of cats) to make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws. 4. to mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound |
| Kneadingly | adv | In a manner of one who is kneading. |
| Knee | n | A joint in the middle of the leg and area around it. 2. a carpal joint of a horse or related animal 3. part of a garment 4. a shipbuilding: piece of timber or metal formed with an angle act of kneeling. 5. any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line. 6. blow made with the knee. |
| Knee | phr | "Be Weak-kneed" - be irresolute; infirm of purpose or conviction. |
| Knee | phr | "Bow the Knees" - to yield, submit, admit defeat. |
| Knee | phr | "Bring to the Knees" - to conquer, force to submit. |
| Knee | phr | "Go Down One's Hands and Knees" - with great humility to ask a favor of a person. |
| Knee | phr | "Knee-high to a Grasshopper" - small, short. |
| Knee | phr | "On the Knees of the Gods" - beyond human control, when anything can happen. |
| Knee-bend | n | The action of bending the knee, especially as a physical exercise in which the body is raised and lowered without the use of the hand. |
| Kneeboard | n | (Surfing) a short (often less than 6'), broad (sometimes extremely broad) surfboard designed to be ridden in the surf in a kneeling position, and often having traction pads in the central area as an alternative to wax, to help the knees grip the deck. 2.(aviation) a clipboard carried in the lap of an airplane pilot, on which basic flight data is recorded. 3. (waterskiing) a short wakeboard designed to be ridden in the kneeling position |
| Kneed | adj | Having some specific type of knee(s), as knocked-knees. |
| Knee-deep | adj | Up to the knees. 2. sunk or submerged to the knees. 3. (figuratively) deeply involved in something, preoccupied with something. |
| Kneedness | n | The state or quality of being a particular type of or number of knees. |
| Knee-high | adj | Reaching as high as the knees. |
| Knee-hole | n | Having a recesss place for the knees. |
| Kneeing | n | A blow made with the knees. |
| Kneel | vb | To stoop down and rest on the knees. |
| Kneel | phr | "Kneel Before" - to knee in front of something/someone, especially in order to worship or supplicate. |
| Kneel | phr | "Kneel Down" - to kneel, especially as an act of prayer; genuflect. |
| Knee-length | adj | Reaching the knees. |
| Kneeler | n | One who kneels in church. |
| Kneel-less | adj | Not in a kneeling position. |
| Kneel-like | adj | Resembling a kneel in some aspect or other. |
| Kneeling | n | The act of becoming on one's knees. |
| Kneely | adj | Somewhat like a kneel. |
| Knee-pan | n | The knee cap or patella. |
| Knee-room | n | The distance between the edge of opposite seat of a passenger carriage. |
| Knee-timber | n | Naturally bent timber suit for ship building. |
| Knee-walking drunk | adj | Extremely intoxicated, stone drunk. |
| Knell | n | The stroke of a bell rung at a funeral or at the death of a person. 2. a death-signal; a portend of doom. |
| Knell | vb | To sound as a knell; to toll. 2. to summon by tolling a bell. |
| Knell | phr | "Ring the Knell of" - announce or herald the end of. |
| Knife | n | A cutting instrument with a blade or a sharp, long-wise edge fixed in a handle, such as a table knife or sheath knife. 2. a knife used a a weapon. 3. a cutting blade for cutting things, vegetable, materials, etc. 3. 'the knife' - a surgery. |
| Knife | vb | To cut, slice, stab with a knife. |
| Knife | phr | "Before One Can Say Knife" - very quickly. |
| Knife | phr | "Get One's Knife Into" - to have spite against. |
| Knife | phr | "Go Under the Knife" - be operated on; undergo surgery. |
| Knife | phr | "Live On a Knife's Edge" - metaphorically, to occupy such a precarious position that the slightest false move may end in disaster. |
| Knife | phr | "Night Of the Long Knives" - to exhibit a malicious or vindictive spirit towards. 2. to persecute relentlessly. |
| Knife | phr | "On a Knife's-edge" - in a dangerous or uncertain situation |
| Knife | phr | "Play a Good Knife and Fork" - to eat well. |
| Knife | phr | "Sharpen the Knives" - get ready for a concerted attack on some principle. |
| Knife | phr | "Stick a Knife Into Someone" - act vindictively towards someone. |
| Knife | phr | "The Flaying Knife" - the emblem of St Bartholomew because he was flayed. |
| Knife | phr | "The Knives Are Out" - there is an active campaign against somebody. |
| Knife | phr | "War to the Knife" - deadly and relentless combat and strife. |
| Knife-board | n | A board upon which knives are cleaned. |
| Knife-edge | adj | The wedge-shaped piece of steel with a keen edge serving as the fulcrum of a balance. |
| Knife-edge ridge | n | A very narrow and steep ridge. |
| Knife'ful | adj | As full as a knife can hold. |
| Knife-grass | n | A stout American hedge, "Sceleria latifolia" with sharp-edged leaves. |
| Knife-grinder | n | An itinerant sharpener of knives, scissors, etc; a grindstone or emery wheel for grinding tools. |
| Knife-haft | n | The handle of a knife. |
| Knife-handle | n | The handle of a knife. |
| Knifeless | adj | Without a knife or knives. |
| Knife-like | adj | Resembling a knife or its effect. |
| Knifely | adv | Of, or pertaining to a knife. |
| Knife-maker | n | Someone who makes knives. |
| Knife-making | n | The manufacture of knives. |
| Knifeman | n | One who uses a knife as a weapon. 2. a surgeon. |
| Knifer | n | One who carries a knife as a weapon. |
| Knife-rest | n | A metal bar between two supports on which the carving-knife rests. |
| Knife-shaft | n | The blade or shaft of a knife. |
| Knife-sharp | adj | Very sharp. |
| Knifey | adj | Resembling the edge of a knife in narrowness and sharpness. |
| Knifish | adj | Malicious, spiteful. |
| Knight | n | In OE: a boy, youth, lad. 2. a boy as a servant or attendant, 3. military servant o follower; later use devoted to the service of a lady as her attendant or champion in war or tournament. 4. military servant of the king or other person of rank. 5. one raised by a sovereign to a honorable military rank. 6. one raised by a king or sovereign in recognition of personal need or for services rendered to the crown or country, (given the title of Sir). |
| Knight | vb | |
| Knight | phr | "Knight of the Shire" - a person representing the shire or county in parliament. |
| Knight-bairn | n | A male child. |
| Knighted | adj | Dubbed or create a knight. |
| Knightenway | n | A military road or way. |
| Knight-errand | n | A knight who wanders about in search of adventure. |
| Knight-head | n | One or two timbers rising from the keel of a vessel and supporting the bowsprit between them. |
| Knighthood | n | A rank of dignity of a knight. 2. boyhood, youth-hood. 3. the profession or vocation of a knight. 4. the collective body of knights, company of knights |
| Knighting | n | The act of making somebody a knight. |
| Knight-less | adj | Unbecoming of a knight; unknightly. |
| Knightlihood | n | The quality of being knightly. |
| Knight-like | adj | Like or befitting a knight. |
| Knightliness | n | knightly behavior; chivalry. |
| Knightly | adj | Having the rank or qualities of a knight, noble, chivalrous, gallant. 2. of belonging to, suitable or appropriate to a knight. 3. consisting of a knight in manner, befitting a knight: gallant, brave, chivalrous. |
| Knight's fee | n | The amount of land for which, under the feudal system, the services of the knight was due to the crown. |
| Knightship | n | That honor bestowed that makes somebody a knight. 2. a honorific formal address to a knighted person. |
| Knightweed | n | The clothing or dress of a knight. |
| Knightwered | adj | A band of knights or warriors. |
| Knightwort | n | Stratioles aloides or the water-soldier plant. |
| Knit | n | The style and stitch in which anything is knitted. 2. the process of knitting. 3 knitted work, texture, fabric. 4. a small particle of ore. |
| Knit | vb | To make clothes by the working wool etc. thread into a network with knitting-needles. 2. To unite; to make united together by common interests etc. 3. make close or compact. 3. to tie in or with a knot; to fasten by or as by knitting. 4. to interlock, inter-twine, weave, plait together. 5. to draw closely together. 6. to contract in wrinkles or folds. 7. to become consolidated, connected. 8. to form closely together or set. 9. to become conjoined or united closely. 10. to form a cluster together. 11. to combine intimately; to establish or cement a relationship 12.of a female animal: conceive, become pregnant. |
| Knit | adj | Conceived, pregnant. |
| Knit | phr | "Knit One's Brow" -to make lines come in skin between hair and eyes as a sign of thought or care |
| Knit | phr | "Knit Up" - to tie up, fasten up; to string up, to hang; to repair by knitting(lit. & fig). 2. to shut up, take up, snub. 3. to close up, conclude, finish, end. 4. to sum up, to express concisely. |
| Knit | phr | "Knit Up" - to tie up or fasten, to string up. 2. to compose or repair by knitting |
| Knitch | n | A bundle of wood, hay, corn etc. tied together; a sheaf, faggot, fascicle; a bundle of flax. |
| Knitchel | n | A small knitch: bundle of reeds, flowers, grass |
| Knitted | adj | Made by knitting, or resembling in texture something made by knitting. |
| Knitter | n | One who knits. 2. a knitting machine. |
| Knitting | n | Of the action of knit in the formation of a fabric by looping wool. 2. The action of making clothes by the working wool, thread, yarn etc. into a network with knitting-needles. 2. make united together by common interests etc. |
| Knitting-needle | n | Thin rod of metal or bone etc. used in knitting. |
| Knitting-pin | n | A long and thick needle, with a knob in place of an eye at one end. |
| Knittle | n | A string of cord for tightening or fastening small line made of yarn, used on board a ship. |
| Knitwear | n | Knitted articles of clothing. |
| Knitwort | n | The herb, comfrey (symphytum officinale). |
| Knock | n | Late OE. an abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood. 2. an impact, as a knock on the head. 3. (figuratively) criticism. 4. (cricket) a batsman's innings. 5. (automotive) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition or the characteristic knocking sound associated with it. |
| Knock | vb | To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood. 2. to strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door. 3. to bump or impact. 4. (colloquial) to denigrate, undervalue. 5. (soccer) to pass, kick a ball towards another player. 6. (slang, dated, Britain) to impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock About" - to strike by a succession of blows; hence, to beat roughly and without respect. 2. rough, boisterous, unseemly.. 3. characterized by being driven to and fro, or wandering irregularly around. 4. move about, travel, have one's haunts in. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock About With/Together" - to be a habitual friend or companion of. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock a (Child) Out" - fig. to make pregnant, to copulate with. 2. to copulate with. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Against" - hit, strike, often causing damage to, collide with. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Back" - refuse, rebuff, reject. 2. slang; eat or drink quickly. 3. cost, set back. 4. disconcert, annoy. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Down" - to strike or fell with blows. 2. strike or hit with a vehicle. 3. to overcome, vanquish, cause to succumb; demolish. 4. dismantle, for ease of transport. 5. to bring down with a shot, or by artillery. 5. cause to reduce or beat down in price. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Down Drag Out" - a free-for-all fight marked by extreme violence or bitterness and no show of mercy. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock for Six" - to completely demolish an argument or defeat an opponent literally or figuratively. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Heads" - to kotow. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Heads" - to congregate thickly or associate with. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock In" - to drive in or force in with blow. 2. drive in by means of a hammer. |
| Knock | phr | "Knocked Into the Middle of Next Week" - be thoroughly beaten. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock It Back" - to drink heavily; heartily gulp. 2. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock It Off" - stop it, leave off. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Me Down with a Feather" - to be overcome with surprise. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Off" - to leave work; to cease from one's work. 2. to stop, discontinue, give up. 3. to pirate, plagiarize, copy. 4. steal, rob. 5. kill, murder. 5. to arrest a person. 6. reduce the price of something by a stated amount. 7. to copulate with, seduce. 8. write, compose rapidly or easily; throw off. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock On" - strike, rap, at on (a door), window, entrance. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock on Doors" - to seek opportunities to do business. |
| Knock | phr | "Knocking on Heaven's Door" - moribund or near death. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock One's Head Against (a Stone Wall)" - to strike with one's head; fig. to hurt oneself by coming into collision with resisting facts or conditions. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Oneself Out" - to apply oneself with great effort and energy (to the point of exhaustion). |
| Knock | phr | "Knock One's Socks Off" - astonish, amaze. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock On the Head" - to stun or kill with a blow to the head, often to kill in a summary way. 2. cancel, stop doing something; prevent the realization of; dismiss as absurd. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock On Wood" - expression used to fend off bad luck. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Out" - to make unconscious with a blow; knock out cold. 2. 2. astound, stop with a blow. 3. overwhelm; render speechless; incapable of though or action. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Out Off" - remove by a blows or repeated blows, as powder from a container; teeth from a mouth. 2. eliminate from a contest. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Out of Time" - knock out an opponent in a boxing match. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Over" - complete quickly. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Sideways" - disconcert, astonish. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock (Somebody's) Head Off" - threaten to, or strike somebody by way of punishment, or retaliation. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock the Bottom Out Of" - to render invalid, make of no effect upon, bring to nothing, 'won't hold water'. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock the End Off" - to spoil the whole affair. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock the Living Daylights Out Off" - severely thrash; soundly beat; beat unmercifully. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Through" - remove a wall, partition in order to enlarge a room, usually by combining two; or in order to make a new doorway. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Together" - to bring or drive together into collision or contact. 2. put together or prepare hurriedly or hastily. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Two Heads Together" - make two persons come to their senses and deal with each other in a reasonable manner. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Under" - to acknowledge oneself beaten. 2. to give in, yield, submit; knuckle under. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Under the Board" - to succumb in a drinking-bout. 2. to give in, submit, yield. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Up" - drive or hit upwards with a blow. 2. wake up (often as a favor) by knocking on a door or a window. 3. make tired, weary or ill. 4. to make or get pregnant. 5. to put together or prepare (with little planning) hurriedly or quickly. 6. a short period of practice before certain sporting contest. |
| Knock | phr | "Knock Up Against" - to be driven up so as strike or hit into something. 2. to come into collision with. |
| Knock | phr | "Make One's Knees Knock Together" - feel, or show, great fear. |
| Knock | phr | "On the Death Knock" - at the last possible moment. |
| Knock | phr | "On the Knock-off" - to be engaged in stealing. 2. an illegal copy or reproduction of a copy-righted design or product. |
| Knock | phr | "Take a Knock" - hit hard financially. |
| Knock-about | adj | Rough, boisterous, unseemly. 2. characterized by being driven to and fro, or wandering irregularly around. |
| Knock-back | n | A refusal, rebuttal, rejection. |
| Knock-down | n | A price which an article will be reduced to at an auction or sale. 2. something that knocks somedown down, such as strong liquor. 3. an act of knocking down. 4. a blow that knocks down, a stand-up, 5. free-for-all fight. |
| Knock-down | adj | Irresistible, overwhelming, knocked-down. 2. adapted to be fastened by being knocked flat at the end. 2. constructed to be easily ' knock-down' or taken in pieces for removal, portable. 3. sold as, or put in a number of separate parts that require assembling. |
| Knocked | adj | Struck, hit, beaten. |
| Knocked-down | adj | Knocked down into a number of separate pieces that require to be assembled. |
| Knocked-kneed | n | With the knees turned inwards so they virtually knock or rub together. |
| Knocker | n | A fault-finder, caviler, carper, one who frequently captiously criticizes. 2. a metal door-knocker. |
| Knocker | phr | "On the Knocker" -engaged in selling or canvassing goods from door to door. 2. accurate, on the mark. |
| Knocker | phr | "Up to the Knocker" - in good condition, in the height of fashion; up to the mark. |
| Knocker-up | n | One who noisily goes around the streets in the early hours of the morning causing people to be awakened from sleep. |
| Knocking | n | An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced. |
| Knockingly | adv | In a knocking manner. |
| Knocking-shop | n | A slang term fo a brothel. |
| Knock-me-down | adj | Such as to knock one down, as a powerful blow or punch; (fig.). 2. riotous, overbearing, prostrating, overpowering. |
| Knock-off | n | The ceasing and leaving of work at the end of the working day. 2. a copy or imitation made esp. for commercial gain. |
| Knock-off time | n | Time to cease and leave work. |
| Knock-off | phr | To be engaged in stealing. 2. an illegal copy or reproduction of a copy-righted design or product. |
| Knock-on | n | The act of knocking on. 2. the domino effect; (the inevitable consequences of initiationg some action). |
| Knock-on | adj | Affecting and consequential to outcome of events. |
| Knock-out | n | The rendering of another unconscious with a blow |
| Knock-out | vb | To render another unconscious with a blow. |
| Knock-out drops | n | A liquid drug of which drops are put into a drink to render a person unconscious and stupified (often in order to rob or sexually assault). |
| Knocked-up-ness | n | Someone or something knocked-up, weakened or utterly exhausted or worn out. |
| Knocking-off time | n | The time at the end of a work spell. |
| Knocking | n | An act in which something is knocked on, or sound thus produced. |
| Knockless | adj | That enters without first knocking on the door. |
| Knock-shop | n | A brothel. |
| Knock-up | n | A short practice session before a tennis match. |
| Knocky | adj | Tending to knock. |
| Knoll | n | A hill top, summit, hillock. 2. a turnip, a swelling of the skin. |
| Knoll | vb | To ring a knell or toll. |
| Knolled | adj | High topped or with a high summit. |
| Knolling | n | Knelling |
| Knolly | adj | Fully or abounding in knolls or hillocks. |
| Knop | n | Cognate with OE. 'knap'; a knob, a flower-head. 2. a swelling upon the skin (a knoll); a pimple. 3. small round protuberances. |
| Knop | vb | To furnish or adorn with knops. 2. to bud, flower. |
| Knopped | adj | Having knops, knobbed, bearing buds, or compact flower-heads. |
| Knot | n | looping. 2. a tangled clump. 3. a maze-like pattern. 4. in mathematics: a closed curve. 4. a difficult situation. 5. a whorl in wood left by branch. 6. a firm swollen tissue caused by injury. 7. a protuberant joint in a plant
8. a nautical unit of speed? |
| Knot | n | A hill, eminence of moderate height. |
| Knot | vb | To form into a knot; tie in a knot. 2. form wrinkles on the forehead, 3. to tie together. |
| Knot | phr | "A Knot Of " - a group or collection of people, such as, ' knot of irishmen'. |
| Knot | phr | "Get Into a Knot" - get into a state of confusion. |
| Knot | phr | "Get Knotted" - stop, you are annoying me! |
| Knot | phr | "Knot Together" - join, link by means of a knot. |
| Knot | phr | "See and Find a Knot" - to look for difficulties where none exist. |
| Knot | phr | "Tie In Knots" - confuse, bamboozle. |
| Knot | phr | "Tie the Knot" - to marry. |
| Knotberry | n | "Rubus chamaemorus" - a local name for the cloudberry. |
| Knotfulness | n | The number of knots; knottness of which a knot is made up of. |
| Knotgrass | n | The plant, Polygonum aviculture, formerly said of to stop growth in humans. |
| Knothole | n | A void left by a knot in the void. |
| Knotless | adj | Without a knot; free from knots. 2. unknotted; a thread without knots. 3. smoothly without hindrance. |
| Knotlike | adj | Resembling a knot or some aspect of one. |
| Knotspan | n | The range of parameter value between two successive knots in a spline. |
| Knotted | adj | Full of knots, knotty, matted, tangled, snarled, unkempt. |
| Knotted | phr | "Get Knotted" - stop, you are annoying me! |
| Knottedness | n | The character or manner of being formed into a knot. |
| Knottily | adv | In a knotty manner. |
| Knottiness | n | The quality or condition of being knotty. |
| Knotting | n | The process of covering knots in woodwork with shellac and methylated spirits, before the initial coat of paint. |
| Knottish | adj | Knotty. |
| Knotty | adj | Full of knots; rugged. 2. difficult, puzzling, intricate. |
| Knotweed | n | Polygonum, especially Fallopia japonica. |
| Knotwork | n | Ornamental work representing or consisting of intertwined cords. |
| Knotwort | n | Illecetae raceae. |
| Know | n | Acknowledgement, confession. |
| Know | vb | To acknowledge, to confess. |
| Know | phr | "All One Knows" - to the utmost of one's power. 2. |
| Know | phr | "Before One Knows Where One Is" - with baffling speed. |
| Know | phr | "Be in the Know" - be informed and well aware of something. |
| Know | phr | "Be Not to Know" - be no way of learning. 2. be not to be told. |
| Know | phr | "Better the Devil You Know, Than the Devil You Don't Know" - the status quo is more comfortable than change. |
| Know | phr | "Don't I Know It" - I am aware of it, you need not tell me. |
| Know | phr | "Don't You Know it!" - an expression of emphasis. |
| Know | phr | "Do You Know Something" - shall i tell you a surprising fact. 2. I'm going to tell you something. |
| Know | phr | "Father Knows Best" - as an expert I know better than you just what is suitable for you. |
| Know | phr | "For All I Know" - I do not know (and don't care) but. |
| Know | phr | "Have Known Better Days" - not to be good or wealthy as formerly. |
| Know | phr | "He Wouldn't Know the Time of Day" - an expression referring to someone considered stupid or ignorant. |
| Know | phr | "I Don't Want to Know" - please don't tell me. |
| Know | phr | "I Knew It" - I was sure or certain this would happen. |
| Know | phr | "I Know What" - I have a knew idea, suggestion etc. |
| Know | phr | "In the Know" - in possession of information which is not generally known. |
| Know | phr | "I Wouldn't Know" - I don't know. |
| Know | phr | "Know a Good Thing When One Sees It" - have the knowledge or shrewdness to recognize the usefulness or value of somebody, something. 2. be able o recognize something as being of a particular kind. 3. see the opportunity to do or get something profitable. |
| Know | phr | "Know a Hawk from a Handsaw" - be well-informed, intelligent, discerning. |
| Know | phr | "Know All the Answers" - to be well informed, resourceful and intelligent. |
| Know | phr | "Know As Well as I Do" - understand perfectly well, in spite of one's claim or pretence that one does not know. 2. know something very well. |
| Know | phr | "Know a Thing or Two" - be experienced or shrewd. 2. have or acquired a lifetime of experience and cunning. 2. have a good knowledge of, know what is useful, important. 4. know the answers. |
| Know | phr | "Know Best" - know what should be done, thought etc. better than anyone else. |
| Know | phr | "Know Better (than)" - to have learned better from experience; hence, to be wiser, better informed, more sensible, prudent or discreet (than to do something). |
| Know | phr | "Know By Name" - have heard the name. 2. be able to give the name of. |
| Know | phr | "Know by Sight" - recognize the appearance (only) withou being an acquaintance. |
| Know | phr | "Know For" - to be aware of. |
| Know | phr | "Know How Many Beans Make Five" - have common sense in a practical way, be astute, clear-headed. |
| Know | phr | "Know Inside Out" - know very well; know backwards. |
| Know | phr | "Know Like the Back of One's Hand" - to be intimately knowledgable about something, especially about a place. |
| Know | phr | "Known Knowns" - certainties of known magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics; something that we know that we know. |
| Know | phr | "Know Of" - have knowledge of, be somewhat knowing of; |
| Know | phr | "Know One's Business" - one who is very knowledgable and effective in a chosen endeavur |
| Know | phr | "Know One's Man" - have assessed accurately somebody one hs to deal with. |
| Know | phr | "Know One's Own Mind" - be decisive, not vacillate. 2. to form and adhere to an opinion. 3. know what one wants to do. |
| Know | phr | "Know One's Way About" - be familiar with with a locality, subject, how thing work. 2. be capable and well -informed in general. |
| Know | phr | "Know Somebody and His Kind" - be well aware of the kind of (usually negative) person one is. |
| Know | phr | "Know Something Backwards" - know very well. 2. know inside out. |
| Know | phr | "Know Something Inside Out" - know, be skilled in every aspect of something. |
| Know | phr | "Know the Ropes" - to be thoroughly familiar of waht is to be done. 2. know all all the tricks of the trade. 3. be familiar with the customs and procedures of an institution, community, business, etc. |
| Know | phr | "Know the Score" - be aware of the true situations. 2. know the true state of affairs or how things really are. |
| Know | phr | "Know Through and Through" - know, comprehend, understand totally perfectly. |
| Know | phr | "Know What Is to Be (Something)" - have personal experience of being ill, hungry, etc. |
| Know | phr | "Know What Love Is" - have personal experience of the true nature of love. |
| Know | phr | "Know What One Is Doing" - understand the nature and purpose of one's action. 2. to do something deliberately, whether wisely or foolishly. |
| Know | phr | "Know What Somebody/Something Is" - know what a person or thing is like. 2. understand how a person/thing is likely to behave or function (the implication being that he/she/ it is likely to be unreliable). |
| Know | phr | "Know What's What" - to be very alert and wide-awake. 2. know what should be known of the facts, arrangements, rules of behavior etc, in a given situation. |
| Know | phr | "Know Where One is Going" - know clearly what one's motivations and objectives are in life or in a particular line of activity. |
| Know | phr | "Know Where One Stands" - (with someone) - to know how one is regarded by others. 2. to know a person views on an issue. |
| Know | phr | "Know Which Side One's Bread is Buttered" - know where one's intersts lie; know who to please, what work to choose or continue in order to ensure one's livelihood, comfort or success. |
| Know | phr | "Know Which Way to Turn" - know the strategy to adopt or where to seek assistance. |
| Know | phr | "Know Who's Who" - be aware of who or what each person is. |
| Know | phr | "Left Hand Does Not Know what the Right Hand Is Doing" - one part of a large bureaucracy doesn't always know what the other part of the organization is doing. |
| Know | phr | "Not Know Any Better" - not be able to act appropriately, to behave well (through lack of experience), bad upbringing. |
| Know | phr | "Not Know From" not being able, to separate, recognize the difference between something or someone. |
| Know | phr | "Not Know One End of Something From the Other" - not know something about. |
| Know | phr | "Not Know One Is Born" - not have encountered any trouble or misfortune in life. |
| Know | phr | "Not Know One's Arse from One's Elbow" - be ignorant, stupid, effete. |
| Know | phr | "Not Know That" - be fairly sure that. |
| Know | phr | "Not Know the First Thing" - know nothing about. |
| Know | phr | "Not Know What Hit One" - be suddenly hit, hurt, injured, killed; disconcerted. |
| Know | phr | "Not Know is Talking Of" - not be a expert or have knowledge. |
| Know | phr | "Not Know When One One is Well Off" - not know how fortunate one is. |
| Know | phr | "Not That I Know Off" - not as far as i am aware. |
| Know | phr | "Not To Know Whether One is Coming Or Going" - to be totally confused. |
| Know | phr | "Not Want to Know" - refuse to take any notice of. |
| Know | phr | "So that's All You Know" - you do not know the facts. 2. you do not understand (censoriously) of a person to whom the phrase is addressed. |
| Know | phr | "Think One Knows It All" - have an inflated belief in ones knowledge and know-how in most or all matters. |
| Know | phr | "To Know How" - have the knowledge and skills to be able to do something efficiently and effectively. |
| Know | phr | "Unknown Knowns" - certainties of unknown magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics; something that we don't know that we know. |
| Know | phr | "What Do You Know" - an expression of surprize. |
| Know | phr | "Wouldn't You Know" - express dismay or annoyance, especially at bad luck or misfortune. |
| Know | phr | "You Know - Remember. |
| Know | phr | "You Know Something" - I am going to tell you something. |
| Know | phr | "You Never Know" - nothing in the future is certain. 2. perhaps, possibly. |
| Know-all | n | A conceited person who thinks he knows everything. |
| Knower | n | One who knows. 2. one who fakes cognizance. |
| Knowful | adj | Endowed with knowledge, well-informed. |
| Knowfulness | n | The state or condition of having knowledge. |
| Know-how | n | Knowledge how to do some particular thing; technical expertise, knowledge |
| Knowing | n | The act or condition of having knowledge. |
| Knowing-looking | adj | One wide awake. |
| Knowingly | adv | In a known manner; in knowledge; intelligently, consciously, intentionally |
| Knowing-ness | n | Quality or state of being intelligent or well informed. 2. cleverness, cunning, shrewdness. 3. appearance or air of shrewdness. 4. an affectation of knowing. 5. state of being consciousness or having knowledge of. |
| Knowing-one | n | A person professing to be well up in the secrets of the turf or other sports matters. |
| Know-it-all | n | One who thinks that he or she know everything, whilst not beening aware of their own deficiencies or shortcomings. |
| Knowledge | n | Middle English 'cnawlece' of uncertain formation "acknowledgment of a superior, honor, worship;" for first element see know (vb.). Second element 'ledge' is obscure, (not anglish) unlikely from Scandinavian and not cognate with the -lock "action, process," found in wedlock. |
| Know-little | n | Simpleton. |
| Known | adj | Apprehended mentally; recognized. 2. recognized understood; especially by all as the truth. |
| Known | n | "The Known" - that which is known. 2. that which is objective in knowledge. 3. the totality of known things |
| Known | phr | "Known to" - recorded, on file, or known personally to authorities; agency or organizations.. |
| Knowness | n | Acknowledgement |
| Know-nothing | n | One who knows nothing, a very ignorant person, ignoramus. 2. a politician, parliamentarian --- originally one belonging to a secret society that proffered to outsider that they knew nothing, and were completely ignorant of such matters. 3. one who holds that nothing can be known; an agnostic. |
| Know-nothing | adj | A person or persons, or organization that claims to know nothing or indeed are ignorant of certain matters. |
| Know-nothingness | n | Complete ignorance; state or quality of knowing nothing. 2. oblivion, extinction. |
| Know-not-what | n | Something indescribable. |
| Know-worth | n | Information worth knowing; as in 'one must give time and thought to the know-worth9s), if he hopes to thrive in life.. |
| Knuckle | n | Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.(by extension) 2. a mechanical joint. 3. a cut of meat. 3. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) the curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table. 4. the knee joint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the knee joint of a human being.
5. (obsolete) the joint of a plant. 6. (shipbuilding) A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom. 7. contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster. |
| Knuckle | vb | To apply pressure or rub or massage with ones knuckles. |
| Knuckle | phr | "Go the Knuckle" - to punch, fight, strike blows. |
| Knuckle | phr | "Knuckle Down" - to submit to. |
| Knuckle | phr | "Knuckle Under" - to acknowledge defeat; to give in, in allusion to the old custom of striking the under side of a table with the knuckles when defeated in an argument. 2. give way in the face of pressure; accept orders or directions without complaint. |
| Knuckle | phr | "Near the Knuckle" - near the permitted limit. 2. said of a remark, sorry, joke, performance etc that is bordering on the improper or indecent. |
| Knuckle-bone | n | A huckle-bone, as of sheep; also in man. 2. one of the bones of the finger. 3. a child's game. |
| Knuckled | adj | Having or furnished with knuckles. |
| Knuckle-deep | adj | Up to the knuckles; with the whole hand in; hence, fig. unto to the hilt. |
| Knuckle-dragger | n | A large, strong and rather dimwitted persons. |
| Knuckle-dust | n | to strike another with knuckled-dusted fists. |
| Knuckle-duster | n | A loop of heavy-shaped brass, gripped in the hand and fitting over the knuckes, used as an offensive weapn. |
| Knuckle-dusting | n | The act of striking another with a knuckle-duster. |
| Knuckle-head | adj | A dim-witted person. |
| Knuckleheadness | n | The quality of being dim-witted. |
| Knuckler | n | One who uses his fists to achieve his aims or objectives. |
| Knuckle-walking | n | A form of locomotion of some primates in which they move on all fours with pressure on the knuckles. |
| Knuckly | adj | Knuckle-like. 2. having prominent knuckles. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| La | excl | An exclamation, formerly used to introduce or accompany a conventional phrase, an address or statement; in recent use, an expression of surprise. Now only dialect, vulgar or archaic. 2. repeated as an expression of derision. 3. see "Lo" |
| Ladder | n | An appliance consisting of two poles or rungs connected by cross bars used for climbing |
| Ladder | phr | "Be at the Bottom of the Ladder" - be in the most junior position in some hirearchy. |
| Ladder | phr | "Get One's Feet On the Ladder" - receive one's first promotion. |
| Ladder | phr | "Rungs Up a Ladder" - make gradual steps to an ultimate goal. |
| Ladder | phr | "Top Rung of the Ladder" - highest position in a career. |
| Ladder-back | n | A chair back constructed with two posts connected by horizontal slats. 2. a chair having such a back. |
| Laddered | adj | Furnished with a ladder. 2. of a rope made into a ladder. 3. gradational. |
| Ladderless | adj | Having no ladder. |
| Ladder-like | adj | Resembling a lady; gradational. |
| Ladder-snake | n | The ladder snake (Rhinechis scalaris) is a species of non-venomous snake in the family Colubridae which is found in southwestern Europe. |
| Ladder stitch | n | Transverse bars in embroidery. |
| Ladder-work | n | Work done with the help of a ladder; as, house pianting. |
| Ladderwort | n | Polygonatum multiflorium; polemonium caeruleuum. 2. Ladder-to-Heaven. |
| Laddling | n | The dipping up and carrying in a ladle. 2. the drawing of liquid with a ladle. |
| Lade | n | Load, ship, burden, lading. |
| Lade | n | OE. (northern form of lode) - a channel constructed for leading water to the mill; a mill race. 2. watercourse; a mouth of a river. |
| Lade | vb | To load, put cargo/goods on a ship or vehicle. |
| Ladeful | adj | As much cargo as a ship can hold. |
| Lademan | n | One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant. |
| Laden | adj | Burdened, loaded, |
| Laden | phr | "Laden With" - added spirits to a beverage. 2. burdened, loaded. |
| Ladened | adj | Laden, loaded. |
| Lader | n | One who loads cargo on a ship. |
| Ladies first | phr | A phrase encouraging polite gentlemanly manners, allowing the ladies to go before the men. |
| Ladies' man | n | A man who attracts women and enjoys their company, 2. a womanizer; seducer. |
| Ladies' night | n | A function for women only. 2. a function where women are admitted free or for a small entry-fee. |
| Ladies' room | n | A rest-room for women. |
| Ladies' wear | n | Women's clothing. |
| Lading | n | The action of loading. 2. shipment, cargo, freight |
| Ladle | n | Spoon with a long handle and a large bowl. 2. a millwheel float. |
| Ladle | vb | To fit up a water-mill with ladle-boards. |
| Ladled | adj | dipped up and carry with a ladle. |
| Ladleful | adj | Sufficient quantity to fill a ladle. |
| Ladler | n | One who transports molten lead in a ladle. |
| Ladle-shaped | adj | Resembling a ladle in shape. |
| Lady | n | Literally the 'bread-maker' from O.E. hlaefdige (hlaf, loaf; and supposed root dige, to knead). The original maening was female head, mistress of the family/ household. |
| Lady | phr | "Ladies First" - a phrase encouraging polite gentlemanly manners, allowing the ladies to go before the men. |
| Lady | phr | "Lady Of the House" - housewife. |
| Lady | phr | "Lady of the Night" - prostitute, harlot, harridan, skanky ho. |
| Lady | phr | "Lady of the Thimble" - sewer, seamstress. |
| Lady | phr | "Lady of the Town" - prostitute, whore. |
| Lady | phr | "Not Over Till the Fat Lady Sings" - it is not finished yet. |
| Lady | phr | "Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" - The Bank of England. |
| Lady | phr | "One's Good Lady" - one's wife. |
| Ladybird | n | Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles. |
| Lady-bower | n | The Clematis. |
| Lady-day | n | The Feast (25 March)of the anunciation of the Virgin Mary. |
| Ladydom | n | The world of women collectively. |
| Ladyfinger | n | A small sponge cake, shaped like a finger. |
| Lady-friend | n | A female friend (used to avoid the possible ambiguity of the term 'girlfriend'). 2. a more quaint term for girlfriend, often used ironically. |
| Lady-help | n | A house-helper who does domestic duties but dines with the family. |
| Ladyhood | n | State or quality of having a lady; the quality pertaining to a lady. 2. ladies collectively, domain or realm of ladies. |
| Ladyish | adj | Characteristic of a lady. 2. affecting the airs of a lady. |
| Ladykin | n | A little lady. |
| Ladyless | adj | Having no lady; unaccompanied by a lady. |
| Lady-like | adj | Condition of being a lady; having qualities pertaining to a lady:feminine, discreet and graceful. 2. of or connected to the appearance or behavior of a well-mannered lady; ladyly. 3. of a man: effeminate. |
| Lady-likeness | n | Lady-like behavior. |
| Lady-love | n | A lady who is loved; a sweetheart. 2. love for ladies. |
| Ladyly | adv | Manner befitting a lady; as a lady. |
| Ladymonger | n | A womanizer; a casanova, a romeo. (a monger of ladies) |
| Ladyness | n | State or quality of being a lady. |
| Lady of the Night | n | Prostitute, whore, harlot. |
| Lady's finger | n | A species of banana. |
| Ladyship | n | The condition of being a lady. 2. having the personality of a lady. 3. having kindness befitting a lady. 4. a term of respect for a woman of the peerage without using her title. 5. a formal form of an address for a lady judge. 6. a district governed by a lady. |
| Lady's man | n | A man who is devoted to female society; a Casanova |
| Lady-smock | n | The cuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis |
| Lady's thumb | n | The invasive perennial place of the knotweed family, persiciana maculosa. |
| Lady-thimble | n | The harebell, the foxglove |
| Lady-wife | n | One's wife; my wife. |
| Laen | n | An estate held in benefice. |
| Laen-right | n | A beneficial right |
| Laet | n | OE. term for a person of status intermediate between that of a freeman and a slave |
| Lahler | n | OE: (lean) - to blame; a vice, sin. |
| Laid | adj | Covered with close, fine parallel watermarks. |
| Laid | phr | "Get Laid Back" - have sexual intercourse. |
| Laid | phr | "Laid Back" - very relaxed. |
| Laid | phr | "Laid Dry" - used of bricks laid or set together without mortar. |
| Laid | phr | "Laid On" - fastened on, as a moulding. |
| Laid | phr | "Laid Up" - out of commission through despair or illness. |
| Laid-back | adj | Relaxed, casual and easy-going attitude; an absence of stress or worry. 2. free and easy-going. |
| Laid-off | adj | (Of a bet, amount of money) bet with another bookmaker to reduce risk off loss. 2. made unemployed or redundant. |
| Laid-up | adj | Unable to move normally due to illness or injury, especially when confined to bed. 2. stored at a dock or other place of safety and security. |
| Lain | n | Concealment, silence about, disguise. |
| Lain | vb | To conceal, hide, be silent about, disguise a fact. |
| Lain | phr | "Not a Lain" - not concealed. |
| Laining | n | The action of concealing, being silent about, disguising. |
| Lair | n | The action or fact of lying down. 2. the resting place of a corpse: a tomb, a grave, plot in a graveyard. 3. that place whereon one lies down to sleep, a bed, couch etc. 4. place for animals to lie down, esp. for beasts of prey. 5. native soil. 5. a lying with a person; incest, (siblair). |
| Lair | phr | "At Lair" - in or on a bed. 2. an animal in his lair. |
| Laird | n | A form of lord. a landed proprietor, originally one who held land immediately from the King. |
| Lairdship | n | The condition of estate of a laird |
| Lair-holder | n | A holder of a grave. |
| Lairless | adj | Without a lair. |
| Lair-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a lair. |
| Lair-stall | n | An enclosure for farm animals to sleep in. |
| Lair-stead | n | A grave within a church. 2. a graveyard, cemetery. |
| Lairstone | n | A gravestone. |
| Lair-stow | n | An enclosure for farm animals to sleep in. |
| Lairwite | n | A fine for fornication or adultery; esp. with the Lord's bondswoman. |
| Lairy | adj | Earthly, filthy. |
| Lait | n | Lightning, flash of fire. |
| Lait | vb | To flash, light, glean. |
| Laiting | n | Lightning. |
| Lake | n | Play, sport, fun. 2. pl: tricks, games. 3. a fight, contest. |
| Lake | n | "A body of water," early 12c., fromOld Frenchh lack and directly from Latin lacus "pond, lake," also "basin, tank," There was a Germanic form of the word, which yielded cognate Old Norse lögr "sea flood, water," Old English lacu "stream," lagu "sea flood, water," leccan ". In Middle English, lake, as a descendant of the Old English word, also could mean "stream; river gully; ditch; marsh; grave; pit of hell," and this might have influenced the form of the borrowed word. |
| Lake | vb | OE. "lacan' -to exert oneself, move quickly, leap, spring; hence, to fight. 2. to play sport; to play (sometimes) in an amorous or obscene sense. 3. take a holiday from work; to be out of work. |
| Lake-bed | n | The bottom of a lake, esp. after the lake has dried up. |
| Lake-dwelling | adj | A prehistoric structure, built over shallow water, such as a lake or a marsh, supported on piles or artificial mounds of earth or wood. 2. a dwelling near the shore of a lake. |
| Lake-dweller | n | An inhabitant of a lake dwelling; lacustrian. |
| Lake-frith | n | The close-time for fishing in a stream. |
| Lakehouse | n | A house whose grounds border a lake. |
| Lakeland | n | A terrain with many lakes. |
| Lakeless | adj | Without a lake or lakes. |
| Lakelike | adj | Resembling a lake or some aspect of. |
| Lakeside | n | The grounds near the edge of a lake. |
| Lakeside | adj | On the side of or beside a lake. |
| Lakewards | adj | Towards the direction of a lake. |
| Lakewide | adj | Throughout a lake. |
| Laky | adj | Pertaining to a lake. |
| Lamb | n | The young of a sheep. 2. a young member of a flock, esp of the church (OE). 3. simpleton. 4. flesh of a lamb for food |
| Lamb | vb | To bring forth or to give birth to a lamb. 2. of a shepherd to attend ewes at lambing lambs time. |
| Lamb | phr | "In Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail" - in a moment. |
| Lamb | phr | "Lamb of God" - a title of Christ. |
| Lamb | phr | "One Might as Well Be Hung for Sheep, as a Lamb" - if punishment is due, one might as well do something really bad and enjoy it while one can. |
| Lambcote | n | An enclosure for lambs. |
| Lamb's ears | n | A garden plant, Stachys byzanthia, with whitish woolly leaves. |
| Lambeth | n | Old English 'lamb' and 'hythe: landing place, wharf for (un)loading sheep. |
| Lambfold | n | An enclosure for keeping lambs; a sheepfold. |
| Lambhood | n | The state of being a lamb. 2. the youth of a sheep. |
| Lambing | n | The parturition of yeaning of lambs. 2. of a lamb: birth, time of birth. 3. of a ewe: breeding, with young. |
| Lambish | adj | Lamb-like, meek, gentle as a lamb. |
| Lambless | adj | Without a lamb or lambs. |
| Lamb-like | adj | Having lamb-like qualities. 2. meek, gentle, submissive. |
| Lambling | n | A little lamb. |
| Lambly | adj | Resembling that of a lamb; lamb-like. 2. In a gentle, docile manne |
| Lamb-skin | n | A lamb's skin, especially when dressed as for glove-making. |
| Lamb's tongue | n | A name for a species of plantain, (arnoglossa). |
| Lamb's-wool | n | The wool of lambs, used for hosiery, etc., clothing material made of this. |
| Lamby | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a lamb or the meat of a lamb. |
| Lame | adj | Crippled through injury, weak, infirmed, paralysed. 2. a defect in a limb, esp. in the foot or leg. 3. unable to walk, maimed, halting, imperfect or defective (also fig.) 3.of verse, argument, excuse, account: halting, metrically deficient. |
| Lame | n | Infirmity, paralysis. 2. (sl) a socially unskilled person; one not skilled in the behavior patterns of a particular group. |
| Lame | vb | To make lame, cripple, maim, disable. |
| Lame | phr | "Be Lame Dog" - a person under some disadvantage needing attention and assistance. |
| Lame | phr | "Be Lame Duck" - be disabled or ineffectual person, weak, vulnerable. 2. a person unable to fend for himself. 2. a defaulter. bankrupt, a disabled ship. |
| Lame-born | adj | Crippled, infirmed, disabled from birth. |
| Lame-brain | n | Fool, simpleton, idiot, stupid person. |
| Lame-duck | n | A disabled or weak person. 2. a defaulter on the stock exchange. 3. a firm or business in financial difficulty. 4. a disabled ship. 5. an official especially a President in the final period of office, after the election of a successor. |
| Lameish | adj | Lamish; somewhat or rather lame or crippled. |
| Lameling | n | One who is lame. |
| Lamely | adv | In a lame manner or way. |
| Lameness | n | State or condition of being lame. |
| Lamer | n | One who is lame. |
| Lammas | n | Lamb's mass, held on the first of august in the early English church; a harvest festival at which loaves of bread made from the first ripe corn were consecrated. |
| Lammas | n | Latter Lammas: a day that will never come (jocular). |
| Land | n | The solid portion of the earth surface, as opposed to the sea or water. 2. ground or soil. 3. country or territory. 4. realm, domain; country as opposed to town. 5. expanse of country of undefined extent. 6. a building divided into flats or tenements for different households. 7.the space between the grooves of a rifle bore. 8.the space between the furrows of a millstone. |
| Land | vb | To bring to land; set ashore, come ashore, disembark or arrive at a place from a journey. 2. to set down from a vehicle; land an aircraft or come to ground; to alight upon the ground, e.g. from a vehicle, after a jump. 3. to lower onto a deck. 4. to bring a horse "home" to the winning-post; to land a winner. 5. to catch on rod or net a fish. 6. to get a blow "home" or succeed in punching or landing a blow on another. 7. to win a bet and with it a large sum of money. 8. to fill or block up with earth. 9. lit & fig. - to arrive at a place; a stage in a journey, etc. to end in something. |
| Land | sfx | Used to form a name of a territory, country, or region; Greenland, Iceland. |
| Land | phr | "Be landed With" - end or finish up with. |
| Land | phr | How the Land Lies - the state of affairs. |
| Land | phr | "In the Land of the Living" - still alive, active, in vigor, alert |
| Land | phr | "Know How The Land Lies" - to establish the pertinent facts and opinions. |
| Land | phr | "Land Down Under" - nickname for Australia; The Great Southland; Great Southern Land; Upside-down-land, New Holland. |
| Land | phr | "Land in" - make things end unhappily, badly, for somebody. |
| Land | phr | "Land of Milk and Honey" - fertile, prosperous region or area. 2. a place of abundant resources , easy living; a promised land. |
| Land | phr | "Land of My Fathers" - in particular Wales, from their national anthem in Welsh 'Hen Wlad fy Nhadau' (Land of My Fathers) |
| Land | phr | "Land of the Free" - The USA. |
| Land | phr | "Land of the Living" - the present life. |
| Land | phr | "Land of the Long White Cloud" - the country of New Zealand, probably in reference to the appearance of mountainous land when seen on the horizon from a canoe after a sea voyage. |
| Land | phr | "Land of the Midnight Sun" - northern Norway and other places north of the Arctic Circle where the sun never sets (even at night) during summer months. |
| Land | phr | "Land of the Rising Sun" - Japan. |
| Land | phr | "Land On One's Feet" - to be lucky, or successful, often in difficult situations. 2. attain a good position, job. |
| Land | phr | "Land Somebody with Something" - pass a difficult , unpleasant task to somebody else. |
| Land | phr | "Land Something" - to achieve something. |
| Land | phr | "Land Up (with Something)" - finish up or at with; reach a final point. 2. to achieve something. |
| Land | phr | "Land With" - oblige someone to accept a burden of difficult task. |
| Law | phr | "Law of the Land" - the laws as enforced by a particular country at a particular period; landlaw. |
| land | phr | "Live off Fat the of the Land" - live in luxury. |
| Land | phr | "No Man's Land" - neutral ground between opposing forces. |
| Land | phr | "See How the Land Lies" - to survey the situation before embarking on a scheme. |
| Land-bird | n | Cormorant |
| Landbound | adj | Restricted to the land, unable to enter the sea or sky. |
| Landbridge | n | An isthmus, neck of land or other land connection between what at other times are separate land masses. 2. a ferry, hovercrafrt etc. that connects cities or ports, such as the ones that operate between Ireland, England and France. |
| Land-buyer | n | One who buys land for purpose use or as an occupation. |
| Landcrab | n | A land-based crab. |
| Land-Down-Under | n | Nickname for Australia. |
| Land drain | n | A drain constructed and are important for carrying excess water off agricultural land. Without drains to remove water, the soil becomes waterlogged hampering the growth of crops and pasture. Drainage is essential in establishing good productive land. |
| Landed | adj | Consisting of land; consisting of or in the possession of a land; derived from the ownership of land.
2. possessed of land, consisting of land, having estate in land. |
| Lander | n | A spacecraft, especially a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another planet. 2. an illegal immigrant. |
| Landfall | n | An approach to or sighting of land; esp. for the first time in a sea voyage. 2. a sighting of or coming to land. 3. a sudden transference or conveyance of land by the death of a wealthy or rich person. |
| Landfall | n | "A Good Landfall" - to land in accordance with one's reckoning. |
| Landfall | phr | "To Make Landfall" - to reach land or the shore; to be on tera firma. |
| Lake-fill | n | The disposal of garbage or trash, excavated earth etc, by depositing in a site, often used to build up swampy or shoreline areas. 2. a site used as landfill. |
| Land-flood | n | Overflowing of land by water from inland sources, such as a swollen river. |
| Land-fyrd | n | Army, military force. |
| Land-gate | n | A way or passage through, over or across land. |
| Land-gavel | n | Land tribute, land tax, rent for land, ground-rent |
| Land-holder | n | Proprietor or occupier of land, (as opposed to landowner). 2. a tenant holding land of a proprietor. |
| Land-holding | n | Land held by a land holder. |
| Land-hunger | n | Keenness to acquire land, land hungry, colonialism |
| Land-ice | n | Ice attached to the shore, as opposed to floe. |
| Landimere | n | Boundary of land or region; landmere. |
| Landing | n | Disembarkation, arrival, coming to ground at the end of a voyage. 2 a landing place or spot. 3. platform at the top of the stairs; a landing. 4. a place or spot where fisherman reels in or lands his catch. 5. a stopping place or landing for a cage in a mining shaft; or for a train. |
| Landing | phr | "Landing Up" - blocking of a waterway by mud or earth. 2. the earthing-up of plants. |
| Landing-beam | n | A shortwave radio beam transmitted from a landing field to an aircraft pilot in order to facilitate safe landing. |
| Landing-craft | n | Landing craft, a type of flat-bottomed military boat used to transport infantry and vehicles onto a shore during an attack or assault from the sea. 2. a landing-ship. |
| Landing-field | n | A runway or area for planes to land. |
| Landing-net | n | A net for landing a large fish which has been hooked. |
| Landing run | n | The distance traveled by a plane between the first contact with the ground and the point at the which it finally comes to stop, |
| Landing-ship | n | Landing ship, a sea-going, military, light ferry designed to asault shores taht held against them, and disembark forces directly onto the shore. |
| Landing-speed | n | The speed that a plane can safely land. |
| Landish | adj | Belonging to a land or country; native. 2. of a commons or common people. |
| Landlady | n | A woman who manages a boarding-house, inn or lodging-rooms. 2. a gentleman housekeeper; a cuckold. 3. a mistress, (fig).; a paramour |
| Landladydom | n | The realm or domain of a lady. |
| Landladyhood | n | the position or dignity of a landlady; landladyship. |
| Landladyish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a landlady. |
| Landladyship | n | Position or characteristic of a landlady; the tenure of such a position. |
| Landlaw | n | The law of a land or country. 2. a law, or law, relating to land. |
| Land-lead | n | A navigable opening in the ice along the shore. |
| Landless | adj | Having no land; without land. 2. destitute of property in lands. |
| Landlessness | n | State or condition of being landless. |
| Land-line | n | The outline of the land against the sky and the sea; the horizon. 2. national boundaries; a country border |
| Landlocked | adj | Shut in or enclosed by land, (or borders). 2. transfig, of fish living in lakes and inland seas, so as to be shut off from the sea. Also pp. to be landlocked. |
| Land-lockedness | adj | Condition or state of being landloccked. |
| Landlord | n. | Lord or owner of land; in recorded use only spec. the person who lets land to the tenant. 2. a person of whom another person holds any tenement, whether a piece of land or building. 3. innkeeper, the keeper of a lodging house. 4. a host (in private). |
| Landman | n | A peasant, rustic, up-country-man. 2. a man having land and property. 3. a man who serves on the land. |
| Land mark | n | The boundary of a country, estate, etc. 2. an object set up to mark the boundary line; a land mark. 3. an object or land mark set up to mark a boundary line. 4. a conspicuous object in the landscape, which serves as a guide; any prominent object in a district. 5. a object associated with some event or stage in a process, esp. an event which marks the period or turning point in history. |
| Landmark-beacon | n | A beacon light, other than an airport or airway beacon, that serves to indicate a definite geographical location. |
| Landmere | n | Boundary of land, country, region, landmere. |
| Landmonger | n | Real-estate agent; realtor |
| Land-owner | n | An owner or proprietor of land. |
| Land-owning | n | The state of owning land. |
| Land-ownership | n | The state or position of a landowner. 2. the land belonging to an owner; a small holding. |
| Land-rat | n | A rat that lives on the land. 2. A realtor or real estate agent; landsharp. |
| Land-reeve | n | Subordinate officer on an estate who acts as an assistant to a land-steward. |
| Landright | n | Laws of the land; legal rights of the natives of a land or country. 2. legal obligation connected with land or estate. |
| Land-score | n | Division of land. |
| Land scot | n | A tax on land. |
| Land's end | n | Extremities of a land or country. |
| Land sharp | n | One who preys on the gullible and inexperienced in the buying and selling of land; a land-rat; a land-shark. 2. A realtor or real estate agent. |
| Landship | n | An amphibious tank. 2. the landscape (rare or regional); landskip. |
| Land-side | n | The side towards the land, the landward. 2. the flat of a plough, which is turned towards the unploughed land. 3. the side of an airport terminal to which the public has unrestricted access. |
| Landslide | n | Landslip; the moving of land on a cliff side or mountain; land which has so fallen. 2. a great majority of votes, overwhelming esp. in an election victory. |
| Landslip | n | A landslide. |
| Landsman | n | A native of a particular country. 2. one's fellow countryman. 3. one who lives and has business on land, as opposed to seaman. |
| Landsnail | n | A species of snail that lives on the land. |
| Land-speech | n | A language, speech, tongue of a land or country. |
| Land-speed | n | The speed of a craft relative to the ground. 2. the speed on the ground of a motor vehicle. |
| Land-spring | n | A spring of water easily tapped from the surface. |
| Land-stall | n | A staith, wharf or a landing place. |
| Land-steward | n | One who mnages an estate for a landowner |
| Landstream | n | A current in the sea due to river waters |
| Landswell | n | Roll of the water near the shore. |
| Land-tie | n | A rod, beam, or piece of masonry securing or supporting a wall etc. bby connecting it with the ground. |
| Landward | adj | Pertaining to the land, as opposed to the country. 2. situated towards the land (as opposed to the sea. 3. belonging to the land. |
| Landward | adv | Towards or facing the land; landwards. |
| Landwardness | n | State or quality of rusticity. |
| Land wash | n | The wash of the tide near the shore |
| Land-water | n | Water that flows through or over a land as opposed to the sea water. 2. a land flood. 3. a land flood. 4. water free from ice or a frozen shore. |
| Landway | n | A way or path over land. 2. a road giving access to land. |
| Landways | adv | By land; over land. |
| Land wind | n | A wind blow seaward from the land. |
| Landwinkle | n | A snail |
| Land-worthiness | n | Fitness of land to be traveled over. |
| Lane | n | A narrow way between two hedges or banks. 2. a narrow road or street between houses or walls. 3. a bye-way. 4 course prescribed for ocean-going vessels. 4. a channel of water in an ice-field. 5. (slang): the throat. |
| Lane | vb | To mark the course of intended roads. 2. to mark the roads on land. |
| Lane | phr | "His Lane, My Lane, Their Lane" - himself alone, myself alone, themselves alone, etc. |
| Lane | phr | "Life In the Fast Lane" - existence full of exciting but worthless activity. |
| Lane | phr | "The Narrow Red Lane" - the throat. |
| Lane | phr | "Tis a Long Lane that Has No Turning" - every calamity has ana ending, things will eventually improve. |
| Lane-born | adj | Rustic. |
| Laneway | n | A narrow road, a laneway. |
| Laney | adj | Of or pertaining to a land. |
| Lang syne | adv | Of long ago, auld lang syne; of long since |
| Lank | n | OE: hlanc; loose from emptiness; not plump; shrunken, spare, flabby, hollow. 2. of grass: long and flaccid. 3. of hair; not wavy, straight and flat. 4. leanness, scarcity, thinness. |
| Lank | vb | To make or become lank; lanken. |
| Lankish | adj | Somewhat lank. |
| Lankly | adv | In a lankly manner. |
| Lankness | n | The state or quality of being lank. |
| Lanky | adj | Tall, thin, shrunken. |
| Lant | n | OE. hland; urine, chamber-lye. 2. stale urine used in wolscouring. |
| Lant | vb | To mingle with lant. |
| Lap | n | The part of the body from the knees to the waist. 2. a fold of skin or flesh. 3. fold of the robe over the breast, hence the bosom. 4. hollow among the hills. |
| Lap | vb | To take up liquid with the tongue, usu. of animals. 2. to drink greedily. 3. of liquids, water: to move with a sound like that made in lapping. 4. to beat upon the shore with a lapping sound: the sound of wavelets on the beach. |
| Lap | vb | To foil, coil, wrap a garment. 2. fold up, roll up, wrap in, swathe, clothe, bind up, tie around. 3. to involve, to imply, implicate, include. 4. to wrap up in a disguise. 5. to fold caressingly, to nurse, fondle, to surround with care. 6. to enfold, surround, esp. in a soothing, stupefying or seductive effect. 7. to lay something over another. 8. to come partly alongside. 9. to get one or more laps ahead of another. |
| Lap | phr | "Drop Into the Lap Of" - to turn up fortuitously. |
| Lap | phr | "Drop (Something) Into the Lap Of" - to shift the burden or difficulty to someone else. 2. left in the lap of; left in the lurch. |
| Lap | phr | "Fall Into the Lap Of" - to come within the reach or into the power of. |
| Lap | phr | "In the Lap Of the God" - a situation one cannot control what will happen and depend on only on good luck. |
| Lap | phr | "Lap Into Something" - to project into (something). |
| Lap | phr | "Lap It Up" - to enjoy the attention. |
| Lap | phr | "Lap Over" - to project beyond something else, forming a lap or flap; fig. to extend beyond some limit. |
| Lap | phr | "Lap Up" - to take up liquid with the tongue, usu. of animals. 2. learn, absorb, greedily or eagerly |
| Lap | phr | "The Last Lap" - the final circuit in a race. 2. the final stage in a journey, contest, course of study, a long-term undertaking. |
| Lap-belt | n | A seat belt in vehicles that holds only near the lap, not like the sash belt which holds fromn waist across the body above the shoulders. |
| Lap-board | n | A board which to lay on the lap, as a substitute for a table. |
| Lap-dog | n | A small dog, kept as a household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament made it both suited and deposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner. 2. (idiom) a person who behaves in a servile manner, such as a sycophantic employee or a fawning lover. 3. a sycophant, a toady. |
| Lapful | n | As much as one's lap can hold. |
| Laplike | adj | Resembling a lap or some aspect of it. |
| Lapling | n | One who has been fondled to excess. 2. one fond of ease and sensual delights (derogatory). |
| Lapstone | n | A stone that shoemakers lay in their laps to beat leather upon. |
| Laptop | n | Of a computer: small and light enough to be used on one's lap. |
| Lapwing | n | Bird of the plover family, Vannelus vulgaris, also called the peewit. |
| Lapwork | n | Work which one part overlaps another 2. in sport, training for sport which involves doing lapwork (running laps)to build up physical strength and endurance. |
| Lar-board | n | The left side of a ship; now replaced by port. |
| Lar-board | adj | OE: 'lade' lade & 'bord' side. - being or going on or towards the left side of the ship as one faces the bow. |
| Lark | n | Generic name for any bird of the family Alaudine. 2. a person who frolics and plays. 3. a frolic, a spree, a tease, a playing around, jocosity. 2. a business, matter, affair. |
| Lark | vb | To frolic, play tricks, tease sportively. 2. to ride across the country. |
| Lark | phr | "Get Up with the Lark" - rise very early in the morning. |
| Lark | phr | "Have a Lark" - play or fool around. |
| Lark | phr | "Make a Lark Of" - be frolicsome. 2. skylark |
| Larker | n | A catcher of larks. |
| Larkiness | n | The quality of being larky, sportiveness. |
| Larking | n | The process of catching larks. 2. frolicsome, sportive. |
| Larkish | adj | Somewhat frolicsome, sportive. |
| Larkishness | n | The state or quality of being larkish. |
| Larklike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of the lark, in some aspect or other. |
| Larksome | adj | Giving to larking, sportive. |
| Larkspur | n | Any of the several showy herbs of the crowfoot family genus, (Delphinium). |
| Larky | adj | Inclined or ready for a lark. 2. inclined or ready for a lark, frolicsome, sportive. |
| Last | n | Shoemaker's or Laster's last: a wooden model of the foot, on which shoemakers shape boots and shoes. 2. a load, burden, weight carried. 3. a commercial denomination of weight, capacity or quality varying for different goods and localities, as in a last of cod herrings which is twelve barrels. 4. (obsolete) an old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons. 5. a load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value a huge indefinite number of something. |
| Last | n | The name of an administrative assembly. |
| Last | adj | Following all others in a series, order etc. 2. subsequent to all others in occurrence, existence, endurance. 3. supreme; highest in degree; utmost. 4. the lowest, reaching an ultimate limit; lowest in rank or degree.. 5. final, conclusive. 6. in combinations, last-brood; denoting young salmon at a certain stage stage of growth. 7. final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind. 8. most recent, latest, last so far. 9. farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable. 10. being the only one remaining of its class. |
| Last | vb | (Obs): to perform, carry out. 2. to endure, continue over time. 3. to hold out, continue undefeated or entire. 4. continue; endure; survive, finish, stay, press on, power on. |
| Last | vb | To shape on a last. 2. to fasten or fit on a last. 3. to place something on a last. |
| Last | adv | Most recently. 2. (sequence) after everything else; finally; lastly. |
| Last | phr | "At(long) Last" : finally, at the end. |
| Last | phr | "Breathe One's Last" - to die, pass away, expire. |
| Last | phr | "Come Down in the Last Shower" - to be naive. |
| Last | phr | "First and Last" - wholly, altogether. |
| Last | phr | "Have the Last Word" - that which is conclusive or definite; also like the french 'le dernier cri it has the meaning of the latest, most fashionable, and up-to-date style in anything. |
| Last | phr | "Last Burst of Fire" - a final effort, a final attempt before ceasing. |
| Last | phr | "Last But Not Least" - an expression emphasizing that something or someone may be last, it or he/she is as important as the rest of things. |
| Last | phr | "Last Ditch Stand" - a final, desperate attempt or effort before quitting. 2. an effort or striving that is made at the end of a series of failures to solve a problem, and is not expected to end successfully. In the sixteenth century, when an army attacked a walled city or fortress, they would advance by digging a series of trenches for protection until they were close enough to storm the walls. If there was a successful counter-attack, the invaders would retreat by attempting to hold each trench in the reverse order from which they had gone forward until they might find themselves fighting from the 'last ditch.' If they failed to hold that one, the battle was lost. |
| Last | phr | "Last In, First Out" - of or pertaining to any situation where the last to arrive or join is the first to go. 2. in data structure where the most recently added item is the first to be retrieved. |
| Last | phr | "Last One's Time" - continue to exist, or be sufficient, during one's own life time, although perhaps not much longer. |
| Last | phr | "Last Out" - complete some difficult task without collapsing. 2. endure, survive; not be consumed, expended, or exhausted. |
| Last | phr | "Last Thing (at Night) - immediately before retiring to bed or falling asleep; or at reasonable time (the implication being that other matters have been attended to). |
| Last | phr | "Last Thing One Needs" - something not wanted by someone, who is already heavily burdened down. |
| Last | phr | "Last Thing One Wants to Do" - a most unlikely, unsuitable or personally disagreeable object, person state of affairs, action to take, etc. |
| Last | phr | "Last Through" - defy, endure, outlast, resist, stand, suffer, withstand, brave, cope with |
| Last | phr | "Look One's Last On" - to have one's last look at something or someone. |
| Last | phr | "One's Last Penny" - each detail of one's income or expenditure , especially (down) to the last (remaining) unit of currency ; all, or all that remains of one's money. Also "One's Last Halfpenny" |
| Last | phr | "Stick to One's Last" - not depart from what one is best at. |
| Last | phr | "The Four Last Things" - death, judgement , heaven and hell. |
| Last | phr | "The Last" - the least likely, wanted. |
| Last | phr | "The Last Day" - yesterday. |
| Last | phr | "The Last Days" - the closing period of life or history of a person, etc.; also the days including and immediately preceding the day of judgement. |
| Last | phr | "The Last of the English" - Hereward the Wake who in 1070-1071AD who led the last uprising at Ely against William the Conqueror. |
| Last | phr | "The Last of the Saxons" - King Harold (1022- 1066), who was defeated at the battle of Hastings. |
| Last | phr | "The Last Shall Be First (and the First Shall be First)" - those that are despised, or underestimated, may prove superior to their betters. |
| Last | phr | "The Last Straw" - final factor that, in addition to others, makes a situation impossible. 2. a small addition or change to a burden which causes it to make it beyond the capacity (of a doer.) 3. the straw that broke the camel's back. |
| Last | phr | "The Last Word" - very up-to-date. 2. something of its kind that cannot be surpassed, that is good, or as bad , as it is possible to find; or thzt sets a new standard as yet reached. |
| Last | phr | "Till the Last" - up to or until the end; esp. of life, to the point of death. |
| Last | phr | "To The Last" - up to the end, of life, death; till the last. |
| Last-born | adj | Born last in the family. 2. youngest in the family. 3. fig. younger than anyone else in the group. |
| Last day | n | The final day of the present dispensation when Christ is to return to earth for the last judgement; the day of judgement. |
| Last eight | n | In sport, a quarter-final match. |
| Laster | n | One who models shoes on a last. |
| Last four | n | In sport, a semi-final match or contest. |
| Lastful | adj | Helpful, serviceable. |
| Lasting | n | The action of continuance, duration, permanence. 2. staying power. |
| Lasting | n | The action of shaping a boot or shoe on a last. |
| Lasting | adj | Continuing, enduring, permanent. 2. durable; (sl): having staying power. |
| Lastingly | adv | In a lasting manner; in a way that persists. |
| Lastingness | n | The property of lasting; duration, permanence. |
| Lastly | adv | At the end, in the last instance; ultimately. 2. conclusively, finaly. 3. very lately, latterly, recently. |
| Last meal | n | A final meal that a prisoner has before execution. |
| Last name | n | A afamily or surname. |
| Lastness | n | The position of being or coming last, finally. |
| Lastness | adv | After the deadline has passed. 2. past a designated time. 3. formerly, esp. in the context of service in a military unit. |
| Last night | n | The evening or night immediately before the present. |
| Last thing | adv | Very late, as a final act before going to bed. |
| Last time | n | The ultimate, final or previous occurrence. |
| Last word | n | Concluding remark; final observation, advice, or instructions (idiom.) 2. (in plural): the final statement uttered by a person before death. 3. (idiomatic) a final decision, or the right to make such a decision. |
| Last words | n | The final statement or dying sayings uttered by a person before death.(often in plural.) |
| Last-worker | n | A shoemaker, cobbler, suter. |
| Latch | n | A fastener for a door or gate. |
| Latch | vb | To take hold of, grasp, seize (in the hand or claw). 2. to take with force, capture, sieze upon, catch. |
| Latch | phr | "Latch On (to)" - to grasp firmly. 2. to become attached to; get into somebody's company, become a member of. 3. listen carefully (to). |
| Latch | phr | "Latch Onto" - to obtain, acquire or get and keep a hold of something. 2. catch on, seize on, fasten on, take up. |
| Latch | phr | "On the Latch" - fastened by the latch only, not locked. |
| Latching | n | A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail. 2. the situation where one speaker's utterance immediately follows another speaker's utterance, without pause or overlap. |
| Latching | adj | Of something that latches. |
| Latchkey | n | Latch-key, a key especially to an outside door. 2. a latchkey kid. |
| Latchkey-child | n | A school child who carries keys to his or her house, because there is usually no parent home after school finishes. |
| Latch-strings | n | A string passed through a hole in a door so that the latch may be raised from the outside. |
| Late | adj | Coming after or beyond the appointed or proper time. 2. well advanced towards the end of close. 3. at or continuing to a late hour. 4. recent or comparatively recent; a short time back; lately, latterly. 5. passed away or died not long ago. 6. after delay, or at a late hour. |
| Late | adv | After a deadline has passed, past a designated. 2. formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit. |
| Late | phr | "A Bit Late in the Day" - too late. |
| Late | phr | "At the Latest" - at the most advanced hour or date. |
| Late | phr | "Better Late Than Never" - a late occurrence is preferable to one to one that doesn't happen at all. |
| Late | phr | "It's Late in the Day' - later in time, after more delay, than is appropriate desirable or likely to produce good results. |
| Late | phr | "Late On" - at a late stage of something. |
| Later | phr | "Later On' - at a later time, subsequently, hereafter; (implication being later within an understood period or process. |
| Late | phr | "Of Late" - during a comparatively short time extending into the present; recently, lately. |
| Late | phr | "Sooner or Later" - eventually. |
| Late-begun | adj | Very late in a matter; at the last mooment. |
| Late-born | adj | One born to parents later in life than the norm; as 'late-born and long-desired.' |
| Late-come | adj | Late arriving or at the last moment |
| Latecomer | n | Late-comer, one who arrives comparatively recently. 2. one who arrived late. |
| Lated | adj | Belated, too late. |
| Lateish | adj | Quite or rather late. |
| Lateish | adv | Quite or rather late. |
| Late-learned | adj | Learned late in life or at the last momentp; as ' a late-learned skill'. |
| Lately | adv | Recently, in recent time, not long ago. |
| Latemost | adv | Last. |
| Lateness | n | The quality or condition of being late. 2. slowness, tardiness, recency. |
| Late-night | adj | Late in the evening. |
| Later | adj | More late. |
| Later | adv | At a later time or period; subsequently. |
| Later | phr | "Later On' - at a later time, subsequently, hereafter; (implication being later within an understood period or process. |
| Latermore | adv | Later, last. |
| Lateship | n | Slowness, sluggishness. |
| Latesome | adj | Backward, slow, sluggish, late. |
| Latesomeness | n | Tardity, tardiness, belatedness. |
| Latest | adj | Most late, most recent. 2. most recent. |
| Latest | n | The most recent thing, the latest, the latest thing, part, information or news. |
| Latest | phr | "The Latest" - the most recent news, information, piece of news, fashion, fad. |
| Latest | phr | "At the Latest" - at the most advanced hour or date. |
| Lateward | adj | Late, slow, backward(said of fruit or crops, and the seasons of the year). 2. pertaining to a late period. |
| Lateward | adv | Of late, lately, recently. 2. late, after the due time or season. 3. towards the last. |
| Latewardly | adv | Of late, lately. 2. at a late date. |
| Late-while | adv | Of late,recently. |
| Lath | n | A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of s supporting a covering of tiles, plaster, etc. |
| Lathe | n | One of the administrative districts (five in number) into which Kent is divided, each containing several hundred. 2. in a loom, the swinging beam which beats up the weft. |
| Lathe | vb | To invite, bid, ask. |
| Lathe-like | adj | Lathe-like, resembling a lathe or some aspect of one. |
| Lathe-reeve | n | The official charged with the administration of a lathe. |
| Lathe-silver | n | The chief rent payable to the crown. |
| Lather | n | Washing soda, OE. only. 2. froth or foam from soap and water. 3. profuse perspiration, esp. frothy sweat of a horse. |
| Lather | vb | To cover with a lather; to wash in or with a lather. 2. to be covered with foam, sweat, now chiefly of a horse. 3. to produce or form a lather or foam. 4. to beat or thrash. |
| Lather | phr | "In a lather" - agitated, upset; be unduly excited. |
| Latherwort | n | The soapwort. |
| Lathery | adj | Frothy; fig., unsubstantial. |
| Lathwork | n | A covering of laths. |
| Lathy | adj | Like a lath; thin or long, esp. said esp of a very thin person. 2. made of lath and (plaster) |
| Latter | adj | Pertaining to the end of life, or a period, or the world. 2. slower, later, second. 3. second of two, as opposed to form. 4. lattermost; latterday |
| Latter | adv | Most slowly. 2. latter. |
| Latter-day | adj | Belonging to the latter-days, modern. |
| Latter-days | n | Pertaining to the end of life; a temporal sequence or the world. |
| Latter-end | n | The concluding part (of a period). 2. the end of life ; one's death. |
| Latterly | adv | Recently, to have occurred a short time before. |
| Lattermath | n | Aftermath, or secondary result; sequel. 2 the latter or after mowing or harvest; the crop then reaped |
| Lattermost | adv | Last |
| Latterness | n | The condition of being latter or subsequent. |
| Lattew | n | A leader (lode & thew). |
| Laugh | n | Make sounds normally caused by amusement |
| Laugh | vb | Make sounds normally caused by amusement. 2. to express amusement, hilarity, derision etc., by expressions of the face and by a series of sounds, made in the chest and throat. 3. to appear happy and animated |
| Laughing | phr | "Burst Out Laughing" - to sudden start laughing intensely. |
| Laugh | phr | "Don't Make Me Laugh" -used to express that one cannot take a suggestion seriously. |
| Laugh | phr | "Get a Laugh On" - have a laugh at someone's expense. |
| Laugh | phr | "Have the Last Laugh" - to be finally successful, despite earlier setbacks. |
| Laugh | phr | "Have the Last Laugh (on Somebody)" - be able to make the fun of somebody. |
| Laugh | phr | "He who Laughs Last" - don't crow to soon, a game's not over till it is won; to have the last laugh. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh and Grow Fat" - an old saw, expressive of the wisdom of keeping a cheerful mind. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh and the World Laughs With You, Weep and You Weep Alone" - cheerfulness is preferred in others. A person who is cheerful will have friends and company, but someone who is gloomy will often be alone |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh At" - show amusement at somebody or something, as a joke, story. 2. to deride, mock, make fun of, ridicule; to make an object of laughter or ridicule. 3, disregard, scorn. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh Away" - to let go with a laugh; to get rid of with a laugh. 2. to while away (time) with laughter. 3. drive away, by laughing, some unpleasant feeling or sensation in oneself or others. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh Down" - to subdue or silence with laughter. |
| Laught | phr | "Laughter and Tears" - sorrow and happiness contrasted. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh In One's Sleeve" - to laugh to oneself. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh Like a Drain" - to laugh with a loud, coarse sound or gurgle. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh Off" - laugh away. 2. to treat lightly, dismiss lightly. 2. try, by laughing, to pretend that something for which one is responsible has not happened or does not exist, as a serious mistake or blunder. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh On the Wrong Side Of One's Mouth" - to feel sudden annoyance and disappointment after mirth or triumph. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh One's Head Off" - to laugh noisily, uproariously, cheerfully (often at somebody else's expense. 2. greatly enjoy something. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh Out" - to laugh in spite of some restraining influence; to laugh aloud. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh Out of" - to make somebody his unhappiness, depression by laughing. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh Over" - to recall or repeat with laughter or mirth. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh Someone (Away/Off)" - regard difficulties as unimportant. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh Someone (Something) Down/off" - to cause someone to quit or something to end by laughing in ridicule. 2. regard difficulties as unimportant. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh Upon" - have a quiet chuckle to oneself over something you consider funny or stupid. |
| Laugh | phr | "Laugh Up One's Sleeve" - to laugh secretly, or so as not to be observed, especially while apparently preserving a grave or serious demeanor toward the person or persons laughed at. |
| Laugh | phr | "Make (Someone) the Laughing Stock" - a thing or person make sport by all; a butt of ridicule. 2. an object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed. ???? Stock" |
| Laugh | phr | "Raise a Laugh" - create amusement. |
| Laugh | phr | "That's a Laugh" - that's ridiculous, not smart or plain stupid. |
| Laugh | phr | "You're Laughing" - you will nothing to worry about. |
| Laugher | n | Anyone or anything provoking laughter. |
| Laugh-in | n | A demonstration, event, or situation marked by laughter. |
| Laughing | n | The action of a laugh. |
| Laughing-death | n | Kuru or 'laughing-death' is an incurable degenerative neurological disorder endemic to tribal regions of Papua New Guinea. The term "kuru" derives from the Fore word "kuria/guria" ("to shake"); a reference to the body tremors that are a classic symptom of the disease; it is also known among the Fore as the "laughing sickness" due to the pathological bursts of laughter people display when afflicted with the disease. It is now widely accepted that kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via funerary cannibalism. |
| Laughing-eyed | adj | Having eyes that reflect happiness (i.e., having eyes that 'laugh'). |
| Laughingly | adv | In laughter of merriment. 2.laugh with derision. |
| Laughing stock | n | A thing or person make sport by all; a butt of ridicule. 2. an object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed. ???? Stock" |
| Laugh-maker | n | One who has the ability and skill to make others laugh. 2. comic, comedian. |
| Laughsome | adj | Addicted to laughter, laughy |
| Laughster | n | One who laughs or is laughing; a comedian. |
| Laughter | n | The action of laughing. |
| Laughter | phr | "Laughter and Tears" - sorrow and happiness contrasted. |
| Laughter-book | n | A joke book. |
| Laughter-burst | n | A burst of laughter. |
| Laughterless | adj | Without laughter; unfit for laughter, sad, disappointing. 2. devoid of laughter or merriment. |
| Laughter-lines | n | The lines, smiling wrinkling on a face. |
| Laughter-loving | adj | Loving and delighting in laughter and happy times. |
| Laughworthy | adj | Deserved to be laughed at; ridiculous. |
| Laughy | adj | Inclined to laugh. |
| Lave | n | What is left, the remainder, the leftover, the rest. |
| Lave | vb | OE: a fusion of lafian: to wash by affusion & Latin: lavare: to wash. 2. to wash, bathe. 3.of a body of water: to wash against, to flow along or past. 4. to pour out, with or as a ladle. 5. OE: to draw water up or with a bucket, ladle or scoop. 6. to bale |
| Laver | n | A water plant. 2. a name for various algae, especially, now, the edible kind. |
| Law | n | A binding custom or practice of a community : a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority 2. the whole body of such customs, practices, or rules 3. the control brought about by the existence or enforcement of such law 4. the action of laws considered as a means of redressing wrongs; also : litigation 5. the agency of or an agent of established law 6. rule or order that it is advisable or obligatory to observe 7. something compatible with or enforceable by established law 8. control, authority. 9. the revelation of the will of God set forth in the Old Testament 10. the first part of the Jewish scriptures. 11. a rule of construction or procedure (the laws of poetry.) 12. the whole body of laws relating to one subject 13. law as a department of knowledge : jurisprudence 14. legal knowledge. 15.statement of an order or relation of phenomena that so far as is known is invariable under the given conditions. 16. a general relation proved or assumed to hold between mathematical or logical expressions. |
| Law | n | A more or less conical hill, as the 'North Berwick' law. 2. a monumental tumulus of stone. |
| Law | vb | To ordain laws; to render lawful. 2. to go to law; litigate. 3. to mutilate an animal so to make it incapable of mischief; to expeditate (a dog). |
| Law | n | A more or less conical hill. 2. a monumental tumulus of stone. |
| Law | phr | "At Law": under or within the provisions of the law; enforceable at law |
| Law | phr | "Beyond the Law" - outside the jurisdiction of the court. |
| Law | phr | "By My Law" - by my faith. |
| Law | phr | "Call in the Law" - call the police, authorities. |
| Law | phr | "Give the Law to" - to exercise absolute or undisputed sway over. 2. to impose one's will on. |
| Law | phr | "Go to Law." - to seek a settlement on any matter by bringing before the courts of law; to sue, to prosecute. |
| Law | phr | "Have the Law in One's Own Hands" - to possess the means of redress. 2. to be master of the situation. |
| Law | phr | "Have the Law On" - to report somebody to the police. 2. ensure that the law / courts take legal action against somebody. 3. to bring a case against another. |
| Law | phr | "In the Eyes of the Law" - from a strictly legal point of view. |
| Law | phr | "Law of the Land" - customs of a country. |
| Law | phr | "Law of Kind" - law of nature. |
| Law | phr | "Law of the Land" - the laws as enforced by a particular country at a particular period; landlaw. |
| Law | phr | "Law of the Tongue" - appropriate control of one's words. |
| Law | phr | "Law of Wedlock" - lawfully married. |
| Law | phr | "Law Unto Oneself" - fig. one who ignores laws or rules. 2. one who has no standard of behavior. 3. describing somebody who rejects convention or the usual rules. |
| Law | phr | "Lay Down the Law" - to state one's opinions dogmatically; be officious. 2. state something forcefully and without heed of any objections. |
| Law | phr | "Sod's Law" - adage which states that if anything can go wrong it will. |
| Law | phr | "Take the Law Into One's Own Hands" - to redress one's own grievances. 2. obtain what one regards as justice without using the legal proceess. |
| Law | phr | "The Day of Law" - the day of trial. |
| Law | phr | "The Law is an Ass" - stupid, slow to keep up with change; must be dragged forward like an ass. |
| Law | phr | "The Law of God" - the ten commandments. |
| Law | phr | "The New Law" - the gospel dispensation. |
| Law | phr | "The Old Law" - the Mosiac dispensation, the law of Moses. |
| Law | phr | "The Unwritten Law" - accepted, but not formal, rule, code of behavior. |
| Law-abiding | adj | Abiding by, obedient to, maintaining or submitting to the law. |
| Law-bearer | n | One who makes and upholds the law of a nation, region or organization |
| Law-binding | n | Bound by the law. |
| Law-book | n | A book containing a code of laws. 2. a book treating the law. |
| Law-breach | n | A breach or breaking of law. |
| Law-breaker | n | One who breaks or disobeys the law. |
| Law-breaking | n | The act and action of breaking and violating of the law and laws. |
| Lawcraft | n | The knowledge, ability and skill required in the practice of law. |
| Law day | n | Formerly a day of holding court, esp. a court leet. 2. the day named in a mortgage for the payment of the money to secure which it was given. |
| Lawfare | n | The use of the judicial system against one's foes; often only to attack or condemn a rival. (Based on the words 'law' & 'warfare'.) |
| Lawful | adj | According or not contrary to the law; permitted by law. 2. permissible, justifiable. 3. appointed, sanctioned or recognized by the law; legally qualified or entitled. 4. of off spring: legitimate. 5. law-abiding, loyal. |
| Lawfully | adv | Conforming to the law, legally. |
| Lawfulness | n | The property of obeying the law. |
| Law-giver | n | One who gives, i.e. makes or promulgates a law, or code of laws. 2. a legislator, law-maker.. |
| Law-giving | n | That gives or makes laws. |
| Law-goodness | n | The justness and justice of the law. |
| Law-hand | n | The style of handwriting used for legal documents. |
| Law-house | n | Court of justice. |
| Lawing | n | Going or proceeding to litigation. |
| Lawing | adj | Giving to litigation. |
| Law-learned | adj | Educated and trained in matters relating to law. |
| Law-learnedness | n | The state of being learned in matters regarding to law. |
| Lawless | adj | Without law, ignorant of, or not regulated by law. 2. of a law: not based on right. 3. exempt from law; above or beyond the reach of law. 4. regardless of, or disobedient to law. 5. of passion: unbridled. |
| Lawlessly | adv | In a lawless manner, without constraint by law or moral code. |
| Lawlesness | n | A lack of law and order; anarchy. |
| Law-like | adj | Characteristic of the law. |
| Law lords | n | Peers in the British parliament who have hold high judicial office, or have been noted in the legal profession. |
| Lawlore | n | Jurisprudence. legal studies. |
| Law-loving | adj | Respectful of the law and it's offices. |
| Lawly | adj | Lawful. |
| Lawly | adv | In a lawful manner. |
| Law-maker | n | One who makes the law, a legislator |
| Law-making | n | Lawmaking, the act of passing or enacting of laws; legislating. |
| Lawman | n | An officer of the law, esp. a police chief, sheriff. |
| Law-monger | n | The trade in law, one who practices law as if it were a trade. |
| Law-work | n | Work involving the law; legal work. |
| Law-worker | n | One who works in the legal field. |
| Law-worthy | adj | Worthy or entitled to the laws. 2. of persons: having a standing in the law courts. 3. of things: within the purview of the law; able to be dealt with by a court of law. |
| Law-writer | n | One who writes on legal matters or copies legal documenrs. |
| Lax | n | The Salmon, in later use, some particular kind of salmon. |
| Lay | n | That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood. 2. the lay of a rope is right-handed or left-handed according to the hemp or strands are laid up. See: "The lay of land" is its topographical situation, esp. its slope and its surface 3. A wager. 4. A job, price, or profit; a share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; 5. measure of yarn; the lathe of a loom. 6. A plan; a scheme. |
| Lay | vb | To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave. 2. to place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table. 3. to prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan. 4. to spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint. 5. to cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise. 6. to cause to lie dead or dying. 7. to deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk. 8. to bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs. 9. to apply; to put. 10. To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land. 11. to impute; to charge; to allege. 12. to impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one. 13. to present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one. 14. to state; to allege; as, to lay the venue. 15. to point; to aim; as, to lay a gun. 16.to put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope. 17. in printing: to place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone. 18. to place (new type) properly in the cases. |
| Lay | phr | "In Lay" - of a hen laying eggs regularly. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Aback" - to lie back; reverse; incline, bend backwards. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay a Bet" - make a wager. |
| Lay | phr | Lay a Blessing Upon" - bless, often by laying hands on. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay About" - surround, beset. 2. to land blow on all sides. 3. fight, strike out (physically and Emotionally) wildly. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay About One" - to hit out vigorously in all directions. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Abroad" - to spread, to spread out. 2. to set out foe view. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Along" - to stretch out at full length. 2. to prostate. 3. destroy, kill. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay a Name On" - give a name to. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Aside" - to put to one side, save for future needs. 2. to turn aside or away from one's personal responsibilities.. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Asleep" -to put sleep; to make unobservant or careless. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay At the Door Of" - put something at someone's door. 2. fig. to blame a problem on someone; to hold someone responsible for something. (alludes to someone laying incriminating evidence at the door of a guilty person, perhaps in the night.) 2. fig. to give or assign a problem to someone for solving. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay at the Feet Of" - to make or hold someone, esp. a group of people, responsible for something. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Away" - turn aside, bury; to store away. 2. to put something in lawaway (lay-by.) 3. to purchase something by paying part of the price initially and not receiving the goods until the money has been paid in full. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Back" - cause to slope back from the vertical. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Bare" To make bare; to strip. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Before" - to bring to the sight of, to submit to the consideration of. 2. to present to; to submit for consideration in an official manner for discussion. pass int law. 3. to set a snare for. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay By" - to save. 2. to purchase by installments. 3. to discard. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay by the Heels" - to put in the stocks; to punish. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Down" - to put something one is holding or carrying down on the ground. 2. to stake as a wager. 3. to yield; to relinquish; to surrender; as, to lay down one's life; to lay down one's arms. 4. to prescribe, indicate, assert or advance, as a proposition or principle. 5. put into a cellar to mature, as wine. 6. to build. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Down One's Arms' - surrender military. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Down One's Life" - sacrifie one's life on behalf of another. |
| Lay | phr | Lay Down the Marker" - put down the marker, to say or do something that clearly shows what you will do in the future. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Down the Law" - give instructions in writing or in speech in an authoritative or dogmatic way. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Down to" - convert into pasture. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Eyes On" - see, perceive sight, have sight of, set eyes on. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Fallow" - allow ground or a field to be plowed but not sewn with seed; uncultivated. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Fast" - to set fast, render unable to proceed or escape. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Fast by the Heels/Feet" - to detain another by securing the feet. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay For" - to set an ambush or trap for; to waylay. 2. to await a chance for revenge. 3. to set a watch or guard for a place. 4. to set soldier in watch stations along a route. 5. to beset a place with soldiers. 6. to place or locate (a scene). |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Forth" : to extend at length; (reflexively) to exert one's self; to expatiate. 2. to lay out (as a corpse). [Obs.] |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Hand On" - to obtain, seize. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Hands On One's Self" : to lay violent hands on one's self, to injure one's self; specif., to commit suicide. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Heads Together": to consult, plan, conspire. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Hold Of" - grasp, seize; obtain.to lay hold on; to catch, ACQUIRE.. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay In" - to gather and store for future use; to provide. 2. to arrange the layers of plants. 3. lay up. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay In Forebode" - to prohibit the use. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay In Water" - make nugatory. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Into" - to beat, verbally abUse, assault, aim blows sometimes at, press hard (lit & fig.). 2. to belabor. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay It On" - to thrash with a stick; beat soundly. 2. to exaggerate, play with the truth. 3. to apply without stint. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay It On the Line" - to make it clear what the accepted rules are. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay It on Thick" - to flatter excessively. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Off" ('Lay Off') - to put away from; stop doing, quit, stop troubling, molesting. 2. take one's fingers off. 3. sack, dismiss from a job, pink-slip. 4. to terminate the employment of a worker. 5. to mark off or lay off on an area, etc., for a garden or flower bed. 6. aim to one side of a target to allow for the wind or a movement of the target. 7. steer a ship away from land. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay of the Land" - the contours of the land. 2. fig. the nature, arrangement or disposition of something. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay On" - to apply with force; to inflict; as, to lay on blows. 2. to organize, make arrangements. 3. to supply, provide, food, water, etc. 4. to exaggerate make something bigger, or worse than it really is. 5. to prepare for printing. 6. apply paint to a surface, |
| Lay | phr | "Lay One's Ghosts to Rest" - exorcise a supernatural spirit. 2. rid oneself, or another of a threat, obsession, or irrational fear, doubt, suspicion. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay One's Hands On (Something)" - to acquire or obtain something in order to make use as one's own property. 2. get one's hands on; find what one is looking for. 3. seize arrest in order to punish or hurt. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Oneself Open (wide) to" - to expose one's self to criticism, ridicule, and accusation. 2. be vulnerable, exploitation. |
| Lay | phr | Lay "One's Self Out" - to strive earnestly. 2. take great trouble over. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay On the Lips" - to kiss. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Open" -to open; to uncover; to expose; to reveal. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Out": 2. to expend a lot of money. 3. to display; to discover. 4. to plan in detail; to arrange parts in relation to each other and to the whole in a convenient or pleasing manner; as, to lay out a garden. 5. to prepare a corpse for burial; as, to lay out a corpse. 6. to exert; as, to lay out all one's strength. 7. expose, uncover, detail. 8. make unconscious by striking out, knock out. 9. to spread out clothing ready for use. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Over": to spread over; to cover. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Someone Low" - knock someone down with a punch. 2. of illness: to reduce someone to inactivity and languidness. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay the Groundwork" - to create a foundation. 2. provide the basics or fundamentals. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay the Land" - to cause it to disappear below the horizon, by sailing away from it. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay to" - bring a ship to rest. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Together" - to copulate. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay to Heart" - to feel deeply; to consider earnestly and strongly. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay to One's Ear" - listen to. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay to Rest" - to bury one who has died, entomb, inhume, inter. 2. finally finally remove or allay, a fear, uncertainty, etc. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay to Sight" - reveal, disclose. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay to Sleep" - to put to rest. 2. to bury, inter. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Under" - to subject to; as, to lay under obligation or restraint. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Unto" - same as To lay to (above). 3. to put before. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Up" - to store; stock, to put away or save for future use. 3. to confine to be by illness; to disable. 4. to dismantle, and retire from active service or commission, as a ship; or to take a motor vehicle off the road. 5. ensure by one's present conduct, or neglect, that trouble will follow. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Upon" - lay or wage a bet upon. |
| Lay | phr | "Lay Weight Upon" - to emphasize, bring into special prominence, atach importance to. |
| Lay | phr | "Not Lay a Finger/hand On Someone or Something" - not to touch someone or something, even slightly, not even with a finger. |
| Layaway | n | Lay-away, or lay-by - the purchase of something by paying part of the price initially, and only receiving the goods when the remainder of the money owing is paid in full. |
| Lay-about | n | A habitual loafer, idler, vagabond, beggar, tramp. |
| Lay-bed | n | The bed in which something or someone is laid. 2. a grave, burial-place. 3. a stratum, layer. |
| Lay-day | n | In commerce, the days allowed a ship's lessee for loading and discharging cargo. 2. In marine insurance, the days (usually not beyond 30) while a ship lies idle in port without fires, for which return of insurance premium may be demanded. 3. in general, days when work does not occur; or when workers are idle. |
| Layer | n | One who or that which lays. 2. a single horizontal thickness of a course, stratum or coat. 3. a shoot or twig laid in the ground to take root without being attached from the parent plant. 4. in leather-work, a welt. 5. an artificial oyster bed. |
| Layer | vb | To set down in layers. |
| Layered | adj | Set out or down in layers. |
| Layered-ness | n | The state or condition of being arranged or set in layers. |
| Layering | n | A structure made up of layers. |
| Layerwise | adv | Set down one layer at a time. |
| Laying | n | The first coat of plaster. 2. a clutch of eggs. 3. the act of producing eggs. 4. the process of twisting strands of fibres to make ropes. |
| Lay-off | n | The act of firing or discharging workers or employees. 2. a slack time in industry; a discontinuance of work. |
| Lay-open | vb | To break the skin. 2. expose to criticism. |
| Lay-out | n | A structured arrangement of items within certain limits. 2. a plan for such arrangement. 3. the act of laying out something. 4. (publishing) the process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information to fit within certain constraints. 5. (engineering) a map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions. |
| Lay-over | n | A stopover. |
| Laystall | n | A burial place. 2. a place where refuse and dung are laid; a dungheap. |
| Lay-up | n | A period during which a person or thing is temporarily out of work. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Le | sfx | A suffix forming nouns, especially; names of appliances or instruments (handle, thimble). 2. a suffix forming verbs, especially expressing repeated action or movement or having a diminutive sense : wriggle. 3. a suffix forming adjectives with original sense of apt or liable: brittle, fickle, little, nimble. |
| Lea | n. | A tract of open ground, either pasture, meadow or arable ground; lea. 2. after OE. chiefly applied poet or rhetorical, ordinarily to grass land. 3. lea, lay: of land not plowed or left fallow; untilled land. 4. lea-land, lea land: land laid down to grass. |
| Leach | n | Letch - more often form. 2. a perforated vessel or trough used for making lye from wood ashes by pouring water over them. 3. the action of leaching. 4. the brine that drains from the salt or is left in the pan when the salt is drawn out. |
| Leach | vb | To soften, melt; leach. 2. to cause a liquid to percolate through some material; leach. 3. to pass through or leach by percolation. 4. to take away or take out by percolation. |
| Leached | adj | That has been subjected to the action of percolated liquid. 2. that removed by percolated liquid. |
| Leaching | n | The gradual reduction in the amount of preservative in timber due to the action of the water. 2. leaking. |
| Leach-out | n | That removed by percolating liquid. |
| Leachy | adj | Of soil: of a nature to let water percolate through. 2. not capable of holding water; porous. |
| Lead | n | An advantage held by a competitor in a race. 2. evidence pointing to a possible solution; track, trail. 3. a position of leadership;the front or leading place; something that leads, leadership. 4. the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target. 5. the introductory section of a story; lead-in, lede. 6. (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning. 7. an actor who plays a principal role; star. 8. an indication of potential opportunity; tip, steer, confidential information, wind, hint. 9. a news story of major importance, a summary or outline of a newspaper story; a lead story. 10. the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine; spark. 11. restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal, leash, tether. 12. thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing; leading. 13. mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking sub-stance in a pencil; pencil lead. 14. a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire; cable, jumper lead, booster cable 15. the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge. 16. direction, guidance, leading. 17. a body moving front; the van. 18. a channel in an ice field. 19. a path, garden path, an alley. 20. leash for a dog. 21. an alluvial deposit of gold along the bed of an ancient river. |
| Lead | vb | Take somebody somewhere; take, direct, to conduct, guide. 2. have as a result or residue; leave, result. 3. tend to or result in. 4. travel in front of; go in advance of others; 5. cause to undertake a certain action. 6. stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; run, go, pass, lead, extend. 7. be in charge of; heading 8. be ahead of others; be the first; top. 9. be conducive to; contribute, conduce. 10. lead, as in the performance of a composition; conduct, direct. 11. extend, or afford access; go, go to, lead to. 12. move ahead (of others) in time or space; precede. 13. cause something to pass or lead somewhere; run. 14: preside over; moderate, chair. |
| Lead | n.2 | (One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets. 2. an article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as: a plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea; a thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing; sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs. 3. a small cylinder of black lead or graphite, used in pencils. |
| Lead | vb | To make something of lead. 2. to make dull and heavy as lead. 3. to weight or load with lea. 4. to fix (glass or window) with leaden panes. 5. to set in molten. 6. to line or glaze with lead. |
| Lead | phr | "A Friendly Lead" - (an obsolete word) - a name for entertainment held in a pub and usually held to raise money for a sick, injury or out-of-work friend. |
| Lead | phr | "All Roads Lead to Rome" - all alternatives have the same outcome. |
| Lead | phr | "Blind Leading the Blind" - persons without necessary skills for a task purporting to impart those skills to others. |
| Lead | phr | "Give a Lead to" - give an indication for others to follow. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead a Bride to the Altar" - to marry. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead a Busy Life" - be continuously, or characteristically, or for a particular period, a busy etc person. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead a Dog's Life" - having a worrying life; and being often ill-treated. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead Apes In Hell" - the fate of old maids. (an ape-leader: an old maid) |
| Lead | phr. | "Lead Away" - to induce someone to follow unthinkingly. 2. to give credence to misrepresentation. 3. to turn aside. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead by the Nose" - to cause to obey, or make another completely submissively. 2. force somebody to submit to what one wants. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead by the Sleeve" - to cause to obey submissively. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead Down" - lead along, mislead, deceive. 2. to cause or direct one to proceed. |
| Lead | phr. | "Lead Off" -to take the initiative; begin; make a beginning. 2. open a conversation or discussion. 3. to take the first steps in a dance. 3. begin something by leading the way. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead In" - an introduction, something that leads into the beginning of something. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead Nowhere" - (idiomatic) - to have no purpose; result in nothing; make no progress. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead Off" - make a beginning, start. 2. speak angrily, and at length. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead On (Someone)" - to induce gradually to advance. 2. to beguile into going to greater lengths. 3. to induce to follow an unwise course of action; mislead by trying to make another believe a lie. 4. to cause or encourage to believe something that is not true. 5. to encourage with the illusion of a romantic relationship. |
| Lead | phr. | "Lead Out" - to make a beginning. 2. to escort a partner to begin a dance. 3. lead someone on a chase / dance, to cause someone difficulty by forcing to do irksome or unnecessary things. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead (Someone) to Believe (that)" - to believe (with or without intention to deceive) that something is true, is a fact, when this is false, or at least, uncertain, give somebody to understand. 2. lead someone on, mislead. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead the Line" - a line by which a lead is lowered into the water to take soundings: in deep-sea practice, divided into levels one fathom apart, variously treated as marks and deeps. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead the Way" - to act as guide. 2. take the initiative. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead Through" - to help one through a difficult situation. 2. read in a brief, inattentive way, turning the pages quickly; flicking through. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead to" - to result in, produce as a result, cause. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead Two Lives" - alternate, or combine, two roles in life each with its own activities, colleagues or acquaintances, especial, do this exclusively but illegally or secretly (under an assumed name to deceive etc..) |
| Lead | phr | "Lead to One's Downfall" - the result or cause of one's failure, misadventure. |
| Lead | phr. | "Lead Up To" - to prepare gradually for. 2. to form a gradual preparation. 3. occur one after the other, before something. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead the Way- to lead something along a set out pathway. 2. act as a guide, go in advance of others. 3. be the first, best, most prominent in some field or activity. 4. be the most popular. |
| Lead | phr | "Lead With One's Chin" - to leave oneself unprotected. 2. exposed oneself to unnecessary harm. |
| Lead | phr | "Lie in Lead"(2) - to be buried in a lead coffin. 2. of illness reduce to inactivity. 3. knock someone down in one punch. |
| Lead | phr | "Strike the Lead" - make a good hit. |
| Lead | phr | "Swing the Lead"(2) - trying to evade work. 2. avoid work, malingering. |
| Lead | phr | "Take the Lead' - play the leading part. |
| Lead | phr | "To Lead to" - to result to; cause. |
| Lead ashes | n. | Litharge |
| Lead-burning | n | A process by which two pieces of lead are joined without soldering. |
| Lead dog | n | One of the dogs at the front of the team, who set the pace. |
| Leaded | adj | Covered or lined with lead. 2. fitted with lead; set in lead, as panes of glass, separated by leads. |
| Leaden | adj | Consisting or made of lead. 2. of base quality. as opp. to gold. 3. heavy as if made of lead. 4. inert, depressing. 5. dull, grey, wan, of a leaden hue. |
| Leaden | vb | To make leaden, leadenly, wan or dull. 2. to fasten with molten lead. |
| Leaden-eyed | adj | Heavy-lidded eyes. |
| Leaden-footed | adj | Heavy and clumsy of foot; leaden-heeled; leaden-stepping.. |
| Leaden-headed | adj | Dull, mentally unalert, slow and dull; leaden-witted. |
| Leaden-hearted | adj | Having an unfeeling heart. 2. destitute of feeling; callous. 3. solemn, depressed, dejected. |
| Leaden-heeled | adj | Moving very slowly, advancing reluctantly. |
| Leaden-key | n | The power of sleep or dullness. |
| Leadenless | n | Without lead. |
| Leadenly | adv | In a leaden manner. 2. without elasticity or spring. |
| Leaden-minded | adj | Slow of intellect; lacking mental alertness. |
| Leadenness | n | The state or quality of being leaden;(and, in an immaterial sense.) |
| Leaden-sword | n | A type of ineffectual weapon. |
| Leaden-witted | adj | Dull of senses; slow and dull, unalert. |
| Leader | n | One who leads. 2. a member of a team, business or organization who leads. 3. a member of the government who has the official initiative in the House; one who has power of state, a ruler. . 4. one who leads a choir or band of dancers, musicians or singers. 5. a counsel who leads in a case, a senior counsel of a circuit; king's counsel, whose status entitles him to lead. 6. a thing which leads, such as a remark or question intended to lead conversation (a feeler.) 7. the shoot which grows at the apex of a stem, or of a principal branch; a bine. 8. a tendon 9. a plumber. |
| Leader | phr | "Leader of Hail" a guide to salvation. |
| Leader | phr | "Leader of the Free World" - the president of the US. |
| Leader | phr | "Leader of the House" - a member of the government responsible for iniating business in parliament. |
| Leader-board | n | A scoreboard showing the names and current scores of the leading competitors, especially in a game golf |
| Leadered | adj | Headed in a leading article; made a subject of a leader. |
| Leaderful | adj | Typical of, or befitting for a better leader. 2. referring to the property of leading all together (collectively) and at the same time. |
| Leaderless | adj | Without leadership or direction. 2. unorganized, disorganized, chaotic. |
| Leader-lessly | adj | In a leaderless manner or way. |
| Leader-lessness | n | The state or quality or being leaderless. |
| Leaderly | adv | In a manner showing leadership and direction. |
| Leadership | n | The dignity, office or position of a leader. 2. the state and function of a leader. 3. the ability to lead. |
| Leader-worship | n | The adoration of a leader. |
| Leader-writer | n | A member of of the editorial staff of a newspaper or magazine who writes leaders or editorials articles. |
| Lead fiddle | n | First fiddle; the player of the first fiddle in an orchestra, etc. 2. the fiddler usually carrying the melody. |
| Lead-foot | n | One who drives quickly or without subtlely, one who engages in slamming or flooring the accelerator. |
| Lead-footed | adj | Tending to drive too fast or quickly. 2. slow, boring, dull-witted. |
| Lead-free | adj | Having or containing no lead; unleaded. |
| Lead glass | n | Flint glass; soft optical lead-oxide glass of high refraction. |
| Lead-in | n | A starting point or first understanding of a situation or matter. 2. an introduction, opening. |
| Leading | n | A directing or guiding influence; specifically spiritual. |
| Leading | adj | Having priority or influence; most important, chief. 2. attention-getting, as a leading display. 3. furnishing a lead or precedence. |
| Leading | adv | Most important. |
| Leading | phr | "Light or Leading" - illumination or guidance; hence; 'man of light and leading'. |
| Leading-business | n | The parts, job, usually. taken by the leading man or actor. |
| Leading edge | n | The frontmost edge of a wing or airfoil of an aircraft, esp a wing or propeller blade . 2. something that is or represents the most advanced or foremost aspect of a field, activity, trend, profession, etc., the forefront, the vanguard. 3. in electronics, the part of the pulse in which the ampltude increases. 4. a leading position in any field of technology; in contrast to the 'bleeding edge.'. |
| Leading-edge | adj | Of or pertaining to forward edge of a stream-lined body of a aircraft. 2. leading, latest, most-up-to-date. |
| Leading-in | adj | Applied to something or someone introductory or opening. |
| Leading-lady | n | Chief actor in a theatrical company. |
| Leading light | n | Someone is is highly regarded or/and influential. 2. be the most important person in a venture. |
| Leadingly | adj | Suitable for leading. 2. in a leading manner. |
| Leading-man | n | An actor who plays the principal role in a movie or stage-play. 2. one who takes the lead in a dance. 3. a leader of a group of workers. |
| Leading-mark | n | One of those objects which, kept in line or tansit, guide the pilot while working into port, as trees, spires, buoys etc. |
| Leading-seaman | n | A non-commissioned officer in the Royal Australia Navy and British Navy, ranking above an able seaman and below a petty officer. |
| Leading-strand | n | In genetics, the strand of DNA that is synthesized during replication. |
| Leading-strings | n | Strings supporting children learning to walk. 2. guidance or restraint. 3. fig. a state of undue dependence. 3. strings with which children used to be guided and supported when learning to walk. 2. a cord used to lead animals. |
| Leading-wheel | n | A set of two or more wheels located in front of the driving wheels of a train-engine. |
| Leadish | adj | Somewhat like lead. |
| Leadless | adj | Devoid of lead. |
| Lead light | n | Lead and colored glass used to decorate windows and other glass panels. |
| Lead-lighting | n | The practice of making lead-light windows, etc. |
| Lead-like | adj | Characteristic of, or resembling, lead. |
| Lead-line | n | A line for taken sounds. |
| Lead-less | adj | Unleaded, without lead, lead-free, non-leaded. 2. without a leader or someone in control. |
| Leadman | n | A leader of a group of workers. 2. one who leads or takes the first steps in a dance. |
| Lead mill | n | A mill for grinding white lead . 2. a lead disc for polishing gems by friction. |
| Lead-off | n. | A commencement; a beginning, the first of a succession or series. 2. the initiative; begin; an act that starts something; start; beginning; get-go. 3. the opening or attacking movement in any bout of skill or strength, competitive game, experience. 4. the player who leads off. |
| Lead-off | n | The leading-off or beginning, as "the leading item on the agenda." |
| Lead-on | n | Induction to follow an unwise course of action; mislead. 2. the cause or encouragement to believe something that is not true. 3. beguilement into going to greater lengths. |
| Lead out | n | A beginning; the front position. 2. the escort of a partner to begin a dance. 3. leading of a chase / dance, to cause someone difficulty by forcing to do irksome or unnecessary things. 4. a program scheduled to follow another. |
| Leads | n | Back borads used in picture framing. |
| Lead-sheafed | adj | Cable in a sheaf or covered permanently in lead to protect against moisture and damage. |
| Lead shot | n | A small balls of lead projected out of a shotgun. 2. a weight used in angling or fishing. |
| Leadsman | n. | A sailor who takes sounding with a lead, measuring the depth of water. 2. a military commander. |
| Lead time | n | The period of time between the initial phase of a process and the emergence of a results, as between the planning and completed manufacture of a product. 2. the amount of time between initiation of some process and it's completion . 3. the time required by manufacture or procure a product. 4. the time required because something can be provided or delivered. |
| Lead-up | n | That leads up to something else. 2. the period leading up to an event. |
| Lead-wool | n | A fibrous form of lead used to join water pipes. |
| Lead-work | n | A workplace for smelting lead. |
| Leadwort | n | Any plant or shrub of the genus 'Plumbago', having spikes of blue, white or red leaves |
| Leady | adj | Resembling lead, usu. in color; dull in color |
| Leaf | n | One of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant. 2. any similar or corresponding lateral outgrowth of a stem. 3. a petal: a rose leaf. 4. leaves collectively; foliage. 5. a unit comprising two printed, blank or illustrated pages of a book, one on each side. 6. a movable part of of a table top; it may be hinged, sliding or loose. 7. one piece or fold of folding screens, doors etc. |
| Leaf | vb | To put forth leaves. 2. to turn over a page or pages in a book. 3. to number a leaf in a book.
to thumb or turn, as the pages of a book or magazine, in a casual or cursory inspection of the contents. 2. to turn pages, especially quickly (usually followed by through): "to leaf through a book." 3. to put forth leaves. |
| Leaf | phr | "Fall f the Leaf" - autumn. |
| Leaf | phr | "In leaf" - covered with foliage; having leaves: the pale green tint of the woods newly in leaf. |
| Leaf | phr | "Leaf Through" - to turn the pages of a book rapidly reading short sections at random. 2. to imitate someone in action or policy. |
| Leaf | phr | 'Shake Like a Leaf" - tremble, be very cold or frightened. |
| Leaf | phr | "Take a Leaf Out of My Book." - to follow my example or ways. 2. to model oneself on another person. (the allusion is to literary plagiarisms) |
| Leaf | phr | "Turn Over a New Leaf" - to amend one's ways, to start afresh. |
| Leaf-bearing | adj | Of a tree producing leaves. |
| Leaf-blight | n | Any of various plant diseases chiefly of various fungous origin. |
| Leaf-blower | n | A battery-powered or petrol-driven garden tool that blows air from a nozzle to blow leaves and debris into management piles for disposal. |
| Leafdom | n | The realm of leaves and foliage. |
| Leaf-eater | n | Insect that eats leaves; an insect; a leaf-feeder. |
| Leaf-fat | n | A layer of fat abut the kidney of a swine, from which leaf fat is obtained. 2. folds of fat over the kidneys of other animals. |
| Leafed | adj | Having a leaf of leaves; covered by foliage. 2. of a book: having a specified number pf pages. |
| Leaf-feeder | n | Various insects, including aphids, mites, thrips, worms, grasshoppers, beetles and bugs. 2. insects. |
| Leafish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a leaf in some aspect. |
| Leaf footed | adj | Having a leaf-like expansions on the legs; said of insects, as the leaf-footed bug. |
| Leafful | n | Belief, faith. |
| Leafful | adj | Faithful, believing; gullible |
| Leaf-gold | n | Gold-leaf hammered into thin thin sheets, by gold-beating and often used for gilding. |
| Leaf-green | adj | The color of green leaves. |
| Leafily | adv | In a leafy manner. |
| Leafing | n | The putting forth of leaves. |
| Leafing | adj | That puts forth leaves. |
| Leafiness | n | The state or quality of being leafy. |
| Leaf-laden | adj | Heavily covered with leaves. |
| Leafless | adj | Without a leaf; destitute or devoid of leaves. |
| Leaflessness | n | The state or condition of being without or destitute of leaves. |
| Leaf-like | adj | Having the form or other qualities of a leaf. |
| Leafless-tree | n | The gallows. |
| Leaf-meal | adv | One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf. |
| Leaf-mould | n | Decomposed or composted remains of leaves. 2. soil made up mostly of layers of decomposed leaves. |
| Leafness | n | The state of condition of being leafy. |
| Leaf sheath | n | The sheath or wrapping around a stalk. |
| Leaf-shedding | adj | A tre or bush that drops or loses it's leaves; deciduous. |
| Leaf-silver | n | Silver -colored paint used for lettering on marble and other materials. |
| Leaf-spring | n | A spring made of more than one flat plate or strip; distinguished from a spiral spring. |
| Leaf-stalk | n | That stalk ' the petiole' that supports a leaf and connects to a plant. |
| Leaf-storm | n | A sudden whirlwind or downpour of leaves. |
| Leaf-strewn | adj | A path or field, etc. strewn with leaves. |
| Leaf wood | n | Hardwoods. A description applied to woods from deciduous and evergreen broad-leaved trees, or dicotyledons. the term does not infer hardness in its usual sense, but is a classification.. |
| Leaf-worm | n | A caterpillar. |
| Leafy | adj | Having or abounding in leaves; covered with leaves or foliage. 2. made of, in the form of, or consisting of leaves. 3. of the nature or resembling leaves; laminate. 4. of a suburb, neighborhood of wealthy, upper middle-class people, known for it's leafy-green street vista. |
| Leafy-greens | n | Leafy-green vegetables, such as 'broccoli, spinach, silver beet, etc. |
| Leafy-liverwort | n | A liverwort belonging to the order 'Jungemanniater' |
| Lea-land | n | Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing. |
| Leam | n | A drain or watercourse in a fen district |
| Leam | n | A light, flame; a flash, ray or gleam of light, rays of a comet. 2. brightness, gleam. |
| Leam | vb | To shine, gleam, flame, flash, light up. |
| Leaming | adj | Shining, gleaming, flashing of light. |
| Lean | n | Reward, recompense. |
| Lean | vb | To incline, lean, deviate, slope or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. 2 to incline in opinion, lean towards, or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc. 3. to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with lean on, upon, or against. 4. to hang outwards. 5. to press against. |
| Lean | adj | Of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy; of appearance, growth, condition: wanting in flesh, not plump or fat, thin. 2. (of meat) having little fat. 3. having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meager; as a lean harvest. 4. having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient. 5. a lean ore hardly worth mining. 6. running on too lean a fuel-air mixture will cause, among other problems, your internal combustion engine to heat up too much. |
| Lean | phr | "A Shoulder to Lean On" - the giving of sympathy. |
| Lean | phr | "Lean Against " - to be unfavorable to; not to countenance. |
| Lean | phr | "Lean and Mean" - efficient because of having nothing in excess of what is needed, and a single-minded in one's objective. |
| Lean | phr | "Lean Off (Someone)" - to cease to lean on. |
| Lean | phr | "Lean On (Somebody)" - depend on somebody. 2. to put pressure on (a person) in order to get something from someone, or to force someone to do something against their will. 3. make someone act as one wishes by the threat or use of force, by blackmail etc. |
| Lean | phr | "Lean Out Of" - protrude from a window. |
| Lean | phr | "Lean Over" - incline from an erect position. 2. slant, incline one's head and shoulders (so that one can easily hear. |
| Lean | phr | "Lean Over Backwards" - make every effort to achieve something, esp. to be fair or helpful. |
| Lean | phr | "Lean Towards" - to tend towards some quality or condition. 2. to have a tendency favorable to. |
| Lean | phr | "Lean Upon" - to be close up to; or something serving as protection. |
| Lean | phr | "(A) Shoulder to Lean On" - the giving of sympathy. |
| Leaner | n | One who leans, inclines or reclines. |
| Lean-burn | adj | Of or relating to an internal combustion-engine designed to ru on a lean mixture to reduce pollution. |
| Lean-fleshed | adj | Having little flesh; magre in condition |
| Leaning | adj | Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; tilted, atilt, canted, tipped. 2. that leans or inclines. 3. inclining towards a person from devotion or attention. |
| Leaning | n | An inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity" ; leaning, propensity, tendency. 2. a natural inclination; proclivity, propensity, leaning. 3. the act of deviating from a vertical position. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; inclination to the right"; tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaning. |
| Leaning-board | n | An item of furniture which is comparable in structure to a flat bench but positioned at a vertical diagonal. Often with attached arm rests. Used primarily in movie making and popularized in the early era of Hollywood; the purpose was for actresses in elaborate costumes, hair and makeup to be able to rest their bodies (or even sleep) without becoming disheveled, or in situations when their costume prohibited sitting down. |
| Leanish | adj | Somewhat lean. |
| Lean-looking | adj | Thin in appearance. |
| Leanly | adv | A lean fashion; in a lean body or form. 2. meagrely, poorly. |
| Lean-minded | adj | Brainless, foolish, ignorant, inept, irrational, witless, unthinking. |
| Leanness | n | State or condition of being thin, thinness. |
| Lean-over | n | On an inclination down or forward. 2. something over which one can lean. |
| Lean-ribbed | adj | Thin around the midriff. |
| Lean-souled | adj | Lacking depth of spiritually. |
| Lean-to roof | n | A building whose rafters pitch against or lean on to another building or against the wall. 2. a penthouse. 2. a roof consisting of one sloping surface. 3. a shed, or half span roof. It is formed against the side of a building which supports the top end rafters. |
| Lean-witted | adj. | Short of intellectual capacity. 2. lacking common sense. |
| Lean-years | n | Years of scarcity; the hungry years. |
| Leany | adj | Lean, thin. |
| Leap | vb. | To jump, spring from the ground, |
| Leap | n. | A jump, a springing into the air. |
| Leap | n | A basket, creel. |
| Leap | phr | "Leap Afoot" - to leap from the ground onto the back of a horse. |
| Leap | phr | "Leap At" - jump at, grab, move quickly. 2. be eager, accept, take, seize, swoop on. |
| Leap | phr | "Leap Forward" - an advance of a marked or notable character. |
| Leap | phr | "Leap Frog Somebody" - overtake something,with the likelihood of in turn being overtaken. (refers to the game of leapfrog. |
| Leap | phr | "Leap in" - to commence an activity without considering the wisdom of doing so or the best way to proceed. |
| Leap | phr | "Leap in the Dark" - an action, diagnosis, answer etc which is risked in hope that it is correct. |
| Leap | phr | "Leap On" - jump on, assault. |
| Leap | phr | "Leap Out" - burst forth, rush out, jump out. |
| Leap | phr | "Leap Out of one's Mind" - an expression of delight or eagerness. |
| Leap | phr | "Leap to Mind" - to appear in one's thoughts. 2. spring to mind. come to mind; remember. |
| Leap | phr | "Leap to the Eye" - be immediately apparent. |
| Leap | phr | "Take a Leap in the Dark" - a hazardous act or action undertaken in uncertainty as to consequences. 2. an action of uncertain outcome. |
| Leap day | n. | February 29th a day in the calendar, marked on the calendar only once every four years; leap year. |
| Leaper | n | A runner, dancer, jumper. 2. an animal that progresses in leaps; kangaroo, springbok. |
| Leap frog | n. | A game in which a player vaults over another bending down |
| Leap-frog | vb | To jump over some obstacle as in leap-frog. 2. to overtake. |
| Leap-frogger | n | One who jumps over some obstacle as in leap-frog. 2. one who overtakes or advances. |
| Leap-frogging | n | The act of jumping over some obstacle as in leap-frog; or overtaking or advancing. |
| Leapful | adj | Inclined to leaping or abounding. |
| Leap-gate | n | A low gate in a fence, which can be leaped, while keeping sheep from straying. |
| Leaping | n | The action of leaping or jumping. 2. significant move forward. the act of copulation with, or covering of, a female beast. 3. a passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals. |
| Leaping | adj | That leaps, runs, dances. |
| Leaping-house | n | A brothel. |
| Leapingly | adv | By leaps. |
| Leaping-time | n | A time of much activity; youth. |
| Leapling | n | One born in a leap day (29th February) |
| Leap year | n. | A year that has an extra day, February 29th. |
| Lea-rig | n. | A ridge left at the end of a ploughed field. |
| Learn | vb. | Gain skill or knowledge by study, practice or being taught. 2. to find out or discover |
| Learn | phr | "I'm Yet To Learn" - I am ignorant or unaware. 2. |
| Learn | phr | "Learn By Heart" - memorize something perfectly(so that it can be instantly recalled). |
| Learn | phr | "Learn from" - by studying one's mistakes, and those of others, ensure that they are not repeated. |
| Learn | phr | "Learn from the Horse's Mouth" - get information from someone qualified to do it. |
| Learn | phr | "Learn the Hard Way" - to learn by experiencing the consequences of making mistakes. |
| Learn | phr | "Learn the Ropes" - to learn the basic or understand well introductory or basic knowledge. |
| Learn | phr | "Learn Out" - find out, discover. |
| Learn | phr | "You Live and Learn" one learns through experience. |
| Learned | adj | Academic, educated, literate, scholarly, studious, scholastic, skilled. |
| Learnedish | adj | Learned-like. |
| Learnedly | adv | In a learning manner. |
| Learnedness | n | The quality or condition of being learned. |
| Learner | n | A beginner, (in various senses); a student, scholar, novice, tyro. |
| Learner-driver | n | One who is learning to drive, but is not yet a licensed driver. |
| Learner-like | adj | Befitting a learner. |
| Learnership | n | The position of a learner. |
| Learn-fare | n | In the US, a welfare system in which a person must altered must attend college, etc. in order to receive payment. |
| Learning | n | An act in which something is learned. 2. accumulated knowledge, something that has been learned. |
| Learning | phr | "The New Learning" - the studies, esp. that of the Greek language, introduced into England in C16th. |
| Learningless | adj | Devoid of learning; uneducated or uninstructed. |
| Learning-score | n | The score a student must achieve in order to pass an examination(s), and advance to the next stage of their education. |
| Learnless | adj | Devoid of learning. |
| Learnly | adv | In a learning , educated way or manner. |
| Lease | n. | Pasture, meadow-land, fallow-land, land let alone, common; such as cow-lease, ewe-lease, horse-lease. |
| Lease | adj. | Untrue, false, lying: (without lease). 2. untruth, falsehood, lying, leasing. |
| Lease | vb. | To gather, glean, collect, pick up |
| Lease | n | "Lease Back" - finance, a property deal where a party sells something, then lease it from the buyer. The seller is released from tax obligations, depreciation, and maintenance costs, the buyer gains an income from the property. |
| Lease | phr | |
| Leased | adj | Transferred under the terms of a lease. |
| Lease-hold | n | The tenure of a property held by a lesee under a lease; freehold. |
| Leaseholder | n | A person who holds a tenure of property under lease or freehold. |
| Leaseholding | n | The act of holding tenure of property under the lease. |
| Leaser | n. | A gleaner, a collector, gatherer. 2. a liar, deceiver, betrayer, leaser |
| Leasing | n | Lying, prevarication. |
| Leasing-bearer | n. | One who utters untruths and slanderous statements, and causes trouble between individuals, community members and families. |
| Leasing-making | n | Verbal sedition |
| Leasing-monger | n | A liar, slanderer, seditioner |
| Leasow | vb | To graze, pasture, to agist animals |
| Leasow | n | Pasturage, agistment, grazing land. |
| Least | n | The smallest one. 2. in the C16th, a nonce word for an atom. |
| Least | adj | Smallest; faintest, most minute. |
| Least | adv | Little by all others in size and degree, smallest, slightest, fewest |
| Least | phr | "At Least" - at any rate, in all events. 2. by the least; in the least degree; no less than. 3. leastwise. |
| Least | phr | "In the Least" - at the lowest estimate. 2. in the smallest or slightest degree. 3. at all. |
| Least | phr | "Least of All" - particularly not. |
| Least | phr | "Least Said, the Better" - saying as little as possible is the best policy in a difficult situation. 2. argument will only aggravate a situation. |
| Least | phr | "Least Said, Soonest Forgotten" - lengthy recriminations, explanations, excuses are often a mistake as they tend to exaggerate the importance of a (perhaps a trivial) mistake, misunderstanding, quarrel |
| Least | phr | "Not Least" - particularly. |
| Least | phr | "Say the Least" - at the very best, without over emphasizing or overstating the subject, to put it mildly, 2. not to exaggerate. 3. used to suggest that what was previously stated was an understatement. |
| Least | phr | "The Least of It" - used to imply the moderation of a statement. |
| Least | phr | "The Least One Can Do" - an action that is a minimum that duty, gratitude, courtesy, requires of one. |
| Leasting | n | The smallest one. 2. a minute quantity. 3. in the C16th, a nonce word for an atom. |
| Leastness | adj | Minimal in size, tiny, minute. |
| Leastways | adj. | At least; in the least, not least. 2. the lowest estimate; in the smallest or slightest degree. |
| Least weasel | n | The smallest weasel and smallest carnivore in North America, measuring just 10 inches in length. |
| Leastwise | adv | At least; minimally. |
| Leat | n. | An open watercourse to conduct water for household purposes, mills, mines. 2. underground leat: modern water reticulation or supply. |
| Leather | n. | Skin of an animal prepared for use. 2. the bat (sometimes) known as "The Leather" because of its leather-like wings. |
| Leather | phr | "Give One a Leathering" - to flog one with with a leather strap; give one a drubbing. |
| Leather | phr | "Hell for Leather" - as fast as possible. |
| Leather | phr | "Nothing like Leather" - one's own interest or goods are the best. 2. a tale goes that a beset town brought together its Witan to work out how to hold out against a foe. A mason put forward that strong wall, a shipbuilder thought wooden walls; at last a tanner arose saying, " There's nothing like leather. Another take is, "Nothing like leather to give a good thrashing." |
| Leather back | n | A large sea-turtle. |
| Leather-board | n | An imitation leather sole made from scraps of leather assembled and pressed into sheets ; fibre leather. |
| Leather-bound | adj | Bound in leather, or hide, as a book. |
| Leather-cloth | n | A strong fabric coated to rrsemble leather. |
| Leathercraft | n | Craftsman in leather; leather-working. |
| Leathercrafter | n | One who crafts articles from leather; leather-work. |
| Leather-craftsman | n | A craftsman in leather and leather-working. |
| Leathered | adj. | Made into leather or like leather. |
| Leather-goods | n | Items or articles made from leather. |
| Leatherhead | n | A fool; simpleton, dill, blockhead. |
| Leather-hunter | n | A fieldsman in cricket, especially one who spends a hours of time in the field as an opposition team compiles a very high score. |
| Leatheriness | n | The quality of being leathery. |
| Leathering | n | A flogging, beating, thrashing. |
| Leathering | phr | "Give One a Leathering" - to flog one with with a leather strap; give one a drubbing. |
| Leather-knife | n | Curved knife for cutting leather. |
| Leatherless | adj | Without leather. |
| Leather-like | adj | Resembling leather. |
| Leather-lungs | n | Speaking, or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, esp for prolonged periods. |
| Leatherly | adj. | Leather-like, leathern, tough, hardened. 2. resembling leather in appearance. 3. of voice: rough, strident. |
| Leather-maker | n | A manufacturer of leather. |
| Leather-making | n | The manufacturing of leather. |
| Leathern | adj | Made of leather. |
| Leatherneck | n. | A sailor's name for a soldier, from the leather stock he used to wear. 2. a marine, a leather neck. |
| Leather-queen | n | Slang referring to a gay man with a fetish for leather |
| Leather-tongued | adj | Acerbic of speech; strident, sharp-tongued; sarcastic. |
| Leather-wake | adj. | Having flexible joints, pliant, soft, leath, lithe, leather-wakeness. |
| Leatherware | n | Items made from leather. |
| Leatherwear | n | Articles of clothing made from leather. |
| Leatherwood | n | A white, soft wood with tough fibrous bark and small yellow flowers. 2. a flexible, tough, durable, and decorative wood suitable for shafts, handles, bentwork, etc. from Euchryphia billardieri. |
| Leatherwork | n | The making of articles from leather. 2. articles produced from leather. |
| Leatherworker | n | A person who makes things from leather. |
| Leatherworking | n | The technology of making products from leather. |
| Leatherworks | n | A factory that makes leather goods. |
| Leathery | adj | Like leather, tough. |
| Leatwright | n | A person skilled in constructing an open watercourse (leat) to conduct water for household purposes, mills, mines. or a modern water reticulation or supply. |
| Leave | n. | A period of time granted for permission to be away from work or some duty. 2. an act of departing; a farewell. 3. official permission to be absent from work or duty, as granted for military or corporate personnel. |
| Leave | vb. | To go away from, depart without taking, go away, set out from. |
| Leave | phr | "By Your Leave" - used to apologize for taking a liberty; often used in irony when some remark made is unwelcomed or offensive to the person spoken to. |
| Leave | phr | "Get Left" - to be tricked. |
| Leave | phr | "Give Leave To" - to allow. permit; used fig. of condition or circumstances. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave (one) Alone" - to stop bothering. 2. to desist or refrain from having to do with. 3. stop talking to me, stop being near me. 4. stop interfering in my life. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Aside" - not consider; not calculate. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Be" - refraining from disturbing or interfering with, |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Behind." - to leave undone; fail to bring, forget. 2. to go away without; abandon. 3. to have remaining after departure or removal, as a trace of consequence.4. leave a sign or record that somebody has or something has occurred. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Cold" - not interest, impress or excite a person. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Down" - to discontinue, drop. 2. allow to stay down or drawn; allow to remain in a lowered position, |
| Leave | phr | "Leave for" - depart, travel to another place. 2. abandon in order to follow somebody or something new. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave for Dead" - to abandon a person or other living creature that is injured or otherwise incapacitated assuming that the death of the one abandoned will soon follow. 3. to disregard or bypass as unimportant. 4. be vastly superior. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Go" - relax one's hold |
| Leave | phr | "Leave High and Dry" - to abandon somebody. 2. to stop providing assistance at a crucial moment. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Hold of" - cease holding. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave In" - allow to remain where it is. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave It At That" - abstain for further action or comment. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave It Out" - don't do. don't say that ! |
| Leave | phr | "Leave No Stone Unturned" - be very thorough. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Off." - to stop from an action, habit; desist. 2. to cease to, or no longer wear or use something, leave off. 3. to give up or forsake the society of. 4. to cease doing; to make an end or interruption of; to stop (working); to leave off. 5. of a narrative: to end. 6. of shares: to end at a certain price at the closing of the market. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave On" - allow to remain in a position. 2. continue to wear. 3. allow to stay alight or burning. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Oneself Wide Open" - to act in such a way that one's opponents will find much which can be easily criticised. 2.be vulnerable. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave One's Mark (on Something)" - to be responsible for permanently influencing or altering the way something is operated. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave (left) on the Shelf" - unlikely to get married because of one's age or lack of attractiveness. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Out" - not to put in; omit, not include, list, mention, consider or take account of. 2. leave outside, not inside of a house or building. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Over" - allow to remain for use or attention afterwards or at a later date. 2. to let stand as is for future consideration; postpone, stop. 3. leave as a remainder (the best part being consumed). . |
| Leave | pr | "Leave Someone Be" - not interfere, or tamper, with somebody, something. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Someone Cold" - someone unaffected or bored. 2. not affect, fail to impress. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Someone Out in the Cold" - deny a desired objective to a person. |
| Laeve | phr | "Leave Someone Speechless" - so astonish, delight, outrage, somebody that is incapable of responding, objecting, etc or cannot do so adequately. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave (Someone)To It" - to allow a person to go ahead with the task or project at hand. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave (Someone) Standing" - be superior to. 2. exceed somebody, something in speed, ability, worth, popularity, so greatly that it/own progress, achievement, seems negligible(from racing). |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Speechless" - astonish, delight or outrage somebody that he is responding, objecting etc to something or cannot do so adequately. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave the Door Open" - to issue a standing invitation for the resumption of some negotiation. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave the Room" - go to the toilet, bathroom, lavatory to relieve oneself. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave to" - let somebody proceed with a task, without help or interference. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave To Himself" - to leave a person alone or without help, interference from another or others. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Undone" - not do; abstain from doing. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Undone Those Things Which One Ought to Have Done" - sin, act foolishly, by omitting to do what is right , necessary or advisable to do. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Unsaid" - not saying. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Up" - allow to remain a raised position. 2. to abandon, give up, resign. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Up to" - let some important decision, choice, etc be made by somebody. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Well (enough) Alone" - to leave somebody alone. 2. to avoid attempts to connect fix or improve what is already sufficient. 3. if it is not broke, don't fix it. |
| Leave | phr | "Leave Word" - leave a message with somebody.. |
| Leave | phr | "On Leave" - away from duties by permission. 2. to take one's leave. |
| Leave | phr | "Take It or Leave It" - please yourself, |
| Leave | phr | "Take Leave" - on leave with permission. |
| Leave | phr | "Take Leave of One's Wits" - go mad; lose one's senses. |
| Leave | phr | "Take One's Leave" - bid farewell to. |
| Leave | phr | "Without So Much as a By Your Leave" - without comment; without permission. |
| Leave | phr | "Without the Leave Of" - without the permission of. |
| Leaved | adj | Covered or abundant in leaves or foliage. |
| Leave-giving | n | The act of granting recreational leave to an employee. 2. to agree to someone leaving or departing. |
| Leaveless | adj | Without leaf or foliage. |
| Leave-over | adj | Remaining, not use or use up. |
| Leaver | n | One who leaves in various senses, as a school leaver. |
| Leave-taking | n. | The taken of leave of a person; saying farewell; a parting words or speech. |
| Leaviness | n | The state or condition of having leaves or being covered in leaves; leafiness. |
| Leaving | adj | Going away, departing, farewelling. |
| Leaving | phr. | "Leaving Out" - Omitted matter, that which has been left out. |
| Leaving-off Time | n | The time one finish work. |
| Leavings | n | Worthless residue, as meal-scraps, bits of wood. 2. leftovers of various materials; relics. |
| Leaving-shop | n | A pawnshop, often an unlicensed one. |
| Leavish | adj | Somewhat covered in leaves or foliage. |
| Leavish | adj | Itinerant, nomadic, vagabondish. |
| Leavy | adj. | Having leaves or covered in leaves. 2. of a season: abounding in foliage. |
| Lecherwite | n | See 'lairwite' |
| Lechne | vb. | To cure, heal (lit & fig). to administer medicine. to leech. |
| Lechning | n. | Leeching, doctoring, curing, healing |
| Lede | n. | A people, people collectively, fellow countrymen, nation, race, one's own people. 2. " land & lede": land and subjects (vassals); "in lede" among the people, in the land, on the earth. 3. the people subject to their lord or sovereign. 4. singularly: a man, person, esp. one of the "men" or subjects of the king; a subject. |
| Lede | phr | "All Lede" - all people, all the world, people collectively. |
| Lede | phr | "In Lede" - all the people in the land; countryman. |
| Ledefolk | n. | The people of the nation. |
| Lede-kemp | n. | A warrior, fighter of a nation |
| Lede-king | n. | The king (of a natio). |
| Ledeless | adj. | Without company. |
| Lede-knight | n. | A knight of the nation.. |
| Ledely | adv. | Belonging to the people or nation |
| Leden | n. | Language or tongue of the people or race. 2. speech or utterance of a person, form or speech, way of speaking of a class of persons. 3. of birds, singing and chirping. 4. noise, chatter, speech. |
| Leden | phr | "Hark to this Leden" : listen to this ---noise, chatter, speech. |
| Lede-shame | n. | The shame of a nation. |
| Lede thegn | n. | Lede-thane |
| Lede-bishop | n. | The Archbishop of a nation. |
| Lede quide | n. | A national language. |
| Lede-knight | n | A knight of the king. |
| Lede rune | n. | An incantation; a mysterious doctrine. |
| Led-friend | n | One that follows slavishly, as a sycophant, hanger-on, dependent, parasite. |
| Ledish | adj | Pertaining to the people or nation. |
| Lee | n. | Protection, shelter; "under the lee" (protected). 2. something constructed as a shelter. 3. the sheltered side of any object, hence the ship, the land, an eminence that is turned away from the wind. 4. nautically, the side or quarter opposite to that against the wind blows; the sise away from the windward or weather side; the sheltered side. |
| Lee | adj | Sheltered from the wind. |
| Lee | phr | "At Lee" - wind bound, at shelter. |
| Lee | phr | "Bring By Lee" - to leeward. |
| Lee | phr | "Lie Upon the Lee" - with sail aback. |
| Lee | phr | "Lithe of Lee" - said of the weather: sheltered, protected. |
| Lee | phr | "Tide Under the Lee" - a tide running in the opposite direction of the wind blowth. |
| Lee | phr | "Under the Lee of the Land" - protected, sheltered, leeward. |
| Lee | phr | "Under the Lee of the Ship" - on the side away from the wind, so that the ship provides shelter and breaks the force of the wind. |
| Lee-board | n | A board lowered on the lee side of a vessel and acting as a keel to keep it drifting to leeward. |
| Leech | n. | A physician, one who practiced the healing art. 2. transfig and fig. applied to God, Christ and spiritual persons. 3. one who sticks to another for the purpose of getting gain out of him. |
| Leech | n. | Commonly regarded as a transfigative use of leech (doctor, physician.) This is plausible but the OE form "lyce," early ME. liche, suggests that the word was distinct, but assimilated to "laece" through popular etymology. 2. a blood-sucking worm, belonging to the N.O. Hirundinea. used medically for draining blood. 2. also: land-leech, sea-leech, water-leech. |
| Leech | phr | "Leech Onto" - attach oneself firmly and persistently (like a leech) to somebody. |
| Leech | phr | "Stick Like a Leech" - to cling persistently. |
| Leechcraft | n. | Art of treatment, remedy, medicine, healing. |
| Leechdom | n | The world or field of medicine, remedy, healing. |
| Leecher | n | hysician; a doctor. |
| Leech-fee | n. | Cost for doctor to treat a patient; a doctor's fee. |
| Leech-finger | n | The finger next to the little finger; the ring finger. |
| Leeching | n. | Medical treatment, curing, healing. 2. treatment by blood-letting or leaching, the use of leechs |
| Leeching | phr | "Under Leeching" - under or undergoing medical treatment. |
| Leechlike | adj | Resembling a leech or some aspect of one, clinging, parasitic. |
| Leechman | n. | A doctor, physician, healend, leecher |
| Leed | n. | Language, tongue, lingo. 2. the speech of a person or class of of persons. 3. talk,utterance, manner of speech, or writing, phraseology, patter. 4. appiled to the language of birds. |
| Leeftail | adj. | Leavetail, leftal: much in demand, ready for a quick sale. |
| Leek | n. | A culinary herb Allium Porrum (N.O. Liliaceae) allied to the onion, but differing from it in having a bulbous part and flat and broad leaves. 2. the leekwort. 3. the leek is also the Welsh national floral emblem. |
| Leek | phr | "Eat the Leek" - to be affronted or humilated. 2. forced to eat your own words. |
| Leekish | adj | Resembling a leek in color or shape. |
| Leekwort | n | Allium Porrum (family liliaceae). |
| Leemost | adv | Further to leeward. |
| Leer | n. | The cheek 2. The face, countenance, look or appearance of the skin or face. 3. the hue or complexion; "the lily leer". 3. temper, disposition, mood. 4. a look or roll of the eye; askance. 5. expression of slyness, look of askance, obliqueness, under-handedness. 6. malignity, immodest desire. |
| Leer | n | The flank or loin; the hollow under the ribs. |
| Leer | vb | To give an oblique, sneering or surprized look or grin. 2. to look with a sideway glance, esp. suggestive of lascivious intent or malicious intention. |
| Leer | adj. | Empty, useless, burden-less; useful. 2. having no burden or load, as a horse without a rider. 3. of the stomach: empty of food, hungry, faint or wanting of food. |
| Leer | adj | Looking askance, oblique, indirect, sly, underhanded. |
| Leer | phr | "Leer Aside" - look askance, slyly, underhandedly. |
| Leer | phr | "Leer At" look at in a crude, unpleasant way suggesting desire or ill-will. |
| Leer | phr | "Leer Up" - |
| Leerer | n | One who leers or looks sideways or obliquely at in an enticing, sexual or malicious way or intent. |
| Leerily | adv | In a leering manner. |
| Leeriness | n | The property of being leery, suspicion, distrust. |
| Leering | n | The state or condition of looking sideways or obliquely at in an enticing, sexual or malicious way or intent |
| Leering | adj | Look with askance. |
| Leeringly | adv | In a manner or way of looking askance, sly, underhandedly. |
| Leerness | n. | Emptiness, hunger. 2. without burden, burden-less. |
| Leery | adj. | Containing or having empty spaces or hollows. 2. wide-awake, wary, knowing, suspicious. 3. shrewd, sly, conniving. |
| Leese | vb. | To lose, be parted from by misadventure, through change or conditions. 2. to be deprived of, to cease to possess, to fail to maintain, gain or save. 3. to fail to profit by; to use labor to no advantage. 4. to lose, to be a loser. 5. to destroy, to bring to ruin or perdition. 6. to set free, release, deliver (in a material and no material). 7. to loosen, unloose, unfetter, to open to relaxation, esp. the body. |
| Leese | n. | Lose, failure to do something. |
| Leeser | n. | A destroyer. 2. a deliverer |
| Leesing | n | Loosing, loosening, loss. 2. destruction, perdition. 3. deliverance, redemption. |
| Lee shore | n. | A shore that the wind blows against. 2. a shore that affords shelter against the wind. |
| Lee-side | n. | That side of any object which is turned away from the wind, (as opposed to the weather side.) |
| Leesome | adj | Lawful, permissible. |
| Leesomely | adv | Lawfully. |
| Leet | n. | Annual court record kept by the Lord of the Manor, or by an official of a district generally. 2. In East Anglia, a division of a hundred formed for governing, including taxation. |
| Leet | n. | A meeting of the ways, a crossing, as in two-leet, three-leet, fourway-leet. |
| Leet | n | A casting of lots. 2. a stack of peat. |
| Lee-tide | n | A tide running with the wind. |
| Leetman | n | One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet. |
| Leeward | adj. | A sheltered position or condition; sheltered from the wind or a storm, hence calmness, tranquility, also said of the weather. 2. situated on a side turned away from the wind. |
| Leeward | phr | "Upon the Leeward" - on the leeward side. |
| Leewardly | adv | In a way or manner turned away from the wind |
| Leewardness | n | The quality of being leeward. 2. tendency to fall towards leeward. |
| Leeward-tide | n | A tide flowing in a leeward direction |
| Leeway | n | The drift of a sea vessel, aircraft in a leeward direction. 2. a varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin, latitude, elbowroom. 3. an adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually to make up leeway. |
| Leeway | phr | "Make up Leeway" - make up for lost time. 2. struggle from a difficult position. |
| Left | n | The left part, side or direction. 2. a group, faction or party favouring radical, reforming or socialist views. |
| Left | adv. | Of, in the direction of) side of the body in which the heart normally is, opposite right. 2. denotes the limb, side etc., opposite to the right |
| Left | adj | From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, useless”). 2. (comparative more left or lefter, superlative most left or leftmost) 2. the opposite of right; toward the west when one is facing north. 3. the left side. 4. (politics) pertaining to the political left. 5. the west side of the body when one is facing north 6. left-hand, sinister, sinstral |
| Left | adv | Left (not comparable) 2. on the left side 3. towards the left side |
| Left | vb | Past tense of "to leave" - to depart, go away. |
| Left | phr | "A Child by the Left Hand" - a child born out of wedlock. |
| Left | phr | "Be Left With" - retain. 2. be burdened with the responsibility of. |
| Left | phr | "Be Well Left" - be well provided for by legacy. |
| Left | phr | "From Out of Left-field" - from an unexpected source. |
| Left | phr | "Get Left" - to be tricked; deserted or defeat. |
| Left | phr | "Have Left" - have remaining (has no friends left). |
| Left | phr | "Have Two Left Feet" - move clumsily. |
| Left | phr | "Left and Right" - all over the place, on all sides, indiscriminately, frequently or excessively. |
| Left | phr | "Left for Dead" - abandoned, beyond the point of rescue. |
| Left | phr | "Left-handed Oath" - one not intended to be binding. |
| Left | phr | "Left-handed Wife" - a wife of a morganatic marriage. |
| Left | phr | "Left on the Shelf" - likely to remain unmarried because of age or being unattractive. |
| Left | phr | "Left Over" - something, especially food, remaining the rest has been used. 2. a part not used or consumed. 3. |
| Left | phr | "Left Out" - omitted, rejected, ostracized. |
| Left | phr | "One's Left Hand Does Not Know What One's Right Hand is Doing" - one acts secretly, for reasons not known to oneself or in a way that seems haphazard or contrary to one's interests or principles. |
| Left | phr | "One's Right Hand Does Not Know What One's Left Hand is Doing" - we both knew the the temptations of action, and how even clear-sighted men did not enquire. |
| Left | phr | "Out Of Left Field" - an unexpected problem. 2. an unexpected, bizarre or unwatched source or place. 3. unexpected, suddenly, and surprizing. 4. out of the blue; out of nowhere. |
| Left | phr | "Over the Left" - implying that the words to which it is applied express the reverse of what is meant. 2. in early times, a way of expressing dis belief, incredulity or a negative. |
| Left | phr | "See with the Left Eye" - expression implying inefficiency in performance. 2. 'work with the left hand'. |
| Left | phr | "The Left Hand of Friendship" - to deal unfriendly with. |
| Left | phr | "Two left Feet" - clumsily and awkward of movement, esp. when dancing. |
| Left-addle | n | Paralysis, palsy, from "left" : weak & "addle": sickness. |
| Left-brained | adj | Of or relating to a person who behavior is dominated by logic and analytical thought. 2. of or relating to the thought processes, such as logic and calculation, generally associated in the left of the brained. |
| Left-drag | vb | To drag an item using the left mouse button. |
| Left-eyed | adj | Having the eye or eye(s), or eye-like features, esp. as specified. |
| Left-eyedness | n | The state or condition having the eye or eye(s), or eye-like features, esp. as specified. |
| Left-footed | adj | One who plays sport, usually football with their left foot. 2. played using the left foot. |
| Left-footer | n | A slang for a Roman Catholic. |
| Left-half | n | The left part of anything. |
| left-hand | adj | Of, or relating to, or located on the left. 2. designed for use by the left hand. 3. in the opposite direction or orientation to the right-hand rule (a left-hand thread.) |
| Left-hand drive | n | Of a motor vehicle with the steering wheel on the left-hand side. |
| Left-handed | n | "The Left-handed" - left-handed people, taken as a whole. |
| Left-handed | adj | Having more skill or power in the left hand or side. 2. using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right. 3. intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand. 4. turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise. 5. awkward or maladroit. |
| Left-handedly | adv | n a left-handed manner or way. |
| Left-handeness | n | the state of being left-handed. |
| Left-handed tongue | n. | Hebrew, Arabic and others Semitic tongues that write their script from left to right. |
| Left-hander | n | One who is left-handed. 2. a blow struck with the left hand. |
| Left-handiness | n | Quality or condition of being left-handed. |
| Left-hand path | n | (An occult term)a path through life that values the advancement and preservation of the self and the pursuit of terrestrial goals, rather than the worship of intangible deities. |
| Leftie | n | See 'lefty" |
| Leftish | adj | Leaning to or towards the political left. |
| Left-leaning | adj | Leaning towards the left-side of politics; |
| Leftmost | adj | Situated most left. |
| Leftness | n. | Of political views supporting leftist or socialist policies |
| Left-out | adj | Rejected or ostracized from a group. |
| Left-over | n | Something remaining; residue. 2. a survival from the past. |
| Left-over | adj | That left over or remaining unconsumed; residual. |
| Leftovers | n | Something or things left behind; an excess; remainder; in reverse. 2. remaining, left behind food-bits after a meal. |
| Leftsomes | adj. | In a leftward direction; leftwards |
| Left turn | n | A turn that brings one's frontto face as a one's left side did before. 2. a turn or turning to the left. |
| Left turn | n | Left turns shall yield to oncoming traffic. The driver reaching the intersection first has the right-of-way unless turning left. When two vehicles reach the intersection simultaneously, the one on the right has the right-of-way. |
| Leftwardly | adv | In a leftwards direction. |
| Leftwardness | n | The state or position of being or heading towards the left. |
| Leftward | adj. | To or on the left; in the direction of the left. |
| Leftward | adv | To or from the left. |
| Leftwards | adv | Leftwards, towards the left. |
| Left-wing | adj. | The holding of political views supporting left or socialist policies. |
| Left-winger | n | One who favors a leftist or socialist policies |
| Left-wingish | adj | Somewhat socialistic in political opinions and philosophy. |
| Leftwise | adv | Towards the left. |
| Left-witted | adj | Dull, stupid, foolish, silly. |
| Lefty | n. | A lefty: a left-handed person. 2. a person holding socialist views. |
| Leighster | n. | A female liar |
| Leighton | n. | A garden (Leac: leek + Tun: enclosure.) |
| Leighton-ward | n. | A gardener |
| Leman | n | A sweetheart of either sex; especially a mistress. (OE. leof: beloved & mann: man) |
| Lend | n. | Loins, also the buttocks. |
| Lend | vb. | To arrive, come. 2. to tarry, remain, stay, dwell, abide. 3. to make one's abode, settle. 4. to cause to come, to bring, place. |
| Lend | n | A loan. |
| Lend | vb | To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned. 2. to make a loan. 3. to be suitable or applicable, to fit. 4. to afford; to grant or furnish in general. |
| Lend | phr | "A Lending Hand" - a helping hand. |
| Lend | phr | "Lend a Hand" - to help, assist, give assistance, esp. voluntarily. |
| Lend | phr | "Lend a Helping Hand" - any assistance, help or aid. |
| Lend | phr | "Lend An?One Ear" - to listen; hearken. |
| Lend | phr | "Lend Itself To" - be suitable; lend to. 2. be usable on. |
| Lend | phr | "Lend Oneself to" - accomodate oneself to a purpose or policy. |
| Lend | phr | "Lend One's Name to Something" - to endorse something. |
| Lend | phr | "Lend Weight to Something" - to use one's influence in support of some cause. |
| Lender | n | One who lends, esp. money. |
| Lending | n | The action of lending. |
| Lending | adj | That lends. |
| Leng | adj. | Long |
| Leng | vb. | To lengthen, to prolong, to delay. 2. to linger, tarry, remain, abide, dwell, to continue in some condition. 3. to rely on, lean on. |
| Lenging | adj | Dwelling |
| Lenging | prp | During. |
| Lengh | n. | OE. height, stature. |
| Length | n | The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object. 2. duration 3. the length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race. 4. distance between the two ends of a line segment. 5. the distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman. 6. (figuratively) total extent. 7. part of something that is long; a physical piece of something. 8. measure of how long a thing is. 9. a stretch of time. 10. a piece of cloth, etc, of a certain fixed length. |
| Length | vb | To lengthen. |
| Length | phr | "At Arm's Length" - away from the body, with ones arms fully extended. 2. avoiding intimacy or close contact. |
| Length | phr | "At Full Length" - in detail, without curtailment. |
| Length | phr | "At Great Length" - for a long time; in detail. |
| Length | phr | "At Length" - in the long run. 2. after an interval of expectation; finally; at last. |
| Length | phr | "Go to Any Lengths" - do anything (regardless of the consequences). |
| Length | phr | "Go to Great/Any Lengths" - to take much trouble. |
| Length | phr | "Length and Breadth" - the whole area of the land, or most or many places within it. 2. the brength. |
| Length | phr | "Length of Days" - long life. |
| Length | phr | "Win by a Length" - to win a boat/horse race by a margin equal to its length. |
| Lengthed | adj | Of a specific length. |
| Lengthen | vb | To make longer, to extend the length of, to be longer. |
| Lengthener | n | A person, or thing that lengthens something. |
| Lengthening | n | Linguistics: a type of sound change when a sound (esp. a vowel) lengthens. |
| Lengthful | adj. | Of great length. |
| Lengthily | adv | In a lengthy manner. |
| Lengthman | n | A person employed to maintain a length of the road and railway. |
| Lengthness | n. | Quality of being lengthy, prolixity. |
| Length-overall | n | Length of a ship from bow to stern. |
| Lengthways | adv | In the direction of the length. |
| Lengthwise | adv | In a long direction of an oblong object. |
| Lengthwise | adv | In a long direction of an oblong object. |
| Lengthy | adj. | Of talk, writing, process, very long, lengthy, prolixy. |
| Lent | n | (OE. Lencten: Spring) - a fast 40 days from Ash Wednesday until Easter Day, commemorating the fast of our Savior in the wilderness. |
| Lenten | n. | Spring---lengthening of the day. 2. pertaining to Lent |
| Lenten-time | n. | Easter. |
| Lenten-day | n. | Lenten-fast: at Lent of provisions, diet, etc, as may be used in Lent. |
| Lenten | adj. | Meager of food, clothing, expression, countenance: dismal, mournful, cold or chary (lenten-looking). |
| Lent lily | n | The daffodil, which blooms in Lent. |
| Lere | vb. | To teach, give instruction, give instruction anent the lore. 2. To show the way, lead the way, guide. 3. to learn, acquire knowledge, become informed. 4. to study, read a book, learn to do something. |
| Lere | phr | Lere and Lewd" - the Learned (clergy) and The Lay (not belonging to the clergy, ignorant |
| Lerer | n. | A teacher, instructor, lecturer. |
| Lering | n | Learning, instruction, doctrine. |
| Lese | vb | To lose, destroy, forsake or abandon. |
| Less | adv. | Not so much, smaller, to a lower agree, to a smaller amount. |
| Less | n | "The Less" - that which is smaller (of two persons or things). 2. the lesser. |
| Less | vb | To make less, to lessen. |
| Less | adj | A smaller amount of; not as much. |
| Less | adv | To a smaller extent. 2. in a lower degree. |
| Less | conj | Unless. |
| Less | prp | Minus, not including. |
| Less | sfx | Lacking something; devoid or without something. 2. deprived or destitute of. 3. beyond the range of (the action of the main element). 4. free from; without. |
| Less | phr | "In Less than No Time" - very quickly,soon. |
| Less | phr | "Less and Less" - at a continually decreasing rate. |
| Lesser | phr | "Lesser Evil" - given two bad choices the one less objectionable. |
| Less | phr | "Lesser of Two Evils" - the more desirable of two bad alternatives. 2. you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. |
| Less | phr | "Less is More" - that which is less complicated is often better understood and more appreciated tha what is more complicated. 2. simplicity is preferable to complexity. 3. brevity in communication is more effective than verbosity. |
| Less | phr | "Less (Least) Said the Better" - saying as little as possible is the best policy in a difficult situation. 2. argument will only aggravate a situation. |
| Less | phr | Less than" - the character < a sign of inequality before two numbers or expressions. |
| Less | phr | Less than Three" - the emoticon <3 meaning love or heart. |
| Less | phr | "Never the Less" - nevertheless, none the less |
| Less | phr | "None the Less" - nonetheless: in spite of what has been said; nevertheless. |
| Less | phr | "Nothing Less Than Something" - far from being; anything rather than. |
| Less | phr | "Still Less" - used to characterize a statement or suggestion as still more unacceptable than one that has already been denied. |
| Lessed | adj | Lowered, shortened, slighted, meager. |
| Lessen | vb | To make less, decrease, to reduce. |
| Lessened | adj | Decreased, less; reduced. |
| Lessening | n | Diminution, disparagement, degradation. |
| Lesser | n | One who or that which lessens. |
| Lesser | phr | "A Lesser Evil" - given two bad choices the one less objectionable. |
| Lesser | phr | "A Lesser of Two Evils" - the more desirable of two bad alternatives. 2. you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. |
| Lesser Bear | n | The constellation of Ursa Minor. |
| Lesser Dog | n | The constellation of Canis Minor. |
| Lesser-known | adj | Know less well than others of the same kind. |
| Lesser-light | n | Somebody in a community, profession etc is respected, but less so than some others. |
| Lessing | n | Lessening, |
| Lessness | n | Quality or condition of being lesser, lacking or inferior (in combination of less & ness.) 2. absolution, forgiveness of sins, redemption. |
| Lest | adv | Late OE. circa. 1200, contracted from Middle English phrase les te "less that," from Old English phrase þy læs þe "whereby less that. 2 a caution against, or fear that we should forget the sacrifice of those who died in war. |
| Let | vb. | To allow or permit: to let him escape. 2. to allow to pass, go, or come: to let us through. 3. to grant the occupancy or use of (land, buildings, rooms, space, etc., or movable property) for rent or hire (sometimes followed by out). 4. to contract or assign for performance, usually under a contract: to let work to a carpenter. 5. to cause to; make: to let one know the truth. 6. to admit of being rented or leased, as an apartment lets weekly. |
| Let | n | To hinder; prevent, delay. |
| Let | n. | A lease |
| Let | phr | "Let Alone" - after idiom, much less, to say nothing of, used (after one negates a clause to introduce another,) as in 'He couldn't fly a kite, let alone an aircraft'. 2. not to mention, as well as, to leave alone, let be, stop bothering; refrain from disturbing, interfering or tampering with. |
| Let | phr | "Let Be" - to refrain from interference. 2. to refrain from interfering with. |
| Let | phr | "Let Blood" - to shed the blood of another. 2. to relieve the blood pressure by cutting a vein. |
| Let | phr | "Let Bygones be Bygones" - to decide to forget past disagreements. |
| Let | phr | "Let Down" - to disappoint another hopes; fail somebody who believes that one is reliable; to betray; desert. 2. to make somebody's spirits sink, depress them. 3. to slacken; abate; to let down in one's efforts. 4. to allow to descend slowly; lower. 5. aeronautics (of an airplane) to descend or lose height from a higher to a lower altitude preparatory to making an approach and landing or a similar manuoeve; land a plane. 6. release the air from, deflate a tyre or balloon. 7. lower, drop, let fall something, such as a bucket, ladder, hair, dress etc. |
| Let | phr | "Let Down Softly" - to reject a person romantically, but do so in the least hurtful way possible. |
| Let | phr | "Let Drop or Fall' - reveal accidentally. |
| Let | phr | Let Fly" - to hurl as a missile. 2. let fly with a torrent of abuse, resentment, criticism. |
| Let | phr | "Let Forth" - allow to flow, be spoken, put forth. |
| Let | phr | "Let Free" - to release from captivity, restraint |
| Let | phr | "Let Freedom Ring" - a statement that the ideas of life, liberty and the pusuit of happiness should be spread acrossthe Earth and allowed to flourish. |
| Let | phr | "Let Get Away With" - allow to escape responsibility. 2. avoid rebuke or punishment. |
| Let | phr | "Let Go" - to allow, permit. 2. to release from one's grasp; release. 3. to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on; unhand. 4. to fail maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance. 5. to relax and enjoy oneself without restraint. |
| Let | phr | "Let Go and Let God..." - idiomatic: to consciously surrender one's free will to the will of God.' |
| Let | phr | "Let Go One's Hold" - let go one's grasp on. 2. fig. allow control to be given to another or others. |
| Let | phr | "Let Him That is Without Sin Throw the First Stone" - only the faultless or impeccable have thr right to pass judgement upon others (implying that no one is faultless.) |
| Let | phr. | "Let In (Somebody /Something" - to admit, permit to enter. 2. to involve (a person) in without his or her knowledge or permission: to let someone in for a loss. 2. to allow something (such as water, cold, rain, light) to enter or penetrate a room, roof, wall, shoe, etc. |
| Let | phr | "Let In For" - make somebody (a firm, colleague, colleague assume responsibility for work, expense, difficulty. 2. to involve in the performance, payment. |
| Let | phr. | "Let In On" to share a secret with; permit to participate in. 2. allow somebody to know about or take part in something that was previously hidden from him/her. |
| Let | phr. | "Let Into" - to insert into the surface of (a wall or the like) as a permanent addition. 2. set into a hollowed-out place in something, such as a cupboard, tube, lighting, wall, body of a patient |
| Let | phr | "Let Into" - allow somebody (guest, spectator, oneself) to enter or admit; penetrate |
| Let | phr | "Let It Be" - - to leave something to follow its natural course. |
| Let | phr | "Let It Be Said" - be admitted or made known. |
| Let | phr | "Let It Go At That" - when rebuking or chiding someone; and depending on the context, leave things as they are. 2. not about ready to take further action or make any additional comments. |
| Let | phr | "Let It Ride" -- let the situation take its own course. |
| Let | phr | "Let Know" - inform , make aware of something. |
| Let | phr | "Let Loose" - to free, liberate, release from restraint. 2. to shout, make a loud sound, or perform a sudden, vehement action. 3. to behave in a raucous manner. |
| Let | phr | "Let Me See" - a phrase used as a filler to indicate that the speaker is thinking and pondering before speaking. 2. let's see. |
| Let | phr | "Let Me Tell You" - let me assure you; be sure of this. |
| Let | phr | "Let Not the Sun Go Down On One's Wrath" - seek to dispel ill-will between you and your loved-ones before day's end (before sleep); and not to act upon desires for vengeance. |
| let | phr | "Let Off" - to release by exploding; to discharge or reduce, as pressure.. 2. to free from duty, responsibility (often an unpleasant one); excuse. 3. to allow to go with little or no punishment; pardon: "the judge let off the youthful criminal with a reprimand." 4. allow a pasenger to disembark or alight from a boat, aircraft. 5. have flatulence; fart, break wind. 6. allow others to rent a building in portions. |
| Let | phr | "Let Off the Hook " - free somebody from an unpleasant task, an embarrassing situation. |
| Let | phr | "Let Off Steam" - release tension, feelings that have been restrained; blow off steam. |
| Let | phr | "Let Off With" - to give somebody a lighter sentence than the law allows. |
| Let | phr. | "Let On (about)" - to reveal one's true feelings. 2. reveal, disclose, give away (a secret), etc. 3. pretend: |
| Let | phr | "Let One's Hair Down" - relax and enjoy oneself (eg. at a party). |
| Let | phr | "Let Oneself Go" - take no pride in one's appearance,or behave without restraint. |
| Let | phr. | "Let Out " - to divulge; reveal, make known, utter. 2. to release from confinement, restraint, unpleasant obligation, etc; let go. 3. to allow to leave or escape. 4. to enlarge or looser (a garment). 5. to terminate; be finished; end. 6. make available for hire; hire out. 7. to make (a let-out fur or pelt). 8. make wider or loser. 9. utter, scream, yell out. |
| Let | phr | "Let Out Of" - to permit to be absence from. 2. allow to leave or go from. |
| Let | phr | "Let Run" - allow to take place, occur. |
| Let | phr | "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" - to leave things as they are; especially, to avoid restarting or rekindling an old argument. 2. to leave disagreements in the past. |
| Let | phr | "Let Slide" - to divulge a secret, as by accident or mistake. 2. fail to pay proper attention. |
| Let | phr | "Let Somebody Go" - release a grip on somebody. 2. release an animal from captivity. 3. alow somebody to proceed. |
| Let | phr | "Let Someone/Somebody Have It" - to attack or assault, as by striking, shooting, or rebuking: The gunman threatened to let the teller have it. |
| Let | phr | "Let the Buyer Beware" - caveat emptor: be prudent and careful when buying. |
| Let | phr | "Let the Cat Out of the Sack" - unintentionally reveal a secret, |
| Let | phr | "Let the Chips Fall Where they May" - to allow events to unfold unnaturally. 2. to acept what occurs without prejudice, worry or regret. |
| Let | phr | "Let the Dead Bury the Dead" - it is better to concern oneself with the living, with the present and future life and work, than remembering the rituals connected with people, institutions, events, customs that are dead. |
| Let | phr | "Let the Good Times Start" - let's celebrate. |
| Let | phr | "Let the Grass Grow Under One's Feet" - to be idle, indolent, be inactive, mentally unalert to what going on. 2. to fail to make progress. 2. to die. |
| Let | phr | Let Them All Come" - a cry of joyous triumph or jubilation, of defiance. |
| Let | phr | "Let the Side Down" - to disappoint or fail one's friends, colleagues. 2. act or behave in a way regarded as unacceptable by one's family. |
| Let | phr | "Let Through" - allow to pass. |
| Let | phr | "Let Up" - to lessen, slow down; slacken, abate. 2. relax one's alertness or effort. 3. lessen in intensity. |
| Let | phr | "Let Up On" - reduce or cease applying pressure or harsh measures to. |
| Let | phr | "Let (Us)" an imperative: we should (let's) do this or what, etc. |
| Let | phr | "Let (Us) Go" - we must leave, depart, start out. |
| Let | phr | "Let (Us) Not and Say We Did" - idiom, colloquial, usually sarcastic, dismissive, indicating that the speaker does agree with the proposed action, and does not wish to participate in. |
| Let | phr | "Let (Us) Say" - let us agree; do you agree? 2. introduces or refers back to an example. |
| Let | phr | "Let (Us)See" - let's consider the matter. |
| Let | phr | "Let Well Enough Alone" - (Leave Well (enough) Alone) - to leave somebody/ something alone; avoid interfering.. 2. to avoid attempts to connect fix or improve what is already sufficient. 3. if it is not broke, don't fix it. |
| Letch | n. | A stream, river flowing through boggy land, ditch or hole, a bog. 2. a pool of blood. |
| Let-down | n. | A come-down, a drop in circumstances, a disappointment. 2. descent of an aircraft, 2. the action of a cow yielding milk. 4. disappoint or fail one who believes in you. |
| Leth | n. | Hatred, ill-will, a despicable feeling, state of loathing. |
| Letless | n | Without let or hindrance. |
| Let-off | n | Exculpation; be allow to escape something. |
| Let-out | n. | An excuse, justification, method of avoiding (a difficulty). 2. a release from an embarrassing situation. |
| Letted | adj | Hindered, impeded, restrained. |
| Letten | adj | Demised, let, leased |
| Letting | n. | The rental of an apartment or a house. 2. the awarding of a public contract. |
| Letting-go | n | The letting-go or being able to cope with past hurts and old injustices that have a way of keeping us stuck in our tracks, unable to move forward or experience happiness or joy. |
| Letty | adj. | That lets or hinders, as 'letty weather'. |
| Let-up | n | A pause or period of slowing. |
| Leve | n | Belief, faith, trust. |
| Leve | vb. | To believe in, upon. 2. trust, give credence to a person. 3. to exercise belief, faith. 4. to accept an alleged fact. |
| Leveness | n | The state or condition of having faith, confidence. |
| Levers | n. | Any sword or blade shaped plant, such as a Gladioli. |
| Lew | adj | OE: warm, sunny. 2. lukewarm, tepid. 3. sheltered from the wind; protected. 4. of a leaden or pele color. |
| Lew | n. | Warmth, heat. 2. shelter; protection. |
| Lew | adj. | Lame in a limb, organ: "lewsa": inopia. 2. weak. |
| Lew | vb. | To make warm or tepid. 2. to shelter, cover |
| Lewd | adj. | Lay, not in holy orders or clerical. 2. unlearned, untaught, ignorant. 3. Of speech, rude, artless, vulgar, base, ignorant, foolish. 4. unskillful, bungling. 5. Of the lower order of folk, ill-bred, ill-mannered, rude, rustic. 6. of persons, bad, vile, evil, wicked, base, good-for-nothing. 7. of things, poor, sorry, bad, worthless. |
| Lewdhood | n. | Ignorance, lewdness. |
| Lewdly | adv | Inclined to, or characterized by, or inciting to lust or lechery; lascivious. 2. obscene or indirect in language or song. |
| Lewdness | n | Pre-occupied with sex and sexual desire, lustful, obscene and wickedness. 2. unearned, lay, ignorant. |
| Lewdy | adv. | Unlearnedly, ignorantly,foolishly, evilly, badly, poorly, wickedly, lascivously. |
| Lewdster | n. | One whose qualities are ignorant, base, evil, lascivious; non-clerical, lay. |
| Lewe | n | A bargain, barter. |
| Lewe | adj. | Treacherous, traitlike, betraying, untrustworthy. |
| Lewe | sfx. | Used to form a few adjectives affected by, liable to, characterized by something undesirable; its use is somewhat parallel to -LY. 2. Gast-lewe: ghostly. |
| Leweness | n | The state or quality of being treacherous. 2. paleness, lividity. |
| Lewth | n. | Shelter, warmth, protection, such as in "house-lewth" |
| Lew-warm | adj. | Lukewarm |
| Ley | n | A piece of land temporary put down to grass, clover, etc for a single season or a limited number of years, in contrast to permanent pasture. 2. fallow. |
| Leyland | n | Fallow land. |
| Leyline | n | The supposed alignments of ancient geographical places such as megaliths (proposed by American researcher and writer Charles Fort who specialized in anomalous phenomena). |
| Leye | n | OE Lieye - flame, blaze, fire. |
| Leye | phr | "On A Leye" - on fire, burning. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Lude | n | Noise, din, clamour. |
| Luke | adj. | Moderately warm, tepid. 2. of persons, their actions, attributes: having little worth or depth; lacking enthusiasm candor; indifferent. |
| Luke | vb | To make luke warm. |
| Luke-hearted | adj | Having little warmth or feeling; indifferent. |
| Luke-hot | adj | Not very hot; tepid. |
| Lukely | adv | In a tepid or unenthusiastic manner or way. |
| Lukeness | n | The state or quality of being tepid. 2. the action or attitude of lacking enthusiasm, candour, indifference. |
| Lukewarm | adj | Moderately warm. 2. of persons, etc. having little warm or depth of feeling. 2. lacking zeal or enthusiasm, indifferent. |
| Lukewarmish | adj | Somewhat or rather cool. 2. of attitude: having little feeling or warmth of feeling. |
| Lukewarmly | adv | In a lukewarm manner, tepidly, without enthusiasm. |
| Lukewarmth | n | State or condition of being moderately warm. 2. lacking of feeling or depth. 3. zeal moderation or enthusiasm temperate. |
| Luke-warmthness | n | State or condition of being lukewarm; lukewarmness. |
| Lung | n. | Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood |
| Lung-busting | adj | Exhausting, causing someone to be out of breath. |
| Lung-butter | n | Thick, yellow mucus coughed up during illness. 2. thick, brown mucus coughed up due to habitual smoke inhalatiion. |
| Lunged | adj | Furnished with lungs or something resembling lungs, as applied to human being, usually with a prefixed adjective, as 'weak-lunged'. |
| Lungfish | n | A fresh water fish with lungs as well as gills. |
| Lungful | adj | Enough to fill the lungs, esp. of smoke. |
| Lung-grown | adj | Having lungs that adhere to the pleura. |
| Lungless | n | Without lungs. |
| Lung-lessness | n | An absence of lungs. |
| Lung-like | adj | Resembling a lung with some aspect of one. |
| Lung-pipe | n. | Trachea or windpipe. |
| Lungsought | n. | Lung-woe, disease of the lung. |
| Lung-woe | n. | Diseases of the lung; lung-sought. |
| Lung-worm | n | (Angiostrongylus vasorum) a parasite that can cause serious health problems in dogs and can even be fatal if not diagnosed and treated. |
| Lungwort | n | Pulmonaria officinalis, an eurasian plant with dark-coloured leaves spotted with white. |
| Lungy | adj | affected with lung disease. |
| Lure | n. | Loss, action or process of losing, or what is lost. 2. destruction, perdition, bring to lure or loss. |
| Lust | n. | Pleasure, delight, appetite for pleasures. 2. a source of pleasure, joy or delight. 3. an attraction or charm. 4. liking, friendly inclination to a person. 5. desire, appetite, relish or inclination to something. 6. the lust one desires or wishes. 7. sexual appetite or desire. 8. degrading animal passion. 9. lawless passionate desire; over-masterly desire. 10. vigor, power, lusting, fertility. |
| Lust | phr | "Lust After" - strong desire for, covet a woman, man, money, fame, glory. |
| Luster | n | One who lusts. |
| Lust-fiend | n | Devotee or addict to lust |
| Lustful | adj | Having a strong or excessive desire for something. 2. vigorous, lusty. 3. full or characterized by lust. 4. pertaining to or characterized by lust. 5. sensual desire, libidinous. 6. powerful, strong |
| Lustfulness | n | Condition or characteristic of being lustful. 2. full of libido; lust; pleasure, sensual delight. |
| Lustfully | adj | In a lustful manner. |
| Lust-greedy | adj. | Given to or overcome by excessive desire or lust, pleasure, sensual delight. |
| Lustihood | n | Lustiness, vigor of body; sexual energy. 2. a state of pleasure or sensual delight. |
| Lustily | adv | In a lusty, libido or vigorous manner. 2. pleasurably, sensually delightfully. |
| Lustiness | n | Pleasure, sensual delight, vigour. 2. with great libido. |
| Lusting | n | The having of a straong sexual sexual desire for someone. 2. having a strong desire for someone. |
| Lustingly | adv | With lust, lustfully. |
| Lustless | adj | Without or having no lust or sexual desire. 2. without sexual desire, vigor, or energy, listless. 3. without joyfulness, pleasure or delight. |
| Lustlessly | adv | In a lustful manner. |
| Lustlessness | n | The state or condition of being without lust; absence of lust. |
| Lustmaking | n | Sexual intercourse solely for lust. |
| Lust-murder | n | Murder accompanied by mutilation, often of a sexual nature. |
| Lustsome | adj | Covetous, wilfully. |
| Lust-wearied | adj. | Tired or exhausted sexually. |
| Lustwort | n. | Round-leafed sundew; Drosera rotundfolia. |
| Lusty | adj. | Driven or inclined to lust. 2. joyful, merry, lively. 3. pleasing, pleasant. 4. of persons, gaily dressed. 5. full of desire, desirous. 6. full of sexual desire, lustful. 7. full of healthy vigour, strong. 8. insolent, arrogant, self-confident. 9. of a fine wine, poison, disease: strong, powerful. 10. of a ship: sailing well. 11. of actions: vigorous. 12. of a meal: hearty, abundant. 13. massive, substantial, large. 14. of persons: massively built, hence corpulent. |
| Lutter | adj. | Pure. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Ly | sfx | Used to form adjectives from nouns, the adjectives having the sense of "like or characteristic of what is denoted by the noun". (friendly). 2. Used to form adjectives from nouns specifying time intervals, the adjectives having the sense of "occurring at such intervals". (monthly, daily). |
| Lych-bell | n. | Bell (lich-bell) held in hand, and rung before or as the coffin is brought into the church. |
| Lychgate | n | The roofed gateway to a churchyard which the corpse is set down, to await the clergyman's arrival; lich-house |
| Lych-house | n | Mortuary, morgue, lich-house, funeral parlour, undertaker's (home). |
| Lych-owl | n. | The Screech-owl, so called because its cry was supposed to portent death in an hour; lich-owl. |
| Lychwake | n | The funeral feast or the waking, or watching of a corpse all night long. |
| Lychwale | n | A plant, the gromwell; lichwale. |
| Lychway | n | (Lich-way)The path by which a funeral is conveyed to church, which infrequently deviates from the ordinary road. It was long supposed that wherever a body passed became a public thoroughfare. |
| Lychwort | n. | Peritoria or Parietaria officinalis, also sometimes spelt: "lichewort" |
| Lychy | adv. | Like a body, deathly, mournful |
| Lye | n. | Alkalized water, detergent, soap. 2. any strong alkaline solution, especially of potassium hydroxide used for washing or cleansing 3. lixivium. |
| Lyed | adj | Steeped or soaked in lye or dye. |
| Lye-pot | n. | A vessel to hold lye for use aa s hair wash. |
| Lying | n. | The action of telling a lie or untruth. See "lie" |
| Lying | adj. | Reclining. 2 |
| Lying-in | n | The final stages of pregnancy; accouchement; lying. 2. of, or relating to childbirth. |
| Lyingly | adv | In a lying manner; mendacious. |
| Lyke-wake | n. | OE: "lich" a body & wake: stay awake. 2. the watch or vigil kept through the night over a dead body. |
| Lythe | adj |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Liar | n | One who intentionally speaks falsely and deceptively; one giving to lying. |
| Lib | n | Medicine, drugs, medication, libb (other spelling). 2. a charm, potion. |
| Lib | vb | To castrate, geld, maim. |
| Libbed | adj | Castrated, gelded, maimed. |
| Libbing | n | The act or procedure of gelding, castrating, maiming. |
| Libcraft | n | Skill in medicine and healing. |
| Licham | n | OE. lich: body & ham: shape, covering, garment. It has been suggested that the word was poetical describing the body as a " fleshly garment" of the soul. 2. the body, the living body, also body as a seat of desire and appetite. 3. a dead body, corpse, cadaver, deceasant. |
| Lichamly | adj. | Bodily, of the nature of the body, of or pertaining to the body; carnal. 2. in a bodily manner, in the flesh. |
| Lich | n | The living body; also the trunk, as opposed to the limb. 2. corpse, dead body. |
| Lich-bell | n. | Bell held in hand, and rung before or as the coffin is brought into the church. |
| Liche | n | Form, figure, shape, guise. |
| Lich-gate | n | The roofed gateway to a churchyard which the corpse is set down, to await the clergyman's arrival. |
| Lich-house | n | Mortuary, morgue, funeral parlour, undertaker's (home). |
| Lichless | adj | Without a dead body or corpse. |
| Lich-owl | n. | The Screech-owl, so called because its cry was supposed to portent death in an hour. |
| Lich-wake | n | The funeral feast or the waking, or watching of a corpse all night long. |
| Lichwale | n | A plant, the gromwell. |
| Lichway | n | The path by which a funeral is conveyed to church, which infrequently deviates from the ordinary road. It was long supposed that wherever a body passed became a public thoroughfare. |
| Lichwort | n. | Peritoria or Parietaria officinalis, also sometimes spelt: "lychewort" |
| Lichy | adv. | Like a body, deathly, mournful. |
| Lick | n | A stroke of the tongue over something; the act of licking; a stroke of the tongue. 2. a stroke or blow. 3. as much as can be taken up by one stroke of the tongue; the amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.. 3. slang: a blow. 4. slang: a brief, brisk burst of activity or energy; speed. 5. slang: a quick pace or clip; speed; a quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue, as lick of paint.' 6. slang: a small amount: 'I haven't done a lick of work all week.' 7. a place where animals lick minerals from the ground. 8. a small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream. 10. (colloquial) a bit., as a lick of sense. 11. (music) a short motif, as 'some good blues licks in this solo.' |
| Lick | vb | To pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp. 2. to beat, annihilate. 3. to make, or cause to become, by stroking with the tongue: to lick a spoon clean. 4. of waves, flames, etc - to pass or play lightly over: "the flame licked the dry timber." 5. to hit or beat, especially as a punishment; thrash; whip. 6. to overcome or defeat, as in a fight, game, or contest. 7. to outdo or surpass. 8. to move quickly or lightly. |
| Lick | phr | "At Full or great Lick" - at great speed. |
| Lick | phr | "It Licks Me" - I can't explain. |
| Lick | phr | "Last Licks" - a final turn or opportunity; chance. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick Clean" - to lick free from. |
| Lick | phr | Lick It" - to run or move at full speed. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick Into Fits" - to defeat thoroughly. |
| Lick | phr | Lick Into Shape" - to bring to completion, proper standards or perfection through discipline, efficiency, organization, hard work, etc. 2. to give form and regularity to. 3. to mold, make presentable (as a bear with her cubs.) |
| Lick | phr | "Lick Off" - remove by licking, as chocolate, jam, etc. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick One's Fingers" - relish or delight at taste morsels of food. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick One's Knife" - of a person: parsimonious. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick One's Shoes" - to curry favr, to be abjectly servile, be a lickspittle. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick One's Lips" - to anticipate with eagerness or anticipation.. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick One's Winning" - to make the best of a bargain. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick One's Wounds" - to try and heal one's injuries, or soothe one feelings hurt by defeat or setback. 2. to adjust to defeat. 3. comfort oneself (immediately) after suffering discomfort or pain. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick Out" - to remove (from a container)by licking |
| Lick | phr | Lick Over" - to take in or up by licking. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick Somebody's Shoes/Arse" - to toady to someone one hopes to please or conciliate,, esp. somebody ranking as one's superior or somebody one fears.. 2. behave in a servile way. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick Something Into Shape" - make something better. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick the Dust" - to fall prostate. 2. be vanquished; be excessively servile. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick the Fat From One's Head" - to cheat someone of his or her gains. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick the Ground (shoes)" - an expression of abject servility. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick Up" - to lap up; take up into the mouth by licking, as a cat does. 2. devour greedily. |
| Lick | phr | "Lick Whole" - to heal a wound by licking. |
| Licked | adj | Stroked by the tongue. |
| Licker | n | One who licks or passes their tongue over surface of something, to taste or eat food, moisten, as a stamp. 2. the tongue (the licker.) |
| Lickerish | adj | Fond of and eager for choice food. 2. pleasant to the palate. 3. sweet, tempting, attractive. of a cook: skillful in preparing dainties. 4. greedy longing. 5. lustful, lecherous. |
| Lickerish-lips | n | Sweet, attractive tempting lips. |
| Lickerish-ness | n | The quality of being lickerish |
| Lick-finger | n | A cook (slang.) |
| Lick-foot | n | One who is servile, grovelling, sycophant; abject toady. 2. a lick-spittle. |
| Licking | phr | The act of licking or lapping. 2. a lapping with the tongue; lambasting. 3. a castigation; a defeat. |
| Lick-ladle | n | A parasite; a lick-dish. |
| Lickpot | n | Name of the first finger. |
| Licks | n | A critical or complaining remark. * "last licks" - a final turn or opportunity; chance. |
| Lickspittle | n | Sycophant, abject toady. 2. a contemptible fawning person; a servile flatterer. |
| Licky | adj | Prone to licking. |
| Lid | n | That which covers an opening at the top of a vessel or closes the mouth of an aperture. 2. the hinged upper part of a receptacle. 3. the cover to a box, coffer (with or without a hinge) 4. etc. the top crust of a pie. 5. a lid of an eye: an eyelid. 6. each of the covers of a book. 7. a hat (slang). |
| Lid | phr | "Blow the Lid Off." - anything, such as newsworthy story or article, revealed or exposed; a revelation, expose. |
| Lid | phr | "Keep the Lid On (Something)" - keep the matter under control. |
| Lid | phr | "Lid of the Knee" - the patella. |
| Lid | phr | "Blow the Lid Off." - disclose anything, such as newsworthy story or article, revealed or exposed; a revelation, expose. |
| Lid | phr | "Put the (Tin) Lid On." - to bring to a close or climax; to hush up; bring to an end often in an unpleasant way.. |
| Lidded | adj | Having a lid or covered with a lid. 2. of the eyes: having lids, covered by lids, such as " heavy-lidded, high-lidded: (eyes wide open." |
| Lidding | n | The material used to come and close a container. 2. the act of putting a lid on something. |
| Lide | adj. | OE. noisy, noisily, loud. |
| Lide | n. | The month of March. |
| Lid-gate | n. | A swing gate, a gate set up between a meadow or pasture and ploughed land or a door to prevent cattle straying onto a highway. |
| Lidless | adj. | Without, or not having, a lid. 2. of the eyes: without lids - ever-watchful (poet). |
| Lidlessness | n | The absence of a lid. |
| Lid-lifter | n | The game of the season played in any sport. |
| Lidlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a lid. |
| Lidlock | n | In medicine a specialized instrument used to hold a patient's eye(s) open. |
| Lie | n. | A false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification. 2. something intended or serving to convey a false impression. 3. an inaccurate or false statement; a falsehood. 4. the charge or accusation of telling a lie. 5. the act of speaking falsely or utterance of an untruth knowingly, as with intention to deceive; a fib, prevarication. 6. expression of what is untrue, false. |
| Lie | vb | To speak falsely or utter untruth knowingly, as with intent to deceive; to prevaricate, to fib. 2. to express what is false; convey a false impression. 2. to bring about or affect by lying (often used reflexively): to lie oneself out of a difficulty; accustomed to lying his way out of difficulties. |
| Lie | vb. | To lay down. 2. to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. 2. (of objects) to rest in a horizontal or flat position. 3. to be or remain in a position or state of inactivity, subjection, restraint, concealment, etc.: to lie in ambush. 4. to rest, press, or weigh (usually followed by on or upon): "These things lie upon my mind." 5. to depend (usually followed by on or upon). |
| Lie | n. | The manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio; place, location, site. 2. the haunt or covert of an animal. |
| Lie | phr | "A Lie Has No Feet" - Because it s a lie it cannot stand alone, needs others to lie further to support it and can trip up the perpetrator easily. |
| Lie | phr | "As Far as In Me Lies" - to the best of my power. |
| Lie | phr | "Father of Lies" - Satan, the devil, Lucifer. |
| Lie | phr | "Give Lie To" - to accuse of lying; contradict. 2. to prove wrong, refute or imply the falsity or falseness of something; belie: His poor work gives the lie to his claims of experience. |
| Lie | phr | "Give One the Lie" - to accuse someone in person of telling lies. |
| Lie | phr | "Let Lie" - not raise. |
| Lie | phr | "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" - to refrain from introducing debatable points in a discussion. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Aback" - to be shy, backward, reluctant. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Abed" - one who is not a an early riser. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Abroad" - to lodge or live out or one's home or abode. 2. to reside in a foreign country. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Ahead" - be going to happen; be in store. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Along" - to be prostate or at full length. 2. to be outstretched. 3. to extend along a surface. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie At" - importune, urge upon. 2. to apply one self vigorously and steadily to. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie at Anchor" - be anchored or moored offshore. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie at Death's Door" - be at the point of death; close to dying. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie At One's Door" - to be directly one's responsibility or blameworthy.
2. bear the blame, responsibility, guilt for something. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie At (One's) Heart" - to be the object of one's affections or desire. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie At Ward" - to be on guard. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Awake" - be unable to sleep though having gone to bed for that purpose. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Back" - move back or lie so that one is supported on a bed; by the back of a chair. 2. to lie down from a sitting position. 3. to relax, to exert less effort. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Back and Think of England" - advice supposedly formerly given to women before sexual intercourse with their husbands. (often associated with the Victorians, though not attested until later). "think of England" refers to the importance of children. 2. idiomatic humorous figuratively - used to preface any unpleasant but inevitable experience. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Before" - what might confront, lie ahead or happen to one in the future. 2. to put oneself at the whim of. 3. to bow down to. 4. (esp. of something honorific) to be situated, bowing or prostrate, before. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Behind" - be an explanation for. 2. be cause of. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Beyond" - to be located on the other side of something or someone or a group. 2. to be outside the grasp or the ability of someone or a group. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie By" - a pausing for rest; stopping of activities, work, etc., temporarily. 2. concubine, mistress. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Down" - be, move into, a horizontal position on a bed in order to rest or sleep. 2. to assume a horizontal or prostrate position, as for the purpose of resting. 2. accept failure. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Down Under" - accept without protestor resistance. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Hard Or Heavy On" - to oppress, or burden. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Heavy (at Heart)" - to cause one to suffer great anxiety. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Heavily Upon" - to oppress, harass. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie In" - to be confined to bed in childbirth. 2. to stay in bed longer than usual, especially in the morning. 3. to rest. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie In Dust" - to be in ruins. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie In One's Hands" - to be responsible for doing. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie In One's Way" - be a hindrance. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Low?" - to hide, stay out the way of harm or capture. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Off" - (of a ship) - to stand some distance from the shore or another watercraft. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Of the Land" - particulars of a given situation. 2. the current state of affairs. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie On" - to be laid on. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie On Hand" - to remain, unsold. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Open" - reveal. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Over" - to be postponed, deferred, remain unpaid or held over or await attention or action at some future time: 'The other business on the agenda will have to lie over until the next meeting. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Through One's Teeth" - "Lie In One's Throat/Teeth" - to lie grossly, blatantly, brazenly or maliciously. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie To" - deceive by lies and falsehoods. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie To" - of a ship: to lie comparatively stationary, usually with the head as near the wind as possible. 2. have halted, be anchored, anchor. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Under" - to be subject to some disadvantage or obligation. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Up" - to lie at rest; stay in bed; refrain from work owing to illness. 2. of a ship: to dock or remain in dock. 3. to be laid out for burial. 4. hide; go into hiding in order to escape enemies, pursuers. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie Upon" - lie upon the prosecution to prove that the defendant is guilty. 2. to importune; urge, solicit. 3. to lie upon a bed. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie With" - to have sexual relations with; to copulate. 2. be responsible for. |
| Lie | phr | "Lie With One's Fathers" - to be buried in one's native place or with one's ancestors. |
| Lie | phr | "Little White Lie" - an innocent lie told to avoid or stop hurting the feelings of another. |
| Lie | phr | "Live a Lie" - pursue a dishonest and false way of life. |
| Lie | phr | "Make One's Bed and Lie On It" - one has to bear the consequences of one's actions. |
| Lie | phr | "Take Lying Down" - to hear or yield without protest, contradiction, or resistance. |
| Lie | phr | "Take Something Lying Down" - accept something without protest, or argument. |
| Lie | phr | "Tell a White Lie" - a innocent or lie of convenience. |
| Lie | phr | "Without Lie" - truly, truthfully, without falsehood. |
| Lie-abed | n | A person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour. |
| Lie-by | n | A concubine; mistress. |
| Lied-like | adj | Resembling a German folksong (lede) and like or some aspect of it. |
| Lie-down | n | A rest, have a short sleep or rest. |
| Lief | n. | Belief; love. 2. a beloved; a dear one, a sweetheart, a friend; occasionally, a wife |
| Lief | adj. | Beloved, dear, dearly loved, agreeable, precious. 2. desirous, wishful, willing, glad. 3. willing; freely; as willing as not. |
| Lief | adv | Willing; freely; as willing as not. |
| Lief | phr | "Lief and Dear" - beloved and dear. |
| Lief | phr | "Lief and Loath" - loved and detested. |
| Lief | phr | "Lief to Me" - dear to me. |
| Liefer | adv | More glad or willingly. |
| Liefly | adv. | Lovable, lovely, pleasantly, dear, applied to both persons and things. |
| Liefness | n. | Dearness, pleasantness. |
| Liefsome | adj | Agreeable, pleasant, delightful. |
| Lie-giver | n | One who lies or speaks falsehoods. |
| Lie-giving | n | The act of telling lies. |
| Lie-hating | n | One who hates liars and lying. |
| Lie-in | n | A prolonged stay in bed in the morning. |
| Lie-monger | n | One who peddles lies and deception, a liemonger; a malicious rumor-monger; a monger of lies. |
| Lier | n | A person or thing that lies, as in wait for an ambush. |
| Lie-up | n | Staying in bed to rest or recuperate during and after an illness. |
| Lie-upon | n | To be incumbent upon. 2. to be up to someone. 3. to be obligatory upon. |
| Life | n | The state of being alive. 2. the essence of the manifestation and the foundation of the being. 3. the subjective and inner manifestation of the individual. 4. the essence of God. 5. the world in general, existence. 6. a worthwhile existence.
7. something inherently part of a person's existence. 8. a life sentence. 9. duration (of life). 10. one of the player's chances to play. |
| Life | phr | "All My Life" - during one's life; denoting the most important events of its kind in one's life |
| Life | phr | "Another Life" - the state of existence after death. |
| Life | phr | "Breathe Life Into" - enliven, invigorate; the breath of life. |
| Life | phr | "Breathe of Life" - something that enlivens, invigorates. |
| Life | phr | "Bring to Life" - to resuscitate, to revive someone apparently dead. |
| Life | phr | "Cannot For the Life of Me" - I just cannot. |
| Life | phr | "Come To Life" - come alive (of something non-living.). 2. awake of somebody sleeping; regaining consciousness. 3. revive; to recover from a faint. |
| Life | phr | "Do Of Life-day" - to kill. |
| Life | phr | "Drawn From Life" - examples taken from one's own life experiences. |
| Life | phr | "For Dear Life" - very quickly, and usually in desperation. |
| Life | phr | "For Life" - for the remaining part of one's life. 2. lasting a lifetime. |
| Life | phr | "Love One More Than For Life Itself" - prepare to give one's life for a loved one or friend, especially a child. |
| Life | phr | "For My Dear Life" - very energetically; very quickly, somewhat desperately. |
| Life | phr | "For One's Life" - extremely desperately. |
| Life | phr | "For the Life" - as if one's life depended on it. |
| Life | phr | "For the Life Of One/Me" - emphasizes or underline one's inability to do something (even if one's life depended on it). |
| Life | phr | "Give Life to" - to bring into active use. 2. to impart an impetus to. |
| Life | phr | "Give One's Life" - sacrifice one's life for. |
| Life | phr | "Have A Life Of It's Own" - of an independent existence with some characteristic of life. |
| Life | phr | "Have the Time of One's Life" - have a very enjoyable time. 2. have a time so good that in remain dear in your memory. |
| Life | phr | "How's Life" - how are you going. |
| Life | phr | "It's a Great life, If You Don't Weaken" - an ironic comment on the difficulties of one's life. |
| Life | phr | "Lay down One's Life" - to give one's life for the sake of others. |
| Life | phr | "Lead a Cat and Dog Life" - have an life lacking tranquility, a worrying life. |
| Life | phr | "Lead a Dog's Life" - have an unpeaceful, worrying life. |
| Life | phr | "Leave this World" - die, depart, pass away. |
| Life | phr | "Leese One's Life-dawes" - to die. |
| Life | phr | "Life after Death" - The state of life after death. 2. an existence of life in heaven. |
| Life | phr | "Life and Death" - desperate situation; something very critical. |
| Life | phr | "Life and Limb" - one's survival and/or preservation from accident and injury. |
| Life | phr | "Life and Soul" - with total commitment. |
| Life | phr | "Life and Work" - a biography combined with the study of the writing of the subject. |
| Life | phr | "Life Begins at Forty" - people of forty are mature but still fit, will generally have established their values, be freer from emotional, and financial and career problem, responsibilities of child rearing. |
| Life | phr | "Life in the Fast Lane" - existence full of exciting but worthless activity. |
| Life | phr | "Life's a Bitch" - an expression of acceptance of misfortune. |
| Life | phr | "Life is Hell" - usually an assessment of, or grumble about, specific circumstances rather than expressing a pessimistic view about life in general. |
| Life | phr | "Life is Not a Bed of Roses" - life for certain people in certain circumstances etc is not easy or pleasant. |
| Life | phr | "Life is Not Worth Living" - one gets (no/little) satisfaction or pleasure , perhaps temporarily, from the way one has to live. |
| Life | phr | "Life is One Blasted Thing After Another" - life is a succession of tiresome incidents, duties etc. |
| Life | phr | "Life Is Too Short (to do this or that)" - no part of one's life should be wasted on something (in the speaker's opinion) so unnecessary, frivolous, profitless, etc. |
| Life | phr | "Life Of its Own" - an independent existence with some characteristics of life. |
| Life | phr | "Life of the Mind" - intellectual or aesthetic pursuits, scholarship. 2. the realm of the imagination. |
| Life | phr | "Live the High Life" - enjoy a luxurious lifestyle. |
| Life | phr | "Loose One's Life" - be killed. |
| Life | phr | "Not On Your Life" - definitely not!. |
| Life | phr | "One's Life and Time" - one's life including, and in relation to, contemporary conditions, events and personalities. |
| Life | phr | "On My Life" - I will answer for it by my life. |
| Life | phr | "Run for Your/One's Life" - run as quickly or fast as possible. |
| Life | phr | "See Life" - experience how other people live. 2. live or move in fast society. |
| Life | phr | "Staff of Life" - bread |
| Life | phr | "Take On a Life of It's Own" - no longer able to be controlled by anyone. |
| Life | phr | "Take One's Life in One's Own Hands" - risk death or injury by unwise decisions and actions. |
| Life | phr | "Take One's Own Life" - commit suicide. |
| Life | phr | "That's Life" - that is the way things generally occur. |
| Life | phr | "There's Life in the Old dog Yet" - one may be elderly, but is still alert and active. |
| Life | phr | "This Life" - earthy existence in contradistinction to the future life. |
| Life | phr | "This is the Life" - expression of satisfaction. |
| Life | phr | "Throw a Lifeline (to Somebody)" - help somebody having (financial) difficulties. |
| Life | phr | "Time Of One's Life" - a very happy and enjoyable time. |
| Life | phr | "To the Life" - with life-like presentation or resemblance of the origin. 2. with fidelity to nature; in exact reproduction; exactly resemblancing, facsimile. |
| Life | phr | "Tree of Life" - the tree arborvitae. |
| Life | phr | "True to Life" - real, closely resembling. |
| Life | phr | "Upon One's Life" - to be on a capital charge. |
| Life | phr | "Walk of Life" - one's occupation, social background. |
| Life | phr | "Where's There's Life There's Hope" - do not despair even at a time of great difficulty, for there's always hope things will get better. |
| Life-after-death | adj | Of life after death. 2. of existence in heaven. |
| Life-and-death | adj | Vitally important; desperate. |
| Life-bearing | adj | Supporting, sustaining, or carrying life. |
| Life-belt | n | A life preserver in the form of a belt. |
| Life-blissful | adj | Having a happy life. |
| Lifeblood | n | The blood necessary to life; vital blood. 2. anything giving strength or energy or as indispensable as blood. |
| Lifeboat | n | A strong, buoyant boat used in abandoning ship, saving castaways, in a shipwreck etc. |
| Life-body | n | "Fragile, tender life-body." |
| Life-breath | n | The breath which supports life. |
| Life-bringing | adj | Breathing life into, creating. 2. life-bringing words of The Father. |
| Lifecare | n | The care of elderly people within a dedicated community after retirement and usually until their death. |
| Life-clouded | adj | "Not in stone or bronze but in the life-clouded tortoise-shell. |
| Life-craft | n | Therapy and treatment for those suffering health problems. 2. strategies for living; the acquisition and practice of life-skills. |
| Life-death | n | Suffering a living death. |
| Life-draining | n | Exhausting or draining ofvitality. |
| Life-drop | n | A drop of one's heart's blood, as in 'life-drops dims my gory spear.' |
| Life-empty | adj | "Everyone nice, but rather spent, rather life-empty." |
| Life-flow | n | "life-flow of justice." 2. people who complain of loneliness must have lost their life-flow, like a plant whose roots have been cut. |
| Life-food | n | The eating of foods thought beneficial to a healthy life. |
| Lifeful | adj | Full of, giving vitality; outgiving. |
| Lifefully | adv | Living life fully or to the full. |
| Life'ful-less | n | Not inhabited by living beings or capable of sustaining life. 2. lacking vitality or animation, dull. |
| Life'ful-ness | n | Vitality, animated, sustaining life. |
| Life-giving | adj | Sustaining or revitalizing life. |
| Life-hack | n | In computing, the producing of an inelegant solution to a specific computer problem. 2. a solution unrelated to computers that might occur in a programmer's daily life. 3. one who life hacks. |
| Life-hacking | adj | The action of producing an inelegant solution to a specific computer problem. 2. the experience of finding a solution unrelated to computers that might occur in a programmer's daily life. |
| Life-holder | n | One who holds a property for life. |
| Life-holding | adj | The act of holding a property for life. |
| Life-holy | adj | Of a holy life; holiness. |
| Lifehood | n | Livehood; means of maintaining life; sustenance. |
| Life-in-death | n | A phantom state, a condition of being or seeming to be neither alive or dead. 2. something having the appearance of the supernatural; an apparition; specter. |
| Life-lengthened | adj | life extended by medical and life-style measures. |
| Lifeless | adj | Inanimate; having no life; inert. 2. dead; departed, having lost life. 3. uninhabited, by people or animals, and incapable of supporting life. 4. dull or lacking life; torpid. |
| Lifelessly | adv | Without life or appearing to be without life. |
| Lifelessness | n | The property of being lifeless. 2. lacking of apparent animation. |
| Lifelike | adj | Like a living being being or creature. 2. resembling life, giving an accurate representation, as a life-like portrait. 3. resembling closely. |
| Life-line | n | A line to which a drowning or falling man can cling to. 2. a means or route for transporting indispensable supplies. 3. a source of salvation in a crisis. 4. a system or structure of vital importance in a community. 5. on the deck of a boat, a line to which one can attach oneself to stay aboard in rough seas. |
| Lifelong | adj | Extending for the entire length or duration of one's life. 2. lasting one's lifetime. |
| Lifelore | n | The knowledge of life or life experiences. 2. the study of life; biology. |
| Life-lost | adj | Days or time 'lost' of one's life through idleness, thoughtlessness or misfortune. |
| Life-love | n | The love of one's life; a soul-mate; kindred spirit. |
| Lifely | adj | Of, pertaining to, or endured in life; living, vital, essential. |
| Lifeman | n | One practices lifemanship. |
| Lifemanship | n | Skill in getting the edge over another, or acquiring an advantage over another person. |
| Lifen | adj | To make lifelike. |
| Lifeness | n | The state or quality of having life. |
| Life-old | adj | Of previous times or epochs. |
| Life-or-death | adj | Of critical importance to the survival of a living organism. |
| Lifepath | n | The path through life, as determined by the decisions one's makes |
| Lifer | n | A prisoner sentenced to life in prison. 2. a prisoner sentenced to transportation for life. 3. a person who makes a career in the military. |
| Life-ring | n | A life-buoy. |
| Life-quelling | adj | Destructive to life |
| Life quick | adj | "Now days society is evil, it finds subtle way to the life-quick to torture, to destroy the life quick in a man." |
| Lifer | n | A prisoner sentenced to life in prison. 2. a prisoner sentenced to transportation for life. 3. a person who makes a career in the military. |
| Life-reaving | adj | The destruction of life; killing, robbing of life. |
| Life-ring | n | A lifebuoy. |
| Life's end | n | The time of dying; death throes. |
| Life's-sithe | n | Lifetime. 2. journey. |
| Lifesome | adj | Fraught with life. 2. full of animation; lively. |
| Lifesomely | adv | In a fraught manner. 2. in an animated way. |
| Lifespan | n | Lifetime; period of duration of life. |
| Lifespring | n | The spring or source of life, energy, or power. |
| Lifestream | n | According certain New Age beliefs, a stream of life forces associated with an individual. 2. (internet) a time-ordered stream of documents that function as a diary of one's electronic life. |
| Lifestreaming | n | (Internet) - the keeping of a life-stream diary. |
| Lifestring | n | A nerve or string supposed to be essential to life. |
| Life-sweet | adj | Sweet, pleasing, endearing to the senses. |
| Life-thirsting | adj | "Life-thirsting jurymen: ready and eager to find defendants guilty of a capital offence. |
| Life's wet | n | Blood |
| Life's work | n | See "lifework". |
| Life-teeming | adj | Teeming with, or abundant with life. |
| Life-table | n | A statistical table arranged to show the number of people in a population who will survive to a given age and the probable life expectancy of a person at that or any other age.????? |
| Life-threatening | adj | Used to describe something that endangers the continued life of something or somebody. |
| Life-tide | n | Life time; and the fortune of life. |
| Lifetime | n | Duration of life of somebody or something. 2. a long period of time (hyperbolic.) |
| Life-threatening | adj | Used to describe something that endangers the continued life of something or somebody. |
| Lifeward | adj | Which leads towards life. |
| Lifeward | adv | Towards life. |
| Lifeway | n | One's pat through life. 2. a manner, lifestyle or behavior, now especially when seen as traditional. |
| Life-weary | adj | Weary and wearied by the trails and tribulations of life. |
| Life-wish | n | The main wish or desire of a person. |
| Lifework | n | The work of a lifetime. 2. any task, usually creative, demanding a life time's work. |
| Life-world | n | (German: lebenswelt)- all the immediate experience. 2. all the immediate experiences, activates and contact that makes up the world of individuals. |
| Lifeworthy | adj | Worthy and deserving of life. 2. able to handle or cope with life; able to live; livable. |
| Life-writer | n | A biographer. |
| Life-writing | n | Biographical writing. |
| Lifey | adj | Characteristic of, or belonging to life. 2. lively, spirited. |
| Lift | n. | The sky, the upper regions, the air, the upper atmosphere, the heavens, the loft. 2. heaven, paradise; as lift-like: heaven-like, heavenly. 3. " The moon shines dolorous from the rainy lift." " Sweet calm moon in the moonlight lift. Borrowing may be around 1200AD. |
| Lift | phr | "Lift Off" - in space technology, rise vertical from a launching pad. |
| Lift | phr | "Lift/Stir Not a Finger to Help" - not make an effort to help |
| Lift | phr | "Lift One's Game" - raise the standard of one's performance. |
| Lift | phr | "Lift One's Hand Against" - threaten to hit somebody. |
| Lift | phr | "Lift Up" - raise physically a child, arm, leg, box. 2. stimulate or inspire spiritually. |
| Lift | phr | Lift Up One's Heart, Mind and Soul" - to raise thoughts or desires. 2. to exalt encourage oneself (with pride.) |
| Lift | phr | "Lift Up One's Heels" - to hold oneself 'high'. 2. to bear or carry in an elevated position. |
| Lift | phr | "Lift Well" - of crops: to grow strong, robust and tall. |
| Lift | phr | "Thumb a Lift" - signal passing vehicles for a free ride. |
| Lifted | adj | Raised aloft, elevated, exalted. 2. (sl) stolen. |
| Lifter | n | Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting. 2. a spatula. |
| Lifter | sfx | As a suffix in, shop-lifter; weight-lifter. |
| Lifting | n | A form of exercise in which weights are lifted. 2. plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance; a facelift. |
| Liftless | adj | without lifts. |
| Lift-off | n | To take off (said of an aircraft, especially a rocket to leave the ground. |
| Light | n | Something that makes things visible or affords illumination. 2. a similar form of radiant energy that does not affect the retina, as ultraviolet or infrared rays. 3. the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of sight. 4. an illuminating agent or source, as the sun, a lamp, or a beacon. 5. the radiance or illumination from a particular source: the light of a candle. 6. emanation from the sun. |
| Light | adj. | Having light or illumination; bright; well-lighted: the lightest room in the entire house. 2. pale, whitish, or not deep or dark in color: a light blue. 3. of coffee or tea: containing enough milk or cream to produce a light color. 4. cheer, merry, joyful |
| Light | vb. | To set burning, as a candle, lamp, fire, match, or cigarette; kindle; ignite. 2. to turn or switch on (an electric light). 3. to give light to; furnish with light or illumination; to illuminate, fill with brightness. 3. to make (an area or object) bright with or as if with light (often followed by up). 4. to cause (the face, surroundings, etc.) to brighten, especially with joy, animation, or the like (often followed by up); cheer up, give or make joyful. 5. to take fire or become kindled. 6. to ignite a cigar, cigarette, or pipe for purposes of smoking (usually followed by up). 7. to become illuminated when switched on. 8. to become bright, as with light or color (often followed by up): "the sky lights up at sunset. 9. to brighten with animation or joy, as the face or eyes (often followed by up ). 10. to give birth to, deliver a child. |
| Light | vb | To come to by chance; alight, to settle. |
| Light | adv | With or of little weight, force, intensity, etc.; gently: to press lightly on a door bell. 2. to only a small amount or degree; slightly. 3. nimbly; quickly: to leap lightly aside. 4. with a lack of concern; indifferently; slightly: to think lightly of one's achievements. 5. cheerfully; without complaining: to take well. |
| Light | phr | "All Sweetness and Light" - apparently friendly and good tempered. |
| Light | phr | "As (of) a Light Fire" - in blaze. |
| Light | phr | "As Light as a Feather" - very light in weight. |
| Light | phr | "Before the Light" - in theatrical parlance, on the stage. |
| Light | phr | "Be a Leading Light" - be the most important person in a venture. |
| Light | phr | "Bring to Light" - to discover or reveal. 2. come to light, to be discovered, disclosed or revealed. |
| Light | phr | "Come to Light" - to be revealed, made known, made visible, known. |
| Light | phr | "Frighten the Liver and Lights Out of Someone" - to terrify, frighten to the bone. |
| Light | phr | "Get a Red Light" - be forbidden to do something. |
| Light | phr | "Give the Green Light to" - formally authorize.. |
| Light | phr | "Glad and Light" - happy and free of anxiety |
| Light | phr | "Go Out Like a Light" - suddenly fall asleep or become unconscious. |
| Light | phr | "Have Light Fingers" - have a tendency to steal. |
| Light | phr | "Highlight Something" - to draw particular attention to a matter. |
| Light | phr | "In a Good Light" - under favorable circumstances. |
| Light | phr | "In Its/One's True Light" - as it actually is. |
| Light | phr | "In the Cold Light of Day/Dawn" - time when a matter is considered calmly and unemotionally. |
| Light | phr | "In (the) Light Of" - taking into account or consideration; because of; considering. 2. with the help afforded by knowledge. 3. considering information available. |
| Light | phr | "Inner Light" - inspiration. |
| Light | phr | "In (the) Light Of" - taking into account or consideration; because of; considering. 2. with the help afforded by knowledge. |
| Light | phr | "Light a Fire Under" - to motivate or encourage someone to start sooner or move faster. |
| Light | phr | "Light and Shade" - effective contrast. |
| Light | phr | "Lights Are Going Out All Over Europe" - Europe's civilization, culture etc is in decline, is about to perish or be destroyed. |
| Light | phr | "Light As a Feather" - very light, of little weight. |
| Light | phr | "Light as Thistledom" - very light in weight and gentle in movement. |
| Light | phr | "Light Dawns" - the point is grasped. |
| Light | phr | "Light In the Mouth" - a horse sensitive to the mouth |
| Light | phr | "Light in the Sky?" - a sign of great hope. |
| Light | phr | "Light Into" - (slang) - attack, assail. |
| Light | phr | "Light Of Day" - daylight, sunlight contrasted with darkness or artificial lighting; circumstances of seeing and/or being seen. 2. of being exposed to general notice or for use; the stage at which a difficulty, problem, mystery, etc becomes clarified or resolved. |
| Light | phr | "Light Of God" - Jesus Christ. |
| Light | phr | "Light Of Love" - inconstant in love; capricious or inconstant in love; wanton in love. |
| Light | phr | "Light Of One's Eye" - a much loved one. |
| Light | phr | "Light Of One's Life" - person who one most admires or loves. |
| Light | phr | "Light Of the World" - Jesus Christ. |
| Light | phr | "Light Off" - to ignite in explosion. |
| Light | phr | "Light On" - discover by chance; happen to find; light upon. ('He showed us a rare book he hadlighted on/upon in a second-hand bookshop." |
| Light | phr | "Light On One's Feet" - nimble, light of walk. 2. fig. successful. |
| Light | phr | "Light On the Hill" - distant goals acting as an inspiration. |
| Light | phr | "Lights Out" - final call in army camp, school or at home for lights to be turned off. |
| Light | phr | "Light Out" - (slang) decamp, depart, go away, leave hurriedly. |
| Light | phr | "Light Someone's Fire" - to excite, turn on sexually. |
| Light | phr | "Lights Out Of" - leave, especially in a hurry, and escape from somebody. |
| Light | phr | "Light Up" - illuminate; provide with light. 2. switch on the the lights of a motor vehicle or streets lights at dusk. 3. to begin by lighting a flame to, as to smoke a cigarette. 4. make bright or flushed with emotion. |
| Light | phr | "Light Upon" - discover by chance or accident; happen to find; light upon. ('He showed us a rare book he hadlighted on/upon in a second-hand bookshop." |
| Light | phr | "Make Light Of" - regard or consider something unimportant or trifling. |
| Light | phr | "Make Light Work Of" - do something with ease. |
| Light | phr | "Many Hands Make Light Work" - the task will be made easier if everybody helps. |
| Light | phr | "Northern Lights" - aurora borealis. |
| Light | phr | "On the Lighter Side" - a less serious aspect. |
| Light | phr | "Out Like A Light" - unconscious or in a deep sleep. |
| Light | phr | "Put Out One's Light" - to kill him, 'send him to outer darkness'. |
| Light | phr | "Put Out (Quench)the Light" - extinguish the vital spark (life.) |
| Light | phr | "See the Bright Lights" - show business and entertainment (area). |
| Light | phr | "See the Light" - come into the world. 2. to be brought forth or published. 3. to reach full understanding or realization. 4. to understand the real situation. 5. to be converted Christianity. |
| Light | phr | "See the Light of Day" - happen or accept; realize the merit of. 2. to be made public. |
| Light | phr | "See the Red Light" - anticipate an approaching threat or danger. |
| Light | phr | "Shed Light On" - explain, make clear, throw light on. |
| Light | phr | "Shining Light" - eminentor scholarly person. |
| Light | phr | "Shoot the Lights" - drive past traffic lights when they are red. |
| Light | phr | "Speed of Light" - vry quickly. |
| Light | phr | "Stand in One's Own Light" - act in such a way to hinder one's own advancement |
| Light | phr | "Strike a Light" - exclamation of surprise. |
| Light | phr | "Think Light Of" - consider unworthy, inferior, lacking in some way. 2. care little for. |
| Light | phr | "Throw Light Upon" - to clarify, give explanation to; shed light on; discover. |
| Light-beam | n | A beam of light/sunlight. |
| Light-bellied | adj | Small around the abdomen,as opposed to pot-bellied. |
| Light-board | n | An electronic console used to control the lights in a theater. |
| Light-boned | adj | Of small frame, as opposed to big-boned. |
| Light-box | n | A box containing a source of light and a white, translucent cover, used to view photographic transparencies. 2. a box containing fluorescent tubes or LED technology, used to treat people with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and circadian rhythm disorders. 3. (internet) A kind of pop-up that is overlaid across a web page while the rest of the content is dimmed. 4. (pinball) A backbox. 5. a device used in phreaking that indicates when a telephone line is in use by means of a light. |
| Light-brained | adj | Dim-witted, stupid, stultish, doltish, foolish. |
| Light-built | adj | Of a small build. |
| Light-bringer | n | Lucifer. |
| Light-eared | adj | Ready to listen; credulous. |
| Lighted | adj | Kindled; illuminated. |
| Light elf | n | Any one of a race of elves who lives above ground and are radiant. |
| Lighten | vb | To become lighter or less dark; brighten: "the sky lightened after the storm." 2. to brighten or light up, as the eyes or features. 3. to flash as or like lightning: "it thundered and lightened for hours." 4. (archaic). to shine, gleam, or be bright. 5. to give light to; illuminate. 6. to brighten (the eyes, features, etc.). 7. to make lighter or less dark. 8. obsolete: en-lighten. 9. obs. to flash or emit like lightning (usually followed by out, forth, or down). 10. to make light of, despise, disparage, disdain. |
| Lighten | phr | "Lighten Up" - to be less serious, relaxed and more cheerful or casual. |
| Lightener | n | That which lightens. |
| Lightening | n | Drop in the level of the womb during the last weeks of pregnancy as the head of the fetus engages in the pelvis. |
| Lightening | phr | "Lightening Before Death" - exhilaration or revival of the spirits which is supposed to occur in some instances just before death. |
| Lighter | n | A cigarette lighter. 2. someone who, or something that lights, or kindles. |
| Lighterman | n | A person who works on a lighter. |
| Lightfast | adj | (Of dye pigment etc) resistant to alteration on on exposure to the light. |
| Light-fastness | n | The state or quality of dye pigment being resistant to alteration on on exposure to the light. |
| Light-fingered | adj | Thievish, skillful, dexterous at or given by pilfering or a tendency to steal. esp. by picking pockets; dishonest. 2. having light and nimble fingers. 3. prompt in returning a blow or counter-punching; pugnacious. 4. dexterous. |
| Light-fingeredness | n | The quality or ability of being dexterous, nimble with one's hands and fingers. 2. thievish, dishonest, ready to pilfer. |
| Light-foot | n | A name for the hare; and sometimes the deer. |
| Light-footed | adj | Treading or moving lightly of foot; active, agile, nimble. |
| Light-footedly | adv | treading or moving in a nimble, light-footed manner. |
| Lightful | adj | Luminous, bright; illumining. |
| Lightfulness | n | The state or condition of being bright, luminous, illuminating. |
| Light-gathering | n | Collecting in a bright, light, illuminating way. |
| Light-giver | n | The sun. |
| Light-giving | adj | Illuminating, revealing. |
| Light-handed | adj | Dexterous, nimble, skilful of hand and finger. 2. delicate of touch; empty-handed. |
| Light-hating | adj | Shunning the light; lumophobic; fond of the night. |
| Light-headed | adj | Dizzy, giddy, feeling faint, slightly delirious. 2. having or showing a frivolous or volatile disposition. |
| Light-headedly | adv | In a dizzy, frivolous manner. |
| Light-headness | n | The state or condition of being light-headed: dizziness, giddiness, disorder in the head. 2. delirium; faintness. 3. of a person: frivolity, injudiciousness, thoughtlessness, fickleness, changefulness. |
| Light-hearted | adj | Carefree, cheerful, merry, gay, blithe. 2. free from the weight of care and sorrow. |
| Light-heartedly | adv | In a carefree, cheerful, merry way. |
| Light-heartedness | n | The state or quality of being lighthearted. |
| Light-heavyweight | n | The weigt in boxing between middle weight and heavyweight. |
| Light-heeled | adj | Brisk and nimble of foot. 2. fleet of foot. 3. of a women; wanton, unchaste. |
| Light-heels | n | A wanton, unchaste woman. 2. a courtesan, hooker, skank, skanky-ho. |
| Light-horse | n | Light-armed cavalry. |
| Light-horseman | n | A light-armed trooper. |
| Lighthouse | n | A tower equipped with high-powered lamps, erected at the point of danger to guide seamen by night. |
| Lighthouse-keeper | n | A man in charge of a lighthouse. |
| Lighting | n | A distribution of light, as on a face or in a picture. 2. an arrangement of lights, especially on a stage. 3. illumination. 4. dawn, sun-up, sunrise. 5. kindling, ignition. |
| Lighting | phr | "Lighting Down" - alleviation, relief. 2. descent, dismounting, alighting. |
| Lighting | phr | "Lighting-up Time" - the time around dusk when drivers of motor vehicles must turn the lights of the vehicle on. |
| Lightish | adj | Somewhat light or illuminating. 2. rather light or pale in color. |
| Lightless | adj | Without light or lights; giving out or shedding no light. 2. receiving no light; without illuminated, dark. |
| Lightlessly | adv | In a without light or darkish manner or state. |
| Lightlessness | n | The state or condition of being without light. 2. in a state or condition of being very light. |
| Lightlied | adj | Make light or lighter. |
| Light-like | adj | Characteristic or resembling light in some aspect or others. |
| Light-limbed | adj | Agile, nimble, quick-footed. |
| Lightliness | n | Contemptuous manner or treatment. |
| Light-loving | adj | Fond of the light and daytime. |
| Lightly | adv | With little weight, force, intensity, etc; gently: to press lightly on a door bell. 2. to only a small amount or (slight) degree; slightly. 3. nimbly; quickly: to leap lightly aside. 4. with a lack of concern; indifferently; slightly: to think lightly of one's achievements. 5. cheerfully; light of spirit, without complaining. 6. brilliant, lightishly. 2. frivolous, trifling, fickle, with contempt, wantonly or irreverently. |
| Lightly | phr | "Tread Lightly" - to be careful. |
| Light-minded | adj | Having a trifling, frivolous mind. |
| Light-mindness | n | the state or condition of being frivolous, light-minded, trifling. |
| Lightmonger | n | A member of the guild or company of Lightmongers, a City of London Livery co. which represented the lighting industry. |
| Lightness | n | State or quality of being light or of little weight. 2. the state or quality of being bright, illuminated, etc. 3. brightness. 4. digestibility. |
| Lightness | n | Wantonness, lewdness, incontinence, levity in behavior; fickleness. 2. unsteadiness, unthought-lessness, unconcern. 3. the quality of being light; flippancy. |
| Lightness | adj | The state or quality of being light. |
| Lightness | phr | "In Lightness Of Heart" - high-spirited, freedom from depression and dullness; joy, mirth. |
| Lightning | n | A sudden flash of light caused by the discharge of electricity between two electrified regions of cloud or between cloud and earth. 2. the discharge itself. |
| Lightning | phr | "Fork Lightning" - zigzag lightning. |
| Lightning | phr | "Like a Streak of Lightning" - very quickly. |
| Lightning | phr | "Lightning Never Strikes in the Same Spot Twice" - an unusual event, or something that happens by chance, is not likely to be repeated in exactly the same circumstances or to the same people. |
| Lightning-footed | adj | With rapid speed. 2. quick, rapid, swift of foot. |
| Lightning-like | adj | Resembling lightning in some aspect. |
| Lightningly | adv | Suggestive of lightning: rapid, extremely quick. |
| Lightning-quick | adj | Extremely fast or swift. |
| Lightning-rod | n | A small-pointed metallic conductor used to protect buildings from lightning by carrying an electric current harmlessly to the ground. |
| Lightning-strike | n | A sudden bold (military) attack. |
| Lightning-tongued | adj | Quick of reply and repartee. |
| Light-o'-love | n | An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters. 2. (by extension) a flirtatious or wanton woman. |
| Light-red | adj | High-quality burnt ocher, used as a permanent pigment; loosely, as a calcined ocher of certain iron oxides. |
| Light-room | n | The upper chamber of a lighthouse containing powerful lighting apparatus. |
| Lights | n. | The lungs, usually applied to the lungs of beasts. |
| Lightshift | n | In physics, the change in the energy (and thus frequency) of light upon interaction with matter. |
| Light-ship | n | A vessel, having warning lights, signals etc., moored in dangerous waters as a guide to ships. |
| Light-shot | n | A due levied for furnishing a church with lights. |
| Lightshow | n | Display of changing colored lights for entertainment. |
| Lightsome | adj | Of mood: cheery, gaily, lively. 2. having the appearance of lightness. 2. graceful, elegant. 3. easy, not weighed down with care, sorrow or pain. 4. lighthearted, cheery, joyous. 5. flighty, frivolous, trifling. 6. nimble, quick, lively. |
| Lightsome | adj | Radiant in light, luminating, giving light. 2. well-lit, illuminous, bright. 3. clear, perspicuous, manifest. 4. lightly-hued. |
| Lightsomely | adv | Clearly, lucidly, manifestly. |
| Lightsomeness | n | Quality of being luminous, lightsome or well-lit, brightness, clearness. |
| Light speed | n | The speed of light (in a vacuum unless another medium is specified) |
| Light-stand | n | On small table on which to set a light. |
| Light-stick | n | A portable rod used for illumination. |
| Light-stilled | adj | Of light to still, silence and calm persons. |
| Light-struck | adj | Exhibiting a light fog. |
| Light-thoughted | adj | Shallow and superficial of thought and opinion. |
| Light-throwing | adj | Making clear, clarifying, explaining. |
| Light-tongued | adj | Of few words; not garrulous or voluble. |
| Lightwards | adv | Towards the light or brightness. |
| Light water | n | (Chemistry) - water in its standard form of H2O, containing two protium hydrogen atoms, as opposed to heavy water. 2. foam formed by water and a fluorocarbon surfactant, used in firefighting because it floats on flammable liquids lighter than water. |
| Lightwave | n | A wave of light. |
| Lightweight | n | A person of less than average weight. 2. a person who is of little importance, or effect. 3. a boxer intermediate in weight between a featherweight and welterweight (126 to 135 pounds). |
| Lightweight | adj | Light in weight. 2. lighter in weight, texture etc., than another item or object of identical use, quality or function. 3. without seriousness of purpose or trifling. 4. of or pertaining to a lightweight contender. |
| Lightwell | n | An open shaft that transmit light from above into a staircase or ann inner room. |
| Light-witted | adj | Silly, dim-witted, doltish, foolish, stupid. |
| Lightwood | n | Resinuous pine, commonly the heart of the yellow pine. 2. the resinuous knots of pine used for kindling. |
| Lightwort | n. | Lungwort; also the "Sea lightwort" (comfer) or "Mertensia maritima". |
| Lighty | adj | Full of light, bright, shining. 2. enlightened, well-informed. |
| Light year | n | Distance light travels in a year. 2. a scientific unit for measuring stellar distance. |
| Light years | n | A very great distance, esp. in development or progress: as in light years away. 2. a very long time. |
| Like | n | Something that a person likes. 2. ilk. |
| Like | adv. | For example, such as: to introduce an example or list of examples.
There are lots of birds, like ducks and gulls, in this park. 2. likely. quotations ▼ (obsolete) in a like or similar manner. |
| Like | adj | Similar. 2. likely, probable. |
| Like | conj | Find attractive, fancy,enjoy, love, support. |
| Like | prp | Similar to; reminiscent of. |
| Like | intj | Used to place emphasis on a statement. |
| Like | sfx | Resembling or similar to; and also(as in an adjectival form:'wavelike') |
| Like | phr | "And One's Like" - and people like him/her etc. |
| Like | phr | "And the Like (and so on)" - so forth; such like, together with things, or people of the same kind. |
| Like | phr | "As Like Not" - probably. |
| Like | phr | "Feel Like" - be disposed to. |
| Like | phr | "I'd Like to See Somebody Do Something" - I would be surprized if. |
| Like | phr | "If You Like" - if it pleases or suits you. |
| Like | phr | "I Like to See That" - exclamation of anger or surprise. |
| Like | phr | "I Like That!" - exclamation of surprise, anger. |
| Like | phr | "In Like Wise" - likewise. |
| Like | phr | "It Goes Like So" - this is the way it goes; this is the way it happen. |
| Like | phr | "I Would Like to See That" - I would be surprised if that ... |
| Like | phr | "Like Anything" - with great speed, very much, with force, very loud, violence, vehemence. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Bear with a Sore Head" - in a surly, irritable way; without tact, finesse or care. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Bull at a Gate" - in a headlong, vigorous or aggressive way |
| Like | phr | "Like a Bull in a China Shop" - in a way that is clumsy, rough, coarse, too vigorous, etc to suit one's company. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" - restless, nervously, unable, sit lie still, settle one's attention. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Cat with Nine Lives" - hardy, with unusual powers of survival; fortunate in one one's escape from mishap, accident or death. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Chicken with It's Head Off" - like a headless chicken or a chicken with no head' |
| Like | phr | "Like a Dog on/in Heat" - very energetic and enthusiastic, especially when sexually aroused. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Dog with A Bone" - stubborn, persistent, relentless, dogged. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Dog with Two Tails" - delighted(ly), proudly, esp. now because one owns, of has achieved, something; (as) pleased as Punch. |
| Like } | phr | "Like A Duck Takes to Water" - naturally, without effort. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Fishwife" - loud and vulgar; abusively (from formerly, street-sellers of fish selling their wares. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Hawk" - sharp-eyed and alert. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Hot Knife Through Butter" - easily; without meeting ressistance or difficulty. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Lamb" - obediently; submissively, without protest or complaint. 2. meek as a lamb. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Mad Thing" - like a mad person; acting as a mad person would; not trying to behave sensibly. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Man" - strong, masculine, assertive in ; manly |
| Like | phr | "Like an Ass" - stubborn; contrary; foolish, thick-headed. |
| Like | phr | "Like(s) and Dislike(s)" - things or people, which one likes contrasted with doesn't 2. fads and foibles, especially when these are many or obsessive, or are a nuissance to other people. |
| Like | phr | "Like Anything" - very quickly, fiercely. 2. very much, very loudly, very ably. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Rat from a Sinking Ship" - quickly but futilely , away from a failing project. 2. quickly, but futilely. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Red Rag to a Bull" - sure, or extremely likely, to provoke resentment, attack, violent action. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Shot" - with great speed. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Streak of Lightning" - very quickly. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Stuck Pig" - a manner of a pig that is being killed. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Thief in the Night" - unforeseen and/or unobserved. |
| Like | phr | "Like a Wet Weekend" - miserable and gloomy. |
| Like | phr | "Like Begets Like" - the law of attraction that states that people who are similar in personality and appearance are more likely to become attracted to each other. 2. like draws like. |
| Like | phr | "Like Blazes" - vigorously, as fast, hard, as loud, violently. |
| Like | phr | "Like Death Warmed Up" - look or feel extremely will. |
| Like | phr | "Like Draws Like" - the law of attraction that states that people who are similar in personality and appearance are more likely to become attracted to each other. 2. like begets like. |
| Like | phr | "Like Father, like Son" - a child turns out to be like its parents in character, tastes, opinions, habits, etc. |
| Like | phr | "Like for Like" - replacing one thing with another of the same type. |
| Like | phr | "Like Hell It Is" - it isn't; you aren't; they can't, etc. |
| Like | phr | "Like It or Not" - whether one likes something or not (the implication usually being the latter) obviously, inevitably. 2. whether willingly or resentfully accepts it or not. |
| Like | phr | "Likely Enough" - probably. |
| Like | phr | "Likely Enough" - probably. |
| Like | phr | "Like New" - seemingly new; as good as new; as though new. |
| Like | phr | "Like Nobody's Business" - with unusual intensity; excess frequency. |
| Like | phr | "Like Of" ('the like of') |
| Like | phr | "Likes and Dislikes" - things or people, which one likes contrasted with doesn't 2. fads and foibles, especially when these are many or obsessive, or are a nuissance to other people. |
| Like | phr | "Like Sheep to the Slaughter' - unwitting and helpless victims. |
| Like | phr | "Like Ships In the Night" - like people or groups who met briefly and for the only time in their lives. |
| Like | phr | "Like So" - like this, in this manner, thus. |
| Like | phr | "Like That" - in a particular manner. 2. quickly, unexpectedly. 3. used to indicate agreement with another speaker's statement. |
| Like | phr | "Like the New Time" - furiously or vigorously, repeatedly. |
| Like | phr | "Like There's No Tomorrow" - to excessive degrees; as if there were no tomorrow. 2. desperately, frantically; very quickly or very much. |
| Like | phr | "Like Unto" - a phrase expressing resemblance, like, similarity. 2. expression of conformity, conforming to, conformable to. 3. conforming or thinking like. |
| Like | phr | "Like Water Off a Duck's Back" - making little, or no, impression; having no effect. |
| Like | phr | "Like White on Rice" - in very close proximity; following closely. |
| Like | phr | "Like Wildfire" - rapid and extensively. |
| Like | phr | "Many the Like" - of such quantity or amount. |
| Like | phr | "Need Like a Hole in the Head" - absolutely not need at all. |
| Like | phr | "Nothing Like" - bears no resemblance to. |
| Like | phr | "Not Likely" - definitely not. |
| Like | phr | "Of a Like" - probably |
| Like | phr | "On Liking" - on approval. |
| Like | phr | "Read Like a Book" - to know very well; understand perfectly. 2. speak knowledgeably and accurately. |
| Like | phr | "Something Like" - similar to. 2. in a tolerably adequate manner. 3. at a fairly reasonable price. |
| Like | phr | "Such a Like" - for, in like manner |
| Like | phr | "That's More Like It" - that's it; that's better. |
| Like | phr | "The Like" - similar things. |
| Like | phr | "The Likes Of" - such a person or thing as (now, in a deprecatory manner.) |
| Like | phr | "The Likes of Somebody" - like us; anybodyof our humble, privileged, criminal, intellectual, handicapped etc class or kind. |
| Like | phr | "What Is He/She Like?" - what sought of characteristics does he/she possess? |
| Liked | adj | Regarded with affection; beloved. |
| Like-dealers | n | A group of pirates during the Middle Ages whose booty was divided equally or alike among members of the group. |
| Like-feelingly | adv | Of the same feeling or opinion about something. |
| Like-for-like | adj | Same for same. |
| Likeful | adj | Pleasing acceptable; agreeable. |
| Likehood | n | Likelihood; probability. |
| Like-less | adj | Unliked. |
| Likelihood | n | The probable fact: probability or the the probability. 2. the character of being likely. |
| Likelihood | phr | "In All Likelihood" - probably. |
| Like-like | vb | To fancy; to be attached to. |
| Likeliest | adj | Such as well might happen or be true; probable. 2. apparently suitable, promising. |
| Likeliness | n | The condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur. 2.
likelihood, probability or chance of occurrence; plausibility or believable. 3. suitability; agreeableness. 4. likeness; similarity. |
| Likely | vb | To make 'likely' or attractive; to adorn, embellish. |
| Likely | adj | Apparently true or real; plausible or real. 2. reasonably to be expected; liable. 3. apt to please, promising. 4. well adapted for the purpose.. |
| Likely | adv | Probably. |
| Likely | phr | "Likely as Not" - in all probability; with an even chance of occurring or not. |
| Likely | phr | "Likely Enough" - probably. |
| Likely | phr | "Not Likely" - definitely not; uncertain; unlikely. |
| Like-made | adj | Made in the same circumstances or together, such as a wedding vow. |
| Like-minded | adj | Of the same inclination or opinion. 2. similarly disposed in opinion or tastes. |
| Like-mindedness | n | The state or condition of being of the same opinion, inclination or view. |
| Liken | vb | To represent as like; to compare. 2. to do something; to represent as doing. |
| Liken | phr | "Liken to" - say or state that one thing is like another. |
| Liken | phr | "Liken Together" - to compose, to represent as like or very similar. |
| Likeness | n | The state or quality of being like; a resemblance. 2. a portrait; representation. 3. a counterfeit form; a giuse. |
| Likeness | phr | "In Likeness Of" - in figure, stature, that which resembles an object. 2. a like shape or form, a semblance; hence, general form, shape |
| Likening | phr | "At the Likening Of" - under the similitude of. |
| Liker | n | One who likes. |
| Likes | n | An attitude or a feeling of liking something or somebody. |
| Like-shaped | adj | Of a similar shape or form. |
| Like-side | n | A rhombus. |
| Likesome | adj | Agreeablee, pleasant. |
| Likeways | adv | Likewise. |
| Likewise | adv | In like wise; in the same manner. 2. in like manner. 3. also; moreover. |
| Likewise | phr | "To do Likewise" - to do in the same way, manner or similarly. |
| Likewisely | adv | Similarly, in the similar way. |
| Likewiseness | n | The state or quality of being the same or similar. |
| Likeworth | n. | Agreeable, acceptable, pleasing, "likeworthy". |
| Likeworthy | adj | In the same sense. |
| Liking | n | Something that is liked. 2. inclination due to some attraction; a preference, redilection. 3. a semblance. |
| Liking | phr | "At Liking" - in a suitable position; at one's ease. |
| Liking | phr | "At One's Liking" - according to one's liking, or taste. |
| Liking | phr | "Flesh's liking" - (fleshy liking) - sensually, sexual desire, lust. |
| Liking | phr | "Ill Liking" -discomfort, unhappiness. |
| Liking | phr | "In Liking" - likely to do. |
| Liking | phr | "Of Free Liking" - of free will. |
| Liking | phr | "To One's Liking" - to one's agreement, pleasing, acceptance. |
| Liking | phr | "Upon (On) Liking" - on approval or trial. |
| Liking | phr | "Well Liking" - of condition: healthy, plump. 2. of soil: rich. |
| Likingly | adv | In a pleasing manner, pleasantly, dainty, attractively. 2. in a probable manner, probably. |
| Likingness | n | Attractiveness. |
| Likings | n | Likes, predilections. |
| Likish | adj | Alike, similar. |
| Lill | n | Bruise. |
| Lill | phr | "Lill for Loll" - OE: lael - bruise; around the year 1000 'lael with laele' has the meaning bruise for bruise; wound for wound, tit for tat. |
| Lillied | adj | Covered with or abounding. 2. resembling a lily in fairness and complexion. |
| Lily | n | Any of the Numerous ornamental liliaceous plants (genus Lilium) having a bulbous root, erect stem, and large, showy, erect or nodding flowers, especially the madonna lily. |
| Lily | phr | "Gild the Lily" - literally: to gild refined gold, to paint the lily. 2. to do something patentlly unneccesary. |
| Lily-handed | adj | Having smooth white hands. |
| Lily-iron | n | A Harpoon with a detachable head. |
| Lily-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a lily in some aspect. |
| Lily-livered | adj | Cowardly. |
| Lilywort | n. | Lindley's name for the N.O. of Liliaceae. |
| Lily-white | adj. | White as a lily; extremely or pure white or pale. 2. pure-white; unsullied. |
| Lily-whiteness | n | The state or quality of being lily-white. 2. bigoted against black persons. 3. racially segregated. |
| Lilywort | n. | Lindley's name for the N.O. of Liliaceae. |
| Limb | n. | Foot, leg, etc., not "lim" : border, boundary. 2. branch of a tree. |
| Limb | vb | To provide with limbs (fig. and lit.) |
| Limb | phr | "Go Out on a Limb" - exposed to danger; risk one's danger. 2. at a great disadvantage |
| Limb | phr | "Life and Limb" - one's survival and/or preservation from accident and injury. 2. existence together with bodily faculties. |
| Limb | phr | "Limb and Head" - the body and the mind. |
| Limb | phr | "Limb and Lith" - Limb and joint; limb and limb (OE. lith: member, joint, limb) |
| Limb | phr | "Limb Of Hell" - an agent or scion of the devil; an imp of Satan or the evil one; hence, a mischievous wicked person. |
| Limb | phr | "Limb of the Law" - a policeman or lawyer. |
| Limb | phr | "Pull Limb from Limb" - to dismember, pull limb from limb. 2. remove branches from a tree. |
| Limbless | adj | Having no limbs; deprived of limbs. |
| Limblessly | adv | In a limbless manner. |
| Limb-lifter?? | n | A fornicator. |
| Limb-meal | n | Into pieces: limb from limb. |
| Lime | n. | Alkaline earth obtained by the burning of various stone, used in making mortar. 2. a sticky substance used for catching birds. |
| Lime-green | adj | A bright pale green color like that of lime. |
| Lime-kiln | n | A kiln for heating limestone to produce quicklime. |
| Limeless | adj | With lime (the mineral). |
| Limelight | n. | Bright lights got by heating quicklime. 2. publicity, spotlight. In 1826, popular name for Drummond light, a brilliant light created by the incandescence of lime ; adopted for lighthouses and later for the Victorian stage, where it illuminated the principal actors, hence the figurative sense of "on stage, at the centre of attention". |
| Limelight | phr | "In the Limelight" - at the focus of public attention. |
| Limepit | n | A pit containing lime to remove hair. |
| Limestone | n. | A rock which yields lime when burnt. |
| Lime-tree | n | The Linden. 2. the tupelo or sourgum tree of Florida. |
| Lime-twig | n | A twig smeared with birdlime to catch birds. 2. a snare or trap. |
| Limewash | n | A mixture of lime and water for coating walls. |
| Lime water | n | An aquecous solution of calcium hydroxide used especially to detect the presence of carbon dioxide. |
| Limewort | n. | The catch-fly, "Silene armenia" so called because it is covered by a sticky substance, similar to lime. 2. limpwort: the brooklime: Veronica Beccaburga. |
| Liming | n. | The action of gluing, cementing together of something, adhesives. 2. the action or process of treating things, such as the earth or ground with lime in cultivation; or skins by steeping in lime and water. 4. copulation |
| Limp | n | English has two words limp, which perhaps share a common ancestry. Neither is particularly old, the verb appears around 1700 (until then the word for 'walk' lamely had been halt, which now is almost obsolete. It was probably from the obsolete adjective lemphalt. The adjective limp meaning flaccid, drooping, lacking stiffness or firmness, seems likely related to the noun. Late Middle English (in the sense ‘fall short of’): related to obsolete limphalt ‘lame’, and probably of Germanic origin. Of uncertain Anglish provenance. |
| Limp | adj | Lacking internal strength or structure; not stiff or firm. 2. having or denoting a book cover that is not stiffened with board. 3. without energy or vigour. |
| Limp | vb | To walk lamely or haltingly. |
| Limp | phr | "Limp in" - in a poker game, to call the minimum amount required in the first round of betting in order to establish or maintain a stake in the pot; to call the blind or the bring in without raising. 2. to just win a contest or event despite injury and adversity. |
| Limpet | n. | A shellfish which adheres firmly to rocks. |
| Limpet | phr | "Cling Like a Limpet" - hold onto something with determination. |
| Limpingly | adv | In a limp manner. |
| Limpish | adj | Not stiff or firm, easily bent. 2. without energy or will. 3. of a book having a soft cover. |
| Limply | adv | Lacking stiffness or firmness, as of substance, fiber, structure or bodily frame. |
| Limpness | n | The property of being limp. |
| Limp-wristed | adj | Effeminate, ineffectual, feeble. |
| Limy | adj | Limey: having the characteristic of lime, the mineral. |
| Lin | n | (OE: hlyn: torrent): a waterfall. 2. precipice, ravine. |
| Lin | n | A pin or linchpin. |
| Lin | n | (Also spelt 'line.' flax, a fiber of flax; the plant itself. 2. flax spun or woven linen thread or linen cloth; linen vestments. |
| Lin | vb | To cease, leave off, desist |
| Linch | n. | Axle as in a linchpin: a pin or lin to hold a wheel on its axle.(OE. lynis: axle-tree). |
| Linch | n. | A rising ground, a ridge; a ledge esp. one on the side of a chalk down. 2. an un-plowed strip serving as a boundary between fields. 3. fastener or pin; belaying pin. |
| Linch | vb | "To fasten with a linch pin. |
| Linch-pin | n | Pin in an axle-tree to keep the wheel in place. |
| Lind | n. | The lime or linden tree (Tilia Europea). In ME. for a tree of any kind, esp. in the phrase: " Under the lind." |
| Lind | phr" | "Under the Lind/en" - The Linden tree (Tilia), shares much of the common symbolism associated with any Sacred Tree in European lore: It’s presence protects against ill luck and against the strike of lightning, and it’s bright nature repels those spirits that would cause harm to the household. The tree is also claimed to be the "Tree of Lovers" (This probably is from C19th literature). |
| Linden | adj. | Made of the wood of the lind or linden tree. |
| Line | n. | A name for a flock of geese. 2. cord, string, rope, leash; wire, cable; lin, flax (including the plant itself) or fiber of flax. 3. umbilical cord. 4. spider's thread. 5. rule, standard, practice, canon, precept. 6. a thread-like mark. 7. Of music: instrumental or vocal melody; a structured sequence of notes or tones. 8. a thin band of colour, a seam, ridge, furrow. 9. furrow or seam in the face or hands, fate-lines. 10. a curve connecting all points having a common property. 11. a measure of length. 12. a boundary, limit, demarcation. 13. degree, rank, station. 14. a row of persons arranged along a straight line, a line-up; a row of tents, huts etc. 15. the words of an actor's part. 16. lineal descent - by-line, lineage, stock, race. 17. one's line, one's pursuit, field of interest, area of study. 18. trade, course, direction, route. 19. goings-on, caprices, fits of temper. 20. 'The Line" - the equator. |
| Line | phr | "A Line of Thought" - a way or system of thinking. 2. a chain of reasoning or speculation or speculation. 3. one's train of thought. |
| Line | phr | "All Along the Line" - at every stage; particularly, in a sequence, completely. |
| Line | phr | "All the Way Down the Line" - at every point or stage. |
| Line | phr | "Along the Lines Of" - resembling. |
| Line | phr | "Be Further Down the Line" - to have a low priority. |
| Line | phr | "Be in the Line of Fire" - vulnerable to attack. |
| Line | phr | "Be Out Of Line" - adopt a stance not held by others. |
| Line | phr | "Be Well-lined" - be rich; have lots of money in one's pockets. |
| Line | phr | "Bring (Something) Into Line" - make something correspond (with others.) 2. to align; fig. to cause a person to agree; to make unanimous. |
| Line | phr | "Come/Fall Into Line" - agree, correspond (with others.) |
| Line | phr | "Draw Into Line" - to become unanimous (about something.) |
| Line | phr | "Draw the Line (at that)" - set a limit beyond which no one must not go. |
| Line | phr | "Drop a Line" - write a letter. 2. go fishing. |
| Line | phr | "End of the Line" - point at which something finishes. 2. end of the road (lit. and fig.) |
| Line | phr | "Even as a Line" - flat as a line; straight as a line. |
| Line | phr | "Fall in Line With" - agree with; act in conformity with. |
| Line | phr | "Fall Out of Line" - disagree with, move away from. |
| Line | phr | "Get a Line On" - to inquire about a thing. 2. come to know. 3. give someone a line on. |
| Line | phr | "Hard Lines" - ill-luck, bad fortune. |
| Line | phr | "Hook, Line and Sinker" - wholly. |
| Line | phr | "In Line Ahead" - (of ships) one behind the other. |
| Line | phr | "In Line For" - having a good chance of obtaining something; ready for. in succession for. |
| Line | phr | "In Line With" - in agreement with. |
| Line | phr | "In Somebody's Line" - within somebody's competence or experience. |
| Line | phr | "In the Firing Line" - vulnerable to attack. 2. be the first under attack. |
| Line | phr | "Lay It On the Line" - to risk losing something or say something with frank emphasis. |
| Line | phr | "Line of Business" - one's occupation; type of work. 2. kind of interst or pursuit. |
| Line | phr | "Line of Dip" - in geology, a line in the plane of a stratum, as part of a stratum perpendicular to its intersection with a horizontal plane; the line of greatest inclination of a stratum to the horizon. |
| Line | phr | "Line of Fire" - the expected path of gunfire, a missile etc. |
| Line | phr | "Line of Life" - the thread fabled to be spun by The Fates, that determines the length of duration of one's life. 2. in palmistry, the crease in the left hand beginning above the web of the thumb , and running towards or up to the wrist. According to palmists, the nearer it runs towards the wrist the longer life one's life will be. |
| Line | phr | "Line of Sight" - the straight line joining the eye of an observer and a target or other object. |
| Line | phr | "Line of the Head" - The head line (also wisdom line) is the second important line in palm reading. It starts from the palm edge between the thumb and forefinger, and extends across the palm in the middle part with the life line below and the heart line above. |
| Line | phr | "Line of the Heart" - (palmistry) a furrow on the face or hands |
| Line | phr | "Line Out" - an analogue electrical signal for connection between audio devices. |
| Line | phr | "Line Up" - stand, form or place in line. 2. queue to catch transport or buy food, etc. 3. assemble, bring together, organize, arrange. 4. place in line for execution by a firing squad. |
| Line | phr | "Line Up Against" - place in line for execution by a firing squad. |
| Line | phr | "Line Up Alongside With" - become the ally, or associaate with or of. |
| Line | phr | "Line Up Behind" - to follow someone, as take as one's leader. |
| Line | phr | "Line Up in One's Sights" - point a firearm directly at a target. 2. fig. to strike back at another for past wrongs or blunders. |
| Line | phr | "Line Upon Line" - reiteration of statements in successive lines of writing or print. |
| Line | phr | "Make a Beeline For" - to go straight for something with great enthusiasm or to head for some goal by the most direct route. |
| Line | phr | "Not One's Line" - not one's vocation, calling, pursuits, interests. |
| Line | phr | "Off Line" - not connected to an internet provider, electrical or power terminal, etc. |
| Line | phr | "On Line" - connected to an internet provider, electrical or power terminal, etc. |
| Line | phr | "On the Line" - (of a picture) hung at an exhibition, on level of spectator's eyes. |
| Line | phr | "On the Lines Of" - resembling. |
| Line | phr | "Out of One's Line" - unsuited to one's capacity, taste. |
| Line | phr | "Put On the Line" - speak frankly. |
| Line | phr | "Read Between the Lines" - extract a meaning that is not explicitly stated. 2. to appreciate the the true significance of something not put into words. |
| Line | phr | "Run the Line" - (run the traps) as a hunter checking for what animals are in his traps; or reporter checking the veracity of a story. |
| Line | phr | "Shoot the Line" - give a highly exaggerated account or story of (or about oneself). 2. put on an act. 3. put on or talk with pretensions. |
| Line | phr | "Sit On the Sidelines" - not to take part in the main action. |
| Line | phr | "Somewhere Along the Line" - at some point (in time.) |
| Line | phr | "Stand in Line" - queue, wait in line, wait in turn. |
| Line | phr | "Step Out of Line" - fail to behave in an unconnected or unexpected manner. 2. to infringe accepted rules of behavior. |
| Line | phr | "Swallow the Lines" - to accept as truth the story being proffered. |
| Line | phr | "Take the Hard Line" - be uncompromising. |
| Line | phr | "The Bottom Line" - the conclusion which matters or the net effect of a series of developments. |
| Line | phr | "The Line" - the equator, earth's belt; earth's girdle or girdle of the earth. |
| Line | phr | "Toe the Line" - conform, obey the rules. |
| Line | phr | "Tread the Thin Line" - be cautious to take action in circumstances where either too much or too little will cause difficulties. |
| Line | phr | "Under the Line" - at the equator. |
| Line | phr | "Up the Line" - up to the breach or the front line. |
| Line-breed | n | In genetics, to interbreed (successive generations) to one ancestor of a given line in order to develop selected characteristics. |
| Lined | adj. | Marked with lines, having lines traced or impressed on the surface. |
| Line-drawing | n | A pen or pencil sketch without color wash. |
| Line-fish | n | A fish caught on the line not by net. |
| Lineless | adj | Of a person having no bounds; or to whom no bounds (of behavior) can be set. 2. having no impressed or indented. |
| Lineman | n. | A worker who repairs railway lines, telegraph or telephone lines; a linesman. |
| Linen | n. | Made of flax; cloth made from linen 2. Linen wings: sails of ships. 3. "to wash one's dirty linen at home" -- say nothing about one's family affairs, disputes, scandal. 4. grave clothes, burial clothes. |
| Linen | phr | "Wash One's Dirty Linen at Home" -- say nothing about one's family affairs, disputes, scandal in public. |
| Linen cupboard | n | A cabinet or drawer that holds linen. |
| Linenfold | n | A carved or molded ornament representing a fold or scroll of linen. |
| Linener | n. | A draper, shirtmaker, dealer, retail trader in linen. |
| Linen-lifter | n. | A man given to affairs and adultery. |
| Linen-like | adj | Linen-like fabrics of cotton or fibres, as tablecloths, bedding, towels etc. |
| Lineny | adj | Resembling linen. |
| Liner | n. | One who lines or fits lining to anything. 2. of persons, one whose duty is the tracing of boundaries of properties; a surveyor. 3. a writer of miscellaneous items for newspapers, what are paid for at so much a line. 4. a brush or pencil used for tinting parts of the face, esp. the eyes (eyeliner). 5. a ship, such as am 'ocean liner.' |
| Line-rider | n | A fence or boundary rider. |
| Line-shaft | n | A power driven rotating shaft for power transmission that was used extensively from the Industrial Revolution until the early 20th century |
| Line-shape | n | Lines used to convey movement and create texture. Lines provide emphasis and define shape. They can be used to convey mood and emotion. |
| Linesman | n. | A soldier belonging to a regiment or the line. 2. an umpire at tennis posted near the line to determine whether the ball is in or out. 3. one who looks after roadside verges. 4. a worker who repairs railway lines, telegraph or telephone lines; a linesman. |
| Line-storm | n | An equinoctial. |
| Line-up | n. | A number of persons assembled in a line. 2. a list of players in a game of football, cricket, basketball etc. |
| Line-weight | n | The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke. |
| Line-width | n | (In physics) a measure of the width of the band of frequencies of radiation emitted or absorbed in an atomic or molecular transition; a result of the uncertainty principle. |
| Line-work | n | Drawings or designs carried out with a pen or pencil. |
| Liney | adj | Of the nature, or resembling a line or streak, thin, meagre. 2. full of lines; worked in lines. |
| Ling | sfx. | Person or thing belonging to or concerned, (denoted by the noun) --- "eardling": ploughman; "ropeling": prisoner. 2. person or thing denoted by the adjective, "darling," "efenling," farth(l)ing, "sibling," underling: subordinate, swartling: blackbird. 3. often used in comtemptous or unfavourable sense: popeling (papist), godling, lordling, kingling. 7.(in Old Norse) in the name of the young of an animal: sperling (young sparrow), catling (kitten), gosling. 8. often expressive of direction or extent, siuation or condition: "nightling" (whole night), "needling" (necessities), "firstlings", "starklings", "hidlings." |
| Ling | n | The heath or heather. |
| Ling | sfx | Little, young, petty, asduckling'. 2. a person or thing related to or characterized by : worldling. 3. forming adverbs toward: sideling. 4. forming adjectives: darkling. |
| Lingy | adj | Covered with, or abounding in ling. |
| Lining | n | Of a garment |
| Lining | n. | A rising ground, ridge or bank. |
| Lining | phr | "Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining" - there are benefitseven in a seemingly adverse situation. |
| Lining | phr | "Lining Up" - the forming of a row, or to put persons or things in a row; as a row of books on a shelf. 2. the forming of a line. 3. the collection and arrangement in readiness. |
| Link | n. | Comparatively level or gently undulating sandy ground near the seashore, covered with turf, coarse grass etc. 2. the ground on which golf is played, (links) often resembling land described in meaning one. |
| Linn | n. | OE. torrent. 2. cascade, torrent, water running over rocks, cataract, falls. 3. precipice, ravine, rise with steep sides. 4. pools, esp. into which a cataract falls. |
| Linseed | n. | OE. Linum: flax; seed flax, well renown as a source of linseed or medication. |
| Lint-white | n | OE Linetwige, lit flax-plucker; European gray linnet. |
| Liny | adj | Marked with lines, wrinkled. |
| Litten | n. | Churchyard, cemetery, church-litten |
| Lip | n. | Either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech. 2. usually, lips. these parts as organs of speech. 3. a projecting edge on a container or other hollow object: the lip of a pitcher. 4. a liplike part or structure, especially of anatomy. 5. any edge, rim; point of a spear. |
| Lip | adj | of or pertaining to the lips or a lip: lip ointment. 2. characterized by or made with the lips: to read lip movements. 3. superficial or insincere: to offer lip praise. |
| Lip | vb | To touch with the lips. 2. to utter, especially softly. 3. to kiss. 4. to use the lips in playing a musical wind instrument. |
| Lip | phr | "Be Tight-lipped" - keep confidences or be uncommunicative. |
| Lip | phr | "Bite One's Lip / Tongue" - to repress one's anger or other emotions. 2. to show vexation or annoyance, or to suppress some's emotion as anger or laughter. |
| Lip | phr | "Give Somebody Lip" - be cheeky or absusive. |
| Lip | phr | "Hang Onto Another's Lip" - to listen with rapt attention to. |
| Lip | phr | "Hang (or Make) the Lip" - show displeasure, vexation. 2. to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. |
| Lip | phr | "Hang On Another's Lips" - to follow intently the words of another. |
| Lip | phr | "Keep a Stiff Upper Lip"; to face misfortune bravely and resolutely. 2. keep one's courage; not lose heart. 3. be hard and obstinate.2.to suppress the display of any emotion. |
| Lip | phr | "Lick One's Lips" - look forward to something eagerly. |
| Lip | phr | "Lift One's Lip Against" - utter the slightest word against. |
| Lip | phr | "Lip Off", (slang) - to talk impudently or belligerently. |
| Lip | phr | "Of One Lip" - in agreement. |
| Lip-bearded | adj | Bushy mustached. |
| Lip-biting | n | The biting of the lip by accident. 2. the biting of the lip as a sign or message to other. |
| Lip-blossomed | adj | Labiated. |
| Lip-born | adj | As lip-born words - shallow, with little regard for those they are spoken to. |
| Lip-deep | adj | Immersed or existing on the lips only; superficail. 2. words going no further than the lips. |
| Lip-dewing | adj | As a 'lip-dewing' song - sweet and mellow. |
| Lip-end | n | The two ends of the lips. |
| Lipful | adj | Full to the lips. |
| Lip-good | adj | Mere words without experience. |
| Lip-gospeller | n | Wonderful oratory, but existing in words only. |
| Lip-hair | n | A mustache. |
| Lip-holiness | n | Insincere preaching; holiness that exists in words only |
| Lip-holy | adj | Holy words, spoken with a hollow heart. |
| Lip-learned | adj | Learned by the reading of lips. |
| Lipless | adj | Having no lip or lips. |
| Liplessly | adv | In a lipless manner |
| Liplessness | n | The state or condition of being lipless. |
| Lip-lick | n | A kiss. |
| Lip-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a lip, in some aspect of. |
| Lipline | n | The outline of the lip. |
| Liplock | vb | To kiss,smooch. |
| Lip-love | n | Love that exists in words only. |
| Lipped | adj | Having or furnished with a lip or lips; labiate. 2. lips of a specific kinf, as 'thick-lipped; 'thin-lipped'. |
| Lippedness | n | The state or quallity of having a particular number or type of lips. |
| Lippen | vb | To furnish with the lips. |
| Lipping | n | A strip of wood or the like fixed to the edge of a box, table top, etc. 2. the act of fixing such a strip. 2. facing an exposed edge with superior wood , as the edges of shelves or laminboard. 4. a joint with one piece prominent to form a rebate. |
| Lippy | n | An old dry measure equal to a quarter of a peck. |
| Lippy | adj | Impertinent, insolent, talkative, verbose. |
| Lip read | vb | To interpret speech from the position assumed by the lips and mouth for each word. |
| Lip reader | n | One who interprets of speech from the position of the lips, and the mouth of the speaker, practized by the deaf. |
| Lip reading | n | Interpretation of speech from the position of the lips, and the mouth of the speaker, practized by the deaf. |
| Lip smile | n | The faintest of a feigned smile with lips tight. |
| Lipstick | n. | A small, coloured cosmetic stick of creamy texture, used to tint lips. |
| Lipstickless | adj | Lacking or without lipstick. 2. not covered by lipstick. |
| Lipsticky | adj | Covered or sticky with lipstick. |
| Lip-sworn | adj | Words sworn on an oath of secrecy. |
| Lip-teeth | n | (Of a sound) - made by the lower lips touching the upper teeth, as in 'f' and 'v'. |
| Lip-wisdom | n | Lip-service, without any meaningful action. |
| Lip-wise | adj | Wise of talk or lip, as distinguished from one who is wise in practice. |
| Lip-worship | n. | Praise or worsship that exists in words only; cf. "knee-worship" servile genuflection without conviction or belief. |
| Lip-worshipper | n | One who praises in words only, without conviction or true belief. |
| Lipwort seed | n | Idle talk, farrago, galamatia. ?????? |
| Lire | n. | Flesh, muscle, brawn |
| Lisk | n | Groin. |
| Lisp | vb. | To speak with faulty pronunciation of "s" and "z" sounds, faltering in speech, often saying "th" instead of "s" or "z". |
| Lisp | vb | To falter or lisp in speech. 2. to speak imperfectly or in a childlike manner. |
| Lisper | n | One who speaks with faulty pronunciation of "s" and "z" sounds, faltering in speech, often saying "th" instead of "s" or "z". |
| Lisping | n | The action or way of faltering or lisping in speech. 2. the speech way of a lisper |
| Lispingly | adv | In a manner or way of speaking with faulty pronunciation of "s" and "z" sounds, and faltering in speech, often saying "th" instead of "s" or "z". |
| Lisplike | adj | Characteristic of lisping |
| Lispy | adj | Some what or rather lisping in speech. |
| Liss | n. | OE: gentle. 2. remission , release, mitigation, abatement, cessation, end. 2. tranquility, rest, peace, joy, delight. |
| Lisse | vb. | OE to subdue. 2. to mitigate, assuage, relieve pain, comfort |
| Lissing | n | The action of subduing. 2. mitigation, assuaging, comforting. |
| Lissom | adj | (Especially of a person's body) lithesome, thin, supple, and graceful. |
| Lissomly | adv | In a lithesome manner; supple, gracefully, |
| Lissomness | n | The quality of being lithesome or lissom. |
| List | n. | Border, edging strip. 2. lobe of the ear. 3. cloth edge, hem, strip or edge of cloth or other fabric, border, selvage (collectively)or strip of any material. 4. one of the divisions of a head of hair or beard. 5. stripe of colour. 6. mark of a wound or scar. 7. boundary, limit, region, territory, shire. 8. place of combat, war, conflict. |
| List | n | Pleasure, joy, delight. |
| List | vb. | OE: to be pleasing to, care about, desire or wish for. 2. to desire or wish for, like to, wish to do something. |
| List | n | The ear. 2. hearing, sense of hearing. |
| List | n | Art, craft, cunning. |
| List | vb. | To listen, hear. |
| List | phr | "Have List" - to listen, give ear to, be attentive, keep silent; give list to. |
| List | phr | "On a Black List" - list of companies, people who are (regarded as) dishonest, untrustworthy. |
| List | phr | "On a Short List" - list of (comparatively) few items/people selected from a longer list, from which a final choice is made. |
| List | phr | "With List" - with craft or cunning. |
| List | phr | "Within the Lists" - within an arena. |
| Listed | adj | Entered in a list, especially an official one. 2. of a building protected from demolition by a heritage listing. |
| Listen | n | |
| Listen | vb. | To pay attention to a sound. 2. to expect or wait for a sound. 3. to accept advice or obey instruction. 4.to hear (something) |
| Listen | phr | "Listen After" - eager or make aneffort to catch the sound of. 2. to endeavour to hear or hear of; listen for |
| Listen | phr | "Listen For" - to be attentive in listen for some information or advice. 2. listen after. |
| Listen | phr | "Listen Forth" - to obtain news or tidings of. |
| Listen | phr | "Listen In" - listen to a radio or performer talk. |
| Listen | phr | "Listen Of" - hear, tell. |
| Listen | phr | "Listen On" (a phone, or other electrical or electronic device) - listen to |
| Listen | phr | "Listen to one's Body" - is to be attentive to all messages you receive from your physical, emotional and mental bodies. These messages tell you how much you listen to their needs |
| Listen | phr | "Listen to One's Heart" - do what one believes is right, will make you happy, even if you can't explain it rationally. |
| Listen | phr | "Listen Out" - to listen for a sound, e.g. on a radio. 2. keep an ear alert for someone or some information. |
| Listen | phr | "Listen to the Needs of One's Body" - to give it what it needs. Physically, it means giving your body food when it is hungry, rest when it is tired or allowing your body to sleep when it is sleepy. |
| Listen | phr | "Listen Up" - listen to what I am about to say. |
| Listener | n | A person who listens.a person receiving broadcast radio programs. |
| Listener-ship | n | Listeners collectively. |
| Listen-in | n | Period of listening to a radio broadcast (or telephone call.) |
| Listening | n | Act, skill or ability of perceiving spoken language. |
| Listening | adj | Of something or someone that listens. 2. of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear. 3. of an action that is done with caution and attention to sound. |
| Lister | n | OE. liste) - a kind of plow which simultaneously cuts, plants and covers the seed, |
| Listful | adj | Inclined to listen, be attentive. |
| Listing | n | A list or catalogue. 2. a drawiing up of a list. 3. an entry in a list or register. |
| Listless | adj. | Inattentive; heedless of what is passing; indifferent, languid; lacking energy. |
| Listlessly | adv | In an attentive manner: without giving heedto what is passing; indifferently, languidly; without energy. |
| Listlessness | n | Condition or quality of being listless. 2. want of zeal for some particular object or pursuit. 3. languid indifference to one's surrounding or what now one is doing. |
| List-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a list. |
| Listly | adv | Cuningly, craftily, deftly. |
| List-maker | n | One who makes a list or lists. |
| List-making | n | The compilation of list or lists. |
| List-washing | n | The removal of non-productive addresses from a mailing list. |
| Listwise | adj | Of or relating to lists or a list. |
| Listy | adj | Resembling a list. |
| Lit | n. | A color, dye, hue, tint, stain. 2. a deep blush. |
| Lit | vb | To run or light. |
| Lit | adj | Illuminated. 2. (slang) intoxicated or under the influence of drugs; stoned. 3. (slang) sexually aroused (usually of a female), especially visibly sexually aroused. 4. (slang) excellent, fantastic; captivating. |
| Lit | phr | "Lit Up" - be merry on alcohol, be drunk or intoxicated. |
| Lite | adj. | Little, not too much, not much at all, little in magnitude. 2. small in degree, to a small extent. |
| Lith | n. | Limb, lith from lith. 2. joint, lith from limb; lith from bone. 3. A division of an orange. 4. one of the rings surrounding the base of a cow's horn. 5. division of a globe, sphere, ball, orange etc; by analogy a nation, tribe, minority, a member of. |
| Lith | n. | A slope, decline, incline, fall, declivity, brae, descent. |
| Lith | phr | "Lithe from Bone" - pull bone from joint. |
| Lith | phr | "Lith from Limb" - pull limb from joint. |
| Lith | phr | "Out Of Lith" - out of the joint. |
| Lithe | n | Sense of hearing; hearing. 2. music, glee. |
| Lithe | adj. | Of persons, their actions, disposition, utterances: gentle, mild, meek. 2. of things, chiefly material things, soft, agreeable, mellow, pleasant. 3. of medicine: gentle, agreeable. 4. of water and weather: calm, serene, pleasant, mild, smooth, still. 5. in general: comfortable, sheltered, warm, easily bent, flexible, limbery, pliant, supple. 6. of broth, soup, potables: smooth and thick. |
| Lithe | vb | To render mild, or gentle. 2. to influence a person. 3. to assuage, relieve, soothe, mitigate pain or grief. 4. render a limb suppl, flexiblee. 5. to subdue a person. |
| Lithe | vb. | To go or travel by sea, sail. |
| Lithely | adv | Gentle, graciously, meekly, mildly. 2. with pliant movement, flexibly, briskly, nimble. |
| Litheness | n | Gentleness, meekness, mildness. 2. flexibility, suppleness; agility, nimbleness. |
| Lither | n | A sling (slang). |
| Lither | adj | Of persons and their actions, disposition: bad, wicked, base, unjust, rascally; lazy, sluggish, spiritless. 3. evil in an abstract sense. 4. of things: bad (in various senses, chiefly physical) - poor, sorry, ill-condition, ill-looking, worthless, hurtful. 5. of the body parts: withered, paralyzed, impotent. 6. of air: foul, pestilential. 7. agile, nimble, flexible. |
| Lither | vb | To sling stones, to let fly, hurl. 2. to act wickedly. |
| Litherback | n | A slothful person. |
| Litherhood | n | Wickedness. |
| Litherly | adj | Spiteful, mischievous. 2. idle, lazy. |
| Litherly | adv | In litherly manner: wickedly, deceitfully, viciously. 2. badly, meanly, wretchedly, idly, lazily of way and manner. |
| Litherness | n | Wickedness, badness. 2. laziness, sloth, listfulness. 3. want of spirit, cowardice. |
| Lithers | n | Bad men collectively. |
| Lithesome | adj | Pliant, supple, agile. |
| Lithwort | n | "Sambucus Ebulus' or the dwarf elder. |
| Lithy | adj | Pliable, flexible, supple. 2. weak, feeble, |
| Litten | n | A cemetery (lich - 'corpse' & 'tun' - enclosure. |
| Litten | vb | OE: wlitan - to look, look at. |
| Little | adj | Opposite to "great" often synonymous with small. 2. of material objects; portions of space etc,: small in size, not large or big. of persons: short in stature. 3. little one, referring to chidren, animals, pets etc. 4. Of collectives, groups: having few members. 5. small or few in quantity; bare, scarely complete. 6. of dimensions, distance, or period of time -- short in time or duration. 7. of qualities, emotions, conditions: small in extent or degree. |
| Little | phr | "A Little" - a small quantity; some, though not much. |
| Little | phr | "A Little Bird Told Me" - I know but will not say who told me. 2. i heard from an unnamable informant. |
| Little | phr | "A Little Bit Of ..." - used to suggest something is not severe or extreme. 2. only to a limited extent. |
| Little | phr | "A Little Bit of Bread and Cheese" - the song supposedly made by the bird, the Yellowhammer. |
| Little | phr | "A Little Goes a Long Way" - a particular substance is economical in use. 2. a good quality attitude or action may be effective beyond the degree it is shown or given. 3. a short experience of something/ somebody is as much good for one or as much as one can tolerate. |
| Little | phr | "Be A Little Tin God" - be a petty tyrant. |
| Little | phr | "In a Little" - in a few words. |
| Little | phr | "In Little" - on a small scale. |
| Little | phr | "Little by Little" - (lite by lite) - gradually, few; little in amount; not much. 2. of little magnitude, small, small in extent. |
| Little | phr | "Little Green Men" - extra-terrestrial beings. |
| Little | phr | "Little Heard Of" - almost unknown. |
| Little | phr | "Little Known" - not well known. |
| Little | phr | ""Little Loved" - not very much or truly loved |
| Little | phr | "Little or None/Nothing" - not much, only a slight amount or degree; barely any. |
| Little | phr | "Little Tin God" - a petty tyrant. |
| Little | phr | "Many a Mickle Makes a Little" - little by little one can accumulate a great quantity or amount. |
| Little | phr | "Of Little Worth" - of no importance or value. |
| Little | phr | "So Little While" - for so short a time. |
| Little | phr | "Tall Oaks From Little Acorns Grow" - even major enterprises have small beginnings. |
| Little | phr | "The Little" - that which is little. 2. the common people (condescendingly) |
| Little | phr | "The Little Man" - the underdog as a type. 2. somebody who does not expect, and not expected, to achieve a desired and acknowledged status financially, socially or professionally. (see: 'the Little woman') |
| Little | phr | "The Little Woman" - (dated or facetious) somebody's wife; the married woman, esp. viewed in a stereotyped domestic role. |
| Little | phr | "Think Little Of" - have a poor opinion of. |
| Little black book | n | An address book, especially in which the details of one's lovers are recorded (see 'black book). |
| Little-blessing | n | A curse. |
| Little brother | n | A sibling's younger brother (used especially by parents when speaking to their children). |
| Little-death | n. | No death at all, just a weakening, slight loss of consciousness or a grey-out, sleep |
| Little-end | n | The smaller end of a connecting rod, attached to a piston. |
| Little-Englander | n | A term applied at the end of the C19th who was opposed to Imperialism as a doctrine arguing that British policy should concentrate on home affairs. |
| Little finger | n | The smallest finger, at the outer end of the hand. |
| Little-good | n. | The devil. 2. a person who is consider of little worth. 2. the plant "Sunspurge" (Euphorbia Helioscopia). |
| Little green man | n | An imaginary person of peculiar appearance, especially from outer space. |
| Little lady | n | An affectionate term for one's wife or fiancee. 2. a conscending term for a female. |
| Little-man | n | (Jocular) the average man in the street. |
| Little-meal | adv | little by little. |
| Little mother | n | A young girl who behaves maternally towards her younger siblings. |
| Littleness | n | The state of being small, tiny or little. |
| Little-minded | adj | Small-minded, trivial (in various senses). |
| Little-mindness | n | The proprty or quality of being small-minded. |
| Littleness | n | The property of being little; smallness. |
| Little-old | adj | A term used emphatically or affectionately or humorously for little, ordinary or harmless. |
| Little one | n | Young children or animals. |
| Little Red Riding Hood | n | A fairy-tale about a young girl who goes to visit her sick grandmother only to meet a sly wolf disguised as a her grandmother - moral: beware of first appearances. |
| Little sister | n | A sibling's younger sister (used especially by parents when speaking to their children). |
| Little Tin God | n | A petty tyrant. |
| Little toe | n | The smallest toe of the foot. |
| Little-what | adv. | To some degree, somewhat. 2. a small portion or quantity (of); somewhat. |
| Little woman | n | Colloquially one's wife. |
| Littleworld | n. | A microcosm. |
| Little-worth | adj | Valueless. |
| Littling | n. | A little child or a young animal. |
| Littlish | adj | Somewhat small or tiny. |
| Littly | adv | In a small, modest, undistinguished way. |
| Live | vb. | To be alive; to have life. 2. to have permanent residence somewhere.
3. to survive; to persevere; to continue. 4. hyperbole: to cope; just have to live with it. 5. to spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually. |
| Live | phr | "Live a Lie" - pursue a false, dishonest way of life. |
| Live | phr | "Live and Learn" - ones learn (by bitter experience). 2. to live and learn: see "One Lives and Learns". |
| Live | phr | "Live and Let Live" - be unconcerned what other people do, as long as they tolerate what one does oneself. |
| Live | phr | "Live Away" - to live a life of extravagance. |
| Live | phr | "Live Beyond One's Income" - spend more than one can afford. |
| Live | phr | "Live By One's Wits" - survive using cunning, one's mental ability(rather than, for example, by hard work.) |
| Live | phr | "Live by the Sword, Fall by the Sword" - one who uses violence to achieve their aims, can expect viloent responses from others. |
| Live | phr | "Lived In" - have a comfortable, settled look of a home. |
| Live | phr | "Live Down" - to live so as to refute or subdue. 2. live down slander, get used to something shameful. 3. live in such a way that one's failings, etc are forgotten. |
| Live | phr | "Live For" - have as one's main reasons for living, as family, work, hobby. |
| Live | phr | "Live Forever" - live eternally, everlastingly. |
| Live | phr | "Live From Hand to Mouth" - being in poor financial circumstances to survive with little way of of safety margin. 2. to eke out a meager livelihood. 3. to exist on the barest minimum |
| Live | phr | "Live High" - to live luxuriously. |
| Live | phr | "Live In" - have as one's home or dwelling. 2. reside in the building etc where one works. |
| Live | phr | "Live in Clover" - having a very good future. 2. in a very good situation, esp. financially. |
| Live | phr | "Live in Hope (of)" - look optimistically for an improvement. |
| Live | phr | "Live in Sin" - cohabitation, unmarried but living as man and wife. |
| Live | phr} | "Live In the Fast Lane" - a very active, but a very risky way to live. |
| Live | phr | "Live It Up" - to live gaily and extravagance. 2. live an enjoyable, easy pleasure-filled life. |
| Live | phr | "Live Life to the Fullest" - live a very full life, without fear of possible consequences. |
| Live | phr | "Live Like a Lord" - live in luxury. |
| Live | phr | "Live Like Fighting Cocks" - live well - on good food. |
| Live | phr | "Liven Up" - become or make more cheerful or lively, as a party, lecture, a task. |
| Live | phr | "Live Off" - to depend on another financially. 2. to survive by eating a certain food, survive on raw fish. 3. have as one's diet. |
| Live | phr | "Live Off the Fat of the Land" - live in luxury. 2. enjoy the best food, drink, lodgings, entertainment, etc. |
| Live | phr | "Live Off the Land" - obtain sustenance from the produce of the countryside without payment. |
| Live | phr | "Live On" - to survive, endure, as fame or reputation. 2. feed and support oneself on a certain or stated amount, or from a certain source, as income, rent, charity |
| Live | phr | "Live On One's Own" - live alone, by one's self. |
| Live | phr | "Live One's Own Life" - to follow one's own plans and principles. 2. to live independently. |
| Live | phr | "Live On the Edge" - to have an adventurous, risky lifestyle. 2. to behave in a manner which is risky, and often perilous. 3. to be caught in an economic, or societal situation which one did not choose, which threatens one's well-being. |
| Live | phr | "Live On Top of One Another" - to live in a very crowded or overcrowded conditions. |
| Live | phr | "Live Out" - to complete a term of life. 2. survive to the end of a period of time. 3. reside away from the place where one works (though it might be possible to live in). |
| Live | phr | "Live Out of" - not have a settled life, or fixed address, as live out of a suitcase. |
| Live | phr | "Live Out of a Can/Tin" - subsist on canned food - which are easily prepared- usually because other foods are hard to buy or cook. |
| Live | phr | "Live Out One's Days" - spend one's whole life in certain circumstances, occupation, location. |
| Live | phr | "Live Over Again" - relive; experience again in the imagination, as a bitter experience, etc. |
| Live | phr | "Live Rough" - live in difficult conditions, with few or no amenities. |
| Live | phr | "Live Something Down" - lead a normal life until a misdeed is forgotten. |
| Live | phr | "Live Through" - to have the experience of and survive. |
| Live | phr | "Live To Fight Another Day" - have another chance to engage in a fight, contest, confrontation etc, either because one has not been too badly beaten to try again or because (as in the full quotation given first) ('He that fights and runs away! May live to fight another day). |
| Live | phr | "Live Together" - live in a state of cohabitation. 2. live in the same house, as husband and wife, but without being married. |
| Live | phr | "Live to Oneself" - live in isolation. |
| Live | phr | "Live to See the Day" - survive until the time whe something happens often (the impplication being that one may die first instead) |
| Live | phr | "Live To Tell the Tale" - survive an experience so that one may tell others what actually happened (the implication being that one might have died in the course of it). |
| Live | phr | "Live Under" - experience the rule of a dictator, monarch, discplinarian. |
| Live | phr | "Live Under the Roof Of" - reside in the same house. |
| Live | phr | "Live Up" - to live on a high level. 2. to take a high intellectual or position. |
| Live | phr | "Live Up To" - to act with full accordance with principles. 2. push one's spending to the utmost limit. 3. reach a standard that one has set set oneself; or that is expected of one. |
| Live | phr | "Live Well" - to have abundance of food, feed luxuriously, live very comfortably. 2. live virtuously or a virtuous life. |
| Live | phr | "Live With" - live together, live in a state of cohabitation. 2. endure something that is unpleasant; accept. 3. accept a situation that is difficult, unpleasant, live-threatening. |
| Live | phr | "Live With Oneself" - to retain one's self respect. |
| Live | phr | "Live With the Hounds" - to keep up the pace. |
| Live | phr | "Long Live" - an exclamation of loyalty (to a person...specified). |
| Live | phr | "One Lives and Learns" - one picks up many useful or surprizing pieces of information,has often to adjust one's opinion in the course of one' s life. |
| Live | phr | "The King is Dead, Long Live the King" - an announcement that the monarch who has just died. "long live the King" refers to the heir who immediately succeeds to the throne upon the death of the preceding monarch. 2. may he, she or it live for a long time, may he/she prosper. |
| Live | phr | "Where One Lives" - at or to the right or vital point. |
| Live | phr | "Within One's Lifetime" - within one's memory or experience. |
| Live | adj. | Of a mineral, rock: native, unwrought. 2. of air, in its native, pure. |
| Live-and-let-live | adj | Of, pertaining to, or following a belief in tolerance. |
| Live-bearer | n | A fish that retains eggs within its body, and gives birth to live, free-swimming young. |
| Live-bearing | n | That gives birth or bears live off-spring; viviparous. |
| Live-birth | n. | Fact of a child being born alive. |
| Live-born | adj | Born alive. |
| Live-broken | adj | Broken on the wheel. 2. shattered emotionally by trauma. |
| Lived | adj | Possessed or endowed with a certain kind of length of life. 2. that has been lived or passed through. 3. that is expressed in one's life. |
| Lived-in | adj. | Occupied, inhabited, well-worn. |
| Live-for-ever | n | A garden herb, (sedum telephum). |
| Live-goods | n | Livestock, including horses, cattle, sheep, goats, fowl etc. |
| Live-in | n. | A resident, living in an establishment (as opposed to "living out" or at home). 2. one who lives (cohabitation) with another, as in the expression "live-in-lover." |
| Live-in-idleness | n | The pansy or the heartease, the love-in-idleness. |
| Live-in-Lover | n | One who lives (cohabitation) with another, |
| Live-knot | n | A sound and firm knot. |
| Live-like | adj. | Resembling a living person. |
| Livelihood | n. | Coarse of life. lifetime, kind or manner of life, conduct. 2. means of living, sustenance, maintenance. 3. corporal sustenance, food, victuals. 4. income, revenue, stipend, emoluments. 5. property yielding an income, landed or inherited property; an estate, inheritance, patrimony. |
| Livelily | adv | In a lively manner. |
| Liveliness | adj. | Vivacity, living form or original. 2. the condition of being alive. 3. activity, vigour, vividness, vivacity. |
| Live load | n | A temporary or varying load imposed on a structure by being put to use, antonym 'dead load'. 2. a moving load or variable force acting on a structure. |
| Livelock | n | In computing, a livelock occurs when there are overlapping shared locks that prevent another process from acquiring the exclusive lock it needs. In everyday terms, an example of a 'livelock' occurs when two people trying to pass one another in a narrow passageway, but are both too polite to push pass. (See 'deadlock'). |
| Live-locked | adj | Unable to go forward because of a livelock. |
| Live lode | n | The course of life. 2. means of support; livelihood. |
| Livelong | n. | Sedum Telephium, orpine |
| Livelong | adj | Total, complete, whole, throughout, as 'I've been at it all through the night'. |
| Livelong | adj. | An emotional intensive of long, used of a period of time. 2. lasting, enduring, longevity. |
| Lively | adv. | Animated, life-like, vivid, actively, briskly, vigorously, nimbly. 2. promptly, at once, belively. 3. in a lifelike manner, vividly. 4. clearly, plainly. |
| Lively-speaking | adj | Speaking with vigor and animation. |
| Liven | vb | To put life into, inspire, enliven, brighten up. 2. to grow lively. |
| Liven | phr | "Liven Up" - become or make more cheerful or lively, as a party, lecture, a task. |
| Livener | n | Something that enlivens, a pick-me-up. |
| Liveness | n | Quality or condition of being alive. |
| Livening | adj | That enlivens or cheers. 2. that grows lively or bright. |
| Live oak | n | One of the several evergreen trees with very hard timber of the oak family native in the United states , especially Quercus virgiana |
| Live one | n | Someone who easily fooled, victimized, or ridiculed; a chump, dupe, sucker. 2. someone who is eccentric, non-conformist, or somewhat peculiar, a nut, odd-ball, weirdo. 3. a person, thing, situation which is particularly interesting, noteworthy or urgent. |
| Liver | n. | The largest glandular organ of vetrebrates, situated near to diaphragm on the right side of the body, secreting bile and purifies the blood. The liver is the second largest (after the skin) organ in the human body and the largest gland (weighing an average of 1500 g). It lies under the diaphragm in the right upper abdomen and mid-abdomen and extends to the left upper abdomen. |
| Liver | n. | One who lives or exists; a dweller. 2. one who lives of life of pleasure. |
| Liver | phr | "Line of the Liver" - the line which stretches from the wrist (near the line of life) to the base of the little finger. |
| Liver-brown | n | Dark-brown. |
| Livered | adj | Coagulated, clotted. 2. heavy (of eating). |
| Liver-hearted | adj | Cowardly, white-livered person. |
| Liver-hearted | adj | Cowardly, meek, fearful. |
| Liverish | adj | Resenbling or characteristic of a liver in some aspect. |
| Liverishness | n | Symptoms attributed to a disordered condition of the liver. |
| Liverleaf | n | The liverwort, hepatica. |
| Liverless | adj | That has no liver. 2. deprived of a liver. |
| Liver-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a liver and its meat. |
| Livery | adj. | Of the constituency or color of liver (of oil): heavy, tenacious. |
| Liver-salt | n | salts to cure dyspepsia and biliousness. |
| Liver-shape | n | The liver has the general shape of a prism or wedge, with its base to the right and its apex to the left. It is pinkish brown in color, with a soft consistency, and is highly vascular and easily friable. |
| Liverspot | n | The dark brown spot, blemish or mark on the skin, usu, caused by by exposure to the sun. |
| Liverweight | adj | The weight and size of a human or animal liver. |
| Liverwort | n | A type of bryophtye named from the belief that some species of the plant look like liver and were thought useful in treating liver conditions. |
| Livery | adj. | Of the constituency or color of liver (of oil): heavy, tenacious. |
| Live-shape | n | In Drawing a polygon (using the Polygon tool) one creates a Live Shape. You'll notice the corner widget like you saw with a rectangle Live Shape which allows you to easily change the corners of the polygon. This Live Shape however contains an additional adornment that is the shape of a rhombus (diamond). |
| Live-shell | n | An unexploded shell. |
| Live-steam | n | Steam supplied direct from a boiler, before or doing its work in a cylinder; distinguished from exhaust steam. |
| Livestock | n. | Domestic animals generally, esp cows, horses pigs. 2. animals of any kind kept for farm use or profit. 3. (sl) body vermin, such as fleas or lice. |
| Lives-wet | n | Blood; life's-wet. |
| Liveware | n. | As opposed to hardware; people, personel, as distinct from inanimate or abstract things they work with; spec. computer personnel. |
| Live-wight | n. | A living thing. |
| Live-wire | n. | A wire through which an electric current is passing. 2. person full of energy and enthusiasm. |
| Living | adj | Having life. 2. in use or existing; life, alive. 3. of everyday life. 4. true to life. 5. used as an intensifier, as 'living hell'. |
| Living | n | The state of being alive. 2. financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood. 3. style of life, as 'plain living' 5.(canon law) a position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice |
| Living | phr | In the Land of the Living" - among those who are alive. |
| Living | phr | "Living End" - a person or thing, etc. that is about as much as one can stand. 2. the utmost in any situation, something that extraordinary. |
| Living | phr | Living Hell" - a person or thing, etc. that is about as much as one can stand. |
| Living | phr | "Make a Living" - to earn enough money to support oneself, and, if applicable, one's family. |
| Living | phr | "The Living" - those who are alive. |
| Living-days | n. | Life itself, the days of one's life; the living years. |
| Living-dead | n | The undead, a zombie. 2. one whose life that is so full of suffering that he/she would be better of dead. |
| Living death | n. | State of misery not deseving the name of life. 2. a life that is so full of suffering that it would be better of dead. |
| Living-in | n. | The practice of living an employer's residence |
| Livingless | adj | Without a living. |
| Livingly | adv | In a living state, really vitality. 2. in a living state or manner, by course or way of life. |
| Livingness | n. | Quality, condition or fact of being alive or living; vigour, vivacity. |
| Living room | n | A room in a house for general and informal everyday use. |
| Living thing | n | An organism that display the key characteristics of life. The characteristics include the ability to grow, reproduce, take in and use energy, excrete waste, respond to the environment and possess an organized structure more complex than that of non-living things. |
| Living will | n | A written statement of dealing a person desires future medical 6treatment in circumstances in which they likely are no longer able to express informed conset, especially an advance directive. |
| Living years | n | The period of one's life. |
| Livish | adj | Somewhat live or alive, or lively. |
| Livishly | adv | In somewhat of a livish manner |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Lo | excl | OE. Exclamation surprise, grief, or joy; also used used with vocative "O". |
| Lo and behold | excl | Look, see and beware; take notice |
| Load | n | Weight to be borne or conveyed; load, loading burden. 2. a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time load 3. loading goods carried by a large vehicle; cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment. 4. an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate. 5. the power output of a generator or power plant. 6. an onerous or difficult concern; "that's a load off my mind" burden, load, encumbrance, onus; that which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care.. 7 a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks; lode, load. 8. the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents; warhead, payload, load. 9. electrical device to which electrical power is delivered. 10. a burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load. 11. the quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading. 12. a particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters. 13. the charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder. 14. weight or violence of blows. 15. The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working. 16. the amount of work that a person, group, or machine is assigned to perform; as, the work distributed. 18.the device or devices that consume power from a power supply. 16. the weight or force that a structure a support bears or is designed to bear; the object that creates that force 17. load line, or Load water line (naut.), the line on the outside of a vessel indicating the depth to which it sinks in the water when loaded. 18. burden; lading; weight; cargo. |
| Load | vb | To fill or place a load on. 2. provide (a device) with something necessary. 3. transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory. 4: put (something) on a structure or conveyance. 5. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; adulterate, load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase. 6. To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon. 7. to adulterate or drug; as, to load wine. 8. to magnetize. 9. to copy data (often program code to be run) in the memory, possibly parsing it somehow in the process. 10. the degree to which a computer, network, or other resource is used, sometimes expressed as a percentage of the maximum available. 11. to install a piece of software onto a system. |
| Load | phr | "Dead Load" - (when caused by pressure alone)the downward pressure on a structure. |
| Load | phr | "Get a Load Of" - to look at, perceive. 2. make oneself aware of. 3. scrutinize, listen carefully to; pay attention to. |
| Load | phr | "Lay On by Loads" - to belabor with blows. 2. fig. to blame, reproach. 3. to heap or pile on. |
| Load | phr | "Live Load" - when caused by gravity increased by the stresses of transverse motion. |
| Load | phr | "Load Down" - put many heavy or difficult burdens on somebody and something; overburden, over-strain; depressed. |
| Load | phr | "Load Off One's Mind" - to be relieved of the burden of anxiety. |
| Load | phr | "Load Up (with)" - fill to the brim or top; put a full load on or upon. 2. heavy laden with. 3. having an abundance of. |
| Load | phr | "Load With" - award honors etc. to somebody in abundance. |
| Load | phr | "Load with Earth" - bury. |
| Load | phr | "Take Load Off One's Mind" - have relief from the burden of anxiety. |
| Load-bearing | adj | Capable of bearing a structural load, supporting. 2. supporting, a load or part or parts of a structure above as, a load-bearing wall. |
| Loaded | adj | Filled with a great quantity. 2. of weapons charged with ammunition. 3. of statements and questions charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence. 4. having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value, affluent, wealthy, moneyed. 5. very drunk, blotto. |
| Loaded | phr | "Loaded for Bear" - to be prepared, mentally and physically, for extreme opposition; typically used in reference to an aggressive or violent situation. |
| Loaded Word" | n | Word or wording that attempts to influence an audience by using language appealing to emotion or stereotypes. Also referred to as 'high-inference language. |
| Loaden | vb | Weighed down by a load(lit & fig.) |
| Loader | n | A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port. 2. a stevedore, longshoreman, docker, dock-worker. |
| Loading | n | The act of placing a force or burden upon an object or network, as 'vocal loading,' the stress inflicted on the speech organs when speaking for a long period. 2. the action of the verb 'to load.' 3 a burden, weight carried; cargo or the quantity or weight of goods or passenger carried or transported at one time. 3. worry concern. 4. the act of putting or placing a load on a vehicles, ship or container. the weight of a load. 5. an extra payment made to workers for working outside the conditions of their employment award. |
| Loading | adj | Pertaining to the loading of a vehicle, ship, container etc. |
| Loadless | adj | Having no load; without a load. |
| Load line | n | In electronics: a method of determining operating points in circuits with non-linear elements. This method was often used with vacuum tubes. 2. a ship's waterline is the line where its hull meets the surface of the water. A load line, also called Plimsoll mark,it is a marking indicating the extent to which the weight of a load may safely submerge a ship, by way of a waterline limit. |
| Load-shedding | n | The process by which an electricity utility cuts or reduces power to some customers in response to a shortage of available electricity. 2. the postponement of less important bills because of financial problems. |
| Loads | n | A great number, quantity, amount, lots, heaps. |
| Loadsman | n | A pilot. |
| Loadsome | adj | Burdensome. |
| Loadstar | n | A guiding star, a star that is used as a reference point in navigation or astronomy. 2. something that serves as a model or guide. 3. a star that leads; a cynosure. 4. something that attracts attention or on which the attention is fixed; a cynosure. |
| Loadstone | n | A permanent magnet consisting of a magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attached magnetically. 2. a piece of magnetite, a magnetic iron ore, possessing a magnetic needle. |
| Load time | n | In computing, the time at which a program is loaded; run-time, compile-time. 2. time taken to load a vehicle, ship etc. |
| Load-water line | n | The line of flotation of a ship, when it has its full cargo on board or is fully-laden. |
| Loaf | n | Bread; a portion of bread baked in one mass; one of the portions, of uniform size and shape, into which a batch of bread is divided. 2. a mould conical mass of sugar. 3. a mass or lump (of anything). 4. a head of cabbage. 5. in such combinations as: 'meat-loaf'. |
| Loaf | phr | "Half a Loaf is Better than None" - better to accept a little that is offered, than have nothing at all. From John Heywood's (1546): "Throw no gift at the giver's head; Better is half a loaf than no bread" |
| Loaf | phr | "Use One's Loaf" - use one's common sense. |
| Loaf | phr | "With the Eyes to the Loaves and Fishes" - with a view to the material benefits to be derived. |
| Loaf-bread | n | Bread made in the form of a loaf. |
| Loaf-eater | n | (OE hlaf & eta)- one who 'eats the bread' of the master: an servant. |
| Loafed | adj | Having a loaf of bread; resembling a loaf in various shape. |
| Loaf-like | adj | Resembling a loaf or some aspect of one. |
| Loam | vb | To cover, smear, or fill with loam. 2. to cover, plaster or dress with loam. |
| Loam | n | A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. 2. a rich soil composed chiefly of clay and sand with admixture of decomposed vegetable matter, loaming. 3. earth, ground, soil. 4. clay moistened with water to form a paste. 2. (founding) a mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern. |
| Loamed | adj | Stopped up with earth or loam. |
| Loamily | adv | In the manner of having loam. |
| Loaminess | n | The sate or quality of loam. |
| Loamless | adj | Without loam; lacking sufficient amount of loam. |
| Loamshire | n | Name given to an imaginary rural district, county much used in novels and plays. |
| Loamy | adj | Consisting of or having the character of loam. 2. built with loam. |
| Loan | n | The OE. "laen" did not survive into ME. being superseded by the Scandinavian forms; but in derivation vb. "laenes" is the source of lend. |
| Loan | n | The temporary provision of money (usually at interest). 2. the act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services. 3. that which one lends or borrows, especially a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan. 4. a word borrowed from another language; a loanword, |
| Loan | vb | To give temporarily; let have for a limited time. 2. loan loaning: to lend; -- sometimes with out. |
| Loaned | adj | Borrowed, lent, taken with permission. 2. of a word borrowed or loaned from a foreign language; a loanword. |
| Loaner | n | One who loans something (usually temporarily). |
| Loan-god | n | A god borrowed from another religion. |
| Loan-holder | n | One who lends something to another, often at an exorbitant rate; a lender. 2. one who borrows from another'; a borrower. |
| Loaning | n | The act of lending. |
| Loanland | n | Land that has been granted temporarily without any loss of ownership. |
| Loan-monger | n | A loanmonger or monger of loans: a contemptuous name for a loan-contractor; an usurer. 2. one who practises loan-mongering. |
| Loan-sharp | n | One who lens money at an exorbitant rate; loan-sharking. |
| Loan-shift | n | A change in a meaning of a word resulting from the influence of a foreign language; a word so affected. |
| Loanword | n | A word borrowed from another another language. |
| Loath | adj | Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom. 2. antipathetic to new ideas averse to taking risks. 2. clearly indisposed towards. 3. fitted to cause loathing, exciting disgust, disgusting. 4. hateful. |
| Loath | phr | "Nothing Loath" - not at all unwilling. |
| Loathe | vb | To find repugnant. 2. to hate, to feel extreme disgust at, or aversion for. 3. to dislike greatly; to abhor, to hate, to detest, to abominate, to execrate; to feel disgust or nausea. [Obs.] 3. dislike, hate, mislike, not care for, shrink from, shudder at, spurn. |
| Loathed | adj | Hated, detested, strongly-disliked. |
| Loathedness | n | The state or condition of being hated, detested or strongly disliked. |
| Loather | n | One who hates or loathes, or abominates. |
| Loathful | adj. | Full of loathing; hating, abhorring. 2. causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting. 3. that is the object of loathe or disgust. 4. hateful, loathsome. |
| Loathfully | adv | In a loathfull manner. 2. with reluctance. |
| Loathiness | n | the state or quality of being loathy. |
| Loathing | n | Hate, coupled with disgust |
| Loathingly | adv | In a loathing manner; as one who feels a loathing or disgust. |
| Loathing-stock | n | An object of loathing. |
| Loathless | adj | Innocent, not repugnant, or detestable. |
| Loathlessness | n | The quality of state of being of being innocent 2. innocence |
| Loathlihood | n | Loathsomeness. |
| Loathliness | n | Quality of being loathly. 2. hatefulness, loathsomeness. |
| Loathly | adj | Unwilling, reluctant, offensive, disgusting. |
| Loathly | adv | Loathsome, so as to cause loathing. 2. unwillingly, reluctant. 3. very offensive, in a manner arousing, disgusting, and with aversion, |
| Loathly Lady | n | A stock character of old romance who is so hideous that everyone is deterred from marrying her. When, however, she at last finds a husband her ugliness, the effect of enchantment, disappears, and she becomes a model of beauty. Her story is the feminine counterpart of Beauty and the Beast. |
| Loathness | n | Unwillingness, reluctance, disinclination. |
| Loathsome | adj | Causing or able to cause nausea. 2. highly offensive, arousing aversion or disgust, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, repellent, repugnant. |
| Loathsomely | adv | In a loathsome manner. |
| Loathsomeness | n | The quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions, vileness, repulsiveness, wickedness. 2. loathliness |
| Loathy | adj | Causing hatred or disgust, repulsive; loathsome. |
| Loaves | phr | "Loaves and Fishes" (fig. after John V1. 26)- pecuniary benefit after a motive for religious profession (or, on occasion for a show of public spirit) |
| Lob | n | A spider |
| Lobster | n | OE. loppestre: crayfish, grasshopper. 1. a marine crustacean (genus: Homarus) much used as food, having a large first pair of ambulatory legs, which form the claws, and compound eyes carried on flexible stalks |
| Lobster-back | n | A red-coat, a British soldier during the American revolution. |
| Lobsterdom | n | The realm of lobster. |
| Lobsterish | adj | Similar in shape, form and color to a lobster. |
| Lobster-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a lobster in some aspect. |
| Lobsterling | adj | A young lobster. |
| Lobster-man | n | A fisherman who catches lobster. |
| Lobster-pot | n | A wire pot-shaped container used to trap lobster. |
| Lobster shift | n | A work shift during the latter part of the night; a graveyard shift. |
| Lobstery | adj | Resembling a lobster; red-coloured. |
| Lock | n | A tuft or strand of hair; tress. 2. a small quantity of hay, wool, etc. 3. in plural-locks: hair. |
| Lock | n | A fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed. 2. a strand or cluster of hair; syn: lock, curl, ringlet, whorl. 3. a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun 4. enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be close to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it lock; a lock chamber. 5. a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key; lock, ignition lock. 6. any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured. |
| Lock | vb | Fasten with a lock. 2. keep engaged; engage, mesh, lock, operate. 3. become rigid or immovable; 4. hold in a locking position; lock, interlock, interlace. 5: become engaged or inter-meshed with one another. 6: hold fast (in a certain state; that is locked in laughter.) 7. place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up. 8. pass by means through a lock in a waterway. 9. build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels. |
| Lock | sfx | A suffix surviving in Modern English only in 'wedlock'; the element in compositions as, bride-lock: nuptials; fight-lock: war; reave-lock: robbery; wed-lock: pledge-giving; wrought-lock: calumny; witelock: punishment. |
| Lock | phr | "Behind Locked Doors" - in secret. |
| Lock | phr | "Fickle Under Her Lock.": full of guile. |
| Lock | phr | "Lock and Load" - a command to prepare a weapon for battle. 2. (sl) prepare for an imminent event. |
| Lock | phr | "Lock Away" - put for safe keeping in a drawer and safe, bank etc. 2. lock up. |
| Lock | phr | "Lock forward" - make or become rigidly fixed or immovable. |
| Lock | phr | "Lock Horns With" - to have another argument with another. 2. of a horned beast - to entangle with horns mutually in fighting. 3. to engage in combat (with someone). |
| Lock | phr | "Lock In" - to close with or as with a tight seal. 2. to place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape. 2. to lock away, lock up, prevent (somebody, something) from leaving, besiege. 4. deliberately put someone in a room, and lock with a key. 5. lock somebody in a room, etc. by mistake. |
| Lock | phr | "Lock in Clay" - bury, inter, entomb. |
| Lock | phr | "Lock Into" - create an agreement which cannot be broken by one of the parties. |
| Lock | phr | "Lock Lips" - to kiss. |
| Lock | phr | "Lock On" -to obscure with attention. 2. to lock on as or consider, think of, regard as, take to be. |
| Lock | phr | "Lock On to Something" - of a missile to find and follow a target by radar or a similar means. 2. of a dog that locks it jaws on an a person or another animal. |
| Lock | phr | Lock Out (of)"- the act or an industrial relations act of preventing employees working or entering a workplace during a strike (usually in response to planned industrial action.) 2. deliberately prevent somebody from entering a place by locking the door etc from the inside. 3. accidentally or mistakenly prevent somebody or oneself from entering a place (by accidentally losing the key). |
| Lock | phr | "Lock Up" - to secure by locking, as by making a house secure by locking the windows and doors. 2. to place in a place where something cannot be removed (as money in a locked drawer)or someone (prisoner) cannot be escape. 3. to lock away; to put away, shut away, imprison, incarcerate. 4. lock up in, enclose, contain in. 5. invest money in such a way that it cannot be turned into cash. |
| Lock | phr | "Lock Up in the Old Oak Chest" - to put something in a safe place and out of mind. |
| Lock | phr | "On the Lock" - an occupation of one who locks prison cells; a warder. |
| Lock | phr | "Under Lock and Key" - in a locked room, container; locked away safely and securely. |
| Lock-box | n | In Late OE: container for money' 2. in banking, a service offered by commercial banks that simplifies collection and processing of accounts receivable by having those organizations customer's payments mailed directly to a location accessible to the bank. 3. a post-office box hired from postal authorities or a private organization as a collection point for mail. |
| Lock-down | n | The act of confining prisoners to their cells, usu. to regain control during a riot by inmates |
| Locked | adj | Of a door that has been locked by a key. 2. (sl) intoxicated, drunk. 3. of hair, as in 'golden-locked; long-locked'. |
| Locker | n | A storage compartment for goods and valuables, usu it has a lock. 2. a fastener that locks or closes. 3. a trunk for storing possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed. 4. a compartment, or chest , drawer esp. one in a ship that cannot be closed with a lock. |
| Locker room | n | A room at a sporting club or place of one's occupation which contains lockers for the temporary storage of clothing or/and personal possessions. |
| Lockfast | adj | Firmly fastened and secured by lock and key. |
| Lockful | adj | An enough water to fill a canal lock. |
| Lock gate | n | A sluice gate on a canal. |
| Lock-in | n | The action or fact of locking in a person or thing. |
| Locking | n | The act or action of securing or fastening something with a key or by electronic means. 2. a system of locking something by key or electronically. |
| Locking | adj | Able to be locked. |
| Locking-stop | n | A projection to limit the turning of the front carriage of a vehicle. |
| Lock-keeper | n | A person responsible for operating and maintaining locks on a canal or river. |
| Lock key | n | A computer software, security program. 2. a watchman, security guard, prison warder etc. |
| Lockless | adj | Having no locks in various senses: bald without hair; unsecured, without a lock and key. |
| Locklips | vb | To kiss. |
| Locklike | adj | resembling or characteristic of a lock |
| Lock-making | n | The making of locks and keys. |
| Lockman | n | A worker in charge of a lock on a canal. 2. a lockmaster, lock-keeper. 3. public executioner. |
| Looknut | n | A second nut, screwed down into another in order to prevent it slipping. |
| Lock-on | n | T.he commencement of automatic tracking a aircraft, tank etc. 2. the establishment of a rigid physical connect |
| Lockout | n | The prevention of employees from working during a strike. |
| Lockring | n | In bicyling: a threaded washer use to prevent components becoming loose during rotation. |
| Locks | n | A piece of hair. 2. dreadlocks. |
| Lockside | n | An area to the side of a canal lock. |
| Locksman | n | A lock-keeper, warder; turnkey. |
| Locksmith | n | A person whose occupation is to install, open, repair or mend locks. |
| Locksmithing | n | The practice of a locksmith or one who studies and practices locksmithing. 2. the practice of betting on a 'sure thing' or certain winner. |
| Locksmith's Daughter | n | A key. |
| Locksmithy | adj | The work of a locksmith |
| Lock step | n | A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible , in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him. 2. fig. the slavish copying of one person's actions with another; as political party members act or vote in lockstep with their leadership. |
| Lockstile | n | That part of a door into which the lock is fitted. |
| Lockstitch | n | A stitch made by a sewing machinein which two threads are interlocked. |
| Locktime | n | The time (a nano-second) from which the trigger of a gun is pulled until the firing pin strikes the primer. 2. a lock, often with a bank or other financial organization) that cannot be unlocked before a specified time. |
| Lock-up | n | A place used to imprison (sometimes temporarily) criminals or military personnel. 2. a jail, prison, penitentiary. |
| Lock-up house | n | A place used temporarily as a prison. |
| Lock up shop | n | A detached apartment used as a shop and locked up at night. 2. slang: a police station( a lock-up shop. |
| Lock-weir | n | A lock situated on a weir. |
| Locky | adj | Of or pertaining to locks (of hair). 2. having hairy locks in abundance. 3. that is locked by a key, etc. |
| Lodder | n | A beggar, mendicant, alms-seeker. 2. a poor wretch. |
| Lodderly | adv | In a cadging manner,with mendicancy. 2. wretched, impoverished, needy, base |
| Lode | n | Way, journey, voyage, course, road. 2. watercourse, stream, aqueduct, channel, open drain in fen country. 3. lead, guidance, pilot or to act as a pilot. 4. object of attraction, lodestar. 5. a vein of metal ore or mineral. |
| Lodeman | n | Leader, guide, pilot, steerman, lodesman. |
| Lodeship | n | A pilot boat. |
| Lodestar | n | A star that leads the way, esp, the Pole Star, a guiding star that on which one's attention and or hopes are fixed. |
| Lodestone | n | A naturally occurring magnet. 2. a mineral magnetite. |
| Lodewort | n | Ranunculus acquatilis, water crowfoot. |
| Lof(e) | n | Praise. 2. price, value; set at a price or for sale. 3. chance, choice, opportunity. |
| Lof-like | adj | Desirous of praise. |
| Lofsong | n | A song of praise, hymn, psalm. |
| Lof-singer | n | Psalmist, singer of hymns. |
| Loft | n | Late OE (from Old Norse) air, sky, upper region. 2. of high voice, in loud song: "on or upon the loft" 3. an attic, pigeon house or loft, upper story or floor of a house or factory; a penthouse. 3. a place where sails are made. 4. elevation, uplift. |
| Lofted | adj | Of a building having more than storey. 2. raised or elevated into the air. |
| Lofter | n | One who lives in a loft or attic. 2. a golf club used for lofting the ball. |
| Lofthead | n | An overhead cavity in a cave or mine-shaft caused by a fall of roof. |
| Loftily | adv | In a lofty manner or elevated position; in a raised or elevated place; upon high. 2. of a haughty manner. 3. of the spirit: a positive, purposeful feeling. 4. eminently, haughtily. |
| Loftiness | n | A high or elevated state of quality. 2. a raising of character, feeling, state of lofty thought (sometimes through pride, presumption, arrogant, grandeur. |
| Lofting | n | Roofing, ceiling, or flooring. |
| Loftless | adj | Having no upper story. |
| Lofty | adj | Elevated, as in position, character, language or quality. 2. exalted, haughty, stately. 3. eminent, grand, high, sublime. |
| Lofty-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of being lofty in some aspect. |
| Lofty-minded | adj | Noble, chivalry, high-minded, idealistic, exalted, high-flown. |
| Lof-word | n | Words of praise; (the forms show a confusion with "Love".) |
| London bridge | n | Many historical bridges named London Bridge have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark, in central London. The current crossing, which opened to traffic in 1974, is a box girder bridge built from concrete and steel. This replaced a 19th-century stone-arched bridge, which in turn superseded a 600-year-old medieval structure. This was preceded by a succession of timber bridges, the first built by the Roman founders of London |
| London town | n | Predominantly the central fifteen or so boroughs around London. |
| Lone | adj | Aphetic of alone (all & one) |
| Lone | phr | "Lone It" - go it alone; do it yourself. |
| Lone | phr | "Play A Lone Hand" - struggle, persist, battle on by oneself, often against overwhelming odds. |
| Lonedom | n | Solitariness. |
| Loneful | adj | Lonely, forlorn. |
| Lone hand | n | A person or action without allies. |
| Lonelihood | n | Loneliness. |
| Loneliness | n | A state of being alone. 2. a feeling of suffering depression, sadness resulting from being alone. 3. the condition of being lonely from solitude, solitariness, want of human interest. 5. the state of being unfrequented by others. 6. lonesomeness, solitude, secluded, forsaken, abandoned, isolated. |
| Loneling | n | A single child, as opposed to twins. |
| Lonely | adv | alone, in want of the company of others. 2. having the feeling of depression and sadness resulting. from the consciousness of being alone, lonesome. 3. unfrequented by others solitary, desolately. 4. physically and mentally apart from others; lone, unfrequented, secluded, forlorn. |
| Lonely | phr | "Miss Lonely Hearts" - a person in need of love, friendship, sympathy (the implication usually being that one is too shy or inhibited to find it for herself (also male equivalent 'Mr Lonely Hearts'). |
| Lonely-heart(s) | n | A sentimental term or name for a friendless person. |
| Lonely-hearted | adj | Yearning for affection, touch, true love and genuine companionship of (an)other. |
| Lonelyish | adj | Somewhat lonely. |
| Loner | n | A person who avoids company and prefers to be alone. |
| Loneness | n | The quality or condition being alone; solitariness, loneliness, lonesomeness. |
| Lonesome | adj | Unhappy from being alone, lonely. |
| Lonesome | phr | "On (By) One's Lonesome" - on one's own; alone; oneself alone, without company or assistance. |
| Lonesomely | adv | In a lonesome manner, a way missing companionship. |
| Lonesomeness | n | In a state of being lonesome. |
| Lone wolf | n | A wolf not part of the pack. 2. a person who avoids the company of others; alone. 3. someone who commits violent act in the name of a group or ideology. |
| Long | n | A music note formerly used in music, half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. 2. the longest dimension; the greatest extent, as in the phrase the long and short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it. 3. in a short amount of time, as 'they claimed they would be finished before long'. |
| Long | conj | Duration of a plan or idea, usually referring to the future; as long as. |
| Long | vb | To have a strong longing for; to covet, hanker, wish, yearn for. |
| Long | adj | Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short,and distinguished from broad or wide. 2. drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book. 3. slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching. 4. occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. 5. having a length of the specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc. 6. Far-reaching; extensive. 7. (Phonetics) prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. 8. (Fin. & Com.) having a supply of stocks or goods; prepared for, or depending for a profit upon, advance in prices; as, long of cotton. Hence, the phrases: to be, or
go, long of the market, to be on the long side of the market, to hold products or securities for a rise in price, esp. when bought on a margin. Contrasted to short. |
| Long | adv | To a great extent in space; as, a long drawn out line. 2. to a great extent in time; during a long time. 3. at a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; as, 'not long after the Conquest'. 4. through the whole extent or duration. 5. through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone? |
| Long | pfx | "Long" is used as a prefix in a large number of compound adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as, long-armed, long-beaked, long-haired, long-horned, long-necked, long-sleeved, long-tailed, long- worded, etc. |
| Long | prp | By means of, by fault of of, because of. |
| Long | sfx | "Long" used as a suffix in a large number of compound adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as, 'headlong, sidelong, etc. |
| Long | phr | "As Broad as It's Long" - either way is as good as the other. |
| Long | phr | "As Long As" - assuming, providing that, depending upon some condition or requirement. |
| Long | phr | "As Long as the Day" - (as the day is long)- unceasingly. 2. very thoroughly; to a very high degree. |
| Long | phr | "At Long Last" - finally. |
| Long | phr | "Before Long" - fairly soon. |
| Long | phr | "By a Long Chalk" - very considerably. |
| Long | phr | "Draw a Long Bow" - to come to a conclusion which while possible is unlikely on the known facts. 2. make exaggerated statements. |
| Long | phr | "Draw the Long Straw" - to select the longest straw or other object whilst drawing straws. 2. (idiomatic) to be selected to do a desirable task |
| Long | phr | "Draw the Short Straw" - to select the shortest straw or other object whilst drawing straws. 2. (idiomatic) to be selected to do an undesirable task |
| Long | phr | "For Long" - for a long time. |
| Long | phr | "For Long Together" - destined to continue |
| Long | phr | "Go A Long Way Towards" - be nearly enough for or to. |
| Long | phr | "Go Down a Long Road" - to start a task which will take a long time. |
| Long | phr | "Have a Long Arm" - (simile) very long, far reaching power and influence of the law. |
| Long | phr | "Have a Long Head" - to have a farseeing or sagacious mind. |
| Long | phr | "Have a Long Tongue" - over-talkative, loquacious. |
| Long | phr | "He Must Have a Long Spoon, that Feeds with the Devil" - great care is needed when negotiating deals with disreputable parties. |
| Long | phr | "In the Long Run" - eventually, after a very long time. 2. over a long period. |
| Long | phr | "It's a Long Time Between Drinks" - activity is occurring very spasmodically. |
| Long | phr | "It's as Broad as It's Long" - either way is as good as the others. 2. it doesn't really matter |
| Long | phr | "It Will be Long First, ere It Be Long" |
| Long | phr | "Long Ago" - a time in the distant or remote past. 2. that has long gone by. |
| Long | phr | "Long and By Last" - in the end. |
| Long | phr | "Long And Short of It" - a shortened or abbreviated account of. 2. all that needs to be said of it. 3. the gist, the essence or substance, the most important r salient features. |
| Long | phr | "Long and Short of It" - see: "The Short and Long of It" : the sum total, the substance, the upstart. |
| Long | phr | "Long Arm of the Law" - inescapable from police detection and justice. |
| Long | phr | "Long As My Arm" - (the) - the influence or effectiveness of law enforcement institutions, law enforcement officers collectively. |
| Long | phr | "Long-breathed" - full of breathed, talkative, full of chatter. |
| Long | phr | "Long Drawn Out" - extended in time. |
| Long | phr | "Long Drink of Water" - a very draw person. |
| Long | phr | "Long Enough" - a phrase expressing the hopelessness of result, 'that's long enough for anyone'. |
| Long | phr | "Long-felt Need" - something that needs to be invented. |
| Long | phr | "Long For" - desire, yearned or wish for something strongly, as success, money, fame. |
| Long | phr | "Long In the Tooth" - old, to be old, aging, of advance years (originally said horses). |
| Long | phr | "Long Line of Teachers" - a succession of people representing a family, type or profession. |
| Long | phr | "Long Live the King" - may thr King live a long time. 2. may somebody's or someone's influence continue. |
| Long | phr | "Long Of Life" - longevity. |
| Long | phr | "Long On" - possessing a copious capacity. 2. at a time in the future. |
| Long | phr | "Long Row to Hoe" - (idiomatic) a difficult, arduous task or set of tasks. 2. a lengthy, demanding project. |
| Long | phr | "Long Sought After" - seeking or endeavouring to obtain or attained for a long time. |
| Long | phr | "Long Time Between Drinks" - activity occurring not often or very spasmodically. |
| Long | phr | "Long Time, No Hear" - i haven't heard you for a long time. |
| Long | phr | "Long Time, No See" - i haven't seen you, we haven't met, for a long time. |
| Long | phr | "Loud and Long" - loudly and continuously for a few seconds or minutes. |
| Long | phr | "Make a Long Arm" - to stretch for something, especially across a table. |
| Long | phr | "Make Short of Long" - to make a long story short. |
| Long | phr | "Night of the Long Knife" - a treacherous massacre (as according to legend) on the British by Hengst in 472; and, of Hitler by Ernst Roehm in June 1934. Hence used allusively of any similarity decisive or ruthless action. |
| Long | phr | "No Longer" - not now, formerly, as "this can go on no longer". |
| Long | phr | "Not by a Long Shot" - decidedly not; not at all. |
| Long | phr | "Not Long For This World" - moribund, on the point of death; in the death throes. |
| Long | phr | "Of Long" - since a remote period, for a long time past. |
| Long | phr | "So Long" - goodbye, farewell. |
| Long | phr | "So Long As" - under condition that, since. |
| Long | phr | "That's a Long Shot" - there is only a remote possibility or chance of success. |
| Long | phr | "That Long" - that length of time. |
| Long | phr | "The Short and Long of It" - the sum total, the substance, the upstart, the long and short of it. |
| Long | phr | "Think Long and Hard" - consider (a situation)very carefully |
| Long | phr | "This Long" - for this time. |
| Long | phr | "Through Long and Broad" - through the length and breadth. |
| Long | phr | "Throw a Long Shadow" - to have wide and important ramification. |
| Long | phr | "Umbe long" - after a long time. |
| Long | phr | "Win By a Long Chalk" - to win decisively and conclusively. |
| Long-ago | adj | In the distant past. |
| Long arm | n | A long pole with a hook for operating fan-lights, sliding sashes etc. |
| Long black | n | (In New Zealand & Australia) -a regular sized cup of espresso coffee without milk, being a diluted version of a short black. |
| Long board | n | A large skateboard, of about 90-150cm in length. 2. a large surfboard, around nine to 2.7 to 3cm. long with a wide nose. |
| Long boarder | n | One who rides a long board when surfing. |
| Long-boarding | n | The act of riding a long board when surfing. |
| Long boat | n | In the era of sailing ships, a vessel which carries several boats; one would be a long boat, an open boat to be rowed by approximately ten oarsman. |
| Long bone | n | A long bone(s), as the tibia, femur, etc., are those that are longer than they are wide. |
| Long bow | n | A large bow pulled back by hand, and shooting a long-feathered arrow, from 5to 6 feet long. It was the chief weapon from the C14th until the invention and introduction of firearms. |
| Long bowman | n | One who is armed with, and shoots a long bow; an archer. |
| Long-buried | adj | One is a long-time dead. |
| Long cloth | n | A fine, soft cotton cloth of woven or loosely twisted yarns. |
| Long clothes | n | A baby first dress. |
| Long-dead | adj | Passed away decades ago, as a 'long-dead forefather'. |
| Long-dog | n | The greyhound. |
| Long-drawn | adj | Extended to a great length. 2. protracted; prolonged, tedious. |
| Long-drawn-out | adj | Continuing for a long time; protracted, tedious; prolonged. |
| Long drink | n | A relatively weak alcoholic drink, with lots of ice and water. |
| Long-drop | n | A form of gallows which the trapdoor is taken away from under the feet of the person to be executed. |
| Long-felt | adj | Of a traumatic experience suffered long ago, but still affecting one deeply, intensely and profoundly. |
| Long finger | n | the middle-finger. 2. a state of postponement or procrastination. 3. slang: hire purchase credit. |
| Long-fingered | adj | Having slender fingers. |
| Long-forgotten | adj | Not in one's living memory. |
| Longful | adj | Longingly. |
| Longfully | adv | With longing looks, longingly. |
| Long-gone | adj | Of a time long ago. |
| Long green | n | A slang word for money, especially in the form of cash, and (often preceded by 'the' or 'some'). |
| Longhair | n | Person characterized by association of long hair, especially a hippie oor intellectual. 2. a long-haired cat. |
| Longhair | n | A person with hair longer than the norm, especially someone viewed as bohemian, non-conventional or a hippie. 2. person with a deep interest in the classical arts, especially music. 3. person considered to have excessively refined taste for the arts. 4. cat with hair longer than the norm. |
| Long-haired | adj | A brainy person, an intellectual aesthete. 2. a hippie, beatnik. 3. a devotee of the classical arts. 2. a cat with long hair. |
| Longhand | n | The written characters used in the common method of writing, opposed to shorthand, or typing or printing; handwriting. |
| Longhand | adv | To write something by hand in normal characters, as opposed to shorthand. 2. to write something out by hand (with a pen or pencil) rather than printing out; handwritten. |
| Long-head | n | A dolichocephalic person. 2. a shrewdness, foresight, prudence, commonsense. |
| Long-headed | adj | Having or with the capacity for calculation and forethought. 2. clever, sharp-witted. |
| Long-headedness | n | The physical feature of one with long-headed. 2. intelligence, with the capacity for calculation and forethought. |
| Long-held | adj | Something assumed, proposed, believed etc. for a long time. |
| Long-hidden | adj | Secreted long ago; out of sight for a long time. |
| Long-home | n | The grave, the tomb. |
| Long-horn | n | A breed of cattle having long horns. |
| Long-house | n | A type of a long, proportionately narrow, single-roomed building built by people in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe,and North America |
| Long-hundred | n | The 'great hundred' is a hundred of six-score or twelfty used in Germanic languages prior to the C15th. |
| Long-in-the-Mouth | adj | Of food requiring a long time to chew. |
| Longing | n | A prolonged, unfulfilled desire or need. 2. an eager desire; an earnest wish or craving. 3. specifically, in pathology one of the peculiar and often whimsical desires experienced by pregnant women. 4. hankering, yearning, aspiration, wishing. |
| Longingly | adv | In a longing manner or way; yearningly, in a desiring way, in a whim. |
| Longish | adj | Somewhat or rather long. |
| Long-kept | adj | Held or kept for a long time. |
| Long-keeping | adj | Able to be kept for a long time; long-life. |
| Long-lasting | n | The fact of lasting for a long time. |
| Long-lasting | adj | That lasts a long time. |
| Long-leafed | adj | Of plants having long leafs; long-leaved. |
| Long-legged | adj | Having long legs. |
| Long-life | adj | Of consumables, remaining operable or existing for a very long time. |
| Long line | n | A line used in commercial fishing. |
| Long-liner | n | A fishing vessel using long-line techniques in commercial fishing. |
| Long-lining | n | A commercial fishing technique using a long line, often called the main line. |
| Long-listed | adj | The opposite of short-listed; placed on a list of candidates for future rather than current consideration for appointment to a job, selection for a gifts, etc. |
| Longlived | adj | Longevity; of advanced years; lasting a long time. |
| Long-livedness | n | The state or condition of longevity. |
| Long-liver | n | One having a long life or existence. |
| Long-living | adj | Living for a long time. |
| Long-lost | adj | Having been missing or unknown for a long period of time. |
| Longly | adv | For a long while. 2. at considerable length; said of a speech, etc. |
| Long-mark | n | A birthmark or naevus. |
| Long-minded | adj | Patient. |
| Long-mindedness | n | The state or quality of being patient; long-willed. |
| Long-mood | adj | Of a patient mind, long-suffering. |
| Longness | n | Length in various senses or meaning. 2. long continuance, a protracted delay. |
| Long-nosed | adj | Having a long nose or beak. |
| Long-paddock | n | A grassed verge of a public road, used as a source of pasture for cattle, sleep etc, in times of drought. 2. the stock route to the market. |
| Long-past | adj | Of a period a long time ago. |
| Long-pig | n | Human flesh, as prepared for a cannibal feast; a maori or polynesian word. |
| Long-playing | adj | Referring to records (musical) that recorded a greater amount of sound than previous versions had. |
| Long-rains | n | In the tropics, the rainy season. |
| Long run | n | An extended period of time. |
| Long-running | adj | Operating or continuing for a relatively extended period of time. |
| Long-settled | adj | Settled or put in place a long time ago. |
| Long-shadowed | adj | Casing a long shadow, or shade. |
| Long shanks | n | A term of derision for a person with extremely long legs. 2. a bird with long legs, as a crane, plover, etc. 3. a nickname for Edward the first of England on account of his long legs. |
| Longship | n | A type of naval vessel used by the Vikings. |
| Long shot | n | A bet made with little cahnce of winning and hence at great odds. 2. something backed at great odds, as a horse. 2. a guess. |
| Long-sided | adj | Of clothing: long and sweeping. 2. having long sides. |
| Long-sight | n | The ability to see clearly only what is comparitively distant. |
| Long-sighted | adj | Having the capacity for seeing long distances. 2. seeing far or at a great distance; sagacious. 3. far-sighted, hypermetropic. |
| Long-sightedness | n | The state or condition of having the capacity for seeing long distances. |
| Long-since | adv | For along time. |
| Long-sleeved | adj | Of clothing having long-sleeves. |
| Longsome | adj | Long lasting, lengthy, tedious; irksome. 2. dilatory, slow. |
| Longsomely | adv | In a longsome, long-lasting or tedious manner; lengthily. |
| Long-someness | n | The quality of being longsome; lengthiness. |
| Long-span | n | Spanning over a long period of time. |
| Long-spun | adj | Spun out or extended to a great length. |
| Long-spreading | adj | Spreading far and wide. |
| Long-standing | adj | Existing for a long time. |
| Long-sweetening | adj | Molasses. |
| Longsword | n | A type of sword that is comparatively long, depending on context applied to swords of the Bronze age, Viking or Renaissance era. |
| Long-tail | n | The pheasant. |
| Long-tailed | adj | Of various birds or animals having a long tail, as the pheasant.. |
| Long-threatened | adj | Menacing or potentially dangerous during a long period of time. |
| Long-time | n | A long period of time. |
| Long-timer | n | A prisoner incarcerated from a long period. |
| Long tongue | n | Loquacity; over-talkative.. |
| Long-tongued | adj | Having much to say, chatty, babbling, talkative. |
| Long-toughened | adj | Inured; harden by use; accustomed to by habit. |
| Long-wandering | adj | Of, or pertaining to a diaspora 2. peripatetic. |
| Long-warped | adj | Oblong. |
| Long-wave | n | Radio wave or frequency less than 300 kHz. |
| Longways | adv | In the direction of the length of anything. 2. longwise, of longitude, longitudinally. |
| Long-wedded | adj | Married for a long time. |
| Long-weekend | n | A weekend extended by one or more days. |
| Long-willed | adj | Patient, long-minded. |
| Long-winded | adj | Boring, tedious and loquacious or lengthy in speech and explanation. 2. able to run long-distances without becoming short of breath. |
| Long-windedly | adv | In a prolixity, verbosity and long-winded in manner of speech and explanation. |
| Long-windedness | n | The quality of being boring and unnecessary verbose. |
| Longwise | adv | Lengthways, lengthwise; longways, |
| Long-wished | adj | Of a long time yearned for. |
| Long-withheld | adj | Held back, kept back, retrained not granted for a long time. |
| Longwood | n | A veneer term applied to veneers cut from the trunk of a tree. |
| Longwool | n | A domestic sheep having long wool. |
| Long words | adv | Lengthy by discourse. |
| Lonish | adj | Somewhat lonely. |
| Look | vb | (Often with "at") to try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes. 2. to appear, to seem. 3. to give an appearance of being.( often with "for") 4. to search for, to try to find. 5. to face or present a view. 6. to expect or anticipate. 7. to express or manifest by a look. 8. (often with "to") to make sure of, to see to 9. (dated, sometimes figuratively. 10. to show oneself in looking. 11. to look out of the window [i.e. lean out. 12. (obs) To look at; to turn the eyes towards. 13. (obs) to seek; to search for. 14. (obs) to expect. 15. (obs) to influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence. 16. to look down opposition. 17. stare, gaze, look. 18. to pay attention. |
| Look | n | The action of looking, an attempt to see. 2. physical appearance, visual impression. 3. a facial expression. |
| Look | intj | An imperatives used as interjections. You can replace it with Listen! Hey! or Gosh! or other exclamations, and the effect is essentially the same: pay attention to what I'm saying. |
| Look | phr | "A Cat May Look at a King" - don't give up on your ambitions. |
| Look | phr | "At the Look" - at first sight. |
| Look | phr | "Be In Goods Looks" - to be looking well, to present an healthy appearance. |
| Look | phr | "Faraway Fields Look Greener" - activities of which one has no experience seem much easier than is really the case. |
| Look | phr | "For the Look of the Thing" - for the sake of appearance. |
| Look | phr | "From Or by the Looks" - an expression of the quality or nature of something. 2. judging by appearance. |
| Look | phr | "Give Someone a Black Look" - to indicate one's displeasure with another. |
| Look | phr | "Go Look" - find it out (a contemptuous way of refusing information. |
| Look | phr | "Have a Look At" - look at for the purpose of examining. |
| Look | phr | "Have a Look-in" - to be successful. |
| Look | phr | "Have the Look Of." - vaguely resembling. 2. to remind one of the appearance of a person or thing. |
| Look | phr | "If Looks Could Slay" - used to denote an expression of hostility. |
| Look | phr | "It Doesn't Look Good" - no conveniently correct and likely to make others think badly of one. |
| Look | phr | "It Looks Like" - it seems likely that (for example rain, etc) |
| Lose | phr | "Keep One's Looks" - still good looking as when one was younger., or something was newer. |
| Look | phr | "Live and Look" - to retain one's faculties. |
| Look | phr | "Look About" - to make a search in various parts of a room, town, countryside. 2. to turn one's eyes to surrounding objects. 3. to examine one's position and circumstances. 4. to be apprehensive. |
| Look | phr | "Look After " - be responsible for doing something. 2. care for, take care of, or tending to someone who is unwell. 3. protect one's own interest |
| Look | phr | "Look Ahead (to)" - project oneself into the future. 2. an action of judging what can happen or is likely to happen (in the immediate0 future. |
| Look | phr | "Look Alive (or Lively)" - be alert or aware. 2. make haste; be on the alert. |
| Look | phr | "Look Aloft" - to aspire, be ambitious. 2. look skywards. |
| Look | phr | "Look and Feel (for)" - the way that something appears to a user, customer, and whether it has appeal. |
| Look | phr | "Look Aside" -to turn one's eyes to the side. 2. look obliquely |
| Look | phr | "Look As If" - to have an appearance suggesting belief that.. |
| Look | phr | "Look As If One Has Slept in Those Clothes for a Week" - has crumpled clothes, look untidy; disheveled. 2. looks as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards. |
| Look | phr | "Look At" - examine something closely (to establish its genuineness or value.) 2. to examine for possible damage, fault, problem; disease. 3. look at with respect or judge with respect to appearance. |
| Look | phr | "Look At Someone Sideways" - to politely and without word indicate some annoyance or displeasure. |
| Look | phr | "Look Away" - turn one's eyes away, avert one's gaze. |
| Look | phr | "Look Back" - return to in one thoughts, cast one's mind back to an event, time, change. 2. to think about something that happened in the past. |
| Look | phr | "Look Back At" - return the look or glance of another. |
| Look | phr | "Look Back On/Upon" - return to in one thoughts, cast one's mind back to an event, time, change. |
| Look | phr | "Look Before You Leap" - act with caution or be cautious before you undertake an action or enterprise, |
| Look | phr | "Look Beyond" - place oneself imaginably in the future. |
| Look | phr | "Look Black" - show no signs of hope; or improvement, in the future. |
| Look | phr | "Look Blue" - appear to be depressed or unhappy. |
| Look | phr | "Look Down" - lower one's eyes, gaze (sometimes shyly.) |
| Look | phr | "Look Down On" - to regard condescendingly or contemptuously. 2. despise, consider as inferior. 3. to hold in contempt, to scorn, to consider oneself superior to. |
| Look | phr | "Look Down One's Nose (at)" - regard something or somebody in a superior, condescending way. |
| Lok | phr | "Look Down Shoot Down" - describing a phased-array radar powerful enough to pick aircraft out of ground clutter from high altitude. |
| Look | phr | "Look Downwards" - look downwards, often as a sign of shame, shyness or depression. |
| Look | phr | "Look For" - to search for, seek, search for, try to find. 2. to expect. |
| Look | phr | "Look for a Fight" - actively seek an argument/challenge. |
| Look | phr | "Look for a Needle in a Haystack" - try to find something (small) that is lost amongst other things. |
| Look | phr | "Look Forward" - to anticipate with pleasure or pleasurably, as a holiday, party, birthday. |
| Look | phr | "Look Forward to" - to anticipate pleasurably. |
| Look | phr | "Look Good" - look appealing and/or attractive. |
| Look | phr | "Look Here" - exclamation of protest with brusque or abrupt mode of address, order, reprimand, look here, let me explain. 2. a brusque preface to an order, expostulation, reprimand, rebuke etc. |
| Look | phr | "Look in the Eye" - look at somebody fearlessly or without shame. (not look someone in the eye). |
| Look | phr | "Look In On" - to pay an informal, call, short visit ( to often check on the welfare of someone.) 2. call on, or visit briefly. |
| Look | phr | "Look Into" - to examine; make an inquiry. 2. investigate, inquire into a case, matter, question. |
| Look | phr | "Look Like" - to have the appearance of being; resemble. 2. to indicate the probability of. 3. appear probable that. |
| Look | phr | "Look Lively/Sharp" - hurry up, be quick, look sharp. |
| Look | phr | "Look No Hands" - see how skillful and daring I am (of children riding a bike without holding the handlebars.) |
| Look | phr | "Look Off" - to turn away one's eyes. |
| Look | phr | "Look On" - be a spectator. 2. regard or consider to be a friend, foe, etc. 3. regard with distrust, suspicion, disfavor. |
| Look | phr | "Look On Ahead" - to look forward into the future. |
| Look | phr | "Look One's Best" - looks as specially attractive, beautiful, healthy, tidy, etc as possible. |
| Look | phr | "Look Oneself" -to appear to be in one's usual health. 2. appear in good health after illness. |
| Look | phr | "Look on the Bright Side" - be optimistic. |
| Look | phr | "Look on the Dark Side" - be pessimistic. |
| Look | phr | "Look Onto" - have or command a view of something, as the seascape. 2. look out on. |
| Look | phr | "Look Out" - take care, attend to, beware, mind out. 2. search for and find.; search for carefully |
| Look | phr | "Look Out For" - search for carefully; watch out for. 2. try to find. |
| Look | phr | "Look Out Of" - direct one's look or gaze through a window. |
| Look | phr | "Look Over" - to peruse or inspect closely; scrutinize, cast one's eyes over, to examine various things; go over casually, look through, pass in review. 2. ignore, leave out of consideration, overlook. 3. take care of, look after. 4. survey, inspect, do a tour of inspection of, go over a house, farm, factory, etc. |
| Look | phr | "Look Sharp" - to keep a strict watch. 2. (slang) - be very well dressed or attired. 2. be quick, look lively, hurry up. |
| Look | phr | "Look Sheepish" - look guilty; look embarrassed |
| Look | phr | "Look Small" -appear to be foolish, insignificant. |
| Look | phr | "Look Somebody's Way" - glance in the direction of another. |
| Look | phr | "Look the Other Way" - deliberately ignore. 2. deliberately ignore the wrongdoing of others. |
| Look | phr | "Looks Though Butter Wouldn't Melt in His/her Melt" - that person looks so innocent, appearing demur, and incapable of anything other than the correct behavior. |
| Look | phr | "Looks Though He's Been Dragged Through a Hedge Backwards" - a look of being disheveled, or slept in his/her clothes for a week. 2. looks though he has slept in his clothes for a week |
| Look | phr | "Looks Though He/She Has Seen a Ghost" - look pale, shocked, frightened. |
| Look | phr | "Looks Though He Has Slept in his Clothes for a Week" - a look of being disheveled, or slept in his/her clothes for a week. 2. looks though he's been dragged through a hedge backwards. |
| Look | phr | "Looks Though Something Has been Stirred with a Stick" - look of untidiness, in a muddle, in disarray. |
| Look | phr | "Look Through" - to direct one's view over the whole of. 2. peruse cursorily (briefly or summarily)through from end to end, as a book, collection, notes etc.. 3. inspect carefully part by part, as an application, recommendation. 4. to be visible through a telescope, etc. 5 direct one's sight through a window, an aperture, etc. 6. not see something that is clearly visible; 'penetrate with a look or a glance. 7. deliberately ignore somebody (friend, colleague) who one can plainly see (as a rebuff); ignore someone in an icily superior way. |
| Look | phr | "Look Through Blue Glasses" - to regard actions in the wrong light. 2. to view things distorted by prejudice. |
| Look | phr | "Look To (Somebody/Something)" - choose especially someone or something for support, care for or help. 2. rely on, expect of somebody to do something |
| Look | phr | "Look Towards" - look in the direction of . 2. face, as a house from whose front you can see the ocean, etc. |
| Look | phr | "Look Twi" - to appear or have clothing that looks plain, or neither one thing or the other. |
| Look | phr | "Look Under" - to look beneath. |
| Look | phr | "Look Up" - raise one's eyes upwards. 2. of things or a situation looking better, improving. 3. seek information, knowledge, try to find, detail of out about from books, magazine or internet. 4. search for somebody's house in order to pay them a visit. |
| Look | phr | "Look Up and Down" - look at in an admiring way, sexually calculating; or with contempt, sneering or mockingly. 2. to scrutinize from head to foot. |
| Look | phr | "Look Upon" - to pay regard to; consider esp. favourably 2. hold one in esteem. |
| Look | phr | "Look Up To (Somebody)" - admire, look upon with respect or admiration. 2. to direct the face or eyes towards another. 3. to raise the eyes towards. |
| Look | phr | "Look What the Cat Dragged In" - Appear completely bedraggled, as in After running around in the rain for hours, I looked like something the cat dragged in. This expression alludes to a cat's bringing home birds or mice it has killed or savaged. |
| Look | phr | "Look Who's Here" - see or become aware of who has just arrived. |
| Look | phr | "Look Who's Talking" - used when someone receives criticism for something by someone else who is guilty of the same thing |
| Look | phr | "Look You" - a strong warning to others that you will not tolerate their behavior towards you; look here. |
| Lock | phr | "Need to Look Over One's Shoulder" - to be subject to an attack which is not obvious. |
| Look | phr | "Never Look Back" - to continue to be successful after doing something with a good result. 2. make continuous progress. |
| Look | phr | "Not Anything to Look At" - to find unattractive or show or have no romantic interest in. |
| Look | phr | "Not Get a Look In" - be excluded, ignored. |
| Look | phr | "Not Know Which Way to Look" - to be embarrassed. |
| Look | phr | "Not Like the Look of (Something/Someone)" - be suspicious of something or someone. |
| Look | phr | "Not Look At" - not consider or entertain a proposal, suggestion, offer. |
| Look | phr | "Not Look in the Eye" - not look fearlessly in the eye without shame. |
| Look | phr | "Not Much to Look at" - not very good looking; unattractive. |
| Look | phr | "Now Look What You Have Done" - an expression of rebuke. |
| Look | phr | "Of A Good Look" - of a good or attractive appearance. |
| Look | phr | "One's Own Look-out" - something that is one's own responsibility. |
| Look | phr | "Things Look Black" - there is little hope of success or prosperity or a favorable outcome. |
| Look | phr | "To Look In" - to receive pictures by television. |
| Look | phr | "Upon the Look" - engaged in looking for. |
| Look-ahead | n | An action of judging what can happen or is likely to happen (in the immediate future). |
| Look-alike | n | Something or someone that closely resembles another in appearance. |
| Look-and-say | n | A method of researching reading by identifying each word as a whole (as opposed to treating words as a separate letters). |
| Look-aside | n | Look to the size not straight ahead. |
| Look-book | n | A comprehensive directory of fashion-related companies and people. |
| Lookbook | vb | To locate fashion-related information by means of a directory. |
| Look-Down-Shoot-Down | adj | A radar system having a capability to detect, track and guide a weapon to an air target moving below the horizon as seen by the radar. |
| Looked | adj | Having an aspect of a certain kind, and precede by a defining adjective, as 'free-willed'. |
| Looker | n | An attractive girl: "a good looker." 2. one who looks or watches. |
| Looker-in | n | A viewer of television. |
| Looker-on | n | A spectator, on-looker, fig. a fence-sitter: one who vacillates or wavers. 2. a beholder, spectator, eye-witness, on-looker. |
| Looker-upper | n | One who looks something up (seeks to find)in a book etc. |
| Look-in | n | A hasty, casual glance, peep, a short, cursory visit. 2. colloquially, an opportunity or chance to take part or be involved in something, usually with a chance of success, or a share of attention. |
| Looking | n | The act of looking. |
| Looking | sfx | Noting appearance, as in 'good-looking'. |
| Looking-after | n | Caring for one, who is sick or recovering from an operation. |
| Looking-for | n | An expedition. |
| Looking-forward | n | The action of anticipation of future events. 2. the act of looking forward. |
| Looking-glass (words) | n | A mirror. 2. as applied to words, a phrase implying that what is spoken or written is to be accepted in the reverse sense or turned upside down. Thus, as spoken by some, 'We are prepared to negotiate" really we mean. we are willing to accept all our demands in full and concede nothing in return. "As long as you are on our side and say what we want to hear" The allusion is to Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-glass. (mirror writing) |
| Looking-in | n | The act of viewing television, as 'looking-in at TV night after night'. |
| Looking-on | n | To look on without participation or interference. |
| Looking-over | n | An inspection. |
| Look-out | n | The act of watching or looking out; esp. careful or alert watchfulness. 2. a post of observation, also person or group on watch at such a post; one assigned to watch for enemy airplanes, tanks or troops. 3. one who looks or watches for fire outbreak during summer. 4. prospect, outlook, chances of good or bad outcome, as in "good look-out ahead." 5. watch and search for and produce, old books, stamps, second hand items etc. 7. prospect, outlook. |
| Look-out | phr | "(Be Somebody's or) One's Own Look-Out" - concern or responsibility, as 'It's your own look-out if you win or lose.' |
| Look | phr | "Look Out Of" - direct one's gaze through (a window). |
| Look-out | phr | "On the Look-out" - seeking or trying to find out. |
| Look-over | n | An examination, survey, review, perusal. |
| Looks | n | One's physical appearance, as in good-looking, etc. |
| Look-see | n | A survey, tour of inspection, reconnaissance, investigation. |
| Look-up | n | Retrieval of information about items in an ordered collection. |
| Lookswise | adv | In a manner pertaining to looks or appearance. |
| Looky | excl | An exclamation used to draw attention to about what is one is about to say. |
| Loom | n | Loom: an implement or tool of any kind. 3. an open vessel, a bucket, tub, vat. 4. a vessel, a boat 5. a machine in which yarn or thread is woven--loom-work-- into fabric. 6. a spider's web, a caterpillar's case. 6. the business or process of weaving. 7. a group of wires etc., bound together into a bundle. 8. the penis. |
| Loose | adj | Etymology from O.N. lauss "loose" (OE form was lêas) |
| Loose | phr | "At a Loose End" - to have nothing particular to do. 2. idle, unoccupied |
| Loose | phr | "Break Loose" - to escape from confinement. |
| Loose | phr | "Give Loose to" - to express exactly what one thinks or feels. |
| Loose | phr | "Have a Loose Tongue" - speak foolishly or indiscreetly. |
| Loose | phr | "Loose Fish" - a dissolute man. |
| Loose | phr | "Loosen Someone's Tongue" - persuade somebody to talk. |
| Loose | phr | "Loosen Up" - make oneself or somebody more physically relaxed or supple; limber up. 2. to relax, become less stiff, formal or solemn. |
| Loose | phr | "On the Loose" - behave in an unrestrained manner. |
| Loose | phr | "Play Fast and Loose" - to say one thing and do the other. |
| Loose | phr | "Tie Up Loose Ends" - complete the minor outstanding items of some substantially finished project. |
| Loose ends | n | Things needed to be done or attended to, often small but necessary items (tie up loose ends or threads). |
| Loose-leaf | adj | Of a notebook, folder, with each page separable and removable. |
| Loose-leafed | adj | Having detachable leafs as a notebook. |
| Loose-limbed | adj | lithe, supple; having supp;e limbs. |
| Loosely | adv | In a loose or free manne. |
| Loosen | vb | To unfasten or untie. 2. make loose. 3. to make less compact. 4. to unscrew as a lid. 5. to become loose; to become relaxed. |
| Loosen | phr | "Loosen Up" - make oneself or somebody more physically relaxed or supple; limber up. 2. to relax, become less stiff, formal or solemn. |
| Loosener | phr | A medicine which loosens the bowels. |
| Looseness | n | The quality of being loose. |
| Loose talk | n | Unconsidered statements, gossip about people or affairs. 2. careless release priveleged information |
| Loose threads | n | Things needed to be done or attended to, often small but necessary items (tie up loose ends or threads). |
| Loose-tongued | adj | Prattling, indiscreet. |
| Loove | n | Widow, relict, lave. |
| Lop | n | A spider, also "lop-web" spider web, cobweb. |
| Lord | n | OE. lord, laverd, loverd, AS. i. e., bread keeper; hl[=a]f bread, loaf + weardian to look after, to take care of, to ward. See Loaf, and Ward to guard, and laird, lady. 2. One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor. 3. A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a baron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank. 4. a title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons. 5. A husband. 6. (Feudal Law) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor. 7. the Supreme Being; Jehovah. 8. (Christianity) The Savior; Jesus Christ. 9. House of Lords, one of the constituent parts of the British Parliament, consisting of the lords spiritual and temporal. 10. Lord keeper, an ancient officer of the English crown, who had the custody of the king's great seal, with authority to affix it to public documents. 11. Our lord, Jesus Christ; the Savior. |
| Lord | vb | To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord. 2. to rule or preside over as a lord |
| Lord | phr | "Drunk as a Lord" - very drunk; highly intoxicated. |
| Lord | phr | "Good Lord" - a common exclamation of astonishment. |
| Lord | phr | "House of the Lord" - heaven. 2. a church. |
| Lord | phr | "In the year of Our Lord" - in a year after the Nativity. |
| Lord | phr | "Live As, or Like a Lord" - live in luxury. |
| Lord | phr | "Live Like a Lord" - to live in luxury and extravagance. 2. to fare luxuriously. |
| Lord | phr | "Lord and Master" - one's husband. |
| Lord | phr | "Lord It Over (Somebody)" - adopt superior attitude to somebody. 2. lord it over. |
| Lord | phr | "Lord Knows Who, What, Where" - a flippant expression used to denote one own entire ignorance of the matter. 2. I don't know. |
| Lord | phr | "Lord of Lords" - Jesus Christ according to Christian belief. 2. Vishnu according to Hinduism. |
| Lord | phr | "Lord of the Flies" - Lord of the Flies refers to Beelzebub, another name for the devil. He is also called the Lord of Filth and Dung. Throughout the novel, the children grow dirtier and dirtier, an outward reflection of their inner state. As their savagery and evil increases, they seek a symbol, a god to worship. |
| Lord | phr | "Lord of the Rings" - Sauron the Great, The Dark lord of Mordor in J.R. R. Tolkien's sequel the Hobbit. |
| Lord | phr | "Lord's Day" - Sunday. |
| Lord | phr | "Lord Willing" - God willing. |
| Lord | phr | "My Lord" - the correct name of addressing Judges of the High Court. |
| Lord | phr | "One's Lord and Master" - one's husband. |
| Lord | phr | "Play the Lord" - to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb; as, the bully lording it over his classmates. |
| Lord-and-Ladies" | n | The popular name of the plant Arum. |
| Lord-dom | n | Position of a lord, lordship. 2. state of things characterized by the existence of a lord. |
| Lordful | adj | having the bearing of manner of a lord; and (by extension) over- bearing, authoritarian |
| Lordfully | adv | In a lordly manner, nobly. |
| Lordhood | n | The state or condition of being a lord; (hence, with his or your). Title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a formal form of address applied to a judge (in Great Britain), etc. 2. seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor. 3. lordship; lord-dominion; power; authority. |
| Lord Keeper | n | An ancient officer of the British Crown, responsible for the Royal Seal. |
| Lordless | adj | Without a lord; having no lord. 2. of a woman, without a husband. |
| Lordlike | adj | Resembling, befitting or characteristic of a lord. |
| Lord-likeness | n | After the fashion of a lord: domineeringly. 2. befitting a lord: sumptuously. |
| Lordlily | adv | In a lordly fashion. |
| Lordliness | n | Condition or state of a lord. 2. disposition proper to a lord, dignity, grandeur of a lord. 3. in a bad sense: arrogance, haughtiness, imperiousness. |
| Lordling | n | A petty or unimportant lord. |
| Lord Look-on | n | A military commander who doesn't act promptly when required to do so, as Lord Lucan, 7th Earl of Cardigan who earned the unfortunate name, who held himself in reserve at the earlier Battle of Alma. Personally returning unscathed from a battle where more than a hundred of his men were killed. |
| Lordly | adv | Having the bearing of a lord; lordly. |
| Lord's Day | n | Sunday; the Christian Sabbath, on which the Lord Jesus rose from the dead. |
| Lordship | n | The state or quality of a Lord; hence, the title by which noblemen (excluding dukes), bishops, judges in England are addressed or spoken of, preceded by his or your. 2. the jurisdiction of a lord; domain, seigniory; manor. 3. the dominion, power of authority of a lord ; hence sovereignty in general; supremacy. |
| Lordswike | n | A deciever of his lord or leader, a traitor. |
| Lord's Table | n | The altar or table from which the sacrament is dispensed. 2. the sacrament itself. |
| Lordy | adj | Resembling a Lord. |
| Lore | n | OE. lore, lare, to teach; teaching, doctrine, see learn, and lere. 2. that which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the English; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore; the lore of war. 3. that which is taught; hence, instruction; erudition, wisdom; advice; counsel. 4. workmanship. [Obs.] |
| Lore | n | Loss, destruction, |
| Lore-child | n | A scholar, pupil, student, apprentice. |
| Lore-father | n | Teacher, master, instructor, pedant, lorthew, loresman, a man eminent for his erudition. |
| Loreless | adj | Without learning or knowledge, ignorant, untaught, untutored. |
| Loresman | n | Teacher, instructor, guru. |
| Lorespell | n | A sermon, instructive, discourse. |
| Lorn | adj | Lost, doomed, foresaken, abandoned. 2. OE. (loesan )without kindred or friend; forlorn. |
| Lornless | n | Forlornness. 2. without kindred or friend; forlorn. |
| Lornly | adv | In a lost or forlorn manner. 2. without kindred or friend; forlorn. |
| Lorthew | n | A teacher, preceptor, instructor, lore-father, loreman, a man eminent for his erudition. |
| Lose | vb | To part with, as by accident or negligence and to be unable to find; mislay. 2. to fail to keep, control or maintain. 3. to be deprived of; suffer the loss of, as by death, accident or removal. 4. to fail to gain or win. 5. to fail to utilize or take sdvantage of. 6. to fail to see or miss. 7. to fail to keep in sight, memorize. 8. to cease to have. 9. to squander, waste, as of time, money. 10. to wander as from, so as to be unable to find. 11. to out distance or elude, as runners or pursuers. 12. to cause the loss of, by acting rashly. 13. to bring to death, destruction, or ruin. 14. to suffer loss. 15. to be defeated. |
| Lose | phr | "Be On the Losing End of the Stick" - to be worse off while the other party to the dealing becomes much better off than previously. |
| Lose | phr | "Head You Win, Tails You Lose" - which way this matter goes, I will benefit at your expense. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose By" - suffer personally and financially through. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose Ground" - fail to keep one's position. 2. retreat, lose an advantage, esp. to decline in reputation, favour, health. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose Heart" - to cease being enthusiastic; become discouraged. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose In ..(Another)" - no longer trust, have no faith or confidence in another, their honesty, ethics, concept of decency, morality.etc. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose It" - lose one's temper and composure. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose No Time in doing Something" - do something quickly without delay. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose On" - lose money on some activity or deal. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Breath" - be very short of breath; be panting. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Cool" - lose one's temper. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Grip" - let go one's grip on something. 2. fig. lose control of things around you in life. 3. fig. lose one's ability to understand and deal with either matters in general in general or a particular situation. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Head" - to become confused; panic; lose control. 2. lose one's cool. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Hearing" - become deaf. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Heart (to)" - to fall in love. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose Oneself (In)" - become engrossed or absorbed in one's own thoughts, plans, book etc. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Hold Over" - no longer control; not dominate, trump or master anymore. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Life" - die in warfare or a natural disaster, as a result of an accident or criminal attack. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Looks" - not be still good looking as when one was younger., or something was newer. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Mind" - become mad, insane or frenzied. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Rag" - become mad, insane, or frenzied. 2. express one's anger, irritation, impatience etc in an uncontrolled way. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Right Arm" - lose some highly-valued assistance. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Shirt" - lose one money or everything one has, through severe gambling or financial speculation. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Sight" - become blind. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Tongue" - become speechless through nervousness or shyness.) |
| Lose | phr | "Lose One's Way" - become lost (fig.and lit.) |
| Lose | phr | "Lose Out" - to be unsuccessful, to fail. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose Out To" - overcome and replaced by. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose Sight of" - no longer able to see, lose sight of an object; fail to keep in sight. 2. forget about or of, not keep fresh in mind an objective, aim, plan. 3. fail to pay attention to. 4. fail to follow, understand, comprehend an argument or discussion. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose Sleep(Over)" - worry about something, be concerned, disturbed or worried about, as news, change, etc. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose Steam" - to slow down. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose the Thread (of)" - fail to understand the connection between the stages in an argument. |
| Lose | phr | "Lose Weight" - to reduce one's body mass. |
| Lose | phr | "Not Lose Any Sleep Over" - not to worry about some matter. |
| Lose-all | phr | Grasp All, Lose All" - one who wants everything, but may end up losing it all. |
| Losel | n | A worthless person; profligate, fake, scoundrel. 2. never-do-well, lose-all, a good-for-nothing. |
| Loseling | adj | Rascally. |
| Loselly | adj | like a losel, good-for-nothing, idly. |
| Lose-lose | adj | Opposite of a win-win situation; a totally negative outcome. |
| Loseness | n | Something not fastened, or contained, as loose timber. 2. something not taut , fixed or rigid. 3. someone unfettered, on the loose, free from containment or imprisonment. |
| Loser | n | One who loses or fails to win in any transaction. 2. a defeated contestant. |
| Loser | phr | "A Good Loser" - one who accepts defeat cheerfully. |
| Loserdom | n | The state or realm of a loser or a defeated contestant. |
| Loserhood | n | The state of being a loser; loserness. |
| Loserish | adj | Like a loser. |
| Loserness | n | The state of being a loser; loserhood. |
| Losing | n | The act or fact of letting go, missing , lacking, or being deprived. 2. in pl. money lost, especially in gambling. |
| Losing | adj | That incurs lose, esp. a 'losing business'. 2. not winning, defeated. |
| Losingly | adv | In a loosing manner. |
| Losings | n | The money lost, especially in gambling. |
| Losing-streak | n | An uninterrupted sequence of losses. |
| Loss | n | The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation. 2. the state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing. 3. that which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; - opposed to gain or increase. 4. the state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel. 5. failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle. 6. failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time. 7. (Mil.) Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property. 8. destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor. 9. privation; detriment; injury; damage. |
| Loss | phr | "A Dead Loss" - a person who has few redeeming characteristics. |
| Loss | phr | "At a Loss." - to be in a state of uncertainty; puzzled, undecided. 2. privation; detriment; injury; damage. |
| Loss | phr | "At a Loss (for)" - unable to discover or obtain something needed. |
| Loss | phr | "At a Loss for Words" - speechless (because one cannot think of anything to say). |
| Loss | phr | "Bear a Loss" - to make a loss good; also, to sustain a loss without sinking under it. |
| Loss | phr | "Have a Great Loss" - to suffer severely or lose much. |
| Loss | phr | "Loss of Life" - destruction of sacrifice of human. |
| Lossful | adj | Producing a loss, detrimental, unprofitable. |
| Loss-leader | n | Item sold at a loss to attract customer. |
| Lossless | adj | Without a loss; productive. |
| Losslessly | adv | In a lossless manner having or involving the dissipation of electrical or electro-magnetic energy. 2. in a lossless manner in which computer data compression in which unnecessary information is discarded. |
| Losslessness | n | The quality of being lossless. |
| Lossmaker | n | One who makes a loss in a financial situation or in business generally. |
| Loss-making | n | The situation or outcome in a financial situation or in business generally. |
| Lossy | adj | Having or involving the dissipation of electrical or electro-magnetic energy. 2. of computer data compression in which unnecessary information is discarded. |
| Lost | adj | Not to be found or recovered; parted with, missing; left, as by accident; in a forgotten place. 2. not won, gained or used or enjoyed; missed, wasted. 3. ruined physically, morally r spiritually; damned, destroyed. 4. having wandered from the way; also, abstacted, as 'lost in thought.' 5. bewildered, perplexed, confused. 6. no longer known or used; as, a 'lost art' |
| Lost | phr | "Be Lost" - be engrossed with. |
| Lost | phr | "Get Lost" - go away! I intend to take no notice whatsoever of you or your views. |
| Lost | phr | "Give Up For Lost" - to stop expecting a missing person will be found alive. |
| Lost | phr | "Lost for Words" - speechless. |
| Lost | phr | "Lost In" - filled with thought, grief, admiration, wonder. |
| Lost | phr | "Lost In the Wash" - unaccountably disappear (whilst among other things). |
| Lost | phr | "Lost in Oneself" - to be thoroughly absorbed in someone or something. 3. to be engrossed in someone or something. |
| Lost | phr | "Lost in Thought" - be preoccupied with one's thoughts rather than paying attention to reality. 2. to be thoroughly absorbed in someone or something. 3. to be engrossed in someone or something. |
| Lost | phr | "Lost On (Somebody)" - wasted on, unnoticed; have no effect on. |
| Lost | phr | "Lost Soul" - a wandering spirit which cannotfind a home in heaven , earth or hell. 2. a sinner, unbeliever , who has put himself beyond redemption. 3. a bewildered, defeated or unhappy person. |
| Lost | phr | "Lost Time" - allow time to pass with something unachieved. |
| Lost | phr | "Lost Upon" - have no effect upon a person. |
| Lost | phr | "Lost With all Hands" - of a ship lost at sea with all on board persishing. |
| Lost | phr | "Lost Without" - be unable to live or function efficiently or happily without. |
| Lost | phr | "You Can Get Lost" - I intend to take no notice whosoever of you or your view. |
| Lost | phr | "You're Lost Me" - I fail to understand what you are saying. 2. i can't understand why you would take that action. |
| Lost-and-found | n | (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A department, service or location where items that are found can be claimed by their owners. |
| Lost-hope | n | An abandoned person or thing. |
| Lost-less | adj | Free from loss. |
| Lostling | n | A person who is lost (lit & fig.) |
| Lostly | adv | In a lost or abandoned manner; hopelessly. |
| Lostness | n | State or condition of being abandoned, in a hopeless position or abandoned. |
| Lost steps | n | An attempt to escape from the routine existence of modern living by living in less technological advance societies in remote places or regions |
| Lost wax | n | Cire perdue. A method of casting a sculpture in which a model of the sculpture is made from wax; the model is used to make a mould; when the mould has set, the wax is made to melt and is poured away, leaving the mould ready to be used to cast the sculpture. |
| Lost-weekend | n | A weekend spent in dissolute living. |
| Lot | n | Old English hlot "object used to determine someone's share" (anything from dice to straw, but often a chip of wood with a name inscribed on it), also "what falls to a person by lot," from Proto-Germanic *khlutom (source also of Old Norse hlutr "lot, share," Old Frisian hlot "lot," Old Saxon hlot, Middle Dutch, Dutch lot, Old High German hluz "share of land," German Los), from a strong verb (the source of Old English hleotan "to cast lots, obtain by lot; to foretell"). The whole group is of unknown origin |
| Lot | phr | "A Fat Lot" - very little (sarcastically0. |
| Lot | phr | "A Good Lot in Life" - good fortune or commendable (in life). |
| Lot | phr | "A Lot of Water Has Run Under the Bridge" - much time has passed, many things have happened, mnay things have changed, since a particular event occurred. |
| Lot | phr | "A Lot to Ask of Somebody" - greater or better than one is justified in expecting or hoping for. |
| Lot | phr | "A Whole Lot" - many. |
| Lot | phr | "Draw (or Cast) Lots" - decide an issue by chance, such as throwing a dice. |
| Lot | phr | "Fall to One's Lot" - become one's responsibility. |
| Lot | phr | "Have a Lot Going For (oNE)" - have many advantages. |
| Lot | phr | Lot and Scot" - a tax due; customs. |
| Lot | phr | "Lots of Love" - much love and affection. |
| Lot | phr | "That's Your Lot" - that all you are getting. 2. that's you lot or situation in life. |
| Lot | phr | "The Lot" - the whole, everything, the total of. |
| Lot | phr | "The Lot Falls" - the choice resulting from casting of lots. |
| Lot | phr | "The Whole Lot" - the total amount; as opposed to 'a whole lot': very much. |
| Lot | phr | "Throw In One's Lot With" - to associate and share the fortunes of. |
| Lot | phr | "To Put In Lot" - to put in money into a joint venture. |
| Lote | vb | To lurk, to lie concealed, hiding. |
| Lote-by | n | A paramour, a lover, a mistress |
| Lot-gate | n | One of the plots or portion in which a tract of land is divided when offered for sale. 2. land around a film studio where outside filming may be done. |
| Lotless | adj | Without harm or injury. |
| Lot-monger | n | One who practices sortilege. |
| Lotted | adj | Chosen by lots. |
| Lot-teller | n | Fortune-teller, seer. |
| Loud | adj | Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder. 2. clamorous; boisterous. 3. Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort. 4. ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors. 5. noisy; boisterous; vociferous; clamorous; obstreperous turbulent; blustering; vehement. Noisy, making, clamour, unpleasant sound, discordant. 6. of sound, relatively great in volume: a loud shout 7. making or able to make sounds of relatively great volume: a loud voice. 8. clamorous, insistent, and emphatic: loud protests 8. of colours, designs, etc) offensive or obtrusive to look at. 9. characterized by noisy, vulgar, and offensive behavior |
| Loud | phr | "Call Out Loud" - call out loudly. |
| Loud | phr | "Loud and Long" - loudly and continuously for a few seconds or minutes. |
| Louden | vb | To become loud or grow louder. 2. to make loud or louder. |
| Loudening | adj | That grows louder. |
| Loudest | phr | "To the Loudest" - at the top of one's voice. |
| Loudful | adj | Full of noise. |
| Loudliness | n | Having high-volumed sound. 2. of dress or style: tastless-ness, showiness, flashness, gaudiness. |
| Loudish | adj | Somewhat loud; loudly. |
| Loudishly | adv | In a somewhat loud voice. |
| Loudly | adv | In a loud manner; at high volume. |
| Loud-minded | adj | Of a person who doesn't talk a lot or talks quietly. Their mind is loud because they spend too much time inside their own head, with their mind constantly buzzing with ideas and dreams. |
| Loudmouth | n | A person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetely, a blusterer, gabberer, blow-hard. 2. a person given to loud and over-assertive talk. |
| Loudmouth | vb | To talk in a very loud, over-assertive voice. |
| Loud-mouthed | adj | Noisy, given to loud and over-assertive speech. |
| Loudness | n | Magnitude of sound (usu. in a specified direction), such as music of loud volume. |
| Loudness war | n | Loudness war is the popular name given to the trend of increasing audio levels in recorded music since the early 1990s, which many critics believe reduces sound quality and listener enjoyment. Increasing loudness was first reported as early as the 1940s with respect to mastering practices for 7" singles |
| Loudspeaker | n | An electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical-signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance. 2. a device which converts electrical signals into sound loud enough to be heard at a distance, usu. outdoors. |
| Loud-speaking | adj | Clamorous, raucous, clanging. |
| Loud-talking | adj | Spoken in a very loud voice. |
| Loud-tongued | adj | Spoken in a very loud voice |
| Lough | n | OE 'luh' - pool, strait, gulf. |
| Louk | vb | To close, shut, fasten, lock; esp. to fasten (a door or chamber) with lock and key. 2. to close one's jaws, eyes. 2. to close up. 3. lock in clay: bury. |
| Louk | vb | To pull up or out (weeds), to weed (corn). 2. to burst out. |
| Louked | pp | To pull up, to weed. 2. to burst out. |
| Louker | n | One who weeds. |
| Lour | n | Of person, their eyes and countenance: frowning, sullenness, scowling, angriness, louring. 2. (also spelt: lower). |
| Lour | vb | To express by frowning. 2. to look angry, sullen, depressed, mournful. 3. to crouch, sulk, lurk. 4. of clouds, sky, weather: gloomy, dark, threatening. 5. of liquid, turbid (lower). |
| Louring | n | Of person and their look: scowling, angry-looking, gloomy. 2. of weather: gloomy looking, darkly threatening. 3. of liquid; turbid. 4. lurking, skulking (louring). |
| Louringness | n | The state or quality of louring (lowering). |
| Loury | adj | Of the sky: dull, stormy, threatening, (lowery). |
| Louse | n | An insect. 2. applied in scorn to a human being: low-life, scumbag, rat, villein |
| Louse | vb | To infect with lice. 2. infest with lice. 3. spoil, mess up, make filthy. 2. to clear of lice. |
| Louse | phr | "Louse Up" - spoil, mar, destruct clumsily, ruin possibility of success. 2. to mess up; to confuse. 3. to put into a state of disorder. |
| Louse | phr | "Not Worth a Louse" - worthless. |
| Louse-borne | adj | A disease transmitted from human to human by body lice. |
| Louse-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a louse. |
| Lousewort | n | Any of the many semi-parasitic plants of the genus, pedicularis. |
| Lousily | adv | In a lousy manner; poorly or vilely. |
| Lousiness | n | State or property of being lousy or infested with lice. |
| Lousy | adj | Full of lice, inferior, poor, bad, ill, vile, deplorable, dirty, filthy, obscene. |
| Lousy-evil | n | Phthiriasis. |
| Lout | vb | To bend, bow, make obeisance, to stoop, submit, kowtow. 2. to lurk, lie, hid, skulk, sneak. |
| Lout | n | Reverence, deference, cringe, kowtow, submission. |
| Louter | n | One who worships, a worshiper, a supplicant. |
| Louting | n | The act of bowing, cringing, deferring, kowtowing. |
| Loutishly | adv | In a reverent or cringing manner. |
| Loutishness | n | The state or quality of being loutish: reverent, bowing, kowtowing or bowing low. |
| Louty | adj | Somewhat reverent, deferring, obeisance. |
| Love | n | [OE. love, luve, AS. lufe, lufu; akin to Eng. lief, believe, it pleases, Skr. lubh to be lustful. 2. a strong positive emotion of regard and affection. 3. any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love". love, passion. 4: a beloved person; used as terms of endearment beloved, dear, dearest, honey, love. 5. a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; love, sexual love, erotic love. 6: sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people; sexual love, lovemaking, making love, love, love life. 7. a feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preeminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters. 8. an especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex. 9. courtship: chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage. 10. affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; -- opposed to hate; often with of and an object 11. due gratitude and reverence to God. 11. the object of affection; -- often employed in endearing address. 11. sexual intercourse; -- a euphemism. Note. : Love is often used in the formation of compounds, in most of which the meaning is very obvious; as, love-cracked, love-darting, love-linked, love-taught, etc. 11. affection; friendship; kindness; tenderness; fondness; delight. |
| Love | vb | Have a great affection or liking for; "I love English food". 2. get pleasure from; "I love cooking" - love, enjoy. 3. be enamored or in love with, value. 4. have sexual intercourse with; sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off; hump, lie with, bed, bang, get it on, bonk. 5. to have the feeling of love; to be in love. 6. to have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; country. 7. to regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other. 8. to take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; praise, to like; as, to love books. 9. to play for love, to play a game, as at cards, without stakes; to play for the love of it, like an amateur. 10. (humor) what some users feel for computers. 11. free love, the doctrine or practice of consorting with one (a free-lover) of the opposite sex, at pleasure, without marriage. |
| Love | phr | "Abode of Love" - founded by the Christian group 'Community of the Son of Man' existing in England between 1846 and 1956. They were also known by the name of Agapemonites. |
| Love | phr | "All's Fair in Love and War" - vigorous competition is acceptable in emotionally-charged situations. |
| Love | phr | "Do Something For Love" - do something without expecting reward or payment. |
| Love | phr | "Fall in Love" - develop romantic and sexual love for. |
| Love | phr | "For the Love Of" - for the sake of. 2. in loving remembrance of: used in adjurations, solemn oaths etc. |
| Love | phr | "For Love's Sake" - for the purpose of love. |
| Love | phr | "God of Love" - Eros, Cupid, Freya, Kama. |
| Love | phr | "I Must Love You or Leave You" - I must go. |
| Love | phr | "In Love Of" - beloved. |
| Love | phr | "In Love (with)" - in the act of loving; -- said esp. of the love of the sexes; as, to be in love; to fall in love. |
| Love | phr | "Love a Duck" - an exclamation of surprise. |
| Love | phr | "Love and Leave (somebody)" - . to seduce and abandon another. 2. have a short-lived romantic attachment to, or relationship with. 3. have a passing affection for somebody. |
| Love | phr | "Love at First Sight" - an instantaneous attraction. 2. falling in love with somebody (or of two people, mutually)on the first occasion of seeing or meeting. 3. an immediate liking for somebody. |
| Love | phr | "Love is Blind" - a person who is in love and can see no faults, imperfections or shortcomings in the person he or she is in love with. |
| Love | phr | "Love Me, Love My Dog" - if you love someone, you should like their friends and associates also. |
| Love | phr | "Love Not Wisely, but Too Well" - love with good, but misguided attention, but too such an excessive degree that one suffers, by for it. |
| Love | phr | "Love Together" - reciprocal love. |
| Love | phr | "Love Up" - to show great affection. 2. to make love to, copulate. |
| Love | phr | "Love With" - to make love to. 2. be in love with. |
| Love | phr | "Love You to Bits" - to like or love someone very much. |
| Love | phr | "Make Love To" - to copulate, have sexual intercourse. |
| Love | phr | "No Love Lost (between)" - great dislike, enmity. 2. no liking or affection between. |
| Love | phr | "Of All Loves" - for the sake of all love; by all means. |
| Love | phr | "Out Of Love With" - no longer love or, in many cases, not liking. |
| Love | phr | "Play for Love" - to play games without stakes. |
| Love | phr | "Send One's Love to" - ask that (words of well-being be sent to another. |
| Love | phr | "Under Love and Law" - the position of being a member of the frankpledge. |
| Love apple | n | The tomato; sometimes applied to the brinjal or egg-plant. |
| Love-beads | n | A necklace of coloured beads worn as a symbol of universal love. |
| Love-bed | n | The wedding or marriage bed. |
| Love-begotten | adj | "Illegitimate" love. |
| Love bird | n | Any one of several species of small, short-tailed parrots, or parakeets, of the genus Agapornis, and allied genera. 2. a lover, one "lovebird" of a relationship. |
| Love-bite | n | A swelling on the skin caused by something or someone. |
| Love-book | n | The biblical book of Solomon. |
| Love-born | adj | Born out of love. |
| Love-box | n | A slang term for the vulva or vagina. |
| Love-broker | n | Agent who arranges marriages. 2. a person who for pay acts as agent between lovers, or as a go-between in a sexual intrigue. |
| Love-child | n | A child born out of wedlock. |
| Love day | n | A day formerly appointed for an amicable adjustment of differences. |
| Loved | adj | Be the object of love. |
| Love-deed | n | An action proceeding from love. |
| Love-deep | adj | Profound love. |
| Loved one | n | A very close friend or family member for whom a person has feelings of endearment. 2. one of someone's close friends. 3. someone's next of kin. 4. a recently deceased close friend or family member. |
| Love-draught | n. | A potion supposed to produce feelings of love; an aphrodisiac. |
| Love-dread | n | Fears that proceed from love. |
| Love drink | n | A love potion; a philter; aphrodisiac. |
| Love-enthralled | adj | Deeply in love. |
| Love feast | n | A religious festival, held quarterly by some religious denominations, as the Moravians and Methodists, in imitation of the agape of the early Christians. |
| Loveful | adj | Very loving; having much love or full of love for others. 2. lovable. 3. full of love. 4, regardable with, abounding in love. |
| Love game | n | A game, as in tennis, in which the vanquished. |
| Love-god | n | A god of love, sexual love and marriage, as Venus, Cupid, Kama, Rati, Eros, Aphrodite, Albina, Aine, Kuni. |
| Love grass | n | Any grass of the genus Eragrostis. |
| Love-handle | n | A protruding area of fat on the side of the body, above the hips. |
| Love-handled | adj | Having a protruding area of fat on the side of the body, above the hips. |
| Love-hate | n | Am ambivalent feeling of love and hate existing towards the same object; love-hatred. |
| Lovehood | n | The state or quality of love; love itself. |
| Love-in | n | A gathering for the purpose of establishing and enjoying love relationships. |
| Love-in-ildleness | n | The pansy. |
| Love-in-a-mist | n | An herb of the Buttercup family (Nigella Damascenas having the flowers hidden in a maze of finely cut bracts. 2. the West Indian Passiflora foetida, which has similar bracts. 3. the fennel. |
| Love knot | n | A knot or bow, as of ribbon; -- so called from being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual affection. |
| Loveless | adj | Without love, 'as in loveless wedlock.' 2. lacking love; not founded in love. |
| Lovelessly | adv | Without love. 2. in a loveless way or manner. |
| Lovelessness | n | State or quality of being loveless; a lack of love. 2. unlove. |
| Love-lies-bleeding | n | A species of amaranth, (amarantus melancholicus); the red Amaranths. |
| Love-life | n | An individual's amorous and sexual relationship. 2. love between the sexes, as they affect a particular person. |
| Love-light | n | A fond expression of love in a person eyes. |
| Lovelihood | n | Loveliness. |
| Love-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of some aspect of love. |
| Love-likely | adv | Lovelily. |
| Love-liking | n | Amorous, intimate and sexual affection. |
| Love'lily | adv | In a lovely manner. 2. in a loving or friendly manner. 3. in a way to stimulate love. 4. beautifully. |
| Loveliness | n | The property of being lovely; of attractiveness. 2. appearing to be lovable. 3. result of being lovely. 4. the quality of being lovely, exquisite, beautiful. |
| Loveling | n | A darling, a small beloved child. 2. a loveable thing. |
| Lovelock | n | A lock of hair that hangs down, and is worn apart from the hair that remains. 2. a flowing lock of hair that is dressed apart from the hair that remains. |
| Love-longing | adj | The longing or yearning of those without love. |
| Lovelorn | adj | Unloved, bereft of love. 2. rent and reaved of or by love. 3. forsaken by one's love. 4. forlorn or pining for love. |
| Love-lornness | n | The state or condition of being unloved, bereft of love or pining for love, etc. |
| Lovely | adj | Beautiful, fair, charming attractive in look, form, tone or manner. 2. nice, wonderful. 3. amiable, inspiring love or friendship. 4. loving, filling with love. |
| Lovely | adv | Lovingly, affectionately. 2. beautifully, fair of look, attractive. 3. lovably. 4. willing with joy. |
| Love-mad | adj | "Crazy" with love. |
| Love-madness | n | The state or condition of being madly in love. |
| Lovemaker | n | One who has sexual intercourse. 2. one who makes amorous advances. |
| Lovemaking | n | The act or action of having sexual intercourse; copulation. 2. amorous proposals, courtship. |
| Love match | n | A marriage brought about by love alone. 2. a marriage of which the the motive is love, not worldly advantage or convention. |
| Love-monger | n | A matchmaker; a monger of love and marriage; marriage agent. 2. a person who encourages or advocates love. 4. one who deals in the affairs of love. |
| Loveness | n | Love. |
| Love-nest | n | A place, especially a hotel, motel, cabin where a couple ( particularly a newly-married couple or a couple engaged in a affair) can enjoy each others company. |
| Love-play | n | Wooing, caressing; esp. foreplay. |
| Lover | n | One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex. 2. a friend; one strongly attached to another; one who greatly desires the welfare of any person or thing; as, a lover of his country. 3. one who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music. 4. one who is involved in a sexual relationship with another; as, she took a lover. 5. one who praises. an eulogist. |
| Love rat | n | An adulterer, two-timer; someone who has an affair when in a relationship. |
| Lovered | n | The condition or state or relations in which one person loves another. 2. the emotion or feeling of love. 3. warm affection, goodwill, tenderness, friendship, kindness, love, goodness. |
| Lovered | adj | Provided with or having a lover. |
| Loverhood | n | The state or condition of being a lover. |
| Lovering | n | Wooing, courting, fondling, romancing. |
| Loverless | adj | Without a lover; celibate, single. 2. deprived of a lover. |
| Loverlike | adj | Resembling a lover; or some aspect of a lover. 2. like a lover or characteristic or in the manner of a lover. 3. befitting a lover. |
| Loveliness | n | In the sate of a lover. |
| Loverly | adj | Like a lover. |
| Loverly | adv | In the manner of a lover. |
| Lover's lair | n | The bed of lovers. 2. love-nest. |
| Lovers' lane | n | A secluded area where people kiss, make out, or sometimes engage in sexual activity. These areas range from parking lots in secluded rural areas to places with extraordinary views of a city vista or other feature. They are typically found in cultures built around the automobile—lovers often make out in a car or van for privacy. They have existed for centuries, sometimes as places for secret meetings with a loved one or as a euphemism for red-light districts and other areas of prostitution |
| Lover's leap | n | A toponym given to a number of locations of varying height, usually isolated, with the risk of a fatal fall and the possibility of a deliberate jump. Legends of romantic tragedy are often associated with a Lovers' Leap. |
| Love-rune | n | A tale or song of love. |
| Loverwise | adv | As lovers do; in the manner of a lover. |
| Love-seat | n | A double chair or small sofa for two persons in Queen Anne and later styles. |
| Love-shaft | n | A golden-tipped arrow shot from Cupid's arrow. 2. a slang term for penis, especially when erect. |
| Loveship | n | The act of falling in love; courtship. 2. the act of making love. |
| Lovesick | adj | Behaving strangely, due to being overcome by strong feelings of love for another. 2. languishing with; pining because of love. 3. having strong feelings for the one you love. |
| Love-sickness | n | Quality of property of being lovesick. |
| Love-smitten | adj | Madly in love. 2. love-strickened. |
| Lovesome | adj | Worthy of love; lovable. 2. possessing qualities that inspire love. 3. lovable, because of one beauty, fairness, winsome. 3. loving, showing love and affection, friendly, affectionate, amiable. |
| Lovesomely | adv | In a lovesome manner or way. 2. lovingly., affectionately. |
| Lovesomeness | n | The quality of being worthy of love, or lovable because of one's beauty. 2. having the qualities inspiring love, such as beauty, friendliness, affection. |
| Love song | n | A song whose lyrics tell a tale of love. 2. an amorous song. |
| Love-speech | n | A speech about love and loving. |
| Love-spoon | n | A wooden spoon decoratively covered that was traditionally presented as a gift of romantic intent. |
| Lovestone | n | Ivy, because of its climbing or clinging to stone walls. |
| Love-struck | adj | Overcome by the feelingof love. 2. smitten by love, fallen very much in love. |
| Love-tale | n | Love-story. |
| Love-thought | n | A thought about love; with love on one's mind. |
| Love-tiding | n | A message of love. |
| Love-token | n | Something given as a token or sign of love, as a ring. |
| Love-up | n | A show of great and lengthy affection. |
| Lovewards | adv | Towards or in the directions of love. |
| Love-ware | n | The wares of love or the things of love, the merchandise of love from sexy clothing, speed dating, to love for sale. |
| Lovewende | adj | Beloved, loving, lovely. NB: Halwende: wholesome. |
| Lovewort | n | Plant whose resin is supposed to prevent or forestall conception in human females. 2. sylphion, love fennel. |
| Love-worthiness | n | The nobility and worthiness of love of human nature. |
| Loveworthy | adj | Worthy of, or deserving of love or to be loved; lovable; love-worthy. |
| Loving | n | The act of expressing and demonstrating great love and affection for others. 2. laudation, praise. |
| Loving | adj | Showing or demonstrating a great amount of love to others; lauding, affectionate. |
| Loving-cup | n | A large cup, tankard or goblet passed around from guest to guest at formal banquets. |
| Loving-hearted | adj | Kind, caring and of great consideration for others, especially one's loved-ones. |
| Loving-heartedness | n | The state or quality of being loving-hearted. |
| Loving-kindness | n | Kindness, affection, tenderness, consideration; kindness arising from deep personal love and attachment. |
| Lovingly | adj | In a loving manner. |
| Lovingly | adv | In a loving manner, affectionately. |
| Lovingness | n | The quality or habit of being loving. |
| Low | n | Something that is low, the lowest point, place or level. 2. a low transmission gear. 3. a low pressure system in the atmosphere. |
| Low | adj | A borrowing from ON (lagr). (1016-1150)In a position comparatively close to the ground. 2. small in height. 3. situated below the normal level, or the mean elevation. 4. depressed, sad. 5. in an amount nearest to zero, such as low prices; depleted; substandard. 6. of a pitch, suggesting a lower frequency. 7. of a loudness, suggesting a lower amplitude. 7. despicable; lacking dignity; vulgar. 8. lacking health or vitality. 9. being near the equator. 10. humble in character or status. 11. simple in complexity or development. 12. designed for the slowest speed, as in low gear. 13. articulated with a wide space between the flat tongue and the palette. |
| Low | adv | In or to a low position or state. |
| Low | vb | To make a slight bellowing, characteristic of a cow. 2. to make a loud noise, to bellow, to howl, to reverberate with a noise. 3. to utter a cattle-like noise. |
| Low | n | Grave-mound, hill, tumulus, burial mound. 2. a tract of open ground (a 'lea'). |
| Low | n | The slight bellowing noise made by cows; lowing. |
| Low | phr | "At Low Ebb" - at a low level. 2. in a low tone. 3. at a low pitch. |
| Low | phr | "Get Low on Something" - be nearly without, or have enough of something. |
| Low | phr | "Lay Low" - make ill (enough to have to stay in bed. |
| Low | phr | "Lie Low" - hide and remain quiet and inconspicious. |
| Low | phr | "Lower One's Sail to" - to salute. 2. fig. to give in, to admit defeat. |
| Low-born | adj | Of humble birth. |
| Low-bred | adj | Vulgar, ill-bred. |
| Low brow | n | A person of uncultivated tastes. 2. a non-intellectual person (uncomplimentary) |
| Low brow | adj | Of a person: uncultivated; non intellectual; coarse. |
| Low-browed | adj | Having a forehead short from eyebrows to line of hair. |
| Low-down | n | Slang: inside or secret information. 2. the truth of the matter. |
| Low-down | adj | Downgraded; mean; base. |
| Low-downer | n | A poor white; white trash. 2. the needy, disadvantaged, the poor. |
| Lower | adj | Less high in position. 2. the lower levels of a building. 3. bottom, bottom-most, under, underneath, further down, beneath, nether. 3. subordinate, inferior, lesser, junior, minor, secondary, lower-level, lower-grade, subsidiary, ancillary, second-fiddle, subservient; second-class, second-rate. 4. cheaper, reduced, decreased, lessened, curtailed, pruned, cut, slashed. 5. (of an animal or plant) showing relatively primitive or simple characteristics. 6. geology, denoting an older (and hence usually deeper) part of a stratigraphic division or archaeological deposit or the period in which it was formed or deposited. 7. as a comparative adjective: lowest situated to the south, as the Upper and Lower Nile" |
| Lower | adv | As a comparative adverb: in or into a lower position |
| Lower | phr | "Lower One's Sights" - from the adjusting of a device on a rifle, telescope etc that helps one aim or observe. 2. fig. reduce one's ambition; be content to achieve less than one had hoped for or expected. 3. lower one's standards. |
| Lower House | n | One of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide, the lower house has come to wield more power. A legislature composed of only one house is described as unicameral |
| Lowering | adj | Dark and threatening as the clouds or weather; overcast, gloomy as the sky. 2. frowning, sullen, as the face or gaze, scowling, angry. |
| Lowermost | adj | Lowest. |
| Lower school | n | The primary or junior years. |
| Lower world | n | The abode of the dead; Hell. 2. the earth, as opposite to heaven. |
| Low fat | n | Not having a high number of calories from fat or a great amount of fats. Especially an alternate variety of food designed to have calories, diet, dietetics. |
| Low income | n | Of or relating to the income group comprising low wage earners. 2. with a low national income (especially of poorer Third world Countries)). |
| Lowing | adj | A slight bellowing; inclining to bellow. |
| Lowish | adj | Rather or somewhat low. |
| Low key | adj | Having a low degree of intensity; low-keyed. 2. relatively pale or quiet; understated. |
| Lowland | n | A country which is relatively flat in comparison with surrounding hilly district. 2. pertaining to especially to S.E. Scotland. |
| Lowlander | n | An inhabitant of flat land, esp. in Scotland. |
| Lowlife | n | The life of peasant or humble classes. 2. a mean, contemptible individual. |
| Lowlight | n | Jocular, a monotonous or dull period; a feature of little prominence ( one of the lowlights of the evening) 3. a dark tint in the hair produced by dyeing (on the pattern of high light). |
| Lowlihood | n | The state of being lowly; meekness, humility. |
| Low loader | n | A lorry with a low floor and no sides, for heavy loads. |
| Lowly | adj | Humble, meek. |
| Lowline | n | A slackline???? which is mounted close to the ground. |
| Lowliness | n | Low in status or importance; humble. |
| Lowly | adj | Humble, in feeling, behavior, or status. 2. modest, unpretentious. 3. of an organism, evolved in only the slightest degree. |
| Low-lying | adj | At a low altitude above sea level. |
| Low-minded | n | Having low or mean thoughts, sentiments or motives; meanly. 2. in a meek or modest manner. |
| Low-mindedness | n | The state or quality of being low-minded. |
| Low-necked | adj | Cut low in the neck; decollete: said of a garment, |
| Lowness | n | The property of being low. 2. something that is low or vulgar. |
| Low-rider | n | A car or truck which has its suspension system modified so that it rides as low to the ground as possible. |
| Low-riding | n | The trend of drawing low-rider vehicles. |
| Low-rise | n | Of a building having few stories or trances. |
| Low road | n | A method manner, etc., that is underhand, unscrupulous or otherwise contemptible |
| Low Saxon | n | A group of related dialects of Low German, spoken by northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands and formerly in parts of Denmark. |
| Lowside | n | A type of motor car crash when both tyres lose traction and the motorcycles falls on its side and slides across. |
| Low Sunday | n | The Sunday after Easter. |
| Lowth | n | The state or quality of being low. |
| Low-thoughted | adj | Low-minded; having base thoughts. |
| Low-tide | n | The furthest recession of the tide at any point; also the time of its occurrence. |
| Low-water | n | Pertaining to low tide or its time or measure at recession. |
| Low-water mark | n | lowest point reached at ebb-tide. |
| Lox | n | The salmon or lax. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Mad | adj | Suffering from mental disease, crazy, loopy, lunatical, angry, mad at. |
| Mad-blooded | adj | Genetically mad. 2. mad in the blood. 3. wild, furious, hot-headed. |
| Mad-brained | adj | A scatter-brained, mad-headed, loopy, crazy, uncontrolled. |
| Madden | vb | To become mad, angry or furious. |
| Maddened | pp | Driven out of one's mind; excited to frenzy or uncontrolled anger, frenzy, irrability. |
| Maddeningly | adv | In a maddening manner, madding. |
| Madder | n | A herbaceous climbing plant, Rubia tinctorum. |
| Madding | adv | Becoming madly, acting madly, frenziedly. |
| Maddle | vb | To be or becoming crazy, to be confused in the mind, to become dotingly fond. 2. to craze, confuse, bewilder. |
| Mad-house | n | Lunatic asylum, place for the dectection of the insane. |
| Madling | n | A mad creature, one who acts wildly or foolishly. |
| Madly | adv | In a mad, foolish or insane madly. 2. passionately, fervently, extremely, somewhat excessively. |
| Madman | n | A lunatic, maniac, nut-case. |
| Madme | n | A mathen, a precious thing, treasure, valuable gift. |
| Madness | n | State or condition of being mad, insane, foolish. 2. madship. |
| Madstone | n | A stone supposed to have the power of allaying or curing madness or insanity caused by the bite of a wild animal or a rabid beast, such as a snake-bite or dog with rabies. |
| Madwort | n | A herb of the genus, Alyssum; the trailing Catchweed: a plant(s) supposed to control or allay anger. |
| Maid | n | A shortened form of maiden. ???? -- the maid of god: "Joan of Arc." |
| Maid | phr | "To stand on the maid." -- to remain single. 2. transfig: a man that abstains from sexual intercourse. |
| Maiden | n | ????? A clothes' horse, a washerman's dolly. |
| Maiden-monger | n | |
| Maiden-gem | n | Virginity, maidenhood. |
| Maiden hair | n | The name of certain ferns having fine-hair-like stalks and delicate fronds, such as Capillus -venerus. 2. the spleenwort, various plants of the genus, "Asplenium." |
| Maiden-hair tree | n | A name for the gingko |
| Maidenhead | n | State or condition of a maiden, virgin or a young girl. 2. virginity. 3. hymen. |
| Maiden-thought | n | Keat's term for the stage of human development after "the infant or thoughtless chamber" (stage). 2. Time of innocence or untarnished hope. |
| Maidenhood | n | The condition of being a maiden or a young girl. 2. time of life during which one is a maiden. |
| Maidenish | adj | Resembling a maiden; characteristic of a maiden, (often used in a deprecating sense.) |
| Maiden-like | adv | Such as is like with maidens; befitting of a maiden; maidenly. |
| Maidenliness | n | Quality of being a maiden, maidenly; behaviour proper of a maiden. |
| Maidenship | n | The personality of a man. 2. behaviour proper to a maiden. |
| Maiden speech | n | The first or maiden speech delivered by newly elected member of parliament. |
| Main | n | Physical strength, force, or power, 'with might or main.' 2. of a thing; power, virtue, efficacy. 3. a host of men, military force. 3. "The Main" : the high sea, main sea, open sea or ocean. 4. a broad expanse, such as a continent. 5. the most important part of some business, subject, argument; etc.; chief matter, principal thing. 6. phrases: "upon the main" --- for the most part; in all essential points; chief or principal part; important or essential paint, as in the main of all. 6. object aimed at; end, purpose. 7. principal channel, duct for conveying water, electricity, sewage, gas along or through a city. 8. main or mains lands, demesne lands -- the farm attached to a mansion house, the farmhouse. |
| Main | adj | Strong, vigourous, mighty; possessed of , manifesting or exerting great physical strength or force. 2. said of acts or activities which implies force or energy. 3. epithet of force, strength, sheer force. 3. of an army: great in number, numerous, powerful in arms. 4. of drink: potent, intoxicating. 5. voice or cry: loud. 6. of a storm: violent, raging. 6. of materials or things: great in bulk and dimension; of a large quantity or amount. 7. solid and massy of earth, rock. 8. of land, country: contintental, mainlandish. 8. of an affair: highly important, momentous, impactive, consequential. 9. of a person: great, mighty in rank, power or position. |
| Main drag | n | The main street of a town. |
| Mainland | n | A principal body of land. 2. a continent as distinguished from an island. |
| Mainlander | n | A dweller on a mainland. |
| Mainless | adj | Powerless, without force, of little might. 2. unimportant, minor in rank or position. 3. few in number, unnumerous, not many. 4. small, little, tiny. |
| Mainline | n | Principal or chief line of a railway, main route or road. 2. principal or important position, mainstream. 3. a large or principal vein into which drugs can be readily injected. |
| Mainly | adv | |
| Mainspring | n | The chief motive power. 2. the main incentive. |
| Main-stay | n | Chief support; that on which one mainly relies. |
| Main stem | n | The main street. 2. the main line of a railway. 3. a preeminent person. |
| Mainstream | n | The prevailing direction of opinion, fashion, society. ????? |
| Mainstreamer | n | A musician etc., who is the mainstream or chief influence of his profession. |
| Mainstreet | n | The principal street of a city , town, esp. in the USA. (frequently use as a proper name. |
| Mainstreet | adj | Symbol of mediocrity, parochialism or materialism in a small town. |
| Mainstreeting | n | A political campaign, or sometimes other types of campaign, conducted by politicians or promoters in the main street of a city to ensure maxium exposure of their message. |
| Mainward | n | The main body of an army. |
| Make | n | |
| Make | vb | |
| Make after | vb | To go in pursuit of; pursue, follow. |
| Make against | vb | To be unfavourable to. 2. to militate or tell against. 3. to make hostile movement towards. |
| Make-believe | n | Pretence, wishful thinking, daydreaming. |
| Make-believer | n | One who makes believe or pretends. |
| Make-do | adj | Characterised by makeshift methods. 2. survive or sustain by the bare necessities. |
| Makedom | n | Form, shape, esp.,elegant form, shapeliness, comeliness. |
| Makeless | adj | Matchless, without equal, peerless. |
| Make for | vb | To operate in favour of. 2. be favourable to. 3. to tend to the progress or advancement of. 4.to favour, further. |
| Make-fire | n | |
| Make or break | phr | |
| Maker | n | |
| Makeshift | adj | A temporary or improvised solution. 2. a temporary substitute of an inferior kind; also transfig. of a person. 3. of a person: roguish, shifty, cunning. |
| Make-shiftness | n | Condition of being makeshift, temporary, inferior. |
| Make-talk | n | Sai for the sake of talking. 2. idle chatter. |
| Make-up | n | The manner, character or temperament of a person. 2. appearance of face, dress, in order to impersonate a character. 3. cosmetics, paint for actors,but generally for women. 4. a maded-up story, invention or fiction. 5. compensation. 6. the balancing of a accounts at the end of period. |
| Make-work | n | Work or activity of little or no value devised mainly to keep someone busy. |
| Making-up | n | Reconciliation, |
| Mallow | n | |
| Mallow-wort | n | A plant of the N.O. Malvaceae. |
| Mallum | n | A shire moot, meeting, discussion. 2. the hundred-court among the Franks, (by modern historians sometime used as the name of a common Germanic institution, and also attributed to the anglo-saxons.) |
| Malm | n | A soft friable rock, consisting of a chalky material. 2. the light loamy soil formed by the disengration of this rock. |
| Malmstone | n | |
| Malmy | adj | Resembling a stratum or vein of malmstone. |
| Malshave | n | A caterpillar. |
| Malt | n | |
| Man | n | |
| Manath | n | Man oath. 2. false oath, perjury, --- modern form would be moan oath. |
| Man-child | n | A male child. |
| Mane | n | |
| Maneater | n | Cannibal, head-hunter. 2. a shark which attacks swimmers. 3. a tiger which attacks and kills humans. 4. a woman who treats men emotionally badly. |
| Maneless | adj | |
| Manful | adj | Characterised by manly courage, resolution, bravery. 2. stately appearance; appearance befitting a man. |
| Manfully | adv | In a manful manner; in a manly way, resolutely, valiantly. |
| Man-hardy | adj | Brave, courageous, manly. |
| Mang | vb | To mix, mung, mong, mingle |
| Manifold | adj | |
| Man of mould | n | Mortal man: man who become dust or mould again after death. |
| Many | adj | OE. had a derivative "menige" that did not survive into ME. and though the modern use of many, though agreeing with the OE. form, was a new development which has not been found earlier than the C16th. ?????/// |
| Manyfold | adj | Etymological identical with manifold, though rarely used in the same sense (= in the proportion of many to one.) |
| Many-folds | n | The intestines, from having many folds. 2. the tharms. |
| Manhandle | vb | |
| Man-hater | n | A hater of mankind; misanthrope; also occas. a hater of the male sex. |
| Manhead | n | State of being human. 2. condition of belonging to humanity. 3. human shape or form. 4. human nature. 5. quality of being human. 6. virility, manhood, courage, valour. 7. manly dignity; dignity of manhood. 8. homage. 9. humanity. humanness, kindness. |
| Manhood | n | State or condition of being human; human nature. 2. dignity of man. 3. state of being a man, as opposed to a child; as opposed to woman-hood. 4. qualities eminently becoming a man; manliness, courage, valour. 5. humanity, humanness. 6. homage. 7. men collectively. |
| Man-hunter | n | Cannibal, man-eater, slave-dealer, brigand. |
| Manifold | adj | |
| Manifoldly | adv | |
| Manifoldness | n | Quality or condition of being manifold, varied in character; multiplicity. |
| Manifoldwise | adv | In various ways. |
| Mankeen | adj | Of animals (rarely persons): inclined to attack men. 2. fierce, savage, wild. 2. of women: fond of men 3. infuriated, furious, fierce, mad. |
| Mankind | n | The human race, human nature. |
| Manless | adj | Having no men, either in the sense of human beings or adult persons; folkless. 2. of a woman: lacking the company of men, having no husband or suitor. 3. unmanly, effeminate, inhuman. |
| Manlessness | n | Cowardice. 2. of women: the state or condition of being without men or manless. |
| Manlihead | n | The condition of being human, virility, courage, bravery. |
| Manlihood | n | |
| Manlike | adj | |
| Manliness | n | |
| Manling | n | A little man |
| Manly | adv | |
| Man-mad | adj | |
| Manning | n | The action of furnishing a ship with men. |
| Mannish | n | People, a class of person. ////// |
| Mannishness | n | |
| Man-of-law | n | Lawyer, solicitor, solon, counsellor. |
| Man-of-the-world | n | Secular person.?????? |
| Man-of-the-worldness | n | |
| Manrede | n | Homage; note phrases: " to do or make manrede; to take, nim, or fang manrede." 2. vassals collectively: the men the lord can call upon in time of war, hence a supply of me for the purpose of war. 3. the position of a leader of fighting men; the conduct of an army. 4. carnal intercourse. |
| Manship | n | Humanity, kindness, courtesy, civility. 2. homage, worship, honour, dignity. 3. courage, valour, manliness. 4. condition of being a man. |
| Manship | vb | To denote skill in a subject or activity now so deployed to disconcert a rival or opponent. 2. used as a suffix in words such as "one-upmanship." |
| Manslaught | n | Murder, homicide, manslaughter. |
| Manslaughter | n | |
| Manslay | vb | |
| Manslayer | n | 2. an executioner. ????? |
| Manswear | vb | To swear falsely, perjure oneself. 2. to renounce on oath, forswear. |
| Manswearing | n | Perjury, false swearing on oath. |
| Mantle | n | Foam that covers the surface of liquid. 2. the green vegetable coating on standing or stagnant water. |
| Manward | adv | In relation to a man, pertaining to a man. 2. in the direction of a man. |
| Man-woman | n | A hermaphrodite, a mannish woman, one having the characteristics of both sexes, man-womanly. |
| Many | adj | OE. had a derivative "menige" that did not survive into ME. and though the modern use of many, though agreeing with the OE. form, was a new development which has not been found earlier than the C16th. ?????/// |
| Manyfold | adj | Etymological identical with manifold, though rarely used in the same sense (= in the proportion of many to one.) |
| Many-folds | n | The intestines, from having many folds. 2. the tharms. |
| Manyfull | adj | Abundant, plentiful, many in number. |
| Many-hede | n | A multitude |
| Manyness | n | Plurality, numerosity. |
| Many-sided | adj | Multilateral, having many aspects, bearings, capabilities, possibilities. |
| Many-sideness | n | Multilaterality, having many sides, many possibilties. |
| Many-where | adv | In many places. |
| Maple | n | Any of the trees of the genus "Acer." 2. the common maple: "Acer campestre." |
| Mar | n | Blemish, disfiguring mark, injury. |
| Mar | vb | OE. to waste, squander (property) 2. to hamper, hinder, interfere with interruption or stoppage (person, event or thing.) 3. to spoil, impair with objective. 4. a material thing: to damage or render useless, to destroy or impair the quality of. 4. with immaterial object: to impair, fatally ruin. 5. to detract from the perfection or completeness of. 6. to become deteriorated, to spoil, to perish. 7. to harm, injure a person, to inflict destructive bodily harm upon; to mangle, disfigure. 8. to ruin, damage seriously (a person, his fortune.) 9. to ruin or damage morally, to spoil a child by indulgence. 10.to confuse, bewilder, perplex; to become bewildered or confused, . 11. to trouble, grieve, distress. 12. to err, go astray, falter. |
| March-land | n | (Mearc-land) land comprising the marches or borders areas of a country. 2. the border territory, frontier land, the mark. |
| March-man | n | An inhabitant of the marches or borders. |
| Marchstone | n | A markstone: a stone set up to mark a boundary of an estate or area. |
| Mare | n | The mother or dam of a horse. 2, a bricklayer's hod. |
| Mare | n | A kind of goblin supposed to produce a nightmare by sitting on the chest of the sleeper. 2. the nightmare or elf-addle itself; the blues, melancholies. 3. a spectre, hag. |
| Mare's-nest | n | (Horse's nest?) To imagine that one has found something wonderful, which in fact has no existence at all. Nb- "I have found a mare's nest." 2. an illusory discovery, esp. one that is much vaunted and displays foolish credulity. |
| Mark | n | A boundary, frontier, limit. 2. of immaterial things: a limit or precise boundary, line or point. 3. an object indicting a boundary, position etc., a visible mark or something marked. 4. a pillar, post, stone, fence to indicate a position of a boundary. 5. a stone or other monument set up or standing as a memorial or guide. 6. a standard or banner. 7. target for shooting or throwing at. 8 quarry of a hawk. 9. pit of the stomach (slang) 10. a boxer's object at which a blow is aimed. 11. a soft or easy mark. |
| Mark | vb | |
| Mark-down | n | A reduction in price of an article; a selling price which has been reduced. ( the opposite of mark-up) |
| Markedly | adv | In a marked manner or degree. 2. ???? |
| Marked man | n | One whose conduct is watched with hostile intent. 2. one who is kept in mind as an object for suspicion or vengeance. |
| Markedness | n | The condition or quality or state of being marked. |
| Marker | n | In linguistics a construction or form etc., distinguished or determined by a particular feature. 2. a markling: a word, affix, etc., which distinguishes or determines the class or function of the form, construction etc., with which it is used. |
| Market | n | A place where merchandise is exposed for sale, specifically, an open space or a large building in a town or city, generally with stalls or designated positions occupied by different dealers, especially such a place for the sale of provisions ; also a market place or marketstead. |
| Market | vb | |
| Market | phr | "To run before one's horse to market: to count one's gain before the bargain is made or to count one's chickens before they are hatched." |
| Market | phr | "On the market." -- to be readied and offered for sale. |
| Marketing | n | |
| Market-monger | n | One who trades his wares at a market. |
| Markless | adj | Without a mark or mark; impeccable. |
| Markmoot | n | A (supposed) assembly of the inhabitants of the Moot ( name in medieval Germany applied to a tract of land held in common by a village community, and sometimes applied to Anglo-saxon society and times. |
| Marksman | n | One skilled in hitting the mark, as with a rifle or other weapon. 2. sharpshooter, rifle expert. |
| Marksmanship | n | The quality, art or function of shooter. |
| Markstone | n | A boundary stone, a marker, monument. |
| Mark-up | n | The amount added by a retailer to the cost of athe price of goods to cover overhead charges and provide profit. |
| Markworthy | adj | Worthy of note, worthy-marked. |
| Marmstone | n | Marble, a block or slab of marble. |
| Marrow | n | soft vascular tissue in the central cavities of bone. 2. the interior substance of anything; essence, pith. |
| Marrow-bone | n | A bone containing edible marrow. 2. jocularly -- the knees. 3. the piratical crossbones. |
| Marsh | n | |
| Marshal | n | |
| Marshiness | n | The state or condition of being marshy. |
| Marshmallow | n | A plant of the mallow family, "Althaea officinalis" growing in marshy places. 2. a sweetmeat formerly made from the root of this plant; now a confection made of starch, corn syrup and gelatin, coated with powdered sugar. |
| Marshwort | n | The umbelliferous plant "Helosciadum nodiflorous." |
| Martyr | n | |
| Martyrdom | n | |
| Mash | n | In brewing, malt mixed with hot water to form wort. 2. a mixture of boiled grains. 3. something reduced to a softy pulpy consistence, by heating or mixing or steeping in water. 4. a confused muddle, hash. 5. a state of being reduced by a soft mash. 6. in winemaking the crushed grapes before fermentation. 7. (slang) a person on whom one is "mashed" or completely infatuated. |
| Mash | vb | To mix malt with hot water in brewing. 2. to brew ale, beer and some other alcoholic drinks. 3. to infuse tea. 4. to lixiviate. 5. to beat into a soft pulp or soft mass. 6. to pound or stomp one's way. 7. to admit of being crushed. 8. to reduce food to a homogenous mass. 9. to mix, mingle. |
| Mashwort | n | Wort, infused malt, mash fat. |
| Mask | n | OE. a net |
| Masker | vb | OE. malscrian:proud. 2. to bewilder, confuse, to be bewildered. |
| Maskering | n | Bewilderment, confusion. |
| Masking | n | Bewildering, confusing. 2. netting, ensnaring, trammeling. |
| Mass | n | The eucharistic service. 2. the celebration of the Eucharistic. |
| Mast | n | Any large upright pole. 2. a pole of round timber or tubular iron, set upright in a sailing vessel to sustain the yard. 3. a large, upright pole. 4. |
| Mast | phr | "Before the mast." serving as a common sailor on a navy ship, from the fact that common sailors were quartered before the foremast. |
| Mast | n | The fruit of the oak, the beech and other trees, acorns. 2. fodder, feed. |
| Mast | vb | To feed animals on mast; to fatten. 2. to feed oneself gluttonously |
| Master | n | Late OE. one having control or authority. 2. chief, head, director, teacher. |
| Masterdom | n | |
| Masterful | adj | |
| Mastercraft | n | |
| Masterwort | n | After german meisterwurz: "Peucedanum (Imperatoris ) Ostruthium. |
| Masty | adj | Producing mast. 2. of a swine: fattened. 3. burly, big-bodied |
| Mat | n | Floor-covering ???? |
| Matted | adj | Tangled, entwined ???? |
| Match | n | One of an associated pair; well-matched or accordant pair. 2. a husband or wife, a mate, consort, lover. 3. one equal in age, rank, status. 4. an opponent, rival, antagonist, as in "meet one's match;" "more than a match for;" or "above one's match" 5. a suitable conjunction or pairing. 6. a matrimonial compact or alliance. 7. to make or arrange a match. 8. to bring about a marriage by influence or contrivance. |
| Match | vb | To join one to another; to join in marriage. 2. to pair with view to fitness or suitability. 3. to be equal with. |
| Matchless | adj | Unmarried, nubile, that is not a match or pair. 2. having no match, with an equal; peerless. |
| Matchmake | vb | To plot or contrive a marriage; to arrange a marriage; to be involved in matchmaking. |
| Matchmaker | n | One who arranges marriages; a match-monger, matchbroker. |
| Match-making | n | The action of bringing about or arranging a marriage. 2. one who professionally brings about or negotiates marriages. 3. one who schemes in arranging a marriage for political or financial reasons. |
| Match-monger | n | A match-maker, match-broker, one who arranges marriages either as a culture norm or professionally. |
| Mathele | n | A talker, a gossiper, chatterer, a female chatterer. |
| Matlock | n | An instrument or tool, shaped like a pick-axe, used for loosening the soil in digging. |
| Maugh | n | OE. maegh: kinsman. 2. OE: boy, young man, knave. 3. a near male relative by marriage: a brother-in-law; son-in-law. |
| Maund | adj | A wicker or other woven basket. 2. a basketful or a measure of capacity, varying from locality and commodity. Nb: " a hop-mound." -- a vessel used in breweries. |
| Maw | n | The stomach. This word now signifies the stomach of birds and animals, but formerly meant that of a human being. 2. the cavity of the stomach (now used only in ludicrous sense). 3. the last of the four stomachs of a ruminant. 4. the belly, gullet. throat. 5. the womb, liver, the innermost recesses of the body. 6. (metaphorically): voracity, gluttony, appetite. 8. the honey making apparatus of a bee. 9. the crop of a bird. 10. " to chaw one's maw." -- to fret internally." |
| Maw-bound | adj | In Cheshire, a phrase, meaning costiveness, constipation. |
| Maw-mother | n | A woman experiencing false conception or false pregnancy. |
| May | vb | Verb used to express possibility, permission, contingency, concession, purpose, result. 2. wish or a prayer. 3. power, ability, to be able, now can. |
| May | n | A son, boy, a male relative, kinsman. |
| May | n. | A girl, a maiden, a sweetheart (from the A.S. Maeg). |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Much | dtm | (Comparative more, superlative most) (obsolete) Large, great. A large amount of. (now archaic) A great number of; many (people). Usage: Much is now generally used with uncountable nouns. The equivalent used with countable nouns is many. In positive contexts, much is widely avoided: I have a lot of money instead of I have much money. There are some exceptions to this, however: I have much hope for the future. Unlike many determiners, much is frequently modified by intensifying adverbs, as in “too much”, “very much”, “so much”, “not much”, and so on. (informal) a great deal of, (informal) a lot of |
| Much | adv | To a great extent; as, I don't like fish much. 2. often; frequently. Usage: As a verb modifier in positive contexts, much must be modified by another adverb: I like fish very much, I like fish so much, etc. but not *I like fish much. As a comparative intensifier, many can be used instead of much if it modifies the comparative form of many, i.e. more with a countable noun: many more people but much more snow. 2. (to a great extent): (informal) a great deal, (informal) a lot, greatly, highly, (informal) loads, plenty (slang, especially US), very much |
| Much | prn | A large amount or great extent. |
| Much | phr | "A Bit much" - something excessive or immoderate. |
| Much | phr | "As Much" the extent or quantity just specified. 2. the idea just mentioned. |
| Much | phr | "Be Too Much" - be more than one can accept or bear. |
| Much | phr | "Be Too Much for (Somebody)" - be too difficult for somebody. |
| Much | phr | "By Much" - by a great deal. |
| Much | phr | "How Much" - how many; what quantity or amount of something is needed. |
| Much | phr | "It's a Bit Much" - something excessive or immoderate. 2. one is expecting too much. |
| Much | phr | "Make Much of" - derive much advantage from. 2. exaggerate the significance of (boastfully), or make a fuss of. |
| Much | phr | "Much Ado" - a big fuss over a trifle, as in Jerry had everyone running around looking for his gloves—much ado about nothing. Although this expression is best remembered as the title of Shakespeare's comedy, the phrase much ado was already being used for a big commotion or trouble in the early 1500s. |
| Much | phr | "Much and Little" - persons high and low. 2. all persons (without exception). |
| Much | phr | "Much Deal" - a great part; largely. |
| Much | phr | "Much Good May It Do Somebody" - may somebody benefit from his actions. 2. may somebody's actions do him good. |
| Much | phr | "Much Less" - even less, not so much, as already been indicated. 2. let alone. |
| Much | phr | "Much Mistaken" - greatly mistaken. 2. having made a greater mistake than one is aware of. |
| Much | phr | "Much (or still) Less" - with even great force of denial. |
| Much | phr | "Much of" - in a good quantity. |
| Much | phr | "Much of a Muchness" - much of the same importance or nature. 2. very nearly much the same or alike. |
| Much | phr | "Much Talked Of" - much admired and respected. |
| Much | phr | "Much Will Have More" - a great deal, a great quantity. |
| Much | phr | "Not Much" - ironically: very much. 2. certainly not. |
| Much | phr | "Not Much At All" - very little, not much, a small amount, not much at all. |
| Much | phr | "Not Much In It" - little difference between things compared. |
| Much | phr | "Not Much to Look At" - insignificant, unattractive in appearance. |
| Much | phr | "Not Think It Much" - regard as important or onerous. 2. be shy of doing something. |
| Much | phr | "(Not) Think Much Of" - regard as important or unimportant. 2. have a low opinion of. |
| Much | phr | "Not Up To Much" - not very good, well. |
| Much | phr | "So Much for Something" that demonstrates how bad something is. |
| Much | phr | "To Be Much" - to be important or conspicuous, esp in a specific relation. |
| Much | phr | "Too Much" - intolerable situation or circumstance. |
| Much | phr | "Too Much for" - more than a match for. 2. beyond what is endurable by. |
| Much | phr | "Too Much for Somebody" - be too difficult for somebody. |
| Much | phr | "Without So Much As " - without even (a goodbye). |
| Much-dreaded | adj | Feared greatly, frightened by. |
| Much-loved | adj | Loved to a great extent or degree. |
| Muchly | adv | Exceedingly. |
| Much-making | adj | The action of making much of. |
| Much-needed | adj | Needed to a great extent. |
| Muchness | n | Greatness in quantity, number and degree. 2. large size or bulk;also size magnitude. |
| Muckle | n | A great amount; a mickle. |
| Mugwort | n | Artemisia ulgaris, a common name for several european species of the genus artemisia. The Anglo-Saxon Nine Herbs Charm mentions Mucgwyrt. A folk etymology, based on coincidental sounds, derives Mugwort from the word "mug"; more certainly, it has been used in flavoring drinks at least since the early Iron Age. Other sources say Mugwort is derived from the old Norse muggi, meaning "marsh", and Germanic "wuertz", meaning "root", which refers to its use since ancient times to repel insects, especially moths. The Old English word for mugwort is "mucgwyrt" where "mucg-" could be a variation of the Old English word for midge "mycg". Wort comes from the Old English "wyrt" (root/herb/plant), which is related to the Old High German "wurz" (root) and the Old Norse "urt" (plant). |
| Mulberry | n | The edible, berrylike fruit of a tree (morus) whose leaves are valued for silkworm culture, especially the white mulberry. 2. a deep purplish-red, the color of the mulberry. |
| Mulch | n | A layer of material applied to the surface of an area of soil. its purpose is to conserve moisture. |
| Mule | n | Old English mūl, probably of Germanic origin, from Latin mulus, mula; reinforced in Middle English by Old French mule. 2. offspring of a male donkey and a female horse or mare. |
| Mule-back | n | Mounted or loaded on the back of a mule or mules. |
| Mule-driver | n | On who drives mules. |
| Mule-ear knot | n | A spike knot, a splay knot. One cut lengthwise of the branch. also called horn or slash knot. |
| Mule-headed | adj | Stubborn, obstinate, pigheaded. |
| Mule-skinner | n | A mule-driver; mule-spinner |
| Mulewort | n | Species of fern. |
| Mulishly | adv | In a stubborn or obstinate manner. |
| Mulishness | n | The state or quality of being mulish or stubborn, obstinate, pigheaded |
| Mull | n | Something reduced to small particles, dust, ashes, mould, rubbish. |
| Mull | vb | OE myl (O.E.D. of uncertain origin); dust - To grind to powder, to cause to crumble into small particle. 2. to convert solid into mull. 3. to ponder cogitate. |
| Mull | phr | "Mull Over" - to ponder cogitate. |
| Muller | n | A pestle-like implement with which to mix paints. 2. a mechanical pulverizer or driver. |
| Mull-rain | n | Fine or very light rain, drizzle. |
| Mund | n | A hand or palm as a measure of length. 2. protection, guardian. 3. a guardian, a protector. |
| Munec-life | n | Monk-life, monastic life. |
| Murder | n | The unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being. |
| Murder | vb | Alter so as to make unrecognizable "The students murdered the Indonesian language" 2. kill intentionally and with premeditation |
| Murder | phr | "Be Sheer Murder" - to be extremely unpleasant or difficult. 2. be an inglorious defeat. |
| Murder | phr | "Get Away with Murder" - do what ever one wishes and escape punishment. |
| Murder | phr | "Murder Will Out" - no murder can go undetected. |
| Murder | phr | "Scream Bloody Murder" - protest loudly and angrily or scream in fear. |
| Murder | phr | "To be Sheer Murder" - to be extremely unpleasant or difficult. 2. be an inglorious defeat. |
| Murderdom | n | The practice of murder, the domain, world or state of a serial killer or murder-monger. |
| Murderer | n | One who commits murder. 2. one found guilty of murder. |
| Murdering | adj | That murders or commits murder. |
| Murdering-shot | n | Shot from a gun used in the committing of murder. |
| Murder-monger | n | A dealer in murder; an assassin, hitman. 2. writer of murder or tales of true crime. |
| Murder-mongering | n | The act or actions of a murder-monger. 2. a purveyor of news and stories of murder. |
| Murder-one | n | First degree murder. |
| Murk | n | ON.? Old English cognate: mirce - black, mirk, dark, murky. 2. darkness, the twilight, dusk (lit. & fig.) 3. thick or murky air or vapour. |
| Murk | vb | To grow dark, tenebrate, to darken, become obscure, blacken. |
| Murk | adj | Obscure, deficient in light, dark, dim, misty, gloomy, having sight diminished, murkish, dark in colour. 2. the darkest part of the night (murk night.) 3. of places, darkened, murkful, murkish. 4. of air, darkened by mist, misty, dense, murkish, murkful. 5. atrociously wicked, evil. 6. hard to understand, obscure, unenlightened. 7. gloomy, depressed, unenlightened. |
| Murkful | adj | Somewhat dark, obscure, dim. 2. complex, hidden, endarkened. 3. gloomy, murkish. |
| Murkily | adj | Dim or dark, as from a mist. 2. darkened,cloudy and blurry. 3. not clearly known, understood or expressed. |
| Murkiness | n | Darkness, intense darkness caused by vapour or smoke. 2. murksomeness, quality or state of being murky, gloominess, dimness. |
| Murking | adj | Becoming dark or obscure. |
| Murkish | adj | Somewhat obscure or dark. |
| Murkly | adj | Darkly, obscurely. |
| Murkness | n | Intense darkness caused by vapour or smoke. 2. murkiness. |
| Murksome | adj | Dark, obscure. |
| Murky | adj | Of places, excessively or gloomy dark. 2. of air, dark, thick, gloomy, intense. 3. of colour, very dark. 4. of looks, gloomy, cheerless. |
| Murth | n | Murder, slaughter, killing |
| Murth-burning | n | Incendiarism. |
| Murth-game | n | Murderous play, murder. |
| Murthspel | n | Murder, homicide, unlawful killing. |
| Mush | n | Variant of OE. 'masc'or OE 'mos' (mush, porridge, pulp). 2. a mess, often of food; a soft or semi-soft substance. 4. in radio, a mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous wave stations. |
| Mush | vb | To squish, so as to break into smaller or combined with something else. |
| Mush | phr | "Mush Something Up" - mix or combine two different elements. |
| Mushily | adv | Resembling mush in consistency or firmness; soft. 2. excessively tender or romantic; sentimental. |
| Mushiness | n | The condition or state of being or resembling mush; pulpiness. |
| Mushing | n | Resembling mush; pulpy. |
| Mushlike | adj | Resembling mush; pulpy. |
| Mussel | n | A bivalve mollusc. |
| Mussel-monger | n | A buyer and seller of mussels |
| Must | n | Something that one must do to achieve a desirable result. |
| Must | n | Grape juice before fermentation is completed |
| Must | vb | Express permission or possibility. 2. be obliged to. 3. in ironic questions, as 'must you slam the door' 4. be certain or convinced. 5. an expression of insistence that something must be done. 6. expressing the perversity of destiny. 7. a thing that should not be overlooked or missed. |
| Must | phr | "As You Must Understand" - you ought to be informed. |
| Must | phr | "If You Must Know" - used to introduce information provided against the judgement or information of the speaker. |
| Must | phr | "I Must Say" - one cannot help saying. |
| Must | phr | "Must've" - contraction of 'must have' : necessary to have or get. |
| Must | phr | "Needs Must" - necessity must be the prime consideration. |
| Must-have | adj | Something that is necessary to have or get. |
| Must-need | adj | Something that is required. |
| Must-read | adj | Literature one should read. |
| Must-see | adj | A movie; geographical location, event, show, rtc must should see. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Me | prn | The accusative case of "I". |
| Me | phr | "Dear Me" - in various exclamatory uses, without definite syntactical relationship to the context; also note:'fore me' or 'God's me'. |
| Me | phr | "Me and Mine" - ones relatives |
| Me | phr | "Me and thine" - me and yours. |
| Me | phr | "Me Myself and I" - used to emphasize the speakers aloneness. |
| Mead | n | A liquor made from fermented honey and water to which malt, yeast and spices are added: metheglin. 2. a meadow, field, paddock. |
| Mead-bench | n | A seat or bench at a germanic feast. |
| Meader | n | One who makes or sells mead. |
| Mead-gavel | n | Rent paid for meadow land. |
| Mead-hall | n | Banquet hall where mead is sold; nb: " mead-inn." |
| Mead-inn | n | An inn where mead is served. |
| Mead-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of mead in some aspect. |
| Mead-month | n | An alleged OE. name for " July." |
| Meadow | n | Originally a piece of land covered with grass which is mowed for use as hay. 2. A tract or low or level land, producing grass for hay, later used for any piece of grass land, usu. near a river or stream. 3. an ice field or floe on which seal herd. 4. a feeding ground for fish. |
| Meadow | vb | To devote land to the production or meadowing of grass. |
| Meadow | n | Rich long, grass for hay and pasturage. |
| Meadow-bird | n | The bobolink. |
| Meadow-green | adj | A lively green colour with much yellow through it. |
| Meadow-hen | n | The American bittern. |
| Meadowing | n | Land used or suitable for the growing of crops of grass. 2. the action of cultivating grass on meadow land. |
| Meadowish | adj | Resembling meadow. |
| Meadowland | n | A tract of land cultivated as a meadow. |
| Meadow-lark | n | The American yellow-breasted lark. |
| Meadow-leet | n | A small stream running through a meadow. |
| Meadowless | adj | Lacking or without meadows. |
| Meadow-lily | n | The Canada Lily. |
| Meadow-mouse | n | The field mouse. |
| Meadow-sweet | n | A plant of the rose family, Filipendula ulmaria. |
| Meadowy | adj | Resembling meadows. |
| Meadstead | n | Meadowstead, messuage: a portion of land for a dwelling-house, now a dwelling-house with appurtenances and land assigned to it. |
| Mead weed | n | Wild oat. |
| Meadwort | n | " Regina prati" a very fragrant plant with creamy, feathery flowers; meadow-sweet or Queen of the Meadow. 2. watercress, women's meadwort. |
| Meady | adj | Resembling or suggestive of mead. |
| Meagre | adj | Deficient or destitute of quantity or quality; scanty, barren, inadequate. 2. deficient in or scantily, supplied with fertility, richness, or strength. 3. having little flesh; gaunt. |
| Meagrely | adv | Deficient in richness,fertility or vigor. |
| Meagreness | n | Lack pf quality or quantity; inadequacy. |
| Meagrenessly | adv | In an inadequate manner or way. |
| Meal | n | Edible part of any grain or pulse ground to a powder. 2. comparatively coarse ground grain. 3. unbolted wheat flour; chop. 4. a powder produced by grinding; any powdery, meal-like material. 5. a tub, bucket. |
| Meal | n | The portion of food taken at one, or more or less a fixed, time, meal-time, a repast. 2. its occasion or time of taking food; breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea. 3. repast, food, eating, prandials. 4. quantity of milk given by a cow at one milking; also the time the cow is milked. |
| Meal | vb | To cover with meal or powder. 2. to grind into meal, to reduce or grist to a fine powder. 4. to yield or be plentiful in meal. 5. to make a meal; eat a meal, feed. 6. to give fodder to cattle. 7. to spot, blemish, stain. |
| Meal | sfx | The quantity taken at one time or the unit of measurement. nb: only modern word survival -- piecemeal or do something bit by bit, turn by turn. 2. OE examples: sheaf-meal: sheaf by sheaf; stoundmeal; cup-meal: cup by cup. |
| Meal | phr | "At Meal" - at table; at dinner, breakfast, supper, etc. |
| Meal | phr | "In Meal and In Malt" - directly or indirectly. 2. in one way or another. |
| Meal | phr | "Make a Meal of Something." - to treat in an over fussy or laborious way. 2. take excessive time or have trouble in doing something. 3. to devour laboriously. |
| Meal | phr | "Make Merry Meal" - fig. for something sad, or on a sad occasion. |
| Meal | phr | "Make Sorrow Meal" - fig. for something sad, or on a sad occasion. |
| Meal | phr | "Meal One's Mouth" - to be mealy-mouthed. 2. to speak in gentle terms. |
| Meal | phr | "Of the Same Meal" - of the same kind or quality. |
| Meal-beetle | n | An insect, tenebrio molitor infesting granaries. |
| Meal-break | n | A time taking away from work or other activities for the partaking of a meal. 2. a mean-while. |
| Meal-dusty | adj | Dusty-like meal. |
| Mealer | n | One who takes his meals at one place and lodges at another. 2. one pledge to take alcoholic drinks only at meals. |
| Mealiness | n | Having the quality and condition of being mealy. |
| Mealless | adj | Without or lacking a meal. |
| Mealing | n | Action of grinding meal. 2. action of finely pulverizing gunpowder. 3. action of covering with meal. |
| Mealman | n | A seller of meal. |
| Meal-monger | n | One who deals in the production or is a buyer and/or seller of meal. 2. a caterer a mealman. |
| Mealmouth | n | A mealy-mouthed person: hypocritical in speech. 2. soft, gentle of manner and speech. 3. afraid to speak one's mind; or use plain language. |
| Meals-on-wheels | n | A service, usu. provided by a women's voluntary organization or local government, whereby meals are taken by car to the homes of invalids, the elderly and the sick. |
| Meal-time | n | The usual or habitual time at which a meal is eaten. 2. mealtide. |
| Meal-while | n | A meal-break. |
| Mealworm | n | The larva of the meal-beetle, destructive to flour, meal. |
| Mealy | adj | Having a resemblance to or the qualities of taste of meal; farinaceous. 2. overspread or sprinkled with or as with meal; pale-colored, light-brown, somewhat anemic appearance. 3. having the appearance of being covered with meal; farinaceous. 4. smooth-flavored, not harsh said of tea. 5. of fruits, esp. potatoes when boiled: dry and a powdery mass. 6. of colour, spotty, uneven, of seen in photographs. 7. floury, pale, a whitish or light brown in complexion. 8. of tea, of some other drinks: soft, not harsh of flavour. |
| Mealy-mouthed | adj | Hypocritical, reluctant to use plain terms, (in speech). 2. to speak in gentle terms, but not necessary sincerely; honey-speech. 3. using soft words; not straight-forward; plausibly affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; speaking deviously, unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. 4. over-scrupulous; softly-spoken, not outspoken; afraid to speak one's mind. |
| Mealy-mouthedness | n | Quality of being hypocritical, with a reluctance to use plain terms, (in speech). 2. inclination to speak in gentle terms, but not necessary sincerely. 3. over-scruplousness. 4. characteristic soft speech, not outspoken; afraid to speak one's mind. |
| Mealy-mouthly | adv | In a mealy-mouthed manner. |
| Mealyness | n | The state or quality of being mealy. |
| Mealy starwort | n | Aletris farinose. |
| Mean | vb | To have in mind as a purpose or intention; to purpose, design. 2. to aim at, direct one's way to. 3. to design a thing for a determined purpose; to intend or desire. 4. to remark, allude, to have a particular reference in mind. 5. to be well or ill intended or disposed (to be well intended, often used ironically.) 6. to question what does that mean; what motive or justification does that have? 7. to have a certain signification in words or things. 8. to signify, portend, import. 9. to matter to someone; to have importance to, be the object of regard, affection or love to someone. 10. to be destined by providence; to have special significance. 11. to hold or have in mind, remember. 12. to hold or have an opinion; to think, imagine. 13. to say, tell, mentor, speak. 13. to complain of; lament, mourn for a dead person. 14. to pity, to be pitied, to be deplored. 15. to state a grievance; to make a formal complaint; petition. |
| Mean | adj | Possessed jointly; common to two or more persons or things possessed jointly. 3. inferior in rank or quality, badly off. 4. inferior in ability, learning, meanest understanding. 5. of persons: despicable, nasty, ignoble, destitute of moral dignity, small-minded. 6. in low spirits or poor state of health, poorly, not quite well. 7. of things, poor, inferior in quality, value. 8. petty, unimportant, insignificant. 8. undignified, crude or low in literary style. 9. unambitious, unadorned. 10. of ornaments, attire, clothing, look: shabby. 11. of domestic conditions or quality: worthless, unpleasant, abject, debased. 12. penurious, wanting in liberality, stingy. |
| Mean | phr | "Do You Mean to Say" - are you telling me. |
| Mean | phr | "Do You Understand/See What I Mean" - do you get what I said. |
| Mean | phr | "Go Mean" - to act as partners, share. |
| Mean | phr | "In Mean" - in common mean; common to two or more partners, person or things.? |
| Mean | phr | "Mean Business" - be serious in one's intention. 2. determined to carry out something one has planned to do. 3. be in earnest. |
| Mean | phr | "Mean by" to refer to; to intend. |
| Mean | phr | "Mean It" - be fully serious when making a promise or threat. 2. announcing an intention or opinion. |
| Mean | phr | "Mean to Say" - really admit in the form of a question, as 'do you mean to say?' |
| Mean | phr | "Mean Well" - to intention or be disposed to well (ironically). 2. have good or kindly intentions in doing or saying something in particular. |
| Mean | phr | "What Do you Mean" - I don't understand what you mean, please clarify your what you said. 2. what is your motive, reason for. |
| Mean-born | adj | Innately mean: nasty, despicable, unpleasant. 2. of humble or low birth. |
| Meaner | n | A person of the humbler class. |
| Mean-looking | adj | Not pleasing of looks, unattractive (of persons and animals). |
| Meaning | n | Intention, purpose, a strong inclination to do something. 2. language, signification, sense, import, intended spirit. 2. that which a speaker or writer intends to express. 3. the intended sense of a person's words. 4. of a dream, symbol, phenomenon, a sign or token of. 5. significance of an action, state of things. 6. commemoration, memorial. 7. mention, knowledge, understanding. 8. moaning, lamentation. |
| Meaning | adj | Having intention of purpose, usu. with qualifying word. 2. that expresses meaning of thought, expressive, significant. |
| Meaning | phr | "Meaning of Life" - the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death. 2. living things and their activity. 2. the existence of an individual human being or animal. 3. the significance of living or existence in general. |
| Meaningful | adj | Significant, full of meaning, amenable to interpretation; having a recognizable purpose, direction, or function. |
| Meaningfulness | n | Fact or quality of being meaningful |
| Meaningless | adj | Without significance, devoid of expression, without purpose, not meaningful. 2. a void of sense. |
| Meaninglessly | adv | In a meaningless manner; nonsensically. 2. having no assigned function in a language system. |
| Meaninglessness | n | The state or quality of having no significance, purpose or sense. |
| Meaningly | adv | Significantly. |
| Meaningness | n | The attribute of having a meaning or intention. 2. significance. 3. expressiveness. |
| Meanish | adj | Somewhat mean. |
| Meanless | adj | Lacking meaning. |
| Mean-looking | adj | Poor in looks, quality of person and animals. |
| Meanly | adv | Unkindness towards others. 2. in a poor, lowly or humble manner. |
| Meanness | n | Lowness, humble of birth, rank. 2. weakness, deficiency, inferiority. 3. want of mental or moral elevation or dignity. 4. poverty of style. 3. a small-mindedness; sordidness, lack of dignity. |
| Mean-nothing | n | A meaningless, low, debased, insincere person. |
| Mean-souled | n | Mean in spirit. 2. ignoble, base, small-minded, unkind, unfair. |
| Mean-white | n | Term of contempt for poor and landless whites in the Southern United States. |
| Mean-witted | adj | Mean of mind and intellect. |
| Meat | n | Food in general; anything used by men and animals as nourishment, usu. solid food, not drink. 2. edible part of fruit, nuts, eggs etc., pulp, yolk, kernel, but not rind, shell, peel. 3. a kind of food; an article of food. 4. flesh of animals used for food, not fish or poultry. 5. wild meat or game. 6.a meal, repast, feast, something used for principal meat, dinner. 6. white meat: chicken meat, the flesh of fowl; green meat: vegetables; red meat: beef etc. 7. the essence, gist or pith, as the meat of a report. 8. (slang) anything done with special ease or pleasure; forte. |
| Meat | vb | To feed, to supply with food, provend, to feed oneself, partake of food and drink. |
| Meat | phr | "At Meat and Meal" - at one's meals, sit at meat; see: after meat, before meat; to go to meat. |
| Meat | phr | "Be Easy Meat" - be easily outwitted. |
| Meat | phr | "Be Meat and Drink to Someone." - to be a sense of intensive enjoyment, or very pleasurable, to someone of something. 2. be essential, important to somebody. |
| Meat | phr | "Make Meat Of" - to kill, overwhelm. |
| Meat | phr | "Meat and Drink" - a source of great pleasure. |
| Meat | phr | "Sit at Meat" - to have a meal. |
| Meat axe | n | A butcher cleaver. |
| Meat-board | n | A table for food; dining-table, |
| Meat-earth | n | Rich, fertile soil. |
| Meat-eater | n | One who eats meat; a carnivore. |
| Meat-eating | adj | Having meat as the predominant or only component in one's diet. |
| Meated | adj | Animals having plenty of flesh; well-meated. |
| Meater | n | One who provides or gives food. |
| Meat-fly | n | A fly that breeds in meat. |
| Meat-giver | n | A hospitable giver of food. |
| Meat-grinder | n | A kitchen appliance for fine-chopping or mincing of, mixing raw or newly cooked meat, fish, vegetables, or similar food. |
| Meat-head | n | A stupid person. |
| Meat-hook | n | A hook used usually in a butchery to hang meat. |
| Meat-house | n | A butcher's shop; a shop specializing in the preparation of meat for sale. 3. a place where meat is cured or stored. |
| Meat-hungry | adj | Hungry for meat. 2. hungry for the kill (of animals and some men). |
| Meatily | adv | Relating to, or full of meat, as a meaty stew. 2. heavily built, fleshy or brawny. |
| Meating | n | The action of feeding animals. |
| Meatiness | n | State or quality of being meaty or fleshy. |
| Meatless | adj | Having no food or without meat. 2. food especially for vegetarians containing no butcher's meat. |
| Meatless day | n | A day on which no meat is served at dinner. |
| Meatlessness | n | The state or condition of not having or being with no meat or food. |
| Meat-like | adj | Resembling meat or some aspect of it. |
| Meatloaf | n | A dish of ground meat mixed with other ingredients, formed into a loaf shape, then baked or smoked. The loaf shape is formed by either cooking it in a loaf pan, or forming it by hand on a flat baking pan. |
| Meat-market | n | A market where only meat is sold, often by retail. 2. a place where one goes for casual sexual encounters, such as a bar or nightclub. |
| Meat-meal | n | A mixture of meat scraps and bone used as fertilizer. |
| Meatness | n | The quality or condition of being meat. |
| Meat-salesman | n | A seller of meat, especially to retail butcher. |
| Meatware | n | The human element within a computer system; along with software, hardware; also known as liveware, wetware. |
| Meat-while | n | The time for taking meals, |
| Meat-whole | n | Having a good appetite for food. |
| Meat-will | n | A craving for meat. |
| Meatworks | n | An establishment where meat is processed and stacked; abattoirs, slaughterhouse. |
| Meaty | adj | Full of meat, fleshy. 2. (fig ) pithy; compact with ideas. 3. full of substance. 3. of or pertaining to meat. 4. having the flavor of meat. |
| Medkniche | n | (Mead & knitch.) explained in the context as the quality of hay to be given in reward to the hayward, being as much as he lifts with his middle finger to his knees. |
| Meed | n | Early use: wages, recompense, reward. 2. a reward, guerdon, or prize awarded for excellence or achievement; a merited position of praise, honor, etc. 3. a gift. |
| Meed | vb | To reward dishonestly, offered or accepted. 2. to gain by corruption or bribery. 3. to reward, recompense, gain. 4. to deserve by merit or duty. |
| Meed | phr | "Do Meed - to do one's duty. |
| Meed | phr | "For Any Meed." - for any motive. |
| Meed | phr | "For Any Meed." - on no account, not at all. |
| Meeder | n | A briber. |
| Meedful | adj | Deserving of reward, meritorous. |
| Meedfully | adv | Accordingly to meed or desert; siutably. |
| Meedfulness | n | Quality of bring good |
| Meeding | n | Rewarding; action of rewarding. 2. reward dishonestly, offered or accepted. 2. gaining by corruption or bribery. 3. rewarding, recompensing, gaining. 4. deserving by merit or duty. |
| Meedless | adj | Having no meed: undeserving, unrewarding. |
| Meedness | n | State or condition of deserving merit, reward, recompense. |
| Meed-yearn | vb | To seek or desire bribes. 2. medyearn. |
| Meek | adj | Borrowed from ON (1066- 1150) 2. of gentle and long-suffering disposition. 2. submissive, compliant, lacking spirit or backbone. 3. humble, lowly. 4. gentle, indulgent; kind, compassionate. |
| Meeken | vb | To make or become meek or submissive. |
| Meekhead | n | The state of being meek (meekhood). |
| Meekhood | n | The state of being meek. |
| Meekly | adv | In a quite, gentle, humble and, and sometimes spiritless, submissive manner. |
| Meekness | n | The fact or condition of being meek; submissiveness. 2. an attribute of human nature and behavior. 3. humble, docile, patient under suffering. 4. the willingness to follow the teachings of the Bible. |
| Meet | n | A meeting, usually of hobbyists, enthusiasts of motor cars etc. |
| Meet | vb | To come face to face with by accident; to encounter. 2. to come face to face with someone by arrangement. 3. to be introduced to someone. 4. to converge and finally touch or intersect. 5. to gather for a formal discussion. 6. to satisfy; to comply with. 7. to touch or hit something while moving. 8. to adjoin, be physically touching. 9. to come together in conflict.. 10. to play a match. 11. to meet face-to-face |
| Meet | phr | "Be Met with" - receive; confronted with. |
| Meet | phr | "Be Well Met" -an expression of welcome. |
| Meet | phr | "Go to Meet" - to go to a place where a person arrives in order to welcome, communicate, accompanying or conveying. |
| Meet | phr | "Make Ends Meet" - live within one's income. |
| Meet | phr | "Meet a Deadline" - have something ready on time. |
| Meet | phr | "Meet and Greet" - to arrange an event or public reception so that a famous person can meet and talk to members, guests or fans. |
| Meet | phr | "Meet Halfway." - to forestall, anticipate. 2. to response to friendly advances of. 3. to make concessions in response to or in expectation of equal concessions on the part of another. 4. to come to a compromise. |
| Meet | phr | "Meet Head On" - meet something directly, head first, in physical contact. |
| Meet | phr | "Meet One's Doom/End" - die or be killed. 2. be destroyed. |
| Meet | phr | "Meet One's Maker" - die, be destroyed. 2. pass away; go to the afterlife. |
| Meet | phr | "Meet One's Match" - meet somebody who can equal, or perhaps outdo, one in combat, argument, strength of will. |
| Meet | phr | "Meet the Ear" - to be audible. |
| Meet | phr | "Meet the Eye" - to be visible. 2. look face to face. |
| Meet | phr | "Meet the Eye Of" - to be happen to seen by. |
| Meet | phr | "Meet Up (in) With." - to overtake or fall in with; encounter. 2. become acquainted with. 3. encounter, make contact with. 4. to meet somebody, by arrangement. |
| Meet | phr | "Meet With" - experience, encounter. 2. suffer, be overcome by. 3. come into the presence of by chance or arrangement. |
| Meet | phr | "More Than Meets the Eye." - of greater significance than is first apparent. 2. hidden qualities or complications. |
| Meet-and-Greet | n | An event is one that has been arranged so that a famous person can meet and talk to people. |
| Meet-and-greet | adj | Arranged so that a famous person can meet and talk to people. |
| Meeting | n | a gather together, an encounter specifically o person. |
| Meeting | phr | "Give Something a Meeting" - to appoint a time and place for meeting with him. |
| Meeting-folk | n | Dissenters, non-conformists, meeting-houseman. |
| Meeting-house | n | A place of worship generally. 2. in England a meeting place for dissenters, non-conformists, Quakers ( in a jocular and disparaging way.) |
| Meeting-room | n | A room in a building, such as an office building set aside for people to hold, or used for, meetings. |
| Meeting-stead | n | A meeting place. |
| Meetly | adv | Moderate, moderate of size or quantity. 2. fitting, suitable. 3. moderately, fairly, tolerably, fittingly, suitably, meet. |
| Meetness | n | The condition of being meet; fitness, suitability, as is meet. |
| Meet-up | n | An arranged, informal meeting. |
| Mell | vb | OE. maedel: discourse; to speak, tell, say. |
| Mellow | vb | To ripen and render soft and juicy fruits. 2. to mature(wines, liquors) to free from harshness, acidity. |
| Mellow | adj | Of fruit: soft, sweet and juicy, with ripeness. 2. of colour, taste: indicative of ripeness. 3. of landscape, seasons: characterized by ripeness. 4. rich, soft, loamy or earth, soil. 5. soft, smooth to the touch. 6. mature, ripe in age; now chiefly softened or sweetened by age or experience, having the gentleness or dignity resulting from maturity. 7. softened in colour by age. 8. good-humoured, jovial, genial. 9. intoxicated, but only slightly. |
| Mellow-breathing | n | Gentle, soft-sounding breathing. |
| Mellow-deep | adj | Rich and profound in softness and gentleness. |
| Mellowed | adj | Rendered mellow, soft, gentle. |
| Mellow-eyed | adj | Having soft, kind eyes. |
| Mellowing | n | The process of become ripe rendering fruit soft, sweet, and juicy. 2. the maturing of (wines, liquors) to free from harshness, acidity. 2. of persons becoming more tolerant and genial. |
| Mellowing | adj | That mellows. |
| Mellowly | adv | In a mellow manner. |
| Mellow-mouthed | adj | Soft, sweetly and gently spoken. |
| Mellowness | n | The quality or state of being mellow or ripe, in the various senses of the adjective. |
| Mellow-ripe | adj | Pleasingly soft, juicy, sweet and mellow of taste. |
| Mellowy | adj | Soft and sweet. |
| Mellow-yellow | n | Banana peel used as an intoxicant. |
| Melsh | adj | Mellow, soft, tender, ripe, melch. |
| Melsh-hood | n | State or quality of being ripe, soft, tender, mature; melshhood. 2. ripeness. tenderness, softness. tenderness. |
| Melt | n | Molten material, the product of melting. 2. the transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. 3. the springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. 4. an idiot. |
| Melt | vb | To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. 2. figuratively - to dissolve, disperse, vanish. 3. colloquial - to be very hot and sweat profusely. |
| Melt | phr | "Melt Away" - to remove or waste by melting. 2. to be dissolved in ecstasy. 3. to gradually become smaller, dwindle, waste away. 4. to leave quietly; disappear, vanish. 5. to cash a cheque or banknote. 2. to spend, squander. |
| Melt | phr | "Melt Down" - to melt coins, bullion, or metal down to a raw state. |
| Melt | phr | "Melt In Somebody's Mouth" - be so light or soft that it dissolves readily in the mouth. |
| Melt | phr | "Melt Into" - to melt and change into a different state. 2. to become difficult or impossible to see by changing or being combined with something else. |
| Melt | phr | "Melt Into Something" - to cause something to change into a state when melting. |
| Melt | phr | "Melt Up" - to melt a substance so that it becomes an ingredient of a mixture. |
| Melt-down | n | Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping. 2. a crisis. |
| Melted | adj | That has been liquefied by heat. 2. dissolved into an emotional state |
| Meltedness | n | The state or condition of things liquefied by heat. |
| Meledness | phr | "Meltedness of the Heart" - emotionally overcome by joy, happiness, bliss or grief, sorrow or heartbreak. |
| Melter | n | One who melts metal. |
| Melting | n | The process of liquefying (metals0 by heat. |
| Melting | phr | "Be in the Melting Pot" - be changing into something new. |
| Melting | phr | "Go Back Into the Melting-pot" - to be up for re-consideration ab initio. |
| Melting | phr | "Melting Mood" (the) - yielding to tender emotional feeling or expressing tenderness, kindness, softness, or pity. 2. melting-hearted. |
| Melting-hearted | adj | Kind, soft-hearted, tenderness. |
| Melting-heartedness | n | The state or quality of being kind, softhearted, tender. |
| Meltingly | adv | In a melted or liquefied manner. |
| Meltingness | n | The quality or state of being melting. |
| Melting-pot | n | A crucible, or similar pot used to fuse metals, etc. 2. a place where divergent things, (often races and cultures, but also talents come) together and are homogenized. |
| Melting-pot | phr | "Put into a Melting-pot" - fig. with reference to the thorough remodeling of public institutions, society, racial mixture of a society, nation, etc. |
| Meltith | n | A variant of meal-tide. |
| Meltwater | n | Water from melting ice or snow. 2. the whitish water from melting glaciers. |
| Melty | n | An edible foodstuff made by meltmongers having sticky, (sometimes sweet) qualities, as a nutella donut. |
| Melty | adj | Tending to melt, especially of food melted into a soft or semi-liquid consistency. 2. experiencing tender, sympathetic, sentimental feelings. |
| Memeaneth | vb | I remember. |
| Men | n | The plural of 'man". |
| Men | sfx | Persons who are experts in an area; e.g. horsemen, sportsmen. 2. persons who are employed or hold a position in an area; e.g lawmen, newsmen. 3. persons who have special characteristics relating to an area, e.g. freemen, icemen, supermen. 4. in certain cases, persons who derives from a particular nationality; e.g. Scotsmen, Englishmen |
| Men | phr | "Men May Come, Men May Go, But I Go on Forever" - men die, leave, perish, and are replaced by others, but other specified people; or objects are not. |
| Men | phr | "Men of Goodwill" - right-minded, progressive, peace-loving people. |
| Men-folk | n | The male sex. |
| Meng | vb | To mix, mingle, blend or mix one thing with another. 2. two or more things together. 3. to make a mixture of; produce by mixing. 4. to stir up; fig, to disturb, trouble, confound. 5. to bring living creatures together (to join male with female ) 6. too bring together in intercourse, or with or among others. 7. to join in battle. 8. to have sexual intercourse, unit in marriage. |
| Meng | phr | "Meng with Mirth" - to come together in merriment, laughter and fun. |
| Menged | adj | Mixed, disturbed, confused. |
| Menging | n | Mingling, confusion of disturbance of the mind. |
| Mennese | n | Communion, fellowship. |
| Mensk | n | Humanity, kindness, graciousness, courtesy. 2. honour, dignity, reverence(pl. honours, dignities) 3. an honour, credit, ornament. |
| Mensk | adj | Worshipful, honourable. |
| Mensk | vb | To revere, honour, to dignify, favour. 2. to adorn, render graceful. |
| Menskful | adj | Worshipful, honourable, gracious. 2. of a building: stately. |
| Menskfully | adv | Honourably, manfully, with grace or propriety. |
| Mensking | n | Honour, worship, courtesy. |
| Menskless | adj | Ungracious, irreverent, discourtesy, undignified. |
| Menskly | adv | Courteously, reverently, honourably, stately. |
| Mere | n | The sea, lake; pond or stretch of water. |
| Mere | n | A ridge of land between different properties in a common field, serving to show where each property ends. 2. a boundary, boundary stone, border, landline, an end. |
| Mere | vb | To confine; set a limit to. |
| Mere | adj | Renowned, famous, illustrious, beautiful, noble (said of person and things.) |
| Mer(e)folk | n | Fictional folk living in the sea: Mermaids, merman, merchildren. |
| Merely | adv | Wonderfully, beautifully, marvellous. |
| Meresman | n | A man appointed to find out the exact boundaries of a parish. |
| Merestead | n | The ground or land within a mere or boundary of a farm. |
| Merestone | n | A stone set up as a landmark; a mering-stone. |
| Mereswine | n | Porpoise; sometimes the dolphin. |
| Mering | n | The action of fixing of boundaries. |
| Mermaid | n | A fabulous being having the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish. 2. a mermaiden.????? |
| Merman | n | A fabulous being having the head and trunk of a man and the tail of a fish. |
| Mermin | n | A slave (male or female)- a girl, a mermaid or siren. |
| Merrily | adv | In early use, pleasantly, agreeably, cheerfully, happily. 2. in modern use: with gaiety, joyously, mirthfully, hilariously. 3. jocularly, facetiously, unwittingly in jest. 4. with alacrity, hence in reference to inanimate things, briskly. |
| Merriness | n | The state or condition of being happy or mirthful. |
| Merry | vb | To make mirthful or happy. |
| Merry | adj | Of things pleasing, agreeable. 2. of place, country: pleasant, delightful in aspect or conditions, as in "Merry England." 3. weather, climate: pleasant, fine, favourable. 4. handsome in dress. 5. of herbs: pleasant in smell or taste. 6. of saying: jesty, amusing, funny. diverting. 7. agreeable, pleasant, bright, expressive, cheerful, mirthy, hilarious. 8. of personal attributes: full of animation, enjoyment, joyous, mirthful, blithe, hilarious. 9. of permanent temper or disposition: joyous. 10. happy, permanently amused, hilarious; from too many drinks:tipsy. |
| Merry | phr | "Like Merry Hell" - with great vigor. |
| Merry | phr | "Make Merry." - to become festive and jovial. 2. to indulge in feasting and jollity. |
| Merry | phr | "Make Merry With." - to make fun of, ridicule, |
| Merry | phr | "Make Merry Over" - to make fun of, ridicule. |
| Merry | phr | "More the Merrier" - everyone is welcome. 2, the more people there are, the better. |
| Merry | phr | "Play Merry Hell with" - make worse, or severely damage or disrupt. |
| Merry | phr | "Raise Merry Hell" - to involve others in a matter of the expectation of significant results from this action. |
| Merry | phr | "The More the Merrier." - it is more fun with more people. 2. a greater amount of something is better |
| Merry-begot | vb | To take in something under the influence of alcohol. 2. born illegitimately or out of wedlock. |
| Merry-begotten | n | A bastard; a child born out of wedlock. |
| Merry-eyed | adj | Happy-eyed; cheerful. |
| Merry-go-down | n | Strong ale, beer or any alcoholic drink. |
| Merry-go-sorrow | n | A state of joy and sorrow. |
| Merry-hearted | adj | Happy, convivial, joyful. |
| Merrymake | vb | To make merry or become festive. |
| Merry-maker | n | One who makes merry or festivities. |
| Merry-making | n | The action of making on the occasion of festivities. 2. convivial entertainment. |
| Merryman | n | The companion in arms or follower of a knight; an outlaw chief. 2. a follower, subordinate. 2. jester or buffoon. |
| Merry-meeting | n | Convivial or festive gathering. |
| Merry-minded | adj | Happy, convivial, positive, agreeable; mirthy, delightful. |
| Merry-running | adj | Of a situation preceding or going along happily, positively, agreeably. |
| Merry-thought-bone | n | A wishbone. 2. the furcula or forked bone between the neck and the breast of a bird. 3. the portion of a bird when carved that includes this bone: the wishbone. |
| Merry widow | n | Lingerie featuring a strapless corset with long garters and half-cups for the breasts. |
| Merry-witted | adj | Of fun, festivity and laughter. |
| Meruw | adj | Soft, tender. |
| Mesh | n | A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them. 2. the opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space. 3. the engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack. A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. 4. a powder that passes through a sieve having 300 openings per linear inch but does not pass 400 openings per linear inch is said to be -300 +400 mesh. 5. lattice, network, net |
| Mesh | vb | To fit in, come together. 2. to catch in a mesh |
| Mesh | phr | "In Mesh" - of teeth of a wheel engaged; in gear. |
| Meshed | adj | Connected, netted, threaded. |
| Meshless | adj | Without a mesh. |
| Meshwork | n | A combination of meshes; a network. |
| Meshy | adj | Formed with meshes; netted. 2. any of the open spaces in a net, network; an interstice. 3. the cords, threads or wires surrounding the open spaces in a net, network. 4. an openwork fabric or structure; a net or network. |
| Met | n | Mete: size, dimension or quantity as determinable by measurement. 2, the action of measuring by met or mete. 3. distance. |
| Met | phr | "Be Met with" - receive; confronted with. |
| Met | phr | "By Or With Met" - determined by measurement. 2. a method or system of measuring. 3. a unit of measurement, esp. of capacity, as a met of coal. 4. instrument for measuring quantity (of anything)measured according to a certain unit of measurement. |
| Mete | n | A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere. |
| Mete | vb | To dream or to have a dream. 2. to dream of something. 3. to dream that something happened. |
| Mete | vb | To ascertain or determine the dimension or quantity of, measure. 2. to be the measure of. 3. to compete with full measure or amount. 4. to take measurements, measure. 5. to measure distance for shooting at a mark; hence, to aim at. 6. to mark out the boundary or course of. 7. to estimate the greatness or value; to appraise. 8. to traverse a distance; to go, proceed. 9. to allot, distribute by measure, apportion. |
| Mete | vb | To paint, to design. |
| Mete | phr | "Mete Forth." - set down, impose on, mete out |
| Mete | phr | "Mete Out" - to apportion by measure. 2. to assign in portion; deal out, esp. as to allot punishment, praise, reward. 3. administer, deal out punishment, blows, justice. |
| Metecorn | n | An allowance (properly, of corn.)made to servants or inmates of a hospital. |
| Meted | adj | Measured, apportioned. |
| Metefetill | n | A cupboard for food. |
| Metekin(d) | n | Kind of food, provisions. |
| Metels | n | A dream. |
| Meter | n | A dreamer. |
| Meter | n | One who measures; a measurer; esp. one whose duties it is to see that commodities are of a proper measure, such as a land-measurer being one whose duties are to ascertain dimensions of land. |
| Meteship | n | The office of a meter or one who measures. |
| Meteship | n | The action of taking food. |
| Metesel | n | Meal-time, (Mete: food; seel: fitting time.) |
| Metesome | adj | Measurable. |
| Metewand | n | Measuring rod; metestick. |
| Methe | n | Measure, proportion, fixed quantity. 2. moderation, temperance. 3. respect, consideration, kindness. 4. modesty, gentleness. |
| Methe | adj | Gentle, courteous. |
| Methe | vb | To moderate, regulate, temper. 2. to spare, have mercy on. |
| Metheful | adj | Moderate, gentle. 2. weary. |
| Methefully | adv | Moderately, gently, temperate |
| Methefulness | n | The state or quality of being gentle, moderate. |
| Metheless | adj | Immoderate. |
| Methely | adj | Moderate, proper, suitable. |
| Methely | adv | Moderately, temperately, meekly. |
| Methinks | vb | It seems to me; methinketh. |
| Meting | n | The action of measuring; portioning out, meting out. 2. dimensions |
| Meting | n | Dreaming, a dream; a mete; a metel, a swevn, metrede. |
| Me-too | phr | A phrase used alone in various collocations of a person who, or a course of action, which adopts or acquiesces in views, policies etc., of someone else, often spec., those of one's opponents. Frequently in a derogatory sense (also, with hyphen.) |
| Me-tooer | n | The colloquial ejaculation "Me too!" signifying either that speaker shares another's views or experiences or that the speaker wants the same (thing) as another is getting. |
| Metrede | n | A dream, a metrede, metel, swevn. |
| Mette | n | A companion at meat (at the table). |
| Mettle | n | Variation of metal. 2. quality of temperament. |
| Mettle | phr | "Put Somebody On his/her Mettle" - test somebody's ability. |
| Mew | n | A gull, esp. the common or European gull. 2. Larus canus: a sea mew |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Mad | adj | Suffering from mental disease, crazy, loopy, loony, angry, mad at. |
| Mad | phr | "Drive Mad" - annoy, frustrate, irritate. 2. send someone mad or crazy. |
| Mad | phr | "Have a Mad On" - to be angry. |
| Mad | phr | "Like Mad" - in the manner of one who is mad; hence furiously, vigorously with excessive violence or enthusiasm. |
| Mad | phr | "Mad as a Fish" - demented, crazy, erratic, angry. |
| Mad | phr | "Mad as a Hatter" - of disputed origin, possibility from 'atter' (poison); alternatively from hat-makers suffering from Korsakof's syndrome to due to handling mercury-contaminated felt. 2. crazy, demented, erratic inn behavior. |
| Mad | phr | "Mad as a Meat-axe" - crazy, angry, raging, very irate. |
| Mad | phr | "Mad as a Snake" - crazy, angry, raging, very irate. |
| Mad | phr | "Mad at" - angry, annoyed about something or somebody. |
| Mad | phr | "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" - satirizing the unwillingness of English people to adopt the custom of taking a nap or siesta during the heat of the day in tropical climates. |
| Mad | phr | "Mad For It" - exceedingly eager, or having a keen desire or appetite for something. |
| Mad | phr | "Mad Keen" - with great eagerness; extremely eager. |
| Mad | phr | "Mad On" - keenly or excessively interested or enthusiastic in somebody or something. |
| Mad-blooded | adj | Genetically mad. 2. mad in the blood. 3. wild, furious, hot-headed, raging. |
| Mad-brain | n | A scatter-brain |
| Mad-brained | adj | A scatter-brained, mad-headed, hot-headed, loopy, crazy, uncontrolled. |
| Mad-cow Sickness | n | The illness bovine encephalopathy. |
| Madded | adj | Deprived of reason or intelligence, excited to fury, enraged. |
| Madden | vb | To become mad, angry or furious. 2. to make mad; to drive one out of ones mind. 3. to excite to fury or frenzy or uncontrolled anger. |
| Maddened | pp | Driven out of one's mind; excited to frenzy or uncontrolled anger, frenzy, irritability. |
| Maddening | adj | extremely annoying, infuriating, exasperating, irritating, irkssome, bothersome, galling. |
| Maddeningly | adv | In a maddening manner, madding. |
| Madder | n | A herbaceous climbing plant, Rubia tinctorum yielding red dye. |
| Madder | vb | To treat with dye or madder. |
| Madderish | adj | Resembling the colour (red) of madder. |
| Madder-lake | n | Red pigment. |
| Madderwort | n | Aa herbaceous plant: Rubia tinctorium. 2. madder. |
| Maddery | adj | Madderish. |
| Madding | adv | Becoming madly, acting madly, frenzied. |
| Madding | phr | "Far from the Madding Throng" - a conventional phrase denoting a secluded place removed from public notice. |
| Maddingly | adv | In a madding manner. |
| Maddish | adj | Having the manner or idea of a madman in behavior, appropriate to or befitting a madman. 2. somewhat mad. |
| Maddle | vb | To be or becoming crazy, to be confused in the mind, to become dotingly fond of . 2. to craze, confuse the mind, bewilder. |
| Mad dog | n | A person who acts violently, foolishly or irresponsibly. |
| Mad-drunk | adj | Violently intoxicated. |
| Maddy | adj | Somewhat mad. |
| Made | n | A maggot, math, worm, grub. |
| Made | adj | Created, fabricate, produced, put together. |
| Made | phr | "A Made Man" - a man whose future has been made or assured. |
| Made | phr | "A Self-made Man" - one having his/her success in life assured. |
| Made | phr | "Be Made Of" - comprised of, consisting of, constituting. 2. including, containing, composed of. |
| Made | phr | "Be Made for Something/Somebody" - ideally suited for somebody/something. |
| Made | phr | "Have it Made" - to have accomplished all there is to do. 2. to have no further work or difficulty. 3. to achieve a life style characterized by good fortune and comfort. 4. be very successful. |
| Made | phr | "Have it Made in the Shade" - in a condition characterized by comfort, success, easy living or general well-being. |
| Made | phr | "Made For" - ideally suited for somebody/something. |
| Made | phr | "Made Up" - with make-up or cosmetics applied. 2. put together; invented. |
| Made | phr | "Self-made Man or Woman" - somebody who succeeds entirely through his/ her own efforts. |
| Made | phr | "What One is Made of" - one's ability, or/and worth. |
| Made-man | n | A successful man. 2. a man who has attained success. |
| Made-road | n | A properly surfaced road of tarmac, concrete, etc. |
| Made-up | adj | Artificial, fictitious, contrived. 2. completed, finished. |
| Madful | adj | Mad. |
| Mad-hardiness | n | Foolhardiness |
| Mad Hatter | n | In earlier times, of a hat-maker acting strangely and erratically, due to an over-exposure of mercury once much used as in the production of hats. |
| Mad-hardy | adj | Foolhardy. |
| Mad-hearted | adj | Mad, crazy, erratic. |
| Madhood | n | Madness |
| Mad-house | n | Lunatic asylum, place for the detention of the criminally insane. |
| Mad-keen | adj | Very enthusiastic about someone or something. |
| Madling | n | A mad creature, one who acts wildly or foolishly. |
| Madly | adv | In a mad, foolish or insane madly. 2. passionately, fervently, extremely, somewhat excessively. |
| Madman | n | A lunatic, maniac, nut-case. |
| Madme | n | A mathen, a precious thing, treasure, valuable gift. |
| Madmood | n | Folly. |
| Madnep | n | Meadnep |
| Madness | n | State or condition of being mad, insane, foolish. 2. madship. |
| Madness | phr | "In Midsummer Madness" - foolish behavior brought on by the heat. |
| Madstone | n | A stone supposed to have the power of allaying or curing madness or insanity caused by the bite of a wild animal or a rabid beast, such as a snake-bite or dog with rabies. |
| Madwort | n | A herb of the genus, Alyssum; the trailing Catchweed: a plant(s) supposed to control or allay anger. |
| Maegbote | n | Magbote: compensation for the harm done and pian suffered by slaying a kinsman. |
| Maegth | n | Family, kin, mag, stock, folk. |
| Maggot | n | Late 15c., probably an unexplained variant of Middle English maðek, from Old English maða "maggot, grub. From Middle English magot, magotte, probably Anglo-Norman alteration of maddock (“worm", "maggot”), originally a diminutive form of a base represented by Old English maþa. 2. the larva of an insect |
| Maggot-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a maggot |
| Maggotty | adj | Pertaining to a maggot |
| Maid | n | A shortened form of maiden. 2. a girl or an unmarried, young woman. 3. a female servant or cleaner; lady-in-waiting, charwoman. 4. a virgin of either gender. |
| Maid | phr | "Maid of all Work" - a servant made to do or help with all domestic duties. 2. a general drudge. |
| Maid | phr | "Maid of God" - Joan of Arc. |
| Maid | phr | "Stand On the Maid." -- to remain single. 2. a man who abstains from sexual intercourse. |
| Maiden | n | A clothes' horse, a washerwoman's dolly. |
| Maiden | n | (Now chiefly literary) a girl or an unmarried young woman. 2. female virgin. 3. (obsolete, dialectal) a man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention. 4. a maidservant, lady-in-waiting, charwoman. 5. an unmarried woman, especially an older woman (rare). 6. a racehorse without any victory ('virgin record'). 7. (historical) a Scottish counterpart of the guillotine. 8. (obsolete) a machine for washing linen. 9. (cricket) being an over in which no runs are scored. |
| Maiden | adj | Virgin. 2. (of a female, human or animal) without offspring. 2. like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden. 3. (figuratively) being a first occurrence or event. 4. fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. 5. of a fortress, never having been captured or violated. |
| Maiden | phr | "Maiden It" - act like a maiden, be coy. |
| Maiden-child | n | Female child. |
| Maiden-eyed | adj | Pure, clear, youthful. |
| Maiden-fern | n | Adiantum, the walking fern or maidenhair fern, is a genus of about 200 species of ferns in the Vittarioideae subfamily of the family Pteridaceae. |
| Maiden-flight | n | First flight of an aircraft or a passenger on a plane. |
| Maiden-gem | n | Virginity, maidenhood. |
| Maiden hair | n | The name of certain ferns having fine-hair-like stalks and delicate fronds, such as Capillus venerus. 2. the spleenwort, various plants of the genus, "Asplenium." |
| Maiden-hair tree | n | A name for the gingko( whose leaves resemble those of the maidenhair fern in shape). |
| Maidenhead | n | State or condition of a maiden, virgin or a young girl. 2. virginity. 3. hymen. |
| Maidenhead | phr | "Lose One's Maidenhead" - lose one's virginity. |
| Maiden-hued | adj | Pure of color. |
| Maidenhood | n | The condition of being a maiden or a young girl. 2. time of life during which one is a maiden. |
| Maidenish | adj | Resembling a maiden; characteristic of a maiden or woman, (often used in a deprecating sense.) |
| Maiden lady | n | An unmarried woman (middle-aged or elderly.) |
| Maidenless | adj | Without a maiden or maidens. |
| Maiden-like | adv | Such as is like with maidens; befitting of a maiden; maidenly. |
| Maidenliness | n | Quality of being a maiden, maidenly; behavior proper of a maiden. |
| Maidenly | adv | Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidenhood. 2. of persons: resembling or in the form of a maiden in action or bearing. 3. characterized by the qualities of a maiden, e.g. gentleness, modesty. timidity. 4. in a maidenly manner. |
| Maiden-man | n | A male virgin. |
| Maiden-meek | n | Coy, shyly reserved, modest, gentle, quiet. |
| Maiden-monger | n | A matchmaker or marriage agent who facilitates a meeting between couples, which may eventually lead to marriage. 2. a pimp, who as procures naive girls as novice whores (lambs). |
| Maiden name | n | A marriage woman's original last name. 2. a woman's name when she was a maiden. 3. surname of a woman before she marriages. |
| Maidenship | n | The personality of a maiden. 2. behavior proper to a maiden. |
| Maiden speech | n | The first or maiden speech delivered by newly elected member of parliament. |
| Maiden-thought | n | Keats's term for the stage of human development after "the infant or thoughtless chamber" (stage). 2. Time of innocence or untarnished hope. |
| Maiden Town | n | One never captured by an enemy army. |
| Maiden tree | n | One never lopped |
| Maidenweed | n | Stinking camomile, peucedunum. |
| Maidenwood | n | Usually applied to young ash trees, suggesting greater suppleness or elasticity. |
| Maidenwort | n | Damong maria or monkey flower. |
| Maidstone | n | From Old English medestan, meddestane from earlier mægdan stane (“the maidens' stone, the people's stone”). Ultimately from Old English mægden + stan or mægð + stan which are equivalent to maid(en) + stone. |
| n | Late OE.:tax, tribute, rent. 2. often in combination, as 'borough-mail' (tax paid to the borough); 'house-mail' (rent); 'land-mail' (rent); silver-mail (rent, tax, tribute paid in money); 'mail-free' - (exempt from payment of rent). | |
| Mailer | n | One who pays rent. 2. landlord. |
| Mail-free | adj | Exempt from payment of tax, tribute, rent. |
| Mailing | n | The act of paying a rent. |
| Mailman | n | One who pays rent, tax, tribute. |
| Mailroom | n | Room for rent. |
| Main | n | Physical strength, force, or power, 'with might or main.' 2. of a thing; power, virtue, efficacy. 3. a host of men, military force. 3. "The Main" : the high sea, main sea, open sea or ocean. 4. a broad expanse, such as a continent. 5. the most important part of some business, subject, argument; etc.; chief matter, principal thing. 6. phrases: "upon the main" --- for the most part; in all essential points; chief or principal part; important or essential paint, as in the main of all. 6. object aimed at; end, purpose. 7. principal channel, duct for conveying water, electricity, sewage, gas along or through a city. 8. main or mains lands, demesne lands -- the farm attached to a mansion house, the farmhouse. |
| Main | adj | Strong, vigorous, mighty; possessed of , manifesting or exerting great physical strength or force. 2. said of acts or activities which implies force or energy. 3. epithet of force, strength, sheer force. 3. of an army: great in number, numerous, powerful in arms. 4. of drink: potent, intoxicating. 5. voice or cry: loud. 6. of a storm: violent, raging. 6. of materials or things: great in bulk and dimension; of a large quantity or amount. 7. solid and of mass of earth, rock. 8. of land, country: continental, of mainland. 8. of an affair: highly important, momentous, with impact, consequential. 9. of a person: great, mighty in rank, power or position. |
| Main | phr | "By Main Dint?" - By or with a powerful or strong blow. |
| Main | phr | "By or With the Main Hand" - with a strong hand, forcibly. |
| Main | phr | "In All One's Main" - With all one's power or might. |
| Main | phr | "In the Main" - generally, usually; for most part. |
| Main | phr | "The Main of All" - the chief part, essential part, important part. |
| Main | phr | "Upon the Main"- for most part; in all essential points; mainly |
| Main | phr | "With Might and Main" - with great power or force. 2. with all one's strength. |
| Main | phr | "With Mood and Main" - with feeling and force. |
| Main board | n | Computing: 'motherboard' - the primary circuit board of a personal computer., containing the circuitry for the central processing unit, keyboard, mouses and monitor, together with slots for other devices. |
| Main drag | n | The main street of a town. |
| Main frame | n | A large powerful computer with th capacity to process many tasks simultaneously, used by large corporations and organizations, when simultaneously sustained operation is essential and vital. |
| Main-framelike | adj | Resembling or characteristic |
| Mainful | adj | Powerful, mighty. |
| Mainland | n | A principal body of land. 2. a continent as distinguished from an island. |
| Mainlander | n | A dweller on a mainland. |
| Mainless | adj | Powerless, without force, of little might. 2. unimportant, minor in rank or position. 3. few in number, not numerous, not many. 4. small, little, tiny. |
| Mainline | n | Principal or chief line of a railway, main route or road. 2. principal or important position, mainstream. 3. a large or principal vein into which drugs can be readily injected. |
| Mainline | vb | To inject drugs into a chief vein. |
| Mainliner | n | One who injects drugs, particularly heroin, into a chief vein. |
| Mainly | adv | With force. |
| Main man | n | One's closest friend (African American Vernacular) |
| Main pin | n | A kingbolt; the main bolt of a structure, esp. a bolt/pin in a motor vehicle that links the chassis to the axle, providing the steering pivot. |
| Main road | n | A highway, especially between two towns. |
| Mains | n | The domestic electrical power supply. 2. the pipes of a centralized water supply that transport the water to individual buildings. |
| Main sail | n | The principal sail on the main mast. |
| Main sea | n | The high sea. |
| Main sheet | n | One of the ropes or sheets extending the main sail. |
| Main span | n | The length of suspended roadway between the tower of a bridge. |
| Mainspring | n | The chief motive power. 2. a principal spring in a piece of machinery. 3. the main incentive. |
| Main stem | n | The main street. 2. the main line of a railway. 3. a preeminent person. |
| Mainstream | n | The prevailing direction of opinion, fashion society' orthodoxy. |
| Mainstreamer | n | A musician etc., who is the mainstream or chief influence of his profession. |
| Mainstreet | n | The principal street of a city, town, esp. in the USA. (frequently use as a proper name). |
| Mainstreet | adj | Symbol of mediocrity, parochialism or materialism in a small town. |
| Mainstreeter | n | One who symbol of mediocrity, parochialism or materialism. 2. a politician who conducts and promotes his party's political message in the main street of towns. |
| Mainstreeting | n | A political campaign, or sometimes other types of campaign, conducted by politicians or promoters in the main street of a city to ensure maximum exposure of their message. |
| Main top | n | A platform at the head of the lower section of the main mast. |
| Mainward | n | The main body of an army. |
| Main word | n | Chief, head or important word' a lemma. |
| Make | vb | To construct, build, create. 2. to produce. 3. to form, constitute. 4. to interpret. 5. to bring into success. 5. to cause to be. 6. to cause to do; force to do. 7. to indicate or suggest to be, or it is so. 8. to cover with bedclothes
9. to recognize, acknowledge worth of. 10. to earn, to gain (money) |
| Make | n | Brand, type or kind; often paired with model. 2. how a thing is made; construction. 3. quantity produced, especially of materials. 4. (dated) the act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing. 5. person's character, make-up, way or disposition. 6.(computing) a software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility. 7. recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence. 8. (slang, usually in phrase " lay' or "easy make") past or future target of seduction of a female). (slang, in the military) promotion. 9. home-made or do-it-your-self project. |
| Make | n | Mate (OE. gemaca); friend, buddy, companion. |
| Make | phr | "All of Make the Same" - throughout |
| Make | phr | "Be the Making Of" - bring out one's true cahracter or potential. |
| Make | phr | "Have the Makings Of" - have the potential to be. |
| Make | phr | "How Do You Make That Out" - by what process or logic do you come to that conclusion. |
| Make | phr | "Kiss and Make Up" - to reconcile one's differences. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Beginning" - begin, commence to do something; make a start. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Bolt" - hurry to (catch a train)or get to an appointment. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Book" - to arrange a series of bets, etc. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Break (for it)" - abscond, depart, run away from, escape (from captivity), sneak away, flee. |
| Make | phr | "Make After" - to go in pursuit of; go after, chase, pursue, follow. |
| Make | phr | "Make Against" - to be unfavorable to. 2. to militate or tell against. 3. to make hostile movement towards. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Beeline Towards" - hurry directly towards. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Cat Laugh" - be especially comic, ludicrous or incongruous. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Clean Brest of it" - confess fully; make full confession. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Clean Sweep" - dispose of everything. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Day of It' - spend all day doing something enjoyable. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Deal with" - agree to terms for doing business. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Friend of" - put oneself appear ridiculous through clumsy or thoughtless behavior. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Go of" - make something succeed, as a realtionship or marriage. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Good Death/End" - die with dignity, courage, pious resignation. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Good Showing" - behave, perform or function creditably. 2. seem to be satisfactory etc in quality and amount. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Living" - to earn enough income to support oneself and, if applicable one's family. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Long Arm for" - stretch out to reach (an item, thing etc). |
| Make | phr | "Make a Loss" - lose money in a financial dealings. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Man of" - help to grow up, reach manhood. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Match" - arrange or bring about a marriage. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Meal of" - overdo something to excess. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Mistake" - act wrongly or incorrectly. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Name for Oneself" - earn a reputation in a particular field. 2. become famous or well-known. |
| Make | phr | "Make an Ass Of" - to cause someone to seem foolish or stupid. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Night of It" -spend all night doing something enjoyable. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Pig's Ear of" - to do badly; make a mess of. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Play for" - attempt to get a position; form a romantic relationship. |
| Make | phr | "Make As If (as though) to Do (Something)" - to behave as if, feign; hence, to pretend that. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Speech" - speak formally to an audience on a specific subject and/or a specific occasion. 2. speak to somebody as if one were speaking formally to an audience etc. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Stand" - resist and not flee the enemy forces, or a physical attack. 2. (fig) adopt and make known a firm attitude against, or opposition to somebody or something. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Start" - begin, commence to do something. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Stick For One's Own Back" - |
| Make | phr | "Make a Stink" - complain bitterly, take assertive action in objecting to a problem. 2. to demand attention and or remedy for a problem. |
| Make | phr | "Make At" - attack, move towards something/somebody as if to attack them. 2. to tend to the advancement of, or progress of, to further, aid. |
| Make | phr | "Make Away (with)" - steal and hurry away with. 2. depart hastily. |
| Make | phr | "Make Away With" - put to death. 2. put a person out of the way. 3. end a person's life. |
| Make | phr | "Make Away with Oneself" - take one's own life; commit suicide; do away with oneself. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Weekend of" - devote a long time to some activity or pursuit. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Work" - to ensure the necessity for work to be done. 2. to give trouble. |
| Make | phr | "Make Belief" - the abstract quality of making believe. |
| Make | phr | "Make Believe" - pretend; unreal, play a game at. |
| Make | phr | "Make Bold" - act with daring; to dare. |
| Make | phr | "Make Care" - to be careful, anxious. |
| Make | phr | "Make Do (with something)" - to manage to do (with what is available) especially, as an interim measure or substitute or is it is not adequate or satisfactory or desirable. |
| Make | phr | "Make Ends Meet" - match expenses to income; live reasonably well without getting into debt. |
| Make | phr | "Make Eyes at" - look at flirtatiously or coquettishly. |
| Make | phr | "Make Fast" - fasten, tie up, secure, attach something securely. |
| Make | phr | "Make Felt" - to perceive through the sense of touch, as the softness of skin. 2. perceive as a physical sensation, as a sharp needle. |
| Make | phr | "Make Fight" - serve or take part in a military campaign. |
| Make | phr | "Make for" - to operate in favour of; be favorable to. 2. aim at, make possible, to ensure. 3. to tend to the progress or advancement of, to further. 4. make or move towards, a particular place. 5. escape, run away, flee. rush towards in order to attack. 6. have an effect upon. |
| Make | phr | "Make Forth" - to complete the preparation or equipping of. |
| Make | phr | "Make Free of" - liberate; allow somebody full rights. 2. take liberties with. |
| Make | phr | "Make Free with" - be over-familiar with somebody. 2. treat, use, somebody casually or presumptuously as if belonging to oneself. |
| Make | phr | "Make Friends with" - get on pleasant, intimate terms with; become friendly with. |
| Make | phr | "Make From" - shape, fashion from raw material. 2. fashion a garment. |
| Make | phr | "Make Game of" - to jest; ridcule; make fun of. |
| Make | phr | "Make Glad" - make happy. |
| Make | phr | "Make Gladness" - make glee, mirth. |
| Make | phr | "Make Glee" - make glad, mirth. |
| Make | phr | "Make Good" - do well in life and work, contrasted with being unable to rise from the lowest social economic level, or with being an idler, rogue, criminal. 2. achieve a desired and acknowledged status financially, socially or professionally. |
| Make | phr | "Make Good" - supply a need. 2. repair, restore or compensate for something. |
| Make | phr | "Make Goodly" - give oneself airs. |
| Make | phr | "Make Good One's Flight" - effect, complete, satisfactorily, an action or procedure (escape). |
| Make | phr | "Make Good Time" - to arrive at a specified or previously announced destination more quickly than anticipated. |
| Make | phr | "Make Great Play with" - (in a dramatic way, and especially in argument or debate), stress, emphasize, handle, play with. |
| Make | phr | "Make Great Strides" - progress, develop, improve rapidly. |
| Make | phr | "Make Grith" - in peace. |
| Make | phr | "Make Hay of" - demolish, destroy, throw into confusion, |
| Make | phr | "Make Hay while the Sun Shines" - to act while opportunity exists. 2. to take action while the situation is favorable. |
| Make | phr | "Make Head or Tail Of" (usually negative cannot)- not understand at all. |
| Make | phr | "Make Headway" - move forward in an intended course or direction. 2. progress satisfactorily; make progress. |
| Make | phr | "Make Heard" - make one's position clearly known; speak one's mind, declare, make plain. |
| Make | phr | "Make Heavy Weather of" - to roll and pitch, as a ship in a storm. 2. make a task seem more difficult than it really is. |
| Make | phr | "Make a Hit with" - impress favorably; make an impression on. |
| Make | phr | "Make Inroads" - absorb or consume a considerable amount or part of savings, capital, reserves etc. |
| Make | phr | "Make Into" - fashion, shape, mould into. 2. cause to become.transform into. |
| Make | phr | "Make It" - to succeed in crossing a great distance or specified distance, especially in time. 2. to achieve a desired object; to be successful. 3. to keep an appointment. 4. achieve sexual intercourse. |
| Make | phr | "Make It Do, or Do Without" - if you don't have plenty of money, spend what you have wisely and frugally. |
| Make | phr | "Make It One's Business" - be determined, or be careful, to do something necessary or desirable. |
| Make | phr | "Make Itself Felt" - cause one/othersto be keenly aware of something. |
| Make | phr | "Make It So" - cause something to happen, usually in a positive way. |
| Make | phr | "Make It Through Something" - to survive, not die as a result of a accident or illness. 2. endure a difficult situation or problem in one's life. |
| Make | phr | "Make It Up as We Go Along" - to improvise continuously as ond does something. 2. to do something without formal guidelines, notes etc. |
| Make | phr | "Make It Up" - give to somebody in compensation, recompense for something he/she has missed or suffered. 2. remedy a negligence or failing. 3. settle one's differences. |
| Make | phr | "Make Known" -to reveal, disclose, unveil, bring to light, tell, uncover, expose. |
| Make | phr | "Make Light Of" - treat as slight or unimportant. |
| Make | phr | "Make Like" - to pretend (to be); to behave like as if, to imitate. |
| Make | phr | "Make Little of" - remain calm, give little attention to, dismiss as trivial or unimportant (in an understanding way). |
| Make | phr | "Make Love Not War" - an anti-war slogan commonly associated with the American counterculture of the 1960s. It was used primarily by those who were opposed to the Vietnam War, but has been invoked in other anti-war contexts since. |
| Make | phr | "Make Love to" - kiss and caress. 2. have sexual intercourse with. |
| Make | phr | "Make Market" - to trade, buy, sell. 2. having dealings with. |
| Make | phr | "Make Merry" - be lively, boisterous, in a social way - laughing, talking, singing, dancing, eating, drinking. |
| Make | phr | "Make Mind" - to commemorate, record. |
| Make | phr | "Make Mirth" - make glee, glad, merry. |
| Make | phr | "Make Much of" - stress, fuss, emphasis or exaggerate something. |
| Make | phr | "Make Neither Head nor Tail of" - not understand something. |
| Make | phr | "Make No Bones Of" - not hesitate to do or say something. 2. act or speak about something frankly and vigorously. |
| Make | phr | "Make No Mistake" - do not be mislead by appearances into believing something that subsequent events or further events or further information will show to be untrue or not the case. |
| Make | phr | "Make Nothing Of (doing something)" - to find no difficulty in, or feel no scruples at or about. 2. overcome with ease some apparent difficult obstacle. |
| Make | phr | "Make Of" - to esteem (well or ill). 2. understand (at all); understand; interpret; to a stated extent. 2. construct of; build of. |
| Make | phr | "Make Off" - depart, decamp, leave in a hurry; escape, run away. |
| Make | phr | "Make Off With" - to leave with something in one's possession; steal; appropriate.. |
| Make | phr | "Make Old Bones" - live to an old age. |
| Make | phr | "Make On" - make a certain profit as the result oof a business transaction. |
| Make | phr | "Make One Of" - to take part in a combined action. 2. be present at a meeting, etc. 3. to assimilate to the company one joins. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Abode" - take up one's abode; make home or live with. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Bed and Lie on It" -face the consequences of one's actions. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Blood Seethe" - make one very angry. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Blood Cold" - frighten, make apprehensive. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Bow" - appear, be shown in public or before a particular audience , for the first time. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Day" - to render a day delightful; or redeem it from dullness, nowhere, or banality. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Farewells" - say goodbye to someone; see, visit people to say goodbye. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Flesh Creep" - cause one to feel fear, loathing, aversion, nervous anxiety. 2. give somebody the creeps. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Head Spin" - confuse one. |
| Make | phr | "Make Oneself at Home" - be as cmfortable, relaxed as if one were in their own home. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Hair Stand on End" - fill with horror, dread. 2. become terrify or extremely scared. 3. make one's flesh creep. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Living For Oneself" - take care care of one's own life. 2. live independently; pay one's own way. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Mark" - become successful and well-known generally or in certain circles. 2. especially influence or contribute an art, a science, a sport. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Play for" - try by some special action to secure or capture something. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Soul" - to devote one's efforts to the saving of one's soul |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Way " - to direct one's journey (or life) so as to pass by or through it. 2. go, or succeed. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's Way Back/Along" - proceed, move along, back, across, etc. |
| Make | phr | "Make One's way in the World" - progress in one's career . 2. make a success in one's work. |
| Make | phr | "Make or Break (Someone)" - to cause either the complete success or the ruin of a person or thing. 2. resulting in great success or failure. 3. a crucial test leading either to a person or his/her failure, with no intermediary position.. |
| Make | phr | "Make or Mar" - to make a success or complete failure, of an undertaking. |
| Make | phr | "Make Out" - make progress, proceed, work out, discover get on with, prosper. 2. write, fill out, complete a cheque etc. 3. manage, cope, fare, comprehend, distinguish, understand. 4. claim, assert, maintain; establish by evidence. 5. identifying someone, usually and from a distance and slowly; see, discern. 6. engage in sexual activity. |
| Make | phr | "Make Out Of" - to create something out of a material or substance. |
| Make | phr | "Make Over" - to hand over (formally). 2. to transfer the possession of a thing from oneself to another; bequeath. 3. convert, change, transform, renovate. 4. |
| Make | phr | "Make Play with" - use ostentatiously. |
| Make | phr | "Make Quick Work of" - to accomplish a specific task easily and quickly. 2. to kill a specific person easily and quickly. |
| Make | phr | "Make Ready - prepare; do what is necessary. |
| Make | phr | "Make Right" - set sometimes right and make something right. 2. correct something; alter a situation to make it more fair. |
| Make | phr | "Make Room for" - to make space or time for. 2. to make additional space into which something can be fitted. |
| Make | phr | "Make Sail" - to set more sails. |
| Make | phr | "Make Sheep Eyes At" - flirt; make appealing glances at. |
| Make | phr | "Make Shift with" - use for lack of something better; make do with. |
| Make | phr | "Make Short Work of" - to finish with somebody or something very quickly. |
| Make | phr | "Make So Bold As" - dare, presume, embolden, take the liberty, or have the courage to do something. |
| Make | phr | "Make Somebody's Blood Run Cold" - fig. to shock or horrify somebody. |
| Make | phr | "Make Somebody's Day" - be an experience, occurrence, that makes one feel the day has been especially satisfying or significant. |
| Make | phr | "Make Somebody's Heart Bleed" - make somebody's feel extreme sorrow or pity. |
| Make | phr | "Make Somebody's Teeth Itch" - to bother or unsettle a person. 2. put on edge. |
| Make | pr | "Make (Somebody) the Laughing Stock" - a thing or person make sport by all; a butt of ridicule. 2. an object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed, probably in the stocks. |
| Make | phr | "Make Something Look New" - clean, mend, polish something that it looks as it did when new. |
| Make | phr | "Make Something (Out) of It" - cause an argument or fight. |
| Make | phr | "Make Something Out of Nothing" - to think or say that something is problem when it is not. |
| Make | phr | "Make Something Out of Oneself" - to be successful on one's own iniative. |
| Make | phr | "Make Something Stick" - prove, substantiate, validate or make effective, esp. something said about or against somebody/something. |
| Make | phr | "Make Somebody Tired" - be or appear tiresome, exasperating, difficult to understand or deal with. |
| Make | phr | "Make Something Up" - invent, lie, fabricate, fib. |
| Make | phr | "Make Something Work" - cause something to work effectively. |
| Make | phr | "Make That Out - (How)" - by what process or logic do you come to that conclusion. |
| Make | phr | "Make the Best of" - do one best in difficult conditions, or with limited means. |
| Make | phr | "Make the Best of One or Other Worlds" - combine the best aspects of different ways of life, philosophies. *see etymology of* |
| Make | phr | "Make the Most of" - get as much from experience, etc as one can. 2. exploit something to its fullest. 3. take the best advantage of a situation. |
| Make | phr | "Make the Running" - in a race, take the lead and set the pace which other competitors must maintain if they hope to win. 2.(fig) take the lead in a conversation, argument, course of action, forcing or encouraging others to follow and compete. |
| Make | phr | "Make the Welkin Ring" - make a loud ring. 2. to celebrate or revel. |
| Make | phr | "Make the Worst of" - fail, refuse, to mke any effort when faced with difficulties. |
| Make | phr | "Make the Worst of Both* Worlds" - combine the worst features of two ways of life, philosophies. *see etymology of. |
| Make | phr | "Make Things Worse" - worsen an already dangerous, undesirable or awkward situation or condition. |
| Make | phr | "Make Time For" - to reserve a period of time to do something. 2. to travel at a faster than usual speed than. 3. to spend a time with a person in or in pursuit of a romantic relationship. |
| Make | phr | "Make Time (with)" - to make advances to the opposite sex. |
| Make | phr | "Make To" - to lend or contribute to. 2. to be favorable or conducive to, to go in support of. 3. to set to work. |
| Make | phr | "Make to Death" - put to death; to make away; make out of the way. |
| Make | phr | "Make Together" - to do something together (collectively). |
| Make | phr | "Make Under" - to makeover in awhich the quality, flashness or value of something is downgraded |
| Make | phr | "Make Understood" - make oneself understood or comprehended a language of which you have only a basic knowledge of. |
| Make | phr | "Make Unto" - create, produce (something) in favor or respect of another. |
| Make | phr | "Make Up" - to reconcile after a difference, dispute or quarrel; to become friends again. 2. replace; make good; redress, repay for one's past failures. 3. compose, invent, (possibly to deceive). 4. form, compose, invent, complete, constitute to full strength. 5. prepare by mixing ingredients together. 6. prepare one's body or face with cosmetics in order to look attractive. prepare one's body or face for a performance in a theatre or a film. 7. prepare a bed for a patient; prepare a bed for an unexpected guest. 8. put together food for a picnic basket. 9. make complete in strength, number, complement, required total. 10. make a road with a hard surface of bitumen etc to make it suitable for fast motor traffic. 11. add more fuel to the fire. |
| Make | phr | "Make Up to" - compensate, supply a substitute for. 2. redress, repay somebody for past failures; make amends for. 3. make friendly advances. |
| Make | phr | "Make Upon" - make at. |
| Make | phr | "Make Up for Lost Time" - make a special effort to do something after beginning late. |
| Make | phr | "Make Up From/Into" - shape, manufacture, form (a finished article) from raw material. 2. fashion a garment from material. |
| Make | phr | "Make Up One's Mind" - to come to a decision or conclusion. |
| Make | phr | "Make Up One's Mind For (to do something)" - to be reconciled to the thought of. 2. have one's mind made up for. |
| Make | phr | "Make Up One's Mouth" - make a particular facial expression. |
| Make | phr | "Make Up To" - to draw near to. 2. to make romantic advances towards. 3. go to great lengths to repair a damaged or fractured relationship. |
| Make | phr | "Make Water" - to urinate. 2. Of a ship taking in water. |
| Make | phr | "Make Waves" - cause difficulty or trouble. |
| Make | phr | "Make Way (for)" - move aside; allow others to proceed. 2. achieve progress. |
| Make | phr | "Make With" - to side with; have common cause with. 2. perform. proceed with. |
| Make | phr | "On the Make" - intent on winning someone's affection. 2. seeking sexual pleasure. 3. improving, advancing, getting better. 4. intent on, or greedy, for profit or advancement. 5. make pecuniary gains. |
| Make | phr | "That Makes Two Of Us" - so am I. |
| Make | phr | "What Do You Make of It" - what is your opinion? |
| Make | phr | "What Makes You Here" - what are you doing here. |
| Make-a-do | n | A to-do, uproar, stir. 2. one who makes believe or pretense. |
| Make-and-break | adj | A device for making and breaking an electrical circuit. |
| Make-believe | n | Pretense, wishful thinking, daydreaming. |
| Make-believe | adj | Pretended, unreal. |
| Make-believer | n | One who pretends, lies, or fantasizes. |
| Make-believing | n | The act or practice of lying, pretending, fantasizing. |
| Make-do | n | One who resorts to make-shift or temporary expediency. |
| Make-do | adj | Characterized by makeshift methods. 2. survive or sustain by the bare necessities. 3. temporary, makeshift, expediency. 4. use make-do methods. |
| Makedom | n | Form, shape, esp.,elegant form, shapeliness, comeliness. |
| Make-fast | n | An iron ring or other object to which a boat is made fast. |
| Make-fire | n | An incendiary. |
| Make-game | n | One who or that which furnishes material for amusement; hence, a laughing-stock, butt (of jokes or amusement). |
| Make-god | n | A derisive term for a romish priest. |
| Make-king | n | The maker of a king or the appointment of a person to a very senior position. |
| Make-law | n | A law-giver. |
| Makeless | adj | Matchless, without equal, peerless. 2. without a mate or friend. |
| Make-mirth | adj | One who makes merriment, mirth and levity. |
| Make-or-break | adj | Resulting in great success or failure |
| Make-out | n | A major change in the use of something. 2. a major change in the appearance of something or someone. 3. a radical transformation. |
| Make-out | adj | Of, or involving or suited to making out. |
| Make-over | n | A major change in the use of something, or in the appearance of something or someone. 2. a radical transformation. |
| Maker | n | A person who makes things. 2. a maker engaged in in a business manufacturing some product; a manufacturer. 3. "The Maker': the Judaeo-Christian God, the Maker of the Universe. 4. a poet; scop, skald, word-weaver.. |
| Maker | sfx | One who makes or fabricates, as a glassmaker. |
| Maker | phr | "Meet One's Maker" - to die. 2. die violently. |
| Makeready | n | Final preparation and adjustments. |
| Make-right | n | One who makes things right, corrects or rectifies. |
| Maker-outer | n | (Slang) : a kisser; someone who makes out (kisses). |
| Makership | n | The office of a maker or creator. |
| Maker-upper | n | A person who makes something. 2. a packer of manufactured goods. |
| Makeshift | adj | A temporary or improvised solution; an expedient. 2. a temporary substitute of an inferior kind; also (transfig). of a person. 3. of a person: roguish, shifty, cunning. |
| Makeshiftness | n | Condition of being makeshift, temporary, improvised, inferior. 2. of the nature of, or character of being makeshift. |
| Makeshift shrine | n | A temporary memorial, often with a white cross draped in or surrounded by flower tributes, erected on a roadside site where a friend or loved one has died as a result or a motor vehicle or an act of murder. |
| Make-shifty | adj | Something developed as a temporary contrivance in any emergency. |
| Make-span | n | In manufacturing, the time difference between the start and finish of a sequence of jobs or tasks. |
| Make-talk | n | Something said for the sake of talking. 2. idle chatter. |
| Makeunder | n | A makeover in which the quality, flashiness or value of something is downgraded. |
| Make-up | n | The manner, character or temperament of a person. 2. the application by an actor of powder, lipstick, etc to one's, face, for a theatrical role. 3. cosmetics: lipstick, powder, blush for women. 4. a made-up story, invention or fiction. 5. compensation. 6. the balancing of a accounts at the end of period. 7. an arrangement or lay-out of a printed page, magazine etc. |
| Make-way | n | An event or situation that leads to another. 2. a segue. |
| Make-weight | n | Something put on the scales to make up the required weight. 2. that which is thrown into a scale to increase weight. 3. any person or thing made use of to fill up a deficiency. |
| Make-work | n | Work or activity of little or no value devised mainly to keep someone busy |
| Making | n | The process of producing something. 2. the essential qualities needed for something. 3. composition, structure, make. |
| Making | adj | Productive, creative, prosperous. 2. causing, fabricating or constructing; workmanship; 3. that which contributes to improvement or success. a quantity of anything made at one time; a batch. 4. the ingredients or materials used in the making something. |
| Making | sfx | Combining form act of causing or producing . 2. creating or causing to be. |
| Making | phr | "Be the Making(s)Of" - to be the means or cause of progress or success. 2. bring out somebody's true character or potential. |
| Making | phr | "Have the Makings of" - have the potential to be. |
| Making | phr | "In the Making" - in the process of being made or becoming. |
| Making-as-if | n | Pretense, lying, falsification, fantasy. |
| Making-good | n | Thorough or careful use of resources. 2. |
| Making-merry | n | Joy, mirth, fun. |
| Making-ready | n | Preparation. |
| Making-up | n | Reconciliation. 2. dressing up. 3. disguise for impersonation. 4. completion; the balancing of accounts at the end of a certain period. 5. composition. 6. compounding. |
| Mallow | n | A common wild plant, Malva. |
| Mallow-wort | n | A plant of the N.O. Malvaceae. |
| Mallum | n | A shire moot, meeting, discussion. 2. the hundred-court among the Franks, (by modern historians sometime used as the name of a common Germanic institution, and also attributed to the Anglo-Saxons.) |
| Malm | n | A soft friable rock, consisting of a soft chalky material; used especially in making bricks. 2. the light loamy soil formed by the disintegration of this rock. |
| Malm | vb | To be soft; friable. |
| Malmstone | n | Chert, a rock similar to flint, used in building and paving. |
| Malmy | adj | Resembling a stratum or vein of malmstone. 2. marble, a block or slab, etc. |
| Malshave | n | A caterpillar. |
| Malt | n | Malted grain (usu. barley) used in brewing and other purposes. 2. malt liquor, esp. malt whiskey. 3. short for 'malted milkshake' a milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor. |
| Malt | vb | To convert or make a cereal grain into malt. |
| Malt | phr | "Soft Fire makes Sweet Malt" - an admonition to be gentle or merciful. |
| Malt-dust | n | Malt refuse. |
| Malted | adj | Made into malt. |
| Malted milk | n | A milkshake containing malt and a flavor. |
| Malten | vb | To undergo malting, to malt. |
| Malter | n | A maltman, a malster. |
| Malt-floor | n | A floor for drying malt. |
| Malthouse | n | A building in which malt is prepared and stored. |
| Malting | n | The action of process of making malt or converting into malt. |
| Maltless | adj | Without malt; deficient in malt. |
| Malt-loaf | n | A British snack made from malt with a sweet taste and a chewy texture like a haevy soft bread. |
| Malt-mad | adj | Heavily intoxicated. |
| Maltman | n | One employed in a malthouse. |
| Maltness | n | The state or quality of being malty. |
| Maltscot | n | Tax paid on the privilege of making malt. |
| Maltshop | n | A malthouse. |
| Malster | n | A maker of or dealer in malt. |
| Maltworm | n | A tippler, a boozer, a sot. |
| Malty | adj | Addicted to, affected by, or containing malt (in the form of malt liquor). 2. drunk (sl.). |
| Man | n | An adult male human. 2. (collective) all human males collectively: mankind. 2. a human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. 3. (collective) all humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (sometimes capitalized as Man.) 4. (in anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) a member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens. 6.(obsolete) - a sentient being, whether human or supernatural. 7. an adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mens. 8. (uncountable, obsolete, uncommon) manliness; the quality or state of being manly. 9. a husband; lover; a boyfriend. 10. male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. 11. a person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (used as the last element of a compound.) person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter. 12. male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc. 13. an adult male servant. (historical) 13. vassal; subject. 15. a term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste. 16. boy; human, male; the man, woman. |
| Man | vb | To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex). 2. to take up position in order to operate (something). 3. to brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. 2. to wait on, attend to or escort. 3. ( obsolete) To accustom (a hawk or other bird) to the presence of men. |
| Man | intj | An interjection used to place emphasis on something else: "Man, that was great'. |
| Man | sfx | One who manufactures; one who is an expert in an area, as a businessman. |
| Man | phr | "A Dirty Old Man" - an adult man - middle aged or elderly- who acts in a lewd or lechorous way. |
| Man | phr | "A Man Among Men" - a man of high excellence; outstanding. |
| Man | phr | "A Man's Life" - life and work that is suitable for (only) strong and active men. |
| Man's man | n | "A Man's Man" - a man fond of masculine pursuits and masculine company, and less attracted to domesticity or the society of women. |
| Man | phr | "A Marked Man" - someone who is very well for a misdeed. |
| Man | phr | "As a Man" - in respect to a man's personal character, e.g. as distinguished from his achievements, abilities, skills, work and wealth, etc. |
| Man | phr | "Be a Man" - act with strength, be brave, courageous, be independent. (in the following phrases used in the sense: 'individual male person'. |
| Man | phr | "As One Man" - in unison, in agreement. |
| Man | phr | "Be Man Enough" - be sufficiently man or strong in the situation. |
| Man | phr | "Be One's Own Man" - to be in control or command of oneself. 2. to be in full control of one's senses, faculties or powers. 3. be free to act, be independent. 4. to approach every issue in a totally objective manner. |
| Man | phr | "Between Man and Man" - matters or issues between persons. 2. interpersonal relationship in a broad senses. |
| Man | phr | "Brotherhood of Man" - whole of human society. |
| Man | phr | "Dead Man's School" - job opportunity provided by somebody's death or retirement. |
| Man | phr | "Every Man/Woman and His/her Dog" - everybody. |
| Man | phr | "Every (each) Man for Himself" - of a situation in which each person is occupied with his own safety or advancement. |
| Man | phr | "Every Man, Woman and Child" - every living person. |
| Man | phr | "He is Your Man" - he conforms to you ideals. |
| Man | phr | "Hit a Man When He's Down" - add to the misfortune of somebody who is already unfortunate. |
| Man | phr | "I'm Your Man" - a person who is needed or wanted. |
| Man | phr | "Like a Man" - resembling a brave, resourceful person. |
| Man | phr | "Make a Man of" - cause a youth to become resourceful. |
| Man | phr | "Man About Town." - one constantly seen at public or private functions. |
| Man | phr | "Man After One's Own Heart" - somebody etc of exactly the kind one likes best, because he etc matches an ideal. |
| Man | phr | "Man alive! - an expression of surprise; astonishment. |
| Man | phr | "Man and Man" - a matter between two men |
| Man | phr | "Man and Wife" - a newly married couple. |
| Man | phr | "Man at Arms" - a soldier, a feudal knight. |
| Man | phr | "Man at the Top" - the head of an administration, or of a financial, industrial, or trading concerns of some size and complexity. 2. the top man or top dog. |
| Man | phr | "Man Bites Dog" - a definition of what makes 'news' or is newsworthy. |
| Man | phr | "Man by Man" - each man separately, to each man separately. 2. per man; individually. |
| Man | phr | "Man for Man" - an assessment who is the better man (purely subjective and in various senses). |
| Man | phr | "Man in Black" - a clergyman. |
| Man | phr | "Man in the Middle" - an adversary that intercepts and often modifies communications. 2. one who is caught in the centre of opposing sides in an argument or controversy and is being pressured to support one side or the other. |
| Man | phr | "Man/Woman in the Moon" - a fancied resemblance of a man (or a man's face). |
| Man | phr | "Man In the Street" - ordinary, average people, especially when talking about their opinions and ideas. |
| Man | phr | "Man is a Wolf to Man" - humankind prey on one another. |
| Man | phr | "Man it Out" - to bear up manfully. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Afterwit" - one whose after thoughts and retorts come to little or too late, as the mischief has been done. 2. esprit de l'escalier. |
| Man | phr | "Man Of All Work" - factotum, jack of all trades. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Blood" - a murderer, genocidal maniac. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Breeding" - somebody of high birth, an aristocrat. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Deeds" - someone who acts first and thinks later. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Feeling" - well-meaning, very noble person sensitive to the suffering of others. 2. a generous hearted person. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Few Words" - a man who doesn't speak much. 2. a man who speaks only for a short time. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Forewit - a person of insight and foresight. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Glee - one who is happy, blissful, merry. |
| Man | phr | "Man of God" - a person devoted to the service of god; a saint, a holy man, a prophet, an ecclesiastic; a clergyman. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Healing" - Jesus. 2. a shaman, witch-doctor, faith-healer, medicine man. |
| Man | phr | "Man/Woman of His/Her Day" - someone who is famous among his/her contemporaries. |
| Man | phr | "Man/Woman of his Word" - someone who keeps promises and does as he/she says he/she will. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Iron/Steel" - somebody with great strength of character. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Means" - man of important and usually wealth. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Mold - mortal man: man who become dust or mold again after death. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Nothing to Do" - an idler, lay about. |
| Man | phr | "Man Of One's Own Heart" - somebody exactly the kind one likes best , because he/she matches an ideal. |
| Man | phr | "Man of One's Word" - one who sticks to her or her promises. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Sin" - the Antichrist. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Sorrows" - a name supposed to allude to the Messiah. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Straw" - someone who is cowardly; weak-willed. 2. a man of small means. |
| Man | phr | "Man of the Cloth" - a clergyman. |
| Man | phr | "Man/Woman of the House" - the householder, esp. of a family home. |
| Man | phr | "Man of the Old School" - somebody with traditional views. |
| Man | phr | "Man/Woman of the World" - secular person. 2. a worldly-wise person. 3. a person well accustomed to the ways and dealings of men. 4. a sophisticated person. |
| Man | phr | "Man of the Year" - somebody who has achieved fame or notoriety in a particular year. |
| Man | phr | "Man of War" - a naval vessel armed for hostilities. 2. orig. a soldier. |
| Man | phr | "Man of Wisdom" - in biblical sense a man in favor with God. 2. in a general sense: one who has the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, common sense, and insight. |
| Man | phr | "Man One Most Loves to Hate" - someone or somebody that one takes a positive pleasure in disliking, despising or criticizing. |
| Man | phr | "Man Oneself" - to prepare or brace oneself, as for an ordeal. |
| Man | phr | "Man or a Mouse" - brave, determined, as a man should be, or timid and evasive like a mouse. |
| Man | phr | "Man's man" - a man who qualities are appreciated by other men. |
| Man | phr | "Man's Meat" - women seduced ('food' for men). |
| Man | phr | "Man to Man" - frank or candid discussion between men. 2. (honestly) on equal terms. |
| Man | phr | "Man with an Axe" - the king of diamond in a deck of playing cards. |
| Man | phr | "My Good Man" - a patronizing or impolite mode of address to a man. |
| Man | phr | "My Man" - a person who can fulfill ones requirements, or with whom one has to do; specifically one's representative or envoy. |
| Man | phr | "No Man's Land" - neutral ground between opposing forces or armies. |
| Man | phr | "One's Own Man" - be totally independent. |
| Man | phr | "One Own Man again" - to fully recover good health after a severe illness. |
| Man | phr | "One's Right-hand Man" - trusted deputy or loyal aide or assistant. |
| Man | phr | "The Brotherhood of Man" - whole of human society. |
| Man | phr | "The Inner Man" - man's mind, soul, or nature. 2. jocular, in fun: the stomach or appetite of a man. |
| Man | phr | "The Man" - slang phrase that may refer to government or some other authority. 2. any man or group in charge or in authority, a commanding officer, guard in a prison, a policeman, a boss. 3. the white ruling class (US Ebonics). 4. a dealer in drugs. 5. God. 6. self-praise to express one authority, 'I'm the Boss'. |
| Man | phr | "The Man for Me" - one to whom I give my support, trust, love; often as an emphatic expression of approval. |
| Man | phr | "The Outer Man" - the visible, external aspect of a person. |
| Man | phr | "To a Man" -without exception, together, unanimously. |
| Man | phr | 'Two Men and a Dog" - very few people. |
| Man | phr | "May the Best Man Win" - I hope that the best person succeeds. |
| Man | phr | "My Good Man" - impolite form of address made by somebody who regards himself/ herself as superior. |
| Man | phr | "The Threefold Man" - according to the Jews, man consists of body, soul, and spirit. |
| Man | phr | "The White Man's Burden" - colonial responsibilty. |
| Man | phr | "You Can't Keep a Good Man Down" - a determined person will succeed. |
| Man-about-town | n | A man who frequents night-clubs, theatres, restaurants, bars etc. 2. a sophisticate. |
| Manath | n | Man oath. 2. false oath, perjury, --- modern form would be moan oath. |
| Man-bane | n | An opprobrious name for tobacco and smoking, and its deleterious affect, often fatal, upon smokers. |
| Man-born | adj | Born of man; human. |
| Manbote | n | A sum paid under Old English law to the lord as a compensation for killing his vassal (man); also, similar compensation paid to the kin of a man murdered.. |
| Man-box | n | Slang term for a coffin. |
| Man-child | n | A male child. |
| Man day | n | The amount of work that one person can do in one day, often considered to be the equivalent of eight man hours. |
| Man-dealer | n | A slaver, slave-trader. |
| Man deed | n | A wicked act or deed. |
| Man-devil | n | Incubus. |
| Mandom | n | The realm of the world of a man. |
| Mandragora | n | The mandrake, especially a type of narcotic. |
| Man-dream | n | Human joy, mirth; glee. |
| Mane | n | The long hair along the top and sides of the neck of certain mammals, such as a horse, or a male lion. 2. a long thick growth of hair on a person's hair. |
| Maneater | n | Cannibal, head-hunter. 2. a shark which attacks swimmers. 3. a tiger or any animals which attacks and kills humans. 4. a woman who treats men emotionally badly; a predatory woman. |
| Man-eating | n | The act of man-eating in the various senses expressed in the noun 'maneater'. |
| Maned | adj | Having a mane; having a long mane. |
| Maned wolf | n | The largest canid of South America. |
| Maneless | adj | Devoid of a mane; not having a mane. 2. slang: bald. |
| Maneless | adj | The state or condition of not having a mane. 2. lacking or without a mane. |
| Man-fearing | adj | Of animals that are fearful of man. 2. a woman meek and bashful in the presence of a man or men. |
| Manfolk | n | Menfolk. |
| Man friend | n | A male friend. 2. a male romantic partner. |
| Manful | adj | Characterized by manly courage, resolution, bravery. 2. stately appearance; appearance befitting a man. |
| Manfully | adv | In a manful manner; in a manly way, resolutely, valiantly. |
| Manfullness | n | In a manful state or condition: courage, bravery, boldness. |
| Mang | vb | To mix, mung, mong, mingle. |
| Manhandle | vb | To move something heavy by the force of a man or men; without the aid of a lever, pulleys, machinery or a tackle. 2. to control machinery,by means of one's own physical strength. 3.to physically jostle or strike a person; maltreat, mistreat, rough up. |
| Man-hardy | adj | Brave, courageous, manly. |
| Man-hater | n | A hater of mankind; misanthrope; also occasionally. a hater of the male sex. |
| Man-hating | n | Misandry; a hater of the male sex. |
| Manhead | n | State of being human. 2. condition of belonging to humanity. 3. human shape or form. 4. human nature. 5. quality of being human. 6. virility, manhood, courage, valor. 7. manly dignity; dignity of manhood. 8. homage. 9. humanity. humanness, kindness. |
| Man-high | adj | A before Space Age U.S military project that took men in balloons to the middle layers of the stratisphere. |
| Man hole | n | An opening through which a man may enter a sewer, drain, pit, tunnel etc. |
| Manhood | n | State or condition of being human; human nature. 2. dignity of man. 3. state of being a man, as opposed to a child; as opposed to woman-hood. 4. qualities eminently becoming a man; manliness, courage, valor. 5. humanity, humanness. 6. homage. 7. men collectively. |
| Manhunt | n | A hunt to recapture a person who has committed a crime or has escaped from prison. |
| Man-hunter | n | Cannibal, man-eater, slave-dealer, brigand. 2. a woman, especially a widow or spinster. 2. an employment agency; a recruitment agency, |
| Man-hunting | n | Organized searching for a criminal or an enemy. |
| Manifold | adj | Various in kind, in quality,diverse. 2. many in number, numerous, multiple, multiple. 3. complicated. 4. exhibited at diverse times or in various ways. |
| Manifold | vb | To make manifold, multiply. 2. to multiply or reproduce impressions of by a single operations. |
| Manifoldly | adv | In a manifold manner or many-numbered ways. |
| Manifoldness | n | Quality of being manifold, varied in character; multiplicity. 2. a general concept of magnitude. 3. diversity. |
| Manifoldwise | adv | In various ways. |
| Mankeen | adj | Of animals (rarely persons): inclined to attack men. 2. fierce, savage, wild. 2. of women: very fond of men 3. infuriated, furious, fierce, mad. |
| Mankind | n | The human race, people, mankin. 2. human being generally. |
| Manless | adj | Having no men, either in the sense of human beings or adult persons; without, folkless. 2. of a woman: lacking the company of men, having no husband or suitor. 3. unmanly, effeminate, inhuman. |
| Manlessness | n | Cowardice. 2. of women: the state or condition of being without men; manless. |
| Manlihead | n | The condition of being human, virility, courage, bravery. |
| Manlihood | n | Virility, masculinity, machismo, vigor. 2. manliness. |
| Manlike | adj | Resembling a human being in appearance or characteristics, an anthropoid. 2. (of a woman) having an appearance of, or qualities associated with men. 3. manly, belonging or proper to a man. |
| Manlikely | adv | In the way of a man;or in a man like manner. |
| Manlikeness | n | The quality or state of being like a man. 2. manfulness, courage, virility, baldness, strength. |
| Manliness | n | Set of qualities, traits and abilities appropriate to man, similarity. 2. man-fullness, maleness, mannishness, manhood, manliness, masculinity, virility. |
| Manling | n | A little man |
| Manlock | n | A airlock through which pass workers into a chamber of compressed air, esp. in mines. |
| Manly | adj | Having the character of a man. 2. having qualities befitting a man, courageous, resolute. |
| Man-mad | adj | Of a woman: desirous of men. |
| Man-made | adj | Not of natural origin. 2. prepared, fashioned or made artificially by man. 3. of textiles fibers made by man: synthetic. |
| Man-mark | n | To mark an opposition closely. |
| Man-midwife | n | A male midwife. |
| Man-minded | adj | Having the mind of a man. |
| Manned | adj | Operated by, performed by, or transporting a person; crewed; piloted. 2. operated by, performed by, or transporting a man |
| Manning | n | The action of furnishing a ship with men. |
| Mannish | n | Resembling or characteristic of a man in some aspect. 2. of a woman masculine in appearance or manner. |
| Mannishly | adv | Of or relating to the manner of men. |
| Mannishness | n | The condition of being mannish, manliness, or masculine. |
| Man month | n | One person's working time fora month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task. |
| Man-of-God | n | A clergyman. 2. a saint. |
| Man-of-law | n | Lawyer, solicitor, solon, counselor. |
| Man of War | n | A warship, but referred to as 'she'. |
| Man-of-the-Cloth | n | A clergyman. |
| Man-of-the-world | adj | Secular person. |
| Man-on-man | adj | Referring to a defensive paly where each player man-marks his opposing number. |
| Man quell | n | Murder, killing, homicide.. |
| Man-queller | n | Murderer, killer, slayer. |
| Man-quelling | n | Homicide, murder. |
| Manrede | n | Homage; note phrases: " to do or make manrede; to take, nim, or fang manrede." 2. vassals collectively: the men the lord can call upon in time of war, hence a supply of me for the purpose of war. 3. the position of a leader of fighting men; the conduct of an army. 4. carnal intercourse. |
| Man-ridden | adj | Full of or oppressed by men |
| Man rope | n | Each of the side ropes to a gangway or ladder of a ship. |
| Man-selling | n | A slave-dealer; a slave-trader; a slaver. |
| Man-shaped | adj | Resembling or like the shape of a man. |
| Manship | n | Humanity, kindness, courtesy, civility. 2. position of honor or respect, dignity, worship, honor. 3. honor shown to a person: homage, respect, dignity. 3. manly spirit or conduct, gallantry, manliness, chivalry. 4. the characteristics of being a man' manliness, masculinity, manliness, manhood. 5. the human condition. |
| Manship | vb | To denote skill in a subject or activity now so deployed to disconcert a rival or opponent. 2. used as a suffix in words such as "one-upmanship." |
| Manship | sfx | A suffix denoting expertise, involvement, or special status in a particular field. |
| Man-shy | adj | Of animals: fear of humans. 2. of a woman: shy in the company of men. |
| Manslaught | n | Murder, homicide, manslaughter. |
| Manslaughter | n | The killing or slaying of a person. 2. the unlawful killing of a man; either in negligence, incidental to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger. |
| Manslay | vb | To kill, murder, commit homicide. |
| Manslayer | n | A killer, slayer, butcher. 2. one who kills or commits murder or manslaughter. 3. one who kills another person. 4. an executioner. |
| Man's man | n | A man who is popular among men. |
| Man's meat | n | "Food for men' (in an indecent sense): women who are seduced by men. |
| Man's motherwort | n | Palma christi. |
| Man's talk | n | A discussion between males as seen as inappropriate for female ears. Often it involves smutty jokes on discussions about sport. |
| Man-stealing | n | The act or business of kidnapping human beings , esp. with a view to enslave them. |
| Man-stopping | adj | Having force sufficient to stop a man's advance: said of a bullet. |
| Manswear | vb | To swear falsely, perjure oneself. 2. to renounce on oath, forswear. |
| Manswearing | n | Perjury, false swearing on oath. |
| Mantle | n | (Fusion of OE. mentel and OF mantel, both from latin: cloak, towel, cloth) - foam that covers the surface of liquid. 2. the green vegetable coating on standing or stagnant water. ? |
| Mantle | phr | The Mantle and the Maid" - a vow of chastity taken by a widow. |
| Man-to-man | adj | Bluntly, candidly, directly, honestly, outright, forthright, plainly, unashamedly. |
| Man-to-manness | n | The disposition of being candid, forthright or direct, etc. |
| Manward(s) | adv | In relation to a man, pertaining to a man. 2. in the direction of a man. |
| Man-whore | n | A male prostitute, gigolo, womanizer, libertine. |
| Man-wickedness | n | The inhumanity of man to his fellow man. |
| Man-wise | adj | The fashion or way of men. 2. in respect of a man. 3. concerning an individual men |
| Man-witch | n | A male witch or warlock. |
| Man-woman | n | A hermaphrodite, a mannish woman, one having the characteristics of both sexes, man-womanly. |
| Man-womanly | adj | Having the characteristics of both sexes, or both man and woman. |
| Manworth | n | The worth of man: nobleness, idealistically the way one treats and cares about others. 2. the monetary value of man himself. 3. man in an economic sense: his value as a wage-earner, consumer, spender. |
| Manworthy | adj | The worthiness, goodness, nobleness of a man or men(collectively). 2. the humanity of man. |
| Many | adj | OE. had a derivative "menige" that did not survive into ME. and though the modern use of many, though agreeing with the OE. form, was a new development which has not been found earlier than the C16th. |
| Many | n | A collective mass of people. 2. an indefinite large number of people or things. 2. a multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd; considerable number. |
| Many | prn | A collective mass of people. 2. a multitude, great aggregate, a mass of persons. 3. the generality, the common herd. 4. a considerable number. |
| Many | phr | "A Few or One Too Many" - to much alcohol to drink. |
| Many | phr | "A Good Many" - a large number. |
| Many | phr | "A Great Many" - a large number. |
| Many | phr | "As Many" - the same number of (six mistakes in as many lines) |
| Many | phr | "As Many Again" - the same number additionally (sixty here and as many again). |
| Many | phr | "Have One Too Many" - too many alcoholic drinks consumed. |
| Many | phr | "Many a Long Day" - a very long period of time. |
| Many | phr | "Many and Many" - (reduplication of many) a great amount; a lot or number of. |
| Many | phr | "Many a Time" - many times, frequently. 2. many's the time. |
| Many | phr | "Many a Time and Oft" - frequently. |
| Many | phr | "Many and Many" - (reduplication of many) a great amount; a lot or number of. |
| Many | phr | "Many are Called Few are Chosen" - although many persons may wish to qualify for entry into an elite or private group, only few will have the ability or good fortune to succeed. |
| Many | phr | "Many Hands Make Light Work" - many helpers get a task completed more easily and quickly than one person working alone. |
| Many | phr | "Many Men Many Minds" - there are as many opinions as there are men. |
| Many | phr | "Many Moons Ago" - a long time ago, esp. referring to an earlier period of one's life. |
| Many | phr | "Many Thanks to You" - an expression of gratitude, expressing greater gratitude than 'thank you' or 'thanks'. |
| Many | phr | "Many's the Time" - frequently, often. |
| Many | phr | "One Too Many for" - outwit, baffle. |
| Many | phr | "The Many" - the multitude, the great body of people. 2. an indefinite large number of. |
| Man-year | n | One person's working time for a year, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task. |
| Manyfold | adj | Etymological identical with manifold, though rarely used in the same sense (= in the proportion of many to one.) |
| Many-folds | n | The intestines (the tharms), from having many folds. |
| Manyfull | adj | Abundant, plentiful, many in number. |
| Many-headed | adj | Often applied derisively to people or the populace. |
| Many-hede | n | A multitude; manyhood. |
| Manyness | n | Plurality, many in number. |
| Many-sided | adj | Multilateral, having many aspects, bearings, capabilities, possibilities. |
| Many-sideness | n | Multilateral, having many sides, many possibilities. |
| Many-where | adv | In many places. |
| Maple | n | Any of the trees of the genus "Acer." 2. the common maple: "Acer campestre." |
| Maple leaf | n | The emblem of Canada |
| Maple-like | adj | Resembling a maple tree in some aspect of s one. |
| Mar | n | Blemish, disfiguring mark, injury. |
| Mar | vb | OE. to waste, squander (property) 2. to hamper, hinder, interfere with interruption or stoppage (person, event or thing.) 3. to spoil, impair with objective. 4. a material thing: to damage or render useless, to destroy or impair the quality of. 4. with immaterial object: to impair, fatally ruin. 5. to detract from the perfection or completeness of. 6. to become deteriorated, to spoil, to perish. 7. to harm, injure a person, to inflict destructive bodily harm upon; to mangle, disfigure. 8. to ruin, damage seriously (a person, his fortune.) 9. to ruin or damage morally, to spoil a child by indulgence. 10.to confuse, bewilder, perplex; to become bewildered or confused, . 11. to trouble, grieve, distress. 12. to err, go astray, falter. |
| Mar | phr | "Make or Mar" - to make a success or complete failure, of an undertaking. |
| Mar | phr | "To Mar All" - completely prevent successful business taking place. 2. to spoil all. |
| March | n | Smallage or wild celery. |
| March-day | n | A court held to try cases of infraction of border law. |
| Marches | n | The OE mearc, a mark , border, as in Kent or Sussex marches. |
| Marches | phr | "Riding the Marches" - beating the bounds of a parish. |
| March-gate | n | A way across a frontier. 2. a border crossing. |
| March-land | n | (Mearc-land) land comprising the marches or borders areas of a country. 2. the border territory, frontier land, the mark. |
| March-man | n | An inhabitant of the marches or borders. |
| Marchstone | n | A markstone: a stone set up to mark a boundary of an estate or area. |
| Mare | n | The mother or dam of a horse. 2, a bricklayer's hod. |
| Mare | n | A kind of goblin supposed to produce a nightmare by sitting on the chest of the sleeper. 2. the nightmare or elf-addle itself; the blues, melancholia. 3. a specter, hag. |
| Mare | phr | "Away with the Mares" - off with the blue devils, goodbye to care. This mare is Incubus, called the nightmare. |
| Mare | phr | "Shank's Mare' - one's own legs as a means of moving, walking etc. |
| Mare | phr | "The Grey Mare Is The Better Horse" - the wife rules the husband. |
| Mare | phr | "The Mares" - the blues, depression, melancholia. |
| Mare | phr | Win the Mare or Lose the Halter" - all or nothing. |
| Mare | phr | "Whose Mare is Dead" - what's the matter. |
| Mare's-nest | n | (Horse's nest?) To imagine that one has found something wonderful, which in fact has no existence at all. Nb- "I have found a mare's nest." 2. an illusory discovery, esp. one that is much vaunted and displays foolish credulity. |
| Mare's tail | n | A kind of cirrus cloud. 2. a waterfall. 3. a a marsh plant of the genus Hippuris. |
| Mar-good | n | The state or condition where good or good intentions are prevent or spoiled by hypocrisy, dishonesty, betrayal, etc. 2. mar-right. |
| Mark | n | A boundary, frontier, limit. 2. of immaterial things: a limit or precise boundary, line or point. 3. an object indicting a boundary, position etc., a visible mark or something marked. 4. a pillar, post, stone, fence to indicate a position of a boundary. 5. a stone or other monument set up or standing as a memorial or guide. 6. a standard or banner. 7. target for shooting or throwing at. 8 quarry of a hawk. 9. pit of the stomach (slang) 10. a boxer's object at which a blow is aimed. 11. a soft or easy mark. 12. a denomination or monetary unit of gold or silver. |
| Mark | vb | To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark. 2. to indicate in some way for later reference. 3. to take note of. 4. to blemish, scratch, or stain. 5. to indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc. 6. to keep account of; to enumerate and register. 7. (in Australian Rules football) to catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick. 8. (sports) to follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily. 9. (golf) to put a marker in the place of one's ball. 10. (singing) to sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal. |
| Mark | phr | "A Marked Man" - one whose conduct is watched with hostile intent. 2. one who is kept in mind as an object for suspicion or vengeance. |
| Mark | phr | "A Soft Mark" - a credulous person; a dope, dupe. |
| Mark | phr | "Be First Off the Mark" - to start ahead of all others. |
| Mark | phr | "Besides/Off the Mark" - off the point of discussion; pointless. |
| Mark | phr | "Bless the Mark" - ejaculation of deprecation, irony scorn, derision, or irony or humorous surprize. |
| Mark | phr | "First Off the Mark" - to be first to start or do something. 2. to behave proactively. |
| Mark | phr | "Get Full Marks" - receive great praise. |
| Mark | phr | "Get Off the Mark" - begin doing something quickly. |
| Mark | phr | "Hit the Mark" - to be accurate, understand the most important issues involved. |
| Mark | "phr | "Leave One's Mark on" - leave a lasting impression; especially to achieve apparent success. |
| Mark | phr | "Make One's Mark" - distinguish oneself, leave an impression. |
| Mark | phr | "Man of Mark" - an eminent person. |
| Mark | phr | "Mark and Sweep " - (computing) a form of garbage collection in which every accessible object in memory is flagged, leaving unflagged only those that are no longer reachable and can thus be discarded. |
| Mark | phr | "Mark Down" - to reduce the price of. 2. to write a memorandum about. 3. to subtract marks (points) for an error. 4. to write down. |
| Mark | phr | "Mark Down" - choose, especially as deserving of censure or punishment. |
| Mark | phr | "Mark for Life" - wound or injure somebody so severely that he/she is permanently scarred. |
| Mark | phr | "Mark In" - add details to a document, sign, etc. |
| Mark | phr | "Mark My Words" - listen to me, used in a statement one wishes to emphasize. |
| Mark | phr | "Mark Off" - to separate by or as with a boundary, line, delineate. 2. to indicate as dealt with, as on a list; check off. |
| Mark | phr | "Mark of Gold or silver" - a hallmark. |
| Mark | phr | "Mark Out" - draw the internal dividing lines with a space, as windows on a drawing of a wall,etc. |
| Mark | phr | "Mark Out (for)" - decide in advance that somebody will succeed. |
| Mark | phr | "Mark Time" - to march in place, while still in step with the beat. 2. fig. to stop making progress or advancement, if only temporarily. |
| Mark | phr | "Mark Up" - to increase the price of something before it's wholesale and retail phase. 2. increase the marks awarded to a student etc. 3, prepare a manuscript for a printer by making acorrections, inserting new material.to add coding to text so that it will display properly on a computer. |
| Mark | phr | "Mark You"/"Mind You"" - all the same, even so. 2. let me remind you (and myself). 3. nevertheless; all / just the same. 4. at the same time. |
| Mark | phr | "Miss the Mark" - be inaccurate, fail to understand the most important issues in a matter. |
| Mark | phr | "Near the Mark" - risque, somewhat or bordering on obscene. |
| Mark | phr | "Off the Mark" - having made a start. 2. inaccurate, wrong. |
| Mark | phr | "Of Great Mark" - of great importance, very important. |
| Mark | phr | "Of Little Mark" - of little importance. |
| Mark | phr | "Of Some Mark" - of a person or thing: noteworthy, important, conspicuous. |
| Mark | phr | "On Your Mark" - get ready to start (a race, exam,, etc). |
| Mark | phr | "Overstep the Mark" - to go too far; overshoot the mark. 2. go beyond the bounds of good taste or behavior. 3. exceed what is required. |
| Mark | phr | "Quick off the Mark" - fast to act or react. |
| Mark | phr | "Short of the Mark" - fall short of the mark. 2. not to perform to expectation. |
| Mark | phr | "Slow off the Mark" - slow to act or react. |
| Mark | phr | "Soft Mark" - a person who is easily persuaded or deceived. 2. an easy mark, dupe, gormless person. |
| Mark | phr | "The Marks of Gods" - (God's marks) : an apparition betokening an impending death. |
| Mark | phr | "Toe the Mark" - line up abreast of others. 2. to fall in , do one's duty. 3. fulfill one's commitments. |
| Mark | phr | "Under the Mark" - under par. 2. not up to the mark. 2. fig. below the reuired or minimal standard. |
| Mark | phr | "Up to the Mark" - meeting the required or right standard. |
| Mark | phr | "Wide of the Mark" - far from the target; inaccurate; wrong. 2. fig. inadequate, far from what is required or expected; wrong. |
| Mark | phr | "Within the Mark" - meeting or near to the required standard. 2. a fixed or agreed standard. 3. prefixed; fig. representing a limit or total. 3. an approximate. |
| Mark-down | n | A reduction in price of an article; a selling price which has been reduced. ( the opposite of mark-up) |
| Marked | adj | Noticeable, noted, clear, decided, evident, apparent, distinct, pronounced. 2. having a visible mark. |
| Markedly | adv | In a marked manner, distinctly, noticeably, conspicuously. |
| Marked-man | n | One whose conduct is watched with hostile intent. 2. one who is kept in mind as an object for suspicion or vengeance. |
| Markedness | n | The condition or quality or state of being marked. |
| Marker | n | In linguistics a construction or form etc., distinguished or determined by a particular feature. 2. a markling: a word, affix, etc., which distinguishes or determines the class or function of the form, construction etc., with which it is used. |
| Marker bed | n | In geology, a rock unit with a distinctive stratigraphic features which can be traced over a wide area. |
| Markerless | adj | Without a marker. |
| Market board | n | A white board. |
| Market | n | (Old English borrowing) - a place where merchandise is exposed for sale, specifically, an open area or space, or a large building in a town or city, generally with stalls or designated positions occupied by different dealers, especially such a place for the sale of provisions ; also a market place or stead. 2. |
| Market | vb | To make something a commercial product. 2. to take part in a commercial promotion, sale or distribution. 3. to deal at market. 4. to buy various goods, products at at market. |
| Market | phr | "Be in the Market (for)" - have an interest in buying. |
| Market | phr | "Bring to Market" - offer for sale. |
| Market | phr | "Come Into/Onto the Market" - to be put up for sale, as a house. |
| Market | phr | "Find a Market" - to be in demand. |
| Market | phr | "Go to Market" - make an attempt at something. |
| Market | phr | "In the Market for" - wish to buy. |
| Market | phr | "Make a Market" - the degree to which an asset or security can be quickly bought. |
| Market | phr | "Make Market" - to trade, buy, sell. 2. having dealings with. |
| Market | phr | "Make One's Market" - to do dealing or bargaining. |
| Market | phr | "On the Market." -- be readied and offered for sale; up for sale. |
| Market | phr | "Put Into/Onto Market" - make a matter of bargain and sale. |
| Market | phr | "Run Before One's Horse to Market": to count one's gain before the bargain is made or to count one's chickens before they are hatched." |
| Market | phr | "The Market" - an economy of a State or country. 2. the global economy. 3. the customers, clients, consumers, spenders, collectively. 4. the stock market. |
| Market bell | n | The bell rung to give notice that the buying and selling in a market has begun. |
| Market day | n | A day when a market is open for business. 2. a fixed day on which weekly markets are held. |
| Market-friendship | n | Friendship in business. |
| Market-house | n | A building in which the market is held. |
| Marketing | n | The action or process of advertising, promoting goods and services for sales. 2. the act of buying and selling in the market. |
| Marketless | adj | A place without a market |
| Market-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a market. |
| Market-maker | n | A person or company taht undertakes a to quote at all times both a buying and selling price for a financial institution. |
| Market-monger | n | One who trades his wares at a market. 2. one who engrosses the market. |
| Market-ripe | adj | Not quite ripe; said of slightly unripe fruit picked to reach the market in salable condition. |
| Market share | n | A percentage of some market held by a company. |
| Marketstead | n | A market place |
| Market-talk | n | Gossip, rumour, allegory. |
| Market | adj | "Market-to-Market" - (finance, accounting) Assigning a value to an asset equal to the current market price of the asset or one calculated based on related standardised assets for which there is a market. |
| Market town | n | A town that has traditional right to hold a regular market. |
| Marketwide | adj | Through a market. |
| Marketwide | adv | Through a market. |
| Marking | n | The action of the verb 'the act of making a mark.' 2. the characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal. 3. a mark or an arrangement of marks; characteristic coloring. |
| Marking knife | n | A joiner's setting-out knife. It is usually about 8ins long with a point at one end and a knife at the other. |
| Markings | n | The pattern of coloration of a particular animal. |
| Markless | adj | Without a mark or mark; impeccable. |
| Markmoot | n | A (supposed) assembly of the inhabitants of the Moot (name in medieval Germany applied to a tract of land held in common by a village community, and sometimes applied to Anglo-Saxon society and times. |
| Marksman | n | One skilled in hitting the mark, as with a rifle or other weapon. 2. sharpshooter, rifle expert. |
| Marksmanship | n | The quality, art or function of shooter. |
| Markstone | n | A boundary stone, a marker, monument. |
| Mark-up | n | The amount added by a retailer to the cost of the price of goods to cover overhead charges and provide profit. 2. the raising of price. 3. |
| Mark-white | n | The bulls-eye of a target. |
| Markworthy | adj | Worthy of note, worthy-marked. |
| Marmstone | n | Marble, a block or slab of marble. |
| Marred | adj | Spoiled, changed, damaged, injured, impaired. |
| Marredness | n | The state of being marred or spoiled. |
| Mar-right | adj | Having no good, evil, ill-intended. |
| Marrow | n | Soft vascular tissue in the central cavities of bone; bone-marrow. 2. the interior substance of anything; essence, pith. 3. as bone containing edible in |
| Marrow | phr | "Chilled to the Marrow" - very cold. |
| Marrow | phr | "Marrow Bone and Cleavers" -an unusual name for a hotel run by an ex-butcher. |
| Marrow | phr | "Melt the Marrow" - (in the proverbial and hyperbole) - love was said to 'melt the marrow'. |
| Marrow | phr | "The Marrows" - the knees (jocular). 2. the fists as weapons. 3. pugilists (collectively) |
| Marrow | phr | "To the Marrow" - right through. |
| Marrow-bone | n | A bone containing edible marrow. 2. jocularly -- the knees (or, 'the marrows'). 3. the piratical crossbones. |
| Marrow-boneish | adj | REsembling or characteristic of marrow-bone. |
| Marrow-boneless | adj | Destitute of marrow-bone. |
| Marrow-boney | adj | Pertaining or resembling the marrow-bone. |
| Marrowed | adj | (Lit, & fig.) full of marrow. |
| Marrow-fat | n | A large, rich pea. |
| Marrowiness | n | A pithy state or condition. 2. the truth, known through the fulfillment of a promise kept. |
| Marrowish | adj | Of the nature or resembling marrow. |
| Marrowy | adj | Full of marrow. 2. of the nature of marrow. |
| Marsh | n | A low-lying, soft, wetland with vegetation covering it. 2. a fen, miry swamp, morass. 2. in Australia, a drained meadow. |
| Marshal | n | OE. Mare & shalk: a servant, one who looks after horses. 2. an officer of the highest rank of the armed forces of some countries. 2. a federal or municipal law-enforcement officer. |
| Marshal | vb | To assemble and arrange (a group of people, esp. troops) in order. |
| Marshaler | n | One who assembles and arranges (a group of people, esp. troops) in order. |
| Marshalling | n | The act of assembles and arranges (a group of people, esp. troops) in order. |
| Marshalship | n | The position or role of a marshal. |
| Marsh hen | n | The moor hen. |
| Marshiness | n | The state or condition of being marshy. |
| Marshland | phr | Marshy land, a fen or a bog. |
| Marshlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a marsh. |
| Marshmallow | n | ????A plant of the mallow family, "Althaea officinalis" growing in marshy places. 2. a sweetmeat formerly made from the root of this plant; now a confection made of starch, corn syrup and gelatin, coated with powdered sugar. |
| Marshmallowy | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a marshmallow. 2. over-accommodating. 3. vacuous. |
| Marshside | adj | Besides or situation beside a marsh. |
| Marsh thistle | n | A biennial or perennial herb - Cirsium palustre. |
| Marshwort | n | The umbelliferous plant "Helosciadum nodiflorous." |
| Marshy | adj | Pertaining to or the nature of a marsh. 2. consisting of or containing marshes or marshland. |
| Martyr | n | One who suffers from the sake of his principles and beliefs. 2. one who willingly dies rather than renounces his religious beliefs. |
| Martyr | vb | To torture, persecute and torment another because of his religious beliefs. |
| Martyr | phr | "Be a Martyr" - suffer because of. |
| Martyr | phr | "Make a Martyr of" - to subject to hardship or inconvenience. |
| Martyr | phr | "Make a Martyr of Oneself" - to make a real or pretended sacrifice of own self or interest, for the sake of gaining credit for. |
| Martyr-death | n | Death through martyrdom. |
| Martyrdom | n | The state of being a martyr. 2. the death of a martyr. 3. the death, sacrifice, suffering of a martyr on account of his or her adherence to a belief, faith or any cause. 4. affliction, torment, torture. 5. the state of one who has willingly died rather than renounce his religious beliefs |
| Martyred | adj | To be martyred; die a martyr's death. |
| Martyrer | n | One condemns another to be martyred. 2. one who puts a martyr to death. |
| Martyr-fire | n | The fire of martyrdom (lit & fig.) |
| Martyring | n | The act of putting a martyr to death. |
| Martyrish | adj | Having the airs of a martyr. |
| Martyr-like | adj | Characteristic of or resembling a martyr |
| Martyrly | adv | To die in the manner of a martyr. |
| Martyrship | n | The status of a martyr. |
| Martyry | adj | Martyrdom; suffering the torment, torture and death of a martyr. |
| Mary | n | The mother of Jesus. |
| Marymass | n | The festival of the Virgin Mary. |
| Mash | n | In brewing, malt mixed with hot water to form wort. 2. a mixture of boiled grains. 3. something reduced to a softy pulpy consistence, by heating or mixing or steeping in water. 4. a confused muddle, hash. 5. a state of being reduced by a soft mash. 6. in wine-making the crushed grapes before fermentation. 7. (slang) a person on whom one is "mashed" or completely infatuated. |
| Mash | vb | To mix malt with hot water in brewing. 2. to brew ale, beer and some other alcoholic drinks. 3. to infuse tea. 4. to lixiviate. 5. to beat into a soft pulp or soft mass. 6. to pound or stomp one's way. 7. to admit of being crushed. 8. to reduce food to a homogenous mass. 9. to mix, mingle. |
| Masher | n | One who or that which mashes. 2. a man who who persistently annoys women unaquainted with him , as by attempting familiarity. |
| Mashwort | n | Wort, infused malt, mash fat. |
| Maslin | n | A kind of brass. |
| Mask | n | OE. a net |
| Masker | vb | OE. malscrian: proud. 2. to bewilder, confuse, to be bewildered. |
| Maskering | n | Bewilderment, confusion. |
| Masking | n | Bewildering, confusing. 2. netting, ensnaring, trammeling. |
| Mass | n | The eucharistic service. 2. the celebration of the Eucharistic. |
| Mass-bell | n | A bell that calls person to mass. |
| Mass-day | n | A feast day celebrating the mass. |
| Mass-goer | n | One who goes to or attends mass. |
| Mass-time | n | The time of commencement of the mass. |
| Mast | n | Any large upright pole. 2. a pole of round timber or tubular iron, set upright in a sailing vessel to sustain the yard. 3. a large, upright pole. |
| Mast | phr | "At Half Mast" - of trousers (loose, baggy and threatening to fall down). |
| Mast | phr | "Before the Mast." serving as a common sailor on a navy ship, from the fact that common sailors were quartered before the foremast. |
| Mast | n | The fruit of the oak, the beech and other trees, acorns. 2. fodder, feed. |
| Mast | vb | To feed animals on mast; to fatten. 2. to feed oneself gluttonously |
| Master | n | Late OE. (a borrowing from OF.) one having control or authority,' from Latin magister. 2. chief, head, director, teacher. |
| Master | vb | To control, direct, lead. |
| Master | phr | "Be the Master of" - to possess, have at one's disposal(now usually something immaterial thing). 2. to have 'the mastery' or thorough knowledge of. |
| Master | phr | "Master of One's Own House" - in fact, as well as in name, the head of one's own household, who decisions must be accepted. |
| Master | phr | "Master of Oneself" - have oneself under control. |
| Master | phr | "Master of the Horse" - an official attached to the royal household in Britain. |
| Master | phr | "One's Lord and Master" - one's husband. |
| Master | phr | "The Master" - Christ. |
| Master-at-Arms | n | A police officer on board a warship. |
| Master-bedroom | n | A room in a house, in which the head of the house sleeps, |
| Master-bough | n | The main or strongest bough of a tree. 2. (fig)a main, chief or strongest support or basic of something. |
| Master-builder | n | A builder with a high level of training and qualification, who has charge and responsibility for construction of buildings, esp. houses. |
| Mastercraft | n | A craft, trade or occupation building or creating the highest quality and best performing products. 2. politic dealing characteristic of a master. |
| Mastercraftsman | n | A master of a specific trade or craft who may train and employ apprentices. 2. a craftsman, building, making or creating the highest quality and best performing products. |
| Masterdom | n | Borrowed from Latin, the office of a master or teacher; the degree of master of divinity. 2. position of being master, dominion, rule, absolute command, supremacy. 3. victory in battle, power of control, masterful behavior. |
| Mastered | adj | Tp reach a high level of competency in some field or pursuit. |
| Masterer | n | One who masters or controls, directs something or someone. |
| Masterful | adj | Having supreme skill and ability. |
| Masterfully | adv | In a very skillful manner, imperiously. |
| Masterfulness | n | Quality of being masterful. |
| Masterhand | n | One skilled in his craft; an expert. 2. an expert. 3. great skill; expertness. |
| Masterhood | n | State of being masterful. |
| Masterhood | phr | Patronage. |
| Master-key | n | A key designed to open a set of several locks; a passkey. |
| Masterless | adj | Having no mastery of animals. 2. deprived of a controlling hand or influence. |
| Masterlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a master, masterly. |
| Masterliness | n | The quality of being masterly. |
| Masterling | n | One who has the power of a master, conqueror, chief. |
| Masterly | adv | with a masterly manner. |
| Masterman | n | A chief, leader, the head of the family; a husband. 2. a person skilled in some craft or art. |
| Mastermind | n | A person with an extraordinary intellect or skill, that is markedly superior to his or her peers. 2. a person responsible for the highest level of planning and execution of a major operation. 3. an organizer; an instigator. |
| Mastermind | vb | To act in the role of a mastermind: control and organize.. |
| Mastermindful | adj | Characteristic of a mastermind. |
| Masterness | n | The state or quality of being or acting as a master. |
| Mastership | n | The condition of being a masterful ruler; dominion, rule, ascendancy, control. 2. mastery; upper hand. 3. the authority of a master or teacher. 4. office, term, dignity of a master 5. a district of a master. 6. a school master. 7. skill and knowledge constituting a master. 9. mastery through knowledge. 10. a degree of a recognized universal. 11. a body of master workmen. |
| Mastership | phr | Patronage, protection. |
| Master-stroke | n | A very skillful and opportune act. 2. a mastery action or achievement. 3. an extremely skillful or effective action. 4. an outstanding and timely action. |
| Master-wave | n | A huge wave powerful enough to knock an adult off their feet. |
| Masterwork | n | A masterpiece. |
| Masterworkman | n | A skilled workman, craftsman, or artist; also, a foreman or overseer over workmen. |
| Masterwort | n | After German meisterwurz: "Peucedanum (Imperatoris ) Ostruthium. |
| Mastery | adj | What masters, subdues or controls. |
| Masthead | n | The top of a lower mast. 2. the head or top of a mast to which a flag is raised. 3. a sailor acting as the look-out at the masthead. 4. that section of a newspaper or other periodical, published in each edition, stating the ownership, officers and staff conducting it, the advertising, editorial and publishing offices. |
| Masthead | vb | To raise to or display at the masthead as a flag. 2. to send to the masthead for punishment. |
| Masty | adj | Producing mast. 2. of a swine: fattened. 3. burly, big-bodied |
| Mat | n | A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering. 2. small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster. 3. thickly tangled mess. 4. thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame. 5. thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material. 6. (gaming) a material or component needed for a crafting recipe. |
| Mat | vb | To tangle, entwine, knit together, weave a various kinds of fibre. |
| Match | n | One of an associated pair; well-matched or accordant pair. 2. a husband or wife, a mate, consort, lover. 3. one equal in age, rank, status; having a match or equal. 4. an opponent, rival, antagonist, as in "meet one's match;" "more than a match for;" or "above one's match" 5. a suitable conjunction or pairing. 6. a matrimonial compact or alliance. 7. to make or arrange a match. 8. to bring about a marriage by influence or contrivance. |
| Match | vb | To join one to another; to join in marriage. 2. to pair with view to fitness or suitability. 3. to be equal with. 4. meet in adversity, front. |
| Match | phr | "Above One's Match" - of a partner or prospective partner above one's social level. 2. above one level or standard of skill and ability in a contest or competition. |
| Match | phr | "Be a Match for Somebody" - be equal to in ability. |
| Match | phr | "By Match" - in consequence of a marriage. |
| Match | phr | "Find One's Match" - meet a person you consider suitable for marriage; find a compatible partner. 2. someone who, or something that is equal to or suitable for one in various senses. |
| Match | phr | "Match Against/With" - set somebody or something in competition against; pit against. |
| Match | phr | "Make a Match" - find one's partner. 2. bring about a marriage by influence or contrivance. |
| Match | phr | "Match Made in Hell" - a marriage that is likely to be unhappy or abusive and unsuccessful because the two persons are very incompatible with each other. 2. a very unsuccessful or conflicting combination of two persons or things. |
| Match | phr | "Match up" - fit together to form a pleasing ensemble, or a complete and intelligible whole. |
| Match | phr | "Meet One's Match" - deal with somebody who is able, capable as oneself. |
| Match | phr | "More than a Match for" - to be able to overcome or defeat; be better than. 2. a matching of adversity. |
| Match | phr | "Needle Match" - a contest in which both contestants are eager to win. |
| Match | phr | "Whole Shooting Match" - the whole lot. |
| Match board | n | Thin board grooved and tongued at edges to fit into other board similarly cut. |
| Match-broker | n | A matchmaker; match-monger, match monger, dating agent. |
| Match day | n | The day of a sporting match. 2. the day graduating medical-school students find out where they will serve their residency. |
| Matched | adj | A thing of a mutually suitable characteristic. 3. someone who, or something that is equal or suitable in various senses. 3. having a tongue on one edge and a groove on the other; said of boards. |
| Matcher | n | A matchmaker, match-monger. 2. one who pairs with view to fitness and suitably. |
| Matchless | adj | Unmarried, nubile, that is not a match or pair. 2. having no match, with an equal; peerless; without peer. |
| Matchlessly | adv | In a matchless manner or degree. |
| Matchlessness | n | State of being matchless. |
| Matchmake | vb | To plot or contrive a marriage; to arrange a marriage; to be involved in matchmaking. |
| Matchmaker | n | One who arranges marriages; a match-monger, matchmonger, matchbroker. |
| Match-making | n | The action of bringing about or arranging a marriage. 2. one who professionally brings about or negotiates marriages. 3. one who schemes in arranging a marriage for political or financial reasons. |
| Match-monger | n | A match-maker, match-broker, one who arranges marriages either as a culture norm or professionally. |
| Match-play | n | In golf a form of competitive play in which the score is computed by totaling the number of holes won or lost by each side. |
| Match winner | n | In a sport, a player who enables his or team to win matches. |
| Match-winning | adj | That wins or causes matches to be won. |
| Math | n | A mowing, or that obtained by mowing, now rare except in 'aftermath'. |
| Mathele | n | A talker, a gossiper, chatterer, a female chatterer. |
| Mathom | n | From Old English māþum (“treasure, object of value, jewel, ornament, gift” . 2. a trinket, or piece of bric-brac, knic-knack, often used in regifting. |
| Matlock | n | An instrument or tool, shaped like a pick-axe, used for loosening the soil in digging. |
| Matted | adj | Tangled, entwined, knotted, woven. 2. covered with a mat as to protect. |
| Mattedly | adv | In a matted manner. |
| Matting | n | A mat. 2. a collection of ground covering. 3. a coarse fabric of a kind, used to make mats. |
| Mattock | n | An instrument or tool, shaped like a pick-axe, used for loosening the soil in digging. |
| Matty | adj | Matted. |
| Maugh | n | OE. maegh: kinsman. 2. OE: boy, young man, knave. 3. a near male relative by marriage: a brother-in-law; son-in-law. |
| Maund | adj | A wicker or other woven basket. 2. a basketful or a measure of capacity, varying from locality and commodity. Nb: " a hop-mound." -- a vessel used in breweries. |
| Maw | n | The stomach. This word now signifies the stomach of birds and animals, but formerly meant that of a human being. 2. the cavity of the stomach (now used only in ludicrous sense). 3. the last of the four stomachs of a ruminant. 4. the belly, gullet. throat. 5. the womb, liver, the innermost recesses of the body. 6. (metaphorically): voracity, gluttony, appetite. 8. the honey making apparatus of a bee. 9. the crop of a bird. 10. " to chaw one's maw." -- to fret internally." |
| Maw-bound | adj | In Cheshire, a phrase, meaning costiveness, constipation. |
| Maw-gut | n | Duodenum. |
| Maw-mother | n | A woman experiencing false conception, false pregnancy or moon-calf. |
| Maw-motherness | n | The condition or state of a woman suffering from a false-pregnancy. |
| Maw-seed | n | Poppy-seed. |
| Maw-worm | n | A thread-worm found in the gut. |
| May | vb | Verb used to express possibility, permission, contingency, concession, purpose, result. 2. wish or a prayer. 3. power, ability, to be able, now can. |
| May | n | A son, boy, a male relative, kinsman. |
| May | n. | A girl, a maiden, a sweetheart (from the A.S. Maeg). |
| May | phr | "Be That As It May" - having taken into account. |
| May | phr | "May as Well Do (Something)" - considering the circumstances, it is reasonable to do something. 2. no harm will come from doing something. |
| May | phr | "May I Ask What?" - a rhetorical question, sometimes merely a formal accompaniment to a query, but often ironic, challenging or dismissive. |
| May | phr | "May possibly, or probably, be or do something. |
| May | phr | "May Well Be" - may possibly, or probably, be or do something. 2. could, might well be. |
| May | phr | "One May as Well Be Hanged for a Sheep as a Lamb" - if the penalty for a more serious crime, offence, act of foolishness, etc is no greater that that for a less serious one, the one maty as well continuein one's criminal, foolish etc behavior. |
| May | phr | "One May Well Ask" - one is reasonably, or entirely justified, in asking, wondering. |
| Maybe | n | Something that is possibly true. 2. an answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement. 3. a future event that may or may not happen. |
| Maybe | adj | Possible, uncertain, |
| Maybe | adv | Modifies a verb, indicating a lack of certainty. 2. possibly, perhaps true; mayhaps, might be. |
| Maybe | phr | "And I Don't Mean Maybe" - I mean what I say. |
| Maybe | phr | "That's as Maybe" - this maybe so. |
| Mayfall | adv | Perhaps; what maybe a possibility; which are possibility to come; random, at random, randomly. |
| Mayth | n | Family, kin, tribe, race. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Mice-eyed | adj | Having the keen eyes and sight of a mouse. |
| Mickle | adj | Of size, stature: great, huge, big. 2. epithet for building, place, such as " Mickle Britaigne" -- "Mickle University Hall". 3. of something numerical: aggregate, proportional, great. 4. great in amount or of degree. 5. great of power or importance. 6. great quantity or amount, much, qn abundance. 7. a great number of people or folk. 8. the greatest part of something, so much. |
| Mickle | n | "The Mickle." - those great and powerful. 2. the multitude; a great amount or large sum. |
| Mickle | vb | To increase, magnify, enlarge. |
| Mickle | adv | To great extent, greatly, relative, as, how, so. |
| Mickle | phr | "For as Mickle" - as forasmuch as. |
| Mickle | phr | "In As Mickle As" - in so far; in as much as. |
| Mickle | phr | "Make Mickle of" - make much of, cherish. 2. a great amount. |
| Mickle | phr | "Many a Little, Makes a Mickle" - a lot of small or little amounts, put together becomes a large amount. |
| Mickle | phr | "Mickled with Cold" - stiffened and benumbed with too much or severe cold. |
| Mickle | phr | "Unto So Mickle" - so much that |
| Mickledom | n | Size, magnitude, greatness. |
| Micklehood | n | Greatness, fullness, abundance. |
| Micklemote | n | "The Micklegemote." - 'The Great Meeting' The great council or parliamentary assembly under the Angle-Saxon kings. |
| Mickle-mouthed | adj | A mouth disproportionate to the other parts of the face or it's size. |
| Mickleness | n | Greatness, bigness, in any sense, largeness, size; large mass; muchness. |
| Mickle-wamb | n | The stomach, esp. that of the ox used for culinary purposes. |
| Mickle-what | n | A great deal, something of many kinds; antonym -- little what. |
| Micklewise | adj | Greatly wise; profound in wisdom. |
| Mid | adj | Middle, midst. 2. prefixed to month or season, or designation of a period of time, such as collocations: mid-eld, mid year, midwinter, mid-life, etc. 3. of colour, occupying a middle position in a range of shades. |
| Mid | prep | Denoting association, connection, conjunction, communication, intercourse. 2. in the same direction as a stream, wind. 3. in agreement with, following the action of, analogously to, like. 4. indicating an accompanying, action, disposition of mind. 5. having an attribute or quality indicating means or instrument. 6. in regard to, in respect of, in spite of,, touching. 7. in the sight of, estimation or opinion of, in the possession or power of. |
| Mid | phr | "In Mid flight" - in the middle stages of a journey by airplane. |
| Mid | phr | "Mid the Best" - as good or great as possible; mid the most. |
| Mid | phr | "Mid the First" - as soon as possible. |
| Mid | phr | "Of Mid Child" -with child; pregnant. |
| Mid-afternoon | n | In the middle of the afternoon. |
| Mid-all | adv | Altogether, entirely, and all, at the same time, withal |
| Mid-arm | adj | The middle (lengthwise) of the upper (proximal) part of the arm. |
| Mid-bite | adv | While taking a bite; while eating. |
| Midbowman | n | a member of a crew of a vessel who works with the mast and often packs the sails below deck. |
| Mid-brain | n | The mesencephalon. |
| Mid brother | n | The second in age of three brothers. |
| Mid-calf | n | The middle of the calf, halfway between the knee and the ankle. |
| Mid-chest | n | The middle of the chest. |
| Midday | n | Noon, the middle of a day. midoverundern. |
| Midday meal | n | A meal served and eaten around midday. 2. midmeal |
| Mid-deep | adv | As deep as the middle of the body. |
| Middest | adj | The most central. |
| Middle | n | A centre, midpoint, midst. 2 the part between the beginning and the end. 3. central part of the human body. |
| Middle | adj | Located in the middle; in between, central. |
| Middle | phr | "In the Middle" - in a dangerous or vulnerable position. |
| Middle | phr | "In the Middle Of (Something)" - in the midst of, among. 2. in thick of something going on. 3. in the act of doing something. |
| Middle | phr | "In the Middle of Nowhere" - far away from any town or city, and anywhere few people live. |
| Middle | phr | "Knock Somebody Into the Middle of Next Week" - hit somebody very hard. |
| Middle | phr | "Middle of the Road" - avoiding extremes, average, moderate. 2. of music, tuneful but somewhat bland and unadventurous. |
| Middle-body | n | Part of a vessel adjacent to the midship but having a uniform or nearly uniform cross-section. |
| Middle-brow | n | A person of average or moderate cultural interest; nb: high-brow, low-brow. |
| Middle-ear | n | The part of the ear internal to the eardrum, and external to the oval window of the inner ear. |
| Middle earth | n | Middle-erd: place between heaven and earth, supposed to occupy the centre of the universe. Now only applied to the real world in contradistinction to fantasy-world. |
| Middle East | n | The region comprising south west Africa and northeast Asia |
| Middle-English | n | The English language from about 1150 to 1500AD. |
| Middle-erd | n | The world, taken as situated between heaven and hell; also the people dwelling on earth. |
| Middle-finger | n | The finger between the forefinger and the ring finger; this is the longest finger. 2. an obscene gesture directed towards another as an insult; a literal or sometimes fig. raising of the middle finger at someone. |
| Middle-ground | n | Idiomatic, a compromise position between two extremes. |
| Middle-growth | n | The age between infancy and adulthood; youth. |
| Middle-heaven | n | The middle of heaven |
| Middlehood | n | The age between forty and sixty-five years of age. |
| Middle income | adj | Of average income. |
| Middle Kingdom | n | The former Chinese Empire, regarded as occupying the centre of the world; later considered as the eighteen provinces of China proper. 2. kingdom of ancient Eygpt, 2400-1580. |
| Middle-life | n | The middle age of a person. |
| Middlely | adv | in a medium manner. |
| Middleman | n | An intermediary agent between two (or more) parties. 2. an intermediary dealer between the manufacturer and retailer or customer. 3. a middlewoman/middleman. |
| Middle-middle | n | The middle of the Earth. |
| Middlemost | adv | The very middle or nearest to the middle, previously with reference to size, age, quality. 2. nearest the middle. |
| Middle name | n | The name9s) between one's first name and one's surname |
| Middleness | n | The fact or quality of being middle, average, or middle-class. |
| Middle-of-the-road | adj | Having a centrist attitude or philosophy; not extreme, esp. politically. |
| Middle-of-the-roader | n | One who endorses a moderate course, especially in politics. |
| Middle-of-the-roadness | n | Having a quality centrist attitude or philosophy; not extreme, esp. politically. |
| Middler | n | One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries. |
| Middlesex | n | The original territory of the Middle Saxons, which seemingly included the area of the later counties of Middlesex and Hertford, between Wessex and Essex. |
| Middle town | n | The centre of the town. 2. typical of a middle-class person. |
| Middleward | adv | The middle part of anything. 2. towards the middle part of anything. 3. the middle body of an army. 4. half-way, on the way. |
| Middleware | n | Software that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database aand applications, esp. on a network. |
| Middle-watch | n | The watch from midnight till 4am. |
| Middleway | n | The course between two extremes. 2. half-way, the middle of the way, one's middle course. |
| Middleweight | n | A boxer intermediate between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, weighing from 71-75 kg. |
| Middle West | n | In the United States, properly the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconin. |
| Middle-witted | adj | Of or prone to fallacious or specious reasoning. |
| Middle-years | n | The years in the middle of one's life; middle age. |
| Middle-youth | n | The time of life between early adulthood and middle age. |
| Middling | phr | "Among the Middling" - of a mediocre class: "the ordinary person or people." |
| Middling | n | A go-between; intermediary. |
| Middling | adj | Intermediate, medium, middle term. 2. mediocre of a person, middle- class, of performance; moderately good.. 2. second-rate, second or third-rate goods. 3. of health: off-colour, sickly. 4. a medium size, medium. 5. between two things; between two extremes. 6. of medium or moderate size, middle-sizing. 7. mean, average, moderate. 8. middle-aged. occupying a middle position. 9. moderately, fairly, tolerable. |
| Middlingish | adv | As in moderately good; somewhat mediocre. |
| Middlingly | adv | In a manner moderate, fairly, indifferently, tolerably, not very well in health. |
| Middlingness | n | The state of being middling, mediocre. |
| Mid-earth | n | The earth's middle. 2. the Mediteranean Sea. |
| Mid-earth Sea | n | The Mediterranean |
| Mid-evening | adv | During the middle of the evening. |
| Midge | n | Name for various gnat-like insects. |
| Mid-fall | n | The middle of autumn. |
| Mid-field | n | The middle of a field of play. |
| Mid-flight | adv | Occurring in the middle part of a flight. |
| Mid-floor | adv | In the middle of a floor. |
| Midge | n | Any small gnat-like dipterous fly of the family Chironomidae, often seen in dancing swarms near water. 2. any similar fly, esp. a tiny biting flies. 3. a tiny person. |
| Midge-like | adj | Very small, nanoid, tiny. |
| Midgern | n | The fat about the entrails of an animal; suet; in more general use the fat about the kidneys, esp that of a pig. |
| Mid-gut | n | The portion of an embryo from which most of the intestines grow. 2. the middle part of the alimentary canal, ( including in vertebrates) the small intestine. |
| Midhood | n | The centre, middle. |
| Mid-husband | n | Male equivalent of a midwife, from OE. literally meaning 'with a woman.' |
| Midland(s) | n | The middle part of a country. 2. the inland counties of central England. |
| Midlander | n | One who lives in the midlands of a country. |
| Mid-leap | n | During a leap. |
| Midless | adj | Having no middle or centre, |
| Mid-life | n | Middle age of a person's life. 2. the part of life between youth-hood and old age. |
| Midlike | adv | Moderately. |
| Midline | n | A medial line or plane of bilateral symmetry, especially of a body. |
| Mid-lying | n | Adultery, infidelity, unfaithfulness, cheating, extra-maritally involved. |
| Mid-main | n | Mid ocean. |
| Midman | n | Umpire, moderator, intermediary. |
| Midmeal | adv | Meal eaten at noon. 2. food provided at midday for students in schools in many countries of the world, notably India. |
| Mid-month | adv | In or during the month. |
| Mid-monthly | adv | In or during the middle patt of the month. |
| Mid-morning | n | THe time between early morning and noon. |
| Midmost | adv | That is in the very middle, with regard to position, age. 2. the mid-most part, the middle. 3. in the middle or midst. 4. most intimate. |
| Midnight | n | Twelve o'clock at night; the middle of the night. |
| Midnight | adj | Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight gloom. 2. atramentous, black, black as coal, coal-black, coaly, coomy, dark, dark as night, dark, deep black, night-black, night-dark, night-fallen, nightlong, nightly, night-time, raven, raven-black. |
| Midnight black | n | Of a deep shade of black; jet-black. |
| Midnight blue | adj | Deep or very dark shade of blue. |
| Midnightly | adv | Every midnight or taking place at midnight. |
| Midnight shroud | n | The covering of darkness that envelopes the world at midnight. |
| Midnight sun | n | The sun when seen during the summer in either Arctic or Antarctic circle. 2. the sun visible at midnight in the summer as result of the fact that the latitude of the place from which it is viewed is greater than the polar distance or the sun, or above 66 degrees. |
| Midoverunden | n | Midday, noon. |
| Midred | n | Diaphragm, midriff. |
| Midrib | n | A large strengthened vein along the mid-line of a leaf. |
| Midriff | n | Belly, stomach, diaphragm, parietum. 2. the region of the front of the body between the thorax and the abdomen. 3. a garment or part of a garment covering the abdomen. |
| Mid-rise | n | A low-rise is a building that is only a few stories tall or any building that is shorter than a high-rise, though others include the classification of mid-rise. |
| Mid-road | adv | In the middle of the road. |
| Mids | n | Middle, middle part or point, the midst. 2. a means. 3. a means between two extremes, a middle course, a compromise. |
| Mids | vb | To take in a middle view. |
| Mids | phr | In the Mids Of" - in the middle part of. |
| Mid-Sea | n | The open sea. |
| Midship | n | Pertaining to the middle of a ship. |
| Midshipman | n | An officer of the lowest rank in several navies; especially a trainee officer. |
| Midshipmanship | n | Position of a midshipman |
| Midsman | n | Mediator |
| Midsman | n | Mediator, one in the middle of something. |
| Midspan | n | In structural engineering , the point on a flexural member (as a girder, beam) that is equidistant from the two end supports. |
| Midspeech | n | A point in time during a speech, or while one is speaking. |
| Midspread | adv | In statistics, the interquartile range. |
| Midspring | n | The middle of spring. |
| Midst | n | A place in the midst; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location. |
| Midst | prn | Among, in the middle of; amid; in the midst; in one's midst. |
| Midst | phr | "In the Midst of." - among, us you or them; in the presence of. |
| Midst | phr | "Leave in One's Midst" - to leave undecided. 2. abstain from giving an opinion on. |
| Midstep | n | During or while taking a tep. |
| Midstorm | adv | Pero during a storm. |
| Midstream | n | The middle of the stream. 2. a mid stage of an action, incident, situation. |
| Midstream | phr | "Halt Midstream" - (temporarily) stop while doing something. |
| Midstrength | adj | Of beer, containing |
| Mid-stride | n | In the middle of a stride. |
| Midsummer | n | In the middle of summer near the period of the summer solstice.. |
| Midsummer-day | n | Midsummer, also known as St John's Day, is the period of time centred upon the summer solstice, and more specifically the Northern European celebrations that accompany the actual solstice or take place on a day between June 19 and June 25 and the preceding evening. The exact dates vary between different cultures. The Christian Church designated June 24 as the feast day of the early Christian martyr St John the Baptist, and the observance of St John's Day begins the evening before, known as St John's Eve. |
| Midsummer eve | n | St John's eve |
| Midsummerish | adj | Of, resembling or characteristic of mid-summer. |
| Midsummer-madness | n | Foolishness, extreme folly or reckless behavior considered to be at its height during midsummer. |
| Midsummer moon | n | The Moon at the time of the summer heat. |
| Midsummer moon | phr | T'is Midsummer Moon with You" - you are stark mad. |
| Midtholing | n | Compassion, commiseration, sympathy. |
| Midtale | n | The middle part of a story. |
| Mid-thigh | adv | The middle part of the thigh. |
| Midthought | n | Some time during a thought. |
| Midthought | adv | During a thought; in mid thought. |
| Midtime | n | Time in the middle of the day. |
| Mid-town | n | The middle or central part of a town between the downtown and uptown areas. 2. the centre area or 'the agora' of a town or city. |
| Mid twenthieth | adj | Usually used before century to indicate the middle part of the 20th Century, which could refer to events in the 1940s, the 1950s or the 1960s. However, in architecture, preservation, and real estate, it is commonly being used to refer to the period after World War II to the mid-1970s |
| Midward | adj | In the middle of, occupying the middle of, towards the middle, at the middle part, in the middle part. 2. in or towards the middle. |
| Midward | adv | In or towards the middle; in the middle part. |
| Mid-water(s) | adv | in the middle of the waters. |
| Midway | adj | The middle of the way or distance. 2. a medium or medium course. 3. situated in the middle of the way. 4. occupying the middle. |
| Midway | adv | Half-way. |
| Midweek | n | In the middle of the week, around Wednesday. |
| Mid-West | n | A geographical location of a country: "The Mid-West" of the US. |
| Mid-wife | n | A woman or nurse who assists women in childbirth. 2. a person or thing that brings about change. |
| Midwife | vb | To be or act as a midwife. |
| Midwife | phr | "The Midwife of Men's Thoughts" - Grote observed of Socrates "No man ever struck out of others so many original thought." |
| Midewifely | adv | In the manner of a midwife. |
| Mid-wife toad | n | A european toad in which the male carries the developing eggs on his hind legs. |
| Mid-wifish | adj | Resembling of characteristic of a midwife. |
| Midwinter | n | The middle of winter. 2. the winter solstice; 21st or 22nd of December. |
| Midwinter | phr | "Cold as Midwinter" - very cold. |
| Midwinter-eve | n | Christmas eve. |
| Midwinterly | adv | In midwinter; of or pertaining to midwinter. |
| Midwinter-tide | n | Christmas time. |
| Midwise | adv | In a medium or moderate way. |
| Mid-witted | adj | Of average intellect or intelligent. |
| Mid-year | n | In the middle of the year, around June 30th. |
| Mig | n | Urine, or the draining of urine from manure. |
| Might | n | From Old English; AS. meaht, miht, from the root of magan to be able. 2. force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability (to do so); capacity, might, bodily or physical strength authority, virtue, mighty work, miracle, angel”). 3. power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group. |
| Might | vb | From Old English; AS. meaht, miht, from the root of magan to be able. 2. (auxiliary) used to indicate conditional or possible actions. 3. (auxiliary) simple past tense of may. 4 used to indicate permission in the past tense. 5. I am able, (an auxiliary verb qualifying the meaning of another verb, by expressing: ability, competency, or possibility, liberty; permission; allowance; (contingency or liability; possibility or probability. 6.(modesty, courtesy, or concession, or a desire to soften a question or remark; desire or wish, as in prayer, imprecation, benediction, and the like. 7. "may be, & it may be", are used as equivalent to possibly, perhaps, maybe, by chance, peradventure. |
| Might | adj | (Obsolete, chiefly before 1900) Mighty; powerful; possible. |
| Might | vb | (auxiliary) Used to indicate conditional or possible actions. 2. (auxiliary) simple past tense of may. 3 used to indicate permission in past tense. |
| Might | phr | "By Might" - by wrongful force or violence. |
| Might | phr | "Five-fold Mights" - the active powers (of the brain, heart, soul, mind etc.) |
| Might | phr | "High and Mighty" - arrogant, self-opinionated. |
| Might | phr | "Lay Might" - to do one's utmost. |
| Might | phr | "Might as Well" - expressing that it is probably at least as desirable to do a thing as it is not. |
| Might | phr | "Might could" - might be able to. |
| Might | phr | "Might Makes Right" - having the power to something gives one the right to do it. 2. the plea of justice or fairness is ineffective against a superior force. |
| Might | phr | "Might Not" - may not happen. |
| Might | phr | "Over Might" - beyond one's own power. |
| Might | phr | "With All One's Might" - with all one's powers. 2. to the utmost of one's ability. |
| Might | phr | "With Might and Main." - with utmost strength and endeavour. |
| Mightand | n | Mightend; a mighty man. |
| Might-be | . | What might be, an unlikely possibility, that might be, remotely possible. |
| Mighted | adj | Having power, strength, effect |
| Mightend | n | A mighty man. See: bodiend friend, fiend, healend, waldend, shapend, mightend, almightend, milciend, slinkend, stygand'. |
| Mightful | adj | Mighty, powerful, effacious. 2. of actions proceeding from arbitrary powers. |
| Mightfully | adv | In a powerful or forceful manner. |
| Mightfulness | n | The state or quality of being powerful, strong, mighty. |
| Might-have-been | n | An event which could have happened, but never did. 2. a person who might have been greater or more eminent. |
| Mighthood | n | Mightiness. |
| Mightily | adv | In a mighty manner. 2. with great power or strength. 3. with powerful effect. 4. with great effort, vigorously, vehemently. 5. so as to be strong or powerful; powerfully, strongly. 6. with great degree or extent. 7. greatly, very much. |
| Mightiness | n | State or condition of beong mighty, powerful, strong. |
| Mighting | n | Power, strength, might. |
| Mightless | adj | Without might, powerless, impotent. |
| Mightly | adj | Might; competent, capable; strong, powerful. 3. substantial; weighty, of import. 4. able, able to occur, possible. |
| Mightly | adv | Mightily. |
| Mightsome | adj | Mightful. |
| Mighty | adv | (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree; mighty, mightily, powerful, right. |
| Mighty | adj | Having or showing great strength or force or intensity. 2. possessing might; having great power or authority. 3. accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful. 4. denoting an extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, |
| Mighty | phr | "Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns Grow" - something or somebody great can come from modest beginnings. |
| Mighty | n | A warrior of great force and courage. |
| Mighty-brained | adj | Highly intelligent and intellectual. |
| Mighty-handed | adj | Highly skilled in arts, crafts and works carried out by use of the hands. |
| Mighty-minded | adj | Highly intelligent and of great intellectual powers. |
| Mighty-mouthed | adj | Loud, vociferous, authoritarian of speech. |
| Mighty works | n | Of the person, their actions and attributes, with references to mental ability or executive skill. |
| Milady | n | From 'my lady' : an English noblewoman. 2. a woman regarded as having fashionable or expensive taste |
| Milce | n | Mercy, clemency, forbearance, favor. |
| Milceful | adj | Merciful, gracious, kind. |
| Milcefulness | n | State or condition of being kind, merciful, gracious. |
| Milce-hearted | adj | Kind, considerate, compassionate, merciful, gracious. |
| Milcer | n | One who shows mercy, kindness, compassion. |
| Milce-witted | adj | Knowing mercy, kindness, compassion. |
| Milch | n | Milk of domestic animals giving milk, or kept for milking; milching. 2. applied to a woman, esp. a wet nurse. 3. of the breast or teats: giving milk. 4. transfig: of the eyes that are weeping. 5. of plants: milky, full of milk. 6. of dew exuding milk. 6. a person who is easily fleeced. |
| Milch | vb | To milk; to milk a cow three times a day; from OE. thrimilce. |
| Milch-cow | n | A milking cow. 2. a cow giving milk. 3. a source of regularly accruing gain or profit. 4. (fig.) a person from whom money is easily drawn; one who is easily fleeced. 5. a tanker used to refuel long-range ships and submarines. |
| Milchy | adj | Milk-giving. |
| Milciend | n | One who is merciful. |
| Mild | vb | To make mild or gentle |
| Mild | adj | Mild, moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme. 2. humble in spirit or manner suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness; meek, mild, modest. 3: mild and pleasant; as "balmy days and nights"; balmy, mild, soft. 4. gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; mild or mildly-hearted; mildly spoken. 5. soft; gentle; bland; calm; tranquil; soothing; pleasant; placid; meek; kind; tender; indulgent; clement; mollifying; lenitive. |
| Mild | phr | "Draw it Mild" - to state things without exaggeration and not lay it on thick; being moderate. 2. of liquor: not highly flavored. |
| Mild | phr | "Mild and Bitter' - ale or beer consisting of mild and bitter draft beer. |
| Mild | phr | "Mild as a Milk" - pleasant, mild, soft. |
| Milden | vb | To make mild or milder. |
| Mildew | n | A destructive growth of minute powdery or web-like fungi, whitish or of other colours, and characterized by powdery film on the surface of the affected plants or organic matter. 2, the process of being mildewed |
| Mildew | vb | To be tainted with mildew. 2. to taint with mildew, often in a damp place. 3. to become moldy, spoil due to humidity |
| Mildewy | adj | Affected by mildew, mouldy. |
| Mildful | adj | Merciful, gentle, kindly. |
| Mildfulness | n | State or condition of being gentle, kind, merciful |
| Mildhearted | adj | Merciful, kindhearted, gentle. |
| Mildheartedful | n | Full of kindness, tenderness, mercy. |
| Mildhearted-like | n | Characteristic of being mild-hearted. |
| Mildheartedness | n | State or condition of mild, gentle, kind, merciful; mildhood, mildship. |
| Mildhood | n | Mildness, mercifulness, meekness, mildship. |
| Mildish | adj | Somewhat or rather kind, gentle, merciful. |
| Mildly | adv | Gently, softly, with consideration and thought for others. |
| Mildly | phr | "Put it Mildly" - to express an idea without exaggeration; frequently ironical with an implication of understatement. |
| Mild-mother | n | Pia mater (the thin or tender mother). |
| Mildness | n | Sate or quality of being mild; mercifulness, meekness. |
| Mildred | n | Moderate in power or strength. |
| Milds | n | A name for various species of Atriplex and Chenopodium. |
| Mildship | n | Mildness. |
| Mild-spoken | adj | Having a quiet voice. |
| Mild-steel | n | Steel containing a small percentage of carbon, strong and tough but not readily tempered. |
| Mild-worded | adj | Gentle and considerate in speech and manner. |
| Mildy | adj | Somewhat mild. |
| Mile | n | A measure of distance, remotely derived from the ancient Roman mile, which was about 1620 yards or 4680 feet. |
| Mile | phr | "A Miss Is as Good as a Mile" - something that nearly succeeds is no better than something that is a total failure. |
| Mile | phr | "A Mile Off" - across a considerable; clearly and unmistakably. |
| Mile | phr | "Be Miles Away" - be inattentive, daydream. |
| Mile | phr | "Give Somebody an Inch and They Will Take a Mile" - give somebody a concession and he or she will take advantage and seek even more. |
| Mile | phr | "It is Miles Away" - a great distance away. |
| Mile | phr | "It Sticks Out a Mile" - be obvious. |
| Mile | phr | "Miss By a Mile" - to be nowhere near one's target. |
| Mile | phr | "Not a Hundred Mile Away" - very close. |
| Mile | phr | "Run a Mile" - run quickly a way (in a panic). |
| Mile | phr | "Someone Would Run a Mile" - a person would do anythingto escape his responsibilities. |
| Mile | phr | "Stand Out a Mile Away" - be obvious or very apparent. |
| Mile-eater | n | A very fast driver. |
| Mile-long | adj | Extending for a mile. |
| Miler | n | A runner in a race, or a horse, that is a mile long. |
| Mile-stone | n | A post, pillar or stone set up to indicate instance in miles from a given point. 2. an important event or turning point in a person's life or organization's existence. |
| Mileway | n | The space of time in which a mile may be traveled on foot; a period of 20 minutes. |
| Mile-wide | adj | Measuring a mile in width |
| Miling | n | The action of running a mile. |
| Milk | n | A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young, from certain animals, especially cows, it is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt. 2. an individual serving of milk. 3. a white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as soy beans, coconuts, almonds, rice, oats. 4. the ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster. 5. milch |
| Milk | vb | To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder. 2. to express any liquid (from any creature). 3. to make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, etc.) 4. to take advantage of (a situation). 5. to give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation. |
| Milk | phr | "As White as Milk" - of a palish white colour. |
| Milk | phr | "Bring to His Milk" - to bring someone to his senses. 2. to compel an others acquiescence or submission. |
| Milk | phr | "Full of the Milk of Human Kindness" - full of, characterized by) kindness, affection and goodwill towards others. |
| Milk | phr | "Give Down Its Milk" - to yield the expected assistance with profit. |
| Milk | phr | "In the Milk" - in infancy or immaturity. 2. in a condition to yield milk. |
| Milk | phr | "Land of Milk and Honey" - an imaginary place where there is an over abundance and prosperity of every thing. |
| Milk | phr | "Like Milk to Milk" - compatible, same or similar by comparison. |
| Milk | phr | "Milk and Water" - something that is inoffensive, but feeble, insipid or colorless. |
| Milk | phr | "Milk dry" - obtain from somebody all the money, help, informatio( emotional) support etc another has to give. |
| Milk | phr | "Milk of the Moon" - a white, porous, friable , insipid earth; frequently found in a form of a white wheaty powder. |
| Milk | phr | "Milk One's Liver" - to purge or detoxify one's body. |
| Milk | phr | "Mother's Milk" - something that one enjoys (naturally). |
| Milk | phr | "Out of the Milk" - beginning to mature; to longer breast fed. |
| Milk | phr | "Why Buy a Cow when you can Get Milk for Free" - (idiom)- referring to men who don't want to get married, when they can get all the benefits without being married. 2. why buy a book when you can borrow books from a library. |
| Milk adder | n | A non-venomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped spot on its head. |
| Milk-and-honey | adj | Abundance, prosperity. |
| Milk-and-water | adj | Feeble and insipid. |
| Milk cow | n | Cattle that are reared for their milk; dairy cattle. |
| Milken | adj | Consisting of milk; milk-like. 2. of the colour of milk; milk-white. 3. fig. soft, gentle, mild. |
| Milker | n | A cow that produces milk, rather than beef. 2. a person who is emplyed to milk cows. |
| Milkfat | n | The fatty portion of milk; butterfat. |
| Milk-fed | n | Fed predominantly on a diet of milk or milk products. |
| Milk-fish | n | A large silvery toothless fish, allied to the herring, especially of South Pacific waters. |
| Milk-float | n | An open-sided van, typically powered by electricity, that was used to deliver milk to houses. |
| Milkful | adj | Abounding or plentiful of milk. |
| Milkhouse | n | A dairy. |
| Milk-hued | adj | of complexion: a very pale white skinned. |
| Milkily | adv | In a milky manner; in the manner of milk. |
| Milkiness | n | The state of being milky. 2. condition of resembling milk in appearance, color or quality. 3. cloudy whiteness. 4. mildness, softness, gentleness, weakness. |
| Milking | n | The act by which a cow, etc. is milked. 2. the act of removing milk from the mammary glands of an animal. 3. the amount of milk drawn at one time. |
| Milking | n | To exploit or scam by stealing small amounts of money or goods over a period of time. |
| Milking | adj | Pertaining to or related to milking, as 'a milking cow'. |
| Milkish | adj | Somewhat resembling milk in appearance, color, quality. 2. cloudy-white in color. |
| Milk-kinship | n | The kinship arising from adoption of fostering. |
| Milkless | adj | Having no milk, lactose-free; without or unable to produce milk. |
| Milk-livered | adj | Cowardly, weak, lily-livered. |
| Milk-loaf | n | A loaf of bread made from milk |
| Milkmaid | n | A girl or woman who milks cows or does other work in a dairy. |
| Milkman | n | A person who processes, sells and delivers milk. 2. a worker in a dairy; a dairy-worker. |
| Milkman | phr | "Come Home with the Milkman" - come home early in the morning after celebration. |
| Milk-meat | n | Food made from milk, dairy products as butter, cheese, yogurt. |
| Milk-mild | adj | Of disposition: tender, soft, meek; kindhearted. |
| Milkness | n | Resembling milk in colour or consistency. 2. filled with, consisting of, or yielding milk. 3. property of being milky. 4. timidity, meekness. |
| Milkpan | n | A small kind of saucepan, with a lip, used for heating milk. |
| Milk run | n | A routine, uneventful journey, esp. by plane. |
| Milkshake | n | A cold drink made in a blender consisting of milk, malt, a sweet flavoring, and typically ice-cream. |
| Milk-snake | n | The common house snake; also called the milk adder. |
| Milksop | n | Bread, etc. dipped in milk. 2. a weak, foolish sentimental person. |
| Milk-sopishness | n | The trait or quality of being milksopish. |
| Milksoppy | adj | Full of sops; emotionally soppy or sentimental. |
| Milkstone | n | A name for various white-colored stone, as 'Galalith'. |
| Milk thistle | n | The European thistle (Silybum marianum) having the veins of its leaves of a milky whiteness. |
| Milk tooth | n | One of the temporary first set of teeth with young mammals. |
| Milk-white | adj | A palish white-color; milky white; opaque. 2. a whit color like that of milk. |
| Milkwood | n | A hard, heavy, tough wood with a coarse grain and native to South Africa |
| Milkwort | n | Any plant of the genus 'Polygala' formerly supposed to increase the milk of nurses. 2. any plant of the genus 'euphorbia.' 3. a primulaceous plant, 'Glaux maritima' common on the sea coasts and salt in marshes. 2. 'Our Ladies milkwort: pulmonaria officinalis. |
| Milky | adj | Resembling milk in colour or consistency; not clear. 2. of the black in an image, appearing as dark grey, rather than black. 3. cowardly. 4. mild, tame, spiritless. 5. yielding milk. 6. like or somewhat like milk, whitish and turbid. |
| Milky Way | n | A luminous band encircling the heavens, composed of distant stars and nebulae not separately distinguishable to the naked eye; the Galaxy. 2. fig. and allusively: a way brilliant in appearance, or leading to heaven. 3. the region of a woman's breast: "behold her heavenly face and heaving milky way." 4. the Milk-white Girdle" |
| Milky white | adj | White as milk, pure white. |
| Milky-white Girdle | n | The Milky Way. |
| Mill | n | A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. 2. the building housing such a grinding apparatus. 3. manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc; as a steel mill. 4. a building housing such a plant. 5. an establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc |
| Mill | vb | Grind with a mill "mill grain." 2. roll out (metal) with a rolling machine. 3. produce a ridge around the edge of "mill a coin." 4. mill move about in a confused manner. |
| Mill | phr | "All grist to the Mill" - everything has some value. |
| Mill | phr | "Draw Water to (One's) Mill" - to take or seize every advantage. |
| Mill | phr | "God's Mill Grinds Slowly but Truly" - refers to the notion of slow, but certain divine revelation. |
| Mill | phr | "Go Through the Mill" - to gain experience through severe testing or ordeal of ones endurance. |
| Mill | phr | "Put Through the Mill" - to cause to pass through a course of labour or experience, esp. an arduous or painful one. 2. to give a person practical experience. |
| Mill | phr | "Run Of the Mill" - average, normal. |
| Mill | phr | "The Mill Cannot Grind with Water Flown By" - one must not miss an opportunity, nor cry over spilt milk. |
| Millboard | n | A stiff, stout paperboard or pasteboard used in bookbinding and for book covers. |
| Milldust | n | A fine, flour-like dust produced when corn (wheat) is milled. |
| Milled | adj | Of grain: grounded by a mill. 2. having the edges raised and grooved, as coins. 3. fulled as cloth; rolled in sheets as metal. |
| Miller | n | A proprietor or tenant of a gristmill, as corn or flour mill. 2. one who works a mill of any kind. 3. a milling machine applied to certain white or white-powdered insects, as the cockchafer, and to certain caterpillars. 4. a common name for of a flour-smelling mushroom, Clitopilus prunulus. 5. (slang) - a pugilist. |
| Miller | phr | "Drown the Miller" - water down beer and liquors (for greater profit) |
| Miller | phr | "Every Miller Has a Thumb of Gold" - even an honest miller grows rich with what he filches; for he simply cannot help some of the flour that ought to go into the loaf sticking to his thumb. |
| Miller | phr | "Put the Miller's Eye Out" - to become bankrupt. |
| Miller | phr | "Too Much Water Drown the Mill" - one can have too much of a good thing. |
| Millering | n | The work and trade f a miller. |
| Miller's thumb | n | "Cottus gobio" a small European freshwater fish |
| Millful | adj | Enough to fill a mill. |
| Mill-hand | n | A worker in a mill; a mill-worker. |
| Milling | n | The act of grinding anything in a mill. 2. the act of fulling cloth. 3. the act of grooving or raising the edges of coins. 4. a crowd, gathering, angry, confused and seemingly without direction. |
| Milling | adj | Of a crowd, gathering, angry, confused and seemingly without direction |
| Mill-leet | n | An artificial channel for the conveyance of water to a mill. |
| Millpond | n | A body of water damned up or enclosed to run a mill. 2. a small body of water dammed or impounded (to form a pond.) |
| Millstone | n | One of a pair of heavy, thick stone disks for grinding something. as grain. 2. that which pulverizes or bears down. 3. a heavy or burdensome weight. |
| Millstone | phr | "Between the Upper and Nether Millstone" - adamant, callous. |
| Millstone | phr | "Look (through, see far) Into the Millstone" - used chiefly in ironical commendation of pretend extraordinary acuteness. |
| Millstone | phr | "Hard as Nether Millstone" - adamant, callous; unfeeling, obdurate,. |
| Millstone | phr | "Have a Millstone about One's Neck" - to be burdened with overwhelming difficulties. |
| Millstone | phr | "His Eyes Drop like Millstones" - said of a hardhearted person. |
| Millstone | phr | "Look through a Millstone" - to be wonderfully sharp-sighted. |
| Millstone | phr | "Millstone About Someone Neck" - a great burden |
| Millstone | phr | "Weep Millstones" - not weep at all. |
| Millstream | n | Water that runs through a millrace. |
| Milltooth | n | A molar or grinder-tooth. |
| Milltown | n | A town whose center of activity is a mill or gropu pf mills . and whose population is largely employed in the mill or mills. |
| Millward | n | Originally a keeper of a manorial mill; in later use; a miller. |
| Mill-wheel | n | A wheel (esp. a water wheel)used to drive a mill. |
| Mill-wheel Life | n | "There is no connection between the bustling "mill-wheel-life" of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing ... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly." |
| Millwork | n | Carpentry work delivered from mill ready for installation or use. |
| Millworker | n | One who works in a mill. |
| Millworks | n | Machinery and mechanisms of a mill. |
| Millwright | n | An engineer or mechanic whose occupation it is to design or set up mills or mill machinery. |
| Mill-wrighting | n | The labour or trade of a millwright. |
| Mill-yemer | n | One who has custody of a mill. |
| Milord | n | A form of address for a rich or aristocratic englishman. |
| Milse | n | Milse |
| Milt | n | The spleen in mammals. 2. the roe or spawn of the male fish. 3. the sperm of male fish. |
| Milth | n | Mercy, compassion, kindness. |
| Milth | adj | (A form of mild) = mercy. |
| Milth | vb | To have mercy, be kind, compassionate. |
| Milthlike | adj | Having the qualites and characteristics of milth: kind, compassionate, merciful. |
| Milthly | adv | Kindly, with mercy, compassionately, mildly. |
| Milthness | n | Quality or state of being kind, merciful, compassionate. 2. mildness. |
| Miltsickness | n | Anthrax |
| Miltwort | n | The finger-fern; one of the spleen worts, Asplenium ceterach |
| Milty | adj | Resembling or the nature of the milt or spleen. |
| Min | n | OE only: mind. 2. mind, purpose. 3. intention. 4. remembrance, memory, mention. |
| Min | vb | OE. to intend, to have purpose, or direct one's own course. 2. to remind, recollect, remember, think. 3. to remember, to have or bear in mind. 4. to think of something or someone. 5. to commemorate. |
| Minchen | n | A nun. |
| Mind | n | The faculty of the memory. 2. the state of being remembered, remembrance, recollection, bear in mind. 3. opinion, way of mind. 4. desire inclination, to have a mind. 5. mental disposition, character or temper. 6. intellectual power or capacity. 7. the faculty of cognition and intellect, as opposed to will and emotion. 8. sanity, sound mentality. 9 the spirit of intelligence pervading the universe, as opposed to matter. |
| Mind | vb | To pay attention to, occupy oneself with. 2. to be careful or wary. 3. to give heed to, obey. 4. to care for, tend to. 5. to be concerned about, regard with annoyance, dislike. 6. to remember, remind, make aware. 7. to be aware, notice, perceive. 8. to intend, purpose. 9. to be concerned, care, careful. |
| Mind | adj | Present to one's mind. 2. of a person: mindful, taking thought. |
| Mind | phr | "Against the Mind of" - in opposition to another's judgement, wish or opinion. 2. wish or opinion, without consent. |
| Mind | phr | "Are you Out of Your Mind?" - are you mad; not thinking straight or logical? |
| Mind | phr | "As One's Mind" - one attends to, is interested in. |
| Mind | phr | "A Thought in the back of One's Mind" - an undeveloped idea. |
| Mind | phr | "At the Back of One's Mind" - (always) in one thoughts. |
| Mind | phr | "Bear in Mind" - remember, keep or retain in thought. 2. keep in mind. |
| Mind | phr | "Bear Good Mind" - to be disposed towards. |
| Mind | phr | "Be of Good Mind" - in a positive mind or attitude. |
| Mind | phr | "Be in Two Minds" - to waver between two intentions. |
| Mind | phr | "Be of Many Minds" - waver in purpose; chop and change. |
| Mind | phr | "Be of One Mind" - to agree in judgement, purpose or opinion; to be unanimous. 2. with one mind. 3. be of another mind; or agree with one's way of thinking. |
| Mind | phr | "Be of the Same Mind" - agree, think alike. |
| Mind | phr | "Be in Two Minds" - be undecided. |
| Mind | phr | "Be in the Right Mind" - to think clearly, logical and positively. |
| Mind | phr | "Be so Minded" - to be inclined to do what has been mentioned. |
| Mind | phr | "Blow One's Mind" - cause or have hallicinations. |
| Mind | phr | "Bring One in Mind" - to persuade. |
| Mind | phr | "Bring to Mind" - recall, remember, anget. |
| Mind | phr | "Broaden One's Mind" - provide one with new experiences and knowledge. |
| Mind | phr | "By One's Mind Sake" - by desire, or after the direction of. |
| Mind | phr | "Cast One's Mind Back to" - remember a past event, incident. |
| Mind | phr | "Cloud One's Mind" - to allow irrelevant or extraneous factors to effect one's impartiality or judgement. |
| Mind | phr | "Come to Mind" - remember, recollect, recalled. 2. spring to mind. |
| Mind | phr | "Do you Mind" - please don't do that. |
| Mind | phr | "Drive Out Of One's Mind" - cause great worry to a person. |
| Mind | phr | "For One's Mind Sake" - to gratify one's whim. |
| Mind | phr | "From Time Out of Mind" - time immemorial; for an inconceivably, long future time. |
| Mind | phr | "Fulfill One's Mind" - to accomplish one's purpose. 2. satisfy one's desires. |
| Mind | phr | "Give One's Mind to" - to set or addict one's self to a (study or practice) etc. 2. to put one's energy towards accomplishments or attaining (an object.) 3. give attention, consideration. |
| Mind | phr | "Go Out of Mind" - to be forgotten or no longer thought of or remembered. |
| Mind | phr | "Go Out of One's Mind" - to become greatly agitated, distressed or distraught. 2. lose one's mind. |
| Mind | phr | "Great Minds Think Alike" - similar ideas, views are shared by clever people (joculaly said). |
| Mind | phr | "Have a Mind for it" - to desire to possess it; to wish fot it. |
| Mind | phr | "Have a Mind of One's Own" - to think and act independently. 2. not to be easily influenced. |
| Mind | phr | "Have a Mind to do Something" - feel strongly inclined to do it. |
| Mind | phr | "Have Half/Good/Great a Mind" - to be strongly disposed or inclined (to do something)which one can do if one wishes. |
| Mind | phr | "Have It In Mind" - to think of, give heed to. |
| Mind | phr | "Have No Mind" - be without purpose or direction. |
| Mind | phr | "Have One's Mind" - to get what one wants. |
| Mind | phr | "Have Something in Mind" - have an idea about something. |
| Mind | phr | "Have Something on One's Mind" - be preoccupied with. 2. be troubled by something. |
| Mind | phr | "Having the Mind to" - to aim or be determined to pursue someone or something. |
| Mind | phr | "I Don't Mind if I Do." - words of acceptance or agreement, used esp. in accepting an offer of food or drink. |
| Mind | phr | "If You Don't Mind." - address to someone who you believe has not taken care to avoid doing something wrong or thoughtless. 2. I will do that, if you have no objection. |
| Mind | phr | "In My Mind." - in my judgement or opinion, as I think, to my mind. |
| Mind | phr | "In One's Mind Eye" - a mental view, imagination, or vision. |
| Mind | phr | "I Should Not Mind" - i will not object, be concerned about or affected by something proposed. |
| Mind | phr | "It Is All In the Mind" - it is imaginary. |
| Mind | phr | "I Wouldn't Mind" - I would like. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep/Have an Open Mind" - be open to suggestions. |
| Keep | phr | "Keep One's Mind On" - concentrate on. |
| Mind | phr | "Keep in Mind." - to have, bear in mind, hold in mind, to remember, retain in memory. 2. keep before one, keep one's attention fixed upon. |
| Mind | phr | "Know One's Own Mind." - to form and adhere to a decision without prevarication or waver. 2. to have a line of action and stick to it. 3. be confident in one's own opinions. |
| Mind | phr | "Let Another Know One's Mind" - to speak candidly or plainly; speak freely. |
| Mind | phr | "Lose One's Mind" - go mad, become insane. |
| Mind | phr | "Mind One's P's and Q's" - be very careful and correct in one's procedure, speech or behavior. |
| Mind | phr | "Make Up One's Mind." - decide, choose a way oir direction. |
| Mind | phr | "Mind How You Go" - be careful. |
| Mind | phr | "Mind Out" - take care to avoid danger. 2. look out!; be careful! |
| Mind | phr | "Mind the Shop" - have charge of affairs temporarily. |
| Mind | phr | "Mind You." - all the same, even so. 2. let me remind you (and myself). 3. nevertheless; all / just the same. 4. at the same time. |
| Mind | phr | "Mind You Do!" - don't fail to do it! |
| Mind | phr | "Mind Your Back" - please move out of the way. |
| Mind | phr | "Mind Your Eye" - look out!; keep alert! |
| Mind | phr | "Mind Your Own Business" - concern oneself with one's affairs, one's own life and work without being unduly curious about or interfering with, what others do. 2. jocularly or slang: 'mind your own beeswax' |
| Mind | phr | "Mind Your Step" - watch where you walk. |
| Mind | phr | "Never Mind" - don't let it trouble you . 2. it doesn't matter; don't wrry . 3. (offensively) it's none of your business. |
| Mind | phr | "Never You Mind" - it is no concern to you. |
| Mind | phr | "Of One and the Same Mind." - agree, think alike. |
| Mind | phr | "Of Sound or Unsound mind." - the healthy or normal condition of mental faculties. 2. the loss or impairment of which constitutes insanity. 3. one's reasons or wits. |
| Mind | phr | "On One's Mind." - occupying one's thoughts; said, esp. of something which causes anxiety. |
| Mind | phr | Open One's Mind to" - be receptive to change, new ides etc. |
| Mind | phr | "Out of Mind." - forgotten, failed to recall. 2. disregard as unimportant. 3. "out of sight, out of mind." 4. more than one can calculate. |
| Mind | phr | "Out of One's Right Mind" - mad, insane. |
| Mind | phr | "Put in Mind Of (Someone)" - to remind someone of, to inspire, a mental image of awareness of, to cause thoughts concerning. |
| Mind | phr | "Put One In Mind Of" - remind one of. |
| Mind | phr | "Put One's Mind to" - make a conscious effort. |
| Mind | phr | "Put One's Mind at Rest" - reassure oneself or another. |
| Mind | phr | "Put Out of Mind" - deliberately forget. |
| Mind | phr | "Put Somebody's Mind to Rest" - reassure somebody. |
| Mind | phr | "Read Somebody's Mind" - guess what somebody is thinking or talking about. |
| Mind | phr | "Rest Easy in One's Mind" - be calm, unworried. |
| Mind | phr | "Run In One's Mind" - to be of purpose of resolution. |
| Mind | phr | "Speak One's Mind." -to give one's judgement or opinion, esp. to express one's sentiments candidly or plainly; to speak freely. 2. to know one's mind. |
| Mind | phr | "Spring to Mind" - become immediately obvious. 2. to suddenly occur to a person. |
| Mind | phr | "Stoned Out Of One's Mind" - very drugged or drunk. |
| Mind | phr | "Take Somebody's Mind off Something" - distract somebody. |
| Mind | phr | "That Has Taken a Load Off My Mind" - I am relieved. |
| Mind | phr | "Time Out of Mind" - time immemorial; from a time out of mind. |
| Mind | phr | "Time Within Mind" - within the memory of man. |
| Mind | phr | "To (One's/My) Mind." - according to one's wish, or one's taste, liking; opinion. 2. as one would have it, after one's mind. |
| Mind | phr | "Weight off One's Mind" - to be of a great relief. |
| Mind | phr | "Whole of Mind" - sound or healthy of mind and meantal state. |
| Mind | phr | "With One Mind." - unanimously, within one accord. |
| Mind | phr | "Within time of Mind." - time within the mind of men; within the memory of man. |
| Mind | phr | "Without the Mind of" - in opposition to the judgement of another, wish or opinion. 2. wish or opinion, without consent. |
| Mind-bend | vb | To influence or alter the mind of oneself or others. |
| Mind-bender | n | A person or thing which, influences or alters the mind. |
| Mind-bending | adj | Hallucinogenic. 2. mentally taxing; cf. 'brain-bending'; confusing, baffling, shattering. |
| Mindblindness | n | A cognitive disorder where an individual is unable to relate to the mental state of others |
| Mind-blowing | adj | Hallucigenic. 2. having an overwhelming effect on the imagination; mind-boggling. |
| Mind-blown | adj | A slang term used to express one’s excitement after learning or discovering new knowledge, oftentimes regardless of its degree of significance. It can be seen as a contraction of the idiomatic phrase “blow someone’s mind,”[1] as in to astonish or impress someone in a moving way |
| Mind-blownness | n | The state of one whose mims is 'blown.' |
| Mind-body | n | A term used in relation to the question of whether a distinction can be made between mental and physiological events. |
| Mind-day | n | A remembrance day, day of commemoration, esp. an anniversary. 2. red-letter day. |
| Mind-dust | n | A postulate of materialism that the human mind results for a combination of particles of mind that has always existed in association with material atoms. |
| Minded | adj | Inclined to think, in a particular way. 2. interested in or enthusiastic about a particular thing. |
| Mindedly | adv | In a specified minded manner. |
| Mindedness | n | The state of being minded in a particular way (narrow-mindedness). |
| Minder | n | One who remembers. 2. one who sets his mine upon something. 3. a child-minder, baby-sitter. 4. a child who is minded or taken care of at a minding-centre. |
| Mindful | adj | Having thought for or taking care of. 2. heedful of, keeping remembrance of, having remembrance of. 3. minded, intention to do something. |
| Mindfully | adv | In a mindful manner; attentively, heedfully, thoughtfully, earnestly, intently. |
| Mindfulness | n | Mindfulness is the psychological process of bringing one's attention to experiences occurring in the present moment, which can be developed through the practice of meditation and other training. The term "mindfulness" is a translation of the Pali term sati, which is a significant element of Buddhist traditions. In Buddhist teachings, mindfulness is utilized to develop self-knowledge and wisdom that gradually lead to what is described as enlightenment or the complete freedom from suffering. The recent popularity of mindfulness in the West is generally considered to have been initiated by Jon Kabat-Zinn. 2. state or condition of being mindful. 3. intention, regard, purpose, memory. |
| Mind-games | n | In psychology used to define three forms of competitive human behaviors: a largely conscious struggle for psychological one-upmanship, often employing passive–aggressive behavior to specifically demoralize or dis-empower the thinking subject, making the aggressor look superior; also referred to as "power games". 2. the unconscious games played by people engaged in ulterior transactions of which they are not fully aware, and which transactional analysis considers to form a central element of social life all over the world. 3. mental exercises designed to improve the functioning of mind and/or personality; see also brain teasers or puzzles. |
| Mind-healer | n | A healer of the mind; pyschiatrist. 2. a pyschologist; a quack, charlatan. |
| Mind-healing | n | Something that heals or soothes the mind. |
| Mind-hill | n | Memorial, mound or cairn. |
| Mind-hunger | n | A hunger or yearning for learning and knowledge. 2. curious, inquisitiveness. |
| Minding | n | The action of remembering, regarding, paying attention to, caring. 2. remembrance, recollection, that which reminds, a reminder, minging. 3. the marks on a stone about to be sawn, for the guidance of sawyer. |
| Minding-school | n | A school whose chief purpose is to keep children out of trouble. |
| Mindless | adj | Destitute of mind, unintelligent, senseless, stupified, insane, stultified. 2. unmindful, thoughtless, careless, negligent, disregardful. |
| Mindlessly | adv | In a somewhat senseless manner, without the use or involvement of the mind or intellect. |
| Mindlessness | n | State or condition of being mindless; heedlessness. 2 total privation of mental power. |
| Mind-like | adj | Characteristic of, or resembling the mind in some aspect. |
| Mindliness | n | An individual organization and control over his or her mind and emotions. 2. one's sense of genuity and mind that inculcates your knowing. 3. the quality associated with the mind; mental, mindly. 4. 'don't let oneself go into some psychological state of doom-ridden mindliness'. 5. remembrance. |
| Mindly | adv | Mindful. 2. pertaining to the mind; mental. |
| Mind-made | adj | The general principle that every object of experience is mind-made. |
| Mind-making | n | Learning, educating, rearing, nurturing (esp, of children). |
| Mind-read | n | To discern, or appear to discern, another's thoughts. |
| Mind-reader | n | One who discerns, or appear to discern, some one's thoughts. 2. someone telepathic with powers to sense what another or others are thinking. |
| Mind-reading | n | The ability to sense what others are thinking; telepathy. |
| Mind's-ear | n | An imaginative capability to create or recall sound within one's mind; the part of the mind that experiences imagined or recalled sounds (an allusion to 'mind's eye' which is likewise responsible for mental imagery). |
| Mind-set | n | A fixed opinion or state of mind formed by earlier events. |
| Mind's-eye | n | A human ability to visualize, i.e. to experience visual mental imagery; in other words , one's ability to see 'things' with their mind. |
| Mindshare | n | A consumers awareness of a particular brand or product compared to that of its rival. |
| Mind-sick | adj | Mentally ill or insane. |
| Mind-sight | n | Mental vision. |
| Mindsman | n | A man of mind. |
| Mindstream | n | In Buddhist philosophy the moment-to-moment continium of sense, impression and mental phenomena, which is described as a continuing from one life to another. |
| Mind-stretching | n | The stretching or bending a mind towards an object. 2. the closeness of application with a fixed of intention. 3. mental activity in which mental and intellectual efforts are used long and hard. 4. the learning of new things expanding one's mind, intellect. |
| Mind-stricken | adj | Moved or affected in the mind. |
| Mind struck | adj | Something coming into the mind; as, an idea coming into the mind suddenly. |
| Mindsy | adj | Mindful, hence mindiness, mindfulness. |
| Mind-token | n | A memorial. |
| Mind-tool | n | A tool, as a computer, that can be used to extend cognitve function. |
| Mind-wandering | n | 'His best results come through mind-wandering' - |
| Mind-weary | adj | Mentally and emotionally tired. |
| Mind-wipe | n | To erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. this is frequently prtrayed as as a form of a capital punishment which leaves a viable body into which a different personality can be uploaded. 2. the act of mind-wiping; clean-slating. |
| Mind-world | n | The world of thought that exists within our mind. 2. the world of our mind. 3. the world in our head. |
| Mindy | adj | Mindful |
| Mine | prn | Belonging to me; that which belongs to me. |
| Minehood | n | The fact of being mine; as,"He inclined himself to my minehood and my I-hood inclined itself up to him." |
| Ming | n | A mixture. |
| Ming | vb | To put in the mind; remind a person. 2. to bring to remembrance, to commerate, mention. 3. remember; also, reflexive use, as in " to bethink oneself." 3. to give an account, to relate. 6. to commemorate. 7. admonish, rebuke, reprove. |
| Minging | n | The action of putting something in the mind; reminding a person. 2. the action of bringing to remembrance, to commemorating, mentioning. 3. remembering; also, bethinking oneself." 3. accounting for, relating to. 6.commemorating. 7. admonishing, admonition, rebuking, reproving, warning. 8. premonitory symptoms. |
| Minging | n | The state of being mixed or mingled. |
| Mingle | vb | Blend. |
| Mingle | phr | "Mingle their Tears" - weep or grieve together. |
| Mingle | phr | "Mingle with" - go about among. |
| Mingly | adv | In a mixed or mingled manner |
| Mingwort | n | Wormwood. |
| Minning | n | Remembrance, memory, memorial. 2. commemoration for a dark soul. 3. peel of a bell, rang at the death of someone.. 4. premonitory symptom. 5. minging. |
| Minning-day | n | Day of remembrance. |
| Minnow | n | A small freshwater fish; any small fish. 2. a novice. 3. a low-level performing team (or, individual) in comparison with their opponents or peers.????? |
| Minster | n | A monastery; a church belonging or situated beside a monastery; a cathedral, a temple; a Christian religious house. |
| Mint | vb | To make coin by stamping metal. 2. to make paper money. 3. to fabricate, counterfeit, mostly used contemptuously. 4. to invent a word. |
| Mint | n | A piece of money, money, coin(s). 2. a plce where money is lawfully coined. 3. a set of machinery for coining. 4. a place in which the fabrication of a thing is carried out, a source of invention or fabrication. 5. coinage; quantity of money coined. 6. a vast sum of money; a vast amount of something, often costly. |
| Mint | n | Any one of the labiate of the genus Mentha, such as Mentha viridis or garden mint or spearmint. |
| Mint | n | Purpose, intention, thought, mind. 2. an attempt, effort, endeavour. 3. a blow aimed at. 4. a threatening gesture or movement. |
| Mint | vb | To think, intend, put mind to, endeavour, venture. 2. to direct or address a speech to. 4. to aim a blow, take aim in shooting. 5. to make a threatening movement towards. 6. to move to seize something. 7. to point. 8. to aim or aspire to. 9. to mention, or speak of. |
| Mint | phr | "Make a Mint" - earn a lot of money. |
| Mint | phr | "Worth a Mint" - very wealthy. |
| Minter | n | A money-charger. 2. one who coins or stamps money. 3. a moneyer, inventor, deliberate maker of |
| Mintiness | n | The state or condition of being minty. |
| Minting | n | The stamping of metal to make coins. 2. the printing of paper money. |
| Minting | adj | Newly or freshly made or minted. |
| Minting-house | n | A place wheremoney is coined, a mint. |
| Minting-mill | n | A coining or coin-making machine. |
| Mintman | n | A male or female worker, in a mint, producing coins. |
| Mintlike | adj | Resembling mint, minty. |
| Mintmark | n | An inscription stamped on a coin indicatiing the mint of origin. |
| Minty | adj | Abounding in mint. 2. resembling the flavour of mint. |
| Mirth | n | Pleasurable feeling or enjoyment, joy, gratification, happiness. 2. delights, joy. 3. cause of joy. 4. rejoicing, merry-making, jollity, gaiety. 5. something which gives pleasure or amusement, a diversion, sporting entertainment. 6. something which affords pleasure or musement, a diversion, sport, entertainment. 7.musical entertainment, melody. 8 gaiety of mind, as manifest in jest and laughter, merriness, hilarity, jocularity, fun, ridicule. 9. all the above-mentioned things personified. |
| Mirth | vb | To be glad, rejoice. 2. to gladden, delight, to provide sport or entertainment. 3. to give pleasure or amusement. 4. to musically entertain. |
| Mirth-day | n | A holiday, festival, ferial celebration. |
| Mirthful | adj | Of persons, their dispostion, moods: full of mirth, joyous, gladsome, hilarious, happy. 2. of places, seasons: mirth or rejoicing in characteristic. 3. of sounds and utterances: expressive mirth, joyous, pleasing. 4. of things, affording mirthy amusement. |
| Mirthfully | adv | In a manner mirthful, joyously. 2. amusing, humorous in manner. |
| Mirthfulness | n | Quality or state of being mirthful, joyfulness, jocularity, jocosity, facetiousness. |
| Mirthing | n | Rejoicing. |
| Mirthless | adj | Wanting in mirth, joyless, sad, dismal. |
| Mirthlessness | n | Quality or state of being mirthless, sad, dismal, lacking in joy, fun, without merriness, unhappy, etc. |
| Mirth-lit | adj | Lit up or filled with mirth. |
| Mirth-loving | adj | Fun-loving, happiness-seeking, merry-making. |
| Mirthly | adv | In a funloving, merry, happy, jolly manner. |
| Mirth-maker | n | One who creates mirth, enjoyment, fun, merriment etc. 2. a mirth-monger. |
| Mirth-making | n | The action of making or creating mirth or enjoyment. |
| Mirth-marrer | n | One who puts a check or stop on mirth, happiness, joy and merrymaking. 2. a kill-joy. |
| Mirth-marring | n | The stopping or limiting mirth or joy. |
| Mirth-monger | n | A mirth-maker, one peddles fun, hilarity, enjoyment, entertainment. |
| Mirthsome | adj | Full of mirth. |
| Mirth-song | n | A song of religious joy. |
| Miry | adj | Of the nature of a mire or marshy ground; swampy, abounding in mire, muddy. 2. covered or bespattered in mud or mire. 3. dirty, defiled, despicable. OE?????????? |
| Mis | adj | Predominant meaning in the Teutonic languages: amiss, wrongfully, perversely, |
| Misanswer | n | A wrong answer. 2. failure to correspond to the requirements. |
| Misanswer | vb | To give a perverse or wrong answer to someone. |
| Misbear | vb | To misbehave or misconduct oneself. |
| Misbearing | n | Misconduct, wrongful bearing. |
| Misbecome | vb | To fail to become; to suit ill. 2. to become unsuitable or unbecoming to. |
| Misbecoming | n | Not becoming; unbecoming, unsuitable, unfitting; unseemly, indecorous.. |
| Misbecomingly | adv | Unfittingly, unsuitably. |
| Misbecomingness | n | The quality or condition of being unbecoming or misbecoming; also in particularised use: an unbecoming characteristic. |
| Misbede | vb | To ill-use, ill-treat, to injure, to abuse. |
| Misbefall | vb | To happen unfortunately, to turn out badly. |
| Misbefallen | adj | Of persons: coming to harm; unfortunately. |
| Misbeget | vb | To beget unlawfully. |
| Misbegin | vb | To begin or start badly. |
| Misbegotten | adj | Unlawfully begotten or conce1ved, illegimate, bastard. |
| Misbehave | vb | To behave wrongly or ill-behave. 2. to conduct oneself improperly. 3. to conduct or manage improperly or with improperness. |
| Misbehaving | n | The action of misbehaving in an appropriate improper, incorrect or unexpected manner. |
| Misbeholden | vb | To be offensive, ill-natured, out of place in civilized company. |
| Misbeholding | n | Unbecomingness, indiscreetness, disobligingness |
| Misbelead | vb | To lead astray. |
| Misbelief | n | An erroneous or unorthodox religious belief; wrong belief, faith, heresy, apostasy. 2. erroneous belief; false opinion or notion. 3. want of belief, disbelief, incredulity. |
| Misbeliefness | n | Unbelief, atheism, incredulity. |
| Misbelieve | vb | To be amiss in belief; to hold erroneous beliefs. 2. not to believe, deny the truth, to distrust, to disbelieve. |
| Misbeliever | adj | one holding a false belief or false religion. 2. heretic, fidelity |
| Misbelieving | n | State of holding a false belief, heretical and unorthodox. |
| Misbelove | vb | To "love" falsely, or love with impropriety. |
| Misbestow | vb | To bestow wrongly or impropriety. |
| Misbethink | vb | To think amiss. 2. to become mistaken. 3. to have wrong thoughts |
| Misbetide | vb | Misbefall. 2. to happen unfortunately; to turn out badly of events. 3. to unhappen unfortunately; to come to harm. |
| Misbeheede | vb | To be or become misguided. |
| Misbid | vb | To make an incorrect offer or bid. at a auction; card game etc. |
| Misbidding | n | The act or action of making an incorrect offer or bid. at a auction; card game etc. |
| Misbind | vb | To bind incorrectly, as a book or document. |
| Misbirth | n | Abortion. |
| Misbode | n | A wrong, an offence, misdeed. |
| Misbode | vb | To forebode something evil; misbodings. |
| Misborn | adj | Prematurely born, abortive, hence deformed or misshapen from birth; born of an unlawful union, hence bastard-born. 2. born to evil. |
| Misbrand | vb | To brand or label incorrectly, esp. in order to mislead or defraud. |
| Misbranded | adj | Branded or labelled incorrectly, esp. in order to mislead or defraud. |
| Miscast | vb | To cast or reckon incorrectly or wrongly; faulty reckoning. 2. to cast or direct erroneously or improperly, as a look or a glance. 3. make an error when casting a vote. 4. to allot unsuitably, as a parts of a play. |
| Misclad | adj | Wrongly or innapropriately dressed. |
| Miscleping | n | Misnaming |
| Miscome | vb | To come at the the wrong or inappropriate time. 2. an illegitimate child, a love-child. |
| Miscome | adj | Illegimitate; born out of wedlock. |
| Misdeal | vb | To distribute unfairly. 2. make a mistake when dealing cards. |
| Misdealer | n | One who distributes unfairly. 2. one who makes a mistake when dealing cards. |
| Misdealing | n | Wrong or improper dealing, wrong doing, evil or bad conduct. |
| Misdeed | n | A wrong action, an offence, crime, an evil, evil deed, misdoings (collectively). |
| Misdeedy | adj | doing wrong, bad, nefarious, malicious. |
| Misdeem | n | Misjudgement. |
| Misdeem | vb | To form an unfavourable judgement. 2. to have a wrong opinion. 3. to be mistaken in one's view of. 4. to suppose (a person or thing). 5. erroneously become something else. 6. to hold a mistaken opinion. 7. to have a suspicion or inkling of evil; to suspect. |
| Misdeemer | n | One who misjudges, has a wrong opinion, mistaken view; a suspicion. |
| Misdeemful | adj | Having or making a false judgement. 2. being suspicious, suspectful. |
| Misdeeming | n | Misjudging, mistaking, suspecting. |
| Misdight | vb | To be ill-clothed, badly furnished or presented. 2. to be mistaken, |
| Misdo | vb | To do evil or wrong. 2. to do harm or injury to or unto. 3. to do amiss. 4. to do evil or wrong to a person. 5. to harm, injure, wrong. 6. to destroy, put out out of existence, to do away with oneself. |
| Misdoer | n | Wrong-doer, malefactor, offender. |
| Misdoing | n | Evil-doing, improper performance, an instance of wong-doing, misdeed. |
| Misdoom | n | Misjudgement. |
| Misdraught | n | Misbehaviour. 2, draft of air in the wrong direction. |
| Misdraw | vb | To draw amiss. |
| Misdrawing | vb | To draw wrongly or incorrectly. 2. to go astray. |
| Misdrawing | n | A faulty drawing or delineation. |
| Misdread | vb | To have fear, be in dread, to dread. |
| Miseat | vb | To overeat and eat an inappropriate diet. |
| Misfall | vb | To suffer misfortune, come to grief, to happen unfortunately. 2. to fall out, to be amiss. Nb: " It misfell me." -- misfortune befell me. |
| Misfall | n | Mishap, misfortune. |
| Misfare | n | A mishap, misfortune, a going wrong or astray. |
| Misfaring | n | Wrong-doing, transgression, misbehaving. |
| Misfather | vb | To fail as a parent in the care and nurturing of his children |
| Misfeed | vb | An instance of faulty feeding of something, (mostly paper) through a machine. |
| Misfeel | vb | To have sinful feelings |
| Misfeelings | n | Doubts, wrongful feelings, sinful feelings. |
| Misfere | vb | To do wrong, transgress, misbehave. 2. to fare ill, to come to grief. 3. to be unfortunate or unsuccessful. |
| Misfire | vb | Of a gun: to fail to discharge or explode. 2. of an engine: to charge correctly or efficiently. |
| Misfiring | n | an incident of a gun: to fail to discharge or explode; or of an engine: to charge correctly or efficiently. |
| Misfold | vb | To fold a document incorrectly. 2. to fold clothing in an untidy manner. |
| Misfolded | adj | Folded incorrectly or in an untidy manner etc. |
| Misfong | vb | To make a mistake. 2. treat wrongly. |
| Misfooting | n | A going astray. |
| Misframe | vb | To frame wrongly. |
| Misgang | n | Going astray, misbehaviour. |
| Misget | vb | To get wrongly or unlawfully, to provide by unlawful means. |
| Misgive | vb | Of one's heart or mind: to suggest misapprehension; to cause to be apprehensive. 2. to incline to suspicion or foreboding. 3. of the mind: to have misgivings; suggest fear of. 4. to cite wrongly. |
| Misgiver | n | One who misgives or has doubts and misapprehensions. |
| Misgiving | n | A feeling of mistrust, apprehension or loss of confidence. |
| Misgo | vb | To go astray, to go down the wrong path or way, (often fig. in context.) |
| Misgoing | n | A going astay, trepass, transgressions. |
| Misgotten | adj | Wrongly acquired or obtained; ill-gotten. |
| Misgrounded | adj | Falsely grounded or ill-fpunded. |
| Misgrown | adj | Grown or formed out of shape. 2. mis-shappen. |
| Misgrowth | n | A distorted or abortive growth. 2. an unnatural growth. |
| Misguilt | n | Offence, misdeed, crime. |
| Mishale | adj | Unhealthy, sick, lacking robustness, defective. |
| Mishallowed | adj | Of feigned holiness or religious belief. |
| Mishandle | vb | To beat badly or inmproperly. 2. to handle roughly or rudely. 3. to maltreat, ill-treat. |
| Mishandler | n | One who beat another badly or improperly. 2. to handle roughly or rudely. 3. to maltreat, ill-treat. |
| Mishandling | n | Maltreatment, improper treatment, rough handling. |
| Mishear | vb | OE: to disobey. 2. to hear amiss, hear imperfectedly or incorrectly. |
| Mishearing | n | Sinful hearing or listening; eavesdropping. |
| Mishearken | vb | To mishear; to listen sinfully. |
| Misheed | vb | Wrongly observe or take notice of inappropriate advice. |
| Mishit | n | An incorrect or bad hit. |
| Mishit | vb | To incorrectly or badly hit. |
| Mishope | n | Despair, despondency, blues. |
| Mishope | vb | To fail to hope in. 2. to despair, be despondent. |
| Miskeep | vb | To kee or maintain improperly. 2. to fail to observe an anniversary, duty. |
| Miskeeping | n | The improper or faulty keeping of. 2. the miskeeping or non-observance of an anniversary, religious duties, etc. |
| Misken | vb | To not to know; fail to recognise or notice. 2. to be ignorant of. 3. to have many ideas about, misunderstand. 4. to have false ideas about oneself or one's position. 3. to refuse to recognise or notice. 4. to affect ignorance of. 5. to overlook, disregard, disown. |
| Miskenning | n | Misunderstanding, ignorance, neglect, forgetfulness. 2. a mistake or variation |
| Miskey | vb | To key a word or a piece of data into a computer or other machine correctly. |
| Miskeying | n | An instance of keying erroneously; a typing error. |
| Misknow | vb | To have an evil conscience. 2. not to know or be aware of; to be ignorant of. 3. to be misknown. 4. to not recognise (a person). 5. to refuse to recognise or notice someone or something. 6. to know imperfectly. |
| Misknowning | n | The state or condition of ignorance, misunderstanding, neglect, forgetfulness. |
| Mislay | vb | Of an item or object: unable to be found through being wrongly placed. 2. to lay down something in a place which later can not be recollect. |
| Mislayer | n | One who wrongly places, files etc an item or object making it unable to be found. |
| Mislead | vb | To lead astray in action or conduct. 2. to lead into error; delude; to cause to err. 3. to misbehave, misconduct oneself. 4. to mismanage. 5. to lead or guide in the wrong direction. |
| Misleader | n | One who misleads or causes people to err. 2. one who misrules or misgoverns. |
| Misleading | adj | That leads astray or causes to err. 2. deliberately desingned to lead in the wrong direction or to the wrong conclusion. |
| Misleadingly | adv | In a misleading manner. |
| Misleadingness | n | State or act of being misleading. |
| Mislear | vb | To misteach or wrongly instruct. 2. misguide, lead astray or into error. |
| Misleared | adj | Unmannerly, ill-treat. 2. not knowing what is due to oneself or one's position in society. |
| Mislearn | vb | To learn badly or incorrectly. |
| Mislearned | adj | Perversely learned. |
| Mislearning | n | Want of learning. 2. bad or incorrect learning. |
| Misled | vb | To lead astray, misguide, ill-conduct. |
| Misleeful | adj | Unbelieving. |
| Misleve | n | Misbelief. |
| Misleve | vb | To believe wrongly, to misbelieve, disbelieve. |
| Mislich | adj | Diverse, unlike, various, different. |
| Misliche | adv | In various ways, diversely, variously. 2. in various directions, astray, wrongly, erringly. |
| Mislie | vb | To lie in a wrong position. 2. to set oneself down in a wrong or inappropriate position or situation. |
| Mislife | n | Wrong or inappropriate living. 2. misliveness; mislivedness. |
| Mislight | vb | To lead astray or into harm's way by light or the use of light. |
| Mislike | n | Want of affection, dilike of, distaste for, objection to 2. to becxcome unpopular with; disapprove of. 3. disafection, disagreement, dissension. 4. wasting or consumption in animals and plants. 5. disease, sickliness, illness, unhealthiness. |
| Mislike | vb | To be displeasing to, to displease, offend. 2. to be out of harmony with, to be displeased with, or offended at. 3. to disapprove of, dislike. 4. to take sinful pleasure in something. 5. to grow sickly or unhealthy. 6. to waste away or be consumed. |
| Mislikeness | n | A distorted shape. 2. a bad portraiture. |
| Misliker | n | One who become or feels displeased with, or offended at the actions, look etc of others. |
| Misliking | n | The opposite of pleasure, discomfort, uneasiness, unhappiness, trouble. 2.displeasure, indignation. 3. dislike of, aversion. 4. mutual disaffection, dissension. |
| Misliking | adj | Unpleasant, disaffected, indignation. 2. sickly, diseased, consumptive, unhealthy. |
| Misline | vb | to arrange in wrong order. |
| Mislive | vb | To live badly, wasteful, wrongly or in an immoral or evil way. |
| Mislived | adj | Wasted, badly lived,; evilly or wrongly lived. |
| Misliver | n | A person who lives an bad, evil or wasteful life. |
| Misliving | n | Evil-living; wasteful living; wrong-doing. |
| Mislook | vb | To sin in looking; to look unfavourably on. |
| Mislore | n | Evil or malicious teaching or advice. |
| Mislove | vb | To love in a wrong way: misloving. 2. to dispraise, to depreciate. |
| Misly | adv | Amiss, wrongfully, perversely, |
| Mismake | vb | To unmake, depose, discard. 2. to disturb oneself; to put oneself out or inconvenience oneself. |
| Mismaking | n | Something badly made, mismade or constructed. 2. something badly composed or written. |
| Mismark | vb | To mark, note, or designate wrongly. |
| Mismark | adj | Having wrongly marked. |
| Mismatch | n | A bad match; a discrepancy. 2. an unequal or unfair position in a sporting match or on various competitive situations in life (and love). 3. ill-matedness or an unsuitable match of married or to be marriage couples. |
| Mismatch | vb | To match badly, wrongly or unsuitably; esp. in marriage. 2. to be badly or ill-matched or ill-mated. |
| Mismatched | adj | Matched badly, wrongly or unsuitably; esp. in marriage. 2. badly or ill-matched or ill-mated. 3. not suited or compatible in various ways. |
| Mismatchedness | n | The state or condition of being mismatched. |
| Mismay | vb | To trouble, disturb, upset. (in the sense of mismake)- dismay, essmay. |
| Mismean | vb | To misinterpret, to wrongly take, wrongly thought. |
| Mismeaning | n | Wrong intention; misinterpretation. |
| Misminded | adj | Perverted or wrong interpreted in the mind. |
| Misname | vb | To call by a wrong name; miscall; misnamed. 2. to call by an abusive name. |
| Misnim | vb | To mistake, to make mistake, to err, do wrong. |
| Misniming | n | An error, erroring, misappropriating. |
| Misplay | vb | In games, a wrong play; hence, any wrong move. |
| Mispride | n | Improper pride; foolish pride. |
| Misproud | adj | Foolish, arrogant, wrongly proud; proud for the wrong reasons. |
| Misqueme | vb | To displease, offend. |
| Misread | vb | To read a piece of text incorrectly. 2. judge or interpret a situation or person's manner or behavior. |
| Misreading | n | The act or instance something incorrectly. |
| Misreckon | vb | To reckon, compute an amount incorrectly. 2. to make a wrong calculation in respect to a certain amount. |
| Misreckoning | n | Incorrect reckoning, casting, miscalculation of accounts. |
| Misrede | vb | To misadvise or wrongly advise. 2. to give bad counsel. |
| Miss | n | A failure to hit. 2. a failure to obtain or accomplishment. 3. an act of avoidance. |
| Miss | vb | To fail to hit. 2. to feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret. 3. to fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception. 4. to fail to attend. 5. to be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline etc).in sports - to fail to score (a goal). |
| Miss | phr | "A Miss Is as Good as a Mile" - something that nearly succeeds is no better than something that is a total failure. |
| Miss | phr | "Give It/Somebody a Miss" - not to do something. |
| Miss | phr | "I Miss You Now You Are Gone" - to lack, feel the want of. |
| Miss | phr | "Miss By a Mile" - to be nowhere near one's target. |
| Miss | phr | "Miss is as Good as a Mile" - narrowly missing success in doing or obtaining something has the same practical result as failing completely. 2. (coversely) a narrow escape from failure, danger, death, is as successful as an easy escape. |
| Miss | phr | "Miss Out" - forget, omit, fail to include. |
| Miss | phr | "Miss Out On" - not be present at; not experience, fail to notice and thus enjoy or profit from. |
| Miss | phr | "Miss the Boat" - to be too slow to take advantage of an opportunity. |
| Miss | phr | "Miss the Mark" - to fail to achieve the result that was intended. |
| Miss | phr | "Not Miss the Beat" - to carry on without the slightest interruption. |
| Mis-saw | n | Evil speaking, calumny, slander, abuse. 2. wrong expression, perverted language. |
| Mis-say | vb | To speak evil against a person; to abuse, slander, revile, vilify. 2. to say something something with evil, abuse, to slander with intent. 3. to speak evil, abusively, slanderously, arrogantly. 4. to speak evil of. 5. to say amiss, wrongly or incorrectly. 6. to say what or something that is not right or correct. |
| Mis-sayer | n | Slanderer, evil speaker, calumniator. |
| Mis-saying | n | The action of evil-speaking, slander or abuse. 2. mis-statement. |
| Missed | adj | Of cattle or animals: barren, unproductive. 2. straying, erring. |
| Mis-see | vb | To see imperfectedly. 2. to take a wrong view. |
| Mis-seek | vb | To seek wrongly or in the wrong places. |
| Mis-seeking | n | The action of seeking wrongly or in the wrong place. |
| Missel | n | Mistletoe. |
| Mis-sell | vb | To be or become a customer of a misleading advice. |
| Mis-send | vb | To send wrongly or amissly. 2. to send to the wrong place or person. |
| Mis-set | vb | TO set or put in the wrong place; to misplace. 2. to put out of humour, upset. |
| Mis-shape | n | In shape or figure having a deformity. 2. deformity, mis-shapedness, a misshapen body or person. |
| Mis-shape | vb | To shape ill; to give a bad form to; to deform; misshapen. |
| Mis-shaped | adj | Deformed in shape or figure; misshaped. 2. having a bad or ugly shape; ill-shaped, deformed. 3. badly deformed; shaped or formed; distorted. 4. morally monstrous or ugly. |
| Mis-shapen | adj | Not having the normal or natural shape shape or form; misshapen. |
| Mis-shapedness | n | The state or condition of being misshapen. |
| Mis-sheath | vb | To sheath or encase wrongly, erroneously. |
| Misshood | n | The condition of being an unmarried woman. (master late OE) |
| Missing | adj | Not able to be located; gone, absent, lost. 2. running roughly due to an occasional lack of spark or some other irregular fault. 3. a value that is missing (statistics). |
| Missingness | adv | The quality or condition of being absence. |
| Missing-mark | n | A person who misses the mark; or fails in a purpose. |
| Mis-sit | vb | To sit badly or imperfectly; to misbecome. |
| Misly | adv | |
| Miss-out | vb | To miss an experience or lose an opportunity etc., that should not be missed. 2. to leave out, to omit. |
| Mis-speak | vb | To speak wrongly or improperly. 2. to speak out. 3. calumninate, to rumour-spread. 4. to utter or pronounce incorrectly. 5. to fail to convey the meaning one intends by one's words. |
| Mis-speaking | n | The act of speaking incorrectly or improperly; mis-speech. 2. the failure to convey the meaning one intends by ones words. |
| Mis-speech | n | Wrongly or incorrect speech. |
| Mis-speed | n | Unsuccess, failure, luckless. |
| Misspell | vb | To spell incorrectly; to orthographise wrongly. |
| Misspeller | n | One who spells incorrectly. |
| Misspelling | n | An incorrect spelling of a word. |
| Mis-spend | vb | To waste, make bad use of expenditure, to be prodigal. |
| Mis-spender | n | One who is wasteful or prodigality |
| Mis-spending | n | Bad or wasteful expenditure; prodigality. |
| Mis-spent | adj | Wasted, dissipated, squandered, thrown away, frittered away, misused. |
| Mis-start | vb | To start forth amiss. |
| Mis-step | n | A wrong step: a faux pas. 2. a step in the wrong direction or less than wise decision or action. |
| Mis-step | vb | To make a wrong step. 2. to go astray. |
| Mis-sway | vb | To sway in the wrong direction. |
| Mis-swaying | n | Misgoverning, misgovernment, misrule |
| Missy | n | Pertaining to, resembling or characteristic of a miss or young lady. |
| Mist | n | Water or other liquid finely suspended in a layer of fine droplets or particles. 2. fig, a thing that dims or darkens, observes or intercepts vision. |
| Mist | vb | To form mist. 2. to spray fine droplets on, particularly of water. 3. to cover with a mist. 4. (of the eyes) to be covered by tears. |
| Mist | phr | "In Mist" -- things spiritual, esoteric or mystical. |
| Mist | phr | "Loss In Mist of Time" - used to show that something happened a very lone time ago, and is very difficult to remember. |
| Mist | phr | "Mist Over" - become covered with mist, tears or a thin line of water. 2. become darken or obscured. |
| Mist | phr | "Mist Up" - become obscured by a film of water (as a result of condensation). |
| Mist | phr | "Throw a Mist before One's Eyes" - to obscure vision (lit & fig.) |
| Mistake | n | An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct. 2. a misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it. |
| Mistake | vb | To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error. 2. to have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge. 3. to substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another. 4. to take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. 5. to take or choose wrongly. |
| Mistake | phr | "Make No Mistake" - you can be sure, undoubtedly. |
| Mistake | phr | "There's No Mistaking it" - you cannot confuse it with or mistake it for something else. |
| Mistakeless | adj | Without any mistakes; flawless. |
| Mistaken | adj | Wrong in one's opinion or judgement. |
| Mistakeness | n | The quality or condition of being mistaken. 2. mistakening. |
| Mistaker | n | One who is mistaken in error or at fault resulting from defective judgement, knowledge or carelessness.. |
| Mistakeningly | ad | On a mistakening way; wrongly, erroneously. |
| Mist-cloud | n | A cloud of mist. |
| Mist-cold | adj | Cold with mist. |
| Mist-drop | n | Misty drops. |
| Mistful | adj | Full of mist, obscured, with or as if with mist. |
| Misteach | vb | To teach or instruct badly. 2. to misdirect. |
| Misteaching | n | The act of teaching or instructing badly; misdirection. |
| Misted | adj | Obscured by or hidden in mist; fig., dulled, blurred. |
| Mistell | vb | To number or reckon incorrectly. 2. to miscount or count inaccurately. 3. to relate wrongly; teach, instruct wrongly or erroneously. |
| Misthank | vb | To show resentment of. |
| Misthew | n | A bad habit. |
| Misthink | vb | To have sinful thoughts. 2. to have mistaken thoughts. 3. to think mistakenly or incorrectly. 4. to think ill or badly of, have an unfavourable opinion of. 5. to think bad thoughts. |
| Misthinking | n | Sinful in thought. 2. of thoughts mistaken. |
| Misthought | n | Erroneous thoughts or notions. 2. mistaken opinion. |
| Misthrow | vb | To throw wrongly or inaccurately. |
| Misthunche | vb | To seem wrong; undo. |
| Mistide | n | A mishap, accident, misfortune. |
| Mistide | vb | In OE. to be a failure. 2. to happen amiss or unfortunately. 3. to have misfortune. 4. to mishap or mistime. |
| Mistihede | n | Mistiness, mistihood, obscurity. 2. mystical significance. |
| Mistihood | n | Obscurity, mystical meaning. |
| Mistily | adv | In a misty manner or way. |
| Mistime | vb | Of an event: to happen amiss, mishap. 2. of a person: to come to grief or harm. 3. to suffer; to suffer a mishap. 4. not to time something properly, to do or perform at the wrong time. 5. to miscalculate or misstate the time of. |
| Mistimed | adj | Unfortunately ill-timed, unfortunate, unreasonable, out of time or place. 2. disturbed in one's habits, esp., in respect to sleeping and eating. |
| Mistimely | adv | Unreasonably, ill-timely, untimely. |
| Mistiming | n | Doing a thing of the wrong time. 2. miscalculation of the time of an event. 3. disturbance of a regular habits. |
| Mistiness | n | The state or quality of being misty. |
| Misting | n | The action of covering or becoming misty. |
| Misting-up | n | The act of obscuring as with mist; the act of thus becoming obscured. |
| Misthithe | vb | To be dishonest in the paying of tithes. 2. to pay a thithe wrongly. |
| Mist-laden | adj | Heavily misted. |
| Mistless | adj | Free of mist. 2. clear, not obscured. |
| Mistle-thrush | n | Missel-thrush: a large thrush with a spotted breast , that feeds on mistletoe berries. |
| Mistletoe | n | Viscum album: a parasitic plant growing on apple and other trees and bearing white glutinous berries. |
| Mistle-toe | phr | "Kissing Under the Mistletoe" - an English Christmas time custom from about the C17th, where a man plucked a berry when he kisses a girl under the mistletoe tree, and when the last berry is gone there should be no more kissing. |
| Mist-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of mist in some aspect. 2. misty, obscure. |
| Mistread | n | A mis-step, misdeed, faux pas. |
| Mistread | vb | To make a false step. 2. to misdeed, make a faux pas. |
| Mistreading | n | A mis-step, a misdeed; a false step or move. |
| Mistrow | n | Mistrust, have suspicion of, to suspect of , to have a lack of faith in someone, not to believe in. |
| Mistrum | n | Weak, untrim, not strong. |
| Mistruth | n | Disbelief, untruth, unfaithfulness. |
| Mistruthful | adj | Disbeliefful, untruthful, unfaithful, dishonestly. |
| Mist-thread | n | A thin line or thread of mist. |
| Miswander | vb | To stray, go the wrong, go the wrong, down a wrong course, or course. |
| Mist-wet | adj | Wet with mist. |
| Mist-wrought | adj | Formed by mist. |
| Misty | adj | With mist; foggy. 2. fig. with tears in the eyes. |
| Misty-brained | adj | Illogical, unclear, confused of thinking. |
| Misty-bright | adj | The affect produced when sunbeams break through a mist |
| Misty-dark | adj | The affect produced when mist descends or is falling at dusk |
| Misty-eyed | adj | Tearful, lugubrious, larmoyant. |
| Misunderstand | vb | To incorrectly understand, whilst believing one has understood correctly. |
| Misunderstander | n | One who misunderstands or incorrectly understand. |
| Misunderstanding | n | A mistake in the meaning of something. 2. an erroneous interpretation, a misconception. 3. a disagreement or difference of opinion; a quarrel. |
| Misunderstandindly | adv | In a mistaken or erroneous manner. |
| Misunderstood | adj | Improperly understood or intepreted. 2. not appreciated by others. |
| Misunderstoodness | n | The state of being improperly understood or interpreted. 2. an instance or common occurrence of having something you say taken wrongly. |
| Miswander | vb | To go astray; go the wrong way. |
| Miswandered | adj | Going astray, deviating from the norm; aberrant. |
| Miswandering | adj | Going astray or awry. |
| Miswant | vb | To want something that you mistakenly believe will make you happy. |
| Misway | n | The wrong path, an unfortunate decision or choice. |
| Misway | phr | "Go Misway" - to go astray. |
| Miswear | vb | To wear badly. |
| Miswearing | n | An act or instance of miswear. |
| Miswed | vb | To marry unsuitably; to marry the wrong partner. |
| Miswedded | adj | Of a marriage: wrongly or unsuitably contracted or made. |
| Misween | vb | To have a wrong opinion of. 2. to think wrongly of. 3. to misjudge. |
| Misweening | n | Misthinking, misjudgement, mistrust. |
| Miswend | vb | To turn in a wrong direction. 2. to misapply. 3. to lead astray, to pervert; twist. 4. to go astray (lit. & fig.) 5. to come to grief. |
| Miswending | n | Perversion, disarray, dilapidate. |
| Miswent | adj | dilapidated, ruined, destroyed. 2. astray, out of gear. |
| Miswill | n | Wrong desire. |
| Miswin | vb | To obtain willfully. |
| Miswire | vb | To wire incorrectly. |
| Miswired | adj | Wired incorrectly. |
| Mis-wishing | n | The act of wishing for the wrong thing. |
| Mis-wite | vb | To neglect, not to care for. |
| Miswive | vb | To marry unlawfully. 2. to commit bigamy. |
| Miswoman | n | A strumpet, hooker, sex-worker, harlot, skank. |
| Miswont | vb | To misuse, disuse, abuse in use of. 2. to do wrongly or amiss. |
| Miswonted | adj | Having bad habits, that is being wont to do amiss. |
| Misword | n | A harsh, angry or cross word. |
| Misword | vb | To word a message, a piece of writing, composition etc. incorrectly. 2. miswrite, make a mistake in writing. |
| Misworded | adj | Miswritten, mistaken in writing, composed incorrectly. |
| Miswording | n | The action of incorrectly wording a writing. |
| Miswork | vb | To do amiss, to act amiss, to commit an offence, to work or do ill. 2. to manufacture something badly, miswrought. |
| Misworship | vb | To wrongly or falsely worship. |
| Miswrench | vb | To twist out of shape, to distort or change the shape of something. |
| Miswrite | vb | To write incorrectly, to make a mistake in writing. |
| Miswrought | vb | Badly worked, fashioned or prepared. |
| Miswune | n | An evil habit, a wone. |
| Misyearn | vb | To desire wrongly |
| Misyeme | vb | To neglect. |
| Misyenge | vb | To go astray, amiss. |
| Misyield | n | A bad, inferior, incorrect, wrong yield. |
| Misyield | vb | To give a bad, inferior or inncorrect yield. |
| Misyielding | adj | Producing a bad, wrong, incorrect inferior yield. |
| Misyoke | vb | To join in an unsuitable marriage. 2. marry the wrong partner. |
| Mit | n | A measure of capacity in OE. of approx. two ambers; mentioned as used for corn, meal, honey, ale, wire. 2. used as measure for salt in the C15th. 3. a shallow tub or like vessel used for household purposes. |
| Mite | n | OE. an insect; esp a minute one. 2. a minute particle. |
| Mite | phr | "Not a Mite" - not at all. |
| Mite-borne | adj | Carried and spread by mites or small insects. |
| Mithe | vb | To conceal, dissemble feelings and emotions. 2. to remain concealed. 3. to hide one'a thoughts and feelings. 4. to escape the notice of. |
| Miting | n | A term for a diminutive creature often used in contempt. |
| Mix | n | Dung, filth, ordure. 2. a vile wretch. |
| Mix | adj | Filthly, foul, vile. |
| Mixen | n | A place where dung and refuse is laid. 2. a dunghill or laystall. 3. a heap of dung, compost etc. used for manure. 4. dung and refuse from cow-stalls and sheds. 5. a term of a abuse or reproach to a woman or child. 7. a cock on his own. |
| Mixen | phr | "Better Wed Over the Mixen than Over the Moor" -- better to marry a neighbour than a stranger from distant parts. |
| Mixen-hole | n | A slum, ghetto, boondocks. 2. a man (used as a term of abuse). |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Mo | adv | More. |
| Mo | phr | "Mo and Mo" - used to express a progressive increase in numbers; more and more. |
| Mo | phr | "Mo or Less" - more or less. |
| Mo | phr | "Without Mo" - only, alone. |
| Moaks | n | A mash produced in the brewing process; a moaks. |
| Moal | n | OE: mael, moal, language, speech, lede. |
| Moch | n | A moth. |
| Moan | n | A long, low sound made by a person expressing physical or mental suffering or sexual pleasure. 2. groan, wail, whimper, sob, cry, whine, howl, lament, lamentation, keen. 3. a sound resembling a human moan. sough, sigh, murmur, whisper, groan. 4. a complaint which is perceived as trivial and not taken seriously by others. 5. complaint, complaining, moans and groans, grouch, grumble, whine, whining, carping, muttering, murmur, murmuring, whispering; gripe, griping, bellyache, bitch, whinge, whingeing, beef, beefing. |
| Moan | vb | Make a long, low sound expressing physical or mental suffering or sexual pleasure; groan, wail, whimper, sob, cry,lament whine, howl, keen. 2. make a sound resembling a human moan. 3. wail, whimper, sob, cry, whine, howl, keen, sough, sigh, murmur, whisper, groan. 4. complain or grumble, typically about something trivial. 5. complain, grouse, grouch, grumble, whine, carp, mutter, murmur, whisper. |
| Moan | phr | "Moan and Groan" - complain, grumble. |
| Moaner | n | |
| Moanful | adj | |
| Moaning | n | The utterance of a moan. |
| Moaningly | adv | |
| Moanish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a moan, or some aspect of it. 2. somewhat complaining or grumbling. |
| Mold | n | See "mould" |
| Mole | n | A discoloured spot on the skin, or linen, etc. 2. a mole. |
| Mole-like | adj | Resembling a mole or discoloured spot on the skin. |
| Mole-marked | adj | Marked or spotted with moles or blemishes. |
| Molten | adj | Reduced to liquid by heating. |
| Monday | n | The second day of the week; the day following Sunday. |
| Monday | phr | "Monday Morning Feeling" - general apathy (on returning to work) after the weekend. |
| Mondayish | adj | Suggestive of lethargy or disinclination after a busy or eventful weekend. 2. affected with the indisposition of Monday, often felt by clergymen , resulting from work on Sunday. 3. monday-morning blues. |
| Mondayishness | n | State or condition of mondayitis, with lethargy and dis inclination. |
| Mone | n | OE: gemana: mone, companionship, sexual intercourse, companion. |
| Mone | vb | OE: munan- to think; to think, bear in mind, to mone, to make remembrance. |
| Mong | n | A mingling, mixture. 2. social intercourse, commerce. 3. a crowd, a ming, a mong, a throng, a teem. 4. a mixture of different of meal (the precise application varying according to locality.) |
| Mong | vb | To traffic, trade, barter, commerce, monger. 2. to mingle, to mix, to mong, knead. |
| Monger | n | A dealer, trafficker, trader, a monger (from the C16th one who carries on a petty or disreputable business. 2. in modern times, includes dealers in all sorts of business, commerce and generally. 3. a retail dealer or mixer; formerly applied to every one who traded, whatever was the article he sold or mixed. The word remains in Ironmonger, Cheesemonger, Fishmonger; and might be advantageous combined with Love, as Lovemonger. |
| Monger | sfx | A list of the monger or mongers include: apple-monger, balkmonger, barrow-monger, beer-monger, bloodmonger, bookmonger, boroughmonger, buttermonger, cheesemonger, clothes-monger, cloud-monger, coalmonger, cornmonger, deathmonger, dishmonger, doom-monger, dovemonger, eirmonger, fat-monger, fearmonger feathermonger, fishmonger, fleshmonger, foodmonger, foodfear-monger, garlic-monger, ghostmonger, god-monger, gossipmonger, gutmonger, hair-monger, hate-monger, horsemonger, housemonger, ironmonger, landmonger, ladymonger, lawmonger, liemonger (lie-monger), leasing-monger, lightmonger, lovemonger, maidenmonger, matchmonger, milestone-monger, mirthmonger, monkmonger, murder-monger, musselmonger, netmonger, news monger, oat-monger, owe-momger, pearmonger, sapmonger, seafood-monger, sharemonger, shellmonger, sickness-monger, smearmonger, spellmonger, starmonger, talemonger, talkmonger,timber-monger, tithe-monger, tray-monger, turdmonger, warmonger, watermonger, weasel-monger, weathermonger, wedding-monger, whiting-monger, wiremonger, witmonger, witchmonger, woemonger, wonder-monger, woodmonger, wordmonger, workmonger. |
| Monger | vb | To work as a monger. |
| Mongering | n | Trading, trafficking, dealing. |
| Monging | n | Dealing, trading, trade, marketing, merchandizing. |
| Monging-house | n | A wholesome outlet or shop. |
| Mongle | vb | To mix. |
| Mongrel | n | A dog of no definable breed or type. 2. any plant or animals resulting from the crossing of different breeds. 3. an offensive term for a person of mixed race. OE???????? |
| Mongrel | vb | To make a mongrel or hybrid. |
| Mongrel | adj | Of mixed origin race or character. |
| Mongreldom | n | The realm or world of mongrels. |
| Mongrelish | adj | Somewhat mixed or crossbred. |
| Mongrelly | adj | Resembling a mongrel. |
| Mongster | n | A female monger. |
| Monk | n | A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service. 2. in earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lives communally. 3. a male who leads an isolated life ; a loner, a hermit. 4. an unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships. 5. (sl) a judge. |
| Monk | vb | To someone a monk. 2. to cause to look like a monk. |
| Monk | phr | "To Monk It" - to become a monk. |
| Monk-child | adj | A child brought up to be a monk. |
| Monkcraft | n | Monkish practice or policy based on unworthy motives. |
| Monkdom | n | The condition of a monk. 2. monks or the clergy collectively. |
| Monkfish | n | The angel fish. |
| Monkhood | n | The state or quality of being a monk or belonging to a religious order. 2. the monastic life, monasticism; monks collectively. 3. the religious or spiritual world. |
| Monkhouse | n | A monastery or monk-house. |
| Monking | n | Living like a monk. |
| Monkish | adj | Belonging to monks, monastic. 2. used, done, performed by monks. 3. suited to the establishment of monks. 4. resembling or pertaining to monks. 5. in a deprecatory sense: having the evil characteristics of a monk. 6. having the features of a monk or monastic life. |
| Monkishly | adv | Of, relating, or characteristic of monks or monasticism. 2. inclining to self-denial; ascetically |
| Monkishness | n | The state or condition of being a monk. |
| Monk-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a monk, in some respect. |
| Monkliness | n | State or condition of being a monk or monasticism. 2. monkly. |
| Monkly | adj | Of or pertaining to a monk. |
| Monk-made | adj | Made or created by monks. |
| Monk-monger | n | Favourer of monks or monasticism. 2. monger favourable of monks or monasticism. |
| Monk-ridden | adj | Full of monks. |
| Moonkshood | n | Wolf's bane; aconitum napellus. |
| Monkship | n | The monastic system; monks collectively; the personality of a monk. |
| Month | n | A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon, in the gregorian calendar there are twelve. 2. a period of 30 days or some alternation thereof. 3. a woman's period; menstrual discharge. |
| Month | phr | A Month's Mind" - properly the requiem Mass said for the deceased on the 30th day after burial or death. 2. an eager desire within. 3. to have a strong expectation. |
| Month | phr | "From Month to Month." -- continuously from month to the next. |
| Month | phr | "Month About" - during alternate months. |
| Month | phr | "Month After month" -each month as sequel to the preceding one, without suggestion of continuity. 2. each successive month (without a suggestion of cessation). |
| Month | phr | "Month by Month" in each successive month, without the suggestion of cessation. |
| Month | phr | "Month in Month Out" - constantly, all the time. |
| Month | phr | "Month of Sundays" - an indefinitely prolonged, or very long or impossibly long time or period.. |
| Month | phr | "This Day's Month" - at a time a month after the day indicated. |
| Month | phr | "Within a Month's Day" - the corresponding day of the following calendar month. |
| Month-brother | n | Mythical creatures that make dreams come true. |
| Month-day | adj | in computing, an immutable date-time object that represents a combination of month to day of month. |
| Month-end | adj | Processes and activities carried out for the last time of a particular month. |
| Monther | n | (In combination) a period of a certain number of months, as 'six-monther.' |
| Monthish | adj | Of or pertaining to a month; monthly. |
| Monthling | n | A month old child. 2. anything lasting a month. |
| Monthlong | adj | Of a month's duration. |
| Monthly | adv | Done monthly or recurring once a month; monthish. 2. pertaining or relating to a month; payable every month. 3. continuing or enduring for a month. 4. a literary magazine published once each month, a monthly. 5. once a month, every month, month by month. 6. after the manner of a lunatic. |
| Month's mind | n | An old custom of commemoration of a deceased person by the celebration of masses etc., on a day once a month from the of his or her death. Nb: used playfully as a synonym for mind. used allusively as a liking, fancy, inclination, expectation, as in: "a month's mind for living in durham." & " to be in a month's mind." - to have a strong expectation. |
| Month-man | n | A man employed at a greater wage for one month (during or at a time of certain, often yearly, event). |
| Month-old | adj | One month old, as a recently born child. 2. a period of one month's duration. |
| Mood | n | State of mind, heart, thought, feeling. 2. fierce courage, spirit, stoutness, pride (note: specific adj. colouring.) 3. passionate grief. 4. a frame of mind, a state of mind, feelings: or humour, fit of temper, disposition at a particular time. 5. th moods.e distinction of meaning expressed by different |
| Mood | vb | Reflect moodily. |
| Mood | phr | "In a Black Mood" - angry, ill-tempered disposition. |
| Mond | phr | "In a Mood" - bad-tempered. |
| Mood | phr | "In No Mood for" - disinclined. |
| Mood | phr | "In the Mood" (for something): disposed, inclined, receptive. 2. fit of variable or unaccountable temper; esp. melancholy, gloomy, or bad-tempered fits. |
| Mood | phr | "Mar One's Mood." to change one's or have one's mood change negatively. 2. to mean or change one's mood negatively. |
| Mood | phr | "Mood and Might" - mind and main. |
| Mood | phr | "Mourn One's Mood." -- in a sad, grieving, mourning mood. |
| Mood board | n | A type of collage consisting of images, text, and samples of objects in a composition. It can be based upon a set topic or can be any material chosen at random. |
| Mooded | adj | Having a mood or moods, esp. of a specific kind. 2. formed to convey or express a particular mood. |
| Moodily | adv | Bravely, boldly, haughtily, angrily. 2. in a moody or sullen manner. |
| Moodiness | n | A state of being moody. 2. temporary depresssion of spirits; cautiousness. 3. pride, passion, anger, sullenness, abstraction, fickleness, gloom, melancholy of mood. |
| Moodish | adj | Characterized by mood, fitful, capricious, angry. |
| Moodishly | adv | In a moody manner. |
| Moodishness | n | The state or condition of being moody. |
| Moodring | n | A ring that has a thermo-chronic element, such as liquid crystal, that changes colors based on the temperature of a finger of a wearer. |
| Mood-swing | n | An abrupt change of mood or disposition. |
| Moody | adj | Brave, bold, proud. 2. proud, haughty, arrogant, head-strong, stubborn, wilful, obstinate. 3. angry, given to anger, wrathful, or change of mood.. 4. subject to, or indulging in moods of ill-humour, depression or the like; ill-humoured. 5. peevish, gloomy, sullen, melancholy. |
| Moody | phr | "Lot of Old Moody" - to deceive by means of flattery. |
| Mool | n | Earth in a graveyard; mould. |
| Moon | n | The largest satellite of Earth. 2. any natural satellite of a planet. 3.(literary) a month, particularly a lunar month. 4. a crescent-like outwork in a fortification. 5. the large round object that circles the Earth and that shines at night by reflecting light from the sun. 5. a large round object like the moon that circles around a planet other than the Earth. 6. an indefinite usually extended period of time: a time of many moons. 7. naked buttocks. |
| Moon | vb | To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest. 2. (usually followed by over or after) to fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone. 3. to spend time idly, be absent minded. 4. to expose to the rays of the Moon. 5. to expose the buttocks. |
| Moon | phr | "Believe that the Moon is Made of Green Cheese" - believe in absurdity. |
| Moon | phr | "Below the Moon" - sublunary, on earth. 2. be under the moon. |
| Moon | phr | "Be Over the Moon" - (fig.) - be very excited, happy or delighted. |
| Moon | phr | "Be Under the Moon" - be on earth. 2. sublunary. |
| Moon | phr | "Beyond the Moon" - in outer space. 2. go to extravagant lengths. |
| Moon | phr | "Cast Beyond the Moon" - to form wild conjectures. |
| Moon | phr | "Dark of the Moon" - period of time between the full moon and the new moon. |
| Moon | phr | "Go Beyond the Moon" : to go to extra lengths. |
| Moon | phr | "I Know No More of it, Than the Man in the Moon" - I know nothing about the matter. |
| Moon | phr | "Island of the Moon" - Madagscar, so named by its inhabitants. |
| Moon | phr | "Man in the Moon" - the fancied appearance of the face in the disk of the full moon, caused by te shadows, lines, spots, etc on the surface. |
| Moon | phr | "Many Moons Ago" - a long time ago. |
| Moon | phr | "Moon About"- be apathetic, gloomy, dazed, mope. |
| Moon | phr | "Once in a Blue Moon" - very seldom, very rarely. |
| Moon | phr | "Over the Moon " to be very happy or delighted; extremely happy; ecstatic. |
| Moon | phr | "Reach for the Moon" - to desire or attempt something unattainable or difficult to obtain. |
| Moon | phr | "Shoot for the Moon" - make a moonlit flit. |
| Moon | phr | "The Old Moon is in the New Moon Arms" - the appearance of the moon during the first quarter in which the dark portion of the orb is made faintly luminous by earth's light. |
| Moon | phr | "There is a Moon, there is no Moon" - the moon is visible (not visible), at the time and in the place indicated or implied. |
| Moon | phr | "Wish for the Moon ": to ask for or wish for the unattainable. |
| Moon-beam | n | A ray of moonlight. |
| Moon-blind | adj | Of intellect: purblind. |
| Moon-blindness | n | A form of blindness erroneously attributed to moonlight; nyctalopia. 2. the condition of being moon-blind. |
| Moonblood | n | Menstrual blood. |
| Moon boot???????? | n | A type of footwear made popular in the 1970s, with a thin rubber outsole and no distinct left or right foot. 2. a thickly-padded boot designed for use in low temperatures. 3. (in Australia)- a large hard plastic to protect a broken foot or ankle while it heals. |
| Moon-born | adj | Born or created under the influence of the moon. |
| Moon-bow | n | A lunar rainbow. |
| Moon-calf | n | An abortive shapeless fleshy mass with the womb; a false or phantom pregnancy (regarded as being produced by the influences of the moon.) 2. a misshapen birth, monstrosity. 3. one born with an undeveloped brain; a congenital idiot, a born fool. 4. an absented-minded fool. 5. 'child of the moon' - fickle, unstable person; an animal thought to inhabit the moon. |
| Moonchild | n | One who is born under the sign of cancer. |
| Moon-cloud | n | Clouds obscuring the moon. |
| Moon-cold | adj | Chilling and stark as the appearance of the moon. |
| Mooncraft | n | A spacecraft for travel to the moon. |
| Moon-curser | n | Sometime who imports or smuggles goods without paying duties (usually done at night, especially moonless ones). 2. one who doesn't want the moon to shine on nights when he is carrying out illegal activities. |
| Moon-dew | n | Moonshine or home-brewed spirituous liquor made at night (under the moon). |
| Moon-dog | n | Of a dog that bays the moon. |
| Moon-drenched | adj | Drenched by moonlight. |
| Moon-drop | n | A vaporous foam supposed anciently to be shed by the moon on certain herbs and objects, when influenced by incantations. |
| Moondust | n | A fine regolith found on surface of the moon. |
| Mooned | adj | Resemblin a moon. |
| Mooner | n | One who moons about |
| Moon-eye | n | To have the eyes wide open, as in infatuation, wonder, or grief. 2. to see poorly during the day. 3. a disease which affects horses' eyes. |
| Moon-eyed | adj | Having the eyes wide open, as in infatuation, wonder, or grief. 2. to see poorly during the day. |
| Moon-flight | n | A flight or journey to the Moon. |
| Moon-folk | n | Persons 'affected' by the moon; crazy, |
| Moon-gleam | n | The shining of the moon. |
| Moon-glow | n | Light thrown out by the moon. |
| Moon-god | n | The deity associated with the moon, such as ????? |
| Mooning | n | Action of the exposing one's buttock. |
| Moonish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of the moon. 2. influenced by the moon; acting as if under the influenced the moon; changeable, fickle, erratic, listless, aimless. |
| Moonland | n | The moon itself. |
| Moonlander | n | One who lands on the moon. |
| Moonlanding | n | The act of landing on the moon. |
| Moonless | adj | Lacking or without a moon. 2. a night where the moon is hidden by clouds. |
| Moonlessly | adv | In a moonless way. 2. without a moon or moons. |
| Moonlessness | n | The quality of being moonless. 2. an absence of a (visible) moon. |
| Moonlight | n | Something that resembles a moon: as a highly translucent spot on old porcelain. 2. lunule, lit or lighted by or of the moon. |
| Moonlight | vb | To do work on the side (at a secondary job) often in the evening or during the night. 2. (by extension) - to engage in an activity other than that one is known for. |
| Moon-lighted | adj | Having two paid occupations, one by day and the other at night. |
| Moon-lighter | n | One who has two paid occupations, one by day and the other at night. |
| Moonlighting | n | The practice of working at a secondary job, often in the evening or during the night. 2. the practice (by extension) of engaging in an activity other that the one he or she is known for. |
| Moonlight-wanderer | n | One who makes a hurried departure by night to avoid paying a debt. |
| Moon-like | adj | Like or resembling the moon is some aspect or characteristic. |
| Moonliness | n | Like the moon. 2. in the manner of a moon. |
| Mooniness | n | Quality or condition of being lunar, selene or moony. |
| Moonling | n | Simpleton, lunatic, idiot. 2. dweller on the moon. 3. an astronaut. |
| Moonlit | adj | Illuminated or lit by the moon. |
| Moonly | adv | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the moon, lunar. |
| Moon-madness | n | Lunacy, insanity, moon-madness. |
| Moon-man | n | One whose occupation is pursued by moonlight. 2. one who robs by moonlight. 3. gipsy. 4. an astronaut. |
| Moon-mist | n | The mist around the moon. |
| Moon-mouth | n | A lunar month. |
| Moonquake | n | A quake or series of vibration on the moon, similar to an earthquake but usually of a very low magnitude. |
| Moonrat | n | "Echinorex gymnura' a large South-east Asian insectivore that is essentially a primitive tropical hedgehog with a long tail and fur instead of spikes. |
| Moonrise | n | The time at which the moon rise. |
| Moon-rising | n | The rising of the moon. |
| Moon-roof | n | Another term for a sunroof. |
| Moonsail | n | A light square sail set above a sky-sail and carried by some clipper ships in light winds. |
| Moonrune(s) | n | An incomprehensible writing script (subjective). |
| Moon-set | n | The setting of the moon; the time of the moon's setting. |
| Moon-setting | n | The setting in place of the moon. 2. the time of the setting of the moon. |
| Moon-shadow | n | The shadow of the moon. |
| Moon-shaft | n | A ray of moonlight. |
| Moonshine | n | A mere pretense; an illusive shadow, as if substituting moonshine for sunshine. 2. home-brewed spirituous liquor. 3. fantastic ideas. |
| Moon-shiner | n | One who smuggles; a smuggler. 2. one who makes home-brewed spirituous liquor for sale. |
| Moon-shining | n | To distill illegally liquor, especially whisky. |
| Moonshiny | adj | Glowing with silvery light; fantastic. |
| Moonship | n | A spaceship designed to travel to the moon. |
| Moon-shot | n | The launching of a spacecraft to or towards the moon. |
| Moon's man | n | One under the influence of the moon. |
| Moonspeak | n | Any confusing foreign language. |
| Moonstone | n | Name for some varities of adularia and albite. Nb: the moonstone of the ancients was probably: "selenite." 2. feldspar of a pearly appearance. |
| Moonstricken | adj | Dazed or distracted with romantic sentiment. 2. mentally deranged; crazy. |
| Moon-struck | adj | Mentally deranged; lunatic. |
| Moon-tide | n | The tide or period when the moon is visible. |
| Moon-wake | n | "The Moon-wake over the Waters"- the track made by the moon on water. 2. moon-wake. |
| Moon-walk | n | Act of walking or visiting the moon. 2. a dance movement made popular by the Michael Jackson. |
| Moon-walker | n | A person who walks on the moon. 2. a person who dances the moonwalk. 3. a sleep walker (rare). |
| Moon-walking | n | The act of walking on the moon by an astronaut. |
| Moonwards | adv | Towards the moon: eyes turned moonwards. |
| Moon-wise | adj | Learned in things about the moon. |
| Moonwiser | n | An instrument for finding the position of the man. |
| Moonwort | n | Botrychium lunarian. |
| Moony | adj | Dreamy and unaware of one's surroundings; for example because one is in love; moonstruck; vacant, silly. 2. like moonlight or giving out light resembling moonlight. 3. rounded or crescent shaped. |
| Moon-year | n | A lunar year. |
| Moor | n | A tract of open, wild upland, especially. when covered by heather. 2. a tract of moorland preserved for game-hunting. 3. a fen; marsh, bog. |
| Moor-bred | adj | Born and living in the moor. |
| Moor-earth | n | Peaty soil. |
| Moor-fen | n | A marsh, wetland, bog. |
| Moorish | adj | Somewhat resembling or characteristic of moorland. 2. of a moor. 6. soil: boggy, swampy, spongy, soft. 3. of or pertaining to a moor. 4. abounding in moor. 5. characteristic of a moor. 6. belonging to a moor. 7. inhabiting or growing on a moor |
| Moorishly | adv | In a moorish manner. |
| Moorishness | n | Marshy or peaty in quality. |
| Moorland | n | A vast or extensive region of moor or heather. 2. uncultivated land, chiefly fenland. 3. country consisting of moors. 4. land abounding in heather; a heath. |
| Moorlander | n | One who lives on a moorland. |
| Moorman | n | One who inhabits or lives on a moorland. 2. an official who has charge of a moor. |
| Moor-side | adv | On the side of the moor. |
| Moorstone | n | A type of granite stone abundant in Cornwall. |
| Moorwort | n | A low, smooth shrub (Andromeda polifolia) of the heath family, with narrow, thick evergreen leaves, growing in wet bogs. |
| Moory | adj | Of or pertaining to waste land, marsh or mountain. 2. marshy, fen-like, growing in a marsh or fen. 3. having the characteristics of a moor. 4. abounding in heath. |
| Moot | n | A meeting, encounter, assembly of people, esp.,one forming a court of judicature. 2. a place where the meeting is held. 3. the witenagemot, folk-mote, hundred-mote. 4. litigation, the action of law: a plea, accusation. 5.argument, discussion, disputation, talking; undecided. 6. the the discussion of a hypothetical case by students of universities where law is studied. 7. in USA, (law) having no practical significance. |
| Moot | vb | To speak, converse, say, utter, dispute, debate, discuss etc. 2. to argue, plead, esp, . in a law court or case. 3. to debate in an imaginary law case, as done by university law students. 4. to argue a point. 5. to raise, bring forward a subject for discussion. |
| Moot | adj | That can be argued or debated. 2. not decided, doubtful, mooted in point. |
| Moot-bell | n | A bell to summons people to a moot or assembly. |
| Mooter | n | One who moots, such as speaker who argues or discusses points of law, debates or argument in general. 3. a lawyer who argues a case in a court of law. 4. a pleader of a case; one who pleads or proposes. |
| Moot hall | n | A town hall; a judgement hall. 2. the inn court where the moot cases were held. |
| Moot-hill | n | A hill (also a mote-hill) on which the moot or assembly was held; the Icelandic parliament or moot: "The Atheling." |
| Moot-house | n | A moot hall. |
| Mooting | n | The action of the moot, discussion, debate, in later use meaning a forensic discussion. 2. a contest or pleading. 3. a discussion of an imaginary case by university law students. 4. action of propounding for discussion. 5. taking part in a moot. |
| Mootliness | n | Hypothesis, debate. argument. |
| Mootman | n | An official or officer of the moot. |
| Mootness | n | Of a legal case or question: the fact or condition of being hypothetical. |
| Moot-stow | n | a place where the moot or assembly was held. |
| More | adj | The comparative form of many: in greater number. 2. the comparative form of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. |
| More | adv | To a greater degree or extent. 2. (now poetic) in negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more; again. [from 10thc.] 3. used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. [from 13thc.]; more or less; more so. |
| More | prn | A greater quantity, number, or amount. 2. |
| More | n | An extra amount or extent. |
| More | n | From O.E., moru (“carrot, parsnip”) akin to Old Saxon moraha (“carrot”), 2.(obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip. 3.(dialectal) a root; stock. 4. plant; wort. 5. the more-beam, or mulberry bush. 6. a root of a tree; a tree stump |
| More | vb | To root up, dig up. |
| More | adv | To or in a greater extent or degree: loved him even more. 2. used to form the comparative of many adjectives and adverbs: more difficult; more softly. 3. in addition: phoned twice more. 4. moreover; furthermore |
| More | n | The morebeam or mulberry bush. |
| More | phr | "And What's More" - and in addition. |
| More | phr | "And Yet Moreover" - that is not all there is, yet more is to be said. 2. moreover than this. |
| More | phr | "Be More" - count for more. 3. be of a greater importance. |
| More | phr | "Be No More" - be dead. |
| More | phr | "More and Less" - altogether, entirely. |
| More | phr | "More and More" - in a increasing degree. |
| More | phr | "More Dead than Alive" - in a physical condition owing to illness, shock, injury. |
| More | phr | "More Haste, Less Speed" - the faster you try to do something, the more likely you are to make mistakes that make you take longer than it would had you planned it'. 2. if you rush things you do them wrong and it takes longer to complete them.. |
| More | phr | "More In It Than Meets the Eye" - more complicated or invovled than one might at first supposed. |
| More | phr | "More Like It" - nearer to what is needed or required. |
| More | phr | "More Means Worse" - allowing more people to have access to public facilities leading to lowering of the standards in education, arts, products, etc. |
| More | phr | "More Of" - to a greater extent. |
| More | phr | "More Often Than Not" - more than or at least half the time. |
| More | phr | "More or Less" - in a greater or smaller degree. 2. approximately; as an estimate. |
| More | phr | "More Sinned Against than Sinning" - having suffered more or greater wrongs than one has committed. |
| More | phr | "More So" - of the same kind to a greater degree. |
| More | phr | "More So In That" - especially because. |
| More | phr | "More Than Anything Else in the World' - very much; above all. |
| More | phr | "More Than a Little Bit" - quite, considerably (drunk, excited) |
| More | phr | "More Than Enough" - considerably, a great deal, too much, too many. |
| More | phr | "More Than Ever (before)" - to a greater degree, more often, than previously. |
| More | phr | "More Than Glad (too do something)" - extremely glad about; only too glad to do. 2. most willing or eager to do something. |
| More | phr | "More Than Likely" - very probable, probably. |
| More | phr | "More Than Once" - quite frequently. |
| More | phr | "More Than One Can Say for" - very deeply, keenly (missed). 2. certainly not true of, or applicable to a person or thing in question. |
| More | phr | "More Than One Can Shake a Stick at" - an immense amount. |
| More | phr | "More the Merrier" - enjoyment will grow in proportion to the number of people taking part. 2. anybody/anyone one is welcome. |
| More | phr | "More the Merrier, the Better the Fare" - |
| More | phr | "More Than Welcome" - warmly and hospitably invited or received in somebody's home, a company etc. 2. great appreciated and much needed. |
| More | phr | "Neither More than Less Than" - exatly, precisely, that and nothing else. |
| More | phr | "No More" - no longer. |
| More | phr | "Some More" - something in additional. |
| More | phr | "The More One Has the More One Wants" - self-explanatory or obvious in meaning. |
| More | phr | "There's More Where It Came From" - eat freely there's plenty more. |
| More | phr | "Without More" - without anything additional or further. |
| More | phr | "Without More Ado" - without delay. |
| Morefold | adv | More times over |
| Moreish | adj | Pleasant to eat, causing a desire for more. 2. morish. |
| Moreness | n | The condition of being greater or more than another. 2. the condition of being more than one; plurality. |
| Moreover | adv | Beyond what has been said; further, besides, also, likewise. |
| Moreso | adv | To a greater degree. |
| Morgen | n | The OE word for morning, becoming 'morn' and 'morning' in Middle English. |
| Mork | vb | OE. to complain, murmur, grumble. |
| Morn | n | (Poetic) - morning. |
| Morn | phr | "Morn Till Night" - all day long. |
| Morn | phr | Morn's Mor- tomorrow morning. |
| Morning | n | The part of the day from dawn to midday. 2. the part of the day after midnight and before midday. 3. the early part of the day, esp. from dawn to midday. 4. the time between dawn and midday, and how it is spent; as a quite morning. 5. the early part of one's life. 6. |
| Morning | phr | "In the Morning" - in the course or during the morning. |
| Morning | phr | "Morning After the Night Before" - a hangover from overindulgence of alcohol. |
| Morning | phr | "Morning, Noon and Night" - all of the time. 2. repeatedly throughout either a long (working) day or both day and night. |
| Morning | phr | "The Northern Morning" - Aurora Borealis. |
| Morning-after | n | A hangover from overindulgence of liquor. |
| Morning-dawn | n | Sunrise. |
| Morning-gift | n | The gift made by the husband to the wife on the morning after the consummation of the marriage; (sometimes used erroneously for the word "dowry.") 2. the morning-gift. |
| Morning-kitchen | n | A small collection of appliances and utilities placed in a residence to facilitate the preparation of quick meals or beverages near the living quarters(usually, not found near the primary kitchen). |
| Morning-land | n | The East; The Orient. |
| Morning-less | adj | Having no morning; without morning. |
| Morningly | adv | In the morning; occurring every or each morning. |
| Morning-room | n | A sitting room used during the daylight hours; a front room; a living room. |
| Morning-sickness | n | Biliousness or nausea felt in the morning during pregnancy. |
| Morning-sleep | n | A second sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern. |
| Morning-star | n | The planet Venus when visible in the eastern sky. 2. fig. applied to anybody or any person who is regarded as the precursor. 3. dawn, sunrise, day's rim. |
| Morning-tide | n | The morning or the early part of the day. |
| Morning-ward | adv | Morn-ward: towards the morning or the morn. 2. toward the rising sun or the east; eastward. |
| Morning-watch | n | A nautical term denoting the watch between 4.am. and 8am. |
| Morning wood | n | Morning wood is one of several similar slang or colloquial terms referring to the phenomenon of nocturnal penile tumescence (erection) during and immediately following sleep. |
| Mornly | adv | In the morn or morning, every morning. |
| Morn-while | n | Morning; the time of the morning. |
| Morrow | n | The day following; tomorrow; the day after today, 'the morrow'. 2. the time following an event. 3. morn, morning; the next morrow. |
| Morrow | vb | To dawn. 2.to be endowed with morning. |
| Morrowing | n | Morning, dawning, a postponing till tomorrow. |
| Morrowless | adj | Not subject to time; without end. |
| Morwyngift | n | The gift made by the husband to the wife on the morning after the consummation of the marriage; (sometimes used erroneously for the word "dowry.") 2. the morning-gift; the moryeve. |
| Moss | n | OE: a bog, fen, moss,;any of various small, green, seedless plants growing on the ground or on the surfaces of trees, stones, etc.; now specifically, a plant of the division Bryophyta (formerly Musci). 2. (informal) any alga, lichen, bryophyte, or other plant of seemingly simple structure. 3. (now chiefly Britain regional) a bog; a fen. |
| Moss | vb | To become covered with moss. 2. an oak whose boughs were mossed with age. 3 to cover (something) with moss. |
| Mossback | n | A person who is behind the times, or with antiquated ideas. 2. an extreme conservative; troglodyte, luddite. |
| Moss-backed | adj | Having moss or a moss-like growth on on the back. 2. behind the times; reactionary. |
| Moss-beard | n | A thick covering of beard. |
| Moss-earth | n | Earth composed of, or largely mixed with, peat. |
| Moss-field | n | A field covered with moss. 2. moss-ground. 3. moss-land. |
| Moss-green | adj | A green color like moss. |
| Mossful | adj | Covered with moss. |
| Moss-grown | adj | Overgrown with moss. 2. begrown with moss. |
| Mossily | adv | In a mossy way. |
| Mossiness | n | The state or quality of being mossy; hair or downy. |
| Mossland | n | Land covered in or abounding in moss. |
| Moss-less | adj | without moss; having no moss. |
| Mosslike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of moss in some aspect. |
| Moss rose | n | A species of rose with a moss-like growth on the calyx. |
| Moss-thrummed | adj | With a mossy edge. |
| Mossy | adj | Covered in or resembling moss. 2. out-dated, old-fashioned, antiquated. |
| Most | adv | Existing in the greatest quantity or degree. 2. the majority of; nearly all of. 3. in the highest degree (superlative). |
| Most | prn | The majority. 2. the greatest quantity or number. 3. the most:the best of all. |
| Most | sfx | Forming superlative adjectives and adverbs from prepositions and other words indicating relative position (foremost, uttermost). |
| Most | phr | "At Most" - no more or better than. |
| Most | phr | "At the Most" - as the greatest amount. 2. not more than. |
| Most | phr | "For the Most" - for the most part, mostly. |
| Most | phr | "Make the Most of" - employ to the best advantage. 2. use to the utmost; as an opportunity. 3. represent at its best or worst. |
| Most | phr | "The Most (that) One Can Say" - te only praise or recommendation (and that not much) which can give somebody or something. |
| Most | phr | "With the Most" - in the utmost degree. 2. in the greatest quantity; to the full. |
| Mostest | adj | The greatest part. 2. the greatest amount or degree of somrthing. |
| Most High | n | God. |
| Mosthood | n | Supremacy, greatness, majesty. |
| Mostly | adv | For the most part; in the most; in the main. 2. for the greatest degree; to the greatest extent. |
| Mostness | n | Maximal size. |
| Mostwhat | adv | For the most part. 2. the greater pat of. |
| Mostwhen | adv | Most frequently; on most occasions. |
| Mostwhere | adv | In most places or locations. |
| Mote | n | A particle of dust, esp. one of the innumerable minute specks seen floating in a sunbeam. 2. an irritating particle in the eye or throat. 3. " a mote in the eye."-- fig. a relatively trifling fault seen in another person by one who ignores a greater fault of his own. 4. cause of irritation or annoyance. 5. a minute particle of foreign matter in food or drink. 6. a minute particle of anything; something very minute or trivial, a trifle, a bagatelle. 7. a spot, a blemish, a mark, an imperfection. 8. a tuft of wool forming the nap on cloth. 9. affection on anything, . on wool or cloth. 9. a single stalk of hay; a slender straw or twig. 10. an atom. 11. moteling; nanity, nanoid-matter. |
| Mote | vb | Permitted, may -- expressing permission or possibility; as, in "so mote it be." |
| Mote | vb | To pick faults; find faults; look for small things to complain about. |
| Mote | vb | "A Mote in Someone Eyes" - a fault in another person which is trifling in comparison unrecognized to an major fault in oneself. |
| Mote | phr | "Mote It I Thee, So Mote I Go" - expressing necessity or obligation: must. |
| Moteless | adj | Without a blemish, spotless, impeccable, free from motes or minute particles. |
| Moteling | n | Something very small. |
| Motes | phr | "To Pick Motes." -- to find fault. |
| Motewoke | adj | OE: woke- weak. 2. moderately soft. |
| Motey | adj | Full of tiny particles; motty. 2. full of specks; moted. 3. full of small hard particles. |
| Moth | n | Any nocturnal of the order Lepidoptera. |
| Moth-bed | adj | Full of moths; moth-eaten. |
| Moth-eaten | adj | Damaged or destroyed by moths. 2. antiquated, time-worn. |
| Mothen | adj | Full of moths. |
| Mother | n | A condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation" 'necessity is the mother of invention" 2. mother a woman who has given birth to a child. 3. a term of address for an elderly woman. |
| Mother | vb | Make children; to beget as a mother. 2. care for like a mother; to fuss over. 2. to serve out portion of food and drink, spec. to pour tea. 2. to excessively indulge or spoil a child |
| Mother | phr | "Be Mother" - act as a hostess (when pourinng tea). |
| Mother | phr | "Does Your Mother Know Your Out": jeering question to one who shows excessive simplicity or juvenile presumption. |
| Mother | phr | "Every Mother's Child" - everyone. |
| Mother | phr | "Have Too Much of his Mother's Blessing": said of a youth who is unreasonably prudish and scrupulous. |
| Mother | phr | "Our First Mother": Eve, our first female ancestor; the great earth-mother" |
| Mother | phr | "Mother and Father of" - the most extreme example of. |
| Mother | phr | "Mother of All" - an extreme example of something. |
| Mother | phr | "Mother of Gods" - the Virgin Mary. 2. as an interjection: exclamation of alarm or amazement. |
| Mother | phr | "Mother of the Months" - the moon. 2. the queen of the night. |
| Mother | phr | "Mother Swelling Upwards" - hysteria. |
| Mother | phr | "One's Mother's Darling" - a spoiled male child. |
| Mother board | n | A print circuit board containing the principal components or other device and connections for other circuit boards to be slotted in. |
| Mother-borough | n | A city or metropolis. |
| Mother-church | n | The original church from which others have sprung. |
| Mothercraft | n | The business of a mother; knowledge of, and skill in care of children. |
| Motherdom | n | Maternal state or authority. |
| Mother earth | n | The earth considered as the mother of it's inhabitants and productions. 2. somewhat jocular: the ground. |
| Mothered | adj | Having a mother. 2. containing a mother. |
| Motherer | n | One who mothers. |
| Mother heart | n | The love and kindness of a mother; maternal. |
| Mother-hen | n | A person who seems to the needs of others, especially in a fussy or interfering way. |
| Motherhood | n | The state, fact, condition of being a mother. 2. the embodiment of maternal qualities. 3. motherly care. 4. the spirit of a mother:the feeling or love of a mother. 5. protectiveness. 6. a clan constituted by kinship through the mother. |
| Motherhouse | n | A founding house of a religious order. |
| Mothering | n | Motherly care or supervisor that acts as a mother. |
| Mother's child | phr | Every mother's child: a person. |
| Mothering-Sunday | n | The fourth Sunday in Lent, traditional a day of honoring mothers with gifts. 2. mother's day. |
| Mother-in-law | n | The mother of one's husband or wife. |
| Mother-in-law's Tongue" | n | - a plant Sansevieria trfasciata, with lon erect pointed leaves. |
| Motherish | adj | Pertaining to a maternal quality. 2. pertaining to an affectionate or sensitive character. 3. of or pertaining to warm and embonpoint appearance. |
| Motherland | n | A country as the mother or producer or anything. 2. one's native country. |
| Motherless | adj | Having no mother. |
| Motherless | phr | "Stone Motherless Broke" -- an Australian colloq.: without money or any means of support. |
| Motherlessness | n | State or fact of being without a mother. |
| Mother-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a mother, in some aspect or another. |
| Motherliness | n | Quality of being motherly. |
| Mother-lode | n | Principal vein of ore. 2. the main vein of a system. |
| Mother love | n | Deep maternal love. 2. storge. |
| Mother-loving | adj | Loving one's own mother. |
| Motherly | adv | Of or pertaining to a mother. 2. befitting of a mother. 3. motherful. 4. resembling a mother; having the character, manner or appearance of a man. |
| Motherly | adv | In a motherly way or manner. |
| Mother-maiden | n | The Virgin Mary. |
| Mother mind | n | The maternal mind. |
| Mother-naked | adj | Completely naked; naked as when born. |
| Mother right | n | Mother-rike: a matriarchy. |
| Mother-queller | n | One who commits matricide. 2. one who kills his own mother |
| Mother's brother | n | Uncle; a maternal uncle. |
| Mother's darling | n | Spoiled male child. |
| Mother's Day | n | Mothering Sunday - in several countries, an equivalent day on the second Sunday in May. |
| Mother's mark | n | A birth mark or congenital mark on a man or animal, naevus, nevus, nevoid. |
| Mother's meeting | n | Group of gossiping people. |
| Mother's milk | n | something that one especially enjoys (naturally). |
| Mothership | n | An aircraft or space rocket which another after-rocket is launched. 2. the office of a mother. 3. motherly care. |
| Mother sick | n | Hysteria. |
| Mothersome | adj | Anxious like a mother. |
| Mother's son | n | A spoiled child. |
| Mother-thouught | n | The fundamental idea of something, esp. of a literary work. |
| Mother-to-be | n | An expectant mother. 2. a woman expecting a baby. |
| Mother-tongue | n | One's native tongue. 2. an original language from which others spring. |
| Mother wit | n | Native or natural wit: common sense or common wit. 2. collective wisdom; collective wisdom of the generation. 3. wisdom with the connotation of collective wisdom acquired by the experience of living and from generations past and often expressed in folklore. 4. one who has mother wit. |
| Mother-witted | adj | Having mother wit, native or natural wit, or common sense. |
| Motherwort | n | Leonurus cardiaca; formerly applied to mugwort or Artemisia vulgaris. |
| Moth-fretten | adj | Moth-eaten; eaten away or destroyed by moths. |
| Moth-like | adj | In a manner like a moth. 2. resembling a moth. |
| Moth-miller | n | A pale moth with floury wings; any moth. |
| Mothwort | n | Helichrysum stroechus. |
| Mothy | adj | Infested with moths. 2. characterized by the presence of moths. 3. suggestive of a moth. 4. resembling the movements of the wings of a moth. |
| Mould | n | OE molde; mold (fungus, furry growth perhaps from Old Norse "mugla")- loose, broken or friable earth; hence the surface soil, which is readily broken up. 2.lumps or clods of earth. 3. poor quality soil or land. 4. the dust to which the human body returns after death; ashes of the dead. 5. earth of the grave; grave-earth 6. surface or top of the ground, solid stratum. 7. the earth on which we dwell. 8. organic matter: leaf mould. |
| Mould | n | Fontanelle of an infant's head. |
| Mould | vb | To bring to mould, bury, commit to the ground or grave. 2. to cover plants with mould; to earth up. 3. to mould away, to moulder, to crumble. 4. to rot, crumble, to dust , any natural decay, waste away. 5. to be diminished in number; dwindle. 6. to cause to crumble, fall to pieces or decay. 7. to move of in aimless, lifeless manner. |
| Mould | phr | "Bring to Mould" - bury in the grave. |
| Mould | phr | "In the Mould" - buried, interred. |
| Mould | phr | "Laid in Mould" - buried. |
| Mould | phr | "Man of Mould" - mortal man. |
| Mould | phr | "Mould Away" - crumble away, decay. |
| Mould | phr | "Mould Up" - allow to become mouldy. 2. become mouldy or covered in mould. |
| Mould | phr | "On the Mould" - in the world; living. |
| Mould | phr | "Under the Mould" - under the mould, buried, in the ground. |
| Mould-ale | n | The wake or funeral banquet. see 'mould-meat'. |
| Mould-board | n | A curved metal board in a plough which turns over the soil as the coulter cuts it. |
| Mould-earth | n | The grave, burial plot, tomb. |
| Moulded | adj | Turned to dust, decayed, rotted, crumbled, wasted away. |
| Moulder | vb | To turn to dust by natural decay, grumbling, disintegration, or wasting away. |
| Moulder | n | 2. a house that has been left to mould. |
| Mouldily | adv | In a mouldy way. |
| Mouldiness | n | Condition or state of being moulded. 2. moulded growth. 3. fig. - boredom or discontent. |
| Moulding | n | Mould, fine soil, dust, earth, ashes. |
| Mouldish | adj | Like mould or fine soil, mouldy. |
| Mould-like | adj | Resembling mould (friable earth, etc) or some aspect of it. |
| Mould-meat | n | The food of the funeral banquet. 2. last food a person eats before death. see 'mould-ale'. |
| Mouldness | n | Mouldiness, mould. |
| Mouldwarp | n | The mole: lit. an earth thrower. |
| Mouldy | adj | Covered with mould, hence: decayed or decaying. 2. wretched, boring, depressed, gloomy, sick. 2. a performer of trad. jazz. |
| Moult | n | The lose of feathers, plumage by a bird. 2. the lose of fur coat by an animal. |
| Moult | vb | To lose one's plumage or feather. 2. of an animal, such as a dog: to lose one's coat of fur. |
| Moulted | adj | Deprived of feather or coat of fur. 2. having molted. |
| Moulten | vb | To moult. |
| Moulter | n | Bird or animal that has lost all or part of its covering. |
| Moulting | n | Applied to the change of voice in males at puberty. ? |
| Mourn | vb | In early use said of the heart, soul, spirit etc. 2. to feel sorrow, regret, lament or grieve over the death of a loved-one, close friend; a lost thing (a marriage), past event. |
| Mourn | phr | "In Mourning" - wearing mourning clothes or weeds. |
| Mourn | phr | "Mourn in One's Heart" - to grieve deeply. |
| Mourn | phr | "Mourn in One's Mind" - to keep one grieving to oneself. |
| Mourn | phr | "Mourn in One's Mood" - to be solemn in grief |
| Mourn | phr | "Mourn in One's Thought" - mournful in thoiught or mind. |
| Mourn | phr | "Mourn Up" - to complete a period of mourning. |
| Mourn | phr | "Out of Mourning" - no longer in a state of deep mourning. |
| Mourner | n | One who laments or suffers grief and sorrow over the death of a loved-one. |
| Mourner-bench | n | A seat at the front of church or a room set apart for mourners and penitent. |
| Mournful | adj | Sorrowful, lamenting, grief-ridden. 2. sad, gloomy, glum; melancholy. |
| Mournfully | adv | In a mournful manner. |
| Mournfulness | n | The state or condition of being melancholy. 2. mourningly |
| Mournfuls | n | "The Mournfuls" -- "The Blues"; depression, state of melancholia. |
| Mourning | n | The state or condition of grieving on the death of a loved-one or close friend. |
| Mourning-dove | n | "Zenaidura Macroura" - of North America noted for its plaintive cooing, |
| Mourning-hood | n | State of mourning. |
| Mourning-horse | n | The horse belonging to the deceased led riderless draped with black in the human procession. |
| Mourningless | adj | That mourns not; failing to mourn. |
| Mourningly | adv | In a mourning manner; grievingly. |
| Mourning-ring | n | A ring worn in memory of dead person. |
| Mourning-time | n | A period of mourning. |
| Mournsome | adj | Mournful. |
| Mouse | n | A small rodent often found in family homes. 2. (fig.) a tiny person; a timid or feeble person.. 3. a small, hand-held device which controls the cursor of a computer (and, which resembles the shape of a mouse). |
| Mouse | vb | To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse. 2. to hunt or catch mice, usually of a cat. 3. to navigate by means of a computer mouse. 4. to tear, as a cat devouring a mouse. |
| Mouse | phr | "It Is a Bold Mouse, that Nests in a Mouse's Ear" - said of one who takes unnecessary risks. |
| Mouse | phr | "Like a Drowned Mouse" - in a miserable plight. |
| Mouse | phr | "Mice Have been Here" - intruders have entered this place. |
| Mouse | phr | "Mouse and Man" - every living thing. |
| Mouse | phr | "Mouse over" - in computing, a mouseover, is a graphical control element that is activated when the user moves or "hovers" the pointer over its trigger area, usually with a mouse, but also possible using a digital pen. |
| Mouse | phr | "When the Cat is Away, the Mice Will Play" - in the absence of supervision, discipline will be lax. |
| Mouse | phr | "Neither Man nor Mouse" - not one or the other; something in between. |
| Mouse | phr | "Play the Game of Cat and Mouse" - often expressed as cat-and-mouse game, is an English-language idiom dating back to 1675 that means "a contrived action involving constant pursuit, near captures, and repeated escapes." |
| Mouse | phr | "The Mouse That Has One Hole Is Quickly Taken" - have two strings to your bow. |
| Mouse | phr | "When the Cat is Away, the Mice Will Play" - in the absence of supervision, discipline will be lax. |
| Mouse-bane | n | Aconitum myoctonum, a plant thought to poison mice. 2. mouse and rat poison |
| Mousebird | n | A small, gregarious African bird with mainly drab plumage, crest and long tail. |
| Mouse-brown | adj | Mousey-brown: a drab, pale colour. |
| Mouse-deer | n | A chevrotain; a rusi-tikus. |
| Mousedom | n | The state or essence of a mouse |
| Mouse-eared | adj | An apparatus resembling a mouse ear. |
| Mouse-ear molewort | n | Sisymbrium thalium. |
| Mouse-eaten | adj | Full of holes through being nibbled away. |
| Mouse-fall | n | Mouse-trap. |
| Mouse-gray | adj | A medium shade of gray, the color of the common house mouse. |
| Moused | adj | A area or building cleared of mice by the use of cats or by a pest exterminator. 2. navigated by a means of a computer mouse. 3. provided with or having a computer mouse. |
| Mouse-hole | n | A place where mice live. |
| Mouse-hole | vb | To make a narrow passage or tunnel. |
| Mousehood | n | The state or essence of a mouse. |
| Mouse-like | adj | Resembling or like a mouse in some aspect. |
| Mouser | n | A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for that purpose. |
| Mouse-ship | n | the condition of being a mouse; mouseship (lit & fig.) - a mock title. |
| Mouse-sight | n | Nearsightedness |
| Mouse-still | adj | Very quietly and furtive. |
| Mousewheel | n | A scroll wheel (or mouse wheel) is a hard plastic or rubbery disc (the "wheel") on a computer mouse that is perpendicular to the mouse surface. It is normally located between the left and right mouse buttons. |
| Mousewort | n | A plant thought to repel or kill mice. |
| Mousey | adj | Having sharp features. 2. quiet, timid, shy. 3. of a person, shy, timid, ineffectual. 4. infested with mice. |
| Mousey-brown | adj | Of a drab, pale colour. |
| Mousily | adv | In a shy, timid, feeble manner. |
| Mousiness | n | The quality or state of being mousy. |
| Mousing | n | That hunts or catches mice; given to hunting or catching mice. 2. rapacity, inquisitiveness, prowliness, as the cat hunting. |
| Mouth | n | A external opening in the head, through which most animals admit food and emit communicative sounds. 2. an opening of a container such as a sack or bag. 3. a place where a river or streams enter the sea. 4. talkativeness; impudent talk, cheek. 5. an individual regarded as needing sustenance (an extra mouth). |
| Mouth | vb | To pronounce, speak, give utterance to, to talk. 2. utter in a pompously oratorical style, or with great distinction of articulating. 3. to declaim. 4. to take food into the mouth. 5. to carry in the mouth like a dog with game. 6. to train a horse with the bit. 7. join lips; kiss; touch with the mouth. 8. of a river, to disembogue in. 9. to estimate the age of an animal by its teeth. 9. to grimace, to derisively grimace. 10. to make noises with the mouth, be somewhat mouthy or act in a mouthy manner. |
| Mouth | phr | "Be In the Mouth Of" - in one's speech or conversation; on one's lips. |
| Mouth | phr | "Born with a Siver Spoon in One's Mouth" - be brought by wealthy parents. |
| Mouth | phr | "By Word of Mouth" - communicate orally. 2. using the spoken word (as opposed to written or printed) |
| Mouth | phr | "Come Full Mouth" - to speak aloud, loudly, furiously. |
| Mouth | phr | "Down in the Mouth." - having the corners of the mouth turn downwards, as a sign of dissatisfaction, dejected, dispirited, depressed, down-at-the-mouth. |
| Mouth | phr | "Foam at the Mouth" - to show anger. |
| Mouth | phr | "From Mouth to Mouth" - from one speaker to another. 2. speaking in turns or succession; latching. |
| Mouth | phr | "From the Mouth" - of a person: from a speaker. |
| Mouth | phr | "Give it Mouth." - express vehemently; give tongue to it. 2. give mouth to; bark, bay. 3. express in words. |
| Mouth | phr | "Have One's Heart in One's Mouth" - to be startled. |
| Mouth | phr | "Have One's Mouth Made Up" - having an expectant desire for a particular type of food. |
| Mouth | phr | "Hold One's Mouth (or tongue)" - be and remain silent. |
| Mouth | phr | "In the Mouth" - of a person: when spoken or spoken of by. 2. in one's speech or conversation; on one's lips. |
| Mouth | phr | "It Does No Lie in His Mouth" - it is not befitting of him. |
| Mouth | phr | "Keep One's Mouth Shut" - refrain from speaking; remain silent. 2. not to talk about or reveal secrets about some matter. |
| Mouth | phr | "Laugh on the Wrong side of the Mouth" - to laugh in a forced way. 2. lament instead of laughing. 3. to grimace. 4. of s animal menacing with the mouth. 5. to refuse to believe to accept. |
| Mouth | phr | "Learn Something from the Horse's Mouth" - to get information from one's who is qualified to impart. |
| Mouth | phr | "Live From Hand to Mouth" - being in poor financial circumstances to survive by way of safety margin. |
| Mouth | phr | "Make Mouths" -grimace, pull a wry face, pout, distort one's mouth in mockery. |
| Mouth | phr | "Make One's Mouth Water" - saliva's flows at the thought, smell, prospect of food; oe when one's greed or desire to have something is aroused. |
| Mouth | phr | "Mouth of a Sailor" - the characteristic of regularly using vulgar language, especially strong profanities; a person having this characteristic. |
| Mouth | phr | "Mouth off" - to talk in a loud unpleasant voice. |
| Mouth | phr | "Make One's Mouth Water" -- of food: having a delicious smell or look. 2. tempting, alluring. |
| Mouth | phr | "Meet in the Mouth" - meet face to face. |
| Mouth | phr | "Mouth to Mouth" - speak closely, face to face, intimately, in intimate conference. |
| Mouth | phr | "Open One's (the)Mouth (of)"- begin speaking. 2. give the power of speech to. |
| Mouth | phr | "Open One's Mouth Wide" - ask a high price. |
| Mouth | phr | "Out of his Own" - to be condemned out of one's own words or witness. |
| Mouth | phr | "Out of the Mouth of Bairns and Sucklings" - (as indiscreetly revealed) the truth. |
| Mouth | phr | "Put One's Foot in One's Mouth" - say something foolish. |
| Mouth | phr | "Put One's Head in the Leo's (Lion's) Mouth" - live recklessly exposing oneself to great danger. |
| Mouth | phr | "Put Words into Someone's Mouth."- to tell one what to say. 2. to represent one as saying something in a particular way. |
| Mouth | phr | "Say a Mouthful" -to make a shocking or important statement. 2. to say something noteworthy. |
| Mouth | phr | "Shoot One's Mouth off" - talk furiously and erratically. 2. to speak without thinking. |
| Mouth | phr | "Shut One's Month."- refrain from speaking; remain silent. |
| Mouth | phr | "Stop One's Mouth" - keep someone from talking or expressing their opinion. |
| Mouth | phr | "Take the Food Out of the Mouth of Children" - cruelly to deprive the needy. |
| Mouth | phr | "Take the Words Out of Somebody's Mouth"- to anticipate what another was about to say. |
| Mouth | phr | "Through the Mouth" - through some spokesman. |
| Mouth | phr | |
| Mouth-breathing | adj | Breathing through the mouth, rather than the nose. |
| Mouth-brooding | n | Also known as oral incubation and buccal incubation, mouth-brooding is the care given by some groups of animals to their offspring by holding them in the mouth of the parent (mouth-brooder) for extended periods of time. |
| Mouthcare | n | Periodically and systematically cleaning the mouth, brushing the teeth, and flossing help prevent dental caries, inflammatory periodontal disease, and halitosis. Mouth care also promotes a sense of cleanliness and well-being, facilitates speech, and helps overcome loss of appetite. |
| Mouthed | adj | Having a mouth or a mouth of a certain kind. 2. provided with a mouth. 3. gaping, gawking. |
| Mouther | n | One who mouths off. 2. one given to vain, boastful or declamatory speech. |
| Mouth-filling | adj | Fig. bombastic, inflated. |
| Mouth-friend | adj | A friend in words only. 2. superficially friendly but not deeds. 3. a person who who is otherwise not a friend. |
| Mouthful | adj | A quantity (usually food)that fills the mouth, as much as the mouth can take or hold at one time. 2. a long or complicated word or expression. 3. a small quantity. 4. something important said. |
| Mouthful | phr | "Give (or say) Someone a Mouthful": to make a striking or important statement; to say something noteworthy. |
| Mouthily | adv | In a mouthy manner. |
| Mouthiness | n | A state given or inclined to verbosity and monotonous talking. |
| Mouthing | n | Opening, entrance, aperture. 2. of speech: characterized by grandiloquence or pomposity |
| Mouthishly | adv | In a mouthish manner. |
| Mouthless | adj | Having no mouth. |
| Mouthlessly | adv | In a mouthless manner. |
| Mouthlike | adj | Pertaining to an opening that looks like a mouth. |
| Mouthness | n | A tendency or inclination to talk a lot; esp. in a rude or insolent manner. |
| Mouth-opening | adj | An external opening part of a mouth, in various senses. |
| Mouth-rim | n | The very edge of the lips. 2. the edge of crockery and some glassware. |
| Mouth-rot | n | A disease affecting the teeth and mouth, esp in dogs. |
| Mouth-to-Mouth | adj | Of resuscitation in which a person breathes into the subject lungs through the mouth. |
| Mouthwards | adv | Towards or near the mouth. |
| Mouthwash | n | An antiseptic in liquid form used by rinsing the mouth or gargling. 2. (slang) - nonsense. |
| Mouth-water | n | Saliva, spittle. |
| Mouth-watering | adj | Of food: having a delicious smell or look. 2. tempting, alluring. |
| Mouthway | n | An entrance. |
| Mouth-wise | adv | By means of the mouth. 2. by speech. |
| Mouthy | adj | Having a usual than larger mouth. 2. characterized by railing, ranting, or the use of bombastic, pompous, grandiloquent language, mouthish, mouthly. 3. of language, above - but not always negatively. |
| Mow | n | A stack of hay, corn, beans, peas, etc.; also, a heap of grain or hay in a barn. 2. a place in a barn where hay or corn is heaped up. 3. a heap or pile, also of earth, mound, hillock, mow-stead. |
| Mow | vb | To cut down grass, hay, etc., with a scythe or machine. 2. to harvest the produce of a field by mowing. 3. to cut the grass or a lawn. 4. |
| Mow | phr | "Mow Down" - kill or destroy randomly or in great numbers. |
| Mowe | n | A female relative, a mowe, kinswoman, esp. by marriage, as an aunt, niece or sister-in-law. |
| Mower | n | A cutter of grass; a lawn keeper, mowyer. 2. a machine powered manually or mechanically used to cut or mow grass or lawn. |
| Mowing | n | The act of mowing grass by a scythe or machine. |
| Mow-lot | n | A plot of land where grass is grown; mowland. |
| Mowstead | n | A place where the rick stands; a mowing-meadow. |
| Mowyer | n | One who cuts grass, a lawn-keeper, a cutter of grass. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| My | adj | The possessive case of the pronoun "I" employed attributively. 2. belonging of pertaining to me: "my house." 3. an adjective used in form of address in customary phrases, such as "My God" 4. used in expressions of endearment "my boy." 5. an exclamation of surprise: "Oh, my boy!" |
| My | phr | "All My Eye and Edith Edrich" - an idiom that appears to have gone out of use but was prevalent in the English north Midlands of Staffordshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire from at least the turn of the 20th century until the early 1950s or so. The idiom's meaning is literally something said or written that is unbelievable, rumor, over embellished, the result of malicious village gossip etc. Variants include: "All My eye and Mrs Murphy/ Betty Walker: completely untrue or nonsensical statement, especially of something intended to deceive, or mislead but does not do so. |
| My | phr | "My Back Teeth are Floating" - one needs very urgently to urinate. |
| My | phr | "My Eyes Are Up Here" - said to persuade an interlocutor to stop looking lustfully at the speaker's body. |
| My | phr | "My Foot" - an interjection indicating disapproval, disdain, disregard, disgust or disbelief. |
| My | phr | "My God" - see 'Oh My God". |
| My | phr | "My Goodness" - used to express surprize, shock, or amazement. Also as 'Oh my goodness". |
| My | phr | "My Heart Bleeds for You." - I'm really not interested in your trouble. Nb: Once the saying was sincere if hyperbolic expression of sympathy; it became ironic during the 1940's. |
| My | phr | "My, My" - an interjection, an extension of 'my' used to express surprize or pleasure. |
| My | phr | "My Lady" - the form of address to certain titled people. |
| My | phr | "My Lips are Fastened" - I won't tell anyone. |
| My | phr | "My Lord" " - the form of address to certain titled people. |
| My | phr | "My Team Right Or Wrong" - loyalty to one 's team right or wrong. |
| My | phr | "My Way or the Highway" - said to assert the view that there is no alternative (apart from leaving) but to accept the speakers opinion or policies. |
| My | phr | "My Word" - used to express surprize or astonishment. |
| My | phr | "Oh My!" an expression of annoyance, disbelief, resignation. |
| My | phr | "Oh My God!" - An exclamation of shock or surprize, often used repeatedly by stupid people who are shocked and surprized by almost everything and insert it into whenever possible. |
| Myness | n | Self-centredness. 2. centredness in oneself, selfishness, egoism. 3. an interest solely in oneself; self interest. 3. narcissism. |
| Myself | prn | I; me; the emphatic form of I and me, and reflexive of me. 2. normal condition of the mind or body: "I feel myself." |
| Myself | phr | "Another Myself" - an alter ego; a second half (said of a close friend). |
| Myself | phr | "By Myself" - By oneself. |
| Myself | phr | "I Feel Myself Again" - of a person: as if to were, in their normal condition of body or mind. 2. sense oneself as being in a normal state of health or spirits. |
| Myself | phr | "I Myself" - I for my part. |
| Myrrh | n | OE. (murra) a gum resin produced by a special species of Commiphae (Balsamodendron) esp. Commiphae myrrh used in perfumery and as an ingredient in incense. |
| Myrrh-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of myrrh. |
| Myrrhy | adj | Resembling or characteristic of myrrh. |
| My-unwitting | n | Without my knowledge. |
| My-way-or-highway | adj | Said to assert the view that there is no alternative (apart from leaving) but to accept the speakers opinion or policies. |
| My-witting | n | With my knowledge. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| N | n | The letter "N" |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Na | adv | Not, in no way, by no means |
| Na | conj | Nor, neither |
| Na | n | Nay, a denial, refusal. |
| Naam | n | The act of taking goods from another by way of distraint; goods and chattels taken in this way. |
| Nail | n | A growth of horn-like substance covering end of fingers and toes. 2. defect in stone. 3. metal pin for hammering into wood etc. as way of joining or making fixed. |
| Nail | vb | Fix or join something together by nailing. |
| Nail | phr | "A Bed of Nails or Thorns" - annoying, embarrassing or painful situation. |
| Nail | phr | "Bite One's Fingernails" - to anxiously await a decision. |
| Nail | phr | "Deaf As a Nail" - stone deaf; very deaf. |
| Nail | phr | "Drive The Nail Home" - push a matter to a conclusion. |
| Nail | phr | "Fight Tooth and Nail" - to strive very hard to win. 2. fight fiercely. |
| Nail | phr | "Go Off the Nail" to behave strangely, go of one's head. |
| Nail | phr | "Hang On by One's Fingernails" - to have only a slender hold. |
| Nail | phr | "Hard or (Tough) as Nails" - tough, unfeeling, callous, unsympathetic uncompromising in attitude and action. |
| Nail | phr | "Hit the Nail on the Head." -- (to aim right, to come to and say to the very point of the matter; to say or do the right thing.) 2. to wisely and shrewdly come to the right conclusion. 3. be accurate, correct. |
| Nail | phr | "Hung on a Nail" - put in pawn. |
| Nail | phr | "Nail a lie" - expose an untruth and deception. |
| Nail | phr | "Nail Back" - fasten something back with a nail. |
| Nail | phr | "Nail's Breadth" - a small amount. |
| Nail | phr | "Nail Down" - make someone give a firm and clear statement of his or her purpose and intention. to succeed in obtaining a position, as, "he nailed a job in Martins". 2. to define clearly, pin down, peg down, narrow down, specify; say precisely. 3. make final, finalize, settle. 4. clinch, ensure, hold, settle the matter, sort out. 5. fasten something flat another surface with nails. |
| Nail | phr | "Nail Drives Out Nail" - a new interest or delay replaces what was previously felt for its predecessor. |
| Nail | phr | "Nail Onto" - fasten one thing to another with nails. |
| Nail | phr | "Nail Something Down" - to tie up the loose ends of an arrangement. |
| Nail | phr | "Nail Someone" - to put the blame on someone. |
| Nail | phr | "Nail Someone to the Wall." - (like a trophy): said of someone or something finally eliminated or overcome after a protracted and even heroic, effort. 2. to out manoeuvre someone. |
| Nail | phr | "Nail Up" - fasten something to a surface so that it hangs from that surface. 2. close a door with nails. 3. fix a thing at a height with nail. |
| Nail | phr | "Of the Nail" - not quite sober. |
| Nail | phr | "On the Nail" - immediately, on the spot, as in 'pay on the nail'. |
| Nail | phr | "One Nail Drives Another" - a new pain or problem will stop you worrying or feeling bad about something else |
| Nail | phr | "On the Nail" - immediately, on the spot at once without delay required of a payment. 3. without the least delay,(chiefly used of making repayments). |
| Nail | phr | "Right As Nail" - fine, okay, very good. |
| Nail | phr | "To be Nailed" - to have one's attention fixed on a matter. |
| Nail-bed | n | The skin beneath the nail plate. Like all skin, it is made of two types of tissues: the deeper dermis, the living tissue which includes capillaries and glands, and the epidermis, the layer just beneath the nail plate, which moves toward the finger tip with the plate. |
| Nail-biter | n | A person who bites their nails. 2. a worrier, someone who is very anxious. |
| Nail-biting | adj | Of a situation characterized by or causing suspense, anxiety, nervousness; cliff-hanging, suspenseful. 2. causing severe anxiety or tension. |
| Nail-bitingly | adv | In a nail-biting manner. |
| Nailcare | n | The proper maintenance of the fingernails and toenails. |
| Nail-chapman | n | A trader, dealer or seller of nails. |
| Nailed | adj | Fastened, studded or constructed with nails, etc. |
| Nailed-on | adj | Esp. applied as an epithet recently to dramas of loose construction without literary or artistic value. |
| Nailer | n | One who makes nails. 2. to who job is to hammer in nails. 3. a great, marvellous person, animal or thing; exceptionally good hand at something. n 4. a detective, policeman. |
| Nailer | n | "As busy as a Nailer" - very busy. |
| Nailfast | adj | Fastened with nails. |
| Nail-fold | n | the duplication of the skin which surrounds the edges of the nail; the cuticle. |
| Nail-head | n | An ornament like the head of a nail used chiefly in architecture and clothing. |
| Nail-headed | adj | Having or resembling a head like that of a nail. |
| Nail-hole | n | A nail made to take a nail. |
| Nail-house | n | A private home whose owner refuses to move to clear way for new real estate developments despite offers of huge monetary sums from a private developer or expropriation attempts by the government From calque translation of Mandarin 钉子户 (dīngzihù, “nail house”) |
| Nailing | n | The act of action of fixing or join something together by nailing. |
| Nail-knot | n | A type of bend knot used to join two fine lines. Commonly used with fishing lines. The name comes from the use of a nail, or needle, or similar object as an aid to form the knot correctly. |
| Nail-less | adj | Without or not having nails. |
| Nailmaker | n | One who makes nails as an occupation. |
| Nailmaking | n | The act of making nails. |
| Nailrod | n | A long strip of sheet-iron from which nails are furnished. |
| Nails | phr | "Hard as nails" - unfeeling, unsympathetic. |
| Nail-smith | n | Usually written "Naismith" (cnif smit): a maker or forger of nails, spikes etc. 2. possibly also, a soldier. In ancient times all soldiers had to be skilled in maintaining their own weapons, and hence could be highly proficient in such work. Originally a "knifesmith": described a soldier who used a short sword and a "swordsmith" one who used a long sword. |
| Nailwort | n | A name suggested for Draba verna and Saxifraga tridactiles by Gerarde and applied by Cotgrave to paronychia with reference to their supposed efficaciousness in curing diseases of the finger nails. |
| Naily | adj | Studded with nails. |
| Naked | adj | Unclothed, having no clothing on the body, stripped to the skin, nude. 2. destitute of clothing, implying poverty and wretchedness. 3. stripped of usual warm clothing. 4. without weapons: unarmed. 5. without defence or protection; open, unprotected, or exposed to injury. 6. of a sword or other weapon: not covered by a sheath; unsheathed. 7. free from concealment or reserve; plain, straight-forward, outspoken free, as in the naked truth. 8. exposed to view or examination; uncovered, stripped of all disguise or concealment of . 9. plain, obvious, clear. 10. bare, destitute or devoid of something. 11. of a horse without a harness. |
| Naked | phr | "Be Stark Naked" - be absolutely nude. |
| Naked | phr | "Naked as The Day He Was Born" - |
| Naked ape | n | Of the 193 species of monkeys and apes, only humans are not covered with hair. 2. mqn thought of as no more than an evolutionary refinement, a special kind of animal. |
| Naked eye | n | The eye alone, unaided or unassisted by glasses, or by any other magnifying or optical device. |
| Naked fallow | n | Ground where no crops are grown at all. |
| Naked fire | n | An open or uncovered fire and flame. |
| Naked-flooring | n | The parallel rows of timber on which the floorboards rest. |
| Naked footed | adj | Bare-footed, without footwear. |
| Naked ground | n | Devoid of vegetation, trees or foliage. |
| Naked handed | adj | Bare-handed or empty handed. |
| Nakedhood | n | The state or condition of being naked. |
| Nakedish | adj | Somewhat naked. |
| Naked ladies | n | The meadow saffron or autumn crocus. |
| Naked light | n | Open flame, such as a match or a burning cigarette, that is a risk in a mine. |
| Nakedly | adv | In an exposed manner; without protection or defense. 2. without clothing. |
| Nakedness | n | The state or fact of being naked. |
| Naked seed | n | A seed which isn't ienclosed in an ovary. |
| Naked sword | n | A sword having no covering or sheath, especially the usual one. |
| Naked tree | n | A tree without foliage or with bare limbs. |
| Naked truth | adj | Speech or conversation without glibness, decoration, but words and pesponses put firmly. |
| Nakedly | adv | In an exposed manner, without protection or defense. 2. without protection or defense. 3. without clothing. 3. in a manner without covering or disguise; manifestingly; simply, barely. |
| Naken | vb | To strip a person naked. 2. to divest of clothing or armor; to lay part of the body bare. 3. to strip or deprive someone of something. 4. to lay bare; reveal or disclose. |
| Nakening | n | The action of something naked or revealed |
| Name | n | Language unit by which a person or thing is known; a person's reputation. 2. family based on male descent; gens. 3. a well-known or notable person; figure, public figure. 4. by the sanction or authority of. 5. a defamatory or abusive word or phrase, name, epithet. 7. a person, an individual. [poetic] |
| Name | vb | Assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to; call. 2. give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property. 3. charge with a function; charge to be; nominate, make. 4. create and charge with a task or function; appoint, name, nominate. 5. mention and identify by name. 6. make reference to; mention, advert, bring up, cite, refer. 7. discover, key, distinguish, describe. 8. give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of. 9. determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness. 10. to give a distinctive name or appellation to; to entitle; to denominate; to style; to call.11. to mention by name; to utter or publish the name of; to refer to by distinctive title; to mention. 12. to designate by name or specifically for any purpose; to nominate; to specify; to appoint; as, to name a day for the festival; to name as captain. 13. to designate someone by name, often one does by way of reprimand. 14. to denominate; style; term; call; mention; specify; designate; nominate. 15. the title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class. |
| Name | phr | "A Household Name" - somebody who is well known. |
| Name | phr | "Answer to the Name" -acknowledge to the name of , be called. |
| Name | phr | "By the Name of" - called or known by, having the name of. |
| Name | phr | "Call Somebody Names" - use insulting names for somebody. |
| Name | phr | "Drop Names" - to bring in names of well-known persons allegedly known to the speaker into the conversation in an attempt to impress. |
| Name | phr | "Give a Dog a Bad Name" - to malign a person. |
| Name | phr | "Have a Black Mark Against One's Name " - to have a tarnished reputation. |
| Name | phr | "Have One's Name's Up in Lights" - to be a well-known actor or celebrity so that one's name is displayed in lights outside. |
| Name | phr | "Have To One's Name" - own, possess. |
| Name | phr | "In All But the Same Name" - of a situation or set of circumstances, but not officially acknowledged or recognized. 2. virtually. |
| Name | phr | "In Name Only" - in profession, or by title only; not in reality; in name alone, as, a friend in name. 2. of a marriage: platonic, without sexual intercourse. 3. as a mere formality. hardly at all. |
| Name | phr | "In Name With" - mentioned in connection with one of the other sex. |
| Name | phr | "In One's Own Name" - independently, without authority. |
| Name | phr | "In the Name Of." - on behalf of; by the authority of. 2. in one's name. 3. in calling to witness in. 4. invocation of, reliance upon, or devotion to, the persons of the godhead. |
| Name | phr | "Lend One's Name to Something" - to endorse something. 2. to authorize the use of one's name in support of a cause, undertaking, product. |
| Name | phr | "Make a Name for Oneself " - to earn a good reputation by virtue of some skill. |
| Name | phr | "Name a Few" - citing only these. |
| Name | phr | "Named After" - give a child the same first name as his father, mother, grandparent. |
| Name | phr | "Name a Rose by any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet" - the form does not affect the substance. |
| Name | phr | "Name but a Few" - precedes or follows a short list of examples or instances which could be greatly extended. |
| Name | phr | "Name for" - to intentionally give someone the same name or the derivation of the same name as another person, place or thing. |
| Name | phr | "Name (no) Names" - announce/not announce the names; identify, praise, criticize, praise, accuse people accused or guilty of crime or misdeeds. |
| Name | phr | "Name No Names" - refrain from mentioning the names of people involved in an incident, matter, etc., in order to protect them; often with the implication that the hearer could supply them. |
| Name | phr | "Name of the Game" - the object or issue of an action. |
| Name | phr | "Name on the Same Day" - to bring into comparison or connection. |
| Name | phr | "Name the Day" - to mention or specify as something desired, suggested or decided upon. 2. to fix time of a woman to fix the date of her wedding. |
| Name | phr | "Of Great Name" - have a good reputation. |
| Name | phr | "One's Good Name" - repute or reputation. |
| Name | phr | "One's Middle Name" - one's best known attribute. |
| Name | phr | "Or My Name's Not" - i am definitely certain. |
| Name | phr | "Put One's Name Down for" - apply for. 2. promise to subscribe a sum. |
| Name | phr | "Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet" - the form does not effect the substance. |
| Name | phr | "So-and-So is the Name of the Game" - so-and-so is the name of the game. |
| Name | phr | "Someone Who Shall Be Nameless" - somebody whom we all know (but not named for effect or to prevent embarrassment) |
| Name | phr | "Their Name Lives for Evermore" - those consolatory words , frequently used on war memorials. |
| Name | phr | "To One's Name" - own, belonging to, as in "he hasn't got a proper pair of shoes to his name. |
| Name | phr | "What's His Name" - someone whose name cannot be remembered. |
| Name | phr | "What's in a Name?" - names are arbitrary labels |
| Name | phr | "Worthy of the Name" - deserving of his name or title, as, "any doctor worthy of his name could quickly diagnose the man's illness." |
| Name | phr | "You Name It." - anything you can ask for or name, no matter what; anything you want. 2. no matter what; whatever you like. |
| Name-brand | n | A product or item made by a famous maker or manufacturer, as opposed to by a generic manufacturer |
| Name-calling | n | Abusive or insulting language. |
| Name-child | n | One called after, named out of regard for another. |
| Name-cleping | n | Name giving. |
| Namecouth | adj | Namecund:known by name, name known widely, well-known, famous, celebrated. |
| Named | adj | Given a name to. 2. specified as a time, sum or place as something desired , suggested or decided on. |
| Name day | n | The feast day of a saint whose name one bears. 2. day on that a child is named. |
| Namedly | adv | By name. |
| Namedrop | vb | To refer to people that one assumes one's audience admire in order to try to impress them. |
| Namedrop | n | The practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listeners. |
| Name-dropper | n | Someone who pretends that famous people are his or her friends. 2. one who habitually refers to famous people as if they were his friends. |
| Name-dropping | n | Familiar mentioning of the names of important people in order to imply one's own importance. |
| Name-droppingly | adv | In a name-dropping manner. |
| Name-giver | n | One who gives names. |
| Name-giving | n | The act of naming. |
| Nameless | adj | Being or having an unknown or unnamed soul, nameless, unidentified, unknown, unnamed. 2. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. 3.undistinguished; not noted or famous. 4 not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; 5. unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible. 6. little known, obscure, unacknowledged, undesignated, un-famed, unheard of, unidentified, unknown, unnamed, unsung, without. |
| Nameless | phr | "Someone Who Shall be Nameless" - someone who we all know (but not named for effect or to prevent embarrassment.) |
| Namelessly | adv | In a nameless manner or way. |
| Nameling | n | Person bearing the same name. |
| Namelore | n | Lore and learning relating to names. |
| Namely | adv | That is to say, in other words to wit. 2. distinguished, famous, notable. |
| Name-maker | n | A creator of names. |
| Namemanship | n | Skill in the use of influential names of people or object. 2. skill in name-dropping. |
| Namen | vb | To take, (nim). |
| Namer | n | One who names. |
| Namesake | n | Person named after another or called by the same name . |
| Name-son | n | A name child of male sex. |
| Nameword | n | A designation or name given to an object, person or location, an appellation. |
| Name-worthy | adj | Worthy of the name one has. |
| Naming-rights | n | A financial transaction and form of advertising whereby a corporation or other entity purchases the right to name a facility or event, typically for a defined period of time. |
| Nap | n | A drinking bowl or cup. |
| Nap | n | A light or short sleep, esp. one take during the day; a doze, kip, a sweet slumber. |
| Nap | vb | To take a short sleep or doze. 2. be not prepared, caught off guard. |
| Nap | phr | "Have a Cat Nap" - a brief sleep; doze off; have a power sleep. |
| Napless | adj | Without a nap, the short fuzzy ends of fibres on the surface of cloth, drawn up in a napping. |
| Napper | n | One who has a short sleep. |
| Nappy | n | A round earthen or glass dish with a flat bottom. |
| Nare | adj | Narrow |
| Narrow | adj | Not wide; as in "a narrow bridge". 2.limited in size or scope. 3. lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; narrow-minded. 4. very limited in degree. 5. characterized by painstaking careful and detailed examination. |
| Narrow | n | A narrow strait connecting bodies of water, "The Narrows", as the narrowest part of the Dardanelles. |
| Narrow | vb | To make or become more narrow or restricted; narrow, contract. 2: define clearly; pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specify. 3. to become more focused on an area of activity or field of study. 4. become tight or as if tight; constringe. 5. to lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of. 6. to contract the reach or sphere of; to make less liberal or more selfish; to limit; to confine; to restrict; as, to narrow one's views or knowledge. 7. to become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait. |
| Narrow | adj | Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow street; a narrow hem. 2. of little extent; very limited; circumscribed. 3. having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near, as in a narrow miss. 4. limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances. 5. contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, as "a narrow understanding." 6. parsimonious; niggardly; stinted, covetous; selfish. 7. scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact. Nb: "Narrow" is often prefixed to other words, especially in forming words of obvious meaning; such as, narrow-brimmed, narrow-edged, narrow-headed, narrow-souled, |
| Narrow | phr | "Fall Narrow" - fall short. |
| Narrow | phr | "Narrow Down" - reduce the number of people or places being investigated by clearing certain suspects . |
| Narrow-bed | n | The grave, tomb, narrow-house, earthbed. |
| Narrow boat | n | A canal boat less than 7 ft (2.1 metres) wide with a maximum length of 70 ft (21.3 metres) and steered with a tiller rather than a wheel. |
| Narrow-bottomed | adj | A relatively small, deep area in the bottom of a sea or lake. 2. a trench; a long narrow and steep depression at the bottom of the seaa. |
| Narrow-brained | n | The lowest specimens of humanity: "the most motley, bigoted collection of self-righteous, narrow-brained, non-intelligent idiots I have ever seen". |
| Narrow-brained | adj | Dull, of low intellect; stupid. |
| Narrowed | adj | Contracted, constricted, confined; decreased, narrow (in breadth). 2. lacking in breadth of feeling; ungenerous. |
| Narrowed-necked | adj | Having a small or narrow opening or neck. |
| Narrow-ended | adj | Narrow or narrowing at the ends. |
| Narrower | n | Of small or limited width, esp. in comparison with length. 2. limited in area or scope; cramped. 3. lacking flexibility; rigid, narrow in opinions. |
| Narrow-eyed | adj | Observing closely. |
| Narrow-hearted | adj | Ungenerous, ignoble, mean. |
| Narrow-heartedness | n | State or quality of being ungenerous, mean or ignoble. |
| Narrow-house | n | The grave, tomb, earth-bed, narrow-bed. |
| Narrowing | adj | The act of contracting or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent. 2. constriction, restriction, confining. 3. an instance of becoming narrow. 4. of circumstances: tending to constrict freedom. 5. decrease in width. |
| Narrowish | adj | Inclined to be constricted, restricted, confining. |
| Narrowishly | adv | In a somewhat narrow manner. |
| Narrowly | adv | In a narrow manner, not allowing for exceptions. 2. of little breadth, in a narrow manner. 3. without much extent, contractedly. 4. with minute scrutiny, closely as, searchingly. 5. ith little margin or space, by a small distance. 6. sparingly. parsimoniously. |
| Narrow-minded | adj | Narrow in breadth of view or sympathy; illiberal, prejudice, bigoted. 2. lacking in the breadth of mind; incapable of broad views. 3. not receptive to others ideas, wishes or opinions. |
| Narrow-mindedly | adj | Lacking tolerance, bigoted, breath of view, or sympathy; petty. |
| Narrow-mindness | n | The state or quality of having a contracted mental scope. 2. the mindset of being illiberal or bigoted. |
| Narrow-mouthed | adj | Having a small mouth. 2. an opening of, vessels; rivers. |
| Narrowness | n | The property of being narrow; having little width. 2. an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behaviour; narrow-mindedness, narrowness. 3. a restriction of range or scope. 4: a small margin; narrowness, slimness. 4. the condition or quality of being narrow. |
| Narrow seas | n | The channels or "The Narrows" separating Great Britain from the adjacent continent and from Ireland. 2. A strait connecting Upper New York Bay with Lower New York Bay between the western end of Long Island and Staten Island. 3. The Dardanelles' narrowest part. |
| Narrow shave | n | Close to, but free from, danger; a narrow escape. |
| Narrow-sighted | adj | Narrow of sight, often owing to a medical condition. 2. fig. narrow of vistas or mental scope. |
| Narrow-souled | adj | Lacking in breadth of view or feeling for others, ungenerous, illiberal, bigoted, mean, prejudiced, stingy. |
| Narrow-streeted | adj | Having narrow streets. |
| Narrowth | n | Narrowness, constraint. |
| Nathe | n | A variant of nave: the centre of a wheel. |
| Natheless | adv | Nevertheless, notwithstanding, na the less, nathless, not the less. |
| Nathmore | adv | Not the more, never the more. |
| Naught | adj | Wickedness, evil, moral wrong, turpitude, mischief. 2. a wicked or evil thing. 3. of no worth or value; good for nothing; worthless; useless, bad, poor; stark naught. 4. morally bad, wicked, naughty. 5. bad or wrong in method. 6. immoral, vicious. 7. lost, ruin, destroyed. 8. injurious, hurtful, unlucky. |
| Naught | vb | To efface oneself; to keep quiet or withdraw (usu. in the imperative "let's go and be naught, I say.) 2. bring to naught; annihilate. |
| Naught | phr | "Bring to Naught" - ruin, baffle. |
| Naught | phr | "Come to Naught/Nothing." - fail, be unrealized, bring to naught, be ruined. 'All Rob's hopes and dreams came to naught.' |
| Naught | phr | "Speak Naught" - to be self-effacing; to keep quiet or withdrawn. |
| Naughting | n | Emptying; excepting. 2. nothingness; worthlessness; shortcomings. |
| Naughtingly | adv | Wickedly, viciously, 2. wrongly, dishonestly, badly, poorly. |
| Naughtness | n | State or condition of being naught or nothing. 2. wickedness, turpitude, evilness. |
| Naughtnessly | adv | In a manner of naughtness. |
| Naughty | adj | In a naughty or evil manner. 2. wayward, not behaving well, mischievous, bad. |
| Naughty | phr | "Do the Naughty" - to behave promiscuously. |
| Naughty | phr | "Have a Naughty" - to have sexual intercourse. |
| Naughty-bits | n | The parts of a person's body connected with sexual activity or attraction, especially their genitals. |
| Naughty Nineties | n | The last decades of the C19th, seen as a period of freedom, laxity or decadence in social mores, entertainment, the arts compared with conventional Victorian standards. |
| Nave | n | Central piece of a wheel, from which the spokes of a wheel radiate.. 2. hub. |
| Navel | n | The small pit of the abdomen, to which the umbilical was attached. 2. centre or middle point of anything. 3. centre or central point of country, sea, forest etc. 4. middle point of a horse's back. |
| Navel-knot | n | The knot or knob of the umbilical cord. |
| Navelled | adj | Knobbed; bull's-eyed. 2. having a navel; set as a navel or hollow. |
| Navel-string | n | Umbilical cord. |
| Navel-wort | n | Cotyledon umbilicus; pennywort |
| Naze | n | OE naes: a promontory; a headland. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Nib | n | Something small or pointed. 2. the beak of a bird; the point of a pen. 3. a small projection or cog on the underside of a tile for fixing to a batten. 4. the upper edge of a plasterer's running mould. |
| Nib | vb | To furnish with a nib. |
| Nibbed | adj | Having a nib. |
| Nickname | n | From an eke-name ( eke meaning ‘addition’: see eke), misinterpreted, by wrong division, as a neke name. 2. a name added to or instead of an ordinary name. 3. a name given in contempt, derision, or familiarity to some person, nation, or object. |
| Nickname | vb | To give a nickname. |
| Niddering | adj | OE. 'nithing' a coward. 2. cowardly, faithless, infamous. |
| Nift | n | A niece. 2. " a forth-nift." -- a grand niece. |
| Nigh | adv | Nearby, near to, at hand, nigh at hand, , close, in the proximity. |
| Nigh | adj | Not distant or remote in place or time; near 2. not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate. "Nigh kinsmen." near; close; adjacent; contiguous; present; neighboring. |
| Nigh | phr | "Nigh On" - near, just on, about. 2. nigh upon, |
| Nigh | phr | "Nothing Nigh" - nothing like. |
| Nigh-but | adj | Almost, nearly, just on; as, 'he was nigh-but twenty-one'. |
| Nigh-by | adv | Nearby, close, near to, almost, near at hand. |
| Nigh-ebbed | adj | Almost; as, as the nigh-ebbed sea, in the windless. |
| Nighen | vb | To come near. |
| Nigh-hand | adv | Nearby, near at hand,near to. 2. near or close to a person or place. |
| Nighish | adj | Near to, approaching, coming close to. |
| Nighly | adv | Nearly, almost nearly, closely. 2. niggardly, sparingly. |
| Nighness | n | Nearness in place, time or possibility. 2. proximity. 3. nearness of kinship or blood. |
| Nighsome | adj | Favourable, benevolent, gracious, courteous, courtly. |
| Nighsomeness | n | A state or situation: somewhat near or approaching in time, place, possibility. 2. state of kinship or family ties. |
| Night | n | The period of darkness between sunset and sunrise. 2. the beginning of this period; nightfall. 3. the darkness of night; the dark. 4. a condition or time of obscurity, ignorance, sinfulness, misfortune, etc.: the long night of European history known asthe Dark Ages. 5. ( sometimes initial capital letter ) an evening used or set aside for a particular event, celebration, or other special purpose: a night on the town; poker night; New Year's Night. 6. the period of darkness each 24 hours between sunset and sunrise, as distinct from day. 7. the occurrence of this period considered as a unit: four nights later they left. 8. the weather conditions of the night: a clear night. 9. the activity or experience of a person during a night. 10. nightfall or dusk. 11. a state or period of gloom, ignorance, etc. |
| Night | adj | Of or pertaining to night: the night hours. 2. occurring, appearing, or seen at night: a night raid; a night bloomer. 3. used or designed to be used at night: to take a night coach; the night entrance. 4. working at night: night nurse; the night shift. 5. active at night: the night feeders of the jungle. |
| Night | phr | "All Night Long" - throughout the whole night. |
| Night | phr | "Be a Night Owl" - to habitually go to bed late. |
| Night | phr | "By Night" - in or during the night; at night time. |
| Night | phr | By Night and Day" - unceasingly; all the time, at any time, always, continuously, continually; night in, night out, working night and day (until the job was done). |
| Night | phr | "Call It a Night" - end what one is doing at night. |
| Night | phr | "Dead of the Night" - darkest part of the night. |
| Night | adj | "Fly-by-night" as, a fly-by-night seller. |
| Night | phr | "Have a Good Night" - have a good time; enjoy the entertainment, and sleep well. |
| Night | phr | "Have a One-night Stand" - an occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening. 2. (idiomatic) A single sexual encounter between two individuals, where at least one of the parties has no immediate intention or expectation of establishing a longer-term sexual or romantic relationship. As the phrase implies, the relationship lasts for only one night. 3. (idiomatic) A person with whom one shares a single sexual encounter. |
| Night | phr | "Make a Night of It": to go out enjoy and celebrate for most of the night. |
| Night | phr | "Morning After the Night Before" - have a hangover. |
| Night | phr | "Night and Day" - unceasingly; all the time, continuously, continually; night in, night out, working night and day (until the job was done). 2. day and night. |
| Night | phr | Night in, Night out" - all the time, continuously. 2. night after night. |
| Night | phr | "Night is Young" - the project is only at a very early stage. |
| Night | phr | "Night of the Long Knives" - The Nazis murder of the Brownshirts and some catholic leaders in 1934. 2. the Saxons, lead by Hengist, murder of Welsh chieftains in 472 |
| Night | phr | "Of Night" - at nightfall; in the evening; usually from six p.m. to midnight. |
| Night | phr | "Of Nights" - (done) by night (habitually). |
| Night | phr | "Of the Night" - by night, during the night, at night. |
| Night | phr | "Ships in the Night" - persons who fail to meet up. |
| Night | phr | "Spend a Sleepless night" - to worry long and deeply about something. |
| Night | phr | "The First Night" - the first publc performance of a play or show. |
| Night | phr | "The Night" - the first on which a play is publicly performed. |
| Night | phr | "The Night is Young" - the endeavour or undertaking has just begun. |
| Night | phr | "Will be Alright on the Night" - an expression of optimism that in the end everything will go well or be OK. |
| Night-after-night | adv | Nightly, night by night, many nights |
| Night and day | adv | Always, ceaselessly, continually, day after day, perpetuating, successively, unceasingly. |
| Night-bale | n | Hurt, harm, misfortune that comes during or at night. |
| Night-bell | n | A bell in a doctor's house, telephone exchange, etc used for emergency calls. |
| Night-bird | n | A nocturnal bird such as an owl. 2. a bad character who prowls about at night. 3. one who habitually keeps late hours. |
| Night-biter | n | An animal, esp. an insect such as a mosquito, that bites during the night. |
| Night-black | adj | Very black. |
| Night-blind | adj | Unable to se clearly in dim light. |
| Night-blindness | n | The inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder, moon-blindness, nyctalopia. |
| Night-born | adj | Taking place or happening at night. |
| Night-break | n | The first appearance of darkness at dusk. |
| Night-clothes | n | Sleeping attire. |
| Night-dark | adj | Very black. |
| Night-eater | n | The flea (slang). |
| Nighted | pp | Made black or dark as night. 2. pertaining to the night. 3. overtaken by night; benighted. |
| Nighten | vb | To grow dark; to become night. |
| Nighter | n | One who carries out activities at or during the night; as, a 'first nighter'. |
| Nightern | adj | Nocturnal, hesternal, nightish, nightly. |
| Night-eyed | adj | capable of seeing at night. |
| Night-fall | n | Dusk, sundown. |
| Nightfall | n | The end of the day, dusk, the night-long, sundown, sunset, evening, crespusule. |
| Night-fallen | adj | Pertaining to night-fall. |
| Night-faring | adj | Going or travelling by night. |
| Night-fear | n | A morbid fear of night-time. 2. frightened by the (real and imaginary) sounds of night. |
| Night-fighter | n | n aeroplane used for interception at night. |
| Night-flight | n | fleeing under the darkness of night. |
| Night-fire | n | The will o' the wisp. |
| Night-foe | n | A chillblain. |
| Night-glass | n | A short telescope for night observation at sea. |
| Nightglow | n | The faint light emitted by the upper atmosphere at night. |
| Night-hag | n | An ugly old female demon or witch who appears during the night. 2. a witch credited with flying on a broomstick. |
| Night-hawker | n | One who travels about selling food/ wares at night. |
| Night-helm | n | The covering of night; night's curtain. |
| Night-house | n | A tavern, pub that stays open all night. |
| Nightingale | n | A small brownish migratory bird of the thrush family, Luscinia megarhynchos, the male bird known for its beautiful song at night. |
| Nightish | adj | Pertaining to the night, nocturnal. |
| Night-laden | adj | Heavy with the darkness of night. 2. burdened with the problems of life during the dark hours. |
| Nightland | n | Nighttime. 2. a land and its people who experience months of darkness during winter. |
| Night latch | n | A spring latch operated on the inside by a knob and from outside buy a key. |
| Nightless | adj | Having no night; eternal daytime or daylight. |
| Night-life | n | The activity of people seeking night-time diversions, as at nightclubs, theatres, and the like. 2. the entertainment available at night-time for clubs etc. |
| Night-lifer | n | One who seeks entertainment at night-times in clubs, etc. |
| Night-light | n | A faint light perceptible at night. 2. a light which burns or shines at night. |
| Night-like | adj | Resembling night in some aspects. |
| Nightline | n | A fishing line with baited hooks left in the water to catch fish over night. 2. late night TV show or program featuring current affairs, esp. political matters. |
| Night-long | adj | That lasts or has lasted during the night. |
| Night-long | adv | All night, during the whole night. |
| Nightly | adj | Happening, done or existing in the night. 2. recurring every night. |
| Nightly | adv | Every night; of the night. |
| Night-lying | n | Bedtime. |
| Nightman | n | A watchman; security officer. |
| Nightmare | n | A terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of anxiety in extreme, helplessness, sorrow, etc. 2. a condition, thought, or experience suggestive of a nightmare: the nightmare of his years in prison. 3. (formerly) a monster or evil spirit believed to oppress persons during sleep. |
| Nightmare-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a nightmare in some aspect. |
| Nightmareness | n | The state or condition of a nightmare. |
| Nightmarey | adj | Resembling a nightmare. |
| Nightmarish | adj | Extremely alarming, hair-raising. 2. terrifying as a nightmare; resembling a nightmare. 4. apt to give someone a nightmare. |
| Nightmarishly | adv | In a nightmarish manner. |
| Nightness | n | Darkness. |
| Night-off | n | A night free from work or usual duties. |
| Night-out | n | An evening spent in entertainment or reveling; a spree. |
| Night-owl | n | An owl which flies at night. 2. one who is up at night. |
| Night raven | n | A bird of ill omen that cries in the night; esp., the bittern. 2. the night jar, the night raven. |
| Night-rider | n | In the southern United States, any of a band of masked, mounted men who perform lawless acts of violence at night, generally to punish, intimidate, etc. |
| Night-ridden | adj | Of a season that has long-periods of darkness. |
| Nights | adv | During the night, by night, at night. |
| Night-school | n | School classes conducted in the evening, usually for adult students. |
| Night-self | n | The struggle between one's night-self and one's day-self: the struggle between the dark or evil/bad side of a person and the light or good side of that person. |
| Nightshade | n | Any of the numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus "Solanum" - most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit; "Deadly nightshade" or "Belladonna". 2. the shade or darkness of night. 3. a night-walker; a prostitute. |
| Night shift | n | The work shift during the night, usu. midnight to 8.am. 2. the grave-yard shift. |
| Night-shirt | n | Sleepwear, esp. a loose shirt used for sleeping in. |
| Night-shirted | adj | Attired in a nightshirt. |
| Night-side | n | The 'dark' or bad side of a person. |
| Night-side | phr | "In the Night-side" - in the evening. |
| Night sight | n | The ability to see the reduced illumination (as in moon-light); night vision, scotopic vision, twilight vision. |
| Night-song | n | The prayer and song at compline: the religious exercise which completes and closes the service of thr day; the last prayer of the day to be said at sunset. |
| Night-sight | n | Night blindness; a physical defect of the eyes in which one sees well by daylight, but poorly in the dark or dim light; sometimes confused with day blindness or hemeralopia. |
| Night-speech | n | The sounds of night. |
| Night-spell | n | A charm against accidents at night. 2. a spell used as a protection against harm at night. 3. a charm used to cause harm at night. |
| Night-spot | n | A night club. |
| Night-stand | n | A small beside table, typically having drawers. |
| Night-stick | n | A long, stout club carried by policeman in the U.S.A., especially at night. |
| Night-stool | n | A night-chair or portable dry-closet; a commode. |
| Night-stop | n | A break in a journey during the night. 2. the place a person stops to spend the night. |
| Night-sun | n | A mock-moon, the paraselene. |
| Night-swallow | n | A prostitute, sex-worker, night-walker, skanky-ho. NB: a calque of the French: "Hirondelle de nuit". |
| Night-sweat | n | A profuse perspiration at night during sleep, often symptomatic of serious disease. |
| Night-swift | adj | As quick as the passing of night. |
| Night-tide | n | Nighttime. |
| Night-time | n | The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside; night, dark. 2. the time from dusk to dawn; night-tide. |
| Night-times | adv | At night, during the night. |
| Night-walker | n | Prostitute, street-walker, sex-worker. 2. a sleepwalker, noctambulist, somnambulist. 3. one who moves about in the night for evil purposes; a criminal. |
| Night-walking | n | Walking in one's sleep; somnambulism, noctambulism. 2. walking the streets at night for evil designs. |
| Nightwards | adj | Approaching or towards the night or nightfall; nightward. 2. coming or taking palce at night. |
| Nightwards | adv | Towards the region of night; westwards. |
| Night-watch | n | The time or period of keeping watch at night. |
| Night-watch | vb | To keep watch at night. |
| Night-watcher | n | one who keeps watch at night. |
| Night-watching | n | The occupation of a nightwatchman, whose job it is to keep watch at night. |
| Nightwatchman | n | A person whose job to keep watch by night. |
| Nightwear | n | Sleepwear, such as a loose shirt used for sleeping in |
| Night-wind | n | A wind that blows at night. |
| Night-work | n | Work carried out at night. |
| Night-worker | n | One who works at night. |
| Night-world | n | Life during the night-time; the world by night. |
| Night-worm | n | A treacherous comrade. 2. a devious, trust-betraying person. 3. a prostitute. 4. a glow-worm. |
| Nighty | adj | Pertaining to the night; nightly, night-like. 2. women sleeping attire. |
| Nigh-what | adv | Almost, nearly. |
| Nill | n | Unwillingness. |
| Nill | vb | (Ne & Will) - to be unwilling; not to will a thing. 2. to refuse, reject. 3. to negate, prevent from happening. 4. nill he, will he. |
| Nilling | n | The fact of not willing. 2. rejection, aversion. 3. that which nills or can nill. |
| Nim | n | A thief. |
| Nim | vb | OE: niman, nioman: to deal out; distribute, nim out. 2. hold, possess, take, occupy. 3. to take in various senses of the word: steal, filch, thieve, pilfer. 4. "to take nimbly". |
| Nimble | adj | Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. 2. agile; quick; active; brisk; lively; prompt. |
| Nimble-brained | adj | Quick of mind and intellect; nimble-witted. |
| Nimble-come-quick | adj | Rapid of growth. |
| Nimble-eyed | adj | Sharp of eye. |
| Nimble-fingered | adj | Quick and dexterous of the hand and fingers. 2. given to pilfering. |
| Nimble-footed | adj | Agile, fleet, fleet footed, mercurial, sure-footed, swift-footed, sprightly. 2. quick to change the direction of one's activities when circumstances warrant. |
| Nimble-footedness | n | Agility, adaptable, fleetness of foot, sprightliness. |
| Nimble-mouthed | adj | Articulate, quick of repartee. 2. nimble-tongued. |
| Nimbleness | n | The quality or ability to be agile, quick in motion, move with speed. |
| Nimble-nosed | adj | Quick to pick up a scent; lit and fig. 2. mentally alert, savvy, aware, sharp, quick-witted. |
| Nimble-tongued | adj | Articulate, quick of repartee. |
| Nimble-toothed | adj | Ready to eat or consume food. |
| Nimble-willed | adj | Quick willed. |
| Nimble-witted | adj | Quick of mind, intellect and humour. |
| Nimbly | adv | To act in a manner quickly, swiftly, actively and with ease of motion. |
| Nimbly | phr | "To Take Nimbly" - steal. 2. quick and skilfully |
| Nimmer | n | A pilfer, thief, petty crook. |
| Nimming | n | The action or practice of pilfering, steaking, robbing. 2. |
| Nim-nosed | adj | Swift to pick up scents. |
| Nine | n | The cardinal number, eight plus one; thrice three-fold. 2. a symbol for this number, as 9 or IX. 3. a set of this many persons or things. 4. a baseball team. 5. a playing card with nine pips. 6. "The Nine": the Muses. |
| Nine | adj | Amounting to nine in number. |
| Nine | phr | A Stitch in Time Saves Nine" - early intervention or maintenance saves time and is less costly in the long run. |
| Nine | phr | "Look Nine ways" - to squint. |
| Nine | phr | "Nine-day Wonder" - an exciting event, or person but one which will cease to excite interest when the novelty wears off. |
| Nine | phr | "Ninepence to a Shilling" - a dimwit: a brick short of a load. |
| Nine | phr | "Nine Times Out of Ten" - more often than not, usually. 2. almost always. |
| Nine | phr | "Nine to Five" - normal working hours. |
| Nine | phr | "Nine Ways (at thrice)" - asquint, askew. |
| Nine | phr | "On Cloud Nine" - be very happy. |
| Nine | phr | "Right as Ninepence" - fit, healthly. |
| Nine | phr | "Up on Nines" - at once. |
| Nine | phr | "Up To the Nines" - to perfection, to the highest degree or place. |
| Nine-eyed | adj | An opprobrious epithet.???? |
| Nine-fold | adj | Having nine units or components; nonuple, nine times repeated. |
| Nine-foldness | n | The state or quality of being nine-fold. |
| Nine hundred | n | The natural number followng 899 and preceding 901. |
| Nineish | n | About or around nine. |
| Nineness | n | The property of being 'nine' in number. |
| Nine-sided | adj | Having nine sides. |
| Ninesome | n | By or constituting nine; ninefold, night-times. 2. performed by nine individuals. |
| Nineteen | adj | Being one more than eighteen. 2. the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one. |
| Nineteenth | n | One of nineteenth equal parts of a whole. |
| Nineteenth | adj | The ninth after the tenth |
| Nineteenth-hole | n | Jocularly in golf, the refreshment bar. |
| Nineteenthly | adj | Come 19th in number. |
| Nine-to-five | n | The average working day. |
| Nine Worthies | n | (The Nine Wonders)the heroes of medieval romance, three Jews: Joshua, David, and Judas Maccabaeus; three pagans, Hector, Alexander, and Julius Caesar; three Christians Knights : Arthur, Charlemagne, and Geoffrey Bouillon. |
| Nine-eye | n | The river lamprey or lampern, with a dark blue back and silvery sides, used as bait. |
| Ninefold | adj | Nine times as much or many. 2. consisting of nine parts |
| Ninefold | adv | Nine times as much or many. 2. consisting of nine parts. |
| Nineteen | n | ne more than eighteen, nine more than ten. |
| Nineteen | adj | That amounts to nineteen. |
| Nineteenth hole | n | The bar at a golf club (as reached after a standard round of eighteen holes). |
| Nine-to-five | n | Of or involving a standard working day. |
| Ninety | adj | Being ten more than eighty. 2. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine. |
| Ninth | n | One of ninth equal parts of a whole |
| Ninth | adj | The first after the eight. |
| Ninthly | adv | In the ninth place. |
| Nit | n | Egg of a louse or other insect parasite on man or animals. 2. a gnat or small fly. 3. a contemptible person -- a nitwit. |
| Nith | n | A place low down. |
| Nith | adj | Low. |
| Nithe | n | OE: to condemn: envy, malice, hatred. |
| Nithe | vb | To envy, or hate a person. 2. to feel envy, anger, hatred. 3. to begrudge, withhold, deny, as in a meat-nithing (deny food to). |
| Nither | vb | To bring or thrust down. |
| Nithered | adj | Old English (in an earlier sense) with object to chill or blast with cold.
2. with no object To shiver or tremble with cold. See also nithering. |
| Nithering | n | The condition or state of feeling envy, hatred, malice; lowness (meanness of spirit). |
| Nitherness | n | Lowness; low position. |
| Nithing | n | A vile coward, dastard, despicable wretch, low-life-villain. 2. a coward, dastard, |
| Nithing | adj | Niggardly, sparing, grudging, hard-fisted. |
| Nithinghood | n | State or quality of niggardness, miserliness; wretchedness, baseness, lowness (of behavior). |
| Nittily | adv | Lousily. |
| Nittings | n | The refuse of gold ore. 2. dregs, tailings, mullock. |
| Nitty | adj | Full of nits; infested with nits; lousy. |
| Nitwit | n | A stupid, incompetent person; dimwit, half-wit, lame-brain, dolt, stolt, thickwit, witling, lackwit. |
| Nitwitted | adj | Stupid, dimwitted, doltish, foolish. |
| Nitwittedness | n | State or quality of stupidity, foolishness, mental unalertness. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Ne | sfx | A negative meaning not. |
| Neal | adj | Of water, not deep. |
| Neap | n | The neap or low tide at the moon's first and third quarters when there is least difference between high and low water. |
| Neap | vb | To become lower or less. 2. to tend towards the neap or low tide at the moon's first and third quarters. 3. to reach the highest point of neap tide. |
| Neap | adj | Without power of advancing. |
| Neaped | adj | A ship left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; beneaped. |
| Neap flood | n | O.E. nepflod "neap flood," the tide occurring at the end of the first and third quarters of the lunar month, in which high waters are at their lowest, of unknown origin, with no known cognates. Original sense seems to be "without power." |
| Neapness | n | The condition of being at neap. |
| Neap-rise | n | High tide. |
| Neap tide | n | A less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon. |
| Near | adj | Not distant in place or time or degree, nigh, continuous. 2. closely related in blood or affection, familiar. 3. closely touching one's interests. 4. in riding or driving, placed on the left: opposed to, off. 5. following or imitating closely, literal: a near take. 6. resembling or substituted for. 7. penurious or misely, stingy. 8. short or speedy, tending to lessen a distance: a near way. 9. avoiding by a narrow margin; close; near get-away. |
| Near | adv | At little distance; not remote in place or time, or degree. 2. in close relation, intimately. 3. close to the wind. 4. stingy, parsimoniously. |
| Near | vb | Come or come close to or near, approach. |
| Near | prep | Close by or near to. |
| Near | phr | "A Near Miss/Thing" - a close or near miss; a near miss; a narrow escape from death, injury or other mishap; a close call. 2. physically or emotionally close (to somebody) and valued (by somebody) |
| Near | phr | "As Near As One Could Be" - used to say that something seems to one to be a certain way. |
| Near | phr | "Come Near to". - to want but little of, to approximate to. |
| Near | phr | "Draw Near" - to approach; draw close. |
| Near | phr | "Far and Near" - over a large area, far and wide. |
| Near | phr | "Lie Near" - to be natural or reasonable. |
| Near | phr | "Near and Dear" - related to one by kinship or friendship. 2. nearest and dearest; close, immediate family; kindred, kin. |
| Near | phr | "Near and Near" - close. |
| Near | phr | "Near About" - nearly, almost approximately. |
| Near | phr | "Near at Hand." - close by; within easy reach. 2. in the immediate future. |
| Near | phr | "Nearest and Dearest" - close, immediate family; kindred, kin. 2. one's friends and realives collectively. |
| Near | phr | "Near Now" - just now. |
| Near | phr | "Near Of Kin" - closely connected by kinship or blood. |
| Near | phr | "Near the Knuckle/Bone" - too frank or inconsiderate in its exposure of a fact or truth; coarse or lewd to degree that many people would find unacceptable or offensive. 2. almost indecent. |
| Near | phr | "Near the Mark" - bordering on the indecent, risqué; near the bone. 2. almost right or correct. |
| Near | phr | "Near to Ones Heart" - to touch or affect (an other) deeply. |
| Near | phr | "Near Upon" - close, or not far, to a particular time. |
| Near | phr | "Nowhere near." - not nearly; well away from. |
| Near | phr | "One's Nearest and Dearest" - (facetious) one's family , esp. those one lives with. |
| Near | phr | "So Near Yet so Far" - of a person who or thing that is unattainable despite its apparent proximity. |
| Near beer | n | A drink that resembles beer but with less than 1/2 alcohol content; light or low alcohol beer. |
| Nearby | adv | Close by; near at hand, adjacent, approximate; hard by, not far off; in close proximity. |
| Near blind | adj | Having greatly reduced vision; dim-sighted, purblind, visually impaired. |
| Near-coming | adj | Imminent, soon, in a short while, near at hand, approaching, threatening. |
| Near-death | adj | Associated with death or impending death. Such experiences may encompass a variety of sensations including detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, total serenity, security, warmth, the experience of absolute dissolution, and the presence of a light. |
| Near East | n | The Middle East; the Balkans. |
| Near-evil | adj | Wicked. |
| Near-fighting | n | Fighting taking place at hand, or hand to hand. |
| Near-go | n | A narrow escape. |
| Near-going | adj | Imminent leaving, near to, near, passing by. |
| Near-goingness | n | State or quality of imminent departure or leaving. |
| Near-hand | adj | Close at hand; near. |
| Nearing | vb | To approach; to come nearer, as, the ship neared the land, coming near, close at hand, to loom, be nighish, to be imminent. |
| Nearish | adj | Somewhat near. |
| Near-like | adj | Almost like or the same; very similar to. |
| Nearly | adv | Within a little; almost. 2. with a close regard to one's interest. 3. at no great distance, closely, narrowly. 4. stingily. |
| Nearly | phr | "Not Nearly" - nothing like; far from; (not nearly enough). |
| Near miss | n | An accidental collision that is avoided narrowly; a close call, near go, near thing, very nearly, narrow escape. |
| Nearmost | adj | Nearest |
| Nearness | n | The state or condition of being near, close to, adjacent, approaching, near at hand. |
| Nearside | n | The left side of a vehicle nearest the vehicle. 2. the left side of an animal. |
| Near sight | n | Short sight. |
| Nearsighted | adj | Unable to see distant objects clearly; short-sighted, myopic. 2. seeing distinctly at short distance only; dim-sighted. 2. (fig): bigoted, illiberal. |
| Nearsightedly | adv | Unable to see things that are faraway. 2. unable to see clearly or understand an issue or problem. |
| Nearsightedness | n | Eyesight abnormality resulting from the eyes faulty refractive ability to see distant objects clearly or blurred. 2. (fig): bigotry, closed-mindedness, illiberality, parochialism, pettiness, un-catholicity. |
| Near thing | n | Something that barely avoids failure or disaster. 2. a narrow escape. |
| Neat | n | An animal of the ox kind: an ox or bullock; a cow or heifer. 2. collectively cattle. 3. the steer, the heifer and the calf, are all called neat. |
| Neath | prp | Poetical form of 'beneath'. |
| Neat herd | n | One who is in charge of cattle. |
| Neat-house | n | A house or shed in which cattle are kept; a neatern; a shipoon. |
| Neat's tongue | n | An ox-tongue, used as an article of food. |
| Neb | n | A beak or bill of a bird. 2. mouth of a person; the face. 3. nose or snout of an animal. 3.projecting part or point, peak, tip, extremity. 5. anything that ends in a point or has a neb; a nib. 6. embryo or radicle of a seed; rootlet. |
| Neb | vb | To furnish with a nib; to point. 2. to mend or repair a point. |
| Nebbed | adj | Having a neb; long-nebbed. |
| Nebbish | adj | A person, especially a man, who is regarded as pitifully ineffectual, timid, or submissively weak; cuckoldish |
| Nebbish-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of one who is regarded as pitifully ineffectual, timid, or submissive. |
| Nebbishly | adv | Nebbishlike. |
| Nebshaft | n | OE: scieppan -- shape. 2. countenance, face. 3. likeness, image. |
| Neb-to-neb | n | Face to face. |
| Nebby | adj | Resembling or characteristic of one who is regarded as pitifully ineffectual, timid, or submissive. |
| Neck | n | The part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body; cervix. 2. a narrow elongated projecting strip of land. 3. a cut of meat from the neck of an animal. 4. a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck inposition or form. 5. an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck. 6. any part of an inanimate object corresponding to or resembling the neck of an animal; as: the long slender part of a vessel or a piece of fruit. 7. that part of a violin, guitar, or similar instrument, which extends from the head to the body, and on which is the finger board or fret board. 8. a neck forming the journal of a shaft. 9. the point where the base of the stem of a plant arises from the root. |
| Neck | vb | Kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion; make out.. |
| Neck | phr | "At Break-neck Speed" - very fast and dangerous speed. |
| Neck | phr | "Be Neck and Heel" - topsy-turvy. |
| Neck | phr | "Break One's Neck to do Something" - to be particularly keen or desperate. |
| Neck | phr | "Break One's Neck for" - work hard/ quickly. |
| Neck | phr | "Break the Neck of" - to destroy the main force of; to break the back of. 2. destroy, finish, bring to an end. |
| Neck | phr | "Breathe Down Someone's Neck" - to cause annoyance to another person by remaining in his vicinity or by supervising him too closely ; or be narrowly behind another person in some competitive situation. 2. watch somebody too closely. |
| Neck | phr | "Dead from the Neck up" - foolish, stupid, stulty, half-witted. |
| Neck | phr | "Get it in the Neck." - be assaulted or be hit hard by something. 2. be reprimanded or punished. 2. be blamed, or disciplined. |
| Neck | phr | "Harden the Neck": To grow obstinate; to be more and more perverse and rebellious. |
| Neck | phr | "Have a Brass Neck (to do something)" - be bold, shamelessenough to do something. |
| Neck | phr | "Have a Millstone about One's Neck" - a great burden or responsibility. |
| Neck | phr | "Having a Stiff neck": obstinacy in evil or wrong; inflexible obstinacy; contumacy. |
| Neck | phr | "In Our Neck of the Wood(s)." - a localized area, as "My Neck of the Woods". In Bill Bryson's "Made in America", the claim is made that the origin of "neck" is the Algonquian word "naiack" meaning "point, corner" The American colonists came up with "branch," "fork," "hollow," "gap," "flat" and other descriptive terms used both as simple nouns ("We're heading down to the hollow") and parts of proper place names ("Jones Hollow"). "Neck" had been used in English since around 1555 to describe a narrow strip of land, usually surrounded by water, based on its resemblance to the neck of an animal. But the Americans were the first to apply "neck" to a narrow strand of woods or, more importantly, to a settlement located in a particular part of the woods. |
| Neck | phr | "It Is Neck or Nothing" - a desperate effort is called for. |
| Neck | phr | "Neck and Crop": completely; wholly; altogether; roughly and at once. |
| Neck | phr | "Neck and Heel" - the whole body (colloq); bodily, completely, altogether. 2. neck and crop. |
| Neck | phr | "Neck and Neck" - so nearly equal that one cannot be said to be before the other; very close; even; side by side or abreast. A term from horse racing or the turf. |
| Neck | phr | "Neck of a Tooth" - the constriction between the root and the crown. |
| Neck | phr | "Neck Oneself" - to commit suicide. |
| Neck | phr | "Neck or Nothing" : (fig.), at all risks; a risky effort; a desperate effort is called for. 2. 'neck or all' |
| Neck | phr | "Neck Over Head" - go headlong. |
| Neck | phr | "On the Neck Of": immediately after; following closely; on the heel of. |
| Neck | phr | "Send a Chill Down Someone Neck/Spine" - hear or learn of some very worrying news. |
| Neck | phr | "Speak From the Back Of One's Hand" - to use extravagant or inaccurate words or language. |
| Neck | phr | "Stick One's Neck Out" : to have the courage of one's conviction. 2. to take a calculated risk or gamble. |
| Neck | phr | "Stiff Neck" - obstinacy. |
| Neck | phr | "Talk Through the Back of One's Neck" - to be utterly wrong or inaccurate. 2. to talk utter rubbish or be hopelessly wide of the mark, |
| Neck | phr | "Tread on the neck of": to oppress; to tyrannize over, 2. to strike or break the neck. |
| Neck | phr | "Up to One's Neck in Something" - to be deeply or closely involved in something or some matter. |
| Neck | phr | "Upon the Neck of" - to oppress; to tyranicize. |
| Neck | phr | "Win By a Neck" - win by the length of a horse's head and neck. |
| Neck ache | n | A stiff or painful neck. |
| Neck-and-heel | n | The whole body (colloq). |
| Neck beard | n | A growth of hair on a man's neck, esp. when regarded as indicative of poor grooming. 2. a man who is socially inept and physically unappealing, esp. one who has an obsessive interest in computing. |
| Neckbone | n | The bone or nape of the neck; a cervical vertebrae |
| Neck-cloth | n | A cravat; cloth worn around the neck. |
| Necked | adj | (Slang) hanged. |
| Necker | n | One who engages in caress and fondling. |
| Neckful | adj | A quantity that fills the neck; as much as the neck will hold. 2. as much punishment, annoyance, irritation etc) as one can endure. |
| Necking | n | The moulding at the top of a column. 2. affectionate play or foreplay without contact of genital organs. |
| Neckland | n | A narrow strip of land; a mull, a spit. |
| Neckless | adj | Having no neck. |
| Necklike | adj | Resemblin a neck. |
| Neckline | n | The edge or shape of the opening of a garment at the neck. |
| Neck-ring | n | Any form of stiff jewellery worn as an ornament around the neck of an individual, as opposed to a loose necklace. Many cultures and periods have made neck rings, with both males and females wearing them at various times |
| Necktie | n | A band or scarf passing round the nck or collar and tying in front under the chin . 2. any bow or tie worn under the chin. 3. a halter. 4. (slang) a lynching. |
| Neck-warmer | n | A piece of clothing that keeps the neck close. |
| Neckwear | n | A collective term for cravats, ties, collars and other like garments. 2. (slang): hangman's rope. |
| Neck-weed | n | Hemp, a common expression for a rope. |
| Neck-word | n | A word on which ones neck (life) depends; a shibboleth. |
| Neck yoke | n | A bar by which the end of the tongue of a wagon or carriage is suspended from the collars of the harnesses. 2. a device with projecting arms for carrying things (as buckets of water or sap) suspended from one's shoulders. |
| Need | n | A condition requiring relief. 2. anything that is necessary but lacking,want. 3. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behaviour; motive motivation. 4. a state of extreme poverty or destitution; indigence, need, penury, pauperism. state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want. 5. want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. 6.thatwhich is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business. (Obs)7. situation of need; peril; danger. (Obs.) |
| Need | vb | To require as useful, just, or proper; necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand. 2. have need of; want, need, require.
3. have or feel a need for friends, money etc. 3. to be wanted; to be necessary. 4. to be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief. Nb: With another verb, need is used like an auxiliary, generally in a negative sentence expressing requirement or obligation. |
| Need | adv. | Of necessity; needs. [Obs.] |
| Need | vb | To exercise constraint or compulsin upon. 2. to constrain, compel or force a thing. |
| Need | phr | "At a Need" - in a time of emergency, need or crisis. |
| Need | phr | "Had Need" - ought to. |
| Need | phr | "Have a Need To" - be under the necessity to do something. 2. to require, want to do something. |
| Need | phr | "Have Need Of" - the thing required. |
| Need | phr | "In Need Of" - requiring. |
| Need | phr | "Need a Long Spoon to Eat with the Devil" - need to keep at a cautious distance, have some safeguard, or possibility of escape or withdrawal, or skeptical attitude when associating with somebody or involving oneself in an argument, decision. |
| Need | phr | "Need I Say More" - used for saying what is so obvious that it is not necessary to gie more details. |
| Need | phr | "Need It Yesterday" - indicates that the need is extremely urgent. |
| Need | phr | "It's Needless to Say" - unnecessary or not required, as it goes without saying. |
| Need | phr | "Need Like a Hole in the Head" - to be involved in a completely undesired problem. 2. not need something at all. |
| Need | phr | "Needn't" - Need not (to do). |
| Need | phr | "Need Not Have" - did not need to (but did). |
| Need | phr | "Need Not Have" - did not need to (but did). |
| Need | phr | "Needs Must" - must necessary or unavoidable (for somebody or something). |
| Need | phr | "Needs Must, Must Needs Do" - necessity; compelled to. |
| Need | phr | "Needs Must When the Devil Drives" - circumstances make it necessary, inevitable or unavoidable (for somebody or something). |
| Need | phr | "That All I Need" (That's the last thing I need)" - : that is just another frustration or annoyance. |
| Need-be | n | A necessity; an essential thing or reason. |
| Need-doer | n | Trader. |
| Need-doing | n | Trading, traffic. |
| Needed | adj | Required. |
| Needer | n | One needs something. |
| Needfire | n | Spontaneous combustion. 2. fire obtained from dry wood by means of vigorous friction. 3. a bonfire or beacon. |
| Needful | adj | Necessary for relief or supply; needed, needful, required, requisite. 2. full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing. 3. necessary for supply or relief; requisite. 4. called for, essential, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, necessary, needed, required, unforgoable, vital, wanted. |
| Needfully | adv | In a needful manner. |
| Needfuless | n | The state of being in need of something. 2. a state of being without something necessary, desirable or useful. |
| Needily | adv | In a needy manner. |
| Neediness | n | The state, quality or condition of being needy, in poverty, needfulness,want or indigence. 2. the quality of attention, affection and reassurance to a marked degree. |
| Needing | n | An occasion or time of need. 2. a necessary act. 3. the fact of being in need, want, poor, privation, deprivation, indigence. |
| Needings | n | Necessities. |
| Needle | n | A small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing. 2. any of various similar, usually considerably larger, implements for making stitches, as one for use in knitting or one hooked at the end for use in crocheting. 3. (med) slender, pointed, steel instrument used in sewing or piercing tissues, as in suturing. 4. an injection of a drug or medicine; shot. 5. any of various objects resembling or suggesting a needle. |
| Needle | vb | To sew or pierce with or as if with a needle: to needle a patch on a sleeve. 2. to prod or goad (someone) to a specified action: "we needled her into going with us." 2. to tease, sometimes with spite. 3. slang. to add alcohol or ether to (a beverage): to needle beer. 4. to form needles in crystallization. 5. to work with a needle. |
| Needle | n | "The Needle" - irritating abuse; teasing; heckling (used especially in the phrases give someone the needle and get the needle). |
| Needle | phr | "Eye of the Needle" - a small door or passage (it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God). |
| Needle | phr | "Find a Needle in a Haystack" - to find find something when the probability is small. |
| Needle | phr | "Get the Needle" - become angry, frustrated, vexed, annoyed. |
| Needle | phr | "Look for a Needle in a Haystack" - to attempt something with a very small chance of success. 2. an impossible task to find something. |
| Needle | phr | "On the Needle" - (slang) taking drugs by injection, especially habitually. |
| Needle | phr | "On Pins and Needles" - be very agitated. |
| Needle-bearing | adj | An anti-friction roller bearing in which long rollers of very small diameter fill the race without a cage to provide spacers between them. |
| Needle-book | n | a strips of cloth arranged like leaves of a book to hold needles. |
| Needlecraft | n | A creation created or assembled by needle and thread; needlework, needlecraft. 2. work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle. 3. an article or articles created or assembled by needle and thread; needlework. 4. (joc): stitching and suturing by doctors and surgeons. |
| Needled | adj | Of trees: having leaves that are acerate. 2.badgered, baited, bedevilled, beset, harassed, heckled, nipped at, pestered, picked on, teased, tormented, worried. |
| Needledom | n | The world of sewing by needle. |
| Needle-fish | n | The pipe-fish with a long snake-like body. |
| Needleful | adj | Amount of thread used on a needle at one time. |
| Needle-furze | n | The prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe, the Petty Whin (Genista Anglica). |
| Needle-game | n | A contest that is very close or arouses personal grudges. |
| Needle-grass | n | Feather grass. |
| Needle leaf | n | The name applied to a coniferous or softwood trees, because of the spine-life leaves. |
| Needleless | adj | Without or not having needles or thorns. |
| Needlelike | adj | Resembling or similar to a needle in various aspects. |
| Needleman | n | A tailor. 2. a disc jockey (DJ). 3. drug addict. |
| Needle match | n | Contest in which both contestant are very eager to win |
| Needlenose | n | A person whose methodical, over-disciplined ways continually irritate neighbors and co-workers by this person insistance of the same attention to detail and order from others. A person who is so consumed by the repetitiveness of his work that he he takes things too seriously and sucks the life out of the laughter and fun around him. A person so detailed, he misses the big picture. |
| Needle-shaped | adj | Narrow, long and pointed, as, pine leaves, acicular, acerose. |
| Needler | n | A maker of needles. 2. one who annoys, irritates, harasses others. |
| Needle-shaped | adj | Narrow, long and pointed, as, pine leaves, acicular, acerose. |
| Needle-threader | n | A piece of looped wire used to carry thread through the eye of a needle. |
| Needle-wood | n | A tree native to India with light red or reddish brown with darker bands. |
| Needless | adv | Without any compulsion or necessity, needlessly. 2. not needed, not wanted, unnecessary, useless, uncalled for; not requisite. 3. having no want, not in need or want. without sufficient cause, groundless, causeless |
| Needless | phr | "It's Needless to Say" - unnecessary or not required, as it goes without saying. |
| Needlessly | adv | In a way that is unnecessary because it is unavoidable. |
| Needlessness | n | The fact of being needless, having not want, not in need. 2. unnecessaryness. |
| Needlestick | n | An accidental puncture wound of the skin with an unsterilized needle or syringe. |
| Needlestone | n | Natrolite. |
| Needle-threader | n | A piece of looped wire used to carry thread through the eye of a needle. |
| Needle-time | n | Needle time was created in the United Kingdom by the Musicians' Union and Phonographic Performance Limited to restrict the amount of recorded music that could be transmitted by the BBC during the course of any 24-hour period. The number of hours per week allowed gradually increased over the years from below 30 hours in the 1950s. The result was that the BBC had to use "cover" versions of popular songs by groups, or orchestral versions by one of the in-house orchestras, to fill in the hours. The term "needle time" comes from the use (at the time) of gramophone records as the main source of recorded music, which were played on gramophone record players using a gramophone needle. |
| Needlewoman | n | A sempstress. |
| Needlework | n | Needlecraft; a creation created or assembled by needle and thread. 2. work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle 3. an article or articles created or assembled by needle and thread; needlework. 4. (joc): stitching and suturing by doctors and surgeons. |
| Needle-worker | n | One who does needlework. |
| Needle-working | n | The act or occupation of needlework. |
| Needle-wrought | adj | Worked, ornamented, embroidered or sewn by needle. 2. sutured. |
| Needlihood | n | Needliness. |
| Needling | n | A needy person; a poor person, an indigent. |
| Needly | adj | Thorny. |
| Needly | adv | Zealously, carefully, earnestly. 2. necessarily; of necessity. |
| Needness | n | The state or condition of being needy. |
| Need-rooted | adj | Fixed by necessity. |
| Needs | n | Requirements; things needed, necessities. |
| Needs-be | n | Necessity, need-to-do; a necessity. |
| Needsly | adv | OE: neodlice: desire, eagerness. 2. zealously, carefully, earnestly. |
| Needs-must | phr | "Needs Must when the Devil Drives" - necessity compels, something that is done unwillingly but with the acceptance that can't be avoided; inevitable, unavoidable. the expression comes from a earlier form: " Needs must when the Devil drives": if the devil's driving you, you have no choice". |
| Needs | phr | "Who Needs It" - who wants the bother and problems. |
| Needs-not | n | Something not needed or essential. |
| Needsome | adj | Needy, necessary. |
| Need-sweat | n | Sweat or perspiration caused by distress or extreme anxiety. |
| Need-sweaty | adj | Perspired (caused by acute anxiety or distress). |
| Need-to-know | n | A principle or practice; esp. in espionage, politics, business etc, whereby people are kept ignorant of which they do not need to know. |
| Needways | adv | By or because of needs. |
| Needwise | adv | By or because of necessity. 2. according to need, by need. |
| Needy | adj | Persons ('The Needy"); indigent, poor, poverty-stricken, necessitous. 2. in need of thing. 3. circumstances characterized by poverty or need. 3. of a search: close, anxious. |
| Needyhood | n | Neediness. |
| Neep | n | Turnip, swede. |
| Neer | n | OE neora: the kidney. |
| Ne'er | adv | Never, at no time in the past or future. |
| N'er-do-well | n | One who never does well(a never-do-well), and is never likely to do well. 2. a-good-for-nothing, ne'er-be-good, worthless person. 2. an idle worthless person |
| N'er-do-wellish | adj | Worthless, good-for-nothing, non-performing, |
| Ne'er-do-wellishness | n | Worthlessness, good-for-nothingness, fact of non-performance. |
| Neezewort | n | Sneezewort. |
| Nehleche | vb | To approach or draw near a person or a place. |
| Nehleching | n | Approach. |
| Neigh | vb | To utter the characteristic sound of a horse. 2. to laugh loudly. |
| Neighbour | n | A person who lives (or is located) near another. 2. a nearby object of the same kind. "what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?" 3. a person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. 4. one who is near in sympathy or confidence.
5. one entitled to, or exhibiting, neighbourly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being. 6. one who is near by chance |
| Neighbour | vb | To live or be located as a neighbour. 2. be located near or adjacent to; "England neighbours Wales." 3. to live or be near to or next to; adjoin. 4. to bring near to or in close association. 5. to be in the proximity; lie close. 6. to live nearby, to be neighbourly. |
| Neighbourhood | n | The region near where one is or resides; vicinity. 2. nearness; the condition of standing in the relation of a neighbour; neighbourship.. 3. friendly relations; neighbourliness. 4. a district considered with reference to a given characteristic. |
| Neighbourhood | phr | "Neighbourhood Friendly" - a well-known local area where one feel safe. 2. your friendly neighbourhood. |
| Neighbourhood | phr | "In the Neighbourhood Of" - somewhere about. |
| Neighbourhood | phr | "Your Friendly Neighbourhood" - applied to a well-known and popular local person or thing. |
| Neighborhood Watch | n | As a result of increasing crime, especially burglary, residents in a particular ares began organizing Neighborhood Watch groups from the early 1980s with police co-operation. |
| Neighbouring | adj | Located, situated or living adjacent or nearby. 2. a proximate to, close at hand, near. 3. that neighbours in various senses. |
| Neighbourliness | n | The state or condition of being neighborly. |
| Neighbourly | adj | Friendly, kindly, helpful. 2. appropriate to a neighbor; , sociable |
| Neigher | n | One who laughs loudly. 2. a horse. |
| Neighing | n | To utter the cry of a horse; to whinny. 2. to scoff, sneer, jeer. |
| Neither | adv | Nouther, not whether, not on one hand or not either. 2. Not either; not the one or the other. |
| Neither | conj | Not either; generally used to introduce the first of two or more coordinate clauses of which those that follow begin with nor. "Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king. Nb: Neither was formerly often used where we now use nor."For neither circumcision, neither uncircumcision is anything at all." "Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it." --Gen. Neither is sometimes used colloquially atthe end of a clause to enforce a foregoing negative (nor, not, no). "He is very tall, but not too tall neither." Not so neither, by no means. |
| Neither | phr | "Neither Fish, Flesh nor Good Red Herring/Fresh Meat" - neither one thing or another;; ambiguous, vague, difficult to identify. 2. "neither fish nor fowl" also see: "Neither Head nor Tail". |
| Neither | phr | "Neither Head Nor Tail" - neither beginning or end; neither this thing or that; nothing distinct or definite: a phrase used when giving quick and approximate answers to indicate that the response is not neccesarily accurate. |
| Neither | phr | "Neither, Here nor There" - irrelevant, unimportant. |
| Neither | phr | "Neither Hide nor Hair" - no evidence of somebody's existence or presence. |
| Nesh | adj | Soft in texture or consistency. 2. tender, succulent, juicy. 3.damp, moist, wet. 4. tender, mild, gentle, being inclined to pity, mercy or other tender feeling. 5. not harsh or violent. 6. timid, wanting in courage, faint-hearted; yielding easy to pressure or force. 7. slack, negligent, lacking in care or diligence. 8. yielding easily to temptation, inclined to lust or wantoness. 9. weak, delicate, unable to endure fatigue, exposure to cold. 10. dainty, fastidious, squeamish. 11. that which is sodden, soft ground. |
| Nesh | phr | "In Nesh and Hard." -- under any circumstances. |
| Nesh | vb | To be soft or tender. 2. to make soft. 3. to tun faint-hearted. 4. to draw back. |
| Neshhood | n | State or condition of softness, weakness, without courage. 2. gentleness, mildness, mercifulness, tenderness. |
| Neshly | adv | In a soft, weak, or without courage way. 2. gently, mildly, tenderly, mercifully. |
| Neshness | n | The condition of being nesh. |
| Ness | n | Promontory, headland, spit, mull. |
| Ness | sfx | A state or quality of being: as darkness, kindness etc. |
| Nest | n | A place in which a bird lays and hatches its eggs. 2. an animal breeding place. 3. any snug retreat. 4. a place in which things are lodged or deposited. 5. a place where thieves , pirates, robbers have their usual residence or resort. 6. a brood or swarm, colony of birds, insects, animals etc. 7. an accumulation or collection of similar objects. |
| Nest | vb | To make or have a nest |
| Nest | phr | "A Mare's Nest" - a discovery with illusory benefits. |
| Nest | phr | "Feather One's Own Nest"- to improperly arrange a transaction on behalf of others to one's own financial advantage. |
| Nest | phr | "Nest In" - build a nest (in); have a nest in. |
| Nest | phr | "Stir Up a Hornet's Nest" - to take action which results in unpleasant side affects. |
| Nest box | n | A box provided for a domestic or other birds to make a nest in. |
| Nested | adj | Occupying a nest. |
| Nest-egg | n | (Old Norse:egg) -a fund of money put by as a reserve; savings. 2. device consisting of an artificial egg left in a nest to induce hens to lay their eggs in it. 3. an egg left in the nest to prevent the hen from forsaking it, and to induce her to lay more in the same place. 4. hence, (figuratively), money set aside in a special fund to be used for special occasions, or more commonly, for retirement; as, she set aside a large hunk of her salary every month and had a considerable nest egg for her retirement. |
| Nester | n | Someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it. 2. a squatter, homesteader; a farmer seeking to settle on land used by cattlemen. 3. a term of opprobrium. |
| Nestful | adj | As much as a nest can hold, as eggs, chicks etc. |
| Nesting | n | The act or action of building or maintaining a nest. 2. an abode, dwelling, habitation, lodging, occupation. 3. co-habitation, residing, residence. |
| Nesting | adj | Abiding, birdlike, birdy, cohabiting, columbine, commorant, dovelike, dwelling, inhabiting, living, lodging, nidicolous, residing, squatting, staying, staying over, |
| Nestle | vb | To make a nest. 2. to lodge or settle in a nest. 3. to take up one's abode: to settle or squat in a place. 4. to settle down in a comfortable or snug manner. 5. to draw close to a person, to a thing esp. in an affectionate manner. 5. to be embedded in some place, quality or thing. |
| Nestle | phr | "Nestle Down" - settle oneself comfortably under the bedclothes, etc. |
| Nestle | phr | "Nestle Up (Against)" - press close to another person for warmth or comfort. |
| Nestled | adj | Lodged or settled in a nest. 2. settled down in a comfortable or snug place. 3. drwan close to another person or thing in an affectionate manner. |
| Nestless | adj | Lacking, without or not having a nest. |
| Nest-like | adj | Resembling a nest or some aspect of one. |
| Nestling | n | A young bird or fledgling. 2. a young child. 3. something that nestles in. |
| Nestingly | adv | In a nesting manner. |
| Nest-making | n | The act of making of nests by birds and some animals. |
| Net | n | A computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks, cyberspace; a network. 2. a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects; anything wrought or woven in meshes; as, a net for the hair; a mosquito net; a tennis net. 3. a goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey). 4. game equipment consisting of a strip of netting dividing the playing area in tennis or badminton. 5. an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals, network, mesh, meshing.6. in geometry, a figure made up of a large number of straight lines or curves, which are con-nected at certain points and related to each other by some specified law. |
| Net | vb | Construct or form a web, as if by weaving, web. 2. catch with a net 2. to make into a net; to make in the style of network; as, to net silk. 3. to take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile. 4. to inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree. 5.to form network or netting; to knit. |
| Net | phr | "Draw the Net Closer" - to intensify one's efforts. |
| Net | phr | "Spread the Net More Widely" - to be more comprehensive. |
| Netcast | n | A series of digital media files distributed over the internet to which a user can subscribe by means of a syndication application. 2. the content of one or all of the files in such a series. |
| Neten | n | An animal, esp. oxen, cattle, but sometimes a horse. |
| Netful | adj | The fill of a net. |
| Nethemest | adv | Lowest, undermost, furtherest down. |
| Nethen | adv | From below, below. |
| Nether | adj | Situated at the lowest point; esp. pertaining to the parts beneath the heavens and earth. |
| Nether | adv | Down, downwards; low, below, from below. |
| Netherer | n | The lowest parts. 2. an inferior, subordinate, underling, minion |
| Netherest | adv | Lowest, undermost, |
| Nether House | n | The House of Commons. |
| Netherlands | n | The kingdom of the the Netherlands; Holland |
| Netherlander | n | A Dutchman; an inhabitant of the Netherlands. |
| Netherlandish | adj | Resembling or somewhat like a Netherlander. |
| Nether Millstone | phr | 'His heart is as strong as a stone, and as a hard as a nether millstone'. |
| Nethermore | adv | Furtherdown; lower. |
| Nethermost | adj | Lowest, undermost, most further down. |
| Nethers | n | The private of the body, particularly the sexual organs. |
| Netherwards | adv | Downwards, |
| Netherworld | n | Hell, Hades, Sheol, The Underworld. |
| Netherwards | adv | Downwards. |
| Netless | adj | Without a net or nets. |
| Net knot | n | A relatively large and thickened mass of chromatin in the ucleus of a cell. |
| Netlike | adj | Having open interstices or resembling a web. 2. netted, webbed, webby, lacy, web-like. 3. resembling a net. |
| Netmaker | n | A maker of nets; a netter. |
| Net-minder | n | In hockey, soccer, gaelic football, international rules football, a football player assigned to protect the goals, goalie, goal-keeper. |
| Netmonger | n | One who deals or trades in nets and netting. 2. a fisherman. |
| Netted | adj | Net-like, webbed, intersticed, interplected. 2. covered with, or as in, a net. |
| Netting | n | A set of transparent fabric with a loose open weave; gauze, veiling. 2. the action of creating nets. 3. the act, practice of using nets , as in fishing. |
| Nettle | n | Any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae). The term nettle has been given to many plants related to, or to some way resembling, the true nettle; as Australian nettle, a stinging tree or shrub of the genus Laportea -- also called nettle tree. Bee nettle, Hemp nettle, a species of Galeopsis; Blind nettle, Dead nettle, a harmless species of Lamium; Horse nettle (Solanum Carolinense). |
| Nettle | vb | Sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation urticate. 2. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe. 3. to fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger. |
| Nettle | n | A state of uneasiness or impatience. |
| Nettle | n | Various species of marine life, as the 'sea nettle' - a medusa, jellyfish. |
| Nettle | phr | "Nettle Up" - to be irritated or annoyed. |
| Nettle | phr | "On Nettles" - in fidgets, uneasy, excited; impatience. |
| Nettle bed | n | An area of land covered in growing nettles. |
| Nettle-beer | n | A beverage made by the boiling of young, tender leaves of the nettle. |
| Nettle cloth | n | A kind of thick cotton stuff, japanned, and used as a substitute for leather for various purposes. |
| Nettle-earnest | adj | Downright or fully earnest. |
| Nettled | adj | Having nettles; uricated. 2. annoyed, vexed, uneasiness. |
| Nettle-field | n | An area of land or field covered or abundant in nettles. |
| Nettle-leaf | n | The leaf of a nettle-tree or nettle-bush. |
| Nettle-monger | n | The reed sparrow, the whitet hroat. |
| Nettler | n | One who either stings or irritates (lit. & fig.) |
| Nettlesome | adj | Causing irritation or annoyance, annoying, bothersome, galling, pesky, plaguey, teasing, vexatious. 2. easily irritated or annoyed, cranky, fractious, irritable, peevish, patulant, testy, tetchy. |
| Nettle-sting | n | A skin wound caused by a nettle. |
| Nettle-tree | n | A deciduous tree of the Elm order, with leaves resembling nettles but without the sting. |
| Nettlewort | n | Spurgewort, Acalyptus. |
| Nettling | adj | Stinging, irritating. 2. the twining of two ropesor strands or yarns togetherto form one whole without seams; knittle. |
| Nettly | adj | Overgrown with nettles. |
| Netty | adj | Net-like. |
| Network | n | Any netlike combination of filaments, lines, veins, passages, or the like:a network of arteries; a network of sewers under the city. 2. Radio and TV. a group oftransmitting stations linked by wire or microwave relay so that the same program can be broadcast or telecast by all. 3. a company or organization that provides programs to bebroadcast over these stations. 4. a system of interrelated buildings, offices, stations, etc., especially over a large area or throughout a country, territory, region, etc.: a network of supply depots. 5. in electricity: an arrangement of conducting elements, as resistors, capacitors, or inductors, connected by conducting wire. 6. a netting or net. |
| Network | vb | To cultivate people who can be helpful to one professionally, especiallyin finding employment or moving to a higher position. 2. to place (as a program from a local radio or television station) in or on a chain of broadcating stations. 3. to connect to a network. 4.to distribute widely. 5. to cover with or as if with a network. 6. to organize into a network: to network the state's independent stations. |
| Net-worked | adj | Of groups, teams, organizations etc connected by computer, or meeting inperson to exchange information, knowledge, etc. |
| Networker | n | A person connecting from home or from an external office via a computer network. 2. a person who uses a network of professional or social contactsto further their career. |
| Networking | n | Interchanging into or services, among a group, of persons or organisation. |
| Network-like | adj | Having a network of veins or ribs having a reticular; reticulated. |
| Network meltdown | n | By analogy with catastrophic failure of a nuclear reactor. 2. any event that causes saturation, or near saturation, of a network. |
| Network-wide | adj | A telecommunications or computer network that extends over a large geographical distance. |
| Neve | n | A nephew, sometimes a grandson. 2. spendthrift. |
| Never | adv | At no time. |
| Never | phr | "Better Late than Never" - more satisfactory that something happens, even if late, that it never hap[pens at all. |
| Never | phr | "Do a Never" - to shirk, loaf, bludge. |
| Never | phr | "I Never Did." - exclamation of surprise, disbelief. Also 'Well, I never did" |
| Never | phr | "Never After" - never again. |
| Never | phr | "Never Again" - a phrase expressing emphasis referral not to repeat an experience. |
| Never | phr | "Never a Word" - not as single word, grumble etc. |
| Never | phr | "Never Before" - in a way that has never been possible before. |
| Never | phr | "Never Eft" - never again, anew or a second time. |
| Never | phr | "Never Ere" - never before. |
| Never | phr | "Never Ever" - never (emphatic) |
| Never | phr | "Never Fear" - don't worry, don't be afraid. |
| Never | phr | "Never Had it So Good" - a reference to general prosperity and further improvement of living standards. |
| Never | phr | "Never Hear the End of" - be constantly reminded of. |
| Never | phr | "Never In a Month of Sundays" - never. |
| Never | phr | "Never Leave till Tomorrow What You Can Do Today" - carry out a task or duty as soon as you can do it. |
| Never | phr | "Never Let it Be Said - never let the criticism be made. |
| Never | phr | "Never Mind" - it makes no difference; pay no attention to it. |
| Never | phr | "Never Mind (doing something)" - forget about; stop, or don't start doing something. 2. stop the explanations, excuses, apologies, all that etc. |
| Never | phr | "Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What You Can Do Today" - carry out a task as quickly as possible; don't procrastinate. |
| Never | phr | "Never Say Die" - keep trying. don't give up. |
| Never | phr | "Never Say Never" - anything can happen, meaning a certain option should not be totally dismissed. |
| Never | phr | "Never Since" - never before or since that something happened in this way only once, so it emphasizes the uniqueness ad importance of the situation. |
| Never | phr | "Never So" -as never before; more than at any time; or in any other circumstances; especially, particularly; now often expressed by "ever so" - nb: ' never so well grounded.' |
| Never | phr | "Never Spoke a Truer Word" - somebody was right. |
| Never | phr | "Never Stop to Wonder" - continued to be amazed by. |
| Never | phr | "Never the Near" - no less, not in a way less; by no means less. |
| Never | phr | "Never to be Forgotten" - unforgettable, memorable. |
| Never | phr | "Never Where" - no where. |
| Never | phr | "Never You Mind" - used to urge someone not to worry. 2. an expression used in refusing to answer a question. |
| Never | phr | "Now or Never" - this is the time we must act decisively; not think do. |
| Never | phr | 'On the Never-never' - an installment payment plan; on credit, hire-purchase. 2. a system of paying for goods or articles by periodic payments over an extended period. |
| Never | phr | "Well I Never" - expression of great surprize. |
| Never-being | adj | Never existing. |
| Never-do-well | n | A ne'er-do-well, |
| Never-ebbing | adj | Never declining or running-low, as of life or money. |
| Never-eldering | adj | Never aging. |
| Neverending | adj | Unending, endless, everlasting, perpetual. |
| Neverendingly | adv | In a neverending manner; neverendingly. |
| Neverland | n | A fictional location featured in the works of J. M. Barrie and those based on them. It is an imaginary faraway place, where Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys and other mythical creatures and beings live. |
| Never mind | adv | Do not regard it; it is of no consequences; no matter. |
| Nevermore | adv | At no time hereafter. |
| Never-Never | n | "The Never-Never": the remote, desert outback of Australia; |
| Never-never | adj | Unrealistic, imaginary, utopian. |
| Never-Never Land | n | An imaginary ideal place; an utopia. ('The Never-never). |
| Never-ready | adj | Never prepared, willing or inclined to be ready. |
| Never-smoker | n | Adults who have never smoked a cigarette or have smoked less than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime. |
| Neverso | adv | As never before; more than at any time; or in any other circumstances; especially, particularly; now often expressed by "ever so" - as, ' never so well grounded.' 2. To an extent or degree beyond the actual or conceivable; no matter how. |
| Never-sweat | n | One who is lazy, idle or indolent. |
| Never-the-later | adv | Nevertheless. |
| Nevertheless | adv | Despite anything to the contrary ; "while we disliked each other, nevertheless we agreed"; however, withal, still, yet, all the same, even so,nonetheless,notwithstanding. 2. not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. 3. however; at least; yet; still. 4. after all, again, albeit, all the same, although, anyhow, anyway,anywise, at all, at all events, at any rate, but, by any means, even, even so, for all that, howbeit, however, in any case, in any event, in any way, irregardless, just the same, nohow, nonetheless, notwithstanding, rather, regardless, still, though, when, yet |
| Never-was | n | A person who has never been very useful in life; a never-wasser. |
| Never-would-be | n | One who will never achieve a great amount of success. |
| New | adj | Not existing or being before, lately come into some state or existence. 2. of recent origin or arrival. 3. in the original condition not worn or used. 4. renew or reformed. 5. reinvigorated. 6. in addition to others alrady existing. 7. unfamiliar or strange. 8. recently affected by social change; newfangled. 9. of an advanced method or theory. 10. in place names, as New Caledonia. |
| New | adv | Recently, freshly, newly. |
| New | phr | "A New Look" - an altered style, appearance given to something whose basic function remains the same. |
| New | phr | "A New One" - an account or idea not previously encountered. |
| New | phr | "Be Brand New" - absolutely new. |
| New | phr | "Break New Ground" - to do something which there is no precedent. |
| New | phr | "Bring In New Blood" - to recruit new members to an organization. |
| New | phr | "Dawn of a New Day" - the start or beginning of a new regime. |
| New | phr | "New Broom Sweeps Clean" - a newly-appointed person often starts with an energetic program of reform and change, sometimes not welcomed by those already there. 2. a change regime which is likely to alter the status quo. |
| New | phr | "New of the Moon" - time when the moon is new. |
| New | phr | "On the New" - something new. |
| New | phr | "Plow New Ground" - to laboriously engage in a new activity. |
| New | phr | "Take a New Look at" - consider things from a new perspective. |
| New birth | n | The doctrine of regeneration, that must be 'born again'. |
| New blood | n | New member of a group ( intended to add new life or vigour to it) |
| New-looking | adj | having a new appearance or aspect. |
| Newborn | n | A baby from birth to our weeks; neonate. 2. collectively: the young. |
| Newborn | adj | Recently born; as a new born infant. 2. having just or recently arisen or come into existence. 3. with newborn fears. 4. new-begotten, newly-made, minted, newly wroughted. |
| New-breed | n | 'The New Order' of things. |
| New-broom | n | A changed regime which is likely to change the order. 2. somebody eager who is newly appointed. |
| New-build | n | The construction of new houses or other buildings. 2. the construction of ships. |
| New-come | adj | Newly arrived; not lately arrived. |
| New-comer | n | One who has come to lately. 2. a new participant in some activity. 2. a novice, new-comeling, fledging, neophyte, freshman, entrant, beginner, emigrant, foreigner, outsider, parvenu, rookie, recruit, settler, tyro, tenderfoot. |
| New Deal | n | A campaign initiated in 1933 by Franklin Roosevelt in the USA involving a complete overhaul of american economic life, the development of the national resources, and the safeguarding of living conditions for labour. |
| New dealer | n | One who favours the New Deal. |
| Newen | adv | Newly, quite recently; newenly. |
| New England | n | A native or resident of any of the six North Eastern of the USA. |
| New-fallen | adj | Newly or recently fallen. 2. newly- dropped; newly-born. |
| New-fangled | adj | Of a new fashion; the latest. 2. something taken up recently. |
| New-fangledness | n | Affection of, or fondness for, novelty. 2. vain and affected fashion or form. |
| Newfangly | adv | In a new-fangled manner with eagerness for novelty. |
| New-fledged | adj | Wearing the first feathers. 2. |
| New-found | adj | Newly discovered. |
| New heart | n | In theology: the heart or character changed by the power of God, so as to governed new and holy matters. |
| New Holland | n | The old name for Australia. |
| Newhood | n | Newhood. |
| Newing | n | The action or renewing, or making new. 2. a novelty; something new. |
| Newings | n | Yeast, barm. |
| Newish | adj | Somewhat new, rather new, newly. |
| Newishness | n | The state or quality of being newish. |
| New-laid | adj | Newly placed on a surface, esp. horizontally. 2. of an egg freshly laid. |
| New Learning | n | The Renaissance. |
| New Left | n | The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of educators, agitators and others who sought to implement a broad range of reforms on issues such as civil rights, gay rights, abortion, gender roles, and drugs,[2] in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more vanguardist approach to social justice and focused mostly on labor unionization and questions of social class. |
| Newling | n | One who is new (to something); a newcomer, a novice. |
| New look | n | New or revised appearance or presentation , ep. of something familiar. |
| Newly | adv | Recently, only just, freshly, fresh. 2. lately, recently. 3. anew, again afresh, freshly. 4. another time, as new, de novo, from scratch, once again, yet again. |
| Newly-risen | adj | Newly or just recently risen. |
| Newlywed | n | Someone recently married. |
| Newly-wedded | adj | Recently married. |
| New-made | adj | Fresh; not stale, recently, newly or freshly made. |
| New man | n | A man who rejects sexist attitudes and the traditionalist male role. |
| New moon | n | The moon in it's first quarter, or when it appears after being invisible.2. the day when the new moon is first seen. 3. the first day of the lunar month, which was a holy day amongst Jews. |
| New-mown | adj | Recently cut or mown. |
| New-named | adj | To name anew. 2. to give a new name to. |
| Newness | n | The quality of being new - not old or of oldness. 2. novelty, freshness, the now, this day, this hour, today. |
| New-old | adj | both old and new through revival, repair, imitation. |
| New Right | n | New Right was a UK-based pan-European nationalist, conservative revolutionary think tank founded by the nationalists Troy Southgate and Jonathan Bowden. It had little influence. |
| News | n | The word news can be traced back to late Middle English around the 14th century as a plural for the adjective “new” or “new thing”. This is a somewhat rare instance of an English adjective becoming a noun when made plural. Making this leap from “new” to “news” in English is thought to have been influenced by the Old French “nouveau”, meaning “new”. Before the 14th century, instead of using the word “news”, English speakers typically used the word “tidings”, more or less meaning the “announcement of an event”. This Middle English version started before the 11th century and stems from the Old English term “tidung” meaning “Event, occurrence, or a piece of news”. 'New': OE. neowe, niowe, 1. fresh, recent, novel, unheard-of, different from the old; untried, inexperienced. 2. a report of a recent event; intelligence; information. 3. the presentation of a report on recent or new events in anewspaper or other periodical or on radio or television. 4. such reports taken collectively; information reported. 5. a person, thing, or event considered as a choice subject for journalistic treatment; newsworthy material. |
| News | phr | "Break the News" - make known to others about what's going on. |
| News | phr | "Have News For Someone" (I've news for you)- have news that will surprize you. |
| News | phr | "News from Nowhere" -something everybody knows already. 2. something too obvious or too trivial to be of worth. |
| News | phr | "News to Somebody" - facts previously unknown to somebody |
| News | phr | "No News is Good News" - absence of information suggests that everything is well. |
| News anchor | n | A news presenter – also known as a newsreader, newscaster (short for "news broadcaster"), anchorman or anchorwoman, news anchor or simply an anchor – is a person who presents news during a news program on television, on the radio or on the Internet. |
| News-book | n | A newspaper. |
| Newsbreak | n | A short news announcement concerning some on-going news story. |
| Newscast | n | A radio program. |
| Newscast | vb | To broadcast news. |
| Newscaster | n | A broadcast reporter. |
| News-dealer | n | Someone who sells newspaper, newsboy, newsagent. |
| New-set | vb | To set or establish afresh. |
| New-set-up | n | Something newly established. |
| Newsfeed | n | A service by which news is provided on a regular or continuous basis for onward distribution or broadcasting. 2. a system by which data is transferred or exchanged between central computers to provide newsgroup access to network users. |
| News-gatherer | n | One who gathers or collects news. |
| News-gathering | n | the act of collecting or gathering news. |
| News-hawk | n | A journalist with a sharp eye for news. |
| Newshound | n | A newspaper reporter. |
| Newsiness | n | Quality or character of things new. |
| Newsless | adj | Devoid, without news. 2. not having or receiving news or information. 3. not providing news or information, as, a news-less day. |
| Newslike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of news , or a news broadcast. |
| Newsmaker | n | A newsworthy person or event. |
| Newsmaking | n | The act or process of making news. 2. of doing or saying saying something that is newsworthy. |
| Newsman | n | A man who delivers or sells newspapers. 2. a news reporter. |
| Newsmonger | n | One who collects, deals in and retails news; a journalist, newspaperman, editor. 2. one who is active in hearing and telling news. 3. one who spreads gossip, busy-body, gossiper, gossipmonger, scandal-monger. 4. a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others; a tale-teller, tattler, a tell-tale. 5. a tale-bearing animal. |
| Newsreader | n | Someone who reads out news bulletin. |
| Newsroom | n | The staff of a newspaper or the news department of a periodical. 2. an office in which news is processed by a newspaper or news agency or television or radio station. 3. a reading room (in a library or club) where newspapers and other periodicalscan be read. 4. a room where news is collected and disseminated, located in the offices of a newspaper, magazine, or news broadcast organization; 5. a room where periodicals are sold; a reading room supplied with newspapers, magazines, etc. |
| News-sheet | n | A report or open letter giving informed or confidential news of interest to a special group. |
| News-show | n | A program devoted to current events, often using interviews and commentary. |
| Newsome | adj | Noisome, grevious. |
| Newspeak | n | A deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the masses. |
| Newsprung | adj | springing into creation, existence or beginning. |
| Newsroom | n | An area in a newspaper or broadscating office where news is processed. |
| Newsreader | n | A person who reads out broadcast news bulletins. |
| Newsstand | n | A stall where newspapers and other periodicals are sold. |
| New star | n | A nova. |
| Newsweekly | n | A news magazine or newspaper published weekly. |
| Newswire | n | A wire service that electronically provides up-to-date information to the media about breaking news, issues and events. |
| Newsworthiness | n | The quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletin. |
| Newsworthy | adj | Matters that worthy and suitable for reporting. |
| Newswriter | n | A journalist employed to provide news stories for newspaper or the broadcast media. |
| Newsy | adj | Gossiping;full of news. |
| Newt | n | One of the various small, semi-aquatic salamander-like amphibians, chiefly of the genus triturus. |
| New thing | n | Something avant-garde or innovative, specifically a type of experimental jazz music of the early 1900s. |
| New Thought | n | A modern religious philosophy stressing 'God in man' and the power of right thinking over disease and failure; also called "Higher Thought." |
| Newt-like | adj | Resembling or similar to a newt. |
| New-to | adj | A novice at, callow, green, inexperienced, raw, unacquainted with, unfamiliar with, unfledged, unhardened, uninured, unpracticed, untried, unused to, unversed, unwonted. |
| New Wave | n | An art movement in French cinema in the 1960s. 2. any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (esp. in the arts). 3. the avant-garde, the van, the van-guard. |
| New Waver | n | A fil-maker who follows "New Wave" ideas. |
| New World | n | The hemisphere that includes North America and South America" "the Americas"; the Weastern hemisphere ; Occidental. |
| New Year | n | The time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one. Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner and the 1st day of January is often marked as a national holiday. |
| New Year day | n | Also called simply New Year's or New Year, is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar. In pre-Christian Rome under the Julian calendar, the day was dedicated to Janus, god of gateways and beginnings, for whom January is also named |
| New Year's Eve | n | The last day of the year (Dec 31st). |
| Next | adv | At the time or occasion immediately following. 2. after, after all, after that, afterwards, endways, endwise, following, in the aftermath, nearmostly, nighest, thereafter, thereon, thereupon, therewith |
| Next | adj | Immediately following in time or order. 2. nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space, adjacent. 3: (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving, future, succeeding. 4. nearest in place; having no similar object intervening. 5. Nearest in time; as, the next day or hour. 6. adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order. 7. nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, correlation; as, the next heir was an infant. 8. closest, coming, endways, following, immediate, later, nearest, nearmost, neighbouring, nighest. |
| Next | phr | "At the Next" - directly, at hand. 2. in the next place, on next, succeeding. |
| Next | phr | "Get Next to" - get into the favour or god graces of; become a good friend of. 2. to be acquainted or intimate with. 3. come to know; find out about; to understand. 4. be worldly-wise. 5. to acquire self-knowledge. |
| Next | phr | "In the Next World" - to death, life after, heaven. |
| Next | phr | "Next After" - succeeding, coming next. |
| Next | phr | "Next Best Thing" - the most satisfactory substitute available for something/somebodythat ones does not, or cannot, have.. |
| Next | phr | "Next Door to" - very nearly, almost, paramount to. |
| Next | phr | "Next Friend of" in law, one who represents an infant, a married woman, or any person who can not appear sui juris, in a suit at law. |
| Next | phr | "Next of Kin" - the person who is (or persons who are) most closely related to a given person. |
| Next | phr | "Next Thing to something)" - almost the same thing as something. 2. almost something as good, or as bad, as something. |
| Next | phr | "Next Thing You Know" - suddenly out of the blue something happens. |
| Next | phr | "Next to" - beside, very near to. 2. the nearest approach, almost. |
| Next | phr | "Next to Nothing"- very little' almost nothing, a very small amount. |
| Next | phr | Next to No Time" - very quickly, soon. |
| Next | phr | "Next to One's Hand" - nearest at hand. |
| Next | phr | "Next to One's Heart" - nearest and dearest; an intimate. |
| Next | phr | "Next Under" - in loose opposition to the person or thing spoken. |
| Next | phr | "The Next Blood" - the nearest kin. |
| Next | phr | "The Next Man" - anybody else, the average man, a typical man, as 'you're as good as the next man. |
| Next | phr | "What(ever)next?" - exclamation of surprise. |
| Next-best | adj | The next in order of preference. |
| Next door | adv | Also, next door to, at, or in the next house on the street, especially if it is very close by, or the adjacent apartment, office, room, or the like: "Go next-door and get your sister." |
| Next-door-but-one | n | The occupant of the house two doors away. |
| Next-door-neighbordom | n | The state of being a next-door neighbor. |
| Nextfold | adv | Nearest or next to, closest. |
| Next-friend | n | In law, a person who acts on behalf of an infant, minor or disabled person. (a friend of the court). |
| Nextly | adv | In the next place, next. 2. most immediate or direct. |
| Nextness | n | Fact or condition of immediate succession or proximity. |
| Next of kin | n | The person who is (or persons who are) most closely or nearest related to a given person. 2. the kindred of a person who would share in his or her estate according to the statutes of contribution. |
| Next-to-last | n | Penultimate, next preceding the last. |
| Next World | n | Heaven, paradise, after-life, life after death, other world, life-to-come, the grave, the hereafter, the great beyond, the unknown, the what-bodes, world-to-come. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| No | n | A refusal by use of the word no; a denial. 2. a negative vote; one who votes in the negative; as, to call for the ayes and noes; the noes have it. 3. the number designating place in an ordered sequence; as, no. 2. |
| No | adv | Referring to the degree to which a certain quality is present; "he was no smarter than a monkey" no more. 2. not in any degree or manner; not at all. 3. used to express refusal or denial or disagreement etc or especially to emphasize a negative statement; "no, you are wrong." |
| No | adj | A quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns for indicating a complete or almost complete lack or zero quantity of. |
| No | phr | "By No Means" - not at all |
| No | phr | "Go No Farther" - say no more; act no further. |
| No | phr | "Is No More" - has died or ceased to be. |
| No | phr | "It's a No Go" - it cannot be done. |
| No | phr | "No Better than Should Ought Be" - no less, no more. 2. be morally suspect. |
| No | phr | "No Call No Show" - an absence from one place of employment without notifying one's employer. This behavior or form of absence is generally deemed to be inconsiderate and unprofessional. |
| No | phr | "No Can Do" - it is not possible without the power of another. |
| No | phr | "No End of" - a lot of. |
| No | phr | "No End to" - on and on for a long time. |
| No | phr | "No Fear" - no; certainly not. |
| No | phr | "No Fewer Than" - not few, more than a few; a small number (implication being that this is more than be expected). |
| No | phr | "No Go" - not possible, not allowed; not desirable. 2. lack of agreement; or success; an impasse. |
| No | phr | "No Good" - nothing good; no good, no good result. 2. an end condition without value or positively bad. |
| No | phr | "No Great Shakes" - of no special importance. |
| No | phr | "No Hard Feelings" - in this idiom meaning "showing no resentment or anger,"hard is used in the sense of 'severe' or 'harsh,' a usage dating back to about 1000AD. |
| No | phr | "No Known Abode" - having no permanent place of residence or business address through which one can be traced. |
| No | phr | "No Less" - even, furthermore, not to mention. |
| No | phr | "No Less than" - used in reference to number comparison or degree. |
| No | phr | "No Little" - a considerable; a good deal of. |
| No | phr | "No Longer than" - not now; no more. 2. not now, or henceforth, as formerly. |
| No | phr | "No Longer with Us" - dead, passed away; deceased, died. |
| No | phr | "No Love Lost" - term orinating around 1500ad and until 1800 indicating extreme hate or extreme love. |
| No | phr | "No Man is an Island" - nobody lives in complete independence of others. |
| No | phr | "No Man's Land" - lying between two opposing army fronts; disputed, unapportioned, or merely desolate territory. |
| No | phr | "No More" - nothing more or further. 2. not any more, no further. 3. no further. 4. no more existing, departed; dead, gone. 5. just a little, neither. 6. neither. |
| No | phr | "No News Is Good News" - no communication, information, from or about somebody or something tends to mean that all is going well, that no disaster or trouble has occurred, that no help is needed. |
| No | phr | "No, No, No" - the emphatic equivalent of a negative sentence. |
| No | phr | "No Rest for the Wicked" - fear, worry, harassment is the lot of the wrong-doer. |
| No | phr | "No Room at the Inn" - in baseball, a phrase used by play-by-play announcers to describe a situation in which an ineffective pitcher is pitching with bases loaded. 2. the 'biblical' story about the birth of Jesus. |
| No | phr | "No Room to Swing a Cat" - a restricted or overcrowded, space to live in or work in. |
| No | phr | "No Skin Off One's Back Teeth/Nose" - an informal expression meaning that one doesn't care because it (the situation etc) doesn't affect you. |
| No | phr | "No Smoke Without Fire" - signs, indication of one's presence or involvement (but esp. rumors, scandals, doesn't arise from nothing, always has some case or basis. |
| No | phr | "No Smoking, Thank You" - a phrase used in notices indicating that the smoking of cigarettes, etc., is not permitted in the nearby or surrounding area. |
| No | phr | "No Sooner than" - at the very moment that. |
| No | phr | "No Spring Chicken" - no longer a young person, as in Sally's no spring chicken, but she plays a fine game of tennis. This unflattering expression, often applied to women, has been used since the early 1700s, although spring was omitted from the earliest citation (1711) |
| No | phr | "No Such Thing" - not at all, or a different matter. 2. not as previously described. 2. not thta which is ordered, suggested, planned, implied, or accused. |
| No | phr | "No Sweat" - used to convey that something is not difficult or problematic. 2. no bother; no trouble. |
| No | phr | "No Thank to (Somebody) - despite (his/her actions) |
| No | phr | "No Thank to You" - I cannot thank you and, despite you, for what has happened or your help- because you didn't give it.. |
| No | phr | "No Time at All" - very quickly |
| No | phr | "Not Take No for an Answer" - emphasize that one wants a positive reply to a rquest |
| No | phr | "No Way" - definitely no; definitely not. |
| No | phr | "No Way of Doing Something" - no means whereby one can do something. |
| No | phr | "No Way Out of Here" - there no escape or way out. |
| No | phr | "No What" - not at all, not in the least. |
| No | phr | "No Wonder" - one cannot be surprized; one cannot guess. |
| No | phr | "Say No To" - answer someone with a no. |
| No | phr | "The Noes Have It" - the negative voters have it. |
| No | phr | "There Are No Flies on Him" - somebody is astute; somebody is able to look after his own interests and won't be deceived or taken advantage of. |
| No | phr | "There Is No Time Like Now" - now is the best time to do something. |
| No | phr | "Whether or No" - in either case. |
| No | phr | "Won't Take No for an Answer" - that one wants only a positive answer. |
| No-being | n | Negative existence, non-existence, non-entity. |
| Nobody | n | No person; a person of no important. 2. no one, not anybody, hence: a person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptuous person. |
| Nobody | phr | "Be a Nobody" - to be unimportant. |
| Nobody | phr | "Like Nobody's Business" - very well. |
| Nobody | phr | "Nobody in Their Right Mind Would Do So" - no sensible or sane person would do such a thing; (the implication being that one wa sthinking about doing something crazy or dangerous). |
| No-bodyness | n | The state or quality of being of no importance. 2. state of being insignificant or contemptuous. |
| No-brainer | n | Anything that requires little thought in order to reach the correct decision |
| No-end | adv | On and for a long time. |
| No-fly | adj | A regional, area where it is unsafe for aircrafts to fly over. |
| No-go | n | An impractical situation, balk, indecisiveness. 2. impasse, of an area, impossible to enter (because of a barricade); to which entry is forbidden for specified persons, groups, etc . 2. not functioning properly or in a suitable condition for proceeding. 3. fiasco, failure; no-hope. |
| No-god | adj | Atheistic, beliefless; a belief system or set of beliefs based on "No-god." 2. a "no-god" thinker. |
| No-good | n | A useless, valueless or worthless person: a no-gooder. 2. mischief. |
| No-good | adj | Useless; to no advantage |
| No-hoper | n | A horse with no prospect of winning; an outsider. 2. a useless or incompetent person, one who from no good could be expected. 3. a person without merit or prospects; a derelict. 4. one who cannot be trusted. |
| No-how | n | Ability, skill, means. |
| Nohow | adv | In no manner, by no means, not at all. 2. out or order, out of sorts. |
| No-howish | adj | Somewaht or rather |
| No-kind | adv | No kind of, not any. |
| No-knock | adj | Of a police raid without permission or warrant. |
| No less | adv | Even, furthermore, not to mention. |
| Noll | n | The top of the head, the poll or the crown of the head; the head generally. 2. the nape of the neck. 3, dull drunken person. 4. an extreme point or peak. 5. a small earthen mound. 6. the top of a sand dune. |
| Noll-bone | n | The occiput. |
| Nolled | adj | Having a noll or peak.. |
| No-man | n | A no-one; a nobody. 2. a man who says "no"; a no-man as opposed to a yes-man 3. one who is accustomed to disagree or refuse requests in a resolute manner. 4. a contrarian |
| No-man's land | n | A piece of waste, or unoccupied land, lying outside the north wall of London, used in earlier times as a place of execution of criminals. 2. In a war context: land under dispute by opposing parties, esp. the field of battle between the lines or space of two opposing entrenched armies. 3. an unclaimed or unnamed piece of land. 4. an area of uncertainty or ambiguity in discussion, debate, politics, learning and life in general. |
| No-meaning | adj | Absence or want of meaning or purpose; nonsense, meaningless. |
| Nonce | adj | For the once or one purpose. |
| Nonce | phr | "For the Nonce" - for the one purpose or occasion. |
| Nonce-word | n | A word coined for a particular ocassion, as |
| None | adj | Not any; "thou shalt have none other gods before". 2. no one; not one; not anything; --not any. |
| None | adv | Not at all, none of, or in no way; "seemed none too pleased with his dinner". |
| None | phr | "Have None of It" - not agree to accept something. |
| None | phr | "None Other" - no other thing; nothing else; no other person. |
| None | phr | "None Other than" - the same as, the named person himself/ herself ( the implication being he is somebody famous or important, or somebody unexpected in the particular circumstances) |
| None | phr | "None So Blind/Deaf as Those Who Will Not See/Hear" - people will not see/hear what they are stubbornly determined to avoid seeing/hearing |
| None | phr | "None the Less" - nevertheless, in spite of something said, done or occurring. |
| None | phr | "None the Wiser" - knowing no more than before or previously. |
| None | phr | "None the Worse for - not harmed or damaged further by. |
| None | phr | "None to" - not very, as, "none to smart" |
| None | phr | "None Too" - not very. |
| None | phr | "None Too Soon" - (almost) too late; later than is suitable or desirable. |
| None-so-pretty | n | A common English garden plant, also known as London Pride. |
| Nonesuch | n | A model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal;, paragon, a non-pareil, an ideal. 2. a person or thing of a sort that there is no such other;something extraordinary. |
| Nonetheless | adv | Despite anything to the contrary (usu. following a concession), however, withal, still, yet, all the same, even so, notwithstanding. |
| No-no | n | Something that must not be done, used etc. 2. something that is forbidden, or not acceptable or fallacious. 3. something improper, unethical, inadvisable or illegal, as, salt is a no-no for someone after a heart attack. |
| Noon | n | The ninth hour of the day; according to the Roman method reckoned from sunrise to about three o'clock in the afternoon. 2. midday; 12 o'clock in the day. 3. the most important hour of the day; the middle of the day. 4. the place of the moon at midnight. 5. the mid-day sun. 6. the time of night corresponding to midday: midnight (the noon of the night). 7. Culmination or highest point of something. |
| Noon | vb | To halt or rest at noon, or in the middle of the day. 2. to stop for, or partake of a noon-day meal. |
| Noon-beam | n | Sunbeams or sunny beams at midday.. |
| Noon-bright | adj | Of the sky at midday |
| Noon-day | n | The middle of the day, noon-time, noontide. |
| Noon-day devil | n | The noonday devil is the demon of acedia, the vice also known as sloth. The word "sloth," however, can be misleading, for acedia is not laziness; in fact it can manifest as busyness or activism. Rather, acedia is a gloomy combination of weariness, sadness, and a lack of purposefulness. |
| No one | prn | Not a single person; no person. |
| Nooner | n | An event, especially an act of sexual intercourse that occurs in the middle of the door. |
| Noon-hall | n | A dining hall. |
| Noon-hot | adj | The intense heat of the midday sun in the tropics. |
| Nooning | n | Noon-tide, noon-time. 2. a noon-day or midday meal; noon-meat; lunch. 3. a rest or repose at noon; a siesta. |
| Noon-light | n | The light of noon, or clearest light of day. |
| Noon-mark | n | A mark which indicates when it is noon. |
| Noon-meat | n | A meal or food eaten at midday, luncheon. |
| Noon-shadow | n | Noon-wanderings with meteor falling to earth. |
| Noon-shine | n | A jocular form of nuncheon. |
| Noon-slight | n | The sickle moon. |
| Noon-spell | n | A rest-time at midday or noon. |
| Noon-stead | n | The position or station of the sun at noon. |
| Noon-steading | n | The time or coming of the meridian. |
| Noon-sun | n | The meridian sun. |
| Noon-tide | n | The time of midday. 2. the period of culmination; the noon-tide of glory. 3. the position of the moon at midnight. 4. fig. the culminating point of something. |
| Noon-tide | adj | Of, or occurring at, or characteristic of the noon. |
| Noon-time | n | Noon; midday. |
| Nor | conj | (Used in negative phrases, especially after neither, to introduce the second member in a series, or any subsequent member): neither he nor I will be there. They won't wait for you, nor for me, nor for anybody. 2. (used to continue the force of a negative, as not, no, never, etc., occurring in a preceding clause): He left and I never saw him again, nor did I regret it. 3. (used after an affirmative clause, or as a continuative, in the sense of and no): They are happy, nor need we worry. 4. in older use: "than".5. archaic. (used without a preceding neither, the negative force of which. |
| Nor | adv | To, towards or in the north-east. 2. the compass point between north and east; |
| Norenish | n | Norwegian |
| No-right | n | In jurisprudence, an obligation not to prevent the exercise of a privilege. |
| Nor'-nor-east' | adv | North-north-east. |
| North | n | A region or cardinal point opposite to the midday sun. 2. part of the world; part of a country 3. there is an old belief that only evil-doers should be buried on the north side of a church yard, which probably arose from the lack of sun on this side. See Devils-door; Devil's side; God's side; Man's side; South side. |
| North | adj | Of the wind: to begin to blow from the north. 2. to turn or veer towards the north. |
| North | phr | "A Little More North" - an alcoholic drink stronger than usual. |
| North | phr | "By North" - on the north side. |
| North | phr | "North and South" - mouth (slang). |
| North | phr | "Too Far North" - too clever, too knowing. |
| North | phr | "To the North" - in a northerly direction. |
| North-East | n | The part of the country or town lying to the north-east. |
| North-east | adj | Towards or coming from the north-east. |
| North-east | adv | The point of the horizon midway between north and east. 2. the compass point corresponding to this. 3. the direction to which this lies. 4. towards, at, or near the north-east. |
| North-easter | n | A wind-blowing from the north-east. |
| North-easterly | adv | Of the wind, blowing from the north-east. 2. lying towards the north-east. 3. from or towards the north-east. |
| North-eastward | adv | Towards the north-east. 2. in a northeast direction. 3. situated towards north-east or in the |
| North-end | adj | The northern end or extremity of anything, such as the North of England. |
| Norther | n | Of a northerly wind blowing in various places throughout the world. |
| Northerliness | n | The state of lying or being northerly or northern. |
| Northerly | n | In a northern position or direction. 2. of a wind blowing from the |
| Northern | adj | The more of two places or things. 2. situated or lying to the north tropic. |
| Northern Bear | n | Russia. |
| Northern Gate of the Sun | n | The sign of Cancer, or summer Solstice: so named because it marks the northern |
| Northern Lights | n | The aurora of the northern hemisphere, "Aurora borealis". |
| Northerly | n | A wind blowing from the north. 2. In a northern position or direction. |
| Northerly | adj | In a northern position or direction. 2. of wind blowing from the north. |
| Northerly | adv | In a northern position or direction. 2. of wind blowing from the north. |
| Northern | adj | Of or in the north; inhabiting. 2. lying or directed towards the north. |
| Northerner | n | A native or inhabitant of the north. |
| Northern Gate of the Sun | n | The sign of Cancer; the solstice |
| Northern lights | n | Aurora Borealis. |
| Northernmost | adj | Most northern. |
| Northern-mostness | n | The state of being northernmost. |
| Northern'ness | n | An inhabitant of Scandinavia, an inhabitant of the north of Europe; esp. one of the inhabitants ancient Scandinavia; a Norwegian. |
| Northernwards | adv | Towards the north. |
| North-half | n | The north-side or part; the northern half. |
| Northing | n | In a nautical sense: the distance traveled or measured northward. |
| Northing | phr | "Make (so much) Northing" - distance traveled to the north. |
| Northland | n | Part of a country or region lying in the north. |
| Northlander | n | One from from a northern country or region. |
| North light | n | A good natural light without the direct sun, esp. as desired by painters and in factory design. 2. a light coming from the north. |
| Northman | n | An inhabitant or native of Norway or Scandinavia. 2. a Scandinavian; esp. in history, a Scandinavian of Viking times. 3. See: Norman, Norseman. |
| Northmost | adj | Most northerly, northernmost. |
| Northness | n | The quality or state of being relatively north. |
| North-north-west | n | The point or direction midway between north and north-west. |
| North Sea | n | An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between Britain (in the west), Scandinavia (in the east) and Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France (in the south). 2. the Bristol channel. 3. the German Sea. 4. the Baltic Sea. 5. the seas of the Northern Hemisphere. |
| North-shine | n | Aurora Borealis. |
| Northside | n | The side that is on the north. |
| North star | n | The pole star. |
| Northumber | n | Relating to the ancient Northumbria or Northumberland. |
| Northward | adv | Towards the north. 2. northward direction or region. |
| Northwardly | adv | Towards the north; in a northly direction. |
| Northwards | Towards the north. 2. the northwards direction or region. | |
| North-West | n | The part of a country or town lying to the north west. |
| North-West | adj | Towards or coming from the north-west. |
| North-west | adv | The point of the horizon midway between north and west. 2. the compass point corresponding to this. 3. the direction to which this lies. 4. towards, at, or near the north-west. |
| North-westward | adj | Towards the north-west. |
| North wind | n | A wind blowing from a northerly direction. |
| No-score draw | n | A draw in a football match in which no goals are scored. |
| Nose | n | The part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice. 2. this part as the organ of smell. 3. the sense of smell: fragrances appealing to the nose. 4. anything regarded as resembling the nose of a person or animal, as a spout or nozzle. 5. the prow of a ship. |
| Nose | vb | To perceive by or as by the nose or the sense of smell: a cheese that could be nosed at some distance. 2. to approach the nose to, as in smelling or examining; sniff. 3. to move or push forward with or as with the nose: "The boat nosed its way toward shore". 4. to touch or rub with the nose; nuzzle. 5. to seek as if by smelling or scent: The dogs nosed after their quarry. 6. to meddle or pry (often followed by about, into other people's business). |
| Nose | phr | "Before One's Nose" - right in the front of. |
| Nose | phr | "Be Hard Nosed" - be tough in negotiation. |
| Nose | phr | "Be On the Nose" - not to be completely honest. |
| Nose | phr | "Bite Someone's Nose Off" - to speak to someone aggressively; answer snappingly. |
| Nose | phr | "Bloody Somebody's Nose" - hurt someone, (not necessarily physically). |
| Nose | phr | "Bone One's Nose" - cheat, swindle. |
| Nose | phr | "By a Nose" - by a very narrow margin. |
| Nose | phr | "Follow One's Nose" - to go forward in a straight course. 2. to guide oneself by instinct; to act instinctively. |
| Nose | phr | "Get a Bloody Nose" - to suffer an undignified rebuff. |
| Nose | phr | "Get Up Someone's Nose" - to irritate or annoy a person. |
| Nose | phr | "Have a (good) Nose for (Business)" - to be able to find and/or identify or be good at finding (profitable business) situations or opportunities. |
| Nose | phr | "Here's the Skin Off your Nose" - gooh health ! (a toast) |
| Nose | phr | "Hold One's Nose" -to compress the nostrils between the finger in order to prevent a bad smell reaching your nostrils. 2. have feelings of distaste, repulsion, or offense for something that one is obliged to do. |
| Nose | phr | "Hold Up One's Nose" - be proud or haughty. 2. have an inclination or hankering. |
| Nose | phr | "Keep One's Nose Clean": to behave oneself; avoid or stay out of trouble or scandal. |
| Nose | phr | "Keep One's Nose Out of Something" - not to meddle in something or the affairs of others. |
| Nose | phr | "Keep One's Nose to the Grindstone" - to work hard, steadily and diligently, to apply one steadily. 2. to set oneself to a long and arduous task with diligence. |
| Nose | phr | "Lead by the Nose." - to lead at pleasure, or to cause to follow submissively. 2. to induce another person to comply with one's wishes. |
| Nose | phr | "Look Down the Nose At " (Something or Someone)" - to treat a matter or person with disdain or utter contempt. |
| Nose | phr | "Make Ones Nose Swell" - to make one envious or jealous. |
| Nose | phr | "Nose of Wax" - a thing easily turned or molded in any way desired. 2. a person easily influenced; one of a weak character. |
| Nose | phr | "Nose to Nose" - face to face; directly opposite. |
| Nose | phr | "Nose Out" - to defeat, especially by a narrow margin. 2. to learn or discover, especially by snooping or prying: to nose out a secret. 3. discover by smell, or persistent searching. |
| Nose | phr | "Nose Over" - to turn over on its nose, as a n airplane. |
| Nose | phr | "No Skin Off One's Nose" - not harmful or matter to one. |
| Nose | phr | "Not Look Beyond the End of One's Nose" - make a superficial search. |
| Nose | phr | "Not See Beyond the End of One's Nose" - be narrow-minded, conservative. |
| Nose | phr | "On the Nose" - exactly, to the heart of the situation, accurately, precisely on time. 2. racing to win, as opposed to, placed on to share. 3. smelling malodorously. 4. "be on the nose" - (of a proposal or scheme): not to be quite honest. |
| Nose | phr | "On the Nose Of" - immediately before, on the eve of. |
| Nose | phr | "Put One's Nose In" - poke into or pry into something; esp. a matter that does not concern you. |
| Nose | phr | "See No Further than One's Nose" - be short-sighted; esp. in not foreseeing the consequences of one's actions. |
| Nose | phr | "Speak Through One's Nose" - pronounce words with a nasal twang. |
| Nose | phr | "Take a Nose Dive" - to suddenly and unexpctedly fall steeply (lit& fig.) |
| Nose | phr | "Take Something on the Nose" - to meekly accept a rebuff. |
| Nose | phr | "Telling the Nose" - denoting the counting of persons; esp. those n one side or party. |
| Nose | phr | "Through the Nose" - as an organ by which speech-sounds may be produced or affected. |
| Nose | phr | "Thrust Ones Nose In" - to meddle officiously in others folk's affairs and matters. 2. intrude where one is not wanted. |
| Nose | phr | "Thumb One's Nose At" - to show one's contempt, defiance for someone in authority and to ostentatiously disregard his orders. |
| Nose | phr | "To One's Nose" - before one's face. |
| Nose | phr | "Turn Up One's Nose" - to express contempt. 2. show disdain. |
| Nose | phr | "Under Someone's Nose" - in a person's immediate area of responsibility or in circumstances where he should have known something. 2. within somebody's sight. 3. very close to another person. |
| Nose | phr | "Wipe One's Nose" - to affront someone; to strike someone on the nose. |
| Nose bit | n | A brace bit like a shell, but with a turned over cutting edge making it more suitable for boring in end grain. |
| Nose-bleed | n | The plant Milfoil or Yarrow (Achilles millen- folium). 2. the bleeding of the nose. |
| Nosebleeding | n | Epistaxis: the bleeding from the blood vessels of the nose. |
| Nose-bloody | adj | Having a bloodied nose. |
| Nose-bone | n | The ethmoid bone: a bone of the skull between the eyes and the roof of the nose. |
| Nose-breadth | n | The width or breadth of one's nose. |
| Nosed | adj | Having a nose or projecting point of a specified kind. 2. having a sense of smell of a specified kind. |
| Nose-dive | n | A steep nose downwards descent by an aircraft. 2. fig. to experience a down-turn in one's endeavors, mood or fortune. 3. a sudden drop or rapid decline. |
| Nose drops | n | A street name for heroin; hell's dust; smack. |
| Nose-end | n | The end of the human nose. |
| Nosedness | n | The state or quality of having a particular number of, or type of nose. |
| Nose-hole | n | Nostrils; nose-thirl. |
| Noseless | adj | Not having or lacking a nose. |
| Noselessness | n | The condition of not having a nose. |
| Noselike | adj | Resembling a nose or some aspect of one. |
| Nosely | adv | Of, relating to, or characteristic of the nose or noses. |
| Nose-pipe | n | A piece of piping used as a nozzle. |
| Nose-ring | n | A ring fixed in the nose of an animal (esp. a bull) for leading it, or of a person for ornament. |
| Nosesmart | adj | The watercress. |
| Nose-thirl | n | Nostril(s); nose-holes. |
| Nose-to-tail | adj | Moving or stationary; one close behind another in heavy traffic. |
| Nose-up | adj | Conceited, clever in one's own opinions; self-wise. 2. with the nose directed upwards. |
| Nose-wheel | n | Landing wheel under the nose of an aircraft. |
| Nose-wise | adv | In the direction of the nose. |
| Nose-wise | adj | Conceited, clever (in one's own opinion). 2. keen-scented. |
| Nose-wort | n | Nasturtium, hellebore, sneeze-wort. |
| Nosey | adj | Prying, offensively inquisitive or curious in others affairs. 2. tending to snoop, meddle, poke one's nose in the business of others. 3. interfering, meddlesome, snoopy. 4. evil-smelling; emitting a bad odor. |
| Nosey-body | n | A busy-body, a nosey parker, one who interferes or is overly concerned with the lives of others. |
| Noseyness | n | Impertinent curiosity, noseyness. |
| No-shaped | adj | Amorphous; shapeless. 2. vague, ill-organized. |
| No-show | n | An absence, failure to appear, failure to make a schedule appearance. 2. a guest who fails to notify a restaurant, hotel etc., of cancellation of a reservation. 3. one who makes a reservation for an airplane flight, but fails to take up his seat at the time of take-off. 2. person who has a reserved ticket etc., but neither uses it or cancels the reservation.someone who shirks their duty. |
| Nosily | adv | In a nosey manner. |
| Nosing | vb | To smell, to scent, hence to track or trace out. 2. to touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against, hence to interfere with, to treat insolently. 3. to utter nasally manner, as to "nose" a prayer. 4. to confront, be closely face to face, oropposite to one another; meet. 5. to furnish with a "nose" - as to stair a head. 6. to examine with the nose or sense of smell. 7. to make by advancing the nose or front end; as a train nosed it's way into the station. 8. racing slang: to beat by the length of a nose in a horse race (by a narrow margin). |
| Nosing | n | That part of the headboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence any like projection, as a projecting edge of a molding. |
| Nosing line | n | An imaginary line touching the edges of the tread, in a flight of stairs, from which the margin is measured. |
| No-show | n | A person who has a reserved ticket etc., but neither uses it or cancels the reservation. |
| No smoking | n | An area designated where smoking smoking is not permitted. |
| Nostel | n | OE: nostle - a band or fillet. 2. a short piece of cord, fastened to a net. |
| No-strike | n | Part of an industrial agreement where the workers agree not to take strike action. |
| Nostril | n | Either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose; anterior naris. 2. Perception; insight; acuteness. [Obs.] |
| Nostrilled | adj | Having some specified type of nostrils |
| Not | n | OE: Hnot- close-cropped, short hair. 2. of a willow: polled. 3. of sheep or cattle, hornless. 4. of wheat, barley, awnless, beardless. |
| Not | n | A non-existent thing. 2, state of non-existence |
| Not | vb | To cut or clip hair short. 2. to prune tree severely. 3. to dehorn sheep, goats etc. 4. of crops to cut back. |
| Not | adv | Expression of negation that negates the meaning of the modified verb; as, 'did you put the cat out. No, i didn't. 2. not being; absence of being, non-existing; to no degree. |
| Not | phr | "Not a Bit (of it)" - not at all. |
| Not | phr | "Not a Dry Eye in the House" - (facetious) everybody in the audience or company is crying, or deeply affected. |
| Not | phr | "Not a Little" - a good deal, considerably; quite, very, much. |
| Not | phr | "Not a Living Soul" - nobody at all. |
| Not | phr | "Not all There" - abnormal, backward, blithering, brainsick, crazed. cretinous, daft, half-witted, mad, moonstruck, unsound, witless, wandering. |
| Not | phr | "Not Altogether" - not very, nt particularly. |
| Not | phr | "Not Any Longer" - for no further period; no more. |
| Not | phr | "Not As Young as One Used To Be" - old or growing old (implication that there is a loss of vigor, good health, good-looks.) |
| Not | phr | "Not At All" - there's no need for thanks; don't mention it (in polite reply to thanks). |
| Not | phr | "Not at Home" - not prepared to receive visitors or accessible to callers. |
| Not | phr | "Not All Its Cracked Up to Be" - something is disappointing, and doesn't live up to it's reputation. |
| Not | phr | "Not All That" - not exceptionally so. |
| Not | phr | "Not Always What It Might Be" - imperfect, less suitable, satisfactory, efficient than expected. |
| Not | phr | "Not Anything Of the Kind" - not at all what has been supposed, suggested or claimed. |
| Not | phr | "Not Any Too" - not very; not sufficiently. |
| Not | phr | "Not a One" - not any person or thing. 2. what is not one. |
| Not | phr | "Not a Pretty Sight" - not a pleasant spectacle. |
| Not | phr | "Not at All" - definitely not. 2. used as a polite response to being thanked. |
| Not | phr | "Not a Thing" - nothing at all. |
| Not | phr | "Not a Word" - no mention to be made; no information to be given, or received. |
| Not | phr | "Not Bear to Think Of" - it is terrible to contemplate. |
| Not | phr | "Not Before Time" - at a time when something is overdue, almost too late; (and) about time too. |
| Not | phr | "Not But" - only. |
| Not | phr | "Not But What" - all the same; nevertheless. |
| Not | phr | "Not By a Long Shot" - not by any small amount; in small degree (formerly from chalking up scores in games: (Not By a Long Chalk) |
| Not | phr | "Not Do a Stroke Of Work" - not do any or, an item of, work. 2. not do a hand's turn. |
| Not | phr | "Not Eat You" - (Said to someone who is terrified or intimidated): he/she is not actually terrfying or likely to harm you. |
| Not | phr | "Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat" - very little space, cramped. (may refer to the cat-of-nine-tails widely used to punish offenders in the British military. |
| Not | phr | "Not Far to Seek" - easily and quickly found, surmised or ascertained. |
| Not | phr | "Not For All the Tea In China" - refuse to do something , no matter how great the reward, compensation. |
| Not | phr | "Not For Nothing" not without result or a definable consequences. |
| Not | phr | "Not For the First Time" - as has happened sometimes , or often before. |
| Not | phr | "Not For The World" - not on any account. 2. not for any reason or purpose. |
| Not | phr | "Not Get a Word in Edgeways" - not be able to say something because someone else is talking at the time. |
| Not | phr | "Not Give Somebody/Something Houserooom to" - not want to have, or not tolerate having somebody/something in one's house, business, or any other part of one's surroundings or belongings. |
| Not | phr | "Not Give Somebody the Time of Day" - ignore somebody; refuse to pay the slightest attention to someone. |
| Not | phr | "Not Half" - not nearly (enough). |
| Not | phr | "Not Harm a Fly" - be kind and generous in character and always unwilling to cause harm or unhappiness to others. |
| Not | phr | "Not Have a Bean" - not have any money at all. |
| Not | phr | "Not Have a Hope in Hell" - have no chance at all of success. |
| Not | phr | "Not Have a Leg????? to Stand On" - have no convincing argument to offer in one's defence, or to win others over to one's side. ??????????? |
| Not | phr | "Not Have a Thing to Do" - have nothing to do or complete. |
| Not | phr | "Not Have a Word of Truth In It" - be completely untrue. |
| Not | phr | "Not If I See You First" - jocular response after not seeing someone for some time. |
| Not | phr | "Not If One Lives to be One Hundred" - never in one's lifetime, however long that proves to be. 2. never in a hundred years. |
| Not | phr | "Not I, Not Me" - that for which the subjective or personal is excluded. |
| Not | phr | "Not In the Least" - not at all. 2. with considerable importance, notably |
| Not | phr | "Not In the Mood" - at odds, averse, differing, disinclined, indisposed, refractory, sulky, sullen, unwilling. |
| Not | phr | "Not In the Slightest" - not at all. |
| Not | phr | "Not Know Anything About Something But Know What One likes" - have little knowledge about something, not claim to be a judge about something, esp. in the arts and crafts but have one's own tastes and preferences. |
| Not | phr | "Not Know One Is Born" - take life for granted without worry or inquiry. 2. live in such happy and comfortable circumstances that one doesn't realize one's good fortune. |
| Not | phr | "Not Know Somebody Well Enough To Speak" - not know somebody well enough to exchange greetings; conversation to take place. |
| Not | phr | "Not Know the Meaning of the Word" - have no understanding, experience of something. |
| Not | phr | "Not Know What Hit One" - to feel shocked or confused because something bad has happened to you suddenly when you were not expecting it to. |
| Not | phr | "Not Know What One Is Missing" - not realize how good something one dislikes, or choses not to oneself of, really is. |
| Not | phr | "Not Know What to Do with Oneself" - not know hw to occupy one's time. 2. be or feel uncomfortable or embarrassed. |
| Not | phr | "Not Know Where One's Next Meal is Coming From" - live without security. 2. live on the edge of poverty, want or starvation. |
| Not | phr | "Not Know Where to Look" - be embarrassed, awkwardly self-conscious. |
| Not | phr | "Not Know Whether One is Coming or Going" - be confused in, and about what one is doing, esp. because one has too many things to attend to. |
| Not | phr | "Not Know Whether One Is On One's Heels Or Head" - be disorientated, confused, over-busy, over-stimulated. |
| Not | phr | "Not Know Which End is Up" - have no common sense. 2. to be ignorant of the most basic facts. 2. to be very confused. |
| Not | phr | "Not Least" - with considerable importance, notably. 2. particularly. |
| Not | phr | "Not Leave One's Thoughts" - to be remain in one's mind for a long duration. 2. haunt with thoughts. |
| Not | phr | "Not Let the Sun Go Down On One's Wrath" - limit one's anger or bad temper. 2. not carry one's anger or bad temper from one day to another. |
| Not | phr | "Not Likely" - no; certainly not; not on your sweet life. |
| Not | phr | "Not Long for this World" - likely, or certain to die soon; or have a very short life. |
| Not | phr | "Not Look Beyond the End of One's Nose" - make a superficial search. |
| Not | phr | "Not More" - no further period of time. |
| Not | phr | "Not Much (of Anything)" - not very much. 2. certainly not. 3. (informal, ironically) certainly, very much. |
| Not | phr | "Not Much" (Of Something) - lacking skill, ability, value or advantage. 2. somebody, something that is unpleasant only to a minor, or insignificant degree (the implication being that the event is not as disagreeable as might be expected. |
| Not | phr | "Not Need Any Telling" - be already willing, ready, or eager to do something which one is told, invited, or urged to do. |
| Not | phr | "Not Need to Say/Tell" - somebody is already aware of something being referred to. 2. the information is already known, or probably can be guess. |
| Not | phr | "Not On" - something that is unacceptable and should not happen. |
| Not | phr | "Not One Little Bit" - not at all; not in any way. 2. not a bit of it. |
| Not | phr | "Not One To Do Something" - not someone who, from character, principles or habit, would be likely to do something. |
| Not | phr | "Not One Whit" - in the smallest amount or degree. |
| Not | phr | "Not On Your (Sweet) Life" - certainly not, not bloodly likely. |
| Not | phr | "Not See Beyond the End of One's Nose" - be narrow-minded, conservative. |
| Not | phr | "Not See Something Like That Again" - something/somebody has been outstandingly good, able, praiseworthy, impressive etc and is unlikely to be equalled by anyone/anything in the future. |
| Not | phr | "Not Seen the Likes Of (Somebody/Something) Before" - not have seen etc anything similar previously. 2. not seen anything of its kind that is so good, bad , unusual etc before. |
| Not | phr | "Not See the Wood for the Trees" - to be unable to understand, deal with, the main subject, issue, problem etc because one is confused by, or too closely involved in, numerous or complex detail. |
| Not | phr | "Not Sleep a Wink" - not get any sleep. 2. get very little sleep |
| Not | phr | "Not So Hot" - not very good, healthy, satisfactory. |
| Not | phr | "Not Take" - not tolerate or accept the unacceptable behavior of others. |
| Not | phr | "Not Take Kindly" - not like or accept something that someone says or does to you. |
| Not | phr | "Not Take No For An Answer" - emphasize that one wants a positive reply to a request. 2. not allow somebody to refuse what is being offered. |
| Not | phr | "Not That" - it is not inferred by. |
| Not | phr | "Not the Less" - nevertheless, nonetheless. |
| Not | phr | "Not to be Sneezed at" - not to be despised or contemned. 2. not to be treated lightly. |
| Not | phr | "Not to be Outdone" - in order to show oneself as good, or better than, another. |
| Not | phr | "Not to Speak Of" - as may be assumed ; and, perhaps; more importantly ; to say nothing of something. |
| Not | phr | "Not to Worry" - i'm not going to worry to much; let us not worry. |
| Not | phr | "Not Waving but Drowning" - behavior or acting, not indicating (as might be thought) well-being, personal and social assurance, etc but (if rightly interpreted) failure to cope, distress, need for help. |
| Not | phr | "Not Wish to Know" - deliberately not seek information about, contact with that may involve one in worry, work, trouble. |
| Not | phr | "Not With It" - asleep, blind to, deaf in, in ignorance of, mindless, napping, out of it, unaware of, unhearing, not insightful, unknowing, unmindful, unseeing, unsuspecting, unwitting, witless. |
| Not | phr | "So Often as Not" - not a bit, not at all, not least, not to mention. |
| No-take | adj | (Of a marine region, as a fishing ground) Under a level of protection where nobody is permitted to remove any fish or other organisms. |
| Note | n | Use, usefulness, advantage, noting. 2. one's own good, benefit or profit. 3. employment, occupation, noting, work, as properly pertaining or assigned to a person. 4. the way or practice of work or noting. 5. work as occupying one at a particular time, temporary or permanent work. 6. work of a specific kind. 7. a piece of work. 8. a matter, affair or circumstance; a thing. 9. tenor or purport of a letter. |
| Note | n | Milk given by a cow; milk giving by a cow after calving; the period a cow gives milk; the condition of the cow when giving or beginning to give milk. |
| Note | vb | To use, to make use of something. 2. to work, follow an occupation. |
| Note | phr | "In Note" - in use. |
| Notheless | adv | Nevertheless, nonetheless, for all that |
| Nothemo | adv | Never the more |
| Nother | adv | Not on the one hand: neither, not either. 2. not whether. |
| Nothing | n | No thing, not anything. 2. (adv) not at all. |
| Nothing | vb | to reduce to nothing. |
| Nothing | phr | "A New Nothing" - worthless novelty. |
| Nothing | phr | "As Slick as Nothing at All" - promptly, in the twinkling of an eye, |
| Nothing | phr | "All for Nothing" - with no result; done in vain. |
| Nothing | phr | "All to Nothing" - to full extent. |
| Nothing | phr | "Be In One's Nothings - without clothes, bare, naked. |
| Nothing | phr | "Be Nothing to do With (Somebody)" - not be of somebody's concern. |
| Nothing | phr | "Come to Nothing" - fail completely in life or vacation. 2. to have no positive result; come to nought; break down or fail. |
| Nothing | phr | "For Nothing" - for free or no cost. 2. by no means, on no account, for no consideration. |
| Nothing | phr | "Good for Nothing" - worthless. |
| Nothing | phr | "Have Nothing On" - be without clothes, bare, naked. 2. in one's nothings. |
| Nothing | phr | "Have Nothing On" - I have nothing to do; i am free at the moment. |
| Nothing | phr | "Have Nothing on Somebody" - have no proof of someone's wrong-doings or guilt. |
| Nothing | phr | "Have Nothing to do with Somebody" - avoid somebody. |
| Nothing | phr | "In One's Nothings" - naked. |
| Nothing | phr | "It was Nothing" - no thanks needed or required. |
| Nothing | phr | "Like Nothing On Earth" - to or in a superlative degree. 2. strange, ugly. |
| Nothing | phr | "Make Nothing Of (it)" - not make a fuss of, make light of. 2. very easy to do; there is no difficulty involved. 3. fail to understand |
| Nothing | phr | "Make Nothing of Oneself" - fail, not succeed in life generally. |
| Nothing | phr | "Next to Nothing" - very little. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing But" - used to typify or theorize in an attempt to reduce, simplify or explain concept in such a way that seem to accord with the theory propounded. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing But (something)" - only something; 'we have heard nothing but complaints all day'. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing Can Be Farther From One's Mind" - something previously mentioned, or to be defined, is an opinion, wish, intention one does not have. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing Doing" - nothing happening, with no result. 2. no prospect of success or agreement. 3. nothing is happening. 4. no other action is possible or suitable in the circumstances. 5. used to imply that your request is refused;; your wishes cannot be met. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing Else But" - no other outcome or result is likely; as, 'all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas'. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing For It But" - only possible way or choice of dealing with a situation. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing If Not (Something)" - very. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing Less Than" - at least. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing like" - not like or similar in any way. 2. far from; not at all; nowhere near. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing Loath to Do" - (facetious) very willingly, eagerly. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing More Or Less Than" - exactly, unequivocally; merely, just. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing of the Kind" - another, away off, certainty not, different thing, far from it, for other, no such thing, not a bit, not so, nothing like, quite the contrary, way off. 2. not anything of the kind; not at all what has been supposed, suggested or claimed. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing Short of" - the same as, like, similar to. 2. completely, nearly. 4. nothing except something(can/will do something). |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing So" - not in that way or manner. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing to choose Between" - equivalents. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing to do With (Somebody)" - not be of somebody's concern or business. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing to See" - the situation, matter has ended or is over. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing to Sneeze At" - something that deserves serious attention, esp involving an amount of money. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing To Write Home of" - of a person or thing: not very good, just average or mediocre. |
| Nothing | phr | "Nothing Worthy of " - of no value |
| Nothing | phr | "Out of Nothing One Can Get Nothing" -every effect must have a cause. |
| Nothing | phr | "Say Nothing of" - in addition to. |
| Nothing | phr | "Stop Short of Nothing" - do anything however risky or daring. |
| Nothing | phr | "That Nothing New" - I already know that; i am aware of that or the situation. |
| Nothing | phr | "There's Nothing Doing" - no; one doesn't, and won't agree to do what is requested, suggested or ordered. |
| Nothing | phr | "There's Nothing for it" - there no other possible course of action or alternatives. |
| Nothing | phr | "There is Nothing For It But t.." - denoting absence of an alternative course. 2. there is no alternative, there is only one thing to do. |
| Nothing | phr | "There Nothing in It" - it's not true; there's no truth in it. 2. of no consequence for no-one. |
| Nothing | phr | "There's Nothing to It" - it's easy, simple; uncomplicated. 2. the competitors are esily matched. |
| Nothing | phr | "Thing of Nothing" - of no account; insignificant; meaningless; insipid, dull; no existent thing. |
| Nothing | phr | "Think Nothing of Doing it" - do something without consideration of the cost financially or the outcome personally. |
| Nothing | phr | "Think Nothing of It" - it is unimportant. |
| Nothing | phr | "To Nothing" - denoting the final point, stage or state of the process of destruction, dissolution. |
| Nothing | phr | "Whisper sweet Nothing" - whispered conersation between lovers. |
| Nothing-but | n | Used to typify or theorize in an attempt to reduce, simplify or explain a concept in such a way that they seem to accord with the theory propounded. |
| Nothing-does | n | Those who do nothing. 2. layabouts and dropouts. |
| Nothing-doing | n | Impasse, impossibility, deadlock |
| Nothingless | n | State of insignificance, non-existent, nullity, voidness, vacuity, nihility; emptiness, inanity, nirvana, non-beingness, senselessness, tabula rasa. 2. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk, malarkey, idle words. 3. state of being no value; a thing of no value. |
| Nothing-like | adj | Not similar in any way. |
| Nothingly | adv | Of non value or effect. |
| Nothingy | adj | Of no value or importance. |
| Nothing-like | adj | Not similar in any way. |
| Nothingness | n | Non-existence, that which is non-existent. 2. condition or state of being non-existent or worthlessness. 3. cessation of life or consciousness. 4. the worthlessness or vanity of something. 5. a thing which has no value; the condition of being worthless. 6. utter insignificance or unimportant. 7. a non-existent thing. |
| Nothings | n | Mere trifles, unimportant things or events. |
| Nothings | phr | "In One's Nothings" - naked, without clothing, bare. |
| Nothings | n | "Sweet nothings" - intimate whisperings between lovers. |
| Nothing-saying | n | A period of silence or quietness. |
| Nothing-worth | adj | Of no value. |
| Nothingy | adj | Of no value or importance. |
| No-thoroughfare | n | A way, lane, closure (at one end); a dead-end street; cul-de-sac. |
| No-through-road | n | No thoroughfare. |
| No-time | n | A time which does not exist. 2. not time at all. 3. a very short time. |
| Not-life | n | Inaminate matter, esp. as constrasted with that which contains life. |
| Notness | n | The quality or state of not accepting something. 2. something negative; negation. |
| Not-seeing | n | State of not seeing or being unable to discern. |
| Not-self | n | That which is other than the self. 2. something different from the conscious self. 3. the non-ego. |
| Nott-headed | adj | (OE. hnot) - having the hair cropped close; knot-headed. |
| Not-the-less | adv | Nevertheless, nonetheless, for all that. |
| Not-thereness | n | The state of being absence or preoccupied. |
| Notwithstanding | adv | All the same; nevertheless. 2. not that withstanding. 3. nought with standing. |
| Notwithstanding | prp | In spite of; without prevention by. |
| Nothwithstanding | conj | Although. |
| Notwithstanding | phr | "Notwithstanding that" - although. |
| Nought | n | Nothing; something which does not exist. 2. a thing or person of no worth or value; nil. 2. not any quantity of number; zero the score of no points in a game. 4. the figure or character representing or having the shape of, zero. |
| Nought | vb | To abase or set to nought. 2. to efface oneself. |
| Nought | adj | Good-for-nothing, worthless, wicked, immoral. |
| Nought | adv | To no extent, in no way, not at all. |
| Nought | prn | Nothing, zero. |
| Nought | phr | "A Thing Of Nought" - a mere nothing. |
| Nought | phr | 'At Nought Feet" - very close to the ground. |
| Nought | phr | "Come to Nought" - come to nothing, achieve little. |
| Nought | phr | "Do Nought" - do nothing; not act. 2. do wrongly; act immorally. |
| Nought | phr | "For Nought" - for nothing; for little consequence. 2. nevertheless. |
| Nought | phr | "Put to Nought" - render of little significance. |
| Nought | phr | "Think Nought Of" - disregard. |
| Nought-fearing | adj | Frightened by nothing. 2. without fear; fearless. |
| Noughtihood | n | Wickedness, evil. |
| Noughtily | adv | Badly behaved, evil or bad of manner, noughtly. |
| Noughtiness | n | Wickedness, naughtiness, nothingness, worthless, badness, noughthood. |
| Noughting | n | A worthless or insignificant person. 2. depreciation, scorn, effacement. |
| Nougthingly | adv | Wickedly, wrongly, badly, poorly |
| Noughtly | adv | Of actions: abject, worthless, vile, bad or in an evil manner. 2. of things: good-for-nothing, worthless, of little, insignificant, trivial. 3. in a bad condition; of a bad tone. |
| Noughtness | n | Nothingness, worthlessness, vileness, wickedness |
| Nought-worth | adj | Unimportant, of absolutely no value. |
| Noughty | adj | Worthless or insignificant. |
| Nouther | adv | Neither of two persons. |
| Nouther-where | adv | No where. |
| Now | n | The present time, moment, occasion. |
| Now | adv | At the present time or nowthe; in these times, nowadays. 2. at once. 3. at or during the present time. 4. in the immediate future. 5. in such circumstances; things being as they are. 6. at the point in proceedings, narrative. |
| Now | conj | Since; seeing that. |
| Now | phr | "As Now" - at this time, just now. |
| Now | phr | "Every Now and Then" - occasionally. |
| Now | phr | "From Now On Forth" - henceforth; from now on. |
| Now | phr | "Here and Now" - at this present time. |
| Now | phr | "Now and Again" - now and then, here and there, occasionally, on occasions, once in a while; at times, from time to time. |
| Now | phr | "Now and Now" - again and again; repeatedly. |
| Now | phr | "Now and Then" - at one time or another; indefinitely, occasionally, not often, at irregular intervals. |
| Now | phr | "Now at Erst" - at this present time. |
| Now | phr | "Now by Dawe" - nowadays. |
| Now | phr | "Now I Have Seen Everything" - comment on an ocasion of witnessing something very unusual or ludicrous (the implication being being thst nothing the speaker might see in the future woul be sufficiently extraordinary to surprise him or her). |
| Now | phr | "Now It Can Be Told" - designates of a book, story, etc which reveals previously classified or unknown facts. 2. the time for official, tactical, respectful, or deferential secrecy or concealment is over. |
| Now | phr | "Now It is Time for All Good Women/Men To Speak/Stand Up" - in times of evil doing one must stand/ speak up for what is good. |
| Now | phr | "Now Then" - replaces, or precedes, a statement that checks, warns or reproves. 2. follws a defiant statement of opinion or intention; so there. 3. a neutral conversation filler in any position, sommetimes indicating a momentary pause for though, but often just a verbal habit. |
| Now | phr | "Now, Now" - expression of sympathy or rebuke. |
| Now | phr | "Now of Late" - recently. |
| Now | phr | "Now or Never" - this is the time to do something. 2. something must be done, decided upon immediately or all hope or opportunity of doing something later must be give up. |
| Now | phr | "Now What" - what is concerning you now (said with some annoyance and impatiently). |
| Now | phr | "Now You're Talking" - what you say or suggest is something I agree with, approve. |
| Now | phr | "Now You See It, Now You Don't" - one is probably being misled. 2. one can't be sure something is so but one had better be careful and watcchful (of Tricksters at fairs. etc) who by sleight of hand make it difficult for customers to identify which of the three thimbles have a pea under it) |
| Nowadays | n | The present day, in these times, today. 2. now-a-days; during this age. |
| Now-a-nights | n | The present night, in these times, tonight. |
| Nower | adv | No where nigh or near. |
| Now-being | adj | Existing presently; alive; extant. |
| Now-fallen | adj | Of a thing, such as a leaf: recently or just fallen. 2. of a person (soldier): recently killed in battle. |
| Now-forgotten | adj | No longer remembered or thought of. |
| No-what | n | Nothing. |
| No whence | adv | From no place. |
| No where | adv | In or at no place, not anywhere, to no place. 2. in no part or passage of a book; ie. in the work or author's writing. 3. to be badly beaten in a race, contest; to be hopelessly out of the running. 4. not in the reckoning; far back. |
| Nowhere | n | A non-existent place; an absence of place. 5. a remote or inaccessible place, as the 'middle of now-where. 6. a dull person, place or thing. |
| Nowhere | adj | Insignificant, unsatisfactory, dull, non-existing. |
| Nowhere | phr | "Come from Nowhere" - be suddenly evident or successful. |
| Nowhere | phr | "Get Nowhere" - make no progress, get no satisfactory outcome. |
| Nowhere | phr | "Middle of Nowhere" - a remote or inaccessible place. |
| Nowhere | phr | "Nowhere Near" - not ll, much less than or different from; nothing like. |
| Nowhere | phr | "Nowhere to be Seen" - not visible, absent, gone, lost, disappeared etc. |
| Nowhereness | n | State or quality of being no-where, remote, inaccessible place, dull,insignificant, a sluumy nowhere-ness. |
| No while | adv | For no space of time. |
| No wise | adv | In no way, manner, or degree. |
| No whit | adv | Also "no wight" -- not at all, not the least, a small amount in time or distance. |
| No whither | adv | Not in any direction; at no direction; no where; to no place. |
| No-win | adj | Certain to end in failure and disappointment, as opposed to a "win-win" situation. |
| No wither | adv | To no place, nowhere. |
| No-witherwards | adv | To no-where; to no place or in no direction. |
| No-win | adj | Of a struggle, contest, situation that cannot be won. |
| No-wise | adv | In way or manner: not at all. |
| Nowness | n | The quality of being always present. 2. the quality of taking place at the present time. |
| Nowt | n | Cattle, cows, oxen, bullock. 2. a person (OE: no & wight (thing)- stupid or nowt-headed, and coarse and clumsy or nowt-footed. |
| Nowt | n | Nothing from "no & wight(thing) |
| Nowt | phr | "A Shy Bairn Gets Nowt" - if you are too shy, and don't ask, you won't get what you want. |
| Nowt-geld | n | Ancient tax levied on cattle and bovine-type beasts. |
| Nowthe | adv | Now, at this present moment. |
| N'th | adj | Representing a ordinal equivalent of "n". 2. infinitely or indefinitely large or small, as in "raised to the "nth" degree. 3. with greatt precision; extremely; to an infinite extent. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Nuel | adj | Prone, tending to. 2.facedown, prostate. |
| Numb | adj | The past participle of obsolete O.E. nim ‘take’ Late Middle English nome(n).- without wholly or partially the power of sensation or motion, benumbed. 2. deadened, dull, insensible. |
| Numb-hand | n | An inexpert or clumsy person. |
| Numb-head | n | A dull fool, half-wit, a stult. |
| Numbing | adj | Causing numbness or insensitivity |
| Numbness | n | Partial or total lack of sensation in a part of the body; a symptom of nerve damage or dysfunction. 2. the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally, apathy, indifference, numbness, spiritlessness. 3. the condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion. |
| Numbskull | n | a dolt, dunce, a stupid person, a blockhead. |
| Nun | n | Women devoted to a religious life, and living in a convent under vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. 2. a courtesan. |
| Nun's flesh | n | A cold or ascetic temperament. |
| Nuncheon | n | A light refreshment taken before meals.(noon & shench): a cup or draught). |
| Nunhood | n | The status or condition of a nun. 2. nuns as a group or collectively. |
| Nunnish | adj | Of, pertaining to, resembling a nun; characteristic of a nun. |
| Nun-like | adj | Resembling a nun or some aspect of. |
| Nunly | adj | Like a nun, nun-like. |
| Nunnish | adj | Of, pertaining to, or resembling a nun. |
| Nunnishness | n | State or quality of being nun-like. |
| Nunship | n | Position or role of a nun. |
| Nut | n | A fruit consisting of a kernel or seed enclosed in a woody shell, as in the hazelnut, beechnut, or chestnut; also the kernel of such fruit, when edible. 2. one of the seeds in a pine cone; a stone of a peach, or seed of a date. 3. a piece of metal for screwing on to an end. 4. in allusion to the cracking of hard-shelled nut: a question difficult to answer, a problem to hard to solve, a matter or undertaking difficult to accomplish; a person hard to deal with or conciliate. 5. the head. (slang) 6. a crank, crackpot, a madman. 7. the pancreas, in the expression: "the liver, lights, heart, nut and milt." 7. nut: a testicle --- testicles: the nuts (slang). 8. coal in small bits or lump. |
| Nut | n | OE. nyt: use, worth. |
| Nut | vb | Seek or gather nuts. 2. to curry favor with; to court (a person). 3. to think, use one's head. 4. butt with the head. |
| Nut | adj | Crazy, mad, cracked. |
| Nut | phr | "Crack a Nut with a Sledgehammer" - use to much force/resources to bring about a small change. |
| Nut | phr | "Do One's Nut" - lose one's temper, get worked up about something; be very angry. 2. be worried or agitated. |
| Nut | phr | "Hard Nut to Crack" - (someone is a hard nut to crack): is very difficult to persuade a person to do something. |
| Nut | phr | "He Who Would Eat a Nut Must First Crack the Shell" - the gods give nothing to those without labor. |
| Nut | phr | "It's Time to Lay our Nuts Aside" - it is time to put aside our follies, to relinquish our boyish pursuits and settle down. An allusion is to an old Roman marriage ceremony in which the bridegroom, as he led his bride home, scattered nuts to the crowd, as if to symbolize that he has given up his boyish ways. |
| Nut | phr | "Nut Behind the Bolt" - the person using or having the firearm; the shooter. |
| Nut | phr | "Nut Out" - to find a solution for. 2. to work out the finer details; esp. in a group discussion. 3. to be crazy, esp. in a rage. |
| Nuts | phr | "Nuts and Bolts - the practical basic elements. 2. fundamental, basic and meaningful detail. 3. the mechanics of a situation or thing. 4. the small items, tasks techniques, procedures etc subordinates, but necessary, to a larger undertaking. |
| Nuts | phr | "Nuts On" - overfond of, or infatuated with; be nuts about someone. 2. a source of pleasure or delight to. 3. be uts about. |
| Nut | phr | "Nut Up" - exhortation to rise to the occasion; be a man. |
| Nut | phr | "Nut Up or Shut Up" - stop talking and gives us action. 2. don't think, do! |
| Nut | phr | "Off One's Nut" -- out of one's mind, crazy, mad, nutty, loopy; off one's head. |
| Nut-bearing | adj | Producing nuts, as a tree or bush. |
| Nut-brown | adj | Of a dark brown color, like that of ripe nuts. |
| Nut-cracker | n | A device for cracking nuts. |
| Nutelness | n | (OE: 'No' & 'Witol'): ignorance. |
| Nutgall | n | A nut-shaped gall, as on an oak tree; an oak apple. 2. a gall found on dyer's oak, used in dyeing. |
| Nuthen | adv | Now and then; now, nowhile. |
| Nut-house | n | A lunatic asylum (slang). |
| Nutless | adj | Without nuts (the fruit). 2. without the use of (mechanical) nuts. 3. withourt testicles, castrated; cowardly. (slang.) |
| Nutlike | adj | Resembling a nut. |
| Nutmeal | n | Meal made from the kernel of nuts. |
| Nutmeat | n | The edible part of a nut. |
| Nutness | n | (Slang)-the existence of a chaotic atmosphere. 2. the property of a nut. |
| Nut oak | n | Macadamia ternifolia. |
| Nutpine | n | One of several nutbearing pines. |
| Nuts | n | Testicles (sl.) |
| Nuts | adj | Crazy, demented. 2. madly in love. 3. extremely enthusiastic with about exclamation or scorn; disapproval. |
| Nuts | phr | "Nuts On" - overfond of, or infatuated with; be nuts about someone. 2. a source of pleasure or delight to. 3. coal in small bits or lumps. |
| Nuts | phr | "Nuts Over" - a source of pleasure to; devoted to; delighted with someone or something. 2. 'dead nuts on.' |
| Nutsack | n | Slang for the scrotum. |
| Nutshell | n | The shell of a nut. 2. a brief, concise statement or form. |
| Nutshell | vb | To summarize; sum up in a few words. |
| Nutshell | phr | "In a Nutshell" -- in a brief, concise statement or form; concisely. 2. by way of summary. 3. lie in a nutshell: explained in a few words. |
| Nutted | adj | Fastened by a nut; abounding or prolific in nuts. |
| Nutter | n | An eccentric, insane, crazy or reckless person. 2. a person who is obsessed with something. |
| Nuttle | vb | To use, make use of. |
| Nuttily | adv | In a nutty manner. |
| Nuttiness | n | Quality or state in being nutty - in various senses. 2. the quality or degree of having a nutty flavor or texture. 3. the quality or degree of having a nutty aspect; craziness or zaniness. 4. the taste of nuts. |
| Nuttish | adj | Somewhat nutty. |
| Nut tree | n | Any tree bearing nuts,esp. the hazel. |
| Nutty | adj | Abounding in, containing nuts, and having the flavor of or producing nuts. 2. containing nuts; reminiscent of nuts. 3. mad, crazy, not right in the head, out of one mind, off one's nut. |
| Nutwood | n | Any tree bearing nuts, as walnut, hazel, hickory. 2. the wood of such a tree. |
| Nutwrench | n | An instrument for screwing or unscrewing nuts. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| O | n | The Letter "O" |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Oak | n | Any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Quercus, of the beech family, bearing the acorn as fruit. 2. the hard, durable wood of such a tree, used in making furniture and in construction. 3. the leaves of this tree, especially as worn in a chaplet. 4. anything made of the wood of this tree, as an item of furniture, a door, etc. |
| Oak | phr | "Have Heart of Oak" - this famous sea song and naval march is from Garrick's pantomime,Harlequin's Invasion, with music by Dr Boyce. It was written in 1759, "the year of victories" at Quebec , hence the allusion to 'this wonderful year' in the opening lines. "Heart of Oak" refers, of course, to the timber from which ships were built. |
| Oak | phr | "Lock Something Up In an Old Oak Chest" - to put something in a safe place and out of mind. |
| Oak | phr | "Oak Before the Ash" - the old proverbial forecast, referring to which is in leaf first, says 'If the oak before the ash Then you'll only get a splash; If the ash precedes the oak, Then you may expect a soak. i.e. a wet summer is to be expected. |
| Oak | phr | "Tall Oaks from Little Acorns Grow" - even major enteprizes have small or humble beginnings |
| Oak | phr | "The Oaks" - "The Ladies Race", one of the classic races of the turf; it is for three year old fillies, and run at Epsom two days after the Derby. It was first run in 1759 and so called from the estate of the Earl of Derby near Epsom named "The Oaks." |
| Oak apple | n | A gall produced on an oak by an insect; also called nutgall. |
| Oak-apple Day | n | The 29th May, the birthday of Charles 11 and the day when he entered London at the Restoration ; commanded by Act of parliament in 1664 to be observed as a day of thanksgiving. People wore sprigs of oak with glided oak-appleson that day. |
| Oaked | adj | Of a wine: aged in oak so that it acquires flavor from tannins in the wood. |
| Oaken | adj | Made of wood of the oak. 2. of, pertaining to, or forming part of the oak. 3. formed of the oak, leaves, twigs. 4. consisting of oak trees. |
| Oak gall | n | A spongy spherical gall which forms on oak trees in response to the developing larvae of a gall wasp. |
| Oakiness | n | The property of being oaky. |
| Oakleaf | n | The leaf of the oak. 2. a device, badge or emblem shaped like the leaf of an oak, and indicating an award (usually military). |
| Oak-leaved | adj | Used in the name of various plants. The leaves of which resemble those of an oak. |
| Oak-like | adj | Resembling or having similarities to an oak leaf or tree. |
| Oaklungs | n | Oakwort. |
| Oakmoss | n | A lichen, Evernai pranosti, growing an oak and other trees, yielding a rein used inthe manufacture of perfume. |
| Oak-tree | n | Any tree of the genus Quercus. |
| Oakum | n | The coarse part of the flax separated in hackling. 2. tow clippings, trimmings, shreds, loose fibres, thrums. |
| Oakwort | n | Oaklungs. |
| Oaky | adj | Resembling oak; strong, firm., hard. 2. abounding in oaks. |
| Oar | n | A long shaft with a broad blade at one end, used as a lever for rowing or otherwise propelling or steering a boat. 2. something resembling this or having a similar purpose. 3. a person who rows; oarsman. |
| Oar | vb | To propel with or as if with oars; row. 2. to traverse or make (one's way) by, or as if by, rowing. 2. to row. 3. to move or advance as if by rowing. |
| Oar | phr | "Have an Oar in Every Boat" - have a hand in everyone's business or affairs. |
| Oar | phr | "Rest on One's Oars" - to cease to make an effort; relax after exertion; stop working after success or completing a task. 2. take a rest during a period of hard |
| Oar | phr | "Stick One's Oar in" - to meddle; interfere, interrupt: "He put in his oar and was told to mind his own business." |
| Oar-blade | n | The flanged portion of an oar, not the handle nor the shaft. |
| Oared | adj | Having oats. |
| Oarfish | n | A ribbon fish, Regalecus glesne. |
| Oarless | adj | Without or lacking oars. |
| Oar-like | adj | Resembling an oar or some aspect of one. |
| Oarlock | n | A rowlock. |
| Oar-man | n | A person who rows a boat, especially in a race; a rower. |
| Oarmanship | n | The art of rowing. |
| Oarweed | n | Any large marine alga. |
| Oary | adj | Of the nature of having the function of an oar; oar-like. 2. furnished with oars. |
| Oast | n | A kiln for drying malt or hops. |
| Oast-house | n | A building consisting of a kiln for drying hops. |
| Oat | n | A cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed. 2. usually, oats. ( used with a singular or plural verb ) the seed of this plant, used as a food for humans and animals. 3. any of several plants of the same genus, as the wild oat. 4. a musical pipe made of an oat straw (archaic). Oxford Dictionary, this word's origin is: "Old English āte, plural ātan, of unknown origin. Unlike other names of cereals (such as wheat, barley, etc.), oat is not a mass noun and may originally have denoted the individual grain, which may imply that oats were eaten in grains and not as meal." |
| Oat | vb | To feed a horse with oats. |
| Oat(s) | phr | "Feel One's Oats" -to feel frisky or lively. 2. to be aware of and use one's importance or power. 3. to feel exuberant 4. to display self-important; conceited. |
| Oat(s) | phr | "Get One's Oats" - to have sexual intercourse. |
| Oat | phr | "Off One's Oats" - unwell (and with poor appetite). |
| Oat(s) | phr | "One's Oats" - sexual gratification. |
| Oat(s) | phr | "Sow One's Wild Oats" - to indulge in adventure or promiscuity during youth; to indulge in youthful dissipation. 2. commit youthful excess or follies; spend one's early life in dissipation or dissolute course. |
| Oatcake | n | A thin savory biscuit, made in Scotland. |
| Oaten | adj | Made of oats. |
| Oaten-pipe | n | A rustic musical pipe made of oak straw so so cut as to be stopped at one end with a knot, the other being left open. a slit made in the straw near the knot was so cut as to form a reed. |
| Oater | n | A western film or "horse opera" (oats typical food of horses) |
| Oatgrass | n | Any of the various grasses of the genera Arrhenatheum. |
| Oath | n | A solemn of formal appeal to God, or to a deity, 'the great oath'. |
| Oath | vb | To make or swear an oath. 2. to utter an oath or oaths, to swear. |
| Oath | phr | "Be On, or Take, an Oath" - to swear, make or to bind oneself by an oath to tell the truth. |
| Oath | phr | "Under Oath" - having sworn a solemn oath. |
| Oath-bound | adj | Bound or true to an oath sworn. |
| Oath-breaker | n | Someone who breaks an oath. |
| Oath-breaking | n | The violation of an oath; perjury. |
| Oathless | adj | Without an oath or oaths. |
| Oat-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of oats in some aspect. |
| Oatmeal | n | A meal ground from oats, used for porridge, oatcakes etc. 2. a cooked breakfast fod made from this. 3. a greyish-fawn colour; a grayish-yellow colour. |
| Oatmeal | adj | The mael of oats. 2. porridge made from oatmeal |
| Oat-monger | n | A dealer in oats. 2. a dealer or monger of oats; oat-monger. |
| Oath-worthy | adj | Worthy of credit on oath; worthy to be sworn before. |
| Oaty | adj | Of the nature of, or full of oats, esp. wild oats. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Of | prp | O.E. of, unstressed form of æf (prep., adv.) "away, away from," - primary sense in O.E. was still "away," but shifted in M.E. with use of the word to translate L. de, ex, and especially O.Fr. de, which had come to be the substitute for the genitive case. "Gyld of Gold"- golden idol. |
| Of | phr | "Of a Kind" - something belonging to a class of something like to; said loosely or slightly. 2. in existence, but not quite adequate or satisfactory. |
| Of | phr | "Of All" - used as an intensifier with nouns to denote being ultimate. |
| Of | phr | "Of All the Cheek" - an exclamation of indignant at a person's impudence, etc. |
| Of | phr | "Of All Time" - that there ever has been or will ever be. |
| Of | phr | "Of a Morning" - on any morning, etc; or some or most mornings etc. |
| Of | phr | "Of an Evening" - on most evenings. 2. at some time in the evenings. |
| Of | phr | "Of Good Standing" - having an established (good) reputation, acknowledged status. |
| Of | phr | "Of Late" - in the recent past; recently; lately; continuously, or intermittently. |
| Of | phr | "Of Old" - formerly, long ago. |
| Of | phr | "Of Old Yore" - associated with, or that existed in, ancient or long past times. 2. formerly; in past or ancient times. 2. at, or from, a previous period of one's life. |
| Of | phr | "Of One's Own Free Will" - voluntarily, of one's own choice. |
| Of | phr | "Of Shame" - listing or describing the most dishonored entries in a specific subject , media form, field, etc as 'book of shame' |
| Of | phr | "Of the Like" - of a group with the same or similar characteristics. 2. of the same kind. |
| Of | phr | "Of the Old School" - embodying the traditional, perhaps old-fashioned characteristic of his class, trade, profession, etc. |
| Of | phr | "Of that Ilk" - of that kind; of the same kind of another person or thing as the just mentioned. 2. of that same name, place. |
| Of | phr | "Of Two Minds" - undecided or unsure; equivocating. 2. conflicted in one's opinions. |
| Of | phr | "What of It?" - what does it matter? |
| Of-ask | vb | To inquire, to ask for, to get to learn by enquiry. |
| Of'cale | vb | To be cold. |
| Of'cale | adj | Affected by or with cold, chilled, frozen. |
| Of'clepe | vb | Call for, summon, get by calling. |
| Of'daw | vb | To wake up, recover from a swoon. |
| Of'drede | vb | To terrify, frighten. |
| Of'drede | adj | Affected by fear, frightened. |
| Of'drunken | vb | To drown, swallow up in water. |
| Of'earn | adj | Earned,deserved. |
| Off | adv | So as to be no longer supported or attached. 2. so as to be no longer covering or enclosing: to take a hat off; to take the wrapping off. 3. away from a place: to run off; to look off toward the west. 4. away from a path, course, etc.; aside. 5. so as to be away or on one's way: to start off early; to cast off. |
| Off | prp | So as no longer to be supported by, attached to, on, resting on, or unified with. 2. deviating from: off balance; off course. 3. below or less than the usual or expected level or standard. 4. percent off the marked price. 5. away, disengaged, or resting from: to be off duty today. |
| Off | adj | In error; wrong: you are off on that matter. 2. slightly abnormal or not quite sane. 2. not up to standard; not so good or satisfactory as usual; inferior or subnormal: a good play full of off shots. 3. no longer in effect, in operation, or in process: the deal is off. 4. stopped from flowing, as by the closing of a valve: the water is off. 5. informal. refraining or abstaining from; denying oneself the pleasure, company, practice, etc., of: he's off holidaying. |
| Off | n | The state or fact of being off. 2. cricket. the off side. |
| Off | vb | To go off or away; leave (used imperatively): off, and don't come back! 2. (slang); kill, slay, murder. 3. take away; remove: off with those muddy boots before you step inside my home! |
| Off | phr | "A Bit off" - an unsatisfactory situation. |
| Off | phr | "Afar Off" - in the distance, a long way away. |
| Off | phr | "Be Off With You" - go away!; leave!; depart. |
| Off | phr | "Be Well Off" - wealthy. |
| Off | phr | "Come off" - to take place; succeed. |
| Off | phr | "Fall Off" - decline, diminish. |
| Off | phr | "Get Off On" - to find something exciting, esp. in a sexual way. |
| Off | phr | "Get Off With You" - I do not believe you. |
| Off | phr | "Get It Off" - to receive or come to have possession, use, enjoyment of. 2. (slang) t experience orgasm. |
| Off | phr | "Go Off" - (Of a gun or similar device) - explode or fire. 2. explode, detonate, burst, erupt. 3. of food or drink: become rank, rotten, become inedible. 3. turn bad, or begin to dislike. |
| Off | phr | "Have an Off-day" - go through a time or period when things go wrongs. |
| Off | phr | "Have it Off" - have sexual intercourse with. |
| Off | phr | "Leave Off" - discontinue an activity; stop, cease, desist, keep from, break off, lay off, give up, refrain, stop oneself from, eschew. |
| Off | phr | "Let Somebody Off the Hook" - allow somebody to avoid or escape from a difficult problem |
| Off | phr | "Make Off" - to leave quickly. 2. steal something. |
| Off | phr | "Neither Off or On" - either one way or another; in any way. |
| Off | phr | "Off All Time" - that there has ever been or will ever be. |
| Off | phr | "Off and On" - intermittently, now and then, happening sometimes, occasionally, spasmodically or infrequently, but not continuously. |
| Off | phr | "Off It" - die, expire |
| Off | phr | "Off Of" - from; from. |
| Off | phr | "Off One's Food" - lacking an appetite. |
| Off | phr | "Off One's Game" - playing or competing below one's usual level of performance. 2. playing badly. |
| Off | phr | "Off One's Head" - crazy, demented. |
| Off | phr | "Off One's Hands" - out of or removed from someone's charge, possession or responsibility. |
| Off | phr | "Off One's Nut" - out of one's mind; crazy. |
| Off | phr | "Off the Beaten Path" - in a secluded location. 2. in a place which is not frequently visited or widely known. |
| Off | phr | "Off the Books" - a payent that is not officially recorded, so that no tax is paid on it. |
| Off | phr | "Off the Deep End" - to get very angry about something or lose control of oneself. |
| Off | phr | "Off the Ground" - to get something into the air. 2. to start a plan or activity successfully. |
| Off | phr | "Off the Hook" - no longer in difficulty or trouble. 2. of a telephone receiver, preventing incoming calls. |
| Off | phr | "Off the Mark" - a long way from the intended target. 2. wide of the mark. 3. incorrect or inaccurate. |
| Off | phr | "Off the Shelf" - obtained from stock; ready made. |
| Off | phr | "Off the Shoulder" - especially of dress or blouse, not covering the shoulders. |
| Off | phr | "Off the Table" - to withdraw something or make it no longer available, as for consideration, acceptance, discussion, etc. I wouldn't wait too long to accept the job offer—they might take it off the table before you know it. |
| Off | phr | "Off the Top Of One's Head" - without careful thought or investigation. |
| Off | phr | "Off the Wall" - (slang) unorthodox; unconventional. |
| Off | phr | "Off With" - to take off instantly; remove! |
| Off | phr | "Play Off and On" - to take off and put on alternately. |
| Off | phr | "Put Off" - to disconcert, repel. 2. to hold back to a later time. 3. to induce to wait. 4. to rid oneself of. 5. to sell or pass fraudulently. |
| Off | phr | "Put Somebody Off" - discourage or disgust somebody. |
| Off | phr | "Right off" - forthwith, immediately. |
| Off | phr | "Shake Off" - to cause to move from from side to side or up and down with jerky movements. |
| Off | phr | "Take Off" - to mimic, make fun of. 2. of an aircraft, to ascend, leave. |
| Off | phr | "Tell Off" - to chide, scold, rebuke, reprove. 2. to pick (count)for special duty. |
| Off | phr | "Way off Beam" - on the wrong track, inaccurate, erroneous, mistaken. |
| Off | phr | "Well Off" - rich, fortunate. |
| Off | phr | "Work Off" - to rid of by work or effort. |
| Offal | n | (Off & fall) - waste meat, entrails of animals; parts rejected as unfit for use; anything thrown away as worthless; refuse. |
| Off-and-on | adj | Intermittent; stopping and starting; fitful or interrupted, as of sleep. |
| Off-beam | adj | Mistaken, inaccurate, erroneous. |
| Off-bear | vb | To carry off from a moulding table and place on the ground to dry. |
| Off-bearer | n | One who carries off from a moulding table and place on the ground to dry |
| Off-bearing | adj | That bears something off; spec. that carries off a product (as wood, brick) to a machine or for a process. |
| Off-beat | adj | In music, not following the beat, as of an instrument out of cadence. 2. not usual, unusual, unconventional, not ordinary, not conforming. |
| Off-bitten | adj | That bitten off. |
| Off-book | adj | Without reference to a book or script; from memory (in early use) by improvisation, extempore. |
| Off-brand | adj | An unknown, unpopular, or inferior brand of retail product. |
| Off-break | n | The act or result of breaking off. 2. a schism. |
| Off-Broadway | adj | No longer associated with Broadway theatrical precinct, esp. to experimental productions. |
| Offcast | vb | To cast off, shed. 2. to try and remove from the cast of a production. |
| Off-come | n | The product of multiplication. 2. the way which one "comes off" or fares in a matter. 3. an excuse, a get-off-way. 4. a a conclusion, finish an rgument. 5. an outsider, stranger. |
| Off-comer | n | An outsider, stranger, follower, alien. |
| Off-day | n | A day when things go wrong. 2. a day when one is not at their best. |
| Off'fear | vb | To terrify, frighten, |
| Off'fear | adj | Afraid, frightened. |
| Offer | n | OE: ofrian. (fr Latin)showing, exhibiting, sacrificing, bringing of an oblation. 2. attempt; endeavor; essay; |
| Offer | vb | To make or show, exhibit, sacrifice, bring an oblation. 2. to attempt; to undertake. 3. to present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest; or offer an opinion. 4. to declare one's willingness to help. 5 to make an attempt; to make an essay or a trial; offer at. 6. to bid, as a price, reward, or wages; as, to offer a salary or reward. 7. the act of offering, bringing forward, proposing, or bidding; a proffer; a first advance. 8. to bring to or before; to hold out to; to present for acceptance or rejection; as, to offer a present, or a bribe; to offer one's self in marriage. 9. to present itself; to be at hand. 10. to present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; offer up. 11. to put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten; as, to offer violence,or attack, etc. |
| Offer | phr | "Offer One's Hand" - extend one's hand to be shaken as a sign of friendship. |
| Offer | phr | "Offer Up" - put some place to assess its appropriateness or fitness. |
| Offer | phr | "On Offer" - available. |
| Offer | phr | "Open to Others" - willing to sell something or do a job for a reasonable price. |
| Offered | adj | Brought as an offering. 2. presented as a sacrifice. 3. that which is offered or brought forward; a proposal to be accepted or rejected; a sum offered; a bid. |
| Offerer | n | One who offers a contribution, esp. money, to a church. 2. one who offers religious sacrifice or tokens of devotion. 3. one who contributes or offers anything. |
| Offering | n | Presentation of something to a deity, a thing so presented. |
| Off-fall | vb | To fall off |
| Off-falling | adv | That which falls off. |
| Off-fallings | n | Crumbs, off-fallings); scraps that fall from the table. 2. fig. falling off of health, excellence or goodness. |
| Off-fill | vb | To fill completely. |
| Off-flow | vb | To flow from something or somewhere. |
| Offget | vb | To perceive, discern, get, understand. |
| Off-go | vb | To start, begin, go away. |
| Off-go | n | A start, beginning, the get-go. |
| Off-going | n | Departure, going away, a removal. |
| Off-going | adj | That go away, or is removed. |
| Off-green | adj | Not quite green in color. |
| Offhand | adv | Of speech or action: unpremeditated, at once, curtly, straightway. 2. without preparation, free and easy, curt 'as I don't have the details offhand'. |
| Offhand | adv | Without preparation, impromptu. |
| Offhanded | adj | Straight forward, curt or to the point in speech and conversation |
| Offhandedly | adv | In a manner or way unpremeditated, straightway, unprepared, unpremeditated. |
| Off-handedness | n | The quality of being off-handed. |
| Off-handish | adj | In a somewhat or rather curt, casual or unprepared way. |
| Off-hold | vb | To withhold, retain. 2. to hold off, prevent, refrain, avoid, shun. |
| Offing | n | The near or foreseeable future, soon to happen, as "look there is rain in the offing." 2. the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area; as in the offing; that part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore. 3. coming; arriving in the foreseeable future. 4. visible but not nearby. 5. the horizon, the loom. |
| Offing | phr | "In the Offing" - nearby, at hand, not so far away, likely to happen soon or in the near future. |
| Offish | adj | Inclined to keep aloof; distant in manner. |
| Offishly | adv | Aloof; remote. |
| Offishness | n | The state or condition of being aloof or stand-offish. |
| Off-island | n | An island off the shore of a larger island or continent. |
| Off-islander | n | A visitor, temporary resident. |
| Off-key | adj | Deviating from the correct tune or pitch; out of tune; irregular. |
| Offlead | vb | To lead off or away. |
| Off-lead | adj | Of a dog not on a leash. |
| Off-line | adj | Of railways, airways, buses etc.: located or serving a place not on the regular route. 2. of computers: operating independently of , or disconnected from an associated computer. |
| Off-line | adv | In, or to a more private place, as we should talk about this off-line. |
| Off-load | vb | To unload. 2. hand to another (a problem or dilemma). |
| Off-minded | adj | Distracted, absent-minded, being of less than a sound mind, mentally despondent; touched. |
| Off-put | vb | To procrastinate, put off, waste time. |
| Off-putting | adj | Providing uneasiness, dislike, annoyance,or repugnance, disturbing or disagreeable. |
| Off-reckoning | n | A deduction, formerly in the British Army, a name of a special account between the government and the commanding officers of regiments; in reference to the clothing of the men. |
| Off-road | adj | Designed for, used for, taking place on a driving surface that is not traditionally paved, such as a beach or rugged terrain. |
| Off-roader | n | A vehicle that designed to drive off the road. |
| Off-roading | n | Driving a vehicle off-road. |
| Off-sale | n | Of alcoholic beverages, pertaining to the sale of closed containers for consumption off the premises. |
| Off-set | n | The start, beginning, outset. |
| Off-shed | vb | Lose weight; depose of, rid oneself of. |
| Off-shoot | n | Fig. of a family tree: a descendant. 2. lit. of a plant: a branch, lateral shoot from the main stem. 3. anything conceived as springing from the main stock. |
| Off-shooting | n | An off-shoot; a diversion; a branching. |
| Off-shore | adj | Moving away from shore. 2. located in the sea away from the coast. 3. located in another country, esp. one having beneficial tax laws, or a source of an exploitable labour force. 3. having available foreign labour as a substitute for local labour. |
| Off-shoring | n | The relocation of a business process from one country to another—typically an operational process, such as manufacturing, or supporting processes, such as accounting. Typically this refers to a company business, although state governments may also employ offshoring. |
| Off-side | adv | Away from one's own side; on the wrong side. 2. not in favor with. |
| Offsider | n | A partner, assistant, or deputy. |
| Offspring | n | Descendant, progeny, children, issue. |
| Offspring | vb | To issue from, well from, descend from, emanate. |
| Off-standing | adj | Standing or situated at a distance, distant, far removed, remote. |
| Off-stream | vb | A shut-down of industrial and manufacturing production. |
| Off-street | adj | Located awy from the street. 2. not on the streets, as the "off-street" unloading of the wain. |
| Off-take | n | (Take late O.E. borrowing) - the action of taking off; the taking of commodities off the market. 2. a deduction. 3. a channel by which liquid is drained off. 4. a tributary branch of a stream, river. 5. the place of such outflow or where, something is taken off. |
| Off-the-shelf | adj | Goods supplied ready-made; available from existing stock. |
| Off-time | n | Holiday, vacation, holiday time, leave. |
| Offward(s) | adv | In the direction or position off or away from something. 2. away from shore. 3. turned or directed off or away; averse. |
| Offwardness | n | The state of being turned away. 2. averse, averseness, aversion, offwaring, wending from, shifting. |
| Off-white | adj | White with a tinge of yellow, creamy-color or greyish. |
| Off'wring | vb | To wring or wrench off. |
| Of'get | vb | To Perceive, discern. |
| Of'go | vb | To demand, require, exact. 2. gather, win, earn. 3. permeate. |
| Of'grede | vb | Call, summon. |
| Of'heat | vb | To overcome with heat. |
| Of'hold | vb | To withhold; keep back. |
| Of'hungered | adj | Afflicted with hunger; very hungry, famished. |
| Of'ken | vb | To recognize, descry, perceive. |
| Of'kin | vb | Give birth to. |
| Of'lete | n | Offering, sacrifice, oblation. 2. a sacramental water, water (gen). |
| Of'longed | adj | Seizure of overcome with longing. |
| Of'lust | adj | Possessed with a strong longing or desire. |
| Of'pine | vb | Torment, vex. |
| Of'rede | vb | To outwit, to out do in counsel. |
| Of'ride | vb | To ride down; overtake. |
| Of'run | vb | Overtake by running fast; run away from. |
| Of'sake | vb | To deny. |
| Of'see | vb | To see; perceive by sight, catch sight of, observe. |
| Of'send | vb | To send for. |
| Of'shame | vb | To shame, make shameful. |
| of'sit | vb | Sit up in, occupy. 2. oppress, repress. |
| Of'slay | vb | Kill, slay, strike at. |
| Of'spring | vb | Spring from, descend from. |
| Of'stand | vb | To remain standing. 2. to withstand. |
| Of'sting | vb | To pierce, gore, stab to death. |
| Of'strength | vb | To fortify, strengthen, make stronger. |
| Of'swink | vb | to gain by labour, labour for. |
| Oft | adv | Many times, often, frequently, oft(en)-times, off-sithe. |
| Often | adv | Many times, frequently, oft, oft(en)-times, off-sithe, that has often been. |
| Often | phr | "As Often or Not" - about half the number of times. |
| Often | phr | "Every so Often" - occasionally. |
| Often | phr | "More Often Than Not" - frequently, usually. |
| Often | phr | "Often or Not" - more often or not; at least half the time; frequently, every so often. |
| Often | phr | "Once Too Often" - one time too many, resulting in failure |
| Oftening | n | A frequent repetition. |
| Oftenly | adv | Very often. |
| Oftenness | n | The fact or condition of occurring often; or frequently. |
| Ofrensithe | adv | Many times, oftentimes, often, on many occasions. |
| Of'think | n | Sorrow, regret, repentance. |
| Of'think | vb | To seem not good. |
| Of'thinking | n | Displeasure, vexation, disgust, grief, sorrow. |
| Of'times | adv | Many times, on many occasions, or in many cases, frequently, often times, oft-times. |
| Oftly | adv | Often. |
| Oftness | n | Oftenness. |
| Of'tread | vb | To destroy by trampling, often, on many occasions, |
| Of'wake | vb | To wake. |
| Of'walked | adj | Exhausted by walking. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Old | adj | Far advanced in the years of one's or its life: an old man; an old horse; an old tree. 2. of or pertaining to the latter part of the life or term of existence of a person or thing: old age. 3. as if or appearing to be far advanced in years. 4. having lived or existed for a specified time: a man 30 years old. 5. having lived or existed as specified with relation to younger or newer persons or things. |
| Old | n | Old persons collectively (usually preceded by the). 2. a person or animal of a specified age or age group (used in combination): a class for six year old pupils. |
| Old | phr | "An Old Maid" - a woman who is not and probably never will be married (with the implication often being that remaining unmarried is an indication of personal failure, or lack of emotional warmth) . 2. (fig) a person of either sex who is either too precise, tidy, conventional, fussy, prudish. |
| Old | phr | "Any Old How" - anyhow (carelessly) |
| Old | phr | "Be Old Hat" - to be a very widely-known fact. |
| Old | phr | "It is On for Young and Old" - the excitement has started. |
| Old | phr | "Know Somebody of Old" - know somebody for a long time. |
| Old | phr | "Lock Somebody up in an Old Oak Chest" - to put in a safe place and out of mind. |
| Old | phr | "Old and the Young - people, young and old collectively. |
| Old | phr | "Old as the Hills" - extremely or exceedingly old. |
| Old | phr | "Old as Time" - ancient; dating from as far back in history; not new or young. |
| Old | phr | "Old Before One's Time" - older in looks, physical condition, mental outlook., etc. than is right reasonable for one's age. |
| Old | phr | "Old Beyond One's Years" - more mature, knowledgeable than most others of one's age. |
| Old | phr | "Old Enough to be One's Father/Mother" - too much older than somebody for marriage, liaison etc to be suitable or likely. |
| Old | phr | "Old Head on a Young Shoulders" - experience, knowledge, and maturity for a young person. |
| Old | phr | "Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" - "Bank of England" |
| Old | phr | "Old Man of the Sea" - one who cannot be shaken off; a hanger on (from the monster who clung to the back of Sinbad, the Sailor. |
| Old | phr | "Old Noll" - Oliver Cromwell. |
| Old | phr | "Old, Sad, Far-off things" - tragedies. or sorrows, of the historical, or one's own, past. |
| Old | phr | "Old School Tie" - symbol of class distinction, class. |
| Old | phr | "Old Sins Have Long Shadows" - past misdeeds are liable to return to haunt a person. |
| Old | phr | "Old Wives' Tale" - A legend, myth, account of historical, or supernatural, events such as old women handed on to rising generations . 2. an unsupported piece of information, recommended practice, etc. 3. a trivial tale such as is told a by garrulous old woman. |
| Old | phr | "One's Old Man" - one's husband or wife. |
| Old | phr | "The Old Man" - the world. 2. a person in authority, leader of a politic party; headmaster, boss, etc. |
| Old | phr | "The Old School" - following a former way of thinking, code of practice, in politics, religion, medicine, science. |
| Old-bean | n | Friendly form of address to a man. |
| Old Bird | n | (slang) a wary person. |
| Old-blooded | adj | Of old aristocratic family; old-moneyed family. |
| Old-book | adj | As in 'old-book shop'. |
| Old-built | adj | Built long ago. |
| Old days | n | Old times, past years. |
| Old days | phr | "In the (Good) Old Days" - in earlier times, in the past. |
| Old dear | n | An elderly woman. 2. one's mother. |
| Olden | adj | Old; of former times. |
| Old English | n | The English language up to about 1150-1200 |
| Old-English sheepdog | n | A large breed of dog which was developed in England from early herding types of dogs. |
| Old-fangled | adj | Old fashioned, out of fashion, out-of-date, out moded. 2. characterized by adherence to what is old. |
| Old-fangledness | n | The state of being old fashioned. |
| Old-field | n | Land cultivated of old; old ground. 2. land in cultivation for a long time and exhausted by a long period of cultivation. |
| Old folks | n | The elderly, the aged, seniors. |
| Old-gathered | adj | Gathered together long ago. |
| Old gold | n | A dull brownish-gold colour. 2. a dull, lacking lustre, gold color. |
| Old-grey | adj | A old man; old grey haired man. |
| Old-growing | adj | Growing over many years or decades; for a long time. |
| Old-hand | n | A person who is very experienced. 2. one who has experience in any business. |
| Old Gold | n | A dull, lustreless, gold color. |
| Old hand | n | A person with much experience. |
| Old Harry | n | "The Devil" |
| Old-hat | adj | Out-of-date; tediously familiar or out of date. 2. as a noun phrase it had a different (vulgar) sense previously: a woman's pudenda, because it was frequently felt. |
| Old-hearted | adj | Old-fashioned, oldfangled, elderly; as, ' the oldhearted trapped in truth'. |
| Old-home | adj | As an old-home saying: obsolete language. |
| Old-hundredth | n | A famous tune to which the hundredth psalm is sung. |
| Oldie | n | A person of advanced years, a senior citizen. 2. an old time film or song ('golden oldie') |
| Oldish | adj | Somewhat old. |
| Old lady | n | A girl or woman, esp. one's wife. |
| Old land | n | Land cultivated of old; old ground. 2. land in cultivation for a long time and exhausted by a long period of cultivation. |
| Old-left | n | Those supportive of traditional (usu. socialist) beliefs. |
| Old-life | adj | Palaeozoic or old-life period. |
| Old-line | adj | Following, adhering to, or supporting conservative or traditional ideas, beliefs, customs. 2. having a reputation or authority based on length or proven quality of service. 3. established prestige and influence. |
| Old-looking | adj | Looking over than one's chronological age. |
| Oldly | adv | In the manner of one that is old. 2. in an old and bygone manner. 3. in old time; long ago. |
| Old maid | n | An elderly unmarried women who is past the usual age of marriage; a spinster 2. a prim and fussy person. |
| Old maidendom | n | The realm or world of old maids or spinsters. |
| Old-maidenhood | n | Old maid-dom or spinsterdom. |
| Old-maidenish | adj | Somewhat old maidenish. |
| Old-maidenishly | adv | In a manner somewhat like an old maid, or spinster. |
| Old-maidenly | adv | In the manner of being an old maid; old-maidy. |
| Old-maidenness | n | State or condition of being an old maid. |
| Old maidenship | n | State or condition of being an old maid or spinster; old maidendom. |
| Old man | n | A man advanced in years. 2. as a term of affectionate familiarity for anyone in authority, as a skipper, captain, husband, father; boss (vulgar). 3. unregenerate human nature : Old Adam. 4. a full-grown male kangaroo. 5. in mining: an old vein or working which has been abandoned; also oreless stuff. |
| Old man | n | "The Old Man" - the world. |
| Old mannish | adj | Characteristic of an old man. |
| Old Man of the Sea | n | One who cannot be shaken off; a hanger-on (the monster who clung to the back of Sinbad the sailor). |
| Old man's Beard | n | A plant Traveler's Joy, esp. in seed (called from the grey fluffy hairs around its seeds). |
| Old Man Winter | n | Also known as "Father Winter" - a personification of winter. "Father Winter" is more commonly known as "Santa Claus". In the Northern Hemisphere with it's dour, punishing year's end seems an apt personification. |
| Old Master | n | A painting by famous artists, especially in the C15th and C16th. |
| Old moon | n | The moon in the last quarter, before the new moon. 2. the first Full Moon of the year is named after howling wolves, the Wolf Moon. In some cultures, it was known as Old Moon, Ice Moon, Snow Moon, and the Moon after Yule. 2. the Wolf Moon on the night between 1 and 2 January 2018 is a Supermoon. See also Blood Moon, Wolf Moon, Hunger Moon, Cold Moon. |
| Oldness | n | The state or condition of being old or of advanced years. |
| Old-new | adj | Something newly revived, as a fashion, fad, or practice. |
| Old Noll | phr | Oliver Cromwell. |
| Old-one | n | A familiar joke. |
| Old-said | adj | Spoken of or said since long ago. |
| Old Salt | n | A sailor, seaman. |
| Old saw | n | A proverb or maxim; a saying old in a sense of wise, rather than old in fashion. |
| Old Saxon | n | A Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of low German. It belongs to the west Germanic branches and is closely related to the Anglo-Frisian languages. |
| Old school | n | Traditional attitudes. 2. people having such attitudes. |
| Old sight | n | A condition involving the loss of the eye's ability to focus to close objects. |
| Old School Tie | n | - symbol of class distinction, class. |
| Old-sighted | adj | The the sight of the elderly: dim and lacking sharpness. 2. sighted or observed long ago. 3. seeing things in an old-fashioned or traditional way. |
| Old-sightedness | n | The state or condition of being old-sighted; presbyopia. |
| Old song | n | A very low price. |
| Old Sooty | n | The Devil. |
| Old speak | n | Language from an earlier era. |
| Old spelling | n | Unstandardized spelling. |
| Old-standing | adj | That which has stood or existed long or for a long time. 2. longstanding, enduring, surviving. |
| Oldster | n | One who is no longer young. 2. a midshipman of four years standing. |
| Old stick | n | A man, chap, fellow, bloke, guy. |
| Old sweat | n | An old soldier. |
| Old thing | n | A term of endearment. |
| Oldtime | n | A time in the past. |
| Old-time (s) | adj | Belonging to, or characterized by of the olden or former times. |
| Old-time-like | adj | Old fashioned. |
| Old timer | n | One who belongs to an earlier time. 2. one whose experience goes back to old times. 3. one of long standing in a place or position. 4. a person of advanced years. 5. a old-fashioned person or thing. |
| Old-timiness | n | Old-fashioned character |
| Old-timey | adv | Old-fashioned, nostalgic, sentimentally in character. 2. recalling the past. |
| Old-town | adj | A person or one who holds a conservative thinking politically or in general. 2. the older part of the city or town contained within its moden limits. |
| Old-towner | n | An inhabitant of the old town. |
| Oldwards | adv | Having a tendency to the old. |
| Oldwards | adj | "At Oldwards" - at or according to the old ways or actions. |
| Old Wave | n | A style, fashion trend of a previous era. (See 'New Wave"). |
| Old wife | n | A prattling old woman; a gossip, a tell-tale. |
| Old-wive's tale | n | A trivial tale such as is told a by garrulous old woman. |
| Old woman | n | A woman advanced in years; hence: a person compared to an old woman. 2. a man of timid or fussy character and habits. 3. wife ('my old woman). 4. mother (vulgar). 5. a nap or cowl used to prevent a chimney from smoking. |
| Old womanish | adj | Resembling or somewhat characteristic of an old woman. |
| Old-womanlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of an old woman. |
| Old-womanliness | n | Of old-womanly qualities. |
| Old womanly | adv | In the manner of an old woman. |
| Old womanness | n | The state or quality of being an old woman. |
| Old World | adj | Of or pertaining to, belonging to or associated with the old world or ancient order of things. 2. characterized by by-gone times; old and quaint, often in an old mock style. 3. of or pertaining to Europe, Asia and Africa, as opposed to the Americas or Australia. 4. the eastern hemisphere. |
| Old-worldiness | n | State or quality relating to the Old World (European) life. 2. old-fashioned, outmoded view or practice. |
| Old-worldish | adj | Characteristic of an old woman. |
| Old-worldness | n | Quality of belonging to or associated with old times. |
| Old woman's tale | n | A foolish or unscientific tradition of belief; 'old wives tale'. |
| Old year | n | the year just ended or about to end; the previous year. |
| Old Year's Day | n | The last day of the year. |
| Old-young | adj | Old before its time, decrepit (perhaps, owing to illness). |
| Olfend | n | A camel |
| Old English | sb | English |
| On | prp | Position so as to be or remain supported by or suspended from. 2. so as to be attached to or unified with. 3. so as to be a covering or wrapping for. 4. in connection, association, or cooperation with; as a part or element of: to serve on a jury.
5. so as to be a supporting part, base, backing, etc., of: legs on a chair. |
| On | adv | In, into, or onto a position of being supported or attached: Sew the buttons on. 2. in, into, or onto a position of covering or wrapping. 3. fast to a thing, as for support: Hold on! 4. toward a place, point, activity, or object: to look on while others work. 5. forward, onward, or along, as in any course or process: further on. |
| On | adj | Operating or in use: The TV. was on. 2. taking place; occurring: there's a war on! 3. performing or broadcasting.4. behaving in a theatrical, lively, or ingratiating way: around close friends, one doesn't have to be on every minute. 5. functioning or performing at one's best. 6. scheduled or planned: anything on after supper? |
| On | phr | "A Little Bit On" - slightly drunk. |
| On | phr | "And So On" - and like what has gone before; etcetera. |
| On | phr | "Be Keen On" - be attracted to or enthusiastic about. |
| On | phr | "Be On a Good Thing" - have something advantageous, profitable. |
| On | phr | "Be On At" - nag or grumble at. |
| On | phr | "Be On To Something" - discover something that was concealed. |
| On | phr | "Be On to Somebody" - discover somebody's secret. |
| On | phr | "Bestow On" - confer on. 2. give, gift. |
| On | phr | "Draw On" - approach, come near. 2. lead to, bring about. 3. allure. 4. pull boots, etc. on. |
| On | phr | "Fall On" - come across; hap upon. 2. attack, sieze. |
| On | phr | "Follow On" - continue. |
| On | phr | "Have a Down On" - disapprove, show animosity to. |
| On | phr | "Have Nothing On" - be naked, or almost nothing. 2. have no proof of guilt about somebody's behavior. |
| On | phr | "Have Something on Somebody" - know something incriminating about somebody. |
| On | phr | "It's Not On" - it's not acceptable; it can't be done, I'm not happy with the situation. |
| On | phr | "It's Not On Today" - it not on the menu today; it's not available. |
| On | phr | "Live On" - survive, continue to live or exist. |
| On | phr | "Make One's Hair stand On End" - something that terrifies you. 2. |
| On | phr | "Off On" - sometimes, spasmodically. |
| On | phr | "On a Downer" - depressed, melancholy, gloomy; on a downbeat. |
| On | phr | "On Again" - resumed, restarted, recommenced. |
| On | phr | "On Again, Off Again" - uncertain, indecisive. |
| On | phr | "On a Go Slow" - industrial action by workers where they work according to regulation. 2. of workers: unusually slow in carrying out their work |
| On | phr | "On All Fours" - on one's knees, toes, hands on the ground. |
| On | phr | "On All Sides" - everywhere. 2. involving many or various people. 3. on either or every hand. |
| On | phr | "On and Off" - intermittently, now and then. |
| On | phr | "On and On" - at great length, so as to become tiresome; rambled on and on about. |
| On | phr | "On an Errand" -on a short journey on another's behalf to take a message, deliver some goods.. |
| On | phr | "On a Shoestring" - fig. living on a very small amount of money. 2. on a very tight or limited budget with little money or resources. |
| On | phr | "On a Stick" - skewered through the middle and served individually, in many cases warm, as a shish-kebab. |
| On | phr | "On Behalf Of (somebody)" - in support, and in representation of some other person. 2. in support of, to promote the benefit or interests of somebody. 3. a spokesman for. |
| On | phr | "On Bended Knee" - kneeling and asking very politely for a favor from someone. |
| On | phr | "On Business" on matters to do with one's profession or trade. |
| On | phr | "On Call" - to be available, ready to help those needing assistnace, ill, or in danger etc. |
| On | phr | "On Cloud Nine" - blissfully happy. |
| On | phr | "On Earth" - on land, or the surface of the earth. 2. the realm of eaerhly existence. 3. the temporal world. 4. among all possibilities. |
| On | phr | "On Edge" - nervous to the extreme. |
| On | phr | "On Either /Every Hand" - to left or right; everywhere, on all or every side. |
| On | phr | "On End" - upright, erect. |
| On | phr | "On End to End" - from one end to the other. |
| On | phr | "On Fast" - swiftly, speedily, with speed. |
| On | phr | "On Firm Footing" - in a particular state; having a particular state or relationship (with somebody). |
| On | phr | "On Foot" - walking, jogging, running, but not in a vehicle or on the back of an animal. 2. walking, contrasted with means of transport, that is without a vehicle. |
| On | phr | "On For Young and Old" - a commotion; out of control, (usually, a fight or argument). |
| On | phr | On Hand" - available, ready; in stock. |
| On | phr | "On Heat" - of animals receptive to mating. |
| On | phr | "On High" - In the sky or in heaven. 2. in a position of authority. |
| On | phr | "On Hold" - delayed, postponed, suspended. 2. waiting on a telephone call. 3. on reserve; being held foer someone . 4. pertaining to a telephone hold state. |
| On | phr | "On Ice" - an skating show performed on ice. 2. not to be used or not being used. 3. dead, (and in the freezer of a funeral home). |
| On | phr | "On Less Than" - lower or under a certain amount or figure. |
| On | phr | "On Light" - to shed light upon, enlighten, illuminous, cause to shine. |
| On | phr | "On One's Beam-ends" - in financial difficulties. |
| On | phr | "On One's Bones" - destitute, poor, needy. |
| On | phr | "On One's Deathbed" - close to death; moribund; at heavens door; one foot in the grave |
| On | phr | "On One's Hands" - being the one responsible, liable, accountable for some task or duty. 2. a bounty or reward, offered by a government, for the arrest of a criminal. |
| On | phr | "On One's Hands and Knees" - with knees, toes and hands on the ground; on all fours. |
| On | phr | "On One's Head" - assumed as a responsibility. 2. the responsibility is one's own and if there are unpleasant consequences that the person must endure them. 3. |
| On | phr | "On One's High Horse" - being self-righteous, preceding on the belief that one is more correct than others. 2. compare: 'get off one's high-horse'. |
| On | phr | "On One's Knees" - at the mercy of someone (or others). 2. completely exhausted. |
| On | phr | "One One's Mark" - awaiting the sound of the starters gun in a foot race. 2. the given time to open fire. |
| On | phr | "On One's Mind" - in one's thoughts, esp. persistently or recurrently. 2. causing worry or preoccupation. 3. in one's thoughts. 4. on the brain. |
| On | phr | "On One's Own" - alone by oneself, without the support of anyone else or anything further. 2. without the companionship or assistance of others. 3. without the guidance assistance of others. |
| On | phr | "On One's Ownsome" - alone, by oneself. |
| On | phr | "On One's Toes" - attentive, active, alert, busy. |
| On | phr | "On One's Uppers" - poor, destitute, needy. |
| On | phr | "On One's Watch" - during the period of time when one is in s position of authority. |
| On | phr | "On One's Way" - in a direct route what one intends to travel. 2. leaving, going about one's business. |
| On | phr | "On Over-ride" - quietly, keeping a low profile. |
| On | phr | "On Pins and Needles" - feeling sharp anticipation or anxiety: in a state of suspense. |
| On | phr | "On Sight" - recognize, know, upon seeing or meeting. 2. in climbing, without having previously seeing the terrain. |
| On | phr | "On Someone's Hammer" - very close behind someone, esp. when in a motor vehicle or on foot. |
| On | phr | "On Song" - working well. 2. in great shape or fine condition. |
| On | phr | "On That Score" - about that particular (aspect of a) matter, for that particular reason. |
| On | phr | "On the Anvil" - in a state of discussion, formation or preparation, not yet matured. |
| On | phr | "On the Back Burner" - of having a low priority. |
| On | phr | "On the Back Foot" - in a defensive posture. 2. off-balance. |
| On | phr | "On the Beam" - in the right direction; on course. |
| On | phr | "On the Beat" - engaged in a scam or swim. |
| On | phr | "On the Bench" - presiding as a judge in a court. 2. substituted for a special event; or waiting to be brouht on as a substitute. |
| On | phr | "On the Book" - of a debt written down. |
| On | phr | "On the Brain" - obsessively in mind. |
| On | phr | "On the Cheap" - cheaply, without paying the usual, or fair, price. |
| On | phr | "On the Come" - for compensation based on future success. |
| On | phr | "On the Dot of Noon" - promptly; as soon as asked, expected or required. |
| On | phr | "On the Downbeat" - somewhat depressed or melancholy; on a downer. 2.losing friends and/or poularity. |
| On | phr | "On the Drink"- drinking hard liquor; usu . over a prolonged period. |
| On | phr | "On the Edge" - in a dangerous or perilous position. 2. in a state of extreme excitement. |
| On | phr | "On the Edge of One's Seat" - in suspense, waiting anxiously or eagerly for some resolution. |
| On | phr | "On the Fly" - while in motion or progress. |
| On | phr | "On the Game" - working as a prostitute, or sex-worker, etc. |
| On | phr | "On the Go" - actively travelling, busy, moving often. 2. being started. |
| On | phr | "On the Ground" - on the spot, as 'boots on the ground'. 2. directly in an area of interest or active operation. 3. in the field. |
| On | phr | "On the Grounds" - for reasons based on something indicated. |
| On | phr | "On the Grounds that" - for reasons based on the fact or belief that. |
| On | phr | On the Heels of" - in pursuit of, close behind, closely following, in succession; immediately after. |
| On | phr | "On the Hoof of" - of cattle not yet slaughtered. |
| On | phr | "On the Hook" - in debt, obligated to pay or provide. 2. liable for, responsible or blameworthy. |
| On | phr | "On the Horn" - on the telephone |
| On | phr | "On the House" - free, complimentary, usually involving a publican offering a free drink. |
| On | phr | On the Ladder" - on the property ladder; entering the property market. |
| On | phr | "On the Latch"- of a door, closed but not locked and may be opened by lifting the latch. |
| On | phr | "On the Line" - put ar risk, as one's reputation; or a stake whilst gambling. 3. of a picture hung with its centre about level with the spectator's eye. 4. to be speaking on the telephone. |
| On | phr | "On the Lines Of" -resembling. |
| On | phr | "On the Look-out" - look out for, try to find, beware, take care. |
| On | phr | "On the Make" - trying to make a profit by charging excessively high prices. |
| On | phr | "On the Nail" - without delay. |
| On | phr | "On the Nose" - exact, precise, appropriate. 2. unimaginative, over-literal, lacking nuance. 3. smelly, stinkish, malodorous. |
| On | phr | "On the One Hand ... On the Others" - indication of contrasting facts, opinions, etc. 2. putting one side of the proposition. |
| On | phr | "On the Other Hand" - also, besides, moreover, furthermore, on the contrary. |
| On | phr | "On the Outs/Outer" - on unfriendly terms. |
| On | phr | "On the Pull" - seeking the intimate company of another person. |
| On | phr | "On the Rise" - increasing, becoming more or greater imn magnitude. 2. on the up. |
| On | phr | "On the Ropes" - in boxing forced against the ropes by the opponent's attack. 2. near defeat. |
| On | phr | "On the Run" - escaping, running away. 2hurrying about from place to place. |
| On | phr | "On the Same Wave-length" - to understand the ideas, thoughts or opinions. 2. to be aware of the position or ideas of others. |
| On | phr | "On these Lines" - of a particular kind. 2. in a particular style. 3. in a certain way; by a certain procedure or method. |
| On | phr | "On the Shelf " - (left on the shelf) unlikely to get married (because of attractiveness or old age). |
| On | phr | "On the Side" - as a sideline, in addition to one's main job or source of income, secretly; discreetly. |
| On | phr | "On the Spot?" - at that very moment; right away. 2. having to answer or decide without warning or preparation. 3. in a particular place. |
| On | phr | "On the Take" - corrupt, receiving bribes or other improper payments. |
| On | phr | "On the Strength Of " using something as as one's main support, argument, etc. |
| On | phr | "On the Top of the World" - delighted, ecstatic, exceptionally pleased. |
| On | phr | "On the Town." - living the high life. |
| On | phr | "On the Understanding that" - having made an agreement. 2. on the condition that. |
| On | phr | "On the Up" - becomr greater in number and magnitude. |
| On | phr | "On the Up and Up" - steadily improving. 2. honest, on the level. |
| On | phr | "On the Uptake" - understand or the ability to absorb new information, esp. in "quick on th uptake". |
| On | phr | "On the Wane" - declining, waning. |
| On | phr | On the Watch" - during the period of time when one is in a position of responsibility or authority. |
| On | phr | "On the Way" - coming, expected, on route. |
| On | phr | "On the Whole" - considering everything. |
| On | phr | "On the Wing" - while flying. |
| On | phr | "On Thin Ice" - in a risky situation. |
| On | phr | "On this Wise" - on this condition, action, state. |
| On | phr | "On Time" - punctual, punctually. |
| On | phr | "On to" - aware of the true nature, motive, or meaning of: I'm on to you. 2. realize the significance of. 3. of a position or state on or in contact with. |
| On | phr | "On Top of" - atop, 2. very close to, in time or outlook. |
| On | phr | "On Top of That" - in addition to something else. 2. as well as; besides. 3. full interested in, up to speed with. 4. in control of something. |
| On | phr | "On Top of the World" - delighted, ecstatic, exceptionally pleased, happy or satisfied. |
| On | phr | "On Wheels" - having one's own transport. 2. going smoothly. |
| On | phr | "Smile On" - to look favorably upon; to effect positively. |
| On | phr | "Speak On" - speak about, lecture on. |
| On | phr | "Tell On" - inform on. |
| On | phr | "To Lay Hold On" - to seize, grab. |
| On | phr | "Think On" - think about deeply, consider carefully. |
| On | phr | "Work On" - physical or mentally apply oneself to a task. |
| On | phr | "You're On" - I accept, I agree. |
| On and off | adv | Putting or causing something to start and stop. 2. to be of intermittent action. 3. a putting on and taking off. |
| On-and-off | vb | To leap on and off. |
| On-and-offish | adj | Inclined to be of intermittent action or on and off. 2. somewhat changing in mood, temperament and progress. |
| On-become | vb | To befall, happen, meet. |
| On-bethink | vb | To consider. |
| On-bide | vb | To abide, remain, stay on. |
| On-board | vb | To be on a ship, place etc. 2. to be in support of an others stance, position or proposal. |
| Onboarding | n | (Bbusiness) the process of bringing a new employee on board, incorporating training and orientation. |
| On-bring | vb | To usher in; induce, apply, install. |
| On-bringing | n | A bringing on; an oncome, inducing, induction. 2. pl. - onbringings. |
| On-bringing | adj | Bringing on, initiated. |
| Once-born | adj | Of someone whose attitude to life has retained a child-life simplicity a straight forwardness. |
| On-bow | vb | To submit yield. |
| Oncall | n | Ready, available to attend some needing help. |
| Once | adv | One time, ever, formerly, one and only one time, during some period in the past. 2. in mathematics - multiplied by one: indicating that a number is multiplied by one. |
| Once | conj | As soon as, when; after. |
| Once | phr | "All at Once" - suddenly; without warning. 2. all together. |
| Once | phr | "At Once" - at the same time, simultaneously, or immediately. |
| Once | phr | "For Once" - for one time(and very unusually). 2. on this or that occasion even if at no other. |
| Once | phr | "Give Somebody the Once Over" - quickly examine or assess somebody or something. |
| Once | phr | "Once Again" - once more, another time, one more time. |
| Once | phr | "Once and For All" - finally; now and for this time onwards. 2. in a final and conclusive manner, esp so as to end hesitation or uncertainty. |
| Once | phr | "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" - be extra cautious after having an unpleasant experience. |
| Once | phr | "Once For All" - always together, forever. |
| Once | phr | "Once in a Blue Moon" - very rarely; on rare occasions; very seldom. |
| Once | phr | "Once in a Lifetime" - only likely to take place or occur only once in a lifetime. |
| Once | phr | "Once in a While" - at intervals; occasionally. |
| Once | phr | "Once More" - again, encore. |
| Once | phr | "Once Off" - happening only once. |
| Once | phr | "Once or Twice" - a few times; occasionally. |
| Once | phr | "Once Seen Never Forgotten" - memorable because of beauty, ugliness, strangeness. |
| Once | phr | "Once Upon a Time" - at some time in the remote past. 2. at some vague time in the past. 3. formerly. |
| Once | phr | "Once You Go Black, Your Never Go Backwards" - |
| Once | phr | "on this ocassion only.This Once" - |
| Once-born | adj | Of someone whose attitude to life has retained a child-life simplicity a straight forwardness. |
| Onceness | n | The fact of happening only once or all at once. |
| Once-over | n | A glance, an appraising or inviting glance, a rapid inspection, a quick assessment, as in " give it the once over." |
| Oncer | n | One who, or that which, does a particular thing. 2. things that occur only once, one off, not repeated. |
| On-come | n | Something that comes upon one: a calamity, attack of disease. 2. an attack, invasion, an insurrection. 3. a fall of, or coming on of rain, snow. |
| On-coming | n | An advance, a coming, an approach, access. |
| On-coming | adj | Advancing, approaching, coming near. 2. ready to be sociable, friendly, welcoming, forthcoming, sympathetic. |
| Onde | n | A strong feeling against a person, animus, spite, ill-will, envy. 2. a strong desire, longing. 3. emotion. 4. breath. |
| Onde | vb | To sniff, smell. |
| Ondfull | adj | spiteful, envious. |
| On-draw | n | To draw on. |
| One | adj | Being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather than two or more; a single: one woman; one nation; one piece of cake. 2. being a person, thing, or individual instance or member of a number, kind, group, or category indicated: one member of. 3. existing, acting, or considered as a single unit, entity, or individual. 4. of the same or having a single kind, nature, or condition. 5. noting some indefinite day or time in the future: one day. |
| One | n | The first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity; a symbol of this number. 2. a single person or thing: 3. a die face or a domino face having one pip. 4. a one-dollar bill: to change a five-dollar bill for five ones. |
| One | vb | To make into one; unite. 2. to agree, come to terms, |
| One | prn | A person or thing of a number or kind indicated or understood: one of the English poets. 2. (in certain pronominal combinations) a person unless definitely specified otherwise: every one. 3. (with a defining clause or other qualifying words) a person or a personified being or agency: the evil one. 4. any person indefinitely; anyone: as good as one would desire. 5. chiefly British . (used as a substitute for the pronoun I): father had been ailing for many months, and one should have realized. |
| One | phr | "After One" - after one and the same fashion; a la. |
| One | phr | "All One" - for things already mentioned. |
| One | phr | "At One" - in a state of agreement or concord; of one opinion. 2. united in thought or feeling; attuned: at one with himself. |
| One | phr | "Be All One to Somebody" - not matter to somebody. |
| One | phr | "Be At One With" - be in agreement, harmony with. |
| One | phr | "Become or be Made One" - be united (in marriage) |
| One | phr | "Be One in the Eye For Someone" -to represent an unexpected and unwelcome defeat. |
| One | phr | "Be One Up on Somebody" - have an advantage, lead over somebody. |
| One | phr | "(Between) One or Other" - whether viewed one way or another, anyhow or altogether. 2. a choice between one thing or the other, as a choice between marriage or travel. |
| One | phr | "By One and One" - singly, one at a time; entirely by oneself. |
| One | phr | "Ever In One" - continually, perpetually. |
| One | phr | "For One Thing" - as a single consideration, ignoring others. |
| One | phr | "Get It in One" - to succeed at first attempt. |
| One | phr | "Give Somebody a Four-penny One" - hit somebody with a fist. |
| One | phr | "Go One Better" - improve on something done by somebody else. |
| One | phr | "Got It One" - understood something immediately. |
| One | phr | "Have One Too Many" - to be too drunk; heavily intoxicated. |
| One | phr | "He Was One to Many for Me" - he was a little too clever for me, he outwitted me. |
| One | phr | "In One" - In a single whole or union. |
| One | phr | "Make One's Blood Run Cold" - horrify. |
| One | phr | "New One On Somebody" - thing of which someone was formerly unaware. |
| One | phr | "One After Another" - consecutively and in quick or very swift progression |
| One | phr | "One and All" - everyone individually and jointly; everybody (the phrase is a motto for Cornishmen). 2. one and all, everyone: they came, one and all. |
| One | phr | "One and One" - singly, one at a time; one after another. |
| One | phr | "One and Only" - one's sweetheart, special person in someone life, one and only love, soul-mate. 3. unique something or someone; absolutely only. |
| One | phr | "One and the Other" - reference severally to two things previously named. 2. formerly and latter named: 'the one and the other'). |
| One | phr | "One and the Same" - of the same one and only; identical. |
| One | phr | "One Another" - used of a reciprocal relationship among groups of two or more person or things; see 'each other'. |
| One | phr | "One At a Time" - in individual succession; with each person or thing following another in order. |
| One | phr | "One by One" - singly; successively. 2. one at a time (in a series). |
| One | phr | "One Can Run, But One Can't Hide" - sometimes there's no solution or positive outcome, and there nothing one can do but face the consequences. |
| One | phr | "One Day" - at some undefined time, often but not necessarily into the future. |
| One | phr | "One Fell (fall) Swoop" - suddenly; in a single action. |
| One | phr | "One For All, All for One" - each individual should act for the benefit of the group, and the group should act for the benefit of the individual. |
| One | phr | "One For Doing (Something) - one who likes, or is strongly in favor or doing something. 2. one who does something whenever he can. |
| One | phr | "One for the Road" - a last drink before leaving. |
| One | phr | "One In the Eye For" - an event or achievement which is unpleasant, esp. for those who consider it impossible or not welcomed. |
| One | phr | "One for All, All for One" - used to suggest that the act, sequence of events is too obvious to need recounting. |
| One | phr | "One For Doing Something" - somebody who likes, or strongly in favour of, (doing). 2. one who does something often or whenever he can. |
| One | phr | "One for One" - denoting a situation, arrangement, etc. in which one thing corresponds to another. |
| One | phr | "One for the Book" - a notable, extraordinary or incredible action, event, saying. |
| One | phr | "One for the Road" - a final drink for the road. |
| One | phr | "One Good Thing Leads to Another" - |
| One | phr | "One in the Eye" - suffer a setback, serious blow, defeat for someone. |
| One | phr | "One of a Kind " - unique, of only one kind. 2. a single example of something, made occurring only once; a one-off. |
| One | phr | "One of These Days" - some day, at an undefined time in the future. |
| One | phr | "One of Those Days" - a bad day where nothing goes right. 2. a day full of mishaps, when one has more than they can cope with. |
| One | phr | "One of Those Things" - something inevitable or inexplicable. 2. a fact or happening that one cannot do anything about; unavoidable. |
| One | phr | "One on One" - man to man; person to person; head to head; face to face. 2. contesting with an opponent individually. 3. go on on one with somebody. |
| One | phr | "(Between) One or Other" - whether viewed one way or another, anyhow or altogether. 2. a choice between one thing or the other, as a choice between marriage or travel. |
| One | phr | "One or Two" - a few; not many. |
| One | phr | "One Out of the Box" - to be unexpectedly superb. |
| One | phr | "One's Bark is Worse, than One's Bite" - of a threatening bark by a dog, that is often relatively harmless. 2. fig. of a person who makes a lot of noise, by is a bit of a softie. |
| One | phr | "One's Blood Runs Cold" - to terrify, fill with terror, be very much afraid. |
| One | phr | "One's Got to Do, What One's Got to Do" - a person must do what he or she feels obliged to do. |
| One | phr | "One Step Ahead" - maintaining a slight advantage; continuing. |
| One | phr | "One Step at a Time" - slowly and steadily without running. |
| One | phr | "One Step Forward, Two Steps Backwards" - a situation in which progress is hindered by adverse or negative developments. |
| One | phr | "One Strike and You're Out" - a situation where you have only one chance or opportunity to prove your worth. |
| One | phr | "One Swallow Does not Make a Summer" -one instance or event (the arrival of the first swallow of the summer) does not indicate a trend. |
| One | phr | "One That Got Away" - people who in contrast to others, escape death, danger, matrimony, indoctrination. |
| One | phr | "One Thing and Another" - various events, items, matters, tasks, topics. |
| One | phr | "One to One" - denoting or referring to a situation in which two parties come into direct contact or opposition. |
| One | phr | "One Too Many" - too much to drink. |
| One | phr | "One Up" - scoring one point more than an opponent. 2. to have a particular or psychological advantage over another. |
| One | phr | "One Up For" - somebody acted skilfully, wisely, etc. |
| One | phr | "One Up, One Down" - in Britain the layout of older and traditional homes with one room upstairs, and one room downstairs. |
| One | phr | "One Way or Another" - by some some means or other, some method, somehow, etc. |
| One | phr | "One Way or Another" - whichever of two possible events happen with either of two possible reactions. 2. either way; with either of two possible judgements. |
| One | phr | "One-way Street" - a street allowing movement or travel in one direction. 2. a flow of activity in one direction. |
| One | phr | One With (Somebody/Something)" - forming an integral or indistinguishable part. 2. united with |
| One | phr | "One Word is Law" - that one, someone must be obeyed. |
| One | phr | "One Your Mark, Get Set, Go" (ready, steady, go!) - a three-command start when foot-racing: (1)on your spot, lane; (2) get to a starting position; (3) take off. |
| One | phr | "There Is One Above" - a reference to the deity. |
| One | phr | "You Are a One!" - you are an amusing, cheeky, outrageous. 2. you are admired, considered outstanding. 3. you are the one I like, support, love. |
| One | prn | "One another" - used of a reciprocal relationship among groups of two or more person or things; each other. |
| One-armed | adj | Having one arm. |
| Oneberry | n | The herb Paris : "Paris quadrifolia" - hackberry |
| One day | adv | On an unspecified day. 2. at some undefined time. 3. often but not necessarily in the future. |
| One-edged | adj | - having one sharp edge, or singular edge. |
| One-ended | adj | Having only one end or exit. |
| One-eyed | adj | Having sight in one eye only; blind in one eye. 2. dishonest. 3. narrow in outlook, prejudicial, narrow-minded. 4. fig. (derogatory): wanting in an essential quality: unfair. |
| One-eyedness | n | The attitude of being narrow in outlook, bias, prejudice, short-sighted (fig), parochial. |
| One flesh | n | Intimately united, esp. by making love. |
| One-fold | adj | Consisting of only one fold. 2. simple in character, single-minded, free from duplicity. |
| Onefoldness | n | Simpleness, unity, simplicity. |
| One-for-one | adj | Denoting a situation, arrangement etc., in which one thing corresponds to, or issued or exchanged for, each of a set of things. |
| One-handed | adj | Having only one hand, or only one capable of use. 2. used, worked or performed with only one hand. |
| One-head | n | Consisting of being one, a onehood. 2, gathered in one union, a community, communion. 3. oneness of spirit or feeling, unity, agreement, concord, accord. |
| One-hit-wonder | n | In the pop music world, a singer, musician, or group known mainly for a oneoff hit success. |
| Onehood | n | Unity, agreement. |
| One-horse town | n | A small, rural town. 2. a town where nothing exciting or important happens. 3. small-scale, petty happening. |
| Oneing | vb | Making into one; joining in one, to unite, fuse. |
| Oneish | adj | Any time close to one o'clock. |
| One-legged | adj | Having only one leg. |
| One-liner | n | A headline consisting of one short expression. 2. a very short joke or witty expression. 3. a brief remark, meant to be humorous, clever, critical etc., often used by a comedian in his routine or act. |
| Oneliness | n | The state of being one or single. |
| One-man | adj | Involving, done or operated by only one man. |
| One-man show | n | An entertainer who works alone but provides a variety of entertainment. 2. colloquially, someone who can carry out or perform various tasks. |
| One-minded | adj | Having a strong, often unchangeable, opinion about something or somebody. |
| Onemost | n | "The Most One" -- absolutely the only one, applied to God. |
| Oneness | n | State or fact of being one or undivided. 2. the state of being one undivided. 3. singleness; sameness. 4. quality of being unique(ness). 5. unity of opinion. identity, sameness. |
| One-nighter | n | A guest or visitor that stays overnight. 2. a small traveling bag large enough to hold enough clothes and accessories for a one night stay. |
| One-night stand | n | A casual sexual encounter lasting only one night. 2. a musical or theatrical show performed on one occasion only |
| One-of-a-kind | adj | Unique, nonpareil, extraordinary. |
| One-off | n | Single example, something not repeated, a prototype. 2. made, happening or done as only one; not repeated.. |
| One-only | n | A person or thing unique or very remarkable; esp. a person most eminent with or expert in or at something |
| One-on-one | adj | Direct communication between two people. 2. the state of being one or undivided. |
| Oner | n | (Slang): a person or thing of a unique kind; a prime one. 2. a heavy blow. 3. a person or thing in some way denoted or characterized by the number one. 4. a remarkable person or thing. |
| One-roomed | adj | Consisting of one room. |
| Oneself | prn | A person's self, himself or herself (meaning or including the speaker or writer. 2. person's self (used for emphasis or reflexively); one the reflexive form of one: one often hurts oneself accidentally; 2. (intensifier): one doesn't do that (to)oneself 3. (preceded by a copula) one's normal or usual self: one doesn't feel oneself after such an experience. |
| Oneself | phr | "Be Oneself" - to be in one's normal state of mind or physical condition. 2. to be unaffected and sincere: not putting on airs. |
| Oneself | phr | "Beside Oneself" - distraught, under great emotional senses. 2. out of one's wits or senses. |
| Oneself | phr | "Burn Oneself Out" - to be forced to stop working having become ill or very tired from working too hard. |
| Oneself | phr | "By Oneself"- without a companion; without no else present, alone. 2. through one's own efforts or without the help of no-one else; unaided: to become wealthy or successful by one own self or effort. 3. unaided, or alone. |
| Oneself | phr | "Come to Oneself" - also, come to; to regain consciousness. 2. to regain one's self-possession; come to one's senses; also, come to one's self. 3. to begin acting and thinking like one's normal or usual self. |
| Oneself | phr | "Do Oneself In" - to kill oneself; to suicide. |
| Oneself | phr | "Fall all Over (oneself)" - fig. to rush eagerly and awkwardly to do something. |
| Onself | phr | "Feel like Oneself" - to perceive through physical sensation of touch: smoothness, coldness, (sharp) pain. |
| Oneself | phr | "Find Oneself" - to accept and make use of one's personality, abilities and situation, as 'one going to University to find one's self. |
| Oneself | phr | "Forget Oneself" - to forget one's manners or training, such as one's table manners. |
| Oneself | phr | "Full of Oneself" - be conceited, self-important, insensitive (to the feeling of others). |
| Oneself | phr | Get a grip on (oneself) - take hold of control of one's emotions. |
| Oneself | phr | "Give of Oneself" - to be ready and willing to support others in times of difficulty and misfortune. |
| Oneself | phr | "Give (oneself) Away" - to reveal one's intentions, plans and strategy in certain matters and situations. |
| Oneself | phr | "Give Oneself Up" - to surrender someone or something; fig. to devote oneself to something or someone. |
| Oneself | phr | "Have to Oneself" - to have, get or take something. |
| Oneself | phr | "Hear Oneself Think" - to be able to think in noisy or distracting conditions or situations; ( usually expressed in the negative) |
| Oneself | phr | "Help Oneself" - (usu. "Not help oneself" - abstain or not do something that will help or improve one's situation. |
| Oneself | phr | "Keep to Oneself" - shun the company of others, remain aloof. 2. withhold information or knowledge. |
| Oneself | phr | "Knock Oneself Out" - to make a great effort to do something for someone. |
| Oneself | phr | "Law unto Oneself" - someone who rejects conventional or the usual rules of law. |
| Oneself | phr | "Leave or Lay (oneself) Open" - fig. to invite criticism or joking about oneself; to fail to protect oneself from criticism or complaint. |
| Oneself | phr | "Let (oneself) Go" - fail to take care of one's appearance. 2. act in a carefree and, sometimes, uninhibited manner. |
| Oneself | phr | "Live with (Oneself)" - endure something that is unpleasant, often perpetrate by one on another. |
| Oneself | phr | "Lose Oneself in" - become engrossed in something. |
| Oneself | phr | "Make a Laughing Stock of Oneself" - make oneself the source of ridicule or laughter; to do something that invites ridicule. |
| Oneself | phr | "Make a Name for Oneself" - become well or widely known. 2. earn a good reputation. |
| Oneself | phr | "Make a Pig of Oneself"- overeat greedily. |
| Oneself | phr | "Make Oneself at Home" - be as comfortable or relaxed as if one were in their own home. |
| Oneself | phr | "Pride Oneself On" - take pride in. |
| Oneself | phr | "Pull Oneself Together" - to regain composure; regain one's emotional control. |
| Oneself | phr | "Pull Oneself Up" - to refrain or stop one's actions or behavior to avoid unsatisfactory implications or outcomes. |
| Oneself | phr | "Put Oneself Out There" - to make one known to others for various reasons. 2. (of a woman): to make it known that one is available for sex |
| Oneself | phr | "Shoot Oneself in the Foot" - fig. to make life difficult for one' self; to be the author of one's own misfortune . |
| Oneself | phr | "Spread Oneself too Thinly"- to attempt to do more than is feasible in the available time. |
| Oneself | phr | "Take it Upon Oneself" - to do something on one's own even, or making it's one's business to do something, even if it means interfering in something that does not directly concerns you. |
| Oneself | phr | "Throw Oneself at Somebody" - try to gain somebody's affection or love by openly demonstrating one's affection for him or her. |
| Oneself | phr | "Tie Oneself in Knots" - to cause one's self to be confused and unable to find a solution to a problem. |
| Oneship | n | Condition of being one or alone; oneness. |
| One-shop-stop | n | A shop supplying all a customer's need within a range of goods and services. |
| One-shot | adj | achieved with a single attempt or action. 2. done, produce or occurring only once. |
| One-sided | adj | Dealing with one side of a question or matter; considering but one side of a dispute; partial or unfair . 2. with one party, contestant, side, etc., vastly superior. 2. unequal, unbalanced, as "a one-sided fight" 3. existing or occurring on one side only. 4. having but one side, or but one developed or finished side. 5. having one side longer or more developed than the other. |
| One-sided love | n | Unrequited love, love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such. 2. feeling of falling in love alone. 3. loving someone without the satisfaction of receiving love in return. |
| One-sidedly | adv | In a one-sided manner. |
| One-sidedness | n | The state or condition of being one-sided. |
| One-step | n | A vigorous style of foxtrot in duple time. |
| Oneth | n | In compounds with 20. 30. 40 etc; a fractional part of an integer ending in one. |
| Oneth | adj | First. |
| One-time | adj | Formerly; former, quondam, erstwhile, something at one time, one-while. 2. pertaining to a single occasion. 3. once simultaneously. |
| One-toed | adj | Having one toe only. |
| One-to-one | adj | Personal of a relationship between two people. 2. matching of each member of one set with a member of another set. |
| One-two | n | The old one-two: in boxing the delivery of two punches in quick succession. |
| One-up | vb | To maintain or establish a psychological advantage. 2. having a particular advantage advantage. |
| One-up-man | n | Exponent of oneupmanship or maintaining psychological advantage. |
| One-up-manship | n | The art as practiced of being one up or having some kind of advantage over another. |
| One-up-ness | n | The state of being one up over someone. |
| One-way | adj | Allowing movement or travel in one direction only. |
| One-way street | n | A road or thoroughfare where vehicles can travel only in one direction. |
| One-where | adv | in one place; as opposed to another. 2. in place only. |
| One-while | adv | One time or sometime. |
| One-woman man | n | Pertaining to one woman only; spec. being loving, loyal, faithful, trustworthy to one woman only- antonym: "one-man woman. 2. a monogamist. |
| One-worded | adj | A statement of one word only. |
| One-world | adj | Relating to or holding the view that the world inhabitants are interdepedent and should behave accordingly. |
| One worlder | n | Pertaining to or holding the view (one-worldliness) that there is only one world, ot that the world's inhabitants are or should be united and live in harmony |
| On-fall | n | An attack or onset of a disease. 2. a plague. 3. calamity. 4. an attack, assault, onslaught. 4. chance encounter 5. a fall of rain or snow. 6. fall of evening; dusk, twilight, sunset. |
| Onfang | vb | To receive, take in, accept with the mind. 2. understand, conceive in a particular way. 3. to conceive an offspring. 4. to undertake. |
| Onfast | adv | Near, close, fast by. 2. on faste: swiftly, speedily, with speed. |
| On-field | adj | That which takes place on a sporting field. |
| On-fire | adj | Ablaze, burning; being burned by fire. 2. achieving good results at a rapid rate. |
| Onflow | n | The act or fact of flowing on. 2. an onward flow of water; thoughts, actions. |
| Ongin | vb | To begin, start, commence, set out, take off. |
| On-go | n | Progress, advancement, headway, betterment. |
| On-go | vb | To progress, go forward, advance, go on, make headway. |
| On-goer | n | A progressive, entrepreneur, innovator. |
| On-going | adj | A matter or affair not concluded, but still progressing, current. 2. going on, continuing, that in progress, proceeding, developing |
| Ongoingly | adv | In a progressing or contuing manner. |
| Ongoingness | n | Continuation; the condition of being ongoing. |
| On-heave | vb | To lift, raise up. |
| On-hold | adj | Delayed, suspended, postponed. 2. waiting on a telephone call. 3. on reserve; being held for someone. 4. pertaining to a telephone hold state. |
| Onlay | vb | A placing up, putting upon or over. |
| Onlepy | adj | Sole, single, one with, solitary, only, simply. |
| Onlepy | n | Single one, only one, darling, sweetheart, nubile, unmarried one, maiden |
| Onlepihood | n | State of being single, sole, solitary, unmarried. 2. singleness, solitarism, maidenhood. |
| Onlihood | n | Solitude. 2. unity, oneness, onelihood. |
| On-line | adj | In computing: (of equipment or process)directly controlled or connected to a central processor. |
| On-line | adv | Of a computer processor while thus controlled or connected. |
| Onliness | n | The fact or condition of being alone. 2. fact or condition of being the only one of its kindness; uniquenes; singularity. 3. solitariness, solitude. |
| On-look | vb | To look on, view, witness, see |
| On-looker | n | A spectator, someone who looks on or watches without being involved or participating. 2. a bystander, viewer; a non-participatory observer. |
| Onlooking | adj | That looks on; looks at something. |
| Only | adv | Without others or anything further; alone; solely; exclusively: for your eyes only. 2. no more than: I cook only on weekends. 3. as recently as, not earlier than: he read that article only yesterday. 4. in the final outcome or decision: you will only regret your harsh words to me. 4. without anyone or anything else being included; alone; only a genius can do that 6. merely or just: it's only Henry. 7. no more or no greater than: we met only an hour ago. 8. (intensifier): it was only dreadful (Irish English.) 9. used in conditional clauses introduced by if to emphasize the impossibility of the condition ever being fulfilled: if I had only known. |
| Only | adj | O.E. ænlic, anlic "only, unique, solitary," lit. "one-like," from an "one" (see one) + -lic "-ly." Distinction of only and alone (now usually in ref. to emotional states) is unusual; in many languages the same word serves for both. 2. Being the single one or the relatively few of the kind or number: this is the only book I have. 3. having no sibling or no sibling of the same sex: an only sibling. 4. single in superiority or distinction; unique; the best, peerless, as in the one and only Babe Ruth. 4. solitary, lone; peerless; one and only, unique. |
| Only | conj | But (introducing a single restriction, restraining circumstance, or the like); however: used to introduce an exception or condition: play outside: only don't go into the street 2. older use- except; but: only for him you would not be here. 3. only too, 4. as a matter of fact; extremely: I am only too glad to go. 5. unfortunately; very likely. |
| Only | phr | "If Only" - an expression used to introduce a wish, esp. one felt to be unrealizable. 2. never.. except when. |
| Only | phr | "Only But, But Only" - only, merely, exceptionally. |
| Only | phr | "Only Fair" - simply, barely, just. 2. no more than fair. |
| Only | phr | "Only If" - I wish that ....so |
| Only | phr | "Only Not" - all but, little else than. |
| Only | phr | "Only That" - with the exception that; except that, were it not that; but for the fact that. |
| Only | phr | "Only to Find That" - wwith the sole result being a disappointment, inconvenience, discomfort. |
| Only | phr | "Only Too" - (intensifier): he was only too pleased to help. 2. most regrettably (esp in the phrase 'only too true'). 3. very/ |
| Only | phr | "Only Too Aware of" aware of something to a degree that the facts and cicumstances have made unavoidable. |
| Only | phr | "Only Too Glad" - very glad; especially glad etc; more glad than to do something. |
| Only | phr | "Only Too Well" - to a greater degree that is right, pleasant or good for oneself or others. |
| Only-begotten | adj | Begotten as an only child. |
| Only-begetter | n | The sole originator or inspirer of something. 2. only-born. |
| Only-born | adj | Begotten as an only child |
| Only child | n | The sole child of one's parents, the implication only being that such a child is indulged or deprived of companionship. |
| Only-childness | n | State of being an only child. |
| On-off | adj | Of a switch or like that turns something on and off or off and on. 2. a situation of uncertainty, which changes or starts and stops with frequently, as in an 'off-on love-affair. |
| On-putting | adj | Drawing to, encouraging, accepting. |
| Onrese | vb | To rush, act quickly, to on rush. 2. make contact, meet. |
| Onrise | vb | To rise up. |
| On-running | adj | Continuing. |
| Onrush | n | A surging rush forward. |
| On rushing | adj | Rushing or flowing forward. 2. fig. attacking, storming. |
| Onrushness | n | The act of rushing, impetuosity, rashness. |
| Onsaw | n | A charge against a person. 2. an accusation, reproach, opprobrious language. |
| Onseek | vb | To seek something or require something. 2. to attack, confront. |
| Onsend | n | Something sent or inflicted by God upon the people. 2. a visitation |
| Onsene | n | Look, aspect, countenance, visage. |
| Onset | n | A place of sitting or settling. 2. a stall, fold with beasts. 3. dwelling place. |
| Onshore | adv | off the wind directed or moving towards the shore. 2. existing or occurring on the shore. 3. to, towards, on or the shore. |
| Onside | adj | One's proper side; the opposite of off. |
| Onsight | n | The action or faculty of looking forward, or into the future. 2. upon seeing |
| Onsight | adj | Without having previously seen the terrain. |
| Onsight | adv | Immediately when sighted. 2. immediately something has come to one's attention. |
| Onslay | vb | To strike on, make an assault upon. |
| On-standby | n | A state of readiness for action. |
| On-stead | n | A farmhouse including the surrounding buildings. |
| On-stell | vb | To institute, establish, impose. |
| On-stream | adv | Of an industrial plant and resources, etc. 2. in tr into productive or useful operation. 2. produced, done or occurring in the course of normal production. |
| On-street | adj | In reference to parking of vehicles on the street. |
| On-sweep | vb | To sweep on. |
| On-take | vb | Take on, assume, behave. |
| On-tend | vb | To kindle, light, inflame, enflame. |
| On-till | vb | O.E tilian (till): to labour for wages, or earn money by labour. 2. al'.o 'on-telye" |
| Onto | prep | Into a position on an object or surface. 2. to an area that you think of as a surface: a spectator ran onto the field.
3. into a bus, train, ship, or aircraft etc. 4. into a position in which you are resting or supporting yourself on a particular part of your body. 5. used for saying that something is added to a list, statement, word etc. 6. used for saying in which direction a building, room, door, or window faces, or where it leads to. NB: Usage:Onto is now generally accepted as a word in its own right. On to is still used, however, where on is considered to be part of the verb: he moved on to a different town as contrasted with he jumped onto the stage |
| Onto | phr | "Be Onto a Good Thing" ( or be onto a winner.) - be successful, have a good outcome. |
| Onto | phr | "Be Onto Someone" - to speak to someone in order to complain or ask something. 2. to have found out that a particular person was involved in a crime, as the police were onto him. |
| Onto | phr | "Be Onto Something" - to have information that will help to you make an important discovery: you could be onto something here. |
| Onwald | n | Power, rule, authority. |
| Onwald | vb | To bring one under power of, rule, subdue. |
| Onward | adv | Forward in time or order or degree; "from that time forth"; forth, forward. 2: in a forward direction; ahead, onwards, forward, forwards, forrader. 3. toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward(s). |
| Onward | adj | Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc. 2. advanced in a forward direction or toward an end. |
| Onwarding | n | Prompting to move onwards or advancing. |
| Onwardling | n | A small portion or length of time. |
| Onwardly | adj | Progressive. |
| Onwardly | adv | With an onward motion. |
| Onwardness | n | State or condition of moving onward or advancing. 2. advancement, progress, progression. |
| Onwards | adv | See onward. |
| Onwards | phr | "Onwards Off" - on towards, approaching, nearby. |
| Onwhelm | vb | Overwhelm. |
| On-wield | n | Power, might, rule, authority, subduction; onwald. |
| On-willed | adj | Self-willed, stubborn, obstinate, persistent, desirous, importunate. |
| On-writing | n | That which is written, inscribed, engraved on something. 2. inscription, engraving, chiselling. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Ooze | n | From Old English wōs: sap, juice, froth, influenced by O.E. wase: mire, dirt. (plural oozes). 2. potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning. 3. secretion, humour. 4. a thick often unpleasant liquid; muck. |
| Ooze | vb | To be secreted or slowly leak. 2. to bury or embed in ooze. 3.(figuratively) To give off a sense of (something). |
| Ooze | n | Old English wāse 'mud, mire, slime'. 1. soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water. 2. a piece of soft, wet, pliable turf. 3. the liquor of a tanning vat. |
| Ooze | phr | "Ooze Out" - of a thick liuid coming out slowly. |
| Oozy | adj | Containing, composed, or like mud or ooze. 2. slimy. 3. slowly leaking, gently dripping. |
| Ooziness | n | The state or quanlity of being oozy. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Open | adj | Not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate. 2. (of a door, gate, window sash, or the like) set so as to permit passage through the opening it can be used to close. 3. having no means of closing or barring. 4. having the interior immediately accessible, as a box with the lid raised or a drawer that is pulled out. 5. relatively free of obstructions to sight, movement, or internal arrangement: an open floor plan. |
| Open | vb | To move (a door, window sash, etc.) from a shut or closed position so as to admit of passage. 2. to render (a doorway, gateway, window, etc.) unobstructed by moving a door, window sash, etc., away from it. 3. to render the interior of (a box, drawer, etc.) readily accessible. 4. to clear (a passage, channel, etc.) of obstructions. 5. to clear (areas or passages in the body). 6. to become open, as a door, building, box, or enclosure. 7. to afford access: a door that opens into a garden. 8. to have an opening, passage, or outlet. 9. (of a building, theater, etc.) to open its doors to the public: The museum opens at one o'clock. 10. to begin a session or term, as a school. |
| Open | n | An open or clear space. 2. the open air. 3. the open water, as of the sea. 4. an opening or aperture. 5. an opening or opportunity. |
| Open | n | "The Open" - open spce, not treed or enclosed. 2. free of trees, or/and vegetation. 3. open water, the sea, open air. |
| Open | phr | "Be Out In the Open" - to start being frank. |
| Open | phr | "Blow Something Wide Open" - reveal a secret. |
| Open | phr | "Bring Something (out) into the Open" - make everybody aware of something. |
| Open | phr | "Come Out Into the Open" - bring into the open. 2. reveal one's position, views. |
| Open | phr | "Have an Open Mind" - to be willing to assess evidence on its merits and without prejudice. |
| Open | phr | "In the Open" - outside; in public view; openly. 2. clearly, plainly. |
| Open | phr | "Keep One's Ears Open" - be on the outlook for useful information. |
| Open | phr | "Keep One's Mind Open" - be receptive to new ideas. |
| Open | phr | "Keep Open House" -always make casual visitors welcome. |
| Open | phr | "Lay Oneself Open" - put oneself in a vulnerable position. |
| Open | phr | "Lay Open" - bare, explain, reveal, explore. |
| Open | phr | "Leave Oneself Wide Open" - to act in such a way that one's opponents will find much which can be easily criticized |
| Open | phr | "Leave the Door Open" - issue a standing invitation for the resumption of some negotiations. |
| Open | phr | "Like an Open Book" - something that's easily understood, comprehended, unconcealed. |
| Open | phr | "Not Open One's Lips" - remain silent, tacitur,not comment on. |
| Open | phr | "Open and Shut" - a legal or other matter, which there should be no doubt or argument because all the evidence points to only one verdict or conclusion.simple. 2. straightforward. 3. alternately sunny and cloudy condition. |
| Open | phr | "Open as the Day" - totally open. |
| Open | phr | "Open Fire" - begin firing at. |
| Open | phr | "Open Go" - unimpeded opportunity. 2. a free go or chance. |
| Open | phr | "Open for Something" - liable, susceptible, or vulnerable to something. 2. of a kind that can be affected or influenced by something. |
| Open | phr | "Open Ones Ears" - pay attention to ; listen carefully to. 2. with ears open. |
| Open | phr | "Open One's Eyes To" - make one aware, observant; conscious of. |
| Open | phr | "Open One's Heart to" - confess, confide. |
| Open | phr | "Open One's Mouth" -speak, have one's say, make comment on. |
| Open | phr | "Open Onto" - allow one to reach; lead to, give access. |
| Open | phr | "Open Out" - widen, broaden, spread out. 2. unfold. 3. blossom, develop, unfold. |
| Open | phr | "Open Someone's Eyes" - be enlightening or reveal something to someone. |
| Open | phr | "Open the Door to" - cause to happen, encourage. |
| Open | phr | "Open the Floodgate" - release a great force of emotion, destruction, etc previously held under control (used literally and figuratively. |
| Open | phr | "Open to Somebody" - available to, obtainable by, possible for somebody. |
| Open | phr | "Open to Somebody" - liable, susceptible, or vulnerable to something. 2. of a kind that can be affected or influenced by something. |
| Open | phr | "Open Up" - let in, admit someone. 2. unwrap, undo, unfasten, unlock. 3. bring a room back into use by unlocking it. 4. cause to appear, by cutting etc. 5. reveal, lay bare (esp. for subsequent, exploitation. 6. talk freely and candidly. 7. in a military action begin firing. |
| Open | phr | "Open Up" - to become or make open. 2. to expand, especially before the eye: a breathtaking sight opened up as we reached the top of the hill. 4. to achieve the initial development of: to open up a business office; to open up trade with China. 5. to increase speed (slang). |
| Open | phr | "Open Up an Old Wound" - to take action which revives a long-standing grievance. |
| Open | phr | "Open Up Doors" - create opportunities. |
| Open | phr | "Open With" - speak frankly with. |
| Open | phr | "With an Open Hand" - generously. |
| Open | phr | "With Open Arms" - with enthusiasm, as if embracing. |
| Open | phr | "With Open Eyes" - fully conscious of the ramifications. |
| Open-and-shut | adj | Simple; obvious, easily determinable. |
| Open-armed | adj | Welcoming, embracing. |
| Open-bellied | adj | Ruptured. |
| Open-bite | n | A condition where the top and bottomsets of teeth do not meet at all, leaving a normally an elliptical gap. |
| Open-book | n | Something of which salient aspects are easily interpreted. 2. a person who through naivete responds candidly to questions or open displays their emotions or intentions. 3. emotionally a person who wears one's heart on one's sleeve. |
| Open-book | adj | Easily interpreted. 2. candidly, but naively open emotionally. |
| Open cast | n | In mining, opened or excavated from the surface, instead of from underground. |
| Open day | n | A day when a school, institution, is opened or made accessible to parents and visitors. |
| Open door | n | A door standing open; hence used. fig. to typify free admission or access, freedom of admission. 2. in politics: admission to a country , esp. for commercial intercourse, open to all on equal terms (used esp. in reference to Chinese ports in the C19th. |
| Open-doored | adj | Having the door opened; hence, ready to take and receive. 2. keeping an open house; hospitable. |
| Open-ended | adj | Having an open end; open-ended. 2. frequently fig. -- having no predetermined limits or boundary as to time, extent, size. |
| Open-endedness | n | State or quality of being open-ended. |
| Opener | n | An instrument for opening anything firmly closed; usually in the combination; can-opener.. 2. a person who opens or is employed to open; usually in combination. |
| Openers | phr | "For Openers" - for starting, beginning. |
| Opener-up | n | One who introduces or initiates something new;as, a philosopher who opens up a new 'path of thinking'. |
| Open-eyed | adj | Having the eyes open; awake, wary, wakeful, vigilant. 2. done with the eyes open. 3. having the 'mental' eyes or perceptive powers alert; observant. |
| Open-field | n | An unenclosed field; undivided arable land. 2. in former times, a system where arable land of a village was planned out in a number if unenclosed portions or strips and distributed among the villagers. |
| Open go | n | Unimpeded opportunity. 2. a free go or chance. |
| Open-handed | adj | Giving, free, generous, liberal. 2. not with a clenched fist. |
| Open-handedly | adv | In an open-handed manner. |
| Open-handedness | n | The act or action of being free or liberal. |
| Open-headed | adj | Bare headed, uncovered of hair. |
| Open-heart | adj | Of surgical procedure: almost bloodless with the heart that has been by-passed and cut opened foe examination. |
| Open-hearted | adj | Disposed to communicate thoughts and feelings. 2. not reserved, frank and kindly, forthright. 3. accessible to noble emotions, esp. those of generosity or pity. 4. full of kindly feelings and kindness. 5. plainly, candid, frankly. |
| Open-heartedness | n | Disposed to communicate thoughts or feelings; not reserved, frank. 2. accessible to noble emotions; full of kindly feeling. |
| Open-hearth | n | Having an open or shallow hearth: said of a furnace used in making steel. 2. made in a shallow or open hearth: said of steel. |
| Open-house | n | A house extending hospitality to all who wish to come. 2. an occasion when a school, factory, institution, clubhouse, etc., is open to visitors, as for inspection, observation, etc. |
| Open-housed | adj | Hospitable, welcoming, inviting. |
| Open-housedness | n | The state or condition of being open-housed, |
| Open-housing | adj | Housing available to all, regardless, race, religion or creed. |
| Open ice | n | Ice through which navigation is possible. |
| Opening | adj | First or beginning; the play's opening scene" |
| Opening | n | An open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; gap. 2. a ceremony accompanying the start of " 3. : the first performance. 3. becoming open or being made open; opening night, curtain raising.
5: the act of opening something. 6: opportunity especially for employment or promotion. 7: the initial part of the introduction 8: a possible alternative; 9. an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity. 10. a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made; a small opening. 11. an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship, hatchway. 12: a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess 13: the first of a series of actions, first step, initiative. 14. The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance. 15. place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole. 16. hence: an opportunity; as, an opening for business; a vacancy. 17. a thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; a clearing; as, oak openings. |
| Opening-shot | n | The first step in an activity expected to last a long time. |
| Opening-time | n | A time at which a businessm sports arena, entertainment centre etc. is open to the public. |
| Open learning | n | University or other ducational institutions offering distance learning taught courses, that are open to people without formal academic qualifications, teaching being by correspondence and online with mostly optional tutorials and for some courses compulsory summer schools. |
| Openly | adv | Without concealment; in public; publicly. 2. frankly, unreservedly. 3. manifestly; clearly, plainly. |
| Openly-spoken | adj | Plainly or clearly spoken. |
| Open mind | n | A person with mind open to new ideas, diverse arguments and opinions and ready to change her/his mind thoughts about his/her own views and ideas. |
| Open-minded | adj | Accessible to new arguments or ideas. |
| Open-mindedly | adv | In an open-minded manner. |
| Open-mindedness | n | State of mind open to new arguments and ideas. |
| Open-mouthed | adj | Having the mouth open; gaping, as in wonder or surprise. 2. noisily, clamorous. |
| Openness | n | The quality or condition of being open. 2. absence of dissimulation, secrecy or reserve; candor, sincerity. |
| Open-pit | n | Designating a mine dug directly into the surface, with the pit open to the air. |
| Open sea | n | The main body of a sea or ocean, especially the part that is out territorial waters, and not enclosed, or partially enclosed by land. |
| Open-seating | n | A gathering where seats/ tables are not assigned or reserved but are taken up on first-come basis. |
| Open-shop | adj | An establishment in which union labor and non-union labor are employed; as opposed to a 'closed-shop'. |
| Open-sided | adj | Open on all sides. |
| Open-tail | n | A dusty-tail, hooker, ho, harlot, sex-worker, harridan. 2. an indelicate, unfaithful or unchaste woman. |
| Open-timber | n | A forest having no undergrowth. |
| Open-time | n | The time which anything is open; opening time. 2. the time after harvest when cattle might be turned into open fields. 3. the time out of Lent when no fast is imposed. 4. that which is not closed for fish, etc. |
| Open-top | adj | Of a vehicle not having a roof or with a detached one. |
| Open-town | n | A town with no restrictions on drinking and gambling places and the like, such as Las Vegas. |
| Open water | n | An expanse of open sea or ocean. 2. an unobstructed water surface. 3. water not covred by ice. |
| Open woodland | n | A low density forest forming habitat with plenty of sunlight and limited shade. |
| Open-work | n | Any product of art or handicfraft with many small openings. |
| Open wound | n | An injury involving an external or internal break in body tissue, usually inolving the skin. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Or | conj | A conjuction introducing alternatives; if not. |
| Or | adj | Or, as in ordeal: out of. 2. exit, exodus, departure. 3. without, bereft of. |
| Or | phr | "Or Else" - otherwise something unpleasant will happen be done, as a result. |
| Or | phr | "Or Rather" - put more exactly, more accurately. |
| Or | phr | "Or So" - approximately. |
| Or | phr | "Or Something" - or some similar thing, person, condition, activity etc. |
| Or | phr | "Or Whatever" - or any other, others of a kind indicated (the reference being to things, persons, groups, actions etc) |
| Ora | n | A Danish money of account, reckoned in the Domesday book as equaling 20p. 2. a measure of weight, used in Domesday Book for the ounce. |
| Orchard | n | A plantation of trees grown for their products, as fruits, nuts, oil, etc.; also an enclosure or ground containing them. |
| Orchardful | adj | The quantity or number which fills an orchard. |
| Orchard-house | n | A glass house for the protection of delicate fruit, or is wanted early. |
| Orcharding | n | The cultivation of fruit trees in orchards. |
| Orchardlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of an orchard. |
| Orchardman | n | Orchardist; a person who grows nd sells orchard fruits. |
| Ord | n | A point; a point of origin; a beginning. 2. a point of land; a promontory. 3. a point or edge of a weapon. |
| Ordeal | n | A painful, exhausting, or emotionally trying experience, esp. when regarded as a test of a person's endurance or character; an ordeal as a learning experience. 2. formerly, a method of deciding guilt or innocence by exposing a person to physical danger or torment, the outcome being considered divine judgment. 3. trial, adversity, affliction, blow, calamity, disaster, grief, hardship, misery, nightmare, torment, torture, trauma, tribulation |
| Ordeal | phr | "Ordeal by Fire/Water" - any test of courage, endurance etc (from a medieval trial bein by ordeal, based on the belief that supernatural intervention would prevent the accused, if innocent, from being burned by fire or drowned. |
| Ore | n | OE. an unwrought metal. 2. a natural substance containing an economically valuable metal, and sometimes forming part of a rock. 3. loosely, a natural substance a non-metallic mineral, sulfur ore. |
| Ore | n | Regard, respect, reverence, honor, glory. 2. grace, favour, mercy, pity, clemency. 3. condition of being spared, security from danger, peace. |
| Ore | n | Beginning, origin, front, vanguard. |
| Ore | n | Seaweed, esp. that casts ashore and gathered for manure; also, called float-weed, seaweed. |
| Ore-body | n | A body or connected mass of ore in a mine as a vein, bed or pocket. |
| Oredelf | n | Quarry or excavate for minerals. |
| Oreful | adj | Honourable, venerable, merciful, compassionate. |
| Oreless | adj | Void of reverence, mercy, pity, merciless, cruel. |
| Oreshoot | n | an elongated body of ore that follow a vein. |
| Oreweed | n | Seaweed, also called sea-ore, float-weed. |
| Orf | n | Cattle as a possesion, esp. as inheritance. 2. cattle, orf, erf, livestock. |
| Orf-gild | n | In earlier times, a tax on those whose cattle damage manor property. |
| Orf-qualm | n | Cattle, murrain, plague. |
| Organ | n | Fusion of late Old English organe, and Old French orgene (12c.), both meaning "musical instrument," both from Latin organa, plural of organum "a musical instrument," from Greek organon "implement, tool for making or doing; musical instrument; organ of sense, organ of the body," literally "that with which one works," from PIE *werg-ano-, from root *werg- "to do," related to Greek ergon "work" and Old English weorc (see urge).Applied vaguely in late Old English to musical instruments; sense narrowed by late 14c.to the musical instrument now known by that name (involving pipes supplied with wind by a bellows and worked by means ofkeys)though Augustine (c.400) knew this as a specific sense of Latin organa. The meaning "body part adapted to a certain function" is attested from late 14c., from a Medieval Latin sense of Latin organum. Organ-grinder is attested from 1806. |
| Organ-blower | n | A person or mechanism working the bellows of an organ. |
| Organ-grinder | n | The player of a barrel organ. |
| Organ-loft | n | A gallery containing an organ. |
| Organ-stop | n | Any of the many knobs near the keyboard of an organ used to select a different sound or timbres. |
| Orl | n | An alder tree. |
| Orl-fly | n | An alder fly. |
| Orgel | n | Pride, haughtiness, proud, haughty, presumtous. |
| Orgelness | n | Pride,haughtiness, hateur. |
| Or-mete | adj | Moderate, measured, mean |
| Or-meteless | adj | Measureless, excessive, immense. |
| Or-mod | adj | Without spirit, despondent, despairing, or-mood. |
| Orped | adj | stout, strenuous, valiant, bold. 2. of a heart: fierce, ffurious. 3. |
| Orpedly | adv | Stoutly, bravely. |
| Orpedness | n | Stoutness, bravery, boldness, valiance. |
| Orpedship | n | Bravery, valour, boldness. |
| Or-trow | n | Or-treow, distrust, diffidence, suspicion. |
| Or-trow | vb | To despair of, distrust, to despair, to become distrustful, to be unbelieving. |
| Ortrow | adj | Despairingly, distrustful, unbelieving. |
| Ortrowth | n | Distrust, diffidence, or-trow, suspicion. |
| Ory | adj | Seaweedy |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Other | conj | The OE word for "or" until 1130AD. |
| Other | adj | Not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; "today isn't any other day". 2. recently past; "the other evening" 3. belonging to the distant past; "in other times" 4. early, former, other. 4. very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected. 5. being the remaining one of two or more: the other ear. 6. being the remaining ones of several: His other books are still in storage. 7. different from that or those implied or specified. 8. of a different character or quality. 9. of a different time or era either future or past: other centuries; other generations. 10. additional; as an extra pair of or other shoes. 11. opposite or contrary; reverse: the other side. 12. alternate; second: every other day. 13. of the recent past: just the other day. |
| Other | n | The remaining one of two or more (options). 2. the remaining ones of several. 3. a different person or thing. 3. an additional person or thing. 3. often Other a person or thing considered to represent or epitomize difference or an other group. |
| Other | prn | A different or an additional person or thing. 2. others or people aside from oneself. |
| Other | adv | In another way; otherwise; differently: The car performed other than perfectly |
| Other | phr | "A Bit of the Other" - sexual intercourse. |
| Other | phr | "At Other Times" - some other times; at some other times. |
| Other | phr | "Do the Other Thing" - do as one pleases. |
| Other | phr | "Every One" - every second (one); each alternate item in series. |
| Other | phr | "Every Other" - alternate items in a series. |
| Other | phr | "Every Other While" - every now and then. |
| Other | phr | "In Other Words" - putting it an other way. |
| Other | phr | "Look the Other Way" - deliberately ignore. |
| Other | phr | "No Other" - nothing else. |
| Other | phr | "On One Hand .... and On the Other Hand" - alternatively. |
| Other | phr | "Other All" - all other, many other. |
| Other | phr | "Other Days, Other Ways" - people of the past thought and acted differently. |
| Other | phr | "Other Such" - such other. |
| Other | phr | "Other than do Something" - differently from something. |
| Other | phr | "Other Than Somebody/Something" - except, but apart from something. |
| Other | phr | "Some Other Where" - in some other place. |
| Other | phr | "The Other Day/Night" - the preceding day/night; yesterday; a day/night or two ago; a short time ago, very recently. |
| Other | n | "The Other End" - the person on the other end of the telephone line. 2. |
| Other | phr | "The Other Man" - a man who is romantically committed with woman/man having an amatory relationship or affair with another woman. 2. a man having an affair with a woman already in a committed or partnered relationship. |
| Other | phr | "The Other Side" - the after-word, the world to come, the spiritual life after death, now especially associated with the beliefs and practices of spiritualism, and also the Christian symbol of passing from earth to Heaven. |
| Other | phr | "The Other Thing" - the contrary, opposite, or reverse; something quite different. 2. sexual activity. |
| Other | phr | "The Other Woman" - a woman who is romantically committed with man/woman having an amatory relationship or affair with another woman/man. |
| Other | phr | "This, That and the Other Thing" - things in general. |
| Other father | n | A man who cares for a child who is not biologically his own. |
| Othergates | adv | otherwise, in other ways, differently, otherwise. |
| Other-half | n | The other half of the world. 2. people of a different class or those enjoying a difference (usu. more affluent); note the expression: 'how the other half live.' 3. the remaining, the rest of, existing besides, or distinct from that already mentioned or implied; . 4. not this, not the same, different in identity, further, additional. |
| Otherhood | n | The state or quality of being other or different. |
| Othering | n | The process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien. |
| Otherish | adj | Pertaining to or being of another kind; different. 2. concerned with or directed towards others; selfless. |
| Otherkin(d) | n | A person who claims or believes that there soul is non-human. |
| Otherlike | adv | Similar or the like. |
| Otherliker | n | In an other manner, otherwise. |
| Otherliness | n | The quality of being different or apart in some way. |
| Otherly | adv | Pertaining to something or someone else; different. 2. pertaining to or directed towards others; otherish. |
| Other man | n | A man having an affair with a woman already in a committed or partnered relationship. |
| Other-minded | adj | Of a different opinion; not like-minded. 2. dissenting, dissident, non-conformist, heterodox. 3. otherwise-minded; disagreeing with a majority or official view. |
| Other-mindedness | n | State or quality of being other-minded, of a different opinion or belief, of a heterodox view. |
| Other mother | n | A woman who cares for a child who is not biologically her own. |
| Otherness | n | The quality of being other, different, diverse. 2. difference, diversity, apart from. 3. the fact of being other, something that is other than the thing mentioned. |
| Other-self | n | Self other than the subjective self; objective personality. |
| Other-selfish | adj | relating to the other self or personality. 2. altruistic. |
| Other-side | n | "The Otherside" : the world to come; the world beyond the grave, esp. as inhabited by the spirits of the dead. 2. the after-world or after-life. 3. an opponent or opposition. |
| Other-sideness | n | The quality or state of being on the otherside. 2. the afterlife or supernatural realm inhabited by the spirit of the deceased; the state of death. |
| Othersome | prn | Some other; some others. as in some time or othersome times. |
| Other thing | n | "The Other Thing" - the contrary, opposite or reverse. 2. something quite different. 3. do the other thing: do as one pleases, usu. with contemptuous dismissal |
| Othertimes | adv | At other ties; on other occasions. |
| Otherwards | adv | In an other directions. |
| Otherways | adv | In another way or manner. |
| Otherwhat | adv | Some other thing; something else |
| Otherwhence | adv | From else where. |
| Otherwhere | adv | In another place; somewhere, elsewhere. 2. to another place; otherwheres. |
| Otherwhile | adv | At one time or other; at times; sometimes; at one time; at another time. 2. occurring now and then; occasionally; every now and then; at frequent intervals. |
| Otherwhither | adv | to another place; elsewhere. |
| Otherwise | adv | Differently in another way, differently, contrastingly; apart from that. 2. in another case, in other circumstances; if not, else; on the other hand. |
| Otherwise | adj | Other than supposed, different. |
| Otherwise | conj | In different circumstances; or else; in all other respects. |
| Otherwiseness | n | Condition or quality of being otherwise. |
| Other woman | n | A woman who is romantically involved involved with someone (usually a man) already in a committed relationship with another woman. |
| Otherworld | n | "The Otherworld": the world other than this. 2. the world to become beyond the grave. 3. the spirit-land of many religions. 4. the world of idealism, poetry or romance; also the range of experiences conceived in the imagination or fantasy as lying outside the world as known. 5. pertaining to the other world; unearthly, heavenly. |
| Otherworldish | adj | Concerning the world other than this one, the actual world. 2. heavenish, fantasy, imaginative world. |
| Otherworldliness | n | Devoted to the interests of a future life; with a certain neglect to the present one . 3. morbid as asceticism or spirituality. 4. the quality attributed to an ideal world apart from the actual. |
| Otherwordly | adv | Of a world other than in which we live; the unseen world. 2. of or devoted to the world of mind or imagination. 3. of or part of the world to come. 4. disposed to consider the affairs or interests of a future life and neglect the present. |
| Otter | n | A weasel-like, web-footed carnivore (genus lutre) inhabiting the streams and lakes and feeding on fish. The otter is about two feet long, not including a flattened, oar-like tail and has dark-brown fur. 2. the sea otter. |
| Otterskin | n | The pelt of an otter. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Oubit | n | A hairy caterpillar. (prob.) the A.S. wibba, a crawling thing. |
| Ought | vb | (Used to express duty or moral obligation). 2. (used to express justice, moral rightness, or the like). 3. (used to express propriety, appropriateness, etc.): "you ought to be at home." 4. (used to express probability or natural consequence): "that ought to be our train now." 5. duty or obligation. Usage: Ought forms its negative in a number of ways. "Ought not" occurs in all types of speech and writing and is fully standard: "they ought not waste time on protocol." Oughtn't, largely a spoken form, is found mainly in the Midland and Southern dialects of the United States, where it is almost the universal form. |
| Ought | adv | [Old English āwiht, from ā ever, ay + wiht thing; see wight)- anything at all; anything whatever (esp in the phrase for aught I know ); dialect: in any least part; to any degree |
| Ought | phr | "He Said You Ought" - that you are obliged to or should do so. |
| Ought | phr | "It ought to be Done" - bound, obligated, duty-bound to do something. |
| Oughten | n | The time just before daybreak, early morning. |
| Oughtness | n | That quality of an action which is expected by (ought); moral obligation. |
| Oughtworth | n | Anything worthy of ought or moral obligation. 2. anything of value or value-worthy. |
| Our | adv | Away from expected or default place. 2. at a distance. 3. away from the inside or the centre. 4. into a state of non-operation or non-existence. 5. intensifier, emphasizer. 6. of a player, disqualified |
| Ourself | prn | The reflexive of the editorial or royal we; myself as used by a writer or speaker who would refer to himself in the nominative case as we. (Normally, the reflexive case of we is ourselves). 2. the reflexive of "we" when it refers to singular persons |
| Ourselves | prn | (Second personal plural pronoun, reflexive case of we). 2. (reflexive) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject. 3. (emphatic) We; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate. |
| Ourwhere | adv | Anywhere, |
| Out | prp | Away from the inside. 2. outside; (away from the inside): through. |
| Out | n | A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc. 2. a card which can make a hand a winner. 3. (chiefly in the plural) one who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office. 4. place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space. 5. a word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission. |
| Out | vb | To eject; to expel. 2. to reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual. 3. to reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective. 4. to reveal (a secret). |
| Out | adj | (Obsolete) of a young lady, having entered society and available to be courted. 2. released, available for purchase, download or other use. 3. (cricket, baseball) Of a batter or batsman, having caused an out called on himself while batting under various rules of the game. 4. openly acknowledging one's homosexuality. |
| Out | phr | "Be All Out" - be exhausted. |
| Out | phr | "Be Out For" - have one's interests or energies directed to, to be intent on something. |
| Out | phr | "Be Out Of It" - not take part, or part of, in some trend or group; excluded. 2. disoriented, not thinking clearly; drunk. 3. be neglected; in the game, etc to be beaten before the final ; to be wrong. |
| Out | phr | "Be Out of (Something)" - to lack something. |
| Out | phr | "Be Out to" - to strive hard to. |
| Out | phr | "Be Well Out of Something" - be fortunate not to be involved in or with something. |
| Out | phr | "Break Out" - start suddenly or violently flare up as a fire. |
| Out | phr | "Break Out In" - suddely become covered in as hives. 2. suddenly begin to express strong feelings. 3. break out on a pimples, etc on various parts of one's body. |
| Out | phr | "Break Out in a Cold Sweat" - suddenly be consumed with fear. |
| Out | phr | "Break Out Of" - free oneself by one's own means, as from a POW camp or prison. |
| Out | phr | "Come Out" - leave, be freed as a prisoner from jail. 2. formally enter society, as a deb. 3. flower, blossom as a flower or plant. 4. appear, become visible as a star. 5. appear, be available in shops or stores as a magazine or book. 6. be disclosed, told, revealed as a scandal. 7. be shown in detail. 8. become explicit, revealed as truth. 9. emerge, be elicited. 10. produce a satisfactory answer. 11. be announced, declared. 12. emerge, succeed, as be top of the class. 13. |
| Out | phr | "Come Out Against" - show that one is in opposition against something. |
| Out | phr | "Come Out At" - cost, be calculated at, work out at an amount in cash. |
| Out | phr | "Come Out For" - leave home to go on an trip or excursion with. |
| Out | phr | "Come Out In" - be clothed in a bikini. 2. come out in rash, blister. |
| Out | phr | "Come Out in the Wash" - be set or made correct in the end. |
| Out | phr | "Come Out Of" - disappear after cleaning, as blemish, spot, mark. |
| Out | phr | "Come Out Of One's Shell" - overcome one's shyness; show a bolder side of one's nature. |
| Out | phr | "Come Out On Top" - win, overcome difficulties, prove oneself better than others. |
| Out | phr | "Come Out Well" - be revealed as coming or well. |
| Out | phr | "Come Out With" - say (perhaps, with some hesitation) the facts, truth, etc. |
| Out | phr | "Down and Out" - knocked down and unconscious with no fight left in them. 2. somebody with no means of financial support; penniless. |
| Out | phr | "Drive Out" - expel , force to leave. 2. make somebody forget or overlook something. |
| Out | phr | "Eat Out of House and Home" - eat more than one's host can provide or afford. |
| Out | phr | "Edge Somebody Out" - gradually get rid of somebody. |
| Out | phr | "Fall Out" - happen, occur as an event. 2. as anticipated, as arranged. 2. dismiss from military parade. 3. fall from a high place; a lower level, or an enclosed space |
| Out | phr | "Fall Out of Love With" - no longer be atracted to, or convinced by. |
| Out | phr | "Fall Out of Line" - disagree with, move away from. |
| Out | phr | "Fall Out With" - get on bad terms with, quarrel with. |
| Out | phr | "Far Out" - very unusual. |
| Out | phr | "Find Out" - learn by study, calculation or enquiry. |
| Out | phr | "From Out of Nowhere" - appearing suddenly, unexpectedly, without warning. 2. appear; come, as in a sporting event; materialize. |
| Out | phr | "From Out to Out" - to come out with. 2. to fetch, bring out. |
| Out | phr | "Go All Out" - make an extreme effort. |
| Out | phr | "Go Out of Business" - fail (of a business, because of financial difficulties). |
| Out | phr | " Go Out of the Window" - if a quality or principle goes 'out the window' it does not exist any more. |
| Out | phr | "Have it Out (with)" - vigorous contest something with somebody. |
| Out | phr | "Help Out" - Help somebody to face and overcome a difficulty. |
| Out | phr | "Keep Out of the Way" - stay away. |
| Out | phr | "Keep Out of Harms Way" - stay away fro danger and strise. |
| Out | phr | "Make an Out" - an attempt to overtake the achievement of a particular result, progress, success. |
| Out | phr | "Make Out" - to kiss or to make love. 2. to discern. 3. to succeed; to turn out or end up. 4. to designate as the recipient. 5. to represent as being true. |
| Out | phr | "Murder Will Out" - a bad deed will always be revealed. |
| Out | phr | "Not Far Out" - close, near, at hand. |
| Out | phr | "Not Out of the Way" - acceptable. |
| Out | phr | "On the Outs" - not on friendly terms. |
| Out | phr | "On the Way Out" - become obsolete, unfashionable. |
| Out | phr | "Open Out" - unfold, a map, drawings etc. |
| Out | phr | "Out and About" - traveling, out, moving. 2. engaged in regular day to day activities. 3. on the go. 4. of an invalid, able to be out of bed or out of doors. |
| Out | phr | "Out and Away" - by far; incomparably as, beyond all others. |
| Out | phr | "Out and Home" - to a place at a distance, and home again. |
| Out | phr | "Out and In" - out of a place and in again. 2. in and out. 3. outside and inside. 4. without and within. |
| Out | phr | "Out and Out" - thoroughly, completely, entirely, absolutely, totally, downright. 2. complete, thorough-going, completely lacking in something. 3. something that extends farther and farther outwards. 4. to knock out ,exhaust. |
| Out | phr | "Out at the Elbows" -tattered, worn out. |
| Out | phr | "Outdo as a Man" - to excel in manly qualities. |
| Out | phr | "Out for Something" - wanting (to obtain) something. |
| Out | phr | "Out in the Cold" - excluded. |
| Out | phr | "Out in the Wilds" - remote from a town or city. |
| Out | phr | "Out Like a Light" - to sudden fall or be knocked unconscious or asleep. |
| Out | phr | "Out Loud" - say, state, speak clearly and audibly. |
| Out | phr | "Out of" - opposite to into. 2. of direction or motion, from within, so as to point, project or lead away from. |
| Out | phr | "Out of Awareness" - unaware, oblivious to. |
| Out | phr | "Out Of Belief" - beyond belief. |
| Out | phr | "Out of Body Feeling" - depersonalization disorder may be described as an out of body experience as the main symptom of depersonalization is a feeling of detachment or a feeling that one is an observer of one's thoughts, feelings or body |
| Out | phr | "Out of Breath" - short of breath, breathless. |
| Out | phr | "Out of Doors" - outside, not indoors |
| Out | phr | "Out of Hand" - without consideration or investigation; at once, summarily. 2. beyond control, unruly, immediately. |
| Out | phr | "Out Of Hearing" - a conversation or voices too far away to hear clearly. |
| Out | phr | "Out Of It" - excluded, not part of a group; left to one-side. |
| Out | phr | "Out of Key" - out of harmony. |
| Out | phr | "Out of Line" - disagree with, move away from; not act appropriately in the circumstances. |
| Out | phr | "Out of Nowhere" - see 'from out of nowhere' |
| Out | phr | "Out of One's Depth" - in trouble, difficulty (because of overstretching one's knowledge, ability) |
| Out | phr | "Out Of One's Head" - out of one's mind; crazy, insane. 2. temporarily mentally unstable, very disturbed, out there. |
| Out | phr | "Out of One's Mind/Tree" - mad, insane, loopy. 2. forgotten. |
| Out | phr | "Out of One's Time" - having completed one's apprenticeship; fully qualified. |
| Out | phr | "Out of One's Way" - go to the trouble of assisting or helping others. |
| Out | phr | "Out Of Reach" - outside the distance to which someone can stretch out their hand. |
| Out | phr | "Out of Sight" - not accessible to sight; outasight. 2. not yet attainable. 2. very expensive. 4. superb, excellence. 5. in hiding. 6. drunk. |
| Out | phr | "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" - when something is not near. 2. something forgotten. |
| Out | phr | "Out of the Woods" out of difficulty, danger. |
| Out | phr | "Out of the Way" - remote, isolated. |
| Out | phr | "Out Of Things" - excluded, not part of a group. |
| Out | phr | "Out of Time" - at the wrong time or period. 2. too early or too late. 3. not keeping time in musical. |
| Out | phr | "Out of Town" - originating from, or taking place out of town. |
| Out | phr | "Out of True" - out of alignment. |
| Out | phr | "Out Of Truth" - holding or containing no truth or veracity. 2. inaccurate, winding, or not square. |
| Out | phr | "Out of the Way" - remote or secluded; little known. 2. unusual, out of the ordinary. 3. improper or offensive. 4. not obstructing, not in the way. 5. take care of. |
| Out | phr | "Out of Turn" - out of order, sequence. |
| Out | phr | "Out of Wedlock" - of parents relating to a child born out of marriage. |
| Out | phr | "Out of Wind" - a plane surface free from warp or twist. |
| Out | phr | "Out of Work" -unemployed. |
| Out | phr | "Out of the World" - of exceptionally high quality. 2. wonderful, marvelous. |
| Out | phr | "Out On a Limb" - exposed to danger, risk (on one's own). |
| Out | phr | "Out on One's Ear" - forced to leave a job or place, esp. because you have done something wrong. |
| Out | phr | "Out to do Something" - fixed on a purpose, intent, resolute or determined, to do something. |
| Out | phr | "Out Upon" - expressing abhorrence or reproach. |
| Out | phr | "Out With It" - say what you know, or want to say. |
| Out | phr | "Over and Out" - the words ending a transmission call. |
| Out | phr | "Put (or Drive) Out" - extinguish |
| Out | phr | "Put Out of One's Mind" - deliberately forget. |
| Out | phr | "Sit Something Out" - wait until something (usually unpleasant)is over. |
| Out | phr | "So Out with It" - an exhortation to a speaker to admit or assert something over which he or she is hesitating. |
| Out | phr | "Take It Out on Someone" - be angry with somebody (not necessary with good reason) |
| Out | phr | The Making Out Of" - discernment of the sense. |
| Out | phr | "To Out With" - come out with; utter, speak openly, utter. |
| Out | phr | "Truth Will Out" - the truth will (inevitably) emerge. |
| Out-and-out | adv | Completely; fully. |
| Outasight | adj | Extremely good, excellent. |
| Out-ask | vb | To ask that the banns of marriage of a couple in church for the last time. 2 to ask in excess or repeatedly. |
| Out-at-elbow | adj | Threadbare, worn out. |
| Out-awe | vb | To overawe. |
| Outback | n | A region along way from other towns in the interior of a land, as in Australia. |
| Outbacker | n | One who lives in a remote area. |
| Out-be | vb | To be beyond the ordinary or commonplace. to excel, be outstanding. |
| Outbeam | vb | Outshine, out do. 2. shine out strongly. |
| Outbear | vb | To bear forth, carry away. 2. to bear out, support, sustain. 3. self-assertion. |
| Outbeard | vb | To overcome by bearding or a show of defiance. |
| Outbearing | adj | Production, bringing forth. 2. self-asserting; arrogant. |
| Out'bent | adj | Bending outwards. |
| Outbid | vb | To outdo in bidding; to offer a higher price than; to bid more than. 2. fig. to outdo in any quality, statement, etc. |
| Outbirth | n | The outward product or progeny. 2. that which is brought forth or produced. 3. that which springs forth. |
| Outblaze | vb | Blaze out or outwards. 2. blaze more brightly than. |
| Out-bled | vb | To bleed freely; hemorrhage. 2. to bleed out. |
| Out-blossom | vb | To flower or blossom luxuriantly. |
| Out-blown | adj | Inflated, puff up, distend. |
| Outboard | n | Outboard motor. 2. a vessel fitted with an outboard motor. 3. a studio having outboard gear, such as a compressor. |
| Outboard | adj | Situated outside the hull of a vessel. 2. positioned away from the centre line of a ship or aircraft. |
| Outborn | adj | Born out of a country, exotic, of foreign birth, a foreigner, alien. |
| Out-bolting | adj | Moving as swiftly as a arrow. |
| Out-bow | vb | To excel in bowing or archery. |
| Out-bowed | adj | Convex, curved outwards, gibbous, rotund, arched. |
| Out-breach | vb | To break out, burst out, burst through, force out. |
| Outbreak | n | A sudden breaking out, an eruption. 2. an outburst of hostilities; an insurrection; out of a war. 3. the beginning, esp of a disease. 4. an outcrop, the emergence of a rock or stratum. |
| Outbreaking | adj | Breaking or bursting out. |
| Outbreathe | n | Exhalation, expiration. |
| Outbreathe | vb | To exhale, emit as breath. 2. to breathe forth; to issue out in breath. |
| Out-breathing | n | Exhalation. |
| Outbred | vb | Bred from parents not closely related, opposite of "inbred" |
| Outbreed | vb | To breed more successfully than. |
| Outbreeding | n | The breeding of unrelated (or only distantly related) individuals. 2. the mating of person from different groups (especially as a result of social proscription) |
| Out-bring | vb | To bring out out or bear out. 2. to bring out, release, utter. |
| Outbringing | n | The bringing out; delivering, expressing. |
| Outbuild | vb | To surpass in building or durability of building; to overbuild. 2. to build out (poet & rhetorical). |
| Outbuilding | n | A detached building, subordinate and accessory to a main-building; an out-house. |
| Out-burn | vb | To burn longer or brighter than; to burn out. |
| Out-burning | n | Burning out, extinction. |
| Out-burnt | adj | Exhausted. |
| Outburst | n | An act of bursting out; an outbreak, an explosion (of feeling of indignation, laughter, cheering etc.) |
| Outburst-flood | n | A flood caused by a inland sea, lake, or reservoir overflowing or breaking through its outer limit. |
| Outbursting | adj | Bursting out, breaking through in flood. |
| Outbuy | vb | To spend more money than someone buying goods. 2. to outbid someone for something. |
| Out-by | adv | Out-bye. 2. out a little way; outside the house, abroad, in the open air, in the outside of a house, farm, etc. |
| Out-call | n | A visit by a sex-worker to a client, see 'in-call' |
| Outcast | n | A person cast out, exiled or banished. 2. one that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah, an exile, an outsider, an outcast. |
| Outcast | vb | Cast out, exiled or banished |
| Outclimb | vb | To climb better and farther than |
| Outcome | vb | To come from without, that is from another country or place. 2. issue, result, consequence, upshot. |
| Outcomeling | n | A comer, an arrival. 2. an incomer. 3. newcomer, stranger. |
| Outcomer | n | Stranger, foreigner, exoticant, new-arrival, alien |
| Outcoming | n | The result or outcome. |
| Outcoming | adj | That comes out. |
| Out-craft | vb | To surpass in cunning; to outwit. |
| Outcrop | n | The visible part of a bedrock formation. |
| Outcropping | n | An outcrop. |
| Out-dare | vb | To out do or surpass in daring and boldness. |
| Out-do | vb | To put out. 2. to exceed in doing; to excel, surpass, beat; to be superior. to defeat, overcome, exhaust. |
| Out-do | phr | "To Outdo as a Man" - to excel in manly qualities. |
| Out-doing | n | Bettering or superiority in activity or performance. 2. the surpassing, outsmarting, excelling. |
| Out-done | adj | Exceeded, surpassed defeated, exhausted. |
| Outdoor | adj | Done, existing, or used out of doors. 2. fond of the open air. |
| Outdoors | adj | Done, situated, or used outdoors. 2. fond of open-air or outdoors activities |
| Outdoors | phr | "All Outdoors" - the whole world. 2. everybody. |
| Outdoors | phr | "Great Outdoors" - great open spaces. |
| Outdoorsman | n | One who likes to be outdoors as much as possible. 2. a worker whose occupation is conducted outdoors. |
| Outdoorsy | adj | Associated with the outdoors; aor suited to the outdoors. 2. fond of the outdoors. |
| Outdraw | vb | (Of a person or event) attract a larger crowd than other person or event. |
| Outdrawn | adj | Extracted; drawn out. |
| Outdress | vb | To dress better than. |
| Out-drink | vb | To drink more than; to drink excessively than.. |
| Out-drive | n | To drive a golf ball farther than another player. 2. to drive a vehicle better and faster than someone else. |
| Out-dwell | vb | To tarry, or stay behind or beyond a time. |
| Out-dweller | n | One who dwells outside of or away from a certain place. |
| Out-dwelling | n | A dwelling situated on the outskirts of a town. |
| Out-eat | vb | To eat more than another person. |
| Outed | adj | Put out; driven out, ejected, extracted, exposed. 2. (slang): killed, murdered. |
| Outen | n | A foreigner, alien, |
| Outen | adj | Foreign, being fom without, strange, fremd, peculiar. |
| Outen | vb | To put out, extinguish. |
| Outen | phr | "To Outen the Light" - to extinguish, put out or turn off the light. |
| Outener | n | A foreigner; outsider. |
| Outer | n | One who or that which puts out, utters or gives vent. |
| Outer | adj | Situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior: outer garments; an outer wall. 2. situated farther out or farther from the center; further from the middle or central part. 3. of or pertaining to the external world. 4. being or located on the outside; external. 5. in archery - the white outermost ring on a target; a shot that hits this ring. 6. in Australia the without shelter part of the spectator area at a sports ground. |
| Outer | phr | "On the Outer" o - out of favour, excluded, not wanted or required. 2. excluded or neglected. |
| Outer ear | n | The outer portion of the ear which includes the auricle and the ear canal and leads to the eardrum. |
| Outer lining | n | The outside lining of a boxed frame for sliding sashes. |
| Outerly | adv | In or towards the outer, in a place out or farther from the centre. 2. on the outside or externally. |
| Outerly | phr | "Outerly Not" - not at all, in no way. |
| Outer man | n | (As opposed to the inner man); hence the body (after the inner man.) -- the outward personal appearance; dress, esp. to a woman. 2. the material world outside that familiar or known; also people generally outside the individual or his immediate circle. |
| Outermore | adj | Outer, external, outwards. |
| Outermost | adj | Most outer, most far out from the centre. |
| Outerness | n | The quality or fact of being on the outer or exterior. 2. the occupation with what is external. |
| Outer string | n | The string farthest from the wall in a flight of stairs. |
| Outerwear | n | Clothing worn over one's underwear to protect them, as rain-wear. |
| Outer-woman | n | (As opposed to the inner woman); hence the body (after the inner woman.) -- the outward personal appearance; dress, esp. to a woman. 2. the material world outside that familiar or known; also people generally outside the individual or his immediate circle. See 'the outer-man' |
| Outer world | n | The material world outside the familiar or known; also, people generally, outside the individual (or his/her immediate circle. |
| Outfall | n | A sally, sortie. 2. quarrel, dispute, argument, fall-out. 3. outlet of a mouth of a river, drain, sewer etc. where it falls into the sea. 4. outlet, mouth of a river, channel of disposal, sewer. |
| Outfalling | n | A quarrel, dispute, argument. |
| Outfang | n | The right of a landowner to pursue a thief outside his own jurisdiction in order to bring him to justice, or his right to try and punish a thief from elsewhere who comes within his jurisdiction. The precise application of the word is uncertain. Now only hist. 2. goods stolen outside a landowner's jurisdiction. |
| Outfang | adj | Of a thief, guilty of theft outside the specified baronial jurisdiction in which he is caught. |
| Outfang thief | n | A thief, guilty of theft outside the specified baronial jurisdiction in which he is caught. |
| Outfare | n | A journey, expedition, trip, voyage, a going-out. 2. an outlet. |
| Outfield | n | The outlying land of a farm. |
| Outfight | vb | To take out by assault, subdue, conquer, overcome, beat in a fight, to be superior or better in a fight. |
| Out-fighting | n | Fighting that is not at close quarters. 2. skirmishing, skirmish. |
| Outfire | n | The act of firing farther than an other. |
| Outfire | vb | To fire farther than an other. |
| Out-fleme | n | A fugitive from one's country; an exile. |
| Out-flood | vb | To flood far and beyond its known level and limits. |
| Outflow | n | The process of flowing out; effluence, outflow, effluxion. |
| Outflow | vb | To flow outward. |
| Outflowing | n | Something that flows out. 2. an outflow of water from various sources. 3. the amount flowing out. 2. the issue or streaming out. |
| Outflowing | adj | Effluent, that which is flowing outwards. |
| Outflung | adj | Especially of a person's arm - thrown out to one side. |
| Out-fly | vb | To exceed, surpass or outstrip in flying. |
| Out-flying | n | The act of surpassing in flying. |
| Outfoot | vb | To exceed or surpass, as in running or dancing. |
| Outforth | adv | Externally, outwardly, out from. |
| Outforthiness | n | State or condition of being forthright, straight talking, to the point in discussion. |
| Outfox | vb | To outdo in deception or cunning. 2. to outwit; to be too clever or mentally alert for. |
| Outfoxing | n | the act of outdoing in deception or cunning. 2. outwitting. |
| Outgang | n | A going out, a departure, exit, exodus. 2. the giving up of tenancy of land. |
| Out-gathering | n | A gathering away from one's earlier place or country of living. |
| Outgive | vb | To be generous, free-giving, open-hearted. |
| Outgiving | adj | Generous, open-hearted. |
| Outgivingness | n | Generosity |
| Out-glad | vb | To surpass in gladness; to delight more. |
| Outgleam | vb | To gleam with a greater shining. |
| Out-glow | vb | To glow more brightly than another. |
| Outgo | n | Efflux, effluxion, outflow. 2. outward product, issue, outcome. 3. outlet, means of egress. |
| Outgo | vb | To go forth, beyond, to go faster than. 2. to excel, outstrip, surpass, outdo. |
| Outgoer | n | The action of go forth, going faster, excelling. |
| Outgoing | n | Action of going forth, exiting, departing or removing. 2. going-out, exit, departure, removal. 3. issue, effluence, emanation. 4. passage or way of exit; egress. 5. expenditure, outlay, charges. |
| Outgoing | adj | Extroverted, sociable, gregarious, open-hearted, friendly, dressy. |
| Outgoingness | n | Extroversion, sociability, gregariousness, friendliness. |
| Outgone | adj | Gone out, extinguished; retired. |
| Outgreen | vb | To surpass in environmental activism or consciousness. |
| Outground | n | Ground situated at a distance from the house; outlying land. |
| Outgrow | vb | Too grow too big or large; surpass in growth. 2. stop doing or having an interest in something as one gets older. 3. surpass in growth. |
| Outgrowing | adj | That which grows outwards. |
| Outgrowth | n | The state or condition of growing outwards. 2. what grows out of anything, excresence; an offshot. |
| Outhale | vb | To exhale, breathe out after inhaling. |
| Outhandle | vb | To handle or operate in a superior way to. |
| Out-have | vb | To get or take out. 2. take away. |
| Outher | conj | Either |
| Out-hold | vb | To hold out. 2. to keep out, |
| Out-holding | n | With-holding. |
| Out-holl | vb | To scour or clean out anything that is hollow. |
| Out-hop | vb | To rise above, surmounty; overtop. |
| Outhound | vb | To instigate, set on in some evil deed, pursue relentlessly |
| Outhouse | n | A small building detached from but belonging to a dwelling house; or attached but without direct communication with the house. |
| Outing | n | A trip taken for pleasure, esp. one lasting a day or less; an airing. 2. the action of revealing the homosexuality of a prominent person. |
| Out-island | n | Out-lying island. |
| Out-islander | n | An inhabitant of an out-lying island. |
| Outkeeper | n | An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining. |
| Outken | n | To surpass in exceed in kenning. |
| Outknave | vb | Outdo in knavery, roguish or deeds of mischief. |
| Out-lade | vb | To discharge goods. |
| Outland | n | Outlying lands or very remote areas of a province or region. |
| Outlander | n | Person of foreign nationality, foreigner, alien, stranger. |
| Outlandling | n | Foreigner, stranger. |
| Outlandish | adj | Not according to usual style or custom. 2. strange, foreign, remote, isolated, barbarous; uncouth. 3. clownish in behavior, boorish, uncouth. |
| Outlandishlike | adj | Outlandish |
| Outlandishly | adv | In a somewhat outlandish manner. |
| Outlandishness | n | The quality of being outlandish. |
| Outlands | n | Outlying lands of a province or region. |
| Outlast | vb | To exceed in duration; survive, endure to the end. |
| Outlaugh | vb | To laugh one out of a purpose principle, etc. 2. to discourage or discomfit by laugh. 3. to surpass or outdo in laughing. |
| Outlaw | n | A person excluded from the benefits of the law, or deprived of legal protection. 2. a bandit, fugitive, criminal. |
| Outlaw | vb | To remove from legal jurisdiction, so as to outlaw certain acts or behavior. 2. to deprive of legal force. 3. declare someone to be an outlaw; to proscribe. |
| Outlawed | adj | Illegitimate, illicit, unlawful. |
| Outlawing | n | The act of removing from from legal |
| Outlay | n | That which is expenditure. 2. the laying out or expending. 3. disbursement, outgo, spending. 4. an outlying haunt. |
| Outlay | vb | To lay out, spread out, to display. |
| Outlead | vb | To lead out; bring out. |
| Outleap | n | A sortie, sally, a going-out. |
| Outleap | vb | to surpass in leaping. |
| Outlearn | vb | To surpass in learning. |
| Out-lengthen | vb | To make or cut far too long. |
| Outlet | n | Something that relieves a tension or stress. 2. the place of opening by which anything is let out. 3. a passage, exit, vent. |
| Outletting | n | A release of anything, esp. liquids. 2. a release of negative emotional feelings. |
| Outlie | vb | To exceed in lying, deception and trickery. |
| Outlier | n | One who doesn't live near his place of work; one who lives in the suburbs. 2. that which lies or is away from the main body. 3. an fact or situation that defies a logical analysis and explanation. |
| Outline | n | The contour or outer boundary thus defined; the line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour. 2. a sketch or drawing in which an object is represented by lines of a contour without shading. 3. in art: a line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated. 4. a rough draft, general sketch in words. 4. a description, giving a gen idea of the whole, but leaving details to be filled in. 5. a précis of a proposal, article, novel, scenario. |
| Outline | vb | Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; as, to outline an argument or a campaign 2. to draw the outline of. |
| Outlining | n | The act of sketching out or indicating as by an outline; as, outlining or explaining an argument or a campaign 2. the drawing the outline of. |
| Outlive | vb | To live beyond, or longer than, to survive. |
| Outliver | n | A survivor; one who lives longer than or outlives others. |
| Outliving | adj | Surviving beyond or living longer than |
| Outlook | n | Vigilance, watchfulness, mental view, or survey. 2. prospect for the future. 3. the act of looking out or watch. 4. a place from which one looks out. 5. a view obtained by one looking out scope of vision, a sight, an appearance. |
| Outlook | vb | To inspect thoroughly, to select. 2. to outstare, face on. |
| Outlooker | n | One who is vigilant, watchful. 2. one who looks out; a watchman. |
| Outlooking | adj | Outward-looking. |
| Outloose | n | A means of escape from an obligation, duty etc. |
| Outlot | n | A lot or piece of ground situated outside a town or outer area. |
| Outlung | vb | To outdo in lung power. 2. to outdo in shouting. |
| Outly | adv | Out and out; utterly, completely, outwardly, externally. |
| Outlying | adj | Situated or located outside the main centre of activity. |
| Outlying field | n | An airfield outside of the home base. |
| Outmake | n | The making out of; discernment of the sense; the understanding of, or outmaking of. |
| Outman | vb | To surpassed in the number of men available. 2. to surpass in manpower.. 3. to excel in many qualities. |
| Outman | n | A dweller without the bounds. 2. an outsider; a member of a company whose work is outside. |
| Outman | vb | To outnumber in men or personnel. 2. to outdo or excel as a man |
| Outmatch | vb | To superior to an opponent or rival. |
| Outmost | adv | Most outward; most external; situated farthest out; most out. 2. farthest from the inside or centre; outermost. |
| Outmost | phr | "To the Outmost" - to the utmost point, degree or limit. |
| Outmouth | n | A projecting mouth. |
| Outmouth | vb | To exceed in the loudness of sound. 2. to outdo in mouthing. |
| Outmouthed | adj | Out-talked or silenced by the loudness of voice of an other. |
| Outmove | vb | To succeed or surpass in moving. 2. outmanoeuvre. |
| Outname | vb | To be more notorious than. |
| Outneme | adj | Exceptional, special, extraordinary. |
| Outness | n | The quality, fact or condition of being out or external to the percipient or the mind, externalness. 2. utterance, outward expression. 3. occupation with or interest in what is without. |
| Outnim | vb | To take out, outnim, nim out, to except, leave out. |
| Out-of-awareness | adv | Completely unaware or very unalert. |
| Out-of-body | phr | Perceived as it from a position external to one's body. 2. as if one's mind had separated from the body. |
| Out-of-breath | adj | Short of breath. |
| Out-of-doorer | n | One who likes to spend as much time out of doors as possible. one inclined to an outdoor life. |
| Out-of-doorness | n | State or condition of being outdoors |
| Out-of-doors | adj | Outside, not indoors |
| Out-of-key | adj | Out of harmony. |
| Out-of-sight | adj | Excellent, incomparable, superior. 2. delightful, exciting, surprising. 3. unseen, out of vision, hidden from sight. |
| Out-of-the-way | adj | Remote from any centre of population. 2, unfrequented, secluded, remote spot. 3. seldom met with, unusual, far-fetched; hence extraordinary, odd, peculiar, remarkable. 4. departing from the proper path; devious. |
| Out-of-the-wayness | n | Quality or state of being remote or distant from any centre of population. 2. unfrequentness, seclusion. 3. far-fetchedness, oddness, peculiarity. 4. deviation. |
| Out-of-time | adj | At the wrong time or period. |
| Out-of-town | adj | Situating or originating from, or occurring outside a town. 2. taken place out of town. 3. unsophisticated, rustic, boorish. |
| Out-of-towner | n | A rustic, boor, country-folk. |
| Out-of-the-world | adj | Of exceptionally high quality. 2. wonderful, marvelous. |
| Out-of-truth | adj | Incapable of telling the truth or being honest. 2. a plane surface free from warp ot twist |
| Out-of-wedlock | adv | Of a child born to parents not legally married. |
| Out-over | prep | Of motion or direction (with the force of both words); over, across. 2. of position, over, above. 3. degree: over, above, in a position of superiority to; more tha, beyond. |
| Outplay | n | Display, manifestation. |
| Outplay | vb | To play better, surpass in skill. |
| Output | n | The amount of energy, work, goods or services produced by a machine, factory, company or individual in a period. 2. the desired result for a project or contract. 3. computing a result produced by a computer that is internal to the system. |
| Outputter | n | One who puts or pushes out. 2. a publisher. 3. one who utters and circulates fake currency. 4. one who employed or engaged to provide and fit out men for military service. 5. instigator, producer, entrepreneur. |
| Outputting | n | The action of putting out. 2. expulsion, ejection, evacuation. 3. a putting-forth, producing, issuing. 4. uttering false currency. 5. furnishing of new equipment, supplies, stores. |
| Outquench | vb | To put out, smother, extinguish a fire. |
| Outquenching | n | The act or action of putting out or extinguish, |
| Outreach | n | To reach beyond. |
| Outread | vb | To read thoroughly to the end. |
| Outred | vb | To disentangle; to extricate from difficulties by settlement of liabilities. 2. to clear from encumbrances. |
| Outredness | n | Disentanglement, extrication, unemcumbrance. |
| Outride | vb | To ride out, to go on an excursion. 2. to surpass in speed of riding; to ride beyond or faster than. |
| Outrider | n | One who rides out on horseback. 2. a summoner whose office is to cite people before the sheriff. |
| Outright | adj | Open and direct, absolute, thorough, without reservation orqualification. |
| Outright | adv | Wholly or completely. 2. immediately. |
| Outrightness | n | The quality of being direct or straightforward in speech. 2. the quality of being forthright in speech or thought. 3.directness, straight-forwardness. |
| Outring | n | Circumference. |
| Outrode | n | An excursion. (outroad) |
| Outroom | n | An outer room. |
| Outroot | vb | To eradicate, exterminate, pluck out by the roots, put an end to. |
| Outrun | n | An outlying pasture land for cattle or sheep. 2. outcome, result, conclusion. |
| Outrun | vb | To exceed in running, leave behind in running, to run faster, to outstrip. |
| Outrunner | n | An offshoot, a branch of a river. |
| Outrunning | n | The running out of, expiration, termination. |
| Outsail | vb | To sail better and/or faster than. |
| Outsale | n | Sale or the selling to foreigners. |
| Out-say | vb | To utter or speak out; to inform upon someone. 2. to say more than is required or asked to sale. |
| Outscold | vb | To exceed in scolding or chiding. |
| Outscore | vb | To score more points, goals etc. than one's opposition or opponent. |
| Outsee | vb | To surpass in length of sight. 2. to surpass in mental insight. 3. to see beyond a point or limit. |
| Outseek | vb | To seek out activity or diligently search for, investigate, research. |
| Outsell | vb | To exceed in the amount sold; to sell more than someone else. 2. to exceed in the price or value in selling. 3. to sell to foreigners. |
| Outsend | vb | To emit, send out, despatch. |
| Outsend | n | Emission, despatching, a sending-out, out-sending. |
| Out-sending | n | The despatching or distribution. |
| Outset | n | Embellishment, ornamentation, display. 2. the action of setting of. 3. beginning, starting a journey, course of action, a venture, commencement. 4. expenditure, outgoings. |
| Outset | vb | To set forth, set off. 2. to display, adorn, maintain with proper splendour. 3. put out, exclude. |
| Outsetting | n | Setting out or starting a journey. 2. action, undertaking, a starting-out. 3. action of fitting out or providing provision for an expedition, enterprise. 4. that what is the outside the self. |
| Outsetting | adj | That lies or lives in the open outside an enclosure, park etc. 2. that sets or fows steadily outward. |
| Outsettler | n | An emigrant. 2. a settler outside or in the outlying parts of a district. |
| Out-shadownig | n | The casting of great shadows. |
| Out-share | vb | Share or divide out generously. |
| Out-sharpen | vb | To excite thoroughly to sharpness or bitterness. 2. to exceed in sharpening. |
| Out-shedding | n | Diffuse, disperse, flow from, cause to fall from in great amount. |
| Out-shift | vb | To move or shift to the outskirts (suburbs) of a town or city. |
| Out-shifts | n | The outskirts, suburbs or low parts of a city. |
| Outshine | vb | To shine more brightly and thoroughly than. 2. to shine in splendour |
| Out-shining | n | The fact or condition of shining more brightly and thoroughly. 2. the fact of excelling in splendor. |
| Out-shoot | n | The exceeding or excelling in shooting. 2. the shooting beyond the mark. |
| Outshoot | vb | To exceed or excel in shooting. 2. to be superior in the use of firearms. to shoot beyond the mark. |
| Outshout | vb | To shout louder than. |
| Outshouting | n | The act or action of shouting louder than. |
| Outshove | vb | To push out, expel, throw out. 2. shove or jostle more robustly than. |
| Outshow | n | Display, exhibition, show, showing. |
| Outshut | vb | To exclude, shut out, prevent |
| Outside | n | The part of something that faces out; the outer surface. 2. the external appearance of something. 3. the space beyond some limit or boundary. 4. the furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc. |
| Outside | adj | Of or pertaining to the surface, limit or boundary. 2. of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit. 3. reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc. 4. pertaining to the outer surface or boundary. 5. pertaining to beyond the outer boundary |
| Outside | adv | Outdoors. 2. on or towards the outside. |
| Outside | prp | On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building). 2. near, but not in. 3. except, apart from. |
| Outside | phr | "At the Outside" - (of an estimate.) at the most. |
| Outside | phr | "Get Outside Of" - to eat or drink heartily, as 'he got outside a plate of crayfish'. |
| Outside | phr | "On the Outside" - the surface of something. 2. not belonging to a particular group. 3. approximately in relation to time, as, I will see you at 8pm on the outside'. |
| Outside | phr | "Outside Of" -aside from. |
| Outside | phr | "The Outside World" - people, places, activities, etc which are not those of an enclosed community, group, profession. |
| Outsided | adj | Having an outside or a surface. |
| Outside broadcast | n | A broadcast made on location and not in studio. |
| Outsideness | n | The quality of having an outside or a surface. 2. externality. |
| Outside-inside | adj | Pertaining to below and above and inside and outside. |
| Outsidely | adv | On the outside or externally. |
| Outsideness | n | The quality of being outside, or external. |
| Outsider | n | An non-member of some circle or party, profession, etc. 2. an uninitiated person, layman. 3. a person without special knowledge, breeding, etc., not fit to mix with with good society. 4. a competitor , applicant, etc., thought to have little chance of success. |
| Outsiderdom | n | The state of being outside of, external to; or being an outsider. 2. out-siderhood. |
| Outsiderhood | n | The state of being outside of, external to; or being an outsider. 2. out-siderdom. |
| Outsiderish | adj | Somewhat outside of, or external to. |
| Outsiderishly | adv | In a manner or way somehat like an outsider. |
| Outsiderliness | n | The quality or fact of being an outsider. |
| Outsiderishness | n | The state of being somewhat outside or external to. |
| Outsiderliness | n | The quality or fact of being outside. |
| Outsight | n | Sight of that which is without perception of external things. 2. faculty of observation and outlook' as opposed to insight. 3. prospect beyond or head, outlook, dream, reverie. |
| Outsin | vb | Surpass, gone beyond in sinfulness and evil. |
| Outsing | vb | Excel in song; get better at songing. 2. burst into song; express in singing. |
| Outsit | vb | To sit longer than. |
| Outskin | n | Epidermis. |
| Outskirter | n | One who stands or hangs on the outskirts.??????? |
| Outskirting ??? | n | bordering or lying on the fringes or borders of. |
| Outskirts | n | The outer border or fringe of a town, district, subject.??????? |
| Outsleep | vb | To sleep beyond beyond ones' usual waking time. |
| Outsmart | vb | Outwit, be cleverer than. |
| Outspan | n | A reserved place, at intervals along South African roads, where ox en, horses, etc may be unyoked and allowed to graze at a halting-place. |
| Outspan | vb | To unyoke, unharness; encamp. |
| Outspeed | vb | Travel at a speed greater than others. |
| Outspent | adj | Completely spent or wearied; tired out. |
| Outspoken | adj | Given to speaking out. 2. free, bold or unreserved in speech. 3. not afraid to speak aloud one's opinion; blunt. |
| Outspokenly | adv | In an outspoken manner, candidly, frankly, straightforwardly. |
| Outspoken-ness | n | The quality of being frank in speech, frankness of speech. 2. something spread out, an expanse;an outspreading example of bravery. |
| Outspread | vb | Spread out, fully extended or expanded. |
| Outspread | adj | Extended, wide. |
| Outspreading | adj | To stretch or extend or to be stretched out of extended. |
| Out-spreadingness | n | Of trees having the state and appearance of extending out. |
| Outspring | n | Flow or emanate from a source in great abundance. |
| Outspringing | n | Springing or flowing out, often in great abundance. |
| Outstand | vb | To resist effectually; withstand; sustain without yielding. 2. to surpass in standing; stand or remain beyond; outstay. 3. to project outward from the main body; stand out prominently; be prominent. 4. to stand out to sea. 5. to stand over; remain untouched, unimpaired, unsettled, uncollected, unpaid, or otherwise undetermined. |
| Outstanding | adj | Conspicuous, eminent, because of excellence. 2. remarkable in a specified field. |
| Outstandingly | adv | In an outstanding way or manner. |
| Outstandingness | n | Prominent, conspicuous, striking. |
| Outstare | vb | To stare so hard that the other person looks away. |
| Outstart | vb | To start out or up. |
| Outstep | vb | Step outside or beyond. |
| Outstink | vb | To smell worse than. 2. to surpass in stench. |
| Outstorm | vb | To exceed in storming. |
| Outstreet | n | A street remote from the centre of the town. |
| Outstretch | vb | Reach out or stretch out, esp. one's hands or legs). 2. reach or fetch further than; expand. |
| Outstretched | adj | Extended or stretched out. |
| Outstride | vb | To surpass in striding. |
| Outstrike | vb | To strike faster than. |
| Outstrip | vb | Pass in running etc., 2. surpass in competition or relative progress or ability. |
| Outswarm | vb | Swarm rapidly in all directions; teem prodigiously. |
| Outswear | vb | To use (coarse or vulgar) more frequently and powerfully than |
| Outsweat | vb | To work out by sweat and toil. |
| Outsweeten | vb | To surpass or exceed in sweetening. |
| Outswell | vb | To exceed inn swelling. 2. to swell beyond; overflow. |
| Outswim | vb | To outdo in swimming. |
| Out-taken | prp | Except, save. |
| Out-talk | vb | Outdo or overcome in talking. |
| Out-tell | vb | To surpass in counting and reckoning. |
| Out-there | adj | Crazy, nutty, loony. |
| Out-thereness | n | The quality of being nutty, crazy, loony. |
| Outthink | vb | Outwit, outdo in thinking. |
| Outthrow | vb | In sporting events: to throw better than. |
| Out-thunder | vb | To surpass in thundering. 2. to make a more thunderous noise. |
| Out-to | adj | Fixed in one's purpose, resolute, firm in belief. 2. dead-set, unshakeable. |
| Out-to-out | adj | applied to measurements taken from extremes of framing etc. 2. maximum size of anything |
| Outtop | vb | Surmount, surpass in height, extent, etc. |
| Outtown | adj | Away from a town. |
| Outtwind | vb | To unwind or untwist. |
| Out-turn | n | The quantity produced. 2. the result of a process or sequence of events. |
| Outwale | n | That which is selected to be taken out or removed. 2. refuse, rubbish, dregs. 3. one who is cast out, an outcast. |
| Outwalk | vb | Outdo in walking. 2. walk beyond one intended destination. |
| Outwalker | n | One who surpasses in walking. |
| Outwall | vb | The exterior wall; the outside surface, or appearance. |
| Outwander | vb | To wander out or away. |
| Outwandering | n | Wandering out or outwards. |
| Outward | n | the outward appearance of something. 2. the exterior. |
| Outward | adj | Situated on or directed towards the outside. 2. going outward or in an outward direction. 3. bodily, external, apparent. |
| Outward | adv | In an outward direction. 2. towards the outside. |
| Outward-bent | n | Mindset, outlook, point of view, opinion. |
| Outward-looking | adj | Looking beyond oneself; having an open mind, friendly and embracing towards others. |
| Outward-looking | adv | On the surface (fig); at first sight, and or for the outside. |
| Outwardly | adv | On the surface. 2. on or from the outside. 3. as regards, an outward appearance or outward manifestation. 4. on the outside or outer surface, externally. 5. towards the outside. 6. with reference to the outside or outer surface. |
| Outwardness | n | The quality or condition of being outward. 2. external existence, objectivity, outward experience, not introspective. 3. concern or belief with an outward or external thing, as opposed to that which is introspective or arises from within. |
| Outwards | adv | Away from the centre or particular point. 2. towards the outside. 3. located on, or moving towards the outside or exterior. 4. relating to the physical self, a concern with outward beauty, rather than inward reflection. 5. apparent, noticeable, from within, evident, observable, obvious, perceptible, towards the edge. |
| Outward-shine | n | Outward show or appearance. |
| Outward things | n | The world around us. |
| Outwash | vb | The material carried from a clacier by melting and deposited beyond the area where debris and rocks are deposited. |
| Outwatch | adj | Watch more than or longer than. 2. keep awake throughout the night and beyond daylight. |
| Outwaxing | n | A growth, waxing-out, excrement, excresence, out-growth. |
| Outway | n | An outlet, exit, egress, a way-out, a way or passage leading out. 2. by-way leading off the main road or route; a deviation. |
| Outway | adj | Going out of the way. |
| Out-weaponed | adj | To be inferior or lacking the arsenal of another country, group or person. |
| Outwear | n | Clothing worn out of doors. |
| Outwear | vb | Exhaust, wear out, wear away. 2. live or last beyond the duration of. 3. survive longer. |
| Outweary | vb | To weary out. |
| Outweed | vb | To weed out. |
| Outweep | vb | To weep profoundly. 2. teeming, as a cloud outweeping its rain'. |
| Outwell | vb | o issue out, flow or pour out. |
| Outweigh | vb | Exceed in weight, value, importance or influence. |
| Outwheeled | adj | The midnight sun rolled out. |
| Outwhore | vb | To be lewd to extreme level. |
| Outwin | vb | To find a way out of something. |
| Outwind | vb | To unwind, untangle. |
| Out-wing | vb | To surpass in swiftness of flight. 2. fig. to extend one's wings. |
| Out-winter | vb | To keep livestock out in the field during winter months. |
| Outwit | n | The faculty of observation or perception; an external sense. Nb: inwit: conscience. |
| Outwit | vb | To excel in wit, craftiness or intelligence. 2. to surpass in wisdom or knowledge. 3. to overreach or get the better of by superior craft or ingenuity; to prove too clever for. |
| Outwith | adv | Outside, on the outside, outwardly of a position; beyond. 2. of motion: out from, from, away. 3.of direction: out, from, a way from |
| Out-witter | n | One who is extremely wise, knowing or crafty or superior in wisdom. |
| Outwitting | n | The quality of having superior wit or intelligence |
| Outwoo | vb | To surpass in courting. |
| Outwork | n | Fortification outside the parapet. 2. work upon the outside or exterior. 3. an extra dish served as a relish. |
| Outworking | n | The action of process by which something is brought to a completion. |
| Outworld | n | The external or outside world. 2. the world external to a person's mind. 3. sphere of action, etc. 4. an outlying or outer world. |
| Outworldish | adj | Extra-mundane, outside of this world. |
| Outworn | adj | Worn out. |
| Out-worth | vb | To exceed in worth. |
| Out-write | vb | To exceed or excel in writing. |
| Outwry | vb | To discover, find out, uncover. |
| Out-yell | vb | To yell more loudly than. |
| Outyete | vb | To pour out |
| Outyield | vb | To surpass, in terms of yield or production (fig & lit) |
| Ouzel | n | An old name for the blackbird. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Oven | n | An enclosed compartment of stone, metal for cooling food. 2. a chamber for heating or drying. 3. a small furnace or kiln used in metallurgy, etc. |
| Oven | vb | to bake food in an oven. |
| Oven | adj | Applied to wood that doesn't moisture in a stated interval of time when placed in a ventilated oven at 100c. |
| Oven-glove | n | A thick covering for the hand, used for talking hot things out of the oven. |
| Ovenless | adj | Not having or without an oven. |
| Ovenware | n | Cooking utensils that can be safely used in an oven |
| Ovenon | adv | From above. |
| Oven-ready | adj | Prepared before sale so as to be ready for immediate cooking in an oven. |
| Oven-ware | n | Dishes that can be used for cooking food in an oven |
| Over | adj | Upper; covering; higher; superior. 2. excessive; too much or too great; |
| Over | prp | In or at a position above or higher than: a sign over the door. 2. above and across from one end or side to the other. 3. to the other side of; across. 4. to cross the edge of and down. 4. on the other side of; as 'over the road'. 4. upon the surface of: put a coat of paint over. 5. on top of or hit down upon. 6. through the extent of; all through: walked; looked over. 7. through the medium of; via: addressed us over a microphone. 8. so as to cover: put rocks over a entrance. 9. up to or higher than the level or height of: over my roof. 10. through the period or duration of, over years. 11. until or beyond the end of, stayed over the weekend. 12. more than in degree, quantity, or extent: over miles; over a hundred dollars. 13. in superiority to. 13. in preference to: selected or chosen over. 14. in a position to rule or control. 15. so as to have an effect or influence on, a change. 16. at a point at which one is no longer troubled by. 17. while occupied with or engaged in; a chat. 18. with reference to; concerning. |
| Over | adv | Above the top or surface. 2. across to another or opposite side. 2. across the edge, brink, spilled over. 2. across an intervening space. 3. across a distance in a particular direction or at a location. 4. to another often specified place or position; as towards the river. 5. to one's place of residence or business; invited over. 6. throughout an entire area or region. 7. to a different opinion, view or allegiance; win someone over. 8. so as to be comprehensible, acceptable, or effective; across: eventually got one's point over. 9. to a different person, condition, or title. 10. so as to be completely enclosed or covered, frozen over.
11. completely through; from beginning to end; think something over. 12. from an upright position. 13. from an upward position to an inverted or reversed position: turn over. 14. another time; again; counted over again. 15 in repetition; write over again. 16. in addition or excess; in surplus; left over. 17. beyond or until a specified time. 18. at an end; the game is over |
| Over | pfx | In nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs)more than usual; too much; as overload, over-anxious. 2. completely; as over-glad. 3. upper; outer; as overtime. 4. over; above overcast. |
| Over | phr | "All Over" - ended, or in every part. |
| Over | phr | "All Over Again" - to do something once more. 2. do something for a second time. 3. (be somebody, something) repeated. 2. (be something, somebody) in identical or very similar form or character. |
| Over | phr | "Be All Over Somebody" - be over-friendly with somebody. |
| Over | "phr | "Bring Over" - cause a person to change allegiance |
| Over | phr | "Come Over" - to change sides , as in controversy. 2. pay a casual visit. |
| Over | phr | "Do Over" - to make over, perform a second time. 2. to cover, to spread, to smear. |
| Over | phr | "Fall Over" - to lose balance and collapse on the ground. 2. to fall from an upright position. |
| Over | phr | "Fall Over Backwards" - make every effort to do something. |
| Over | phr | "Fall Over Oneself" - be overeager to please. |
| Over | phr | "Get It Over with" - do or undergo something unpleasant etc. so as to get rid of it. |
| Over | phr | "Give Over" - hand over, entrust. 2. to devote to a particular purpose or cause. 3. to surrender oneself completely, abandon. 4. to cause an activity to stop; end, leave off. |
| Over | phr | "Go Over" - to gain acceptance or approval. 2. to examine or review. |
| Over | phr | "Go Overboard" - to act foolishly and in an excessive way. 2. be over enthusiastic. |
| Over | phr | "Go Over Somebody's Head" - without taking account of people in positions of authority between oneself and the person being favored or appealed to. |
| Over | phr | "Half Seas Over" - fairly drunk. |
| Over | phr | "Its All Over with Him" - he's finished, he can't go any farther (one who has been given no hope of recovery by a doctor) |
| Over | phr | "Look Over" - to examine or inspect, often in a hasty fashion. |
| Over | phr | "Lord it Over" - domineer, boss about. |
| Over | phr | "Make Over" - an overall treatment to improve something or someone more attractive. |
| Over | phr | "Not Over" - not very, not at all. |
| Over | phr | "Over Again" - once again, once more, again from the beginning. |
| Over | phr | "Over Against" - in an opposite situation to, adjacent to, in contrast with, in front of. |
| Over | phr | "Over and Above" - above in rank. 2. in manner, or degree, beyond what is supposed, defined, usual; besides, as well, in addition, to somebody or something. |
| Over | phr | "Over and Besides" - more, in additional to. |
| Over | phr | "Over and Beyond" - (look over and beyond) anything without seeing it. 2. in looking to overlook or omit. |
| Over | phr | "Over and Done with" - totally finished. |
| Over | phr | "Over and Out" - indicating that radio conversation or transmission is at an end. |
| Over | phr | "Over and Over (again)" - repeatedly, time and time again; on many occasions. |
| Over | phr | "Over and Over Again" - repeatedly, with repetition. |
| Over | phr | "Over Goes One's Bed" - to break , to go beyond or over go a moral limit, to transgress or to break wedlock, to act with infidelity, cheat or betray the trust of a spouse. |
| Over | phr | "Overgrow Oneself" - grow beyond oneself strength. |
| Over | phr | "Over here" - the country etc where one is/is not at the moment osf speaking (irrespective of one's own nationality), especialy one separated by sea, channel from another country, Britain vis a vis France, the US. See 'over there'. |
| Over | phr | "Over My Dead Body" - something will be allowed to be done/happen only if I am dead, for example I am determined that something specified will not occur. |
| Over | phr | "Over One's Head" - of a matter or issue too difficult for someone; incomprehensible. |
| Over | phr | "Over-reach Oneself" - to try to do more than is possible. 2. to get better by cunning; to outwit. 3. to fail through excessive ambition and cunning. |
| Over | phr | "Overshoot the Mark" - exceed the permitted limits in a contest. 2. to something inaccurately, or with poor judgement or taste; to exaggerate. 3. to shoot over or beyond one's aim or mark; miss one's mark by going too far. 4. to go farther than one intends any course. 5. to overreach oneself. 6. to fill into error. 7. to go or venture too far. |
| Over | phr | "Overstep the Mark" - exceed in one's behavior or language, what is right, morally acceptable , etc. |
| Over | phr | "Over the Edge" - insane, having lost control. |
| Over | phr | "Over the Hill" - to old or worn out to be useful. 2. past the prime of life. |
| Over | phr | "Over the Hill and Far Away" - not near; far away. |
| Over | phr | "Over the Left" - in early Victorian days, a way of expressing disbelief, incredulity or a negative. |
| Over | phr | "Over the Moon" - delighted, thrilled. |
| Over | phr | "Over there" - the country etc where one is/is not at the moment osf speaking (irrespective of one's own nationality), especially one separated by sea, channel from another country, Britain vis a vis France, the US. See 'over here'. |
| Over | phr | "Over the Top" - to rise above or above the top of. 2. to surpass the height. 3. surmount, tower above, top. 4. to rise above in power or authority. 5. be excessive. |
| Over | phr | "Over the Way" - (in a street) facing or opposite. |
| Over | phr | "Over Time" - from a historic or evolutionary perspective. 2. happening, as time passes; gradually. |
| Over | phr | "Over to You" - in radio conversation, said to indicate that it is another person's turn to speak. 2. it is your turn, responsibility, decision (now) etc. |
| Over | phr | "Over With" - completely finished, done. |
| Over | phr | "Run Over" - to injure or kill by running over with a vehicle. 2. flow or run over a limit, level, top, brim. |
| Over | phr | "Start Over Again" - to commence or begin something again. |
| Over | phr | "Think (Something) Over" - to ponder or reflect on a subject. |
| Over | phr | "Throw Over" - to overturn. 2. abandon. 3. reject. |
| Over | phr | "Work Overtime at Something" - to spend a lot of time and effort at doing something. |
| Overall | n | Including everything the whole range; taken as a whole, inclusive. |
| Overall | adj | All-encompassing, all around; including or covering everything. 2. from one extremity to another; said of dimensions measured. 3. applied to dimensions that cover several smaller ones in the same plane. |
| Overall | adv | Generally, with everything considered. |
| Over-all'where | adv | Everywhere. |
| Overalls | n | A garment worn over another to protect it from dirt etc; a boiler suit. 2. a garment worn for manual labor. |
| Over-and-above | adj | Overmuch, too great, excessive |
| Over-ane | adv | On one and tghe same footing; in common. together. |
| Overawe | vb | Restrain by fear. 2. keep in awe or intimidated. |
| Over-aweful | adj | Excessively aw(e)ful; awe-inspiring or reverential. |
| Overbear | vb | To carry over, transfer, remove, put away. 2. to overcome, put down. 3. to repress as by power, authority or influence. 4. to overpower, oppress, subdue. 5. to surpass in importance, cogency, weightiness. 6. to produce too much fruit - (fig. produce too many offspring) - adversely affecting the fruit. 7. to bear or crush down by physical weight or force. |
| Overbearer | n | One who carries over, transfers. 2. one who over powers, overrules, subdues; a ruler. 3. a tree that produces too much fruit. |
| Overbearing | n | The action of the verb. 2. thrusting over by force, overpowering, forcible subversion. 3. imperious or dictatorial action; arrogant exercise of superior power. |
| Overbearing | adj | Domineering, imperious, dogmatic. |
| Overbearingly | adv | In an overbearing manner; domineering. |
| Overbearingness | n | Quality or character of being overbearing: overpowering, imperious, dictatorial, arrogant. |
| Overbeat | vb | To beat down. 2. overthrow, overpower. |
| Overbeaten | n | The action of beating or dwelling with iteration upon. 2. excessive beating of the heart. |
| Overbeing | n | A god, deity, divine being. |
| Overbelief | n | A belief in more than is warranted by the evidence or in what cannot be verified. 2. a belief beyond that what is customary among adherents of a particular faith or sect. |
| Overbend | vb | To bend over in excess; bend too far or low. |
| Overbid | n | A bid that is higher than another, or higher than justified. 2. to outbid, to offer a bid that is more than the value of item up for sale. |
| Overbid | vb | To make a higher bid than. 2. a bid that is higher than the others. |
| Overbidder | n | One who makes a higher bid than another, or higher than justified. |
| Overbidding | n | The act or action of making a higher bid than another or one higher than justified. |
| Overbide | vb | To remain over after, to tarry, to outlast, survive, outlive. |
| Overbind | adj | To bind or restrict to an excessive extent. |
| Overbite | n | Projection of the upper incisor teeth in front of the lower in attempted occlusions. 2. the overlapping of the lower teeth; especially the incisor. |
| Overbitter | adj | Excessive bitter in taste and attitude. |
| Overbitterness | n | The state or quality of being an excessively bitter. |
| Overblow | vb | To blow a thing over the top of another thing. 2. to blow over one's head. 3. of a storm: excessively strong. 4. to cover with blossom. 5. a period or instance of overblowing. |
| Overblown | adj | Blown over, that has passed away. 2. inflated, swollen, puffed up. 3. too much blown, more than full blown. 4. applied toan organ pipe that produces a sound higher than the correct one. |
| Overboard | adv | Out, or over the side, of a boat, or ship, and into the water. |
| Overboding | n | Foretelling or portending excessively. |
| Overbody | n | An upper or outer bodice. |
| Overbold | adj | Unduly bold, greatly daring, almost fearless. 2. presumptious, unduly or excessively bold. |
| Overboldly | adv | In an overbold manner, with too much boldness. |
| Overboldness | n | Excessive boldness, audacity, presumptuousness. |
| Overbook | vb | Accepting or making more reservations than the venue can hold or the occasion can accommodate. |
| Overbooked | adj | Having had more seats or tickets sold or guaranteed then were available. |
| Overbooker | n | A company or individual who overbooks or sells more seats or tickets tahn were available. |
| Overbookish | adj | Excessively bookish, over-studious; pedantic, bookwormish. |
| Overboot | vb | A heavy overshoe. |
| Overborrow | vb | To borrow too much money. |
| Overbow | vb | To bend in excess. |
| Overbrand | vb | To use too many brand (proprietary ) names in marketing. |
| Overbreadth | n | The excessive broadening of a statute that, in proscribing unprotected speech, also proscribes protected speech. |
| Overbreak | vb | To break over. |
| Overbreathe | vb | To put out of breathe. 2. to breathe over. 3. overbreathing. |
| Overbrede | vb | To overspread, to cover all over. |
| Overbreed | vb | To breed excessively. |
| Overbridge | vb | To make a bridge over. |
| Overbright | adj | Excessively bright, too bright. |
| Overbrim | vb | To overflow at the brim. 2. to overflow at the brim. |
| Overbrimmed | adj | Overflowed. |
| Overbrimming | n | State or condition of overflowing (the brim). |
| Overbring | vb | To bring over or across. 2. to translate. |
| Overbroad | adj | Too broad. |
| Overbrood | vb | Hover over excessively. 2. over-mother, care too much for. |
| Overbrow | n | The eyebrow. |
| Overbuild | vb | Put or construct too many buildings in an area. 2. to build over the top of. |
| Overbuilder | n | A person or organization what overbuilds or builds on a too elaborate a scale. 2. a company that utilizes or builds on an existing building. |
| Overbuilt | adj | Having an excessive construction performed on a building or on an area. |
| Overburden | vb | To load with too great of a burden; overload. 2. too burden too heavily or too much weight. |
| Overburdened | adj | Overloaded, excessively burdened. |
| Over-burdensome | adj | Excessively difficult to bear. |
| Overburn | vb | To burn to much, either accidentally or by deliberation. 2. in computing - to record more than the usual available data capacity onto an optical disc. |
| Overburning | n | The action of the verb 'overburn'. |
| Overburningly | adv | Over ardently. |
| Overbusy | adj | Excessively busy. |
| Overbuy | vb | To buy to much than is needed; squander. |
| Overby | adv | A little way over; of a short distance, over near; as, 'our friends overby'. |
| Overcall | n | An instance or act of overcalling. |
| Overcall | vb | Make a higher bid than one's opponent builder. 2. overbid. |
| Overcare | vb | To care too much or to be over-caring; to care unduly or excessively, often with anxiety. |
| Overcareful | adj | Excessively or unduly careful, too careful or anxious. |
| Over-carefully | adv | In a manner excessively careful or attention paying. |
| Over-carefullness | n | The trait of being excessively cautious; the quality of being cautious. |
| Over-careless | adj | Marked by a total lack of attention, consideration, forethought or thoroughness. 2. without any due thought or consideration. |
| Overcaring | n | Feeling and exhibiting excessive caring and empathy for others. |
| Overcast | n | Cloud or clouds covering nine-tenths of the sky. |
| Overcast | adj | (Of the weather or the sky)marked by a covering of grey cloud; clouded, dull. 2. cloud covering a large part of the sky |
| Overcast | vb | To cover with cloud or shade; to darken. 2. to stitch roughly , so as to prevent unraveling. |
| Overcast | vb | To overthrow; tip over. |
| Overcarve | vb | To cut across, intersect. |
| Overchill | vb | To chill too much. |
| Overclean | vb | To clean to an excessive degree. |
| Overclothes | n | Outer garments. |
| Overclothing | n | Over garments collectively. |
| Overcloud | vb | To become cloudy or covered with clouds. 2. to overspread or cover with clouds; nubilate. 3. make obscure or unclear. 4. to make dark and gloomy. |
| Overclouded | adj | Covered excessively by clouds. 2. overcast, nubilous, nimbose, gloomy, dark. |
| Overclouding | n | The state or condition of being nubilated or overclouded. |
| Overcloudy | adj | Thickly or densely covered by clouds. 2. of thick or very clouded sediment; extremely murky. |
| Overcold | adj | Too or very cold. |
| Overcome | vb | To come over; move or pass over or throughout obstacles. 2. to reach or extend over or throughout; spread over; cover; overflow; surcharge. 3. to overwhelm; oppress; overpower; surmount; conquer; overpower, vanquish; subdue. 4. to get beyond; outstrip; excel. 6. to gain the superiority; be victorious; conquer. 5. overpowered by liquor; intoxicated. |
| Overcome | phr | "To Be Overcome" - (resulting from fear, emotion, fatigue etc) to be exhausted or helpless. |
| Overcomer | n | One who overcomes; a conqueror, vanquisher. 2. an emigrant, foreigner, alien. |
| Overcoming | adj | Overcoming, overpowering, oppressive, overwhelming, presumptious, overcomingly |
| Overcooled | adj | Cooled to an excessive degree. |
| Overcooling | adj | Excessive cooling, esp. in the cooling of an engine. |
| Overcraftly | adj | Deceitful, cunning |
| Overcreep | vb | To creep over. |
| Overcrop | vb | To exhaust land by continuous cropping. |
| Overcrow | vb | To exult over; praise exceedingly. 2. triumph over. |
| Overcrow | vb | To crow or exult over; to triumph over, to overpower. |
| Overcrowd | vb | To fill or crowd with excess. |
| Overcunning | adj | An excess of cunning, too great of knowing or knowingness. |
| Overcunning | adj | Too cunning. |
| Overdare | n | Daring, boldness, foolhardiness to an unduly level. |
| Overdare | vb | To surpass in daring. |
| Overdaring | n | The action of being too daring; excessive boldness, presumption. |
| Overdaring | adj | Unduly or impudently bold; foolhardy. |
| Overdark | adj | Over dark or gloomy. |
| Overdark | adv | In the dark, till after dark. |
| Overdeal | n | A part or portion left over or in surplus, a surplus, an excess or plus. |
| Overdear | adj | Excessively or exceedingly dear. 2. too costly, expensive. |
| Overdearness | n | Fact or being too dear or exceedingly expensive. |
| Overdeed | n | An overdoing, an excess in doing, an intemperance. |
| Overdeepen | vb | To deepen further, make even deeper. |
| Overdight | vb | To cover overhead; to cover all over |
| Overdo | vb | To do excessively; carry too far; exaggerate. 2. to overtax the strength; exhaust; usually used reflexively or passively. 3. to do too much; to fatigue; to exaggerate. 4. to surpass, to outdo. 5. to cook too much. |
| Overdo | phr | "Overdo It" - exhaust oneself. |
| Overdog | n | Top dog, as opposed to underdog. |
| Overdoing | adj | That overdoes or does too much; overdone. |
| Overdone | vb | Carried too excess, take too far, exaggerate; over-acted. 2. cook too much. |
| Overdone | phr | "At Overdone" - at an excessive rate; to excess. |
| Overdonely | adv | Excessively. |
| Overdoor | n | An ornamental finish at the tead of a door. |
| Overdraw | n | To draw money from one's bank account in excess of what the account holds. 2. the enlargement beyond the bounds or truth; romanticize. 3. overdraft. |
| Overdraw | vb | The drawing of money from one's bank account in excess of what the account holds. 2. to enlarge beyond the bounds or truth; romanticize. 3. to draw excessively, as a bow. 4. to exaggerate a representation of. |
| Overdrawn | adj | Drawn in excess of what money one's bank account holds. |
| Overdreve | vb | To stud with nails driven into the whole surface. |
| Overdrink | vb | To drink strong liquor excessively. |
| Overdrinking | n | The act of drinking hard or strong liquor excessively and for too long.. |
| Overdrip | vb | See 'overdrop' |
| Overdrive | n | A mechanism in a motor vehicle providing a gear ratio higher than that of a usual gear. 2. an additional speed-increasing gear. 3. a state of of high or excessive activity. |
| Overdrive | vb | To drive away, dispel, overthrow. 2. to cause time to pass or lapse. 3. to bring to an end. 4. to pass, spend, use up. |
| Overdrop | vb | To drop over, overhang, overshadow. |
| Overdrown | vb | To flood with water. 2. submerge, drench, inundate, wet excessively. |
| Over-early | adj | Too early, premature, prematurely, too soon. |
| Overearnest | adj | Over ardent or intense. |
| Overeat | vb | To eat in excessive, be a glutton, gormandize. |
| Overeating | n | The action of overeating. |
| Over-end | n | The upper end, the top, overend. |
| Over-english | vb | To exaggerate a description in English. |
| Overer | n | A superior, higher in status or position. 2. upper or higher part of a region. 3. upper of two things. 4. a person of higher rank or superiority. |
| Overest | n | The person supreme over others; a ruler. |
| Overest | adj | Highest position, uppermost, above the rest. 2. fig. the highest in status. |
| Overest | adv | In the highest or uppermost position. |
| Over-eye | vb | To cast an eye over. to watch carefully, observe. 3. watch over, take care of. |
| Overfall | n | A waterfall in a river; rapids, cataract. 2. a rapid sea-current formed by the peculiarities of the bottom, or of the winds, tides etc, etc a race. 3. a sudden drop in the bottom of the sea. 4. a catch basin for overflow, as from a canal. |
| Overfall | vb | To fall upon or over. 2. to attack assail, fall upon. |
| Overfare | vb | To pass over, across, or through; traverse. |
| Overfat | adj | Very fat, obese. |
| Overfear | n | Excessive fear, terrification. |
| Overfearful | adj | Exceedingly fearful, absolutely terrified. |
| Overfearfully | adv | In a terrifying or fearful manner. |
| Overfearfulness | n | State or condition of excesively fearful. |
| Ovefeed | vb | Feed to much or excessively. |
| Overfew | adj | Too few. |
| Overfill | vb | Fill beyond a reasonable or safe limit. |
| Overfilled | adj | Filled beyond the limit. |
| Overfilling | n | The act or action of filling beyond a reasonable or safe limit. |
| Overfire | vb | To heat too much. |
| Ovefish | vb | To deplete the stock of fish by over-fishing. |
| Overfishing | n | The act or action of depletion a stock of fish. |
| Overflee | vb | To flee over, escape from, to run from, run away. |
| Overfleet | vb | To flow over, overflow, cover over with floating things. |
| Overflight | n | The act of flying over or beyond a territory, region or place. |
| Overfloat | vb | To overflow, flow over. |
| Overflood | vb | Flood or inundate greatly. |
| Overfloten | adj | Overflowed, flooded, over-flooded, immersed, submersed. |
| Overflow | vb | Flow over the edge, limits, brim of a receptacle or container. 2. flow or flow over the brim or bank, as water, or a river. 3. to flow over or spread over, cover. 4. to superabund. 5. to fill beyond capacity over the edge, caused to overflow, as over the limits, or brim of a receptacle or container. 6. of a gathering or multitude to extend beyond the boundary or limits. 3. |
| Overflow | n | What overflow or is superfluous; a superabundance; surplus water. 2. an instance of overflowing of a flowing over. 3. an outlet or valve to discharge excess water. |
| Overflow | adj | Too full, abundant. 2. of kindness, warmness to issue abundantly |
| Overflow hole | n | An outlet that allows the escape of surplus water or other liquids. |
| Overflowing | n | An overflow; that which overflows. 2. copiousness, exuberance. 3. copious, running over the brim, abundant. |
| Overflowing | adj | Covered and flowing over with water or other liquids. |
| Overflow meeting | n | A meeting for those who can not fit into main building or arena. |
| Overfly | vb | Fly beyond a place, area or region. |
| Overfold | n | A series of strata folded so as that the middle part is upside down. |
| Overforth | adv | Very far forth; forward or onward. |
| Overforward | adj | Too forward; precocious, overbold, over presumptuous |
| Overforwardly | adv | Advancing or going forward in a too rapid rate. |
| Overforwardness | n | Precocity. 2. over bold in manners and conduct. 3. advancing far too quickly. |
| Over-friendliness | n | The quality of being too friendly. |
| Over-friendly | adv | Excessively friendly |
| Overfree | adj | Excessive or too much freedom. 2. laxity in parents in child rearing. |
| Overfreedom | n | Too liberal or lacking in responsibility. |
| Overfrozen | adj | Frozen to an icy state or near icy state. |
| Overfulfil | vb | A plan etc beyond expectation or before the appointed time. |
| Overfull | adj | Full beyond its capacity. |
| Overfulness | n | Of eating or drinking: the state or condition of being overfull. 2. of a place, region, country, venue full beyond its capacity. |
| Overfyll | n | Overfulness, sep. in eating or drinking, a surfeit, repletion. |
| Overgang | vb | To head over, trample upon, conquer drew power, get the better off. 2. to go over, across, overstep, transgress, to go beyond, exceed. |
| Overgate | n | A way over a wall or stream (ford). |
| Overget | vb | To overtake. 2. to get over, surmount. 3. recover from illness' affects, shock etc. 4. get the better of, outwit. 5. to prevail upon; take possession of a place, etc. |
| Overgild | vb | To gild over. |
| Overgird | vb | Too gird too closely or tightly. |
| Overgive | vb | To give over, surrender, yield. 2. to give freely or excessively. |
| Over-giving | n | The act of giving over, surrendering or yielding. 2. the act of giving freely and excessively. |
| Overglad | adj | Excessively happy or glad. |
| Overglide | vb | To glide over. |
| Overgo | vb | To come upon suddenly. 2. to overtake, to catch, apprehend, detect. 3. to pass over a wall, boundary, line, border etc. 4. to surmount, cross, traverse. 5. to break , to go beyond or over go a moral limit, to transgress --" as over goes one's bed." -- to break wedlock, to act with infidelity, cheat or betray the trust of a spouse. 6. to go beyond, exceed. 7. to overcome, overpower, get the better of, overwhelm, oppress. 8. to go over, spread over or cover. 9. to over-run, overflow, pass over, or spread over in a hostile or damaging way. to travel throughout, traverse. 10. to live through a time, era, epoch. 11. to go faster, leave behind, outstrip, overtake. 12. to pass over, pass by, leave alone, omit. |
| Overgo | phr | "Over Goes One's Bed" - to break , to go beyond or over go a moral limit, to transgress or to break wedlock, to act with infidelity, cheat or betray the trust of a spouse. |
| Over-god | n | A supreme god. |
| Over-godly | adj | Extremely religious. |
| Overgoing | n | A transgression, a limit-breaking, a moral and ethical betrayal. 2. going over; a transgression crossing the point of going over, the brink. |
| Overgone | adj | Gone out of use. 2. obsolete, gone by bounds, too far gone. |
| Overgood | adj | Too good; excessively good |
| Overgreat | adj | Too great, excessive. |
| Overgreatly | adv | Too great, excessively. |
| Over-greatness | n | State or quality of being very great. |
| Overgreed | n | Excessive greed, gluttony. |
| Overgreedily | adv | In a manner or way displaying great greediness. |
| Overgreediness | n | The act of being overgreedy. |
| Overgreedy | adj | Excessively greedy, gluttony. |
| Overgroom | vb | To groom oneseld or others excessively. |
| Overground | n | The surface or top of anything. 2 the uppermost. |
| Overground | adj | Overt, unconcealed, publicly, acknowledged. |
| Overground | adv | Above the ground; into the open; unconcealed. |
| Overgrow | vb | To grow beyond one's boundaries or containment. 2. to grow over; (of one thing) to cause (a second thing) to become overgrown (with or by the first thing). 3. grow to big or large for; outgrow. 4. to grow or increase excessively. |
| Overgrow | phr | "Overgrow Oneself" - grow beyond oneself strength. |
| Overgrowing | n | Overspreading, surpassing, covering thickly or densely. |
| Overgrown | adj | Densely covered with vegetation, spreading over, jungle-like, stifling, choking. |
| Overgrownly | adv | Excessively, in an overgrown state. |
| Overgrownness | n | The state or condition of being overgrown. |
| Overgrowth | n | Excessive in growth and size; a profusion of growth on or over something else. 2. growth that has covered everything. |
| Overhale | vb | To draw over something as a covering. 2. pull or drag over or across the top. 3. to pass over disregard, overlook. 4. to harry, harass, molest, oppress. 5. to overpower, overmaster, examine thoroughly. |
| Overhand | n | The upper-hand, mastery, victory, superiority. |
| Overhand | vb | To turn over or upside down. 2. turn out of hand, or aside. |
| Overhanded | adj | Characterized by bringing the hand from above downwards. |
| Overhand knot | n | A simple knot made by passing the rope string , etc. over the starting point and through the top or bight so formed, |
| Overhandle | vb | To handle excessively. |
| Overhang | n | A part of something which hangs or projects over something else; jut over. 2. an overhanging portion of a structure, as a roof, the bow of a ship, etc; also the amount of degree of such projection. 3. a quantity of securities or commodities large enough to make prices fall if offered for sale. |
| Overhang | vb | To impend over, threaten. 2. to hang over or project out. 3. to hang over or jut out. 4. to adorn with hangings. |
| Overhanging | n | Something that overhangs. |
| Overhanging eaves | n | Common rafters continued over the wall plate to project over the face of the wall. |
| Overhard | adj | Too hard, excessively hard. |
| Overhard | adv | Too hard. |
| Overharden | adj | To over harden or harden too much. |
| Overhardness | n | State or quality of being hardness. |
| Overhardy | adj | To hardy; overbold, brash, reckless; rash |
| Overharry | vb | To pass over in devastation and disaster. 2. to harry over or worried beyond measure. |
| Overharvest | vb | To the harvest too often; too unsustainable level. |
| Overharvesting | n | One of five primary activities threatening global biodiversity; others include pollution, introduced species, habitat fragmentation, and habitat destruction. Aquatic species are especially threatened by overharvesting, due to a situation known as the tragedy of the commons. |
| Overhaving | adj | Having or inclined to having too much. 2. greedy, avaricious. |
| Over-havingness | n | The state or fact of having too much, avarice, greed, |
| Overhead | n | General expenditure applicable to all departments of a business, as light, heating, taxes. 2. the ceiling of a cabin or hold on a ship. |
| Overhead | adj | Placed above the head. 2. above; aloft; in the sky; placed above. 3. of expenses arising from general running costs, as distinct from particular business transactions. 4. chosen by random sampling; average: an overhead sample. |
| Overhead | adv | Above one's head; aloft. 2. in the sky or the heavens above. 3. so as to be submerged: over one's head. |
| Overhead-line | n | A structure used in electric power transmission and distribution to transmit electrical energy along large distances. It consists of one or more conductors (commonly multiples of three) suspended by towers or poles |
| Overheal | vb | To heal a wound, sore (only) superficially. |
| Overhealer | n | One who, or that which, heals superficially. |
| Overhealing | n | Superficial treatment and healing that may cause greater scarring. |
| Overheap | vb | To collect or gather copiously, or in excess, in a heap. |
| Overhear | vb | To hear as an eavesdropper, or as an incidental or unintentional listener. |
| Overheard | adj | Heard as an eavesdropper, or an incidental listener. |
| Overhearer | n | One who hears as an eavesdropper, or as an incidental or unintentional listener. |
| Overheartily | adv | In a heartful manner. |
| Overhearty | adj | |
| Overheat | vb | To make or cause to become too hot. 2. to heat too excess. |
| Overheated | adj | Excessively heated, made hot to excess. 2. very or greatly passionate about an issue or belief. |
| Overheatedly | adv | In an overheated manner; with undue heat. |
| Overheating | n | The excessive heating of something. |
| Over-heave | vb | To pass over, neglect, omit. 2. to overcome, conquer, vanquish. 3. to lift or raise something above anything else. 4. to exalt. 5. to overstrain oneself in lifting. |
| Overheaviness | n | The state or condition of being overheavy. |
| Overheavy | adj | Excessively heavy. |
| Overheight | n | Excessive height. |
| Overhele | vb | To cover over, to cover up, overhill, overhale. |
| Overheling | n | The action of covering over; overhilling. |
| Overhelpful | adj | Help given with good intentions but extremely unhelpful to a successful outcome. |
| Overhent | vb | To lay hold upon, to overtake. |
| Over-here | n | The country etc where one is/is not at the moment of speaking (irrespective of one's own nationality), especialy one separated by sea, channel from another country, Britain vis a vis France, the US. See 'over there'. |
| Overhie | vb | To overreach, to take by hastening after, to leave behind by hastening. 2. to pass over as swiftly as fire. |
| Overhigh | vb | o lift or raise too high. 2. exalt supremely. |
| Overhigh | adj | Excessively ot too high. |
| Over-higher | n | A superior, ruler, head. |
| Over-highly | adv | In an excessive high or too high way; with a superior manner. |
| Overhire | vb | To hire too many employees. |
| Overhill | vb | To cover over , to cover up, tile, roof over, overhale, overhele |
| Overhip | vb | To leap over, skip over, omit. |
| Overhit | vb | Hit unduly. 2. hit beyond the mark aimed at, instead of accurately hitting. |
| Overhold | vb | Overestimate; deem at a too higher rate. 2. restrain, hold back. |
| Overhope | n | Too great a hope or confidence; a presumption. |
| Overhope | vb | To hope exceedingly or overly optimistically. |
| Overhot | adj | Excessively hot, very much overheated. |
| Overhouse | adj | Over the top of a house, as power lines. |
| Over-housed | adj | Of, or pertaining to a resident in subsidized housing who are no longer eligible to remain in a house of the size that they occupy. |
| Over-housed | vb | To be impressed by the quality and size of a house. |
| Over-housed household | n | A house-hold ceases to be eligible for rent-assistance if the household occupies a house that is larger than the largest size permissible under the occupancy laws and regulations. |
| Overhung | adj | Covered over; ornamented with hangings. 2. suspended from above or from the top. |
| Overhunt | n | The depletion of stock of animals by over-hunting. |
| Overhunt | vb | To deplete the stock of animals by over-hunting. |
| Overhunting | n | Hunting at unsustainable levels. |
| Overidle | adj | Lazy, extremely idle. |
| Overish | adj | Qualmish, weak, alarmed, nervous. |
| Overkeen | adj | Excessively keen or enthusiastic. |
| Overkeep | vb | To keep for too long. 2. to keep too strictly or for too long. |
| Overkind | adj | Excessive kind. |
| Overkindly | adv | In an excessively kind manner. |
| Ovekindness | n | The quality of being too kind. |
| Overking | n | A superior king. 2. a king who is the superior of other kings or rulers having the title of king. 3. God. |
| Overknown | vb | To be very well known; be a household name. |
| Overknowing | n | Cunning. |
| Overlade | vb | Lade or draw water out. 2. load a burden too heavily. |
| Overladen | adj | Having too large or over heavy a load, overloaded. |
| Overland | adj | Traveling or passing over land. 2. being done over land, rather than over water. |
| Overland | adv | By, or upon, or across land, not by sea. |
| Overlander | n | One who travels over land or across countries. |
| Overlap | vb | To lap over; to rest upon; and extend beyond 2. extend over so as to cover partly. 3. cover part of the same area of interest, responsibility, etc. |
| Overlap | n | A part or amount which overlaps. |
| Overlapping | adj | Lapped over, extended beyond; covered partly. 2. the covering of part of the same area of interest, responsibility, etc. |
| Overlappingly | adv | So as to overlap. |
| Overlate | adj | Occurring, coming or being after the usual or proper time. 2. not usual or proper. |
| Overlately | adv | In or during a time not usual or proper. |
| Overlately | phr | "Over Lately" - in or during a time not usual or proper. |
| Overlaw | vb | Overcome with law. 2. defeat in law. |
| Overlay | n | A coating; a covering. |
| Overlay | vb | To spread over; to cover completely; to span. 2. |
| Overlead | vb | Overwhelm, oppress, domineer. 2. lead as a superior rule, govern. 3. lead across, elsewhere; fig. leading astray, mislead. |
| Overleaf | adv | On the other side of a leaf of a book; on the next page. |
| Overleader | n | Oppressor. |
| Overleading | n | Oppression. |
| Overleaf | adv | On the other side or page. 2. on the next page. |
| Overlean | adj | Tilted over, bent or bending over, inclined. |
| Overlean | vb | To tilt, incline or bend over. |
| Overleaning | n | The tendency or preference of tilting, inclining or bending over. |
| Overleap | vb | To leap over, jump over, too cross over by jumping. 2. to pass over, omit, leave out. |
| Overlearn | vb | Lean or incline too far over. |
| Overlearn | vb | To learn something excessively or over learn. 2. to learn something beyond the stage of initially successful performance. |
| Overlearnedness | n | The state of learning something excessively or over learn. |
| Over-learning | n | Psychology, a degree of learning beyond what is necessary for immediate or adequate use in prescribed situations. |
| Over-leave | vb | To be left over, remain. |
| Overleavings | n | Residue, remainder, left-overs, that which is left over. |
| Overlend | n | Too lend too much. |
| Overlending | n | The act or practice of lending in excess. |
| Overlength | adj | Longer than is standard (of a vehicle, etc.) longer than is allowed. 2. an excess of length. |
| Overlick | vb | To lick over. |
| Overlie | vb | To lie over or upon - said of a layer above another or stratum. 2. to smother by lying on top of, as a baby accidentally smothered . 3. to lie with, have sexual intercourse with a woman. 4. to oppress, subdue, hold down. 5. to hang over, overlying, situating above. |
| Overlier | n | One who lies upon or encumbers another; applied to beggars who exacted lodgings and food. 2. that which lies upon another. |
| Overlift | vb | To lift too high or something that is extremely heavy. |
| Overlight | vb | To light up or illuminate too brightly. |
| Overlightly | adv | In a light-hearted or frivolous manner. |
| Overline | vb | To overscore or place (super)signs above text. |
| Overliness | n | Superficiality, carelessness, contempt, haughtiness. |
| Overling | n | One who is over others. 2. a superior. 3. a conqueror, vanquisher, master, ruler. |
| Overlip | vb | To overflow the lip or brim or brim of. |
| Over-lipping | adj | Brimming over, overflowing. |
| Overlisten | vb | To eaves-drop; to listen in order to hear the conversation of others. |
| Over-little | adj | Too little. |
| Overlive | vb | To live longer than, or after the death of another. 2. to survive, live longer, outlive. 3. to live too long. 4. to live beyond one's income. |
| Overlived | adj | Made to live too long. |
| Overlively | adv | Active andbusy to extreme. |
| Overliver | n | A survivor. |
| Overliving | adj | Surviving. 2. living too long. |
| Overload | vb | To load too heavily; load to excess. 2. to overburden; to put too heavy a load on. 3. put to great a load on an electrical system. 4. give excessive work, responsibility, information. |
| Overloaded | adj | Over-burdened, loaded to excess. |
| Overloaden | vb | To load beyond capacity; overladen. |
| Overloading | n | The loading or filling to excess. 2. to load too heavily. |
| Overlock | n | To stitch or sew over the edge of one or two pieces of cloth for edging. |
| Overlocker | n | A person who (by hand), or a sewing machine that overlocks. |
| Overlocking | adj | The act or practice of overlocking. |
| Overlofty | adj | Extremely high. |
| Overlong | adj | Of a too greater time. |
| Overlong | adv | Of or for a long time. |
| Overlong | prp | along, over the length of. |
| Overlook | n | A high place offering a view. 2. the act of looking over, as from a height; an inspection, survey. 3. oversight, neglect, excuse, pardon. |
| Overlook | vb | To look over; to view from a higher position or place. 2. to oversee, supervise, superintend. 3. to fail too see or notice by carelessness. 4. to disregard purposely or indulgently; ignore. 5. to excuse, pardon, overlook. |
| Overlooker | n | One who looks over; or views from a higher position. 2. an overseer, superintendent; supervisor. 3. one who fails to notice by carelessness; one who excuses, or pardons. |
| Overlooking | adj | Used of a height or viewpoint. 2. a commanding view. |
| Overlord | n | A lord superior in Saxon times. 2. one who is the lord of other lords or rulers; a lord paramount, as supreme lord, God. 2. a person who has general authority over another. |
| Overlord | vb | To exercise authority or supremacy over another. 2. a feudal superior. 3. the famous code name given to the Allied operation for the invasion of NW Europe , which began on D-Day 1944. |
| Overlording | n | The act, action, or exercising of authority over others or another. |
| Over-lordship | n | The position or authority of an overlord. |
| Over-lordship | n | The position of an overlord. 2. the exercising of supremacy or dominion over. |
| Overloud | adj | Excessively loud or noisy. |
| Over-love | n | To great a love. |
| Over-lover | n | One who loves too much, often unconditionally. |
| Overloving | adj | Loving excessively or too much. |
| Overlovingly | adv | In an excessively loving way. |
| Overlusty | adj | To lusty or lively. |
| Overly | adj | Superficial, slight, cursory, sly, careless. 2. supercilious, imperious, overbearing. 3. supreme, foremost, dominant |
| Overly | adv | Above or beyond the proper amount or degree. 2. overmuch, too much, excessively. 3. incidentally, casually, not intentionally. 4. haughtily, superciliously, slightly. |
| Overlying | n | The act or action of overlie. |
| Overlying | adj | Superincumbent; suffocating, covering over. |
| Overmake | vb | to make over or anew; recreate; remake. 2. to make a greater quantity than needed; overproduce; overdo. |
| Overmake | n | That which is overmade; make-over. 2. an oversupply; surplus. |
| Overman | n | A man having authority or rule over another. 2. a superior ruler, chief; a superman. 3. arbiter, arbitrator, umpire. 4. foreman, supervisor, overseer. |
| Overman | vb | To provide with more men than necessary. |
| Overmanning | n | To have too many workers appropriate for work required to be done. 2. over-staffing, ghost-worker dealing. |
| Overmany | n | A surfeit, overabundance, superfluity. |
| Overmany | prn | Too many. |
| Overmark | vb | To place a mark or marking above. 2. to correct a student's examination paper very strictly. |
| Overmarking | n | The act or action of placing a marking above. 2. the practice or attitude of marking a student's examination paper too strictly. |
| Overmaster | vb | To gain the mastery over; to subdue completely. 2. get the better of. |
| Overmasterling | n | One who overmasters, supervises, manages, rules. |
| Overmatch | n | A match in which one is clearly superior to, or outmatched by another. 2. to be more than a match for; surpass, be too powerful. |
| Overmatched | adj | Outclassed, unable to compete. |
| Overmellow | adj | Over ripe, too ripe, rank, rancid. |
| Overmerry | adj | Extremely merry and joyous. |
| Overmete | adj | Excessive, above measure, immoderate. |
| Overmete | vb | To pass over, pass by, cross over, traverse, exceed. |
| Over-mickle | adv | Too much, over much, surfeit, overly abundant. |
| Overmightily | adv | To forceful in manner and ways. |
| Overmighty | adj | Excessively powerful. |
| Over-mild | adj | Excessively mild in various senses. |
| Overmind | vb | Attach too great of importance to something or someone. 2. think too much of or about. 3. to bring to mind too often. 4. to think uniquely, and with strong reasoning powers. |
| Overmindedness | n | The state or quality possessed by a person with extra abilities which are not found in a normal person. |
| Over-mindedly | adv | In an manner attaching too great of importance to someone or something. |
| Over-mirth | n | Excessive merrymaking. |
| Overmood | adj | Proud, haughty |
| Overmoodliness | n | Pride, haughtiness, high-mindedness |
| Overmore | adv | In addition, furthermore, more than, over-morely. 2. uppermore, highermost, overmost. |
| Over-morrow | n | The day after tomorrow. |
| Overmost | adv | Uppermost, highest. |
| Over-mourn | vb | To mourn a person's passing profoundly and during a prolonged period. |
| Overmuch | n | An excess, too much. |
| Overmuch | adj | Too much; too great, excessive. 3. exceeding what is necessary or proper. |
| Overmuch | adv | In too great a degree. |
| Over-muchness | n | The condition of being overmuch; excessive, superabundance. |
| Overner | n | Visitor, immigrant, foreigner. |
| Overname | n | A surname. |
| Overnarrow | adj | Too narrow; barely able to fit through. |
| Overnet | vb | To spread a net over. |
| Overnight | adj | Done, happening, for use overnight. 2. instant, immediate, at once. |
| Overnight | adv | For the duration of the night. 2. during the course of a night; through and during the night. 3. instantly or very quickly. |
| Overnight | vb | To stay for the night in a particular place. 2. to convey goods during or at night, so that they arrive next morning. |
| Over-nighter | n | A stop or stay lasting one night. 2. a person who stops or stays one night. |
| Overnim | vb | Overtake by violence, take by violence, carry off by force. |
| Over-old | adj | Too old, worn out, dilapidated, antiquated. |
| Over-oldness | n | State or condition of being too old, worn out, dilapidated, ancient, antiquated |
| Overplay | vb | to play a part to excess. 2. to emphasize too much. 3. too attach to great importance too. 3 to overplay one's hand. 4. to spoil a good case by exaggerating it's value. 5. to surpass or overcome in play or sport. 6. to play better than, gain a victory over. |
| Overpluck | vb | To pluck something too much, usually one's eyebrows. |
| Overput | vb | To throw off, get over, recover from. |
| Overputting | n | The act of running beyond the proper point, so as to lose the scent. |
| Overquell | vb | To crush, overcome, overpower, subdue, crush. |
| Overquelm | vb | To thwart, stop, prevent. 2. overwhelm. |
| Overquick | adj | Too or extremely quick; excessively quick. |
| Overquickish | adj | Somewhat or a little too quick or swift. |
| Overquickly | adv | Readily. |
| Over-rank | adj | Too rank or vigourous in growth. 2. very offensive, esp. offensive of smell, over-ripe. |
| Over-rankness | n | State or condition of being rank or very over-ripe. |
| Over-reach | vb | To reach out too far or beyond. 2. to spread over, cover. 3. to defeat oneself, by trying too hard or being over-clever.. 4. to miss by stretching or reaching too far. 5. to get the advantage over; outwhit, cheat. |
| Overreach | phr | "Overreach Oneself" - to try to do more than is possible. 2. to get better by cunning; to outwit. 3. to fail through excessive ambition, effort, cunning. |
| Over-reacher | n | One who reaches out too far. |
| Over-reaching | n | The act or action of reaching or extend too far. |
| Over-reaching | adj | Extending or reaching too far. |
| Over-reachingly | adv | In a manner or way of extending or reaching too far. |
| Over-read | vb | To read too much and too long, esp. so as to get tired. |
| Over-readiness | n | The quality or state of being too ready. |
| Over-ready | adj | Too ready. |
| Over-reckon | vb | To overestimate, to reckon or calculate in excess. |
| Over-rede | vb | To surpass or overdo in counsel or giving advice. |
| Override | vb | To ride over, across or beyond something. 2. to ride a horse too far orr to exhaustion. 3. to counteract the normal operation of something. 4. to disregard summarily, as if trampling down; supersede, prevail over. 5. a mechanism, device or procedure use to counteract an automatic control. 6. a royalty or commission paid to a sales manager, based on the sales of his staff. 7. a device for prioritizing an audio signal. |
| Over-rider | n | One who, or something overrides or counteracts the normal operations of something. |
| Over-riding | adj | Counteracted, overcoming, excluding. 2. chief; primary, principal. |
| Over-ridingly | adv | In an overriding manner, to the exclusion of other factors or concerns. |
| Over-right | adv | Over against; right opposite. |
| Over-righteous | adj | Overbearing in maters of moral rectitude. |
| Over-righteousness | n | The quality of being overbearing in of matters (moral) rectitude. |
| Over-ripe | adj | Rank; too ripe; too vigorous in growth. |
| Over-ripen | vb | To make to ripen or rank. |
| Over-ripeness | n | The state of being too ripe or rank. |
| Over-rise | vb | Of dough: to rise too high. 2. to rise too high or excessively. |
| Over-risen | adj | Of anything that has risen too high. |
| Over-roof | vb | To build a roof over, as a stadium provided with a roof. |
| Over-roofing | n | The action or practice of providing with a roof. |
| Over-run | n | An instance of overunning; the amount of over-running. 2. an instance of printing too many copies a book etc. |
| Over-run | vb | Spread over or occupy a place in large numbers; as a an invading army; or weeds. 2. invade, ravage, overwhelm, swarm over, surge over. 2. to exceed a fixed length. 3. flow over, inundate, flood over-run. 4. to spread rapidly or throughout, as an idea, fad, etc. 5. to pass the usual or desired limit. 6. the difference between the actual output and the calculated output in conversion. |
| Over-run | phr | "On the Overrun" - the motion of a vehicle at a greater speed than being imparted by the engine. (look further???) |
| Overrun | phr | Overrun One's Self" - to run beyond one's mark, or beyond one's strength. 2. to run too far. 3. to exhaust or injure oneself by running too far. |
| Over-runner | n | One who, or that which, runs too often and much. 2. the printing too many copies a book etc. |
| Over-running | n | An act or instance of overrunning. 2. an amount in excess or exceeded; surplus. 3. the exceeding of an estimated cost in design, design, development and production; especially, as an estimate in a contract. 4. a run of an item of manufacture by the quantity ordered by a customer and offered at a discount. 5. the amount by which a volume of food, as butter or ice cream is increased above the volume by the inclusion of air, water aor another substance. |
| Oversaid | adj | Mentioned previously, above-said, said repeatedly. |
| Oversail | vb | To sail over or across. 2. to cross over in a sailing vessel. 3. to run down a vessel and sink by sailing over it. |
| Oversale | n | A sale of goods where the supply cannot meet the customer' s demand. 2. an oversell. |
| Oversalt | vb | To add to or make a product too salty. |
| Oversalted | adj | Too salted, very salty; with too much salt |
| Oversalty | adj | Too salted, very salty; with too much salt |
| Over-say | vb | To say over, exaggerate, overstate; repeat. |
| Oversaying | n | Exaggeration in speech. |
| Over-schooled | adj | Schooled too much, but often without gaining a required skill level. |
| Overscore | vb | To score over, to cover with scores, cut or etch lines. |
| Oversea | adj | Imported from beyond the sea. 2. of a foreign make; foreign, made abroad. 3. situated by the sea. 4. connected or having to do with countries by the sea. 5. across or beyond the sea. 6. on the other side of the sea; overseas, abroad. |
| Overseas | adj | Overseas in a foreign country; as, "overseas markets". 2. overseas being or passing over or across the sea; as, "some overseas trade". |
| Overseas | adv | Overseas in a place across an ocean or sea; beyond or across the sea |
| Oversee | vb | To look down upon; to look at from a higher position; overlook. 2. to supervise, manager, survey, keep watch upon, to watch. |
| Overseed | vb | To spread seeds over an existing lawn in an attempt to grow thicker lawn. |
| Overseek | vb | To search through |
| Overseen | adj | Noticed too frequently. |
| Overseen | phr | "Overseen with Drink" - drunk, intoxicated. |
| Overseer | n | One who supervises or overseers. |
| Overseership | n | The office or position of an overseer. 2. control, rule, power over. |
| Overseethe | vb | To boil over. |
| Overself | n | The finer, stronger or more assertive part of one's nature. 2. Paul Brunton's definition: "Realisation of the spiritual heart, the inner source of attention, exclusive of the body and the world. |
| Oversell | vb | To give someone an exaggerated idea of the value or worth of something. |
| Overseme | vb | To overlord, suppress. |
| Overset | vb | To overthrow, defeat. 2. overturn, upset, turn upside down, capsize. 3. overlord, subdue. 4. postpone, put off, delay. 5. oppress, press hard on, overcome, overpower by force. 6. to overcome the mind 's feelings. 7. cause to fall over. 8. cause to fall into confusion. 9. overturn the normal mental or physical condition of someone. 10. discompose, disorder, discomfit. 11. to lose one's balance or ordered condition. 12. to set a surface over with jewels. |
| Oversew | vb | To sew overhand, especially with close stitches. |
| Oversey | vb | To pass by, elapse. |
| Overshade | vb | To render gloomily or dark; overshadow, cast a shade or shadow over. |
| Overshadow | vb | To cast or throw a shadow over something or someone; darken (lit & fig). 2. to obscure, dim, something by casting a shadow over. 3. to render unimportant or insignificant, by comparison. 4. loom over, dominate. |
| Overshadowed | adj | Superseded by, covered up by, overtaken or eclipsed . |
| Overshadower | n | One who, or that which, overshadows. |
| Overshadowy | adj | Overshadowing. |
| Overshake | vb | To shake too much. 2. to shake over and away; disperse, drive away. |
| Overshape | n | That which is transformed; a transformation, alteration, reshaping. |
| Overshape | vb | To transform, alter, reshape. 2. to form, or manipulate excessively. 3. that which is overshaped. 4. |
| Overshare | vb | To share to much or in excess. 2. to offer inappropriate disclosure concerning one's personal life to others. |
| Oversharing | n | The action or an instance of divulging one's personal information to others. |
| Oversharp | adj | Excessively sharp, as 'oversharp criticism'. |
| Oversharpness | n | Criticism to severe or oversharp. |
| Over-shepherd | n | The head (fig.) of a religious organization or 'flock'. |
| Overshine | vb | To shine over, or upon; to illumine. 2. excel or outshine in some quality. |
| Overshining | adj | Over illuminated or far too bright. 2. outshining or excelling above. |
| Overshirt | n | A shirt intended to be worn over over clothing. |
| Overshoe | n | Footwear that is worn over the top of your shoes in order to protect them from, snow, water, extreme cold. |
| Overshoot | vb | To shoot or go over beyond. 2. to go beyond, exceed, as to limit. 3. to drive or force beyond one's proper limit. 4. shoot or go over or beyond one's limit. 5. to go too far. |
| Overshoot | phr | "Overshoot the Mark" - to shoot over beyond one's mark. 2. to go farther than one intends any course. 3. to overreach oneself. 4. miss one's mark by going too far. 5. to exaggerate. 6. to fill into error. 6. to go or venture too far. |
| Overshooting | n | The act of, or state of going farther than one intends any course. |
| Overshop | vb | To spend to much time or money shopping. |
| Overshopping | n | The act of spend to much time or money shopping. |
| Overshort | adj | Too short. |
| Overshort | adv | Very abruptly. |
| Overshorten | adj | too short, very short. |
| Overshot | vb | Surpassed beyond in any way. 2. projecting as the upper jaw beyond the lower jaw. |
| Overshot wheel | n | A wheel turned by water falling from above. |
| Overshout | vb | To shout to louldly or often. |
| Overshow | vb | To show to often or excessively |
| Overshroud | vb | To cover with a shroud. |
| Overside | n | Upper or superior side. |
| Oversight | n | An unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something; inadvertence. 2. management by overseeing the performance or operation or group. 3. a mistake resulting from inattention ;an overlooking. 4. watchful care, general supervision. |
| Over-sing | vb | To sing with too much effort or embellishment. |
| Oversit | vb | To sit on or upon. 2. to occupy, possess. 3. to refrain, abstain, desist from, to omit. |
| Oversleep | vb | To sleep longer than intended. 2. to sleep too long. 3. sleep beyond one's usual hour of rising. |
| Oversleeper | n | One who sleeps longer than intended. |
| Oversleeve | n | A protective sleeve covering an ordinary sleeve. |
| Overslip | vb | To slip or slide over. 2. to pass easily or carelessly beyond. 3. to omit, neglect (time). |
| Overslipped | adj | Sliding, passed by easily. 2. omitted, neglected. |
| Overslow | vb | To render slow, to check, cub. |
| Overslow | adj | Too slow. |
| Overslowness | n | The state of being very slow or too slow. |
| Oversman | n | A man having authority; an overman. |
| Oversmile | vb | To smile too much or inappropriately. |
| Oversoft | adj | Too soft. 2. too or extremely quiet. |
| Oversoftly | adv | In an over-soft manner or approach. 2. in an over-softly voice. 3. of the over-softly vowel sound schwa. |
| Over-sold | n | finance) a stock or commodity market condition where there has been significant trading driving prices down to lower levels, levels which seem overextended or excessive on a short-term basis. |
| Oversoon | adv | Too soon, too quickly or readily. |
| Over-sorrow | adj | To grieve of afflict with great sorrow. |
| Oversoul | n | R.W. Emerson's name for the Deity regarded philosophically as the Supreme Spirit/God which animates the world. |
| Oversoul | vb | In respect of the soul, to be ruled or dominated, or be subject to oversouling. |
| Oversow | vb | To sow where something has already been sowed. |
| Overspan | vb | To reach or span over. |
| Overspeak | vb | To exceed in speaking. 2. too speak too much. 3. to use too many words. 4. garrulity. |
| Overspeaking | n | Where someone speaks way too much, and away from the subject. |
| Overspeakingly | adv | Of an excessive manner in speaking or using too many words. |
| Overspeech | n | Loquacity, indiscretion. 2. a speech verbose and irrelevant to the subject of discussion. |
| Overspeed | vb | Moving far too rapidly. |
| Overspend | vb | To overspend more than one can afford 2. to use up, exhaust. |
| Overspill | n | OVerflow; that which overflows. 2. surplus population emigrating from a country. |
| Overspill | vb | To spill over; to overflow. |
| Overspin | vb | To spin out to too great length; to protract unduly |
| Overspread | n | The fact of spreading over. 2. that which is spread over. |
| Overspread | vb | To spread across or cover over completely; as, 'a deluge overspread the Earth'. 2. flood, over-flow, over-swarm, run through, spill over, teem over. |
| Overspreading | n | The action of overspreading. |
| Overspring | vb | To spring or leap over; fig. to surmount. |
| Oversprung | adj | Fitted with too many or too flexible springs. |
| Overspurn | vb | To kick over, overturn with the foot. |
| Overstain | vb | To cover with stains. 2. to stain excessively. |
| Overstaining | n | The staining too excessively especially, in order to demonstrate selected elements by controlled staining. 2. the act or technique of overstaining. |
| Overstand | vb | To stand over, to stand beside. 2. endure, stay to the end of, to get through, overstay. 3. to pass over, cross over. |
| Overstare | vb | To stare or stare excessively at something or someone. |
| Overstart | vb | To overleap, miss, skip, omit. |
| Overstead | adj | Overset, overwhelmed. |
| Oversteepened | adj | Of a valley: steepened further and having a great steepness than running water would have carved. |
| Oversteer | n | The condition of oversteering in which the rear wheels of a car don't follow the desired curve whilst cornering, with the rear wheels losing a degree of traction and so skidding of the required line into a spin. |
| Oversteer | vb | To loose the control of one's vehicle in a corner due to the rear wheels sliding and not following the front wheels. |
| Overstep | vb | To go far beyond the limit; esp. to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions. |
| Overstep | phr | To go far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceeding norms or convention. |
| Overstepping | n | The act of overstepping. |
| Overstink | vb | To stink or smell more than; to drown the stench of. |
| Overstitch | n | An embroidery stitch made one over the other. |
| Overstitch | vb | To sew in an embroidery stitch made one stitch over the other. |
| Overstock | n | A stock or store in excess of requirement or demand. |
| Overstock | vb | To stock more than is required. 2. to run more animals in, or on various types of farms or agricultural ground than the land can maintain. 3. to gather together an excess of goods or things. |
| Overstocking | n | A supply more than necessary or wanted. 2. to have in stock more than is necessary or wanted. 3. an oversupply, an excess, a glut, an overmuch, an unneeded or desired surplus. |
| Overstrain | n | Overwork or over-exertion. |
| Overstrain | vb | To strain excessively or too much. 2. to subject to excessive strain; esp. to force beyond a natural or proper limit. 3. to exert too much physical effort. 4. to overuse or waste resources excessively |
| Overstrained | adj | Exerted, used or put forth to an excessive amount or effort. 2. strained too far; overworked.(fig); exaggerated. |
| Overstraining | n | The act of excessive exertion or effort. |
| Overstream | vb | To stream over or across. 2. to flow over in a stream |
| Overstreaming | n | The act, condition or state of streaming or flowing over. |
| Overstretch | vb | To stretch too much. 2. make excessive demands beyond reasonable grounds; exaggerated. 3. to extend beyond or use beyond what is reasonable, usual or proper. |
| Overstretched | adj | Not having sufficient or lacking financial resources, goods, equipment. 2. not enough or sufficient, a lacking a dearth. 3. fig. exaggerated. |
| Overstretching | n | The stretching or pulling muscles causing injury. |
| Overstrew | vb | To scatter around and about. |
| Overstrewn | adj | Scattered around and about. |
| Overstride | vb | To stride over, across and to farther extent. 2. to step, stand, sit astride. 3. to run, walk, move beyond in a race or competition. 4. to go beyond, move pass, go farther. 5. to run an overly long stride for one's leg length. |
| Overstride | n | The action of striding over or across. 2. the stepping over or across. 3. the swift striding beyond or to a farther extent. |
| Overstrike | vb | To overreach oneself while striking. 2. to cover up (a design, mark etc.) by stamping another on top of it; to superimpose a mark or logo on (a coin, stamp, etc.). 3. to strike (something) too hard. [from 20th c.] |
| Overstrike | n | (Numismatics) a coin that has been overstruck, i.e. coined more than once. 2. (typography) the printing of one character over another, as - on top of L to produce Ł. 3. (computing, uncountable) overtype (feature where input replaces existing characters instead of being inserted before them) |
| Overstring | vb | To string an archery bow too tightly |
| Overstroke | n | An overarm stroke in swimming. |
| Overstrong | adj | Excessively strong. |
| Overstrung | adj | Too highly strung; intensely strained to excess. 2. in a state of nervous of nervous tension. 3. of a piano having some of the longer strings crossing others obliquely, in order to save space. |
| Oversty | vb | To mount, ascend, to surmount, transcend, excel, surpass. (O.E. stygan - c.f. stigend) |
| Overstying | n | The passing over or above. |
| Overswallow | vb | To gulp when swallowing often due to the medical condition of phagophobia. |
| Overswallowing | n | A medical complaint ('phagophobia') where one has difficulty in swallowing |
| Overswarm | vb | To swarm or teem in excess. 2. to ensemble or grow a great swarm or in a multitude. 3. to swarm beyond or in excess. |
| Overswarming | n | The action or condition swarming in excess. |
| Overswarth | n | The surface sward. |
| Overswarth | vb | To darken over, to blacken, denigrate, |
| Oversway | vb | To rule over, govern, to exercise power or dominion over. 2. to domineer, overpower, overrule. 3. to surpass in commanding quality; to prevail over by superior authority. 4. in ref to physical qualities, to overpower by superior strength or intensity. 5. to lead , influence, or persuade into course of action. 6. to cause to swing, sway, lean or incline to one side or so as to be overturned. |
| Oversweep | vb | To sweep across a surface or border. 2. to pass over with a sweeping motion. |
| Oversweet | adj | Excessively sweet. 2. too sweet. |
| Over-sweetness | n | The state or condition of being sweet. |
| Overswell | vb | To cause to swell unduly or in excess. |
| Overswift | adj | Too swift or rapid. |
| Overswim | vb | To swim across or beyond. |
| Overswing | n | An excessive swing. |
| Overswithe | adv | To greatly, too much, exceedingly, excessively, very greatly. |
| Overswive | vb | To move, swivel. |
| Overtake | vb | To pass a more slowly moving vehicle, object or person. 2. to come up with; to catch; to take by surprise. 3. to be able to do. |
| Overtaken | vb | To outdistance, get past, better, outdo, outstrip, leave behind, overwhelm, take by surprise. |
| Overtaken | phr | "Well Overtaken" - of a traveler and his greeting to one he has overtaken; 'well mt'. |
| Overtaker | n | One who overtakes, passes by, becomes greater than, take by surprise, overcome. |
| Overtaking | n | Overtaking is when you approach from behind and pass a vehicle traveling in the same direction. |
| Overtalk | n | Excessive talking; talk too much. |
| Overtalk | vb | To talk too much. 2. to overcome or persuade by talking, talk over. 3. to overstate, over-exaggerate. 3. talk up to seem greater than what is actual. |
| Overtalking | n | The act of talking too far. |
| Overteach | vb | To focus in teaching on too narrow area of learning. |
| Overtell | vb | To tell, count, narrate in excess. 2. to exaggerate in counting. |
| Overteem | vb | To wear out or exhaust by excessive breeding or reproduction. 2. to teem or bred excessively. 3. to wean out by excessive breeding. |
| Overtenth | n | An increased or additional tenth or tithe. |
| Over-the-hill | adj | To old to be useful. |
| Over-the-road | adj | Pertaining to, or used in long distance road transportation. |
| Over-the-top | adj | Excess, beyond reasonble limits. |
| Overthink | vb | To seem not good, to displease, vex, grieve, cause regret or repentance. 2. to think too much, think over, consider. 3. to exhaust oneself with too much thinking or overthinking. |
| Overthink | n | Too much thinking. |
| Overthinker | n | Persons indecisive and tend to live with many regrets. Overthinking is not a genetic disposition. It is a learned behavior. Therefore, when the mind starts to go to a place of unstructured thoughts it is because of past experiences. |
| Overthought | n | Excessive thought; to much thinking. |
| Overthought | adj | Grieved, vexed; thought-obsessed, preoccupied in one's own thoughts. |
| Over-thoughtful | adj | Too thoughtful, full of thought, over-anxious; very considerate. |
| Over-thoughtfulness | n | The condition or attitude of being too thoughtful, caring, anxious, kind, and considerate. |
| Overthrall | vb | To enthrall, enslave, take captive. 2. (fig) to control by passion or vice. |
| Overthreshold | n | The door lintel. |
| Over-thronged | adj | Overcrowded, over-populated, over-people; as, 'the town was overthronged by pilgrims ffrom all over the world'. |
| Overthrow | n | An act of removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force. 2. (removal by force): downfall, collapse. 4. removal by force or threat of force. 5. defeat, ruin, fall. |
| Overthrow | vb | To throw down to the ground, to overturn (rare). 2. to bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force. 3. defeat, ruin, fall. |
| Overthrow | n | The termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force). 2. the act of disturbing the mind or body; upset, derangement. 3. the act of overthrowing, defeating, demolishing. |
| Overthrow | vb | To cause the downfall of; of rulers; syn: overthrow, subvert, overturn, bring down. 2. rule against; overrule, overturn, override, overthrow, reverse. |
| Overthrower | n | One who cause the downfall of; esp. of rulers |
| Overthrowing | n | The act or action of causing the downfall of; or the bringing down of something or someone. 2. the turning of something upside down (fig & lit). |
| Overthrown | adj | Overcome, beaten, overwhelmed, conquered, overpowered, vanquished. |
| Overtime | n | Work done in addition to regular working hours. 2. time at work beyond the regular hours; the extra wages paid for such work. 3. playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie; extra time. |
| Overtime | adv | Beyond the regular or stipulated time worked. |
| Overtimely | adv | Too early, premature, before the proper time, untimely, unseasonably. |
| Over-timeness | n | The state or quality of being before the proper time, premature, too early. |
| Overtimer | n | One who works overtime. |
| Over-tongue | n | Epiglottis (calque from Greek). |
| Overtop | vb | To rise above or above the top of; tower over. 2. to surpass the height. 3. surmount , tower above, surpass, excel,top. 4. to rise above in power or authority. 5. to be superior, to override, to rise above or go beyond in degree or quality. 6. to excel, rise above, surpass. 7. top-heavy. 8. to obscure; cover. |
| Overtopped | adj | Having the crown shaded fro above by other contiguous trees; said of a tree. |
| Overtopple | vb | To fall over. |
| Overtopped | adj | Of a small tree growing beneath the canopy formed by large trees and receiving no direct lights. |
| Overtopping | n | The rising of water of the top of a barrier or wall. |
| Overtower | vb | To tower over, over top. |
| Overtowering | adj | Soaring above, overly oppressive. |
| Overtread | vb | Trample (over), crush, oppress, subdue, to step beyond. |
| Overtrodden | adj | Trampled, crushed, oppressed, subdued. |
| Overtrow | n | Overtrust, overconfidence, distrust, mistrust. |
| Overtrow | vb | To mistrust, distrust, suspect. 2. to trust overmuch, be too confident. |
| Overtrowing | n | Over-confidence. 2. suspectful. |
| Over-trowship | n | Over-confidence, overtrowth; suspicion. |
| Overtruth | n | Statement in excess or exaggerating of the truth. |
| Overtruthful | adj | Exaggerated or overstated. |
| Overtumble | vb | To tumble, fall over, capsize. 2. to cause to fall over, to upset, overthrow. |
| Overturn | n | A capsize, turnover, a tumble, overthrowing; upsetting. 2. subversion or destruction. |
| Overturn | vb | To throw down or over; subvert, defeat, to upset. 2. capsize, tumble over; fall forward. |
| Overtwine | vb | To twine or bine around or about; to wreathe, enwreathe. |
| Over-under | adj | The spread of, or other predicted value, for wagers. |
| Over-under-thru | n | A type of obstacle in an obstacle course. 2. fig. an implement, obstacle, difficulty, problem encountered in various situations. |
| Overwade | vb | To wade across. |
| Overwait | vb | To supervise, watch over. |
| Over-wake | vb | To keep oneself awake over or too long, stay on gurad, to remain awake longer than another. |
| Overwalk | vb | To traverse, walk over. 2. walk too far. 3. to fatigue oneself by walking too far. |
| Overwalking | n | The act of walking too far. |
| Overwalt | vb | To roll over turn something over. |
| Overwander | vb | To wander over |
| Overwandering | n | The act of wandering over. |
| Overward | adv | Overthwart, athwart, across, transversely, fom side to side. |
| Overwarm | adj | To great of warmth. |
| Over-warp | vb | To overthrow, throw down or cast down. |
| Overwash | vb | To wash oneself too much or wash something too much. |
| Overwashed | adj | To wash frequently and thoroughly. |
| Overwatch | vb | To watch for too long or too late. 2. to watch all through the night. 3. to become fatigued by excessive watching. 4. to weary or exhaust oneself by keeping awake or by want of sleep. |
| Ovewatched | adj | Wearied by too much watching. |
| Overwatcher | n | One wearied by too much watching. |
| Overwatching | n | A vigil far too long. 2. too much watching causing weariness. |
| Overwater | n | Flood, inundation, downpour. 2. giving plants, lawns too much water. |
| Overwater | vb | To cover or flood with water. |
| Overwatery | adj | Too or excessively watery or moist. |
| Overwax | vb | To overgrow; grown over. 2. to wax or grow exceedingly. 3. to grow too large or big. |
| Overway | n | The upper or higher way. |
| Overweak | adj | Too or extremely weak or feeble. |
| Overweaken | vb | Too weaken too much. |
| Overwear | vb | To exhaust by toil. 2. to wash clothes threadbare. 3. to wear something away to an an end; outwear, wear out as having outgrown. 4. to outgrow. |
| Overwearied | adj | Excessively weary; totally exhausted. |
| Outweary | vb | To overcome with weariness. 2. to weary or tire to excess. |
| Outweary | adj | Too weary to hold out. 2. overtired, exhausted. |
| Overwearying | n | Excessive weariness. |
| Overwearying | vb | To become overcome with weariness. |
| Over-weather | vb | Denoting flight conditions or activities which are not affected by storm, overcast or other meteorological phenomena. 2. to allow to be damaged by exposure to the weather. |
| Over-weathered | adj | Worn or damaged by exposure to the weather. |
| Overweave | vb | To weave over top or surface. |
| Overween | n | Overweening, presumption, arrogance, pride. |
| Overween | vb | To have too high of expectations or too high opinion of oneself, to presume, arrogate, orgoyle. 2. to be conceit, arrogant or too self-confident. |
| Overweened | adj | Too self-confident, arrogant, insolent, conceited. |
| Overweener | n | One who is too self-confident, arrogant, insolent, conceited. |
| Overweening | adj | Thinking too much of oneself, vain, insolent, arrogant, presumptious, prideful, overweened. |
| Overweening | n | The state or condition of being overweening, or having too much self-confidence, arrogance, self-conceited. 2. characterized by presumptuous or conceit; pride, arrogant, excessive. |
| Overweeningly | adv | In a manner characterized by presumptuous or conceit; pride, arrogant, excessive. |
| Overweep | vb | To weep over again; to shed tears over and again. |
| Overweigh | vb | To have more weigh than. 2. too excessively weigh down. 3. overburden, or oppress. 4. to outweigh; overbalance. 4. to overburden, oppress. |
| Overweighing | adj | Compelling, overly oppressive, burdensome. |
| Overweight | adj | (Of a person) heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height. 2.(transport, law, of a vehicle) weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce. 3. (investment, finance, followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security). 4. (of a person): clinically obese, fat, morbidly obese, obese, super obese; of a person, heavier than is healthy. |
| Overweighted | ppl | To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of. |
| Overweighty | adj | Too weighty, over-heavy; of excessive weight or above in excess of, the proper or ordinary weight. |
| Overwell | adj | Too well. |
| Overwelt | vb | To overturn, upset, spec. said of a sheep when fallen on its back so as unable to rise. |
| Overwelter | vb | To roll over. |
| Overwend | vb | To go over, cross over. 2. to meander, traverse, wend one's way around or through. 3. to pass beyond, exceed. |
| Overwent | adj | Overwent. gone over greatly, overwhelmed. |
| Overwet | vb | To wet tto much or excessively or make over-moist. |
| Over-wetness | n | The state or condition of being over-wet. |
| Overwheel | vb | To turn upside down; overturn. 2. to wheel too far or beyond a proper place. |
| Overwhelm | vb | To engulf, surge over and submerge. 2. overpower, crush; overthrow. 3. to overpower emotionally. 4. to cause to surround, to cover. |
| Overwhelming | adj | Overpowering, engulfing, submerging. 2. staggering, irrestiblely strong. 3. very great or intense. 4. extreme. |
| Overwhelmingly | adv | In an overpowering, overly strong, very great or intense manner. |
| Overwhelmness | n | The state or fact of being overpowering or engulfing. |
| Overwhelmer | n | One who engulfs, surges over and submerges. 2. one who overpowers, crushes. 3. one who overpowers emotionally. 4. one who causes to surround, or covers. |
| Overwhelve | vb | To overturn, cause to roll or rumble as waves. 2. to overthrow, bring to ruin |
| Overwicked | adj | Excessively evil or wicked. |
| Overwield | vb | To gain mastery over, overcome, subdue. |
| Overwielding | n | The state of gaining mastery over someone or something, overcoming, subduing. |
| Overwilled | adj | Having a strong or excessively strong will, imperious. |
| Overwilling | adj | Exceedingly willing, too willing, too keen, over-eager; frequently in a negative sense or context. |
| Overwin | vb | To overcome, conquer, vanquish. 2. to persuade, gain one over. |
| Overwind | vb | To wind too far or tightly, as with a watch. 2. to wind (the magnet of a motor) in order to produce a maximum magnetism with a smaller current than is normally required. |
| Overwing | vb | To extend the wings of an army beyond that of an enemy; to outflank. |
| Over-winner | n | Conqueror, winner, overcomer, one who prevails. |
| Overwinter | vb | To spend or survive the winter. 2. to remain alive through the winter. |
| Overwintering | n | Overwintering is the process by which some organisms or animals pass through or wait out the winter season, or pass through that period of the year when "winter" conditions (cold or sub-zero temperatures, ice, snow, limited food supplies) make normal activity or even survival difficult or near impossible. |
| Over-wise | adj | Pretentiously wise. |
| Over-wiseness | n | The state or quality of being overwise, or affectedly wise. |
| Overwit | vb | To get the better by craft or acuteness. 2. to outwit, out reach. |
| Overwitted | adj | Better or, surpass in cunning and guile. |
| Overwood | n | The layer of vegetation formed on the tallest trees in the forest. |
| Overworld | n | The celestial or immaterial world. 2. the earth, land viewed from beneath the water; the terrestrial world. 2. the community of law-abiding persons or citizens, as opposed to the underworld. |
| Overword | n | The chorus, burden, leading idea, refrain or repeated phrases of a song or ballad. 2. a word repeated. |
| Overwordiness | n | In speech and writing, garrulity, verbosity; loquacious-speaking, overwriting. |
| Overwordy | adj | Garrulous, verbose, excessive talkative; scribose; overwritty. |
| Overwork | n | A superstructure or a work placed or raised over something. 2. a sepulchre, a monument. 3. extra or excessive work than is expected; the act of working too much or too long. 4. work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor. 5. excessive work or labor; work or labor that exceeds the strength or capacity of the individual or endangers his health. 6. work done beyond the amount stipulated; work done in over-hours or overtime. |
| Overwork | vb | To use too much; to be overworked". 2. work excessively hard 3. to fill too full of work; to crowd with labor; overwrought. 4. to work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse. 5. to work too much, or beyond one's strength. 6. to cause to work too hard; cause to labor too much; impose too much work upon; wear out by overwork: often used reflexively. to decorate all over. |
| Overworked | adj | Exhausted, stressed out, fatigued, overburdened, overtaxed. 2. hackneyed, played out, stale, banal, run-of-the-mill, cliched, timeworn. |
| Overworld | n | The world of proper and respectable people. 2. the spiritual or supernatural world. |
| Overworn | adj | Worn out. |
| Overworry | n | Anguish, misgiving, vexation, apprehension, distress, uneasiness, torment, woe. |
| Overworry | vb | To feel or show fear and concern because you think that something bad has happened or could happen. |
| Overwrest | vb | To strain too much. |
| Overwrite | vb | To write on top of other writing. 2. to write too elaborately or ornately. 3. to replace a computer file with a different one. |
| Over-writing | n | The act of covering something with writing; the writing on top of other writing. 2. the writing about in an artificial or in an excessively elaborated, lengthy, wordy style. 3. the writing of too much about something on someone. |
| Over-written | adj | Written over, or upon something. 2. elaborated overly or excessively ornately in writing. 3. replaced (as a computer file) by being written over. |
| Over-wrought | adj | Exhausted by too much work. 2. worked up to a high pitch; over-excited, as one's feelings. 3. over-laboured, elaborated to excess; overdone. |
| Over-wroughtness | n | An overwrought condition. |
| Overwry | vb | To cover over, overspread, conceal, clothe. |
| Over-year | vb | To keep over the year or over years. 2. to superannuate, make do. |
| Over-year | adj | That has lasted over some years. 2. superannuated. 3. antiquated. |
| Over-year | adv | Over or through the year; till next year. |
| Over-yeared | adj | Kept over the year, or for the present year. |
| Overyield | vb | Too produce beyond expectation |
| Overyielding | n | The amount a species yields, when grown with other species compared to yield in a monoculture. The amount a biomass yields in an ecological community (e.g. a grassland patch), compared to any of its members alone |
| Over-yoke | vb | To subjugate, to put a yoke on. |
| Over-yoking | n | The act of putting a yoke over or upon; subjugation. |
| Over-youthful | adj | Acting in a manner inappropriate to owns chronological age. |
| Ovet | n | Fruit; in modern dialects: the mast and accommodetion of the oak. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Owe | vb | To be indebted to the amount of. 2. to have a moral or legal obligation to render or offer. 3. to be in debt. 4. to be indebted or obliged for. 5. to bear (a certain feeling) toward a person or persons. 6. archaic: to have as a possession; own. 7. to be in debt. |
| Owe | phr | "Owe It to Oneself" - be, feel, obliged to do something for somebody. 2. be bound to do something , because it is in one's interest to do so. |
| Owe | phr | "Owe to" - give, name, somebody or something as a reason for some achievement. 2. attribute an achievement to someone or something. |
| Owed-ness | n | The quality or fact of being possessed or owned. |
| Owhere | adv | Anywhere. |
| Owhither | adv | To any place, anywhile. |
| Owemonger | n | One who sets out to avoid paying what they owe to others, including the non-payment of taxes and other charges to government authorities. |
| Ower | n | A possessor, an owner. |
| Owing | n | Yet to be paid, unpaid, unsettled, overdue, undisciplined, owed. |
| Owing | phr | "Owing to" - attributable to; on the account of; in consequence of. |
| Owl | n | Any of the various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, extremely sharp vision, limited eye movement and good hearing. 2. any person seen as having owl-like characteristics, esp. appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active. 3. transfig. fig. applied to a person in allusion to nocturnal habits; lit. and fig. repugnance to light, appearance of gravity or wisdom (or with the underlying stupidity) |
| Owl | phr | "Be a Night Owl" - go to bed habitually late. |
| Owl-clover | n | Any of the genus "Orthocarpus" of herbs of the figwort family of western North or South America, esp. a Californian species Orthocarpus Purpurascens with crimson or purple flowers. |
| Owlcote | n | A shelter or shed for owls. |
| Owl dust | n | Cloud of night, dark, the dusk, twilight. 2. the dim and uncertain light in which owls go about. |
| Owldom | n | The state or realm of owls. |
| Owler | n | A smuggler esp. of sheep). 2. one who deals in contraband goods. |
| Owl-eyed | adj | Big, alert, bright eyes. |
| Owling | n | The practice of smuggling wool (and sheep) out of England by night. |
| Owlish | adj | Owl-like; resembling an owl or that of an owl. |
| Owlishly | adv | In a owlish manner or way. |
| Owlishness | n | The quality of being owlish. |
| Owl-light | n | The dim and uncertain light in which owls go about. 2. twilight, dusk, cloud of night, the dark. |
| Owl-sighted | n | Having the extreme sharp sight of owls. |
| Owl-time | n | The practice of smuggling wool (and sheep) out of England by night. |
| Owl-wise | adj | Studied, calm, look of the old wise owl. |
| Own | adj | Of, pertaining to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive). 2. (used as an intensifier to indicate oneself as the sole agent of some activity or action, preceded by a possessive). |
| Own | vb | To have or hold as one's own; possess. 2. to acknowledge or admit, as to own a fault. 3. to acknowledge as one's own; recognize as having full claim, authority, power, dominion, etc. 4. to confess (often followed by to, up, or up to ): The one who did it had better own up. |
| Own | phr | "Be One's Own Man" - to be master of oneself. 2. to be independent. 3. to have full control of one's faculties. |
| Own | phr | Come Into One's Own - to take or obtain the possession of that which is due or owed one. 2. to receive the recognition that one's abilities merit. 3. have the opportunity to be seen at one' s best. |
| Own | phr | "Do One's Own Thing" - do what one pleases. |
| Own | phr | "Get One's Own Back, to get revenge and thereby a sense of personal satisfaction, as for a slight or a previous setback; get even with somebody or something. |
| Own | phr | "Get One's Own Way" - be allowed to do what one wants. |
| Own | phr | "Hold One's Own" - to maintain one's place, position or condition against competition, illness, attack. 2. to be equal to the opposition. 3. to keep up with one's work, or remain undefeated. |
| Own | phr | "In One's Good Time" - with time to spare. |
| Own | phr | "In One's Own Time" - at whatever rate suits one, or in one's non-working time. |
| Own | phr | "In One's Right" - through one's own efforts. |
| Own | phr | "Of One's Own" - belonging to oneself. |
| Own | phr | "One's Own Flesh and Blood" - one's offspring. 2. those of a family group with whom one has a genetic or 'blood' relationship. |
| Own | phr | "One's Own Man/Woman" - a person of independent judg, and character.ement |
| Own | phr | "One's Own Master" - a person in control of his or her own affairs, not a wage earner or somebody who has too obey the orders of others. |
| Own | phr | "On One's Own" - by dint of one's own efforts, resources, or sense of responsibility; independently. 2. living or functioning without dependence on others; independent. |
| Own | phr | "Own Somebody Body and Soul" - control somebody completely. |
| Own | phr | "Own Up (to)" - admit or confess that one is to blame. |
| Own | phr | "Tell One His Own" - tell one the plain truth about oneself and; accordingly, give severe reproach. |
| Own | phr | "The Devil Looks After His Own" - bad people seem to succeed, (in preference to good one) |
| Own born | adj | Native, home grown, indigenous. |
| Own brand | n | A product manufactured specially for a retailer and bearing the retailer's name. |
| Owndom | n | Property. 2. control of oneself; self-mastery. |
| Owned | adj | Possessed, controlled, belonging to. 2. a slang word that originated among 1990s hackers, where it referred to "rooting" or gaining administrative control over the computer of someone else. |
| Owner | n | One who has the legal title or right to or possession of something. |
| Ownerless | n | Lacking or not having legal title to or right of possession of something. |
| Ownership | n | The state of being an owner, proprietorship. 2. legal title. |
| Ownhood | n | The condition in which one holds oneself; of one own self in isolation; reliance upon or desire for one's own way or will. |
| Own-named | adj | Named after oneself. |
| Ownness | n | The fact or quality of being one's own or being peculiar to oneself. |
| Ownself | prn | Oneself. |
| Ownsome | adv | One's own; one's lonesome. |
| Ownsome | phr | "On One's Ownsome" - alone, or on one's lonesome. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Ox | n | The adult castrated male of the genus Bos, used chiefly as a draft animal. 2. any member of the bovine family. 3. informal: a clumsy, stupid fellow. |
| Ox | phr | "Dumb as an Ox" - slow and slow-moving as an ox. |
| Ox | phr | "He Has an Ox on his Tongue" - the oldest coins in Greece had the impression of an ox. Hence a bribe for silence was "He Has an Ox on his Tongue". |
| Ox | phr | "Make an Ox Of" - make a lackey of. 2. make a beast of burden of. |
| Ox | phr | "Make an Ox Out of a Fly" - treat a minor problem as if it were a major disaster. 2. make a mountain out of a mole hill |
| Ox | phr | "Ox in the Ditch" - an illusion to the urgency and difficulty of extracting an ox from a ditch in which it has become mired. 2. this is a big problem; there is unavoidable or demanding work ahead. 3. also: 'Ox in the Pit' |
| Ox | phr | "Play the Giddy Ox" - act the fool. |
| Ox | phr | "The Black Ox Has Trod on his Foot" - he/she has suffered adversity, misfortune. |
| Ox-bane | n | Plant harmful to cattle (Buphane toxicara). |
| Oxbow | n | A semi-circular loop or ox-bow bend in a river; hence the land included within this. 2. a u-shaped collar on an ox-yoke. |
| Oxbird | n | The dunlin. 2. the sunderling. 3. an african weaverbird. |
| Oxbow blood | n | A color considered to be the dark side of red. It resembles burgundy, but has more purple and dark brown hues. |
| Oxcart | n | A cart drawn by oxen. |
| Oxen | n | Adult castrated male of any domesticated species of cattle, esp Bos taurus, used for draught work and meat. 2. any bovine mammal, esp any of the domestic cattle. |
| Ox-eye daisy | n | Any of various plants of the daisy family with conspiciously rayed flowers. |
| Ox-eyed | adj | Having large, full, calm eyes like those of an ox. |
| Ox-feather | n | (Humorous) the 'horn' as the symbol of cuckoldry. |
| Oxfly | n | The gadfly of cattle |
| Oxford | n | A ford where oxen cross. |
| Oxford English | n | English as spoken (refined and cultured)at Oxford University |
| Oxfordish | n | Jargon and cant of Oxford. |
| Oxford spelling | n | English spelling used in Oxford publications, this being the usual British spelling wth the letter 'z' used instead of 's' in words like 'organization' and as a suffix 'our' rather than 'or' in colour etc. |
| Oxgang | vb | An area of land that could be plowed by an ox in a year; approximately fifteen acres. |
| Ox-goad | n | A goad for driving oxen. |
| Ox-god | n | Apis, the sacred God of the Egyptian. |
| Oxhead | n | The head of an ox; an emblem of cuckoldom. 3. a dolt, blockhead; a mentally unalert person. |
| Oxheart | n | A large heart-shaped cherry. |
| Oxherd | n | One who herds oxen. |
| Ox-hide | n | Skin of an ox. |
| Ox-house | n | A stall or shed for oxen. |
| Ox-hunger | n | Bulimy. |
| Oxish | adj | Resembling an ox in some aspect or other. |
| Oxishly | adv | In a manner like that of an ox. |
| Oxless | adj | Lacking or without oxen. |
| Ox-like | adj | Like an ox: strong, enduring. 2. stupiid, clumsy, slow-minded. |
| Ox-lip | n | Flowering herb, hybrid between cowslip and primrose. |
| Oxter | n | A person's armpit. |
| Ox-tung | n | any of the various plants having rough, tongue shaped leaves, as the European Alkanet or Bugloss. 2. a short broad sword. |
| Oxy | adj | Of or belonging to an ox. |
| Oyster | n | OE loanword from Classical Greek, seeBosworth and Toller Dictionary: oster-hlaf & oster-scill. |
| Oyster | phr | "And Did You Ever See an Oyster Walk Upstairs" - a satirical query sometimes addressed to one who has been telling unbelievable yarns about his/her own experiences. |
| Oyster | phr | The World's One's Oyster" - One rules the world; One is in charge of everything. 2. you have the ability and the freedom to do exactly what you want to. |
| Oyster bed | n | A place which one breeds and grows oysters naturally or are kept for food or pearls. |
| Oysterless | adj | Without oysters. |
| Oyster-like | adj | Resembling an oyster or some aspect of one. |
| Oysterling | n | A young oyster. |
| Oysterman | n | A person who cultivates, harvests or sells oysters. 2.. a boat used to dredge oysters. |
| Oyster tree | n | Mangrove trees in salt water to the roots which oysters attach themselves. |
| Oyster-white | adj | Fig. a pale yellowish-green to light gray color. |
| Oyster wood | n | Thin oblique cross-sections used as veneer in fancy cabinet work. The wood must be dense and of uniform texture, such as laburnum or yew. the complete growth rings are shown as inlays, hence they are usually cross sections of branches. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Pad | n | A toad; also a frog. 2. starfish. 3. a hidden danger lurking. |
| Paddock | n | Small grass field or enclosure, usu. located near stable or home, earlier form wasparrock 2. An enclosure as a stud farm. 3. In Australia and New Zealand, a field irrespective of size, enclosed by fencing. 4. assembly place for horses at a race track, awaiting and preparing for a race. 5. a store place for ore, esp. an open excavation, not very deep. |
| Pall | n | A cloth, usu. of purple, black or white velvet, spread over or upon the hearse, coffin or tomb. 2. fine or rich cloth (as a material) esp. as used for the robes of high-ranked person. 4. in OE. a purple cloth; purple. 5. a rich cloth spread over something, a canopy. 6. an altar cloth; a linen cloth in which the chalice is covered. 7. a cloth, cloth, a garment, a veatment. 8. a robe, cloak, a mantle put over a king or queen at coronation. 9. a woollen vestment worn by the pope. 10. something such as a cloud that produces an effect of gloom. 11. a feeling of disgust coming from satiety or insipidity. |
| Pall | vb | To become pale or dim. 2. to become fair; to faint, fail in strength or virtue. 3. to decay or waste away. 4. to become tasteless, vapid, insipid in appetite or interest. 4. of persons or organs: to lose relish or interest; to become satiated or cloyed with. 5. tomake faint or feeble, to enfeeble or weaken. 6. to render flat, stale or insipid. 7. to render the breath inoffensive or sweet. |
| Pall-bearer | n | One who carries the pall and attends the coffin at a funeral; a pallholder |
| Pallen | pp | Made of rich cloth; in or of purple. |
| Palm | n | Any tree or shrub of palmae family, monocotyledon, found in the tropics and known for their ornamental forms and uses to man. 2. Palm tree. |
| Pan | n | O.E. panne, earlier ponne (Mercian) "pan," from W.Gmc. *panna "pan" (cf. O.N. panna) shallow pan, dish, stewpan To go out of the (frying) pan into the fire. 2. a wide shallow vessel, usu. metallic or earthen, for domestic use, as in holding liquids or in cooking. 3. a vessel either open or closed, for boiling or evaporating. 4. a natural or articial depression in the earth for evaporating brine: a salt pan. 5. a circular metal dish with sides for gold finding. 6. the skull; the brainpan. 7. any natural depression in the earth containing watewr or mud. |
| Pan | vb | To wash gravel, soil etc to yield gold and other precious metals. 2. to yield good results; suceed. 3. to speak freely and at length, to expatiate. 4. to cook in a pan. 5. to criticise severely; judge performance to be unsuccessful or inadequate. |
| Panbone | n | The patella |
| Panhandle | vb | To beg; steal, purloin |
| Panhandler | n | Beggar, mendicant, free-loader. |
| Panning | n | The separation of gold from gravel or earth by washing in a pan. 2. severe criticism, harsh judgement. |
| Pan out | phr | To transpire, result or turn out. |
| Parrock | n | See "paddock" |
| Peacock | n | The male of a gallinaceous bird, a pavonine. NB: alernate spelling: "Pocock" |
| Peak | n | The name "Peak Arse" in OE. "Peas aers" and in Domesday Book: "Peachears" applied to "Peak's Cavern," has suggested a conjecture that Peas may have been a name for a demon,(later "Devils Arse") cognate with OE. "Puca or Puck. Other placenames such as Peasaes del Kemble, Paesedon, (now Pegdon) in Bedfordshire have naturally been associated with the word "peak", but the history of the latter maked any etymological connexion impossible. |
| Pear | n | Fleshy, juicy, very eatable fruit of the tree, "Pyrus communis" |
| Pearmonger | n | A fruit seller, esp. of pears |
| Pea-cod | n | The pod or legume of the pea-plant; a pea-pod. |
| Pease | n | Pea, peas |
| Pea-time | n | The last stages of anything, the end of one's life. |
| Pebble | n | Small roundish stone, apopelstan. 2. transparent and colourless rock-crystal. |
| Pebble-ware | n | A kind of wedgewood in which clays of different colours are include in the paste during manufacture. |
| Pen | n | A small enclosure for domestic animals and livestock, as cows, sheep, swine or poultry. 2. a fold, sty, coup. 3. a number of animals sufficient to fill a pen; also animals contained within the pen in a collection. 4. a division within a pen, sty, etc. 5. a river or canal; weir or dam. |
| Penfold | n | An enclosure penning sheep or cattle; a small fence-area for stray animals and livestock |
| Penny | n | A coin used in the UK. and Commonwealth countries. 2. money in general |
| Penny | n | Used in combining form: twopenny, halfpenny, etc. 2. Costing a specified number of) pennies nails; formerly designating the cost of nails per hundred; but afterwards denoting their length. |
| Penny-dreadful | n | A cheap book or magazine containing popular, usually sensational fiction. |
| Penny-farthing | n | also penny farthing, "ineffective," from penny + farthing, the two together making but a small sum. 2. a kind of bicycle with a small wheel in back and a big one in front (so called from the notion of different size coins). |
| Penny-father | n | A person who is extremely careful with their money: a skinflint, miser, scrooge |
| Penny-rot | n | Name for the Marsh Pennywort, from its round leaves and supposed property of causing rot in sheep. |
| Penny-wise | adj | Unduly economical, but not always wisely, in small matters; usually in the phrase: "Penny wise and pound foolish." |
| Pennywort | n | Several species of the Hydrocotyle: the parsley family. 2. Cotyledon Umbilicus |
| Penny-worth | adj | As much as can be bought for a penny. 2. a small amount, a trifle |
| Pepper | n | Any plant of the genus "Capiscum". 2. powder made from small berries of certain plants, used to give a spicy, hot taste to food. 3. spiciness, pungency, raciness. |
| Pepper | vb | To sprinkle or season with pepper. 2. to shower with missiles; spatter, pelt. |
| Pepper & Salt | phr | Cloth made of light and dark wool or material mixed. 2. black hair with a intermingle of grey and or white. 3. a finely speckled greyish look |
| Pepper-corn | n | A berry of the pepper plant. 2. anything trifling or unimportant |
| Pepper-pot | n | A earthenware or metal pot or container for pepper; a pepperbox. |
| Pepper-quern | n | Handmill for grounding pepper. |
| Pepper-root | n | Any plant of the pepper family. Lepidium latifoloia, Diphyilia dentaria |
| Pepperwort | n | Lepidium latifolia. |
| Pick | n | The act of picking. 2. picking of a quarrel. 3. act of choosing or selecting, a selection 4. quantity or potion; usually the best of any crop, batch, team, group. 5. dialect name for the bar-tailed Godwit. 6. an emetic |
| Pick | n | A double-headed, pointed metal tool, mounted on a solid wooden handle, as a pick-axe, used for breaking ground. 2. Any of various implenements for picking, as an ice-pick, or a pick-lock. 3. instrument with a pointed iron head at right angles to a wooden hand-part, for getting hard earth, stones, broken. 4. a small sharp-pointed instrument |
| Pick | vb | To throw or pitch, cast, thrust, push. 2. to pluck the strings of an instrument of music. 3. to find fault with, cavil, carp. 4. to single out for adverse criticism. 5. |
| Pick at | phr | To eat without appetite |
| Pick away | phr | To pull apart slowly and surely. 2. to steadily and determinedly do something |
| Pick-brain | n | One who carefully picks over the knowledge, know-how, ideas and thoughts of others, and uses that gained for his own advantage |
| Picker | n | A person who seeks quarrels and strife. 2. a woolcarder. 3. a quarry-man who uses a pick for igging. 3. a fisherman who uses a pick or a pike to spear eels. 4. a guitar, banjo or other stringed-instrument player. 5. a mattock. |
| Picker-upper | n | One who picks up things, as in wool in a woolshed. 2. a medication, drink, food which helps one to feel better. |
| Pick holes in | phr | To point out what is wrong with something or some action. |
| Pickings | n | Things obtained through stealth, stealing, theft, pilfering |
| Pick-me-up | n | a drink, a circumstance given one a brighter, more optimistic feeling. 2. anything serving to restore strength or vigour, or having a bracing effect. |
| Pick of | phr | The pick of: the best part of; the most succesful person or thing |
| Pick off | phr | To remove by picking. 2. to shoot with careful and deliberate aim. |
| Pick on | phr | To single out for unpleasant and unpleasant attention. |
| Pick one's way | phr | To go forward by careful thought and step to advance one's aim and progress. |
| Pick out | phr | To choose or select |
| Pick over | phr | To examine carefully; often one by one. |
| Pick-penny | n | One who greedily collects or steals money |
| Pickthank | n | One who curries favour, flatters. 2. a sycophant, tale-bearer, tell-tale. Nb: "Pickthanking: sycophancy |
| Pick-up | n | The act of picking up, a ball, goods, heavy weights; by motor vehicle, aeroplane. 2. the collection and transportatio of goods or poassengers. 3. recovery. 4. the reception of signals. 5. robbery or theft. 6. feeling or 'knowning' by sensory perception or traducion. |
| Pig | n | A hog or hog-like animal, especially when small or young. 2. the young of a swine, a young sow or boar. 3. a name for the young of a badger. 4. the animal or its flesh as an article of food: pork. 5. distinguished epithet to various species: bush-pig, wood-pig, sea-pig (porpoise). 6. applied contemptously to a person or another animal or thing; ie. "make a pig of oneself" or gluttonise. 7. a policeman (disparagingly)- slang. 8. a police informer (slang). 9. a long mass of iron etc. made by heating metal till liquid and putting into forms. |
| Pig-headed | adj | obstinate, stubborn, stupid, |
| Pig iron | n | An oblong mass of metal. 2. cast iron in pigs or ingots, as first reduced from ore. |
| Piggish | adj | Characteristic of a pig: piggishly, dirty, stubborn, selfish, mean, unclean, vile, unclean. |
| Piggy-back | vb | To carry another on your back. 2. |
| Pigskin | n | The skin of a pig. 2. football. 2. the skin of a hog used as a bottle. 4. a saddle |
| Pig-sty | n | Enclosure or pen for pigs. 2 a hovel, slum |
| Pig-swill | n | A horrible, disgusting meal |
| Pigweed | n | A name given to many plants used as animal fodder. 2. Pigwort |
| Pigwort | n | Pigweed. 2. Chenopactium, amaranths, purslane: "Portulacae oleracae |
| Pike | n | A tool consisting of a iron-bar and used as an digging tool. 2. a prehistoric instrument for breaking up rocks and soil. 3. a plectrum. 3. a playing card: diamonds. 4. an instrument for picking, as in an tooth-pick. 5. a hedgehog prickle or spike. 6. name of various pointed or pronged instruments for cutting or gathering or harvesting beans, peas and other similar crops.7. a pitchfork; hayfork; a fork-rake for collecting seaweed. 8. an eel-spear. 9. spear used for military person fighting on foot. |
| Pike | n | A narrow piece of land at the side of a field of irregular shape. 2. Sharp point or extremely tapering point, pointed tip of anything- such as a arrow, beak, spear, spike in the centre of a buckle. 3. a horn of a dilemma. 4. an anvil. 5. a pinnacle. |
| Pike-wise | adj | In peaked or cuneiformed formation. |
| Pilch | n | An outer garment made of skin dressed with the hair, in later use a leathern or coarse woollen outer garment. 2. a rug or pad laid over a saddle. 3. a napkin for an infant. |
| Pile | n | A dart, a shaft, arrow head of a heavy javelin of Romans. 2. a spike, nail, spine of prickly plant. 3. pointer of a sundial. 4. pointed blade of grass. 5. glume of hay. 6. pointed stake or post, made from a heavy beam of timber or a tree trunk. 3. a stake or post fixed in the ground. 7. a pile weir. |
| Pile-dwelling | n | a home, building built on piles. |
| Pill | n | A tidal creek on the coast or a pool in a creek or at the confluence of a tributary (Cornwall & Bristol). ??? |
| Pill | vb | To plunder, spoil, extort, rob. 2. take by force, prey on, rape. |
| Pillow | vb | To take counsel is to take pillow; consult. 2. take a night to consider a matter of importance: sleep on it. |
| Pillow talk | n | Conversation, usu. of an intimate kind, held in bed. |
| Pillow-word | n | Pillow words are meaningless expressions which are prefixed to other words, merely for the sake of euphony. Almost every word of note has some "Pillow-word" or thatso to speak, rest it head on. |
| Pilt | vb | See pelt |
| Pin | n | Thin, pointed bit of wirewith a generally rounded head, used for keeping bits of cloth, papers etc. fixed together; thin rod of wood or metal used for joining purposes. 2. (slang) pins: legs. 3. point, peak, apex. 4.gramophone needle. 5. 6. a small cask or keg of one-half firkin, approx. 4 & 1/2 gallons. 5. a corn on the toe or foot. 6. pitch, degree, step. |
| Pin | vb | Get fixed on something, wall etc. by a pin |
| Pine | vb | To grow thin or weak with longing, grief. 2. to have great desire or longing for. 3. to grieve for |
| Pin down | phr | Make someone keep his word; or keep to the point in an argument or discussion. |
| Pinhead | n | The head of a pin. 2. any small object. 3. a person with a smallish head |
| Pining | n | State of weakness through longing for someone or something. 2. grieving, desiring, longing. |
| Pin-up | n | Pictures of "winsome young ladies in daring undress" in times past pinned up on the walls of dug-outs, office walls etc. |
| Pipe | n | A boatswain's whistle used to call his crew. 2. voice esp. used in singing of birds; song or note of birds. 3. tubular vessels or canal. 3. channel of a small stream or burn: a pipe. 4. an icicle. 5. a smoking (of tobacco) apparatus. |
| Pipe | vb | To lay down pipes, above or underground, to supply or convey water, gas, oil; to draw through pipes. 2. to play a tune upon a pipe; blow on or play on a pipe. 3. to whistle, as the wind, a bird etc. 4. to sing or whistle as a bird. 5. to entice or decoy a bird, animal. 6. to pipe one's eyes: shed tears, weep. 7. to breath hard, from exertion or exhaustion. 8. to utter in a shrill and weak voice. 9. to utter in a loud clear voice as a song bird, a singer. |
| Pipe down | phr | A command to someone to be less vociferous or noisy. |
| Pipe in | phr | To bring in, welcome, introduce a person to a group to the sounds of the bagpipes. |
| Piper | n | A worker who lays pipes; a worker who makes pipes. 2. a plumber. 3. musician who plays pipes. |
| Pipes | n | The bagpipes, pibroches. 2. "To set up ones pipes" : to cry aloud |
| Pipestone | n | A hard red-clay or soft stone used by American's first-nation folk for smoking-pipe making. |
| Pipe-up | phr | Call out, have one's say. 2. to raise the voice, speak up in a powerful voice. 3. to increase in sound as the wind. |
| Pipewort | n | A plant comprising aquatic or marsh herbs allied to grasses, with a tubular membrane. |
| Pistle | n | From the Latin word: epistle: a communication in writing, letter, literary work, or a dedication in the form of a letter. 2. a spoken story or discourse. 3. a pistle-book |
| Pistle | vb | To write an epistle, assail in an epistle; satirize. |
| Pit | n | Shaft, hole, cavity, well in the ground. 2. Hole dug for the burial of a dead body; grave. 3. mass grave; a large hole dug for the burial of many bodies. 4. a enclosure in which animals, birds are set to fight; cockpit, bullpit. 5. hollow or cavity in any vessel. |
| Pitch | n | Tar, bitumen |
| Pitch | vb | To throw |
| Pitch-field | n | A battlefield |
| Pitch-hole | n | A hole into which something is thrown or pitched; an opening in a wall or barn, etc. through which something is pitched. |
| Pitchlong | adj | with a slope, steepling |
| Pitfall | n | a trap: a concealed pit in to which animals or men may fall and be captured. |
| Pith | n | Sponge like materials inside the stem of some plants. 2. most important, necessary part of something or someone. Concentrated force, vigour, substance hence the essential part, quintessence, gist. 4. the marrow of bones or the spinal cord. |
| Pith | vb | To kill by severing the spinal cord. 2. to remove the pith or essential part of someone or from something. |
| Pithily | adj | In the way that goes to the pith, essentially, in substance or essence. 2. With significance, substance, brevity, tersely, forcibly, essentially. 3. solid, substantial, esp. in speech or writing, condensed, forcibly terse |
| Pithiness | n | Full of meaning with brevity of expression; condensation and force of style, terseness, sententiousness. |
| Pithless | adj | Without force, vigour, substance |
| Pithsome | adj | Given to or full of terseness, brevity; substance, sturdiness, meaning; vigour or force. |
| Pithy | adj | Consisting of pith; like pith. 2. forcible, terse |
| Pitman | n | One who works in a pit, as in sawing, mining etc; the man who has charge of underground machinery. 2. a miner, collier. |
| Pitman's candle | n | A miners' candle |
| Plash | n | A shallow piece of standing water. 2. pool made by a flood or heavy rain. 3.marshy pool, puddle. |
| Plat | n | A falt blow, slap, smack. |
| Plat | vb | To strike. 2. to hurry, rush, to move noisily. 3. to crash, bounce, strike. |
| Play | n | Exercise in a brisk or free movement or action. 2. of living things: active bodily exercise, as in fencing, dancing, leaping, swimming. 3. rapid movement. 4. sport |
| Play | v | Give oneself amusement by running around, acting stories, etc. as children do. 2. to take part in sport, amusement with cards. 3. hit balls, play sport, do something playfully. 4. make music, sing, play musical instruments, dance. |
| Play-back | n | The reproduction of sound, pictures or both from disc, tape or film recording. |
| Play-down | vb | To treat as of little or unimportant, minimise |
| Play-off | n | To oppose one another. 2. to play another game to decide a tie. |
| Playfellow | n | An associate in games; a playmate |
| Playfere | n | Companion, comrade, friend, playmate. |
| Playful | adj | Full of play, ready for play. 2. not serious, acting or done in humour. |
| Playfulness | n | Something done with fulsomeness, merrily or jocose. |
| Playgoer | n | One who likes the Theatre and frequently goes. |
| Playground | n | A ground used for playing games; space set aside for sport and recreation. 2. an oval; sport's field, park |
| Playhouse | n | A theatre. |
| Plaything | n | Something for playing with. 2. a toy. |
| Play-up | vb | To misbehave, annoy, |
| Play-upon-words | phr | A pun. 2. words used with a double meaning. |
| Playwright | n | A writer of plays. |
| Plight | n | In OE: danger, risk, peril. 2. sin, offence, guilt, blame. 3. pledge, undertaking of risk. |
| Plight | vb | Give undertaking to be truth to one's pledge of faith, marriage, honesty. 2. "To plight oneself", " To plight one's word." |
| Plighting | n | Pledging, risking, |
| Plightless | adj | Blameless |
| Plight-ring | n | An engagement ring. |
| Plitch | vb | To pluck, pull. 2. to carp, criticise, pull apart |
| Plitching | n | Carping, criticising |
| Plough | n | An implement or apparatus (usu. drawn by horse, oxen or driven by mechanical power) for cutting through, turning over, or breaking up the soil. 2. any implement that works like a plow, a snow plough. 3, ploughed land |
| Plough | vb | To turn a field or pasture over using a plough. 2. go through something in a strong, but plodding manner or way. 3. to furrow or make ridges. 4. to plow through water or waves. |
| Plough-bote | n | In OE. Law: the wood or timber which the tenant had a right to cut for making and repairing ploughs and other agricultural implements. |
| Plough-swain | n | Ploughman |
| Plough under | phr | To put from sight by ploughing up and covering with soil. 2. obliberate |
| Plow | n | See Plough. 2. The group of seven stars commonly called "Charles's Wain" or the "Dipper" or the "Big Dipper" (Ursa Major |
| Pluck | n | Courage, strength of action in a crisis: not giving away to fear. 2. confidence and spirit in the face of danger 3. the heart, liver, windpipe, lungs of animal or man. |
| Pluck | vb | To pull off or out. 2. to take feathers off a bird; pull flowers off a plant. 3. to pull out hair, feathers, or remove the inners of a chicken, turkey or other cooking bird. 4. to cause a musical instrument to sound by pulling its strings, harp, guitar etc. 5. to give a sudden or tug. |
| Pluck up | phr | To call up or rouse one courage in the face of danger or crisis. |
| Plum | n | A smooth skinned edible stone fruit of various trees of the genus, Prunus |
| Pock | n | A pustule or small hollow in the skin in an eruptive disease, as in smallpox. 2. The Pox: slang term for syphilis and some other sexually transmitted diseases |
| Pockwood | n | Lignum Guaiacum, Lignum vitae a medication produced from the bark of these trees and used in the treatment of syphilis. |
| Pocky | adj | Full of or infected by the pox. 2. marked with pustules or pock-marks. |
| Pole | n | A long thin rod of wood; a long slender piece of metal or wood commonly tapering and more or less rounded. 2. In linear and surface measure, a perch , a rod: five and a half yards in distance. 3. a fishing-rod |
| Pole | vb | To push a boat, raft, with a pole. . to propel, push or strike with a pole. |
| Pool | n | A small stretch of water, naturally formed deep, quiet stretch of a river. 2. any small isolated body of liquid: water on a road, floor, a pool of blood etc. 3. a puddle |
| Poppy | n | Any plant of the genus Papaver |
| Poppywort | n | Papaveracae mecompis |
| Post | n | Upright piece of timber or other material used as a support, a point or attachment, etc as in a building. 2. a finishing post for horseracing. |
| Post | vb | To fasten posters or placards upon walls etc, to advertise by poster. 2. to announce by a poster: to post a reward. 3. to denounce by poster: a traitor, etc. 4. to publish a name of on a list. 5. to publish the name of a ship, aircraft as overdue or missing. |
| Pot | n | A rounded earthen, glass, metal or other type of material for cooking, culinary and other purposes. 2. a metal drinking vessel. 3. the amount of stakes wagered at pool or poker. 4. a large amount of money. 6. a deep pit. 7. a circular, wicker or wire basket-like trap (a fish-pot) for catching crustaceans, crayfish, lobsters etc. 8. vessel or container for holding plants. 9. a basket, tube or pot used in pairs, a pannier, to carry sand and manure. 10. a large sum of money in a bet held in a pot. 11. an important person. |
| Pot | vb | To put in a pot, sep. a plant |
| Pot-belly | n | A paunch, a protuberant stomach, a protruding gut. |
| Pot-boiler | n | Applied depreciatively to a work of literature or art executed for the purpose of "boiling the pot" or gaining a livelihood. 2. a writing or picture, or other work made to sell. 3. musical composition, play, film etc. 4. writer or artist who produces pot-boiler. |
| Pot-bound | adj | Of a plant growing in a flower pot when its roots fill the pot and there is no more room to expand. |
| Pote | n | A stick or rod for poking, thrusting, or stirring; a poker |
| Pote | vb | To thrush, push, poke with sticks. 2. thrust or push with the feet; to kick, said esp. of the horse. 3. to crimp fine linen with a poting-stick. |
| Pot-ears | n | The handles of a cup; cup-handles |
| Pote-stick | n | Stirring stick. 2. a crimping stick |
| Pot-fish | n | The whale cachalot or spermaceti. |
| Potful | n | Quantity of liquid that fills a pot |
| Pot-head | n | A fool, simpleton, drunkard, marijuana smoker. |
| Pot-head whale | n | The pilot whale |
| Pot-hole | n | A deep hole of more or less cylindrical shape; esp. one formed by the wearing away or rock by the rotation of stone, or a collection of gravel, in an eddy of running water or in the bed of a stream. 2. A pond formed a natural hollow in the ground in which water collects; a slough, a slew. 3. a depression or hollow forming a defect in the surface of a road or pathway. |
| Pot-house | n | A pottery, a building where pottery is made. |
| Pot-hunter | n | An opprobious appellation: a sycophant, a parasite. 2. one who enters any contest simply for the sake of winning. 3. one who obtains archeological and historical objects through illicit measures purely for profit and private ccollection. |
| Pot-licker | n | A dog, a dish-licker |
| Pot-mate | n | A drinking companion. |
| Potsherd | n | A broken earthenware pot, a broken piece of earthenware |
| Pot-shot | n | A random blow or punch. 2. a criticism, or verbal attack, often opportunistic or random |
| Pot-shotten | adj | Drunk, intoxicated, inebriated, shickered. |
| Pot-sick | adj | Drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, hung-over |
| Potstone | n | A granular variety of steatite or soapstone |
| Potted | adj | Of meat and fish etc. preserved in a closed pot or other vessel. 2. canned, contained in a can. 3. of literature or historical account, put in a short, condensed, easily assimilated form, abridged, summarised. 4. drunk, intoxicated, under the influence of drugs, esp. marijuana. |
| Potter | n | A maker of pottery |
| Potter | vb | To make pottery and ceramic objects. 2. to poke again and again, to make a succession of slight thrusts. 3. to occupy oneself in a trifling ineffectual way; esp. when one has no business to tamper. 3. to trifle away unsystematically, walk slowly, idly, dawdle, loiter, saunter. |
| Potty | adj | Intoxicated, silly, stupid, feeble, insignificant. |
| Potwort | n | Plants, esp. those of the herb family grown in pots. |
| Pough | n | A bag. 2. a swelling of the skin. 3. of a garment: to hang loose, hang out, not tucked in;The pough something hanging out, esp. a garment. |
| Pound | n | A measure of weight:16 ounces avoirdupois. 2. basic unit of currency in Great Britian and Northern Ireland. 3. the act of pounding: delevering heavy blows. 4. a drumming noise. 5. a public enclosure for unlicensed dogs and wandering livestock. 6. a level stretch in a canal between locks. |
| Pound | vb | To hit hard with the hand, fist or some heavy instrument. 2. to strike or drive against with a heavy impact. 3. to move heavily or clumsily. 4. more rythmically or thump along. 5. to shut up or confine in any enclosure or any bounds of limits; impound. 6. to crush and brek down by beating. 7. to make a jarring noise. |
| Pound-house | n | A building in which pounding or crushing of material is done, eg. a cider mill. |
| Pout | n | Name applied to several kinds of fish, such as the eel-pout, horn-pout. |
| Pratt | n | In OE: guile, trickery. 2. Fraud, prank, frolic. 3. cunningness, astuteness. |
| Pretty | n | In OE. trick, wile, craftiness, cunning; in the C15th clever, skilful, ingeniously made or cleverly done, artful 2. of things, fine, pleasant, nice, proper (sometimes condescendingly used), but also as general epithet: nice, pleasant, agreeable, fine,swell. 3. Ironically used, fine, wonderful, special: "to come to a pretty position." 4. In golf: the Fairway as opposed to the Rough. 5. a considerable sum or measure or an approximate, as in "pretty nearly", "pretty good", "a pretty penny." 6. having beauty without majesty or stature, pleasing, comely, homely, but aesthetically pleasing to the eye and ear; having a beauty that is attractive rather an imposing. 7. Conversely: insignificant, ordinary. |
| Prick | n | A depression scratched or carved into the surface. 2. a pointed instrument that holes or punctures. 3. the act of punctures or pricks. 4. the sensation of being pricked. 5. a puncture. 6. marked made by a pricking or puncturing object. 7 a target point for archer's aim. 8. a mark denoting degree. 9 a mathematical point. 10. a hare's footprint. 11. a small roll, such as a tobacco prick; spun yarn prick. 12. insulting word for a person who is silly, dopey prick; irritating or ridiculous. 13. euphemenism for the penis. |
| Prick | vb | To puncture, make a hole in, or nick with a small point. 2. stab slightly with a pointed object. 3. cause sharp emotional pain (prick one's conscience). 4. sting as a insect. 5. spur on, incite, goad. 6. in embroidery, outline a pattern or form. 7. to make pungent or sharp. 8. to trace on a chart a ship's course. |
| Prickle | n | Thorn or spike |
| Prickle | vb | To feel a tingling or prickling sensation. 2. to prick, as with a goad etc, hence, to goad, instigate. |
| Prickly | adj | Having, being armed, or full with prickles. 2. smarting, tingling, having the sensation many prickling points. |
| Prickly-heat | n | common name for Lichen tropicus, an imflammatory disorder of the sweat glands, prevalent in hot countries, with eruptions of small sores and a tingling pricking sensation. |
| Prickly pear | n | Any species of the cacteous Opuntia, prickly plant with pear-shaped fleshy edible fruit; also the fruit |
| Prick-me-dainty | n | One who dresses in a finical manner, or ridiciously exact in dress; a dainty. 2. excessively or affectedly precise in personal, overnice, finical |
| Prick-song | n | Music sung from notes written or pricked; as distinct from that sung from memory. |
| Prick up | phr | Listen sharply, have the attention of, as in "prick up one's ears. 2. To prink or spruce up. |
| Prickwood | n | Dogwood, prick timber |
| Pride | n | Self-respect. 2. over-high opinion of oneself, one's position. 3. feeling of pleasure; approval, about something one is responsible for or has a connection with. |
| Priest | n | One trained in the work of religion and religious matters |
| Proud | adj | Having feelings marked by pride. 2. stately 3. stiff, cold, in behaviour. 4. of things, important-looking, causing respect. |
| Proudfall | n | The forelock or front hair. |
| Proudflesh | n | Flesh around a wound which is healing. |
| Proudfull | adj | Proud-hearted; full of pride. |
| Proudish | adj | Somewhat proudish. |
| Proudness | n | Pride, state of having or feeling proud. |
| Psalm | n | Song of religion, specifically one in the Bible. 2. a sacred song |
| Psalm-wright | n | Writer of psalm |
| Psalter | n | Book of psalms; copy of the psalms as a separate book. |
| Puck | n | An evil, malicious or mischievous spirit or demon of popular superstition, commonly identified with the biblical Devil. From the C16th, the name of a fancied mischievous or tricky fairy, goblin or sprite. |
| Pung | n | A purse |
| Purple | adj | Red-bluish colour, between crimson and violet. |
| Purse | n | O.E. pursa "little bag made of leather," from M.L. bursa "purse" (cf. O.Fr. borse, 12c., Mod.Fr. bourse), from Late Latin posi "bag. 2. woman's handbag Meaning 3. sum of money collected as a prize in a race, etc. 4. Purse-strings, figurative for "control of money. 5. Purse-snatcher, (earlier purse-picker). |
| Purse-pride | n | Pride of the purse or wealthy, the self-esteem or arrogance of the wealthy; purse-proud. |
| Put | vb | To thrust, push and allied senses in which the application of force is expressed. 2. to thrust, push (with or without resulting change of a position), to shove, knock. 3. to butt or hit with the hea or horns. 4. to deal a thrust or blow, to give a push or knock. 5. to make a push or exert oneself. 6. to propel (a stone or a weight) mainly the swing of the body. 7. to plunge or thrust a weapon home or into the body; to drive or send a missile through; to stab, shoot. 8. place or set, express in words or speech. |
| Put-back | phr | Set back, act of putting or setting back. |
| Put-down | n | A snub, a slight. 2. a delivery by a vehicle. |
| Put-forth | n | Imposture, pretence. |
| Put-in | n | One's turn to speak. 2. one's affair or business |
| Put off | phr | Delay, leave till later, postpone |
| Put on | phr | don, cloth. assume airs or affectation. |
| Put-out | n | An annoyance, inconvenience, set back. |
| Putter | n | Act or work in a feeble or unsystematic way. |
| Put-through | n | The going through of a process, such as an ecomonical transaction |
| Put-up | n | Lodgings, accomodation, quarters. 2. arranged on concocted beforehand, as a burgulary by conspiracy with other persons usu, "insiders". 3. preconcerted and planned in an underhanded way. |
| Put up with | phr | Tolerate |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Pad | n | A toad; also a frog. 2. starfish. 3. a hidden danger lurking. |
| Paddock | n | Small grass field or enclosure, usu. located near stable or home, earlier form wasparrock 2. An enclosure as a stud farm. 3. In Australia and New Zealand, a field irrespective of size, enclosed by fencing. 4. assembly place for horses at a race track, awaiting and preparing for a race. 5. a store place for ore, esp. an open excavation, not very deep. |
| Pall | n | A cloth, usu. of purple, black or white velvet, spread over or upon the hearse, coffin or tomb. 2. fine or rich cloth (as a material) esp. as used for the robes of high-ranked person. 4. in OE. a purple cloth; purple. 5. a rich cloth spread over something, a canopy. 6. an altar cloth; a linen cloth in which the chalice is covered. 7. a cloth, cloth, a garment, a veatment. 8. a robe, cloak, a mantle put over a king or queen at coronation. 9. a woollen vestment worn by the pope. 10. something such as a cloud that produces an effect of gloom. 11. a feeling of disgust coming from satiety or insipidity. |
| Pall | vb | To become pale or dim. 2. to become fair; to faint, fail in strength or virtue. 3. to decay or waste away. 4. to become tasteless, vapid, insipid in appetite or interest. 4. of persons or organs: to lose relish or interest; to become satiated or cloyed with. 5. tomake faint or feeble, to enfeeble or weaken. 6. to render flat, stale or insipid. 7. to render the breath inoffensive or sweet. |
| Pall-bearer | n | One who carries the pall and attends the coffin at a funeral; a pall-holder |
| Pallen | pp | Made of rich cloth; in or of purple. |
| Palm | n | Any tree or shrub of palmae family, monocotyledon, found in the tropics and known for their ornamental forms and uses to man. 2. palm tree. |
| Palm | phr | "Bear the Palm" - to be the best. The allusion is to the Roman custom of giving the victorious gladiator a branch of the palm tree. |
| Palm | phr | "Yield the Palm" - yield the palm of victory. |
| Palm-leaf | n | The leaf or fron of a palm tree, especially that of a fan palm, used in making fans, hats, mats, thatch. |
| Palm Sunday | n | The Sunday before Easter, so called in commeration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem., where palm branches were strewn before him. |
| Palmy | adj | Abounding in or resembling palms. |
| Pan | n | O.E. panne, earlier ponne (Mercian) "pan," from W.Gmc. *panna "pan" (cf. O.N. panna) shallow pan, dish, stewpan. 2. a wide shallow vessel, usu. metallic or earthen, for domestic use, as in holding liquids or in cooking. 3. a vessel either open or closed, for boiling or evaporating. 4. a natural or artificial depression in the earth for evaporating brine: a salt pan. 5. a circular metal dish with sides for gold finding. 6. any natural depression in the earth containing water or mud. 7. the skull; the brain pan. 8. the face, the mug, the dial |
| Pan | vb | To wash gravel, soil etc to yield gold and other precious metals. 2. to yield good results; suceed. 3. to speak freely and at length, to expatiate. 4. to cook in a pan. 5. to criticise severely; judge performance to be unsuccessful or inadequate. |
| Pan | phr | "Leap Out of the Pan into the Fire" - from an already bad situation to a worse one. 2. out of the frying pan into the fire. |
| Pan | phr | "Pan Out" - to transpire, result, develop well or badly, or turn out. |
| Pan | phr | "Pan Out" - wash gold-bearing gravel, separating of the gravel. 2. pan off. |
| Panbone | n | The patella |
| Panful | adj | As much or as many as a pan will hold. |
| Panhandle | n | A narrow strip of land attached to a larger region: from its resemblance to a panhandle, as the Texas Panhandle. |
| Panhandle | vb | To beg (especially on the street); steal, purloin |
| Panhandler | n | Beggar, mendicant, free-loader, cadger. |
| Panman | n | (obsolete) a person employed to empty the contents of the outside toilet (ie. human excrement) at suburban houses (and similar). Rendered obsolete by the introduction of plumbed (ie. piped) sewerage systems. |
| Panning | n | The separation of gold from gravel or earth by washing in a pan. 2. severe criticism, harsh judgement. |
| Parrock | n | See "paddock" |
| Path | n | A walk or way, as one beaten by the foot, used by men and animals. 2. any road, track, or course. 3. fig, the path of life. |
| Path | phr | "Beat a Path to Someone's Door" - repeatedly visit someone. |
| Path | phr | "Be On a Path Strewn with Roses" - to lead a very pleasant life. |
| Path | phr | "Be On the Warpath" - be on the look out for faults which can be criticized. |
| Path | phr | "Smooth the Path for Someone" - to use one's influence to make arrangements so that the persons' task will be easier or more readily accomplished. |
| Pathfinder | n | One skilled in leading or finder a way; especially one who opens up new trials into unknown regions; also one who opens up new fields in science, philosophy, art. 2. an aircraftt carrying flares to light targets in enemy territory for raiding bombers. |
| Pathfinding | n | Pathfinding or pathing is the plotting, by a computer application, of the shortest route between two points. It is a more practical variant on solving mazes. |
| Path-length | n | The length or extend of a path. |
| Pathless | adj | Trackles; untrodden. |
| Pathlessness | n | The sate or condition of a path. |
| Pathlike | adj | Characteristic or resembling a path in some aspect. |
| Path-maker | n | One who builds paths; a pathfinder. |
| Pathway | n | A path; a footway. |
| Pathwidth | n | The width of a path, usually narrow. |
| Pathwise | adj | One path or way at a time. |
| Pathworking | n | As guided meditations are sometimes called, it is a term which sometimes comes to us through ceremonial magic. |
| Pathy | adj | Pertaining to, or abounding in paths. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Pea-brain | n | Foolish, stupid. |
| Peacock | n | The male of a gallinaceous bird, a pavonine. NB: alernate spelling: "Pocock" |
| Peacock eye | n | Small localized circular markings in certain woods, like a bird's eye in maple, that add considerably to the decorative value. It si now suggested that they are caused by fungi, but embryo buds, insects, and birds are claimed to be cause. |
| Pea-cod | n | The pod or legume of the pea-plant; a pea-pod. |
| Peafowl | n | A pheasant of the genus or afropavo, notable for the extravagant tails of the mates; a peacock. |
| Pea-green | adj | A yellowish green color, like that of peas. |
| Pea hen | n | Peacock, peafowl. |
| Peak | n | Perhaps ???? from O.E. 'pic": point, A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. 2. the highest value reached by some quantity in a time period. 3. (geography) the top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point. 3. geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated. 4. (nautical) the upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail. 5. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it. 6. (nautical) the extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. 7. (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum. |
| Peak | n | The name "Peak Arse" in OE. "Peas aers" and in Domesday Book: "Peachears" applied to "Peak's Cavern," has suggested a conjecture that Peas may have been a name for a demon,(later "Devils Arse") cognate with OE. "Puca or Puck. Other placenames such as Peasaes del Kemble, Paesedon, (now Pegdon) in Bedfordshire have naturally been associated with the word "peak", but the history of the latter maked any etymological connection impossible. |
| Peak | vb | To reach a peak. 2. to rise or extend into a peak, to form or appear as a peak |
| Peak body | n | An organisation which represents an entire sector of industry or the community to the government, often incorporating other organisations in that area. |
| Peaked | adj | Having a peak or peaks. |
| Peakedness | n | The condition of having (a specified form of) peak. |
| Peak flow | n | The largest measure of air respired from the lungs. 2. the largest volume of water discharged from a stream or river. |
| Peak load | n | The maximum power load consumed or produced by a generating unit or groups of units during a specified time. |
| Peakily | adv | Characterized by peaks. |
| Peakiness | n | The quality of having or being peaky. |
| Peakish | adj | Of or relating to a peak or peaks. 2. belonging to a mountainous region. 3. having peaks, peaked. |
| Peakless | adj | Without a peak or peaks. |
| Peaklike | adj | Resembling a peak or peaks. |
| Peaky | adj | Having or as if having peaks, especially high-pitched spots. |
| Peanut | n | A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant "Arachis" |
| Peanut | phr | "Earn Peanuts" - to get reward which is far too small in relation to the value of the services rendered. |
| Peanut milk | n | A non-dairy beverage created using peanuts and water. Recipe variations include salt, sweeteners, and grains. It does not contain any lactose and is therefore suitable for people with lactose intolerance. Similar in production to almond milk, soy milk, and rice milk, the peanuts are typically ground, soaked, sometimes heated, and then filtered through a fine filter: the resulting liquid is considered the "milk". |
| Peanutty | adj | Resembling peanuts, pea-like. 2. of or pertaining to peanuts. |
| Pear | n | Fleshy, juicy, very eatable fruit of the tree, "Pyrus communis" |
| Pearmonger | n | A fruit seller, esp. of pears |
| Pear-shaped | adj | Having the shape or cross-section of a pear |
| Pear tree | n | A fruit of the genus, pyrus, which bears the pear as fruit. |
| Peary | adj | Resembling a pear, pear-like. |
| Pearwood | n | The wood of the pear tree. |
| Pease | n | Pea, peas collectively. |
| Pea-time | n | The last stages of anything, the end of one's life. |
| Pebble | n | Small roundish stone, apopelstan. 2. transparent and colourless rock-crystal. |
| Pebble | phr | "Throw a Pebble Against a Window" - to gently draw attention tpo oneself. |
| Pebble-like | adj | Resembling a characteristic of a pebble. |
| Pebble mill | n | A tumbling mill that grinds or pulverizes materials without contaminating them with iron; used especially ceramic ingredients. |
| Pebble-stone | n | A pebble. 2. a material consisting of a mass of pebbles. |
| Pebble-ware | n | A kind of Wedgewood in which the clay of different colours are include in the paste during manufacture. |
| Pelican | n | A large, gregarious, fish-eating webfooted bird of warm regions, having a distensible membranous pouch on the upper for the temporary storage of fish. 2. the axe-head. |
| Pen | n | A small enclosure for domestic animals and livestock, as cows, sheep, swine or poultry. 2. a fold, sty, coup. 3. a number of animals sufficient to fill a pen; also animals contained within the pen in a collection. 4. a division within a pen, sty, etc. 5. a river or canal; weir or dam. |
| Penfold | n | An enclosure penning sheep or cattle; a small fence-area for stray animals and livestock |
| Penniless | adj | Without money; without a penny; poor. |
| Pennilessness | n | Destitution. |
| Penning | n | Enclose in a pen; confined. |
| Penny | n | A coin used in the UK. and Commonwealth countries. 2. money in general |
| Penny | n | Used in combining form: twopenny, halfpenny, etc. 2. Costing a specified number of) pennies nails; formerly designating the cost of nails per hundred; but afterwards denoting their length. |
| Penny | phr | "Have One's Penny's Worth" - have one's (minor) say in a matter. |
| Penny | phr | "Not Have a Penny to One's Name (Or to Bless Oneself)" - have no money. |
| Penny | phr | "Pennies from Heaven" - unexpected money. |
| Penny | phr | "Penny for Your Thoughts" - tell me what you are thinking about. |
| Penny | phr | "Pretty Penny" - much money. |
| Penny | phr | "The Penny Dropped" - somebody (finally) understood something. |
| Penny | phr | "Throw in One's Six Pennies' Worth" - to modestly supply one's own facts or views. |
| Penny | phr | "Two a Penny" - very cheap, common. |
| Penny | phr | "Two-penny, halfpenny" - cheap, trivial. |
| Penny-dreadful | n | A cheap book or magazine containing popular, usually sensational fiction. |
| Penny-farthing | n | also penny farthing, "ineffective," from penny + farthing, the two together making but a small sum. 2. a kind of bicycle with a small wheel in back and a big one in front (so called from the notion of different size coins). |
| Penny-father | n | A person who is extremely careful with their money: a skinflint, miser, scrooge |
| Penny-liner | n | A journalist who contributes articles, etc to a newspapers at so a much a line; a hack writer. |
| Penny-rot | n | Name for the Marsh Pennywort, from its round leaves and supposed property of causing rot in sheep. |
| Penny-weight | n | A troy weight of 24 grains. |
| Penny whistle | n | A tin whistle. |
| Penny-wisdom | n | The quality or characteristic of being economical in small matters, but wasteful in large ones. |
| Penny-wise | adj | Unduly economical, but not always wisely, in small matters; usually in the phrase: "Penny wise. but pound foolish." |
| Pennywort | n | Several species of the Hydrocotyle: the parsley family. 2. Cotyledon Umbilicus |
| Penny-worth | adj | As much as can be bought for a penny. 2. a small amount, a trifle |
| Pep | n | Vigor, go, get-go, spirit. |
| Pep | phr | "Pep up" - make more interesting , lively or powerful. 2.fill with vigor. |
| Pepper | n | Any plant of the genus "Capiscum". 2. powder made from small berries of certain plants, used to give a spicy, hot taste to food. 3. spiciness, pungency, raciness. |
| Pepper | vb | To sprinkle or season with pepper. 2. to shower with missiles; spatter, pelt. |
| Pepper | phr | "Pepper and Salt" - cloth made of light and dark wool or material mixed. 2. black hair with a intermingle of grey and or white. 3. a finely speckled greyish look |
| Pepper | phr | "Pepper With" - strike somebody with a stinging shower of food, drink, conversation, entertainment, proceedings. |
| Pepper-corn | n | A berry of the pepper plant. 2. anything trifling or unimportant |
| Peppered | adj | Seasoned with pepper. 2. speckled. |
| Pepper mill | n | a device for grinding pepper by hand. 2. a pepper quern |
| Peppermint | n | A pungent aromatic herb (Mentha piperita) used in medicine and confectionery. |
| Pepperbox | n | A gun or artillery piece with a revolving set of barrels. |
| Pepper-pot | n | A earthenware or metal pot or container for pepper; a pepperbox. |
| Pepper-quern | n | Handmill for grounding pepper. 2. a pepper mill. |
| Pepper-root | n | Any plant of the pepper family. Lepidium latifoloia, Diphyilia dentaria |
| Pepper-shaker | n | A pepper pot. |
| Pepperwort | n | Lepidium latifolia. |
| Peppery | adj | Pertaining to or like pepper, pungent. |
| Peppiness | n | The quality of being peppy. |
| Peppy | adj | Full of pep; energetic, cheerful, sparky, full vim, vigor. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Pick | n | The act of picking. |
| Pick | n | A double-headed, pointed metal tool, mounted on a solid wooden handle, as a pick-axe, used for breaking ground. 2. any of various implements for picking, as an ice-pick, or a pick-lock. 3. instrument with a pointed iron head at right angles to a wooden hand-part, for getting hard earth, stones, broken. 4. a small sharp-pointed instrument |
| Pick | vb | To pluck the strings of an instrument of music. |
| Pick | phr | "Pick and Shovel" - tools that are used in, or are symbols of, heavy laboring work. |
| Pick | phr | "Pick Away"- to pull apart slowly and surely. 2. to steadily and determinedly do something. |
| Pick | phr | "Pick off" - to remove by picking. |
| Pick | phr | "Pick Up" - take hold of and raise. 2. rescue by picking or plucking from the sea. 3. bear and gather. |
| Pick-a-back | adv | On the back of the shoulders; piggy-back. |
| Pick-axe | n | A pick or mattock with one arm of the head edged like a chisel and the other pointed. |
| Picker | n | A quarry-man who uses a pick for digging. 3. a fisherman who uses a pick or a pike to spear eels. 4. a guitar, banjo or other stringed-instrument player. 5. a mattock. |
| Pick-me-up | n | A drink, especially an alcoholic drink, taken to renew one's energy or spirits. |
| Pig | n | Middle English: probably from the first element of Old English picbrēd ‘acorn’, literally ‘pig bread’ (i.e. food for pigs). A hog or hog-like animal, especially when small or young. 2. the young of a swine, a young sow or boar. 3. a name for the young of a badger. 4. the animal or its flesh as an article of food: pork. 5. distinguished epithet to various species: bush-pig, wood-pig, sea-pig (porpoise). 6. applied contemptuously to a person or another animal or thing; ie. "make a pig of oneself" or gluttonize. 7. a policeman (disparagingly)- slang. 8. a police informer (slang). 9. a long mass of iron etc. made by heating metal till liquid and putting into forms. |
| Pig | phr | "Bleed Like a Pig" - bleed copiously. |
| Pig | phr | "Drive One's Pigs" - to snore. |
| Pig | phr | "He Has Brought His Pigs to a Pretty Market" - to make a very bad bargain. |
| Pig | phr | "In a Pig's Eye" - certainly not. |
| Pig | phr | "Live Like a Pig in Clover" - live in luxury. |
| Pig | phr | "Make a Pig's Ear of Something" - do something something badly, messily. |
| Pig | phr | "Make a Pig of Oneself" - overeat greedily. |
| Pig | phr | "Pig in the Middle" - person, or group in a helpless position between, or made use of by, others (from a children's game where the 'pig' tries to catch a ball tossed from one to another of a pair or ring of people; if he succeeds, the thrower becomes 'pig'. |
| Pig | phr | "Pig it" - to live slovenly in a squalor. |
| Pig | phr | "Pig Out" - a bout of eating a large amount of food. |
| Pig | phr | "Pigs in Clover" - people who have money but do not know how to behave properly. |
| Pig | phr | "Pigs Might Fly" - wonderful and seemingly impossible; things may happen. 2. an expression of disbelief. |
| Pig | phr | "Pig's Whisper" - a very short space in time; properly a grunt - which doesn't take long. |
| Pig | phr | "Pig Together" - to huddle together like pigs in a sty. 2. to share and share alike, especially in lodgings in a small way. 3. earlier meaning: to sleep two to a bed. |
| Pig | phr | "Stare Like a Stuck Pig" - with mouth wide open and staring eyes; as a pig being killed. 2. in the utmost astonishment, mingled sometimes with fear. |
| Pig | phr | "Sweat Like a Pig" -sweat copiously. |
| Pig-bed | n | A bed of sand for molding pigs into which metal is poured. |
| Pig-dog | n | A dog used for the hunting of pigs. |
| Pigdom | n | The condition of being a pig. 2. the realm of pigs (lit & fig.) |
| Pig-foot | n | Pig trotters, also known as pettitoes. |
| Pigginess | n | The quality of being piggy; piggishness. |
| Piggish | adj | Like a pig, greedy, muddy. |
| Piggishness | adj | The quality of being piggy; pigginess. |
| Piggy | n | A child word for a pig. |
| Piggy | phr | "Piggy in the Middle" - a person placed in an awkward situation. |
| Piggy | adj | Resembling a pig, especially in features and appetite |
| Pig-headed | adj | Obstinate, stubborn, obdurate, stupid. |
| Pig-headedly | adv | In a pigheaded manner. |
| Pig-headedness | n | The state or quality of being obstinate, stubborn, obdurate, stupid; pigheadedness. |
| Pig iron | n | An oblong mass of metal. 2. cast iron in pigs or ingots, as first reduced from ore. |
| Pigging | n | The act of bringing forth pigs. 2. to act or live like pigs. |
| Piggish | adj | Characteristic of a pig: piggishly, dirty, stubborn, selfish, mean, unclean, vile, unclean. |
| Piggy-back | vb | To carry another on your back. |
| Pig-boat | n | A slang term for a submarine. |
| Piglead | n | Unrefined lead, cast into blocks called pigs. |
| Pigless | adj | Without pigs. |
| Piglike | adj | Like or resembling a pig. |
| Pigling | n | A young or small pig. |
| Pigman | n | A farm worker who looks after pigs. |
| Pignut | n | Conopodium majus - a herb popular with pigs; hognut and St Anthony's nut for anthony the Great or St Anthony of Padua, both patrons saint of swineherds. |
| Pig-pen | n | A pen or sty where pigs are kept. |
| Pig-run | n | An open area of pigsty. |
| Pigskin | n | The skin of a pig. 2. football. 2. the skin of a hog used as a bottle. 4. a saddle |
| Pig-sticker | n | A long sharp knife or weapon used to hunt wild boar. |
| Pig-sticking | n | The hunting of pigs and wild boar. |
| Pig-sty | n | Enclosure or pen for pigs. 2 a hovel, slum |
| Pigtail | n | A plaited lock of hair worn singly at the back or on each side of the hair. |
| Pig-tailed | adj | Wearing or having a pig-tail. |
| Pig's whisper | n | The grunt of a pig. 2. a loud whisper, meant to be heard. 3. a very short space of time, an instant. 3. a whisper; a confidential tone of voice. |
| Pigweed | n | A name given to many plants used as animal fodder. 2. Pigwort |
| Pigwort | n | Pigweed. 2. Chenopactium, amaranths, purslane: "Portulacae oleracae |
| Pike | n | A tool consisting of a iron-bar and used as an digging tool. 2. a prehistoric instrument for breaking up rocks and soil. 3. a plectrum. 3. a playing card: diamonds. 4. an instrument for picking, as in an tooth-pick. 5. a hedgehog prickle or spike. 6. name of various pointed or pronged instruments for cutting or gathering or harvesting beans, peas and other similar crops.7. a pitchfork; hayfork; a fork-rake for collecting seaweed. 8. an eel-spear. 9. spear used for military person fighting on foot. |
| Pike | n | A narrow piece of land at the side of a field of irregular shape. 2. Sharp point or extremely tapering point, pointed tip of anything- such as a arrow, beak, spear, spike in the centre of a buckle. 3. a horn of a dilemma. 4. an anvil. 5. a pinnacle. |
| Pike-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a pike in some aspect. |
| Pike | vb | To attack, prod, or injure someone with a pike |
| Pikeman | n | The keeper ofa turnpike. 2. a soldier armed with a pike. |
| Pike-staff | n | A staff with a sharp metal spike. |
| Pike-wise | adj | In peaked or wedge-shaped formation. |
| Pilch | n | An outer garment made of skin dressed with the hair, in later use a leathern or coarse woollen outer garment. 2. a rug or pad laid over a saddle. 3. a napkin for an infant. |
| Pile | n | A dart, a shaft, arrow head of a heavy javelin of Romans. 2. a spike, nail, spine of prickly plant. 3. pointer of a sundial. 4. pointed blade of grass. 5. glume of hay. 6. pointed stake or post, made from a heavy beam of timber or a tree trunk. 3. a stake or post fixed in the ground. 7. a pile weir. |
| Pile-driver | n | An engine for driving in piles. |
| Pile-dwelling | n | A home, building built on piles, especially on a lake.. |
| Pill | n | A tidal creek on the coast or a pool in a creek or at the confluence of a tributary (Cornwall & Bristol). 2. Old English pyll Modern English a pool, pill, a small creek, hereford, the channels through which the marshes enter the river are termed pills |
| Pill | vb | To plunder, spoil, extort, rob. 2. take by force, prey on, rape. |
| Pillow | vb | To take counsel is to take pillow; consult. 2. take a night to consider a matter of importance: sleep on it. |
| Pillow-book | n | A journal-type book kept to record sexual dreams and escapades. It is usually for the reader's eyes only. |
| Pillow fight | n | A common game mostly played by the young children in which they engage in a mock physical conflict, using pillows as weapons. |
| Pillow-less | adj | Without pillows; having no padding. |
| Pillow talk | n | Conversation, usu. of an intimate kind, held in bed. |
| Pillow top | n | (Of a mattress) Having a cushioned, textured top surface to provide extra softness. |
| Pillow-word | n | Pillow words are meaningless expressions which are prefixed to other words, merely for the sake of euphony. Almost every word of note has some "Pillow-word" or thatso to speak, rest it head on. |
| Pilt | vb | See pelt |
| Pin | n | Thin, pointed bit of wire with a generally rounded head, used for keeping bits of cloth, papers etc. fixed together; thin rod or pin of wood or metal used for joining purposes. 2. (slang) pins: legs. 3. point, pin, peak, apex. 4. gramophone needle or pin. 5. 6. a small cask or keg of one-half firkin, approx. 4 & 1/2 gallons. 5. a corn on the toe or foot. 6. pitch, degree, step, pin. |
| Pin | vb | Get fixed on something, wall etc. by a pin |
| Pin | phr | "For Two Pins I would Do So-and-so" - my tolerance is almost exhausted and I am very tempted to do so-and-so. |
| Pin | phr | "Not Care a Pin for (Something)" - not have the slightest interest in something. |
| Pin | phr | "Not Worth a Pin" - wholly worthless. |
| Pin | phr | "Pin Against" - trap somebody between oneself and a tree etc, and prevent him or her throw moving a way. |
| Pin | phr | "Pin Down" - make someone keep his word; or keep to the point in an argument or discussion. 2. persuade somebody to define his position, state his intentions. |
| Pin | phr | "Pin One's Hopes On" - rely on. |
| Pin | phr | "Pins and Needles" - a sensation of uncomfortable tingling or prickling, usually felt in the hands or feet. A common cause is leaning awkwardly on a limb, which presses against the nerves. Persistent pins and needles may be symptomatic of more serious conditions, such as nerve disease or nerve inflammation |
| Pin | phr | "Pin Something on Somebody" - incriminate somebody. |
| Pin | phr | "Pin Up" - attach to the surface with pins. |
| Pin | phr | "Weak on his Pins" - weaks on or in one's legs. |
| Pin | phr | "With One's Ears Pinned Back" - chastened. |
| Pinder | n | A keeper of a pound for straying animals. |
| Pine | vb | To grow thin or weak with longing, grief. 2. to have great desire or longing for. 3. to grieve for; pine. |
| Pine | phr | "Pine Away" - grow thin and pale through sorrow and illness. |
| Pine | phr | "Pine For" - desire strongly to return to or recover the good old days. |
| Pin-feather | n | A small feather ungrown or beginning to grow. |
| Pinfold | n | A pound for straying cattle. |
| Pinhead | n | The head of a pin. 2. any small object. 3. a person with a smallish head. 4. a minnow. |
| Pinheadness | n | Having a head that is unusually small or tapered. 2. foolishness or ignorance. |
| Pinhold | n | A place where a pin is fixed. |
| Pinhole | n | A small hole the size not more in size that could have been made by a pin. 2. A small hole the size not more than 1/16 in. in diameter due or that could have been made by pinhole borers; shot holes; wormholes. |
| Pining | n | State of weakness through longing for someone or something. 2. grieving, desiring, longing. |
| Pinny | adj | Minutely small; nanoid. |
| Pin-prick | n | A pin with a prick. 2. fig. a petty annoyance or irritation. |
| Pintle | n | The penis. |
| Pin-up | n | Pictures of "winsome young ladies in daring undress" in times past pinned up on the walls of dug-outs, office walls etc. |
| Pipe | n | A boatswain's whistle used to call his crew. 2. voice esp. used in singing of birds; song or note of birds. 3. a musical instrument, as a tuba. 4. tubular vessels or canal; a pipe. 5. channel of a small stream. 6. an icicle. 5. a pipe: a smoking (of tobacco) apparutus. |
| Pipe | vb | To lay down pipes, above or underground, to supply or convey water, gas, oil; to draw through pipes. 2. to play a tune upon a pipe; blow on or play on a pipe. 3. to whistle, as the wind, pipe as a bird etc. 4. to sing, pipe or whistle as a bird. 5. to entice or decoy a bird, animal. 6. to pipe one's eyes: shed tears, weep. 7. to breath hard, from exertion or exhaustion. 8. to utter in a shrill and weak voice. 9. to utter in a loud clear voice as a song bird, a singer. |
| Pipe | phr | "Pipe Down" - a command to someone to be less vociferous or noisy. |
| Pipe in | phr | "Pipe in" - to bring in, welcome, introduce a person to a group to the sounds of the bagpipes. |
| Pipe | phr | "Pipe on Board" - welcome somebody to the tune of the bagpipes. |
| Pipe | phr | "Pipe One's Eyes" - shed tears, weep, snivel, lament. |
| Pipe | phr | "Pipe Up" - call out, have one's say. 2. to raise the voice, speak up in a powerful voice. 3. to increase in sound as the wind. |
| Pipe | phr | "Put One's Pipe Out" - to spoil his piping; to make one change his or her tune. |
| Pipe | phr | "Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke It" - a challenge to another to contemplate and accept something frank or unwelcome. |
| Pipe | phr | "Set Up Ones Pipes" - to cry aloud |
| Pipeclay | n | A fine white clay used especially for makin tobacco pipes or for whitening leather. |
| Pipe cleaner | n | Chenille stem is a type originally intended to remove moisture and residue fom smoking pipes. |
| Pipecraft | n | An art or the skilled practice of a making pipes of various kinds, as water pipes, organ (musical) pipes; bag-pipes. |
| Pipeful | adj | A quantity sufficient to fill the bowl of a tobacco pipe. |
| Pipelayer | n | A pipelayer (or pipe-layer or pipe layer) is a skilled tradesman who lays pipe, such as for storm sewers, sanitary sewers, drains, and water mains. Pipelayers may grade (i.e., level) trenches and culverts, position pipe, or seal joints |
| Pipe-like | adj | Resembling a pipe or some aspect of. |
| Pipeline | n | A pipe used to transport liquids or gases. 2. gossip spread by spoken communication. 3. fig. an information channel direct from the source. 4. a line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, gases, or finely divided solids, such as petroleum or natural gas, between distant points. 4. the set of stages and processes from the invention or design of a product to its ultimate use, production, or commercial sale. 5. in the pipeline: still in preparation or under development, as 'in the pipeline.' |
| Pipeline | phr | 'In the Pipeline" - something that hasn't arrived yet but its arrival is expected; still in preparation or under development. |
| Pipeline | phr | "Pipeline to Someone" - an intermediary used as a means of communicating ideas to a person. |
| Pipeliner | n | A worker who works on oil pipelines. |
| Piper | n | A worker who lays pipes; a worker who makes pipes. 2. a plumber. 3. musician who plays pipes. |
| Pipes | n | The bagpipes, pibroch. 2. "Set Up Ones Pipes" : to cry aloud |
| Pipe-smoke | n | The fumes from a tobacco pipe, cigarette or cigar. |
| Pipesmoker | n | A person who smokes a tobacco pipe. |
| Pipe-smoking | n | Pipe smoking is the practice of tasting (or, more uncommonly, inhaling) the smoke produced by burning a substance, most commonly tobacco, in a pipe. It is the oldest traditional form of smoking |
| Pipestone | n | A hard red-clay or soft stone used by American's first-nation folk for smoking-pipe making. |
| Pipeweed | n | A herb smoked in a pipe like tobacco. |
| Pipework | n | Pipes that consists of a part of a machine, building, factory or structure. |
| Pipe-worker | n | A person who installs pipe works in buildings. |
| Pipewort | n | A plant comprising aquatic or marsh herbs allied to grasses, with a tubular membrane. |
| Pipe-wrench | n | An adjustable wrench (Stillson wrench) for turning soft iron pipes and fittings with a rounded surface. |
| Piping | n | In industry, a system of pipes used to convey fluids (liquids and gases)from one location to another. |
| Piping times | n | Merry times. |
| Pistle | n | From the Latin word: epistle: a communication in writing, letter, literary work, or a dedication in the form of a letter. 2. a spoken story or discourse. 3. a pistle-book |
| Pistle | vb | To write an epistle, assail in an epistle; satirize. |
| Pit | n | Shaft, hole, cavity, well in the ground. 2. hole dug for the burial of a dead body; grave. 3. mass grave; a large hole dug for the burial of many bodies. 4. a enclosure in which animals, birds are set to fight; cockpit, bullpit. 5. hollow or cavity in any vessel. |
| Pitch | n | Old English pic (noun), pician (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pek and German Pech; based on Latin pix, pic-. 2. thick black sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. |
| Pitch | vb | To cover over with pitch, smear with pitch. |
| Pitch | phr | "Black as Pitch" - very dark. |
| Pitch black | adj | Completely dark, very black or dark. |
| Pitch stone | n | A glassy volcanic rock resembling pitch. |
| Pit eye | n | The bottom of a central mine shaft. |
| Pitfall | n | a trap: a concealed pit in to which animals or men may fall and be captured. |
| Pitful | adj | As much as a pit can hold. |
| Pith | n | Sponge like materials inside the stem of some plants. 2. most important, necessary part of something or someone. Concentrated force, vigor, substance hence the essential part, quintessence, gist. 4. the marrow of bones or the spinal cord. |
| Pith | vb | To kill by severing the spinal cord. 2. to remove the pith or essential part of someone or from something. |
| Pithead | n | A top of a mine shaft. |
| Pith helmet | n | (Also known as the safari helmet, sun helmet, topee, sola topee, salacot or topi[a]) is a lightweight cloth-covered helmet made of pith material. Typically, a pith helmet derives from either the sola plant, Aeschynomene aspera, an Indian swamp plant, or from Aeschynomene paludosa. In the narrow definition, a pith helmet is technically a type of sun helmet made out of pith material. |
| Pithily | adj | In the way that goes to the pith, essentially, in substance or essence. 2. With significance, substance, brevity, tersely, forcibly, essentially. 3. solid, substantial, esp. in speech or writing, condensed, forcibly terse |
| Pithiness | n | Full of meaning with brevity of expression; condensation and force of style, terseness, sententiousness. |
| Pithless | adj | Without force, vigour, substance |
| Pithsome | adj | Given to or full of terseness, brevity; substance, sturdiness, meaning; vigour or force. |
| Pithy | adj | Consisting of pith; like pith. 2. forcible, terse |
| Pit lane | n | (Motor racing) a lane adjacent (usually on the inner curve) to a racetrack where the competing teams garages is situated. |
| Pitman | n | One who works in a pit, as in sawing, mining etc; the man who has charge of underground machinery. 2. a miner, collier. |
| Pitman's candle | n | A miners' candle. |
| Pit-master | n | One who operates a barbeque pit. 2 sometimes a term for someome who is skilled at preparing food on a barbeque. |
| Pit-pan | n | A type of dugout canoe, common in South America. |
| Pit saw | n | A two-handed saw for cutting logs over the mouth of a pit, one man standing in the pit |
| Pitstop | n | In motorsports, a pit stop is where a racing vehicle stops in the pits during a race for refuelling, new tyres, repairs, mechanical adjustments, a driver change, as a penalty, or any combination of the above. Not all of these are allowed in all forms of racing. |
| Pitty | adj | Pocked, hole-ridden, marked. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Pock | n | A pustule or small hollow in the skin in an eruptive disease, as in smallpox. 2. The Pox: slang term for syphilis and some other sexually transmitted diseases |
| Pocked | adj | Scarred, pitted, or pock-marked by a pustule or pock, especially from smallpox or acne. |
| Pockiness | n | The state or condition of being |
| Pockmark | n | A pit left in the skin by a pock. 2. syphilitic. |
| Pock-pitted | adj | Scarred, pitted, or pock-marked by a pustule or pock, especially from smallpox or acne. |
| Pockwood | n | Lignum Guaiacum, Lignum vitae a medication produced from the bark of these trees and used in the treatment of syphilis. |
| Pocky | adj | Full of, or infected by, the pox. 2. marked with pustules or pock-marks. |
| Pole | n | A long thin rod of wood; a long slender piece of metal or wood commonly tapering and more or less rounded. 2. In linear and surface measure, a perch , a rod: five and a half yards in distance. 3. a fishing-rod |
| Pole | vb | To push a boat, raft, with a pole. . to propel, push or strike with a pole. |
| Pole | phr | "Up the Pole" - mad, or in trouble. |
| Pole-axe | n | An axe-head on the end of a pole or long handle. |
| Pole-axe | vb | To fall with a poleaxe. |
| Pole-building | n | A building constructed around a frame of timbers. 2. a similar building in which metal plates are used insteaed of timbers. |
| Poler | n | One who propels a barge, baot or canoe by means of a pole |
| Pool | n | OE. a variant of pond: an enclosure. A small stretch of water, naturally formed deep, quiet or still stretch of a river. 2. any small isolated body of liquid: water on a road, floor, a pool of blood etc. 3. a puddle |
| Pond | n | An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake. 2. colloquial - The Atlantic Ocean. Especially, in the expression 'across the pond' |
| Pond | vb | To hold back or dam up (a stream) into or as into a pond. 2. of water, etc: to form a pond or pool. 3. to collect by being held back. |
| Pond | phr | 'The Herring Pond" - The Atlantic Ocean. |
| Pond-fish | n | A fish usually reared in ponds, as a carp or sunfish. |
| Ponding | n | An unwanted ponding of water typically on a flat roof or roadway. |
| Pond-life | n | Animals, esp. invertebrata, that live in ponds or stagnant water. |
| Pondwater | n | The water in a pond. |
| Pondweed | n | Any of the various submersed or partally floating perrenial acquatic plants (Potamogeten) common in the Old and New World. |
| Pondy | adj | Having many, or abounding in, ponds. |
| Pool | n | A small body, usually of fresh water, as a spring. 2. a deep place in a stream. 3. any small, isolated body of liquid; a pool of blood. |
| Poolhouse | n | A structure containing equipment used for a swimming pool. |
| Pooling | n | A small isolated collection of liquid spilt or poured on a surface. |
| Poolish | adj | A mixture of flour and water with a little yeast used to make some form of dough. |
| Poolside | n | The area beside the swimming pool. |
| Poolside | adj | By the side of the pool |
| Poolside | adv | By the side of a pool. |
| Poolwater | n | The water in a pool. |
| Pope | n | The Bishop of Rome and, therefore, the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. |
| Popedom | n | The office or dominion of a pope; the papacy. |
| Pope-hat | n | The Pope's mitre. |
| Pope's head | n | A. species of cactus |
| Pope holy | adj | Pretending to great holiness, characterized by a show or pretence of piety. |
| Popeless | adj | Without a Pope. |
| Popelike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a Pope. |
| Popeling | n | A petty or deputy Pope. |
| Pope's Eye - | n | The tender piece of meat (lymphatic gland) surrounded by the fat in the middle of the leg of an ox or sheep. |
| Pope's Nose | n | Another name for the parson's nose, merry-bone or the wishbone. |
| Poppy | n | Any plant of the genus Papaver |
| Poppy-seed | n | The, or a, seed of poppy. |
| Poppywort | n | Papaveracae mecompis |
| Port | n | A place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country |
| Portman | n | A citizen of a town, a burgess or a burgher. |
| Port-mote | n | The court of a borough; a borough-mote. 2. a court of a (legal) seaport town. |
| Portreeve | n | In Saxon times and later, the chief magistrate of a town or borough; port here meaning town. |
| Post | n | Upright piece of timber or other material used as a support, a point or attachment, etc as in a building. 2. a finishing post for horseracing. |
| Post | vb | To fasten posters or placards upon walls etc, to advertise by poster. 2. to announce by a poster: to post a reward. 3. to denounce by poster: a traitor, etc. 4. to publish a name of on a list. 5. to publish the name of a ship, aircraft as overdue or missing. |
| Post | phr | "Beaten at the Post" - defeated at the last moment. |
| Post | phr | "Between You, Me and the Bedpost" - as something that no one else is to hear or know; as a secret in confidence. |
| Post | phr | "On the Right or Wrong Side of the Post" - fig. referring to posts marking the right course or direction. |
| Pot | n | A rounded earthen, glass, metal or other type of material for cooking, culinary and other purposes. 2. a metal drinking vessel. 3. the amount of stakes wagered at pool or poker. 4. a large amount of money. 6. a deep pit. 7. a circular, wicker or wire basket-like trap (a fish-pot) for catching crustaceans, crayfish, lobsters etc. 8. vessel or container for holding plants. 9. a basket, tube or pot used in pairs, a pannier, to carry sand and manure. 10. a large sum of money in a bet held in a pot. 11. an important person. |
| Pot | vb | To put in a pot, sep. a plant |
| Pot | phr | "A Little Pot is Soon Hot" - a small person is easily riled or angered. |
| Pot | phr | "All to Pot" - confused, spoiled. |
| Pot | phr | "Flesh Pots of the World" - places that provide luxurious living. 2. sumptous living. |
| Pot | phr | "Gone to Pot" - deteriorate, become very bad. |
| Pot | phr | "In the Melting Pot" - in the state of flux, transition. |
| Pot | phr | "Pot Calls the Kettle Black" - somebody criticizes another for a fault which he has himself in equal degree. |
| Pot | phr | "Pot of Gold" - an imaginary reward; an ideal; a jackpot. |
| Pot | phr | "Pot That Goes too Often to the Well; is, at last, Broken" - don't push a good thing too far. |
| Pot | phr | "Seek the Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow" - to have naive expectations. |
| Pot | phr | "Stir the Pot" - set out to raise controversial issues. |
| Pot | phr | "Sweeten the Pot" - to provide a few additional inducements. |
| Pot | phr | "Take a Potshot at" - make a disparagingly remark about someone. 2. a random blow or punch. |
| Pot-bellied | adj | A protuberant belly. |
| Pot-belly | n | A paunch, a protuberant stomach, a protruding gut. |
| Pot-belly stove | n | A cast iron stove with a rotund firebox that uses as a fuel coal, coke, wood, charcoal etc. |
| Pot-bound | adj | Of a plant growing in a flower pot when its roots fill the pot and there is no more room to expand. |
| Pote | n | A stick or rod for poking, thrusting, or stirring; a poker |
| Pote | vb | To thrush, push, poke with sticks. 2. thrust or push with the feet; to kick, said esp. of the horse. 3. to crimp fine linen with a poting-stick. |
| Pot-ears | n | The handles of a cup; cup-handles |
| Potful | n | Quantity of liquid that fills a pot. |
| Pot-head | n | A fool, simpleton, drunkard. 2. marijuana smoker. |
| Pot-head whale | n | The pilot whale |
| Potherb | n | A plant whose leaves are used as a vegetable. 2. a herb used for flavoring in cooking. |
| Pot-hole | n | A deep hole of more or less cylindrical shape; esp. one formed by the wearing away or rock by the rotation of stone, or a collection of gravel, in an eddy of running water or in the bed of a stream. 2. A pond formed a natural hollow in the ground in which water collects; a slough, a slew. 3. a depression or hollow forming a defect in the surface of a road or pathway. |
| Pot-hook | n | The hook or hanger over a hearth or an open fire on which pots are hung. 2. a curved stroke in handwriting, esp. made in learning to write. |
| Pot-house | n | A pottery, a building where pottery is made. 2. a low ale house; saloon. |
| Pot-house | adj | Of oor pertaining to a pot-house; vulgar, as pothouse politics. |
| Pot-hunter | n | An opprobrious appellation: a sycophant, a parasite. 2. one who enters any contest simply for the sake of winning. 3. one who obtains archeological and historical objects through illicit measures purely for profit and private collection. |
| Pot-hunting | n | The act of one who enters any contest simply for the sake of winning. 3. one who obtains archeological and historical objects through illicit measures purely for profit and private ccollection. |
| Pot-licker | n | A dog, a dishlicker |
| Pot-lid | n | The lid pf a pot. |
| Pot-mate | n | A drinking companion. |
| Pot plant | n | A plant growing in a pot. |
| Potsherd | n | A broken earthenware pot, esp. a broken piece of earthenware found at an archeological site. |
| Pot-shot | n | A random blow or punch. 2. a shot at random, or one not demanding any special skill. 3. a criticism, or verbal attack, often opportunistic or random |
| Pot-shotten | adj | Drunk, intoxicated, inebriated, shickered. |
| Pot-sick | adj | Drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, hung-over |
| Pot-stick | n | Stirring stick. 2. a crimping stick. |
| Pot still | n | A primitive still, used in the making of Scotch or Irish whisky |
| Pot-stirrer | n | One who causes unrest; one who stirs the pot. |
| Potstone | n | A granular variety of steatite or soapstone |
| Potted | adj | Of meat and fish etc. preserved in a closed pot or other vessel. 2. canned, contained in a can. 3. of literature or historical account, put in a short, condensed, easily assimilated form, abridged, summarized. 4. drunk, intoxicated, under the influence of drugs, esp. marijuana. |
| Potter | n | A maker of pottery or earthenware vessels. 2. a vendor or hawker of earthenware. |
| Potter | vb | To make pottery and ceramic objects. 2. to poke again and again, to make a succession of slight thrusts. 3. to occupy oneself in a trifling ineffectual way; esp. when one has no business to tamper. 3. to trifle away ineffectually, walk slowly, idly, dawdle, loiter, saunter, dawdle. |
| Potter | phr | "Potter About" - move in a leisurely, unorganized way from a little job to another. |
| Potter's clay | n | Potter's eart, any plastic clay free from iron. |
| Potter's field | n | A name applied to a burial ground formerly reserved for strangers (a fellow Jew,) the unknown and the friendless poor; a pauper's graveyard. It is an allusion to a field bought by the chief priests with the thirty pieces of silver returned to them by the repentant Judas. |
| Potter's flint | n | Finely pulverized quartz mixed with porcelain to impart strength and rigidity and to reduced shrinkage: used also in enamel mixtures. |
| Potter's rot | n | A form of the disease 'silicosis' which can affect the lungs of potters, caused by breathing in lots of fine dust. |
| Potter's wheel | n | A horizontal rotating disk used by potters for holding ad manipulating prepared clay. |
| Potting | n | The making of pottery or earthenware. |
| Potting-shed | n | A shed in which delicate plants are reared in pots for planting out later. |
| Potty | adj | Intoxicated, silly, stupid, feeble, insignificant. |
| Potty-mouth | n | The characteristic of regularly using vulgar language; esp. strong profanities . 2. a person having the characteristics of a potty-mouth. |
| Pot-waller | n | Before the Reform act of 1832, those who possessed a vote as householders because they had boiled their own pot at their own firestead in the constituency for at least six months. The term derived from O.E, 'weallian, to boil. The term has morhed into Pot-walloper. |
| Potwort | n | Plants, esp. those of the herb family grown in pots. |
| Pough | n | A bag. 2. a swelling of the skin. 3. of a garment: to hang loose, hang out, not tucked in;The pough something hanging out, esp. a garment. |
| Pound | n | Enclosure for stray animals, especially cattle or dogs.+++ |
| Pound | n | A measure of weight: 16 ounces avoirdupois. 2. basic unit of currency in Great Britian and Northern Ireland. 3. the act of pounding: delivering heavy blows. 4. a drumming noise. 5. a public enclosure for unlicensed dogs and wandering livestock. 6. a level stretch in a canal between locks. |
| Pound | vb | To hit hard with the hand, fist or some heavy instrument. 2. to strike or drive against with a heavy impact. 3. to move heavily or clumsily. 4. move rythmically or thump along. 5. to shut up or confine in any enclosure or any bounds of limits; impound; imprison. 6. to crush and brek down to pieces or powder by beating or pulverizing. 7. to make a jarring noise. |
| Pound | phr | "Get/Have One's Pound of Flesh" - be determined to obtain one's total entitlement. |
| Pound | phr | "In for a penny, in for a Pound" - having made a decision, commit to it wholeheartedly. |
| Pound | phr | "Pound Away" - (military) bombard heavily and continously. |
| Pound | phr | "Pound On" - strike heavily and repeatingly at a door, table, drum etc. |
| Pound | phr | "Pound the Beat" - patrol an allotted district on foot (often used in implied contrast with higher or more prestigious grades of police duty) |
| Pound | phr | "Pound the Table" - slam one's hand with extreme force and anger upon a table. |
| Pounder | n | (Preceded by a number indicating the weight in pounds) as a gun which fires a shell weighing so many pounds eg an 18-pounder; similarly a fish weighing so many pounds. |
| Pound fee | n | Fee paid for the release of cattle or goods from a pound. |
| Pound-house | n | A building in which pounding or crushing of material is done, eg. a cider mill. |
| Pound-keeper | n | One who has charge of a public pound. 2. a pinder. |
| Pound-lock | n | A lock on a river for damming the water. |
| Pound-net | n | An enclosure formed by fish-nets in the sea near the shore. |
| Pound-shop | n | A shop selling household groceries, toys, gimmick, that are typically priced at a pound each. |
| Pout | n | Name applied to several kinds of fish, such as the eel-pout, horn-pout. |
| Pout | n | The protrusion of the lips, expressive of annoyance or pique. |
| Pox | n | A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks. 2.syphilis. 3. fig. a curse. |
| Pox | vb | To infect with pocks or syphilis. |
| Pox | phr | "The Pox on You" - be damned, cursed. |
| Pox-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of the pox. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Plant | n | From Old English; OED: plante ‘seedling’, plantian (verb), from Latin planta ‘sprout, cutting’ (later influenced by French plante) and plantare ‘plant, fix in a place’ 2. a living organism that grows in the ground and has no power to move. 3. wort, herb, grass or small plant; blossom. |
| Plant | vb | Put in the ground to grow. |
| Plant | phr | "Plant Out" - to take a young plant that is growing in a container, and put it in the ground to grow. |
| Plant-eater | n | Herbivores or insects that only eat vegetation, such as grasses, fruits, leaves, vegetables, roots and bulbs. |
| Planter | n | An owner of a plantation. 2. one who plants. 3. early settler or coloniser. 4. an agricultural implement for dropping seed in soil. 5. a decorative in which shrubs and flowers are planted, especially outdoors. |
| Planthood | n | The state or period of a plant. |
| Planting | n | That has been freshly planted. |
| Plant kingdom | n | A main classification of living organisms that include all plants. |
| Plantless | n | Having no plants. |
| Plant-like | n | Having the characteristics of a plant. |
| Plantroom | n | A room used to grow plants. |
| Plantsman | n | An expert on the identification and cultivation of plants. |
| Plantwise | adv | In a manner of a plant. 2. in terms of an industrial site. |
| Plash | n | A shallow piece of standing water. 2. pool made by a flood or heavy rain. 3. marshy pool, pool, puddle. |
| Plaster | n | Old English, denoting a bandage spread with a curative substance, from medieval Latin plastrum (shortening of Latin emplastrum, from Greek emplastron ‘daub, salve’), later reinforced by the Old French noun plastre. A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes; a healing paste. 2. New Zealand British - a small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster. 3. mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings; wonderboard. 4. a cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; plaster cast. |
| PLaster | vb | To cover or coat something with plaster, or apply a plaster. 2. to hide or cover up, as if with plaster. |
| Plaster | phr | "Plaster One's Hair Down" - make hair lie flat by coating it with hair cream. |
| Plaster | phr | "Plaster Over" - cover seal with plaster. |
| Plaster-board | n | A board made of a slab of gyps mixed with fibres of or plaster between sheets of of fibrous paper, used as wallboard or as backing finish on walls. |
| Plastered | adj | Rendered with plaster, or plasterboard. 2. (slang) - drunk. |
| Plasterless | adj | Without plaster (the building material). 2. unplastered. |
| Plaster-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of plaster (the material). |
| Plaster-stone | n | Calcined gypsum, or sulphate of lime, which when mixed with water sets quickly and is used for castes, mouldings, etc. |
| Plasterwork | n | Architectural work wrought in plaster. |
| Plastery | adj | Like plasrer, viscid. |
| Plat | n | A flat blow, slap, smack. |
| Plat | vb | To strike. 2. to hurry, rush, to move noisily. 3. to crash, bounce, strike. |
| Play | n | Exercise in a brisk or free movement or action. 2. of living things: active bodily exercise, as in fencing, dancing, leaping, swimming. 3. rapid movement. 4. sport |
| Play | v | Give oneself amusement by running around, acting stories, etc. as children do. 2. to take part in sport, amusement with cards. 3. hit balls, play sport, do something playfully. 4. make music, sing, play musical instruments, dance. |
| Play | phr | "As Good as a Play" - intensely amusing. |
| Play | phr | "Be Child's Play" - be easy or to require elementary skills and knowledge. |
| Play | phr | "Be in Full Play" - be fully operational. |
| Play | phr | "Bring Into Play" - make us of. |
| Play | phr | "Don't Play Games with Me" - do not insult my intelligence by that kind of conduct. |
| Play | phr | "In Play" - in football, within the boundary lines of the field of play. |
| Play | phr | "Make a Play for" - attempt to get something or someone. |
| Play | phr | "Make Play of/with" - emphasize. |
| Play | phr | "Play a Deep Game" - to show cunning. |
| Play | phr | "Play a Fish" - to exhaust a hooked fish by allowing it to pull against the line. |
| Play | phr | "Play a Lone Hand" - manage one's life, plan and carry out a project or undertaking, often by one's own choice, without the co-operation or support of others |
| Play | phr | "Play Along With" - act in accordance (with). 2. go along with; co-operate with. |
| Play | phr | "Play At" - engage or commit in casually or in a halfheartedly. 2. pretend for fun to be somebody or do something, as (cops and robbers). |
| Play | phr | "Play Away" - to be sexually unfaithful out of one's home. 2. informal (of a married person) have a love affair; away-play. |
| Play | phr | "Play Back" - run the recording device through again, so that the recorded material on it can be heard or seen. 2. in sport, such as tennis, return the ball. |
| Play | phr | "Play by Play" - dealing with each play consecutively. |
| Play | phr | "Play by the Book" - act , or play strictly, according to the rules. |
| Play | phr | "Play Cat and Mouse With" - tease somebody (by keeping him/her uninformed) |
| Play | phr | "Play Dead" - remain motionless and preten to be dead. |
| Play | phr | "Play Down (Something)" - seek to have less emphasis or attention given to something. 2. minimize or reduce the importance of. |
| Play | phr | "Play Ducks and Drakes" - not to treat a matter seriously. |
| Play | phr | "Play Dumb" - pretend to be dumb. 2. idiomatic: pretend to be slow-witted or lacking in self knowledge, usually in order to avoid responsibility or to gain some advantage. |
| Play | phr | "Played Out" - performed until finished. 2. used up, exhausted; originally employed by gamblers. |
| Play | phr | "Play Fair With(with somebody)" - pay a game according to the rules and established procedure. 2. (fair play) - eleven-handedness; fairness in a competitive activity. |
| Play | phr | "Play for Love of " - pursue an interest or hobbies for the enjoyment alone. |
| Play | phr | "Play for Time" - try to delay defeat or an embarrassing admission etc, by keeping one's opponent or questioner at a distance. |
| Play | phr | "Play Hard to Get" - pretend to have less interest that one's feels towards somebody of the opposite sex. 2. try to set a high value on oneself by not readily accepting any/a proposal, invitation etc. |
| Play | phr | "Play High" - gamble for high stakes. |
| Play | phr | "Play Into Somebody's Hands" - act to somebody advantage, usually by doing something hoped for planned for by that person. |
| Play | phr | "Play it by Ear" - develop one's strategy to always fit in with circumstances as they change from time to time. |
| Play | phr | "Play it Cool" - not get angry, excited, enthusiastic, perturbed, etc. |
| Play | phr | "Play Like a Fiddle" - to manipulate a person very skilfully as to achieve selfish-benefits. |
| Play | phr | "Play Merry Hell" - make worse, or severely damage, disrupt. |
| Play | phr | "Play Off" - Of teams or competitors that have secured the same number of points, won the same number of matches, in a championship, play or oppose one another in the deciding match. |
| Play | phr | "Play off Against" - oppose one person to another, for one's own advantage. |
| Play | phr | "Play On" - continue to play, resume play. |
| Play | phr | "Play One Against the Other" - gain an advantage by making two other people compete. |
| Play | phr | "Play On Words" - make use of words and expressions similar form but with different meanings for humorous effect. 2. a pun, a joke that relies on double meaning. |
| Play | phr | "Play Out" - enact, perform. |
| Play | phr | "Played Out" - having lost one's vitality, talent, etc. 2. exhausted, stale, hackneyed, out of date. |
| Play | phr | "Play Right Into Someone's Hands" - act as to give a person an unintended advantage. |
| Play | phr | "Play Somebody's Game" - willing, or unwilling or unknowingly, conform with somebody's policy, methods, aims and promote his/her interests rather than one's owns. |
| Play | phr | "Play Some Up" - to be a nuisance to them, to haras and annoy. 2. to behave in a troublesome fashion, as schoolchildren are wont 'to play up' certain of their teachers. |
| Play | phr | "Play the Devil with" - seriously disturb or upset somebody or something. 2. seriously reproach somebody. |
| Play | phr | "Play the Field" - distribute one's attentions among several people (usually in a romantic way). |
| Play | phr | "Play the Game" - do what is fair, right, honorable. 2. do what is expected of one as a loyal ally, supporter or as a honorable opponent in competition. |
| Play | phr | "Play the Giddy Goat" - act the fool. |
| Play | phr | "Play the New Year in" - play to celebrate and announce the New Year. |
| Play | phr | "Play the Old Year out" - play to celebrate the end of the old year. |
| Play | phr | "Play the Same Game" - deliberately(and especially as a means of gaining one's own ends) either (pretend to)or seemingly co-operate with somebody or try to match or outdo him/ her by using methods similar to his?hers. |
| Play | phr | "Play Things Right" - handle a situation, carry out what one's means to do, with the necessary skill or cunning to be successful. |
| Play | phr | "Play to the Gods" - Degrading one’s vocation ad captandum vulgus. The gods, in theatrical phrase, are the spectators in the uppermost gallery, the ignobile vulgus. The ceiling of Drury Lane theatre was at one time painted in imitation of the sky, with Cupids and other deities here and there represented. As the gallery referred to was near the ceiling, the occupants were called the gods. In French this gallery is nick-named paradis. |
| Play | phr | "Play Up" - (slang) act with vigour and enthusiasm. 2. be a nuisance, annoy ; deliberately antagonize, torment physically hurt. 3. emphasize or over stress one's role contribution, role. |
| Play | phr | "Play Upon" - exploit the fears, weakness of somebody, develop an advantage(usually to harm somebody). |
| Play | phr | "Play Up To" - flatter, encourage to win an advantage for oneself in employment, love, etc. 2. to seek to ingratiate oneself with a person by flattery. |
| Play | phr | "Play With" - handle, treat in a light, casual and irresponsible way. 2. amuse oneself by handling; handle in a casual, absent-minded way; toy with. 3. consider, but not very seriously; dally with. |
| Play | phr | "Play With Fire" - court danger; do things that might lead to trouble. 2. invite trouble through one's foolish conduct. |
| Play | phr | "This May be Play to You, It is Death to Us" - the allusion is to Aesop's fable of the boys throwing stones at some frogs. |
| Play | phr | "Two Can Play that Game" - I can also be as deceitful, unpleasant as you. |
| Play | phr | "What He's Playing At" - (a rhetorical question) expression of anger at somebody who is behaving foolishly and/or dangerously. |
| Play | phr | "When the Cat's Away the Mice Will Play" - in the absence of supervision discipline will be lax. |
| Play-back | n | The reproduction of sound, pictures or both from disc, tape or film recording. |
| Playback singer | n | A singer who records songs to be mimed in a film by actors. |
| Playbook | n | A book containing the script of a play. 2. a book of plays. |
| Play-by-play | adj | Dealing with each play consecutively. |
| Playday | n | A name given to play or diversion; a holiday. |
| Playdough | n | Children's modelling clay. |
| Play-down | vb | To treat as of little or unimportant, minimize |
| Player | n | One who plays any game or sport. 2. (theater) An actor in a dramatic play. 3. (music) One who plays on a musical instrument. 4. (gaming, video games) a gamer; a gamester. 5. a gambler. 6. (historical) a mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument. 7. (electronics) An electronic device or software application that plays audio and/or video media, such as CD player. 8. one who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. 9. a significant participant. 10. (informal) 11. a person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship |
| Playerless | adj | Without a player, as a playerless musical instrument. |
| Playership | n | The condition or state of being a player. |
| Playfeer | n | Companion, comrade, friend, playmate; playfere. |
| Playfellow | n | An associate in games; a playmate |
| Playfield | n | An extensive piece of ground, especially, one part of a school. |
| Playfight | n | A pretend or recreational fight. |
| Play-friend | n | A playmate |
| Playful | adj | Full of play, ready for play. 2. not serious, acting or done in humour. 2. fond of play, fun; lively. |
| Playfully | adv | In a playfull manner. |
| Playfulness | n | Something done with fulsomeness, merrily or jocose. |
| Playgame | n | The play of children. |
| Playgoer | n | One who likes the Theatre and frequently goes. |
| Playground | n | A ground used for playing games; space set aside for sport and recreation. 2. an oval; sport's field, park |
| Playhouse | n | A theatre. 2. a small house in which children play. |
| Playing | n | An occasion on which something, such as a song show, is played. |
| Playland | n | An area of free recreation. |
| Playleader | n | A person who leads or assists with organized children's play. |
| Playmaker | n | a player in a sport with goals, such as a guard in basketball, who initiates offensive plays. 2. someone with exceptional ability in any particular area, and is able to perform at a high level with relative ease. |
| Playmaking | n | The act of a player in a sport with goals, such as a guard in basketball, who initiates offensive plays. 2. the act of someone with exceptional ability in any particular area, and is able to perform at a high level with relative ease. |
| Playock | n | A toy or plaything; 'ock' a diminutive, such as in 'hillock'. |
| Play-off | n | To oppose one another. 2. to play another game to decide a tie. |
| Playout | n | In broadcasting, playout is a term for the transmission of radio or TV channels from the broadcaster into broadcast networks that delivers the content to the audience. |
| Playpen | n | A portable wooden enclosure which can be set up in a room, for small children to play in. |
| Playroom | n | A room allocated as a children's play area, in which noisy and boisterous activities are tolerated. |
| Playsome | adj | Playful, wanton, sportive, playsome. |
| Playsomely | adv | In a playful, sportive, noisy, boisterous manner. |
| Play-someness | n | The quality of being playsome. |
| Playsong | n | A children's song involving play activities, such as clapping or dancing; a playsong. |
| Playstow | n | Playground; gymnasium, amphitheater. 2. a place or stow for playing; a playstow; a wrestling-ring. |
| Plaything | n | Something for playing with. 2. a toy. |
| Playthrough | n | The act of playing a game from start to finish, such as a video. |
| Playtime | n | A time for play. 2. recreation; a recreational break between school periods. |
| Play-up | vb | To misbehave, annoy, |
| Play-upon-words | phr | A pun. 2. words used with a double meaning. |
| Playwork | n | The work of creating and maintaining spaces foe children to play; playwork. |
| Playwright | n | A writer of plays; a dramatist. 2. a person who writes plays is a playwright not a playwrite. |
| Playwrite | vb | To write plays or drama; to playwrite. |
| Playwriting | n | The act of writing plays; a dramatist. |
| Plight | n | In OE: danger, risk, peril. 2. sin, offence, guilt, blame. 3. pledge, solemn promise, an assurance, pledge. undertaking of risk. 4. a state or condition usually of a distressing kind. 5. a state of perplexity; a predicament. |
| Plight | vb | Give undertaking to be truth to one's pledge of faith, marriage, betroth, word of honor, honesty. |
| Plight | phr | "Plight Oneself" - a couple's promise to marry one another. |
| Plight | phr | "Plight One's Troth" - agree to marry ((from a response in the Anglican marriage ceremony). |
| Plight | phr | "Plight One's Word." - to give or pledge one's word to promise or pledge support. |
| Plighter | n | One who or that which plights, engages or pledges to do something. |
| Plightful | adj | Full of danger; risky; perilous. 2. full of plight; plighted, pledged, devoted. |
| Plightfully | adv | In a plightful manner. 2. indicating plight, dire, grim, grievous situation. |
| Plighting | n | Pledging, risking, |
| Plightless | adj | Blameless |
| Plightly | adv | Indicating plight, in a dire, grim, grievous manner. |
| Plight-ring | n | An engagement ring. |
| Plitch | vb | To pluck, pull. 2. to carp, criticise, pull apart |
| Plitching | n | Carping, criticising |
| Plot | n | A small piece land or area of ground. |
| Plotful | adj | Abounding plots of land. |
| Plough | n | O.E : a measure of land; O.N: an implement of plowing or apparatus (usu. drawn by horse, oxen or driven by mechanical power) for cutting through, turning over, or breaking up the soil. 2. any implement that works like a plow, a snow plough. 3, ploughed land; a measure of plowed lands |
| Plough | vb | To turn a field or pasture over using a plough. 2. go through something in a strong, but plodding manner or way. 3. to furrow or make ridges. 4. to plow through water or waves. |
| Plough | phr | "Plough a Lonely Furrow" - carry out one's own work, or main activities alone. |
| Plough | phr | "Plough Back" - reinvest profits in a business. |
| Plough | phr | "Plough In" - cover, bury with earth from the plough. |
| Plough | phr | "Plough New Ground" - to laboriously engage in an untried activity. |
| Plough | phr | "Plough On" - in methodically and painstakingly continue with an activity. |
| Plough | phr | "Plough Out of" - withdraw, draw out; draw out of. |
| Plough | phr | "Plough the Alms" - in medieval England , a payment of one penny for each plow team in the parish, paid to the priest a fortnight after Easter. |
| Plough | phr | "Plough the Sands" - to undertake a useless undertaking. |
| Plough | phr | "Plough Through" - read something with difficulty. |
| Plough | phr | "Plough Under" - to put from sight by ploughing up and covering with soil. 2. obliterate |
| Plough | phr | "Plough Up" - uncover, dig up, with a the plough. |
| Plough | phr | "Plough With Another's Heifer" - to use information obtained by other means, eg. through a treacherous friend (see: Judges Ch 16. v 18. |
| Plough | phr | "Put One's Hand to the Plough" - voluntarily undertake some task. 2. to commence operations in earnest. Only by by keeping one's eyes on the object ahead as it is possible to plough straight. |
| Plough | phr | "Put the Plough before the Oxen" - another way of saying 'to put the cart before the house' |
| Plough | phr | "Speed the Plough!" - let us get on with this as fast as possible! |
| Plough | phr | "To Be Ploughed" - to fail to pass an examination. |
| Plough alms | phr | In medieval England, a payment of one penny for each plough team in the parish, paid to the priest a fortnight after Easter. |
| Plough-beam | n | The horizontal projecting part of a plow frame, whose front end is attached to the swingletree. |
| Plough-bote | n | In OE. Law: the wood or timber which the tenant had a right to cut for making and repairing ploughs and other agricultural implements. |
| Ploughed | adj | Turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows, usually for growing crops. 2. well trodden or well-researched; previously explored. |
| Plough-horse | n | A horse that draws or pulls a plow. |
| Ploughing | n | Th act of ploughing a field. |
| Ploughland | n | Land that is ploughed for growing crops; arable land. 2. a measure of land used in the northern and eastern counties of England after the Norman conquest, based on the area able to be ploughed in a year by a team of eight oxen. |
| Plough-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a plough. |
| Ploughman | n | One who plows, a cultivator, hence a rustic. |
| Plough Monday | n | The first Monday after Epiphany, when ploughing should begin. |
| Plough Sunday | n | Traditional English celebration of the beginning of the agricultural year that has seen some revival over recent years. |
| Plough-swain | n | Ploughman |
| Ploughshare | n | The blade of a plough; also 'plowshare. |
| Ploughwise | adv | Back and forth in alternate rows in the manner of a plough. |
| Ploughwright | n | A workman who makes and repairs ploughs. |
| Plow | n | See Plough. 2. The group of seven stars commonly called "Charles's Wain" or the "Dipper" or the "Big Dipper" (Ursa Major). |
| Pluck | n | Courage, strength of action in a crisis: not giving away to fear. 2. confidence and spirit in the face of danger 3. the heart, liver, windpipe, lungs of animal or man. |
| Pluck | vb | To pull off or out. 2. to take feathers off a bird; pull flowers off a plant. 3. to pull out hair, feathers, or remove the inners of a chicken, turkey or other cooking bird. 4. to cause a musical instrument to sound by pulling its strings, harp, guitar etc. 5. to give a sudden pull or tug. |
| Pluck | phr | "He's a Plucked'un" - he's a plucky chap; there's no frightening him. |
| Plack | phr | "I'll Pluck His Goose for Him" - I will lower his pride; make him eat humble pie. |
| Pluck | phr | "Pluck Up" - to call up or rouse one courage in the face of danger or crisis. |
| Plucked | adj | Of something with feathers, hair, etc having had these items removed by plucking. 2. of the strings of an instrument- played by plucking. 3. having courage and spirit, plucky. |
| Plucikily | adv | In a plucky manner. |
| Pluckiness | n | The character of being plucky. |
| Plucking | n | The act of taking feathers off a bird; or pulling flowers off a plant. 2. the act of causing a musical instrument to sound by pulling its strings, harp, guitar etc. 3. the act of giving a sudden pull or tug on something, as the tug of a small child onits mother's dress. |
| Pluckless | adj | Without pluck; timid, weak; faint-hearted. |
| Plucky | adj | Having resolute courage; spirited; courageous. |
| Plum | n | A smooth skinned edible stone fruit of various trees of the genus, Prunus. |
| Plum | phr | "The Plum: - the best in the collection. 2. obsolete term for a large sum of money, or for its possession. Now used figuraively meaning the very best part of anything; te prize, the 'pick of the basket', a windfall |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Pratt | n | In OE: guile, trickery. 2. Fraud, prank, frolic. 3. cunning, astuteness. |
| Preen | n | A forked tool used by clothiers for dressing cloth. 2. (dialectal) a pin. 3. bodkin, brooch. |
| Preen | vb | To fasten with a pin. |
| Prettily | adv | In a pretty manner. |
| Prettiness | n | The quality of being pretty. |
| Pretty | n | In OE. trick, wile, craftiness, cunning; in the C15th clever, skilful, ingeniously made or cleverly done, artful 2. of things, fine, pleasant, nice, proper (sometimes condescendingly used), but also as general epithet: nice, pleasant, agreeable, fine,swell. 3. Ironically used, fine, wonderful, special: "to come to a pretty position." 4. In golf: the Fairway as opposed to the Rough. 5. a considerable sum or measure or an approximate, as in "pretty nearly", "pretty good", "a pretty penny." 6. having beauty without majesty or stature, pleasing, comely, homely, but aesthetically pleasing to the eye and ear; having a beauty that is attractive rather an imposing. 7. Conversely: insignificant, ordinary. |
| Pretty | phr | "Pretty Penny" - to be dearly bought; costly. |
| Pretty | phr | "Pretty Much" - almost, very nearly; pretty well.. |
| Pretty | phr | "Pretty Penny" - to be dearly bought; costly. |
| Pretty | phr | "Pretty Nearly" - almost; almost completely. |
| Pretty | phr | "Pretty Up" - make (falsely) pretty or charming. |
| Pretty | phr | "Pretty Well" - almost, just about, very nearly. |
| Pretty | phr | "Sitting Pretty" - be comfortably off. 2. in a favorable or advantageous position or circumstance. |
| Prettyish | adj | "Somewhat pretty. |
| Prick | n | A depression scratched or carved into the surface. 2. a pointed instrument that holes or punctures. 3. the act of punctures or pricks. 4. the sensation of being pricked. 5. a sharp point, minute mark, spot, dot. 6. marked made by a pricking or puncturing object; a puncture. 7 a target point for archer's aim. 8. a mark denoting degree. 9 a mathematical point. 10. a hare's footprint. 11. a small roll, such as a tobacco prick; spun yarn prick. 12. insulting word for a person who is silly, dopey prick; irritating or ridiculous. 13. euphemism for the penis. 14. a goad for an oxen. |
| Prick | vb | To puncture, make a hole in, or nick with a small point. 2. stab slightly with a pointed object. 3. cause sharp emotional pain (prick one's conscience). 4. sting as a insect. 5. spur on, incite, goad. 6. in embroidery, outline a pattern or form. 7. to make pungent or sharp. 8. to trace on a chart a ship's course. |
| Prick | phr | "Prick Up" - listen sharply, have the attention of, as in "prick up one's ears. 2. To prink or spruce up. |
| Prick | phr | "Prick Up One's Ears" - to pay attention; do best to listen to hat's going on. (an illusion to the twitching of the ears of a horse, when its attention is attracted. |
| Prick | phr | "Pricking for Sheriff" - the anual choosing of a sheriff used to be done by the king, who marked the names on the list by pricking them with a bodkin at random. Sheriffs are still 'pricked' by sovereign, but the names are chosen beforehand. |
| Prick | phr | "Prick Off" - to transport seedling by placing them in holes pricked in the ground. |
| Prick-eared | adj | Said of a dog with upstanding ears. The Puritans or Roundheads were so called because they had their cut short and covered their heads with a black skull-cap drawn down tight, leaving the ears exposed. |
| Pricker | n | That which pricks; a sharp-pointed instrument. |
| Pricking | n | |
| Pricking | phr | "Pricking the Sheriff" - the annual choosing of the Sheriffs used to be done by the king, who marked the names on a list by pricking them with a bodkin at random. Sheriffs are still pricked by the Monarch, by the names are chosen beforehand. |
| Prickle | n | Thorn or spike |
| Prickle | vb | To feel a tingling or prickling sensation. 2. to prick, as with a goad etc, hence, to goad, instigate. |
| Prickliness | n | The quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines. bristliness, spininess, thorniness. raggedness, roughness - a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven. |
| Prickling | n | A prickling or stinging sensation. |
| Prickly | adj | Having, furnished, being armed, or full with prickles. 2. smarting, tingling, having the sensation many prickling points. |
| Prickly ash | n | A prickly shrub or tree (Zanthoxylum americanum) of the rue family, with pungent and aromatic bark. |
| Prickly-heat | n | A common name for Lichen tropicus, an imflammatory disorder (miliaria) of the sweat glands, prevalent in hot countries, with eruptions of small sores and a tingling pricking sensation. |
| Prickly pear | n | Any species of the Cacteous opuntia, prickly plant with pear-shaped fleshy edible fruit; also the fruit |
| Prickshaft | n | An arrow. |
| Prick-song | n | Music sung from notes written or pricked in on a parchment; as distinct from that sung from memory. |
| Prickwood | n | Dogwood, prick timber, the spindle tree. |
| Pricky | adj | Having pricks, pricles of spines; obnoxious, detestable |
| Pride | n | Self-respect. 2. over-high opinion of oneself, one's position. 3. feeling of pleasure; approval, about something one is responsible for or has a connection with. |
| Pride | phr | "Fly Pride Says the Peacock" - a bird proverbial for pride, the pot calling the kettle black. |
| Pride | phr | "Pride Comes/Goes Before a Fall' - an adaptation of 'pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. |
| Pride | phr | "Pride of the Morning" - the early mist or shower which indicates or promises a fine day. The morning is too proud to come out in all its/her glory all at once - or the proud beauty being thwarted weeps and pouts a while. |
| Pride | phr | "Pride Oneself On" - regard as a special reason for pride or satisfaction. 2. take pride in. |
| Pride | phr | "Swallow One's Pride" - humble oneself. |
| Pride | phr | "Take Pride In" - feel proud about. |
| Prideful | adj | Full of pride; arrogant, scornful. |
| Pridefully | adv | A high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity., importance, merit or superiority. 2. pleasure or satsfaction taken in an achievement, possession or association. 3. parenatl pride. |
| Pridefulness | n | The state or condition of being prideful; pride. |
| Prideless | adj | Without pride, unassuming. |
| Pridingly | adj | With a show of pride; vauntingly; proudly. |
| Priest | n | One trained in the work of religion and religious matters. 2. 'romish' godsmith soul-carer, soul-whisperer, man of the cloth. |
| Priest | phr | "The High Priest of Something" - the leading advocate of something. |
| Priestcraft | n | Priestly policy. 2. the stratagems practiced by priests to obtain power, influence etc. |
| Priestdom | n | The office or duty of a priest. 2. priests collectively. |
| Priesthole | n | A hiding place for a Roman Catholic priest during times of religious persecution. |
| Priesthood | n | The or position of a priest. 2. priests generally or collectively. |
| Priest-like | adj | Like a priest. 2. in the manner of or befitting a priest; priestly. |
| Priestliness | n | Of or relating to a priest or the priesthood. 2 characteristic of or suitable for a priest. 3. state or quality of being like a priest. |
| Priestly | adj | Pertaining to a priest. 2, befitting a priest. |
| Priest-ridden | adj | Under the domination of priests. |
| Proud | adj | Having feelings marked by pride. 2. stately 3. stiff, cold, in behaviour. 4. of things, important-looking, causing respect. |
| Proud | phr | "Do Somebody Proud" - treat somebody very well. |
| Proud | phr | "Proud as a Peacock" - very proud. |
| Proud | phr | "Proud Of" - feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you can measure your self-worth. 2. pleased with (as of one's child or children). |
| Proud | phr | "Proud of Something" - protruding, or extending, above something. |
| Proud | phr | "Stand Proud" - in engineering said of a project which sticks out (farther or above a particular plane than required). |
| Proudfall | n | The forelock or front hair. |
| Proudflesh | n | Flesh or tissue around a wound which is healing. |
| Proudful | adj | Proud-hearted; full of pride. |
| Proud-hearted | adj | Haughty, arrogant. |
| Proudish | adj | Somewhat proudish. |
| Proudness | n | Pride, state of having or feeling proud. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Psalm | n | Song of religion, specifically one in the Bible. 2. a sacred song |
| Psalm-book | n | A book of psalms. |
| Psalm-writer | n | A writer of psalms, like the biblical king David.. |
| Psalm-wright | n | Writer of psalm |
| Psalter | n | Book of psalms; copy of the psalms as a separate book. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Quain | vb | To waste away, lament, bewail, bemoan. |
| Quake | n | A trembling or shaking. 2. an earthquake, or trembling of the ground with force. |
| Quake | vb | To shake, quaver, tremble, to wave to and fro. 2. of things: to shake tremble, be agitated as a result of an internal shock, internal convulsion or natural instability. 3. of person, or parts of the body: to shake, tremble through cold, fear. 4. to cause to shake. 5. quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, tremble, vibrate, waver. |
| Quake | adj | Of or, pertaining to an earthquake. |
| Quake | phr | "Quake At" - become fearful of. |
| Quake | phr | "Quake in One's Boots" - be afraid. |
| Quake-bellied | adj | Wanting in courage. |
| Quake-belly | adj | Pot-belly. |
| Quakeful | adj | Causing fear or shaking. |
| Quake-ooze | n | Soft ooze. |
| Quaker | n | A member of the Christian group, the "Society of Friends" founded by George Fox. |
| Quakerdom | n | The world or community of the "Society of Friends". |
| Quakerish | adj | Somewhat fearful and trembling. 2. resembling or characteristic of the "Society of Friends". |
| Quakerishly | adv | In a fearful, quaking or shaky manner. |
| Quakerly | adv | In the manner or like Quakers. |
| Quaker-meeting | n | A meeting of the Society of Friends. 2. any silent meeting. |
| Quakily | adv | In a shaky, tremulous manner. |
| Quakiness | n | The state or condition of being fearful. |
| Quaking | n | Shaking, trembling, |
| Quakingly | adv | In a shaking, trembling, fearful way. |
| Quaking-grass | n | A popular name for grasses of the Genus: Briza, esp. "Briza media." |
| Quaky | adj | Inclined to quake, shake, tremble. 2. shaky, tremulous. |
| Quale | n | Death, destruction, mortality |
| Quale-house | n | Torture-house |
| Quale-sithe | n | Death from pestilence |
| Qualm | n | General or widespread mortality of men or animals. 2 death, sickness, a fit of sickness, illness, disaster, utter-qualm: total disaster. 3. plague, pestilence, loss, damage. 4. softer sense: feeling of faintness, swoon, uneasiness. 5. scruple or pricks, twinge of conscience, qualm-sick, compunction, moral conduct; a sudden feeling of doubt, or sensation of misgiving. 6. a sudden feeling of nausea, or sickness. 7. a sudden sinking of heart. |
| Qualm-house | n | A place of death, a place of execution, a qualm-stow, |
| Qualminess | n | Condition of qualm, qualmy, nauseous |
| Qualming | n | The state of having a qualm. |
| Qualming | adj | Characterized by or having a qualm: nauseated, sickened, doubting, misgiving. |
| Qualmish | adj | Of persons: affected with a qualm or qualms; tending or liable to be so affected. 2. of feelings, etc.: of the nature of a qualm; hence quamishly, |
| Qualmishly | adv | In a qualmish manner. |
| Qualmless | adj | Without misgivings, scruples, pricks of conscience, |
| Qualmlessness | n | The quality or condition of having no qualms; lacking qualms or misgivings. |
| Qualm-sick | adj | Nausea. |
| Qualmly | adv | In a manner, occurring, of a qualm. |
| Quaver | n | A trembling shake; quiver. 2. a trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing; quiver. 3. (music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail. |
| Quaver | vb | )To shake in a trembling manner; quiver. 2, to use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing. 3. to utter quaveringly. |
| Quean | n | A young woman, girl, lass usu. one who is healthy and robustly appealing. 2.Bold, impudent, ill-behaved woman; hussy, jade, harlot, strumpet, shanky-ho. 3. of a woman, used in disparagement. |
| Quean | phr | "All Queaned Up" - to dress, although not invariably effeminate so. 2. also 'All queened Up'. |
| Queed | adj | OE. bad, evil, wicked, hostile; qued. 2. the Devil, the Evil One. 3. dung, filth, ordure. |
| Queal | vb | O.E. cwellan; to faint away, to die. |
| Queen | n | Lady who is wife of the king. 2. a female ruler of a state; female monarch. 3. goddesses of the ancient religions or myths. 4. a female person whose rank or preeminence is comparable to that of a queen; a woman, or something personified asa woman, that is foremost or preeminence in any aspect,such as a "Film Queen". 5. the perfect female of bees, wasp or ants. 6. woman, wife, "honoured" woman. 7. a chess piece. 8. male homosexual esp. feminine and ostentatious one). |
| Queen | vb | To reign as a queen. 2. to behave in an imperious or pretentious manner: "to queen it." |
| Queen | phr | "Queen It" - dominate, take control (said of a woman). |
| Queen | phr | "Queen of Hearts" - a playing card. 2. a woman who has the adoration of the public. |
| Queen | phr | "Queen of Heaven" - the moon. |
| Queen | phr | "Queen of the Night" - the moon. |
| Queenbee | n | The only fertile female in a colony or hive of social insects, such as bees, ants, and termites, from the eggs of which the entire colony develops. 2. Dominant female in various organizations and groups, such as among female prisoners. |
| Queencraft | n | Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen. |
| Queendom | n | The dominion, and character of a queen. |
| Queenhood | n | The state and personality of a queen. 2. the state, or status of a queen. 3. the dignity of, character becoming a queen. |
| Queening | n | Consort or widow of a king. 2. the act of giving birth in the feline. 3. a female monarch. 4. a woman considered preeminent in a particular field. |
| Queenish | adj | Like a queen; regal. 2. like a drag queen. |
| Queenliness | adj. | In the manner or way of a queen. 2. having the quality of being queenly. 3. characteristic of a queen. 4. stateliness. 5. eminent among women in attraction or power. |
| Queenless | adj | Without a queen. |
| Queenlike | adj | Resembling a female monarch or some aspect of one; regal, majestic. 2. resembling a queen-bee or some aspect of. |
| Queenly | adj | Belonging or appropriate to a queen; resembling a queen or like a queen, queenlike. |
| Queen-mother | n | The queen dowager who is the mother of the reigning sovereign. |
| Queen-of-the-meadow | n | Meadowsweet. |
| Queenright | n | Of a colony of bees with a queen in the hive. |
| Queens | n | A New York city borough, named for Catherine of Braganza, queen of English King Charles II. |
| Queen's bench | n | A division of the High Court in the UK. |
| Queenship | n | Dignity and office of a queen |
| Queen's English | n | (Received pronunciation) is traditionally based on educated or formal speech in Southern England. |
| Queen's Highway | n | A public road, regarded as being under the sovereign's protection. |
| Queenship | n | Dignity and office of the queen. |
| Queenware | n | A cream coloured kind of Wedgewood crockery. |
| Queenwidow | n | A queen dowager. |
| Queeny | adj | A flamboyant or effeminate man. 2. a spoiled princess, usually spoiled by her father and/or her grandfather. |
| Queeny | adv | In an effeminate manner. |
| Quell | n | Murder, killing, slaying, slaughter, destruction, quelling. |
| Quell | vb | To kill, slay, put to death, destroy person or animal. 2. to dash out, knock down, to die, to put an end to, extinguish, vanquish. 3. crush, overcome, force down, reduce to subjection or submission, subdue, overpower. 4. to well out, flow. |
| Queller | n | One who kills, destroys; subdues, conquers etc. |
| Quelling | n | The act by which something is quelled, kill, knocked down, subdued, or overpower. |
| Quelling | adj | That quells. |
| Quelm | vb. | To torment, to kill, destroy. |
| Quelm-bearing | adj. | Deadly, mortiferous, death-bearing, fatal |
| Quelmer | n | One who torments; kills, destroys, overcomes, subdues, etc. |
| Quelmness | n | Torment, pain, anguish, incruciation. |
| Quelmstead | n | A place of death; a place of execution. |
| Queme | vb | To please, satisfy. 2. to take, accept. 3. of persons, to please, gratify, to act as to please. 4. of things, to be acceptable or agreeable; to be suitable and fitting; to join or fit closely, to slip in. |
| Queme | adj | Pleasing, agreeable, acceptable as a person. 2. of a pleasing appearance, beautiful, precious, fair, neat, tidy. 3. closed against or protected from the wind, snug, unruffled, smooth. 4. fitting, suitable, fit, convenient, handy, close at hand. 5. of persons, friendly or well-disposed; skilled, clever, smart, active. |
| Quemed | adj | Pleased, satisfied. |
| Quemeful | adj | Pleasing, agreeable, kind, gracious. |
| Queming | n | The act of pleasing, satisfying. 2. satisfaction, mitigation, pleasing. |
| Quemely | adv | Pleasantly agreeable or becomingly of manner, neatly, gently, smoothly. |
| Quemeness | n | Pleasure, satisfaction. |
| Quench | vb | Old English -cwencan (in acwencan ‘put out, extinguish’), of Germanic origin. To put out a fire, put out anything that gives light. 2. to destroy the sight of the eye. 3. to cause something to cease. 4. to cool, slake, to slake thirst. 5. to stifle, suppress feeling. 6. to destroy, kill. oppress, crust. 7. to quash, squash, to bring to an end, to cease to burn, to put out. |
| Quenching | n | The act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning. 2. the slaking of thirst. 3. the stifling of feelings. 4. quashing, oppressing, ending. |
| Quenching | adj | Extinguishing; causing to stop burning. 2. slaking thirst. 3. the putting out of light. 4. quashing; destroying, stifling. |
| Quenchless | adj | Unquenchable, inextinguishable. 2. insatiable, irrepressible. |
| Quenchlessly | adv | Without quenching. |
| Quenchlessness | n | The state or condition of being incapable of being quenched. |
| Quencher | n | One who quenches |
| Quench-fire | n | A fire-retardant, extinguishing. |
| Querken | vb | To choke, suffocate. |
| Quern | n | A grinder, a quern-stone, a mill-stone. |
| Quernhouse | n | Millhouse; grinding house. |
| Quernsong | n | ('Grotta saungr') a lay of pagan times. 2. a song composed or sung while operating a quern. |
| Quern-stone | n | Either of two circular stones forming a quern, found at prehistoric sites from neolithic times onwards. |
| Quetch | vb | To shake, brandish, to drive, chase 2. to speak, say, tell, utter, declare, call. 3. of things: to shake terribly. 4. to stir, to move from one place to another, to go, to run, to hasten. 5. to hasten, to move the body or any part of it. 6. to shrink, wince, twitch with pain, "quetching, or quitching the skin". 7. to utter a word usu. negatively |
| Quetching | n | Moving, shaking, chasing, sounding, hastening. |
| Quethe | vb | To bestow, to bequeath. 2. to say or declare. |
| Quethe | n | Legacy, bequeath. 2. a speech, sound, address, cry. |
| Quething | n | Bequeathing. |
| Quething-word | n | Last farewell. |
| Quick | n | Soft tender flesh. 2. the growing part of a fingernail, or toenail. 2. the living; those who are living. |
| Quick | adj | Living, endowed with life, in contrast to what is naturally inanimate. 2. characterized by the presence of life. 3. alive, growing, flourishing. 4. "quick with child," pregnant, esp. in the early stages of pregnancy. 5. alive, instinct with life (life, soul, feeling). 6. having the freshness of life, productive of some ores. 7. burning strongly, brisk fire. 8. lively, full in speech; sharp,caustic in writing. 9. busy, full of activity. 10. readily inflammable. 11. brisk, effervescent of wine and wines. 12. sharp, pungent in smell and taste. 13. of air, light, piercing, sharp. |
| Quick | adj | Mentally active, alert. 2. keen or rapid in function. 3. hasty, impatient, hot-tempered. 4. moving with speed, rapid, swift. 5. happening or done over a short time. 6. busy, full of activity. 7. expeditious, brisk, rapid, swift. 8. characterized by rapidity or readiness of movement, action, nimble, prompt. 9. alert, sensitive, perceptive. 10. responding readily to impressions; excitable. |
| Quick | vb | To quicken. 2. to amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury or nitric acid. |
| Quick | phr | "As Quick as Lightning" - very swift, sudden or deft. |
| Quick | phr | "Be Quickened" - to be or restore life (soul). |
| Quick | phr | "Galled to the Quick" - irritated, galled, hurt deeply. |
| Quick | phr | "Have a Quick One" - have a final drink (alcoholic) before you leave. |
| Quick | phr | "In Quick Time" - as soon as possible, soon, almost immediately, with a very quick response. |
| Quick | phr | "Quick and the Dead" - all souls alive and dead. |
| Quick | phr | "Quick and Quething" - alive and speaking. |
| Quick | phr | "Quick as a Cat" - the speed and agility of a cat in pouncing on small moving things, like mice, is legendary. 2. also applied to persons who are mentally alert and catch on quickly. 2. swiftly as a cat is also a similar saying. |
| Quick | phr | "Quick as a Wink" - quite fast: the wink of an eye takes but a second. |
| Quick | phr | "Quick as Lightning" - very fast, arrow fast; with lightning speed. 2.quick as a flash. |
| Quick | phr | "Quick of the Mark" - fast to act or react. |
| Quick | phr | "Quick on One's Feet" -clever to take an advantage of a situation. |
| Quick | phr | "Quick on the Draw" - rapid in response to a challenge; act precipitately, smart, mentally alert; opposite of "slow on the draw.' |
| Quick | phr | "Quick on the Uptake" - mentally alert, quick to grasp information, understand the meaning of, suggestion, hint. |
| Quick | phr | "Quick with Child" - said of a female in the stage of pregnancy at which the motion of the foetus is felt. |
| Quick | phr | "Stung to the Quick" - cut to the quick. |
| Quick | phr | "The Quick" - the living. |
| Quick | phr | "To the Quick" - cut to the tender underlying flesh. 2. to the level of living tissue. 3fig. to injure emotionally; very deeply, at one's most sensitive level of feeling. |
| Quick-answered | adj | Quickly and cheekily answered. |
| Quick-beam | n | The Rowan tree. |
| Quickborn | adj | Born live, as 'his own twin, quick-born inthe same womb'. |
| Quick-bread | n | Any bread, biscuits, etc., whose leavening agent making immediate baking possible. |
| Quick-break | n | A current switch equipped with a spring or other device to permit rapid contact-opening independent of the operator. |
| Quicken | n | Couch-grass or quitch; also the underground stems of this and other grasses 2 the mountain ash or rowan tree. 3. the juniper. |
| Quicken | vb | To give or restore vigour to a person or thing. 2. to excite, inspire, stimulate. 3. to kindle (a fire); cause or help to burn up. 4. to make a liquid more sharp or stimulant. 5. to hasten accelerate. give more speed to; become faster. 6. to receive life, revive, become living. 7. to reach the stage ogf pregnancy at which the child shows signs of life. 8. to come into a state comparable to life. 9. to become bright. |
| Quicken | phr | Quicken Up" - become, make much faster; speed up pace, business, movement. |
| Quickened | adj | Done faster or quickly. |
| Quickener | n | One who does things quickly or without delay. |
| Quickening | n | The process of showing signs of life. 2. a biological process, organic process - a process occurring in living organism. 3. the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus. 4. degree, stage, level, point - a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process. 5. maternity, pregnancy, gestation - the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus. 6. the act of accelerating; increasing the speed, speedup, acceleration hurrying, speeding, speed - changing location rapidly. |
| Quickeningly | adv | So as to quick or bring to life, animatingly. 2. so as to speed up. |
| Quickening-up | n | Fact of becoming, make much faster; speed up pace, business, movement. |
| Quickens | n | Quitch, a weed. |
| Quick-eyed | adj | Sharp of sight and vision. |
| Quick-fire | n | Shots or shooting in rapid succession. |
| Quick-firing | adj | Able to fire shots rapidly and continuously. |
| Quickflesh | n | of the flesh or parts of the body. |
| Quick-footed | adj | Nimble footed. |
| Quick-freeze | vb | Freeze food rapidly so preserve its natural qualities. |
| Quick-grass | n | Couch-grass. |
| Quick-handed | adj | Nimble-handed, dexterous, skilled in things of the hand. |
| Quick-hedge | n | A hedge of living plants. |
| Quickie | n | See 'quicky' |
| Quickish | adj | In a somewhat quick manner. |
| Quicklime | n | Calcium oxide. |
| Quick-line | n | Asbestos, thrumstone, stoneflax, earthflax, devil's dust. |
| Quick-one | n | A final alcoholicdrink before one leaves. |
| Quickly | adv. | In a living or lively manner, rapidly, hastily, speedily. 2. with animation or vigour. 3. sensitively |
| Quickly-gone | adj | Disappearing a flash. |
| Quickly-growing | adj | Growing rapidly. |
| Quickly-speaking | adj | Speaking in a rapid rate. |
| Quick-minded | adj | With a quick or ready mind. |
| Quickness | n | Life, vitality, vital principle. 2. animation, briskness, vigour, freshness. 3. liveliness, readiness or acuteness of feeling; perception or apprehension. 4. speed, rapidity of action or motion. 5. hastiness of temper. 6. sharpness; pungency or acidity of taste. 7. sharpness of speech |
| Quick-one | n | A quick, single alcoholic drink, esp. taken to refresh one before dinner. |
| Quicksand | n | A bed of extremely wet and loose yielding sand. 2. fig.: applied to things (more rarely persons) of an absolutely treacherous and yielding character. |
| Quick-sandlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of quicksand. |
| Quicksandy | adj | Resembling or like quicksand. |
| Quick-seller | n | an article, esp. a book which sells quickly or is in high demand. |
| Quick-set | adj | Live slips or cutting placed in the ground. |
| Quickship | n | Quickness. |
| Quick-sighted | adj | Having quick sight; sharpness, awareness of vision. 2. being argus-eyed, keen-sighted, sharp-eyed. 3. having the ability to perceive or understand ; keen in discernment. |
| Quick-sightedness | n | The state or condition of being quick-sighted. 2. perception, understanding, discernment. |
| Quicksilver | n | Metallic mercury, widely used in metallurgy, industry, arts. 2. an amalgam of tin used for the backs of mirrors. |
| Quick-silver | phr | "A Quick-silver Mind" - a very alert and intelligent mind. |
| Quick-silverish | adj | Resembling or somewhat like quick silver. |
| Quick-silverness | n | Liveliness, volatility. |
| Quicksmart | adj | Quick. |
| Quicksmart | adv | Quickly. |
| Quick-starts | n | Rubber soled sneakers; popular for those who wish to make a speedy get away. |
| Quick-step | n | In a normal marching pace of 120 steps per minute. 2. a march or dance in rapid tempo; a quick march. |
| Quick-stepping | n | The action or act of marching at 120 steps per minute. |
| Quick-talking | adj | Fast talking; speaking very rapidly. 2. fast talking, persuading, misleading, or obtain with a smooth line of talk. 3. confidence-trickery. |
| Quick-thorn | n | A thorn bush used for hedging because of its quickness of growth. |
| Quick-time | n | A fast marching pace of 120 thirty inch steps per minute. |
| Quick-water | n | A stream or that part of the stream having a swift current. |
| Quick-witted | adj | Having a quick or ready wit, sharp, mentally alert, intelligent, mind; esp, used to alert danger; make an effective reply. 2. clever; quick of wit, quick to react and/or respond . |
| Quick-wittedly | adv | In a quick-witted manner. |
| Quick-wittedness | n | Mental alertness, sharp, keen mind. 2. intelligence revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay. |
| Quick-worded | adj | Hasty in speech or writing. |
| Quick-work | n | The part of a ship under the water, when laden. |
| Quick-worker | n | A successful womanizer who achieves his seductions quickly. |
| Quicky | adj | A cheap firm. 2. quickie, any done hastily as a short cuts or makeshift methods. 3.quick alcoholic drink. |
| Quitch | n | Couch-grass |
| Quiver | adj | See quaver. Middle English: from Old English cwifer ‘nimble, quick’. The initial qu- is probably symbolic of quick movement (as in quaver and quick) 2. for arrow case, see 'cocker' from Old English coccor. |
| Quiver | vb | To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. |
| Quoth | vb | To say; bequeath. 2. said or spoke; uttered. |
| Quotha | int | Archaic: (quoth he) indeed! forsooth! - usually in slight contempt. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Puck | n | An evil, malicious or mischievous spirit or demon of popular superstition, commonly identified with the biblical Devil. From the C16th, the name of a fancied mischievous or tricky fairy, goblin or sprite. |
| Puckish | adj | Nature or characteristic of Puck; impish, mischievous. |
| Puckishly | adv | Mischievously, over-playfully, in the manner of puck. |
| Pucklishness | n | The state or quality of being puckish. 2. an instance of being puckish. |
| Puckle | n | The Devil, Satan. 2. a fairy, elf, sprite. |
| Puckly | adv | Of the manner of Puck: impishly, mischievously. |
| Puckness | n | The state or quality of being like Puck: impishness, mischief. |
| Puddle | n | From O.E. 'pudd' ditch, furrow. a small body of standing water, foul with mud, etc., or with a muddy bottom; a small dirty pool. 2. formerly including a pond, a bit full of water , or even a more extensive slough or swamp. 3. fig. esp. with reference to moral defilement, to false doctrine, etc., regarded as pollution. 4. a confused collection or heap; a muddle mess. 5. foul or muddy water as a found in puddles. 6. a preparation of clay, or of clay or sand, mixed with water and tempered, used as a water-tight embankments, lining for canals. |
| Puddle | vb | Wade, walk through or dabble in a puddle or shallow water. 2. puddle or subject to puddling or form or shape by puddling; as to puddle iron. 3. puddle or dip into mud before planting young plants. 4. work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud. 5. spend time idly, laze about. 6. puddle or make into a puddle. 7. make a puddle by splashing water. 8. mix up or confuse, as issues, addle, muddle, mix up, jumble, confuse. 9. assemble without order or sense. 9. urinate. |
| Puddler | n | One who convert cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling. |
| Puddling | n | A preparation of clay, or of clay or sand, mixed with water and tempered, used as a water-tight embankments, lining for canals. |
| Puddly | adj | Having the quality of a puddle; muddy, turbid; more generally., foul, dirty, full of puddles. |
| Puddock | n | Paddock (a frog). |
| Pull | n | Old English pullian ‘pluck, snatch’; origin uncertain; the sense has developed from expressing a short sharp action to one of sustained force. An act of pulling (applying force, a tug, yank, push, shove. 2.an attractive force which causes motion towards the source; an attraction. 3. any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope; button, . 4. (slang) something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing, sway, influence. 5. political influence, a source of such influence. 6.appeal or attraction (as of a movie star). 7. the situation (internet) where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology. 8. a contest; a struggle, as wrestling pull. 9. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered. 10. (slang) the act of drinking, as to take a pull at a mug of beer. |
| Pull | vb | To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force, drag, tow, tug, yank. 2. to gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck. 3. to pull fruit from a tree; to pull flax; to pull a finch. 4. to attract or net; to pull in. 5. to draw apart; to tear; to rend. 6. (slang) to persuade (someone) to have sex with one; score. 7. to remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability, recall, withdraw, yank. 8. to do or perform, carry out, complete, execute.. 9. to retrieve or generate for use, get, get hold of, get in one's hands on, retreive, obtain. 10. to row boat or similar watercraft. 11. to strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.) 12. (horse-racing) to hold back, and so prevent from winning. 13. to draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source. |
| Pull | phr | "Have (Some) Pull Over" - have some advantage. influence, have pull, authority, or power over. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull a Fast One On" - try to deceive or gain an unfair advantage. 2. to engage in a dirty trick. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Ahead" - to pull out from, or goto the front of the opposition in a race. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull All Stops Out" - exert extreme pressure. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Alongside" - stop, or move along. 2. at the side of (a car). 3. draw alongside. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull an All-nighter" - to vote diligently through the night, often in study in an attempt to catch up on or cram information for an examination. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull an Oar" - contribute towards a group effort. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Aside" - move something to one side (esp. to reveal what is behind it) as a secret, curtain. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull At or On" - draw smoke steadily from a pipe, cigar. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull At One's Heart Strings" - to effect one emotionally. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Away" - to pull back or move away or backwards. 2. use force or move something or somebody away, esp from danger. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Back" - to draw or keep back in progress. 2. retreat, withdraw military. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull by the Ear" (noose, sleeve -) to gain attention, or to punish or insult, by pulling one's ear. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Devil, Pull Baker" - an incitement to effort in a contest, or the possession of something. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Down" - to demolish or destroy a house, building etc.. 2. to seize and bring to the ground; to overcome prey. 3. to weaken, lower or depress in health, spirit, size, strength, value, etc, to bring low, humble.. 4. to overthrow a government by force. 5. to lower or draw down a blind, shade. 6. cause to fall to a lower position in a class, employment. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull In" - to rein in one's horse; hence, fig. to check oneself in any course. 2. earn draw a wage. 3. draw attract to a place of entertainment, and various opportunity. 4. take (a suspect) to a police station for questioning. 5. halt, stop. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Into" - enter, arrive at, draw closer to the side of a road, quay, river bank, draw in a driveway, a station. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull It Off" - succeed, accomplish something by stratagem. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Off" - to win a prize or contest; hence to succeed in gaining or affecting something. 2. to achieve success or succeed in some enterprise or deal. 3. remove with some force, as a jumper, shoe. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull On" - draw smoke steadily from a pipe or cigarette. 2. draw or don a jumper or pullover over one's head; a sock onto one's foot. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull One's Finger Out" - to get on with a job or task with speed and urgency. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull One's Head In" - to retreat from a previously held stance or position. 2. 2. do not interfere in this! |
| Pull | phr | "Pull One's Horns In" - to retreat from previously stated views. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Oneself Together" - to cease acting without purpose or enthusiasm. 2. stop behaving in a lazy, inefficient way. 3. regain control of one's emotions. 4. to rouse or recover oneself; to rally. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull One's Socks Up" - make an effort to improve one's work, performance or behavior. 2. to start, renew or redouble one's efforts. 3. improve one's performance. 4. become more purposeful and alert. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull One's Weight" - to row with an effect in proportion to one's weight. 2. to do or perform one's share of the work too merit one's pay or salary. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Out" - of a vehicle leaving or drawing out of a station, depot, dock, etc. 2. of person: to depart, go from, leave. 3. get out of an undertaking; withdraw. 4. extract, draw out as tooth or nail. 5. remove or detach something, as a page from a book. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Out All Stops" - to make a maximum effort. to do something as enthusiastically and vigorously as possible. 2. use all one's power to achieve an objective. 3. employ all resources at hand; go all out in some effort. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Out Of" - force oneself to recover or come out of an illness, bad mood, etc. 2. withdraw, retire from a situation. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Out of One's Hat" - unexpectedly find an answer to a difficult problem. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Out Of the Fire" - remove someone or something from a dangerous or difficult position. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Over" - move steer a vehicle to one side. 2. pass towards the roadside, either to stop or allow other vehicles to overtake. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Somebody's Leg" - to tell a false but plausible story as an act of humour. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Something Off" - succeed. (see:'Pull it Off". |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Something Out of the Fire" - to salvage something something in a seemingly hopeless situation. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Strings" - to use one's special influence with those in a position of authority to make favorable decisions which might otherwise not be forthcoming. 2. influence people in authority. 3. exert influence from behind or outside the scene )like a puppeteer. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull the Birds" - attract women sexually. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull the Chestnuts Out of the Fire" - do illicit or dangerous work for another (from the fable of the monkey that used the cat's paw to pull chestnuts out of the fire). |
| Pull | phr | "Pull the Other One" - an expression of disbelief, (it's got bells on it)- I don't believe you. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull the Strings" - to control affairs; to be the actual operator of what is ostentatiously or apparently by another (usu. in a political sense). |
| Pull | phr | "Pull the Wool Over Someone's Eyes" - to deceive or deliberately mislead an other person. 2. conceal one's true actions or actions by somebody by a display of virtue. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Through" - to get a person through a difficult, dangerous or critical situation. 2. to bring a thing to successful conclusion or end. 3. to survive a severe or critical illness; recover from an illness. 4. to get through a trail or tribulation with effort or difficulty. 5. to survive, go on, endure a period or time of crisis. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Together" - to work in harmony; get on together; co-operate. 2. act in concert; combine. 2. draw the parts of something closer to each other. 3. to restore wholeness or unity of a family, organization, country etc. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Under" - drag below the surface of a river, sea. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Up" - halt, stop a vehicle, oneself, or an animal. 2. reprimand, scoild, upbraid. 3. improve one's position or standing in various senses of the word. 4. extirpate or pull up roots of a plant from the ground. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Up Roots" - move somewhere else from the place one has lived for some time. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Up the Drawbridge" - to refuse to co-operate. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Wires" = see 'pull strings'. |
| Pull | phr | "Pull Your Head In" - do not interfere in this! |
| Pull-aside | n | A private, informal meeting at an otherwise structured event. |
| Pull-back | n | The action or act of pulling back as the withdrawal of troops. 2. that which pulls back; a retarding influence, a check. 2. a piece of equipment, machine used for pulling something back. |
| Pull-down | n | A thing that may be pulled down or which pulls something down. 2. a list of options in a computer application which appears below a heading when it is selected, and remains only as long as the user needs it. |
| Pull-down | adj | Made or designed to be pulled down. |
| Pulled | adj | Denude of feathers; plucked, stripped of wool or hair. |
| Pulling | n | The act by which something is pulled. |
| Pulling | phr | "Like Pulling Teeth" - to do something that is esp. difficult. 2. to get blood out of a stone. |
| Pulling-down | n | The demolition of houses, building. 2. the humbling of a person, nation. |
| Pull-in | n | A roadside cafe or other stopping place. 2. a rest stop; place at the side of the road where drivers can rest. |
| Pull-off | n | Success in gaining or affecting something. 2. achievement, success in some enterprise or deal. 3. a pullover, jersey, jumper. |
| Pull-on | n | Clothing pull over the head with being done up. |
| Pull-out | n | A special section or supplement in a magazine or newspaper which can be removed or detached. 2. a withdrawal or removal of troops. 3. the maneuver of an airplane in passing from a dive to horizontal flight. |
| Pull-over | n | The act or action of pulling over. 2. having the function of pulling over. 3, a garment that is donned or pulled over the head |
| Pull-up | n | The act of pulling up an animal or vehicle. 2. a sudden stop; hence fig. 3. a stopping place for drivers of vehicles. |
| Pung | n | A purse |
| Punt | n | Old English, from Latin ponto, denoting a flat-bottomed ferry boat; readopted in the early 16th century from Middle Low German punte or Middle Dutch ponte ‘ferry boat’, of the same origin. A flat-bottomed boat shallow boat, broad and square at both ends; a boat of this kind propelled by poles thrust against the bottom of the river or shallow water. |
| Punt | vb | To propel a flat-bottomed shallow boat,(a punt) by thrusting a pole against the bottom of the river. 2. to convey by a punt. |
| Purple | n | A loanword from Latin: any of a group of colors with a hue between that of violet and red. 2. cloth of a color between violet and red, formerly worn as a symbol of royalty or high office. 3. imperial power; high rank: born to the purple. 4. the rank or office of a cardinal; the rank or office of a bishop. |
| Purple | vb | To make or become color or dye purple. 2. to become purple. |
| Purple | adj | Of the color purple; red-bluish colour, between crimson and violet. 2. royal or imperial; regal. 3. elaborate and ornate: purple prose. |
| Purple | phr | "Born to the Purple" - born in a royal or noble family. |
| Purple | phr | "Purple and Pall" - an alliterative collocation in which 'pall' has a more general sense of 'rich clothing'. |
| Purple-heart | n | A US military decoration awarded by the US president for those who have been killed or wounded as a result of enemy action. |
| Purpleless | adj | Lacking purple. |
| Purpleness | n | The state or condition of being purple. |
| Purple-red | adj | Red incling to, or tinged with purple. |
| Purplish | adj | somewhat purple; tinged with purple. |
| Purply | adj | Purplish. |
| Purse | n | O.E. pursa "little bag made of leather," borrowed from M.L. bursa "purse" (cf. O.Fr. borse, 12c., Mod.Fr. bourse), from Late Latin posi "bag. 2. woman's handbag Meaning 3. sum of money collected as a prize in a race, etc. 4. Purse-strings, figurative for "control of money. 5. Purse-snatcher, (earlier purse-picker). |
| Purse | phr | "Hold the Purse Strings" - have control of expenditure. |
| Purse | phr | "A Heavy or Long Purse" - wealth. |
| Purse | phr | "A Light Purse" - poverty. |
| Purse-bearer | n | The carrier of a purse; one who has charge of the money of another or of a company; a treasurer, bursar. 2. the official who carries the Great seal in front of the Lord Chancellor in a receptacle called a purse or 'burse'. 2. a marsupial. |
| Purseful | adj | As much as a purse can hold. |
| Purseless | adj | Without or not having a purse. |
| Purse-pride | n | Pride of the purse or wealthy, the self-esteem or arrogance of the wealthy; purse-proud. 2. arrogance due to the possession of wealth. |
| Purser | n | The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft. |
| Pursership | n | The rank or officer of a purser. |
| Purse-strings | n | The strings holding the purse or leather bag of one's finances. |
| Purse-strings | phr | "Hold the Purse-strings" - have control of spending; to have financial power and responsibility. |
| Pursiness | n | The state of being pursy or vain about one's wealth. |
| Pursy | adj | Purse-proud; vain about about one's wealth. |
| Put | vb | To thrust, push and allied senses in which the application of force is expressed. 2. to thrust, push (with or without resulting change of a position), to shove, knock. 3. to butt or hit with the hea or horns. 4. to deal a thrust or blow, to give a push or knock. 5. to make a push or exert oneself. 6. to propel (a stone or a weight) mainly the swing of the body. 7. to plunge or thrust a weapon home or into the body; to drive or send a missile through; to stab, shoot. 8. place or set, express in words or speech. |
| Put | phr | "Be Hard Put" - to be pressed; find it difficult. |
| Put | phr | "Not Know Where to Put Oneself" - feel deeply embarrassed. |
| Put | phr | "Put About" - circulate, pass from one person to another. 2. to cahnge to the opposite tack; change direction. |
| Put | phr | "Put Above" - regard, treat, as more important than; put before. |
| Put | phr | "Put Asunder" - to separate. |
| Put | phr | "Put a Finger On" - identify and point out to the authorities. 2. to steal or rob. |
| Put | phr | "Put a Lid on It" - be quiet, shut up, to stop talking about something or making noise. |
| Put | phr | "Put a Match to" - ignite, set light to. |
| Put | phr | "Put a Name to" - identify by name. |
| Put | phr | "Put an End To" - draw to end, conclude, finish a war; destroy |
| Put | phr | "Put Aside" - save for spending later, save, place in reserve, put away an article for a customer who cannot afford to pay for it now. 2. put on one side; place to one side, set a side; abandon a project. 3. forget, disregard, discard, thrust aside, put on one side a difference, anger, etc.- to place in reserve; save; put away. |
| Put | phr | "Put a Sock in It" - be quiet, restrain yourself. |
| Put | phr | "Put a Spoke in Somebody's Wheel" - stop, circumvent, or hinder somebody's activity (which may be unpleasant or dishonest). |
| Put | phr | "Put a Stop To" - to terminate or abolish something. |
| Put | phr | "Put Asunder" - to separate. |
| Put | phr | "Put At" - calculate, estimate. to be the size of, or distance of something. 2. |
| Put | phr | "Put Away" - put something back in the correct, or normally kept, position position, in order to make tidy. 2. put something in a drawer, container, because one has finished using it. 3. put away, save (money) or put aside for future use. 4. confine, esp. in an institution or hospital for the mentally ill. 5. consume large amounts of foods and drink, wolf down. |
| Put | phr | "Put Back" - set back, act of putting or setting back; move to a later time or date. 2. rearrange something for a later time, as a wedding. 3. slow, retard, delay a (project). 4. return (a book to its place on a library shelf); place back. 5. put the hands of a clock to the correct time, as at the end of Summer Time. |
| Put | phr | "Put Back On One's Feet" - restore to health; prosperity, set on his/her/it feet. |
| Put | phr | "Put Before" - treat, consider, look at something as more important; put above(as the interest of one's family). 2. present for someone's consideration, as a plan. |
| Put | phr | "Put Behind One" - not allow something from the past to affect one's present. |
| Put | phr | "Put By" - save, put away, stow away (something)for future use. 2. to thrust or set aside; reject, neglect. 3. to turn aside, avert (a blow, calamity). 4. evade a question or an argument. |
| Put | phr | "Put Down" - kill an animal because its old, ill etc. 2. destroy because it is a danger or nuisance, as vermin. 3. stop holding, but withdraw support gently. 4. place wine in a cellar for maturing. 5. suppress, repress, silence a movement for civil rights, etc. 6. abolish or remove a social wrong, illegal or undesirable practice. 7. enter, record or write down a record, information or observation. 8. table a document before a court or enquiry. 9. place on a table, self. 10. set down something which is a danger or nuisance, annoyance to oneself or others. 11. land, settle as a plane, hovercraft, etc; allow to alight from a vehicle, ship etc. 12. humiliate another by word or action. |
| Put | phr | "Put Down As" - write, enter, something or somebody in a record, or on a form (often with a view of misleading or deceiving somebody else). 2. consider to be, take to be something (status or vocationally). |
| Put | phr | "Put Down for" - commit to make a payment, esp. to a charity. 2. to enter one's name or the name of another for admission, membership of an organization, etc. |
| Put | phr | "Put Down One's Foot" - see 'Put One's Foot Down' |
| Put | phr | "Put Down Roots" - adopt a settled way of life and living. |
| Put | phr | "Put Down To" - give as an explanation. 2. enter an amount of money in particular account, as petty cash. 3. regard as being due to. 4. give an explanation for. |
| Put | phr | "Put Food On the Table" -to make enough money to cover basic necessities. |
| Put | phr | "Put Forth" - sprout, display, bud, germinate, new leaf. 2. exert, display, put out strength, wisdom, hatred. 3. to extend, as as the arm or hand. |
| Put | phr | "Put Forward" - propose, suggest, advance, urge as a plan, argument or theory. 2. propose, recommend a colleague, oneself. 3. move the hands of a clock forward. |
| Put | phr | "Put Hair On Your Head" - put up a fight. 2. be more effective or emphatic. |
| Put | phr | "Put Heads Together" - combine one's ideas, thoughts etc, to solve a problem more quickly. |
| Put | phr | "Put Horns On" - cuckold; of a man whose wife has cheated on him. |
| Put | phr | "Put In" - install or fit a system in, put a cork or stopper in. 2. interject or interpose. 3. include, insert into a document. 4. spend time doing, planning, give or devote effort to a plan, project. 4. furnish with a worker(s). 5. elect or appoint someone to a position. 6. call, dock, moor a ship at a harbor, port or place of shelter. |
| Put | phr | "Put In a Good Word For Somebody" -praise, recommend somebody. 2. speak on the behalf of another. |
| Put | phr | "Put In For" - make a request, submit an application, request a promotion. 2. enter somebody's name (a athlete)as a a competitor. 3. recommend , propose somebody as deserving applicant. |
| Put | phr | "Put In Mind of" - remind one of; call one to mind, suggest a likeness to. |
| Put | phr | "Put Inside" - imprison, incarcerate. |
| Put | phr | "Put in Someone (of another) Shoes" - have sympathy or empathy for the dificulties of others.2. walk in another's shoes. |
| Put | phr | "Put in the Shade" - make, seem less important or insignificant. |
| Put | phr | "Put (me) in the Wrong" - make it seem perhaps unjustly, that somebody else (a colleague , partner) is to blame for something. 2. act wrongly thus losing any moral advantage. |
| Put | phr | "Put Into Words" - express into words, one's emotions, feelings, love, anxiety, etc. |
| Put | phr | "Put in With" - to commit to something. 2. to partner, fall in with; throw in with. |
| Put | phr | "Put It In One's Pipe and Smoke It" - tell an opponent, adversary (when taking independent a defiant stand) to accept and digest an unpleasant fact.. |
| Put | phr | "Put It Mildly" - without over-emphasizing or exaggeration. |
| Put | phr | "Put It No Higher" - without exaggeration, or making any great claim for or against something. |
| Put | phr | "Put It On" - exaggerate one's feelings. 2. increase one's weight by a large amount. |
| Put | phr | "Put Lipstick on a Pig" - to superficially in the hope of making it more appealing than it is in actuality. |
| Put | phr | "Put Off" - delay, leave till later, postpone, defer. 2. stop liking something or someone, be displeasure by a person's appearance or manner. 3. discourage, prevent from seeing one, making contact to discuss an important matter. 4. distract, disturb, annoy, disconcert, so as to interrupt another person's concentration. 5. cause to loose interest in, or appetite for some undertaking or activity. 6. allow to alight or disembark from a vessel or vehicle. 7. discard, do away with, rid oneself of something, lay aside responsibility. 8. put off to sleep. 9. apply physical or moral pressure in order to exact favors. |
| Put | phr | "Put Off Stride" - disturb the steady progress of someone at work. 2. spoil somebody's composure. |
| Put | phr | "Put On" - don, clothe, get dressed in, start wearing. 2. switch on a light or lamp. 3. assume airs or affectation; assume a manner, pose, facade in order to impress. 4. get fatter, grow heavier, put on weight. 5. deceive, lie, take down, swindle. . 6. add an amount to the price, cost of the provision of goods or services; add or impose a tax on a commodity. 8. wage a bet on a horse, team in a sporting contest, etc. 9. apply physical or moral pressure in order to exact a favor or promise. 10. produce, present a play or exhibition. |
| Put | phr | "Put One Over (Somebody)" - deceive, trick, dupe, scam. 2. cheat somebody out of something. 3. make someone believe something that is not true. |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Back Into" - make a strenuous effort to do something. |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Best Foot Forward" - do something with alacrity. |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Feet Up" - rest or relax in a chair or on a bed. |
| Put | phr | "Put Oneself In the Shoes (of another)" - have sympathy or empathy for others. |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Finger On" - (see: 'put a finger on") |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Finger to One's' Lips" - give a signal to somebody to be quiet by raising a finger to one's lips. |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Foot Down" - press the accelerator, causing a motor vehicle to travel at a faster speed. 2. assert one's authority, adopt a strong position against some course of action. to take a firm stand with regard to another or other's behavior , policy, actions. |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Foot In It" - say or do something hurtful, embarrassing or insulting unintentionally, thoughtlessly or insensitivity. |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Foot in One's Mouth" - to misspeak, to say something embarrassing or wrong. |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Hand To" - to set to work at something. |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Hands Together" - to chap, applaud. |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Hand Up" - raise one's hand in order to get attention; or that one can answer a question. |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Heart and Soul Into" - undertake something with total dedication. |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Mind to" - give one's full attention to; set one's mind to a task. 2. make a conscious effort. |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Name in the Hat" - throw one's name in the hat. 2. to run in an election or to nominate oneself for consideration in some selection process. 3. to nominate someone other than oneself for election or appointment. |
| Put | phr | "Put One's Shirt On" - gamble all one's assets on a horse, project |
| Put | phr | Put One's Shoulder to the Wheel" - make a determined effort. |
| Put | phr | "Put On Hold" - postpone or delay something. |
| Put | phr | "Put On Ice" - suspend, shelve something, as a proposal, with the hope or possibility of reviving it later. 2. set aside; store, keep in reserve until needed. |
| Put | phr | "Put On Oath" - put under oath. 2. call to witness. 3. to invoke or attest on oath. |
| Put | phr | "Put On One's (its) Feet" - restore to health, prosperity, set on one's feet. |
| Put | phr | "Put On One Side" - forget, disregard, put aside fears, trouble. |
| Put | phr | "Put On the Back-burner" - postponed; deferred as as an item of relatively low priority, requiring less attention. |
| Put | phr | "Put On The Red Light" - to advertise oneself as a prostitute or provider of sexual services by having a red light outside your premises. |
| Put | phr | "Put On to" - help people meet or contact one another; put in touch. 2. tell or reveal the whereabouts or activities of someone, so that he or she can be apprehended by authorities. 3. tell somebody of the existence of something interesting or advantageous. |
| Put | phr | "Put Out" - broadcast, distribute. 2. disturb or trouble someone. 3. extinguish a cigarette, fire etc. 4. move into open waters, away from the shoreline; put out to sea. 5. throw out (a person), eject fro a venue. 6. sprout, bloom, blossom. 7. publish, issue, broadcast, transmit, produce, generate, circulate, display. 8. exert energy or vigor, enthusiasm. 9. put to sleep by striking, a knockout in a boxing match; anaesthetize. 10. extinguish, switch off, blow out, turn off a light, fire etc. 11. dislocate, put out of usual position. 12 cause an inaccuracy in something, skew., throw out. 13. inconvenience, spoil, or complicate some arrangement. 14. upset, dismay,worry, vex. |
| Put | phr | Put Out Feelers" - take steps to discover if conditions are favorable to proceed. |
| Put | phr | "Put Out of Business" - force someone or a business to stop trading. |
| Put | phr | "Put Out of One's Mind" - deliberately forget. |
| Put | phr | "Put Out To" - give over all or most of the job to a manufacturer or worker who is not employee, and who will carry out the off-sit or work away from the premises. 2. lend at interest to a borrower or mortagor. |
| Put | phr | "Put Over (Somebody)" - successfully execute a scam, put over on, pull a fast one, trick. 3. convey, communicate to, put across, narrate a story, argument, proposal. |
| Put | phr | "Put Rights to" - settle, arrange properly.; restore to a proper state. 2. put to rights. |
| Put | phr | "Put Somebody Down As" - regard somebody as smart, honest, foolish, etc. |
| Put | phr | "Put Somebody's Lights Out" - knock out or knock unconscious. |
| Put | phr | "Put Somebody Off" -discourage. |
| Put | phr | "Put Somebody On" - deceive, trick, fool (usu. as a joke). |
| Put | phr | "Put Somebody Out" - inconvenience, annoy. |
| Put | phr | "Put Somebody Right" - correct a false impression somebody has. |
| Put | phr | "Put Somebody's Back Up" offend somebody; make somebody anger through your insensitivity or rudeness. |
| Put | phr | "Put Somebody Up to Something" - entice somebody to do something wrong. |
| Put | phr | "Put Something About" - spread about. |
| Put | phr | "Put Something Down To" - attribute something to. |
| Put | phr | "Put Something On" -wear something. 2. falsify or feign something. |
| Put | phr | "Put Something Right" - correct a flaw, or mistake. |
| Put | phr | "Put Strain On" - put someone or something under pressure; pu to the test. |
| Put | phr | "Put That in your Pipe and Smoke It!" - see how your like or cope with this. 2. take that! I give you something to think about. |
| Put | phr | "Put the Bee On" - to beat, finish off. 2. to borrow money from (to sting). |
| Put | phr | "Put the Boot On" - To kick a fallen opponent. 2. to kick someone when they are down. |
| Put | phr | "Put the Cart Before the Horse" - reverse the natural or proper order of things, events, causes and effects. |
| Put | phr | "Put the Fear of Death/God into" - thoroughly frighten or terrify. 2. force somebody to submit or obey by the strength of one's authority. |
| Put | phr | "Put the Feedbag On" - to dine, eat. |
| Put | phr | "Put the Finger" - accuse, and identify by pointing a finger at an accomplice, or an organization's conduct. |
| Put | phr | "Put the Hammer Down" - step on the gas, put the foot down, accelerate very quickly. |
| Put | phr | "Put the Lid On" - be the final event, conclusion, end. |
| Put | phr | "Put the Make On" -interest to pursue with romantic, esp. in an aggressive, sexually suggestive manner. 2. flirt with, hit on. |
| Put | phr | "Put the Thought into Somebody's Head" - make somebody think or believe something, which is not necessary true. |
| Put | phr | "Put the Wind Up" - scare, frighten, terrify, scare. |
| Put | phr | "Put This and That Together"- consider carefully two facts. |
| Put | phr | "Put Through" - connect someone by phone. 2. cause someone to endure pain, etc. 2. cause to pass through various legislative or administrative stages. 3. provide financial and other support to a person so that he or she can complete their education. |
| Put | phr | "Put Through the Mill" - set for someone an arduous and practical course of training to prepare them future employment. 2. be forced to endure an ordeal. 3. cause to go or undergo intensive work or training. 4. compel a person to learn by experience. |
| Put | phr | "Put Through the Wringer" - to interrogate, or scrutinize clearly. 2. to subject to some trial or ordeal. |
| Put | phr | "Put Through to" connect by telephone or electronic device. 2. put a call through to. |
| Put | phr | "Put To" - convey, express, communicate to. 2. question, query, enquire. 3. ask a meeting to vote on. 3. suffer or undergo expense, bother, ongoing trouble. 4. submit to a witness for explanation or answer. |
| Put | phr | "Put to Bed" - cause to go to bed. 2. send a newspaper in its final edited version for printing. 2. conclude, end, solve a problem or dilemma. |
| Put | phr | "Put to Bed with a Shovel" - bury, inter, commit to the grave. |
| Put | phr | "Put to Death" - kill, execute. |
| Put | phr | "Put to Flight" - cause an an enemy, invader to flee in disorder. |
| Put | phr | "Put Together" -fit pieces or parts together to make a whole. 2. assemble, fit together. |
| Put | phr | "Put to Rest" - to settle or finish, esp. a question or discussion. |
| Put | phr | "Put to Shame" - to something or somebody seem slighr or insignificant by comparison one's efforts, achievements, etc. |
| Put | phr | "Put to Sleep" - kill an animal (generally a pet) painlessly by injection. |
| Put | phr | "Put to the Sword" - kill, esp. during wartime. |
| Put | phr | "Put Towards" - make or give a financial contribution to a particular fund. |
| Put | phr | "Put to Work" - cause to start work, etc. |
| Put | phr | "Put Two and Two Together" - draw a conclusion, make a conclusion. 2. make a simple connection between related facts and draw the obvious conclusion. |
| Put | phr | "Put Under" - render unconscious by anaesthetic. |
| Put | phr | "Put Up" - allow someone to stay at your house for a a night or a few days. 2. increase or raise prices, taxes, duties, etc. 3. show skill, determination in a contest, competition, fight; offer resistance, struggle, etc. 4. raise hoist a flag or banner. 5. fasten or stick in a place where a notice or announcement will be seen. 6. erect or construct a building. 7. pretend to be, feel,or have done something in order to hide one's true intentions, activities, etc. 8. state, advcate, present case, proposal, argument. 9. advance, lend, give, funds, money, cash. 10. prepare food for eating at a picnic, as a snack, meal etc. 11. provide board, lodgings or offer accommodation for friends, wayfarers and travelers.. |
| Put | phr | "Put Up a Fight" - to offer some form of resistance to an attack. 2. (fig.) - to protest or make a fuss, esp. over a proposed course of action. |
| Put | phr | "Put Up a Good Fight" - struggle valiantly and bravely against overwhelming odds. |
| Put | phr | "Put Up For" - propose, nominate something to a position of authority. 2. offer oneself as a candidate for election. |
| Put | phr | "Put Up for Sale" - offer for sale, put n the market. |
| Put | phr | "Put Upon (Somebody)" - take advantage of somebody. 2. take advantage off. 3. make unfair or excessive demands upon. |
| Put | phr | "Put Up or Shut Up" - defend or justify oneself or remain silent. 2. if you really believe in what you're saying, you should be willing to stand and defend your argument. |
| Put | phr | "Put Up the Shutters" - cease to work for the day. 2. cease business permanently. |
| Put | phr | "Put Up To" - encourage someone to do something. |
| Put | phr | "Put Up With (Something)" - tolerate something, bear, endure, see through, submit to; stand for. |
| Put | phr | "Put Wise" - inform a person about something. |
| Put | phr | "Put Words Into Somebody's Mouth" - attempt to get someone to say something in the particular terms drafted for another person. 2. suggest or tell what another person should say. |
| Put | phr | "Put Years On" - feel, seem or appear older. |
| Put-down | n | A snub, a slight. 2. a delivery by a vehicle. |
| Put-forth | n | Imposture, pretense. |
| Put-off | n | An evasion, excuse. |
| Put-in | n | One's turn to speak. 2. one's affair or business. |
| Put-on | n | A hoax, deception, fraud. |
| Put-out | n | An annoyance, inconvenience, set back. |
| Putt | n | A variation of the word 'put' (to place) A light stroke on the putting-green to place the ball near or in the hole. |
| Putt | vb | To strike the ball with a putting-shot. |
| Putter | n | A Golfer who plays a putting-shot. |
| Putter | n | Act or work in a feeble or unsystematic way. (variation of the word, 'potter') |
| Put-through | n | The going through of a process, such as an economical transaction. 2. to bring to a successful completion. 3. to cause to perform. 4. |
| Putting | n | The action of playing a putting-shot at golf. |
| Put-up | n | Lodgings, accommodation, quarters. 2. pre-arranged on concocted beforehand act, as a burglary by conspiracy with other persons usu, "insiders". 3. plan in an prearranged, underhanded way. |
| Put-up | adj | Prearranged or contrived in an artful way. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| R | n | The letter "R" |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Rabbi | n | A Jewish scholar or teacher, especially one who studies or teaches Jewish law. 2. a person appointed as a Jewish religious leader. Origin: Late Old English, via ecclesiastical Latin and Greek from Hebrew rabbī ‘my master’, from raḇ ‘master’. |
| Race | n | Late Old English, from Old Norse rás ‘current’. It was originally a northern English word with the sense ‘rapid forward movement’, which gave rise to the senses ‘contest of speed’ (early 16th century) and ‘channel, path’ (i.e. the space traversed). The verb dates from the late 15th century. 2. running, rush, impetus attack; akin to ON. rás. The act of running, a run. 3. the course of life or portion of it. 3. rush, onset, haste 5. a journey or voyage. (rare). 6. the reach of a river. 7. the channel bed of a stream. 8. a small thread of spar. 9. channel or bed of a stream, a raceway. |
| Race | phr | "Not in the Race" - having no chance. |
| Race | phr | "One Horse Race" - a race whose winner is known before the race commences. |
| Race | phr | "Race Against Time" - an effort to complete something before, or by, a given time or before something else happens to prevent its success. |
| Race | phr | "Race to the Bottom" - the situation in which companies and countries try to compete with each other by cutting wages and living standards for workers |
| Race | phr | "Race Up" - rise rapidly (to a particular level); shoot up. |
| Race | phr | "Two Horse Race" - a contest where there is only two serious contestants. |
| Race-glasses | n | Binoculars. |
| Race-goer | n | An attendee at a race track for a race-meeting. |
| Race-going | n | The attendance at a racecourse or racetrack for a race-meeting, consisting of a sequence of horse races. |
| Racehorse | n | A horse kept or bred for racing. |
| Race-meeting | n | A series of horse races of a paricular racecourse on a particular day. |
| Racer | n | One who races or take part in a race. 2. anything having unusually rapid speed, as a racehorse, racing car. 3. |
| Raceway | n | A channel for conducting or carrying water. 2. a racecourse for trotting horses. |
| Rache | n | A hunting dog which pursues it prey by scent; also "ratch" from OE: raecc, related to ON rakki, dog |
| Racing | n | The sport of taking part in races. |
| Racing | phr | "Have Racing Thoughts" - a series of uncontrollable thoughts that switch rapidly between ideas, a symptoms of bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders of other mental illness. |
| Rad | adj | Quick, hasty, speedy. 2. prompt, eager, ready, elated. |
| Radish | n | The fleshy, slightly pungent, root of a cruciferous plant (Raphanus sativus), commonly eaten raw as a relish or in salads. |
| Radish-fly | n | A small dipterous insect, Anthonyia raphani) |
| Radish-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a radish. |
| Radknight | n | In OE times, a tenant holding land on condition of performing services on horseback; also "Radman" and "Rodman" |
| Radly | adv | Quickly, promptly, without delay, soon |
| Radness | n | Fear, fright |
| Rafter | n | One of the beams which give slope and form to a roof, and bear the outer covering of slates, tiles, thatch. 2. a large beam such as is used for a rafter. 3. One who is employed in rafting timber |
| Rafters | n | The slender timbers, or common rafters, running from ridge to wall plate and carrying the coering of the roof. |
| Rag | n | English has four separate wordsrag, none of them with a well-documented history. Rag ; 'a piece of cloth' is probably from Old Norse *ragg (suggested by derivative raggiġ “shaggy; bristly; ragged” and borrowed into Late O.E. Old English??? 2. tufted, shaggy. 3. strip of fur. |
| Rag-and-bone man* | n | A street trader who, formerly bought and sold old clothes, household waste or discarded articles. |
| Ragweed | n | A hogweed; a common North American weed. |
| Ragwort | n | A common roadside plant with bright yellow flowers on a tall, erect stem. |
| Raid | n | A variant of 'road' - search for something needed or desired. 2. raid an attempt by speculators to defraud investors. 3. raid a sudden short attack. |
| Raid | vb | Take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock. 2. search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on |
| Raider | n | One who makes a hostile and predatory raid, taking the spoils or plunder (often in wartime). 2. a corporate investor whose aim is to takeover a company, by buying a controlling interest in its stock and then bringinging in his own management team. |
| Raiding | n | The act of carrying out a raid. |
| Raiding | adj | marauding, attacking, assailing, assaulting, plundering, predatory. |
| Rail | n | A garment, dress. 2. A neckerchief usu. worn by women; see also night-rail: a dressing gown |
| Rain | n | The condensed vapour of the atmosphere, falling in drops large to attain a sensible velocity; the fall of such drops. 2. Showers of rain, rainfalls. 3. a (specified) kind of rain or shower. 4. The descent of liquid or solid particles or bodies thus falling. 5. A composition used in fireworks' rockets, producing a shower of bright-coloured sparks. |
| Rain | vb | Of rain: to fall 2.to send down or pour down rain. 3 of tears and other things, etc: to descend, fall, come, etc like rain. |
| Rain | phr | "As Right as Rain" - fit, OK , all right. |
| Rain | phr | "Come Rain or Shine" - whatever happens. 2. no matter what the weather |
| Rain | phr | "Put Aside (something) for a Rainy Day" - keep hold of something till it's needed. |
| Rain | phr | "Rain Cats and Dogs" - pour with heavy rain. |
| Rain | phr | "Rain Down" - cause to fall in showers; fall thick and fast (on). |
| Rain | phr | "Rain, Hail or Shine" - lit., in all kinds of weather. 2. fig. in all sorts of difficult situations. |
| Rain | phr | "Rain Off" - cause an event to be interrupted, cancelled or terminated because of rain. 2. rain out. |
| Rain | phr | "Rain Out" - the cancellation or premature ending of an event because of rain. 2. rain off. |
| Rain | phr | "Rain Upon" - be offer in abundance; in great quantity; shower upon. |
| Rain | phr | "Right as Rain" - in good order; comfortably situated . |
| Rainberry | n | The common buckthorn. |
| Rainbird | n | A bird said to foretell rain by its cry, esp. the green woodpecker. |
| Rainboot | n | A waterproof boot????? to protect the wearer from rain, a Wellington boot. |
| Rainbow | n | A (rain)bow or arch exhibiting the prismatic colours in their order, formed in the sky opposite the sun by the reflection, double refraction, and the dispersion of the sun's rays in falling drops of rain. 2. also, a similar arch formed in the spray of cataracts. |
| Rainbow | phr | "Look for the Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow" - be a good bit too unrealistic or naive. |
| Rainbow | vb | To brighten or span with a rainbow; to produce like a rainbow. |
| Rainbowed | adj | Resembling a rainbow. |
| Rainbow trout | n | a large trout, originally of the Pacific coast of North America. |
| Rainbowy | adj | Pertaining to, or like a rainbow in some aspect; rainbowish. |
| Rain cloud | n | A cloud bringing rain. |
| Rain-drop | n | A single drop of rain. |
| Rainfall | n | A shower of rain. 2. the amount or quanity of rain falling during a certain time within a given area; estimated usually in millimetres. |
| Rainfast | adj | Of a surface coating or spray not able to be washed off by rain. |
| Rain-fowl | n | the Mistletoe Thrush |
| Rain-glass | n | A barometer |
| Rain hat | n | A waterproof hat worn to protect the wearer from rain. |
| Rainily | adv | In a somewhat rainy way or manner. |
| Raininess | n | Characterized by, full of, or bringing rain. |
| Raining tree | n | Old travelers to the the Canary Islands told of a linden tree from which sufficient water to supply all people and animals of the island concerned. In certain weather conditions moisture condenses and collects on the broad leaves of many trees. The genisaro or guango, Pithecolibium saman, or ornamental tropical tree, one of the Leguminosae, is known as the rain-tree. In this case ejection of juice by cicadas are responsible for the 'rain' under its branches. Another is the Andira inermis, found in tropical Africa and America. |
| Rainish | adj | Somewhat rainy or wet. |
| Rainless | adj | Entirely lacking in rain |
| Rainlike | adj | Characteristic by, full of, or bringing rain. |
| Rainmaker | n | A person who seeks to bring rain by magic or seeding techniques. 2. an influential political lobbyist, typically one who can attract large donation. |
| Rainmaking | n | The bringing about of rain through technology, such as cloud seeding. |
| Rain man | n | A nerd; one who may be smart or particularly knowledgeable in some areas but socially or otherwise developmentally retarded. |
| Rain-out | n | The cancellation or premature ending of an event because of rain. 2. precipitation of radioactive water droplets from clouds masses resulting from an underwater nuclear explosions. |
| Rain shadow | n | A region shielded from rain by mountains, etc. |
| Rain-storm | n | A storm with heavy rain. |
| Rainswept | adj | Expsed to rain. |
| Rain-tight | n | Impervious to rain. |
| Rain tree | n | Various species of tree, especially in India and South America valued for its beauty and shade rather than its wood. |
| Rainwash | n | Loose material, and the movement of this, carried away by rain. |
| Rainwater | n | Water that falls directly from the clouds as, or in the form of, rain. |
| Rain waterpipe | n | A long square box, or closed trough, for conveying water from the eaves gutter to the ground. |
| Rainwear | n | Clothes for wearing in the rain. |
| Rainworm | n | The common earthworm. |
| Rainy | adj | Weather or climate whose qualities are rainy |
| Rainy day | n | A day on which rain is falling constantly. 2. time of special need, usually financial need, and in the future. |
| Raise | vb | A close cognate to rear. It was borrowed from Old Norse 'reisa', which descended from the same Germanic word that gave us English 'rear' : 'lift', 'rise'. To cause to move upwards ?????? |
| Raise | phr | "Raise a Glass to" - drink a toast to somebody, thus signalling one's approval or admiration of him, |
| Raise | phr | "Raise a Laugh/Smile" - amuse somebody one's companions, an audience, (either deliberately or not)enough to make them laughor smile. |
| Raise | phr | "Raise a Stink" - make a fuss. |
| Raise | phr | "Raise From the Dead" - restore to life, usually by supernatural means. |
| Raise | phr | "Raise Merry Hell" - complain, protest, exert one's authority, etc angrier or violently. 2. behave in an extravagant, noisy, unrestrained or riotous way |
| Raise | phr | "Raise One's Eyebrows" - express by facial gesture one's doubts, skepticism, or disapproval (cause others to display similar feelings). |
| Raise | phr | "Raise One's Hand Against" - physically threaten. |
| Raise | phr | "Raise One's Hat to" - indicate one's approval or admiration for somebody (by literally removing one's hat to). |
| Raise | phr | "Raise One's Rights" - be more ambitious. |
| Raise | phr | "Raise Someone's Hopes" - make somebody more hopeful that something will happen. |
| Raise | phr | "Raise the Roof" - make a lot or too much noise, by singing, shouting, applauding etc. |
| Raise | phr | "Raise With" - introduce in discussion a subject with. |
| Raising | n | The act of lifting, propagating, erecting, causing a rise in any sense. 2. the embossed part of a sheet-metal work. 3. the process of deepening colors in dyeing. |
| Raising-bee | n | The gathering of persons for the purpose of erecting the frame of a building. |
| Rake | n | Partly from OE and ON. - an implement consisting of a comb-like crossbar fitted with a long handle. 2. |
| Rake | vb | Draw together by means of a rake. 2. to proceed on the wrong course, make one's way; walk, stroll, wander; range about, as of hawks: to fly along after game; also rake out, off, away, to fly wide or (away from) game) the game. 3. of hunting dogs; to run with their noses close to the ground. 4. to direct a heavy volley of shots along the length of a ship or a row of soldiers. 5. to make a search or carefully examine. 6. to gather by diligent effort. |
| Rake | n | O.E (hracu): throat gorge, jaw (rare). |
| Rake | phr | "Rake About" - search here and there for something. |
| Rake | phr | "Rake In" - take (abundantly) as proceeds of one's business. |
| Rake | phr | "Rake Off" - to share in profits, proceeds, esp. in a shady or illegal deal. |
| Rake | phr | "Rake Over" - re-examine, have a second look at. |
| Rake | phr | "Rake Over Old Coals/Ashes" - revive (usually unpleasant) memories of the past. |
| Rake | phr | "Rake (Something) Up" - discover something (usually to someone's disadvantage). |
| Rake | phr | "Rake Through" - examine documents very carefully in search of evidence, etc. |
| Rake | phr | "Rake Up" - revive something which is now forgotten (and is best left forgotten); drag up. 2. rake something up, or discover something from someone's past that discredits them. |
| Rake | phr | "Thin As a Rake" - very thin. |
| Rake-off | n | Share of profit, proceeds, esp. in a shady or illegal deal. |
| Rake-up | vb | To concoct or fabricate |
| Rakente | n | A chain, from OE rackan |
| Ram | n | O.E may be related to ON ramr 'strong,' the allusion being to the ram's (a male sheep) strength in butting. 2. a sexually aggressive man; a lecher. 3. the process of ramming. |
| Ram | vb | To beat down earth with a heavy implement, so as to make it hard and firm; force down by a heavy blow; pile drive |
| Ram | phr | "Ram Down" - strike something firmly so that it parts pack tightly together. |
| Ram | phr | "Ram Down Somebody's Throat" - repeat something often in the hope in the hope of impressing it on the hearer. 2. stuff something down someone's throat. |
| Ram | phr | "Ram Home" - make a point forcefully and absolutely clear by illustration or example. |
| Ram | phr | "Ram Into" - Drive one's motor vehicle with great force into another. |
| Rame | vb | To scream. |
| Rammish | adj | Like a ram, esp. in being lustful. |
| Rammishness | n | The quality of being rammish (sheeplike) |
| Rammy | adj | Pertaining to or like a ram. |
| Ramraid | n | A robbery in which the shop window is rammed with a vehicle and looted. |
| Ramraider | n | One or those who carry out a ramraid. |
| Ramraiding | n | The act of robbery by ramraid. |
| Ramrod | n | A rod for ramming doewn the charge of a nuzzle-loading firearm, 2. a thing very straight or rigid. |
| Ramrod | phr | "As Stiff as a Ramrod" - of a person, standing or sitting with their back very straight or stiff. |
| Ram's horn | n | The plant Orchis morio |
| Ramson | n | Broad leaf garlic, allium ursinum |
| Rand | n | OE brink or bank, shield rim; a border, edge, a margin. 2. a river border overgrown with reeds or the unplowed border around a field. 3. a strip or long slice of ham. 4. a rand or strip of leather placed under a shoe or boot, to make this level. 5. a strip of iron. 6. a piece or mass of ice. |
| Rank | adj | Proud, highminded, haughty, froward, rebellious. 2. stout & strong. 3. having great speed or force; swift, impetuous, violent. 4. having an offensively strong smell. 5. lustful, licentious, grossly indecent. 7. grossly offensive or loathsome. 8. corrupt, foul, festering. 9 numerous, frequent. 10, luxuriant, abounding, full; rank-springing. |
| Rank-goat | n | Motherwort. |
| Rank-minded | adj | Offensive in thought and mind. |
| Rankness | n | Strength. 2.state of rank: offensive, strong etc. |
| Rank-old | adj | Old & smelly; renky |
| Rape | n | One of the six administrative districts into which Sussex is divided; each comprising several hundreds |
| Rare | adj | (OE. hrere: lightly boiled) - not thoroughly cooked; applied to a roasted or broiled meat retaining its rareness and juices; in England commonly called 'underdone'. |
| Rare-ripe | n | A fruit that ripens early; applied esp. to some varieties of peaches; and onions. |
| Rare-ripe | adj | Ripening early. |
| Rash | adj | See "race" - unrecorded but probably from OE????. 2. reckless, impetuous, hasty. 2. acting or done without due consideration. |
| Rashly | adv | In a rash or reckless manner. |
| Rashness | n | The state or action of being rash. |
| Rat | n | Rodent of some of the larger species of the genus "mus". 2. one who refuses to join a trade union but takes the benefits the union wins for him/her and his/her fellow. workers. |
| Rat | vb | To betray the trust of another, betray. |
| Rat | phr | "As Wet as a Drowned Rat" - very wet. |
| Rat | phr | "Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship" - cowardice or prudence makes people desert a friend, employer etc if danger threatens. |
| Rat | phr | "Rat On (Somebody)" - betray, inform against, grass. 2. withdraw from an agreement or undertaking. |
| Rat | phr | "Smell a Rat" - be suspicious. |
| Rat | phr | "Take a Rat by the Tail" - a picket pocket. When purses were worn suspended from a girdle, thieves cut the strings by which the purse was attached. |
| Rat-arsed | adj | (Slang) : drunk. |
| Ratbane | n | Rat poison. |
| Rat-brain | adj | To think like a rat: cunning, opportunistic, sly |
| Ratch | n | OE : raecce; a hound which hunts by scent, as the blood-hound; also 'rach'. |
| Rat-eyed | adj | To have eyes like a rat: cunning, furtive, steathly and alert |
| Rat-foot dots | n | In Chinese painting, a method of representing pine boughs or branches by brush strokes that resemble the print of a rat foot; four or five slightly curved strokes radiating from a white centre dot. |
| Rathe | n | Counsel, advice, help, |
| Rathe | vb | To counsel, advice |
| Rathe | adj | Quick in action, speedy, prompt; rath. 2. eager, earnest, vehemence. 3. finished, done, ocurring or coming before the usual or natural time, early, as in rathe grave: early or premature death.6. belonging to, or forming, the first part of some period of time. |
| Rathe | adv | Denoting rapidity in the performance or completion of an action. 2. quickly, rapidly, swiftly; esp. without delay, promptly, swift. 2. too quickly, too soon, too early; before a fitting or natural time: rathely. 3. rathely, precociously,early; betimely. |
| Rathe day | n | Early in the day or early in morning.. |
| Ratheness | n | Earliness, prematurity, precociousness |
| Rather | adv | Comparative of rathe: earlier, preceding another in time; coming in an earlier hour. 2. antecedent, prior of greater in place. 3. earlier of two (of persons or things), of earlier times. 4. more willingly; preferably, on the other hand; on the contrary, somewhat. 5. for the reason that; by so much the more. |
| Rather | phr | 'Rather than" - prefer |
| Rathe-ripe | adj | Ripening prematurely; precocious. 2. of fruit, flowers which grow or bloom or ripen early in the year. |
| Rat-hole | n | Refuge or hiding place. 2. a squalid or cramped building; a small underground hovel. |
| Ratless | adj | Free from rats. |
| Rat race | n | The fiercely competitive struggle or constant struggle to maintain one's position in work or life; life in it's toughest |
| Rat run | n | A route on minor roads used by traffic to avoid congestion at peak periods. |
| Rat-souled | adj | Reproachful; wretched, despicable, ignoble, surreptitious, sly in quality and action. |
| Ratter | n | A rat-catcher. 2. a dog or cat that catches rats. 3. a deserter or traitor. |
| Rat-tight | adj | Rat proofed; secure against rat infestations or presence. |
| Rattish | adj | Devoid of noble qualities or action. 2. belonging to or resembling a rat. 3. in the way of or manner of a rat. |
| Ratty | adj | Characteristics of a rat or rats. 2.infested with rats. 3. wretched, miserable, irritated, ill-tempered, angry. 4. surreptitious, stealthy, thievish. |
| Raven | n | A large black bird with a raucous voice, Corbus corax. 2. a bird of ill omen; fabled to forbode death, and to bring infection and bad luck. |
| Raven flint | n | Obsidian, a raven's wing's gleam against the light just like a slab of obsidian. |
| Raven's book | n | List of the dead, obituaries. |
| Raven's eye | n | Species of toadstool |
| Raven haired | adj | Having hair very black and lustrous. |
| Raven's woe | n | Death and destruction (often relating to war and battle). The raven is considered a bird of ill-omen. |
| Raw | adj | OE: hreaw; usually uncooked, in a natural, unworked, not wrought. 2. crude, inexperienced. 3. "In the raw" : in the nude |
| Raw | phr | " Get a Raw Deal" - an unfair deal or unfair treatment. |
| Raw | phr | "In the Raw" - bare, in the nude, naked. |
| Raw | phr | "Rawhead and Bloody Bones" - a bogey at one time the terror of children. |
| Rawboned | adj | A very lean or gaunt person, a mere skeleton, thin, projecting bone. |
| Raw deal | n | Harsh or unfair treatment. |
| Raw-edged | adj | Without a hem. 2. not yet mellow. |
| Raw-headed | adj | Callow, young, immature, inexperienced. |
| Rawhide | n | Untanned hides. 2. a rope made of untanned hide. |
| Rawish | adj | Somewhat raw. |
| Rawly | adj | At a mature age. 2. crudely insufficient or unsatisfactory manner. 3. ignorant; of little knowledge or experience. 4. barely, scarely, immaturely exposed |
| Raw milk | n | Unpasteurized milk. |
| Raw-necked | adj | Crude, unsophisticated, boorish, conservative |
| Rawness | n | Inexperience, ignorance, crudeness. 2. incompleteness. 3. bareness of flesh. 4. excoriation. 5 soreness; smarting. 6. indigestion. 7. chilliness, dampness, cold. |
| Raxness | vb | To stretch oneself after sleep. 2. to start up wake up from a swoon: to rax. 3. to become longeror be stretched by pulling, to stretch, to be hanged. 4. to wax, grow. 5. to extend the hand, reach out. 6. to extend one's power or influence, to prevail. 7 to elongate the neck |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Reach | n | Stretch out, extend. 2. the action in making the effort to vomit, hawk, retch |
| Reach | n | A continous stretch, as a waterway, land; sometimes found in place-names |
| Reach | vb | The act of stretching. 2. To make effort to vomit |
| Reach | phr | "Out of Reach" - not able to be reached or attained. |
| Reach | phr | "Reach Down" - bring something from a higher point by stretching one's hand. |
| Reach | phr | "Reach For" - stretch out one's hand to grasp a weapon. |
| Reach | phr | "Reach for the Stars" - have high or ambitious aims. |
| Reach | phr | "Reach Somebody's Ears" - come to somebody's notice or attention. |
| Reach | phr | "Reach the Top of" - achieve success at the highest level in business, a sport, profession, politics, etc. |
| Reach | phr | "Reach to" - stretch as far as. |
| Reach | phr | "Reach Out for" - Extend one's hand to take something. 2. make a effort to grasp. 3. to communicate (with); to make contact with. |
| Reaching | n | The action of one who reaches. 2. an attempt to grasp something by stretching. |
| Reachless | adj | That cannot be reached, unattaainable, lofty. 2. without a reach. |
| Reach-me-downs | n | Ready-made clothing or garments. 2. second-hand clothes. |
| Read | n | The stomach of an animal |
| Read | vb | Think guess, discern the meaning of a riddle, dream. 2 inspect and interpret a loud or silently (signs representing speech) |
| Read | phr | "Read Back" - read aloud a message that has just been received so that the sender may check its accuracy. |
| Read | phr | "Read Between the Lines" - gather meanings from a text that are not actually stated but implied. |
| Read | phr | "Read for" - study in order to gain a qualification, or the right to practice as a barrister. |
| Read | phr | "Read from" - read aloud a part of a book, etc. |
| Read | phr | "Read Into" - find something in the words of a speaker or writer which he did not intend. |
| Read | phr | "Read My Lips" - listen carefully (used to emphasis, somewhat rudely, the important of the words of the speaker) |
| Read | phr | "Read Off" - read completely (aloud or to oneself) a message, etc. |
| Read | phr | "Read Oneself to Sleep" - read with the intention or the hope of falling to sleep. |
| Read | phr | "Read Out" - read aloud to an audience something that interests them, or which they must take special notice of. |
| Read | phr | "Read Somebody Like a Book" - understand clearly what somebody's character is like. |
| Read | phr | "Read Somebody's Mind" - know or guess what somebody is thinking, wants or plans to do, esp. on a specific occasion. |
| Read | phr | "Read Something into Something Else" - extract a hidden, sometimes unintended meaning from. |
| Read | phr | "Read Through/Over" - read completely from beginning to end. |
| Read | phr | "Read Up " - acquire a knowledge of a subject through reading. |
| Read | phr | "Read Up On" - improve one's knowledge of something by reading, researching, and study; bring one knowledge of something up to date by reading, etc. |
| Read | phr | "Taken as Read" - assume something as true. |
| Read | phr | "You Need Your Head Read" - you should reconsider this matter. |
| Reader | n | One who reads or peruses. 2. an interpreter of dreams. 3. a proof-reader. 4. an editor. 5. one who reads aloud from scripture etc. in a church or place of worship. 6. one reads aloud to pupils or students; a teacher, an instructor. 7. in the Inns of Court, a lecturer on law. 8. a title for books containing for instruction or exercise in reading |
| Readerhood | n | Group of readers, readers collectively. |
| Readerless | adj | Devoid of readers. |
| Readership | n | The readers, and the extent of those readers, of a newspaper, magazine, etc. 3. office or position of a reader |
| Readhead | n | One who reads obsessively. 2. a person who lives their life through stories they read in books. |
| Readily | adv | Without showing reluctance; willingly. 2. without difficulty. |
| Read-in | n | The input or entry of data to a computer or electronic storage device. |
| Readiness | n | The state or quality of being ready. 2. the quality of being quick or prompt; facility, aptitude. 3. a disposition for prompt compliance, willingness. |
| Reading | n | The act of perusing or printed matter; the practice of occupying oneself in this way. 2. the extent to which one reads or has read; literary knowledge, scholarship. 3 ability to read; the art of reading. 4. the action of uttering aloud of written or printed matter |
| Readingdom | n | The aggregate or readers; readers collectively. |
| Reading room | n | A room devoted to reading, esp. esp on in a club or public library, or intended for public use. |
| Reading-stone | n | A kind of the earliest form of lens, developed in the C8th, that was placed on top of a text to magnify the letters, so that people with eyesight problems can read more easily. |
| Reading-week | n | A week in a university calendar, during which there are no lectures for students, with the intention for students to use the time for reading or research. |
| Read-only | n | Attribute is a boolean attribute. When present, it specifies that an input field is read-only. A read-only input field cannot be modified (however, a user can tab to it, highlight it, and copy the text from it.) |
| Read-out | n | The extraction or transfer of data from computer storage, medium or device. 2. a record or display of the output from a computer or scientific instrument. |
| Read-through | n | A first rehearsal of a play at which the actors read their parts from scripts. |
| Readworthy | adj | Worth reading. |
| Read-write | adj | Capable of reading existing data and accepting alterations of further imput. |
| Ready | n | An expression (elliptical) for money. |
| Ready | adj | In a state of preparation for something, prompt, quick. 2. ordered or arranged |
| Ready | phr | "At the Ready" - be prepared for action. |
| Ready | phr | "Make Ready" - prepare. |
| Ready | phr | "Ready for Anything" - alert and willing to do, or cope with, however unusual or unforeseen it may be. |
| Ready | phr | "Ready, Steady, Go!" - said to start off esp. in a children race; said when two or more contestants are starting to do something together. |
| Ready | phr | "Ready to Drop" - exhausted. |
| Ready | phr | "Ready to Hand" - readily available, within easy reach. |
| Ready | phr | "Ready Up" - in Australia, to prepare for a dishonest purpose, as at card-playing. |
| Ready | phr | "Rough and Ready" - usable, practical, but not necessary stylish or well-finished. |
| Ready-made | adj | Prepared beforehand or in advance. 2. easily fabricated or available without difficulty. 3. of clothing, made in a standard size, not to measure. |
| Ready-meal | n | A prepackaged, fresh or frozen meal that requires (often in a microwave) before being served, sometimes in its own package. |
| Ready-reckoner | n | book of tabulated calculations, providing an easy and quick method of finding an amount of money, involved in a financial or commercial transaction. |
| Ready-room | n | The room on an aircraft carrier where pilots are brief. |
| Ready-to-wear | n | Clothing that is made to standard and is suitable and ready to wear; pret-a-porter. |
| Ready-willed | adj | Of a ready wit, intelligent, quick of apprehension |
| Ready-witted | adj | Clever and mentally-alert in an emergency. 2. quick repartee. |
| Ready-wittedness | n | Intelligence, mental-alertness |
| Reaf | n | Spoil, booty, loot. 2. garment, mantle |
| Ream | n | Cream in OE: the scum or froth upon any liquid. |
| Ream | vb | To froth or foam. 2. to be covered with cream. 3. to take the cream off; to skim 4. to make room, open up, widen, extend, enlarge |
| Reamer | n | An instrument used to make a conical or tapered hole. |
| Reaming } | adj | Foaming, frothy, creamy. |
| Reaming-iron | n | A caulker blunt chisel for opening the seams between deckboards of a ship. |
| Reamy | adj | Creamy, frothy, scummy |
| Rean | n | A watercourse, gutter, a rhine, ryne, rill. |
| Reap | n | The action of cutting grain for harvest. 2."The grim Reaper" 3. receive as the consequence of one's own or other actions. |
| Reap | vb | Cutting or ripping grain for harvest. 2. to cut grain with a sickle. 3. to cut ripe standing grain,for harvesting. 4. to harvest. 5. to receive as fruits of one's labour. |
| Reap | phr | "Reap from" - gather a crop from; derive joy profit from. |
| Reap | phr | "Reap What One's Sow" - be rewarded or punished (or not) in accordance with what one has done to deserve it. |
| Reaper | n | One who reaps. 2. a machine who reaps; a harvester. |
| Reaper | phr | The Grim Reaper: the personification of Death |
| Reaping-hook | n | A sickle. |
| Reap-reeve | n | A harvest overseer |
| Reap-silver | n | A feudal due in lieu of services as a reaper, paid by the tenant to his lord. |
| Reaptime | n | Harvest time |
| Rear | vb | Bring up and educate children. 2. breed and care for animals. 3. to cultivate crops. 4. of a horse, raising itself on its hind legs. 5. to put in, or set, an upright position. 6. to build. 7. rear or hold upward one's head. 8. extend to a great height. 9. lift, elevate, raise, train, educate. |
| Rear | adj | Rare, half-roasted, half-cooked; underdone. |
| Rearing | n | The bringing-up or caring of a child by its mother of father, or a foster parent. 2. a young animal cared by its mother until it's fully grown. |
| Rearing-bit | n | A bit with a curved mouthpiece to prevent horses from lifting their head when rearing. |
| Rearmouse | n | OE hreremus (reremouse): the bat - most likely the fluttering mouse; from hrearan : to move, flutter. The bat may fly, a mouse it is not. |
| Reave | vb | Forcibly deprive of. 2. take by force or carry off. 3. make raids for plunder; plunder; reave. |
| Reaver | n | Robber, plunderer, marauder, raider, pirate, sea-robber; reiver. |
| Reavery | adj | OE: 'er' & 'y'; pertaining to robbery, plunder, piracy, reaving, or raiding. |
| Reck | vb | To take care, pay heed to, concern oneself. 2. be of importance. |
| Reck | n | Partly of an Old English word (reccan) of unknown origin and relating to Old High German (ruohhen) - care, concern, heed; importance |
| Reck | phr | "It Recks Little" - it is not very important. |
| Reck | phr | "Reck One's Own Rede" - to be governed by one's own better judgement. |
| Reckful | adj | Full of careful heed or attention, careful, caution. |
| Reckfulness | n | The state or quality of being caring and heeding. |
| Reckless | n | Careless, negligent, unconcerned |
| Recklessly | adv | Without regard to the danger of the consequences of one's actions; rashly. |
| Recklessness | n | A lack of regard for the danger or consequences of one's actions; rashness. |
| Reckon | vb | The original sense probably being to bring together, count, expect, think believe, suppose; opine, suppose, imagine, guess. 2. judge to be probable; calculate, estimate, count on, figure, forecast. 3. deem to be; see, consider, reckon, view, regard. 4. make a mathematical calculation or computation, cipher, compute, work out, figure. 5. have faith or confidence in; count, bet, depend, look, calculate. 6. take account of, count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute. 7. to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute. 8. to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value. 9. to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose. 10. to come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty. 11. to reckon for, to answer for; to pay the account for. 12. to count or depend on; to include as a factor within one's considerations. |
| Reckon | phr | "Day of Reckoning" - time when one will have to face one's past mistakes and wrongdoings. |
| Reckon | phr | "One Reckons" - one thinks, supposes. |
| Reckon | phr | "Out in One's Reckoning" - make a mistake, wrongly calculate. |
| Reckon | phr | "Reckon Among" - include with or as one of, count among. 2. consider particular member(s) of a group to be the best, worst of candidates, etc. |
| Reckon | phr | "Reckon As" - consider to be, or regard as an industry. |
| Reckon | phr | "Reckon for" - to answer for. 2. to pay the account for |
| Reckon | phr | "Reckon In" - include, as a part of bill, estimate. |
| Reckon | phr | "Reckon On or Upon" - to expect, count or depend or rely on. 2. to include as a factor within one's considerations. 3. make one's plans in the sure knowledge that something will happen, or in the case, depend on. |
| Reckon | phr | "Reckon Up" - find the sum, find total of. |
| Reckon | phr | "Reckon With" - be reckoned with. 2. to settle accounts or claims with; -- used literally or figuratively. 3. to include as a factor in one's plans or calculations; to anticipate. 4. to deal with; to handle; tackle, with difficulty or hardship. 3. punish, deal with. |
| Reckon | phr | "Reckoned With" - to be dealt with only with difficulty. |
| Reckon | phr | "Reckon Without" - to ignore in a calculation or arrangement the person whose assent is essential; hence,to reckon erroneously. 2. not include in one's plans or calculations some possibility. |
| Reckoner | n | a handbook of mathematical tables used to facilitate computation. |
| Reckoning | n | The act of, or an instance of, counting, computation. 2. a settlement of accounts. 3. account, score, bill, as a hotel. 4. the calculation of a ship's position, esp. when made only by log and compass; dead reckoning. 5. an accounting to God for one's misdeeds. |
| Red | n | Read of the colour of blood, sunset, clouds, rubies, glowing coal. 2. a widepread colour-name. 3. ruddy or rusty-colour |
| Red | sfx | A suffix forming nouns of condition or state, kindred, sibred, hatred. |
| Red | phr | "A Red Herring (Over Someone's Path)" - a factor deliberately introduced to mislead. |
| Red | phr | "In the Red" - in debt or financial difficulty. |
| Red | phr | "Like A Red Rag* to a Bull" - something that is liable to anger or provoke an angry response. |
| Red | phr | "Neither Fish, Flesh Nor Good Red Herring" - not classifiable by being neither one thing nor another. |
| Red | phr | "Red as Beetroot" - blushing, red in the face, because of embarrassment, shame etc. |
| Red | phr | "Reds Under the Bed" - Communists and left-wing wing activists, seen as threats to Western democracy, the instigators of industrial power. |
| Red | phr | "See Red" - be angry or infuriated. |
| Red | phr | "See/Get the Red Light" - be aware of approaching danger. |
| Red | phr | "The Red Meat of" - the more powerful or coarser, stuff (of something) as beef contrasted with mutton). 2. the essential or important part of something. |
| Red-back spider | n | Venomous spider found in Australia |
| Redbeet | n | Beetroot. |
| Red-belt | n | Territory under the political control of the political control of the former USSR. 2. elsewhere an area of communist strength or influence. |
| Red-blooded | adj | Vigorous, virile, full of life, spirited. 2. Restored to health, strength after illness or exhaustion. |
| Redbook | n | A book containing the names of all the persons in the higher services of the state. 2. list of the 'important' person in a society. |
| Redbreast | n | The Robin, a singing bird so named because of its red coloring. |
| Red chip | n | A share in a Chinese company that is traded on the Hong Kong stock market. |
| Redd | n | (colloquial) To put in order; to make tidy; generally with up, as 'to redd up' a house'. 2. to free from entanglement. 3. to free from embarrassment. 4. to fix boundaries. 5. to comb hair.) 6. to separate combatants. 7. to settle, usually a quarrel. 8. to save, rescue, deliver |
| Redd | vb | Perhaps from O.E. and related to rid - to save, deliver, rescue, free a person. 2. to save from burning; put out a fire. 3. arrange, tidy, compose, settle. |
| Redd | phr | "Redd Up" - to clean up, esp. a room. |
| Red deer | n | The wild deeer in Britian, often called a stag. |
| Redden | vb | To make or become red, blush. 2. to impart a red colour to a substance or thing. |
| Reddening | n | The action or effect of the verb 'redd'. |
| Reddish | adj | Rather or somewhat red. |
| Reddishness | n | The state or condition of being reddish. |
| Reddle | n | Red ochre, ruddle |
| Red dwarf | n | An old relatively cool star. |
| Reddy | adj | Red, ruddy, reddish, redly |
| Rede | n | Counsel, rede or advice given by one person to another. 2. counsel, decision, or resolve taken by one or more person; a plan, design, or scheme, devised or adopted. 3. tale narrative, story; a saying, proverb, saw. |
| Rede | vb | To take rede or counsel together or with another, to deliberate. 2. also of one person; to take counsel for others. 3. to agree upon, resolve, decide after consultation or deliberation. 4, to read or expound a riddle or a dream. 5. to advise (a thing); to give advice or counsel. 6. to think, imagine, guess. 7. to interpret, explain; resolve. 8. to relate, tell. |
| Rede | vb | To comb the hair (reding-comb: a hair comb); to clear the way; to clean up or clean out; to clear a way for oneself |
| Reck | phr | "Reck One's Own Rede" - to be governed by one's own better judgement. |
| Red earth | n | A red soil found in tropical areas, containing oxidised iron. |
| Redecraft | n | Logic. |
| Rede-give | n | The giving of rede, advice or counsel. |
| Rede-giver | n | An adviser or counseller |
| Redeless | adj | Devoid or destitute of counsel, esp of, persons having no resource in difficulty or emergency; not knowing what to do. 2. with no to advise; foolish, unwise. |
| Rede-wise | adj | Wise in counsel or advice. |
| Red-eye | n | A red reflection from a person's retina seen in a flash photograph with the flashgun to close to the camera lens. 2. cheap whisky (slang). |
| Red-eye flight | n | An airline flight on which a passenger is unable to get adequate sleep. |
| Red fire | n | A mixture of easily combustible ingredients, especially strontium salts, that burns with a red light. |
| Red fox | n | A common fox, Vulpes vulpes, of Eurasia and north americausually havinn areddish or fawn coat. |
| Rad-hair | adj | Having red hair. |
| Red hair | n | A person with red hair. |
| Red-haired | adj | Having red hair. |
| Red-handed | adj | In the very act of crime, having the existence of guilt still upon the person esp. as in the phrase: "caught red-handed" 2. having the hands red with blood, sanguinary, violent. |
| Red-handedly | adv | In the act of being caught red-handed. |
| Red-handedness | n | The act or instance of being caught red-handed. |
| Red hat | n | Redhats are neither white hat nor black hat, but a mix of both. 2. red hats are people who are hired to find security holes in a network, do so, but create new exploits in order to take advantage of later. See: "white hat, black hat, gray hat". 2. a cardinal hat with its flat broad-brim formerly bestowed upon them; hence the office of cardinal. |
| Red-headed | adj | Of a person having red hair. 2. of birds having a red head. |
| Red-headedness | n | The state or appearance of having red hair or being red-headed. |
| Red heat | n | The temperature or state of something so hot as to emit red light. 2. great excitement. |
| Red-herring | n | Dried smoked herring. 2. a misleading clue or distraction (so called from the practice of using the scent of red herring in training hounds). |
| Red-hot | adj | Of persons, highly inflamed or excited, violently enthusiastic; extreme in some opinion or view. 2. Outstanding uninhibited, lively, sexy, passionate. Of things, action etc., burning, scorching, urgent, violent, furious. 3. Sensational, lively, exciting, intense. 4. very warm favorite (as a favorite for a horse-race, football match. 5. Unfair, unreasonable (Australian slang). |
| Redily | adv | Wisely, discreetly, prudently. 2. precisely, certainly, assuredly, redliness. |
| Rediness | n | Wisdom, discretion, prudence. 2.Certainty, certain knowledge, asuredness |
| Red Ironwood | n | A tree with reddish-brown wood with strong resistant to insects, used for turnery, sleepers (Queensland ronwood). |
| Redland | n | Ploughed land, fallowed land, arable land. 2. sandy or clayey soil of a reddish colour |
| Red Laws | n | The civil code of ancient Rome. |
| Red lead | n | A red form of lead oxide used as a pigment. |
| Redlight | n | A warning light, one instructing traffic to stop; a red light. 2 in a fig. sense: a signal of danger; a warning; signal to pause or desist in some course of action or thought. 3. a sign of a brothel; a light on a building or premise as a sign of a brothel. |
| Redly | adv | In a red manner. |
| Red meat | n | The red meat that is when raw (eg. beef or lamb). |
| Red-mist | n | Rage, anger, sufficient to stop clear thinking, as 'a red-mist came over the casual, placid preacher'. |
| Redneck | n | Usu. a member of the white rural, labouring class of the southern States of USA, but also applied to similar classes of folk in Australia and New Zealand. 2. one whose attitudes are considered characteristic of this class. 3. a reactionary or person with "red-necked" views. |
| Redness | n | The state or quality of being red. |
| Red-nettle | n | A variety of stinging nettle. |
| Red Nose Day | n | A day, usually annually, on which a charitable organization encourages the public to engage in fund raising for charity, sometimes for a specific charity, as 'Cot Death". |
| Red oak | n | One of the several having a dense cross-grained wood, as the northern red oak. |
| Red-rag | n | The tongue (slang). 2. An action or source of extreme provocation or annoyance. 3. something which excites violent indignation. |
| Red rose | n | The emblem of Lancashire or the lancastrians. |
| Red rot | n | Fungal decay of standing trees, timber or sugar-cane having red-brown rolled tissue |
| Redshank | n | A cardinal. 2. an inhabitant of the Scottish Highlands or Ireland. |
| Red snow | n | Snow reddened by the presence of a minute algae, Protococcus nivalis, found in artcic and mountainous regions where its reddish color at one time caused it to be regarded as a foreboding of evil. |
| Red shift | n | The displacement of the spectrum to longer wavelengths in the light coming from distant galaxies etc. in recession. |
| Red streak | n | A variety of apple, suitable for cider-making. |
| Red tide | n | The discoloration of the sea caused by the outbreak of an toxic red dinoflagellates. |
| Red-to-red | adj | A nautical term describing the condition in which two sea-going ships travelling in opposite directions pass each other on their port sides, making their red navigation lights face each other. 2. connecting between two batteries' positive terminals, for instance when jump starting a car |
| Redwards | adv | Towards the red end of the spectrum. |
| Redware | n | A large brown seaweed 'Laminaria digitalia' of the New England coast, sometimes used for food. |
| Red-watch | n | One of the three watches at sea when not more than one-third of the ship's company is closed up at 'cruising' stations. |
| Redweed | n | The corn poppy. |
| Redwood | n | A Sequoia esp. the very tall Sequoia sempervivus of the western US. 2. any tree with reddish wood. |
| Red-wud | adj | Stark mad; woody. |
| Red-yellow | adj | One of the range of colors situated between red and yellow portions of the visible spectrum, sharing the hue of each but identiale with neither. |
| Ree | n | A stream, channel, waterway, river.( perhaps rep. OE: "ea" - the "R" being the fem. article. |
| Reed | n | Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water. 2. the hollow stem of these plants. 3. music: the part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising of a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it. 4. music: a musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed. 5. weaving: a comb-like tool for beating the weft when weaving. 6. architecture: reeding. 7. mining: tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting. 8. straw prepared for thatching a roof |
| Reed | phr | "A Broken Reed" - a supporter who has failed; something not to be trusted for support. 2. a weak adherent. |
| Reed | phr | "A Reed Shaken by the Wind" - a person blown about by every wind of doctrine. 2. one not firm in his belief. |
| Reed-bed | n | A bed or growth of reeds. |
| Reeded | adj | Covered by reeds. |
| Reed-less | adj | Reedless: without or not covered by reeds. |
| Reed-pipe | n | An organ pipe having a reed whose vibrations set in motion the air column. |
| Reed-sparrow | n | A common british bird, "Emberiza schoendis" frequenting reedy place- also called the Reed Bunting. 2. the Sedge-warbler. |
| Reediness | n | Quality or state of being reedy. |
| Reedy | adj | Full of reeds. 2. like a reed, esp. in weakness or slenderness. 2. of a voice like a reed instrument in tone, not full. |
| Reek | n | Smoke, vapor, steam. 2. a foul or stale smell. 3. a vapor, a visible exhalation (esp. from a chimney). |
| Reek | vb | To smell strongly and unpleasantly. 2. have an unpleasant or suspicious associations. 3. to emit or give off smoke or fumes. |
| Reek | phr | "Auld Reekie" - the city of Edinburgh. |
| Reek | phr | "Reek to high Heaven" - to be patently unethical. |
| Reek | phr | "Reek Of" - have a strong (and unpleasant) odor of tobacco, garlic, alcohol. 2. suggest something strongly unpleasant, as an atmosphere, discussion. |
| Reeking | n | Smelling, esp. of smoke or other vapors. |
| Reeking-house | n | An inhabited house |
| Reeking | adj | Of dead or mangled bodies, still warm. 2. sending out, full of, unwholesome or unpleasant fumes or smell |
| Reeky | adj | Smokey, smelly, exhalation. 2. soiled by emitting smoke. |
| Reel | n | O.E hreol - a cylindrical device on which a film, tape etc., or (British) thread yarn, wire, etc.are wound. 3. a quantity of thread etc. wound on a reel. 4. a revolving part in various machine. |
| Reel | n | Confusion, bewilderment, shock. |
| Reel | vb | Wind a thread on a fishing line etc. on a reel. 2. stand or walk unsteadily;stagger from side to side. 2.be shaken mentally or physically. |
| Reel | phr | "Leave somebody Reeling" - to leave a person in a state of mind. |
| Reel | phr | "Off the Reel" - immediately, straight away |
| Reel | phr | "Reel Back" - move back out of control, stagger back (after receiving a strong blow or shock). |
| Reel | phr | "Reel In" - wind a fishing line onto the reel fastened to the end of a rod, causing the line to rise from the water. |
| Reel | phr | "Reel Off" - say, recite or repeat something quickly and smoothly, as a list, or catalogue. |
| Reel | phr | "Reel Up" - to pull up something towards you, by winding around a reel the wire of line attached to it. |
| Reel | phr | "Right from the Reel" - without intermission, continuously. |
| Reeler | n | A person employed to wind material onto a reel. |
| Reest | n | OE: reost. The share-beam of a plough. 2. a mould board. 3. a piece of wood or iron fixed between the mould-board. |
| Reeve | n | The chief magistrate of a town or district. 2. an official supervising a landowner estate. 3. In America a chief official in a village or small town. 4. in Canada, president of a town or village council. 5. in early England, certain officials charged with fiscal and judicial duties, as shire-reeve (sheriff,) borough reeve, a steward, bailiff. |
| Reeveland | n | Land belonging to the sheriff (recorded in the domesday book). |
| Reeve-pole | n | The Saxon way of counting. |
| Reeve-ship | n | The office of a reeve. |
| Reghel-boc | n | Book of monastic rules. |
| Regwort | n | Stinking gleddon or ringwort: "reg" earlier form of "ring" |
| Regworme | n | Ringworm |
| Reh | adj | (Ray): rough, stormy, fierce, violent, troubled, disturbed (in the mind). Etymology obscure: OE=OS, hreh becomes "ray" or "reh". Rehliche (rehlike/raylike) and rehship/rayship. |
| Reif | n | That which is taken by force or robbery: spoil, plunder, booty; reifing. 2. the act or practice of robbery, reavery; application. |
| Reif-bird | n | Bird of prey or plunder; also: "reif fowl" |
| Reigh | n | The fish called the "Ray" |
| Reke | vb | To cover up in earth or ashes; to bury |
| Rekels | n | Incense; "rekel-fat": censer |
| Reken | adj | Rapid, violent, terrible (in OE only). 2. Of persons: ready, prompt, straightforward. 3.Of language: honest, sincere, smooth, elegant, beautiful. |
| Rekenly | adv | Quickly, immediately, promptly, properly. |
| Rend | n | The violent separation of parts. 2. the tearing or pulling apart of something. |
| Rend | vb | Tear or wrench forcibly. 2. split or divide into pieces or into factions, a country by internecine. 3. cause emotional pain to, or distress the heart etc. 4. to pass through the air noisily. |
| Rend | phr | "Rend and Tear" - usually applied to the sundering of textile materials. |
| Rend | phr | "Rend One's Hair" - display extreme grief or rage. |
| Rendles | n | Rennet, runnet |
| Rendling | n | Curdling, settling formation of rendles. |
| Rendled-wood | n | Barked oak |
| Rerd | n | Voice, utterance, cry, din; rerd. 2. loud or noisy cry. 3. noise or din made by crying or roaring. 4. a noisy tongue (fig); rerd. 5. uproar, rerd or clamour, tumult made by a number of persons or animals. 6. noise or din of any kind; rerd. 7. "rerding" : clamour, tumult. |
| Rerd | vb | To speak, discourse. 2. to make a noise, to roar, resound. |
| Rere | vb | To cry, resound, roar |
| Reremouse | n | A bat (O.E. hrermus). |
| Rese | vb | A rush or run. 2. a swift course or rapid movement. 3. the act of running or moving rapidly or impetuously. 4. the act of rushing or running against or upon others- as a rush into battle. 5. "in rese" or "on rese": in a rush or run; hence in haste to get from one place to another. |
| Rese | n | An onset, assault, attack, sally, rese, rush into battle. 2. action proceeding from a sudden or violent impulse. 3. wantonness, recklessness, rashness; rese. 4. hot or hasty temper, anger, impulsiveness; rese. 5. natural impulse to something; sudden violent impulse. 6. paroxyn ttack, fainting; rese. 7. sudden violent act. 8. a moment, short space in time; rese. |
| Rest | vb | Be at rest. 2. stay the same; remain in a certain state. 3. take a short break from one's activities in order to relax. 4. give a rest to, as when injured or ill. 5. rest on or as if on a pillow. 6. sit, as on a branch, as a bird. 7. not move; be in a resting position. 8. put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying. 9. be inactive, refrain from acting. 10. have a place in relation to something else, as one's fate. |
| Rest | n | Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility). 2. a support on which things can be put. 3. a musical notation indicating a silence. 4. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb). 5. a state of inaction "a body will continue in a state of rest until acted upon". 6. a pause for relaxation; a short rest. |
| Rest | phr | "At Rest" - not moving, still, motionless, dead. |
| Rest | phr | "Be Resting" - not moving, not agitated or troubled, dead. |
| Rest | phr | "Come to Rest" - cease moving. |
| Rest | phr | "Day of Rest" - Sunday. |
| Rest | phr | "Go to Rest" - die, go to the grave and repose. |
| Rest | phr | "God Rest His/Her Soul" - may God grant one's soul repose. |
| Rest | phr | "Lay to Rest" - bury in a grave, entombed, inter. |
| Rest | phr | "Put Somebody's Mind to Rest" - reassure, calm. |
| Rest | phr | "Rest Her/ His Soul" - may he/she 'sleep' in eternal peace. |
| Rest | phr | "Rest On One's Oars" - have a break from hard work. |
| Rest | phr | "Rest Up" - rest oneself thoroughly. |
| Rest | phr | "Rest Upon" - have, as its basis, be based upon; depend upon. |
| Rest | phr | "Rest With" - be the duty or responsibility of. |
| Rest | phr | "Set at Rest" - set or relieve a person's mind of anxiety or worry, etc |
| Rest | phr | "Why Don't You Give It a Rest" - desist, stop doing it. |
| Rest balk | n | A ridge left unploughed between two furrows. |
| Rest day | n | The Sabbath; Sunday, the day of rest. |
| Rested | adj | Ceased, abstain, relieved from exertion. 2. refreshed or reinvigorated by rest. |
| Restful | adj | Characterized by, or the nature of, productive of, rest or repose. 2. free from strife or disturbance. 3. quiet, peaceful, taking, giving or enjoying rest; soothing, peaceful, quiet. |
| Restfully | adj | In a quiet, restful soothing manner. |
| Restfulness | n | The state or quality of being restful. 2. quietness, tranquility, calmness. |
| Rest-harrow | n | A field shrub (Ononis arvensis) with tough roots, also called cammock. |
| Resthold | n | A hold in wrestling designed to restore one's energy while holding one's opponent in a lock. 2. generally, in various situations, an act of containment or stabilization. |
| Rest-home | n | A place where old or frail persons can be cared for. |
| Rest house | n | A place of refreshment for travellers. |
| Restiness | n | The quality of being restive; restiveness. |
| Resting | adj | That rests or is taking a rest. 2. remaining stationary. 3. dormant. |
| Restless | adj | Deprived of rest; finding no rest; uneasy in mind or spirit. 2. marked by unrest; affording no rest. 3. constantly stirring or active, or desiruous to be so; averse to being quiet or settled. 4. impatient. 5. of conditions: unceasing, continuous. 6. of things: never ceasing or pausing. 7. restlessly. |
| Restlessness | n | Unsettled state of mind or body. |
| Restroom | n | A room in a workplace in which workers can spend a rest period. 2. a place where a mother can attend to the needs of a baby or young child. |
| Retch | vb | To make an effort to vomit, to throw-up; reach. |
| Retching | n | The action of trying to vomit. |
| Retchless | adj | 'Reckless' - of persons: careless of consequences of one's actions; heedless of something. 2. lacking in prudence or caution. 3. of action, conduct, things, etc. characterized or distinguished by carelessness or heedless rashness. |
| Rethe | adj | Of persons or disposition: fierce, cruel, harsh, stern, asperic, severe, strict. 2, keen, eager, zealous. 3. of things, dreadful, terrible, severe, furious. 4. of the sea, rain, floods: terrible, furious, disastrous. |
| Retheness | n | Fierceness, cruelty, severeness, strictness. 2. eagerness, zealotry. 3. dread, terror, furousity. 4. disaster, terror. |
| Rew | n | In adverbial phrases, such as "by rew" meaning in order, successively. "On or in a rew" meaning in a row or line. 2. a row or line of persons or things; a rank or series. 3. a hedgerow. 5. a streak or stripe. 6. a line in a book. 7. marked with lines or stripes, as in rewing. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Rhine | n | A large open drain or ditch, also spelt "ryne" |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Rib | n | Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum. 2. part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something. 3. a cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones. 4.(nautical) any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull. 5. any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength. 6. (architecture) a long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault. 7. (knitting) a raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth. 8. (botany) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf. 9. a teasing joke. 10. in Ireland, colloquially, a single strand of hair. 11. a stalk of celery |
| Rib | vb | To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs. 2. to tease or make fun of someone. 3. to enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in. 2. to leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land |
| Rib | phr | "Stick in One's Ribs" - satisfy one's hunger. 2. dig somebody in the ribs. |
| Ribbed | adj | Having or furnished with ribs. |
| Ribbing | n | A pattern of raised on a piece of clothing made for wool. 2. an act of laughing at some one in a friendly way. |
| Rib-cloud | n | A type of cirrus cloud, so named because it gives the impression of a vertebrae in a spinal column. |
| Rib-digger | n | A person given to light-hearted banter and fun. |
| Ribless | adj | Lacking ribs. |
| Riblike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of ribs in some aspect or other. |
| Ribstone | n | An apple variety used in deserts, the ribstone pippin |
| Ribwort | n | Plantago lanceata, rib-grass: the narrow leave plantain. |
| Rich | adj | Old English rice via Germanic from Celtic, related to Latin rex (king); reinforced in Middle English from Old French. of persons: powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, strong, potent of persons, powerful, mighty, noble, exalted, great. 2. of things, powerful, strong. 3. having large possessions or abundant means, wealthy, rich, opulent. 4. of places, countries: abounding in wealth or natural resources. 5. in a more general sense: fine, splendid, magnificent; plentiful, abundant 6. of feasts, food etc.,sumptuous, luxuriant. 7. of articles of food or drink with reference to their stimulative effects; composed of choice ingredients. 8. of colours: strong, deep, warm. 9. of musical sounds: full and mellow in tone. 10. of odours, full of fragrance. 11. of soils, abounding in the qualities necessary to produce good crops. |
| Rich | vb | In OE: to tug, pull or draw a rope. 2 to take one's way; to run, direct, advise, arrange, prepare a thing, adjust, settle, right or restore. 3. to do something, to address oneself to a place. |
| Rich | phr | "Strike It Rich" - obtain a lot of money. |
| Rich | phr | "That's Rich" - that's ridiculous, unbelievable. |
| Richdom | n | A royal power, kingdom, sovereignty, dominion, authority. 2. the territory over which authority extends, a kingdom, earldom, a diocese, district, town and so forth. 2. wealth, riches |
| Riche | n | Also rike, riche. a kingdom, realm, royal domain; also royal power or estate, sovereignty; riche. 2. The Kingdom of God or of Heaven; "The Heavenly Rike". |
| Richen | vb | To make richer, to make richer or better; enrich |
| Richening | n | The state of becoming richer or wealthier. |
| Riches | n | Abundance of means or of valuable possessions; wealth. 2. also the possession of wealth, condition of being rich. |
| Richling | n | A rich person, often used contemptuously. |
| Richful | adj | Wealthy. |
| Richish | adj | Somewhat rich. |
| Richly | adj. | In a rich, sumptuous or splendid manner. 2. in possession of riches. 3. ample, fully, thoroughly. 2. of colour, intensely deep. |
| Richman | n | A wealthy or powerful man. |
| Richness | n | The state or quality of being rich and,or powerful. |
| Rich root | A | kind of aconite: a poisonous plant of the order Rannunculae; esp. Monk's hood or wolf's bane. |
| Rich-weed | n | A species of Baneberry, Actea racemosa. 2 Horse-balm, or stone-root. |
| Rick | n | A stack of hay, corn, peas, esp. one regularly built and thatched; a mow. 2. a heap or pile. 3. a haycock in th e field. "Rick" words in combination: rick-burner, rick-shifter, rick-maker, rick-stones. |
| Rick | vb | To stack or pile in ricks; form corn or hay in ricks. |
| Ricking | n | the action of making ricks |
| Rickle | n | A stack |
| Rick-stand | n | The foundation upon which a rick is built. 2. a wood floor for a rick, or pile, of any kind of loose material. |
| Rick-yard | n | A farm yard enclosure containing ricks; a stack yard. |
| Ridden | n | An act of riding; a journey, esp. for pleasure, as on horseback, in a vehicle , etc., a riding track. |
| Riddle | n | A question or statement intentionally worded in a dark or puzzling manner and propounded in order that it may be guessed or answered, esp as a pastime. 2 an enigma, conundrum, a dark saying. |
| Riddle | n | A sieve, sifter. |
| Riddle | vb | To make riddles or enigmas. 2 . to speak in riddles. 3. riddling |
| Riddle | vb | To pierce holes in materials or metals |
| Riddle | phr | "Riddle With" - make many holes in something. 2. full of holes, weaknesses etc |
| Riddlecraft | n | The craft or occupation of making riddles, conundrums or enigmas |
| Riddled | adj | having many holes in, esp. because of gunshot. 2. fill, spread through; permeate (holes, errors, a disease). |
| Riddle-like | adj | Puzzling, enigmatic |
| Riddle-maker | n | A maker or monger of riddles, enigmas or conundrums. |
| Riddler | n | One who creates riddles or enigmas. 2. one who speaks in riddles or conundrums. |
| Riddle-wise | n | Clever at making riddles or enigmas |
| Riddingly | adv | In a ridding manner. |
| Riddlings | n | Coarse materials left in a sieve after sifting; worthless materials. |
| Ride | n | To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. 2. to be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger; 3. to transport (someone) in a vehicle. 3. of a ship: to sail, to float on the water. 4. to be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. 5. to support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle. 6. to mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with. 7. to nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). 8. to clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. 9. to rely, depend (on). 10. of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). 11. to manage insolently at will; to domineer over. 12. to convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding. 13. (surgery) to overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments |
| Ride | n | An instance of riding. 2. (informal) a vehicle. 3. an amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park. 4. lift given to someone in another person's vehicle. 5. a road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path. 6. a saddle horse. 7. (Ireland) a person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive. |
| Ride | phr | "Give Somebody a Rough Ride" - submit somebody to harsh treatment. |
| Ride | phr | "Go along for the Ride" - for the company; to make up the numbers (without taking part). |
| Ride | phr | "Let (Something) Ride" - leave something or a thing alone; don't interfere. 2. let something take its natural course. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride Again " - reappear, especially unexpectedly and reinvigorated. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride Ahead" - ride before a group. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride a Horse Foaled by an Acorn" - to be hanged on the gallows. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride Along" - for the company. 2. to make up numbers, without taking part. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride and Tie" - done by travelers sharing one horse between them. One rides ahead and the ties the horse up and walks on, the other has his go on the horse when he has reached it. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride Bareback" - a form of horseback riding without a saddle. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride Down" - overtake, or trample on horseback. 2. direct one's horse at somebody as if to knock them down. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride for a Fall" - act so recklessly, risking chagrin, defeat, failure, disaster. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride Hard" - said of a ship when she pitches violently at anchor. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride/Ridden Hard and Put Away Wet" - the way someone looks or feels when they've had a hard time of it. From a horseman's term, when someone has not taken care of a horse after a hard day. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride Herd on" - keep watch on. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride High" - be elated or successful. 2. riding high, but vulnerable. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride a High Horse" - to assume grand airs. 2. be arrogant, haughty, proud. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride On Ahead" - ride before others. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride On the Back of" - without effort to benefit from the prior efforts of others. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride On the Sheep's Back" - to benefit from the production of wool. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride Out a (Storm)" - come safely through a storm; survive danger or difficulty. 2. endure, weather, tolerate till something turns out successfully. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride Over" - to tyrannize or lord over. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride Roughshod Over" - treat inconsiderately or arrogantly; bully. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride Shank's Mare - to go on foot. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride Tall in the Saddle" - to remain proud or stoi, in one one's manner of composure. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride the Pine" - in sport, to remain on the bench rather than being able to participate in the game. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride the Wave" - be at a high, or the highest point of one's power, success, popularity. |
| Ride | phr | "Ride to Hounds" - go fox-hunting on horseback (C18th term). |
| Ride | phr | "Ride Up" - of a garment, clothing, carpet: move up or work out gradually from its proper or normal position. |
| Ride | phr | "Take for a Ride" - hoax or deceive. 2. cheat or murder someone. |
| Ride height | n | Ride height (also called ground clearance or simply clearance) is the amount of space between the base of an automobile tire and the lowest point (typically the axle); or, more properly, to the shortest distance between a flat, level surface, and the lowest part of a vehicle other than those parts designed to contact the ground (such as tires, tracks, skis, etc.) |
| Ride-off | adj | In a riding competition: a round held to resolve a tie or determine qualifiers for a later stage. |
| Ride-on | adj | Especially of a lawn-mower, on which one sits or rides while using it. |
| Rider | n | One who rides. 2. an addition clause or other documents. 3. an additional clause to a bill. 4. a supplement attached to a motion or verdict. |
| Rider | phr | "Rider of the Shires" - of the radical William Cobbett's journeys on horseback through out England and recorded in his work "Rural Rides". |
| Riderless | adj | Of a horse, without a rider. |
| Ride-sharing | n | An arrangement whereby several participants or their children travel together in one vehicle, the participants sharing the costs and often taking turns as the driver. 2. a group of commuters or parents participating in a carpool. |
| Ridge | n | The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped. 2. any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip. 3. the line or spine along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground. 4. the highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area. 4. (fortifications) the highest portion of the glaciers proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way. 5. a chain of mountains; chain of hills. 6. a long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom. 7. (meteorology) a type of warm air that comes down on to land from mountains. |
| Ridge | vb | To provide a building with a ridge; or a proper covering for this; to renew a ridge on a house. 2. to break up or throw up land or a field etc. into ridges. 3. to make a ridge or ripples; to raise ridges. 4. to form into a ridge. 5. to extend in ridges |
| Ridge-back | n | The spine of a mountain, etc. |
| Ridge-bone | n | The backbone; spine; vertebrae. |
| Ridgelike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a ridge. |
| Ridge-line | n | The top edge of a ridge of a mountain. |
| Ridge-runner | n | A farmer, or farmers collectively who live on, a farm an area of a ridge |
| Ridge-side | n | A piece of land adjacent to a ridge. |
| Ridgeside | adv | Adjacent to a ridge. |
| Ridge-top | n | The crest that extends along the highest contours of a ridge. |
| Ridgeway | n | A way, track or road along a ridge, esp. one following the ridge of downs or low hill ranges. 2. road built along the top or crest of a hill. |
| Ridging | n | The various ridging of the roof of a building, taken collectively. 2. the act of covering a ridge with ridge tiles. |
| Ridging | vb | To cover with ridges. 2. to mark with ridges. |
| Ridgy | adj | Having ridges; raised in a ridge; ridged. |
| Riding | n | One of the three administrative districts into which Yorkshire is divided. 2. a similar division of other counties or districts in the United Kingdom or in the colonies. 2. a knot; a slip knot |
| Riding | n | A way or road specially intended for person's riding: especially a green track cut through or skirting a wood or covert. 2. the practice or skill of riders of horses. |
| Riding-boots | n | A high boot worn in riding. |
| Riding-halter | n | A piece of rope of a leather strap that is tied around an animal's head so that it can be led by someone or tied to something. |
| Riding-hood | n | A cloak with a hood, formerly worn by women when traveling. |
| Riding-light | n | A white light on the foresty of a vessel at anchor or an aircraft made fast to a mooring post, to give an indication of its presence. |
| Riding school | n | An establishment teaching skill in horse-riding and horsemanship. |
| Riding-spear | n | Javelin. |
| Riem | n | A long strip or thong of undressed leather; OE: reoma= rim: a long strip |
| Rife | adj | Of common occurrence; common, widespread; prevalent (especially of unpleasant or harmful thing). 2. abounding in; or containing in abundance, abundant, teeming with; frequent. 3. great or in large number or quantity, plentiful. 4.having power, active, nimble. |
| Rife | adv | Plentifully, abundantly. |
| Rifeness | n | The state or quality of being rife. |
| Riff | n | The belly, as in "midriff" |
| Riff | n | A cutaneous eruption; an itch or mange |
| Right | n | "A Bit of All Right" - an very attractive person, usually in referring to woman. |
| Right | phr | "A Right One" - colloquially; a foolish or silly person. |
| Right | phr | "As of Right" - having legal or moral entitlement. |
| Right | phr | "Be One's Right Arm" - one's most trusted and reliable helper. |
| Right | phr | "Be Right Back" - I will back be in a minute or so. |
| Right | phr | "By Rights" - according to the rules. |
| Right | phr | "Dead to Right" - with no excuse. |
| Right | phr | "Do Right by" - act fairly, properly and dutifully towards a person. 2. to do one justice; be perfectly fair to. 3. do one right. |
| Right | phr | "Get On the Right Side of" - make a good impression on someone. |
| Right | phr | "Get Somebody on the Right Road" - to show a person how to go about doing something. |
| Right | phr | "Get Something Right" - correctly understand something. |
| Right | phr | "Give One's Right Arm for" - I am very keen to acquire a person. |
| Right | phr | "Go Right" - happen correctly and/or successfully. |
| Right | phr | "In One's Own Right" - through one's on position or effort, etc. |
| Right | phr | "In One's Right Mind" - sane; sensible, competent to think and act, after a state of excitement. |
| Right | phr | "In the Right" - having justice and truth on one's side. 2. correct legally and morally. |
| Right | phr | "It Will Come Right in the End" - the hope of the optimist when things are going wrong. |
| Right | phr | "Keep On the Right Side Of " - be careful to make a good impression in order to remain in favor with. 2. not annoy another person. 3. maintain friendly relations with somebody. 4. somewhat less specified as a person's age. |
| Right | phr | "Left Hand Doesn't Know what the Right Hand is doing" - one section of the bureaucracy does not realize that another section is simultaneously doing something inconsistent. |
| Right | phr | "Right Side Out" - with the right side out. |
| Right | phr | "Put Right" - make correct or well ordered. 2. correct a wrong, or repair something. |
| Right | phr | "Put Things to Right" - to tidy up, put everything in its proper place. |
| Right | phr | "Right and Left" - on all sides. |
| Right | phr | "Right and Wrong" - what is honest, just, morally justified, normally admirable, contrasted what is not. |
| Right | phr | "Right as Rain" - perfectly sound and healthy. |
| Right | phr | "Right Away" - immediately, at once, right now. |
| Right | phr | "Right Enough" - an expression of agreement that what somebody else has said is sufficiently correct or accurate. |
| Right | phr | "Right Foot Foremost" - it was once considered unlucky to enter a house or a room, on the left foot. In ancient Rome a boy was stationed at the door of a wealthy person's home to ensure that visitors did not cross the threshold with the left foot. |
| Right | phr | "Right (Not Right) In the Head" - (not) sane, sensible; (not) normal psychologically. |
| Right | phr | "Right Now/Then" - immediately, right away; at this very moment. |
| Right | phr | "Right of Abode" - person right to take up residence or remain a resident in a country. |
| Right | phr | "Right Off" immediately, right away. |
| Right | phr | "Right off the Reel" - without hesitation; without needing or taking time. |
| Right | phr | "Right of Way" - the right of passing through the land of another. |
| Right | phr | "Right On" - (slang) an expression of strong approval or encouragement. |
| Right | phr | "Rights and Wrongs" - the particular aspects of a situation, procedure, way of behaving which may be considered right or wrong. |
| Right | phr | "Right Side Out" - with the right side inwards, not outwards. |
| Right | phr | "Rights of Man" - the rights of a man/woman to life, liberty, and property. |
| Right | phr | "Rights or Wrongs (of Something)" - particular aspects of something, procedure, way of behaving, which may be considered right or wrong, esp. morally or legally. |
| Right | phr | "Right the Helm" - to put the helm amidship - that is, in line with the helm. |
| Right | phr | "Right to Keep and Bear Arms" - the second amendment to the US Constitution allowing for a well regulated and trained militia, being necessary for the security and protection of a democratic nation, with the right of the folk to have and bear weapons. |
| Right | phr | "Right to Life" - pro-life. |
| Right | phr | "Right You Are!" - an exclamation of assent; certainly; I will do as you say. |
| Right | phr | "See Somebody Right" - ensure that somebody is well rewarded or paid. |
| Right | phr | "She'll Be Right" - everything is OK. |
| Right | phr | "Start Off on the Right Foot" - to begin well. 2. commence an operation with great care to do it properly. |
| Right | phr | "Strike the Right Key" - to find the appropriate solution. |
| Right | phr | "Too Right" - an expression of agreement. |
| Right | phr | "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right" - a second error doesn't make the earlier error right. |
| Right | phr | "Within One's Right" - not exceeding one's authority or entitlement. |
| Right-down | adj | With verbs: positively without any limitation or reserve; rightout. 2. positively, thoroughly, complete |
| Righten | vb | To set right or correct. |
| Righteous | adj | Rightwise; morally right or justifiable. 2. informally: very good, excellent. |
| Righteously | adv | Characterized by uprightness or morality. 2. a righteous observance of the law. |
| Righteousness | n | The quality of being morally right. |
| Righter | n | One who arranges or regulates. 2. an executive, headman. 3. one who settles or sets right, esp., wrongs or grievances: a redresser; a vindicator. 4. one who advocates equal rights for women. |
| Right-footer | n | One who kicks a ball with his or her right foot. |
| Rightforth | adj | forthright, straightforward; or in a straight course. |
| Rightful | adj | Of a person, who is legitimately entitled to a a position etc; the rightful heir. 2. of status or property, etc that one is entitled to. 3. of an fair and equitable action. |
| Rightfully | adj | In accordance with a legitimate right or claim to property, position or statue. |
| Rightfulness | n | Righteousness, justice. |
| Right-hand | adj | Pertaining or situating on the right side, dextral. 2. on or towards the right side of a person's or thing (right-hand drive). 3. done or carried out with the right hand. |
| Right-handed | adj | Using the right hand by preference as more serviceable than the left one. 2. of a tool made to be used by the right hand. 3. of a blow struck with the right hand. 4. turning to the right; towards the right. |
| Right-hander | n | A right-handed person. |
| Right-handedly | adv | Using their right hand more skillfully or easily than left. 2. done with the right hand. |
| Right-handedness | n | The state of being right-handed. |
| Right-hander | n | One who uses their right hand by preference as more serviceable than the left one. |
| Right-hand man | n | One chiefly depended on, as an indispensable chief assistant. |
| Rightish | adj | Correct in direction somewhat to thre right. 2. somewhat towards the political right. |
| Rightleche | vb | To set right, rectify, amend to order, aright |
| Rightless | adj | Lacking legal rights. |
| Rightlessness | n | The state of lacking legal rights. |
| Rightly | adv | In a right manner, correctly, justifiably. |
| Right-minded | adj | Having approved feelings or opinions. 2. well disposed. |
| Rightmost | adv | Furthest to the right. |
| Rightness | n | The quality or condition of being right. 2. moral rectitude. 3. correctness; straightness. |
| Right-of-way | n | A right established by usage to pass over another's ground. 2. a path subject to such right. 3. the right of one vehicle or ship etc. to proceed before another. |
| Right-on | adj | Excellent; fashionable; politically correct. |
| Right one | n | An unpredictable person. |
| Right side | n | A better or desirable, or usable side of. |
| Right side | phr | "On the Right Side Of " - be careful to make a good impression in order to remain in favor with. 2. not annoy another person. 3. maintain friendly relations with somebody. 4. somewhat less specified as a person's age. |
| Right side | phr | "Right Side Out" - with the right side out. |
| Right smart | n | A large quantity; a great number. 2. a large pile. 3. rather well; "I fell right smart." |
| Right thinking | n | Right-minded. |
| Right-to-life | adj | Pro-life. |
| Right turn | n | A turn that brings one's front to face of one's right side did before. 2. a turn or turning to the right. |
| Rightwards | adv | Rightward; towards or facing the right or right hand. |
| Rightwards | adv | Towards or facing the right. |
| Right whale | n | Any large-headed whale of the family Baelenidae, rich in whalebone and easily captured. |
| Right wing | adj | A political party or group advocating conservative or moderate policies. 2. the part of any group advocating conservative policies. |
| Right-winger | n | One who belongs to a political party or group advocating conservative or moderate policies. 2. one who is part of any group advocating conservative policies. |
| Rightwise | adj | Righteous. |
| Rightwisely | adv | In a righteous manner. |
| Rightwiseness | n | The state or quality of being righteous. |
| Righty | adj | Of a person: right-handed. 2. a person who supports or is involved in right-wing or conservative politics. |
| Rike | n | See "Rich" - sovereignty, dominion, authority. (Note German "Reich") |
| Rim | n | Raised edge, margin, border or brim, as in dayrim, sea rim, wood-rim, way-rim; bank, coast. 2. the membrane (peritoneum, enclosing the abdomen, midriff, belly-rim: the womb. 3. the part of the spectacles surrounding the lenses. 4. a boundary line, as the rim of the horizon; the skyrim. 5. outer edge of a wheel on which the tyre is fitted. |
| Rim | n | Rocky bottom of the sea. 2. a membrame, pellicle, caul. 3. scale or film upon the eyes. |
| Rim | vb | Be a rim for or to; to edge, border. |
| Rim-bursten | n | A hernia or rupture. |
| Rimcraft | n | Computation, computing. |
| Rime | n | A hoarfrost; frozen mist, chill mist or fog. |
| Rime | vb | To cover with rime or hoar frost. |
| Rime | n | Also "rim"": a number; reckoning |
| Rime | vb | To number, count, reckon. 2. to make clear or vacant for one's use, give up. 3. to clear or open up (a way) for some one. 4. to remove, clear away. 5. to move house, to remove 5. to extend, increase, enlarge, 6. to stretch or extend oneself. 7 to widen(a hole). |
| Rimeless | adj | Without rime |
| Rimland | n | A peripheral area of land of political and strategic significance. |
| Rimless | adj | Not having a rim, edge or border. |
| Rimlock | n | A lock attached to the surface of a door in contradiction to the mortise lock. |
| Rimmed | adj | Having a rim; edge or border. |
| Rim-side | n | The fleshy side of the skin. |
| Rimth | n | Roomth, room, space, leisure. 2. A-rimth: in wide array |
| Rimy | adj | abounding in, or covered with rime or hoar frost. 2. accompanied by rime, frosty. |
| Rind | n | The external covering of coating of trees, fruits, cheese, bacon, etc.; skin, peel, husk, bark. 2. the bark of a tree or plant. |
| Rind | vb | To strip the bark from a tree or rind from fruit, cheese, bacon, etc. |
| Rindgall | n | A defect or surface damage in timber where the branch has been wrenched off and new growth has appeared. |
| Rindle | n | A small watercourse or stream; a runnel; an ea, rill or yea; a waterway, a rindel; lick. |
| Rindless | adj | Without rind or bark |
| Rindy | adj | Having a rind or hard skin |
| Rine | vb | To touch; affect. 2. to lay the fingers or hands on. 3. to fall upon, to reach to, something. 4. to take effect, to work, on one. 5. to touch on in discourse. 6. to belong to, to pertain to, be about something or someone; to tend to something. |
| Rine | vb | Of rain: to fall; to send down, or to fall, like rain. |
| Ring | n | A circular object, form, line, or arrangement. 2. a small circular band, generally made of precious metal and often set with jewels, worn on the finger.
3. a circular band used for carrying, holding, or containing something: a napkin ring. 4. pair of circular metal bands suspended in the air for gymnastic exercises, on which balancing and swinging maneuvers are performed while holding the bands as motionless as possible. 5. a circular movement or course, as in dancing. 6. an enclosed, usually circular area in which exhibitions, sports, or contests take place: a circus ring. 7. a rectangular arena set off by stakes and ropes in which boxing or wrestling events are held. 8. an enclosed area in which bets are placed at a racetrack. 8. bookmakers considered as a group. 9. an exclusive group of people acting privately or illegally to advance their own interests: a drug ring. 11. a political contest; a race. 12. an annual ring, a tree ring. 12. in mathematics: the area between two concentric circles; annulus. 14. any of the turns constituting a spiral or helix. |
| Ring | n | A sound of a bell |
| Ring | phr | "A Ring of Bells" - a set of bells from 5-12 in number for change ringing. |
| Ring | phr | "Have a Hollow Ring to" - seem false or insincere. |
| Ring | phr | "Have a Ring-side Seat" - have a seat in front of a boxing ring, auction, etc. |
| Ring | phr | "Have a True Ring to It" - seem meritorious and worthy. |
| Ring | phr | "It Has a True Ring" - it has intrinsic merit; it is of real talent. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring a Bell" - revive a distant recollection; make familiar; remind somebody somebody of something. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring Back" - call someone who has rung you when you have been unavailable. 2. after speaking on the phone to someone,phone him again later. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring Down" - cause to end something. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring for" - to summon. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring Hollow" - sound fake, insincere or dishonest. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring In" - report or make contact by telephone. 2. to substitute fraudulently. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring In One's Ears/Heart" - linger in one's memory. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring in the New Year and Ring Out the Old Year"" - announce, or celebrate the end of one year, and the beginning of next year by ringing bells. 2. celebration of the New Year. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring Off" - end a telephone call by deliberately putting down the receiver. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring of Fire" - an area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity, around the Pacific Ocean. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring off the Hook" - of a telephone, to ring constantly or excessively. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring of Steel" - a form of civil protection (by using CCTV, control zones, and restricted areas) that effectively seals off city centres. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring of the Fisherman" - a seal-ring with which the Pope is invested at his election, bearing a device of St Peter fishing from a boat. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring of Truth" - convey an impression of truth. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring One's Bell" - to strike or bump one's own head with a strong blow, especially with concussive force. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring Out" - make a sudden, sharp noise, as a gun firing. 2. of a telephone giving a ringing tone. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring True" - seem or sound as if it is true, correct, sincere, genuine. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring Up" - call somebody by telephone. 2. record the amounts being paid for goods, by pressing the keys on a cash register. |
| Ring | phr | "Ring with" - be filled with a ringing sound; resound. |
| Ring | phr | "Step into the Ring" - to enter a competitive environment. |
| Ring | phr | "That Rings a Bell" - that recalls something to mind; that stirs a recollection. |
| Ring | phr | "Throw One's Hat Into the Ring" - to publicly announce one's interest in some position. |
| Ringbark | n | Removing a ring of bark to kill the tree. |
| Ring-bearer | n | Traditionally a small boy aged four to eight, walks down the aisle just before the flower girl (if there is one), carrying a pillow with two rings tied to it |
| Ring-binder | n | A loose binder used to hold documents. |
| Ring-bolt | n | A bolt with a ring attached to for fitting a rope to. |
| Ring-bone | n | A bony enlargement or excrescence on the pastern bone of a horse; usually causing lameness. |
| Ring-craft | n | Skill in boxing |
| Ring-dove | n | The cushat, also called the wood pigeon. |
| Ringed | adj | Having a wedding ring; hence lawfully married. 2. encircled by raised or depressed lines or bands, as the stems or roots of some plants. 3. surrounded or encircled by a ring or rings of color. 4. composed or rings. |
| Ringer | n | A ring-in; an athlete or horse entered in a race/competition by fraudulent means, esp. a substitute. 2. a person or thing's double, esp. as a double. 3. in Australia, the fastest shearer in the shed; that is the one who shears the most sheep. 4. a person who ring, esp. a bell-ringer. |
| Ringer | phr | "Be a Dead Ringer (for Someone)" - to resemble a person exactly. |
| Ringer-iron | n | An implement, used in crate making, for bending and twisting the staves. |
| Ring-finger | n | The third finger on the left hand, on which the marriage ring is worn. |
| Ring-in | n | Fraudulent substitute |
| Ringing | n | The act or sound of ringing a bell. |
| Ringing | adj | Making a sonorous or resonant sound. |
| Ringing | phr | "The Ringing Island" - Britain was once called because of the fame and excellence of its bell ringers. |
| Ringingly | adv | In a ringing manner. |
| Ring-latch | n | A fall-bar, or latch, operated by a drop-in ring. |
| Ringle | n | A ringing jingling sound, as a door ring, used a knocker. |
| Ringleader | n | A leader or organizer of any undertaking, esp of an unlawful act, deal, like a riot. |
| Ringless | adj | Lacking rings or a ring. |
| Ring-like | adj | Shaped like a ring or circle. |
| Ring-mail | n | Chain armor. |
| Ring main | n | An electrical supply serving a series of consumer and returning to the original source, so that each consumer has an alternative path in the event of a failure. |
| Ringmaster | n | The person directing a circus performance. |
| Ring-neck | n | Any of various ring-necked birds, esp. a type of pheasant. |
| Ring of Bells | n | A set of bells from 5 to 12 in number for change ringing. |
| Ring-pull | n | A ring on a tin for pulling or breaking the seal. |
| Ring road | n | A bypass road encircling a town or city. |
| Ring rot | n | Decay in logs following the direction of the growth rings. |
| Ring shake | n | A cup shake caused by lack of cohesion betwen adjacent groth rings. |
| Ringside | n | The area immediately beside a boxing, wrestling or circus ring. |
| Ringsider | n | One who is near to the ring during a boxing, wrestling or circus event. |
| Ring-side seat | n | A seat in front of a boxing ring, auction, etc. |
| Ring-sight | n | A sight esp. a gun-sight, in the shape of a ring or concentric rings, through which aim is taken and distance estimated. |
| Ringster | n | A member of a political group or ring. |
| Ring-streaked | adj | Streaked with encircling rings, as an animal. |
| Ring-tail | adj | Of possums or monkeys having a ringed-tail. |
| Ring-time | n | The time of marriage and betrothal |
| Ringwise | adv | Towards or near to a boxing , wrestling or circus ring. |
| Ringwork | n | Training down by boxers or wrestlers to prepare for contests. |
| Ringworm | n | A contagious skin disease affecting both man and beast, caused by a fungi with red, round marks on the face and skelp |
| Rink | n | A man esp. a fighting man, a warrior. |
| Rip | n | A tool for opening safes. 2. An implement that is attached to a tractor to break-up concrete or hard soil. 3. a person or thing esp. good, as an attractive young woman. |
| Rip | vb | To rob; see "Ripe" |
| Ripe | vb | To rob, to engage in robbery. 2. to grope, search for or after something hidden. 3. to search a place, bin or receptacle etc. thoroughly in order to find something; to ransack. 4. to search out or into; examine thoroughly, inquire, investigate, scrutinize. 5. to clean, cleanse out. 6. to break, dig or plough new ground. |
| Ripe | adj | (Of a grain, fruit, cheese, etc) ready to be reaped or picked or eaten. 2. mature, fully-developed. 3. mature (of a person age). 4. fit or ready, as in the 'time is ripe for'. 5. red and full complexion, like fruit. |
| Ripe | adj | Of fruit, grain, etc) mature and ready to be eaten or used; fully developed. 2. mature enough to be eaten or used. 3. fully developed in mind or body. 4. resembling ripe fruit, esp in redness or fullness. 5. (followed by: for) ready or eager (to undertake or undergo an action) 6. (followed by: for) suitable; right or opportune time. 7. mature in judgment or knowledge. 8. advanced but healthy, as a ripe old age). as slang: complete; thorough, excessive; exorbitant. 10. as slang slightly indecent; risque, salacious. |
| Ripen | vb | To make or become ripe. |
| Ripen | phr | "Ripen Up" - make or become ripe or mature. |
| Ripener | n | Maturation; one who, or that, which comes to ripeness. |
| Ripeness | n | The state of being ripe. |
| Ripening | n | To make or become ripe or ripened; mature. |
| Riper | n | A robber; rip-off merchant; a ripper. |
| Ripewood | n | A term applied to certain trees, as the silver firs, that not produce apparent heartwood. |
| Rip-off | n | The action of stealing, swindling, defrauding, racketering, exploiting financially. 2. Plagiarize usu. in order to exploit public taste |
| Rise | vb | To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling. 2. o get out of bed. 3. to move from a lower to a higher position; ascend. 4. to increase in size, volume, or level, as a river. 5. to increase in number, amount, or value, as prices. 6. to increase in intensity, force, or speed, as the wind. 7. to increase in pitch or volume, as one's voice. 8. to ascend above the horizon. 9. to extend upward; be prominent, as a mountain. 10. to slant or slope upward. 11. to come into existence; originate. 12. to be erected, as a new skyscraper. 13. to appear at the surface of the water or the earth; emerge.m14. to puff up or become larger; swell up.
15. to become stiff and erect. 16. to attain a higher status. 17. to become apparent to the mind or senses, to haunt. 18. to uplift oneself to meet a demand or challenge. 19. to return to life; rise from the dead. 20. to rebel, revolt, mutiny, rise up against. 21. to close a session of an official assembly; adjourn. |
| Rise | phr | "Get a Rise" - receive a pay increase. |
| Rise | phr | "Give Rise to" - to cause or originate. |
| Rise | phr | "On the Rise" - on the increase; going up in price, more value especially in shares. |
| Rise | phr | "Rise Above Oneself" - be superior to petty feelings etc. 2. show dignity or strength in the face of difficulty or poor conditions. |
| Rise | phr | "Rise and Fall" - increase and then decline in power, popularity. |
| Rise | phr | "Rise and Shine" - get out of bed smartly, wake up. |
| Rise | phr | "Rise from the Ashes" - fig. for a building having to be new after destruction. 2. come out as new from something that has been wiped away. |
| Rise | phr | "Rise from the Dead" - reappear alive after having been believed dead. 2. become conscious after having been supposedly dead. |
| Rise | phr | "Rise in the World" - attain a higher social and economic position in a society. |
| Rise | phr | "Rise To" - develop powers equal to an occasion. |
| Rise | phr | "Rise to One Feet" - stand up , usually to make a speech, propose a toast. |
| Rise | phr | "Rise Up" - come to the surface or top, go up, ascend, emerge. 2. rebel, mutiny, revolt. 3. stand upon one's hind legs as a four-legged beast. |
| Rise | phr | "Rise Up with the Lark" - rise up very early in the morning. |
| Rise | phr | "Rise With the Sun" - get up early in the morning. |
| Rise | phr | "Rising Twenty" - not much younger than twenty etc; close on, pushing. |
| Rise | phr | "Take A Rise Out Of" - provoke an emotional reaction from a person, esp. by teasing. |
| Risen | n | The act of rising. |
| Riser | n | A person who rises, esp. from bed, as an 'early riser'. 2. the vertical part of stairs |
| Rising | n | A revolt, insurrection, rebellion, uprising, armed revolt against 'legal' authority. |
| Rising | adj | Going up, increasing, or sloping upwards. |
| Rising | phr | "A Rising Tide Lifts all Boats" - this aphorism is associated with the idea that improvements in the general economy will benefit all participants in that economy, and that economic policy, particularly government economic policy, should therefore focus on the general macroeconomic environment first and foremost. |
| Rising damp | n | Moisture absorbed from the ground into the wall. |
| Rising Star | n | A person who is growing quickly in popularity or importance in a particular field. |
| Rising sun | n | The sun as it emerges above the horizon. |
| Rist | n | A source, origin. 2. a rise in cost, prices etc. 3. a rising ground or slope, an ascent. NB. Sunrist, (dawn) uprist (resurrection.) nb: pp of rise |
| Rit | vb | To rip or cut with a sharp instrument, to tear, scratch, slit. 2. to thrush asword through someone. |
| Rithe | n | A small stream or channel, a rythe, rivulet, brooklet, lick, watercourse, runnell, burn, bourne, fleet, yea, ea. 2. A small stream, usu. one flowing only at times of heavy rain, a fleet. |
| Rivel | n | A wrinkle, pucker or fold upon the skin, esp. of the face. 2. fold on the skin of fruit. |
| Rivel | vb | To become wrinkled, puckered or shrivelled; to form wrinkles or small folds. 2. to cause the skin to wrinkle, shrivel, shrink, or pucker. |
| Rivelled | adj | Wrinkled; full of wrinkles or small folds; corrugated or furrowed. 2. of the skin or face; of fruit: dried up. 4. of bark: shrunken, shrivelled, esp. by heat. 5. twisted, coiled, pleated or small folds. 6. undergoing shriveling, shrinking, or riveling |
| Rixle | vb | To reign, bear away, rule, have dominion over, prevail. 2. to deal masterfully with a person. 3.to conduce: to lead away. |
| Rixling | n | Rule, reign, dominate, lead. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Road | n | Old English rad "riding expedition, journey, hostile incursion," from Proto-Germanic *raido (cognates: Old Frisian red "ride," Old Saxon reda, Old High German reita "foray, raid"), from PIE *reidh- "to ride" (see ride (v.)). Also related to raid (n.). In ME., "a riding, a journey;" sense of "open way for traveling between two places" is first recorded 1590s. Meaning "narrow stretch of sheltered water" is from early 14c. 2. the act of riding on horseback. 3. a hostile ride against a particular area; a raid. 4. often in the plural, partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor. 5. a way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. 6. (fig.) path chosen in life or career. 7. an underground tunnel in a mine. 8. a single railway track. 9. (obs) a journey, or stage of a journey |
| Road | phr | "By Road" - using transport along roads |
| Road | phr | "End of the Road" - enforced conclusion/ limit. |
| Road | phr | "Find a Rocky Road Ahead" - be likely to encounter difficulties. |
| Road | phr | "Fork in the Road" - turning point for decisions. |
| Road | phr | "Get Out of My Road" - cease to obstruct a person. |
| Road | phr | "Get the Show on the Road" - get something started |
| Road | phr | "In the Road" - obstructing a thing or person. |
| Road | phr | "Knight of the Road" - a highwayman. |
| Road | phr | "One for the Road" - a final alcoholic drink before departing. |
| Road | phr | "On the Road" - traveling, esp. as a business representative of a company; a performer, hobo or vagabond. |
| Road | phr | "Out of the Road" - out of the way. |
| Road | phr | "Set Someone on the Right Road" - to show a person how to go about doing something. |
| Road | phr | "Take the Road" - set out on a journey. |
| Road apple | n | American slang term for horse dung or droppings originated in the mid 20th century. |
| Road bed | n | The foundation structure of a railroad. 2. the part of the road on which a vehicles travel. 3. the material laid down to form a road. |
| Roadbook | n | A book describing the roads of a istrict or country. 2. a narrative of a journey by road. 3. a log book kept by commercial drivers. |
| Roadbreaker | n | An automatic machine worked by compressed air, for drilling into and breaking up the surface of roads. |
| Road burn | n | (Colloquial) skin injury caused by abrasion with road surfaces. |
| Roadcraft | n | The system or motor car, truck, or motorcycle control. |
| Roaded | adj | Provided or laid out with roads. |
| Roader | n | One who rides or uses the road, a road sweeper or cleaner. |
| Road game | n | A sport contest played away from one's home or own ground. |
| Road gang | n | A crew of men building or repairing roads. |
| Road-going | adj | A vehicle licensed and registered to travel on a road, street, highway etc. |
| Road grit | n | Fravel, sand etc on or beside a road. |
| Road-hog | n | A driver who keeps his vehicle in or near the middle of the road, making it difficult for other drivers to go by. |
| Road-holding | n | The capacity of a moving vehicle to remain stable when cornering at high speeed. |
| Roadhouse | n | A hotel, food outlet, restaraunt on a major road, usually in a rural area, where drivers and travelers can stop for food and refreshment. |
| Roadie | n | An assistant employed by touring band of musicians to erect and maintain equipment. |
| Roadless | adj | Without or lacking sufficient number of roadways or without enough bitumen roads. |
| Roadlessness | n | The situation or fact of lacking sufficient number or roadways or sufficient number of bitumen roadways. |
| Roadlike | adj | Resembling a road or roadway. |
| Roadman | n | A man employed to repair and maintain roads. |
| Roadmaker | n | One who makes roads |
| Road race | n | A race on a public road, not always legal. |
| Roadrunner | n | A fast-running bird of Mexican and US deserts, related to the cuckoo. |
| Roadshow | n | A performance giving by a touring company, esp. a group of pop musicians. 2. a company giving such performances. 3. a radio and television program done on location, esp. a series of programs each from a different venue. 4. a touring political or advertising campaign. |
| Roadside | n | A strip of land beside a roadway. |
| Roadstead | n | A sheltered place, but less sheltered than a harbour, where ships can be anchored or lie safely near shore. 2. a road. |
| Roadster | n | A vessel in a roadstead. 2. a horse for riding. 3. a light carriage. 4. a coach driver or traveller. 5. one who has no fixed place of abode; a vagrant. |
| Roadstone | n | Stone used for the building and maintaining roads. |
| Road sweeper | n | a person who sweeps roads for a living. 2. a machine used to sweep street and roads. |
| Roadway | n | The part of a bridge or railway used for traffic. |
| Roadwork | n | The construction or repair of roads, or other roads involving digging up a road surface. 3. athletic exercise or training involving running on roads. |
| Roadworks | n | Work, as construction, or repairs done on the road. |
| Road-worn | adj | Worn out by long travel |
| Road-worthiness | n | The state or condition of a vehicle fit to be used on roads. |
| Roadworthy | adj | Of a vehicle fit to be used on roads. |
| Roar | vb | To laugh without restraint and heartily. 2. to utter words loudly and forcefully. 3. make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles. 4. emit long loud cries. 5. make a loud noise, as of animal. 6. to act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way. |
| Roar | n | A very loud utterance. 2. a deep prolonged loud noise. 3. the sound made by a lion |
| Roaring | phr | "Do Roaring Business" - - be very successful in business. |
| Roar | phr | "Within a Bull's Roar Of" - be very close to something. |
| Roarer | n | One who or that which roars. 2. a broken winded horse is so called from the noise it makes when breathing. |
| Roaring | n | A loud deep continuous sound, as of some animals, or of the waves of the sea. |
| Roaring | adj | Emitting or uttering a roar, bellowing. 2. characterized by riotous merriment, boisterous. 3. very prosperous or brisk. |
| Roaring drunk | adj | Very drunk and noisy. |
| Roaring-forties | n | Stormy ocean tracts betwen latitudes 40 and 50 degrees south. |
| Roaringly | adv | With, or as if with, a roaring sound. 2. with lively success. |
| Roaring twenties | n | The decade of the 1920s, with its outrageous life style. |
| Rock | n | (1)Late Old English appearing in the word "stanroc". 2. a symbol of solidity and strength. |
| Rock | phr | "On the Rocks" - of a marriage in danger of breaking up. 2. of a alcoholic drink served undiluted with ice cubes. |
| Rock | vb | (2)To move a child gently to and fro in a cradle, in order to soothe. |
| Rock | phr | "Be On the Rocks" - destitute, ruined, bankrupt. |
| Road | phr | "Find a Rocky Road Ahead" - be likely to encounter difficulties. |
| Rock | phr | "Get One's Rocks Off" - have a sexual orgasm. 2. gain enjoyment from. |
| Rock | phr | "Have Rocks in the Head" - be mentally unbalanced. |
| Rock | phr | "House Built Upon a Rock" - typical of a person or a thing whose foundations are sure. |
| Rock | phr | "Rock On" - to party to music, esp. rock-and-roll. 2. to continue to perform rock music. 3. to maintain a lifestyle in keeping with, or inspired by, the rock culture. |
| Rock | phr | "Rock the Boat" - disturb the equilibrium of. |
| Rock | phr | "Rock Up" - to turn up at a place or functions spontaneously or unexpectedly, without notice or prior warning. |
| Rock | phr | "Steady as a Rock" - very steady and reliable. |
| Rock bed | n | Base of rock or a rocky bottom. |
| Rock bottom | n | The basis or foundation of any issue.The very lowest level. |
| Rock bottom | adj | The very lowest. |
| Rock dove | n | The London-pigeon is a semi-domesticated Rock-dove. 2. the European wild pigeon (Columbia livia) parent of domestic varieties. |
| Rock English | n | A mixed patois of English and Spanish spoken by the inhabitants of the rock of Gibraltar. |
| Rocker | n | A rock and roll singer. 2. a fan of rock-and-roll. |
| Rockfish | n | A rock-frequenting goby, basse, wrasse, catfish, etc. |
| Rockiness | n | Quality or condition being rocky. |
| Rocking | n | The act of state of moving to and fro. a mass of metal or a mass of small stones forming the bed of a road. |
| Rocking-frame | n | A special form of mold. 2. the rocking-frame, wave-like, motion producing better and strongest concrete due to consolidation. |
| Rocking-horse | n | The wooden horse mounted on rockers for children to ride on. |
| Rocking-stone | n | A large stone or boulder poised on a limited base so as to be easily swayed to and fro; as the Logan-stone near Land's End. |
| Rocking-tree | n | The axle from which the lay of a weaving loom is suspended. |
| Rockish | adj | Like or resembling a rock. 2. having the characteristics of a rock; stony. |
| Rockless | adj | Lacking rocks. |
| Rocklike | adj | Like or resembling a rock. 2. having the characteristics of a rock; stony. |
| Rock milk | n | Agaric mineral. |
| Rock pool | n | Pool of water among rocks. |
| Rock rose | n | Any plant of the genus 'Cistus Helianthemum, etc., with roselike flowwers. |
| Rock salt | n | Common salt as a solid mineral; halite. |
| Rock shaft | n | In steam-engines, the shaft levers used for working the side-valves. |
| Rock star | n | A famous and successful singer or performer of rock music. |
| Rock-stardom | n | The state or quality of being a rock star. |
| Rock-weed | n | Any one of various coarse seaweeds (genera Fucus and Sargassum ) growing on rocks. |
| Rock wool | n | Inorganic material made into matted fibre, esp. for insulating and soundproofing. |
| Rock work | n | A mound or wall of rocks set with mortar and arranged to imitate a rocky surface. 2. an artificial surface. |
| Rocky | adj | Unsteady, tottering, unstable, tipsy, drunk, swaying. |
| Rocky | adj | Consisting of or abounding in rock. 2. rembling rocks; disposed to rock. 2. tough, unfeeling, hard. 3. disreputable. |
| Rod | n | thin straight bar, esp. of wood or metal. 2. a fishing-line. |
| Rod | phr | "Kiss the Rod" - take one's punishment meekly. |
| Rod | phr | "Make a Rod for One's Own Back" - act in a way that will bring one trouble later. |
| Rod | phr | "Ride the Rods" - to steal a ride by getting on the metal framework underneath a freight train. |
| Rod | phr | "A Rod to Beat Somebody with" - a fact, incident, argument etc that can be used against somebody/ something in order to blame, penalize, impose a course of action. |
| Rod | n | Offshoot, tribe, scion |
| Rodewort | n | The marigold or solsequium kalenda |
| Rod-fisher | n | A Fly-fisherman, an angler. |
| Rod-fishing | n | Fly-fishing, angling. |
| Rodless | n | Lacking a rod or rods. |
| Rod-like | adj | A thin straight piece or bar or material, such as metal or wood, often having a particular function or use, as: a fishing line. |
| Rod-shaped | adj | Shaped like a rod; long cylindrical. 2. a specific form of bacteria. |
| Roe | n | A small species of deer inhabiting various parts of Europe and Asia |
| Roebuck | n | The buck or male of the roe-deer |
| Roe-deer | n | Deer or a deer of the roe-deer; a roe. |
| Rome | n | Also "Roome". The city or state of Rome; the Roman Empire. |
| Rome-penny | n | Peter's penny |
| Rome-scot | n | Tax, rent or contribution levied upon the land and paid to the Romans. see "scot-free" |
| Romeward | adj | Towards or in the direction of Rome |
| Romish | adj | Derogatory term for a Roman catholic. |
| Rood | n | The cross upon which Christ suffered. |
| Rood | n | A measurement of land, paving, digging, building- corresponding to a square pole, varying in length fron 6-8 yards. 2. a measure of timber. 3. a measure of wine |
| Rood | phr | "By the Holy Rood" - an old expletives used by way of assevation. |
| Rood-beam | n | the beam across the entrance to the chancel for supporting the rood. |
| Rood-day | n | The exaltation of the Cross on 14 Sept. or the Invention of the Cross on May 3rd |
| Roodland | n | A plot of land of one rood in size |
| Roodloft | n | Gallery on top of a rood screen. |
| Roodmas | n | Easter |
| Rood-pine | n | The torment and suffering of the Cross |
| Rood-steeple | n | A steeple in a church of cruciform style, rising at the intersection of the transept and nave. |
| Rood-tree | n | The cross upon which Jesus was crucified; the Holy-rood |
| Roof | n | A protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building. 2. protective covering on top of a motor vehicle. 3. an upper limit on what is allowed 4. the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space |
| Roof | vb | Roof provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof. 2. to cover with a roof. |
| Roof | phr | "Bring the Roof Down" - make a lot of noise. |
| Roof | phr | "Go Through the Roof" - of prices reaching extreme or unexpected heights. 2. become very angry. |
| Roof | phr | "Have a Roof Over One's Head" - have somewhere to live. |
| Roof | phr | "Hit the Roof" - become very angry. |
| Roof | phr | "Roof as Fallen In" - an enterprise has collapsed. |
| Roof | phr | "Roof of the World" - a name given to the Pamirs, the great region of mountains covering 30, 000 miles, and devoid of trees and shrubs, and most of it in Tajikistan. |
| Roof | phr | "Roof Over" - put a roof over; cover with a roof. |
| Roof | phr | "Shout from the Rooftop" - tell something to everyone. |
| Roof | phr | "Under One's Roof" - in the same building. |
| Roofer | n | A person who constructs or repairs roofs. |
| Roofing | n | The act of covering with a roof; the roof itself; the matial covering the roof. |
| Roofless | aj | A building or edifice without a roof. 2. without home or sheltered by a roof, living destitute, vagrant. |
| Roof light | n | A window panel built in a roof. 2. a flashing warning light on the top of a police car. 3. an interior light on the ceiling of a motor vehicle. |
| Rooflike | adj | Resembling a roof in some aspect |
| Roofline | n | Outline or silhouette of a collection of roofs |
| Roof of the Mouth | n | The palate. |
| Roof-rat | n | The common black rat. |
| Roof top | n | The outer surface of a roof. 2. the level of a roof. |
| Roof top | phr | "Shout It from the Roof Top" - make a thing embarrassingly public. |
| Roof-tree | n | The main beam or ridge pole of a roof, the roof. 2. abode, dwelling-place, home |
| Roofwards | adv | Towards the roof or roofs. |
| Roofy | adj | Having or abounding in roofs. |
| Rook | n | A black raucous-voiced European and Asian bird or corvine. 2. a sharp, scammer, fraudster, swindler. |
| Rook | vb | To swindle, esp in gaming; defraud, scam, cheat, dishonest in dealing with others. |
| Rooking | n | The act of cheating and deal dishonestly with others. |
| Rooky | adj | Inhabited by rooks; dark gloomy. |
| Room | n | room live and take one's meals at boarding house. 2. an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling. 3. the people who are present in a room. 4. a space for movement. 5. opportunity for. |
| Room | vb | To occupy a room; lodge. |
| Room | phr | "Make Room for" - clear or create a space for a person or thing. |
| Room | phr | "No Room at the Inn" - no room or rooms available. |
| Room | phr | "No Room to Swing a Cat" - a very confined space. |
| Room | phr | "Room and Board" - a situation, which, in exchange for money labor or other consideration, a persomn is provided with a place to live, as well as meals. |
| Room | phr | "Room In" - of a mother or her new baby, to stay together in the same room. |
| Room | phr | "Room Together"- of two persons: share a room together, as a dormitory or some other shared boarding arrangement. |
| Room | sfx | Combined with numbers to form adjectives which tells you how many rooms a house or flat has. |
| Roomed | vb | To occupy a room; lodge. |
| Roomer | n | A lodger occupying a room-mate. |
| Roomful | adj | As many or as much as a room will hold. 2. a number of persons present in a room considered collectively. |
| Roomily | adj | With ample space; spacious. |
| Roominess | n | Spaciousness. |
| Rooming | n | Occupying or sharing a room with one or others |
| Rooming-house | n | A house offering rooms for rent; a boarding house |
| Rooming-in | n | A form of a hospital stay where the mother and newborn baby stay in the same room together and the mother takes as much care of the baby as possible. |
| Roomless | adj | Beiing without a room or rooms. |
| Roomlike | adj | Resembling a room; spacious. |
| Room-mate | n | A person who shares a room with one or more others. |
| Roomsome | adj | Roomy or spacious. |
| Roomth | n | Ample or unconfined space. 2. an office, function or dignity. 2. in the roomth of, in the place of, instead |
| Roomthy | adj | Roomy, unconfined |
| Roomwise | adj | In terms of rooms. |
| Roomy | adj | Of ample dimension, capacious, large, amply spacious. 2. of female animals: of large proportions internally. |
| Roop | n | A cry,a call; hoarseness. |
| Roop | vb | To cry, to roar, to. sound hoarse |
| Roopy | adj | Hoarse, husky of voice. |
| Roost | n | The pole on which a bird nests at night; a perch. 2. a collection of birds nesting together. |
| Roost | vb | To settle down to sleep, as birds on a perch. 2. to perch. |
| Roost | phr | "Chickens Come Home to Roost" - (of a scheme, etc) recoil unfavorably upon the originator. |
| Rooster | n | A domestic cock or fowl. |
| Roostering | n | Out-there, conspicuous, bold and self-satisfied. |
| Root | n | The part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support.
2. (in linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed. 3. a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes. 4. the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation. 5. the place where something begins, where it springs into being 6. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) 7. (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes. 8. a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number. |
| Root | vb | To turn up with the snout, as swine - hence, to tear up by the root. 2. to extirpate, to rummage, to uncover, to root out. |
| Root | phr | "Be Rooted In" - originate in. |
| Root | phr | "Get to the Root of It" - the primary cause of trouble, malfunction, illness, scandal, rumor. |
| Root | phr | "Pull Up Roots" - move somwhere else from a place one has live in for some time. |
| Root | phr | "Put Down One's Roots" - become established or settle in a place. |
| Root | phr | "Rooted to the Ground" - unmoving (although capable of doing so). |
| Root | phr | "Root Out" - get rid of; destroy, annihilate, eliminate. |
| Root | phr | "Root Up" - pull from the ground with roots; uproot. |
| Root | phr | "Strike at the Roots" - to work at the destruction of something. |
| Root | phr | "Take root" - become permanently fixed or established. |
| Root beer | n | An effervescent soft drink made from the extract or roots. |
| Root climber | n | Any plant that climbs by means adventitious roots developed from stems. |
| Root crop | n | A crop grown for its edible value, as the turnip. |
| Root-eater | n | An animal which lives on roots. |
| Rooted | adj | Firmly established. |
| Rootedness | n | The state of being rooted. 2. firmly grounded in character and quality |
| Rooter | n | A plant which when divided, readily sends out new roots. 2. one who or that which roots, as a swine, or tears up as by rooting; a destroyer, eradicator. |
| Root-fast | adj | Firmly held, surely established and settled and held by the roots. |
| Root-fastness | n | State of being firmly held, surely established and settled by the roots. |
| Root-fallen | adj | Of a plant, that has become too large and heavy to support itself , and has fallen over so, uprooting the firm grounding of the plant. |
| Root-hair | n | A fine silky slender tube, the elongation of a cell of the outer layer near the tip of a root, which takes up food-solution from the soil. |
| Roothold | n | The firm attachment of a plant to the soil through the growing and spreading of roots. |
| Rootiness | n | The quality of being rooty. |
| Rooting | n | A system of roots; a secure attachment (in something); a firm grounding. 2. the process of forming roots. 3. a method of creating a plant by getting pieces or an existing plant to form roots. |
| Root-leaf | n | A basal leaf, really from the stem |
| Rootless | adj | Of a plant or another thing, having no roots. |
| Rootlessly | adv | In a rootless manner; wanderingly. |
| Rootlessness | n | Having no roots. 2. not belonging to a particular place or society. |
| Rootlike | adj | Resembling a root or roots (of a plant) or some aspect. |
| Root-sheath | n | The tough membrane covering the root portion of a hair. |
| Root stalk | n | An underground rootlike stem; rhizome. |
| Root-stock | n | Original source; origin. 2. a rhizome. 3. a stem that grows entirely underground; a creeping stem. 4. a source from which the off-shoots have arisen; a primitive or first form. |
| Rootword | n | An affix in English. 2. the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the significant |
| Rootwork | n | In horticulture, the mature roots of trees and plants used to create ornamental features in a garden; see: rockwork. 2. in dentistry, treatment of the root of a tooth, especially of the root canal. 3. in southern US Regional US regional (chiefly southern)and chiefly in African-American use: a spell cast using a preparation of plant roots; (more usually) the practice of casting spells using roots. |
| Rooty | adj | Full of or consisting of roots. 2. resembling roots. |
| Rope | n | Thick strings, yarn, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line. 2. individual length of such material. 3. cohesive strand of something. 4 a continuous stream 5. in ceramics: a long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand. 6. in computer science: data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character. |
| Rope | vb | To fasten with a rope. 2. catch with a lariat and lasso. |
| Rope | phr | "At End of One's Rope" - at the limit of one's patience. |
| Rope | phr | "Be On the Ropes" - in boxing forced against the ropes by the opponent attack. 2. on the verge of defeat, collapse or ruin. |
| Rope | phr | "Fought Back to the Rope" - fought to the bitter end. |
| Rope | phr | "Give One (some) Rope" - to allow full scope of latitude. |
| Rope | phr | "Give Someone Enough Rope To Hang Themselves" - allow someone sufficient freedom of action to bring about his or her demise. |
| Rope | phr | "Gone Into the Rope-walk" - for barristers taking up practice at the Old Bailey. The allusion is to murder trials there, and the convicted murderers getting the rope. |
| Rope | phr | "Know the Ropes" - to know what to do in any given circumstances. |
| Rope | phr | "Learn the Ropes" - to be taughht the elementary features. |
| Rope | phr | "On a Tight Rope" - fine balanced (figuratively). |
| Rope | phr | "Rope In" - persuade someone to take part in. 2. gather in supporters. |
| Rope | phr | "Rope of Sand" - delusive security. |
| Rope | phr | "Rope off" - separate or enclose an area with rope. |
| Rope | phr | "Rope Somebody In" - persuade somebody to join or become a member of a group. |
| Rope | phr | "Rope Up" - tie a rope around something, thus making it secure. |
| Rope | phr | "She Is On Her High Ropes" - in a distant or haughty temper. |
| Rope | phr | "Show Somebody the Ropes" - teach a beginner how to do something. |
| Rope | phr | "The Rope" - death by hanging; the noose. |
| Rope bridge | n | A Bridge made of rope. |
| Rope-feed | n | Applied to circular saw benches (noow superseded) on which the stuff is pulled through mechanically by a rope. |
| Rope ladder | n | Two long ropes connected by short crosspieces, used as a ladder. |
| Ropeless | adj | Not Having or lacking a rope or ropes. |
| Ropelike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of rope. |
| Ropeman | n | Somene who uses a rope, as a cattleman. |
| Ropemanship | n | Skill in rope-walking or climbing using ropes. |
| Roper | n | A cowboy; an expert with a lasso. 2. a roper maker. 3. a crafty person. |
| Rope's end | n | Short piece of rope used to punish by flogging, (esp. sailors) with. |
| Rope-walk | n | AA long covered building where ropes are manufactured. |
| Rope-walker | n | An entertainer performing on a tight-rope; a tight-rope walker. |
| Rope walking | n | Tight-rope walking. |
| Ropeway | n | A railway operated with cables. 2. an overhead system of transportation with small buckets hanging from and running along a suspended cable. |
| Ropework | n | The making, repairing, knotting, splicing and storing of rope. 2. the making of devices rope. |
| Ropeyard | n | A business making ropes; a rope-monger. |
| Rope yarn | n | Material obtained by unpicking rope strands , or used for making them. 2. a piece of rope yarn. 3. a bagatelle. |
| Ropily | adv | Resembling a rope or ropes. 2. forming sticky glutinous string or threads, as some liquids do. |
| Ropiness | n | Having the quality of rope. 2. stinginess, stickiness, viscosity, as of liquors. |
| Ropish | adj | Somewaht ropy. |
| Roping | n | Set or arrangement of ropes. |
| Ropy | adj | Like a rope. 2. of poor quality wine or bread. |
| Rose | n | Something having a dusty purplish pink color. 2. a dusty pink color. 3. any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses . |
| Rose | phr | "A Rose By Any Other Name (Would Smell as Sweet)" - a name title doesn't matter in itself. |
| Rose | phr | "A Rose is a Rose Is a Rose" - a rose is what it it is, and neither is, nor means, more than what it is. |
| Rose | phr | "Be a Bed of Roses" - an easy situation. |
| Rose | phr | "Be no Bed of Roses" - be difficult or uncomfortable. |
| Rose | phr | "Be On a Path Strewn with Roses" -to lead a very pleasant life. |
| Rose | phr | "Come Up smelling Roses" - not have a stain on one's character. |
| Rose | phr | "Everything Coming Up Roses" - everything is going well. |
| Rose | phr | "No Rose Without a Thorn" - there is always something to detract from happiness or pleasure. |
| Rose | phr | "Not Roses all the Way" - full of difficulty or complication. 2. not always a pleasant and easy life, experience, task. |
| Rose | phr | "Rose Between Two Thorns" - something beautiful in the midst of ugliness. |
| Rose | phr | "Roses all the Way" - free from difficulty or complication. |
| Rose | phr | "Under the Rose" - in confidence, under a pledge of secrecy. |
| Rose Alder | n | Also called Corkwood wood, and Rose-leaf Marara. |
| Rose-apple | n | Tropical tree of the genus Syzygium cultivated fot its foliage and fragrant fruit. |
| Rose Ash | n | Flinders Lavicarpa, very similar to yellow-wood Ash. |
| Rose bit | n | A brace bit for countersinking holes in wood or soft metals. |
| Rose-burner | n | A circular burner with many jets used in gas-stoves. |
| Rose-chafer | n | A beautiful green or copper-colored beetle found frequenting roses. |
| Rose-cold | n | A variety of hay fever, assumed to cause rose pollen or fever. |
| Rose comb | n | The flat fleshy red comb of a fowl. |
| Rose drop | n | A medicinal sweet or lolly with a rose-flavored taste. |
| Rose gold | n | An alloy of gold mixed with copper giving pinkish hue. |
| Rose head | n | A rose with a many-sided head, somewhat resembling the petals of a rose. |
| Rose hip | n | A ruit of the rose plant. |
| Rose-hued | adj | Rose colored. |
| Rose leaf | n | A petal of a rose. 2. a leaf of a rose. |
| Roselike | adj | Resembling a rose plant or flower in some aspect of one. |
| Rose madder | n | A pale pink pigment. |
| Rose mallow | n | The hibiscus, also called mallow rose. 2. the hollyhock. |
| Rosen | vb | Consisting of roses; rosy. |
| Rose Nails | n | Wrought nails with rose-shaped projecting heads. |
| Rose red | n | The color rose red. |
| Rose red | adj | Red, like a rose, rose-colored. |
| Roseroot | n | A yellow-flowered plant, Rhodolia roses, with roots smelling like roses when dried. |
| Rose Sunday | n | The fourth Sunday of Lent, exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday. |
| Rose tree | n | A rose plant, esp. a standard rose. |
| Rose water | n | Perfume made from roses. |
| Rose windor | n | A circular window with a series of mullions diverging from the centre, a special feature of Gothic cathedrals. |
| Rose wine | n | A table wine, pinkish in color and made from red grapes. |
| Rosewood | n | Any of several fragrant close-grained dark wood from South america and used in making furniture. 2. a tree yielding rosewood. |
| Rose worm | n | A larva of several species of lepidopterus insects which feed on leaves, buds, blossoms of the rose. |
| Rosewort | n | Roseroot. 2. orpine; another name for the Rosaceae |
| Rosily | adv | In a rosy manner. |
| Rosiness | n | The quality of being rosy, blooming red, blushing. 2. charming, bright, favorable. |
| Rostle | vb | To roast. 2. to burn slightly or parch |
| Rosy | adj | Crimson in colour like the rose; rose-pink. 2. blooming red, blushing. 2. charming, bright, favorable (of chances); optimistic; auguring success. |
| Rot | n | The process of decomposition, decay, putrefaction, molding. |
| Rot | vb | To decay, putrefy, decomposed through death or disease |
| Rot | phr | "Rot Away" - decay to a point where it breaks up or disintegrates. completely. |
| Rot | phr | "Rot off" - fall off, separates (from the main body) because of decay. |
| Rotgut | n | Cheap harmful alcoholic liquor. |
| Rother | n | The ox, an ox, oxen |
| Rotheren | n | Of or belonging to cattle or oxen. |
| Rotherish | adj | Resembling cattle or oxen |
| Rotten | adj | Of animal matter: in a state of decomposition or putrefaction |
| Rotten-apple | n | A bad, esp. morally corrupt person in a group, etc. |
| Rotten-borough | n | A borough able to elect an MP though having very few voters. |
| Rotten-hearted | adj | of a thoroughly bad or corrupt nature or character. |
| Rottenly | adv | In a rotting, decaying, decomposing manner. |
| Rottenness | n | The state or condition of decomposition, decay, putrefaction; deterioration. |
| Rotten-stone | n | A decomposed siliceous limestone used as a powder or substance to polish metals. |
| Rotter | n | A person who is worthless ad thoroughly objectionable on moral and ethic grounds; a scoundrel, a cheater, trickster |
| Rough | adj | Not smooth or level; having bumps, projections, etc.; uneven: a rough surface. 2. not easily traveled over or through because rocky, overgrown, wild, etc.: rough country. 3. shaggy or bristly: an animal with a rough coat.
4. characterized by violent action, motion, agitation, disturbance, or irregularity; 5. stormy; tempestuous: rough weather; boisterous or disorderly. 5. coarse in manner, tastes, etc.; lacking refinement or culture: rough men, rough language. 6. regarded as being risky, dangerous, offensive, etc., often as a result of lacking in conventional social controls: a rough crowd, neighborhood, etc. 7. lacking refinements, comforts, and conveniences: not refined, polished, or prepared; natural, crude, etc.: a rough diamond. 8. not finished, elaborated, perfected, etc.: a rough sketch not worked out in detail; without claim to be exact or complete; approximate: a rough estimate. 9. requiring muscular energy rather than skill or intelligence: rough labor. 9. severe, difficult, or disagreeable: a rough time. |
| Rough | adv | In a rough manner |
| Rough | phr | "A Bit of Rough" - a (usually male) sexual partner whose toughness or lack of sophistication is the source of attraction. |
| Rough | phr | "Be Rough on Somebody" - treat somebody harshly, or be unfortunate for somebody. |
| Rough | phr | "Feel Rough Edge of One's Tongue" - be talked to severely or in harsh words. |
| Rough | phr | "Get the Rough End of a Stick" - receive or endure harsh treatment. |
| Rough | phr | "Have a Rough Ride" - submit somebody to hard or harsh treatment. |
| Rough | phr | "Live Rough" - live without modern comforts or conveniences. |
| Rough | phr | "Rough and Ready" -serviceable if not elegant or finished. 2. of a person, brusque but reliable. |
| Rough | phr | "Rough and Tumble" - a fight with a number of people taking part in, not with any serious attempt to injure. 2. the rough and competitive nature of life. |
| Rough | phr | "Rough in" - enter roughly or in outline on a drawing. |
| Rough | phr | "Rough It" - to put up with hardship or discomfort. |
| Rough | phr | "Rough Out" - to sketch out, or draw hastily or crudely. 2. plan in broad outline, but not in detail. |
| Rough | phr | "Rough Up" - treat a person with violence; attack violently. 2. push somebody about, tear and dirty his clothes, usually with the intention to frighten him, but not harm him. |
| Rough | phr | "Sleep Rough" - sleep outdoors or not in a proper bed. |
| Rough | phr | "Take the Rough with the Smooth" - accept the disadvantages with the advantages. |
| Rough-and-ready | adj | Rough or crude but effective, not elaborate or over particular. |
| Rough-and-tumble | n | A haphazard fight; a scuffle. |
| Rough-and-tumble | adj | Irregular, scrambling, disorderly. |
| Rough-breathing | n | In linguistics, the absent of an aspirate. |
| Rough-deal | n | Hard or Unfair treatment. |
| Rough-draft | n | First drawing or delineation; first copy of a document, speech. |
| Rough-drawn | adj | Drawn, draft or designed hastily or roughly |
| Rough-dry | v | To dry clothes without smoothing or ironing. |
| Roughen | vb | To make, or become, rough. |
| Rough-footed | adj | Having feathered feet |
| Rough-grind | vb | To grind roughly or so as to leave an unsmoothed skin or uneven surface |
| Rough-handle | vb | Treat or handle roughly. |
| Rough-hew | vb | To cut or saw timber roughly; to shape out roughly. 2. to give crude form to. |
| Rough-hewer | n | One who is a rough hewer of timber. 2. one who does things roughly, lacking in refinement, sophistication, plain, blunt, roughish, uncultivated |
| Rough-hewn | adj | Roughly hewn or shaped out; wrought roughly. 2. of persons, lacking in refinement, sophistication, plain, blunt, roughish, uncultivated. 3. rough-natured, cruel, heartless |
| Rough-house | n | A disturbance or row; boisterous play. |
| Rough-house | vb | Handle things and persons roughly. 2. make a disturbance; act violently. |
| Rough-houseish | adj | In a rather rough-house way. |
| Roughing | vbn | The act of making rough. 2. the fact of undergoing hardship, or living under hard conditions |
| Roughish | adj | On the rough side. |
| Roughly | adv | In a rough manner. 2. approximately (of number). |
| Roughly-speaking | adv | In an approximate sense. |
| Rough neck | n | A rough or rowdy person. 2. a worker on a oil rig. |
| Rough-ride | n | A difficult time or experience. |
| Rough-rider | n | One skilled in breaking-in wild and untamed or wild horses. 2. a rider who rides wild horses or bulls at a rodeo. |
| Roughshod | adj | Of horses, having shoes roughly fitted. |
| Roughshod | vb | Shod with shoes armed wirh spikes. |
| Roughshod | phr | "Ride Rough-shod Over" - treat inconsiderately, high-handed, or arrogantly. 2.: to domineer, terrorize, tyrannize or dictate to |
| Rough-sleeper | n | People sleeping, or bedded down, in the open air (such as on the streets, or in doorways, parks or bus shelters); people in buildings or other places not designed for habitation (such as barns, sheds, car parks, cars, derelict boats. |
| Rough-spun | adj | Of a garment woven from roughly spun yarn. 2. unpolished, rough and ready, uncultured, unsophisticated. |
| Rough-tongue | n | A habit of speaking rudely; or rudeness in speaking. |
| Roughwork | n | Preliminary or provisional work. 2. colloquial: violence. 3. task requiring the use of force. |
| Roughy | adj | (Slang) In Australia, an outsider in a sporting contest, election, any kind of ballot for a position. |
| Roun | n | A dark, mysterious or esoteric saying; a secret or mystery. 2. a runic letter. 3. that which is written; writing, a book, an epistle. 4. Counsel, consultation, esp. of a private or secret nature; a whisper; secret counsel. 5, a speech or discourse. 6. a song; a cry or a call. 7. a form of speech, a language as in theEnglish roun. |
| Rouner | n | A whisperer, a tale-bearer |
| Rouning | n | Whispering, murmurming, in secret consultation |
| Rouningly | adv | In a whisper. |
| Rout | vb | To snore (from OE: hrutan). |
| Rove | adj | Scabby, leprous, scaly, crusty, rind-hard. |
| Row | n | A continuous chronological succession without an interruption, as three years in a row. 2. an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line. 3. a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side. 4. a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally). |
| Row | n | The act of rowing as a sport |
| Row | vb | Propel with oars. |
| Row | adj | Roughly, angrily, fiercely (variant of rough.) |
| Row | phr | "Hard Row to Hoe" - a difficult task. |
| Row | phr | "In a Row" - consecutively. |
| Row (1) | phr | "Row Over" - complete the course of a boat race with little effortowing to the absence or inferiority of the competitors. |
| Row boat | n | A rowing boat: a small boat propelled by oars. |
| Row house | n | A terrace house. |
| Rowing boat | n | A row boat. |
| Rowlock | n | A deviceon a boat's gunwale , esp. a pair of thole-pins, serving as a fulcrum for an oar and keeping it in place. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Rye | n | A food grain gained from the plant "Secale cereale", extensively used in Europe. |
| Rye bread | n | A type of bread made with various proportion of flour for rye grain. |
| Rye grass | n | A genus of tufted grass in the bluegrass subfamily of the grass family. |
| Rye-land | n | Inferior land, less suitable for the cultivation of rye. |
| Rye meal | n | Also called “whole grain rye flour,” rye meal contains all of the bran, germ and endosperm of the original rye kernel. Rye meal can be ground fine, medium or coarse. Coarse, whole-grain rye flour is called pumpernickel, and gives its name to the traditional German bread |
| Rye-starch | n | Flour of rye. |
| Rye-straw | n | The dried haulm of rye; a single straw of this,fig, a weak insignificant person. |
| Rynd | n | O.E. hrindan: to push. An iron bar for supporting an upper millstone in a buhrstone mill. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Rud | n | Red or ruddy colour; redness; reddish, ruddiness. 2. complexion of those parts of the face naturally reddish. |
| Rudd | n | A freshwater cyprinoid fish resembling the roach; the red-eye |
| Rudder | n | A flat part fixed to the back of a boat, which may be turned from side to side in water for guiding it |
| Rudder | phr | "Be a Rudderless Ship" - be a project not managed properly. |
| Rudder-fish | n | The pilot-fish. |
| Rudderless | adj | Without a rudder; unsteerable; without guidance. |
| Rudderlessly | adv | In a rudderless way. |
| Rudder stock | n | The vertical shaft to which the rudder of ship or boat is attached, having at its upper portion a yoke. |
| Rudder-wheel | n | A small wheel at the end of a plow to help in guiding it. |
| Ruddiness | n | The property of being ruddy. |
| Ruddish | adj | Somewhat or rather ruddish. |
| Ruddle | n | A variety of red ocherous iron ore; reddle. 2. species of red earth. |
| Ruddle | vb | To color with red ocher. |
| Ruddock | n | Redbreast, robin: Grithacus rubecule. 2. a gold coin; hence gold money. 3. variety of cider. 4. species of toad. |
| Ruddy | adj | Red or reddish: face suffused with a fresh healthy red. 2. of persons, having a red complexion. 3. red with blushing. 4. showing or having a healthy redness. 5. epithet of light or fire of the heavenly bodies, the sky or clouds. 6. a qualifier of other nouns: ruddish brown, somewhat ruddy or sad-yellow; ruddy-bright, ruddy-golden. 7. euphemism for bloody. 8. damnable, unmitigated, confounded. |
| Ruddy | vb | Render ruddish or ruddy in hue. 2, to turn red or blush |
| Rue | n | Sorrow, distress, repentance, pity, compassion, regret. 2. The plant: 'Ruta graveolens' |
| Rue | vb | To take the rue: repent, pity, repent, pity. 2. To effect (a person) with pity, compassion, penitence or contrition for sins or offenses committed. 3. to effect with sorrow, to distress, to grieve. 4. to repent of wrongdoing, to feel penitence, remorse or contrition for sins etc. 5. to repent of some action and wish it undone or altered, om account of consequences: rue the day. 6. to think of an event with sorrow or with regard; wish something had never happened or occurred. 7. to lament, feel sorry, pity or compassion.Nb: rueing: compassionate; pitying. |
| Rueful | adj | Causing feeling or experiencing regret or sorrow. 2. inspiring pity or compassion. 3. woeful, mourning, sorrowful, lugubrious, woe-begone. |
| Ruefully | adv | In a doleful or dismal manner, sorrowfully, dejectedly, regretfully. |
| Ruefulness | n | Repentance, sorrowfulness, pity, compassion, pity |
| Ruly | adj | Rueful, pitiable, pitiful, woeful, wretchedly |
| Run | n | The act of running. 2. the route taken while running. 3. flow of liquid. 4. creek. 5. amount of something made. 6. faster than a walk. 7. gallop. 8. interval of distance or time; a linear measurement, as foot run etc.. 9. enclosure for animals. 10. nautical equipment. 11. unraveled stitches. 12. a point scored in some games. 13. a gangway. 14. planks, bridging gaps or rough ground, and used by workmen for transporting materials, especially by wheelbarrow or hod. |
| Run | vb | To move quickly on two feet. 2. to move quickly; to move or spread quickly; to cause to move quickly. 3. to be in charge of. 4. to flow; to have a liquid flowing from; to make a liquid flow. 5. to extend in space or through a range. 6. to sail a boat with the wind coming from behind. 7. to extend in time, to last, to continue; to make something extend in space. 8. of a machine, to be operating normally; to make a machine operate. 9. to execute or carry out a plan, procedure or program. 10. to compete in a race. 11. to be a candidate in an election; to make run in a race or an election. 12. to be presented in one of the media; to print or broadcast in the media. 13. to leak, spread or bleed in an undesirable fashion. 14. to go through without stopping. 15. to transport someone or something. 16. to smuggle illegal goods — see smuggle. 17. of fish, to migrate for spawning. 18. of stitches, to unravel. 19. to flee away from a danger or towards help |
| Run | phr | "Against the Run of Play" - contrary to the flow of a game. |
| Run | phr | "An Also-ran" - an unsuccessful competitor. |
| Run | phr | "At the Run" - running. |
| Run | phr | "Be Run Down" - be in a weak state of health. |
| Run | phr | "Do a Dry Run" - have a rehearsal. |
| Run | phr | 'Have the Run of the House" - to have free access and freedom to make use of what it offers. 2. be free to go anywhere in a house. |
| Run | phr | "In the Long Run" - in the end; ultimately. |
| Run | phr | "In the Running" - in an event with a good//poor chance of winning. |
| Run | phr | "Make the Running" - force or set the pace; take the initiative. |
| Run | phr | "In the Run Up to" - before, prior to, leading to an event, occasion etc. |
| Run | phr | "On the Run" - escaping, running away; fleeing from custody. 2. hurrying about from place to place. |
| Run | phr | "Run About" - bustle; hurry from one person or place to another. 2. play about without restraint, as children. |
| Run | phr | "Run After" - pursue with attentions; seek the society of. 2. follow persistently; pursue in the hope of attracting, as an attractive person. 3. run to try to catch up with a person, because he or she has forgotten something. |
| Run | phr | "Run Against" - happen to meet. 2. compete against, especially. |
| Run | phr | "Run Aground" - touch and become fixed on rocks,or the seabed in shallow water. |
| Run | phr | "Run Along" - a command to a junior or subordinate to leave or go away; be off with you! |
| Run | phr | "Run a Mile from" - said of a person who you are anxious and careful to avoid somebody who is boring, conceited, over-talkative. 2. run quickly away from somebody, something dangerous or life threatening (in panic) |
| Run | phr | "Run a Red Light" - to pass through the traffic light when the red light is on. 2. to enter a restricted area; to trespass. 3. to falsely accuse someone of wrongdoing.
4. to pass a political bill that is clearly based on false premises. 5. to claim a position that one does not rightfully earn. |
| Run | phr | "Run At" - run towards somebody as if to attack them. 2. run with the aim of jumping over something. |
| Run | phr | "Run a Tight Ship" - to manage efficiently an organization. |
| Run | phr | "Run Away" - get away by running, escape, fleeing, absconding; elope. 2. bolt as a horse. |
| Run | phr | "Run Away from" - escape from, usually because the life unpleasant. 2. avoid something or somebody because one is shy; frightened, lacking confidence. |
| Run | phr | "Run Away With" - carry off or steal property. 2. win a contest, match, prize etc clearly or easily. 3. accept a notion hastily; win easily; or accept unthinkingly. 4. leave home to have a relationship without parental consent of family approval. 5. consume, use up a great deal of cash, money. 6. deprive of self control or common sense by misleading someone with an unfounded idea, notion etc. 7. gain complete control of, dominate. |
| Run | phr | "Run Back" - wind a film, cassette, video etc in reverse so that it can be viewed or heard again. |
| Run | phr | "Run Back Over" - review, reconsider an event, one's career, relationship etc. |
| Run | phr | "Run Behind" - not keep pace with one's timetable for a meeting, appointment, schedule etc. |
| Run | phr | "Run by" - ask one's opinion, comment, advice on some matter. 2. to inform someone briefly of the main points of an idea. 3. to bring an idea or proposal to the attention of someone (esp. in order to obtain their opinion about. 4. to briefly stop at a location for a particular purpose. |
| Run | phr | "Run Down" - knock down to the ground; collide with. 2. reduce the strength by decline in size or numbers. 3. cause to suffer a loss of power, through neglect, age etc. 3. stop as an unwound clock. 4. become tired, feeble from overwork, lack of sleep or nourishment. 5. discover eventually after a long and thorough search. 6. disparage, denigrate; belittle, criticize unkindly. |
| Run | phr | "Run Down to" - stretched as far as, extend to a river, road etc. |
| Run | phr | "Run Dry" - cease to flow; stop flowing; be exhausted. |
| Run | phr | "Run for" - offer oneself or stand as a candidate. |
| Run | phr | "Run for It" - seek safely by fleeing; escaping. 2. make a dash for, or run quickly to safety. |
| Run | phr | "Run for Dear Life" - leave, depart, escape quickly because one's life is in danger. |
| Run | phr | "Run for the Hills" - flee; get away. |
| Run | phr | "Run for the Roses" - a hard-fought competition or demanding challenge of any kind. |
| Run | phr | "Run Hard" - be close at the heels of the winner. |
| Run | phr | "Run High" - have a strong current with a high tide, as the sea. 2. have strong feelings. |
| Run | phr | "Run Hot" - of an electrical system producing excessive heat while operating .2. to run ahead of schedule. |
| Run | phr | "Run Hot and Cold" - to alternate between two opposite extremes, such as enthusiasm and disinterest or success and failure. |
| Run | phr | "Run In" - run in carefully an engine, machine or vehicle in the new or early stages of it use. 2. be arrested; arrest somebody; take into custody. |
| Run | phr | "Run in One's Blood" - of traits inherited. |
| Run | phr | "Run in One's Head" - to linger in one's memory. |
| Run | phr | "Run Into (Somebody)" - strike, collide with. 2. meet accidentally, encounter by chance. 3. reach or amount to a specified figure or number. 4. be continuous or coalesce. 5. enter a period and/or area of bad weather. |
| Run | phr | "Run Into a Dead End" - get nowhere into an investigation. |
| Run | phr | "Run Into Heavy Weather" - to encounter difficulties. |
| Run | phr | "Run Into the Ground" - bring a person to exhaustion. 2. work, play energetically unto the point of exhaustion. |
| Run | phr | "Run Like a Top" - operate flawlessly and smoothly. |
| Run | phr | "Run Off" - flee, escape. 2. produce copies on a machines. 3. decide a race, athletic contest, etc after a series of heats or in the case of a tie. 5. flow or cause to flow away, as from a vessel. 5. write or recite fluently. 6. digress suddenly. 7. reproduce by printing. |
| Run | phr | "Run Off at the Mouth" - talk incessantly. |
| Run | phr | "Run Off One's Feet" - be extremely business; work very hard. 2. to keep a person very busy on some physical task. |
| Run | phr | "Run Off with" - leave in the company of somebody, usually somebody the partner, husband or wife of another. 2. steal or carry away. run away with the money, takings, possessions of others. |
| Run | phr | "Run of Play" - the overall pace, or flow of a game, situating in a series of action, especially in sports. |
| Run | phr | "Run of the Mill" - that which is average in kind, class or quality. |
| Run | phr | "Run On" - of written character, as a ligature: run together. 2. continue in operation; flow, continue without a break often annoyingly or monotonously; elapse. 4. speak volubly; talk incessantly. 5. have a s a subject, be concerned with a discussion. |
| Run | phr | "Run One's Eye Over" - examine somebody or something very carefully in order to estimate its value or merits. |
| Run | phr | "Run One's Finger's Through One's Hair" - pass one's finger nervously through one's hair. |
| Run | phr | "Run One's Head Against Stone Wall" - face and be frustrated by an insuperable problem or obstacle while trying to do something. 2. hit, or run into a brick wall. |
| Run | phr | "Run One's Own Ship" - to do things and organize subordinates in one's own way. |
| Run | phr | "Run On Something" - great demand foe something. |
| Run | phr | "Run Onto" - enter; go onto. 2. continue traveling towards. |
| Run | phr | "Run Out" - come to and end, be ended, use up; expire, be ended; be no longer valid. 2. exhaust one's stock or supply. 3. flow from a container. 4. jut or stick out; project. 5. tire oneself completely by running too much. 6. in a contest compete to a required or specified position. |
| Run | phr | "Run Out of" - have used up, have no more of. 2. finish, exhaust supplies or commodities; ideas, patience. |
| Run | phr | "Run Out of Steam" - move more slowly, or halt because the original driving force is lacking. 2. to lose one's energy and enthusiasm. |
| Run | phr | "Run Out On" - desert somebody, abandon another, who needs or expect one's support, as a friend, family, associate. |
| Run | phr | "Run Over" - overflow. 2. of a driver of a motor vehicle : pass over, knock down and pass over a person's body, often killing or causing crushing injury to them. 3. study, read, say or repeat quickly, in order to learn it or refresh one's memory. 4. touch a keyboard, or piano keys etc in quick succession. 2. go on a quick journey or visit. |
| Run | phr | "Run Over With" - show an abundance of, overflow with enthusiasm etc. |
| Run | phr | "Run Roughshod Over" - to act without restraint. 2. to act without consideration of others needs, wants, feelings. |
| Run | phr | "Run Short of" - become or run low in number; become depleted, having too little left. 3. have little left or remaining of. |
| Run | phr | "Run the Show" - dominate in an undertaking. |
| Run | phr | "Run Through" - act, perform, especially to rehearse briefly. 2. peruse; review, summarize, pass or skip through. 3. deal successively through. 4. consume one's wealth or fortune by foolish and/or reckless spending. 5. pass through quickly by running. 6. pervade. 7. draw a line through. 8. play part of a film, video etc by passing it through a machine. |
| Run | phr | "Run Through with" - pierce with a weapon. |
| Run | phr | "Run to" - have the ability or money for; have enough money to cover to afford. 2. reach an amount or number; reach enough. 3. of a person having the tendency to run to or become, as fat. 4. be enough for (some undertaking or expense). 5. have the resources or capacity for. 6. fall into ruin or dilapidation. |
| Run | phr | "Run to Earth" - chase to a lair. 2. discover after a long and difficult search; locate a person, prisoner etc. |
| Run | phr | "Run to Fat" - become too fat by overeating or lack of sufficient exercise |
| Run | phr | "Run Together" - to mingle. |
| Run | phr | "Run to Ground" - to discover the whreabouts of somebody. |
| Run | phr | "Run to Meet" - anticipate (one's troubles etc) |
| Run | phr | "Run to Seed" - cease flowering as seed develops. 2. become degenerative, unkempt, shabby, ineffective or exhausted. 3. to deteriorate after a promising start. |
| Run | phr | "Run Up" - allow to accumulate, (a debt, expenses) quickly). 2. build or make hurriedly or in emergency from nearby material way. 3. raise or hoist a flag up a flagpole. 4. grow quickly. 5. rise sharply in price; to increase in amount. 6. amount to. 7. add up a column of figures. 8. go quickly by a flying visit. |
| Run | phr | "Run Up Against" - meet, encounter come face to face with difficulties, problems obstacles etc., etc. |
| Run | phr | "Run Upon" - of one's thoughts: be engrossed, dwell upon. |
| Run | phr | "Run Wild" - grow unchecked or undisciplined or untrained. |
| Run | phr | "Run With Something" - to take advantage of some current development. |
| Run | phr | 'Run with the Hare and Hunt with the Hound" - keep in friendly with opposing parties or sides. |
| Run | phr | "Still Waters Run Deep" - somebody can be more emotional/knowledgeable than he/she firsts appears. |
| Run | phr | "With a Run" - suddenly, abruptly. |
| Runabout | n | A motor boat; a light car, a light aircraft. |
| Runaway | n | A fugitive; escapee, convict escaped from prisoner. 2. an animal or vehicle that is running out of control. 3. that is running away or out of control, as inflation, prices, success etc. 4. done or performed after running away. |
| Run-back | n | The act or gesture of taking someone by car to their house. 2. the rewind a film, cassette, video, etc. |
| Run-down | n | A reduction in numbers. 2. giving of a detailed analysis, information, and briefing. |
| Rundown | adj | Decayed after prosperity. 2. enfeebled through overwork or illness. |
| Rundle | n | A small stream or rivulet, brooklet, watercourse, gully, rojo, burn, bourn, ea, yea, rindle, runnel |
| Rune | n | Any of the letters of the earliest Germanic alphabet, used by Vikings and in late Old English by the Anglo-Saxons or from about the C3rd. 2. a similar mark of mysterious or magic significance. |
| Rune | n | A course on onward movement, esp. of heavenly bodies. 2. the running gait of a person. 3. a flow of blood. 4. a watercourse, stream, rivulet, rindle, runnel, rhine, reen. |
| Rune | n | Whisper, secret, counsel, mystery. |
| Rune-like | adj | Resembling a rune. |
| Runer | n | A Gothic bard. |
| Rune-stave | n | A runic letter, staff or symbol; a rune-staff. |
| Rung | n | A stout stick or rounded form, esp one used as a rail (in a cart, etc.). 2 a round or stave of a ladder. 3. in ship building: a timber floor. |
| Rung | phr | "Rungs Up a Ladder" - gradual steps to an ultimate goal. |
| Run-holder | n | One who owns or leases land, generally to run or farm sheep. |
| Run-in | n | The approach to an action or event. 2. colloquial: a quarrel. |
| Runless | adj | Without a run in baseball or cricket. 2. of stockings: not susceptible to runs. |
| Runnel | n | A small stream of water; a brooklet, rivulet, rill, trickle. 2. a small watercourse or channel; a gutter |
| Runner | n | One who runs ; a racer, a good racer, a horse in a race, a roadster. 2. a vagabond, fugitive, deserter. 3. one who carries messages backward and forward; a messenger. 4. a bookmaker's assistant. 5. freelance antique dealing. 6. one who solicits customers for hotels, restaurants, trade organizations, tow truck-operators, journalists, ambulance chaser etc. 7. bearers along which anything slides. 8. the supports of a drawer. 9 horizontal timbers supporting the bearers or joists, for shuttering. |
| Runner | phr | "Do a Runner" - leave, hastily abscond. |
| Runnerless | n | Of certain plant, as the strawberry, not producing runners. |
| Runner-up | n | The competitor or team taking second place. 2. an animal that takes the second prize. |
| Runniness | n | A liquidy state or quality. |
| Running | n | The action of a runner. 2, the sport of racing on foot. 3. the way a race etc proceeds. 4. of water, streams, etc. flowing.. |
| Running | adj | Continuing an an essentially continuous basis through changing in detail. 2. consecutive; one after the other. 3. done with a running (jump). |
| Running | phr | "Be Up and Running" - to be operative. |
| Running | phr | "His Shoes Are Made of Running Leather" - said of one giving to wander or roam. |
| Running | phr | "In (and, out of) the Running" - in an event with a good//poor chance of winning. |
| Running | phr | "Make the Running" - force or set the pace; take the initiative. |
| Running | phr | "Running In" - running a new machine with a light load only until all running parts are working sweetly. |
| Running | phr | "The Sands are Running Out" - the time available for some action is nearly at an end. |
| Running-board | n | A foot-board on either side of a vehicle. |
| Running dog | n | From Chinese zougou, from zou (running) + gou (dog), apparently as an allusion to a dog running to follow his or her master's commands. This term was employed in Chinese Communist terminology to refer to someone who was considered subservient to counter-revolutionary interest. Earliest documented use: 1925. |
| Running fight | n | The defence put up by a force retreating in good order. |
| Running-fire | n | Successive shots from a line of troops etc. 2. a bombardment of questions or interruptions at a public meeting. |
| Running hand | n | Writing in which the pen is not lifted after each letter. |
| Running headline | n | A running head: a head printed at the top of a number of consecutive pages of a book etc. |
| Running knot | n | A knot that slips along the rope etc. and changes the size of the noose. |
| Running light | n | Each of a small set of lights on a motor vehicle that remains illuminated while the vehicle is running. |
| Running-rope | n | A rope that is freely that is movable through a pulley etc. |
| Running shed | n | A shed where trains or trams are housed. |
| Running shoes | n | Shoes for athletics with sharp spikes in the soles. |
| Running sore | n | A suppurating sore. |
| Running speech | n | The continuous sound of spoken dialogue from which the listener is able to distinguish individual words and sentences. |
| Running-stitch | n | A line of small over-lapping stitches for gathering etc. 2. one of these stitches. |
| Running water | n | Water flowing in a stream or from a tap etc. |
| Runny | adj | Tending to run or flow. 2. excessively fluid. |
| Run-off | n | An additional or special competition, contest,race, after a tie or inconclusive result. 2. an amount of rainfall that is carried off an area by streams and rivers. 3. the part of the rainfall in a particular area which is not directly absorbed but is drained of in rills or streams. |
| Run-of-play | n | The overall ? pace, or flow of a game, situating in a series of action, especially in sports. |
| Run-of-the-mill | adj | Ordinary, undistinguished. |
| Run-on | n | Printing: appended or added matter. |
| Run-out | n | The portion of a motion-picture film immediately following the last frame of the picture itself. |
| Run-through | n | A rehearsal. 2. a brief survey. |
| Run time | n | Runtime is the period of time when a program is running. It begins when a program is opened (or executed) and ends with the program is quit or closed. It is a technical term, used most often in software development. It is commonly seen in the context of a "run-time error," which is an error that occurs while a program is running. 2. the time a film or television program runs. |
| Run-up | n | The lead-up to an event. 2. the period preceding an important event. |
| Runway | n | A specially prepared surface along which air-crafts take-off and land. 2. a trail to an animals watering-place. 3. an incline down which logs are slid. 4. a raised gangway in a theater, fashion show. 5. an artificial track or gangway. |
| Rure | adj | Scabby, leprous, scaly, crusty, rindhard. |
| Rush | n | Any marsh or waterside plant of the plant Juncaceae. 2. a thing of little value or worth. |
| Rush | phr | "Not Worth a Rush" - a thing of little value or worth. |
| Rush candle | n | A candle made by dipping the pith of a rush in tallow. 2. rush-light. |
| Rushen | adj | Made of rushes, or a rush |
| Rush-like | adj | Resembling or resembling any marsh or rush plant. |
| Rush toad | n | The natterjack. |
| Rushy | adj | Abounding in or made of rushes. |
| Rust | n | A red, orange or tawny formed upon the surface of iron. any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants. 2. the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water. 3. a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi. 4. a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture |
| Rust | vb | To become coated with oxide. 2. to become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid. 3. to cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid |
| Rust | adj | Of the brown color of rust. |
| Rust | phr | "Rust off" - to come apart fro the process of rusting. |
| Rust belt | n | An area of once profitable industry, esp. in the American Midwest and north-eastern states. |
| Rusted | adj | Having accumulated rust. |
| Rustful | adj | Full of rust; resembling rust,, causing rust, rusty. |
| Rustily | adv | In a rusty way. |
| Rustiness | n | Ineptitude of awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice. 2. the condition of being coated or clogged with rust. |
| Rustless | adj | Without rust. |
| Rustlessness | n | The state or condition of being rustless. |
| Rustlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of rust; rust-like. |
| Rusty | adj | Rusted or affected by rust. 2. stiff with age or disuse. 3. of knowledge : faded or impaired by neglect. 4. rust-colored. 5. of antiquated appearance. 6. antiquated, behind the times. 7. of a voice; croaky, croaking or creaky. |
| Rusty | phr | "To Turn Rusty" - like a rusty bolt that will not turn; obstinate, surly or ill-tempered. |
| Ruth | n | OE: hreow: sad; the quality of being compassionate, feeling sorrow for another, compassion, pity. 2. contrition, grief, distress, lamentation. 3. matter or occasion of sorrow. regret. |
| Ruthful | adj | Full of sorrow or pity; sorrowful; merciful. 2. causing sorrow. |
| Ruthless | adj | Having no compassion; unrestrained by pity; merciless. |
| Ruthlessness | n | The state or quality of being ruthless. |
| Ruthness | n | The state or quality of being sorrow, contrite, regretful. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Shab | n | A cutaneous disease in sheep; scab or scabies. 2. a low fellow, afflicted with scabs. |
| Shabby | adj | Threadbare, ragged, soiled or defaced, as from hard use. 2. characterised by worn or damaged garments. 3. usurious, mean, gombeenish, paltry. |
| Shack | n | Grain fallen or shaken from the ear of a plant, used for the feeding of pigs , poultry etc after the harvest. 2. a supply of fallen grain for this purpose. 3. a residue of barley. 4. stubble. 5. an idle, disreputish fellow. |
| Shackle | n | A fetter, chain, hobble. |
| Shackle | vb | to confine with fetters or shackles. |
| Shackle-bone | n | The wrist. |
| Shackledom | n | Imprisonment, incarceration, detention, jailing. 2. marriage (jocular). |
| Shackling | n | Idling, loafing, bulging, dissipation. |
| Shade | n | Comparitive obscurity owing to interruption of the rays of light. 2. an obscure place, a spot not exposed to light. 3. a hidden or unseen retreat. 4. darkness, obscurity. 5. that which shelters from light or the direct rays of the sun. 6. that which protects from the heat of the sun or wind. 7. a screen, a protecting shelter, cover. 8. the soul after its departure from the body; so called because the ancients thought it perceptible to sight, though not touch it. 9. a spirit, ghost, phantom, a shade. 10. a darker portion of a picture or artwork; a degree of variation of colour, as darker or lighter. 11. minute variation of thought, belief, opinion, expression; anything which distinguishes from an other similar thing by slight variation. 12. "The Shades": the abode of souls after leaving the body. |
| Shade | vb | Becloud, bedarken, cloud over, dim out, darken, block out. |
| Shadow | n | An unilluminated place; darkness. 2. something existing in perception or something refuge from danger or observation. 3. a dominating or pervasive prescence. 4. a spy employed to follow someone and reporrt their movement. 5. an inseparable companion. 6. darkness, shade, obscurity, shaded place, shelter, protection, security. 7. a reflected image, as in a mirror or water. 8. a spirit, ghost, apparition, phantom, uninvitted guest. 9. an adumbration, dimming body, a mystical form. 10. a small degree: a shade. Nb: Shade differs from shadow as it implies no particular form of definite limit. One speaks of the shade of a tree, we have no reference to it's form; but if one speaks of measuring a pyramid or other thing by it's shadow, we have definte knowledge of it's form and extent. |
| Shadow | vb | To follow, usu. without the persons knowledge. 2. cast a shadow over, shade, shadow. 3. to make appear small by comparison; overshadow, dwarf. 4. to cast off light from, put in shade. 5. throw shadow over. 6. overspread with obscurity, shroud. 7. conceal hide, screen. 8. to protect, shelter, from danger 8. to make graduation or light, to shade. 9. to adumbrate, to represent faintly or imperfectedly. 10. to cloud, darken, cast in gloom. 11. to follow and watch closely, as a detective a criminal. |
| Shadow-adder | n | A serpent lurking in shady places; fig. " a snake in the grass." |
| Shadower | n | A spy, one who follows others to keep watch upon their actions. 2. private detective. |
| Shadowish | adj | Characterised by shadow, shadowness, shadowy in look, feeling or umbrageous. |
| Shadow-land | n | Land or abode of ghosts, spirits , phantom. 2. a place of shadow or shadows. 3. a gloomy unhappy place. 4. a border land between places. |
| Shadowless | adj | Without shadow or shadow |
| Shadow of death | phr | Darkness and gloom with a feeling of impending of death. |
| Shadowy | adj | Spying, following, trailing, tracking. |
| Shady | adj | Full of shade, casting a shade. 2. shaded or sheltered. 3. morally questionable, dubious, suspicious. 4. quiet, hidden |
| Shaft | n | In OE only: creation, origin. 2. make, shape, constitution, nature or species. 2. a creature, that which is created. |
| Shaft | vb | |
| Shag | n | Rough matted hair, wool. 2. a mass of matted hair. 3. a collection of shredded bark. 4. long coarse cloth. 5. tangled mas of trees, foliage, shrubs. 6. rough or coarsely woven carpet. 7. unkemptiness. 8. roughness and brutality of men (collectively). |
| Shake | n | A fissure in the earth or a rock; a fissure or crack in timber, caused by being dried to quickly. 2. roofing materail, a shingle. 3. a frothy drink, as in a milkshake. 4. a grasp or shaking of a person'a hand in an act of frienship, welcoming or congratulations. 5. a musical note that alternates rapidly with another note. 6. a tremulous tone. 7. a trembling of the body because of cold, fear, excitement. 8. a movement repeatedly from side to side. 9. a stirring or feeling of emotion. |
| Shake | vb | To get rid of: shake off. 2. to grasp or shake another hand in an act of friendship, welcoming or congratulation. 3. to shake one's finger, fist, head in order to communicate a feeling, such as greeting, anger, peace etc. 4. |
| Shake-down | n | Any makeshift bed, esp. one of straw. 2. a forced contribution; an instance of extortion. 3. a search of a person or place. |
| Shake-off | n | Move or remove by agitating, vacillating or wavering. 2. rapid motion one way or another. |
| Shakes | n | "The Shakes": fever, ague, cold or flu. |
| Shale | n | In wider meaning: a thing that separate. 2. a shell, husk, esp. the shell or outer covering of a nut, which encloses the kernel. 3. a pod of peas or beans. 4. an example of something without value, valueless. 5. scales of a fish. 6. shavings of metal. 7 mesh of a net. 8. collection or pile of loose ore. 9. a dish goblet, cup. 10. finely-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated and often of a friable structure. |
| Shale | vb | To shell or husk . |
| Shalk | n | Originally a servant in alliterative poetry and one of the synonyms for a man, man -- sometimes used in a contemptous way. |
| Shall | vb | OE: I am obliged to owe, be under obligation for, to be obliged, must. 2. as an auxiliary indiates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking. |
| Shallow | n | A freshwater fish, commonly known as "The Rudd. " |
| Shallow | n | A shoal, a shallow spot in a river or sea, " The Shallows." |
| Shallow | adj | Lacking depth, not far from the top, shoally. 2. lacking intellectual depth, not wise, profound or mentally sharp. |
| Shallow-hearted | adj | Having no depth or feeling of compassion for others. |
| Shallow-minded | adj | Having no depth of intellect or thought. 2. shallow-brained |
| Shallowness | n | The condition or state of being shallow. |
| Shallow-read | adj | Reading few books or only those of popular appeal. |
| Shallow-rooted | adj | Having no depth of roots or a rooting system, as the eucalypt. 2. having only shallow-dug foundation or base, (also fig.) |
| Shallows | n | " The Shallows." |
| Shallow-thoughted | adj | Examining matters on a superficial level only. |
| Shallow-witted | adj | Having no depth of intellectual or thought. |
| Shamble | n | In OE. a table or counter for offering goods for sale, counting money etc. 2. a footstool, a stool. 3. a place where meat, fish is sometimes sold. 4. a flesh or meat market. 5. slaughter-house, abbatoirs. 6. a place of carnage, wholesale slaughter. 7. scene of disorder, devastation and sin; a mess. 8. the frame of wood that hangs over a shaft horse in a cart. 9. a shoal |
| Shamble | vb | To cut up and dispose of a corpse; to cut or slaughter in a shamble; to render shambled. 2. to move or walk in a ungainly, awkward, sometimes unsteady manner. 3. ill-shaped, wry, distorted. |
| Shame | n | A painful emotion or sensation coming from or caused by an awareness of a lack, an inadequacy, a guilty feeling or impropriety which may damage reputation, or that which one may wish to conceal. 2. state of dishonour, disgace, ignominy. 3. an unfortunate development, put-down, show-up, shyness. 4. reproach, incurred or suffered, dishonour, ignominy, persons state of being. 5. shameness, shamefacedness, modesty. |
| Shame | vb | Compelled through a sense of shame; to be ashamed. 2. to be surpassed or beaten by wide margin. 3. to be made to feel ashamed. 4. to bring about in a person, a feeling of guilt or impropriety or behaviour unfavourable to regulation. 5. to cover with reproach or ignominy. 6. to dishonour, disgrace, deride, mock, bring down, bring low, put down. |
| Shamefast | adj | Bashful, modest, modest or virtuous in behaviour and character. 2. in a depreciatory sense, shy, akward in company, sheepish. 3. of action, behaviour, appearances: shameful, modest, bashful. 4. ashamed, abashed, full of shame. |
| Shameless | adj | Impudent; brazen, immodest. 2. done without shame, indicating a want of decency. 3. infamous, unworthy, wicked. 4. unbecoming, indecent, untrustworthy. |
| Shameworthy | adj | Of which one ought to be shamed. |
| Shank | n | That part of the leg which extends from the knee to the ankle. 2. the tibia or shinbone. 3. the legs as whole (joc). 4. one's legs. 5. in animals, the lower part of the foreleg esp. the horse's between the knee and the fetlock; the tarsus of a bird; the tibia of some insects. 6. a part of a joint of meat, eg. in a ham, a leg of mutton. 7. a kind of fur obtained from the legs of kids, goats, sheep used for trimmimgs. 8. a stocking esp. a knitted one. 9. the legs as a triangle. 10. each of the two portions of a pair of scissors between the bows and the joints. 11. stem or straight part of anything, a goblet, a glass. 12. straight part of a nail, pin, drill between the head and the taper. 13. the stem of a plant. 14. trunk of a tree. 15. stalk of a flower. 16. the body as distinguished from the shoulders, face and feet. 17. stem of a tobacco pipe. 18. the shaft of a column. 19. the stem of a chisel. 20. the tang of a knife. 21. fang of a tooth. 22. the projecting part of a hill, or narrow ridge, which like a stem, joins the mass level ground. 23. the latter end of anything; the remainder of last part of a thing, esp. in the phrase " the shank of the night." ; " the shank of life (skankdom)." |
| Shank | vb | To go on foot. walk, travel on foot. 2. to hit a golf ball on the bottom part of the club. 3. of a plant, to decay at the stem, or footstalk. 4. to sink a shaft. 5. to knit stockings., |
| Shank-bone | n | Tibia, the shanker. |
| Shape | n | OE: state, creation, creature, condition, fate, destiny, of the nature of what is decreed. 2. form, excellence of form, beauty. 3. species, kind; a creature. 4. phantom, a ghost, an ethereal, a figure dimly or uncertaintly percieved. 5. sexual organs; the distinctive organs of either sex; the private parts of a female. 6 the visual appearance of someone or somebody. 7. the state of good health: "in good shape." 8. a perpetual structure, composition of music. 9. Character or construction of a thing, it's outward look, figure, form, 10. embodiment in form, conception or thought; a concrete embodiment. 11. configuration, contour, body, human body, physical body, build, figure, physique, anatomy, frame, flesh, embodiment, model, lay-out, mould. |
| Shape | vb | To take shape, influence, give direction or direct. 2. make or mould something for a specific function. 3. to form, to assume a definite form, create, forge, mould. 4. to adapt for a purpose; to lay out. 5. to imagine, concieve, to call forth idea. 6. to design, prepare, plan, arrange. 7. to build or shape oneself, to prepare, make ready. 8. to hew, cut, sculpt, trim. 8. to put together, put up, set up, work out, get up, write, compose. 9. to knead, prepare, mould. |
| Shapeless | adj | Without shape or form; amorphous |
| Shapely | adj | Fit, likely, suitable. 2. of good or elgant shape, well-formed. |
| Shapend | n | A creator, maker, fabricator, manfacturer. |
| Shaper | n | The Creator or (Great) Shaper, God. 2. one who fashions of shapes something. |
| Shape-shifter | n | Mythical creature who can change form, such as Proteus or Odin. |
| Shapesmith | n | A corset maker (joc.) |
| Shape up | vb | Of a person, to improve one's behaviour, activities, attitude, etc. 2. of a situation or person, to develop satisfactorily. 3. to be prepared to fight someone |
| Shape up or ship out | phr | Either do properly what one is supposed to be doing or simply go away --- rather than doing it badly. |
| Shard | n | A cleft, gap. 2. a gap in an enclosure, esp in a hedge. 2. (a) water(way) which divides. 3. a gap or notch in the blade of a tool. 4. fragments, remnant of something worn or decayed. 5. a broken piece of brittle substance, as of a earthen vessel. 6. a hard, thin, or a wing cover of an insect. 7. shell, scales of a dragon. |
| Shard | vb | Of a tree: to shed it's bark or sharding. |
| Sharded | vb | Of a serpent, caterpillars: scaly, ecdysis, shedding, casting off. 2. reduced to shards, fragments. 3. of the moon: reduced to a crescent. |
| Share | n | The iron blade in a plough which cuts the ground and the bottom of a furrow: ploughshare. |
| Share | n | The division or fork of a body. 2. the pubic region or groin. |
| Share | n | Assets belonging to an individual, person or group. 2. any (equal)portions into which something is divided. 3. a part played by an individual in bringing about a result. 4. a sharp steel wedge of a ploughshare that breaks up the soil's top layer, so that the seed can be sown. |
| Share | vb | To have something in common, eg. children, an interest, a house as tenants. 2. to use jointly, individually, together or in common. 3. to have, give out as one's portion or share. 4. communicate an idea, a thought, or incident. 5. to part among two or more, to distribute in portions; to divide. 6. to partake of, use or experience with others. 7. to take and possess in common. 8. to cut, shear, cleave or divide. |
| Sharn | n | Dung, especially of cattle. |
| Sharnbud | n | The dung-beetle, from "budde" ---beetle. |
| Sharp | adj | Clearly defined, as in a photo. 2. ending in a sharp point, acuate, acute, needle-like. 3. having the abilty to recognise a sharp distinction, insightish. 4. showing hard-headed, down-to-earthness smartness. 5. intelligent, shrewd, astute, keen in perception, quick to discern, penetrating, clever, sagacious. 6. keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interest; close and exact indealins with others. 7. in speech or language harsh, sharpworded, acerbic, biting, cutting, sarcastic, cruel. 8. very hard or severe upon other's feelings; sharp, rigorous, severe in rebuke. 9. extremely steep, precipitous. 10. high in pitch, sharp note or tone. 11. keen or painfully felt. 12. quick and forceful; keen in quest; impatient. |
| Sharp | adv | Suddenly in change, direction, amount or degree. |
| Sharpness | n | Quick and penetrating intelligence. 2. an urgent attribute in one's voice tone. 3. a strong odor or taste; a pungency. 4. a keen and painful feeling. 5. a thinness of edge; a fineness of point. 6. a harshness of manner, asperity. |
| Sharp-set | adj | Eager or keen for food, hungry. 2. having a desire fixed upon craving. 3. having a craving for sexual indulgence. 4. eager and ready to attack. 5. having a sharp-setness. |
| Sharpship | n | Rigour, hardship: to be sharp or hard upon others in criticism or censure. |
| Sharp-sighted | adj | Quick of sight, having acuteness of mental vision, acuity. |
| Shave | n | A thin slice or shaving. 2. a cutting of the beard. 3. the operation of shaving. 4. exorbitant discount of price. 5. a hand tool consisting of a sharp blade, with a handle at each end. 6. the act of passing near, so as to almost touch or graze. 7. the act of swindling or extorting money, shaving. |
| Shave | vb | OE. sceafan: to scrape, shave, polish, cut, hack. 2. to use s razor to remove the beard. 3. to cut the hair closely. 4. to strip, steal or plunder someone of money or possessions. 5. to be hard in bargaining, extort, cheat, cut the price of. 6. strip, plunder, steal. 7. to cut in thin slices. 8. to touch the surface lightly, skim along the surface. |
| Shavewort | n | Plant of the genus Equisetum, Horsetail, Shave-grass, Shave-rush. |
| Shaw | n | A thicket, a small wood, copse or grove. 2. a strip of wood or underwood forming the border of a field. |
| Shaw | vb | To fence or border (a field) with a shaw. |
| Shawy | adj | Abounding in shaws, woody. |
| She | pr | Things female or of the female sex. 2. the female person or being previously mentioned or understood, in the nominative case. 4. that woman or female: any woman 5. an object designated or personified as feminine. |
| She - | cmp | Female, feminine in hyphenated compounds. |
| Sheaf | n | A quantity of stalks of cut grain or the like, bound together; a bundle of straw. 2. any collection of things, as papers held together by a band or tie. 3. the quiverful of arrows carried by an archer -- usu. 24. 4. a bale, bidle, bundle, faggot, quiver, truss. |
| Shear | n | An edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it. |
| Shear | vb | To deviate, sheer, to cut, clip, or sever a thing with shears or similar instrument, to shear or to shear a fleece a sheep. 2. to reap grain or other similar crops. 3. to deprive of property. 4. to separate or remove with shears or a like instrument. 5. to cut off or clip from the surface. |
| Shearer | n | A workman who shears for a living. |
| Shearsmith | n | A makers of shears. |
| Sheath | n | A protective covering. 2. an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant. 2. a case or holder for a knife or sword. |
| Sheathe | vb | To put into a sheath; to gather and bind into a sheath, as in to sheaf wheat. 2. to plunge a sword into flesh, as if into a sheath. 3. to encase or protect with a covering, as the hull of a ship with metal. 4. to draw in as claws. |
| Sheave | vb | To bind in a sheaf; sheave. |
| Sheave | n | Slice of bread. 2. a slice. 3. a shaving. |
| Shed | n | Distinction, discrimination, separation (of one thing from another). 2. the faculty of discerning, or distinguishing. 2. something being shed or fallen as "a shed of snow." |
| Shed | n | A small low building, often with its sides or front open. 2. a lean-to 3. any building used for storage made from tin; sometimes a temporary covering. 4. a store-house barn. |
| Shed | vb | To fall in drops; to pour out in drops. 2. to let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering. 3. to drop leaves, branches. 4. to get rid of, dismiss, sack, let go, release. 5. to shed or spill blood. 6. to cause or allow a substance to flow, spill or run out. 7. to cast off hair, fur, skin, feathers or other coverings like certain animals: to molt, exuviate, slough. 8. to emit, diffuse, cause to flow or pour out, as the sun sheds light. 9. to sprinkle, intersperse, to cause: her hair was shed with grey. |
| Sheel | n | Shell, husk, pod, shell or outer covering. 2. that in the process of sheeling, shealing. 3. a parting, separation, division. 4. the act of parting, separation, dividing. |
| Sheen | n | A beautiful woman, a sheen. (Your beautiful sister Lucina, the sheen.) 2. The Sun: " The Sheen." 3. Gloss, lustre, brilliance, dazzle. |
| Sheen | adj | Something to behold. 2. of a person, esp. of women and their appearance, features: beautiful, fair, comely, beholding. 3. " a sheen " a beauty in a woman or women. 4. of animals, inanimate objects, places: beautiful, attractive. 5. in a non-material sense: beautiful, noble, pure, clean, free from sin.) 6. bright, shiny, sheeny, resplendent. 7. of the day, the sky, bright, sheeny, sun-filled, bright in colour. |
| Sheen | vb | To shine, glisten, gleam, glint, to glow after. |
| Sheenless | adj | Without beauty, plain, unattractive, ugly. 2. dull, wan, dark, sunless. 3. ignoble, impure, unclean, peccable. |
| Sheep | n | A medium-sized, domesticated animal of the genus "Ovis aries." 2. an animal, a ruminant, keeped by man for its wool, skin and meat. 3. a docile vulnerable person with the supposed temperament of a sheep: meek, self-conscious, sheepishly bashful, foolish-feeling, weak and timid, a simpleton, who is preyed upon by. 4. the people of God under god's protection. |
| Sheepish | adj | Spiritless, shy, bashful, sheeped, coy, hesitant. |
| Sheep-run | n | An extensive tract of country where sheep range and graze. |
| Sheet | n | A towel, napkin, a cloth. 2. a broad piece of linen or cotton stuff, canvas or the like for covering, swathing, protecting from injury. Nb: "a burying sheet": shroud. |
| Sheet-flood | n | A short-lived expanse of running water that spread as a continous sheet over a large area following rain. |
| Sheet-lightning | n | A diffused glow of light flashing out of the clouds and illuminating their outlines. |
| Sheeted | pp | Wrapped in a sheet or sheets, esp. a windy or encircling sheet; applied to the dead or ghosts. 2. encircled by a sheet as protection against injury or cold. 3. spread out like a sheet, esp. of rain, snow, lightning. |
| Shell | n | Ammunition fired by a cannon or rocket-launcher. 2. the hard outer covering of any animal; the housing or outer covering of something. 3. outer covering of some fruits, such as eggs, nuts. 4. rigid covering that covers an object. 5. a very light, narrow, racing boat. 6. metal sheathing of any thickness. 7. any slight, hollow structure. 8. a basic structure of a building or buildings left after bombing, after demolition or during renovation. 9. framework, hollow, skeleton. 10. a coarse, thin kind of interior coffin, enclosed within a more stronger one. |
| Shell | vb | To direct, throw or use explosives on or upon enemies during or conflict, bomb or bombard a city. 2. create by explosion and explosive blasts a hole through a rock. 3. remove from a pod, husk, outer covering friut, nuts, seeds. 4. look for and collect shells by the seashore. s break off the shell, as in shelling peas or nuts. 7. separate the kernels of or from the cob, ear or husk. 8. |
| Shell-meat | n | Fonsisting of shellfish or testaceous molluscs. |
| Shell-monger | n | Shell-seller or trader in shells. 2. shell collector. |
| Shell out | phr | Distribute freely |
| Shell-sand | n | Minute fragments of shells constituting a considerable part of the seashore or beach. |
| Shelf | n | OE. (scylfe) ledge, a ledge or shelf of rock or mountain, a floor. & OE. (scylf) rugged rock, pinnacle. Modern word " shelf" from LG. (Schelf) |
| Skelp | n | OE. (scylp): a sandbank in a river or sea; sometimes seen as shelf. |
| Sheltron | n | OE. (scieldtruma): a troop. 2. a close, compact body of troops, troops drawn in battle array. 3. a phalanx. 4. a compact body of ships; a shieldtrum. |
| Shelve | vb | OE. to shield or defend. |
| Shench | n | A cupful of drink or liquor, |
| Shench | vb | To pour liquor. 2. to give a person a drink. 3. to shenk |
| Shenker | n | A drinker, a bibulant, boozer. |
| Shend | vb | To put to shame and disgrace. 2. to confound, confuse. 3. to destroy, ruin, bring to destruction. 4. to disfigure, corrupt, infect, defile, soil. 5. to overcome with fatigue, bewilder, stupefy. 6. a milder sense: to injure, hurt, impair, damage, spoil; to discomfit in an argument or disagreement. 7. to dishonour, blacken, denigrate, demean, to be shent. |
| Shendful | adj | Infamous, disgraceful, vile, ignominous, shendlac |
| Shendship | n | Shendness, disgace, ignominy, infame, vileness, the condition or quality of shend: shendness. |
| Shene | vb | To burst asunder, break, blow up, explode. |
| Shent | n | Disgrace, shame, ignominy, scandal. |
| Shepherd | n | One who tends, feeds and guards sheep, esp. a grazing flock. 2. a church pastor or clergyman who gives religious guidance. |
| Shepherd-hearted | adj | Kind, compassionate, caring. |
| Shepstare | n | The starling: from their habit of sitting on a sheep's back and searching for ticks to eat. |
| Sheriff | n | Shire-reeve, the shireman. |
| Shewel | n | A scarecrow. |
| Shide | n | A piece of wood split for timber, often used for fire wood, a shider. |
| Shide | vb | To divide, cleave, split, shatter, splinter. |
| Shield | n | A scute, carapace, plastron, or any proctective plate covering. 2. a privy, toilet, out-house. 3. sheet ice. 4. the dome of a shield volcano or a very broad dome with gently sloping sides. |
| Shield | vb | To protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm. 2. hold back a thought or feeling about. 3. to harbour a grudge etc. 4. to cover with, defend, protect from injury. 5. to ward off, to keep off or out, to forbid. 6. to avert misfortune |
| Shift | n | A transformation, displacement 2. a workshift: time which you are at work. 3. a crew of workers. 4. the act of moving one place to another. 5. switch, changeover, directional change, dislodgement. 6. unsteady sideway movement. 7. a geological fault, fracture, break. 8. division, veering, distribution. 9. a woman's sleeveless undergarment. |
| Shift | vb | In OE: to determine. 2. put in order, arrange. 3. apportion, distribute, divide into shares, partition off. 4. manage matters, make provision, deal, bargain. 5. bestir oneself; make a living by one's own devices. 6. manage with something inferior; to made do or to make shift. 7. to change someone mind; to change places. 8. to dress in fresh underclothing. 9. to change a scene. 10. to evade, turn aside. 11. transfer blame, responsilbilty or burden. 12. to palm off something onto a person. 13. to change a mechanical thing like a lever. 14, to alter direction. 15. to avoid, elude, escape. 16. shirk, to put off, deter. 17. to quit or leave. 18. to rid of. 19. to put off a person with a subterfuge. 20. evade or turn aside an argument or promise. 21. get rid of the effects, of drink, etc. 22. to change one's lodgings. 23. to move away, withdraw, depart esp to slip off unobserved.24. travel, journey, fare, move on. |
| Shiftless | adj | Helpless from self-defence. 2. void of cunning or artifice. 3. lacking in resource, incapable of shifting for oneself, hence inefficient, effete, lazy, shiftlessness. 4. of action, ineffective, futile, unvarying, unchanging, without shift, wendless. |
| Shildy | adj | Guilty, culpable. |
| Shill | vb | To resound, sound loudly, ashill, |
| Shill | vb | To separate. 2, to curdle milk. |
| Shilling | n | (shilling vbn: to shill) |
| Shim | n | Shadow, gloom. 2. the streak of white on a horse's face. 3. a faint or transient appearance; a glimpse, a shimmer. |
| Shimmer | n | Nb: shimmerless, shimmeriness(flickering) |
| Shimmer | vb | Earlier use to shine brightly, glisten. 2. to shine with a tremulous, somewhat flickering light. 2. to gleam faintly. 3. to shim. 4. to move effortlessly, glide, drift. |
| Shin | n | The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg, between the knee and the ankle. 2. the foremost part of the human leg, between the knee and the ankle. 3. the tibia. |
| Shin | vb | Climb akwardly, as if to scramble. 2. to climb a tree, pole etc. by grasping it by the arms and legs, without the help of spikes, steps or other aids: "to shinny up.". 3. to go or run hastily in order to borrow money from a number of persons: 'to shin it.' |
| Shinder | vb | To shiver. 2. to shatter into pieces. |
| Shine | n | The quality of being bright and emitting light rays. 2. the quality or state of brightness, lustre, gloss, polish, sheen. 3. effulgence, refulgence. 4. sunshine, fairweather. 5. a liking or fancy for another. |
| Shine | vb | To be bright by reflecting or casting light. 2. to be shiny, as if wet, glisten. 3. to emit light, beam, gleam, glint. 4. to be distinguished, eminent, talented. 5. to have a bright complexion; to glow, beam, radiate. 6. to touch or seem to be touching visually. 7. to experience a well-being feeling or happiness. 8. to make a surface shine, looked polished, smooth, smoothen. 9 to fall upon, strike. |
| Ship | n | A sea vessel that carries freight and passengers. 2, any large sea-going vessel. 3. a space going craft. 4. a dish originally fashioned like the hull of a ship, used to hold incense. |
| Ship | vb | To engage to serve on board a vessel. 2. to engage or secure for service seaman on board a ship. 3. to embark on a ship. 4. to put on board a ship or rail train ;for transportation, to transport or convey. 4. convey on ships belonging to one country or industry, such as on a cargo ship, merchant ship. |
| Shipbote | n | Payment or charge for the repair of a ship |
| Shipbreche | n | Shipwreck |
| Shipe | n | In OE. sense, dignity, condition. 2. something allocated, wages, reward, remuneration, shiping. |
| Shipe | vb | To reward, pay wages. |
| Shipper | n | A seaman. 2. a sea captain, skipper. 3. one who ships goods for transportation. 4. one who transports goods by rail. |
| Shipping | n | The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials; transportation, transport; transportation, transport. 2. conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry. |
| Shippon | n | A cattle-shed, a cowhouse, an ox-stall, a shippen, farm buildings. |
| Shipwreck | n | The partial or total destruction of a ship at sea. 2. utter or practical destruction or ruin. 3. scatterd remnants, as of a wrecked ship, wreckage. |
| Shire | n | In OE: official charge, adminstration office, esp, that of a bishop, steward, governor. In Old English times of smaller districts, hundreds and wapentake for purposes of local government. 2. A province, district. |
| Shire | adj | Bright, shining. 2. of liquids: clear, translucent. 3. pure, unnixed. 4. morally, spiritually clean or pure. 5. complete, perfect, sheer, utter; also negatively mere, bare. 6. thin, tenuous, not dense, scanty, sheer, weak, small. |
| Shirely | adv | Brightly, clearly, purely, shirenessly 2. with main force: mightly, straight down. |
| Shire-moot | n | Judicial assembly of the shire in OE. times. |
| Shire-wite | n | Tax paid to the sheriff for holding a shire court. |
| Shirt | n | |
| Shit | n | Excrement; the act of defecation. 2. a contemptible person. |
| Shittle | adj | Of persons and their faculties: inconstant, variable, wavery, flighty, fickle. 2. Of things, shaky, unstable. 3. shittle-wit: a foolish person; shittle-willed: wavering, fickle in resolve. |
| Shittleness | n | Fickleness. instability, vacillation, shakiness. |
| Shive | n | A sheave, a particle of tusk. 2. a splinter. 3. a piece of thread or fluff on the surface of a cloth. 4. refuse of hemp or flax. 5. a sliver of light; a shivelight. 6. a piece of bread, a sheave of bread. |
| Shiver | n | A fragment, a chip, splinter. 2. flake, loose fibre, or filament. 3. slately stone. 4. a breastplate of a plough. |
| Shiver | vb | |
| Shoad | vb | In OE. to divide, separate, shed. 2. loose fragments of tin, lead, copper. |
| Shoal | n | Flock of birds. 2. large number of person, a throng, a crowd, a troop. 3. a large number of inaminate things. 5. a mass of floating ice. |
| Shoal | adj | Of water, watercourse, harbour, sound: not deep, slight in the depth, becoming shallow, shoaling. 2. of mind or intellectual: shallow, unprofound, shallowness. |
| Shoal | vb | Of waterway, streams, bays, harbour: to become shallower. 2. Of a ship to come into shoal or the shallows. 3. to dig or drive less deeply into soil. |
| Shoal-hood | n | Shallowness, unprofundity, slightness. |
| Shoaling | pp | growing or becoming shallower. |
| Shoat | n | A young weaned pig. 2. an idle, worthless person. |
| Shock | n | |
| Shock | vb | |
| Shode | n | The crown of the head. 2. the part(ing) of the head. 3. a dividing ridge. |
| Shoding | n | Separation. 2. the parting of the hair. |
| Shoe | n | |
| Shoe | vb | |
| Shoemaker | n | One who makes boots, shoes, etc. 2. a cobbler, a sutler, a souter. |
| Shoe-tree | n | A wooden or metal form inserting in boots or shoes to preserve their shape or to stretch them; also called a boot-tree. |
| Shond | n | Shame, disgrace, , ignominy, scandal, infamy. 2. "To do someone shond." --- treat with indignity. 3. "to bring shond upon oneself or another." --- bring scandal, infamy, etc. |
| Shood | n | The husk of oats after threshing. Also spelt "shude." |
| Shoot | vb | |
| Shoot | n | |
| Shop | n | A building, a commercial establishment, in which goods, wares, items are sold by retail. 2. a small place, a workshop, where handcrafts or manufacturing done. 3. a course of instruction in a trade class. |
| Shop | vb | To go or do shopping, buy at, patronise. |
| Shopping | n | The act of looking around for goods and services available for sale |
| Shop talk | phr | Interest, conversation about one's work or what's going on in their workshop. 2. to make one's work the chief topic of conversation, to talk shop. |
| Shore | adj | Precipitous, rugged, sheer; steep. |
| Shortlivy | adj | Ephemeral, shortlived, unenduring, fleeting. |
| Short-tongued | adj | Inarticulate, stammering, lisping. 2. taciturn, unwilling to speak. |
| Shot | n | A solid missile, as a ball of iron, or a bullet, a pellet of lead. 2. the act of shooting |
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| Shoulder | n | |
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| Sac | n | OE: dispute, case at law, litigation, crime; see "Sake". Certain right or privelege of jurisdiction which formerly by custom belonged to the lord of the manor which gave him the power of holding court, trying cases and imposing fines, as were specified (along with others) and included in the grant of a manor by the crown. NB see: "Sac and Soke." |
| Sac | n | The punishment of drowning in a sack (used in ancient Rome for the crime of parricide). 3. "sack and seam": pack-horse traffic. 4. a large or small bag. 5. used as a measure (amount contained in a bag) for corn, fruit, wool, coal etc. |
| Sack | n | Dismissal from work or employment: give the sack to. 2. "to hold the sack" -- expression meaning: saddled with unwelcome responsibility." 3. " to buy a cat in a sack": to buy something without inspecting it. |
| Sack | adj | " In sack and ashes": full of bitter regret and shame." |
| Sackcloth | n | A coarse textile fabric (now of flax or hemp) used chiefly in the making of bags or sacks and the wrapping of bales etc., sacking. 2. as the materail for penitental or mourning clothes. "Sackclothed" -- clad in a sack. |
| Sackful | n | As much as would fit in a sack, a great quantity, a large amount |
| Sackless | adj | Late OE: sacless --- secure from accusation, or dispute. 2. unchallenged; unmolested. 3. not guilty, innocent of wrong intent, having guilt or sack inflicted upon without just cause, guileless, simple. 4. of things: harmless. Hence, feeble-minded, lacking energy, dispirited. |
| Sackpipe | n | The bagpipes, the pibroch, the pipes. |
| Sad | adj | Of personal immaterial things, satiated, having one's fill, sated, weary, tired. 2. In OE: settled, firmly established in purpose and condition, steadfast, firm, consistent. 3. strong, capable of resisting, valiant. 4. orderly and regular in life; trustwothy in character and judgement, grave, serious, sorrowful. 5. of looks and appearance: dignified, grave, serious. 6. profoundly or solidly learned. 7. of thought and consideration: mature, serious, in sad earnest. 8. of persons, their feelings or dispositon: serious, mournful, sad-eyed, sad-hearted. 9. of looks, tones, gestures, costume: expressive of sorrow. 10. of time, place, action: characterised by sorrow, sorrowful. 11. morose, dismal-looking; sad-looking, sad-seeming, causing sorrow, distressing, calamitious, lamentable.. 12. deplorably bad, as a term of depreciation on censure. 13. of material objects: solid, dense, compact, heavy. 14. of liquids: firm, thick. 15. of soil: stiff, heavy. 16. of bread, pastry: unrisen, heavy, not properly baked. 17. of a number of person formimg a compact body. 18. of colour: dark-coloured, deep, not cheerful or bright, dull, sober, neutral. 19. of sleep: sound, deep. 20. of a blow: heavy, strong, vigorous. 21. of fire: violent, fierce, intense. |
| Sad | vb | To make solid, thick, firm, compressed. 2. to become steadfast, to establish, to confirm. 3. to darken a colour. 4. to make sorrowful, dull or gloomy. |
| Sadded | pp | Confirmed, strengthen, made sorrowful. |
| Sadden | vb | To make solid, firm or stiff; to render into a compact mass, to make coherent. 2. to make sad, and gloomy. |
| Saddening | n | The action of making sad or sadding |
| Saddish | adj | Somewhat sad. |
| Saddle | n | A seat for a rider to be used on the back of a horse. |
| Saddle | vb | To put a riding saddle on a horse. 2. to charge or load with a burden; to put a burden on another's back. |
| Saddle | phr | "Don't try and saddle me up (or with) with that." -- to force acceptance. 2. to force (someone or something) unwanted. 3. "To saddle up." - to be prepared to do something. |
| Saddler | n | One who makes saddles and other equipment of sadlery used in horse-riding. |
| Sade | vb | To become or to make weary. |
| Sadness | n | The state or condition of being sad. |
| Sad-tree | n | The framework which forms the foundation of a saddle. 2. the North American tulip tree, "Liriodendrum tulipfera". 2. The Night Jasmine of India, ( The Melancholy tree), "Nyctanthes arbor-tristus." |
| Said | ppl | Named or mentioned before, as in "abovesaid, aforesaid" 2. spoken, uttered; in phrase, said saw. |
| Sail | n | A piece of canvas attached to a mast of a vessel to secure its propulsion by wind. 2. a trip or passage in sailing vessel. 3. a sailing vessel or craft. 4. sails collectively. 5. the wings of a bird or the broad part of the arm of a windmill. |
| Sail | vb | To set sail on a voyage, to begin a voyage 2. to travel over water by ship or boat. 3. to move across the water by the action of the wind on the sails. 4. to move, glide, or float in the air, soar. 5. to proceed boldly in action. 6. to move in a steady, dignified manner; move haughtily. 7. " to sail into" : to move with energy; attack with violence. |
| Sail | phr | "To sail into."-- to cause or be prepared to enter a place, or (fig), some situation. 2. to enter or begin something in a proud or active manner. 3. to go about something actively. 4. to scold, chide, lambaste. |
| Sail | phr | "To sail through." - to deal with something successfully. |
| Sailing | n | A voyage by sea. |
| Sailor | n | Seaman, mariner, seafarer, old-salt. |
| Sailorship | n | The act and craft of a sailor, mariner etc. |
| Sain | vb | To make the sign of the Cross on (a person or thing) in token of consecration or blessing, or in exorcising a demon, warding of evil spirits, witches, poison. 2. to cross oneself, to bless. 3. to secure by prayer, enchantment from evil influence. |
| Sain | n | The action of making the sign of the Cross. 2. consecration, blessing, saining. |
| Sake | n | See "Sac, Sak." "Sake" only used in modern English --- for the sake of. It has not been found in OE (Probably from ON.) It existed in OHG. and OFrisian. and may have been in in OE., but not found in Literature, and seems to have arisen from the use of the noun to denote a litigant, cause or a cause. 2 an affair, matter, thing, cause, reason. 2. lawsuit, action of law. 3. quarrel, fight, enmity |
| Sake | n | 1: a reason for wanting something done; "for your sake"; "for the children's sake 2. in the common interest of or for the sake of. 3: the purpose of achieving or obtaining; "for the sake of argument. |
| Sakful | adj | OE. "Sacu." Contentious, quarrelsome, culpable, criminal. |
| Sale | n | The action or act of selling. 2. the putting up of goods to be sold. 3. the sale of goods at a lower price |
| Sallow | n | Applied to several species of Salix, Sallows or Willows |
| Sallow | adj | Of the skin or complexion, a sickly yellow, sallowish, sallowy or brownish-yellow in colour. |
| Sallow | vb | To make or become sallow, sallowish, sallowy, sickly or brownish-yellow in colour. |
| Sallowness | n | The state or condition of being sallow or sallowy. |
| Salt | n | A tract of salty land or marshes flooded by the sea. 2. |
| Salt | vb | To impregnate with salt. 2. to cure, preserve, season with salt; salting |
| Salt | adj | Applied to tears and humours. |
| Salt | phr | "He is not Worth the Salt in Your Tears" - he is no good, untrustworthy; forget him/her for she/he will only bring you grief. |
| Salt | phr | "To Salt away." - to preserve food from decaying by curing with salt. 2. (fig) - to save money or goods etc.for hard time or times of hardship. |
| Salt | phr | "To salt with." - to make something more lively or interesting by some addition, as in making a story more interesting by "salting" it with violence and sex. |
| Salt-cote | n | A Saltworks, Saltern. |
| Saltern | n | A building in which salt is made by boiling or evaporation; a Saltworks, also a plot of land, laid out in pools and walls in which water is let in an then allowed to evaporate naturally. |
| Salter | n | One who deals in or manufactures salt. 2. a workman at a Saltern. 3. one who salts meat or fish for sale. 4. one who salts bodies for embalming. |
| Saltish | adj | Impregnate for preserving with salt. |
| Salt-silver | n | A penny, money paid to the Lord by the tenants; to be excused for the service of carrying is salt from the market to his landlord. |
| Saltstone | n | Rock-salt, a mass of Rock-salt. |
| Saltwort | n | Any plant of the genus, "Salsola. 2. Black Saltwort: Glaux maritima. 3. plant of the genus Salicornia, Salicornia herbacae: Glasswort. |
| Sam | vb | OE. samnian: to assemble. 2. to assemble persons. 3. to bring together, join in marriage, friendship, love. 4. to bring together, collect, gather. 5. to bring together the edges of a wound: to sam-together, to sam-up. 6. to join, fasten together, to amass, hoard, to fill full of. 7. to coagulate, curdle milk, cheese. |
| Sam | adj | Half or imperfectedly as in sam quick; sam dead; sam ripe or red; sam-hale: half-whole or in poor health; sam-sodden: half cooked or half-done. 2. stupid, half-baked; 2. samel: half-burned or imperfectedly burned |
| Same | adj | Similar in identity, like, alike. 2. closely similar or comparable in kind, quality, quantity, degree. 3. equal in amount or value. 4. unchanged in character or nature. 5. like, not different or otherwise. 6. of like kind, sort, size, nature; corresponding, similar. |
| Sameliness | n | Identity, sameness |
| Samen | adv | Together; mutually; samenly, samely, agreeably, samenward. |
| Samey | adj | All the samey: identical, characterised by sameness. 2. lacking in variety, monotonous. 3. sameyness. |
| Samenfere | n | A fellow traveller, associate, |
| Saming | n | A meeting, a coming together, symposium, conference, a samening. |
| Samtale | adj | Accorded, agreed, mutual, |
| Sand | n | The action of sending; that which is sent: a message, present. 2. God's dispensation or ordinance. 3. the action of sending for; an invitation. 4. a person or body of persons sent on an errand; a messager, an envoy, a delegation. 5. an embassy, consulate. 6. a sandman; ; a ; the bed of a river or sea. 3. the shore (of a sea); land as opposed to sea. 4. sandy soil; a grain or particle of sand. 5. a bunker on a golf course. 6. sandy or desrt wastes. 7. instabilty of sand (metaphorical and similative) 8. a sandy colour. 9. " to hide one's head in the sand" : to ignore or deny unpleasant reality. 10. "to raise sand": to create a disturbance or fuss. |
| Sand | vb | Sprinkle, overlay or tip sand on something. 2. to grind or polish with sand. 3. to run a ship on to a sandbank. 4. to clog up with sand. |
| Sandbag | vb | To try to prevent rivers from flooding fields, cities etc, by packing bags filled with sand along their banks. 2. (fig) to coerce, bully, criticise, or lambaste. 4. (fig) to refrain from rising at the first opportunity in the hope of raising by a greater amount latter. |
| Sandblind | n | From the Old English samblind from sam- meaning semi- + blind. In the erroneous belief that the term referred to blindness caused by sand, Samuel Johnson defined the term in his great Dictionary of the English Language (1755) as: "Having a defect in the eyes, by which small particles appear to fly before them." |
| Sand-hill | n | A hill or bank of sand; esp a dune on the seashore. |
| Sanding | n | The action of sanding: |
| Sandstone | n | A rock composed of consolidated sand. |
| Sandwort | n | Of several plants which grow in sandy places, of the genus: Arenaria. |
| Sandy | adj | Of the nature of sand, arenacious. 2. of a large proportion of sand. |
| Sank | vb | To assemble, bring together, come together. |
| Sanking | n | An assembly, forum. |
| Sann | adj | True: a variant of sooth. |
| Sap | n | Juice or fluid of any kind. 2. The vital juice or fluid circulating in plants. 3. moisture in stone. |
| Sapful | adj | Abounding in sap or moisture. |
| Sapling | n | A young tree, esp. a young fruit tree with trunks a few mms in diameter. 2. a young greyhound. |
| Sap-monger | n | Maker and trader of beverages. ?? |
| Sapwort | n | Oenanthe crocata. |
| Sard | vb | To jape, jest, play, tricks, jeer, |
| Sarding | vb n | The action of japing. |
| Sark | n | A garment worn against the skin; a shirt or chemise; occasionally a night-shirt --- transfig. a supplice. 2. the action of covering or wearing a sark; sarking. |
| Sark | vb | To furnish or clothe in a sark. 2. to cover a roof with wooden boards or, sarking or sarking felt. |
| Sarkful | adj | "A sarkful of sore bones": a sore body. |
| Satem | n | The night before Saturday: Friday night. |
| Saugh | n | A rope made of twisted sallow withies. |
| Saughen | adj | Pertaining to or made of sallow. 2. (fig.): soft, weak, wanting in energy. NB: also spelt: "sauchen" |
| Saught | n | An agreement, covenant, reconciliation. 2. agreement, freedom from strife, peace. |
| Saught | vb | To bring peace, to become reconcile. 2.. " To be at saught." --- free from strife, at peace, to reconcile. 3. to become calm or quiet. 4. to reconcile a person. |
| Saughting | vn. | Peace, reconciliation, strife-free, saughtening. |
| Saughtliness | n | In a state of peace, reconciliation, strifelessness. 2. in a state of agreement, calm, quietness. |
| Saughy | adj | Inclined to peace, reconcile, quietness, calm. |
| Saw | n | A saying, discourse, speech, story, tale, recital. 2. a decree, command, edict, ukaze, fiat. |
| Saw | vb | To cut, hew, slice through woods and other materials. |
| Sawbones | n | A surgeon (slang). |
| Sawed-off | adj | Undersided, below average height. |
| Sawdust | n | Wood in the state of small particles, detached from a tree plant etc. in the process of sawing. 2. dust of any material produced in the process of sawing; scorbo. |
| Sawdusty | adj | Abounding in or resembling sawdust. 2. of the nature of sawdust. |
| Sawmill | n | A place where timber is produced. |
| Saw-wort | n | Name given to several species of the genus "Serratula," namely: Serrutula tinctoria , Saussurea, Cardinuus arvenis. |
| Sax | n | A knife, short sword, or dagger. 2. a chopping tool used for trimming the edges of roofing slate. 3. a writing-knife: a pen. |
| Saxish | adj | Saxon, as in saxish-folk; saxish tung. |
| Saxon | n | One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries. 2. Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon. 3. A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony 3. The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon. |
| Say | n | What a person says. 2. words as compared to actions. 3. the right to voice an opinion on a matter or to influence a decision. 4. avail oneself of the opportunity of expressing one's views. |
| Sayer | n | One who says; a professional reader; a poet, narrator. |
| Saying | n | Utterance, enunciation, recitation. 2. something commonly said; a proverb.
3. repitition of a spell, incantation. |
| Say-so | n | On the authority; authorisation; according to the authority of that person. |
| Scathe | n | One who works harmer, a malefactor, wretch, fiend, 2. hurt, harm, damage, physical hurt. 3. Something which wroughts injury and harm, supposingly produced from witchcraft. 4. an injury, damage or loss from which legal compensation is claimed; also cost or expenses incurred by the claiming. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Scab | n | A hard, dry skin or crust formed on the surface of a healing wound or sore. 2. A contagious disease among sheep, resembling mange, scabies. 3. a bacterial disease among plants with warty growths forming on the stems. 4. a workman who does not belong to or will not join a labour union; a strikebreaker; scabbing. |
| Scabwort | n | Old name for the plant: "Scabiosa major." Other names include: Horse-heal and Inula helenium. |
| Scat | n | Treasure, money. 2. tax, tribute, impost. |
| Scathe | n | One who works harmer, a malefactor, wretch, fiend, 2. hurt, harm, damage, physical hurt. 3. Something which wroughts injury and harm, supposingly produced from witchcraft. 4. an injury, damage or loss from which legal compensation is claimed; also cost or expenses incurred by the claiming. |
| Scathe | vb | To injure or destroy by fire, lightning or similar thing. 2. to scorch, sear, wither. |
| Scathing | adj | Harmful, dangerous, injurious, damaging, wounding, hurtful, withering, searing. 2. subject to pecuniary loss. 3. invectively sharp, cutting, searing, withering, damaging. |
| Scathe-deed | n | A harmful action or hurtful deed. |
| Scathe-fire | n | A conflgration, inferno, holocaust. |
| Scatheless | adj | Without scathe, unharmful. |
| Scathel | adj | Injurious, harmful, dangerous. |
| Scathe-taking | n | To engage in, indulge in, or inflict in a dangerous or harmful act, injury upon another. |
| Sceat | n | A coin or denomination of money, see scat |
| Schelchene | n | A female servant. |
| Schule | vb | To look obliquely. |
| Scinn (skin) | n | Of men's clothing, from skin (n.) + tight (adj.).skin - ca.1200, "animal hide" (usually dressed and tanned), from Old Norse skinn "animal hide, fur," from Proto-Germanic *skintha- (cognates:Old English scinn (rare), Old High German scinten, German schinden "to flay, skin;" German dialectal schind "skin of a fruit," Flemish schinde "bark"), from PIE *sken- "to cut off" |
| Scop | n | A poet, minstral. |
| Score | vb | To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash 2. especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally. 3. to mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge. 4. to engrave, as upon a shield. 5. to make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game. 6. to write down in proper order and arrangement; as to score an overture for an orchestra 7. to mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch. |
| Score | n | A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally, mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account. 9. an account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence,indebtedness. 2. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf. 3. the number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number. 4. A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery. 5. A weight of twenty pounds. 6. The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket. 7. A line drawn; a groove or furrow. |
| Scot | n | One of the ancient Gaelic-speaking people, first known to history as inhabitants of Ireland. 2. a native of Scotland. |
| Scot | n | A payment or contribution, "reckoning" esp. a payment for entertainment or one's share of such payment; chiefly in the phrases: (lit & fig.) " to pay for one's scot." |
| Scot | vb | To lay a person or property under contribution of scot. 2. to share, to participate, assess. |
| Scot-ale | n | An "ale" or festival at which ale was drunk at the invitation of the lord of the manor or of a forester or other bailiff, for which ale as a forced contribution was levied. |
| Scot-free | adj | Exempt from taxes, imposts, charges, etc. |
| Scot-thede | n | People of the Scots; scot-lede: people or language of the Scots. |
| Scottish | adj | Of or belonging to Scotland, especially of persons of scottish nationality, birth or descent. |
| Scrape | vb | To make level, smooth or clean or do damage to, by rubbing, pushing, a hard edge over a surface; scrape off, erase, scrape over, scrape away and scrape out by scraping. 2. touching or almost touching. 3. get something moved by making a rough sound. 4. to make use of money with great care: scrape together or get bit by bit. 5. just succeed in achieving your aim or goal in scraping through. |
| Scrat | n | Hermaphrodite. |
| Scree | vb | To glide. |
| Screpe | vb | To erase, scratch off; see "Scrape." |
| Scrithe | vb | OE : To go, pass, creep, wander. 2. to glide, fall or lapse. 3. to urge, entreat. |
| Scrithing | pp | going, passing, gliding, wandering, roving, fleeting |
| Scrithel | n | Roving, wander, glide, fleetness. |
| Scug | n | Originally shadow, the shade, shelter afforded by a rock, tree, bush or like; hence a shelter. 2. fig, a cloak, pretence, outward show. 2. a squirrel: "a shadow tail." NB: also spelt "skug" |
| Scug | vb | To take shelter or skug. 2. to shade, shelter, screen, protect. 3. to take cover, shelter. 4. to hide, conceal oneself. |
| Scuggy | adj | Shady, gloomy, skuggish, scuggish |
| Scythe | n | Long curved blade with long curved hand-bit worked with the hands to cut grass, crops, etc. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Sea | n | One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface. 2 a body of salt water, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea. 3. An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea. 4. sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee. 5. The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe. 6. (fig): Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of hope. 7. (fig):a great quantity of anything (esp. liquids), "a sea of tea". "a sea of a load". |
| Sea-adder | n | Seasnake, sea-serpent. |
| Sea ape | n | The manatee. |
| Sea apple | n | The sea urchin. |
| Sea-board | n | Bordering on the sea; also the land or region bordering the sea. 2. the seashore or seacoast |
| Sea-craft | n | Maritime skill. skill in navigation. 2. a sea-going vessel |
| Sea-crow | n | Cormorant. |
| Sea-drift | n | Anything cast up by the sea. 2. flotsam. 3. vegetable or animal matter floating on the sea. |
| Sea-fare | n | Food obtained from the sea; fish, seafood. |
| Sea-farer | n | Sea voyager, seaman, sailor. |
| Seafaring | vn | The act of going on or voyaging at sea. |
| Sea-fight | n | A naval battle; a fight or engagement between sea vessels, ships etc. |
| Seafood | n | Edible food from the sea |
| Sea-girt | n | Encircled or surrounded by the sea, sometimes said of a peninsula. |
| Sea-horse | n | The hippocampus; walrus, narwhal. |
| Seaish | adj | Pertaining to the sea or things maritime |
| Sea-king | n | One of the piratical chiefs or leaders, often scandinavian Vikings, of the C9th who ravaged settlements and towns in many parts of Europe. |
| Seal | n | An animal half on land and half in the sea; valued for its skin. |
| Seal | n | OE: sael. opportunity. 2. time, season as in a hay seal, wheat-seal. |
| Sea-less | adj | Without or lacking a sea; landlocked. |
| Sea-light | n | Phosphorence seen at sea. 2. a beacon, lighthouse, harbour light to guide ships. |
| Sea-line | n | The coast or seaboard; the littoral area. 2, the horizon, the line where the sea and sky meet or seem to meet. |
| Seam | n | Suture, junction, join. 2. joining of the edges a wound by suture. 3. joining of fabrics by the seam. 4. an intervening strip. 5. the raise stitching in a cricket ball. 6. a long furrowed groove on on in rocks or stone. 7. a streak of lightning. 9. joints in uniting the edges of sheet . 10. thin layer of stratum separating two strata of greater magnitude. |
| Seam | n | A pack-horse load. 2. a load; a burden. 3. a cartload, esp. a defined amount |
| Seam | vb | To put a burden on; load, weigh down, to weigh heavily. |
| Seeish | adj | Pertaining to or belonging to the sea; marine. |
| Sea-maiden | n | Nymph of the Sea. 2. mermaid. 3. goddess of the sea. |
| Seaman | n | A sailor, a mariner, "salt." |
| Seamanship | n | The skill of a good seaman. 2. the art or management of a ship at sea; seacraft. |
| Sea needle | n | The Garfish. |
| Sear | adj | Dry, withered, burned up: when a pasture is said to be dried up by the sun, it is said to look "sear". 2. of textile fabrics: thin, worn. |
| Sea-raven | n | Sea ravens are a family, the Hemitripteridae, of scorpaeniform fish. They are bottom-dwelling fish that feed on small invertebrates, found in the northwest Atlantic and north Pacific Oceans. They are covered in small spines (modified scales). 2. the cormorant. |
| Sea-rim | n | Seashore. 2. the horizon; the sea horizon. |
| Sear-leaf | n | Leaves and foliage of a tree withered, marcescent, or dead |
| Sea-rover | n | A ship or vessel that cruises the sea for plunder. 2. a pirate, a corsair, a reaver. |
| Sea-rim | n | Seashore. 2. the horizon; the sea horizon. |
| Sear-wood | n | Dead branches on a tree, needing to be cut off for safety. |
| Sea-swine | n | A porpoise. |
| Sea-stream | n | An ocean current. 2. the sea (poet). |
| Sea-thief | n | Pirate, rover, corsair, sea-wolf. |
| Seath | n | A pit, hole, well or pool. |
| Sea-wall | n | A breakwater. 2. the sea as a wall or barrier of defence. |
| Seaward | adj | In the direction or towards the sea. |
| Seaweed | n | A green plant found in abundance around and near the seashore; |
| Sea-wolf | n | A predatory black and white toothed whale with a large dorsal fin, common in cold seas and oceans. |
| Seaworthy | adj | Pertaining to a ship or seacraft considered fit enough to make a trip on the sea or any significantly large body of water. |
| Sedeful | adj | Virtuous, moral, chaste. |
| Sedge | n | A grasslike cyperaceous (genus Carex) found in marshy areas |
| See | vb | To percieve by sight or have the power to percieve by sight. 2. observe or follow by the eye. 3. hold in the imagination or dream. 4. to understand, to understand the meaning of something, to interpret the context of something, realise, come to know, make sense of something, see the outcome of . 5. to concieve of, see in one's mind, imagine. 6. to deem to be, reckon, regard. 7. to get to know, or become to know or be aware of. 8. to view, watch, or see TV or a movie. 9. to come together, meet, run across, meet by-hap or hap upon. 10. to find out, realize, understand, learn, determine with certainty. 11. to visit for business, health or other reasons someone for profesional advice or help. 12. to deal with, arrange, undertake, see to. 13. to date regularly. 14. to experience, endure, survive, go go through. 15. |
| Seed | n | A small hard fruit 2. a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat. 3. one of the outstanding players in a tournament; a seeded player, as opposed to an unseeded player. 4. anything that provides inspiration for later work; source, seed, germ. 5. semen, seed, seminal fluid. 6. that which exists in rudimentary stature. |
| Seed | vb | Go to seed; shed seeds or seedlings. 2. help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money 3. to bear seeds. 4. place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; sow, seed. 5. distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds. 6. sprinkle or seed with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain. " to seed clouds" |
| Seedless | adj | Without seed or seeds, barren, effete. |
| Seedster | n | One who seeds or diseminates, a sower, origintor. |
| Seedy | adj | Abounding in seed. 2. shabby, ill-looking, dishevelled, scruffy. 3. diseased, unwell, poorly. 4. not up to the mark. 5. salacious, pornagraphic, trashy. |
| See-er | n | One who sees or is able to see. 2. a witness. |
| Seek | vb | To try to get, reach, or come to. ie happiness; search, look for. 2. try to find, locate, or discover. 3. try to establish the existence of, make inquiry after. 4. to make an effort or attempt or endeavour to find. 5. to go to or towards. 6. inquire for, ask for, inquire for direction, beseech. 7. to seek after, to follow up, persecute, pursue. 8. try to acquire or gain; strive after, aim at, as to seek wealth and fame. 9. to be or go after, ask for, delve into, follow up, hunt for, look up, want to know, visit. |
| Seeker | n | One who endeavours to find happiness, wealth, fame. 2. one who tries to establish the existence of something or someone. 4. one who inquires about something, such as knowledge. |
| Seelihood | n | Happiness; also: seelihead. |
| Seelily | adv | Happily. |
| Seeliness | n | Happiness, blessedness. 2. simplicity, silliness. |
| Seeling | n | The rolling or agitation of a ship in a storm. |
| Seely | adj | Happy, blithesome, blissful, well-omened, eady. 2. Said of persons, their condition or experience: spiritually blessed, enjoying the blessing of God. 3. pious, holy, good. 4. innocent, harmless, compassionate of persons and animals suffering undeservedly. 5. deserving of pity or sympathy, pitiable, miserable, poor. 6. helpless, defenceless, silly. 7. insignificant, trifling, poor, feeble. 8. often of the soul --- in danger of divine judgement. 9. frail, worn, weary. 10. foolish, simple, silly. |
| Seem | n | Agreement, concord, reconciliation. |
| Seeming | adv | like; make as though. |
| Seep | n | Moisture that drips or oozes out. 2. a small spring; a place where oil and other liquid flow slowly from the ground. |
| Seep | vb | To ooze, drip, trickle. |
| Seepy | adj | boggy, marshy, not well-drained, of land. |
| Seer | n | One who sees. 2. one to whom divine revelations are made in visions; a person gifted in profound spiritual insight. 3. magician, crystal gazer, scryer with second-sight. |
| See-saw | adj | Usually of one whose life is passed in monotous repetition of the same incident. 2. moving backwards and forwards in the manner of a seesaw. 3. vicisitudinal |
| Seethe | n | Agitation, ebullience, turmoil, botheration, furore |
| Seethe | vb | OE: lit. to boil. 1. Ebullition of waves. 2. engendering an intense commotion of heat, to smoulder, to stew. 3. to boil, to prepare or produce by boiling, to keep boiling or boil vigorously to ebullition; foam. 4. to rise, surge, boil up like bubbles and foam. 5. to be in state of inner agitation, turmoil or fermentation. 6. of a person in an agitated, emotional state: feverish etc., of plans, discontent or change. 7. of a region : be filled with noisy activity and excitement, disaffection by agitation, be ebullient and tumultous. |
| Seethe | adj | In constant agitation, ebullient, noisy, febrile, feverish, foaming. |
| Seething | vn | The action of seethe. |
| See-through | adj | Transparent, diaphanous, allowing the passage of light, somewhat translucent, unimpeded vision. |
| Segge | n | A man (only used contemptously). |
| Sehelich | adj | That may be seen, visible. |
| Seine | n | A fishing-net, a banner. |
| Selcouth | adj | Unfamiliar, unusual, rare, strange, marvellous, wonderful. 2. various, different, not of one kind; (not one selcouth); (no-selcouth) -- no wonder. |
| Seld | n | Throne, a set, a shop, stand for spectators. |
| Seld | adj | Seldom as in Seld-heard-of; seld-known; seld-shaven, seld-speaking, seldom-trodden |
| Seld-seen | adj | Seldom or not often seen; reclusive, hermit-like. |
| Seld-speech | n | Tacturnity. |
| Seld-time | adj | Rarely, seldomly |
| Seld-when | adj | Rarely occuring; infrequent, seldomly |
| Seld-where | adj | Rarely found, seldomly found or located. |
| Seld-while | adj | Seldom worthwhile |
| Sele | n | Happiness, prosperity, good, good fortune. 2. favourble or proper time, opportune moment, right occasion, opportunity. 3. season, a period of time, time of day, " the day's sele." meaning to pass the time of day, that is a give a friendly greeting in passing. |
| Self | n | The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness. 2. the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena. 3. the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character. 4. a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having 5.personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim. |
| Self-be-got | vb | To self beget, or create one's self by one's power. |
| Self-begotten | adj | Self-created, self-made, set up by one's own hands. |
| Self-being | adj | Independent existence, a self-existent being. |
| Self-black | adj | Of a uniformily black colour; naturally black colour, not-dyed. |
| Self-blood | n | Suicide, self-murder. 2. Relatives, relations, one's own kin |
| Self-care | n | Care for oneself, self-interest. 2. one or a group who looks after their own care. |
| Self-dead | n | Self-dead souls, self-annihilation. |
| Self-deadness | n | Most profound and spiritual humility. |
| Self-death | n | Murder, suicide. |
| Selfdom | n | The realm or dominion of self. 2. a condition of things of which self is the centre. 3. that which constitutes a person's self. |
| Self-driven | adj | Self-motivated. 2. self-propelled; automotive. |
| Self-end | n | Personal or private end or object. |
| Self-ended | adj | Of merely private or selfish aims, characterised by self-centred actions or decisions. |
| Self-feeling | n | Coenaesthetics, feeling centred in oneself, egotistic feeling. 2. a sense of one's individual identity. 3. self-conscious. |
| Self-forgetful | adj | Forgetful of one's self or individuality. 2. having or characterised by no thought of self. |
| Self-forgetfulness | n | State or condition where one is forgetful of one's self or individuality. 2. Condition characterised by having no thought for oneself. |
| Self-fulfilling | adj | A prophecy or prediction what gives rise to actions that brings about it's fulfilment. |
| Self-fulness | n | Self-sufficiency. 2. self-centredness. |
| Self-given | adj | Emanating or derived from oneself or itself. |
| Self-giving | adj | The giving of oneself for the benefit for others. 2. self-devotion; self-sacrifice. |
| Self-good | n | Personal benefit or advantage. |
| Self-hate | n | Self-hatred of oneself, esp. of one's actual self when contrasted with one's imagined self. |
| Self-heal | n | Prunella vulgaris. |
| Self-healing | n | The action or faculty of providing for oneself without the assistance of others. |
| Self-help | n | Redress of one's wrongs by one's own action, without recourse to legal action; compare : "Self-helplessness." |
| Self-hood | n | The state of being an individual, or that which constitutes such a state; personality. 2. only for one's self or one's own interests. |
| Selfish | n | Pertaining or connected to oneself. 2. devoted to or concerned with own's own advantage or welfare to the inclusion or regard for others. 3. ethical theory: with self as the real motive for human action. |
| Selfish | adj | Pertaining to concerned with one's own advantage or welfare to the exclusion or regards for others. |
| Selfishly | adv | To act in manner which is concerned with one's own advantage or welfare only. |
| Selfishness | n | Condition or quality of being selfish, regarding one's own interest or happiness to the disregard of the well-being of others. |
| Self-knowing | n | Self-knowledge, knowing of oneself without help of others. |
| Self-knowledge | n | Knowledge of oneself: one's character and capabilties. |
| Self-law | n | A law of one's own making to suit oneself. |
| Selfless | adj | Having no regard for or thought for oneself; not self-centred, unselfish. 2. a life devoted to selfish means. Nb: Selflessness, Selflessly. |
| Self-like | adj | Similar; very much like oneself, of the self-same kind. |
| Self-like | n | Self-existence. 2. life lived for oneself. 3. a life devoted to oneself. |
| Self-liked | adj | Conceited, self-satisfied. |
| Self-liking | n | Self-love, conceit. 2. attachment to one's own |
| Self-loss | n | Loss of one's own being or personality. |
| Self-love | n | Love for oneself. 2. self-centredness. 3. selfishness. |
| Self-loving | adj | Loving or devoted to oneself. 2. seeking one's own interest or advantage. 3. characterised by self-love. |
| SeLfly | adv | One or it's own. 2. even specially. 3. one or by oneslf (or itself). 4. of it's or one's own accord 5. spontaneously. |
| Self-made | adj | Made by oneself; or one's own actions of efforts of own making. 2. self-making. |
| Self-minded | adj | Obstinate in one's own opinion. |
| Self-mindedness | n | Condition or state of being obstinate in one's opinions. |
| Selfness | n | Self-centred-ness, egoism, selfishess. 2. selfish act or manifestation. 3. due regard for oneself |
| Self-nothingness | n | Self-annihilation, self-abasement |
| Self-nought | n | Deprecation or self-effacement of one's self as manifested in the lives of the saints or mystics. |
| Self-one | adj | Alone with oneself or itself. |
| Self-opening | adj | Opening of one's own accord. |
| Self-righteous | adj | Righteous in one's own esteem. |
| Self-righting | n | The action of righting oneself or itself after an upset. |
| Selfsame | adj | The very same, the very identical. 2. the sameself person or thing. 3.identical things |
| Self-seeker | n | One who selfishly seeks his own welfare. |
| Self-seeking | adj | The seeking of one's own welfare before that of others; the prosecution of selfish ends. |
| Self-ship | n | Self-hood, personality, individuality |
| Self-slain | adj | Slain by one's own hands: suicide; hara-kari. |
| Self-soothe | vb | (Of a young child, especially one left to fall asleep on their own) stop crying without being comforted by a parent or caregiver, as ‘my son only started self-soothing when he was eight months old.’ 2. comfort oneself, as a self-soother, when unhappy or distressed, as ‘many of us self-soothe with junk food, a glass of wine, maybe some mindless TV.’ |
| Self-sown | adj | Sown by itself without human or animal agency. |
| Self-starter | n | One who makes things happen; an innovator, pro-active person. |
| Self-taught | adj | Taught by oneself without direct aid from others; self-educated. 2. of what is learnt. 3. acquired by ones own unaided efforts. |
| Selfwards | adj | Towards or in the direction of oneself. 2. tended or directed towards oneself. Nb: Selfwardness. |
| Self-weening | adj | Self-opinioned, self-conceited, conceited |
| Self-will | n | One's own will or desire. 2. wilful or obstinate persistence in following one's own desires or opininions. Nb: Self-willingness |
| Self-willed | adj | Wilful or obstinate in the pursuit of one's own desires or opinions. 2. characterised by self-will or self-willedness; selfwillingly self-willed, self-willy. |
| Self-willingly | adv | Voluntarily. 2. voluntarily of one's own accord. 3. without cause. |
| Self-wise | adj | Wise in one's own conceit. 2. relying on one's own wisdom, self-wit or self-wisdom. |
| Self-wisdom | n | The condition of being self-wise or having self-wit. 2. self-wittedness |
| Self-wise | adj | Wise in one's own conceit or self-wit. 2. relying on one's own wisdom; a self-wiseling |
| Self-wrought | adj | Produced, made or brought about by one-self. |
| Sell | vb | To give, to deliver; (from a noun akin to sale). 2. To transfer to another for an equivalent 3. to give up for a valuable consideration. 4.to dispose of in return for something, especially for money. 5. To make a matter of bargain and sale of. 6. to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray 7. To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of. 8. to cheat. (Slang) 9. to sell one's life dearl; to cause much loss to those who take one's life, as by killing a number of one's assailants. 10. to sell (anything) out, to dispose of it wholly or entirely. 11. To practice selling commodities. |
| Sell | n | An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. (colloquial.) |
| Sell off | n | To dispose of by sale (esp. at a reduced prices); to sell the whole of one's stock or possessions. |
| Sell out | n | The of selling out, to sell one's whole stock in trade or one's entire interest in a property or a business. 2. to betray the trust of another. |
| Sell up | vb | To dispose of the whole or a portion of the goods ( 0f an insolvent or bankrupt person) by sale. |
| Seller | n | One who sells. 2. a book, or later any type of article like a best, wide seller; now mostly a book. |
| Selling | n | The action of selling. 2. an instance of selling |
| Selly | adj | Strange, wonderful, marvellous. |
| Selth | n | Prosperity, happiness, good fortune, success. |
| Selthlike | adv | Successfully, prosperously |
| Sench | vb | To sink, plunge, dive, asench |
| Send | vb | Cause to go somewhere; 2. to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place. 3. mail, post, . 4: transport commercially; transport, send, ship. 5: assign to a station, post, place. 6. transfer, get off, send off. 7. cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; commit, institutionalize, charge. 8. broadcast over the airwaves, as on radio or television; air, broadcast, beam, transmit. 9. to dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or do an errand. 10 to pitch; as a the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. 11. to send for, to request or require by message to come or be brought. |
| Send-off | n | A friendly demonstration on the occasion of a person's starting on a journey or undertaking -- (can also be used disparagingly). |
| Sene | n | Vision, power of sight, ease of sight. |
| Sene | adj | Easy to see, evident, manifest. |
| Sengreen | n | The plant the "House Leek" (Sempervivum tectorum). 2. also to other plants esp. the sedums, varities of saxifrage, the periwinkle. (OT: sen (always) & gronjo (green.) |
| Sennight | n | A week or seven days, from se(ve)n & night. |
| Senye | n | A military banner or standard. 2. emblem, token, slogan. 3. battle cry, rallying cry, slogan. 4. a bookmark. |
| Sere | adj | Sear, searing: dry, excessively dry or sere-dried, withered. 2. thin, worned, of cloth or textile. |
| Sere-month | n | August. |
| Sere-ward | adj | Proned or towards decay |
| Sester | n | A vessel for holding liquid, a jar, pitcher. 2. a brewing vat. 3. a liquid measure for beer, wine. 4. dry measure for wheat. |
| Set | vb | Cause to sit. 2. to position; to fix, to make ready. 3. to put to music. 4. of the sun: to go down. 5. to become firm or fixed, hence have direction of one one way or action. 6. to deliberately think out or plan. 7. to formally arrange, esp. beforehand or prior. 8. to remain steadfast or refuse to vary in attitude or action. 9. liable or incited to react in a particular way. NB a set, or a collection of things is from O.F. |
| Set | pp | Being or (setting)below the horizon. 2. determined or (set down) by an an Authority |
| Set | adj | Fixed and steadfast. 2, fixed in a particular spot or position. 3. set down according to a particular plan. 4. becoming hard or fixed by cooling or drying. |
| Set against | phr | To balance, compare. |
| Set ago | phr | To cause to move |
| Set aside | phr | To put to one side. |
| Set at nought | phr | To unvalue, contemn, to despise. |
| Set-back | n | A check to progress, reverse in fortune or plan, hindrance. 2. retardation or retrograde movement. 3. a relapse, reverse. 4. a setting back or backwards. 4. a counter-current, an eddy. |
| Set before | phr | To exhibit, to bring out to view. 2. offer. 3. to proffer |
| Set by | phr | To reject, set aside |
| Set-down | n | A single drive ending where the passenger first alights. 2. a vehicle plying for hire; the distance covered by such a drive. 3. a placing of something on the surface or ground. 4. unexpected and humiliating rebuff. 5. a severe scolding or putting one in their place. |
| Set down | phr | To place on the surface. 2. to write, enter in writing or print; record, register. 3. to judge or consider. 4. to attribute or ascribe. 5. to free. 6. to establish. 7. to ordain. 8. to humiliate. |
| Sete | n | A number of men posted to intercept or shoot game. |
| Sete | vb | To sit, settle, settle or be easy in mind; to be content. 2. to be fitting, wholesome or suitable (of food or drink). |
| Set eyes on | phr | To see, to behold. |
| Set forth | phr | To manifest, offer for view, exhibit, display. |
| Setness | n | The quality, state or character of being set. 2. constitution, establishment, imposition of law. 3. what is deemed or determined. 4. a statute, ordinance. 5. a fixed abode. |
| Set-off | n | An offset or counterpoise. 2. a counterclaim. |
| Set off | vb | Separate from the whole with a particular purpose. 2. to portion off. |
| Set-out | phr | To present to view, exhibit. |
| Set right | vb | To correct, put in order; make right. |
| Set over | vb | To assign, to transfer, convey. |
| Setter-on | n | One who instigates or incites, urges on or impels. |
| Setter-out | n | One who sets out a document, a plan, a design. 2. a publisher; a proclaimer. |
| Setter-up | n | One who sets up or establishes something or someone. |
| Setting | n | The context and environment in which something is set, set in or inserted: the setting of the sun; hardening of plaster or other moist substances. 2. the state of the environment in which a situation exists. 3. arrangement of scenery and props in a play or film. 4. the physical position of something. 5. the table service for one person. 6. a mounting having a piece of metal (as in a ring or jewellery) that holds a gem in place. |
| Settle | n | A bench with a back and arms. |
| Settle | vb | To put in order, establish, make firm or secure. 2. to bring to an end an argument or dispute, usu. by agreement. 3. to come to rest, sit, subside. 4. of water, to clear or transparent again after muddying. 5. to take up reidence, abode or occupy. 6. to take possession, settle and develops a region; to colonise. |
| Settler | n | One who settles, becomes fixed or establishes. 2. a colonist, emperialist. 3. a negiotator who settles disputes and confrontation. 4. that which settles and finishes. 5. an agreement that settles a dispute or argument. 6. a blow or action that ends and usu. wins a boxing-match or an sporting or contest. 7. a worker in a betting-shop who calculates the winnings. 8. a vessel or tub in which crushed-up ore is allowed to sit or settle. |
| Set-to | n | A talking to; a dressing down. 2. a fight, contest, an attack both physically and verbally. 3. a heated debate. 4. a drinking bout. |
| Set to work | phr | To cause to start, to work or how to start to work. |
| Set-up | n | Physique, physical build, make-up. 2. carriage of a boy, bearing. |
| Sevendele | n | A seventh part or seven-deal. |
| Sevenfold | adj | Seven-times or sevensithe |
| Seven-hilled | adj | As in seven-hilled burgh: an epithet for Rome. |
| Sevensithe | adj | Seven times. |
| Sevensome | adj | Composed of seven units or things. |
| Seven Stars | n | The Pleiades or The Great Bear. |
| Seventh heaven | n | The highest abode or conition of happiness. 2. the highest heaven according to various ancient systems of astronomy or in certain theologies. |
| Sew | n | Juice, gravy, a seasoned dish. 2. moisture; humours. 3. pottage, broth, mess of pottage. 3. a delicacy 4. elesew. |
| Sew | vb | Put or fasten together by stitching. 2. to do needlework. 3. to make clothes and clothing by sewing. 4. to enclose by sewing up, eg. potatoes into a bag. |
| Sew | vb | To drain a pond for taking fish |
| Sexhindman | n | A thane of the middle class, assessed at 600 hundred shillings. 2. a sixhyndeman. |
| Shab | n | A cutaneous disease in sheep; scab or scabies. 2. a low fellow, afflicted with scabs. |
| Shabby | adj | Threadbare, ragged, soiled or defaced, as from hard use. 2. characterised by worn or damaged garments. 3. usurious, mean, gombeenish, paltry. |
| Shack | n | Grain fallen or shaken from the ear of a plant, used for the feeding of pigs , poultry etc after the harvest. 2. a supply of fallen grain for this purpose. 3. a residue of barley. 4. stubble. 5. an idle, disreputish fellow. |
| Shackle | n | A fetter, chain, hobble. |
| Shackle | vb | to confine with fetters or shackles. |
| Shackle-bone | n | The wrist. |
| Shackledom | n | Imprisonment, incarceration, detention, jailing. 2. marriage (jocular). |
| Shackling | n | Idling, loafing, bulging, dissipation. |
| Shade | n | Comparitive obscurity owing to interruption of the rays of light. 2. an obscure place, a spot not exposed to light. 3. a hidden or unseen retreat. 4. darkness, obscurity. 5. that which shelters from light or the direct rays of the sun. 6. that which protects from the heat of the sun or wind. 7. a screen, a protecting shelter, cover. 8.the soul after its departure from the body; so called because the ancients thought it perceptible to sight, though not touch it. 9. a spirit, ghost, phantom, a shade. 10. a darker portion of a picture or artwork; a degree of variation of colour, as darker or lighter. 11. minute variation of thought, belief, opinion, expression; anything which distinguishes from an other similar thing by slight variation. 12. "The Shades": the abode of souls after leaving the body. |
| Shade | vb | Becloud, bedarken, cloud over, dim out, darken, block out. |
| Shadow | n | An un-illuminated place; darkness. 2. something existing in perception or something refuge from danger or observation. 3. a dominating or pervasive prescence. 4. a spy employed to follow someone and reporrt their movement. 5. an inseparable companion. 6. darkness, shade, obscurity, shaded place, shelter, protection, security. 7. a reflected image, as in a mirror or water. 8. a spirit, ghost, apparition, phantom, un-invitted guest. 9. an adumbration, dimming body, a mystical form. 10. a small degree: a shade. Nb: Shade differs from shadow as it implies no particular form of definite limit. One speaks of the shade of a tree, we have no reference to it's form; but if one speaks of measuring a pyramid or other thing by it's shadow, we have definite knowledge of it's form and extent. |
| Shadow | vb | To follow, usu. without the persons knowledge. 2. cast a shadow over, shade, shadow. 3. to make appear small by comparison; overshadow, dwarf. 4. to cast off light from, put in shade. 5. throw shadow over. 6. overspread with obscurity, shroud. 7. conceal hide, screen. 8. to protect, shelter, from danger 8. to make graduation or light, to shade. 9. to adumbrate, to represent faintly or imperfectedly. 10. to cloud, darken, cast in gloom. 11. to follow and watch closely, as a detective a criminal. |
| Shadow | phr | "Old Sins Have Long Shadows" - past misdeeds are liable to return to haunt a person. |
| Shadow-adder | n | A serpent lurking in shady places; fig. " a snake in the grass." |
| Shadower | n | A spy, one who follows others to keep watch upon their actions. 2. private detective. |
| Shadowish | adj | Characterised by shadow, shadowness, shadowy in look, feeling or umbrageous. |
| Shadow-land | n | Land or abode of ghosts, spirits , phantom. 2. a place of shadow or shadows. 3. a gloomy unhappy place. 4. a border land between places. |
| Shadowless | adj | Without shadow or shadow |
| Shadow of death | phr | Darkness and gloom with a feeling of impending of death. |
| Shadowy | adj | Spying, following, trailing, tracking. |
| Shady | adj | Full of shade, casting a shade. 2. shaded or sheltered. 3. morally questionable, dubious, suspicious. 4. quiet, hidden |
| Shaft | n | In OE only: creation, origin. 2. make, shape, constitution, nature or species. 2. a creature, that which is created. |
| Shaft | vb | To equip with a shaft or long, narrow passage. 2. to defeat somebody through trickery or deceit. |
| Shag | n | Rough matted hair, wool. 2. a mass of matted hair. 3. a collection of shredded bark. 4. long coarse cloth. 5. tangled mas of trees, foliage, shrubs. 6. rough or coarsely woven carpet. 7. unkemptiness. 8. roughness and brutality of men (collectively). |
| Shake | n | A fissure in the earth or a rock; a fissure or crack in timber, caused by being dried to quickly. 2. roofing materail, a shingle. 3. a frothy drink, as in a milkshake. 4. a grasp or shaking of a person'a hand in an act of frienship, welcoming or congratulations. 5. a musical note that alternates rapidly with another note. 6. a tremulous tone. 7. a trembling of the body because of cold, fear, excitement. 8. a movement repeatedly from side to side. 9. a stirring or feeling of emotion. |
| Shake | vb | To get rid of: shake off. 2. to grasp or shake another hand in an act of friendship, welcoming or congratulation. 3. to shake one's finger, fist, head in order to communicate a feeling, such as greeting, anger, peace etc. 4. |
| Shake | phr | "Shake Off" - to cause to move from side to side or up and down with jerky movements. |
| Shake-down | n | Any makeshift bed, esp. one of straw. 2. a forced contribution; an instance of extortion. 3. a search of a person or place. |
| Shake-off | n | Move or remove by agitating, vacillating or wavering. 2. rapid motion one way or another. |
| Shakes | n | "The Shakes": fever, ague, cold or flu. |
| Shale | n | In wider meaning: a thing that separate. 2. a shell, husk, esp. the shell or outer covering of a nut, which encloses the kernel. 3. a pod of peas or beans. 4. an example of something without value, valueless. 5. scales of a fish. 6. shavings of metal. 7 mesh of a net. 8. collection or pile of loose ore. 9. a dish goblet, cup. 10. finely-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated and often of a friable structure. |
| Shale | vb | To shell or husk . |
| Shalk | n | Originally a servant in alliterative poetry and one of the synonyms for a man, man -- sometimes used in a contemptous way. |
| Shall | vb | OE: I am obliged to owe, be under obligation for, to be obliged, must. 2. as an auxiliary indiates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking. |
| Shallow | n | A freshwater fish, commonly known as "The Rudd. " |
| Shallow | n | A shoal, a shallow spot in a river or sea, " The Shallows." |
| Shallow | adj | Lacking depth, not far from the top, shoally. 2. lacking intellectual depth, not wise, profound or mentally sharp. |
| Shallow-hearted | adj | Having no depth or feeling of compassion for others. |
| Shallow-minded | adj | Having no depth of intellect or thought. 2. shallow-brained |
| Shallowness | n | The condition or state of being shallow. |
| Shallow-read | adj | Reading few books or only those of popular appeal. |
| Shallow-rooted | adj | Having no depth of roots or a rooting system, as the eucalypt. 2. having only shallow-dug foundation or base, (also fig.) |
| Shallows | n | " The Shallows." |
| Shallow-thoughted | adj | Examining matters on a superficial level only. |
| Shallow-witted | adj | Having no depth of intellectual or thought. |
| Shamble | n | In OE. a table or counter for offering goods for sale, counting money etc. 2. a footstool, a stool. 3. a place where meat, fish is sometimes sold. 4. a flesh or meat market. 5. slaughter-house, abbatoirs. 6. a place of carnage, wholesale slaughter. 7. scene of disorder, devastation and sin; a mess. 8. the frame of wood that hangs over a shaft horse in a cart. 9. a shoal |
| Shamble | vb | To cut up and dispose of a corpse; to cut or slaughter in a shamble; to render shambled. 2. to move or walk in a ungainly, awkward, sometimes unsteady manner. 3. ill-shaped, wry, distorted. |
| Shame | n | A painful emotion or sensation coming from or caused by an awareness of a lack, an inadequacy, a guilty feeling or impropriety which may damage reputation, or that which one may wish to conceal. 2. state of dishonour, disgace, ignominy. 3. an unfortunate development, put-down, show-up, shyness. 4. reproach, incurred or suffered, dishonour, ignominy, persons state of being. 5. shameness, shamefacedness, modesty. |
| Shame | vb | Compelled through a sense of shame; to be ashamed. 2. to be surpassed or beaten by wide margin. 3. to be made to feel ashamed. 4. to bring about in a person, a feeling of guilt or impropriety or behaviour unfavourable to regulation. 5. to cover with reproach or ignominy. 6. to dishonour, disgrace, deride, mock, bring down, bring low, put down. |
| Shamefast | adj | Bashful, modest, modest or virtuous in behaviour and character. 2. in a depreciatory sense, shy, akward in company, sheepish. 3. of action, behaviour, appearances: shameful, modest, bashful. 4. ashamed, abashed, full of shame. |
| Shameless | adj | Impudent; brazen, immodest. 2. done without shame, indicating a want of decency. 3. infamous, unworthy, wicked. 4. unbecoming, indecent, untrustworthy. |
| Shameworthy | adj | Of which one ought to be shamed. |
| Shank | n | That part of the leg which extends from the knee to the ankle. 2. the tibia or shinbone. 3. the legs as whole (joc). 4. one's legs. 5. in animals, the lower part of the foreleg esp. the horse's between the knee and the fetlock; the tarsus of a bird; the tibia of some insects. 6. a part of a joint of meat, eg. in a ham, a leg of mutton. 7. a kind of fur obtained from the legs of kids, goats, sheep used for trimmimgs. 8. a stocking esp. a knitted one. 9. the legs as a triangle. 10. each of the two portions of a pair of scissors between the bows and the joints. 11. stem or straight part of anything, a goblet, a glass. 12. straight part of a nail, pin, drill between the head and the taper. 13. the stem of a plant. 14. trunk of a tree. 15. stalk of a flower. 16. the body as distinguished from the shoulders, face and feet. 17. stem of a tobacco pipe. 18. the shaft of a column. 19. the stem of a chisel. 20. the tang of a knife. 21. fang of a tooth. 22. the projecting part of a hill, or narrow ridge, which like a stem, joins the mass level ground. 23. the latter end of anything; the remainder of last part of a thing, esp. in the phrase " the shank of the night." ; " the shank of life (skankdom)." |
| Shank | vb | To go on foot. walk, travel on foot. 2. to hit a golf ball on the bottom part of the club. 3. of a plant, to decay at the stem, or footstalk. 4. to sink a shaft. 5. to knit stockings., |
| Shank-bone | n | Tibia, the shanker. |
| Shank of the Evening | n | Twilight, dusk. |
| Shape | n | OE: state, creation, creature, condition, fate, destiny, of the nature of what is decreed. 2. form, excellence of form, beauty. 3. species, kind; a creature. 4. phantom, a ghost, an ethereal, a figure dimly or uncertaintly percieved. 5. sexual organs; the distinctive organs of either sex; the private parts of a female. 6 the visual appearance of someone or somebody. 7. the state of good health: "in good shape." 8. a perpetual structure, composition of music. 9. Character or construction of a thing, it's outward look, figure, form, 10. embodiment in form, conception or thought; a concrete embodiment. 11. configuration, contour, body, human body, physical body, build, figure, physique, anatomy, frame, flesh, embodiment, model, lay-out, mould. |
| Shape | vb | To take shape, influence, give direction or direct. 2. make or mould something for a specific function. 3. to form, to assume a definite form, create, forge, mould. 4. to adapt for a purpose; to lay out. 5. to imagine, concieve, to call forth idea. 6. to design, prepare, plan, arrange. 7. to build or shape oneself, to prepare, make ready. 8. to hew, cut, sculpt, trim. 8. to put together, put up, set up, work out, get up, write, compose. 9. to knead, prepare, mould. |
| Shape | phr | "Shape Up" - Of a person, to improve one's behaviour, activities, attitude, etc. 2. of a situation or person, to develop satisfactorily. 3. to be prepared to fight someone |
| Shape | phr | "Shape Up or Ship Out"- either do properly what one is supposed to be doing or simply go away --- rather than doing it badly. |
| Shapeless | adj | Without shape or form; amorphous |
| Shapely | adj | Fit, likely, suitable. 2. of good or elgant shape, well-formed. |
| Shapend | n | A creator, maker, fabricator, manfacturer. |
| Shaper | n | The Creator or (Great) Shaper, God. 2. one who fashions of shapes something. |
| Shape-shifter | n | Mythical creature who can change form, such as Proteus or Odin. |
| Shapesmith | n | A corset maker (jocular) |
| Shapewear | n | Women's tight-fitting underwear intended to control and shape the figure. |
| Shard | n | A cleft, gap. 2. a gap in an enclosure, esp in a hedge. 2. (a) water(way) which divides. 3. a gap or notch in the blade of a tool. 4. fragments, remnant of something worn or decayed. 5. a broken piece of brittle substance, as of a earthen vessel. 6. a hard, thin, or a wing cover of an insect. 7. shell, scales of a dragon. |
| Shard | vb | Of a tree: to shed it's bark or sharding. |
| Sharded | vb | Of a serpent, caterpillars: scaly, ecdysis, shedding, casting off. 2. reduced to shards, fragments. 3. of the moon: reduced to a crescent. |
| Share | n | The iron blade in a plough which cuts the ground and the bottom of a furrow: ploughshare. |
| Share | n | The division or fork of a body. 2. the pubic region or groin. |
| Share | n | Assets belonging to an individual, person or group. 2. any (equal)portions into which something is divided. 3. a part played by an individual in bringing about a result. 4. a sharp steel wedge of a ploughshare that breaks up the soil's top layer, so that the seed can be sown. |
| Share | vb | To have something in common, eg. children, an interest, a house as tenants. 2. to use jointly, individually, together or in common. 3. to have, give out as one's portion or share. 4. communicate an idea, a thought, or incident. 5. to part among two or more, to distribute in portions; to divide. 6. to partake of, use or experience with others. 7. to take and possess in common. 8. to cut, shear, cleave or divide. |
| Sharemonger | n | A person who rallies a group to a join a house share at a beach or in the countryside, then must hound his friends to pay their part of the rent while wrangling the property owner and juggling house members' changing weekend requests. |
| Sharewort | n | Starwort, Harwort, (grey); hoarwort. |
| Sharn | n | Dung, especially of cattle. |
| Sharnbud | n | The dung-beetle, from "budde" ---beetle. |
| Sharp | adj | Clearly defined, as in a photo. 2. ending in a sharp point, acuate, acute, needle-like. 3. having the abilty to recognise a sharp distinction, insightish. 4. showing hard-headed, down-to-earthness smartness. 5. intelligent, shrewd, astute, keen in perception, quick to discern, penetrating, clever, sagacious. 6. keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interest; close and exact indealins with others. 7. in speech or language harsh, sharp-worded, acerbic, biting, cutting, sarcastic, cruel. 8. very hard or severe upon other's feelings; sharp, rigorous, severe in rebuke. 9. extremely steep, precipitous. 10. high in pitch, sharp note or tone. 11. keen or painfully felt. 12. quick and forceful; keen in quest; impatient. |
| Sharp | adv | Suddenly in change, direction, amount or degree. |
| Sharp | phr | "Sharp as a Needle" - quick-witted; having plenty of perception. |
| Sharpness | n | Quick and penetrating intelligence. 2. an urgent attribute in one's voice tone. 3. a strong odor or taste; a pungency. 4. a keen and painful feeling. 5. a thinness of edge; a fineness of point. 6. a harshness of manner, asperity. |
| Sharp-set | adj | Eager or keen for food, hungry. 2. having a desire fixed upon craving. 3. having a craving for sexual indulgence. 4. eager and ready to attack. 5. having a sharp-setness. |
| Sharpship | n | Rigour, hardship: to be sharp or hard upon others in criticism or censure. |
| Sharp-sighted | adj | Quick of sight, having acuteness of mental vision, acuity. |
| Shave | n | A thin slice or shaving. 2. a cutting of the beard. 3. the operation of shaving. 4. exorbitant discount of price. 5. a hand tool consisting of a sharp blade, with a handle at each end. 6. the act of passing near, so as to almost touch or graze. 7. the act of swindling or extorting money, shaving. |
| Shave | vb | OE. sceafan: to scrape, shave, polish, cut, hack. 2. to use s razor to remove the beard. 3. to cut the hair closely. 4. to strip, steal or plunder someone of money or possessions. 5. to be hard in bargaining, extort, cheat, cut the price of. 6. strip, plunder, steal. 7. to cut in thin slices. 8. to touch the surface lightly, skim along the surface. |
| Shavewort | n | Plant of the genus Equisetum, Horsetail, Shave-grass, Shave-rush. |
| Shaw | n | A thicket, a small wood, copse or grove. 2. a strip of wood or underwood forming the border of a field. |
| Shaw | vb | To fence or border (a field) with a shaw. |
| Shawy | adj | Abounding in shaws, woody. |
| She | pr | Things female or of the female sex. 2. the female person or being previously mentioned or understood, in the nominative case. 4. that woman or female: any woman 5. an object designated or personified as feminine. |
| She - | cmp | Female, feminine in hyphenated compounds. |
| Sheaf | n | A quantity of stalks of cut grain or the like, bound together; a bundle of straw. 2. any collection of things, as papers held together by a band or tie. 3. the quiverful of arrows carried by an archer -- usu. 24. 4. a bale, bidle, bundle, faggot, quiver, truss. |
| Shear | n | An edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it. |
| Shear | vb | To deviate, sheer, to cut, clip, or sever a thing with shears or similar instrument, to shear or to shear a fleece a sheep. 2. to reap grain or other similar crops. 3. to deprive of property. 4. to separate or remove with shears or a like instrument. 5. to cut off or clip from the surface. |
| Shearer | n | A workman who shears for a living. |
| Sheath | n | A protective covering. 2. an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant. 2. a case or holder for a knife or sword. |
| Sheathe | vb | To put into a sheath; to gather and bind into a sheath, as in to sheaf wheat. 2. to plunge a sword into flesh, as if into a sheath. 3. to encase or protect with a covering, as the hull of a ship with metal. 4. to draw in as claws. |
| Sheave | vb | To bind in a sheaf; sheave. |
| Sheave | n | Slice of bread. 2. a slice. 3. a shaving. |
| Shed | n | Distinction, discrimination, separation (of one thing from another). 2. the faculty of discerning, or distinguishing. 2. something being shed or fallen as "a shed of snow." 3. a slope of a hill, decline, escarp, gradient, run-off; as in watershed (lit and fig.) |
| Shed | n | A small low building, often with its sides or front open. 2. a lean-to 3. any building used for storage made from tin; sometimes a temporary covering. 4. a store-house barn. |
| Shed | vb | To fall in drops; to pour out in drops. 2. to let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering. 3. to drop leaves, branches. 4. to get rid of, dismiss, sack, let go, release. 5. to shed or spill blood. 6. to cause or allow a substance to flow, spill or run out. 7. to cast off hair, fur, skin, feathers or other coverings like certain animals: to molt, exuviate, slough. 8. to emit, diffuse, cause to flow or pour out, as the sun sheds light. 9. to sprinkle, intersperse, to cause: her hair was shed with grey. |
| Sheel | n | Shell, husk, pod, shell or outer covering. 2. that in the process of sheeling, shealing. 3. a parting, separation, division. 4. the act of parting, separation, dividing. |
| Sheen | n | A beautiful woman, a sheen. (Your beautiful sister Lucina, the sheen.) 2. The Sun: " The Sheen." 3. Gloss, lustre, brilliance, dazzle. |
| Sheen | adj | Something to behold. 2. of a person, esp. of women and their appearance, features: beautiful, fair, comely, beholding. 3. " a sheen " a beauty in a woman or women. 4. of animals, inanimate objects, places: beautiful, attractive. 5. in a non-material sense: beautiful, noble, pure, clean, free from sin.) 6. bright, shiny, sheeny, resplendent. 7. of the day, the sky, bright, sheeny, sun-filled, bright in colour. |
| Sheen | vb | To shine, glisten, gleam, glint, to glow after. |
| Sheenless | adj | Without beauty, plain, unattractive, ugly. 2. dull, wan, dark, sunless. 3. ignoble, impure, unclean, peccable. |
| Sheep | n | A medium-sized, domesticated animal of the genus "Ovis aries." 2. an animal, a ruminant, keeped by man for its wool, skin and meat. 3. a docile vulnerable person with the supposed temperament of a sheep: meek, self-conscious, sheepishly bashful, foolish-feeling, weak and timid, a simpleton, who is preyed upon by. 4. the people of God under god's protection. |
| Sheepish | adj | Spiritless, shy, bashful, sheeped, coy, hesitant. |
| Sheep-run | n | An extensive tract of country where sheep range and graze. |
| Sheet | n | A towel, napkin, a cloth. 2. a broad piece of linen or cotton stuff, canvas or the like for covering, swathing, protecting from injury. Nb: "a burying sheet": shroud. |
| Sheet-flood | n | A short-lived expanse of running water that spread as a continous sheet over a large area following rain. |
| Sheet-lightning | n | A diffused glow of light flashing out of the clouds and illuminating their outlines. |
| Sheeted | pp | Wrapped in a sheet or sheets, esp. a windy or encircling sheet; applied to the dead or ghosts. 2. encircled by a sheet as protection against injury or cold. 3. spread out like a sheet, esp. of rain, snow, lightning. |
| Shell | n | Ammunition fired by a cannon or rocket-launcher. 2. the hard outer covering of any animal; the housing or outer covering of something. 3. outer covering of some fruits, such as eggs, nuts. 4. rigid covering that covers an object. 5. a very light, narrow, racing boat. 6. metal sheathing of any thickness. 7. any slight, hollow structure. 8. a basic structure of a building or buildings left after bombing, after demolition or during renovation. 9. framework, hollow, skeleton. 10. a coarse, thin kind of interior coffin, enclosed within a more stronger one. |
| Shell | vb | To direct, throw or use explosives on or upon enemies during or conflict, bomb or bombard a city. 2. create by explosion and explosive blasts a hole through a rock. 3. remove from a pod, husk, outer covering friut, nuts, seeds. 4. look for and collect shells by the seashore. s break off the shell, as in shelling peas or nuts. 7. separate the kernels of or from the cob, ear or husk. 8. |
| Shell | phr | "Go Into (One's) Shell" - to retreat into one's mind or otherwise isolate oneself so as to avoid undesirable thoughts, situations, or interactions with people |
| Shell-meat | n | Fonsisting of shellfish or testaceous molluscs. |
| Shell-monger | n | Shell-seller or trader in shells. 2. shell collector. |
| Shell out | phr | Distribute freely |
| Shell-sand | n | Minute fragments of shells constituting a considerable part of the seashore or beach. |
| Shelf | n | OE. (scylfe) ledge, a ledge or shelf of rock or mountain, a floor. & OE. (scylf) rugged rock, pinnacle. Modern word " shelf" from LG. (Schelf) |
| Skelp | n | OE. (scylp): a sandbank in a river or sea; sometimes seen as shelf. |
| Shelter | n | |
| Shelter | vb | |
| Shelter-belt | n | A linne of trees etc. planted to protect crops from the wind. |
| Sheltron | n | OE. (scieldtruma): a troop. 2. a close, compact body of troops, troops drawn in battle array. 3. a phalanx. 4. a compact body of ships; a shieldtrum (troop). |
| Shelve | vb | OE. to shield or defend. |
| Shench | n | A cupful of drink or liquor, |
| Shench | vb | To pour liquor. 2. to give a person a drink. 3. to shenk |
| Shenker | n | A drinker, a bibulant, boozer. |
| Shend | vb | To put to shame and disgrace. 2. to confound, confuse. 3. to destroy, ruin, bring to destruction. 4. to disfigure, corrupt, infect, defile, soil. 5. to overcome with fatigue, bewilder, stupefy. 6. a milder sense: to injure, hurt, impair, damage, spoil; to discomfit in an argument or disagreement. 7. to dishonour, blacken, denigrate, demean, to be shent. |
| Shendful | adj | Infamous, disgraceful, vile, ignominous, shendlac |
| Shendship | n | Shendness, disgace, ignominy, infame, vileness, the condition or quality of shend: shendness. |
| Shendship | n | Shendness, disgace, ignominy, infame, vileness, the condition or quality of shend: shendness. |
| Shene | vb | To burst asunder, break, blow up, explode. |
| Shent | n | Disgrace, shame, ignominy, scandal. |
| Shepherd | n | One who tends, feeds and guards sheep, esp. a grazing flock. 2. a church pastor or clergyman who gives religious guidance. |
| Shepherd-hearted | adj | Kind, compassionate, caring. |
| Shepstare | n | The starling: from their habit of sitting on a sheep's back and searching for ticks to eat. |
| Sheriff | n | Shire-reeve, the shireman. |
| Shewel | n | A scarecrow. |
| Shide | n | A piece of wood split for timber, often used for fire wood, a shider. |
| Shide | vb | To divide, cleave, split, shatter, splinter. |
| Shield | n | A scute, carapace, plastron, or any proctective plate covering. 2. a privy, toilet, out-house. 3. sheet ice. 4. the dome of a shield volcano or a very broad dome with gently sloping sides. |
| Shield | vb | To protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm. 2. hold back a thought or feeling about. 3. to harbour a grudge etc. 4. to cover with, defend, protect from injury. 5. to ward off, to keep off or out, to forbid. 6. to avert misfortune |
| Shield Wall | n | The formation of a shield wall (Scildweall or Bordweall in Old English,[1] Skjaldborg in Old Norse) is a military tactic that was common in many cultures in the Pre-Early Modern warfare age. There were many slight variations of this tactic among these cultures, but in general, a shield wall was a "wall of shields" formed by soldiers standing in formation shoulder to shoulder, holding their shields so that they abut or overlap. Each soldier benefits from the protection of their neighbours' shields as well as their own. |
| Shift | n | A transformation, displacement 2. a workshift: time which you are at work. 3. a crew of workers. 4. the act of moving one place to another. 5. switch, changeover, directional change, dislodgement. 6. unsteady sideway movement. 7. a geological fault, fracture, break. 8. division, veering, distribution. 9. a woman's sleeveless undergarment. |
| Shift | vb | In OE: to determine. 2. put in order, arrange. 3. apportion, distribute, divide into shares, partition off. 4. manage matters, make provision, deal, bargain. 5. bestir oneself; make a living by one's own devices. 6. manage with something inferior; to made do or to make shift. 7. to change someone mind; to change places. 8. to dress in fresh underclothing. 9. to change a scene. 10. to evade, turn aside. 11. transfer blame, responsilbilty or burden. 12. to palm off something onto a person. 13. to change a mechanical thing like a lever. 14, to alter direction. 15. to avoid, elude, escape. 16. shirk, to put off, deter. 17. to quit or leave. 18. to rid of. 19. to put off a person with a subterfuge. 20. evade or turn aside an argument or promise. 21. get rid of the effects, of drink, etc. 22. to change one's lodgings. 23. to move away, withdraw, depart esp to slip off unobserved.24. travel, journey, fare, move on. |
| Shift and shaft | phr | The act of increasing taxes at a lower level of government, whilst lowering them at the highest level for political expediency. |
| Shiftless | adj | Helpless from self-defence. 2. void of cunning or artifice. 3. lacking in resource, incapable of shifting for oneself, hence inefficient, effete, lazy, shiftlessness. 4. of action, ineffective, futile, unvarying, unchanging, without shift, wendless. |
| Shildy | adj | Guilty, culpable. |
| Shill | vb | To resound, sound loudly, ashill, |
| Shill | vb | To separate. 2, to curdle milk. |
| Shilling | n | (shilling vbn: to shill) |
| Shim | n | Shadow, gloom. 2. the streak of white on a horse's face. 3. a faint or transient appearance; a glimpse, a shimmer. |
| Shimmer | n | Nb: shimmerless, shimmeriness(flickering) |
| Shimmer | vb | Earlier use to shine brightly, glisten. 2. to shine with a tremulous, somewhat flickering light. 2. to gleam faintly. 3. to shim. 4. to move effortlessly, glide, drift. |
| Shin | n | The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg, between the knee and the ankle. 2. the foremost part of the human leg, between the knee and the ankle. 3. the tibia. |
| Shin | vb | Climb akwardly, as if to scramble. 2. to climb a tree, pole etc. by grasping it by the arms and legs, without the help of spikes, steps or other aids: "to shinny up.". 3. to go or run hastily in order to borrow money from a number of persons: 'to shin it.' |
| Shinder | vb | To shiver. 2. to shatter into pieces. |
| Shine | n | The quality of being bright and emitting light rays. 2. the quality or state of brightness, lustre, gloss, polish, sheen. 3. effulgence, refulgence. 4. sunshine, fairweather. 5. a liking or fancy for another. |
| Shine | vb | To be bright by reflecting or casting light. 2. to be shiny, as if wet, glisten. 3. to emit light, beam, gleam, glint. 4. to be distinguished, eminent, talented. 5. to have a bright complexion; to glow, beam, radiate. 6. to touch or seem to be touching visually. 7. to experience a well-being feeling or happiness. 8. to make a surface shine, looked polished, smooth, smoothen. 9 to fall upon, strike. |
| Ship | n | A sea vessel that carries freight and passengers. 2, any large sea-going vessel. 3. a space going craft. 4. a dish originally fashioned like the hull of a ship, used to hold incense. |
| Ship | vb | To engage to serve on board a vessel. 2. to engage or secure for service seaman on board a ship. 3. to embark on a ship. 4. to put on board a ship or rail train ;for transportation, to transport or convey. 4. convey on ships belonging to one country or industry, such as on a cargo ship, merchant ship. |
| Shipbote | n | Payment or charge for the repair of a ship |
| Shipbreche | n | Shipwreck |
| Shipe | n | In OE. sense, dignity, condition. 2. something allocated, wages, reward, remuneration, shiping. |
| Shipe | vb | To reward, pay wages. |
| Shipper | n | A seaman. 2. a sea captain, skipper. 3. one who ships goods for transportation. 4. one who transports goods by rail. |
| Shipping | n | The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials; transportation, transport; transportation, transport. 2. conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry. |
| Shippon | n | A cattle-shed, a cowhouse, an ox-stall, a shippen, farm buildings. |
| Shipwreck | n | The partial or total destruction of a ship at sea. 2. utter or practical destruction or ruin. 3. scatterd remnants, as of a wrecked ship, wreckage. |
| Shire | n | In OE: official charge, adminstration office, esp, that of a bishop, steward, governor. In Old English times of smaller districts, hundreds and wapentake for purposes of local government. 2. A province, district. |
| Shire | adj | Bright, shining. 2. of liquids: clear, translucent. 3. pure, unnixed. 4. morally, spiritually clean or pure. 5. complete, perfect, sheer, utter; also negatively mere, bare. 6. thin, tenuous, not dense, scanty, sheer, weak, small. |
| Shirely | adv | Brightly, clearly, purely, shirenessly 2. with main force: mightly, straight down. |
| Shire-moot | n | Judicial assembly of the shire in OE. times. |
| Shire-wite | n | Tax paid to the sheriff for holding a shire court. |
| Shirt | n | OE: scherte: a short garment, a petticoat, tunic, argon, apron. 2. a garment or shirting worn on the upper part of the body. 3. a loose garment of cloth, linen orother materials worn on the upper part of the body. Formerly worn by both male and female wearers, now usu. worn only by men and boys. |
| Shirt | vb | To clothe or cover with a shirt. |
| Shit | n | Excrement; the act of defecation. 2. a contemptible person. |
| Shittle | adj | Of persons and their faculties: inconstant, variable, wavery, flighty, fickle. 2. Of things, shaky, unstable. 3. shittle-wit: a foolish person; shittle-willed: wavering, fickle in resolve. |
| Shittleness | n | Fickleness. instability, vacillation, shakiness. |
| Shive | n | A sheave, a particle of tusk. 2. a splinter. 3. a piece of thread or fluff on the surface of a cloth. 4. refuse of hemp or flax. 5. a sliver of light; a shivelight. 6. a piece of bread, a sheave of bread, a sheave or small wheel in a pulley. |
| Shiver | n | A fragment, one of the small pieces into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence, a chip, splinter. 2. flake, loose fibre, or filament; nb: plural-shivers. 3. slately stone a variety of blue state. 4. a breastplate of a plough. 5. a small wedge for the fastening of the bolt of a window shuttle; a spindle. 6. reflex motion caused by cold or fever or excitement, a tremble, a shake. 7. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; a frisson of surprise. 8. a chill, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle. |
| Shiver | vb | To tremble convulsively, from fear or excitement; shudder, throb, thrill. 2. to vibrate, quiver, shake as from cold. 3. to cause to tremble as a sail. |
| Shivering | n | The act of shivering or trembling. |
| Shoad | vb | In OE. to divide, separate, shed. 2. loose fragments of tin, lead, copper. |
| Shoal | n | Flock of birds. 2. large number of person, a throng, a crowd, a troop. 3. a large number of inaminate things. 5. a mass of floating ice. |
| Shoal | adj | Of water, watercourse, harbour, sound: not deep, slight in the depth, becoming shallow, shoaling. 2. of mind or intellectual: shallow, unprofound, shallowness. |
| Shoal | vb | Of waterway, streams, bays, harbour: to become shallower. 2. Of a ship to come into shoal or the shallows. 3. to dig or drive less deeply into soil. |
| Shoal-hood | n | Shallowness, unprofundity, slightness. |
| Shoaling | pp | growing or becoming shallower. |
| Shoat | n | A young weaned pig. 2. an idle, worthless person. |
| Shock | n | An unkempt or shaggy mass of hair. 2. a poodle or shaggy-haired dog; a shough. |
| Shode | n | The crown of the head. 2. the part(ing) of the head. 3. a dividing ridge. |
| Shoding | n | Separation. 2. the parting of the hair. |
| Shoe | n | A metal u-shaped plate nailed for prottecction to the underside of a horse's hoof. 2. footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather, and asole or heel of a heavier material. |
| Shoe | vb | To shoe a horse. 2. to supply or furnish with shoes. |
| Shoeing-smith | n | A farrier. |
| Shoemaker | n | One who makes boots, shoes, etc. 2. a cobbler, a sutler, a souter. |
| Shoestring | n | Figuratively, a small amount. |
| Shoe-tree | n | A wooden or metal form inserting in boots or shoes to preserve their shape or to stretch them; also called a boot-tree. |
| Shond | n | Shame, disgrace, , ignominy, scandal, infamy. 2. "To do someone shond." --- treat with indignity. 3. "to bring shond upon oneself or another." --- bring scandal, infamy, etc. |
| Shond | phr | "To do Someone Shond." - treat with indignity. |
| Shond | phr | 3. "To Bring Shond Upon Oneself or Another." - bring scandal, infamy, etc. |
| Shood | n | The husk of oats after threshing. Also spelt "shude." |
| Shoot | vb | To hit, wound, kill with a missile, discharged from a weapon. 2. to discarge a missile from a bow, rifle. 3. "to shoot the sun." --- to take the altitude of with a sextant. 4. 5. 6. 7. |
| Shoot | n | |
| Shoot down | vb | To move quickly and violently. 2. to shoot at and force to come down, like an enemy aircraft. 3. to thwart the passage of, such as a proposal; vote down, defeat. 4. bring down, cut down, deal a death-blow to. |
| Shooting-iron | n | A weapon, firearm, gun |
| Shoot of one's mouth | phr | To speak spontaneously and without restraint; lip off. |
| Shooting-star | n | A meteor. 2. cynosure. |
| Shoot up | vb | To grow or move up very quickly. |
| Shop | n | A building, a commercial establishment, in which goods, wares, items are sold by retail. 2. a small place, a workshop, where handcrafts or manufacturing done. 3. a course of instruction in a trade class. |
| Shop | vb | To go or do shopping, buy at, patronize. |
| Shopping | n | The act of looking around for goods and services available for sale |
| Shop talk | phr | Interest, conversation about one's work or what's going on in their workshop. 2. to make one's work the chief topic of conversation, to talk shop. |
| Shore | adj | Precipitous, rugged, sheer; steep. |
| Shortlivy | adj | Ephemeral, short-lived, un-enduring, fleeting. |
| Short-tongued | adj | Inarticulate, stammering, lisping. 2. taciturn, unwilling to speak. |
| Shot | n | A solid missile, as a ball of iron, or a bullet, a pellet of lead. 2. the act of shooting; that which is discharged in shooting. 3. any assessment, tax, payment, contribution; reckoning or fine; a scot. |
| Shot | vb | To fire a gun. 2. to send something forward or into the air or sky. |
| Shoot | vb | To send forth swiftly. 2. wound with missile. |
| Shoot-out | n | A gunfight; a battle or fight with guns, often between gangs. 2. A military conflict between regularly constituted armed forces, geuriilas or insurgents, a firefight. |
| Shough | n | Shaggy-haired poodle; a poodle. |
| Should | vb | Past tense of shall |
| Shoulder | n | Point where arm, front leg or wing is joined to or connects the body. 2. The part of the trunk between the neck and the free portion of the arm or forelimb3. the forequarter of an animal 4. Anything which supports, bears up, or projects like a shoulder. 5. either edge of a road or highway. |
| Shoulder to shoulder | phr | Side by side and close together. 2. with united effort in co-operation. |
| Shove | vb | To thrust, push (with violence), but now less dignified in use, often suggesting some notion of roughnness, carelessness or harshiness. 2. To thrust a weapon. 3. banish, eject object, from an office, society. 4. To impart, communicate, to move a heavy object forward through muscular strength from behind. 5. to force onward by pushing. 6. to cause to fall over a cliff or out of a plane. 7. to throw down in. 8. bring into prominence. 9. to impel, urge forward. |
| Shovel | n | Instrument similar to a spade, but with a hollower blade for moving loose materail, such as soil, sand, snow, coal. 2. largish machine with a broad blade or scoop for taking up, removing or throwing loose matter. |
| Shovel | vb | To gather up, lift up, dig up or clear away, often in large quanties, earth, snow, etc. with a shovel |
| Shovel- ready | adj | To be ready, willing and eager to commence a project, esp. a building one. |
| Show | n | The act of showing or bringing into view. 2. the exposure to sight or exhibition. 3. a proud or showy display. 4. a spectacle, semblance, likeness, appearance. 5. false semblance, pretense, deceit. |
| Show | vb | To exhibit, view, or present; to place in sight to display. 2. to tell, reveal, make known. 4. to direct, guide, lead, usher. 5. to make approach or clear by evidence. 6. to prove, explain, to manifest, to evince. 7. to bestow, confer, afford. |
| Show-business | n | The business or activities - the entertainment industry- relating to or providing entertainment on stage, theatre, television, radio or other mediums. 2. Showbiz (slang). |
| Show-bizzy | adj | Relating or pertaining to the activities of show business. |
| Show-down | n | A hostile, often violent disagreement, confrontation or conflict face-to-face. |
| Shower | n | A plumbing piece that sends water over you in a spray when taking a shower. 2. a short falling of rain; a great dropping of leaves, etc; a coming in abundance of letters, money; a profuse of kind words or praise to a person. 3. a sudden pouring out of tears. 4. a sprinkle of a spray of any kind of liquid. |
| Shower | n | Someone who organises or produces a stage-show. |
| Shower | vb | To water with a shower. 2. to bestow liberally, to distribute or give in abundance. |
| Showery | adj | Raining in showers or in short duration. |
| Show-folk | n | Person working in the etertainment industry. |
| Show forth | vb | To manifest, publish, proclaim. |
| Showing | n | The action of displaying, exhibiting, manifesting to the public or an individual. 2. the fact of being displayed, exhibited. 3. to show a movie, film, exhibition of art, books etc. 4. |
| Showman | n | An entertainer, singer, musician, dancer etc. 2. a theatrician, impresario, promoter. 3. one who stages, manages or produces works in the entertainment industry. 4. one (fig.) who dramatises or overplays a situation or incident. |
| Show-me | excl | an exclamation that demands demonstration. 2. believing only in clear evidence, extremely sceptical. |
| Show-off | n | A person who acts over-proudly, ostentatiously or flaunts his achievements or percieved status. |
| Show of hands | phr | A raising of hands to indicate judgement. 2. a vote taken by a show of hands |
| Show-house | n | A shop or other building in which wares are displayed. |
| Show-room | n | A room used for the display of goods or merchandise. 2. a room in which a show is exhibited. 3. the rooms in a large mansion, which are regularly shown to vistors. |
| Show stone | n | A piece of glass or crystal supposed to have the property of showing images of persons of things not present, thus indicating in that way future events; a crystal ball. |
| Show-stopper | n | A performance so outstanding or a moment so overwhelming in a show that those watching are awestruck. 2. Someone who is so strikingly attractive or something that is full of natural appeal. |
| Show up | vb | To show, reveal, make known, make clear. 2. to manifest, publish, proclaim. |
| Showy | adj | Of visible objects, presenting an imposing or striking presence for making a good display. 2. proud, ostentatious or over-showing in display or parade. 3. marked by ostentation, but often completely tasteless. 4. superficially attractive and stylish, suggesting wealth without wisdom. 5. splendid, gorgeous, fine, great, magnificent, gaudy, pompous. |
| Shred | n | A fragment, piece, particle, shard, cut or broken off. 2. a narrow strip, scrap, a thrum; a small piece of cloth, paper. 3. a tiny or scarcely detectable amount, a whit or smidge. 4. |
| Shred | vb | To destroy. 2. to prune, lop off a branch. 3. to strip one of his or her wealth. 4. to cut off a lock of hair. 5. to pare, peel, cut away, cut down, shave away. 6. to cut into shreds or thin strips or slices, esp. in cooking. 7. cut or tear into narrow strips, paper, documents into an unreadable state. 8. to become divide into small pieces, parts. 9. cut or sever with scissors. 10. cleave, hack, tear into pieces or two parts. 11. to lop or prune. |
| Shredden | pp | Made of shreds, patchwork, thrums, strips, fragments etc. |
| Shredder | n | A device that shreds documents for security reasons, that is, to prevent the wrong people from reading or copying them. |
| Shredding | n | The act of cutting or tearing into shreds. 2, that is cut or torn off: a fragment, thrum, a mote. 3. Fig, to destroy someone or something good name: " to shred someone reputation." |
| Shreddy | adj | Consisting of shreds, thrummy, fragmentish. |
| Shredling | n | A minute portion, part, mote, bit, shreddigs. |
| Shredless | adj | Without shreds, thrum, fragments |
| Shreitch | n | The Missel-thrush |
| Shrench | vb | To place cross-wise. 2. to put in as stumbling block, put in the way of, to entrap. 2. to decieve. 3. to shrivel with heat. |
| Shrepe | vb | To scratch. |
| Shrew | n | The Sorex. 2. a wicked, evil-disposed, or malignant man. 3. a mischievous or vexatious person; a rascal, villian. 3. a woman of vexatious, scolding or nagging disposition. |
| Shrewd | adj | Shrewdish, cunning, artful, wily, mindful. 2. evil, ill-disposed, wicked, malicious. 3. inclined to scold, curse, hence nasty, vicious, malicious, wicked, vexatious, unfair. 4. able, clever in everyday matters, astute in business. 5. sharp-witted, wise, sagacious, keen. 6. critical, subtle, artful, acute, discerning, penetrating, farsighted, canny. |
| Shrewdom | n | Wickedness, shrewness, shrewhood. |
| Shrewd-head | n | A cunning person, a shrewdie. |
| Shrewd-hearted | adj | Ruled by reason rather than sentiment. 2. wordly, worldly-wise, astute. 3. cunning, artful, wily. |
| Shrewd-tongued | adj | Cunning in speech and argument. 2. careful and calculating in speech and speaking. |
| Shride | vb | OE. scrydan. to cloth, provide with clothes. 2. to ward off |
| Shriding | n | Clothing, apparel, garments. |
| Shrift | n | A thing confessed. 2. penance imposed by a priest after confession; "to nim, take or do shrift." 3. short shrift: |
| Shrift | n | The act of doing shrift or penance. 2. a father confessor. |
| Shriftness | n | Confession. |
| Shrike | vb | Of birds: to pipe or shrike, as the Shrike or Missel Thrush |
| Shrim | vb | To shrink or shrivel. 2. to chill or benumb. |
| Shrine | n | A worship place made holy by it's history and association with some enshrined, sacred person, event or thing. 2. an altar, tomb, church, sometimes because of it's art, relics or enshrinements. |
| Shring | vb | To enshrine. 2. to cherish devoutly, hold sacred. |
| Shrink | n | A psychiatrist, psycotherapist. 2. the act of shrinking, contraction, recoil, withdrawal. 3. die-away; fade-away, diminishment, dwindling, ebbing. |
| Shrink | vb | To draw back with fear or pain. 2. wither or shrivle up through the loss of moisture. 3. reduce or decrease in range, in size and extent; become smaller or draw together. 4. wrinkle, bend, curl; gather together. 5. to withdraw, retire, shy away from harm or danger. 6. to delay or decline action through fear, horror or caution; to recoil from fear, horror or distress. 7. to pull back from distress, fear or horror. 8. to express fear, horror or pain by conntracting the body or part of it. 9. to shake, shudder, quake. 10. to ebb, fade, falter. |
| Shrinker | n | One who shrinks or recoils from the truth, from duty, danger or the like. 2. an apostate: one who shrinks from faith. |
| Shrinking | n | The process or result of becoming less or smaller. 2. the act of becoming less. 3. ebbing, fading, falter. |
| Shrinking | adj | Withering, lessening, diminishing in size. 2. wrinkly, bendy, curly. |
| Shrink on | vb | Onshrink: to adhere firmly and tightly around another by natural contraction through cooling. |
| Shrive | vb | To allot, assign, decree, adjudge. impose a sentence, impose penance, regard, care for, shrift. |
| Shroud | n | OE scrud. a covered place used as a shelter or refuge. 2. a cave, den, crypt, vault under a church. 3. a clothing, garment, cloth of sheet wound around the corpse before burial. 4. the dress of the dead. |
| Shroud | vb | To hide, conceal, cover, mist over. 2. that which clothes, conceals or protects. 3. to take shelter, harbour, hide |
| Shrove | n | Penalty, punishment, shrift. 2. confession, 3. absolution. |
| Shrove | vb | OE. scrivan: to impose penalty, punishment, shrift upon. 2. to hear the confession and adminster absolution. 3. to make merry, merrymake. |
| Shrub | n | OE. shrob. 2. a woody plant of less size than a tree, and usu. with several stems from the the same root. 2. underwood: shrubs and smaller trees. |
| Shrub | vb | To lop, prune. |
| Shrubble | n | A little sprout or shrub. |
| Shun | vb | To avoid and stay away from deliberately. 2. stay clear of, get out of the way of, escape from. 3. eschew. 4. expel from a community, banish, ban, ostracise, cast out. 5. |
| Shunning | n | The act of deliberately avoiding; keeping away or clear off, preventing from happening. 2. escaping fom, eschewing |
| Shurt | vb | To amuse oneself, pass the time. |
| Shurting | n | Amusement, past-time, hobby, interest, diversion. |
| Shury | adj | Scurfy. |
| Shut | vb | To close the eyes or mouth. 2. to obstruct a passage; to close so as to hinder entry or exit. 3. to prevent from entering; shut out. 4. keep out , exclude, preclude, bar, prohibit. 5. to hold together, to close over, to close by bringing the parts togther. |
| Shut away | vb | To put in a place where something cannot be removed or got out of. 2. to lock away, puut away, lock in, shut up. |
| Shut-down | n | To stop from or cause to operate. 2. close up, close down. |
| Shute | n | A channel or open trough for conveying water, esp. to a lower level. 2. a gutter fixed between the eves of a building. 3. a sudden flood in a river, a freshet. 4. a steep (artificial) channel or enclosed passage down which ore, coal, grain is shot to a receptacle below. |
| Shut-eye | n | Slang for sleep, doze, kip, forty-winks or a nap. |
| Shut-in | n | A person confined from normal social intercourse; an agrophobiac. 2. someone who is incapacitated by chronic illness or injury and finds it difficult to go out into society. |
| Shut in | vb | To enclose, confine, to cover or block the view of. |
| Shut-in | adj | Somewhat introverted, retiring, shy, closeted. |
| Shut-minded | adj | Of a closed mind, not ready to recieve new ideas. 2. uninnovative; conservative, narrow-minded. |
| Shut-mindedness | n | The state or quality of having a closed, conservative, uninnovative mind. |
| Shut-mouthed | adj | Word-bound, quiet, taciturn, unwordy. 2. not apt to talk, reserved, silent, uncommunicative. 3. dumb, mute, aphasic. |
| Shut off | vb | To prevent te passage of, as water from a tap or through an irrigaation system. 2. to block the flow of or shutting off any kind of liquid, such as gas, oil, water. 3. to exclude, keep out, avoid. 4. to shut oneself off from some painful or hurtful emotion situation by denial. |
| Shut one's mouth | phr | To refrain from divulging sensitive information; keep quiet about confidential information. |
| Shut-out | n | The act of denying entry or admission to someone or representatives of a group. 2. a state of mind where one shut oneself out (shut-out) from some painful or hurtful emotion situation by denial. |
| Shut out | vb | To exclude from entry, deny admission (often such occurs during a industrial dispute where the employers stop the workers from entering the workplace) 2. to shut oneself off from some painful or hurtful emotion situation by denial. |
| Shutter | n | A hinged blind for a window. 2. an opening, aperture of any kind. 3. one who opens and shuts any kind of aperture. |
| Shutting-in | n | "The Shutting-in": the evening, nightfall, dusk. |
| Shutting-off | n | The act of stemming the flow of something etc., usu. gas, water . 2. the closing off, isolating or separating something. 3. the blocking off of the paasage of. |
| Shut together | vb | To unite, to link, to close, to end simultaneously, to culminate. |
| Shuttle | n | A arrow, dart, missile. 2. a bolt, bar or shittle on a door. 3. a shutter or shuttle on a channel made to carry molten lead. 4. a floodgate in a millstream |
| Shuttle | vb | To move backwards and forwards like a shuttle. 2. to come and go; ebb and flow; wax and wane. |
| Shuttle-bone | n | Each of the bones in the forearm. |
| Shut up | vb | To close , make fast or secure the entrances. 2. to obstruct, as in a passage through something. 3. to enclose, confine, imprison, to fasten. 4. to shut or lock up a prisoner. 5. to end , finish, terminate, conclude. 6. to unite two pieces, as in welding or joining them together. 7. to cause to become silent through fear, intimidation or threat. |
| Shy | adj | Lacking self-confidence, diffident, abashed, timid, demure. 2. worried and distrustful, inclining to avoid persons and situations. 3. easily frightened, fearful, nervous, cautious, wary, suspicious. 4. reserved, coy, embarrased. |
| Shy | phr | "A Shy Bairn Gets Nowt" - if you are too shy, and don't ask, you won't get what you want. |
| Shy away | vb | "To shy away from." ---To avoid having to deal with some unpleasant situation. |
| Shyness | n | The quality or state of being shy, bashful, reserved, coy, timid, diffident. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Sib | n | A blood relation, related to by blood or marriage, kinsman or kinswoman. 2. kinsman collectively, kindred, affinity, relatives. 3. peace, amity, concord. |
| Sib | adj | Akin, allied, related by blood or descent, related, similar. |
| Sib bond | n | A bond or bind, which connect descendants from a common ancestor, kindred, kinfolk, brother or sister. |
| Sibling | n | Children having one or both parents in common. |
| Sibling-ship | n | The state or condition of being a sib. |
| Sibman | n | Relative, relation, family member. |
| Sibness | n | Relationship |
| Sibrede | n | Relationship; kindred. |
| Sibship | n | State of belonging to a sib, or to same sib or family group. 2. a group comprising all the individual born to a particular pair of parents. 3. a family. |
| Sibsomeness | n | Peace, concord, amity, frith. |
| Siche | vb | To sigh: to draw in and exhale a deep, audible breath, as in expressing sorrow, weariness, pain etc. 2. siching. |
| Sick | n | "The Sick." -- those affected by physical or mental illness. |
| Sick | adj | Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function. 2. affected by a disease of any kind, indiposed, in poor health, ill, ailing. 3. feeling of nausea, queasiness, sickish. 4. affected by madness or insanity, demented, brainsick, crazy, unhinged.5. having a strong distaste for overindulgence, sick to death of, sick up to, tired of. 6. of light, lacking intensity or brightness, dim or feeble, wan, pallid, pale. 7. deeply affected by a strong feeling, as in "sick with envy." 8. shoddy, repellent, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre. |
| Sick | vb | To eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth, vomit, spew, throw up, retch, chuck up, regurgitate. 2. to fall sick, sicken. |
| Sick | phr | "Sick as a Dog" - vomiting a great deal. 2. (fig) deeply concerned or depressed (often because of loss of opportunity). |
| Sickening | adj | Disgusting, nauseating, abhorrent, repugnance, detestable, fulsome, revolting. |
| Sicker | adj | Free from danger, or harm, secure, safe. 2. associated with safety or security from danger. 2. that may be depended on, on which one can put reliance, trust or certainty, sure. 3. having a firm foundation or support, unshaken part. 4. not liable to be distorted or unsettled, stable, assured, fixed, definite. 5. prudent, careful, undutiable, absolutely, certain. 6. genuine, good. 7. certain of it's effect, effective, sure. 8. having assured possession of something. 9. having confidence, or certain knowledge, fully assured or convinced. 10. having a sense of security. 11. assured of it's objective, confident, certain. 12. with safety, security, confident. 13. as a certainty, fact. 14. effective, with strength, firmly. 15. securely without risk of failing or shifting. |
| Sicker | vb | To ooze, trickle, leak. |
| Sickerhood | n | Assurance, certainty. |
| Sickering | n | Security, secureness, safety, cautionness. |
| Sickerhood | n | Assurance, certainty, conviction. |
| Sickering | n | Secureness, security, safety, cautionness. |
| Sickerly | adv | With full certainty, conviction. 2. without doubt, undoubtedly, certainty, decidely, assuredly. 3. positively, confidently with assurance. 4.in a firm manner, firmly, fast. 5. in a manner of obligation, binding. 6. in a steady or stable manner. 7. with certainty of result, efficaciously. 8. sharply, severely, smoothly. |
| Sickerness | n | Certain prospect or possession of something, assurance, certainty. 2. Certainty as regard of feeling secure . 3. of sense of security, self-confidence. 4. state of condition of security; a freedom from danger or harm. 5. assured of source of security. 6. contract, bond, pledge. 7. safe keeping, safe custody. |
| Sick-house | n | A hospital. |
| Sickle | n | An edged tool with a curved blade and a long handle used for cutting grass or crops. |
| Sickle | vb | To cut with a sickle or scythe. |
| Sickle | vb | To be ill, fall ill, to become sick, to ail. |
| Sickle-smith | n | A maker of sickles. |
| Sickless | adj | Free from sickness, ill-less, well, healthy |
| Sicklewe | adj | Sickly, unhealthy, diseased, ill-ridden. |
| Sicklewort | n | Prunella vulgaris. |
| Sickling | n | Action of cutting with a sickle or scythe. 2. one who is often sick and delicate or unhealthy, esp. a child. |
| Sickly | adj | Unwell, unhealthy, ill. |
| Sickman | n | A sick person; a patient. |
| Sickness | n | Ill-health, morbidity, disease. 2. illness; the state of being sick. 2. a particular form of disease, esp. nausea. 3. any disordered or weakness state, as "soul sickness." |
| Side | n | Any of the faces of a thing, specially, not the top or base; or not an end. 2. one of the lines limiting a plane form. 3. right or left (side) of a body, specially, from under arm to top the leg. 3a. One or two or more contrasted surfaces, parts, or places: inside and outside. 4. part of a thing to right or left of the middle division. 4a. the lateral half of a slaughtered animal; the carcass. 5. part or place near the edge and away from the middle of a thing. 6. space near, about, direction facing, one's part, person or thing. 6. part of a question etc., question seen from one point of view. 7. cause supported by one of two opposing factions or groups in war, politics, sport etc. 8. a family connection, esp. by descent through one parent, as in my father's side. 8. the behaviour of a person over-pleased with himself; an air or bearing of being self-important; pretentiousness, superciliousness. 9. all around and about: on all sides. 10. support or approval given to one; being on the side of. 11. put out of the way, put out of the way for future use: put to one side. 11. a less important issue than some other one: a side thing or issue. 12. support given to someone in an argument, dispute: take side or side with. 14. an extra-marital relationship: a bit on the side. |
| Side | vb | To take up the cause of. 2. To cut into sides, as a carcass. |
| Side-bone | n | Part of the pelvis on either side of a bird or fowl which is easily separated from the backbone in carving. 2. sometimes the scapula or shoulder blade. |
| Side by side | phr | Close together, abreast, close at hand, near to, touching or near to, in company or along with. |
| Side-light | n | A course of business, an interest pursued aside from one's regular occupation; a hobby. 2. a view or light on some question or matter from a unlooked direction. |
| Side-line | n | Work, interest, taken up in addition to one's chief one. |
| Side-long | adv | Moving, turning to one side. |
| Sideman | n | A partisan, a supporter, follower, a sider, sidesman. 2. a supporting musician in a band. 3. a person going around with a plate etc. collecting money in church. |
| Sideness | n | The state or postion of being sideways or side-on. |
| Sidenhand | adv | On one side, aside, to the side. |
| Side on | adv | Aspect or look of various bodies, animal, persons, things etc. vieved from the side |
| Sider | n | One who sides, or takes sides with a person or cause; a partisan, follower, supporter, fellow-traveller. |
| Sides | phr | "To take sides." -- to attach oneself to; give attendance, one or two opposing sides or parties. |
| Sideshow | n | A small show incidental to a larger or more important one. 2. a minor exhibition at a fair. 3. any subordinate issue or matter. |
| Sidestep | n | A step or movement to one side, as of a boxer. 2. a step on the side of a thing for ascending and descending. |
| Sidestep | vb | To step to one side, avoid or negate responsibilty. 2. to avoid as an issue, or postpone, as a decision, evade. |
| Sidestreet | n | A street intersecting a main street and terminating there. |
| Side-swipe | n | Indirect rebuke, censure, hint. |
| Sidewalk | n | A path or pavement at the side of a street for the use of a pedestrian. 2. a footpath; a footway at the side of a road. |
| Sidewalk outline | n | The chalked out figure of the corpse at a crime scene. |
| Sidewards | adj, adv | Directed or moving towards or from the side, lateral. |
| Sideways | adv | From one side; to, from, one side; with front turned to side. 2. so as to incline towards the side, or with the side forward -- moving it sideways. 3. towards one side, askance, obliquel, indirectly. 4. moving to or from one side, as in a sideways glance. |
| Sidewise | adv | In a lateral direction, sidewards, sideways. 2. to one side. 3. on or from the side. 4. in an indirect manner. 5. directed towards one side. |
| Side with | vb | To arrange oneself on the side of; to take the part of. 2. to agree or agree in opinion with. 3. back, back up, champion, fall in with, get behind, go in with, stand behind, stand in with, stick by, stick up for, string along with, team with, throw lot in with. |
| Siding | n | The act of taking sides, as in a controversy. 2. a railway track that runs beside the main line. 3. |
| Sidle | n | A sideway step, sidling |
| Sidle | vb | To move sideways, esp. in a cautious or stealthy way. |
| Sidth | n | A side, length, depth, sith. |
| Sidy | adj | Inclined to put on one side. |
| Sieve | n | A vessel used by witches to sail in. 2. a divination tool. 3. used as a measure, or for holding anything. |
| Sight | n | The power of seeing things; seeing, eyesight; field of vision. 2. aspect, appearance, look, view. 3. person or thing whose look, general condition, gives a shock to the eye; a spectacle; eyesore. 4. the second a person is seen; a glimpse. 5. a glance, gander, observation. |
| Sight | vb | Suddenly see or catch sight of. 2. to behold, discern, distinguish, glimpse, observe, percieve |
| Sighthound | n | A hound or dog that hunts by speed and sight. |
| Sightly | adj | Beautiful, fair, comely, handsome, sheen, pleasing to the eye, visible, conspicious, keen-sighted, clever. |
| Sight-seeing | n | The visiting of objects of interest: sights of the town, mainly by visitors and tourists |
| Sightsman | n | One who points out sights or objects of interest to tourists. 2. a local guide, tourist guide, cicerone. |
| Sightworthy | adj | Sighty; worthy of being visited. 2. worth seeing or visiting. |
| Sike | n | A watercourse, small stream, creek, beck, bourne. 2. gully, dip, or hollow. 3. a stretch of meadow, mead, field |
| Silk | n | The creamy-white or yellowish, very fine natural, strong, soft fibre product by various insects, especially by larvae of the silkworm, to form their cocoons. 2. cloth, thread or garments made of silk. 4. Slang: "to hit the silk" -- to descend from an areoplane by parachute. |
| Silk | vb | To clothe or cover with silk; to be silkened. |
| Silken | adj | Made or consisting of silk, silky, silken. 2. silk-like, soft, glossy, shining, lustrous. 3. elegant, ingratiating of words, flattering. 4. of persons, their looks or voice: effeminate, soft, sweet, balmy, gentle. 4. soft , low in sound. |
| Silk | vb | To clothe or cover with silk; to be silkened or have a silky lustre. |
| Sill | n | The piece of wood or stone-work forming the lower horizontal part a the window opening. 2. the threshold of a door or gateway; the lower part of a door case. 4. the floor of a gallery in a mine. |
| Sillikin | n | A simpleton, fool, blockhead, dill. |
| Silily | adv | Poorly, badly or in a senseless manner. 2. in a foolish manner, absurd |
| Silliness | n | The quality or state of being silly, foolish, trifling, mentally incaapable. |
| Silly | adj | Without good sense, simple, foolish, imbecilic, idiotic, fatuous. 2. frail, weak, feeble, helpless, defenceless, esp. of women and children. 3. of animals, sleeplike. 4. weak, feeble, sickly, ailing, insignificant, trifling. 5. scanty, meagre, poor, sorry. 6. unlearned, unsophisticated, rustic, ignorant. 7. mental or physical incapable. |
| Silver | n | A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile with malleable and capable of a high degree of polish. 2. a soft, white, precious, univalent metallic element having the highest electrical thermal conductivity of any metal. 3. a metallic element of various light shades or hue: lustrous, grey, argent, slivery, silverish, light ash-grey, ash grey or silver grey. |
| Silver | vb | To cover with silver ; give a silver appearance. 2. to acquire a silver colour. 3. to impart a brightness on something. 4. to make hoary or white like silver. |
| Silver fox | n | Variety of the common fox (Vulpes vulpes) found in the northern parts of Europe, Asia and America. 2. a dark-haired man with silvery-grey tips or threads through his hair. |
| Silvern | adj | Made of silver |
| Silver slumber | n | A sweet, gentle, peaceful sleep or nap. |
| Silver-tongue | n | Person readily, clear, effective, fluent, eloquent of speech. 2. silver-voice, clear and ringing. |
| Silver Tree | n | A monument fashioned by Guillaume Boucher, a Parisian silversmith who was captured during the Mongol invasion of Eastern European. Boucher had the Silver tree erected in the middle of the palace courtyard at Karakorum. The original disappeared centuries ago; today, on the site of Karakorum, the Mongolian government has set up a reproduction of Boucher's Silver Tree. |
| Silverwort | n | Potentilla anserina, goose grass, wild tansy. |
| Sin | n | Moral wrongdoing, offencee against God, misdeed, trangression, trepass, offence. |
| Sin | adv | Then, thereupon, thereafter, afterwords, subsequently, from that time onwards, before now, ago, long sin, for a long time before, from after, subsequent to, from or since the time that. 2. a contracted form of sithen; sen, syne, since. |
| Sin | phr | "Old Sins Have Long Shadows" - past misdeeds are liable to return to haunt a person. |
| Since | adv | Reduced form of sithence. 2. sineth. |
| Sine | n | Sinew, huxen, hockshin. |
| Sin eater | n | A person who, through ritual means, would take on by means of food and drink (sin eating), the sins of a deceased person thus dissolving his or her soul and allowing the person to rest in peace. |
| Sineth | adv | Since, alteration of sithen |
| Sinew | n | A rib in a leaf. 2. a nerve. 3. strength, energy, force. 3. the main strength, mainstay or chief force of something, as the "sinews of war," that is, the money of financing of the campaigns. |
| Sinew | vb | To supply with a something to strengthen, as by sinew. 2. to enervate, harden, innure. |
| Sinewer | n | A strengther, a mainstay, driving force. |
| Sinewish | adj | Pertaining to sinews and their strength, energy and vigour. 2. sinewy. |
| Sinewless | adj | Destitute or lacking, vigour, feeble, weak, powerless. |
| Sinflood | n | The Deluge. |
| Sinful | adj | Characterised by wickedness or iniquity; unholy. 2. having committed unrighteous acts. 3. far more than usual, over-the-top, extraordinary. 3. tainted, criminal, bad, damnable, evil, evil-doing. |
| Sing | vb | To make a melodious sound with the voice. 2. make a ringing, whining or whistling sound. 3. to utter a musicall inflection or modulation of voice. 4. to celebrate or give praise in song. 5. to lull a child to sleep. 6. to accompany other musicians in singing. 7. to tell or recite something in poetry or verse. 8. cry out, complain. 9. to divulge confidential information or secrets, blab, babble, rat-on (prison slang) |
| Singe | vb | To burn superficially, lightly burn ends or edges of something. 2. to remove hairs from carcases by lightly burning or by being singed. 3. to burn ,fire, cauterize. 4. used to describe the effect produce by extreme cold. |
| Singing-bone | n | The funny bone or humerus. |
| Sing-song | n | An occasion of feasting and musical celebration, esp. in PNG and some islands of The Pacific. 2. A ballad, piece of verse, having musical qualities, rather than poetical qualities, esp. one of a monotous or jingling cadence. 3. a tone of voice marked by a monotonous rise and fall, witha kind of singing effect. 4. an amateur concert of informal nature; a convivial meeting. 5. of persons, a mere jingling rythme or monotonous verse featuring trivial or simple singing. |
| Sing-song | vb | A music piece sung in a monotonous cadence or tone. |
| Singster | n | Singer, songstress. |
| Sink | n | A pool or pit formed by a hole in the ground for the collection of waste, water, sewage etc. 2. a cesspool, a container for filth or ordure. 3. a conduit, drain for dirty water, sewage, sewer. 4. a basin for the collection of kitchen liquid waste: a kitchen sink. 5. a plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or a floor and having a drain pipe. 6. a depression in the ground with an underground way. 7. a covered cistern which waste water and sewage flow into. 8. cesspool, cesspit, sump. |
| Sink | vb | To fall or descend to a lower place or level. 2. to cause to sink a sea vessel, such as a warship. 3. to pass into a petrified state or condition. 4. to go under water or into some soft substance, such as quicksand or a miasma. 5. to appear to move downard. 6. to fall or sink heavily; decline markedly, slump, fall off. 7. to be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall or sink from weakness; fail in strength; to decline; decay, decrease. 8. to fall, subside, drop, droop, lower, decline, decay, decrease, lessen. |
| Sink-hole | n | A hole or hollow, an opening or aa sink drain, for foul matter to run into or be thrown into (Also, fig.) 2. a hole, cavern, cavity, made in the earth by the action of water on soil or underlying ground and frequently forming the course of a river or stream underground. 3. cesspool, miasma. |
| Sinlessness | n | The state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong. 2. lacking a knowledge of evil; free from sin. |
| Sinner | n | A person whosins without resisting. 2. one who is persistent, incorrigible. 3. a trangressor, wrongdoer. |
| Sinnership | n | The condition or state of being a sinner or living in sin. |
| Sinsick | adj | Distressed by one's own wrongdoings. 2. sin-soiled, blemished or soiled by sin. |
| Sinsyne | adv | Since then, from the time, since syne. |
| Sipe | vb | Of liquids, water, to percolate or ooze through. 2. to drip or trickle slowly, to soak, sieve. |
| Sister | n | A female person who has the same parents, mother and father, as another person. 2. a nun, as ister of a religious order. 3. a female person who a member of a sorority, labour union, or other group. 4. a slang term for an attractive young woman. |
| Sistership | n | A kinship realtionship between a feamale off-spring and the siblings. 2. an association, society or sorority of women who are linked together by a common purpose, trade or interest. |
| Sister soul | n | Kindred spirit, a female one, soul mate. 2. confidante, fellow-believer, compadre. |
| Sister tung | n | A cognate language or languages. |
| Sit | n | " A sit." 2. a bedsit: a furnished sitting room with sleeping accomodation (and some plumbing.) |
| Sit | vb | To be seated or take a seat; to remain in a seated or settled position. 2. to rest on the haunches or the trunk of the body. 3. to be in session, as in a court. 4. to take a position for artistic purposes. 5. sit and travel on the back of an animal. 6. to be situated or located somewhere. 7. to look after a baby for its parents; that is: babysit. 8. show to a seat, as a usher. 9. to service in a professional capacity, sit on a board. 10. to rest, abide, remain in a position. 11. to lie, rest, remain, stay; to remain passive or inactive, or in a position of idleness or rest. 12. to befit, fit, for a jacket or coat. 13. to cover or waarm eggs for hatching. 14. to occupy a place, as a member of a body, such as a committee |
| Sit at | vb | "To sit at" -- to be subject to. |
| Sit at meat | vb | " To sit at meat' -- to be at the table for eating. |
| Sitch | n | A sike, stream, beck, bourne, watercourse, waterway. |
| Sith | adv | Then, thereupon, afterwards, subsequently. 2. next in succession, oreder or place. 3. some or anytime since, ago. 4. "sith ago", long ago, before now. 5. continously or ever from, during the period, at some time or any time. 6. since a specified time. 6. from susequent, to, or since the time that, during. |
| Sithe | n | A going, journey, path, way. 2. fortune on a journey: also generally: fortune, hap, luck. 3. with cardinal numbers or equivalent term, denoting frequency of occurence, as in oftsithe; on or in one sithe; one in the same sithe: at one and the same time. 4. used to express multiplication of times, esp so many times ten or twenty; by-sithes. 5. used to express comparison. |
| Sithe | vb | To go, journey, travel, voyage. |
| Sithence | adv | Since |
| Sithre | adv | At a later time, subsequently. |
| Sit-in | n | A passive demonstration in which participants gather in government offices, movie theatres and various other places in order to protest against a percieved wrong or a social injustice. |
| Sit in | vb | To join or become involved in a game, activity, business venture or deal. 2. to join a passive demonstration and sit in protest against a percieved wrong. |
| Sitter | n | One who sits. 2. a persons who minds other people's children, home or pets etc. 3. a person sitting as a model. |
| Sit-up | vb | To rise from a recumbent position or from sleep. 2. to sit with the body upright. 3. to sit with, and esp. late or through out the night with a sick or dying person. |
| Sit-upon | n | To belong to a jury, commission, etc. as a member. 2. to hold discussions about and look into carefully, as in a cort case. 3. to suppress, hold onto, lock down or quash a matter, controversy, scandal, or secret., |
| Sived | n | Siftings, bran, meal. |
| Sivedy | adj | Full of bran, siftings, grains. |
| Six | n | A cardinal number following five and preceding seven. 2. anything made up of six units or members. |
| Six and sevens | n | All mixed up, without order and organisation. |
| Sixsome | n | As one of six, with five others |
| Sixth | adj | Next in order after the fifth; one of six equal parts. |
| Sixtieth | adj | Tenth in order after fifieth, the ordinal of sixty. 2. being one of sixty equal parts. 3. the quotient of a unity divided by sixty. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Slade | n | Valley, dell or dingle. 2. an open space between banks or woods. 3. a forest slade. 4. a strip of greensward or boggy land. |
| Slake | vb | To be slack, less active or intense, abate. 2. to diminish the intensity of one's efforts. 2. to do something or undertake something with less energy. 3. to manifest a weakening or decrease in some specified respect. 4. to fall away in one's endeavours; become less decisive. 5. to depart, go away, leave. 6. to become relaxed, slack or loose. 7. to decrease in intensity or force. 8. to become less violent, oppressive or part of, to abate, moderate, mitigate, assuage. 9. to burn less strongly, die down or away, go out. 10. to become weaker or fainter; to lessen, fall off. 11. to come to an end, cease, become extinct. 12. to grow less in number, quantity, voice. 13. to quench a thirst, allay a fear, assuage emotional pain or extinguish a flame or fire. 14. to cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water. |
| Slakeless | adj | That which cannot be or is incapable of being slaked, quenched, mitigated, satiated, assuaged, extinguished. |
| Slaker | n | One who mitigates, assuages, abates. |
| Slaught | n | Slaying, slaughter. 2. a stroke of sorrow. 3. spell of sleep. |
| Slaught | n | Kill, slaughter, butcher, murder, destroy. |
| Slay | vb | To kill intentionally or with premeditation. 2. to kill with violence; put to death with a weapon. 3. kill, put an end to, destroy, murder, slaughter, butcher. 4. to smite, strike, hit. |
| Slaying | n | The act of killing intentionally, murdeer, butcher, slaughter, destroy. |
| Slayer | n | Someone who causes the death of a person or animal. 2. one who slays, killer, murderer, butcher, destroyer of life, blood-shedder, blood-letter. |
| Sleat | vb | To bait an animal with dogs. 2.to hunt after something. 3. to incite, set the dogs on. |
| Sleating | n | Hunting, baiting, instigation, persecute. (lit and fig) |
| Sleave | n | Something tangled, matted, knotted or unspun, as silk or thread. |
| Sleave | vb | To separate, as a mass of threads, disentangle. 2. to divide, split, rend, tear apart; disentangle. |
| Sleck | vb | To extinguish or quench (a fire). 2. assuage, moderate. 3. to cool by means of water. 4. to slake or slack. |
| Sledge | n | A heavy hammer wielde with one or both hands, for blacksmith's use, or for breaking stone etc. |
| Sledge | vb | To hammer, strike, break with a sledge. 2. to strike or smite with great, sometimes unnecessarily severe, force or might. |
| Sleep | n | A state or period of complete or parial unconsciousness, normal and periodic in humans and higher animals. 2. prolonged period of sleep or hibernation. 3. slumber, nap, doze, kip, inactivity, torpor or rest. 4. death; the rest of the grave. |
| Sleep | vb | To fall asleep. 2. to become numb, often with a tingling sensation (pins and needles). 3. to be quite, inactive, dormant. 4. to be unvigilant, to live thoughtlessly, to be careless or inattentive. 5. to rest or repose; to be dead. 6. to be unused or unagitated. 7. to provide with sleeping quarters. |
| Sleep | phr | "Sleep rough" - to sleep, or bedded down, in the open air (such as on the streets, or in doorways, parks or bus shelters); people in buildings or other places not designed for habitation (such as barns, sheds, car parks, cars, derelict boats. |
| Sleep away | vb | To sleep away: to eliminate, get rid by sleeping it off. |
| Sleep-bringing | adj | A sedative, soporific, soporose, slumbrous, lethargic. |
| Sleeping sickness | n | A disease caused by the bite of the tsetse-fly, resulting in extreme lethargy, recurrent fever, headaches and terminating in somnolence and death. 2. Condition suffered by one who is frequently late for work and appointments. |
| Sleep-learning | n | Learning during sleep, by using electrical and electronic devices to teach, for example, a foreign language to someone who is asleep. |
| Sleepless | adj | Unable to sleep, wakeful, restless, unquiet. |
| Sleeper nest | n | A group, such as plotters, terrorists, partisans ("Sleepers") awaiting a pre-arranged signal to launch a military attack. |
| Sleep off | vb | To cure or mitigate the after effects of a hangover by sleeping it off. |
| Sleepwalker | n | Somnambulist: a person who walks during sleep. |
| Sleep-walking | n | The action of walking by a person who is asleep; somnambulating, night-wandering, night-walking. |
| Sleep with | vb | To have sexual intercourse with; sleep together, have it off, lie with; copulate, make love, commit adultery. |
| Sleepy | adj | Inclined to sleep. 2. drowsy, sluggish, dull, heavy, sleepful. 3. conducive to sleep; strongly inclined to sleep or sleepful. |
| Sleight | n | Slaughter |
| Slench | vb | To slink, sneak. |
| Sletch | vb | To render slack or relaxed. 2. to assuage, mitigate. 3. to abode, slacken. |
| Sleuth | adj | Sloth, slothful, laziness, slowness, slow-moving, slow, |
| Sleuth | vb | To be slothful, to waste in sloth. |
| Slide | n | The act of sliding 2 small flat retangular piece of glass on which specimens can be put for closer study. 3. a rapid movement or sliding up or down or the falling or slipping of a large mass of earth, rock, ice or snow; an avalanche. 4. a children's plaything, involving a metal sloping channel.. 4. An inclined plane or channel on which persons, goods etc., slide down to a lower level. 5. a sliding part of a mechanism. 6. a groove, rail etc., on which somehing slides. 7. in music a series of short notes leading smoothly to a principal note. |
| Slide | vb | To slip smoothly, easily along; to pass along or cause to slide over a surface with a smooth slipping movement. 2. to slide along ice. 3. to move or pass imperceptibly, smoothly, swiftly, or easily; to pass gradually or imperceptibly. 4. to make a moral slip, err, sin. 5. to lose one's equilibrium or foothold. 6. to move, put, enter, slide in or into etc., with quietness, deftness, dexterity |
| Slike | n | Mud, slime, sludge. |
| Slime | n | Soft, thin, sticky, runny, slimy, mud or filth. 2. any moist viscous fluid, esp. noxious or unpleasant. 3. mucuous substance or exudation produced by various organisms, suc as slugs, snails, fish etc. 4. any soft, sticky or dirty thing; hence, any offensive quality or thing. 5. soft, moist, adhesive mud or earth, muck. |
| Slime | vb | To cover or be covered with slime or similar sticky, viscous substance or exudation. 2. to smear with slime; stain with slime. |
| Slime-pit | n | A cesspool, unsalubrious surroundings or city sector. 2. a collection of people of low socio-economic status, living in slimey, unwholesome town or city. |
| Slink | vb | Of persons or animals: to creep or crawl (reptiles). 2. to go move in a stelthful way. 3. walk in a quiet way or sneaky manner. 4. to slink away or reduce by miscarriage. 5. to skulk or hide oneself away. 6. to avoid, shirk, evade, withdraw. 7.to turn the eyes in a furtive way. |
| Slink | n | A person who moves about stealthy, slyly or secretly. 2. a sneaking, shirking cowardly fellow. 3. a shulk, a sneak. 4. a manner of moving or walking in a slinking, sneaking, stealthily pace or tread. 5. a submissive. 6. a downcast or furtive look or glance. 7. an animal that brings forth it's young abortively or prematurely. 8. an abortive animal or human. 9. an illegimate child, bastard, love-child. 10. a reptile or creepie-crawlie; a lizard. |
| Slinkend | n | Creepie-crawlie, bugs in general; reptiles, slinks, slitherers |
| Slinkiness | n | Slyness, stealthfulness, furtiveness, sneaking of manner or bearing |
| Slinking | n | That which slinks, moves, walks etc. in a furtive or slinkly manner or whose actions are marked by stealth or secrecy. |
| Slink-meat | n | Diseased meat sold by unreputable butchers. |
| Slink-weed | n | Rose-bay, willow-herb, cardinal flower. (Some believe that it causes cows and other field animals to miscarry) |
| Slinky | adj | Of a woman, sinuous, slender, gliding; also often of her garments or clothing. 2. of garments, tight or close -fitting. 3. of persons and animals, stealthy, furtive, dextrous (with varying degrees of approval. |
| Slip | n | A soft, semi-liquid mass, mud, slime, dung. 2. potter's clay. 3. curdled milk. |
| Slipper | adj | OE.(slipor) deceitful, unreliable, forgetful, voluble. |
| Slit | n | A long narrow cut or opening. |
| Slit | vb | To cut apart or open along a line. 2. to make a long cut, fissure or opening. 3. to cut into strips lengthwise. 4. to sever. |
| Slite | vb | To impair by wear, to wear out. 2. to whet, sharpen. |
| Slither | n | The action of slithering or sliding, slipping, gliding. |
| Slither | vb | To slip, slide, glide on a loose or unfirm ground or slope. 2. to fall gently. 3. to cause or make slither. 4. of reptiles, crawl, creep, slink. |
| Slive | vb | To cleave, split, divide. 2. to cut through something. 3. to remove by cutting or slicing; to take off in this manner. 4. to go along furtively and quietly. |
| Sloe | n | Fruit of the blackthorn, sloe-thorn or Prunus spinoza. 2. something or some type of thing with little or no value: strass. 3. the apple of one's eye. |
| Sloom | n | A gentle sleep or slumber; a doze. |
| Sloomy | vb | To sleep lightly or gently. 2, to doze, nap, kip; take forty winks. |
| Sloth | n | The animal -- the Sloth -- known for it's slowness of movement. 2. physical or mental inactivity, disinclination to action, exertion or labour. 3. sluggishness, idleness, indolence, laziness, tardiness, slowness. 5. a slough or muddy, miry place. |
| Sloth | vb | To allow to slip through because of slothfulness, delay or neglect. 2. to waste, pass away time, in idleness. 3. to be indolent or lazy. |
| Slothful | adj | Full of sloth, slothly, indisposed to exertuion, inactive, indolent, lazy, sluggish. |
| Slothfulness | n | The state or quality of being slothful: lazy, inactive, indolent, slothly. |
| Slough | n | A state of moral degradation in which a person sinks or has sunk. 2. soft mud,mudpool, mire, cesspool; a miasma. 3. a side channel of a river; or a natural channel or waterway that is only filled sporadically with water. |
| Sloughy | adj | Abounding in mud, mire, slush, miasmic. |
| Slow | adj | Not moving quickly, taking a long time; not happening in a short time, gradual, late. 2. slow to be understood, lacking intellectual activity; stupid or obtuse; inertia of intellect, heavy in wit, not alert, not ready, not prompt or quick, dilatory, dull, slow in speech. 3. lacking in interest as to be cause mental weariness; not alert or spirited. 4. boring, deadening, irksome, tedious, wearisome, not hast, uninclined, tardy, unprecipitous. 5. of commercial matters in business: not achieved with briskness. |
| Slow | vb | To lose velocity or speed; lose speed gradually, proceed more slowly. 2. to render slow or slow up. 3. to slacken the speed of, to retard, delay, to go slower. |
| Slow | phr | "Slow on the Uptake" - dull, stupid, silly. |
| Slowback | n | A lubber, an idle fellow, a dullard, a loiterer. |
| Slow-down | n | A go-slow industrial dispute where the worker work strictly to the letter of their industrial laws and awards. 2. the act of slowing down or falling behind. 3. a lag, a bind, dive, dwindling, wane. ebbing, hold-up, letdown, let-up, outlaw strike, wildcat strike, a walkout. |
| Slowliness | n | Unskilfulness, resulting from the lack of training, awkwardness, ineptitude, maladroitness. 2. a rate demonstrating an absence of haste, slowness, deliberation, unhurriednes. 3. lack of normal development or intellectual capacities; retardation, retardation, slowness. 4. quality or state of being slow. |
| Slowly | adv | Without sppeed, tardily. 2. of clocks, timepieces etc, behind, incorrect in time; indicatiing a time earlier than the correct time. |
| Slow-witted | adj | Retarded in intellectual developments, backward, half-witted, feebleminded, inert, mentally unattentive, dull of apprehension, not processing quickly intellectually. |
| Slow-wittedness | n | Quality of being slow mentally and limited intellectually. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Smack | n | A kissing sound, a smooch, a loud or soundy kiss. 2. a blow delivered by the back of the hand. |
| Small | n | Of imitative origin, a smack or blow. 2. an onset, shock. 2. the slender part of the back. |
| Small | adj | Not of great size, degree etc; limited in size or scope. 2.limited or below average in a number or quantity, magnitude or extent. 3. of children or youth, young or immature. 4. slight or limited in intensity; lower or inferior in station or quality. 5. humble, low, lowly, modest, timidly. 6. having fine or very small particles, like rain. 7. not large but sufficient in size or amount. narrow in feeling, foolish, little of value, unimportant; made to seem smaller in being or less in worth.. |
| Small-craft | n | Small vessels collectively. |
| Small-minded | adj | Having a petty mind, interested in trivalities. 2. narrow, intolerant, ungenerous. |
| Smalls | n | Small clothes, esp. underwear or swimwear. |
| Small stuff | n | Matters of minor importance, trivial, insignificant, mere bagatelle |
| Small talk | n | Light or trifling conversation, chit-chat. 2. talk about unimportant things. |
| Small-time | adj | Insignificant, trivial, petty, unimportant. |
| Small town | adj | unsophisicated, rustic, provincial |
| Small-ware | n | Small items of haberdashery. 2. lingerie, scanties. 3. |
| Small-ware dealer | n | A dealer, seller, trader in small-ware. |
| Smally | adj | Of persons: puny, little, smallish. 2. in or into small pieces, fragments, thrums, finely-cut, minuscle. 3. in only slight or small degrees or limited extent; not very much. 4. of sound, low in volume. |
| Smart | n | Physical or mental pain. 2. sharp pain caused by a stroke, sting or wound. 3. suffering, sorrow, affliction. 4. something suffered of the nature of punishment or retribution. 5. loss, damage, adversity. |
| Smart | adj | Of a whip, rod: painful, sharp, biting. 2. of touch, rough, harsh, hard, severe. 3. of blows, hard, severe, painful. |
| Smart | adj | Smart or very fashionable in dress manner or talk. 2. skilled in writing, talking and communicating. 3. intelligent, clever, acumenial, witful. |
| Smart apple | n | Slang: a very intelligent person, a sagacious person. |
| Smatch | vb | To have a specific flavour or taste. 2. to taste or feel the taste of to smack of something. |
| Smear | n | Fat, grease, lard, ointment. 2. |
| Smear | adj | In a smeary, grimy condition. |
| Smear-monger | n | One who spread rumours, innuendo, half-truths and, sometimes, the truth by word of mouth, word in print or the electronic media. |
| Smear word | n | A word which in spite of its literal meaning is used to imply something derogatory. |
| Smearwort | n | One or more plants of doubtful identity, including unctuosa, sel-heal, uencria, aristolocharia, aristolosia, mercurialis. |
| Smeek | vb | To emit smoke, to reek, send out a vapour; to give off steam. 2. to suffocate (bees), to drive out (an animal) by means of smoke. 3. to scent with incense, to cense. |
| Smeeky | adj | Smoke-emitting, smoke-filled, smokey. |
| Smeeth | n | Perfume. 2. smoke, dense or thick vapour |
| Smeeth | vb | To blacken or soil with smoke. 2. to send off smoke, vapourise. 3. to perfume or scent. 4. to make smooth. |
| Smeeth | adj | Smooth, free from roughness. 2. a level space. |
| Smeethly | adv | To make smooth, free from roughness. |
| Smeethness | n | Smoothness, |
| Smeigh | n | Wisdom, skill, clever, cunning. |
| Smell | n | Of an unknown origin, possibly from O.E. smiellan. O.E has addlestench, stink, rank, etc. The special sense or sensation by which odours are percieved through the olfactory nerve. 2. the act of smelling: percieved by means of the nose and olfactory nerve. 3. the general atmosphere of a place or situation. 4. aroma, odour, scent, fragrance, perfume. 5. (fig) a faint suggestion, hint, trace. 6. stink, stench, pong. |
| Smell | vb | To emit by smelling, give off in a particular odour. 2. to give an indication, hint, trace of "smell of deceit lingers." 3. to seek, know, discover by smelling. 4. to pry, investigate, give heed to: " to smell a rat." 5. to malodour, stench, stink, pong, reek. 6. bouquet, fragrance, aroma. |
| Smell | phr | "Smell a Rat" - to have a sense that something is wrong, not clearly evident, to have reason for suspicion. |
| Smell-less | adj | Without smell, having no odour at all, stenchless, aroma-less. |
| Smelly | adj | Evil-smelling, stinking, fetid, foulfrowsty, mephitic, noisome, putrid, reeking, whiffy. |
| Smell out | vb | To find out by sagacity. 2. discover by investigation. |
| Smelt | n | A small fish, Osmerius esperlanis, allied to the Salmon and the Sparling. |
| Smicker | adj | Elegant, delicate, fine. 2. beautiful, elegant, fair, handsome. 3. of looks, smirky, happy. 4. loose, lax, wanton. |
| Smickering | n | An amorous inclination, |
| Smirk | vb | To smile, to smirkle. 2. to smile in an affected, self-satisfied or silly way. 3. to simper 4. of wine: to sparkle. |
| Smirky | adj | Smart, neat, smiling. 2. self-satisfied, affected. |
| Smit | n | A sullying spot or stain. 2. a taint, esp moral one; blemish. 3. a soft, reddish earthy or clayey ore, esp. used for marking ownership of sheep. 4. a particle of soot, a very small piece or portion, a bit. 5. smut, blackspeck. 6. infection, contagion. |
| Smit | vb | To stain, mark in some way, colour, give hue, to tinge. 2. to contaminate, taint, or infect, lit or fig. (with sin or guilt). 3. to infect, contage one another. |
| Smitch | n | Smoke from burning or smouldering matter. 2. grime, dust, dirt, smit. |
| Smitch | vb | To affect with smoke , etc. |
| Smite | vb | To strike something. 2. to strike a blow with something; to cause to strike, to kill with as sudden blow. 3. Cut, sever, break by a blow. 4. to be hit with disaster or bale; afflict, destroy by calamity. 5. to affect greatly with a sudden feeling; smite by love. 6. to cause to feel regret or remorse. 7. to come with a sudden force. |
| Smith | n | Worker in irons or other metals. 2. the workplace of a smith: a smithy. 3. |
| Smith | vb | To work in the forging of metals. |
| Smith | phr | "Every Man is the Smith of His Own Well-being" - one must shape one's own future. |
| Smithcraft | n | The craft and skill of being a smith. 2. the work, art, craft of a smith. 3. smithing |
| Smithing | n | The art or process of forging or fashioning metals. |
| Smithy-coom | n | Iron dust mixed with hot pitch as an impervious composition for the top of wooden sheds. |
| Smiting | n | The action or act of striking; cutting, breaking or severe by a blow. 2. the striking of or destruction by disaster. 3. powerful affect or feeling, suddely and both positive and negative. 4. a sudden deadly blow. 5. a sudden force. |
| Smitting | adj | Infectious, contagious. |
| Smock | n | Used allusively to denote a woman or womankind, 2. in allusive terms, usu. suggesticve of loose conduct or immorality in, or in relation to, women. |
| Smock | vb | To render effeminate or womanise. 2. to consort with women; to be a smocker. 3. to provide with a smock. |
| Smoke | n | The visible vapour or substance that escapes or is thrown off by burning process. 2. a cigarette, cigar, tobacco. 3. vapour, water, mist, exhalation. 4. Greyish, blackish or white cloud made by burning something. 5. |
| Smoke | vb | To emit smoke, to reek. 2. to draw into the mouth the smoke of tobacco. 3. to apply smoke to cure or hang in smoke meat, fish etc. 4. to scent with smoke; to perfume or scent a room, building etc. 5. to burn, be kindled, to rage. 6. to raise dust or smoke by rapid action. 7. to fumigate infected materail. 8. to sugffer severely; to be punished. 9. to find out details, hunt out, smell out, smoke out. 10. to smoke out, or drive out, persons, animals, insects, etc. from a hiding place by filling it with smoke. 11. to expose publicly , drive out, smoke out, to make information and material held secret, known publicly by forcing someone to divulge it, (metaphorically). 12. to ridicule in person, quiz, grill. |
| Smoke | n | "The Smoke" - a metropolis, large town, city. |
| Smoke | phr | "Go Up in Smoke" -- one's plans, dreams, hopes, that are destroyed. 2. to be destroyed by fire; to end in smoke. |
| Smoke | phr | "Sell Smoke" - denoting fraudulent dealing in bargianing, undertakings, or promises. 2. to act dishonestly, swindle, take down. |
| Smoke | phr | "Smoke Out" - to make information publicly known by forcing someone to divulge a secret. 2. To force a person, animal, insect to leave a hiding place by filling it with smoke. |
| Smoke-farthing | n | An offering made at Whitsuntide by the householderrs of the diocese to the cathedral church. 2. a hearth tax. |
| Smother | n | Something that stifles, such as smoke or fumes. 2. a profusion of turmoil. 3. a smouldering fire; a sstate of smouldering. |
| Smoking | adj | (Colloquial, often in sport) performing or playing in an outstanding or excellent and exciting manner. 2. when one's performance is so good that a a long winnning streak ensues. |
| Smolt | adj | Smythe. 2. of weather, fine , fair, calm. 3. pleasant, agreeable, afable. 4. bright, shining. 5. smooth. polished. |
| Smooth | n | The act of smoothing; that which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. |
| Smooth | vb | To make smooth, or smoother by rubbing. 2. to free from obstruction, make easy, to ease, to make facile. 3. to free from harshness, make flowing. 4. to palliate, to gloze, to gloss over a fault. 5. to give a smooth or calm aspect or appearance. 6. to flatter, blandise, cajole. |
| Smooth | adj | Smoothly agreeable, courteous. 2. sophisticated, flowing without constraint, freely moving. 3. moving without jolts of bumps. 4. Lacking obstructions or difficulties or setbacks. 5. of music, without breaks between notes -- smooth and connected. 6. of a body of water, such as a river, sea, ocean: flowing wavelessly and tranquilly. 7. placid, quiet, still, tranquil. 8. even of surface, with no roughness of touch. 9. smooth like glass or some types of crockery. 10. evenly spread or arranged; sleek. 11. Gently flowing, moving uniformily, unobstructed in flow. 12. spoken or uttered without check or obstruction, hestitation, voluble, eloquent, fluent. 13. bland, mild, soft, soothing. 14. even. plain, level, flat. 15. glossy, shining. 16, deceptive, slick, shifty. |
| Smooth | phr | "Smooth as a Millpond" - very smooth and calm. |
| Smooth | phr | "Smooth the Way" - to take away a problem so that something can be achieved with ease. 2. to successfully deal with a problem or difficulty, carry off, work out, handle. |
| Smooth-tongued | adj | Smooth-talking: persuasive in speech, convincing, silver-tongued, convincing, compelling, believable. |
| Smore | vb | To suffocate, smother. 2. to suffocate, smother in smoke. 3. to suffocate, to choke. 4. to suppress, stifle, keep in obscurity or concealment, put or keep down. 5. to smear, bedaub. |
| Smother | n | Something that stifles, such as smoke or fumes. 2. a profusion of turmoil. 3. a smouldering fire; a state of smouldering. 4. a smother: a shifting cloud of smoke, throsm or fumes. |
| Smother | vb | To suffocate another. 2. to take from a fire oxygen needed for combustion. 3. to conceal, suppress or hide. 4. To cover thickly with sand, dirt, etc; to extinguish a fire by covering. 5. to give or shower an over-abundance of love, care, and time to someone: a child, partner etc. 6. cover completely, provide with a cover or surround. 7. to deprive of oxygen or to prevent oxygen to flow to the nose or mouth; prevent breathing; to die or kill or be killed by lack air; asphyxiate, suffocate. 8. overwhelm, shower, heap, shroud, hold in, hold back, keep in, bottle up. |
| Smother | adj | Tending to suffocate. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Snail | n | Various sorts of mollusc (esp. ones found in gardens, having a screw-like shell and very slow in motion 2. tortoise, turtle, slug. 3. used allusively to (somewhat) vehemently) the exceptionally slow. 3. an indolent person. 4. structure or formation resembling that of a snail or a testudian. 5. a formation resembling the letter "D" limacon. 5. a flat, spirally curved piece of metal or other material. |
| Snake | n | A somewhat long-bodied reptile without legs, of which some are able to give a poisonous bite. 2. a false friend; a person who turns, suddenly and unexpectedly, against others. |
| Snead | n | The shaft or pole of a scythe used by a snedder; a sned. |
| Snead | vb | To cut or lop off a branch, to prune, to sned. 2. Fig, to cull, reduce in number, decrease, pluck out, select, shift, kill. |
| Sneeze | n | A sudden, loud, uncontrolled sound made in clearing the nose. |
| Sneezed | phr | "Not to be Sneezed at." -- important, great, enough to be taken into account and consideration. |
| Sneezewort | n | Achillea ptarmica: the wild pelitory, the dried leaves of which are powdered and used as a sternutatory. |
| Snell | adj | Of persons or animals, quick in movement or action, prompt, active, smart, strenous, good. 2. keen-witted, clever, sharp, acute, aware. 4. of weather, bitter, severe, bleak. 5. of matters and condition, grevious, heavy, stinging, naggingly painful. 6. of taste, sharp, pungent, biting. 7. of voice, shrill, clear-sounding. 8. of action, quick, prompt, vigourous, strong. |
| Snese | vb | To run through with a weapon. |
| Sniffle | n | See "Snivel" |
| Snike | n | Reptiles. |
| Snike | vb | Creep or crawl like a reptile. |
| Snite | vb | OE. snite: to snipe: to shoot at enemy for cover or concealment. 2. as a term of abuse or abuse: direct cutting or nasty remarks at others.C |
| Snite | vb | To clean or wipe the nose, esp. by means of the thumb or finger. 2. to snuff out a candle. 3. fig. to weak or pull. |
| Snithe | vb | To kill, to cut, to hew, to pierce, to kill by cutting. |
| Snithing | n | Cuttting, hewing,nipping, piercing with a sharp instrument. 2. killing, snuffing out, wiping out. |
| Sniting | n | The cleaning or wiping the nose with parts of the hand, thumb, fingers etc. |
| Snivel | vb | OE (assumed?)To run at the nose. 2. to half cry, to whimper with regret or disapointment. |
| Sniveldom | n | Condition or state of frequntly snivelling: whimpering, whinging or whining. |
| Sniveling | n | Displaying emotion or semblance of some mean-spirited. 2. weak |
| Snode | n | A piece, a bit, morsel, tidbit, morsel. |
| Snood | n | OE: Snod: a thread. a band or ribbon for confining the hair; later, the distincive hair band worn by unmarried women |
| Snot | n | Mucus in the nose; nasal mucus. 2. a despicable, mean person. |
| Snoter | adj | Wise, learned, skilful |
| Snow | n | Water, frozen vapour from the air turned into ice and falling to earth in soft, white, light flakes. 2. taken as a type of whiteness; pure white, snow white. 3. a fall of snow, snow storm. 4. as a marking a period of time; a winter. 5. an accumulation, expanse or field of snow. 6. "The Snows." -- The Arctic Regions. 7. the white hair of age. 8. the white bloom or blossom; spray or foam. 8. cocaine. |
| Snow | vb | To fall, throw down, strew or cover with snow. 2. to cause the hair to turn the colour of snow |
| Snow-broth | n | Snow melted; water obtained by the melting of snow. |
| Snowcraft | n | The art of travelling or living in snow or snowy regions. |
| Snow-drift | n | A heap or mass of snow driven together, or piled up by the actions of the wind. 2. a driving mass or cloud of snow. 3. a snow-wreath. |
| Snow-drop | n | A bulbous plant with white flowers in early spring. |
| Snow-line | n | The general level on mountains etc., above which the snow never completely disappears; the lower level of perpetual snow. |
| Snow-sheen | n | Snow-blink: the reflection from snow or ice-fields in polar regions |
| Snow-sleep | n | A somnolent condition induced by walking in the snow. |
| Snow under | vb | To bury in snow; fig. to submerge, overwhelm, overpower. |
| Snow up | vb | To block, obstruct, incommode, imprison, esp. with snow. |
| Snow-white | adj | Pure white. |
| Snow wreath | n | A heap of snow blown together by the wind; a snow-drift. |
| Snowy | adj | Of weather, characterised by the prevalence or presence of snow. 2. composed of melted snow, consisting, formed or made from snow. 3. covered by snow, abouding in snow or snowiness. 4. resembling snow; snow-white. |
| Old English | n | English |
| So | adv | in the way or manner indicated, described, or implied: Do it so. 2. in that or this manner or fashion; thus. 3. in the aforesaid state or condition: It is broken and has long been so. 4. to the extent or degree indicated or suggested: Do not walk so fast. 5. informal. very or extremely: I'm so sad. conjunction 6. in order that (often followed by that ): check carefully, so any mistakes will be caught 7. with the result that (often followed by that ): He checked carefully, so that the mistakes were caught. 8. on the condition that; if. |
| So | pn | Such as has been stated: to be good and stay so. 2. something that is about or near the persons or things in question, as in number or amount: of the original twelve, five or so remain. |
| So | intj | Used as an exclamation of surprise, shock, discovery, inquiry, indifference, etc., according to the manner of utterance.) |
| So | adj | True as stated or reported; conforming with reality or the fact: Say it isn't so. |
| So | coll | Only, just so many, being a limited or small number or amount: I can eat only so many pieces of fruit. 2. only / just so much, being a limited amount or quantity; up to a certain point or maximum: I can eat only so much fruit; just so much that one can do in such a case. 3. so as, a. with the result or purpose: to turn up the volume of the radio so as to drown out the noise from the next apartment. b. Older Use. provided that: I like any flower, just so as it's real. 4. so much, a. something, as an amount or cost, that is not specified or determined: The carpeting is priced at so much per yard. b. all that is or needs to be said or done: So much for the preliminaries, let's get down to the real issues. 5. so much as, even: He doesn't so much as say hello to me. Usage note 6. The intensive so meaning “very or extremely” ( Everything's so expensive these days ). |
| Soak | vb | To lie in and become saturated or permeated with water or some other liquid. 2. to pass, as a liquid, through pores, holes, or the like. 3. to be thoroughly wet. 4. to penetrate or become known to the mind or feelings (followed by in) 5. informal. to drink immoderately, especially alcoholic beverages. 6. to place or keep in liquid in order to saturate thoroughly; steep. 7.to wet thoroughly; saturate or drench. 8. to permeate thoroughly, as liquid or moisture does. 9. metallurgy . to heat (a piece) for reworking. 10. informal. to intoxicate (oneself) by drinking an excess of liquor |
| So-and-so | n | An indifferent worthless fellow, poor in health or moderate in circumstances or prosperity. |
| Soap | n | Substance made of fat or oil mixed with alkali forming a lather when rubbed in water. 2. a cleansing agentconsisting of sodium or potassium salts of fatty acid, made by decomposing the glyceryl esters with fats and oils with akali; a detergent. 3. flattery, as in soft soap |
| Soap | vb | To rub, smear, lather, treat with salt. 2. to address with smooth or flattering words; to flatter. |
| Soapie | n | A Soap-box Opera: a daytime television or radio drama presented serially and usually dealing with domestic themes of a highly emotional character, so called in reference to the soap commercials often presented on such programs. |
| Soap-monger | n | A trader or seller of soap and other items of ablution. |
| Soapwort | n | A perennial herb (Saponaria officianilis,) so called because it's juice when mixed with water forms a lather. |
| Soapy | adj | Smeared with soap, coverd with soap suds or lather. 3. impregnated with soap; containing soap or soapy solution. 4. of the nature of soap, having the soft greasy feeling of soap. 5. of appearances, feel, etc; resembling that of soap. 6. having the taste of soap.. 7. (slang) over-smooth, suave, ingratiating, sycophantic, backscratching, unctuous. |
| So be it | phr | Sobeit; provided that, if only. |
| Sock | n | A short stocking covering the foot, made of wool or synthetic material, not stretching as far as the calf. |
| So ever | adv | Used with generalising or emphatic force after words or phrases preceded by how, what, which, whose. |
| So forth | adv | Such and such a thing. |
| Soft | adj | Of a substance easily chaged in shape by pressure, without fracture; impressionable, ductile, malleable, easily worked. 2. smooth and delicate to touch (soft skin). gentle in it's effect upon the ear; not loud or harsh. 4. mild in manner of physical action; gentle, bland. 5. of colour: soft, unobtrusive, delicate in shading not glaring or striking; soft in tint. 6. of nature, personality: gentle, mild, conciliatory, sympathetic, courteous, soft-hearted. 7. easily or easy touched in feelings; tender, sympathetic. 8. incapable of heavy hardship; delicate. 9. of soft intellect; easily yielding to emotion; maudling. |
| Soften | vb | To make or become soft or softer. 2. allay, alleviate, temper. |
| Softener | n | Something that softens. 2. an action that mitigates or softens the severity of a mishap, misfortune , misdeed, etc. |
| Soften up | vb | To butter up, honey, influence, lead along, kid along, induce, milden, massage, mollify, soft soap, string along, undermine. 2. to debilitate, enfeeble, harass, harry, subdue by attrition, unstrengthen, weaken, wear down, work over. |
| Soft-foot | vb | To tip-toe, go quietly. |
| Soft-head | n | Fool. idiot, simpleton. |
| Soft-hearted | adj | Having a soft or susceptible nature. 2. kind-hearted, tender-hearted, merciful, softish. |
| Softish | adj | Of persons, inclined to be soft in nature, personality or attitude. 2. of materials, not hard or firm, but pliable or malleable. |
| Soft-landing | n | May refer to soft landing (flight) -- a type of landing, usually of a hot air balloon, in descent by gradually reducing its buoyancy. 2. in rocketry, a landing which does not result in the destruction of the payload vehicle. 3. in economics, a process in the economy shifting from growth to slow-growth, to potential flat or little growth to avoid a recession. |
| Soft-line | vb | A gentle and understanding way of dealing with others; esp. in political and diplomatic crises. |
| Soft-liner | n | A person who adheres to a flexible or conciliatory policy, belief, stance, etc. (opposite of hardliner). |
| Softling | n | An effeminate or unmanly man; a weakling. |
| So-mickle | adj | So big or large. |
| Soft-mindedness | n | Stupidity, foolishness, gullibility, gormlessness. |
| Soft-mouth | n | A flatterer, smooth-talker, sycophant. |
| Soft on | vb | Marked by foolish or unreasonable faairness. 2. infatuated by; smitten by; lenient towards. |
| Soft-sell | n | A subtle method of persuasion used by salesmen, rather than an aggressive or hardsell approach. |
| Soft soap | vb | The use of subtle, non-insistent methods of slaesmanship. |
| Softy | adj | A weak, but often very kind and accomodating person, often used by those without scruples or decency for their own advantage. 2. fig. a soft touch. 3. an extremely sentimental person. 4. a weak or effeminate man or boy; not one innured to hardship; a sissy. |
| Soke | n | OE. the power of holding court, domain, the right of investigation or seeking. 2. the Lord's power or privelege of holding court in a district, as in the manor or lordship, jurisdiction of causes, and a limit of that jurisdiction. 3. liberty or privelege of tenants of the manor excuse from customary burden |
| Sokeman moot | n | The court of the manor and it's jurisdiction and power. |
| Soken | n | A toll. 2. a district held by socage. |
| Sole | n | A rope cord etc. 2. a rope or cord for tethering or tying up cattle or other aniamls. 2. a wooden collar or yoke used to fasten a cow etc. to a stall. 3. a yoke. |
| Sole | n | A muddy or miry place. |
| Sole | vb | To become dirty, muddy, miry, grimy. 2. to abound in mud, mire, slush, miasmic. |
| Some | adj | Of an indeterminate quality, number, amount, not much of, a little. 2. limited in degree or amount; moderate. 3. concerned or thought of, but not definitely known. 4. part of something, but not all of it; greater or less portion of sum. 4. worthy, considerable, very good: " that has some talk or notice, account." 5. considerable in number of quality. |
| Some | adj | Reduced form of of I-some; sam. 2. united, reconciled, at peace, friendly, quiet, sedate; saught and some. |
| Some | adv | In an approximate degree. 2. as nearly as may be estimated (some thirty people arrived.) 3. about, near, more or less. |
| Some | phr | "To get some."to have sex; to suceed in finding a sexual partner. |
| Some | sfx | A word forming element used in making adjectives, as a suffix added to numerals meaning " a group of that number" -- a twosome. 2. approximately or having, as in blithesome, blithsomeness, burdensome, fearsome, fearsomely, gladsome. |
| Some | prn | A certain undetermined quantity or part or portion. 2. certain particlar ones not definitelly, known or not specifically designated, as in "I had some." |
| Some and some | phr | A few at a time |
| Somebody | prn | A person unknown or named; a human, person, individual, a mortal or soul. 2. a person of consequence; important person; a digntary, a big-timer, heavyweight, hot-shot, a something else, celebrity, a vip. |
| Somebody else | phr | Another, far from it, heavy, hot, not nothing like, out of sight, peachy, quite a thing, srumptious,smashing, something else again, stunner, way out again, way out wonder. |
| Somebody or other | phr | Someone or soomebody not specified; an indeterminate person or individual. |
| Somebody up there | phr | God or a supernatural controlling power |
| Some by some | phr | Little by little, gradually, by degrees. |
| Some char | adv | On one occasion; sometime; some day, some future time. OE: cer --a chore, odd job, also work done by the day. |
| Some day soon | phr | Before very long. |
| Somedeal | adj | Some portion or part of some thing or one thing; somewhat. 2. a considerable number of people, crowd, throng, a mingle. 3. in some degree or measure, by some extent, partly, somewhat. |
| Somegate | adv | In some place, somewhere. 2. somewhere, somehow, in some way or manner. |
| Somehow | adv | In some manner or way not explained |
| Someone | prn | Some person, somebody. |
| Someone | n | A somebody, an individual, person, mortal. |
| Some-say | n | A reported saying or statement. |
| Something | n | A particular thing indefinitely concieved or stated. 2. some portion or quantity. 3. a person or thing of importance. 4. "make something of himself": success; usefulness |
| Somethingness | n | The fact or state of being something. 2. real or materail existence. 3. an entity. |
| Something-nothing | n | A triviality, a mere bagatelle. |
| Something-nothing-everything | adj | The spin or deceit in promises of con men and those less than honest in business and life. |
| Some-time | adv | At some future time not precisely stated. 2. at a time not precisely stated; eventually. 3. at some indeterminate time or occasion. |
| Sometime | adj | Former, erstwhile, quondam. |
| Sometimey | adj | Variable, unstable, unfirm. |
| Someway | adv | In some way or other; someways. 2. by some means, somehow, at some distance. |
| Some-what | n | An uncertain quantity or degree. 2. an individual thing of consequence. |
| Some-whatly | adv | To some slight extent or degree. |
| Some-when | adv | At some time, something or other, usually indefinite and unknown. |
| Some-whence | adv | From some indefinite place or from somewhere or otherly. |
| Some-where | n | An unspecified or unknown place. |
| Some-where | adv | In, at, or to some place unspecified or unknown. 2. in some place or other 3. in or to some existent place, as opposed to no-where. 4. approximately, nearby, close to. |
| Some-while (s) | adv | At or in some former time, formerly, erewhile, erstwhile. 3. some while since, some time ago. 4. before, sometime of a former or past occasion. 5. once, at one time. 6. for some time. |
| Some-whither | adv | To some indefinite or unknown place; somewhere. 2. in some direction. 2. to some place. |
| Some-why | adv | For some reason or reasons. |
| Some-wise | adv | In some way, manner or other. 2. in some-wise. |
| Someredness | n | Samredness: harmomy, unity, concord. |
| Somerune | n | Samrune: Council, consultation, concord, unity. |
| Son | n | A male child considered with refernces to either parent or to both parents, male child, male issue, male off-spring. 2. amy male descendant. 3. one who occupies the place of a son, as by adoption, marriage or regard. 4. a person "son" regarded as a native of a particular country or place. 5. a male person who is characterised by some quality or thing or by being or representing some some quality or character, as in " Son of Freedom." 6. a divine word of God; Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity. 7. produce of anything. |
| Son-before-the father | n | Various plants, such as the Willow-herb, Meadow-saffron, Colt's foot. |
| Song | n | The singing of vocal music; more overly, any melodious utterance, as of a bird. 2. a musical composition for the voice or many voices. 3. a short poem whether to be sung or not. 4. a lyric or a ballad. 5. a poetry verse. 6. a mere trifle, as in "sold for a song." 7. an anthem, carol, chant, hymn. |
| Song-book | n | A book containing a collection of songs. 2. a recording, such as a CD, containing a collection of songs by a particular artist ("Christmas Songbook.") |
| Songcraft | n | The art of making songsor verses, metrical compositions, versification. |
| Songful | adj | Abounding or full in song. 2. melodious, good for singing. |
| Song-hit | n | A song which is a popular success. 2. a hit, hitsong, pop song. |
| Songless | adj | Devoid of song; not singing. 2. lacking the power of song or pipe or chirm. |
| Songlessness | n | The state or condition of being songless, unable or without the power of singing. |
| Songman | n | A singer; a person accustomed to singing songs. |
| Song-maker | n | A singer, song-writer or record producer. |
| Song-smith | n | A composer or maker of songs |
| Songster | n | A person or bird given to singing; one skilled in song. 2. a poet, skop, skald, leetman. |
| Songstress | n | a female singer. |
| Song-wright | n | A song writer, singer |
| Songworthy | adj | Worthy or appropriate to be put to music. 2. heroic, praiseworthy. |
| Song-writer | n | One who writes songs. |
| Sonship | n | Position, state, condition, or relation of being a son. 2. son-hood. |
| Soon | adv | At a future or subsequent time not long distant; shortly. 2. without delay; in a speedy manner; also, with ease ; readily. 3. willingl. readily; usu. with as would as, had as, etc. 4. in good season; early. 5. at once; immediately. |
| Soon as | phr | "As soon as" -- immediately; at or after another event. |
| Soon at | phr | As soon as the time referred to arrives. |
| Soon enough | phr | Without being tardy; very soon from now. |
| Sooner | n | One who makes an unfair and premature start. 2. one who takes things into his own hands and acts prematurely regardless of the law or condition. |
| Sooner or later | phr | At some uncertain time in the future, as in " He will find out about her, sooner or later." |
| Soonish | adj | Somewhat soon. |
| Soon-ness | n | The condition or quality or being soon. 2. speediness, promptness. |
| Soot | n | A black substance, essentially carbon from the combustion of wood or coal, as deposited on the walls of chimneys and other surfaces in contact with smoke. |
| Soot | vb | To soil or cover with soot. 2. to smear, smudge, grime or foul with soot. 3. to cover with or with soot. 4. to sprinkle manure with soot. |
| Soot | adj | Sweet to the smell or taste; sweet-smelling, fragrant. 2. of persons, quality or disposition: pleasant, agreeable, gentle, mild, sweet, gracious. 3. of sounds, melodious, harmonious. |
| Soot-dew | n | A black, fulginous, grimy coating parts of living plants or buildings. |
| Sooted | ppl | Blackened, begrimed, covered with soot. |
| Sooth | n | Truth, the sooth, verity, fulfilment. 2. the real or actual facts or circumstances; realness, genuineless, definiteness, certainty. 3. a true thing or saying. 4. prophecy, prognostication, soothsaying, prediction |
| Sooth | vb | To prove or show a fact, statement, etc. 2. to be true, to verify, to demonstrate. 3. to declare a statement to be true. 4. to uphold as the the truth. 5. to corrobate or support. 6. to put forwatrd a lie or untruth as being true. 7. to confirm, encourage or humour a person by expressing assent with approval. 8. to blandish, cajole, please by agreement or assent; to flatter in this way. 9. to smooth or gloss over (an offence) to render less objectionable or offensive. |
| Sooth | adj | True, veritable, real, genuine of things or qualities. 2. of a deity, true, in accordance with, not false, fictitious or unsooth. 3. of persons, truthful, soft, smooth. |
| Soothe | n | Calmness, quietness, trnquilty, mollification, appeasemement, composure, mitigation. |
| Soothe | vb | To render an animal, person, the feelings calm or quiet. 2. to restore to a normal peaceful or tranquil condition. 3. to mollify, appease, quieten down. 4. to bring to a composed condition. 5. to effect in a tranquilising and agrreable manner. 6. to reduce or mitgate the force of passion or pain. 7. to render less painful or violent, to allay, assuage, mitigate. 8. to soften, tone down, render less harsh or prominent. 9. to exercise a soothing or calming effect. |
| Soothfast | adj | Speaking or adhering to the truth, truthful, true, faithful, loyal. 2. true, veracious, just, equitable. 3. reliable, certain, sure. 4. true, real, veritable, said esp. of God or persons of the Trinity. |
| Soothfastly | adv | Truthfully, truly, veritably. |
| Soothfastness | n | The fact or condition (in soothfastness) or quality of being soothfast: true and truthful. |
| Sooth-hood | n | The quality or condition of being truthful, veritiable, soothful. |
| Soothing | adj | Flattering, blandishing, specious, plausible. 2. calm.pacifying, molifying, quietening. |
| Soothquide | n | A word or saying of truth, a proverb, adage. |
| Soothrightly | adv | Truly, verily, genuinely. |
| Soothsay | n | A true or wise saying, a proverb, adage. 2. a prediction, prognosication, prophecy. 3. an omen, portent, |
| Soothsay | vb | Prognosticate, prophesise, to fortune-tell. 2.to make predictions, to foretell the future. 3. to announce the future as a soothsayer. |
| Sootied | pp | Made sooty, blackened, denigrated |
| Soot up | vb | To fill up or choke with a sooty deposit. |
| Sooty | adj | Stained, grimed or blackened with soot, besooted, soot-smeared. 2. consisting or producing soot. 3. black or fulginous in colour like soot. 4. sooty in colour: dusky or brownish black; dirtish in tinge or hue. 5. of grain, blackened, affected by smut. 6. of the soul, fouled by sin and wrongdoings. 7. fig, black, dismal, foreboding. |
| Sooty-black | adv | A very dark black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, tenebrous. |
| Sooty-eyed | adj | Dark or blackish eyes |
| Sooty-mouthed | adj | Foul, cloacal, slanderous, vituperative. |
| Sooty-souled | adj | Of the soul, fouled with darkness, sin and hell-bound. |
| Sop | n | A piece of bread dipped or steeped in water, wine before eaten or cooked. 2. a dish of soaked bread. 3. of persons in respect of some pervading quality or property: a sop of sorrow, sop of knowledge, wisdom. 4. a dull or foolish one: a milksop. 5. of person, thoroughly soaked or steeped in something or some way. 6. something given to appease or pacify the recipient -- a sop. 7. a tuft of wet green grass amongst hay; also fig: an contradiction, a paradox. 8. a collection or accumulation of some liquid: soppy or soaked state or condition, thoroughly wet or soaking. 9. "The Sweet Sop" --- the Sop Tree of Luzone (Petiva Gazoply or Rhymay.) |
| Sop | vb | To dip, soak or steep bread etc., in some liquid. 2. to become soaking wet. 3. to drench in moisture; to intoxicate. 4. to be carried away by sopping, as in slow sweeping into a structure, like a bridge. 5. to propitiate. |
| Sope | n | A small draught, a small amount of drink |
| Soppily | adv | In a soppy or sentimental manner. |
| Soppiness | n | The state or condition of being soppy; wetness. 2. over-the-top infatuation |
| Sopping | pp | Drenching, soaking, saturating or saturated with rain or water. |
| Soppy | adj | Saturated with water or rain. 2. soft or thoroughly wet in moisture, drenched, sodden of land, grass; paper or clothing. 3, of seasons, weather: very wet, raining. 4. of persons: sloppy, slovenly, full of mawkish sentiment, foolishly affectionate, inane, indulgent (ocass. used affectionately.) 5. |
| Sore | adj | Physically painful or sensitive, as a wound, hurt, or diseased part: a sore arm. 2. suffering bodily pain from wounds, bruises, etc., as a person: He is sore because of all that exercise.3. suffering mental pain; grieved, distressed, or sorrowful: to be sore at heart. 4. causing great mental pain, distress, or sorrow: a sore bereavement. 5. causing very great suffering, misery, hardship, etc.: sore need. |
| Sore | n | Sore spot or place on the body. a source or cause of grief, distress, irritation, etc. |
| Sore-head | n | An irritable or out-of-temper person, like a bear with a sore head. 2. discontented, disatisfied; (slang): a discontented politician. |
| Sore-hearted | adj | grief-strickened, sorrowing, disappointed, upset by sore-heartedly by actions or circumstances. |
| Sorely | adv | In a manner involving pain, grief, distress, or oppression; hardly severely; (chiefly with words expressing injury, evil or want) greatly, highly. |
| Sorrily | adv | In a sorry manner, poorly. |
| Sorriness | n | State or condition of worthlessness,due to insignifance. 2. paltriness. |
| Sorrow | n | Distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret 2. the characteristic feeling of sadness, grief or regret associated with loss, bereavement, sympathy for another's suffering or injury done. 3. a cause or occasion of grief or regret, as an affliction, a misfortune, or trouble: 4. the expression of grief, sadness, disappointment, or the like: muffled sorrow. 5. as an outward expression of grief or sorrowing. |
| Sorrow | vb | To feel sorrow; to grieve, to regret. 2. to show outward signs of grief: to mourn. 3. to think of with sorrow; on account of, to lament. 4, to give pain, to grieve, make sorrowful. |
| Sorrowful | adj | Full of or oppressed with sorrow. 2. sorrow-laden, grieved,. 3. indicative or expressive of sorrow or grief. 4. distressing, lamentable, doleful. 5. sorrowfully. 6. unhappy, melancholy, piteous, doleful. |
| Sorrowless | adj | Without sorrow, grief or pain. |
| Sorrowner | n | A mourner, one who grieves. |
| Sorrowness | n | The state or condition of being sorry, grieving, lamenting. |
| Sorry | adj | A feeling or expression of regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over somrthing done or undone. 2. grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; regretful. 3. bad, unfortunate, deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful. 4. without merit, meritless, good-for-nothing, good-for-nought, no good, poor, mean, worthless. 5. causing dejection, blue, dark, dingy, dismal, gloomy, grim, drab, drear, dreary, melancholy, mournful, mortified. |
| So-so | adv | An indifferent, mediocre or passable manner or degree; indifferently, not quite, satisfactorily. |
| So-so | adj | Of persons, their characteristics, ability, appearance, position, health, sobriety: mediocre, indifferent or middling quality; not very good or bad, but usually inclining towards bad. |
| So-so-ish | adj | Of or inclined to mediocre, indifferent, passable, indifferent quality in performance. |
| Sough | vb | To make or move with a rustling, muffling, or murmuring sound. 2. to draw breath noisily or heavily; to sigh deeply. 3. to hum a tune. 4. utter in a sighing or whining tone. |
| Sough away | vb | To die, expiire, pass away, breathe one's last. |
| Soughing | n | The making of rustling, muffling or murmuring sound. 2. the drawing of breath noisily or heavily; deep sigh. 3. to hum a tune. 4. a sighing or whining tone utterance. |
| Soul | n | Part of man which is not looked on as material, living after death. 2. the seat of feeling, thought, desire. 3. looked on as having some quality in marked degree, as in the soul of goodness. 4. the emotional or spiritual quality of Black American life and culture, manifested esp. in music often referred to as Soul or Soul Music. 7. folk, people, persons, as, 'more than 150 souls attended.' |
| Soul | vb | To endow or endue with soul. 2. to inspire or animate. |
| Soul-awakening | n | An experience or experiences of a spiritually or deeply emotionly awakening, at different times in life, often occurring of life's trails and tribulations. |
| Soul-blood | n | According to Christian belief, Adam's blood: the soul and spiritual make-up of the first man. 2. the gift of eternal life given to Adam by God. |
| Soul bell | n | The church bell tolling upon a death or at a funeral. |
| Soul-brother | n | A spiritual brother, |
| Soul butter | n | Flattery |
| Soul-carer | n | Clergy: priests, reverends, ministers of religion who look after the religious needs of the people. |
| Soul-choking | phr | "To enrich her coffers with soul-choking dust" - soul-destroying. |
| Soul-craving | n | A deep desire and yearning for spiritual enlightenment and understanding. |
| Soul-deadening | n | Something that will deaden or benumb the soul or spirit. |
| Soul deep | adj | A deep, intimate feeling or emotion, based not on outward appearance or the superficial, but on mutual respect, goodwill and trust. |
| Soul-driver | n | Cleryman, priest, minister |
| Soulful | adj | Having, giving signs of, the higher feelings. |
| Soul-gnawing | phr | A matter either spiritual or emotional that eats away at the the inner self and feelings . |
| Soul-gods | n | Demons, devils, fiends and other afgods and false prophets. |
| Soul-health | n | The health or salvation of the soul, moral, or spiritual well-being. |
| Soul-hell | n | The condition or state of being estranged and separated from Christ and eternal life. 2. the want of Christ in one's life. |
| Soul-hood | n | The condition or state of being or having a soul. |
| Souling | n | The giving up of the soul, dying, death, deceasement. |
| Soul-knell | n | The knell rung or tolled at or after the death of a person. |
| Soul-less | adj | Without any kind of higher feelings or soul. |
| Soul-light | n | Soul light is not enough to make us truly wise. |
| Soul-making | n | Finding souls for saving: " make this world the vale or valley of soul-making. |
| Soul mate | n | A person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes and often a romantic bond, esp. a lover, mistress, wife, partner. 2. a person who is perfectedly suited to another in temperament and strongly resembles another in attitudes and beliefs. |
| Soul-rights | n | The right to as soul and eternal life |
| Souls | n | Folk, people, persons as, (more than 200 souls attended..") |
| Soul-scot | n | A due paid on behalf of a dead person to the parish church to which he or she belonged. 2. a mortuary payment. |
| Soul-searing | adj | Withering and blighting, painful and suffering of the soul. |
| Soul-sick | adj | Suffering from spiritual indisposition or depression. 2. sick at heart, deeply dejected. 3. characterised by dejection of the spirit. |
| Soul-sleep | n | A belief that after a person dies, his/her soul “sleeps” until the resurrection and final judgment. |
| Soul-stirring | adj | An exciting, strong but not unpleasant emotion. |
| Soul-stuff | n | Hypothetical immortal substance believed to be the spirit or self of each person. |
| Soul thief | n | Satan, Lucifer, Old-Sooty, The Devil and all the false prophets who seek to rob others of their soul and spirit. |
| Soul-weal | n | The welfare of the soul. |
| Soul-whisperer | n | One who cares for the soul and the eternal life of others. 2. the clergy collectively. 3. proselytiser |
| Soul-work | n | Proselytising, missionary or parish work. |
| Soul-world | n | The invisible world; heaven, paradise. |
| Sound | n | A strait. 2. a spring or pool of water. 3. a relatively narrow channel or stretch of water, esp. one between the mainland and an island of connecting two large bodies of water. 4. an inlet of the sea. |
| Sound | adj | Of persons, free from disease, decay, infirmity or injury. 2. having or enjoying good bodily health; healthy, robust. 3. of appetite, health: free from impairment or deficiency. 4. unimpaired, in good condition, undamaged. 6. of air, liquor food: not spoiled or vitiated in any way, hence wholesome, good or strong. 7. financially safe. 8. of things or substances: solid, massive, compact. 9. of land: dry in subsoil; not boggy or marshy. 10. of sleep: deep, profound; undisturbed or unbroken. 11. of a solid: substantial, ample, thorough of nature. 12. of blows or a beating: dealt or given with severity and force. |
| Sound | phr | "Sound as a Bell" - in good condition physically. |
| Sound-lore | n | The science of good health. |
| Sour | n | Something sour or distasteful. 2. a beverage in taste, sour or acidic. |
| Sour | vb | To make or become sour |
| Sour | adj | Sharp to taste. 2. one of the four taste taste sensations. 3. having an acidic or rancid taste as a result of fermentation. 4. of weather : cold and wet, inclement. 5. of land: acidic.. 6. of persons: crabby, distainful, bitter, morose. |
| Sourdough | n | A batter of flour and water left in a warmish place till it sours or ferments, then shaped into cakes and baked. 2. leaven. |
| Souring | n | A substance which renders sour or acidic, such as leaven, lemon juice or vinegar. 2. the process of becoming or making sour. 3. the process of souring cloth, skins, materail by the use of dilution in acid. 4 a variety of crab-apple. |
| Sourish | adj | Somewhat sour in various senses; souringly. |
| Sourness | n | The quality, condition or state of being sour. |
| Souter | n | Cobbler, shoemaker. |
| South | adj | Cardinal point opposite the north; region or part of a country lying to that side. 2. south-east(ly); south -west(ly). |
| Southern | adj | Pertaining to the south or a place relatively in the south. 2. proceeding from the south, like a wind. |
| Southland | n | A land or region situated to or in the south. 2. "The Great Southland" : Australia. |
| Southward | adv | Situated in or towards the south. 2. in a southerly direction; souththwardly; southwards |
| Sow | n | A female hog. 2. a female of the swine; a female pig. 2. (fig) an elderly, sour and bitter woman |
| Sow | n | The act of scattering, spreading, or disseminating seed. |
| Sow | vb | To scatter, sprinkle, seed over the land (for growth). 2. to spread, disseminate, implant. 3. |
| Sow by the ear | phr | "Take the sow by the ear." -- to hit upon the right or wrong person or thing, conclusion or outcome (solution) |
| English | n | English |
| Spade | n | A tool for digging, paring or cutting ground, turf, etc. |
| Spadeful | n | Quantity that fills a spade can hold. |
| Spademan | n | One who uses a spade or works with a spade. |
| Spade-work | n | Work, lit., done with a spade; fig. pioneer(ing) work. 2. the action of doing spade-work. |
| Spald | n | A splinter, speld. |
| Spald | vb | OE: spala: substitute. 2. to splinter, break. |
| Spale | n | Sparing respite or rest. |
| Span | n | The complete duration of something. 2. the distance or interval between two points. 3. two items of the same kind; couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad. 4. a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches). 5. a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. bridge. 6. the act of sitting or standing astride, straddle. |
| Span | vb | To cover or extend over an area or time period; cross, traverse, span, sweep. |
| Span-breadth | n | Extent or length, largeness of the span. |
| Spanlong | adj | Having the length of the span; hence brief, short. |
| Spanning | n | That act of drawing tight; making close etc; the result of this. |
| Spar | n | A vitreous, crystalline, easily cleavable lustrous mineral. |
| Spare | n | That which has been saved or stored away; something unused. 2. a duplicate: an item that is kept as a substitute in case the original breaks down, as an automobile or a mechanical part. |
| Spare | vb | To refrain from molesting, injuring, killing; treat with mercy, lenience. 2. to free or relieve someone from pain, expense etc. 3. to use frugally; refraining from using exercising. 4. to dispense or dispense with; do without. 5. to be frugal; l live or act economically. 6. to be lenient or forgiving; show mercy. |
| Spare | adj | That can be spared or used at will, disposable, available. 2. held in reserve, additional, extra, surplus. 3. having little flesh, lean, thin. 4. not lavish or abundant, scanty. 5. economical, stingy, chary, parsimonious. 6. meagre. |
| Spareness | n | The quality of being spare. |
| Spareless | adj | Unstinted, unlimited. 2. unsparing, merciless. |
| Spareful | adj | Sparing, frugal. |
| Sparefulness | n | The quality or state of being frugal. |
| Sparely | adv | In a sparing, frugal way or stinted manner. 2. not fully, amply or copiously. |
| Sparesome | adj | Economical |
| Sparily | adv | Moderately, with restraint. |
| Sparingness | n | State or quality of being economical, frugal, sparing. |
| Spark | n | A momentary flash of light; flicker, spark, glint. 2. merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance; "he had a sparkle in his eye"; sparkle, twinkle, spark, light. 3. electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field, discharge, spark, arc, electric arc, electric discharge. 4. a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger; "a spark of interest". 6. a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction. 7. a beautiful and witty (intelligent) woman. |
| Spark | vb | Put in motion or move to act; trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off 2. emit or produce sparks; spark, sparkle |
| Spark | phr | "Make Sparks fly." - cause rapid activity to take place. 2. to cause trouble or argument. |
| Spark | phr | "Spark in One's Throat." -- a man said to be thirsty has a "spark in his throat." |
| Spark | phr | "Spark Off" - to begin, initiate, start off, commence. |
| Spark | phr | "Spark Out" - utterly extinguished, forgotten (completely), unconscious. |
| Sparkful | adj | Smart, lively, brisk. |
| Sparking | n | The action of emitting or sending out sparks. 2. the quality of being elegant, beauty or handsome. |
| Sparkish | adj | Of a person: having a character, airs or manners of a "spark" or gallant. 2. of things characterised, appropriate to, or of a spark; of a smart or elegant make. |
| Sparkiness | n | The state or quality of being sparky, emitting sparks or sparkle, being gay, brisk or sprucy. |
| Sparkle | n | Merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance; sparkle, twinkle,spark, light.
2: the occurrence of a small flash or spark; glitter, sparkle, coruscation. 3: the quality of shining with a bright reflected light; glitter, glister, glisten, scintillation, sparkle. |
| Sparkle | vb | Reflect brightly; sparkle, scintillate, coruscate. 2. be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; sparkle, scintillate, coruscate. 3. emit or produce sparks; syn: spark, sparkle. 4. become bubbly or frothy or foaming; foam, froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle, form bubbles |
| Sparkless | adj | Free or devoid of sparks or sparkle; emitting no sparks, without sparks. |
| Sparrow | n | Any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects. 2. small brownish European songbird, hedge sparrow, sparrow, dunnock, Prunella modularis. 3. one of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity; such as the house sparrow. 4. Many American species are well known; including the chipping sparrow, the sage sparrow, the song sparrow, the tree sparrow, and the white-throated sparrow. 5. Any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the European hedge sparrow. |
| Sparrow bill | n | a small nail; a castiron shoe nail; a sparable. |
| Sparrow-dom | n | The region of sparrows; sparrowdom. |
| Sparrow owl | n | A small owl (Glaucidium passerinum) found both in many parts of the world. |
| Sparrow spear | n | The female of the reed bunting. |
| Sparrow-wort | n | The genus: Passerina. |
| Sparstone | n | Gypsum, plaster. |
| Spattle | n | Spittle, saliva. |
| Spawl | vb | OE:spit copiously, or coarsely. 2. to expectorate. 3. to utter or speak in a coarse manner. |
| Spawler | n | A spitter, expectorater. |
| Spawling | n | The action of spitting, expectorating, spitting saliva. |
| Speak | vb | Express in speech; talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise. 2. exchange thoughts; talk with; "actions talk louder than words" talk, speak. 3: use language; speak, talk. 4. give a speech to; address, speak. 5. make a characteristic or natural sound. |
| Speak | phr | "Speak by the book" - to speak formally, authoritatively or accurately. |
| Speak | phr | "Speak for itself" -- to have the power to persuade someone to believe completely in its truth, worth etc., needing no further additional details or explanation. 2. to be evident or obvious. |
| Speak | phr | "Speak for yourself" - state your opinion, not somebody else's. |
| Speak | phr | "Speak of" to take account of, to make mention of. |
| Speak | phr | "Speak on." - address or talk about. |
| Speak | phr | "Speak one's mind." - to express one's views frankly and forcefully. |
| Speak | phr | "Speak out." - to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly. |
| Speak | phr | "Speak the King's English." - to speak English fair accuracy, tolerably well, both in pronunciation and idiom. |
| Speak | phr | "To speak well for." - to commend; to be favorable to. |
| Speaker | n | Someone who expresses in language; someone who talks, especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone esp. garrulous; speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser. 2. electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance; loudspeaker, speaker, speaker unit, loudspeaker system, speaker system. 3.the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives. 4. one who is the mouth piece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, an assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates. 5. A book of selections for declamation. 6. audio, hardware, loudspeaker. 7. the person who is (assumed to be) talking. |
| Speak-easy | n | A shop, bar or club where alcoholic drinks or liquor is sold illegally. |
| Speaker-hearer | n | A person regarded as a user of language (a speaker-listener). |
| Speakership | n | The office of a speaker in Parliament. 2. oratory. |
| Speakful | adj | Talkative, |
| Speakie | n | A stage play in contrast to a film; a talkie. |
| Speaking | n | The act of speaking of, to take account of, to make mention of. 2. the act of speaking out, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly. 3. the act of speaking well for, of commending; to be favorable to. 4. the act of speaking with, of conversing with. 5. to saying; telling; talking; conversing; discoursing; articulating; pronouncing; uttering. 6. the act of uttering words. 7. the act of public declamation; oratory. |
| Speaking | adj | Uttering speech; used for conveying speech. 2. Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness. 3. a slight acquaintance with a person, or one which merely permits the exchange of salutations and remarks on indifferent subjects. |
| Spear | n | A long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon; spear, lance, shaft 2. an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish spear, gig, fizgig, fishgig, lance. 3. a long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance. 4. A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals. 5. A shoot, as of grass; a spire. 5. The feather of a horse. 6. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod. 6. a spire. |
| Spear | vb | To pierce with a spear. 2: thrust up like a spear; spear, spear up. 3. to shoot into a long stem, as some plants. 4 to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish. |
| Spear hand | n | the hand in which a horseman holds a spear; the right hand. |
| Spearhead | n | The point of a spear or lance. 2. the military unit which lead in a mass on enemy positions. 3. to lead a movement. 4. the chief goal score in a sporting team,esp in many of the modern forms of football; the chief goal-kicker. |
| Speariness | n | The quality or state of being speary or sharp-pointed |
| Speariness | n | The character of being speary or sharp-pointed. |
| Spearing | n | The act of piercing and or killing with a spear. 2. an illegal tackle in ice hockey which a player jabs an opponent with the end of the stick's blade or the top end of stick, resulting in a penalty. |
| Spearing | adj | Piercing, sudden pain, usu. in the side of the body. |
| Spearman | n | A soldier or man, who is armed with a spear. |
| Spearmint | n | Common garden herb having clusters of small purplish flowers yielding an oil used as a flavouring. |
| Spear side | n | The male line of a family. Nb: "Spindle-side." |
| Spear thistle | n | The common thistle (Cnicus lanceolatus). |
| Spearwort | n | Inula hellenium; elecampane. 2. any of several species of crowfoot having lanced-shaped or linear leaves, esp. the lesser spearwort, Ranunculus flammula. |
| Speary | adj | Resembling a spear, slender, sharp-pointed, keen. |
| Speck | n | A very small spot; a pinpoint. 2. a tiny piece of anything, an atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote. 3. a slight but appreciable amount; a touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot. 3. the blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. 4. a small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a colour different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or cloth; specks of decay in fruit. 5. a very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; as in not a speck of money. |
| Speck | vb | To produce specks in or on something. 2. specking; 3.to cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities. |
| Specked | adj | Covered or having specks, stains, very small spots or discolouration. |
| Speckedness | n | State of being covered with specks, blemishes, maculates. 2. a specked or unsound place; " a speck home." |
| Speckiness | n | The state of being specked or specky. |
| Speckled | adj | Marked with specks or speckles. 2. of motley appearance or mixed character. |
| Speckless | adj | Having no speck or speckle, free from speckles, blemishes, flaws, dirt, dust. 2. scrupously clean, immaculate, spotless. |
| Speckleness | n | The quality or condition of being speckled, spotted, stained or of a discoloration. |
| Speckly | adv | Full or covered with speckles, spotted, freckled. |
| Speckstone | n | Soapstone, or a chinese variety of this; figure-stone. |
| Specky | adj | Covered or marked with specks, spotted, having specks,; discoloured. |
| Speech break | n | The confusion or break down of communication, such as Babel. |
| Speechcraft | n | The science or knowledge of speech. |
| Speech feelings | n | The emotional and attitudianal aspect of speech. |
| Speechful | adj | Full of speech. 2. possessing power of speech. 3. loquacious, talkative. |
| Speechfulness | n | The action of speaking, loquaciousness, talkativeness. |
| Speech-house | n | A hall, room, a building set apart for speechs, conferences etc. 2. a court-house; monastic parlour. |
| Speech island | n | A small area inhabited by speakers of a language or dialect other than is spoken in thhe surrounding areas. |
| Speechless | adj | Devoid, lacking or without speech. |
| Speechlessness | n | The state or condition of being speechless. 2. the lack or loss of speech. |
| Speech-maker | n | One who makes or delivers in public. 2. an orator. |
| Speechman | n | Appointed to speak for others. 2. a spokesman. |
| Speech reading | n | The action on the part of deaf mutes in comphrehending speech by watching the movement of speaker's mouths. |
| Speechways | n | Idiom, colloquialism, manners of speaking. 2. ways of speaking by a community. |
| Speechman | n | Appointed to speak for others. 2. a spokesman. |
| Speed | n | Distance travelled per unit time. 2. a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; speed, swiftness, fastness, velocity. 3: changing location rapidly, speed, speeding, hurrying. 4. the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a (camera)lens system, focal ratio. 5. the act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed of a horse or a vessel. 6. a central nervous system stimulant. an amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression, amphetamine, pep pill, upper, speed. |
| Speed | vb | To move fast; to rush, to hotfoot, to hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush, to along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it. 2: move faster; accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken, slow, slow down, slow up. 3. to move very fast; at breakneck speed, to travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip. 4: travel at an excessive or illegal velocity. 5. cause to move faster; accelerate, speed, speed up. |
| Speed | n | Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success "for everyone's speed." 2. One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success. [Obs.) God speed, good speed; prosperity. See Godspeed. 4. haste; swiftness; celerity; quickness; dispatch; expedition; hurry; acceleration. 5. abundance, power, might. 6. success, prosperity, good fortune, profit. 7. advancement, furtherance, lot. 8. one, who or that which succeeds, prosperity, success. 9. in context implying an evil plight or awkward situation. |
| Speed | vb | To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favour; to meet with success or good fortune. 2. to cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry. 3. to hasten to a conclusion; to expedite. 4. to hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo. 5. to wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey; as God speed you; me , them, etc., may God speed you; or, may you have good speed. 6.to dispatch; hasten; expedite; accelerate; hurry. 7. To go; to fare. (Obs) 8. to experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare. 9. to fare well; to succeed, to have success; to prosper; to attain one's purpose or desire. 10. to be expedient (obs). 11. to provide or furnish with something. 11. to further or bring to an end desired. 12. appointed or elected to do something. 13. to dispatch, destroy, kill a person. |
| Speed | phr | "Speed the plough"- to get on with something as quickly as you can. |
| Speed | phr | "To come to good speed." - to be successful. |
| Speed | phr | "Up to speed" - operating at full or optimium speed or efficiency. 2. functioning or producing at an expected, acceptable, or competitive level |
| Speeder | n | Someone or something that speeds; specifically a driver who drives at a speed exceeding the speed limit. |
| Speedful | adj | Full of speed in any sense; quick, efficient, effective or brief manner. 2. successful, prosperous, effectual, efficient. 3. full of speed, hasty, speedy, |
| Speedfully | adv | In a quick or effective manner; in a speedful manner. 2. in a speedy and effective manner. |
| Speedfulness | n | The state or condition of having rapidity in moving, going, travelling, proceeding with swiftness and celerity. 2. relative rapidity in moving, going etc. 3. the rate of motion or progress. 4. full speed ahead; full maximum or optionable rate of motion. |
| Speediful | adj | Speedy, prompt. |
| Speedihood | n | Swiftness, rapidity. |
| Speedily | adv | With rapid movements; quickly, rapidly, speedily. 2. in a speedy manner. 3. apace, at flank speed, at once, by forced marches, cursorily, decisively, directly, double-quick, expeditiously, fast, feverishly, flat-out, forthwith, full tilt, furiously, hand over fist, hand over hand, hastily, with haste, hell for leather, hell-bent, helter-skelter, hotfoot, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, immediately, in double-quick time, in no time, in passing, instantly, on the double, posthaste, promptly, pronto, right away, right off, slapdash, smartly, snappily, straightaway, summarily, superficially, swiftly, with all haste, with all speed, with rapid strides. |
| Speediness | n | The state of travelling quickly. 2. Acting quickly or decisely in various situations. |
| Speeding | n | A lot of hap in regards to respect. 2. travel or moving at high speed, esp. by motor vehicles,travel unsafe or reckless speed or above a specified speed limit. |
| Speeding | adj | Moving with speed, speedy, rapidly. |
| Speedless | adj | The state of being without speed; devoid of speed, motionless, still, travellingg slowly. |
| Speedwalk | n | A moving walkway for conveying passengers. |
| Speedway | n | A specially reserved or prepared road for vehicles travelling at high speed. |
| Speedy | adj | Characterised by speed; rapidity, swift, fast, without delay. 2. coming, going, arriving quickly or soon, not delayed. 3. quick, expeditious. |
| Speer | n | A question, inquiry, asking, tracing, seeking out. 2. demand the return, both formally and informally. |
| Speer | vb | To put or ask a question or questions; make inquiries, to ask. 2. to inquire one's way; proceed or go to a place. 3. to inquire or ask what, who, how. 4. to make inquiries concerning or about. 5. to ask questions regarding a thing or fact as of a person. 6. to request a return of money. 7. to trace, find out by inquiry. 8. to call upon or demand formally. |
| Speerer | n | An inquirer, asker, one who questions and asks question. |
| Speering | n | The action of speering or inquiring by interrogation. 10. the task of obtaining information obtained by inquiries. |
| Speight | n | Green woodpecker, wood spite. |
| Speld | n | A flake, particle from a fire, a spark. 2. a chip, splinter. |
| Spele | vb | To take or stand in the place of another. 2. to represent. 3. to spare or save something. 4. to leave over, to use sparingly or frugally. 5. to set aside, neglect. 6. to spare a person; to leave unpunished or unharmed. 7. to respite from death. |
| Speliend | n | A vicar, minister of religion, reverend. See also walend, haliend etc. |
| Spelk | n | A surgical splint. 2. a splinter, chip, strip of wood. 3. a thatching rod. |
| Spelk | vb | To fasten with a splint or a spelk; esp. to bind or join a broken limbs, bones by means of a splint. |
| Spelking | n | The act of joining or mending by a surgical splint. |
| Spell | n | A discourse, article, narrator, speech; occas. idle talk, fable. 2. to set spell on end: to begin to talk. 3. sermon, narrative, or tale; also OE. a subject of discourse. 3. a set of words; formula or verse. |
| Spell | n | A splinter, chip, fragment, fragment. 2. bar, rail, fragment. 3. a set of persons taking a turn of work in order to relieve others; relief gang or shift. 4. a turn of work taken by a person or set of persons in relief of others. |
| Spell | phr | "to break the spell" - spoil the effect. |
| Spell-binder | n | A political speaker capable of holding an audience spell-bound or fascinated. |
| Spell-bound | adj | Bound, fascinated, intrigued as if under the control of a spell. |
| Spellcraft | n | The lore and learning of spells, charms and incantations. |
| Speller | n | A preacher, gossiper, mountebank. |
| Spell-free | adj | Free or unaffected by spells and witchery. |
| Spelling | n | Speaking, talking, gossiping, uttering. |
| Spell-monger | n | One who deals in spellcraft, spells or performs or uses a "magic" formula as a charm; incantationer, charmer; hence one who fascinates. |
| Spell-soaked | adj | Enslaved or saturated mentally by spells. |
| Spell-word | n | Magic words, incantations and esoterica. |
| Spelt | n | The plant "Triticum spelia." |
| Spend | vb | To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; spends freely. 2. to waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. 3. To be diffused; to spread.
4. (Mining) To break ground; to continue working. 5. to weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. 6. to bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. 7. to consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices. 8. to pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly. 9. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. |
| Spend-all | n | A prodigal or wasteful person; a spendthrift. |
| Spete | vb | To spit, expectorate. |
| Spettle | n | Spittle, spittle, saliva, spet. |
| Spew | vb | Expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth; spit, ptyalize, ptyalise, spew, spue. 2. eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical: "the volcano spews out molten rocks every day"; spew out, eruct. 3. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth. vomit, vomit up, purge, cast,sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up 4. to eject from the stomach; to vomit. 5. to cast forth with abhorrence or disgust; to eject. 5. To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost. |
| Spew | n | That which is vomited; vomit. 2. barf, be seasick, be sick, belch, break out, bring up, burst, burst forth, burst out, cascade, cast forth, chuck up. 3. fourth swarm of bees in a year. 2. a wet marshy place of ground; a place in a field where water comes up. |
| Spew frost | n | Ice-needle. |
| Spider | n | OE. spi[thorn]re, from. AS. spinnan to spin; -- so named from spinning its web. 2.predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey 2. a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine [syn: spider, wanderer. 3. a skillet made of cast iron. |
| Spider | phr | "To swallow a spider." - to go bankrupt. |
| Spiderdom | n | The world of spiders and arachnids. |
| Spiderhood | n | The existence of spiders. |
| Spiderish | adj | Resembling a spider, |
| Spiderish-ness | n | The quality or condition of resembling or being like a spider. |
| Spiderman | n | One employed by a building contractor to work on the highest structures. 2. a steeple-jack. |
| Spider-shanks | n | Having long, thin, slender legs like a spider. |
| Spider web | n | The network of delicate threads spun by a spider to entrap its prey; a cobweb. |
| Spiderwort | n | Of the plants: Illiaceous; genus "Anthericum, earlier Phalangum. |
| Spidery | adj | Relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida, arachnoid, arachnidian, spiderlike, spiderly. |
| Spill | n | A throwing from a horse, vehicle, tumble, an upset, a fall. 2. a downpour or dropping of liquid; a quantity spilled. 3. a vacating of position in an organisation to allow those positions to be filled again by application and interview. 4. a slight breeze. 5. a difference in light, esp. by the area intended to be illuminated. |
| Spill | vb | To destroy, kill, deprive of life; put an end to life. 2. to put or bring to death, slay, kill; cause death, slaughter. 3. to destroy, kill oneself, suicide. 5. to destroy, ruin, (the soul) by offence; to sin against moral laws. 6. to wreak, devastate, spoil, ruin by demolition. 7. to despoil, deprive of something. |
| Spill | phr | "Spill the beans" - be forthright; tell all; spill one's guts. |
| Spiller | n | a shedder of blood; one who spills or sheds blood. 2. a killer or destroyer of life. |
| Spilling | n | The action of destroying, spoiling or marring. 2. the action of wasting, wasteful employing of. 3. the action of causing water or other liquids to flow out or run out wastefully; shedding, effusing. 4. the action of causing air to escape, the escape of air. 5. that which spilt. 6. |
| Spillover | n | That which spills over. 2. the process of spilling. 3. an incidental development; a consequence, repercussion, a by-product. 4. the results from spilling over; incidentally developed. |
| Spill-spilling | adj | That which is repeatedly spilling. |
| Spill-stream | n | Small stream or tributary created by the overflow or spill of waters from a larger river etc. 2. a spill-water |
| Spillway | n | A natural feature providing a channel or passage for the escape of surplus waterfrom a lake. 2. a channel or slope built to carry away surplus water from a reservoir or lake. |
| Spilly | adj | Exhibiting spills or dirty seams. |
| Spilquern | n | A whirligig or top. |
| Spilt | adj | (ppl. or adj. of spilt) spoiled, ruined, destroyed. 2. rendered unwholesome or unfit for food through being keep too long, as in " Don't cry over spilt milk.". 3. of liquids that are allowed to flow over or run out, esp. in a wasteful or accidental manner. |
| Spilter | n | A splinter, fragment. |
| Spilth | n | The action or fact of spilling. |
| Spin | n | Swift whirling motion (usually of a missile). 2. the act of rotating rapidly; spin, twirl, twist, twisting, whirl.
3. a short drive in a car. 4. rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral; tailspin. 5. a distinctive interpretation; especially used by politicians to sway public opinion. |
| Spin | vb | To revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; spin, spin around, whirl, reel. 2. to stream in jets, of liquids; as in "the stream spun its way through the woods" 3: cause to spin; whirl, birl, spin, twirl. 4: make up a story. 5. form a web by making a thread; like spiders and caterpillars. 6. work natural fibers into a thread; spin silk like a silk worm. 7. twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation. 8: prolong or extend; "spin out a visit". |
| Spin | phr | "Spin one's wheel." -- to waste time or work fruitlessly." |
| Spin | phr | "Spin street-yarn." -- to wander from house to house, chatting and exchanging gossip. |
| Spincop | n | A spider. |
| Spindle | n | Of limbs (or persons) -- thin, slender, a lacking of robustness. 2. of cereals with slender stalks and formed ears. of flowering plants implying in growth; esp. rapid growth or attenuation into something slender thin or unsubstantial . |
| Spindling | n | The action of providing with a spindle. 2. formation of a stem, stalk, shoot in plants. 3. a splindling plant or animal. 4. the tapering of various things, such as aeroplane wings, machinery, rigs etc. |
| Spindling | adj | Of plants: slender and weakly in growth. 2. elongated implying or suggestive of weakness. 3. generally, slender, elongated, weak. |
| Spindle-shank | n | Of legs long and slender (usu. contemptuously.) |
| Spindle-side | n | The female line of descent - NB: male side of the descent: Spear-side. |
| Spindrift | n | Sometimes spelt "Spoondrift." -- Spray swept from the tops of waves by the wind and driven continuously along the surface of the sea. 2. the continious driving of snow in drifts. |
| Spindrift-laden | adj | Being full or soakened with spindrift; spindrift-soaken. |
| Spin-dry | vb | To dry clothes by spinning tand making use of centrifugal force. |
| Spin-house | n | A building in which persons are employed in spinning. 2. a workhouse. 3. a house of correction or penitentiary for women. 4. a spinning-house; a mill; a building set aside for the purpose of spinning |
| Spinless | adj | Having no spin or no tendency to spin. 2. straight talking, honest, trustworthy; devoid of semantic slyness. 3. devoid of political spin. |
| Spinner | n | A person who spins cotton, wool, yarn etc. 2. a spinner by occupation; a spinning machine. 3. a manufacturer or merchant engage in the spinning industry. 4. one who tells yarns. 5. an angling term for an artificial fly. 6. a top, teetotum. 7. a spin bowler in cricket. 7. something which moves rapidly. 8. any rotatinfg device. 9. A spider, esp. one who spin a web. 10. a caterpillar which spins a cocoon. |
| Spinning | adj | That spins or produces thread. 2. that revolves, gyrates or turns around. 3. rapid, fast. |
| Spinningly | adv | In the manner of rotating or turning. 2. (slang)- in a very positive way or manner. |
| Spinning wheel | n | A household implement used for a spinning yarn or thread, consisting of a rotating spindle operated by a trendle of fly-wheel. |
| Spin-off | n | The production as a by-product side-effect, or indirect result. |
| Spin out | vb | A skidding spin by a vehicle out of control. |
| Spinster | n | An unmarried woman, usu. one middle-aged and living alone. |
| Spinsterdom | n | The world or demographic of womem, unmarried, middle-aged and living alone. |
| Spinsterhood | n | A condition of being an unmarried woman; an old maid. |
| Spinstership | n | The state of being an unmarried woman, middle-aged and living alone. |
| Spinsterishness | n | Resembling the state or condition of an unmarried woman, middle-aged and living alone. |
| Spire | n | A stalk or stem of a plant; esp. one of a tall and slender growth. 2. the tapering top of a tree; the portion of the main stem which shoots up above the branch. 3. a flower spike; tall growing reeds or sedges. 4. a young, tender shoot or sprout; rudimentary sprout or shoots of a seed. 5. a blade or shoot of grass. 6. a blade of hair. 7. awn or beard of grain. 8. an elongated tongue of fire. 9. a sharp point. 10. branch or prong of deer horn. 11. a tall, slender, sharp-pointed summit; the highest point of a summit, peak, rock or column. 12. pyramidal heap of something. |
| Spire | vb | To furnish with a spire or spires. 2. to shoot or point up in or as in a spire. 3. to put forth a spire or spires; to sprout. |
| Spire-steeple | n | A steeple surmounted by a spire; a church spire. |
| Spirewise | adv | In the manner of a tapering spire, pyramidically. |
| Spiring | n | The action of the tapering pyramidically. 2. shooting, sprouting. summiting, rising dramatically. 3. that spires or rises up tapering to a point; soaring aloft or reaching a great height. |
| Spiry | adj | Fine, slender, towering, soaring, shooting or pointing up, rising. |
| Spit | n | OE. a cooking implement. 2. a slender or sharp pointing rod. 3. rod or skewer on which fish are strung and hung out to dry. 3. a sword. 4. a small, low-pointed tongue of land. projecting into the water or sea; a long narrow reef, shoal or sandbank extending from the shore. |
| Spit | vb | Eject saliva, spettle, spold or spit, sometimes as denotion of anger, malice, hatred. 2. to extrude or lay eggs. 3. to dig with a spade. 4. plant with a spade. 5. to thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal. |
| Spit | phr | "Dead spit of." - identical to. |
| Spit | phr | Spit it out --To spit on or to spit upon, to insult grossly; to treat with contempt. 2. to say it; unburden oneself. |
| Spitscop | n | A sharp-pointed hill. |
| Spitted | adj | Being transfixed or impaled with a spit. |
| Spitten | ppl | Skewered, impaled, run-through |
| Spitting | n | The actuion of eject saliva. |
| Spittle | n | A clear, the thick, moist liquid ormatter secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches; saliva, spit. 2. saliva, spittle, spet, spottle. 3. a quantity of salive ejected at one time. 4. a small sort of spade used for light digging, a spud. 5. a hoe, scraper, a shovel. 6. a baking implement. |
| Spittle | vb | To dig with a small spade, to spud, to hoe. |
| Spittle of the Sun | phr | Gossamer. 2. sun's spittle |
| Spittlewort | n | Pellitory, Anacylcus pyrethium. |
| Spoke | n | One of the set of staves, bars or roads radiating from the hub or nave of the wheel and supporting the felloes or the rim. 2. a rung of a ladder. 3. one of a set of poles adapted for carrying a coffin to the grave. 4. a saying, maxim, remark. 5. denoting speech or action intended to advance a person's interests. 6. something which impedes, obstructs; an impediment, an obstruction. 7. a beam of light; ray of sunshine. |
| Spoke | phr | "Put a spoke in one's wheels." -- action tended to thwart, obstruct some person or proceeding. |
| Spoken | adj | Pertaining to or connected with a spoke or spokes. 2. ppl of speak: uttered orally, as opposed to written. 3. speaking or having a specific kind of speech, "smooth-spoken". |
| Spokenness | n | The fact or quality of having been spoken or uttered. |
| Spokesman | n | Spokeswoman; sokeslady: one who speaks in the name of and on the behalf of another or others. |
| Spoky | adj | Having or consisting of parts arranged radially like the spokes of a wheel; radiated, radiating. 2, resembling wheel-spokes in form and arrangement. |
| Spold | n | Spittle, saliva, spete, spit. |
| Spoon | n | A thin piece of wood, chip, splinter or sliver. |
| Spoor | n | Track, trail, trace of wild animal, person or vehicle. 2. footprint. |
| Spoor | vb | To track, trace, follow by spoor. |
| Spread | adj | Distributed or spread over a considerable extent; dispersed. 2. prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out. 3. fully extended in width; outspread. |
| Spread | n | Process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space; spreading. 2. a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures; "gap between income and outgo". 3. farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle); ranch, spread, cattle ranch, cattle farm. 4. a haphazard distribution in all directions; scatter, spread. 5. a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes, paste. 6. a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed; banquet, feast. 7: two facing pages of a book or other publication; spread, spread head, spreadhead, facing pages. 8. the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age); middle-aged spread. 9: decorative cover for a bed; bedspread, bedcover, bed cover, bed covering, counterpane. 10. act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time; spread, spreading. |
| Spread | vb | distribute or disperse widely; 2. become distributed or widespread; propagate. 3. spread across or over; overspread.
4. spread out or open from a closed or folded state; unfold, spread, spread out, open. 5. cause to become widely known; circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, diffuse, disperse, pass around. 6. become widely known and passed on; go around,circulate. 7. strew or distribute over an area; scatter, spread out. 8. move outward; diffuse, spread, spread out, fan out. 9. cover by spreading something over; distribute over a surface in a layer. |
| Spread | phr | "Spread like wildfire." - so very rapidly. |
| Spread | phr | "Spread oneself" - to be indulgent, be lavish |
| Spread | phr | "Spread oneself thin." - to attempt to do more than is feasible in the available time. |
| Spread | phr | "Spread one's wings." - to assert authority which has not yet been conferred by one's superiors and for which may not bee ready. |
| Spread | phr | "Spread the net more widely." - to be more comprehensive. |
| Spreader | n | A small knife for the spreading of butter. 2. one who spreads or passes on sickness or an illness to others. 3. an implement for spreading, hay, manure, gravel etc. |
| Spreadingly | adv | Increasingly. |
| Spreadingness | n | Tendindg to spread; having the quality of spreading. |
| Spreadle | n | OE: spraedels: a spreading place for nets. |
| Spread out | adj | Esp. spreading in a fan-shpe; fanned. |
| Spread-sheet | n | A screen-oriented inter-active program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen. |
| Spread | adj | Tending to spread; expansive. |
| Spreadyness | n | The tendency to be expansive |
| Sprenge | Vb | OE: sprengen: to sprinkle a liquid. 2. to scatter or disperse something. 3. to scatter, spread abroad or about, distribute. 4. to sprinkle a person with something. 5. to produce by sprinkling. 6. to cleanse by sprinkling. 7. to besprinkle, besprent. |
| Sprengles | n | A sprinkle or sprinkles. |
| Spring | n | The season of growth; springtime 2. a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed; "the spring was broken" 3. a natural flow of ground water; spring, fountain, outflow, outpouring, natural spring. 4. a point at which water issues forth. 5. the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length; give, spring, springiness. 6. a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards; leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce. |
| Spring | vb | To move forward by leaps and bounds; jump, leap, bound, spring. 2. develop into a distinctive entity; form, take form, take shape. 3. spring back; spring away from an impact; bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet. 4. develop suddenly; "The tyre sprang a leak" 5.produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "as in to spring news upon." |
| Springful | adj | Full of spring. |
| Springiness | n | The quality of being springy or elastic. 2. elasticity in movement of persons and animals. 3. capacity for sprouting or growing - the characteristic features of springtime. |
| Springless | adj | Having no motive power. 2. of persons inert, lethargic. |
| Springy | adj | Springish soft of ground, somewhat wet through the spring. |
| Springtide | n | Springtime; formerly called "Lent" |
| Springwell | n | Spring-head of a fountain. |
| Springwort | n | A mysterious herb having magic powers. |
| Sprit | n | A pole, esp. one used for propelling a boat; punting-pole. 2. a spear. |
| Sprit | vb | OE: spryttan: sprit: to germainate, shoot, sprout. |
| Sprot | n | OE:spranca - a branch of a vein or artery. 2. a shoot, sprout, stump of a tree or tooth. |
| Sprot | n | The fish:the smelt. |
| Sprote | n | Shoot, twig, root, sprout. 2. small sticks, twigs, bits of branches blown from trees. 3. a chip, sliver, splinter. |
| Sprotty | adj | Twiggy, chippy, slivery, splintery. 2. small, thin, weak. |
| Sprout | n | Any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud. 2: a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed). 3. the shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch. 2. pl. young coleworts. |
| Sprout | vb | [OE. sprouten, spruten; sprit a spar, spout, v. t., spurt. 2. produce buds, branches, or germinate; shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout. 3. put forth and grow sprouts or shoots; "the plant sprouted early this year"; sprout, stock. 4. To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants. 5. to shoot into ramifications. [Obs.] 6. to cause to sprout. 7. To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes. |
| Sprouty | adj | Buddy, growing, blossoming, germinative, seedy. |
| Spur | n | Spur OE. spure, spore, AS. spura, spor a trace, footstep, spyrian to trace, track, examine, and E. spurn; sparrow, spere, spoor, spurn. A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something; goad, goading, prod, prodding, urging, spurring. 2. any sharply pointed projection; spine, acanthi. 3. tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers. 4. a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward; spur, gad. 5. a railway line connected to a trunk line; branch line, spur track. 6. An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood. 7. that which goads to action; an incitement. 8. something that projects; a snag. 9.one of the large or principal roots of a tree. 10. any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain birds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg. 11. a mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles. 12. a spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber. 8. (Carp.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut. 13. (arch). the short wooden buttress of a post. 14. a projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. 15. any projecting appendage of a flower looking like spur; ergotized rye or other grain 16. a wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall. 17. (shipbuilding) a piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side. 18. a curved piece of timber serving as a half beam to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed a cogwheel having teeth which project radially and stand parallel to the axis; a spur wheel. 19. a sparrow; a tern. |
| Spur | vb | Incite or stimulate. 2. give heart or courage, to spur, goad. 3. strike with a spur. 4. goad with spurs. 5. equip with spurs. 4. to prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse. 5. to urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive. 6. to put spurs on; as, a spurred boot. 7. to spur on one's horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit. |
| Spur-line | n | A railway line connecte to a trunk line; a branch-line. |
| Spurn | vb | To strike against something with the foot. 2. to trip, to stumble. 3. to strike or thrust in a foot; to kick at something. 4. to strike with a weapon. 5. to dash, drive quickly. 6. to kick against or at something disliked or despised. 7. to manifest opposition or antipathy, esp. in a scornful or disdainful manner. 8. to strike or tread with a foot, trample, kick. 9. to reject, in contempt, to treat contemptously, to scorn, despise, to be spurned. |
| Spurn | vb | To spurn, urge, incite. |
| Spurner | n | One who strikes with the foot. 2. one who rejects or despises |
| Spurning | n | The action of striking with the foot. |
| Spurred | adj | Wearing or provided with spurs, hoofed, hosed. 2. furnished with sharp and hard spikes, claws. 3. of nature provided spur or calcarate. |
| Spur wheel | n | A cogwheel having teeth which project radially and stand parallel to the axis; a spur wheel. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Staddle | n | Foundation, base; a supporting framework. 2. a young tree left standing when others are cut down; a root or stump of a tree left standing. Also dial. the root or stump of a tree that has been felled; a tree-trunk. 3.lower part of a stack of corn, hay etc. 4. a platform of timber or stone, on which a stack or rick is placed. 5. a building of timber standing on legs or steddles, to raise it out of the mud. 6. a place marked out on the surface of a field by a groove or course of sods. |
| Staddle | vb | To be found, set up, establish. 2. to stain, mark, blemish, maculate, leave an impression on. |
| Staddle-stead | n | The place where a stack or shock has stood. 2. a mark, stain, blotch, blemish, macula. |
| Staddle-stone | n | The stones on which a staddle or stack-frame is supported. |
| Staddling | n | The staddling or pier of a bridge. 2. the materials of a foundation of a stack. |
| Staff | n | A stick carried in the hand to aid walking or climbing; now used literally in reference to a pilgrim. 3. applied to a crutch. 4. rod or wand used in divination, magic. 5. a stick, pole, club used as a weapon. |
| Staff | n | The shaft of a spear or javelin. 2. something which serves as a support or stay. 3. break the staff of bread: diminish or cut off the supply of food. 4. a rod or wand of wood or ivory, borne as an insignia of authority or office. 5. a pole from which a flag is flown. 6. a rod or pole on which a processional cross was borne. 7. a strong side for carrying burdens, canopy, etc. 8. rod for measuring distances and heights. 9. gnomon on a speed dial. 10. rung of a ladder. 11. spokes of a wheel. 12. each of the thin, narrow pieces which composes a cask, barrel or tub. 13. shank of an anchor. 14. arbor or anchor in watches. 15. a pair of cocks; set of hawks. 15. an enclosure or plot of pasture ground. 16. a measure of nine feet. 16. a written character or letter. 17. a mark made by writing. 18. a line of verse; a stanza or set of lines; a stanza or song. 19. a body of persons employed under the direction of a manager, in the work of an organisation; a member of staff; employees. 20. |
| Staff | phr | "At staff's end." - at a distance away from close quarters; on unfriendly terms. |
| Staff | phr | "Break the staff of bread." - to diminish or cut of the supply of food. |
| Staff | phr | "Set down one's staff" - to take up a fixed or settled position; one's abode. 2. to set up one's staff. |
| Staff | phr | "The Staff of Life" - bread; fig. sustenance and sustainer of life. |
| Staff-craft | n | Matters pertaining to writing, letters and grammar. |
| Staffer | n | A member of staff |
| Staffish | adj | rigid, stiff, hard, unmanageable. |
| Staffly | adv | Literally. |
| Staff-row | n | An alphabet. |
| Staff-writer | n | In OE times, a writer about letters or grammar. 2. that the author of an article at hand is employed by the periodical as a regular staff member, and is not a freelance writer or special contributor. 3. in the pop music industry songs may be written by members of singing groups, but are often written by staff-writers; song writers employed by music publishing companies. |
| Stag | n | Earlier meaning probably a male animal in its prime; a male deer, especially an adult male red deer, hart, stag. 2. adult male deer. 3. the male of several animals; steg. 4. The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk. 5. the male of certain other species of large deer; a hart or male deer of the fifth year. 6. a young horse, esp. one unbroken; a colt, or filly; also, a big, romping girl; a bold woman. 7. A castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull; seg; animal castrated when fully grown. 8. a boar, hog or ram. 9. (Stock Exchange) an outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange. 10. one who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock. 11. an informer, snitch, lag. 12. a spell of duty or work. 13. a man who attends a social function without a partner. |
| Stag | vb | Attend a dance, social function or a party without a partner: "to go stag". 2. give away information about somebody; denounce, tell on, betray, give away, turn informer, rat, grass, lag, shop, snitch, stag. 3. watch, observe carefully, or inquire secretly spy, stag, snoop, sleuth. 4. to act as a "stag," or irregular dealer in stocks. 5. to watch; to dog, or keep track of. 6. to go stag: to go naked. 7. the horn of the stag for the making of handles for cutlery. 8. to apply for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium. |
| Stag | phr | "To go stag." - to go naked. 2. to attend a social function without a partner. |
| Stag-night | n | Celebration held on the eve of a man's marriage. |
| Stag weekend | n | |
| Stair | n | A ladder. 2. a means of ascending in rank. 3. a very high position. 4. a degree of a circle. |
| Stair | vb | To ascend, go up. 2. to make or manufacture stairs. |
| Staired | adj | Arranged like stairs. |
| Stairless | adj | Without or having stairs. |
| Stairway | n | A way up a flight of stairs, a staircase. 2. a series of abrupt changes in the level in the floor of a glaciated valley. |
| Stairy | adj | Ascending or mounting like a flight of stairs. |
| Staithe | n | AS. staeth; a bank, shore, steadth, from the root of E. stead. 2. land bordering on water, a bank, an embankment, a shore; a landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels. |
| Staithe | vb | To furnish with a staithe; to embank. |
| Staitheman | n | A worker at a staithe. |
| Stake | n | A stick or post pointed at one end for driving into the ground as a boundary mark, part of a fence, support for a plant, etc. 2. a post to which a person is bound for execution, usually by burning. 3. the stake, the punishment of death by burning. 4. one of a number of vertical posts fitting into sockets or staples on the edge of the platform of a truck or other vehicle, as to retain the load. |
| Stake | vb | To possess, claim, or reserve a share of (land, profit, glory, etc.) as if by marking or bounding with stakes (usually followed by out or off). 2. to mark with or as if with stakes (often followed by off or out ). 3. to separate or close off by a barrier of stakes. 4. to support with a stake or stakes, as a plant: to stake tomato vines. 5. to tether or secure to a stake, as an animal. |
| Stake | phr | "At Stake" - at risk. |
| Stake | phr | "Go to the Stake for" - accept criticism or unpleasantness for what one believes in. |
| Stake | phr | "Have a Stake in Something" - make an investment in something. |
| Stake | phr | "Pull up Stakes" - move somewhere else from place where someone has lived for a long time. |
| Stakeholder | n | In gambling, an independent party with whom each of those who make a wager deposits the money or counters wagered. 2. a person holding the stakes of bettors, with the responsibility of delivering the pot to the winner of the bet. 3. person with an interest or concern in something, especially a business. 4. a person or organisation with a legitimate interest in a given situation, action or enterprise. 5. denoting a type of organization or system in which all the members or participants are seen as having an interest in its success. 6. an escrow agent or custodian. 7. In law, a person filing an interpleader action, such as a garnishee or trustee, who acknowledges possession of property that is owed to one or more of several other claimants. |
| Stale | n | Each of the two upright poles of a ladder. 2. rung, step of a ladder. 3. a handle, esp. a long, slender handle, such as a handle of a rake. 4. stem of a pipe. 5. stem of an arrow or spear. 6. a decoy bird (living or stuffed), used to snare other birds into a net. 7. a deceptive means of alluring or allurement; a person used as a bait for entrapping another. 8. an accomplice of a thief. 10. a prostitute of the lowest class, employ as a decoy as a thief. 11. term of contempt for an unchaste woman. 12. lover or mistress whose devotion is turned into ridicule for the amusement of a rival or rivals. 13. a position in a series. |
| Stale | phr | "A break in stale." - hiatus, lacuna. |
| Stalk | n | Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds, chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble. 2. a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ; stem. 3. a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush; stalking, still hunt. 4. the act of following prey stealthily; stalk, stalking. 5. a stiff or threatening gait; angry walk. 6. the stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp. 7. the petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant. 8. that which resembles the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill. 9. one of the two upright pieces of a ladder. [Obs.] |
| Stalk | vb | To walk stiffly. 2. follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to. 3. go through (an area) in search of prey. 4. To walk slowly, softly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun. 5. to walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover. 6. To walk with high and proud steps; -- usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step. |
| Stalk down | vb | To follow or track down |
| Stall | vb | To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox. 2. to fatten; as, to stall cattle. 3. to place in an office with the customary formalities; to install. 4. to plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart. 5. to forestall; to anticipate. [Obs.] 6. to keep close; to keep secret. 7. to live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell. 8. to kennel, as dogs. 9. to be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast. 10. to be tired of eating, as cattle. |
| Stall | n | Stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox is kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal. 2. a stable; a place for cattle. 3. a small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a bookstall. 4. a bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale. 5. a seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. 6. in the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc. 8. a covering or sheath, as of leather, horn, of iron, for a finger or thumb; a cot; as, a thumb stall; a finger stall. |
| Stall reader | n | One who reads books at a stall where they are exposed for sale. 2. a browser, one who reads books at a bookshop, but rarely buys one. |
| Stalwart | n | A strong and valiant person. 2. a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt); a loyalist. |
| Stalwart | adj | Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; hardy, stalwart, stout, sturdy. 2: dependable; used especially of persons; stouthearted fellow. |
| Stalworth | adj | OE. stalworth, staelwyreth serviceable, probably originally, good at stealing, or worth stealing or taking, and afterwards extended to other causes of estimation. brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent. Nb: stalworth is now disused, or but little used, stalwart having taken its place. |
| Stalworth | adj | OE: staelwierthe. of things: serviceable. 2. of persons and animals: strongly and stoutly built; robust, brave, valiant, mighty. 3. stalworth OE. probably originally, good at stealing, or worth stealing or taking, and afterwards extended to other causes of estimation: brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent. Nb: stalworth is now disused, or but little used, stalwart having taken its place. |
| Stalworth-hood | n | The condition of being resolute, determined, unwavering. |
| Stalworthiness | n | The quality of being strong, valiant, courageous. |
| Stalworthy | adv | Stoutly, resolutely, with determination. |
| Stammer | n | A speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds; stutter; in speech halting. 2. defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter. 3. a disturbance in the formation of sounds. |
| Stammer | vb | To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words. 2. to hesitate or falter in speaking. 3.to speak with stops and difficulty; to stutter. 4. to utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly. 5. speak haltingly; bumble, stutter, falter. |
| Stammering | adj | Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering, bumbling, faltering in speech. |
| Stammeringly | adv | Hesitately or falteringly in speech or in speaking. 3. in a manner speaking with stops; stutteringly. 4. uttering or pronouncing with hesitately or imperfectly. 5. speak haltingly; bumbly, stutterly. |
| Stand | n | Of a person, to be in an upright position on the feet. 2. to rise to one's feet (often followed by up). 3. to have a specified height when in this position: to stand six feet seven inches. 4. to stop or remain motionless or steady on the feet. 5. to take a position or place as indicated: to stand aside. 6.the act or instance of standing; an assuming of or a remaining in an upright position. 7. a cessation of motion; halt or stop. 8. a determined effort for or against something, especially a final defensive effort. 9. a determined policy, position, attitude, etc., taken or maintained. 10. the place in which a person or thing stands; station. 10. an opinion, esp a resolutely held one, as, to take a stand. 11. a halt or standstill. 12. a place where a person or thing stands. 12. a structure, usually of wood, on which people can sit or stand. 13. a frame or rack on which such articles as coats and hats may be hung. 14. a small table or piece of furniture where articles may be placed or stored: a music stand. 15. a supporting framework, esp for a tool or instrument 16. a stall, booth, or counter from which goods may be sold. 17. an exhibition area in a trade fair. 18. a halt to give action, etc, esp one taken during a retreat and having some duration or some success. 19. cricket an extended period at the wicket by two batsmen. 20. a growth of plants in a particular area, esp trees in a forest or a crop in a field. 21. a stop made by a touring theatrical company, pop group, etc, to give a performance (esp in the phrase one-night stand ) 22. in South Africa, a plot or site earmarked for the erection of a building. 23. a complete set, esp of arms or armour for one man. 24.the flags of a military regiment |
| Stand | vb | (Used with object), stood, standing. 2. to cause to stand; set upright; set. 3. to face or encounter: to stand an assault. 4. to undergo or submit to: to stand trial. 5. to endure or undergo without harm or damage or without giving way. 6. to endure or tolerate: She can't stand her father. 7. abide, stomach, bear. 8. to be situated or located. 9. to be or exist in a specified state or condition: to stand in awe of someone 10. to adopt or remain in a resolute position or attitude. 11. to remain in force or continue in effect. 12. to come to a stop or halt. 12. (of water, etc) to collect and remain without flowing
13. to indicate the specified position of the parties involved: the score stands at 10 to 1. 14. to resist; survive: to stand the test of time. 15. to be or become a candidate: stand for captaincy. 16. to navigate in a specified direction: we were standing for London when the storm broke. 17. of a gun dog: to point at game. 18. to halt, esp to give action, repel attack, or disrupt an enemy advance when retreating. 19. of a male domestic animal, esp a stallion: to be available as a stud. 20. stand a chance to have a hope or likelihood of winning, succeeding, etc. |
| Stand | phr | "As Things Stands" - in present circumstances. |
| Stand | phr | "Know Where One Stands" - be aware of one's position or status. |
| Stand | phr | "Make a Stand Against' - defy, resist. |
| Stand | phr | "On stand-by" - in resrve and ready. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand alone" - be unique, or be without help. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand aside" - observe passively, fail to see. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand by" - to uphold; support: she stood by him whenever he was in trouble. 2. to adhere to (an agreement, promise, etc.); affirm. 3. to stand ready; be ready for action, wait. 4. to get ready to speak, act, etc. 5. to be ready to board a plane, train, or other transport if accommodations become available at the last minute. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand down" - to leave the witness stand. 2. to step aside; withdraw, as from a competition. to leave or take out of active work or service; cease to be ready for action, withdraw from the contest. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand fast" to maintain one's position firmly; stand firm. 2. be unyielding. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand for" -to represent; symbolize: P.S. stands for “postscript.” 2. to advocate; favor. 3. to tolerate; allow: I won't stand for any nonsense! |
| Stand | phr | "Stand in For" - substitute for; replace. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand in Somebody's Way" - prevent someone from doing something. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand in With" - to be in association or conspiracy with. 2.to enjoy the favor of; be on friendly terms with. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand Off" -to keep or stay at a distance. 2. to put off; evade. 3. draw or tie, as in a game, 4. a counterbalance or neutralization. 5. a feeling or stte of indifference or coldness, aloofness. 6. a postponement. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand One in Good Stead" - be available when needed. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand One's Ground" -to maintain a stance or position in the face of opposition. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand or Fall by Something" - be committed to something (whether it succeeds or fails.) |
| Stand | phr | "Stand Out" - something or someone who is outstanding, excellent, etc. 2. physically protrude, or be more noticeable or than other things. 3. who stubbornly refuses to agree, consent or co-operate |
| Stand | phr | "Stand Out For" - persist in request without compromise. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand Over" - supervise, observe closely. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand-up" - having an erect position. 2. done, consumed whilst standing. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand Up For" - support, champion. |
| Stand | phr | "Stand Up To" - resist. |
| Stand | phr | "Take a Stand On" - positively state. |
| Stand | phr | "Take the Stand" - to testify in a courtroom. |
| Standelwort | n | Stander-grass; standwort; "Orchis mascula." |
| Stander-by | n | A by-stander, one reluctant to become involved. 2. a fence-sitter; a prevaricator. |
| Standfast | adj | Firm and steadfast in opinion; keeping to a fixed or stable position. 2. ready to stand one's ground. |
| Stand-in | n | A substitute; replacement. 2. a person who relieves an actor from tedious intervals and substitutes for him in hazardous actions, A position of influence or favour; a pull. |
| Standing | n | Social or financial or professional status or reputation; "a man in or of good standing" 2. an ordered listing of scores or results showing the relative positions of competitors (individuals or teams) in a sporting event. 3. the act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position |
| Standing | adj | Having a supporting base; "a standing lamp." 2. not created for a particular occasion; "a standing committee." 3. of fluids: not moving or flowing; stagnant; "mosquitoes breed in standing water" 4. executed in or initiated from a standing position; "a standing ovation." 5. of persons: on the feet; having the torso in an erect
position supported by straight legs; "standing room only.' 6. permanent; "a standing army" |
| Standing | phr | "Leave one Standing" - progress much faster than somebody else. |
| Stand-offish | adj | With a superior, unfriendly attitude. |
| Stand-still | n | A pause, a cessation of motion or action; halt, rest. 2. in a state of rest or inactivity. |
| Staneraw | n | The stone lichen, stone-raw or "parnelia saxatilis." red-brown in colour - "dyed red in staneraw." |
| Stang | n | A pole or stake. 2. a wooden bar or beam. |
| Stang | phr | "to ride the stang pole." - to be mounted astride a pole and borne on the shoulders of two men, and carried through the streets for the derision of spectators. |
| Staple | n | The stem of the visible part of a tooth. 2. a post, pillar, column of wood, stone, metal. 3. pillar of coal left asa temporary support. 4. a short bar or rod of iron. 5. a piece of thin wire to join paper together. |
| Star | n | A celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior. 2. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, wizard. 3. any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night. 4. an actor who plays a principal role; lead. 5. a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem. 6. a performer who receives prominent billing; headliner. 7. the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub; star topology. 8. one of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae. 9. a planet supposed to influence one's destiny; (usually pl.) a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune (in astrology). 10. that which resembles the figure of a star, as an ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honor. 11. specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk, thus, used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc. 12. a person of brilliant and attractive qualities, especially on public occasions, as a distinguished orator, a leading theatrical performer, etc. |
| Star | vb | To set or adorn with stars, or bright radiating bodies; to bespangle. 2. to be bright or attracting attention, as a star; to shine like a star; to be brilliant or prominent. |
| Start | vb | To feature as the star; 2: be the star in a performance. 3: mark with an asterisk or little star. |
| Star | adj | Indicating the most important performer or role; the leading man; the starring role; a stellar role. |
| Star | phr | "See stars" - apparently see flashing lights (after a blow to the head) |
| Star | phr | "Star studded" - a show with many famous entertainers. |
| Starbeam | n | A ray of light. |
| Star-birth | n | |
| Star-blind | adj | Half-blind. |
| Starboard | n | The right hand side of a vessel as one looks from stern to bow; opposed to larboard. |
| Starboard | vb | To put, move, or turn the helm to the starboard side, |
| Starboard | adj | Of or pertaining to the right of an observer on a vessel when facing the bow. |
| Starboard | adv | Facing the starboard side. |
| Starch | n | A white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods. 2. a commercial preparation of this substance used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering. 3. starches, foods rich in natural starch. 4. stiffness or formality, as of manner:so full of starch he can't relax. 5. informal: vigor; energy; stamina; boldness. |
| Starch | vb | To stiffen or treat with starch. 2. to make stiff or rigidly |
| Starchiness | n | The state or condition of being stiffened or treated with starch. 2. rigidity, stiffness. |
| Starchy | adj | Stiffened with starch, stiff; fig. prim, formal, precise. 2. formed of or combined with starch; farinaceous. |
| Stardom | n | The status of a theatrical or movie star. |
| Stardust | n | Innumerable minute stars, likened ,as seen in a telescope, to particles of dust. 2. meteoric matter in fine particles supposed to fall upon the earth from space; cosmic dust. |
| Stare | n | A fixed look with eyes open wide. 2. structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; -- called also sterling. 3. the starling. (Obs.) |
| Stare | vb. | To look with fixed eyes wide open, as through fear, wonder, surprise, impudence, etc.; to fasten an earnest and prolonged gaze on some object. 2. to fixate one's eyes; to lokk earnestly. 2. to be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors. 4. To stand out; to project; to bristle. (Obs.) |
| Stareblind | adj | The rigidity of eyes in death. |
| Starfish | n | Any of the various radially symmetrical echinoderm (Asteroidea), commonly with a star-shaped body having five or more arms. Starfish feed mainly on molluscs, including oysters. |
| Staring | n | The action of stare; gazing fixedly with eyes wide open. 2. the standing up of hair. |
| Staring | adj | That which stares or looks fixedly with open eyes. 3. frantically wild. 4. shining, brightly coloured. 5. of hair, feathers: bristling; standing up. 6. glaringly conspicuous. 7. stark staring mad. 8. staring with a stare or an opened-eyed fixed gaze. 9. of a story: sensational. |
| Stark | adv | Stark, as in "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"; completely wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite mad. |
| Stark | adj | Devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"; blunt, crude,. 2. severely simple; austere, severe, stark, stern. 3. complete or extreme; as in "stark staring mad ". 4. providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare stony hills"; bare, barren, bleak, desolate. 5. of materials, substances: stiff; rigid, hard, unyielding. 6. complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. 7. strong; vigorous; powerful of structure. 8. stark beer, stout and strong beer. 9. severe; violent; fierce. [Obs.] "In starke stours" i. e., in fierce combat or fighting. 10. mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright. 10. of persons: hard, obdurate, firm, unyielding; settled. 11. of judgement: stern, inflexible. 12. of science: hard, difficult. 13. of a wound: severe. 13. of torture: cruel, severe, painful. 14. inclement, harsh of climate and weather. |
| Stark | vb | To stiffen, harden. |
| Stark-blind | adj | Totally blind; use of "stark" as a intensifier. |
| Starken | vb | To make stark or inflexible. |
| Starkle | vb | o make a stir. 2. to use threatening gestures. 3. to show signs of fear; quake, be afraid. |
| Starked | adj | Congealed. |
| Starkly | adj | Violent, fierce, wild. 2. harsh, stern, rigid. |
| Starkly | adv | Stoutly, boldly, strongly, powerfully, harshly, sternly. 2. stiffly, rigidly, hard, tightly, firmly. 3. stiffly. not or without pliableness. |
| Stark-naked | adj | Naked. |
| Stark naught | n | Something utterly worthless, or valueless. 2. something utterly bad, vicious, hurtful etc. |
| Starkness | n | Rigidity or stiffness of body or limbs. 2. utter privation. 3. sternness, harshness. 4. absoluteness, utterness, bareness, nakedness. |
| Starless | adj | Destitute of stars or starlight. 2. unfavourable: not born under a propitious star sign. 3. luckless; starlessly. |
| Starlight | n | A light given by a star or stars. 2. Star-litten. |
| Starriness | n | The state of being star-like, shining or having stars. |
| Starry | adj | Set with stars or star-like spots or points. 2. lighted by stars. 3. shining as or like stars. 4. star-shaped. 5. of, pertaining to, proceeding from or connected with stars; stellar, |
| Starry-eyed | adj | Given to fanciful yearnings or wishes. |
| Star-shine | n | Starlight. 2. the shining, sparkling light of stars. 3. brightness; luminosity, sparkingness. |
| Starship | n | The constellation "Argo Navis." 2. in science fiction, a manned spacecraft designed for interstellar travel. |
| Star-shower | n | A shower of falling meteors; a meteoric shower. |
| Star-sight | n | |
| Star-stone | n | A precious stone which exhibits asterism. |
| Start | n | The first or first part of a series of actions or operations, a journey, etc . 2. the place or time of starting, as of a race or performance. 3. a signal to proceed, as in a race. 4. a lead or advantage, either in time or distance and usually of specified extent, in a competitive activity: as, "an hour's start" 5. a slight involuntary movement of the body, as through fright, surprise. 6. an opportunity to enter a career, undertake a project, etc. 7. informal a surprising incident. 8. a part that has come loose or been disengaged. |
| Start | n | The tail of an animal or bird; as in, the bird: "the redstart." 2. the tail of a plough. 3. the stalk of fruit. 4. the stem of a candle. 5. an outgrowth, a projecting point of something; esp. a sharp point of a stag's horn. 6. a short space of time; a moment. 7. a short or long distance. 8. a sudden start; at an instant. 8. a sudden journey, flight, invasion. 9. to take start; decamp, runaway. 10. by starts; fits and starts. |
| Start | vb | To begin or cause to begin (something or to do something); come or cause to come into being, operation, etc: he started a quarrel. 2. to make or cause to make a beginning of (a process, series of actions, etc). 3. sometimes followed by up: to set or be set in motion: "he started up the car." 4. to make a sudden involuntary movement of one's body, jump from fright. 5. sometimes foll by up, away, etc., to spring or jump suddenly from a position or place. 6. to establish or be established; set up: to start a business. 7. to support (someone) in the first part of a venture, career, etc 8. to work or cause to work loose. 9. to enter or be entered in a race. 10.to flow violently from a source: wine started from a hole in the cask. 11.to rouse (game) from a hiding place, lair, etc. 12. (esp of eyes) to bulge; pop. 13. an archaic word for startle. 14. informal: to commence quarrelling or causing a disturbance. 15. to start with in the first place |
| Start | phr | "For a Start" - in the first place. |
| Start | phr | "Get off to a Good Start" - to begin something well. |
| Start | phr | "Make a Fresh Start" - restart from the beginning. |
| Start | phr | "To Start Off" - to begin a journey. |
| Start | phr | "To Start Out" - to start off, make a beginning. |
| Start | phr | "To Start With" - to begin, to tend to first, in the first place. |
| Start-cold | adj | |
| Starter | n | One who or that which starts; spec, one who sees that buses and other vehicles leave on schedule. 2. a self-starter. 3. a competitor at the start of a race. 4. a person who gives a signal to start a race. |
| Startful | adj | Apt to start; skittish. |
| Starting | adj | Esp. of the eyes: bulging or protruding as in fear. 2. approximate to the beginning or start at an event. 3. a turn to be a starter in a game at the beginning. |
| Starting-hole | n | A hole in which a hunted animal takes refuge. 2. a place in which a criminal or a hunted enemy finds refuge. 3. (fig). a means of evasion; a loophole. |
| Startish | adj | Apt to start or jib. |
| Startler | n | One, who, or something, which starts. 2. a starting thing. |
| Startleless | n | Without a start; having or giving no start. |
| Startling | adj | Rousing sudden surprise, alarm or the like. |
| Startlish | adj | Easily startled; apt to take fright; esp. said of the startlishness of a horse. |
| Startlishness | n | The state of being startled. |
| Startmeal | adj | By stops and starts; fits and starts; staccative. |
| Start up | vb | To rise or appear suddenly. |
| Starve | vb | To be hungry; go without food; starve, hunger, famish. 2: die of food deprivation. 3. deprive of food; famish. 4. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for, hunger, thirst, starve, lust. 5. deprive of a necessity and cause suffering.
6. to destroy with cold. 7. to kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder. 8. to distress or subdue by famine, esp into a surrender. 9. to destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plants by depriving them of proper light and air. 10. to deprive of force or vigor; to disable. 11. OE. sterven to die. to die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger. 12. to perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent. 13. to perish or die with cold. "Starving with cold as well as hunger. |
| Starved | adj | Atrophied, lean, thin. 2. of soil: poor in fertilising elements. 3. perished by cold. |
| Starveling | n | A starveling person, one who is habitually starved or is stinted of food. 2. one or something who is emaciated by lack of nourishment. |
| Starving | n | The act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine. |
| Starving | adj | Deprived of food or famished. |
| Starvy | adj | Poor in quality, starved in nutriment. esp. in reference to land and soil. 2. barren, unarable. |
| Starwards | adj | Towards the stars and heavens. |
| Stathel | vb | To place on a foundation. 2. (lit and fig); to staddle; to establish. |
| Stathelfast | adj | Firm, steadfast, solid. |
| Stathelness | n | Solidity, firmness. |
| Stathelnessly | adv | Steadfastly, firmly fixed. |
| Stave | n | Pl. of staff. the stem of a ship. 2. |
| Stave | vb | To break up a cask into staves and let out contents. 2. to destroy wine by breaking or breaking a hole in the cask. 3. to cause a cask to break or fall in pieces. |
| Stave-rew | n | An alphabet. |
| Stay | n | Any of various strong ropes or wires for steadying masts, funnels, etc. |
| Stay | vb | To support or secure with a stay or stays: to stay a mast. 2. to put (a ship) on the other tack. 3.(of a ship) to change to the other tack. |
| Stay | phr | "In stays" - (of a fore-and-aft-rigged vessel) heading into the wind with sails shaking, as in coming about. |
| Stead | n | OE. stede: place, AS. stede; akin to stand. staith, stithy. 2. stillness, as opposed to movment, stop, delay. 3. the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; take place of; in lieu of; position, place, lieu. 4. place, or spot, in general. (Obs., except in poetry.) 5. place or room which another had, has, or might have. 6. frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead. 7. farmhouse and offices. Nb: the word is now commonly used as the last part of a compound; as, farmstead, homestead, roadstead, etc. 8. abode, area, bearings, bench mark, district. lieu, locale, locality, location, locus, place, point, position, region, site, situation, whereabouts. |
| Stead | vb | To be in stead of, in place of; to fill the place of. 2.to stand in stead, or to do stead, to be of use or great advantage. 2. to help; to support; to benefit; to assist. 3. to aid, assist, do for, help out, |
| Stead | Phr | "Be in Stead."- to make up for the want of. |
| Stead | phr | "In Good Stead."- place or attitude of support; use; avail, service; "To Stand One in Good Stead" . |
| Stead | phr | "In the Stead of." - in the place of |
| Stead | phr | "In His Stead." - instead of, instead, in place of someone or something. |
| Stead | phr | "Stand One in Good Stead" - place or attitude of support; use, avail; service. See: "In Good Stead." |
| Steadfast | adj | Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; resolute; unbendable, persevering, unwavering, steady, stiff, unfaltering, unshakable. 2. firm and dependable; staunch, unswerving. 3. fast in place. 4. firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm. 5.to abstain from certain food or pleasures of life. 6. not fickle or wavering; constant; firm; resolute; unswerving; loyal, steady. |
| Steadfast land | n | Mainland as opposed to an island. |
| Steadfastly | adv | In a firm, determined, resolute manner or way. |
| Steadfastness | n | The quality of being constant, fixed in purpose, belief, fidelity, affection. |
| Steadful | adj | Serviceable. 2. enriching. |
| Steadily | adv | At a steady pace or rate. 2. in a steady manner. |
| Steading | n | A farm-house, sheds and offices. 2. a farmstead. |
| Steadiness | n | Freedom from wavering or indecision. 2. constancy of resolve or conduct. 3. the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place; firmness. 4. the quality of being steady, regular and unvarying. 5. the quality or state of being steady, constancy, resolution, unchangeable. |
| Steadless | adj | Having no place or position in space. |
| Steadman | n | A substitute, replacement, a fill-in |
| Stead-mother | n | A foster-mother. |
| Steady | adv | In a steady manner; steadily. |
| Steady | adj | Not subject to change or variation especially in behavior; "a steady beat". 2. not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall, firm, steady, unfluctuating. 3. marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakeable, steadfast, resolve, firm, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering. 4. relating to a person who does something regularly. 5. not easily excited or upset; "steady nerves. 6. firm in standing or position; securely in position, not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm. 7. constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose. 8. regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind. 9. fixed; regular; uniform; undeviating; invariable; unremitted; stable. |
| Steady | n | A person loved by another person sweetheart, sweetie, truelove. |
| Steady | vb | To make steady; "steady yourself" steady, calm, becalm. 2.support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace, stabilize. 3. to make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute. 4. to become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily. |
| Steady | phr | "Steady as a Rock" - firm; reliable. 2. (fig) loyal. |
| Steady | phr | "Steady the Helm." - to keep it in the position in which it has been put. |
| Steady | phr | "Steady Down" - to become settled or stable in one's residence or life style. 2. to settle, take root, settle down. |
| Steady | phr | "Steady the Helm." - to keep it in the position in which it has been put. |
| Steady-going | adj | Consistent in performance or behaviour, dependable, rock-steady. |
| Steal | vb | To take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force. 2. to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment. 3. to take, get, or win insidiously, surreptitiously, subtly, or by chance: 'he stole my wife.' 4. to move, bring, convey, or put secretly or quietly; smuggle - usually followed by away, from, in, into, etc. 5. baseball.(of a base runner) to gain (a base) without the help of a walk or batted ball, as by running to it during the delivery of a pitch. 8. to commit or practice theft. 9. to move, go, or come secretly, quietly, or unobserved. 10. to pass, happen, etc., imperceptibly, gently, or gradually. |
| Steal | n | An act of stealing; theft. 2. the thing stolen; booty. 3. something acquired at a cost far below its real value; bargain. 4. baseball: the act of advancing a base by stealing. |
| Steal | phr | "Steal Someone's Thunder" - to appropriate or use another's idea, plan, words, etc |
| Stealing | n | The action of the verb "to steal" -to commit theft. 2. that which is stolen archaic). 3. the act of taking something unlawfully from others. 4. act or action of moving stealthily or unobtrusively. |
| Steam | n | Water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor. 2. water changed to this form by boiling, extensively used for the generation of mechanical power, for heating purposes, etc. 3. the mist formed when the gas or vapor from boiling water condenses in the air. 4.
an exhalation of a vapor or mist. 5. power or energy. |
| Steam | vb | To emit or give off steam or vapor. 2. to rise or pass off in the form of steam or vapor. 3. to become covered with condensed steam, as a window or other surface (often followed by up). 4. to generate or produce steam, as in a boiler. 5. to move or travel by the agency of steam. 6. to expose to or treat with steam, as in order to heat, cook, soften, renovate, or the like. 7. to emit or exhale (steam or vapor). 8. informally. to cause to become irked or angry (often followed by up). 9. to convey by the agency of steam: to steam the ship safely into port. |
| Steam | adj | Heated by or heating with steam: a steam radiator. 2. propelled by or propelling with a steam engine. 3. operated by steam. 4. conducting steam: a steam line. 5. bathed with or affected by steam. |
| Steam | phr | "Blow or Let off Steam" - to give vent to one's repressed emotions, especially by talking or behaving in an unrestrained manner: "take my remarks seriously— I'm not just letting off steam. |
| Steamy | adj | Consisting of, abounding in, or emitting, resembling steam. 2. coversed with condensed vapour. 2. of films, literature, etc., salacious, lustful, sexy, torrid. |
| Stean | n | A vessel for liquids, (or in later use for meat, bread, fish also) usually made of clay with two handles or ears, jar, pot, pitcher, urn |
| Steed | n | A stud horse, a stallion. 2. a high mettled horse used on state occasions in war on the lists; a great horse, as distinct from a palfrey. 3. from the C16th used poet. or rhetorically for a horse, usually one used for riding. 3. a wave-steed: a ship, boat. |
| Steek | n | A stitch in needlework or knitting. 2. a strenuous spell or turn of work. |
| Steek | phr | "to keep steeks with." - to keep pace or time with. |
| Steel | n | A alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon, used widely in construction. 2. a cutting or thrusting or weapon, like a sword, knife or dagger. 3. a knife with a rigid steel rod. 4. a variety of iron, consisting of wrought and cast iron. 5. anything of extreme hardness, characterised by sternness or rigour. |
| Steel | vb | To overlay, point or edge with steel, to steel an axe. 2. (fig) to make hard or strong; to make insensible or obdurate. 3. (fig) to cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish or other qualities. |
| Steel-hearted | adj | Hard-hearted, obdurate, callous, pitiless. |
| Steel-headed | adj | An article, item, tool etc. whose head or other parts are covered or coated in steel. 2. a variety of rainbow trout, having silvery unstriped sides. |
| Steeling | n | The giving a steel edge or point to iron. 2. conversion to iron. 3. the process of covering or coating a metal plate with steel to make it more durable. 4. the steel part of a machine. |
| Steel-maker | n | A steel worker, a worker engaged in the production of steel. 2. a steel-shaper or one who makes things from steel. |
| Steel-wool | n | Steel fibres matted together for use as an abrasive or in the cleaning, polishing, and finishing utensils and the like. |
| Steel-work | n | Something such as a frame, foundation or building made from steel. |
| Steel-works | n | A foundry. 2. a place where steel is made. |
| Steen | vb | To stone a person to death. 2. to line a wellor other excavation with stone, bricks or other material. |
| Steening | n | The lining of a well or oyher excavation. 2.a paved ford across a river'. |
| Steep | n | Stoup, dish or vessel made in the production of steel. 2. a rennet bag. |
| Steep | n | A cliff, hill, precipice; a precipitous place. |
| Steep | adj | Making a large angle with the plane of the horizontal; precipitous. 2. exorbitant, excessive, high, as a price. |
| Steep-down | adj | Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. |
| Steepish | adj | Somewhat steep; rather precipitous. |
| Steep-sided | adj | Having steep sides. |
| Steep-up | adj | Towering, spiring, steeping, lofty and precipitous. |
| Steeping | adj | The act of soaking in liquid. |
| Steeple | n | An ornamental construction, usually ending in a spire, erected on a roof or tower of a church, public building; a tall ornamental tower that forms the superstructure of a church, temple. 2. a tower terminating in such a construction. 3. (loosely) a spire; any spire or pointed structure. 4. a tall ornamental tower that forms the superstructure of a church, temple, etc |
| Steeple | vb | To provide with or form into a steeple or steeplelike configuration. |
| Steepled | adj | Having a steeple or ornamental tower. |
| Steeple-less | adj | Lacking or without a steeple |
| Steepness | n | The quality or condition of being strongly inclined, as to be be almost perpendicular. |
| Stench | vb | To cause to emit a disagreeable odor, stink or reek. |
| Step | n | |
| Step | vb | |
| Step-daughter | n | |
| Step-sibling | n | |
| Stepson | n | |
| Steven | n | The voice in various application. 2. a loud voice. 3. voice in petition: cry, prayer, right of speaking. 4. fame; report. 5. sound, noise, din of singing, music, laughter. 6. outcry, noise, laughter, tumult, din. 7. a time, turn, vicissitude, occasion. 8. a set or appointed time. 9. a date affixed for a meeting or a payout. 10. a convened assembly. 11. a summons, a citation, bidding, comment. |
| Steven | vb | To alternate, take turns, to appoint, to constitute, to summon, to specify, state. 2. to make an uproar, shout about, to deafen with noise. |
| Steven | phr | "With one steven." - with one voice; in accord; unanamiously. |
| Steven | phr | "a new steven." - afresh, new. |
| Stevened | adj | Embroided. |
| Steven-free | adj | Exemption from restriction to a particular time for the use of the Lord's mill. |
| Stevening | n | An appointment. |
| Steward | n | A person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others. 2. a person who has charge of the household of another, buying or obtaining food, directing the servants, etc. 3. an employee who has charge of the table, wine, servants, etc., in a club, restaurant, or the like. 4. a person who attends to the domestic concerns of persons on board a vessel, as in overseeing maids and waiters. 5. an employee on a ship, train, or bus who waits on and is responsible for the comfort of passengers, takes orders for or distributes food, etc. |
| Steward | vb | To act as steward of; manage. |
| Stewardship | n | The position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc. 2. the responsible overseeing and protection of something considered worth caring for and preserving: "as in better stewardship of lands crucial for wildlife habitat." |
| Stey | adj | Of a mountain, cliff, etc. approaching the perpendicular. 2. difficult of ascent; steep. 3. of a person: unbending, upright, reserved, haughty |
| Stick | n | A branch or shoot of a tree or shrub that has been cut or broken off. 2. a relatively long and slender piece of wood. 3. a long piece of wood for use as fuel, in carpentry, etc. 4. a rod or wand. 5. a baton. 6. a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
7. a stoppage or standstill. 8. something causing delay or difficulty. 9. the quality of adhering or of causing things to adhere. 10. something causing adhesion. |
| Stick | phr | "Stick by or to." - to maintain one's attachment or loyalty to; remain faithful to. |
| Stick | phr | "Stick out." - to extend; protrude. |
| Stick | phr | "Stick up" -informal: to rob, especially at gunpoint. |
| Stick | phr | "Stick up for." - to speak in favor of; come to the defense of; support. |
| Stick | phr | "Stick it to" (someone), slang. - to take advantage of; treat unfairly. |
| Stick | phr | "Stick it out" - to endure something patiently to the end or its completion. |
| Stick | phr | Stick one's neck out." - |
| Stick | vb | To furnish (a plant, vine, etc.) with a stick or sticks in order to prop or support. 2. to set (type) in a composing stick. to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle. 3. to kill by this means: to stick a pig. 4. to thrust (something pointed) in, into, through, etc.: to stick a needle into a pincushion. 5. to fasten in position by thrusting a point or end into something: to stick a peg in a pegboard. 6. to fasten in position by or as if by something thrust through: to stick a painting on the wall. 8. to have the point piercing or embedded in something: The arrow stuck in the tree. 9. to remain attached by adhesion. 10. to hold, cleave, or cling. 11. to remain persistently or permanently: a fact that sticks in the mind. 12. to remain firm, as in resolution, opinion, statement, or attachment |
| Stick | phr | "Short or dirty end of the stick" - (Slang): the least desirable assignment, decision, or part of an arrangement |
| Stick | phr | "To Get The Wrong of the Stick" - to be at disadvantage in a bargain or contest. |
| Stick | phr | "To Get Hold of the Wrong End of the Stick" - to get the story wrong, not know the true facts of the case. |
| Stick | phr | To Hold Sticks With" - to compete on equal terms with. |
| Sticker | n | One who holds tenaciously to anything one who or that which fastens with or as paste. 2. a paster. 3. anything that confuses or silences a person; a puzzles. 4. prickly, stem, thorn, or bur. |
| Stickiness | n | Stiffness, woodiness. |
| Stick-it | adj | Unsuccessful. 2. having failed or gien up something. |
| Stickle | n | A prickle, spine, obsolete except in compounds. |
| Stickle | vb | To contend about rifling matters. 2. to insist or hestitate about petty reasons. 3. to act as an official, umpire at a sporting event. 4. to mediate or interpose; to intervene among partiipants or combatants. 5. to stop, quell a dispute. 6. to take an active in a cause or affair. 7. to strive or contend for a desired object, issue, principle, etc. 8. to take the part of , stand up for a person. 9. to make difficulties, raise objections, haggle. 10. to be tardy in given one's acceptance; to hestitate, scruple, take offence at. |
| Stickleback | n | A small spiny-finned fish of the genus "Gasterosteus" or the family "Gasterosteidae," found in both fresh and salt water. |
| Stickler | n | A moderator or umpire at a tournament, a wrestling or fencing match etc. 2. an active partisan (a great, chief, etc.,) agent, mover, instigator. 3. in an unfavourable sense: factious, seditious, or pragmatic contender, a wrangler, busybody. 4. one who fights or contends against; an opponent, antagonistic, one who makes difficulties or raises objections. 5. a second or backer. 6. one who fights for a cause or issue. 7 one who stands out for ceremomy, form, structure etc. |
| Stick-up | n | A thief armed with a revolver who orders his victims to put their hands up; also, a job performed by this type of criminal, a hold-up. |
| Sticky | adj | Having the property of adhering; also viscid, glutinous. |
| Stiff-necked | adj | Having a stiff neck. 2. chiefly, fig. of persons, with Biblical ref: obstinate, stubborn, inflexible, haughty. |
| Stile | n | A arrangement of steps or the like, contrived to allow passage over or through a fence to one person at a time, while forming a barrier to sheep or cattle. |
| Still | adj | [Old English stille; immobile, motionless; stationary. 2. undisturbed or tranquil; silent and calm. 3. not sparkling or effervescent: a still wine. 4. gentle or quiet; subdued. 5. (of a child) dead at birth |
| Still | adv | Continuing now or in the future as in the past: do you still love me? 2. up to this or that time; yet. 3. often used with a comparative: even or yet: still more insults. 4. quiet or without movement: sit still. 5. poetic , dialect always. |
| Still | n | (Poetic): silence or tranquillity: the still of the night. 2. a. a still photograph, esp of a scene from a motion-picture film. b. ( as a modifier ): a still camera. |
| Still | vb | To make or become still, quiet, or calm; to allay or relieve: fears were stilled |
| Still | conj | Even then; nevertheless: he still cries. |
| Still | phr | "Still as Death" - without sound or movement. |
| Still | phr | "Still as the Grave" - without sound or movement. |
| Still-birth | n | Born lifeless; dead at birth. 2. born in a stage of suspended animation. 3. still-born. |
| Stiller | n | One who or something which, makes still, quietly or tranquil. |
| Still-hunt | n | Pursuit of game in a stealthy manner, or under-cover, stalking. 2. transfig. the pursuit of any object quietly or cautiously; still-hunting. |
| Still-hunt | vb | To pursue game in a stealthy manner, to stalk. 2. to pursue any object quietly or with caution. |
| Still-hunter | n | One who pursues game in a stealthy manner, to stalk. 2. a pursuer any object quietly or with caution. |
| Still-life | n | A representation of an inaminate objcts, as a painting of a bowl of fruit, flowers. 2. category of subject matter in which inaminate objects are represented , as in a painting or photography. |
| Stillness | n | Silence; quiet; hush. 2. the absence of motion. |
| Still-sitting | adj | Sedentary, inactive, armchair. |
| Still-stand | n | An armistice; calque after the German: "waffen stillstand" |
| Still-water | n | Stagnant water. |
| Stilly | adj | Secret. 2.characterised by stillness. |
| Stilly | adv | In a quiet manner, silent, quietly, secretly. |
| Sting | vb | To prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ. 2. to affect painfully or irritatingly as a result of contact, as certain plants do: to be stung by nettles. 3. to cause to smart or to cause a sharp pain. 4. to cause mental or moral anguish: to be stung with remorse. 5. to goad or drive, as by sharp irritation. 6. to use, have, or wound with a sting, as bees. 7. cause a sharp, smarting pain, as some plants, an acrid liquid or gas, or a slap or hit. 8. to cause acute mental pain or irritation, as annoying thoughts or one's conscience. 9. to feel acute mental pain or irritation. 10. to feel a smarting pain, as from a blow or the sting of an insect. |
| Sting | n | An act or an instance of stinging. 2. a wound, pain, or smart caused by stinging. 3. any sharp physical or mental wound, hurt, or pain. 4. anything or an element in anything that wounds, pains, or irritates: to feel the sting of defeat; "Death, where is thy sting?" 5.capacity |
| Stinger | n | One who orr that which stings. 2. a plant or animal that stings. 3. an insect that stings. 4. a cocktail made of brandy and white crème de menthe. |
| Stinging hair | n | One of the hairs of a nettle, charged at the base with an irritating fluid which is injected beneath the skin when touched. |
| Stingless | adj | Having no sting. |
| Stingy | adj | Having a sting; stinging, sharp, virulent; often fig. of controversy. |
| Stink | vb | In OE. to smell sweetly; to emit a strong offensive smell (by C13th); to reek. 2. to be offensive to honesty or propriety; to be in extremely bad repute or disfavor. 3. informal: to be disgustingly inferior: "that book stinks." 4. Slang. to have a large quantity of something (usually followed by of or with). 5. to cause to stink or be otherwise offensive (often followed by up ): an amateurish performance that really stank up the stage. 6. to be abhorrent, to savour offensively something. 7. to drive animals or persons out of a place by stench or suffocating fumes. |
| Stink | n | A strong offensive disgusting, smell; stench. 2. evil-smelling quality, offensive odour. 3. informal. an unpleasant fuss; scandal. 4. reek. |
| Stink | phr | "Stink in another's nostrils" - fig. to be offensive, be abhorrent, to savour offensively of something. |
| Stink | phr | "Stink out" - to repel or drive out by means of a highly offensive smell. |
| Stink-horn | n | A name for various ill-smelling fungi. |
| Stinking | n | That smells; offensively smelling. 2. used as a vague epithet connoting intense disgust and contempt. |
| Stink-pot | n | A pot or jar containing a disinfectant. 2. a hand-missile charged with a combustibles emitting a suffocating smoke, used in boarding a ship or effecting a diversion while the assailants gain the deck. 3. a sailors name for the petrel. |
| Stinkstone | n | A name given to various limestone which give out a fetid odour or being scratched or struck. |
| Stinkweed | n | The cruciferous plant "Diplotaxis muralis" 2. US. the Thorn Apple: "Datura Stramonius" |
| Stint | vb | To be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance, as, "don't stint on the food."
2. archaic. to cease action; desist. 3. to limit to a certain amount, number, share, or allowance, often unduly; set limits to; restrict. 4. archaic. to bring to an end; check. 5. obsolete" to make blunt or dull. |
| Stint | n | A period of time spent doing something,as a two-year stint in the army. 2. an allotted amount or piece of work: to do one's daily stint. 3. limitation or restriction, especially as to amount: to give without stint. 4. a limited, prescribed, or expected quantity, share, rate, etc.: to exceed one's stint. 5. obsolete . a pause; halt a limit. |
| Stinted | adj | Constrained, restricted, confined. |
| Stintedly | adv | In a constrained, restricted or confined manner. |
| Stintedness | n | State of being constrained, restricted or confined. |
| Stinter | n | ne who, or that which, stints. |
| Stintingly | adv | In a stinting manner. |
| Stintless | adj | That may not be stinted or cause to cease. 2. that may be not satisfied or assuaged. 3. supplied without stint. |
| Stir | vb | To move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, disturb, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts. 2. to set in tremulous, fluttering, or irregular motion. 3. to affect strongly; excite: to stir pity. 4. to incite, instigate, or prompt (usually followed by up). 5. to move briskly; bestir: to stir oneself. 6. to move, especially slightly or lightly: Not a leaf stirred. 7. to move around, especially briskly; be active. 8. to become active, as from some rousing or quickening impulse. 9. to be emotionally moved or strongly affected. 10. to be in circulation, current, or afoot. |
| Stir | n | The act of stirring or moving. 2. the sound made by stirring or moving slightly.
3. a state or occasion of general excitement; commotion. 4. a mental impulse, sensation, or feeling: a stir of hope. 5. a jog, poke, or thrust. 6. fuss, pother, agitation, disorder, agitation, uproar, bustle, prison, jail, penitentiary. (sl) |
| Stirk | n | A young bullock or heifer, usu. between one or two years old. 2. used as a term of abuse: foolish person. |
| Stirless | adj | Not stirring, motionless. |
| Stirrer | n | One who to incite, instigate, or prompt (usually followed by up). 2. an implement moved by one's hand continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, disturb, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts. |
| Stirring | n | A beginning to move. |
| Stirring | adj | Rousing, exciting, thrilling, moving, active, bustling, or lively. |
| Stirrings | n | A mental impulse, sensation or feeling of hope; something of hope. |
| Stirrup | n | A loop, ring, or other contrivance of metal, wood, leather, etc., suspended from the saddle of a horse to support the rider's foot. 2. any of various similar supports or clamps used for special purposes. 3. nautical . a short rope with an eye at the end hung from a yard to support a footrope, the footrope being rove through the eye. 4. also called binder (in reinforced-concrete constructions) a U-shaped or W-shaped bent rod for supporting longitudinal reinforcing rods. |
| Stir-up | adj | To set in motion, agitate, to push or poke so as to displace, mix or disturb the parts of. 2. to rouse to action, activity or motion; incite, instigate, stimulate. 3. to excite, provoke, induce, to raise, set on foot (strife, disturbance etc.); to arouse (feeling or emotion).. |
| Stitch | n | One complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds. 2. a loop or portion of thread disposed in place by one such movement in sewing: to rip out stitches. 3. a particular mode of disposing the thread in sewing or the style of work produced by one such method. 4. one complete movement of the needle or other implement used in knitting, crocheting, netting, tatting, etc. 5. the portion of work produced. |
| Stitch | vb | To work upon, join, mend, or fasten with or as if with stitches; sew (often followed by together): to stitch together flour sacks to make curtains; a plan that was barely stitched together. 2. to ornament or embellish with stitches: to stitch a shirt with a monogram. |
| Stitch | phr | "A Good Stitch" - a considerable distance. |
| Stitch | phr | "In stitches" convulsed with laughter: Bob had us in stitches all night. |
| Stitch | phr | "Make stitches" - join together, or sew. |
| Stitcher | n | A tailor. |
| Stitching | n | Stitches collectively; ie. the portion of loops of thread etc. fastened in the material sewn as the result of sewing. 2. also a series of stitches. 3. the threads, silk etc., of which stitches are made. 4. the act of a person or thing that stitches a series or line of stitches. 5. mending by means of sewing. |
| Stitch-up | vb | To be made or put together by sewing. 2. to close the edges of a wound by sewing the edges together. 2. to maliciously or dishonestly incriminate someone. |
| Stitchwort | n | A name for Stellaria Holostea. |
| Stock | n | Old English stocc "stump, post, stake, tree trunk, log," also "pillory" (usually plural, stocks), from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz "tree trunk" Old Norse stokkr "block of wood, trunk of a tree," Old Saxon, Old Frisian stok. Meaning "ancestry, family" (late 14c.) is a figurative use of the "tree trunk" sense (cf. family tree). This is also the root of the meaning "heavy part of a tool," and "part of a rifle held against the shoulder" (1540s). Meaning "person as dull and senseless as a block or log" is from c.1300; hence "a dull recipient of action or notice" (1540s). Meaning "framework on which a boat was constructed" (early 15c.) led to figurative phrase on stocks "planned and commenced" (1660s). |
| Stock | phr | "Stocks and Stone" - gods of wood and stone. |
| Stock | phr | "On the Stocks" - of literary planned and commenced. |
| Stock | phr | "On the Stock of" - on the basis or grounds of. |
| Stock-blind | adj | Quite blind. |
| Stock-broker | n | One who buys or sells stocks or securities for others. |
| Stock-dead | adj | Quite dead. |
| Stock-deaf | adj | Quite deaf |
| Stockish | adj | Like a stock or block of wood; stupid. |
| Stock-still | adj | As still as a stock (tree-trunk); quite motionless. |
| Stocky | adj | Of plants: of strong and sturdy growth. 2. of a root: woody, as distinct from fibrous. 3. of a person, etc. short and thickset. |
| Stole | n | Originally equipment, array, clothing, hence (long) robe, garment. ****** |
| Stole | phr | "Yeoman of the Stool" - |
| Stone | n | The hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist. 2. a rock or particular piece or kind of rock, as a boulder or piece of agate. 3. a piece of rock quarried and worked into a specific size and shape for a particular purpose: paving stone; building stone. 4. a small piece of rock, as a pebble. 5. precious stone. 6. a testicle. |
| Stone | vb | To throw stones at; drive by pelting with stones.2. to put to death by pelting with stones. 3. to provide, fit, pave, line, face or fortify with stones. 4. to rub(something) with or on a stone, as to sharpen, polish, or smooth. 5. to remove stones for, as fruit. |
| Stone | adj | Made of or pertaining to stone. 2. made of stoneware: a stone mug or bottle. 3. stonelike; stony; obdurate: a stone killer; stone strength. |
| Stone | adv | Completely; totally (usually used in combination): stone cold. |
| Stone | phr | "Heart of Stone" - of an obdurate or unemotional nature. |
| Stone | phr | "Stone of Heaven" - jade, especially green jade whose prestige derives from its intense beauty and extraordinary scarcity. |
| Stone | phr | "Stone the Crows" - expression of surprise or dismay. |
| Stone-axe | n | A two-edged axe used for hewing stone. 2. an axe made of stone |
| Stone-blind | adj | Blind as a stone; completely blind. |
| Stone bow | n | A stone arch. |
| Stone-crop | n | The common name for "sedum acre" a bright yellow flower and small cylindrical sessile fleshy leaves, growing in masses on rocks and walls etc; a stone crop. |
| Stonehenge | n | Name of a celebrate stone circle on Salisbury plain; hence applied allusively to similar structure elsewhere. The second element may have meant something "hanging" or 'supported in the air.' 2. stone-gallows, sometime name for Stonehenge. |
| Stone-hewer | n | Another name for a stone-cutter; a stonehewer |
| Stone-like | adj | Stony; obdurate: a stone killer; stone strength; stonelike. |
| Stone-shower | n | A fall or shower of meteoric stones; a stoneshower. |
| Stone's-throw | n | A distance a stone can be thrown by hand; vaguely used for a short or moderate distance. |
| Stone-still | adj | Perfectly still and motionless; as still as a stone. 2. stock-still; stone still. |
| Stonewall | vb | To engage in stonewalling, to filibuster. 3. in cricket, of a batsman, to play a defensive game, as by persistently blocking the ball instead of trying to hit it for runs. 4. to block, stall, or resist intentionally: lobbying efforts to stonewall passage of the legislation. 5. to obstruct (the passage of a legislative bill) in Parliament, especially by excessive or prolonged debate. |
| Stonewall | adj | Pertaining to or characteristic of stonewalling: a new round of stonewall tactics. |
| Stone-wall | phr | "Run into a Stone Wall" - encounter an insurmountable barrier to progress, as 'we tried to get the OK for the building of the Clubrooms, but ran into a stonewall. |
| Stone-waller | n | One who obstructs something or someone. 2. an obstructionist; stonewaller. 3. a cricketer (a batsman), who plays a defensive game, by persistently blocking the ball instead of trying to score by hitting it for runs; a stonewaller. |
| Stone-walling | n | The action of stonewall, obstruction of someone or something. 2. obstruction or filibusting in politics or legal matters;stonewalling. |
| Stone-ware | n | A hard dense, opaque kind of pottery ware, made from very siliceous clay, or a mixture with much flint or sand and fired at a very high temperature; stoneware. |
| Stonework | n | Work built of stone; masonry. 2. artistic work of any kind executed in stone. 2. the process of working in stone as in building ; the labour or tasks of a mason or stone-worker. 4. the work of driving headings through stone or rock; stonework.. |
| Stonewort | n | The fern "Asplenium ceterach" - also so called stone fern. |
| Stonewright | n | A stone-mason, a professional stone-worker. |
| Stony | adj | Full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony strand. 2. pertaining to or characteristic of stone. 3. resembling or suggesting stone, especially in its hardness. 4. unfeeling; merciless; obdurate: a stony heart. 5. motionless or rigid; without expression, as the eyes or a look: a hard, stony stare. |
| Stony-broke | adj | Slang: hard-up, without any money, ruined. |
| Stony-hearted | adj | Having a stony heart; unfeeling, merciless. |
| Stool | n | A single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back. 2. a short, low support on which to stand, step, kneel, or rest the feet while sitting. 3. the stump, base, or root of a plant from which propagative organs are produced, as shoots for layering. 4. the base of a plant that annually produces new stems or shoots. 5. a cluster of shoots or stems springing up from such a base or from any root, or a single shoot or layer. 6. a decoy used in hunting. 7. waste matter evacuated from the bowels. 8. a lavatory seat 9. (in W Africa, esp Ghana) a chief's throne; cf: "Yeoman of the Stool." |
| Stool | vb | To put forth shoots from the base or root, as a plant; form a stool. |
| Stool | phr | "Fall between Two Stools"- to fail, through hesitation or indecision, to select either of two alternatives. 2. to fail through vacillation between two alternatives. 3. to be in an unsatisfactory situation through not belonging to either of two categories or groups. |
| Stoop | vb | From Old English stūpian (“to bow, to bend”). compare steep.- to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward. 2. to lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals. 3. of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey. 4. to cause to incline downward; to slant, as 'to stoop a cask.' 5. to cause to submit; prostrate. 6. to yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion. 7.To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend. 8. to degrade. |
| Stoop | n | A stooping, that is, a bent position of the body as, 'the old man walked with a stoop.' 2. an accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack. |
| Stooth | n | A post, an upright lath now only one of the upright battens in lathe-and-plaster. |
| Stoothe | vb | To garnish with studs or knobs. 2. to furnish a wall with studs. 3. the framework on which lathe-and-plaster is fixed. 4. to build lath-and-plaster. |
| Stooth-stone | n | A stone post. |
| Stop | n | A pail, bucket. 2. a holy water stoup. 3. a pitcher, flagon, a tankard. |
| Stop | vb | From Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-Germanic *stuppōną (“to stop, close”). 2. to cease moving. 3. to come to an end. 3. to cause (something) to cease moving or progressing. 3. to cause (something) to come to an end. 4. to close or block an opening. 5. to stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily. 6. to tarry. 7. in music to regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part. 8 .(obs.) to punctuate. 9.nautical: to make fast; to stopper. 10. to cease moving : brake, desist, halt.
11. to come to an end: blin, cease, desist, discontinue, halt, terminate. 12. to cause to cease moving or come to an end: cancel, cease, discontinue, halt, terminate. |
| Stop | n | A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off. 2. an action of stopping; interruption of travel. 3. a device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop. 4. linguistics: consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis;
(consonant sound where air is blocked): plosive, occlusive. 5. a symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon. 6. that which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment. 7. a function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and dvd player. 8. by extension: button that activates the stop function. 9. music: knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ. 10. tennis: a very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible. 11. zoology: the depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones. 12. engineering: a device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought. |
| Stop | adv | Prone to halting or hesitation, as "he’s stop still." |
| Stop | phr | "To Stop one's Way" - to stand in one's way, bar one's passage |
| Stop | phr | "To Stop (one's own or another's) ear(s): to render oneself deaf to something; close one's mind arguments arguments. |
| Stop | phr | "To Stop (one's own or another's) mouth, lit. with a gag or muzzle; fig. compel or induce to silence. |
| Stopless | adj | Without a stop or stops. 2. unable to be stopped. |
| Stopper | n | Someone or something that stops something. 2. a type of knot at the end of a rope to stop it unraveling. 3. bung or cork. 4. a soccer or hockey goal-keeper. 5. in finance commodities futures market, one who owns a futures contract, and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity. 6. a train that stops at all or almost all stations between the origin and destination. |
| Stopping | n | Material for a dental caries or cavity. 2. in mining, a partition or door to direct or prevent a current or air. 3. a pad or poultice of various material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist. |
| Stopping | adj | Tending to cause stoppage, astringent. 2. that stops. |
| Stopping-ground | n | A stopping point for individuals, gatherings of people, animals and vehicles for various reasons. |
| Stop up | phr | To fill a hole or cavity, or to block an opening or passage with a plug. |
| Stork | n | Origin: before 900; Middle English; Old English storc; cognate with German Storch, Old Norse storkr; akin to stark. Any of several wading birds of the family Ciconiidae, having long legs and a long neck and long-stouted, pointed bill; chiefly of warm regions of the Old World, and typically having a white-and-black plumage. 2. jabiru, marabou, white stork, wood ibis. 3. this bird as the mythical or symbolic deliverer of a new baby. 3. a variety of domestic fancy pigeon resembling the fairy swallow |
| Storm | n | From Old English storm (“a storm, tempest; a storm of arrows; disturbance, disquiet; uproar, tumult; rush, onrush, attack, violent attack, related to stir. 1.any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather. 2. a violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; violent outbreak. 3.(meteorology) a wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane - 10 or higher on the Beaufort scale). 4. (military) a violent assault on a stronghold or fortified position. |
| Storm | vb | From ME. stormen, sturmen, from OE. styrman (“to storm, rage; make a great noise, cry aloud, shout. 1. to move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger. 2.to assault (a stronghold or fortification) with military forces. |
| Storm-cloud | n | A heavy which threatens or comes with rain; also fig. |
| Stormful | adj | Abounding in or full of storms. |
| Storminess | n | The state or quality of being stormy. 2. the severity of a storm. |
| Storming | adj | That storms or rages. 2. that attacks in order to take by storm. |
| Stormless | adj | Free from storms. |
| Stot | n | A horse, a stott. 2. a young castrated ox, steer. 3. a heifer |
| Stove | n | |
| Stow | n | A place, frequently occurring in placenames. 2. a receptacle. |
| Stow | vb | To place or arrange compactedly; pack. 2. to fill by packing. 3. to have room for; hold, said of a room. 4. to stop, cease (sl). 5. to furnish lodgings for. |
| Stowaway | n | A person who hides in a ship in to escape payment of passage, or to get overseas unobserved. |
| Stow away | vb | To put in a place for safe-keeping, hiding, etc. 2. to be a stow-away |
| Strain | n | Gain, acquisition, treasure **** |
| Strand | n | OE: The land bordering a sea, lake, or river; in a more restricted sense, that part of the shore which lies between the tide-marks; sometimes vaguely coast or shore (now poet.) 2. a quay. wharf or landing place by the side of navigable water. 3. used vaguely for country, region, esp. a foreign country., as "let freedom flee to a sunnier strand." |
| Strand | n | The Strand, a street in London, orig. so called as occupying the strand or "shore' of the Thames between the cities of London an Westminster. |
| Strand | phr | "On the bare strand" - upon the sea-mark a small boat did wait. |
| Strand | vb | To drive or force aground on ashore; esp. a seashore; also rarely of a river. 2. to leave aground(by the ebbing of the tide. (transfig & fig.) 3. to run aground. |
| Strapple | n | A covering for the lower part of the leg, consisting of a fillet or band laced or bound around the limb. |
| Straw | n | A single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley. 2. a mass of such stalks, especially after drying and threshing, used as fodder. 3. material, fibers, etc., made from such stalks, as used for making hats or baskets. 4. the negligible value of one such stalk; trifle; least bit: not to care a straw. 5. a tube, usually of paper or glass, for sucking up a beverage from a container: sip through a straw. |
| Straw | adj | Of, pertaining to, containing, or made of straw: a straw hat. 2. of the color of straw; pale yellow. 3. of little value or consequence; worthless, having little value or substance. 4. sham; fictitious. |
| Straw | phr | "Draw Straws"- to decide by lottery using straws or strawlike items of different lengths, usually with the short straw or straws determining the person chosen or the lottery. |
| Straw | phr | "Gather straw of the eyes" - to be sleepy. |
| Straw | phr | "In the Straw" - in childbirth, lying-in. |
| Straw | phr | "Man of Straw" - person or thing compared to a straw image; a counterfeit, sham, dummy. **** |
| Straw | phr | "Out of the Straw" recovering or recovered from childbirth. |
| Straw | phr | "Straw in the Wind" - a hint or indication. |
| Straw | phr | "The Last Straw" - a small incident, setback, etc that, coming after others, proves intolerable |
| Strawberry | n | The edible fruit of any plant of the genus "Fragaria." |
| Straw-breadth | n | The breadth of a straw; a very short distance. |
| Straw-mushroom | n | |
| Strawy | adj | Consisting of the nature or full of straw. 2. made with straw, filled, thatched or made with straw. 3. resembling straw in colour, texture etc. 4. fig. light, empty or worthless as straw. |
| Streak | n | An irregular line left from smearing or motion. 2. a continuous series of like events, as 'he was on a winning streak.' 3. the color of the powder of a mineral. 4. a moth of the family Geometridae Chesias legatella. 5. a tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one, as a rebellious streak. 6.(shipbuilding) a strake. 7.A rung or round of a ladder. |
| Streak | vb | To have or obtain streaks. 2. to run naked in public, often just for the fun of doing so. 3. to create streaks. 4. to move very swiftly. 5.(obs.) to stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. |
| Streak | phr | "To have a Losing streak" - to go through a series of losses. 2. menstruation (slang). |
| Streak | phr | "To Have a Winning Streak" - to experience an uninterrupted sequence of wins. |
| Streak | phr | "To Talk a Blue Streak" - to talk for a long time or to the point of tedium. |
| Streaker | n | One who runs naked in public, or through a public place, often as a form of devilment. |
| Streaky | adj | Having streaks. 2. of a person having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent. |
| Stream | n | A small river; brook, bourne. 2. any steady flow of water or other fluid.
3. something that resembles a stream in moving continuously in a line or particular direction 4. a rapid or unbroken flow of speech, etc: a stream of abuse. 5. a flow of money into a business. 6. any of several parallel classes of schoolchildren, or divisions of children within a class, grouped together because of similar ability. |
| Stream | vb | To emit or be emitted in a continuous flow: his nose streamed blood. 2. to move in unbroken succession, as a crowd of people, vehicles, etc. 3. to float freely or with a waving motion: bunting streamed in the wind. 4. to unfurl (a flag, etc) 5. to move causing a trail of light, condensed gas, etc. 6. mining to wash (earth, gravel, etc) in running water in prospecting (for gold, etc), to expose the particles of ore or metal. 7. education to group or divide (children) in streams |
| Stream | phr | "Go with the stream." - drift with the stream to conform to the accepted standards. |
| Stream | phr | "Off stream." - of an industrial plant, manufacturing process, etc: shut down or not in production. |
| Stream | phr | "On stream." - of an industrial plant, manufacturing process, etc) in or about to go into operation or production. 2. available or in existence |
| Stream | phr | "Swim against the Stream" - hold a view opposite to most others. |
| Streaming | n | The action of stream in various senses. |
| Streamless | adj | Having no streams: of water, having no current. |
| Stream-line | n | The course of fluid relative to a solid body past which it is moving, esp. a course free of turbulent or eddies. 2. any shape or contour designed to lessen resistance. |
| Streamline | adj | Designating an uninterrupted flow or drift. 2. denoting form, or body or the like so constructed, as to permit an uninterrupted flow of fluid around it.(a streamline flow; a streamlined shape, a stream-lined body of a motor car.) |
| Streamline | vb | To design with a stream-lined shape. 2. to make smoother, more simple, efficient or up-to-date, esp. by reorganizing or reorganization. |
| Streamy | adj | Abounding in or full of running streams. 2. of water, etc., flowing in a stream, running. |
| Street | n | Public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks. 2. such a thoroughfare together with adjacent buildings, lots, etc.
3. the roadway of such a thoroughfare, as distinguished from the sidewalk. 4. a main way or thoroughfare, as distinguished from a lane, alley, or the like. 5. the inhabitants or frequenters of a street. |
| Street | adj | Of, on, or adjoining a street: a street door just off the sidewalk. 2.taking place or appearing on the street: street fight. 2. coarse; crude; vulgar: street language.
3.suitable for everyday wear: street clothes; street dress. 4. retail: the street price of a new computer. |
| Street | phr | "Not in the Same Street" - to be far behind |
| Street | phr | "On the streets." - earning a living as a prostitute. 2. homeless, in the street, without a home. 3. without a job or occupation; idle. 4. out of prison or police custody; at liberty. |
| Street | phr | "The Man in the Street" - the ordinary or average man, as opposed to the expert or the man who has special opportunities of knowledge. |
| Street | phr | "To be Streets ahead" - to be far ahead; to be far superior to; more advanced. |
| Street | phr | "To Walk the Streets"- - go about the street on foot; also with reference to prostitution |
| Street | phr | "Up One Street" - (just) what one knows or likes best |
| Street-way | n | A paved road or highway; the road way of a street, now poet. |
| Street-walker | n | One who walks in the street. 2. a prostitute who solicits clients on the street, as opposed to working in a legal brothel. |
| Streetward | adv | Towards the street. |
| Strength | n | The state or quality of being physically or mentally strong. 2. the ability to withstand or exert great force, stress, or pressure. 3. something that is regarded as being beneficial or a source of power. 4. potency, as of a drink, drug, etc. 5. power to convince; cogency: the strength of an argument. 6. degree of intensity or concentration of colour, light, sound, flavour, etc. 7. the full or part of the full complement as specified: at full strength. 8. finance firmness of or a rising tendency in prices, esp security prices. 9. archaic , poetic or a stronghold or fortress 10. the general idea, the main purpose: to get the strength of something. |
| Strength | phr | "From strength to strength" - with ever-increasing success. |
| Strength | phr | "In strength"- in large numbers |
| Strength | phr | "On the Strength" - on the strength of on the basis of or relying upon |
| Strengthen | vb | "To make Strong" - to encourage, hearten. 2. to become or grow stronger |
| Strength | phr | "From strength to strength with ever-increasing success. |
| Strengthen | vb | To make stronger, give strength to. |
| Strengther | n | One who or something which strengthens. |
| Strengthful | adj | Full of, or characterized by strength. |
| Strengthily | adv | Strongly. |
| Strengthless | adj | Destitute of strength. |
| Strengthy | adj | Strong, powerful, difficult to overthrow. 2. physically or muscularly strong. |
| Stretch | vb | To lengthen by pulling. 2. to lengthen when pulled, as ' the rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point. 3. to pull tight, as 'to stretch the skin over the frame of the drum. 4. fig. to get more use than expected from a limited resource.
5. fig. to make inaccurate by exaggeration, as 'to say crossing the street was brave is stretching the meaning of "brave" considerably.' 6. to extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point. 7. to extend one’s limbs or body in order to stretch the muscles: gymnasts stretch with equal ease and agility.' 8. to extend to a limit. 9. to increase. 10. (obs., colloq.) to stretch the truth; to exaggerate, as 'a someone apt to stretch in his report the facts of the matter. 11.(naut.) to sail by the wind under press of canvas, as in 'the ship stretched to the eastward.' |
| Stretching | n | An act of stretching. 2.the ability to lengthen when pulled. 3. a course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief. 4. a segment of a journey or route. 5. a length of time., as 'he did a 7-year stretch in jail.' |
| Stretch | phr | "To Stretch a Rope" - to be hanged. |
| Stretcher | n | A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured or dead person. 2. a frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting. 3. device designed to stretch gloves or shoes. 4. a brick laid with the longest side exposed. |
| Stretcher-bearer | n | One who carries one end of the stretcher or litter. |
| Stretching | n | An act of stretching. 2.the ability to lengthen when pulled. 3. a course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief. 4. a segment of a journey or route. 5. a length of time., as 'he did a 7-year stretch in jail.' |
| Stretch mark | n | Any of a series of red, irregular stripes on the surface of the skin caused by rapid growth of the tissues lying just underneath. they usually appear as a result of pregnancy, obesity, puberty, but also can be caused by rapid muscle growth. |
| Stretch out | n | A slow-down practiced by employees so as to make the work last longer. |
| Stretchy | adj | Having the quality of stretching; elastic. 2. liable to stretch unduly. 3. inclined to stretch oneself or one's limbs. |
| Strew | vb | To let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle: to strew seed in a garden bed. 2. to cover or overspread (a surface, place, etc.) with something scattered or sprinkled: to strew a floor with sawdust. 3. to be scattered or sprinkled over (a surface): Sawdust strewed the floor. 4. to spread widely; disseminate: to strew rumors among the troops; to broadcast |
| Strid | n | OE: stride. the popular name of the narrowest part of the channel of the Wharfe between level rocks at Bolton Priory; hence, any similar gorge or channel. |
| Stride | vb | To walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance. 2. to take a long step: to stride across a gutter. 3. to straddle. 4. to walk with long steps along, on, through, over, etc. 5. to pass over or across in one long step. |
| Stride | n | A striding manner or a striding gait. 2. a long step in walking. 3. (in locomotion) the act of progressive movement completed when all the feet are returned to the same relative position as at the beginning. 4. the distance covered by such a movement. 5. a regular or steady course, pace, etc. 6. advancement, progress, headway, improvement. |
| Stride | phr | "To Get into One's Stride" - to settle down to one's pace or rate of progress. |
| Stride | phr | " To Hit one's Stride" - to achieve a regular or steady pace or course. 2. to reach the point or level at which one functions most competently and consistently: "he hit his stride after the half-time of the game." |
| Stride | phr | "To Take Something in One Stride" - to do something without undue effort; part of one's normal activity. 2. of a horse or his rider, to clear an (obstacle) without checking his gallop; fig. to deal with a matter incidentally, without interrupting one's course of action, argument etc. |
| Strides | n | Australian informal or slang term meaning trousers. |
| Strike | vb | To deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit. 2. to inflict, deliver, or deal (a blow, stroke, attack, etc.). 3. to drive so as to cause impact. 4. to thrust forcibly. 5. to produce (fire, sparks, light, etc.) by percussion, friction, etc. 6. to make an attack, especially a planned military assault. 7. to knock, rap, or tap. 8. to hit or dash on or against something, as a moving body does; come into forcible contact; collide. 9. to run upon a bank, rock, or other obstacle, as a ship does. |
| Strike | n | An act or instance of striking. 2. a concerted stopping of work or withdrawal of workers' services, as to compel an employer to accede to workers' demands or in protest against terms or conditions imposed by an employer. 3. a temporary stoppage of something.
4. a metal plate on a jamb holding the bolt of the lock on a door when closed; a strike plate. 5. In baseball: a pitch that is swung at and missed by the batter; a pitch that passes through the strike zone and is not swung at by the batter. |
| Strike | adj | Describing a fighter-bomber aircraft designed to carry large payloads at high speeds and low altitudes and also to engage in air-to-air combat. |
| Strike | phr | "On strike" - engaged in a stoppage of work, services, or other activities, as by union workers to get better wages. |
| Strike | phr | "Strike in" - to interrupt suddenly; intervene. |
| Strike | phr | "Strike off" - to print: They struck off 300 copies of the book. 2. to remove or cancel, as from a record, list, etc. 3. to produce rapidly and easily. 4. to depart rapidly: "he struck off for the coast." |
| Strike | phr | "Strike Out" - in baseball: to put out or be put out by a strike-out. 2. of a person or effort) to fail. 3.to lose favor. 4. to erase; cross out. 5. to set forth; venture forth; leave home. |
| Strike | phr | "Strike up" - to begin to play music or to sing. 2. to set in operation; begin, as a musical band. 3. to bring into being; commence; begin: to strike up an acquaintance with new neighbors. . |
| Strike | phr | "To Have Two Strikes Against One" - to be in an unfavorable or a critical position. |
| Strike | phr | "To Strike Hands" -to conclude a bargain, as by shaking or joining hands; confirm an agreement; to strike hands on it. |
| Strike | phr | "To Strike home" - to deal an effective blow, hit a vulnerable part, or wound critically or mortally. 2. to have the intended effect; hit the mark. |
| Strike | phr | "To Strike While the Iron's Hot" - (literally metallurgy) to strike a hot piece of metal, especially iron, with a mallet or other tool before it cools, while it is still hot enough to be shaped. 2.(idiomatic) to act on an opportunity promptly while favorable conditions exist; to avoid waiting; immediately, before they change the offer; make hay while the sun shines (take advantage of opportunity.) |
| Strike-breaker | n | One who takes the place of workman on strike; a scab. 2. a person who supplies workmen to take the place of strikers. |
| Strike down | vb | To fell to the ground with a blow. 2. of the sun: to send down it's heat oppressively. 3. of disease, sickness: to afflict, plague. |
| Striker | n | An individual who is on strike; one who or that which strikes. 2.someone or something that hits someone or something else. 3. a worker who refuses to work and goes on strike. 4. blacksmith's assistant who wields the sledgehammer. 5.(soccer) one of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals. 6.(baseball, slang, 1800s) the batter. 7.(cricket) the batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket. 8.(obsolete) a harpooner. 9.(obsolete) a wencher; a lewd man. 10.(obsolete) A blackmailer in politics. 10. one whose political influence can be bought. 11. in the US army, a soldier assigned to run errands and do odd jobs for an officer. |
| Strikewood | n | A match, as one ignited by friction. |
| Striking | adj | Notable, impressive, extraordinary, beautiful. |
| Strikingness | n | The condition or quality of being striking. |
| String | n | A slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line. 2. something resembling a cord or thread. 3. a narrow strip of flexible material, as cloth or leather, for tying parts together. 4. a necklace consisting of a number of beads, pearls, or the like threaded or strung on a cord; strand. |
| String | vb | To furnish with or as with a string or strings: to string a bow. 2. to extend or stretch (a cord, thread, etc.) from one point to another. 3. to thread on or as on a string: to string beads. 4. to connect in or as in a line; arrange in a series or succession: She knows how to string words together. 5. to adjust the string of (a bow) or tighten the strings of (a musical instrument) to the required pitch. 6. to equip (a bow or instrument) with new strings. 7. to form into or move in a string or series: his thoughts string together logically. |
| String | phr | "On a String" - subject to the whim of another; in one's power; dependent. |
| String | phr | "Pull strings / wires." - to use one's influence or authority, usually in secret, in order to bring about a desired result. 2. to gain or attempt to gain one's objectives by means of influential friends, associates, etc.: He had his uncle pull strings to get him a promotion. |
| String | phr | "String along" - to fool, deceive, cheat. 2. to keep someone waiting on tenterhooks. 3. to be in agreement; follow with confidence. 4. to keep (a person) waiting or in a state of uncertainty |
| String | phr | "String out" - to extend; stretch out. 2. to prolong: The promised three days strung out to six weeks. |
| String bean | n | Any of the several varities of beans of the genus "phaseolus" cultivated for their edible pods. 2. a tall, skinny persons. |
| Stringed | adj | Furnished with strings. 2. produced from stringed instruments. 3. tied with strings. |
| Stringer | n | A heavy timber, generally horizontal, supporting other members of a structure, and usually running in the direction of a greatest length of the collection of supported members. 2. any horizontal framing timber, as a tie beam, a string piece. 3. a length-wise on which rails are laid, as distinguished from a cross-tie or sleeper. 4. one who makes or sells bow-strings. 5. one who strings; esp one who strings pianos |
| Stringhalt | n | A condition of the hind legs of a horse, which causes certain muscles to contract spasmodically. 2. condition in humans which causes a halting in leg movement whilst walking. |
| Stringing | n | The act of furnishing with or as with a string or strings, as stringing a bow. 2. the extending or stretching (a cord, thread, etc.) from one point to another. 3. the threading on or as on a string: the stringing of beads. 4. the connecting in a line; arranging in a series or succession. 5. the adjusting of the string of (a bow) or tightening the strings of (a musical instrument) to the required pitch. 6. the equipping (a bow or instrument) with new strings. |
| Stringless | adj | Having no strings, lacking strings. |
| Stringy | adj | Containing fibrous strings. 2. forming in strings, as thick glue, ropy. |
| Strip | vb | To deprive of covering: to strip a fruit of its rind. 2. to deprive of clothing; make bare or naked. 3. to take away or remove: to strip sheets from the bed. 4. to deprive or divest: to strip a tree of its bark; to strip him of all privileges. 5. to clear out or empty: to strip a house of its contents. 6 stripped or to strip something. 7. to remove one's clothes. 8. to perform a striptease. 9. to become stripped: bananas strip easily. 10. to cut, tear, or form into strips. 11. to broadcast (a television series) in multiple related segments, as daily from Monday through |
| Stroke | n | 1.An act of stroking (moving one's hand over a surface). 2. a blow or hit. 3. a single movement with a tool. 4. (golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club.
5.(tennis) the hitting of a ball with a racket, or the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact. 6.(rowing) the movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the vessel or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull. 7. (cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot. 8.A thrust of a piston. 8. one of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished. the stroke of a swimmer, etc. 9.powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort. a stroke of genius. 10. a line drawn with a pen or other writing implement. 10. the time when a clock strikes, as "on the stroke of midnight." 11.(medicine) the loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted. 12. a sudden attack of any disease, especially when fatal; the stroke of death 13. an individual discharge of lightning; a flash of lightning may be made up of several strokes. .14 .(obsolete) the result or effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness. 15. an addition or amendment to a written composition; a touch; to give some finishing strokes to an essay. 16. a throb or beat, as of the heart. 16.(obs) power; influence. |
| Stroke | vb | To pass the hand over gently or caressingly or with light pressure. 2. to sound time like a gong or clock. 3. to set the pace for a rowboat crew; to row the stroke oar of. to stroke a boat. 4. To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction. 5. to hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion. 6. to give a finely fluted surface to. |
| Stroke | phr | "Off One Stroke" - performing or working less well than usual. |
| Stroke | phr | "On the Stroke of" - exactly at. |
| Stroke | phr | "Stroke of Work" - a small amount of work. |
| Stroke | phr | "To Stroke against the Hair" - to irritate, ruffle, cross a person. |
| Strong | adj | Having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust. 2. accompanied or delivered by great physical, mechanical, etc., power or force: a strong handshake. 3. mentally powerful or vigorous, as "his mind is still strong." 4. especially able, competent, or powerful in a specific field or respect. He's weak at bat, but he's a strong fielder. 5. of great moral power, firmness, or courage. |
| Strong | phr | "Come on Strong" - slang: to behave in an aggressive, ardent, or flamboyant manner: When you're interviewed for the job, don't come on too strong |
| Strong | phr | "Come Out Strong" - to go to great lengths; to make statement which are hard to credit. |
| Strong | phr | "Go It Strong" - to act vigourously or recklessly. |
| Strong | phr | "Going Strong" - to be vigorous , thriving, prosperous. |
| Strong | phr | "Strong as an Horse/Ox" - having great muscular strength. 2. able to go heavy physical work. |
| Strong arm | vb | To use physically force upon, assault. |
| Strong-armed | adj | Violent, having physical powers. 2. |
| Strong-brained | adj | Intelligent, smart, bright. 2. determined, |
| Strong-drink | n | Intoxicating liquor, alcoholic liquors generally. 2. drink of more than ordinary alcoholic strength. |
| Strong-hand | adj | The exercise of superior power; the use of force. |
| Strong-headed | adj | Headstrong. 2. endowed with strong intellectual facilities. |
| Strong-headness | n | Obstinacy. |
| Stronghold | n | A strongly fortified place of defence; a secure place of refuge, a fastness. |
| Strongish | adj | Somewhat strong. |
| Strongly | adv | In a strong manner; powerfully, forcibly, firmly, securely, violently, vehemently with fortitude; resolutely, emphatically. 3. in a strong degree, with strength and intensity of the condition or quality predicated. |
| Strong man | n | A political leader having considerable or preeminent power, as from a military coup or other extra-legal means. |
| Strong-minded | adj | Having a strong, vigorous, determined mind. 2. applied, usu. disparagingly, to women who have or effect the qualities of mind regarded as distinctly masculine. |
| Strong room | n | A room made specifically secure for custody of persons or things; esp. a-fire or burgular-proof room in which valuables are deposited for safety, eg. at a bank |
| Strong water | n | Any form of alcoholic spirit used as a beverage. |
| Strong-willed | adj | Having a strong will; decided, obstinate. |
| Strop | n | (Borrowing from Latin): a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together. 2. a looped band by which an item may be held, pulled, lifted, etc., as a bootstrap or a ring that standing passengers may hold on to in a bus, subway, or the like. 3. a strop for a razor. 4. a long, narrow object or piece of something; strip; band. 5. an ornamental strip or band. 6. a halter. |
| Strop | vb | To fasten or secure with a strap or straps. 2. to fasten (a thing) around something in the manner of a strap. 3. to sharpen on a strap or strop: to strap a razor.
4. to beat or flog with a strap. |
| Stropping | n | The action of securing with straps. 2. fastening. 3. stropping |
| Strung | adj | Fitting with strings; threaded on a string. 2. tensed. |
| Strut | n | A proud or pompous step or march. 2. a compression member in framework, keeping two others from approaching nearer together, as the vertical members of a wing trussof a biplane. 3. an instrument in the adjusting the plaits of a ruff. 4. |
| Strut | vb | OE: bulge, swell, protrude, stand out, flaunt, swagger, walk stiff and upright. |
| Strutting | n | The action of walking pompously, conceitedly and affectedly. |
| Stub | n | A stump of a tree or more rarely a shrub or smaller plant; the portion left in the ground when a tree is felled; also a trunk deprived of branches. 2. the part of a tree- trunk closest to the ground. 3. fig. a blockhead. 4. a short piece of broken branch remaining on the stem. 6. a splinter or thorn in the flesh. 7. a short, thick nail; a worn horse-shoe nail; esp. in pl. as material for making stub-iron. 8. something that looks short or stunted; eg. a rudimentary tail or horn. 9. a short piece of wood. 10. the remaining portion or something that has been broken or worn down; a stump, a fag end. |
| Stub | vb | To dig up by the root; to grub up. 2. to cut down a tree close to it's roots. 3. to remove stubs from the ground. 4. to clear land of trees, furze, etc by up-rooting. 5. to cause a horse to be wounded by a stub. 6. to strike the toe violently against anything in walking or running. 7. to go heedlessly. 8. to cover with stubs. 8. to extinguish a cigarette by pressing the lighted end against a hard object. |
| Stubbed | adj | Of trees, to cut down to the stub; cut off near the ground; also, to deprive of the branch or pollarded. 2. short, thick or stumpy. 3. reduced to a stub (of hair) cut close to the skin; stubby. 4. blunted at the point. 5. abounding in stubs. |
| Stubby | adj | Of the nature of a stub: short and thick or broad. 2.abounding in or full of stubs, chiefly of the hair or beards, composed of short bristles. |
| Stubbiness | n | The quality or condition of being stubby. |
| Stubwort | n | The Wood-sorrel, Oxalis Acetosella. |
| Stuck | adj | Of an animal that has been stabbed or had it's throat cut. 2. unable to go any further. |
| Stuck | phr | "To Stare Like a Stuck Pig" - the stuck pig. is the pig in the act of being killed. 2. a gaping stare; to gaze in terror and surprise. |
| Stuck-up | adj | Assuming an unjustified air of superiority or plumimg oneself unduly on real superioriy; offensively pretentious. 2. conceited, very vain; supercilious and arrogant, snobbish. |
| Stud | n | A boss, knob, nailhead, or other protuberance projecting from a surface or part, especially as an ornament. 2. any of various buttonlike, usually ornamental objects, mounted on a shank that is passed through an article of clothing to fasten it: a collar stud. 3. any of a number of slender, upright members of wood, steel, etc., forming the frame of a wall or partition and covered with plasterwork, siding, etc. 4. any of various projecting pins, lugs, or the like, on machines or other implements. 5. any of a large number of small projecting lugs embedded in an automobile tire (studded tire) to improve traction on snowy or icy roads. |
| Stud | vb | To set with or as if with studs, bosses, or the like: The leather-covered door was studded with brass nails. 2. (of things) to be scattered over the expanse or surface of: stars stud the sky. 3. to set or scatter (objects) at intervals over an expanse or surface: to stud raisins over a cake. 4. to furnish with or support by studs. |
| Stud | adj | Ornamented with rivets, nailheads, or other buttonlike, usually metallic objects: a stud belt. |
| Stud | n | A studhorse or stallion. 2. an establishment, as a farm, in which horses are kept for breeding. 3. a number of horses, usually for racing or hunting, bred or kept by one owner. 4. a male animal, as a bull or ram, kept for breeding. 5. a herd of animals kept for breeding. |
| Stud | adj | Of, associated with, or pertaining to a studhorse or studhorses. 2. retained for breeding purposes. |
| Stud | phr | "At or in Stud", (of a male animal) offered for the purpose of breeding. |
| Stud-book | n | A book giving the pedigree of thoroughbred horses; also, a similar book for dogs and other animals. |
| Studded | adj | Set with studs, having studs o supports. |
| Studding | n | The timber framework for lath and plaster wall. 2. a batten of wood fot it's framework. 3. anything with which a surface is studded. |
| Stud-groom | n | A head groom attached to a stud. |
| Stud-horse | n | A stallion kept for breeding. |
| Studliness | n | Having the quality of being virile, muscular, virile. 2. having sexual attraction. |
| Studly | adv | Virilely attractive, muscular, handsome. 2. impressive, powerful, sexually attractive. |
| Stud-mare | n | a mare kept for breeding; a broodmare |
| Stunt | n | A check in growth; also a state of arrested growth or development. 2. a creature which has been hindered from full growth or development. 3. a fit of sulkiness, obstinacy. |
| Stunt | vb | To irritate, provoke or anger. 2. to bring to an abrupt stand; non-plus. 3. to check the development or growth(a plant, person, etc.) 4. to decrease growth or production; to dwarf. 5. to become arrested in growth. |
| Stunt | phr | "To Take the Stunt" - A fit of obstinacy or sulkiness. |
| Stunted | adj | Foolish, stupid. 2. obstinate, stubborn, rudely or angrily curt or blunt. 3. stunted, short and thick. 4. dwarfed in growth. 5. of a turn, bend: abrupt. |
| Stuntness | n | The condition of being stunted. |
| Sty | n | A enclosed place where swine are kept, usu. a low shed with uncovered forecourt; a pigsty. 2. transfig. and fig. - a human habitation or sleeping place no better than a pigsty. 3. an abode of bestial lust, or of moral pollution generally. |
| Sty | vb | To confine pigs in a sty. 2. to pen up: to confine as in a sty. |
| Sty | vb | To arise, climb, to a higher level. 2. to descend in "sty down" 3. also generally, to ascend or descend. |
| Sty | phr | "To Sty Down" - to descend. |
| Styan | n | OE: stiʒend (lit: a riser) cf. almightend, demend, fiend, friend, healand, shapend, slinkend, waldend. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Such | adv | To so extreme a degree; "he is such a baby.; such folk. |
| Such | adj | Of so extreme a degree or extent; "such grief"; "such beauty". 2.of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; his misery was such. 3. having the particular quality or character specified. 4. the same that; -- with as; as, at such time. 5. certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned. |
| Such | prn | "Such" used pronominally: "He was the father of such as dwell in tents". 2. "Such" is used emphatically, without the correlative: "I shall have such life". |
| Such and such | phr | Such or such, certain; some, as already particularized in one way or another, or as being of one kind or another. "In such and such a place ". |
| Such and such | phr | To such an extent; so much that. |
| Such-and-suchness | n | The quality of being so-and-so. |
| Such-a-thing | n | Thing-ma-bob. |
| Such like | phr | Of such character, of the like kind. |
| Suchness | n | The quality or condition of being so. 2. |
| Such-wise | adv | |
| Suck | vb | To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth tongue and; as, to specific., to draw milk from the mother; to draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, as first nourished by sucking.. 2. to draw in, or imbibe, absorb by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air. 3. to draw or drain. 4. to draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up. 5. to suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction. 6. to suck up, to draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction or absorption. 7. to draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube. 8. to be objectionable, of very poor quality, or offensive; as, telemarketing calls at meal-time really suck. |
| Suck | n | The act of drawing with the mouth. 2. that which is drawn into the mouth by sucking. 3. a small draught.( Coll). 4. juice; succulence. (Obs.) |
| Suck-egg | n | An animal repute to suck eggs, such as a weasel. 2. word used to designate a dog regarded as a type of viciousness or worthlessness. |
| Sucken | n | (Var. of soken; orig. "resort" (to a particular mill). 2. the duty and liability of tenants within a district astricted to a mill. 3. the lands astricted to a mill; also, the population of such lands. 4. the area of a bailiff's jurisdiction: the district within which one practises or carries on business. |
| Suckener | n | One who has his corn grounded at a certain mill. |
| Sucker | n | A young mammal before its is weaned; a suckling pig. 2. one who sucks with the mouth. 3. a greenhorn, a simpleton. 4. a shoot found growing at the base of a tree. 5. (fig.) reference to the withdrawal of the nourishment from the parent stem. 6. organ adapted for sucking or absorbing nourishment by suction. 7. a pipe or tube through which anything is drawn. 8. a part of an organ adapted for adhering to an object. |
| Sucker-up | n | Sycophancy, cajoling, kidding. |
| Sucking-bone | n | Marrow-bone. |
| Sucking-tooth | n | Milk tooth. |
| Suckle | vb | Suck milk from the mother's breasts. 2: give suck to; breastfeed, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate; to nurse; to give suck to; to nurse at the breast. |
| Suckle | n. | A teat. (Obs.) |
| Suckle | n | Clover. |
| Suckling | n | |
| Sule | vb | To soil, sully, make dirty. |
| Sullow | n | A plough; a sull. 2. a plot of land described as so many sullow. |
| Sum | sfx | A connecting particle used with relative prons, adj, and adv, becomes a kind of separable suffix equal to "ever." |
| Summer | n | The warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox. 2. the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty; "the golden summer of his life". 3. the season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year. |
| Summer | vb | Spend the summer; "We summered in Australia". 2. to keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock. |
| Summer fallow | n | Land uncropped and plowed, etc., during the summer, in order to pulverize the soil and kill the weeds. |
| Summer-fold | n | A freckle, lentuga. |
| Summering | vb | To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Turkey. |
| Summerish | adj | |
| Summerless | adj | Having no summer. |
| Summer lightning | n | Lightning unaccompanied by thunder. |
| Summerliness | n | |
| Summerly | adj | Taking place or occurring during summer. 2. having the quality or conditions of summer, summerish, summery, summer-like. |
| Summer-soothed | adj | Soothed by the warmth of summer. |
| Summer-stricken | adj | Adversely affected by the heat and humidity of summer weather. |
| Summer-tilth | n | Fallowed land. |
| Summery | adj | Resembling summer: warm and much light. |
| Sun | n | The star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system. 2. the rays of the sun; sunlight, sunshine. 3. a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc. 4. any star around which a planetary system revolves
5: first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians: Sunday, Lord's Day. 3. the luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. 4. any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs. 5. the direct light or warmth of the sun; sunshine. 6. that which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation. |
| Sun | vb | To expose one's body to the sun, sunbathe. 2: to expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun; insolate, solarize, solarise. |
| Sun | n | Synonyms and/or kennings: day-candle, dew-drier, eye of the day, god's candle, king of the day, rodor-candle, weather-candle, world-candle, wyncandle. |
| Sun | phr | Under the sun in the world; on earth. |
| Sun beam | n | A visible, narrow, and intense (relative to ambient light) ray of sunlight. 2. (Australia, colloquial, dated) an item of cutlery or crockery laid out on a table, but not used, and which can be returned to the drawer without being washed. 3. any butterfly of the genus Curetis. 4. any hummingbird of the genus Aglaeactis |
| Sunbelt | n | A geographical area of the southern United states that include those states , particularly Florida, Arizona, and new Mexico, that have relatively milder weather than the rest of the country all year round, and tend to attract retired people and those who prefer subtropical to temperate climates. |
| Sunberry | n | The currant. |
| Sunburnt | adj | Sun-tanned, bright of aspect, feeling, manner. |
| Sunday | n | The day of the week after Saturday, regarded as a day of worship by Chrisstians. 2. a newspaper published on Sunday. |
| Sunday | phr | "As Long as a Month of Sundays." - a very long time. |
| Sunday | phr | "Wear One's Sunday Best" - wear one's best clothes or attire usu. keep to wear on Sunday to church. 2. "Sunday's going-outs". |
| Sunday best | n | One best clothes kept for wearing on Sunday. |
| Sunday school | n | |
| Sunder | adj | |
| Sundered | adj | |
| Sundering | adj | Severally. |
| Sunderlepes | adv | Separately; apart from the rest, severally; esp. particularly. |
| Sunderly | adv | Severally, separately, apart from, individually, singularly, widely, differently, in a dispersed manner. |
| Sunderly | adj | Peculiar, special, private. 2. separate, several, distinct, diverse, different. |
| Sunderness | n | Diversity, variety. |
| Sunderwise | adv | Asunderly, separately. |
| Sundew | n | A pl. of the Genus: Drosera. |
| Sundown | n | The going of the sun; glow of the sun; sunset. |
| Sundowner | n | A person, esp. a swagman, who arrives at sundown in the knowledge that the evening meal is about to be dished. |
| Sundried | adj | Dried by the exposure to the sun, as vegetation. 2. dried up, parched by the sun. |
| Sunglasses | n | Tinted glasses worn to protect the eyes from sunlight. |
| Sundries | n | Small articles of a miscellaneous kind; esp. small items lumped together in an account as not needing individual mention. |
| Sundrily | adj | Separate, individual, special. 2. diverse, various. |
| Sundrily | adv | Severally, diversely, variously. |
| Sundriness | n | Diversity, variety, a variety of things. |
| Sundry | n | Miscellaneous small things. |
| Sundry | adj | Miscellaneous, various. |
| Sundry | adv | Separately, apart, severally, individually. 2. of a single object (or anything so consider); in or into pieces. |
| Sundry | phr | "All and Sundry". - everybody, everything, in all classes; one and all |
| Sundry-fold | adv | Manifoldly; diversely, variously. |
| Sundry-hood | n | Diversity, variety. |
| Sundry-shaped | adj | Diverse, manifold in shape. |
| Sundry-where | adv | In various place. |
| Sundry-wise | adj | Various or different views, variously, diversely, in sundry ways. |
| Sun-dust | n | Motes, small particles, dust in a sunbeam; sun-dusted. |
| Sunegild | n | A female sinner, sinegild. |
| Sun-eye | n | The sun; the eye of the day. |
| Sunfall | n | |
| Sun-gilt | n | |
| Sun-god | n | The sun regarded or personified as a god. 2. a god identified as specially associated with the sun. |
| Sun-go-down | n | Sunset, sundown, dusk, sun-sitting, sun-going-down. |
| Sun-go-up | n | Dawn, sunrise. |
| Sunless | adj | Destitute of sun or sun rays; not illumined by the sun. 2. dark, dull, gloomy through the absent of sunlight. |
| Sunlessness | n | The condition of being sunless or an absence of sunlight. |
| Sunlight | n | |
| Sunlike | adj | Like or resembling the sun, or that of the sun; esp. very bright or resplendent. |
| Sunliness | n | The state of being illumed by the sun; or full of sunshine. |
| Sun-mote | n | Dust in a sunbeam. |
| Sunning | n | Exposure to the sun; basking in the sun; shining like the sun. 2 to expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the sun; as, to sun clothes. |
| Sunnish | adj | Resembling the sun in colour and brilliancy; applied to a bright golden tan. |
| Sunny | adj | Bright with sunshine. 2. of a person: cheerful. |
| Sunny | adv | |
| Sunnyside | n | |
| Sunrise | n | Dawn, |
| Sunrist | n | Sunrise, dawn. 2. the east. |
| Sunroof | n | A panel in the roof of a car that slides open. |
| Sunroom | n | |
| Sun-scorched | adj | |
| Sunset | n | |
| Sun-shaft | n | A sunbeam. |
| Sunshine | n | The light and heat from the sun. |
| Sun-sitting | n | Sunset, sun-go-down, sundown, dusk. |
| Sun-smile | n | A beaming, joyful, full-faced smile. |
| Sun-sodden | adj | Bathed or drowning in sunlight. |
| Sun spots | n | dark spots that appear on the sun's disk, called also solar spots. |
| Sunstay | n | The solstice, the sunstead. |
| Sun-stead | n | Solstice, sunstay. |
| Sunstroke | n | Illness caused by overexposure to the sun. |
| Sun-up-to-sundown | n | The whole day, a very long time. |
| Sun-wade | n | The sun is said to wade when covered by dense atmosphere. |
| Sunward | adj | Towards or in the direction of the sun. |
| Sun wheels | n | An ingenious contrivance for converting reciprocating motion, as that of the work beam of a steam engine, into rotatory motion. |
| Sun-worship | n | |
| Sutty | adj | Defiled, soiled, dirtied (lit and fig) |
| Old English | n | English |
| Swafe | n | A swinging blow or stroke. 2. momentum. 3. a kind of sling or ballista. |
| Swain | n | A young man attending; hence a man of low degree. 2. a male servant, attendant, follower. 3. a man, youth, boy. 4. a country or farm labourer. 5. a shepherd; a rustic, a countryman. 6. a country gallant or lover, a wooer, a sweetheart (literary). 7. a freeholder within a forest. |
| Swain | vb | To play the lover or wooer. |
| Swaining | n | Love-making, wooing. |
| Swainish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a rustic, boorish. 2. nature of a rustic lover or rustic love-making. |
| Swainishness | n | Boorishness. |
| Swainling | n | poor or young swain or rustic. 2. a rustic female sweetheart. |
| Swainmote | n. | Swain + mote meeting: (Eng. Forest Law). a court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. Written also swanimote, and sweinmote. Swanimote. |
| Swaip | n | A whip, scourge. 2. a blow, stroke, hit. |
| Swaip | vb | To strike, beat. |
| Swallow | n | "Hirundo rustica" - well known migratory birds, a harbinger of summer. 2. in allusion to the swift flight of the bird. 3. small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations. |
| Swallow | n | A deep open hole in the earth, a pit, abyss. 2. an opening or cavity, usu. in limestone, into which or through which a stream disappears underground. 3. a gulf, abyss, sink (of evil). 4. throat, gullet, pharynx or these collectively; the gorge. 5. the act of swallowing. 6. taste; relish; inclination; liking. 7. capacity for swallowing; voracity. 8. As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water. 9. that which engulfs; a whirlpool. (Obs.) |
| Swallow | vb | Pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; swallow, get down. 2. engulf and destroy; like an invading army. 3. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up. 4. utter indistinctly;
5. take back what one has said; swallow one's own words, swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw. 6. keep from expressing; swallowed one's anger. 7. tolerate or accommodate oneself to; accept, live with. 8. believe or accept without questioning or challenge; |
| Swallower | n | A voracious eater. |
| Swallow-hole | n | A sink-hole. 2. a depression in the ground connecting with an underground passage (esp. in limestone) formed by solution or a collapse of a cavern roof. |
| Swallowing | n | |
| Swan | n | Stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult. 2. any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. 3. fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody - Shakespeare - "The swan of Avon".
4. the constellation Cygnus. |
| Swan | vb | To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear. 2. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in
search of food or employment; roll, wander, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond. 3. sweep majestically. |
| Swanimote | n | Swain + mote meeting: (Eng. Forest Law). a court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. Written also sweinmote. Swainmote. |
| Swan-song | n | A final performance or effort, esp. before retirement or death; last hurrah. |
| Swan's tongue | n | Old name for hemp nettle: "Galeopsis tetrabit." |
| Swank | adj | Active, agile, nimble. Modern usage ?? |
| Swanning | n | |
| Swan-white | adj | Pure white; snow white. |
| Sward | n | Hide, skin, rind. 2. skin of the body; esp. the rind of pork or bacon. |
| Sward | n | The surface or upper layer of ground, earth, usu. covered with herbage. 2. a growth of grass. 3. a stretch of green sward. See: sward. |
| Sward | vb | To form a sward, etc. |
| Sward | n | "green sward." - the surface of soil covered with other herbage, turf. |
| Sward | n | "head sward." - the scalp. |
| Swarded | adj | Covered by green herbage. 2. covered by skin, rind, hide |
| Swardy | adj | Turfy, herb-covered. 2. rindy, cutaneous. |
| Sware | n | Oath-swearing, answer, reply, speech, word. |
| Swarf | n | Any fine waste or filing produced by machining; esp. in the form of strips or ribbons. 2. the material cut out of gramophone record as the groove is made. |
| Swarfed | adj | Soiled or made unclean with swart or filing waste. |
| Swarm | n | A moving crowd; drove, horde. 2: a group of many things in the air or on the ground; cloud. 2. a large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion. 3. especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen. 4. hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of
meteorites. 5. multitude; crowd; throng. |
| Swarm | vb | To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer. 2. to climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. 3. to appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude. 4. to be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion. 5. to abound; to be filled (with). 5. to breed multitudes. 6. to be teeming, be abuzz; teem, pullulate. 7. move in large numbers; pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate. |
| Swarmed | adj | Of people: assembled in a crowd, congregated, massed, thronged. |
| Swarmer | n | |
| Swarming | n | The action of swarming, congregating, thronging. |
| Swarming | adj | Assembling or moving in a swarm; crowded, numerous. 2. filled with a multitude, densely coverd, populated. |
| Swarmy | adj | Swarming, thronged, populous, crowdy. |
| Swart | adj | Of skin, complexion: livid through suffering or emotion, black, coated in black; swarthy. 2. black, wicked, iniquitous, baleful, malignant; denigratory. |
| Swart | vb | To be black, dark, dusty, swarthy. 2. to make black, darken, swarthy, denigrate. |
| Swarth | n | The surface or upper layer of ground, earth, usu. covered with herbage. 2. a growth of grass. 3. a stretch of green sward. See: Sward. |
| Swarth | vb | To darken, make black or dusty. |
| Swarth | adj | Dusty, swarthy, black, swartish. |
| Swarthiness | n | Having a dusty, dark or darkish complexion or colour. |
| Swarthish | adj | Somewhat swarthy, dark, dusty, blackish, swartish. |
| Swarthliness | n | The condition or state of being swarthy, dark, blackish, dusty in colour or complexion. 2. swartness |
| Swarthness | n | Duskiness, blackness, negriment. |
| Swarthy | adj | Naturally having skin of a dark color; "swart' is archaic"; dark-skinned, dusky, swart. 2. being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart.
3. black, blackish, brunet, coal-black, dark, dark-colored, dark-skinned, darkish, darksome, dusk, dusky, ebon, ebony, funereal, grave, nigrescent, pitch-black, raven, sable, sad, sober, somber, sombrous, swart, swarth. |
| Swarthy | vb | To make swarthy. [Obs.] |
| Swath | n | Track, trace, spoor (lit & fig). 2. space or extent coverd by a sweep of a scythe, sickle or mower. 2. a measure of ground - the longtidunal division of a field. 3. a row or line of a grass or other crop, as it falls or lies when mown or reaped. 4. applied to growing grass or corn ready for reaping. 5. to cut a swath to make a pompous display, 6. apparel, array, attire, belt, bend, bundle, case, cinch, clothe, cover, crate, deck, garb, garment, gird, girdle, robe, roll, rope, sheathe, shroud, strap. 6. a broad track, belt, strip or longitudinal extent of a thing. 7.to mow down in battle, with a sickle or scythe. |
| Swathe | n | A band of linen, woollen or other materials; a wrapping. 2. an infants swaddling bands. 3. a surgical bandage. 4. a wrapping, a covering, membrane, integument. 5. an object that enwraps, as a cloud. 6. so that they restricts or constrains like a swaddling band. 6. |
| Swathe | vb | Wrap in swaddling clothes; swaddle, swathe. 2.to bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers. 2. to array, attire, bandage, bedeck, bedrape, bend, bind, bind up, box, brace, bundle up, cinch, clothe, cover, crate, deck, dight, do up, drape, dress, dud, embox, embrace, encapsulate, encase, enclothe, endue, enfold, enrobe,
enshroud, enswathe, envelop, enwrap, garb, gird, girth, robe, roll, rope, sheathe, shroud, smother, splice, strap up, surround, swaddle,tie up, tire, |
| Swathed | adj | Wrapped in swaddling clothes. 2. swaddled, enwraps, covered. |
| Swather | n | One who wraps or swathes. |
| Swathing | n | The action in which something is wrapped in linen. 2. enveloping, enwrapping, swathing. 3. pertaining or consisting of swaths or wrappings, etc. |
| Sweal | vb | To be subjected to heat or slow burning. 2. to consume to fire, burn, set fire to, singe, scorch. 3. to roast meat, such as lamb, beef, etc. 4. to cause grass to dry and wither. 5. to burn in fire or as a fire. 6. to be consumed by fire; to become scorched; to become burning hot. 7. of a candle: to melt away, to gutter. |
| Swealed | adj | Scorched, singed, roast whole in the skin (like a sheep.) |
| Swealing | n | The action of burning or singeing for a special purpose. |
| Sweam | n | Grief, affliction. 2. a sudden fit of swooning; a soon, a faint. |
| Sweam | vb | To afflict, grieve, mourn. 2. to be overcome with faintness, swooming. |
| Sweamful | adj | Grievous, distressing. |
| Sweamly | adv | Distressfully, swoonfulily, faintfully. |
| Swear | vb | |
| Swear | phr | "Swear By" - |
| Swear | phr | "Swear Off - |
| Swear-word | n | |
| Sweary | adj | |
| Sweat | n | The life-blood; in phr: to tine, leave, lose the sweat or one's life blood. |
| Sweatless | adj | Having no sweat; devoid of sweat or perspiration. |
| Sweb | vb | To faint, swoon, to put to sleep, to sweve. |
| Sweedle | vb | To swindle by wheedling. |
| Sweep | vb | To clean rooms, yards; or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like. 2. to brush swiftly and lightly over the surface of anything; as if brushing the surface of anything; to move in a stately manner. 3. to pass over anything comprehensively; to range through with rapidity; as, his eye sweeps through space. 4. to pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively, as in the wind sweeps the snow from the hills. 5. to carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion, like a peacock. 6. to strike with a long stroke. 8. to draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net. 8. to pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope. |
| Sweep | n. | The act of sweeping. 2. the compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
3. the compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of the eye. 4. the compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep. 5. violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease. 6. direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; the sweep of a compass. direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line. 8. a large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them. 9. a long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water. |
| Sweeper | n | One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper. |
| Sweeping | n | The act of cleaning with a broom, etc. |
| Sweeping | adj | Taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination;"a sweeping view of the river". 2. ignoring distinctions; "wholesale ruin " |
| Sweeping-out | phr | A clearance, clear out, a purge. |
| Sweer | adj | Grievous, oppressive, heavy. 2. oppressed in mind, grieved, sad. 3. disinclined for effort, inactive, indolent, slothful. 4. loth, reluctant, unwilling, disinclined to do something. |
| Sweerdom | n | State of grieving, oppression or sad. 2. indolence, sloth, disinclination, reluctance. 3. sweerness. |
| Sweerness | n | Indolence, laziness, sloth, unwillingness, disinclination. |
| Sweet | adj | Having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar. 2. having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; a sweet disposition; angelic, cherubic. 3. pleasing to the ear; dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous. 4. pleasing to the senses. 5. pleasing to the mind or feeling; gratifying. 6 having a natural fragrance; "odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling. 7. wines having a high residual sugar content; dry. 8. not containing or composed of salty or brackish water; fresh watered. 9. not soured or preserved; fresh. 10: with sweetening added; sugared, sweetened. 11 a food rich in sugar; confected. 12. the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth: sugariness. 13. pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. 14. fragrant; redolent; balmy. 15. sugary; dulcet saccharine; luscious. |
| Sweet | n | That which is sweet to the taste; used chiefly in the plural; specifically: confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc; home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
2. that which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume. 3. that which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life. 4. One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment. |
| Sweet | phr | "Be Sweet On." - to have a particular fondness for, or special interest in, as a young man for a young woman. |
| Sweet | phr | "Sweet As Honey" - very sweet in taste. 2. (fig0 very pleasant in speech, behavior, etc. |
| Sweet-lifer | n | One who is leading the sweet life. |
| Sweetbread | n | The pancreas of an animal: the thymus distinguished respectively as the heart, stomach or belly (used as a food). 2. a bribe. |
| Sweeten | vb | Make sweeter in taste; sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate. 2. make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable, to be sweet. 2. to make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. 3. to make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. 4. to make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life. 5. to soften to the eye; to make delicate. 6. to make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten the air. 7. to make warm and fertile; - opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils. 8. to restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat. |
| Sweet and sour | phr | |
| Sweetening | n | |
| Sweetful | adj | |
| Sweetheart | n | |
| Sweet-heartedness | n | |
| Sweeting | n | A flavouring used to sweeten various kinds of food and drinks. |
| Sweetish | adj | Somewhat or a little bit sweet. |
| Sweet life | n | La dolce vita. |
| Sweet-lifer | n | One who is leading the sweet life. |
| Sweetly | adv | |
| Sweetmeat | n | |
| Sweetness | n | |
| Sweet-writer | n | A popular, esp. a sentimental or sugary writer. |
| Sweetsome | adj | Sweet, pleasant. |
| Sweet stuff | n | Confectionery, |
| Sweet-talk | n | Smooth, but often insincere and cajoling talk. |
| Sweet talk | vb | |
| Sweet talker | n | |
| Sweet-tooth | n | A taste or liking for sweet or sweetened food or drink. |
| Sweetwater | n | Fresh water, usu. from pristine streams. 2. perfume or other sweet-smelling liquids. |
| Sweetwort | n | A sweet wort ; esp. the infusion of malt, before the hops are added in the making of beer. |
| Swell | n | |
| Swell | vb | |
| Swelling | n | |
| Swellish | adj | |
| Swellness | n | |
| Swelly | adj | |
| Swelt | vb | To die, perish, to cause to perish. 2. to be ready to perish with the force of strong emotion or a fit of sickness. 2. to overcome, faint, swoon. 3. to be overcome or overpowered by with heat; to suffer oppressive heat, welt. 4. to burn or rage with fever. 5. to exude with heat. 6. to overheat, to broil, scorch; be overwhelm by heat. 7. "to swelt one's heat: to exert oneself to the utmost". |
| Swelt | phr | "To swelt one's heat": to exert oneself to the utmost." |
| Swench | n | Trial, labour, toil. |
| Swench | vb | To trouble, harass, afflict. 2. to mortify. |
| Sweng | n | A stroke, blow; also, to various kinds of violent action, i.e. a fall or throw at wrestling; a swing at someone; a military attack or assault. 2. toil, labour, exertion. |
| Swenge | vb | To shake, shatter, smite, dash, fling. 2. to beat, including eggs. 3. to make a dash more violently; to fling. |
| Swerk | vb | In OE. to become sad, troubled, gloomy. 2. to be or become dark. |
| Swerve | n | The act of turning aside suddenly; swerve, swerving, veering. 2. an erratic deflection from an intended course; yaw, |
| Swerve | vb | To stray; to wander; to rope. 2. to go out of a straight line; to deflect.
3. to wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate. 4. to bend; to incline. 5. to climb or move upward by winding or turning. 6. to turn sharply; change direction abruptly; swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut. |
| Swerveless | adj | |
| Swerving | n | |
| Swerveless | adj | |
| Sweve | vb | To sleep, sink to rest, become quiet. 2. to put to sleep or to death. 3. lull to rest; also to stupefy. |
| Sweven | n | A dream, vision, sleep, slumber, swevet. |
| Swevener | n | A dreamer. |
| Swevening | adj | Dreaming. |
| Swey | n | Noise, ddin, clamour. |
| Swey | vb | To make a sound, noise; to resound, move with noise. |
| Sweying | adj | Noisy, dinny, resounding. |
| Sweying | n | The action of making noise or a din, etc. |
| Swie | vb | o become silent. |
| Swift | n | |
| Swift | vb | |
| Swiftie | n | |
| Swiftliness | n | |
| Swiftly | adv | |
| Swiftness | n | |
| Swike | n | Deceit, deception, an act of deception, treachery, a trick. 2. a snare, trap. |
| Swike | vb | To leave off, cease, to act deceitfully, practise deceit, to deceive, cheat, ensnare. 2. of a thing: to prove false, to disappoint the expectation of, to fail a person 3.to surprise, take unawares. 4. to get dishonestly, sneak. |
| Swike | adj | Deceitful, treacherous, traitorous, crafty, swikel. |
| Swikedom | n | A state or condition of deception, cheating, fraud. |
| Swikel | adj | Deceitful, treacherous, traitorous, crafty. |
| Swikeful | adj | Deceitful, treacherous, |
| Swikelfully | adj | |
| Swikkely | adv | eceitfully, treacherously, craftily. |
| Swikelness | n | Deceitfulness, treachery, trickery. |
| Swiking | n | The act of deception, deceit, sneakiness. |
| Swikingly | adv | Treacherously, deceptively, craftily. |
| Swill | n | |
| Swiller | n | |
| Swilling | n | That swills or drinks greedily. 2.the act or action of drinking excessively. |
| Swilling | adj | Addicted to excessive drinking. 2. abundant, deep, profound. |
| Swilling-hole | n | A pool at the bendof a stream. 3. a hollow place. 4. a gutter washed out of the soil. |
| Swilly | adj | Swelly; eddish or whirlpool-like, turbulent. |
| Swim | n | The clear part of a liquid which floats above the sediment. 2. the part of the river much frequented by fish or in which angler's fish. 3. the current of affairs or events, esp. the popular in business, politics, or opinion; chiefly "in the swim" |
| Swim | vb | |
| Swim | phr | " In the swim." -- in the same company with; in league with an enterprise, scheme, game. |
| Swim | phr | " Swim against the tide." - |
| Swime | n | Dizziness, giddiness, a fit of giddiness; swooning; a swoon. |
| Swime | adj | Giddy, dizzy, stunning. |
| Swimmer | n | |
| Swimmering | n | Giddiness, dizziness, swoonliness. |
| Swimming | n | |
| Swimmingly | adv | In an easy, smooth progress; smoothly and without impediment; without uninterrupted success or prosperly. 2. conspicuous success without éclat. |
| Swimmingness | n | A misty or moist appearance (of the eyes). 2. smooth, giddy movement. |
| Swimmy | adj | Inclined to dizziness or giddiness. 2. graceful, elegant. 3. of the eyes: tearful. |
| Swimminess | n | Dizziness, giddiness. 2. moist of eyes. |
| Swind | vb | OE: swindan. to waste away, languish, dwindle, decrease, vanish, disappear. |
| Swinden | adj | Enfeebled, enervated. |
| Swindle | n | Vertigo, giddiness. |
| Swindling | n | A swimming feeling in the head, a woozy state, giddiness. |
| Swine | n | |
| Swinecote | n | A pigsty. |
| Swinely | adj | Pertaining to the characteristics of a pig. |
| Swinishly | adv | |
| Swing | n | A stroke with a weapon. 2. impulse, inclination, tendency. 3. freedom of action; free scope. |
| Swing | vb | |
| Swinge | n | Sway, power, rule, authority. 2. freedom or action; free scope, licence, liberty to follow one's inclination. 3. impetus, impulse, driving power ( of something non-physical as passion, will). 4. a blow, a strike |
| Swinge | vb | To beat, to flog, whip, thrash. 2. to chastise, castigate, to pay out, serve out. 2. to pillory. 3. to bear heavily on. 4. to brandish, flourish, to lash the tail or something with a tail. 5, to cut down with a scythe. 6. to bear sway over. 7. to indulge one's inclination. |
| Swingeing | n | The action of scourging, flogging, beating; dealing with blows. |
| Swingeing | adj | Scourging, flogging, something that swings. 2. with great or large huge, intense. |
| Swinger | n | One who acts vigorously and forcibly; a powerful fellow. 2. something forcible or effective. 3. a great or bold lie. 4. a forcible blow or stroke. 5. one who seeks multiple sexual relationships simultaneously. 6. a rogue, rascal, scoundrel. |
| Swingle | n | A wooden instrument rembling a sword, used for beating and scraping flax or hemp so as to cleanse it of wooly and coarse particles. 2. a weapon resembling a flail. 3. a kind of cudgel. 4. a clapper of a bell. |
| Swingling | n | Giddiness, vertigo, dizziness. |
| Swinish | adj | Disposition of a swine; hoggish, piggish, sensual, gluttonous, coarse, beastly, degraded in nature. |
| Swinishness | n | State or condition of being swinish: coarse, piggish, gluttonous, beastly. |
| Swink | n | Trouble, affliction, labour, toil, heavy drinking, intoxicative. |
| Swink | vb | To labour, toil, work, hard and exertly. 2. to to journey or travel. 3. to gain by labour. 4. to cause to toil. 5. to set to hard work. 6. to overwork, to work overhard. 7. to drink deeply. |
| Swinked | adj | Wearied by overwork or toil. |
| Swinker | n | One who swinks, a labourer, worker, toiler. |
| Swinkful | adj | Full of toil and trouble; disastrous, troublesome. 2. irksome, painful, distressing. 2. hardworking, industrious, diligent. |
| Swinkfulness | n | Diligence, toil, trouble. |
| Swinkhood | n | The state of labouring, industry or toiling. 2. the state of being in trouble, distress. |
| Swinking | adj | That swinks, labours, involving toil, labourous I effort or exertion, toilsome. |
| Swinkless | adj | Free or devoid of toil, labour, diligence, distress, irk, pain. |
| Swip | n | See "swaip" - a stroke, blow, a rush, a forcible movement. |
| Swip | vb | See "swaip." -- to strike, hit, smite. 2. to wield a weapon forcibly, esp. in a downward direction. 3. to dea a blow. 4. to move in haste or violently; make a dash, escape, slip away. |
| Swipping | n | The act of striking, involving moving quickly. |
| Swipperly | adj | Craftily, cunningly, quickly, nimblely, actively. |
| Swire | n | The neck; a neck. 2. hollow near the summit or a mountain or hill. 3. a gentle depressiom beteen two hills. |
| Swire-bone | n | The neckbone. |
| Swireforth | adv} | Headlong; neck forward. |
| Swith | adj | Of a rapid rate, very quickly, swiftly. 2. without delay, forthwith; immediately; directly, at once. |
| Swither | n | The right side or hand; withershins. |
| Swithly | adv | Quickly, rapidly, without delay. |
| Swithness | n | |
| Swive | vb | To have sexual intercourse. 2. to copulate. 3. to move in a course sweep. |
| Swive | n | The act of swiven; copulation. |
| Swivel | vb | |
| Swivel | n | |
| Swiver | n | One who is given to sexual intercourse or indulgence; a copulator. |
| Swiweek | n | Holy week. |
| Swole | n | Sweat, perspiration. |
| Swon | n | A swineherd. |
| Swoon | n | |
| Swoon | vb | |
| Swooner | n | |
| Swooning | adj | Faintaing, syncopative. |
| Swoop | n | |
| Swoop | vb | |
| Sword | n | |
| Sworder | n | Gladiator, swordsman. |
| Sword-brother | n | A comrade in arms. |
| Swordmanship | n | |
| Swordplay | n | |
| Swother | vb | To sleep, slumber, nap. 2. swoon, faint. |
| Swother | n | Slumber, sleep, drowsiness. 2. swodder. |
| Swough | vb | To sigh, moan, groan. 2. to swoon, droop. |
| Swow | adj | Fainting, in a swoon, "dead," silent. |
| Swow | vb | To faint, sleep, be silent. |
| Swowing | adj | Swooning. |
| Swike | n | A rivulet, stream, esp. one flowing through marshy ground, and seasonal. 2. a sike. |
| Swythe | adv | Instantly, speedily, rapidly. (swithe, swiftly) |
| Old English | n | English |
| Sye | vb | To sink, fall, descend, (lit & fig). 2. to go proceed; fig: to proceed or come from a source; be derived. 3. to come, arrived (fig.) of the condition, time. 4. to befall, happen. 4. to leave for, depart, go, die as in " To sye heaven): to die, depart this life. |
| Sye | vb | To strain, pass through a strainer, strain out. 2. to drop as liquid; drip, drain, ooze. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Tail | n | Posterior extremity of an animal |
| Old English | n | English |
| Table | n | Late OE: writing table; gaming table. |
| Table | phr | "At Table" - having a meal at a table. |
| Table | phr | "Drink Under the Table" - very drunk after a meal or a drinking bout. |
| Table | phr | "Lay on the Table" - put forward for discussion. 2. the parliamentary phrase for postponing the consideration of a motion, proposal, bill etc. indefinitely. |
| Table | phr | "Put On the Table" - offering for discussion. |
| Table | phr | "The Lord's Table" - the communion table. 2. the sacraments of communion. |
| Table | phr | "The Twelve Tables" - the tables of roman laws engraved on brass, brought from Athens to Rome by the decemvirs. |
| Table | phr | "Turn the Tables On" - to reverse the conditions or real;tions; as, for instance, to rebut a charge by bringing forth a counter-charge. |
| Table-beer | n | Light beer. |
| Table-bell | n | A small hand-bell set on the table and meal-times and used to summon servants. |
| Table-board | n | The provision of daily meals; board (separate from rooming). 2. a table top; a table. 3. (dated, historical) A backgammon board. |
| Table-book | n | A book of arithmetical or other tables, such as a ready reckoner or weights and measures. 2. an ornamental book to be kept on table. 3. a note-book for jotting down casual observation. |
| Table-cloth | n | A cloth, often white, covering a table, especially for meals. |
| Table-clothed | adj | Of a table covering with a table-cloth. |
| Tableful | adj | All that a table can hold. |
| Tablehood | n | The state or quality of being a table. |
| Table-hop | n | To move around from table to table greeting friends, as in a restaurant or nightclub. |
| Table-hopping | vb | The moving around from table to table greeting friends, as in a restaurant or nightclub. |
| Table-knife | n | A knife used for meals, especially in eating a main course. |
| Tableland | n | An extensive, broad elevated region, often treeless, with a level surface. 2. a plateau; specifically a mesa. |
| Tableless | n | Without or lacking a table. |
| Table-like | adj | Similar to or resembling a table. |
| Table-linen | n | Cloth or mats of linen, napkins etc used at meal times. |
| Tableman | n | Any of the pieces used to play the game of tables, backgammon or drafts. 2. (rare) A person sitting at the same table. |
| Tableness | n | The quality of being a table. |
| Table nest | n | A set of small tables, usually three, which fit into each other and are accommodated into a small space. |
| Table salt | n | A salt that is ground or easy to grind for use at meals. |
| Table saw | n | A table saw or sawbench is a woodworking tool, consisting of a circular saw blade, mounted on an arbor, that is driven by an electric motor (either directly, by belt, or by gears). The blade protrudes through the surface of a table, which provides support for the material, usually wood, being cut |
| Table-side | n | By the side of, or adjacent to, a table, especially in a restaurant. |
| Table spoon | n | A large spoon for serving food. 2. an amount, or as much as can be held by this kind of spoon. |
| Table-spoonful | adj | An amount held a tablespoon. |
| Table-stone | n | A flat stone, a stone tablet, also a horizontal stone. 2. cromlech, dolmen. |
| Table-talk | n | Gossip, chit-chat, and chatter that take place around or at a table. |
| Tabletop | n | The top of the surface of a table. |
| Tabletop sale | n | A sale at which participants sell unwanted possessions from tables. |
| Table-turning | n | the so-claimed turning of tables without a mechanical sources at seances. |
| Tableward | adj | Towards or in the direction of a table. |
| Tablewards | adv | Towards or in the direction of a table. |
| Tableware | n | Ware for the service of the table: dishes, knives, forks, spoons etc. 2. collective term, often called table furniture, for articles used at meals, such as items of crockery, cutlery and when napery is included. |
| Tablewine | n | Ordinary wine for drinking at a meal. |
| Tablewise | adv | Like a table. |
| Tabling | n | The act of turning into tabular form; tabulate. 2. the act of presenting a motion for subsequent consideration. 3. the materials required for making a table. 4. a form of dovetailing in carpentry. |
| Tail | n | Old English tæg(e)l, from a Germanic base meaning ‘hair, hairy tail’; related to Middle Low German tagel ‘twisted whip, rope's end’. The early sense of the verb (early 16th century) was ‘fasten to the back of something’ 2. appendage of an animal. 3. tail-end of a creature. 4. rear of an aircraft. 5. object resembling a tail in shape. 6. a comet tail. 7. latter part of a time period. 8. in statistics: part of a distribution most distant from the mode. 9. a surreptitious follower. 10. in typography: lower loop of letters. 12. the reverse side of a coin. 13. in mathematics: last terms of a sequence, from some term on. 14. a slang term for the phallus or penis. |
| Tail | vb | To follow and observe surreptitiously. 2. (architecture) to hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into. 3. (nautical) to swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor. 4. to follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded. |
| Tail | phr | "Can't Make Head or Tail of" - to fail to understand. |
| Tail | phr | "Get Off One's Tail" - to stir oneself from inertia. |
| Tail | phr | "Heads I Win- Tails You Lose" - whichever way this matter goes I will win. |
| Tail | phr | "In Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail" - in a few moments . |
| Tail | phr | "Keep On Somebody's Tail" - tenaciously follow someone. |
| Tail | phr | "Like a Dog With Two Tails" - ecstatic, very happy. |
| Tail | phr | "Make Neither Head Nor tail Of" - not understand something. |
| Tail | phr | "Out of the Tail of One's Eye" - with a side-long glance. 2. to see a thing out the corner of one's eye. |
| Tail | phr | "Sting in the Tail" - to be an unexpected, unpleasant conclusion. |
| Tail | phr | "Tail After" - to pursue closely. |
| Tail | phr | "Tail Away or Off" - to diminish gradually. |
| Tail | phr | "Tail Back" - forming a long line of traffic , extending back from an obstruction. |
| Tail | phr | "Tail End of Something" - the very end of something. |
| Tail | phr | "Tail In" - fasten (timber) by one end onto a wall etc. |
| Tail | phr | "Tail Off" - decrease, gradually, taper off supply, demand, etc. 2. fade into silence (usually because the speaker is shy or embarrassed. |
| Tail | phr | "Tail On" - to attach. |
| Tail | phr | "Tail Wagging the Dog" - a minor aspect with disproportionate effect on a major aspect. 2. a part controls the whole; subsidiary associate, group, element, factor, etc dictates the course of action for the more important associate, etc. |
| Tail | phr | "Turn Tail" - to run away. |
| Tail | phr | "Twist Tail" - to torment. |
| Tail | phr | "Two Shakes of a Duck's Tail" - in an instant. |
| Tail | phr | "With One's Tail Up" - in good spirits, cheerful, carefree, happy. |
| Tailback | n | The forming a long line of traffic , extending back from an obstruction. |
| Tailboard | n | A hing or removable flap at the rear of a lorry etc. 2. the movable board at the back of a cart; a tailgate. |
| Tailbone | n | The coccyx. |
| Tailed | adj | Possessing a tail. |
| Tailedness | n | The condition of a distribution in having a specified form of tail. |
| Tail-end | n | The hindmost or lowest or last part. |
| Tail-feather | n | A strong flight feather of a birds wing. |
| Tail-fin | n | In zoology: a fin at the posterior extremity of a fish's body, typically continuous with the tail. 2. in aeronautics a projecting vertical surface on the tail of an aircraft, providing stability and typically housing the rudder. |
| Tail-first | adv | Backward; with the hind side foremost. 2. tail'fore'most. |
| Tail-float | n | The landing float below the tail of a seaplane. |
| Tail'fore'most | adv | Tail-first. |
| Tailgate | n | The tail door of a car or hatchback; tailboard. 2. the lower end of a canal lock. |
| Tailgate | vb | Drive too closely behind another vehicle. 2. follow too closely behind another vehicle. |
| Tail-head | n | The base of an animal's tail. |
| Tail-heaviness | n | A defect causing an aircraft to tilt slightly upwards when airborne. |
| Tail-heavy | adj | Having too much weight at the rear; a tail-heavy airplane. |
| Tailing | n | The refuse or inferior part of grain or ore etc. 2. the part of a beam or projecting brick etc. embedded in a wall. 3. the part of a projecting stone or brick inserted into a wall. 4. ore, dregs, chaffe, waste. |
| Tailings | n | The refuse or inferior part of grain or ore etc. |
| Tail-less | adj | Without or lacking a tail. |
| Tail-lessness | n | The state or conditions of having no tail. |
| Tail-light | n | The light at the rear of a vehicle, as a train, motor vehicle or bicycle. |
| Tail-like | adj | Like or resembling a tail. |
| Tail-off | n | A decline or gradual reduction, esp. in demand. |
| Tail pin | n | The center in the spindle of a turning lathe. |
| Tail-pipe | n | The rear section of an exhaust pipe of a motor vehicle. 2. the suction-pipe in a pump. |
| Tail-rope | n | In coal-mining, a rope used for hauling up loaded kibble. |
| Tails | n | The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar. |
| Tail-spin | n | A downward movement of an aircraft in which the tail spiraling. 2. a very fast fall. 3. a state of chaos, panic or loss of control. |
| Tail stock | n | An adjustable part of a lathe holding the fixed spindle. |
| Tail strike | n | An event in which the rear empennage of an aircraft strikes the runway. This can happen during takeoff of a fixed-wing aircraft if the pilot pulls up too rapidly, leading to the rear end of the fuselage touching the runway. It can also occur during landing if the pilot raises the nose too aggressively, |
| Tailward | adj | Towards the tail or in the direction in which the tail is. |
| Tail-water | n | Waters located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam (excluding minimum release such as for fish water), bridge or culvert. Tail water can also refer to a type of fishery. 2. the water in a millrace, below the ?, or in a canal below the lock. |
| Tail-wheel | n | The wheel supporting the tail of an aircraft, designed to ease ground landings. |
| Tail wind | n | a wind blowing in the direction of travel of a vehicle or an aircraft. |
| Tait | adj | OE: Taetan: to gladden, cheer. 2. cheerful. lively, active, nimble. |
| Tait | n | Gladness, cheer, activity, alacrity. |
| Take | n | Late Old English tacan ‘get (especially by force), capture’, from Old Norse taka ‘grasp, lay hold of’, of unknown ultimate origin. 2. the act of taking or that which is taken. 3. an uninterrupted run of of a camera and sound apparatus in recording any part of a film. 4. (slang) money collected; receipts. 5. the quantity collected at one time, as a take of salmon. |
| Take | vb | To grab with the hands 2. to grab and move to oneself. 3. to get into one's possession. 4. to accept. 5. to gain a position by force. 6. to have sex with. 7. to carry
8. to choose. 9. to support or carry without failing or breaking. 10. to endure. 11. to ingest medicine. 12. to assume or interpret to be. 13. to consider in a particular way. 14. to last or expend (an amount of time). |
| Take | phr | "Can Take It" - able to tolerate pain, trouble etc. |
| Take | phr | "Have Taking Ways" - to be of an ingratiating disposition; reading able to make oneself liked. 2. fetching-ways, winning ways amount to the same thing. |
| Take | phr | "Have What it Takes" - have the necessary qualities etc. for success. |
| Take | phr | "Not Take It Kindly" - not appreciate, or accept warmly; resent. |
| Take | phr | "On the Take" - slang: taking bribes. |
| Take | phr | "Take Aback" - surprise (and upset or dismay). |
| Take | phr | "Take a Back Seat" - take or be given a less important position or role. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Bath" - to bathe. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Bead" - to aim at something or someone with the sights of a forearm. 2. by extension, to focus one's attention with someone or something, with the purpose to attack or confront him, her, it. 3. to thoroughly understand, appreciate someone or something. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Beating" - bring defeat, heavy criticism, loss of credit on oneself. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Bite Out of" - to reduce something by eliminating, completing, or removing part of. |
| Take | phr | "Take Aboard" - take on board a ship. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Bow" - acknowledge applause. |
| Take | phr | "Take Abroad (With)" - take to a foreign country (with one). |
| Take | phr | "Take a Break" - have a short rest or break from work etc. |
| Take | phr | "Take A Breath - to inhale and then exhale. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Breather" - have a short pause or time out from something; hiatus. |
| Take | phr | "Take Care Not to Do Something" - be careful not to do something; make certain or sure that one does not do something. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Chill Pill" - to calm down, cool down, ease up, relax. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Crack at" - try, endeavor, work at, have a go. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Dip" - to swim. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Dive" - not try to succeed; feign, fix, sham. |
| Take | phr | "Take After (somebody)" - resemble, be liken to in looks, in character to a parent, grandparent. |
| Take | phr | "Take Against" - begin to dislike, esp. impulsively. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Hand In" - become involved, intervene in an matter. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Hint" - understand and do what has been indirectly suggested. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Hold Of Oneself" - control oneself, keep calm in a difficult situation. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Knock" - suffer a disappointment or setback. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Leaf Out of Someone Book" - copy somebody else; base one's conduct on what another does. 2. plagiarize someone writings. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Leak" - urinate. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Licking" - to be beaten or thrashed severely. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Load Off One's/Someone's Mind" " - relieve of anxiety, stress etc. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Look at' - examine, look at. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Lot of Stick" - suffer a lot of (unfair) criticism, blame, punishment, exposure to physical risk. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Lot Out Of" - make somebody physically or mentally tired. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Shine to" - to have or develop a fondness for someone. 2. to be attracted to or desire someone. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Shot in the Dark" - make a guess, take a punt or guestimate; take little care or consideration as to accuracy. |
| Take | phr | "Take Aside" - engage, lead somebody away especially for a private conversation. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Spill" - have a fall or take a tumble. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Spin" - have a go at doing something. |
| Take | phr | "Take As Read" - accept without reading or discussion. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Stand (Over)" - behave in a strong, assertive over some matter or issue. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Thing Lightly" - like or be pleased with. |
| Take | phr | "Take At One's Word" - believe someone is telling the truth. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Tumble" - fall; fall down. 2. (fig) diminish sharply or suddenly in value. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Turn for the Better" - to start to improve or get better. |
| Take | phr | "Take a Turn for the Worse" - sudden and unexpectedly deteriorate in fortune and/or wellfaring |
| Take | phr | "Take Away" - to remove or carry elsewhere. 2. buy and carry away, from an eatery, restaurant or shop, cooked meals for eating at home. 3. subtract a smaller sum from a larger sum. |
| Take | phr | "Take Away From" - cause somebody to leave a place, or from a person he/she is entrusted. 2. remove something from somebody (because it is dangerous or no longer deserved). 3. make a feeling or sensation disappear. |
| Take | phr | "Take Back" - retract or withdraw a statement. 2. convey a person or thing to its/their original position. 3. cause to return a library book, etc. 4. agree to accept or receive something which one has loaned, sold. 5. take somebody back to a position from which they have been dismissed. 6. recall earlier experiences to somebody. |
| Take | phr | "Take Back One's Words" - to recant; withdraw what one had said. |
| Take | phr | "Take Before" - make somebody appear in court to explain their actions or to be punished. |
| Take | phr | "Take Below" - lead somebody from a cabin of a ship to the deck below. |
| Take | phr | "Take Breath" - pause, as from work or to consider a situation. |
| Take | phr | "Take By" - in grasping somebody, something; take hold of a particular limb, or part. |
| Take | phr | "Take by Storm" - make a vivid impression on, quickly win popular acclaim or renown, as in The new rock group took the town by storm. This usage transfers the original military meaning of the phrase, "assault in a violent attack," to more peaceful endeavors. |
| Take | phr | "Take Care" - to be wary. 2. take care of; lokk after. 3. make sure that somebody is happy and well. 4. assume responsibility for the affairs of another person. |
| Take | phr | "Take Care Of" - to cherish. |
| Take | phr | "Take Care of Themselves" - |
| Take | phr | "Take Down" -- to drop, lift or lower down from a higher level (as a shelf). 2. to record or write down. 3. to humiliate. 4. to take or pull apart or down. |
| Take | phr | "Take Five" - to take a short break, about five minutes. |
| Take | phr | "Take Flight" - retreat, escape, flee. |
| Take | phr | "Take For" - to mistakenly assume that somebody is somebody else. |
| Take | phr | "Take For a Ride" - (slang)- to kidnap, cheat or murder someone. 2. to fool, dupe, mislead, outwit. |
| Take | phr | "Take for a Spin" - go for the ride, especially by riding or driving something. 2. test a motor vehicle. |
| Take | phr | "Take for Gospel" - believe something something unquestionably or too credulously. |
| Take | phr | "Take Fright" - become fearful or frightened. |
| Take | phr | "Take From" - diminish, reduce, weaken the effect or value of, detract from; disparage. 2. choose, extract a text for reading r study from a larger work. 3. suffer be the target of another displeasure, anger. |
| Take | phr | "Take Hard" - be greatly grieved, disappointed, inconvenienced by something. |
| Take | phr | "Take Heart" - be encouraged or heartened by. 2. to gain courage or confidence. |
| Take | phr | "Take Heed." -- To be cautious, careful. 2. pay attention to, and draw lessons from warings, threats, portents, advice etc. |
| Take | phr | "Take Hold of" - (lit) to grasp something or someone. 2. that a thought, idea, concept away (to one's home) for a meeting or conference. |
| Take | phr | "Take Home" - of wages or pay: the net wages after deductions have been made from tax, etc. 2. carry something to one's home. |
| Take | phr | "Take In" - to deceive, defraud, delude, rip someone off, swindle, gull, hoax. 2. to enclose, include, cover, receive, admit. 3. admit lodgers for payment. 4. accept work for payment to be done in one's own home. 5. read, understand, absorb, comprehend, pick up. 6. observe, take in note visually. 7. lessen in size or scope make narrower alter. 7. to fit a thinner person. 8. include, embrace. 9. visit as a part of a tour. 9. hurl in a sail. |
| Take | phr | "Take in Hand' - undertake, begin, start doing or dealing with. 2. undertake the control or reform of a person. 3. assume responsibility for someone, with the aim of training he or she. |
| Take | phr | "Take In One's Stride" - manage effortlessly or unhurriedly (leisurely) without disrupting one's normal activity or routine. |
| Take | phr | "Take Into" -invite into one's house, with offer of shelter and hospitality. |
| Take | phr | "Take It" - withstand or tolerate suffering, hardship, punishment, insult, criticism, contempt etc. |
| Take | phr | "Take It As It Comes" - accept, be willing to tolerate or welcome, somebody or something without wishing it to be different. 2. take somebody, something as one find him/her/it. |
| Take | phr | "Take It (that)" - assume that, as 'I take it that you have finished. 2. endure a hardship or difficulty in a specified way. |
| Take | phr | "Take It Away" - remove, carry away from. |
| Take | phr | "Take It Easy" - proceed gently, slowly or carefully. 2. not exert oneself. 3. relax, avoid overwork. 2. not become flustered, angered, excited etc. 4. live a period, in a relaxed or restful way. |
| Take | phr | "Take It From Here" - carry on. |
| Take | phr | "Take It From Me" - I can assure you. 2. take my word for it. 3. believe on the speaker's authority that something is true. |
| Take | phr | "Take It From the Top" - an instruction, direction to replay a scene from a film etc from the start. |
| Take | phr | "Take It Into One's Head that" - reach a conclusion or believe a suggestion that one is foolish or ill-formed. |
| Take | phr | "Take It Into One's Head to do Something" - decide to do something; form the intention to do something. |
| Take | phr | "Take It In Turns" - do in the proper order or sequence. |
| Take | phr | "Take It Kindly" - appreciate, accept warmly. |
| Take | phr | "Take It Lying Down" - to submit to insult or oppression without protest or resistance. |
| Take | phr | "Take It On/Upon Oneself" - to accept responsibility voluntary. |
| Take | phr | "Take It or Leave It" - an expression of indifference or impatient about anothers decision after making an offer. 2. accept or reject something, no other choice being allowed or possible. |
| Take | phr | "Take It Out of" - exhaust the strength of. 2. have the revenge or retribution. 3. lead somebody, or carry something, from a place. 4. withdraw, extract something, from an inner r enclosed space. |
| Take | phr | "Take It Out In" - be given goods as to the value of money which one is owed. |
| Take | phr | "Take It Out On (somebody)" - relieve one's frustration by attacking others, or directing one anger, displeasure or treating harshly others. 2. give someone a real drubbing. 3. to exact satisfaction from; get one's own back. |
| Take | phr | "Take Its Toll of" - damage, injure, reduce in number or strength. |
| Take | phr | "Take It That" - I assume that. |
| Take | phr | "Take Kindly" - be pleased or endeared to a person. |
| Take | phr | "Take Leave Of" - bid farewell to; say goodbye to. |
| Take | phr | "Take Life" - kill or murder someone. |
| Take | phr | "Take life" - acquire positive form, identity, significance, become animated. 2. interesting, come alive, come to life. |
| Take | phr | "Take Lightly" - be little disturbed or inconvenienced. 2. have a flippant or careless attitude towards. |
| Take | phr | "Take Like a Man" - take courageously, be resolute in the face of danger or misfortune. |
| Take | phr | "Take Lying Down" - to submit to harsh treatment with no or little resistance. |
| Take | phr | "Take No for An Answer" - |
| Take | phr | "Take Off" - to mimic in an amusing or satirical way, mock, ridicule, caricature. 2. remove one's clothing or an article of; remove a sheet, tablecloth. 3. amputate a limb. 4. remove from service. 5. transfer from one vehicle or vessel to another; rescue. 6. apply to leave one's work or occupation. 7. leave hurriedly to be somewhere else. 8.lose weight. 8. reduce in price, cost etc. 9. have a break or holiday. 10. no longer perform or entertain. 11. the moment an aircraft leaves the ground and is airborne. 12. the place where the feet leave the ground in jumping. 13. the manner in which a swimmer, runner starts a race. 14. suddenly improve, succeed, begin to show a profit. 15. detach, remove, especially something fastened to a surface or edge. |
| Take | phr | "Take Off Somebody's Hands" - remove the expense and responsibility of looking after somebody or someone. |
| Take | phr | "Take Off to" - accompany, way from one place to another. |
| Take | phr | "Take On" - to hire, employ. 2. take on board a ship, aircraft, vehicle or vessel; take aboard. 3. employ, give work to; enroll as a student. 4, to undertake to deal with, perform, assume a burden or responsibility. 5. change one's appearance, looks. persona. 6. contest or take on an opponent. 7. colloquially, to be very upset, exhibit violent emotion, or be considerably affected by , as 'Don't (or I'm going to) take so-and-so on.. |
| Take | phr | "Take On Board" - take on board a ship, aircraft, vehicle or vessel; take aboard. 2. assume a burden or responsibility |
| Take | phr | "Take One Back" - cause one to remember. |
| Take | phr | "Take One Look At" - do no more than look at somebody/something for an immediate rssult. |
| Take | phr | "Take One's Breath Away" - surprise, startle. |
| Take | phr | "Take Oneself Off" - go away; leave, remove oneself (often with the suggestion that one is no longer needed, or is in the way). |
| Take | phr | "Take One's Eyes Off" - stop looking at (television, football match, a young child and its whereabouts. |
| Take | phr | "Take One's Hat Off to" - admire, express approval, admiration for, by literally (figuratively) taking one's hat off. |
| Take | phr | "Take One's Leave Of" - say goodbye to; farewell. |
| Take | phr | "Take One's Life in One's Hands" - take a serious risk of being killed. |
| Take | phr | "Take One's Mind/Thoughts Off" - distract or help one not to think about something worrying or distressing. |
| Take | phr | "Take One's Own Life" - commit suicide; kill oneself. |
| Take | phr | "Take One's Time Over" - not hurry; do something at the (slow) rate one prefers. |
| Take | phr | "Take(s) One to Know One" - of a person making the criticism who has similar flaws, faults or weakness to the person he is criticizing. |
| Take | phr | "Take On" (at) - accept as an opponent in a sporting contest. |
| Take | phr | "Take On(so)" - express strong feelings, esp.of sorrow or displeasure. |
| Take | phr | "Take On the Chin" - suffer a severe blow from a misfortune, etc. 2. receive a blow in a sensitive and vulnerable place (lit or fig). |
| Take | phr | "Take Out" - succeed to the management or ownership of. 2. accompany another or others somewhere for recreation. 3. extract, remove. 4. to obtain, by payment from a proper authority, a document that will ensure some kind of service in the future. 5. buy from a restaurant or eatery food to be taken away and eaten at home. 6. destroy, render harmless. |
| Take | phr | "Take Out Of" - deduct a sum of money owed, a debt incurred etc. from a particular source. |
| Take | phr | "Take Out Of Somebody's Hands" - remove from the responsibility for dealing with something. |
| Take | phr | "Take Out On" - make somebody the scaprgoat for something one has done or suffered. 2. work off against. |
| Take | phr | "Take Over" - assume control, management, ownership or possession of. 2. assume the direction or control of something, instead of someone else. 3. spend a certain amount or length of time dong something. 4. conduct, carry , convey something , to a place in another part of a city, country, region etc. |
| Take | phr | "Take Pride in" - be proud of, draw satisfaction from. |
| Take | phr | "Take Root" - begin to grow and draw nourishment from the soil. 2. become fixed or established; grow permanently. |
| Take | phr | "Take Shape" - assume a distinct form. 2. develop into something definite. 3. be given,a recognizable or ordered form. |
| Take | phr | "Take Sick" - become ill, especially suddenly. |
| Take | phr | "Take Sides" - take one or other causes. 2. favor, support one side in a fight or dispute. |
| Take | phr | "Take Silk" - become a Queen's, King's, or Senior Counsel. |
| Take | phr | "Take Sitting Down" - accept something unpleasant, unfortunate, or unjust without resistance, argument, or action. (Usually used in the negative to express the opposite.) I just found out my wife has been cheating on me for the last year, and I'm not about to take it sitting down! |
| Take | phr | "Take Some Beating" - be difficult to improve on (something specified). |
| Take | phr | "Take Somebody's Word for" - regard what another has said as trustworthy. |
| Take | phr | "Take Somebody for Somebody Else" - mistake one person for another. |
| Take | phr | "Take Somebody In" -cheat, deceive. |
| Take | phr | "Take Somebody Off" - imitate somebody. |
| Take | phr | "Take Somebody Out Of Their Self" - make somebody forget their worries and/or anxiety. |
| Take | phr | "Take Somebody's Word for" - accept on somebody's authority that something is true. 2. take at one's word. |
| Take | phr | "Take Somebody to One's Heart" - accept somebody lovingly |
| Take | phr | "Take Somebody Up On Something" - accept an offer. |
| Take | phr | "Take Some Doing" - difficult to perform or accomplish. |
| Take | phr | "Take Something as Read" - assume something to be true. |
| Take | phr | "Take Steps to" - take action. |
| Take | phr | "Take Something/Leave Something" - especially consume or do without something. 2. with indifference or equanimity. |
| Take | phr | "Take Something/Somebody to be Something" - understand, deduce that something/somebody is as named or described. |
| Take | phr | "Take Stock" - make an inventory of one's stock. 2. make a review or estimate of a situation. 3. to estimate probability, position etc. |
| Take | phr | "Take That!" - an exclamation accompanying a blow etc. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Bit Between the Teeth" - settle to a hard task in a determined way. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Bull by the Horns" - handle a difficult, or dangerous, situation by facing it boldly and directly. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Easy Way out" - escape a difficult situation by a simple, painless course. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Edge Of" - make less severe, stringent. 2.. blunt lessen the sharpness of, or force of. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Fall" - incur blame or punishment in the place of another person. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Field" - to begin a campaign or game. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Fifth" - in the US) exercise the right, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, of refusing to answer questions in order to avoid incriminating oneself. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Floor" - stand up or rise to speak at a meeting. 2. get up to dance |
| Take | phr | "Take the Heat Off" - one who reduces the amount of criticism another has to deal with, by taking the blame, consequences or anger. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Hint" - act or act on what someone is implying or suggesting. |
| Take | phr | "Take the King's/Queen Shilling" - enlist as a regular in one of the armed forces. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Law Into One's Own Hands" - act as law enforcement officer became one believes that law authorities are too slow or ineffective. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Lead" - become the leader. 2. advance to the first place. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Rise Out of" - make fun of somebody, with the aim of irritating him, her. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Rough with the Smooth" - accept adversity along with the good fortune. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Stand" - be a witness in a court case. |
| Take | phr | "Take The Sting Out Of" - make something more pleasurable or bearable. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Weight Off One's Feet" - sit down and relax after tiring exercise or work. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Wheel" - become the driver of a vehicle. |
| Take | phr | "Take the Wind Out of Somebody's Sails" - disturb somebody's balance or self-confidence. 2. humble an over-confident or pompous person. |
| Take | phr | "Take Things as They Come" - accept and deal with events as they occur, with a composed state of mind. |
| Take | phr | "Take Through" - read something to somebody, repeat it to her or him, so that its accuracy can be checked. 2. rehearse with another a play, film, etc. |
| Take | phr | "Take Time" - go as slow as one wants or needs. 2. use as much time as required. 3. to act slowly and at one's leisure. 3. take one's time. |
| Take | phr | "Take to" - begin or fall into the habit or past-time of drinking, etc. 2. become addicted to; come to like something; or adopt something habitually. 3. have recourse to. 4. adapt to. 5. pursue a study or sport. 6. be fond of; attracted to, form a liking to somebody. 7. come to like something; or adopt something habitually. 8. go away to a place; especially to escape from an an enemy. |
| Take | phr | "Take To Bits" - reduce something, (usually a machine) to the parts which it is made up of. |
| Take | phr | "Take to Heart" - be deeply or greatly affected by one's feelings by something. |
| Take | phr | "Take to One's Bed" - go to bed especially to recover from an illness. |
| Take | phr | "Take to One's Bosom" - (fig. jocular) embrace, draw affectionately to oneself. |
| Take | phr | "Take to One's Heart" - give a warm, enthusiastic reception to, show affection for. |
| Take | phr | "Take to One's Heels" - run away; flee. |
| Take | phr | "Take to the Cleaners" - defraud or rob a person of their money. 2. criticize severely. |
| Take | phr | "Take to the Hills" - flee to higher grounds. 2. head for the hills. |
| Take | phr | "Take to the Streets" - tell everybody about your problems. |
| Take | phr | "Take Turns (With)" - share a task; work turn in turn about. |
| Take | phr | "Take Under One's Wings" - behave or act protectively towards somebody. 2. act as a patron or mentor. |
| Take | phr | "Take Up" - to raise, pick up or lift. 2. absorb, soak up 3. make smaller or less; shorten or tighten 2. to pay as a mortgage or note. 4. to accept as stipulated. 5. to begin or begin again or resume a story interrupted or left unfinished by someone else; take up or begin as a job, resume. 5. raise mention a topic in order to consider or discuss it. 5. add one's voice or support to. 6. adopt as a protege, patronize. to reprove or criticize. 6. to occupy, engage, or consume, as space or time. 7. inquire an interest or devotion; pursue a hobby, past-time, study or sport. gather onto itself, by winding, a long thread of ribbon. |
| Take | phr | "Take Up Arms" - to fight, battle, wage war or rebellion. 2. champion a cause. |
| Take | phr | "Take Up On" - get to prove or confirm something which is claimed or proffered. |
| Take | phr | "Take Upon Oneself" - accept, take responsibility for, perhaps without warrant. 2. to assume control. |
| Take | phr | "Take Up With" - begin or commence to associate with; become friendly or make friends with. 2. begin to keep company with somebody or a group that perhaps one should avoid. 3. raise a matter for critical comment with the person most responsible or involved. |
| Take | phr | "Take Wing" - rise to flight. 2. (fig) become active. lively, active, interesting. 3. move on; away, disappear. |
| Take | phr | "Take Wings" - of a bird, insect or other creatures: to fly away. |
| Take | phr | "Taken With" - find somebody/something attractive. |
| Take | phr | "Take Years Off" - make somebody appear younger. |
| Take | phr | "What Do You Take Me for" - the speaker is asking rhetorically, whether another person supposes that he/she is foolish, deceptive, a liar, etc |
| Take | phr | "You Can Take a Horse to Water, But You Can't Make Him Drink" - giving somebody the opportunity is useless if he /she is not willing. |
| Take | phr | "You Can't Take it With You" - make use of your resources, material or financial, while you are alive because you can't take it to the grave. |
| Take | phr | "You Must Take Us As You Find Them" - said to an unexpected visitor, before whose arrival you have not had time to make preparations. |
| Take-away | n | A shop that cooks and sells food that is taken away and eaten elsewhere. 2. food that is bought at a take-away shop and eaten elsewhere; sometimes referred to as "take-out" |
| Take-down | n | A article able to be easily taken apart or down; as take-down home. 2. humiliation. |
| Take-in | n | A deception, fraud, swindle, cheating. |
| Taken | adj | Infatuated; fond of or attracted to. 2. (informal) In a serious romantic relationship. |
| Take-off | n | The act of becoming airborne. 2. an act of mimicking or satire. 3. a place from which one jumps. |
| Takeout | n | Takeaway food. |
| Take-over | n | The act of attempting or succeeding in gaining a control interest in a business, club or other things. 2. an assumption of control (esp. of a business) the buying-out of one company by another. |
| Take-over bid | n | A favorable offer to the shareholders of a company to another company which wishes to secure control of it. |
| Taker | n | A person who takes a bet. 2. an person who accepts an offer. |
| Take-up | n | An acceptance of something offered. 2. the act of tightening or taking up. |
| Taking | n | Touching, touch. 2. a seizure or attack of a disease. |
| Taking | n | Touch--- Old meaning. ?? 2. amount of money taken in a business. |
| Taking | adj | Attractive, fascinating or captivating. 2. catching, contagious or infectious. 3. the thing or things taken; in fishing a catch, a haul; in plural receipts, as of money. |
| Takingly | adv | In an attractive, fascinating or captivating. |
| Takingness | n | The quality of being attractive to others. |
| Tale | n | A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program: narrative, narration, story. 2. a trivial lie; : fib, story. 3. that which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. 4. anecdote; story; fable; incident; memoir; relation; account; legend; narrative. 5. be-all and end-all, falsehood, ghost story, gossip, gossip-mongering, half-truth, history, idle talk, lie, little white lie, mendacity, myth, narration, newsmongering, reckoning, slight stretching, tale-bearing, tale-telling, talk, tall tale, tattle, tell, the bottom line, the whole story, untruth, white lie, yarn. |
| Tale | n | Old English talu ‘telling, something told’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch taal ‘speech’ and German Zahl ‘number’, also to tell. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated. 2. in law:a count or declaration. (Obs) |
| Tale | vb | To tell stories. (Obs.) |
| Tale | phr | "Dead Men Tell No Tales" - one cannot be incriminated by somebody who is dead. |
| Tale | phr | "Live to Tell the Tale" - survive. |
| Tale | phr | "Old Wives Tale" - Legendary lore, or stories usually involving the marvellous, and only accepted by the credulous. 2. far-fetched stories. |
| Tale | phr | "Tell Its Own Tale" - be self-evident. |
| Tale | phr | "Tell Tales" - act of spreading malicious reports. 2. inform on; reveal confidences or confidential mattera about somebody. |
| Tale | phr | "Tell Tales Out of School" - to reveal confidential information. 2. indulge in gossip. |
| Tale | phr | "Thereby Hangs a Tale" - the story could go on further. |
| Tale-bear | vb | To officiously or maliciously carry or repeat private matters for gratify malice or idle curiosity. |
| Tale-bearer | n | One who officiously or maliciously carries or repeats private matters for gratify malice or idle curiosity. |
| Tale-bearing | n | The act of officiously or maliciously carrying or repeating private matters for gratify malice or idle curiosity. |
| Tale-book | n | A storybook. |
| Taleful | adj | Full of tales, making a short story long; talkative. 2. having a fund of stories. |
| Tale-gathering | n | The collecting of fairy or folk tales. |
| Tale-ish | adj | Of the nature of a tale; fabulous. |
| Tale-maker | n | One who writes folk tales. |
| Tale-monger | n | A rumor-monger; fable momger,or tale-teller. |
| Tale-spinning | n | The telling of a story , esp. using a lot of imagination and fantasy. |
| Tale-teller | n | A narrator, teller of stories. 2. tell-tale, tale-bearer. 3. teller of made-up stories, with the object to deceive or mislead. |
| Talewise | adv | Given to tales or talking. 2. addicted to gossip, loquacious, garrulous, blabbery. |
| Tale-writer | n | The writer of folktales |
| Talk | n | C13th, talken, probably related to Middle English tale "story," and ultimately from the same source as tale, with rare English formative -k (compare hark from hear, stalk from steal, smirk from smile) and replacing that word as a verb. East Frisian has "to talk, chatter, whisper." No record found in OE. |
| Talk | vb | |
| Talk | phr | "Do the Talking" - be spokesman for. |
| Talk | phr | "Idle Talk" - gossip, useless information. |
| Talk | phr | "Know What One Is Talking Of" - be expert in; knowledgeable. |
| Talk | phr | "Make Small Talk" - have a trivial, but polite conversation. |
| Talk | phr | "Now You're Talking!" - I like what you say, suggest. 2. what you are saying is now really relevant. |
| Talk | phr | "Sweet Talk Someone" - flatter somebody (for gain). |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Against a Time" - to keep on talking to fill up time. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Away" - consume time in talking. 2. carry on defiantly. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk a Blue Streak" - to talk ery much and ery rapidly. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk at" - make subtle innuendoes. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Back" - reply defiantly or in an impolite or rude way. 2. respond on a two-way communication system. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Down to" - speak condescendingly or patronizingly. 2. talk to somebody as if he or she is less intelligent or important. 3. talk with an air of superiority. |
| Talk | phr | "Talking Of" - now that the subject has arisen. 2. while we are on the subject of (said when one is reminded of the present topic of conversation). |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Is Cheap" - it is easier to say what you want to do, than actually do it. (said in response to someone who you do not believe will keep the promise). |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Of" - to discuss; bring to memory. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk of the Devil" - here is the person, unexpectedly arriving, we were just mentioning or discussing. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk of the Town" - something that everybody is, usually ephemerally, discussing, talking about, or debating . |
| Talk | phr | "Talk One's Way Out Of" - make excuses and give reasons for not doing something. 2. manage to talk oneself out of a difficult situation. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Out" - block the course of legislation by filibuster or prolonging discussion in parliament. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Out of" - persuade, dissuade somebody. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Out of Turn" - not talk in the proper or appropriate order of conversation. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Over" - discuss something at length. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Over Someone's Head" - |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Shop" - talk tediously or inopportunely about one's work, trade, occupation, business etc. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Someone's Ear Off" - to talk to someone endlessly. 2. to born someone with too much talking. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Tall" - boast. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk the Talk" - to speak boastfully about something (indicates that one is being boastful or to express doubt that one can carry out what they have claimed they can) |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Through" - discuss thoroughly. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Through One's Hat" - exaggerate, blow out of proportion. 2. bluff. 3. talk wildly or nonsensically. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk through (the back of) One's Neck" - tlk nonsense or foolishly. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk to" - to scold, address. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Under the Table" - talk esp. tediously or inopportunely. |
| Talk | phr | "Talk Up" - discuss a subject in order to create interest in. 2. praise, to adertise in flattering terms. |
| Talk | phr | "You Can't Talk" - reproof that the person addressed is just as culpable etc in the matter or issue. 2. you are not in a position to criticize. |
| Talk-back | n | A system of two-way communication by loudspeaker. 2. radio program which allows conversation and discussion between the host and callers. |
| Talk board | n | An on-line forum or chat room. |
| Talker | n | One who talks frequently. |
| Talkful | adj | Talkative, garrulous. |
| Talkie | n | A film with soundtrack as distinct from a silent movie. |
| Talk-in | n | A gathering or meeting for discussion; a conference. 2. a form of political protest (esp. by student) at which the matter at issue is discussed. 3. a radio or TV. program, esp. a live one, in which the audience may take part. |
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| Talking | n | capable of speaking. |
| Talking-book | n | a recorded reading of a book , especially for the blind. |
| Talking-craft | n | |
| Talking-film | n | Talkie; a film with a sound track. |
| Talking-head | n | A presenter, especially, on television, speaking to a camera and viewed in close up. 2. a television studio program consisting of an address, talk, dialogue, interview, discussion, debate etc straightforwardly presented by one or more people. |
| Talkingly | adv | |
| Talking shop | n | Derogatorily, an institution regarded as a place of argument rather than action. |
| Talking-to | n | Reproof or reprimand, as 'he gave them a good talking-to.' |
| Talkish | adj | Rather or inclined to talk too much. |
| Talk-out | n | The talking out of a bill in parliament, usu lengthy, a filibuster. |
| Talks | n | Communication by spoken words; conversation or discussion. 2. formal discussions or negotiations over a period, peace talks. |
| Talk-shop | n | A centre for idle and unconstructive chatter, usu. derogatory, applied to Parliament. |
| Talk-show | n | A chat show. |
| Talk-stuff | n | matter for conversation. |
| Talky | adj | Inclined to or abounding in talk and chatter. 2. loquacious, garrulous, verbose. 2. of a book, film, play: long-winded, loquacious, tedious. |
| Talky-talk | n | Trivial and meaningless talk: "talk for talk's sake." |
| Tall | adj | OE getael; swift, prompt, quick. High in stature; lofty; of a specific height, as 'he is five feet tall.' 3. excessive, exaggerated, boastful, inordinate. 3. proud, handsomely, arrogantly. 4. (first known meaning): swift, quick, prompt. 5. brave, sturdy, spirited. |
| Tall | phr | "From Tall Oaks Little Acorns Grow" - every major enterprise had a small beginning. |
| Tall | phr | "Tall, Dark and Handsome" - a certain ideal type of male beauty. |
| Tall | phr | "Tall Drink of Water" - an extremely tall and thin person. |
| Tall | phr | "Tall In the Saddle" - to ride in an erect, imposing manner. 2. to act or conduct oneself in a manner that is imposing, imperious, resolute, or manly. |
| Tall | phr | "Tall Talk" - unbelievable, remarkable claims in conversation. |
| Tall | phr | "Walk Tall" - to bear oneself proudly, handsomely |
| Tall hat | n | Top-hat. |
| Tallish | adj | More than the average height; somewhat or rather tall. 2. ready, active. 3. swift, prompt (OE getæl). |
| Tallness | n | Having a relatiely great height. |
| Tallship | n | A sailing ship with a high mast or masts. |
| Tall tale | n | An account of happenings that is seemingly improbable, thhat is either an invention or exaggeration of facts. |
| Tame | vb | |
| Tame | adj | |
| Tamed | adj | |
| Tamehede | adj | Capable of being tame. |
| Tameless | adj | That has not been tamed; wild, untameable. |
| Tamelessness | n | The state or condition of not being tamed. |
| Tameliness | n | State or condition of being tamed, |
| Tamely | adv | Submissively, tractably, quickly, passively, without resistance. 2. without spirit or acrimony; in a tame manner. 3. without bold features |
| Tameness | n | The quality or condition of being tame in any sense. 2, domesticated, absence of wildness. 3. lack of spirit, courage, animation or variety, common place. |
| Taming-stick | n | Kind of yoke for newly captured slaves. |
| Tan | n | Late Old English tannian ‘convert into leather’, probably from medieval Latin tannare, perhaps of Celtic origin; reinforced in Middle English by Old French tanner. A brown skin color resulting from exposure of ultra violet rays. 2. a yellowish-brown color. 3. bark especially of oak, bruised and used to tan hides. 4. (in full spent tan) tan from which tannic acid has been extracted, used for covering roads. |
| Tan | vb | Make or become brown skin color resulting from exposure of ultra violet rays. 2. convert raw hide into leather by soaking in a liquid containing tannic acid or by use of mineral salts etc. 3. slang: beat, thrash. |
| Tan | adj | Of a yellow-brown color. |
| Tanner | n | One who tans hides. |
| Tanning | n | The condition or state of acquiring brown skin color from exposure of ultra violet rays. 2. the art or process of converting raw hide into leather by soaking in a liquid containing tannic acid or by use of mineral salts etc |
| Tannish | adj | Somewhat brown of skin color. 2. resembling tanned leather. |
| Tanpit | n | a vat in which hides are steeped in the process of tanning. |
| Tan-yard | n | A tannery. |
| Tap | n | A peg for the vent hole of a cask. 2. plug, stopper, peg. 3. the act of tapping a telephone call. 4. a device used for tapping a telephone call. |
| Tap | vb | To provide a cask with a tap. 2. let out a liquid by means of a tap. 2. draw sap from a tree by cutting into it. 3. extract or obtain ; discover and exploit. 4. connect a listening device to a telephone. |
| Tap | phr | "On Tap" - ready to be drawn off by a tap. 2. ready for immediate use; freely available. |
| Tap | phr | "Tap Off" - draw liquid through from a csk etc through a tap. |
| Tap | phr | "Turn Off the Tap" - to deny further access to supplies or information. |
| Tapless | adj | Without or lacking a tap. |
| Tape | n | Old English tæppa, tæppe; perhaps related to Middle Low German teppen ‘pluck, tear’. |
| Tape | phr | "Breast the Tape" - win a running race. |
| Tape | phr | "Got One/Something Taped" - have a good knowledge of the nature of something or someone. |
| Tape | phr | "Tape Off" - |
| Tape | phr | "Tape Out" - |
| Tape | phr | "Tape Up" - |
| Tapeless | adj | |
| Tapelike | adj | |
| Tapeline | n | A tape-measure. |
| Taper | n | OE - not in cognate languages. 2. a wax candle, used for devotional purposes. 3. candle, wick of a tapering. 4. something that gives light or burning. 5. modern meaning: something that gives a feeble light. |
| Taper | n | A spire or slender pyramid. 2. something which tapers to a point. 3. gradual diminution in thickness. |
| Taper | phr | "Taper off" - allow, or cause, to grow less intense, active, productive etc. 2 . tail off. 3. become, make, narrower at one end. |
| Tapered | adj | |
| Tapering | adj | |
| Taperingly | adv | |
| Taperlike | adj | |
| Taperness | n | The condition or being tapered or tapering. |
| Taperwise | adv | In the manner of a taperwise, with gradual diminution of thickness. |
| Taperwort | n | Verbascum thrapsis: mullein. |
| Tapet | n | A piece of cloth, used as a hanging table cover, or drape; a carpet. |
| Tapet | vb | To adorn with tapestry. |
| Tapeworm | n | |
| Tap-house | n | An alehouse, tap room of an inn. |
| Tapless | adj | Without or lacking a tap. |
| Taproom | n | A room in which alcoholic drinks (especially beer) are available on tap. |
| Taproot | n | |
| Tapster | n | A bar attendant, who drew ale or other liquor in an inn. |
| Tapwater | n | Water from a piped supply. |
| Tapwort | n | The dregs of ale or beer. |
| Tar | n | A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal. 2. (slang, dated) a sailor, because of their tarpaulin clothes. 3. (slang) black tar, a form of heroin. |
| Tar | vb | To smear with tar and feather. |
| Tar | vb | To irritate, vex, provoke, to incite, hound on. 2. to weary, fatigue. |
| Tar | phr | "Tar and Feather" - smear with tar and then cover with feathers as a punishment. |
| Tarlike | adj | Similar or resembling tar. |
| Tar-pit | n | |
| Tarring | n | The act or process of covering with tar. |
| Tarse | n | The penis. |
| Tart | adj | OE: Of pain, punishment, suffering, discipline: sharp, severe, grievous, hurting. 2. of taste: biting, pungent, sour, acidic. 3. of words, speech, speaking: sharp in tone or tendency, biting, cutting, acrimonious, caustic. 4. point of a weapon:sharp. |
| Tart-tongued | adj | Biting, caustic, sarcastic. |
| Tartly | adv | In a tart manner: sharply, with acidity. 2. sourness of look, mood. |
| Tartness | n | Severity of painfulness. 2. sharpness, pungency, acidity of taste. 3. acerbity, pungency, acrimony. |
| Tar-water | n | A mixture of tar and water used for medicinal purpose. |
| Tarweed | n | |
| Tary | vb | To provoke, vex, worry, harass. 2.to weary, tire, fatigue. |
| Taryingness | n | Provocation, tarry. 2. frivolous, idle-chatter. |
| Tatter-monger | n | An idle and malicious chatter or talker; a talk-monger. 2. ON cognate with Old English tættec, tætteca "rag, 'tatter' - a rag & bone man. |
| Tatty | adj | OE: tættec: rag, tatter. 2. of hair: tangled, matted. 3. of an animal skin: shaggy, often matted. 4. of a person, animal: scruffy, untidy, disreputable. 5. of a place, building: dilapidated, neglected. |
| Tattiness | n | The state or condition of being tatty. |
| Tattily | adv | In a tatty manner. |
| Taum | n | OE: taum, team. 2. a fishing-line, strings other kinds. |
| Taut | adj | OE teon : pull; tight of a rope, muscles etc. 2. of nerves : tense, not slack. 3. of a ship: in good order or condition. |
| Tauten | vb | To be tight; tense; in good order or condition. |
| Tautly | adv | In a tight or tense manner. |
| Tautness | n | The state or quality of being taut. |
| Tavel | n | OE: tæfl. 2. a dice used in a game of chance. |
| Taw | vb | OE: tawian. 2. to make ready, prepare, or dress (with some material) for use or further manipulating or processing; i.e. to soften by heating; to heckle hemp. 3. to make skins into leather (mostly white leather), usu. by steeping them in solution of alum and salt. 4. to treat a person or contumely. 5. to vex, torment, afflict, harass. 6. abuse, discharge, profane. 7. whip, flog, birch, thrash. 8. earlier meaning: to till the land. |
| Taw | phr | "Get down to Taw" - get down to the aspects which really mattter. |
| Tawer | n | One who prepares leather. |
| Tawing | n | Various action or acts in preparing leather. 2. vexing, tormenting, harassing, afflicting. 3. whipping, birching, flogging. |
| Tawne | vb | To show, manifest, exhibit. 2. to tame, subdue, soften. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Teach | vb | OE: to show, present, offer to view. 2. to show, point out, a thing or a way. 3. to send away, to direct, refer, guide, conduct, convey. 4. to point in a particular direction. 5. to show what is to be observed or be done, direct, prescribe, decree, enjoin. |
| Teach | vb | Impart skills or knowledge to; teach, learn, instruct. 2: accustom gradually to some action or attitude. 3. to give instruction; to follow the business, or to perform the duties, of a preceptor. 4. to impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, music, or the like; to teach morals. 5. to direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of studies. 6. To accustom; to guide; to show; to admonish. 7. to instruct; inform; inculcate; tell; guide; counsel; admonish. |
| Teach | phr | "Teach Away" - in patent law, used to describe the solution to a problem in a way that excludes a particular alternative to solving that problem addressed by a later invention. 2. of a teacher teaching far away from home. |
| Teach | phr | "That Will Teach You" - what happened is (just)retribution for what one/somebody did. |
| Teacher | n | A person whose occupation is teaching instructor. 2. a personified abstraction that teaches. 3. one who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. one who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination |
| Teacherdom | n | The office of a teacher. |
| Teacherless | n | Without a teacher. |
| Teacher-like | adj | Resembling a teacher or some aspect of one, such as didactic behavior. |
| Teacherly | adv | In an instructive manner. |
| Teachership | n | The office of a teacher. |
| Teach-in | n | An informal lecture and discussion on a subject of public interest. 2. an extended meeting, as at a college or university, during which faculty and students participate in lectures, discussions, etc often on a controversial subject or issue, often as a form of social protest.a series of teach-ins. |
| Teaching | n | The profession of a teacher. 2. what is taught; a doctrine. |
| Teachless | adj | Undisciplined. |
| Teachy | adj | In an instructive manner. |
| Team | n | A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage.
2. any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work. 3. (obsolete) a group of animals moving together, especially young ducks. 4. (Britain, law, obsolete) a royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto |
| Team | vb | To form a group, as for sports or work. 2. to go together well; to harmonize. 2. to convey or haul with a team |
| Team | phr | "Team Up" - to join into a team or into teams |
| Team | phr | "Team Up Together/With" - join, run or form a group or joint enterprize for a common purpose (business, hobby, activity). |
| Team builder | n | One who runs or organizes a team building activities |
| Team-building | n | Activities put together to improve the performance of a team. |
| Teamed | adj | Associated with others in a team. |
| Team-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a team. |
| Team-player | n | A person who functions effectively with others in a group, sharing information in a striving towards a common goal. |
| Team sheet | n | In sports, a document that lists current or proposed members of a team. |
| Teamster | n | One who drives or owns a team of beasts. 2. one who dries a truck or other vehicles. |
| Team-teaching | n | Teaching by teams of teachers working together, each of whom sometimes teaches the whole group and sometimes part of it. |
| Team wide | adj | Occurring or extending throughout a team. |
| Teamwise | adj | With regard or pertaining to a team. |
| Team work | n | A combined action of a team, group, esp. when efficient and effective. 2. co-operation among members of a group. |
| Team-working | adj | Work done by a team. |
| Tear | n | A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
2. something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, trans-parent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins. 3. that which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. 4. a partially vitrified bit of clay in glass. Nb: Tear is sometimes used in the formation of tear-drop, tear-filled, tear-stained, and the like. |
| Tear | phr | "Blood, Sweat and Tears" - hard work and much effort. |
| Tear | phr | "Drive Someone to Tears" - to present information made to make another person express sympathy not warranted by the facts. |
| Tear | phr | "In Tears" - crying, shedding tears. |
| Tear | phr | "Tears of Wine" - The phenomenon called tears of wine is manifested as a ring of clear liquid, near the top of a glass of wine, from which droplets continuously form and drop back into the wine. It is most readily observed in a wine which has a high alcohol content. It is also referred to as wine legs, curtains, or church windows. |
| Tear | phr | "Tear Up" - become teary or tearful. |
| Tear | phr | "Without Tears" - presented so as to be learnt or done easily. |
| Tear | n | The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure. |
| Tear | vb | OE. teren, AS. teran; akin to OS. to destroy, 2. to separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh. 3. hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend;
as, a party or government torn by factions. 4. to rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home. 6. to pull with violence; as, to tear the hair. 7. to move violently; to agitate. 8. to divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily. 9. to move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave. |
| Tear | phr | "Tear Along" - move across etc very quickly, and with a sense of urgency. |
| Tear | phr | "Tear At" - try to pull something open or pull it to pieces with the fingers. |
| Tear | phr | "Tear Away" - leave. stop doing something with great unwillingness. 2. make somebody leave something despite his/her reluctance to do so. |
| Tear | phr | "Tear Down" - to demolish violently; to pull or pluck down. 2. remove some superficial quality. 3. bring to the ground by pulling sharply. |
| Tear | phr | "Tear in Half/Two" - divide something into two parts by pulling sharply. |
| Tear | phr | "Tear Into" - make a hole in something with a strong tearing movement . 2. make a strong physical or attack verbally on something or somebody; reprimand. |
| Tear | phr | "Tear Off" - to pull off, remove or strip off a garment with urgent movement. 2. remove some superficial quality. 3. write or draw rapidly; dash off. 4. remove from a surface. |
| Tear | phr | "Tear Oneself Away" - leave, or be forced to leave, despite a strong desire to stay. |
| Tear | phr | "Tear One's Hair Out" - tug one's hair with both hands as an expression of anxiety, grief, despair or frustration. 2. behave with extreme desperation or anger. 3. be very frustrated, agitated, worried. |
| Tear | phr | "Tear Out" - to pull or draw out by violence; as, to tear out the eyes. 2. remove separately by pulling out. |
| Tear | phr | "Tear Strips Off (Somebody)" - harangue, rebuke, admonish severely, somebody. |
| Tear | phr | "Tear to Shreds" - reduce, destroy, demolish by critical argument which a person has said or written.. 2. refute or criticize thoroughly. |
| Tear | phr | "Tear Up" - to rip up; to remove from a fixed state by violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the foundation of government or order. 2. destroy by pulling sharply; tear to pieces. 3. vigorously renounce, or abandon. |
| Tear | phr | "That's Torn It" - that has spoiled things; the proposal, caused a problem. |
| Tear | phr | "Torn Between" - having great difficulty in choosing. 2. unable to make up one's mind between two alternatives. |
| Tear | phr | "Wear and Tear" - gradual deterioration through use. |
| Tearaway | n | An impetuous or reckless young person. 2. a hooligan. |
| Tear-blinded | adj | Unable to see clearly owing to the abundance of tears accumulating in one's eyes. |
| Tear-dimmed | adj | Of one's sight dimmed or obscured by tears. |
| Teardown | n | A well-maintained structure bought and torn down to mke way for a new structure. |
| Teardrop | n | A single tear. |
| Teared | adj | Teary; tear-filled, lacrimal, larmoyant. 2. ripped, riven, rend. |
| Tear-filled | adj | Full of tears, lacrimal, larmoyant; lachrymose; tearful, sorrowful, sad. 2. pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying. |
| Tear-freshened | adj | Eyes, cheeks, face 'freshened' by teardrops. 2. (fig.) as white flowers, tear-freshened, for pale sorrow's brow. |
| Tearful | adj | Crying or inclined to cry; weeping abundantly. 2. causing or accompanied with tears. |
| Tearfully | adv | While crying, in a sad emotional state. |
| Tearfulness | n | The quality of being tearful. |
| Tearily | adv | In a tearful state or manner. |
| Teariness | n | The state or condition of being tearful. |
| Tearing | adj | Rushing along as in a hurry or a rage. 2. (slang) tremendous, mighty. |
| Tear-kissed | adj | affected by tears. |
| Tearless | adj | Without shedding a tear. 2. dry-eyed. |
| Tear-mourned | adj | Mourned with a show of tears and sadness. |
| Tear-off | n | (Of a slip., plastic bag, etc) that can be removed by tearing off, usually along a perforated line. |
| Tear-salt | n | Salt present in teardrops. |
| Tear-shedded | adj | Crying, lacrimal, lachrymose. |
| Tear-sheet | n | A page that can be removed from a newspaper or magazine etc containing matters of a particular interest, or for use separately. |
| Tear-shell | n | An explosive shell containing poison-gas which causes irritation, blindness and watering of the eyes. |
| Tear-swollen | adj | Of eyes swollen by frequent crying or irritation. |
| Tearthumb | n | A common name for a group of annual vine plants within the genus Polygonum, notable for the small, sharp spines covering the stems, which "tear the thumb", leading to the common name. The spines are used for climbing, and can puncture the leaves of plants being used as supports. Tearthumbs include the Halberd-leaf tearthumb; the Arrowleaf tearthumb both found in North America and the Asian 'Mile-a-minute' |
| Teary | adj | Tearful. |
| Tease | vb | OE: to pick wool. 2. in a spinning sense: to tear into pieces, strip. 2. to annoy, make fun of. |
| Tease | phr | "Tease Out" - separate by disentanglement. |
| Teasel | n | A plant of the genus "Dipsacus." |
| Teaselwort | n | Lindley's name for the plant of N.O. Dispacaeceae. |
| Teasing | n | The action or act of pulling asunder wool. |
| Teasing | adj | Irritating, bad tempered, tetchy, teasingly. |
| Teasingly | adv | In an irritating, bad-tempered , tetchy manner. |
| Teasy | adj | Annoying, irritating, irascible. |
| Ted | n | Newly mowed grass left for drying. |
| Ted | vb | OE: (from O.N.) To spread out, scatter, or strew abroad. 2. to scatter, dissipate. 3. to spread out cut corn or flax on the ground for drying. 4. to arrange hair; tidy a room etc. |
| Tee | vb | OE:teon. 2. to draw, pull, drag, pull. 3. to draw for oneself; to take to or upon oneself. 4. to draw, lead, entice, allure, to bring, into some condition. 5. to bring up, train up, discipline, advocate, teach. 6. to betake oneself; to withdraw. 7. to draw out, protract. 8. to proceed, to go. |
| Tee | vb | To accuse, show, make known, tell. |
| Tee-off | vb | To hit out, attack, reprimand, criticize severely. |
| Teed off | adj | Angry, annoyed, irritated, disgruntled, indignant. |
| Teem | vb | To bring forth, produce, give birth to, bear off-spring (also fig). 2. to bring forth young, bear or produce off-spring. 3. to be pregnant, to be full, as if ready to give birth. 4. to be prolific or fertile, to abound, swarm. 5. to call God to witness, to cite or call to witness. |
| Teem | vb | In OE only: to refer to or trace properly for evidence of ownership. 2.to be a third person representing the party from whom it was acquired; to vouch to warranty. 3. to attach oneself (to any one} in fealty, dependence, trust or love; to turn or draw to. 4. to acclaim as lord, to offer or dedicate to God. 5. to proceed to, to train, repair. 6. to think fairly; vouchsafe. |
| Teem | phr | "To God I Teem" - to rely or appeal to for confirmation or testimony; to refer or appeal to for testimony. |
| Teemful | adj | Productive, prolific, fruitful, teeming. |
| Teemfulness | n | The state or condition of being prolific; prolificity. |
| Teemimg | n | The production of bringing forth of off-spring, breeding, child-bearing. 2. off-spring collectively; progeny, produce, abundance, productiveness, fecundity, fertility, fruitfulness. |
| Teeming | adj | That bears or breeds off-spring; pregnant, gravid, fructifying, germinating, sprouting. 2. abundantly productive, fertile, prolific. 3. abounding, swarming, crowded. |
| Teemingly | adv | Productively, fruitfulness. |
| Teemingness | adj | Productiveness, prolific, fertility, fecundity. |
| Teemless | adj | Not bringing forth young or fruit; barren. |
| Teen | n | OE: hurt, trouble, wrong, injury. 2. harm, inflicted, or suffered; injury, hurt, mischief, damage. 3. irritation, vexation, annoyance, anger, wrath, anger, spite, ill-will, malice. 4. something vexatious, cause, of annoyance and trouble. 5.affliction, trouble, suffering, grief, woe. 6. trouble or pain taken about something. 7. pain, physical suffering. |
| Teen | n | OE form of ten; an element in numerals and a separate word, "as at nineteen, he was almost out of his teens". 2. forming ordinal numbers between, from the cardinal in thirteen to nineteen 3. a young person in his teen years. 4. the years between thirteen and nineteen years of age. |
| Teen | vb | To vex, irritate, annoy, anger, enrage. 2. to inflict suffering on, to harass, injure, harm. 3. to cause physical pain or injury; to hurt, to grief, sorrow to, to grieve, distress. 4. to be vexed or angry; to distress oneself, be grieved. |
| Teen | vb | To fence, hedge, make a hedge in raddles. |
| Teendom | n | The state or condition of being a teenager. 2. teenhood. |
| Teener | n | One in their teenage years. |
| Teener | n | A man who keeps (or teens) in order the raddle-fences |
| Teenful. | adj | Causing trouble or sorrow, troublesome, painful, grievous, distressing. 2. harmful, injurious. 3. angry, wrathful, malicious, spiteful. 4. sorrowful, grieved, sad. |
| Teenfully | adv | Sadly, lamentably, grievously, harmfully. 2. angrily, wrathfully. |
| Teen-hedge | n | A pleated or raddled hedge. |
| Teenhood | n | State of being in one's teenage years. 2. teendom. |
| Teening | n | The act or action of wrongdoing, affliction, sorrowing, grief. |
| Teen-like | adj | Resembling or similar to a person of teenage years. |
| Teenness | n | Youthful; characteristic of persons in their teens. |
| Teens | n | The years between thirteen and nineteen years of age. |
| Teeth | n | The plural of tooth. |
| Teeth | phr | "Armed to the Teeth" - carry many weapons, or possessing as much as possible to give one an advantage. |
| Teeth | phr | "Bare one's Teeth" - reveal one's intention to fight, resist. |
| Teeth | phr | "Bit Between One's Teeth" - eager, but out of control |
| Teeth | phr | "Draw One's Teeth" - ccause somebody/something to be less a danger. |
| Teeth | phr | "Fed Up to One's Black Teeth" - very bored, tired. |
| Teeth | phr | "Get One's Teeth Into (Something)" - make a determined effort to do something. |
| Teeth | phr | "Give One's Back Teeth For" - do anything to obtain something. |
| Teeth | phr | "Grit One's Teeth" - hide one's feelings. |
| Teeth | phr | "In the Teeth Of" - against, in conflict with. |
| Teeth | phr | "In the Teeth of the Wind" - with the wind against one's face. |
| Teeth | phr | "Lie Through One's Teeth" - to tell a gross or extremely bad or sinister lie |
| Teeth | phr | "Skin Of One's Teeth" - only just. |
| Teethe | vb | To grow or cut one's first teeth, especially milk teeth. |
| Teethed | adj | Having produced or grown teeth. |
| Teethful | adj | Having a full set of teeth. 2. a large bite or mouthful more than a mouthful. |
| Teething | n | The process in babyhood, of cutting one first teeth. |
| Teeth-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of teeth. |
| Teething ring | n | A small ring for an infant t bite on while teething. |
| Teethy | adj | Well supplied with teeth. |
| Teke | vb | To eke. |
| Teke | prep | In addition to, besides. |
| Teken | adv | In addition, besides, moreover, ekishly. |
| Teld | n | A tent, pavilion, covering, tabernacle, dwelling, building, cage. |
| Teld-stede | n | A dwelling place, tabernacle, building. |
| Teldwright | n | A tent-maker. |
| Teld | vb | To spread, spread a net, set a trap or snare, raise. 2. pitch a tent, hence erect a building of any kind. 3. to build, raise, erect. 4.to encamp, take up a station, residence. |
| Teld | adj | Having awns, curtained, stationed, encamped, lodged. |
| Tele | n | A hostile or malevolent attack, persecution. 2. evil-speaking, detraction, calumny, blame. 3. allurement, enticement, deceit. |
| Tele | vb | To speak evil of, or to revile, calumniate, mock, scorn, deride. 2. to deceive, entrap. |
| Tell | vb | To count, reckon, or enumerate. 2. to narrate. 3. to convey by speech; to say. 4. to instruct or inform. 5. to order; to direct, to say to someone. 6. to discern, notice, identify or distinguish. 7. to reveal; to be revealed. 8. to have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated. 9. to use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer. 10. to inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing |
| Tell | phr | "All Told" - altogether. |
| Tell | phr | "As Far As One Can Tell" - judging from the available information. |
| Tell | phr | "As Far as I Can Tell" - I assure you. 2. as far as one knows, is aware. |
| Tell | phr | "I Can Tell You" - I assure you. |
| Tell | phr | "If I Told You Once, I Told You a Hundred Times" - I express resentment at the need to constantly repeat some statement. |
| Tell | phr | "I Tell You What" - I propose, suggest. |
| Tell | phr | "I Told You Sold" - I predicted it would happen. |
| Tell | phr | "Live to Tell the Tale" - survive. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell Against" - be something which hinders or hampers somebody preventing him or her from succeeding etc. 2. weigh against. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell All" - confess to, or describe fully matters (especially concerned with one's own history , habits and activities) that one would prefer to gloss over or suppress. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell a Lie" - not be truthful about something. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell a Tale" - be significant or revealing. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell By" - tell, deduce by observing something. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell From" - distinguish one person or thing from another (which may be similar or difference to). |
| Tell | phr | "Tell it Like it Is?" - to speak frankly, to convey all and only the truth of a situation. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell Its Own Tale" - to claerly demonstrate or indicate the truth about what happened. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell Me Another" - an expression of incredulity: I do not believe you. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell Off" - reprimand; scold, reproach; dress down. 2. count off, or detach for duty. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell On" - to betray; inform on. 2. to exhaust the energy of somebody. 3. have an effect on the health or condition of. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell One's Beads" - to say one's beads (with a rosary). |
| Tell | phr | "Tell Somebody Where to Go" - scold, reprimand, rebuke. 2. tell somebody where to get off. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell Tales" - spread information about another's secrets, misdeeds, faults, habits. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell Tales Out of School" - indulge in gossip. 2. to deliberately leak a secret. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell the Same Old Tale" - repeated an often told story. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell the Tale" - solicit or seek sympathy by exaggerating one's misfortune. 2. spin a tale. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell the Truth" - be perfectly honest, frank, truthful, factually and forthcoming. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil" - tell the truth, esp. in circumstances where there seems to be good reasons or strong temptation not to do so. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell the World" - to state categorically, openly, or emphatically. 2. make somethinng publicly known to as many people as possible. |
| Tell | phr | "Tell Where to Get Off" - reproach, rebuke, admonish. |
| Tell | phr | "That Would Be Telling" - that would be to reveal too much (confidential, secret) information. |
| Tell | phr | "There's No Telling" - it is impossible to know; there's no telling what may happen. |
| Tell | phr | "What Did I Tell You" - what I said what was true. |
| Tell | phr | "You Never Can Tell" - It could happen. |
| Tell | phr | "You're Telling Me" - I agree wholeheartedly. |
| Tell-all | n | Revelationary account, tending to disclose private information. |
| Teller | n | One who relates, makes known or announces. 2. one who counts or keeps tally, an officer who undertaking banking duties. |
| Tellership | n | The office of a teller. 2. one who tells. 3. a teller of tales. |
| Telling | adj | Having a marked effect; striking. 2. significant. |
| Telling | phr | "That Would Be Telling" - that would be to reveal too much (confidential, secret) information. |
| Telling | phr | "There's No Telling" - it is impossible to know; there's no telling what may happen. |
| Telling | phr | "You're Telling Me" - I agree wholeheartedly. |
| Tellingly | adv | Convincing; in a telling manner. |
| Telling-off | n | A scolding, rebuke, chiding, a reproof. |
| Telly | adj | Effective, forcible, striking. |
| Tell-tale | n | One who maliciously or idly divulges private or secret matters. 2. a device for automatic monitoring or registering of a process. |
| Tell-tale smile | n | The way a person smiles, some claim, can apparently tell much about their personality or their mood at the time. |
| Telwe | vb | To whittle a stick. |
| Temple | n | A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith. 2. (Judaism) a synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue. 3. (fig.) any place regarded as holding a religious presence. 4. anything regarded as important or minutely cared for. 5. (fig,) a gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together. 6. NB. temple (part of the head) is from Old French. |
| Temple | vb | To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to a god. |
| Templed | adj | Having or abounding in temples, as Myanmar, Cambodia etc. |
| Temple-like | adj | Resembling a temple or some aspect of one, such as Angkor Wat or Borobudur. |
| Temse | n | A sieve; esp. one used for boiling metal; a strainer. |
| Temse | vb | To sift, sieve, strain or bolt flour with a temse. |
| Temse-maker | n | A maker or manufacturer of a temse. |
| Ten | n | The number following nine. 2. a card in a given suit with a value of ten. 3. denomination of currency with a value of ten units. 4. (slang) a perfect specimen,(particularly) a physically attractive person. 5.(slang) a high level of intensity |
| Ten | phr | "Ten Feet Tall" - pleased with and proud of oneself. |
| Ten | phr | "Ten to One" - the chances are very much in favor; there is a strong probability. |
| Tenfold | adj | Ten times as much or as many (adv). 2. consisting of ten parts. 3. ten times repeated. |
| Tenfoldness | n | The property of being tenfold. |
| Ten-four | n | (Trucker's slang): acknowledged of a message received. |
| Tenish | adj | Any time close to ten o'clock. 2. anything close to ten. 3. tennish. |
| Ten-score | n | Two Hundred. |
| Tenth | adj | Coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position.
2. Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others. 3. constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided. |
| Tenth | n | A tenth part; one part in ten equal parts; one-tenth, tenth, tenth part, ten percent. 2. position ten in a countable series of things. 3. the next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others. 4. the quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided. 5. the tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe. 6. the interval between any tone and the tone
represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third. 7.pl. (Eng. Law) a temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject. 8. the tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty. |
| Tenth | phr | "The Tenth Wave" - Commonly believed to be higher than preceding nine waves. Although it is true that wind effect causes one wave to override another, and so make a larger wave, it is not established that the eleventh wave will do this - so making a larger tenth wave. |
| Tenthly | adv | The Upper Ten; the aristocracy, the elite; the cream of society. |
| Tenths | n | Tenths was a form of tax on clergy taking up a benefice or ecclesiastical position in Great Britain. |
| Tetter | n | A pustular skin eruption, e.g. eczema. |
| Tetterwort | n | Chelidonium majus, swallow-wort; in America: the blood-root or puccoon. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Ticchen | n | A kid, a young goat, a titchen |
| Tidder | vb | To be productive or prolific. 2. to produce offspring; to tudder. |
| Tide | n | A portion. 2. extent with space of time, an age, a season, a while. 3. a point in the duration of the day, month or year. 4. an action with repetition; occasion. 5. a suitable, fit, opportune or favourable season or proper time or occasion. 6. an appointed or fixed time; a definite time in the course of the day, such as eventide, noontide. 7. a point at which any hour is completed; as at tenth tide of the day. 8. a more or less definite point or season in the course of a year, or of life; such as winter-tide, New year-tide. 9. an anniversary of or festival, village fair of the church's saints, such as St Boltulf tide or day. |
| Tide | vb | To happen, befall, betide. 2. to fall as a lot or portion. 3. to fare, get on well or ill. 4. to meet with or experience good or evil fortune. 5. to carry forward, as time does. 6. to carry through an undertaking, to enable, to overcome a difficulty. |
| Tide | phr | "Tide Over" - get over turmoil, difficulty, stress. |
| Tideful | adj | Seasonable, opportune, right, fit or convenient of time. |
| Tidefulness | n | Fit or expedient season. 2. state or condition of being tideful. |
| Tidefully | adv | Opportune, fittingly, conveniently. |
| Tideless-blooded | adj | Whose blood is unstirred by passion or emotion. |
| Tiding | n | Something that happens. 2. event, incident, occurrence. 3. custom, usage. 4. announcement of an event; piece of news. 5. flow or rising of the tide; fig. a rising or surge. |
| Tidingman | n | In Marylands and parts of New England, an officer elected and charged with the responsibility of preventing disorderly conduct; a law enforcement officer. |
| Tidings | n | Report, news, intelligence. 2. information, indication, trace. |
| Tidings-bearer | n | Newsman, news-bringer, reporter, news-maker. intelligence informer. |
| Tidingless | adj | Without tidings or news. |
| Tiding time | n | Duration of time or occurrence; "the seizure lasted until the tiding time and then went off in a gentle kindly sweats in the ebbs. |
| Tie | n | Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front; necktie. 2. a social or business relationship. affiliation, association, tie-up. 3. equality of score in a contest.
4. a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating; beam. 5. a fastener that serves to join or connect; during construction; link, linkup, tie-in. 6. the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided; draw, standoff. 7. in music a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value8. one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track. tie, railroad tie, crosstie, sleeper. 9. a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied. |
| Tie | vb | Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord, bind. 2. finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc. 3. limit or restrict to. 4. connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; connect, link, link up 5. form a knot or bow in. 6. create social or emotional ties; bond. 7. perform a marriage ceremony; : marry, wed, splice, "tie the knot". 8. make by tying pieces together; "The fishermen tied their flies. 9. unite musical notes by a tie. |
| Tie | phr | "Tie in with." - be logically associated with |
| Tie | phr | "Tie someone down." - make someone decide, or restrict somebody freedom. |
| Tight | n | Only in O.E., the action of drawing, draught, going, cause, way. 2. bring-up, rearing, training, educator, good breeding, good behaviour. |
| Til | prep | Until |
| Tile | n | A flat thin rectangular slab,as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum, used to cover surfaces, such as roofing, wall or draining or floor tile. 2. game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, 3. a stiff hat. (coll). |
| Tile | vb | Covered with tiles, roofed or laid with tiles. |
| Tile | adj | OE: serviceable, good, excellent. 2. gain, profit, wealth, possesions. |
| Tile earth | n | A species of strong, clayey earth; stiff and stubborn land. |
| Tiler | n | A tradesman who covers various surfaces with tiles |
| Tiles | phr | "On the tiles." - out at night enjoying oneself. |
| Tiling | n | The action of tiling; covering with tiles |
| Tile-shard | n | A broken piece or fragment of tile |
| Tile-theeker | n | One who covers roofs with tiles. 2. a roofer; "thathcher" |
| Tile-wright | n | A maker of tiles. |
| Till | vb | To labour, work for, or at, to cultivate, plough. 2. to labour after, seek after, provide to, get by effort, to acquire or earn by labour. 3. to take care; to attend to medically; to treat a patient or a disease. 4. to bestow labour and attention, such as ploughing, harrowing, manuring, etc; on land to make it fit for raising crops and cultivaion. 5. prepare, spread in preparation. 6. set a trap or snare. 7. spread in 8. to pitch a tent. |
| Till | vb | To touch, reach, attain, obtain. 2. to reach, extend to a specific point or distance. 3. to stretch a thing out. 4. to draw away, to draw, attract, persuade. 5. entice, allure, coax, win over, proceed. |
| Tiller | n | One who tills the soil or cultivate any crop or plant. 2. a husbandman, tillman, tillsman, cultivator, farmer, earth-tiller, tilth-man, tilther. |
| Tiller | n | A plant, a shoot; esp., a shoot or sucker from the root. 2. a young tree, sapling; esp., a stock, shoot raising from the stock or stem of a felled tree. |
| Tillered | adj | Having several shoots spreading from the roots; also fig. renewed growth. |
| Till-hew | vb | To cut or hew in pieces. |
| Tilling | n | The cultivation or the act of cultivation of land in order to raise crops. |
| Tilly | adj | Abouding in, or of the nature of tilly or tenacious clay. |
| Tilth | n | Labour, the act of labour, work or effort directed to useful or profitable ends. 2. right-tilth or honest labour. 3. labour in cultivation, agricultural work, husbandry. 4. the cultivation or knowledge in morality, religion or the mind. 5. the result or produce of tilling, a crop or harvest. 6. land under cultivation, as distinguished from pastures. 7. tilled or arable land, tilth-ground or a ploughed field. 8. prepared surface, soil, "the crumbs." 9. the depth of soil ploughed or cultivated. |
| Tilth | vb | To cultivate, till, plough. 2. to cultivate things of the mind |
| Tilthing | n | The act of cultivation, (fig & lit). |
| Tilward | adj | To the direction of, towards. |
| Timber | n | The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material; lumber.
2. a beam made of wood. 3. a post made of wood. 4. land that is covered with trees and shrubs, forest, woodland. 5. wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like. 6. the body, stem, or trunk of a tree. 7. material for any structure. |
| Timber | vb | To build, construct, make. 2. of a bird, to build a nest. 3. to construct, have affect, do, form, cause, bring about, bring into existence or operation (any action, condition, etc.) 4. to add fuel to a fire. 5. to support by means of timber, a roof or other structure. 6. to cover or frame with timber. 7. of a tree, to form or produce wood or timber. 8. to surmount as timber. 9. to furnish with timber. |
| Timber | phr | "To timber out" - to divide timber into beams, planks etc.; suitable for building. |
| Timberless | adj | Devoid or without timber. |
| Timber-monger | n | Trader in timber and timber products. |
| Time | n | In instance or single occasion for some event. 2. a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something. 3. an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities 4. a suitable moment. 5. the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past. 6. a person's experience on a particular occasion.
7. a reading of a point in time as given by a clock; clock. 8. the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event; fourth dimension. 9. rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration meter, metre. 10: the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; prison term, sentence, time. |
| Time | vb | To befall, happen, farewell, prosper. 2.to measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain per-iod of time. 3. assign a time for an activity or event. 3.set the speed, duration, or execution of. 4.regulate or set the time of, to regulate, or agree with, in time of movement. 5. adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time. 6. to ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen. 7. to measure, as in music or harmony. 8. to keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. 9. to pass time; to delay. [Obs.] |
| Time | phr | "Ahead of one's time." - Have, or with, an idea or invention that is too advanced for one's contemparies. |
| Time | phr | "All in good time." - as soon as seems appropriate. |
| Time | phr | "At one time." - at some time in the past. |
| Time | phr | "Do time."- serve a prison sentence. |
| Time | phr | "For the time being" - meanwhile. |
| Time | phr | "Time and time again" - very often, repetitiously, repeatedly, time and again. |
| Time | phr | "Time is ripe" - it is, or was, a very suitable occasion or period (for something to happen or to be done); time is sufficiently advanced. |
| Time | phr | "Time of your life." - a thrilling memorable experience. Time here is an episode, usually an all-to brief period. |
| Time | phr | "Time on my hands." - I'm bored, I haven't enough to do. |
| Time | phr | "Time out of mind"- from a time or during a period of human memory. |
| Time | phr | "Time stood still"- applied to moments of, or periods of ectasy or profound absorption; (there seemed to be no such thing as time.) |
| Time | phr | "Time with his sickle."- is time personified; "Time" has an hour-glass in one hand, a sickle in the other." |
| Time | phr | "Time when"- or "there was a time when" one was able or accustomed to do something. |
| Timeful | adj | Seasonable, early in the season, temporal |
| Timeless | adj | Unaffected by time, dateless, unseasonable, untimely. 2. done or occurring before the proper time. 3. having no end, unending. |
| Timelessness | n | State of external existence believed in by some religions characterised by the afterlife. 2. eternity, everlastingness,foreverness, neverendingness. |
| Timeliness | n | Being art the right time, seasonableness. 2. timely convenience. 3. quality or state of being timely, opportuneness. |
| Timely | adv | Without ref to time; independently of the passage of time. |
| Timer | n | A timepiece that measures a time interval and signals it's end. 2. a timekeeper in sport or the workplace. 3. a regulator that activates or deactivates a mechanism at set times. |
| Timesharing | n | A computer term in which a number of users at different terminals simultaneously use a single computer for different purposes. 2. in real estate a plan in which persons share ownership or rental costs of a holiday home, entitling each person or participant to use the residence ata specific time each year. |
| Timesome | adj | Of, or pertaining to, exists in, or subject to time, as opposed eternity. 2. of finite duration, temporal. |
| Timesomeness | n | State or condition of being timesome - subject to time, temporalness. |
| Timeward | adv | Temporal |
| Timeworn | adj | Worn by the process of time; impaired by age. |
| Timing | n | The time when something happens. 2. the regulation of occurrence, pace or co-ordination to achieve a desired effect, as in music theatre, athletics, mechanics. |
| Tin | n | 3. money; cash. 4. policeman's badge. |
| Tin-arsed | adj | Lucky, (Australian slang); also tinny. |
| Tind | vb | To kindle, to be kindled, to burn. |
| Tinder | n | Any dry flammable substance that readily catches fire. |
| Tinder-box | n | A container that holds tinder or kindle. |
| Tin-can | n | A warship; esp., a destroyer. |
| Tinder-dry | adj | Any flammable substance, so dry, as ready to burn. |
| Tinderish | adj | Inclined or likely to burn; tenderly. |
| Tindle | n | A name given locally, in parts of England, to small fires lighted or lit outdoors at the beginning of May and November. |
| Tine | n | A prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler. 2. a tooth. 3. affliction, trouble; distress, vexation; "Cruel winter's tine." (see "teen) |
| Tine | vb. | See Tind. to kindle; to set on fire. "To tine the cloven wood." |
| Tine | vb | To furnish with prongs, a rake, fork, harrow and other similar implements. nb: three-tined: three-prong. |
| Tin-eared | adj | Tone deaf. |
| Tin-hat | n | A steel hat to protect soldiers from shrapnel. 2. a general officer. |
| Tin-hat | phr | "To put the tin hat on." - to bring something to a close or climax. |
| Tinhorn | n | A cheap gambler, esp. who acts slowly and gambles for low stakes. 2. poor or comptemptible person. 3. an inferior, contemptible, pretentious person. |
| Tinman | n | A man who works in or with tin; a tinsmith. 2. a dealer in tinware. 3. ship engaged in the carriage of tin ore. |
| Tinned | adj | Coated or plated with tin. 2. preserved in air-tight tins; canned. |
| Tinnen | adj | Made of or consisting of tin. |
| Tinnet | n | Brushwood for making or repairing hedges (from OE: tynet.) |
| Tin-opener | n | A can-opener. |
| Tintreg | n | Grief, affliction, vexation, torment. |
| Tintregend | n | One who afflicts torment and vexation on others. |
| Tintregh | vb | OE: to grieve, afflict, vex. 2. to torment. torture. 3. to tintreg. |
| Tire | vb | To fail, diminish, give out, come to an end. 2. to become weak or exhausted from exertion. 4. to have one's strength reduced or worn out by toil or labour. 5. to become fatigued. 5. to become weary by wanting for something. 6. to become weary or exhausted by excess; to have had enough. |
| Tire | phr | "To tire down" - to exhaust a hunted animal by persistent pursuit; to run down. |
| Tired | adj | Exhausted, fatigued, worn-out. |
| Tiredness | n | The state of being tired or fatigued. 2. weariness, fatigue. |
| Tireless | adj | Of persons, untiring, indefatiguable. |
| Tirelessly | adv | In a tireless manner; without tiring, untiringly. |
| Tirelessness | n | The quality or condition of being tireless; indefatiguableness. |
| Tiresome | adj | Having the property of tiring by continuance, sameness or lack of interest. 2. wearisome, tedious, irritating. 3. loosely, troublesome, disagreeable, unpleasant, irksome, annoying, vexatious. |
| Tiresomely | adv | In a tedious manner, tediously, fatiguing. |
| Tiresomeness | n | Condition or quality of being tired or weary, wearisome, tedious. |
| Tiring | n | Producing exhaustion, exhausting, wearing, wearying. 2. draining, toilsome, trying. |
| Tiring | adj | Wearied, fatigued, exhausting. |
| Tiringly | adv | In a tiring manner; to a wearisome degree. |
| Tithe | n | A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges. 2. a granting, a concession, boon, 3. one whom a concession or grant is made. 4. one successful in prayer or beseeching. |
| Tithe | vb | To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on. 2. to grant, concede, bestow a tithe. 3. to decimate. |
| Tithe-barn | n | A barn for holding the parson tithe corn. |
| Tithed | adj | Subject to, charged with or liable for the payment of a tithe. 2. taken or paid by way of a tithe. |
| Tithe-free | Adj | To be free or exempt from the payment of a tithe. |
| Tithe-less | adj | without tithes, not in receipt of tithes. |
| Titheman | n | One who pays a tithe. |
| Tither | n | A receiver or exactor of a tithe. 2. one who pays a tithe. 3. a supporter of the system of ecclesiastical tithes. |
| Titheling | n | Tenth part tithe. |
| Tithe-monger | n | One who deals in tithes |
| Tithe-taker | n | One who collects tithes. |
| Tithing | n | The act of levying, payment and collecting of tithes. 2. a payment of one-tenth of a total. 3. a stook or shock of ten sheaves. 4. one-tenth of anything. 5.a company of ten householders. 6. the killing of every tenth man or beast; a decimation. 7. the killing of all but one man, soldier etc from a group of ten. |
| Tithingman | n | A chief man responsible for the collecting of tithes. 2. a parish peace-keeping officer; a petty constable. 3. one who rules or leads a group of ten. |
| Tiver | n | A red colouring. 2. a secret or magical writing; a charm, talisman; sorcery. |
| Tiver | vb | To mark or colour with tiver or red. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Th | sfx | Suffix-forming nouns, such as strength, breadth, wealth, width etc. 2. with numbers, such as five - fifth. 2. forming nouns from verbs denoting action or process (growth; birth). 3. forming nouns of state from adjectives (breadth, filth, length). |
| Thack | n | The roof of a house or building made of thack, theck or thatch. |
| Thack | vb | To put or cover a roof with thatch. 2. to thatch. |
| Thack | vb | To clap with the open hand or like. 2. to pat, slap, hit lightly with the hand. 3. to beat, flog, shower with with blows. |
| Thacked | adj | Thatched. |
| Thacking | n | The action of covering or thatching a roof. |
| Thackster | n | A female thatcher. |
| Thackless | adj | Without thatching or a covering of thack. |
| Thae | prn | That. |
| Thames | n | The river Thames; The Thames. |
| Thameside | adj | Located beside the Thames. |
| Than | conj | A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. |
| Than | prp | Introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates. Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longerthan two years. |
| Thane | n | See "Thegn" a servant, minster, attendant, often applied to Christ's disciples. 2. a military attendant, follower, retainer, soldier. 3. a warrior, brave man. |
| Thanedom | n | The domain and jurisdiction of a thane. |
| Thanehood | n | The condition or rank of a thane; thegnhood. |
| Thaneland | n | Land held by a thane, usu. through military service. |
| Thane-right | n | Legal rights and privilege of a thane. |
| Thaneship | n | Office or position of a thane. |
| Thank | vb | To express gratitude to or appreciation for. |
| Thank | phr | "Give Thanks" - say grace at a meal. |
| Thank | phr | "I Will Thank You" - polite formula implying reproach. 2. an expression of pious gratitude. |
| Thank | phr | "Small Thanks to" - despite. |
| Thank | phr | "Thank God" - an expression of relief or pleasure. |
| Thank | phr | "Thank Goodness" - an expression of relief or pleasure. |
| Thank | phr | "Thank Heaven" - an expression of relief or pleasure. |
| Thank | phr | "Thanks to" - as the good or bad result of. |
| Thank | phr | "Thank You" - an polite expression or show of gratitude. 2. a polite formula acknowledging a gift or service or an offer accepted or refused. |
| Thank | phr | "Thank You Very Much" |
| Thankful | adj | Feeling or showing gratitude; a grateful. 2. obtaining or deserving thanks; thank-worthy. 2. impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it. |
| Thankfully | adv | In a thankful and grateful manner or way. 2. in showing thanks for kindness received. 3. grateful; appreciative |
| Thankfulness | n | The quality or condition of being thankful. 2. gratefulness, gratitude, gratification, satisfaction. |
| Thanking | n | The action or action of giving thanks; an expression of gratitude. |
| Thankless | adj | Not moved or expressing thanks or gratitude; without thanks, ungrateful. 2. also fig. of thinks making no return or unresponsive. 3. not feeling or showing gratitude; ungrateful, unthankful. 4. not likely to be rewarded; unappreciated, ungratifying. 5. not acknowledging favors; not expressing thankfulness; unthankful; ungrateful. 4. Not obtaining or deserving thanks; unacceptable; as, a thankless task. 6. without thanks; unappreciated; fruitless, unrewarding. |
| Thanklessly | adv | In a thankless manner, without thanks, in an unthankful manner. |
| Thanklessness | n | Ingratitude. |
| Thanklewe | adj | Deserving of thanks, thankworthy or grateful, agreeable. |
| Thankly | adv | In a thanking manner. |
| Thank-offering | n | An offering made as an act of thanksgiving. 2. a gift made as a token of gratitude. |
| Thanks | n | An acknowledgment of appreciation. 2. with the help of or owing to.
3. an expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural. |
| Thanks | phr | "Thanks for Coming" - |
| Thanks | phr | "Thanks for Nothing" - |
| Thanks | phr | "Thanks for Your Help" - |
| Thanks | phr | "Thanks To" - |
| Thanksgiving | n | The giving of thanks; the expression of thanks, the act of giving thanks. 2. giving thanks or gratitude to God. 3. an instance or means of expressing thanks. |
| Thanksgiving Day | n | A holiday taking place on the fourth Thursday of November; and the second Monday of October in Canada. |
| Thankworthy | adj | Worthy of thanks; deserving gratitude or credit. 2. meriting thanks. |
| Thankworthiness | n | The quality or condition of being thanksworthy. |
| Thank-you | n | An expression or show of gratitude. |
| Tharcake | n | |
| Tharf | n | Need, necessity. |
| Tharf | vb | To be under a necessity or obligation to do something. 2.imperative: "it is needful." |
| Tharf | adj | Unleavening of bread, lumpish, heavy. 2. slow, reluctant, unwilling, diffident. |
| Tharfish | adj | Somewhat or inclined to be slow, unwilling, diffident. 2. lumpish, heavy. |
| Tharfly | adv | In a tharfish or tharfly manner. |
| Tharfing | n | Unleavened bread or loaf. |
| Tharm | n | An intestine. 2. chiefly in the plural: bowels, viscera, entrails. 2. an intestine cleansed and prepared for catgut, etc. 3. fiddlestrings. |
| That | prn | As a demonstrative pronoun (pl. Those), that usually points out, or refers to, a person or thing previously mentioned, or supposed to be understood. That, as a
demonstrative, may precede the noun to which it refers; as, that which he has said is true. |
| That | adj | As an adjective, that has the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun. That was formerly sometimes used with the force of the article the, especially in the phrases that one, that other. |
| That | prn | As a relative pronoun, that is equivalent to who or which, serving to point out, and make definite, a person or thing spoken of, or alluded to, before, and may be either singular or plural. |
| That | conj | As a conjunction, that retains much of its force as a demonstrative pronoun: to introduce a clause employed as the object of the preceding verb, or as the subject or predicate nominative of a verb. 2. to introduce, a reason or cause; -- equivalent to for that, in that, for the reason that, because.to introduce a purpose; -- usually followed by may, or might, and frequently preceded by so, in order, to the end, etc. 3. to introduce a consequence, result, or effect; -- usually preceded by so or such, sometimes by that. 4. to introduce a clause denoting time; -- equivalent to in which time, at which time, when. 5. in an elliptical sentence to introduce a dependent
sentence expressing a wish, or a cause of surprise, indignation, or the like. |
| That | adv | To such a degree; so; as, he was that frightened he could say nothing.All that, everything of that kind; all that sort. |
| That | phr | "All That' (followed by n adjective) - very. |
| That | phr | "And all That" - and all the various things associated with or similar to what has been mentioned; and so forth. |
| That | phr | "like That" - of that kind. 2. in that manner, as you are doing, etc. 3. without effort. 4. of that character. |
| That | phr | "That's All" - |
| That | phr | "That's All She Wrote" - |
| That | phr | "That Does It" - |
| That | phr | "That For Me to Know and You to find Out" - |
| That | phr | "That Is It" - |
| That | phr | "That Is to Say" - a formula introducing or explanation of a preceding or words. |
| That | phr | "That's It" - |
| That | phr | "That's Life" - |
| That | phr | "That's More Like It" - an a acknowledgement |
| That | phr | "That One" - |
| That | phr | "That's Right" - an expression of approval or assent. |
| That | phr | "That Said" - |
| That | phr | "That's That" - a formula concluding a narrative or discussion orr indicating completion or a task. |
| That | phr | "That Ship has Sailed" - |
| That | phr | That There" - |
| That | phr | "That Was It" - |
| That | phr | "That What She Said" - |
| That | phr | "That Will be the Day" - |
| That | phr | "That Will Do" - no more is needed or desirable. |
| That-a-way | adv | In that direction, in that manner, like that. |
| Thatch | n | The roof of a house or building made of thatch. 2. the thatched material used for making roofs, straw, reeds, palm or similar materials. |
| Thatch | vb | To put or cover a roof with thatch. 2. to thatch, theck, thack. |
| Thatcher | n | One who is skilled in the craft of thatching. |
| Thatcher's Children | n | |
| Thatching | n | The act or craft of roofing with thatch. 2. the materials used to thatch a roof. |
| Thatchlike | n | |
| Thatness | n | The quality or condition of existing or being "that" existing as a definite thing. |
| Thaw | n | The act or process of thawing. 2. the act or fact of becoming less formal, reserved, or aloof. 3. a reduction or easing in tension or hostility. 4. (in winter or in areas where freezing weather is the norm) weather warm enough to melt ice and snow. 5. a period of such weather: such as a two-week thaw in winter. |
| Thaw | vb | To pass or change from a frozen to a liquid or semi liquid state; melt. 3. to be freed from the physical effect of frost or extreme cold - sometimes followed by out: as in, sit by the fire and thaw out. 4. of the weather: to become warm enough to melt ice and snow. 5. to become less formal, aloof or reserved: to thaw at someone kindness. 6. to become less hostile, tense or nervous. 7. to cause to change from a frozen to a liquid or semi liquid state; melt. 8. to free from the physical effect of frost or extreme cold; bring to a more normal temperature, especially to room temperature. 9. to make less cold, formal, or reserved. 10. to make less tense or hostile. |
| Thaw | phr | "Thaw Out" - the melting of ce or snow by the warming of weather. 2. to become friendly after a nervous or tense earlier meetings. |
| Thawing | n | The state or condition of melting of ice. |
| Thawless | adj | That does not thaw; that never thaws. |
| Thawy | adj | Characterized by thaw; of or inclining to thaw. |
| The | adj | A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning. Nb: When placed before adjectives and participles, it converts them into abstract nouns; as, the sublime and the beautiful. The is used regularly before many proper names, as of rivers, oceans, ships, etc.; as, the Nile, the Atlantic, the Great Eastern, the West Indies, The Hague. The with an epithet or ordinal number often follows a proper name; as, Alexander the Great; Napoleon the Third. The may be employed to individualize a particular kind or species; as, the grasshopper shall be a burden. |
| The | adj | Used before adjectives of comparison. 2. used before an adverb for emphasis. |
| The | phr | "All the" - in the full degree to be expected (that makes it all the worse). |
| The | phr | "So Much the" - in that degree. (so much the worse for ...) |
| Theal | n | A floor, a board, deal. |
| Thede | n | A people, race, nation. 2. the nations: the gentiles (biblical). 3. a district occupied by a people; a country. |
| Thede-folk | n | People of a country; nation. |
| Thee | n | Success, prosperity, thriving. |
| Thee | n | Evil speed; bad luck. |
| Thee | vb | To grow, thrive, prosper, to cause to prosper. |
| Theedom | n | Thriving, prosperity. 2. ill-theedom: bad luck, used as a maledictory phrases. |
| Theeself | n | Oneself. |
| Theft | n | The act or crime of taking something from someone unlawfully. 2.the act or crime of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny. 3. the thing stolen. 4. appropriation, burglary, embezzlement, filch, filching, grab, heist, hijacking, lifting, pilferage, pilfering, pinch, pinching, purloining, rip-off, robbery, robbing, steal, shoplifting, snitching, stealing, swiping, taking, taking away, thievery, thieving. |
| Theftbote | n | (law, obsolete) The receiving of a person's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment. |
| Theftdom | n | The domain of thieves and thievery. |
| Theftful | adj | Thieving, stealthfully, slyly. |
| Theftfully | adv | Acting or behaving in theftful manner. |
| Theftless | adj | Not liable to be stolen. |
| Thegn | n | Same as a thane: a feudal lord or baron. 2. a man ranking above an ordinary freeman and below a noble in Anglo-Saxon England (especially one who gave military service in exchange for land) 3. dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place. Note: Among the ancient Scots, thane was a title of honor, which seems gradually to have declined in its significance. |
| Thegn-born | adj | Of noble or gentile birth. |
| Thegndom | n | A position or rank of a thegn. 2. thegns collectively. |
| Thegnhood | n | The state or condition of being a thegn: one engaged in a king's or queen's service; thanehood. |
| Thegnly | adv | Pertaining to or belonging to a thegn. |
| Thegnship | n | The domain or realm of a thegn or thegns. |
| Their | prn | ????? |
| Thellich | prn | Of this or such, kind, such-life, such. |
| Thellich | adj | Thing or things: of this; that, orsuch kind, such. |
| Them | phr | ???? |
| Themself | prn | ??? |
| Then | adv | At that time; afterwards , immediately, next in time. |
| Then | conj | For that reason; in that case. |
| Then | n | |
| Then | phr | "The Again" - |
| Then | phr | "Then and Now" - |
| Then | phr | "Then and There" - immediately, on the spot. |
| Then-a-days | adv | In those days, at that past time or epoch. |
| Thence | adv | From that time or place or source; for that reason. |
| Thenceforth | adv | From that time onwards; thereafter. |
| Thenceforward | adv | Thenceforth. |
| Thenne | adv | Thence. |
| Thenness | n | |
| Then-to'fore | adv | Before then, before that time, there to fore. |
| Theodisc | n | Thede. |
| Theofen | vb | To howl, to howl at. |
| Theow | n | Thew, a slave, bondman, thrall. |
| Theow | vb | To be a serf, or servant, to serve, minster. |
| Theowdom | n | The state of slavery, bondage, thraldom. |
| Theowful | adj | Full of or characterised by good qualities, good virtue, moral. |
| Theowfullness | n | State or quality of being good, virtuous, moral. 2. characterised by vigour, energy, robustness. |
| Theowish | adj | Servile, slavish, bondbound. |
| Theowlike | adj | Servile, slavish, base. |
| Theowten | vb | To serve, minister, officiate. |
| There | adv | In or at that place; there, at that place, in that location, here. 2. in that matter; there, in that respect, on that point. 3. to or toward that place; away from the speaker; thither. 4. a location other than here; that place. 5. in or at that place. 6. In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech. 7. To or into that place; thither. |
| There | phr | "There Again" - |
| There | phr | "There and Back" - |
| There | phr | "Have Been There Before" - know all about it. |
| There | phr | "Here and There" -in one place and another. |
| There | phr | "So there" - that is my final decision (whether you like it or not). |
| There | phr | "There and Then" - immediately, on the spot. |
| There | phr | "There From" - |
| There | phr | "There Is" - |
| There | phr | "There Is Much to be Said" - |
| There | phr | "There Is Nothing New Under the Sun" - |
| There | phr | "There It Is" - that is the trouble. 2. nothing can be done about it. |
| There | phr | "There Ought to be Law" - |
| There | phr | "There's More than One Way to Skin a Cat" - |
| There | phr | "There's More Where that Came From" - |
| There | phr | "There's Not an Easy Way to Say This" - |
| There | phr | "There's Nothing to it" - |
| There | phr | "There's Only One" - |
| There | phr | "There She Blows" - |
| There | phr | "There She Breaks" - |
| There | phr | "There, There" - |
| There | phr | "There You Are" - this is what you wanted etc. 2. expressing confirmation, triumph, resignation etc. |
| There | phr | "There You Have Have It" - |
| There | phr | "There You Go" - |
| Thereabout | adv | About or somewhere near a specific time or day. 2. about a state number, stated number, quantity, size, space of time, etc.; very nearly so; approximately so. 3. about, concerning or with reference to that matter or business. |
| Thereabouts | adv | Near that time or date. 2. near that place. 3. near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts; concerning that; about that. |
| Thereabove | adv | Up there, up yonder, in heaven; heaven. |
| Thereafter | n | Heaven; paradise. |
| Thereafter | adv | After that (time); afterwards; according to that. |
| There-afterwards | adv | During a time thereafter. |
| There-against | adv | Against, in opposition to. 2. as a set-off; thereto, contrary to; or the other side. 3. in pressure or impact against. |
| Thereamongst | adv | Among that, those or them; there-anent. |
| There-anent | adv | About, concerning, or in reference to that matter; relating to. |
| Thereas | adv | In that place, in which, where. |
| Thereat | adv | At that place; meeting etc; mentioned there; at such time. 2. to express as an attachment or thing. 3. at or in connection with a thing or process on what action is brought to be. 4. by means of that. |
| Thereatop | adv | |
| Thereaway | adv | Of motion: thither or in that direction. 2. of situation: away in that direction or region; in those parts; thereabouts. 3. sometimes about that number. 4. hence; round about. |
| Therebeyond | adv | |
| Thereby | adv | By that means; as a result or in consequence. |
| Thereby | adv | By that means or because of that. 2. by that, by that means. 3. in consequence of that. |
| Thereby | phr | "Thereby Hangs a Tale" - much could be said about that. |
| Therefor | adv | In formal usage, especially legal usage) for that or for it; "ordering goods and enclosing payment therefor"; "a refund therefor" 2. for that object or purpose, or this; for it. 3. for that or in consequence. |
| Therefore | adv | Used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; so cannot be, hence, thence, thus, so. 2. as a consequence; for that or this reason, referring to something previously stated; for that. 3. according to circumstances, accordingly, after all, all things considered, and so, as it is, as matters stand, because of that, because of this, ceteris paribus, for that, hence, hereat, it follows that, on that account, on that ground, on the whole, that being so, then, thence, thereat, therefor, therefrom, thereupon, this being so, thus, thusly, thuswise, whence, wherefore, wherefrom |
| Therefrom | adv | From that or it. |
| Therein | adv | In or into that thing or place, in this, in that. 2. in that or this place, time or thing, in that particular or respect. |
| Thereinafter | adv | Later, afterwards in the same document etc. |
| Thereinbefore | adv | Earlier in the same document etc. |
| Thereinto | adv | Into that or this place. |
| Thereinunder | adv | |
| Thereness | n | The condition or quality of being there. 2. existence in a defined place. |
| Therenigh | adv | Near that place or thing; nearby. |
| Thereof | adv | Of or concerning this or that. 2. from that circumstance or source. 3. of this or that. |
| Thereon | adv | On that, this or it (of motion or position). |
| Thereout | adv | Out of that; from that source. |
| Thereover | adv | Above that; in that position. |
| Therethrough | adv | Through that. |
| Therethroughout | adv | |
| Thereto | adv | To that or it. 2. in addition; to boot. |
| Theretofore | adv | Before that time. |
| Theretoward | adv | |
| Thereunder | adv | Under that; under this or that. 2. in accordance with that. 3. stated below that (in that document). |
| Thereunto | adv | To that or it. |
| Thereupon | adv | Immediately after that. |
| Therewith | adv | With that; soon or immediately fter that. |
| Therewithal | dv | In addition; besides. |
| Therewithin | adv | |
| Therf | n | ???? |
| Therk | adj | Dim, dark, dulling. |
| Therkness | n | Darkness, state of dusk, dimming. |
| Thes | adv | Because of or on account of that, because. 2. from that time, after that, from the time that, after. 3. in the way that, according as, as to that extent. |
| These | adj | The plural of this. See This. |
| The Starer | n | The owl. |
| The Thing | n | |
| Thester | n | Darkness, (lit & fig.) |
| Thester | vb | To become dark, grow dark, make dark, darken, dim. |
| Thesterful | adj | Full of darkness, very dark; thestri. |
| Thesterly | adv | Darkly, dimly. |
| Thesterness | n | Darkness, the tenebrum, tenabrae. |
| Thew | n | Thew, a slave, bondman, thrall. |
| Thew | n | Muscular strength, brawn; a muscle, sinew. 2. mental or moral vigor. |
| Thew | vb | To be a serf, or servant, to serve, minster. |
| Thew | vb | To instruct in morals and manners. 2. to instruct, discipline, train, chastise. 3. in compounds ill-thewed; well-thewed. |
| Thewdom | n | The state of slavery, bondage, thraldom. |
| Thewed | adj | Trained, instructed in morals, manners (of a specific kind). 2. in compounds ill thewed; well thewed. 3. having good qualities or manners. 4. having thews or muscles of a specific kind. |
| Thewedly | adv | In a well thewed way, virtuously |
| Thewful | adj | Full of or characterized by good qualities, good virtue, moral. |
| Thewfullness | n | State or quality of being good, virtuous, moral. 2. characterized by vigour, energy, robustness. |
| Thewish | adj | Servile, slavish, bond-bound. |
| Thewless | adj | Destitute of morals or virtue, vicious, immoral. 2. without morals, inert, spiritless. 3. weak; lacking strength, vigor. |
| Thewlessness | n | The state or condition of lacking morals. the state, condition or quality of being inert, spiritless. 3. the state of being weak; lacking strength, vigor. |
| Thewlike | adj | Servile, slavish, base. |
| Thewness | n | Virtue, vigour, robustness. |
| Thewten | vb | To serve, minister, officiate. |
| Thewy | adj | Having well-developed thews: sinewy, muscular, brawny. |
| They | prn | ???? |
| They'd | prn | They would, had.??? |
| They'll | prn | They will; they shall |
| They're | prn | They are. |
| Thick | adj | Not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions. 2. having component parts closely crowded together; compact; dense; crowded. 3. relatively dense in consistency. 4. spoken as if with a thick tongue; or brogue. 5. having a short and so-lid form or stature; compact, heavyset, stocky, thickset. 6.hard to pass through be-cause of dense growth; dense. 7. of darkness: very intense, deep. 8.informally: associated on close terms. 9. informally: stupid block-headed, boneheaded, duncical, dunceish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed. 10.abounding; having a lot of. |
| Thick | phr | "A Bit Thick" - unreasonable or intolerable. |
| Thick | phr | "In the Thick Of Things" - at the busiest part of, and actively involved or concerned with matters of importance or be in the midst of difficulties. |
| Thick | phr | "Lay It On Thick" - to flatter unduly. |
| Thick | phr | "Through Thick and Thin."- as through thick and thin. 2. steadfast under all conditions, and in spite of all opposition and difficulties. |
| Thick | phr | "Thick as Thieves" - |
| Thick ear | n | The external ear swollen as a result of a blow (esp give a person a thick ear). |
| Thicken | vb | To make or become thick or thicker. 2. become more complicated. |
| Thickening | n | The process of becoming thick or thicker. 2. a substance used to make liquid thicker. 3. a thicken part. |
| Thicket | n | A dense growth or tangle of bushes; brush, brushwood, shrubbery, copse. 2. a wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set. |
| Thickfold | adj | Thickly together in great numbers, amassed, teeming, in crowds. |
| Thickhead | n | An ignorant person; an idiot; a blockhead. |
| Thickheaded | adj | Ignorant, dull mentally, lacking mental alertness |
| Thickheadness | n | The state or quality of becoming thick-headed. |
| Thickish | adj | Somewhat thick. |
| Thick-knee | n | The stone curlew. |
| Thickly | adv | In a thick manner or way. |
| Thickness | n | The dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width 2: indistinct articulation. 3: used of a line or mark; heaviness. 4. resistance to flow. 5. the quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective). |
| Thick-skinned | adj | Not sensitive to reproach or criticism; not easily offended. |
| Thick-sighted | adj | Not seeing clearly; of hazy, obscure or dim vision. |
| Thickwit | n | One who is stupid, idiotic, lacking mental alertness. |
| Thick-witted | adj | Stupid, dull, lacking mental alertness. |
| Thief | n | ]One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny; robber; pilferer. Usage:a thief takes our property by stealth; a robber attacks us openly, and strips us by force |
| Thief-bird | n | The Frigate bird because of the bird unlovely habits of stealing each other's food, nesting material and even eggs. |
| Thief-bote | n | Compensation or recompense paid by a thief. |
| Thiefdom | n | The practice of theft, thievery, robbery. 2. realm or domain of thieves. |
| Thief-key | n | A skeleton key. |
| Thief-land | n | A name for Botany Bay, Australia. 2. the whole of the Australian Continent. 3. Thieveland. |
| Thief-like | adj | Stealthly, underhand, of a manner thievish; by stealth, furtively. |
| Thief-wycke | n | A district or wick full of thieves. 2. Botany bay, Sydney. |
| Thieve | vb | Take by theft; snitched, hook, cop, knock off, glom. 2. to practice theft; to steal. 3. defraud, embezzle, extort, filch, hook, lift, make off with, nip, pilfer, pinch, poach, purloin, run away with, rustle, shoplift, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, swindle, swipe, take, walk off with |
| Thieve | phr | "Thieve in the Night" - |
| Thieved | adj | Stolen, pilfered, taken stealthily. |
| Thieve-friend | n | Consort or friend of thieves. |
| Thieving | n | The act or action of stealing. 2. the practice of theft and stealing. |
| Thievish | adj | Addicted, infected or frequented by thieves. 2. inclined to dishonesty. 3. pertaining or characteristic of thieves, furtive, stealthy. |
| Thievishly | adv | In a thievish manner. |
| Thievishness | n | The quality or characteristic of thieving. |
| Thig | vb | To take, receive, accept; esp. to take food; to consume by eating or drinking. 2. to receive by begging, cadging, as to to beg by alms: food, money etc. 3. to solicit gifts on special occasions esp. on setting up house; thigging. 4. to take, borrow. 5. to crave, request, ask ( a boon, favour, leave with a person). |
| Thigging | n | Begging, mendicancy, cadging. |
| Thigger | n | A beggar, mendicant, cadger. 2. one who through beggary, cadging, exacts contributions from others. 3. a licensed beggar. |
| Thigh | n | The part of the leg between the hip and the knee. 2. the upper joint of the leg of a fowl; second joint. 3. the proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. 3. the coxa, or femur, of an insect. |
| Thighed | adj | In combination, as thunder-thighs. |
| Thigh bone | n | The femur, the bone of the leg between the knee-joint and hip-joint. |
| Thigh-high | adj | As high or reaching unto the thigh. |
| Thightness | n | OE. pith. 2. closeness, nearness. |
| Thighward | adv | Towards or approaching the thigh. |
| Thild | n | Patience, endurance, forbearance; see: "thole." |
| Thill | n | A pole or shaft by which a wagon, or cart or other vehicle is attached to an animal drawing it.???? |
| Thill-horse | n | Shaft-horse.??????? |
| Thimble | n | A small metal cap or cover worn to protect the finger while sewing; can be used as a small container. 2. any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure; specifically: a tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes; fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole; a tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England. 3. (naut.) a ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing. 4.(bushing): the operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc; a bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. |
| Thimbleberry | n | A fruit such as the loganberry, shaped like a thimble. |
| Thimbled | adj | |
| Thimbleful | adj | A small quantity or amount: what a thimble contains. |
| Thimbleweed | n | |
| Thin | adj | Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin covering. 2. rare; not dense or thick; applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood. 3. not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin. 4.not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness. 5. not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt. 6. wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full. 7. slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise. Nb: thin is used in the formation of compounds such as thin-faced, thin-lipped, thin-shelled. |
| Thin | adv | Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin. |
| Thin | vb | To grow or become thin; used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear. |
| Thin | phr | "Have a Thin Time" - have a wretched or uncomfortable time |
| Thin | phr | "On Thin Ice" - in a risky position or situation. |
| Thin | phr | "Thin As a Rake" - |
| Thin | phr | "Thin Edge of the Wedge" - an action or procedure of little importance in itself, but likely to lead to more serious developments. |
| Thin | phr | "Thin on the Ground" - |
| Thin | phr | "Thin On the Top" - balding. |
| Thin | phr | "Thin Out" - to make sparser, as thinner vegetables in a garden. |
| Thine | prn | A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, sometimes in the language of the Society of Friends. 2. Nb In the old style, thine was commonly shortened to thi (thy) when used attributively before words beginning with a consonant; now, thy is used also before vowels. Thine is often used absolutely, the thing possessed being understood. |
| Thinfilm | n | |
| Thing | n | Any special situation. 2. an action; as in "things of the heart" 3. an artifact; "how does this thing work?" 4. an event; as a funny thing happened. 5. a vaguely specified concern; matter, affair. 6. a statement regarded as an object; "to say the same thing in other words". 7. an entity that is not named specifically. 8. any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence. 9. a special objective.
10. a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion; "she has a thing about him" 12. a separate and self-contained entity. 13. whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought. 14. an inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any lifeless material. 15. a transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed. 16. a portion or part; something. 17. diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt. 18. pl. Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; Nb: formerly, the singular was sometimes used in a plural or collective sense. 19. whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; -- distinguished from person. |
| Thing | n | A meeting, assembly, esp. a judicial assembly; court or council. 2. a matter brought before a court of law or in legal process. |
| Thing | vb | To plead a cause, intercede, supplicate, make intercession with. |
| Thing | phr | "A Thing or Two" - |
| Thing | phr | "Do One's Own Thing" - pursue one's own interests or inclination. |
| Thing | phr | "Do the handsome Thing" - to act and give generously. |
| Thing | phr | "Do Things to" - effect remarkably. 2. cause a fuss about. |
| Thing | phr | "For one Thing" - in the first place. |
| Thing | phr | "Have a Thing With" -- have an affair with. |
| Thing | phr | "Know a Thing or Two" - to be shrewd. |
| Thing | phr | "Make a Good thing Of" - come by some personal gain. |
| Thing | phr | "Make a Thing of" - regard as essential. 2. |
| Thing | phr | "One of Those Things" - something unavoidable or to be accepted. |
| Thing | phr | "The Done Thing" - what is correct according to etiquette. |
| Thing-day | n | A day on which the "thing" court was held. |
| Thinghood | n | |
| Thinginess | n | The quantity of being thingy. 2. reality, actuality, objectivity. 3. devotion to things, practical, or matter-of-fact character. |
| Thing-in-itself | n | Kantian term for a noumenal or real something so far beyond human ken that it can never be known. |
| Thingish | adj | |
| Thinglike | adj | |
| Thingliness | n | |
| Thingly | adv | |
| Thingman | n | |
| Thingness | n | |
| Things | n | |
| Thing-stead | n | The place where the "thing" was held. |
| Thingy | n | A little thing. 2. material; real. |
| Thingy | adj | Having the nature or character of a thing; real, actual, objective, substantial. 2. consisting of separate, independent, or unconnected things. 3. devoting oneself to or concerned with actual things, practical, matter of fact. |
| Think | vb | To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties. 2. to call anything to mind; to remember. 3. to reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate. 4. to form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow 5. to purpose; to intend; to design; to mean. 6. to presume; to venture. 7. to expect; guess; cogitate; reflect; ponder; contemplate; meditate; muse; imagine; suppose; believe, expect, guess. Nb: to think, in a philosophical use as yet somewhat limited, designates the higher intellectual acts, the acts preeminently rational; to judge; to compare; to reason. 8. specifically: to call anything to mind; to remember; 9. to think much of, or to think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem highly. 10. to expect; guess; cogitate; reflect; ponder; contemplate; meditate; muse; imagine; suppose; believe, expect, guess. |
| Think | phr | "I Don't Think" - a slang phrase added to an ironical or hyperbolical statement to contradict. |
| Think | phr | "Lay Back And Think Of England" |
| Think | phr | "Think Again" - revise one's plans or opinions. |
| Think | phr | "Think Aloud" - utter one's thoughts as soon as they occur. |
| Think | phr | "Think Back" - recall a past event event or time. |
| Think | phr | "Think Better Of" - change one's mind about (an intention) after reconsideration. |
| Think | phr | "Think Fast" - |
| Think | phr | "Think for Oneself" - have an independent or attitude. |
| Think | phr | "To Think Highly of" - to think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem highly. |
| Think | phr | "Think Little" - consider to be insignificant or unremarkable. |
| Think | phr | "Think Much Of" (Don't) - have a high/low opinion of. |
| Think | phr | "Think Nothing Of" - to think casually as of no importance. |
| Think | phr | "Think of the Children" - |
| Think | phr | "Think Of" - |
| Think | phr | "Think On" - think or or about. |
| Think | phr | "Think On One's Feet" - |
| Think | phr | "Think Out" - consider carefully, ponder, reason logically. 2. produce an idea by thinking. |
| Think | phr | "Think Over" - reflect upon in order to reach a decision. |
| Think | phr | "Think the World of" - |
| Think | phr | "Think Through" - refect upon (a problem). |
| Think | phr | "Think Too Much" - |
| Think | phr | "Think Twice" - use careful consideration, avoid hasty action. |
| Think | phr | "Tick Up" - devise, produce by thought. 2. to concoct as an excuse. |
| Thinker | n | A person who thinks, esp. in a specified way (an original thinker). 2. a person with a skilled or powerful mind, a philosopher, sage. |
| Thinking | n | Comprehending all our collective energies. 2. the act of knowing or judging by means of concepts, 3. the reaction of the mind on the material supplied by external influences. 4. the act of exercising the mental faculties of. |
| Thinkingly | adv | |
| Thinly | adj | |
| Thinner | n | A substance, such as turpentine, added to paint, varnish etc to make it thinner. |
| Thinness | n | Relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; tenuity, slenderness. 2. the property of having little body fat, leanness, thinness, sparseness. 3.the property of being very narrow or thin; fineness. 4. the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness, sparseness, spareness, sparsity. 5. a consistency of low viscosity. 6. the quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word). 7. airy nothing, attenuation, bodilessness, fewness, filminess, fineness, lack of depth, leanness, lifelessness,lightness,limpidity, lucidity, meanness, mildness, miserliness,mistiness, narrowness, parsimony, paucity, puniness, scrawniness, scrimpiness, shallow-wittedness, shallowness, sheerness, show-through, slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness, sparseness, tenuity, tenuousness, uncloudedness, unprofoundness, unprofundity, wishy-washiness, wispiness |
| Thinnings | n | Plants, trees, etc which have been removed to improve the growth of those remaining. |
| Thinnish | adj | Somewhat thin. |
| Thin-skinned | adj | Overly sensitive to criticism; easily offended. |
| Third | adj | In the third place; thirdly. 2. the last of three; being one of three equal parts. 3. one of three equal parts. |
| Third | n | One of three equal parts of a divisible whole; one-third, third, tierce. 2. following the second position in an ordering or series. 3. the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it. 4. the quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided. 5. the sixtieth part of a second of time. 6. the third tone of the scale; the mediant. 7. the third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitle to enjoy during her life. |
| Third | adj | Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position: tertiary. 2. next after the second; coming after two others. 3. constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day. |
| Third-best | n | A thing of third quality. |
| Third-best | adj | Of third quality. |
| Thirdborn | adj | |
| Third-borough | n | Also: thridborrow; thirdborough. 2. a head man of a frithborn or frank pledge: hence a conservation of peace. 3. a peace officer of a tithing; a petty constable of a township or manor. |
| Thirdel | n | A third part of anything. 2. a third deal; thirdendeal. 3. third of a ton. |
| Third-eye | n | The pineal eye, hence the power of intuitive sight, occasionally gained by human. 2. "the eye of insight" in the forehead of an image of a deity, esp. the god Siva. 3. the faculty of intuitive insight of prescience. |
| Third-finger | n | |
| Third hand | n | An intermediary- the second removed from the original source. |
| Thirding | n | The thing part of anything. |
| Thirdly | adv | In the third place; as athird point. |
| Thirdness | n | The quality or state of belonging to a third category or of being a third element. |
| Thirdpenny | n | |
| Third reading | n | The third presentation of a bill in the legislative assembly, in the UK to debate committee reports. |
| Thirdsman | n | A mediator, arbiter, intermediary. |
| Thirdsome | adj | Being one of three, accompanied by two other. |
| Third-string | n | |
| Third-tongue | n | A backbite; a slander. |
| Third-way | n | Used in a variety of context to designate a third possible ideology or solution to a problem. |
| Third-wheel | n | |
| Third World | n | The underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively. |
| Third World War | n | |
| Thirdy | adj | |
| Thirl | n | Thrill, trill. 2. a hole, bore, perforation, aperture. 3. an aperture or opening in a wall, a door, window in a house. 4. nostril. 5. sheep hole in a wall. 6. a small cavity or recess; a closet. |
| Thirl | n | Variant of thrall. 2. astriction (usu. on a particular mill) 3. the duty and liability of tenants. 4. thirlage, socken. |
| Thirl | vb | To piece, run through with a sharp point or instrument. 2. to pierce, bore through sometimes with a weapon. 4. to make a hole by piercing or boring. 5. to fix with a nail or a like. 6. to penetrate; traverse. 7. to excavate, dig. |
| Thirl | vb | To reduce to or hold in bondage or servitude, enslave. 2. to subject or bind to a condition. 3. to bind or astrict land to a servitude, esp. a mill (thirling-mill) and the grinding of corn. 4. to bind or oblige a person to give his work, services or custom to one particular party. 5. to mortgage. |
| Thirl-band | n | A bond of servitude. |
| Thirld | adj | Pierced, perforated, penetrated. 2.bonded in servitude. |
| Thirldom | n | Thralldom, servitude. |
| Thirlfolk | n | Bonds people; those in some form of servitude. |
| Thirling | n | Bringing into subject or bondage. |
| Thirling-mill | n | A mill to which certain lands are astricted in a thirlage. |
| Thirst | adj | Needing moisture. 2. usually followed by `for' extremely desirous; athirst for knowledge; "hungry for recognition"; "thirsty for information"; athirst, hungry thirsty. 4. able to take in large quantities of moisture. 5. feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire. 6. deficient in moisture; dry; parched, ardent, arid, athirst, avaricious, avid, bone-dry, consumed with desire, coveting, craving, droughty, dry, dry as dust, dusty, eager, greedy, high and dry, parched, ravenous, sandy, soaking, sorbent, thirsting, not damp, unwatered, waterless |
| Thirstily | adv | |
| Thirstiness | n | |
| Thirstland | n | |
| Thirstless | adj | Lacking or void thirst; devoid of thirst. |
| Thirstlewe | adj | Thirsty |
| Thirsty | adj | Having a desire to drink. 2. dry, arid, having a longing, yearning, craving for liquid. |
| Thirsty work | n | |
| Thirteen | n | Being one or more than twelve. 2. the cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one, three and ten; a bakers dozen, a long dozen. |
| Thirteen hundred | n | |
| Thirteenish | adj | |
| Thirteenishness | n | |
| Thirteenth | adj | |
| Thirty | adj | Being ten more than twenty: thirty, 30, xxx. 2. being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days. 3. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three. 4. a symbol expressing thirty, as 30, or XXX. |
| Thirty-fold | adj | Thirty-times as many. |
| Thirtyish | adj | Somewhat around or about the number thirty. |
| Thirty-something | n | Unspecified age between thirty and forty. |
| This | prn | See The, That, and cf. These, Those. As a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned. |
| This | adj | As an adjective, this has the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun; as, this book; this way to town. Note: this may be used as opposed or correlative to that, and sometimes as opposed to other or to a second this. See "That" Note: This, like a, every, that, etc., may refer to a number, as of years, persons, etc., taken collectively or as a whole. |
| This | prn | The plural of this. See These. |
| This | phr | "This and That" - various unspecified examples of this (especially trivial). |
| This | phr | "This Here" - (slang) this particular person or thing. |
| This | phr | "This is the Life" - |
| This | phr | "This Much" - the amount or extent to be stated. |
| This | phr | "This World" - mortal life. |
| This-a-way | adv | In this manner or respect. |
| This-how | adv | In this way, manner; thissen. |
| This-like | adj | Such, as this, like this. |
| Thiskin | adv | Of this kind. |
| Thisness | n | The quality of being this (what you or a thing this). 2. as distinct from anything or anybody else. |
| Thistle | n | Any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves |
| Thistledown | n | The feather-like bunch or clustering of seeds produced by the thistle. |
| Thistlelike | adj | Resembling or like a thistle in one aspect or other. |
| Thistly | adj | Overgrown with thistles. |
| Thistle-warp | n | The goldfinch. |
| Thistly | adv | Of the nature of a thistle |
| This-wayward | adv | Towards this way; in this direction. |
| This-world | n | The present world, present state or stage of existence, as distinguished from another esp. a future one. 2. pertaining to the world, modernity; mundaneness. |
| This-worldliness | n | Pertaing to things of the present. |
| This-wordly | adv | Concerned or being of this world or present state of existence. |
| Thither | adv | To or toward that place; away from the speaker there. 2. to that place; --opposed to hither. 3. to that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither. Usage: Thither, There. Thither properly denotes motion toward a place; there denotes rest in a place; as, I am going thither, and shall meet you there. But thither has now become obsolete, except in poetry, or a style purposely conformed to the past, and there is now used in both senses; as, I shall go there to-morrow; we shall go there together. |
| Thither | phr | "Hither and thither" - to this place and to that; one way and another. |
| Thither | adj | Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water. 2. applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. |
| Thither-to | adv | Up to that time; until then. |
| Thithermost | adv | |
| Thitherward | adv | Towards that place; in that direction. |
| Thode | n | A violent wind, a windwhirl |
| Thode | vb | To strike. |
| Thoft | n | A rower's bench. |
| Thoil | n | |
| Thole | n | A pin or peg in the side of a boat against which in rowing the oar presses as the fulcrum of action. 2. a peg or pin generally. 3. handle or nib of a scythe, snathe. 4. a pin which fastens the shafts (thills) of a carriage or axle of a cart. |
| Thole | n | Forbearance, endurance, suffering, tolerance, patience. |
| Thole | vb | To be subjected or exposed to something evil. 2. to be afflicted with. 3. to have to bear, suffer, endure, undergo. 4.to endure without resistance or complaint. 5. to submit with patience, to bear with, put up with, tolerate. 6. to bear, withstand, put up with. 7. to bear, stand, admit of, be capable of, to have room for, to admit of impairments. 8. to allow, suffer, present. 9. to be patient, have patience, wait patiently. |
| Thole-bond | adj | Bearing patiently. forbearing, submitting. |
| Thole-bondness | n | Patience,submission, suffering, endurance, forbearance. |
| Thole-mood | adj | Submissive, meek, patient. |
| Thole-moodly | adv | Patiently, submissively,meekly. |
| Thole-moodness | n | State or condition of patience, submissiveness, meekness |
| Thong | n | A narrow strip of hide or leather used as a lash of a whip , as a halter or rein. 2. a skimpy bathing garment like a G-string |
| Thong | vb | Provide with a thong. 2. strike with a thong. |
| Thonged | adj | |
| Thongless | adj | |
| Thong-like | adj | |
| Thongy | adj | |
| Thor | n | The Norse god of thunder, after whom Thursday, is manned. |
| Thorn | n | Something that causes irritation and annoyance; irritant. 2. a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf; prickle, pricker, sticker, 3. a Germanic character of runic origin; the name of the Anglo-Saxon letter, capital form. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine. 4. hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine. 2. any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn. 5. fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care. |
| Thorn | vb | To prick, as with a thorn. [poetic] |
| Thorn | phr | "On Thorns" - continuously uneasy, especially in fear of being detected. |
| Thorn | phr | "Thorn in Someone's Side" |
| Thorn | phr | "Thorn in One's Flesh" - a constant annoyance. |
| Thorn apple | n | A poison plant of the nightshade family, Datura stramonium. 2. a haw. |
| Thorn-back | n | An old maid, spinster. |
| Thorn devil | n | Moloch: spiny Australian lizard, "Moloch horridus"- the horns on the head and numerous spines on the body gives it a most formidable appearance. |
| Thornbird | n | |
| Thorned | adj | Having thorns or prickles; knotty. |
| Thornen | adj | Thorny, prickly, having thorns. |
| Thorn-hedge | n | A hawthorn hedge. |
| Thornily | adv | |
| Thorniness | n | Quality or condition of having thorns or being prickly. 2. fig, acerbity of manner and/or speech, roughness, ruggedness. |
| Thornish | adj | Thorny, pricklish. |
| Thornless | adj | Having or bearing no thorns. 2. free from thorns;without thorns. |
| Thorn-like | adj | Resembling or like a thorn in one aspect or more. |
| Thorny | n | Prickly, pointy, spiky. |
| Thorough | adj | Very detailed, painstakingly careful and accurate. 2. performed comprehensively and completely; exhaustive thorough, thoroughgoing. 2. passing through; as, thorough lights in a house. (Obs). 3. passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, thor-ough work; a thorough. 4. all-out, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, fast, full, heedful, infixed, leaving-out-nothing, mindful, out-and-out, outright, rooted, sedulous, set, settled, sheer, stark, straight, sweeping, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, utter, wholesale. |
| Thorough | adv | Thoroughly. [Obs. or Colloq.] - 2. through. [Obs.] --Shak. |
| Thorough | n | A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water. (Prov. Eng) |
| Thorough-blood | n | A pure blood. |
| Thorough-bred | adj | Having a list of ancestors as proof of being a pure blood animal, pedigreed, pureblood. 2. a well-bred person. 3. a racehorse being a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallion with English mare; having the characteristics of such breeding: meddlesome, courageous; of elegant form or the like. 4. a pedigreed animal from unmixed lineage, esp. used of horses. |
| Thoroughfare | n | A public road from one place to another. 2. passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street. 3. a passing or going through; passage. |
| Thorough-girt | n | |
| Thorough-going | adj | Very thorough, out-and-out. |
| Thorough-hearted | adj | Whole-hearted; entirely devoted. |
| Thoroughly | adv | Completely, fully; entirely, absolutely. |
| Thoroughness | n | The quality of being thorough or doing things thoroughly; completeness. |
| Thoroughpin | n | |
| Thorough-stitch | n | |
| Thoroughway | n | |
| Thorough-wort | n | Eupatorium perfoliatum. |
| Thorp | n | Hamlet, village, neighbourhood, estate, farm. |
| Thor's beard | n | ? |
| Thor's hanmer | n | ? |
| Those | prn | Plural of that; see that. |
| Those | phr | "Those Who Can't Do, Teach" - |
| Thou | prn | The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style. Nb:In Old English, generally, thou is the language of a lord to a servant, of an equal to an equal, and expresses also companionship, love, permission,
defiance, scorn, threatening: whilst ye is the language of a servant to a lord, and of compliment, and further expresses honor, submission, or entreaty. |
| Though | adv | However; though". 2. however; nevertheless; notwithstanding; - used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence. Nb: It is compounded with all in although. 3. as though, as if, admitting that, after all, again, albeit, all the same. 5. allowing that, although, at all events, at any rate. 6. but, even, even so, for all that, granted. 7. howbeit, however, in any case, in any event. 8.just the same, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, rather, still, supposing, when, while, yet. |
| Thought | n | The content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; idea, thought. 2. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; thinking, thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation. 3. the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual. 4. a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thought. 5. the act of think-ing; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation. 6. meditation; serious consideration. 7. that which is thought; an idea; a mental con-ception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, orientention, concern, anxious care. 8. a small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better; idea; conception; imagination; fancy; conceit; notion; supposition; reflection; consideration; meditation; contemplation; cogitation; deliberation. |
| Thought | phr | "Give Thought to" - consider; think about. |
| Thought | phr | "In Thought" - thinking, meditating. |
| Thought | phr | "Take Thought" - consider matters. |
| Thought | phr | "Thought Out' - |
| Thoughted | adj | Having thoughts. |
| Thoughten | vb | Having a specific belief, thought or thinking. |
| Thoughtful | adj | Having intellectual depth. 2. exhibiting or characterized by careful thought. 3. acting with or showing thought and good sense. 4. taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; heedful. 5. considerate of the feelings or well-being of others. 6. full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thought-ful mind. 7. attentive; careful; exercising the judgment. 8. anxious; solicitous; concerned. 8. considerate; deliberate; contemplative; attentive; careful; wary; circum-spect; reflective; discreet. |
| Thoughtfully | adv | Of manner: full of thought and consideration for others; showing kindness to others. 2. careful and thoughtful in deliberation when examining situations and matters. |
| Thoughtfulness | n | The state or quality of being thoughtful, careful, heedful and considerate. |
| Thoughtiness | n | Melancholy, pensiveness. |
| Thoughtless | adj | Manifesting lack of thought or care; heedless. 2.giddy, stupid, silly. 3. impudent, improvident. |
| Thoughtlessly | adv | In a manner or way of lacking thought or consideration. |
| Thoughtlessness | n | The quality of being thoughtless; not of thought or consideration; carelessness, inconsiderateness. |
| Thought-like | adj | |
| Thoughtness | n | The fact or quality of being thoughtful or mentally discerned. |
| Thought-out | adj | Elaborated, constructed or arrived at by thinking or mental labour. 2. thoroughly considered |
| Thought-reader | n | Person supposedly able to perceive another's thoughts. |
| Thought-reading | n | To read a person's thoughts, alleged to be possessed by certain persons or persons in a certain physic state. |
| Thought shower | n | A politically correct term for a 'brainstorm.' - a sudden thought particularly one that solves a long-standing problem. |
| Thought-sick | adj | Sick or distressed with thought or thinking. |
| Thoughtsome | adj | Addicted to thought; thoughtful. 2. of the nature of thought or having the faculty of thought; mental, spiritual. |
| Thoughtsome-ness | n | State or condition of being inclined to thought; thoughtful. |
| Thought-thing | n | Thought given substance with feeling in the mind. |
| Thoughtwave | n | A wave or impulse of thought passing through simultaneously a group of living beings. 2. a wave or undulation of a hypothetical medium of thought transference. |
| Thoughtway | n | A customary way of thinking. 2. an unconscious assumption or idea. |
| Thought-word | n | A word conceived in the mind but not uttered. |
| Thought-world | n | An amalgam of mental attitudes, beliefs, assumptions and concepts about the world characteristics of any particular people, time, place, etc. |
| Thoughty | adj | Given to thought, thoughtful. 2. heedful, attentive, intent. 3. pensive, melancholy, anxious. |
| Though-whether | adv | Notwithstanding, nevertheless, howbeit, however. |
| Thousand | n | The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects. 2. hence, indefinitely, a great number. |
| Thousand | adj | Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred. 2. hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely. |
| Thousand | phr | "One in a Thousand" - a person or thing of outstanding merit; a paragon. |
| Thousandel | adj | A thousand-times (thousand-deal). |
| Thousand-fold | adj | One thousandtimes as much or many. 2. thousandly. |
| Thousandth | n | Coming last in the order of a thousand successive individuals. 2. one-thousand parts. |
| Thowen | n | An adult, grown-up, a thriven. |
| Thrack | n | ?? |
| Thraftly | adv | Angrily, surlily. |
| Thrall | n | A serf, slave, bondman, captive. |
| Thrall | vb | To bring into bondage and subjection. 2. to deprive of liberty; hold in thraldom; enthral, enslave; to take hold or captive. |
| Thralldom | n | The state or condition of being a thrall; bondage; servitude, captivity. |
| Thrallhood | n | The state or condition of being a thrall; bondage; thraldom, servitude, captivity. |
| Thrall-folk | n | Slaves, indentured servants, serfs, bondsmen. |
| Thrallful | adj | Full of misery. |
| Thralling | n | The state of being enthralled; enthralling. |
| Thrash | vb | See Thresh; to move or stir about violently; convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate. 2. move like a flail; thresh about. 3. to give a thrashing to; beat hard, lam, beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub. 4. to practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw. 5. hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently. 6. to beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw; to reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. |
| Thrash | vb | To beat soundly; to defeat. 2. to thresh grain. 3. writhe. |
| Thrash | phr | "Thrash Out" - to discuss thoroughly, until agreement or conclusion is reached. |
| Thrashing | n | A beating or flogging; punishment. |
| Thrashing floor | n | See: 'threshing floor" |
| Thrashy | adv | |
| Thrave | n | Threave. 2. two shocks or stooks or corn (or pulse) generally containing twelve sheaves each, but varying in different localities; hence used as a measure of straw, fodder, etc. 3. a company; a multitude, throng, threng, teem, a heap, a lot. |
| Thraw | n | A space in time; a while. |
| Threa | vb | To rebuke, reprove, chastise, to punish, to torment, afflict. |
| Thread | n | A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted; fine cord of twisted fibres (of cotton, silk wool etc.) used in sewing and weaving yarn, . 2. a filament of any substance, as of glass, gold or silver; a filamentous part of an object, such as a flower. 3. any long object resembling a thin line; a ribbon of land. 4. the prominent part or raised helical rib of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. 5. (fig.) something continued in a long course or tenor; a recurrent theme or related sequence of events in a larger story; as the thread of a story; the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument to-gether; train of hought. 6. fig.: composition; quality; fineness. (Obs.) 7. (computers) a related sequence of instructions or actions within a program that runs at least in part independent of other actions within the program. 8. (computers) a sequence of messages posted to an on-line newsgroup or discussion group, dealing with the same topic. |
| Thread | vb | To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; as a river winds through the hills; a path meanders through a field; weave, wind, wander. 2: pass a thread through or thread a needle. 3. remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string. 4. pass through or into;thread tape; film". 5. thread on or as if on a string; draw through. |
| Thread | phr | "Hang by a Thread" - Be in a precarious state, position etc. |
| Thread | phr | "Lose the Thread" - to fail to follow clearly the train of the dea or argument. |
| Thread | phr | "Thread of Life" - life and human destiny conceived of as a thread spun by Lachesis from the distaff held by Clotho and cut finally by Atropos (the Fates). |
| Thread | phr | "Thread and Thrum." - the whole of anything; good and bad together. 2. (lit): each length of the warp yarn, and the tuft where is fastened to the loom. |
| Thread | phr | "Thread One's Way Through" - make one's way through. |
| Threadbare | adj | Of the voice: dry, and thin; wanted in fullness. 2. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; bromidic, trite, commonplace; hackneyed, banal, common-place, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, timeworn, tired, well-worn. 3. having the nap worn away so that the threads show through. 4.worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off. 5. fig: worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale. 6.banal, bare, cliche-ridden, deep-worn, down-at-heel, frayed, moth-eaten, overused, prosaic, ragged, run-down, timeworn, well-worn, worn, worn thin worn to threads, worn-down, worn-out, |
| Thread-bareness | n | The state or quality of being threadbare or worn to the thread. |
| Threaden | adj | Composed or made of thread. |
| Threadiness | n | The state of being thready. |
| Threading | n | |
| Threadish | adj | Resembling a thread. |
| Threadless | adj | Without a thread; having no thread; unthreadable. |
| Threadlike | adj | Resembling a thin thread. |
| Thread mark | n | A mark in the form of a thin line made in a banknote paper with high-colored silk fibres to prevent photographic counterfeiting. |
| Threadmeal | adj | Thread by thread. 2. minutely. |
| Threadneedle Street | n | |
| Threadness | n | The quality of being thready; stringiness. |
| Threads | sl | Clothes, garments, gold thread. |
| Thread-up | n | - to put the film in position in a cinema projector. |
| Threadworm | n | A long slender worm, parasitic in humans and pigs. |
| Thready | adj | Covered in threads; stringy, fibrous. 2. of liquid: forming strings, ropy, viscid. 3. of plants: filamentous, hairy. 4. veined in marking. |
| Threap | n | Contradiction, contention, argument, discussion, controversy, dispute, strife. 2. contradict or pertinacious assertion; hostile charge or accusation. 3. rebuke or reproof. |
| Threap | vb | To rebuke, reprove, chide, scold, blame. 2. to contend in words; to inveigh against, to argue, dispute, to guard, disagree, to wrangle about, haggle. 3. to fight, struggle, strive, contend. 5. to persist in asserting (something contradicted on doubted). 6. to confirm something positively. 7. to maintain obstinately or aggressively. 8. impose (an assertion) upon. 9.to lead or try to lead one to believe by hesitant assertion. 10. to impute, obtrude, attribute, ascribe something to a person. 11. to thrust, obtrude, press something upon a person; to urge upon him or her acceptanceof or acquiescence. |
| Threap | phr | "Threap Somebody in Kindness." - to attribute kindness or love to or upon. |
| Threap | phr | "To Threap Down Someone's Throat." - to put down or silence by pertinacious action, strength of assertion or insistent reiteration. 2. to force another to accept one's own point of view. |
| Threap-ground | n | Land in dispute of ownership. |
| Threapen | vb | To threaten, to blame, chide, reprove. |
| Threaper | n | One who persistently asserts. |
| Threaping | n | Having the quality or state of asserting, chiding, reproving. |
| Threat | n | Something that is a source of danger; such as earthquakes; a menace. 2: a warning that something unpleasant is imminent. 3: declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another. 4. a person who inspires fear or dread; terror, scourge. 5. the expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another. 6. the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come. 7.menace; threatening; denunciation. |
| Threat | vb | To threaten. Obs. or Poetic. 2. to vex, to trouble, to impose a task, irritate, vex. |
| Threaten | vb | To utter threats; portends. |
| Threatened | adj | Menaced. |
| Threatening | n | The act or action of posing a threat. |
| Threatening | adj | Menacing, portending something undesirable. 2. (of clouds, or sky) lowering. |
| Threateningly | adv | In a threatening manner. |
| Threatening-ness | n | In a threatening manner. |
| Threatful | adj | Full of threat or menace; forbidding. |
| Threatfully | adv | In a threatening manner. |
| Threatless | adj | Posing no threat or menace |
| Three | n | The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one; trio, threesome, tierce, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, triplet. 2. one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips. 3. the number greater by a unit than two; three units or objects. 4. a symbol representing three units, as 3 or iii. 5. one more than two; two and one. Nb: three is often joined with other words, forming compounds signifying divided into, composed of, or containing, three parts, portions, organs, or the like; as, three-edged, three-footed, three-headed, three-seeded, three-stringed, and the like. |
| Three | adj | Being one more than two. 2. the cardinal number next above two. |
| Three | phr | "Three-in-One" - the Trinity. |
| Three | phr | "Three of a Kind" - |
| Three | phr | "Three Sheets to the Wind" - drunk, intoxicated. |
| Three-sixty | adj | Complete, whole, fully, totally. |
| Threefold | adj | Made up of three; three times as many or great, triplicate. 2. triply in a three-fold manner or degree. |
| Threefoldness | n | The quality of being three-times. |
| Three-fourths | n | |
| Three-hundred | n | |
| Threeish } | adj | |
| Threelihood | n | The Trinity; threefoldness. |
| Threeness | n | The fact or condition of being three or three-fold; esp. said of the Godhead. |
| Threeone | n | A triune (being three in one). 2. the Trinity. |
| Three-on-the-tree | adj | |
| Threepence | n | The sum of three pence , esp. before decimalization. |
| Threepenny | adj | Costing three pence, esp. before decimalization. |
| Threepenny bit | n | A former coin worth three old pence. |
| Threescore | n | Sixty. |
| Threesome | n | A group of three times. 2. a game for three people. |
| Three thousand | n | |
| Three-time loser | n | |
| Three-tongued | adj | Trilingual. |
| Three-up | n? | |
| Three-way | adj | Involving three ways or participants. |
| Three-wheeler | n | Vehicle with three wheels. |
| Three wise men | n | |
| Threng | n | A crowd, a throng. |
| Threng | vb | To crush or press into a narrow space; forceto confinement. 2. to go into a throng or crowd; press. |
| Threpe | n | |
| Thresh | vb | See Thrash: to move or stir about violently; convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate. 2. move like a flail; thresh about. 3. to give a thrashing to; beat hard, lam, beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub. 4. to practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw. 5. hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently. 6. to beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw; to reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. |
| Thresh | phr | "Thresh Out" - |
| Threshel | n | A flail: a medieval weapon. |
| Thresher | n | A person or machine which threshes. |
| Thresherman | n | |
| Threshold | n | The sill at the door of a building; doorway entrance. 2. the starting point, beginning. 3. obstacle, stumbling block. |
| Threshold | vb | To alter an image by reproducing it in two tones only, each part being dark or light according as to threshold. |
| Threshing floor | n | A hard level floor for threshing esp. with flails. |
| Threshless | adj | |
| Threst | vb | To twist, writhe. 2. to torture, torment, plague, afflict. 3. to compress, contract, compel (did not survive Middle Eng.) 4. to press in or out like a crowd; to push one's way through; to crowd. 5. to pierce, stab, to give one a thrust. 6. to push forcibly or violently. 7. to press, sqeeze, crush. 8. to crowd, cram. 9. to oppress, vex. |
| Thresting | n | The act oraction ofpressing, squeezing, crushing. |
| Thrice | adv | Three times; repeatedly, as 'thrice blessed' |
| Thricely | adv | |
| Thrice-monthly | adv | |
| Thrie | n | Three-times; thrice. |
| Thrildom | n | Thralldom, thirldom, bondage, slavery. |
| Thrill | n | A hole, perforation, aperture, a nostril. |
| Thrill | n | One who is bound in servitude; a thrall.Gathered |
| Thrill | vb | To pierce, bore, perforate. 2. to break through or penetrate (an enemy line). 2. to cause a weapon to push through something. 3. to send a person flying. 4. to move in a sudden wave of emotion, such as delight. 4. to produce a thrill of emotion. 5. to move tremously or with vibration; quiver, vibrate. |
| Thrill | vb | To enslave, press into bondage or servitude. |
| Thrilled | adj | Pierced, penetrated, effect or thrilled by emotion. 2. caused to vibrate. |
| Thrillhood | n | Threefold; trinity. |
| Thriller | n | A suspenseful adventure story, play or movie. |
| Thrilldom | n | The world of thrillers or exciting, sensational novels. |
| Thrillerish | adj | Suggesting sensational and exciting things, such as novels or movies. |
| Thriller-writer | n | A writer of thrillers or exciting, sensational novels. |
| Thrillful | adj | Full of excitement, thrilled. |
| Thrill-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a thrill in one aspect or other. |
| Thrilling | adj | Causing a surge of emotion or excitement. 2. causing quivering or shivering as by cold or fear or electric shock. |
| Thrillingly | adv | In a manner of thrilling, exciting, moving emotionally. |
| Thrillingness | n | State or condition of being emotionally moved, causing tremulous excitement, deep and moving. |
| Thrilly | adj | Afeected by thrill or a thrill; having an enthralling quality. |
| Thrill-seeker | n | |
| Thrill-seeking | adj | |
| Thrilly | adj | |
| Thrimness | n | The Trinity; threeness, three-fold conditions, thrinness. |
| Thrimsa | n | A third part of a weight. 2. a candle. |
| Thrin | n | Threefold, triplicity, thrice. 2. also three kinds of. |
| Thrinfold | adj | Three-fold. |
| Thring | n | A threng, a throng. 2. a crowd, multitude. |
| Thring | vb | Downthring : to throwdown. |
| Thrinter | n | (May be formed on Twinter):three winter (in time0. 2. a three-year old: said of cattle, sheep. |
| Thriste | adj | Bold, audacious, brave. |
| Thro | prp | Through. |
| Throat | n | The passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone; the part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column; hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx. 2. an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep. 3. a passage resembling a throat in shape or function; "the throat of a chimney". 4. the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's throat. 6. a contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase. |
| Throat | vb | To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats. 2. to mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending. |
| Throat | phr | "Give Lie in Somebody Throat" - to accuse some of gross lying. |
| Throat | phr | "Take by the Throat" - to strangle. |
| Throat | phr | "Thrush Down One's Throat" - force a thing, opinion on a person's attention. |
| Throat | phr | "To Give One the Lie in His Throat": to accuse one pointedly of lying abominably; to lie in one's throat, to lie flatly or abominably. |
| Throat-boll | n | Adam's apple. |
| Throated | adj | |
| Throat pipe | n | The windpipe, or trachea. |
| Throatful | adj | As much as the throat can hold at once. |
| Throatiness | n | Throaty utterance. 2. gutturalness. |
| Throating | adj | Pertaining to the throat; throaty. 2. the act of producing sounds in the throat. |
| Throatwort | n | The name extended to many species, including Campanula glomerata latifolia; figwort, fox-glove, snake-root. 2. European bellflower with blue-purple to lilac flower the nettle-leaved bellflower, Campanula trachelia formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla. |
| Throaty | adj | Uttered in the throat; guttural, deep, husky. |
| Throck | n | Share-beam: ploughead. |
| Throe | n | Violent pangs esp of childbirth or death. 2. anguish. |
| Throe | phr | "In the Throes" - struggling with the task of. 2. be involved in a great deal of work. |
| Throng | n | Oppression, distress, straits, trouble, woe, affliction, danger. 2. the pain of childbirth. 3. pressing or crowding of people, act of crowding, crowded conditions. 4. a multitude, a great number. 5. pressure or pressing, a move of work, business. |
| Throng | vb | To crowd together, flock or near to one another in great numbers. 2. to press closely, mass, gather. 3. a multitude, esp. in a small space. 4. to busy oneself. |
| Throng | phr | "To Keep Throng." - to keep company, to associate with. |
| Throng | adv | Earnestly, busily, closely. |
| Throng | adj | Compressed, oppressed, distressed. 2.pressing, earnest, eager. 3. pressed or massed closely, gathered, crowded, thronged; dense, close, thick. 4. full of work, busy, closely engaged, fully employed. 5. crowded, fully attended or frequented. 6. closely engaged together, intimately associated; thick. |
| Throngful | adj | Full or packed with people, fully crowded, frequented or fully attended. 2. overly eager, completely earnest. 3. thickish, compressed. |
| Thronging | n | The action of gathering together, pressing, crowding. 2. engaging in work or business. |
| Thropple | vb | ??? |
| Throstle | n | The Thrush or Mavis: "Turdus musicus." |
| Throstle frame | n | A machine for continuously spinning wool or cotton. |
| Throttle | vb | ???? |
| Throttle | phr | "Throttle Back" - reduce a speed of a engine or vehicle by throttling. |
| Throttle | phr | "Throstle Down" - slow down by closing the throttle of a vehicle. |
| Throttlebody | n | ???? |
| Throttle hold | n | ????? |
| Throttling | adj | ???? |
| Through | adv | From beginning to end. 2. over the whole distance; 3: to completion; as "think through very carefully!" 4. in diameter; measured. 5. throughout the entire extent; as in soaked through; rotted through. through and through. 6. from one end or side to the other; as, to pierce a thing through. 7. from beginning to end; as, to read a letter through. 8. to the end; to a conclusion; to the ultimate purpose; as, to carry a project through. |
| Through | prep | From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece of timber, a ball passes through the side of a ship. 2. Between the sides or walls of; within; as, to pass through a door; to go through an avenue. 3. by means of; by the agency of. 4. over the whole surface or extent of; as, to ride through the country; to look through an account. 5. among or in the midst of; -- used to denote passage; as, a fish swims through the water. 6. from the beginning to the end of; to the end or conclusion of; as, through life; through the year. |
| Through | adj | Going or extending through; going, extending, or serving from the be-ginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line. 2. admitting of passage through; as, a through bridge. 3. having finished or arrived at completion; done, a done deed. 4. of a route or journey etc. continuing without requiring stops or changes; a through street. Nb: Through was formerly used to form compound adjectives where we now use thorough; as, through-bred; through-lighted; through-placed, etc.to drop through, to fall through; to come to naught; to fail.adj 1: having finished or arrived at completion; done, a done deed; |
| Through | phr | "Be Through" - to have finished. 2. cease to have dealings. 3. have no further prospects. |
| Through | phr | "Go Through" - to examine. |
| Through | phr | "Go Through with" - to complete. |
| Through | phr | "Pull Through" - recover. |
| Through | phr | "See Through Someone" - to know the real character of someone. 2. not be lead by a person's apparent attitude. |
| Through | phr | "Through and Through" - thoroughly, completely; through again and again. |
| Through | phr | "Through Oneself" - |
| Through | phr | "Through the Roof" - |
| Throughfall | n | |
| Throughflow | n | |
| Through-going | adj | |
| Through-line | n | |
| Throughly | adv | |
| Throughother | adv | |
| Throughout | prp | In every part of; from beginning to end. 2. the amount of material put through a process, esp. in manufacturing or computing. |
| Throughout | adv | Everywhere; at every moment. |
| Throughput | vb | The amount of material processed in a particular period; especially by computer. |
| Through-shine | n | Transparency, translucency. |
| Through-shine | vb | To be translucent, transparent. |
| Through-shining | adj | Translucent, transparent. |
| Through-stone | n | A horizontal gravestone or slab over a tomb; written also. |
| Through-sting | vb | To stab, pierce through. |
| Throughway | n | An expressway; thruway; a motorway.. |
| Throw | n | |
| Throw | vb | |
| Throw | phr | "Throw a Bone to" |
| Throw | phr | "Throw a Fit" - (slang) to be shocked at. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw an Eye" - |
| Throw | phr | "Throw a Sickie" |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Aside" - |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Away" - discard as useless and unwanted. 2. waste or fail to make use of; lose as an opportunity. 3. speak lines in theatre with under emphasis. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Away line" - |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Away the Key" |
| Throw | phr | "Throw back" - revert to ancestral character. 2. rely on. 3. give a quick retort. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Cold Water On" - be discouraging or deprecating on. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Down" - cause to fall. 2. to overturn. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Dust in the Eyes (of Another)" - mislead a person by misrepresentation or distraction. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw In" - put in a word or remark. 2. put in at no extra cost; to add something over and above what has been paid for. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw In the Glove" - issue a challenge. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Enough Dirt and Some will Stick" - |
| Throw | phr | "Throw In One's Hand" - give up, withdraw from a contest. 2. in some card games, abandon one's chances. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw In One's Lot With" - decide by means of lots. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw In the Deep End" - |
| Throw | phr | "Throw in the Sponge" - of a boxer, whose trainer throws in the sponge as a token of his charge admitting defeat. 2. abandon a contest; admit defeat. 3. of hound or a hunt: make a start. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw in With" |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Light on" - help or assist in explaining something. 2. to elucidate. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw off" - discard, contrive to get rid of. 2. write or utter in an off-hand or casual manner. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw On" - to put on hurriedly, as one's jacket. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw One's Hat in the Ring" |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Oneself at" - seek unashamedly as a spouse or sexual partner. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Oneself Into" - engage in a task enthusiastically or vigorously in. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Oneself Upon" - rely or trust completely on. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw One's Weight About" - act in an aggressive and overly assertive way. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Open" - cause to be suddenly opened. 2. make accessible. 3. invite general discussion of or participation in. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Out" - put out with force and suddenness. 2. discard as unwanted. 3. expel, put out, get rid of. 4. of a plant put out shoots or buds. 5. put forward tentatively. 6. reject a proposal. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Over" - desert or abandon. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Shape" |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Smoke" - |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Stones at" - cast severe criticism or aspersions . |
| Throw | phr | "Throw the Book at" - |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Together" - to assemble hurriedly, hastily or carelessly. 2. to bring people into casual contact. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw to the Dogs" - |
| Throw | phr | "Throw True" - |
| Throw | phr | "Throw to the Wind" |
| Throw | phr | "Throw to the Wolves" - |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Up" - to raise quickly. 2. to resign from in sudden impulse; abandon. 3. to build or erect hurriedly; to produce. 4. spew, vomit, bring up. |
| Throw | phr | "Throw Up One's Hands" - |
| Throwaway | n | A thing disposable or meant to be thrown away after use. 2. something deliberately under emphasized. 3. disposed to throw things away. 4. a handbill. |
| Throwaway | adj | Disposable, meant to be thrown away after use. 2. deliberately under emphasized. |
| Throwback | n | Revert to ancestral character. 2. an instance of reversion to ancestral character. |
| Thrown | adj | Twisted. |
| Throw-off | n | A start of a hunt or race. |
| Throw-out | n | Something sold cheaply because it has been rejected as damaged or imperfect. |
| Throw-over | n | A decorative cover that can be thrown over a bed or couch. |
| Throwing knife | n | |
| Throwing wheel | n | |
| Throw-stick | n | A boomerang. |
| Throw up | n | |
| Thrum | n | A company or body of a band, a troop, a thrum-ferd, a crowd, a throng, a teem. 2. magnificence, splendour. |
| Thrum | n | The ends of a warp, threads, fringe. 2. odds and end threads; waste threads. 3. short pieces of wool or yarns, mop strips or flagels. 4. a tuft, bundle or fringe of any thread-like materials; hairs of a leaf; fibres of a root. 5. a bundle of minute blood vesseels (a plexus). 6. rags, dischevelia, tatters (contemptuously) |
| Thrum | vb | To furnish or adorn with "ends" of threads or similar things. 2. to cover with thrums or short tufts. 3. to make shaggy. 4. to fringe or clothe. 5. to twist, curl, twine, curl. |
| Thrum | phr | "On a thrum." - in a body, in a crowd, also a bundle of arrows. |
| Thrum island | n | A small island with conical shape or capped with a thrum-like or crowdy vegetative cap. |
| Thrum-chinned | adj | Bearded, hirsute, awned. |
| Thrum-eye | adj | Astrocarpus clusii or petiver. |
| Thrummed | adj | Covered with thrums, hairy, nap-like, shaggy; fringed. |
| Thrummy | adj | Consisting or characteristic, or resembling thrums. 2. shaggy, downy, velleity. |
| Thrumstone | n | Asbestos: Gray's name for "asbestos." -- being a fibrous material. |
| Thrumwort | n | The water-plantain: "Alisma plantago" - also the "Allied star-fruit. 2. "Actinocarpus damasonicus"; Loves-lies-bleeding; amarantus caudatus. |
| Thruppence | n | Thruppence. |
| Thrush | n | OE. frosch, frosk, a frog (the animal). 2. the frog of a horse's foot.
3. discharge of a fetid or ichorous matter from the frog of a horse's foot. |
| Thrush | n | OE. [thorn]rusche, AS. [thorn]rysce; akin to OHG. drosca, droscea, dros-cela, and throstle. 2. any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs. |
| Thrushlike | adj | |
| Thrutch | n | The act of thrutching: a push, press, squeeze. 2. a narrow ravine. |
| Thrutch | vb | To press, squeeze, crush. 2. to crowd, throng, threng, thrust, push. 3. to push, jostle, press in place. 4. to press cheese. |
| Thrutching | n | Squeezing, wringing, pressing, crowding. |
| Thud | vb | OE> thyddan. 2. to strike or thrust with a weapon; to stab. 3. to thrust, press, push a thing to or into place. 4. to press with force. 5. to make the sound of a thud. |
| Thudding | n | |
| Thuddingly | adv | |
| Thuften | n | A maid servant; a hand maid; a female slave. |
| Thulge | n | Patience, tolerance, forbearance, thole. |
| Thulge | vb | To be patient, have patience, bear or put up with; to wait for. |
| Thumb | n | The thick short innermost digit of the forelimb, pollex; The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phal-anges; the pollex. 2. the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb. 3. a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse; ovolo, quarter round. |
| Thumb | vb | Travel by getting free rides from motorists; hitchhike, hitch. 2. to look through a book or other written material; leaf through a book, flick, flip, riffle, leaf, riff. 3. feel or handle with the fingers; "finger. 4. to play with the thumb or thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum. 5. to handle awkwardly. 6.to play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as, to thumb over a tune. 7. To mark, soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling; also, to cover with the thumb; as, to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon. |
| Thumb | phr | 'A Golden Thumb' - or "A Miller's Thumb" - reference either to the alleged dishonesty of millers or the lucrative character of their trade. |
| Thumb | phr | "Be All Thumbs" - be clumsy with one's hands. 2. have one's fingers all thumbs. |
| Thumb | phr | "Between Finger and Thumb" - to be on intimate terms. |
| Thumb | phr | "Beyond One's thumb." - beyond one's ability. |
| Thumb | phr | "Finger Next to One's Thumb." - reference to closest friends. |
| Thumb | phr | "Have a Green Thumb." - to be successful in growing plants and looking after gardens. |
| Thumb | phr | "Stick out a sore thumb." - to be visible or standout to the eye. (mocking) |
| Thumb | phr | "Thumb a Ride" - |
| Thumb | phr | "Thumb One's Nose at"- show of open disobedience towards someone or something. |
| Thumb | phr | "Thumbs Down" - an indication of rejection or failure. 2. thumb pointed vertically downwards indicating disapproval or rejection. |
| Thumb | phr | "Under the Thumb" - completely under one's power or influence; in a condition of subservience. |
| Thumb | phr | "Thumbs Up" - an indication of satisfaction or approval. |
| Thumb blue | n | Indigo in the form of small balls or lumps, used by washerwomen to blue linen, and the like. |
| Thumb-board | n | |
| Thumb's breath | n | Taken as equal to an inch. |
| Thumb drive | n | |
| Thumbed | adj | Worn by use. |
| Thumber | n | A hitchhiker. |
| Thumbful | adj | As much as the thumb can hold; a tiny amount. |
| Thumbhole | n | |
| Thumbkin | n | |
| Thumb knot | n | |
| Thumb latch | n | A door latch having a lever formed to be pressed by the thumb. |
| Thumbless | adj | Without or lacking. |
| Thumblike | n | |
| Thumb mark | n | The mark left by the impression of a thumb, as on the leaves of a book. 2. The dark spot over each foot in finely bred black and tann terriers. |
| Thumbnail | n | The nail of the thumb. 2. concise. |
| Thumb nut | n | A nut for a screw, having wings (wing nut)to grasp between the thumb and fingers in turning it; also, a nut with a knurled rim for the same purpose. |
| Thumb-pot | n | A very small pot. |
| Thumb-read | adj | Turn pages of a book with the thumb when glancing through it. |
| Thumb ring | n | A ring worn on the thumb. |
| Thumb stall. | n | A kind of thimble or ferrule of iron, or leather, for protecting the thumb in making sails, and in other work. 2. a buckskin cushion worn on the thumb, and used to close the vent of a cannon while it is sponged, or loaded. |
| Thumb sucker | n | A newspaper columnist. |
| Thumbs-down | n | Pointed vertically downwards indicating disapproval or rejection. |
| Thumb shot | n | |
| Thumb stick | n | |
| Thumb stroke | n | |
| Thumb sucker | n | |
| Thumb tale | n | Stories or novels created by the thumb tribe. |
| Thumbs-up | n | A sign of approval of acceptance, encouragement, approval. |
| Thumb war | n | |
| Thumb wheel | n | |
| Thumby | adj | Soiled by thumb marks. 2. clumsy or "all thumbs." |
| Thunder | n | A deep prolonged loud noise; boom, roar, roaring. 2. a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning. 3. street names for heroin: hell dust, nose drops, smack, skag. |
| Thunder | vb | To move fast, noisily, and heavily. 2: utter words loudly and forcefully.
3. to make or produce a loud noise; the sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.. 4. to produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity. 5. the discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt. fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance; 6. Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon. 7. to utter violent denunciation. 8. to emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation; an alarming or statrling threat or denunciation. |
| Thunder | phr | "Steal One's Thunder?" - use another person's ideas and spoil the effect the originator hoped to achieve by expressing or acting upon it first. 2. take the limelight or attention from another. |
| Thunder | phr | "Thunder and Lightning" - fig. denunciation, invection. |
| Thunder-axe | n | A popular in Cornwall for a Celt or Celtic person. |
| Thunder-bearer | n | The bearer of Thunder or great force, often military. 2. bearer or sender of thunderbolts ie. Jove. |
| Thunder-beaten | adj | Beaten down by a thunder storm. |
| Thunder-bird | n | The Condor, on the assumption that some super one of its species made the thunder by flapping its wings. 2. a mythical bird thought by some North American First-folk to bring thunder. |
| Thunder-blast | n | |
| Thunder bolt | n | A flash of lightning accompanied by thunder. 2. a stone etc imagined to be a destructive bolt. 3. anything sudden and unexpected occurrence or item of news. 4. a supposed bolt or shaft as a destructive agent, esp. as an attribute of a god. |
| Thunderbox | n | A primitive toilet. |
| Thunderburst | n | |
| Thundercloud | n | Cumulus cloud with a tail diffuse top, charged with electricity and producing thunder and lightning. |
| Thunderday | n | Thor's day; Thursday. |
| Thunderer | n | "The Thunderer' - the god Jupiter. 2. (colloquially) - "The Times" newspaper. |
| Thunderfly | n | The thrip. |
| Thunderful | adj | Full or charged with thunder; thundering, sounding like thunder. |
| Thunder-god | n | Roman: Jove; Norse: Thor. |
| Thunderhead | n | Rounded cumulus cloud projecting upwards and heralding thunder. |
| Thundering | n | The action of thunder, loud, resounding; inflicted of heavy and rowdy strokes. 2. vehement, threatening, invective of manner. |
| Thundering | adj | Causing or sending forth thunder; or characterised by thunder, thunder-ous. 3. transfig, making a noise like thunder; sounding loud, loudly. 4. of terrible invective: threatening, etc. or with powerful eloquence. 5. of language: bombastic or inflated. 6. very energetic or forcible, violent. 7. an intensive: very great or big, excessive, immense, tremendous. 7. unusually great; excessive. |
| Thunderingly | adv | In a thundering manner; with a noise like thunder. 2. fig. violently, powerfully, with fierce denunciation. 3. excessively, tremendously, immensely. |
| Thunderless | adj | Without or not experiencing thunder. |
| Thunderlight | n | |
| Thunderpot | n | |
| Thunder rod | n | A lightning rod. |
| Thunder shower | n | A brief but very heavy shower of rain. |
| Thunder show | n | |
| Thunder-stick | phr | |
| Thunderstone | n | |
| Thunderstorm | n | A storm with torrential rain, thunder, lightning and sometimes hail. |
| Thunder-stricken | adj | |
| Thunderstruck | adj | Astonished, surprised, startled, overwhelmed. |
| Thunder thighs | n | |
| Thunderworm | n | |
| Thundery | adj | Characterised, betokening or indicating thunder. 2. of or pertaining to thunder. 3. making a noise like thunder. 4. Threatening an explosion of anger, passion, gloomy, frowning. |
| Thunwang | n | The temple of the head. |
| Thursday | n | The fifth day of the week. 2. Thor's day. |
| Thurse | n | A gaint of heathen mythology; in medieval time; often the devil, demon, later a goblin of mystic superstition. |
| Thus | adv | In this way or that or the following way or manner. 2. ta degree or extent; so, thus far. 3. in these circumstances or conditions. 4. in this case; therefore. |
| Thus | vb | To do thus. |
| Thus | phr | "Thus and So" - |
| Thus | phr | "Thus and Such" - |
| Thus | phr | "Thus and Thus" - expressing minuteness or detail and in a description given. |
| Thus | phr | "Thus far" - to this point . |
| Thusly | adv | To the manner of this; in such a way. |
| Thusness | n | The condition of being thus or so, actual; in that way.(humourous). |
| Thuswise | ad | |
| Thutter | vb | To make a sputtering sound; howl, wail. |
| Thuttery | adj | Sputtering, howliish, wailing. |
| Thwack | vb | ?? to beat. |
| Thwart | vb | To prevent, to frustrate. |
| Thwite | vb | To cut down or away, whittle, pare, shape by paring. |
| Thwiting | n | Knife or pare knife, or scraping knife. |
| Thwittle | n | A knife, a whittle, a shaving. |
| Thwittle | vb | To pare, cut away, shave away, whittle. |
| Thy | adv | By means or by reason of that; because of that; therefore. 2. in a relative sense: for that reason that, because. |
| Thy | adv | "For thy" -for that reason, therefore. |
| Thyself | prn | Emphatic or reflexive form of the second singular pronouns thee and thou. |
| Thyvel | n | Thuvel, a bush, thicket. |
| Old English | n | English |
| To | prep | In the direction of, for the purpose of, furthermore. In Old English, the preposition (go to town) leveled with the adverb (the door slammed to) except where the adverb retained its stress (tired and hungry too); there it came to be written with -oo (see too). The nearly universal use of to with infinitives (to sleep, to dream, etc.) arose in Middle English out of the Old English dative use of to, and it helped drive out the Old English inflectional endings (though in this use to itself is a mere sign, without meaning). Commonly used as a prefix in Middle English (to-hear "listen to," etc.), but few of these survive (to-do, together, and time references such as today, tonight, tomorrow. Phrase what's it to you "how does that concern you?" goes back a long way. Some 125 compound verbs with this element are recorded in Old English; their number declined rapidly in Middle English and disappeared by c.1500 except as conscious archaisms.to-do. Look up to-do at, from the verb phrase to do, from Old English to don "proper or necessary to be done" (see to). meaning "disturbance, fuss". |
| Toad | n | Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid. |
| Toad | vb | To act as a toady, to toady: to flatter or attend with servility from interested motives. |
| Toad-eat | vb | To flatter, fawn upon a person; to toady. |
| Toad-eater | n | A flatterer, sycophant, parasite, toader. 2. a humble friend or dependant; spec. a female friend or attendant. |
| Toad-flax | n | The European plant "Linaria vulgaris" - from the flax like appearance of it's foliage. |
| Toadish | adj | Like a toad; poisonous. |
| Toadless | adj | Devoid of toads. |
| Toadship | n | The personality of a toad. |
| Toadstone | n | Any of various stones likene to a toad in colour or shape, or supposed to be likened to a toad; often worn as jewels or amulets, or set in rings. The most valuable kind was supposed to be found in the head of the toad. 2. |
| Toadstool | n | A poisonous inedible fungi, with a disc-like top, as distinct from an edible mushroom. |
| Toady | n | A servile dependeant; a sycophant. |
| Toady | vb | To flatter or attend to with servility for interested motives. 2. to play the toady; to play the servile dependent. 3. to pay deference with interested motives. |
| Toady | adj | Representative of a toad, repulsive. |
| To-be | n | That which is to be; that which or matters yet to be or to come; the future. 2. with kinship nouns, such as "wife-to-be." or "mother-to-be." |
| To-bear | vb | To carry in different directions. 2. to carry off; take away. 3. fig. to separate (persons) in feeling, etc., to part, asunder. 4. set at variance. |
| To-beat | vb | To beat severely; to thrash. 2. to destroy by beating. |
| To-blow | vb | To blow or scatter in different directions. |
| To-braid | vb | To wrench apart, pull to pieces; rend. 2. to tear or snatch away. |
| To-brede | vb | To spread abroad; extend; make broad. 2. to spread, extend itself. 4. to be diffused. |
| To-brenn | vb | To burn up; to consume or destroy by fire. |
| To-britten | vb | To cut into pieces. |
| To-chine | vb | To split asunder, to open, to become burst or cloven. |
| To-cleave | vb | To cleave, to asunder, to split open. 2. to divide into pieces. |
| To-come | n | Arrival, advent, as in: "the land of my first to-come (tocome)" |
| To-come | vb | To happen, befall, approach, come to. |
| To-coming | n | The future. 2. "Therefor for the To-coming, I shall have boldness to life joyfully." |
| To-day | n | On the very day. 2. at the present day, in the present age. 3. in these times; nowadays. |
| Todayish | adj | Pertaining to the modern times. 2. characteristic modern. |
| To-dighting | n | Separation, division. |
| To-do | n | A disorderly outburst or tumult; disturbance, commotion, hurly-burly. 2. bustle, stir, outburst. |
| To-drese | vb | To decay, fall apart, fade. |
| Toe | n | One of the digits of the foot. 2. the part of footwear that provides a covering for the toes. 3. forepart of a hoof. 4. (golf) the part of a clubhead farthest from the shaft. 5. anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the
foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate. 6. the journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step. 7. a lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved. 8. a projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece. |
| Toe | vb | Walk so that the toes assume an indicated position or direction. 2. drive obliquely. 3. hit (a golf ball) with the toe of the club. 4. drive (a golf ball) with the toe of the club. 5. to touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark. |
| To-hield | vb | To heald, (OE)- inclined. 2. to cause to incline, lean, bend, or fall-over. 3. to push or fall down. 4. to incline, heel over, bow down. 5. to bend one's course to. 6. turn to, to oppose. |
| Toe-hold | n | A hold in whichthe aggressor bends back his opponent's foot. 2. to take initial or first step in bringing about change, success etc. |
| Toe-rag | n | A tramp, vagrant. 2. despicable or worthless person. |
| To-fall | n | A lean-to; a penthouse. 2. the act of falling. 3. the to-fall of the day or night: the close of day - dusk, sunset, twilight. |
| Toey | adj | Restive, anxious, touchy. |
| To-fare | vb | To disperse, go asunder. |
| To-faring | n | Dispersion, diaspora. |
| To-fleet | n | To float away; to be carried away by water. |
| To-foregoing | n | A foregoing, preceeding, antecedent. |
| Toft | n | Originally a homestead site of a house and it's out-buildings. |
| Toft and croft | n | The whole holding, the homestead and the attached arable land. 2. an eminence, knoll, hillock in a flat region: one suitable for a site of a house or tower. 3. a small grove of trees. |
| Toftman | n | Owner or occupier of a toft. |
| Toft-stead | n | A place of a toft. |
| Together | adv | In contact with each other or in proximity. 2. assembled in one place; gathered together in each other's company. 3. at the same time. 4. with cooperation and interchange; "we worked together on the project." unitedly. 5. with a common plan; to act in concert. |
| Together | adj | Mentally and emotionally stable; "she's really together" |
| Togetherness | n | State or condition of being together or being united, union, association. 2. the fact of getting on together well-suited to one another. 3. a g of belonging together, fellowship. |
| To-go | vb | To go in different directions. 2. go asunder. 3. to be divided into parts, separate, to pass away, disperse. |
| To-growing | n | An excresence; a growth. |
| Token | adj | insignificantly small; a matter of form only `tokenish' is informal. |
| Token | n | An individual instance of a type of symbol. 2. something serving as a sign of something else. 3. a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in
designated slot machines. 4. something of sentimental value, keepsake, souvenir, relic. 5. something intended or supposed to represent or indicate another thing or an event; a sign; a symbol; as, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant established with Noah. 6. a memorial of friendship; something by which the friendship of another person is to be kept in mind; a memento; a souvenir. 7. something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith. 8. A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death. 9. ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; |
| Token | vb | To betoken. [Obs.] |
| Token | phr | "By the same token" - for the same reason. |
| Token | phr | "To token up." - to put up in writing, write out. |
| Token | vb | To be a token or sign of; to signify; to mean. 2. to typify, to symbolise. |
| Tokener | n | One who or that which portends or prognosticates. |
| Tokening | n | The action of the verb, to sign, signify, symbolises, presaging, representing. |
| Tokening | phr | "In tokening."- as a token of evidence. |
| Told | pp | Related, narrated, recounted, about, tell of. 2. counted, reckoned. 3. esteemed. 4. in "oft-told" or "twice-told" |
| Told | phr | "By told takes." - as is said, as they say, by all accounts. |
| Tole | n | Evil speaken, calumny, blasphemy, reproach, blame. |
| To-lim | vb | Tear limb from limb; to dismember. |
| Toll | n | A fee, custom, duty, impost levied for the use of roads or bridges, used for maintenance. 2. value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something. 3. the sound of a bell being struck. The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated. 4. tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like. 5. (Sax.& O. Eng. Law) a liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor. 6. a portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding. |
| Toll | vb | To ring slowly. 2. charge a fee for using a bridge, road etc. 3. to draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait. (written also tole.) 3. to pay toll or tallage. 4. to take toll; to raise a tax.To take away; to vacate; to annul. 5. to draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole: probably the same word as toll to draw, and at first meaning, to ring in order to draw people to church. 6. to cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and
uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell. 7. to strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. 8. to call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing. 8. to take away, annul, vacate. |
| Toll | phr | "Toll and team" (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins. |
| Toll bridge | n | a bridge where toll is paid for passing over it. |
| Toll-mere | n | The boundary within which a local toll is payable. |
| Toll thorough | n | Toll taken by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost. |
| Tole-cote | n | The house or building where a toll-collector lives. 2. a toll-house. |
| Toller | n | One who collects tolls, a tax-gather, a toll-gather, a tollman, tolner. |
| Toller | phr | "Toller of the inn."- publician, hoteler. |
| Toll-free | adj | Free or exempt from paying tolls. |
| Tolling | n | The taking or levying of tolls or taxes. 2. the action of taking or levying tolls or taxes. 3. the action of enticing, alluring, inciting ot instigating. |
| Tolne | n | Tax, custom, duty, toll. |
| Tolner | n | Toll-taker, tax-gatherer, tollman, toller. |
| Tolsel | n | Tolbooth, custom-house, tole-cote. 2. publican. |
| To-morn | n | Tommorrow. |
| Tomorrow | n | The day after today or the present; "what are our tasks for tomorrow?" 2. the near future; "tomorrow's world"; "everyone hopes for a better tomorrow" |
| Tomorrow | adv} | On the day after the present day; on the next day; on the morrow. 2. the next day, the day after, following the present day. |
| Tomorrowing | n | Procrastination, putting-off. |
| Tomorrowness | n | The distinctive quality of being tomorrow. |
| Ton | n | A tun: a large cask. |
| Tongs | n | An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a pair of tongs. |
| Tongue | n | The mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity, lingua, glossa; the uvula. 2. a human written or spoken anguage used by a community. 3. any long thin projection that is transient; "tongues of flame." 4. a manner of speaking; as a "glib tongue" 5. a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea, a spit. 6. the tongue of certain animals used as meat; 6. that which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form. 7. the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot. 8. metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side. 9. The power of articulate utterance; speech. 10.discourse; fluency of speech or expression; honorable discourse; eulogy. [Obs.] 11. language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue. 12. speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions. |
| Tongue | vb | Articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments. 2. lick or explore with the tongue. 3. to talk; to prate, to speak; to utter, chide, scold. 4. In music, to use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. 5. to join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together. |
| Tongue | phr | "Has the cat got your tongue." - a comment made when someone is unacustomingly or unusually quiet. |
| Tongue | phr | "To bite one's tongue" - fig. to struggle to say something that you really what to say. |
| Tongue | phr | "To find one's tongue."- fig. to be able to talk; to figure out what to say. |
| Tongue | phr | "To hold one's tongue."- to be silent. |
| Tongue | phr | "To (have)lost or to lose one's tongue" - to be too bashful or sulky to speak. 2. to lose thhe capacity to speak, as frm shock. |
| Tongue | phr | "To speak with tongue in cheek." to speak with irony, slyly, humourously, not taken to be serious. |
| Tongued | adj | Having or furnished with a tongue or tongues. (in various senses) |
| Tongueless | adj | Having no tongue, without a tongue. 2. without the faculty of voice or speech; dumb, mute; also without speaking, speechless, silence. 3. not spoken. |
| Tongues | n | Foreign tongues, often the classical ones: Hebrew, greek, Latin. 2. tongues (or languages) collectively; the languages of the world. 3. all tongues, people of every tongue. |
| Tongue-tie | n | That which ties the tongue or restrains speech, also the condition of being tongue-tied. |
| Tongue-shot | n | Talk or conversation within voice range. |
| Tongue-sore | n | Evil-speaking, calumny, gossip. |
| Tongue-tie | vb | To deprive of speech. 2. impeded of the power of speech, or of distinct articulation motion of the tongue, because of the shortness of the fraenum, or of the adhesions of the margin of the gums. |
| Tongue-tied | adj | Unable to speak freely. 2. unable to express yourself clearly or fluently. 3. destitute of the power of distinct articulation. 4. having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short fraenum. |
| Tongue-work | n | Philogical, linguistics matters or work (profession) |
| Tonguey | adj | Full of tongue or talk; loquacious. 2. of the nature of the tongue; produced or modified by the tongue; lingual. |
| To-night | n | The present or immediately coming night. 2. the night after the present day. |
| Tonight | adv | During the night of the present day; this evening, this night. 2. on this present or coming night. 3. on the last night past. 4. on this very night, (ie: the night now present). 5. on any night (as contrasted with the next day). 6. on the night following this day. |
| Too | adv | To a degree exceeding normal or proper limits; too big, excessively, overly, to a fault. 2. in addition; besides, also, likewise, as well. 3. over; more than enough; noting excess; as, a thing is too long, too short, or too wide; too high; too many; too much. 4. likewise; also; in addition. 5. "Too too", a duplication used to signify great excess. |
| Tool | n | The means whereby some act is accomplished; instrument; hence, any instrument of use or service. 2. a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else; puppet, minion. 3. obscene terms for penis; cock, prick, dick, shaft, pecker. 4. an instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or labourer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work. 5. machine for cutting or shaping materials; -- also called machine tool. 6. a weapon. [Obs.] |
| Tool | vb | Drive; as in "The hot-rod tooled down the street."; to drive a coach. 2. ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; joyride. 3. furnish with tools. 4. work with a tool. 5. to shape, form, or finish with a tool. |
| Tooled | adj | Cut, engraved, furrowed, grooved, incised, sculptured by a tool. |
| Tooling | n | The act of shaping, forming or finishing something with a tool. 2. the driving of a coach or other motor vehicle. |
| Toom | adj | Empty. 2. destitute of something. |
| Toom | vb | To empty a vessel, etc. esp to drink off the content of. 2. to empty out a vessel of its contents. |
| Toomhead | n | Emptiness, vanity, useless of no purpose. |
| Toomly | adv | In a leisurely manner; somewhat slowly; without haste. 2. idly. without occupation, emptily, vainly, unpurposely. 2. with empty sadle. |
| Toomsome | adj | Liesurely , free from haste, idlesome. |
| Toot | vb | To protrude, stick out, peep out, so as to be seen; to begin to appear above ground. 2. to peep, peer, look out, to gaze. 3. to look inquisitively. 4. to behold, view, see. tout. |
| Toot | n | An isolated conspicuous hill, suitable as a place of observation. 2. a look-out hill. 3. an elevated structure, as part of one, used as a look-out. |
| Tooter | n | One who gazes, a watchman, pryer, a peeper. 2. something that projects, like a prominent nose. |
| Tooting | n | The act of peeping, looking out, peering. 2. gaze, inquire by looking. 3. a view. |
| Tooth | n | Hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense. 2. something resembling the tooth of an animal. 3. toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell. 4. a means of enforcement; "the law had no teeth in it." 5. one of a number of uniform projections on a gear. 6. Fig.: taste; palate. 7. any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, of the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card. |
| Tooth | vb | To furnish with teeth. 2. to indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw. 3. to lock into each other. |
| Tooth | phr | "In the teeth", directly; in direct opposition; in front. |
| Tooth | phr | To show the teeth, to threaten. |
| Tooth | phr | "To the teeth" - in open opposition; directly to one's face. |
| Toothache | n | An ache or pain localized in or around a tooth or teeth; odontalgia. |
| Tooth and nail | n | As if by biting and scratching; with one's utmost power; by all possible means. |
| Tooth-brush | n | A small brush, with a long handle, used to clean teeth. |
| Tooth-drawer | n | One who "draws" or extracts teeth; dentist. 2. a dental instrument for extracting teeth. |
| Toothed | adj | Having or furnished with teeth. |
| Tooth edge | n | the sensation excited in the teeth by grating sounds, and by the touch of certain substances, as keen acids. |
| Toothful | adj | Toothsome. |
| Toothill | n | A natural or artificial hill, or mound used for a look-out place. 2. a prominent hill. |
| Toot-hole | n | A hole for spying. |
| Toothless | adj | Having no teeth; destitute of teeth. 2. that is naturally without teeth. 3. that has no yet cut it's teeth. 4. having lost the teeth, as from old age. 4. destitute of teeth-like projection or formations; not jagged or serrated. 5. destitute of keenness or "edge"; not biting or corrosive. |
| Toothsome | adj | Acceptable to the taste of mid, palatable. 2. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste, delectable, delicious, scrumptious. |
| Toothwort | n | Name given to several different plants of Dentaria. A leafless parasitic found on the roots of hazel and other herbs, having a double row of flesh-coloured droopy flowers, and tooth-like scales upon the root stock. Species include: "Lathraea squaminia", "Capsella Bursapastoris" - Sherperds purse and "Plumbago europea." |
| Toothy | adj | Having or showing prominent teeth; toothed. |
| Tooting | n | The act of peeping, looking out, peering. 2. gaze, inquire by looking. 3. a view. |
| Tooting | adj | looking-out, peeping, spying. prying, protruding, sprouting. |
| Top | n | A tuft, crest or brush of hair of the summit or crown of the head. 2. hair of the hair, crest or topping of the head. 3. crest or topping of a bird. 4.forelock of the horse. 5. tuft or handful of hair, wool, fibre, portion of flax. 6. a bundle of combed wool. 7. highest or uppermost part of things, peaked summit, mountain, hill tops. 8. parapet of a war-field trench. 9. uppermost division of the body. 10. uppermost of deer horns. 11. top plant of a plant. 12. smaller branches and twigs of a tree, as opposed to the branches. |
| Game | phr | "At the Top of One's Game" - an informal expression: at the height of one's powers. |
| Top | phr | "To put a top on." - to cover, crown, surmount. 2. to put the finishing touches on. |
| Top | phr | "Go over the top." - climb, as a soldier, over the top of a trench to encounter the enemy. |
| Top | phr | "To top." - to snuff out a candle. 2. to pare off the surface of something. 3. put to death by hanging; behead, execute. 4. simply kill someone. 5. to shorten the teeth of a cog. 6. to furnish with a top. |
| Top | phr | "To (or from) top and tail." - to wash a baby from head to foot. 2. to examine a matter from start to finish, completely. |
| Top | phr | "To top oneself." - to kill oneself, suicide. |
| Top-dog | n | The dog who wins the fight. 2. the man in charge, the boss, commander. |
| Top-dress | vb | To manure on the surface of land, grass or any crop. |
| Top-dressing | n | The application of manure to the surface of the soil. 2. the dressing itself. |
| Top-ender | n | One who lives in the Northern Territory of Australia. |
| Topful | adj | High, lofty, towering. |
| Top-hat | n | A man's silk or beaver hat with a high cylindrical crown. 2. a tall hat. |
| Top-heavy | adj | Disaportionately heavy at the top, having the upper part so heavy as to overbalance the lower; hence unstable and inclined to topple. 4. said of a drunk person: tipsy. 5. in business: overstaffed at management level. |
| Top-heaviness | n | The quality or condition of being top-heavy or being dis-aportionately heavy at the top and having an upper part so heavy as to overbalance the lower; hence unstableness and inclination to topple. 2. in business an overstaffing at management level. |
| Top-heavyish | adj | Inclined to be top-heavy in various ways. |
| Top-knot | n | Headdress consisting of a decorative ribbon or bow worn in the hair.
2. showy crest or knot of hair or feather. 3. crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird; also, an ornamental knot worn on top of the head, as by women. |
| Topless | adj | Seemingly having no top or summit. 2. immensely or immeasurably high; unbounded. 3. as a woman: bare-breasted; without a garment covering her breasts. |
| Toplessness | n | Condition of being topless: bare-breasted. 2. a summit-less or a summit immeasurably high. |
| Topline | adj | Outstanding, excellent, first-class. |
| Topliner | n | One who or that which appears on the top line; or in the first or principal place. 2. an entertainer or sportsman who is top of his field. |
| Toploftiness | n | Characterised by Loftiness in manner or behaviour; elevated in manners and ways , haughty, high and mighty of personality. |
| Toplofty | adj | Lofty in manner or character; elevated, haughty, high and mighty. |
| Topman | n | A hangman; executioner. 2. a upper-management man, a boss, chief. |
| Topmost | adj | Uppermost, highest, highest part, absolutely top. |
| Top-over-terve | adv | Topsy-turvy |
| Top-of-the-line | n | commercially superior product. |
| Topped | adj | Having the top removed of the tree; polled. |
| Topper | n | A top thing or person; a person or thing surpassing or exceptionally good or excellent. 2. the best or one of the best of a kind. 2. a blow on the top of the head; a knock-out blow. 4. the largest and finest fruit or indeed anything. 5. a large wave with a curly or breaking summit. |
| Topping | n | The formation, covering, layer on top of something. 2. the cutting off of a top on a tree or plant. 3. a method of cheating at dice. |
| Topping | vb | To bring to completion or capacity. |
| Topping | phr | "Topping of the land." - sighting of the land from a ship's top. 2. the limit of a distance at which this is possible. |
| Topping | adj | Exceedingly in height; very high. 2. very high and superior in position, rank, amount, estimation. 3. chief, principal, pre-eminent, towering. 4. ironically, fine, pretty, of high quality, very fine, excellent, tip-top,first-rate. 5. domineering, confident, boasting. |
| Toppingly | adv | In a happy manner, gallantly, splendidly. 2. in excellent condition or health. |
| Topping up | vb | To bring to perfection. 2. filling up or bring to capacity. |
| Topple | vb | Fall down, as if collapsing; to be liable or prone to collapsing 2. cause to topple or tumble by pushing. 3. to fall forward; to pitch or tumble down. |
| Toppy | adj | Having the character of a top or tops; peaked. 2. showy, stylish. 3. of animals: of a superior quality. |
| Top-shelf | n | Of things, such as magazines displayed above the eyeline of children because they contain photos of naked or scantily-clad women. 2. things, products etc. of the highest or best quality. |
| Topside | n | The upper side of anything. 2. the other side of a roll of beef; silverside. 3. "The Topside" - "The Establishment"- the ruling classes |
| Topside-down | adv | Topside under: upside down; "unless the world turns topsides down or under, some day." |
| Topsides | n | Upper-deck. 2. first-class. 3. the higher echolons. |
| Topsman | n | A boss, manager, chief. 2. hangman, executioner, topsman. |
| Topsoil | n | The layer of soil on the surface. 2. the upper layer of soil. surface soil. |
| Top-stone | n | A stone which is placed upon or forms the top of something; a capstone, chiefly fig. 2. also the upper-end stone or jewel in a chronometer. |
| Top-up | n | A refill to the top. 2. an add-on to bring something to a maximum. 3. an add-on which serves to complete an amount or a number. 4. filling to the top of something already partly filled. |
| Top-up | vb | To refill to the top. 2. to add on to bring something to a full capacity. |
| Tor | n | Hill of an abrupt conical form, a lofty hill, eminence, mould, grave, heap of ruins, a heap, a pile. 2. a high rock; a pile of rocks. 3. on the top of a hill; a rocky peak, a little hill. |
| Tor | adj | Adverbial particle meaning with difficulty, hardly, ill-used esp. with verbal adjective. 2. difficult, hard, toilsome. 3. irksome, tedious. 3. strong, sturdy, great. 4. in a vague, loose use: full, replete. 5. violent, great, excessive. |
| Tor-beget | adj | Difficult to get. |
| Tor-cyrre | adj | Hard to turn or convert. |
| To-reave | vb | To commit robbery or plunder. |
| To-same | n | To-samen: concourse, assembly, gaatahering. |
| To-shed | vb | to separate, divide, pull apart. diffuse, scatter. 2. to discern, discriminate, discern, distinguish. |
| To-shend | vb | To ruin or destroy utterly. |
| To-shene | vb | To break, dash into pieces,disperse. |
| To-shete | vb | To spring apart. 2. to burst asunder. |
| To-sheteness | n | The state or quality of bursting asunder or springing apart. |
| Tother | n | The other; tothers or t'others : the rest. |
| To-tight | vb | To stretch or spread out; extend. 2. to pull or draw aside. |
| To-toll | vb | To pull or drag thither and hither. |
| To-tread | vb | To trample down or upon. |
| To-treading | n | A trampling. |
| To-tweme | vb | To separate, divide, distinguish, dissent. nb: untweme. |
| Tough | adj | Not given to gentleness or sentimentality; 2. very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; rugged. 3. physically toughened; tough, toughened. 4. substantially made or constructed; sturdy. 5. prone to violent and lawless; tough; aggressive behaviour. 6. resistant to cutting or chewing. 7. unfortunate or hard to bear; hard. 8. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic. 9. having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; 10. not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong. 11. not easily sepa-rated; viscous; clammy; tenacious. 12. stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow. 12. severe; violent; as, a tough storm. 13. difficult to do, perform, or accomplish; as, a tough job. |
| Tough | n | A street ruffian. 2, someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing, street fighter. 2. an aggressive and violent young criminal, hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, toughie, strong-armer. 3. a cruel and brutal fellow, bully, hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob. |
| Tough | phr | "Tough as old boots." - extremely tough |
| Tough | phr | "Tough it out."- to endure and cope during time of difficulty or danger. |
| Tough | phr | "Make it tough."-to make something hard and difficult; to show reluctance. |
| Tough-backed | adj | Ready to stand and face issue of danger. |
| Toughen | vb | To make tougher. |
| Tough-hide | adj | Not easily offended. |
| Toughie | n | A tough, robust person. |
| Toughish | adj | Somewhat tough. |
| Toughly | adv | In a manner tough. |
| Tough-minded | adj | Free from excessive sensitivity, realistic, unsqueamished. |
| Tough-mindness | n | The state or condition of tough-minded; realistic. |
| Tough-necked | adj | Tough-hided, tough-backed, tough-nutted |
| Toughness | n | Enduring strength and energy, stamina, staying power. 2. the property of being strong and rugged. 3. the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking. |
| Tough-nut | n | A person difficult or dangerous to deal with. |
| Touse | vb | To pull roughly about. 2. to drag or push about, to handle roughly. 3. of a dog: to tear at, harry. 4. to pull out of joint; to rack. 5. to pull (a woman)about rudely, indelicately or in horse-play. 6. to disorder, dishevel the hair, dress; to tumble, disorder bed-clothes. 7. to abuse, maltreat. 8. to tease wool. 9. to rummage, disorder, tip up. |
| Tousle | n | Tussle, struggle. 2. a rough romping with a woman. 3. tousled mass or lump. 4. a tousled beard or hair. |
| Tousled | adj | Dishevelled, disarranged, tumbled, matted |
| Tousy | adj | dishevelled, tussled, unkempt, shaggy, rough. |
| Tout | n | One who secretly watches race horses training, to get information about their capabilities for use in betting. 2. a spy for a smuggler. |
| Tout | vb | To spy out the movement of race horses at their trails, or to get by stealth or improper means the secrets of the stables, for betting purposes. 2. to act as a tout; to give tips on a race horse. |
| Tow | n | The act of hauling something (as a vehicle)by means of a hitch or rope.
2. a rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope. 3. the act of towing, or the state of being towed; -- chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow. 4. that which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect. |
| Tow | vb | To draw by a rope. |
| Toward | prep | Of motion (or action figured as motion) in the direction of; so as to approach, but not necessarily reaching, but with implications of reaching to. 2. with direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. 3. tending to; in the direction of; in a fig senses. 4. of time, so as to approach; at the approach of, shortly. before, near. 5. nearly as much, nearly. 6. in the way of contributing to, as to help to. |
| Toward | adj | That is to come, coming, future. 2. approaching, imminent, impending. 3. in progress, going on; being done. 3. of young persons, promising, hopeful, forward, making good progress. 4. willing, apt, ready to learn, docile. 5. of things, favourable, propitious; opposite of untoward. coming near. 6. compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable. 7. bold, valiant. |
| Towardliness | n | Good disposition towards something; willingness, spec., aptness to learn; forwardness in learning. 3. docility, tractableness, friendship. 4. promise, ingenuity, proficiency. 5. favourableness, friendliness, affability. 6. furtherance, advancement, promotion. 7. likelihood, likely condition or position, prospect. |
| Towardly | adj | Likely to lead to a desired result; promising success. 2. propitious, helpful, favourable, advantageous, befitting. 3. hopeful apt to learn, docile (chiefly of young persons and their disposition. 4. favourably disposed, friendly, affable. 5. of plants, promising fonds. |
| Towardness | n | Condition or quality of being toward. 2. inclination or disposition to do something; readiness, willingness. 3. willingness and aptness to learn. 4. by nature of good disposition; forwardness or leaning. 5. condition or appearance of approaching or being towards. 6. of a coming or impending, an imminence, likelihood, or prospect. 7. state of advancement, or towardness. |
| Towardness | n | "Good towardness." - indicating good prospect(s). |
| Towards | adv | In preparation, at hand, imminent. 2. in the direction of some person or thing indicated by the context. |
| To-warp | vb | To throw about, throw down, overthrow, destroy. |
| To-wend | vb | To turn over, overthrow. 2. demolish, turn upside down, disturb greatly. 3. to turn in different directions, disperse, separate, to go pieces, break asunder. |
| Tower | n | A structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building. 2. anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower, pillar. 3. a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships tug-boat, tug, towboat. 4. projection from a line of wall, as a fortification or stronghold, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher; a fortified movable structure, often used for storming a castle. 5. structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, as, a church tower, a railway signal box. 6. a citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense, stronghold. 7. headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century. 8. high flight; elevation. (obs) 9. in early religious use, often applied to heaven. |
| Tower | vb | To soar into. [Obs.] 2. appear very large or occupy a commanding position; loom, tower, predominate, hulk. 3. to rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; to soar. |
| Tower-hill | n | A hill or near on which a tower is built. |
| Towered | adj | Having a tower or towers, adorned or defended by towers. 2. raised or rising like towers. 3. immured in a tower. |
| Towering | adj | Of imposing height; esp. standing out above others. 2. eminent, lofty, soaring. 3. very high, elevated, rising aloft. 4. extreme, violent, surpassing. |
| Towery | adj | Having towers. 2. adorned or defended by towers. |
| To-while | adv | During that time, while. |
| To-whiles | adv | Whilst. |
| To-whither | vb | To whirl in pieces; to windwhirl. |
| Towing | n | The action of dragging a boat, ship, vehicle etc. by rope or a tow. |
| Town | n | An urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city. 2. the people living in a municipality smaller than a city; the whole town, townspeople,
townsfolk. 3. an administrative division of a county. 4. formerly, an inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs. 5. the whole of the land which constituted the domain. 6. collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. 7. any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop. 8. any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities. 9. the body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways. 10. a township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country. 11. the court end of London; -- commonly with the. 12, the metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country. 13 a farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard. 14. village; hamlet, thorp. |
| Town | vb | To furnish with towns; make into towns. |
| Town-bairn | n | A native of the town; town-fellow. |
| Town-cress | n | Garden cress (Lepidiun sativa). |
| Town-dweller | n | Someone who lives in town; a town liver. |
| Town end | n | The end part or area of a town. 2. The end of the main steet of a town or village; one of the extremities of a town. |
| Town-foot | n | The end or area of a town. |
| Town-hall | n | A government building that houses administrative officers of a town government. 2. city hall. |
| Town-hithe | n | A haven, or landing place in a town |
| Town-house | n | A house in town, in distinction from a house in the country. |
| Townish | adj | Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like a town. 2. situated or existing in a town; urban; townly. 3. pertaining to the characteristics of town or town-life; esp. as distinguished fro a country one. 4. having the manners and habits of town-dwellers; urbane, oppidian, gentrification. |
| Townishness | n | The state of being a town. |
| Town-like | adj | Townish. |
| Town-living | n | Town-life; also the ecclesiastical benefice in a town. 2. the state of living in a town, in distinction to a country person or country-folk. |
| Town-made | adj | Made or manufactured in a town; spec, in the town or district. |
| Town-meeting | n | A general assembly of the inhabitants of a town; spec in the US. a legal meeting of the qualified voters of a 'town" for the transaction of public business, having certain powers of local government. |
| Town-mouse | n | Fig. a dweller in a town; esp as unfamiliar with country life (in allusion to Aesop's fables.) |
| Townred | n | A township, a cluster of homesteads. |
| Town-reeve | n | A bailiff or steward of a town. |
| Town-row | n | The sequence of houses in a town, or of homesteads in a parish or manor; fig. the roll of town's people. |
| Townsfolk | n | People or inhabitants of a town. |
| Township | n | The administrative division of a country. 2. the district or territory of a town. a burg, wapentake, a ward. |
| Town's husband | n | A borough official having the charge of accounts. |
| Townsman | n | One who lives in a tun; a villager, a villain. 2. a man who lives in a town; a ciizen. 3. a man of one's own or same town; a fellow-townsman. 4. an ordinary citizen or resident of a university town as distint from a gownsman. |
| Town-talk | n | The common talk of a place; the subject or topic of common conversation. |
| Town-twinning | n | The establishment of regular contact between towns in different countries. 2. a sister city relationship. |
| Townward | adv | Townards or in the direction of a town. 2. going or directed toward the town. |
| Town-weed | n | The plant Dog's mercury. |
| Toze | vb | To tease. |
| Tozer | n | A comber and cleaner of wool. |
| Tozing | n | The action or practice of cleaning wool or ore. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Trap | n | Device or contrivance in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.
2. drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas. 3. something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares, snare. 4. a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters. 5. the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise, ambush, ambuscade, lying in wait. 6. informal terms for the mouth, hole, maw, yap, gob. 7. a hazard on a golf course, bunker. |
| Trap | vb | To place in a confining or embarrassing position; pin down. 2. catch in or as if in a trap; to set traps for animals entrap, snare, ensnare, trammel (also fig.. 3. hold or catch as if in a trap. 4: to hold fast or prevent from moving; pin, immobilize. |
| Trap-door | n | A door, either sliding or moving on hinges, and flush with a surface, in a floor, roof or ceiling in the stage of a theatre. 2. a door in a level for directing the ventilating, a weather door. |
| Trap-door spider | n | One of a group of large spiders, which makes a nest in the shape of a tube with a hinged lid which opens and shuts like a trap. |
| Tray | n | Pain, affliction, trouble, grief, vexation. |
| Tray | n | Flat, shallow container or receptacle made of wood, metal, etc., usually with slightly raised edges, used for carrying, holding, or displaying articles of food, glass, china, etc. 2. a removable receptacle of this shape in a cabinet, box, trunk, or the like, sometimes forming a drawer. 3. a tray and its contents: to order a breakfast tray from room service. |
| Tray | vb | To pain, grieve, trouble, vex, afflict. |
| Trayful | adj | As much as a tray can hold. |
| Tray-monger | n | A maker or trader of trays. |
| Tread | n | A step in walking or running [syn: pace, stride. 2. the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire. 3. the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the
ground. 4. structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step. 5. way; track; path. 6. the act of copulation in birds. 7. (Mach.) the part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail. 8. The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear. 9. the chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle. 10. bruise or abrasion produced on the ankle of a horse that interferes. |
| Tread | vb | Put down or press the foot, place or set the foot down; step or walk on. 2. to walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step; tread or stomp heavily or roughly; trample; to set the foot on in contempt or hatred. 3. crush as if by treading on. 4. to beat, crush or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path. 5. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like. 6. to press out with the feet; to press out, as wine or wheat; as, to tread out grain with cattle or horses. 7. to tread the stage, to act as a stage-player; to perform a part in a drama. |
| Tread | phr | "To tread the earth" - to be alive, live. |
| Tread | phr | "To tread the ground." - to walk. |
| Tread | phr | "To tread one's shoes awry." - to fall from chastity. |
| Tread | phr | "To tread under foot" - to trample, subdue, overwhelm. |
| Tread | phr | "To tread water" - to stay afloat, (fig & lit.) |
| Treader | n | One who or that which treads. |
| Treadle | n | A step or stair. 2. a lever that produces rotary motion. 3. a bicycle pedal. |
| Treadle | vb | To move one's foot or make one's way by pedalling, walking on a lever or operating a lever. 2. to operate a machine by working a treadle. |
| Treadmill | n | A horizontal cylinder ade to revolve by the weight of persons treading on boards as equidistant steps around its periphery. formerly in use in prisons as a instrument of discipline. 2. a kind of mental treadmill, where you are potentially climbing, but never rise an inch. |
| Tread-miller | n | Fig. one who has or follows a dull and arduous working life. |
| Tread-wheel | n | A wheel rotated by the treading of animals or person to give motion to machinery to raise water etc. |
| Treddle | n | A dimminuitive of turd: sheep or goats excrement or dung. |
| Tree | n | A stick, esp. staff or cudgel. 2. the cross or holy-rood. 3. gallows. 4. various wooden structures; poet. applied to a ship. 5. a wooden horse, such as that one of Troy. 6. a wooden vessel, cask. 7. the framework of a saddle. 8. a block upon which a shoe is shaped. 9. a structure or figure. natural or artificial of branched form. 9. a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown. 10. a figure that branches from a single root; genealogical
tree, tree diagram. 11. something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree. 12. piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boot-tree, whiffletree, and the like. 13. wood; timber. (Obs). 14. mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precip-itation of a metal from solution; a lead tree. |
| Tree | vb | Force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape, corner. 2. chase an animal up a tree; "many dog like to tree possums". 3. stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree. 4. plant or cover with tree. |
| Tree | phr | "Top of the tree." - one who or that which occupies the top or chief position. 2. in the highest position. |
| Tree | phr | "Out of one's tree" - mad, insane, crazy, unbalanced. |
| Tree-bear | n | The racoon. |
| Tree-clover | n | Melilotus alba. |
| Treed | adj | Planted or covered with trees. 2. driven to taking refuge in trees. |
| Treeiness | n | The state or quality of being treey. |
| Treeless | adj | Destitute or devoid of trees. |
| Treelessness | n | The state or condition of being devoid of trees. |
| Treelore | n | Dendrology. |
| Treen | adj | Made of trees, wooden. 2. belonging to tree or trees; obtained from trees. 3. woodware; esp. when regarde as antiques. |
| Treenail | n | Trenail. 2. a cylindrical pin of hard wood used to hold in fastening
timber together. |
| Treenail | vb | Trenail. 2. to fasten or secure timber with trenails. |
| Tree of life | n | Immortality; and hence symbolic of it. |
| Tree of knowledge | n | Knowledge in general, and all of its branches. |
| Tree of wisdom | n | Buddhist knowledge and wisdom. |
| Tree-rune | n | One of the letters or runes or sculptured helical characters of branched-like form. |
| Treeship | n | The condition of being a tree. |
| Tree-top | n | The top of a tree. 2. the utmost branches of a tree. |
| Treeward | adj | Towards or in the direction of trees or a tree. |
| Tree-worker | n | Carpenter, housewright, |
| Tree-worship | n | Worship rendered to trees or to the spirits supposedly inhabiting them. |
| Treey | adj | Abounding in trees. 2. well-wooded. |
| Trend | n | A general direction in which something tends to move; "the trend of the stock market" ; a tendency. 2. general line of orientation; the way something bends, as the river takes a southern course; as the northeastern trend of the mountain range; course, bend. 3. a general tendency to change (as of opinion); movement, drift. 4. the popular taste at a given time; as in 1920s had their own style; vogue. |
| Trend | vb | To wind wool into tops for spinning. 2. to turn or direct one's own course. 3. to turn in some direction; to bend in a particular way. 4. to have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; bend, as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest. 5. turn sharply; change direction abruptly; swerve, sheer, curve, veer, slue, cut. 6. to clean wool. |
| Trender | n | One employed in cleaning wool. |
| Trendily | adv | In a consciously fashionable manner. |
| Trendiness | n | The state or quality of being fashionable, trendy, swanky, with-it. |
| Trendle | n | A circle, ring, coronel, circular dish, orb, ball, globe. 2. a wheel, trundle, trundle. 3. a suspended hoop or on which tapers were fixed, forming a chandelier (often found in churches. 4. a vessel, round or oval tub, circular trough. 5. a bundle of partly cleaned wool. 6. applied to various round or rounded objects. |
| Trendle | vb | To cause to roll, or revolve. |
| Trendled | adj | Rolled, revolving. 2. rounded, circular, globular. |
| Trendling | n | The action of the verb: "trendle" - rolling, circling, rounding. |
| Trend-set | vb | One who or that establishes trends in dress, thought. |
| Trend-setting | n | The action or condition of being at the forefront of the latest in trends. |
| Trendy | adj | Extremely fashionable, but often silly or annoying. 2. in accordance with the latest fad. 3. with-it, swank. |
| Trim | n | The condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc. 2. the set of a ship in the water, especially the most advantageous one.
3. the condition of a ship with reference to its fitness for sailing. 4. the adjustment of sails, rigging, etc., with reference to wind direction and the course of the ship. 5. the condition of a submarine as regards buoyancy. 5. a person's dress, adornment, or appearance. 6. material used for decoration or embellishment; decorative trimming. 7. decoration of a store window for the display of merchandise; window dressing. |
| Trim | vb | To make firm or strong; to give as security; to arm or array (a force); to settle , arrange; to encourage, comfort, exhort; to put in proper condition for some purpose; to prepare; dress. 2. to fit out a ship for sea. 3. to repair, restore put right (something broken, worn or decayed). 4. to put (a lamp, fire) in proper condition for burning, by removing any deposit or ash, and adding fresh fuel; also, to cleanse or cut level(a wick);by extension to renew the burnt out carbons or electrodes (of an arc-lamp). 5. to equip, supply. 6. to array, dress, adorn, dress up. 7. to decorate a hat, garment, etc. with ribbons, laces, embroideries or the like; also of a thing, to form the trimming of. 8. to dress the (hair or a beard); to clip the hair (of a person); also to dub a cock. 9. fig. to beat, thrash, trounce; also to recommend, scold. 10. to cut off the excrescences or irregularities of; to reduce to a regular shape by doing this; also as the part removed, as object.. 11. to bring, etc. (a piece of timber) to the required shape. 12. to distribute the load of (a ship, boat) so that she floats on a even keel; intr. vb of a boat or ship; transf, to adjust (the balance) so as to equalise. 13. to adjust (the sails or yards)with reference to the direction of the wind and the course of the ship; to turn, adjust, adapt. 14. to stow or arrange coal or cargo in the hold of a ship, or carry it to the hatches when discharging; also to shift, arrange coal on a ship or truck. 15. (with 'it") to modify one's attitude in order to stand well with opposite parties; also accommodate oneself with the mood of the times; to modify according to expediency. |
| Trimly | adv | In a manner trim. |
| Trimness | n | The state or quality of being trim. |
| Trindle | n | A wheel in a mill; a trendle, trundle. 2. the wheel of a wheelbarrow. 3. a spindle. 4. a roll or coil of wax taper, used to light medieval churches. 5. sheep or goats excrement, dung, pellets. |
| Trindle | vb | To make round, round. 2. to revolve or turn as a wheel or spindle. 3. to roll as a ball, hoop, cylinder along a surface. |
| Trine | vb | To touch. |
| Trithing | n | A thirdling, third part. |
| Trod | n | Tred, tread, footprint, track, trace. 2. a footpath, way, trodden way. 3. tread of a wheel. |
| Trod | vb | To pursue a path; to follow footprints ot the tracks of; trace. |
| Trodden | ppl | Chiefly, as a second element; trodden path, trodden down., down-trodden. |
| Trodden | adj | Trampled, stepped out, walked on. 2. formed or marked as a path. |
| Troth | n | A mutual promise to marry; betrothal, troth, engagement. 2. a solemn pledge of fidelity; plight; ones's faith as pledged in a solemn agreement or undertaking. 2. belief, including religious belief; faith; faithfulness, good faith, loyality; fidelity. 3. truth; honesty, verity; veracity; as, by my troth. 4. betrothal. 5. faith, trust, confidence. 7. truly, verily, indeed. |
| Troth | vb | To (be)troth: give to in marriage. engage, affiance, plight. 2. to contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman. 3. to promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to. 4. to nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration. |
| Troth | phr | "To plight my troth" - to pledge one's faith. |
| Troth | phr | "Upon my my troth" - a form of asservation. |
| Troth-breaker | n | One who breaks the pledge of troth: disloyal, infidelious, unfaithful of promise. |
| Truthful | adj | Full of troth or loyalty, faithful, trusty, trustworthy, truthful. |
| Troth-keeping | n | One remains loyal and faithful to a pledge or plight of troth |
| Troth-kiss | n | A kiss as a symbolic gesture of faithfulness, loyalty and fidelity. |
| Trothless | adj | Perfidious, disloyal. 2. destitute of loyalty, faithfulness, truth. 3. false, mendacious, incredible, untrustworthy. |
| Troth-plight | adj | Engaged or covenanted by a "troth" esp. of marriage, bethrothed. |
| Troth-plight | n | The act of plighting troth, or truth plighted; solemn engagement, esp. of marriage; covenant of marriage, affiancation, betrothal. |
| Trough | n | A narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed). 2. a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater; gutter. 3. a concave shape with an open top; bowl. 4. a treasury for government funds; public treasury, till. 5. a long narrow shallow receptacle. 6. a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle
or horses feed; manger. 2. a drunkard. |
| Trough | vb | To form into a trough or into the shape of a trough. 2. to treat in some way in a trough, to stain or mould in a trough. |
| Trough | phr | "Trough of the sea" - the hollow on the surface between two waves. |
| Trout | n | A wellknown freshwater fish of the genus Salma ; esp. Salma fario. |
| Trouty | adj | Abounding in or full of trout, or containing trout. |
| Trow | vb | To trust, have confidence in; believe. 2. to trust oneself to a person. 3. to believe in, or on, trust in. 4. to believe in a doctrine; hold to a truth. 4. to give credence to, to accept as true; trustworthy. 5. to believe, think, be of opinion, suppose, imagine. 6. something to believe confidently, feel sure, be assured. 7. expect, hope. 8 to prove to be true; to vouch for, to verify. 9. |
| Trowed | ppl | Believed to be such, supposed, implied. |
| Trower | n | A believer. |
| Trowing | n | The action of trow: trusting believing, having confidence in, having faith in, holding to be true, vouching for etc. |
| Trowing | adj | To be believed, worthy of belief. |
| Truce | n | A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms; armistice, cease-fire,truce, properly, pledge of fidelity, truth, fidelity, faith, troth, true. 2. suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing forces; a temporary cessation of hostilities, for negotiation or other purpose; an armistice. 3. hence, intermission of action, pain, or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet. |
| Truce | phr | "Truce of God," a suspension of arms promulgated by the church, which occasionally took place in the Middle Ages, putting a stop to private hostilities at or within certain periods. |
| Truce | vb | To make an truce, bring an end to hostilities by truce. |
| Truceless | adj | That is without truce; unceasing in hostility. |
| True | adv | As acknowledged; admittedly, avowedly, confessedly. 2. in accordance with, truly. |
| True | adj | Consistent with fact or reality; not false. 2. accurately placed or thrown; dead on target. 3. devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or
truth; a true belief in. 4. expressing or given to expressing the truth; a true statement; truthful testimony. 5. conforming to definitive criteria. 6. worthy of being depended on; dependable, honest, reliable. 7: not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; genuine unfeigned. 8. rightly so called; as in true courage; a true friend. 9. determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles; as in true north. 10. having a legally established claim; lawful, rightful. 11. in tune; accurate in pitch; on-key. 12. accurately fitted; level; straight. 13. conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or the like. 14. right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate. 15. Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince, or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false, fickle, or perfidious; as a wife true to her husband. 16. actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended, genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love. 17. genuine; real; not deviating from the essential characters of a class; as, a lizard is a true reptile. Nb: True is sometimes used elliptically for "It is true" |
| True | n | Proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment; "out of true" |
| True | phr | "Out of true", varying from correct mechanical form, alignment,adjustment, etc.; -- said of a wall that is not perpendicular. |
| True | vb | To make true as a piece of mechanism; to place, adjust, or shape accurately; to make accurately or perfectly straight, level, round, smooth, sharp, etc, as required. 2. to make level, square, balanced, or concentric; or true up |
| True | phr | "Out of true" - varying from correct mechanical form, adjustment, alignment etc. -- said of a wall that is not perpendicular. |
| True | phr | "To come truth" - to be verifie or realised in actual experience; be fulfilled. |
| True | phr | "To be true to oneself" - above all, be true yo yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it; take yourself out of it. No ifs, buts, on maybes. 2. Trust everything about yourself, You are you and that is the beginning and the end, don't rue what you done in good faith, don't say sorrow when others have wronged you. 3. Be who you are and say what you feel, for those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. 4. Be your own soul, learn to live, and if men thwart you take no heed, if men hate you have no care, sing your song, dream your dream |
| True-born | adj | Born of true or pure stock. 2. legitimately-born. 3. having the fine qualities associated with such descent. |
| True-bred | adj | Bred of a true or pure stock; of the true breed; thorough-bred. 2. having or manifesting true breeding or education. |
| True-fast | adj | Faithful, loyal, honest, sincere, true-hearted. |
| True-fastness | n | The quality of being loyal, faithful, sincere, loyal. |
| True-hearted | adj | Faithful, loyal, honest, sincere. |
| Trueful | adj | Truthful. |
| Truefully | adj | Truthfully. |
| True-heartedness | n | The quality or state of being faithful, loyal, honest, sincere. |
| Truehood | n | Truehead, faithfulness, fidelity. |
| Trueish | adj | Partly true, almost true, somewhat true. |
| True-love | n | A faithful lover; one whose love is pledged; a sweetheart, a beloved. 2. an ornament or symbol of true love. |
| Trueman | n | A faithful or trusty man; an honest man (as dinguished from a thief or criminal. |
| Trueness | n | Honesty, loyalty, faithfulness, sincerity. |
| Trueship | n | Faithfulness, fidelity. |
| True time | n | Mean time as kept by a clock going uniformily. 2. apparent time as reckoned from the transit of the sun's center over the meridian. |
| True-up | vb | To make true, place or adjust accurately. |
| True-wit | n | A genuinely witty or funny person. |
| Truly | adv | Sincerely, genuinely. 2. truthfully, accurately. 3. properly, truly, accurately. |
| Truly | phr | "Well and truly" - thoroughly, completely, fully, totally. |
| Truly | phr | "Yours truly" - one of the formal phrases used in signing a letter. |
| Trume | n | A body of persons; esp. a body of troops etc. in battle. 2. an array, a troop, a company, a crowd, multitude, a thrum. |
| Trume | vb | To assemble a troop, a crowd, a company. |
| Trundle | n | Trendle; trundle; a circle, ring, coronel, circular dish, orb, ball, globe. 2. a wheel, trundle, trundle. 3. a suspended hoop or on which tapers were fixed, forming a chandelier (often found in churches. 4. a vessel, round or oval tub, circular trough. 5. a bundle of partly cleaned wool. 6. applied to various round or rounded objects. |
| Trundle | vb | To cause to roll, or revolve. 2. to trindle, trendle |
| Trundle-bed | n | A low bed running on trundles, truckles, castors, usu pushed beneath a "high" or standing bed when not in use; a trundle-bedstead. |
| Trundle-tail | n | A dog with a curly tail; a low bred dog, a cur. |
| Truth | n | A fact that has been verified. 2: conformity to reality or actuality.
verity. 3. a true statement. 4. the quality of being near to the true value; accuracy4. the quality or being true; as conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be; conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like. 5. fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness. 6. the practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity. 7. that which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality. 8. a true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals. 9. righteousness; true religion. |
| Truth | vb | To assert as true; to declare. |
| Truth | phr | "In truth" - in fact, as a fact, indeed, really; mostly used to emphasise a statement. |
| Truthful | adj | Telling the truth, esp. habitually. 2. conforming to truth. 3. corresponding with reality. 4. honest, trustworthy, candid, frank. |
| Truthfully | adv | With truth, mendaciously, veraciously. |
| Truthfulness | n | The quality of being truthful; veraciousness. |
| Truthiness | n | The act or quality of preferring concepts or facts that one wishes to be true , rather than known to be true. |
| Truthing | n | The action of plighting a troth; a contract of marriage. |
| Truthless | adj | Untrue, mendacious, false. 2. destitute of true, faithless. |
| Truthly | adv | In accordance with truth; honestly without deceit. |
| Truthy | adj | truthful, likely probable. |
| Truthsman | n | A man of truth; a man characterised by or devoted to trurh. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Ty | sfx | Suffix denoting "Ten", forming the element of the decade numerals from 20 to 90, as twenty, thirty; from O.E. - tig. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Tuesday | n | The third day of the week. |
| Tuht | n | Obsolete form of "tight" from OE: "Tyht" meaning discipline, training, breeding, conduct, usage. Also "tuhtle." |
| Tum | vb | OE: to tumble, perform, salutatory feats, to dance. |
| Tumbester | n | A female tumbler or dancer. |
| Tumble | n | An act of acrobatic tumbling; an acrobatic feat. 2. an accidental fall; the falling of a stream or river. 3. fig. a fall, a downfall. 4. a sign of recognition or acknowledgement, a response, as in to " give a tumble." 5. an act of sexual intercourse; a woman given an opportunity for this. |
| Tumble | vb | To dance with posturing, balancing, contortions, and the like. 2. to perform as an acrobat; esp. to execute leaps, springs, somersaults and similar feats. 3. to roll on the ground, or in the air or water. 4. to wallow, also to throw oneself about in a restless way on a bed or couch; to toss (also, fig.) 5. to throw oneself backwards during flight; to turn end over end, as an aircraft, bird. 6. to fall; esp. to fall in a helpless way, as from stumbling or violence; to be precipitated, fall headlong; also said of a stream falling into a cataract. 7. to fall prone, to fall to the ground; to tumble down, tumble over, to stumble over an object. 8. of a building or structure: to fall into ruins or fragments; to collapse.
9. to fall rapidly in value, of prices, stocks etc. 10. to be tossed about like clthes in a tumble-driver or washing machines. 11. to cause or to fall prostate; to overthrow. 12. to throw down and destroy a structure; to overthrow, demolish, reduce to ruins. 13. to cause to fall in a confused heap; to throw down, throw in, throw out etc. without order or regularly to mix up in confusion, jumble together. 14. to propel or drive headlong, with a falling, stumbling movement; to precipitate; to throw or thrust roughly or forcibly; to toss, pitch. 15.to move or pass in a motion as if falling or stumbling; to precipitately move; to proceed harshly, without order or premeditation to bowl, bundle, roll, rush. 16. to turn over in examination or search; hence fig. to examine cursorily. 17. to have sexual intercourse: to get a tumble. 18. to handle roughly or indelicately; to touse, tousle; to upset the arrangement of anything neat or orderly; to disorder, rumple; to disarrange by tossing a bed, etc. 19. to come upon or meet by chance, stumble, blunder into, on or upon. 20. to understand , comprehend something not clearly put or expressed; perceive or apprehend a hidden design or signal. 21. to detect. 22. to fall in with; agree to; take a liking or fancy to. 23. to incline or slope inwards, as a side of a ship; to batter as in tumble home ship. 24. to mix, cleanse, or polish in a tumbling box. |
| Tumble | phr | "To give someone a tumble." - to have sexual intercourse. (also: "to get a tumble.") |
| Tumble | phr | "To take a tumble." - the facts of one's situation: to make up to something. |
| Tumbled-down | adj | That falls down habitually. 2. that is a tumbling condition; falling or fallen into ruin; dilapidated, ruinous, as in a house. |
| Tumberful | adj | The quantity that fills a tumbler. |
| Tumble home | vb | To endure a storm, esp a battering one in a ship, to "tumble home". 2. the inward inclination of the upper part of a ship's sides. |
| Tumble over | n | The act of falling over. |
| Tumbler | n | One who tumbles or falls. 2. an inexperienced window-cleaner. 3. a drinking cup, originally having a rounded bottom. 4. a toy that rocks when touched. 5. a detached mass of rocks, a rolled stone or boulder. 5. one who tumbles or tosses thing in confusion or disorder; a muddler; one confused. 6. a class of street ruffian who knocks over or "tumbles" his victims. |
| Tumble up | vb | To make haste; to come up from below deck. |
| Tumbleweed | n | Various plants found in the US. with a globular bush in late summer, which is broken off and rolled about by the wind; a ghostwort. |
| Tumbling | n | The action of falling, inclining, throwing, stumbling etc. |
| Tumbly | adj | Ready or inclined to tumble or fall. |
| Tun | n | A large cask or barrel, usu. for liquids; esp, wine, ale or beer. 2. a large vessel in general; a cup. 3. a chimney, esp the upper part above the roof of a house; a chimney pot. |
| Tun | vb | To put in, fill up or store in tuns or cask. 2. to swill liquor; drink excessively. |
| Tun-bellied | adj | Rounded like a tun or cask; pot-bellied, corpulent. |
| Turd | n | A lump or piece of excrement; ordure. 2. as a type of worthlessness or vileness. 3. in coarse abuse applied to a person as a term of execration or contempt. |
| Turdish | adj | Characteristic of a turd. |
| Turdmonger | n | A vile, contemptuous person, as in that turdmonger, who disdained my precious precepts, greeted me with vile and dirty dung. 2. a workman employed to remove and dispose sewage. |
| Turdy | adj | Full of, or defiled with ordure. 2. of or pertaining to excrement or fecal matter. |
| Turf | n | That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod. 2. peat, especially when prepared for fuel. 3. race course; horse racing. 4. the road or street as the milieu of prostitutes, pimps, tramps etc. |
| Turf | vb | To cover with turf or lay with turf. 2. to place or lay under the turf, cover the turf; to bury; to die and be buried. 3. to dig up turf or peat; to harvest turf for fuel. |
| Turf | phr | "On the turf." - engaged in prostitution. |
| Turf | phr | "To turf out" - to eject forcibly a person from a building or a venue. |
| Turfdom | n | The votaries of the turf or horse-racing communities. |
| Turfed | adj | Provided or adorned with turf. |
| Turfen | adj | Made or covered by turf, turfy. |
| Turf hedge | n | A hedge or fence formed with turf and plants of different kinds. |
| Turf house | n | a house or shed formed of turf, common in the northern parts of Europe. |
| Turfing | n | The action or occupation of digging up turf. 2. to cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank, or the border of a terrace. |
| Turfless | adj | Devoid of turf; bare. |
| Turf-writer | n | Journalists who write on horse-racing. |
| Turfy | adj | Covered or consisting of turf; abounding in turf or peat; peaty. 2. pertaining or characteristic of the turf. 3. suggestive of horse-racing; horsy. |
| Turfness | n | Turfy in character; horsiness. |
| Turtle | n | Any one of the numerous species of testudinata, esp. the sea turtle, or chelonian. Nb: in the US. the land and fresh-water tortoises are also called turtles. |
| Turtle | vb | To hunt for turtles. 2. to overturn accidentally. |
| Turtle-dove | n | The turtle. 2. as a term of endearment: gracious, harmonious affection towards a mate or lover. |
| Turtle-necked | adj | A pull-over or sweater with a high, close-fitting collar. |
| Turtur | n | An echoic name, imitating the cooing of the dove, torturing. |
| Turver | n | A cutter of turf and peat. |
| Turves | n | Several or more than piece of turf. |
| Tush | n | Tusk. |
| Tusk | n | A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses; ivory. 2. One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth. 3. a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog. 4. toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell. |
| Tusk | vb | To stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; to horn. 2. remove the tusks of animals; detusk. 3. to bare or gnash the teeth. |
| Tuskless | adj | Having no, or devoid of, tusks. |
| Tusked | adj | Having tusks; armed with tusks. |
| Tussle | vb | Touse, tousle. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Twain | n | Consisting of two parts or elements; double, a two-fold. 2. the abstract number two. 3. a group of two, a pair or couple. 4. twins. |
| Twain | vb | To carve, cut, hew into two parts. 2. to separate, be separated part, put apart, divide into two, tweme, disunite, estrange, be at variance; to asunder. |
| Twain-cloud(s) | n | A name for cumulostratus. |
| Tway | n | Two; a couple, a pair. |
| Tway | phr | "In Tway" - in two pieces or parts; in two. |
| Tway-biting | n | The action of cutting two-ways. |
| Tway-blade | n | A plant having or with two blades (leaves)springing from the root, such as Listeria (Common Twayblade) and Liparis (Orchid genus). |
| Tway-toothed | adj | Having two rows of teeth. |
| Twelfth | n | Position 12 in a countable series of things. 2. one part in twelve equal parts; one-twelfth, twelfth part, duodecimal. 3. the quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole. 4. The next in order after the eleventh. 5. in music, an interval comprising an octave and a fifth |
| Twelfth | adj | Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve. 2. coming next after the eleventh and just before the thirteenth in position. 2. constituting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided. |
| Twelfthly | adv | In the twelth place; twelveth in a series. |
| Twelfthtide | n | The season including the Twelfth-night; the season of the Ephiphany; formerly the concluding part of Christmas holidays. 2. (archaic or obsolete) the season including Epiphany (the twelfth day after Christmas) and the evening of the preceding day (Twelfth Night), regarded as the end of the Christmas season; Epiphany itself |
| Twelve men | n | "The Twelve Men" - a jury. |
| Twelve-fold | adj | Twelve times as great as or as much. 2. composed of twelve parts or division; of twelve kinds; twelve times in amount. |
| Twelvemonth | n | A period of twelve months; a year. |
| Twelve-monthly | adv | Yearly, annually. |
| Tweme | vb | To separate into two; divide into two parts. |
| Twentieth | n | Position 20 in a countable series of things. 2. next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty. 2. constituting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided. 3. the next in order after the nineteenth; one coming after nineteen others. 4. the quotient of a unit divided by twenty; one of twenty equal parts of one whole. |
| Twentieth | adj | Constituting, or being, one of twenty equal parts into which anything is divided. 2. coming next after the nineteenth in position. |
| Twenty-fold | n | Two-fold; double. |
| Tweon | vb | To be doubtful, to doubt, to debate. |
| Twere | vb | Abbreviation of "It were" - it would be. |
| Twi | prf | OE: two-something twice. |
| Twichild | n | One who is "twice a child" or in his second childhood. 2. an old man in his second childhood. |
| Twi-minded | adj | Having two minds about something; considering if, or thought in two aspects. |
| Twi-thought | n | An indistinct or vague thought. |
| Twi-wifing | n | Bigamy by a husband; twi-briding; twi-husbanding. |
| Twi-bill | n | A kind of axe with two cutting edges. 2. a mattock, tubal, cleaver. 3. a reaping hook, pruning hook. 4. a double-bladed battle-axe, a weapon. |
| Twi-born | adj | That or who has experienced a second birth; born again; regenerated. |
| Twice-told | adj | Counted or reckoned twice; twice as much as; twice in amount; two-fold in degree. |
| Twick | vb | To twitch. 2. to pull sharply or suddenly. |
| Twi-fold | adj | Two-fold; double. |
| Twi-fold | vb | To fold in two or bend double. |
| Twi-foldly | adv | Two-fold or twice in amount. |
| Twig | n | A small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year; branchlet, sprig. 2. a small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size. |
| Twig | vb | To branch out in a twiglike manner; such as a the lightning bolt twigged in several directions. 2. to twitch; to pull; to tweak. (obs). |
| Twiggen | adj | Made of twigs or wickerwork. |
| Twiggy | adj | Like a twig; slender as a shoot of a branch made of twigs. 2. like wickerwork. 3. full or abounding in twigs; bushy, scrubby. |
| Twigginess | n | The condition or state of being twiggy, like a twig, or slender. |
| Twile-hole | n | A hole left in the centre of a wattle hurdle for the insertion of a pole on which several hurdles may be carried simultaneously. |
| Twilight | n | The time of day immediately following sunset; dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle. 2. the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth. 3. a condition of decline following successes; in the twilight of one's years. 4. the light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18[deg] below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth. 5. faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed |
| Twilight | adj | Seen or done by twilight. 2. imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure. 2. lighted by or as if by twilight; as the twilight glow of the sky; dusky. twilit. |
| Twilight | vb | To light imperfectedly or dimly. |
| Twilighted | adj | Partly illuminated. |
| Twilight home | n | A home for old people; a geriatric institution; a nursing home. |
| Twilight-housing | n | Housing for special need persons; esp; retirement homes, nursing homes and geriatric institutions. |
| Twilighting | n | The act of relaxing; the state or condition of enjoying one’s surroundings; the state of reminiscing about the past; or thinking about someone; a revere with one lost in thought (or lack there of); absorbing-state (figuratively); a deep state of reflection. |
| Twilightless | adj | Devoid or having no twilight. |
| Twilight shift | n | Shift work between the day shift and the night shift. |
| Twilight-sleep | n | A state induced by pain-killing and sleep-inducing medication to alleviate or mitigate the suffering of people during morabundity. |
| Twilight-world | n | A shadowy region. 2. a world characterised by uncertainty, obscurity or decline. 3. the world which comes to light after sunset; characterised by merry-making or criminal activity. |
| Twilighty | adj | Resembling twilight. |
| Twilit | vb | Lit by twilight. |
| Twill | n | A woollen fabric or cloth having parallel lines, ribs or ridges; a fabric woven with a twill. 2. a weave used to produce the effect of parallel diagonal ribs. 3. appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving. 4. braid, crimp, dog-ear, double, enfold, entwine, fold, fold over, frill, gather, infold, intertwist, knit, lace, lap over, loop, mat, net, noose, pleat, quill, raddle, tuck, twine, twist, wattle, weave, web, wreathe. |
| Twill | vb | Weave diagonal lines into (textiles). 2. to weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surf |
| Twilly | adj | Having twills or pertaining to twilly cloth or garments. |
| Twin | adj | Being two identical; duplicate, matching, twinned. |
| Twin | n | Either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy.
2. in astrology, a person who is born while the sun is in Gemini. 3. a duplicate copy; counterpart, similitude. |
| Twin | vb | To duplicate, match, or parallel. 2. to bring two objects, ideas, or people together; match, mate, couple, pair. 3. grow as twins. 4. to give birth to twins. 5. to bring forth twins. 6. to be born at the same birth. 7. to cause to be twins, or like twins in any way. 8. to separate into two parts; to part; to divide; hence, to remove; also, to strip; to rob. |
| Twin | vb | To put asunder (properly). 2. two things or persons; or one from the other. 3. to separate, disjoin, disunite, sunder, sever, part, divide. 4. to deliver, set free, to distinguish. 5. to divide, shart, part with. 6. to deprive of. 7. of persons or things- to go asunder; to separate, put apart. 8. to depart, go away, to go, proceed, escape, get free;. to depart from a place or thing, "Ere that we farther twin." --Chaucer. |
| Twin | phr | "To twin from" - to separate oneself from; to part from; take leave of; to deprive oneself of; to give up. |
| Twin | phr | "To twin with" - to part with, to take leave, to deprive oneself; give up. 2. to break asunder; burst; cleave in, twain. |
| Twinberry | n | U.S. name for the Gaultheria procumbens, checkerberry, partridge-berry or winter-green. |
| Twind | vb | Variant of "Twine" - to twist, twine, wind, turn. 2. to become entangled or knotted. 3. of an arrow; part from the bow. |
| Twindle | vb | To bring forth or bear twins. |
| Twine | n | Division, separation, disunuion. 2. a twined or twisted object or part. 3. a fold, coil, convulsion. 4. a twist or turn in the the course of a thing. 5. a tangle, knot, snarl. 6. an embrace, a clasp. 7. a turn of fortune; vicissitude. 8. of a line: a spiral; a helical. |
| Twined | adj | Divided, separate; disuniting. 2. twisted. 3. folded, coiled, convulsed. 4. tangled, knotted, snarled. 5. embracing, clasping. 6. vicissitudinal. 7, spiralling, helical. |
| Twined | adj | Of two born at one birth. 2. intimately joined or united; as two things: coupled (usu. also implying close similarity.) 3. |
| Twine-less | adj | Destitute of twine; having no twine. |
| Twine-thread | n | A twisted or double-spun thread; also collectively cord, twine. |
| Twinge | n | The act of pinching, wringing, tweaking, twitching, tweaking, twisting, turning. 2. smarting, tingling, irritation. 3. pain very sharp often wringing; often a local momentarily pain; esp. applied to that of gout or rheumatism. 4. an after-twinge of the body or mind. 5. prick or twinge of conscience; sometimes stimulating pride. 6. a sharp mental pain; a pang of shame, remorse, sorrow or the like. 7. a nip of cold. 8. an earwig. |
| Twinge | vb | To pinch, wringe, tweak, twinge. 2. to cause to smart, tingle, irritate affect (the body or mind) with a twinge or sharp pain; to prick the conscience. 3. to experience a twinge or pinching. |
| Twinger | n | One who twinges, irritates, pricks the conscience of others. |
| Twinging | n | The feeling of smarting, tingling, pricking and irritatingly affecting (the body or mind) with a twinge or sharp pain. |
| Twingy | adj | Twinging pain, irritating, pain, tingling, pricking. |
| Twi-nighter | n | A game of baseball or cricket etc., which begins in the afternoon and continues into the night under or with artificial lighting. |
| Twining | n | Twisting, spinning, winding, embracing, writhing. winding, coiling, withing etc. spec, of a plant growing spirally around a support. |
| Twining | adj | Winding, coiling, twisting etc. spec, of a plant growing spirally around a support. |
| Twiningly | adv | In a twining manner. |
| Twin-kind | adj | Of two kinds, two-fold, double. |
| Twinkle | n | A rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash; scintillation, sparkling; anything which emits a transient or faint radiance, esp. applied to the eyes. 2. merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of coun- tenance; light. 3. a closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye; the time of a wink, a blink. 4. a brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated. 5. a young sexually attractive female. |
| Twinkle | vb | Gleam or glow intermittently; flash, blink, wink, winkle. 2. emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; winkle, scintillate. 3. to open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. 4. to shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. |
| Twinkler | n | One who winks; a winkler |
| Twinkle-toes | n | One very light and nimble on his or her toes; an accomplished dancer. |
| Twinkling | n | The action of shining with tremulous or faint radiance, scintillation, glimmering (also transfig. & fig.) 2. the action of or act of winking or nictitation. 2. time taken in the winkling of an eye; a very brief moment or an instance. |
| Twinkling | phr | "In the twinkling of an eye" - in an instant, moment. Also: "In a twinkling; "All in a twinkling"; "At a twinkling." |
| Twinkingly | adv | In a twinkling manner: shiningly, glimmeringly, scintillationly. |
| Twin-lepy | adj | After "Onlepi/ Onlepy"- twofold, double; two only. |
| Twin-light | n | Twilight, dusk, the crespular. |
| Twin-ling | n | A twin. |
| Twinly | adj | To an equal extent; in an identical degree; doubly. |
| Twinning | n | The action of parting or separation. |
| Twinship | n | The condition of being a twin or a twin. 2. relations of a twin or twins. |
| Twin-sisterhood | n | The relationship of twin sisters. |
| Twin-soul | n | Kindred spirits, soul mates. |
| Twin-spreche | n | "Twin-speak" - double or deceitful speech. |
| Twinter | n | Of two winters; a period of two winters. 2. a two year-old (said of cattle, horse and sheep) |
| Twin-towns | n | One of a pair of towns(usu. in different countries)that have established official links. 2. of a city, town linked with another (in a different country) for the purpose of friendship and cultural exchange. |
| Twiny | adj | Of the nature of twine. |
| Twirede | adj | Of or in two minds or counsel: undecided, irresolute, not unanimous. |
| Twitch | n | Sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition; vellication. 2. the act of twitching; a pull with a jerk; a short, sudden, quick pull; as, a twitch by the sleeve. 3. a short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a simple muscular contraction; as, convulsive twitches; a twitch in the side. |
| Twitch | vb | To snatch by way of robbery or theft. 2. to pinch and pull at with pincers or the like; to nip; to hurt or pain by doing this. 3. of a nerve: to twinge, shoot. 4. to go with a sudden swift motion; to dart, shoot. 5. make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion. 6. move with abrupt, sudden motion, seemingly uncontrolled motions; jerk. 7. toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air; flip. 8. squeeze tightly between the fingers; squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch. To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes. |
| Twitch | phr | "At a Twitch" - in a moment; without delay. |
| Twitch-bell | n | An earwig. |
| Twitched | adj | Irritable, rattled. |
| Twitchel | n | A fork in a road; a forked way. 2. a narrow passage between walls or hedges. 3. a noose. |
| Twitcher | n | A bird-watcher whose main aim is to collect and report sightings of rare birds. |
| Twitchily | adv | In a manner of twitching |
| Twitchiness | n | State or condition of nervousness, fidgetness, irritability. |
| Twitching | n | The action of twitching. 2. jerking, plucking, nipping, convulsing, or spasmodic movement. |
| Twitch-up | n | A pegged down snare attached to an elastic sapling or the like, which springs up and strangles the game when sprung. 2. a noose, loop. 3. a place in or part of a vein where it is compressed or narrows. 4. a small lock of wool or flax twisted around the forefinger of the left hand in spinning. 5. forceps, tweezers. |
| Twitch-up | vb | To hang. |
| Twitchy | adj | Characterised by twitching, having a tendency to twitch; also nervous, fidgety, irritable; also said of a smile. |
| Twitten | n | A narrow passage between two walls or hedges; a laneway. |
| Twixt | . | Aphetic form of betwixt. |
| Twixten | . | Between. |
| Twizeled | adj | Forked (?) |
| Two | adj | Being one more than one. |
| Two | n | The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral represent-ing this number. 2. one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots; deuce. 3. one or two, a phrase often used indefinitely for a small number. 4. the sum of one and one; the number next greater than one, and next less than three; two units or objects. 5. a symbol representing two units. 6. in two, asunder; into two parts; in halves; in twain; as, cut in two. |
| Two | phr | "In Two Shakes" - immediately, in a moment, split second. |
| Two | phr | "In two twos" - in a very short time; directly, immediately. |
| Two-at-a-length | n | Tandem |
| Two-fold | adj | Consisting of two strands or threads twisted into one. |
| Two-foldly | adj | In a two fold manner; doubly. |
| Two-foldness | n | State or quality of being two-fold. |
| Two-footed | adj | Having the ability to do or perform feats with both feet, such as footballer who can kick the ball equally well with either foot. 2. a bipedal; two-legged |
| Two-handed | adj | Ambidextrous. |
| Two-hearted | adj | Deceitful, deceptive, untrustworthy. |
| Two-income | adj | Receiving two incomes or wages. 2. a two income family with both partners receiving an income. |
| Two-lofted | adj | Two-storied, two-tier, two etaged. |
| Two-ness | n | The fact or state of being two. 2. duality; doubleness. |
| Twos | vb | To keep company with a person of the opposite sex. |
| Two-sea'd | adj | Situated between two seas; bismaris. |
| Two-sided | adj | Bilateral; two-sideness. 2. fig. having two parts or aspects. |
| Twosing | n | Companionship with a person of the opposite sex. 2. a couple; an item; a duo. |
| Twosing | vb | To keep company with a person of the opposite sex. 2. to date, partner, accompany |
| Twosome | n | Two persons together. 2. two in company. 3. a pair of lovers. 4. a dance, game etc for two persons. 5. something performed by two persons together. |
| Two time | vb | To act or be unfaithful or double-cross one to whom loyalty is owed. |
| Two-timer | n | One who double-crosses or is unfaithful to someone they owed loyalty to. |
| Two-timing | n | The act or action of deceiving a person, esp. one whom loyalty is owed to. 2. the act of unfaithfulness to a spouse or lover; double-crossing. |
| Two twos | . | In a very short time; directly; immediately. |
| Two-up | n | An Australian game of chance, where two coins are simultaneously tossed into the air and bets or wagers are placed on certain outcomes. |
| Two-way | adj | Supported by both sides; "a two-way treaty" :bipartisan, two-party,
2. involving two parts or elements. 3. operating or permitting operation in either of two opposite directions. 4.serving to connect at will one pipe or channel with either of two others; as, a two-way cock. |
| Two-way street | n | Occuring or existing in two directions; reciprocal. 2. fig. a situation of mutual action. 3. something that works in both ways. |
| Ty | sfx | The final of the "Tens" in the numbers: "Twenty, thirty, forty etc." |
| Old English | sp | English |
| U | n | The letter "U" |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Udder | n | The pendulous baggy organ with two or more nipples, by which, milk is secreted in some female animal. 2. a mammary gland in cattle. 3. a dug or a teat. |
| Uddered | adj | Having udders. |
| Udderful | adj | As much as an udder can hold. |
| Udderless | adj | Not having udders. 2. of a young animal deprived of its mother's milk. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Ughten | n | The part of the night immediately before daybreak; early morning. 2. ughten-tide or uht-tide. |
| Ughten-song | n | The ecclesiastical celebration just before day breaks; matins or nocturns, |
| Old English | n | Modern English |
| Unaddled | adj | Unearned. 2. not putrid or rotten. |
| Unailing | adj | Free from disease. |
| Unaffeared | adj | Unafraid, afeared. |
| Unakinned | adj | Not related, for reasons not unakinned or related to each other. |
| Unalike | adv | Differently; not the same; not alike. |
| Unalive | adj | Not fully susceptible or awake to something. 2. lack in vitality; not living (fig). |
| Unanemned | adj | Indescribable, unnamed. |
| Unaneled | adj | Not having or without receiving extreme unction; unanointed |
| Unanswered | adj | Not having received received an answer. |
| Unarm | vb | To disarm; deprive of weapons. |
| Unarmed | adj | Not armed; without weapons; defensiveless. 2. having no sharp, hard projections, or spines, prickles, plates; said of plants or animals. |
| Unashamed | adj | Used of persons or their behaviour; feeling no shame, brazen, forward, unabashed, unblushing, unrueful, unsorrowful. |
| Unashamedly | adv | Without shame, shamelessly, barefacely, brashly, flagrantly, improperly without qualm, unruefully, unbearing, unrespectful. |
| Unasked | adj | Uninvited, without being asked. 2. not requested or intreated. 3. not asked for; not made the subject of a request. |
| Unasked-for | adj | Not sought or requested. |
| Unasking | adj | Without asking for; unrequesting; unsolicitious. |
| Unawakened | adj | Dull in senses, obtuse, unalert, dormant, slumbered. |
| Unawakening | adj | Permanently sleeping; death, as in awakening sleep. |
| Unaware | adv | Not aware of; not cognizant, ignorance. 2. blind to the consequences; reckless. |
| Unawareness | n | State or condition of being unaware, not with cognizance, unconscious of. |
| Unawares | adv | Without being aware, not aware, ignorant, not cognizant, take unawares, unconsciously, inadvertently; recklessly, lacking caution, unwary. 2. without being noticed, unobserved. 3. "unawares to" -- without the knowledge of; unperceived by. 4. without warning unexpectedly. 5. unknown, inexperience. |
| Unawares | phr | "At Unawares" - by surprise. |
| Unawares | phr | "Unawares to" -- without the knowledge of; unperceived by. |
| Unawed | adj | Not inspired by awe or awestruck. 2. not impressed. |
| Old English | Rank | English |
| Um | pfx | This prefix was once as common to English as it still is to German verbs and was a prefix in many ME. verbs ("ymb"; umb; umbe) meaning "around", around" "about", as umstand to stand round, guard; umbeset to beset, surround, best on every side; umbego to go around, encircle, UMBETHINK. Um is a reduced form of umb- was ad. ON, umb, corresponding to OE ymb, ymbe, prefix, ymbe prep. umbe- repr. OE. ymbe is partly an extension of umb partly a combination of um- with "be-", Latin ambi is a cognate. |
| Umbeclead | vb | To clothe, wrap up, swathe |
| Umbeclip | vb | To surround, encircle, clutch, hug, grip around, embrace, clasp around. |
| Umbedelve | vb | Dig around |
| Umbegang | vb | To surround, go around. |
| Umbego | vb | To go around, to encircle, to surround with something. |
| Um-be-grip | vb | To sieze or grip round. |
| Um-be-set | vb | To beset on every side. |
| Umbeshadow | vb | To shade around. |
| Umbeshear | vb | To circumcise. |
| Umbestound | adv | At times, sometimes, after a short time; umbestoundingly. |
| Umbethink | vb | To think about, to think about oneself, consider, remember, to call to mind. Also: "Um-be-thinke" - to bethink one's self of all surroundings (or circumstances), to remember. |
| Umbethinking | n | Consideration, recollection, recalling, reflection. |
| Umbeweave | vb | To wrap around. |
| Umbewhile | adv | After a time, at times, sometimes. |
| Umest | adj | Of clothes: uppermost or outermost, applied to the coverlet of a bed, claimed by the priest as requisite on the death of a parishioner. 2. of things or places: lying highest or uppermost. 3. most important or prominent. |
| Umgamg | n | Circuit, circumference. |
| Umgo | vb | To go around, encompass. |
| Umset | vb | To invest, surround. |
| Umstroke | n | Circumference, edge. |
| Umthink | vb | To think, consider, reflect. |
| Old English | n | Modern English |
| Unbacked | adj | Of horses: unmounted; untrained. 2. not backed or supported, not endorsed. 3. not furnished with a back or backing. 4. not backed by betting. 5. (fig.) unsupported. |
| Unbaked | adj | Of tiles, not baked in a kiln; not exposed to heat. 2. of bread, not prepared by heating. 3. fig. left in an unfinished or immature state; inchoate. |
| Unbaleful | adj | Harmless, not evil, unwoeful. 2. good, not wicked, unwicked. |
| Unbare | vb | To uncover, strip, lay bare. 2. expose to view. |
| Unbathed | adj | Unwashed, unclean, dirty. 2. not bathed, dry. |
| Unbe | vb | Not to be; to be non-existent. 2. to make non-existent. 2. to deprive of being. |
| Unbeamed | adj | Unplanked; without supporting beams, devoid of trees. 2. without shafts of light, darkish, lightless. |
| Unbear | vb | Not able to withstand, endure or tolerate. 2. to loosen the bearing rein on a horse. |
| Unbear | adj | Impatient, intolerant. |
| Unbearded | adj | That which is without a beard; clean-shaven. 2. of persons, not having a beard; clean-shaven. 3. of plants, not furnished with a bristles or hairy tufts, awnless. |
| Unbearing | adj | Infertile, unproductive, barren. |
| Unbeaten | adj | Not beaten or struck; not pounded; not broken up or soften by pounding. 2. not subdued or beaten down or trodden down. 3. not conquered or defeated. 4. not suffered defeat on the sporting field. 6. not scoured for game during a hunt. |
| Unbecome | vb | To fail to become or suit. 2. to be unbecoming. |
| Unbecomed | adj | Unadorned, simple and plain, |
| Unbecomely | adv | Unsuitably. 2. not becoming or befitting, unsuitable, improper, unworthy. |
| Unbecoming | pp | Not becoming, unsuitable; improper. |
| Unbecomingly | adv | In a manner or way unsuitable, improper, unbefittingly. |
| Unbecomingness | n | The state or quality of unsuitability, impropriety, unfitness. |
| Unbedewed | adj | Softened by the settling dew of morning. |
| Unbedimmed | adj | Not in any way bright or light, darkish or darkening. |
| Unbefitting | adj | Not suitable, proper or becoming. |
| Unbefittingness | n | The state or condition of being unsuitable, improper, unfit. |
| Unbefriended | adj | Without friends; friendless; all alone. |
| Unbeget | vb | To annul or undo the begetting of. |
| Unbeginning | n | Having no beginning or commencement; without beginning. |
| Unbeginngness | n | The state or quality of having no beginning or commencement. |
| Unbegirt | vb | To uncover or unsurround. |
| Unbegotten | adj | Ungenerated, unborn, without beginning. 2. not yet begotten. 3. of God, existing independent of natural causes; eternal. |
| Unbegraved | adj | Unburied, uninterred, unentombed. |
| Unbegun | adj | That had no beginning or ever-existed. 2. not yet begun, not commence or started; without beginning.. |
| Unbeheld | adj | Not yet or unconceived in the mind, as the unbeheld splendour of heaven. 2. unseen or unimagined. |
| Unbeheve | adj | Disadvantageous, unprofitable. |
| Unbeholding | adj | Not obligated or beholding to another. |
| Unbeholdness | n | State or condition of not being under obligation to another. |
| Unbehoving | adj | Not requiring or needful of one's action in a matter. |
| Unbeing | n | The state of absence, non-existence or the lack of being |
| Unbekend | adj | Unknown. |
| Unbeknown | adj | Not known; without the knowledge of. 2. lying outside of one's knowledge or acquaintance. 3. without knowledge of. |
| Unbelie | vb | To not be false or tell a lie. |
| Unbelief | n | In matters of religion: absence or lack of religious belief; disbelief, incredulity. |
| Un-belief-ful | adj | Unbelieving, wanting in belief, incredible. |
| Un-belief-fulness | n | Unbelievableness; state or condition of total belief in religion. |
| Unbelieve | vb | To disbelieve, to give up belief in; discard or abandon belief. |
| Unbelieved | adj | Disbelieved; not believed; disbelieving. |
| Unbeliever | n | One who withholds belief. 2. one who has no faith. 3. one having a religion different from that of the speaker or writer. |
| Unbelieving | n | The action of not believing; disbelief; an instance of disbelief. |
| Unbelieving | adj | Not giving to or having belief in, esp. in religious matters or belief; incredulous, perfidious. |
| Unbelievingness | n | State or quality of not being. |
| Unbeloved | adj | "The Unbeloved" - not loved, unloved, liked or adored. 2. scorned and rejected, not beloved of a woman or women. |
| Unbelt | vb | To ungird. 2. to detach or remove a sword by unfastening the belt. |
| Unbelted | adj | Without a belt; not wearing a belt or a seat belt in a motor vehicle. |
| Unbend | vb | To release or relax a bow from tension. 2. to uncock a firearm. 3. to unstring something. 4. to slacken or weaken; give relaxation to. 5. free from serious occupation. 6. unfasten, untie, undo a cable, line etc. 7. to allow or cause (the brow) to relax from a serious, severe or frowning aspect. 8. to straighten from a bent or curved position; to unfold. 9. to abandon an effort or attempt to free oneself from constraint or ceremony; to do in an unconstrained or genial manner, to relax one's seriousness or severity. 10. to alter from a bend or curve; to become straight or less curved. |
| Unbended | adj | A relaxed, not curved or bent position. 2. free from serious or severe state. |
| Unbending | adj | Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; as an
unbending will, inflexible, rigid. 2. not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. 3. unyielding in will; not subject to persuasion or influence; inflexible; resolute; -- applied to persons.4. unyielding in nature; unchangeable; fixed; -- applied to abstract ideas; as, unbending truths. 5. devoted to relaxation or amusement. |
| Unbendingness | n | The state or quality of being unbending; unyielding; inflexible, rigid, resolute, fixed, unchangeable. |
| Unbe-ness | n | Non-existence; the state of non-existence. |
| Unbenight | vb | To free from night, darkness or obscurity. |
| Unbenighted | adj | Not benighted. 2. enlightened intellectually or morally. |
| Unbent | adj | Not bowed or curved; straightened; free from bending. 2. released from a bent state like a bow. 3. not wrinkled or knit. 4. not subdued or subservient. |
| Unbequeathed | adj | Not uttered, declared, assigned (property) by will. |
| Unbereaved | adj | Not suffering the pain of bereavement. |
| Unbereft | adj | Old English bereafian "to deprive of, take away, seize, rob," from be + reafian "rob, plunder," Since mid-17c., mostly in reference to life, hope, loved ones, and other immaterial possessions. Past tense "bereft" now applies to circumstances. |
| Unberried | pp | Of peas: shelled; of currants: stripped from stalks; of fruits: plucked. |
| Unberthed | adj | Unboarded. 2. not yet reaching it's destination or moorings. |
| Unbeseen | adj | Unobserved, secretly. 2. unprovided, destitute, devoid of. |
| Un-be-seen-ness | n | Heedlessness; want of any care. |
| Unbeset | adj | Unbestowed or unapportioned. |
| Unbeset | vb | To free from dullness or stupidity. |
| Unbesought | adj | Not ardently sought out, desired or pursued. |
| Unbespeak | vb | To countermand; to cancel an order, booking or request for a service etc. |
| Unbespoken | adj | Not yet ordered, arranged, or engaged. |
| Unbestowed | adj | Not yet bestowed or given; or yet to be bestowed or given. |
| Unbet | adj | OE: ungebet: unamended; unchanged, staying as is. |
| Unbeteared | adj | Without or devoid of tears. |
| Unbethought | adj | Unpremeditated; without pretext; unintentiontally; unexpectedly. 2. unthought of; unrealized. |
| Unbetide | vb | To fail to happen; not occurring, not eventuating. |
| Unbetoken | vb | To not be a signal for or a symptom of; to not indicate, or point to. 2. not to indicate by signs; not bode, not portend, not omen, not presage, not foreshadow, not augur, not foretell, not forecast or predict. 3. to not signify by some visible object; to not show by signs or tokens. 4. to not foreshow by present signs; to not indicate something future by that which is seen or known. |
| Unbethrothe | vb | To no promise to take in marriage; to uninengage, to unplight. 2. to end or revoke the contract to any one for a marriage; to un-inengage or break or end the promise of marriage. 3. to no longer promise to take (as a future spouse); to end the plight of one's troth to. 4. to no longer nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration. |
| Unbettered | adj | Not made better; not improved. |
| Unbeware | adv | Unaware, unbewares, not alert to. |
| Unbewed | adj | Unmarried, nubile, unwed |
| Unbewilder | vb | Not make one bewilder; not bewildered. |
| Unbewitch | vb | To deliver from witchcraft; see free from witchcraft. 2. to disenchant. |
| Unbidden | adj | Not invited; unpremeditated. 2. not spontaneous, not called forth. |
| Unbidden | phr | "Unbidden thoughts" - unspontaneous. |
| Unbind | vb | To free from a bond, tie, make loose by unbonding a band; unfasten, untie or loosen; to open up or out; set free; detach. 2. free from sin ot its consequences; to absolve. 3. to set free, deliver, cure from sickness or trouble. 4. to make free, or release from legal restraint or obligation. 5. to give up an enterprise. 6. to restore personal liberty. 7. to clear of phlegm. 8. to dissolve, undo, destroy. 9. to aid the natural flux of the bowels. |
| Unbinding | adj | Not binding; esp. having no binding force, invalid. 2. loosening, dissolving. |
| Unbirthday | n | Any day but one's birthday. |
| Unbishop | vb | Deprive of the rank of bishop. |
| Unbitten | adj | Not bitten. 2. (slang) not enthusiastic; without enthusiasm. |
| Unbiwene | adj | Unexpected. |
| Unbleached | adj | Not bleached; having its natural color. |
| Unblenched | adj | Not dismayed. |
| Unbless | vb | State of being unblessed or loosing the blessing of God or some one dear to you. |
| Unblessed | adj | Not blessed, not validated, unendeared. |
| Unblighted | adj | Not affected by blight or anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity; "unblighted towns and wicks". 2. not affected with blight; not preventing the growth and fertility of by blight. 2. that doesn't cause rot in or blast vegetables, or blights corn and fruit, and not injurious to man. 3. hence: not pernicious or destructive to the happiness of; does not ruin or blight man, animal or plant; unmarring; unfrustrating; as, unblightish to one's prospects. |
| Unblind | vb | To be free from blindness. |
| Unbliss | n | Unhappiness, sadness, sorrow, without delight. |
| Unblissful | adj | Destitute of happiness; blissless; unhappy. |
| Unblissfully | adv | Unhappily, sadfulnessly, sorrowfully, ungodly. |
| Unblithe | adj | Unhappy, sad, sorrowful, not delighted. 2. of things: unpleasant, disagreeable. |
| Unblithely | adv | Unhappily, sadfully, sorrisome, undelightful, blissless. |
| Unbloodied | adj | Not smeared or stained in blood. |
| Unbloodily | adv | In a bloodless manner; in a way without shedding blood. |
| Unbloodiness | n | State or condition of being without blood or bloodness. 2. not having bloodthirsty ways. |
| Unbloody | adj | Not involving the shedding of blood. 2. unbloody grave: that of one who has not died by bloodshed. 3. having no blood, unbloodied. 4. not bloodthirsty; diverse to bloodshed. |
| Unblown | adj | Not driven or tossed by wind, as flower or blossom. 2. not blown out; not extinguished. 3. not sounded; noiseless, without din. |
| Unboden | adj | Uninvited; unbidden, not provided with arms or weapons. |
| Unbodied | adj | Free from the body; disembodied. 2. having no body. |
| Unbodily | adj | Incorporeal. |
| Unbodiliness | n | State or condition of being free rom the body. 2. state or condition of bearing ethereal, formless, nonphysical, immaterial, spiritual. |
| Unboding | adj | Unpropitious, unpromising; not anticipated. |
| Unbody | vb | To leave or quit the body; to be free from the body. 2. to disembody; to render amorphous. |
| Unbold | adj | Lacking in boldness. 2. deficient in self-confidence or energy; timid, unbrave, undaring, undoughty, bashful, backward, slow. |
| Unboldness | n | The state or quality of lacking self-confidence. 2. undaring, undoughty, bashful, unbrave. |
| Unbolt | vb | Unlock, open by sliding the bolt from the catch. |
| Unbolted | adj | Not fastened by bolts; not bolted. |
| Unbone | vb | To unbend or straighten. 2. to remove the bone. |
| Unboned | adj | Not boned or bent; straight. |
| Unbooked | adj | Not entered, registered or recorded in book. 2. not book-learned; unread; uninformed. |
| Unbookish | adj | Not bookish or studious; free from bookishness and books. |
| Unbookishness | n | The fact or state of not being studious or booked-learned; unbook-learned. 2. unread; uninformed. |
| Unboot? | vb | To remove the boots from. 2. to take off one's boots. |
| Unborn | adj | Not yet born; future. 2. not carried or endured. |
| Unborrowed | adj | Not taken on pledge or credit. |
| Unbosom | adj | To reveal something hidden or secret. 2. to relax or elease from one's embrace. |
| Unbosom | phr | "Unbosom Oneself" - reveal, disclose, one's secret thoughts, anxieties. |
| Unbottom | vb | To divest of bottom, base or foundation. 2. fig. to deprive of support or stay. 3. to make unstable or unsettle. |
| Unbottomed | adj | Bottomless; unfathomable. 2. unsupported; not founded on or in something. 4. deprived of a bottom or foundation. |
| Unbought | vb | To not purchase or buy. |
| Unboughted | adj | Unpurchased; not bought. 2. unpunished. |
| Unboundness | n | The state or condition unlimited by boundaries. 2. unlimitness, boundlessness. |
| Unbowed | adj | Not bowed, invincible, undaunted. |
| Unbowing | adj | Unbending, unyielding. |
| Unbowingness | n | State or condition of being unyielding, unbending, inflexible. |
| Unbowsome | adj | Unyielding, stiff, inflexible, unable to bend or stoop. |
| Unbowsomeness | n | State or condition of being unyielding, unbending, inflexible; stiff. |
| Unbreathed | adj | Not breathed, hence not whispered or spoken; not communicated to another. |
| Unbraid | vb | To unplait, unweave; separated. 2. to not move in a jerky or sudden movement |
| Unbranded | adj | (Of a product) not bearing a name. 2. (of livestock) - not branded with the owner's mark. |
| Unbreaking | adj | Not separating or breaking apart. 2. not as yet happening or occurring. |
| Unbreathe | vb | To cease to breathe; to expire, die. |
| Unbreathed | adj | Unexercised, unpractised, unfit, unhealthy. 2. not having recovered breath, exhausted. 3. not uttered or whispered (as in speech) |
| Unbred | adj | Not properly brought up. 2. not imbued with good manners; unmannerly; ill-bred. 3. not trained in; not brought up to some occupation. |
| Unbreeched | adj | Not wearing breeches or trousers. |
| Unbriche | adj | Useless; unservicable. |
| Unbridle | vb | To remove a harness from a horse. 2. to loosen a restraint (fig. and lit.) |
| Unbridged | adj | Not having or crossed by a bridge. |
| Unbroken | adj | Of compacts etc; not broken or infringed. 2. unviolated, inviolate. 3. of material things, not broken or fractured; intact, whole. 4. not crushed, humiliated, humbled or subdued. 5. not impaired or weakened. 6. of horses, not tamed or tractable. 7. of ground, not broken by plowing or digging. 8. not thrown in disorder. 9. not variegated. |
| Un-broken-ness | n | The state or condition of being without a break or interruption; having no hiatus. |
| Unbrother | vb | To deprive of, or be deprive of a brother through separation or death. 2. to deprive of the feeling of brotherhood. |
| Unbrotherliness | n | State or condition of not being brotherly or having the characteristics of a brother. |
| Unbrotherly | adv | Not brotherly or characteristic of a brother. 2. in a manner or spirit befitting a brother. |
| Unbrought | adj | Not carried. 2. not brought forth or into. |
| Unbuild | vb | To pull down, demolish, destroy a building or a structure. |
| Unbuilt | adj | Not yet built or erected. 2. made without buildings. 3. of land, not occupied with buildings; not built on or upon. |
| Unburden | vb | To free from burden; to relieve. |
| Unburden | phr | "Unburden Oneself" - reveal to somebody one's anxieties, sorrows etc which are a burden to one's thoughts, or conscience. |
| Unburdensome | adj | Relieving someone or something of a burden. |
| Unburden-some-ness | n | The state or condition of relieving someone or something of a burden. |
| Unburied | adj | Not buried, entombed or interred; uninterred. |
| Unburn | vb | To restore from the effects of burning. |
| Unburning | adj | Not burning or scotching, as from a fire or sun: " the kind, unburning sun." |
| Unburnt | ppl | Not burnt or consumed by fire. 2. not subjected to the action of fire for a specific purpose; esp. of bricks, clay, lime. |
| Unbury | vb | To disinter, exhume, dig up, take out of the ground. |
| Unburying | n | Having the qualities of not being able to be buried; unburiable; fig. as of the emotions: an unburying anger. |
| Unbusied | adj | Leisurely. |
| Unbusiness-like | adj | Of unprofessional or incompetent action (or act) in the carrying out of business dealings. 2. shoddy, incompetent; unmethodical, |
| Unbusy | adj | Not busy or engaged. 2. leisurely, unbusied. |
| Old English | n | Modern English |
| Uncalled | adj | Not in response to a summons. 2. without being asked or demanded. |
| Uncalled | phr | "Uncalled for" - not desirable or necessary. |
| Uncalled-for | adj | Unnecessary, gratuitous; not justified by circumstances; discourteous. |
| Uncallow | adj | With hair; not bald; hairy. 2. covered with loam, gravel, sand, earth. |
| Uncallow | vb | To clear the surface of clay, soil, marl, sand, etc. |
| Uncallowing | n | Condition of being with hair, unbald, haired. |
| Uncanniness | n | The state or quality of being uncanny. |
| Uncanny | adj | Mischievous, malicious. 2. careless, incautious. 3. unreliable, not to be trusted. of persons - not quite safe to trust in, or have dealings with, as being associated with supernatural acts or powers. 3. partaking of a supernatural character; mysterious, weird; uncomfortably strange or unfamiliar. 4. |
| Uncared | adj | Neglected, unloved. |
| Uncared | phr | "Uncared for" - not properly tended or looked after. |
| Uncared-for | adj | Not looked after, neglected, untended. |
| Uncaredly | adv | Without taking care; recklessly. |
| Uncareful | adj | Without care or concern for others; unkind; reckless. 2. without care, affection or liking. |
| Uncaring | adj | Neglectful; without compassion. |
| Uncaringness | n | State or quality of not caring, having liking or respect for. 2. without care for others; hard-hearted, uncompassionate; unkind. |
| Uncart | vb | Unload from a cart. |
| Unchewed | adj | Not chewed or masticted. |
| Unchidden | adj | Unscolded, unreproved, not reproved. 2. free of anger, dispute, wrangle. |
| Unchild | vb | To deprive of children; to make childless. 2. to deprive of the status of a child or the qualities peculiar to childhood, as in many Third World countries. |
| Unchilded | adj | Deprived or destitute of children; childless. |
| Unchildlike | adj | Not like or behaving like a child. 2. mature by years; precious. |
| Unchildly | adv | Unfilial; undutiful. |
| Unchilled | adj | Not chilled or cooled. |
| Unchosen | adj | Not selected; not chosen. |
| Unchristian | adj | Unbecoming to a christian. 2. foriegn to Christianity; hence uncharitable, ungracious, rude. 3. pagan, heathen, afgodness. |
| Unchristianly | adv | In an unchristian mmner. |
| Unchristen-ness | n | State of being a non-Christian or unbaptisted into the Christian faith. |
| Unchurch | vb | Deprive of membership of a church; expel from a church. 3. excommunicate. 3. to deny the validity of the sacraments and order of, as a sect. 4. to deprive of the name and status of a church. |
| Unchurched | adj | Not associated with a church; not church-going. |
| Unclad | adj | Unclothed, without clothes, not clad; undressed, naked. |
| Unclean | adj | Not morally pure; impure; defiled, unchasted. 2. of persons, want of physical cleanliness: dirty, unwashed, ; of their thoughts: unchaste, unclean, impure. |
| Uncleanliness | n | The state or condition of not being morally pure; impure; defiled, unchasted. 2. of persons, thoughts; ways: unchasteness, impurity, dirtness, foulness, malodorous. 3. wanting of physical cleanliness; dirty, filthy, malodorous. |
| Uncleanly | adv | Morally or spiritually impure. 2. lacking in physical cleanliness or in a manner unclean; dirty, foulish; filthy, malodourously. |
| Uncleanness | n | Quality or state of being morally or spiritually unclean; morally impurity; an instance of this. 2. physical impurity; filthiness, foulness, squalor. |
| Uncleave | vb | To become unfastened or detached. |
| Unclench | adj | Open the fist; release; untighten; loosen grip on. |
| Unclimbed | adj | Of a mountain peak, not previously climbed. |
| Unclothe | vb | To strip of vegetation. |
| Unclothed | adj | Naked; without clothes, bare, nude. 2. not covered with vegetation. |
| Uncloud | vb | To clear or free from clouds or cloudiness. 2. fig - to free from obscurity or gloom; to clear. 3. to become clear. |
| Unclouded | adj | Not obscured or darken by clouds. 2. transfig or fig. not darkened or obscured. |
| Uncombed | adj | Of hair, not combed. |
| Uncomeliness | n | The quality of being uncomely; a want of comeliness, fairness or seemliness. 2. unruliness. |
| Uncomely | adj | Not pleasing or agreeable in the moral sense or to the notion of propriety. 2. unbecoming, imprecise, unseemly. 3. not pleasing or agreeable to the senses; not comely or fair to look upon. |
| Uncomely | adv | Unsuitably; unagreeably; unseemly; imprecisely. 2. unfairly, unattractively; not beautifully. |
| Uncocked | adj | Of a hat: not turned up. |
| Uncooked | adj | Not cooked for eating. 2. not altered or suited for a purpose. |
| Uncool | adj | Not stylish or fashionable. 2. not having street credibility. |
| Uncropped | adj | Not cropped. |
| Uncrowded | adj | Not filled or likely to fill with crowd or throng. 2. unthronged, near to empty. |
| Uncouth | adj | Of facts or matters of knowledge: unknown; not certainly known; uncertain. 2. not acquainted or familiar with; unfamiliar; unaccustomed, strange. 3. of ways, paths, etc., land, persons, nations, foreign things: unknown or unfamiliar in character; unusual, uncommon, strange, marvellous (rare), alien, foriegn to something; unrecognisable. 3. of manners, unseemly, indecorous. 4. of smells: unpleasant, malodorous. 5. places: not commonly known or frequented; solitary, desolate, rugged, rough, wild. 6. of life, surroundings: unattractive, unpleasant, uncomfortable; strange, uneasy; at a loss. 7. of strange appearance or form: odd, uncomely, akward; clumsy shape or bearing. 8. of persons: awkward, uncultured in manners or appearance;. 9. of language:unknowing, ignorant. 10. unknown of persons; such as a stranger. 11. of things not commonly known; news. |
| Uncouthly | adv | In a strange, unfamiliar or uncouth manner. |
| Uncouthness | n | The quality or condition of being uncouth in various senses. |
| Uncouthsome | adj | Unfavourable, unpleasant. |
| Uncraftily | adv | Unskilfully. 2. without deceit or in a manner undeceitfully. |
| Uncraftiness | n | Unskilfulness. 2. deceitlessness. |
| Uncraftly | adv | Not dextrous or ingenious. 2. unskilful. |
| Uncunning | n | Ignorance, stupidity, unskilfulness, gorm. |
| Uncunning | adj | Ignorant, lack of knowledge, unlearned, stupid, gullible, gormless, unskilful. |
| Uncunningly | adv | In an ignorant manner, unskilfully. |
| Uncunningness | n | The state or quality of being ignorant, ignorance. 2. unskilfulness, gullibility. |
| Uncunningship | n | Uncunninghood. |
| Uncursed | adj | Not cursed; free from evil. |
| Old English | n | Modern English |
| Undark | vb | To undark or lighten the shadows of night. |
| Undark | adj | A light or lightish at night. 2. of complexion: light. |
| Undarkened | adj | Undarkened by doubt; not darkened, lightened. |
| Undawned | adj | Not yet dawned. 2. undawned east; the light quickens in the undawned east. 3. gloomly, as in an undawned morning. |
| Undawning | adj | Not yet dawn; just before the dawn; pre-dawn. |
| Undead | adj | Not dead; not quite alive, but not fully alive. 2. dead-and-alive, as in vampirism; clinically dead, but not at rest. |
| Undeadliness | n | Immortality. |
| Undeadly | adj | Not subject to death; immortal not causing death, not mortal. |
| Undeaf | vb | To banish deafness: "Medical Science is on the threshold to undeaf those without hearing." 2. able to hear, but refusing to listen. |
| Undealt | adj | Undivided; not dealt with. |
| Undear | adj | Of little value or estimation, worthless, cheap. 2. not dear; not regarded with affection. |
| Undeath-like | adj | Evoking a undeath-like or somewhat life-like image(s) within the mind. 2. a vivid undeathly description. 3. a natural depiction or reprentation of an undeathlike state. 4. a life-like or undeath-like being. 5. resembling death; giving an accurate representation of an undeath. |
| Undeath-likeness | n | The state giving or showing n accarate description of undeathness or life. |
| Undeathliness | n | Immortality |
| Undeathly | adv | Immortal. |
| Undeed | vb | Unable or unwilling to do. |
| Undeedy | adj | Helpless, incapable, unable to do, impotent |
| Undeemed | adj | Not judged or condemned; uncensored. 2. unsuspected; unimagined. |
| Undeep | adj | Shallow, shoalish, unprofound. |
| Undelve | vb | To not yet have dug up; unexcavated. 2. to not yet have investigated or researched. 3. exhume; as in "undelve the bodies of dead men." |
| Undelved | adj | Not yet dug up or harvested. 2. not looked into deeply or thoroughly. |
| Under | adv | Notion of "subordination" was present in Old English. Also used in Old English as a preposition meaning "between, among," as still in under these circumstances, etc. (though this may be an entirely separate root; see understand). Productive as a prefix in Old English, as in German and Scandinavian. "Under the table" is "very drunk," also sense is "illegal." to get something under (one's) belt is from 1954; to keep something under (one's) hat "secret" is from 1885; to have something under (one's) nose "in plain sight" is from 1540s; to speak under (one's) breath "in a low voice" is attested from 1832. To be under (someone's) thumb "entirely controlled" is recorded from 1754. |
| Under | n | A state of lowness or inferiority. 2. an undervalue or valuation. |
| Under | vb | To cast down, depress. |
| Under | phr | "Come Under" - fall under; be grouped with. |
| Under | phr | "Go Under" - to fail or collapse, as a business venture. |
| Under | phr | "Keep Under One's Hat" - keep in confidence, secret. |
| Under | phr | "Knuckle Under" - to give in completely. |
| Under | phr | "Take Under One's Wing" - guide, protect somebody. |
| Under | phr | "Under a Cloud" - to be under suspicion or in disgrace; to be in disfavor. 2. overshadowed by reproach or distrust. |
| Under | phr | "Under Arms" - mobilized for active service. |
| Under | phr | "Under Fire"- exposed to an enemy fire; taking part in a battle or general engagement. |
| Under | phr | "Under Foot" - on the ground; on the surface where one walks. |
| Under | phr | "Under Hatches" - below deck. |
| Under | phr | "Under Night" - during the night; by night. |
| Under | phr | "Under One's Arms" - between the arms and body. |
| Under | phr | "Under One's Belt" - of food: eaten. 2. securely acquired. |
| Under | phr | "Under One's Breath" - in a low voice; very softly spoken. |
| Under | phr | "Under One"- united, conjointly, together, at one time. |
| Under | phr | "Under One's Nose" - in plain sight; in full view of somebody, or defiantly in somebody's prescence. 2. very close at hand. |
| Under | phr | "Under One's Own Name" - using one's own name to claim or accept, identify, ownership, credit, responsibility. |
| Under | phr | "Under Ones Own Steam" - by efforts or means of one's own; without help from anybody else. |
| Under | phr | "Under Someone's Thumb" - entirely controlled. |
| Under | phr | "Under the Hammer" - to be put put for sale under the auctioneer's hammer. 2. to be put pressure to achieve a quick and successful result |
| Under | phr | "Under them All" - altogether, denoting inclusion in a group, category, class |
| Under | phr | "Under the Rose" - sub rosa: in secrecy or confidence. |
| Under | phr | "Under the Sun" - anywhere in the world. |
| Under | phr | "Under the Table" - drunk, intoxicated, blotto. |
| Under | phr | "Under the Thumb" - dominated entirely by someone. |
| Under | phr | "Under the Weather" - unwell, esp. as the result of too much drinking. |
| Under | phr | "Under the Yoke" - in subjection. |
| Under | phr | "Under Water" - in and covered by water. |
| Under | phr | "Under way" - to make a start; in progress, to make progress. |
| Underarm | n | The armpit. |
| Underarm | adj | Pertaining to the armpit. |
| Underbear | vb | To sustain, suffer, endure. 2. to sustain, support, bear or hold up. 3. to introduce. 4. to trim around the lower part. |
| Underbearer | n | One who assists in the carrying of a coffin at a funeral. |
| Underbearing | adj | Sustaining, enduring, suffering, supporting, bearing-up. |
| Underbearing | adj | Unassuming. |
| Underbeing | n | A human,a mortal, as opposed to or compared with a god or a divine being. |
| Underbeit | vb | To work |
| Underbelly | n | The lower region of the belly. 2. any similar unprotected part; the soft underbelly of Europe. 3. to have a soft underbelly: to have a weakness which can be exploited. |
| Underbelly | phr | "Have a Soft Underbelly" - to have a weakness which can be exploited. |
| Underbid | vb | Make a lower bid atan auction. 2. an instance of underbidding. |
| Underbidder | n | The person who makes the bid next below the highest. 2. one who makes the last bid before the final bid is accepted by the auctioneer. |
| Underbind | vb | To bind by a fastening placed beneath; also to bind down, keep down firmly. |
| Underbit | n | An earmark to indicate ownership, made on the ear of cattle; fig. to earmark. |
| Underbit | n | The projection of the lower jaw of the lower incisors beyond the upper jaw. |
| Underbitten | adj | Earmarked in a special manner. 2. earmarked. |
| Underboard | adv | Under the table; under-deck. 2. in an underhand or secret manner; clandestinely; secretly, not honestly or openly. |
| Underbody | n | The lower part of a woman's dress; bodice. 2. undergarment or undershirt. 3. the underside of an aniamal's body. 4. the part of a ship's hull which is below the water line. 5.under part of the body of a vehicle; frequently attributed to rust protection. |
| Underborn | adj | Born with insufficient development. |
| Underbright | adj | The strong light which often appears below clouds near the horizon. |
| Underbough | n | Lower boughs or branches of a tree. |
| Underbreath | n | Subdued or hidden beneath the breath. |
| Underbreathe | n | A low subdued tone; a whisper. |
| Underbreathing | n | Whispering; speech in a low or hushed tone. |
| Underbred | adj | Of inferior breeding or upbringing; wanting in polish or refinement; in manner vulgar. 2. of animals: not pure bred; of inferior strain; not thorough-bred. |
| Underbring | adj | To bring in surreptitiously. 2. to bring into subjection or subjugation. |
| Underbring-ness | n | The act or action of bringing someone or something in surreptitiously. 2. the action of bringing someone into subjection or subjugation. |
| Underbuild | vb | To build under, as a means of strengthening or supporting; to underpin. |
| Underbuy | vb | To buy for a price lower than the real value. |
| Undercart | n | THe under-carriage of an aircraft. |
| Underclad | adj | Insufficiently clad or clothed |
| Underclay | n | A layer of clay underlying a coal seam, often containing the roots of of ancient coal-forming plants; also called seat-stone. |
| Undercliff | n | A terrace or lower cliff formed by a landslip or debris. |
| Underclothed | adj | Insufficiently clothed. |
| Underclothing | n | Clothing (underclothes) worn below the upper or outer garment; esp. next to the skin. |
| Undercook | vb | Insufficiently done. 2. not cooked to the full. |
| Undercraft | n | Hidden or secret craft or cunning. 2. a sly, underhanded trick belonging to inferior crafts. |
| Undercreep | vb | To creep in (stealthily). 2. to creep in from underside or beneath. 3. to subvert secretly; to do by craftiness or stealth; to undersell in trade. 4. to evade or escape. |
| Undercreepings | n | The act of creeping about stealthily. 2. evasion, escape. 3. subversion, craftiness, stealth. |
| Undercroft | n | A crypt of a church; an underground vault. 2. a subterranean chamber, vault or passage. |
| Undercumstand | vb | To understand. |
| Under-dark | adj | Somewhat dark; darkish. |
| Underdeal | n | Discomfiture. |
| Under-dealer | n | An underhand or dishonest agent or dealer. |
| Under-dealings | n | Underhand or secretive action (usu. dishonest). |
| Underdelve | vb | To dig under, undermine. |
| Underdelving | n | The act of digging under something; to undermine. |
| Underdo | vb | To refrain from all action. 2. to do less than is requisite or necessary. 3. to do or deal with insufficiently or imperfectly. 4. to cook insufficiently. |
| Undoer | n | One who does less than is requisite or neccesary. one who deals with matters insufficiently or imperfectedly. |
| Underdog | n | The dog that's losing, has lost, or is at a disadvantage in a dogfight. 2. the weaker or worst person. 3. anyone in a position of inferiority. 4. object of sympathy (the antonym of underdog effect is 'bandwagon effect') |
| Underdone | vb | Of meat: under-cooked; left slightly raw after cooking. |
| Underdrain | vb | To dig a deep ditch for drainage purpose. |
| Underdraw | vb | To mark by lines drawn underneath. 2. to represent or depict inadequately or with ineffective detail. 3. to withdraw from a bank account so as to leave a reserve. |
| Under-earth | n | Earth, soil beneath the surface. |
| Underearth | adj | Subteranean, underground. |
| Under-eaten | adj | Eroded, consumed or eaten away from beneath or below. |
| Underer | n | An inferior, minion; one of lower rank. |
| Underfall | n | A foot-hill slope. |
| Underfed | adj | Insufficiently fed or ill-nourished. |
| Underfeed | vb | To feed insufficiently; to stint in food. 2. to feed in fuel from below. |
| Underfeel | vb | To examine, pry into quietly or secretly. |
| Underfeeling | n | Feeling subdued, repressed or hidden. |
| Underfelt | n | Felt laid under the carpet to minimise wear and tear. |
| Underfiend | n | One of the fiends from under the earth or hell. 2. devilish or evil being; Satan, Lucifer, Old Sooty. |
| Underfind | vb | To perceive, understand. |
| Underfill | vb | To fill below the required level. |
| Underfind | vb | To perceive, understand. |
| Underfired | adj | Insufficiently baked, (as pottery or cakes). |
| Under-fives | n | Children under five years of age collectively. |
| Underfloor | n | Situated or operating under the floor. |
| Underflow | n | Undercurrent (also fig.) 2. a flow beneath. |
| Underflow | vb | To flow beneath the surface or underground. 2. an undercurrent. |
| Underfo | vb | To receive a thing; to have something given to one; to come to have or possess. 2. to receive willingly; to accept. 3. to take in hand; to undertake. 4. to admit into a receptacle; to conceive. 5. to receive a person; to admit to one's presence, society or friendship; to accept. 6. to receive at baptism. 7. to receive by way of hurt or harm; to undergo, suffer. 8. to reprove, rebuke. |
| Underfold | vb | To wrap up, hide, conceal. |
| Underfong | vb | To seduce, entrap. 2. to surround, enclose. 3. to comprehend, conceive. |
| Underfonging | n | The act of seducing, entrapping. 2. surrounding, enclosing. 3. comprehension, conception. |
| Underfoot | n | The surface of the ground at the foot of a tree. |
| Underfoot | vb | To strengthen the foundations of a wall. |
| Underfoot | adv | Beneath the feet; lying under the foot down on the ground, immediately below; in the way. 2. by virtue of one's great power to treat a person's rights with contempt and not to give them proper consideration. |
| Underfoot | adj | Interior, abject, low, downtrodden. 2. below the real or rent value. 3. quietly, secretly. 4. of persons: about one's foot (irritatingly) 5. present. |
| Underfooting | n | Ground underfoot; esp, with regard to its condition. |
| Underframe | n | Substructure, eso. of vehicles |
| Underfurrow | vb | To plough in, as manure. |
| Undergang | vb | To commence a journey or an undertaking. See "Undergo & "Undergoing" |
| Under-get | vb | To catch up with; overtake. |
| Undergird | vb | To secure or fasten from the underside. 2. to bind underneath; to gird around the bottom, as a ship. |
| Underglow | n | A glow beneath the surface of . |
| Undergo | vb | To work under, so as to impair or destroy; to undermine. 2. to deceive, get the better of. 3. to get under; search below. 4. to submit to (to do something.) 5. accept, admit, allow. 6. to be subject to, serve, 7. to go or pass under. 8. to sink below one's sight. 9. to occupy oneself with; to investigate; to get knowledge of. 10. to bear up, endure, sustain; suffer through (pain, danger, suffering) 11. to bear, sustain a burden. 12. to subject or submit oneself to examination, inspection. 13 to go under experiences; to have imposed on or to experience; pass through a change or alteration. 14. to partake or enjoy. 15. to expose oneself to (risk). 16. to take in hand, to undertake. |
| Under-god | n | Demi-god, minor deity. |
| Undergoing | n | An ordeal, enduration, suffering. 2. an undertaking, experience, burden. |
| Undergore | n | Blood shed and clotted under a wound. |
| Underground | n | That which is beneath the surface of the ground, as a passage or space. 2. a railway operated in a system of tunnels beneath the ground. 3. a group secretly organised to resist or oppose those in control of a government or country.
4. an avant-garde movement in art, cinema, journalism; etc. generally considered to be in opposition to conventional culture or society and whose works are usually experimental, erotic or radical in style, content or purpose, used withthe underground. |
| Underground | adj | Situated, done or operated beneath the surface of the ground. 2. clandestinely, done in secret. |
| Underground | adv | Beneath or below the surface of the ground or earth, as in:to work underground |
| Underground | phr | "Go Underground" - go into hiding. |
| Undergrowing | adj | Arising, occurring, growing up from underneath; growing beneath trees. |
| Undergrown | adj | Insufficiently developed. 2. not fully grown; undersized. |
| Undergrowth | n | A growth of smaller plants, shrubs among larger plants; specifically, a thicket or coppice in or as in a forest. 2. condition of being undergrown. 3. a close growth of hair beneath and finer than the outer growth of a pelt. |
| Underhand | adj | Done or acting in a treacherously secret way; unfair, sly. |
| Under-handed | adj | Clandestinely carried on; secretly. 2. underhanded or short of staff. |
| Under-handedily | adv | Slily, slying; clandestinely |
| Under-handed-ness | n | The quality or characteristic of acting in a treacherously secret way; unfairness, slyness. |
| Underhead | n | Subordinate official, a person of inferior intellect. |
| Under-heaven | n | A place or places beneath heaven, such as Earth. |
| Underhew | vb | To undercut in various senses; to undermine. 2. to hew a log of timber so that it appears of greater cubic content than it really is. |
| Underhill | n | A low hill, as opposed to 'high-hill: a mountain". |
| Underhole | vb | To undermine; to undercut. |
| Underhung | n | Projecting from beneath, as a lower jaw; said of persons. dogs etc. with a jaw protruding beyond the upper jaw. 2. underslung; protrusion. |
| Underkeep | vb | To keep under or in subjection; to subjugate. |
| Underkeeper | n | A subordinate custodian or keeper. |
| Underkind | n | A subspecies; an inferior or lower kind. |
| Underking | n | A substitute king or regent. |
| Underkingdom | n | The realm of a underking or regent. |
| Underlaid | vb | To be laid or placed below or beneath. |
| Underlay | n | A prop, support, an insertion to make one part or the surface level. |
| Underlet | vb | To let at an amount or rental below the true or full value. 2. sub-let. |
| Underlid | n | The lower lid of the eye. |
| Underlie | vb | To lie below or under. 2. to be the ground or support of: the principle that underlies a scheme. 3.to constitute a first or prior claim or lien over. 4. to be answerable, subject, liable to. |
| Under-life | n | Life existing beneath the surface or at a lower level. |
| Under-line | n | A line drawn underneath (esp. under written matter) underscore. |
| Underline | vb | To give extra weight to (a communication); underscore, emphasize.2. draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to. 3. to mark a line below, as words; to underscore. 4. to influence secretly. [Obs.] 5. to emphasize or call attention to; highlight. |
| Underlinen | n | Underclothing. |
| Underling | n | A subordinate. |
| Underlip | n | The lower lip of of a person, animal or insect. |
| Underlive | vb | To live in a manner unworthy of oneself. |
| Underlook | n | A covert look or glance. |
| Underlooker | n | An inspector of underground workings, as of a mine. |
| Underlord | adj | Subservient, subject, submissive. |
| Underlout | vb | To be subject to; to submit, to make subject. |
| Underly | adj | Subordinate, inferior, low; in a low state of health at a lower level. |
| Underlying | adj | Lying under; hence, fig. fundamental, as in underlying thought. |
| Underlyingly | adv | In a manner fundamental;unlyingly good and honest. |
| Underman | n | An inferior or subordinate. 2. a person with sub-human attributes. |
| Undermanned | adj | Short-handed; under-staffed; not furnished with insufficient number of man. |
| Under-manning | n | The state or condition of be short in the number of staff or workers provided to carry out the reqired or requisite duties. |
| Undermatch | n | One who is no match for another; an inferior rival or opponent. |
| Undermatch | vb | To undervalue by comparison. 2. to unite or bestow in marriage below the proper rank or condition. |
| Undermatched | adj | Not equal to another; inferior. |
| Undermath | n | An undermath of grass. |
| Undermeal | n | The time of undern; in later use the early part of afternoon. 2. an afternoon nap or siesta. 3. an afternoon meal. |
| Undermeaning | n | "Have you considered the deep undermeaning that there lies. 2. connotation; ramification; esoterica. |
| Undermine | vb | To excavate beneath, dig a mine or passage under, 2. to weaken by wearing away at the base. 3. to weaken or impair secretly or by degrees, as in to weaken and undermine the health or reputation of someone. 4. to enfeeble, impair, sap, unnerve. 5. to injure another person's reputation and influence by unfair and secret tactics. 6. to sabotage something. |
| Undermining | n | The action or act of weakening or impairing the efforts, plans, projects or physical health of someone. |
| Undermost | adj | Holding in or having the lowest place, rank or position. 2. the bottom |
| Undern | n | Midday; noon. 2. afternoon; esp. a light meal taken in the afternoon. 3. an afternoon nap or siesta. 3. undern-tide or undertime. |
| Undern | adj | Not hidden; secret; open; not concealed; unesoteric. 2. undark, undrear, undire. |
| Underneath | adv | On the lower or downward side; on the underside of. 2. under or below an object or a surface; at a lower place or level; directly beneath; as "a house with a good foundation underneath" 3. beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil. |
| Underneath | prep | Under; beneath; below. |
| Underneath | n | Bed, bedrock, belly, bottom, bottom side, buttocks, downside, fundament, lower side, lowest layer, neath, nether side, nethermost level, sole, substratum, underbelly, undercover, underlayer, underside |
| Underness | n | The state or condition of being below a given mark or line. |
| Undernim | vb | To make in mind or sense. 2. to understand, comprehend, perceive, feel. 3. to receive by instruction; to learn. 4. to take upon oneself; undertake; to travel; take a journey. 5. to reprove, rebuke; to convict oneself. 6. to catch unawares; or take secretly by surprise. 7. to take away by stealth. 8. to receive into one's hands or charge. |
| Undernimmer | n | A supporter or one who takes up something; one who reproves or rebukes. |
| Undernimmy | adj | The action of reproving or rebuking; a reproof or rebuke. |
| Underorn | vb | Subborn. 2. to procure by underhand or unlawful means. |
| Underpin | vb | Support from below with masonry. 2. support; strengthen, prop up with timber, stone, etc. |
| Underplay | vb | To act (a role) with great restraint; underact; to hold something in reserve. 2. play a card lower than (a held high card) in the hope of a future advantage. 3. to play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part. |
| Underplay | n | The act of underplaying. |
| Underput | n | A mistress. |
| Underput | vb | To put one thing under another; to place or set beneath. 2. to furnish with something placed under, esp. as a support. 3. to put under the power or control of ; to place in subjection; to subject. 4. to lower the voice. 5. to put or take fraudently. 5. to substitute. |
| Underputting | n | The act or action of putting one thing under another; to place under as a support. 2.action of the putting under the control of. 3. substituting. |
| Underputter | n | A pimp; a pander. |
| Under-read | vb | To stretch below. 2. to trap or defraud by stealth. 3. show a reading lower than the true one. 4. of the reading public reading with less frequency. |
| Underreckon | n | To reckon too low; to underestimate. |
| Under-ripe | adj | Immature; not quite ripe. |
| Under-run | n | An undercurrent. |
| Under-run | vb | To run flow, or pass beneath. 2. to overhaul or examine. 3. of a broadcast, item, program etc; that runs for less than the allotted time. 4. to examine, as a rope, by passing it through the hands. |
| Under-runner | n | A subterranean stream, river, waterway. |
| Under-running | n | The extent to which a project or program runs behind its scheduled completion date. 2. a delay; a fall behind. 3. |
| Unders | n | Underwear, underclothing, undies. |
| Undersay | vb | To say by way of answer. |
| Underscore | n | A line drawn below a word in order to emphasis. 2. to underline for emphasis. |
| Underscore | vb | To draw a line below or underline, as to indicate emphasis; to emphasize something. |
| Underscoring | n | The act of drawing a line below or beneath a word or words for emphasising. |
| Undersea | adj | Existing, carried on, or adapted for use beneath the surface of the sea; as an undersea oil well. |
| Underseek | vb | To search into, examine, investigate; seek out. |
| Undersell | vb | To sell acoomodity at a lower price than an other. 2. to cut by selling goods or services at a lower price. |
| Underselling | n | The practice of selling (or undercutting) cheaper than one's competitors. |
| Underset | vb | To support and strengthen by means of something, such as a post or prop, placed beneath; to prop up. 2. to serve as a support. 3. to act upon, furnish, fasten with something placed beneath. 4. to support, sustain or strengthen. 5. to set or place a thing under something else. 6. to place in subject. 7. to beset, besiege, surround. |
| Undersetting | n | Something set or built as a support; a pedestal. |
| Undersettle | vb | To occupy a house (or part of one)held by another; to sub-tenant; to undersit. |
| Undershaped | adj | Insufficiently or imperfectly formed. |
| Undershapen | vb | Undersized. 2. embryonic; inchoate; imperfectly formed. |
| Under-sheriff | n | A deputy sheriff. |
| Undershining | adj | Of an quality inferior in brightness. |
| Undershirt | n | Undergarment worn under a shirt, vest. |
| Undershot | adj | Propelled by water flowing underneath; said of a water wheel. 2. projecting; having a lower projecting lower jaw or teeth; said esp. of a bulldog. |
| Undershoot | n | Of an aircraft landing short of a runway. 2. the act or instance of undershooting. |
| Undershoot | vb | To shoot short of below. |
| Undershot | adj | Underhung. 2. of a waterwheel, turned by water flowing under it. |
| Undershorts | n | Trunks, underpants. |
| Undershrub | n | A small plant with a shrubby base. |
| Undershut | adj | Imperfectedly shut or closed; said of a door etc. |
| Underside | n | The lower or underside or surface. |
| Undersight | n | To overlook a small detail; to forget to do something very small; to miss a nominal item. |
| Undersitter | n | One who occupies part of another's house or property; a sub-tenant or lodger. |
| Undersleeve | n | A sleeve worn beneath another, especially when of contrasting color and shown through slashes or openings. |
| Undersong | n | A subordinate or subdued song or strain; esp. one serving as an accompaniment or chorus, burden, refrain, to another; frequently transfig. of natural sound. 2. fig. of a hidden meaning. |
| Undersow | vb | Sow (a later-growing crop) on land already seeded with another crop. 2. sow land already seeded (with a crop) with a later growing crop. |
| Underspeak | vb | To fall short or come short in speaking of another person or some thing. |
| Underspend | vb | Spend less than usual for a specified (monthly) amount. |
| Underspread | vb | to spread under or beneath. |
| Underspring | n | A subterranean water source. |
| Understairs | n | In a space below the staircase. |
| Understand | vb | To know and comprehend the nature or meaning of. 2. perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; realize, realise, see. 3. make sense of a language; read, interpret, translate. 4. believe to be the case; experience; infer. 5. be understanding of; sympathize, empathize, empathise. 6. to have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to
comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem. 7. to be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Parliament has passed the bill. 8. to recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain. 9. to mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume. 10. to stand under; to support. 11. to give one to understand, to cause one to know. 12. to make one's self understood, to make one's meaning clear. 13. to have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being. 14. to be informed; to have or receive knowledge. |
| Understand | phr | "Come to an Understanding" - make an agreement. |
| Understand | phr | "Give somebody to Understand" - lead somebody to believe. |
| Understand | phr | "On the Understanding that" - on the agreed condition that. |
| Understand | phr | "Understand All is to Forgive All" - when all facts are known and understood it is possible to forgive a person for anything. |
| Understand | phr | "Understand Each Other" - know each others views or feelings. |
| Understander | n | One whose has knowledge or comprehension of something. 2. a leg or foot. 3. a boot or shore. 4. a apectator standing on the ground or floor; a spectator standing in a theatre or sports ground. 5. a supporter, upholder. |
| Understanding | n | Power or ability to understand, intellect, intelligence. 2. capability of judging with knowledge. 3. the faculty of comprehending; reasoning; the intellect, mind, purpose, comprehension, intent. 4. intellectual facility, as manifested in a particular person or persons. 5. signification, meaning, sense. 6. information, knowledge. 7. good, amicable friendly relation between persons. |
| Understanding | phr | "Come to an Understanding" - make an agreement. |
| Understanding | phr | "On the Understanding that" - on the agreed condition that. |
| Understanding | phr | "With the Understanding" - on (the agreed) condition that. |
| Understandingly | adv | In a comprehending or intelligent manner. 2. with understanding; also so as to be understood. |
| Under-standish-ness | n | An attitude ready and willing to undertake a project, business. |
| Understandness | n | State or condition of being understanding. 2. the faculty of understanding. |
| Understay | n | Support, foundation, props, as in the props and understay of health. |
| Understeer | n | Tendency of a motor vehicle to turn less sharply than was intended. |
| Understeer | vb | To have a tendency of a motor vehicle to turn less sharply than was intended. |
| Under-steward | n | A senior official serving an important dignatory. |
| Understock | vb | To fail to provide sufficient stock or stores. 2. in farming: fail to keep the herds to an adequate number. |
| Understood | ppl | Being made known or patent; comprehended; thoroughly known; agreed upon; assured as known or fixed. 2. implied though not expressed. |
| Understream | n | An underground river or waterway. |
| Understrength | adj | With a depleted number of troops or players. |
| Understrew | vb | To spread or strew beneath; fig. to cast under foot, to trod upon. |
| Understrike | vb | To strike below; underline, understroke or underscore. |
| Undersward | n | Stiff, wiry knot grass forming a rugged area. |
| Underswearer | n | One who swears under oath. |
| Undersweep | vb | To sweep beneath or under. |
| Underswell | n | A swell below the surface of water. 2. a building of support or emotional for a cause or for change. |
| Undertake | vb | To trap by raft; entrap. 2. to sieze upon. 3. to chide, rebuke, reprove. 4. to accept, receive willingly. 5. to receive; to have given. 6. to receive into the mind; to be understood. |
| Undertaken | ppl | Attended to; made safe; taken in hand; enterprised. |
| Undertaker | n | One who acts or assists; a helper, an assister. 2. a rebuker, reprover. 3. one who undertakes a task or enterprise; one who undertakes to carry out work or business for another; a contractor, a collector of taxes. 4. one who takes aup a challenge. 5. one who attempts to colonise land. 6. one who makes a business of carrying out the arrangements for funerals. 7. one who engages in the serious study of a subject or science. 8. one who undertakes the preparation of litery works. 9. a book publisher. 10 a producer of opera or plays; an entrepreneur; manager, impresario. 11. one who acts as security or surety for another. 12. a a baptismal sponsor. |
| Undertaking | adj | Ready to undertake an enterprise , task, etc. esp., one involving some danger or risk; enterprising, bold. 3. engaged in literary work. 4. prepared to act as publishers. 5. pledged, bound by promise. |
| Undertakingly | adv | Responsibly. |
| Undertalked | adj | Down playing of one own capacity and abilities. |
| Underthew | vb | To subject, subdue, subjugate. |
| Underthing | n | A lower or inferior thing or person. |
| Underthings | n | Underclothes; underwear. |
| Underthink | vb | To think too little of. 2. to underestimate; to think insufficiently of. 3. to penetrate by thinking; to think deeply. |
| Underthrown | adj | Subjected, made subjected; thrown under or down; subjugated. |
| Undertimed | adj | Under-exposed (of a photographic negative). |
| Undertow | n | A current below the surface of the water; moving in a contrary direction to that of the surface current. |
| Undertread | vb | To thread under foot; subdue or subjugate. 2. to reinforce a tread on a rubber tyre. |
| Underwater | n | The region or environment below the surface of the water. |
| Underwater | adj | Placed, situated, carried on, etc. underwater. 2. in ships situated below the waterline. |
| Underwater | adv | Under the water. 2. situated or done under the water. |
| Underway | adv | Currently in progress, afoot. |
| Underweapon | n | Primitive, simple weapons, such as stones and sling-shots. |
| Underwear | n | Unclothing, unclothes. |
| Under-weening | n | Underestimation of oneself or something. |
| Underweight | adj | Of insufficient weight; not sufficiently heavy. 2. deficient in weight. |
| Underweight | n | A condition of being lighter than average for one height and build. |
| Underwent | pp | Past particle of "undergo.' |
| Underwhelm | vb | To leave unimpressed to arouse little or no interest. 2. to interest less than anticipated. 3. to be dull to a person. |
| Underwhelmed | adj | To be of interest less than anticipated. 3. to be dull to a person. |
| Underwhelming | ppl | Of less interst than. |
| Underwing | n | The hindwing of an insect. 2. the underside of a bird's wing. |
| Underwired | adj | Having a thin semi-circular support of wire under of wire inset under each cup. |
| Underwit | n | A poor or inferior kind of wit. 2. a person of defective understanding; a half-wit. |
| Unwitted | adj | Having not wit or understanding. |
| Underwood | n | Small trees or shrubs; coppice-wood or brush-wood growing beneath higher timber or trees. 2. a stump of a tree that regularly throws out new shoots. 3. quantity or stretch of woody undergrowth. |
| Underwork | n | Work done at a lower rate. 2. subordinate or inferior work. 3. underhand or secret work. |
| Underwork | vb | To work secretly; to take clandestine measures. 2. to work against secretly; to seek to undermine or overthrow. 3. to spend to little work on; to leave unfinished; to impose too little work on. 4. to work for less wages than another. |
| Underworking | n | The action of a secret or unapproved nature of underworking of government. |
| Underworld | n | The sublunary or terrestrial world. 2. the abode of the deaparted imagined as being under the earth; the nether world. 3. the region below the surface of the earth; subterranean or underlying area. 4. The Antipodes; also the part of the earth beyond the horizon. 5. a sphere or region lying or consider to lie below the ordinary one. Hence also (fig) a lower; or the lowest stratum of society. 6. the world of criminals or of organised crime (usu. with "the"); hence those of this world. 7. the slang of the criminal underworld: "he got the chop" - he was murdered. |
| Underwordly | adj | of the underworld. |
| Underwrite | vb | Guarantee financial support of; subvent. 2. protect by insurance;
cover, insure. 3. to practice the business of insuring; to take a risk of insurance on a vessel or the like. 4. to write under something else; to subscribe. 5. to subscribe one's name to for insurance, especially for marine insurance. |
| Underwriter | n | One underwrites an insurance policy; spec. one who carries on an insurance business; esp. of shipping. 2. one who underwrites company shares. |
| Under-written law | n | A long established custom that is difficult to break or disobey. |
| Underwrought | vb | Underwork. |
| Undew | vb | To remove or make ground or grass free of dew. |
| Undewy | adj | "Field parched with unusual heat through undewy ground". 2. not having dew; devoid of dew. |
| Undight | vb | To divest of clothing, armour etc; to disarray, strip. 2. to unfasten; undo, unclench or open. |
| Undight | adj | Not adorned, decked or put in order. |
| Undighted | adj | Undressed, stripped. |
| Undim | vb | To lighten, brighten up. 2. to clarify. |
| Undigged | adj | Not dug up or ploughed. |
| Undimmed | vb | Not lessening in light or perception, as in "undimmed eyes." 2. "cloudness moon, undimmed and unarrayed." |
| Undinned | adj | Not affected by a specific noise or noise, such as a noisy drummer drowning out a singer's song. |
| Undo | vb | Cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect; 2. deprive of certain characteristics, unmake. 3. cause the ruin or downfall of. 4. cause to become loose; untie the knot. 5. remove the outer cover or wrapping of; unwrap. 5. to reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught. "What's done can not be undone." 6. to loose; to open; to take to piece; to unfasten; to untie; hence, to unravel; to solve. 7. to bring to poverty; to impoverish; to ruin, as reputation, morals, hopes, or the like. |
| Undoer | n | One who doesn't act or perform. 2. an expounder, interpreter, one who opens or expounds or unfastens. 3. a destroyer, wrecker, ruiner. 4. one who destroys a woman, a seducer, profligate, rake. 5 . one who does less than is requisite or neccesary. one who deals with matters insufficiently or imperfectedly. |
| Undoing | n | Ruin or cause of ruin. 2. the process of reversing what has been done.3. the action of opening or unfastening. 3. the omission or neglect of doing; non-performance . |
| Undoing | phr | "That Was his Undoing." ruin, downfall. |
| Undoingness | n | The act of not caring for or about, not pertaining to; hence duties. 2. the state of inaction or doing little. 3. uncaringness. |
| Undone | adj | Brought to decay or ruin; destroyed. 2. unfastened, untied. 3. not done, unaccomplished, unaffected. |
| Undoneness | n | Under a sense of undone. |
| Undoomed | adj | "Unfit for earth; undoomed for heaven": not condemned or judged. |
| Undought | n | A weak puny person or creature; a silly, incapable person. 2. an ineffective, worthless person. |
| Undoughty | adj | Weak, puny, silly, incapable, worthless, feeble, contempt. 2. lacking in good qualities, ineffective, bad, vile. |
| Undrained | adj | Not drained, wet, marshy, boggy, as in fens or wetlands. |
| Undraw | vb | To draw out; withdraw. 2. to draw back (esp. a curtain). 2. to unfasten by pulling. 3. to move back on being pulled. |
| Undrawn | adj | Never drawn or pulled along by a plough, vehicle or cart. 2. unmilked. 3. of a lottery not yet drawn. 4. not delineated or depicted. |
| Undreaded | adj | Not dreaded or feared. |
| Undreadful | adj | Having no dread; unapprehensile. 2. not causing dread, fear, terror, undreading. 3. without dread or fear. |
| Undried | adj | Not dried. |
| Undriven | adj | Not compelled forcibly by an outside agency. 2. not urged or forced to action or act through moral persuasion. 3. not impelled; not strongly motivated for success; not compulsive, not determined. |
| Undrowned | adj | Of pasture, field, town, etc., - not flooded. 2. of persons, animals: not dead by drowning. 3. of sound, music etc : not drowned out by a noiser or louder sound, noise and the like. |
| Undug | vb | Not yet dug for, as oil lying deep under the earth surface or in a sea or ocean. |
| Undull | adj | Of conversation: not dull or boring, but no necessarily interesting or living. |
| Undullness | n | "His admirable sense, and undullness of conversation." - state or quality of being neither dull or boring. |
| Undusted | adj | Not sprinkled with dust. 2. not freed from dust; left dusty. |
| Undwelt | adj | Not dwelt in, uninhabited, unoccupied, unpopulated. |
| Undweltness | n | State of being uninhabited, unoccupied, unlived in, unpopulated. |
| Old English | n | Modern English |
| Unear | adj | Unploughed; untilled. |
| Unearned | adj | Not earned by merit or desert; unmerited or undeserved (unmerited or undeserved). 2. not earned by labour, not worked for. |
| Unearned income | n | Income from interest payments, as opposed to wages, salary, or fees. |
| Unearth | vb | To dig up; to dig out of the earth, find by the removal of earth, excavate, exhume. 2. to force out of a hole or burrow. 3, to bring to light, to disclose, to reveal, to discover something after research. 6. to free from earthly qualities. |
| Unearthed | adj | Not buried, not covered; not put into the ground. |
| Unearthing | n | The act of digging up; removing from the earth. 2. excavating, exhuming, bringing to the earth's surface. 2. the act of revealing, disclosing. |
| Unearthliness | n | State or qualities of rising above what is characteristic of earth: exalted, sublimed, unearthly. 2. not belonging to the earth's natural natural mysteries, ghostly, wanearthly. 3,. of sounds or voice not of this earth's quality or character. |
| Unearthly | adj | Not earhly; sublime. 2. supernatural, terrifying, weird; terrible. 3. ridiculously; unconventional, inconvenient or unpleasant; preposterous. |
| Uneaten | adj | Not eaten or devoured. |
| Uneath | adj | Difficult, troublesome, distressing, uneasy. |
| Uneath | adv | Not easily (only) with difficulty. 2. scarcely, hardly, barely (in respect to extent, amount, degree, etc. 3. reluctantly, unwillingly. 4. in difficult circumstances; in hardship. 5. scarcely in respect of time; only just. |
| Uneathily | adv | With difficulty. 2. restlessly with discomfort or embarrasment. |
| Uneathiness | n | The quality of being troublesome. 2. difficult nature or character. 3. reluctance. 4. discomfort, anxiety or trouble as effecting one's circumstances or welfare; an instance of this. 5. bodily discomfort (falling short of actual or definite pain). 6. mental discomfort, anxiety, apprehension. |
| Unebbing | adj | Not running out or away; not refluxing; not receding from the shore. 2. of blood and tears must flow the unebbing love betrayed. |
| Unedge | vb | To take the edge off; blunt. |
| Unenboldened | adj | Timid, bashful, lacking confidence or self-belief; backward, slow, dull; feeble. 2. unbrave, lacking somewhat in courage. |
| Unended | adj | Not made to end or stop; continued, lasting, infinite. 2. having no limit or bounds. 3. not brought to an end or conclusion, unfinished, incomplete. |
| Unending | adj | Endless, never-ending, eternal. 2. never-ending, incessant, infinite. |
| Unendingness | n | The state or condition of unendingness, eternity, infiniteness. |
| Unendingly | adv | In an unending manner. |
| Un-English | adj | Not like English in character. 2. lacking the qualities regarded as typically English. 3. unsportsmanlike; unchivalrous. |
| Un-englished | adj | Not translated or put English. |
| Unenlightened | adj | Not enlightened; living in a state of intellectual or spiritual darkness. |
| Unenliven | vb | Not to enliven or make lively, |
| Unenlivened | adj | Not enlivened or made lively, often used postpositively. |
| Unenthrall | vb | To not enslave; to free of domination. 2. not charme or captivate. |
| Unenthralled | adj | Not enslaved; free of domination of others, or judgement. 2. not charmed or captivated. |
| Uneven | adj | Incomparable, unequal, ill-matched, not level |
| Unevenly | adv | Unfairly, unjustly, in an even or unequal manner; not regularly. 2. uniformily, or smoothly. 3. not in equal proportion. |
| Unevenness | n | Inequality, discrepancy, difference. 2. quality or fact of being uneven in form; an instance of this. 3. a rough or rugged part, place, a feature. 4. unfairness, injustice. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Ungathered | adj | Not gathered or collected. |
| Ungerim | adj | Numberless. |
| Unget | vb | To disinherit, to disown. |
| Unghere | adv | Soon, quickly. |
| Unghosted-speech | n | One quickly prepared, but not by a hired writer. |
| Unghostly | adj | Not spiritual, unspiritual, secular. 2. not of, or like a ghost; not belonging to. |
| Unghostedly | adv | Unspiritually. |
| Ungild | vb | Remove the gild from. 2. remove gilding from. |
| Ungilded | adj | Not gilded; ungilt. |
| Ungird | vb | To divest of, or free from a girdle or girth. |
| Ungirdled | adj | Not girdled, contained or surrounded by a girdle. 2. oceans ungirdled by streams. |
| Ungirt | adj | Not wearing a girdle; not having a belt undone, slackened or removed. 2. deprived or destitute of something. |
| Ungive | vb | To give way, to relax, yield, give up, to lose tenacity or firmness |
| Ungiven | adj | Not given in marriage; unmarried, single. 2. not given over. |
| Ungiving | adj | Unyielding, relaxing, loosening. |
| Unglad | adj | Not glad or joyful; unhappy, sorry. |
| Unglad | vb | To afflict, distress. |
| Ungladden | ppl | To make unhappy, sad, sorry. |
| Ungladdened | adj | Made unhappy, sad or sorrowed. |
| Ungladly | adj | Of the eyes: dull. |
| Ungladness | n | Not of gladness or good spirits. |
| Ungladsome | adj | Unglad, unhappy, sad, sorry, distressed. |
| Unglee | n | Sadness, mirthless, unhappiness, sorrow. |
| Ungloved | adj | Not wearing gloves. 2. not covered with a glove; having the hand bare. |
| Ung'nede | adj | Unsparing, literal. |
| Ungod | vb | To deprive of the quality or position of deity; to undeify. |
| Ungodded | adj | Not spiritually united with God. |
| Ungodlike | adj | Not having the qualities of a God or gods. |
| Ungodlily | adv | IN an ungodly manner. |
| Ungodliness | n | Not having godliness or the qualities of God. |
| Ungodly | adv | Of persons: not fearing or reverencing God; irreligious. impious, wicked. 2. of the stomach: greedy, gluttonous. 3. of actions: not in accordance with the will or the laws of God. 4. outrageous, dreadful. |
| Ungone | adj | Not yet departed; to keep ungone, to keep from ungoing. 2. untraversed. |
| Ungood | adj | Not god, evil, bad, wicked. |
| Ungoodlihead | n | State or quality of lacking goodness. |
| Ungoodly | adj | Of persons, actions, language: lacking goodness, bad, wicked, uncomely, unhandsome. |
| Ungoodly | adv | In an uncomely manner; badly, wrongly, improperly, roughly, rudely. |
| Ungored | adj | Not blood-stained. |
| Ungospel | adj | Unevangelical. |
| Ungospel-like | adj | Not in the way or message of the gospel or the Bible. |
| Ungot | vb | Not acquire, obtain or win; not begot, unbegot. |
| Ungotten | adj | Not acquired, obtained or won. 2. unbegotten. |
| Ungrassed | adj | Not sown or grass-covered. |
| Ungreat | adj | Want of size, smallish. |
| Ungreen | adj | Not supporting protection of the environment. 2. harmful to the environment. |
| Ungreeted | adj | Not welcomed, greeted or saluted. |
| Ungrith | adj | Insecurity, hurt. |
| Ungrounded | adj | Not based or established in or on something. 2. having no real basis or justification, unfounded, groundless. 3. of persons: not properly instructed about something. |
| Ungroundedly | adv | In an ungrounded way or manner. |
| Ungroundedness | n | The quality or state of being not based or established upon something. |
| Ungrown | adj | Not yet grown up or fully grown; immature. |
| Ungrown-up | adj | Immature; youthful, young. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Unfain | adj | Reluctant, having a feeling of dislike, not glad or delighted; sorry, ill-pleased, unpleased. |
| Unfair | adj | Lack of fairness or equity, injustice. |
| Unfair | vb | To deprive of fairness or beauty. |
| Unfairing | adj | Unattractive, unpleasant, unbeautiful. |
| Unfairly | adv | In an unfair manner inequitably, unjustly. 2. in a rough, disorderly or untidy manner. |
| Unfairness | n | The state or quality of being unfair. |
| Unfaken | adj | Guilleless, innocent. |
| Unfallen | adj | Not morally fallen. 2. not fallen in lit sense. |
| Unfallenness | n | State or quality of moral probity. 2. state of remaining on one's feet. |
| Unfallowed | adj | Not fallowed. |
| Unfanded | pp | Untried. |
| Unfarewelled | adj | Not given a farewell on departure or leaving. |
| Unfarrantly | adv | Not nice, unseemingly, without farrant. |
| Unfarrowed | adj | Not having a litter of pigs. |
| Unfast | adj | Insecure; unresistant; not fixed,loose, unfastened, prone to fading. 2. not speedily or quick. 3. sedate, not liable to do things recklessly. |
| Unfasten | vb | To make or become loose. 2. to open the fastenings. 3. to detach or become tied. |
| Unfastened | adj | That has not been fastened. 2. that has ben opened, loosened or detached. |
| Unfathered | adj | Having no (acknowledged or known) father; illegimate, bastardly; deprived of a father. 3. of obscure origin; unauthenticated. |
| Unfathered | adj | Deprive of a father; made fatherless. |
| Unfatherliness | n | State or quality of being fatherless. |
| Unfatherly | adv | Not befitting a father. |
| Unfathomed | adj | Of an unascertained depth; unsounded; fig. not fully known or explored; unascertained or solved. |
| Unfathomless | adj | Unknown, unascertained, as the unfathomless depth of his love. 2. not fully known or explored. |
| Unfeared | adj | Not affected by fear, undismayed. 2. not regarded with fear; undreaded. |
| Unfearful | adj | Having no fear; fearless; fully, fearlessly; resolutely. |
| Unfearing | adj | Invulnerable to fear or intimidation; audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid. |
| Unfeather | vb | To pluck, strip of feathers. |
| Unfeathered | adj | Not provided or covered with feathers (of birds). 2. stripped of feathers, as some exotic dancers. |
| Unfed | adj | Not feed or nourished; starved. |
| Unfeeling | adj | Devoid of sensation; insensible, fig. not sensitive to impressions, etc. 2,. without kindly or tender feeling; callous, unsympathetic. |
| Unfeelingly | adv | In an unfeeling manner. |
| Unfeelingness | n | The state or quality of being unfeeling. |
| Unfele | adj | Bad, evil, wicked, wretched, miserable, unpleasant. |
| Unfelled | adj | Still standing; not yet felled or cut down. |
| Unfellowed | adj | Unequalled, unmatchable. 2. alone; without companion. |
| Unfelt | adj | Benumbing, deadened, dulled, insensate, insentient, numbed, unfeeling, not felt, unperceptive. |
| Unfere | adj | Imfirmed, weak, unfit for or incapable of exertion. |
| Unfetter | vb | Release from fetters. |
| Unfettered | adj | Unrestrained, unrestricted. |
| Unfickle | adj | Stable, steady, invariable, uncapricious, constant. 2. firm or steady in affection, behavior, opinion, or loyalty. 3. constant suggests an innate disposition to status quo: a loyal lover, is not flitting from affair to affair. |
| Unfiery | adj | Not consisting of, not attended with, not characterised by or containing fire. 2. not intensely hot. 3. not like or suggestive of fire. 4. not intensely ardent, impetuous or passionate; dispassionate. 5. not easily angered or provoked. 6. coolish, coldish, |
| Unfighting | adj | Fleeing or uneager for the fight or battle. |
| Unfill | vb | To not fill a (container) or something that can be filled, (lit. and fig.) 2. to empty; to pour out. |
| Unfilled | adj | Not filled or made full. 2. fig. unfulfilled. |
| Unfillinglike | adj | Insatiable. |
| Unfilm | vb | To clear one's eyes; to remove the mist from one's eyes. |
| Unfingered | adj | Not provided with or having fingers. 2. untouched with fingers or hands; unhanded. |
| Unfired | adj | Not subject or exposed to fire. 2. of firearms: not discharged by firing. 2. not set on fire; not ignited |
| Unfirm | adj | Not firm; lacking solidity or rigidity. 2. weak, feeble, infirm, invalid, wanting in strength or power. 3. unsteady, flighty. 4. unsteady, unstable, insecure, liable to slip or fall. 5. not firmly placed or planted. 6. of a loose or soft consistency; incompact. |
| Unfirmness | n | The state or quality of being unfirm or some what soft. 2. not strong or forceful in dealing with others. |
| Unfitted | adj | Not fitted up or out; not properly furnished. 2. not adapted or suited; unfit. 3. not adjusted by fitting. |
| Unfitting | adj | Not fitting or suitable; unbecoming, improper. |
| Unfittingness | n | The state or condition of being not suitable or fitting, not becoming or proper. |
| Unfledged | adj | Not yet fledged, callow, unfeathered. 2. of an arrow: unfeathered. 3. of persons: immature, inexperienced. 4. of things: not fully developed; still in a crude or imperfect state; inchoate. 4. pertaining to youth and inexperience. |
| Unfleeting | adj | Not passing swiftly; intransient, unephemeral. |
| Unflesh | vb | To strip of flesh. |
| Unfleshed | adj | Of a sword or its wielder: not yet stimulated by tasting flesh; fig. untried, raw, inexperienced. 2. stripped of flesh; not covered with flesh. |
| Unfleshiness | n | State or condition of the spirit, free from the body and flesh. 2. spiritual, free from the the body, in an unfleshiness eternity. |
| Unfleshly | adj | Not corporeal; worldly, or sensual ; ethereal; spiritual. |
| Unfleshy | adj | Having no flesh. |
| Unflock | vb | Disgregarize; send from the flock or group; ostracise. |
| Unflown | adj | Not yet flown. |
| Unfoed | adj | Without enemy or foe. |
| Unfold | n | A developmental process: flowering, blossoming, opening, revealing, displaying etc. |
| Unfold | vb | To open or unwrap the folds of; to spread open, expand; to straighten out. 2. to open the lips, eyes, a gate etc. 3. to disclose, reveal by statement or exposition; to explain. 4. to disclose to view, to display. 5. to unwrap; to release or extract from wrappings. 6. to come upon, to spread out, to expand; to become patent or plain. 7. to release sheep from folds or fold |
| Unfold | phr | "To Unfold" - make known, reveal, disclose. |
| Unfolding | adj | Being revealed at this very moment; becoming plain or clearer. 2. opening, opening up; displaying. 3. spreading out; unwrapping, expanding. |
| Unfollowed | adj | Not moving behind in the same direction. 2. not coming after. 3. not pursuing. |
| Unfooted | adj | Not trodden on by the feet of men; untraversed. |
| Unfootsore | adj | Not having sore or tired feet after a long walk or march. 2. not way-weary, way-worn. |
| Unforbearing | adj | Not showing patent, unruffled self-control, and restraint under adversity. 2. quick to retaliate or express resentment; long suffering. 3. not able to control oneself when provoked. |
| Unforbearingness | n | The state or quality of being unable to show self-control and restraint under adversity. 2. a quickness to relataliate or express resentment. |
| Unforbid | vb | To allow to happen or take place. 2. to make possible, let, permit, not prohibit. |
| Unforbidden | ppl | Allowing to happen or taking place. 2. making possible. letting, permitting, not prohibiting. |
| Unforbode | vb | To not prophesize; not foretell or predict. |
| Unforeboding | adj | Not prophetic, foretelling, without prescient, unaugured, unpredicting. |
| Unforgetful | adj | Retentive of memory; recollective; mindful or attentive. 2. able to keep in mind. 3. remembering. |
| Unforgetting | adj | Unable or unwilling to forget. 2. not forgetting, enduring or persisting in memory. |
| Unforgiven | adj | Not forgiven. |
| Unforgiveness | n | The state or quality of not forgiving. |
| Unforgiving | adj | Not inclined or able to forgive or show mercy. 2. not dispose to forgive or overlook offence. 3. unmerciful, uncompassionate. 4. resentful; unpardoning. |
| Unforgolden | adj | Unrequited. |
| Unforgone | adj | Not predetermined or already decided on, not previously happening. 2. not passed by or gone pass. |
| Unforegone'ness | n | State or condition of not being pre-determined. |
| Unforgotten | adj | Not forgotten, remembered. |
| Unforeknown | adj | Already known or aware of. |
| Unforlet | ppl | Not abandoned or given. |
| Unforesaken | adj | Remain with or not withdraw from; staying or staying true to; supportive. 2. maintaining, not giving up on. 3. not rejecting, accepting. |
| Unforeseeing | adj | Without prior knowledge or awareness of. 2. the unforeseeing security of charmed and confident happiness. |
| Unforeseen | adj | Not anticipated; unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for, out of the blue |
| Unforeseen-ness | n | State or condition of not anticipating, unforeseeing, unlooking-for, not-out-of-the-blue. |
| Unforsworn | adj | As yet or not foresworn or perjured under oath. 2. as yet or not repudiated. |
| Unforethought | n | Not planned, devised or plotted in advance of action. 2. not thought of prior to an event ; not planned or considered beforehand. 3. not judicious in avoiding harm or danger; not prudent of care for the future. |
| Unforetold | adj | A silence has followed not unforetold: not told, spoken of beforehand, anticipated. |
| Unforewarned | adj | Our unforewarned Grandma Eve: not warned prior to or before. |
| Unfostered | adj | Not fostered, encouraged. |
| Unfothered | adj | Not foddered. |
| Unfought | adj | Of battle, strife, argument not yet fought or contested. |
| Unfouled | ppl | Not made foul or impure; undefiled. |
| Unfounded | adj | Not found; not yet discovered; undiscovered. 2. of no foundation or basis; chiefly fig. groundless, unwarranted. 3. powerless. |
| Unfoxed | adj | Sober. |
| Unframe | vb | To distress, trouble, to take to pieces, to destroy. 2. to undo. 3. to dislocate; to thrown into confusion, disorder, distract. |
| Unframed | adj | Not framed. |
| Unfree | adj | Ignoble, base. 2. characterised by want of freedom. 3. not at liberty to do something. 4. not possessed of personal liberty; destitute of freedom. 5. not holding the position of a free or privileged member of a corporation. 6. not free of duty, tax, or impost; not exempted from commercial restrictions. |
| Unfree | vb | To make unfree; to deprive of freedom. |
| Unfreely | adv | Not beautiful; " their mouths wide, their eyes broad; unfreely was their faces made. |
| Unfreeness | n | Restriction. |
| Unfriend | n | One who is not a friend, or on friendly terms; an enemy. 2. one not a member of the "Society of Friends." |
| Unfriended | adj | Not provided with friends; friendless. |
| Unfriendily | adv | Harsh words unfriendly spoken. |
| Unfriendliness | n | State or condition not characterised by friendliness. |
| Unfriendly | adj | Not characteristic of a friend or friendship; in an unfriendly manner. 2. exhibiting dislike or hostility. 3. not having the quality or disposition of a friend; esp. unfavourably disposed, inimical, hostile. 4. not propitious or favourable. |
| Unfriendness | n | The state or situation of not having any friends. |
| Unfriendship | n | Unfriendliness; enmity. |
| Unfright | adj | Unafraid. |
| Unfrightenedness | n | Unfearfulness. 2. state of not being afraid. |
| Unfrith | n | Dissension, strife. |
| Unfrozen | adj | Not frozen. |
| Unfulfilled | adj | Not carried out or done: many unfulfilled requests. 2. not yet achieved: his unfulfilled dreams. 3. not happy or satisfied, from not having achieved one’s desires or full potential. |
| Unfull | adj | Not filled fully. |
| Unfulmaking | n | Imperfection. |
| Unfurthersome | adj | Unfavourable, as inunfurthersome weather; that does not further or aids the ripening of the crop. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Unhad | ppl | Unobtained |
| Unhair | vb | To deprive of hair, to loose the hair; become free of hair. |
| Unhaired | adj | Beardless, hairless. 2. without skin or hide. |
| Unhairy | adj | Not hairy or hirsute. |
| Unhale | adj | Not hale or healthy; unsalutary. 2. not in a hale or hearty condition; sick, unwell. |
| Unhallow | vb | To deprive of holy or sacred character. 2. to profane. |
| Unhallowed | adj | Not formerly hallowed or consecrated. 2. left secular or profane. 3. not having a hallowed or sacred character; unholy, impious, wicked of action, language, place. |
| Unhallowedness | n | Unhallowing. 2. the action of making unhallowed. |
| Unhand | vb | To release from one's grip or grasp. 2. to let go. 3. to take the word of. |
| Unhandily | adv | Awkwardly. |
| Unhandiness | n | Inexpertise, awkwardness; unmanageableness. |
| Unhandled | adj | Not broken in; untamed as a wild horse. 2. not dealt with or treated or touched with the hand. 3. untrained, unemployed. |
| Unhandsome | adj | Of persons, their features: not elegant or graceful. 2. faulty in appearance, form or structure. 3. plain, uncomely, not handsome. |
| Unhandsomely | adj | Unhandy, inconvenient, ill-adapted. 2. inexpert, unskilful. 3. unfitting, unbecomely. 4. unfitting, unbecoming, unseemly, discourteous, mean of language. 5. not genuine or literal; unfortunate, unhappy, unpleasant, nasty. |
| Unhandy | adj | Not easy to handle or manage. 2. inconvenient, awkward, clumsy. 3. not skilful in using the hands. 4. lacking in dexterity. |
| Unhang | vb | To take down from a hanging position. 2. to divest of hanging. 3. to undo the hanging or execution of (a person). |
| Unhanged | adj | Not yet hanged. 2. not yet excuted by hanging. |
| Unhangingly | adv | Disconnectedly. |
| Unharbour | vb | To dislodge or deprive of shelter; esp. a person seeking refuge or animal, such as deer. |
| Unhard | adj | Soft; not hard. |
| Unhardened | adj | Not yet hardened by life; uninured; youthful. 2. still soft. |
| Unhardiness | n | State or condition of not being hardened. |
| Unharm | vb | To not harmed. |
| Unharmed | adj | Not harmed. |
| Unharmful | adj | Not harmful, innocuous. |
| Unharming | adj | Not harming or injuring. |
| Unharness | vb | To remove the harness from; unyoke; release. 2. to remove the harness from. |
| Unhasp | vb | Free or loose from a hasp or catch; unfasten. |
| Unhatched | adj | (Of a an egg) not hatched. |
| Unhead | vb | To behead a person. 2. to deprive or divest of a head. 3. to put an end to. |
| Unheaded | adj | Destitute or devoid of a head. 2. lacking a leader or leadership. |
| Unheal | vb | Want of health or soundness. 2. infirmity, trouble, misfortune. |
| Unhealed | adj | Not yet healed. |
| Unhealful | adj | Unwholesome |
| Unhealth | n | State or want of health or wellness. 2. weak or poor health. |
| Unhealthful | adj | Unhealthy of life and growth. |
| Unhealthfulness | n | State of unhealthliness. |
| Unhealthiness | n | Of persons, places, climate: unhealthy, unsalubrious, |
| Unhealthsome | adj | Unhealthiness, unhealthy. |
| Unhealthy | adj | Not in good health, 2. (of a place) harmful to health; wholesome. 3. (slang) dangerous to life. |
| Unhear | vb | To hear not; to not hear. 2. to refuse to hear. |
| Unheard | adj | Not listened to. 2. not heard. |
| Unheard | phr | "Unheard Of" - not known; unknown; not yet known or heard. 2. strange, unusual. |
| Unheard-of | adj | Not known; unknown; not yet known or heard. 2. strange, unusual, unprecedented. |
| Unheart | vb | To deprive of heart or dishearten. |
| Unheartsome | adj | Melancholy. |
| Unhearty | adj | Timid, listless, without zeal or heart. 2. faint-hearted; spiritless, disspirited. 3. not hearty or cordial. 4. in poor condition. |
| Unheated | adj | Not heated. |
| Unheavenly | adv | Not heavenly. |
| Unhedged | adj | Not bounded by a hedge. 2. (of a speculative investment) not hedged. |
| Unheed | vb | To disregard; pay no attention to. |
| Unheeded | adj | Not listened to, not taken notice of, regarded or valued; disregarded. |
| Unheedful | adj | Heedless. 2. taking no heed. |
| Unheedfulness | n | State or quality of being heedless or paying no attention to. |
| Unheeding | adj | Not heeding or paying attention to; disregarding. |
| Unheedingly | adv | In an unheeding manner. |
| Unheedy | adj | Unheedful. |
| Unhele | vb | To uncover something, strip of covering, roofing etc; fig, to discover, reveal. 2. to display or make visible; hence: fig. to discover, reveal, make patent or known. 3. to uncover something, as to leave open or exposed, such as the head. |
| Unhelm | vb | To divest, or be deprived, of a helmet. 2. take off one's own helmet. |
| Unhelmed | adj | Unguided, ungoverned. 2. unlead, leaderless. |
| Unhelp | n | Hindrance, lack of help. |
| Unhelped | adj | Not helped. |
| Unhelpful | adj | Not helpful; unhelpfully. |
| Unhelpfulness | n | The state or quality of being unhelpful. |
| Unhelpfully | adj | Helpless; shiftless. |
| Unhemmed | adj | Unconfined, unrestrained. 2. not furnished with a hem. |
| Unherd | vb | To disperse, separate a flock, mob, crowd. |
| Unherdly | adj | Fierce, savage, repulsive. 2. dismal. |
| Unhersomeness | n | Disobedience. |
| Unhewn | ppl | Not cut or hacked with a weapon, cutting tool or similar implement. 2. not hewn or cut into shape; not fashioned or shaped by hewing. 3. unpolished, rough, rugged. |
| Unhid | adj | Not hid; unconcealed; unhidden. |
| Unhide | vb | To make visible or seen; to lay open, disclose, reveal. |
| Unhigh | adj | Wanting in high or elevation. |
| Unhight | vb | To deprive of grace, beauty. |
| Unhighted | adj | Not invested with beauty in form or aspect. |
| Un-highted-ness | n | Uncomeliness, impairment, unpleasantness (in aspect or form). |
| Unhill | vb | To remove a covering. |
| Unhindered | adj | Not hindered. |
| Unhinge | vb | Take a door off its hinges. 2. unsettle or disorder a person's mind; make or cause a person to be unstable or crazy. |
| Unhinged | adj | (Of a mind) unstable, distraught. |
| Unhit | vb | Not yet hit or struck. |
| Unhoard | vb | To take, release or bring out of a what has been hoard. |
| Unhold | adj | Of persons: unfaithful, disloyal, false. 2. of persons: exhibiting, dislike or hostility. 3. of events: troublesome, disastrous. 4. of an enemy or foe: hostile, unfriendly. |
| Unholiness | n | State or quality of being unholy, impious, profane, wicked. 2. profaneness, wickedness. |
| Unholy | adj | Not holy, impious, profane, wicked of persons, acts, things. 2. awful, dreadful; frightful. |
| Unhomish | adj | Not like or resembling a home: unfriendly, unwelcoming, uninviting, cold and unloving. |
| Unhomeliness | n | State or quality of being unlike a home: unfriendliness, unwelcoming, uninviting. |
| Unhomely | adv | Unfriendly, unwelcoming, unininviting. |
| Unhood | vb | To remove a hood or head-covering from a person or thing. |
| Unhook | vb | Remove from a hook or hooks. 2. unfasten by releasing a hook or hooks. 3. to loosen from a hook; to detach a hook from; to open. |
| Unhoop | vb | To remove hoops, as from a barrel. |
| Unhope | n | Despair; lack of hope, wanhope; wane-hope. |
| Unhoped | phr | Not hoped for or expected. |
| Unhopeful | adj | Not hopeful; pessimistic. |
| Unhopefully | adv | In an unhopeful or pessimistic manner. |
| Unhopefulness | n | The state or condition of not being hopeful or optimistic. |
| Unhoped-for | adj | Unexpected, unforeseen. 2. unconceived or imagined. 3. not anticipated with hope or desire; not hoped for or expected. |
| Unhorse | vb | To throw or drag from a horse. 2. to deprive or be deprived of a horse. 3. to help one dismount, to be thrown from a horse. 4. to unharness a horse from a carriage. 5. fig. to dislodge, overthrow, discomfort, non-plus. |
| Unhouse | vb | To turn out of a house, habitation or abode. 2. to make homeless or without a house to live in. |
| Unhoused | adj | Deprived, evicted or forced to leave a house. |
| Unhouseled | adj | Not having received the sacraments, especialy at the hour of death. |
| Unhung | adj | Not(yet) executed by hanging. 2.not hung up fotr exhibition. |
| Unhunted | adj | Not hunted or pursued. 2. not sought or chased. |
| Unhusbanded | adj | Unimproved by husbandry; tilling, cultivation. 2. uncultivated of ground, plants, trees. 2. Not provided with a husband; single, divorced, unmarried. |
| Unhusk | vb | Remove or strip a husk or shell from. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Unikind | adj | not native, foriegn, exotic. |
| Unihooded | adj | Not ordained. |
| Unimade | n | An inferior, a lesser. |
| Uniqueme | adj | Unpleasant, |
| Uniright | adj | Unjust, wrong, inconvenience |
| Unirimed | adj | Unnumbered. |
| Unisaught | adj | Unreconciled. |
| Unisele | n | Unhappiness, misery. |
| Unisibness | n | Dissension, strife, conflict, angry contention, fighting, feuding, quarrel, violent, unamity. |
| Unisome | adv | At variance, different, |
| Unisound | adj | Unsound, unhealthy, unwholesome. |
| Uniweald | adj | unweildly, lacking control, |
| Old English | n | English |
| Unkempt | adj | Untidy, of neglected appearance. 2. uncombined dishevelled. 3. |
| Unkemptly | adv | In an untidy or neglected or dishevelled appearance. |
| Unkemptness | n | A lack or condition of being not well-combed and tidy. 2. slovenliness, sloppiness. |
| Unkenned | adj | Unknown, strange, imperceiveable, unexplored. |
| Unkennedness | n | State or conduct of strangeness, imperception, ignorance. |
| Unkenny | adj | Unknowing, ignorant. |
| Unkept | adj | (Especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or not kept) promises". |
| Unker | prn | Of us two. 2. belonging to us two. |
| Unketh | adj | Uncouth, unknown, strange, foreign, ignorant. |
| Unkethness | n | Uncouthness. |
| Unkind | adj | Strange, foreign. 2. of weather, climate: not mild or pleasant. |
| Unkindly | adv | Not in or with kindness; of little kindness. |
| Unkindhood | n | Unnatural conduct, ingratitude, baseness. |
| Unkind-hearted | adj | Not kind hearted or done with kindness. |
| Unkindled | adj | Not fired up, ignited or set fire to. |
| Unkindleness | n | The state of non-ignition or unconflagrated. |
| Unkindliness | n | Unkindly in conduct or behaviour. |
| Unkindling | adj | Not burning, as in "waning into the dull unkindling air." |
| Unkindly | adj | Morally unnatural; unnaturally wicked or vile. 2. unnatural in respect of relations or dealings in others. 3. of weather, soil etc. unnaturally bleak or cold. 4. unfavourable to comfort or growth. 5. inclement, not properly conditioned, developed or thriving. 6. prejudicial to health; not developing in a natural healing manner. 7. not of the same kind; strange. 8. lacking natural affection. devoid of kindness, unkind. |
| Unkindly | adv | With natural immorality or impropriety. 2. with enmity, harshness, cruelty. 3. contrary to right feeling or conduct. 4. improperly, ungratefully, unsuccessfully. 5. in an unkind manner; marked with unkindness, dissatisfaction, resentment. |
| Unkindness | n | Unnatural conduct; absence of affection or consideration for others. 2. uncharitableness, niggardness, ingratitude, unthankfulness. 3. a flock of ravens. 4. the fact of being unkind, unkind actions or treatment; also, an instance of this. 5. unfriendly feelings, ill-will, enmity, hostility. 6. unkindship |
| Unkindred | adj | Not related by blood; not kinfolk or not a body of people related. 2. " their souls unkindred, can never understand our language." |
| Unkindredly | adv | " A set of wretches are those of her unkindredly kin". 2. not related by blood or family. |
| Unkindship | n | Unkindness. |
| Unking | vb | To deprive of a position of king. 2. to dethrone from sovereignity; divest of royal status. 3. to abdicate. 4. to deprive a country of its king. |
| Unkinged | adj | Deprive of the position or authority of a king. 2. deposed from a kingship. 3. not raised to the dignity of a king. |
| Unkingdom | vb | To deprive a monarch or a dynasty of its realm; as in "The Stuarts long since unkingdomed ". |
| Unkinglike | adj | Not like a king; unbecoming to or of a king, not in accordance with the position or character of a king. |
| Unkingly | adv | In an unkingly manner; unlike a king. |
| Unkingship | n | State or action in deposing of a king. |
| Unkinlike | adj | Not like or in the manner expected of one kin or family member. |
| Unkissed | adj | Not kissed; without being kissed. |
| Unkithe | vb | To be not known or visible, to vanish, disappear. 2. to fail to manifest, or display. |
| Unkithed | pp | Awkward or troublesome from unfamiliarity or novelty. 2. unfamiliar or dreary; solitary, forlorn, lonely. 3, uncanny, weird, eerie. |
| Unknelled | adj | Not sounded or rung like a bell, esp. to announce a funeral; as "with a grave, unknelled, not in coffin, and unknown. |
| Unknightlike | adj | Not like a knight; unbecoming to or of a knight, not in accordance with the position or character of a knight. |
| Unknightly | adv | In an unknightly manner; unlike a knight. |
| Unknit | vb | To untie or undo a knot. 2. something untied. 3. to ungird oneself. 4. not to knit together, or closely knit, disjoin, disunite, unclasp. 5. to smooth over. 6. detach, sever, separate. |
| Unknitting | n | Unknotting, the act of disentangling knots; untying; unfastening. 2. the action of unlacing of yarn, material or thread by hand or by machinery. 3. the disjoining of something to cause separation. 4. disuniting, disconnecting; disengaging. 5. the drawing apart of something that has been knitted together. |
| Unknot | vb | To release or untie the knot or knots in. 2. (of a muscle) relax after tense and hard. |
| Unknotty | adj | Without or devoid of knots. |
| Unknow | vb | Not to know something something. 2. to fail to recognise, fail to perceive, to be ignorant. 3. to cease to know; to forget (what one has known). |
| Unknowing | n | Ignorance, as "A cloud of unknowing". 2. not possessed of knowledge; uninformed, ignorant. 3. without knowledge; ignorant of something. |
| Unknowning | phr | "A Cloud of Unknowing" - ignorance; without knowing; uninformed. |
| Unknowingly | adv | In a manner ignorant or not knowing. |
| Unknowingness | n | "Unknowningness shall not excuse your day of doom". 2. a state of ignorance or not knowing.. |
| Unknowledge | n | Absence or want of knowledge; something unknown to one. |
| Unknowledged | adj | Unacknowledged. 2. not admit knowledge, not recognised. 3. unknowledging. |
| Unknown | adj | Not known, unrecognised, ignorant of. 2. unostentatious, unshowy. |
| Unknown | phr | "Into the Unknown" - into an area about which nothing is known. |
| Unknown | phr | "The Great Unknown" - where one may go to after death. 2. outer space and stars. |
| Unknowly | adv | Not in a manner or state of known or being aware of. 2. mysteriously. |
| Unknownness | n | The quality of being unknown. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Unlade | vb | To unload or discharge a load or cargo from a ship. 2. to unburthen or relieve by the removal of something. 3. to unpack. 4. to discharge a firearm. |
| Unlading | n | The act of unloading or discharging a load. |
| Unladen | adj | Unloaded, discharged, relieved. |
| Unladen weight | n | The weight of a vehicle etc when not loaded with goods. |
| Unladylike | adj | Lacking the behavior or manner or style considered proper for a lady. 2. coarse, crude, ill-bred, inconsiderate, insensitive, offensive, tactless, unfeminine, genteel-lacking, not gentle, unrefined, vulgar. |
| Unlaid | adj | Not laid, placed, fixed or set. 2. laid out (as a corpse). 3. (slang) of a woman who no one has had, or a particular person who has not had, sexual intercourse. 4. of spirits not laid by exorcism. 5. not laid open or out. |
| Unlame | adj | Wholly free. |
| Unland | n | Unarable land. 2. deprivation (of land). |
| Unlanded | adj | Not possessed of land. |
| Unlap | vb | To uncover by withdrawing a cloth or the like. 2. to unfold; to spread open. 3. to detach in a strip. |
| Unlast | vb | To fail to last. |
| Unlasting | adj | Ephemeral, as "Man's life is as unlasting as a flower". 2. short-lived, unenduring. |
| Unlatch | vb | To open or unlock by releasing the latch. |
| Unlaw | n | An illegal action. 2.evil custom or habit. 3. amercemant, penalty, fine. |
| Unlaw | vb | To fine, amerce. 2. to pay a fine. 3. to annul a tax. |
| Unlawful | adj | Not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention; improper, unconventional. 2. contrary to or prohibited by or defiane of law; as in unlawful hunters. 3. not morally right or permissible; as unlawful love. 4. having no legally established claim; as a wrongful heir. 5. contrary to or forbidden by law; as an outlawed strike; illegitimate, illicit, outlaw, outlawed, |
| Unlawfully | adj | In a manner contrary to or in violation of the law; illegal, illicit. |
| Unlawfulness | n | Unlawful or unloyal conduct. 2. the quality of being illegal or illegimate. 3. illegality, illegitimacy. |
| Unlaw-learned | adj | Not conversant in the law and its way. |
| Unlaw-like | adj | Not relating to or not abiding by the law |
| Unlay | vb | To untwist a rope into separate strands. |
| Unlawing | n | The action of illegality. |
| Unlead | vb | To divest or strip of leadership. |
| Unleaded | adj | Not weighed, covered or furnished with lead. 2. of petrol without added lead. |
| Unlearn | vb | To dismiss from the mind something learned. |
| Unlearned | adj | Untaught, uneducated, ignorant. |
| Unlearning | adj | Dismissing from the mind what has been learned. |
| Unlearnly | adv | In a manner unlearned, untaught, uninstructed. |
| Un-learned-ness | n | Condition of being unlearned, wanting of learning, ignorancy. |
| Unleast | adj | Not the smallest in size, amount, degree or slightest. 2. not the lowest in consideration, position or importance. |
| Unleave | vb | To strip of leaves. 2. to lose or shed leaves. 3. to defoliate. |
| Unleaved | adj | Defoliated, stripped (of leaves); unfurnished of leaves or foliage. |
| Unled | adj | Without leadership or direction. 2. not guided. |
| Unlede | n | A foreign or hostile people. |
| Unlede | adj | Unhappy, miserable. 2. evil, dreadful, wicked. 3. vile, detestable; foriegn (of persons or things). |
| Unleeful | adj | Not permissible or allowed. 2. illicit, illegal. |
| Unleefulness | n | State or quality of being not permitted. |
| Unleese | vb | To unfasten, undo, open. |
| Unleft | adj | Touched, contacted, affected. |
| Unlength | n | Shortness. |
| Unless | conj | That, that is, in less, in a less case. 2. upon any less condition than (the fact or thing stated in the sentence or clause which follows); if not; that not; if it be not; were it not that; except; as, we shall fail unless we are industrious. 3. aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, but, except, if not, leaving out, let alone, outside of, save, save and except, saving, than, unless that, were it not, without. |
| Unless | prp | By the omission of the verb in the dependent clause, unless was frequently used as preposition, 'here nothing breeds unless the nightly owl' |
| Unlessen | vb | To not decrease in size, extent, or range, not diminish, not lessen, not fall. 2. to not make smaller. 3. not wear off or die down; not subside or mitigate. 4. to not make less; to reduce; not decrease in size, or become fewer. |
| Unlest | conj | Not in order that.. not; not so that..; not for fear that. |
| Unlicked | adj | Not licked into shape, as a new born animal by its mother. 2. not licked into shape; rough, crude (from the old idea that that the she-bear licks her cubs into shape) |
| Unlidden | adj | Not furnished or covered with a lid. |
| Unlie | n | Truth, truthfulness |
| Unlife | n | The state or being that is not life (but may resemble it). |
| Unlife-like | adj | Of a non-living or deathly image. 2. resembling something or someone no longer living. 3. giving a representation of something without life. |
| Unlighted | adj | Unfired, unkindled; not bright or clear, dark. |
| Unlightened | ppl | Not having or producing light. 2. not lighted, unbrightened, unlighted. |
| Unlightsome | adj | Not full of, uncharacterised by, or not causing light. |
| Unlike | adv | Unevenly, unequally. 2. differently, diversely. 3. in a manner differently from that (of a specified person). 4. improbably |
| Unlike | n | (Also adj): not like or resembling, different from. 2. not like each other, dissimilar. 3. dissimilar to the thing or person in question. 4. not uniform or even; improbable. 5. a person unlike or similar to others or another. |
| Unlike | phr | "How Unlike From" - how diffrernt from. 2. how unlike some, possibly idealized ,satndard of civilized home life, behavior, business, practice, etc. |
| Unliked | adj | Not liked or fondly or affectionately thought of. |
| Unlikelihood | n | The improbability of a specified outcome; unlikeliness, long shot. 2. absence of likelihood; dark horse, faint likelihood, fighting chance, hardly a chance, hundred-to-one shot, improbability, little expectation, long odds, off chance, outside chance, slim chance, small chance. |
| Unlikeliness | n | The improbability of a specified outcome; unlikelihood. 2. the quality or state of being unlikely. |
| Unlikely | adj | Not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred; improbable. 2. has little chance of being the case or coming about. 3. having a probability too low to inspire belief; improbable, unbelievable, unconvincing. 4. not to be reasonably expected; as, an unlikely event. 5. not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising; as, unlikely means. 6. not such as to inspire liking; unattractive; disagreeable. |
| Unlikely | adv | In an unlikely manner. |
| Unliken | vb | To make unlike; to dissimilate. (obs) |
| Unlikeness | n | Strangeness, dissimilarity. 2. the quality of being dissimilar. 3. a bad or poor likeness. |
| Unlikening | n | The making of something or somebody unlike; or dissimilar. |
| Unliking | adj | Want of liking; dislike; dissatisfaction. 2. unpleasant, disagrreable. |
| Unlimb | vb | To dismember. |
| Unline | vb | To divest a garment of lining. |
| Unlined | adj | Of a paper without lines. 2. of the face:wrinkles. |
| Unlink | vb | Undo the links of a chain. 2. detach or set free by undoing or unfastening a link or chain. |
| Unlistening | n | The state of not listening or being prepared to listening. |
| Unlit | adj | Not lit. |
| Unlittle | adj | Not little, samall or tiny. |
| Unlive | vb | To deprive of life. 2. to reverse, undo by living or annul (a past life or experience). 2. to live so as to wipe out the effects of (a former period of life). 3. to live down. |
| Unlived | adj | Deprived of life. 2. not really or fully lived. |
| Unlived-in | adj | Uninhabited, unused by the inhabitants. |
| Unliveliness | n | The state or quality of being slothful, inert, unenergetic. |
| Unlively | adv | Unliving, lifeless, not lively, unanimated, or bright, dull. |
| Unliving | adj | Not living or alive; lifeless |
| Unlivingness | n | The state of not living. |
| Unload | vb | To remove the load of cargo from; to discharge freight from. 2. to take of or discharge a cargo from. 3. to relieve of something burdensome or oppressive. 4. to withdraw the charge of ammunition from. 5. to dispose of, esp. by selling in large quantities of. |
| Unload | phr | "Unload Onto" - pass a heavy or irksome burden on to somebody else. |
| Unloaded | adj | Removed from a load of cargo. 2. unburdened, disposed of, withdraw ammunition from. |
| Unloader | n | One who or that which unloads; spec. a contrivance for unloading something, as hay or coal. |
| Unloading | n | The act of unloading something. |
| Unloath | vb | To not loath; disincline, be not reluctant, angry or be unwilling. |
| Unloathfulness | n | State of not being full loathing, unwilling or angry.. |
| Unloathingly | adv | In a manner not loathing, unwilling or angry. |
| Unloathfully | adv | In a manner neither angry or unwilling. |
| Unloathness | n | Harmlessness, innocence. |
| Unlock | vb | To unfasten something locked. 2. to open, undo, release. 2. to lay open, disclose or reveal. 3. to become unlocked. |
| Unlocked | adj | Not locked. |
| Unlocking | adj | The act by which something is unlocked. |
| Unlofty | adj | Not high or elevated. |
| Unlonely | adj | Not lonely. |
| Unlonged-for | adj | Not yearned or wished for. |
| Unlooked | adj | Not attended to; neglected, unregarded, unheeded, unexamined. 2. unexpected; unlooked-for, unanticipated. |
| Unlooked-for | adj | Unexpected, not anticipated. |
| Unlord | vb | To deprive of the position or rank of a lord. |
| Unlorded | adj | deprived of the rank of a lord. 2. not raised to the rank of a lord. |
| Unlordly | adv | Not lordly. |
| Unlost | adj | Not lost or misplaced. |
| Unlove | n | The absence of love. |
| Unlove | vb | To cease to love a person. |
| Unloved | adj | Not loved, not held in affection. 2. unrequited in love. 3. not pursued or felt as love. |
| Unloveliness | n | Unlovely. 2. not evoking a feeling of love or affection. 3. unattractive in appearance, unpleasantly, uncomeliness, unhandsome, ugly, repellent. |
| Unlovely | adj | Without beauty or charm. 2. not lovely; not amiable; possessing qualities that excite dislike; disagreeable; displeasing; unpleasant. 2. beautiless, blemished, defaced, disfigured, homely, inelegant, marred, plain, short on looks, ugly, ugly as hell, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, uncomely, unpretty,
unhandsome, unpleasing, unsightly. |
| Unloverlike | adj | Not in a manner expected of a lover: "Shocked at someone unloverlike speech". |
| Unloving | adj | Not giving or reciprocating affection. 2. affectless, chilly, coldhearted, emotionless, frigid, frosty, heartless, icy, passionless, soulless, spiritless, unaffectionate, unamiable, unbenign, uncordial, unemotional, unfeeling, ungenial, unkind, unpassionate, unresponsive, unsympathetic, untouchable. |
| Unlovingly | adv | In a manner or way without love or affection. 2. unkindly, uncordial, cold-heartedly. |
| Unlovingness | n | A kind of unlovingness and hate against another or others. |
| Unlust | n | Absence of pleasure, distress, 2. want of appetite; nausea. 3. the disinclination to be active or bestir oneself. 4. slothness, laziness, idleness. 5. unpleasantness, repulsiveness. |
| Unlustiness | n | Lack of health or strength. 2. physical weakness or debilitation. 3. lack of cheerfulness or readiness. 4. dullness, disinclination. |
| Unlusty | adj | Indisposed to activity or exertion. 2. slothful, lazy, dull, listless. 3. unyielding, very fat. 4. lacking in bodily vigour; deficient in health. 5. Of land: not in good condition or "heart". 6. having an unattractive or ill-favoured look. 7. unpleasant, undesirable, objectionable. |
| Unlying | adj | Honest, trustworthy, truthful. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Unmad | vb | Sane, not mad or crazy: "She is the only unmad member of my family". |
| Unmaddened | adj | Not made angry: "unmaddened by the babble of vain main." |
| Unmaddening | adj | Not in an uncontrolled manner, with quietness, calmness |
| Unmadding | ppl | Unaffected with madness; calm; quiet, sane. |
| Unmaddingly | adv | In a manner unaffected with madness, quiet, calm, tranquil. |
| Unmade | vb | Not yet made. 2. untrained. 3. existing without having been made. 4. uncreated but existent. 5. not made out or up. |
| Unmaiden | vb | To deprive of maidenhood. 2. to deflower. |
| Unmaidening | n | The act of depriving a woman of maidenhood. 2. the act of deflowering. |
| Unmaidenly | adv | Behaviour not appropriate or expected of a maiden; unbecomingly, immodest. |
| Unmain | n | Want or lack of strength. |
| Unmake | vb | To reverse or undo the making of (something or object). 2. to reduce again to an unmade condition. 3. to deprive of a particular role or station. 4. to depose of. 5. to deprive of a certain character or quality. 6. to alter in nature. 7. to undo, ruin, destroy; to bring to nothing. 8. to annul a decision. |
| Unmaking | n | The act of reversing or undoing something. 2. the act or action of reducing something again to an unmade condition. 3. the deprivation of certain characters or qualities. 4. the alteration of the nature of something. 5. ruination, destruction, undoing of, 6. annulment, abrogation, repealing. |
| Unman | vb | To deprive of the attributes of a man. 2. to remove from the category of men. 3. to reduce below the level of man; to degrade, brutalise. 4. to deprive of manly courage or fortitude; to make meek or effeminate. 5. to deprive of virility. 6. to emasculate. 7. to take from a ship or vessel its company of men. 8. to deprive oneself of something. |
| Unmanfully | adv | Not in a manner of a man; unmasculinely, effeminately. |
| Unmanhood | n | Unmanliness, unmanly conduct. |
| Unmanlike | adv | Below the level of manly conduct. 2. brutally, cruely, harsh, inhuman. 3. not like or inappropriate to a man or men, unmasculine. 4. unnaturally licentious or debasing. |
| Unmanliness | n | The state or quality of not being masculine or virile. |
| Unmanly | adv | Not masculine, not manly, effeminate, not virile, with unmanly weakness, not courageous, meek. 2. not gentlemanly, not honourable; dishonourably, treacherously, inhumanly, cruelly. 3. dishonourable or degrading to a man. 4. not befitting a man in respect to fortitude or energy. |
| Unmanned | adj | Not manned. 2. deprived of virility or manhood. 3. unaccustomed to men, untamed: said of hawks. 4. uninhabited. |
| Unmannish | adj | Unmanly, unmasculine, lacking in virility. 2. weakly, without strength or courage, timid, meekish. 3. dishonourable, ungentlemanly, treacherously. |
| Unmarked | adj | Not marked; uncorrected. 2. without blemish. 3. not observed. 4. not ticketed, as shop goods. |
| Unmatched | adj | Not matched or equal; matchless, unrivalled. 2. not provided with something equal or alike. |
| Unmatchless | adj | Unmatchable, unequal, unrivalled. |
| Unmatchedness | n | State or quality of being unrivalled, having non equal, non-pareil: "his stark unmatchedness in all way or manner of learning." |
| Unmated | adj | not mated; single. |
| Unmawe | n | A poor or helpless person. |
| Unmawe | adj | Helpless. |
| Unmeaning | adj | Of features: expressionless, vacant, unintelligent. of persons: having no seriousness or purpose. 3. action, conduct: having no meaning or signifance. 4. utterings, saying: meaningless, insignificant; having no meaning or signification; as, unmeaning words. 5. ot indicating intelligence or sense; senseless; expressionless. |
| Unmeaningly | adv | Meaninglessly or unsignificantly. 2. intelligently or without sense; senselessly; expressionlessly; |
| Unmeaningness | n | State or condition of emptiness, without signifance. 2. |
| Unmeant | ppl | Not meant or intended. |
| Unmeedful | adj | Undeserving of reward or guerdon. |
| Unmeedy | adj | Unrewarded. |
| Unmeet | n | Unmete: immoderate or excessive amount or measure. 2. excessive in size, huge, immense. 3. unequal, unevenly matched. 4. unequally. 5. not closely united; remote. 7. unfitting, unsuitable, unbecoming, improper. 8. unfit, unsuited for some purpose: incompetent. 9. not met or adapted. |
| Unmeetly | adv | Unmetely: immoderately, excessively, unfitly, unbecomingly. |
| Unmeeteness | n | Unfitness, unsuitableness. |
| Unmeethship | n | Impatience. |
| Unmellow | adj | Unripe, not well-matured, not bitter or acidulous. 2. not rich or mellow in tones. 3. unhappyish, unmerry, not friendly of companiable. 4. not friable of soil. |
| Umellowed | adj | Not mellowed; immature. |
| Unmelted | adj | Not liquefied by heat. |
| Unmenged | adj | Unmixed, unblended. 2. not joined or combined. |
| Unmerrily | adv | In an unhappy manner. |
| Unmerry | adj | Unhappy, unjoyous, not glad. |
| Un-merryness | n | State or condition of being or feeling unhappy. |
| Unmet | vb | Not meted out, measured out. 2. to not reward. |
| Unmet | adj | Not come upon or encountered. 2. not made an acquaintance of or introduced to. 3. not to be at a place of arrival to meet someone. 4. not to come into contact, conjunction or intersection with. 5. not to face, confer, deal with or encounter. 6. not to comply with, or meet another expectation. 7. not to pay a bill or account. 8. not to experience or go through a situation, usu. ghastly or disturbing. |
| Unmethe | n | Immoderation, excess fault. |
| Unmethe | adj | Unequal, unfair, urgently. |
| Unmight | n | Feebleness, want of the strength, weakness. |
| Unmightful | adj | Unable, impossible, cannot do, undoable. |
| Unmightness | n | Impotence |
| Unmighty | adj | Devoid of might or strength, weak, feeble, powerless, impotent. |
| Unmild | adj | Not mild or gentle. 2. harsh, tough, unkind. 3.harsh of taste |
| Unmildness | n | State or quality of being unmild, harsh, tough, unkind. |
| Unmildewed | adj | Not covered in mildew. |
| Unmilked | adj | Not having milk draw or extracted from the mammary glands as a cow. 2. not to be quizzed or grilled for information. 3. not to exploit or take advantage of. |
| Unmilled | vb | Not yet ground, shaped or polished. |
| Unminded | adj | Unmentioned, not borne in mind. 2. unheeded, unregarded, left unnoticed, overlooked. |
| Unmindful | adj | Not keeping in mind; not having knowledge of, be unaware of. 2. careless, heedless. |
| Unmindfulness | n | The state or condition of not keeping something in mind. |
| Unminding | n | The action of forgetting or disregarding. |
| Unmined | adj | Not dug up or mined. |
| Unmingle | vb | To not mix together (fig and lit). 2. not mix, blend or unite together. 3. not to join, combine, bring into close relations. 4. not to enter into compny, association, as with a crowd. |
| Unmingled | adj | Umixed; unblended, not combined or joined. 2, not associated or united in society, or with certain people, by ties of relationship. 3. not deprived of purity by mixture; uncontaminated. 4. not made or prepared by mixing the ingredients of. |
| Unmirthful | adj | Not happy, glad, joyful. 2. lacking of laughter. |
| Unmirthfulness | n | State of not be happy, merry or joyful. |
| Unmisgive | vb | To make free of fearfulness, anxiety, suspicious, or doubtful. 2. to be unapprehensive. |
| Un-misgiving | n | A feeling without doubt, premomition, anxiety or apprehension. |
| Un-misgivingness | n | In a state without doubt, anxiety or apprehension. |
| Unmissed | adj | To hit or strike. 2. to meet, catch, obtain, accomplish, be success. 3. to take opportunity or advantage of. 4. to attend a meeting or gathering. |
| Unmist | vb | To free from mist, to brighten. |
| Unmistaken | adj | That cannot be mistaken for something else. 2. evident, clear, obvious. |
| Unmistakenly | adv | Evidently, clearly, obviously, patently. |
| Unmonkish | adj | Secular, wordly, not religious, as "High schools .. from the monkish ages into the highly unmonkish ones". |
| Unmoth-eaten | ppl | Not eaten or ruined by moths. 2. unworn. |
| Unmothered | adj | Deprived of motherly feelings. 2. deprived or destitute of a mother. |
| Unmotherly | adj | Unlike or not resembling a mother. 2. not pertaining to, or unbecoming to, of a mother. |
| Unmotherly | adv | Not in a manner of a mother. |
| Unmotherless | adj | Having no mother; motherless. |
| Unmown | adj | Not mowed, left with longest grass. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Unoften | adv | Infrequently, unseldom, as "You get more patient. .. and not uoften you come to a standstill". |
| Un-old | vb | Make not old, as "Mind-gladding fruit that can un-old a man". |
| Un'orning | n | Disunion, discord, disunity, un-uniting. |
| Unopened | adj | Of letters or books: not opened, left or remaining closed or shut. 2. not opened for use. |
| Unopening | adj | Not opening because it is locked or barred, as a door. |
| Unorn | adj | Of persons: plain (in manners or appearance). 2. humble, simple. 3. wicked, mean. 4. of things: poor or inferior in quality, amount or appearance. |
| Unornly | adv | Plainly, humbly, simply. wickedly, of inferior quality-wise. |
| Un-overcome | adv | Not subdued, beaten, conquered or humbled, as "that not one of all the Greeks might live unovercome". |
| Un-own | vb | Disown, not own. |
| Unowned | adj | Not possessed as property, destitute of an owner or possessor. 3. unacknowledged, unadmitted. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Unnail | vb | To undo or unfasten the structure by the extraction or removal of nails. 2. to extract or unfasten from something by the removal of nails. |
| Unnamed | adj | Not mentioned or specified by name. 2. not provided with a name; nameless. |
| Unne | vb | To grant, allow, give freely. 2. to wish or like (one) to have something. 3. to grant, permit, or allow that. |
| Un-near | prp | Not near or approximate to. |
| Un-neared | adj | "In echoing unneared silence". |
| Unneed | n | A disadvantage |
| Unneeded | adj | Not necessary; unnecessary. 2. dispensable, excess, expendable, gratuitous, in excess, needless, nonessential, prolix, redundant, spare, verbose, superfluous, tautologous, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unrequired, |
| Unneedful | adj | Not necessary or required. 2. not standing in need of something. |
| Unneedfully | adv | Unnecessarily. |
| Unneedy | adj | Not in need or wanting. 2. not poor or in poverty. |
| Unneighbored | adj | Having no near neighbors. |
| Unneighbourliness | n | State or quality of not exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbour. |
| Unneighbourly | adj | Not exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbour. |
| Unnimble | adj | Sluggish, awkward, clumsy, unagile, unadroit, undeft, unably. |
| Unnimbly | adv | In a unnimble or manner lacking agility; with slowness and clumsiness. un agilely. 2. in a unnimble manner; with a lack of agility; with heavy-footed, slow motion. 3. unably, unadeptly, unadroitly, unagilely, unaptly, unartfully, uncapably, undeftly, undexterously, unefficiently, unexpertly, unfeatly, unhandily, uningeniously, unmasterfully, unproficiently, unpromptly, not quickly, unreadily, unskillfully, unspryly, not swiftly, with no finesse, without skill. |
| Unnimbleness | n | With an action of unnimblenes: lacking agility; with slowness, and clumsiness; unagileliness. |
| Unnimed | adj | Untouched. |
| Unnut | adj | That which is useless or worthless; idleness. 2. vanity, wrongdoing. 3. unprofitable. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Unpathed | adj | Without a path or walkway; unpathwayed. |
| Unpen | vb | To let out; release from a pe or enclosure. |
| Unpin | vb | To unfastened or detach something by removing the pins. |
| Unplanted | adj | Not planted; growing naturally. |
| Unplayed | adj | Not played or performed. |
| Unploughed | adj | Not turned up by the plough or plow. 2. of boks: not trimmed with the plough. |
| Unplucked | adj | Not plucked; or having the feathers or petals still on. |
| Unprettiness | n | The state or quality of attractiveness, pleasantness; as in "the smallness and unprettiness of the house." |
| Unpretty | adj | Not pretty, fair, comely, attractive, good, decent, decorous. 2. "her not unpretty parting lips" |
| Unprettily | adv | In a way that is not pretty, often deliberately so; as, 'she mouthed her food unprettily. |
| Unput | vb | Not put down, placed, inserted. |
| Un-put-on | pp | Not affected, not feigned or faked, as in "he has a natural exaltation, perfectedly unaffected and un-put-on". |
| Un-put-out | pp | Unextinguished, dowsed, unejected, remaining, continuing; as in "there was no fire un-put-out". |
| Old English | n | English |
| Unqueen | vb | To deprive of a position of queen. 2. to dethrone from sovereignity; divest of royal status. 3. to abdicate. 4. to deprive a country of its queen. |
| Unqueened | adj | Deprive of the position or authority of a queen. 2. deposed from a queenship. 3. not raised to the dignity of a queen. |
| Unqueenlike | adj | Not like a queen; unbecoming to or of a queen, not in accordance with the position or character of a queen. |
| Unqueenly | adv | In an unqueenly manner; unlike a queen. |
| Unquelled | adj | Not quelled or subdued. |
| Unquemed | adj | Displeasing. 2. unfit, uneasy. 3. uncomfortable, uneasy. |
| Unquemefully | adv | Unneatly, unsnugly, unsmoothly, unpleasantly. |
| Unquenched | adj | Not extinguished, or put out like a fire. 2. not ended or caused to cease. 3. unslaked or unsatisfied. 4. suppressed or repressed, as emotion. 5. uncooled by water or another liquid. |
| Unquert | adj | Disquieted, annoyed, troubled, hurted, distressed, unjoyful; wicked. |
| Unquick | adj | Lifeless, dead. 2. not lively or active. |
| Unquick | vb | To lose vivacity; to become lifeless. |
| Unquickened | adj | Unquickened by exertion. |
| Unquoth | vb | Unsaid, not spoken or expressed. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Unrainy | adj | Not inclined to rain or rainy weather, dryish, as in "unrainy clime". |
| Unread | vb | To forget about what you have read. |
| Unread | adj | Not read; unperused. 2. not instructed by reading. |
| Unreadily | adv | Not ready or prepared. |
| Unreading | adj | Not reading or instructed by books; as in "the unreading philosopher who avoids books. 2. an idle and unreading world. |
| Unreadiness | n | Not in a state of readiness or preparation. |
| Unready | adj | Not in a state of readiness or preparation. 2. not prepared or made ready. 3. not ready or plain. 4. not easy or plain. 5. undressed; in deshabille. 6. not quick or prompt; hesitant. 7. slow, not responding; guideless. |
| Unready | vb | To undress. |
| Unreaped | adj | Not harvested or cultivated. |
| Unreave | vb | To leave unplundered, despoiled, stripped of. |
| Unreckon | vb | To not count, enumerate, take into consideration. |
| Unreckoned | adj | Not counted, enumerated, considered. |
| Unrede | n | Lack of counsel, wisdom, evil counsel; folly. |
| Unredely | adv | Without restraint. |
| Unredily | adv | Without counsel or consideration; imprudently, unwisely, inadvisely, as "King Ethelred". |
| Unredy | adj | Not tell advisedly, incautiously, rashly, foolishly. |
| Unreel | vb | Unwind from a reel. |
| Unrest | n | Restlessness, especially of the mind. 2. trouble, turmoil; used inreagrd to public or political conditions and suggesting premonition of revolt. |
| Unrestful | adj | Not restful. |
| Unrestfully | adv | In an unrestful manner. |
| Unridden | adj | Of a horse: not ridde. 2. of a voyage, esp one by train, not as yet undertaken. |
| Unriddle | vb | To solve a problem. |
| Unride | adj | Severe, causing much trouble and suffering. 2. of a great size or extent or strength: so large as to become cumbersome or unwiedly. 3. large in number, numerous. 4. rough or violent. |
| Unridely | adv | Violently, roughly, harshly. |
| Unright | n | A wrong, wrong-doing, iniquity. 2. unfairness, injustice (done or suffered). 3. an instance of wrong or wrong-doing. 4. wrong or unjust act. |
| Unright | adj | Not right, just or equitable. 2. improper, unfair, wrong. 3. incorrect, inexact. |
| Unright | adv | Improperly; not in the right way, wrongly. |
| Unright | vb | To wrong, injure, to do injustice to, to treat unjustly. |
| Unrighted | adj | Not made right, correct or just. |
| Unrighteous | adj | Unjust, wrong, improper; unrightwise |
| Unrighteously | adv | Unrighteously, unjustly, wrongly. |
| Unrighteousness | n | State or quality of being unjust, wrong or improper in conduct or behaviour. |
| Unrightful | adj | Not right, wrong, incorrect. |
| Unrightfulness | n | Quality of being unrightful: wrong, incorrect, improper. |
| Unrightly | adv | Wrongly, erroneously, incorrectly. 2. unfairly, not rightfully. |
| Unrightness | n | State or condition of unfairness or injustice. |
| Unrighty | adj | Devoid of the right condition. |
| Unrimed | adj | Not frosty or cloudy. 2. not covered with rime. |
| Unrind | vb | To strip of rind, bark or hide. |
| Unrinded | adj | Stripped of bark, debark, ring-barked. |
| Unring | vb | To remove a ring from. |
| Unripe | adj | Not arrived at maturity; not ripe, immature. 2. premature. 3. not ready, not prepared. |
| Unripeness | n | State or quality of being not ripe, immature, preamature, not prepared, not ready. |
| Unrisen | adj | Not risen or ascended. |
| Unrive | vb | To tear apert, rend, open up. |
| Unroadworthiness | n | The stae or condition of being unroadworthy. |
| Unroadworthy | adj | Not roadworthy. |
| Unroof | vb | To strip of the roof, unroof, make roofless. |
| Unroofed | adj | Not furnished with a roof; not roofed. |
| Unrope | vb | To detach by undoing a rope. 2. detach one from a rope. |
| Unroped | adj | To remove a rope from. |
| Unroot | vb | To pluck or dig up by the roots. 2. to tear up by the roots. 3. to eradicate, clear away, remove or detach altogether. 4. to lose root-hold; to withdraw the root from the soil. |
| Unrooted | adj | Not rooted or furnished with roots. |
| Unrotted | adj | Not yet rotted, decayed, putrified or gone off. |
| Unrough | adj | Not rough; smooth. |
| Unruefully | adv | Unmercifully, pitilessly. |
| Unrun | adj | Not past or completed, as "the rest of the years i have to come unrun". |
| Unrung | adj | Not sounded by ringing. |
| Unruth | n | Unpity, pitilessness, mercifulness |
| Unruthfully | adv | Not fully of sorrow or pity, uncompassionately. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Unsad | adj | Not firm or steadfast, unreliable. 2. not firm, hard or solid. 3. free from sadness; not made sad. |
| Unsaddle | vb | To remove a saddle from. 2. to remove from the saddle; unhorse; dislodge. |
| Unsaid | vb | Not said, spoken or uttered. |
| Unsailed | adj | Not yet launched or sailed in. 2. deprived of or without a sail. |
| Unsailor-like | adj | Not like a sailor; unbecoming to or of a sailor, not in accordance with the position or character of a sailor. |
| Unsailorly | adv | In an unsailorly manner; unlike a sailor. |
| Unsained | adj | Unblessed; esp. not formally blessed or protected by a blessing. |
| Unsaked | adj | Not guilty, innocent. |
| Unsalted | adj | Not containing salt; as an "unsalted stream". |
| Unsame | vb | To alter, change. |
| Unsamen | adv | Not in union or harmony. |
| Unsapped | adj | Not sappe; not exhausted. |
| Unsappy | adj | Not containing or having little sap, as "a small, thin, sappy leaf". |
| Unsaught | n | Discord, dissension, hostile speech. |
| Unsaughted | adj | At variance or enmity; hostile. 2. dissatisfied, displeased. 3. not at ease, embarrassed, troubled, distressed. |
| Unsaughtily | adv | In a manner of discord, enmity. 2. dissatisfactorily, with distressed. |
| Unsaughtness | n | The state or condition of hostility, enmity, displeasure, embarrassment. |
| Unsawn | adj | Uncut, hewn or unprepared. |
| Un-Saxon | adj | Not of Saxon origin. 2. not in a manner of things Saxon. |
| Unsay | vb | To deny, to withdraw, retract, or revoke (something said or written) |
| Unsayed | adj | Untried, untested. |
| Unsaying | n | The act of withdrawing or retracting said or written. 2. a denial. |
| Unsayer | n | One who withdraws or retracts something said or written. |
| Unsayly | adj | Unspeakable. |
| Unsayworthy | adj | Of a word or expression not fit to say, because of its offensiveness, discriminating tone, denigration and prejudice, etc. |
| Unscathed | adj | Without suffering any injury; uninjured. |
| Unscatheful | adj | Harmless. |
| Unscored | adj | A play without, or not yet provided with, a musical score. 2. something, esp. a series of items untallied, not yet reckoned, added up or accounted for. |
| Unseamed | vb | To open the seam or seam of. |
| Unseared | adj | Not seared, or withered by heat. 2. not made hard or calloused by heat. |
| Unseat | vb | To remove from a seat or fixed position. 2. to unhorse. 3. to deprive of office or rank; to depose. |
| Unseaworthiness | n | In an unfit condition for a sea voyage, said of a vessel. 2. with leaks, rotten-nes, untrustworthiness, untightness |
| Unseaworthy | adj | Not Seawothy. |
| Unseeded | adj | In tennis a player not ranked. ?? |
| Unsee | vb | To avoid seeing; to leave, or make, unseen. |
| Unseeing | adj | Unable or unwilling to see or consider. |
| Unseen | adj | Invisible; not seeing; lacking sight. |
| Unseeking | adj | Not trying to find out or discover. 2. not seeking to obtain. |
| Unseel | vb | To unsew or uncover the eyes of a hawk, etc. 2. fig. to open, unclose, reveal. |
| Unseely | adj | Of persons: unfortunate, unhappy, miserable, wretched. 2. misfortune-bringing, esp. on oneself or others. 3. of animals: mischievous, harmful. 4. of things, conditions, etc. causing, involving or accompanied by misfortune or unhappiness. |
| Unseen | adj | Not seen; not apprehended by sight, unperceived, invisible. 2. not seen previously or hitherto; especially: unfamiliar, strange; unknown. 3. of translation passages: not previously read or unprepared. 4. unskilled, inexperienced. |
| Unseenly | adv | Invisibly. |
| Unselde | adv | Unseldom or not at widely separated intervals; as of time or space; not infrequent or infrequent. |
| Unseldom | adj | Infrequently, not seldom. |
| Unsele | n | Unhappiness, misery, ill-luck, misfortune. 2. an improper time. 3. an unseemly matter. |
| Unsele | adj | Wretched, evil, wicked. 2. unlucky, unfortunate. 3. unselely, unselly. |
| Unself | n | Deprivation of self and selfish qualities. |
| Unselfed | adj | That which directs one to the welfare and interests of others. |
| Unselfish | adj | Not selfish or greedy; generous. 2. kind, charitable, altruistic, self-denying. |
| Unselfishness | n | The condition of not being concerned with one's own interest, advantage, etc. in the total exclusion of the interest of others |
| Unself-love | n | The instinct by which one's actions are not directed to the promotion of one's own welfare or well-being, especially an excessive regard for the well-being of others . 2. humbleness; self-effacement, lack of vanity. 3. unnarcissism |
| Unselfly | adv | In a manner that put other's interests ahead of one's own. 2. "she attends unselfly meetings, participates in discussions and is extremely involved in neighbourhood issues". |
| Unselfishness | n | The condition of not being concerned with one's own interest, advantage, etc. in the total exclusion of the interest of others. |
| Unself-willed | adj | Not stubborn or obstinate willful in pursuing one's own wishes, aims, etc. |
| Unself-willed-ness | n | State or quality of not pursuing one's own interests above those of others. |
| Unselling | n | The dissuading from the belief in the desirability, value or truth something. |
| Unselth | n | Unhappiness, infelicity, misery. |
| Unsene | adj | Invisible, not obvious. |
| Unsent | adj | Not sent for, unsummoned. 2. not dispatched. |
| Unset | vb | To put out of place; to undo the setting of. 2. to get out of place or position. |
| Unsete | adj | Unbecoming, improper, bad. 2. unpleasant, painful. 3. unwholesome. 4. of persons: Ill-disposed, dissatisfied or discontent. |
| Unsetting | n | Not going beneath the horizon. |
| Unsettle | vb | To undo from a fixed position. 2. to unfix, unfasten, loosen. 3. to force out of a settled condition. 4. to deprive of fixity or quiet. 5. to be unsettled. 6. to clear of settlers. |
| Unsettling | n | The altering from a settled state; causing to be no longer firmly fixed or established; rendering unstable; disturb. 2. the shaking or weakening (beliefs, feelings, etc.); causing doubt or uncertainty about. 3. the vexing or agitating the mind or emotions of; upset; discompose: "the quarrel unsettled her. 4. the unfixing or disordering of something or someone. |
| Unsettled | adj | Altered from a settled state; no longer unfirmly fixed or established; unstable; disturbed: 2. shaken or weaken (in beliefs, feelings, etc.); doubted or uncertain. 3. vexed or agitated in the mind or emotions of; upset; discomposed. 4. unfixed or disordered. 5. upset, disturbed, unbalanced, confused, disconcerted. |
| Unsew | vb | To undo the sewing (of a garment). 2. to remove the stitches from. 3. to unwrap, uncover, set free by the removal of stitches. |
| Unshackle | vb | To free from shackle or fetter. 2. to untie, detach. |
| Unshackledom | n | Divorce; freedom from marriage (slang). 2. freedom from imprisonment (slang). |
| Unshackled | adj | Not fettered or chained. 2. fig. anything that prevents freedom of thought, action, procedure. |
| Unshade | vb | To expose to the sun, sunlight and sunshine. |
| Unshaded | adj | Not darkened or obscured by shade; not covered by a shade or blind. 2. not provided with shade. 3. fully exposed to light or heat. 4. not having shades in colouring: not modified or toned down. 5. not marked with shady lines. |
| Unshadow | vb | To free from shadow. 2. fig. to disclose, reveal. |
| Unshadowed | adj | Not covered or darkened by shadow. |
| Unshaken | adj | Not agitated. 2. not moved from a fixed position. |
| Unshamed | adj | Not put to shame; unashamed. |
| Unshamedfast | adj | Unshamefaced. 2. immodest of person, the mind, heart, conduct. |
| Unshamedfastly | adv | Immodestly; unshamedfacely. |
| Unshamedfastness | n | Immodestly of quality or conduct. |
| Unshameful | adj | Shameful-less. |
| Unshamefully | adv | In a shameful or immodest manner. |
| Unshamefulness | n | Shameful-less-ness. |
| Unshape | vb | To deform, destroy. |
| Unshaped | adj | Imperfectedly formed; left rough or rude. |
| Unshapeful | adj | Without form or shape. |
| Unshapefulness | n | Shapelessness. |
| Unshapeless | adj | Crude, rude in form or shape. |
| Unshapeliness | n | Lack of shape or form; unshaped. |
| Unshapely | adv | Misshapenly; misshapen of form. |
| Unshapen | vb | Not shaped; imperfectedly formrd, badly shaped. |
| Unshared | adj | Not shared with or by another or others. |
| Unsharp | adj | Bluntish, not acute or clear. 2. not acute as in the senses. 3. not keen edged or pointed. 4. not pungent. 5. unshrill or harsh. |
| Unsharpness | n | State (sense) or quality of lacking sharpness, clarity or acuteness. 2. unpungency. 3. harshness or shrill of sound. |
| Unshaved | adj | Not shaven. |
| Unshaven | adj | Not smooth, planed, or pared away with a tool or instrument. 2. of hair: not removed with a razor. |
| Unshavenness | n | Not in an unshaven aspect or appearance, as "what avails Sampson's strength, if God gives a key to a secret of it which resides in his strength". |
| Unsheaf | vb | To unsheaf or take wheat or others grain from their sheath or covering. |
| Unsheathe | vb | To draw or take out a weapon from its scabbard, as unsheathe a sword. 2. to begin hostilities or war by drawing one sword from it scabbard. 3. to draw, take out, remove a covering. |
| Unnsheathed | adj | Drawn from a sheath, as a weapon. 2. removed from a covering, as a plant. |
| Unsheathing | pp | Not drawing a weapon from the sheath. 2. not covering with a sheath or covering. |
| Unshed | vb | Not t shed, pour out, or spill. 2. to not part or separate. |
| Unsheen | adj | not beautiful, lacking brightness, unresplendent. |
| Unsheet | vb | To take a bed-covering from; to uncover. |
| Unshell | vb | Take from a shell. |
| Unshelled | adj | To take a an exterior cover from a fruit, animal or object. |
| Unsheltered | adj | Not sheltered. |
| Unshending | pp | Not harming or injuring. |
| Unshent | adj | Not disgraced, ruined. 2. not shamed, subjected to discomfit or reproach. 3. uninjured, unharmed, unspoiled. |
| Unsherperded | adj | Not tended to, as a sherperd to a flock. 2. (lit and fig) in many senses: untended, unprotected, uncared for. |
| Unsheriff | vb | To deprive a city etc of a sheriff. 2. to lose one's position as a sheriff. |
| Unshewing | adj | Hidden, secret, esoteric. |
| Unshielded | adj | Without any defensive armour. 2. (fig): unprotected, left to fend for oneself, defenceless. |
| Unshifted | adj | ot rearranged, changed, altered, removed or reassigned. |
| Unshiftiness | n | Not having inclination, or given to, full of evasion. 2. wiyhout ruse or tickery. 3. not suggesting a deceptive or evasive character. |
| Unshimmering | adj | Unshining, glimmering, glittering. |
| Unshining | adj | Not bright or light, "as heavenly bodies so unshining". |
| Unship | vb | To take out or remove from a ship; to put on shore from a vessel. 2. to deprive of a ship; dismiss from a ship. 3. to admit of being detached from a ship. 4. to become detached. 5. of a horse, to throw, unseat a rider. 6. to unbalance, upset. |
| Unshiplike | adj | Not resembling or characteristic of a ship. |
| Unship-shape | adj | Not in good order, well-arranged, trim or tidy. |
| Unshirted | adj | Not wearing or possessing a shirt. |
| Unshirted | phr | "Unshirted Hell" - serious trouble, a bad time. |
| Unshivered | adj | Not prone to shake or tremble with cold, fear, excitement. 2. not trembling or quivering. |
| Unshod | adj | Of persons or the feet: having shoes or shoe not put on, or taken off; barefooted. 2. of horses: having cast off a shoe; or not furnished with shoes. 3. of horse's feet: not protected with an iron rim piece. |
| Unshoe | vb | To remove the shoes fro, as a horse. |
| Unshoe-the-horse | n | The plant: Moonwort. |
| Unshop | vb | To throw out of employment ("The Shop" - work or employment) |
| Unshorn | adj | Of cloth: not shorn, cut or cropped. 2. of person's hair: not cut. 3. of cornfields: not reduced or diminished; not deprived of something. |
| Unshot | ppl | Not fixed or left on. 2. not struck by a shot; not shot at. 3. grain not come into ear; not sprouted. 4. not shot out or deposited. |
| Unshouldered | adj | Not to take upon, bear, support or carry by the shoulder. 2.(fig.)- not to bear a burden or difficulty. 3. "the berries of the species had long, unshouldered bunches." |
| Unshowered | adj | Not moistened by a shower. 2. unwashed, unbathed, unshowered, hence: dirty and unclean in self-care. |
| Unshowy | adj | Not showy, flash or ostentatious. 2. invisible, unseen, out of sight. |
| Unshrinking | adj | Unhesitating, fearless. |
| Unshrinkingly | adv | In a fearless or unshrinking manner. |
| Unshriven | vb | Not shriven; not having received absolution from a priest. |
| Unshroud | vb | To remove the shroud from; expose. |
| Unshunning | adj | Unavoidable. 2. not keeping away from ( a place, person, object) from motives of dislike, fear or caution. |
| Unshut | adj | Not opened, undone or unlocked, as a door. 2. not shut; wide-open. |
| Unshutter | vb | To open the shutter of a window. |
| Unshy | n | Not bashful, un-retiring, not easily frightened, not timid or meek, secure, assured. |
| Unsibby | adj | Not related by family or kin. 2. unsibbed. |
| Unsicker | adj | uncertain, unsafe, insecure. |
| Unsickerly | adv | Unsafely, unsurely, uncertainly, insecurely. |
| Unsickerness | n | Uncertainty. |
| Unsifted | adj | Not sifted; not examined in detail, as evidence. |
| Unsight | phr | "Unsight Unseen" - sight unseen. |
| Unsighted | adj | Not sighted or seen. 2. prevented from seeing |
| Unsightful | adj | Invisible, not seen, not visible. 2. unhandsome, ugly, distasteful, disagreeable. |
| Unsightfully | adv | Invisibly. |
| Unsightliness | n | The state of being unpleasant to the sight. 2. |
| Unsightly | adv | Not pleasing or distasteful to the sight, unpleasing to the eye, or to look at; unhandsomely, ugly. 2. invisibly. 3. in an unsightly manner. |
| Unsilvered | adj | Not coated or treated with silver, as a mirror back. |
| Unsin | vb | To annul (a sin) by subsequent action. 2. to free (a person) from being a sinner. 3. to divest of the character of a sin. |
| Unsinew | vb | To render weak or feeble; to enervate. 2. to weaken the strength, power, resilience. |
| Unsinewed | adj | Not strong, feeble, nerveless. |
| Unsinewy | adj | "I do not praise the soft, unsinewy goodness of the P.M." 2. weak, unsupportive, lacking a mainstay. |
| Unsinful | adj | Obedience to divine law, religious or moral principle. 2. impeccable, probious, good (of behaviour). |
| Unsing | vb | "A thought once thought is never unthought or a melody sung unsung". |
| Unsinged | adj | Not scorched or burnt. |
| Unsinking | adj | To remain at the same level: not gradually sinking or gradually settling to a lower level, as "unsinking sand". |
| Unsinning | adj | Impeccable, perfect, without sin. |
| Unsister | vb | To deprive of a sister. 2. to denounce or reject one's sister. |
| Unsisterliness | n | The lacking of the quality of a sister. |
| Unsisterly | adv | Not sisterly; unbecoming to a sister. |
| Unsitting | adj | Unbecoming, unfitting. 2. not inclined to a sedentary position of state |
| Unskilful | adj | Lacking or not evincing skilfulness; awkward.. |
| Unskilfully | adv | In an unskilful manner. |
| Unskilfulness | n | The condition of being skilful. |
| Unskilled | adj | Lacking or wanting of skill, dexterity or knowledge. |
| Unslack | adj | Tight, taut, tense. 2. "my joints are yet nimble, my sinews unslack". 3. active, busy, vigorous. |
| Unslackened | adj | Not indolent, careless, or remiss. 2. not dull, sluggish or inactive. 3. active, busy. |
| Unslain | adj | Not put to death, not killed or murdered. |
| Unslaked | adj | Not made less active, intense or vigorous. 2. of thirst: not assuaged, quenched or allayed. 3. of wealth: desire: not achieved or satisfied. |
| Unsleep | vb | "Sleep once had cannot be slept again". |
| Unsleeping | adj | Unable to go to sleep or slumber. 2. vigilant, watchful, alert, tireless, awake. 3. "the eyes of God ever awake". |
| Unsleepliness | n | Sleeplessness; "insomnia". |
| Unsleepingly | adv | In a manner free of sleep; awakingly, vigilantly, alertly. |
| Unslept | adj | Not having slept. 2. not slept in. 3. not slept of. 4. deprived of sleep |
| Unslothful | adj | Not incline to laziness, indolence, slackness or idleness. |
| Unslothfulness | n | The state or quality of being unslothful. |
| Unslow | adj | Not slow, inactive, unalert, dull. |
| Unsmart | adj | Not acutely painful or hurting. 2. not sharp in pain of severely suffering. 3. not biting, stinging, prickling. 4. not alert of mind, thoughts, action. 5. not brisk, vigorous or active. 6. not neat or trim of appearance or dress. |
| Unsmelled | adj | Without odour or smell, smell-less; without offensive smell. 2. not scenty. |
| Unsmelling | adj | Not scented, odoured, or smelling. |
| Unsmiling | adj | Without a pleased or amused expression on the face. 2. without a pleasant or agreeable appearance or aspect. |
| Unsmilingly | adv | Of an unsmiling appearance. |
| Unsmilingness | n | The state or quality of being unsmiling. |
| Unsmitten | adj | Unstruck, untouched, unaffected. |
| Unsmoked | adj | Not smoked; not exposed to smoke. 2.not consumed by smoking. |
| Unsmoky | adj | Without or having little smoke, as "unsmoky fire". |
| Unsmooth | adj | Not smooth, not having a surface free from irregularities; rough, hrash. 2. of manners, behaviour: not pleaasant, affable, bland, plausible. 3. of sounds, speech: screechy, strident, harsh, raucous. |
| Unsmoothness | n | The state or quality of being unsmooth, not having a surface free from irregularities; rough, harsh. 2. of manners, behaviour: not pleaasant, affable, bland, plausible. 3. of sounds, speech: screechy, strident, harsh, raucous. |
| Unsmoothed | adj | Not made smooth, left rough. 2. of voltagewithany ripple left in it. |
| Unsmote | vb | Not struck, hit or smited. |
| Unsodden | adj | Not boiled.OE meanings: boiled, saturated with moisture, dull, stupid, expressionless; dull. |
| Unsoft | adj | Not hard, not soft or severe. |
| Unsoft | adv | Not softly; not severely. |
| Unsoftened | adj | Not yielding readily to touch or pressure. 2. staying hard. |
| Unsoftening | adj | Not softening or becoming subdued. |
| Unsoiled | adj | Not covered or treated with manure. 2. not blemished, marked or marred in any way. |
| Unsold | adj | Not disposed of by sale. |
| Unsome | adv | At variance; in a hostile way; unisome. |
| Unson | vb | To deprive of a son. 2. deprive of the character or state of a son. |
| Unsonlike | adj | Not like a son in character and behaviour. |
| Unsoothed | adj | Unflattered by assent. |
| Unsoothfast | adj | Not truthful or true. |
| Unsore | adj | Unsuffering of body by disease. 2. unpainful or aching. 3. without grief or sorrow. 4. without broken or inflamed skin. |
| Unsorrow | n | A state of feigning sorrow; saying sorry but not meaning it. |
| Unsorrowed | adj | Without mental pain or distress. |
| Unsought | pp | Not obtained by search or effort. 2. without being sought. 3. unassailed. 4. unexamined, unexplored. 5. unasked, without being requested, not resolved to, untried. |
| Unsoul | vb | To deprive of spirit or courage. 2.to make soul-less. 3. to deprive of the essential qualities of a soul. |
| Unsouled | pp | Deprived of a soul. 2. not endowed with a soul. |
| Unsoulish | adj | Not enjoying or having the spirit of a soul, as "he felt for a moment that he was living a miserably thin, formal, unsoulish life". 2. spiritless. |
| Unsound | n | Physical unsoundness. 2. malady, sickness, a wound, sore. 3. harm, distress, annoyance. |
| Unsound | adj | Of a person: not physically sound, unhealthy, unwholesome, diseased; suffering from wounds or injury. 2. not mentally sound or normal; not sane 3. morally corrupt or vitiated 4. not sincere or true. 5. wicked, evil. 6. of opinions, beliefs: not soundly based on fact, logic or reasoning. 7. lacking in solidity or firmness. 8. of sleep: broken or disturbed. 9. of substances, plants, fruit: not in a sound or good condition. |
| Unsound | phr | "Of Unsound Mind" - mad. |
| Unsoundly | adj | To act in a manner to hurt or harm; harmfully, injuriously. |
| Unsoundness | n | The quality of being physically, or materially unsound. 2.quality of being mentally unsound. 3. unwholesomeness. 4. quality of unsoundness in belief: not based on fact, priciples or good grounds. |
| Unsoured | adj | Not tart or acidic in taste. 2. not rancid or mildewed. 3. not bitter or extremely distasteful. 4. not morose or peevish. |
| Unsowed | adj | Unplanted of seed (so that it may grow); unsown. 2. of ideas, proposals, scheme not implemented. |
| Unsown | adj | Not planted. |
| Unspanned | pp | Not supported. 2. not covering or extending between two points. |
| Unspared | adj | Not spared, liberal or excessive. 2. without mercy, harsh, severe. |
| Unsparing | adj | Not sparing; liberal or profuse; excessive. 2. unmerciful; harsh; severe. 3. ungenerous, unlavish, unbountiful. 2. merciless, unrelenting, relentless |
| Unsparingly | adv | In an unsparing way: lavish, profuse; merciless. |
| Unsparingness | n | The state of quality of being unsparing. |
| Unsparkling | adj | Uneffervescent. 2. not gleaming or sparkling. |
| Unspeak | vb | "I will speak again which is unspoken". |
| Unspeak | vb | To remain unspoken or silent. 2. "I will speak again which is unspoken". |
| Unspeaking | pp | Unspeakable, ineffable, not speaking, unable to speak. |
| Unspear | vb | To free from being transfixed. 2. to open. |
| Unsped | pp | Not having succeed in an errand or effort. 2. not accomplished, not done or discharged; not brought in a successful result or issue. |
| Unspeechful | adj | Not worthy of speech and expression. "lighting up their land of pain and unspeechful expectations". |
| Unspeed | n | OE: poverty. 2. lack of good speed or success, misfortune, detriment, harm. 3. unprofitable labour, |
| Unspeedful | adj | Unprofitable, of no avail. |
| Unspeedy | adj | In OE: poor, indigent. 2. of land: barren, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, slow, sluggish. |
| Unspeer | n | An unmasking, unenquiry. |
| Unspeered | adj | Unasked; unenqiried or without enquiry. |
| Unspell | vb | Undo or dissolve a spell. 2. to free from a spell. 3. to decipher, read, understand. |
| Unspelling | n | The act or action of undoing or dissolving a spell. |
| Unspent | adj | Not expended or used. 2. not exhausted or used up. |
| Unspilled | adj | Not spilled. 2. not spilt. |
| Unspoken | adj | Not spoken or expressed in words. |
| Unspread | vb | Not spread out. |
| Unspring | vb | To burst, burst out, open. 2. to release from or detach by pressing a spring. |
| Unspringy | adj | Unspringy fluid, which presses as a weight not a spring. |
| Unsprung | adj | Not produced with a spring. 2. not constructed to be resistant. |
| Unspun | adj | Not yet spun or weaved. 2. untold or not yet related. |
| Unstaid | adj | Not fixed, permanent, settled in character. 2. not of sober or steady demeanour. |
| Unstaired | adj | Not having or provided with stairs. |
| Unstairness | n | The state of not having stairs. |
| Unstarched | adj | Not starched. |
| Unstathelfast | adj | Not strong or sound of foundation. |
| Unstayed | adj | Not propped or stopped up. 2. unstabled; not furnished or confined by stays. |
| Unstayedness | n | A state of lack of support. |
| Unstaying | adj | Not supporting or stabilizing. |
| Unstead | vb | Dislocate. |
| Unsteadfast | adj | Of persons, the mind etc. - not steadfast in conduct or opinion; inconstant, fickle. 2. not remaining in the same state. 3. liable to change or alternate. 4. not firmly established or fixed; readily moving or changing place; not firm or steady. |
| Unsteadfastly | adv | In a manner not firmly established or fixed. 2. not steadfastly in conduct or opinion. |
| Unsteadfastness | n | State or condition in life, fortune etc. of being unsteadfast. |
| Unsteadily | adv | In a unsteady manner. |
| Unsteadiness | n | The quality of not being firmly established or fixed. 2. |
| Unsteady | adj | Not steady in position; not fixed or secure. 2. not held or kept steady. 2. not steady or constant in respect of conduct or purpose; fluctuating, fickle, wavering. 3. marked or characterised by absence of steadiness or regularly; not regular, even of uniform. |
| Unsteady | vb | To deprive of steadiness. 2. to render unsteady. |
| Unsteadying | pp | Not steadying or being firmly fixed. |
| Unsteek | vb | To undo, unfasten, unopen. |
| Unsteel | vb | To make soft, open to feeling of kindness, as "why then should this enervating pity unsteel my foolish heart". 2. to deprive something of steel. |
| Unsteeled | adj | Softish, not hard, kindish. 2. without steel. |
| Unsteep | vb | To not soak in water. |
| Unsteeped | adj | Not soaked in water or another liquid |
| Unsteered | adj | Not guided or kept on course or direction, as the unsteered, storm-driven voyage of the crazy voyage". |
| Unstenched | adj | Not malodorous, smelly, offensive as "it is one of those pretty, clean, unstenched, uncontrolled places". |
| Unstep | vb | To not proceed forward by walking or taken a step. |
| Unstern | adj | Not severe, rigorous, displeased or austere. |
| Unstick | vb | To cause to be unstuck. 2. to take off from the ground, water. 2. the moment of take-off aeronautically. |
| Unsticking | n | The act or action of taking off aeronautically. |
| Unstiffen | adj | Not rigid, flexible, as in "the prospect of a few unstiffened rheumatic joints". |
| Unstiffening | n | The state of flexible, fliud, free as in "the sort of unstiffening of my long, dormant joints and muscles". |
| Unstill | vb | To disturb, distress, agitate. |
| Unstillness | n | Unsilence; unquiet; unhush. 2. the presence of motion. |
| Unstilled | adj | Agitated, distressed (by motion); unstilled. 2. distressed by hunger, upset by yearning etc. |
| Unstinged | adj | Not stung or pricked. |
| Unstinted | adj | Without cease of action; undesisted. 2. unlimited to a certain amount, number, share, or allowance, unrestricted. 3. not ending; unchecked. |
| Unstinting | pp | Unceasing, not desisting. 2. unlimiting, unending, unrestricting. |
| Unstintingly | adv | In a manner unceasing, restricting or limiting. |
| Unstirred | adj | Not stirred or giving way. 2. unmoving; still; inactive. |
| Unstirring | pp | Not stirring or giving way. 2. not moving, agitating. |
| Unstitch | vb | To undo the stitches of. |
| Unstitched | adj | Not pricked or punctured. 2. not suffering a sharp or sudden pain. 3. not sewn by a needle and thread; unsewed. 4. of a wound: open and unsutured. |
| Unstithe | adj | Weak, feeble, not strong. |
| Unstock | vb | To remove a ship from the stocks. 2. to dismount a gun; to remove a stock from a gun. 3. to deprive of livestock; deprive of goods. |
| Unstocked | adj | Not furnished with stock. 2. not provided with goods. 3. not stocked with animals. |
| Unstoken | adj | Not closed or shut; opened. |
| Unstolen | adj | Not stolen, robbed, pilfered etc. |
| Unstone | vb | To convert from a stony state. 2. to castrate. |
| Unstoniness | n | The lacking or absence of stone and stony ground. |
| Unstony | adj | Not with oor having stone. |
| Unstop | vb | To free from being closed or stopped up. 2. to become opened. 3. to pull or draw out a stop. 4. to unhinder or unstuff. |
| Unstopped | adj | Not stopped or obstructed. 2. of consonants, not stopped; capable of being prolonged; said of the consonants, said of (j)and (l). |
| Unstopper | vb | To take out the stopper from. |
| Unstopping | n | Not come to a standstill, going on, continuing as "the power of unstopping water". |
| Unstopple | vb | Not to close, stop or bung up. |
| Unstormed | adj | Not subjected to violent disturbance of the atmosphere. 2. fig. of affairs: not having a violent access or assault of troops on a place. |
| Unstow | vb | To take out of stowage. 2. to clear the hold of articles stored or stowed in it. |
| Unstowed | adj | Not stowed or filled, as ship with cargo. 2. lying loose in the hold or on deck, as cargo. |
| Unstreaked | adj | Unmarkeed, unstriped. |
| Unstreamed | adj | Not to, or fail to, stream school children according to their different abilities. |
| Unstreaming | n | The teaching of children in mixed ability groups. |
| Unstrenge | vb | To lose strength or to fail to strengthen . |
| Unstrength | n | The lack of strength, weakness, feebleness. |
| Unstrengthen | vb | To weaken, deprive of strength, make feeble, enfeeble, enervate. |
| Unstrengthenness | n | Enfeebling, as the unstrength of the State. |
| Unstretch | vb | To relax,strengthen. |
| Unstretching | n | Unslackeniing. |
| Unstrewed | adj | Not thrown or scattered, as " an empty field unstrewn with the bodies of the slain". |
| Unstricken | pp | Not struck, smitten, smote or affected bt something or someone. |
| Unstriking | adj | Unattractive; unimpressive: a scene of monotonous, unstriking beauty. 2. un-noticeable; unconspicuous: a unstriking lack of enthusiasm. |
| Unstring | vb | To relax or remove the strings of a lyre or a bow. 2. to undo the string of a purse fig. to spend money. 3. to detach from a string (fig.) 4. to detach from a union, sever, separate. 4. to unnerve or upset, trouble, dismay a person. 5. of the nerves: to release from tension. |
| Unstringed | adj | Not furnished with a string or strings. 2. not accompanied by music. |
| Unstringing | n | The action of unstringing, as "the fatigue .. and the worry has been unstringing". |
| Unstrong | n | Strong, feeble, weak. |
| Unstruck | adj | Not struck, hilted of affected. |
| Unstrung | adj | having the strings relaxed or removed (of a harp). 2. of a bow: not strung. 3. weak, relaxed, unnerved. |
| Unstuck | adj | Not stuck down or fixed. 2. airborne; take-off. |
| Unstuck | phr | "Come Unstuck" - fail; one plans do not work out. |
| Unstung | pp | Not stung or bitten by bees, wasps etc. 2. not disturbed or affected by revelation, as "unstung by knowledge". |
| Unsundered | adj | Not separated, parted, divided. |
| Unsunderly | adv | Inseparably. |
| Unsung | adj | Not sung; not uttered by singing; not celebrated by song or word. |
| Unsunk | adj | Not sunk or submerged. 2. not beaten down by adversity or isaster. |
| Unstuck | phr | "To come unstuck:: to come to grief. |
| Unsunned | adj | Not penetrated or reached by sunlight; not exposed or accessible to the sun. 2. not made patent or public. 3. not touched or affected by light or the heat of the sun (fig, also). 4. not coloured or tanned by the sun. 5. not lighted up by the sun. |
| Unsunny | adj | Not affected by the sun or sunlight. 2. fig. lacking human warmness or empathy, as an "unsunny face or look". |
| Un-sun-seen | adj | Devoid or deprived of sunlight or sunshine. |
| Unsunshined | adj | Lack of sunshine, as in "unsunshined England". |
| Unswaddle | vb | To free from, take off swaddling bonds (linen) or clothes. |
| Unswallowed | adj | Yet consumed (of food). 2. fig. not yet overwhelmed by adversity or a difficult situation. |
| Unswathe | vb | To unswaddle, to unwrap from linen. |
| Unswear | vb | To retract (something sworn or asserverate). |
| Unswearing | n | The act of retracting or asserverating. |
| Asweer | adj | Not lazy or unwilling. 2. not heavy or sad. |
| Unsweet | adj | Unpleasant, disagreeable, distasteful of a person. 2. not pleasant or sweet to the taste; distasteful. 3. not smelling sweetly. 4. unpleasant to the ear. 5. unattractive, not sweet. |
| Unsweetened | pp | Not sweetened. |
| Unswell | vb | To recover from a swollen state or injury. |
| Unswept | adj | That has not been swept off the wing of an aircraft; not swept back. 2. not having sweepback or sweep-forward. |
| Unswerving | adj | Steady, constant. 2. not turning side. |
| Unswervingly | adv | In an unswerving manner or way. |
| Unswilled | adj | Unwashed or unrinsed out. 2. not flowing freely. 3. not drunk greedily or excessively. |
| Unsworn | adj | Of persons: not subjected to, or bound by an oath. 2. not confirmed by, or sworn, as, an oath. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Un'understanding | adj | Not understanding, comprehending, perceiving, "The thoughtless un-understanding girl was gone, and a blushing woman stood ther in her stead". |
| Un'upbraided | adj | Uncensured, without rebuke, scolding or chiding. |
| Un'upbraiding | n | Uncensure, reprove, scold or chide. |
| Un'upbraidingly | adv | In a manner or way lacking censure, rebuke or scold. |
| Un'upheld | pp | Without support, sustain or backing, as "myself unmade, ungoverned, un'upheld". |
| Un'upright | adj | Unerected, unperpendicular, not prone or flat on own's back. 2. bending, lacking rectitude, without probity. |
| Un'uprightness | n | A state or quality of not being erect, perpendicular or prone. 2. without probity, rectitude or uprightness, as "sense of sin and own u-'uprightness". |
| Unuttered | adj | Not uttered or expressed. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Untailed | adj | Not furnished with a tail. 2. deprived of a tail. |
| Untaken | pp | Not taken by force; not made a prisoner; uncaptured. 2. not confiscated, stolen or plundered. |
| Untaken-away | adj | Remaining, not removed or carried away. |
| Untaken-down | adj | Not depressed or dampened in spirit. |
| Untaken-off | adj | Unsuccessful in idea, concept, product, fashion. 2. still earth-bound: not airborne. |
| Untaken-up | adj | Not accepted or embraced. 2. unreceptive to. |
| Untaking | n | Not overwhelmed or conquered. 2. undoing, reversing, as in "I have a wife there can be no untaking". |
| Untalely | adj | Indescribable. |
| Untalked | adj | Not discussed, broached, talked about. |
| Untall | adj | Not tall, short, small. |
| Untame | vb | To not tamed or made gentle. 2. to not domesticate or train. |
| Untamed | adj | Not tamed or subdued. 2. not tamed, wild, undisciplned, |
| Untamedness | n | (fig.) of affections: wild and unbridled. 2. untamed by degree: as in the breaking-in of a horse. |
| Untameness | n | The state or quality of not being tamed or domesticated. 3. untamedness. |
| Untanned | adj | Not subjected to tanning- convert skin into leather by steeping in an infusion of astringent bark. 2. not made brown by the sun or solarium exposure. 3. (colloq.) not thrash a person: : "to tan someone's hide". |
| Untaught | adj | Not enlighted or trained by teaching; uninstructed, ignorant. 2. of animals: not trained or tamed. 3. not imparted or acquired by teaching, hence: natural, spontaneous. |
| Untaughtness | n | The state of being untaught. |
| Untawed | adj | Not yet dressed or prepared, as wood, timber, leather etc. |
| Unteach | vb | To cause a person (a person) to forget or discard previous knowledge. 2. to undo previous knowledge or teaching. 3. to remove from the mind (something known or taught) by different teaching. |
| Unteaching | pp | The action of causing (a person) to forget or discard previous knowledge. |
| Unteam | vb | To unyoke, unhitch, unbridle. |
| Unteem | vb | To overburden, destroy. 2. to leave unemptied. |
| Unteemed | adj | Unemptied. |
| Untell | vb | To count back, days, years etc. |
| Untelling | adj | Innumerable, countless. |
| Unthank | n | Absence of gratitude or goodwill. 2. unfavourable thought or feeling. 3. ill-will, disfavour, displeasure expressed in actions and words. |
| Unthank | vb | To unsay or recall one's thanks to. |
| Unthank | phr | "To have unthank" - to convey displeasure or annoyance, offence or injury. 2. unwillingly, compulsorily against a person will or wish; without one's consent; also involuntary. |
| Unthanked | adj | Not thanked. 2. not received with thankfulness. |
| Unthankful | adj | Not received with thaks; ungrateful or characterised by ingratitude. 2. not very grateful or thankful; unacceptable, unappreciated, thankless, disagreeable. 3. inadequate, insufficient. 4. not rendering thanks; not feeling or exhibiting gratitude; unwelcomed. |
| Unthankfully | adv | Ungratefully. |
| Unthankfulness | n} | The state or feeling of ungratefulness. |
| Unthaw | vb | To not reduce to a liquid form; remain frozen. |
| Unthede | n | Stranger, foriegner, outsider. |
| Unthee | vb | To fail to thrive or be unsuccessful. |
| Unthew | n | A bad habit, custom, quality, a vice. |
| Unthewed | adj | Ill-mannered, wanton, unrefined, coarse. |
| Unthewful | adj | Unmannerly, unseemingly. |
| Unthick | adj | Thin. |
| Unthickened | pp | Not thickened, not dense. |
| Untheivish | adj | Not inclined to robbery or thievery. 2. honest, trustworthy. |
| Unthimble | vb | To rob or deprive one of their watch. |
| Unthink | vb | To remove from thought. 2. to annul or reverse by mental effort. 3. to retract in thought. 4. change the mind concerning. |
| Unthinking | n | Not having the power of thought. 2. lack, thoughtfulness, acre or attention; heedless, inconsiderate. |
| Unthinkingly | adv | Without thought or thinking; unreflectively. |
| Unthinkingness | n | Indifference, indolence, carefreeness. |
| Unthinned | adj | Not reduced, decreased or lessened. |
| Unthirsty | adj | Not thirsty or wanting of water. 2. uninquisitive, seeking or inquiring, as "Unthirsty for knowledge". |
| Unthole | adv | Unendurable. |
| Untholeful | adj | Intolerable. |
| Untholemood | n | Impatience, intolerance, unforbearance, intholing. |
| Untholemoodness | n | THe state or quality of impatience, intolerance, unforbearance. |
| Unthorny | adj | Without thorns; free of thorns, thornless. |
| Unthorough | adj | Not thorough, searching, scientific, detailed. |
| Unthought | n | An absence of thinking or thought. 2. disregard. 3. unexpectancy. |
| Unthought | adj | Not thought of, unexpected. 2. not regarded in a certain way. 3. unimagined, not devised in thought, unheedful, disregarded. 4. unpremeditated. |
| Unthought | phr | "Unthought of" - unthinkable, inconceivable (and likely to cause disapproval. |
| Unthoughtful | adj | Not taking thought. 2. unmindful or regardless of something. 3. unthinking, thoughtless. |
| Unthrall | vb | To emancipate, set free, liberate. |
| Unthralled | adj | Unemancipated, unfreed, unliberated. |
| Unthrasted | adj | Unbeaten, unthrashed, unflogged. |
| Unthread | vb | To remove thread or stitching from. 2. (fig.): to disentangle, unthrid, analyse, seek to solve. |
| Unthreatened | pp | Not annoy, vex, trouble. |
| Unthreatening | adj | Not threatening or aggressive; safe. |
| Unthrill | vb | To not piece, perforate, hole. 2. not be affected with a wave of positive emotion or joy. |
| Unthrone | vb | To dethrone, despose. |
| Unthrough-foreness | n | Impenetrability. |
| Unthrough-foresome | adj | Impenetrable. |
| Unthrown | pp | Not thrown or hurled |
| Unthumbed | adj | Not polluted by the touch of fingers or thumbs, such as a book. |
| Untidy | adj | Showing or characterised by lack of tidiness; not in good condition or order; of an un-neat appearance. 2. untimely, unseasonable. 3. poor (not excellent), unworthy, unseemly. |
| Untidily | adv | In a slovenly manner or way. 2. dressing in a dishevelled, neatless appearance. 3. unworthily, poorly, unseemingly. |
| Untidiness | n | The state or quality of being untidy in appearance, care or daily living. 2. of not good order, unseemingness, untimeliness. |
| Untie | vb | To loosen or undo, as a knot or knotted rope. 2. to release, set free, detach by undoing a cord or similar thing fastening. 2. to free from a confining or encircling cord, band etc. 3. to undo or unfasten a cord or knot. 4. to clear away a difficulty (a knot. fig). 5. to dissolve a bond or union. 5. to become loosened or untied. |
| Untied | adj | Not tied or restrained. 2. freed from confinement. 3. unfastened. |
| Untight | n | An immoral act or practice. 2. Unsolid, unfirm. |
| Until | prp | (First element may be O.N). till; to; as far as; as late as; up till. |
| Until | conj | Up to the time that; to the degree that. |
| Untilled | adj | Uncultivated, unworked, unlaboured upon, unobtained, untreated, uncured. |
| Untilward | prp | Toward(s). |
| Untimbered | adj | Not timbered. |
| Untime | n | (Also untimes)in an untime; at an unsuitable, improper or wrong time. 2. untimely occurrence, untimeous instance, a bad time, a calamity, an inclement season. 3. untimes, misfortune, affliction. |
| Untime | adj | Untimely, ill-timed. |
| Untimed | adj | Not timed, not regulated as by time. |
| Untimeless | adj | Untimely, not timeless or everlasting. |
| Untimeliness | n | The state or quality of being untimely. |
| Untimely | adv | Coming before the proper or natural time; premature. 2. of fruit - not properly ripened; immature. 2. of births, deaths etc.: premature, before the proper time; unexpected. 3. unseasonable (in respect of the time of year) of frost, blight: ill-timed, inopportune. |
| Untiming | n | Mishap, ill-fortune |
| Untiming | adj | Careless, heedless, regardless. |
| Untine | vb | OE: sharp, projecting; spec. of antlers. 2. to open; to separate, sever, 3. unsharp, unprojecting. |
| Untinned | adj | Of food: not contained or placed in tin. |
| Untired | adj | Not tired or exhausted, unwearied, not failing or giving out. |
| Untiring | adj | Not wearying or becoming fatigued. 2. of effort:continuing, persisting, enduring to the end. |
| Untithed | adj | Land or produce on which no tithe is levied. 2. not receiving tithes. |
| Unto | prp | Up to the extent of time that; until. 2. up to, as far as + to, on analogy with until. |
| Unto-come | n | Arrival, coming (to a place). |
| Unto-fore | adv | Before (sb., God), in the presence of. |
| Untold | adj | Not counted or reckoned. 2. not counted out or paid. 3. not enumerated or reckoned up, unaggregated. 4. uncounted, unreckoned because of the amount or number, immense, vast. 5. with pl nouns: the large numbers; numberless. countless, as in "untold millions". 6. unmeasured, unlimited. 7. not related or recounted. 8. not informed of the facts. |
| Untold | adj | That cannot be told, not told, revealed or described; inexpressible as " untold misery". |
| Untongue | vb | To deprive of (the use of) the tongue; to render speechless. |
| Untongued | adj | Destitute of a tongue; tongueless. |
| Untongue-freed | adj | Free from stuttering or hestitancy in speech. |
| Untoomly | adv | Harshly, hurriedly. |
| Untooth | vb | to extract or remove a tooth (or teeth). |
| Untoothed | adj | Not having or deprived of teeth. |
| Untoothsome | adj | Unpalatable, disagreeable. 2. unpleasant or unattractive to the taste. |
| Untoothsomeness | n | State or quality of being unpalatable or unpleasant to the taste. |
| Untop | vb | To deprive of a top, roof or any kind of covering. |
| Untopped | adj | Topless, uncovered. |
| Untorn | vb | Not pulled asunder by force. 2. not torn or lacerated. 3. not taken away by force. |
| Untoward | adj | Causing annovance or hindrance; vexatious. 2, not yielding readily, refractory, perverse. 3. uncouth, unbecoming, improper, froward, ill-disposed, awkward, clumsy, ungraceful, ill-suiting, adverse, unfavourable. |
| Untowardly | adv | Acting in annoying manner; hindering. 2. unbecomingly, improperly, unskilfully, awkwardly, clumsily, ungracefully, badly. 3. unluckily, unpropititiously (with a likelihood or suggestion of mishap or misfortune. 4. unsuccessfully, unfortunely. 5. rudely, roughly, forwardly. |
| Untowardliness | n | Disinclination to be accommodating or pleasant. 2. perversity, obstinacy. 3. lack of good progress or promise, esp. in respect to physical condition. 4. lack of appitude, awkwardness. 5. unpropitousness, adverseness. |
| Untowen | adj | Improper, disreputable, wanton, etc. 2. untaught, untrained, unmannered. |
| Untowenly | adv | Wantonly. |
| Untowenship | n | Wantonness |
| Untowned | adj | To be deprived or lacking a town, as in the people of "Sodom and Gommorrah". |
| Untread | vb | To retrace. |
| Untreading | n | The act of retracing. |
| Untree | vb | To deprive of trees and forests, etc. |
| Untreed | adj | Without or lacking trees. |
| Untrim | vb | To deprive of trimness or elegance. 2. to strip of ornaments. 3. to unbalance. |
| Untrimmed | adj | Not in good order or condition. 2. not carefully or neatly arranged or altered. 3. not made trim by cutting, pruning or otherwise reducing to shape. 3. not property balanced. |
| Untrimmness | n | The look or condition of being neatly arranged. 2. lacking good order or being properly arranged. 3. unbalanceness. |
| Untrodden | adj | Not trodden or stepped on. 2. not traversed; untraversed. 3. down-trodden, subjugated; subjected. |
| Untroddenness | n | The state or condition of not being walked on or traversed. |
| Untroth | n | Unfaithfulness, treachery. 2. wickedness, mischief. 3. unbelief, false troth or truth. 4. untruthful, dishonest, unfaithful, untrustworthy; lie-ridden. |
| Untrow | vb | To lack faith. |
| Untrowedness | n | Unfaithfulness. |
| Untrowful | adj | Unbelieving, dishonest, unfaithful. |
| Untrowing | adj | Faithless. |
| Untrowness | n | The quality or characteristic of unfaithfulness, treachery, wickedness. |
| Untrue | adj | Lacking truth; not true, not corresponding with fact. 2.not conforming to rule or standard. 3. not adhering to faith, pledge or duty, disloyal. 4. perfidious. |
| Untrueness | n | The fact or sate of being untrue. |
| Untruly | adv | Not acting or behaving in a manner of truth, adhering to faithfully to pledge, or duty. |
| Untrum | adj | Weak, ailing,ill. |
| Untrumness | n | The condition or state of being untrim. |
| Untruth | n | Unfaithfulness, lack of fidelity, loyalty or honestly. 2. unbelief, lack of faith, falsity, falsehood. 3. false or incorrect state. 4. inexactitude. |
| Untruther | n | One who utters untruths. |
| Untruthful | adj | Unbelieving, perfidious, untrue. 2. not true, not truthful, not veracious. |
| Untruthfulness | n | The quality or lack of being true, veracious, perfidious. |
| Unturf | n | Of earth or soil situated or found below the turf. |
| Unturf | vb | To dig up. |
| Untwilled | adj | Not woven or twilled. |
| Untwemed | adj | Undivided, inseparable. |
| Untwine | vb | To untwist, undo by untwisting or disentangling. 2. (fig). to unthread, dissolve, undo, part, destroy. 3. to detach, remove, release, extract by untwisting. |
| Untwining | n | The act or action of undoing, disentangling, undoing, parting by separating the strains or threads. |
| Untwined | adj | Unparted, undivided, unthreaded or unthreading. |
| Untwist | vb | Open from a twisted or spiralling state. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Unyark | vb | To undo or open a gate. |
| Unyeaned | adj | Unborn, not having given birth. 2. not pregnant. |
| Unyete | vb | To get to know; to become aware of. 2. to ascertain. 3. to observe a fact. 4. to perceive, observe (a person or thing); to catch sight of . 5. to learn the character of; to understand the meaning of. |
| Unyielding | adj | Not giving in; stubborn. |
| Unyoke | vb | To release from yoke. 2. to separate, part. 3. to become unyoked. 4. to stop work; cease. |
| Unyoked | adj | Not provided with or subjected to a yoke. 2. not wearing a yoke (also fig). 3. to set free from a yoke. |
| Unyolden | pp | Not yielding or surrendering. 2.unrequited, unavenged. |
| Unyoung | adj | Of advanced years, but young in mind and spirit. |
| Unyouthful | adj | Not youthful; aging. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Unwakened | pp | Sleeping, as "waters sleeping unwakened by the wind". 2. not wakened. |
| Unwakening | adj | Not rousing from sleep or awakening. 2. to keep sleeping not waking up. 3. unwatchful, unalert or vigilant. |
| Unwalked | adj | Unfulled (blankets). 2. not traversed by walking. 3. unrambled. 4. |
| Unwalking | adj | Not inclined to physical activity, esp. walking; as "I am so unwalking, that prospects are more agreeable to me, when I look at them through the window". |
| Unwall | vb | To deprive of, to free from or to demolish a wall. |
| Unwalled | adj | Without enclosing walls. |
| Unwallowed | adj | Not rolling about or from side to side. 2. not plunged or in degraded living. |
| Unwandered | pp | Of persons : not travelled or undertaken voyaging. 2. stable, settled, not wandering aimlessly about. |
| Unwaning | adj | Not growing less or decreasing. 2. remaining the same: not shrinking or growing smaller. |
| Unward | adj | Unprotected, unguarded, undefended. |
| Unwarded | adj | Unguarded, unprotected. |
| Unware | adj | Unaware: not conscious, lacking caution. 2. not on guard. |
| Unwary | adj | Incautious, not careful of actions: done incautiously. 2. unaware, ignorant. 3. without knowing it, in ignorance, innocently. 4. unforeseen, unknown. |
| Unware | adj | Giving no heed, not cognisant, as of something not specified. 2. carelessly, unmindful, in attentive, heedless. 3. without warning, unexpectedly. |
| Unwares | adv | Unexpectedly. 2. without premeditation; unwittingly. 3. suddenly. |
| Unwarely | adv | Incautiously, without taking heed. 2. without warning, unexpectedly. |
| Unwareness | n | Unwariness, incautiousness. |
| Unwarily | adv | Without heed or caution; not warily; in an unwary manner. |
| Unwariness | n | The quality or state of being unwary or taking no precaution against danger. |
| Unwarlike | adj | Peaceful; peace-loving; not warlike. |
| Unwarm | adj | Lukewarm, tepid, not cold or not warm. |
| Unwarm | vb | To grow cold; become lukewarm or tepid. |
| Unwarmed | adj | Not warmed. |
| Unwarming | adj | That not giving warmth. |
| Unwarn | vb | To fail to give warning to another or others. |
| Unwarned | adj | Not warned or fore-warned. 2. unannounced. 3. not guarded or protected. |
| Unwarning | adj | Without warning or premeditation. |
| Unwarp | vb | To uncoil, straighten out. 2. to restore from being warped or prejudiced. |
| Unwary | adj | Taking no precautions against accident or danger; esp. not realizing the necessity of such precautions; incautious. 2. incautious, not careful of actions: done incautiously. 3. unaware, ignorant. 4. without knowing it, in ignorance, innocently. 5. unforeseen, unknown. |
| Unwash | vb | To not wash or keep oneself clean. 2. to not launder one's clothes. |
| Unwashed | adj | Not washed; dirty. 2. not reached by the sea. |
| Unwashed | phr | "The Great Unwashed" - usually a derogatory reference to the lower classes (the mob) of former days or to less hygenic habits of our ancestors. 2. university students in western democracies of the 1960s and 1970s. |
| Unwashness | n | Condition of not being washed or washing oneself. |
| Unwatched | adj | Not watched. |
| Unwatchful | adj | Not vigilant, not wakeful, unalert. |
| Unwatchfully | adv | In an watchful manner. |
| Unwatchfulness | n | The state or condition of being unwatchful. |
| Unwater | vb | To drain of water. 2. to carry off water from. |
| Unwatered | adj | Not sprinkled, moistened or supplied with water. 2. not mixed with water; undiluted. 3. of land or a district: not provided with a natural spring of water. |
| Unwatery | adj | Not supplied with or containing water. |
| Unwaver | vb | Not to move one way or another. 2. to be certain and undecisive; show resolution; not vaccilate. 3. to not show signs of falling back or giving in. 4. to not flicker or gleam. |
| Unwavering | adj | Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakeable; firm, unbending, persevering"; steadfast, steady, even, unbendable, unfaltering, stiff, unshakable. 2. not showing abrupt or uneven variations. |
| Unwaving | adj | Not fluttering, moving up and down or side to side in the wind. 2. not having undulating shape or form. 3. flat, level, calm of a body of water. 4. not making a sweeping or undulating motion, as with a hand or flag. |
| Unway | n | A place without a way or ways. |
| Unwayed | adj | Not furnished with paths, ways or roads. 2. of horses: not accustomed to ways or roads, hence: restive, intractable. |
| Unweakened | adj | Not weakened or made less strong. 2. standing firm, resolute, steadfast. |
| Unweal | n | Unhappiness, distress. |
| Unwealful | adj | Unhappy, causing misfortune or distress, unhappiness. |
| Unwealfulness | n | Unhappiness, sadness, distressfulness. |
| Unwealsome | adj | Unhappy, distressed, misfortunate. |
| Unwealthy | adj | Not wealthy or rich, needy, struggling. |
| Unwealy | adj | Poor, unwealthy, needy, indigent. |
| Unweaned | adj | Not weaned, immature. |
| Unweapon | vb | To deprive of a weapon or weapons. |
| Unweaponed | adj | Not equipped with or bearing a weapon(s); unarmed. |
| Unwearied | adj | Not wearied or tired, or not tired out; also, not becoming weary, indefatigable. 2. quality, action, condition etc: marked by absence or abatement, unremittance. |
| Unweariedly | adv | In a manner indefatigably, unwearly, or not tired out. |
| Unwearily | adv | Without weariness. 2. in a manner weary. |
| Unwearying | adj | Not wearying or tiring. 2. that does not give or become weary, unremitting, untiring. |
| Unwearyingly | adv | Pursued tirelessly, sedulously, as "scientific research pursued in studious retirement. |
| Unweary | adj | Not weary, free from weary, unweariness, unwearied. |
| Unweary | vb | To restore from unweariness; to refresh or rest. 2. to relieve or ease oneself from something. |
| Unweather | n | Bad, inclement, rough or stormy weather. |
| Unweathered | adj | Not exposed to, or unaffected by the action of the weather or atmosphere. |
| Unweatherly | adj | Inclement. |
| Unweave | vb | To take out of a woven, intertwined or entangled state or condition; esp. to unravel or undo (a woven fabric). 2. to unintertwine the fingers. 3. to make clear by exposition; to expose, to disclose. 4. to become disentangled (fig)- " how wonderfully strange my fate unweaves". |
| Unweaving | adj | Disentangled, intertwined, unravelled. 2. "the sleep inducing unweavings. 3 "the unweavings of political combination". |
| Unweb | vb | To unweave, disentangle, unravel. |
| Unwebbed | adj | Unwoven, unweaved. |
| Unwed | adj | Of persons: not wedded, unmarried, single. |
| Unweddedness | n | The state of being unmarried or single. |
| Unweeded | Adj | Of ground: having or being covered in weeds. |
| Unweened | adj | Not thought of or imagined; unexpected. |
| Unweenly | adv | Unexpectedly, not imagined. |
| Unweeping | adj | Of person: tearless, without tears or sorrow "death days of unweeping eyes". |
| Unweeting | adj | Not knowing. |
| Unweetingly | adv | Unwittingly. |
| Unweft | adj | Unwoven, unweaved, not intertwined. |
| Unweighed | adj | Not weighed. 2. fig. not considered carefully. |
| Unweighing | adj | Thoughtless, inconsiderate. |
| Unweighingly | adv | "Frivolous and unweightingly business" - not full of thought, lacking depth and profundity. |
| Unweighted | adj | Remove the weight from (esp. a ski, by ceasing to press) |
| Unwelcome | adj | Not welcome or acceptable; unpleasing; unwelcoming. |
| Unwelcome | vb | To receive uncordially or accepting. |
| Unwelcomed | adj | Not welcomed or accepted with warmth or cordiality. |
| Unwelcomely | adv | Not with acceptance, with some fear or trepidation: "a rare moccasin was seen unwelcomely close to a school". |
| Unwelcomeness | n | State or quality of not accepting or greeting someone cordially. |
| Unwelcoming | adj | Having an inhospitable atmosphere; not welcoming; unfriendly. |
| Unwell | adj | Not well or in good health; somewhat ill, indisposed. 2. (euph): having menstrual discharge. |
| Unwellness | n | State or condition of being unwell or not in good health. |
| Unwemmed | adj | Spotless, pure, immaculate of persons, body, qualities. 2. not injured, hurt or scarred. 3. not physically spotted or stained; unblemished, flawless. |
| Unwemmedness | n | The state or quality of being spotless, pure, immaculate. 2. of condition: not injured, hurt, harmed or scarred. |
| Unwept | adj | Not weeping for; not mourned for; unlamenrted, as for a dead person. 2. of tears: unshed or not wept. |
| Unwet | adj | Dry, not wet, waterless or moisture-free. 2. of the eye: not suffused, tearless. |
| Unwetted | adj | Not wetted. |
| Unwhetted | adj | Not sharpened. 2. inactive, unbold, lacking courage. |
| Unwhited | pp | Unbleached or whitened. |
| Unwhitened | adj | Not whitened, as in "the unwhitened and unwhite-washed, mud and rough stone cottages of England". |
| Unwhole | adj | Not in good health, unsound, unhealthly, diseased, sick. 2. spiritually or manually unsure; of unsound. 3. of food: unwholesome. |
| Unwholeness | adj | Entireness, completeness. |
| Unwholesome | j | Detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" bad for, baneful, diseased, disgusting, foul, harmful, hurtful, loathsome, polluted, sickly, unhealthful, unhealthy, unsound. |
| Unwholesomeness | n | The state or condition of being unwholesome. |
| Unwide | adj | Narrow, confined. |
| Unwield | n | Feebleness, unwealness, impotence. |
| Unwield | vb | To manipulate or handle unskilfully. |
| Unwield | adj | Feeble, weak, impotent. 2. difficult, cumbrous. |
| Unwieldiness | n | State or quality of being feeble, weak, impotent. 2. difficulty in handling, unskilfulness, cumbersomeness. |
| Unwieldly | adv | Not wieldy; wielded with difficulty; not readily handled or managed in use or action, as from size, shape, or weight; awkward; ungainly. 2. bulky, unmanageable, clumsy. |
| Unwieldy | adj | Awkward to handle or move. 2. bulky, unmanageable. |
| Unwife | vb | To deprive a person of a wife. |
| Unwife-like | adj | Not like or resembling a wife. |
| Unwifely | adv | Not in the manner of a wife, as "unwifely frame of mind". |
| Unwight | n | An evil being or spirit: a fiend or monster; spec. the devil. |
| Unwild | vb | To tame. |
| Unwilful | adj | Not bent on having one's own way; not self-willed. 2. not resulting from the exercise of one's will. 3. not involuntary or intentional. |
| Unwill | n | To do against one's will. 2. something displeasing or undesired. 3. that which is against one's will or wishes. 4. one's dislikes or aversions. 5. the fact or condition of being displeased or offended; displeasure, unwillness. 6. to will or reverse of something one has willed. |
| Unwilled | adj | Displeased, undesired. 2. disliked, offended. |
| Unwilling | adj | Not willing; reluctant; loath; averse: an unwilling partner in the crime. 2. opposed; offering resistance; stubborn or obstinate; refractory: an unwilling captive. |
| Unwillingness | n | The property of being unwilling: reluctant, resaistance, stubborn, averse. |
| Unwilly | adj | Unwilling to do something. 2. averse, involuntary. |
| Unwily | adj | Not wily, artful or cunning. 2. simple, silly. |
| Unwimple | vb | To remove the wimple from; unripple, unfold. 2. smooth out; unplait. 3. to be honest, not hoodwink or deceive. |
| Unwin | n | Grief, sorrow, distress. |
| Unwin | adj | Grievous, |
| Unwind | vb | To wind off; to loose what has been wound. 2. to roll into a ball from a skein of wool, sick, etc. 3. to become unwound. |
| Unwinding | adj | Winding loose or being drawn from a thing that has wound. |
| Unwindow | vb | To deprive of windows. |
| Unwindowed | adj | Without windows, not having windows. |
| Unwine | n | Foe, enemy, opponent. |
| Unwindy | adj | Without wind, not blowing in a windy manner. |
| Unwine | n | An enemy or foe. 2. "The Evil One", the devil, Satan, shuck, the fiend. |
| Unwinged | adj | Not having wings; without wing. 2. wingless. 3. marked by an absence of wings; |
| Unwink | vb | Of the eye: to open the eye. |
| Unwinking | n | Characterized by watchfulness or vigilance. 2. not winking, never closing the eye; unwinkingly. |
| Unwinly | adv | Unpleasantly, sadly, sorrowfully. |
| Unwinning | adj | Unconciliatory. 2. unattractive. |
| Unwinnowed | adj | Of grain: not separated from chaff by means of the wind or current of air. 2. not examined as to separate good (value)from bad (valueless). 3. distinguished, sorted. |
| Unwire | vb | To remove the wire from. |
| Unwinter | vb | To divest or lose of the quality of winter. |
| Unwintry | adj | Not belonging to winter; not cold, frosty, brumal. |
| Unwisdom | n | The lack or absence of wisdom, ignorance, folly, stupidity. 2. an instance of folly. ignorance. |
| Unwise | adj | Lacking or deficient in (practical) wisdom, discretion or prudence. 2. indiscreet, imprudent, foolish. 3. not marked, distinguished or prompted by (practical) wisdom. 3. characterised by lack of sound judgement. 4. injudicious, out of one's senses, mad. |
| Unwisely | adv | Acting in a manner or way not showing wisdom: injudiciously, foolishly. |
| Unwiseman | n | A fool,simpleton, dolt, fool. |
| Unwiseness | n | Lack or absence or practical wisdom, foolishness, folly, impudence. |
| Unwish | vb | To retract something wished. 2. to stop wishing; to make an end of wishing; to wish not to become something to wish away or annihilate a wish. 3. to retract, cancel or abrogate a wish, choice etc. 4. to wish or desire a circumstance, situation not to be. 5. to seek or remove oneself from a particular class or category by wishing. 6. to unwish for. |
| Unwished | adj | Not wished for. |
| Unwishful | adj | Not having a wish for; not longing or yearning for. |
| Unwist | adj | Unknown to one; without it being known. 2. lacking knowledge or something. 3. unknowing, not knowing how. |
| Unwistful | adj | Unwishful, not longing. 2. not musing, pensive. 3. inattentive, unobservant, wistless. |
| Unwit | vb | To know not. 2. to be ignorant of something. 3. to deprive of wit or senses. |
| Unwit | n | Lack of wit or practical knowledge; ignorance, stupidity, imprudence, foolishness. |
| Unwithood | n | Folly, stupidity, foolishness. |
| Unwitch | vb | To free from witchcraft; to unchain. |
| Unwite | vb | Not to penalize or fine. 2. not to blame or reproach. 3. to not act guilty. |
| Unwithdrawing | adj | Not stretching back or away; unreceding. |
| Unwithdrawn | adj | Not drawn or taken away, not removed. 2. not taken back as an assertion or a promise, recall. 3. not to keep or abstract for use. 4. not to draw back or retire. |
| Unwithered | adj | Not to become limp or dry, as a plant when cut down or deprived of moisture. 2. not to waste, as flesh. 3. not to droop or languish. 4. not to abash, as by a scornful glance. |
| Unwithering | adj | Not to become limp or dry, as a plant when cut down or deprived of moisture. 2. not to waste, as flesh. 3. not to droop or languish. 4. not to abash, as by a scornful glance. |
| Unwithheld | adj | Not held back or restrained. 2. not kept back, not declined, granted. 3. not refrained or tolerated. 4. divulged |
| Un-with-it | adj | Not modern or updated. 2. languid of mind.. |
| Unwithholding | n | Frankness. |
| Unwithstood | vb | Not to withstand or hinder. 2. unopposed; not successfully oppose. |
| Unwitless | adj | Senseless, insensible. |
| Unwitness | vb | To not see with one's own eyes. |
| Unwitnessed | adj | Unobserved, not seen, not encountered. |
| Unwitship | n | Folly. |
| Unwitted | adj | Witless; unknown. |
| Unwitterness | n | Uncertainty. |
| Unwittily | adv | Not wittily. |
| Unwitting | adj | Having no knowledge or consciousness of a thing in question; unknowing, unconscious. 2. unintentional. |
| Unwittingly | adv | In an unwise, ignorant or foolish or unconscious manner; unwisely. |
| Unwittingness | n | Lack of knowledge, ignorance, realisation; unconsciousness. |
| Unwittish | adj | Ignorant, foolish, stupid, stultific. |
| Unwitty | adj | Lacking or deficient in wit; unintelligence, knowledge lacking, unwise, witless. 2. uninexperienced in something. 3. of actions, etc.: having by lack or absent of knowledge, senseless, foolish. 4. not witty or facetious. |
| Unwived | adj | Not having a wife or wives. 2. wifeless. |
| Unwiving | adj | Pertaining to celibacy; celibate. |
| Unwlap | vb | To free or release from a covering. |
| Unwoeful | adj | Free from pain, distress, trouble. |
| Unwoman | vb | To deprive of the quality or traits of a woman. 2. to remove from the category of a woman. 3. to unsex ( a woman): to remove the ovaries. |
| Unwomanlike | adj | Lacking a womanly demeanour, as "she cursed and swore in an unwomanlike manner". |
| Unwomanliness | n | In a manner or demeanour unlike a woman. |
| Unwomanly | adv | Not befitting a character of a woman. 2. inappropriate to womanly characteristics. 2. lacking the qualities or traits of a woman. 3. in a manner ubecoming a woman. |
| Unwomb | vb | To bring into the world, bear, give birth to. |
| Unwon | vb | To not abide at, dwell in, or live in. |
| Unwon | adj | Of women: not to successfully woo. |
| Unwonder | vb | To divest of the qualities of wonder. |
| Unwondering | n | A state divested of wonder. |
| Unwont | vb | To disappoint. |
| Unwont | adj | Unnusual, uncustomary. 2. of persons: strange in manner. 3. not wont, used, or accustomed to do something. |
| Unwonted | adj | Not according to wont or custom; unusual, uncommon. 2. not accustomed, unfamiliar. 3. not habitual, not commonly heard, seen, appearing, produced rarely or infrequently. 4. not made familiar by practice; unused or unacustomed to something. 5. going beyond ordinary limits. |
| Unwontedness | n | The state or quality of wont. |
| Unwontedly | adv | In a strange, unwontedly or unusual manner: unusually, uncommonly. |
| Unwoo | vb | To not woo earnestly or fully. |
| Unwooed | adj | Courted earnestly. |
| Unwooded | adj | Destitute of trees. |
| Unwoody | adj | Not made of wood. |
| Unword | vb | To deprive of words or speech. 2. to make speechless. |
| Unworded | adj | Incapable of being expressed in words; unutterable. 2. lacking words, unsaid. |
| Unwordy | adj | Not diffuse, prolixic or verbose,; concise. |
| Unwork | n | "The comfortable philosophy is the real life of this city of unwork". 2. not having the desire to work or be employed". 3. lacking the opportunity to work. |
| Unwork | vb | To undo or detach from something. 2. to spoil, mar or destroy. 3. to release from an intertwined condition. 4. to undo by contrary action. |
| Unworked | adj | Not wrought into shape. 2. not exploited or turned to account. |
| Unworking | adj | Something not working or impractical, as in unworking dilettantism. |
| Unworkmanlike | adj | Unlike a workman; unworthy of a good workman. 2. badly executed or finished. |
| Unworkmanly | adv | In a manner uncharacteristic of a good woman. |
| Unworld | vb | To deprive of qualities of the world. 2. to deprive of a share in wordly activities. |
| Unworldliness | n | Having an unworldly character. |
| Unwordly | adv | Of a type transcending or exceeding what is usually found or experienced in the world. 2. of persons: activated by other than wordly or sordid motives; spiritually minded; not motivated by wordly values or interests; spiritually minded. |
| Unworn | adj | Not affected by attrition or any similar continuous action. 2. not exhausted, spent or used up. 3. not showing the affects of anxiety. |
| Unworried | adj | Not uneasy in the mind, not anxious of something. 2. to manage or progress despite trails or difficulties. |
| Unworship | n | Absence of honour, respect or reverence, dishonour, disgrace. 2. act or instance of disgrace or dishonour, a slight. 3. lack or absence of divine worship. |
| Unworship | vb | To deprive of honour or dignity. 2. to treat with indignity, disrespect or irreverence. |
| Unworshipful | adj | Unworthy or devoid of esteem or honour. 2. characterised by lack of divine worship. |
| Unworshiply | adv | Irreverently. |
| Unworshipped | adj | Not worshipped or adored. 2. not held in reverence or esteem. |
| Unworshipping | n | The act of treating with disrespect and disrespect. 2. habitually neglecting the worship of God. |
| Unworth | n | Wanworth, worthlessness. 2. lack of worth, merit or deserve. 3. unworthiness. |
| Unworth | adj | Of persons, things: Undeserved, contemptous. |
| Unworth | vb | To treat a person or a thing disparagely or with disdain. 2. to slight, despise. 2. to dishonour something or someone. |
| Unworth-hood | n | Contempt. |
| Unworthily | adv | Without being fit, worthy or qualified. 2. without having sufficient merit or ability; unmeritedly. |
| Unworthiness | n | Contempt, scorn, unworthiness; worthlessness. |
| Unworthy | adj | Not worthy or deserving. 2. unmerited, unfit, unqualified. |
| Unworthy | vb | To dishonour, do discredit to, asperse, vilify. |
| Unwound | vb | To not wound or harm. |
| Unwounded | adj | Not wounded, not shot, unhurt, unharmed or injured. |
| Unwoven | adj | Not woven, intertwined or thread together. 2. unwebbed, unweaved; not united. |
| Unwrast | adj | Of a poor, worthless, or vile quality or condition. 2. miserable, of little account. 3. of persons: addicted to evil, wicked or vice-ridden. 4. of actions: characterised by wickedness, evil, initiquious. 5. untrustworthy, unreliable. |
| Unwrastness | n | Wickedness, evil, badness. |
| Unwrastly | adv | In a weak or feeble manner. 2. poorly, weakly, ineffectively. 3. basely, wickedly, evilly. |
| Unwrathful | adj | Without wrath; calm, placid, lacking rage or vehemence; not angry. |
| Unwrathfully | adv | In a manner calm, tranquil; not in rage or vehemence. |
| Unwreak | vb | Not to inflict or exact vengeance. 2. to not satiate. 3. to bridle or not give free expression to, as a feeling or passion. |
| Unwreaked | adj | Not revenged, avenged, requited or unavenged. |
| Unwreathe | vb | To free from a wreathed, writhen or intwined condition; to disentangle, untwist. 2. to divest of a wreathe. |
| Unwree | vb | To free a person from accusation; to clear.?????? |
| Unwreathed | adj | Wreathless. |
| Unwrench | n | An evil or base trick; artifice or turn. 2. a vice or sin. |
| Unwrench | vb | To open or detach by wrenching. |
| Unwrest | vb | To undo, detach or dislocate by wresting or wrenching. |
| Unwried | adj | Not twisted or wrested. |
| Unwrinkle | vb | To smooth out wrinkles from. |
| Unwry | vb | To not bend to one side; not contorted or askew. 2. not made by twist-ing or contorting the features, as an unwry smile." 3. not deviating from that which is right or proper; not perverted. 4. not warped: as a course or an interpretation. |
| Unwrinkle | vb | To free from wrinkles; make smooth or iron out; take out ripples. |
| Unwrinkled | adj | Smooth, flat, even, unincreased, unwavey. |
| Unwrite | vb | To cancel or abrogate the writing of (of something). 2. to annul or rescind a writing. |
| Unwrithe | vb | To not twist with violence. 2. to not distort the body, face in pain. |
| Unwriting | adj | Not able to write; illiterate. 2. not incline to write. |
| Unwritten | adj | Not reduced to writing. 2. not written down, oral, traditional. 3. having no writing upon it, blank. |
| Unwritten | phr | "An Unwritten Law" - unwritten law refers to the law based upon custom, usage, and judicial decisions. It is distinguished from the enactments of a legislature, orders or decrees in writing. Although an unwritten law is not enacted in the form of statute or ordinance, it has got legal sanction. 2. a long established custom that is difficult to break or disobey. |
| Unwronged | adj | Not offending or causing distress, sorrow or disappointment to others, as "unwronged and causing no cause for tears". |
| Unwrongful | adj | Not characterized by wrong or injustice. 3. not injurious or unjust. 3. lawful. legal. |
| Unwrought | adj | Not beaten or hammered into shape by tools. 2. not yet worked, moulded, made, fashioned or formed. 3. not made with delicacy, not elaborated carefully. 4. not visited upon or afflicted by. 5. of a saw: not planed or wrought. |
| Unwrung | adj | Not wrung; not galled. |
| Unwrung | phr | "His Withers are Unwrung" - he is unaffected by the accusation. |
| Unwry | vb | To uncover oneself, to make naked. 2. to reveal, disclose, make known (some hidden thing, fact, sin. etc.) 3. to coomunicate or divulge a matter. |
| Old English | n | Modern English |
| Up | adv | To a higher place; aloft, on high. 2. on one's legs. 3. out of bed. 4. spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position;above the horizon; fly up; upwards, upwards upwardly. 5. to a higher intensity; equal in skill; well versed in, competent. 6. nearer to the speaker. 7. to a more central or a more northerly place. 8. to a later time; from childhood upward". |
| Up | adj | Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level; "the sun is up". 2. out of bed; astir. 3. getting higher or more vigorous. 4. extending or moving toward a higher place. 5. (usually followed by `on' or `for')" he had to be up for the game. 6. open, as in "the windows are up". 7. (used of computers) operating properly. 8: used up; exploited. |
| Up | vb | Raise; up the ante. |
| Up | pfx | (In adjectives, verbs, and related nouns) higher; upward; toward the top of something upland upturned upgrade uphill. |
| Up | phr | "Be All Up With" - completely; sore and finished. 2. disastrous, hopeless. |
| Up | phr | "Be One Up On (somebody)" - have an advantage over. |
| Up | phr | "Come Up Against" - contend with, face or confronted by difficulties. |
| Up | phr | "Come Up with" - give, offer. |
| Up | phr | "Do Up" - make improvements or repairs. |
| Up | phr | "Drive Up the Wall" - make somebody very annoyed, frustrated. |
| Up | phr | 'End up" - finally arrive; become. |
| Up | phr | "I Have Had It Up to Here" - annoyed greatly by some difficulty or problem. |
| Up | phr | "Its All Up with" - there is no hope for; the situation is hopeless. |
| Up | phr | "It's is Up to Him" - it is for him to take the initiative or decide what is to be done. |
| Up | phr | "Not up to Much" - not very good, well. |
| Up | phr | "On the Up-and-Up" - steadily improving. |
| Up | phr | "Something is Up" - something unusual or undesirable is afoot or happening. |
| Up | phr | "Up Against" - close to; in or in contact with.. |
| Up | phr | "Up Against It" - in great difficulties. |
| Up | phr | "Up Against the Wall" - fig. in serious difficulties. |
| Up | phr | "Up Along" - along in a particular or specified direction. 2. in the world at large; towards a large community outside an isolated region. |
| Up | phr | "Up and" - abruptly, suddenly, unexpectedly, up and leave. |
| Up | phr | "Up and At'em" - ready to confront, compete against, face an opponent, foe or adversary. |
| Up | phr | 'Up and Coming" - likely to add to the progress, success, popularity one has begun to achieve. |
| Up | phr | "Up and Doing" - having risen from bed and being active and busy. |
| Up | phr | "Up and Down". - alternately on or to a higher and lower level or plane; (also in a fig. context). 2. with variation and vicissitude of further success or failure. 3. hither and thither; to and fro; along, backwards and forwards. 4. here and there; at various points; esp. at several of diverse places throught a district or region; in every direction. 5. upside down; topsy-turvy. 6. vertically - in or into vertical position in every respect, entirely, thoroughly; completely, top to tail. 7. altogether, in all. 8. in varying health or spirit. |
| Up | phr | "Up and Down the Land" - in various places throughout a particular country. |
| Up | phr | "Up and Down the Stairs" - with repetitious, and or tiring, use of stairs from one level to another. |
| Up | phr | "Up and Leave" - suddenly, unexpectedly, abruptly or disconcertingly leave. |
| Up | phr | "Up and Running" - in a working condition, operating, going. |
| Up | phr | "Up End" - to set on end, as a barrel or ship. 2. to affect drastically or radically, as tastes, opinions, reputations, or systems. 3. to defeat in competition, as in boxing or business. 4. to become upended. 5. to place the body back-end up, as a dabbling duck. |
| Up | phr | "Up for" - liable to, having to submit to. 2. under consideration for, available for office, appointment. |
| Up | phr | "Up Hill and Down Dale" - up and down hills. 2. confronting obstacles, on an arduous journey. 3. fulfillment of an arduous task. |
| Up | phr | "Up in Arms" - actively rebelling. |
| Up | phr | "Up in Years" - advanced in age; getting old. |
| Up | phr | "Up On" - informed about a matter or subject. |
| Up | phr | "Up Oneself" - (slang) smug, arrogant, self-important, self-satisfied. |
| Up | phr | "Up One's Sleeve" - (usually of a fact or reply held back until the right and decisive moment to reveal it; hidden, in reserve. |
| Up | phr | "Up or Out" - the fact of forcing employess not promoted in a timely fashion to trminate employment. |
| Up | phr | "Ups and Downs" - alternating pattern of good and bad periids in one's life; the vicissitudes. |
| Up | phr | "Up Someone's Street" - perfectedly suitable to someone matching someone's interests and abilities. |
| Up | phr | "Up Sticks" - (slang) go to live elsewhere or to another residence. |
| Up | phr | "Up the Pole" - (slang) crazy, eccentric. 2. in difficulty. |
| Up | phr | "Up to" - able to perform do or undertake; fit or qualified; capable of. 2. until. |
| Up | phr | "Up to No Good" - misbehaving, mixed up or embroiled in some nefarious activity. |
| Up | phr | "Up to One's Elbows" - very busy. |
| Up | phr | "Up to One's Neck in Something" - closely involved in or with something. |
| Up | phr | "Up to Somebody" - the duty, responsibility of. |
| Up | phr | "Up to Something" - able to do something, or involved in something dishonest or mischievous. |
| Up | phr | "Up to Speed" - fully informed; or au fait with. |
| Up | phr | "Up to the Hilt- completely. |
| Up | phr | "Up to the Mark" - reaching the usual or normal standard. |
| Up | phr | "Up With" - on a level with in regard to knowledge or skill. 2. expressing support for a stated person or thing. |
| Up | phr | "Up with Somebody" - at the same level, equal to somebody, or be troubling somebody. |
| Up | phr | "Up with the Lark(s)" - awake and out of bed very early in the morning. |
| Up | phr | "Up with You" - get up, get out of bed. |
| Up | phr | "Up Yours" - expressing contemptuous defiance or rejection. 2. be quiet, go away, drop dead. |
| Up | phr | "Well Up on Something" - well informed, knowledgeable or au fait about something. |
| Up | phr | "Whats Up (with him/her)!" - what is going on?". 2. what is the matter? 3. what is troubling him/her? |
| Upaheven | adj | Uplifted, lifted up. |
| Up-along | adv | Along in a particular or specified direction. 2. in the world at large; towards a large community outside an isolated region. |
| Up-anchor | vb | Take up anchor; prepare to sail. |
| Up-and-comer | n | Person who is up-and-coming: promising, making progress,beginning to achieve success |
| Up-and-coming | adv | Active, alert, wide awake, engaged, promising, making progress, beginning to achieve success. |
| Up-and-comingness | n | The state or condition of being up-and-coming. |
| Up-and-downer | n | A violent quarrel or argument. |
| Up-and-over | adj | Opened by being raised and pushed back into a horizontal position. |
| Up-and-running | adj | Functioning, in operation. |
| Up-and-under | n | In Rugby and Australian Rules football, a high kick to allow time for team mates to reach the point where the ball will come down. |
| Upbear | vb | To bear up, support, sustain; also to lift up. 2. to raise up; support. |
| Upbearer | n | Supporter, sustainer. |
| Upbearing | n | The action of carrying, raising, taking or holding up; supporting, sustaining. |
| Upbeat | n | A mood optimistic or positive; a development pleasant or pleasing, etc. 2. a blooming, a blossoming. |
| Upbeat | adj | Cheerful, happy, hoprful, optimistic, positive, lively, vigorous; blooming, blossoming. |
| Upbeatness | n | The state or condition of being upbeat. |
| Upbind | vb | To bear up; sustain. |
| Upblaze | vb | To leap up in flames; to shoot upwards. |
| Upblow | n | Inflation. |
| Upblow | vb | To inflate. |
| Upblown | adj | Inflated, puffed up. |
| Upborne | adj | Borne or carried upwards, as by the wind. |
| Upbraid | vb | To scold, rebuke, reprove severely, chide. 2. to charge with something wrong or disgraceful. 3. to voice reproach. |
| Upbraider | n | One who upbraids. |
| Upbraiding | n | In a reproaching, scolding, rebuking, reproving, in a chiding manner. |
| Upbraiding | adj | Reproachful. |
| Upbraidingly | adv | In a Reproach, ccolding, rebuking, reproving, chiding |
| Upbreak | n | An eruption or outbreak. 2. a breaking-up or dissolution. |
| Upbreak | vb | To break out; break open; to begin to speak. 2. to force or make a way upwards or to the surface. |
| Upbreathe | vb | Exhale, breathe in and out. |
| Upbreed | vb | To bring up, nurse, rear. |
| Upbring | vb | To bring up or forth; to utter. 2. to bring or rear. 3. to bring forth or produce. 4. to raise, exalt. |
| Upbringing | n | Action of bringing up. 2. action of bringing up a young person; rearing or training. |
| Upbuild | vb | Build up (lit); construct. |
| Upbuilding | n | The act of building up. |
| Upburst | n | An upward burst out or outbreak. |
| Up-by | adv | Up there an in a particular place. |
| Up-cast | n | The act of casting up; throwing up, an upward throw. 2. in mining, a shaft through which air leaves a mine. 3. upthrow (geology). |
| Up-cast | adj | Cast, turned or thrown upwards. |
| Upcome | n | Ascent, way-up. 2. outward appearance of a person. 3. final or decisive result, yield, produce, outcome. |
| Upcome | vb | To spring up, rise up. |
| Upcoming | adj | Of the relatively near future; as inthis coming Thursday; approaching, coming, forthcoming; about to be, already in sight, at hand, brewing, climbing, close, close at hand, coming, drawn to, foreseen, forthcoming, gathering, going to happen, in the offing, in the wind, leaping, looming, lowering, lurking, near, near at hand, nearing, oncoming, overhanging, rising, springing, that will be, threatening, to come, upgoing, uphill, uphillwards, uprising, upward, upwith. |
| Updraught | n | Upward moving current of air, updraw; updraft. |
| Updraw | vb | To pull out of the ground. 2. to draw up to a height or from a lower place. 3. to bring up because of the mind. 4. to bring up, as to be in the rear. |
| Up-and-downs | n | Time of good and bad fortune or health; vicissitudes. |
| Up-end | n | The end that has been tipped up. |
| Up end | vb | To set on end, as a barrel or ship. 2. to affect drastically or radically, as tastes, opinions, reputations, or systems. 3. to defeat in competition, as in boxing or business. 4. to become upended. 5. to place the body back-end up, as a dabbling duck. |
| Up-ended | adj | Set on end. 2. tipped-up; topsy-turvy |
| Upfield | adv | In or to a position nearer to an opponent's end of a football field. |
| Upfill | vb | To fill up. |
| Upfind | vb | To invent. |
| Upfinder | n | A deviser |
| Upflow | n | A flowing up. |
| Upflow | vb | To flow up. |
| Upfold | n | An anticline. |
| Upgang | n | An ascent, an acclivity. 2. the act of ascending, ascension. 3. an upward path or way. |
| Upgather | vb | To gather up, collect together. |
| Upgathering | n | The act or action of gathering or picking up, as in a marvellous upgathering of information. |
| Upgathered | adj | Collected, picked up, gleaned. |
| Upgive | vb | To give up; resign, abandon, deter, avow. |
| Upgiven | adj | Surrendered, resign. |
| Upgiver | n | One who furnishes information or particulars. |
| Upgiving | n | The surrender, abandonment, declaration, presentment. |
| Up-go | n | An ascent, rising, mounting. |
| Up-go | vb | To ascend, mount, go up. |
| Up-going | n | The action of going up; ascending, mounting. |
| Upgrow | vb | To grow up; fig. to increase. |
| Upgrowth | n | The fact o process of going up. 2. the process of origination; development. |
| Uphang | vb | To suspend, hang up. |
| Upheap | vb | To pile up, heap up, mass, collect, accumulate. |
| Upheaped | adj | Collected, accumulated, piled. |
| Unheaping | n | An addition to the full measure, accumulation, ascension. |
| Upheave | vb | To throw up lit. and fig.) 2. to lift forcefully from beneath. 3. to heave or lift up from beneath; to raise. |
| Upheaving | n | The act of lifting forcefully from beneath. |
| Uphebbe | vb | To raise up, exalt. |
| Upheld | vb | To keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; continue, uphold, carry on, bear on, preserve. 2. stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals. 3. support against an opponent; uphold, maintain. 4. to hold up; to lift on high; to elevate. 5. to keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain. 6. to aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as, to uphold a person in wrongdoing. |
| Uphelm | vb | To put the helm to windward. |
| Uphight | vb | To exalt, raise up. |
| Uphill | adv | Against difficulties; as in uphill battle. 2. upward on a hill or incline; as in this street lay uphill; upwards on, or as on, towards a hillside; as, to walk uphill. |
| Uphill | adj | Sloping upward, inclining, rising. 2. ascending; going up; as, an uphill road. 3. attended with labor; difficult; as, uphill work. |
| Uphill | n | The upward slope of a hill. |
| Uphilt | vb | To thrust in (a sword, etc) up to the hilt. |
| Uphoard | vb | To hoard up; accumulate obsessively. |
| Uphold | vb | To confirm or maintain a decision etc. of a matter. |
| Upholder | n | One who confirms or maintain a decision etc., of a matter. |
| Upholding | adj | Confirmed, maintain or hold to a decision. |
| Uphoven | ppl | Past particle of upheave. 2. upheaved. |
| Upkeep | n | Maintenance in good condition; or repair, also in cost of such. |
| Upkeep | vb | Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; care,
maintenance. 2. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of sub-sistence; sustenance, sustentation, sustainment. 3. to support. |
| Upkeep | n | The act of keeping up, or maintaining; maintenance or support of persons, organizations, or objects such as machinery, by providing a location, repairs, and consumable items when necessary. 2. the cost of providing upkeep. |
| Upkeeping | adj | Maintaining; keeeping in order or repair. |
| Upland | n | High-lying districts, located in interior of a land. 2. an elevated area. |
| Upland | adj | Rustic, rural, country. 2. characteristic of the country; of rustic form or make. 3. lying inland: in the interior. 4. hilly, mountainous; flowing down from higher ground; downward flowing. |
| Uplander | n | An inhabitant or nature of an upland districts. |
| Uplandish | adj | Rustic; out-of-town, outlandish, foreign. 2. of bees: wild. 3. |
| Uplandishness | n | The state or fact pertaining to, or situated in rural areas. 2. the quality of being rustic, boorish, uncivilized, unsophisticated. 3. the state or quality of being mountainous or wild. |
| Uplean | vb | To lean against something. |
| Upleap | vb | To leap with. |
| Uplift | n | The act or instance or being raised. 2. the raising of part of the earth's surface. 3. morally or spiritually elevating influence.4. support the bust etc from a garment |
| Uplift | vb | To raise, uplift or elevate or stimulate morally or spiritually. 2. |
| Uplifted | adj | Raised, elevated or stimulated morally, emotionally or spiritually. |
| Uplighter | n | Light placed or designed to throw illumination upwards. |
| Upload | n | The transfer of data esp. from a peripheral system to a larger storage device or system. |
| Upload | vb | To transfer data esp. from a peripheral system to a larger storage device or system. |
| Uploader | n | One who transfers data esp. from a peripheral system to a larger storage device or system. |
| Uploading | n | The process of transfering data esp. from a peripheral system to a larger storage device or system. |
| Uplock | vb | To lock up. |
| Uplook | n | An upward look or glance. |
| Uplying | adj | Upland. |
| Upmake | vb | To make up for a defect, lack or deficiency. |
| Upmaking | n | That makes up for a effect or lack. 2. seeking acquaintance or intimacy. |
| Upmanship | n | One-upmanship. |
| Upminded | adj | Upbeat, positive, progressive. |
| Upmost | adj | See "Uppermost". |
| Upness | n | The quality of being elevated or raised. 2. |
| Up-nim | vb | To take up. |
| Up-niming | n | The act or action of taking up. |
| Upon | prp | On; - used in all the senses of that word, with which it is inter-changeable. "Upon an hill of flowers." 2. about, above, after which, against, anent, apropos of, as for, as to, atop, by, by dint of, by means of, by way of, headed for, hereby, hereinafter, herewith, of, in re, in virtue of, of, on, on top of, over, over against,speaking of, thanks to, thereby, therewith, through, to, toward, towards, up, up against, upon which, whereat, whereby, wherefore, whereon, whereto, whereunto, whereupon, wherewith, wherewithal, with. |
| Upon | phr | "Upon a Stound" - in a moment, within a short time, within the hour. |
| Upon | phr | "Upon My Word" - certainly, truly, my God! |
| Upon | phr | "Upon One's Speed" - at speed, moving swiftly, rapidy, speedily. |
| Uponland | adv | In the country; as opposed to the town, rustically. |
| Uppe | vb | To display or make manifest. 2. to bring to notice. 3. to make known. |
| Upper | adj | The topmost one of two. 2. higher in place or position. 3. superior in rank or accomplishment. 2. being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature |
| Upper | n | The higher of two berths: the upper berth. 2. piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot. 3. a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression; amphetamine, pep pill, upper, speed. 4. the upper leather for a shoe; a vamp. |
| Upper | phr | "Down On One's Uppers" - extremely needy or poor; with very money. |
| Upper | phr | "Get the Upper Hand" - the superiority; the advantage, as "have the upper hand." |
| Upper | phr | "Get Under Hand." - dominate or take control of. |
| Upper | phr | "Keep a Stiff Lip" - remain calm and emotional (in adversity). |
| Upper berth | n | The top berth in a ship, train, sleeping-car, cabin, where two bunks a or beds are built one above the other. |
| Upper hand | n | Control. |
| Upper House | n | The higher house in the legislature, esp. the "House of Lords." |
| Uppermost | adj | Highest place, highest, or highest rank. 2. predominant. |
| Uppermost | adv | At or to the highest place or most prominent position. |
| Upper-ten | n | Short for the 'Upper Ten Thousand' and first used by American journalist (N. P. Willis d. 1867) in speaking of the New York wealthy, nobility, aristocracy, cream of society, or elite. |
| Upper works | n | The part of the ship that is above the water when fully laden. |
| Upper world | n | The atmosphere. 2. heaven. 3. this world; the earth; -- in distinction from the underworld. |
| Upping | n | Manifestation, a making-known. 2. an end, issue or upshot of a matter. |
| Uppish | adj | Colloquially: overly conceited or arrogant; stuck-up, uppity, persnickety, bigheaded, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches. 2. proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority. 3. affected, brash, conceited, forward, high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, overweening, presuming, pettish, proud without a cause, pushing, putting on airs, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-important, snobbish, stuck-up, uppity |
| Uppishly | adv | In an uppish manner. |
| Uppishness | n | A state or instance of being uppish, arrogant, assuming. |
| Up-plow | vb | To plow up, break up by plow |
| Up-pluck | vb | To pukl up; pluck up., deracinate. |
| Up-put | n | The power of secretion. |
| Up-putter | n | One who raises, erects or builds up. |
| Up-putting | n | The act of bulding, erecting or setting up. 2. the act or gesture of accommodating or lodging someone. |
| Uprear | vb | To raise up, elevate, exalt. 2. to raise up in dignity, exalt. 3. bring up, tend to. |
| Upreared | adj | Excited in feeling, angry, elevated. |
| Uprend | vb | To pull up, uproot. |
| Upridged | adj | Raised up in ridges. |
| Upright | adj | In a vertical position; not sloping; an upright post, un-sloped. 2. of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; good, just; morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways; comformable to moral rectitude. 4. upright in position or posture; bolt upright, erect, vertical. 4. in an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; an upright tree. 5. stretched out face upward; flat one's back. |
| Upright | n | A vertical structural member as a post or stake. 2. a piano with a vertical sounding board. 2. something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. 3. (basketwork) a tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins. 4. (football) the vertical part of a goalpost, especially the part above the horizontal bar; as, a field goal directly between the uprights. |
| Upright | adj | Erect, vertical. 2. of a person's behavior, upright, strictly honorable or honest. 3. of a picture or book, greater in height than breadth. 4. of a piano with vertical strings |
| Upright | phr | " Be Bolt Upright" - exactly perpendicular. |
| Uprightly | adv | In a just or upright way or manner. 2. in strict operation of justice. 3. honestly or with rectitude. 4. sincerely, justly. |
| Uprightness | n | The position of being upright and vertical. |
| Uprise | n | Resurrection. 2. rising or dawning of the Sun. 3. act of rising from bed. 4. the rising to a higher level, ascent, the beginning of an ascent. 5. ascent in power and dignity. 6. rise in wealth and importance. 7. carry into existence or notice. |
| Uprising | n | A rebellious revolt. |
| Uprist | n | Resurrection, the rising up from the dead. 2. the rising from the Sun; sunrise. 3. the act of rising from bed. |
| Uproar | n | A tumult, a violent disturbance. |
| Uproar | vb | To create a violent disturbance. |
| Uproarer | n | One who creates a violent disturbance. |
| Uproarish | adj | Somewhat or rather violent or tumultuous. |
| Uproarishly | adv | In an uproarish, violent or tumiltuous manner. |
| Uproot | n | An uprooted tree or plant. |
| Uproot | vb | To pull a plant up from the ground. 2. displace a person from accustomed position. 3. eradicate destroy. 4. move away from one's accustomed location or home. |
| Uprooted | adj | Eradicated. |
| Uprootness | n | The state, condition of severance from one's natural origins. |
| Uprush | n | An upward rush, esp. psychologically, from the subconscious. |
| Ups and downs | n | Rises and falls; vicissitudes. 2. alternate good and bad fortune. |
| Upset | n | OE: to cause to sit, put in some place; fix firmly. The act of upsetting, or the state of being overturn, displaced, unfastened |
| Upset | vb | To become upset. To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her. 3. to overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument; upset the situation. 4. to set up; to put upright. |
| Upset | phr | "Upset One's Applecart" - spoil a plan or arrangement. 2. disrupt the normal pattern of events. 3. disprove a theory. |
| Upseted | adj | Oppressed. |
| Upsetness | n | The state or quality of being upset. |
| Upsetter | n | On who upset; disturbs, turns over, etc. |
| Upsetting | n | The act of upsetting, disturbing or overturning something from its usual place. |
| Upsettingly | adv | In an upsetting manner; distressingly. |
| Upshift | vb | Move to a higher gear in a motor vehicle. 2. to increase a penalty. |
| Upshift | n | A shift to a higher level, such as frequency of growth. |
| Upshifter | vb | A process, algorithm, etc that shifts something to a higher level or frequency. |
| Upshoot | vb | To grow up, to send or raise up. |
| Upshot | n | An end, conclusion, or termination. 2. climax or completion of something; result, final issue or conclusion (of some course of action). 3. the upshot of: at last; in the end. |
| Upshutter | n | A shutter (of a shop, etc.). |
| Upside | n | The highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk"; top, top side, upper side. 2. the upper side; the part that is uppermost. 3. the benefits; the positive features; -- said of a situation or event that has both positive (good) and negative (bad) aspects. |
| Upside-down | adv | "Upside down." Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down, literally, up as down. With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy. |
| Upside | phr | "Turn Upside down." Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down, literally, up as down. With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy. |
| Upside-Down Land | n | Australia (informal); Land Downunder; Downunder. 2. (informal) the supposed state of mind of someone whose sense of reality is the converse of what is true, or whose actions seem to imply that. |
| Upside-downwards | adv | The upper side underneath or downwards. 2. inverted or downwards. |
| Upsides | adv | By the side of; alongside; on a level with; alongside of; on an equal or superior footing,. 2. "To be upsides with" - to be even with. |
| Upsides | phr | To be on equal terms with; to be quits. |
| Upsight | n | View, inspection. 2. height, as viewed from below. |
| Upsighted | adj | Having eyes which cannot readily look downwards. |
| Upsitten | adj | In active, indifferent, callous. |
| Upsitting | n | Inactivity, indifference. 2. the act of sitting up again after an illness. 3. the time when a woman first sits up after confinement. |
| Upspeak | vb | To bring to speak, or speak up. |
| Upspring | n | The rising of the Sun; dawn of the day. 2. action of springing into existence. 2. being of growth of development; ongoing, generation. |
| Upspring | vb | Of plants: to spring up; grow. 2. to arise up or come into being. 3. to ascend, spring up; give rise to. 4. to leap upwards; to start or get to one's feet. |
| Upspring | adj | Upstart, newly arisen or come to; parvenual. |
| Upstairs | adv | A floor above; upstairs, up the stairs, on a higher floor. 2. with respect to the mind; "she's a bit weak upstairs". 3. up the stairs; in or toward an upper story. |
| Upstairs | adj | On or of upper floors of a building; "the upstairs maid"; "an upstairs room" downstairs. 2. being above stairs; as, an upstairs room. |
| Upstairs | n | The part of a building above the ground floor; "no one was allowed to see the upstairs" |
| Upstairs | phr | "The Man Upstairs" - God. |
| Upstairs-downstairs | n | Denoting social contrast between employer and domestic servant, worker, hired help etc. |
| Upstanding | adj | Standing up. 2. strong and healthy. 3. honest or straightforward. |
| Upstart | n | A deep impression made by horse's foot in clayey soil or ground, which holds water. |
| Upstart | vb | To upstay. 2. to sustain by material support; to prop. 2. to sustain, support. |
| Upstartle | n | Startlement, awake into action. |
| Upstartle | vb | To cause to rise up in a startlement. |
| Upstartled | adj | Startled, aroused into action |
| Upstep | n | An upward shift of tone between syllables or words of a tonal language. |
| Upstep | vb | To apply an upward shift of tone between syllables or words of a tonal language. |
| Upstir | n | Commotion, disturbance. |
| Upstir | vb | To arouse, to excite. |
| Upstirring | n | An excitement or insurrection of the people. 2. a stirring up, stimulation, incitement, encouragement. |
| Upstraight | adj | Erect, upright. |
| Upstream | adv | Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current. 2. toward the source or against the current; upriver. 3. in the direction against a stream's current. |
| Upstream | adj | Difficult, as in " I do not wish any upstream measures in the supply of funds". |
| Upstreet | adv | Towards the higher part of the street. |
| Upstretched | adj | Stretched upwards. |
| Upstroke | n | Upshot, end or conclusion. 2. stroke delivered. |
| Upswarm | vb | To rise in a swarm. 2. to cause to rise ina swarm. |
| Upsty | n | Ascension of Christ. |
| Upsty | vb | To rise up, mount, ascend. |
| Upstying | n | The act of ascending, ascension, rising up, mounting. 2. a swelling up. |
| Up-sun | n | The time between sunrise and sunset. 2. the time betwen sunrise and sunset; dawn, aurora. |
| Upsweep | n | An upward movement or motion with a long, sweeping course. 2. a raising or lifting up. |
| Upsweep | vb | To move in an upward movement or tend. 2. to raise or lift up. |
| Unswept | adj | of the hair swept or combed up to the top of the head. 2. curved or sloped upwards. |
| Unswimming | adv | Swimming upwards against the tide. |
| Upswing | n | A upward movement or trend, such as an economic ; a period of improvement in a trading activity. |
| Upswing | phr | "On the Upswing" - with an upward movement or trend. |
| Uptail | n | A jovial fellow; revellers. 2. a woman: "a little, pretty uptail". |
| Uptalk | n | In linguistics, speech that has a strong intonation at the end of the sentence, as if it were a question. |
| Uptalk | vb | To use speech that has a strong intonation at the end of the sentence, as if it were a question. |
| Uptake | n | The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating); consumption, ingestion, intake. 2. a process of taking up or using up or consuming. 3. understanding; apprehension |
| Uptake | vb | To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.] |
| Uptake | n | "Slow on the Uptake" - slow-witted, mentally unalert. |
| Uptear | vb | Pull up by the roots; or from the foundation, to rend, tear up. |
| Up-there | n | Above-the-earth; in heaven; spec. with relation to God. |
| Upthrow | n | The action of casting upwards. 2. outburst or manifestation. |
| Upthrow | vb | To cast up the eyes. 2. to burst out. 3. to manifest. |
| Upthunder | vb | To send up a noise like thunder. |
| Uptie | vb | To tie up, fasten. |
| Uptight | adj | Being in a tense state; edgy, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, strained, stretched tight, stuffy, taut, traditionalist, under a strain, uneasy, unrelaxed. |
| Uptime | n | Time when a computer or similar device is "up" or able to function. |
| Up-top | n | Above deck; uptop. 2. fig. in a position of authority or influence. 3. the brain; uptop. |
| Up-top | phr | "It's All Up-top" - the brain and the ability to think. |
| Up-to-then | phr | Before a given point in time; until then. |
| Up-town | adv | Toward, to or in the upper part of town, to go uptown, as opposed to go downtown. |
| Up-town | adj | Of or located in the upper or higher part of a town; "uptown residential areas". 2. situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown, also the more prosperous salubrious or wealthlier part of a town or city. |
| Up-town | n | A residential part of town away from the central commercial district. |
| Upward | adv | See 'Upwards' |
| Upward | phr | "Upward of" - higher than or in excess. |
| Upward-bound | adj | Headed for success and prosperity. |
| Upward-lightning | n | In astronomy, meteorology, an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, in which the lightning bolt projects straight into the upper atmosphere; blue starter, elve. |
| Upwardly | adv | In an upwards direction; upwards. |
| Upwardness | n | Tendency or proclivity to rise to mount upwards. 2. the quality of suggesting upward movement. 3. the quality of being upward; relative altitude. |
| Upwards | adv | Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; up, upward, upwardly] 2. to a later time ; "from childhood upward"; up. 3. a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; - opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. 4. In the upper parts; above. 5. yet more; indefinitely more; above; over. 6. upward of, or upwards of, more than; above. |
| Upwarp | n | In Geology, a broad surface elevation, an anticline. |
| Upwaxen | pp | Increasing, growing to adulthood. |
| Upway | n | Ascent. 2. "a hopeless, dangerous decision, as "the barred up-way (upway) is to a virgin's bed." |
| Upways | adv | In an upward direction, upwards. |
| Upwell | vb | To well up, as a spring. |
| Upwelling | n | An upward movement from a lower source. 2. the oceanographic phenomena that occurs when strong, usually seasonal winds push water away from the coast, bringing cold, nutrient deep waters up to the surface. |
| Upwind | vb | To fly up. 2. to finish up, complete. 3. to wind, coil or roll up something. 4. to raise or hoist by winding. 5. to become coiled up. 6. to wind upwards. |
| Upwind | adv | Contrary to or against the course of, or against the wind. 2. occurring in a direction against the wind. |
| Upwind | adj | Against the direction of the wind. |
| Upwinding | adj | That winds upwards. |
| Upwing | adv | To soar or fly up; fly above, to rise up or above. |
| Upwith | adv | In an upwards course or direction. 2. in an upwards course or direction. 3. ascending or rising against; having an upward inclination. 4. tendency or sloping or rising. |
| Upwreathe | vb | To rise up with a curling motion, to curl up as smoke does. |
| Upwreathed | adj | That rises up with a curling motion, curling up as smoke does. |
| Upyield | vb | To deliver up; to resign. |
| Old English | n | Modern English |
| Uthwite | n | One who knows; a wise person, a sage. |
| Utmost | adj | Of the greatest or highest degree, quantity, or the like; greatest: of the utmost importance. 2. being at the farthest point or extremity; farthest: the utmost reef of the island. |
| Utmost | n | Also, uttermost. the greatest degree or amount: "the utmost that can be said; The restaurant provides the utmost in cuisine". 2. the most or best of one's abilities, powers, etc.: "He did his utmost to win the match". 3. the extreme limit or extent: "His tolerance was taxed to the utmost". |
| Utmostness | n | "With all that earnestness of threatening, that may cause in a man the utmostness dread". 2. the state or condition of the greatest or highest degree, amount, quantity or importance. 3. state of being at the farthest point or extremity. |
| Utter | adj | Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative; "utter nonsense"; arrant, complete, everlasting, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, 2. complete; "came to a dead or utter stop". 3. outer. "Thine utter eyen." 4. situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the centre; outer. [Obs.] 5. complete; perfect; total; entire; absolute; as, utter darkness. 6. peremptory; unconditional; unqualified; final; as, an utter refusal. |
| Utter | vb | To articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise; express, verbalize, give tongue to. 2. express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words ; "She let out a big heavy sigh"; emit, let out, let loose. 3. express in speech; "She talks a lot or utter of nonsense"; talk, speak, mouth, verbalize. 4. put into circulation; "utter counterfeit currency" 5. to put forth or out; to reach out. 6. to dispose of in trade; to sell or vend. [Obs.] 7. hence, to put in circulation, as money; to put off, as currency; to cause to pass in trade; often used, specifically, of the issue of counterfeit notes or coins, forged or fraudulent documents, and the like; as, to utter coin or bank notes. 8. to give public expression to; to disclose; to publish; to speak; to pronounce; to deliver; give forth; issue; liberate; discharge; pronounce. |
| Utterer | n | An organism that can utter vocal sounds; a vocaliser. 2. someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins. 3. someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone esp. garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; speaker, talker, verbalizer. |
| Uttering | n | the crime of knowingly tendering or showing a forged instrument or counterfeit coin to another with intent to defraud. |
| Utterless | adj | Incapable of being uttered or utterable. 2. incapable of being expressed or described; inexpressible. 3. speechless, not being able to be said. |
| Utterly | adv | Open, manifest, absolute, extreme, final. |
| Uttermore | adj | More outward, remote, farther removed, exterior. |
| Uttermore | adj | Outermost, farther out or off, remotest. 2. greatest in extent, context. 3. extreme, last in time, final. 4. end, issue, extreme or farthest limit (in time). |
| Uttermost | adv | another term for utmost. 2. greatest, maximum, greatest possible, highest, most, most extreme, greatest amount of; |
| Utterness | n | The condition or quality of being utter, absolute or complete. 2. absoluteness. |
| Utterward | adv | Outside, outwardly externally. |
| Old English | n | Modern English |
| Us | prn | The objective case of we, used as a direct or indirect object: "She asked us the way". 2. informal. (used in place of the pronoun we in the predicate after the verb to be): It's us! 3. informal.(used instead of the pronoun our before a gerund): She forgave us spilling the beer on the floor. |
| Us-ness | n | The fact of being or feeling united in mind, feeling of purpose; the fact of forming a unity. "There is a terrific feeling of "us-ness" in the team. This has the effect of buttressing and reinforcing the "me-ness." of me (insistently indidividual) as part of intensified us-ness of us (compellingly corporate.)" |
| Usself | adv | Towards us. |
| Usward | n | Ourself; ourselves; usselves. |
| Old English | n | Modern English |
| Uver | adj | That is higher or loftier in position; upper, over. 2. later, after, future. |
| Uver hand | n | Over hand or the superiority or mastery. |
| Uvermore | adv | Higher up, above, over. |
| Uvermost | adj | Uppermost, highest. |
| Uverward | adv | Upper, higher, forming the upper part. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| V | n | When oldest Latin words were adopted into Teutonic languages; such words beginning with 'v' appeared in O.E. as 'w'. |
| Vane | n | Fane. 2. a weather vane. 2. a blade, plate, sail, etc., in the wheel of a windmill, to be moved by the air. 3. any of a number of blades or plates attached radially to a rotating drum or cylinder, as in a turbine or pump, that move or are moved by a fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air. 4. a person who is readily changeable or fickle. 5. any fixed or movable plane surface on the outside of a rocket providing directional control while the rocket is within the atmosphere. 6. a similar plane surface located in the exhaust jet of a reaction engine, providing directional control while the engine is firing. |
| Vat | n | A large container, as a tub or tank, used for storing or holding liquids: a wine vat. 2. a preparation containing an insoluble dye converted by reduction into a soluble leuco base. 3. a vessel containing such a preparation. |
| Vat | vb | To put into or treat in a vat. |
| Verse | n | Partly from Old English fers; a turn of the plow, a furrow, a line of writing, partly, from Old French vers; both, from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”). 2. a metrical composition in general |
| Verse | vb | To make or compose verse. |
| Versecraft | vb | The crafting or writing verse. |
| Versemonger | n | A writer of verse; versesmith, versewright. |
| Vinew | n | OE. moisture, mold, moldiness, mildew. |
| Vinewed | adj | Mildewed, moisture-filled, moldy. |
| Vixen | n | OE fyxe, feminine of fox fox (compare fyxen: a female fox. 2. an ill-tempered, malicious, tempermental or quarrelsome woman; a bitch, virago, she-devil, hell-cat. origin: 1375–1425. 3. an ill-tempered or quarrelsome woman. 4. racy or salicious woman; a vamp. |
| Vixenish | adj | Of or pertaining to a female fox. 2. resembling a vixenin disposition, ill-tempered, sharpness.. |
| Vixenishly | adv | In a vixenish matter. |
| Vixenishness | n | State or quality of being a vixen |
| Vixen-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a vixen. |
| Vixenly | adj | Resembling a vixen in disposition: illnatured, ill-tempered. |
| Vixenly | adv | Shrewly, with scold, of a virago, harpy, termagantly, crossly, illnaturedly. |
| Old English | n | English |
| Warth | n | A shore, strand, in modern uasge, "a flat meadow , esp. one close to a stream, a stretch. |
| Wade | vb | |
| Wader | n | |
| Watersmoke | n | The Eynd orWatersmoke, as it is called in Norfolk is a remarkable phenomenon, occurring mostly between spring and autumn with a peculiar suddenness |
| Weedgrown words | n | Slang, cant, argot. |
| Weedspeak | n | Slang, argot, cant. |
| Wildfire | n | A huge disastrous conflagration in forest or bushland; esp. in places like California(wildfire) and Australia (bushfire). |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Wade | vb | To walk through water or, by extension any substance more resistant than air, as mud, sand etc. 2. to go, proceed; walk through. 3. to pass or cross, as a river by walking on the bottom. 4. to proceed slowly or laboriously; (wade through a lengthy document). |
| Wade | n | The act of walking through. 2. a ford, wath, wathstead. |
| Wade | phr | "Wade Into Somebody/ Something" - without hesitation attack or tackle somebody or something with vigor. |
| Wade | phr | "Wade Out Of" - to escape from. |
| Wade | phr | "Wade Through" - move or proceed slowly and laboriously through with some task. 2. walk through some thick liquid or substance which reaches some way up one legs. |
| Wade | phr | "Wade Through Blood" - slaughter. |
| Wader | n | One who wades through. 2. a wading bird, such as the stork, crane etc. |
| Waders | n | High water-proof boots, as worn by anglers and others. |
| Wading | n | The action of wading. |
| Wading-bird | n | Any long-legged waterbird that wades. |
| Wadset | n | Probably from OE phr. - to wedde settan: put to pledge, deposit a pledge. |
| Wag | n | A joker, mischief-maker, a funny fellow. |
| Wag | vb | OE: wagian? - to oscillate, swing, shake, stir, move quickly from side to side or to and fro, sway, totter, waw. 2. to dangle on the gallows: to be hanged, swing. 3. to move the tongue from side to side, and up and down in talking. 4. to move animatedly in talk and gossip, said of the tongue. 5. to move at a regular pace; to get on with, to move on with it. 6. to waddle. 7. to play truant. |
| Wag | phr | "Tail Wagging the Dog" - a minor aspect with the disproportionate effect on a major aspect. |
| Wag | phr | "Tongues Wag" - there is talk. |
| Wagging | n | The act or motion of wagging; as "a wagging of the head." |
| Waggish | adj | Somewhat swinging from side to side. |
| Waggishness | n | The state or quality of being waggish. 2. sportiveness, jocularity, mischief. |
| Waggly | adj | Unsteady. |
| Wag-on-the-wall | n | A pendulum clock. |
| Wagsome | adj | Waggish, incline or prone to waggery. |
| Wagship | n | Waggery, waggishness. |
| Wagtail | n | A small bird of the genus Motacilla. whose tail wags continually. |
| Wain | n | Car or chariot; fig. often applied to the Four Gospels, symbolized as the four-horsed chariot of the Apocalypse. 2. (a threshing instrument with (four) wheels. |
| Wain | n | "The Wain" - a group of seven bright stars: the constellation called the "The Great Bear" (Ursa Major)- more fully "Charles (Carl) his Wain". 2. "The Lesser Wain": similarly-shaped stars in the "Little Bear" : ("Ursa Minor") |
| Wain | vb | To transport in or with a cart or carriage, cart. 2. to carry, bring, convey. 3. to bring a report of. |
| Wain-and-Horses | n | "The Wain-and-Horses" - Ursa Major: "Bright Arcturus" - (The Plough); "Showery Hyads" - (The Rain); "Ursus Major" - (Great Bear); and the "Wain" (The Cart). |
| Wain-bote | n | The allowance of timber which a tenant had the right to cut down or fell for the repair of his wains; wainbote. |
| Wainer | n | A driver of a wain, waggoner, a wainsman; wainer. |
| Wainful | adj | As much as a wain could hold: wainful. |
| Wain-rope | n | A rope fore securing a load on a cart or wagon. |
| Wainwright | n | A wain or wagon-builder; wainwright. |
| Waist | n | Late Middle English: apparently representing an Old English word from the Germanic root of wax or waestm. A girdle, under garment. 2. the part of the body in humans between the ribs and the hips, usually the narrowest part of the torso. 2. the part of a garment covering this part of the body. 3. blouse ( see definition 2). 4. the part of a one-piece garment covering the body from the neck or shoulders more or less to the waistline, especially this part of a woman's or child's garment. 5. a child's undergarment to which other articles of apparel may be attached. 6. the middle part of the upper deck. |
| Waistless | adj | Having no waist. |
| Waistline | n | The line of the waist, between the ribs and the hips; in dressmaking, the line at which the skirt of a dress meets the waist. |
| Wake | vb | To become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up ). 2. to become roused from a tranquil or inactive state; awaken; waken: to wake from one's daydreams. 3. to become cognizant or aware of something; awaken; waken. 4. to be or continue to be awake. 5. to remain awake for some purpose, duty, etc.: I will wake until you soon. 6. to rouse from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up. 7. to rouse from lethargy, apathy, ignorance, etc. 8 . to hold a wake for or over (a dead person). 9. to keep watch or vigil over. |
| Wake | n | A watching, or a watch kept, especially for some solemn or ceremonial purpose. 2. a watch or vigil by the body of a dead person before burial, sometimes accompanied by feasting or merrymaking. 3. a local annual festival in England, formerly held in honor of the patron saint or on the anniversary of the dedication of a church but now usually having little or no religious significance. 4. the state of being awake: between sleep and wake |
| Wake | phr | "Be a Wake-up Call" - be alert or aware. |
| Wake | phr | "Wake the Dead" - create a din, disturbingly or excessively loud. |
| Wake | phr | "Wake Up" - become conscious after a sleep. 2. realize, become aware of, something important; be a wake-up call. |
| Wake | phr | "Wake Up on the Right Side of the Bed" - to begin the day feeling happy and positive. |
| Wake | phr | "Wake Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed" - to begin the day feeling unhappy and uncomfortable. |
| Wake | phr | "Wake Up to Something" - to realize a fact or it's significance. |
| Wake-a-day | n | Of life etc.; such as one wakes up to each day that is experienced by ordinary people; regular as in "wake-a-day world": every day life; every day existence; conscious wake-a-day world. |
| Wakeful | adj | Remaining awake, especially at the ordinary time of sleep; not sleeping or sleepy. 2. watchful, alert. 3. unable to sleep; restless, suffering from insomnia. 4. arousing from or as from sleep. |
| Wakefully | adv | In a watchful, vigilant, alert manner. |
| Wakefulness | n | The state of being wakeful: awake rather than sleepy, sleepless, vigilant, alert, watchful. |
| Wakeless | adj | Without awakening, unbroken, uninterrupted, unfitful sleep. |
| Wakeman | n | A guard, watchman. |
| Waken | vb | Become awake, arouse from sleep, wake up, rise, spring up. |
| Wakener | n | A person or thing that wakes or arouses. 2. one who awakes or is awakened. 3. an alarm attached to a clock. |
| Wakeness | n | The state of being awake; one's waking hours. |
| Wakening | n | The action of the verb: the wakening or arousing or being aroused from sleep or torpor. |
| Waker | n | One who stays awake or abstains from sleep. 2. one who wakes early. 3. a watchman. 4. one who arouses another from sleep. 5. one who wakes (a corpse). |
| Waker | adj | Unsleeping, watchful, vigilant, alert, mentally alert, as "well should a man be waker and wise." |
| Wake-rife | adj | Wakeful, alert, indisposed to sleep. |
| Wake-rifely | adv | In an wakeful, alert manner. |
| Wake-rifeness | n | The state of being vigilant, alert, wakeful. |
| Waker-upper | n | One who wakes. 2. one who wakes others from sleep. 3. medication that wakes one from sleep. |
| Wakewort | n | Some plant unidentified. (etymology unknown). |
| Wakey-wakey | adj | A command to wake up, sometimes used to soldiers at reveille. |
| Waking | n | Marked by full consciousness or alertness, wakeful. 2. the state of remaining awake. 3. a vigil. |
| Wal | n | OE: wael; OS: wael: dead. 2. a murderous act or deed. 3. death, slaughter. 4. "The Wal" : The Slain (collectively), rarely: a slain person. |
| Wald | vb | To rule; to govern. (form of wield) |
| Waldend | n | A ruler, governor (rare) except in paraphrase for God. nb: ("end") cf. friend, fiend, halend, shapend. |
| Waldeneie | n | Wall-eye, influenced by walden (OE: gewealden: small); wolden -eyed: an alleged name for the hare. |
| Waldin | adj | OE: gewalden: in the sense of "subject under control." 2. easy to manage. 3. of body or limbs: pliant, supple. 4. in phr: "waldin and wich" - also fig. yielding or tractable in bearing and disposition. or supple. 5. moderate amount or size. |
| Wale | n | A stripe or ridge made on living flesh by a rod, whip, or stick, a wheal, weal; markins of the lash. 2. one of certain strakes of outer planking running fore and aft on a vessel; a channel wale. 3. a ridge or rib on the surface of cloth; hence texture, grain. 4. weals, whales or stripes on by striking, as with a lash, flog, beat. 5. cloth, with a ridge or rib. 6. to weave or wickerwork, with several rods together. 7. protection, fastening, or holding with wales. 8. as a topographical term, perhaps ridge, bank (of stone or earth); a ridge of earth or stone. 9. a stripe of color. 10. a piece of timber extending horizontally around the top of the sides of a boat. 11. horizontal planks of of two timbers, broader or thinner than the rest which extend along a ship's side at different heights from stern to stern; also called bends . |
| Wale | vb | To raise whales or stripes on by striking, as with a lash, flog, beat. 2. to manufacture, as cloth, with a ridge or rib. 3. to weave or wickerwork, with several rods together. 4. to protect, fasten, secure or hold with wales. 5. to weave or wattle, intertwine, to furnish a basket. to raise whales or stripes on by striking, as with a lash, flog, beat. 6. to manufacture, as cloth, with a ridge or rib. 7. to weave or wickerwork, with several rods together. 8. to protect, fasten, or hold with wales. |
| Wale-knot | n | A knot made at the end of a rope by intertwining strands to prevent unraveling or act as a stopper. |
| Waling | n | The act or action of raising weals or stripes. 2. weaving or making wickerwork. 3. the making of a weal or striping by striking with a lash, rod etc. |
| Walk | vb | To proceed through, over, or upon at a moderate pace on foot: walking the floor all night. 2. to cause to walk; lead, drive, or ride at a walk, as an animal. 3. to force or help to walk, as a person: he was walking around soon after his surgery. 4. to conduct or accompany on a walk. 5. to move (a box, trunk, or other object) in a manner suggestive of walking, as by a rocking motion. |
| Walk | vb | To cleanse or thicken cloth by treading or beating; to full or walk. 2. to beat or drub a person. |
| Walk | n | An act or instance of walking or going on foot. 2. a period of walking for exercise or pleasure: to go for a walk. 3. a distance walked or to be walked, often in terms of the time required: a ten minutes' walk from town. 4. the gait or pace of a person or an animal that walks. 5. characteristic or individual manner of walking. |
| Walk | phr | "Cock of the Walk" - dominate arrogantly others. |
| Walk | phr | "In a Walk" - without an effort. |
| Walk | phr | "Take a Walk" - to leave, especially abruptly and without any intention or prospect of returning (often used imperatively to indicate dismissal): if he doesn't get his way, he takes a walk. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Abroad" - spread far and wide, as a disease, pestilence, war etc. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk All Over (Someone)" - to treat someone very badly or unkindly, especially by showing no respect or consideration for their cares, feelings or needs. 2. defeat thoroughly, punish severely, crush completely. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk a Mile in my Shoes" - have empathy for the plight of others. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk a Tightrope" - to be in a difficult or delicate situation where they must act carefully. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Away From" - to abrogate one's responsibilities in regard to some matter. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Away With" - win a contest easily and convincingly. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Back" - withdraw or back pedal on a statement; retract. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Before You Can Run" - master the first stages of a skill, or study, before risking failure at a more advanced or ambitious level. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Free" - to go unpunished. 2. to win or avoid a criminal court case, when actually guilty. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk In" - enter or arrive, especially unexpectedly or easily. 2. walk in on. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk In Off the Street" - to come without prior arrangement or notification. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk In On" - to enter suddenly, or unexpectedly while something is happening. 2. to intrude or interrupt by entering. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk In the Snow" - an occasion when a momentous career decision is made , especially an occasion to resign or retire. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Into" - to attack vigorously, to thrash. 2. receive a blow, shock etc, because one is inattentive or careless. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Into the Lion's Den" - to find oneself in a difficult situation in which you have to face unfriendly or aggressive people. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk In - make a journey on foot; ride. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Off" - remove, reduce, by walking, weight etc. 2. to get rid of by walking off with: to walk off with a headache |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Off One's Feet" - walk so fast and so far that one is exhausted. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Off With" - to win or attain, as in a competition: to walk off with the first prize for flower arrangements; to surpass one's competitors; win easily: to walk off with the fight. 2. walk off with, to remove unintentionally or illegally; steal, filch. |
| Walk | phr | Walk of Life" - a person's profession, trade, age group, social background or position in society is known as their walk of life. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk On" - have a small part in a play or stage production. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk On Broken Glass" - fig. to be punished. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk on Egg Shells" - to be careful not to hurt or offend them. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk on the Wild Side" - an occasion or incident involving adventurous, risky, or morally questionable behavior. 2. to behave in an adventurous, risky, or morally questionable manner. |
| Walk | phr | 'Walk on Water" - to perform, or expected, to perform an impossible task. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Out" - leave one's workplace to protest. 2. leave barracks with permission during off-duty hours. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Out Of" - leave a meeting, workplace, organization etc as an act of protest or disapproval. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Out On" - forsake, desert, to leave unceremoniously, abandon, as: "to walk out on one's family" 2. to leave (a meeting) in protest. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Out With" - to court or be courted by; have as a boyfriend; girlfriend.. 2. form a serious relationship with view to marriage. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Over" - to easily overcome or defeat. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Softly, Talk Softly, but Wield a Long Stick" - |
| Walk | phr | "Walk (Someone) Through" - to guide or instruct carefully one step at a time. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Tall" - to hold one's head high, feel proud and confident, to maintain one's proper sense of pride and self-respect. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk the Boards" - be an actor. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk the Chalk" - an old-established method of testing sobriety by making the suspected inebriate walk between two-parallel lines chalked on the floor without stepping on either line. Hence, figuratively, to keep on the straight and narrow path of rectitude |
| Walk | phr | "Walk the Floor" - to pace backwards and forth restlessly, because of worry, excitement, distress, etc. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk the Line" - To maintain an intermediate position between contrasting choices, opinions, etc. 2. to behave in an authorized or socially accepted manner, especially as prescribed by law or morality; to exercise self-control. 3. to mark or secure a boundary by walking along it. 4. to participate in the procession at a graduation ceremony; to graduate. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk the Streets" - earn a living as a prostitute. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk the Talk" - to perform actions consistent with one's claims. 2. walk the walk. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk the Tightrope" - have to act in a situation where there is little scope for manoeuvre or adjustment and where an exact balance must be preserved (from the tightrope acrobat on which walk). |
| Walk | phr | "Walk the Walk" - to perform actions consistent with one's claims. 2. walk the talk. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Through" - rehearse or go through prior to. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Up!" - a showman invitation to a circus. |
| Walk | phr | "Walk Up" - to approach (a person for a talk). |
| Walk-a-Way" | n | A contest won without serious opposition. |
| Walkabout | n | Australian Indigenous custom, a visiting of religious sites to pay respect to the ancestors. |
| Wal-kemp | n | A warrior. |
| Walker | n | One who walks; a person who undertakes the majority of his journey on foot, a traveler, a rambler. 2. a person who walks dogs as a occupation. 3. a colporteur or tract-distributor. 4. one who takes part in athletics as a walker (in a walking matches). 5. iterant beggar or vagrant. 6. a ranger, gamekeeper who has a specific "walk" or section to care for. 7. a bird, insect (stick insects) characterized by walking, as distinguished from other modes of progress. 8. (slang): a person's legs or feet: "his or her walkers". |
| Walker | n | A worker one fulls clothes; a fuller; a walkster. |
| Walker-on-ropes | n | A rope-walker; a funambulist. |
| Walkership | n | The office of a walker or keeper of the forest. |
| Walkie-talkie | n | A portable radio-set, equipped for both sending and receiving and light enough to be carry by one man. |
| Walk-in | n | One who walks in premises or office without an appointment. 2. one who walks into an embassy or consulate and seeks political asylum; a defector. 3. a storage area large enough to walk into. 4. of a cinema, etc. entered on foot, in contrast to a drive-in. |
| Walking | n | The action of one who walks or moves by foot. 2. the leading of a wandering life, rambling, strolling. |
| Walking | adj | Ambulatory; strolling, ambling, wandering. |
| Walking-beam | n | A heavy iron lever in a vertical engine connecting the piston with a crank of the wheel shaft. 2. the rocking beam used in cable drilling for oil. |
| Walking-dead | n | A specter, ghost, doppelganger, one who is moribund. |
| Walking fern | n | An American evergreen fern of the genus (Camptosorus) with fronds that shoot at the ends. |
| Walking frame | n | A metal frame used by the disabled or old people to help them walk. |
| Walking-leaf | n | An insect which imitates the color and shape of a leaf, as protection against enemies. |
| Walking-shoe | n | A surdy, practical shoe for walking. |
| Walking-stick | n | A staff or cane carried in the hand. 2. a candidate for parliament by a political association. 3. any of the family "Phasmidae" insects having legs, body, wings resembling twigs among which it lives. |
| Walking-toad | n | A natterjack. |
| Walking-wheel | n | Pedometer; walking-wheel.. |
| Walking-wounded | n | A casualty able to walk despite injury. 2. colloquially, a person having especially mental or emotional difficulties. |
| Walkman | n | Type of personal stereo. |
| Walk-off | n | To depart, esp. abruptly or without warning. 2. to walk off during sporting match as a protest against something and some-one who you believed is acting unfairly. 2. to get rid of by walking off with: to walk off with a headache. to win or attain, as in a competition: to walk off with the first prize for flower arrangements;to surpass one's competitors; win easily: to walk off with the fight. |
| Walk-on | n | An actor who has a walk-on role, with little or no speaking. 2. pertaining to airline services for which a prior booking is not required. |
| Walkout | n | A strike; esp. one called at short notice; a walk-out, walkout. 2. act of leaving a meeting etc., as a gesture of protest or disappointment. 3. as in a secret love affair, "Gina has been having a "walk-out" with his best mate Jim for years." |
| Walk-over | n | A horse race where there is only one horse entered, and which can thus be won by going over the course at a mere walk. 2. an easy or unopposed success. 2. in certain sports, to walk over the course without a competitor so as to perform the technicality of winning; hence, to gain an easy victory; a walk-out, walkout. |
| Walk-through | n | "An easy part" in a theatrical production; a walk-through, walk through. |
| Walk-up | n | An apartment not having stairs and that has to be reached by stairs; a walk-up. 2. something may be approached on the street without having to go into the building. 3. the walking of racing horses to the starting line or mobile barrier. |
| Walkway | n | Footpath, sidewalk, pavement, trotuary, path. 2. a sidewalk, passage, garden path, walkway; walk-way. |
| Walky-talky | n | a portable radio set, equipped for both sending and receiving and light enough to be carried by one man. |
| Wall | n | OE: frequently used with the meaning of natural rampart, hill, cliff. |
| Wall | vb | To boil, bubble up, well up, flow abundantly of a liquid. 2. of the sea, waves : to swell, churn up, boil. 3. of a person: seething, to boil with passion. 3. to swarm with vermin. 4. of salt-making: to boil brine. 5. to meld, blend, weld. |
| Wall | vb | To furnish or enclose with a wall. |
| Wall | vb | OE: weallian: to go on a pilgrimage; walling. |
| Wall | phr | "Back to the Wall" - with difficulty to retreat. |
| Wall | phr | "Drive to the Wall" - to push to extremity; to crush or break. 2. ruin a person. |
| Wall | phr | "Drive Up the Wall" - drive a person to desperation; metaphorically, to drive one crazy. 2. annoy another person by one's actions. |
| Wall | phr | "Fly on the Wall" - an eavesdropper; an unobserved listener. 2. hear what's going on. |
| Wall | phr | "Give the Wall" - allow another, as a matter of courtesy, to pass by on the pavement at the side most further from the gutter; hence, to be courteous. |
| Wall | phr | "Go to the Wall" - to be put on one side; to be shelved. cf 'laid by the wall'. 2. to become benkrupt |
| Wall | phr | "Good Walls Make Good Neighbours" - respecting one another's privacy helps create a good relationship between neighbors. |
| Wall | phr | "Go Up the Wall" - become crazy or furious. |
| Wall | phr | "Hang by the Wall" - to hang up neglected; not to be made used of. |
| Wall | phr | "Have One's Back to the Wall" - in great difficulty with little chance of retreat. 2. to be hard pressed by creditor or opponents. |
| Wall | phr | "Knock One's Head Against the Wall" - do something to no avail. |
| Wall | phr | "Laid by the Wall" - dead, but not buried; put out of the way. |
| Wall | phr | "Nail Somebody to the Wall" - to outmaneuver another person. |
| Wall | phr | "Off the Wall" - unorthodox, unconventional. |
| Wall | phr | "Put a Wall About Someone" - to stop a person associating with others. |
| Wall | phr | "Run One Head Against a Stone Wall" - to make fruitless attempts against insuperable odds. |
| Wall | phr | "See the Writing on the Wall" - an indication that something bad may happen; a foreshadowing of trouble or disaster. 2. appreciate the inevitably of some event. |
| Wall | phr | "Take the Wall" - to take the place of honor. |
| Wall | phr | "Wall in" - enclose with a wall. 2. surround something or somebody with a wall so that movement in and out of is restricted. |
| Wall | phr | "Walls Have Ears" - things uttered in secrecy, get rumored. 2. there are listeners everywhere, so be careful. 3. someone may be overhearing (words on wartime posters) reminding people of the existence of spies. |
| Wall | phr | "Wall Up" - close or seal, with a wall of brick, plaster, etc. |
| Wall | phr | "Weakest go to the Wall" - possibly from the practice of placing beds along the side of a room and putting the youngest or feeblest in the safest place - ie against the wall. 2. another explanation is that in the days whenn few churches had pews , except maybe for the gentry , there were benches along the walls for the aged. |
| Wall | phr | "Within the Walls" - within the ancient boundaries of a city, as distinguished from it's outlying area. 2. fig. within the limits of Christendom" |
| Wall-board | n | A material composed of several layers of compressed wood chips and pulp, molded and sized for use as a substitute for wooden boards and plaster. |
| Wall Box | n | A cast-iron box built in a wall to carry the end of a timber as a beam or binder. It allows for the ventilating the end of the timber and distributes the pressure. |
| Walled | adj | Protected by a wall. |
| Walled-off | adj | Enclosed by walls. |
| Walled-up | adj | Closed or blocked up with masonry. 2. trapped, hiding from authorities or enemies. 3. enclosed with a wall, walled-in, brick-in, bricked-up, shut-up. |
| Waller | n | One who builds or repairs walls. 2. a keeper of the walls of a city in earlier times. |
| Wallership | n | The position of a wall-builder and repairer of a city. |
| Wall Hangers | n | Pressed steel or cast-iron stirrups for carrying the end of constructional timbers to avoid building the end of the timber in the wall. |
| Wall-hanging | adj | Usually, a large decorative tapestry etc for display on a interior wall. |
| Wallhold | n | The length, or bearing, of a constructional timber resting on the supporting wall. |
| Wall-hook | n | A strong nail with right-angled head for attaching anything to a wall. |
| Walling | adj | Boiling, esp. of liquids, molten lead. 2. in OE: fig. fervent, passionate, ardent. 3. boiling, foaming, raging, surging of the sea. 4. welling, flowing abundantly of water. |
| Wall-knot | n | A wale-knot; a knot at the end of a rope formed by twisting and knotting the individual strands together. |
| Wall-less | adj | Not having walls. |
| Wallow | n | Dust-hole, mud-hole formed by the wallowing of animals, such as buffalo, elephants, rhinocerus. 2. state of depression, gloom, stagnation. 3. roll or swell of the sea. 4. the line into which hay is raked before being carted away. |
| Wallow | vb | To wither, fade or waste away. |
| Wallow | phr | "Wallow in" - roll about (usually pleasurably) in order to stay cool. 2. allow oneself to be in a serious emotion, usually self-indulgent, or perversely. |
| Wallowed | adj | Tasteless, insipid, wallow-sweet, cloyingly sweet. |
| Wallower | n | One ( a person or animal) who wallows. |
| Wallowish | adj | Somewhat insipid, tasteless, flat; also flat, ill-tasting, nauseous, esp. by being overly-sweet; wallowishly. |
| Wallowishness | n | The state or quality of being wallowish. |
| Wall Post | n | A post or stile of a frame attached to a wall. |
| Wall-Street | n | The name of a street in New York City, the financial center of the United States and the World. The wall was built by the Dutch founders of New York to keep the British out. |
| Wall-Streeter | n | A Wall-Street financier. |
| Wall String | n | The string of a flight of stairs against a wall. |
| Wallow-sweet | adj | Sweet, sickly sweet, nauseous. |
| Wall-tiding | n | Welling-up (walling) of the tide: said of the reputed "ebbing and flowing well" at Tides Well. |
| Wall-tie | n | A tie of brick, terracotta, galvanized iron, etc. used for the bonding the two parts of the wall. |
| Wall-to-wall | adj | Extending from one end or extreme to the other: allowing no unfilled space. 2. ubiquitous. |
| Wall-tree | n | A fruit street trained against the wall with a southern exposure. |
| Wallwort | n | Dwarf elder, Sambucus Ebulus |
| Walm | n | OE: spring, gushing, swirling of boiling liquids; boiling heat; the surging or heaving movement of the waves. 2. poet. often used of the waves or the sea: a wave, a billow. 3. a gushing forth or up-welling of water; a spring, a fountain, water-source, including the water of such. 4. a bubbling and heaving of water, etc. in the process of boiling or melting. 5. a wallop. |
| Walm | vb | Of water: to boil, bubble, to well up, gush or sprout forth, walm up, walm out, walm forth, to abound, be plentiful. 2. of smoke, vapour etc. to billow, to issue forth in such manner. |
| Walm | phr | "Be in a Walm" - fig. in a boiling or seething condition; a spell of boiling. |
| Walm-hot | adj | Blazing hot; boiling hot. |
| Walming | n | Seething, glowing, boiling, bubbling, gushing, welling, billowing. |
| Walnut | n | Any of the various deciduous, typically European and Asian trees (genus Jugland), cultivated as ornamental shade trees and valued for their timber and edible nuts; esp., the black walnut. 2. the wood or nut of any these trees. 3. the color of the wood of any these trees, esp., the black walnut, a very dark brown; also the colour of the shell of the english nuts, a dull, medium yellowish brown, also called walnut brown. |
| Walnut brown | adj | A dull, medium yellowish brown. |
| Walnut | phr | "Shoulder Walnut"- to enlist as a soldier (walnut wood as material for gun-stocks) |
| Walsh | adj | Contraction of wallowish) insipid, tasteless, ill-tasting, having a sickly taste, nauseous. |
| Wal-slaught | n | A deadly battle (OE: slaught: battle) |
| Wal-spear | n | A battle spear. |
| Walt | adj | Found only in unwealt: steady; of a ship: unsteady, rolling about, cranky. |
| Walter | n | Welter: roll about in various ways. 2. the rolling of the sea in a storm. 3. the act of wallowing (in mire). 4. upset, upheaval, overthrow. |
| Walter | vb | To roll to and fro, move from side to side, to tumble, toss about, to lie sprawling on the ground (in mire). 2. of a ship: to be tossed on the waves. 3. of the stomach: to be disturbed or upset. |
| Walty | adj | Of a ship, unsteady, inclined to roll. |
| Wam | n | A spot or blemish; a wen. |
| Wan | n | The quality of being wan: paleness. |
| Wan | vb | To become dark, discoloured or livid. 2. to grow pale or make pale. 2. |
| Wan | adj | Pale from sickness or anxiety; pallid, livid, careworn; of a sickly hue. 2. having a gloomy aspect, dismal, dark, said of scenes, landscapes. 3. transfig. or fig. sad, mournful, fearful, awful, wicked, deadly cruel. 4.faint, feeble, a wan smile, a faint or forced smile, as a sick and/ or unhappy smile). 5. of hue or colour : dark, black, gloomy, leaden-hued, pale, light; originally dark-hued, now in more recent poetry: grey, pale, but the gloomy connotation remains. 5. of an unhealthy, unwholesome colour, pallid, sickly, livid; of disease, wounds etc., esp. to the human face and corpses. 6. lacking light or lustre, dark, dark-hued, dusky, gloomy. 7. applied to light of heavenly bodies: faint, partially obscured, dull, lusterless, esp. of white objects. |
| Wan-belief | n | Unbelief. |
| Wan-belveness | n | Unbeliefness |
| Wanbody | n | Miscreant. 2. infidel. |
| Wan-deedy | adj | Mischievous. |
| Wander | vb | To move or travel about, in, or through (a place) without any definite purpose, object or destination. 2. to proceed in an irregular course; meander, roam, rove, or stray: to wander over the earth. 3. to go astray, as from a path or course aimlessly, indirectly, or casually; meander. 4. (of the mind, thoughts, desires etc) to lose concentration or direction; to take one direction or another without conscious intent or control: his attention wandered.. 5. to think or speak incoherently or illogically. 6. to move, pass, or turn idly, as the hand or the eyes. |
| Wander | n | The drift of a gyroscope or a similar device. 2. range, stroll, saunter, swerve, veer. ramble, rave. 3. the act or an instance of wandering |
| Wander | phr | "Wander About" - move about without any sense of where one is going. |
| Wander | phr | "Wander From/Off" - stray in an absent-minded way or manner. |
| Wanderer | n | One who wanders or walks from place to place, a rambler. |
| Wandering | n | Traveling with no set route. 2. roaming at random or without destination or purpose. 3. irregular burning of the eyes. 4. aimless thought. 5. straying from a desired way. 6. disordered speech or delirium; mind-wandering. |
| Wandering | adj | That which wanders or rambles. 2. tending to travel and change settlement frequently; moving about from place to place restlessly. 3. having no fixed course or goal. 4. roaming, turning, straying, disorderly; wandering.. |
| Wandering Heart | n | Wood in which the pith is crooked so that the heart outcrops on the converted wood. It is not so strong as straight-grained wood. |
| Wandering kidney | n | A floating kidney. |
| Wanderlingly | adv | In a wandering or rambling way. |
| Wanderlust | n | An impulse to travel; restlessness combined with a sense of adventure. |
| Wanderly | adv | In an aimless manner. 2. disorderly, in a roaming way, restlessly. |
| Wander-year | n | A year of wandering or travel. NB: German word "wonderjahre" - the year or years, spent on travel for the purpose of perfecting one's skills or knowledge. |
| Wandle | vb | Supple, nimble, back-formation of wandlung: changeableness. |
| Wandought | n | A feeble or puny person. |
| Wandoughty | adj | Feeble, ineffective, worthless. |
| Wandreth | n | "Wan" + "Rede" : counsel. 2. misery, distress, hardship, adversity, poverty. |
| Wandsomely | adv | Reluctantly, falteringly. |
| Wane | n | OE:want, lack. 2. want, lack, shortage, absence of, fault. 3. need, poverty, indigence. 3. fault, defect, omission. 4. misery, woe. 5. decrease of power, prosperity, reputation. 6. the decrease of the moon's visible illuminated surface; also the period of such decrease. |
| Wane | vb | To wane or fade to grey. 2. to diminish in size and brilliance, as opposed to wax. 3. to decline or decrease gradually, draw to an end. |
| Wane | n | Wone, dwelling, house, residence (of a religious community). 2. buildings, group of building. |
| Wane | phr | "To Wane Away" - to diminish gradually. |
| Wane | adj | Lacking, absent, deficient, destitute. 2. (with numerals): short of, used to express number (one or two) less than a complete decade, as "two wane of twenty is eighteen." 3. "one wane of " - penultimate ? 4. incomplete, not fully formed, (inchoate), small; not full of the moon. 5. insufficient; too small |
| Wane | phr | "On or Upon the Wane" - time of lessening or decreasing. |
| Wane-cloud | n | A cloud in the process of becoming smaller. 2. a cirro-stratus |
| Waned | adj | That has diminished, decreased. |
| Wane Edge | n | Applied to converted woood in which the corner is misiing at the circumference of the wood,due to too economical conversion. |
| Wanehope | n | Wanhope, despair, lack of optimism. |
| Wane-wit | n | A half-wit, fool, dill, imbecile, mad, wanewit. |
| Wang | n | The cheek. 2. a field, pasture, area along or adjacent to a river; riverbank. |
| Wangle | vb | Accomplish or obtain by irregular or insidious means . First recorded as printer's slang: to arrange or fake for one's own satisfaction; perhaps based on "waggle" wankle unsteady, unconstant, precarious (OE: wacol) under the influence of a vague sense of phonetic symbolism.. 2. of a thing: to move loosely or shakily on it's base. 3. of a person: to go go unsteady. |
| Wangle | adj | OE: unsteady, tottering, wagging. |
| Wang-tooth | n | Molar. |
| Wan-hue | vb | To stain. |
| Waning | n | Decrease in size, gradual decrease or period of decrease of the visible illuminated area on the moon phrases. 2. period characterized by the waning of the moon. 3. gradual decrease or decline in splendor, power, importance, intensity or the like. 4. later part of life or period of time. |
| Wankle | adj | OE: wancol. 2. unsteady, insecure, unsettled, changeable, precarious, unconstant, wavering. 2. unhealthy, weak, sick, delicate. |
| Wan-less | adj | Hopeless; wanless. |
| Wan-like | adj | Miserable, wretched; wanlike. |
| Wan-looking | adj | Having a pale, dull, gloomy, sickly looking, wanlooking etc. |
| Wanned | adj | Decreased, wanted, lacked. |
| Wanning | vb | To make or become wan. |
| Wanning | n | The quality of being wan, paleness. |
| Wan-ness | n | The quality or state of being wan: wanness, wanly, paleness, pallidity, lividity. 2. gloominess, dismality, sickliness etc. |
| Wan-sallow | adj | Discoloured or sickly hue; wanswallow. |
| Wan-sith | n | Misery, woe; wansith. |
| Wan-slaught | n | Slaughter, bloodshed, carnage; wanslaught. |
| Wanspeed | n | Ill-success, adversity, poverty. |
| Wanspeedy | adj | Unfortunate, unprosperous; wanspeedy. |
| Want | n | A mole or a wand: probably because of the wandering ways of it's tunnels. |
| Want-hill | n | A molehill. |
| Wanton | n | A lewd or licentious person, esp. a woman. 2. a playful or frolicsome person, or animal. 3. a trifler, dallier. |
| Wanton | adj | Dissolute, unchaste, licentious, lewd, lustful. 2. recklessly inconsiderate, heartless, unjust; evincing a malicious nature. 3. of vigorous or abundant growth, rank. 4. extravagant, running to excess; unrestrained as, "wanton speech." 5. not bound or tied; loose. 6. refractory, rebellious |
| Wanton | vb | To act wantonly or playfully, revel or sport. 2. to waste wantonly. |
| Wantons | n | "The Wantons" - lascivious desires. |
| Wanton | phr | "To Play the Wanton" - to behave in a lascivious manner or lewdly. |
| Wantoner | n | A person who acts or behaves in a lewd or lascivious manner. |
| Wantonness | n | The act or practice of being lascivious or lewd. |
| Wantroth | n | Unbelief |
| Wan-trowing | n | Mistrust, faint or weak belief. |
| Wan-weird | adj | Hard lot, ill-fate, misfortune; wanweird. 2. "The Wanweirds" - The Hard-up, The Have-nots, The Poor, The Needy, The disadvantaged |
| Wan-white | adj | Off-white; wanwhite. |
| Wanwit | n | Insanity; wanwit. |
| Wanwood | n | A faded or decaying woodland. |
| Wany | adj | Having a beveled edge, as the wane of a plank. (waney) |
| Wanze | vb | To diminish, waste, render lean. 2. to decrease, grow less. 3. to wither, fade, waste away, to become emaciated. 4. lit. and fig. of the moon: to wane. |
| Wanzing | n | Evanescent. |
| Wanzingness | n | The state or quality of being evanescent. |
| Wapenshaw | n | A show of weapons, review of weapons. |
| Wapentake | n | An old administrative and judicial subdivision, of some English counties, equivalent to the hundred of most counties. (OE: waepengetaec: weapon+take) a symbolical flourishing of weapons denotin confirmation of the decision of an assembly. |
| Wapman | n | A man as distinguished from a woman, a male human being. (Weapon: wap). |
| Wapman-kin | n | Persons of the male sex. |
| War | n | From late Old English (c.1050), wyrre, werre, from Old North French werre "war" (Fr. guerre), from Frankish *werra, from Proto-Germanic *werso (Compare with Old Saxon werran, Old high German werran, German verwirren "to confuse, perplex"). Cognates suggest the original sense was "to bring into confusion."a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air. 2. a state or period of armed hostility or active military operations. 3. a contest carried on by force of arms, as in a series of battles or campaigns. 4. armed fighting, as a science, profession, activity, or art; methods or principles of waging armed conflict. 5. active hostility or contention; conflict; contest: a war of words. |
| War | vb | To make or carry on war; fight: to war with a neighboring nation. 2. to carry on active hostility or contention. 3. to be in conflict or in a state of strong opposition. |
| War | phr | "All's Fair in Love and War" - robust competition is acceptable in emotionally-charged situations. |
| War | phr | "At War" - engaged in war. |
| War | phr | "Be in the Wars" - be slightly injured, as from a minor fall from a bicycle etc. |
| War | phr | "Go to War" - serve as a soldier; declare war as a nation. |
| War | phr | "Looks like He's Been Through (in) the Wars" - of a person or thing has been in (or through) the wars, and show signs of rough treatment, injury or damage. |
| War | phr | "Man of War" - a warship. |
| War | phr | "Be On the Warpath" - thoroughly roused and incensed. 2. looking for one's adversary or victim with every intention of exacting retribution. |
| War | phr | "War to End Wars" - an optimistic slogan of the First World War when it was believed, or hoped that such a major war would never occur again. |
| War | phr | "War to the Knife" - bitter and implacably continued fighting, quarreling rivalry. |
| War | adj | Of, belonging to, used in, or due to war: war preparations; war hysteria. |
| Warbird | n | A fighter-plane, aircraft fighter. 2. among north American firstfolk, the golden eagle. |
| Warbride | n | A bride of a serviceman, often a foreign one, during wartime. |
| War-broken | adj | Worn-out by the ravages of war. |
| War-chest | n | Funds for war or any other campaign. |
| War-cloud | n | A cloud or dust and smoke rising from the battle field; warcloud. |
| War-clouds | n | That the outbreak of war seems increasingly like, as "war clouds are gathering." |
| Warcraft | n | Cunning and skilled in warfare. 2. the act of conducting war. |
| Ward | n | Callosity on the skin of the hand through hard labour. |
| Ward | n | Ward: a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes. 2. one of the districts or wards into which certain English and Scottish boroughs are divided. 3. a division, floor, or room of a hospital; a critical ward. 4. any of the separate divisions of a prison. 5. ward: a political subdivision of a parish. 6. a ward: a watchman, guard, keeper, sentry, warden. 7. custody. |
| Ward | vb | To avert, repel, or turn aside (danger, harm, an attack, an assailant, etc.) (usually followed by off ): to ward off a blow; to ward off evil. 2. to place in a ward, as of a hospital or prison. 3. to protect; guard. |
| Ward(s) | prf | A native English suffix denoting a spatial or temporal direction, as specified by the initial elements: seaward(s), afterward(s). In OE. appended to adv. homeward; a second stage is represented by " to heavens-ward": which was followed by forms lacking the prep. (eg. earthward) "Wards" formations generally identical in sense with ward though differing in details of usage. |
| Ward | phr | "Out of Ward" - beyond control, out of hand. |
| Ward | phr | "Ward Off" - defend, protect, oneself against. |
| Ward | phr | "Within One's Ward" - within the region in which one is safe. |
| War-dead | n | Those (soldiers and civilians) killed because of war. |
| Ward-heeler | n | A hanger-on of a political boss, who does minor tasks, canvass votes. |
| Ward-hill | n | A beacon hill; wardhill. |
| Ward-holding | n | In feudal law, a tenure of lands "in ward". ie. military service. |
| Warding | n | Action of guarding a place or furnishing it with a guard. 2. action or duty of keeping guard. 3. a defensive work or force; a body of watchman. 4. protection, keeping guard. 5. imprisonment |
| Wardmote | n | A meeting of the citizens of a ward; esp. in the City of London. |
| War-dog | n | A dog trained for use in war, fig. a fierce warrior. 2. a war hawk: one who calls for war against others. |
| Wards | prf | See "Ward." |
| Wardship | n | The state of a ward; pupilage. 2. in feudal law, the right to which the lord had the custody of the bodies, and the custody of the profits of the land, of minor heirs of a deceased tenant. |
| Wardwite | n | A fine paid to the lord by a tenant who has failed to provide a man to perform guard duty; wardwite. |
| Ware | n | Seaweed washed up on the shore and used for manure. |
| Ware | vb | To guard against; be cautious. |
| War-fain | adj | Eager and willing to fight. |
| Warfare | n | The waging or carrying on of war. 2. conflict with arms. |
| War-footing | n | Prepared for war, in a state of readiness for war. |
| War game | n | Military maneuvers, as practice for the real thing. |
| War-grave | n | A war grave (war-grave) is a burial place for the members of the armed forces who die during military campaigns or operations; this includes those who die of disease while on active service. 2. The final resting place or war-grave (war grave) sailors whose ships sunk during wartime, military aircraft that crash into water, or are shot down into water, particularly if the crew die in the crash and their body remains in the vehicles. |
| War-hardened | adj | Innured by the frequency and intensity of war. 2. experienced in combat and therefore more effective in fighting, used mostly of infantry, ward-hardened. |
| War-hawk | n | One who advocates and is eager for war. |
| Warhead | n | The part of a guided missile, projectile, rocket or other munition that carries the nuclear, thermo-nuclear of chemical or biological agents, or other materials intended to inflict damage. |
| Wards | prf | See "Ward." |
| Wardship | n | A guardian care or tutelage. 2. the condition of being a ward. |
| Wardwite | n | A fine paid to the lord by a tenant who has failed to provide a man to perform guard duty. |
| Ware | n | Seaweed washed up on the shore and used for manure; pondweed. 2. the right to gather seaweed on the shore: each ware-strand or beach where drift-weed comes to land is set apart for a certain number of tenants on the estate to which it belongs. |
| Ware | n | Watch, care, heed, safe-keeping, defence, protection. |
| Ware | n | Collective term for articles: hardware, hollow-ware, iron-ware, small-ware, earthenware, ceramics, stoneware. 2. privy parts of the human body of either sex, as, lady ware. 3. whole-ware : the whole number of, the total amount; the wholeware. |
| Ware | vb | To give heed, be cautious, be aware. |
| Ware | phr | "Be On One's Ware" - be on guard, be aware. |
| Wareful | adj | Watchful, cautious, aware. |
| Warehouse | n | A store house for goods and merchandise. 2. a large wholesale shop. |
| Warehouseman | n | One who makes a business by storing goods. |
| Wareless | adj | Unwary, incautious, heedless. |
| Wareliness | n | Cautious, carefulness. |
| Warely | adj | Of a person and his/her action, etc. cautious, circumspect, predict. |
| Wareness | n | Awareness. |
| Ware-room | n | A room for the storage, exhibition, or sale of goods for wares. |
| Warfare | n | The waging or carrying on of war; conflict with arms. 2. a struggle, strife. |
| War game | n | Practice maneuvers imitating the conditions of actual war; kriegspiel. |
| Warhead | n | Explosive cap on a torpedo or guided missile. |
| Warhorse | n | A heavy breed of horse used in warfare. 2. a veteran, esp. an aggressive or veteran politician. |
| Warhorse | phr | "An Old Warhorse" - doughty fighter. |
| Waribreed | n | Pus, matter; in OE some kind of eruption. |
| Warihood | n | Cursedness |
| Warily | adv | In a cautious manner, cautiously. 2. watchfully. |
| Warisome | adj | Somewhat cautious, careful, heedful |
| Wark | n | OE: woerc: pain, ache. |
| Wark | vb | To ache, feel pain, suffer pain, to throb painfully. |
| Warking | n | The condition or state of aching, feeling pain, throbbing pain. |
| War leader | n | A leader serving, elected or appointed during a time of war. |
| Warless | adj | Free or exempt from war. 2. not engaging in war. |
| Warlessness | n | The state of being or havin an absence of war. |
| Warlike | adj | Of persons, nations etc. naturally disposed to warfare or fighting; martial; bellicose. 2. fond of war, skilled in war, valiant, courageous in battle. |
| Warlock | n | OE: waerloga: a traitor, foe, demon. 2. a wizard, sorcerer; also a demon, The Devil, Satan. |
| Warlock | vb | To bar against hostile invasion. 2. a scalp lock worn by warriors of certain North American Indian tribes |
| Warlord | n | A military commander or commander-n-chief. 2. a tribal leader. |
| War-loving | adj | One eager and ready to settle dispute by going to war. |
| Warly | adj | Pertaining to war; belonging to war; martail. 2. skilled in war, martial, fond of war, bellicose, valiant; equipped or munitioned for war. |
| Warm | adj | Having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath. 2. of or at a moderately high temperature; characterized by comparatively high temperature: a warm oven. 3. having a sensation of bodily heat: to be warm from fast walking. 4. conserving or maintaining warmth or heat. 5. (of colors) suggestive of warmth; inclining toward red or orange rather than toward green or blue. 5. ardent, enthusiastic, animated, etc. (often followed by up or to ). 8. kindly, friendly, close or sympathetically disposed (often followed by to or toward ): "my heart warms toward him." 9. lukewarm, tepid, heated. 10. hearty, enthusiastic, fervent, fervid, emotional, ardent. 14. vehement. 15. animated, excited, waken, stirred, roused, aroused. |
| Warm | vb | To make warm; heat (often followed by up ): to warm one's hands. 2. to heat or cook (something) for reuse, as left-overs (usually followed by over or up). 3. to excite enthusiasm, ardor, cheerfulness, or vitality in (someone). 4. to inspire with kindly feeling; affect with lively pleasure: It warms my soul to hear you say that. 5. to fill (a person, crowd, etc.) with strong feelings, as hatred, anger, or zeal. 6. to become warm or warmer (often followed by up): The room will warm up when the fire gets going. 7. to become ardent, enthusiastic, animated, etc. (often followed by up or to ). 8. to grow kindly, friendly, or disposed sympathetically (often followed by to or toward.) |
| Warm | n | A warming: "sit by the fire and have a nice warm". |
| Warm | phr | "Have a Warm Inner Glow" - satisfaction at some achievement. |
| Warm | phr | "Keep Someone's Seat Warm" - to hold a position temporarily with the view to another person taking it over permanently in the near future. |
| Warm | phr | "Like Death Warmed Up" - very ill, very unwell. |
| Warm | phr | "Warm Down" - to conclude or follow a period of strenuous physical exercise by walking or gentle stretching. |
| Warm | phr | "Warming the Bell - a nautical term with the meaning: doing something before the proper time. |
| Warm | phr | "Warm the Bench."- in sports: to serve as a substitute who rarely plays in a game. |
| Warm | phr | "Warm to" - become lively about, enthusiastic about something. |
| Warm | phr | "Warm Towards" -a sympathetic interest in. |
| Warm | phr | Warm Up" - become, make warm or warmer. 2. to prepare for a game, sports contest, dance, etc., by moderate exercise or practice beforehand. 3. to increase in excitement, liveliness, intensity, violence, etc.: the racial situation was warming up. 4. to become friendlier or more receptive: warm up to that proposal. 5. of radio and television: to entertain (an audience) prior to a broadcast to increase receptiveness. |
| Warman | n | A fighting-man, warrior, soldier. 2. one whose voice or call is for war. |
| Warm-blooded | adj | Having warm blood, spec. of mammals and birds which have a uniform high temperature. 2. ardent, fervent, passionate. |
| Warm-bloodedness | n | State or quality of being warm-blooded, ardent passionate, fervent. |
| Warmed | adj | Made warm, warmed up. |
| Warmer | n | A person who warms up an audience prior and during the show; a warmer-upper. 2. a contrivance for warming. |
| Warm-hearted | adj | Of a generous, kind and affectionate disposition; also indicating a hearty, cordial. |
| Warm-heartedly | adv | Generously, affectionately, cordially. |
| Warm-heartedness | n | State or quality or being warm-hearted, generous, affectionate, cordial, as "experience has never put a chill on my warm-heartedness." |
| War-maker | n | One eager to solve dispute or conflict by waging war. |
| War-making | n | The staging of a war. |
| Warmed-up | adj | Of food: rehheated. 2. stale; second-hand. |
| War-minded | adj | A mind attuned to, or desirous of war. |
| War-mindedness | n | The state of mind attuned to, or desirous of war. |
| Warming | n | That makes warm, becomes warm (lit and fig) |
| Warming | phr | "Warming the Bell - a nautical term with the meaning: doing something before the proper time. |
| Warming-pan | n | One who holds a place temporarily for another; sometimes applies to a clergyman who officiates while the actual holder of the living is qualifying. 2. a closed metal pan with a long-handle, containing live coal or hot water, for warming a bed. |
| Warming-pans | n | A nickname for Jacobites. |
| Warming-stone | n | A stone that retains it's warmth for a long while (8-10 hours). |
| Warmish | adj | Somewhat or a little warm. |
| Warmly | adv | Full of warmth. 2. in a warm manner, with warmth of feeling, fervently, earnestly. 4. with warm affection, gratitude, kindness, admiration. 5. with controversial ardour, eagerly, with warmth of temper. 6. with reference to attack or defense, fiercely, vigourously. |
| Warmness | n | The condition of being warm; moderate heat. 2. the state of being well-to-do. 3. warmth or affection or devotion, heat of anger. |
| Warmonger | n | One who seeks to bring about war. 2. one who propagates war; jingoist. |
| Warmth | n | The quality or state of being warm; moderate or gentle heat. 2. the sensation of moderate heat. 3. liveliness of feelings, emotions, or sympathies; ardor or fervor; enthusiasm or zeal. 4. the quality of being intimate and attached: "all children need warmth and affection from their families." 5. an effect of brightness, cheerfulness, coziness, etc., achieved by the use of warm colors. |
| Warmthless | n | Devoid of warmth. |
| Warm-up | n | Make one's body limber or suppler by stretching. 2. to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles. 3. to engage in exercise or practice, esp. before entering a game or contest, to get ready. 4. to run an appliamce etc. until the normal working temperature is reached. 5. to become more friendly or open. 6. to make an audience enthusiastic or relaxed before or during a show. 7. to reheat food. |
| Warm work | n | Work etc that makes one warm through exertion. 2. dangerous conflict etc. |
| Warn | vb | To give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: "they warned him of a plot against him." 2. to urge or advise to be careful; caution: to warn a careless driver.
3. to admonish or exhort, as to action or conduct: She warned her employees to be on time. 4. to notify, advise, or inform: to warn a person of an intended visit. 5. to give notice to (a person, group, etc.) to go, keep at a distance, keep off etc. (often.) 7. to give a warning; caution |
| Warn | phr | "Warn About/Against" - tell others to be wary or avoid harmful or undesirable persons or situations. |
| Warn | phr | "Warn Off" - prohibit from advancing, trepassing, intruding. |
| Warnel | n | A hard tumor on the back of the cattle, produced by the larva of gadfly. 2. the maggot producing tumours of that kind. |
| Warner | n | One who warns or gives warning to others, as a storm-warner; one who warns of a coming storm. 2. a mechanical device for giving warnings. 3. a man who gives warning or notice of arrivals of ships. 4. a mongrel dog used to give warnings, a house-dog. |
| Warnership | n | The district of an "official" warner. |
| Warning | n | The action of the verb: to warn. 2. an instance of warning someone. 3. something spoken or written that is intended to warm. 4. a message informing of danger. 5. caution against danger. 6. admonishment. |
| Warning-pipe | n | An emergency pipe of a cistern which by dripping gives notice that the valve is defective. |
| Warning shot | n | A shot fired as a warning. 2. an action intended as a warning. |
| War nose | n | The end of a projectile or shell which contains the detonating device. |
| Warp | n | The sate of being warped or twisted out of shape. 2. a twist or distortion, especially in a piece of wood. 3. a menatal or moral deviation or aberration; a bias. 4. a length of cord, rope, towline, towrope, yarns. 5. the threads that run the long way of a fabric, crossing the warp. 6. alluvial sediment, silt. |
| Warp | vb | To cast, throw, fling open. 2. to drive out, expel, reject, renounce, usu. with 'out' or 'away.' 3. to plunge or throw someone roughly (into prison, distress). 4. to put to death. 5. to go hastily, fling away, rise up. 6. of bees: to swarm. 7. to hit, strike, assail with a missile. 8. besprinkle with a liquid. 9. to thrust one's hand forth. 10. lay hands on. 11. to cast one's head down. 12. to cast, shed horns. 13. to lose (natural hue). 14. to utter, talk to, speak of or to, pronounce a word. 15. to cry, sigh. 16. to cast one's eyes upon something. 17. to lay eggs. 18. to bring forth young naturally or sometimes prematurely. 19. to cast, slip, drop. 20. bend, twist aside. 21. to become twisted. 22. to become uneven by shrinkage, contraction. |
| Warp | phr | "Warp and Woof" - threads in a woven fabric composed of the warp:threads running lengthwise and woof:threads running crosswise to create the texture of a fabric. 2. a fundamental structure: the warp and woof of life. |
| Warp | phr | "Warp of Weeks" - a period of four weeks. |
| Warp-beam | n | Cylinder on which a warp is wound in lace-manufacture. |
| Warpath | n | The route taken by an attacking party of Native Americans native or firstfolk; a war expedition. 2. state of war. |
| Warpath | phr | "On the Warpth" - on a warlike expedition; at war. 2. ready for a fight, ready to begin hostilities; angry. |
| Warped | adj | Bent, twisted, contorted or out of shape. 2. to cast young prematurely. |
| Warper | n | One who throws, a thrower. |
| Warping | n | Silt or alluvial matter deposited by the sea or a tidal river. 2. an action or motion that warps or twists. 2. the deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area. |
| Warping | n | The mole's action of throwing up earth in to mole-hills. |
| Warping | adj | The quality of twisting, deforming, bending. |
| Warping-mill | n | An apparatus upon which threads is wound. |
| Warre | n | OE: Wearr. 2. a knot in a tree or timber. |
| Warred | adj | Having or containing knots. 2. full of knots; warried; warry. |
| War-ridden | adj | Frequently affected by war. |
| Warring | n | Rival, antagonistic. |
| War-room | n | On a warship, the quarters allotted to commissioned officers above rank of an ensign, excepting the commander who has his own quarters. |
| Warry | adj | Belligerent, bellicose, warlike, martial. |
| War-shaken | adj | Shaken, troubled by participation in war. |
| Warship | n | Ship built for military purposes. 2. a ship armed and manned for war. 3. any vessel used in a naval battle; especially an armored vessel. |
| Warsong | n | A song inciting war or celebrating martial deeds. |
| War-steed | n | A war horse. 2. fig. a warship or battleship, as " .. whose sea-going war steeds on the Atlantic saved England from invasion. |
| War-stirring | adj | A manifestation of patriotic enthusiasm during or leading up to the outbreak of war. |
| War-swept | adj | A country or region consumed by war. |
| Wart | n | A rough, dry, tough excresence on the skin. 2. a nipple. 2. an obnoxious or objectionable person. |
| Wart | phr | "Warts and All" - without concealment of blemishes or unattractive parts (esp. applied to description or likeness). |
| War-talk | n | Talk and discussionabout the imminent possibility of the outbreak of war. |
| Warted | adj | Covered wit or having worts. |
| Warth | n | A shore, strand, a stretch of coast, a flat meadow, esp. one close to a stream. |
| Wart-hog | n | The wild African hog. |
| Wartime | n | The time when war is being waged. |
| War-torn | adj | Racked or deastated by war. |
| Wartwale | n | A growth or pierce of skin at the base of the finger nail; an agnail. |
| Wartweed | n | The sun spurge |
| Wartwort | n | Euphorbia Helioscopia. |
| Warty | adj | Afflicted with worts on the skin. 2. of the nature or resembling to warts. 3. rocky, tough. |
| War-weary | adj | Weary from prolonged warfare. |
| Warwickshire weed | n | The Elm tree. |
| War-widow | n | A woman whose husband has been killed in war. |
| War-wolf | n | A kind of siege engine. 2. a fierce warior. |
| War-work | n | Work carried out aiding the war effort of a nation. |
| War-worker | n | One who carries out work during time of war. |
| War-worn | adj | Weary of war. 2. wasted or battered by war. 3. worried by the toil and privation of war. |
| War-worthiness | n | Condition and suitability or befitting for war. |
| War-worthy | adj | Suitable for or befittingly of war. |
| War-wounded | adj | Those wounded during war. |
| Wary | n | A criminal, felon, villain, outlaw. |
| Wary | vb | To invoke a curse upon, to declare accursed, to pour malediction upon. 3. to pronounce a formal curse against (God, the Church). 4. to speak impiously or profanely against; to blaspheme. 4. to inflict with evil or calamity. |
| Wary | adj | Being on one's guard against threat, danger, deception, trickery. 2. arising from or characterized by caution. 3. marked by keen caution and watchful prudence. 4. openly distrustful and unwilling to confide. 5. alert, vigilant, guarded, circumspect, prudence, chary. |
| Wary | adj | Cursed, accursed |
| Wary-tre(e) | n | A gallows, gibbet, hanging-tree. 2. often applied to the cross, holy-rood. |
| Was | vb | The verb 'to be'. |
| Wasel | vb | To beat down, trample, trample in mud. |
| Wash | vb | To wash oneself. 2. to wash clothes. 3. to cleanse anything with or in water or other liquid. 4. to undergo washing without injury, especially shrinking or fading. 4. informal. to be found true, valid, or real when tested or closely scrutinized; stand being put to the proof: "his honesty won't wash." |
| Wash | n | The act or process of washing with water or other liquid. 2. a quantity of clothes, linens, etc., washed, or to be washed, at one time: a heavy wash. 3. a liquid with which something is washed, wetted, colored, overspread, etc. 4. the flow, sweep, dash, or breaking of water, as in " the wash of the waves." 5. the sound made by this, as " the wash of the Ocean. |
| Wash | adj | Capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, etc.; washable. |
| Wash | n | "The Wash" - a sandbank or tract of land alternately covered and exposed to the sea. 2. a portion of an estuary able to be cross on foot at low tide. 3. a tract of shallow water; lagoon. 4. also a shallow pool or runnel formed by the overflow of a river. 5. a backwater. 6. a stream or washway running over a road; a wash-way. |
| Wash | phr | "All Come Out in the Wash" - everything will turn out all right in the end. 2. to have a good or satisfactory result; turn out eventually. 2. to be revealed; become known. |
| Wash | phr | "Bring In Somebody Else's Washing" - help somebody by doing part of their work or task. 2. to do each other reciprocal favors. 3. to help each other out |
| Wash | phr | "Get Lost in the Wash" - it just disappeared in the welter of things, in the proceedings etc. |
| Wash | phr | "In the Wash-up" - when everything is finalized. |
| Wash | phr | "It's Eyewash" - nonsense |
| Wash | phr | "It Won't Wash" - it will not be believed or credited. |
| Wash | phr | "One's Brain Needs Washing" - that person is silly. |
| Wash | phr | "That Won't Wash" - that isn't a cogent or convincing reason. |
| Wash | phr | "Wash Away" - move by striking repeatedly. 2. carry away to another place. |
| Wash | phr | "Wash Away One's Sins" - in religion, by an atoning sacrifice , remove from somebody guilt at having broken God's law. |
| Wash | phr | "Wash Down" - to clean completely by washing away dirt and stains. 2. to facilitate the swallowing of (food or medicine) by drinking water or other liquid. 3. of dirt and stains, etc., are removed by washing. |
| Wash | phr | "Wash Off" - remove something from the surface f a material etc, by washing. |
| Wash | phr | "Wash One's Hands off" - to have nothing to do with it after having being concerned in the matter. 2. to abandon something entirely. 3. disassociate oneself from. |
| Wash | phr | "Washed Out" - be very tired; exhausted. 2. very pale or abandoned (because of rain). |
| Wash | phr | "Washed Up" - to end, in failure, ruination, especially badly or ignominiously; failed, finished |
| Wash | phr | "Wash Out" - to be removed by washing; wash the inside of something so as to remove the dirt etc from t. 2. to damage or demolish by the action of water. 3. informal. to fail to qualify or continue; be eliminated: "to wash out of university course." 4. to become dim, indistinct, or blurred: "the face of the watch washes out in sunlight." |
| Wash | phr | "Wash Over" - take place all around somebody, be expressed, without greatly affecting him/her; as a quarrel, dispute etc. 2. flow over. |
| Wash | phr | "Wash Overboard" - swept over the side of a ship into the sea. |
| Wash | phr | "Wash Up" - to wash one's face and hands. 2. to wash (dishes, flatware, pots, etc.) 3. to end, in failure, ruination, especially badly or ignominiously (usually in the passive):" he's all washed up as a singer". 4. (of the movements of the sea) to carry to the shore floating objects or substances. |
| Wash | phr | "Won't Wash" - of an argument not believed or accepted. |
| Wash-and-wear | adj | Designating or pertaining to a garment or fabric so treated as to require little or no ironing after washing. |
| Washboard | n | A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry can be rubbed. 2. music: a board used as a simple percussion instrument. 3. a board fastened along a ship's gunwale to prevent splashing, a splashboard. 4. a stretch of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road, mostly occurring at corners, which is caused by wear from traffic, water erosion or poor guarding. |
| Wash-cloth | n | A small cloth used for washing the body. |
| Wash-day | n | A day of the week set aside for doing household washing. |
| Wash-dirt | n | Auriferous soil or gravel ready for washing. |
| Wash-drawing | n | Drawing done by brush in one tint only. |
| Washed | adj | Cleaned by virtue of having bing washed in water. |
| Washed-out | adj | Faded, colored, pale. 2. colloquial: exhausted, worn-out, tired. |
| Washed-up | adj | No longer capable, effective or needed; over-the-hill. 2. failed, finished, flopped, done with, through. |
| Washer | n | One who washes. 2. a machine for washing or or clothes; a scrubber. 3. a device for purifying gases. 4. a small, flat, perforated disk of metal, leather placed beneath a nut or axle etc. |
| Washer-dryer | n | A washing machine with an in-built tumble-dryer. |
| Washer-up | n | One who washes dish; a dishwasher. |
| Washerwoman | n | A laundress; washwoman. |
| Wash-hand stand | n | Washstand. |
| Washhouse | n | A laundry; wash-house. |
| Washiness | n | The quality or state of being washy. 2. diluted condition, wateriness, weakening of a liquid, ; fig. feebleness, lack of solidity (of thoughts, etc.) 3.chronic looseness of the bowels in animals. |
| Washing | n | Clothing, linen, woolen, garment, textile that have been, or are currently being washed. 2. laundry. 3. the residue after an ore has been washed. 4. the liquid used to wash ore. 5. the work of cleansing with soap and water. |
| Washing | n | "Bring in Somebody Else's Washing" - to do each other reciprocal favors. 2. to help each other out. 3. help somebody by doing part of their work or task. |
| Washing-house | n | A wash-house. |
| Washing-stone | n | A stone on which clothes are put while being washed. 2. the kitchen. |
| Washing-up | n | The pricess of wsahing dishes etc after use. 2. useed dishes etc for washing. |
| Washing-well | n | Fig. a spiritual cleansing. 2. a fount. |
| Washland | n | Land periodicallty flooded by a stream. |
| Wash-leather | n | Imitation chamois or sheepskin. |
| Wash-mill | n | A mixing machine used in the manufacture of cement. |
| Wash-mouth | n | One who blabs out everything a babbler. |
| Wash-out | n | A fiasco, failure. 2. an abandonment of an event for rain. |
| Washpot | n | A washtub. |
| Washroom | n | Lavatory, toilet, bathroom. |
| Wash sale | n | On the Stock Exchange, the buying of stock by the seller's agent, to mislead as to the real demand. |
| Washstand | n | A piece of furniture used for holding utensil for ablutions; a stand for a washbowl or pitcher. |
| Wash-up | n | An act of washing table utensils after a meal. 2. act of washing oneself. 3. the washing of a collected quantity of ore; quanity of fold that has been obtained by washing. 4. a dead body washed up by the waves: a wash-up. 5. scullery. |
| Washway | n | A portion of a road crossed by a shallow stream. 2. a ford, wath, wathstead. 2. a road deeper in the middle than at the sides. |
| Washway | phr | "To Make a Washway" (of or with) - make short work of. |
| Washy | adj | Having too much moisture; water-logged. 2. of wind or weather: bringing moisture or rain. 3. of food, drink, etc.: heavily diluted, weak, sloppy, thin, watery. 4. of painting: having too much wash, lacking body, pale, weak. 5. of literary style: production, utterances, etc. wanting in force, vigour, feeble, sloppy. 6. of persons: lacking strength, weak, feeble, insipid, exhausted, washed-out, poor, mean, worthless. |
| Wasp | n | Any of the many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet or bee. 2. a person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, waspish. |
| Waspish | adj | Quick to resent any trifling, injury, affront, irascible, petulantly, spiteful. |
| Waspishness | n | State or quality of being irritable, irascible, petulant. |
| Wasp-tongued | adj | Petulant from temper; acerbic, biting in words. |
| Wasp-waist | n | A person's waist, so slender to suggest that of a wasp. |
| Waspy | adj | Resembling a wasp, in form: wasp-like. 2. (fig) - irritable, irascible, stinging, spiteful. |
| Wassail | n | A toast to health, usually at a festival. 2. the beverage served during a wassail, esp. one made of ale or wine flavoured with spices, sugar, roasted apples etc. 3. revelry. 4. a festive drinking song or glee |
| Wassail | vb | To toast to the health of others, usually at a festival. 2. to serve beverage during a wassail, esp. one made of ale or wine flavoured with spices, sugar, roasted apples etc. 3. to take part in a wassailing revelry. 4. to sing a festive drinking song or glee while wassailing |
| Wassailer | n | Those who toast to the health of others, usually at a festival. 2. one who drinks the beverage served during a wassail, esp. one made of ale or wine flavoured with spices, sugar, roasted apples etc. 3. a wassailing reveler; a drunkard. 4. one who partakes in the singing of a festive drinking song or glee |
| Wassailing | n | The act or action of being at or taking part in a wassail |
| Wastrum | n | Fruit of the earth; or vegetables. |
| Wastrum-bearing | adj | Fertile, fruitful, productive. |
| Watch | n | Wake of a dead person. 2. four or five periods into which the night was divided anciently; used now rhetorically for the night-time. 3. a vicious of night into day. 4. watchfulness, vigilance. 5. hill serving as a look-out station; a watch-hill. 6. a sailor spell or period of duty. 7. a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty. 8. a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe, vigil. 9. the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty. 10. a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event, lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket. 11. the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival). 12. a timepiece, chronometer; a small portable timepiece, ticker. |
| Watch | vb | To look attentively. 2. follow with the eyes or the mind; observe, follow, watch over, keep an eye on. 3. see or view watch. 4. observe with attention; look on. 5. be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful. 6. observe or determine by looking. 7. find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, learn. |
| Watch | phr | "Lay in Watch" - lay in ambush. |
| Watch | phr | "Need to Watch One's Back" - to find it necessary to take care in case others act against one's interests. |
| Watch | phr | "On the Watch" - waiting for a feared attack. 2. beon the look; observant. |
| Watch | phr | "On Watch" - on lookout duty. |
| Watch | phr | "Through the Watches Of the Night" - night hours when one is on duty, or simply awake, instead of sleeping. |
| Watch | phr | "Watch and Ward" - the charge or care of certain officers to keep a watch by night and a guard by day in towns, cities, and other districts, for the preservation of the public peace. |
| Watch | phr | "Watch and Watch" - the regular alternation in being on watch and off watch of the two watches into which a ship's crew is commonly divided. |
| Watch | phr | "Watch Every Penny" - consider carefully before committing oneself to any item of expenditure, procedure, speech, diet, etc. |
| Watch | phr | "Watch It" - be careful about, not go to far or any farther with a course of action, topic, way of behaviour. |
| Watch | phr | "Watch like a Hawk" - to watch someone very carefully; keep your eyes on someone; be alert. |
| Watch | phr | "Watch One's Mouth" - be careful about what oe says, especially in regard to disrespect and profanity. |
| Watch | phr | "Watch One's Step" - tell someone or advise someone to be careful how they behave in order to avoid getting into trouble. |
| Watch | phr | "Watch One's Tongue" - not be, or stop being, impudent, indiscreet, blasphemous. |
| Watch | phr | "Watch Out" - be careful to avoid danger, or annoy or upset others. |
| Watch | phr | "Watch Out for" - be alert,so that one notices something or somebody important. 2. look out for |
| Watch | phr | "Watch Over" - care for, guard, protect. 2. be responsible for somebody's care, health or safety. |
| Watch | phr | "Watch the Doughnot, Not the Hole" - look for positive aspects. 2.keep one's eye on the substance not the shadow. |
| Watch | phr | "Watch the World Go By" - observe the passing scene, what is going on around one. 2. live a self-sufficient withdrawn, limited life. |
| Watch-bell | n | A bell in ships struck once each half-hour which has elapse to indicate the progress of the watch. |
| Watch-dog | n | A dog to guard property. |
| Watcher | n | One who keeps watch, look out, acts as a sentry; a look-man. |
| Watch fire | n | Fire lighted at night, as a signal, or for the use of a watch or guard. |
| Watchful | adj | Vigilant, wakeful, alert. |
| Watchfully | adv | In a viglant, wakeful, alert manner. |
| Watchfulness | n | The state or quality of being vigilant, wakeful, alertness. |
| Watch-glass | n | The glass covering the face of a watch. 2. a sand-glass used formerly on ships to measure half-hour periods. |
| Watch-house | n | A police station. |
| Watching | n | The act of observing; taking a patient look. 2. observance, observation. |
| Watch-keeper | n | The officer of the watch. |
| Watch-key | n | A key used for winding a watch. |
| Watchless | adj | Keeping no watch, unwatched, unguarded. |
| Watchlessness | n | Lack or state of not being watchful; unwatchfulness |
| Watchlight | n | Night-light formerly in the form of a slow-burning candle. 2. a low-burning lamp used by watchers at night; formerly, a candle having a rush wick. |
| Watchmaker | n | One who makes watches; horologist. |
| Watchman | n | a man who guards property. |
| Watch-meeting | n | A religious meeting to usher in the New Year. |
| Watch night | n | The last night of the year: New Year's Eve; -- so called by the Methodists, Moravians, and others, who observe it by holding religious meetings lasting until after midnight. |
| Watch-spring | n | The mainspring the watch. |
| Watchtower | n | A tower upon which a guard or sentinel is stationed. |
| Watch word | n | A word given to sentries as a signal that one has a right of admission. 2. a password; a motto word, or phrase symbolizing or epitomizing the principles of a party. 3. shibboleth. |
| Watch-wright | n | A watchmaker. |
| Water | n | A transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight. 2. a special form or variety of this liquid, as rain. 3. often, waters. this liquid in an impure state as obtained from a mineral spring. 4. the liquid content of a river, inlet, etc., with reference to its relative height, especially as dependent on tide: a difference of 20 feet between high and low water. 5. the surface of a stream, river, lake, ocean, etc.: above, below, or on the water |
| Water | vb | To sprinkle, moisten, or drench with water: to water the flowers. 2. to supply (animals) with water for drinking.
3. to furnish with a supply of water, as a ship. 4. to furnish water to (a region), as by streams; supply (land) with water, as by irrigation. 4. to dilute, weaken, soften, or adulterate with, or as with, water (often followed by down): eg. soup; an unfavorable report. 5. to discharge, fill with, or secrete water or liquid, as the eyes when irritated, or as the mouth at the sight or thought of tempting food. 6. to drink water, as an animal. 7. to take in a supply of water, as a ship. |
| Water | adj | Of or pertaining to water in any way: a water journey. 2. holding, or designed to hold, water: a water jug. 3.worked or powered by water: as a water turbine. 4. heating, pumping, or circulating; as city water supply. 5. used in or on water: water skis. |
| Water | phr | "Be Above Water" - secure in financial or matter of trust. |
| Water | phr | "Be In Smooth Water" - have no troubles. |
| Water | phr | "Blood is Thicker than Water" - the interest we taken in a stranger is 'thinner' and more fleeting than that which we take in a blood relation. |
| Water | phr | "Blow Something Out of the Water" - to destroyed something. |
| Water | phr | "Breaking of One's Water" - to break the amniotic sac prior to parturition. |
| Water | phr | "By Water" - using a ship etc for trael or transport. |
| Water | phr | "Cast One's Bread on the Water" - not to expect gratitude or recognition for one's work. |
| Water | phr | "Come Hell or High Water" - at evey happens. 2. at whatever cost; regardless of the consequences. |
| Water | phr | "Dead in the Water - a plan or project that is dead in the water is at a standstill or has ceased to function and is unlikely to be reactivated in the future. |
| Water | phr | "Dip One's Toe Into the Water" - to gently explore an opportunity. |
| Water | phr | "Doesn't Hold Water (with)" - something that isn't logical, defensible, or valid: 'that accusation won't hold water'. |
| Water | phr | "Dull as Ditchwater" - very dull; without any mental alertness. |
| Water | phr | "Get Into Hot Water" To say or accuse somebody that they have done something wrong and others are angry with them. |
| Water | phr | "Go by Water" - by ship or boat: to send goods by water. |
| Water | phr | "Go Through Fire and Water" - tackle any difficulty. 2. go through all attendant risks. |
| Water | phr | "Go To Water" - to succumb to pressure. |
| Water | phr | "Hold One's Head Above Water" - to cope with problems with little to spare or by the slightest margin. |
| Water | phr | "Hold Water" - a statement tenable or correct. |
| Water | phr | "I Am For All Waters" - I can turn my hand to everything. 2. I am a jack of all trades. |
| Water | phr | "In Deep Water" - in difficultires; i perplexity |
| Water | phr | "In Hot Water" - in trouble. |
| Water | phr | "In Low Water" - financially embarrassed. |
| Water | phr | "Get Into Hot Water" To say or accuse somebody that they have done something wrong and others are angry with them. |
| Water | phr | "In Smooth Water" - plain sailing; easy days ahead. |
| Water | phr | "Keep/Get One's Head Above Water" - out of embarrassment or trouble, especially of a financial nature. |
| Water | phr | "Lay in Water" - lay midway between the surface and the bottom; fig. keeping impartial or temporizing attitude between two parties. |
| Water | phr | "Like a Fish Out of Water" - be in difficulty by virtue of being in a strange environment. |
| Water | phr | "Like Water Off a Duck's Back" - without having any effect. 2. of criticism: totally rejected. |
| Water | phr | "Make a Hole in the Water" - commit suicide by drowning. |
| Water | phr | "Make One's Mouth Water" - something very alluring, it makes me long for it. 2. to excite ardent desire or longing for something (fig. & literally). |
| Water | phr | "Make Water" - urinate. |
| Water | phr | "Mickle Water Goes Flows by the Miller While He Sleeps" - many things are done in the house while he and his wife sleeps. |
| Water | phr | "Milk and Water" - very weak, of little substance. |
| Water | phr | "Much Water Has Flowed Under the Bridge Since Then" - much has happened since then. |
| Water | phr | (Not) Hold Water" - of an explanation or argument that does not stand up to critical examination and can be shown to be unfounded. |
| Water | phr | "Of the First Water" - something that is of the finest or most exceptional or superlative quality (a paragon) (like being compared to a diamond). |
| Water | phr | "On the Water" - in a ship. |
| Water | phr | "Shoot Something Out of the Water" - to frustate something. |
| Water | phr | "Still Waters Run Deep" - deep thinkers persons of few words. 2. he/she thinks more than is suspected. 3. silent conspirators are more dangerous. |
| Water | phr | "Take Like a Duck to Water" - be completely at ease in a situation. |
| Water | phr | "Take the Water" - to undergo treatment by water. |
| Water | phr | "There Blood in the Water" - something is likely to cause someone to go into a frenzy. |
| Water | phr | "Throw Cold Water on" - be unenthusiastic about something. |
| Water | phr | "Throw Water on the Deal" - to discourage the proposal. 2. to dwell upon the weakness and disadvantages of something. 3. to speak slightly off. |
| Water | phr | "Tread Water" - in swimming, to keep the body erect or upright moving the hand and feet up and down, thus keeping one's head above awater. 2. wait, bide wait, be patient for longer-term benefits. |
| Water | phr | "Turn On the Waterworks" - cry profusely. |
| Water | phr | "Water Down" - of something such as a report, declaration or proposal, one tries to make weaker or less likely to cause anger. 2. dilute; make weaker by adding water. 3. make arguments less extreme or forceful. |
| Water | phr | "Water Off a Duck's Back Criticism or comments which have no effect on someone |
| Water | phr | "Water of Life" - brandy, vodka, whisky. 2. the spiritual life. |
| Water | phr | "Water One's Eyes" - cry. |
| Water | phr | "Water on the Brain" - hydrocephalus. |
| Water | phr | "Water on the Knee" - chronic synovitis, an accumulation of serous fluid in the knee-joint. |
| Water | phr | "Water to One's Mill" (idiomatic) whatever energizes or stimulates one. |
| Water | phr | "Water Under the Bridge" - of something difficult or unpleasant took place in the past but is no longer important. |
| Water | phr | "Water with One's Tears" - to cry copiously. |
| Water | phr | "Where the Water Sticks" - where the discussion comes to a standstill. |
| Water | phr | "Write on, or in Water"- to fail to leave an abiding record. |
| Water-adder | n | Any aquatic serpent resembling an adder. |
| Water-ask | n | A water newt, a water-eft. |
| Water-bath | n | A vessel used for heating a substance. |
| Water-bear | n | Any of the various species of tardigrade. |
| Water-bearer | n | One who carries and sells water for an occupation. 2. a sign of the zodiac, Aquarius. |
| Waterbed | n | A rubber mattress filled with warm water to distribute the weight of a patient body over a large surface. |
| Water-bird | n | Any bird that inhabits a freshwater environment. 2. waterfowl, seabird, shorebird. |
| Water-bewitched | adj | (Coll) for excessively diluted liquor, now chiefly, very weak tea. |
| Water-bloom | n | The sudden appearance of a large mass of blue-green algae in bodies of fresh water. |
| Water-boatman | n | The boat-fly; a pond bug which swims backwards. |
| Water-borne | adj | Borne or carried on or by water. |
| Water-brain | n | A disease of sheep characterized by staggering as from giddiness. |
| Water-break | n | An irruption, a breach by water. 2. breakwater. |
| Water-cool | vb | To cool by means of water. |
| Water-cooled | adj | Coled by the circulation of water. |
| Water-cooler | n | A vessel or apparatus for cooling and dispensing water. |
| Water-craft | n | Skill in water matters. 2. a vessel that plies on the water; such vessels collectively. |
| Water dog | n | A dog that takes readily to water, as a water spaniel. 2. a dog trained to retrieve waterfowl. 3. colloq. a sailor. |
| Water drain | n | A drain that carries water. |
| Water-drawer | n | One who does menial work, as fetching water from wells and streams. |
| Water-drinker | n | A drinker of water, one who drinks water in preference to wine or other liquors; now usually a total abstainer. |
| Water-drop | n | A single drop of water. |
| Water-dust | n | Water in the form of extremely fine particles as in clouds and spall. |
| Watered | adj | Supplied with or having adequate supply of water. 2. of silk: having a wavelike pattern; moire. 3. tear-shedding , lacrimose, tearing. 3. wetted by water. |
| Watered-down | adj | Moderate, diluted, weakened in strength or vitality. |
| Water-elm | n | The Planer, Ulmus americana. |
| Waterer | n | One who waters in any sense. 2. any contrivance used for watering. |
| Water-eynd | n | The Eynd orWatersmoke, as it is called in Norfolk is a remarkable phenomenon, occurring mostly between spring and autumn with a peculiar suddenness |
| Waterfall | n | A cascade, cataract. |
| Water-fare | n | A ferry. |
| Waterfast | adj | Watertight, impervious to water. |
| Water figwort | n | Wort or plant of the figwort genus "Scrophularia auriculate." |
| Water-finder | n | One (a water-finder) who finds subterranean springs or supplies of water by means of a divining rod or dowser. |
| Water-flea | n | A minute free-swimmimg crustacean found in stagnant water. |
| Waterflood | n | A moving flood or overflowing of water; a tempestrous sea. 2. water as opposed to land. 3. |
| Waterflow | n | The amount of water flowing (as past a valve) per unit of time. 2. the flow of a water supply. |
| Water-foot | n | Mouth of a stream. 2. village or town at the mouth of a river. |
| Waterfowl | n | Birds such as ducks, geese, swan, that spend most of their non-flying time on water. |
| Water-free | adj | Not containing water. |
| Water-gall | n | A deep circle or ring around the eyes from weping. 2. a strange appearance in a rainbow, which indicates more rain at hand. |
| Watergang | n | A flood. 2. a watercourse, esp. an artificial watercourse. 3. a mill-leat or the like. |
| Water-gate | n | A sluice gate; a floodgate. 2. a gate through which water-traffic enters. 3. a channel for water; a watercourse. |
| Water-girt | n | Surrounded by water, as sea-girt. |
| Water-glass | n | A water clock or clepsydra. 2. surface of the water serving as a mirror. 3. a glass vessel to contain water; esp. such a vessel intended for keeping plants in water. |
| Water-gray | adj | The color of recyled water from sinks, tubs, washing machines, but from sewage. |
| Water-green | adj | Water by green algae. |
| Water-hammer | n | An oscillating noise in a water-pipe due to a sudden turning-off of the water supply. |
| Water-head | n | The head or source of a stream; adjoining the source of the stream. |
| Water-heater | n | A device for heating (especially domestic) water. |
| Water-hemlock | n | The cowbane. |
| Water-hen | n | An aquatic bird; the moorhen. |
| Water-hog | n | The bush-pig or water pig of Africa. 2. the capybara. 3. a machine used to soak up excess water from sports fields. |
| Water-hole | n | A depression in which water collects, esp. one where wild animals come to drink; a watering-hole. 2. a part of the electro-magnetic spectrum, between the regions where hydrogen and hydroxyl radiate, that is relatively quie in terms of radio astronomy. |
| Water-horse | n | Hipotamus; river-horse. 2. a fabled water-spirit appearing in the form of a horse, cf. kelpie. |
| Water-ice | n | A massive ice formation made by the direct freezing of water, and not by the compacting of snow. 2. a confection of water and sugar, flavoured and frozen. |
| Wateriness | n | Watery constituent or element; aquaceous matter contained or diffused through liquid or solid. 3. a watery secretion. 4. state of being watery; watery in quality or nature. 5. superfluity of water as a constituent, connoting poorness, thinness, insipidity of the blood. 6. of an article of food, containing too much water. 7. literary style of composition or writing. 8. state of being saturated in water. |
| Watering | n | The act of one who is watering. 2. the act of producing a wavy ornamental effect. |
| Watering | adj | Lacrimious, larmoyant, teary. 2. situated near the shore or near mineral springs. |
| Watering-cart | n | A cart or car used to water plants or flower, or for the sprinkling of streets. |
| Watering-hole | n | A place where refreshments and liquor is supplied. |
| Watering-pot | n | A tin can having a spout fitted with a perforated nozzle: used for watering plants and gardens. 2. a watering-can. |
| Waterish | adj | Composed of water, of the nature of water; acqueous. 2. resembling water in appearance and sensible properties. 3. as a designation of colour- light grey, pale blue. 4. native to or inhabiting the water; acqueous. 5. relating to or concerned with water; acqueous. 6. containing an excess of water. 7. of eyes: somewhat watery. 8. of weather, air: charged with water. 9. of ground: damp, wet. 10. of plants and fruit : juicy, succulent. |
| Waterishness | n | The state or quality of being watery. |
| Water-kind | n | The nature of water. |
| Water-lade | n | A channel for carrying water; an aqueduct. |
| Water-laden | adj | Full of water. |
| Water-lane | n | A green lane or area with a stream running through it. 2. a narrow passage of open water between masses of reeds; also a narrow passage of open water between lines of shipping. |
| Water Leaf | n | A carved detail like an elongated laurel leaf, characteristic of Sheraton and Hepplewhite furniture. |
| Waterless | adj | Destitute of water: having or containing no water. 2. of process needing no water. |
| Waterlessness | n | The state of condition of being dry or lacking water. 2. not requiring or depending on water. |
| Water-lift | n | The transportation of personnel, equipment, and supplies by water. |
| Waterline | n | The outline of a coast. 2. linear or watermark on paper. |
| Waterlily | n | Any plant of the genus Nymphea. |
| Waterline | n | The part of the hull of a ship which correswponds with the water level at various loads. 2. a river or system of waterways affording transportation. |
| Water-locked | adj | Surrounded by water. |
| Water lot | n | A buildng lot fronting on a body of water, as a river, harbor, etc. 2. a piece of ground or a lot wholly or partially covered by water, or a piece of swamp land designated to be filled in for use. |
| Watermain | n | A large pipe running under the street for conveying water. |
| Waterman | n | Seaman, mariner, sailor. 2. a waterman, especially one who offers boats for hire. |
| Watermark | n | A translucent design impressed on the surface of the paper and visible when the paper is held to the light. |
| Watermark | vb | To make paper with watermark. 2. to mark a database with a digital watermark. |
| Water-meadow | n | A meadow periodically overflowed by a stream. |
| Water-mill | n | A mill (for whatever purpose) powered by water. |
| Watermole | n | Arvicola amphibious. |
| Watermonger | n | Contemptous use of (monger of water; a water-monger) designation for a water-caster or diviner. |
| Water-mouth | n | The mouth of a river. |
| Water oak | n | A species of oak, (Quercus nigra )growing by swamps and streams in the eastern United States. |
| Water-of-life | n | A drink which gives life or immortality to the drinker. 2. a name for whishy, vodka etc. (acquae vitae) |
| Water-ordeal | n | "Hot-water ordeal" : the putting of the accused or defendant's arm up to the elbow in boiling or seething water in order to retrieve a stone. If, after three days, God hadn't healed the accused's hand, he would be judged guilty of the crime. 2. "Cold-water ordeal" - under which a person, usually accused of being a witch, and accused of the crime of consorting with the Devil was submerged in a stream, and acquitted only if she survived. |
| Water ox | n | A water buffalo. |
| Water pepper | n | Any or several species of knotweed, especially the common smartweed. |
| Water-pipe | n | A pipe for conveying water. 2. a hookah. |
| Water-quenched | adj | Of cooling rapidly achieved, where water as a quenching medium extracts heat much faster. |
| Water-rat | n | A rat found in creeks, rivers and streams. 2. in Australia: the Rakali or "Hydromys chryogaster." 3. a petty thief or ruffian; a waterfront criminal. 4. a person fond of water sports. 5. ( in Austrlia) slang for a member of the water police |
| Water-rights | n | The rights to the use of water on a tract of land. 2. the right to navigate or use a particular part of a waterway. |
| Water-rot | n | Rusting and holing in metals caused by water. |
| Water-rotted | adj | Rotted by steeping in water, in the watering of hemp or flax. 2. rotted by exposure to water, as timber of a building. |
| Waters | n | In early use the term "after the waters of" - stream; river; "by the waters of Babylon". 2. flood, sheet of water. |
| Water-shake | n | A seismic disturbance of the water; tidal wave. |
| Water-shaken | adj | Land saturated or flooded by water. |
| Water-shard | n | A deepened channel made by banking up the sides of the stream, waterway. |
| Water-shed | n | In hydrology: the topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest. 2. a region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin. 3. a critical point marking a change in course or development. 4. in Canada, UK: the time after which material of more adult nature (violence, swear words, sex) may be broadcast on television or radio, either one laid down or one contrived (e.g. when children are not watching..) 5. water parting, drainage divide, water divide, divide. 6. drainage or catchment basin, catchment, catchment area, drainage area, river basin, water basin. 7. safe harbor (US). |
| Water-shield | n | Any kind of an aquatic plant, including the fanwort (Cabomba). |
| Watershoot | n | Outflow of drainage water from land. 2. water carried of by draining a channel or canal. 3. water from the overflow of waterfall, cascade. |
| Watershot | n | A sudden flood, water interspersed of streams. |
| Water-shut | n | Anything used t stop the passage and flow of water, as a tap, faucet, sluice-gate etc. |
| Water-sick | n | Unproductive because of excessive irrigataion : said of land. |
| Watersick | n | Dropsy. 2. said of land: unproductive because of excessive irrigation. |
| Waterside | n | Land bordering a body of water. |
| Waterside | adj | Of, pertaining to or situated by the waterside, by a river, sea, ocean, lake etc. 2. of or pertaining to, or living or growing near the water's edge or margin. 3. the shore of a body of water; the water's edge working by the waterside, as a stevedore. |
| Watersider | n | A worker who works on the wharf unloading cargo from ships. |
| Water-sky | n | A word used by explorers in the Arctic to denote a dark or brown sky. |
| Watersmeet | n | A meeting point of two or more streams. |
| Water-smoke | n | "The Eynd" orWatersmoke, as it is called in Norfolk is a remarkable phenomenon, occurring mostly between spring and autumn with a peculiar suddenness |
| Watersnake | n | The common grass snake, found in close proximity. |
| Water-soak | vb | To fill the pores or crevices with water; soak in water. |
| Water-soaked | adj | Saturated by water. |
| Water-soddened | adj | Soaked or steeped in water. |
| Water-softener | n | An apparatus used for making hard water soft by chemical means. 2. the chemical used to make hard water soft. |
| Water-sop | n | Mead soaked by water. |
| Water-spelling | n | Hydromancy. |
| Water-spider | n | An aquatic spider. |
| Waterspring | n | A permanent flow of water issuing from the earth; now chiefly in biblical expressions. |
| Water starwort | n | Any of the widely distributed genus, Calliche. |
| Water-stead | n | The bed or course of a river. 2. a convenient spot on the bank where cattle can go for a drink. |
| Water-stone | n | A stone basin for holy-water. 2. a kind of philosopher's stone. 3. a whetstone used with water and not oil. 4. a rock stratum abounding with water. |
| Water streaks | n | Dark streaks in oak due damage to the trees. |
| Water-tight | adj | Waterfast: so closely made that water cannot leak through. 2. constructed so as to be impermeable. 3. of an argemant, unassailable or without loopholes. |
| Water-treader | n | Poet: a ship; a sea steed. |
| Water-trough | n | A long, narrow container open on top for watering animals. |
| Water-wall | n | A wave, in the form of a wall of water, formed by an incoming tide funneling into an estuary. |
| Water-walled | adj | Forming into a wave on the incoming tide funneling into an estuary. |
| Waterward | adj | From the direction in which the water flows. |
| Water-washed | adj | Drenched with water, flushed, flooding, flooded, or inundated by running water. |
| Water-wave | n | A wave of water; a billow. 2. a seismic wave in the sea; a tidal wave, tsunami. 3. an undulating effect of the hair, artificially produced when the hair is wet, and unusually set by drying with heat. |
| Waterway | n | Used in OE. with uncertain meaning; "Toller and Bosworth": a channel connecting two pieces of water. 2. a channel for the passage or escape of something watery. 3. a river, canal, portion of sea, lake, river viewed as amedium of transit. 4. distance to be travelled by water, right of access by water. 5. a track or way across water. 6. the breadth of a navigable water-courses. |
| Water weasel | n | A military amphibious carrier with caterpillar tracks. |
| Waterweed | n | A submerged aquatic perennial, Anacharis canadensis. |
| Water-wheel | n | A wheel with buckets attaché to its rim, used to raise water from a stream or pond etc. 2. a wheel propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery. |
| Water-willow | n | The purple loosestrife, Lythrum Salicisia. |
| Water-wings | n | Organs of propulsion in the water, especially used by those learning to swim. |
| Water-wit | n | The rough humour of waterman. |
| Water-witch | n | A witch inhabiting the water, the stormy petrel - Procellaria pelagia. 2. a female dowser. |
| Water-witching | n | Divination for water; hydromancy; rhabdomancy. |
| Waterwood | n | Chimarrhis cymoa. |
| Waterworks | n | The water-supply system of a town etc., including reservoirs, pipes, filtration system etc. 2. slang or informal: tears, as, "turn on the tears." 3. slang or informal: the genito-urinary system. |
| Water-worn | adj | Worn or eroded by the action of water upon. |
| Water-worship | n | Religious adoration paid to rivers, bodies of water and waterways etc. ie. by the Celts. |
| Water-worshipper | n | A religious worship and adoration of water and waterways. |
| Waterwort | n | Any plant of the family "Elatinaceae" of aquatic; betony. |
| Watery | adj | Wet, soggy, or soaked with watery. 2.diluted or having too much water. 3. (of light): thin and pale therefore suggestive of water. 4. weak and insipid. 5. discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease. 6. teary, lachrimous. |
| Watery-eyed | adj | With eyes full of tears. |
| Wath | n | A ford, river-crossing, water-road, warth. |
| Wathstead | n | A ford, river-crossing, water-road, warth. |
| Watling street | n | The Great Roman road beginning at dover and running through Canterbury to London, hence through St Albans and Dunstable along the boundary of Leicester and Warwick, to Wroxeter. In the late C9th it became the boundary between Anglo-Saxon territory and Danish territory. The Name comes from Old English Waeclingaceaster (now known as St Albans). |
| Wattle | n | A number of rods or stakes interwoven with twigs or tree branches for making fences, walls, etc. 2. wattles, a number of poles laid on a roof to hold thatch. 3. (in Australia) any of various acacias whose shoots and branches were used by the early colonists for wattles, now valued especially for their bark, which is used in tanning. |
| Wattle | vb | To bind, wall, fence, etc., with wattle or wattles. 2. to roof or frame with or as if with wattles. 3. to form into a basketwork; interweave; interlace. 4. to make or construct by interweaving twigs or branches: to wattle a fence |
| Wattle-bird | n | Any of the several australian honey-eaters. |
| Wattled | adj | Made with wattles. 2. having wattles, combs or gills of a tincture different from the body. |
| Wattle-work | n | Wickerwork, as in basket making, with upright stakes and interwoven withes. |
| Wattling | n | An interwoven mesh of twig; the act of making such a mesh; wattlework. |
| Waugh | adj | Form of wallow: tastleless, insipid, unpleasant to the sense of smell, or taste, sickly, faint, weak. |
| Wave | n | A disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell. 2. any surging or progressing movement or part resembling a wave of the sea. 3. a swell, surge, or rush, as of feeling or of a certain condition: a wave of disgust sweeping over a person. 4. a widespread feeling, opinion, tendency, etc.: a wave of hysteria. 5. a mass movement, as of troops, settlers, or migrating birds. |
| Wave | vb | To move freely and gently back and forth or up and down, as by the action of air currents, sea swells, etc.: The flags were waving in the wind. 2. to curve alternately in opposite directions; have an undulating form. 3. to bend or sway up and down or to and fro, as branches or plants in the wind. 4. to be moved, especially alternately in opposite directions. 5. to give a signal by fluttering or flapping something: "he waved to me with his hand". 6. to cause to flutter or have a waving motion in: A night wind waves the tattered banners. 7. to cause to bend or sway up and down or to and fro. 8. to give an undulating form to; cause to curve up and down or in and out. 9. to give a wavy appearance or pattern to, as silk. 10. to impart a wave to (the hair). |
| Wave | phr | "Have a Brainwave" - have a sudden occurring bright idea. |
| Wave | phr | "Make Waves" - to stir trouble, make things worse, make a fuss. 2. to disturb the status quo; cause trouble, as by questioning or resisting the accepted rules, procedures, etc. |
| Wave | phr | "On the Same Wavelength (with)" - sharing an interest, opinion. 2. feel or think the same way about something as somebody else. |
| Wave | phr | "On the Wrong Wavelength (with)" - be incorrect in one's thinking. |
| Wave | phr | "Ride the Wave" - to be successful for the time being. |
| Wave | phr | "The Tenth Wave" - Commonly believed to be higher than preceding nine waves. Although it is true that wind effect causes one wave to override another, and so make a larger wave, it is not established that the eleventh wave will do this - so making a larger tenth wave. |
| Wave | phr | "Wave a Dead Chicken" - of a person when faced with a serious problem, who takes steps, knowing in advance that they will be futile, to show that they have made an effort. |
| Wave | phr | "Wave a Finger at Someone" - to indicate mild displeasure at another person's actions. |
| Wave | phr | "Wave Aside" - dismiss as unimportant or irrelevant. |
| Wave | phr | "Wave Away" - wave someone or something away (from someone or something) to make a signal with the hand for someone or something to move away from someone or something. |
| Wave | phr | "Wave Down" - signal with the hand in order to stop a vehicle. |
| Wave | phr | "With a Wave of the Hand" - as if by magic something can be done or achieved. |
| Wave-breaker | n | Breakwater. |
| Wave-cloud | n | A cloud consisting of parallel or ridges, separated by strips of clear sky, due to air currents occurring at the bounding plane betwen two strata of the atmosphere. |
| Waved | adj | Having the form of waves, presenting a wavy outline or appearance, undulating, undulated. 2. of hair, wavy. 3. of a sword, dagger: having undulating edge. 4. silk: having undulating markings. |
| Wavedown | vb | To wave at (wave down a vehicle) as a signal to stop. |
| Waved Star Wort | n | Aster Undulatus. |
| Wave-free | adj | Very calm, waveless waterways. |
| Wavelength | n | The length of a single cycle of a wave, as measured by the distance between one peak or trough of a wave and the next. |
| Wavelength | phr | "On the Same Wavelength (with)" - sharing an interest, opinion. 2. feel or think the same way about something as somebody else. 3. to think on similar lines |
| Wavelength | phr | "On the Wrong Wavelength (with)" - to be incorrect in one's thinking. 2. to think on different lines |
| Waveless | adj | Having no waves or undulation. 2. not agitated or disturbed by waves. |
| Wave-like | adj | Resembling a wave; pertaining to a wave. 2. after the manner of a wave or waves. |
| Waven | vb | To be agitated, astonished, amazed, to gaze at, wonder at, admire. |
| Wave-off | n | The act of denying landing privileges to an approaching aircraft, usually an aircraft making a faulty approach for landing on a an aircraft carrier. |
| Waver | n | Related to O.E. 'wave' and O.N. 'vafra': to flicker ? One who vacillates, a waverer. 2. one who waves or causes to wave. 3. an undulating swing or fluttering. 4. implement for making the hair wavy. 5. the act or condition of wavering in a physical sense, a flutter or trembling. 6. condition of vacillating or faltering on or upon the waver, in uncertainty or unsteadiness. 7. inding now this now that. |
| Waver | n | "The Waver" - name of the star "Fomalhaut" in the Constellation "Piscis Australis" |
| Wavering | adj | Wandering, vagrant. 2. tottering, shaking, faltering, reeling, fluttering, floating, waving, surging, vacillating, undulated, faltering in resolution or allegiance. |
| Wavering-ness | n | The state or condition of wavering. |
| Waveless | adj | Without a wave or waves. |
| Wavelike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a wave in some aspect. |
| Wave | n | "Wave-off" - the act of denying landing rights or priveleges to an approaching aircraft making a faulty approach for landing on a aircrarft carrier. |
| Waver | vb | To move to and fro; sway, flutter. 2, to be uncertain or undecided, showing irresolution, vacillate, fluctuate. show signs of falling back or giving away; reel,falter. 3, quaver, tremble, waver. |
| Waverer | n | A hestitant, vacillating, faltering person. |
| Waverily | adv | Irresolutely, vacillatingly, faltering. |
| Wavering | n | Vacillation, hestitancy, fluctuation. |
| Waveringly | adv | In a wavering manner or way. |
| Wave-swept | adj | Exposed to the action of waves. |
| Wavewhite | adj | "Wavewhite, wedded words shimmering in the dim tide" - foamy, wave-whiten sea or surf. 2. wave-whiten bones. 3. white, bleached white |
| Wave-worn | adj | Eroded or worn away by the action of the sea and waves. |
| Wavily | adv | In a wavy manner. |
| Waviness | n | The state or quality of being wavy. |
| Waving | adj | Repeated moving of arms or hands to signal. |
| Wavy | adj | Characterised by wavy or fluttering; unsteady, tremulous. |
| Waw | vb | OE: wagian. 2. to shake, totter, more loosely to be ready to fall. 2. to sway to and fro on a base. 3. to wave in the wind. 4. of water, wind to move restlessly or uncertainly. 5. of tongue: wagging. 6. of person or animal: to move, stir, go also with a sway. 7. to cause to move, stir, move a limb. |
| Wawing | n | The wawing of the water: moving restlessly; undulating. |
| Wax | n | An oily, water-resistant substance. 2. any preparation containing wax used as a polish. 3. a phonograph record. |
| Wax | vb | To grow, increase in size, of the body, hair. 2. of a company, host, people: to increase in number. 4. of inanimate things: to increase in size, quantity, volume, intensity. 5. of water: to rise, swell. flow out in a flood. 6. of day or daylight, night: to grow longer. 7. of the moon: to undergo the period in extent. 8. of quality, state of things, activity, wealth: to become gradually greater or more striking. 8. to increase in potency and intensity. 9. in contrast to wane: wanes. 10. of activity, event, etc., to come into being, spring up, begin, arise, occur. 11. of the day: to appear, dawn. 12. of fire: to wax out: burn out, become extinguished for lack of fuel. 13. with numerals: to amount to a specific number. |
| Wax | phr | "In an Awful Wax" - angry, vexed, extremely annoyed. |
| Wax | phr | "Man of Wax" - a model man; like one made of wax. |
| Wax | phr | "Nose of Wax" - of accommodating manner; mutable; yielding character, weak and giving. |
| Wax | phr | "Wax and Wane" - increase and then decrease; |
| Wax | phr | "Wax Forth" - to be born or created. |
| Wax | phr | "Wax in Eld" - to advance in years. |
| Wax | phr | "Wax in One's Hands" - be overcompliant or easily influenced by others. |
| Wax | phr | "Wax Out" - to burn out or become extinguished because of lack of fuel. |
| Wax | phr | "Wax Up" - to burst into anger ("In a wax") |
| Wax | phr | "Written on Wax" or "As If Written On Wax" - soon or quickly effaced. |
| Waxberry | n | The wax-berry or hayberry. 2. the wax myrtle and its fruit. |
| Wax-candle | n | A candle made of wax. |
| Wax-cloth | n | An oil-cloth for floors. |
| Waxed | adj | Coated with wax; saturated with wax. |
| Wax-hearted | adj | Soft and pliant. |
| Waxen | adj | Made of wax. 2. smooth and lustrous in surface, said of flowers, fruit, youthful limbs and other things. 2. pallor of a corpse or sick persons. |
| Waxen | adj | Grown-up, full-grown, adult. |
| Waxen | vb | To cover or dressed in wax. |
| Wax-end | n | A cobbler thread with a point stiffened bby wax or a bristle to enter more easily a hole made by an awl. |
| Waxing | ppl | The action of wax, growing, increasing. 2. the process of covering in wax. |
| Waxiness | n | Waxy appearance. |
| Waxing | adj | That waxs, grows on, increase of flesh excretion. |
| Wax-light | n | The taper or candle of wax. |
| Wax-moth | n | A bee-moth, whose larvae feeds on beeswax. |
| Wax-scot | n | A customary payment made for the maintenance of lights in churches. |
| Wax-tree | n | A tree which yields Japanese wax. |
| Waxweed | n | An annual, clammy, hairy herb. |
| Waxworks | n | An exhibition of waxwork figures, a wax museum. |
| Waxy | adj | Made of wax. 2. angry, vexes, extremely annoyed. as "in a wax" |
| Way | n | Wayse, Weys. 2. road, path, track, street, lane, main road, highway. 2. path through a wood, duct, channel of any kind of any kind in the body of man or other animals. 3. course of travel or movement; mode of transport. 4. guidance or direction. 5. course or line of actual movement. 6. wake of a vessel. 7. gen. opportunity to advance, absence of obstruction, forward movement. 8. freedom of action, scope, opportunity. 9. manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
10. characteristic or habitual manner. 11. a method, plan, or means for attaining a goal. |
| Way | sfx | Terminal element of adv. as, in broadway, edgeway, straightway, needway (necessarily), sideway. |
| Way | phr | "A One way Street" - a flow of activity in one direction. |
| Way | phr | "Be On One's Way" - leave, move away. |
| Way | phr | "By the Way" - incidentally, in passing. |
| Way | phr | "By Way of" - with the object or purpose of. 2. to serve as. 3. by way of introduction. 4. vai, or as for. |
| Way | phr | "Come One's Way" - become available to one; become one's lot. |
| Way | phr | "Each Way" - to lay a bet for a win and a place. |
| Way | phr | "Elbow One's Way" - force one's way through a crowd. |
| Way | phr | "Fall by the Wayside"- a plan or project that remains unfinished or one stop trying to do it. |
| Way | phr | "Find a Way" - discoer a means of obtaining one's object. |
| Way | phr | "Get in the Way" - hindering, obstructing |
| Way | phr | "Get One's Way" - get what one's want; ensure one's wishes are met. |
| Way | phr | "Give Right of Way" - to allow access through a property to others. |
| Way | phr | "Give Way (to)" - to let past, concede, submit. 2. collapse, subside. 3. concede, submit. 4. release one's emotions. |
| Way | phr | "Go a Long Way Towards" - t be very helpful in. |
| Way | phr | "Go One's Own Way" - to choose carefully and willfully one's course of action. |
| Way | phr | "Go Out of One's Ways" - take the trouble to. |
| Way | phr | "Go Out of One's Way (to do something)" - take the trouble to help. |
| Way | phr | "Go The Way of All Flesh"- to die; experience common to all men in their passage through life. |
| Way | phr | "Have a Way With One" - have an attractive, friendly personality. 2. be good at dealing with. |
| Way | phr | "Have a Way with Somebody, Something" - be good at dealing with. 2. be good at using something. |
| Way | phr | "Have Everything One's Way" - do everything one wants. |
| Way | phr | "Have It Both Ways" - have the advantage of two mutually exclusive options. |
| Way | phr | "Have One's Own Way" - do what ever one wants to. |
| Way | phr | "In a Way" - in one respect. |
| Way | phr | "In a Small Way" - on a smaall scale. |
| Way | phr | "In Its Way" - if regarded from a particular standopint appropriate to it. |
| Way | phr | "In (Somebody's/One's) Way" - obstructing somebody,hindering; within the reach of. |
| Way | phr | "Keep Out of Harm's Way" - stay safe or out of danger. |
| Way | phr | "Know Which way to Turn" - know which strategy to adopt or where to seek assistance. |
| Way | phr | "Lead the Way" - go first. |
| Way | phr | "Look the Other Way" - deliberately ignored. |
| Way | phr | "Lose the Way" - become lost. |
| Way | phr | "Make Headway" - make progress. |
| Way | phr | "Make One's Way" - go, or succeed. |
| Way | phr | "Make Way For" - to move aside (and leave room) for. |
| Way | phr | "Meet Somebody Half Way" - agree to a compromise. |
| Way | phr | "Not Out of the Way" - acceptable. |
| Way | phr | "No Way" - definitely not. |
| Way | phr | "One Way and Another" - considering everything. 2. taking various considerations into account. |
| Way | phr | "On the Way" - coming, expected or on route. 2. in the course of the journey. 3. progressing. |
| Way | phr | "On the Way Out" - becoming unfashionable, obsolescent. 2. going down in status. |
| Way | phr | "On Your Way" - leave, move away. |
| Way | phr | "Out of (Somebody's) Way" - not obstructing somebody. 2. out of the reach of. 3. not on an one's intended route. |
| Way | phr | "Over the Way" - opposite. |
| Way | phr | "Put In The Way of" - help to obtain |
| Way | phr | "See Which Way the Wind is Blowing" - to establish the facts relevant to the situation. |
| Way | phr | "Stand In Somebody's Way" - to prevent someone from achieving their goals |
| Way | phr | "Step this Way" - please follow me. |
| Way | phr | "That's the Way it Goes" - that is the (inevitable) situation. |
| Way | phr | "That's the Way the Chips Fall" - that is the actual situation. |
| Way | phr | "There's More than One Way to Skin a Cat" - a matter can b resolved in various ways. |
| Way | phr | "Thread One's Way" - move between obstructions, through openings. |
| Way | phr | "Under Way" - making progress steadily; in progress. |
| Way | phr | "Way Back (When)" - a long time ago; in times past. |
| Way | phr | "Way Enough!" - an order to stop pulling oars on a boat. |
| Way | phr | "Way of Life" - the normal pattern of social, or working life of an individial or group. |
| Way | phr | "Way of the World" - what many people do (whether we approve or not) ansd what we are all accustomed to seeing done. |
| Way | phr | "Way of Thinking" - one's customary opinion |
| Way | phr | "Way One's Mind Works" - how one tends to think, learn, reason etc. at a particular time. |
| Way | phr | "Way Out Of Something" - a way of avoiding, or solving a problem, difficulty etc. |
| Way | phr | "Way One's Mind Works" - how one tends to think, learn, reason etc. at a particular time. |
| Way | phr | "Way to a Man's Heart is Through His Belly" - men enjoy good food, expect to be fed well, and a woman esp. can olsase them, or gain their affection, by providing this. |
| Way | phr | "Well on the Way to" - nearly. |
| Way | phr | "Worm One's Way in" - subtly insinuate oneself into a personal trust. |
| Way back | adj | (Australian slang)- long ago, a long time ago. 2. far away, in a remote, rural area; hailing from a remote area. |
| Way-bit | n | A short distance, a short time, as, in " from Sleep to Death, there's but a way-bit." |
| Way-board | n | A thin layer separating thicker strata of rock. |
| Way-bread | n | Plantain, sense being "broad-leaved (waybroad) plant of the roadside(s)" |
| Wayfare | n | To travel or go a long way on foot; rambling. 2. to undertake journeys, trips by various mean or mode of transport |
| Wayfarer | n | One who goes along way on foot; a rambler. 2. one who undertakes journeys or trips along roads and ways. |
| Wayfaring | n | Travelling or journeying by road. |
| Wayfaring-tree | n | A shrub with elder-like berries and heart-shaped leaves. |
| Waygate | n | The act of fact of going away; way-going. 2. act of leaving a habitation or employment. |
| Way-going | n | The action og going or departing. 2. waygate. |
| Way-gone | adj | Wearied and exhausted. |
| Way-in | adj | Conventional, fashionable, sophisticated. |
| Waying | n | A going-way, departure, as, in "We speed their waying". |
| Waying | phr | "We Speed Their Waying." - we assist a going-way, or departure. |
| Wayland | n | In Teutonic and English mythology, an invincible blacksmith with magical powers, also 'Wayland the Smith' |
| Wayland Smith | n | In Teutonic and English mythology, an invincible blacksmith with magical powers, also known as 'Wayland the Smith' a wonderful and supernatural smith and lord of the elves. |
| Wayleet | n | A place where two roads meet. a waymeet. |
| Waylay | vb | To lie in ambush for and attack, as in order to rob. 2. to accost on the way. |
| Waylayer | n | One who lies in wait in wait for and attack in order to rob. |
| Way-leave | n | A right of way granted by a landowner for specific purpose in consideration or purpose. 2. an arrangement, when purchasing standing trees, to provide convenient passage for the transport of the felled trees. |
| Wayleet | n | A place where two roads meet; a waymeet. |
| Wayless | adj | Chiefly of a country, region: having no ways or roads, trackless, path. 2. fig. lacking direction, purpose or goals. |
| Wayless-ness | adj | The state or condition of being wayless. |
| Way-maker | n | One who makes or repairs raods and ways. 2. a person or thing that prepares the way for another: a forerunner, precursor or prelude, a harbinger. |
| Waymark | n | Object, whether natural or artificial structures, which serves as a guide to traveler; also fig. |
| Way-off | (adv | (Also adj.) far way. 2. far from the intended target. 3. greatly wrong or mistaken, quite wrong; distant. |
| Wayout | adv | Far out, far away. 2. far removed from reality, or from convention, extreme, progressive, fashionable, up-to- date, avant-garde, advanced. 3. great mistaken. 4. a person who holds extreme or uncanny views. |
| Way-outness | n | Unconventionality, state removed fro reality. 2. extremeness, avant-garde-ness. |
| Ways | sfx | (-ways) of adverbs. In a specified manner, direction or position: noways, sideways; often equivalent to wise |
| Ways and Means | n | Means and methods of accomplishing an end or defraying costs, specifically, in legislation, methods of raising funds for the use of government. |
| Wayside | n | The side or edge of a road or way. |
| Wayside | adj | Pertaining to the side of the road, street or path. 2. growing, being or bordering either side of a way. |
| Wayside | phr | "Fall by the Wayside"- a plan or project that remains unfinished or one stop trying to do it. |
| Way up | adv | Excellent, fist-class, of high social state or class. |
| Wayward | adj | Wandering away; willful, forward. 2. without definite way or course; unsteady, vacillating, capricious. 3. unexpected or unwished for. |
| Waywardly | adv | In a wayward manner. |
| Waywardness | n | The state or condition of wandering away, willfulness, forwardness. 2. the quality of unsteady, vacillation; capricious-ness. 3.expected-ness or unwishful-ness |
| Way-worn | adj | Wearied by travel. |
| Waywort | n | A name for the Saxifrage, the Pimpernel and various other plants found or growing by the roadside or wayside. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Whale | n | Any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, especially as dis-tinguished from the smaller dolphins and porpoises, having a fishlike body, forelimbs modified into flippers, and a head that is horizontally flattened. 2. informal: something big, great, huge or fine of its kind: "I had a whale of a time". |
| Whale | vb | To engage in the hunting of whales. |
| Whale | phr | "Have a Whale of Time" - fig. enjoy oneself very much. 2. fig. have exciting or a fun time time. |
| Whale-back | n | An arched structure on the deck of a steamer. 2. a large mound of the shape of the back of a whale; whaleback.. 3. any land form or mass likened in shape to the back of a whale; whaleback. 4. an elongated, whale-backed, sand dune. |
| Whaleboat | n | A long rowing boat with a bow at either end for easy manoeuvrability, formerly used in whaling. |
| Whale-bone | n | The horny substance developed in plates from the palate of the whale-bone whales; baleen. 2. a strip of whalebone used in the stiffening dress bodies, corsets, etc. |
| Whale-boned | adj | Reinforced with whalebone. |
| Whalecraft | n | The art and technique of whaling. Whalecraft encompasses all those tools used for taking whales and processing blubber into whale oil through the nineteenth century. Included are the whaling implements employed by hand on wooden hull sail-powered whaling vessels around the world. The last whaling voyage in the United States was by the whaling schooner John R. Manta in 1925. That voyage marked the end of the hand harpoon and whalecraft as mentioned here. |
| Whale-hunting | n | The occupation or act of fishing or hunting whales for food or commercially. |
| Whale-iron | n | A harpoon. |
| Whalelike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a whale in some aspects. |
| Whaleman | n | One who hunts whales, a whaler. |
| Whalemeat | n | The flesh of a whale used as food for human consumption. |
| Whale path | n | The sea or ocean; an Anglo-saxon kenning. 2. whaleroad. |
| Whaler | n | A person or vessel engaged in whaling; a whaleboat. 2. a person engaged in whaling or a whale catch. 3. anything unusually large of it's kind; a whopper. |
| Whale road | n | The sea or ocean; an anglo-saxon kenning. 2. whalepath. |
| Whaleship | n | A ship that hunts for whales; a whaler. 2. a person or vessel engaged in whaling; a whaleboat. |
| Whalesong | n | The sounds through which whales communicate. |
| Whale watching | n | The recreational observation of whales. |
| Whaling | n | The industry of capturing whales. 2. the action, practice or business of catching whales. 3. whale-hunting, whale-fishing, the hunting of whales for food or commercially purposes. |
| Whaling | adj | Exceedingly big or large. |
| Whaling glass | n | A magnifying glass for counting threads in a given area of a fabric. |
| Whalish | adj | Resembling a whale; enormous, huge, gigantic. |
| Whang | n | A buckskin thong or one made of deer sinew; whang leather. 2. a big slice, as of bread or cheese; a chunk. |
| Whang | vb | To beat as with a thong, lash. 2. to beat or strike violently. 3. to fling, throng violently; hurl. 4. to slice usu. in large pieces. |
| Wharf | n | A structure built on the shore of or projecting into a harbor, stream, etc., so that vessels may be moored alongside to load or unload or to lie at rest; quay; pier. 2. (obsolete). a riverbank; the shore of the sea. |
| Wharf | vb | To strengthen or make firm (e.g. a bank of a river) with a wall of timber or stone. 2. to tie up at a wharf; dock. 3. to accommodate at or bring to a wharf. 4. to place or store on a wharf. 5. to provide with a wharf or wharves. |
| Wharf | n | An assembly; crowd, gathering. 2. an assembly sitting as "a court of justice." |
| Wharf-borer | n | An insect, resembling the long-horn beetle, that attacks damp and decayed wood. |
| Wharfed | adj | Perverse. |
| Wharfed-like | adj | Perverse, erronous. |
| Wharfing | n | A structure in the form of a wharf. 2. materials of which wharfs are constructed. 3. the lay of sea walls; etc., by planks secured with trees. |
| Wharf-rat | n | The common brown rat. 2. a man or youth who loafs about wharfs often with the intention to steal. |
| Wharfside | adj | The side of a wharf, where goods may be loaded and unloaded. |
| Wharrow-spindle | n | A heraldic bearing. 2. an instrument formerly used by women to spin with, whilst walking, by sticking the distaff in their girdles, and whirling round the spindle pendent to the thread. |
| Wharve | vb | To change, turn, revolve. 2. roam, wander, proceed, turn out, happen. |
| Wharve | n | The whorl or wharrow of the spindle- (a wharrow: a grooved pulley in a spinning wheel). |
| What | prn | (Used interrogatively as a request for specific information): What is the matter? 2. (used interrogatively to inquire about the character, occupation, etc., of a person): What does he do? 3. (used interrogatively to inquire as to the origin, identity, etc., of something): What are those birds? 4. (used interrogatively to inquire as to the worth, usefulness, force, or importance of something): What is wealth without friends? 5. (used interrogatively to request a repetition of words or information not fully understood, usually used in elliptical constructions): You need what? |
| What | n | The true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation. |
| What | adj | (Used interrogatively before nouns): What news? |
| What | adj | OE. hwaet- sharp, rough, severe. 2. quick, active, brave. |
| What | adv | To what extent or degree? how much?: What does it matter? 2. (used to introduce a prepositional phrase beginning with with): What with storms and all,.... 3. Obs. for what reason or purpose? why? |
| What | intj | Used in exclamatory expressions, often followed by a question): What, no salt? |
| What | conj | Older Use. as much as; as far as: He helps me what he can. |
| What | phr | "And What Have You/ and what Not" - and so on; etc. |
| What | phr | "And What's More" - and in addition. |
| What | phr | "But What" - (informal) but that; but who; who or that … not: "who knows but what the sun may still shine." |
| What | phr | "For What its Worth" - if its worthy of consideration (usuaklly said by somebody who think it is important) |
| What | phr | "Give Somebody What for" - punish, scold somebody. |
| What | phr | "Have Got What It Takes" - have the necessary abilty, qualities. |
| What | phr | "I Know Not What" - I don't know what I am doing. |
| What | phr | "I Know What" - I have an idea or suggestion. |
| What | phr | "I Know What's What" - be experienced; prudent. |
| What | phr | "It Is what it Is" - it is a fact and must simply be accepted or dealt with as it exists. 2. this thing has its own distinct nature; this thing is itself. |
| What | phr | "It Not What You Know But Who You Know" - for success and especially to obtain employment, advancement, one's knowledge and skills are less useful and less important than one's network and personal contacts. |
| What | phr | "Know What It Is" - to apprehend what implies or may involve; hence to have an experience of. |
| What | phr | "Know What's What" - to understand the qualities of things. 2. to have a good judgement or apprehension. 3. to have full knowledge of the matter in hand. 4. of the state of the case. 5. fitting and profitable. |
| What | phr | "Not Know What Hit One (me) - to be extremely surprised by an event. |
| What | phr | "Or What" - or what the cause, reason. |
| What | phr | "Say What?" slang: "what's that you say? 2. pardon; encore. |
| What | phr | "So What?" informal -(an expression of disinterest, disinclination, or contempt.) |
| What | phr | "Well What do you Know" - exclamation of surprize. |
| What | phr | "What a Hope" - an exclamation, emphasizing the improbability of something just mentioned either happening or being done. |
| What | phr | "What a Life" - exclamation of complaint, or exasperation, in not very serious circumstances. |
| What | phr | "What Are You Doing?" - to ask someone what they are currently doing. |
| What | phr | "What Are You Like?" - To ask informally when someone has said or done something silly. |
| What | phr | "What a Shame" - I'm so sorry, (about some situation) |
| What | phr | "What a Way to Go" - A remark on the unfortunate, exceptional, or unusual nature of somebody's death. |
| What | phr | "What Can I Say?" - an expression indicatinng that nothing which could be said would add to or improve the situation. 2. what else can I say? |
| What | phr | "What Did I Tell You?" - what I said was true. |
| What | phr | "What Does One Have To Do?" - an expression of irritation, self-disgust, etc when somebody unexpectedly, inconveniently or foolishly does something. |
| What | phr | "What Do You Call Him" - whose name one does not recall, perhaps for the moment. |
| What | phr | "What Do You Know!" - exclamation introducing, or commenting on, an interesting surprising item of information. |
| What | phr | "What Do You Say We Do" - shall we do this or that? 2. don't you think this is a good idea? |
| What | phr | "What Do You Think You're Doing" - why are you doing this. 2. why are you acting or behaving in this way? |
| What | phr | "What Else Can I Say?" = what can I say? |
| What | phr | "Whatever You do, Don't" - whatever the circumstances may be, don't do something specified by the speaker. |
| What | phr | "What for" - why: "what are you doing that for?" 2. a punishment or scolding. |
| What | phr | "What Gives?" - what the news, what's happening (often used as a friendly greeting. |
| What | phr | "What Has She/He's Got, That I Haven't Got" - why is somebody (so much) more popular, successful, better etc than me. |
| What | phr | "What Have You?" - other things of the same kind; so forth: money, jewels, stocks, and what have you. |
| What | phr | "What If?" - what will happen, what will we do, if? 2. what does it matter, why should we care, if?" |
| What | phr | "What of It? - what concern is it of yours? |
| What | phr | "What of/What about" - would you like? or what do you think about? |
| What | phr | "What in the World" - a generic exclamation expressing surprise. 2. emphatically why ? |
| What | phr | "What's All This?" - what is happening? |
| What | phr | "What's Done, Cannot be Undone" - what has already done cannot be changed. |
| What | phr | "What's Eating You" - why are you bothered, depressed, sulky, agitated, etc. |
| What | phr | "What's Good Enough for My Father, Is Good Enough For Me" - if a belief, practice, way of life, method of work etc satisfied earlier generations, other people etc that is good enough reason to retain it. |
| What | phr | "What Is It to You(Somebody)?" - how does it effect or interest you?. |
| What | phr | "What's It to You" - it doesn't effect you, so don't bother yourself. |
| What | phr | "What's in a Name" - the name is no reflection of its owner's worth or merit. |
| What | phr | "What's in it for Me?" - what are the advantages of something to me personally? |
| What | phr | "What's It (to You)" - what is it ; what is the problem; what's wrong. |
| What | phr | "What's More" - furthermore, in addition, moreover; what's more. |
| What | phr | "What's New?" - an informal greeting asking what has happen recently: ( the implication that the situation is and alaways has been unsatisfactory). |
| What | phr | "What's On Your Mind?" - what are you thinking? 2. whats bothering you? |
| What | phr | "What's That?" - what, pardon me; say that again, I'm sorry; beg your pardon. |
| What | phr | "What's the Good of It?" - what is the purpose or advantage. |
| What | phr | "What's the Next Step" - what should, what can one do? |
| What | phr | "What's What" -what is useful, important. |
| What | phr | "What's With (Something)" - as the weather, noise, somebody's health: and because of this/that whats happening or likely to happen. |
| What | phr | "What's Wrong" - what is the nature of your illness, weakness, failing? |
| What | phr | "What's Your Little Game" - what scheme, purpose, deception are you trying to effect?. |
| What | phr | "What Yours" - what would you like to drink? |
| What | phr | "What More Can One Ask" - surely this is an idea, , on entirely , satisfactory, state of affairs, arrangement, lot in life. |
| What | phr | "What of It?" - what concern is it of you? |
| What | phr | "What on Earth/In the World?!" - a generic exclamation expressing surprise. 2. what, which thing. |
| What | phr | "What the Eyes Don't See, the Heart Doesn't Feel?Crave" - you can't, or should not be troubled about something you dont know exists. |
| What | phr | "What's Up (with you)" - what's up, what's happening; taking place. |
| What | phr | "What the Devil" - expression used to give emphasis to a question. |
| What | phr | "What the Hell" - an exclamation expressing a defiant 'don't-care' attitude about ones action or about a situation. 2. what, which thing is concerning you. |
| What | phr | "What the Hell?" - to make an angry demand or explanation. 2. what, which thing. |
| What | phr | "What Will They Think of Next" - a comment on hearing of an invention, new law, fashion, art form, gadget (the implication being ridiculous or astonishing). |
| What | phr | "What With" - because of, owing to, concerning, about, anent. |
| What | phr | "What with One Thing or Another" - because of various duties, burdens engagements, incidents. |
| What | phr | "What You See Is What You Get" - said to show that someone is upfront and honest. |
| What-all | prn | Whatever, everything. |
| Whate | n | OE. divination, destiny, fate, luck. |
| Whatever | prn | Unexceptional or unimportant in matter or manner. 2. at all, absolutely, whatsoever. 3. no matter which; for any. 4. anything at all. 5. the whole, anything, no matter what. 6. (interrogative): what |
| Whatever | phr | "Or Whatever" - or anything similar. |
| Whatever | phr | "Whatever is, Is Right" - nothing in nature can said to be unnatural, the belief that) one should not question or rebel against, established practice or condition. |
| Whatever | phr | "Whatever it Takes" - anything, including measures that may be extreme or wrongful, whatever is required to achieve an objective. |
| Whatever | phr | "Whatever You Do, Don't do ..." - whatever the circumstances might be, don't do something something by the speakers) as don't tell someone about something. |
| What-if | adj | Also noun. 2. (that involves)- speculation as to what might have been, had antecedent conditions been different. 3. an an instance of speculation etc. |
| What-like | n | Also interrogatively: of what appearance or aspect. 2. of what kind or character. |
| Whatness | n | The whatness of anything: understanding of a thing, its quiddity, subtlety, niceness. 2. that what makes a thing what it is; essential nature, essence, quiddity. |
| What-not | n | Anything whatever; everything; anything and everything; all sorts of things; mostly, now only, as a final item of enumeration: anything else, various things; besides, whatever you like to call it. 2. a thing or person be variously named or described; nondescript, a small, unspecified object; bric-a-brac. 3. used as a euphemism for something the speaker doesn't wish to know. 4. an article of furniture consisting of an open stand with shelves one above another, for keeping or displaying various objects as ornaments, bric-a-brac, curiosities, books, paper. |
| What-not-shop | n | A shop selling miscellanea. 2. a second-hand goods shop; charity shop. |
| What's-his-name | n | Substitute word or expression for the name of a person (or anything) which the speaker forgets, does not know, or is unwilling to mention. |
| What's-its-Name | n | Substitute word or expression for the name of something which the speaker forgets, does not know, or is unwilling to mention. |
| Whatsay | intj | What did you say? |
| Whatsay | adv | What did you say. |
| Whatso | pr | Whatever. |
| Whatso | adj | Whatever, whoever. |
| What-so-ever | adj | Whatever. 2. in any way; at all. |
| What-wise | adv | In what manner, how. |
| What with | adv | Owing to; because of, as a result of. |
| Whaup | n | The larger curlew. |
| Wheal | n | A pimple, pustule. 2. in modern use: a circular, hard elevation or ridge of the skin, esp. that characteristic of urticaria. 3. a raised lesion on the skin. |
| Wheal | vb | To suppurate, gather, to develop or become affected with wheals. 2. to suppurate or bring to a head; to affect with wheals. 3. to mark with weals or ridges. |
| Whealworm | n | An insect producing wheals. |
| Whealy | adj | Pimply. 2. suppurated, pustule, pimpled, whealed. |
| Wheat | n | The grain of any cereal grass of the genus Triticum, especially T. aestivum, used in the form of flour for making bread, cakes, etc., and for other culinary and nutritional purposes. 2. the plant itself. |
| Wheat belt | n | A region where wheat grows in abundance, as the plains of Manitoba or the fields of the Wimmera etc. |
| Wheatberry | n | The entire wheat kernel (except for the hull), comprising the bran, germ, and endosperm, sometimes used in food |
| Wheatboard | n | An ecologically friendly type of board made with processed wheat. |
| Wheatbread | n | Bread made from wheat flour. 2. (slang) whole-wheat bread (bread made from whole wheat flour) |
| Wheat-corn | n | A grain of wheat. |
| Wheat ear | n | An ear or spike, being that part of a cereal plant, such as wheat or barley, that contains the seeds, grains, or kernels. |
| Wheat ear | n | A small passeriform bird, "Saxicola Oenanthe" ; a whitten. |
| Wheaten | adj | Composed of the flour or grain of wheat. 2. belonging to wheat as a plant made of the stalks or straw of flour. 3. of a light brown colour, like that of wheat. |
| Wheatfield | n | A field where wheat is grown and harvested. |
| Wheat-fly | n | A species of dipterous insects which eat the ears of wheat. 2. the wheat-midge. |
| Wheat-gold | n | The pale-gold colour of ripe wheat. |
| Wheatgrass | n | Young grass of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum, used freshly juiced or dried into powder for animal and human consumption. 2. grass of the genus Agropyron, commonly known as crested-wheat grass. 3. couch-grass. |
| Wheatless | adj | Having or lacking of wheat. 2. having no wheat, wheatless, (wheat-less) lacking in wheat or the means to grow it. |
| Wheat-like | n | Resembling or characteristic if wheat in some aspect; wheatlike. |
| Wheat-meal | n | Meal or flour of wheat. |
| Wheat-midge | n | A species of dipterous insects which destroys the ears of wheat; the wheat-fly.. |
| Wheat-mildew | n | Disease of wheat due to a fungus; wheat-rust. |
| Wheat-rust | n | Disease of wheat; wheat-rust. |
| Wheat-stalk | n | The stalk of wheat sheaf. |
| Wheat-worm | n | A thread worm (Tylenchus tritic) destructive of wheat. |
| Wheaty | adj | Containing grain of wheat of or pertaining to wheat. |
| Wheel | n | A circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery. 2. any machine, apparatus, instrument, etc., shaped like this or having a circular frame, disk, or revolving drum as an essential feature: a potter's wheel; roulette wheel; spinning wheel. 3. steering wheel. 4. a circular frame with an axle connecting to the rudder of a ship, for steering; paddle wheel. 5. a propeller. 6. a bicycle. |
| Wheel | vb | To cause to turn, rotate, or revolve, as on an axis. 2. to perform (a movement) in a circular or curving direction.
3. to move, roll, or convey on wheels, casters, etc. 4. to provide (a vehicle, machine, etc.) with wheels. 5. to turn on or as on an axis or about a center; revolve, rotate, or pivot. 6. to move in a circular or curving course: pigeons wheeling above. 7. to turn so as to face in a different direction (often followed by about or around.) 8. to change one's opinion or procedure (often followed by about or around.) 9. to roll along on or as on wheels; travel along smoothly. |
| Wheel | phr | "At the Wheel" - at the helm of a ship, the steering wheel of a motor vehicle, etc. 2. in command or control: "to be at the wheel of a large corporation by 40.) |
| Wheel | phr | "Be a Fifth Wheel" - be superfluous. |
| Wheel | phr | "Behind the Wheel" - in control of a vehicle. 2. fig. in control. |
| Wheel | phr | "Break a Butterfly on the Wheel" - to employ a superabundant effort in the accomplishment of a small matter. |
| Wheel | phr | "Break on the Wheel" - to torture on the wheel by breaking the long bones with an iron bar. |
| Wheel | phr | "Hell on Wheels"- tough, aggressive, wild, lawless. (first used in the US to refer to trains at the end of a railroad when under construction. |
| Wheel | phr | "Put a Shoulder to the Wheel" - start hard work. |
| Wheel | phr | "Put a Spoke in the Wheel" - place aa difficulty or obstruction in somebody's way. |
| Wheel | phr | "Spin One's Wheels" - informal: to expend or waste effort to no avail: He spun his wheels on that project for two years. |
| Wheel | phr | "Take the Wheel" - take control. |
| Wheel | phr | "Wheel and Axle" - a wheel and drum mounted on an axle with a rope wound about the drum so that a slight pull on one end of the rope will raise disproportionately heavy eweight attached to the other: one of the so-called simple machines. |
| Wheel | phr | "Wheel and Deal" - wheel and deal, to operate dynamically for one's own profit or benefit. 2. intense and often unscrupulous, bargaining and intrigue to win commercial or political advantage. 3. to work as an intermediary, making a profit from buying and selling things, or making contracts between parties |
| Wheel | phr | "Wheel Away" - running in celebration. |
| Wheel | phr | "Wheels Fell off" - the plan failed. |
| Wheel | phr | "Wheel In/Into" - push a wheel truck into a place. 2. conduct, escort, somebody into a place where he/she is to be interviewed or questioned. 3. to bring a person along for confrontation. |
| Wheel | phr | "Wheel of Life" - a symbol of the cycle of birth, death and reincarnation; zoetrope. |
| Wheel | phr | "Wheels Within Wheels" - complex arrangements of influences, or centres of power and decision-making, which makes quick settlements difficult and often baffle the onlooker. 2. secret machinations. 3. reasons or circumstances not openly acknowledged. |
| Wheel | phr | "Wheels within Wheels" -wheels within wheels, an involved interaction of motives or agencies operating to produce the final result: government agencies are a study of wheels within wheels |
| Wheel-back | n | (Of a chair) with a back shaped like or containing a wheel |
| Wheel-barrow | n | A small, one-wheeled (rarely two-wheeled) cart with handles at one end for transporting small loads; barrow; a small cart. |
| Wheelbarrow | vb | To convey in a wheelbarrow. |
| Wheelbarrowing | n | The moving of a small loads by a wheelbarrow. 2. a problem that may occur when a pilot places excessive forward pressure on the flight controls of an aeroplane with a tricycle gear configuration during takeoff or landing. |
| Wheelbird | n | The European goatsucker. |
| Wheeldog | n | The dog harnessed nearest to the slrigh in a dog team. |
| Wheeldom | n | The domain or world of wheeled vehicles, esp. bicycles, cycles or users of them. |
| Wheeled | adj | Furnished with a wheel. 2. effected on wheels or by wheels. 3. of the form of a wheel. |
| Wheeler | n | A wheelwright or wheelmaker. 2. a wheel horse or other draught animals in the same position. 3. a nail used for the fixing the parts of a wheel. 4. one who wheels a vehicle or conveys something in a vehicle with wheels. |
| Wheeler-and-dealer | n | A shrewd, and otherwise unscrupulous , person who advances his own interests by scheming ; a hustler. 2. a political or commercial schemer or shady operator. |
| Wheeler-dealer | n | A shrewd, and otherwise unscrupulous , person who advances his own interests by scheming ; a hustler; a political or commercial schemer or shady operator |
| Wheelhorse | n | From analogy with the horse that did the bulk of work in a team. 2. a person who labors heavily for a particular cause, without being concerned about recognition. 3. a horse harnessed to a pole or shafts where there is a leader or leaders in front; one who does the hardest work. 4. in politics, a person bearing great responsibility , or one to be greatly depended upon. |
| Wheel-house | n | A structure enclosing a large wheel, e.g. a water wheel. 2. a building in which a cart-wheels are stored. 3. a circular stone dwelling of the late Iron Age of a type widespread in northern or western Scotland, having partition walls radiating from the centre. |
| Wheeling | n | The action of the verb "to wheel": 2. Cf. free-wheeling |
| Wheeling-dealing | n | The action or practice of working as an intermediary, making a profit, from buying ad selling things or making a contract between parties. |
| Wheel-less | adj | Without a wheel or wheels. 2. having no wheels, not adapted to wheeled-vehicles. |
| Wheel-lock | n | An old type of gun lock in which sparks are produced by the friction of a small wheel agaist a piece of iron pyrites. 2. a device attached to the steering column of a motor car to prevent it from being stolen. |
| Wheelman | n | A man who attends a wheel in some places or mechanism; in USA: a helmsman. 2. a man who rides a bike or various other types of cycles. 3. criminal slang: one who drives a get-away car. |
| Wheels | n | A slang term meaning 'transport' |
| Wheelspin | n | Revolution of wheels without full grip of road. |
| Wheelswarf | vb | The waste chips or shavings from metal working or a saw cutting wood. 2. the grit worn away by the use of a grindstone or whetstone, being particles of materials cut, or off the the cutting stone itself. 3. detritus, debris. |
| Wheelwell | n | A recess into which a wheel of a vehicle fits. |
| Wheel-window | n | A rose window, a circular window with radiating mullions. |
| Wheelwork | n | A set of connected wheels forming part of a machine or mechanical contrivance; applied to a watch or other time-pieces. |
| Wheelwright | n | A person who makes wheels or other types of wheeled vehicles. |
| Wheel-wrighting | n | The business of a wheelwright; the maker of wheels and wheel-vehicles. |
| Wheely | n | Wheelie: a stunt where a bicycle or the other vehicle is ridden while it is standing only on its rear wheels. |
| Wheely | adj | Circular; suitable to rotation. |
| Wheely bin | n | A large garbage bin on wheel. |
| Wheen | n | A few, a good few, a fair number. 2. alternate spelling: 'whean' |
| Wheen | adj | A few, not many, as, "a wheen of witnesses." |
| Wheen | adv | A little, somewhat. |
| Whelk | n | A pustule, pimple. |
| Whelk | n | A shell, twisted and or convoluted. 2. testudo or tortoise. 3. any of several large, spiral-shelled, marine gastropods, or large marine snails, of the family Buccinidae, especially Buccinum undatum, that is used for food in Europe. |
| Whelky | adj | Pimply, postulated, reddened. 2. convoluted, twisted, snail-like. 3. knobby like whelk. |
| Whelm | vb | From Middle English whelmen : to turn over, capsize; make an arch cover; experience a reversal, akin to Middle English whelven (“to cover over, bury; invert; bring to ruin, to move by rolling”), akin to Old English ahwelfan, ahwylfan (“to cast down, cover over”), Old English helmian (“to cover”), akin to Old Saxon bihwelbian. 2. to cover, submerge, bury, engulf. 3. to overcome with emotion. 4. to throw something over a thing, so as to cover it; to cover a thing by turning a vessel upside down over it. 5. to turn a hollow vehicle upside down. 6. to throw something over violently in a heap upon something else, esp. as to cover or smother it. 7. to turn the soil so as to expose the under part. 8. to cover completely with water or other fluids, so as to ruin or destroy ; to submerge, drown. 9. to engulf or bear down like a flood, storm, avalanche to involve in destruction and ruin 10. bury under a load of earth, snow. 11. 6. to turn with the concave side downwards. 12. to turn downwards, in reference to "Fortune's Wheel." |
| Whelp | n | The young of the dog; an unlicked cub (superseded by puppy). 2. the young of wild animals (a literary archaism) as the lion, tiger, bear, wolf. 3. applied with deprecation to the off-spring of a noxious creation or being. (son of a bitch). 4. a low fellow. 5. a saucy or impertinent young fellow. |
| Whelp | vb | To bring forth a whelp. 2. to bring forth often (contemptuously) |
| Whelp | phr | "Great with Whelp" - of a bitch: in pup, pregnant. |
| Whelpish | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a pup or young of various animals. |
| Whelve | vb | To turn a vessel upside down so as to cover something. 2. gen. to turn or roll over, overturn, upheave- see "whelm." 3. to cover with anything, to hide, bury. |
| When | conj | "When, As, and If" - in business, used to indicate the timing and contingency of some obligation in contracts, especially financial. |
| When | adv | At what time or period? how long ago? how soon?: "when are they to come ? 2. under what circumstances? "when did you ever see such a throng?" |
| When | conj | At what time: "to know when to be wise." 2. at the time or in the event that. 3. at any time; whenever. 4. upon or after which; and then. 5. while on the contrary; considering that; whereas: Why are you here when you should be in school? |
| When | prn | What time: "till when is the shop open?" 2. which time: "they left on Monday, since when we have heard nothing." |
| When | n | The time of anything: the when and the where of a meeting." |
| When | phr | "Say When?" - please tell me when I have poured you enough drink. |
| When | phr | "When All is Said and Done" - when one has considered all the circumstances and facts; after all. |
| When | phr | "When Pigs Fly, I Will believe It" - adynaton(figure of speech)so hyperbolic that it describes an impossibility. The implication of such a phrase is that the circumstances in question will never occur. |
| When | phr | When the Cat's Away the Mice Will Play" - people will take advantage of the absence of authority , supervision to do what they like, enjioy themselves etc. |
| When | phr | When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" |
| When-as | conj | Where-as, while. 2. when, when that. |
| Whence | adv | From what place?: Whence comest thou? 2. from what source, origin, or cause?: Whence has he wisdom? Although sometimes criticized as redundant on the grounds that “from” is implied by the word whence, the idiom from whence is old in the language, well established, and standard. |
| Whence | conj | From what place, source, cause, etc.: He came whence he came. |
| Whence | adv | From what place, cause, or origin? |
| Whence | prn | From what place, cause, or origin. |
| Whenceafter | adv | Forth from which time onwards; whencforth. |
| Whenceforth | adv | Forth from which time onwards; whenceafter. |
| Whence-forward | adv | From which place onwards. |
| Whence-from | adv | From here forward. |
| Whence-ness | n | The place or source from which something comes or arises, place of origin, creation, birth. |
| Whencesoever | adv | From wherever place or source. 2. from whatever place, cause, or source. |
| Whene | vb | To afflict, trouble, offend (awhene). |
| Whenever | conj | At whatever time; at any time when: "come whenever you like." 2. when? (used emphatically): "whenever did he say that?" 2. at every or any time that; when: "I laugh whenever I see that." |
| Whenever | adv | No matter when: it'll be here, whenever you decide to come for it. 2. at an unknown or unspecified time: "I'll take it if it comes today, tomorrow, or whenever." 3. an intensive form of when, used in questions: "whenever did he go?" |
| When-ness | n | Condition in respect of time, as "it has no whenness or whereness." |
| Whenso | adv | Whenever, at what time. |
| Whensoever | adv | Whenever, what time so ever; at any time, at all. |
| Where | adv | In or at what place?: Where is he? 2. in what position or circumstances 3. in what particular respect, way, etc.?: 4. to what place, point, or end? whither?: "where are you going?" 5. from what source? whence?: "where did you get such a thought? |
| Where | conj | In or at what place, part, point, etc.: "find where he is." 2. in or at the place, part, point, etc., in or at which: the book is where you left it. 3. in a position, case, etc., in which: Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. 4. in any place, position, case, etc., in which; wherever. 5. to what or whatever place; to the place or any place to which: "I will go where you go." |
| Where | prn | What place?: "where did you come from?" 2. the place in which; point at which: That was where the bird sang." |
| Where | n | A place; that place in which something is located or occurs: the wheres and hows of job hunting. |
| Where | phr | "I Will Go Where You Go" - I will follow you regardless of the circumstances or consequences. |
| Where | phr | "Where Are We" - what is our current location. |
| Where | phr | "Where Are You From" - in which country or region where you were born or raised. Simply put, this question may be alienating . You may be implying that the person does not belong here. |
| Where | phr | "Where Does One Come From Here" - what more can one do; what is the next step? |
| Where | phr | "Where Is Something/Somebody Going to Stop?" - is there any point beyond which (somebody/ something) will not go?" |
| Where | phr | "Where It's At" (slang) - where the most exciting, prestigious, or profitable activity, place or circumstance is. |
| Where | phr | "Where on Earth/ in the World" - where? ; whereabouts? |
| Where | phr | "Where the Hell?" - where, whereabouts. |
| Where | phr | "Where There's a Will, There's a Way" - oif one is sufficiently determined or willing, a way to do or obtain something can usually be found. |
| Where | phr | "Where There's Life There's Hope" - as long as one is breathing, there is hope. |
| Where | phr | "Where There's Smoke, There's Fire" |
| Where | phr | "Where Would One Be, or do Without Somebody or Something" - one's life or work would be impossible, very difficult , greatly diminished in quality, etc without somebody or something. |
| Where | phr | "Where You're At" - where its at; cool, trendy. true, truthful. |
| Where-a-bout | n | A place in or near which a person or thing is. |
| Where-a-bout | adv | Near or at what place; about where. 2. about which, concerning which. 2. |
| Whereafter | adv | Afterwhich, henceforth. |
| Where'afterwards | adv | After which time. 2. hereafter. |
| Wherealong | conj | along with (rare). |
| Where-anent | adv | Anent or concerning which, regarding. |
| Whereas | conj | In contrast, whilst on the contrary. 2. it being the fact. 3. it being the case that. |
| Whereat | adv | At where, at what, at which -in a local and allied sense. |
| Whereby | adv | Interrogatively: by what, in what direction, how, by which. |
| Where-ever | adv | Emphatic form of "where" |
| Where-ever | conj | In or to whatever, anywhere. 2. in all places; everywhere. |
| Wherefore | adv | Why, for what reason; because of what. 2. therefore. |
| Wherefore | conj | Because of which. |
| Wherefore | n | An intent of purpose, why. |
| Wherefrom | adv | From where, which, from which, whence. |
| Wherein | adv | Interrogative in what (thing, material, writing) 2. where. |
| Whereinsoever | adv | In whatever matter, respect or action. |
| Whereinto | adv | Into which. |
| Whereness | n | The condition, quality, or fact of being where it is: position, situation, location. 2. everywhere (as an attribute of something or vaguely of things generally.) |
| Whereof | conj | Of what, of which, of whom. |
| Whereof | adv | Of what, of which. |
| Whereon | adv | Of which, of what, as "the ground whereon he stands." |
| Whereonto | adv | Whereupon. |
| Whereout | adv | From which, whence, (as an inference). |
| Whereso | adv | Wherever |
| Wheresoever | adv | In what matter, respect. 2. where |
| Wheresome | adv | Wherever. |
| Wheresomever | adv | Wherever; wheresoever. |
| Wheresomever | conj | Wherever; wheresoever. |
| Where-through | adv | Through which, such as a window. 2. by means of which. |
| Wheretill | adv | To what place, while. |
| Whereto | adv | To what, to which place, whither. |
| Wheretowards | conj | Towards where( towards the thing in discussion) often serves to further qualify the thing or destination itself. |
| Whereunder | adv | Under which or what. |
| Where'until | adv | Until what; until which. |
| Where'unto | adv | Unto what? 2.to what end? 3. for what purpose, where forth? 4. unto which? |
| Where'upon | conj | After which, in consequence of which, something. |
| Wherever | adv | In or to whatever place. |
| Wherever | conj | In every place that. |
| Wherever | phr | "Or Wherever" - or in any similar place. |
| Where'with | adv | With what? 2. by means of which; whereby. 3. with which as cause or occasion; in consequence of which, of or by reason of which. 4. whereat, by the agency or effect of which; whereby. 5. along with or together with which, against which, in addition or beside which. |
| Wherewithal | n | The ability and means required to accomplish some task. |
| Wherewithal | adv | In what way, how. |
| Wherewithin | adv | Within which. |
| Wherve | n | In spinning, a pulley on a spindle; wharve. |
| Whet | n | The act of sharpening. 2. the interval between two sharpening of a scythe, etc.; hence, fig. an occasion, turn, go. 3. something that stimulates desire; an incitement or inducement to action. 4. something that whets the appetite, chiefly a light refreshment taken as an appetiter or to stave off hunger until the next meal. |
| Whet | vb | Fig. to incite, instigate, egg on , urge on to do something. 2. to sharpen, render more acute, keen or eager (a person's wits, appetite, interests, curiosity. 3. to inculcate. 4. to take an appetisers. 5. as an erroneous substitute for wet. 6. to preen the feathers as a bird. |
| Whet | phr | "Whet the Sword" - usually expressing preparation for attack. see: "To Whet the Teeth." |
| Whet | phr | "Whet the Teeth/Tusks" - in allusive and fig. phrases (in which literal language is frequently retained.) usually expressing preparation for attack, as a boar whetting his tusks. |
| Whether | conj | Used to introduce the first of two or more alternatives, and sometimes repeated before the second or later alternative, usually with the correlative or: "whether we go or whether we stay." 2. used to introduce a single alternative, the other being implied or understood, or some clause or element not involving alternatives: "ee whether or not she has come." 3. archaic: used to introduce a question presenting alternatives, usually with the correlative or. 4. which or whichever (of two) |
| Whether | adv | Nevertheless, however, whichever of the two. |
| Whether | phr | "Whether or Not" - whether or no, under whatever circumstances; in any case regardless; no matter what. |
| Whether-so-ever | prn | Whatever, whoever. |
| Whether-so-ever | adv | In or to which ever place, anywhere, whithersoever |
| Whetstone | n | A stone for sharpening cutlery or tools by friction. 2. anything that sharpens: a whetstone for dull wits. 3. a hard stone or piece of synthetically bonded hard minerals that has been formed with at least one flat surface, used to sharpen or hone an edged tool. 4. (computing) A benchmark for evaluating the power of a computer. |
| Whetstone | phr | "Lie for the Whetstone" - said of a person who is grossly exaggerating or falsifying a statement. 2. a n game or amusement of the past where the one who could tell the greatest lie was awarded with a whetstone to sharpen their wit. |
| Whetted | adj | Sharpened, incited, instigated, urged, egged on. |
| Whetten | vb | To whet. |
| Whetter | n | A sharpener of an instrument. 2. one who urges on. 3. one who or that which sharpens, stimulates on incites the intellect, desires, appetite etc. 4. a habitual drinker of "whets"; a dram-drinker. |
| Whetting | n | The action of sharpening, stimulating or inciting the intellect, desire, appetite. |
| Whey | n | A milk serum, separating as liquid from the curd, after coagulating, as in cheese making |
| Whey | vb | To separate the whey from the milk. |
| Whey-brained | adj | Weak-brained or silly. |
| Whey-blooded | adj | A cowardly person. |
| Wheyey | adj | Of the nature of "whey" - consisting, containing, or resembling whey. |
| Wheyiness | n | Wheyey in nature or quality. |
| Wheying | n | Make the blood wheyish or thinner. |
| Wheyish | adj | Having a nature or quality of whey. 2. like or resembling whey in quality, consistence or colour. 3. watery, thin, palish. |
| Wheyishness | n | Of or having a wheyish nature or quality. |
| Wheylike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of whey in some aspect. |
| Which | prn | What one?: Which of these do you want? which do you want; which did you find? 2. whichever: choose which appeals to you. 3. (used relatively in restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses to represent a specified antecedent): The book, which I read last night, was exciting.
4. (used relatively in restrictive clauses having that as the antecedent): damaged goods constituted part of that which was sold at the auction. 5. (used after a preposition to represent a specified antecedent): the horse on which I rode. |
| Which | adj | What one of (a certain number or group mentioned or implied)?: which book do you want? 2. whichever; any that: go which way you please, you'll end up here. 3. being previously mentioned: it stormed all day, during which time the ship broke up. |
| Which | dtmr | Used with a noun in requesting that its referent be further specified, identified, or distinguished from the other members of a class: which house did you want to buy? 2. ( used in indirect questions ): i wondered which apples were cheaper. 3. whatever of a class; whichever: bring which car you want. 4. ( as pronoun ): choose which of the cars suit you. 5. used in relative clauses with inanimate antecedents: the house, which is old, is in poor repair. as; and that: used in relative clauses with verb phrases or sentences as their antecedents: he died of cancer, which is what I predicted 6. archaic the which a longer form of which, often used as a sentence connector |
| Which | phr | "Which Is/Goes Which" - What is the order of things? |
| Which | phr | "Which is Not Saying Much" - which is no great praise; which indicates very little differnce. |
| Which | phr | "Which is Which." - which is one and which is the other. 2. a request for help in the difficulty of distinguishing between two similar things. |
| Which-a-way | adv | Which way; what is the direction? |
| Whichever | prn | Whether one or the other. |
| Which-like | adv | Of which kind? |
| Which-so | . | Whatever, whoever. |
| Whichsoever | prn | Whichever, |
| Which-way(s) | adv | Every way |
| Whid | n | Dialect variant of OE. cwide: speech, word(s). 2. lie, fib, falsehood, dispute, an exaggerated story. |
| Whig | vb | OE wecgan, to proceed at a jogging pace. |
| While | n | A period or interval of time: to wait a long while; short while ago. 2. arch. a particular time or occasion. |
| While | conj | During or in the time that. 2. throughout the time that; as long as. 3. even though; although. 4. at the same time that (showing an analogous or corresponding action): |
| While | prp | Archaic: until. |
| While | vb | (used with object), whiled, whiling. 2. to cause (time) to pass, especially in some easy or pleasant manner (usually followed by away ). |
| While | phr | "All the While" - at or during this time; all along. |
| While | phr | "All the While" - during the whole time. |
| While | phr | "At Whiles" - at times, sometimes, at intervals. |
| While | phr | "A while" - during the time that. |
| While | phr | "Between Whiles" - from time to time. |
| While | phr | "For a Good while" - for some considerable time. |
| While | phr | "For a Long While" - for a long time past. |
| While | phr | "For a While" - for some while. |
| While | phr | "For a Little While" - for a short time. |
| While | phr | "In a While" - sometime later; later on do something etc. |
| While | phr | "In the While" - on most occasion, from time to time. |
| While | phr | "Long Whiles" - for a long time. |
| While | phr | "Make it Worthwhile" - to give sufficient recompense or reward. |
| While | phr | "Once in a While" - occasionally. |
| While | phr | "The While" - during the time, in the meantime. 2. at the same time. |
| While | phr | "While and Ere" - temporary, whilend. |
| While | phr | "While and Wend" - temporary, whilend. |
| While | phr | "While Away the Time" - make the time pass pleasantly. |
| While | phr | "While the Going is Good" - while the opportunity exists. |
| While | phr | "Worth the While" - something worth doing, make the effort to do, spend the time at. 2. something profitable, advantageous (the notion of time being weakened or lost). 3.Worth One's While. |
| Whilemeal | adv | By turns or wends. |
| Whilend | adj | Conflation ofWhile & Wend meaning temporary. |
| Whileness | n | State of change or variation. |
| Whilere | n | Conflation ofWhile & Ere - a while before, sometime ago. |
| Whiles | phr | "At Whiles" - at times, sometimes, at intervals. |
| Whiles | phr | "Long Whiles" - for a long time. |
| Whiling | n | The passing of time tediously, tedious and boring passing of time. |
| Whilom | adv | The only word in the language that preserves the universalum of the dative plural. 2. at times, at times past time. 3. sometime (s) before or ago, once upon a time. 3. that existed, or was such, at former times, in former days. 4. of a person: late, deceased. 5. at a future time, sometime in the future. |
| Whiloms | adv | At times, sometimes. (note double plural) |
| Whilst | conj | At the same time, while |
| Whilst | phr | "The Whilst" - during the time that, while, when. 2. during. 3. till, until. |
| Whilwendlike | adj | Lasting for a while, temporary. |
| Whine | n | A drawling, plaintive wail. 2. an unmanly complaint. 3. the fluctuating sound characteristic of certain revolving machinery e.g. of a circular saw. |
| Whine | vb | To utter a plaintive cry. 2. to complain in an unmanly way. |
| Whiner | n | One who utters a plaintive cry. 2. one who complains in an unmanly way |
| Whinge | n | A whining complaint; a peevish grumbling. |
| Whinge | vb | O.E whinsian: to grumble peevishly. |
| Whining | n | The action of uttering a plaintive cry or complaining in an unmanly way. |
| Whiningly | adv | In a plaintive cry or complaining unmanly manner |
| Whirl | n | OE and ON; rotate, move swiftly. |
| Whirlpool | n | OE hwyrfepol: circular eddy in a river. |
| Whirlbone | n | The kneecap or patella. |
| Whisper | vb | To speak with soft, hushed sounds, using the breath, lips, etc., but with no vibration of the vocal cords. 2. to produce utterance substituting breath for phonation. 3. to talk softly and privately (often implying gossip, slander, plotting, or the like).4. (of trees, water, breezes, etc.) to make a soft, rustling sound like that of whispering. 5. to say or tell in a whisper; tell privately. |
| Whisper | n | The mode of utterance, or the voice, of a person who whispers: to speak in a whisper. 2. a word or remark uttered by whispering. 3. a rumor or insinuation. "whispers circulated about her affair throughout the office. 4. soft, rustling sound like a whisper: the whisper of leaves in the wind. |
| Whisper | phr | "Give the Whisper" - to give the tip; the warning; to give some part of some secret information. |
| Whisper | phr | "Hear a Whisper" - to learn about a rumor. |
| Whisper | phr | "It is Whispered" - there is a rumor. |
| Whisper | phr | "Pig's Whisper" - a grunt. 2. a loud whisper, meant to be heard. 3. a very short space of time, an instance. 4. a whisper; a confidential tone of voice. |
| Whisperer | n | One who whispers. |
| Whispering | n | Something that is whispered; gossip, a rumour. |
| Whispering | adj | That whispers. 2. associated with whispering. |
| Whispering bells | n | A viscid herb of arid or desert habitats of south-western U.S.A. having pendulous yellow flowers. 2. yellow bells. |
| Whisperingly | adv | With a whispering voice or sound; in a whisper. |
| Whisperingness | n | Having a whispering quality or character. |
| Whisper-shot | n | The distance within which a whisper can be heard (in the manner of ear-shot; eyeshot etc.) |
| Whispery | adj | Like a whisper; a soft, whispery voice. 2. abounding in whisper or quiet mysterious sounds. |
| Whistle | n | an instrument for producing whistling sounds by means of the breath, steam, etc., as a small wooden or tin tube, a pipe, or a similar device with an air chamber containing a small ball that oscillates when air is forced through an opening, producing a high-pitched, warbling tone. |
| Whistle | vb | To produce by whistling: to whistle a tune. 2. to call, direct, or signal by or as by whistling. 3. to send with a whistling or whizzing sound. 4. to smell unpleasantly or to be on the bugle. |
| Whistle | n | "Bells and Whistles" - features added to a product; special parts or functions; extras. 2. additional features or accessories- attractive, but non-essential. |
| Whistle | phr | "Blow the Whistle on" - expose the existence of mischief or wrongdoing. |
| Whistle | phr | "Clean as a Whistle" - very clean. |
| Whistle | phr | "Go Whistle" - to go and do what one will. 2. to occupy oneself idly or to no purpose; esp. in phrases expressing unceremonious or contemptuous dismissal or refusal, as "to bid one go whistle." |
| Whistle | phr | "Wet One's Whistle" - have an alcoholic drink. |
| Whistle | phr | "Whistle Down the Wind" - whistle away or dismiss, cast off, cast off to one's own fate. |
| Whistle | phr | "Whistle for (Something/It)" - to summon, call, demand without success. 2. to seek, await or expect in vain. 3. to fail to get; to go without; hope in vain. 4. ask for something with little chance of getting it. |
| Whistle | phr | "Whistle in the Dark" - to put in a brave front. 2. to make a pretence or confidence. 3. to attempt to summon up one's courage or optimism in difficult situation. |
| Whistle | phr | "Whistle off" - to go away or off, suddenly depart. |
| Whistle | phr | "Whistle Walking by the Graveyard" - try to stay cheerful in a dire situation. 2. to proceed with a task, ignoring an upcoming hazard, hoping for a good outcome. |
| Whistle | phr | "Worth the Whistle" - worth calling; worth inviting; worth notice. |
| Whistle | phr | "You Can Whistle for it" - your wish is in vain. |
| Whistle-blower | n | A person who blows the "whistle" on person(s) or their activities within the organization he or she is employed in. 2. a person who tries to raise the alarm about a problem and publicizes it inside and/or outside of his or her organization. |
| Whistle-blowing | n | The action of raising the alarm about a problem and publicizes it inside and/or outside of his or her organization. |
| Whistlefish | n | A rockling. |
| Whistlelike | n | Resembling or characteristic of a whistle in some aspect. |
| Whistle-pig | n | A woodchuck, a stocky North American burrowing rodent Marmota monax that hibernates in winter. 2. a groundhog (?). |
| Whistler | n | One who sounds, or plays upon, a whistle or pipe, a fifer. 2. one who whistles with his lips. 3. a keeper of a "whistling shop"; an unlicensed spirit-seller. 4. a bird who whistles. 5. something that makes a whistling sound. |
| Whistles and Bells | n | "Bells and Whistles" - features added to a product; special parts or functions; extras. 2. additional features or accessories- attractive, but non-essential. |
| Whistle-stop | n | A small station or town at which trains do not shop unless ask to by a signal given on a whistle. 2. used attributively to designate a trip with a lot of brief haltings, spec. one by a politician campaigning that takes in many undistinguished places in and along the way. |
| Whistle stop | vb | To travel through a region or district on a whistle-stop campaign. 2. to make a whistle-stop. |
| Whistlewood | n | The moosewood or striped maple. |
| Whistling | n | The act of a person that whistles. 2. the sound produced by whistling. 3. a form of roaring characterized by a peculiarly shrill sound. |
| Whistling | phr | "For the Whistling" - worth the while or trouble. |
| Whistling-shop | n | A shebeen or sly-grog place. |
| Whistlingly | adv | With a whistling sound. |
| Whit | phr | O.E. wiht: the smallest part imaginable, a jot. |
| Whit | phr | "Every Whit" - the whole; wholly. |
| Whit | phr | "Not or Never a Whit" - not at all. |
| Whitch | n | OE: hwicce - a chest, coffer, ark. 2. coffin, casket. |
| White | adj | Of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light. 2. light or comparatively light in color. 3. (of human beings) marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, as of many caucasoids. 4. for, limited to, or predominantly made up of persons whose racial heritage is caucasian: a white neighborhood. 5. pallid or pale, as from fear or other strong emotion: white with rage. |
| White | n | A color without hue at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to black. A white surface reflects light of all hues completely and diffusely. Most so-called whites are very light grays: fresh snow, for example, reflects about 80 percent of the incident light, but to be strictly white, snow would have to reflect 100 percent of the incident light. It is the ultimate limit of a series of shades of any color. 2. a hue completely desaturated by admixture with white, the highest value possible. 3. quality or state of being white. 4. lightness of skin pigment. 5. a person whose racial heritage is Caucasian. |
| White | vb | (Used with object) - to make white by leaving blank spaces (often followed by out). 2. to whiten (areas of artwork) in retouching preparatory to photoengraving (often followed by out). 3. archaic. to make white; whiten. |
| White | phr | "Be in Black and White" - to involve very cklaer distinctions. |
| White | vb | "Become white. 2. of vision- to become by a sudden exposure with bright light. 3. to blind by lights in a theatre. 4. to cover or coat with white. 5. to bleach. |
| White | phr | "Bleed White"- bleed white, (informal). to be or cause to be deprived of all one's resources: Dishonesty is bleeding the union white. 2. drain a person , country etc of its wealth. |
| White | phr | "Days Marked with a White Stone" - days to be remembered with gratification. The Romans used a white stone or a piece of chalk to mark their lucky days on the calendar. The unlucky days were marked with charcoal. |
| White | phr | "Give Somebody a Whitewash" - anything, as deceptive words or actions, used to cover up or gloss over faults, errors, or wrongdoings, or absolve a wrongdoer from blame. 2. in sport : a defeat in which the loser fails to score. |
| White | phr | "Hit the White" - in archery, the white being the circle of the target, to be right, make a good shot. |
| White | phr | "In Black and White" - printed, clear, unambiguous. 2. in writing, spelling out the deatails. |
| White | phr | "In the White" - in an unfinished state or condition, as furniture wood that has not been |
| White | phr | "Show the White Feather" - display cowardice (refers to crossbred birds, not regarde as useful in cock-fighting) |
| White | phr | "Stand in a White Sheet" - part of the ancient penance for incontinence was to stand before the congregation at Mass in white robed sheet. The term now designates the utmost penitence. |
| White | phr | "Swear Black and White" - assert adamantly. |
| White | phr | "White as A Sheet" - very white |
| White | phr | "White as Snow" - pure white, pristine, pure. |
| White | phr | "White Out" - to obscure or cover something with white; esp. white fluid used by typists. 2. to cover (errors in copy) with a white correction fluid. 2. to censor, as by obliterating words or passages with white ink. |
| White | phr | "Whiter than White" - unusually, unnaturally or exaggeratedly white, pur, holy, perfect. |
| White ant | n | A very destructive social insect of the Neuropterous order; also called a termite. |
| White ant | vb | To destroy in the manner of termites or white ants. 2. to sabotage, to undermine, eat away. |
| White ant | phr | "To White Ant" - to destroy in the manner of termites or white ants. 2. to sabotage, to undermine, eat away. 3. with allusion to the supposed destruction of the brain by white ants, implying loss of sanity, sense or intelligence (Australian). 4. to sabotage during a industrial dispute, as a strike. |
| White-anter | n | A saboteur. |
| White-anting | n | The act of sabotaging, undermining, eating away at. 2. sabotage. |
| White ants | phr | "Have White Ants" - eccentricity, insanity, thus to have white ants, to be crazy; with allusion to the supposed destruction of the brain by white ants, implying loss of sanity, sense or intelligence (Australian). |
| White-beam | n | A tree of the Pyrus family with white down on the underside of the leaves. |
| White-bear | n | The polar bear. |
| White-beard | n | An old man, a man of advanced years. 2. of wheat, whitish in colour and less likely to fail in harvest. 3. of waves: whitetopped, as 'waves came solid green and white-bearded like frosty gaints racing.' |
| White beech | n | American beech, Fagus grandifolia. |
| White bird | n | Conscience of the soul (The White Bird)". An Islamic belief that the soul of the just lie under the Throne of Allah, like white birds, till the resurrection morn. |
| Whiteboard | n | A white surface for use like a blackboard, but accepting felt-tipped pens and wax crayons. |
| White-bone | n | Costal or rib cartilage. |
| White-book | n | In some European countries and Japan, a formal report issued by the government on some specail subject. 2. in englandan altrnate to th blue book; some called from the color of its binding. |
| White-borer | n | An insect very destructive to growing trees in Asia. |
| Whitebread | adj | Used of anything pertaining to White, mainstream styles, bland, unexciting, suburban. 2.WhiteAnglo-Saxon,Protestant view or life style. |
| White-choker | n | Priest, reverend, minister of religion, clergyman; speliend, godsmith, soul-whisperer, make-god, man of the cloth; ghostly-father. |
| White Christmas | n | Snow at Christmas time. |
| White Cliffs | n | Chalk cliffs, esp. those of Dover, regarded as a symbol of Great Britain. |
| White clover | n | A common varirty (Trifolium repens)of clover with white flowers. |
| White coal | n | Water considered as a source of power. 2. water. |
| Whited | adj | Covered or coated with white. 2. whitewashed, as a wall. 3. whitened by deprivation of colour, bleached as cloth. |
| White-death | n | After or upon "the black death" - a name for tuberculosis, specially a disease of white men. |
| White dwarf | n | Astronomy, a dying star of low or medium mass, more solid or dense but less bright than the sun. |
| White-eyed | adj | Having the iris of the eye white or colorless, as an albino. |
| White feather | n | A white feather in the tail of a rooster was considered an indication that he was not true game breed. See "Show the White Feather" 2. a symbol of cowardice. |
| White feather | phr | "Show the White Feather" - to show cowardice; to shirk one's duty, usually military. |
| White-feathered | adj | Receiving a white feather suggesting cowardice or lack of courage. |
| White feather | phr | "To Show the White Feather" - to be a coward, usually by one who is perceived as shrinking his responsibility to volunteer for military service in time of war. |
| White fish | n | a fish with ery pale flesh, as the whiting, haddock, plaice, cod, etc. 2. a lake fish of the carp family. |
| White flax | n | Gold-of-pleasure. |
| White-flight | n | The movement of an older White population from the inner-cities of the U.S., generated by a perceived fear of newer non-white arrivals. |
| White-folk | n | Applied to white skinned people in the U.S. |
| White frost | n | Hoar frost. |
| White gold | n | Any white substance regarded as valuable, usually nickel or zinc, sometimes pallidium or platinum. |
| White-goods | n | Domestic linens, as sheets, towels. 2. electrical goods that are conveniently white, such as washing-machines and fridges. |
| White guilt | n | The individual of collective guilt felt by some white people for the harm resulting from racist treatment of ethnic minorities by other white person's both historically and currently. |
| White-haired | adj | Having hoary or white hair or down as a plant. |
| Whitehall | n | The name of a street in London, used to designate the government offices situated there, or the civil service in general. |
| White-handed | adj | Shirking work and/or responsibiity |
| White harvest | n | A late harvest, when the ground is white of a morning with a hoar frost. |
| White hat | n | A good person; hero. 2. a well-meaning computer hacker who hacks for a good cause a company, organization or government agencies without causing harm. See:black hat, grey hat, red hat". |
| White head | n | A white or white-topped skin-pustule. |
| White-hearted | adj | Fainthearted, weak, ineffectual. |
| White heat | n | That degree of heat or temperature (higher than red heat) at which metals and some other bodies radiate white light. 2. the state of being white hot. 3. the state of intense or extreme emotion. |
| White hope | n | A talented person is thought likely to bring success or victory (eg in sport). 2. a person expected to achieve much for a group, organization. |
| White-horses | n | A white crested wave; white cap. 2. a figure of a horse on a hillside, formed by removing the chalk and exposing the underlying turf. |
| White hot | adj | Heated to such a degree as to radiate white light or heat. 2. very bright and hot. |
| White House | n | The official residence of the President of the United States, situated in Washington DC. |
| White-hunter | n | A white man who professionally hunts his game. |
| White iron | n | Pig or cast iron, having all its carbon in the combined state. |
| White-knight | n | An individual or corporation that intends to acquire another company in order to avert a hostile takeover. 2.(fiction) a hero, savior, or righteous individual |
| White knuckle | adj | Displaying or charcterized by extreme excitement or fear. |
| White knuckle rider | n | One causing extreme excitement or fear. |
| White Lady | n | A kind of spectre, the appearance of which generally forebodes death in the house. |
| White land | n | Land that is not designated or available for development or change of use. |
| White lead | n | A compound of lead carbonate and hydrated oxide of lead, used as a base and pigment for paint. |
| White lie | n | A lie that does no harm, and is more convenient or polite, than telling the truth. |
| White-lightning | n | Illicit home-brewed whisky or poteen. |
| White light | n | A combination off different wave lengths in the electronic magnetic spectrum. |
| White-lights | n | Candles, a collection of candle. |
| White-lime | n | Lime mixed with water as a coating for walls; whitewash. |
| White-line | n | A traffic line on a road, separating the two opposing of traffic. |
| White-list | n | A list or collection of persons or entities that are known, listed or explicitly permitted as acceptable and trustworthy. |
| White list | vb | To placed on a list (lit. & fig.) as one trustworthy or acceptable. |
| White-listed | adj | Placed on a list (lit. & fig.) as one trustworthy or acceptable. |
| White-liver | n | A coward, faint-heart, dastard. 2. a flatterer. |
| White-livered | adj | Feeble-spirited, cowardly, dastardly. |
| Whitely | adj | Whitish, pale, light-coloured or fair of complexion. |
| Whitely | adv | So as to appear white, with a white colour or pale aspect. |
| White man | n | A man clothed in white. 2. a surpliced chorister. 3. a person of European extraction. 4. Of a racist nature: a man of honourable intention. |
| Whiteman | phr | "White Man's Burden" - from Kipling poem "The White Man's Burden" - in which the task was the ruling of 'new-caught sullen people/ half-devil and half-child.' |
| Whiteman | phr | "White Man's Grave" - sobriquet, nickname for the result of the high mortality rate among colonists and missionaries in Africa, due to the tropical climate, disease and poor sanitation. 2. by extension any of the kind, subject to western colonialism or proselytizing that is comparably deadly. |
| White meat | n | Food prepared from milk. 2. dairy products, such as eggs, milk etc. 3. certain white or light coloured flesh foods, as turkey, chicken, veal, pork. 3. white women considered as sexual partners or conquests. |
| White monk | n | A monk of the Cistercian order. |
| White-mouthed | adj | Foaming at the mouth, raging, in a rage, extremely angry. |
| White mulberry | n | Morus alba, a short-lived mulberry tree, native to northern China, used in traditional Chinese medicine. |
| Whiten | vb | Covering or coating with white. 2. whitewashing. |
| Whitener | n | One or something which whitens or bleaches. |
| Whiteness | n | The quality or condition of being white. 2. of the human skin, lightness or fairness of complexion, pallor from emotion or from illness. 3. purity, stainless in character or quality. |
| White-night | n | A sleepless night (nuit blanche). 2. a night when it is never properly dark, as in the high latitudes in summer. |
| Whitening | n | The action or process of making or becoming white, bleaching, whitewashing. |
| White-out | n | A heavy snow storm; a blizzard. |
| White owl | n | The British barn owl, Tyto alba. |
| White pepper | n | Black and white peppercorns are both the fruit of the pepper plant, but they are processed differently. Black peppercorns are picked when almost ripe and sun-dried, turning the outer layer black. To produce white peppercorns, this outer layer is removed before or after drying, leaving only the inner seed. |
| White rat | n | Any albino rat. 2. one of the special breed of albino Norway rats much used in biological and environmental experiment. |
| Whites | n | A sticky white discharge from the vagina, leucorrhea. |
| White sale | n | A bargain sale of lingerie and linen clothes. |
| White Sea | n | An inlet of the Barents Sea in North West Russia. |
| White sheep | n | A normal well-behaved individual among a group of discreditable individuals (black sheep). |
| White sheet | n | A sign of penitence. |
| White shoe | n | A stereotypical ivy league student, or white-shoe Wall st. lawyer. |
| White shoe | adj | An effeminate or immature. 2. pertaining to mainstream social power structures. |
| Whitesmith | n | One who polishes or finishes metal goods, as distinguished from one who forges them. 2. a worker in metals; a tin-smith. |
| Whitesmithing | n | The trade of a whitesmith: a workman who forges things out of tin or pewter. 2. a tinsmith. 3. a worker who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction to one who forges it. |
| White smoke | n | From the ancient practice of releasing white smoke, or a white throsm, from a chimney of the Vactican to announce the result of a papal election. Black smoke was released if a majority decision hadn't been reached. |
| White-son | n | A beloved, darling or favourite son, a boy or man who is specially favoured,
2. a term of endearaament for a boy or usually man. 3. a surplice choir boy. |
| White soul | n | Rythmn and Blues music performed by white artists; also known as " blue eye soul". |
| White-staff | n | A white rod or wand, carried as a symbol of office by certain officials. |
| White-stick | n | A piece of white wood used as a tally. 2. a stick carried by the blind. |
| White stone | n | A light stone formerly used for scrubbing; a donkey stone. 2. a kind of granite; a feldspar. |
| White-stone | vb | To reckon as specially favourable or fortunate, as an allusion to the use of a white stone among ancients as a memorial of fortunate event. 2. to scrub with a stone, as in "to whitestone the path." |
| White stone | phr | "Mark with a White Stone" - as an allusion to the use of a white stone among ancients as a memorial of fortunate event. |
| White stone | phr | "Whitestone the Path." - to scrub with a stone. |
| White-tail | n | The white-tailed deer. 2. wheatear. |
| White-tail spider | n | White-tailed spiders are spiders native to southern and eastern Australia, and so named because of the whitish tips at the end of their abdomens. Body size is up to 18 mm, with leg-span of 28 mm. Common species are Lampona cylindrata and Lampona murina. Both these species have been introduced to New Zealand. |
| White-thorn | n | The hawthorn. |
| White-tie | n | A white bow tie, worn with a swallow-tail coat. 2. a swallow-tail coat and all its accessories; the phrase is used on invitations, etc to indicate formal attire. |
| White-war | n | A war without bloodshed; economic warfare. |
| Whiteware | n | White Ware or "Vaisselle Blanche", effectively a form of limestone plaster used to make vessels, is the first precursor to clay pottery developed in the Levant that appeared in the 9th millennium BC, during the pre-pottery (aceramic) neolithic period. 2. a class of ceramic products that include porcelain, china, pottery, earthenware, stoneware, and vitreous tile, are usually but not necessarily white, and consist typically of clays, feldspar, potter's flint, and whiting. |
| Whitewash | n | A composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc; a substance used for whitening walls and other surfaces, consisting of a suspension of lime or whiting in water, often with other substances, such as size, added 2. anything, as deceptive words or actions, used to cover up or gloss over faults, errors, or wrongdoings, or absolve a wrongdoer from blame. 3. in sport : a defeat in which the loser fails to score. |
| Whitewash | vb | (used with object) to whiten with whitewash. 2. to cover up or gloss over the faults or errors of; absolve from blame. 3. in sports(informal.) to defeat by keeping the opponent from scoring: The home team whitewashed the visitors eight to nothing. 4. 5. excuse, vindicate, exonerate. |
| Whitewash | phr | "Give Somebody a Whitewash" - anything, as deceptive words or actions, used to cover up or gloss over faults, errors, or wrongdoings, or absolve a wrongdoer from blame. 2. in sport : a defeat in which the loser fails to score. |
| Whitewashed | adj | A derogatory term used to describe a minority who has assimilated with western society. |
| Whitewasher | n | One who whitewashes wall. 2. one who uses deceptive words or action to cover up or gloss over faults, errors, or wrongdoings, or absolve a wrongdoer from blame |
| Whitewashing | n | The act of a worker (or person) who whitewashes walls. 2. one who uses in words (deceptively) or action covers up or gloss over faults, errors, or wrongdoings, or absolve a wrongdoer from blame. |
| White watch | n | One of three watches at sea when not more than one-third of ship's company is closed aup at cruising stations. |
| Whitewater | n | A shallow or shoal water, white breakers or foam, as in shallows or rapids on the sea or a river. |
| White-wax | n | Paraffin. |
| White-wedding | n | A wedding in which the bride is still a virgin. 2. a wedding where the ceremony is in a church where the marriage is initiated, followed by a reception where the ceremony is celebrated. |
| White weed | n | Oxe-eye daisy, Chrysantheum leucantheum. |
| White week | n | A week that is in low demand because it is a holiday low season; esp.,used in time-share, but not limited to this industry. |
| White whale | n | The Beluga. |
| White willow | n | Salix alba a species of willow native to Europe and central Asia. tThe name derives from the white tone of the underside of the species leaves. |
| White wine | n | Any clear, transparent not deeply coloured as hock, sherry, etc. |
| White Witch | n | A witch or wizard of good disposition - one who uses witchcraft for beneficial purposes. 2. one who practices White Magic. |
| Whitewood | n | Any of the various trees yielding a whitish timber, as the basswood, the tulip tree, the cottonwood, the wild cinnamon, etc. 2. the wood of these trees. |
| Whitewort | n | The name of several plants with white flowers or roots, such as Feverfew, Solomon's seal, species of chamomile. See " World of Worts" : Stachys fluminensis, Leucas martinisense, Clinopodium martinsense. |
| Whitey | n | A white person or white people collectively. |
| Whither | adv | To which, or what, place? 2. |
| Whither-out | adv | Out of what, from what source; whence. 2. in the direction in which, nearly, whereabout. |
| Whitherso | adv | To whatever place. 2. to or in any place to which. 3. wherever, whether to one place or the another; no matter what place. 4. whithersoever. |
| Whithersoever | adj | To any place to which |
| Whithersoever | cnj | To any place to which |
| Whitherto | adv | To what place, state, result etc. 2. to what, whither, where, whereto. |
| Whitherward | adv | Towards or to what place. 2. in what direction. 3. reference to a situation happening nearby or whereabouts. 4. fig. towards what? 5. towards the place that, usely in a generalized or indefinite sense. 6. towards any place that , whithersoever, towards which place, towards a place which one goes. |
| Whiting | n | A gadoid fish of the genus "Merlangus" |
| Whiting | n | A pure white chalk, levigated and washed for use in making putty and whitewash, as a pigment and for polishing. |
| Whiting | vb | The action or process of making white. |
| Whiting-monger | n | A buyer and seller of whiting. |
| Whiting's eye | n | Amorous look, a leer. |
| Whitish | adj | That which is white or becoming white. 2. somewhat white, palish, fair, white in hue. 3. inclining to or approaching white in colour. 2. qualifying other colours, as "whitish-green/ brown" indicating a pale or light tint of the colour specified. |
| Whitishness | n | The quality or state of being whitish, whitish colour or tint. |
| Whitleather | n | White leather dressed with alum. |
| Whit-rack | n | A white rat: a weasel. |
| Whitsunday | n | The seventh Sunday after easter, to commemorate the descent of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost. |
| Whitsuntide | n | The whole week follow whitsunday. |
| Whitten | n | OE. - hwitingtreow. the water-elder or wild-guilder rose (Viburnum opulus). 2. the wayfaring tree (Viburnum lantana). 3. the mountain ash or rowan (pyrus aucuparia) |
| Whittle | n | OE: hwitel- a white bed cover. 2. a cloak, mantle. 3. a blanket. 4. a baby's woollen napkin or flannel petticoat. 5. a shawl or wrap. |
| Whittle | phr | "Whittle Away" - remove the outer part of something in small pieces, using a knife. 2. remove, take away, one by one or little by little. |
| Whittle | phr | "Whittle Down" - make something thinner by slicing with a knife. 2. redoce the importance of something by small defrees. |
| Whittler | n | One who whittles. |
| Whittling | n | The fine shavings and chips made with a whittle and by a whittler. |
| Who | prn | What person or persons?: "Who did it?" 2. (of a person) of what character, origin, position, importance, etc.: "who does she think she is?" 3. the person that or any person that (used relatively to represent a specified or implied antecedent): "it was who you thought." 4. used relatively in restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses to represent a specified antecedent, the antecedent being a person or sometimes an animal or personified thing): "anybody who wants to can learn to swim." 5. archaic: the person or persons who. |
| Who | phr | "An Old Who" - the right man for the .. |
| Who | phr | "As Who Should Say" - in a manner of speaking, so as to say. |
| Who | phr | "Who Are You?" - ask another person for identification. |
| Who | phr | "Who Are You and What Have You Done with So-and-So" |
| Who | phr | "Who Cares?" - nobody cares; I at, least, don't care. |
| Who | phr | "Who Did It?" - who is responsible for a certain action. |
| Who | phr | "Who Does She/he Think She, He Is" - why does he/she etc behave , talk so pretentiously, authoritatively (the implication being that he has no right or reason to do so) |
| Who | phr | "Who Goes There?" - a sentry challenge of one's identity and purpose. |
| Who | phr | "Who Is He's When He's at Home" - who what/ is somebody/something? |
| Who | phr | "Who Knows" - a rhetorical question asked to express the idea that anything is possible or that anything could happen. |
| Who | phr | "Who On Earth" - who, which one? 2. who in the world? |
| Who | phr | "Who's Who" - who or what each person is (know who's who) . 2. a list or directory with facts known about notable persons. |
| Who | phr | "Who The Hell" - who, which person? |
| Who-all | prn | Who, as in "who-all were there" |
| Who-does-what | adj | (of a dispute, etc) about which group of workers should do a particular job. |
| Whodunit | n | A novel about a murder mystery - a "who done it." See "Whydunit" |
| Whoever | prn | Whatever person or persons. |
| Whole | adj | Comprising the full quantity, amount, extent, number, etc., without diminution or exception; entire, full, or total: He ate the whole apple. 2. containing all the elements properly belonging. 3. undivided; in one piece: to swallow a thing whole.
4. maths . integral, or not fractional. 5. not broken, damaged, or impaired; intact. 6. undiminished, integral, complete. 7. unimpaired, perfect. |
| Whole | n | The whole assemblage of parts or elements belonging to a thing; the entire quantity, account, extent, or number. 2. a thing complete in itself, or comprising all its parts or elements. 3. an assemblage of parts associated or viewed together as one thing; a unitary system. 4. whole, total mean the entire or complete sum or amount. The whole is all there is; every part, member, aspect; the complete sum, amount, quantity of anything, not divided; the entirety |
| Whole | vb | To make whole, complete. 2. to become whole or healthy; to recover from sickness; to heal, as a wound. |
| Whole | phr | "As a Whole" - all things included or considered; altogether. |
| Whole | phr | "By the Whole" - by wholesale. |
| Whole | phr | "Full and Whole" - the whole number and amount; the whole lot, all, in all, altogether. |
| Whole | phr | "Go the Whole Hog" - to do something very thoroughly. Etym: 'hog" ? |
| Whole | phr | "In the Whole" - to the full amount. |
| Whole | phr | "Make into a Whole" - to assemble or unite. |
| Whole | phr | "On the Whole" - in view of all the circumstances; after consideration' considering all things. 2. disregarding exceptions; in general: On the whole, the man is well liked. 3. on the basis of the affair as a whole. taking it all together. 5. as the upshot or summing up, as the final result. 6. ultimately, in conclusion, in sum. 7. in respect to the whole. 8. not withstanding exception in details. 9. in general, in most part. |
| Whole | phr | "Out of the Whole Cloth" - without foundation in fact; fictitious: a tall-tale, story or lie. |
| Whole | phr | "Upon the Whole" - speaking generally, altogether. |
| Whole | phr | "Whole and Some" - all and some. |
| Whole | phr | "Whole Nine Yards" - the whole nine yards or full nine yards is a colloquial American phrase meaning "everything, the whole lot" or, when used as an adjective, "all the way", as in, "The Army came out and gave us the whole nine yards on how they use space systems." Its origin is unknown and has been described as "the most prominent etymological riddle of our time".[2] One explanation is that it is to do with cutting material "A tailor making a high quality suit uses more fabric. The best suits are made from nine yards of fabric |
| Whole | phr | "Whole Shooting Match" - evry member, item, event, aspect. |
| Whole | phr | "Whole World and His Dog" - too many people, a whole crowd. |
| Whole-blood | n | Full blood. 2. Blood as taken direct from the body, especially that used in transfusions. |
| Whole-bred | adj | Of pure bred. |
| Whole-brother | n | Sibling of the same parents, as distinct from half-brother or sister. |
| Whole-chested | adj | Loyal-heaerted. |
| Whole cloth | n | Cloth of the full size as manufactured, as distinguished from a piece cut off a garment other other item. |
| Whole-eyed | adj | Gazining intently. |
| Whole food | n | Unrefined food, containing no artificial additives. 2. an article of such food. |
| Whole-footed | adj | Having whole or undivided feet, that is with the toes united. 2. web-footed as a bird. 3. treading with the whole foot on the ground. 4. walking not lightly or not on tiptoe. 4. unreserved, free and easy, free. |
| Wholeful | adj | Health-giving, wholesome. |
| Wholefully | adv | In a manner wholesome and health-giving. |
| Whole-headed | adj | Completely |
| Whole-hearted | adj | Undivided in allegiance or devotion, loyal, steadfast, faithful. 2. whole-souled. 3. completely devoted. |
| Whole-heartedly | adv | Enthusiastically, without reserve, where one is wholehearted. |
| Whole-heartedness | n | The state or quality of being undivided in allegiance and devotion. 2. steadfastness, loyality, faithfulness. 3. the state of being enthusiastic; energetic in one's effort and endeavor. |
| Whole-hog | n | The whole of anything. 2. reliance or approval, trust. 3. |
| Whole-hog | phr | "Believe In the Whole Hog" - To accept or believe completely or totally in something. |
| Whole-hog | phr | "Go the Whole Hog"- to do something thoroughly or out-and-out, become involved without reservation. |
| Whole-hogger | n | One who does something completely, or without reservation. |
| Whole-hogging | n | Action or act of doing something completely and thoroughly. |
| Whole-holiday | n | A whole day taken as a holiday. |
| Whole-length | adj | Extending through the whole length. 2. exhibiting through the whole length. |
| Whole-life | adj | Pertaining to or designating an insurance policy for which the premium are payable until the death of the insured person. 2. relating to a period of a whole or someone or something. |
| Wholemeal | n | Meal or flour of wheat or other cereals with none of the bran or germ removed. |
| Whole milk | n | Milk from which no constituents have been removed. |
| Whole-minded | adj | Giving one's mind to something completely. 2. completely interested. |
| Whole-mindedness | n | State of being totally interested and enthralled in someone or something. |
| Wholeness | n | Entireness, completeness. |
| Wholesale | n | The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants. 2. bulk supply of; supply in bulk. |
| Wholesale | vb | To sell in bulk or large quantity. |
| Wholesale | adj | Of or relating to sale in large quantity for resale. 2. extensive, indiscriminate, all encompassing. |
| Wholesale-ness | n | Profuseness, discriminateness. |
| Wholesaler | n | One who sells goods wholesale. 2. a person or company that buys merchandise from manufacturers, importers or distributors and resells the merchandise to retail businesses and to business and institutional end users. |
| Wholesaley | adv | In a wholesale manner, profusely, extensively. |
| Wholesome | adj | Conducive to or promoting of moral or general well-being; salutary; beneficial: wholesome recreation; wholesome environment. 2. conducive to bodily health; healthful; salubrious: wholesome food; wholesome air; wholesome exercise. 3. suggestive of physical or moral health, especially in appearance. 4. healthy or sound. 5. virtuous |
| Wholesomely | adv | In a way conducive to well-being in general with tendency or effect; beneficially salutarily. 2. so as to produce good health or being healthier. 3. in a way favourable to health. 3. remedially medicinally. |
| Wholesomeness | n | The quality or condition of being wholesome, healthier in any sense. |
| Whole-souled | adj | Whole-hearted, loyal, steadfast, faithful. |
| Whole step | n | A difference in pitch that is equal to 1/6 of an octave. 2. a music interval comprising two half steps - called also a whole tone. |
| Whole wheat | n | Made from wheat grain and bran. |
| Whole-wise | adv | As a whole, completely, all at once. |
| Whole-world | adj | "The Whole World" - everybody, humanity, mankind. |
| Whole-word | adj | "Most important, the teaching of beginning reading was dominated by the "whole-word" or "look-say" method in which children learn to recognize entire words, rather than by the method of "phonics" in which they learn to sound out letters and groups of letters." 2. "word recognition is not simply a matter of learning unique whole-word forms." |
| Wholly | adv | Completely and entirely; to the full extent. 2. exclusively and solely. |
| Wholly-owned | adj | Applied to a company all of whose shares are owned by another company. |
| Whom | prn | What person or people; which person or people, as the object of the verb. 2. what person or people; which person or people, as the object of the preposition. 3. him, her, them (used as a relative pronoun as refer to previously mentioned person or people, as in 'he is a person with whom in work' |
| Whom | phr | "For Whom the Gods Love, Death is Young" - the only consolation for the death of good, talented, beautiful etc young people is that their presence is wanted in heaven . |
| Whomever | prn | Object case of whoever. |
| Who-ness | n | That what makes a person who he or she is. 2. the state of being an isolated individual -" escaping the anguish ofwho-ness into the peace of wholeness." |
| Whomsoever | prn | (used instead of whomever) as the object of the verb or preposition, |
| Whon | n | A few, a little. |
| Whon | adj | Few, some. |
| Whon | adv | "Na Whan" - not at all. 2. a little whon. |
| Who-ness | n | That which makes a person who he or she is . 2. the state of being an isolated individual. |
| Whore | n | A prostitute, harridan, skank, skanky ho. |
| Whore bath | n | A quick sponge bath by hand, using a wet washcloth or a pre-moistened towelette, to extend the interval between showers or clean up after casual sexual intercourse. |
| Whore-cop | n | A child born to a prostitute and on of her clients. 2. a bastard. |
| Whored | adj | Prostituted, meretricious, whorish, whorey. |
| Whoredom | n | The practice of playing the whore of or intercourse with whores. 2. illicit sexual indulgence in general, fornication, halotry. 3. acts of sexual immorality. 3. fig., esp. in biblical and religious use applied to idolatry or other forms of unfaithfulness to the true God. |
| Whoredomer | n | One who practices whoredom, fornication. |
| Whore-house | n | A brothel, bordello, whore-sty, |
| Whore-hunt | vb | To go after whores. 2. to practise fornication. |
| Whore-keeper | n | One who keeps company with whores. 2. a brothel keeper. |
| Whore-man | n | A fornicator. |
| Whore-monger | n | One who deals or has dealings with whores or prostitutes. 2. one who practices whoredom, a fornicator, a lecher. |
| Whore-mongering | n | The practice or business of a whore-monger, fornication. |
| Whore-play | n | Intercourse with whores. 2. fornication. |
| Whorer | n | Lecher, fornicator, whore-monger. |
| Whoreship | n | The personality of a whore. 2. whore-mongering. |
| Whoreson | n | A bastard, love-child, an illegimate child. |
| Whore-sty | n | A brothel, bordello, whorehouse. |
| Whore-toll | n | A payment made by way of compounding for fornication or concubinage. |
| Whorey | adj | Whorish. |
| Whoring | n | The activities of a whore; prostitution; promiscuous sex. |
| Whorish | adj | Resembling a whore or whorish behavior; lecherous, fornicative. 2. having the character of a whore, addicted to whoring and whoredom. 3. lewd, unchaste (rarely of a man). 4. fig. esp., in religious and controversial use idolatrous, pagan, heathen-like. |
| Whorishly | adj | In a whorish manner. |
| Whorishness | n | Meretricious, state or quality of lechery, whoredom, idolatry. |
| Whort | n | A whortleberry or its fruit; the huckleberry. |
| Whose | prn | Of whom, belonging to whom; used as an interrogative pronoun, as in ' whose wallet is this? 2. of whom, belonging to whom; used as a relative pronoun, as 'this is the man whose dog caused the accident = this man's dog caused the accident. 3.(formerly proscribed) of which, belonging to which; used as a relative pronoun, as we saw several houses whose roofs |
| Whose | phr | "Whose the Cat's Mother? - She's the Cat's Mother" |
| Whoso | prn | Anyone, who, whoever. |
| Whosesoever | prn | Whatever person. |
| Why | n | The reason. |
| Why | adv | For what cause, reason or purpose |
| Why | conj | The reason that. |
| Why | intj | Exclamation of mild surprize. |
| Why | phr | "Why(s) and Wherefore(s)" - for what reason? |
| Why | phr | Why ever" - for what ever reason. 2. an emphatic expression implying perplexity or surprise. |
| Why | phr | "Why for" - for what reason. |
| Why | phr | "Why in God's Name?" - such expressions as What in God's name, Why in God's name, or How in God's name, emphasize how angry, annoyed, or surprised one is. |
| Why | phr | "Why On Earth/in the World?" - why, for what reason? |
| Why | phr | "Why So?" - on what grounds. |
| Why | phr | "Why the Hell" - why ? (with emphasis) |
| Whydunit | n | A story, play or film in which the main interest lies in the detection of the motive for some crime or action. |
| Why ever | adv | For what ever reason. 2. an emphatic expression implying perplexity or surprise. |
| Why for | adv | For what reason. |
| Why-for | n | Reason. |
| Whyness | n | That which causes a thing to be as it is. 2. the essential reason for something. |
| Why-not | n | A word, phrase or expression used in an attempt to leave an opponent, adversary, critic without a reply. 2. response of one who gives no reasons for his actions or behavior. |
| Why-not | phr | "To Have a Why-not" - to have an advantage over someone or in some situation. |
| Why-not | phr | "At a Why-not" - an advantage or an upperhand in a dilemma. |
| Whys | n | An explnatory causes; reasons. 2. causes purposes or reasons. 3. the don't-knows. |
| We | prn | Plural pronoun, possessive our or ours, objective us. 2. nominative plural of (used to denote oneself and another or others): "we have two children." 4. used to denote people in general. 5. (used to indicate a particular profession, nationality, etc., that includes the speaker or writer): We, as individual, have moral responsibilities. 6. Also called the royal we. (used by a sovereign, or by other high officials and dignitaries, in place of I in formal speech): We do not wear this crown without humility. |
| We | phr | "We Are Only Here for the Beer" - we won't pretend to be presence in order to help, show goodwill. |
| We | phr | "We Shall See, What We Shall See" - a particular outcome cannot be foretold. |
| Weak | adj | C.1300, from Old Norse veikr "weak," cognate with Old English wac "weak, pliant, soft," from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz "yield," *wikanan "bend" (cf. Old Saxon wek, Swedish vek, Middle Dutch weec, Dutch week "weak, soft, tender," Old High German weih "yielding, soft," German weich "soft," from PIE root *weik- "to bend, wind" 2. not strong; liable to yield, break, or collapse under pressure or strain; fragile; frail. 2. lacking in bodily strength or healthy vigor, as from age or sickness; feeble; infirm. 3. not having much political strength, a weak ruler. 4. lacking in force, potency, or efficacy; impotent, ineffectual, or inadequate: weak sunlight. 5. lacking in rhetorical or creative force or effectiveness: one of the author's weakest novels. 6. breakable, delicate. 2. senile, sickly, unwell, invalid. 7. decrepit, feeble, weakly imply a lack of strength or of good health. 8. not physically strong, because of extreme youth, old age, illness. 9. old and broken in health to a marked degree. 10. connotes being pitiable or inferior: feeble and almost senile. 11. ineffective. 12. unsound, ineffective, inadequate, illogical, inconclusive, unsustained, unsatisfactory, lame, vague. 13. unintelligent, simple, foolish, stupid, senseless, silly. 14. wavering, unstable, irresolute, fluctuating, undecided, weak-kneed. 15. slender, slim, inconsiderable, flimsy, poor, trifling, trivial. 16. wanting, short, lacking. |
| Weak | phr | "Go Weak at the Knees" - temporarily weak, trembling, perhaps hardly able to stand. |
| Weakness | phr | "Have a Weakness for" - have an (irresistible) fondness for. |
| Weak | phr | "The Weakest Link" - the part of a system that is most likely to fail or cause problems. |
| Weak | phr | "Weak in the Head" - stupid, misguided. 2. soft in the head |
| Weak-backed | adj | Having a weak back; lacking physical strength. |
| Weak-brained | adj | Foolish, silly, feeble-minded, stult-like. |
| Weak-breach | n | Of a fortified place not possessed of sound defence, esp. in some part or on a particular side (a weak side), as that by the Mongols in 1550 when breaching a weak point of the Great Wall of China. |
| Weak-built | adj | Poorly or jerry built. 2. of slender, sickly or thin frame. |
| Weaken | vb | To make weak. 2. to become weak. |
| Weaken | phr | "Weaken the Hand of " - fig. to reduce the effectiveness of (a person or body of persons). 2. to hinder, discourage, to enfeeble or decrease the vigour of the mind or body. |
| Weak-ending | adj | In a prosody an unstressed syllable in a normally stressed place at the end of a verse-line. 2. in prosody, feminine ending, an unaccented syllable. 3. an extra unaccented syllable. |
| Weakener | n | One who or something which weakens. |
| Weakening | n | Something which weakens or enfeebles. |
| Weak-eyed | adj | Having poor or dim eyesight. |
| Weakfish | n | The marine fish of the genus, Cynoscion, used as food. |
| Weak-handed | adj | Weak or feeble of hand. 2. fig. not capable of effective exertion. |
| Weak-headed | adj | Lacking strength of mind or purpose. 2. easily overcome by strong liquor. |
| Weak-headness | n | State or condition of lacking strength of mind, feebleness, stupidity. |
| Weak-hearted | adj | Lacking fortitude, faint-hearted. 2. tender-hearted, soft-headed. |
| Weak-heartedly | adv | In a faint-hearted, weak manner. |
| Weak-heartedness | n | The state or quality of being faint-hearted, cowardly |
| Weakish | adj | Somewhat weak or feeble. |
| Weak-kneed | adj | Having weak knees or power of locomotion. 2. fig. wanting in resolution, unassertive, or irresolute. 3.lacking resolution. |
| Weak-kneedness | n | A want in resolution or strength. 2. easily frightened, intimidated. |
| Weakliness | n | State or quality of being weak or feeble. |
| Weakling | n | One who is not strong physically, mentally or emotionally. 2. an effeminate man |
| Weak-looking | adj | Feeble of appearance; puny. |
| Weakly | adj | Weak in constitution, not strong or robust, delicate. 2. of a tree: not in full growth or vigour. 3. of a person: characterized by moral weakness. |
| Weakly | adv | With little energy, strength or force. 2. with gentle action, gently, softly. 3. in a weak or enfeebled condition; with weakness of condition. 4. insecurely, unsubstantially. 5. with slight deficiency in strength. |
| Weak-minded | adj | Having a weak mind. 2. lacking strength of purpose. 3. indecisive in opinion, unable to say no. 2. feeble minded; half-witted, mentally deficient. |
| Weak-mindness | n | The state or quality of being weak-minded. |
| Weakness | n | The condition of being weak. 2 of inadequate quality. 3. a special fondness or desire. 4. a disadvantage, vulnerability. |
| Weakness | phr | "Have a Weakness for" - have an (irresistible) fondness for. |
| Weakside | n | Partiality; a vulnerable side of a person's character. |
| Weak-sighted | adj | Being weak of sight. 2. fig. lacking foresight or vision. |
| Weak sister | n | A person or thing which is the least robust. 2. a least dependable member of a group; the weakest. 3. a person who is cowardly and indecisive. |
| Weak-willed | adj | Weak of will; easily swayed, irresolute, indecisive. |
| Weak-witted | adj | Weak of mind or intellect. |
| Weaky | n | A slang term for someone who is weak both physically and emotionally. |
| Weal | n | Well-being, prosperity, or happiness: the public weal; weal and woe. 2. wealth or riches, prosperity. 3. a sound or healthy state of person or things. 4. the body politic; the state; contextually, the welfare of the country or community. 5. wealth, riches, passion; worldly weal. 6. pomp, splendor, rich array. 7. welfare, well-being, happiness, prosperity, good fortune. 8. applied to a person, as a source of felicity or an object of delight. 9. goodness, virtuous behavior. 10. good or honorable reputation. |
| Weal | vb | To mark the flesh with weals (ridges). |
| Weal | phr | "In Weal and Woe" - in good times and bad. 2. in happiness and sadness. 3. for richer or poorer. |
| Weald | n | The name of a tract of country, formerly wooded, including the portions of Sussex, Kent and Surrey which lie between North and South Downs. 2. a wooded district or open country. |
| Weald-clay | n | Beds of clay, sandstone, limestone and limestone, forming the top of Wealden strata, with abundant fossil remains. |
| Wealden | adj | Pertaining to the Weald. |
| Wealding | n | Inhabitant of the Weald. |
| Wealdish | adj | Having the characteristics of uncultivated ground. |
| Wealdsman | n | Inhabitant of the Weald. |
| Wealful | adj | Happy, prosperous, fortunate, blessed, gladsome. |
| Wealfully | adv | In a wealful manner: prosperously, happily, blessedly, gladsomely. |
| Wealfulness | n | The state or quality of being prosperous, rich, happy, gladsome, blessed. |
| We-all | prn | We - used in the place of "we" as a pronoun. |
| We-all's | prn | Our, ours. |
| Wealsman | n | Devoted to public weal; a commonwealth's man. 2. a statesman. |
| Wealness | n | Luxuriousness. |
| Wealsome | adj | Happy, prosperous, fraught with happiness. 2. promising welfare and prosperity. 3. wealthy and rich. |
| Wealsomely | adv | In a happy, prosperous manner. 2. prosperously, wealthily. 3. healthily. |
| Wealth | n | Condition of being happy, happy and prosperous. 2. of a person - well-being. 3. an instance or kind of prosperity; felicity, happiness. 4. spiritual well-being: "The Wealth of the Soul". 5. antonym: woe, andreth. |
| Wealth | phr | "Wealth of Something" - a great quantity or amount. |
| Wealthily | adv | In a wealthy way, richly, with prosperity. |
| Wealthiness | n | The sate or quality of possessing riches, prosperity, happiness, health. |
| Wealthless | adj | Without wealth, devoid of wealth; having no money or wealth. |
| Wealth-making worshipper | n | One who worships wealth above all things. 2. an extreme capitalist. |
| Wealth-monger | n | "If the question should be put to all those wealth-mongers and honor-mongers, these are saucy truths to obtrude on the power-mongers, wealth-mongers and pleasure-mongers of the world. 2. wealth-making worshiper; one who wealth worships. |
| Wealth-worship | n | "Plato was not a man to preach king-worship or wealth-worship. |
| Wealthy | adj | Possessing well-being, happy, prosperous. 2. of conditions of life: comfortable, luxurious. 3. of the body: thriving, healthy. 4. of cattle, livestock: well fed. 5. of persons: having means at hand, rich, opulent. 6. of a country: prosperous, flourishing, commanding riches. 7. rich in some possession or advantage, plentiful in something. 8. abundant, copious. |
| Wealth-yielding | n | Giving forth or bringing forth riches and wealth. 2. "rich as igneous rocks in wealth-yielding minerals veins and ores, they are destitute of fossils. |
| Wealy | adj | Wealthy, prosperous, happy. 2. a good condition, healthy. 3. luxurious, indulgent, self-indulgent. |
| Wean | n | A young animal or child. |
| Wean | vb | To accustom (an infant or other young mammal) to food other than (esp. its mother's) milk. 2. to detach or alienate (a person, his desires or affections) from some accustomed object or pursuit or enjoyment. 3. to deprive someone of something. 4. to dissuade successfully or unsuccessfully. 5. to remove or abate gradually a desire. |
| Weaned | ppl | Lit. and fig. in the sense of the verb. |
| Weaned-ness | n | The state or condition of spiritual detachment. |
| Weaner | n | One who takes care of a young person. 2. a calf or lamb weaned. |
| Weaning | n | The action of the verb "to wean". |
| Weanling | n | A child or animal newly weaned. |
| Weapon | n | Any instrument or device for use in attack or defense in combat, fighting, or war, as a sword, rifle, or cannon. 2. anything used against an opponent, adversary, or victim: the deadly weapon of satire. 3. with animals, any part or organ serving for attack or defense, as claws, horns, teeth, or stings. 4. a slang word for penis. |
| Weapon | vb | Old English wǣpen; cognate with German Waffe. 2. to supply, furnish or equip with a weapon or weapons: to weapon aircraft with heat-seeking missiles. |
| Weapon-bearer | n | One who bears or takes up arms. |
| Weaponed | adj | Armed or furnished with weapons. 2. bearing arms. |
| Weaponer | n | One who has charge of a weapon or weaponry of war prior to it's dep[loyment. 2. a expert or specialist in the development of weapons of war. |
| Weapon-free | adj | In air defence, a weapon control order imposing a status whereby weapons systems may be fired at any target not positively recognized as friendly. |
| Weapon-hoard | n | A person's or nation's weaponry; weapon-pile. |
| Weaponless | adj | Without weapons, unarmed, not containing a weapon. 2. of an animal without natural means of defence. |
| Weapon-like | adj | Resembling a weapon. |
| Weapon-salve | n | A salve said to cure wounds by sympathy; applied not to the wound but the instrument which gave the wound. The direction "bind the wound and grease the nail' is still common. Sir Kenelm Digby says the salve is sympathetic , and quotes several instances to prove that "as the sword is treated the wound inflicted by it feels. Thus, if the instrument is kept wet, the wound will feel cool; if held by the fire, it will feel hot; if held by the fire, it will feel hot", etc |
| Weapon-smith | n | A forger or maker of weapons and arms. |
| Wear | vb | To carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like: to wear a coat; to wear a disguise. 2. to have or use on the person habitually: to wear a wig. 3. to bear or have in one's aspect or appearance: to wear a smile. 4. to cause (garments, linens, etc.) to deteriorate or change by wear. 5. to impair, deteriorate, or consume gradually by use or any continued process. 6. to undergo gradual impairment, diminution, reduction, etc., from wear, use, attrition, or other causes (often followed by away, down, out, or off). 7. to retain shape, color, usefulness, value, etc., under wear, use, or any continued strain. 8. (of time) to pass, especially slowly or tediously (often followed by on or away). 9. to have the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate, especially after a relatively long association. 10. (of a vessel) to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. 11. to tire, fatigue, drain. |
| Wear | n | The act of wearing; use, as of a garment: articles for winter wear. 2. the state of being worn, as on the person. 3. clothing or other articles for wearing; especially when fashionable or appropriate for a particular function (often used in comb): travel wear; sportswear. 4. gradual impairment, wasting, diminution, etc., as from use. 5. the quality of resisting deterioration |
| Wear | phr | "Have to Wear Something" - have to put up with something. |
| Wear | phr | "In Wear" - being regularly worn. |
| Wear | phr | "Wear a Hair Shirt" - to practice self-discipline. |
| Wear | phr | "Wear and Tear" - gradual deterioration through use. 2.damaged sustained from continual use. |
| Wear | phr | "Wear Away" - to diminish by attrition. |
| Wear | phr | "Wear Down" - to reduce or impair gradually, make weaker by long wearing. 2. to make weary, tire. 3. tp prevail by persistent, overcome. 4. become, or make shorter or lower, through continuous pressure, friction, etc. |
| Wear | phr | "Wearing of the Green" - an Irish patriotic and revolutionary song dating from 1798. Green (Emerald Isle") was the emblematic of the Irish patriots. |
| Wear | phr | "Wear Off" - to diminish slowly or gradually. 2. to diminish in effect; disappear through constant previous, friction. 3. no longer effect; lose effectiveness or intensity; fade. |
| Wear | phr | "Wear On" - proceed slowly or tediously. |
| Wear | phr | "Wear One's Heart on one's Sleeve" - to be very transparent emotionally; open and forthright about about one's emotions. |
| Wear | phr | "Wear One's Learning Lightly" - not be self-important about, nor try to impress others with, how much one knows. |
| Wear | phr | "Wear One's Year's Well" - remain young-looking. |
| Wear | phr | "Wear Out" - to make unusable or become unfit or useless through hard or extended use or handling. 2. to expend, consume or remove. 4. to exhaust, as by continued strain. |
| Wear | phr | "Wear Sackcloth and Ashes" - humbly to demonstrate repentance. |
| Wear | phr | "Wear Something" - have to put up with something. |
| Wear | phr | "Wear the Horns " - to be a cuckold. |
| Wear | phr | "Wear Thin" - to lessen or weaken over time, as from over use. 2. deteriorate through use over time;begin to fail. 3. of patience: to become less and less patient. |
| Wear | phr | "Worse for Wear" - in a bad state because of prolonged effort, use; drunk. |
| Weariedly | adv | In a weary manner; wearily. |
| Weariful | adj | That causes weariness; that tires one's endurance or patience. |
| Wearifulness | n | In a manner or way weariful. 2. state or condition of being weary or exhausted. |
| Wearihood | n | Wearifulness. |
| Weariless | adj | Indefatigable; tireless. |
| Wearily | adv | In a tired, fatigued, exhausted manner. |
| Weariness | n | Weary condition; state of fatigue, tiredness from exertion, endurance of pain, want of sleep. |
| Weariness | n | Exhaustion, fatigue, tedium or tiredness. 2. a lack of interest or excitement; tedium. |
| Wearing | adj | Intended to be worn. 2. causing tiredness. 3. causing erosion. |
| Wearingly | adv | In a tiresome, tedious manner. |
| Wearish | adj | Somewhat tired or weary. |
| Wearisome | adj | Tiresome, tedious, or causing fatigue. |
| Wearisomely | adv | Jade, tire, fatigue, fag, dispirit, debilitate, harass. |
| Wearisomeness | n | The state or quality of being weary. 2. tiresomeness, tediousness, fatigueness. |
| Weary | adj | Fatigued, tired, exhausted; bored. 2. jaded, tiresome, irksome; wearisome. |
| Weary | vb | To become weary, to long for. |
| Weary | phr | "Weary of" - no longer be interested in or attracted by. 2. become irritated by. 3. tire of. |
| Weasand | n | The oesophagus or gullet. 2. trachea or windpipe. 3. the throat generally. |
| Weasel | n | Any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents. 2. any of various (weasel-like) similar animals of the family Mustelidae. 3. a cunning, sneaky person, a weasel. 4. a tracked vehicle resembling a tractor, used in snow. 5. slang. an informer; stool pigeon. |
| Weasel | n | An equivocal statement or claim, esp. one used in an intentionally misleading advertisement. |
| Weasel | vb | To render (a word, phrase etc.) ambiguous or equivocal, to remove or detract from it's meaning. 3. to equivocate, prevaricate, to use weasel words. 4. to escape from, or extricate oneself out of. 6. to evade an obligation, duty, or the like; renege (often followed by out ):I'd like to weasel out of. 5. to welsh on, dishonourably fail to meet one's obligations. 6. slang. to inform. |
| Weasel | phr | "Be Bit by the Barn Weasel" - to be drunk, intoxicated. |
| Weasel | phr | "Weasel One's Way Out of" - fig. to squeeze or wheedle one way out of a difficult or unfavourable situation. 2. fig. to evade or avoid a job or responsibility. |
| Weasel-eyed | adj | Sharp of sight, alert, extremely watchful. |
| Weaseling | vb | To equivocate or quibble. |
| Weaselly | adv | Deviously, misleadingly. |
| Weasel-like | adj | Characteristic or resembling a weasel. 2. sharp, watchful alert in a manner. 3. deviously, misleadingly. |
| Weasel-minded | adj | Devious, cunning, misleading, sneaky, opportunistic, street-wise, weasely. |
| Weasel-monger | n | One who hunts rats, etc. with weasels. (Monger of rats using weasels). |
| Weaselship | n | A mock title for a person who has the so-called negative characteristics of a weasel. |
| Weasel word | n | An equivocating or ambiguous word which takes away the force of meaning of thhe concept being explained. 2. intentionally evasive or misleading speech; equivocation. NB: alluding to the wesel's supposed ability to suck an egg out of it's shell without seeming to break the shell. |
| Weather | n | The state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc. 2. a strong wind or storm or strong winds and storms collectively. |
| Weather | vb | To expose to the weather; dry, season, or otherwise affect by exposure to the air or atmosphere: to weather timber. 2. to discolor, disintegrate, or affect injuriously, as by the effects of weather, as weathered by the centuries. 3. to bear up against and come safely through (a storm, danger, trouble, illness etc.). 4. (of a ship, mariner, etc.) to pass or sail to the windward of: to weether a cape. 5. to cause to slope, so as to shed water. 6. to undergo change, especially discoloration or disintegration, as the result of exposure to atmospheric conditions. 7. to endure or resist exposure to the weather: something that weathers well. 8.to go or come safely through a storm, danger, trouble, etc. |
| Weather | phr | "A Bit Under the Weather" - intoxicated or drunk. 2. suffering from a hangover. 3. indisposing, ill, ailing. |
| Weather | phr | "Fair Weather Friend" - one to be friend who offers no support in difficult times |
| Weather | phr | "In All Weathers" - through changes or vicissitudes in one's lot or fortunes: we remained a good friend in all weathers. |
| Weather | phr | "Keep/Have my Weather eye Open" - have my wits about me. 2. keep a careful look out. |
| Weather | phr | "Lovely Weather for Ducks" - wet weather. |
| Weather | phr | "Lovely Weather We're Having" - we are having very bad weather (meant ironically). |
| Weather | phr | "Make Fair Weather of" - to be conciliatory, make a show of friendship (to or with a person). 3. to make a specious show of goodness. 4. to gloss over or represent the state of things as better than they are. 5. |
| Weather | phr | "Make Heavy Weather of" - of a vessel: to roll and pitch in heavy seas. 2. to carry out with great difficulty or unnecessarily great effort. 3. make a burden of something. |
| Weather | phr | "Run into Heavy Weather" - to encounter difficulties. |
| Weather | phr | "Stretch Wings to the Weather" - to fly. |
| Weather | phr | "Under the Weather" - slightly unwell. 2. in low spirits. 3. drunk. |
| Weather | phr | "Weather Along " - to sail or make headway in spite of the wind and weather, (also fig.) |
| Weather | phr | "Weather Away" - to wear away from exposure. |
| Weather | phr | "Weather Breaks" - good weather changes for the worse. |
| Weather | phr | "Weather Breeder" - a day of unusual fineness coming suddenly after a series of damp, dull days, especially at the times of year when such a genial day is not looked for. Such a day is generally followed by foul weather. |
| Weather | phr | "Weather Holds" - weather of any kind holds. |
| Weather | phr | "Weather the Storm" - endure and survive a storm. 2. fig. surmount opposition, criticism, difficult circumstances or crisis without be seriously affected; ride out a crisis. |
| Weather-beaten | adj | Beaten by the weather. 2. worn or damaged by exposure to the weather or the outdoors. |
| Weather-bitten | adj | Eaten into, defaced or worn, by exposure to the weather. |
| Weatherboard | n | The windward side of a vessel. 2. planks placed over an opening to keep out driven water. 3. clapboard: series of horizontal boards used to cover the exterior of timber-framed building. |
| Weatherboarding | n | Feather-edged boards fixed horizontally so that the thick edge of one overlaps the thin edge of another - used for fencing or roofing. |
| Weather-burnt | adj | Scorched, burnt by over-exposure to the sun. |
| Weather-candle | n | The candle of the open air: "the Sun". |
| Weathercock | n | A vane in the shape of a cock. 2. a mechanical device rotating around one axis and attached to an elevated object, such as a roof for showing the direction of the wind. 2. by a Papal enactment made in C9tha figure of a cock was set up on every church steeple as the emblem of St Peter. The emblem is an allusion to his denial of the Lord thrice before the cock crew twice. |
| Weathercock | phr | "Upon the Weather Cock" - inclined to turn and vary. |
| Weather-driven | adj | Something propelled by or driven forward by the action of the wind upon sails of a ship, water, or a windmill. |
| Weather-eaten | adj | Consumed, rotted or eroded by the weather. |
| Weathered | adj | Worn, or weather-beaten by the weather, as of rocks, stone, complexion. |
| Weather-eye | n | One with a keen eye for observing the weather. |
| Weather-eye | phr | "Keep One's Weather-eye Open" - to be watchful and alert and keep one's wits about them. |
| Weather forecast | n | A prediction in the Media, on TV,or on the radio of future weather conditions, often for a specific locality. |
| Weather-forecaster | n | A person, sometimes a meteorologist, who forecast the weather. |
| Weather-forecasting | n | The science of using meteorology to predict future weather. |
| Weather-gall | n | Something applied to other appearances in the ? to which the same significance is attributed. |
| Weatherglass | n | An instrument to indicate the state of the atmosphere, esp. changes of atmospheric pressure; and, hence changes of weather, such as barometers or baroscopes. |
| Weather-hardened | adj | Acclimatized or inured by frequent exposure to the weather. |
| Weather-headed | adj | Light-headed, foolish. |
| Weather-helm | n | A condition where a ship has its helm kept a little to the windward to prevent her head coming up in the wind. |
| Weathering | n | Obs: especially favourable or fair weather. 2. mechanical or chemical breaking down of rocks in situ by the weather and other causes. 3. in architecture: a slight inclination given to an approximately horizontal surface to enable to throw off water. |
| Weatherless | adj | Without weather. |
| Weatherlike | adj | Resembling the weather in some way: changeable, unpredictable, following a seasonal pattern, etc. |
| Weatherliness | n | The quality of being weatherly. |
| Weatherlore | n | Meteorology. 2. a non-scientific popular beliefs, relating to weather forecasting. |
| Weatherly | adv | Of or pertaining to the weather. 2. to the windward. 3. capable of keeping close into the wind without drifting to the leeward. |
| Weatherman | n | Meteorologist; weatherwoman. |
| Weather-monger | n | One (not always a professional meteorologist) who foretells the weather; one who is weather wise. 2. one engaged in predicting the weather. 3. weather diviner or long-range weather forecaster; (a monger of weather) |
| Weather-rotted | adj | Rotted by exposure to rain and heat. |
| Weather ship | n | A ship used by the Weather Bureau to assist in the compilation of the official weather forecasts. |
| Weather shore | n | A shore to weather or windward, placing the vessel in the lee of the land. 2. any kind of protection creating a relative calm. |
| Weather-sick | adj | Made sick by over exposure to certain kinds of weather. |
| Weather side | n | The windward side or weatherside of a vessel, a building, a tree, a mountain, that is most exposed to damage or injury from the weather. |
| Weather speak | n | A phatic conversation about the weather. |
| Weather-stained | adj | Disfigured by the action of the weather. |
| Weather-tight | adj | A proof against the rain and wind. |
| Weather-tough | adj | Acclimatized or inured by frequent exposure to the weather. 2. weather-hardened; inured. |
| Weather-vane | n | Weather-fane, a weathercock. |
| Weather window | n | Interval when weather conditions can be expected to be suitable for a particular project, such as launching a satellite. |
| Weather wisdom | n | The traditional lore of weather prognostics. |
| Weather-withstanding | adj | Resistant against the extremes of the weather. |
| Weather-wise | adj | Skilled in prognostics of the weather. |
| Weather-worn | adj | Destitute of herbs or vegetation, as the wild, without herb, weather-worn promontory. |
| Weave | n | A method or pattern of weaving. |
| Weave | vb | To form (a fabric) by interlacing (yarn, etc), esp on a loom. 2. to make or construct by such a process: to weave a shawl. 3. to make or construct (an artifact, such as a basket) by interlacing a pliable material, such as cane. 4. (of a spider) to make a web. 5. to construct by combining separate elements into a whole. 6. often followed by in, into, through, etc . to introduce: to weave factual details into a fiction. 7. to create a way, etc by moving from side to side: to weave through a crowd 8. of a stabled horse: to swing the head, neck, and body backwards and forwards. |
| Weave | phr | "Get Weaving" - begin working, hurry, moving. |
| Weave | phr | "Weave In and Out" - advance by moving sideways around obstacles. |
| Weave | phr | "Weave Into" - make thread into cloth by weaving them together. |
| Weave | phr | "Weave One's Spell" - have a magical effect. 2. charm interest or influence somebody or something in its own special way. |
| Weave | phr | "Weave Up" - make threads into cloth from threads by weaving them together. |
| Weaved | adj | Woven or plaited. |
| Weaver | n | One who weaves clothes, materials, carpets etc. for a living. |
| Weaverbird | n | Any of the various Old World (passerine) birds resembling finches, that build complex, communal nests. |
| Weavercraft | n | The art or technique of weaving. |
| Weaver's knot | n | A sheet bend in weaving. |
| Weaving | n | The process of making vowen material on a loom. 2. pieces of vowen material. 3. an unsteady motion backwards and forward. |
| Weaving | phr | "Get Weaving" - to hurry; start to do something. |
| Weavingly | adv | In a weaving pattern or motion. |
| Weazen | vb | To make wizened; to wizen. |
| Weazened | adj | Wizened. |
| Weazeny | adj | Alteration of wizened: shrivelle, wrinkled, shrinkish in appearance. |
| Web | n | Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things. 2. the World Wide Web (also spelled Web). 3. the part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing. 4. a latticed or woven structure. 5. interconnection between flanges. 6. the thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top and bottom of the rail. 7. a fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds. 8. a continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing. 9. a long sheet of paperweb (third-person singular simple present webs, present participle webbing, simple past and past participle webbed) |
| Web | vb | To construct or form a web; to weave. 2. to cover with a web or network. 3. to ensnare or entangle. 4. to provide with a web. |
| Web | phr | "The Web of Life" - the destiny of an individual from the cradle to the grave; from "Womb to Doom'. |
| Web-beacon | n | A web beacon is an object embedded in a web page or email, which unobtrusively (usually invisibly) allows checking that a user has accessed the content. Common uses are email tracking and page tagging for web analytics. |
| Webbed | adj | Having ones toes or fingers united by a web or fold of skin. 2. covered with or as if with a web. |
| Webber | n | A weaver. |
| Webbing | n | A strong hemp fabric woven in narrow strips of about 3mm wide used for chairs. 2. toes united by a web of skin. |
| Web-book | n | A class of laptop computer. 2. a book that is available in HTML on the web. |
| Webby | adj | Consisting of, resembling, or having webs or a web. |
| Webcast | n | "Broadcasting" over the internet distribution of audio and/or video content - or other messages to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communication media. |
| Webcaster | n | A person or organization that transmits a webcast over the internet. |
| Webcasting | n | Broadcasting over the World Wide Web, using a webcam. 2. spreading information over the Internet using push technology. |
| Web-diver | n | A person skilled in web-diving. |
| Web-diving | n | The act of viewing the less known part of the Internet (in contrast to web-surfing). |
| Web-eye | n | A disease of the eye arising from a film suffusing it. 2. in computing, an abundant mass of tissue arising from conjunctivitis of the inner corner of the eye that blurs vision by growing over the eye. |
| Web-feed | n | On the World Wide Web, a web-feed (a news feed) ia s a data format for providing users with frequently updated content. |
| Web-foot | n | A foot that has toes connected by folds of skin. 2. a web-footed animal. |
| Web-footed | adj | Having ones toes united by a web of skin. 2. with web-feet; having the toes connected by webs. |
| Web-headed | adj | An avid user of the Web. |
| Webbing | n | A strong, narrow closely woven fabric used specifically for seat belts and harness in upholstery. |
| Webbish | adj | Webby, consisting of a web, resembling a web, palmated. |
| Webless | adj | Without a web or webbing. |
| Weblike | adj | Having open interstices or resembling a web. 2. lacey, net-like, netted, webbed, reticular. |
| Web-link | n | A hyperlink, a printed address of a website in a book, newpaper, etc. |
| Webmaster | n | A webmaster is someone who creates and manages the content and organization of a website, manages the computer server and technical programming aspects of a website or does both. |
| Web-ring | n | A number of websites with related content, offering links to one another in such a way, that one may view each of them without referring to a single referring site. |
| Web-root | n | An Internet term: the topmost directory in which the files making up a web site are located on a web server |
| Web-shop | n | A sales outlet which supplies goods or services over the Internet. |
| Web-spinner | n | The order Embioptera, commonly known as webspinners, are a small group of mostly tropical and subtropical insects, classified under the subclass Pterygota. The order has also been referred to as Embiodea or Embiidina. |
| Webster | n | A female weaver. |
| Web-stream | n | A streaming media delivery method which uses the Internet to deliver audio or video playback to the end-user. |
| Web-toed | adj | Having feet with webbing; webfooted. |
| Web-toed | adj | Having ones toes united by a web of skin. |
| Webwheel | n | A wheel having a plate or disc instead of spokes or with rim,spokes, and centre in one piece as in the balance wheel of a clock or watch.. |
| Webwork | n | A mesh or network of links as connecting pieces. 2. a network of things interlinked in a manner resembling a web. 3. an elevated network of roads and overpasses. 4. a network of broken tiny veins, often on the nose or face. |
| Webworm | n | Any one of the various caterpillars of diverse families, that spin a web. |
| Wecche | vb | To rouse from sleep. 2. to stir up, excite, (wind, fire, passion, strife). 2. see awecche. |
| Wecht | n | An instrument for winnowing grain. |
| Wed | vb | To marry (another person) in a formal ceremony. 2. to unite (a couple) in marriage or wedlock; marry. 3. to bind by close or lasting ties; attach firmly. 4. to blend together or unite inseparably: a nove that weds style and content perfectly. 5. to contract marriage; marry. 6. to become united or to blend. |
| Wed | phr | "Wedded to (Something)" - be so attached to, or absorbed in, something that one finds no room for anything else. 2. to be utterly dedicated to a proposal. |
| Wed | phr | "Wed to" - combine one thing or quality to another. |
| Wedand | n | One who rages and/or raves, weeds, wood, wedes. cf: almightend, fiend, friend, halend, milciend, shapend, waldend, stycan etc. |
| Wedbreach | n | Breaking of the wedding covenant. 2. wedbreak; wed-break. |
| Wedbreaker | n | An adulterer. |
| Wedcast | n | A wedcast of a wedding. |
| Wedded | adj | Married, joined in matrimony, or wedlock. |
| Wedded-bliss | n | Lit. the happiness of being married; marriage. |
| Wedding | n | The social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed, wedding ceremony, nuptials. 2. the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; marriage ceremony. |
| Wedding | phr | "No Herring no Wedding" - a bad fishing season discourages marriage among fisher-folk. |
| Wedding-breakfast | n | A celebratory meal eaten just after a wedding (at any time of day) and before the honeymoon by a couple and their guests. |
| Wedding-cake | n | A rich, iced-cake, portions of which are given to kin and kith attending the wedding, and to absent kith and kin who are absent. |
| Wedding-day | n | The day and ceremony when people wed or an anniversary of the day. |
| Wedding-finger | n | The fourth finger on the left hand. |
| Weddingless | adj | Without a wedding; as a weddingless marriage. |
| Wedding-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a wedding |
| Wedding-monger | n | One, a wedding monger, actively engaged in organization of weddings. |
| Wedding-night | n | The night after the wedding (especially with reference to is consummation). |
| Wedding ring | n | A plain gold ring used in the marriage ceremony. 2. a a ring worn by a married person. |
| Weddingy | adj | Or, of pertaining, to a wedding. |
| Wede | vb | To be or to become mad; cf. woody; mad. 2. to be wild with rage or desire; to rage against something. 3. of waves, pestilence: to be furious. |
| Wed-free | adj | Free from the bounds of marriage. |
| Wedge | n | One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering, as a wedge under the door. 2. a piece (of food etc.) having this shape: a wedge of cheese. 3. geom. a five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. 4. (fig.) something that creates a division, gap or distance between things. 5.(archaic) - flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation. 6. a type of iron, golf club used for short, high trajectories. 7. a group (a skein) of geese or swans when they are in flight in a V formation. 9. colloq. in UK - a quantity of money. 10. phonetics - IPA character <ʌ>, which denotes an open-mid back rounded vowel. |
| Wedge | vb | To support or secure using a wedge; to wedge open a window. 2. to force into a narrow gap. 3. to work wet clay by cutting or kneading. |
| Wedge | phr | "Drive a Wedge Between" - set out to cause two persons to confront each other. |
| Wedge | phr | "Thin Edge of the Wedge" - a thing unimportant in itself that implies the state of growing much larger. 2. insignificant start of worsening situation. 3. an action or procedure of little importance in itself, but likely to lead to more serious developments. |
| Wedge | phr | "Wedge Out" To thin out into a wedge. |
| Wedge | phr | "Wedge their Way" - to little by little moved forward towards their aim or goal. |
| Wedge-bone | n | The sphenoid, wedged-shaped bone, or compound bone at the base of the skull. |
| Wedged | adj | Cuneiform. |
| Wedge-like | adj | Resembling or similar to a wedge. |
| Wedge-shaped | adj | Shaped like a solid wedge. 2. V-shaped. |
| Wedge-wise | adj | After the manner, in the form of a wedge. |
| Wedgy | adj | Having the form or uses of the wedge; cuneal. |
| Wedhood | n | The marriage of married state. 2. marriage, matrimony, wedlock. |
| Weding | adj | Raging, raving, weedy. |
| Wedlock | n | Marriage, matrimony, (slang): shackledom. 2. the married state. |
| Wedlock | phr | "Born Out of Wedlock" - brn of unmarried parents. |
| Wedlock | phr | "Wedlock it" - to get married, become hitched, walk down the aisle. |
| Wedlock breaker | n | An adulterer. |
| Wedlockhood | n | The marriage state. matrimony, (slang):shackledom. |
| Wed-man | n | A married man. |
| Wednesday | n | The fourth day of the week, following Tuesday. Origin: before 950; Middle English Wednesdai, Old English Wēdnesdæg, mutated variant of Wōdnesdæg Woden's day; cognate with Dutch Woensdag, Danish onsdag; translation of Latin Mercuriī diēs day of Mercury |
| Weed | n | An article of clothing. 2. an article of mourning clothes, weeds: mourning clothes or garb. |
| Weed | n | An herbaceous plant, usually a wild plant not wanted where it is growing. 2. a thin looking, feeble person. 3. an inferior horse (slang). 4. tobacco; marijuana. |
| Weed | vb | To clear an area of weeds. 2. sort out inferior parts for removal. 3. rid of or remove of inferior or unwanted members (of a council or committee etc). |
| Weed | phr | "Weed (something) Out" - get rid of parts or an element that weakens or injures the whole. 2. improve the whole by doing something. |
| Weedeater | n | A whipper-snipper, string-trimmer, weed-whip. 2. an insecticide that kills weeds. |
| Weeded | adj | Free from weed, weed-free, weedless. 2. of a crop: thin out, sparse of weeds. |
| Weeder | n | One who weeds for work. |
| Weed-grown | adj | Overgrown with weeds. |
| Weed-head | n | One addicted to marijuana. |
| Weedful | adj | Covered with weeds; weed-ridden, weedful, abounding in weeds. |
| Weedgrown | adj | Overgrown with weeds. |
| Weedily | adv | In a weedy manner. |
| Weediness | n | The state or condition of a being weedy. |
| Weeding | n | The action of removing weeds. |
| Weedless | adj | Free of weeds. |
| Weedlike | adj | resmbling or characteristic of weeds in some aspect. |
| Weedliness | n | The quality or state of being weedy; lack of physical presence; feebleness. |
| Weedling | n | A small, thin, weakly person. |
| Weeds | n | Widow's weeds garments, clothing worn by mourners. |
| Weeds | phr | "In Full Widow's Weeds" - deep mourning clothing worn by widows. |
| Weed tree | n | Applied to a tree of little timber value. |
| Weedy | adj | Full of or having many weed, overgrown with weeds. 2. lankly and weedy. 3. weak-looking; of poor physique. 4. feeble, lacking strength. |
| Weedy | adj | Mad, raging, furious. |
| Weedy | adj | Of a woman: wearing or clad in widows weeds or mourning clothes. |
| Week | n | A period of seven successive days, usually understood as beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday. 2. a period of seven successive days that begins with or includes an indicated day: the week of June 3. 3. a period of seven successive days devoted to a particular celebration, honor, cause, etc. 4. the working days or working portion of the seven-day period; workweek. |
| Week | adv | Seven days before or after a specified day: He left yesterday week. |
| Week | phr | "Any Day of the Week" - at any time. |
| Week | phr | "At Week's End" - on Friday. |
| Week | phr | "Be in by the Week's End" - to be caught, ensnared, fig. to be deeply (very quickly) in love. |
| Week | phr | "Go to It By the Week" - to commit oneself thoroughly. |
| Week | phr | "Knock Somebody into the Middle Of Next Week" - hit somebody very hard. |
| Week | phr | "Week in, Week out" - continually, unremittingly. |
| Week | phr | "Week of Sundays" - a long time; an indefinite period. |
| Week | phr | "Week to Week" - continuing or recurring in successive weeks; continual. |
| Weekday | n | A day of the week. 2. (pl) days of the weeks |
| Weekend | n | Saturday and Sunday. |
| Weekend | vb | To spend the weekend away on holiday. |
| Week-ending | n | The habit of spending the weekend away from home. |
| Week-ending | adj | Suggestive of the week end. |
| Weekender | n | One who spends their weekends away from home. 2. a home which one owns and occupies usually, only at weekends. |
| Week-long | adv | Continuing or lasting for a week. |
| Weekly | n | A publication issued once weekly. |
| Weekly | adj | A pertaining of a week. 2. happening once a week. |
| Weekly | adv | Happening once a week. |
| Weeknight | n | A night of the week. |
| Week-old | adv | Seve days old; being seven days ago. |
| Week work | n | In OE. law, work done for the lord by unfree tenant for so many days of the week, usually three days. |
| Weel | n | A deep pool; a deep place in a river or the sea, an eddy or whirlpool. |
| Weel | n | A wicker trap for catching fish or eels. 2. a basket in which fish are keep; a creel. |
| Ween | vb | To think, fancy. 2. to imagine, believe; suppose, guess.. |
| Weep | vb | To express grief, sorrow, or any overpowering emotion by shedding tears; shed tears; cry: to weep for joy; to weep with rage. 2. to let fall drops of water or other liquid; drip; leak. 3. to exude water or liquid, as soil, a rock, a plant stem, or a sore. 4.to weep for (someone or something); mourn with tears or other expression of sorrow: he wept his dead brother. 5. to shed (tears); pour forth in weeping: to weep tears of gratitude. 6. to let fall or give forth in drops: trees weeping an odorous gum.
7. to pass, bring, put, etc., to or into a specified condition with the shedding of tears (usually followed by away, out, etc.): to weep one's eyes out. |
| Weep | n | Weeping, or a fit of weeping. 2. the exudation of water or liquid. |
| Weep | phr | "Weep Away" - To spend,consume in tears and lament. 2. to remove or wash away with tears of commiseration. |
| Weep | phr | "Weep One's Fill" - sorrow of the heart; deepness of a wound (fig.) |
| Weep | phr | "Weep Out" - utter with tears. |
| Weep | phr | "Weep Over" - express regret at something or for somebody. 2. cry over. |
| Weeper | n | One who weeps; a mourner at a funeral, esp. one hired to do so. 2. a small image of a mourner on a monument. 3. a man's crepe hatband for funerals. 4. a widow's black crepe veil or white cuffs. 5. a notion long prevailing in England that it augured ill for future happiness if the bride did not weep profusely at the wedding. |
| Weepers | n | Long black streamers hanging from the hatband of male mourners during the C19th. |
| Weepily | adv | In a tearful, weeping, sad manner. |
| Weeping | n | The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); crying, weeping, tears. |
| Weeping | adj | Showing sorrow, dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful. 2. having branches or flower heads that bend downward; cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping. |
| Weeping-dale | n | Vale or valley of tears. |
| Weeping-hole | n | An opening through which moisture percolates; a weep-hole. 2. a hole to allow collected water to escape, as condensation on the inside of a window. |
| Weepingly | adv | In a weeping manner. |
| Weeping-pine | n | Pinus excelsa, so called because of long dropping needle or leaves. |
| Weeping-ripe | adj | Ready to weep. |
| Weeping-room | n | Opportunity for weeping. |
| Weeping-time | n | A time when one weeps or may weep. 2. of climate, weather, sky: dripping, drizzling. |
| Weeping willow | n | A decorative variety of willow tree with esp. pendulous branches. 2. used of a cultivar of Peking willow (saliva babylonica) as well as it's hybrid. |
| Weeply | adj | Lamentable tearful, inclined to tears. |
| Weepy | adj | Weeping, mournful, lugubrious. 2. exuding moisture, damp, oozy. |
| Weese | vb | To ooze, drip or distill gently. |
| Weevil | n | OE. "wifel" - a beetle. 2. a common name given to thousands of different kinds of small beetles, all distinguished by heads lengthened out to resemble beaks. 2. any insect damaging stored grain. |
| Weevilled | adj | Infested with weevils. |
| Weevily | adv | Infested with weevils. |
| Weezle | n | The trachea or windpipe (cf:weasand). 2. epiglottis. |
| Weft | n | USU 2. the threads. 2. strips of cane, straw, etc. used as the filling in weaving baskets, mats, etc. 3. yarn used as weft threads. 3. that which is spun or woven. 4. film over the eye. 5. a mat of hairs on the stem or leaf of a plant. 6.streak of cloud, a thin layer of smoke or mist. |
| Weft | vb | To form a weft or web. 2. to interlace the weft with the warp. |
| Weft | phr | "The Weft of the World" - (the weft of the world was untorn): the fabric of the world. |
| Weft-finger | n | The forefinger. |
| Wefting | n | The act or practice of form a web or weave. |
| Weftwise | adv | Of, or relating to the weft running across the warp; crosswise. |
| Wefty | adj | Of the nature of a weft or thread, plants, vapour. |
| Weigh | vb | To determine the weight of an object. 2. often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight. 3. fig. to determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate. 4. fig. to judge; to estimate. 5. to consider a subject.
6. to have a certain (body) weight. 7. to have weight; to be heavy; to press down. 8. to be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance. 9. to raise an anchor free of the seabed. 10. to weigh anchor. 11. to bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up. 12.(obsolete) to consider as worthy of notice; |
| Weigh | vb | To shake, toss, agitate, move about. |
| Weigh | phr | "Weigh Against" - tend to make people disfavor or reject somebody. 2. to tell against. |
| Weigh | phr | "Weigh Anchor" - raise the anchor . 2. prepare to leave the docking berth or moorings. |
| Weigh | phr | "Weigh Down" - to cause to bend or sag by overburdening (lit and fig.). 2. to oppress, burden, overload. 3. to be too much to cope with. 4. lower somebody's spirits; make somebody sad and anxious. |
| Weigh | phr | "Weigh In" - to undergo a weigh-in: two days before the fight, boxers weigh in in order to meet the weight limit of their division; jockeys finishing in the first three placing weigh in to see that their "weight " is correct 2. to subject to a weigh-in at the loading dock. 3. to weigh. He weighs in at upwards of 250 pounds. 4. to bear on an issue: everyone wanted to weigh in on what kind of car he should buy. 5. join in. |
| Weigh | phr | "Weigh in With" - lend one's weight. 2. bring something along. 3. to produce a strong argument. |
| Weigh | phr | "Weigher of Souls" - God; as "Like a skillful weigher of souls (God), put into the balance pleasure and pain. |
| Weigh | phr | "Weigh One Somebody's Mind" - worry, make anxious. |
| Weigh | phr | "Weigh One's Words" - speak, or write with deliberate care in choosing one's words, either for stylistics or make one's meaning perfectly clear. 2. avoid giving verbal offence to others. |
| Weigh | phr | "Weigh Out" - measure a quantity of something by weight. |
| Weigh | phr | "Weigh Up" - assess, judge, consider carefully before forming a judgement. 2. consider alternatives carefully before choosing one of them. 3. evaluate or consider something; weigh something up. |
| Weigh | phr | "Weigh With" - be regarded as important by somebody, be seriously considered by somebody. |
| Weigh-bridge | n | A public place with equipment to which commodities are brought to be weighed. 2. a weigh-house. |
| Weigh | vb | To act as a ballast. |
| Weighed | adj | Measured or apportioned (a certain quantity) by weight. 2. determined of weight by scales. |
| Weigher | n | One who weighs or performsthe duty of weighing things. |
| Weigher | n | The Equator. |
| Weigher | phr | "Weigher of Souls" - "Like a skillful weigher of souls (God), put into the balance pleasure and pain. |
| Weigh house | n | A public office where certificates guaranteeing the accuracy of weight of loads are issued. |
| Weigh-in | n | The act or procedure of a jockey, boxer etc |
| Weighing | n | The undergoing of a weigh-in: two days before the fight, as boxers who weigh in in order to meet the weight limit of their division; or jockies who finish in the first three placings weigh in to see that their "weight " is correct. |
| Weighing | adj | That weighs. 2. that weighs on or burdens. |
| Weighman | n | A man whose work is to weigh goods or articles. |
| Weighmaster | n | A company employees or licensed public official who verifies the weight of goods, as ore, coal, grain. |
| Weight | n | The amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs. 2. the force that gravitation exerts upon a body, equal to the mass of the body times the local acceleration of gravity: commonly taken, in a region of constant gravitational acceleration, as a measure of mass. 3. a system of units for expressing heaviness or mass: avoirdupois weight. 4. a unit of heaviness or mass: the pound is a common weight in English-speaking countries. 5. a body of determinate mass, as of metal, for using on a balance or scale in weighing objects, substances, etc. |
| Weight | vb | To add weight to; load with additional weight: to weight sacks before dumping them overboard. 2. to load (fabrics, threads, etc.) with mineral or other matter to increase the weight or bulk. 3. to burden with or as if with weight (often followed by down): as in financial worries . 4. to give a statistical weight to: to bias or slant toward a particular goal or direction; manipulate. |
| Weight | phr | "Be a Weight off Someone's Mind" - to be a great relief. |
| Weight | phr | "Bring in One's Weight" - metaphorically speaking, to bear on an issue; frequently construed with on or with. |
| Weight | phr | "By Weight" - according to measurement of heaviness or mass: rates are determined by weight. |
| Weight | phr | "Lend One's Weight to" - to use one's influence to support some cause. |
| Weight | phr | "Pull one's Weight" :to contribute one's rightful share of work to a project or job: We will finish in time if we each pull our weight; also, pull one's own weight. |
| Weight | phr | "Put on Weight" - increase one's weight. |
| Weight | phr | "Take the Weight of Someone's Shoulders" - assist some one by relieving them of a responsibility. |
| Weight | phr | "Throw One's Weight About" - to use one's power and influence, especially beyond the bounds of propriety, to secure some personal gain. |
| Weigh | phr | "Weigh In" - to ascertain the weight of a jockey before the race. |
| Weigh | phr | 'Weigh Up" - to calculate one's chances. 2. to estimate (character). |
| Weight | phr | "Worth One's Weight in Gold" - highly valued as an employee, member of a team, etc. 2. be very desirable; helpful; useful. |
| Weighted | adj | Determined by value or importance. |
| Weightful | adj | Full of weight or heaviness. |
| Weightfully | adv | In a weightly manner. 2. with or as weight. |
| Weightiness | n | The quality of being weighty. |
| Weighting | n | Fig. weights, as "higher weighting was assigned to data from double-blind studies." |
| Weightless | adj | Which has no weight. 2. which is not being affected by gravity |
| Weightlessness | n | The state of being free from the effects of gravity. 2. an experience or instance of being free from gravity or weightless 3. the state of being free from stress. |
| Weightlessly | adv | In a weightless manner. |
| Weight-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of weight. |
| Weightloss | n | The loss of bodily weight. 2. the amount of bodily weight lost through diet and exercise. |
| Weightness | n | Weightiness: the quality of being weighty. |
| Weight-watcher | n | One who follows the methods and philosophy of the company "Weight Watchers" of losing weight by forming helpful habits, eating smarter and healthier and getting more exercise. |
| Weightwise | adj | In terms of weight. |
| Weighty | adj | Of great gravity or significance; requiring earnest thought, condition or application. 2. highly important, serious, grave, momentous. 3. ranking high in respect of importance or value. 4. of an argument, utterance etc. producing a powerful effect, adopted to influence or convince, potent; adopted to turn the balance of the mind. 5. rigorous, severe, afflictive. |
| Weine | vb | OE. wone. 2. to lament, wail. |
| Weir | n | A dam in a river to raise and control water for irrigation, navigation, power or ornament . 2. a weel, or fence of stakes set in a stream for catching fish. |
| Weir | vb | To provide with a weir. |
| Weird | adj | Involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound; weird lights. 2. fantastic; bizarre: a weird getup. 3. archaic. concerned with or controlling fate or destiny. 4. unnatural, preternatural. weird, eerie, unearthly, uncanny refer to that which is mysterious and apparently outside natural law. (Weird refers to that which is suggestive of the fateful intervention of supernatural influences in human affairs: one's weird adventures. (Eerie refers to that which, by suggesting the ghostly, makes one's flesh creep). (Unearthly refers to that which seems by its nature to belong to another world. Uncanny refers to that which is mysterious because of its apparent defiance of the laws established by experience; an uncanny ability. |
| Weird | n | Archaic: fate or destiny. 2. one of the Fates |
| Weird | vb | To ordain by the decree of fate, esp. to be destined or divinely appointed to, into or unto. 2. to assign to a person his fate; to wierd. 3. to apportion as one's destiny or lot. 4. to advise or warn by the knowledge of coming fate. 5. to destine or ordain. |
| Weird | phr | "Dree One's Weird" - to surrender to one's fate. |
| Weird | phr | "Weird and Wonderful" - strange but wonderful and clever. |
| Weird | phr | "Weird Out" - make uneasy , bewildered or disquieted by something considered very strange, as a film. |
| Weird-dom | n | The supernatural world; weird-dom. |
| Weirdish | adj | Somewhat weird. |
| Weirdless-ness | n | A state or condition of being weirdless. |
| Weird-light | n | The light of destiny. |
| Weird-like | adj | Suggestive of the supernatural, ominous, eery, uncanny of a person. |
| Weirdly | adj | Favoured by fate, happy, prosperous. 2. pertaining to or suggestive of witchcraft or the supernatural. |
| Weirdly | adv | In a weird or fantastic manner. |
| Weird-man | n | A wizard, soothsayer, warlock, astrologer. |
| Weirdness | n | The fact or quality of being weird. |
| Weird Sisters | n | The Fates. 2. the witches of Macbeth. |
| Weirdsome | adj | Uncanny, mysterious. |
| Weird-woman | n | A witch. |
| Weirdy | adj | Fateful. |
| Wel-begone | adj | Surrounded with happiness or prosperity, |
| Welch | vb | See; "Welsh" |
| Welcome | n | A greeting or reception. 2. salutation to a newcomer. 3. kind reception of a guest or newcomer. 4. A hearty welcome. 5. one who comes so as to please the will of another. |
| Welcome | vb | To accept gladly. 2. bid welcome to; greet upon arrival, receive with professions of kindness. 3. to salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to receive and entertain hospitably and cheerfully; as, to welcome a visitor. |
| Welcome | adj | Giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted. 2. received with gladness; admitted willingly - to a house, entertainment. 2. producing gladness; grateful; as, welcome news. 4. free to have or enjoy gratuitously; as, you are welcome to. |
| Welcome | phr | "Be Welcome to" -be(willingly) allowed to. |
| Welcome | adj | "Made Welcome" - gladly received. |
| Welcome | phr | "Make Welcome" - receive hospitably. |
| Welcome | phr | "Wear Out One's Welcome" - to come so often or to linger so long as no longer to be welcome. 2. outstay one's welcome |
| Welcome | phr | "Welcome Back" - greet somebody enthusiastically on his return on their return. |
| Welcome | phr | "You're Welcome" - There is no need for thanks. 2. I'm was pleased to do it. |
| Welcomeless | adj | Without a welcome or greeting. 2. unwelcomed. |
| Welcomeness | n | The state of being welcomed or greeting. |
| Welcomer | n | One who welcomes or greeting. |
| Welcome-to-our-house | n | A plant, a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Cyparissias). |
| Welcoming | n | The action of greeting or making welcome. 2. that welcomes or gives welcome. 3. a welcome. |
| Welcomingly | adv | In or with a welcomingly manner. |
| Welcomingness | n | The state or quality of being welcomed or made welcome. |
| Weld | n | Ruler: see 'wald'. |
| Weld | n | The plant "Reseda Luteola" which yields a yellow dye. 2. weldwort. |
| Wel-dede | n | A good deed, a benefit, a good or well deed. |
| Welder | n | A ruler, governor. |
| Weldworts | n | Plants (welds) of the N.O. Resedaceae named by Lindley. |
| Wele | n | See "Weal" |
| Welfare | n | Governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need; public assistance. 2. something that aids or promotes well-being; benefit. 3. a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous; wellbeing, well-being, upbeat, eudaemonia. 4. well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness |
| Welfare | phr | "On Welfare" - receiving money, goods, clothing free from governmental agencies. |
| Welfare-queen | n | A pejorative term with refer to women who allegedly collect excessive welfare payments through fraud or manipulation. |
| Welfare-to-work | adj | A social program designed to wean those receiving government benefits back to employment. |
| Welfare work | n | Organized effort for the welfare of the poor, disabled. |
| Welfare-worker | n | Someone employed to provide social services, esp. to the disadvantaged. |
| Welfaring | adj | Faring well, prosperous, thriving. |
| Welful | adj | Productive of happiness. |
| Welfulness | n | Happiness, health, prosperity. |
| Welkin | n | A cloud; the sky. 2. the apparent arch or vault of heaven, overhead, the sky. 3. the sky, firmament. 4. the abode of the devil, or of mythology the gods of heaven. 5. the upper atmosphere. 6. the region of the air on which are the clouds; where birds fly. |
| Welkin | phr | "Make the Welkin Ring" - descriptive of loud sound, such as thunder, in the sky. |
| Welkin | phr | "Rend the Welkin" - tearing of the sky. |
| Welkin | phr | "To the Welkin" - to the sky. |
| Welkin-eye | n | A heavenly or blue eye. |
| Welkin-high | adj | Sky high; very high. |
| Welkin-wise | adj | After the fashion of the welkin. |
| Welkin-wizard? | n | An administrative maker who makes astrological forecasts. 2. an astrologer. |
| Well | adv | In a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard '`good' is a non-standard variant for `well'). 2. thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form; "well-done meat". 3. indicating high probability; in all likelihood; "I might well do it". 4. (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully;"a book well worth reading". 5. to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree; "the job was well underway". 6. favorably; with approval; "he thought well of the book". 7. to a great extent or degree; as, "well over budget". 8. with great or especially intimate knowledge; "we knew them well". 9. with prudence or propriety; "you would do well to say nothing". 10. with skill or in a pleasing manner; "he writes well". 11. in a manner affording benefit or advantage; "she married well"; advantageously. 12. in financial comfort; "they live well"; comfortably. 13. without unusual distress or resentment; with good humour. 13. in a good or proper manner; justly; rightly; not ill or wickedly. 14. suitably to one's condition, to the occasion, or to a proposed end or use; suitably; abundantly; fully; adequately; thoroughly. 15. fully, approximately or about; -- used with numbers; obs. "Well a ten or twelve." 16. in such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish satisfactorily; favorably; advantageously; conveniently. "It boded well to you." 17. considerably; not a little; far. Note: Well is sometimes used elliptically for it is well, as an expression of satisfaction with what has been said or done, and sometimes it expresses concession, or is merely expletive; as, well, the work is done; well, let us go; well, well, be it so. |
| Well | adj | In good health especially after having suffered illness or injury. 2. resulting favorably; as all's well that ends well" 3. wise or advantageous and hence advisable. 4.good in condition or circumstances; desirable, either in a natural or moral sense; fortunate; convenient; advantageous; happy. 5. being in health; sound in body; not ailing, diseased, or sick; healthy; as, a well man. 6. being in favor; favored; fortunate. |
| Well | n | A deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine. 2. a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid. 3. an abundant source; as a well of information; wellspring, fountain, fountainhead. 4. an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway); an opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole 5. an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish, gear, pumping equipment or for protecting something. 6. an issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain. 7. a pit or hole sunk into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with stone or bricks to prevent the earth from caving in. 8. military, a hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries. 9. the lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls. |
| Well | vb | To come up, as of a liquid; "tears well in her eyes"; swell. 2. to pour forth, as from a well. 3. to boil, seethe. |
| Well | phr | "All's Well that Ends Well" - even though something may have it's problems or unexpected steps or development, all will all tun out well in the end. |
| Well | phr | "As Well As" - in addition to, besides, |
| Well | phr | "As Well As" - and also; together with; not less than; one as much as the other; as, a sickness long, as well as severe; London is the largest city in England, as well as the capital. |
| Well | phr | "Be as Well" - be advisable, prudent. |
| Well | phr | "Be Well Out of" - be fortunate not to be involved in or with. |
| Well | phr | "Do Well Out of" - profit by. |
| Well | phr | "Go Back to the Well" - go to the original source. |
| Well | phr | "Leave/Let Well Enough Alone" - well or good in a moderate degree; so as to give satisfaction, or so as to require no alteration. 2. to avoid attempts to correct, fix, or improve what is already sufficient 2. if it ain't broke, don't fix it; never change a running system. |
| Well | phr | "Stand Well With" - to be in the good graces of. |
| Well | phr | "Well and Good" - that is all right. 2. that is good or satisfactory. 3. all well and good. |
| Well | phr | "Well and Truly" - completely, thoroughly. |
| Well | phr | "Well Aware of Something" - fully informed, conscious of something, of something. |
| Well | phr | "Well Away" - to bear or submit to something. |
| Well | phr | "Well Done" - comment, or exclamation, of approvzal and congratulations. |
| Well | phr | "Well I'll Never Did" - exclamation of pleased or displeased surprize. |
| Well | phr | "Well Met" - comment that is fortunate, or convenient, ocassion of meeting. |
| Well | phr | "Well Off" - in fortunate condition; especially, in good condition as to property or any advantages; thriving; prosperous, wealthy. |
| Well | phr | "Well off" - in a fortunate situation, or wealthy. |
| Well | phr | "Well Out of" - lucky not to be concerned with. |
| Well | phr | "Well Thought Out" - carefully worked out. |
| Well | phr | "Well to Do" - well off; prosperous;- used also adjectively."The class well to do in the world." |
| Well | phr | "Well Up" - rise up like water in a well. 2. to fill up or gush with, as 'well up with tears'. 3.(of sound) grow louder. |
| Well | phr | "Well Up On(Something) - well informed about something. |
| Well | phr | "Well to Live" - in easy circumstances; well off; well to do. |
| Well | phr | "Well, Well, Well" - intrjection indicating pondering, or consideration of something, sometimes with sarcasm or mock surprize. |
| Well | phr | "Well Worth" - certainly worth. |
| Wella | Intj | Alas, well then. |
| Wella | adv | Also prefix, intensifier: very, exceeding. |
| Welladay | Excl | An exclamation expressing sorrow, lament or lamentation, alas. 2. the utterance of this exclamation. 3. wellaway. |
| Well-armed | adj | Armed with a number of weapons. |
| Wellaway | excl | An exclamation of sorrow or lamentation. 2. woe is me. |
| Wellaway | adv | For and away, much. |
| Well-beaten | adj | A much trodden way or path or region, etc. |
| Well-be'coming | adj | (ppl)Highly befitting or suitable. |
| Well-be'gone | adj | (ppl)Well-contented, cheerful, joyous. |
| Well-be'gun | adjl | Well started, fortunate or favourably started. |
| Well-be'hated | adj | Disliked, unloved, not-liked. |
| Well-be'haved | adj | Displaying a good or manner decorum. |
| Well-being | n | A state or condition of welfare, health, happiness and/or prosperity. 2. state of being well; healthy, contented. |
| Well-be'known | adj | Well known. |
| Well-believing | adj | Easy of belief, believable, credulous. |
| Well-be'loved | adj | One dearly loved and cherished. |
| Well-be'seen | adj | Good looking, attractive, fair, fetching, of good appearance. 2. well appointed or unparalleled; well furnished with, versed or accomplished in. |
| Well-be'spoke | adj | Fair or well-spoken, of courteous in speech. |
| Well-be'teeming | adj | To be well stocked to overflowing; prolific, abounding. |
| Well-boden | adj | Well furnished, well provided. 2. fully armed or equipped. |
| Well-bodied | adj | Having good bodily development. |
| Well-boned | adj | Having long and/or strong bones. 2. having a sound structure or frame. |
| Well boring | n | The art or process of boring an artesian well. |
| Well-born | adj | Of good birth or lineage. 2. of gentle blood. 3. having the personal qualities associated with good birth or breeding. 4. noble in nature or characteristic. |
| Well-bought | adj | Valiantly won; dear or dearly bought or achieved. 2. bought at a fair price. 4. worth the price bought. |
| Well-breathed | adj | Sound or strong of breathe or wind. 2. exercised so as to be of strong breathe or good wind. 3. not out of breathe. |
| Well-bred | adj | Well mannered and refined because of a good upbringing and education. 2. of animals: of a good breed. |
| Well-breeched | adj | Prosperous, happy, successful. |
| Well-to-do | adj | Prosperous, well-off, rich, successful. |
| Well-built | adj | Of a house or building well constructed. 2. of a poem: soundly written or composed. 3. of a person:strong and robust. |
| Well-cared-for | adj | Looked after and tended to in a careful and proper manner or way. |
| Well-chosen | adj | Well-chosen words: words carefully and discreetly chosen and crafted in speaking and writing. 2. short and telling, succinct in speech in a piece of writing also used (ironically). |
| Well-clothed | adj | Well and neatly dressed. |
| Well-crafted | adj | Skilfully crafted, as a sentence in writing; a piece of furniture or carving. |
| Wellcrest | n | Watercress: Nasturtium officinale. |
| Well-dealing | adj | Fair and honest in dealing or in business dealing. |
| Well-deeded | adj | Characterised by good deeds. |
| Well-deemed | adj | Of good reputation or report; wellaccounted of. |
| Well-doer | n | One who does well. 2. one who lives virtuously acts uprightly. 3. a performer of moral and social duties. |
| Well-doing | n | The action or practice of doing good; virtuous life and behaviour. 2. good deeds or actions. 3. valour, martial prowess. 4. thriving conditions, health, prosperity, welfare, success. |
| Well-doing | adj | That does good oe equips oneself well. 2. valiant, diligent in performance of work or duty. 3. well-behaved; respectable. 4. well-to-do, prosperous. |
| Well-done | adj | Wise, prudent, virtuous. 2. skillfully or correctly performed or executed. 3. an exclamation, expression, approval of what someone has done. 4.an expression of commendation. 5. that is well done. 6. of meat, food, etc. : well or thoroughly cooked. |
| Well drain | n | A drain or vent for water, somewhat like a well or pit, serving to discharge the water of wet land. 2. a drain conducting to a well or pit. |
| Well-drawn | adj | Skilfully delineated; also of the human body or form: well prportioned or modeled. 2. strongly ; straightened. |
| Well-earned | adj | Deserved; hard but honestly earned. |
| Welled | adj | Of metal, molten cast welled together. 2. of milk: boiled, curdled. 3. of curds: coagulated. 4. filled. |
| Welled | adj | Having a well or hollow on the surface. 2. having a tank, cistern in which fish are carried or preserved alive. |
| Well-edged | adj | Having a sharp edge. |
| Well-eyed | adj | Having good eyes or good sight. 2. keen-sighted. |
| Well-faring | adj | Of handsome or well-favoured appearance; attractive. 2. good-looking, robust. 3. healthy, 4. couched in appropriate terms. 5. doing well, prosperous. |
| Well-fed | adj | Well-nourished. 2. plump, fat, chubby. 3. sleek. |
| Well-feeling | adj | Sensible, intelligent. |
| Well-fledged | adj | Well-feathered. |
| Well-fleshed | adj | Well furnished with flesh. 2. plump. 3. inured, become accustomed to or eager for bloodshed. |
| Well-fletched | adj | Well-feathered; covered by feathers. |
| Well-fore'warned | adj | Warned in advance of some potential or likely danger. |
| Well-fought | adj | Inured or accustomed to fighting. 2, valiantly contested. |
| Well-framed | adj | Well-shaped, constructed, fashioned, composed. |
| Well-girt | adj | In good trim for walking. 2. strenuously bestowed. 3. firmly encircled or secured by a girdle. |
| Well-given | adj | Well disposed. |
| Well-going | adj | Said of an animal or machine: operating smoothly and effectively. 2. moving or proceeding with ease. |
| Well-gotten | adj | Obtained by good means, honourably obtained. (antonym of ill-gotten) |
| Well-groomed | adj | Well dressed down to the smallest detail. |
| Well-grounded | adj | Having a competent knowledge of the elements of some study; authentic. |
| Well-grown | adj | Showing satisfactory growth or development. |
| Well-haled | adj | Pulled up properly. 2. drawn tight. 3. causing through pressure or necessity by physical, moral or intellectual means. |
| Well-handled | adj | Clever, dexterous. |
| Well-hardened | adj | Innured or thoroughly conditioned. |
| Well-head | n | The place at which a spring breaks out of the ground. 2. the head-spring or source of a stream or a river. 3. a spring in a marsh or morass. 4. the chief source or fountain-head of anything. 4. the top of a draw-well; also, a more or less elaborate structure erected over this. 5. the structure surrounding a gas or oil well. |
| Well-hearted | adj | Stout-hearted, courageous. 2. well-disposed, kind-hearted, generous. |
| Well-heeled | adj | Prosperous in appearance in fact. 2. having plenty of money. |
| Well-heling | n | Good concealment or covering; cf: hill, hell. |
| Well-hewn | adj | Well cut or sculptured. |
| Well-hoarded | adj | Well-stocked, stored. saved and put away for later use. |
| Well-hole | n | A shaft; an opening through a floor or series of floors, for a staircase, chimney stack or for the admission of light. 2. the empty space round which the stairs of a winding staircase turn. 3. a vertical passage-way (for machinery, a lift, light etc.) |
| Well-hued | adj | Of a pleasing colour, complexion or shade. |
| Well-hung | adj | Furnished with large pendulous organs; spec. of a man having large genitals. 2. decorated with rich hangings or tapestry. 3. of the tung: working readily and freely, glib, fluent. 4. of meat or game: hung up for a sufficient time . 5. suspended or attached to as to hang well; said; esp. of a window-sash, carriage, a gate or lady's skirt. |
| Welling | n | The action of boiling or scalding water. 2. the boiling up of a liquid in a pot. 3. the melting or founding of metals. 4. the bubbling up and overflowing (of water). 5. the flowing forth of a stream. 6. the swelling of flood waters, the sea. |
| Welling | n | The action of making or digging a well or a shaft. |
| Welling | adj | Boiling, said of liquid or molten metal. 2. of springs, tears- flowing abundantly, surging. 3. that which pours out of a stream or streams. 4. of a wound: bleeding copiously. |
| Welling-hot | adj | Boiling hot. |
| Welling-lead | n | A cauldron. |
| Welling woe | n | Of Hell: (lit and fig) -boiling (hot) hot, infernal. |
| Welling wood | adj | Raging mad. |
| Wellish | adj | Somewhat well, fairly well to do, wellish off. |
| Well-kempt | adj | Well dressed, neat and tidy; esp. used of hair; well-groomed: kempt (combed); well-kept. |
| Well-kenned | adj | Well-known, familiar; well-kenned. |
| Well-kept | adj | Carefully preserved or stored. 2. faithfully observed or guarded. 3. maintained in good order or condition; well kept. 4. well-kempt. |
| Well-knit | adj | Firmly conjoined or compacted; closely linked or compacted. 2. of a person's frame: strongly and compactly built; not loose-jointed. |
| Well-knowledged | adj | Furnished with sound knowledge. |
| Well-known | adj | Known to many; widely or generally known. 2. intimately or thoroughly known. |
| Well-knownness | n | State of being well-known; well known; somewhat famous. 2. familiarity; intimacy. |
| Well-laid | adj | The state or property of being clearly and well laid or set out. 2. lucid. |
| Well-leared | adj | Well learned. |
| Well-learned | adj | Having sound knowledge or instruction. 2. deeply read or versed in a subject. |
| Well-leaved | adj | Full of foliage. |
| Well-led | adj | Effectively and efficiently managed and directed. |
| Well-left | adj | Financially comfort from the benefits of a bequest or inheritance. |
| Well-liked | adj | Regarded with much affection or approval. |
| Well-liking | adj | Favourably regard; fondness, approbation or love of. |
| Well-liking | adj | In good condition and of lusty appearance; thriving, healthy, plump. 2. pleasant agreeable. |
| Well-lit | adj | Not dark, clearly lit, visible at night. |
| Well-living | adj | That leads a good life. |
| Well-looking | adj | Of a person, plant, animal, building etc., good or of attractive appearance, good looking. 2. of an idea: specious, attractive. |
| Well-lost | adj | Lost for a good cause; as 'a well-lost life'. |
| Well-loved | adj | Muchly loved, well loved and beloved. |
| Well-made | adj | Of a person or animal; well-proportioned of a good build. 2. of things: skillfully fabricated, well made or constructed. |
| Well-marked | adj | Clearly defined or outlined. 2. easy to recognize or distinguish. |
| Well-matched | adj | Of comparable strength or power. 2. to be equal with, be on a par with. 3. to be compatible with, harmonious with in a social and economic sense. 4. fit, suitable, go well with, gowell together. |
| Well-meaned | adj | Furnished with considerable means or assets. 2. kindly disposed. |
| Well-meaner | adj | One who means well or is of good intentions. |
| Well-meaning | adj | Disposed to do what is right and good intended. |
| Well-meaningness | n | Good intentions, well-meaning, disposition to kindness and helpfulness. |
| Well-met | adj | Welcome. |
| Well-minded | adj | Having or actuated by a good disposition or intention; well minded. 2. right-minded; loyal; generous or favouraly disposed, benevolent. 3. wishful or determined to do something. |
| Well-mingled | adj | (OE: mengan): to mix as to unite or combine a well-mixed, well mingled and compatible composition - "of well-mingled loves and woes well-mingled could improve his bliss." |
| Well-mouthed | adj | Having a good mouth in various senses: articulate, fluent etc. |
| Well-near | adv | Near, close, nearby; well near. |
| Wellness | n | The state of being well or in good health. |
| Well-nigh | adv | Very near, nearly, well nigh almost wholly or entirely. |
| Well-nosed | adj | Keenly scented or fragrant. |
| Well-off | adj | Fortunate, comfortable, somewhat prosperous or rich. 2. favourably circumstanced, fortunately situated. 2. well provided for, having no lack. 3. in easy circumstance; well to do. |
| Well-offness | n | In a fortunate state; prosperity, well-to-do circumstances. |
| Well-plucked | adj | Plucky, fearless. |
| Well-read | adj | Well-informed by reading, well read. 2. learned in a subject. 3. of a book- attentively perused; read well in a proper or profitable manner |
| Well-risen | adj | Of a horse or deer: having an erect and well-covered neck. 2. of bread and paste: risen high. |
| Well room | n | A room where a well or spring is situated; especially, one built over a mineral spring. 2. a depression in the bottom of a boat, into which water may run, and whence it is thrown out with a scoop. |
| Well-rooted | adj | Having good and strong roots. 2. firmly fixed or grounded (lit. and fig.) |
| Well-seeing | adj | Sharp or keen of sight. |
| Well-seen | adj | Well provided or furnished. 2. skilled, versed, proficient in some study or action. 3. plainly, visible, evident. |
| Well-set | adj | Of the Sun: longly set or gone down. |
| Well-shape | adv | Shapeliness, beauty of a figure. |
| Well-shaped | adj | Having a good shape, form or figure. 2. well-shapen. |
| Well-shot | adj | Well grown or developed. |
| Well-sighted | adj | Having good sight or mental discernment. |
| Well sinker | n | One who sinks or digs wells. |
| Well sinking | n | The art or process of sinking or digging. |
| Well-smelling | n | Fragrant. |
| Well-speaking | n | Eloquence, good delivery in speaking, well-spoken-ness. |
| Well-speaking | adj | Eloquent, well-spoken. |
| Well-spent | adj | Of a purchase giving value for money. |
| Well-spoken | adj | Eloquenct, good delivery in speaking, wellspoken; well spoken. |
| Well-spokenness | n | The art of eloquence. |
| Well-spring | n | Source or head-spring of a stream; a fountain. 2. (fig.) a source of perennial emanation or supply. |
| Well-starred | adj | Born under a lucky star, fortunate, propitious. |
| Well-stocked | adj | Copious, full furnished with, supplied. |
| Wellstead | n | A site for a well. 2. an old name for the bed of a river or riverbed. |
| Well-strained | adj | coming of a good stock or breed. |
| Well-strand | n | A small stream flowing from a spring. 2. a well-stream. |
| Well-stream | n | A stream flowing from a spring. 2. a well-strand. |
| Well-stocked | adj | Filled with a plentiful supply of something. |
| Well-taken | adj | Skilfully executed as taking a catch in a sporting contest. 2. of an argument : readily accepted. |
| Well-tanned | adj | Of skin, hide etc. - properly tanned. 2. now chiefly with the sense "tanned by the sun" or made brown by the sun; sunburnt. |
| Well-thewed | adj | Being of good character or disposition. 2. well-conducted, well-mannered, virtuous. |
| Well-thinking | adj | Judging rightly and fairly. |
| Well-thought-of | adj | Considered worthy, good, virtuous. |
| Well-thought-of-ness | n | The state or condition of being considered worthy in various senses and situation. |
| Well-thought-out | adj | Planned and considered carefully. |
| Well-thumbed | adj | Bearing marks of frequent handling. |
| Well-timed | adj | Occurring, done or made of a good or fitting time; timely, opportune. 2. at the right moment or period. |
| Well-to-do | n | "The Well-to-Do" - the rich, the well-heeled, those thriving, successful or prosperous; the well-off. |
| Well-to-do | adj | Possessed of a competency. 2. in easy circumstances; successful. 3. thriving, prosperous. |
| Well-to-do | phr | "Well to do in the World" - prosperous, rich, successful. 2. "Well to live in the World" |
| Well-to-do-ness | n | The state or quality of being prosperous, thriving, rich. |
| Well-told | adj | Fluently, articulately spoken or narrated. 2. well-written, versed or composed. |
| Well-tongued | adj | Gifted with good speech, eloquent. |
| Well-towen | adj | Well-trained or instructed. 2. well-conditioned. 3. modest. |
| Well-trodden | adj | Frequently walked on or traversed. 2. fig. flowing a familiar path or pattern of action or behavior. |
| Well-turned | adj | Elegantly expressed of an ankle, body shape etc. |
| Well-understood | adj | Grasped with clarity and precision. |
| Well-water | adj | Water issuing or drawn from a well or spring. 2. the water that flows into a well from subterraneous springs. |
| Well-watered | adj | Plentifully supplied or moistened with water. |
| Well-weaponed | adj | Furnished with a vast weaponry or arsenal. |
| Well-wearing | adj | Remaining fit and workable despite constant or frequent use. |
| Well-weighed | adj | Carefully estimated; duly pondered or considered. 2. of person displaying deliberate purpose and balanced judgement. |
| Well-will | n | Benevolence. |
| Well-will | vb | To wish one well; to regard something or someone with favour. |
| Well-willed | adj | Kindly or favourably disposed. |
| Well-willer | n | A benevolent person or one who bears goodwill or well wishes to another or to a cause. 2. one who is disposed to be kindly or friendly . 3. one who is addicted or devoted to a study, esp astrology. |
| Well-willing | n | Act of wishing well (to another). 2. goodwill, benevolence, favour, kind regard. 3. one's good pleasure; what seems good to a person to do; intend to do. 4. right or virtuous intentions. 5. willing what is good. |
| Well-willing | adj | Well-wishing, disposed to kindness and friendliness; benevolent, loyal. 2. ready or desiring to do something well to another. |
| Well-willingness | n | Benevolence; the act of behaving kindly, benevolently, generously, friendly to another. |
| Well-willy | adj | Benevolent. |
| Well-wish | n | An act of wishing well to another; a good wish. |
| Well-wish | vb | To wish well to another. |
| Well-wished | adj | Affected to good wishes and intentions. |
| Well-wisher | n | One who wishes well to another. |
| Well-wishing | n | The act of wishing well to another. |
| Well-witted | adj | Gifted with good wits or senses. |
| Well-witter | n | One gifted with good wits or senses; highly intelligent; well witted. |
| Well woman | n | Designating a clinic etc providing health advice and check-ups for problems specific to woman. |
| Well-won | adj | Gained by honourable effort. |
| Well-wooded | adj | Covered with growing trees. |
| Well-word | vb | To praise, eulogise (with well words) |
| Well-worded | adj | Couched in proper terms or words; well worded. |
| Well-worn | adj | Worn thredabare; trite, common, commonplace. |
| Well-worth-it | n | Something that has value in various way; as, 'It was a must-have well-worth-it that cost only $770. |
| Well-worthy | adj | Worthy in a high degree. |
| Well-wreathed | adj | Skilfully twisted. |
| Well-written | adj | Competently composed or written. |
| Well-wrought | adj | Well made or fashioned, skillfully constricted or put together (of material things.) 2. o immaterial things- esp. of lit. or music composition. 2. of ale: thorough worked or fermented. |
| Welly-nigh | adv | Almost, nearly. |
| Welsh | n | Of persons: originally belonging to the native population of England in contrast to the Anglo-Saxons. 2. of things pertaining to Wales; the British race in Anglo-Saxon times. 3. the inhabitants of Wales. 4. language of the Welsh people. |
| Welsh | phr | "It's All Welsh to Me" - strange language, speech that one does not understand- |
| Welsh | phr | "Welsh On" - leave a race-course without paying winning to those who have placed bets with one. 2. repudiate an obligation or agreement previously entered upon. |
| Welsh harp | n | The musical instrument of the ancient welsh minstrels and gleemen. |
| Welshland | n | Wales. |
| Welshman/Welshwoman | n | A native Britain.. |
| Welshness | adj | Of the welsh character. |
| Welsome | adj | Prosperous, well off, in good condition. |
| Welt | n | OE. weltan; walter: to roll about in various ways. 2. the rolling of the sea in a storm. 3. the act of wallowing (in mire). 4. upset, upheaval, overthrow. 5. confusion, turmoil. |
| Welt | adj | Found only in unwealt: steady; of a ship: unsteady, rolling about, cranky. |
| Welter | vb | To roll about, tumble about. 2. also alternative spelling to roll to and fro, move from side to side, to tumble, toss about, to lie sprawling on the ground (in mire). 2. of a ship: to be tossed on the waves. 3. of the stomach: to be disturbed or upset.to wallow in slime, blood. |
| Weltering | adj | Unsteady, rolling, tumbling. |
| Wem | vb | To disfigure, mutilate (a person or thing). 2. to impair (the mind); to injure (a thing). 3. to desecrate or violate; hurt, harm. 4. to spot or stain with sin or impurity. 5. to stain, mark with spots, blemish, mark with spots, maculate |
| Wemless | adj | Without stain of sin; undefiled, immaculate. 2. free from material blemish or imperfection; spotless. 3. free from hurt or harm; uninjured. |
| Wemming | n | Defilement, injury. |
| Wemod | adj | Passionate, angry. |
| Wen | adj | A lump or protuberance on the body. 2. a knot, bunch, wart; a sebaceous cyst; a tumour under the skin, occurring on the head. 3. pertaining to a swelling on the throat, characteristic of a goiter. 4. an excrescence or tumour on the body of a horse. 5. excresence on a tree. 6. spot, blemish, stain (lit. and fig.) |
| Wen | n | 'The Great Wen' is a disparaging nickname for London. The term was coined in the 1820s by William Cobbett, the radical pamphleteer and champion of rural England. Cobbett saw the rapidly growing city as a pathological swelling on the face of the nation. ("wen" a sebaceous cyst.) The term is quoted in his 1830 work Rural Rides: "But, what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, 'the metropolis of the empire'" |
| Wen | n | The Old English rune 'wyn' ᚹ (joy) replaced by 'w' |
| Wench | n | C1250–1300; ME, back formation from wenchel, OE. wencel - child, akin to wancol tottering, said of a child learning to walk; akin to German: wankeln - to totter. 2. a country lass or working girl. 3. usually facetious: a girl or young woman. 4. archaic: a strumpet, a prostitute. 5. a girl or young woman, esp. a buxom or lively one: now used facetiously. 6. archaic: a female servant. |
| Wench | vb | To associate, especially habitually, with promiscuous women. 2. archaic: to frequent the company of prostitutes. |
| Wenchel | n | A child (of either sex); also a servant or a ; a common woman. |
| Wencher | n | One who associates with common women. |
| Wenching | n | The action of association with common woman. 2. fornication, copulation, swiving. |
| Wenching | adj | That habitually associates with common women. |
| Wenchless | adj | Unprovided with a wench or wenches. |
| Wend | vb | To alter the position or direction of. 2. to turn sometime round or over. 3. revolve, turn over (thoughts of the mind). 4. to turn a ship's prow or head to the opposite tack. 5. to turn one's mind, etc.) thoughts, will in a new direction; to alter or change one's mind or intention. 6. to turn a person from one course, condition etc.; to alter or change one's mind, will or purpose. 7. to change the character of another. 8. to turn from one language to another; to translate. 9. to change the form or nature of; transform, transmute, turn into or to. 10. to bring into a certain state. 11. to turn, direct, or betake oneself. 12. of a vane: to revolve in the wind. 13. to take a certain course, to happen, come about. 14. of the wind: to change direction or form. 15. to change, turn one condition into another. 16. of persons: to change or vary one's purpose (said of the heart).
17. to turn from side to side; twist or turn the body. 18. to go off, depart, got out or away. 19. to depart by death, die, pass away (a soul wends it's way to heaven). 20. disappear, decay, perish. 21. proceed, go forward, journey, travel, to make one's way. 22. to move run, flow in a specific direction or course; to go up and down. 23. of a road: to extend or stretch in a continuous line. 24. of a period of time, a season: past, elapsed oer ended. |
| Wend | phr | "Wend Adown" - to overthrow, destroy. |
| Wend | phr | "Wend Again" - to urn back, to return. |
| Wend | phr | "Wend Away"- to turn away, or become turned away. 2. to take away, remove. |
| Wend | phr | "Wend from One's Life" - to die, pass away, depart; wend to or into heaven. Cf "To Wend from This World" |
| Wend | phr | "Wend from This World" - to die, pass away, depart; to wend to or into heaven. cf "To Wend from This Life" |
| Wend | phr | "Wend One's Way" - to go in or journey in a certain way or direction. |
| Wend | phr | "Wend To Ground" - to fall from a horse. |
| Wendagains-lane | n | A cul-de-sac in London. |
| Wenday | n | A day allowed a tenant for repairing his wain (wen) in order to carry grain in harvest. |
| Wending | n | Action of turning or changing ; a change or turn. 2. the action of going, proceeding; esp. of going away; departure, journey. 3. a translation. 4. returning: "backward-wending." |
| Wendling | n | A wanderer, vagabond, rambler, tramp. |
| Wenlike | adj | Beautiful, excellent, worthy. |
| Wenman | n | A city dweller; a townfolk; (wenman from London; the "Great Wen"). |
| Wennish | adj | Of the nature or appearance of a wen. |
| Wenny | adj | Of the nature or similar to a wen. 2. afflicted with wens; goitrous. |
| Went | n | Related to "Wend." 2. a course, path, way or passage. 3. a journey, course of movement. 3. a course of action or plan for attaining some end. 4. a turn or change of direction; a turning about. 5. a turning or winding of stairs. |
| Weorne | vb | To wither. |
| Wept | ppl | Of tears: shed; also fig. of poetry. 2. mourned for, lamented, with tears. |
| Werde | vb | To harm. injure, hurt, damaged. |
| Were | n | A male person, man and husband. |
| Were | vb | To check or restrain, ward off, repel; to make a defence, offer resistant. 2. to defend, guard, or act as a shield, protect from assault; to defend or guard oneself. 3. to defend, uphold or give support to (a course, etc.); to maintain one's opinion. 4. to protect: saved by removing. 5. to keep or hold (a means of entrance or exit) to have or possess as one's own. |
| Wered | n | A band, troop, company, host, werd. |
| Werewall | n | A bulwark, rampart. |
| Werewolf | n | An exceptionally large and ferocious wolf. 3. a member of a right-wing paramilitary German underground resistance movement. |
| Were-wolfdom | n | The state of condition of being a werewolf. |
| Werewolf-girdle | n | The enchanted girdle by means of which a man could turn himself into a wolf; a werewolf-nail. |
| Werewolfiish | adj | Somewhat or rather like a werewolf. |
| Wergild | n | Among the Saxon and other Teutonic races, a kind of fine to expiate manslaughter or other heinous against the person; wergeld. |
| Werve | n | OE:(weort): a beast of burden; a beast for riding on. |
| Werver | n | A defender, guardian. |
| Wesan | vb | OE: to be; to exist. |
| We-ship | n | "His We-ship" - a mock title applied to a writer who has used the impersonal, royal "we." |
| Wessex | n | One of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, existing between the C6th and C9th centuries and comprising most of England south of the Thames and at one time supreme oer rhe other kingdoms of the Heptarchy.. |
| West | n | Cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the left when facing north, corresponding to the point where the sun is seen to set. 2. the direction in which this point lies. 3. (usually initial capital letter ) a region or territory situated in this direction, especially the western part of the U.S., as distinguished from the East. 4. (initial capital letter ) the western part of the world, as distinguished from the East or Orient; the Occident. 5. (initial capital letter) the non-Communist countries of Western Europe and the Americas. |
| West | adj | Directed or proceeding toward the west. 2. coming from the west: "a west wind." 3. lying toward or situated in the west. 4. ecclesiastical . designating, lying toward, or in that part of a church opposite to and farthest from the altar. |
| West | adv | To, toward, or in the west. 2. from the west: "he wind blew west." |
| West | vb | To move towards the west: chiefly of the sun. 2. to draw near to the west. 3. to sink in the west. |
| West | phr | "Go West" - to die, depart. |
| West | phr | "Go West Young Man" - go settle in 'unsettled' western regions of the United states; a land of little competition and unusual opportunity; advice usually attributed to Horace Greely. |
| West | phr | "Sink Slowly in the West" - to fail gradually. |
| West-by-north | n | One point north on the mariner compass. |
| West-by-south | n | One point north on the mariner compass. |
| Westdeal | n | The western part or district; the west. |
| Weste | n | Reduced form of "Westen" - (see western) - a desert, wilderness, wasteland. |
| Weste | adj | Of places: uninhabited. 2. uncultivated or untended, desolate, waste. |
| Weste | vb | To lay waste. |
| Westen | n | A desert, wilderness. |
| West End | n | "The West End" - part of London lying westward of Charing Cross and Regent St; Cf: "The East End." 2. generally the western extremity of anything. 3. the theatre precinct of The West End. 4. the fashioanable aristocratic quarter of a town or other place. |
| Westender | n | One who lives in the West End. |
| West-endish | adj | Characteristically of The West End. |
| Westene | adv | From the west. |
| Wester | adj | Lying more towards the west, westerly. |
| Westering | adj | Of the sun when it is nearing the western horizon. 2. that moves in a westerly direction, as of a wind that shifts to the west. |
| Westerliness | n | A westerly situation. |
| Westerly | adj | Coming from the West. 2. situated in or towards the west. 3. of a person dwelling in the west. 4. situauted near the western horizon. 5. extending towards the west; directed or progressing towards the West. 6. the prevailing westerly found in certain latitude. 7. blowing from the west. |
| Western | n | (Often initial capital letter ) a story, movie, or radio or television play about the U.S. West of the 19th century. 2. a film, book, etc, concerned with life in the western states of the US, esp. during the era of exploration and early development. 3. a person or thing from a western region or country. — |
| Western | adj | Situated in or towards or facing the west. 2. going or directed to or towards the west. 3. (of a wind, etc) coming or originating from the west. 4. native to, inhabiting, or growing in the west. 5. music - country and western 6. of, relating to, or characteristic of the West as opposed to the Orient 7. (formerly) of, relating to, or characteristic of the Americas and the parts of Europe not under Communist rule. 8. of, relating to, or characteristic of the western states of the US |
| Westerner | n | Belonging to the western race as distinguish from an Oriental. |
| Westernly | adv | Situated in or towards the west; mostly westernly. |
| Western man | n | Men shaped by the culture and civilization of Western Europe and north America. |
| Westernmost | adj | Most western or westerly; farthest west. |
| Westerner | n | A native or inhabitant of the West, esp. of the western USA. |
| Westerness | n | The quality of belonging to a western country or having western attributes and ideas. |
| Western Wall | n | A wall in Jerusalem where Jews. on certain occasions, assemble for prayer or lamentation; traditionally believed to be the remains of the wall of Herod's temple, destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. |
| Western World | n | Also known as "the West" and the Occident (from Latin: occidens "sunset, West"; as contrasted with the Orient), is a term referring to different nations depending on the context. There are many accepted definitions about what all they have in common. |
| Westing | n | Distance accomplished towards the west. 2. the amount by which a ship has increased heer west longitude from a specified meridian. |
| Westminster | n | The House of Commons part of the parliament under the Westminister system of parliamentary democracy of the UK (also Canada). |
| West-north-west | adv | In or from the direction situated midway between west and north-west. |
| West Saxon | n | The division of the Saxon in England occupying the area south of the Thames and weatwards from Surrey and Sussex. 2. individual belonging to this group. 3. the dialect of Old English used by the West Saxons. 4. of or pertaining to, characteristics of the West Saxons or their speech. |
| West-side | n | The side situated in or lying towards the west. |
| West Side | n | "The West Side" the district of New York which lies on the west side of Manhattan. 2. also attributively the USA. |
| West-sider | n | A resident of Manhattan's West Side. |
| West-south-west | adv | In or from the direction situated midway between west and south-west. |
| Westward | adv | Towards the west; westwards. |
| Westwardliness | n | State or fact of being towards the west. |
| Westwardly | adj | Blowing from the west (of wind). 2. situated in or moving towards the west. |
| Westwardly | adv | In a westwardly direction. |
| Westy | adj | Desolate, wasteful |
| Wet | adj | Moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands. 2. in a liquid form or state, as of wet paint. 3. characterized by the presence or use of water or other liquid. 4. moistened or dampened with rain; rainy, as in a wet street. 5. allowing or favoring the sale and serving of alcoholic beverages, as in a wet town. 6. the most liberal faction of the British Tory party. |
| Wet | n | Something that is or makes wet, as water or other liquid; moisture. 2. damp weather; rain: stay out of the wet as much as possible. 3. a person in favor of allowing the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. |
| Wet | vb | To make (something) wet, as by moistening or soaking (sometimes followed by through or down) 2. to urinate on or in, as in the dog had wet the carpet. 3. to become wet (sometimes followed by through or down) to cause dampness; to wet through. 4. wet out, to treat (fabric) with a wetting agent to increase its absorbency. |
| Wet | n | "A Wet" - a politician with liberal or middle road views on controversial issues. |
| Wet | n | "A Wet" - a quaker not very strict in the observances of the denomination. |
| Wet | n | "A Wet" a drink or draught of some alcohol beverage; a glass of liquor. |
| Wet | phr | "Be All Wet" - to be mistaken; completely wrong.all wet. |
| Wet | phr | "Be Pretty Wet" - be fairly stupid. |
| Wet | phr | "Be Wet Behind the Ears" - wet behind the ears, immature; naive; green, as he was too wet behind the ears to bear such responsibilities. 2. to be excessively naive and inexperienced. |
| Wet | phr | "Do With a Wet Finger" - do easily. with little effect. |
| Wet | phr | "Don't Talk Wet" - do talk nonsense or foolishness. |
| Wet | phr | "Get One's Feet Wet" - to do the necessary but unpleasant or menial parts of a task. |
| Wet | phr | "Get Someone Wet" - to gain the upper hand over; to have at one's mercy. |
| Wet | phr | "Go Wet" - to loose one's temper; become angry. |
| Wet | adv | "In Wet" to be in fresco. |
| Wet | phr | "Talk Wet" - make foolish conersation. |
| Wet | phr | "Wet Behind the Ears" - immature, inexperienced, naive, (from the state of young animals after birTh) |
| Wet | phr | "Wet One's Line" - to go fishing. |
| Wet | phr | "Wet One's Weasand" - to take a drink. |
| Wet | phr | "Wet One's Whistle" - to take an (alcoholic) drink. |
| Wet | phr | "Wet Oneself" - to lose control of one's bladder and involuntary urinating into one's underwear. |
| Wet | phr | "Wet Out" - to treat (fabric) with a wetting agent to increase its absorbency. |
| Wet | phr | "Wet Through" - wet one's clothes completely, soaked or drenched. |
| Wet | phr | "With a Wet Finger" - do easily. with little effect. |
| Wetback | n | An illegal immigrant from South or Central America who reaches the United States by swimming across the Rio Grande River. 2. an offensive or disparaging person. |
| Wetbird | n | The chaffinch because its cry of could foretell the coming of rain. |
| Wete | n | Moisture, liquid, drink, liquor. |
| Wet-eyed | adj | Tearful, lachrimous. |
| Wet-fish | n | Inept, ineffectual, effete person. |
| Wet-fly | n | An artificial fly used under water by an angler. |
| Wet-goods | n | Intoxicating liquor; alcohol. |
| Wether | n | A male sheep, a ram; a castrated ram. 2. of a man: a eunuch. 3. cf: 'bell-wether' - first indication. |
| Wethers | n | "Grey Wethers" - boulders of sandstone found lying on the surface of the Downs of Wiltshire and Devon. |
| Wethers | n | Fleece obtained from the second of any subsequent shearing of a sheep. |
| Wetland | n | Area of land usu. saturated with water, often a marsh or swamp. |
| Wet look | n | A shiny surface given to clothing materials. 2. a shiny or wet appearance achieved by applying a type of gel to the hair. |
| Wet look | adj | Having or givvven a wet or shiny appearance. |
| Wetly | adv | In a wet manner or state. |
| Wet mill | n | A saw mill where logs are stored in water. |
| Wetness | n | The fact or condition of being wet or with moisture. 2. a wet patch or wet spot on the ground. 3. rainy or damp weather. |
| Wet rot | n | A brown rot affecting any timber. 2. the fungus causing brown rot. |
| Wetshod | adj | Having wet feet. 2. fig. or fig. context: "wet-shod eyes." |
| Wet steam | n | Steam in which part condensation has taken place. |
| Wet-time | n | In the building trade, time lost through wet weather. |
| Wetting | n | The act of making something wet. 2. the act of accidental urination on or in something (bedwetting). |
| Wettish | adj | Somewhat wet; humid, damp. |
| Wettishness | n | State or condition of being somewhat wet. |
| Wetware | n | Based on "Software and Hardware", computer scientists have lately been talking about "Wetware", which is the human brain; hence, chemical materials organized so as to perform arithmetic and logical brain operations. 2. intelligence, the brain. |
| Wet weather | adj | For use in wet weather. 2. occurring in wet weather. |
| Wet-white | n | Liquid white theatrical make-up. |
| Wet-woaded | adj | Strengthening and highlighting the depth of blueness of the woad. |
| Weve | vb | O.E. - seems to be an earlier form of the word "To Weave." 2. of persons; to go from one place to another; wander, pass. 3. of things: to go, to pass about. 4. to move to and fro; to toss about. 5. to move or convey from one place to another; to convey or bring; to strike down. 6. to wave or brandish (a sword). 7. to beckon, signal, call. 8. to toss about. |
| Weve | phr | "To Weve Off" - to throw off (a garment) |
| Weve | phr | "To Weve Up" - to open a gate, window |
| Weved-board | n | An altar, an idol table. |
| Wey | n | Pl: weys. old British unit of weight of various values, especially 16 stones of 16 pounds each, or 256 pounds. 2. an old Scotch-Irish unit of capacity equal to 40 U.S. bushels. (origin: before 900; ME; OE. wǣge weight. see weigh |
| Weye | vb | To decieve, lead astray, go astray. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Wlaffe | vb | To stammer, speak indistinctly. |
| Wlaffe | n | One who stammers or stutters. |
| Wlaffing | n | The action of stammering or stutters. |
| Wlak | adj | Lukewarm, tepid. |
| Wlak | adv | In wlack hot - lukewarmish, a little hotter than tepid. |
| Wlappe | vb | To wrap around, also fig. |
| Wlat | n | Nausea, loathing, disgust. |
| Wlate | vb | To feel disgust or loathing. 2. to loathe, abhor, disgust. |
| Wlating | n | Loathing, abhorrence, destestation. 2. occasionally meaning: abomination. |
| Wlatingness | n | Abhorrence. |
| Wlatness | n | Nausea,loathing. |
| Wlatsome | adj | Naseous, loathsome, disgusting. |
| Wlench | vb | To make proud. 2. reflexively - to pride oneself. |
| Wlessche | n | Flesh. |
| Wlisp | adj | Lisping. |
| Wlite | n | OE: (light) : beauty, splendor, appearance, form, countenance. See: andwlite, wliti. |
| Wlite | vb | OE: writian, writling. 2. to pipe, chirp, warble. |
| Wloh | n | A hem, fringe, nap on cloth; wio. |
| Wlonk | adj | Proud, haughty. 2. rich, splendid, epithet fine, magnificient - in later use esp. as a conventional epithet in alliterative verse. 3. rich in moisture or sap; rank, lush. 4. fair and beautiful. |
| Wlonkful | adj | Prideful. |
| Wlonkhede | n | Wlonkhood- a proud state. |
| Wlouh | adj | Opulent. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Wi | n | A battle, conflict, a military force or troop. |
| Wi-axe | n | A battle-axe. |
| Wicca | n | Wicca is a religion influenced by pre-Christian beliefs and practices of Western Europe that affirms the existence of supernatural power magick and of both male and female deities who inhere in nature, and that emphasizes ritual observance of seasonal and life cycles. The word ‘Wicca’ has been derived from the Anglo-Saxon word wicce, which means to have wisdom, so as to bend or shape, like a wicker for a basket. Wicca stands for a male witch, while a female witch is called ‘wicce’. With the passage of time wicca has gained currency for both male and female witches |
| Wiccan | n | A twentieth-century spelling pronunciation of Old English wiċċa, from Proto-Germanic *wikkô (“sorceror”) |
| Wich | n | Originally, may have been a group of buildings connected with a salt pit. Nb: also spelt "wych" 2. chief name of salt-making or producing towns, such as Middlewich. 3. a salt works, a salt pit or brine-spring in the salt manufacturing district of Cheshire and neighbouring parts. |
| Wich(wych)-house | n | A building in which brine is evaporated for making salt. |
| Wichman | n | A man employed in salt-making works. |
| Wich-works | n | Salt works, saltern. |
| Wick | n | A band of loosely twisted or woven fibres, as in a candle or lamp, acting by capillary attraction to convey oil or other luminant to a flame. |
| Wick | n | A village, hamlet or town, now mostly in composition, often as wich, such as Greenwich or Berwick. 2. an abode, dwelling, dwelling-place. 3. a farm, spec. a dairy farm.
4. an enclosed piece of land. |
| Wick | sfx | A secondary sense of "jurisdiction of the official"; passing into "official's jurisdiction extent." 2. district. 3. herdwick (in Domesday Book.) |
| Wick | adj | Evil, ill, wicked. |
| Wick | phr | "Dip One's Wick" - of a man, to engage in sexual intercourse. |
| Wick | phr | "Get on Someone's Wick" - to exasperate, annoy or get on someone nerves. |
| Wick | phr | "Too Much Wick for His Candle" - over belief in his own ability. |
| Wick | vb | To use as a lent or dressing in surgery. |
| Wick | vb | To take up one's abode, to encamp, dwell. 2. to pitch a tent. 3. wike, wyck, |
| Wick | n | A village, hamlet or town, now mostly in composition, often as wich, such as Greenwich or Berwick. 2. an abode, dwelling, dwelling-place. 3. a farm, spec. a dairy farm.
4. an enclosed piece of land. |
| Wick | adj | Wicked. 2. feeble, lacking in force. |
| Wick | pfx | As a negative prefix: un, dis, as in wicklose: dispraise. |
| Wick | sfx | A secondary sense of "jurisdiction of the official"; passing into "official's jurisdiction extent." 2. district. 3. herdwick (in Domesday Book.) |
| Wickdom | n | In a state or condition of evil and wickedness. |
| Wicked | adj | Evil or mischievous by nature. 2. slang - excellent; awesome; masterful; deeply satisfying |
| Wicked-doer | n | One who does evil or wickedness. |
| Wicked-doing | n | The doing of evil or wickedness. |
| Wicked-hood | n | Wickedness, iniquity, wicked act or doing. |
| Wickedish | adj | Somewhat wicked. 2. inclined to wicked or evil-doing. |
| Wickedly | adv | Wickly. |
| Wickedness | n | The quality of being wicked; moral depravity, sin, vice, crime as opposed to goodness. 2. a wicked thing or act; wicked conduct; to work wickedness. 3. wickness, iniquity. |
| Wicked-One | n | "The Wicked One" - Satan, Devil, Lucifer, Old Sooty. |
| Wicken-tree | n | The rowan, wicken or mountain ash. |
| Wicker | n | From a Scand. source (cf. M.Swed. viker "willow branch") akin to O.N. vikja "to move, turn," Swed. vika "to bend," and related to O.E. wican "to give way, yield, bend" (weak). The notion is of pliant twigs. |
| Wicker | vb | To weave with pliant twigs basket, creels, osiers. |
| Wickerwings | n | Wings attributed to various sinster, mythical creature. |
| Wickerwork | n | Work consisting of wickers, basket-work. 2. a structure of flexible twigs. |
| Wickerworker | n | One who makes wickerwork. |
| Wicking | n | A lodging, dwell, house and home. |
| Wickless | adj | Without a wick. |
| Wicklike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a wick in some aspect |
| Wickner | n | An official of a wick, town, village, hamlet, city. |
| Wick-reeve | n | A town reeve or official. |
| Wicky | adj | Wick-like. |
| Widdendream | n | See "Widdrim" |
| Widdrim | n | Mad joy, a wild fit, a state of mental disturbance and confusion. 2. widdendream. Etymology: widen (wood) & dream (joy, jubilation, music, minstrelry) |
| Widdrim | phr | "In a Widdrim" - in a sudden, furious hurry. 2. widdendream. |
| Widdy | n | A withy. 2. a band or rope, properly one made of intertwined osiers or the like. 3. a rope for hanging; like halter and gallows - (in various allusive expressions referring to hanging.) 4. a bundle bound with a widdy or withy. |
| Widdy-neck | n | One deserved or declined to be executed by hanging. |
| Wide | adj | Broad, spacious, distant, comprehensive, liberal, missing the mark. The open sea; the main. 2. a wide, extensive open space. 3. |
| Wide | adv | To a distance, far, astray. |
| Wide | sfx | Occurring over a wide range. 2. appearing through out a broad region. 3. over a direct spectrum of possibilities. |
| Wide | phr | "Far and Wide" - near and far. |
| Wide | phr | "Give A Wide Berth?" - avoid. |
| Wide | phr | "On Wide" - abroad, overseas; all around. |
| Wide | phr | "To the Wide" - to the extreme, entirely, utterly. |
| Wide | phr | "Wide Awake" - fully awake, not half sleepy or dropsy. 2. (fig.) aware and alert, understanding and taking advantage of eents or circumstances. |
| Wide | phr | "Wide of the Mark" - off target in shooting. 2. fig. inaccurate as an estimate or definition. |
| Wide-awake | adj | Awake with eyes wide open; fully awake. 2,. thoroughly vigilant or mentally alert. 3. fully aware of what's going on, or what is best to do. 4. intellectually keen, sharp-witted, knowing. |
| Wide-awake-hat | n | A wide-brimmed, felt hat. |
| Wide-awakeness | n | The state or character of being wide awake. |
| Wide-awakeness | n | The state or condition of being (mentally)alert, fully awake, vigilant, sharp-witted. |
| Wide-bodied | adj | An airliner that can seat six passengers in each row, in economy seating. |
| Wide Brown Land | n | " The Wide Brown Land" -Australia, Down Under, the Land Downunder, Great Southland. |
| Wide-eared | adj | Intensively listening. |
| Wide-eyed | adj | Having one's eyes wide open as a result of surprise, fear, etc. 2. staring in amazement, goggle-eyed; agape, open-mouthed, tongue-tied, at a loss for words, speechless, dumbfounded, dumbstruck; surprised, amazed, astonished, astounded, stunned, staggered, thunderstruck, aghast, stupefied, dazed, taken aback, shocked, shell-shocked, in shock, nonplussed. 2. informal: flabbergasted, bowled over; inexperienced; naive, innocent. |
| Wide-eyed | phr | "Wide-eyed in Wonder" - having the eyes wide open especially with wonder or astonishment. |
| Wide-eyed Wanderer | n | A naive and somewhat ignorant, carefree traveler, not fully understanding the world (or circumstances)he or she is throwing herself/ himself into. |
| Widely | adv | With a latitude of conduct beyond bounds of propriety or civility. |
| Wide-mouth | n | One who speaks loudly, boastfully or without restraint. |
| Wide-mouthed | adj | Of or pertaining to animals having a wide or big mouth. 2. of a vessel or receptacle having a wide opening. 3. fig. spoken loudly or without restraint. 4. for swallowing: voracious, devouring, destructive. |
| Widen | vb | To make wider or broader. |
| Widener | n | Any device used to widen something, esp. a drill designed to produce a hole greater than its diameter. |
| Wideness | n | The state or quality of being wide; width. 2. a large extension, vastness, speciousness. 3. extent from side to side. 4. transverse measurement of any amount. 5. diameter, breadth, extent of opening, distance apart. 6. size or amount generally (of spatial measurement of time). 7. great extent from side to side; large transverse measurement, as a opposed narrowest.) 8. a wide space or region; a large extent, vast expanse. 8.largeness of range, extensiveness. 9. relative to a large number of persons, things, cases etc; wide reach of applicability. |
| Wide-open | adj | Opened-wide; stretching over an outdoor expanse. 2. remiss in the enforcement of laws which regulate various forms of vice, as gambling, prostitution, etc. 3. contest of which the outcome is not predictable. 4. exposed or vulnerable. |
| Wide-side | adj | Capacious. |
| Wide-spread | adj | Extending on all sides; diffused, widespread, circulating among numerous people. 2. extending over a wide range of territory. 3. generally, as in a widespread belief. |
| Wide-spreadness | n | The quality of being widespread. |
| Wide-wale | n | Broad-ribbed material, esp. corduroy. |
| Wide-watered | adj | Having a wide expanse of water. 2. watered over a wide extent. 3. bordered or traversed by wide waters, |
| Wide-where | adv | In or to various places; in or to a district; to a wider region. 2. widely, wide. |
| Widge | n | A steed, horse, stott. 2. in later use with the meaning of a beast of burden. |
| Widish | adj | Somewhat or rather wide, broad, spacious. |
| Widow | n | A wife bereaved of her husband. 2. a female animal, esp a hen that has lost it's mate. |
| Widow | phr | "A Grass Widow" - a woman whose husband is away. |
| Widow | phr | "The Widow" - the gallows. |
| Widow-bench | n | That share which a widow is alllowed of her husband estate beside her jointure. |
| Widow-bewitched | n | A husband separated from or deserted by his wife. |
| Widow-burning | n | Suttee. |
| Widowed | adj | Of a previously married person who spouse has died. |
| Widower | n | A husband whose wife has died. 2. who has become a widow or widower. |
| Widowhood | n | The state or condition of a widow or widower. 2. the time during which one is a widow or widower. 3. the condition of a wife bereaved of a husband, or of a husband bereaved of his wife. |
| Widow-hunter | n | One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune |
| Widow-hunting | n | The practice of courting rich widows. |
| Widow-maker | n | A dead branch caught high in a tree which may fall on someone below. 2. a killer or potential killer of men. |
| Widow's-mite | n | A small contribution or sum, esp. of money, that is as much, or more than, the giver can afford. |
| Widow's walk | n | A railed platform built on a roof, originally in early New England houses, for providing an unimpeded sea view. |
| Widow's weeds | n | Black mourning clothes, including a a hat with a black veil, (from what was formerly conventional wear of a widow for a period following her husband death). |
| Width | n | The quality of being wide; extent from side to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door. |
| Widthless | n | Narrow, having no great width. |
| Widthways | adv | In the direction of the width; transversely. |
| Widthwise | adv | In the direction of the width; from side to side. |
| Wiel | n | Sorcery. magic; a piece of magic, a deception, deceit, an illusion, |
| Wielare | n | A sorcerer, magician, deceiver, wizard. |
| Wield | n | Power, might, force. 2. influence, authority, command. |
| Wield | vb | To rule or reign over, govern, rule, command. 2. to prevail. 3. to overcome, subdue. 4. to have at one's command or disposal. 5. to hold in one's own keeping. 6. to have advantage over. 7. to get possession of, gain, win, obtain. 8. |
| Wield | adj | Strong, powerful, mighty. |
| Wield | phr | "Have in Wield" - to have command or control of, possess, have. |
| Wield | phr | "Wield a Long Stick" - to exert power and authority. |
| Wield | phr | "Wield into One's Hands" - to take into one's possession. |
| Wield | phr | "Wills and Wields" - to do something intentionally and purposely. |
| Wielder | n | A ruler, governor, waldend, master, as sometime applied to God. 2. the author or creator of something. 4. one who uses or actuates skillfully a weapon or instrument. |
| Wieldiness | n | The state of being easily carried or controlled. |
| Wielding | n | Governing, power, command, possession, keeping. 2. control, power using management. |
| Wielding | adj | That wields, ruling, governing. 2. faring, doing well. |
| Wieldless | adj | That which cannot be wielded; unmanageable, uncontrollable, unwieldy. |
| Wieldness | n | Command, control, possession. |
| Wieldy | adj | Capable of being wieldied; manageable, controllable. |
| Wiele | n | A sorcerer, wizard, a wyle. |
| Wieleful | adj | Magical, deceitful. |
| Wieling | n | Sorcery, magic. |
| Wife | n | A married woman, spouse. |
| Wife | vb | To be one's wife. 2. to take a wife, marry. |
| Wife | phr | "All the World and His Wife" - all men and women; everybody (humourously) |
| Wife | phr | "Have a Wife" - (archaic) marry a woman. |
| Wife | phr | "Old Wives' Tale" - a story long-told, but only retaining a thin thread of truth; gossip. |
| Wife | phr | "Wife and Mother" - a conventional epithet describing a woman who shows zealous devotion to her family. |
| Wife | phr | "Wife It"- to play the wife; to act as a wife. |
| Wife-beater | n | One who physically and verbally abuses his wife. |
| wife-carl | n | A man who occupies himself with a woman's or housewife' work; a quean, a cotquean. |
| Wifedom | n | The position or condition of a wife. 2. the married state (of a woman). 3. the character and qualities of a wife. 3. wives collectively, married women as a class. 5. wifeship. 6. wifehood. |
| Wifehood | n | The position or condition of a wife. 2. the married state for women. |
| Wifeless | adj | Having no wife; unmarried; celibate (dated). |
| Wife-like | adj | Resembling, befiiting or having the characteristics of a good wife. 2. in the manner of a good wife. |
| Wifeliness | n | Character or quality of a good wife. |
| Wifeless-ness | n | A wifeless state; unmarried state.or condition. 2. in the manner of a wife. |
| Wifely | adj | Pertaining to a woman or women; womanly, tender, as befitts a wife, feminine. |
| Wife-old | adj | A woman of marriageable age; nubile. |
| Wife-ridden | adj | Tyrannised over by one's wife. |
| Wifeship | n | The position or state relating to a wife. |
| Wife-widow | n | Wife living apart from her husband. |
| Wifing | n | The activity or condition of having a wife or house-wife. |
| Wifekind | n | Woman-kind, women collectively. |
| Wifle | n | A dart, javelin, spear, battle-axe. |
| Wifle | vb | OE. wifel - to wave, swing, shake a switch, rod, shaft of an arrow. |
| Wifthing | n | OE. wifthing - an affair or a matter connected with a woman or wife. 2. sexual intercourse; swiven, copulation. 3. a wedding, nuptial ceremony. |
| Wig | n | OE. insect, beetle, bug, worm., as in 'earwig'. |
| Wight | n | A living being in gen, a person, a creature. 2. orig. and chiefly with (good or bad) epithet applied to supernatural, preternatural or unearthly being. 3. a local name for the shrew mouse. 4. a human being, man or woman, person (now arch. & dial) often implying some contempt or commiseration. |
| Wight | adj | A strong courageous, esp. in warfare. 2. having or showing prowess. 3. valiant, doughty, brave , bold, stout. 4. of a person attributively: strong, vigourous, stalwart, mighty, exercising strength, energetic. 5. powerful, forcible, potent, powerful in effect, strong. 6. strong to resist. 7. moving briskly or rapidly, actively, agile, nimble, quick, swiftly, fleet. |
| Wight | adv | Actively, nimbly, energetically, quickly, rapidly, swiftly. 2. quickly; without delay, directly, immediately. |
| Wight-rider | n | Stout and active horseman. 2. a mounted rider. |
| Wight-warping | n | Moving rapidly or characteristic by such movement. |
| Wightling | n | A valiant man, a brave warrior. |
| Wightly | adv | In a valiant, bold, brave manner. |
| Wightship | n | Valour, bravery, bold. |
| Wike | n | Office, duty, position. 2. actively, nimbly, briskly. |
| Wightness | n | Quality of being "wight" - having courage, valour. 2. bravery, strength, might, force, vigour, energy, agility, alacrity. |
| Wil | prf | In compounds, with the meaning: a pleasant welcome. 2. voluntary. |
| Wil-day | n | A welcome day. |
| Wild | adj | Untamed; natural or undomesticated state. 2. unrestrained or uninhibited. 3. raucous, unruly, or licentious. 4. visibly and overtly anxious; frantic. 5. disheveled, tangled, or untidy. 6. inaccurate. 7. occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed. 8. not inhabited or farmed: remote, wild country. 9. uncivilized or barbarous. 10. lacking supervision or restraint. 11. disorderly; unruly. 12. characterized by 13. a lack of moral restraint; dissolute or licentious. 13. lacking regular order or arrangement; disarranged. 14. full of, marked by, or suggestive of strong, uncontrolled emotion. 15. extravagant; fantastic. 16. furiously disturbed or turbulent; stormy. 17. risky; imprudent. 18. impatiently eager. 19 highly enthusiastic. 20. based on little or no evidence or probability; unfounded: wild accusations; a wild guess. 21. deviating greatly from an intended course; erratic. 22. games having an equivalence or value determined by the card-holder's choice. 23. wilds a region that is mostly uninhabited or uncultivated |
| Wild | adv | In a wild manner: growing wild; roaming wild. |
| Wild | vb | Of an animal or plant: to be or becoming wild. 2. to grow wild. |
| Wild | phr | "A Wild Goose Never Laid a Tame Egg" - something will not be spontaneously different from that which came before. The phrase is used to describe things that are determined by nature and the environment, or else inherited from the generation before. |
| Wild | phr | "In the Wild" - in an uncultivated state. |
| Wild | phr | "Out in the Wild" - excluded; far from normal habitation |
| Wild | phr | "Run Wild" - behave in an undisciplined way. |
| Wild | phr | "Sow One's Wild Oats" - live a carefree existence, when young and before settling down in life. |
| Wild | phr | "Spread Like Wildfire" - spread rapidly. |
| Wild | phr | "Wild and Woolly" - rough, uncivilized or uncultured (from the wild and woolly West) |
| Wild | phr | "Wilder Shores of Love" - the extreme, most extravagant, unusual, unrestrained. |
| Wild | phr | "Wild Horses Wouldn't Pull Him Away" - no power, or persuasion, would make somebody say or reveal something, or make him leave etc. |
| Wild | phr | "Wild Man of the Wood" - an orangutan. |
| Wild-blood | n | A young person (generally). 2. a hot-blooded person. |
| Wild-blooded | adj | Hot-temper, angry, aggressive. |
| Wild boar | n | The tusked wild pig sus scrofa, from which domestic pigs are descended. 2. an uncastrated male pig. 3. flesh of the wild boar. a male guinea pig. |
| Wildcat | n | A feral cat. 2. a female of fierce and uncontrolled temper is often called for obvious reasons, and the expression is variously applied to reckless, uncontrolled, and unsound activities, ventures, etc. |
| Wildcat strike | n | A strike suddenly, or irresponsibly , decided upon a group of workers, esp one not authorized or backed by a Trade Union. |
| Wildcat well | n | An exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field. |
| Wildcraft | n | The action or practice of wild-crafting. 2. |
| Wilder | vb | To cause to lose the way; to lead astray. 2. to wander wildly. |
| Wilderly | adv | In a bewildered manner. |
| Wildering | n | Bewilderment. |
| Wilderness | n | The place of the 'wild deer'. 2. a remote area of rugged bush-land. 3. a desert; an uncultivated and uninhabited region. 4. an unattended or not cared-for garden. 5. a confused assemblage of things. |
| Wilderness | n | "Go In the Wilderness" - be out of office against one's will. 2. a fig. description of being deprived of political office through a change of government. |
| Wild-eyed | adj | Having an angry, insane or distressed expression in the eyes. |
| Wildfire | n | A very old English description of a composition of inflammable materials that catch fire quickly. 2. a bushfire, or forest fire or a fire burning in a grassland or wooded area. 3. greek fire; anything which burns rapidly. 4. sheet-lightning. |
| Wild fowl | n | A bird, esp. an aquatic one. |
| Wild goose | n | A undomesticated goose, as the English gray goose or the Canada goose. |
| Wildhood | n | Wildness of character or quality. |
| Wild horse | n | A horse not domesticated or broken in. 2. a most powerful influence. |
| Wild huntsman | n | "The Wild Huntsman" - a spectral hunter of medieval legend, who with a pack of spectral dogs frequents certain forests and occasionally appear to mortals. |
| Wilding | n | A wild plant, flower or animal. |
| Wilding | adj | Natural, native; developed without culture or training. 2. a plant sown by agency , esp. awild crab apple; the fruit of such a plant. 3. US slang, the activity or instance of going on a violent rampage through the street in a group. : US |
| Wildish | adj | Somewhat wild (lit. & fig.) 2. inclining to wildness. 3. to make wild, in various senses, esp. to affect with frenzy, to madden. |
| Wildishly | adv | In a wild, angry or somewhat violent manner. |
| Wildlife | n | Wild animals, trees, and plants collectively, especially as objects of government conservation. |
| Wildlife | adj | Pertaining to wild animals trees and plants collectively. |
| Wildling | n | An uncultivated plant or flower, wild animals. |
| Wildly | adv | Without order, irregularly, in disorder, in confusion. 2. at random, anyhow, aimlessly, heedlessly. 3. without restraint (in various shades of meaning.) 4. beyond the limits of reason; extravagantly, fantastically distracted, as if out of one's wits. 5. without moral restraint, dissolutely, licentiously. 6. without freedom of control; at one's will. |
| Wildman | n | An extremist in a political party, creed or profession |
| Wildman | phr | "Wildman of the Woods" - the orangutan. |
| Wildmare | n | A nightmare. 2. a see-saw. |
| Wildmen | n | A term often applied in politics to a party intransigents or extremists. Women who took part in the campaign for women's rights, especially the Suffragettes, were called wild women. |
| Wildness | n | Of an animal: an undomesticated state. 2. an untamed disposition of an animal. 3. fierceness, savageness, ferocity, uncultivated state. 4. shyness. |
| Wild oats | n | A name for a dissipation, dissolute young man. |
| Wild oats | phr | "Sow One's Wild Oats" - indulge in youthful excess or promiscuity. |
| Wild rose | n | Any of the various uncultivated roses of the northern temperate zones, as the sweet brier. |
| Wildship | n | Wildlife. |
| Wild silk | n | Silk from silkworms. 2. an imitation of wild silk made from short silk fibres. |
| Wild wall | n | A soundproof movable wall used on motion-picture sets; alsso called a jockey-wall.. |
| Wildware | n | The fur of a wild animal. |
| Wild-West | n | The western territories so of the US around the middle of the C19thwhile they were still not developed or under control of stable government. |
| Wild West show | n | A show or event based on life and events of the American frontier regions of the 1850s. |
| Wild-witted | adj | Unpredictable, erratic, perverse. |
| Wildwood | n | A forest of natural growth or allowed to grow naturally. 2. an uncultivated or unfrequented wood or forest. |
| Wil-give | n | A voluntary or free gift. |
| Wild-headed | adj | A person with a quick, but often hare-brained, temper. |
| Wilful | adj | Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate, intentional. |
| Wilfully | adv | With the intention of causing harm; deliberately. 2. with a stubborn and determined to do as one wants, regardless of the costs. |
| Wilfulness | n | Obstinacy; stubborness; headstrong; dogged, perverseness. |
| Will | n | The power of choosing and using means for the execution of deliberate and determinate; purpose; volition; determination; discretion, wish, desire. 2. a declaration made in writing by a person of full age showing how he wishes his property to be disposed of after his death. |
| Will | vb | As a verb used as an auxiliary , to denote futurity, dependent on the subject of the verb, intention or insistence. 2. to determine by act of choice; to ordain, decree to bequeath, devise. 3. to exercise an act of volition; to chose, elect; to desire, to wish. |
| Will | phr | "At Will" - when one wishes. |
| Will | phr | "Have One's Will" - obtain what one wants. |
| Will | phr | "It Will Not Wash" - it will not be accepted as valid, true, reasonable, likely. |
| Will | phr | "That Will not Wash with Me" - not be acceptable as valid, true, reasonable or likely etc. |
| Will | phr | "What Is Your Will" - what do you wish done? |
| Will | phr | "Where there's a Will, there's a Way?" - determination will overcome any obstacle. |
| Will | phr | "Will and Bequeath" - write one's wishes and intentions about the disbursement of one's property and wealth after death. |
| Will | phr | "Will do" - a phrase expressing a willingness to carry out a request or suggestion. |
| Will | phr | "Will of the Wisp" - a flicker of light from marsh gas. 2. a fanciful or imprecise idea, belief, ambition etc that is either or illusion, or difficult to define or substantiate. |
| Will | phr | "Will of One's Own" - obstinacy, wilfulness of character. |
| Will | phr | "With a Will" - with determination, resourcefulness and energy. |
| Will | phr | "With the Best Will in the World" - with the best of intentions; but however good one's intentions are, or how hard one tries, and even if one is so well disposed as possible something may or is likely to go wrong.. |
| Willed | adj | Having a will one of a given character, mostly in composition, especially self-willed. |
| Willer | n | One who wishes; one who wills. |
| Willing | adj | Favorably, inclined; mind; disposed; ready, spontaneous. |
| Willing | phr | "Be a Willing Horse" - be a willing worker; one who wil not complain, but ready to accept any task. |
| Willing-hearted | adj | Heartily wiling or disposed. |
| Willing horse | n | Someone who is willing to help. |
| Willingly | adv | In a willing manner, readily, gladly |
| Willingness | n | Cheerful compliance. 2. the quality or state of being willing; free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear. 3. the state or character of being willing; free choice or consent of the will; readiness. 4. good will; readiness; forwardness. |
| Will-less | adj | Of a person, lacking volition: not exercising one's will. 2. of an action: involuntary. 3. intestate; without a legal will governing ones property or estate. |
| Will-lessness | n | The state or condition of not having a will. |
| Willmaker | n | Some who draws up a will. |
| Willow | n | Tree or shrub of the genus Salix growing usually near water in temperate climate, with small flowers borne on catkins and pliant branches yielding osiers and timber for cricket bats. |
| Willow | phr | "Wear the Willow" - to go into mourning, especially for a sweetheart or bride; to bewail a lost lover |
| Willow | phr | "Wield the Willow" - to play cricket as a batsman. |
| Willow | phr | "Willow in the Wind" - one whose views are easily and regularly changed by the persuasion or influence of others. 2. pushover, one who vacillates, a waffler |
| Willowed | adj | Abounding with willows. 2. containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows. |
| Willower | n | A person or a thing that willows. |
| Willow herb | n | Any plant of the genus Epilobium etc. one with leaves like willow and pale purple flowers. |
| Willow-leaves | n | In astronomy, the visible structure in a penumbra of sunspots. |
| Willow-like | adj | Resembling a willow tree or some aspect of one. |
| Will-o'-the-wisp | n | Not of Old English origin - see: 'ghost light'. |
| Willowish | adj | Resembling or somewhat like a willow. 2. having the colour of a willow. |
| Willow rods | n | Flexible twigs for basket weaving obtained from several species of willow. |
| Willow-ware | n | China decorated with a willow pattern. |
| Willowy | adj | Having or bordered by willows. 2. lithe and slender. |
| Wiln | n | To wish; desire. 2. to receive willingly; consent or submit to; accept. 3. to resolve; determine. 4. to have a desire; long (for); yearn or seek (after). |
| Wil-shrift | n | A voluntary confession. |
| Wilsome | adj | Wilful, obstinate, stubborn. |
| Wil-spel | n | Welcome or good news. |
| Wil-tiding | n | Welcome new. |
| Wily | adj | Skilled at gaining an advantage, especially deceitfully. |
| Wimple | n | O.E. wimpele: linen or silk headdress covering the neck and the sides of the face, formerly worn by women and still worn by some nuns. |
| Wimple | vb | To hoodwink. |
| Win | vb | To be successful or victorious in (a contest or conflict). 2. come first in, finish first in, be victorious in, triumph in, take first prize in, achieve success in, be successful in, prevail in.. 3.come first, finish first, be the winner, be victorious, be the victor, carry/win the day, carry all before one, defeat/overcome the opposition, take the honours/crown, gain the palm, come out ahead, come out on top, succeed, triumph, prevail, achieve mastery. 4. sweep the board, make a clean sweep; win out, clean up. 5. acquire or secure as a result of a contest, conflict, bet, or other endeavour 6. secure, gain, achieve, attain, earn, obtain, acquire, procure, get, collect, pick up, walk away/off with, come away with, carry off; receive, net, bag, bank, pot, scoop.. 7. gain (a person's attention, support, or love), typically gradually or by effort; captivate, steal, gain the support or favour of someone by action or persuasion.persuade, talk round, bring round, convince, induce, sway, prevail on.. 8. manage to succeed or achieve something by effort. 9. manage to reach (a place) by effort. 10. obtain (ore) from a mine. 11.dry (hay) by exposure to the air. |
| Win | n | A successful result in a contest, conflict, bet, or other endeavour; a victory |
| Win | phr | "Heads I Win - Tails you Lose" - whichever happens, I will benefit at your expense. |
| Win | phr | "Hold a Winning Hand" - be in undefeatable position to defeat others. |
| Win | phr | "Put the Wind Up" - alarm, frighten. 2. to become alarmed or frightened. |
| Win | phr | "Win Back" - to get something back you have lost. 2. get back; recover after a struggle. |
| Win | phr | "Win By a Nose" - win by the slightest amount of difference. |
| Win | phr | "Win by a Long Chalk" - to win very decisively. |
| Win | phr | "Win By a Short Neck" - win by the length of a horse's neck. 2. win or lose by a small margin. |
| Win | phr | "Win From" - get from somebody as a result of a contest, game. |
| Win | phr | "Win Hands Down" - win without effort or by a clear lead or margin. |
| Win | phr | "Win One's Spurs" - the earning of a knighthood in battle: to get recognition after great effort. |
| Win | phr | "Win or Lose" - whether one wins or loses, succeed or fails. |
| Win | phr | "Win Out" - to have some success. 2. come successfully through a difficult period. |
| Win | phr | "Win Over" - persuade, gain the support, or goodwill of. 2. be on one's side. |
| Win | phr | "Win Somebody Over" - persuade. |
| Win | phr | "Win the Day" - succeed; come out on top. |
| Win | phr | "Win the Hand (and, hopefully, the heart) of Somebody" - become somebody's husband or wife. |
| Win | phr | "Win the Heart Of Somebody" - endear oneself to somebody; engage somebody's affection. |
| Win | phr | "Win Through" - persevere and succeed. |
| Win | phr | "Win Upon" - to gain upon, overtake and pass. |
| Win | phr | "You Can't Win" - it seems one always fail. |
| Win | phr | "You Can't Win them All" - resigned expression of consolation on failure. |
| Winch | n | The crank of a wheel or axle. 2. a windlass; a winching tool. 3. reel of a fishing rod. |
| Winch | vb | Lift a winch. |
| Winchingly | adv | In a winching or hauling manner. |
| Wind | n | A bend or turn in a course. 2. a single turn when winding. 2, a windlass. |
| Wind | vb | Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help. 2.form into a wreath. 3. coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem. 4. arrange or or coil around. 5. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course. 6. catch the scent of; get wind of. 7. extend in curves and turns. |
| Wind | phr | "Before the Wind" - helped by, the wind's force. 2. with the wind driving behind. |
| Wind | phr | "Between Wind and Water" - at a vulnerable point. |
| Wind | phr | "Down the Wind" - in the direction of the wind. |
| Wind | phr | "Free as the Wind" - completely free. |
| Wind | phr | "Get Back One's Wind" - breathe freely after breathlessness. |
| Wind(1) | phr | "Get the Wind Up" - become serious alarmed, over anxious or frightened. |
| Wind | phr | "Get Wind of (Something)" - learn indirectly or get advance knowledge about something which has not yet happened. |
| Wind | phr | "Get Windward of" - score an advantage over. |
| Wind | phr | "Have the Wind" - get the upper hand. |
| Wind | phr | "How the Wind Blows" - the real state of affairs. |
| Wind | phr | "In the Teeth of the Wind" - with the wind against one's face. |
| Wind | phr | "In the Wind" - being planned secretly. 2. in consideration. |
| Wind | phr | "In the Wind's Eye" - directly against the wind. 2. in the teeth of the wind. |
| Wind | phr | "It's An Ill Wind that Blows Nobody any Good" - an apparently unfavorable situation has it good aspects. |
| Wind | phr | "Like the Wind" - very quickly; swiftly. |
| Wind | phr | "Near the Wind" - sailing as nearly against the wind as is consistent with using its force. |
| Wind | phr | "Off the Wind" - the wind on the quarter. |
| Wind | phr | "Put the Wind Up (Somebody)" - make somebody anxious, alarmed or frightened. |
| Wind | phr | "Raise the Wind" - to obtain necessary money or funds. |
| Wind | phr | "Sail Against the Wind" - oppose the views currently popular among others. |
| Wind | phr | "See Which Way the Wind is Blowing" - postpone a decision until one has more information. |
| Wind | phr | "Something in the Wind" - something going on secretly. |
| Wind | phr | "Straws in the Wind" something trivial that may signify something significant in the future, |
| Wind | phr | "Take the Wind Out of Somebody's Sails" - take away somebody's confidence, advantage. |
| Wind | phr | "Three Sheets to the Wind" - drunk. |
| Wind | phr | "There's Something in the Wind" - there are signs that something is about to happen. 2. something is being prepared or concocted without one's knowledge. |
| Wind | phr | "To the Four Winds" - in all directions. 2. into a state of abandonment or neglect. |
| Wind | phr | "Up the Wind" - moving against the wind. |
| Wind | phr | "Whistle Down the Wind" - to abandon; argue or talk aimlessly or without purpose. |
| Wind | phr | "Wind and Weather" - varying weather of all kinds, esp. the weather one is exposed to, or that effects natural or man-made objects. 2. exposure to the effects of the weather. |
| Wind (2) | phr | "Wind Back" (Of something like a road) - to turn so that it heads back in the direction it came from. 2. set a clock on an earlier setting. 2. bring back a section of film etc for re-showing, by turning the spool on which it is mounted. |
| Wind(2) | phr | "Wind Down" - a gradual lessening of excitement or reduction of activity. 2. lower, bring down by turning a handle or wheel. 3. of a clock spring become slack, causing the clock to lose time and stop. 4. relaxation, move more slowly or with less energy, lose momentum. |
| Wind (2) | phr | "Wind In" - drw a fishing-line from the water and coil it around a reel attached to the rod. |
| Wind (2) | phr | "Wind On" - moe a film etc forward (so as to expose, or show the next portion). |
| Wind (2) | phr | "Wind Somebody Up" - deliberately make somebody anxious. |
| Wind (2) | phr | "Wind Up" - bring something to a conclusion. 2. (of a speech or meeting) close, terminate. 3. tighten the spring of a watch etc to make it function. 4. raise, bring up, by turning a handle or wheel. |
| Wind (2) | phr | Wind Up (with)" - as a result of one's work, manner of life, etc, get or experience something unusual and unpleasant. |
| Wind bent | adj | Bent or bowed by the wind. |
| Wind-bitten | adj | Blown out of shape by the prevailing winds. 2. weathered over time by exposure to the wind. |
| Wind-blast | n | A sudden rush of air or gas due to the collapse of a void. 2. a sudden, exceedingly sharp, blast of gust of air. 3. the damaging effect of air friction on the pilot ejected from a high-speed aircraft. |
| Wind-blown | adj | Tossed or blown by the wind. |
| Wind-board | n | A snowboard or surfboard with an attached sail. 2. (climbing, skiing) The hard crust formed by high winds on exposed snow. 3. (agriculture) In a mechanical harvester, a board which shelters harvested grain and prevents it being blown away by the wind |
| Wind-borne | adj | Carried or transported by the wind. |
| Windbreak | n | A thing, such as a row of trees, hedge, fence, wall or screen etc., serving to break the force of the wind. 2. a tree broken by the wind. 3. holiday or break during winter. |
| Windbroken | adj | Asthmatic; broken winded said of a horse. |
| Wind-burn | n | Inflammation of the skin caused by exposure to the wind. |
| Wind chill | n | A cooling effect of wind blowing on a surface. |
| Wind-down | n | A gradual lessening of excitement or reduction of activity. 2. relaxation. |
| Winded | adj | Exposed to the wind or air, or spoiled by such exposure. 2. breathless, as from work or exercise. 3. out of breath. |
| Wind egg | n | An egg without a shell, or with a soft shell, or an unfertilized one; from the old superstition that the hen that lays it was impregnated, like the Thracian mares, by the wind. 2. an unexpected fortune. |
| Winder | n | One who or that which winds. 2. that upon which or from which thread, etc., may be wound. 3. a step in winding stairs. 4. a twining plant. 5. an appliance for winding up a spring. |
| Windfall | n | A unexpected piece of good luck , especially an unexpected legacy; something worth having taht comes to one without any personal exertion - like fruit which has fallen from the tree and so does not have to be picked. |
| Wind-fallen | adj | Blown down by the wind. |
| Wind-gall | n | A soft swelling near the pastern joint of a horse. (So called because formerly thought to contain wind.) |
| Wind-hold | n | A state which certain machines must stop its running due to extremely windy condition, as with airplanes, ski-lifts etc. |
| Winding | n | Sense of Wind(2) - curved or sinuous motion or movement. 2. a thing that is wound around or coiled. 3. coils of wire as a conductor round in armature. 4. twisting movement or course. |
| Winding | adj | Turning spirally or twisting about an axis or core. 2. having bends or lateral turns. 3. twisting from a plane; not of a plane surface. 4. meandering, bending, snaking, twisting. 5. warped, or twisted, or cast. |
| Winding frame | n | A device or machine for winding as a reel. |
| Windingly | adv | In a winding manner. |
| Winding sheet | n | The sheet that wraps a corpse. |
| Winding stairs | n | Spiral or newel stairs. |
| Winding sticks | n | Two parallel sticks of wood used to test a plane surface. by sighting the top edges of the sticks one can tell whether the surface is twisted or not. |
| Windle | n | A basket. |
| Windle | vb | Something used for winding, twisting or turning. |
| Windle | n | An Old English measure for corn. 2. dogtail grass (plantago lanceolata. 3. bent grass. |
| Windless | adj | Calm, with wind blowing. |
| Windlestraw | n | Withered straw. |
| Windlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of wind. |
| Windling | n | That which is torn off by the wind, as a branch by a tree. |
| Windly | adv | Like or characteristic of winding, twisting, turning etc. |
| Windmill | n | A mill worked by the action of the wind on its sails. |
| Windmill | vb | To move like the sails of a windmill. |
| Windmill | phr | "Fight Windmills" - an allusion to Don Quixote's combat which he mistook for gaints. |
| Windmill | phr | "Have Windmills in Your Head" - to be full of fancies |
| Windor | n | A window, eyethril. |
| Window | n | Window is Old Norse in origin; Old English equivalents include: wind-door, windor, eye-hole, eye-door,(eyedoor) eyethril, fenester. 2. an opening in the wall or side of a structure to admit light and air. |
| Window | phr | "All His Goods in the Window" - much the same as 'window dressing,' implying that a man is displaying all his superficial merits, etc., to view with nothing substantial to back them up. |
| Window | phr | "Fly Out the Window" - to be lost. |
| Window | phr | "Out of the Window" - no longer taking into account |
| Window | phr | "Throw a Pebble Against the Window" - gently, softly draw attention to oneself. |
| Window | phr | "Throw Something Out the Window" - to completely reject an idea or proposal. |
| Windowed | adj | Having or furnished with windows. |
| Window back | n | The inside boarding or framing between the floor and the window bottom of an ordinary window. 2. the framing forming the back of an enclosure of a shop window. |
| Window blind | n | A screen to a window or door, either inside or outside, for protection or privacy. |
| Window-board | n | A horizontal shelf fixed to the inside of a sill of a window frame. 2. a show board or window bottom on the inside of a shop window. |
| Window box | n | A box for growing plants outside a window. 2. a long trough on a window sill opening containing plants. |
| Window cleaner | n | A worker whose job it is to clean windows. |
| Window frame | n | A supporting frame for the glass soft a window. |
| Windowful | adj | As much as window will allow to be visible. |
| Windowing | phr | In computing, the use of windows for the simultaneous display of parts of different files, images, etc. |
| Windowless | adj | Not having or without windows. |
| Window-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of windows in some aspect. |
| Window-maker | n | On who makes windows as an occupation. |
| Window-making | n | The making or construction of windows. |
| Window-seat | n | A seat below a window, esp. especially in a bay or alcove. 2. an seta next to a window on an aircraft, train, etc. |
| Window-shade | n | A projecting piece of canvas over a shop front to protect goods displayed from the direct rays of the sun. |
| Window-shopper | n | One who looks in shop windows without entering it to buy. |
| Window-shopping | n | looking at ggoods in a shop window with no intention to buy. |
| Window-sill | n | A sill below the window. |
| Window-wiper | n | A device or article for cleaning and wiping windows. 2. windscreen wipers om motor vehicles. |
| Windowy | adj | Pertaining to, or characteristics of windows. |
| Windpipe | n | The air passage from the throat to the lungs; the trachea. |
| Wind-rose | n | A diagram of the relative frequency of wind directions at a place. |
| Windrow | n | A line of raked hay, corn sheaves, peat etc., laid out to dry in the wind. 2. a long pile or row heaped up by or as if by the wind. 3. a bank of loose material heaped along the side of a road. |
| Wind-sail | n | A canvas funnel conveying air to the lower parts of the ship. |
| Wind-shaken | adj | Thin, puny, weak: as such that the wind would blow he/she over. |
| Wind-shakes | n | Concentric cracks in timber. 2. a defect in wood; anemosis. |
| Windshear | n | Variation in wind velocity at right angles to the wind's direction. |
| Windshield | n | A windscreen on a motor vehicle. |
| Wind-sleeve | n | A windsock. |
| Windsock | n | A canvass cylinder or cone on a mast to show the direction of the wind at an airfield etc. 2. a wins sleeve. |
| Wind speed | n | The rate at which air is moving in a particular area. |
| Wind-stick | n | An airplane propeller |
| Wind storm | n | A storm with very strong wind but with little or no rain, snow, etc a gale. |
| Windstrewn | adj | Strewn by the wind. |
| Windswell | n | Waves are a product of the wind. When winds blow over the surface of the oceans, the energy is transferred to the water and creates swell; or, a group of traveling waves. There are two swells relevant to surfing: ground swell and wind swell |
| Windswept | adj | Exposed to or swept back by the wind. |
| Windthrown | adj | In foresty, blowdown refers to trees uprooted by the wind. |
| Wind tight | adj | So tight as to prevent passage of wind or air. |
| Wind-up | n | A conclusion, a finish. 2. an attempt to provoke someone. 3 operated by being wound up. 4. (slang) panicky apprehension. |
| Windward | n | The windward region, side or direction (to windward). |
| Windward | adj | On the side of the wind from which the wind is blowing, opposite to leeward. |
| Windward | adv | On the side of the wind from which the wind is blowing, opposite to leeward |
| Windward | phr | "Get to Windward Of" - place oneself to avoid the stench 2. gain an advantage over. |
| Windward | phr | "Windward of the Law" - within the letter of the law. |
| Windy | adj | Stormy with wind, as a windy night. 2. exposed to the wind; windswept. 3. generating or suffering from flatulence. 4. in speech; verbose, loquacious, garrulous. . nervous, frighten. |
| Wine | n | A friend, a kinsman. |
| Wine | n | A fermented grape juice as an alcoholic drink. 2. a fermented drink resembling this made from other fruit etc. as 'elderberry wine' . |
| Wine | phr | "Wine of Ape" - wine to make one foolishly drunk (from Chaucer's Tales). |
| Wine | phr | "Wine, Woman and Song" - (symbols of) social pleasures or indulgences (from German,and attributed to Martin Luther) |
| Wineberry | n | A deciduous prickly shrub, Rubus phoenicolasius. |
| Wine-box | n | A square carton of with a dispensing tap. |
| Wine-cooler | n | A alcoholic beverage made from wine and juice, either in combination with aa carbonated beverage and sugar. |
| Wine-glass | n | A glass for wine, usually with a foot and stem. |
| Wine-glassful | adj | The capacity of a wineglass, esp. of the size used for sherry, as a measure of liquid, about four tablespoons or 2 fluid ounces. |
| Wine-grower | n | A cultivator of grapes for wine. |
| Wineless | adj | Not having wine available. |
| Winelike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of wine in some aspect. |
| Winemaker | n | A producer of wine; a wine-grower. |
| Winemaking | n | The production of wine either commercially or as a hobby. |
| Wine-red | adj | The dark red red color of red wine. . 2. anything of this color. |
| Wineshop | n | An enoteca, cellar or bar where one can buy wine. |
| Wineskin | n | A container made from goat skin used to hold wine. |
| Wine-sop | n | Any farinaceous foodstuff steeped or soaked in wine, as bread or cake. |
| Wine-whey | n | A beverage made of wine and curdled milk. |
| Wine-writer | n | A person who writes, (usually a journalist) about wine. |
| Winey | adj | Resembling wine in taste and color. |
| Wing | n | (In a bird) a modified forelimb that bears large feathers and is used for flying.
2. a modified forelimb with skin stretched between or behind the fingers. 3. in most insects, each of two or four flat extensions of the thoracic cuticle, either transparent or covered in scales. 4. the wing of a bird as food. 5. ease and swiftness of movement, as "the thought gave wings to her feet". 6. a rigid horizontal structure that projects from both sides of an aircraft and supports it in the air. 7. a pilot's certificate of ability to fly a plane, indicated by a badge representing a pair of wings. 8. a thing resembling or analogous to a wing in form or function, in particular.. 9. a lateral part or projection of an organ or structure.. 10 a thin membranous appendage of a fruit or seed that is dispersed by the wind. 11. a raised part of the body of a car or other vehicle above the wheel. 12. a part of a large building, especially one that projects from the main part; (a maternity wing). 12. part, section, side; annexe, extension. 13. a group within a political party or other organization having particular views or a particular function. 14. a candidate from a wing of political party: faction, caucus, arm, side, branch, group, grouping, section, set, clique, coterie, cabal;fringe movement; lobby. 15. the sides of a theatre stage out of view of the audience. 16. in soccer, rugby, and hockey) the part of the field close to the sidelines. 17. an air force unit of several squadrons or groups, as the right or left flank of the main body of a battle formation. 18. a flock of plovers (birds). |
| Wing | vb | Travel on wings or by aircraft;fly, glide, soar; take wing. 2. move, travel, or be sent quickly, as if flying, hurtle, speed, shoot, whizz, zoom, streak, sweep, fly, race.
2. shoot (a bird) in the wing, so as to prevent flight without causing death |
| Wing | n | "Wing It"- to improvise, to make things up or things up or figure things out as one goes. 2. to perform with little or no preparation. |
| Wing | phr | "Clip Somebody's Wings" - reduce someone influence or /and power. |
| Wing | phr | "Don't Fly without Wings" - attempt nothing you are not fit for or you are fit for. |
| Wing | phr | "Give Wings To" - speed up a thing or person. |
| Wings | phr | "Lend Wings to' - to spur one's speed. |
| Wing | phr | "On the Wing" - flying, in motion. or about to depart or take flight. |
| Wing | phr | "Spread One's Wings "" - begin to act independent. 2. develop one's powers fully. |
| Wing | phr | "Stretch One's Wings" - develop one 's powers fully. |
| Wing | phr | "Take Somebody Under One's Wings" - guide and protect somebody. |
| Wing | phr | "Take Wings" - fly away. |
| Wing | phr | "Wing and Wing" - with sails spread or boomed out on each side like wings. |
| Wing-beat | n | One complete set of motions with a wing flying. |
| Wing-bow | n | A distinctive mark of color on the bend of the wing in a domestic fowl. |
| Winged | adj | Having wings for flight. |
| Winged-wolf | n | The Winged Wolf is a creature with origins in German, Russian and Hungarian folklore. It is not know for a fact when they came to existence in our world. The ppearance of The Winged Wolf is, as the name implies, a wolf with wings. These vary in species (some have wings like a bird, while others have wings like a bat). |
| Winged words | n | Highly apposite or significant words. |
| Winger | n | A Player on the wing in hockey and football. 2. a member of a specified political wing; as a 'left-winger'. |
| Wing-footed | adj | Rapid, swift. |
| Wing-game | n | Game birds collectively. |
| Wing-handed | adj | Having the anterior limbs and hands adapted to flight, as bats and pterdactyls. |
| Wingless | adj | Having no wings, or having aborted wings. |
| Winglessly | adv | Without wings. |
| Winglessness | n | The state of apparently not being acted on by gravity. 2. the state of being wingless. |
| Winglike | adj | Resembling a wing. |
| Wing-load | n | The all-over weight of a fully-loaded airplane divided by the area of the supporting surface, exclusive of the stabilizer and elevators. |
| Wing-nut | n | A nut with projections for the fingers to turn it on a screw. 2. a thumbnut. |
| Wings | n | A pilot's certificate of ability to fly a plane, indicated by a badge representing a pair of wings. |
| Wing-sheath | n | The horny cover the protecting the wings of a beetle. |
| Wing span | n | The measurement right across the wings or a bird or aircraft. |
| Wing-spread | n | The distance between the tips of a fully extended wings of a bird, insect, or airplane. |
| Wing-walking | n | An acrobatic stunt performed on the wings of an airborne aircraft as a public entertainment. |
| Wing-weary | adj | Fatigued from flight or travel. |
| Wingy | adj | Winged; swift. |
| Wink | n | The act of winking; an instance of winking. 2. nictation. |
| Wink | vb | Close and open one eye quickly, typically to indicate that something is a joke or a secret or as a signal of affection or greeting; blink, flutter, bat; to nictate. 3. to pretend not to notice (something bad or illegal) 4. turn a blind eye to, close/shut one's eyes to, ignore, overlook, disregard, pretend not to notice; look the other way; connive at, condone, tolerate. 2. (of a bright object or a light) shine or flash intermittently 3. sparkle, twinkle, flash, flicker, glitter, gleam, shimmer, shine; blink; scintillate. |
| Wink | phr | "In a Wink" - very quickly. |
| Wink | phr | "Like winking" - very quick, in a flash. |
| Wink | phr | "Not Sleep a Wink" - have no sleep at all. |
| Wink | phr | "Take Forty Winks" - a short nap, doze. |
| Wink | phr | "Wink At" - to connive at, or to effect not to notice. 2. deliberately ignore, overlook. |
| Winker | n | One who winks. 2. a blinder for horse. 3. the muscle by which winking is done. 4. slang term: a flashing indicator light on a motor vehicle; for spectacles; and an eyelash. |
| Winking | n | Winking is one of the more subtle gestures, usually involving eye contact between those involved. In most cases it is only meant to be known by the sender and their intended receivers, but in some cases can be more widely intended |
| Winkingly | adv | In a winking manner. |
| Winkle | n | Any edible marine gastropod of the genus Littorina; a periwinkle. |
| Winless | adj | Without having any wins in a series of sporting contest. |
| Winly | adv | In the manner of a win or victory. |
| Winner | n | A person, animal, usually a horse etc that wins. 2. a successful or highly promising idea, enterprise, etc. |
| Winner | phr | "Be on a Winner" - have faith that the project or matter will prove successful. |
| Winning | n | Money, won especially in gambling; winnings. |
| Winning | adj | Having or bringing victory or an advantage. 2. attractive, persuasive, as a winning smile. |
| Winning | phr | "Hold a Winning Hand" - be in an unbeatable position. |
| Winningly | adv | In a winning manner. |
| Winningness | n | The fact of achieving a win or success. |
| Winnings | n | Money won at gambling. |
| Winning streak | n | A winning of one or more games, bets, etc in succession. |
| Winning-ways | n | Actions or quality that please other people and make them feel friendly towards the doer of the actions. |
| Winnish | adj | Inclined to win and succeed (but not always). |
| Winnow | vb | Blow grain (free) of chaff, etc by an air current. 2. get rid of chaff from grain. 3. sift, separate, clear of refuse or inferior specimens. 4. sift or evidence for falsehoods, etc. 5. clear, sort or weed out rubbish. 6. |
| Winnower | n | One who winnows. |
| Winnowing | n | The act of winnow. |
| Winsome | adj | Of a persons looks or manner, winning, attractive, engaging. 2. cheerful, charming, agreeable. |
| Winsomeness | n | The state or quality of being winsome. |
| Winter | n | The fourth season of the year in the northern Hemisphere; and the second in the southern hemisphere.. 2. the coldest part of the year. |
| Winter | phr | "Buy Straw Hats in Winter - buy when the market is down or quiet to obtain a bargain |
| Winterberry | n | Any of several North American shrubs Ilex of the holly family.. |
| Winterbourne | n | A stream flowing only during excessive rainfall, As during winter) when water at its sources rises above a certain level. |
| Winterbreak | n | Holiday or break during the winter. |
| Winterer | n | Any person or animal (but especially a bird) that visits or resides in a specified location during the winter. |
| Winter fallow | n | Land kept fallow during winter. |
| Winter feed | n | Feed by hand stock in winter when grazing is impossible. |
| Winter green | n | A small evergreen plant Gaultheria procumbens. |
| Winter-house | n | Old English winterhūs, a house used in winter, especially as a vacation residence to overwinter in. |
| Winterish | adj | Characteristic of winter. |
| Winter itch | n | Frost itch. |
| Winterless | adj | Free from winter. 2. not characterized by winter. |
| Winterlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of winter. |
| Winterlong | adj | Extending throughout winter. |
| Winter-love | n | Cold or conventional love. |
| Winterly | adj | Wintry; cheerless. |
| Winterover | n | One who remains at the Antarctica base during the quiet winter season. |
| Winter-proud | adj | Prematurely grown or luxuriant used of a fall-sown crop. |
| Winter-rat | n | Slang, an old unattractive motor vehicle purchased for little money to be drivenduring the harsh winters while the owner's good car remains protected from the extremes of weather. |
| Winters | vb | To spend the winter in a particular place. 2. keep or feed (cattle & plants) during winter. |
| Winter sleep | n | Hibernation. |
| Winterstorm | n | A meteorological event in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm in which ground temperatures are cold enough to allow ice to form. |
| Winter-swimmer | n | One who participates in swimming during the whole year, including the whole winter regardless of the temperature. |
| Winter-tide | n | Winter-time. |
| Wintertime | n | A season or period of winter. |
| Winter-warmer | n | Many English versions contain no spices, though some brewers of spiced winter seasonal ales will slap "Winter Warmer" on the label. Those that are spiced, tend to follow the "wassail" tradition of blending robust ales with mixed spices, before hops became the chief "spice" in beer. |
| Winterwear | n | Clothes designed to be worn in winter. |
| Winterweed | n | Various small weeds that grow in winter. |
| Winterworm | n | Cordyceps sinensis, used in traditional achinese medicines. |
| Winterworn | adj | Process of being exposured to, and degraded by rigours of winters. |
| Wintrily | adv | In a wintry manner. |
| Wintriness | n | Belonging to or characteristic of winter; cold. 2. suggestive of winter, as in cheerlessness or coldness, as a wintry welcome. |
| Wintry | adj | Characteristic of winter, wintry weather. 2. of a smile, greeting, etc. lacking warmth or enthusiasm. |
| Wintry-shower | n | A very cold shower of rain, but often not falling during winter. |
| Wintry-sun | n | A sudden outbreak of sunshine during a cold wintry day. |
| Win-win | n | A beneficial situation to each of two often opposing groups or individuals. |
| Win-win | adj | Beneficial to each of two often opposing groups or individuals. 2. beneficial regardless of the outcome. |
| Winwort | n | Any pleasant-looking or pleasant-tasting plant or vegetable. |
| Winy | adj | Having the taste or quality of wine. |
| Wipe | n | A cloth to wipe away liquids. 2. a slang term for a handkerchief. 2. blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe. 3. gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm. 3. act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean. |
| Wipe | VB | To cheat; to defraud; to trick. 2. to remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away off or out. 3. also used figuratively, as 'to wipe out our ingratitude'. 4. to rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel. |
| Wipe | phr | "Fetch One a Wipe Over the Knuckles" - to give someone a good rap. |
| Wipe | phr | "Wipe Away" - to remove, clean or erase with a wiping motion. |
| Wipe | phr | "Wipe Down" - clean (esp. a vertical surface) or from top to bottom by wiping. |
| Wipe | phr | "Wipe Off" - annul a debt. 2. remove, take off by , by rubbing with a cloth. |
| Wipe | phr | "Wipe One's Nose" - to affront someone; punch someone on the nose. |
| Wipe | phr | "Wipe Out" - destroy, annihilate, obliterate. 2. abolish, cleanse society. 3. (slang) murder. 3. wipe clean the inside of a vessel, etc. |
| Wipe | phr | "Wipe Over" - pass a cloth over something, so cleaning it, but not thoroughly. |
| Wipe | phr | "Wipe Somebody's' Nose" - to affront others. 2. to give someone a punch on the nose. |
| Wipe | phr | "Wipe Somebody's Eye" - to steal a a march on someone. 2. get the better of. |
| Wipe | phr | "Wipe Somebody Out" - cancel, or destroy something. |
| Wipe | phr | "Wipe the Floor With" - defeat convincingly and easily. |
| Wipe | phr | "Wipe Up" - dry dishes, crockery, cutlery after washing. |
| Wipe-out | n | An instance of anihilation and destruction. 2. a fall from a surf board. |
| Wire | n | Wire or equip a building etc for use with electricity. 2. ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc. 3. a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance. 4. a message transmitted by telegraph. 5. the finishing line on a racetrack |
| Wire | vb | To send cables, wires, or telegrams. 2. fasten with wire 3. string on a wire "wire beads" 4. provide with electrical circuits. |
| Wire | phr | "Be a Live Wire" - wire charged with electricity; hence, a very lively person abounding in energy. |
| Wire | phr | "By Wire" - by telegraph. |
| Wire | phr | "Go Haywire" - go mad or crazy. |
| Wire | phr | "Lay Wires for" - to prepare for. |
| Wire | phr | "Pull the Wires" - use private influence behind the scenes. |
| Wire | phr | "Send by Wire" - send by telegraph. |
| Wire | phr | "Under wire" - (of land) fenced. |
| Wire | phr | "Wire in" - (slang) - to eat heartily; get busy with. |
| Wire-bridge | n | A suspension bridge. |
| Wire-cloth | n | Cloth woven from wire. |
| Wired | adj | Connected by wire to a network. |
| Wiredness | n | The state or condition of being wired or connected to a network. |
| Wiredraw | vb | Drawm (metal) out into wire. 2. elongate, protract unduly. 3. to treat a subject with excessive subtlety or refinement. |
| Wiredrawn | adj | Refine or apply or press (an argument) with idle or excessive subtlety. |
| Wire-glass | n | safety-glass with a wire screen in the middle of it. |
| Wire grass | n | Any of the species of tough, wiry grass, Poa compressa. |
| Wire-haired | adj | Of a dog having stiff wiry hair. |
| Wire key | n | A corkscrew. |
| Wireless | n | Not having any wires. 2. of or relating to communication without a wired connection, such as radio waves; cordless. |
| Wire-like | adj | Resembling wire or a wire. |
| Wiremaker | n | A manufacturer of wire |
| Wireman | n | An installer or repairer of electric wires. 2. a journalist working for a telegraphic news agency. |
| Wireness | n | The state of being wired. |
| Wire netting | n | Netting made of wire twisted into meshes, as window screens, fences. |
| Wire-network | n | A hexagonal network of interwoven wire used to |
| Wire-puller | n | In Us politician etc. who exerts a hidden influence. |
| Wire-pulling | n | The pulling of wires as in a puppet show. 2. the use of private or secret influence behind the scenes, inorder to obtain an end. |
| Wire rope | n | Rope made by twisting wires together as strands. |
| Wire speed | n | The speed at which a wire moves through a machine. 2. in computing, the maximum rate at which |
| Wire-spun | adj | Wired spun, or drawn out too fine; overrefined. |
| Wire-stripper | n | A tool for removing the insulation from electric wires. |
| Wire-walker | n | An acrobat or wire-dancer performing feats on a wire rope. |
| Wire-walking | n | The act of an acrobat or a wire-dancer performing feats on a wire rope. |
| Wire-way | n | An overhead strong cable used for transporting goods. |
| Wireweed | n | Any member of the genus Polygonella of knotweeds and smartweeds. |
| Wire wheel | n | A vehicle with spokes of wire. |
| Wire wool | n | Wire wool, also known as steel wool or wire sponge, is a bundle of very fine and flexible sharp-edged steel filaments. It was described as a new product in 1896.[1] It is used as an abrasive in finishing and repair work for polishing wood or metal objects, cleaning household cookware, cleaning windows, and sanding surfaces |
| Wire wheel | n | A vehicle with spokes of wire. |
| Wire wool | n | A mass of fine wire for cleaning. |
| Wirework | n | Small articles made of wire cloth. |
| Wireworker | n | One who works making products from wire. |
| Wireworks | n | A factory where wire or articles of wire are made. 2. a shop where wire is woven and manufactured into protective screens, filters or the like. |
| Wireworm | n | The larva of the click beetle causing damage to crop plants,as a Millipede. |
| Wire-wove | n | Denoting a high grade of paper with a smooth writing surface. 2. woven of wire. |
| Wirily | adj | In a wiry manner. |
| Wiriness | n | The state of being wiry. |
| Wiring | n | A system of wires installed for the distribution of electric power providing for lighting, heating, radio, television, ignition etc. 2. the installation of system of wires providing electrical circuits. |
| Wiry | adj | Having great resisting power, tough, sinewy and flexible as said of a pesonw. 2. (of a person) thin and sinewy; untiring. 3. made of wire. |
| Wis | vb | Iwis: certainly, from Old English 'gewis' erroneously taken as to know; suppose, think. |
| Wisdom | n | The trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
2. the quality of being prudent and sensible. 3. the ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight. 4. accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment. 5. an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC |
| Wisdom | phr | In His or Her Wisdom" - thinking it would be to do something as, the man in his wisdom decided to leave quit his high-paying job. |
| Wisdom | phr | "The Wisdom of Many and the Wit of One" - the definition of a proverb, coined by Lord John Russell at the ending of the Seven Year War. |
| Wisdom book | n | Any of the biblical books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastics, Songs of Songs, wisdom of Solomon, that are considered to contain wisdom. |
| Wisdomless | adj | Lacking wisdom, enlightment, judgement, common sense, insight. |
| Wisdom-tooth | n | The popular name for the third molar in each jaw. 2. each of four hindmost molars not usuallu cut before 20 years of age. |
| Wisdomwise | adv | Towards or leaning towards wisdom. |
| Wise | n | A way or manner of doing or being "in no wise","in this wise" |
| Wise | adj | Improperly forward or bold; fresh, impertinent, impudent,insulting. 2. evidencing the possession of inside information. 3. marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; judicious. 4. having or prompted by wisdom or discernment, perceptive. |
| Wise | sfx | Forming adjectives and adverbs of manner. |
| Wise | phr | "Be None the Wiser" - knowing no more than previous. |
| Wise | phr | "Be Wise to" - know about (the implications of ) something/somebody. |
| Wise | phr | "Get Wise to" - become aware of |
| Wise | phr | "In No Wise" - not at all. |
| Wise | phr | "Put Somebody Wise" - inform somebody. |
| Wise | phr | "The Wise Learn Many Things from their Foes" - it is important to know the ways of ones enemies. |
| Wise | phr | "Wise Head on a Young Shoulders" - one wise beyund their years. |
| Wise | phr | "Wise Up" - come to your senses; become aware of the gravity of the situation or your own predicament. 2. become aware of the true nature of something. |
| Wise | phr | "Without Anyone being the Wiser" - undetected. |
| Wiseacre | n | A person who affects a wise manner; a wiseling. |
| Wise apple | n | A person who affects a wise manner. |
| Wise ass | n | A person who is irritating because they behave as if they know everything; a wise arse. |
| Wisehead | n | A person who is wise or who considers himself/ herself to be wise and smart. |
| Wisehearted | adj | Wise, knowing, skilful. |
| Wiselike | adj | Resembling or seemingly that, who or which is wise, sensible or judicious. 2. having one wits about oneself. |
| Wiseling | n | One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a know-all. |
| Wisely | adv | In a wise manner; using good judgement. |
| Wiseman | n | A wizard, esp, one of the magi. |
| Wisen | vb | To become dry, shrunken, wrinkled, as a result of aging or failing vitality. |
| Wiseness | n | The quality of being a prudent and sensible. 2. the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight. |
| Wise saw | n | A proverbial saying. |
| Wise woman | n | A fortune-teller; a witch. |
| Wish | vb | Invoke upon; express a wish for. 2. make or express a wish. 3.hope for; have a w ish. 4. feel or express a desire or hope concerning the future or fortune of prefer or wish to do something. |
| Wish | n | The particular preference that you have. 2. (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare. 3. an expression of some desire or inclination. 4. a specific feeling of desire. |
| Wish | phr | "Best Wishes (to)" - hopes felt or felt for happiness of another. |
| Wish | phr | "Have a Death Wish" - the contemplation of action so foolish that it is likely to lead to utter failure. |
| Wish | phr | "The Wish Is the Father of Thought" - one thinks that something is true or likely, because one wishes it to be so; wishful thinking. |
| Wish | phr | "Wish Away" - get rid of something by wishing it did not wxist. |
| Wish | phr | "Wish for" - desire, long to have, something which is difficult to obtain or cn only have by good fortune. |
| Wish | phr | "Wish On" - to impose something unpleasant on someone (a person). |
| Wish | phr | "Wish One Farther" - to prefer one's room to the company of others; to wish one gone. |
| Wish | phr | "Wish that the Ground Would Swallow Him/Her Up" - be so embarrassed or ashamed, that all one wants to do is disappear from sight. |
| Wish | phr | "Wish Somebody Ill" - hope that somebody will have good luck during their life. |
| Wish | phr | "Wish Somebody Well" - give somebody best wishes for their health, happiness; that somebody will achieve success. 2. hope that somebody will not have good luck during their life. |
| Wish | phr | "Wish to God That" - wish, hope, emphatically or, earnestly that something would happen. |
| Wish | phr | "Wish You Were Here" - I would enjoy your companyand would enjoy the scenery, circumstances etc if you were here now. |
| Wishbone | n | The furcula or wishing-bone in the breast of a fowl; sometimes pull asunder by two persons, the one holding the larger portion being to have his/her wish. |
| Wisher | n | One who wishes or has a wish. |
| Wishful | adj | Desiring, wishing. 2. having or expressing a wish. |
| Wishfully | adv | In a desiring, longing, wishing manner. |
| Wishfulness | n | Having or expresing a wish or longing. |
| Wishful thinking | n | Persuading oneself that something is true, or will or could happen, because it is what you would like (the wish is the father of the thought) |
| Wishly | adv | In a wishing manner |
| Wishiness | n | The state of wishing or having a wish. |
| Wishing | n | A feeling that one would like to have or do something or see something happen. 2. a desire, longing or strong inclination for a specified thing. |
| Wishing-rod | n | In folklore, magic articles associated with the power of realizing one's wishes. |
| Wishing-well | n | A well into which a coin is dropped and a wish is made. |
| Wish list | n | A mental list of wishes or desires. |
| Wisly | adv | OE gewiss: certain, sure; really, truly, indeed. |
| Wisscraft | n | Science; wissencraft. |
| Wisse | vb | OE wissian: to direct, instruct, guide, rule, show, point out, make known. |
| Wist | vb | OE witan, to know, be aware. |
| Wistful | adj | (A form of wish): wishful, longing. 2. musing, pensive. |
| Wistless | adj | Inattentive, unobservant. |
| Wit | n | The senses, intellect, brainpower, mental perceptions, reason. |
| Wit | phr | "At One's Wit's End" - out of patience; in a state of despair. 2. baffled, perplexed with what to do. |
| Wit | phr | "Have One's Wits about Them" - be alert and careful. |
| Wit | phr | "Live by or on One's Wits" - survive using cunning, one's mental ability, rather than by hard work. |
| Wit | phr | "Out of One's Wits" - mad, distracted. |
| Wit | phr | "The Five Wits" - the five senses, usually the five bodily senses; often vaguely, the perceptions or mental faculties generally. |
| Wit | phr | "To Wit" - that is, namely; (more)specifically); that is to say, as follows. |
| Wit | phr | "Wit and Wisdom" - quickness of mind and sagacity; especially seen as an idea combination of qualities in a worker, speaker or writer. |
| Witan | n | The members of the national council in Anglo-Saxon times. 2. the council itself, in full 'the witanagemot' 2. transfig. of modern parliaments or other deliberative assemblies, also spelt - 'witenagemot.' |
| Wit-and-wisdom | adj | Intelligence, mental quickness and sagacity |
| Witch | n | A being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil. 2. witch a female sorcerer or magician. 3. an ugly evil-looking old woman. 4. a believer in Wicca |
| Witch | vb | To practice witchcraft, to use sorcery or enchantment. 2. to effect (a person)with witchcraft or sorcery. 3. to put a spell on someone; cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something. 4. to influence as by witchcraft; to enchant, charm, change by witchcraft. 5. to use enchanting wiles, to practice fascination. |
| Witch | n | Applied gen. and vaguely to various trees and plants having pliant branches; also spelt 'wych.' |
| Witch | phr | "Riding of The Witch." - a popular phrase for the nightmare (witch riding). |
| Witch | phr | "Waking a Witch" - if a witch would not confess to her 'crimes,' the most effectual way of obtaining a confession was by what was termed 'waking her.' A iron bridle or hop was bound acroos her face with prongs thrust into her mouth ; this was fastened to a wall in such a manner that the accused was unable to lie down ; and the men were constantly there to keep her awake, someties for several days. |
| Witch | phr | "The Witches' Sabbath" - a midnight meeting of witches, demons, etc., supposed to be held annually. |
| Witch | phr | "Witching Time of Night" - midnight to an hour or so before dawn, when it was once thought that witches were most active. |
| Witchcraft | n | The practice of sorcery. 3. the use of magic, sorcery. 4. bewitching charm. |
| Witchcrafter | n | One who practices sorcery, magic, etc. |
| Witchdom | n | Witchcraft, the realm of witches. |
| Witched | adj | Influenced by witchcraft; that is under a magical spell. 2. possessed by magical powers. 3. full of witches. |
| Witches-besom | n | Tufted branches produced by fungi on the silver-fir, birch. 2. witches' broom. |
| Witches-ring | n | A circle of rank grass in a meadow , caused by a fungus; a fairy-ring. |
| Witch-finder | n | One who sought out witches and delivered them to the authorities for trial. |
| Witch-hunt | n | Persecution of somebody whose beliefs and or opinions are different or unacceptable to the majority. |
| Witch-hunter | n | Someone who identifies and punishes people for their opinions. |
| Witch-hunting | n | Stories of witches and witch-hunting in early modern Europe have captivated us for centuries. During the early modern period of European history, stretching from roughly 1450 to about 1750, about 100,000 people—most of them women—were tried for the crime of witchcraft. About half of these people were executed, in most cases by burning at the stake. But witchcraft is more than just a Halloween story–for the men and women involved it was a very real, very frightening aspect of daily life. |
| Witchily | adv | In a witchy manner. 2. of or pertaining to witches. 3. characterristic of witches; witchlike. |
| Witchiness | n | The state or quality of being witchy. |
| Witching | n | Witchcraft; sorcery. |
| Witching | adj | Having power to enchant; weird; bewitching, fascinating. |
| Witching | adj | That castes spells, enchanting, bewitching. 2. of or belonging to witchcraft. 3. concerned with the power of witchcraft or sorcery. |
| Witching | phr | "Witching Time of Night" - midnight to an hour or so before dawn, when it was once thought that witches were most active. |
| Witchlike | n | Being or having the characteristic of witches and witchcraft. |
| Witchling | n | A young witch. |
| Witchlore | n | The study of witches and witchcraft. |
| Witchman | n | A wizard. |
| Witchmonger | n | One who has dealing with witches or believes in, or practices witchcraft.. |
| Witch's Milk | n | Witch's milk or neonatal milk is milk secreted from the breasts of some newborn human infants of either sex. Neonatal milk secretion is considered a normal physiological occurrence and no treatment or testing is necessary. Neonatal milk production may be also sometimes caused by medications. |
| Witchweed | n | A small parsitic plant which attaches itself to the roots of other plants. Native to tropic areas, it causes serious damage to crops, such as maize and sugar. |
| Witchy | adj | Having the nature of or the characteristics of a witch. 2. characteristic or suggestive of a witch. |
| Witcraft | n | The art of using one's wit or intellect in reasoning: logic. 2. the exercise of one's wit. |
| Wite | n | A wiseman, sage, councilor, esp. one of the witan. 2. a witan. |
| Wite | n | Punishment, penalty, pain inflicted in punishment or torture; esp. the torture of hell (hell-wite). 2. in Anglo-Saxon law, a fine imposed for certain offences or priveleges, often as a second element in words such as "blood-wite", "ferd-wite." "lair-wite" 3. blame, reproach, blame-worthiness, fault. 5. source or origin of blame. 6. the person or thing that is blamed. 7. offence, trepass, wrong. |
| Wite | vb | To impute the guilt, or lay the blame of something to or upon a person, his actions, conduct on, or character on a thing, condition or event. 2. to impute guilt or fault to, blame (a person). 3. to blame a person for doing so-and-so. 4. to lay the fault or blame upon (a thing). |
| Wite | vb | To keep safe, guard, preserve, defend. 2. to take care of. 3. to see observed. |
| Wite | vb | To go away, depart, perish, vanish. |
| Wite-free | adj | Free from punishment, penalty, pain. 2. free from blame, fault, wrong. |
| Witeless | adj | Blameless. |
| Witen | vb | To impute, blame. |
| Witenagemot | n | Also eee 'Witan.' The anglo-saxon national assembly of higher clerics and laymen (Aldermen, Thegns, etc) which gave advice and consent on legislation, taxation, important judicial matters, etc., and which formaly elected a new king. Witan is OE for wisw men (connected with wit, knowledge); gemote is 'ge' together; moot, meet hence 'an assembly of wise men'. |
| Witereden | n | (Wit & rede): a fine erroneously applied by antiquaries as a royal imposition or aid. |
| Wit-fire | n | "Fyrwit" - curiosity. |
| Witful | adj | Wise, sagacious. 2. full of wit (in modern sense). |
| With | prn | Denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like. In this sense, common in Old English, it is now obsolete except in a few compounds; as, withhold; withstand; and after the verbs fight contend struggle, and the like. 2. to attribute something to him.
3. to denote a close or direct relation of opposition or hostility; -- equivalent to against. to denote a connection of friendship, support, alliance, assistance, countenance, etc.; hence, on the side of. 4. to denote association in respect of situation or environment; hence, among; in the company of. 5.to denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast. 6. to denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune. 7. to denote simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. 8. to denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; -- sometimes equivalent to by. 9. with to make the acquaintance of |
| With | pfx | Against. 2. back away. |
| With | phr | "Be With Somebody" - support somebody, or understand somebody. |
| With | phr | "Do With One's Hand Tied Behind One's Back" - do something when severely restricted. 2. do something easily, although severely restricted. |
| With | phr | "With All One's Might" - using all one's physical strength, mental or nervous energy, power of concentration, powers of persuasion etc; with might and main. |
| With | phr | "With and With" - immediate, forthwith, by and by. 2. from time to time; again and again, every now and then. 3. with that, with which, where with. 4. to the time that, until. 5. during or at the time that. 6. while, when. |
| With | phr | "With an Eye To/ Towards" - have an objective , goal, consideration to. |
| With | phr | "With a Will" - with willingness, determination and energy. |
| With | phr | "With Bells On" - enthusiastically, with enthusiasm. |
| With | phr | "With Child" - pregnant. |
| With | phr | "With God's Help/Blessing" - thought to be with divine approval of blessing |
| With | phr | "With God's Will" - everything happens in you want it. |
| With | phr | "With It" - aware of modern trends and/or fashion. 2. be with it. |
| With | phr | "With Might and Main" - using all one's physiacl strength, mental or nervous energy, etc; with all one's might. |
| With | phr | "With No Further Ado" - without fuss, or delay; immediately. |
| With | phr | "With No Strings Binding" - with no limits restricting its use. |
| With | phr | "With One's Hand Tied Behind One's Back" - trying to do something when one is severely restricted. |
| With | phr | "With One's Head Held High" - displaying pride and confidence, often (but not always) when something has gone wrong. |
| With | phr | "With One's Little Hot Hands" - an expression used to emphasize that you have obtained something you were seeking with eager. |
| With | phr | "With Open Arms" - enthusiastically, as if embracing. |
| With | phr | "With the Best Of Them" - to do something, ably, efficiently, as the best practitioners of the art, skill or trade. |
| With | phr | "With the Best Will in the World" - however good one's intentions are, or how hard one tries, and even if one is so well disposed as possible. |
| With | phr | "With the Lord" - died, deceased, passed away. |
| With | phr | "With the Wisdom of Hindsight" - with, helped by, understanding the nature of the event only possible after they have occurred. |
| With | phr | "With Young" -with child, pregnant. |
| Withal | adv | With the rest; in addition. |
| Withal | prp | With; intensive form used after the object and at the end of a clause. |
| With-bear | vb | To carry away. |
| Withbind | n | Woodruff. |
| With-blow | vb | To blow away. |
| With-buy | vb | To redeem. |
| With-child | vb | To get with child; make pregnant. |
| With-clepe | vb | To recall, revoke, repeal. |
| Withdraught | vb | Withdraw from (an action); fine or fee imposed for this. |
| Withdraught | n | A place of retirement. 2. a retreat, a private chamber, closet, recess. 3. a privy, a sewer. |
| Withdraw | vb | To draw back, retire. |
| Withdraw | vb | To pull out or take aside. 2. discontinue, cancel, retract. 3. remove, take away. 4. take money out of an account. 5. retire, go away, move away, move back. |
| Withdraw | phr | "Withdraw from" - move back from because of threat of defeat, retreat from. 2. no longer take part in. |
| Withdrawer | n | One who withdraws. |
| Withdrawing | n | The action of withdrawing. |
| Withdrawing | adj | That withdraws, drawing back, retreating, receding. |
| Withdrawingly | adv | In a manner of drawing back, retire, go away. |
| Withdrawn | adj | Abnormally shy and unsociable, mentally detached. |
| Withdrawnness | n | The state or condition of withdrawing. |
| With-drive | vb | To repel. |
| Withe | n | A band, tie, shackle consisting of a tough, pliable, flexible twig or branch. |
| Withe | vb | To twist like a with. 2. to bind with a with. |
| Wither | n | Opposition, hostility, adversity. |
| Wither | vb | Etymology: apparently a variant of weather, ultimately differentiated for certain senses. 2. to become dry and shrivel. 2. wither away. |
| Wither | prf | Against, in opposition or hostility, anti. |
| Wither | vb | To be hostile, resist, fight, struggle against, oppose. |
| Wither | adj | Hostile, adverse, fierce. 2. contrary, opposite, wrong-side. |
| Wither | adv | Adversely, hostilely, perversely, fiercely. |
| Wither | phr | "Wither Away" - to become dry and shrivelled. 2. die, pass away gradually disappear. |
| Wither-Christ | n | The Devil; The Anti-Christ; satan, lucifer, shuck. |
| Withered | adj | Shriveled, seared, dried out, shrinking. |
| Witheredness | n | The state or condition of being withered. |
| Witherer | n | One who is withered and wizened. |
| Wither-fight | vb | To oppose, fight against, stand against. |
| Witherful | adj | Hostile, wicked, evil. 2. bold, valiant. |
| Witherfulness | n | Wickedness, state or condition of being hostile, evil, wicked etc. |
| Wither-hooked | adj | Barbed. |
| Withering | adj | Scornful, contemptuous, |
| Witheringly | adv | In a scornful manner. |
| Witherling | n | An adversary. |
| Withername | n | from Old English wiþernām (“seizure”, literally “a take-back”), from Old Norse viðrnam, equivalent to wither- (“against”) + nim. More at wither, nim. 2. (law) a second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal. Chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return. |
| Withers | phr | "With One's Unwrung" - one does not free any distress, sorrow or pity (when one might expected to feel such distress etc) |
| Withersake | n | An adversary, enemy, foe. |
| Withershins | n | Old English wiþersīenes ??? (“backwards, withershins”): in a direction opposite to the sun's course; anticlockwise; widdershins. |
| Wither-thede | n | Enemy, foe. |
| Witherward | adv | In an opposite direction. 2. opposition or opposition. |
| Wither-wardness | n | Hostility, enmity. |
| Witherwards | adj | Hostile, inimical. |
| Witherwise | adv | In an opposite direction. 2. otherwise. |
| Withfall | n | A chance, casualty, accident, symptom. |
| With-fore | vb | To escape |
| Withgo | vb | To oppose, go against, act in opposition to, oppose. 2. to pass away. 3. to be possessed with. 4. to go with someone else. 5. to forgo. |
| With-gone | vb | To disappear, vanish, |
| With-hate | vb | To despise, loath. |
| With-hill | vb | To cover, conceal. |
| With-hold | vb | To hold back; restrain. 2. to keep back; decline to grant. 3. restrain, forbear. |
| With-holder | n | One who withholds. |
| Withholding | n | The act or action to hold back, restrain, keep back. |
| Within | adv | Inside; to, at, or on the inside, internally. 2. indoors. 3. in spirit: pure within. |
| Within | prp | Inside, enclosed, contained. 2. not beyond or exceed. 3. not transgressing. not further of than. |
| Within | phr | "Within forth" - everywhere, within, internally, through-out, wither. |
| Within | phr | "Within Reach of" - near enough to be reached. |
| Within | phr | "Within Sight of" - near enough to be reached. |
| With-in-doors | adv | Inside a building; in or into a house. |
| Withinside | n | The inner part of. |
| Withinside | adv | On the inner side, within a inner point or interior. 2. within the limits. |
| Within-sides | n | Inside. |
| Withinwards | adv | To the interior. |
| With-it | adj | Slang: fashionable, up-to-date, modern; swinging. 2. aware, mentally alert. |
| With-it-ness | n | The state or quality of being fashionable, modern, up-to-date. |
| Withness | n | The fact of being with some one or something. 2. collocation, association. |
| Without | prp | On or at the outside of; out of; not within, beyond, in the compass of, out of the limits of; destitute of; exempt from; all but. |
| Without | adv | On the outside; out of doors. |
| Without | conj | Except, unless. |
| Without | phr | "Do or Go Without" - go without without; not have. |
| Without | phr | "Without Day" - sine die. |
| Without | phr | "Without Further Ado" - without delay, fuss, or hesitation. |
| Without | phr | "Without a One Word" - without making any comment, explanation, or compliant. |
| Without | phr | "Without a Word of a Lie" - what I'm telling you, describing, is absolutely true, however unlikely it seems. |
| Without | phr | "Without So Much As" - without even so much as. |
| Without'dom | n | The state of being without, lacking or in need. |
| Withoutwards | adv | Towards the interior or inner part. |
| With-quethe | vb | To deny, contradict, refuse. |
| Withsake | vb | To contend, dispute, deny. |
| Withsaw | n | Withsaying, maxim, proverb. |
| Withsay | vb | To renounce. 2. to affirm the contrary of, contradict (a fact or a statement). 3. to deny the existence of. 3. to make a denial or contradiction of. 4. to utter by way of contradiction. 6. to speak or act against, oppose, resist. 7. to disallow, forbid, refuse to do or perform. 8. to decline to grant or allow, to refuse. |
| Withsayer | n | A gainsayer, opponent. |
| Withsaying | n | A contradiction,oposition, gainsaying. |
| Withset | vb | To oppose, to resist, withstand. 2. to prevent from doing something. |
| Withshadow | vb | To darken with a shadow |
| With-shield | vb | To protect or shield against. |
| With-shunt | vb | To shrink away or back. |
| Withsit | vb | To oppose, resist, withstand. 2. to prevent, ward off. |
| Withsitting | n | Opposition, resistance, stand against. |
| Withstand | vb | To propose with any force; resist successfully. 2. to make resistance. |
| Withstander | n | A person who withstands or resists; an opponent |
| Withstanding | n | The action of resisting, opposing, warding off. |
| Withstay | vb | To hold back, oppose, withstand. |
| With-tell | vb | To gainsay. |
| Withwilled | adj | Having an opposing stance or will. |
| With-worker | n | Fellow worker, co-worker. |
| Wit-hood | n | Wisdom, understanding, sagacity; withood. |
| Withy | n | A rope made of withes. 2. a withe. |
| Withy | adj | Made of withe; flexible and tough. |
| Witie | vb | To prophesize. 2. to keep guard, protect. |
| Witiend | n | A prophet. |
| Witieng | n | Prophecy. |
| Witier | n | Protector, guardian. |
| Witing | n | Custody, the keep. |
| Witingly | adv | In the custody of. |
| Witless | adj | Lacking in wit; foolish. |
| Witlessly | adv | Foolishly, stupidly. |
| Witlessness | n | Senseless folly, stupidity, foolishness. |
| Witling | n | A wit, pretender to wit who utters light or weak, feeble witticisms. 2. a persion who has little wit or understanding. |
| Wit-lost | n | Loss of intellectual comprehension. |
| Wit-monger | n | A dealer in wit; a witmonger. 2. an utterer of witty sayings and humour. |
| Witness | n | A person who sees an event, typically a crime or accident, take place. 2. observer, onlooker, looker-on, eyewitness, spectator, viewer, watcher; bystander, passer-by;
earwitness. 3. a person giving sworn testimony to a court of law or the police. 4. attestor, testifier; deponent. 5. a person who is present at the signing of a document and signs it themselves to confirm this. 6. evidence; proof, evidence, indication, proof, testimony used to refer to confirmation or evidence given by signature. 7. open profession of one's religious faith through words or actions. 8. a line or remnant of an original surface on a workpiece to show how much material has been removed or the shape of the original outline. |
| Witness | vb | To see (an event, typically a crime or accident) happen. 2. observe, watch, look on at, be a witness to, view, note, notice, spot; be present at, attend; literally behold.. 3. be present as someone signs (a document) or gives (their signature) to a document and sign it oneself to confirm this. 4. countersign, sign, endorse, validate; notarize certificate, document. 5. have knowledge of (a development) from observation or experience |
| Witness | phr | "Bear Witness" - attest the truth of. 2. state one's belief. |
| Witness | phr | "Be Eye Witness" - someone who present at and sees an incident. |
| Witness | phr | "Be Witness to" - somebody who is present at aand sees an incident. |
| Witness | phr | "Call to Witness" - appeal to for confirmation etc. |
| Witness box | n | An enclosure in a law court from which witnesses gie evidence. |
| Witnessly | adv | In the maner or way resembling a witness. |
| Witnessless | n | Without having a witness. |
| Witness stand | n | An enclosed area in a courtroom where witness gives ther evidence. |
| Witrife | adj | Abounding in cunning, knowledge, alertness. |
| Wits | n | The senses, intellect, brainpower, reason. |
| Wits | phr | "The Five Wits" - the five senses, usually the five bodily senses; often vaguely, the perceptions or mental faculties generally. |
| Wits | phr | "Be at One's Wits End" - be overwhelmed with problemsand at a loss to know what to do. |
| Witship | n | Witness, testimony, knowledge. |
| Witship | n | Used with a possessive pronoun as a fanciful person, as "Your Witship." |
| Witted | adj | Having wit; as quiked witted; half-witted. |
| Wittedness | n | Having wit or intellectual comprehension; keen-witted. |
| Witter | vb | To speak foolishly or on trivial matters. |
| Wittering | n | Foolish speaking on trivial matters. |
| Wittily | adv | In a manner characterized by quick and inventive verbal humor. |
| Wittiness | n | The quality or character of being witty, intelligent, sagacity, cleverness, ingenuity, wisdom. 2. good sense. |
| Witting | n | The fact of knowing or being aware of something; knowledge, cognizance. 2. knowledge obtained, communicated information, intelligence, tidings, notice, warning. |
| Wittingly | adv | In a witty manner; in a manner characterized by wit. 2. intelligently, cleverly, skillfully, ingeniously. 3. wisely, discreetly, sensibly. 4. in a clever, amusing way, smartly, jocosely. 4. with knowledge or awareness of what one is doing. |
| Wittiness | n | The quality of being willing. |
| Witty | adj | Having wisdom, wise; endowed with reason, rational. 2. of humans- having good judgement or discernment, wise, sagacious, discreet, prudently sensible. 3. having (good) intellectual ability, intelligent,knowing, learned, being knowledgable, ingenious, skillful, expert, capable. 4. in an unfavourable sense: crafty, cunning, wily, artifice; skillful in contriving evil. 5. foolishly ingenious in devising something to one's own hurt. |
| Witworm | n | One, who , or that which, feeds on or destroys wit. |
| Wit-worship | n | Worship devised by human 'wit' or intellect without divine authority or sanction. |
| Wit-would-be | n | A pretender to wit. 2. a would be-wit; a wit-if-he could be. |
| Wit-wright | n | A master of wit; a witwright. 2. an author of witty sayings. |
| Wive | vb | To take a wife, marry, wed. 2. to become a wife, become the wife of, obtain, act as a wife. 3. to furnish with a wife, obtain a wife for, to matchmake for a wife. 4. to marry to a wife. |
| Wiven | adj | Womanly, feminine, wifely. |
| Wiver | n | One who takes a wife. |
| Wiving | n | The action of the verb, "to wive" - taking a wife, marrying, wedding, obtaining a wife, furnish with a wife. |
| Wizen | vb | To cause to dry, wither, wilt, shrivel. 2. to become dry, shriveled, withered. |
| Wizen | adj | Of plants: to dry up, shrivel, wilt, wither. 2. of things: dried up, withered, shriveled. 3. of persons, animals - their features: shrunken and dried up, thin and shriveled. 5. of the throat: parched, dry. |
| Wizelful | adj | Magical, sorcerous, deceitful. |
| Wizeling | n | The art or practice of magic, sorcery, wizardry. |
| Wizened | adj | Shrunken, withered, shriveled-looking or dried up. |
| Wizenedness | n | State or condition of being wizened: dried, dried up, shriveled, withered, parched dry. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Woad | n | A herb used anciently "Isatis tinctoria" of the mustard family; dyer's weed. 2. the blue dyestuff obtained from its leaves. |
| Woaded | adj | Dyed or coloured blue by woad. |
| Woaden | adj | Bluish purplish in colour. |
| Woader | n | One who dyes with woad; a dyer. |
| Woading | n | The practice, activity or occupation of dyeing with woad, |
| Woad-waxen | n | The plant "Dyer's Broom" also wood-waxen. |
| Woden | n | The Old English mname for Odin. |
| Woe | n | Grief, sorrow, misery, heavy calamity. 2. curse, malediction. 3. misery resulting from affliction. 3. intense mournfulness. |
| Woe | adj | Woeful, sorrowful, calamitious. |
| Woe | phr | "Do or Work Woe" - to inflict or wrought distress, trouble upon. |
| Woe | phr | "Woe Betide You." - you will get into trouble if... 2. there will be unfortunate consequences for. |
| Woe | phr | "Woe Is Me" - an exclamation of distress. |
| Woe-begetting | adj | "The natural progeny of a woe-begetting parent." |
| Woe-be-gone | adj | Overcome with woe, mournful, sorrowful; doleful, downcast, miserable. 2.in a deplorable state. 2. filled with or deeply affected by woe. 3. dilapidated, despondent, melancholy, miserable, sad, depressed, miserable. |
| Woe-begoneness | n | State or quality of being overcome with sorrow, affected by woe etc. |
| Woe-begonish | adj | Of a countenance: somewhat trouble or distressed. |
| Woe-boding | n | "The raven with it's woe-boding tone." - portends of woe. |
| Woe-day | n | A day marked by misery, calamity, disastrous, etc. 2. doomsday; armegeddon. |
| Woefare | n | The opposite of welfare. |
| Woe-foreboding | adj | A sign of imminent evil, misery, calamity. |
| Woeful | adj | Full of woe, sorrowful, distress, grief or calamity. 2. bringing calamity, distress or affliction. 3. wretched, poor, paltry. |
| Woefully | adv | In a woeful manner. |
| Woefulness | n | Quality or state of sadness, misery. |
| Woe-hearted | adj | Afflicted by woe and sadness. |
| Woe-less | adj | Free from woe. |
| Woemonger | n | "Woe-news is good news for the woe-monger, whose stock-in-trade is misery, suffering, and misfortune. |
| Woeness | n | Grief, sorrow. |
| Woesome | adj | Woeful. |
| Woe-sprung | adj | "Woe-sprung Tears" - tears of misery, grief and sorrow. |
| Woe-struck | adj | Strickened or afflicted by woe. |
| Woe-thing | n | An experience or misfortune, misery, distress. |
| Woe-wearied | adj | Wearied and made tired by constant affliction and distress. 2. woe-worn. |
| Woe-wedded | adj | In a state of wedded or marital unhappiness or unbliss. |
| Woe-whelmed | adj | Engulfed or turned upside down by woe, distress or grief |
| Woe-word | n | Word bearing a sorrowful, distress or grief. |
| Woe-worn | adj | Worn down, tired out by woe. |
| Woe-wrinkled | adj | A brow wrinkled or furrowed by woe and worry. |
| Woke | adj | See "Weak" and "Wake" |
| Wokeness | n | Weakness |
| Wold | n | Forest, forest land, wooded upland; woodland. 2. a hill, down, berg, fell. 3. a piece of open country. 4. a plain, the ground. 5. the earth, the planet. 6. in later use: an elevated tract of open country or . 7. rolling upland. 8. in specific designation of certain hilly tracts in England, as "The Yorkshire Wolds." |
| Wolder | n | A wold dweller, especially an inhabitant of the Yorkshire Wolds. |
| Wold-mouse | n | The field-mouse; the vole. |
| Wolf | n | Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs. 2. a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women, woman chaser, skirt chaser. 3. a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat. 2. a term used in forestry for a tree that grown faster than the surrounding trees and attained a greater height. |
| Wolf | vb | To eat hastily; "the man wolfed down the pizza"; wolf down. |
| Wolf | phr | "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing." - a person who conceals malicious intentions. |
| Wolf | phr | "Be a Lone Wolf." - to remain alone, by oneself, solitary, to keep to oneself. 2. a person who prefers to act without involving others. |
| Wolf | phr | "Be in a Wolf Mouth." - to be in great danger. |
| Wolf | phr | "Be Thrown To the Wolves." - to sacrifice someone to save your own skin." |
| Wolf | phr | "Between Dog and Wolf" - neither daylight or dark. |
| Wolf | phr | "Dark as a Wolf's Mouth" - pitch black. |
| Wolf | phr | "Have/Hold a Wolf by the Ears." - to put oneself into a precarious position. |
| Wolf | phr | "He Has Seen a Wolf" - something has frightened him/her; formerly said of one who has lost his voice. our forefathers believed if a a man saw a wolf before the wolf saw him, he would become dumb at least for a while. To see a wolf was also a good time inasmuch as the wolf was dedicated to Odin, the giver of victory. |
| Wolf | phr | "He Put His Head Into the Wolf's Mouth" - to expose oneself to needless danger. The allusion was to Aesop's fable of the crane who put his head into a wolf's mouth in order to take out a bone. |
| Wolf | phr | "I Seen a Wolf." - to become tongue-tied; to lose one's ability to answer, lose one voice in a tense or confrontational situation. |
| Wolf | phr | "Keep the Wolf from the Door." - to avoid or avert hunger, need and imminent trouble. |
| Wolf | phr | "Throw to the Wolves" - sacrifice someone (figuratively) without compunction. |
| Wolf | phr | "Wake Not a Sleeping Wolf" - to invite trouble into one's life. Let sleeping dogs lie. #. leave well alone. |
| Wolf | phr | "Wolf Down" - to eat hastily, hungrily or greedily. |
| Wolf | phr | "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" - a hostile or evil person who pretends friendship, but is really an enemy. |
| Wolf-bane | n | Aconitum lycotonum, wolfwort. |
| Wolf-berry | n | Wolfberry, Goji, goji berry, or (pinyin: gǒuqǐ) is the fruit of either the Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense, two closely related species of boxthorn in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. The family also includes the potato, tomato, eggplant, belladonna, chili pepper, and tobacco. The two species are native to Asia. |
| Wolfdog | n | A wolfdog (also called a wolf–dog hybrid or wolf hybrid) is a canid hybrid resulting from the hybridization of a domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) to one of four other Canis sub-species, the gray (Canis lupus), eastern timber (Canis lycaon), red (Canis rufus), and Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis). |
| Wolfdom | n | The realm or domain of the wolf. |
| Wolfen | n | A she-wolf; a wolfess. |
| Wolfhood | n | The state and time of being a wolf. |
| Wolf hound | n | A dog of various breeds originally developed to hunt wolves. |
| Wolfish | adj | Of or pertaining to a wolf or wolves. 2. characteristic of, befitting or resembling a wolf. 3. wolvish. |
| Wolfishly | adv | In a wolfish manner. |
| Wolfishness | n | State or condition of resembling a wolf. |
| Wolfkin | n | The wolf family collectively. |
| Wolfland | n | An old, former nickname for Ireland. |
| Wolflessness | n | The state of not having a wolf at your door. |
| Wolflike | adj | Characteristic of or resembling a wolf in some aspect. |
| Wolfling | n | A little or young wolf. |
| Wolfly | adv | In a wolfly or lupine manner. |
| Wolfman | n | A male werewolf or lycanthrope. |
| Wolf month | n | January, the month dedicated to Janus by the Romans. The Saxon knew it as Wulf-monath, because wolves were very troublesome then from the great scarcity of food. After the introduction of Christianity it became known as After-yule month. In other West Germanic languages it was called "Frosty-month. |
| Wolf moon | n | The first Full Moon of the year is named after howling wolves. In some cultures, it was known as Old Moon, Ice Moon, Snow Moon, and the Moon after Yule. ... The Wolf Moon on the night between 1 and 2 January 2018 is a Super Moon. See: "Blood-moon, Ice moon, Old moon, Hunger moon. |
| Wolfness | n | January, the month dedicated to Janus by the Romans.The state or quality of being a wolf. |
| Wolfsbane | n | A plant of the genus Aconitum, esp. Aconitum lycoctonum; wolf-bane, wolf's-wort. |
| Wolf's milk | n | A spurge, esp. the sun spurge (Euphorbia heliscopia). |
| Wolf spider | n | Any ground-dwelling spider of the family lycosidae, hunting instead of trapping =its prey. |
| Wolf-whistle | n | A whistle of, two notes, by a man to signify physical attraction and sexual interest in a woman. |
| Wolf-whistle | vb | Of a man: to whistle to signify sexual interest in a woman. |
| Wolfwort | n | A plant of the genus Aconitum, esp. Aconitum lycoctonum; wolf-bane, wolf's-wort. 2. a plant of the genus periploca - the juice which was used to poison wolves. |
| Wolfy | adj | Wolf-like, characterized by, or suggestive of the presence of wolves. 2. ferocious, uncivilized, wild. |
| Wolve | vb | To behave like a wolf, play the wolf. 2. of an organ, to give forth a hollow or wailing sound like the howl of a wolf. |
| Wolven | adj | Of or pertaining to wolves; wolf-like; wolfish. |
| Wolven | n | One who is wolf-like in appearance or character. |
| Wolvish | adj | Wolfy: wolf-like, characterized by, or suggestive of the presence of wolves. 2. ferocious, uncivilized, wild. |
| Wolvishness | n | The nature or quality of a wolf characterised by ferociousness, wildness, etc. |
| Wolvy | adj | Wolfish, savage, wild, menacing. |
| Woman | n | To become woman-like. 2. to behave as a woman. 3. to be womanly. 4. to be subservience, weak. 5. to deprive of woman. 6. to furnish or provide with woman; to provide with a staff of woman. 7. to address as a woman. |
| Woman | n | The female human being (distinguished from man). 2. an adult female person. 3.
a female attendant to a lady of rank. 4. a wife. 5. the nature, characteristics, or feelings often attributed to women; womanliness. |
| Woman | vb | To put into the company of a woman. 2. to equip or staff with women. 3. obsolete . to cause to act or yield like a woman. |
| Woman | adj | Of women; womanly. 2. a female worker. |
| Woman | phr | "Be One's Own Woman" - a woman who is in control of her own life and destiny. 2. to be free from restrictions, control, or dictatorial influence |
| Woman | phr | "My Good Woman" - a patronizing form of address. |
| Woman | phr | "Woman Among Women" - a superior or remarkable woman who stands out from other women; a leader or exemplar for other women. |
| Woman | phr | "Woman of Few Words" - a womwn who does not speak too much and speaks only for a short period. |
| Woman | phr | "Woman of the Street" - a sex-worker, a prostitute, a frail |
| Woman | phr | "Woman of the Town" - a sex-worker, a prostitute, a frail. |
| Woman | phr | "Woman of the World." - pertaining to women universally. 2. a woman who is wise to worldly and carnal ways. 3. a sex-worker, a prostitute, a frail. |
| Woman | phr | "Woman on Woman" - (said of violence) perpetrated by a woman onto another woman. 2. (informal) involving sexual contact between women; lesbian. |
| Woman | phr | "Woman On the Street" - an ordinary woman from the general public (esp. one one who lacks special experience) |
| Woman | phr | "Woman-to-woman" - between women; one woman to another in various senses. |
| Woman-built | adj | Constructed, created or fashioned by a woman or women, as " a new-world babel - woman-built." |
| Woman-child | n | A female child. |
| Womandom | n | The realm of woman or woman-kind. |
| Womanfuly | adv | With womanly courage and perseverance, like a woman of spirit. |
| Woman-grown | adj | Grown to adult or womanhood. |
| Woman-hater | n | Misogynist. |
| Woman-hood | n | State or condition of being a woman. 2. state of being a grown woman. 3. the period of life after girlhood: the adult stage of a woman. 2. the disposition or character of woman; womanliness. |
| Woman-hunt | n | (rare) A search of a particular woman, usually one who is wanted for a particular crime. |
| Womanish | adj | Of or belonging to a woman or women. 2. used or done by a woman. 3. woman-like, resembling a woman, feminine. 4. liking or inclined to women. 5. to render womanish or effeminate. |
| Womanishly | adv | In a womanly manner or style. |
| Womanishness | n | The quality and state of being a woman. |
| Woman-kind | n | Female part of the human race. 2. the female sex; women in general. 3. female, female humanity, women. 4. women of the family. |
| Womanless | adj | Without a woman or women. 2. having no women. |
| Womanlike | adj | Resembling, like or characteristic of a woman in some aspects. |
| Womanliness | n | The quality of being womanly. 2. womanly of character. 3. effeminate. |
| Womanly | adv | In a womanly manner. 2. having or showing qualities associated with women. |
| Woman-man | n | An effeminate man, who resembles a woman. |
| Womanness | n | Womanliness. 2. the quality or character of being a woman. |
| Woman-on-woman | adj | (Said of violence) perpetrated by a woman onto another woman. 2. (informal) Involving sexual contact between women; lesbian |
| Woman's man | n | A lady's man, a womanizer. |
| Woman-queller | n | A woman killer. 2. slayer of women. |
| Womanshire | n | The domain or sphere of a woman or women. 2. womandom. |
| Woman-tied | adj | Hen-pecked. |
| Woman's woman | n | A woman whose qualities are appreciated by other women; a woman popular with other women. |
| Woman-worshipper | n | One who worship women in a religious way. 2. ardent love or extreme fondness for women. 3. a philogynist |
| Womb | n | The belly, the abdomen, bowels. 2.. the belly piece of a hide or skin. 3. the soul (A Vulgate translation). 4. a hollow cavity. |
| Womb | vb | To enclose as in a womb. 2. to cause to swell out. |
| Womb | phr | "The Womb of Time" - a place where something is generated. 2. an encompassing, protective hollow or space. 3. (obsolete) : the belly; uterus. |
| Womb | phr | "Womb to Doom" - from birth to death (fate). 2. from womb to tomb. 3. from cradle to grave. |
| Wombed | adj | Having a belly or womb. 2. great or big-bellied. 3. acpacious, cavernous. |
| Wombless | adj | Not having or lacking a womb. |
| Womblike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a womb in some aspect. |
| Womby | adv | Having a woman-like cavity, hollow. |
| Women | n | The plural of woman. |
| Women | phr | "Women and Children First" - the accepted order of precedence in rescue or relief work, especially evacuation of a sinking ship. |
| Women-folk | n | Women collectively woman-kind. 2. women of the house. |
| Womenish | adj | Pertaining to, characteristic of women. 2. somewhat women-like. |
| Women's rights | n | Rights that promote a position of legal and social equality of women and men. |
| Womenswear | n | Clothes for women |
| Won | vb | To inhabit, dwell, live in a place, stay. 2. to continue to remain (in a certain state, condition or way of life). 3. to have an existence, live. 4. to be accustomed to, to accustom a person to something. |
| Wonde | vb | To avoid, shun, refuse. 2. to shrink or flinch for fear. 3. hestitate, pull back, refrain. |
| Wonder | n | A marvel. 2. miracle. |
| Wonder | vb | To think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system. 2. to be filled with admiration, amazement, or awe; marvel (often followed by at): He wondered at her stupidity. 3. to doubt: I wonder if she'll really get here. 4.to speculate curiously or be curious about; be curious to know: to wonder what happened. 5. to feel wonder at: I wonder that you went. |
| Wonder | n | Something strange and surprising; a cause of surprise, astonishment, or admiration: that painting is a wonder. 2. the emotion excited by what is strange and surprising; a feeling of surprised or puzzled interest, sometimes tinged with admiration. 3. miraculous deed or event; remarkable phenomenon, a marvel, miracle. |
| Wonder | adj | Wondrous, marvelous, surprising, strange, astonishing, miraculous. |
| Wonder | adv | Wondrously, marvelously, surprisingly, exceedingly, very. |
| Wonder | phr | "A Gutless Wonder" - a coward; poltroon, timid and meek, weak when confronted. |
| Wonder | phr | "A Nine Day Wonder" - a subject that arouses general surprise of public interest for a small time. |
| Wonder | phr | "At a Wonder" - as the reverse of what one might experience. |
| Wonder | phr | "I Shouldn't Wonder." - one shouldn't be surprised. |
| Wonder | phr | "It's a Wonder" - it is surprising. 2. I think likely. |
| Wonder | phr | "It's little Wonder." - it's hardly surprising. |
| Wonder | phr | "I Wonder if You Mind (doing something)- please would you do (something). |
| Wonder | phr | "Seven Wonders of the World" - seven buildings and monuments regarded in antiquity as specially remarkable. |
| Wonder | phr | "No Small Wonder" - as expected. |
| Wonder | phr | "No Wonder." - I'm not surprised. |
| Wonder | phr | "The Wonder is." - the surprise is. |
| Wonder | phr | "Wonder At." - to be greatly surprised or curious about something or someone. 2. have wonder at. |
| Wonder | phr | Wonder of" - wonder about; be curious, ask oneself questions. |
| Wonder | phr | "Wonders Will Never End" - an exclamation of extreme surprise. |
| Wonder | phr | "Work Wonders" - do miracles. 2. succeed remarkably. |
| Wonder-bearing | adj | Producing wonder and miraculous things. |
| Wonder-berry | n | Solanum retroflexum, commonly known as Wonderberry or Sunberry, is a fruiting shrub. Both common names are also used for the sometimes poisonous European Black Nightshade (S. nigrum) in some places, particularly where the latter species has been introduced, so care must be taken to distinguish them. It is sometimes called Garden Huckleberry, but that properly refers to the Solanum. scabrum described by Philip Miller. As its old scientific name is still often seen, Solanum burbankii, indicates that, it is of hybrid origin. The plant was bred by Luther Burbank in the early 1900s and is a hybrid of S. villosum and S. guinense. 2. (slang) - marijuana, cannabis, weed. |
| Wonder bread | n | (An ethnic slur) synonym of white bread, a white person, a person of European descent. |
| Wonder-child | n | A wondrous off-spring, as Jesus. |
| Wonder-clout | n | Something showy, but worthless. |
| Wondercraft | n | Wondrous skill; miraculous powers. |
| Wonder-doing | n | Doing or performing things in a wonderful manner. 2. to achieve spectacularly fine results. |
| Wondered | adj | Marvel at, amazed at. |
| Wonderer | n | One who wonders, is amazed, astonished or perplexed. 2. the question '?' mark. |
| Wonder-father | n | "The Wonder Father" - God. |
| Wonderful | adj | Full of wonders, such as to excite wonder or astonishment; sometimes used trivially with the meaning surprising large, fine,excellent; great; marvelous: as a wonderful weekend. 3. of a sort that causes or arouses wonder; amazing; astonishing. 4. awesome, wondrous, miraculous, prodigious, astonishing, amazing, astounding, phenomenal, |
| Wonderful | n | "The Wonderful"- that which is wonderful. 2. wonderful things. |
| Wonderfully | adv | In a wonderful manner, usu. with wonder or admiration. |
| Wonderfulness | n | The quality of being filled with wonder. 2. wonderful character, marvelous. |
| Wonder-gem | n | The sun, the day's eye, heaven's or day's candle. Nb: "Gem" OE. loanword. |
| Wonder-helm | n | A crown. |
| Wonder-horn | n | Cornocupia or wonders, miracles, amazing things. |
| Wondering | n | An object of wonder, a very marvel, a prodigy. |
| Wondering | adj | The mental activity by which one wonders; a query, puzzlement, etc. 2. filled with wonder. |
| Wonderingly | adv | In a wondering manner, in or with wonder. |
| Wonderland | n | An imaginary realm or domain of wonder and faery. 2. a country, realm or domain, which is full of wonders and marvels. 3. land of wonder and marvel. 4. a scene of beauty and wonder |
| Wonderlandish | adj | Seemingly enchanted, marvelous, surpising. 2. perplexing somewhat. |
| Wonderless | adj | Destitute of wonder. |
| Wonderly | adv | In a wonderful manner, marvelously. 2. having a wonderful extent or degree. |
| Wonder-man | n | A man whose achievements are admired. |
| Wonder-monger | n | One who deals in wonders. 2. a wonder-worker or relater of wonders. |
| Wonder-mongering | n | The act or work of a wonder-monger. |
| Wonderness | n | State or condition of wonder. |
| Wonder-of-the-world | n | Ginseng. |
| Wonder-ridden | adj | Afflicted by wonder. |
| Wondersmith | n | God, the supreme being, the shapend, shaper, the almighty. 2. a smith who makes wondrous things or works of wondrous art. 3. a maker of things wondrous; a worker of miracles. 4. an illusionist. |
| Wonders | n | Things or persons who astonish, amaze or perplex. |
| Wondersome | adj | Wonderful, surprising, |
| Wonder-song | n | "The Wonder-song of Youth." - the idyllic age of youth, full of dreams and hope. |
| Wonderstone | n | A soft bluish-grey rock of volcanic origin found in South Africa that takes a high polish. |
| Wonder-stricken | adj | Suddenly stricken with wonder or admiration. |
| Wonder-struck | adj | Astonished, as in "wights overcome by the wonder of the world." |
| Wonder-tales | n | Legends, folk-stories, fairy tales. |
| Wonder-thing | n | A marvel, a wonder-work, a wonder thing, a miracle. 2. a surprise. |
| Wonder water | n | Steriods. |
| Wonder woman | n | A woman who seems wonderful or has wonderful qualities. 2. a woman who can be successful wife and have a professional career at the same time. |
| Wonder words | n | Glorious words, spoken by or in wondrous words. |
| Wonder-work | n | Miracle work, marvelous work, achievement or act. 2. a wonder work or structure. 3. a marvelous work or workmanship. |
| Wonder-worker | n | One who performs miracles or marvelous things, esp. a worker of miracles, a thaumaturge. |
| Wonderworld | n | A place full of delights or marvels. |
| Wonding | n | Flinching, hesitation. |
| Wone | n | Habit, custom. 2. habitual action, or conduct of a person. 2. one's habits or practices collectively. 3. established usage or customs (wones) - (of a people, country, etc.) |
| Wone | vb | OE: to bewail, moan, bemoan, lament. |
| Wone | phr | "Have in Wone" -to be accustomed to do something. 2. to practize habitually. |
| Wone | phr | "In Wone" - as a matter of custom, customarily. |
| Wone | phr | "With Good Wone" - In an good, proper, right manner or habit. |
| Wone | phr | "Without Wone" - without good or proper habit or practice. |
| Wone | phr | "With Wone" - as a matter of custom, habit. |
| Wone | phr | "Worthy in Wone" - having worth or value in habit or custom. |
| Wong | n | A plain field; a piece of meadow land, spec. a portion of unenclosed land under the open field system; now surviving locally in the proper designation of certain fields or common lands. |
| Woning | n | Moaning, lamentation. |
| Woning | n | The action of or the state of dwelling or abiding. 2. custom, usage, habit |
| Woning | phr | "To Take Up One's Woning." - to take up one's abide, to dwell in a place of habitation or dwelling place. 2. house, room, chamber, apartment. |
| Wonning-stead | n | Dwelling-place. |
| Won't | phr | A contraction of will not. used to indicate a future non-occurring action, as in 'Bob won't be doing any work today.' |
| Won't | n | A refusal. |
| Wonted | adj | Commonly used or done; habitual. 2. habtuated; accustomed ate ease; at home. |
| Wontedly | adv | Customarily, habitually, usually. |
| Wonting | n | The accustoming of a person to something; custom, wont. 2. ordinary manner of doing, or acting; habit. |
| Wonting | vb | To be accustomed, be used. 2. to dwell. |
| Wonting | adj | Doing habitually, accustomed; uused. |
| Won't-learn | n | One who refuses to learn. |
| Wontless | adj | Unaccustomed, unwonted, |
| Wontlike | adj | Wonted, accustomed, habitual. |
| Wontly | adv | Unaccustomarily, usually, usually. |
| Won't-work | n | One who refuses to work, a lay-about, loafer, bludger. |
| Woo | vb | To solicit, or pursue a woman in love, to court, to ask for a date. |
| Woo | phr | "Woo Back" - win back the love of. |
| Wood | adj | Out of one's mind, insane, crazy. 2. furious, violent, angry,enraged. 3. rabid, as of a dog or other beasts. 4. going beyond all bounds. 5. utter senseless, extremely, rash or reckless, wild, vehemently excited. |
| Wood | phr | "In Wood Wroth" - madly, frantically furious. |
| Wood | n | The hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem. 2. the trunks or main stems of trees as suitable for architectural and other purposes; timber or lumber. 3. firewood. 4. the cask, barrel, or keg, as distinguished from the bottle: aged in the wood. 5. trees collectively. |
| Wood | vb | To cover or plant with trees. 2. to supply with wood; get supplies of wood for.
3. to take in or get supplies of wood (often followed by up): to wood up before the approach of winter. 4. to surround or enclose in a wood or trees. 5. to take refuge in a wood. 3. to cover land with a wood or trees. 6. to plant trees; convert into woodland. 7. to supply with wood for fuel. 8. to procure or take in a supply of wood for fuel. 9. to load a vessel with wood. |
| Wood | adj | Made of wood; wooden. 2. used to store, work, or carry wood: a wood chisel. 3. dwelling or growing in woods: wood bird. |
| Wood | phr | Against the Wood." - against the grain. |
| Wood | phr | "A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Wood." - it is better to have a small but certain advantage than a mere potential of a greater one. |
| Wood | phr | "Be Out the Woods" - that previous difficulties have been overcome. |
| Wood | phr | "Can't See the Wood for the Tree" - be over attentive to detail and fail to understand the main issue. |
| Wood | phr | "Dead Wood." - in the fig. sense any useless person or thing; a non - productive or non-functional person. 2. an encumbrance. |
| Wood | phr | "Drawn from the Wood" - said of beer and wine drawn directly from the cask. |
| Wood | phr | "From the Wood" - out of the cask; not out of the bottle. |
| Wood | phr | "Go into the Woods" - to lose one's social status. 2. to be banished from society. |
| Wood | phr | "Have an Eye to the Wood" - to be on the look out for some advantage. |
| Wood | phr | "Knock on Wood" (used when knocking on something wooden to assure continued good luck): 'the car's still in good shape, knock on wood.' |
| Wood | phr | "More Ways to the Wood than One." - differing ways to achieve the same result. |
| Wood | phr | "Neck of the Woods" - a particular place or location. |
| Wood | phr | "Not Out if the Wood Yet" - still in jeopardy. |
| Wood | phr | "Not See the Wood for the Trees."- to overlook the general picture because of undue concentration on the details. 2. fail to grasp the main issue from the over-attention to detail. |
| Wood | phr | "Out of the Woods."- to have overcome previous difficulties, dangers or problems. 2. out of a dangerous, perplexing, or difficult situation; secure; safe. 3. no longer in precarious health or condition.. |
| Wood | phr | "Wood and Wood." - join closer together, esp of trees near one another. |
| Wood apple | n | A small tree (Limoina acidissima or Feronia elephantum) of the family Rutaceae of southeastern Asia that yields a hard heavy durable yellowish wood and is often cultivated for its acid hard-rind fruit which is used as a food and together with the leaves in folk medicine. |
| Wood-bill | n | An implement used for cutting wood or pruning trees. |
| Wood-bin | n | A bin for holding wood, especially firewood. |
| Wood-bine | n | The Virginia creeper of North America. 2. a honeysuckle, Lonicera periclymenum, of Europe, SW Asia, and N Africa, having fragrant creamy flowers. 4. slang, obsolete ( Australia ) an Englishman. |
| Wood-brown | n | The herb "bugle" (Ajuga reptans), in reference to the brownish tint of its leaves. 2. the ash tree (fraxinus) |
| Wood-burgess | n | In a wood which officers, the wood-burgess, had the privilege of woodbote granted to them. |
| Woodburning | n | Dsigned to burn wood. |
| Woodcare | n | The care and treatment of wood. |
| Woodcarve | vb | To carve wood as an art in order to make artifacts and objectives. |
| Woodcarving | n | The art of carving wood to make decorative art or objects. 2. a decoration made in wood by carving. |
| Wood-chapman | n | A dealer, trader of wood. 2. wood-monger. |
| Woodchip | n | A medium size solid material made by cutting or chipping of large pieces wood. |
| Woodchipper | n | A machine that cuts wood into chips. |
| Woodchipping | n | The mechanized conversion of wood (esp. trunks and branches of felled trees) to woodchips. |
| Wood-coal | n | Wood-charcoal, lignite or brown coal. |
| Woodcock | n | One of the several wading birds of the genus Scolopax, characterized by a long slender bill and brown and black plumage. 2. a simpleton. |
| Woodcraft | n | Any of the skills relating to woodland habitat, esp. those relating to outdoor survival; these skills collectively. 2. wood-lore; skill of woodcarving. |
| Wood duck | n | A colorful north American duck, Aix sponsa that nests in hollow tress. 2. fig. an easy target; high vulnerable person. |
| Wooded | adj | Covered with, or having many trees. 2. aged in wooded casks, such as wine. |
| Wooden | adj | Made of wood. 2. (fig) as if made of wood. 3. awkward in movement. 4. unmoved emotionally. |
| Wooden | phr | "Get the Wooden Spoon" - to come inglorious last. |
| Woodeness | n | Of wooden quality or style. |
| Wooden head | n | Fool, simpleton, idiot, slow-witted and dull person. |
| Wooden-headness | n | The state or quality of being a fool, simpleton, idiot, slow-witted and dull person. |
| Wooden-horse | n | A designation of a ship; a steed of the sea. 2. a name for the gallows. 3. the Trojan horse. |
| Woodenly | adv | In a slow, awkwardly manner. 2. in an unemotionally, an unfeeling response or stance. |
| Wooden mare | n | A instrument of torture and punishment used in the military. |
| Wooden-shoe | n | A shoe made of wood, as the French "sabot"; in the C18th popularly taken as typical of the miserable condition of the French peasantry. 2. a clog. |
| Wooden-spoon | n | A wooden spoon presented by custom at Cambridge to the last (at mathematics) of junior optimes |
| Wooden-spooner | n | Someone or some body who is awarded a wooden spoon for finishing last in a competition, usually sporting, such as football. |
| Wooden-top | n | A uniformed policemen. |
| Wooden walls | n | Ships or shipping as a defensive force. (Steel walls). 2. the Navy in the time of wooden ships. |
| Wooden-ware | n | articles, esp. household utensils, made of wood. 2. woodware. |
| Wooden wedding | n | The fifth anniversary of one's wedding, on which it is appropriate to give presents made from wood. |
| Woodeny | adj | Of a wooden quality; woody. |
| Woodfired | adj | That uses wood as fuel in cooking in an oven of this kind |
| Woodfree | adj | Paper made from chemical process, rather than a mechanical pulping process. |
| Woodful | adj | Full of wood. |
| Wood-geld | n | Money paid for the privilege of cutting or gathering wood in the forest. 2. the privilege of immunity from such payment, a woodgeld. |
| Woodhack | n | Woodpecker. |
| Woodhen | n | A weka. |
| Woodhenge | n | A henge (a prehistoric circular bank enclosing a circular dish) believed to have contained a circular timber structure) and represented by a ring of post holes; spec. (with capital initials) orig. the proper name of the first example of this kind to be discovered near Stonehenge. |
| Woodhole | n | A place where wood is stored. |
| Woodhood | n | State or condition of being mad, crazy, insane. |
| Woodhouse | n | A house or shed where fire-wood is stored or kept. |
| Woodilessness | n | The absence of wood, timber, trees. 2. devoid of forest, timberland. |
| Woodiness | n | The state of being woody. |
| Wooding | n | The action of taking or procuring wood for fuel. 2. the action of planting ground with trees. 3. the plantation or collection of trees. |
| Woodish | adj | Being like wood, pertaining to wood, woody. 2. characteristic of woods or woodlands. |
| Woodland | n | Land covered by wooding vegetation, forest, timberland. |
| Woodlander | n | Dweller in a woodland, forest, etc. |
| Woodless | adj | Without wood, deforested, unforested area, treeless, devoid of vegetation. |
| Woodlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of wood or some aspect of it. |
| Woodlock | n | A thick piece fitted on a rudder of a ship to keep it in position. |
| Woodlore | n | Skills relating to living in a woodland environment; woodcraft. |
| Woodlot | n | A plot of land devoted to the growing of forest trees or consisting of woodland. |
| Woodlouse | n | Any of the terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidera, which has a rigid, segmented exoskeleton, and often rolls into a ball, and feed only on dead plant plant matter, usually living in dark, dam places, such as under stones or bark. 2. a slater. butcher boy. |
| Woodly | adj | Mad, furious, frantic. |
| Woodly | adv | Madly, ferociously, wildly, passionately. |
| Woodman | n | An inhabitant of the woods, a Wildman, savage. 2. a workman who makes something out of wood. 3. a forester. |
| Woodman | n | A madman, lunatic, maniac. |
| Woodmanship | n | The business or skill of a woodworker. |
| Woodmonger | n | A dealer in wood. 2. a timber-merchant. 3. a seller of wood for fuel. |
| Woodmote | n | Historically a court in the England presided over by verderers and wardens, that deal with those who had broken the laws of the forest. |
| Woodness | n | The quality or condition of being woody. 2. woody texture, consistence or appearance. 3. the condition of being full of woods or forests. 4. prevalence or abundance of wood(s); woody. 5. of inanimate things: hardness, severity. |
| Woodness | n | Mental derangement, insanity, frenzy, lunacy, craziness, madness. 2. extravagant folly or recklessness, vehemence of passion or desire, wildness. 3. violent, anger, wroth, fury, fierceness, ferocity, savageness, cruelty. |
| Wood rat | n | A pack rat. |
| Woodreeve | n | The steward or owner of a wood or forest. |
| Woodruff | n | Galium odaratum, an aromatic herb |
| Woodrush | n | Any grassy plant of the genus Luzula. |
| Woodscathe | n | A fiend, malefactor, monster of the woods. (OE.-malefactor) |
| Woodshaw | n | A thicket, copse. |
| Woodshed | n | A place where musician met to practice. 2. a place where firewood is cut and stored. |
| Woodshed | vb | To practice or rehearse privately. |
| Wood shifter | n | A slang term for a chess player who is not good at the game. |
| Woodship | n | Madness, woodiness. |
| Woodsick | n | Mad, crazy. loopy. |
| Woodsick | vb | To go mad, to have rage, be enraged. |
| Woodside | n | The side, edge, periphery of a wood or forest. |
| Woodsman | n | Someone who lives in the wood and whose job or occupation is to manages it. 2. someone who makes or crafts things from wood. |
| Woodsmanship | n | A person who frequents or works in the woods; especially : one skilled in woodcraft. |
| Woodsmoke | n | Smoke from a woodfire. |
| Woodspell | n | A spell or charm against danger in passing through a wood or forest. |
| Woodstone | n | Petrified wood. esp. of quartz consisting of silicified wood. |
| Woodsy | adj | Of or pertaining to, characteristic, suggestive of the woods, sylvanic. |
| Wood turner | n | One who shapes wood with a lathe. |
| Wood turning | n | The shaping of wood with a lathe. |
| Woodward | n | The keeper of the wood. 2. officer of the wood or forest, having charge of the growing of timber.. 3. as a title of an officer of the ancient order of foresters. |
| Woodware | n | Articles made of wood collectively. 2. dairy and domestic kitchen and table utensils made of wood; bread platters, bowls, ladles, pastry boards, trenchers, pails, washboards etc. almost sometimes applied to fitments, cupboards etc., of loose or semi-loose type, especially when of mass production. |
| Wood wasp | n | Any large sawfly of the family Siricidae. |
| Woodwaxen | n | The plant 'dyer's broom' or 'green weed', (genista tinctoria). |
| Woodwight | n | A worker in wood, as a carpenter. |
| Woodwind | n | Music, any wooden musical instrument which produces sound by the player blowing into them, through a reed, or across an opening. |
| Wood wool | n | Fine pine etc shavings used as a surgical dressing or for packing after treatment. |
| Woodwork | n | Work done in wood; carpentry. 2. work done in cutting wood. 3. a grove or plantation artificially laid out. |
| Woodwork | phr | "Come Out of the Woodwork" - to come out of hiding; emerge from obscurity. |
| Woodworker | n | One who works in or makes thing out of wood; a carpenter. |
| Woodworking | n | Manufacture of wooden articles. |
| Woodworm | n | The wood-boring larva of the furniture beetle. 2. the damaged condition of wood affected by this. |
| Woodwort | n | A wild plant. |
| Woodwose | n | Late OE. wudewasa. a wildman of the woods. 2. a savage, satyr, faun. 3. a person dressed to represent such a being in a pageant. 3. in heraldry, a figure of such a being, as a decoration, a heraldic bearing or. |
| Woodwose | vb | To run wild. |
| Woody | adj | Covered in wood; wooded. 2. belonging to the woods, sylvan. 3. having wood-like properties. |
| Wood yard | n | A yard where wood is stored. |
| Woodyer | n | One who deals in timber and wood. |
| Wooer | n | One who courts or woos a lover. |
| Woof | n | The set of yarns placed crosswise in a loom, interlaced in a warp, carried by a shuttle. 2. texture of a fabric, weft. |
| Woof and Warp | n | Resembling a woof or woolen fabric; a dense fabric. |
| Woofy | adj | Having a close texture, dense. 2. prone to woofing |
| Wooing | n | A courting, the process by which someone is wooed or solicited in love or persuaded to be married. 2. to endeavor to gain someone support. 3. to court wit solicitude. 4. to invite with importune. |
| Wooing | adj | That woos; amatory. 2. that solicits love, courting, as a lover or wanton. |
| Wooingly | adv | In a wooing manner. 2. wanton impudently; enticingly, alluringly. |
| Wool | n | Fine, soft wavy hair from the fleece of sheep or goats, etc. 2. a yarn prodduced from this hair. 3. cloth or clothing made from this hair. 4. any of various wool-like (steel wool). 5. a soft, short under-fur or down. 6. a person's hair, esp. when short and curly. |
| Wool | phr | "All Wool and a Yard Wide" - perfect in quantity and quality; hence, one hundred percent genuine. |
| Wool | phr | "Dyed in the Wool" - genuine, of real quality, inveterate, no sham or substitute. 2. very loyal and partisan. |
| Wool | phr | "Go for Wool and Come Home Shorn" - to have the tables turned on one. |
| Wool | phr | "No Wool Is So White that a Dyer Cannot Blacken It" - no one is free from fault that slander can't find nothing bad to say about him. 2. no book is so perfect as to be free from adverse criticism. |
| Wool | phr | "Pull the Wool Over Someone's Eyes" - deceive or deliberately mislead another person. |
| Woolcraft | n | Wool manufacturing and production. |
| Woolen | adj | Made of wool, woollen. 2. of or relating to wool or woolen cloth or clothing. |
| Woolfat | n | Lanolin. 2. wool grease. |
| Wool-fell | n | The wool of a sheep with the skin, still on; its pelt. |
| Wool-gathering | n | Indulgence in idle imagining with aimless speculation; daydreaming. 2. woolly thoughts or idle fancies. |
| Wool grower | n | A breeder of sheep for wool. |
| Wool-growing | n | The breeding of sheep for wool. |
| Wooliness | n | The nature or quality of wool, or being woolly. 2. vague or irrational thinking. |
| Wool-king | n | In N.Z. and Australia, a farmer who has made his wealth through wool. 2. a large-scale sheep farmer. |
| Woollen | adj | Woolen. |
| Woolless | adj | Without wool. |
| Wool-like | adj | Resembling wood in texture and appearance |
| Woolly | adj | Made of wool. 2. vague or confused in expression or character. |
| Woolly back | n | An unsophisticated person from the bush or sticks. 2. a garment made from wool. 3. a sheep. |
| Woolly-bear | n | A hairy caterpillar, an after-fetch (caterpillar). 2. an explosive shell that gives out dense smoke when it bursts. |
| Woolly-headed | adj | Of a person or an argument or (thought process) illogical, irrational. |
| Woolly-headness | n | Quality of being woolly-headed in thought and logic: illogical, irrationality, woolly-minded. |
| Woolly-minded | adj | Characterized by vague or confused thinking, woolly-witted. |
| Woolly-witted | adj | Characterized by vague or confused thinking, woolly-witted. |
| Woolman | n | A deal in wool, a wool merchant or breeder of sheep; a woolmonger. |
| Woolner | n | A dealer in woolen goods. |
| Woolness | n | The quality or state of being wooly. |
| Woolsack | n | "The Woolsack" - a term often applied to the position of Lord chancellor. 2. a sack of wool. |
| Woolshed | n | A large shed for shearing and baling wool. |
| Wool-skin | n | Wool-fell. |
| Woolwax | n | Lanolin. |
| Woolwork | n | Embroidery in wool, resembling tapestry. |
| Wooly-minded | adj | Quality of being woolly in thoughts and logic. 2. illogical, irrationality, woolly-witted |
| Wooly-witted | adj | Unclear or hazy in thought and reasoning; woolly-minded, lacking clarity in logic and reason. |
| Word | n | A unit of language that native speakers can identify. 2. the blocks from which sentences are made. 3. the sacred writings of religions. 4. information about recent and important events. 5. a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group; a password.
6. a brief statement. 7. an exchange of views on some topic. 8. verbal command for action 9. a promise. 10. the divine word of God. 11. a string of bits stored in computer memor |
| Word | vb | Say or write particular words. 2. speak or formulate one's thoughts or concerns |
| Word | adj | In qualifying nouns and pronouns giving more information about objects signified, such as a 'cloudy day' and 'fair lady'. |
| Word | phr | "As Good as One's Wood" - fulfil what one has promised. |
| Word | phr | "At One (first) Word." - in short, briefly, concisely. |
| Word | phr | "At One's Word" - of one mind, unanimously. |
| Word | phr | "Be as Good as One's Word" - keep one's promises. |
| Word | phr | "Better than One's Word" - fulfill or exceded what one has promised. |
| Word | phr | "Break One's Word" - to break a promise; betray trust. |
| Word | phr | "By Word of Mouth" - use the spoken word rather than the printed or written word. |
| Word | phr | "Can't Get a Word in Edgeways" - not manage to interrupt a conversation in order to put another point of view. |
| Word | phr | "Eat One's Word" - deeply regret what one has said. 2. wordeat. |
| Word | phr | "Fair Word" - pleasant or attractive speech (usually implying ...) |
| Word | phr | "From the Word Go" - from the beginning or start. |
| Word | phr | "Get a Word in Edgeways" - to manage to interrupt a conversation in order to put another point of view. |
| Word | phr | "Give One's Word" - give a definite undertaking, make a binding promise. |
| Word | phr | "Give One the Good Word" - to speak well of. |
| Word | phr | "Half a Word" - very short utterance, a slight fragment of speech or conversation. |
| Word | phr | "Have a Word in Somebody's Ear" -speak to somebody privately. |
| Word | phr | "Have No Words for" - be unable to express in words. |
| Word | phr | "Have the Last Word" - make the final comment in an argument. |
| Word | phr | "Have Words (With)" - quarrel. |
| Word | phr | "His Word is Law" - someone must be, or always is, obeyed, agreed with. 2. what he says goes. |
| Word | phr | "Household Word" - a common saying, name or expression or what is a familiar to nearly everyone. |
| Word | phr | "In a Word" - briefly, to sum up. |
| Word | phr | "In a Few Words" - briefly, concisely, succinct. |
| Word | phr | "In Other Words" - putting in other words. |
| Word | phr | "In So many Words" - said explicitly and bluntly |
| Word | phr | "Keep One's Word" - to keep a promise; remain trustworthy. |
| Word | phr | "Man/Woman of Few Words" - somebody who says little. |
| Word | phr | "Man of His Word" - someone who is trustworthy and honest. |
| Word | phr | "Mark My Word" - take note of what I am now saying. |
| Word | phr | "My Word" - exclamation of surprize. |
| Word | phr | "Not a/the Word for It" - not an adequaute or appropriate description for. |
| Word | phr | "Not be the Word for It" - be an understatement. |
| Word | phr | "Not Get a Word in Edgeways" - be unable to interrupt someone who is talking continuously. |
| Word | phr | "Not in So Many Words" - not exactly. |
| Word | phr | "Of Few Words" - taciturn. |
| Word | phr | "Of Many Words" -verbose, loquacious, talkative. |
| Word | phr | "Of One's Word" - reliable in keeping promises. |
| Word | phr | "One of Few Words" - somebody who has little to say. |
| Word | phr | "Play On Words" - a pun, a joke that relies on a double meaning. |
| Word | phr | "Put in a Good Word For" - praise, recommend somebody. |
| Word | phr | "Put into Words" - speak or formulate one's thoughts or concerns. |
| Word | phr | "Put Words into Somebody's Mouth" - to attempt to get someone to say something in the particular terms drafted by another person. |
| Word | phr | "Say the Word" - say what you requiire. |
| Word | phr | "Speak a Good Word for" - recommend, endorse. |
| Word | phr | "Take at Her/His Word" - believe somebody without question. |
| Word | phr | "Take the Words Out of Somebody's Mouth" - anticipate what somebody is about to say. |
| Word | phr | "The Good Word" - friendly, favourable or laudatory utterances. |
| Word | phr | "The Last Word" - the update, latest. |
| Word | phr | "The Latest Words" - the final achievement, the latest thing. 2. to make but one word, speak briefly, laconic, taciturn. |
| Word | phr | "The Seven Last Words" - (The Seven Words) - the seven utterances of Christ on the cross. |
| Word | phr | "The Ten Words" - The Ten Commandments; the Decalogue. |
| Word | phr | "The Word of God" - the bible |
| Word | phr | "Upon My Word" - an exclamation of surprize or consternation. |
| Word | phr | "Upon One's Word" - on the security of one's word; bound by one's word. |
| Word | phr | "Without a Word" - without making one comment, exeplanation or complaint. |
| Word | phr | "Without a Word of a Lie" - what I am telling or saying to you is absolutely true. |
| Word | phr | "Word of Warning" - a warning statement, remark made to someone. |
| Word | phr | "Word for Word" - with exact repetition of everything said or written; verbatim. |
| Word | phr | "Word in (somebody's) Ear" - a brief message for your convenient. |
| Word | phr | "Word is That" - it is said, reported, that ... 2. his/her word is that. |
| Word | phr | "Word is Out" - it is not known. |
| Word | phr | "Word of Finger" - interpersonal communication by digital media, using keyboard devices (by analogy with word of mouth) |
| Word | phr | "Word of God" - the Bible |
| Word | phr | "Word of Mouth" - executed, given or done by speaking, orally. |
| Word | phr | Word of Warning" - a warning statement, remark, (made of somebody). |
| Word | phr | "Word of Wisdom" - wise or sensible remarks and advice. |
| Word | phr | "Word on the Wire" - the rumors or word going around on the internet, in business, on the street, or in social circles. |
| Word | phr | "Words Stick in my Throat" be unable to speak because or nervousness or reluctance. |
| Word | phr | "Word to the Wise" - a word is enough to the wise. 2. an intelligent person can take a hint, draw his/her conclusions without a lot of explanation. |
| Word | phr | "Word Up" - a slang term meaning agree to, approve. 2. listen up! hat ahappened! |
| Word-bend | vb | To form or create new words by functional shift (verbing). |
| Word-bender | n | One who forms or creates new words by functional shift (verbing). |
| Wordbending | n | The process of forming or creating new words by functional shift (verbing). |
| Word-blind | adj | Unable to understand the written or printed word due to a brain defect. 2. dyslexic. 3. not able to associate a sound with a written or printed word. |
| Word-blindness | n | The inability to read, and understand the written or printed word. 2. dyslexia. |
| Wordbook | n | A book containing a list of words (as of the vocabulary of a language, a book of an art or science) arranged in alphabetical or other systematic order. 2. a libretto or "book of words' of a musical composition. |
| Wordbound | adj | Silent, pledged to silence, taciturn. |
| Wordbuilder | n | Wordsmith; wordshaper. |
| Wordbuilding | n | The construction of words from a root word. 2. wordshaping; wordsmithing. |
| Word-craft | n | The art of using words, oratorical or literary skill. |
| Word-deafness | n | Inability to understand words when spoken, owing to an auditory disease; aphasia. |
| Word-dearthing | n | Producing a dearth of words, involving a great expenditure of words. 2. word-drunk. |
| Worder | n | A chatterer, one who uses many words. 2. one who puts something into words, one who frames the words or terms of a subject. |
| Word-field | n | Linguistics, a group of lexical items (words, etc.) seen as associate in meaning because of occurring in similar context; see 'wordstock'. |
| Wordflow | n | Articulation and fluency (in speech). |
| Word-flowing | adj | Fluent in speech, articulate. |
| Wordgame | n | A game involving the manipulating of words. |
| Word-hoard | n | Treasure of speech; vocabulary. |
| Wordhood | n | The quality of being a word. |
| Wordily | adv | In a wordy manner or style; pedantic. 2. with an excess or abundance of words; verbosely. |
| Wordiness | n | The quality of being wordy; excess or multiplicity or words, verbosity. |
| Wording | n | Speaking, talking, uttering. 2. a saying, statement. 3. angry or abusive speech ('having words') 4. action of putting or condition of being put into words. 5. composition or expression in language (spoken or written); esp. in reference to the words used; mode of speech, form of words, phrasing. |
| Wordish | adj | Consisting or concerned with words; esp. mere words (as exposed to realities); verbal, wordy, verbose. |
| Wordishness | n | Loquacity, verboseness, wordy. |
| Word-keeper | n | Lexiographer. |
| Wordless | adj | Unspeakable, unutterable, inexpressible in words. 2. not expressed in words, unspeakable, unutterable. 3. speechless, silent, dumb, not uttering a word. 4. lacking the power or faculty of speech. 5. lacking words for expression. 6. without words. |
| Wordlessly | adv | Lacking words for expression. |
| Wordlessness | n | The condition or state of lacking speech or expression. |
| Wordlike | adj | Resembling a word. |
| Wordliness | n | The excessive often unnecessary use of words. |
| Wordlist | n | A written collection of all words derived from a particular source, or sharing some other characteristic. |
| Wordlore | n | The study of the etymology aand their history. 2. the words collectively of a language and their history. 3. the doctrine of the form and formation of words; morphology. |
| Wordly | adj | Dealing in, or consisting in, mere words; verbal. |
| Wordmaker | n | A wordsmith: a skilled user and maker of words. |
| Wordman | n | One who deals with or has command of words. 2. a master of language. 3. one who loves reading, writing and intellectual debate. |
| Wordmanship | n | Skill in the use of words and language. |
| Word-meeting | n | Collocation; placed side by side. |
| Wordmonger | n | One who deals in words, esp. in strange, pedantic words or empty words without sense or substance (often used in contempt). |
| Wordness | n | The quality of being a word. |
| Word play | n | Use of words to witty effect, especially by pinning. |
| Word-shot | adj | (After earshot) - the distance within which one person can speak to other. |
| Wordsmith | n | A skilled user or maker of words. |
| Wordsmithing | n | The act or processing of creating words. |
| Wordster | n | One who deals in or handles words. 2. one who talks rather than acts . 3. a skilful user of words. 4. a student of words and their meanings. |
| Word-stock | n | The sum of words available in a language or dialect; vocabulary. 2. the wordstock of English: Germanic, Romance, and Greek and their contribution to various word-fields, e.g. skinny, subcutaneous and dermatitis. |
| Wordwar | n | Wordy-war; an argument, row, dispute |
| Word-watch | n | The observation of linguistic usage, esp. in regard to change and innovation. |
| Word-watcher | n | A close observer of words and their ways. |
| Word-watching | n | One who searches the written word in newspapers, literature for correctness ogf grammar and usage. |
| Word-wheeling | n | Computing software, a method of database searching that produces an instantly refreshed list of results as the user enters each character of the term. |
| Word-winsome | adj | Affable, pleasant speaking. |
| Wordwise | adj | Of or characteristic of a word; words, verbal. |
| Wordwise | adv | pertaining to, or concerning or regarding a word; verbally. |
| Word-wood | adj | Mad, wild, unrestrained in speech. |
| Word-writing | n | A nonce term for "ideographic' writing. |
| Wordy | adj | Full of or abounding in words. 2. in speech, consisting of or concerning words. 3. of a person , using too many words; verbose, garrulous, talkative. 4. skilled in the use of words. 5. consisting or expressed in words; of words : verbal. |
| Wordy-war | n | An argument, row, dispute; word-war. |
| Wore | n | Seaweed, ware. 2. seashore(?). |
| Workaday | n | Routine, mundane, and calm, 'I heard her voice, composed and workaday, as if nothing was wrong.' |
| Work | n | Labour, employment, occupation, job. 2. place where one is employed. 3. effort expended on a particular task. 4. result of a particular manner of production. 5. something produced using the specified material or tool. . literary, artistic, or intellectual production. 7. measure of energy expended in moving an object. 8. thermodynamics: energy in transit between one form or repository and another. 9. fortification. |
| Work | vb | to do a specific task. 2. to effect by gradual degrees. 3. to embroider with thread. 4. to set into action. 5. to cause to ferment. 6. to exhaust. 7. to shape, form, or improve a material. 8. to operate in a certain place, area, or specialty. 9. to operate in or through. 10. to provoke or excite. 11. to use or manipulate. 12. to cause to happen. 13. to cause to work. 14. to function correctly. 15. to effect by gradual degrees. 16. to move in an agitated manner. 17. to behave in a certain way when handled.]cause to feel. |
| Work | phr | "All in a Day's Work" - within one's duties, obligations. |
| Work | phr | "All Worked Up" - anxious, excited. |
| Work | phr | "At Work" - be in action. |
| Work | phr | "Be in the Works" - to be being dealt with. |
| Work | phr | "Do Somebody's Dirty Work" - do something unethical on behalf of another person. |
| Work | phr | "Do the Spadework" - to prepare. |
| Work | phr | "Get the Works" - get the full treatment. 2. to receive severe punishment; adverse criticism. |
| Work | phr | "Get Worked Up" - become angry, excited, or tense. |
| Work | phr | "Give Somebody the Works" - let somebody have everything that is available. 2. to hit or attack forcibly. 3. to murder. |
| Work | phr | "Go to Work on Something" - begin working on something, |
| Work | phr | "In the Works" - being planned, worked on, or produced. |
| Work | phr | "Keep up the Good Work" - a general phrase of encouragement meaning to continue doing good work. |
| Work | phr | "Make Short Work of" - complete, conclude quickly. |
| Work | phr | "Make Work" - work usually of little importance to keep a person from being idle or unemployed. |
| Work | phr | "Make Work for" - make unnecessary work for. |
| Work | phr | "Many Hands Make Light Work" - task is easier when one has help. |
| Work | phr | "Out of Work" - unemployed. |
| Work | phr | "Set Somebody to Work" - begin working. |
| Work | phr | "Shoot the Works" - maul, kill by shooting. |
| Work | phr | "The Whole Works" - the whole lot, all, the total amount, everything. |
| Work | phr | "Things Work Themselves Out" - of personal problems: be resolved, settled. |
| Work | phr | "Work Against" - affect negatively, impede. |
| Work | phr | "Work Among" - practice a profession. 2. provide a service, in and for a community. |
| Work | phr | "Work at" - give thougt, energy, etc to get rid ofor solving someting. |
| Work | phr | "Work Away at" - give continuous effort, thought, etc to something. |
| Work | phr | "Work Blue" - blue comedy is comedy that is off-color, risqué, indecent or profane, largely about sex. It often contains profanity or sexual imagery that may shock and offend some audience members. "Working blue" refers to the act of using curse words and discussing things that people do not discuss in "polite society |
| Work | phr | "Work Hand in Glove With" - work in close co-operation with. 2. to work in collusion with a person to the detriment of others. |
| Work | phr | "Work In/Into" - insert something. 2. gradually by moving it side to side. |
| Work | phr | "Work In/Into" - include something by showing special care or cunning. |
| Work | phr | "Work Into" - intermix, find room for. |
| Work | phr | "Work It So That" - arrange affairs, situation, to suit a particular purpose. |
| Work | phr | "Work Like a Dog" - work very hard for little reward. |
| Work | phr | "Work Like a Horse" - work extremely hard and continuously. |
| Work | phr | "Work Off" - get rid of something extra and burdensome by exercise etc. 2. get rid of unpleasant feeling (at smebody's expense); take out on. 3. get rid of gradually; penetrate slowly; percolate, soak. |
| Work | phr | "Work On/Onto" - give thought or effort etc to making or discovering something. 2. place one thing gradually around anorher, by moving it from side to side, as a nut, washer, bolt. |
| Work | phr | "Work One's Arse Off" - work extremely hard and long. |
| Work | phr | "Work One's Fingers to the Bone" - work very hard and long of duration. |
| Work | phr | "Work One's Way Along, Back" - move, progress, usually in the face of obstacles, in a given direction. |
| Work | phr | "Work One's Way Up From" - rise, move, to a more responsible position by one's own efforts. |
| Work | phr | "Work One's Will" - accomplish one's purpose on a person or thing. |
| Work | phr | "Work Or Want" - work hard or suffer a life of poverty. 2. earn what one needs or do without it. |
| Work | phr | "Work Out" - plan, devise, develop. 2. calculate, solve, find the answer to, get; prove. 3. come to a happy conclusion. 4. understand the nature of of somebody, or something; make out, pan out. 5. train fot a sporting event or contest. |
| Work | phr | "Work Out at" - be equal to, be calculated as, come out at. |
| Work | phr | Work Over" - be somebody all over to extract information, as a punishment; beat up. |
| Work | phr | "Work Smarter not Harder" - it is better to be wise than vigorous. |
| Work | phr | "Work the Crowd" - work the room, esp. out of doors. |
| Work | phr | "Work the Room" - to interact enthusiastically with those in attendance of an event and or function by moving among them, and engaging in conversation. |
| Work | phr | "Work Things Out" - settle personal matters, often said of a married couple. |
| Work | phr | "Work Things that" - arrange things, situation to suit a particular purpose. |
| Work | phr | "Work Through" - complete, finish, a task by giving steady attention to it. |
| Work | phr | "Work to " - be guided, governed by a plan etc when doing something. |
| Work | phr | "Work (Something) to Death" - force someone to work excessively. 2. overexpose something. |
| Work | phr | "Work Towards" - strive to reach or achieve. |
| Work | phr | "Work Under" - do a job under somebodys direction or guidance. |
| Work | phr | "Work Until One Drops" - continue working until one is totally exhausted. |
| Work | phr | "Work(ed) Up" - excited, agitated, excessively, emotional aroused or angered. |
| Work | phr | "Work Up" - develop, extend gradually the shape or nature of something. 2. increse something in numbers or strength. 3. stimulate; make more keen. 4. raise somebody or oneself to a high point of excitement. |
| Work | phr | "Work Up Into" - raise somebody or oneself to a high point of excitement. 2. whip up to. |
| Work | phr | "Work Upon" - to influence insidiously. |
| Work | phr | "Work Up to" - develop what one is doingor saying to a high point. |
| Work | phr | "Work Wonders" - have an unusually, or marveously beneficial effect. 2. do miracles, wonders, amazing feats. |
| Workaday | adj | ordinary, everyday, practical. 2. fit for, used, or seen oe workdays. |
| Work-bench | n | A bench for doing mechanical or practical work, esp. carpentry. |
| Work boat | n | A boat used for carrying out work such as fishing, transporting freight, etc. |
| Work book | n | A sudent's book, including exercises. |
| Work box | n | A receptacle for sewing materials. |
| Work-day | n | Those days of the week on which work is done. 2. part of the day in which is done. 3. a week day, a day of business. |
| Worker | n | A person who performs labour for his living. 2. a non-productive social insect, such as an act, esp. bees, termites, wasps. 3. computing. a thread performing one instance of a particular task within a program. |
| Worker bee | n | A sterile bee whose speciality is to supported the hive , especially by collecting pollen. |
| Workerlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a worker. |
| Workfare | n | A welfare system which requires some work or training from those receiving benefits. 2. a policy of requiring recipients of welfare money to do some work in the exchange for this benefit. |
| Work-fellow | n | A companion in work; a fellow-worker. |
| Work-flow | n | A rate of which a flow of work takes place. 2. in business: a process and or procedure in which tasks are completed. |
| Work-folk | n | People who labor or industrial work. |
| Workfree | adj | Free from having to work, voluntary unemployed. |
| Workful | adj | Active, operative. 2. full of (hard) work; hardwork, industrious. |
| Workfulness | n | Activity, laborious acivity, diligency, industriousness. |
| Workgang | n | A gang especially of prisoners that carry out manual and physical work. |
| Work-harden | adj | Of a person inured to rigors of work by frequent and thorough laboring. |
| Work-hardening | n | A rehabilitation program designed to restore functional and work capacities to the injured worker through application of graded work simulation. |
| Work-holy | adj | Aiming at, or pretending holiness on the grounds of works. |
| Work-horse | n | A horse used primarily for manual labour, a draught horse. 2. by extension: anyone or anything that does a lot does a lot of work. 3. someone or something which works consistently or regularly. |
| Work-house | n | A institution for the poor homeless, founded by the local parish where able-bodied were required to work. 3. a prison in which the sentence imposed includes manual labour. |
| Work-in | n | A form of protest, usually against threatened closure of a factory, etc., which workers occupy the workplace and keep on working. |
| Working | n | Engaged in work, esp. in manual or industrial labor. 2. spent in work or employment; one working life. 3. functioning or able to function. 4. the activity of work. 5. the act or manner of functioning of a thing. 6. a mine or quarry. 7. the part of this in which work is being or has been done. |
| Working-day | n | Those days of the week in which work is done. 2. pertaining to the days on which work is done. 3. a week-day, a business day. |
| Working dog | n | A breed of dog developed primarily to assist humans in pergforming tasks , such as farm controlling livestock, law enforcement or assisting the blind. |
| Working-drawing | n | A drawing to scale, serving as a guide for construction or manufacture. |
| Working-end | n | The end of the rope that is used to make a knot. |
| Working knowledge | n | (Note etymology of second element unknown in O.E.) knowledge adequate to work with. |
| Workingly | adv | Effectively, industriously. |
| Working man | n | A man who works in exchange for payment, esp. one who does manual labour. 2. "The Workingman" - workers collectively or as a class. 3. "the worker" or "the common man." |
| Workingness | n | Effectiveness. |
| Working-off | n | To lose weight by doing physical or strenuous exercise. 2. the action taken to end, pay off a debt by doing labour for the debtor. |
| Working-out | n | Work-out; any sporting activity done for practice. 2. a training session, exercise session, practice, test-run. |
| Working-over | n | Work over: to improve a protype, a first draft. 2. to physical attack another in order to injure and intimidate. |
| Workings | n | A system of holes dug in the ground in order to remove metals, coal etc. 2. the calcualtions you do in order to reach an answer to a mathematical question. 3. the way that an organization operates. |
| Working-together | n | To collaborate in a mental task, as generating ideas. 2. to co-operate in joint venture or project. 3. co-operation in a general sense. |
| Working-week | n | The total number of hours worked during the week; also, the number of working hours in a week. |
| Working woman | n | A woman who is employed. |
| Working-world | n | Employment, the workplace. 2. the demands of the workplace. |
| Workless | adj | Doing no works; inactive, idle. 2. of faith, without works. 3. unprovided with work, having no work to do; out of work, unemployed. |
| Worklessness | n | The condition of being without work; in workless state. 2. unemployment. |
| Workload | n | The amount of work to be done by an individual. |
| Work-loom | n | A tool or implement. |
| Workman | n | A man employed to do manual labor. 2. a person considered with regard to skill in a job. |
| Workman | n | "The Workman" - God, the Creator. 2. the Almighty, Almightend, Shaper, Shapend, Great Father. |
| Workman-like | adj | Performed with the skill of an artisan or craftsman. 2. characteristic of a good workman. 3. done with concentration and persistent; industrious.. |
| Workmanliness | n | Done in a way or in a manner of industriousness. |
| Workmanly | adv | Efficiently, effectively, skillfully. |
| Workmanship | n | Action, agency, operation, creation, making, manufacturing, production. 2. craftsmanship. |
| Workmonger | n | A controversial term in religious matters for one who expects to be justified by works. 2. one who considers moral actions in relation to justification before God; usually as contrasted with faith or grace. |
| Work-name | n | An alias used by someone engaged in intelligence work. |
| Work nights | n | A night on which work is usually done. |
| Work-out | n | Any sporting activity done for practice; working-out. 2. a training session, exercise session, practice, test-run. |
| Work-over | n | The repair or maintenance of something, esp. an oil well or rig. |
| Work room | n | A room for working in; esp. in equipped for a certain ind of work. |
| Works | phr | "Get the Works" - to receive severe punishment; adverse criticism. |
| Works | phr | "Give It (someone) the Works" - to hit or attack forcibly. 2. to murder. |
| Works | phr | "Shoot the Works" - maul, kill by shooting. |
| Works | phr | "The Whole Works" - the whole lot, all, the total amount, everything. |
| Work-school | n | A day continuation school for apprentices provided by their employers. |
| Work-seeker | n | One looking for and hoping to find work. |
| Work-shadowing | n | A work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker. The job shadowing work experience is a temporary, unpaid exposure to the workplace in an occupational area of interest to the student. |
| Work-sharing | n | A program available to employers who reduce employee hours and wages as an alternative to layoffs. This program allows the payment of a percentage of unemployment benefits to employees whose hours and wages are reduced. |
| Worksheet | n | Paper for recording work done or in progress. 2. a paper listing questions or activities for students, etc to work through. |
| Workship | n | Workmanship. |
| Workshop | n | A room, esp. one which is not particularly large used for manufacturing or other light manufacturing work. 2. a brief, intensive course of education of a small group, emphasing interaction and practical problem solving. 3. an academic conference. |
| Workshop | phr | "Workshop of the World" - England in its C19th zenith as the leading industrial nation. |
| Work-shy | adj | Disclined to work, lazy, indolent. |
| Work-shyness | n | The state or quality of being disclined to work; indolence. |
| Worksome | adj | Industrious, diligent, efficacious, operative. |
| Worksong | n | A piece of music closely connected to a form of work, either sung while conducting a task(usually to co-ordinate timing). 2. a song linked to a task which might be a connected narrative, description, or protest song. |
| Workstead | n | Any place, such as a workshop, office, studio established where work can be done. 2. a work station, a place of employment, work place. 3. a laboratory. |
| Workstrain | n | The response of the human body to stress experienced in the performance of work. |
| Workstream | n | The progressive completion of tasks completed by different groups within a company which are required to finish a single project. |
| Work-top | n | A flat surface for working on, esp. in a kitchen. |
| Work-wan | adj | The boring, bland, uninteresting aspect of some types of work or employment. |
| Workwards | adv | Concerning, directed or relating to work. |
| Workwear | n | Hard-wearing clothes for work. |
| Work-weary | adj | Wearied or fatigued by the physical or mental exertion and stress of work. |
| Work-week | n | he total number hours worked in a week; also the number of hours worked in a week. |
| Workwise | adj | In the way, manner or method of work or working. |
| Workwoman | n | A woman engaged in manual labor. |
| Worky | n | A worker, operative, trady, sparky, chalky, chippy. |
| World | adj | Involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope. |
| World | n | All of the living human inhabitants of the earth. 2. the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife. 3. all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you. 4. people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; the Western world. 5. people in general considered as a whole, as a hero; a legend. 6. the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on (Earth). 7. everything that exists anywhere; the universe. 8. part of the earth that can be considered separately; the world of insects. |
| World | vb | To furnish with a "world' of people . 2. to people, populate. 3. to bring a child into the world. |
| World | phr | "All the World and His Wife" - any large group mixed gathering of people. 2. a large group of people with pretensions to fashion. |
| World | phr | "All the World Over" - in every respect or way. 2. all the inhabited globe. |
| World | phr | "A World of" - very much, as a 'world of difference' |
| World | phr | "Bring into the World" - to give birth to or attend to at a birth. |
| World | phr | "By World's End" - the farthest attainable point of travel. |
| World | phr | "Come into the World" - to be born. 2. of a book to be published. |
| World | phr | Dead to the World" - sound asleep. |
| World | phr | "For All the World" - for anything. |
| World | phr | "For All the World Like" - exactly like. |
| World | phr | "Get the Worst of All Worlds" - to get a series of disadvantages without out getting back any corresponding advantages. 2. get the best of both worlds. |
| World | phr | "Get Up in the World" - to succeed, become prosperous or wealthy. |
| World | phr | "Go Down in the World" - to suffer setback and misfortune; become poor or indigent. |
| World | phr | "Go from the World" - to die, pass away, depart. |
| World | phr | "Go to the World" - get married. |
| World | phr | "Go to the Next World" - to die, depart, pass away. |
| World | phr | "Go up Against the World" - opposition in fac of all mankind. 2. gen. against all opposition. |
| World | phr | "Have the Best of Both Worlds" - have the advantages of two different situations. |
| World | phr | "Have the World at One's Feet" - be well-placed to success. |
| World | phr | "He Thinks the World Owes Him a Living" - the belief is entitled to be well supported, or provided for, either on account of one's merits, or simply because one exists. |
| World | phr | "How goes the World" - how are you; how are things, matters, affairs. 2. how the world goes. |
| World | phr | "In the World or in Hell" - in any set of circumstances whatsoever. 2. in no way am I (one) will do that. 3. why should I (one) believe that. 4. how could I or (one) expect or anticipated that (often in interrogative sentences, preceded by what, where, when, how or why) |
| World | phr | "It's a Small World" - it is surprizing to meet people one knows in unexpected places. |
| World | phr | "Man of the World" - somebody with worldly experience who has seen some aspects of life. |
| World | phr | "Not for the World" - not whatever the inducement. |
| World | phr | "Not Long for this World" - on the point of death; moribund, marcessant. |
| World | phr | "Not the End of the World" - the situation is not as bad as it seems. |
| World | phr | "On Top of the World" - to be very happy. |
| World | phr | "Out of this World" - extremely good, unusual. |
| World | phr | "See the World" - travel widely; gain wide experience. |
| World | phr | "The Next World" - the other world, the spiritual world. |
| World | phr | "The New World" - the Americas, Africa, Australia etc. |
| World | phr | "The Other World" - the next, or spiritual world. |
| World | phr | "The Third World" - an expression coined in France (le Tiers-monde) and applied to those less developed countries of Africa, Asia and south America which are not substantially aligned with the capitalist and communist political groupings. |
| World | phr | "Through all the World" - for ever, for all time, through eternity. |
| World | phr | "The World owes Me a Living" - to think that one should be supported, or provided for, either on account of one's merits, or simply because one exists. |
| World | phr | "The Whole World Over" - everywhere, any place in the world, all over the world. 2. ubiquitous. |
| World | phr | "The World to Come" - supposed life after death. |
| World | phr | "Think the World (of Somebody)" - be very fond of. 2. have a high opinion of somebody or something. |
| World | phr | "Think the World Well Lost" - think that the loss of many of life's advantages and rewards is either not regrettable, or is amply compensated for( by something specified by the context). |
| World | phr | "Why, Where, What in All the World" - emphatically what?, why? as an intensive form of interrogation. |
| World | phr | "With the Best Will in the World" - no matter how hard one tries or wants to do. |
| World | phr | "Workshop of the World" - England in the C19th heyday as the leading industrial nation. |
| World | phr | "World and His Wife" - all, or most people. 2. a very large company of people. |
| World | phr | "World Away from Something" - vey different from. 2. separated from something in space or time. |
| World | phr | "World is His/Her Oyster" - one is fortunate enough to do in life, or get from life, whatever he/she wants or enjoys. (O.E ostre: oyster). |
| World | phr | "World, the Flesh and the Devil" - all that is not holy. 2. all that which tempts mankind to wickednessor imperfection. |
| World | phr | "World to Come" - in a future state, the next world, paradise, heaven. 2. life after death, realm of the departed spirits. |
| World | phr | "World Turned Upside Down" - an illusion to the antipodes. |
| World | phr | "World Without End" - eternally; for ever, incessantly , without respite, too long or frequently. |
| World-all | n | The universe, the world considered as a unit. |
| World-beater | adj | A person or thing that is better than all others in the world. |
| World-beating | n | Better than all other of the same kind. |
| World-builder | n | One who constructs a world, esp. a convincing fictional for literature, etc. |
| Worldful | adj | As much or as many as can fill a world (chiefly, hyperbolical) |
| World-gem | n | The Sun. |
| World-ground | n | The reality or principle, that underlies the world. |
| Worldhood | n | State or condition of the world. 2. worldly possession. |
| Worldish | adj | Of or belonging to this world. 2. |
| Worldkin | n | A little world, microcosm. |
| World-leader | n | Someone who is a leader of a country, especially an economically powerful country. 2. a product, company, organization that is the most successful, or advanced one in a particular area of activity. |
| Worldless | adj | Fig. not having a world to live in. 2. not containing a world or worlds. |
| Wordlessness | n | The state or condition of not having a world to live in. |
| Worldlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a world. |
| Word-line | n | In physics, a curve in space time joining the position of a particle throughout its existence. |
| Worldliness | n | The condition of being worldly. 2. devotion to worldly affairs to the neglect of religious duties or spiritual needs. 3. love of the world and its pleasures. 4. worldly affairs. |
| Worldling | n | One devoted to the interests and pleasures of the world. 2. a worldly or worldly-minded person. 2. a citizen or inhabitant of the world, cosmophile. |
| Worldling-like | adj | Worldly, of this world; in the manner of this world. |
| Word-long | adj | As long (old) as the world. |
| World love | n | A campaign to spread love and happiness throughout the world. |
| Worldly | adj | Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual. 2. concerned with the secular rather than sacred matters. 3. sophisticated, esp. because of surfeit; versed in the way of the world. 4. material, mundane, lay, profane, sophisticated, street smart. |
| Worldly-minded | adj | Having a worldly mind. 2. having one's mind or thoughts set upon things of this world. |
| Worldly-mindedness | n | State or quality having one's mind or thoughts set upon things of this world. |
| Worldly-ship | n | Worldliness, of the secular world. |
| Worldly-willed | adj | Of the secular, shallow, non-spiritual world, as "the shallow craft of world-willed fools.' |
| Wordly-wisdom | n | Prudence as regards one's own interest. |
| Worldly-wise | adj | Alert, mentally-alert. 2. quick, not dull and slow. 3. wise in a worldly manner or in worldly affairs, not gullible, gormless and stupid. 4. experienced and shrewd in worldly affairs, business, socail behaviour, current trends etc. |
| Worldly-wiseman | n | A wiseling, a wiseman. |
| Worldman | n | A man of this world, a human being. 2. a man devoted to this world. 3. a wordling. |
| World-old | n | As old as the world; ancient. 2. as long as the world has existed. |
| World-riche | n | The kingdom of this world; a world-rike. 2. the world itself. |
| World sadness | n | Sadness felt by some people at the disasters, tragedies and man inhumanity to his fellow-man. 2. world-sorrow. |
| World's end | n | The farthest attainable point of travel. |
| World-shaking | n | Of extreme importance. |
| World-shame | n | Public disgrace, national disgrace; international disgrace, such as genocide |
| Worldship | n | The state or condition of the world. 2. worldhood. |
| World sorrow | n | See "World sadness" |
| World-soul | n | (Weltgeist)- the animating spirit that informs the physical world. 2. the world spirit in all its mundane aspects and achieves. |
| World-thane | n | A secular thane, as opposed to 'momk-thane' |
| World-wandering | adj | Traveling or going throughout the world. |
| World War | n | A war involving many important nations. |
| Worldward | adv | In regards to this world, worldwards. 2. towards or in the direction of this world. 3. directed to or facing this world. |
| World-wealth | n | The value, material wealth and possessions, richness of the world. 2. world-wealth |
| World-weariness | n | The state or condition of being weary of the world and life on it. |
| World-weary | adj | Weary of the world and life on it. 2. dissatisfied with life and its conditions; weary and tired of life. |
| Worldwide | adj | Universal, catholic, throughout or across the whole world; earthly. |
| Word Wide Web | n | All of the Web pages on the internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of documents and media. |
| World-winning | adj | Achieving or happening on a worldwide basis. |
| World-wiseness | n | Across the earth, throughout the world. 2. state or condition of being worldly wise or having wisdom about the world. 2. sophisticated, experienced, knowledgeable about rhe world. |
| World-worm | n | A low creature of earth. |
| World-worn | adj | Wearied by the travails or the unfairness of one's life. 2. world-weary. |
| Worm | n | Any animal that creeps or crawls; an earthworm; serpent; (obsolete) any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.. 2. generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum. 2. contemptible or devious being. 3.(computing) a self-replicating program that propagates through a network. 4. (cricket) a graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings. 5. anything helical, especially the thread of a screw. 6. a spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms. 7. (anatomy) a muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta. 8. the condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space. 9.(archaic) a dragon or mythological serpent. 10. an internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse, as the worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!" |
| Worm | vb | To make (one's way) with a crawling motion. We wormed our way through the underbrush. 2. figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means. 3. figuratively) to work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate. He wormed his way into the organization. 4 .to effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by out. 5. figuratively) To obtain information from someone through artful or devious means (usually used with out of) 6. to deworm an animal. 7. to move with one's body dragging the ground. 8. to cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness. 10. to clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. |
| Worm | n | "The Worm" - a toothache. 2. colic. |
| Worm | phr | "Be a Greedy Worm" - be avarice; as greedy as an itching passion of the heart.' |
| Worm | phr | "Can of Worms" - a diverse collection of problemss and difficulties. |
| Worm | phr | "Early Birds gets the Worm" - a personn eho acts with initiative will have advantage over others. |
| Worm | phr | "Even a Worm Will Turn" - even the meek will retaliate if pushed too far. 2. "The Worm Has Turned" - a previously compliance person is noe exerting his personality. |
| Worm | phr | "Food for Worms" - a dead person; a corpse, cadaver. |
| Worm | phr | "Have Worms in One's Tongue" - to be cantankerous; snare and bite like a wild dog. |
| Worm | phr | "Idle Worms" - it was once supposed the little worms were bred in the fingers of idle servants. |
| Worm | phr | "Worm One's Way Into" - move gradually and cunningly in order to get the trust of others. |
| Worm | phr | "Worm Out " - extract, obtain something slowly by cunning and stealth. |
| Worm-cast | n | A convoluted mass of earth left on the surface by burrowing worms. |
| Worm-eaten | adj | Eaten by worms; esp. by a worm inside, a piece of fruit, animal. 2. rotten decayed and decrepit. 3. maggoty. |
| Wormer | n | One who pries into the affairs of another. 2. one who 'worms' out secrets. 3. a medicine for the treatment of worms in humans and animals. |
| Worm-fishing | n | Fishing with worms with bait. |
| Worm food | n | Carrion, dead body, corpse, cadaver. |
| Worm-hole | n | A hole made by a burrowing worm or insect in wood, fruit,books, etc. |
| Worming | n | The treatment of animals by medication to kill worms in their intestines. |
| Worming | adj | Winding, twisting. 2. fig. working or advancing insidiously or tortuously. 3. attacked, gnared or bored by worms, worm-eaten. 4. of the earth, soil, grave infested by or full of worms. 5. wormlike, resembling. 6. groveling, earthy, crooked, torturous. |
| Wormish | adj | Wormlike. 2. despicable (as a worm) |
| Wormishness | n | Wormish or craven behavior. |
| Worm-kin(d) | n | The race of worms or serpents, or a species of these. |
| Wormland | n | A churchyard cemetery. |
| Worm-like | adj | Similar to a worm. 2. helminthic, vermiform. |
| Wormling | n | A small worm. 2. a despicable creature. |
| Worm root | n | Pinkroot. |
| Worm seed | n | Seed used to expel intestinal worms. |
| Worm's meat | n | Of persons and things: decayed, decrepit, antiquated, wormed-out fruit. |
| Worm wheel | n | A toothed wheel gearing with a worm screw. |
| Wormwood | n | Origin: 1350–1400; late Middle English wormwode (see worm, wood ); taking place of ME. wermode, O.E. wermōd; cognate with German wermut; see vermouth. 2. any composite herb or low shrub of genus Artemisia. 3. a bitter, aromatic plant, A. absinthium, of the Old World, used as a vermifuge and a tonic, and an ingredient in absinthe. 4.something bitter, grievous, or extremely unpleasant. |
| Wormwort | n | Worm-seed weed, 'chenopodium anthelminticum' |
| Wormy | adj | Full of worms. 2. worm-eaten. |
| Worn | adj | Looking tired and exhausted. |
| Worn | phr | "Worn in" - made comfortable or ready for wearing. |
| Worn | phr | "Worn Out" - damaged and useless due to hard or continued use. 2. exhausted or fatigued from exertion. |
| Worn | phr | "Worn to a Shadow" - made thin by overwork. |
| Worn out | vb | Damaged and useless due to hard or continued use. 2. exhausted or fatigued from exertion. |
| Worn'out-ness | n | State or condition of being exhausted, completely tired out. |
| Worried | adj | Anxious, agitated or sad because of problems that you have or, about problems that you think may affect you |
| Worriedly | adv | In an anxious, agitated, sad manner because of problems or anticipated problems. |
| Worrier | n | An animal that kills an other by biting and rough treatment. 2. one who persecutes and harasses another. 3. one who causes distress of mind to another. 4. one who gives way to mental disquiet or anxiety. |
| Worriless | adj | Free from worry |
| Worrisome | adj | Causing worry, perturbing or vexing. 2. said of a person: inclined to worry. |
| Worrit | n | Worry; vexation. |
| Worry | n | The state of being anxious and troubled over actual or potential problems. |
| Worry | vb | To kill (a person or an animal) by strangling. 2. to choke (a person or animal) with a mouthful of food. 3. to devour greedily, ('to worry oneself on'). 4. to be choked, to choke. 5. of smoke,to suffocate a person, etc 6. to sieze by the throat and with the teeth tear and or lacerate. 7. to kill by being bitten and shaken (said of dogs and wolves attacking other animals). 8. to bite at or upon. 9. to kiss or hug vehemently. 10. to utter one's words with teeth almost closed. 11. to pull or tear at another with the teeth. 12. to harass by rough or severe treatment, by repeated attack. 13. to assail with hostile or menacing attack. |
| Worry | vb | To cause or feel uneasy in one's mind; trouble. 2. to bother, pester. 3. physically ill in a greater degree. 4. to mangle or kill by shaking or tearing with teeth. 5. to strangle, choke. |
| Worry | phr | "Not to Worry" - there is no need to worry. |
| Worry | phr | "Worry Along" - to continue to live. 2. keep going in the teeth of trial and difficulty. |
| Worry | phr | "Worry Oneself" - take needless trouble. |
| Worry | phr | "Worry Out" - obtain the solution to a problem by dogged effort. |
| Worry | phr | "Worry Over" - cause oneself anxiety; trouble oneself about some matter. |
| Worry | phr | "You Should Worry" - you certainly have no reason to worry. |
| Worry-beads | n | Strings of bead manipulated by the hands to occupy and calm oneself. |
| Worry-guts | n | An inveterate or habitual worrier. |
| Worrying | n | Given to harrying or harassing. 2. harassing, distressing to the mind or spirit. |
| Worryingly | adv | In a state or manner manner worried and anxious. |
| Worry-lines | n | Lines on the face of people, believed to be cause by worry. |
| Worry-wart | n | One who frets unneccesarily. |
| Worse | n | Something inferior in quality or condition or effect "for better or for worse". |
| Worse | adj | (Comparitive of 'bad')inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability "she was accused of worse things than cheating and lying" 2. changed for the worse in health or fitness. |
| Worse | adv | (Comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner "he did worse on the second exam" |
| Worse | phr | "Be Worse off" - more badly off than most. |
| Worse | phr | "Be Worse to One's Word" - to fail to carry out, or act up to, what one has promised. |
| Worse | phr | "For the Worse" - to come unto the worse- to be defeated or worsted, fail. |
| Worse | phr | "Go Further and For Worst" - be satisfied at what is close at hand rather than searching further afield and pssibly ending up worse off. |
| Worse | phr | "His Bark is Worse than His Bite" - one's harsh words belie the reality of mild action. |
| Worse | phr | "If Worse Comes to Worst" - if the worst thing could happen does. |
| Worse | phr | "Of One Worse (s)" - inferiors. |
| Worse | phr | "Worse for Drink" - intoxicated; fairly drunk. |
| Worse | phr | "Worse for Wear" - worn or damaged by use, misuse, age, or temporary infirmity. |
| Worse | phr | "Worse Off" - in a worse financial position. |
| Worse-half | n | Jocularly used as opposite to 'better-half' or one's spouse. |
| Worsen | vb | To make or become worse. |
| Worseness | n | The state or quality of being worse or inferior. |
| Worsening | n | State of growing worse; deterioration. aggravation. |
| Worsening | adj | Deteriorating, aggravating, acerbated. |
| Worse-off | n | "The Worse-off" - those in worse financial, medical, emotional, less happy or fortunate circumstances than you. |
| Worse-off | adj | More badly off than most. |
| Worse-willing | adj | Less well disposed; more unwilling or co-operative. |
| Worship | n | The condition of being worthy. 2. devotion accorded to a deity or to an scared object. 3. the religious ceremonies that express devotion to a deity or "leader". 4. the ardent love of something or someone. 5. an object of worship. 6. honour, respect, civil deference, adoration, reverence, idolatry. |
| Worship | n | "His Worship" - the title given and accorded to a magistrate. |
| Worship | phr | "Win One's Worship" - to gain honour or renown. |
| Worship | phr | "Worship the Ground Someone's Walks/Treads On" - be completely devoted to, infatuate with. |
| Worship-deed | n | An act of worship or worshipping. 2. a document relating to practice of worship. |
| Worshipful | adj | Of things, notable or outstanding in respect of some good quality. 2. of property, distinguished, impressive, reputable, honourable. 3. of persons, distinguishable in respect of character or rank; entitled to honour or respect on this account. 4. showing or bringing honour or distinction to a person. 5. imbued with the spirit of worship or veneration. 6. deserving or capable of being worshipped; worshipable. |
| Worshipfulness | n | The quality of being worshipful, in various senses. |
| Worship-house | n | A place of worship. 2. church, temple, mosque, pagoda, tabernacle etc. |
| Worshipless | adj | Not practicing worship, unworshipping. 2. destitute of worship, unworshipped. |
| Worshipper | n | One who worships. |
| Worshipping | n | An act of worship. |
| Worshiply | adv | Adoringly |
| Worship-willer | n | One with desires to be worshipped. |
| Worship-worthy | adj | Worthy of being worshipped, revered and honoured. |
| Worst | n | "The Worst" - one of those who are the most objectionable or at least estimable in moral character, accomplishment, behavior. 2. the devil, old sooty, shuck, |
| Worst | vb | To be the better of; defeat. |
| Worst | adj | Evil or bad in the highest degree. 2.of least value or worth. 3. |
| Worst | adv | In the most inferior manner, or degree. |
| Worst | phr | "At the Worst" - regarding a situation in the least optimistic way. |
| Worst | phr | "At the Worst Hand' - in a position of defeat. 2. mostly clearly or unprofitably on the lowest estimate. |
| Worst | phr | "Come Off Worst/Get the Worst of" - get the worst of something. |
| Worst | phr | "Do One's Worst" - to do the utmost evil or harm possible to others. |
| Worst | phr | "Get the Worst of" - to be defeated or put at a disadvantage. |
| Worst | phr | "Get the Worst of All Worlds" - to get a series of disadvantages without out getting back any corresponding advantages. 2. get the best of both worlds. |
| Worst | phr | "Have (Have) the Worst of It" - be defeated. |
| Worst | phr | "If the Worst Come to Worst" -if the most unpleasant thing possible happens. |
| Worst | phr | "In the Worst Way" - very much. |
| Worse | phr | "See in the Worst Light" - consider something or somebody in a negative way. |
| Worst | phr | "The Worst of it is That" - the most unfortunate/unpleasant thing about that situation is . |
| Worst | phr | "The Worst of the Worst" - the things that are the worst. |
| Worstness | n | The quality or state of being worst, most evil, bad, incompetent, stupid, dull etc. |
| Worsts | n | The things that are worst or the worst of the worst. |
| Worsum | n | Purulent matter, pus. |
| Wort | n | A plant, herb or vegetable, used for food or medicine. 2. a general name for any plant of the cabbage kind, brassica, colewort etc. |
| Wort | n | The infusion of malt which after fermentation becomes beer. |
| Wort | phr | "To Be In Wort" - be unfermented.. |
| Wortcraft | n | The medicinal use of worts (plants and herbs)as remedies; herblore, wortlore. |
| Wort-cropper | n | The hare |
| Wort-cunning | n | The knowledge of plants and herbs. |
| Worth | n | Pecuniary value, price, money. 2. the equivalent of a specified sum or amount. 3. the amount or value of something, sometimes small or insignificant. 3. money in contrast to goods. |
| Worth | n | An enclosed place, homestead. |
| Worth | vb | To come to be, betide, come to pass, befall, come about, happen, take place - used now only in the phrase 'woe worth'. |
| Worth | sfx | Of the value, as pennyworth. |
| Worth | phr | "A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Wood." - it is better to have a small but certain advantage than a mere potential of a greater one. |
| Worthwhile | phr | "Be Worth While" - to repay one for one's troubles. |
| Worth | phr | "For All It's Worth" - what it's value is. |
| Worth | phr | "For All Ones Worth" - with all of one's energyand vigor. |
| Worth | phr | "For What It Is Worth" - if something is worthy of consideration (usually said by someome who thinks the matter is important). |
| Worth | phr | "Not Worth a Row of Beans" - not even of the slighestt value. |
| Worth | phr | "Not Worth the Salt" - not pulling one's weight (refers to Roman soldiers being paid in salt). |
| Worth | phr | "Take at Worth" - to take something at it's true or proper value. |
| Worth | phr | "Throw in One's Six Pennies' Worth" - to modestly supply one's own facts or views. |
| Worth | phr | "Well Worth Doing" certain, or very likely, to repay the effort, time, etc sacrifice given etc. 2. well worth it. 2. worth it. |
| Worth | phr | "Worth Every Penny" - having true value for money. |
| Worth | phr | "Worth its Weight in Gold" - usually valuable or useful. |
| Worth | phr | "Worth of a Thing is What it Brings" - it is easy to determine the price of a product or service, but less easy to appreciate its worth. Not least because it’s worth, or value, may not become apparent for some considerable time. |
| Worth | phr | "Worth One's Salt" - deserving what one earns. 2. fulfilling one's function or performing one's work, competently. |
| Worth | phr | "Worth One's While" - profitable or interesting to somebody. |
| Worthful | adj | Valuable. |
| Worthfulness | n | Value; nonour, distinction, worthiness. |
| Worthies | phr | "The Nine Worthies" - the nine heroes - three from the Bible; three from the classics and three from romance. |
| Worthies | phr | "The Nine Worthies of London" - a kind of chronicle-history in mixed verse and prose of nine prominent citizens of London, published in 1592 by Richard Johnson, author of the Seven Champions of Christendom. |
| Worthily | adv | In a worthy manner; with worthiness; excellently, according to merit, becomingly. |
| Worthine | n | Survival as "wardine" - an enclosure, close. |
| Worthiness | n | Ceremony, pomp. |
| Worthing | n | Honour, respect. |
| Worthing-day | n | Sunday. |
| Worthing-night | n | Sunday night. |
| Worthless | adj | Without value or merit. 2. of no use or value; useless, despicable, vile. |
| Worthlessly | adv | In manner without value or merit; or of no use or value; useless, despicable, vile. |
| Worthlessness | n | The character or quality of being worthless. |
| Worthly | adj | Of things having great value or importance; nobly, fine, excellent. **** |
| Worthmint | n | Honour, worship. |
| Worthness | n | Honour, worthness. |
| Worthwhile | adj | Worthy, having value in itself, sufficiently important , interesting, profitable etc to give a good return for time, for attention spent. |
| Worthwhile | phr | "Be Worthwhile" - to repay one for one's troubles. |
| Worthwhileness | n | The quality of beibg worthwhile. |
| Worthy | sfx | Having worth or merit or value and found in combinations, such as nameworthy, thanksworthy, laughworthy, song-worthy. |
| Worthy | adj | Having qualities or abilities that merit recognition in some way. 2. having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable. 3. deserving respect, admiration, or support. 4. worthy, but not very interesting, but should be admired for its good and useful qualities. |
| Worthy | n | An important, honorable person (word is often used humorously). |
| Worthy | sfx | Meriting or deserving, as trustworthy. 2. valuable, having worth, as newsworthy. |
| Worthy | phr | "Worthy of the Name" - deserving to be named or defined, as something (which is specified by context)as a doctor etc. |
| Wortling | n | A young plant. |
| Wortlore | n | The learning and knowledge about worts or plants. It is an arm of biology that holds the knowledge about the growth, feeding, begetting and sicknesses of worts or plants |
| Wort-worm | n | A caterpillar, esp. one who feeds on cabbage, coles etc. |
| Wort-yard | n | A herb garden. |
| Wosith | n | (Woe & Sith) - trouble, grief, affliction. |
| Wot | vb | To know; to be aware. |
| Wough | n | A wall of a house, partition. |
| Wough | n | Evil, wrong, harm, injury. |
| Wough | adj | Crooked, bent. 2. evil, bad, wrong. |
| Would | vb | Anyone dealing in ifs, as-ifs, promises, threats, hopes, wishes, or similar feelings and attitudes about real or imagined future, will find themselves making plentiful use of would ans/or should, which do duty to express the vestigial and fast vanishing subjunctive mood. |
| Wough | phr | "To do Wough" - to carry out evil, do harm or injury. |
| Would | phr | "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda" - |
| Would | phr | "Would as Soon Do" - would as willingly, or more willingly, do something. |
| Would | phr | "Would Be If He Could Be" - a pretender; a wishful thinker, a Walter Mitty. |
| Would | phr | "Would Have Liked To" - almost, nearly. |
| Would | phr | "Wouldn't be Seen Dead in the Ditch with" - strongly dislike, despise somebody, something. |
| Would | phr | "Wouldn't Hurt? a Fly" - said of an extremely inoffensive and harmless person. |
| Wouldn't | phr | "Wouldn't Know Someone/Something If One Saw Him" - not even know what a particular object, animal etc is. 2. know nothing about a particular skill, activity, etc. |
| Would | phr | "Wouldn't Throw Out of Bed" - be romantically attracted to! |
| Would | phr | "Wouldn't You Know It" - used to emphasize something annoying that has happened. |
| Would | phr | "Would You Believe" - an exclamatory comment expressing or inviting, astonishment or delay. |
| Would-be | n | Of persons that would be; wishing or desiring to be, posing; a pretender. 2. of things intended to be. |
| Would-be-if-he-could-be | phr | A pretender; a wishful thinker, a Walter Mitty. |
| Would-be-thought | adj | Wishing to be considered. 2. one who feigns something: a "would-be if he could be" |
| Woulder | n | One who indulges in idle wishes, instead of making active efforts. |
| Would-have-been | n | That the action didn't or hasn't happened, because something else has happened first. |
| Would-have-been | adj | That (one) would have liked to be, or that they aimed at being. |
| Woulding | n | The action or fact of desiring, usually coupled with wishes. 2. desires, inclination. |
| Woulds | n | Those things one would do in idle fanciful, but rarely does in reality. |
| Woulds | phr | "Wishes and Woulds" - those giving to saying "I wish and I would." |
| Wound | n | An injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease. 2.
a similar injury to the tissue of a plant. 3. an injury or hurt to feelings, sensibilities, reputation, etc. 4. a cut, stab, laceration, lesion, trauma. 5. insult, pain, anguish. 6. harm, damage; cut, stab, lacerate |
| Wound | vb | To inflict a wound upon; injure; hurt. 2. to inflict a wound. 3. to harm, damage; cut, stab, lacerate |
| Wound | phr | "Heal One's Wounds" - to effect a reconciliation. |
| Wound | phr | "Lick One's Wounds" - to attempt to heal one's injuries or soothe one's hurt feelings after a defeat. |
| Wound | phr | "Open Up Old Wounds" - to take action which revives a long-standing grievance. |
| Wound | vb | To subject to twisting in various senses. |
| Wounded | n | People who are injured or suffering from physical injury, esp. suffered in battle. |
| Wounded | adj | Injured or suffering from physical injury, esp. suffered in battle. |
| Woundedness | n | The state or condition of being injured, wounded, esp. in battle. |
| Wounder | n | One who wounds or physically injures others. 2. one who wounds others emotionally. |
| Woundless | adj | Free from injury or hurt. 2. invulnerable, incapable of being wounded. |
| Woundwood | n | In woody stems, the new wood developing in response to a wound, often resulting in a swelling (as round a pruning wound) which gradually occludes the wound. Wound wood, or the scar it forms over a healed wound, is sometimes called a cicatrix or cicatrice. |
| Woundwort | n | Any of the several plants of the genus Stachys, including the hedge-woundwort and the fen-woundwort, several used to make poultice for the healing of wounds. |
| Woundy | adj | Extreme; excessive. 2. causing or involving wounds |
| Woundy | adv | In an extreme or excessive manner. |
| Wowe | n | Misery, distress, trouble, woe. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Wrack | n | A fusion of OE wraec punishment, revenge & Dutch wrak: wreck. 2. retribution, punishment; vengeance, revenge; later active enmity, persecution. 3. damage, disaster, danger, injury to a person by reason of force, outrage or violence. 4. a disastrous change in condition or state of affairs; wreck, ruin. 5. the ruin, downfall, or overthrow of a person or persons. 6. an instance of causing or suffering wrack, ruin, destruction etc. 7. a means or cause of subversion, overthrow, or downfall. 8. a thing or person in an impaired, wrecked or shattered condition. 9. that which remains after the operation of any destructive action or agency. 10. a trace or vestige left by some subversive action. |
| Wrack | n | A parallel formation to OE: wraec. 2. a wrecked ship or other vessel; a shipwreck. 2. remnants of goods from a wrecked vessel, esp. as driven or cast ashore. 3. marine vegetation, seaweed or the like, cast ashore by the waves or growing on the tidal seashore. 4. weeds, rubbish etc., floating or washed down or ashore by a river, stream, pond or the like. 5. field weeds, roots of couch grass or the like; esp. as loosened from the soil to be collected for burning. |
| Wrack | vb | To suffer or undergo shipwreck. 2. to wreck, ruin or cast ashore by shipwreck. 3. to cause to ruin, downfall or subversion of (a person); to ruin, overthrow. 4. to render useless by breaking. 5. to injure, spoil severely, destroy. 55. to undergo ruin or subversion. |
| Wrack | phr | "Do or Nim Wrack Upon" - bring suffering, ruin or downfall to. |
| Wrack | phr | "He Have No Wealth by Wrack of Sea" - |
| Wrack | phr | "World's Wrack" - earthly dross; worldly possessions. |
| Wracked | adj | That has undergone or suffered wrack; esp. shipwreck, ruined, destroyed. |
| Wrackful | adj | Characterized by resentment or anger, vengeful, angry. 2. causing shipwreck; wreckful. 3. full of misery, wrecked. 4. causing destruction or devastation, effecting damage or harm. 5. subject or attended by injury and harm. |
| Wracksome | adj | Destructive. |
| Wrackwort | n | Seaweed. |
| Wrake | n | OE. wracu. revenge, vengeance, persecute. |
| Wrake | n | Shipwreck, wreck, wreckage. 2. a wrake edifice. |
| Wrake | vb | To execute vengeance upon. 2. to become angry. 3. to wax violent or furious, rage. 4. to vent one's wroth. 5. to take wroth upon someone. |
| Wrake | phr | "To Do or Nim Wrake Upon" - to take vengeance upon. |
| Wrakedom | n | Revenge. |
| Wrangnail | n | OE. warnel- a corn on the foot or head. |
| Wrath | n | Extreme anger. |
| Wrath | phr | "Flee from the Wrath to Come" - try to escape from the threat of anger, punishment, revenge or persecution foreseen as threatening one. |
| Wrath | phr | "In Wrath" - in anger. |
| Wrath | phr | "Wrath of God" - terrible, dreadfully. |
| Wrath-bearing | adj | That produce or gives rise to wrath and anger. |
| Wrath-bewildered | adj | Confused or perplexed by wrath, as 'wrath-bewildered brain' |
| Wrath-fire | n | Extreme or burning anger, as 'stir up one's wrath-fire.' |
| Wrathful | adj | Extremely angry. 2. full of wrath; angry, incensed, furious, raging; indignant. |
| Wrathfully | adv | In a wrathful manner, angrily, wrathly |
| Wrathfulness | n | State, condition, quality of being wrathful, wrath, ire. |
| Wrath-hood | n | Wrath, deep anger; wrathhood. |
| Wrathily | adv | In a wrathy or angry manner; done with ire or angrily. |
| Wrathless | adj | Free from, devoid of wrath. |
| Wrathness | n | Anger, ire, wrath. |
| Wrath-storm | n | Storm of rage; rage. |
| Wrathy | adj | Extremely angry. |
| Wraxle | vb | To wrestle, contend, strive. |
| Wraxling | n | Act of wrestling, contending, striving. |
| Wray | vb | To accuse, denounce, inform on a person. 2. to expose (one) by revealing or divulging information, etc., to one's harm. 3. prejudice, or discredit. 4. to charge with a crime, offence, fault. 5. to declare, assert, (something about another by way of accusation or denunciation. 6. to bring forth a charge. 7. to reveal or disclose (someone's secrets) perfidiously or prejudicially; to divulge with breach of trust, betray. 8. reveal, disclose, divulge some fact, to declare, communicate, make known. 9. to reveal or make known in the prescence of. 10. to betray a person to an enemy by disloyalty. 11. to expose (a person) by revealing some hidden fact or private matter. 12. to reveal or disclose, to expose to view, to exhibit. |
| Wraying | n | The action of wray; accusing; accusation, denouncing, etc. |
| Wrayer | n | A betrayer, accuser, one who denounces, discloses. |
| Wrayful | n | Concerning or involving an accusation. |
| Wrayward | adj | Perverse, forward. |
| Wreak | vb | To inflict or exact as vengeance of ones anger. 2. to satiate; give free expression to, as a feeling or passion. give play or satisfaction to ones anger. 5. cause damage upon. |
| Wreak | n | Vengeance, retribution, punishment. |
| Wreaker | n | An avenger; one who seeks retribution, vengeance. |
| Wreakful | adj | Of persons; given or addicted to revenge. 2. marked or characterized by desire for revenge. 3. of the nature of vengance or retribution. |
| Wreakless | adj | Unpunished, free from punishment. unavenged, lacking retribution. |
| Wreath(e) | n | A bank of sand. 2. a snowdrift. 3. column of smoke, steam. 4. whirl, whorl, spiral structure. 5. fold, crease, wrinkle. 6. tail of a boar. 7. roll of flower, etc., a wreath 8. something formed by twisting, yarn. 9. trailing cluster of vine, etc. 10. a part of a continuous handrail going around a curved plan. |
| Wreathe | vb | (Of smoke) move in shape of a wreathe. 2. form flowers, silk into a wreathe. 3. make a garland. |
| Wreathe | phr | "Wreathed In" - surrounded by coils or wavy lines of mist, smoke, ivy, etc. |
| Wreathed | adj | Shaped in the form of a wreathe. 2. coiled, twisted, intertwined. |
| Wreathed stairs | n | A geometrical stairs or stairs with a continuous strings aand handrail round a semi-circular or semi-elliptical well. |
| Wreathen | vb | Formed or arranged by or as by twining or interweaving, entwined, intertwined. |
| Wreathen | adj | Wreathed, contorted, twisted. 2. entwined, intertwined. |
| Wreather | n | One who, or that which wreathes, twists, or twines. |
| Wreathing | n | The action of twisting or contorting, or of entwining or intertwining. 2. the fact of wreathing, a instance of this; something twisted or wreathed. |
| Wreathingly | adv | In a manner or way twisting, twining, intertwining, |
| Wreathless | adj | Having no wreath; devoid or destitute or wreath or wreaths. |
| Wreath-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a wreath in some aspect. |
| Wreath-shell | n | A spiral structure. |
| Wreathwort | n | Orchis mascula or the early purple orchis. |
| Wreathy | adj | Of the form of a wreath, coil, or twisted band; marked or characterized by convolution, curling, twirling, twisting or twining. 2. decked with a wreath. 4. of the nature of, forming, or constituting a wreath or garland. |
| Wrecche | n | Retribution, punishment, vengeance. 2. affliction, calamity, deep distress, misery, wretchedness. |
| Wrecche | vb | To arouse, rouse, to bring to life, awake. 2. undertake to awake or arouse. 3. to rescue or deliver. 3. to avenge (oneself). 4. to give effect to. |
| Wrecche | phr | "To Go to Wrecche" - to suffer misery, affliction, calamity. |
| Wreccher | n | An avenger, revenger, retributory. |
| Wrecchful | adj | Vengeful, revengeful. |
| Wreck | n | Wreck goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base 'wreg'. Its Germanic descendant 'wrek' forms the basis of a verb 'wrekan' - drive. The native English descendant of this is the OE 'wreak' which originally meant 'drive.' and developed its modern meaning via 'give vent to anger or other violent emotions.' Wreck itself was acquired via old Norse 'wrek and Anglo-Norman wrec, and etymologically it denotes a ship that has been driven on to the shore. A variant of same base, wrek lies behind English wretch. |
| Wreck | vb | To causes wreck, destruction of, frustration of any sort. 2. to tear down and remove old buildings. 3. to forcefully break. |
| Wrecker | n | One who causes wreck, destruction of, frustration of any sort. 2. one employed in tearing down and removing old buildings. 3. a person, train, car or machine that clears away wrecks. 4. one employed to recover disabled vessels or wrecked cargoes for the owners; one who salvages. 5. one who lures ships to destruction by false lights on the shore in order to plunder the wreck. |
| Wreck-free | adj | Free of wrecks. |
| Wreckful | adj | Causing wreck, involving ruin. |
| Wren | n | The bird genus 'Troglodiles' or 'Svyliidae' 2. slang. a woman, a young woman. |
| Wrench | n | A crooked, cunning or wily action or device. 2. a trick, wile, or artifice. 3. trickery, deceit, guile, fraud. 4. a violent twist or oblique pull or act or tearing off. 5. an adjustable tool like a spanner for the gripping and turning of nuts. 6. melody, song, and modulation. |
| Wrench | vb | To twist or pull violently round or sideways. 2. pull off with a wrench. 3. distort facts to support a theory. |
| Wrench | vb | To perform or undergo a quick or favorable turning or twisting motion. |
| Wrench | phr | "Wrench off" - take off, remove, with a powerful, twisting movement. |
| Wrench | phr | "Wrench and Wile" - trickery, strategy and deception. |
| Wrencher | n | One who twists, turn, curl, intertwine. |
| Wrenchful | adj | Artful, crafty, deceitful. 2. that wrenches or twists. 3. the nature of twisting or wrenching. |
| Wrenching | n | Action of the verb in various senses. 2. griping pain in the bowels. |
| Wrenching | adj | Causing great physical or mental suffering. |
| Wrenching-iron | n | A gripping tool, shaped like a wrench. |
| Wrenchingly | adv | In a wrenching manner. |
| Wrench-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a wrench (gripping tool). |
| Wrench-milk | n | Curd. |
| Wrene | adj | Libidinous, lascivious. |
| Wrength | n | From Middle English wrength, which may derive from an unattested Old English word *wrengþu (“unevenness, wrongness, inequity”) (from wrang (“wrong”)) or have been formed in Middle English from wrong on analogy with strong→strength and long→length (see -th); - rare and now nonstandard meaning: the state or condition of being wrong. 2. crookedness, distortion. cf 'brength' |
| Wrest | n | A key for tuning a piano. |
| Wrest | vb | Force or wrench away from a person's grasp. 2. obtain by effort or difficulty. 3. distort in accordance with one's views or interest. |
| Wrest | adj | That has undergone wresting or wringing, twisted. 2. deflected or turned from the true meaning or natural application, strained, perverted. 3. drawn out, taken or acquired, by force. |
| Wrest | phr | "Wrest from" - obtain, win from in a hard struggle. |
| Wrester | n | One who wrests or twists. 2. an instrument for picking locks. 3. one who wrests or deflects the meaning or application of words. 3. one who perverts, or distracts. 4. griping or ringing pain. |
| Wrestle | n | A contest in which two opponents grapple and try to throw each other to the ground esp. as an athletic event under a code of rules. 2. a hard struggle. 3. do one's utmost to deal with a difficulty, task etc. |
| Wrestle | vb | Take part in a wrestle. 2. fight in a wrestle to throw an opponent to the ground. |
| Wrestle | phr | "Wrestle Down" - force to the ground by wrestling. |
| Wrestle | phr | "Wrestle with" - fight inwardly, morally with, struggle with. |
| Wrestle | phr | "Wrestle with a Pig" - engage in a struggle with an opponent with benefits from the struggle without even winning it. |
| Wrestler | n | An athlete who takes part in wrestling events. |
| Wrestling-frog | n | South American 'wrestling' frog 'Rana luctator' |
| Wrestling | n | Organized wrestling events. 2, the act of wrestling. 3. an instance of this. 4. struggling with a difficulty or problem. |
| Wretch | n | Wretchedness, misery. 2. a cause or source of distress. |
| Wretch | n | One driven out or away from his native country, a banished person, an exile; a convict, a transported felon. |
| Wretch | vb | To render miserable. 2. to become niggardly or parsimonious. |
| Wretchdom | n | Misery, woe, distress, baseness. |
| Wretched | adj | Unhappy or miserable. 2. of bad quality or no merit, contemptible. 3. unsatisfactory or displeasing. 4. |
| Wretched | phr | "Feel Wretched" - be unwell. 2. be much embarrassed. |
| Wretchedful | adj | Full of misery, woe; miserable, wretched; unhappy, with or not having bliss. |
| Wretchedhood | n | State or condition of being a wretched person. 2. wretchedness, misery. |
| Wretchedly | adv | In a wretched manner, woeful, miserably. |
| Wretchless | adj | (Erroneously from reckless) of persons: heedless, careless, impudent. 2. marked or characterized by heedlessness or carelessness. |
| Wretchlessness | n | Condition or quality of being reckless or heedless etc. ****
2. in wretched manner or distress state; miserably. |
| Wretchly | adv | In a wretched or distressing manner. |
| Wretchness | n | The state or condition of being a wretch. |
| Wretchock | n | A person who is somewhat or wretched. |
| Wrethe | n | Violent anger. 2. a fit or display of wrath of the Deity. 3. injury, hurt, harm. |
| Wrethe | vb | Of persons (or things) to make angry, vex, irritate. 2. to be angry with a person. 3. to be angry. |
| Wrethe | vb | To prop up, hold up, support, sustain, (also fig.) 2. to support (oneself) by leaning upon another. 3. to rely or depend on another person. |
| Wrethful | adj | Of persons- angry, irate, marked or characterized by wroth. |
| Wrethfulness | n | Full of anger and wrath. |
| Wrething | n | The act of supporting or propping up. |
| Wride | n | A shoot, stalk or stem. 2. a group or bush of stalks, growing from one root. |
| Wride | vb | To put forth shoots; spread out. |
| Wried | adj | Turned aside, deflected, diverted. 2. that which has undergone contorting, twisting. 3. writhed, contorted, twisted. |
| Wriels | n | A covering, veil. |
| Wrien | n | Hidden, covered. 2. accoutered, equipped. |
| Wrier | n | One who twists, contorts, a contortionist. |
| Wright | n | Artificier or handicraftsman; esp. a construction worker. 2. one who works with wood; a carpenter, a joiner. 3. see: cartwright. shipwright, wainwright wheelwright. |
| Wright | vb | To build, construct. 2. to repair (a ship); to renovate, mend. 3. to pursue the occupation of a wright. |
| Wright | vb | Desert what has deserved or had a right to; hence blame, find fault with. |
| Wrightcraft | n | The craft of one who builds or creates something |
| Wrightful | adj | Having deserved something; have a right to. |
| Wright-house | n | The place of business of a wright or wrights. |
| Wrighting | n | Wrightry, art or craft of the wright. 2. the occupation, business or craft of a wright or a carpenter. |
| Wrightless-like | adj | Undeserving, without right to. |
| Wrightless-likely | adv | Undeservingly, unrightfully. |
| Wrightsmith | n | The art or craft of the wright. |
| Wrightwork | n | Work done, wrought or performed by a wright. |
| Wrily | adv | Tending or inclined to be mocking in humour. |
| Wrine | vb | To squeal like a pig. |
| Wring | n | The act of wringing; a squeeze. 2. a wine-press or cider-press. 2. a cheese-press |
| Wring | vb | To squeeze tightly. 2. squeeze and twist to wring out moisture. 3. sueeze forcibly, break by twisting. 4. extract by squeezing. 5. obtain by pressure or importunity. extort. |
| Wring | phr | "Know Where the Shoe Wrings" - where the shoe pinch the foot by tightness. 2. know the rigors of parsimony. |
| Wring | phr | "Wring in" - to insert, insinuate or bring in with or as with a twisting movement. |
| Wring | phr | "Wring One's Hands" - squeeze and twist one's hands together as a sign of anxiety, emotion, distress or despair. 2. clasp them as with emotion |
| Wring | phr | "Wring Out (or from)" - get something from somebody; extract something by applying moral or physical pressure. 2. to force out (moisture) by twisting. 3. force water from clothing, by twisting it or passing it through rollers. |
| Wring | phr | "Wring Somebody's Hand" - clasp the hand of another with emotion. |
| Wring | phr | "Wring Somebody's Neck" - strangle, press down, throttle, somebody. 2. kill a chicken by wringing its neck. |
| Wring-bolt | n | A ring-bolt. |
| Wringer | n | An exactor, extortionist, an oppressor. 2. one who wrings clothes or the like after washing. 3. one who occupation consists in wringing. 4. a wringing-machine. 5. a device for wringing hot fomentations before application. |
| Wringer | phr | "Put through the Wringer" - to put or subject a person to severe and prolonged questioning. |
| Wringhouse | n | The house or shed where a cider or cheese-press is kept. |
| Wringing | n | A griping or wringing pian in the intestines. 2. remorse. 3. perversion. |
| Wringing | adj | Twisting, squeezing, obtaining by pressure; exacting, strangling. |
| Wringingly | adv | In a wrung or twisted manner; with a twist. |
| Wrinkle | n | A slight crease or depression in the skin such as produced by age. 2. a similar mark in another flexible surface. 3. a detail, esp. a useful tip or technical innovation. 4. |
| Wrinkle | vb | Make wrinkles in. 2. form wrinkles, mark with wrinkles. |
| Wrinkled | adj | Marked with wrinkles. |
| Wrinkle-free | adj | Free of wrinkles; not having wrinkles or wrinkle-less. |
| Wrinkleless | adj | Free of wrinkles. |
| Wrinklelessly | adv | In a smooth or without wrinkled manner. |
| Wrist | n | The part connectin the hand with the forearm. 2. the corresponding part in an animal. 3. the part of a garment covering the wrist. |
| Wristband | n | A band forming or concealing the end of a shirtsleeve; a cuff. |
| Wrist-bone | n | The carpal bone. |
| Wrist-drop | n | In pathology, paralysis of the muscles controlling movement of the hand, a symptom of lead poisoning. |
| Wrist-iron | n | A handcuff, restraint; shackle. 2. a small strap for wearing on the wrist. |
| Wristily | adv | In a wrist manner, performed or done with the wrists. |
| Wristlet | n | A bracelet, a handcuff, wrist-iron. |
| Wristlock | n | A wrestling hold involving applying extreme pressure to an opponents wrist. |
| Wrist-pin | n | A stud projecting from a crank, as an attachment for a connecting a rod. |
| Wristwatch | n | A small watch worn on a strap round the wrist. |
| Wristwork | n | Th act or practice of working the hand without moving the wrist. 2. sleight of hand. |
| Wristy | adj | Performed by the use of the wrists; marked by clever wrist work, as a batsman at cricket, especially one from the Sub-continent. |
| Writ | n | A form of written command in the name of a court, state, sovereign, etc to act or abstain from acting in some way. 2. a crown document summoning a peer to Parliament or ordering the election of a member or members of Parliament. |
| Writ | phr | "From the Holy Writ" - the Scriptures; the Holy Bible. |
| Writ | phr | "One Writ Runs" - one that has the authority (as specified). |
| Writ | phr | "Writ of Right" - formerly in England a writ in action for the purpose of establishing a title to real estate. 2. a similar common law writ. |
| Writ | phr | "Writ Small" - write in a small or reduced form or text. 2. make less small or conspicuous. |
| Write | vb | Write communicate or express by writing. 2. record data on a computer. 3. communicate (with) in writing. 4. communicate by letter. 5. mark or trace on a surface.
5. create code, write a computer program. 6. produce a literary work. 6. write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word). 7. write music. 8. have (one's written work) issued for publication. |
| Write | phr | "Nothing to Write Home Of" - unimpressive; of little interest or value. |
| Write | phr | Write Away" - send an order for something offered as a free gift, for sale. |
| Write | phr | "Write Against" - produce articles etc against of somebody or something. |
| Write | phr | "Write Back" - write and send a reply to. |
| Write | phr | "Write Down" - record on paper (often as a memory aid). 2. record or take note of in writing. 3.to put or set down in writing; to commit to, ascribe or record in written form; to note or jot down. 4. to overcome or surpass, disparage. 5. to disparage in writing or depreciate, condemn or decry in writing. 6. to diminish in destroy one's own literary reputation by inferior writing. 7. to write (a literary work) in a style adapted to the level of readers, or supposedly to their inferior intelligence or taste. |
| Write | phr | "Write Home" - send a letter to one's family (perhaps after some period of estrangement). |
| Write | phr | "Write In/Into" - include, insert something, as a fact or statement, in a written text. 2. add to the ballot paper the name of a candidate not printed there or the like, as a candidate of one's choice. 3. make a part of, embody in or build into to, a legal document. 4. send a question, query, suggestion in writing to an organization, esp by a radio station. |
| Write | phr | "Write In the Dust" (also, in the sand, earth, wind etc.) - written in the earth implied contrast with the name graven on the rock for ever (Job 19:24) are those written on the dust or sand. The Eastern habit of writing on the ground (of which John 8:6 supplies one memorable instance, and which was the common practice in Jewish schools) gave a vividness to the similitude which we have almost lost. |
| Write | phr | "Write Off" - regard something as a failure, beyond recovery. 2. recognize that something is a loss (debt) and cannot be recovered. 3. damage something so badly that it has no value. 4. recognize that something is so badly damaged that it no longer economic to pay for its repair. |
| Write | phr | "Write Of (As)" - regard somebody or something as unimportant, not worth listening to because of its thought-to-be foolishness and wild assertions. |
| Write | phr | "Write On" - produce books etc on a particular subject. |
| Write | phr | "Write Oneself Out" - reach the point where one is no longer original, creative. |
| Write | phr | "Write Only" - In computer humor, a write-only language is a pejorative term for a programming language alleged to have syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is too difficult to understand by other programmers and cannot be safely edited.[1] Likewise, write-only code is source code so arcane, complex, or ill-structured that it cannot be reliably modified or even comprehended by anyone with the possible exception of the author. See "Read-only" |
| Write | phr | "Write Out" - write in full, finished, or complete form. 2. exhaust oneself by writing. |
| Write | phr | "Write Out of" - remove a character from a dramatic series on radio on TV or radio. |
| Write | phr | "Write Up" -rewrite something in a fuller, better organized way. 2. give a full written account or description of something. 3. write a review of a pay etc., usually for a newspaper or magazine. |
| Write-down | n | Something that is recorded, set down in writingTo put or set down. 2. committal , ascription or record in written form; note or something jotted down. 3. a reduction in the estimated book value of an asset. 4. the disparagement in writing or depreciation, condemnation or decrying in writing. 4. the diminishing or destroying of one's own literary reputation by inferior writing. 5. the writing (a literary work) in a style adapted to the level of readers, or supposedly to their inferior intelligence, dumbing down or taste. |
| Write-in | vb | The insertion of (a fact, statement etc.) in writing. 2. the sending (suggesting etc) in written form to an organization. 2. the insertion of (the name of an unlisted person) on a ballot paper or the like, as a candidate of one's choice. |
| Writeling | n | OE. writan - the chirp, trill or trilling, warbling of the nightingale. |
| Write-off | n | The recording of the cancelling of a bad debt. 2. fig. the dismissing from consideration as insignificant or irrelevant. 3. the damaging beyond repair, or wrecking a motor vehicle etc. |
| Write-off | n | A motor vehicle or the like, damaged beyond repair. 2. a bad debt written off. |
| Write-out | n | A fair or perfect transcription or written copy of something. 2. a rough draft, copy, etc. 3. to copy out, transcribe in full or detail. |
| Write-over | n | Write over the top of existing text. |
| Writer | n | A person who writes or hs written. 2. a person who writes an book; an author. |
| Writerling | n | A petty writer. 2. a poor or indifferent writer. |
| Writerly | adv | Appropriate to, characteristic or worthy of an professional writer or literary man. 2. consciously literary. |
| Writership | n | The office or position of a writer in a company. 2. the office or employment of a clerk. 2. conspicuously literary. |
| Write-up | n | A written account or description commending or praising a person or thing. 2. now loosely, any journalistic account or review whether favourable or not. |
| Writhe | n | An act of writhing. |
| Writhe | vb | Twist or roll oneself about in or as if in acute pain. 2. suffer severe discomfort, squirm, or embarrassment (shame, etc). 3. twist one's body about in severe pain. 4. to distort. 5. to turn to and fro. 6. to be tormented in the mind. |
| Writhe | vb | To sprout or flower. |
| Writhed | adj | Twisted, contorted, turned, jerky, unnerved. |
| Writhedly | adv | In a twisted, contorted, turned, jerky, unnerved. |
| Writhen | adj | Wrested, perverted, deflected. 2. twisted, contorted, turned. 3. made or shaped by intertwining or plaiting. |
| Writhening | n | Wrythening |
| Writhing | n | Bended in a twisting struggle. |
| Writhingly | adv | In a twisting struggle. |
| Writhled | adj | Of persons; the skin,etc: wrinkled, shriveled, withered. 2. tough, shaggy. |
| Writhy | adj | Moving sinuously. |
| Writing | n | A group or sequence of letter as symbols. 2. a piece of literary work done; a book, article. |
| Writing | phr | "In Writing:" - written. |
| Writing | phr | "See the Writing on the Wall" - there are unmistakable signs that warn of failure, disaster, defeat, (allusion to biblical Daniel). |
| Writing-book | n | A copybook for practizing writing. |
| Writing-booth | n | A desk with a surround available in libraries, and the like for writing. |
| Writing-dust | n | Writing sand: a kind of sand used to dry ink. |
| Writing-frame | n | A frame used for the blind in witing. |
| Writings | n | "The Writings" - the Hagiographa. |
| Writ-rune | n | A written character; hence in the plural, a document or letter. |
| Writsax | n | A pen. As well as writing on parchment, the Anglo-Saxons also used tablets filled with wax for notes and for planning the layout of large books. They wrote on the tables with a metal or bone stylus, that had a pointed end and rubbed out the words with flat end. |
| Written | adj | In writing. |
| Written law | n | Statue law, as distinguished from law based on the decision of judges. |
| Wrixle | vb | to alter, change, contract, exchange. |
| Wrixling | n | The action of changing, or the fact of being changed. |
| Wrong | n | What is morally wrong; a wrong action. 2. injustice, an unjust treatment. |
| Wrong | vb | Treat unjustly; do wrong. 2. mistaken attribute bad motives; discredit. |
| Wrong | adj | Mistaken, not true, in error, as a wrong answer. 2. unsuitable, unjust, less or least desirable. 3. contrary to law or morality. 4. amiss, out of order; in or into a bad or abnormal condition. 5. whatever deviates from rectitude. |
| Wrong | adv | In a wrong manner or direction. 2. with an incorrect result. |
| Wrong | n | "The Wrong" - that which is wrong; absence or right or unfairness; unjust or wrongful action. 2. the end, or limit less adopted, suitable or proper for a required purpose. |
| Wrong | phr | "Back the Wrong Horse" - hae faith in, give support or put money into a project which proves to be a failure. |
| Wrong | phr | "Bark Up the Wrong Tree" - to reach an incorrect conclusion. |
| Wrong | phr | "Be On the Wrong Wavelength" - be incorrect in ones thinking. |
| Wrong | phr | "Born on the Wrong Side of the Bed" - illegimate. |
| Wrong | phr | "Don't Get Me Wrong" - do not misunderstand me. 2. do not take offense at what I say. |
| Wrong | phr | "Do Somebody Wrong" - do someone damage or harm, injury someone; be unfaithful or disloyal; act unjustly or unfairly toward someone. |
| Wrong | phr | "Do Wrong" - commit sin, transgress; offend. 2. malign or mistreat a person. |
| Wrong | phr | "Do Wrong to" - malign or mistreat a person. |
| Wrong | phr | "Get in Wrong with" - incur the dislike or disapproval of (a person). |
| Wrong | phr | "Get Off on the Wrong Foot (with somebody)"- begin very badly. 2. to make an unfavorable initial impression on a person. |
| Wrong | phr | "Get On the Wrong Side of" - cause someone to dislike one. |
| Wrong | phr | "Get Out of Bed on the Wrong Side" - be disagreeable, grumpy. |
| Wrong | phr | "Get Something Wrong" - misunderstand or make a mistake. |
| Wrong | phr | "Get/Hold the Wrong End of the Stick" - to be completely wrong about something. |
| Wrong | phr | "Get the Wrong Sow by his Ear" - to reach a incorrect conclusion. |
| Wrong | phr | "Get Wrong" - misunderstand a person's statement. 2. obtain an incorrect answer. |
| Wrong | phr | "Go Down the Wrong Way" - of food that enter the windpipe instead of the gullet. |
| Wrong | phr | "Go Wrong" - make a mistake or cease to function, work properly or become immoral or dishonest. 2. depart from virtuous or suitable behavior. 3. take the wrong path in life. |
| Wrong | phr | "Have Wrong" - to suffer injustice. |
| Wrong | phr | "In the Wrong" - culpable, guilty, purpose. 2. responsible, for a quarrel mistake, or offence. |
| Wrong | phr | "Not Put a Foot Wrong" - never make a mistake. |
| Wrong | phr | "On the Wrong Side of" - out of favor with (a person). 2. somewhat more than a specified age. |
| Wrong | phr | "The King/Queen Can Do No Wrong" - the legal and constitution principle that the Crown acts on the advice and consent of minster and cannot be held responsible. |
| Wrong | phr | "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right" - a second error doesn't cancel the first |
| Wrong | phr | "What's Wrong with That?" - why not? |
| Wrong | phr | "Wrong Side out - with the wrong side out; inside out. |
| Wrong-doer | n | A person who behaves immorally or illegally. |
| Wrongdoing | n | Transgression, misdemeanor, offence, evil-doing. |
| Wronged | adj | Transgress against, offended, maltreated, betrayed. |
| Wrongfoot | vb | In tennis, football, etc play so as to catch an opponent off balance. 2. disconcert, catch unprepared. |
| Wrongeld | n | (Wrong & yield) - a form of tallage. |
| Wronger | n | One who does wrong; a wrongdoer. |
| Wrongfoot | vb | In tennis, football, etc play so as to catch an opponent off balance. 2. disconcert, catch unprepared. |
| Wrong-foot | phr | "Get Off on the Wrong Foot"- start poorly, badly. |
| Wrong-footed | adj | Unprepared, disconcerted, off-balanced. |
| Wrongful | adj | Charcterized by unfairness or injustice. 2. contrary to law. 3. of a person, not entitled to the position, etc occupied. |
| Wrongful-birth | n | A lawsuit filing, claiming a doctor failed to advise the parents, a child may have the prospect of a serious birth defect. |
| Wrongfulness | n | Some quality or characteristic of being wrongful. 2. absence of right. 3.equity or justice. 4. wrongness |
| Wrongfully | adj | In a wrongful manner; unjust. |
| Wrong-headed | adj | A perverse or wrong-headed person. 2. a person who displays perversity of judgement. |
| Wrong-headedly | adv | In a perverse or wrong-headed manner. |
| Wrong-headness | n | The act of doing wrong or acting wrongheadly. 2. an instance of being wrongheaded. |
| Wrongish | adj | Somewhat wrong or in error. |
| Wrongless | adj | Devoid or free from wrong. |
| Wronglessly | adv | Without doing wrong or inflicting injury; harmlessly |
| Wrong look | n | Something that doesn't look correctly. 2. someone who doesn't look like he/she normally does. |
| Wrongly | adv | In a wrong, undue or inappropriate manner or fashion. 2. unfitting, |
| Wrong-minded | adj | Having a mind wrongly inclined; affected harmfully or prejudically injured. |
| Wrongness | n | State or condition of being curved or crooked. 2. crookedness. 3. a wrong bent, tendency or inclination. |
| Wrong side | n | The worst or undesired or unusable side of something, esp. fabric. |
| Wrong'un | n | (A Wrong'one; a dishonest, or criminal, person ; an unreliable, or untrainable, domestic or sporting animal. |
| Wrongwend(e) | adj | Distorted, turn aside, (halwende) |
| Wrongwise | adv | In a wrong or reserved manner. |
| Wroot | vb | Original form of root. 2. to turn up, dig soil with a the snout, as a pig or swine in the search or grubbing for food. 3. to dig up the earth by grubbing. 4. of worms - that burrow a d dig the earth. 5. of persons- to turn over or up the ground; to draw or cast earth. |
| Wrooter | n | A field worker, one who digs up the earth, soil. 2. an animal that roots. |
| Wrooting | n | The act of grubbing or rooting; the result of this. 2. a furrow made by a pig rooting or grubbing. |
| Wroth | n | Wrath. |
| Wrothe | adv | Wrathfully, sorrowfully, sadly. |
| Wrother-heal | n | Evil fate or fortune; misfortune. 2. injury, calamity or destruction. |
| Wrother-heal | vb | To act with evil fate or fortune, as 'in wrother-heal Bob was born' |
| Wrothful | adj | Full of wrath or anger. |
| Wrothfully | adv | In a wrathful or angry manner. |
| Wrothly | adj | Angry, violent. |
| Wrothly | adv | In a wrathful manner. 2. in a bitter or cruel manner. 3. angrily, furiously, badly, off-color. |
| Wroth silver | n | Money paid to the lord in lieu of castleward, i.e. a feudal obligation in return for protection, castle ward or guard being knight service for defending the lord's castle.. |
| Wrothy | adj | Wrathful, angry. |
| Wrought | vb | To wright, work, perform labour. |
| Wrought | adj | Worked into shape or condition. 2. created, shaped, mould. 3. that is made or constructed by means of labour or art, fashioned, formed. 4. shaped, fashioned or finished from the rough or crude material, cut. 5. artificial, specially prepared. 6. of textile material: manufactured, spun. 7. decorated or ornamented, as wrought needlework, elaborated, embellished, embroidered. 8. of leather- prepared by dressing. 9. of articles: made, manufactured, or prepared for use or commerce. 10. of metals: beaten out or shaped by a hammer or tool, as in wrought iron. 11 of coal- hew or cut from the bed or seam; won; dug, moved by digging. 12. of animals: employed in labour, worked. |
| Wrought-iron | n | Malleable metal - made by hammering and hand, not cast. |
| Wrought | phr | "Wrought off" - worked off, |
| Wrought | phr | "Wrought Up" - tense, stirred-up, nervously strained, agitated, excited or stimulated; enlivened. |
| Wrought-off | adj | Worked off. |
| Wrought-up | adj | Tense, stirred-up, nervously strained, agitated, frenzied, excited or stimulated; enlivened. |
| Wrought | phr | "Wrought Upon" - influenced. |
| Wry | vb | To cover, veil, conceal. 2. to lay, place, spread a cover over something, cover up or cover over. 3. to cover a person with a garmnent, clothe or attire. 4. to cover a person or oneself with armour. 5. to put armour or trapping on a horse; to caparison, trap, harness. 6. to cover a person so as to keep warm. |
| Wry | adj | Distorted or turned to one side. 2. of a face or smile etc, contorted in disgust, disappointment or mockery. 3. of humuor, dry and mocking. |
| Wry | adv | In a wry manner. |
| Wry-eyed | adj | In a wry, oblique or distorted look. |
| Wrying | adj | Funny in an understated, sarcastic, or ironic way: a wry sense of humor. 2. temporarily twisted in an expression of distaste or displeasure: made a wry face. 3. archaic abnormally twisted or bent to one side; crooked: a wry nose. |
| Wryingly | adv | In a twisting or writhing manner. |
| Wryly | adv | In a wry, oblique or distorted manner. |
| Wry look | n | One expressive of displeasure or dislike. |
| Wry-mouthed | adj | A mouth marked or characterize by contortion. |
| Wry-neck | n | A bird of the genus lynx of small migratory birds, the common species "lynx torquilla" distinguished by its habit of writhing the neck and head. |
| Wryneck-day | n | Day of one's hanging, execution. |
| Wry-necked | adj | Having a wry or crooked neck. 2. affected with distortion of the neck. |
| Wryneck-ness | n | Having a wry or twisted neck , as a tortoise. |
| Wryness | n | Fact or condition of being wry or distorted; distortion, twisting. |
| Wry-toothed | adj | Having a distorted or turned tooth or teeth. |
| Old English | Rank | English |
| Y | pref | An OE prefix () meaning: with and together giving thoughts of association, collectivity, perfectiveness, completiveness or intensiveness. It lives on in archaic words like Yborne, Yclad, Yclept |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Wych-elm | n | The Eurasian elm, or witch-elm, Ulmus glabria |
| Wych-hazel | n | The witch-elm; wych-elm. |
| Wye | n | In OE. chiefly, and in later use only in poetic use : 1. one who fights, a fighting man. 2. warrior, soldier. 3. a noble, vigorous man, hence gen. a man or person. 4. applied to the Devil, as 'be the wye that all the world wrought.' 5. a woman, lady. |
| Wyn | n | Applied to the old English runic (=w) |
| Wyn | n | Joy. |
| Wyncandle | n | A lamp that gives delight, an epithet of the Sun. |
| Wynd | n | A narrow street or passage turning off from a main thoroughfare; a narrow cross-street. |
| Wyndcraft | n | The Art of Weaving. |
| Wyn-head | n | The higher end of a narrow street. |
| Wyning | n | A small strong rope for tying a sail. a leg band. |
| Wynland | n | A land of delight, a happy pleasant land, heaven |
| Wynwort | n | A pleasant plant |
| Wyrt-bed | n | Wortbed, a garden bed. |
| Wyrt-meat | n | Edible plants or food. |
| Wyrtmong | n | Wort-mong: spices. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Y | pfx | Archaiic form of past particle, collective nouns. |
| Y | sfx | Suffix forming adjectives: from nouns and adjectives meaning full of, having the quality of. 2. addicted to. 3. from verbs meaning 'inclined to' , 'apt to'. |
| Yain | vb | To meet, encounter, oppose. 2. To avail, gain |
| Yair | n | An enclosure extending into a hideway in a river or on the sea-shore for catching fish; a fish-garth.Yair-fishing. |
| Y'all | n | You all (Southern USA). |
| Yammer | n | OE: sorrowful: a lament, wail or grumble. 2. voluble talk. |
| Yammer | vb | Late Middle English (as a verb meaning ‘lament, cry out’): alteration of earlier yomer, from Old English geōmrian ‘to lament' 2. to utter a yammer. 3. talk volubly. |
| Yammerer | n | One who claims or whines peevishly. |
| Yan | nmb | Nothumbrian form of one. |
| Yance | adv | Once. |
| Yard | n | A thing of no value. 2. Straight slender shoot, twig or branch of a tree. 3 Rod, staff or stick carried in the hand, a walking stick. 4. Crook held by shepherd or herder. 5. A birch, stick or rod used for administering strokes of punishment; also fig., hence punishment or chastisement itself. Wand, rod, staff carried as a symbol of office: authority; hence the phrase:under the yard: under the rule of discipline or under rule or authority. 6. An area of land of varying extent, according to their locality, but mostly thirty acres or a quarter of a hide. 7. "The Yard" - OE : enclosure, "Scotland Yard'. |
| Yard | phr | "By the Yard" - at great length. |
| Yard | phr | "In Somebody's Own Back Yard" - located near somebody, in the neighborhood. 2. in one's own domain. |
| Yard | phr | Under the Yard" - under the rule of discipline or under rule or authority. |
| Yard | phr | "Yard of Ale" - a deep slender beer glass, about a yard long and holding to or three pints. 2. the contents of a yard glass. |
| Yardarm | n | (Nautical) the outer end of a yard, often equipped with blocks for reeving signal halyards |
| Yardarm | phr | "Yardarm to Yardarm" - very close to each other. |
| Yardbird | n | Prisoner, internee, convict, lag; yardie. 2. recruit, newly enlisted serviceman under discipline of a misdeamour, and assigned menial tasks. ' |
| Yarncraft | n | The making of decorative items from yarns. |
| Yardful | adj | Enough to fill a yard. |
| Yard goods | n | Merchandise, esp. fabric, sold in units of linear measurement. |
| Yardgrass | n | Grass in a lawn. 2. a coarse, widely distributed annual grass, (Elesine indica). |
| Yardkeeper | n | A timber importer who stores timber. |
| Yard-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a yard. |
| Yardman | n | A workman working in a railway yard or timber yard. |
| Yardmaster | n | One in chrage of a railway yard. |
| Yard-sale | n | A sale of used household goods, held on the seller's own premises. |
| Yardstick | n | A standard used for comparison. 2. a measuring stick a yard long, usually divided into into inches. 3. a graduated rod, 3ft long, used for measuring. |
| Yardwand | n | See "yardstick" |
| Yare | adj | Of a person, ready, prepared; easily manageable, obedient 2. of things, ready for use. 2. be alert, active, brisk, nimble. 3. of a ship, move lightly,and easily; answering readily to the helm. |
| Yare | phr | "In Full Yare" - quickly, without delay. |
| Yare | phr | "Make Yare"- to be ready, get ready, prepare. |
| Yare-handed | adj | Dexterous, quick. |
| Yarely | adv | Promptly, nimbly, skilfully |
| Yare-witted | adj | Sharp, clever, intelligent. |
| Yark | vb | To make readily, prepare, put in position, to set in place. 2. to ordain, decree, appoint, bestow, grant. |
| Yarking | n | Preparation, readiness, setting-up. 2.Ordination, decree, appointment, bestowment, yating. See:Yate |
| Yarm | n | Discord, outcry, yell, scream |
| Yarm | vb | To utter discord, yell screamingly, mournfully cry, wail |
| Yarn | n | Threadspun used as fibre for weaving, knitting, weaving, rope-making. 2. a long or rambling story or discourse. |
| Yarn | vb | To chatter, to story tell, gossip. 2. to tell yarns. |
| Yarn | phr | "Spin a Good Yarn" - tell a good, long (untrue) story. 2. to tell an amusing or unlikely story. |
| Yarn beam | n | A roller in a loom on which the warp thread are wound in weaving. |
| Yarn-like | adj | Resembling yarn, rope-like, coarse. |
| Yarnwinder | n | A wood stand carying revolving arms for winding wool or yarn. 2. yarnwindle, yarndle, yarringle; see Garnwindle |
| Yarrow | n | The herb Achillea (daisy family) with a strong odour and pungent taste; milfoil. |
| Yate | vb | To grant, bestow, concede, acknowledge, confess, provide or give guidance and direction. |
| Yauld | adj | Vigorous, strong, healthly. 2. active, sprightly, alert. 3. supple, active, athletic, nimble. |
| Yaup | adj | Clever, cunning, shrewd, astute, nimble, active. 2. ready and eager to do something, with alacrity 3. ready and eager to eat: hungry; also spelt:Yap,Yepe. |
| Yaupish | adj | Yawpish. |
| Yawn | n | The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired. 2. a particularly boring event. |
| Yawn | vb | To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation. 2. to present a wide opening, as a canyon 3. to open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment. 4. to be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning. |
| Yawner | n | A person who yawns. 2. fig. something unexciting or boring that induces yawning, as a book, sporting event or performance. |
| Yawniness | n | The quality of being yawny. 2. fig. wide open. |
| Yawningly | adv | In a yawning way. 2. so as to open wide, gapingly. |
| Yawpish | adj | Rather or somewhat clever, cunning, shrewd, astute, nimble, active. 2. with some readness and eagerness to do something, with alacrity |
| Yawp | adj | Hoarse; querulous, yelpy, yelping. 2. of a bird, harsh or strident in pipe. 3. of persons, contemptuous in tone or speech. |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Ye | prn | Thou. |
| Yea | interj | Interjection expressing assent to a statement or command; truly, verily. 2. yes, indeed. |
| Yea and nay | adj | Indefinite and indeterminate, shilly-shally, vacillating, ambiguous, undecided, expedient. |
| Yea and nayer | n | A fence-sitter, waverer, one who vacillates, sways, quakes or hesitates. |
| Yea and Nays | n | Affirmative and negative votes. |
| Yea-forsooth | adj | pertaining to or indicative of one who say 'yea' & 'forsooth', not belonging to genteel society, as a coarse, yea-forsooth rascal. |
| Yeah | adv | Colloquial form of 'yes'. |
| Yean | vb | Bringing forth a lamb or kid. 2. pregnant. |
| Yea nayish | adj | Somewhat indefinite or vacillating. |
| Yeanling | n | A young lamb or kid. |
| Year | n | 1. Any of various calendar units based on the time the earth takes to revolve once around the sun, especially: in the Gregorian calendar, a period beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31, consisting of 365 or 366 days in 12 months. 2. a period of 365 or 366 days used as the basis for another calendar such as the Julian calendar. 3. a sidereal year. 4. a solar year. 5. period of about a year. 6. a period equal to the calendar year but beginning on a different date: a tax-reckoning year; a farming year. 7. an annually recurring period devoted to a special activity: the school year. 8. age, especially old age. 9. years as an indefinitely long period of time: it's been years since we saw her. |
| Year | phr | "For a Year and a Day" - in law the period of time in which in certain matters deternes a right or liability. |
| Year | phr | "Getting on in Years" - becoming old. |
| Year | phr | "In the Year Of the Lord" - in a year specified AD. |
| Year | phr | "Of the Year" - chosen as outstanding in a particular year. |
| Year | phr | "Year after Year" - continually over years. |
| Year | phr | "Year and a Day" - a time to be allowed for an act or an event, in order that an entire year might be served beyond all. |
| Year | phr | "Year in, Year Out" - continually over years. |
| Year | phr | "Year on Year" - year after year. |
| Yearbook | n | An annual publication dealing with events or aspects of the usual preceding year. |
| Yearbookish | adj | Prepared in a manner somewhat resembling a yearbook. |
| Year-day | n | An anniversary of birth, death, or marriage, or any memorable event in a family or nation. |
| Yeared | adj | Containing years, having existed or been for many years; aged. |
| Year-end | n | The end of esp. the financial year. |
| Yearful | adj | Desirous. |
| Yearling | n | An animal between one and two years old. 2. |
| Yearling | adj | a year old having existed or being such for a year. 2. intended to terminate after one year. |
| Yearlong | adj | Lasting a year or the whole year. 2. continually through the year. |
| Yearly | adj | one, produced or occurring once a year. 2. lasting a year. |
| Yearly | adv | Once a year; from year to year. |
| Yearman | n | Someone in a particular year of study. |
| Yearmark | n | An inscription on a coin indicating the year in which the coin was either produced or issued. |
| Yearmind | n | The commemoration of a deceased person by requiem services on the first or on each anniversary of her or his death. |
| Yearn | vb | Have a strong emotional longing towards. 2. filled with compassion or tenderness. |
| Yearn | phr | "Yearn for" - desire strongly; long for. |
| Yearner | n | One who yearns or longs emotionally and strongly. |
| Yearnful | adj | Desirous. |
| Yearnfully | adv | In a desirous or longing manner. |
| Yearning | n | A strong emotion of longing or desire, especially with tenderness. |
| Yearningly | adv | With yearning, with desire, longingly. |
| Year-on-year | adj | Year over year and compared with the same period in previous years. |
| Year-old | sfx | A suffix used to indicate the age of someone or something, in terms of years. |
| Yearward | adv | In direction of the year as a whole, towards the remainder of the year. |
| Yea-sayer | n | One who agrees or assents, one who is always |
| Yea-saying | n | Aquiescence, to agree to a statement even when in doubt. |
| Yearward | adv | In the direction of the year as a whole; toward the remainder of the year. |
| Yeast | n | Substance produced in the forming of alcohol by certain liquids, used in bread making |
| Yeast-bitten | adj | When the froth of the beer has entered the body of the beer. |
| Yeasted | adj | Made with yeast or having yeast as an ingredient. |
| Yeastily | adv | In a yeasty manner. |
| Yeastiness | n | State or condition of being yeasty. |
| Yeastless | adj | Without or not containing yeast. |
| Yeastlike | adj | Resembling yeast or haracteristic of yeast in some aspect. |
| Yeasty | adj | Frothy or tasting like yeast. 2. in a ferment. 3. working like yeast. 4. of talk; light and superficial. |
| Yeaword | n | Appeasement |
| Yedding | n | A speech, a long discourse, a spree, a gest or tale or verse of romance. |
| Yeie | vb | Cry out, bark, blaspheme |
| Yeke | n | Cuckoo. 2. fool, simpleton, bastard |
| Yekth | n | Itch. itching |
| Yeld | adj | Of an animal: barren, one passed the time for having young, or too young to bear young. 2. Cattle not yielding milk. Fig., unproductive, effete |
| Yell | n | A loud strident cry or noise; yelling. |
| Yell | vb | To utter or omit a strident cry, esp. because of a some sudden emotion such as rage, horror, hurt, agony. 2. to sing loudly or chant. |
| Yell | phr | "Yell Out" - cry or shout aloud to attract attention, show pain etc. |
| Yeller | n | Someone who communicates in a loud voice. |
| Yelling | n | To cry out loudly as in pain, fright, surprise, enthusiasm or a cheer uttered or chanted in unison. |
| Yellow | n | Colour of gold, butter, egg-yolk. 2. Primary colour in the spectrum of blue and orange. |
| Yellow | phr | "Be Yellow" - be scared to do something; cringe, act cowardly. |
| Yellow | phr | "Have a Yellow Streak Down One's Back" - be cowardly. |
| Yellow-back | n | A cheap novel, esp. in a yellow cover; a pot-boiler, penny dreadful. |
| Yellow belly | n | A coward. 2. in times past a person born in the fens of Lincolnshire (from the sickly yellow complexion of persons residing in marshy living-places.) |
| Yellow bird | n | Betula lutea. |
| Yellow bird | n | The golden finch. |
| Yellow box | n | A very hard, heavy, strong, tough, durable eucalyptus (Eucalyptus melliodora. |
| Yellow-daisy | n | The Black-eyed Susan. |
| Yellow-earth | n | Yellowish clay, coloured by iron, used as pigment. |
| Yellowed | adj | having a yellowy color, esp. due to aging. |
| Yellow-evil | n | Jaundice |
| Yellow-gold | n | The purest gold of all. |
| Yellow-green | adj | Of a pale apple-green color; chartreuse. |
| Yellow-haired | adj | Blonde, golden-haired |
| Yellow-hammer | n | A song bird, so called because of its yellow color; the yellow bunting. |
| Yellow hounds | n | Spectral hounds that hunt the wildest parts of Dartmoor on moonless nights, urged on by the Night-hunters of the Moor on his huge horse which breathes fire and flame. The baying of these hounds, held by some to be headless, if heard, spells death within a year. The abbot's way, an ancient track across the southern part of the moor, is said to be their favorite path. 2. also called Wish Hounds. |
| Yellowing | n | The act of becoming yellow. |
| Yellowish | adj | Somewhat yellow in colour, yellowly. 2. tinged with yellow. |
| Yellowishly | adv | having a colour resembling yellow. |
| Yellowishness | n | The property of having a slight or moderate shade of yellow. |
| Yellow-lead ore | n | Wulfenite. |
| Yellow-livered | adj | Cowardly, weak-kneed, meek. |
| Yellow rain | n | Often in Fir forests the pollen is given off into the air in such enormous quantities that it is washed down by the rain as a yellow powder and is popularly known as Sulphur rain or Yellow rain. |
| Yellowred | adj | Of a colour between yellow and red: orange. |
| Yellow Sea | n | An arm of the Pacific Ocean between Korea and the Eastern coast of China. |
| Yellow star | n | Symbol the Nazis required Jewish people to wear during 1933 to 1945 |
| Yellow streak | n | Cowardice; a personality trait combining cowardice, treachery and meanness. |
| Yellows | n | Name of certain plants, such as Genista tinctora and Reseda inteola, yielding a yellow dye. 2. 'The Yellows': jaundice |
| Yellowware | n | A type of yellowy earthenware or stoneware made from a yellow clay. |
| Yellowweed | n | Any of the various Goldenrods. |
| Yellow wood | n | A name applied to various species of tree throughout the world |
| Yellowy | adj | Somewhat yellow; yellowish. |
| Yelm | n | A bundle of straw laid out for thatching. |
| Yelm | vb | To bundle |
| Yelp | n | A dog shrill bark of excitement or distress. 2.The cry of dogs and some other animals. 3. The lifting up of one's voice to cry aloud. 4. Boasting, vain-glorous speaking |
| Yelper | n | A boaster, animal or person who whines or yelps; a whelp: avocet, a young partridge. 2. A Town Crier. 3. A writer or speaker whose utterance is like a yelper: whining, whingeing, complaining. Yelpers: wild beasts |
| Yelpy | adj | Likely or prone to yelp. |
| Yelt | n | A young sow, a gilt |
| Yelve | n | Dung or garden fork |
| Yeme | n | Care, heed, attention |
| Yemeles | n | Carelessness, heedlessness, negligence |
| Yemer | n | Custodian, carer, one who looks after something. |
| Yender | n | (Ere under)Forenoon, morning |
| Yeo | n | A river, stream; a yea, ea. |
| Yeoman | n | OE 'young (?) & man' servant, attendant in a royal or noble household. 2. groom, page, assistant as in yeoman of the ewery. 3. reliable, trustworthy assistant or helper |
| Yeoman-like | adj | Sturdy, courageous, bold, staunch. |
| Yeomanly | n | Pertaining to or resembling a yeoman. 2. of yeoman rank; brave, rugged, staunch |
| Yeomanly | adv | Like a yeoman; bravely, staunchly. |
| Yepe | adj | Cunning, crafty, sly, wily. 2. nimble, agile, brisk, bold, daring. Adv. yeply |
| Yepsen | n | The two hands together, so as to form a bowl-shaped cavity |
| Yerd | n | A stick; presumably from the same origin as yard, from Old English ġerd (“branch, twig, stick”) related to English and Scots yerk (“to whip, beat, strike, especially with a stick”). |
| Yerd | vb | (rare) To beat with a stick |
| Yerd-hunger | n | (eard or earth hunger) Voracious desire for land. "Lebensraum" |
| Yere | vb | Yearn, desire, long for |
| Yering | n | A desire, a longing, request |
| Yern | adj | Eager, willing, earnest, desirous, greedily, thoroughly, covetous. 2. Swift, rapid, fast, brisk, lively, quick, nimble, agile. also spelt: 'yerne'. |
| Yerner | n | A runner. |
| Yerning | n | Running |
| Yes | interj | Used in answering that something is so or that someone will do something or sign something that one is in agreement with a statement. |
| Yes | phr | "Yes and Amen" - an emphatic agreement. |
| Yes | phr | "Yes and No" - an answer that is partly true or untrue. 2. an answer that agrees but disagrees in another. |
| Yes | phr | "Yes to Death" - to agree in something; somewhat sarcastically |
| Yes-man | n | A weak acquiescent person; an obsequious subordinate. |
| Yesmanship | n | The state or position of a yes-man. |
| Yester | pref | A prefix meaning immediately preceding present, as in yesterday, yesternoon, yestereve. 2. the period of time: last past. (now only used in combination with 'day' . |
| Yesterday | n | The day preceding today. 2. loosely, the near past. |
| Yesterday | phr | "Not Born Yesterday" - be not naive. |
| Yesterday | adv | On the day last past. 2. at a recent time. |
| Yester-eve | n | Yesterday eve. |
| Yester-evening | n | The evening of yesterday |
| Yesterfang | n | That which was captured or caught on the previous day, as a previous day 's catch. |
| Yestermonth | n | Last month |
| Yestermorn | n | Yesterday morning. |
| Yestern | n | Of or pertaining to yesterday. |
| Yesternight | n | Last night. |
| Yesternoon | n | Noon yesterday. |
| Yestertide | n | A time period previous to the present; in the past; yestertime. |
| Yestertime | n | A time period previous to the present; in the past; yestertide. |
| Yestreen | n | Tne night before (yester & e'en). |
| Yesterweek | n | Last week. |
| Yesteryear | n | Last year. 2. the recent past. |
| Yes way | intj | Indicates defiance of a previously said 'no way". |
| Yet | adv | Till now or then, still; again, in addition; some time; before the chance is is gone; even, as inyet older; though that it is so. |
| Yet | vb | To pour. 2. to shed tears or blood. 3. to pour forth or cause to flow in a flood. 4. to shed. 5. to infuse 6. to gush forth or flow in as stream, as water or tears. 7. to form an object by pouring molten metal into a mold; to found or cast metal. 8. to form metal into a shape, by pouring it when melted into a mold. 9. to melt down metal. 11. to set or fasten(as iron in stone) by means of molten lead, hence to fix firmly.See yote, yotling, yoter |
| Yet | phr | "As Yet" - up to now. |
| Yet | phr | "Nor Yet" - and also not. |
| Yet | phr | "Yet awhile" - until a little or some time later. |
| Yet | phr | "You Aint See Nothing Yet" - there is much better or worse to come. |
| Yetting | n | Casting, founding. |
| Yetling | n | Pot or boiler, usu. of cast iron. 2 various articles made of cast iron. 3.cast iron (itself), cast. |
| Yeuck | n | Itch, a prickly feeling. |
| Yeuck | vb | To irritate or itch the skin. |
| Yetting | n | Casting, founding |
| Yever | adj | Greedy, voracious, covetous. 2. eager, quick, prompt. |
| Yeverly | adv | Greedily, yeversome. 2. quickly |
| Yeverness | n | Greediness, gluttony. 2.eagerness, impetuosity.Yevery. |
| Yew | n | Yeugh, a tree of the genus taxus, esp. the common yew of Europe and Asia, Taxus baccata. Yews are placed in church-yards and cemeteries, and closely associated with mourning. Branches and twigs of the tree are thought of as symbols of mourning. |
| Yewen | vb | Made of the wood of the yew tree. |
| Yex | n | Yex oryesk: a hiccups, sob, belch |
| Yex | vb | To hiccough or hiccup, belch forth. |
| Old English | sp | English |
| Wulder | n | Glory, honour. |
| Wumme | intj | "Woe is me." |
| Wun | vb | To dwell, habitate, wone |
| Wune-ness | n | Habitation; habitat. |
| Wurp | n | A stone's throw. 2. a glance of the eye. |
| Wurtle | adj | Worthy, deserved, merited. |
| Wush | vb | Preterite of wash |
| Wunsome | adj | Dialect form of winsome: joyful, joyous. 2. smart, trimly dressed; lively. 2. twisted (North); ill-natured. |
| Old English | Rank | English |
| Y'fare | pp | Travelled, voyaged. 2. dealt with |
| Yfere | n | In company, a group or togther. 2. companion, fellow, associate. OE: gefera, faran: to go. |
| Y'fet | pp | Brought, carried, fetched, acquired |
| Y'fong | pp | Taken, siezed, recieved, |
| Old English | Rank | English |
| Y'graithed | pp | Prepared, equipped, outfitted |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Yield | n | Payment, money paid as a tribute or tax. 2. payment for loss or injury, compensation. 3. Offering of sacrifice to a deity; worship. 4. reward, recompense, retribution. 5. Amount obtained from some financial action, as from an investment or revenue from tax. 6. Amount produced, output.Yielding |
| Yield | vb | Give as fruit, profit, outcome, give up (right or thing), give way to, be less good than. 2. Giving in, surrender, submit. |
| Yield | adv | Readily giving in or giving away |
| Yield | phr | Yield the Ghost" - to die, pass away. |
| Yield | phr | "Yield To" - allow oneself to be overcome by pressure. 2. give in, give way to, surrender. |
| Yield | phr | "Yield Up" - hand to the foe in admission to defeat, surrender. 2. render up. 3. reveal, disclose, give up. |
| Yielder | n | Something or someone that yields, as a crop or other product. 2. someone or something that yields, or gives. |
| Yielding | n | A concession. |
| Yielding | adj | Docile or inclined to give away to pressure. |
| Yieldingly | adv | In a yielding way. |
| Yieldless | adj | Unyielding, steadfastful, not surrending. 2. not providing any yield or return. |
| Yieldingness | n | A tendency to yield, submissiveness. |
| Yield-strength | n | The point at which the strength or strain just exceeds the elastic strength of the material. 2, the stress beyond which a material becomes plastic. |
| Yieldwell | adj | fruitful |
| Yieldy | adj | Yielding. |
| Yield-yell | n | A violent pressure of the thumb under the lobe of the ear. |
| Yil | n | O.E. ealu: ale. |
| Yisel | n | Hostage |
| Yisse | vb | To covet |
| Yisser | n | Covetous person. |
| Yissing | n | Coveting, covetousness |
| Yit | prn | Ye two, both of you. |
| Yive | vb | To give (obsolete). |
| Old English | Rank | English |
| Y'halewed | pp | hallowed, sanctified |
| Y'hende | adv | Near, at hand |
| Y'here | vb | To hear |
| Old English | Rank | English |
| Y'know | vb | To know (in various senses), to acknowledge |
| Old English | Rank | English |
| Y'leave | n | Permission, leave |
| Y'lere | vb | To teach, instruct; to learn |
| Y'like | vb | To please |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Yode | vb | Past tense of "to go" |
| Yogh | n | The letter yogh (ȝogh) (Ȝ ȝ; Middle English: ȝogh) was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y (/j/) and various velar phonemes. It was derived from the Old English form of the letter g. In Middle English writing, tailed z came to be indistinguishable from yogh. |
| Yoke | n | Bit of wood to which plough etc. is fixed, placed across neck of oxen to keep them together. 2. Condition esp. that of being married, uniting persons; rule, control. 2. top part of skirt to which lower part is fixed. |
| Yoke-bone | n | Cheek bone or malar bone |
| Yoked | adj | Having a yoke. |
| Yoke-elm | n | Hornbeam |
| Yoke-fellow | n | Person associated with another, esp. in the same occupation, plight, pursuit, of the same mind or belief. 2 a convict. 3. a person joined in marriage to another, a husband, a wife, a spouse |
| Yokeless | adj | Without a yoke; fig unrestrained, not subjected to restraint, dissolute. |
| Yokewood | n | Catalpa longissima, a brown grey, hard, heavy, durable and fairly strong wood. |
| Yoking | n | Subjugation, submission. 2. harness-gear |
| Yoking | n | A measure of land, measured by the amount of land a team of yoked oxen could plough in a day |
| Yoklet | n | In Kent, a small manor |
| Yold | vb | To yield, pay. |
| Yolden | pp | Past particle of yield; surrendered as a prisoner, hence submissive. 2. wearied, exhausted. |
| Yoldring | n | A species of bunting, the yellowhammer. |
| Yolk | n | The yellow part of an egg. 2. Greasy substance secreted by the sebaceous glands in the skin of a sheep, which serves to moisten and soften the wool; also called wool-oil or lanolin. 2.the centre; the innermost part. |
| Yolky | adj | Full of eggs; of, pertaining to, or having the characteristic of yolk. |
| Yomer | adj | Sorrowful, wretched, grievous, doleful |
| Yomer | vb | To murmur, complain, lament, mourn |
| Yomerness | n | Wretchedness, misery,yomering |
| Yon | adj | That or those over there, referring to a visible person, thing or object at a distance. 2.The Yon:the farther or the more distant; yonder. NB: Hither & yon |
| Yon | adv | Yonder, that. |
| Yon | prn | Yonder person or thing. |
| Yon | phr | "Hither & Yon" -near and far. |
| Yond | prep | Also conj. - the farther, the more distant, the yondmost, the other side. 2. On the farther side, beyond; at or to a distance (far or farther away. 3. Over, across, through or through out. |
| Yond | phr | "Far Yond" - in a bad state or a bit far gone. |
| Yond | phr | "Here and Yond "- here & there; hither & yond: hither & thither. |
| Yonder | adv | Over there in that direction |
| Yonders | adj | Next following, as in yonders night |
| Yondside | adj | On the far side |
| Y'oned | pp | United |
| Yong | n | A going, journey, voyage, trip |
| Yong | vb | To go, travel, voyage |
| Yore | adj | A long time ago, in a time past, formerly, anciently, before. |
| Yore | n | Past, long yore, long ago. |
| Yore-flood | n | The Deluge, The Biblical Flood, Noah's Flood |
| Yore-while | adv | Some time ago. |
| York | n | Name of the capital city of Yorkshire, probably from OE (Wic(k): dwelling, town, settlement |
| Youth | n | Youth-hood |
| Yote | vb | To pour, to pour liquid upon, to soak. 2. to cast in metal. 3. to cast in metal. 4. to fasten in a metal bar or a steel block.See also 'Yet', 'Yetling', 'Yetter'. |
| Yoter | n | Caster of metal |
| Yotling | n | Pot or boiler, usu. of cast iro. 2. various articles of cast iron. 3. Cast iron (itself), cast. |
| You | prn | Plural of the second person pronoun, but used also as a singular form |
| You | phr | "Between You and Me" - confidentially (with only us in the known). |
| You | phr | "You Aint Seen Nothing Yet" - there's is much better or worse to come. |
| You | phr | "You All" (You'll, a prn) -usu. more than one. |
| You | phr | "You and the Other Ninety-nine" - i don't believe you can; you and whose army. |
| You | phr | "You and Yours" - you and and all your family. |
| You | phr | "You and Your Meetings" - a teasing, impatient, or contemptous remark about somthing one does, says, suggests etc. |
| You | phr | "You and Your Something" - something belonging to somebody else of which one disapproves. |
| You | phr | "You Are a Long Time Dead" - life is short so enjoy, make yourself useful, experience all you ca. |
| You | phr | "You Are (you're)Never Too old to Learn" - you can always learn something new. |
| You | phr | "You're On" - used as a way of expressing agreement to something happening. |
| You | phr | "You're Only Young Once" - the opportunity of youth are available for a short time. 2. let young people have freedom and fun they can get , because they have enough work and worry later. |
| You | phr | "You're Right" - indicating that what the interlocutor said is correct. |
| You | phr | "You're Telling Me" - used to emphasize that one is already aware of or in complete agreement with something. |
| You | phr | "You're Welcome" - used to acknowledge thanks. 2. it is a pleasure ; it is no trouble at all; don't mention it. |
| You | phr | "You Are What You Eat" - notion that to be fit and healthy you need to eat good food. |
| You | phr | "You Better Believe It" - affirmation, that's the truth. |
| You | phr | "You Can Keep It" - it's your, I don't want it: because I have a poor opinion of it. |
| You | phr | "You Can Lead a Horse to Water, but You Can't Make It Drink" |
| You | phr | "You Can Say That Again" - used to express agreement that someone is undeniably correct or that something is absolutely true. |
| You | phr | "You Can Talk" - used to convey criticism made applies equality well to the person who made it. |
| You | phr | "You Can't Be Fairer than That" - that someone is acting fair and reasonable. 2. one cannot hope for a better decision or outcome. |
| You | phr | "You Can't Live Them, You Can't Live Without Them" - a mixture of humor and regret regarding the vicissitudes of an imperfect relationship between marital or romantic couples. |
| You | phr | "You Can't Make a Fish Out of One, and a Fowl of Another" - you have to treat all fair and equally. |
| You | phr | "You Can't Put An Old (Wise) Head on young Shoulders" - you can't expect a young person to have the wisdom or maturity of an older person. |
| You | phr | "You Can't Hunt or Run With the Hare and Hunt With the Hounds" - keep in with two opposing sides. |
| You | phr | "You Can Say That Again" - used to emphasize agreement. |
| You | phr | "You Can't Take Him Anywhere" - child, friend, family can't be trusted to behave in company. |
| You | phr | "You Can't Take It with You" - it is not possible to take one's material wealth or possessions to whatever may await you after death. |
| You | phr | "You Can't Win" - whatever you choose to do has an unhappy conclusion, does not please satisfy. |
| You | phr | "You Could Have Knocked Me Down with a Feather" - implying one's utter surprise at a given circumstance and event. |
| You | phr | "You Could Say That" - it is fairly true or correct; that is your opinion. |
| You | phr | "You Don't Know Half of It" - an exclamation. used to say that someone doesn't know everything about a situation, with the assumption that the speaker does. |
| You | phr | "You Don't Need the Weatherman to Know You Which Way the Wind is Blowing" |
| You | phr | "You Don't Say" -ccan that be true; I surprized to hear that. |
| You | phr | "You Had To Be There" - one must be present to properly understand some situation being discussed. |
| You | phr | "You Have Got To Be In It, To Win It" - to succeed or achieve something you must first compete or try. |
| You | phr | "You Have Got to Laugh" - you have to see the amusing side of a difficult situation otherwise you will be sad or angry. |
| You | phr | "You Know" - you know or understand very well. 2. i don't need to explain. 3. iam reminding you. 4,. I am correcting or contradicting you. |
| You | phr | "You Know What I Mean" - used to suggest that what is said is understood is understood and agreed with. |
| You | phr | "You Know What They Say" - a stock phrase to a specific group about, of. 2. when the character refers to him/herself whether or not saying something, regardless or not he.she does. |
| You | phr | "You Know What You Can Do With That" - I don't want it; I will have nothing to do with that; I refuse to accept that. |
| You | phr | "You Learn Something New Every Day" - an utterance after acquiring new knowledge. |
| You | phr | "You Make Your Bed, You Lie On It" - you will suffer the consequences of what you do or don't do. |
| You | phr | "You Name It, They Have It" - every person, thing, place, you care to name or think of (we have met enjoyed, visited it etc. |
| You | phr | "You Never Know What You've Got Until Its Gone" - you never fully appreciate a person or thing until you lose them. |
| You | phr | "You Only Get Back What You Give" - Life can be very unfair from time to time, but not always. There is one important rule in life that we often forget about and is quite fair. You only get as much out of life as you put into it. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Nothing great can be achieved quickly and effortlessly. If you want to blossom in life, you will have to put in. |
| You | phr | "You Only Live Once" - let people enjoy themselves when they can, for life is short. |
| You | phr | "You Said It" - I agree wholeheartedly, you are absolutely right, you can say that again.. |
| You | phr | "You Said It All" - you summed up the situation perfectly. |
| You | phr | "You Shouldn't Have" - thanking somebody who has given you a present, when you are not expecting to recieve one. |
| You | phr | "You Unring a Bell" - in law an analogy used to suggest the difficulty of forgetting information once it is known. Used to describe a judge's instruction to the jury to ignore inadmissable evidence. |
| You | phr | "You What !" - an exclamation of disbelief, shock, anger, etc about something reported to one. |
| You | phr | "You Win" - Used to express resignation. 2. to concede defeat even though one is not convinced of the opposing arguments |
| You | phr | "You Win Some, You Lose Some" - used for showing sympathy to someone who has not been successful or for showing that you accept that you have not been successful |
| You | phr | "You Wish!" - used to tell someone that the thing that they want to happen is completely impossible. |
| You-Know-What | prn | A person or thing unspecified but understood. |
| Young | adj | Not old or far advanced or in early stages of growth, life, development or existence. 2. Having the qualities of youth. Phr: young in or with child: pregnant and early stages of pregnancy |
| Young | phr | "A Bright Young Thing" - a young intelligent (usu. a woman) person. |
| Young | phr | "An Old Head on Young Shoulders" - experience, knowledge and maturity in a young person. |
| Young | phr | "On for Young and Old" - the excitement has started. |
| Young | phr | "The Night is Young" - the project is at a very early stage. |
| Young | phr | "With Young" - pregnant. |
| Young | phr | "Young and Old" - people of all ages. |
| Young | phr | "Young at Heart" - with a young person's outlook although no longer young. |
| Youngblood | n | New, younger members of a group. |
| Young buck | n | A teenager or young adult male, adolescent, stripling, teenager. 2. a juvenile before onset of puberty and maturity. |
| Young-eyed | adj | Having youthful eyes or fresh vision; bright-eyed. |
| Younghood | n | The state of being young, adolescence, teenhood. |
| Young hopeful | n | Likely to succeed, promising. |
| Youngish | adj | Somewhat young. |
| Young lady | n | A young (esp. an unmarried)woman; a girl. |
| Youngling | n | A young person or animal. |
| Youngly | adj | In a young or youthful manner; youthful, immaturely |
| Youngman | n | A man who is young; a boy. 2. a boyfriend or sweetheart. |
| Youngness | n | The state of being young or youthful. |
| Youngster | n | A child or young person. |
| Youngth | n | State of being young or period of life when one is young. 2. Young people collectively |
| Young thing | n | Young person (a bright young thing (female). |
| Youngthly | adj | Pertaining to youth; youthly |
| Young un | n | A youngster, young child; young one. |
| Your | prn | The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you. The possessive takes the form yours when the noun to which it refers is not expressed, but implied; as, this book is yours. “An old fellow of yours.” |
| Your | phr | "Your Best Friend Won't Tell You" - een your friends don't like to tell you of an embarrassing situation or thing about yourself. |
| Your | phr | "Your Good Name" - (archaic) mark of respect in quaint English. 2. your name. |
| Your | phr | "Yours Truly" - me |
| Your | phr | "Your Need Is Greater than Mine" - you may, or must, have something because you need it more than I do. |
| Yourself | prn | An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the second person; - used as a subject commonly with you; as, you yourself shall see it; also, alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, you have injured yourself . |
| Yourself | phr | "Be yourself" - act in a normal, unconstrained manner. |
| Yourself | phr | "How's yourself?" - (slang) how are you? |
| Youser | n | Fetid discharge from a wound; pus |
| Youser | vb | To fester |
| Youser | adj | Purulent, poisonous |
| Youth | n | Young in time or life. 2. state before adulthood. 3. having young qualities; a youngling |
| Youthen | adj | Make youthful in appearance, behavior,or qualities of mind or feelings. |
| Youthful | adj | Young, esp. in appearance and manner. 2. having the the characteristics of youth. |
| Youthfully | adv | Characteristic of youth , young. |
| Youthfulness | n | The fact of being a youth. |
| Youthhood | n | The fact, condition, state, or time of being a youth. |
| Youthless | adj | Devoid of youth; old; aged. |
| Youthlike | adj | Characteristic of youth. |
| Youthly | adv | Possessing the quality or characteristics of youth. 2. realting to resembling youth; youthful. |
| Youthwort | n | Sundew |
| Youthy | adv | Youthful |
| Old English | sb | English |
| Yule | n | In December and January heathen festivities lasting 12 days.Lammas Yule: the yearly festival of Lammas on the first day of August. |
| Yule-candle | n | A large candle previously used in Christmas festivities. |
| Yule-day | n | Christmas day |
| Yule even | n | Christmas eve |
| Yule-fare | n | Christmas food |
| Yule-grith | n | The peace of Christmas |
| Yuling | n | The keeping of Christmas. |
| Yulemonth | n | The month of December. |
| Yuletide | n | The season of Christmas |
| Yule-song | n | Christmas carol. |
| Yule-tree | n | Chrismas tree. |
| Yule-wreath | n | The wreath placed on the front door at Christmas time. |
| Old English | Rank | English |
| Ythe | n | A wave of the sea |
| Old English | Rank | English |
| Y'where | adv | Everywhere |
| Y'writ | pp | Written |
| Y'wroken | pp | Punished, wrought upon |
| Y'wrought | pp | Wrought, worked |